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>I cannot see most of your posts in the "I'm leaving too" thread, as the benevolent moderators flagged that material as a cognitohazard.

Please see my archives here: https://zahlman.github.io/dpo_archive/

>calling out hypocrisy, you have ruled any courtesy extended to you void

It suits me fine. As I said, I was leaving anyway.

It would be nice to get a retraction of their false claims, restoration of my removed content, and an apology. But it's just as well that I make sure others recognize the absurdity.

>I also expect that your criticism of identity politics will be construed as "right-wing dogwhistling" by the powers that be.

Not in as many words, but this clearly happened over a month ago already.

>in what I can only describe as a kind of reverse McCarthyism.

Just as I objected to the terms "reverse racism" and "reverse sexism": political persecution doesn't have a direction, and isn't a fundamentally different thing depending on who's doing it or the kind of idea is being rejected. (Of course I don't have any sympathy for ideas that explicitly propose harm to others; but even then, the correct course of action is refutation. Persecution is for those who act on ideas and cause harm.)
Wow, pricey!
I thought the rule here was to match the article headline, which is "These fossils..".
Wot?

Environment is a funny old thing.

A golf course in a densely populated area would at least break up concrete and tarmac surfaces which are prone to encouraging flooding. Close cropped grass isn't awful, but not the best conditions to encourage insects. Amphibians, rodents and many others, need not apply.

"The rough": better - birds and rodents are now catered for.

How on earth could a privately owned golf course exist on public land? Public land belongs to all of us and is not something to be given away.

I think I understand where you are coming from and I respectfully suggest you are misinformed. The last thing that densely populated areas need is more housing.
I've never even heard of relative line numbering! I just thought it was broken.
People have done something like this. No standard web component so far unfortunately. https://alexplescan.com/posts/2023/07/08/easy-svg-sparklines...
It was numerous examples of matching fossils, geological formations, and deformations which played a key role in validating the theory of plate tectonics (originally "continental drift").

Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science, details this in her book Plate Tectonics: An insider's history of the modern theory of the Earth (2001), which is one of the most powerful narratives of how a hypothesis can go from wild-eyed fringe to the absolute foundation of an entire scientific discipline, one whose own origins date to the earliest recorded history, in only 50 years.

<https://archive.org/details/platetectonicsin0000unse>

Kirkus review: <https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/naomi-oreskes/pla...>

And a shorter more recent article-length treatment from Oreskes:

<https://www.nature.com/articles/501027a> (2013)

This focuses strongly on mid-Atlantic rift magnetic polarisation, which was key in confirming the drift theory, though it briefly mentions other evidence which helped prompt and support it earlier.
By 2100? Assuming that such a future is a thing that will happen at all, I think the chances of it happening that soon are very near zero.
+1 It's called "Human" resources not "Company" resources for a reason.
>> I love her sense of humor!

She appeared on the David Letterman show a few years later in 1986, https://hackcur.io/grace-hopper-on-letterman/.
It really does feel like this is 'The Great Filter century'. Either we make it through to a Star Trek society, or the gravity of our externalisations catch up with us.

While I am more on the side of decline and fall (not absolute doom!), I do not rrule out that we overcome a lot of our issues.
I suppose this might be related to nerd culture decades ago. Scifi, fantasy and comic books for example were much more niche, you would be ostracized or ridiculed for showing interested in them openly. That was before those genres were appropriated by the mainstream. Before that, nerds would (with great effort) seek out other nerds in order to share the same appreciation for the hyper specific interests they had.

Now the average person discovered the joy of such hyper specific content, instead of the same lowest most common denominator mainstream shit. But it's also generational, older generations are very much constrained in their cultural consumption. What you described hasn't happened yet I don't think, but it might once everyone who still watches TV is dead.
Marcus Aurelius: On Humility and Duty (2019)
Vindicated how? This news doesn't change the history of past laptops.

Apple spent 3 years selling laptops where the keys fell off the keyboards. The don't care about RAM complaints.
Their market is "wants prettier than Windows".

