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I guess I overestimated US gas range. I live in Japan, and my consumer grade gas range I use is definitely more powerful than Iwatani 35FW.
Because law firm templates were written in Word Perfect macros. I still know law firms that use Word Perfect 5.x and Windows 95. If it isn't broken why fix it?

I used to have an academic version of Word Perfect 5.1 that worked like the commercial version only in printing out it would print asterisks on the printout. It was free and good for editing.
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If you bother to do the math, but simplify things so that all the mass of wheels is at the contact patch, you'll end up that rotating mass has twice the kinetic energy and takes 2x effort to accelerate and decelerate. Now if you check how large fraction of the mass of rider and bike the wheels are and how fast bikes accelerate, it's kind of insignificant.
I think `O(log n)` for key-lookup, assuming fully-indexed data, should be sufficient, as that's the worst-case lookup time in a balanced tree.

Methinks this has interesting implications for storage-optimizations: in many situations we will significantly-optimize for certain use-cases at the expense of others (e.g. O(1) or sub-O(log n) retrieval at the cost of super-O(log n) insert or modifications) - but because now you know your program cannot appear to operate faster than O(log n) for any operation you could de-optimize some parts of your program which in turn allow you to improve sub-O(log n) parts to be O(log n), e.g. insert/update performance.
Yes, I fondly remember the Acid tests. Unfortunately, they aren’t very useful for implementors as they don’t cover the entire breadth of the specifications in isolation.

In addition the specs have changed somewhat so now CSS 2.1 and the modules that existed at that point in time have matured beyond what the tests were written for, so a browser matching the spec today would fail.

They were very fun for end users to see whether or not a browser was in compliance, though!
What is so new wave, when it is mostly about GNU/Linux, POSIX has hardly changed and it is basically CLI like for 50 years?
This website is so user hostile, that if I press X on the giant modal, and then enter reader mode on Safari, it helpfully translates the text for me, a non-subscriber to this local newspaper:

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I don’t understand why websites put so much effort into stopping people from using them. It’s hard enough to get traffic as it is. Does a click from someone with an adblocker really cost you any resources? You’re able to render this gibberish no problem!
> No. The market size expanded exponentially for each of these opportunities - changing the economics of the business models and making them viable at scale.

Maybe. Labor in China and the Chinese market absorbing inflation also helped.

My expectation is grocery delivery just barely missed the boat, because of import malfeasance crackdowns since April that is affecting everything.
What are the time scales for their predictions? I could easily imagine (say) today's US national debt taking 25-50 years to cause {insert some particular catastrophe here}.
https://vetusware.com/manufacturer/WordPerfect%20Corporation...

You have to register an account, but they have the files for most Word Perfect software on their website.
ok, so i'm curious how people feel about this, but i believe, for road riding, wider tires actually do make you faster, to a point of diminishing returns around 32c, because of cadence.

when you hit a bump with high PSI / road tires, your wheel bounces, you're momentarily unweighted from the pedals, and that means your cadence is interrupted. anyone who has raced cyclocross knows; there's a LOT of skill involved in applying pedal strokes at just the right times to absorb bumps while also continuing to apply power, and it's way less efficient than just riding clipless on a freshly paved road. every bump "resets" your muscle contraction cycle, and after a bump, you're often not at the right crank position to apply a hard, sharp pedal stroke to try to catch up.

i believe a ton of efficiency is lost through this biomechanical effect on cadence alone, and that's saying nothing of how much energy you lose in the transfer of forward momentum to an upward bounce impulse.
that's true, however you're interfering with the weekly hackernews wordperfect nostalgia thread so we're going to have to politely ask you to leave
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"...Good journalists put news in the context of reality."

Their reality, or the one of their editor. As it as always been.

It just looks more obvious now, with all cross sources we can get.
yeah, but it isn't equivalent to FHE, and doesn't seem as strong a guarantee.
FTDI-style chips are still extremely relevant to hardware development, because they're plug-and-play. They just go. No buggy software to work around or kLOC to write yourself. The time and effort saved there is real and valuable.

That's for one-offs and debugging connections, though. If you're shipping a product, then suddenly the economics change and the software-heavy solutions start to look good again.
Sure, but what's the benefit?
I (and a lot many other residents and citizens of ME countries) find Al Jazeera English to be pretty okay. They give very neutral reporting, and when they do shit on someone, it's usually against someone with a vested interest against Muslims (such as Netanyahu or Narendra Modi), which is to be expected from a Mideast media outlet.

