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WeRead (微信读书) by Tencent is the best reading app. I immediately turn to WeRead even if I have tons of reading history in Goodreads about 3-year ago.

They introduce social aspects in the book you are reading, and you can see how other comments on the sentence you read.

They also provide the insights on what book you reads, how much time you spent on this book, etc.
That's not really true. They don't have to finish and graduate by the time funding runs out - nearly half of students simply fail to graduate (in the us).

It's also extra untrue because this author is describing running into a null result and turning that into a PHD when usually null results don't go anywhere, either to a thesis or a publication.

But it becomes true again in the context that the null result is nice framing for this article but isn't the framing in the intro/contents of the thesis. And also because:

"A turning point came when another graduate student suggested a dramatic change to my protocol. I was skeptical, but I thought it was worth a shot. It turned out they were correct: After trying yet another experiment, the results started to look better—and after a few more changes, I eventually got the protocol to work. "

doesn't sound like a failed experiment to me!
Plausible Analytics: GDPR Compliance w/o Cookie Consent Banner
But it would be an incredibly dysfunctional org to just hire a bunch of people with no deliverables for them. IME people are hired to build and maintain things to produce product value. You may disagree on the necessity of the value, but that doesn’t mean no one else sees value in it.
I think they are talking about the Image Trace feature, which mostly traces automatically (but requires some hand holding).
The study summary addresses this.

“The presentation of four individual case descriptions does not allow for general conclusions to be made about the therapeutic effect of transcutaneous nicotine administration in post-COVD-19 syndrome; this would require double-blinded, randomized studies. Due to the minimal therapeutic intervention, studies such as these have the potential to be carried out rather easily.
Due to the lack of blinding, the author believes that the psychosomatic component, which other authors suspect to be a central component of long-haul COVID (Stengel et al. 2021), cannot be safely ruled out as part of the therapeutic effect. However, no symptom-related relapses were observed in a follow-up telephone consultation with the patients three to six months post-intervention.”
Just because the boot loader is using Linux, it doesn’t prevent an alternative OS from being booted into, so there is nothing fundamentally stopping all of grub’s features from working in this new scheme.
Impressive. I had no idea mobile-only tickets are a thing. For me it's always been the other way around because sometimes some events would insist on a printed ticket even if it comes as a PDF with a barcode. This sort of thing became annoying enough to me that I bought a printer.

But then ticket resale online marketplaces aren't a thing around here either. When people resell event tickets, it's usually an entirely DIY affair.
Due to chaotic effects of causality, most of us would not exist if any significant event from that long ago had happened differently.
You can still get standalone GPS map units - connectivity only required for traffic and similar features. Map updates are paid.
I won't try to define postmodernism, but I'm pretty sure a significant part of it has to do with abandoning traditional modes of operation and freestyling a bit with your worldview.

I don't question that the problems you're describing are problematic, but what do they have to do with postmodernism? It seems like in the cases you're describing, the postmodern approach would be to call into question whether the abstractions in use ("value" in this case) are applicable, and to instead march to the beat of your own drum in some way.
The invention of the printing press enabled people of relatively modest means to mass distribute their message through pamphlets.
Over the following centuries, that gave us all kinds of innovations and revolutions, like the Reformation and the French Revolution. Some said things that needed to be said, but in many cases, successful pamphleteers didn't feel a need to be fair or accurate.

As the centuries went on, many people decided that the time it took to read a pamphlet was almost always worth more than what they were getting out of it. So, we got book publishers and newspaper proprietors whose key value added was their guarantee that what they were publishing met a minimum standard of value, and people were willing to pay for that because it was better value than reading self-published books or pamphlets, even when free.

If the mainstream Internet follows the same path, it might come to have more in common with MSN of 1996 than with Facebook of twenty years later.
This is a headache-inducing read. Weird anecdotes about EU site having cookie consent forms while US sites don't (what US sites are you browsing?). Blaming the poor UX on regulators rather than site operators (if they only tracked the data they needed to operate the site they wouldn't need to ask). Implying that sites all tracking you as much as they want with no need for consent would be ideal and "the market working" to provide a good experience. Equating a regulator deeming a business model unethical and illegal to nationalizing private property (lol). The bizarre assertion that selling or providing an app for an operating system is using the OS maker's intellectual property without compensation. The rapid-fire procession of terrible takes is dizzying.
I must admit it is rather comfortable to have an accurate view of the world. It's much more profitable than being enmeshed in a bunch of conspiracy theories.
Out Hyundai has maps that are at least as good as Google. For example, we live on a rural road, at least 10 years old, and Google doesn't know about it. Yes, I've submitted an update, multiple times.

