skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Le Guin is certainly on the softer side of the sci-fi scale of hardness.

That said, there's plenty of sci-fi (and by that I mean books that have been categorized as such for so long, it's generally considered undisputed - like, say, pretty much all of Bradbury and most of Simak) that are much softer.
I'm really sorry about the color problems, my wife also has some color issues that I was trying to work around. I think having a high contrast mode is something I can add.

Thanks for trying it out, really appreciate you letting me know.
As a long time Linux user, I think problems are partially technical. For example:

* A lot of software used by them is certainly Windows only (they will have to find alternatives, change their workflows or invest in some windows virtual machines)

* Windows tooling for organizations is much more mature. There's a reason virtually everyone uses AD.

* Linux is very focused on user freedoms. This is not usually important in the office. But freedom to configure things is a freedom to break thinks, and cause admin headache.

The problems are solvable, but it doesn't mean they don't exist.

Oh and I love nixos, and I always wonder how realistic would it be to use it in a company for management of thousands of desktop machines. Sounds like it would be perfect for it, but i don't know any stories.
I really appreciate this suggestion. I also had a friend hung up on the directional concept. I'll look to fix that with a gentler tutorial possible. Thanks for trying it out!
There's a compromise to be made here. I use systemd to run podman containers! It's great, built-in to podman, and easy.

podman generate systemd --new --files --name mypod

And now you have a bunch of systemd service files ready to copy over and load.
Yeah, I always see these announcements from the standards body, “we’ve doubled pcie bandwidth again”, but I never see any articles actually digging into the engineering challenges involved, and what innovations have been made to enable such progress.
Like others said, it's more of a hobby than a side hustle.
I think it's the easy start that's the problem.

Docker and Docker Compose is pretty good for self-hosting, except you have to understand enough to realize that it's not as simple as it sounds. You can easily lose data you didn't know you had if you're not paying attention.

"I'll just delete the container and restart" sounds like a great solution, but you just blew away your photos or whatever because you didn't know it created some volume for you.

I have a btrfs volume as the root of all the apps. Each application is in an individual subvolume so they can be snapshotted at upgrade time. The docker-compose.yml file points each app's volume to a relative directory inside that subvolume.

This way I can move them around individually, and all their data is right there. I can back them up pretty easily too.

Works for me and my use case, but you could never expect it to be turn key, and you couldn't hand it off to somebody non-technical.
I'll admit, I miss Slashdot.
It has a lot of focus on personal interactions, down to very small details.

The degree to which people find it engaging or boring varies a lot from person to person.
Only seven hours between mistaken takedown and the problem being fixed? A surprisingly fast response from Facebook, I guess the optics of this was worse than most their erroneous takedowns.
Well yeah, there are two systems, and so two paths that get followed.

I don't mean legal systems, I mean financial systems.

Most people live in a world where they have to own something to have it. They buy a house to live in, a car to drive and so on. The law can decide you owe something so they take an asset that you own.

But people with wealth don't generally live like this. They structure their financial lives to separate value from risk. They control wealth, they use wealth, but they don't "own" it.

Joe Public and the media are bad at understanding this distinction. They equate wealth with ownership. The law understands it though, so Joe Public doesn't understand the law.

The solution here is not to rail against the system. The solution is to understand it, leverage it, educate and be educated. There are legal structures that exist to protect assets. Yes, you need to reach some level of success to make use of them, but lots of people reach that level and don't use them, thus exposing unnecessary risk to those assets. If you "own" a business of any size, you should get educated on this.
> or a hamfisted attempt to over-correct

I don’t know anything specific about Meta’s AI, but this could easily turn out to be a case of a hamfisted attempt to over-correct by weighing the Asian part of the prompt so heavily it manages to cancel out the Caucasian part.
that one doesn't have mini-turbo, which has largely superseded acceleration as a stat (it correlates but isn't 1:1)
I never claimed it's impossible - I claimed it's expensive. Prohibitively expensive, as the team at Sun found out when they attempted to do so, and offline defrag becomes easy with two-space approach which is essentially "zfs send to separate device".

You can attempt to add an extra indirection layer, but it does not really reduce fragmentation, it just lets you remap existing blocks to another location at a cost of extra lookup. This is in fact implemented in ZFS as solution for erroneous addition of a vdev, allowing device removal though due to performance cost its oriented mostly at "oops, I added the device wrongly, let me quickly revert".
> Real competitive markets can actually behave like idealized commodity markets,

Sure sometimes, but transaction processing markets are not that simple. They are 2 sided markets, i.e. both the merchant and the merchant's customer are customers of the credit card company, who charges the merchant and the merchant customer varying fees based on how valuable the customer is to them. Then you have a merchant services layer on top of that. Then you have the variety of markets and goods that use all these services, all of whom may have different terms and fee structures with the credit card company and/or merchant services company. Merchants will pass on or absorb fees based on many factors, and possibly even varied within its goods and services. It's really complicated, and commodity markets are a gross oversimplification of how it works. Trying to model it would be a nightmare.

