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Acid Chess – A Chess computer which plays by recording the board
> I think Linux would barely be a thing at all if…

So, like it still is now.
Source? I would enjoy reading more about this. I wonder if this was a simulation or an observational study of real markets?
I'm not sure I understand what exactly is. I like the tips, but I don't understand: is it an app that I can run on my local machine?
Unfortunately the "how it works" is very shallow, the Wikipedia article has a lot more meat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor
That's a strange comment. It looks like the goal of these software are not at all for "productization" and that even if the author wanted to, there will be no point of porting it or hardening it.

It feels like Software Developers are "brainwashed": a good software is a software that is good for what software developers need to do. But a good software is a software that is good for what people who needs it need to do. If the academic people don't need "productization" and still code for productzation, then they are doing a bad job.

Inversely, software made by software developers may be really bad in academic sector, as it is the subject of the article: they overengineer when not needed, they complicate things just for portability or future use that will never happen, ...

It's a bit like if someone says "these cooks who are preparing omelettes are bad cooks: they are mixing white and yolk together, while real cooks who do meringue always remove the yolk. So the proper way to cook eggs is by removing the yolk".

(another aspect that I've noticed is that software developers talk about unit test and code review and are offended if they see scientists not using them properly, but they don't even realise that the goal of these is fulfilled in an arguably more efficient way by other processes that exist in academia. For example, there is sometimes no unit test, but the creator of the algo is also the main user and they will notice directly if a new change has broken something. Or as another example, scientific collaboration often implies several teams working independently and writing their own implementation from scratch, so if team A and team B gets different results from the same inputs, they will investigate and find out the problem in the code)
Pentagon 2nd in command was not informed of defense secretary's hospitalization
> There is a clear market for instant noodles in the U.S. that’s growing

I suspect this may be related to changes in the affordability of healthier foods. I've been eating a lot of ramen for that reason lately anyway
It isn't hard to understand if you consider this site as a whole. We're trying to optimize for intellectually curious conversation. That's not what you've been doing, and you've been posting a lot. It's that simple.

As I read your comments, you have routinely been crossing over the line into disrespect and even getting aggressive. Of course this is a matter of interpretation, affected by differing cultural standards and whatnot, but I think most HN readers would perceive your comments this way—at least to the extent one can factor out political agreement/disagreement with them. I realize that the topic lends itself to this (to put it mildly) and that other users are also doing a lot of it. But that's why the guidelines say ""Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.".

Even just taking your GP comment:

* beginning with "What $thing?" is already abrupt and signals hostility - this is the kind of thing the guidelines mean when they say "don't cross-examine."

* "You are currently shrugging off the $horrible" is pejorative and personal, and immediately ups the ante.

* "with that broad brush racist talk" - again pejorative and personal, and escalates further

* "And on top of all that, which is grave enough" - more rhetoric of cross-examination

* "you simply ignore everything I posted that demonstrated" - similar

* "you now use as an excuse" - again pejorative and personal

* "you now use as an excuse to commit wanton mass murder" - WTF? This reads as if you are accusing the person you are talking to of that. If so, that's completely beyond the pale. More likely your sentence here was confusingly written, but that too is against the site guidelines, because getting carried away with such rhetoric is the opposite of what commenters should be doing. After barraging the other person with that many swipes, tropes, and denunciations, I would expect the person on the receiving end of that to react extremely badly, and this would largely your fault for commenting so aggressively.

I'm quite aware that (1) lots of other people are posting like this, (2) the topic lends itself to it, and (3) the topic is important. But I'm not aware of any other commenter who has been posting this much about it while breaking the site guidelines so frequently, even indiscriminately. This is not ok.

I hope it's clear from the fact that I've given you several extensive replies, trying to explain these things, that I don't want to ban you—partly because of the three factors I just mentioned—but you're making that a lot harder than it ought to be.
I understand what you are saying but am not clear as to why it should be so. Having programmed GUI apps in Microsoft Windows and X-Windows/Motif (which can be remote) on Unix systems i am not sure why we cannot have a similar uniform architecture for "Web Apps". After all the "Browser" is considered a platform in itself. Also given that HTTP has now been munged into practically being a Transport protocol for anything, previous limitations are no longer an excuse.
Fairness and kindness are not weaknesses
Any libraries that you would recommend? I always see a few libraries for any particular problem but it's hard to know the tradeoffs.
Indeed. The issue I've repeatedly seen, is that ten different people, have ten different combinations and alternatives of what are "very good tools".

