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I used the imgcat trick in my shell client project (https://github.com/u59u75u65/hkgbox-rs).
I was looking for a cross platform solution, but by the time I worked on it I didn't know Sixels. One of the things that is cool about imgcat is that it handles GIF animation by default.
Personally, I wouldn't spend time setting smooth scrolling up, not to mention implementing it. I doesn't seem to have much impact to my reading. The scrollable things I use is the browser and a PDF reader. Firefox scrolls smoothly, while the PDF reader doesn't, but my experience reading with both is about the same. So I sympathize with devs who put their time into solving other problems.

I'd be interested in hearing from people who feel the opposite.
Hey! I've been fighting the same battle, mainly with facebook and smartphone usage.

With facebook, I unfollowed all the people and groups and pages, rendering my wall totally empty. Now I can still use it as an actual SOCIAL network - messaging friends on messenger and taking part in/creating events.

With smartphone - I highly recommend turning your display into grayscale. On android, it can be found in developer settings (google how to enable it). Together with high contrast settings, everything is perfectly readable, you can still call and text, take pictures, whatever. But looking at the grey display just doesn't give the satisfaction nice colors do. Try it. Also wristwatch helps, since you don't need to look at the phone to check time.
Which ones then?
Very different tool for different purposes. And it's never really been WYSIWYG.
Calling everything that gets banned hate speech by definition is like murdering young male adults with drones and calling them enemy combatants solely for being young male adults.

There are no values and no principles to be found in that whatsoever.
> Understood the inner workings of bitcoin and started working on a better version of it.

Said no altcoin developer ever.
But you're happy to be offended on behalf of black people when a white person says it? That makes no sense...
No, it's unprincipled.
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Fly by wire. So no. Though Boing I think have law of control at - you better know what and why are doing buddy - level.
I think I didn’t make my point clearly. The post I replied to was suggesting that Americans seek care more than others and that’s why costs are higher.
I didn’t think that likely, and argue that direct exposure to the cost would lead to people seeking care less often.
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+10000

User admin and the reliance on client-cert authentication is one of the biggest weaknesses I see in k8s security at the moment.

There are obviously other options like OIDC available, but it can be tricky to set up and isn't on by default, so instead client certs are used for user auth. and given the lack of certificate revocation, they're really not suited for that.
I can't speak for Google devices but per Apple's iOS security whitepaper (page 41) [1]:

"To protect the device from vulnerabilities in network processor firmware, network interfaces including Wi-Fi and baseband have limited access to application processor memory. When USB or SDIO is used to interface with the network processor, the network processor can’t initiate Direct Memory Access (DMA) transactions to the application processor. When PCIe is used, each network processor is on its own isolated PCIe bus. An IOMMU on each PCIe bus limits the network processor’s DMA access to pages of memory containing its network packets or control structures."

[1]: https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide....
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He should get his own house ready. Stop abusing employees and managing like a tyrant, and start paying market wages.
What is an astronaut, especially the early ones ?
I used to be a happy x201 user 11 years ago, but nowadays can’t see any good reason to prefer it over a good Macbook Pro (2015?). It’s now more hacky to remove Windows and install Linux in a Thinkpad, compared to setting up a dual boot Arch + OSX system in a Macbook Pro.
No they don't, it's all based on user reports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv7hvZee-PQ
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If there's a sucker born every minute that also means every minute there's a sucker finally able to buy stuff on the internet without parental consent. Why shut down a scam under those conditions?
Yea it's not wrong to dump them. But it does I think create a bit of a precedent that you should care at all. I'd worry, as CEO, that pretty soon you'll find yourself having to hire a team of people to manage content complaints... The alternative would have been to position your company more like infrastructure. Unlike Patreon, it's not a service which needs millions to think well of it, so it's not very exposed to the outraged mob.
Profit is the only thing that drives investment in care and research

This is manifestly untrue in so many domains, including medicine. Most research is heavily government funded, particularly pure research, and most academics are not interested in profit. The only orgs motivated by profit (drug companies, insurance companies) are the ones who push this misconception, because they profit from it. As one example, the UK runs large trials comstantly to improve care, without a profit motive.

Nobody has to postulate that price fixing (as you call it), or single payer healthcare without insurers works better, because the rest of the developed world outside the US uses that system and delivers very similar outcomes for radically lower cost. The facts are clear.
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I knew about talkd and other shenanigans but I have never heard it called “getting flashed” before
DownThemAll i miss it
On Windows I use Sumatra PDF which is a great viewer. It uses the MuPDF library.
Putin sits on the target of 6000 kilometers in the test of hypersonic missile
There are problems with the manipulation of binary data in bash, as discussed here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/278639/how-can-i-wo...

