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The sudden unexpected death of someone close who we rely on for warmth and hope leaves a gaping hole that is literally a wound in our existence. The same can be so for a death that is a long time in the making, and expected, because it is a loss of what is dear to us.

At first we are confronted with absence. Where once there was comfort and inspiration, suddenly there is pain. It hurts to recall the strengths of this person because to animate their memory is to emphasise their distance and test our ability to come to grips with what seems like a permanent disconnection.

Over time, inevitably, as we visit this absence again and again, we see our loss for what it is - the deep impression made by a human being who moved us with a strength of character and and intimate meaning on a deeply personal scale.

At some point, we may begin to see this absence as something more than the personal impression made upon us, and more than just our loss, great though that is.

The space left by the departure of our beloved is never empty. It is the measure of the person. It is them - in silhouette - and we visit them with the respect they command. To see them in this way is to start to reconnect with the strength and joy they brought us, for their energy is still a part of us and it lives on in surprising ways.

We might not even have recognised their presence in us when we expected there would always be more of them to come. But in their absence, we see their silhouette again and again in our daily existence, in the way we respond to the things they used to respond to. They surprise us with their presence every day. In difficult times and in joy, suddenly, there they are. We know exactly what they would have said because we hear them say it. They are with us.

When we see a loved one in this light, we see them in their entirety for the first time. The extent of their reach is revealed to us each time we see them appear anew in the space we at first thought we had been banished to alone.

We weren't alone, and we aren't alone, because the connection we enjoyed has made us who we are, and we are still that person - the composition of our selves and the person who helped to make us who we are. That never changes. It just keeps growing, because each day, as we live our lives being who we are, we touch other people with the same forces that once shaped us. It is then that we begin to see their soul live on through us, with us, beyond us and all around us.
>rancor trolls

This is not a term I'm familiar with.
I would have to say of all the writings, that compilation is the best. You get a taste of everything he had to offer. All his other books are based off of these stories IIRC.
Please be more concrete. What exactly is the risk here? That Google can look into the logs and infer a Mac OS Bigsur with Chrome v90 is logging into proton mail today at x:xx pm?
Slightly more here: https://secure.phabricator.com/w/changelog/2021.22/

Shame, the code review was good and one of the few that supported task dependencies :(
This is true of anything you find on github as well.

Open source works on the idea that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." The thing people forget is the "enough eyeballs" part. As if people are sitting around auditing every sub-dependency of a sub-dependency of React.

In addition, I don't know of any package repository that requires the authoritative source[1] from github to match the compiled/minified/etc. package that is uploaded and published. And I suspect most repos are vulnerable to this.

There are many popular but unloved packages out there.

[1] I'd also point out how incredibly stupidly dangerous it is that the open source community has basically given Microsoft the keys to be the authoritative source for all of open source. No one has learned a damn thing. And, somewhat ironically, Microsoft buying out an entire user base for their own nefarious purposes really fits the topic at hand.
I can think of several words like that, "comprehend" is the first one that springs to mind.
Your comment made me immediately wonder if people over some certain age immediately disagree while those younger likely agree.

If so, then the olders thing the assertion is naive and the youngers thing the olders have stale ideas.

And the world keeps spinning, somehow amusingly as before.
But does it mean Amazon reads your email?
I dropped out of high school when I was 16, winter of 1986. Happiest day of my life.
My brother once jokingly suggested that Dark Energy is the waste product of the power sources of alien civilisations.

(Neither of us is a physicist, but it’s an interesting idea for a short story).
I've had to change school a few times due to bullying. Thus my experience was the opposite: the worst bullying I endured was when I was between 9 and 12 years old. High school was mostly fine, and most of the people that I met were fine, although I had to deal with a bit of homophobia.

It's impressive how adults reject the fault of bullying on the victim. I had to not react, to learn to ignore the bullies, as if they were some hurricane and had no control over their own actions.

Compared to this, university was a breath of fresh air. I could mostly choose to not go to class, the site was completely open to the exterior, teachers were ready to help people in need and left alone people that wanted to be left alone.

I've preferred talking to older people most of my life, so I find the idea of the author of multi-generational groups appealing. Maybe don't remove high school, but at least leave the option for people that don't work like most other people that seem to enjoy high school. Also, have zero tolerance for bullying. When the thing you learn in school is that there's no justice and you can't count on people supposed to protect you, it's a bit hard to be mentally healthy after.
After buying and returning multiple beds in the last year, I learned a few things:

- Bed reviews are either very anecdotal or company sponsored.

- Do not buy a bed without testing it. Bring a pillow and spend at least 15 minutes relaxing on each candidate.