Unfortunately, the Hyindai routing is not as good, and does sometimes make odd mistakes.

We use the Hyundai navigation 99% of the time.
Maybe OpenAI should pay for their lawyer.
I have never read a book about improving my terminal knowledge. I have a few tricks I have picked up over time (probably through posts like this!), but never done holistic research on the subject. Therefore, despite having used the terminal for decades, I likely have a similarly long list of basic terminal knowledge gaps. I do not know what I do not know.
I developed a tool for managing EFI boot entries for my personal use.

I've been meaning to get it ready to release publicly. It's mostly there, just a bit manual to install.

https://efiboot.cbarrick.dev
I'm pretty sure I have a general solution to that problem. The key is that hierarchies can be embedded in text, as HTML and XML do. Check out https://github.com/bablr-lang/
I've never once had to recompile the kernel on my laptop for any reason. The kernel command line is set in the bios entry, which is somewhat tedious to change, but that's just an efibootmgr command. Initramfs gets rebuilt by pacman on larger updates, but that would happen no matter what bootloader I use.
I try to add up to date opening hours for every business I frequent in OSM. These are available in Organic Maps (successor to Maps.me), even offline.

Google does seem to have the upper hand for special cases like public holidays sometimes, but even those can be added in OSM.
The Houthi's civil war in Yemen has killed 377,000 people. And they're the ones shooting missiles at civilian ships.

So I guess they're genociders, and they're bad for business.
Haven’t used it much but “apropos” is probably what you want.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/apropos.1.html
I would really like to know what siquick wrote...
https://archive.ph/HSAdO
> If software engineers united behind true ideals of freedom

You'd have better luck trying to remove jealousy from the human heart. If you can suggest a mechanism for actually making this happen, enforcing it in the face of economic incentives, and measuring it's actual impact then I'll take the ride with you. Until then it is an absolute fools errand.

> we could automate the entire stack of "leadership" and raise the floor of society.

Autonomous societies have been tried before. They have no mechanism to correctly align their long term objectives so none of them have ever lasted. Planning to build another one based on nothing other than assumption is flawed.

> with freedom unalienably encoded into the fabric of the social machine.

Guns exist. The social machine is secondary to force. You have no plan for this.

> This mindset can extend into a multi-planetary society and beyond.

Older people sell younger people pure unadulterated fantasies in order to extract cheap labor from them.
They've massively increased their capacity to build coal by a massive amount. They've also massively decreased the capacity factor of their coal plants. It used to be that their coal plants mostly ran 24/7, now their coal plants mostly just run at night while the sun isn't shining.

More coal plants burning less coal.

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-coal-plants
Doesn't this whole HN post kind of substantiate it though? The article itself was incorrectly flagged. So far I see no comments addressing the content of the article at all. I think it's completely fair to describe the response here as reflexively defensive.

I do agree that my comment is too broad in implicating most Europeans. I do think the standard European response on HN is how I described it, but presumably most Europeans on HN don't actually contribute to these discussions and it's misleading to extend the point to them.
So Barcelona builds 50K homes and 49K are airbnb’d.

Build it and they will come.
rEFInd is the magic tool here.

Personally I still use GRUB for all of the reasons you stated above. But rEFInd + kernel gets you pretty close.
Just visited Åland two years ago. It was perfectly tourist-friendly on the main island, where most of the people live.

The author speaks of visiting Åva island in Brandö (county). That place is tiny; the population of the county is 436, split between multiple islands. It can't really support a booming service industry. Again, go check out the main island, that's where the party's at.

The author also complains about high fees on ferries if you're just driving through. The ferries are small, and primarily for the locals to move around; the high fee discourages drive-thru on purpose. Imagine you're trying to get to the other island for work or whatever and there's 300 cars queuing for places on a 60-car ferry.
This video is laced with profanity and focused specifically on animation, but give a pretty good overview of why interpolation does not inherently make things look better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KRb_qV9P4g
Thanks. I don't really see how that's worse than today, where a bad actor can do exactly the same thing in a forum post. Typically the post shows the text you enter, but can go to any URL.

In terms of the user going to a site instead of a zip file: If a user is willing to unpack and run a random file he downloaded and give it credentials to something... what's the difference? Not being argumentative, but this seems like a stretch.
What about the Word web app? Can you use Playwright or similar to fake a login to that and extract the document data there?
Leading to overcrowding and increased competition for the same locations
Camera tech and syncing has become almost trivial. You can do shoots with a mix of cameras all feeding back to a central place without any kind of sync between them all without running any kind of sync.
While I'd love to use free tools, these really don't compare to the paid tools like the Affinity suite or Figma for example.

