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A person of culture, I see.

Electric Monks were made for a reason.

Surprisingly pertinent to the current discussion.
On debian libc6-x32 is definitely there: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libc6-x32
Show HN: QuickDessert – generate quick dessert recipes and adjust Ingredients
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For example, I tried out a brownie recipe and swapped out sugar for honey – worked like a charm! The flexibility and ease make it really fun to experiment with desserts without spending hours searching for ideas or second-guessing ingredient swaps.
If anything it should be harder to add things to the language. Too many new additions have been half-arsed like and needed to be changed or deprecated soon after.
Having French as mother tongue, I always find fascinating when the French and German official bodies go postal about such a topic. It’s like looking some parents complaining of the retro-influence of some common bastard children. :P

Now, there are languages for which Globish can be part of an existential threat, but German and French are nowhere close to this. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_endangered_languages

There are also a measurable economical issues for non-English-native nations to have to use the de facto lingua-franca of the day that is English. Of course neither German nor French would be a better alternative as a global international neutral language.

To my knowledge, the only proposal that gained some modest but significant results on that side over the last century is Esperanto. You know, the language against which France has put its veto has it was proposed as language of communication in League of Nations (1920s) or UNESCO (1954) and still is unhelpful with its adoption in United Nations.

Fun fact, Germany has a city where street names and many other things are translated in Esperanto: https://uea.facila.org/artikoloj/movado/la-esperanto-urbo-r3...
It's very similar in the natural gas industry. The "dumb" pigs are a piece of foam that is shoved into the pipe at the "pig launcher" and they use air pressure to push the pig through the pipe, where it is then caught in the "pig catcher". All the debris from fabrication of the pipeline is scrubbed out by the pig and removed at the pig catcher.

Nowadays, they also have "smart pigs" that have sensors to detect gouges, dents, pipe wall that is too thin, etc. as the pig moves through the pipe, so that repairs can be made before the pipeline is filled with gas.
The man has taste (in video games)
don't forget that he was IM 2300 rated chess player at 13 yo
Regardless of your water source and/or lead contamination level, it's advisable to install a reverse osmosis filtration system. They're relatively affordable and will remove most contaminants. As a bonus reverse osmosis will produce clean tasting water rivaling that of bottled water, but you might want to consider supplementing minerals in your diet to compensate for anything lost in filtration.
Neuroscientists spark shelter-seeking response by reactivating memory circuit
> They did? If you mean STEM jobs,

No.

> there's plenty of STEM jobs available,

This sort of statement is always sort of bizarre. Did you mean there are "many"? Many and plenty aren't synonyms. But even if you meant "many", given the scale of the US population, the working-age portion of it, and so forth, the numbers that are often cited aren't many at all. And that's when the economy is doing great. We've been talking about layoffs here on HN for over a year at this point, it seems like one after the other, so we're not really in that cycle either. There aren't "plenty of jobs". No sane, honest person should be describing jobs as "plentiful".

> The only jobs these Starbucks workers could have done was factory work, and that isn't going to pay for $3k/month apartments either.

That's an interesting theory. I suppose if you figure the factory work is only going to pay McDonald's wages (seeing alot of $14/hour around where I am)...

> Even here, there's lots of hands-on manual labor work in the US

Where, roughly? And what's "lots" mean to you?
SEEM (sign, exp, mantissa)
I don't know anything about security, but why does an airgapped system even have a USB drive? Seems obvious to me that you want to disable all IO systems, not just internet? OK, sure people can still take photos of the screen or something, but that would require a willing collaborator.
Yeah, that was another thought I had. If profit it was somehow prevented all the way down to farmers and distribution, then I think use would be extremely niche. Few people would be interested in growing and manufacturing their own tobacco.

That said, I think this speaks more to how profit is the engine of commerce, and otherwise we would all be subsistence farmers.

In the never profitable case, it is interesting to think about native American use prior to the Colombian exchange. If Native American cultivation was a profitable activity is debatable, but not particularly interesting to me, so lets set that aside.

My understanding is that it was used fairly heavily in a social setting. It seems reasonable that this would still have propagated rather quickly. It reminds me that smoking spread throughout Europe and the near east without TV, billboards, or hallmarks of modern advertising - and how deeply it imbedded itself in the cultures there.

Similarly, I would argue that Alcohol predates advertising and predates currency itself.
Pricing determines your business model
Yes it does, look at the caption of Fig. 1:
"Photons we receive that were emitted by objects beyond the Hubble sphere were initially receding from us (outward sloping lightcone at t <∼ 5 Gyr). Only when they passed from the region of superluminal recession vrec > c (gray crosshatching) to the region of subluminal recession (no shading) can the photons approach us".

