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In my experience, it is possible for certain poems to transmit meaning in rather a direct way, where the reader ends up becoming aware of something without quite knowing how. I find this incredibly fascinating.

In my opinion, the poet who is most effective at this, is Tomas Transtromer. Here is his poem "Further in".

Further In by Tomas Transtromer

On the main road into the city
when the sun is low.
The traffic thickens, crawls.
It is a sluggish dragon glittering.
I am one of the dragon’s scales.
Suddenly the red sun is
right in the middle of the windscreen
streaming in.
I am transparent
and writing becomes visible
inside me
words in invisible ink
which appear
when the paper is held to the fire!
I know I must get far away
straight through the city and then
further until it is time to go out
and walk far in the forest.
Walk in the footprints of the badger.
It gets dark, difficult to see.
In there on the moss lie stones.
One of the stones is precious.
It can change everything
it can make the darkness shine.
It is a switch for the whole country.
Everything depends on it.
Look at it, touch it…
Using the wrong measure just because it's easier to find data for it makes the comparison meaningless. Total return index vs Gold is the correct way to compare these two.

Total return of stock market using Wilshire Large-Cap,

Total return .. 2 223 435 (+16,439 %)
Gold .......... 1 721 ( +4,339 %)

Second chart from https://www.longtermtrends.net/stocks-vs-gold-comparison/
Counties like US who themselves did and support killing of thousands of people including Muslims don't sound good talking about Muslims in China. It's more like a pissed of political reaction then worrying about a community.
> Kotlin/Java are decent, but not good at concurrency

Since when JVM languages aren’t good at concurrency?

Also, primitives are usually not heap-allocated, so I don’t see what’s the problem with it. It makes the JVM a beast when it comes to number crunching.
I watched that whole video and now I'm questioning the life choices that led me here
The Future of Work: Virtual Hiring and Networking
I left the question mark out. It is "(who configures the database?)".
For various reasons they are secretive about this, but the genre system is inherited from EchoNest which they acquired in 2014. EchoNest's main idea was to combine audio analysis with natural language processing and web scraping to categorize music. In fact the two founders were PhD's in each respective field.

But nowadays I'm guessing they are utilizing their huge dataset of playlists to group artists under tags. Obviously such systems will work better the more popular an artist is.
Self-assessment tool to help business implement a better cybersecurity strategy
The book I used to learn the basics many years ago was "An Introduction to Neural Networks", by Kevin Gurney. It's a bit outdated now, but I still consider it valuable.
You don't need to land on Venus' surface; airships in the atmosphere are the closest thing to Earth in the Solar System.

The problem is that there is nothing useful on Mars and its location sucks. Any other planetary body makes more economic sense.
> for so many programmers these days a Makefile is just a container for ad hoc shell code.

Not gonna lie, that's completely what it is for me. I don't work in any compiled languages, and I don't have any kind of a "build target" (unless you count a Docker image?) in my workflow.

Some old timers insist that "make test" (what are you 'making'?) is more intuitive than "run_tests.sh" so I indulge them. But it's just a list of 'phony' and some weirdly-formatted bash with tabs.
doesn't sound very secure seeing all those processes running under root...
I found the literary style of this article to be really aggravating and distracting. The content is interesting, but the author is showing off their prose more than actually communicating anything.
I forgot the question mark: (who configures the database?). So it is about the problem that if you have your configs in a database then you will carry the additional burden to separately set up databases for each environment....it is like trying to put the hash of an image on the image.
If two different or dissimilar word appeared, we would not have this discussion.
As they were found in the vicinity of a temple precinct, and are in an idiopathic script (towards the end of the article they note that small groups of scribes may have had their own local cultivar of script), they’re likely either ritual/offertory, or possibly more mundane - scribes learning to write with set pieces they know orally by rote.

The article doesn’t mention it, but there are other examples of “learner” hands throughout antiquity, and even through to modernity - this could be an ancient example of a simplified script intended for beginners.
Add Quantum to the list.
Verification email comes from another name and domain. Would be worth to sync it with the app name. I almost did not find it.
> I'd take it further - in numerical code there is no real distinction /at all/ between closed form vs iterative solutions.