> If they're unassociated then how does a small business pay only the interchange fee and not the rest of them?

If interchange fees were 0 then you would still pay the other fees, which do not go to the credit card company. The fees are related, but not associated.
That’s awesome. What distro did you go with? Do you have to help maintain them, or have they ever broken?
Linux has far superior management solutions when compared to anything Microsoft has.

First, start with software packaging: In Microsoft-land, there is MSI, but there is also stuff delivered as .zip, .exe (generated from tons of different install builders, so completely inconsistent) and a handful of half-assed package non-solutions like chocolatey, nuget and others. When you want to install something, and there is an MSI, and the MSI can accept a proper set of parameters, you are in luck. If its an .exe (and even most Microsoft software doesn't consistently come as an MSI), good luck finding the right set of parameters for an unattended install, repackaging it as MSI or one of the other proprietary formats du jour. This repackaging is of course done in each and every company, all over again, for each version.

In Linux, there is a consistent format per distribution, and the distribution does all of my packaging for me. If I want libreoffice, I'll type something like 'dnf install libreoffice' and I'm done. If I want to update all the installed packages on one machine, 'dnf update', wait a little, done. No hunting for a bazillion updates in various weird formats (even Microsoft patches come as .exe with inconsistent parameters and stuff) on a bazillion different websites. And removing software, the bane of any windows installation? The stuff where the solution is usually 'reinstall'? dnf remove libreoffice. The package manager keeps track of all installed files and does a reliable, reproducible removal. If necessary, configs can be kept for a later reinstallation or deleted automatically, no guessing what to save and what to delete. No "nobody tests the uninstall.exe ever".

If I want to install a thousand packages on a thousand machines consistently, I'll give the package list to dnf on each machine via my preferred management software, be it 'for i in $hostlist ; do ssh $i dnf install ...' or (far better) something like ansible, puppet, cfengine, ....

Consistent configuration? Easy, same software, use a regular ansible, puppet or cfengine run to distribute necessary changes.

Update management and keeping older versions for a staged beta/testing/production software rollout? Easy, you can host your own package repositories. Want it fancy? Use Foreman and Katello, then your former windows GPO click monkeys can now click through staged Linux rollouts. Meanwhile cursing about how many years of their lives they wasted on Microsoft "solutions".

Sorry if I come across somewhat annoyed. But any Windows setup I've ever seen has been abysmal compared to even the worst-run Linux shop out there. Just even something as trivial as a for-loop and ssh being possible makes such a huge difference. And the openness and distribution model make it easier to automate everything and be reproducible and consistent.
I don't think whatever Silicon Valley cooks up will be more private than a human who has fallible memory
this one groups the characters/cars by identical stats: https://www.bettermk8dxbuilder.com
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> We use Rust to deliver services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon CloudFront, and more.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/sustainability-with-...
>Kill Fannie & Freddie and the 30-year mortgage goes away.

If this had been true, then 30 year jumbo loans would not exist (F&F cannot buy non-conforming mortgages).
Why You Shouldn't Use SQLite
https://archive.is/JSaKx
I'm not a psychologist, but I think it's the same reason I still can't get into IntelliJ.

Let me explain: I cut my teeth on Vim. I've been using Vim since I was 17 (I'm 33 now). Nearly everything I do for fun has been with Vim. Most of what I've done for work has also been with Vim (or NeoVim). I write documents in Vim with Pandoc. I compose emails in Vim (using Mutt). I use Vim whenever I do an interactive rebase in git. I do CAD Modeling with Vim using openSCAD. The keystrokes are just second nature to me, I think in Vim keystrokes now, for better or worse.

The IntelliJ Vim plugin is actually very good, but it's not quite perfect, there's subtle, intangible things that I have to adapt to, but are different enough to annoy me. For 99% of people, I think this is more than "good enough", and I still use it when I write Java, but I still am just unable to "like" it.

I don't use MS Office, but I suspect that if you've been using it for a long time, even tiny differences that you'd experience with Google Docs would become infuriating.
Have to disagree with this. The major limiting factor is the software and lack of applications. If there was a killer application it would be much easier to sell. Then the numbers would drive the prices down.
I was somewhat involved in this project. Can't get into details but there were other factors/efforts not mentioned which allowed us to scale this while reducing cost per recommendation. As someone mentioned, I do believe we benefited from a price drop over time.

Regarding the monthly scale mentioned in article–we are way beyond that now.

A lot of really smart people worked on this and it was fun to watch unfold.
Translation: I don’t know how to use something new and it doesn’t do exactly what I imagine it should do and instead of learning I get mad
That a rule-based system is able to outperform a generalist model on a highly-specialized task is not exactly surprising.