I can’t reply to your last reply. I agree, in fact I said those regions can be still causally connected to us, not that they are.
Reminds me today's Python release strips documentation to improve performance.

https://docs.python.org/3.13/whatsnew/3.13.html#other-langua...
The thing that bothers me about the idea of the "Ruliad" is that it's completely unfalsifiable. Even if we existed in a reality where true randomness existed, or computational irreducibility wasn't a given, you could always argue that what we observe is just one finite local slice of that Ruliad where things appear to be deterministic (or computationally irreducible) due to our boundedness as observers.

It's basically the modern equivalent of "turtles all the way down" because it pretends to explain the nature of reality by extending our definition of reality to fit within an all-encompassing mental model that only makes sense on a surface level.

Granted, the words "universe", "multiverse", etc. are insufficient in describing everything in a way that includes everything we currently want to include, but giving a new name to that abstract idea of "everything" isn't itself a compelling argument to also say that everything exists as a static construct and that everything is computationally irreducibile and deterministic at a fundamental level. Yes, that makes sense in a physics simulation, but in reality, we don't know what we don't know. Placing the unknown in a conceptual box doesn't imply that it's now known.
If your experiences were played out of order in some kind of "God's eye" time, how could you notice? The experience of each moment seems continuous due to our memory of the recent past. But this memory is just a configuration of our current state. The actual ordering of the evolution of this state doesn't influence the directionality of the subjective experience of evolving through time.
Are you implying that all communist antagonism was in response to American policy? I believe there was plenty of aggression by all parties in the Cold War, but there are several instances where the communists were very clearly the aggressors. Just a couple of highlights:

1) The Soviet blockade of West Berlin. The Soviets did this in response to the horrifically aggressive acts of the US, Britain, and France to... manage their occupation zones in Germany differently than the Soviets wanted them to, and economic and currency reform in West Germany.

2) The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. As far as I can tell, western involvement in Dubcek's reforms and the Prague Spring were about as non-existent as possible. This didn't stop the Soviets and other Warsaw Pact nations invading their own ally, and in explicit violation of the Warsaw Pact itself.

3) The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, and the Chinese invasion of Vietnam. The west's bizarre support of the Khmer Rouge after the successful Vietnamese invasion notwithstanding (for complex geopolitical reasons), prior to the invasion it treated both Cambodia and Vietnam as enemies and the war between the two nations was do to their own politics, not any US influence.

And there are plenty more. And I'm sure there are instances you can bring up where the combloc countries were reacting to clear aggression by the west, but here's the thing: I'm not claiming that such aggression never happened. Meanwhile you seem to be arguing that the combloc countries would have been perfectly peaceful if they didn't need to react to aggressions by those damn western capitalists.
Additional answer: we generate more text every day.
The delivery mechanism is different so it’s somehow ok. As a society we haven’t caught up yet to the the detrimental effects to enact safe guards. A great example is heroin being OTC at one point for a troublesome cough.
> every economy but America's took an absolute beating. Britain & Germany went into a deep recession.

If you blow up Nordstream and lead the Europeans in a war that they only lose from, then their economies will tank. Inflation and job losses for ordinary Americans are high as well. Perhaps on paper the economy is doing relatively well.

(It is the first time that I have heard anyone describing Biden as a true master.)
unfortunately it seems NRC commissioners have a very unreasonable view on what's reasonable, because in effect they neutered the whole nuclear power industry.
I'd say switch to snus or snuff or something to mitigate lung damage. My only vice is snus, I don't touch caff/alc/weed/etc - my anecdata as someone who spent the majority of their life highly active and a non-tobacco user is it affects my tendon healing rate negatively. For ex. when I do lots of handstands or planche work my distal biceps tendon seems to take longer to become fresh again vs. when I was not using snus. However, snus vs. caffeine my sleep is miles better and I often wake up infinitely more refreshed than I do when I used caff, so I ultimately am choosing snus for now.
Why does that conversation fail the Turing test?
Yes, in meat space. You can't relate that meat space data to anything meaningful unless your DNA is also in some database.

This is how they found the Golden State Killer. He left some DNA in the 70s. Worthless for a long time. But, a third cousin of his did a DNA test with a company, and the company provided the data to law enforcement, and they worked backwards to the killer.
That is an old myth that doesn't work very well.

Source: I've been a level 3 snowboard instructor in Canada for 10+ years. There are only 4 levels.

It also doesn't work if you're with a group of students because it won't be a surprise after everyone sees you do it to the first student. If you have a "slide on snow" competition but don't say why, you can watch everyone and what foot is forward before you tell them what is going on.
Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix (2023)
New Microsoft Azure Nvidia GB200 Systems Shown
You could get the content with a pure translation. But part of Shakespeare is the cadence, and that's really hard to preserve in a translation.

