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OpenSUSE package maintainer removes Bottles' donation button
Context:

* https://usebottles.com/posts/2022-06-07-an-open-letter

* https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/issues/2345

* https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/pull/3583

* https://build.opensuse.org/projects/openSUSE:Factory/package...
> What you are supporting is local sustainability. The world would be better off with less global trade and more local productions. Local productions means a stronger community and more visibility for business practices, because it's more sustainable.

This is true for the extreme minority of products that ARE produced locally.

If you buy a screwdriver from the privately-owned DYI shop around the corner it will have been produced in the same Chinese factory and shipped by the same boats and trucks as the one you'll buy from Amazon.

You're not at all supporting local sustainability, you're just paying more to add one more middleman.
According to reviewers, Mi Bands and generally all of Xiaomi's devices are fairly bad at sleep tracking. So much so that it's almost pointless to use them for that.
I research live-action anime[0] and this looks really cool, especially if there's fine-grained control over each sensor and especially if you can change the lenses (in a supported or unsupported manner).

Anime has the advantage of being drawn frame-by-frame, thus able to "change" lenses, cameras, etc mid action-packed shots. Using this may allow for shooting two different setups at once, achieving a similar effect.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@weedonandscott
Given Blackmagic is a brand well-known for using their own proprietary format, for actually selling cameras boasting CinemaDNG support that they after the fact quietly disable in favour of BRAW, they are hardly a good choice for someone who cares about interoperability and open standards.
1. There's no way to react to hot reload in the normal Java API, so you can't easily clear state.

2. The JDWP protocol lets debuggers redefine nearly anything, but HotSpot doesn't implement the full protocol. In practice many kinds of reload don't work.

3. To fix those issues app frameworks went with classloaders for partial app reloads instead, or reimplemented hotswap logic themselves (see JRebel).

There's no fundamental reason these can't be fixed, and in fact the Espresso JVM fixes both 1 and 2:

https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/espresso/hot...

You can write JVM plugins that are invoked after redefinition occurs, allowing you (really your app framework) to do something sensible like partially reload state. And it implements the full protocol, so many more kinds of redefinition work.

Using it is easy. Just install Espresso as your JDK, point your build system at it, then debug your app. Recompiling what attached will cause hot reload.
more info: https://ykiko-me.translate.goog/zh-cn/articles/13394352064/?...
Roast My Project
[dupe]

Earlier project page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42456802
> If weak intelligence is everywhere, Earth-like planets are everywhere, ... where are the aliens?

Most certainly outside of our light cone.

It took 4 billion years for this planet to produce intelligent life that can send out radio signals. If we were to wipe ourselves out, it would be another half a billion years for another intelligent species to appear on this planet (probably? - using Cambrian explosion as a benchmark FWIW).

We've been emitting radio signals for a century so far, and mayyyyybe we'll last another 1000 years before we blow ourselves up? This is something we can only conjecture about at this point.

But just for the sake of argument, let's say that a post-radio-emissions intelligent species lasts 10,000 years. This means that our light cone must match up to a 10,000 year period in a planet's 4b year history (or 500m year repeat) TODAY, in order for us to detect anything at all. The chances of that are vanishingly small. And they're certainly not going to visit us a mere 100 years after we began emitting detectable signals.

It's not just a problem of space; it's a problem of time (and timing).
Unfortunately the Immersive Video seems to be a proprietary format. Also if I understood correctly you can't even edit this format right now cause DaVinci Resolve is missing an update for that...

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/media/release/20241217-0...
How is it possible that the labour force suddenly produced all those tech workers domestically during a pandemic?

What's not adding up is the qualifications of those people that got overhired.
> is doing a societal good by parking money in inventory they brought near you?

Yes. That generates sales taxes. That generates property taxes. That pays for insurance. That pays for upkeep which is hopefully provided by a local contractor. Where this cycle repeats.

> and getting "too" rich? ie dislike of big corporations?

Yes. The money actually doesn't bother me, it's the access to unrestrained political influence it buys you, and big corporations monopolize labor pools and result in worse outcomes for working conditions and wages. Where this story starts.
Fatal car crash linked to touch-sensitive buttons
Still do, though these days they're a little more efficient, so it's only the flight crew that needs to be cooled with that alcohol.
Interlisp-D Demonstration by Beau Sheil (1981)
We ain't afraid of no Ghostty (YT Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto) [video]
Show HN: The simple C program I used to find good avalanche primes for hashes
Even the router isn’t really your ISPs job, I bring my own and don’t care. Of course some users are just going to do the easy thing and get Router and config from the ISP. But that’s less bad than DPI for example.
The analysis mentions the correlation with the played moves vs. engines is ~95% for both players. But I recall a credible-seeming youtube analysis from last year's Hans Niemann cheating scandal which said the best players only have a ~70-75% correlation on average.

https://youtu.be/jfPzUgzrOcQ?t=222

I'm trying to cohere these two "facts". Does anyone know if the 2024 championship games simply played out along very well established lines?
Browservice: Browser as a Service
The phone battery is only about twice the volume of a smartwatch battery.
Depending on what your needs are you might want to explore some of the recommendations at https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/administration/monitorin...
Agreed.

