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Off course Africa is huge. I think it takes around 9 hours by plane to get from Cape Town to Tunis. But Africa is extremely diverse, there are so many different counties and cultures.

What impressed me most recently, was the size of Brazil. I flew from Montevideo to Madrid and around one third of the 12 hour flight you just fly over Brazil
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"Parse don't validate is suboptimal"

What you ideally want is a first step that "validates", i.e. creates a representation from text that is easy to use but also succeeds for any input, and then a further "parsing" step that converts it to another representation such that the parsing only succeeds for valid input and is invertible for any value of the representation type, and then finally code that checks constraints that aren't captured by the type system.

This way you can support IDEs that need to edit partially incorrect code.
Isn’t it interesting that Windows(and macOS for iOS) remains to be THE platform for creation and Android/Chrome OS/iOS to be consumption-only platforms? Combined with the fact that Intel and AMD each owns Altera and Xilinx...
Wow, thanks for the tip!

Love the extension, great work
There has been also speculation about adopting Linux kernel, but I don’t think there’s any evidence pointing to this direction.

I think this must be one option that is (or was) on table if they are also thinking about rebuilding whole windows.
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I'm not entirely sure about thinking in absolutes.

> Just the pandemic should've given you a hint that people at large don't like being confined to their homes and living in a virtual world.

This might be true for the majority of the society, but not everyone. Personally, i enjoy isolation from others for the most part due to my personality being rather introverted. This is also why i'm okay with remote work and prefer it to being in the office. There are certainly other people who wouldn't mind doing their jobs remotely and even if not everyone needs to do that, the technologies that would be developed around this concept would most certainly be useful in some way, like remote surgery: https://fortune.com/2020/02/11/tele-robotics-surgery-5g-heal...

Even if the things above are somewhat feasonable (with technologies like VRChat becoming an interesting way of socializing for some, as well as communities on Discord and Reddit, as well as social media in general), as for the "brain jar" scenario, i think you are mostly correct. I doubt that we'd be able to tackle the more "sci-fi" topics that concern our biology. For example, even if one could maintain a brain within some sort of a container, we know way too little about what exactly it'd need to remain healthy, as well as how we'd connect all of the nerve endings. Essentially, i think that we need to study our bodies more, since there's probably a link even between our gut bacteria and the functioning of our brains, as well as all of the hormones etc.: https://www.daimanuel.com/2020/11/17/how-your-gut-health-aff...

That's not to say that we shouldn't explore new possibilities and research longetivity or even the mechanisms that control the functioning of our bodies, though. That sort of research would at the very least decrease the health spending in the elderly and would help them enjoy their later years more fully. I think it's worth pursuing without going into either of the two extremes - full trans humanism or total denial.
I didn’t know that. Do you have some sources / examples?
Doing just that in an automated fashion requires at least one iOS exploit. Cellebrite, of course, has many.
It affects my life very much. I'm turning 40 this year and I'm still living like a college kid, pulling all-nighters, aimlessly browsing the internet 12-16 hours a day, 10,000 bookmarks or burning through the whole "The Expanse" bibliography in under two weeks, stuffing myself with sugary shit and strong coffee. Last night I wanted to fry some eggs and forgot about the pan. Thick smoke from the kitchen and the fire alarm blaring reminded me.

I know exactly what to do to change though. I know that the most important pillars are diet, physical activity and good sleep, I own all the right books, I take all the right supplements, I intellectually understand you have to break tasks down to their smallest step in order to reduce activation energy and I know about the compound-effect...and still I can't do it or build a good habit.

I tried many approaches: extensive to-do lists, pomodori, journaling, gamification, tough love, self-love, meditation. Nothing seems to help. Even if I manage to do something positive for a few weeks, I eventually "slip up" and I don't even notice for a few days how I haven't been running in the morning or how I haven't been drinking enough water during the day.

I've been trying to get an official ADHD diagnosis (and perhaps medication down the line) for more than a year now but the process gets delayed and dragged out time and time again, so much that I suspect that the mental healthcare department tasked with giving out ADHD diagnoses must be staffed with fellow ADHDers.
It's especially frustrating to read on the internet how some people seem to get a diagnosis and medication within weeks while I'm losing more and more lifetime.

My life sucks. I'm unemployed and burning through my savings at an insane speed, only running on fumes now.
But I just can't get myself to look for a job or a healthy social life when everything else seems so much more interesting. The impulsiveness has stopped being charming to people a long time ago. A number of them have been separating from me or actively removing me from their lives over me "going nowhere in life" or being an "energy vampire".
It's funny. Do you realize that your comment has no content? You speak like a politician. You're just attacking without really saying anything. Maybe answer:

- What makes you call this an "obsession"? There's just a remark and an inquiry. Please point out the obsession part, if you can.

