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Build your own Debian live image (via Web)

(FAI - Fully Automatic Installation)
https://fai-project.org/FAIme/live/

-= Custom Live Media, also for Newer Hardware
-= A web service for building your own customized Debian live image

"At this years Debian conference in South Korea I've presented[1] the new feature of the FAIme web service. You can now build your own Debian live media/ISO.

The web interface provides various settings, for e.g. adding a user name and its password, selecting the Debian release (stable or testing), the desktop environment and the language. Additionally you can add your own list of packages, that will be installed into the live environment. It's possible to define a custom script that gets executed during the boot process. For remote access to the live system, you can easily specify a github, gitlab or salsa account, whose public ssh key will be used for passwordless root access. If your hardware needs special grub settings, you may also add those. I'm thinking about adding an autologin checkbox, so the live media could be used for a kiosk system.

And finally newer hardware is supported with the help of the backports kernel for the Debian stable release (aka bookworm). This combination is not available from the official Debian live images or the netinst media because the later has some complicated dependencies which are not that easy to resolve2[2]. At DebConf24 I've talked to Alper who has some ideas[3] how to improve the Debian installer environment which then may support a backports kernel."

- Thomas Lange

- https://blog.fai-project.org/

- https://blog.fai-project.org/posts/faime-live/

- Build your own Debian live image
- https://fai-project.org/FAIme/live/

- Build your own installation ISO for Debian
- https://fai-project.org/FAIme/

[1] https://debconf24.debconf.org/talks/136-a-web-service-for-bu...

[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2024/07/msg00031.html

[3] https://debconf24.debconf.org/talks/75-ideas-to-move-debian-...
> US$37,004.71 in 2024 dollars

About 1 month's AWS charges in many companies.
This looks super cool! Amazing project! I am really curious to try this idea at a smaller city. How much type and how many people took this endeavor?
It solves the problem of the cat&mouse game of LLMs updating their scrapers by making site owners provide them the data in a format the LLMs have developed around already.

You're clearly looking at this from the incorrect point of view. Silly human. Think like a bot. --The bot makers
Unfortunately much of Phoenix is covered with a hard layer of soil known as caliche that is expensive to dig through, meaning that most houses don’t even have basements. But if it saves a lot of money on cooling it might be worth it.
Do you have any examples of how it performs? Video perhaps?
The average environmentalist I am familiar with is the exact opposite except for nuclear power.
> if it's a project that isn't my day-to-day

Another overlooked advantage of greppability is to be able to fuzzy the search, or discover related code that wasn't directly linked to what you were looking for.

For instance if you were hunting for the method updating a `foo_bar` instance, grepping it will also give you instances of `generic_foo_bar` and `shim_foo_bar`. It can be noise, as it can be stuff you wouldn't have seen otherwise and save your bacon. If you're not familiar with a project I think it's quite an advantage.

> hope that the developers made it grepable

hopefully it's enforced at an organization level.
Love all the features of this app, the chromatone part is just an element but the theory and scales stuff is nice.
Bolivia moves World Cup qualifier to higher altitude to elevate performance
Do you have a source that they're no longer in construction?
Not OP, but fuckoff is the instructions.
I'm a big sci-fi reader. Snow Crash is one of those books that I really wanted to like, but I was unable to get past the odd writing style and run-on sentences. I got about half-way through but never finished it. I know some people swear by Stephenson, so maybe I should give it another chance later in life.
Not completely accurate sounds like a bold claim of accuracy imo
Good point. It seemed weird for this to be higher ops/sec and you pointed out why. If it's true that Apple releases the rest of M4 in November, and Intel releases the desktop architecture in October-November, we'll have full comparisons.
> I just don’t trust my random chinese amazon brand dehumidifier’s internals to be totally food-safe.

Dehumidifier water in general isn't safe for consumption.
I've attempted something similar for a city of 20,000 before using an overlay mod but map projection issues between the DEM and images along with city simulation scaling just yielded a stretched blob with 95% industrial traffic and a queue entering the city that never ended. I will check their tuning parameters and see how they handled it. It was fun to build regardless.

I've been waiting to try with CS:2 using aerial photo and lidar data of Vancouver that I've collected myself. Mod support is still weak compared to CS:1 but I'm hopeful that it's possible. I'd like to release a DEM, DEM+roads, and then the fully built version as three separate maps.
That isn't a useful link. They seem to be one of those easily parodied groups where the goal is to produce a vision and they are in the planning phase of leveraging their synergies.

