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UX is User Experience, not User Interface. Lack of tools to do things quickly and easily with discoverability is a huge UX issue.

And then the rectangle button changing to an ellipse button just because that was the most recent sub tool you used is a UX issue that is purely in the UI. I probably lost several hours to that until I understood what happened, because I couldn't find the buttons I wanted to click on and then assumed I had to look for them elsewhere etc. And it still is bad even after I learned that since everywhere I look at tutorials how to do stuff the menu looks different since they had different previously active tools so it is a pain trying to figure out what to click.
My biggest grief with regexp is that it is just a compact code disguised as something else. It is relatively common that you want to scan a string but action codes intermixed. There is a way to do that with regexp (Perl (?{...}) etc. or PCRE callouts), but it is always awkward to put a code to a regexp. As a result we typically end up with either a complex code that really should have used a regexp but couldn't, or a contorted regexp barring the understanding. The essay suggests `(*SKIP)(*FAIL)` at the end, which is another evidence that a code and a regexp don't mix well so a regexp-only solution is somehow considered worthy.
Getting "you had one job" vibes here.
It's called TPT aka The Pleb Tax.
Oh, Redfin eliminated brokers?
> Modi is infamous for having caused, by his actions or inactions, the Gujarat riots that killed 2000+ people.

An accusation for which he was acquitted by the Supreme Court of India.

And Modi's actions/inactions pale in comparison to those of the Congress Party, who actually committed genocide against the Sikhs in 1984, which resulted in up to 17,000 Sikhs getting murdered by Congress goons, for which noone has been held accountable.
America leaves Afghanistan on the brink of collapse
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What would be interesting in that case would be how the transformed image would look if photos from that location were removed from the training set. That would help reveal whether it was just copying what it had seen or it actually remembered what sunsets looked like and transformed the image using its memory of sunsets in general.
It doesn't seem that crazy to me. They say:

> We were able to prove that we could make the financials work so long as we were able to fill the apartment within around 45 days of taking it over.

They're prescreening apartments/leases so they're not going to take on an apartment they can't turn around in a month. And honestly, modeling NYC rental supply and demand according to a number of factors (neighborhood, price, condition, amenities, etc.) is pretty straightforward. It's a relatively liquid market.

And like I said, landlords generally have explicit rules about tenant qualifications. They're not going to reject tenants on a whim. Why would they ever say no to a qualified tenant? That's like McDonald's refusing to sell you a quarter pounder.

There's nothing about this that seems obviously unsustainable at all.
Honestly how much would this tax even affect the super rich? If you're rich enough to afford a private jet are you really scrutinizing your fuel bill?
Do those exist? Maybe can argue vapes but we don't know either way just can guess.

Also aren't there a LOT of other problems from smoking and nicotine alone, in terms of lung health and hypertension, heart stuff etc
Ask HN: How to get all posts in an RSS feed from the Stack Exchange network?
I'd like to track a handful of tags across multiple Stack Exchange sites

Subscribing to each site individually is doable - but very unweildy

Is there a way to get everything tagged, say, "security" across every Stack Exchange site (Stack Overflow, Ask Ubuntu, Unix.SE, etc) in a single RSS feed?
>There's a lot of lament that this bypasses the operating system level config

systemd-resolved has the clandestine ability to forward all your DNS traffic to google in many distributions of Linux. I would say the state of resolution in general is getting uncomfortably sketchy.

many wireless routers from Asus and others due to a buggy (or perhaps intentional) implementation of Dnsmasq will quietly intercept your DNS requests using their own built-in resolver. RT-ARCH13 is notorious for it even if NAT mode is disabled.

for my pihole implementation I block 53 outbound and do DoH resolution using cloudflared on the pi.

finally it bears remembering that the number one largest opposition to the use of DoH was ISP's who were (and still are) making a killing selling your search history. they went so far as to lobby congress to stop DoH. Now the very same ISP's we tried to protect users from are part of the DoH club anyway because, well, money talks.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/comcast-mozilla-...
Oh, but they do. New Shepard uses liquid hydrogen, which is not a fossil fuel per se, but in practice hydrogen is currently made from fossil fuels. SpaceShipTwo uses HTPB which is a hydrocarbon oligomer, basically synthetic rubber, definitely a fossil fuel. Falcon 9 first stage engines use RP-1, a fancy type of jet fuel. The Starship first stage uses methane, a fossil fuel (although it could be made renewably as well). The Atlas V core stage uses RP-1 and the boosters HTPB. The Delta IV and Ariane 5 core stages use liquid hydrogen.
You may find this useful/inspirational.

https://github.com/ropg/truetype2gfx

I've been using it for my Watchy (an esp32 that uses Adafruit GFX).
> 90% of all stock is owned institutionally. It is impossible to compare the stock market with a representative democracy. In the former, the wealthy rule, in the latter, the poor have a chance by virtue of sheer numbers.

