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1.8 A word about Unix standards

``The wonderful thing about Unix standards is that there are so many to choose from.'' You may be totally bewildered about the multitude of various standards that exist. Rest assured that nowhere in this manual will you encounter an attempt to spell it all out for you; you could not read and internalise such a twisted account without bleeding from the nose and ears.

However, you might keep in mind the following simple fact: of all the standards, POSIX is the least common denominator. So when this manual repeatedly refers to POSIX, the point is ``the thing we are describing should be portable just about anywhere.'' Scsh sticks to POSIX when at all possible; its major departure is symbolic links, which aren't in POSIX (see -- it really is a least common denominator).

I often get nostalgic for the old days, but it could be pretty terrible.
They're just monitoring the types of traffic you send to through them as your ISP, and where it's headed to. If you're sending packets of voice data, encrypted or not, and connecting to Whatsapp's known public servers that handle voice data, then they can block that data.
According to this chart on X, X is the fairest and most balanced platform ever created. Nice.

Try this experiment. Make two posts. One with the word “cisgender” and the other with the N-word and see how balanced the platform treats you.

The former will mute your post for using a slur (?) but somehow the latter is allowed without any moderation at all (!).

Such balance. Musk has made no attempt to hide his thumb on the scale in silencing things he disagrees with.
Show HN: Currex, Pythonic currency calculator with real-time exchange rates
Hi!

I want to share with you an early version Currex, a Pythonic currency calculator that makes working with currencies and exchange rates simple and smoots.

I often use Python as a command-line calculator. Yet, I need to go back to Google Search to convert between currencies. So, for my own convenience, I created this library that makes it easy to add, multiply and change currencies. One of the core features is autocasting - when using a few currencies, automatically convert them to the first one.

It is intended to be used in interactive Python sessions (such as Jupyter Notebook, IPython, etc.) to get ballpark estimates of prices - e.g. when traveling, buying online, etc. Personally, I use it from the command line IPython.

It is a new package, so I'm open to suggestions.

It is NOT intended to be used in production code. Every API design decision I made was to make it as simple as possible to use in interactive sessions. Some of them are consciously at odds with a tool that could be used in a library.

EVEN MORE IMPORTANT: Never use it for any important decisions - taxes, investments, etc. There is no guarantee that the exchange rates are up-to-date and correct. Note that even major players make mistakes, e.g. a Google glitch from the last year (https://www.barrons.com/news/google-glitch-undervalues-polan...). Always use the official exchange rates.
Pretty sure it was vicwriter I used to write and submit assignments in elementary school. Got "permission" to do homework this way because my handwriting was so terrible it was presenting a roadblock for learning.

Then again "Quick Brown Fox" also looks familiar. Funny how the key bindings are very similar to vi (and also inspired by ed I guess)
I think it's referring to that Bazzite uses container technology to build the OS (it's an OCI image).
I can how it would not switch on if line power is gone. But what if it is on already, there are not many loads on, and the mains go down? Does it switch off? How does it know?
It won't. These systems are quite large (a single solar panel is approximately 1.2m by 1.7m (4 to 6 ft ?) and even if you put it outside with direct southern exposure and no shade it takes 2-5 years to recoup the investment cost. In the US, you pay less for electricity (in most places) so it would take longer. Behind a window, generated energy will be way less.
F4Map has an option "F4-specific buildings" which has premade 3D models for certain landmarks, including the opera house.
https://archive.ph/20250108053109/https://www.ft.com/content...
You'll Never Get Off the Dinner Treadmill
Or... he didn't even login and the widget already was logging the IP when he opened the page? Either way I agree though.
The quick tour of Glicol that I made is also a way to learn digital sound synthesis:

https://glicol.org/tour

Have fun
Little known fact (I am still amazed how people don't know the mechanics of global warming...): CO2 effect in the atmosphere is logarithmic, increasing with concentration. That is because CO2 can only block one band of light, so at one point, you're approaching asymptotic effect. That's why we keep talking about "doubling of CO2", because it's a logarithmic function....

But yes, the temperature will increase slightly because of CO2 emissions. That triggers more warming due to feedback effects though, and those are hard to quantify, and more scary.
I'm from latam. I never saw anyone drink water growing up. Anytime you try to drink water, people label you as boring, even your parents. Whenever we go to a restaurant, the first thing you ask the waiter is "what sodas do you have?". If you're not feeling like drinking soda and want something "healthier", you ask what kinds of fruit juices they have. If you don't like the options, you settle on a hyper-sweetened tea.

I frequently ask my parents to drink more water, and they get defensive saying they drink a lot of water but I just don't see it. The truth is they only drink half a small cup in the middle of the night...
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We're obsessed with the emergent complexity of human systems like organisations, markets, communities, and countries, and the uncertainty that complexity generates. We believe that uncertainty is a core reason why building things is so hard: 90% of startups fail, 80% of government change efforts fail, and 90% of infrastructure projects go over budget. We believe far better ways of managing and governing exist in the search space, but we need new computational tools to carry out the search.

