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Well, "my" end-user is someone who have studied "computer science" a bit at school or to work, since he/she use computers every days, like he/she drive a car, so it's not acceptable he/she master computer usage less at level of mastery inferior to the one he/she master his/her car.

I know very well how illiterate so many people are, but that's not something to be justified but to be corrected. I imaging you do not want a bus driver who can barely make the bus move on the road piloting the bus you are on, why it's normal for you that let's say a tax administration employee is just able to click around while dealing with your taxes?

I've made a small experiment few years ago: with the help of some friend we have introduced for their very first time few kids to a desktop, a NixOS one running Emacs/EXWM. In 2 years at 6-8 years old, they was able to deal with emails, create some nicely formatted documents and doing basic math and so on with it. Two of them was presented a classic modern desktop: they became unable to do practically anything. It's a VERY small experiment of course, but to me it's enough to prove that people can learn if they are pushed toward a certain direction.
What's needed is the will to do something about low-probability but catastrophic events

In general I share your sentiment society could do more to insure itself against lower-probability catastrophes. But overbuilding every bridge would probably cost more than rebuilding the occasional one that's taken out when an unusual event like this occurs. Maybe in a different environment that would make sense, like a warzone (although I think even then there's more tendency to rely on redundant infrastructure and mobile, power-at-a-point defense).
Mirror of the report, since the Openwall servers appear to be down.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240329182300/https://www.openw...
That's a very naive understanding of how charities work. You don't donate to a charity, you donate to your charity.

Now, obviously your charity still needs to act as a charity so that money can't go back in your pocket but there are plenty of things the charity might spend it on that are in your financial interest and because you founded it, you likely have sufficient influence over it to make that happen even if you don't formally personally make its decisions.

Also, if you donate $100 in stock to a charity, that deducts your taxable income by $100 but it doesn't cost you $100 in income. Arguably a more egregious example for this is high art where you can create and destroy value through auctions (i.e. the value of your donation may be massively inflated compared to what you paid for it).
I wholeheartedly agree with this. He comes well-prepared and you can sense his curiosity about the topics he discusses with his guests. This particular episode was very insightful as always!
You're probably being silly, but for anyone else, gas turbines as used for generators don't have jet exhausts on them, i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR5oVn-Fvvg
The Volt was a great idea, but I couldn't make it work for me. I need a four door car which regularly holds four people, and the Volt (especially the newer one, which was when I was shopping) has a low roofline. Only time I've hit my head harder on a car roof was when I tried to sit in a new Supra. So I ended up finding something where the physics of getting in and out were more agreeable. Still a sedan, just with fewer headaches.

I wish they had offered that same powertrain design in something other than a Cruze.
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Well, it is much easier said than done. Philosophically I agree, but in the real world where you have later commits that might break and downstream projects, etc, it isn't very practical. It strikes me as in a similar vein to high school students and beauty pageant constestants calling for world peace. Really great goal, not super easy to implement.

I would definitely be looking at every single commit though and if it isn't obviously safe I'd be drilling in.
Still seems like a traditional hybrid would be more efficient. I'm not sure what's gained by removing the mechanical coupling altogether (other than cost/reliability).
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If anyone has actually used Gemini and seen how good it is, Demis has probably already saved Google.
Wasn't this one of the key complaints with Linux that drove the creation of Fuchsia? Hopefully they're targeting more than 6 months eventually!
Most Rust libraries are not dynamically linked; instead, versions are pinned and included statically during the build process. This is touted as a feature.

Only a few projects are built as system-wide libraries that expose a C-compatible abi interface; rsvg comes to mind.
Oh boy I could have a field day with this hot take.

Have at least three kids, don’t think about the rising healthcare, education, food, and childcare costs though.

Don’t mind the huge increase in car costs - basically a requirement to travel and work in the US.

Don’t mind the stagnating pay.

Don’t mind the coordinated reduction in pension and 401k benefits we are seeing, nor the steadily decreasing social security funds. You wouldn’t need that money you spent raising three kids on retirement or anything.

Nevermind the total lack of job security and universal healthcare in this country. While EU countries have very strict requirements for layoffs, the majority of the US is at-will and you can be laid off at any moment. You will not have healthcare after a paltry few weeks unless you want to spend a lot of money.

Did I mention the lack of healthcare? Let’s dive a little deeper. Do you have any idea how much it costs just to visit a hospital and birth babies? Various parts of the US have essentially 3rd-world death statistics for birthing mothers (especially minority mothers). A big part of that is cost to birth a child is too high and these mothers won’t trust or visit a hospital.

