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> Many projects focus on better interactive shells, at some cost to programmability [23]. Innovation in terminal emulators (like Fig and iTerm2) improve user experience, too

It's still early / unreleased but I'd like to add my own terminal [0] which lets the emulator have an understanding of user input -- rather than simply delegating to the shell.

I'm finding that the interactive pathways that open up are mostly-uncharted territory.

[0] https://media.handmade-seattle.com/terminal-click
it's because it was created like this 15 years ago, and if it ain't broke, don't fix it

I wish every website followed this rule
Anecdotally, whatever YouTube has done in recently years has completely ruined a lot of 480p and 360p videos. I uploaded a native 360p video about 10 years ago and in the end card, I added small red text that was visible. And when I uploaded it at the time, it was visible on YouTube as well. Now that section just looks like a bunch of red blurry lines.

If you ever wondered why old videos look so bad, it's not just because you're used to 1080p and so 360p looks terrible in comparison. YouTube is actively reducing old video quality through whatever reencoding they're doing.
Crypto is definitely the easiest way. No accounts (well I suppose a wallet could be an account, so perhaps a wash here), no bank linking, no credit cards.

Crypto is the closest thing to internet cash payments.
Just open it in Libreoffice and save it to .xlsx. It's the only way I've found that actually works reliably.
Regardless of what those third party companies told their users, users would have had to accept a pretty clear dialog [1] delegating access to their Gmail accounts. That's just how google oauth works.

[1] https://i.stack.imgur.com/aBTMm.png
Or it could have been a normal employee that ticked the "censor everywhere" box rather than "censor china"
Interestingly enough, when I lived in Brussels people used magnets to fish stuff out of the canals on a regular basis :-) lots of "interesting" things are attracted to magnets.

That they could snag an iPhone was pretty amazing. I would be inclined to fish for other phones, perhaps the folks who live on canal boats could 'trawl' a magnet line :-) (It's Friday, okay?)
I stand by what I wrote, including what I deleted, but I don't want to feed this any further.
I'm probably the wrong person to ask, to be honest. I was around for a lot of the design of Wasm, but wasn't really involved at that level.

That said, in my opinion the ideal set of opcodes really depends on your goal. There were many goals For Wasm, but I think there was a focus on keeping it small and simple. Originally it was AST-based, but it was changed to a stack machine to reduce size. It was also designed to be AoT or JIT compiled, so the opcode layout is not particularly friendly to hardware decoding or interpreters (although people have made some very high quality Wasm interpreters).

And of course there were a lot of discussions and disagreements about the best way forward: AST vs. register VM vs. stack machine. Structured control flow vs. goto. How to handle unreachable code. How to store integer literals (LEB vs. prefix byte). What the text format should look like (sexprs vs. ...?) etc.
It's possible to email the mods vouching for stories (or comments). I do this fairly frequently. Not (yet) in this case, though there was a politically-tinged story earlier this week that I alerted mods on.

What's particularly insidious is that killed stories both don't show up in Algolia search results (this is somewhat understandable, but in the case of political flagging, problematic), and even where favourited (something I also do with some regularity), may not be visible to non-logged-in users and IIRC actually disappear from the index in time.
Searching "Tank Man Tiananmen" only provides marginally better results. I think it's clear there's active censorship here and not just a bug.
I tried turning safe search off and got some images of Tank Man
"I have a mantra for suffering-oriented programming: First make it possible. Then make it beautiful. Then make it fast." -- Nathan Marz (the creator of Apache Storm) with a mantra I think every experienced engineer should follow. I've shared it with my team today as I was going over a few projects we're building these days in my head, thinking of where we can use this mentality better: "It recognizes that attempts to make things generic without a deep understanding of the problem domain will lead to complexity and waste. Designs must always be driven by real, tangible use cases."
Viewing the world through the data lens makes you blind to the things you didn't measure or that you cannot conceive a measurement for.

It also stifles original thought that is conceived independent of how things are or what people like ("culture becomes stuck").

When dealing with data you need to be aware of your own unfixable shortcomings as an observer. And if you can influence people's behavior at scale you're no longer an independent observer anyway, complicating things further (a measurement that becomes a target stops being a measurement).

There isn't one truth you could uncover in data; life is an open-ended chaotic system. Let's keep it that way.
>It puts more emphasis on DDG's need - if their morality play is to continue to be believed - to build their own full-fledged search engine and stop relying so much on Bing & Co.'s results.

Umm yes, they should just find a few billion dollars in their couch cushions to fund just the infrastructure for that.
Some energy companies I know have their own rooms full of analysts looking into things like what's on TV tonight so they can forecast demand spikes e.g. in the breaks of sports events. They also have data science teams to place their wind farms optimally in-house (my knowledge of the sector is geographically limited to Europe and the midwest of the US).