Apple products are extremely popular, and they use RAM (now soldered RAM) as a hardware dongle to discriminate on price by how much computing power a user needs. It's a mini "App Store"-like monopoly built into the motherboard.
> The problem I see with people who attempt parallelism for the first time is that the task size has to be smaller than the overhead to transfer tasks between cores or nodes.

My big sticking point is that for some key classes of tasks, it's not clear that this is even possible. I've seen no credible reason to think that throwing more processors at the problem will ever build that one tool-generated template-heavy C++ file (IYKYK) in under a minute, or accurately simulate an old game console with a useful "fast forward" button, or fit an FPGA design before I decide to take a long coffee-and-HN break.

To be fair, some things that do parallelize well (e.g. large-scale finite element analysis, web servers) are extremely important. It's not as though these techniques and architectures and research projects are simply a waste of time. It's just that, like so many others before it, parallelism has been hyped for the past decade as "the" new computing paradigm that we've got to shove absolutely everything into, and I don't believe it.
NixOS does this too.
In terms of money it might end up cheaper for the infra itself (especially if it runs in your garage)

In term of your personal time, well, you'll not grow a business on it without hiring people to maintain it or spend a lot of time doing devops
Does it run well with 16gb?
Just riffing on the Roman thing: Mice - glires.

Remarkable Italian invention ...

Nothing is new
They're also a delicacy in the US, just marketed as squab to avoid the ick factor many might feel. Appears on many a Michelin star menu.
> You can with a keystroke switch a given workspace into floating vs tiling mode.

Yup. I use the Awesome WM on Linux too and it's exactly what I do, since forever.

I've got for example one of the workspace in floating mode and it's using rules for app placement: only Emacs visible in that workspace? In the middle. Emacs+browser visible in that workspace? Browser on the right of Emacs. Emacs+browser+up to four xterms, Emacs and browser don't change size, but the xterms do.

I'm using a 38" monitor since 2017 and I noticed that the bigger the monitor, the more there'll be times when you need actual rules saying exactly how things should be laid out.

But I'm still using tiling modes in most workspaces.

As a bonus I do "funny things" when switching between workspaces.

For example I've got 13 workspaces or so: by default Awesome WM only gives you 10 btw but I added a few others, in addition to shortcut+0-9, which I access with shortcut+a/b/c/d [the shortcut key you actually use for that is ofc configurable too]). And out of all these workspaces, there's only one which is allowed to use the CPU at full speed: all my other workspace put the CPU governor automatically on "powersave" mode.

And it's only in my "dev" workspace that the CPU can ramp up to its full speed.

Now I'm toying with something else: per-user firewalling rules (I'm using several user accounts and I already have got rules for each user) but also per-workspace firewalling rules. For example when I switch away from the workspace with the throwaway user account that's used for surfing, the firewall shuts off Internet access for that user (even if the browser is still opened: so as soon as I get back to that workspace, the net works again for that user).

Because if you think of it: why should a non-visible browser even be able to emit/receive any networking trafic? Every single proper webapp (all the Google suite, my broker's webapps, my banks, etc.) all do handle network disconnect just fine. Arguably a webapp that cannot deal with the network going off is not much of a webapp.

So when I switch to a workspace that doesn't contain a visible browser: the browser(s) do believe the Internet just got cut off.

If I've got a browser that really needs Internet access even when it's not visible (for example because I'm downloading something huge), I can send it, using a shortcut, to a workspace which allows web traffic. Awesome WM has got shortcuts for everything.

It's really sweet.

And as it's Linux: it's rock stable solid. It may take some time to set up properly but once it's done, it's done and shall keep working.

The "CPU governor changing depending on which workspace I'm on" is working since years. The "firewalling rules changing depending on which workspace I'm on" is a recent addition.