In a private company, you have no chance of appeal. In a government, you at least have elections. The worst most corrosive parts of our government come from its contact with the wealthy and the corporate sector and those aspiring to become them.
What counts as a "large home" here? 50k USD for aircon seems insane!
Why would you dump the device in the trash? That's a bizarre thing to do with valuable components.

Take it to Apple or an authorised repairer, or have it recycled.
I guess not. Github terms[1]:

Actions should not be used for:
- any other activity unrelated to the production, testing, deployment, or publication of the software project associated with the repository where GitHub Actions are used.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-f...
There was a giant uptick in personalized treatment for cancer[1] that coincided with the end of the Obama era (Biden driving it after his son's death, in 2015).

I saw bits of it in my space with large scale analysis of genomic testing - particularly things like analyzing old drugs with new genomic data (drugs which failed in the past, retesting for the combo of the cancer:personal-genome SNPs).

My friend went through a Car-T recently for a lymphoma and something like that is near SciFi-tech in discussion when Steve Jobs had cancer, but available through the FDA today.

[1] - https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/moonshot-can...
It's quite possible to do this on-prem and even on-device. TabNine, a very similar system with a smaller model (based on GPT-2 rather than 3), has existed for years and works on-device.
Handy CLI tool for developers to look up abbreviations for terms
Good news guys, they are "selling off" 2 year old GPUs at 150% MSRP!
Any representative body would do better than a corporate monarchy.
I think the proper solution for this is to just stop doing captive portals. They suck, they break easily, no one ever reads what they say, and while I'm not a lawyer I question their value from a litigation perspective.
It's stronger than that: if GitHub is correct that they don't need a license then they are allowed to train on publicly visible code even if it is labeled with "no one has any provision to use this for anything at all, especially training models"
One of the reasons Mozilla couldn't "do" DNSSEC 10 years ago over plaintext DNS is that for some (enough) clients this doesn't work. Their DNS is broken, it was always broken, but so long as you only ever ask something easy like "news.ycombinator.com A?" it worked well enough. Asking DNSSEC queries doesn't work. "Last Change Broke It" rules apply so Mozilla gets the blame.

With DoH of course this is much less relevant. The people operating Trusted Resolvers for DoH are obliged to actually implement the protocol correctly.

If you choose a DoH provider which does DNSSEC for you (such as Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1), and you trust that provider, your answers are DNSSEC validated, today, without any changes to Firefox. Millions of people benefit, zero work.

If you're concerned that Trusted Resolvers aren't enough privacy, Oblivious DoH eventually means that the TRs don't see your query any more, so the people answering the query don't know who you are, and people who know who you are don't know what your query is.
The idea that one day your team receives a mandate to (1) move across the country, and (2) take a 15%, wait no 25%, paycut... I thought the dream of working at google was high pay and white-gloves treatment. This doesn't seem very considerate of the employees at all.
"Apple cofounder is with us"

Not just the cofounder but the real genius behind all their early products. Jobs was excellent at selling great products, but it was Wozniak who engineered and built them that great.
Unfortunately in this world it's the non technical people who always get more consideration compared to engineers. Bill Gates himself had good hardware/software knowledge having worked with embedded systems for traffic control before MS, yet he is only remembered as former Microsoft chief.
Google created this "problem" and they also created a "solution" for it.

A better solution is to move away from YouTube, if at all possible.
What kind of Indian trusts their government lol
The journal is: "American Journal of Health Behavior".

Why did they agree to this? Why aren't they afraid of damaging their reputation? I'm not an health researcher or medical professional, but I would think if I were one, I wouldn't want to publish in this journal afterward, take seriously articles written in it, or be associated with it. They lost three editorial board members at least. Maybe AJHB will be an example that $51,000 isn't worth trashing a reputation that took decades to build.
What you're saying doesn't really make any sense to me, that's like saying you bought a sedan and found that it didn't have a pickup bed, so now it's a UX issue because you couldn't quickly and easily figure out how to move a refrigerator with it. Not everything is going to have the same tools, or support the same workflows. Maybe that's a problem that needs solving but it can't be solved by UX designers trying to redesign the sedan -- you would just get a trailer and put the refrigerator in that.