In particular, the value 0 can't be stored in a bash variable, which almost completely rules out the possibility of byte-by-byte processing of general binary data. It's probably possible with absurd hacks.

Quite apart from that, error handling in bash is an awkward chore which few scripts get right. It's a very unappealing language for writing anything more than a five-line script. https://www.davidpashley.com/articles/writing-robust-shell-s...
I agree: there should have been a warning that both pilots are doing (very) different commands.
Airbus is responsible here.

Boeing is responsible in the article too: adding such new feature without properly communicating with the pilots??
I don't care about reality. I don't use Emacs today, (I use nvi), but I had a lot of respect of what could I do with few MB of RAM compared to monstrosities today such as Atom, Slack and Sublime Text.
How does prepaying for treatment help with costs at all? Either you _can_ forecast accurately how many knee replacements you are going to do in which case prepaying won’t help you plan better — or you “prebill” for knee replacements and then incentivize doctors to push people into knee replacements to maximize their payouts ...
While it's indeed interesting to geek out on this and I am not to say that we shouldn't be moving in this direction if we can... I don't think this is the limiting factor for this technology. Energy efficiency is already good enough with e-ink. For me more important is to try and build bigger (and cheaper) displays with higher resolution. For these I would sacrifice some energy efficiency.
The NYT paywall is bypassable using Pocket: save the article and read it.
I don't agree with the whole premise of the article at all. Europe doesn't have a moral (or legal) responsibility to save everyone from disaster. What policy changes in both New Zealand and Australia have demonstrated well is that clearly blocking all illegal ship crossings has twofold benefits: human traffickers will no longer try to ship people in barely working ships reducing both the amount of funneled immigrants as well putting less people in danger of drowning out at sea.
You are not wrong. But everyone is stupid some of the time, and documentation should take that into account.
Dell XPS 15” has a crappy WiFi card and needs some magic setup incantations for Ubuntu (fortunately enough people have these laptops that the bash scripts are easy to find). The chipset to switch between the nvidia and intel video is still not stable AFAIK.

Even worse, I asked about their business line of laptops that officially support Ubuntu, but they come installed with 16.04 and that is what is supported (as at November this year anyway).
I think the reason for that is more to do with history than anything. The original intended purpose of PDFs were to be a print quality final layout.

That’s not so much the case these days and Word documents / PowerPoint presentations have supported embedding fonts too so they’ve drifted a little into PDFs territory. But from a generalised and historic standpoint: Word documents were for editing and PDFs were for printing.
So, without knowing anything about the actual details, you have no doubt in your mind.

And the livelihood of others is just to roll over, because you can't be bothered to actually look into it, before weighing in either way. So, what do you think you are practicing, here? If one were to look into history, with what would they find parallels, you think?
Have you really thought about that $100k number? I live in Seattle and I can tell you from a close friend's experience that an uninsured ambulance ride and emergency visit for a serious condition is ridiculously expensive, even after negotiating the cost down with the healthcare providers. We're talking tens of thousands for a concussion and I don't even want to know what the costs are for drug over doses, psychiatric holds, and the multitude of medical problems that result from roughing it in Washington winters. Throw in the cost of police responding to reports of vagrants, social workers, and all the other infrastructure and 100k a year seems very reasonable. We're talking about less than 1% of the population in the most extreme living circumstance that usually find themselves in that spot because all other systems have failed. Of course it's going to be crazy expensive helping that last (quite literally) marginalized group.

Thats why Utah just started paying for housing. They figured out that the follow on costs to homelessness were huge and for many subgroups of the homeless population it's much cheaper to just pay for their shelter than to pay for all the other things that are certain to go wrong that will require state intervention anyway.
Random processes inevitably produce strings of events that seem anything but random to us human pattern-matchers. This is well known.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18766079.
At the very end of the article is a video explaining how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmeljNpIV1k
> in the end, it will benefit humans. And we are more important than pigs.

Let's agree with you for a moment and understand what it really means:

- Let's say you are N times more intelligent than an average pig.

- Now let's say another species appears, where the average individual is N times more intelligent than you.

According to your argument, you would voluntarily subject yourself to experimentation, including getting your brain removed.

Of course you would not do that. So your argument is really about justifying the abuse of other species of mammals that cannot defend themselves.