We're betting that LLMs unlock new kinds of computational models of human systems which will enable decision-makers to accurately simulate counterfactuals and make better decisions. Our first product accurately simulates how groups of people answer questions, targeting the ~$100B research market. We've just raised a pre-seed and are now hiring founding engineers.

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Neat. The printer bit made me roll my eyes, though. They could not get a printer work with the desktop OS that is Windows, and after also unsuccessfully attempting to get it to work on the OS of a _hand-held_ _gaming_ device, which they just showcased as a PC-based alternative to a living room console, their conclusion is "needs some work"? I, mean what? Would anybody expect to be able to print from a PlayStation or a Switch? What would you even want to print?
Singapore Anti-Scam Law Gives Police Power over Bank Accounts
Also, how much of this riding in pedestrian areas is because all resources and area has been assigned to cars? Instead of being angry at cyclists, I often wish more people saw that it shouldn't be a fight between "soft road users", but instead a fight against cars limiting where people can move themselves.
> your work is an experiment and you will later revise it

I advise against this if you have not been allocated the time or budget to revise the code. For one thing, you're lying. For another thing, were you hired to be a part of the contributing team or hired to be part of a research team doing experiments in the contributing team's codebase and possibly deploying your experiment on their production systems?

I would immediately push back on any new guy who says this, no matter how confident he seems that his way is the right way.
EU court fines European Commission for breaching its own data privacy laws
So do I :D

I was wondering that too. I'll update it with other examples (x86 and Arm).
Lamb Weston frozen fries are the best, but they are expensive at $5 odd dollars a bag.
It’ll take a lot longer in the EU. You need fingerprints taken there
Even if not limited in speed, the assist is limited so on flat ground you are still limited to under 30mph. However downhill any bike can get going much faster - I've been to 35mph on my non-electric bike (my electric bike is slower downhill, but there difference isn't much), and I live in an area known for how flat it is - those of you are live where there are real hills (much less mountains) can easially get going much faster.
Otoh the flexibility of Linux networking stack makes it so amazing; if you can imagine it then there is almost certainly some way of doing it with Linux. It might not be fastest or cleanest, but it certainly can do a lot.

Also, policy based routing has been in Linux since 2.2 or something like that, so it's not like its some recent increase in complexity.
yeah, agreed: huge difference in downhill, freestyle, etc...and my XC group rides.

Also, BC, between Whistler and North Shore on Vancouver Island is pretty much mecca for this type of riding, bike parks, stunts, etc....

I'd be really curious what the stats are elsewhere, and broken out by what the rider was doing at time of injury.
Support for ASHA hearing aids coming to Linux
Loosening the biological connection to parents and replacing it with a mechanical process means there isn't a first line defense against the buying and selling. In fact, the buying and selling is the first step since the activity is reduced to a monetary transaction. It's just slavery, with a veneer of charity around it for people who struggle to conceive naturally. OP argued that supporting this concept would become mainstream, and my point is that it won't, because you'd have to put people like me in prison for that to happen.
I don't think so ... they are going higher on more challenging routes, climbing hills that they can then do not have the skills to get down safely. With a heavier bike.
Looming 'demographic cliff': Fewer college students and fewer graduate
I could swear I've also gotten data sync's while in limited connectivity situations, but to be fair could be that occasionally it was just able to phone in enough to do its thing.

Service is back up, so just testing real quick, at least on IOS , turning off wifi/cellular (not airplane mode) - my fenix at least seems to still be streaming heart rate data to the app. Not entirely sure what else will update from local data though (if anything).
>A large chunk of the Steam library worked perfectly fine on Linux before Proton.

Source? My recollection was that it didn't. Wine had awful direct x translation, I'm not sure if it could do dx11 at all when the steam machine came out. DXVK is a proton project and without it few games could actually run at all.
They mean "cloud native" in the sense that it adopts atomic system updates and containerized application installs, which has been common in "the cloud" for years but is much less commonplace in personal Linux installations. Working in this way is a large part of why Bazzite "just works". It is also actually exactly how SteamOS works (with some implementation differences under the hood), so SteamOS is "cloud native" in the same sense.

I do think this marketing is unnecessarily confusing. The dayjob of the original master mind behind Bazzite and Universal Blue is working with cloud systems IIUC, so they find it an important thing to highlight.
Cheers, at least we have Stimulation Clicker on the front page

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42611536
> Eh? As in, proximity to the streaming server?

Exactly! I've had symmetric fiber in countless of apartments in Barcelona, with latency to mainstream sites down to something like 2ms at the lowest. But the game companies who do streaming don't seem to cater to Spain (or Barcelona) at all since the latency always been horrible regardless.