Especially in a professional setting as a designer, the tools I use are chosen to make my life easier and enable me to work more efficient, and these really don't yet. From what I see, they aren't build for this setting in mind and cannot keep up with paid tools that have significantly more of a financial backing.

The one open-source outlier for me is PenPot, but even they aren't there yet in my opinion, at least not for my needs (and preferences).
Perhaps The New York Times recommending it has something to do with it:

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-media-stream...
Affinity 2.4 supposedly added more support for RAW including some Fuji cameras.
At what point is google liable for the increased rate of accidents from features like this? Surely they have some data that can estimate users getting in accidents while using gmaps.
>When news came out that those routes were being chosen to make the app more "inclusive", I found it amusing how someone in Palo Alto presenting a PowerPoint with a couple of ESG slides could lead to someone else being shot with an AK-47.

source? The above link only seems to support the claim there's armed people on streetview, not that google is directing people to crime ridden areas for "ESG" purposes.
Dumb/ignorant question:

I'm under impression that the "clack" used at the beginning of the stereotypical film take functions as a sound spike that multiple reels of film from different angles can be synchronized on - assuming I'm not way off base here, what about syncing audio/video on modern digital devices is more difficult?
As a former smoker, who used patches and gum and such to quit, this doesn't seem surprising. The nicotine patch is far less satisfying than cigarettes. Cigarettes come on strong, immediately, and that feeling is amazing.

Patches are a slow release and the effect comes on very gradually.

There's no cue/craving/response/reward feedback with patches(Tiny Habits helped me quit too if anyones trying).

If I get irritated and have a cigarette, there is immediate relief and satisfaction. I can't immediately put on a patch and get that. Probably takes thirty minutes to really come on.

Not saying there is no addictive potential, but they are off by an order of magnitude or two.
QNX still works that way. It's just no longer free.
India needs electricity to develop their economy. The cheapest electricity is solar.
And you’re on version 2?

Maybe I’m wrong, my upgrade path was I just signed into my account through the app and it validated my version and downloaded all my assets (from the asset store).
>"Although GRUB is quite versatile and capable, its features create complexity that is difficult to maintain, and that both duplicate and lag behind the Linux kernel while also creating numerous security holes."

We agree thus far -- that GRUB may create unnecessary complexity and security holes (Note the relationship between "complexity" and "security holes" -- where you find one, you will usually find the other... they're intertwined like Yin and Yang -- you usually don't get one aspect alone by itself -- without also getting the other...)...

>"Loaded by the EFI stub on UEFI"

"Er, begging the question Governor" but isn't EFI and UEFI also a bootloader?

Aren't those systems also complex?

I think the article is trying to make the point that a small EFI stub program which loads a larger program, in this case, a modified version of the Linux Kernel itself could easily be audited for security issues, and yes, that's sort of true -- but remember that the EFI loader, no matter how small, still has to run in the UEFI environment, and the entire UEFI environment is anything but not complex...

Phrased another way, running a tiny open source, secure program on a gigantic, complex black-box VM with many undocumented/opaqued/"black box" parts -- may not be all that secure...

Still, any small part of a system that could be made simpler despite there being other obscure "black box" undocumented or poorly documented complex components at play -- is definitely a step in the right direction towards full future transparency and auditability...
Not just a bit. All materials can be compressed quite a lot, given high enough pressure. For example, at the extreme pressures in inertially confined fusion, solid deuterium starts with 0.2 g/mL density and for a brief moment is squished to about 100 g/mL. Of course it takes huge energy density to achieve such compression, and we do not see this in everyday life.

So, whether something can or can not be regarded as incompressible simply reflects what questions we are interested in, and in what range of conditions.

The "liquids are incompressible" is first a very useful approximation for many practical problems, and second it is a conceptual thing, which comes from the introductory physics, from looking at the qualitative difference in how gasses and liquids behave when the pressure changes.

If we ignore the nuances, it is possible to say that the gas fills any volume given to it, while a liquid stays at almost the same volume for a range of pressures. That is, if we put a liquid into a larger empty box, unlike the gas it does not visibly expand. (Though it may be evaporating and turning into gas.) And if we double the pressure from one to two bars, water does not visibly compress, while air under piston is squished two-fold, assuming it is cooled to keep the temperature constant. That's where "water is incompressible compared to the air" comes from.

In some situations it can be useful to treat even gasses as having constant volume. For example in aerodynamics of subsonic flows where the pressure does not change too much from point to point, it is standard to treat the gas as an incompressible fluid. This makes the theory vastly simpler, while keeping it accurate enough in this particular regime.