I don't see anything where they outline what we are being kept safe from.
What if the Repaint Project required me to link it to a git repo and make my repaint account have git access and my files live and read out of my git repo?
It would be great if you could mention on your job adverts the list of remote locations you have available instead of "except where specific locations are noted" as this list doesn't show up until the very end of the application which is disappointing when you fill out the full application only to see you location (New Zealand) isn't on the list.
Depends how much time you spend outside.

Some people live in places that are sub-freezing for 100 days in a row.
Don't think I get it, is the deprecation something new?
Paladins, a well-made free-to-play Overwatch clone, was released in 2018, 6 years ago. Overwatch 2 has failed to attract serious audience last year despite also being a free game. Why would people spend money on yet another Overwatch, if it's not outstanding?
You guys are both discussing intelligence hierarchies (wtf?) without regard to actual history of popular labor movements being violently squashed.
So would most of us, but somewhat impractically, Sweden tends to be at its coldest when it’s dark and windless.
"Don't worry, it's still a level playing-field. Technically."
This is cool but I'd like to see some focus for civil engineers doing land development. 98% of them use autocad, and are stuck with it, but also they only really use no more than 100 different commands - it's just the scale of everything that's difficult and really matters.
The wins of autoformatting are 1) never having to have a dispute over formatting or have formatting depend on who last touched code, 2) never manually formatting code or depending on someone's editor configuration, 3) having CI verify formatting, and 4) not having someone (intentionally or unintentionally) make unrelated formatting changes in a commit.

Also, autoformatters can be remarkably good. For instance, rustfmt will do things like:

x.func(Some(MyStruct {
field: big + long + expr,
field2,
}));

rather than mindlessly introducing three levels of indentation.
What is the treatment?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D1WfID6kk90

take a time series dataset like an audio file or stock ticker price over time ... give your self a healthy period of time ... for example a second of broadcast quality audio gives you 44,100 data points spread across that time period stored as information ... importantly this time series audio curve wobbles up and down as it's recorded over time ... in order to justify taking 44,100 audio samples per second (on the X axis) you must balance that by breaking up the granularity of your measurement of the up and down wobble (Y axis) by devoting two bytes (a bit depth of 16 bits) of memory storage per data point which gives you 2 raised to the 16 power distinct gradations of resolution

above defines the time domain representation of the one second of audio data ... now feed this dataset into a Fourier transform which will output the same information you started with but now in the frequency domain ... it will give you not 44,100 points in time but instead 44,100 distinct frequencies ... super cool side note you can feed this new frequency domain representation of the dataset into an inverse Fourier transform to rescue back the original time series audio

If instead of a second of audio we start with a fraction of that number this reduction of recording duration will compromise the frequency resolution of the data in the frequency domain giving it less granularity hence larger increments to the next frequency
In https://www.aiimageupscale.com/upscaled-results I really wanted to drag the <|> bar. I tried a few times until I read the explanation. Also, there is a deadspace between "Original" and "Upscaled",I expected that clicking between them will change the selection.
If any founders are interested I'd be happy to go into more detail.
Having N paddles would be cool as well, perhaps with a cost for paddles getting too close (to avoid trivialities), and optimizing which note each paddle represents/beats, maybe imposing a cost on drastic pitch changes so that each specializes in a pitch range.
I really can't speak of Iran or China. Every situation needs to be considered separately, and I only looked into Brazil.

"Sitting senator" is no disqualifier; from what we've seen in America, we should even expect to see some politicians such behind calls for political violence. I'll admit I didn't try to go through every single account that was ordered to be banned; I stopped when I found clear calls for violence (even Musk himself does that with a very minimal veneer of deniability).

If "don't organize political violence" counts as censorship, then I embrace censorship as a virtue.
A librarian which can't cite its sources, and whose services are only free while the VC funding is rolling in.
Nah, just Americans being American. Probably kidnapped by aliens and then subjected to a Satanic ritual as well.

I need a name for this phenomenon. Maybe North American Hallucination Syndrome, or maybe McDonalds Induced Reality Deviation or something.
I'm a big sci-fi reader as well, and I'm on a tear this year after neglecting the genre for about a decade. I find Stephenson's books to take a lot of headspace, and I don't always have that. But I do like giving books another shot at my time after a few years. I finally gave Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl another attempt and I'm enjoying it much more than I thought I would.
Peak performance is already good enough for most people. It's performance per watt where they still lag. Intel needs a Ballmer-like figure to remind their engineers, "Battery life, battery life, battery life."
It’s not my favorite of his books. Try Cryptonomicon (if you like history/math) or Anathem (if you like sci fi/math) or The Diamond Age (if you like sci fi).
You’ve convinced me!
I wouldn't bother with this one. Typical wannabe Facebook/Google/etc interview process without actually understanding the point of those companies' interview processes.