- If you can afford it, avoid “beds in a box”. They retain serious heat, provide little support for any sleeping position, and are not easy to return. Casper beds specifically caused me and my spouse a month of back pain.

- Test the softest version of the bed before making a decision, even if you prefer firm beds. There is a often a significant positive difference between “medium” and “extra plush”.

- Beware “free” add-ons. Mattress stores use them to hedge against returns and refunds by applying the value of the items to the mattress. This means if you return the mattress, you won’t get the full refund back.

- Shop at local mattress outlets, if possible. I was able to save $1,200 on the same exact model quoted (also at discount) at the major mattress chain with no haggling.
For 90 year olds, the COVID caused death probably happens in a few weeks, instead of within a year, right?

I agree "events coincide doesn't mean there's causality", but I think the causation here is still pretty strong, even for 90 year olds.
Is it geofenced? Not paywalled for me.
Thank you for the share @sohkamyung.

Anyone else noticed that its missing lecture #21?
Oh, this is on a line that’s at more than triple design capacity. The limitation is signals.
> For me a lot of the stress came from the hostility and bullying that the kids who did not want to be there inflicted on anyone who dared to show interest in class

Are american schools really that shitty? I thought it was a movie trope.
It was a town council of elders with a sufficiently vague moral outlook as to support pretty much male with a vaguely theistic outlook to participate.

If you go to Preble Hall[1] you can see John Paul Jones' Masonic artifacts. Woop-de-doo.

Clearly, the idea of a secret handshake club has been a burr under the saddle of many. And that there was racism afoot is seen by the Prince Hall lodges of the blacks. Yes. But time has shifted society away from exclusive clubs, and the Masons amount to a drinking society anymore.

[1] https://www.usna.edu/Museum/PrebleHall/index.php
Isn't it more likely that people who aren't depressed wake up earlier
what you're describing is simply a litenode vs a full node. You seem to be nitpicking the 'vision' of crypto in general, which you're right, is a very human thing.
For a lot of people those minutes behind the wheel are amongst the few minutes in the day that they feel like they are free agents. Not every minute spent in front of a steering wheel is wasted.
Why is this on the first page of Hacker News? How comes the community find these questions interesting enough to upvote them to the first page?
Corporations after a certain size become essentially AIs without moral values maximizing profit. It’s funny how some fear the paper clip AI, when capitalism is exactly that.
Any decision that seems to be in good moral is simply based on which direction is more profitable, eg, can Company get away in terms of public image with a non-moral decision, or would it then away more potential buyer?
I'm always interested in different perspectives on work and life, but the mysticism surrounding this is very off-putting.
As the others have already said, you're completely incorrect here. No such duty, it's an urban myth through and through.
I'm aware and I agree with you, I'm just saying that in the eyes of the general public that's the notion going around.
I don't believe that is common, especially in more urban areas where there is only one public school option. Often there are huge waitlists to change public schools, if they have any availability at all.
I'm not sure I understand how this works. Can someone explain?
Location data is very important for search.

Try turning on a VPN from another country, opening an incognito window and doing a google search for 'pizza'.

See how the results are nearly useless...? A bunch of delivery services that don't deliver in your country, who want payment in a currency you don't have, and all written in a language you don't speak.

Location at the local level matters less, but even so it makes some search results substantially more useful. That is a benefit that other search providers (who don't have strong control of the browser/platform) will not have. It makes the moat bigger.
"Since Masonry's tenets are brotherly love, relief, and truth, if the Masons did run the world, it might be a better place. Many of the Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution of the United States were Freemasons; the principles in that document have stood the test of over two centuries. Would a Masonic government be so bad? Look at the governments founded by anti-Masonic groups: Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Iran under totalitarian religious rule. Where is the real problem in the world?"

lol, so what they're saying is the world isn't run by Masons - but it should be!
I would not be surprised to see further supports and beams added to the initial architectural concept though.

Um, yes. The Golden Gate Bridge had a big stiffening retrofit in the early 1950s, with huge rectangular frames added underneath.

As for putting in bearings, the SF Bay Bridge west span was given bearings after the 1989 quake. (The east span was totally replaced.) The roadway was jacked up at each tower, and big stainless steel plates inserted so the roadway could slide relative to the tower if necessary. Plus, 17 million pounds of structural steel and half a million high-strength bolts were added, so the roadway is strong enough to slide under extreme stress without coming apart.

And that's steel, which has reasonable elasticity. Glass, not so good at that. Is it really glass, or polycarbonate? Polycarbonate has some stretch; you can bend it in a sheet metal brake and it won't crack.
Have you actually read the book to observe how it was used there, or are you just responding to the previous comment?
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I'm not super familiar with this space but at first glance this seems great!