And even then, these people aren't fixed in time. Maybe today I need a killer personal time tracker, tomorrow I might need an advanced scrum board and in two years I need a way to aggregate time tracking of a whole team. And that's just one tiny tool.
I'm using the XE216 (one of their chips) in an audio project and XC is a pleasure to program in.
Distill.pub was one effort to modernize publishing in CS. Chris Olah wrote some thoughts [1] about why he didn’t feel it was tenable. Seems like the primary challenge was the additional effort and skill involved in crafting rich-content/interactive material.

[1] https://distill.pub/2021/distill-hiatus/
> the cookie notice is in Italian. Anyone know why that is?

I don't know why that is, but it's on purpose. They are using cookieconsent2 from NPM but overrode the message strings.
I wasn't supervised 24/7 but didn't have access to porn 24/7 in a second either, lads shared some old magazines someone nicked from a father most likely. It sure did need a bit more effort to get a playboy from your corner store.

My daughter came home from the playground where 10 year old guys showed her hardcore anal porn from mobile because it's funny.
Aye, thanks. Will have a look.
Yeah I definitely hear you. For me, the tinkering was just in application settings, never the actual Windows OS settings or configuration. Out of the box, worked good enough. After getting into a full project and trying to monitor and record multi channels, etc, then yeah, there is some deep diving to be done.
Fibble – and small ES module test double library
no, a weak elo just indicates poor play. he also quantifies what percent of moves the model makes which are legal, and it’s ~99%, meaning it must have learned the rules
Yeah, by now we all know about your personal issues with Linus, we don't need to hear it on every single thread.
We survived a United States President who was drunk all the time (Nixon). Who cares, really, if Elon ODs or does something stupid, like Joking about buying Twitter... oh... wait. ;-)

I don't see what the bid deal is, except that it's a "hit piece", and that's an interesting data point in itself.
Typical WSJ hit piece.

> Musk has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, often at private parties, the Journal said, citing unnamed witnesses and others with knowledge of the matter.

Haha okay. Unknown sources == fabricated 90% of the time, especially with the WSJ.

He said he uses Ketamine as prescribed by a doctor (Ketamine Therapy IS a real thing and we should stop conflating it with recreational drug use).

> Musk’s public use of marijuana with podcaster Joe Rogan in September 2018 led the Pentagon to review the federal security clearance tied to his role as CEO of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., which is certified to launch military spy satellites, Bloomberg News first reported in March 2019.

It's on video, so it's harder for WSJ to lie. He literally took one hit and didn't even do it properly (didn't understand that he's supposed to inhale). That pretty clearly showed he didn't know how to smoke weed.

Musk is obviously not some saint or whatever, but dumb hit pieces like this are just bad for everyone.

> Craig Trudell is Bloomberg News Detroit Bureau's new U.S. automotive team leader.

Ahh okay, that makes sense.
This is my goto these days https://addr.tools/

https://dnscheck.tools/

https://myip.addr.tools/help
Not a great analogy. Today we have all kinds of profit-driven companies "going to the moon" without thinking too hard about the risks. There is not, and practically can't be, a central safety effort that has more effect than releasing reports. No one is enforcing quarantine.

If there was life on the moon in an analogous scenario, it would be a matter of a few trips before it was loose on earth.
But why would they phrase it like that unless the veracity is in question. I doubt they would phrase it like that if they spent 12 hours in a neuropsych's office vs. use something like this online test, which is not enough on it's own: https://embrace-autism.com/raads-r/
The GNU AGPL is considered a Free Software licence by the OSI, FSF, and the Debian project. That's good enough for me.
After ent.io entity framework, that's the other most beautiful piece of software that I have seen in Go!

The simplicity is simply mind boggling!

Going to give it a try!
I've heard some horror stories from HMCTS (part of MOJ) and the Home Office.

While there might be some good intentions, buying a vendor product is often better for large organisations rather than running their warehouses, ETL and Databricks. Just too much overhead and specialist skills required.
A friend who recently finished her PhD had a similar experience, where all the senior scientists at our lab were concerned because her thesis was "only" 100 pages long and she didn't go through a professional editor to have it perfected.

My preliminary defense thesis had to be 50+ pages, but during the presentation, it was pretty obvious that the committee had at best looked at the table of contents. It all feels like such an unnecessary waste of effort. Even with my own thesis, over half of it is just padding with very fundamental background information because the work isn't really so complicated as to require that many pages to discuss, it's just demonstrating more advanced simulation capabilities by implementing GPU acceleration for a niche but simulation heavy field.
Could you give an example of such an attack that is intractable in the status quo?
It's a binary called "pocketbase" that you can download and run on your machine. When you run it, it starts a localhost web server. That server includes a web based UI tool that lets you create "collections" (effectively database tables) and insert/update/delete data in them.