Variations of that same argument were used to enslave, abuse and kill millions of people. It is sad your comment is the most upvoted. Our society sucks.
That was a very good read. Somewhat relevant to https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tscc3e5eujrsEeFN4/well-kept-...
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Funny enough Emacspeak for the blind totally owns any new GUI technology. They can do everything from inside: IM, web, news, coding, playing music, reading ebooks, MUD's, check the mainstream news...

https://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/applications.html

Your reality and bullshit applications such as Electron based bloatwares are a bad joke against disabled people.
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I'd be fine with that if they were using LKVM (from kvmtool) or that new Firecracker. But as far as I can tell most projects in this area use QEMU still, which is an outstanding piece of software, but doesn't scream micro-vm to me.
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To me it’s more like a device which can also make calls with an app.
This is what Guy Steele's Growing a Language talk was all about: "I should not design a small language, and I should not design a large one. I need to design a language that can grow. I need to plan ways in which it might grow—but I need, too, to leave some choices so that other persons can make those choices at a later time."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0

or as PDF:

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf
There's a live map of his progress too: https://z6z.co/spirit-of-endurance
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> in the Venn diagram

The one you just made up from whole cloth?

> Honestly though, I have another theory.

Do you have an actual position, too?
I would love to have one that talks and behaves like TARS from Interstellar.

Suitably robotic, yet not completely artificial.
The article makes no mention of the moral hazard created by these “rescue” operations.

These rafts aren’t attempting to cross the mediteranean sea. Smugglers load them with migrants, and drop them just off the territorial waters of Libya with a radio to call for help. If somehow they are not spotted, they die. These smugglers count on the complicity of pro-migration NGO ships to pick them up and bring them to Europe (the “rescue” step). This is a completely irresponsible game that NGO are playing and that is costing lives.

What the European navies are doing (and that this opinion is blaming) is to break this moral hazard by handing the migrants back to Libyan coast guards who will bring them back to Libya.
I know Google normally do this with paid staff. But they do have a reasonably big volunteer pool too, and I think it's fair to ask about them. I've volunteered for many things before, and I know that often (as in this case, it sounds like) the volunteers do get something non-monetary out of it too. Just seemed worth commenting on, especially as the headline made such a point of how much money it was.
Note that it is the tmux maintainer, not the libsixel maintainer, who is saying no. He won't even add support if someone else provides the patch, unless the patch is small. Why? Because:

> "I am not interested in graphics in the terminal and there are few practical uses for them anyway."

Really? I wonder how the *nix environment would look like today if the tools (gnu, et al) only worked with the workflows that their original creators envisioned. In fact, just recently I had to SSH into a remote server and find a particular image. The filenames are random strings, and the timestamps were useless as the files were recently copied from an archive drive without the `-a` flag. Having image support in the terminal would have saved me enough time to pick up my little one from kindergarten myself instead of having to send someone else to pick him up for me.
That’s a weird edge case. It’s images to us nerds and hackers but it’s certainly not images to anyone in print. Where as PDFs were used to send final magazine pages (for example) which were ready for print.

(Source: I worked for a publishing company in the 90s)
Aren't sensors being fitted duplicate/redundant?
Tech became 'darker and more muddy' in 2018
SDM = standard dialog manager, presumably

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/WinAuto/app...
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It would be good if you could stop posting unsubstantive comments in general too.
A power vacuum was certainly created as a result of the Gaddaffi regime collapse, yes.

But Boko Haram started its big rise already ca.1-2 years before the protests in Libya even begun, therefore the Libya situation did not directly create the rise of Boko Haram.

Also, it is not clear if things would have fizzled out without an intervention. The Syria war happened in parallel, and whoever was left to rule Libya (in whole or in parts) would have had to face the Battar Brigade, and then eventually the ISIL in Libya. Given that those actors obviously received clandestine backing (money, equipment, training) from "somewhere", thus greatly increasing their strength against any more organic movement(s), and given highly possible political reluctance to arm/support the opposite side, it is conceivable that the entire Libya could have eventually become an ISIL stronghold.

