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This is all predicated on the assumption that forks and clones are a bad thing, when they're actually a good thing? Why does a clone require an 'exit strategy'? Does Linux have an exit strategy for merging back into Unix? When is Unix getting merged back into Multics, for that matter?

If Rustnux is safer and more performant in the ways that Rust advocates believe it will be, Rustnux will gain traction and demonstrate the potential benefits of Rust in the kernel itself. This is intrinsically beneficial, and I'm unsure how convincing a billion people to switch has anything to do with it. (Also, bizarre metric, does every purcharser-of-an-IoT-thermostat get their choice of OS kernels?)

For those who don't want to work on "shadowing" an API (quick, someone tell the Wine crowd they're 'stuck' and should stop), Redox already exists. He's not saying to shut it down. For a bunch of people accusing Drew of being incurious, these some some aggressively 'in the box' takes.
I suspect in the next 50 years electricity will end up globally transportable via undersea cables, like the internet does for data today.

At that point, it's always summertime somewhere and it's always daylight somewhere, and if prices were to fall to zero there is always someone who would like more heat for something.

Therefore I suspect zero-priced energy will stop existing.
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> My overall point is that there is little indication that this is some battle between good and evil or right and wrong.

I wouldn't necessarily use words like 'good' and 'evil' here but the fact that a judge can (arbitrarily) impose a fairly large fine on any individual using a specific foreign website says everything I need to know about that country and its judicial system. Genuinely curious how can someone defend something like that?

> “let Elon Musk do whatever he wants”, which is less of an argument about ethics and more of a statement of what fandom a person subscribes to.

I assure you I don't really care for Musk or most of the things he does and (especially) says. That's entirely besides the point.

even if it complies with Brazilian laws why would that matter at all? North Korea and Russia and all similar countries also have "laws"...

> If he’s simply pissing off a rich libertarian that’s popular

So a government censoring it's political opponents is fine as long as they are using a platform owned by a rich "libertarian" jerk? The implication being that no platform/social network can be trustworthy and ethical unless it cooperates with (semi)authoritarian governments?
Raptor talons are really serious weapons - they are the killing mechanism, not the beak. In larger birds comparable to a Rottweiler’s jaw in power. They also have a ratchet-like behaviour, so the bird has to actually want to let you go once you have been grabbed, and struggling usually only makes the bird grip harder
It certainly feels to me that we're simply at the logical end-ish point of 40 years of neoclassical policies that have encouraged the dismantling of society.
Sounds a bit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromostereopsis

> Another interesting reversal effect was observed in 1928 by Verhoeff in which the red bars were perceived as farther away and the blue bars as protruding when the bars are paired on a white background instead of a black background.
wayland support ?
If you're going to start slinging youtubes at people, isn't it common courtesy around here that it should be cool machine-shops or tokamak reactor videos or something kinda educational instead of this awful attempt at comedy/memes? Get out of here with that.
It would be extremely interesting to understand the detail of why anandtech can't function any more. Is it just too low-paid for core contributors, who could get more elsewhere? Is it the cost of running servers? What're the things that cause a web-based company like this to (seemingly) abruptly stop?
This seems to be the most important problem to be solved for a green, future grid. So I’m happy there’s a new solution shown every other month.

It’s annoying that they always seem to contain some hand-wavy efficiency calculations. I think this one didn’t even consider the losses from hydrogen production? Is there a benchmark out there, of these long-term electricity storage solutions? Like: you get 1 MWh at 25 deg C, and 6 months later, it’s measured how much your system restores. Everything taken from the grid during storage for upkeep or kickstarting the process is subtracted as well.
You can probably take a low dose of adderall to alleviate atleast the symptoms.
I have pretty strong high-index lenses, and definitely can get a kind of 3D effect.

The classic terminal blue and green text colors on a black background is the situation where I first noticed it: moving my head makes them shift in different directions giving a parallax or depth effect.
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this is the sort of context I've also seen expect use. hardware test automation in manufacturing xD
Right, many places require content be removed globally which I'm sure makes sense from their perspective.
> Do these exist yet?

No, it's simply too soon.

A realistic initial ISA spec for desktops and servers was first published in November 2021, less than three years ago. It generally takes 3-4 years from the design of a CPU core being finished and announced and available for licensing for a high performance chip to be designed around it, put into mass production, and chips designed on to boards, and put on sale to the public.