More importantly, it provides a JSON API (and a client library) for interacting with those collections.
He's most likely using SQLite per account, because that's the easiest way to have an offline DB and sync it, which will most likely scale perfectly fine with appropriate indexes as long as you are careful about the feature set.
The most chaotic landing page I've seen in ages. I've seen it on my computer. I can't imagine how it looks on a smaller screen.
> For a "judgement" to be non-computable, it'd need to come from some factor in the human brain which violates know physics and can't be reproduced outside a human brain.

You say this as if we are even close to understanding much less reproducing the human brain completely, which probably would have to include the web of relations with all sorts of other living things that also go into the judgements we make, and the emotions we have while making them. Until you actually do draw the rest of the owl, it's not exactly "religious" to say there's no owl.
I did Ubuntu Studio in the beginning and had the same problem with JACK not working so bailed on it as I'm not familiar and didn't want all the bloat. That's where I got the idea to try a different kernel.
> I want escapism

I mean going by the highest grossing movies of the year you got plenty to choose from. Other than barbie (which I would argue is not super deep in terms of politics anyway) the rest are all escapism: Super Mario Bros, Fast and furios 10, guardians of the galaxy 3, spiderverse 2, mission impossible, quantumania, little mermaid and elemental are all extremely light in terms of politics.

The three movies with "heaviest" political message are oppenheimer, barbie and even then in case of oppie the message is "mcarthyanism was paranoid and political engagement was stiffled as well as weaponised for personal and selfish goals" certainly not a super crazy political opinion that america's red scare went too far. And in terms of Barbie its mostly surface level "its not easy to be a woman" and capitalism takes advantage of people. But saying "self actualisation is hard with economic forces pushing against you, and some parts of the patriarchy have a compounding effect on women in terms of how difficult it is" is incredibly milktoast feminism even if its pushing the boundries in a movie that is essentially a toy ad that lasts 2 hours.

I don't know what kind of media you think does not allow Escapism and its so absolutely drenched in political content that is impossible to enjoy.

Most emmy noms went to Succession, a shakespearean tale of rich brats picking on each other for father approval and Last of Us, a zombie show about a father daughter found family that shows humans are the worst threat and not the zombies. Neither seems incredibly political.

Videogames this year, top of the crop were Baldur's gate 3, Zelda and Spiderman 2. One is a DnD campaign about power, world domination and brain washing aliens. Another is Ganon is back, you are the hero go make a car and kill him and the last one is Spiderman saves new york from the same guys he has fought since the 1960s.

What is this escapism that existed in the 90s that no longer exist and where is the political undercurrent in all mainstream media that makes it so hard to escape into?
Mixxx allows you to do all that with custom scripts.
Could you explain a bit more this setup? I have been looking for a way to have a tool to fill pages for a static site generator that's local and then just git push in a simplified way.

The idea is to create a website for my mother, without having to deal with hosting at all (static github pages).

Does this combination work that way?
Higher fees, fine. If you look at the amount and cost of content over the last decade it was clear it was unsustainable. The amount we all were paying vs. the amount of content was/is staggering. We were in a content golden age.

On the other hand, ads are a problem and I refuse to watch them. There are too many other sources of content to ever sit through an ad.
The day we start treating ex-communists the same way we treat ex-fascists, maybe more people will care.
Well, if you don't have hostages, demonstrating that you're capable of destroying the entire bank vault if they don't let you walk out with half makes sense
> XP was likely the first memorable intro to windows for many developers in the home context.

(emphasis mine)

IIRC, there were two separate lineages of Windows. There was the "home" lineage which went 3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP, and the "business" lineage which went NT 3.1, NT 4, 2000, XP; for those using Windows in the home context, it's likely they jumped from 9x to XP (possibly with a stop at ME in between, but IIRC Windows ME was somewhat disliked).
No one's complaining about your Linux if that's what you want to use. The issue remains that for my personal wants, which includes gaming, Linux doesn't fulfill them.

If you gave me a dull knife to carve a turkey or fillet a fish, I would definitely complain about it not being sharp enough. Most people probably have a sharper knife than a table knife for cooking, is that a sharpness obsession?