I've been meaning to goof around with discord bots. When I do, I'll be sure to check it out.
Hi,

A quick synposis on my project:

The BBC Basic for Z80 kernel was written by R.T.Russell around the same time as the original 6502 version that ran on the BBC Micro. The CP/M version was open-sourced in 2019, and I used that core BASIC interpreter in a homebrew computer, with the CP/M code stripped out.

A few weeks ago after a chance conversation on social media, I decided to port it again to the ZX Spectrum Next (a modern reincarnation of the original ZX Spectrum). Whilst it's another Z80-based system, the challenge would be to add in all missing features from the core language such as an editor, graphics, sound, file IO, and so on.

The link above is to my blog, which I'll be updating on a regular(ish) basis with insights into the code. I'll also be updating the Git project page (link to the project in the post) with source code and executable 'nex' files that can be run on a Spectrum Next (or clone), on a MiSTer FPGA running the ZX Next core, or in a Next emulator such as ZEsarUX or CSPect.

Why am I doing this? I think BBC Basic is the best-in-class of its peers. It's performant, and has many modern language features. It's also a pretty cool way to get to grips with the Next hardware. I'm really enjoying working on this. The Spectrum Next is the 8-bit micro I wish I'd had back in the 80s, and the project is interesting, and something I can continuously improve upon.

Hope you enjoy!
In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters is a history of computing told by its terrible business decisions. Reading this book, it seems the whole history of computing is made of astoundingly terrible business decisions. Maybe that's almost true. Very entertaining and informative. I learnt a lot, extremely highly recommended. Chapters on IBM, Digital Research, Apple, Microsoft, OS/2, Borland, Intel, Motorola, Google, Novell, Netscape, etc. Second edition 2006.

General history books would be great written like that too, focusing on the stupidity and errors. Much more educational, and funnier.
Google is discovering that this particular user is ripe for advertising security related products.
never seen this sentiment before. Can you provide some sources/ any insights into mozilla and google colluding?
I was walking down a hallway once in middle school and a kid I had never even talked to just walked up and punched me in the ear. Just an idea of the random violence that happens, as well as the psychological warfare campaigns these kids are capable of launching. It is definitely not just a movie trope.
As far as I remember, Dick's writing was of mixed quality and it wasn't just linearly improving with experience. There were ups and downs. He wrote really a lot, often repeated concepts, and his weaker stuff was often a result of rushing and simply needing a quick buck.
This depends greatly what you want to do. After all, this has incredible latency (compared to the cloud), limited throughput. Zero configuration. Free.

You want to train the next imagenet model? Analyse 100Gig database? Probably not the correct tradeoff.

You want 20 students to have a perfectly consistent instant-start-up python environment? Definitely the correct tradeoff.

You want to try some python methods, write tests, ... Very short latency is going to help you more than throughput is.
40 years is enough; if for some bizarre reason I'd ever want to work again for someone, I'd switch to Product instead of Dev. Understand both what to build and how is a huge benefit.
The Atari 2600 supported sprites: two "players", two "missiles", and one "ball", that could be moved freely over the low resolution playfield. However, their bitmaps were only one pixel high; you had to change them on each scanline in order to get taller images.

Rectangular bitmap sprites may have debuted in consumer hardware with the TI-99/4 in 1979; the term "sprite" comes from the technical documentation for that computer.
Sustaining performance with less employees is actually the goal of execs.
If I had kids I would certainly not send them to high school. Are we so unimaginative to think that there is not a better way? I think roughly 12/13 is the age we should start giving young people more autonomy in their education; they're old enough to have learned how to take care of themselves as a human being and to start taking initiative and develop leadership skills.
I had a buddy that too the GED at 16 then went and got accepted to University when he was 17. He was home schooled and one smart cookie but he turned out alright.
Shout out to The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, of which several states have sister schools. https://www.ncssm.edu/

Quick summary, it's a public, boarding school that you apply to that has almost every AP course you can think of plus courses beyond AP. Pre-college essentially.

I was able to skip two years of an engineering degree by attending.

It's not a perfect solution, but it offers a way for students who are ready for college early to transition sooner. It also gives the state an excuse to not offer AP in every county, they can just point to NCSSM as an option.
Depends a lot on the school, or possibly more specifically: the location or demographics of the school. Many high schools with motivated students (eg where I went) have few issues and good education outcomes. Some others are little better than prisons with dysfunctional students.
Wow. So many shady offers that you could use them as training data for a shady-offer generator.
That's not something ProtonMail can provide you with. It's like asking them to list you all apps that use the Facebook SDK or something like that.

