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> (00.121636) Error (criu/namespaces.c:423): Can't dump nested uts namespace for 2685261

Found a GitHub issue for this: https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu/issues/1430

The issue apparently is newer systemd versions create their own UTS namespace, so suddenly running systemd in a container results in nested UTS namespace. Containers with older versions of systemd, or which don't use systemd, shouldn't have the issue.

One commenter posted in April 2021 that they had a patch to add support for nested UTS namespaces, but they don't appear to have submitted it: https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu/issues/1430#issue...

Comment on another issue has suggestion on how to implement nested UTS namespace support: https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu/issues/1011#issue...

It doesn't sound like nested UTS namespace support is impossible, just something nobody has got around to implementing.

Comment in CRIU source code says nested namespaces are only supported for mount namespaces (CLONE_NEWNS) and network namespaces (CLONE_NEWNET): https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu/blob/b5e2025765b9...

But if you look at the OpenVZ fork of CRIU, you see it also supports PID (CLONE_NEWPID), UTS (CLONE_NEWUTS) and IPC (CLONE_NEWIPC) namespaces: https://bitbucket.org/openvz/criu.ovz/src/d9bf55896015a27df9...

I don't know why these additional features in OpenVZ CRIU don't exist in the upstream.

I think the main blocker to supporting nesting of the other namespace types (user, cgroup, time), is someone getting around to write the code for the support. It is possible some of them pose some kind of architectural issue where some kernel enhancement might be necessary (if that's true of any, I'd say most likely of user), but I suspect for most of them it is simply a matter that nobody has gotten around to it.

The other issue is eventually someone will add another namespace type to the Linux kernel, and then CRIU will need to support that too.
This depends on the assumption that going to the trouble of making a carefully curated commit history well documented is even worth the trouble. Sometimes it might be, but I don't think it's a given.

> The squash branch on merge strategy is just lazy

"Lazy" is the negative way of saying "easy" or even "more efficient". "Lazy" implies that the other way is better. Is it? Maybe sometimes.

Am I "lazy" if I walk on my feet instead of my hands? It really is a lot easier.
China's glut of idle property causes headache for the government
The author mentioned 10^20 combinations taking millions of years, but a modern server GPU can put out 10^15 computations per second (about a petaflop), assuming you use them in FP16 mode. Keep in mind that 65K divisions of a box one meter per side is 15 micrometers! This means that roughly speaking, it would be possible to brute-force through all possibilities in about 10^5 seconds, which is just one day. It helps that this type of algorithm is almost all computation with very little data transfer to and from main memory, and is "embarrassingly parallel".

Some light optimisation such as utilising symmetries to reduce work, combined with multiple GPUs in parallel could bring this down to hours or even minutes.

It would be a fun thing to cloud-host, spinning up spot-priced GPUs on demand.

Similar brute-force tricks can be applied to other NP-hard problems such as optimising electronic circuit board wiring, factory floor planning, etc...

The ridiculous amount of compute we have available to us in a GPU reminds me of this quote from Stargate Atlantis:

JEANNIE: The energy you'd need would be enormous to the point of absurd.

McKAY: Absurd we can do. We have something called a Zero Point Module which essentially does what we're attempting on a smaller scale -- extract energy from subspace time.
I also haven't had Waymo assign a car and then decide to assign it elsewhere sometime before arrival.

I have had Uber/Lyft cars that were going to come to me and then some time before picking me up, they change their mind and I get to start a new wait for a new car/driver... worse, I've had that happen a few times in a row on some occasions.

I've seen more in the 10% premium ballpark for most Waymo rides (for just the base fare, excluding tips). There was a very stormy day once where the price shot up pretty high very quickly, but that's not the norm I see.
What about numbers computable with random draws? Doesnt that create the chance of hitting something totally irrational among the reals? Or how is computable numbers defined to avoid this?
It's real for us. We had a ride when the driver wouldn't stop talking and the baby was trying to sleep. Not all people are nice.
For anyone who remembers the Sinclair Scientific calculator, the site http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simul... has a good explanation of its way of calculating. It is unlike other machines, overcoming serious electronic limitations with some simple but clever approximate methods.

This little machine was my first calculator, a present from my Dad. Man, I loved that thing. It was so small that I could easily hold it, and strike the keys, with one hand. That single-hand aspect proved helpful in my undergraduate physics and chemistry labs. The RPN methodology also made it easy to work through complicated formulae without getting lost in parentheses.

Over time, the keys stopped working well. And then stopped working at all. I kept it for a year or two, but then got rid of it, having moved on to another calculator that was more powerful but much less fun. I don't even remember the brand.

Looking back four decades, I wish I had kept the Sinclair Scientific, for a memento. But I did not appreciate that a dead little machine like that, in its thin plastic case, would bring back so many fond memories. There's a life lesson in that.
Having worked in ecommerce on both merchant and SaaS side I can explain why they may have and as a customer you will basically never see it applied.