You'll get a leetcode/coderbyte question. It doesn't matter if you completely understand the problem, explain the process completely, answer any/all considerations (optimizations, trade-offs, etc), and come to a functional solution; you'll fail unless it's the exact perfectly optimized solution they expected (in 30-40mins, with someone watching over your shoulder).

Basically, a targeted hiring pipeline for people that rote memorize/practice leetcode problems. Not actual engineers.
This is fascinating finding out about these communities. My problems were always that I believed time travel might exist. Now I can find out whether I really https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nnwn5rXEio :)
Not the whole file, but sufficiently long un-line-breakable code in a complex statement can cause rustfmt to give up on trying to format that statement. That's a known issue that needs fixing.
You dont say ! A new fad !
Pretty cool... but I hate writing long hand. :o)

A shorthand teaching and capturing tool would be pretty cool though.
> Not sure why anybody feels the need to write their own crypto libraries these days

Because this is the second time they've had a security issue (the last time was even worse) because of their vendor? When your entire company is based around doing cryptography, it actually makes sense to hire enough applied cryptographers to own your own destiny.
I don't think they've changed the way free markets work. If anything, it makes them more productive because of the efficiency of having better information.
Stephenson had a rough start in my opinion—Snow Crash isn’t really his best. Try Anathem instead. If you don’t like that, you probably won’t like Stephenson.
Lyceum AI | Full-Stack Developer | REMOTE (though must be Ohio-based)

Here's a link to the job description, as well as a company description. In short, we've built an AI teacher's assistant for use in classrooms. We've raised 600k through a mix of grants, angel, and institutional funds.

Link - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oLlI0e0gtF-MECAKDrPNk82y...

The role is currently on a contract basis, due to some restrictions from grant funding, but that can change in the future once the grant funding is fully used.
The Metaverse is something companies want to happen (and monetize) more than any users actually want it. VR is a niche. Wearing a clumsy headset will I think pretty much always be a niche. I didn't realize Sweeney was so bullish on it.

The Metaverse is a bit like federated services: it springs from some idealism rather than giving users anything they actually want or need.

The Apple lawsuit, in hindsight, I think was a serious miscalculation. I think Apple's (and Google's) monopolies will end but they won't let them go willingly and it'll be worse for both companies because it'll be Congress and the EU who will decide how that works.

A court action is a way to force the issue earlier under existing legislation but only if you win. And Epic most clearly did not. So Apple is emboldened. There should be no reason that Netflix or Amazon or Epic should have to pay the Apple 30% tax (it's probably less by some agreement they have) on digital purchases purely through their existing payment platforms. That seemed like the most natural way to attack the monopoly (which is both a monopoly on distribution and payments).

Anyway, I put the Metaverse in the same category as the Star Trek transporter except a transporter would have utility.
Reading back, there's a lot of whinging and moaning in it, with the occasional flash of insight. I don't think there's much of value to the community there.

Thanks for the kind words, and I hope you have, or will, overcome your own struggles. There are people out here who understand.
Uhm, the biggest issues I have with tree sitter are

- generating it requires nodejs, I would prefer to not depend on it to generate my c code parser

- there is a single person maintaining it, I am afraid for the project longevity

- binding for C# is not trivial

- forward declarations can't be easily expressed so you need to patch the generated c code with your own code there to be able to workout forward declarations (it's when you declare a class that you are going to use later, usually because class A can return B and B can return A)
Some years back in a political forum I used the tag/signature of "crypto-pragmatist". I had to explain to some folks why it was a joke, the contradiction of overtly advertising exactly what you were supposedly keeping a secret.

Then a few started to assume it meant something about speculating in digital beanie-babies. (This comparison is actually rather unfair towards Ty Inc, but you know what I mean.)
I'm kind of shocked Stephenson would associate with the kind of person that runs a company like Epic. I guess Epic's unethetical behavior is just not widely known. Epic bought Psyonix, makers of Rocket League, promised not to change anything, then 6 months later they stole the game from people who bought it for mac and linux. Now on those platforms there are no native clients for multiplayer.
The problem with a system based on taking is that one runs out of things to take.

Better to have a system based on creating things.
Oh boy. Here we go.
This sounds like the DFW metroplex as well, only it's referred as a dome or cap around here. The same thing can be seen where lines of thunderstorms barrel through until it hits the metroplex. Once it hits the west side, it starts to break up, and then regain strength on the east side.

We also get the weather alerts basically saying to not breathe outside.
Then again, in languages like Java that go all-in on object orientation and dynamic dispatch, "go to definition" can become a real chore in sufficiently large codebases. I must have wasted hours of my life trying to find which class is the one implementing some interface or abstract method at a certain point. Bonus points if the implementing class changes based on ordinary runtime conditions.
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I also think Elon has done great and important things for humanity, but to call him super- competent, ultra courageous, and heroic might be a pretty significant stretch.

