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Oh I love this bit in [1]

I've yet to see a program that renders HTML (including all the cruft often used in docs, which might include SVG graphics and whatnot) sanely in ASCII. Lynx does not qualify, it's output is atrocious crap.

Yes, lynx lets you read HTML in ASCII, but at the cost of bleeding eyeballs and missing content.

Nothing beats a sane ASCII document with possibly, where really needed some ASCII art.

Sadly the whole kernel documentation project is moving away from that as well, which just means I'm back to working on an undocumented codebase. This rst crap they adopted is unreadable garbage.
So you're using outlet/organization level bias ratings to assign bias ratings to individual articles on a specific topic? Can't it vary by topic, author, or even what facts are represented (used, excluded, or wrong)?

For example, when I looked at the articles in the middle of the slider, it seemed that they were more of a mix of left and right leaning articles, not necessarily middle ground articles (and seemed to be somewhat more left skewed articles than right, but varried by subject).
One thing golang did right is the go playground. When I put code in my README, I also include a playground link.

Example: https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding#library-usa...
My DNS registrar does - https://gandi.net
> I have a couple of observations: firstly, it's interesting that the Guardian is considered to be dead-centre, while most in the UK would say that it's quite on the left. I found that surprising.

Who? Both Ad Fontes and AllSides say that The Guardian merely skews to the left, and Ad Fontes' analysis concludes that it's one of the "most reliable". (Ad Fontes' analysis here: https://www.adfontesmedia.com/the-guardian-bias-and-reliabil...)

I haven't seen anyone say that it's "quite on the left" in any sphere other than the partisan right.

Edit: Even OP's project seems to represent the modest left-skew accurately. Can you help me understand where your "dead-centre"-on-OP's-platform v. "quite on the left" interpretations came from?

https://i.imgur.com/NTmQERS.png
Easy to explain because the German fascists made a perfect match with the American fascists, whilst Russian communists had a problem with German fascists, plus under Stalin/Berisha everybody had a problem, also communist Germans and communist Russians. They nevertheless built up the Russian rocket and nuclear program.

In the US the germans could build the rocket program by their own without much US interference, until Lyndon Johnson broke it up.
Definitely a tangent. But certain Lenovo X1 Carbon models have 3840x2160 displays with integrated intel graphics. (Maybe other Lenovo models too, and quite probably some from other manufacturers, I'm just not familiar with those.)
Ah ok, I got terribly confused, because the sam_lowry account seemed quite legit!
HN is very anti crypto, they love the echo chamber of FUD that will be disproven
This thread escalated quickly! God damn. Is it the the simplification of hanzi you believe to be mind controlling the Chinese people?
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This is a noble goal, but when I clicked on the website a few times (admittedly, only looked at about 10 articles) I ended up with a very "left" view. I do not think it is skewed by personal views -- you could see clearly who is considered evil just from the title.

Also, not to knock down the effort, but I think this can cause more outrage, by showing that the other side "is wrong" than grow sanity. Just due to the fact that mainstream media on both sides seems to grow discord. However you select those articles, results may be the same :(. My 2c.
Totally agree. I don’t understand why so many programmers insist on designing stuff themselves. Except few exceptions we all suck at that (but then I admire people who are good at both).
> 3. They don't allow any form of account recovery. Which sounds really epic on paper but once you forget your password, you lose all your data.

I actually like this. It's not a misfeature, but a feature. Too often email is a single point of failure and it's how the bulk of account takeover attacks happen. Compromise an email account, and you compromise every account attached to that email. Just don't forget your password to Standard Notes. Can't be hard right?
I think a lot of it is just believing in the goals. If we want to see humans going to Mars in any larger capacity than a one off mission in our lifetimes, Spacex seems like the only path to that.

Elon is a complicated figure, but no one else has been able to make these big bets to get into the same position. At least not in a successful way.
Did you follow the archegos capital implosion? That's what happens on a smaller scale than tether. What you'll get is a price drop, a pretty significant one, because it will happen suddenly.

There is no foundation for the current prices of cryptocurrency, so if people get the impression that its propped up by frauds it runs the risk of dropping precipitously.

Also, I think you underestimate the follow-on effects of 20% of a market's daily trading volume pulled out of a market all at once.
There are plenty that have 4K screens and no discrete graphics cards, the X1 Carbon from Lenovo is one, I'm pretty certain Dell, LG, etc have similar models as well.
White Page without content for me.

Please don't use flutter web, it's a unacceptable accessibility nightmare.
The dangers from Tether is as I understand it:

1. People holding USDT realize they are holding nothing. The potential losses could scare crypto holders and create a bank run to sell for FIAT.