From an engineering point of view, yes you can save so much packaging for the company and optimise for a delivery to be in fewer boxes, which is a fun problem to solve.

From a retail operations point of view the cost of packaging and shipping is negligible and why it’s so often discounted. The real costs though are labour.

Your pick and packing staff are basically all judged on throughput so if someone spends 5 minutes to pack an order in 1 well fitting box they will be fired if everyone else can pack 5 orders in the same 5 minutes.

Generally speaking your packer station is set up so they either have a terminal showing their packing list, a tub of goods to pack for one or more orders, and stacks of different sized boxes.

The stations usually get messy quickly with papers etc all over the place. It’s not a place for precise work and speed is valued above all. In describing the work station I didn’t even mention scanning, taping and labelling of the package that has to happen in the same space too.

Some may argue it’s possible to be both fast and precise, but I would argue it’s not sustainable over an 8 hour shift.

Finally, similar to why potato crisps/chips have so much volume is that inefficient, or spacious, packing is generally better for transport as you are less likely to have goods damage each other from being too tightly packed together.

That’s why IMO generally things are packed sub-optimally from a space use perspective but actually optimally from a convenience and speed perspective.
Piracy means that something was taken by force from someone. What was it that was taken that's no longer there?
Another Lunar Lander challenge: Land a 3oz paper bath cup on a paper plate without it or the cup tipping over, in Earth's gravity and atmosphere, multiple times.

Tools/Materials: Cup, Straws, Scissors, Masking tape, Paper plate
What's the difference? AFAICS, global social media is US social media.

(I mean, hey, I'm here, aren't I? Where do you think I live?)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9372954/
It’s sad that helicopter parenting has become so normalized that this excuse would seem reasonable to people.
Interesting. This is about a month and half old, so they are getting more transparent. I am not reassured though because based on my reading, it appears the fleet response can't actually take over and drive the car in an emergency. I double checked with Claude AI

Me: "does it appear the remote operator can take over and drive the car if needed."

Claude: "Based on my reading of the document, it does not appear that the remote operator (referred to as "fleet response agent") can take over and drive the car directly"
It has been explained to me that cars are an extension of ones personality, a social signal, and a hobby. So for some apparently what kind one rides in is significant.
I do not know where/if the plebs can buy this data, but advertisers can:

https://support.google.com/waymo/answer/13381216?hl=en

"Waymo may disclose user personal information to third parties to tailor advertising and offers to your interests. Such disclosures may be considered “sales” or “sharing” of personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act."

It is rather surprising that so many here downvote the obvious, which even non-technical Guardian journalists have found out.
This seems like a pretty low price to pay for the huge upsides of safer rides and potentially lower car ownership, on top of the more comfortable experience discussed elsewhere here.
VGS! Midair keeps the torch lit, and has had a re-release, but they're less "base" and more CTF with lights.
That is a much better term, battery: inconsequential detail on how it is constructed. accumulator: what it does.
Ah yes then I am very familiar with Athena- like tools. At my old job I used pyspark and I must say I did enjoy how easy it was to make custom python UDFs in combination with SQL so I miss that in a pure SQL environment. But for a lot of applications SQL gets the job done.
Their policy from an email sent out Oct 2023:

> Many of our riders choose Waymo for the clean and consistent vehicle we offer. To ensure every rider gets this experience, we’ll be applying a vehicle cleaning fee for riders who leave a mess behind in the vehicle, such as vomit, excessive trash, and smoking odors.

> For those that self-report their mess during their ride (not including smoking), the fee will be $50. For issues that go unreported, we’ll charge riders $100 for the first violation and increase the fee for subsequent violations. Repeat trash and smoking related violations may also impact your account standing.
You probably can (although I haven’t tried). The trunk is accessible and you can flip down the seats and ride in the front.
> "Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place," the CTO said of AI's role in the workplace.

She is disgusting. What a revolting and tone deaf thing to say, while stealing people's art to train your AI models. Unreal.
Sure it looks nice, but it's a fake history. After a rebase you have commits where no one's ever run the tests, no author ever intended to get the repo into that state. Hell, most likely no one knows if the code even compiles.

It's assuming that that merge conflicts will never be too difficult, and people won't make mistakes in resolving them. If so, too bad, the original commits are lost by the rebase process. (They might or might not be kept in any given clone. No guarantees, good luck trawling through the reflog.)

It's corrupting your database because it makes the UI for exploring it nicer.

This is the opposite of what we should be doing! If the truth is messy we should build better UIs for exploring it. Add additional information on top of the true history, allow people to group and describe commits. Add more information to get the UI that you want, rather than destroying information because it makes things look cluttered.
super bad take. by this logic nobody should be excited about any technology whatsoever
FYI, there's a 2-player board game about this event by Amabel Holland:

https://hollandspiele.com/products/the-field-of-the-cloth-of...