You think that's not important for modern people? Hip hop would disagree with you. So would many preachers (including politicians). And showing high school students who are into hip hop "look, Shakespeare is doing the same things" is a really interesting hook for them.
First there was shell scripting, then grep, then sed, then awk, later Perl... well, now there's 'sq'!

Looks like an absolutely great (and necessary!) utility, which will automate many future workflows and dataflows, save countless hours of time collectively for many people en masse, and therefore change the world (allow more people to get more done in less time!) much like Unix, shell scripting, grep, sed, awk and Perl gave the world...

Congratulations on writing what no doubt will become one of the major Unix/Windows/MacOS/Other OS/Linux shell scripting commands in the future, if it isn't already!

Well done!
But... But...

But the whims and color were the best things about the book!

I also appreciate that I learned a lot of tangential things mentioned in the book that had nothing to do with the mind or consciousness.
I wouldn’t mind it if it just wasn’t so shit. It really is a shame that on the one hand they strategically maintain their monopoly and on the other deliver a really crap service.
Yea.. that sounds like a non-starter for use.
It must be very tiring to keep up with the demands of all modern consumers. There are so many of them, and they are so different from each other.

Meanwhile when I go out in the world I see all manner of front-ends being actively used. It's almost like different users want different things idk.
Show HN: Create AI Dialogue Podcasts
Top tips….

Using a digital brush on its own can be extremely limiting. Digital paint is inherently flat and lifeless. Textured brushes can help, but not much. I would recommend employing natural textures via blend modes. The best blend mode for passing textures from one image to another is overlay. In this way the texture of a photo of a rusty surface may be passed onto a painting of a rock. Essentially painting with textures... or photo-bashing.

Here is a walk through I did for my students…

https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/pages/photoshop-p...

Happy to answer any questions.
That makes complete sense if your threat model is preventing data from leaving a secure network, assuming the USB drive stayed in the secure network or was destroyed after entering it.
> Is the alternative that it should be made unusable, and more existing code broken?

It should be marked [[deprecated]], yes. There is no good reason to use std::tolower/toupper anywhere - they can neither do unicode properly nor are they anywhere close to efficient for ASCII. And their behavior depends on the process-global locale.
ChatGPT is Killing your Developer Potential
I assume Hesse was familiar with Kafka and Freud.

GBG has that dream-like Kafkaesque frustration of having a concrete objective, but not be able to achieve it, even though it should be simple and tangible.

However, in GBG it is all meta: the game is unspecified, the objective is unspecified, the adorable miraculous winning play is unspecified. It is meta-Kafka, which is incredibly doubly frustrating...

SPOLIER ALERT: then, slowly, awkwardly, painfully, a realization creeps over you - GBG is life.

Really a tremendous literary achievement.
Yep. The literal translation for "edge-triggered flip-flop" still stands as one of the weirdest, most bizarre things I ever read as a Continental Portuguese student.

Never read another Brazilian technical translation ever agin.
IDK, I mostly use KDE apps and none of those are electron. The only web-browser thing I have open right now is firefox, everything else is pretty lean Qt apps: strawberry (RES 77 megabytes), dolphin (RES 61 megabytes), konsole (RES between 30 and 60-megabytes depending on my instance) the app I'm developing https://ossia.io (lean enough to run on a raspberry pi zero 2).

Meanwhile, I have a dozen firefox processes each above 500M RES and a few above 1G...
Right. Phrasing it as a question and waiting for the gears to turn can be a good strategy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpe_du_Grand_Serre
Building a High-Performance Spreadsheet Engine
It's not the technology's fault. It's that Sharepoint is one of the few stacks that caters to enterprises that are deeply antiquated internally.

Salesforce has the same business and often the same perception as a result.

It's almost always the client's decisions causing the problem, whether they skimp on UX flow or have terrible internal business processes.
To determine what states should be possible is the act of writing software.
I would love to see this updated with information on building a realtime Linux (which is now officially supported). I have in mind some hand-held devices that would be a lot more interesting to build with realtime support.
Is the point that any var declared in between the braces automatically goes out of scope, to minimize potential duplication of var names and unintended behavior ?

The worst I've seen is old school C programmers who insisted on reusing loop variables in other loops. Even worse, those loop variables were declared inside the loop declaration, which old C standards allowed to visible outside of it.

So they would have stuff like this

for(int i=0; i<10; i++) { ... }
for (;i<20;i++) { ... }

Later versions of C++ disallowed this, which led to some interesting compile failures, which led to insistence of the old stubborn programmers that new compilers simply not be used
Yeah, that sounds pretty dreadful.

