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Exactly my thoughts. The Linux guys have been discussing the merits of package management and various related systems since I started getting interested in computers.

Yet after all this time they have not come close to something as simple as the double click to run .exe or self-installing binary you can find on windows (macOS also has completely self-contained apps). So having managed linux servers and relatives I'm a bit confused that we are still there, discussing the merits of stupid packaging software, that follow some sort of ideal but never actually work properly (at least, scale very badly and react poorly to changes).

Everything he said about docker is true but it also applies to the regular package management in various linux distros. In the age of very fast upload bandwidth and very affordable storage, docker is even more suspicious against a regular lightweight VM. Doesn't have as good of security separation, more annoying to reproduce and required more setup; VM bit for bit copy is also extremely simple. I believe one reason we got docker is because they couldn't figure out how to partition hardware at the machine level efficiently so instead, they partitioned CPUs. Easier to manage in hardware, more of a pain in software...

But the reason no user facing operating system ever uses this kind of software management is that it never works, no matter the ideals, a lot like communism. What a waste of time, I guess at least it makes for some fun discussion from time to time.
I’ve been using Whisky for a month or so to play Hogwarts Legacy on my M1 Max. Lots of fun. Performance is fine. The M1 Max is definitely not a 4090, but it’s nice that I can play the game at all!
There is a new thing happening though as well. Existing homeowners with 3-4% mortgages are not listing their homes for sale very often anymore because they aren’t going to take 7% mortgage on the new property. This is keeping home prices pretty high. I don’t see a way for monthly mortgage payments to become affordable without this being addressed.
I read that as OF requires a credential verification, people are failing to try that.
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>> shame that Apple doesn't partner with Valve on this, although not surprising in the least.
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Please no. The Linux community, small and nerdy, is relatively self-supporting. The vastly larger apple community want things to just work. That's what they are paying for when they buy apple products. The deluge of support requests might push valve away from the entire concept.
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There was a project aiming to do this called Etoilé OS[1]. Just went to the website and realized last update was in 2014 :/

[1]: http://etoileos.com/
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I'm from Mallorca and this technique is also alive there. We call these "marjades" for the terraces and the walls themselves are called "marges".

https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge
God's Debris is by Scott Adams, not Douglas.
Well... that's the American Way. Rich people can do what they want. Poor people are screwed. People in the middle have various privileges.
Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are surprisingly rare
https://mystery-o-matic.com/
Download the windows exe file for Steam and run it from the run button in your flask.
But it's inside the Docker container so even if a dependency was compromised it's in a separate userspace and chrooted so unless theres a docker zero day it should be pretty secure still it seems like.

An updated Docker environment is pretty secure I think.
Transportation and healthcare are extremely profitable things. The question is profit for whom, and who pays.

If we are talking about building a zero-carbon energy system, we should be talking about the lowest cost method of doing that, over times, taking into account externalities.

All the modeling of zero carbon energy systems finds that massive amounts of solar and wind are the backbone of energy generation. The amount of nuclear varies based on cost assumptions, and in particular if they use current battery costs and if they model the ever decreasing battery costs, but nuclear plays a very small role in the lowest cost zero-carbon grids of the future. A smaller role than it does today.
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Separate but equal, right? I don't see how this helps. Instead of by race, why not by performance ?
Fedora project abandons modularity, because nobody needs it. I found the developer, which needs modularity, so he can save the modularity for all of us. I'm politely asking to join the Fedora project and just maintain the solution. Where you found the aggression?
However, if I remember correctly, stealth in particular is not really considered and is dismissed as impossible. Campbell does a good job of demonstrating tactics to hide ships, though.
The city and county GIS is exceptional. Backpacking and camping permits are egalitarian, but you need to plan months or years ahead.
What we did 20yrs ago was generate random numbers and then ensure the # wasn't already used. We do this only for employee ID #'s and it works fine for us. It's definitely not ideal though.
Paywalled, but this sounds illegal
Several banks I use do this all the time.

Except they don't do it as a teaching experience, but as part of their normal operations, and if you refuse to do the extremely sketchy, red-flag, never-do-this thing, you will not be able to get your task done.

I've been required to provide part or all my online banking PIN on the phone and my credit card PIN on a random sketchy website (as part of 3DSecure). Different banks. Both legit and repeated.
Box jellyfish, crocodiles, snakes (various), blue-ring octopuses, redback spiders, funnel-web spiders, great white sharks. Just some of the reasons that put me off going to Australia. - K. Pilkington.
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Either that or appending archaic expressions in the prompts (a bit like the prompt extension of Midjourney)
Sherry, then. Or vermouth. Or any other fortified wine. It shouldn't be any more difficult to search for than whisky.
Yes, the only stealth isn't really that. I won't say more re: spoiler.
Someday!