More info:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/309752/the-field-of-the-...
Correct! He heard it from a friend and decided it needed his name on it, that way it is an example of the law itself.
Framing this in terms of “Xi” and “Putin” is myopic. My home country of Bangladesh is eager to join BRICS: https://www.bssnews.net/news/193064. The support for doing so is not based on some “NATO versus Russia and China” calculus. It’s more that they are looking out for their own interests, and just don’t care about west’s ideological fixations. China invests in Bangladesh, Russia built a nuclear plant there, and the US is nowhere to be seen. Moreover, China is just looking for ROI and won’t intrude on your domestic politics like the US.

As the locus of power moves to China, moreover, there is less motivation to side with the US. China is leading in areas like nuclear power and batteries, while the US is at the forefront of lobotomizing its population with social media.
if you're excluding "peak of popularity" what is it the "peak" of?
Waymo has a partnership with Avis Budget Group to use their fleet cleaning and refueling facilities. I imagine if a user reports a dirty car someone can pop in on a camera, check it out, and divert the car to a depot.
It's not the full effect. I remember feeling the torque impulse through the desk.
What goals were achieved that I missed? Even for creative writing and image creation it still requires significant human guidance and correction.
There is no greater folly of contemporary human society than the purposeful restriction of such vast and easily shareable repositories of knowledge. Perhaps these schemes made sense in the past but with the advent of the internet and independent groups willing to fund all hosting fees, we should move to models of publishing that do not require this restriction of information. Library genesis exists but necessarily must hide and create some friction in the discovery process. A legally unencumbered free library of all books for all people would be the greatest achievement in all of human history. We prevent this achievement due to our attachment to a specific economic system that serves as the current means of financially supporting authors. We must build alternatives to for-profit publishing, and the only resilient and widely acceptable system I can imagine is one where every community owns and controls the means of production upon which they depend for their survival. In such an economic system, the need for automation would be obvious and once implemented, all people would receive the benefits of automation. This would include such a wide allowance for leisure and free time that authors would no longer need to restrict access to their books to extract profits from their value their shared knowledge creates. All people would be free to do what they will.

It would take great effort to build such a system, but open source and digital repositories of machine designs would ensure that efforts are not duplicated. The effort would still be substantial, but what hangs in the balance is the opportunity to assure the freedom of all people and the creation of the most significant repository of knowledge humanity has ever conceived of. If we succeed it will be our greatest achievement as a species.
> Can tourism be A PART of a healthy economy ? Sure. But it shouldn’t be in charge of that economy

This is true of any sector. New York get volatile when over-reliant on FIRE; San Francisco goes into a depression when valuations dip.

Also, this is a story about Barcelona. An industrial city. Tourism is a minority.
Indeed. Much as buying a smaller car makes you a hazard to everyone nearby because they cannot see you as easily. The most sensible thing for everyone is ever larger and more heavily armored vehicles. Won't someone think of the children. `/s`

All that said. If you cannot maneuver safely around drivers going the speed limit then they are not the problem.
I see, I'm sorry that's happening :/ I was lucky enough to transition from college dropout waiter to tech startup on the back of the iPad, 6 years in, sold it and ended up at still-good 2016 Google. Left in 2023 because of some absolutely mindnumbingly banal-ly evil middle management. I'm honestly worried about myself because I cannot. stand. that. crap., Google was relatively okay, and doubt I could ever work for someone else again. it was s t u n n i n g to see how easily people slip into confirmation bias when it involves pay / looking good.

fwiw if someone's really into Google minutae: I'm not so sure it is relatively okay anymore, it's kinda freaky how many posts there are on Blind along the lines of "wow I left X for here, assumed i'd at least be okay, but I am deeply unhappy. its much worse than average-white-collar job I left"
Are you religious? If so do you take your religion seriously or do you wear it like an outfit, to be donned at the requisite moment and put away when not needed or inconvenient? To people who take their religion seriously scripture is more than 'just words on paper', especially when that scripture is seen by them as the literal word from their God where 'the sound of the reciter is created but the words of the Quran are not created':

https://islamweb.net/en/fatwa/87390/quran-is-word-of-allah

Qur'an is Word of Allah, revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam); it is an attribute among the uncountable Attributes of Allah. Allah has Spoken these words by sound and letters. Qur'an does not say but it is Allah Who ‘Says’.

Therefore, it is not among the good decencies with Allah to Say: “Qur'an says, or Qur'an said: “Since it might be misunderstood that Qur'an has an independent or a separate existence”.

If one uses such an expression with the intention that the Qur'an is a creature then he is disbelieving in an Attribute of Allah (May Allah protect us from that). If he does not mean it, it is better to avoid such an expression since it may raise misunderstandings.