The whole Arab Spring was strategically bad news for the EU, including France. They had nothing to gain from orchestrating such a thing. But without any intervention (read: attempts to control) the Libya situation could have turned into something much worse, given that the likes of AQIM existed already in the neighbourhood before the Libya protests started, and this can explain the eagerness to try to clean up the mess as quickly as possible.
I could imagine that they'll eventually receive a firmware update allowing them to have conduct more modern modes of operation. That said, given that the target network also has 2G besides 3g; it can be configured in a "compatible" mode; one that can and is being exploited in the wild. 3g only networks are not suceptible to that particular type of attack. However, a similair scenario also exists for 3g/4g networks.
TL;DR Locking your baseband to the most modern technology decreases the odds for being intercepted/stung but certainly does not guarantee any safety.
Your key flaw, and HN's key flaw -- and to be fair, one shared by a lot of other people! -- is the pursuit of civility as an end in itself. Horrendously evil people can accomplish their goals while publicly conducting themselves with perfect civility, as history has taught us again and again. And HN's stance is that that's OK, because all that really matters is they're civil about it.

This isn't the first time you've been told this. It's not going to be the last time you'll be told this. And I know telling you this isn't going to change anything, but I have to try anyway. We know now beyond any doubt (and a legion of Cassandras were telling us long ago) just how easily social-media sites (and yes, HN is one) can turn into instruments and enablers of radicalization despite openly enforcing "civility".

You know what the solution is. You know, on some level, that civility isn't an end in itself; you know that the actual ends to which people use civility as a means matter. You know some of those ends are very, very bad. And you know how to recognize the people doing it. You also hold in your hand the power to do something about it.

Abandon the civility-at-any-cost policy. Stop being an enabler for the stuff I've been responding to in this thread. Take it from an "experienced user" who's had to learn this the hard way when moderating elsewhere. Or, in keeping with the season, treat this as a visitation by a spirit who warns you of the chain you're winding about yourself, link by link, and change it while you still can.
I’m in Finland. I get about 2-3 telemarketing calls a month which I quickly end and add the number as a spam contact.
Ask HN: How did you stop comparing yourself to others?
I found out an acquaintance is joining Google today and I had my day ruined because of it - I don’t compare particularly favorably to him, and a reminder that I’m a lower tier SWE at a lesser company sent me into a spiral of depression and self doubt.

This happens to me quite a bit - I’ve tried making goals to avoid this thinking, but I feel as though I don’t have the grit to continue them and the comparison persists. How has the HN community dealt with these feelings?
> It's surprising to me that airline designers continue to add sensors and computers and automation, when in so many of these cases it's the automation which itself is the problem.

New features can indeed raise unanticipated problems. But that automation isn't added for the lulz, it is added to address other safety problems. The safety record has gotten dramatically better over the decades, and that speaks for itself.

> Would the NTSB ever issue a recommendation like "Your aircraft is too complex" or "You rely on too many computers"? It seems to me like that could be a valid cause, but it's simply not in their vocabulary.

Neither of those vague hand-wavy recommendations are actionable, so the NTSB would never issue them.
Thanks! Are they all interconnected, so that if I use a service like https://www.medicare.gov/manage-your-health/medicares-blue-b... I will get the collected records from different doctor visits at different hospitals?
Thank You for typing this up.

> Not all biologists, however, have accepted this view. One of the strongest dissenters was D'Arcy Thompson (1917), who insisted that biological form is to be explained chiefly in the same way as inorganic form, i.e., as the result of physical and chemical processes. The primary task of the biologist is to discover the set of forms that are likely to appear. Only then is it worth asking which of them will be selected. Turing, who had been very much influenced by D'Arcy Thompson, set out to put the program into practice. Instead of asking why a certain arrangement of leaves is especially advantageous to a plant, he tried to show that it was a natural consequence of the process by which the leaves are produced. He did not in fact achieve his immediate aim, and indeed more than thirty-five years later the problem of phyllotaxis has still not been solved. On the other hand, the reaction-diffusion model has been applied to many other problems of pattern and form and Turing structures (as they are now called) have been observed experimentally (Castets at al. 1990), so Turing's idea had been vindicated.

Reading most of this introduction, especially this last paragraph, I couldn't but help think about Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science. Wolfram's book is very empirically philosophical, or maybe I should say just purely explorational, and he goes into the problems described above almost word for word. He uses programs to demonstrate that, for example, the variation in patterns on shellfish is due to minimal changes in genetic programs.
> loud ranting racist

Yeah.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18750037

> They, however, seem to want to be where their ideas are not wanted[1].

How are mobs following people they don't like around, seeking to destroy their livelihoods not much worse than "vote brigading"?

And on what planet aren't those mobs using vote brigading on top of that?
Not explicitly, they are just dense parts of the network. But towns and cities tend to have dense network of roads. The network is represented as square grids, so it resembles a city where roads are organized into blocks - like many US cities.