Have you tried any of them and seen if the latency is shit or not?
> it’s much more realistic to start a business that is going to convince enough people to pay you enough to support yourself.

I only have to convince one place - Google Ads. Plus bring in the "eyeballs" with my free app, but I have accomplished that more than once.

> Also you have to convince companies to do business with you instead of a well known company.

Just one company in my case (actually several, but 90+% of the money comes from Google)

> Oh and to be competitive you need to have some type of funding.
I have to be competitive enough to make a few thousand a month, and with my programming (and database design, and UX, and SRE etc.) skills, I have achieved that.

> And you need to make enough to pay for health care.
In the US you do.
Maybe they thought of this, but I didn't see any mitigation for the unsprung mass problem that these motors bring.
On second thought I think it was meant to be a reference to October 7, 2023. I've seen similar stickers at some, back in summer, with messages like "What if terrorists blew up YOUR music festival? #supportisrael"

Took a while to work it out though. Why can't people just say what they mean?

I find it kind of despicable that someone would spend the effort to highlight a terrorist attack against a rave, but ignore the background of terrorist attacks against important stuff like schools, hospitals and residences.
There aren't any, with hyperview you actually own the hypermedia client as well as the server and you can write and cache local data in the form of custom extensions you make to it.

I think that needs better documentation though.
The thing about many combat sports is not the short term injuries, but the long term CTE risk. Especially with the rise of meteoric rise of MMA, I think the community is going to have to take a hard look at blows to the head and choke-outs once there's been a few decades of data.
I suspect the conservative backlash is being driven by economics, and this driver will only get stronger, perhaps much stronger.
Is Kubernetes or Slurm the best orchestrator for 512 GPU jobs
> unless you’re the wrong star sign, ironically, or political party.

These things are very different and do not belong in the same list, and I've noticed that when people do put them together, they're often trying to make the point that political party is just another arbitrary inherent attribute like race, rather than a serious reflection of someone's character. Can you explain why you think they belong together?
Why Automated Deployments for Pull Requests Improve Collaboration
It really makes me mad where "orange vests" decide to use the bike path as a parking space. From what I can tell there isn't even any laws against this.
How to use Stimulus in your Rails apps with RubyMine
Is this weird? The EU is an organisation like any other, it can make mistakes. It just so happens to be a regulating organisation and have also written the rule it broke.
It’s also pretty easy to create your own VCV Rack modules, assuming you don’t mind doing a little math.
> In a first, the EU General Court ruled on Wednesday that the European Commission must pay damages to a German citizen for failing to comply with its own data protection regulations.

This is not, however, the first time that the EU courts have ruled that the EC has failed to comply with its own regulations. It happens frequently.

When the EC hands out its first fines for violations of the DMA (almost certainly to Apple), you can expect that it will be big in the news and widely celebrated here on HN. But you can also expect that it will be appealed to the courts and that years later the fine will be annulled, with the EU court ruling that the EC failed to conduct a thorough investigation and failed to consider relevant circumstances, etc. The news of this will not be big in the news; it will be posted on HN and get 1 or 2 comments, never reaching the front page.
I'm saying e-bikes are, and will continue to, make it worse, not that this wasn't already happening.
I originally had this idea about 20 years ago. I still think it's good. At least better than brotli compressed json loaded with JavaScript.
I forgot the coolest thing about this: We are currently transitioning from a demand-driven grid to a supply-driven grid. Previously, when more power was consumed, power plants upped their production by burning more coal, oil or gas. Now, the consumption needs to be upped when power is available via solar or wind, and reduced when it isn't. Balcony power plants do a very good job of educating and motivating people to do this.
> “We can build the architecture, the chip, the system, the libraries, and the

> algorithms all at the same time,” said Huang. “If you do that, then you can

> move faster than Moore’s Law, because you can innovate across the entire stack.”

So no connection at all with actual Moore's Law which states that number of transistors double each year. If you optimize your libraries to be 4x faster, no, that doesn't mean your 'AI chips' are improving faster than Moore's Law.

Statements like these annoy me enough to actually comment. Are they gaslighting us or do they actually believe this stuff ? Makes me really wonder.
I thought the whole point is that it’s built on an open protocol and decentralized? Granted a number of people couldn’t or wouldn’t, but you could self host if it gets too enshittified is what I’ve always understood.
What did the cars pay with in the movie "Cars"? (2019)
We've all but given up. Pessimism for the future is at an all time high and there's a major economic crisis looming on the horizon. We have runaway inflation and stagnant salaries, and for those who manage to mitigate inflation personally or via a union, by getting a salary increase, well they actually contribute to more inflation in general.

Why should I do my best when I'm underpaid. I'm sure many companies here in Europe wouldn't mind paying their employees more, but profit margins are razor thin.