Allah knows best.

To those who take their religion seriously those comparisons to 'football fans' are just as silly as when someone were to compare you liking (e.g.) Taylor Swift to the way you love your daughter (should you have one).

Also don't fall for the trap of thinking that only those who can talk eruditely on some subject can be 'true believers'. Just because some young person has been convinced by a religious leader that his salvation lies in fighting and dying in the name of Allah does not mean he doesn't take those lessons seriously. Do you really think that those who don suicide vests to blow themselves up (or to be blown up by remote control) are 'just fans of islam in the same manner people are fans of a football team'?
Not about SVG as such, but the XML nature of SVG.

I see JSON these days for everything including, for instance, savefiles for documents; templates in Azure, etc etc

I wonder if I will honestly, un-ironically, use XML in my next project for something where JSON could have done the job.

JSON is missing these small things make it very annoying (mainly comments, comma at end of last element not allowed, and the crappy ambiguities standard vs implementations about numbers, autoformatting of pretty printed JSON not standardized). Also not very readable as config format.

And YAML is human editing friendly but so horrible in other ways ( [US, GB, SE, DK, NO, ...])

I am sure there are lots of small competitors. But XML is already there, so well supported everywhere.
That doesn't cover all the normal cleaning needed just from people being in the cars, on top of environmental stuff (sand, dirt, mud, leaf debris, pollen...)

Like others said: the second they have run drivers out, the cars will stop getting cleaned obsessively because you won't have a choice.

Same thing that happened when Lyft and Uber when they ran the taxi industry out of business.

Same thing that happened when Zipcar was established. Cars went from being spotless and well maintained to damaged, dirty, and half the dash being lit up.
Fly Navy!
My view as a burgeoning senior dev is that the "senior" bit is generally less about coding and more about domain knowledge.

Understanding the business processes of your industry, how to solicit feedback from and interact with end users, how to explain things to management/sell on ideas.

If you put a junior dev in front of a panel of executives and ask them to explain requirements for a project odds are quite high they will info dump tech mumbo-jumbo. A senior should be able to explain risks, benefits, timelines, and impacted areas of the business in a manner that non technical people can easily grok.
It varies, if you look at meteor lake [1] the different die go from 27..100 sq mm

(Compared to the h200 which is an insane 814 sqmm)

But I don't see any obvious advantage to small triangular die. Once the die are small if doesn't make much difference vs rectangular as to how many you can pack into a circle (for a given die area), and rectangle are much more convenient

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Lake
It is my understanding that what this paper describes was never actually shipped and instead the StarLisp was significantly lower level affair, on par of the other Star-something languages for the CM, or rather the frontend of it (CM is essentially an equivalent of modern GPU, not a general purpose computer).
It's easy! Cations are positively charged, so cathodes are, uh, negatively, charged. With anions and anodes it's the other way around.

It makes perfect sense! Cations, you see, are attracted to anions. And reduced by cathodes. Anions? Attracted to cations. And oxidized by anodes.

Whereas cations are oxidized by anions, and anions are reduced by cations.

The only alternative here would be if cathodes and cations were positively charged, and anodes and anions were negatively charged. But then cathodes would reduce anions, and cations would also reduce anions. Even worse, anodes would oxidize cations, and anions would also oxidize cations.

And we can't have that. It would just be too confusing.
They’re called crisps.
(Not) according to my undergrad advisor, quite the mathematical physicist,

"Shut up or shamanate!"

(Not)https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/57/5/10/412592/Cou...

Also, the Russian version of glossolalia, if it existed/exists in Russian-America, would be interesting/also-relevant, weren't they a minor splinter of the great Schism/some spending a lot of time east of the Urals?

http://www.russianaz.org/molokane/people/Samarin_William_Joh...

This one seems to have a more southern origin

Back to scheduled (II?) glossolalia
Previous discussion of this tablet: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456834)
This is related, and it is the paper that lives constantly rent free in my head. I think it will retroactively be viewed as revolutionary: https://www.alexwg.org/publications/PhysRevLett_110-168702.p...

Basically, intelligent behavior is optimizing for "future asymptotic entropy" vs maximizing any immediate value. How intelligent a system is then become a measure of how far in the future it can model and optimize entropy effectively for.

(updated with pdf link)
Human ride shares drive so wildly they make me sick like half the time. Never happened in a waymo. Yeah it's a bit slower, but everyone always overestimates the gains from driving so fast. We all have to stop at the same red lights, or get in the same lines for the stop sign, even if you get to the line way faster. I'm happy to get there 30s later for a smooth ride.
Case in point. Plugging your ears and shouting does not invalidate the question. These are very basic questions that, if Waymo were at all confident about their technology, would not hesitate to answer.

And most of these are just simple numbers! Like stating, the number of miles per intervention is 10. Yet that number is nowhere to be found from Waymo's press relations department.