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Copyright vs. Copyleft (2007)
Some years ago there was a bug in anti virus software, where they used the unsubscribe link for scanning and also triggered the unsubscribe.
what happened to the pure web assembly port
https://github.com/ryan-codingintrigue/sql-wasm ? How does it compare?
But are they? How many main street retail jobs has walmart killed? A million? Ten?

Look, you might be right. Maybe the pain is indeed worth the gain. My point is - it's not even being considered.
> Game studios provide shitty salaries while at the same time having a dearth of talent available

Do you mean the opposite of dearth?
Yep. We've historically had a lot of CPUs or multi-cpu machines that were good for running "embarassingly parallel" loads but wasted capacity for general purpouse use, a bit like this one! More hw threads or cores has traditionally not been good news from software POV.

This kind of machine is nice to look at from afar but for most apps trying to get anywhere near a 64 fold speedup on your application on this would mean scrapping the code base and doing 1 failed rewrite, followed by 1 marginally successful one, taking up ruinous amounts of calendar time and engineering resources.

But of course it's diferent now than in 2005, because today we can't do any better.
Coventry is the armpit of the United Kingdom
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There's a lot of reasoning here, and some of it makes sense. But a lot of the time it's just where the founders are from. In the 80s when the home-computer revolution was kicking off, a lot of the kids/young adults that got good at making games and made a fortune off the nascent industry then went off to set up development studios. They were often from the shires, because it was a wealthy/middle-class pursuit, or was at least easier to get going when the family support machine was backing you.

The low pay thing I think is a misnomer, I worked in games from 1995-2005, and although yeah the pay wasn't great compared to other industries, it wasn't bad, and I worked full-time for three different London based studios and contracted for another two. It was certainly enough to live in London (at least then before the property market went crazy)
I think it depends on what you do. They are really useful for e.g. web design, anything where you may want to re-use an effect, possibly come back later to adjust it everywhere you used it. For web design specifically you can often just prototype with css3 now, but it would be really nice to have this in gimp, and it does look like this version was a major step towards getting there
I’ve been using LiDAR to scan rooms and it has been incredibly accurate. Issues remaining are mirrors and water.
Yep, and I imagine that's roughly the fix they went for.
i downloaded an ISO and installed it in a VM. Network "card" didn't work out of the box so i left it.
Vt52-FPGA
sql.js does this

> sql.js uses emscripten to compile SQLite to webassembly (or to javascript code for compatibility with older browsers)

> By default, sql.js uses wasm
You can't win this fight. Soon, LiDAR will be Apple's invention. And besides, it already has a lowercase "i" in the name.

It's similar to how Apple invented the tablet and the smartphone (though, curiously, they don't have any broad patents on these concepts).
What's the workload if you don't mind me asking? Presumably the difference isn't just down to the smaller width of AVX2 but new instructions in the AVX-512 family?
Agreed. I only use jq once a month or once in two months at most. Every time I want to do something I just search for my use case since I can't seem to remember the syntax.
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> I wouldn't worry

I would. Spying and warmongering are those very few things that both major party establishments readily agree on, and I hate to pay for either of those things, or being spied upon even more than I already am.
"they later inhabited Canaan at the time of the Israelite conquest of Canaan." That would better describe nordic indo europeans than neanderthals, timing wise
Ask HN: Bug Tracking Software with Automations?
I'm looking for bug tracking software which can be used by both support/QA staff and also the development team. As such, we'd like it to be as closely integrated with Github as possible.

But we would like a fairly specific feature - we want the ability to automatically increase the priority based on the number of reports something has, without requiring the team do this themselves (e.g. the team should only need update a number).

The closest we've found is Monday.com. They let you create a row for your bug, and then a numeric column which you can easily increase (effectively a +1), and create a rule that says 'When that column's value > 5, set [other column]'s priority to X' and so on.

However, Monday doesn't really work for us because it doesn't support Markdown in the discussion area, which we use heavily for reporting bugs, providing examples, etc etc.

Any ideas would be appreciated!
Good stuffs. As a kid, 3dstudiomax sent me a cease and desist. Today I understand why.
In some cases, github will require you to remove the offending file from the commit history - or make the repo private.

e.g.
https://github.com/aliostad/deep-learning-lang-detection
There is no example in the world that opposition parties are stealing votes
I do the same. I feel I might be confirming my email address to spammers if I click that "unsubscribe" button.
Developers, do you think Designers should code?
Isn't that just the Finnish name? The comic talks about the "true" English name.
Recompiling is not an option? Also seems weird that the binary only ships with a AVX512 codepath and not AVX2 as well.