So make sure that whatever you are getting into is a true need that more than one potential customer actually has, rather than basing things on assumptions alone (customer validation of the proposition).
Emphasis mine:

"To investigate the extent to which 2 measures of physical fitness — walking pace and handgrip strength — are associated with life expectancy across different levels of adiposity, as the relative importance of physical fitness and adiposity on health outcomes is still debated."

Can anyone translate the following sentence?

"Conversely, subjects reporting slow walking pace had shorter life expectancies, being the lowest observed in slow walkers with a BMI less than 20 kg/m2 (women: 72.4 years; men: 64.8 years)."
Looks like both DDG and Bing are showing results for "tank man" now. I do wonder what the reason for the issue was; while I'm sure many people would like to believe it's some nefarious China-directed global suppression, I would guess the explanation is far more mundane.
This hasn't been true in decades, but yeah, buses used to have a ticket seller/collector on board (εισπράκτορας). Buses in Greek cities are busy enough that the driver can't do both jobs, like some U.S. systems do, without unreasonable stop dwell times (especially in the days when you could get change on board!). To keep things going, the driver would pull away from the stop ASAP, and the ticket seller would take payment from the newly boarded people while the bus was moving.

On most buses there'd be 1 driver and 1 ticket collector, at least by the 1990s. There might be 2 collectors on long articulated buses, one near the front and one near the back.

The last vestiges of that system were phased out with the drachma/euro conversion around 2000, when everything had to be changed over anyway. Nowadays most Greek cities use a proof-of-payment system, where you have to buy and/or validate a ticket yourself from self-service machines. Then roving inspectors get on buses randomly and fine people who can't produce a current ticket.

The old system has been gone long enough that there are nostalgia articles like, "Do you remember the days when buses had an 'eispraktoras'?". The last two photos here show a ticket collector station at the rear door, which would have a cash drawer under the counter for making change: https://www.enimerotiko.gr/ellada/thymasai-tote-poy-ta-leofo...
This would make sense. Unlike Google where a woke employee might start gas-lighting coworker if they worked for DoD or berating Google if it tries to work with DoD. Amazon seems to have better handle on situation.
Anyone can do this stuff. Cut a good promo that feeds into the internalized mythology of the target audience and you can get them to believe in it without a hint of skepticism.

As far as organic or not, it doesn’t really matter. People need to have an immune system for nonsense, especially it feels right. Most people can spot nonsense that goes against their own worldview. The trick is to be able to spot nonsense that is aligned with your worldview or you could directly benefit from if true.
Complex numbers are pairs of real numbers. As a vector space they are isomorphic to R^2 and one construction of the complex numbers is, in effect, just as pairs of real numbers. (There are of course other ways of constructing the complex numbers, too, such as via matrices. These are also all isomorphic to R^2 as a vector space.)

Of course, what makes complex numbers special is that you can multiply them, and that gives you a field.

Following that train of thought,

> Are there any simple and obvious applications that require continuity/calculus or topology on the complex plane that can't be restated in terms of real-pairs (and calculus/topology over those)?

You can of course develop all of complex analysis without introducing the traditional a+bi notation and just referring to vectors in R^2. That's notation. However, complex differentiability (being holomorphic) is a stronger definition than regular differentiability in C(R^2, R^2), in particular, the Cauchy-Riemann equations need to be satisfied. From that stronger definition, you get all sorts of other theorems such that all holomorphic functions are analytic and so on.
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It's overly simplistic but I'd try to change things such that:

- if the company is asking for aid or corporate welfare, bonuses for any exec are off the the table. They have to lead by example and take hit, as leaders, before anyone else.

- welfare isn't given to the business directly without strict conditions, and in other ways it is given directly to everyone through payroll.

- the government has the backbone to actually enforce this instead of cowering at the mere sight of money.