- Ignores which facts? You are responsible with providing at least some of them if you want to be a part of the discussion, do you realize that?

- And what is that reason? The will of the universe?

I certainly wasn't saying everybody should learn touch typing and use Dvorak keyboards. Thank you for the straw man as a bonus.

Read my latest relevant answer that should show that I'm not obsessed with touch typing but have a clear reasoning behind my praisal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27171906

And if you're going to reply, maybe be a bit more respectful and provide a proper argument instead of empty attacks. I won't engage further otherwise.
We also have RSS/Atom for that ;)

XMPP can easily embed Atom in Pubsub feeds, this brings this kind of results https://mov.im/?node/news.movim.eu/TorrentFreak
That's a good thing, and I'm not sure what you mean about it being a dynamic check.
Neither of those countries have the government responsible for all economic activity that happens through the internet.

The Great Firewall is likewise, not remotely similar to the restrictions placed on internet access in North Korea.
It is real, not fiction. Oliver Sacks' "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain" contains a similar case, read "In the moment, music and amnesia". In one of the Sack's talks on youtube, I heard his hypothesis to account for this phenomenon: not every learning is equal; some learnings are so ingrained, they and these learnings are stored in the lower brain, brainstem area.
Changing my default applications on every OS update seems to be their main innovation
Yeah, and the authorities have to do it the right way. There's a reason why this is such a big issue and not as straightforward as you make it to be. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/24/21133600/police-fbi-pho...
Don’t forget proper and full typescript support. Going back to vue (2) after doing tsx was like going back to jquery; loads more context switching and mistakes.

The ability to type `children` alone makes a world of difference.
I highly recommend using FOSS frontends [1] to access these Instagram/Reddit/Twitter/etc, it's a far better experience being able to browse without all these annoyances.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27167924
Agreed wrt other GUI toolkits.

I think of it like democracy. It is ugly and terrible, but still better than all the other options.
Your floorplan example has very little in the form of indications or metrics, seemingly nothing beyond switch on off status and maybe light intensity level.

I feel like the next frontier for home automation is going to be sensors and monitoring.
Early forms of this data gathering being proximity or motion detection for triggering actions such as lights or displays, including thermostats, which also monitor temperatures indoors and from local weather stations.
While outlets with power monitoring are available, wall switches don't seem common yet, which is odd as they'd have the awesome application of detecting bulb burnouts. Individually customized replacement bulbs delivered automatically as a service

Air handling seems also like an easy area for improvement, humidity based switching exists, but coordinating bathroom fans exhausting with an intake running can efficiently recycle hot summer air with cool night air. If the fans were somehow reversible, bathrooms could intakes and exhaust on opposite sides of a building, while also monitoring air temps and humidity to detect with thermostats when they've sufficiently cycled through outside air.

Plumbing especially needs innovation, it would be nice if there was accurate flow metering, something ubiquitous you could put on a compression valve supply line that could measure usage, detecting drip leaks and left on taps, ideally with a valve inside for regulating flow. Can we get a power line over plumbing (PLoP) standard?

While not necessarily hard to display in 2D, certain aspects, like building airflow, might require 3D stimulation. It seems like 2D floorplan or walkthrough video to 3D model would be an ideal automation workflow, with generic textures and object models sufficing.
Sorry but this is going directly against evolutionary biology as it is commonly understood by evolutionary biologists and very successfully used to explain evolution. They don't care about invocations of Planck's principle, that's philosophical pondering, not useful genomics.
This comment is so weird. JavaScript got scoping completely wrong, and none of those were particularly novel when it was designed and they are almost universal now so I don't know why they would keep you hooked on JavaScript!

Maybe try some other languages...
And Boris Alexander de Pfeffel-Johnson is clearly a man of the people. /s

The bedrock of Conservative support, and main source of their rank&file and leadership, is in the owners’ class. Whether they own a pharmacy (Sunak), a shop (Javid), newsagents (Patel), or factories (Osborne), they own; hence they support the mechanisms that generate money for owners.
I think I tried most of those templating options, but some seems to have been abandoned, many try to abstract the html away and most are incomplete.

Nwt seemed like the most promising, but it don’t even allow loops in your template.
From the paper's discussion section:

"Interestingly, the arterial pressure of CO2 tended to be decreased in the l-EVA group, presumably due to the excellent O2 - and CO2-carrying capacity of perfluorochemicals (50 mL O2/dL and 160–210 mL CO2/dL, respectively), while the arterial pH did not change in our experiment. These results indicate that perfluorochemicals also act as an adsorbent for elevated CO2, indicating a need for future follow-up studies of gas exchange mechanisms."
I'm definitely citing this study next time I'm sleepy and someone comments on my constant yawning
> Which leads me to think it must be really lonely being a single women over 50.