“…we finally have basic experimental support for running simple graphical applications.”

But not yet.
We have instrumented much, much more area than a square km.

The largest instrument to observe cosmic rays is the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, which has detectors placed on an area of over 3000 km².
The GIS has been really helpful when we've had close by fires too
Being for Amiga my first question was 'how much for a dead horse?', and I wasnt disappointed, $40 for a toy program you will run once for 5 minutes. Amiga, perhaps the only vintage scene where almost everything is commercial.
Like one of the Reddit commenters, I just order cables that are listed on Intel's Thunderbolt site, like this one:

https://www.thunderbolttechnology.net/product/cable-matters-...
Those are also viewed as high risk
How do these dosages compare to the usual human therapeutic dosages of doxycycline, azithromax and vitamin C?
How does it destroy the camera?
Notice that I posted a 7 paragraph comment gushing about the great progress being made with renewable energy in Germany, and then attached a short footnote acknowledging "yeah I think a mistake was made with nuclear power but oh well", yet all the responses I've gotten are arguing about nuclear power.

Nowhere in my post did I say Germany should be be abandoning renewables or that they should be heavily focusing on nuclear power. I just said that I think it's a shame that they threw out perfectly good reactors long before they reached the end of their lifetime out of irrational fears.
So, a pulsar would do the trick? How far back do we simulate movement of milky way and all galaxies around to say for sure they come from an 'empty' place? I think our local supercluster look quite a bit different say 1 billion years ago
That's what they were saying. They are saying that aws not being able to offer a hosted version is the bad thing they don't like.
Are aware that both the IRA and Infrastructure Act made substantial new public investments in nuclear?

Be sure to send Biden a card thanking him.
Decaf is exactly the same.
These are all good ideas, but unfortunately really not that easy to implement, largely due to institutional inertia, but also because it would put the bank at a competitive disadvantage with others: Often, security and convenience really are trade-offs.

> Don't depend on another channel for resetting any of the credentials.

What if a customer's house burns down with their phone and Yubikey in it?

> For person to person instant transfers, have velocity limits and legal framework to clawback and prosecute in case of fraud.

That's not up to a single bank.

> For large value transfers, require payees to be added to the account and have a 1-2 days cooling off period.

"Why are you telling me what I can and can't do with my own money!?"

Sometimes, large value transfers really do need to happen quite spontaneously to a previously-unknown recipient, e.g. for a used car purchase.

> Use a pre-registered and securely couriered FIDO2 token (Yubikey)

That would indeed be great, but not a single bank I've done business with supports FIDO. In fact, I haven't even heard of one that does (I might just open an account with them!)
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It is a long way to go. Check the counts of "Unexpectedly failed" and "Expectedly failed" tests in their integration testing logs [0].

Also, take a look at the "Known differences" section in their documentation [1].

[0]: https://github.com/FerretDB/dance/actions/workflows/dance.ym...

[1]: https://docs.ferretdb.io/diff/
Ah it's completely volontary on my part: I want to keep the historical spelling as much a possible. That's why I used the google books OCR which does a better work at it than Gallica. That's still a bit erased in the current model (I don't think the tokenizer likes this so much).
End of the year is pretty soon!! Good luck, and I hope you can post some results once you get the board.
Weight

Isn’t the issue with sodium batteries, the weight (relative to lithium).
I do not see those as opposite states of mind.

However, I may not have the best perception of how the general public thinks. The older I get, the more I think "free market" is a completely incoherent concept that generally gets applied by its advocates to mean "tile the game in favor of me." I view all markets as mostly construction of culture and tradition, and what is "free" requires some conception of "freedom" and for some that means "freedom for me to exploit you" and for others it means "no laws except the special laws and police, for which I won't bother justifying why they are needed other than it feels right."
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I live in Boulder. It's certainly expensive, although more reasonable than some of the other popular tech cities. I honestly don't think of it as crowded though. There's tourist spots to avoid, but plenty of open space for all.
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Which bank? (Slightly worried UK resident here!)
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This is pretty neat. Wonder if they're using some data catalog under the covers for the search screen or is it all custom built.
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This has been turned into a truly hilarious song with only a few changes. https://youtu.be/6NW67-Mu2wU
Hope this won't involve dumbing down smart kids.

We want some kind of equality, but not all human are born equal in ability. I don't think we know how to balance this
consider firefox bro
iOS being secure is also a common misconception. A bit of an extreme example but that is a meaningful problem as opposed to Linux on the Desktop cases.