2. The demand for BTC that drives up the price is inflated. Bitfinex does not actually have anything valuable to be exchanging for BTC. This would certainly cause the current bubble to pop.

In the end every holder wants to know when the next pop is going to happen, no?
That was years ago when the tether issuance was a tiny fraction of today.
The amount of total Bitcoin is known and capped.
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Short rib prices are out of control these days
The bigger they are, the harder they fall...

On the whole, the technical standards should allow the kind of interoperability you described. That's the kind of fun real-world engineering that techies love. The bean-counters don't, because it's more devices needing support packages, it's more suppliers on the books, and ultimately it's probably (slightly) less profit than buying a single box.

I've seen big household name operators in Europe stop even pretending they're doing the work, and straight up pass on contact details and a mobile number for the person at their tier-1 vendor partner, so you can liaise directly with them.

It seems in these "5G" days even more than before, operators are retreating into the business of connectivity service, and leaving more and more for their vendor partners to do. When you're not even hiding the fact to a client that they may as well speak directly to the vendor, that says it all(!)
Modi regime paid 9000+ crore rupees to Boeing to buy planes for his 'personal' usage and refused 3000 crores to @SerumInstIndia for Vaccine production/distribution;
SpaceX was investigated for only hiring US citizens and permanent residents for jobs that are legally required to only be filled with US citizens and permanent residents.
The problem is flutter (web) also doesn't use html/css...
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> 1. Can I embed images and more specifically can I embed animated GIF files?

This would use a lot of resources and quickly burden Standards Notes' servers. If it means we can't add images and Standard Notes is free because of that, that's a price I'm willing to pay.
The reason is the need to have total flexibility (control). [0]

I reckon to make it as painless as possible to integrate it into Firefox. Also probably a tiny bit of not-invented-here syndrome too :)

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/neqo/issues/81
Definitely looks like an account that was possibly hijacked (due to age of account) to reach a higher karma

Or just a GPT-3 experiment, that's possible as well
I hope processor backdoor is disabled by default. Otherwise this laptop will be a paperweight. [1]

[1] https://hackaday.com/2020/06/16/disable-intels-backdoor-on-m...
From that article:

"As an icebreaker, [telecommunication operators] were asked if they thought the Chinese could eavesdrop through “backdoors” in Huawei equipment. Every single hand went up. One of the bankers then asked, for balance, if they thought the US could access communications through key Cisco equipment. “All the hands went straight back up without hesitation”

WHY HE WAS EVEN ASKING ??????? What is wrong with suits ?????

Retoric of course. But wrong is that they work in managing things. Not technicaly improving/creating/replacing things. So any action is just manage, risc ma^H^H ditching.

We need to replace our managers with technology peoples.

PS. Still US is preffered option.
PPS. Avoid Cisco at all costs !
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I am using a MacMini M1 as my main development machine specifically to get around the single monitor limitation of the first gen M1 laptops. It is cheaper than a MacBook Pro as well, so it is a win all around.

Edit: I do use one HDMI and one display port (from a USB c connector.) I drive both 4K monitors at a full 60hz. It is beautiful.
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> if you really are able to predict the future then you bet the house on something, you'll make out like a bandit.

Unless you can predict 'time', then no. (And generally we don't include time as 'predicting the future')

Will we all be eating meat not grown from animals in the near future, yes. Should I start shorting cattle farms? I'd guess cattle farms will start to devalue within a decade, but I'm not sure that statement has any value to me.

> So as far as I'm concerned he's full of it.

Yes he is.
DAI is not scalable. See https://medium.com/@hasufly/maker-dai-stable-but-not-scalabl... for a detailed explanation as to why. Tldr: the supply of DAI is bounded by the demand for a particular kind of liquidity, which doesn't scale with demand for DAI.
Does a philosophical hermit ever choose to not come back, and yet remain philosophizing? I doubt it.

I agree that the social aspects are not the apparent point of philosophy though. We can clearly benefit from exploring ideas without attempting to unify society as a whole.
I just watched an interesting Veritasium on this aspect of aging: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QRt7LjqJ45k
I don't think it is primarily a problem in training. It is a problem in incentive. For the most part, scientific software is written to fulfil a goal, and usually that goal is in order to publish a paper. Paper publication is what scientists are judged on, not the quality of the software they write. The software only needs to work well enough to get the paper published. Once the paper is published, all incentive to maintain or improve the software disappears, especially if the message of the paper is primarily the results obtained using the software, because then all of the citations will be referring to those results, not the software.

There are two main exceptions to this rule. One is when an actual software engineer ends up working as a scientist and having to write papers (like me). Then, the paper is more likely to be about the software itself, and the citations of the paper are from people who have also used the same software. This creates an incentive to make the software high quality, in order to get those citations. The other exception is when an institute decides that the world needs a decent piece of software to fulfil a vital role, and actually funds its development.