This assertion is however wrong. Closed form solutions at worse accumulate rounding errors of a single expression, while iterative solutions not only pile on rounding errors throughout the iterations but they also have to stop by truncating the rest of the solution, leading to results which not only is approximate but also amplifies rounding errors.
CVSS is pretty useless for categorizing severity.
Add to it overly lyrical poems that basically have nothing interesting in them for young people (or even me). Even if there is story, it is hidden behind flowery language that feels artifical. And the whole result is just drag.

I was well into adulthood when I found out that poems can be actually made fun and pleasant.
> they adjusted my measurements with AI for a better fit

I'm trying to think of a way this makes sense. Do they have access to some big database about you that they can use to predict how you'll screw up your measurements?
I wonder what he meant by "lingering signs of bt monopoly". Only they and i think Virgin actually supply lines. And the price for a landline is absurd. Like completely out of touch with reality. We have to pay extra for basics like caller id and even to call uk mobile phone numbers! Which is totally ridiculous. Landlines have a quarter of the utility and cost 7 times more (easily) then a call/text only mobile plan.
The claim is not "there's no exploitable bugs". Secure by design usually means that certain mechanisms are present in the system that mitigate security issues. Sandbox is one of them.
Morrowind: Dense, lot's of lore and immersion. More open, and less guided. I think at this time the cult of linear narrative was in it's infancy. And so you could kind of do more of what you wanted in Morrowind.

Oblivion: Brilliant for it's time in terms of world building, graphics and size. Famous for it's goofy elements, story line and characters. It still kept a lot of that attention to detail, but you could see it was starting to make tradeoffs.

IMO, As time has gone on, TES had traded size and grandeur for attention to detail, and Tolkien-esque world building. Skyrim was beautiful and a good continuation of the series. But it successfully struck a great balance between open world role playing, and commercial accessibility for audiences more accustomed to a single player linear narrative experience.

I'm too young to have played Daggerfall or Arena, so someone else would have to fill you in.
So I am still confused with the connectors and connections bit. Is it zapier but you can write a python script to automate a task? Or its more like a platform that manages user data and other services can use it as a store which executes a particular script when the state of the store changes? Maybe a better question would be who are the target customers for this?
I played Morrowind when it came out, but not for long, because the fighting was a bit boring. Something that worked very well in Skyrim. So I am curious, how it works in this version.
I've used it, but I use it like a retard so it's useful to me.
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Fraktur letters are even more boxy than kanji and Chinese ideographs, it isn't accidental.
Apple has that its command /
HPy was recently discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26625398
According to this[0] which is a neat read anyway, it "has 256 MiB DRAM, 256 MiB NAND, and a single Cortex-A7 CPU clocked up to 1.3GHz."

You can run DNS, a VPN, or a small web server even on a VPS with 32MB of RAM so those are pretty cool specs.

[0] https://xnux.eu/devices/feature/modem-pp.html
These experiments were apparently well designed and thoroughly done - they just don't apply to actual EM-Drive but speculative [infrared laser version](https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics_AWT/comments/iz2d4x/darpa_l...) of it. There are [good theoretical reasons](https://aetherwavetheory.blogspot.com/2010/11/do-galaxies-sh...) for why EMDrive should work better with radiation longer than wavelenght of CMBR, i.e. vacuum fluctuations. Also the geometry of resonators tested is [very distant](https://i.imgur.com/zTrRFum.gif) from conical shape of EMDrive, mildly speaking - and actually nonsensical with respect to EMDrive theory, which is based on polarization during reflection under Brewster angle. I'd even suspect, that Tajmar published negative results for misleading designs intentionally for to slow-down Chinese competition in this research. Most probably they already tested conical resonators - because there is no good reason why not to simply do it - but they hide their data before public for to get more time for further research of it. The pathoskeptical Popular Mechanics journal repeatedly attempted to [dismiss if not discredit EMDrive technology](https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a15323/temdrive-con...) and now it just jumped at new opportunity with all vehemence. The path to replication of original [R. Shawyer's EMDrive drive design](https://i.imgur.com/inLGS5G.jpg) is thus still fully opened.
I agree with this. I played OpenMW some years ago, and I was stunned at the quality. It's one of those open source projects where the quality is just implausibly good, especially considering how few open source games exist at all. (I am aware that OpenMW is short-circuiting the normal problems by re-implementing an existing design, and re-using existing art, but it's still wildly impressive.)
You're seeing that your view is not popular and being open for debate; because of dislikes.
To be fair, TES has both horse armour DLC and an incredibly huge modding community.
This website also runs on a single server[0], stores user state in closures[1] and uses tables for layout[2], in violation of just about every single modern web development practice.