It should be harder, almost impossible, for a corporation to receive welfare from the government than an individual person.
I'd personally like to see a company put a little thought into innovating how they store data on disk so patches can be quickly applied like with git while also not requiring a full source recompilation.
I propose that they are quite familiar with English and want to avoid the love-related connotations of "smitten".
What's Microsoft's response to this? Seems like they'll have some explaining to do who can insert denylisted terms so easily...
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According to Glenn Seaborg's memoirs, his family's name was something like "Sjoborg" before changed by US immigration. My impression is that the family was not particularly distinguished, as APG's second wife's family was said to be. Still, curious to imagine an American Nobelist having Pushkin as an mth cousin n times removed.
To maximize your impact on the organization, you should learn different aspects of the business. This post by Leeor Engel covers the concept of Problem Discovery (check the link to the PDF) and how to set the right goals: "With the new problem statement and goal, it no longer made sense for the chemists to be called upon to even try to solve this problem... [P]oorly framed problems lead to poorly framed goals; which can lead you far astray."
Previously submitted by mrfusion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27393306
Societies should exist for the benefit of the people living in them. If aspects of it do not serve the people living in them well then they should be abolished.
Are there any examples that support your thoughts? A transition out of authoritarian single party communist rule to democratic [single or multi party] communist rule?
But flagging works most of the time. There are just too many submissions that result in utterly predictable and boring comments. I myself succumbed to the temptation many times, and left tons of comments when it came to, say, Trump's latest antics. Frankly HN will be (marginally) better if someone erased every comment of mine in any thread that mentions Trump.

Without user flagging HN will be unusable.
I'd liken it to giving your immune system a work out to better prepare for next year.
If you're willing to take $6k to commit a crime, you're a criminal (in the eyes of the law). On the other hand if you're being coerced, that's not a crime you'd normally commit. There's presumably people willing to offer up money for illegal plate searches, so this isn't really some wacky situation (the price might be high though).

I do agree the line is incredibly vague. In theory, you could argue that, oh yes, the criminal would commit a crime if you constantly called them up and threatened their family. That's a bit of a stretch, I think.

I don't agree with this interpretation and think entrapment should be more broadly defined, and stings should be very limited... but I also think a lot less things should be illegal and we should reform the criminal justice system, so clearly I'm not the type of person they listen to when writing laws.
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How do we decide what to work on?
"We ship incrementally, iteratively, and have one massive tentpole launch a year. Every month we see how much creators got paid, then we move on. The journey is the fun part, we're not waiting to arrive at some destination." -- I've been using Gumroad for the past 6 years (to sell my book Leading Snowflakes), and became a huge fan of Sahil Lavingia, Gumroad's founder. He has a unique stand on how to build a company, from sharing numbers publically to his story on raising money, firing employees, growing slowly, working with no goals, and more. I recommend reading this post and going to their public Wiki to browse around. I'd love to see more companies write in public, building different types of organizations so we could all learn and copy from them.
> Microsoft said the issue was "due to an accidental human error and we are actively working to resolve this."

(I did some searching.) This is from a report here:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/microsoft-bing-raises-c...

Of course, the search result is an MSN link.
Well written. This was my thought as well.

"Heroic" language is also deployed to distract from the exploitation of humans financially coerced into doing dangerous or stressful jobs. The clearest example I can think of is the public glorying, on certain types of public holiday, in the "heroic sacrifice" of all the soldiers who were marched pointlessly into machine gun fire in WW1.
A Tiawan without the constant fear of being steam rolled by communist china.
Tiawan with the industrial economic and military power of communist china, a Taiwan with the largest emerging market in the world.
Imagine A world without a dictatorial military expansionist Communist China looking to dominate The South China sea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_So...

Or taking over their smaller neighbors like, Tibet,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_the_Peo...

Or crushing political descent in Hong Kong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_misconduct_allegations_...

A China not trying to push their boarder with India,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_border_dispute#Bou...

or indulging and supporting the sociopathic regime in North Korea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93North_Korea_rela...

A China that that doesn't disappear a religious leader of one of the worlds largest religions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_Panchen_Lama_controversy

and force the another to live in exile and demand that said religions leader reincarnation be aproved by the Chinese communist party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama#Exile_to_India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_of_the_14th_Dalai_L...

Or participating in a mass genocide of their people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide

Imagine a china the wasn't evil but tolerated because corperations can there outsource for cheaper manufacturing
But why would it happen today? The term is likely censored year round in China, why would it suddenly go from China to global?
With interests please, and penalties for not abiding by contract.
Three or four coordinated accounts is all it takes to have de facto editorial control over HN.
This is the sort of study that just feels like animal abuse without the justification. They pursued a study where they knew the results beforehand -- an intentional macronutrient deficiency yields, unsurprisingly, a deficiency. And they knew it would earn press because it serves a particular worldview.

One could contrive a "zero processed food" study that yielded identical results.
This is disgusting. Never held any fantasies about Microsoft, but this example of Chinese censorship taking over the world by means of an American corporation is the new low.