There is a little mental excercise I do every time I feel empathy for lone older women. I imagine she is 15-20 younger, I approach her and she ghosts me or laughs me off. There, empathy dissapears.
I agree that the overall situation around evidence recovery from locked devices is not straightforward, but I don't think I referenced this in my comment–I merely provided insight into why the specific actions might be considered to be illegal (using the argument in the blog post, I might add).
I’d imagine people would do many dangerous things, just things that wouldn’t involve death or irreparable damage. And I think if we suddenly were able to live for 1000+ years with 20 year old bodies, we’d figure out how to repair most maladies. After all, we don’t have to worry about all the medical effort we put into end of life and cancer treatment and so forth. Whole swaths of industry would be gone and likely replaced with how to grow you a new arm when it gets chopped off. (I’m sure it could be figured out, you got 1000+ years now to do it)
That's the 'B' in the UBI. If people want more than the basic, they'll work. Just like today, most people don't stop building a career once they have a basic salary.
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There was surprisingly little novel information in that article a hacker might find curious.
Deno is definitely trying to fix that. Single executable, no node_modules, no package.json no Webpack no Babel, built in linter, formatter, bundler, Typescript compiler...

It's definitely not there yet but they have the right idea.
Yep, Welsh Labour clearly learnt the lessons of Holyrood and are determined to avoid a Scottish scenario playing out in Wales. They are also helped by the fact that Labour is unlikely to get any sort of realistic shot at a Westminster majority anytime soon, so the periphery is quite free to set their own agenda. English Labour can quietly support a breakup of the Union that will then try to tie around the necks of Tories and SNP, they have little to lose now.
> In fact, most efforts have made it worse across the board

Have they? Most social democracies seem to be going along fine.

There is a sliding scale between Hayek and Marx you know.. it’s not a binary choice
Oh yeh, remember reading that. Maybe printers are the new 5G/implants...!
Thanks for that, I understand the argument a little more.
If reducing undue harassment and disruption is the reason for publishing mugshots, and it turns out that in practice the mugshots are actually being used by others to harass and disrupt (potentially innocent) people's lives, then maybe it's worth reviewing the practice?

Where I'm from most minor criminal convictions on a persons the record
are essentially wiped clean after 10 years (technically 'spent', and won't appear in normal police checks). It is illegal for people to obtain information about a spent conviction and use that information unless it is related to sexual abuse or violent crime.

Another thing, what happens to the people who don't have a lawyer or whose friends and family don't have the resources to take on the police department in the event that the police detain and abuse them? Who would they be able to call in that situation to seek justice if the same police who committed the crime are receiving the call?
Remember that optical illusion that was either a woman’s neck or a swan? I think it’s the same thing here. The flow of traffic recast our perception of the sequence of cones as blocking the right lane instead of blocking the left lane or both lanes. I wonder how code/neural networks can be coded to push the perception a certain way using signals/logic outside the immediate code/network.
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you could try DJV player [0] which is a specialised player for the film and VFX industry. I believe you can apply colour LUTs with the built in support for OpenColorIO.

[0] https://darbyjohnston.github.io/DJV/
This

a) Is a great example of whataboutism

b) Totally irrelevant to the discussion

c) Is just not true
If you otherwise is an interesting person that takes care of himself (ie. don't look like you've given up), you don't need wealth. That's a myth that needs to die. Sure, once you're past 40 or so, you need to pay more attention to how you look, but that's just the reality of getting older.

I've heard stories of men in their 50s (if I remember correctly), that were broke and homeless, but still had plenty of hot, young women in their life.
Yeah, because it's not like this exact thing has happened repeatedly since the emergence of capitalism.
Try the new `constrained_layout=True`
I've been wondering for a while why individuals pay tax on income, while companies pay tax on profit.

But even if we stick with that - perhaps using profit-per-employee to determine corporate tax bands would be the way to go. Or, allowing them to count salaries at 2-3x other expenses when calculating expenditures.
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~ similar: https://www.openrailwaymap.org/
I mean you still can't even call `find()` or `contains()` on an iterator. JavaScript developers just collect them into arrays. :-/
Photonics require even more precision engineering. Binning strategies would not work.
You can't eliminate inequality but you can reduce it. We can't eliminate disease but there is still medicine.