The problems pointed out in this post are almost all around usability as Linux on Desktop. The author admits the tools exist but are hard to use in most of the cases. Where features are missing its a misunderstanding of the Linux world.

A lot of these protections either live under different names outside of the Windows world and the ones that aren't don't exist because Linux protects things in a different less vendor-lock-in way. This is very apparent in the virtual machine section which are about protecting host kernel primitives from the VM... Linux doesn't expose _any_ host kernel primitives to the VM. The closest is narrow drivers, properly sandboxed and isolated in userspace, that are minimal and have their own security guarantees.

eBPF is far from a dangerous feature, C is only a dangerous language when that danger isn't managed, and the Linux kernel is top-of-class for managing those features, there is the same root boundary issue in Windows and is a deep source of security problems (root on Linux CAN be restricted through both seccomp and SELinux policies unlike SYSTEM).

Things could be better for sure in the Linux world, but pretty much everything besides secure defaults here requires a level of effort or access to attack that requires full compromise of the machine already. There is much lower hanging fruit that we need to clean up and the funny thing about Linux is that it trends hard toward security and quality over time.

You just have to look at time to fix patches for security vulnerabilities, not just in the kernel but in any packages maintained by security distributions. The author calls out not getting patches back-ported, without looking into the patches that don't get back-ported. RHEL won't backport fixes for features that aren't compiled in for example.

There was a post earlier this week about the CVSS scores being different between NVD and RHEL's bug trackers... It was because the networking functionality of that package wasn't compiled in so there was no possibility of remote execution .
Anyone have any idea which USB-C cables will work for CarPlay? Using the cable that came with my IPhone 15 Pro doesn’t do the job for some reason, but a cheapo $3 cable from the dollar store works around 1/3 of the time.
In USA people get tax credits for installing solar. The cost of solar has gone down, the cost to the consumer has remained the same or increased. It is sales people eating up that margin, which is being paid for by tax payers
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It is compatible with MongoDB v4.0 only. The latest version is 6.0.7.
so is it going to be safe now in the metro in paris?
Yes, I was aware of that, why do you ask?

> Be sure to send Biden a card thanking him.

That'd be a particularly weird thing for me to do given that, as I said already in this very comment chain, I'm a Canadian living in Germany...

I mean, it's great that the USA might invest more in nuclear power, but throwing some peanuts towards new reactors doesn't really fix the fact that they're a massive laggard when it comes to reducing emissions.

There's a ton more work to be done than just building nuclear power plants.
Why? Everyone wants things to "just work", but nobody besides Windows and Xbox users can run native DirectX. Seeing as MacOS and Linux users have to cope with this individually, it makes sense that they would share a lot of the underlying work. They already do, courtesy of Codeweavers.

If Apple offered hardware-level Vulkan support on their systems, gaming on Mac would "just work" like it does on Steam Deck, for the most part. Even if they didn't, Apple could still improve on Game Porting Toolkit by open-sourcing their fork, accepting contributions or (gasp) upstreaming their work. Valve does every one of those things, and their gaming experience on Linux is console-quality because of it. Apple doesn't necessarily have to work with Valve, but it sure would reduce the amount of redundant work both parties are responsible for.
The public doesn't pass laws though, our elected representatives do. Without diving down the rabbit hole of how well our current system manages to select for representatives that actually align with voters' views, there isn't a direct link between laws and public sentiment.

Parents purposely allowing children to use these services is a much more clear indicator of sentiment, and as mentioned in the article users don't seem to mind allowing their children to use Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.
Thanks, that's even easier than what I was initially trying (force downloading Windows games via the Steam CLI on the Mac side)
Why does it require a reboot?
I semi-regularly remember reading something without knowing the exact wording used for the title, particularly for terrible titles like "A new approach" (because that's the original title even though it helps nobody), so the Algolia HN search is hard to use because I need to try a lot of variants ("was that article with that shell script trick about Bash? Linux? Shell scripting in general?") and (near-)synonyms ("emission", "greenhouse", "climate", or "warming" could all be used in an article about environmental policies).

Being able to ask "give me the story from last week about global warming", and it being able to recognize "Climate change goals adjusted at government meeting" as being a match, without it matching any of the actual words, can be very helpful.