P.S: as a bonus, upon starting, I've got my Awesome WM configured to "pre populate" all the virtual desktops with the apps I know I'll use (say I'll always have my browser linked to my professional email on workspace 1, while workspace 12 shall always be the "throwaway browser" that's reset everytime I reboot the system).
If I and all my descendants have 2 kids, by the 6th generation, there will be 64 people with 1.56% of my DNA, which adds up to one full person.

With 3 kids per generation it's 729 descendants, which is over 11 people!

The future belongs to mormons and muslims.
One benefit for me was that a vps with 2vcors and 2-4gig of ram is about the same price as one of these app engine services. So I can run 3 or 4 dokku apps including Postgres, redis, memcache connected to them on my own vps and still have margin when inspiration strikes. I moved a production app from heroku to dokku and saved hundreds a month and still got tons and tons more compute.
Happy 15-th Anniversary of SQLite on Fossil
They're a troll that thrives on negative attention.
You know, this is sad. It's also sad when legality is invoked. Venezuela, Cuba do lots of things "legally" --things that in some parts of the world the use of the term would seem suspect.

Just because it's legal does not mean they did the right thing to do.
Visual family tree of Linux distributions
Have you tried the grip strength or stress ball exercises (recommend adjustable grip strength machine)? Isometric exercises focused on the hands can reduce BP. Could be worth a look if you want to avoid drugs.
I'm sure the deficit far far exceeds 7%
Crazy that you can't find any 7soulsdeep graffiti on here
>>Better armed police act as a deterrent though

As a deterrent for what? US has some of the most well armed police forces in the world and that's not reflected in the crime rates at all(unless you believe that it's inverse corellation, then sure).
To the best of my understanding I think the technology does drive up prices, but not in an anticompetitive way. I know people get really passionate about this, so I don't want to argue with people on hacker news about it, but to the best of my understanding this is what is happening:

Rental prices in the USA keep going up primarily due to a housing shortage.

Revenue optimization algorithms like realpage's do genuinely increase rents by about 2-5%, because without them fee-based property managers lower rents below market-clearing price in order to make it easier on themselves.

The increased rent that comes from using these algorithms is, in my opinion, not really anti-competitive. If you only used public information for the pricing algorithm, you'd get largely the same prices out of the system. In almost all rental markets, algorithmic pricing of any sort doesn't have high enough market share to see success by anticompetitive price-fixing, since most suppliers of housing don't use it.

Apartment rents are crazy high because there simply isnt enough housing, and we dont let people build enough dense housing near jobs. Going after Realpage, or blackrock, or landlords, or AirBnB is just trying to find a scapegoat, when the hard truth is we need to let people build more housing near where the jobs are.
I've never heard of that, sounds pretty cool. It's surprising to me. I will check it out, thanks!
I have my first Swift/SwiftUI app up on TestFlight! I've always been slightly irked by how Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Yelp manage bookmarking places, so I'm creating a to-do list app that pulls from MapKit and automatically organizes your saved places by neighborhood and city for easy retrieval and in-the-moment decision-making.

https://cerca.me
Tell HN: Uber decided to block all my payments and I'm stuck while traveling
Traveled to SA, Uber worked for the first day, then all payments started failing and it asks me to try another payment method. I tried 3 different methods, none work. There is no phone support for Uber, you have to hope someone answers you in time. Meanwhile, you can be stranded, it’s all the same to them. I guess they have some suspicion, if it ends up all being legit, it’s worth all the headaches and danger of walking around in SA at night.
I think it was already broken?

37C3 - Full AACSess: Exposing and Exploiting AACSv2 Uhd Drm for Your Viewing Pleasure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEBuiecLZGg
Not a surprise. I worked on a ‘AI’ health insurance product for several years and even getting access to data was a struggle.
Just FYI you can kill yourself pretty easily with potassium.
N=1 I tried taking potassium supplements and didn't see any noticeable effect on my blood pressure, unfortunately.
Thanks, I will look out for more updates here on HN.