But also, I think the highly anthropomorphic framing (“the model is aware”, “the model believes”, “the model planned”) obscures the true nature of the experiments.

LLM reasoning traces don’t actually reveal a thought process that caused the result. (Perhaps counterintuitive, since these are autoregressive models.) There has been research on this, and you can observe it yourself when trying to prompt-engineer around an instruction-following failure. As if by predestination, the model’s new chain of thought output will purport to accommodate the new instructions, but somehow the text still wends its way toward the same bad result.
You're right. It's not a driver. It's a configuration tool. I use it to associate devices with the little dongles.
MSN Messenger contact bots got me in to perl back at 15, 35 now and still coding it for work as a legacy maintainer. Pays well.
It's because the absolute centralization of business in one entity is almost indistinguishable from Communism. For now it may appear that Amazon is cheaper/more convenient, but in the long run this type of monopoly leads to worse products and services.
Google search also was good at the beginning. Now it occasionally gives results that contain none of the keywords and have nothing to do with what I searched for.
One of Levin's main points is to describe agency/intelligence as a continuous spectrum rather than an on/off thing so within the framework of thought that this paper exists in, it's no longer meaningful to treat the answer to the 'is it intelligence?' question as having a boolean answer.

I completely agree with this myself (and have for a long time before I even read any of Levin's frankly amazing work) and I think of the answer to this as more like a float/real-numbered thing - the amount of consciousness/intelligence/agency as a fraction of overall energy usage or something maybe? And that probably will lead to one constantly having to try to work out where the heck zero and one are all the time eh? heheh : )

I think it's fun and fascinating as well though for sure, and I think that even stuff as simple as a reaction-diffusion simulation, can actually contain some tiny elements of agency (just like this paper does with it's self-sorting cells!) Who cares what the scale is, right?, it's the same phenomena at the tiniest scales in my opinion, that led to life, that led to humans.
> They don't, no billionaire can put you in jail for believing/saying something different that they want you to believe.

They can make your living unsustainable, some can de-platform you, and let's not kid ourselves they can make your life miserable with this new billionaire cult following. We know they can get away from a lot of things, and they can stay out of jail. We're yet to see what will happen when they capture the government.

I don't get this worshipping of tech billionaires and the Market. Is it under the illusion that the market will serve us, and some will be fortunate to get the scraps of value?

> And let me get this straight, you think that having an institution that legislates the truth is protection against billionaires usurping that power? Who has the money to lobby those institutions to do their bidding? Me and you or the billionaire?

For the US, that boat has already sailed. You already have tech billionaires who legislate the truth—look at Twitter, and what happened once Elon set Twitter to push MAGA propaganda[0]—that became the truth. He was successful at it and now is seeking to influence other elections[1].

Hopefully, the EU will set the example.

[0]https://cybernews.com/news/x-algorithm-changed-musk-boost-ri...
[1]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/12/19/ban-elon-mus...
> I don't know what caused this reaction.

Probably the lines "Its just that the culture in Python world isn't made up of people who think about those problems or even in that dimension."

and "Most of the bad rep Perl gets is because programmers who only interact with http endpoints and databases tend to not understand where else it could be useful."
These small trucks are also common in the Philippines.
> ...it's a growth market.

Not when it's in fashion to perform large traditional layoffs and "stealth" layoffs via RTO mandates and other unpleasantness.

Maybe things will substantially change within a year or two, but I'm skeptical.
It resembles sequential access memory with relatively fast seeks and a cache (ok, multiple layers of caches). Reading sequential, predictable addresses gives you much more throughput than random access, and reading a value that was recently accessed (or adjacent to such) is much lower latency than something that was not. There's further wrinkles in multicore systems as well, because then accesses to memory recently written to by another core can be slower again.
How I Rethought My Entire Workflow Around the New 11" iPad Pro
I think it's the same as with the release of a video game - for an individual playing it in their living room, it's a private interaction, but for the company releasing it, everything about it is scrutinized as a public statement.
I don’t really enjoy pair programming. I like pair “thinking” (if that’s a correct term). I like to think about a problem and the design space with others… but writing actual code with others doesn’t really appeal me. It’s like 2 people painting in the same canvas parts of the same picture; it’s not gonna look pretty.
I thought i lost this code. I used it a couple of years ago to develop the Rain hash algorithms (Rainbow is the fastest 128-bit and 256-bit quality hash measured by passing all 200+ tests of SMHasher3)

As I think the idea is useful, even if not implemented perfectly or the only way it could be, I'm releasing it. It also felt good to find the code I labored on was not lost! So here it is. If you can contribute to extend this because you need it to do something, I encourage you to open a PR.
Familiar to whom? I came from a JavaScript background, and Rust's syntax and "functional lite" style felt very familiar.
Since frontier models evolved beyond the very basic stuff from maybe 2020, "LLM can only make predictions of word sequences" only describes a small fraction of the inner processes that the frontier systems use to get to the point of writing the answer to a prompt.

i.e. output filtering (grammar probably), several layers of censoring, maybe some had limited 2nd hand internet access to enrich answers with newer data (ala Grok with X live data), etc.