It's about picking the right tool for the job. On my home server, I run Linux; my gaming computer runs Windows. If you wanna keep going with the knife analogy, look at how many types of kitchen knives there are. There is no knife that does everything just as well as all the others. Asking for a bread knife for cutting a loaf isn't an attack on every other knife.
The theming/window manager/basic UI groups at MS seem like they are either incompetent or just Aholes. Largely because they seem to remove features during rewrites and then discover they need them back, a few years later. Ex: windows 3.x could do "dark mode", as well as any number of other things that got ripped out. Yes, having a theming manager as complete as the one in say KDE that can create themes to match most current and historic OSs is "hard" but looking at the code doesn't seem like something professionals paid to maintain the largest desktop OS by market share should be incapable of it.

So, it seems to me that no one should have been allowed to ship a windows theme/WM that couldn't at least support a win95 style theme. AKA you don't get to merge it until it can do these half dozen simple things. Similarly the task bar, ok nice you created a new one, but can it be positioned on the left side of the screen, or have the start menu moved? Then no, it doesn't get merged.
Maybe you misunderstood me. So let's clarify: tell the Navajo to demand that Russia not dump bodies on the moon.
There appears to be a demo thingy under the "The modular workspace" header but clicking on things doesn't seem to work.
Pure C WebRTC
I used a semi-scripted workflow in google sheets until things got too complicated. After that, quickbooks.
I agree and there's a lot in my comment to point to that. But my point is to distinguish between the metrics and the goals. I'm certain the author included in their CV that they had a pending paper when applying, so there is a signal, albeit a weaker but publishing is a weak signal to begin with.

I agree that you need to use metrics. But we need to be clear that metrics are not enough and very incomplete themselves. With something like admissions, I'm not sure there's anything except noisy signals and the strongest one by far is the interview.

> Since someone incapable of writing such a paper is probably unsuited for a PhD,

I very much disagree with this. The explicit purpose of schooling is to train people. Many undergrads are not going to have the opportunities to publish. It is not hard to train someone to write something publishable and this is not something I would be much concerned with myself given how much writing they're going to be doing over the next few years. The far more valuable skills are in being able to perform research which is quite ambiguous (there are at least 2 ways to read this sentence and both are correct: research type v measure). Your first 2 years of your PhD are almost exclusively training, with more class work and learning how to begin research. This isn't a job you're applying for, it is a training program.
Red Hat wasn't that bad back in the day. It was three CDs and I was up and running on a pentium pro.

Did it look as good as XP? no. It worked though.
This is a great opportunity to tell you about my patented and trademarked architecture for achieving AGI: "panoptic computronium cathedral"™. All I need is $80B to make it happen and make AGI a reality. It's construction will not be easy but once completed it will allow those that worship in the cathedral to enact the will of the mathematical god that dwells within its GPUs and show all the non-believers that all is mathematics (mostly just a bunch of matrix multiplications and floating point arithmetic).

The radical architecture required to achieve AGI is to treat it as a religion and build artifacts, rituals, and practices that will manifest the true technological god and govern the world with nothing more than mathematics implemented on GPUs.
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> Installing Linux 22-years ago, when XP shipped, was hugely painful

There was a weird sweet spot for Linux around 2000-2004, very short, where most things just worked. Sure, there was very little gaming, but you could get by just fine and installations was reasonably simple, Redhat, Slackware, Debian, SuSE, Mandrake, Caldera, they all just worked. Sure you had to be a little selective regarding hardware, but it wasn't a massive issue.

Interaction with Windows mostly worked without issues, but as Windows XP became more dominate, and especially as Internet Explorer and newer versions of Office took over, things got worse. Still for a few short years, those of us who got into Linux in that tiny windows of time, didn't actually struggle as much as people think. We could do online shopping, word processing, online banking and a little casual gaming. Come 2005 and that was all gone.
This is a similar project in hills of Ardennes

https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/life/publicWebsite/project/LIFE...

kinda counterintuitive to cut down trees and bring excavators, lawn mowers and heavy trucks to "restore nature" but hopefully those in charge know what they are doing and all the money, energy and CO2e will have a large payback
This should be easier in software, reconstructing a 3D model of the relaxed open book from a stereo or multiple photos, then using AI to "upsample" to the scalable PDF document most likely to produce the modeled image.

I was part of a font consulting company during the Postscript / Truetype font wars, and we reconstructed fonts from scans or earlier digital formats. Most of the work was fixing bad data. This all should be easier now; think of Peter Jackson cleaning up the "Let It Be" sound, leading to the Beatles releasing one more track.

It baffles me that book images don't get this quality of attention. As a mathematician I spend a lot of time reading old journal articles that look terrible.
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