There's no money for R&D.
It's the other way around. You copy the URL to the device that has the cookie.
If I could instantiate 20 clones of the smartest person I know to work 24/7 without distractions or fatigue that could write code at the speed of compute, it would utterly demolish any team of humans of any size.

Like… I’ve had a TODO that I’ve expanded and worked on for a few years for a personal project. If I had a tireless bot of my own intelligence, it should only have taken about an hour. Human limitations are immense barriers.
I never counted, but my first professional software project was an operating system (firmware) for an RF switching box. It was written in 8085 ASM, and was probably in the neighborhood of 1,000 lines.

Apples to oranges, though. It was a specialized firmware system. Probably the biggest part was the IEEE-488 communications handler.
The article has most were wearing a helmet, but less than 10% other pads. I'm not clear on what other pads are, but they seem to include things like knee protection which I wouldn't expect to help in this type of accident (but probably help is much more common falls).
perhaps this is meant as a joke (can't see a /s anywhere) but as far as I understand the EU, the EU (as opposed to the EU court) is a legislative organ that has no power to emit fines.

the EU Court would need to fine itself, basically.
> Windows gotta update sometime

For some people, sure. But to force it upon people without any way of skipping it? Kind of disrespectful to control people's computer usage like that when we're talking about "personal computers".
I haven't tried any of them, sorry.
> Automating those silly "daily tasks" is an absolutely moral thing to do and I will never fault anyone who does it.

I would. You should just dump the game then.
I agree, and I wish there was an option to always require both a passcode/password AND biometrics in iOS and MacOS. While it would become a hassle having to do it every time, it would at least guarantee that one could retain their 5th Amendment rights if the device were seized.
There's multiple interviews from over the years with people that worked very closely with him, including the person who was his publicist for a long time (or a very similar role, I forget exactly). You can obviously decide that it's all part of some long game of deception but it's just not needed. No one is trying to arrest him here and they haven't seriously wanted to for over a decade, he's become an institution like baked beans.
Well, again I'm not 100% saying it isn't RESTful, I would need to see an example of the whole system to determine if the uniform interface (and the other constraints of REST) are satisfied. That's why i asked for an example showing where the hypermedia controls are located, etc. so we can make an objective analysis of the situation. REST is a network architecture and thus we need to look at the entire system to determine if it is being satisfied (see https://hypermedia.systems/components-of-a-hypermedia-system...)
We got a Garmin watch for our daughter when she started walking to school on her own. It works pretty well but communication is delayed and sometimes not reliable on rainy days. When we first got it was very unreliable, but after contacting Garmin support, the did some sort of test over the network, made some change, and it was working much more reliably after that. I have no idea what they adjusted to get it working. We're pretty happy with it.
There is also Cardinal, a GPL fork that you can run as a plugin directly in your DAW of choice (I believe you need the paid VCV Rack to do that):

https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal
A couple of years ago I think I saw a frontend library that warned the user / auto-fixed those typos, but I can't remember its name, and all I can find now are SaaS offers for that kind of service.

Which I'm not entirely enthusiastic about as it leaks all user emails to some random service.
A friend of mine put solar panels on the roof of his house in France. He's got a 42U rack with shitloads of servers / more than 200 TB of disks / several 4090 GPUsrendering AI stuff etc., quite the beefy setup and yet at times, on certain days and for a few hours, the solar panel are powering it all (not just the 42U rack but the entire house, including the HVAC). Quite nice.
2 TWh less coal and 3 Twh less wind, 1.5TWh more gas.

So could also be just a less windy year - fact is coal is getting less.
Without multi year data this is not too meaningful of a statistic.
> In July of 2023, I was about 254lbs. I'm a pretty tall dude (about 6'5"), so it's not quite "obese", but it's pretty heavy, and it was only growing.

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmi...

That's obese! I'm always amazed how may fat people are walking around who think they're athletic, buff, and fit.

I'm 5'10" 155# at age 61. I count every calorie. It's the only way today with so much convienient, calorie laden, "addictive" food. The body-positivity folks would tell you that it's a mental illness and obsessive to track every calorie, but if I didn't, I'd gain wait. The calories-in/out formula for weight gain and loss is simple, a law of physics, and works for everyone.
So no tax on income, sales, property, imports, exports, etc? How do you expect to fund the government or are you an anarchist?
Yeah, it's undeniably neat, and sometimes you might not have another option (e.g. if you can't install/modify software on a given device), but whenever there is a choice I'd want to have autocorrect done on the highest possible layer.

I'd hate to have vim commands, game inputs etc. "autocorrected".
Investment in fossil fuels is unlikely when one of the two parties vows to destroy the industry.

Preytending that renewables are winning based purely on economics is disingenuous. If it were true, things like this would be unnecessary:

https://apnews.com/united-states-presidential-election-9dfb1...