And this is patently false:

> no effort so far has had any affect on it

FDR and the New Deal reduced inequality in the US and most Americans thought that was a good thing. Stalin and the communists reduced inequality in the Soviet Union. Their methods were less well received. But the question isn't whether there was less inequality but whether it was worth it. There are many societies today that take active measures to reduce inequality -- Finland is an obvious example -- and they are generally considered extremely successful.

Why reduce inequality? Because inequality reduces social cohesion, promotes corruption -- it produces people who can buy government policy and action --, reduces democratic control of the government, and the mass of people lifted up by its reduction benefit much more than the few wealthy people suffer who are made poorer.
Most innovation which happens due to a chip shortage is going to be along the wrong path once the shortage is alleviated. Historians will look back on the bizarre, malnourished designs of the "chip shortage era".
yeah but most languages have stuff like Atomic integers or other things.
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Inequality still exists and is growing worldwide... so I'd say... Yes.

And the harder its pushed for "equality", the more it turns into bad times.

"binary" I never said it was... I said increasing efforts generally trend towards increasingly bad consequences - and we are talking about pushes to end "inequality" in this chain of conversation... the harder the pushes, the worse the outcomes.

At no point in any society has inequality been removed.
That font cache is just using 3rd-party hosted fonts like Google Fonts.
Absolutely not true. Windows forms, WPF, JavaFX, Swing all are much more productive than the vanilla web. Like, how many lines of code does the most basic vbox/hbox thing requires in web technology? Many of them even have dragndrop ui creations, and this XML hatred is downright stupid at this point. How about criticizing the technology and not a random medium for that? Is writing something stupid in JSON inherently better?

HTML is simply a terrible GUI base, JS is quite great nowadays and CSS would be great, but has to provide way too much of what HTML should be doing. But the web ui frameworks are just barely getting at the level of where native frameworks have been in a decade.
I pay for GFN because my main device is Linux, so if a game can't be run locally via Wine/Proton I can just play it on the cloud. My existing games library is decent so it makes far more sense to play my Steam games here than pay for a different subscription.
that'd be true if peer reviews carried any weight. Management just seems to ignore it and go with whatever they want anyway. You can't challenge the final ratings so it's a one way street.
Repeating myself from above:

Why reduce inequality? Because inequality reduces social cohesion, promotes corruption -- it produces people who can buy government policy and action --, reduces democratic control of the government, and the mass of people lifted up by its reduction benefit much more than the few wealthy people suffer who are made poorer.
Yawning cools the brain?!
What are the incredible benefits of the web? Have you worked on a complex QT app?
"There are no open source LTE stack to learn from" https://osmocom.org/projects
Before this thread goes off the rails with politics I'd like to say the Chinese high speed rail system is amazing to use and it's unreal how quick they built it.

I've been to the country a few times now and hated every second of air travel there, it's messy, people behave really badly regarding rules and pilots are always changing altitude/speed during (supposedly) level flight to the point that you feel like you are on a rollercoaster.

In comparison train travel is incredibly pleasant and efficient, albeit sometimes quite busy. I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion but many countries in the West should hire the Chinese to construct and build HSR in their countries with foreign labour under local direction. The benefits are huge for rail. Airports for short journeys just seem wasteful and incapable of dealing with climate change problems. Not to mention the stress of security hassles.

Here's the last 12 years of rail in China: https://image5.sixthtone.com/image/5/4/861.gif

In Australia we have been debating the high speed rail issue and doing feasibility studies for two decades now. The cost of AUD $100 billion was considered to not be worth it. Federal covid cash handouts to individuals in the last year alone topped $200 billion.
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> Imagine a $499 laptop with a solid M1-level processor, a nice IPS display, good keyboard, 10+ hours battery life, and Windows 10.

> That's serious competitor to both Chrome OS devices and Mac devices.

$500 is a tough sell vs a $200 Chromebook if Chrome OS does what you need.
But are you obliged to consent? Do you have to give them all your passwords too? Can they use "data exfiltration tools" on humans? If the focus of your exploit payload is specifically to neutralize the attack and not cause extended or arbitrary damage, could this be counted as "self defense" or just protecting your privacy?
If it’s illegal to secure your own property, then something has gone badly wrong with society. Time for open resistance and support for regime change I think. Legal scholars can then engage in beard stroking around the new laws. In a democracy, the laws are not king; the people are. Time to re-learn that lesson.

Cellebrite no doubt thought that hoarding vulnerabilities made them super smart, forgetting that everything they need to operate is now riddled with vulnerabilities that someone else has hoarded.

Doesn’t affect their business model though, which just requires bamboozling a jury of people who think the word crypto means ‘pyramid scheme my uncle invested in’.