Why three kids specifically by the way? Standard starter houses are 3bd/2bath here. Guess mom and dad need a bigger house then.

Should I continue?
This all smells very Smalltalk-y, but I'm always excited to see more takes on environments like this.
Same here. Some pages are, for me, unusable without blocking all ads and banners. Especially if they move or have bright colors!
For those who are confused about this statement, like me, Google started bringing Chrome/Chromium support to Fuchsia a few years ago. But, earlier this year, they officially cancelled those plans: https://9to5google.com/2024/01/15/google-is-no-longer-bringi...
That remains true for more recent "series hybrids" as well, such as the Honda mentioned in the article. The efficiency gain from engaging the ICE when cruising on the highway is just too good to pass up.
You could be onto something there, i have tried this and it works but i am not able to be anywhere close to as productive as i should be and i do not know why
Anthropic (which Google owns a large stake in) and Gemini are 2 of the 3 best LLMs (both of which outperform GPT in at least some non-trivial tasks).

Is it really that bad?

Or is it just en vogue to trash?
Developed countries have a low fertility rate, so fewer young people and tons of oldies. Perhaps is not going to be noticeable right away, but it’s gonna hit us hard.
Debian have reverted xz-utils (in unstable) to 5.4.5 – actual version string is “5.6.1+really5.4.5-1”. So presumably that version's safe; we shall see…
What? I don't get it? Isn't it on Debian if they modified the package to do something like this? Why would you blame systemd for maintainers doing something that upstream has never required or recommended?
For what it's worth, tukaani is how you spell toucan (the bird) in Finnish, and Lasse is a common Finnish name; the site being previously hosted in Finland is very plausible.
You can do both in one, but it's difficult to get right (which is usually true of combining things into one product). E.g. when I tried it in Spotify, I couldn't find a way to return to where I was in my podcast after listening to music. Every single time I wanted to listen to my podcast after listening to any music, I had to manually scroll through hundreds of episodes until I saw the green checkmarks appear, then scroll back up slowly to find the last one I was listening to. Even if there is a feature for this, I couldn't find it on Android, which is its own UX problem.

More importantly, YouTube music simply doesn't have a lot of podcasts. I started transferring my stuff over, and immediately found it was missing multiple podcasts I was listening to. Kind of a huge deal breaker.
IMVHO hydrogen economy is a myth, it will not took off. So the amount of hydrolyzed water on earth is and will be very, very, very, very limited.
It's much worse because it requires repackaging every affected system package instead of a single library. Knowing which packages are affected is difficult because that information isn't exposed to the larger system package manager. After all, it's all managed by the build system.
This makes sense when everything is running normally, but if one of your 10 painting stations goes down for a day, every upstream assembly step is forced to run at 90%, since the painting step is now a bottleneck. Given the huge cost of idle capital, it makes sense to minimize the upstream impact of any given issue.
> Adding a replica involves using mysqldump

That's one path, but it is not the only way, and never has been.

MySQL 8.0.17 (released nearly 5 years ago!) added support for physical (binary) copy using the CLONE plugin. And MySQL Shell added logical dump/reload capabilities in 8.0.21, nearly 4 years ago.

Third-party solutions for both physical and logical copy have long been available, e.g. xtrabackup and mydumper, respectively.

And there was always the "shut down the server and copy the files" offline approach in a pinch.
Stability, reliability, consistency. If you do anything with Unicode you're also much better in PostgreSQL. Faster indexes, smaller base install (), and much more complete SQL language support.

() note: when PHP was taking off, MySQL had a smaller install base. This has long since changed - PostgreSQL hasn't grown much over the years, and MySQL has, at least since the last time I worked on both circa 2015-ish.
What are some good resources to learn this?
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I think you would get an answer that implies not caring. Pichai is a former Wharton and McKinsey guy, his job description is "provide value to shareholders" and cutting products and headcount does just that. I share your frustration, I hope we one day find a way to move past this brand of business management.
Read the paper. You could get a dangerous dose if you were near the plane of the accelerator.
What market is down?
You can run Ollama on your aging laptop today, but at how many tokens per second and at how many parameters? Most consumer PC hardware isn't going to have a very capable GPU. But, I certainly anticipate "AI accelerators" in consumer PCs, in the short term, ala AI PC NPUs.