In addition, except for SiFive, the serious and well-funded companies with experienced CPU designers from Intel, AMD, Arm, Apple, Qualcomm etc mostly were founded or started work on a RISC-V core in 2021 or so.
As they seem to be targeting only cloud, the set of drivers you actually need to implement is relatively small. eg. Plenty of "toy" OSes get away with implementing just a few virtio drivers and hence can run on qemu, KVM, and AWS, which is enough for them.
Think you mean micro rather than milli
> This is the wildest single thing I've ever seen on HN. You decided it would be a good use of your time to try to explain - straight to someone's face - why you (in your own words) "hate" them. Wild.

That's not exactly what I intended.

When I said "hater", I was poking fun at myself for being a "hater." Informally, in the US, a hater is simply a negative or critical person. You don't want to be described as a "hater", and I self-applied the term. But since "hate" is perhaps too strong a term for this forum (or is too US centric?), I disclaim that word as describing my feelings towards Drew, and apologize to him if I was misunderstood (Drew, I'm sorry!).

Now that we are past that word, how I feel about Drew and his writing is laid out in the parent comment.

> I mean, Drew literally says this in the article you're commenting on

I think you may have mixed up the two posts to which I was referring. It could be I wasn't clear enough.

At that part of my comment, I was referring to his initial post: "Does Rust belong in the Linux kernel?" See: https://drewdevault.com/2022/10/03/Does-Rust-belong-in-Linux...

>> I might even jump in and build out a driver or two for fun myself, that sounds like a good opportunity for me to learn Rust properly with a fun project with a well-defined scope.

I'm not sure how Drew claiming he might write a Rust driver in the future lends Drew credibility here? At least not the credibility I indicate is missing from Drew's post.

However, maybe I'm missing something?
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Is this an AI generated, or human-but-ai-augmented Web page? I had nagging doubts it's just a person. Explaining tableau as an osint tool felt a bit..
A thought I had when I saw the original Steve Mould video, and this video made me remember it.

What happens if you just use glass for the bouncing surface? I was reading about the materials and I am not sure what property contributes to it's bounciness, but I think it is tensile strength(but it may be surface hardness). and regular glass has a slightly lower tensile strength than these amorphous metallic structures, fused quartz has a higher tensile strength, and I was unable to find out what tempered glass is, but I suspect tempered glass would tend to shatter if a small hard ball was bounced off it. Anyway, I was unable to form a good hypothesis as to what would happen, but I did find that mcmaster-carr sells fused quartz disks if anyone wants to try.

https://www.mcmaster.com/products/glass-discs/ultra-high-tem...
the windows gui equivalent is AutoHotkey https://www.autohotkey.com/
Fun parts of the web still exist today, they're just struggling to be noticed. Arguably the biggest change since then is in signal to noise ratio.
Does it have multiple cursors like https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el ?
I consider it as a mandatory feature.
There is also fdkaac[1] AS a wrapper for libfdk-aac.

Besides that there a several docker images including static builds of ffmpeg including the libfdk bindings.

However, Am I the only one questioning a lossy codec suboptimal for archival purposes? Maybe the sheer amount of data is too mich for lossless...

1: https://github.com/nu774/fdkaac
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromostereopsis
I don’t understand. What do you mean by week of birth as the discontinuity point?
I have a similar experience, albeit with a different set of symptoms. I've been active and athletic all my life, never a problem with my blood pressure, after Covid I now permanently have high blood pressure and need to treat for it. All the doctors I've seen tell me that no, Covid doesn't do that, even though there's a clear cut line of before and after.
It's not abundantly clear what the ability to have phenomenological "experiences" means in relation to our moral values regarding what we shouldn't do with the creature. I mean, we do have moral values about animal rights, but they start with the animals we actually relate to (pets) and are in essence human rights by proxy. Then out of a sense of consistency we try to extend these rights to all the wild animals, many of them busily eating one another and blatantly not caring about nice things or participating in our value system.
This was a good product. Are there any alternatives?

The keybase app is still working. But I’m not sure if it is dependable, and to what extent it is maintained.
Agreed, they still have a long road to travel before they are a true alternative to other browsers and engines. But I think it is good that there are genuine efforts in developing alternative browsers and engines.

Ladybird browser is even further away from a mature product, but also an example of a project I am glad to see existing.
Is it that different once all the additional costs are taken into account? Payment processing / refunds / customer service etc etc that you need when you're taking payments, vs just pasting some Javascript on a page and giving Google your bank account details?
I use random forests as a first model for basically everything classification or regression.

This looks incredibly useful for understanding samples of individual trees, for which I use the nice but limited inbuilt tree object in sklearn.