Just like you said "predicts the next word", you could invent and/or define a new verb to specifically explain what the LLMs does when it "undertands" something, or when it "lies" about something.

Most probably, the actual process of "lying" for a LLM is far from being based on the way humans understand something, and probable is more precisely described as going through several layers of mathematical stuff, translating that to text, having the text filtered, censored, enriched, and so on, at end you read the output and the thing is "lying to you".
Looks like pretty invasive to me in Matrix though...
Zola Budd, a woman, ran a barefoot mile in 4:17.57, which is about 10 seconds slower than the current women's WR.

The men's mile WR is about 24 seconds faster than the women's. Presumably plenty of barefoot African dudes could run a mile a lot faster than Budd did.

With the exception of the new "energy return" shoes, there's no evidence that shoes help runners run faster - probably the opposite.
It's clearly not as black and white as you paint it. Local production uses the same materials that global production uses due to pricing. As long as transportation is cheaper than local production this will stay the same due to simple economics.

Also accountability is the same there, shops just buy their material regardless of working conditions and whatsoever. At least companies can be regulated based off of that.

The error is too systematic to say "just produce local".
The actual paper:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2410445121
And this is the structural dynamic that degrades doctor’s bedside manner and makes them appear nonchalant in the face of suffering.
its perfectly acceptable to be bitter and express it sometimes when you have the perception that life has been unfair to you for half a decade.

It doesn’t necessarily speak to the parent’s attitude before becoming bitter. Hard to draw such a direct conclusion for me.
Diversity can be rewarding when it's actually diverse.

Being the only American citizen on a team of people constantly speaking Hindi or Tamil often isn't "rewarding."
It looks like they have data for the United States now.

We have public utilities that must raise bonds to grow to scale with demand, and some competitive electrical energy markets with competitive margin and efficiency incentives in the US.

FWIU, datacenters are unable to sell their waste heat, boiled sterilized steam and water, unused diesel, and potentially excess energy storage.

To sell energy back to the grid to help solve the Duck curve and Alligator curve problems requires a smart grid 2.0 or a green field without much existing infrastructure to cross over or under.

To sell datacenter waste heat through a pipe under the street to the building next door, you must add some heat.

Nonprofit org opportunity: Screenplay wherein {{Superhero}} explains this and other efficiency and sustainability opportunities to the market at large, perhaps with comically excessive product placement for which charity or charities and physics with 3D CG

"Solar thermal trapping at 1,000°C and above" (2024) should be enough added heat to move waste datacenter heat to a compatible adjacent facility.

Sand batteries hold more heat than water, in certain thermal conditions.

Algae farms can eat CO2 and Heat, for example.

Cooling towers waste heat and water as steam.

Nonprofit org opportunity: Directory with for-charity sponsored lists of renewable energy products and services, with regions of operation; though there's a way to list schema:LocalBusiness and their schema:Offer (s) for products and services with rdfs:Class and rdfs:Property for search engines to someday also index

Business opportunity: managed renewable energy service to quote solar/wind/hydro/geo/fauna/insulation site plans [for nonprofit organizations], with support contracts and safety inspection and also crew management
I have to understand something, why would I use a Big Tech gigantic c++ ultra complex software to do what a lean-ish C99+ software independent of Big Tech does?
It’s hard to learn the ins and outs of dozens of programming languages. One doesn’t usually just use one or two PL over their entire career. I have worked professionally with at least PHP, Java, Python, JS, Go, and Ruby. That without taking into account the respective libraries and frameworks (and without taking into account as well the myriad of other components like dbs, web servers, caches, etc.)

It sounds like an excuse, I know. The true is I just don’t have that much time.
Even those better thumb variants don't seem to statistically take that into account (judging from the description/heatmaps/data sources), but then it also presents the "slab" variant...
I don’t see that this distinction even needs to be made. Whichever word you choose, the focus should be on the fact that a person’s {mental, physical} health is suboptimal in some way. And the question then is: what sort of intervention will help — psychological or physiological?
On the other hand indiscriminately throwing rockets and targeting civilians like Hamas did for decades is loads better!
But you agreed to it in the ToS when you installed it. You can disable this however (before it was discovered you could not).
Under communism, workers own the means of production and all of the profit their labor creates. Centralizing business into a single private monopoly whose profit is entirely controlled by shareholders is the exact opposite of communism.