FWIW, I basically leave Ollama running on my M3 Max and 24/7 and use it regularly, and it's ridiculously fast, but: M3 Max with lots of RAM and a crazy memory busy.
Many homes also incorporate lightweight trusses that can fail in a similar fashion. They pose a unique risk for firefighters, which is why New York went so far as to require warnings be posted outside such structures: https://www.finehomebuilding.com/2015/01/28/new-york-now-req...
It should be trivial in any language which has AF_UNIX. Last time I looked, Java didn't have it, so the only way was to call into non-Java code.
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I was sure that's where this post was going to pivot to. The characters are right there!
The company puts A LOT of effort into its program for hiring new grads. But is horribly inept when it comes to providing a career path for individual contributors.

So unless you manage to get a promotion to a senior IC position (like me), your compensation stagnates.
Ask HN: Job for college student better than DoorDash?
So my son is trying to work is way though college and doing lots of things to figure it out. He's thinking he could add driving part time for DoorDash to add to the monthly income. But I wonder if there are some remote jobs out there like resetting passwords, servers or routers or something that he could learn enough about to get a less-disruptive and safer that he can make extra money with. He's tried those "Fivrr" type of sites and they didn't fit the bill, he wants something steady.
I've seen this before so many times, and recommend people quit and sometimes even apply back at their same company.

I got my friend a 30% raise after he quit, worked at a new place for two months, it blocked implementation of key projects and the CEO started freaking out.

I asked him how much he would pay to fix the problem, and he gave me a number.
I said if we paid that as the new salary to my friend we could have him working there in a week.

The CEO made the call in front of me lol.
the pragmatic solution is simply to build your own, personal, dead internet.
Nth info possible depression and to see a therapist, if only to treat this world view of yours that everyone else is successful and I’m not. But a therapist would help you with what sounds like depression.
From the perspective of the MWI there is no spooky action.

If you measure one of the particles and look at the result, you then know what term of the quantum state you ended up in, so you know the probability distribution of the other particle's results.

Nature does not need to work according to what our brains consider reasonable, but the MWI getting rid of several very weird notions makes it very appealing, I won't lie...
In the era of modern CI and build infrastructure, I don't really think that's materially an issue.
> Many quantum information theorists don’t even believe the wave function is “real” but just a mathematical tool for making predictions about measurement outcomes

You are correct that many say this, but this is a constant source of frustration for me (a physicist who does believe the wave function is the only real thing). These physicists never seem to articulate what then is supposed to actually be “real” (under their definition) or what laws govern the “real” things as opposed to the wave function. Implicit seems to be that there is some kind of separate classical realm that obeys non quantum mechanical laws. Is this separate classical realm to be understood as a macroscopic limit of the quantum realm? But if so then the whole picture is circular since wavefunctions are supposed to be mere bookkeeping devices for classical things.

Or to put this more succinctly, if the wave function is a mere bookkeeping device, then bookkeeping for __what__?

(I should mention that yes I know about QBism and all that and my confusion is not for lack of talking to QBists about such things — I just can’t make heads or tails of what they tell me!)
Completely agree. He ends up sounding kinda amateurish but that's only because (unlike most other podcasters) he's willing to ask questions deep inside the domain of the interviewee.

(Amateurish w.r.t. the domain, not as an interviewer I mean)
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It lessens the pain, still. It's rare that you'd use common ORM methods and run into something that's supported for one RDBMS and not another. Doing stuff that's less common and, of course, writing raw SQL will still be pain points but they'll be fewer than if one was doing everything in raw SQL.
Yup, I thought so too. I mean 6 months is not even long enough to be development time for 1 major version of Android... They also cancelled plans to bring / maintain Chrome on Fuchsia this year. So not sure what their plans are with this OS anymore.
Seems to be a perfect project to hijack. Not too much happening, widely used, long history, single maintainer who no longer has time to manage the project and wants to pass it over.
I agree, but also, doesn't every cloud provider do this?

What if a law changes that requires them to update their ToS and would make it illegal to provide service to foreign nationals without including it? I guess they should provide a data exit path at least.
There are quite a few startups in this space - https://qa.tech/ is one I know of, but there are several others.
Meant to link to this! Thanks, will update.
A moderately experienced cashier can input your order faster than you can speak it. That part is absolutely not a bottleneck.