Thank you!
Reminds me of what Microsoft was trying to do for Longhorn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
The side-effect of high vitamin D and hypercalcium might cause heart attack, that is sudden death.
Can you link to something to buy?
> a bygone era where computers executed 1 instruction per cycle without pipelining or prediction

1 instruction per cycle? What luxury bygone era did you grow up in?

Wikipedia tells me the algorithm is from 1962 on an IBM 1401 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham's_line_algorithm#His...

That definitely didn’t have many single cycle instructions. Skimming https://ibm-1401.info/A24-6447-0_1401_1460_Instruction_and_T..., I couldn’t find any.

Certainly, in the era of 8-bit CPUs like Z80 and 6502 programmers would have been lyric about “1 instruction per cycle”

Actually, did any CPU ever “execute 1 instruction per cycle without pipelining or prediction” (or, slightly looser “had fixed time instructions without pipelining or prediction”)?

RISC introduced fixed time instructions, but also pipelining.
Hey everyone, I wanted to share a project I've been working on (https://problemtoidea.com). It's a newsletter that aggregates real problems mentioned on social media, aimed at helping developers and entrepreneurs focus on solving genuine issues.

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That is not the entire story, pigs have been shown to score higher on emotional intelligence (iirc) than human children age 4-6. As in, they have a higher ability for empathy and emotional distress than most toddlers.
> This is all predicated on the assumption that forks and clones are a bad thing

No, they are just different things. Linux is what people use. It would be nice to be able to write drivers in Rust for the system people use. It's a very practical desire to want to use Rust and Linux to build real systems, right now, instead of having to choose one or the other.
I don't even know what that means or why it worries people, I think it's a big red herring. (And near-zero is a confusing concept.) We're machines that make choices, spontaneously and deterministically (which is not a contradiction). People fretting about free will are getting caught in some kind of category error that confuses the physics of time with being controlled by an invisible tyrant.
Part of my job is reviewing software design docs (we plan to solve problem x by doing a, b, c with some diagrams). I am constantly pointing out "please introduce acronyms, tools, vendors, and other $nouns; assume your audience includes an intern"
Yep I did see some kind of top level graph, with a few items in it (maybe 5?), but that wasn't very useful. It was also quite small as it was in the left panel of vscode, so nothing of value at that point. This was with a pretty vanilla react/typescript codebase.

Maybe I was supposed to single click one to find out more? I double clicked for what it's worth, and got the message to upgrade. But given that it hadn't done anything useful yet I of course had no reason to proceed. Just early feedback, I'm sure you'll get it all worked out.
UPnP/DLNA seems to be a bit of a disaster protocol wise. As you say the codec support is "eh whatever" which means whether it works or not depends on too many random factors. It's also a massively over-complicated design-by-committee relic.

There also isn't a good open source DLNA server (presumably because of the above issues).
In that picture I'm personally more bothered by the antialiasing than by the misalignment.
I suggested that once, but was down voted by resident HN Medical Experts LOL

The irony of warning not to take medical advice on HN, and then proceeding to offer alternative medical advice...

This, despite the fact that Doctors do actually prescribe stimulants for CFS.
Also STAR style questions are terrible because of other reasons: usually have one expected answer; one that shows that you’re a person who likes to take initiative, solve problems etc. and you can just come up with an answer that makes you look good on paper without having done any of those things.

I also suspect their general vagueness can be exploited to weed out candidates based on “vibes” while still maintaining the impression that it’s a standardized question they ask everyone.

Just the other day, I was interviewing with a company that posted here in the “who is hiring” thread; and I was asked “Tell me about a time when you challenged a fairness or ethical issue”; I feel like regardless of how this is answered, this is just a way for them to project you as a person without backbone who seemingly goes along with anything, or as a complainer who loves impeding others with objections created out of thin air.
The point is that the answer shouldn’t be “just go build it”, it should be “get buy in”
Love the approach! I was ready to see "yet another Lisp", which is cool, but not something I'd readily use. Expanding and improving things that already exist can be harder and less fun than starting a fresh thing, but it's infinitely more valuable. I already use Common Lisp (it's quirky, but also incredibly robust, productive and fast), and this seems to make it a little less quirky, especially for newcomers and smaller projects.
Sir. You Win teh Internets today. This has been my gripe with HA for the longest time. That YAML / GUI-only / etc. approach is just atrocious.

Unfortunately it works well enough, and there are little or no alternatives to it as far as I can tell. Were there a reasonable alternative, with a configuration as an actual code (YAML isn't), I would dump HA in a heartbeat. I mean I could even live without the GUI - just configuration as a code, and stable support for Zigbee (and BLE etc devices). But then again HA mostly works. And if it works, then...shrug.