Now Al Jazeera Arabic though, that is one steaming hot pile of bullshit, that is still so popular in the Arab World that they call it the "people's news". Saudis and Emiratis alike used to watch it, likely because of their strongly biased reporting against their respective governments, as well as their pro-Muslim position on all matters. And interestingly, they were mostly allowed to broadcast in those countries up until recently.
It took me longer than it should've to understand that this post was not about WordPress
They need to actually diversify from search and advertising. Gcp was a good go, but isn’t here there. IMO selling tensor compute could really compete, but they are not too into that and pushing this with the cringe execution. Almost as bad as their hardware announcement for pixel devices a couple years ago. You look at goog versus aapl hardware event and the execution is kinda night and day in apple’s favor.
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SIPs don't do nothing for "We have learned that multiprocessing is the only safe path to program stability, ease of scaling across clusters and less security exploits."

Which was my whole point since the beggining.

Yeah SIPs are nice, hardly any different from other managed OSes since the 60's, with Burroughs being the first one.

Many of those actually were used in production, while Singularity never left the crib, it died on version 2.0 with nothing more than a CLI interface.

Then everyone moved into other projects, hardly any security assessement was done to the whole stack, so how can you assert SIP capabilities to withstand a black hat attack?
As I explained above, what you call "dualistic thinking" is just refusal to follow common definitions for relatively simple concepts. For example, Wikipedia's entry for abovementioned personhood is clear enough to say, that I and you are two distinct persons. The two of us may be called a person, but it has nothing to do with the "way of thinking", and only has to do with the definition of a person. If a definition of a person had a clause, that would prevent congregates of persons to be a person, no amount of "dualistic thinking" would make two of us, or the entire humanity a person.
> In capitalism, the answer is price discovery, and for that to work, everyone has to participate in the market.

This is precisely what I'm getting at. We've built a system on the assumption of a forty-hour full-time work week, with a goal of minimizing unemployment and (recently) maximizing labor market participation. We did this because we need participation in the market for effective resource distribution.

What happens when our economy simply does not need that much labor to produce all the economic output we want? Do we force people to continue participating in the labor market in makework jobs just so that they can have access to resources? To what extent are we already doing this?
They test AFAIK under ideal smooth road conditions asconfirmed by the picture. On bumpy roads the 10 watts advantage might quickly disappear
And after 76 years? Harvard was founded in 1636 so if they thought like this before they wouldn't have been around anymore.
As it is, working out requires a crazy amount of research. Or a coach.

This is my biggest problem with all these apps and videos.

I have trained with a great coach with a good track record of training serious athletes and rehabilitation.

In my opinion, all of these apps are useless at best (unless you already have a good idea of what you’re doing) and dangerous at worst because none of their instructions are complete.
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I would love to see Instacart shoppers banned from grocery store main areas and instead use a coordinated pickup system out of sight, where they wait longer, have worse picks, and the grocery can do more organized stock providing. Instacart shoppers are a nuisance, they leave carts full of items in the middle of isles while they stare at their phones to try to figure out the item they need to find next. They block fish/meat/deli ordering as they try to figure out what the customer asked for. As someone whose main option for food is regular grocery runs, I want stores to be optimized for people like me, not food delivery.
Trees with faces are accidental. Trees don't have faces. They do have various unrelated features, which sometimes combine to form something that objectively looks like a face to humans.

For a more abstract example, if you generate a random black-and-white static image, it will have a bunch of (short) vertical and horizontal lines in it, simply because random pixel values will sometimes cluster into sequences that produce lines. Such a line is "actually there" - different people will see it, and you can even write code that finds all such lines. The fact that its pixels were formed randomly, without correlation between each other, doesn't change this - it just means that the line has no meaning; it's data, not information. But even so, your ability to detect such lines in a static image can vary.

In a similar vein, there's a well-known issue with RNG in games, where a straightforward approach can sometimes result in e.g. repeating the same value in a row many times, which the players immediately notice (and perceive as unfair). Which is why in many games, the RNG is specifically tweaked to keep track of recent outputs and actively avoid producing more output that would form an easily recognizable pattern.
You're really giving too much credit to podcasts here. If you were to look at your argument from the other side, the fact that it costs next to nothing makes it a really cheap way to spread biased/false information. (See: Alex Jones)

The majority of podcasts I've listened to have an obvious political bias, even the ones I would deem mostly objective clearly show some of the hosts biases. I've actually stopped listening to some because of this. ('Reply All' and 'Rich Dad Radio Show', for example, at opposite ends of the spectrum.)

If you know of a podcast that purely, subjectively presents news, I'd love to hear it!
> A 2013 Brookings Institute study showed that 84% of universities didn’t make enough money from their patents to cover the related legal costs and the staffing of their tech transfer office.