Exactly like that, where the compressibility of liquids and solids does not change the essence of what we are interested in in a particular situation, the solids and liquids are considered to be incompressible, even though in other more exotic situations this would not work at all.
systemd-boot is actually pretty great. If you're looking for a lean fast (multi-os) uefi bootloader systemd-boot is much easier to set up and less fiddly than grub. I haven't reached for grub in years.
It keeps you buying high end Macs though, which have gotten ridiculously expensive now. That alone seems like a good reason for Apple to keep investing in Final Cut and Logic.
I have never been able to distinguish a "leetcode problem" from an ordinary technical interview, so I have never done anything special to prepare for them. This seems to work out fine.
Ironically the tagline on the blog home page starts out:

> For years I have dreamed of breaking free of monetary restrictions and living a calm life on the country side.
Yes there are a lot of bugs since I just wrote this in one sitting today. Will be fixing all of this. For log rotation, I'll sort by the last_modified_at ts and then purge those
This requires a bunch of additional logic in the bootloader (eg, providing disk encryption keys), and since you're not doing this in a fully-featured OS environment (as you are in the initramfs case) it's going to be hard providing a consistent experience through the entire boot process. Having the pre-boot environment be a (slightly) cut-down version of the actual OS means all your tooling can be shared between the two environments.
Thanks for your input @sakras. I'll fix this
HN topics are not linear conversations. There is no notion of "changing the subject". We can simultaneously discuss the article and topics around the article on separate comment trees.
Huge! Well done to the Bitwarden team for this first class support of digital identity compartmentalization, although a bit more improvement to be made to reduce friction on the user side for plugging in alias providers (pop up to login to retrieve an API token behind the scenes vs the API token copy paste dance, with login creds Bitwarden might be storing already).

Edit: Is there a standard or API spec perhaps across email alias services for generating, listing, managing, and invalidating aliases?

(happy paying bitwarden customer, no other affiliation)
>hey, i've been looking for those numbers for years! where did you get them?

I just googled "low power epaper" and read the summaries for mentions of mW and J
"If it ain't broke, don't fix/update it."

That's my moto. Apart from Firefox, my banking apps and Signal, I don't update anything, ever. Not the TV, not the media-box, nothing. Eventually it leads to tragedy and discomfort.

Sometimes I custom update my Win machines for Security patches, but anything that has to do with usability, UI, function, etc. I leave it as is. (I firewall all my apps in my machine anyway).
You really shouldn't start a PhD without doing the PhD simulator first [0]. Sadly, people who haven't yet been through the PhD experience think that this game is exaggerating for comic effect. It really isn't.

[0] https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.html
Yeah, sadly that's a bit of a chicken-egg problem. OSM isn't popular enough to crowdsource that information as well as Google can.

Though in the spirit of "be the change you want to see", it's pretty easy to add opening hours any business you notice is missing them. Every Door and Street Complete are good, user-friendly editors on mobile.
Bitwig is so good, nowadays. I paid full-price for a Studio license, and their Linux support is so top-notch that I don't feel bad putting money in their pocket. I used to use Logic and Ableton, but I don't miss anything from them when I use Bitwig.
Ah yes, I've used it with the default auto-detected UKIs for so long that I forgot about the explicit loader entries config.
Wait, what? I'm sure here we can relate to the software side of things. How many times have you been in a position of saying "go/nogo" where saying "nogo" didn't imply it would also be your last day on the job? (or at least a severe Career Limiting Move)
Hm. So I guess at a small venue that has 3 door people with offline scanners, you have a 2/3 chance of success if you're the second of two people sharing a barcode. Combined with the obvious 3/3 success being the first person, that averages out to 5/6 chance if both of you (oblivious to each other) schedule your arrival similarly.
DB Browser for SQLite (Windows, macOS, and Most Versions of Linux)
Navigation between cells with j/k doesn't seem to work, unfortunately. I'm used to not having to move my hands to use the mouse when editing a Jupyter notebook.
> For the record, aeroplane cockpits have also gotten considerably simpler in the intervening half-century since Concorde and the first 747s. Here is an Airbus A350 cockpit[2].

I mean, aesthetically it's simpler sure, but the complexity is still there; it's just now much more digital.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40906802
> license reasons, if the program’s license is not GPL-compatible – readline is GPL-licensed, not LGPL

The older I get, the less patient I become with finding out some user experience sucks because of GPL / non-GPL knife fights.

It's been thirty-nine years now. I think the GPL was useful at its origin, but now the benefits of open-source are proven out, the world is deeply interconnected via the Internet, and it's a hindrance to have some code burden other code with requirements. I, for one, don't expect to write any further GPL code in my lifetime. I'd rather code be maximally unencumbered from interoperation.