My use case is mostly to be able to 1) monitor/understand our electricity consumption, 2) be able to turn off all/selected electrical devices when leaving house etc., 3) automatically lower/raise outside shutters based on weather/where sun is(!) to keep house cooler, 4) and as a bonus, have leak detectors send me a text if there is a leak. My setup is some 30 zigbee smart switches / sockets, couple of IKEA badring leak sensors, solar inverter and something zigbee in main electric panel to get total electric consumption. And five door/window sensors (that aren't really used for anything, but you know how one goes down the rabbit hole with these things...).

How I've made it somewhat manageable is that I run it in a following manner (first in Pi5, now in N100 -- no difference between those observed regarding HA):

- have /opt/homeassistant/config mounted to zram

- on boot unpack /opt/homeassistant/backup/latest.tar.zst -> /opt/homeassistant/config

- run HA from docker (where /opt/homeassistant/config is now on zram)

- cron will make a backup of /opt/homeassistant/config weekly (or I can run backup manually if I've made changes/addedd devices) and then these are backed up 'offsite'.

So now whenever HA goes bonkers, or more likely I've messed something up with it, end result being the same, I simply roll back to some earlier known good configuration. Docker is wonderful in this regard. Really, I don't know how else people live with the HA, other than backing up their entire config, and then re-installing.
When I got an ultra wide monitor I also noticed this for the first time on the macOS circular red X button, when wearing glasses. I guess a wide monitor has you looking at things off-axis more. It is really remarkable how much you can make the X dance around the red circle by moving your head. There's something about the colours and simplicity of that particular icon that really cause the effect. The effect is almost non-existent if you're looking at a more complex image, so I guess it's also remarkable how much your brain compensates for chromatic aberration in most contexts.
Is this same as rust batteries earlier?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rusty-batteries-c...
I worry about this too but I guess it all depends on tooling/debugger - in native land this days you trust compiler and debugger and even code is in ASM everything just works so in react land this still should be possible to deliver similar experience.

Similar trends is in other declarative frameworks even on native such as SwiftUI - its easy to write complex gui but harder to debug and easier to shoot yourself in the foot. Its just harder to reason how declerative code will be executed in all corner cases and you have to trust compiler will do its magic. Overall for me it seems a lot of SwiftUI app feels much slower and even Apple developer from time to time shoot themself in the foot. We are just trading developer experience with performance and debugging.
You're apologising to someone "if he misunderstood" when you said you hated them. How magnanimous.

Maybe one day you'll spend time composing your thoughts to put out there, looking forward to engaging in a discussion on a topic close to your heart, and instead you'll find someone saying they personally hate you.
I wonder if the crow thought it had bullied you into releasing the crow you had captured or convinced you to rescue one that had trapped itself.
Just a cheap Chromebook would probably be even better IME - nothing to worry about, it is really very much just a keyboard and screen and gets out of the way.

Less can be said about your typical Linux experience in in the 2020s where you will still inexplicably find yourself having to mess around trying to get Bluetooth/audio/webcam/sleep working reliabily.
Juniors often lack the experience to make good long term decisions which has consequences for the maintainability of the software. However, the uncharitable interpretation of this behavior is usually that a junior is easily fed a narrative about career growth that seniors may not be so willing to accept.
High and Dry, a Dutch competitive sport, known as fierljeppen (far leaping)
The energy density of the system is surprisingly high (in my modest perspective). It looks like 800kWh per ton of iron. Isn't it ~five times as much as the batteries we have in cars?
Your preconceived notion that Marxism requires totalitarianism makes this opinion fall flat.

Marxist ideals don't require totalitarianism, it also doesn't require the full implementation of socialism/communism to derive some ideals to strive for a fairer society.

As another comment in this thread has posted, I recommend you to actually read the "Communist Manifesto" and see how much of it you'll actually agree with.

> How about we go back to democracy and capitalism instead of trying on the Marxist hat?

How do you suggest going about that when capital is power and power has a tendency to try to take over systems, such as democracy and exactly what's happening with oligarchies being a natural follow up from the structures of power created by capitalism itself?

You complain about Marxism ideals leading to totalitarianism but fail to see how capitalistic ideals lead to a different form of social disease. What if capitalism is incompatible with the ideals of democracy? How do we deal with that to foster another system that could combine the best of both worlds?

That's more what I think about rather than a fight between two ideologies stuck in the past...