What is missing from the discussion (and this is no fault of the paper—this isn’t their focus) is how much cost and effort goes into building the specialist system, vs. using a generalist model.
Thanks for keeping it going.

> if you want complex software to accurately and correctly support a broad array of platforms, you use Autotools to compile-and-see what behavior you're dealing with, and then something like libtool to polyfill the differences. Doing this is not the result of ignorance, but the result -- borne of hard experience -- of trying to get code working on divergent undocumented platforms.

Yes, when you have differences in behavior you need to create an abstraction layer that behaves in a single, unified way.

"The Right Thing" is to do that once ever for a given target. Write a bootstrap tool if you want. Or let one person spend one week testing and implementing shims for a brand new platform. Which is what you need to do anyways for embedded platforms that can't host the compiler. In any case don't force every user to run overly complex and brittle scripts when the result never changes for a given target.

Oh hey, this is exactly what the source article argues! At least I'm not alone.

> Neither GCC nor Clang handle linking. GNU ld or gold or some linker is invoked to do that.

Bleh. ld is part of the GNU toolset. Pretend I said "standard Linux linking behavior". As you said, Linux's popularity stems from a collection of tools that work together nicely. The point I tried and failed to make is "compiling and linking doesn't have to be hard". Implementing an abstraction layer for a new platform isn't particularly hard either. Probably best to forget I said it.

> this will be my last try:

Thanks for the chat!
Seeing this makes me want to reactivate an old project[0]. Been thinking more and more that LLMs could give it superpowers.

[0] https://pypi.org/project/neulang/
> including asset seizure and wage garnishment

For child support it's usually contempt of court which implies jail time.

That's usually how debts (civil matters) turn into criminal problems.
Same legislator I quoted saying stupid shit in that thread likes this bill too: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna145015

> “This will be my wife’s favorite bill of the year. She has worried about this, I bet, 10 years. It’s been going on a long, long time,” Republican Sen. Frank Niceley said at a hearing about the bill last month. “If you look up — one day, it’ll be clear. The next day they will look like some angels have been playing tic-tac-toe. They’re everywhere. I’ve got pictures on my phone with X's right over my house. For years they denied they were doing anything.”
> This isn’t about “only the rich get value”. It’s about the well informed.

It’s about people who can pay off the card every month not the rich. These cars charge high interest rates which can very quickly offset any benefit unless you have the resources to never use them as debt. Ie the capacity to have a ~months worth of spending in unused credit.

> You could never buy points as cheaply as Amex. For all intents and purposes, credit card users are collectively buying miles in bulk.

Many customers get discounts on ticket prices that don’t apply when using air miles. It’s another form of price discrimination designed to maximize profits not specifically a discount for bulk purchase.

“Awards are subject to capacity controls. Awards may require higher prices depending on routing rules and restrictions. Exceptions to these rules may require additional mileage or taxes and fees. Travel to all destinations within region may not be available at lowest price. …

Award seats may be limited and not available on all Delta Connection flights.” etc https://www.delta.com/us/en/skymiles/how-to-use-miles/travel...
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I don't think it's fair to disparage this article. The other one is perhaps good for a "deeper dive" but I'd say TFA is better overall at illustrating the concept.
This is a hobby question, and as such replies from others with the same hobby can be helpful.

As I don't have one, I can't answer in specifics. However I can give the answer I give to all hobbiests;

If you can afford it, and you'll get pleasure from experimenting, then go for it. The worst you'll discover is that it's not for you. More likely you'll learn something new and interesting.
See, much like others you put an accent on physicalities (how she’s not in some dirty hole in a very poor and dangerous country), and then switch to relativities.

But WHY do you consider it fair to compare her condition to others’?

You don’t know what’s going on in her mind, you have absolutely no idea how agonizing a mental state can be. Yet you judge her as she’s perceiving things and feeling feelings just like you or anybody else. But that is not the case.

The sad thing about suffering is that if you don’t encounter it before a certain individual threshold amount, it’s very easy to dismiss. For some people, encouraging them to stay here is just another pain point that you can’t even begin to fathom that you’re advocating to add to their struggle with existence.

How about pausing and thinking for a second, what a real, tangible and not “socially feel-good” compassion would mean in such cases?
How Hertz's bet on Teslas went horribly sideways
to add to this, "bagging" tracks are determined by how many shortcuts they have (ones that require good items to take, such as mushrooms or stars).
> The solution is to understand it, leverage it

Truer words were never spoken! The system exists, take advantage of it. Of course, when you do, don't tell anyone or you'll be accused of being "an asshole who is taking advantage of loopholes in the system" by those who don't understand that it isn't a loophole, it is the system!
It's more about wage garnishment (easy) vs asset seizure (hard).
Oh wow, I wasn't really online at that point in my life but I wanted to read more about it - were these the articles/threads you remember?