Oh, I should probably mention - I just helped out with a programming course for undergraduate medical science students. Most of the time I was tearing my hair out about the terrible programming practices being taught by the module leader, who admittedly had absolutely no computer science qualifications whatsoever (and in fact didn't know the difference between a forward slash and a backslash).

I think a solution to this is to recognise software quality as a common benefit, and divert funding towards it, allowing real software engineers to have an actual meaningful career in university. Universities are usually all over common benefit stuff, so you would have thought this would be easy enough. The Research Software Engineer programme in the UK is a start.
One tell-tale sign I've noticed is sentences that don't go anywhere - the last sentence of the first paragraph starts going somewhere, then suddenly stops. If we assume people communicate for the reason of conveying some meaning, always dig for the meaning. If it's not there, it's likely some kind of vapid content-less babble...

If you read critically with a view of "what are they actually saying?", you tend to spot this fairly quickly. The ending with some irrelevant babble gave the game away a bit though.
This. Or, you know, some sample pull requests he created.
Curious that he used "www.istheshipstillstuck.com" as the domain name, and "Is that ship still stuck?" for the title of the page ("the" versus "that").

And interestingly, there is a completely different website at:
https://www.isthatshipstillstuck.com/
>dogmatic< followers usually are the worst thing to happen

like converts who often tend to act way too excessively
I mean children 10 to 15 years old. Also purely anecdotally, nearly all kids from my sister's class had Instagram accounts since age 12. My sister (now 16) hides the app from our parents and has always done so; they wouldn't forbid it but she doesn't want them to see her profile or check her messages. It's just like what you would expect of a 13-18 years old girl - not bad/wrong, not a child anymore, exploring. Access to this kind of profile shouldn't be public by default, friend requests should be limited, and the chat service should be monitored.

I'd rather have Facebook recognize this issue, there will always be vast numbers of underage users on Instagram and simply setting age limit is simply ignorance of the real world complexities of teenage behavior while chasing perfection. How do you hold Facebook accountable to protect children from predators if children are said to be banned? The perfect world of kids not using Instagram won't happen, not even a significant reduction is going to happen, regardless of fines or prison time for Facebook executives - the kids really want to have social network profiles, the only working option would be to liquidate the company - and the kids would simply move to TikTok.
> So you are suggesting that bitcoin, far from having shed the problems of government-issued currency, is going through the process by which irresponsible governments can destroy a currency.

As far as I know, Thether is not Bitcoin and coins are issued randomly (usually, multiple times a week) by the creators, unlike Bitcoin. There is no proof of work, or proof of stake here... just plain issuing "pre-mined" coins. A bit like the currency in most countries nowadays.

I have no clue why Bitcoin was brought up.

Look at this: https://twitter.com/search?q=%22minted%20at%20Tether%20Treas...

It is nuts.
Isn't the internet in the same situation, with BGP being assumed to be done between trusted parties?
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That is a valid consern. I get the rating info from adfontesmedia, so I do not judge the poltical views of each outlet and what is condisered to be left/center/right. There is no moderation what so ever (that can be a good or bad thing). But the website definelty still contains a few bugs so that might be the issue you are running into.

Could you elaborate a bit on your second point. I am not quite sure I fully understand.
Operator margins in the US are enough to pay billions for media companies, at least. But maybe more competition is allowed in Europe.
You're talking about btc like it's a speculative asset and not a currency. This is the exact criticism of it. But you say the criticism is wrong.
Most bad thing starts with very good intention.

The use of CoC might be one of them.
I use Goodreads, but only like a letterboxd for books. Anyone have a recommendation of something with a better experience than goodreads where I can track my read, reading and wanting to read?

Recommendations are not that important to me and “social” features even less so.
A lot of what they are saying is that governments are losing legitimacy and ability to deliver what people want, and this will shift governance and power to other institutions that will take over much of how humanity interacts.

I guess that is bleak for the spy agencies but not for the world overall. People will be happier with a reversal of the tendency of governments to get larger and a return to more fragmented communities that humans have evolved to be happy in.

I’m surprised they have the balls to say this though
UI is confusing, IMO. Coming to the website I don't understand what I supposed to do. I clicked that bias line randomly, and most of the time headlines were from lefty sources. The idea is cool, but to be honest, it's hard to do it better then RealClearPolitics already does it.
The opposite would be infinitely worse. That is if Huawei were one administering the network. Allowing any government organisation option to wiretap any connection without any knowledge or controls is entirely against western values.