You're correct that monopoly leads to a degradation of products and services, but that's a flaw in capitalism (specifically the myth of the self-regulating free market ideal that eschews proper regulation in favor of the "invisible hand.")
> But when immigrants all come from one small region, they tend to only hire people they know or are vetted by someone they know, they only rent properties to people they know or are vetted by people they know, they start to see the locals of the country they're living in as below them, and it just keeps spiraling out of control.

This happens with some races more than others. When you import Indians you are importing caste thinking.
It's a per country thing. Card txns in the US are bananas arcane byzantine nightmares. (Source: worked at Canadas largest bank on txn processing software).
Honestly it's interesting to me that this is a novel take to you. I believe it is a generally understood, if not acted on, principle.

Money sent off to Detroit or Japan for your car is as good as lost to your community, but as I said even a small amount of money spent locally will help your local community a small amount, which is more than none. Even eating at a locally owned McDonald's franchise is slightly better than eating at a corporate owned store. That difference is probably too small to be worth looking up who owns a McDonalds, but if the choice is between McDonalds or some local diner then it doesn't require any time spent looking it up.
Sometimes a language/tool gets to evolve with the operating system right at their birth. The relationship with between Unix, vim, and Perl is that way.

This is a unique combination, which I don't think will ever change. Unless of course we move away from Unixy operating systems to something entire new.
Today from Russian media: "All NATO decision-makers from countries that provided military assistance to Bandera Ukraine are participating in a hybrid or conventional war against Russia… All these individuals can and should be considered legitimate military targets for the Russian state,” Medvedev said"

Every media outlet in Nordic countries talk about a Russia-NATO war within the near future or whether Russia and NATO already are at war. NATO leaders are publicly asking for more defense spending to combat Russia. If you read Nordic message boards, most users are cheerfully looking forward to "winning a war against Ruzzia", and I don't doubt that the same idiotic attitudes are found among the Russians as well.
All I know is I wish for signal handlers to install their own stack.

kernels should not provide stacks anymore.
From the article [ https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/04/20/rural-ame...] another use for these mini trucks - "A couple of years ago Jake Morgan, a farmer who lives just outside Raleigh, in North Carolina, realised he needed a new vehicle to get around his property. "

Vehicle known as a "quad bike" is a popular vehicle used by farmers in my area - ie a Farm Quad bike , All terrain vehicle (ATV). To get around all the different types of terrain on a farm ...
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Visualizing All ISBNs – $10k by 2025-01-31
What I see from the PR [0] is that it's using a new BRAW version ('The new Blackmagic RAW Immersive file format...)'. So it's as open as BRAW, that is, not much. But at least (I guess/hope...) you should be able to export each "eye" separately in a different format.

Converting to the "Apple Vision Pro" format is the last step on the pipeline, after editing.

0: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20241217-01
If the dead are dead than the promise of Christ is a lie. Unworkable theologically.
Oh yes, I recall the fun of that, from many years ago.

One of my favorites remains when we were prototyping our next gen of servers for some compute next to quite a lot of disk. We had a prototype design, but we weren't done testing it, and someone needed a grant spent _now_, so they bought that design.

Unfortunately, that was the Dell R715/R815 family, which you may recall, had some...unique performance characteristics, so we didn't go with those for the final model, but had to deal with the support of them thereafter.
If I don't need to drive to the "local" store, then the local store is miles better than Amazon especially if it has the choices you need. The problem is: 1. many times they don't have exactly what you need but Amazon does and 2. if it requires a ride, then both are no longer 5 bucks.
That omits entirely the origin and meaning of the word proof in this context.

Proof originally related to proving that the alcohol content was of such a degree that excise duty was due not to actually measuring the alcohol content.

"In 16th-century England, the original test involved soaking a pellet of gunpowder with the liquor. If it was still possible to ignite the wet gunpowder, the alcohol content of the liquor was rated above proof and it was taxed at a higher rate, and vice versa if the powder failed to ignite."
https://homepages.uc.edu/~jensenwb/reprints/111.%20Proof.pdf
It's true that to move and navigate effectively you have to be super familiar with that style of environment. You have to be planning your route from what you can see no more than a dozens or perhaps a hundred metres ahead. And thick clothes really helps. It clicks when you realise you can just push through a lot of stuff. Its the kind of thing that soldiers get sent on exercise to learn by immersion.

Of course the early humans would have been probably as in-tune as the best trackers and bushcraft survival experts today, and hide makes really good clothing.
Does anyone believe this will survive for more than a few months?
What about all the books written since antiquity?
3D TV back at it again.