And it's all the better for it. I wish more sites would follow HN's example.

--

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041

[1] - Mostly, at least - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23374471. It used to be almost for every action, the pg's OG hack, but got optimized away.

[2] - Press CTRL+U.
Ask HN: How do you unblock websites?
Many times when we have to use a network/ISP which blocks certain websites, there are a few ways to unblock them including proxies (in-browser) and VPNs.

Now assuming I don't belong to the crowd that exclusively uses no-log premium VPNs, what are secure options before me to, say, temporarily unblock websites?

I don't want to use one of those 1000 shady VPN apps on Google Play because God knows what they do to the device. I don't care about someone logging to which URLs I visit but proxy sites in my understanding can MITM https traffic, and also run their own ads & javascript on the browser which is last option for a security-conscious user.

So what are my options? Are there free limited VPN from trustworthy companies? (preferably OPEN ON/wireguard protocol because I wouldn't have to run their apps). Any trustworthy proxy site?
I genuinely don't understand why this was down voted. A comment would help. My intention was to be conciliatory and explanatory.
But it would also be more useful.
limevpn is $1/month if you pay for 3 years up front.
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The CSS text-emphasis property seems to work in both Safari and Firefox:

data:text/html,<div style="font:16px monospace; text-emphasis:red filled circle">Hello World

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be supported in Chrome yet.
All blackmail involves exposing something that someone doesn't want exposed - usually because the "something" is illegal. And yet, blackmail itself is illegal.

Most countries have a culture against whistleblowers, starting from childhood ("don't be a tattletale", "don't be a rat").
The storyline in Morrowind is great, but it is told in an unusual way. At the surface it's a fairly traditional Chosen One story about killing the Big Bad, but if you dig a little deeper, listen to the various NPCs, and read the various in-game books of historical poetry, it's very morally ambiguous, and not even the facts are completely clear. And some aspects of the story implies that the Morrowind universe does not even have the notion of objective truth (look up CHIM for a rabbit hole, and the maybe-serious theory that one of the demigods in the universe literally got his hands on the Morrowind plugin editor).

Also, the game play is very old-fashioned by modern standards.
Dude, do at least the most basic research. It took me one Amazon search for smart toaster to find a touch screen, programable, toaster.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086H69SJ2/

I’d like to see the Apple 1 emulator please. I’d like to know which of iOS’ permissions you hit first.
> I'm writing this, because Mac had a reputation for being polished. But what I'm seeing is a lot less polish than even desktop Linux in 2021 has. It really surprised (and disappointed) me.

This bears repeating.

I have a $2500 2019 macbook pro running macOS 10.14, and a crappy $500 acer running Debian. In the last month alone the macbook crashed more than the acer during the last year.
AWS instances usually "randomly fail" because the underlying hardware has issues. I still don't think it's truly random, but the problem is that you don't really get access to any direct indicators that the host is about to fail before it does. You don't even truly know how old the hardware is, so your risk mitigation strategy has to assume that anything can fail at any time with zero indication of issues beforehand.

When you manage your own physical servers, you have more knowledge of your risk. The actual time of failure will still be random, but if you've been running a host for 5 years straight, you know the risk is growing.

But we're mostly agreeing here. In the scenario where you throw away a "randomly failed" instance, the historical stability is good evidence that it is due to a hardware failure, and you can just replace the instance and move on.
Points of Difference in SaaS Positioning
Misleading title and very long article that boils down to: solo passionate inventor comes up with invention to reduce friendly fire, in one year, after suffering a friendly fire incident, and tries to get the military to adopt it, but the military does not want his particular solution.

The only testimony about why the military is not interested in his solution comes from the inventor himself. The military meanwhile does invest in different solutions, which the inventor claims are inferior.

> “I gotta give ’em credit for trying,” he said. “They spent about a billion dollars, and the thing wouldn’t work with [individual] soldiers.

To me, it seems more likely that the military has identified certain disadvantages to his proposed solution, than that there is some sort of conspiracy theory against solo inventors or this inventor specifically. I find it hard to believe that this person could come up with a solution in one year, that is superior to anything that professionals have been able to come up with after 30 years and billions of dollars of investment, but that the military dismisses his idea out of hand just because he's a solo inventor and not a big contractor.