A few jobs ago, when I was working for a third-tier legacy bank, my manager joked that all the outsourcing they were doing was actually really useful and pragmatic, because it means they can fail their IT projects cheaper. (The implication being that their projects were by and large inevitably doomed anyway.)
> It is a lie on part of Mozilla.

I agree.

> A simple legislative change

There's no such thing as a "simple legislative change" when big money and powerful companies are involved.
Furthermore tax reporting remains stuck at a '90s level of automation: 1099 form info cannot be imported automatically into Turbotax. You're spared this nuisance only so long as you merely acquire and hold "Savings Bonds".
This would be a backward-incompatible change, no?

In other languages, such a change would only be possible with a major version bump, though I imagine that because of the Python 3 collective trauma, the language designers now are OK with breaking older code without calling it Python 4. Anything goes, as long as it's called Python 3.

(Python lost me in the 2->3 migration and I haven't used it in a decade, so correct me if I'm wrong)
But did you know that there huge load of "datas" out there?
I recall the spot price of natural gas going through the roof leading up to the crisis. I would be less shocked to find out this was an intentional winding down of capacity for economic reasons.
In terms of appliance standard there isn't much.

But CBSD is making trend.

https://www.bsdstore.ru/en/about.html - WebUI with the migration features and the likes.

As well as bhyve control panel (BVCP): https://bhyve.npulse.net/

bHyve is also supported libvirt so you should be able to use virt-manager with bhyve.

FreeBSD is my daily driver as well as OS fot colocation servers. I've have zero issues with bHyve running Linux and Windows virtual machines.
It's pretty normal for airgapped systems to have USB drives, typically you're trying to keep data from getting out more than coming in. The problem here was that they were letting drives go from the classified side to the unclassified side.
They write reeeeaaaaalllly bad code
Every new wiki / knowledge management system I always compare against Confluence. I get the advantage of keeping your content in plaintext for portability but when I look back on how many times I've actually ported wiki content it's... maybe once? Most systems these days are handily capable of this, in any case.

Anyway, Confluence for all its flaw has so much power, is so much more pleasant to use, your business folks won't balk at it. As often as not, we have people from all parts of the company in there, reading and writing both, and it needs to be usable to people of all technical levels. Markdown wikis and their editors don't often meet this criterion, or they're missing on some key features (tables!!).

To me, Confluence's only real down side is that it's an Atlassian product. I wish I could find something to scratch the itch without feeling the need to buy into that whole ecosystem.
You may appreciate the following anecdote about Picasso. He was offered a lot of money to make a sculpture entirely in hold. His response was ‘Great! I will paint it black!’.
If gross sales is literally the only important metric in software engineering we've already failed.

Though on the cost side security breaches can be expensive, as can the endless task of updates and maintenance required for a live server. Live servers can also be a scaling bottleneck, often that isn't too important but it would be for anything that is highly seasonal or has large spikes of use during Black Friday events or similar.
The idea is in the name. It is a "data diode". It lets data through in one direction and the data can't go in the other. Verifiably because it doesn't have the hardware for data to go the other direction.

I don't think this property can be guaranteed for the alternatives you proposed.
That sounds like a complete nightmare, so much code isn't signed that you're going to have an incredible number of false positives
A Deep Dive into Rspamd
It has to be. Otherwise it is not air-gapped but vacuum-gapped!
We recently did some work improving our email deliverability to large institutions that use Rspamd as part of their corporate firewall, this is our write-up on that experience.
Definitely... first became roughly aware of it with the doorparty connector service[1]. Which is a niche fit, but definitely was cool to see how it worked.

1. https://github.com/echicken/dpc2/
I'm not a fan of this for two reasons.

First, consider this motivation from the PEP:

> Requiring specific exception types makes the programmer’s intentions clear and encourages thinking about what exceptions might occur.

This reeks of the same rationale for checked exceptions in Java. That was a failed experiment. You can't force people to deal with exceptions. They end up just swallowing them instead. It's better to propagate an exception than do that almost all the time.

Like will we see except: replaced with except object:? I don't even know if that's valid. It's never come up.

Second, this would be a breaking change. I really feel like this is where Python 3 went off the rails. In the Python 2 days making breaking changes was essentially verboten. But ever since Python 3 decided breaking changes were OK< it's like there's little restraint now and minor releases seems to be far too comfortable with this.
This just smells like Lamarckism with more steps.
What Does an AI Revolution Look Like?
Ah, a good counter example of Betteridge's law of headlines.
Or, perhaps better, just let that hang for a moment - long enough to become uncomfortable - and then say "Try again."

As others have said, if they can't or won't get that that's unacceptable behavior, fire them. (jerf is more patient than I am...)