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I met a traveller from an antique land,

Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
> 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.

That might be your opinion, but nothing in your sentence logically follows.

Most Open Source programmers are getting paid by somebody, so what you're really saying is that there shouldn't be Open Source credits.
Because it is literally illegal to do so. There are many German laws - first and foremost concerning Volksverhetzung - that make saying things illegal even if they are true. So the other 82% don't know the law.
Fatties Fit Fine on most of their bikes.

I ride 40mm tires on my Long Haul Trucker.
Thanks to Kees and all the people that have worked over at Kernsec. I've been watching on the mailing lists for some time now and it's been really fun to get an insight into the work that's been going on there.
Singular they in English usage dates back 600-700 years. People can disagree with those guidelines all they want - they will have to deal with the fact that people choose to use singular they and they can get worked up over it or get used to it.
The comparison is just so ridiculous that I don't even know where to start.
Well, in theory. One could write an app for that I guess. But the whole complex android stack does not really appeal to me. Simplicity I think, would also be really important. And I think openness goes hand in hand with that.
While you may be technically correct, I guess from a practical point of view, OP is correct in that page-size still matters if you trying to run Linux on "unconventional" platforms.
Pinch zoom is available in PDFs now. I'm on 2.7, but I believe it was added in 2.6. It works really well. Of course it's far slower than on a normal tablet due to the e-ink screen, but it's definitely fine for me.
> As a theoretical or as a practical matter, is there ever actually any possible way to prove that you don't know something like a password?

No, you can’t prove a negative. Though some agencies may try lie detector tests, those have been proven fairly useless
Ask HN: Things you wish you knew about databases before building an app?
As a frontend or fullstack developer, what are some things you wish you knew about databases for building an app.

This could be anything like using connection strings, CLI tools, user Grants, GUI, writing optimised queries, adding indexes for performance, how SQL views can be leveraged etc.
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>You're pointing towards this list as if it's some oracle for vaccine safety. Its not.

Quite frankly, that is not the case.

In almost all communication that try to promote covid vaccines, they include a statement that amounts to "All healthcare professionals are required by law to report adverse events...".

And this table kind of prove that to be a lie, and you also seem to agree, at least with respect to that point.
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I agree with everything you said, and it was the first time I got disappointed by Mozilla. Their excuse was "well we'd have to spec a common SQL and we don't want to do that". No there was no need to spec a common SQL for all browsers, let vendors choose whatever SQL version they want to implement. People have been building query builders for years, it's easy, much easier than re-implementing a RDBMS on top of IndexedDB. Then I learned that Firefox implemented IndexedDB on top of SQlite, what a freaking joke...

It made me really angry at Mozilla. WebSQL was so invaluable to me.
Fair enough, I don't even remember where I saw it. Some random internet guff information I guess.

Cheers!
That's disappointing to hear. I've been on the fence about way to pick one of these up but I had heard that the reading experience was sub par. I have yet to find an e-ink tablet that's attractive enough to spend money on.
Also, you don't have to care where the data is being stored, because if it's fully end-to-end encrypted, location is far less of an issue (to your GDPR point). Alleviates a lot of the talk around the security risks posed by the unrestricted sale and transfer of sensitive data to foreign adversaries (China, Russia) that dominates the political landscape in the U.S.
the ghosting of e-paper displays is somewhat reminiscent of paper magazines, when you see the ink from the other side of the page.
I'm sorry, but no - a "huge segment the population" does not consist of people with screwy names. The reason for that is that most parents follow cultural / social norms when naming their kids, which reduces friction for their kids as they grow up, go to school, go to work, and so on. In the context of keeping secrets, people that stand out from the crowd are usually more of a liability than not. As Remo says in Goodfellas - why take a chance?
> Back then, companies made an effort to support as many people as possible.

Companies pretty much had to make an effort to support as many people as possible back then. It wasn't until the early to mid 1990's that Windows became the dominant platform. Even though MS-DOS had a huge market share before Windows, other platforms had enough of a presence in homes and industry to justify cross-platform support. (And more important during the end of the DOS era, no one really knew how the future would turn out even though it was unlikely that DOS would be a part of it.)
> by taking up this case SCOTUS is potentially going in the other direction.

They didn't actually take it up, but sent it back to the 9th for a re-hearing in light of Van Buren v. US. But that ruling seems to make LinkedIn's case even weaker, I too am somewhat confused about what's going on, what options were available to the supreme court and what signal this one sends.