This kind of vehicle has fascinated me for years. Seems like they'll be the transportation mode of the future, and that fully self-driving commuter aircraft will come before their ground-based counterparts, since the sky is a much simpler realm than the ground. The main challenge seems to be safety / reliability. Turbulence dampening, emergency landing in a variety of terrain, automatic ground-obstacle avoidance and communication with other aircraft (and that requires near-perfect cybersecurity).

Exciting times.
I have heard about isometric exercises helping reduce BP (there was a study posted on HN in the last 4 months or so), but I haven’t seen that they have to be hand exercises - are you sure of this?
The repo doesn’t include the model.
The difference between the valley and Ohio is Ohio never even tried to change / clean it up.
You might enjoy HPMOR then, what you described is kind of the whole point of it. https://hpmor.com/
They need landlords to stick to the numbers they pass on, in order that those numbers remain valuable to all of their other landlord clients.

Suppose that you're a big landlord in some area, such that your submitted prices can affect rents for that property type across the area. You might be tempted to submit high prices, wait for your competitors to follow suit, and then reduce your actual rents to undercut them. They (the competitors) naturally wouldn't be happy with this. So RealPage has to be able to show people that they know their numbers are the actual ones.
This is a cool idea, thank you! I have not experimented with using magnesium specifically in any way, but have heard that it's a useful supplement to take.
which is to say, an MMU to run a full blown operating system, and not a small C program with some interrupt handlers.
I was at a startup from 93-99 until it got sold. One of the things the chip did was music synthesis from wave tables. The traditional way of doing this is to build a polyphase filter to interpolate between the sample values. Instead, we did the work up-front of converting the wave tables to polynomials. During playback, there was then no need for the polyphase filter -- just evaluate the polynomial piece at whatever fractional phase you care to.

As a result, it could synthesize 100+ voices and still have DSP left over.

EDIT: I forgot to say, the guy who did that work was Avery Wang, who later went on to invent the algorithm used by Shazam to identify songs.
It's just that there's thousands of Finale users who were caught by surprise here, and they are up in arms.

I work for one of their competitors, Sibelius, so I have to be on top of it.
didn't know I had any comment replies, sorry for the late ping.

>You use strained, insane logic to try to reach the conclusion you had already decided you wanted to arrive at. You're not a very good thinker.

its also not a big deal because this was not an engaging comment, this is merely insults.
Elon Musk Begged Twitter Staff to Turn Off the New Feature He'd Pushed For
Afaik the general solutions to turbo lag are 1) a smaller turbo, 2) two turbos in stages, one spools earlier, the other later, 3) a transmission/differential/tune tailored to be in boost near-constantly during acceleration (something like a 10-speed cvt designed to keep you in high revs when accelerating in sport mode; not only keeps you in boost but is the ideal power band for these non-diesel boosted sports cars)
But their diversification efforts are pathetic. It's still like 80% of people being employed by the state. They will never find anything other than oil.
Maybe we need terminal escape codes to temporarily switch to linked alternative fonts. ;)
haha now we're all on a list, aren't we? shit.
IMO, I wouldn't call it useless, it's "useless for most teams".

I've been at many companies where they roll out Datadog and collect a crap ton of metrics/logs and so forth. Teams act all gung ho about "being data driven team" but quickly learn, almost all the numbers don't matter. As SRE, I attempt to drill down but any observations are met with silence or "Oh yea, that, meh, toss another 2 cores at the problem and let's move on."

At the cost of Datadog, their cost rarely exceeds outage cost or higher cloud bill cost. If you think you need it, buy it for a year where you can probably get good discount rate, use the data to rapidly improve most glaring issues you have then cancel the contract until you need it again in 3 years.

Obviously, if you are in highly responsive business, none of this applies but for us just cranking out B2B Rest APIs, you will be fine without Datadog.
(Not the author)

In large codebases you can have a problem where people randomly import things from different locations leading to a host of issues including circular import issues.

For example someone finds a convenient helper function in "my_thing.foo.bar.helpers" and imports it but you don't want that dependency between those modules and the helper function was not intended to be used outside of that module.