He seems to me to be an analytical thinker with 1st percentile intelligence, who struggles with emotional intelligence and impulse moderation. Probably a pretty fun guy to hang out with, but also an asshole more often than he should be. Nobody is even nearly perfect, and hero worship tends towards the delusional in most cases, so I tend to steer clear of thinking too good or poorly of anyone.
Other than the risk of being evicted from your rental, a homeowner has most of the risks of a tenant, plus more. And there are a fair number of protections for renters to lower that risk. There are some risks of the landlord being a bad player, which makes the renter's life worse.

The landlord has the risks that the renter doesn't (that a homeowner does); which is risk offloaded from the renter to the landlord. The landlord then has the risks of the tenant being a bad player, which can be extremely financially risky (worse than being fired from your job).

> from my POV, seems like a low risk investment to be a landlord

Your point of view is extremely far from the truth. Especially for landlords that have one or a few places they rent out, it can be extremely risky. Everything from tenants just deciding not to pay (and taking a year+ to evict) to a Pacific Heights situation, where the place is destroyed with no real recourse. Or, on the lower end, tenants just leaving the place in bad shape, with bugs/mice/whatever; that itself can cost tends of thousands of dollars to recover from.
wow, i misread that as instructions in the file.
those adjectives describe the minimum of what id expect a worker to be able to handle if hes being paid the big bucks
Web.GPT.GL_AgI bot proxy to handle such pedestrian digital quibbles, indeed ;-)
For small residential, it's probably hard to compete with the capital cost of just running the AC in the afternoon (no additional cost).

If the house has any insulation at all the heat gain once the sun isn't participating won't be too bad.
I think that Snow Crash is good, but those are three of his best books, too.

I appear to be a little odd in liking Reamde as much as I do, but if you want something lower-concept and more thriller-like, I really enjoy Reamde.
I feel like most people (or most people I've known, in the US East) would probably compress that:

10C cold

15C cool

20C nice

25C warm

30C hot
California Bill to Impose Mandatory Internet ID Checks Is Dead
The original title of the article is:

> Victory! California Bill To Impose Mandatory Internet ID Checks Is Dead—It Should Stay That Way
I don’t think that asserting that intellectual capacity tends towards a bell curve distribution is an example of social Darwinism. I think that’s just called a testable hypothesis validated by a plethora of studies.

As for the idea that people that bother to think about things like their social responsibility to humanity are , by default, responsible for guiding humanity (because people that don’t think about such things will not take an active role in that effort , by definition) seems also uncontroversial.

In short, I have no idea what you’re on about.

That said, I’m with you on labor movements, and believe that unions and coops are generally extremely positive things most of the time.

I just don’t expect much from the average person anymore. Decades of observation has made me skeptical of the ability of the Everyman to act in his own best interests, on average.

It’s worth mentioning that it is apparent to me that this inability is fostered in no small part by people and entities that make it their business to subvert otherwise good faith actors that don’t exercise very much independent thought into pursuing goals and supporting policies that are explicitly or covertly not in their collective best interest. Gullible people are gullible, and they are exploited all up and down the political spectrum.
What's Behind Elastic's Unexpected Return to Open Source?
People post their videos in the contest section (for example opinion videos go in the opinion contest section) then when the contest clock ends they win points, which if they accumulate the points they can cash in for prizes.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/climate/heat-waves-air-condit...

> The combination of a heat wave and power outages “is the most deadly climate-related event we can imagine,” said Stone.

> He and a team of scientists explored the potential impacts of a heat wave coinciding with a multi-day outage caused by extreme weather or a cyberattack. Focusing on Atlanta, Detroit and Phoenix, they looked at exposure inside people’s homes, a major driver of heat-related illness during a power outage.

> The figures were particularly stark for Phoenix. During a three to four-day heat event and outage, half the city’s population — nearly 800,000 people — would require hospital treatment for heat-related illnesses, according to the findings. More than 13,000 would die.

> A power outage in Phoenix causes a “very dramatic shift in heat illness,” Stone said, because the city’s climate is so extreme and people struggle to adapt. In an unfortunate irony, widespread air conditioning may actually make residents less resilient because they are so acclimatized to cooling in their homes and workplaces, Stone said.
Probably the same people who have lynx open in another terminal/session and are browsing HN.
I enjoy it more for the concepts it introduced and the "food for thought" aspect than for the actual writing, if that makes sense.
How many volts is it though?