Anyone have a better article?
Good point, however the more important question is what is meant by "careful".
Qt is exemplary in that. There are ironclad rules that only MINOR adds new features and only MAJOR breaks API. And PATCH is strictly for bugfixes.

Binary compatibility is guaranteed as well so that an application compiled against 5.0.0 will dynamically link against 5.15.2 and run fine unless it relied on clear bugs.

There are exceptions for things like input method plugins, for which one needs to explicitly opt in to using internal API with build sysem flags. Without the opt-in, the corresponding private headers are not accessible.
The Economist had an article here a few days ago lamenting that Europe fails to produce IPOs, which is where the actual problem lies.

A lot of European startups don't get to the size where an IPO exit would be appropriate because a US company buys them before that can happen.
on an item where quality parameters vary so much ( size, visual shape, ripeness etc), customers will not give up the value of touching and picking an item.
This applies to a cabbage or a fish.

In the case of a pair of socks which are standardized, they may not care as much to physically pick up stuff.

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I have always thought that the disruption to costco would be an online warehouse, that could gather the customer's preferences ( patterns of buying - and consolidate them and send them to localized centers ).
Customers can then pick them up or have them delivered.
Discovery will purely be through the web.
Isn't cost also a factor at play here?
> The truth is, that with the right behaviour you probably don't need any AV product.

I'm sceptical. Conventional cybersecurity wisdom is to take a serious approach to both keeping nasties out of your systems, and limiting the damage that may arise if/when nasties make their way in.

(I'm using nasties to cover everything from infected files to unauthorised SSH sessions.)

> For all the other stuff (zero days) AV software won't help you

That doesn't sound right. Trivially, AV will help you against all malware that the AV is able to protect against. If you always do a perfect job at keeping that stuff out of your systems, then sure, AV adds no value, but I wouldn't assume that the premise holds.

> AV software will often even increase the attack surface of your system

True, and this is especially troubling considering AV code tends to run with high privileges, but that doesn't show that AV generally does more harm than good. The balance presumably depends on the quality of the AV you're using.

> AV software is not a substitute for education.

No one is suggesting that it is, they're saying it's a useful additional measure for some systems.
Because AirDrop is already available on millions of Apple devices. If you start a new protocol it will only be available for a small user base and you need to ask Apple, Google and Microsoft to implement it.
This looks like one solution but I don’t think you want this design in medicine slot booking or stock selling. You want it to be much more definite if there is no way for a conflict to be resolved. This solution won’t work there.
> The 2016 article, in Carcinogenesis, has played a minor role in an ongoing class action lawsuit against the makers of ranitidine (sold as Zantac, among other brand names) claiming that use of the medication has caused cancer in more than 100,000 plaintiffs. And it was a key citation in a 2019 petition to the FDA urging that such drugs be recalled.
> SQLite is amazing. But after having worked with it for many years now, I believe it should never be a platform-level API, and not standardizing it for browsers was the right choice.

No it was never the right choice and it didn't need to become standardized at first place. Writing a query builder is an easy task, implementing a RDBMS on top of indexedDB, ironically implemented on top of SQlite in Firefoxis a much harder tasks.

IndexedDB is absolutely atrocious API wise, and largely useless to query structured data.
thats the kicker. BOTH of those could easily fall under the single strawman question that this article bases its flawed argument off of.

Views that you could 'feel' not free to express could include:

- Stating facts about their political opponents

- Expressing their acceptance of NAMBLA

- Enjoying pineapple on pizza

You can't reduce your argument to a single decontextualized question about how people feel in general. Show me some qualitative data on how people, in German, interpret that question and then we can talk about how badly the article abuses that one poll question.
"Number of opinions" is a bad metric. Suppose that number is as low as 1: you can't express the opinion that Uyghurs are being genocided.

Would you call this nearly-perfect free-speech?
Can you give more details regarding 2?
I used to have trouble starting tasks. I still do, but I used to do.

There’s a line from the movie Ghostbusters that I like to quote when I need to get started: “Type something, will you? We’re paying for this stuff!” https://youtu.be/7dnaumEHJa8?t=14s
Israel’s new PM Naftali made his name as a millionaire tech founder
I can't speak for others, but for me, I don't share my views publicly because there's a nonzero chance some crazy right-winger will try to find and kill me.

I've already been stalked and "screamed" at online because of an offhand comment I made on a political article once.
While in absolute terms rim brakes are probably just as good as disc brakes. The difference lies in the feeling and modulation of the forces.

Also, the disc is a consumable on both types. I have worn down rims to the point where I was scared to use the wheels.