The fact that the military has and is investing billions of dollars to try and solve friendly fire events shows they're definitely interested in reducing friendly fire, but the article over and over tries to imply the military isn't that keen on it. The title itself implies that too.

Not once in this 6000 word article is there a definitive reasoning for why his solution was rejected. It's all just conjecture and testimony from the inventor himself. Poor.
I remember reading an article or two about Python being quite energy inefficient as languages go, reaching very low on a chart like. I don't know if and/or how much Hpy will improve this. Definitely have to parrot the article and say the situation a matter of "wait, keep watching and see", or better yet if you can manage it, "contribute, keep contributing, and look ahead".
I'm surprised no one's yet mentioned zeppelins/dirigibles as a possible alternative to sea or air freight (not passenger), especially for deep inner-continent transport.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship
Grids in Rust, Part 2: const generics
Sure, it wasn’t a criticism for $subj, just mere observations from the first part of my “career”, cause it feels like I spent a good half of it trying to unfuck xls and its consequences for orgs.
Microsoft outage takes down Xbox Live, Teams, Office 365, OneDrive, and Bing
What I mean is, it's nice if you input the exact location or locations that you want to visit. It sucks when you're trying to plan a trip - exploring what's in the area, possible routes there. At that stage, you may not have any concrete stop in mind, you're just trying to tentatively evaluate options. Google Map's interface makes this task very hard. It also sucks when you're trying to orient yourself - i.e. understand what the map shows in relation to where you stand. In particular, the way it goes out of its way to hide street names is very annoying.

The latter two use cases are exactly what a map is supposed to be for. Hence, Google Maps suck at being a map.
> However in my experience, PLT is almost entirely concerned with academic research into the properties of highly-advanced type systems.

The Brown PLT group [1], responsible for the Racket programming language in particular, is a notable counterexample. But it's still a shame that I can't give any other counterexamples. (I used to joke that everything PLT but not type theory comes from the Brown PLT. It sounds no longer funny.)

[1] https://cs.brown.edu/research/plt/
Why would I ever use this over overleaf?
I agree, I think most people just need something one step up from a calculator that they can persist on a hard drive and create basic pivot tables/charts from.

Having this ability is a huge advantage over a calculator.
Anything that can reliably identify you in combat, is a homing beacon for any enemy.
Even if you have to "light yourself up", that can be done with disposable drones, and then strike at the targets.
Thus, you will have to reduce battlefield id systems the more sophisticated a enemies technology becomes.
It's quite selfish because there is a savings glut. Lots of reasons why people cut consumption but those savings have to go somewhere and this leads to low interest rates which then fuel the housing market. If the housing market crashes but the savings glut doesn't disappear then the housing market will recover within a year. If you did the obvious thing, namely building more housing then some of that money would have a place to go instead of just driving up the prices of existing houses.
I'm not arguing that the AZ trials weren't messy, but the EMA also based their decision on antibody titers of the older cohorts (and on initial UK real use data if I'm not mistaken).

> they are rigorous and extremely demanding about these subjects?

While the older cohort is the one that suffers the most Covid causalities? MHRA thought it was a "risk" worth taking no? (because in the end it wasn't risky - maybe a slight smaller efficiency but that's it)

> Maybe, just maybe

Oh there's no maybe there, their trials were a mess, hence why the FDA asked for another trial.
Yeah never forgive someone because they were once politically incorrect in some unrelated matter.

Is political correctness a religion?
Behind the paywall.
> it’s not really a factor in most clinical practice.

For a nice anecdata point - I’m an MR technologist and clinically I’ve seen it done once, I’ve done it once and I’ve heard a colleague mention doing one.
I’ve done them as research scans a hell of a lot of times.
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> I really wonder why modem manufacturers feel the need to encapsulate everything so much.

The alternative would be using an RTOS of some sort, implementing a full network stack (with > 100Mb throughput) and a USB device, as the bare minimum. Then you also have I2S audio, GNSS, etc.

It probably makes more sense using an entire OS at some point.

BTW, this is typical Qualcomm, that makes the chipsets for these modems.
Could this be a specific choice of the Pinephone project? Or do all modems from this manufacturer have an Android Debug Bridge?