Munich Finally Starts to Embrace Linux, September 26, 2006

- https://slashdot.org/story/06/09/26/0236246/munich-finally-s...

Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft, August 18, 2014

- https://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/08/18/2219253/munich-rev...
> There's a reason virtually everyone uses AD.

The reason everyone uses AD is that you can have a functional Linux client in AD. But you cannot have a Windows client in any Linux-based LDAP+Kerberos setup.

The problem isn't that there isn't a good solution for Linux in big organisations, the problem is that Windows is only compatible with AD, nothing else, so the more compatible system (Linux) gets shoved into AD.
I hate articles that talk negatively about GPS when they really mean navigation software. GPS allows you to determine where you are. Navigation software tells you where to go.

Two examples: GPS does not spy on you and tracks your every movement. But the navigation software might. GPS doesn’t tell you to go down the wrong road. But the navigation software might. Etc.
I am exclusively Google office user, but... Out of the top of my head:

* Google docs are uglier than Microsoft word documents. This matters when I prepare an offer that I want to send to a client, and it should look good.

* Google slides are hideous, and the only reason I get away with using them is because programmers (including me) have no taste[1]

* Related to the looks, I sometimes buy paid document templates that I can use to format my offers. They often have an option to download a docx file, but it's complex through that you can't important it to Google docs without breaking it completely.

* Word/Libreoffice works offline (maybe docs with serviceworkers too? It never worked for me when I needed it).

* You can use word to generate documents using a template, don't think it's possible with Google docs

* Macros are not supported in Google docs

And I'm a complete noob when it comes to document editing software and actively avoid it. I can only imagine how much powerusers miss.

[1] https://medium.com/@laurajavier/google-slides-is-actually-hi...
Between the site guidelines and Tesla's (in)famous lack of PR, I am compelled to assume that you are not a shill.

But it always astounds me how reliably Tesla owners attempt to convince me that water isn't wet. It really feels like you're trying to sell me on renting a Tesla from Hertz. But Hertz has written down their Teslas and they're replacing them with ICE vehicles. So why are you trying to convince me that renting a Tesla from Hertz is a good experience, when I can't even do that today? If it's such a good experience, what is this article about? What do you know that the finance wonks at Hertz don't know?

Sell to me. Why do I want to rent a car that's renowned for its big-screen touch interface, drunk&stoned UX decisions like the yoke, hitting parked emergency vehicles, and uploading livefeeds from the cabin for Tesla employees' amusement? What's the actual valprop over a Yaris, which has never tried to steer me into oncoming traffic? (message between the lines: attempt to entice me with FSD, or autopilot, and you will only undermine your case)

Because right now you're trying to move me from "charging a rental in a foreign country isn't stress I need in my life" to "this guy on the internet thinks that charging a Tesla is almost as easy as gassing up a Yaris." And that's still a million miles from sold.
It’s a few hundred jobs, and if Blind is to be believed, 90 days of pay and the vesting continues during notice period. Supposedly the mechanics are to avoid WARN notices. US economy experiences ~1.5M layoffs a month for comparison.

Amazon is a modern day body shop, and with the folks at the top, they’ll double down on real estate with the hybrid mandate. Churn and burn the talent.

(My hot take is that AWS uptake is slowing due to cost/spend controls implemented by customers due to rising interest rates and cost of money; Azure YoY growth has accelerated over the last 12 months or so vs AWS, and their OpenAI partnership gives MS an advantage while AWS plays catchup: https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/cloud-market-gets-its-m...)
Welcome to the future of racial / political / ideological / social status segregation.

On platforms like Facebook or YouTube where the feed is algorithmically generated and you can't easily view a filtered list of topics (like Reddit) something like this would be very easy.

The interactions don't even need to be generated by AI, it just needs to keep you seeing interactions with other people in your social status circle. And if you try to venture too far outside of that it shadow bans you.

Heck I'd be surprised if the way the news feed algorithms work today they don't already do something like this, as a byproduct of optimising for viewership.

They'd just need to take it a bit further by preventing you from seeing viewpoints outside your circle. So taking the WWII example, people in the Nazi group would not be able to see pro-Ally content. All they'd see about Allies would be content that paints them in a bad light, and vice versa.
Their offering strikes a decent balance between the two. The fact that it is a native application really helped me when I traveled internationally, where my connection was spotty at best. I had a minimal slow connection on my phone that I couldn’t tether, and otherwise, I had to offload periodically where Wi-Fi was available from my PC. In places where you can assume to have a strong, always-on connection, they don’t make much difference, but in situations where I can’t count on it, Microsoft’s structure, which can tolerate offline usage, is very useful.
Huh. Awesome. Please accept my most humble "eat my words" thank you.
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