Logically police and intelligence services should be ones telling ISPs what to tap. And they should only comply with proper process. Anything else is totalitarianism.
How? If a USDT-denominated exchange holds a certain amount of USDT and a certain amount of other cryptocurrencies, a change in the dollar value of USDT won't make them unable to make customers whole.
This is gold.

>> In reality, most service providers have not been operating on this model for decades. Driven by balance-sheet mechanics and consultants, service providers have been highly incentivised to outsource anything that could possibly be outsourced, and then some.

>> In a modern telecommunications service provider, new equipment is deployed, configured, maintained and often financed by the vendor. Just to let that sink in, Huawei (and their close partners) already run and directly operate the mobile telecommunication infrastructure for over 100 million European subscribers.

I think it's quite a safe bet that no operator in China went that way by buying and outsourcing from/to Western companies.
Although, if you are performing serious work loads like that, why not just take the 10s to plug in the Ethernet cable? It seems like for these use cases you already would be using the laptop with the power cable hooked up.
I think it was a comment that fiat itself is created from thin air since it is the social contract of accepted value which gives any currency its value. It could be just made up numbers or more legit, it doesn't matter because people act on the belief that it is worth its US equivalent ... therefore it is.
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However, in von Neumann’s case it could legitimately be argued that he was the most intelligent person around.
This was such a pain... we tried several combos and dongles. In the end we found this to work for driving the 2nd monitor.

Startech Dual Display Port adapter
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07C69HG33/

We have noticed that the refresh rate on the second monitor isn’t great... but it works and isn’t horrible for developers.

Edit: and we also have this due to the lack of ports (Thanks Jony)

HyeperDrive USB C Hub https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MUAEI7J/
There is still a bug where you get news from all sites the first time you search for a topic. Just adjust the slider slightly and you should see the correct results.

The bias definetly varies by topic, but I just simplified it so that all articles from one specific outlet have the same bias. Big oversimplification but should (roughly) work.
No one can gatekeep anyone from buying and owning Bitcoin. It is infinitely divisible, so anyone can partake at any level. Anyone can put their savings in Bitcoin.

In contrast to today's financial markets where size gives you huge leverage and access that you don't get otherwise. This is why the rich are getting richer currently.

But the future of financial markets and wealth will be as distributed as the crypto assets and protocols will be.
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No stutter on Chrome/Windows on an older Dell Laptop. Maybe it's not doing well with Webkit?
On my $200 android phone it is actually rather smooth after the initial download to my browser. Surprisingly so. It performs more fluent than the most apps on my pinephone and so: are there plans to make a native distro? This would make for a nice change as wm.
Yes, because the amount of inflation goes to zero over time. That doesn't mean that there's no inflation now (i.e. that new Bitcoin aren't created every day until that time).

(I guess you could argue semantically that mining doesn't “create” Bitcoin but “unlocks” it or something, but it doesn't affect the dynamics I mentioned where the cost of running the network is currently subsidized by the newly unlocked Bitcoin and that subsidy will disappear over time.)
Here (Hungary) Telekom (the subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom) offers 2G/1G for ~30 USD / month. Interestingly the median pay (after taxes) here is ~710 USD / month (8520 / year).
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Absolutely, but to build a suitable independent logging system that understands the protocols used, and all the relevant fields, would be hugely complex.

Ultimately, you'd need to log every packet in full if you don't trust the core vendor - a control packet could contain an undocumented field like 'cmd', whose value is executed by root...

That's the kind of threat you'd be looking to catch. That means you'd need to terminate transport layer encryption on this "firewall/log" system, so that you can see and log the content of control messages.

Ultimately, you'd need the cooperation of the vendor to actually build a system that could meaningfully understand these control/management messages, and therein lies the problem!
Yes, but increasingly traffic is strongly encrypted, with users able to exert some level of control over that encryption
Now we just need one for mosquitoes.
What you are describing is much closer to Mad Max than a Utopia. The world ended up as countries and governments for a reason.
If you, personally, do not care what the exchange rate between Bitcoin and USD is, then maybe you need not be concerned over whether a Tether bubble is going cause that rate to crash. I guess, however, that a large majority of those holding Bitcoin care a good deal about that rate, and if so, then a crash in that rate will have a significant effect on how Bitcoin is viewed and used. The question for you to ask yourself, then, is whether those changes will adversely affect whatever it is about Bitcoin that you value.
Tory UK tends to characterize the Guardian as raving lefty lunatics, just as the right characterizes the NYT in the US.
Verified handpicked 19k jobs? Really?

I’m a little bit skeptical...
>>The "One Throat To Choke" idea

but it sounds soooooo good in meetings !
China has split the cyber world in half with their Great Firewall. Until they open their cyber space up to the west I don’t see any reason why the outside world would allow state-controlled Chinese companies to have access to their markets/networks.