Don't think I will be able to buy any Microsoft product ever again.
Aren't they already "illegally" making the payments via some 3rd party loophole?
This, I think, is the incentive that will get generations to come to stop playing only for grades and diplomas: "I suspect many people implicitly assume that working in a field with bad tests is the price of making lots of money. But that, I can tell you, is false. It used to be true. In the mid-twentieth century, when the economy was composed of oligopolies, the only way to the top was by playing their game. But it's not true now. There are now ways to get rich by doing good work, and that's part of the reason people are so much more excited about getting rich than they used to be. When I was a kid, you could either become an engineer and make cool things, or make lots of money by becoming an executive. Now you can make lots of money by making cool things." -- how many of your software engineers are brilliant, eagerly learning new things and yet didn't complete (or start) their CS degree?
This has occurred already in a different area of paranormal activity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(optical_phenomenon)
But again, it’s weird to see this painted in partisan terms. How short is our memory? I would have sworn just last year that those tech companies were painted as strict censors of right-wing content who needed to be strongly regulated. Apparently now it has switched again? But of course this is just partisans playing the victim (at least until someone can show evidence of some actual partisan bias in their censorship/moderation).
I don’t understand how you could have zero results for any two known words in a search engine.
Except he wasn't. Not by this ruling.
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Adding "tiananmen square" to "tank man" does return the photo as the 3rd result: tank man tiananmen square

Also, the misspelled version of Tianenmen that I first used worked as well.
Formatting numbers into strings is a pretty fundamental operation to need to do in your fast-path. For example formatting time into log lines. To do that we need to know how many digits the milliseconds component has so we can pad it with zeros correctly. That's what motivated this particular question in our case.
I believe that ultimately, people living on-site knows what works best for themselves and the community. There are alternative cover besides that kids can play in, but I personally think it is better to have something there than nothing.

Here in Phoenix, xeriscaping is very popular. It usually involves gravel laid on top of a weed barrier. The barrier does not work very well ... and you really can't play on the gravel. It's like the worst of all the options.

Even just putting in grass helps cool down the area around the house. If there is a way to put some kind of cover that is drought-resistant, does not require fertilizer, and can absorb the rains during monsoon, that's better than gravel-on-weed-barrier.
You can use autoinstall instead of d-i - I vastly prefer it over the arcane d-i configurations. d-i is one of those things which you get working and never touch again in case you break it.

https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install/autoinstall
> Most people don't want cracked apps on their devices, and they want secure, privacy-focused phones

I agree - but apple fails on this point.

You should be able to protect your own phone. You should be able to install a firewall or further sandboxing, functions that the app store prohibit.

This is really simple:

- You should be able to find out what an app is doing
- you should know what sites an app contacts
- you should be able to block this
- you should be able to block apple itself

This is so common sense yet not possible using apple's app store.
Actually the Cisco course is what you need. CSIP or something? They have tons of videos and books. You should also seriously consider a home lab to play around with the network config ... i.e. get routers, switches, etc. People sell homelabs after they do the cisco exam. I never did the exam but found the homelab and videos quite useful when I was in a position similar to you. Be prepared for a firehose of info and it takes A LOT of time.
When I was taught stable matching, there was a homework problem on showing that the algorithm is “proposer-optimal” and “proposee-pessimal”, meaning that a proposer always does the best they can do relative to other proposers’ preferences while proposees do the worst.

The crucial part here is how big is the gap between a proposee’s worst and best match: if the gap is null for all proposees, there isn’t any strategic incentive for one to lie about their preferences. However, that obviously is a very hard requirement.
Interesting, so I understand you are looking at comparisons between this snapshot in time.

For me it is not separable from their pasts because those nations would not have stability or the flexibility to make moral choices if they didnt successfully do immoral things to people they didnt like until they were either eradicated or everyone else finally got the memo to leave.

Although it is uncomfortable to be aware of and powerless, there just isn’t a history of intervention to think there will be one with China, or more accurately there isnt a history to suggest that this particular problem wont solve itself.
The CPU doesn't know what processes are, that's handled by the OS. So there still needs to be a fault.
Obviously the problem is laws that outlaw homosexuality and not a lack of privacy.
I recall Bezos making some public statements a couple years ago pushing back on internal objections to working with DoD. Something to the effect of “I understand the concern, but if you think the US doesn’t need a strong military, you’re mistaken, and if you think the US is generally a bad actor, you’re mistaken.”
Most of the unexploded ordinances in this country were dropped from big planes. Think clustered munitions and such. Those big planes came from a far away land.
This hall of mirrors is only beginning. This is truly terrifying.

The most disgusting aspect is the blatant lying and hypocrisy:
https://news.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/topic/defending-dem...
Lol. A cheap VPS with 1gbit unmetered link that'll exhaust your daily quota in less than 30s costs, like, couple bucks a month - that's how cheap internet traffic in major datacenters is. Whatever side use you'll find likely would have even less value than that.

Traffic in remote countries I suppose costs a lot more - so maybe you should spare it for your fellow countrymen instead.