You don’t have to make money from patents for them to make sense. They can work as an insurance against patent suits.

As I understand it, this is the reason many large corporations file so many patents: if they get sued, they hope that the other party has violated a patent of theirs, and they can reach a setttlement.
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I feel like this post has a lot of hindsight bias in it. People are going to get things wrong sometimes. I think there's a lot of things to legit criticize mainstream media for, but not having 100% accurate crystal ball isn't one of them.

If the thesis of this piece is that newswriters sometimes get things wrong, or sometimes write sensationalized things, all i can say is, no duh.
Thanks for the very sensible quote.
Once the Safari noncompetitive monopoly is gone, Apple will be motivated to make Safari best-in-class.
> A bunch of verification systems use a video feed instead of a static photo. This helps a lot to weed out photoshops, and you can also check for reflections (the ones I had to go through ask you to move your camera under different angles)

Doesn’t help. You can photoshop and then print. You can use a card printer if needed to make it look like a real ID card.

To make a proper assessment you need to hold the document, and you need some tools (magnifying glass, UV light).
> I'm saying that an actual cryptographic primitive, like SGX but actually trustless and made of math instead of hardware, is.

Does this exist, even in theory?
I don't think the dissatisfied tone is justified here.

If you are being paid to make a free product, it's actually quite reasonable for the developers of tools you use to be paid too. I see absolutely no issues, ethical or otherwise, with this.

The only iff-ish bit is Travis' legacy committment to serve open source projects for free, but again I suspect that some of the larger ones ultimately abused the offer and that led to the change.
I doubt anyone here on hn will be impacted in any way by such tools. If anything it would be a positive impact as these tools aren't trivial to build.

However it will impact wordpress developer types. I imagine a graph like tool where you drag and drop nodes and link inputs and outputs will make quite a few redundant. Stuff like signup -> confirmation email -> send spam every X days, or order -> get customer data -> get stock availability -> ship -> notify are such common workflows among small shops that i find it hilarious people still pay developers to implement them. Each node can be a call to an internal or external api, a db query or whatnot.

Perhaps a good opportunity for brilliant minds to take on this and _do it right_.
So does WebKit/Safari. Hundreds of automated tests for IndexedDB, in fact.

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/tree/main/LayoutTests/stora...
Davis Instruments makes some of the best and most accurate devices. I have the Vantage Pro2 sensor suite and recommend it. More expensive than some but worth it. There are various ways to upload data to the internet.
> On the other hand, it’s decidedly anti-Unix, arguably even more so than GNU utilities.

When you have a design guideline – in this case, "Do one thing and do it well" – then you must never forget that it's just a guideline, a means to an end, a tool to achieve your goal. If your guideline conflicts with or contradicts your goal, then the guideline is wrong – or should be ignored, at least. Otherwise, the guideline becomes an ideology, and ideologies can be harmful.

I see this too often with various guidelines ("do one thing and do it well", "never use gotos", "linked lists are bad"), which are zealously repeated without understanding whether they make sense in that particular context. (I'm not saying this applies to you, this is a general observation)
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Steroids then sign stealing using cameras then super sticky baseballs. If you look at other areas of our society, you will see the same evolution in cheating. Look at education and research: college admissions scandal, replication crisis, peer review scandal. Look at tech: Leetcode to get into companies, selecting who gets prized projects, shipping abandonware in order to add them to promotion packets, etc… Media: not reporting news that goes against your narrative, reporting news that you know to be false, adding your narrative to events where there is no connection, etc…
The W3C had a Tag Finding on the Rule of Least Power back in 2001 https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower.html
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So the unconscious mind is (metaphorically) like a powerful massively parallel computer and the conscious mind is like a shell or GUI.

Most of us are running "programs" that make us look, act, and feel like normal humans. (Anthropologists have pointed out that each culture, no matter how different from the others, manages to get its children to act like its adults.)

If you learn to reprogram your unconscious patterns you become a meta-computer: a computer that can rewrite its own software to improve itself, a Gödel machine[1].

The main reason why you don't "formulate well-thought responses in real time" is that your ad hoc programming doesn't include that functionality, but it's there, intrinsic to your capabilities as a human being.

Hypnosis is a way to put yourself into a sort of "debug mode" and communicate between your conscious and unconscious minds, and, if you like, reprogram your patterns. It's pretty easy to do.

In a nutshell, learn to go into trance[2], then tell yourself a story in which you discover how to "formulate well-thought responses in real time" quickly and easily. When you come out of trance, you will.

Feel free to ask questions, I'll do my best to answer. Most people aren't interested, so I appreciate the opportunity to pass along what I've learned. Cheers!