I remember there being also an issue of linked MKL libraries shipped with various software (e.g. Matlab) not using the appropriate AVX2 codepaths on 'unsupported' AMD processors and isn't was falling back on slow non vectorized code.
The underlying mechanism is well known: it activates GABA (inhibitory) receptors causing cells to hyperpolarize. We have all kinds of receptor activators/deactivator drugs, the problem is the brain is complex and we don't know where/when/how to use them to achieve desired effects.
Dutch pilots tech to lower e-bikes power in resdential areas
I think heirarchy is a natural human inclination. It's observed in every part of the animal kingdom. But it is possible to simultaneously have hierarchy and autonomy at the lowest level. Subsidiarity and distributism are the only things I am convinced will work. Every other endeavour ends up being a free-for-all (that ultimately is self destructive) or a dictorship (that eventually implodes).
Note you can do both (as I do).
I don't think this is true. This incentive is eliminated by the fact that you can always gauge an industry's success rate. In this case, we gauge how efficient they are at making us well, compared to not following their advice. You can also outsource this gauging to an external entity, which should not have this particular perverse incentive.

This solution does not work if we fall down into the trap of having a few gigantic corporations handle everything for us, which unfortunately seems to be the recent trend.
Ask HN: Easiest JavaScript front end framework for a back end dev?
Hello HN!

I'm a working as a NodeJS dev for past 2 years. I find working on frontend very tedious, this is the reason why I purchase themes as they already have custom components. For a personal project I've built the whole frontend using EJS to render HTML, the vanilla JS to do everything else.

I tried learning React but it was a steep learning curve for me. Now I want to convert the whole frontend app into a fast loading SPA. What framework is the easiest to learn?

So far I've run into these options: Svelte and VueJs.
It started off good then I realised its just written with an angle of more political propoganda/nonsense against India
A great video briefly demonstrating how infinity mirrors work and detailing how to build one: https://youtu.be/sAPGw0SD1DE
The issue, though, is even well under that threshold there's no benchmarking. Anecdotally it's more about branding. When using a Samsung or LG handset I typically didn't think about the flashlight when I was using it. With both my OnePlus phones it's hard to use it without thinking "man I wish this was brighter".
Bournemouth has been trying to make silicon beach a thing for a while now. There is a reasonable amount of tech going on here tbh.
WhatsApp now lets users send disappearing messages
Ask HN: Covid and Dating Life
Covid messed up a bit dating life and meeting new partners. It might vary with your age and location but Covid influence is not negligible. I didn't see yet this problem adressed, any thoughts about it?
I don't want lidars mapping everything all the time, especially on systems I don't have root on... add one more sensor to the surveillance engine list I suppose.
"are still trying to build this ugly human pyramid of subordination, just like in a primal tribe"

Well, there is a argument, that this is the case, because having leaders and followers is somewhat build in our DNA, if our ancestors lived like that for millions of years.

But the power structure in primal tribes were seldom true pyramidical. (That developed later in civilisation.)
You had council of elders, the shamans, priests, etc. different kinds of power balance. Also the very important difference to civilisation power pyramids: in primal societies power was based much more on merit, not inheritance.
I feel like controlling naming is a great example of micromanagement. I mean, if in addition to manager you act as a code reviewer then as a code reviewer you might suggest a name. Or if you are an architect in addition to a manager and you came up with a name for a thing that was your idea, then cool. But if Jim or Jane came up with a thing and named it, global or not, then ideally they have an established process to have that reviewed (like as part of normal code review) and ideally the manager stays out of it unless they are part of that process as a reviewer (not as manager). The reviewer-not-as-manager part is crucial since it establishes trust: you’re saying to your folks they can have that authority at an equal level to you if only they are a code reviewer. Flexing the manager muscle isn’t the right thing there IMO.
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I think it doesn't convey any new information by calling those utilities technical debt.

The issue at hand is self-explanatory.
Someone seems to have had this thought as well and made a minesweeper roguelike https://demoncrawl.com/
In the meanwhile they also somehow managed to file patents for rectangular products with four evenly rounded corners[1]. My kitchen cutting board might fit the bill.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/apple-awarded-design...
...from a seriously ugly looking site.
70 Years on Water
It's a default list-unsubscribe header which pretty much every marketing sender will include in their emails.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8058
That solution changes the incentive to them just performing slightly better than doing nothing, instead of the best they could.