The initial setup can be a bit annoying with hydro discs, but it's a tradeoff I'm happy with.
for non-English speakers: colloquially, performance == speed. this is a regression in speed, I was making GP’s assessment more accurate.
Check this out: https://6min.zama.ai

Helps to demystify the voodoo :)
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

― George Orwell, 1984
> options that do not include synchronous communication

Given the context, it's worth pointing out that this is not the same as "options that include asynchronous communication."
Allow/deny state and feature support into fingerprinting like every other bit of information your browser provides.

On a super duper catch me out technical ability and full prototype? Can't help you. I just trust Google will find a way to be creepy. It's a pretty safe bet.
We’re already cool with the Chinese using forced child labor to make our tech toys and cheap goods. What’s a little genocide thrown in the mix?
It is, and Coq is a piece of software to prove theorems. The context in which it is used makes it trivially inoffensive.

Personally, I spent a semester trying Coq and I couldn't get used to it. My professor loved Coq, though. He was a mathematician, so it wasn't a huge surprise.
The opposite is true. Political left is the one with the photo databases, death lists and cancel culture.
Thanks for sharing. I got the reMarkable 1 pretty early and I've been debating ordering the reMarkable 2. I've heard almost exclusively good things about it, but right now I'm happy enough with the original device. I hadn't heard of Supernote until seeing this comment, but it's definitely something to keep an eye on when I think about upgrading.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say the RM2 has "pretty much none" when it comes to PDF reading and annotation capabilities. That's pretty much exclusively what I use my RM1 device for and it works great.

EDIT: Wow. Looked at the A5X and for the price compared to the RM2, it's very enticing. (Once you throw in the folio and the pen for the RM2, the A5X is comparable if not cheaper.) Since my old Kindle Keyboard died a while back, I haven't replaced it. Looks like the A5X can also read Kindle books which is a huge draw for me. Do you know if there's any API that allows me to write my own utilities to sync with the A5X? Specifically, I want to be able to send PDFs to the device programmatically that will be eventually synced the next time I use it.
When Google does it, it's commercial, right? Should you need a license from all indexed content to make a search engine?

Isn't indexing for search what HiQ is doing too?
A decade isn't exactly a long time. That's still a windows 7 machine with an i5

Or just wipe it and throw ubuntu on it
> It's amazing what happens when the incentives are aligned with the desired results. We saw that last year when vaccine developers wanted 18 months to develop a vaccine, and Trump gave them a big financial incentive to get it done before the end of the year. Later came the usual denials that these incentives motivated them in any way :-)

I agree with this point in general, and have some experience with government contracts, but think you’re over-simplifying a complex situation. The big thing which incentives got was zero holding back on capacity: I would say that was by far Trump’s best call in office because there’s no way to claw back that time later at any cost - the mRNA process is both highly specialized and new so there are bottlenecks all the way down. The other thing which saved time, however, was that testing time could be compressed because the disease was running rampant — that didn’t have much to do with incentives and couldn’t be predicted in advance. We also got lucky that the first vaccines were so effective: that was the primary concern with the first batch, that they might not be effective enough - instead, we had a Nobel-worthy unqualified success where the worst performing vaccines were at the warned level but the top candidates were some of the best vaccines ever made. That was welcome but we also got lucky.
Ah yeah, I actually knew about this; there was a MacGyver episode about it! Weird that I remember this after 20 years...
I’m pretty sure that basing CEO pay on share price performance is going to go down in history as one more example of “when a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a meaningful metric.”

Share price can be manipulated with loads of cheap debt and creative financial engineering. Eventually the house of cards will come down.
It says “Outline and Study Guide” near the top. So I guess it’s the Cliff’s Notes version.
TL;DR: no, because physics! :)
WSB woke many retail folk up to this hard reality: you're being manipulated & exploited far more than you think.

And once that genie is out, there's no going back.
WSB woke many retail folk up to this hard reality: you're being manipulated & exploited far more than you think.

And once that comes into light for an individual, there's no going back.
r/WSB woke many retail folk up to this hard reality: you're being manipulated & exploited far more than you think.

And once that comes into light for an individual, there's no going back.
Apart from the CFAA issue, it seems strange that you can't regulate access patterns to your own web site in order to prevent mass scraping of user data.
Ah yeah, the survey asks "Do you think you can say anything you want freely, or do you have to watch what you say on some topics?", and the blogger rides the Stasi and fascism horse about governmental free speech restrictions, although no such thing was discussed in the survey.