I believe that is one of the things Google silently innovated/implemented a ~decade ago, or at least I never heard anyone talk about it the way that people talk about PageRank as magic sauce, but finding such topical synonyms is key to finding more relevant results. (Or super detrimental in other cases, but the quotes operator can help turn that down.) I would be curious how they did it, given that LLM wasn't around then
When a pendulum swings, consider the momentum as it passes over its equilibrium. We are approaching that equilibrium point, and if you look at global renewables deployment, EV uptake, and CO2/methane emissions reduction efforts, we are about to leave that equilibrium point headed in the other direction at full speed. Major sacrifice will not be needed, except perhaps with regards to meat consumption as the world gets wealthier.

Certainly, we should not rest on our laurels and should keep the pedal to the floor, but the data shows we are moving the needle.

> In this report, we find there is a 70% chance that emissions start falling in 2024 if current clean technology growth trends continue and some progress is made to cut non-CO2 emissions. This would make 2023 the year of peak emissions – meeting the IPCC deadline.

Let’s get to 100% as soon as possible.
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I can't name a single application of Microsoft written in windows forms, but it is/was still pretty well-supported.
Also: Electron is for desktop apps, MAUI is for mobile apps.
Ted Chiang is a genius, and pretty much everything he writes is magnificent. "Exhalation" is ridiculously good. "Understand" is probably my favorite.
According to the article the main use of sodium based replacements would be in places where weight/size isn’t as much of an issue.
> we also exhibit odd and illogical cultural trends

Culture is illogical. If it was logical, it wouldn’t be culture.
MBAs, Accounting, Biology, Accounting, Management. . the board is almost entirely non-aerospace background, and largely nontechnical even when it is an aero degree (Sabrina Soussan being the sole exception, and I suspect she's just on the board because of Siemens). Speaking anecdotally, yes, the vast majority of leadership, also nontechnical, with very very very few aerospace backgrounds.

This all tends to flush out the go-getters, and doing good CFD work largely requires go-getters. It's very good at retaining box checkers though, and of course the serially dishonest.

This problem of nontechnical leadership[1] is bigger than Boeing, but that same JackWelchian focus on finance-uber-alles[2] is a real thorn in the side of American industry, or even just "American-Made Stuff".

[1] "I ran a shoe factory. And now I'm in charge" Late stage capitalism has so many echoes of late-stage Soviet industry that it's getting a little creepy.

[2] Again, "if you're good with money, you're good with everything" is a crappy way to make stuff, but our problem is when that matches your ideology you tend to see everything through that same lens. Ironically, this is a mental trick that gets tends to get trained out of you in hard sciences.
actual title: “Prompting Frameworks for Large Language Models: A Survey”

LLM frameworks might imply stack for building models (pertaining, fine tuning, inference etc)
So you're saying that the Dunning-Kruger effect applies to Dunning & Kruger.
I'm not so sure, because the question is how they will get their energy. Will it be from a big grid with natural gas powering it? Most likely not, because in developing areas it's going to be far far far cheaper to power a mini-split with a few cheap solar panels and a small battery than it will be to deploy a massive grid and all the maintenance, etc.

The cheapest new energy is carbon free, meaning that new load will be coming from zero carbon sources. As the cost curves change more, this trend will get even more extreme.

Right now in developed countries, there's enough entrenched interests, political propaganda, and an older set of decision makers in industry that we don't fully yet see how the technology landscape has changed. But in developing areas of the world, they won't be burdened by our same baggage.
It is safe now.
I actually assumed most replies would involve web solutions. I added the line to not preclude them in case others would find them useful even though I wouldn't use them myself (at least as a first option).
Idelaly we wouldn't have to put limits on companies from the state level at all, users should decide not to use a service if they don't approve of how their data is used.

Given that we're no way close to this and the power imbalance is already huge, we should be regulating how every person's data is used regardless of age.
Funnily I thought almost the opposite. I feel like "meat" is deliberately chosen in-character to be both less precise and less respectful than "organic matter". It would be like a species with organic computers incredulously describing our computers as "rocks".
Longer Quanta article with more context, discussed 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38337784
Well you can rent and put the savings (vs owning a home) into a variety of vehicles for retirement savings. Many, many people have shown that this actually yields far more significant returns than the house. But people are not perfectly rational economic actors. There is something innate (or deeply culturally embedded) about wanting to have control over your living space, so it becomes the primary savings vehicle for many/most people.
Get the NFC card and you can refill it on your phone. Super easy to use.
I'm going to guess that most programmers active today didn't go to university in the 1980s, either (that would mean they were born in the 1960s, which would put put their current age somewhere in their 60s). So there's no point in ignoring the 60s and starting history during the 1980s when most programmers didn't start programming until later decades.
Thank you! What a silly slip of the fingers

Although, now that Douglas Adams has been brought up, I think I should also recommend his lesser-known book, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, which I believe has some connection to Dr. Who.
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