My issue is with the GP implying that there are other fields that do have an incentive to make you maximally well, when I contend is impossible when you're paying someone for cures.
We are not aware of any patents affecting the development of GIMP.
I think it has bluetooth too, so that could be another possibility.
Same here. I used an app called RoomScan Lidar on my iPad Pro to obtain very accurate plans of some rooms in my house that we are planning to renovate. Lidar is a real game changer for such applications.
If you'd really be happy about supporting the guy, you wouldn't get hung up on the payment processor he chose to use. Seriously.
It really is positively Orwellian.

We've already seen many examples of how pwople's phone data has been used in prosecutions. How long before someone is taken to court for an un-PC remark which they made in the [supposed] privacy of their own home, but which was then picked up by their Alexa, transcribed at Amazon HQ and then reported to the authorities as a "hate crime"?

I know using the phrase "virtue signalling" tends to merit a bucket load of downvotes here on HN. But I really do think we've arrived at a farcical situation in the West [especially in Europe] where legislators are falling over themselves to draft ever more idiotic laws intended to show how much more "liberal" and "progressive" they are than the next guy.

With, ironically, the consequence that these same laws are actually making society less free and more controlled, as people are becoming too frightened to express opinions that don't conform, for fear of being branded a bigot / racist / sexist/ <alphabetti-spaghetti>phobe

Ironic that so few people in the West can see that we're mirroring exactly the same kind of 'dissenting viewpoint not tolerated' society that we used to deride the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe for and continue to condemn China for today.
More readable version:

https://nitter.net/andrzejdyjak/status/1324360905237372929
Out of curiosity, I brought this up to a professor in 2009. Examples were circulating online back then regarding Ambien and lock-in syndrome with similar temporary reversal effect.

Got basically told off with denial and laughs.

Experts often get stuck on this point where their ego supercedes any notion of new science, exploration and potentially disruptive information.
ouch who can splain
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Or post it on Reddit or Medium or whatever if you can't be bothered with a blog.

Twitter "threads" need to die.
IDK if it's rare that they make this case. It depends on what the are promoting or defending.

Or rather, it's rare that anyone (including people against this war on encryption) makes a blunt argument that criminals will escape because the police are constrained. The blunt tradeoffs argument is from a classroom or bar. It's not the kind of argument that will be made (bluntly) in a legal, policy or legislative setting.

In any case... I don't think "denied some powers" should be assessed against "risk of criminals escaping justice." One is abstract and the other concrete. The actual tradeoff is between criminals escaping and actual abuse of power by law enforcement. Some amount of both is guaranteed. This tips the scale.
Do any other smartphone shops plan to add lidar to their android models?
facebook, netflix, twitter, uber... essentially all the "unicorns" of the last decade.

I suppose that what a google is, or was in 2008, is debatable. Two of the above are fellow "FAANG" members today. In a 2008 sense, I think we can take it as meaning 'new $50bn+ tech company." There are lots of those.
Note that institutions are shorter lived than one might think. If you have become 25 this year, you'll have lived for more than 10% of the US's entire lifetime. 75, and you'll have lived for a third of its existence.

Those institutions which are longer lived are usually subject to tons of change. Think of the imperial Chinese system with its many dynasties or the church with its schisms. And despite behaviourally modern humans having lived on this planet for tens of thousands of years, thousands of generations, you won't find any institution that has survived longer than a few hundred generations.
> I don't think rigid totalitarianism is a stable solution at all, long term.

Long term we are all dead and universe is graveyard of the stars.

Totalitarianism for all its many faults seems more stable than democracies. People are willing to trade freedom for stability.

> When people spend time together, they become more similar. Is that "horizontal totalitarianism"? Or is that just a very obvious observation of human behavior?

There is a difference here. I think the article isn't so much talking about totalitarianism, as much as censorship. It used to be top-down, but now it's either peer censorship, or even bottom-up.

In your example, I don't think that is truly the case. People manage to fit their own rituals better. They don't become the same.
The "sponge" is called a waste ink pad. You can buy them off amazon and replace them yourself [0].

[0]: https://www.amazon.in/Nimble-Waste-Epson-L110-Printers/dp/B0...
I add my voice to the chorus of complaints about dongles, but for the record you could also use an inline HDMI audio extractor which is invisible to the OS and requires no drivers for sure. They are also very cheap.
Every few months there is an AMA by "Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups". Perhaps you can find something relevant there https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts
Epic: Faster Than Four Intel Xeon Platinum CPUs
Having seen the REST api examples they gave, i'd steer clear from using this language for that particular task.
The Election Meltdown That Didn’t Happen
You can use Nitter to make it a bit more readable and a bit less bloated. https://nitter.net/andrzejdyjak/status/1324360905237372929
He compares the breaking of glass by protestors to the Kristallnacht.