What was described above is correct though. One popular app (which had legal troubles recently) made money with Luminati:

https://torrentfreak.com/mobdro-luminati-proxy-service-suspe...
I half expected it to be, "Add credibility signifiers like 'I learned this at Oxford' to your headlines."
By random backwater I meant some random place that wasn't involved with the major colonial powers during that period. The reason most of the offshore tax havens are what they are is because they were remnants of colonial empire that could be exploited.

I think the path dependency is what made the City of London the hub, and their trust system is how non citizens were able to access their financial system and those in their territories as well. I'm sure now there are ways to access services in these places directly now, but historically, the majority of the infrastructure dedicated to this stuff in these places was built out from England.
This is a poorly researched article. I won't bother critiquing every part, but I'll get to the meat:

> Abolishing high school could mean many things. It could mean compressing the time teenagers have to sort out their hierarchies and pillory outsiders, by turning schools into minimalist places in which people only study and learn.

This is impossible to begin with. Any institution that has more than a single individual will naturally result in stratification and hierarchies. Any student who doesn't want to go to high school can already do so by opting into home schooling if their parents agree and support that (and can provide resources).

Furthermore, how exactly would you only "study and learn?" the author hardly gives proper examples of any of their ambitious ideas.

> All the elaborate rites of dances and games could take place under other auspices. (Many Europeans and Asians I’ve spoken to went to classes each day and then left school to do other things with other people, forgoing the elaborate excess of extracurricular activities that is found at American schools.)

The article handwaves how exactly you would replace all of the non academic portions of high school by vaguely mentioning anecdotes.

> It could mean schools in which age segregation is not so strict, where a twelve-year-old might mentor a seven-year-old and be mentored by a seventeen-year-old; schools in which internships, apprenticeships, and other programs would let older students transition into the adult world before senior year. (Again, there are plenty of precedents from around the world.)

The author doesn't bother to even explain why this would be beneficial, and what the potential downsides could be. Though I am personally a supporter of mixed-age classrooms, some research has shown it's not good (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/003465430660033...).

Interestingly many people who have poor social skills wish to avoid people, but in reality that just delays the inevitable poor encounters you will have with others. What's better is to teach people to have good social skills. It's a shame that schools don't explicitly do this. The author also seems to conveniently ignore the extreme differences between people during high school age.

Per the authors own definition high school has already been "abolished" as all of the things they speak of are already possible.
Skill isn't an all or nothing thing. People can pretend to have higher skill than they really do without being so unskilled that they'll immediately be discovered. All you know is that some person had a higher error rate than the person who didn't get the job, except that since he didn't get the job there's no way to know for sure.
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It's not linear but it's modulo-ish and lookup-table-able. The colour is definitely mildly weird too but again, I think part of it is that it looks so unfamiliar in hindsight. I don't think these things that had much of an impact on high-performance code compared to 'it's just a blob of memory and every single thing has to be done by the anemic CPU'.
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My younger cousin attended a small, alternative, mixed age high school. It seemed quite pleasant. Students interacted with teachers like they would with parents' friends. They'd make themselves a cuppa and chat like regular people during breaks. The social dynamic of mixed age groups was notably unschoolish too. I had hated school, so I was quite impressed.

I'm inclined to think that a lot what we think of as how schools are, socially is a product of age segregation. Narcissism of Small Differences comes to mind.

That said, I don't think there is a single solution for all. The reality is that a lot of kids have a very rough time at schools for a lot of reasons, and we consistently underestimate how bad that can be.

Another point stood out to me here: "High school is often considered a definitive American experience...."

Besides high school, this could be college relationships, marriage, motherhood, sex life, career, etc. Our idealisations often seem to oppress us. When life doesn't live up to 90210, or Hackers and Painters, or Sex in The City... its an unbearable failure.

IDK what the solutions are. Ideals are inspiring as well as oppressive. I think with "psychology" broadly, it isn't always necessary to deal with every problem head on. Healthier relationships, decrease the risk of drug addiction, for example. We need healthier schools, broadly.
Anecdata: I develop an open source Chrome extension that's fairly niche but has about 80k active users, and I still get emails like this a couple of times a year. They tend largely to be offers for outright buying the extension (and thus install base, presumably to augment with ad- or malware); it's interesting to see how these kinds of offers to a more generally popular extension differ a bit (seemingly more asks to collect & sell user data rather than just taking over ownership)

Another thing I'd note for context is that Hover Zoom probably has a pretty broad hosts permission in order to allow it to operate on many types of sites (my extension, which is a web analytics DevTools extension, also needs an all hosts permission [to my chagrin, as it often makes the Chrome Web Store review process more difficult] ) which I would imagine makes it a more appealing target
I'm not entirely sure anyone in that video knows how it works either.