The survey question and results itself, page 24 for this 18% figure:
https://www.ifd-allensbach.de/fileadmin/user_upload/FAZ_Mai2...

Google translation of the question: "Would you say one can freely express one's opinion on anything in public, or does one have to be careful about some or many topics?"

The German summary linked from his blog says "The rude forms of argument are given as the reason for this low value.".

The survey doesn't even ask how the people lean, and I know during the refugee crisis, even pro-refugee people are wary of discussing that topic, because somebody at the next table in the bar (or sitting opposite you in your own kitchen) could have a different opinion and everybody was very firm in their belief, leading to heated debates. The observation was, "Flüchtlinge" ("refugees") was the new F-word.
Maybe I should start doing this before work as well. The pressure at work can be overwhelming, and I don't always feel refreshed in the morning, so the pressure just keeps piling up...
That doesn't really solve the end purpose, which is that Baby Boomers need to lessen their consumption of national resources (real estate) and global resources (food, energy), so that these limited resources can be utilized by the next generations.

It should be mandatory (either formally or through the pension/taxation system) for example to downsize your home and portfolio before you receive any subsidies or welfare.
All Radars get assigned, they just may not be assigned with a reasonable priority to an engineer who will work on it.
> If you add up an optimization of just a nanosecond in like openSSH, how much would that do globally?

I believed optimizations like that at a global scale will not have any impact.

Lets say that this nanosecond will be saved trillions of time a day. Resulting in minutes to an hour a day saved globally.

* Not a single user will notice.
* In 99.99% of cases the CPU will not be fully pegged and thus that one nanosecond of compute will not be used to do something else at all.
* CPU throttling isn't that fast so, you won't even save that much power.

If we bump it up by 6 orders of magnitude to a millisecond that all remains true. Even though you are potentially saving 100s of years of computing time a day. Extremely small gains distributed across very large number of machines don't tend to be as impactful as you would hope on a global scale.

This is not to say that small gains are worthless. Many small gains added together can be substantial.
No the question is exactly right and any German would immediately understand what it is really about. Because of the new "hatespeech" laws homes of people got raided because they had the wrong opinion about the corona measures posted somwhere on the internet. You even can be thrown into prison for many years for wrong opinions. As of today Germany is a totalitarian dystopia with no free speech. However those laws are enforced only selectively. Muslims demonstrating against Israel and chanting "death to all jews" get a free pass.
Neither Airbus nor Boeing has initiated a new aircraft design since the late 90s early 2000s with the A380 and 787 respectively.

The A220, a legitimate clean-sheet and fantastic aircraft, came from Bombardier and only fell into Airbus hands due to regulatory warfare, albeit from the American side this time.
Looks like the article and video was pulled down : (
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Putting a layer of robotics over an in vivo organism still has the extreme complexities of an in vivo system at the core. Im not exactly sure what the breakthrough is supposed to be here. I guess I was maybe hoping for a more technical explanation of the bio of what they're doing but maybe this seems more meant as a marketing pitch?
The RPi boards aren't the best choice for low current consumption, even other competing but similar ARM boards are better suited for that use.
However, the main processor is just one of the power hungry devices: a LED screen needs its backlight on to be read, while an e-paper screens don't, and their power consumption falls to zero when the user is reading a still image, which also allows the processors to enter in extremely low power sleep modes.
Making a reader with LCD/LED displays in my opinion is doable, but tuning the power consumption to save as much power as possible will require a lot of effort, and would never compare to e-readers anyway.
However, if one accepts a heavier and more thick device, then yes, it's definitely doable, and could also become a better platform for other uses too.
In the US, there are certain opinions for which you'll suffer repercussions from public shaming to losing your livelihood to getting taken down from social media. For example, last year you couldn't discuss the lab leak theory of covid. When you discuss these topics, you need to 'be careful.'
Both with the GHz race and FPS measuring contests, we've gotten to the point where there's substantially diminishing returns - GHz has stopped growing in the same way, and reaching the limits of human perception with FPS is generally readily achievable, and so it loses interest as a contest.

I suspect your broader point stands - certainly "performance is multivarious and means different things in different contexts" has sunk in for me. But I suspect the actual difficulty of reasoning about performance deters most people from doing it beyond big O notation. The fact that I'm aware that performance is complicated doesn't drive me to understand the complexity, I mostly just say "good enough" and move on.
Does anyone have access to the Amtrak/VRE speech synth? (the dispassionate one they use for PSAs in the Alexandria station) I'd love to hear the global messages in that. I could hear the voice saying "freenode is FOSS" as I was reading them.