You don’t think that’s stupid or dangerous?
> I am certainly, in the clinical sense, addicted - eg if I miss a dose I certainly notice, and there is some degree of tolerance

I believe the correct term is "dependent".

There is a lot of misinformation and stigma out there, so I think it's really important to distinguish between addiction (e.g. insatiable cravings), medical dependence (e.g. someone taking anti-psychotics because they will otherwise have psychotic episodes, or someone taking antidepressants because they otherwise have manic depressive episodes), and physiological dependence, where your body's receptors have up/down-regulated to adjust to a "new normal", and withdrawal symptoms may occur if treatment is stopped.
Reddit and Medium are no better in terms of weight and complexity.
Not really. They’re self similar, not self identical, so determining detail takes increasingly more computation as you zoom in.
White House Chief of Staff Meadow is now at home working with Coronavirus
Satellite Crossed Halfway to Mars
Despite the overly inflated ego of many neurosurgeons, neurologists and neuroscientists we have no conclusive picture about the brain as a working system.

We just have a few pieces of a puzzle and no idea what the overall image actually is. Neuroplasticity and adaptivity make this even harder because often you can't just take a part away like in a car and pinpoint issues due to the absence or disturbance of these parts.

If you knockout an area and a patient loses smell, will you say that you found the "center" of smell? We are still poking at the brain and figuring out its responses.
1) That is precisely my point. End-users often think that new stuff can be easily added on top of older stuff, and if developers don't do that, they are just stupid, shortsighted, or whatever. For 2.10, we had to finish the GEGL port to give people much anticipated things like high bit depth precision editing (up to 32f per channel). For 3.0, we now have to port GIMP to an actually maintained version of GTK because some things are just broken for good in GTK2, this is mostly done and will be polished in the 2.99.x series. Once it's done, we will have the solid foundations to expose non-destructive editing (unless someone really clever arrives to hack it into v3.0 but I wouldn't hold my breath for that).

2) I'm the guy who wrote a chunk of that release notes (and most of the release notes in the past 10+ years). You don't need to babytalk to me about any of that stuff :)
And you should have done what Bezos did and become a multimillionaire.
So I’ve heard. I’ve become more sensitive lately about providing external services my data.

While I can’t avoid Google completely, I don’t use their web or mobile apps. Same goes for other services, though the issue with google connecting the dots on my online interactions is probably higher than with a small service. There on the other hand security is a higher issue than with Google with many SREs on call if something happens, so at the end of the day I prefer an offline service/program to parse my emails for the inscribe button.
404 is a normal response code. Something is wrong in the infrastructure if you have this doubts.
I'm not a backend developer and I can't comment on the actual framework vs no framework in Go discussion. What I want to say it looks a bit arrogant to portray yourself as this enlightenened person who has seen what would take other people years to understand, and to tell them that you won't bother to convince them but they'll understand one day.

There has to be a better way to communicate your point.
Yeah, once you're outside cities, most non-retail businesses tend to be found on the outskirts of towns (in business parks) or further out than that. My dad would usually drive 25-30 minutes to get to his office, so 15 minutes from Leamington is basically nothing.
I thought that consensus rule was the dominant form of organanisation up to fairly recently, maybe 200000 years ago. This seems to work well for groups of about 50-70 individuals. Leaders and followers by that theory is something that comes with agriculture and trade and the larger groups needed for that. So I wouldn't be so sure that it's "in our dna".
Cool, it seems to work most of the time, i guess where it doesn’t the spam folder is the place to go.
Basics of File Handling in Python
Or just hit the unsub link in the email.
Or when Microsoft stops referencing Bill Gates privates.
I’m from Coventry. It deserves the bad press.. sadly.
Similar situation here. Circa 2000 I had a few separate machines in my lab making lots of noise, taking up lots of space and drinking up power. Now I run a much larger cluster of nodes on my zen 2 desktop in virtual machines. If I need some more I rent them from amazon for a few hours rather than having to go and buy something expensive.
The general advice is not DIY everything by using the stdlib, it's to use packages that conform to the stdlib interface, because doing so gives you infinite composability. All of the concerns that have been pointed out have good, testing and rock solid implementations available that you can just drop in, with mix and match from different authors and frameworks. All because they use the same interface.

This isn't even a new idea. Many Ruby on Rails plugins are actually Rack plugins (even to the point of Rails itself being implemented as a collection of Rack middleware). Rack is the interface that defines how a request is to handled, similar to the Go stdlib interface.

It's definitely true that idiomatic Go tends towards copying being better than dependencies, but the standard interfaces make it much easier to use and swap tried and tested dependencies because they all share the same interface.