In Python this problem is especially severe because there is no native module encapsulation mechanism other than a weak conventio of using the underscore prefix.

A tool like this helps you enforce "intentional" module boundaries so modules can't randomly reach into each other to import things. You will be forced to consider an intentional modular design where the helpers that are needed by many things are separated out and other things are allowed to import from it.
Potatoes with the skin on are probably the best vegetable source. Nutritious in other ways as well. And cheap too.
I'm not planning on taking any supplements, just trying to eat more foods with potassium in them to get up to 3,400 mg per day. I've probably been hitting like 1,000 mg per day if I had to guess.
42 years later the storage cost of this information has not yet surpassed its value.
Erasure coding has been around for a very long time. Remember PAR2 files on Usenet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
I'm trying to understand your point as it relates to the article. I have no idea what your point is.
Just broke my dominant wrist. What stack should I use during recovery?
Work in venture, so 80%+ of my job is typing (emails, research writeups, investment memos, etc.). Any tools you'd recommend to make this a bit easier?
NIST didn't design any of the PQC submissions. It did design Dual EC.
The company seems to be doing well, but he’s getting the boot. What did he do?
Assuming you want to get rid of the fees entirely: people will have to look at the spam and divide it into more and less spammy. Others will have to do the same with the less spammy and so on. Eventually there is room for more accomplished moderators Until those with the greatest prestige filter down to a tiny sub set. You assign weights to the experts so that with each level of review the good half raises in rank much more than the previous round.

At first you do it by committee but eventually the rating for each scientists can be derived from the importance of their publication(s).

I don't think it needs to be free or even cheap. Subscriptions to the archives (and research data) could be more expensive and the money can be divided over the reputation points.

Free access can be earned by the sweat of your brow, publish worthy papers and do reviews that closely match other reviewers.

Universities should be able to publish enough quality material to get paid. Have the grownups pay for juniors education again. It was a good idea back then it is a good idea now.
Is the low clearance rate really misleading? Seem representative of reality.
A lot of these AI licenses are a lot more restrictive than old school open source licenses were.

My company runs a bunch of similar web-based services and plan to do a background remover at some stage, but as far as I know there's no current models with a sufficiently permissive license that can also feasibly download & run in browsers.
To your last point, it's been interesting to watch people struggle to effectively use technologies like Hadoop and Spark now that we've all moved to the cloud.

Originally, the whole point of the Hadoop architecture was that the data were pre-chunked and already sitting on the local storage of your compute nodes, so that the overhead to transfer at least that first map task was effectively zero, and your big data transfer cost was collecting all the (hopefully much smaller than your input data) results of that into one place in the reduce step.

Now we're in the cloud and the original data's all sitting in object storage. So shoving all your raw data through a tiny small slow network interface is an essential first step of any job, and it's not nearly so easy to get speedups that were as impressive as what people were doing 15 years ago.

That said I wouldn't want to go back. HDFS clusters were such a PITA to work with and I'm not the one paying the monthly AWS bill.
It's time to put American bombers back on alert
Ask HN: Why do doctors still display their certificates for patients to see?
Shouldn't this practice have gone away as everything became accessible online?
Has there ever once been a telescope that cost what was initially estimated? I would expect that price to more than double at least
You can kill easily only by injection in the blood, not by eating.

Eating even very large quantities will have little effects. They may cause diarrhea, but there is no chance of death.
Dear god don’t put a finance guy in charge of security.
While snarky, I think your comment is incisive.

It might be a little bit "on the nose", kinda like "speaking ill of the dead" too soon. Intel is not yet interred...

Interesting to see how Intel's hubris has painted it into a corner. Will the US govt. consider it "too big to fail" and infuse it with more cash as needed? Time will tell.

P.S. If the govt. does provide cash, what will prevent some future CEO from short-term juicing the stock using that cash, collecting a big paycheck (and running away before the stuff hits the rotary object?)