[1] https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedelmachine.html

[2] I recommend "TRANCE-formations" by Bandler and Grinder.
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I’m not offended, I have no investment in those languages, or any language. I just don’t agree.

PHP is easy for beginners because of the tooling, or lack of. As you wrote you can just put PHP files in the right folder and there’s your “Hello, world” web page. The language itself is no less capable and sophisticated than any other C-family language, and PHP’s huge (and inconsistent) standard library goes a long way. But getting a demo or tutorial page up is not software development. You have to write actual code to make even a simple CRUD app, plus understand something about databases. It’s not low code.

You can maybe learn JS in the browser console but that’s not developing anything useful. To run JS on the server you need node and npm and the skills to get that all working. Not low code either.

These are low bar to entry languages/ecosystems but they are not low code/no code solutions.
When something like this happens, you realize that it's not ust your client or your company that sucks at testing software.
That wasn't due to speed, that was due to a lack of safety regulations. Spain and China built out national high speed rail networks in timely fashions in recent years with pretty normal accident rates for modern construction. French companies even offered faster and cheaper proposals for california HSR, and we said 'no' because they were French and not in some Bakersfield politican's donor list.
Yes, this is the closest thing we have today, but it is built in such a way that implies you have a fully functioning browser already, which sort of defeats one aspect of the need for such a suite.

They’re also tests that don’t actually point anything out.

Take the CSS2 tests for example, https://wpt.live/css/CSS2/, I can’t do basically anything with these. They don’t tell me whether or not a particular part of the implementation has failed. They’re all basically arbitrary tests that sort of cover the appropriate properties, sometimes, maybe.

The biggest glaring issue is that the test runners run in the browser. Well, if my user agent doesn’t have JavaScript… I can’t “run” the tests.

Further, there are some parts of the standard that can’t be automated simply because it’s up to user agents to decide how the final rasterization turns out. You can’t just compare rasterization output or even reliably look for element heights for verification based on the differences between font rasterization.

This is also why a part of the suite requires manual verification.

What I really need as an implementor is the ability to point my software at some .html files, get some failures, add more implementation, get less failures, and repeat. With, of course, the caveat being that you can only really do this for what is well-defined in the standards.

But you can’t do that easily with the wpts.
It’s great that you think that limiting the firehose-style wild-west dissemination of people’s identity data might be a good idea and I have good feelings about your suspicions, I suspect they might be well founded.

Might as well wait until anybody that can drag and drop Stripe code into their app gets as many photos of people’s IDs and faces and security questions from their users and squirrels it away into their private databases.

Once that’s done it’ll be a good time to fire off a blog post about how not doing that was always in the works and announce groundbreaking features like “basic privacy permissions for identity data “ will become default.

Maybe it’ll be a paid feature for end users?
I mean, if i was looking for objective coverage of the middle east, your comment sounds more like a criticism of Al Jazeera English than a support of it. Like, if i'm looking for neutral coverage of a region known for its religious conflicts, i wouldn't look for the news source that is pro a specific religion.
the term homomorphism implies that the transformations on the encrypted data (such as addition and multiplication) also apply on the plain text; now you can't check if a value is zero, as it's a different value in the plaintext and encrypted text; so you can't branch or do any decission, based on the value of the encrypted data (i think that would severely limit the practical utility of this trick)
This is exactly right. The contrast that piqued my interest was something like knobby tires on a heavy bike that spent its life on the street. Turns out people value comfort (here, seating position and long suspension travel), but those things only seem to sell with a rugged aesthetic. Balancing these needs is something of a Hard Problem, so it's interesting to watch this play out throughout the industry.
This could actually make your compiler a lot faster, compilers are really hard to maintain an efficient memory strategy in due to all the moving parts
From here in Europe it seems the opposite way. We are having a good or bad day, then the US markets open and we follow them up and down like a lost puppy.
In this part of the world they are called "hybrid" bikes[1]. Fast and sleek enough for regular city commute and rugged enough for occasional off-road cycling.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfLwm_SOzaI
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Yes and yes.

You get approximately half-portions, but it's still probably close to 5 glasses of wine. You will get quite drunk if you drink it all yourself.

However, being Vegas, you don't have to drive. So, even if you are a bit drunk, it's not a big deal.
> Unfortunately, end result of these policies is that nobody wants to develop for those systems anymore.

Is that the main reason? I always assumed "I can't buy these machines for less than a year's salary" was the major difficulty onboarding.
Jan Heine's whole claim is that these tests are wrong and his method reveals the truth. It's so frustrating that he doesn't test any mainstream tires so we don't even see how the results match.