Also in general people actively do not like being called by their first name when they did not give their first name. This is a broad but not universal social norm and I don't see any benefit in pushing to change it. I certainly don't think retail food service is the correct front for it.
What broke me was seeing new employees get the same option grants as those of us who’d been there before our product launched. We took on all the risk and the years of startup salary to build the thing, and new people walk in with the same ownership? What the hell. I couldn’t forgive that.
No, almost nothing uses it.
I worked on fuchsia for a while and so much of it is really interesting, and many of the people I was working with were incredibly smart, but it never really felt like Google as a whole really cared about it - there was the core kernel and OS that was designed sensibly and practically but a lot of the higher level parts of the system seemed to be used by people as a experimental playground at the cost of practical considerations.

It's a shame that Google & I were not a good match because I really enjoyed and valued the experience of working with the people on the teams I worked on/with.
Can you give an example of the kind of data-dependent behaviour you have in mind?
We haven't implemented unions yet, but I see no reason why the approach we describe in the article cannot propagate the tagging info in such a struct.

As we explain in the article, Xr0's focus on formalising interfaces allows the verification of each function to be carried out independently. Thus we do reference counting only within individual functions.

I'm not sure I fully understand the CPython example. What I can say is that the annotations allow us to capture the semantics such as whether a function destroys a value, stores its value in a global or returned value, or has no net effect on the state of its caller.
That may be true for some species, and not others. However, I was not attempting an appeal to history, just providing explanation. After all, historically, most people did not care about the extinction of many species, or even thought their eradication was a benefit.
Yeah, I'm struggling to understand how this could be noted as "interesting". "Wow, my employees think they should be paid for the work they're doing _without_ having to threaten me about leaving to get a raise? What a revelation!"
Probably a state actor. You can look far into the future when you’re working for the party.
Why do the RS and GS characters get ignored so much? I have only seen them used in symbols on parts labels of one of the big 3 automakers.
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You don't need a complex obscure build system for most C code. There's a lot of historical baggage here, but many projects (including xz, I suspect) can get away with a fairly straight-forward Makefile. Double so when using some GNU make extensions.
> Now I can create a video from the device I have in my pocket that has much higher quality than was available in the 30s, upload it either to YouTube or an AWS S3 bucket and upload a yaml file that creates a CloudFront distribution (AWS’s CDN) and distribute it worldwide and create a web page that anyone with a $70 (unsubsidized) Android can watch.

I think you're vastly underestimating the degree to which corporate players see a different world than you or I. I'm not talking about limits on personal actions. I'm talking about corporate, and even there for the most part publicly traded corporations.

> Not only that Comcast - a cable company - owns both the modern distribution pipes that have far more reach than the studios ever had and a studio (Universal) and a broadcast TV and an Internet streaming service.

I mean, do you seriously think I don't want Comcast dismantled and sold for parts? I agree its worse, but it's a somewhat different conversation.

> But there is no “monopoly” on either video creation or distribution or streaming.

Vertical monopolies are still monopolies. If the only place you can get Disney movies is directly from Disney's own service, that's a form of monopoly. Fwiw, I'm relatively sympathetic to netflix; if it weren't for movie studios getting into the distribution business, they probably would be doing quite well right now, having a significant headstart on how to do distribution.

> And who gets to decide what content that should be blocked?

Any company which owns their own distribution network and preferentially distributes over that. Seems like the sort of thing the courts and FCC can work out. Will it work very well? probably not, but the point is to add enough friction that its easier for those producers to sell on the open market instead of forcing users to buy their entire bundle, or none of it at all, not to exclude them from the market.

> So let’s take Fox News or any other news organization or even the Discovery network. They all create documentary content. Should they not be allowed to stream their own content? Wouldn’t it be against the freedom of speech and/or press to say that you can’t stream your own content via your own website?

No. Those programs should be syndicatable by anyone else who wants to distribute them, at the cost that they charge their own network for.

The point isn't to stifle speech, it's to stop networks from bundling together a bunch of terrible garbage with their best products to force users to buy junk they don't want.
I’ve slowly started to switch over to Gemini Advanced the paid tier from ChatGPT4. Longer conversations seem possible with Gemini and it has more recent information - at least for the topics I care about.
We know there's long-cons in action here, though. This PR needn't be the exploit. It needn't be anywhere _temporally_ close to the exploit. It could just be laying groundwork for later pull requests by potentially different accounts.
From the paper:

> Most of the ionization energy dose deposited in a person
will come from interactions in the soil and other objects
in the person’s vicinity rather than from the more direct
process of neutrinos interacting inside a person. At TeV
energy scales, much less than one percent of the energy flux
from the daughters of such interactions will be absorbed in
the relatively small amount of matter contained in a person,
with the rest passing beyond the person.

If you're looking to get bit by a radioactive spider, spiders living down range of such a collider might be a decent place to start.