You're right about the tool menus, those are an actual UI issue, but they can be disabled. Maybe they should be disabled by default? I can't say.
That is really cool. I wonder if there were any extraordinary atmospheric conditions going on.
Keep in mind Iceland's population is under 400k. That's less than the city proper of Minneapolis, for example.
People like when things are fair. To get those big wins you’re gonna have to either make things look fair or use force (i.e. guns). You won’t be able to change human society into a kind of minmaxing superintelligence.
"give" only in the technical sense.

"did not turn off third party cookies" should not equate "authorized this company to log about every site I visit"

(of course, if you are on youtube itself, that is another matter -- but you are replying to, I think, a more general comment about the two sides and the value they obtain/extract from each other)
So you’re a maybe?
What confuses me is why you think what I wrote excludes such behavior.
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China Claims to Have World’s Most Powerful Quantum Computer, Tops Google
Show HN: I made SOL75 – a compiler for hardware
I've made a software that designs hardware based on your requirements and the machine you want to 3D print it with.
The idea is to abstract away a lot of the boring details (like tolerances, stress analysis, fatigue, etc...) and make hardware development faster.

Of course, it can not make every component (yet). Someone (me, at the moment, but I hope to open it up at some point) has to design a basic "blueprint" but then SOL75 can run with it. The software can manipulate the individual blueprints and/or combine them to meet the user requirements.

To better understand what it does, there is an open (free) demo you can try at https://www.sol75.com/component/glider_if

More info about the project: https://www.sol75.com
> Less human involvement = better world /S

...why sarcasm?

The entire premise of technological and economic progress is outsourcing repetitive mind-numbing tasks (whether farming or showing apartments) to automation.

You're just describing regular old beneficial economic progress -- the reason why we're not all still farmers.

And if Caretaker becomes a massive success, then competitors will appear, which is the basic economic force that prevents prices from rising too far. All of which would be wonderful.
So we should be doing calculations of "what percentage of its lifetime power production is required to sequester the carbon it took to create and use it?"
The purpose of the medallions, in theory, is to improve the chances that the average cab driver can make a living wage. Can the average Uber driver live a middle class income from this “gig”?

> When accounting for the ride-sharing company’s commissions and fees, vehicle expenses and a modest health insurance package, Uber drivers end up earning just $9.21 in hourly wages, according to a new study from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-how-much-uber-driv...
I think there is one more step change theoretically possible in terms of energy output which is based on anti-quark collisions. We need to understand QCD better. Its hard to know when breakthroughs will happen. Maybe its already happened and we just havent heard about it yet!

We also dont know how to model quantum gravity still. That seems pretty fundamental.

Im optimistic there will be physicists who find something new and whacky that no one could predict.
And YOLOing their life savings into some meme stock, /r/WallStreetBets style.
Maybe ask female employees of Uber if they agree with that
It's pretty likely that most life arises in gravity wells, simply because life requires a concentration of matter somewhat higher than that in empty space (otherwise what is it made out of?), and a concentration of matter is equal to a gravity well.
Potentially dumb question from a guy who isn't a lawyer:

Does Copilot infringe Google's patent(s) on the Transformer architecture? If so, then Google could potentially sue them for royalties, at least.

Further, couldn't this Copilot thing backfire for Github because customer trust is more valuable than AI training data right now? If folks don't feel they can trust Github, seems like they could move their work to other version control systems like Gitlab or Bitbucket...
The term "character generator" in video specifically refers to hardware that overlays text onto the video signal. That is, in this case it's not a "text mode", it's a bitmap graphics mode used for text, which appears likely just going by the screenshots. There weren't many computer systems taking this approach in 1978, since any bitmap mode would be RAM-hungry, so they were usually either text centric(Commodore PET) or had both text and graphics modes and hybrids(Apple II, Atari).
Here the working links:

https://www.sol75.com/component/glider_if

https://www.sol75.com
Buying up half a percent of the housing stock is a lot, especially when there’s a shortage of housing.
That's a good example.

The author is committing the etymological fallacy here - there was nothing like Singapore (or the USA, for that matter) a mere few centuries ago, so while the history of the word may inform us, it is not sufficient alone to capture the meaning of nation.

Either nation is polysemous - a word having multiple similar distinct meanings - or its semantics has fuzzy boundaries. To answer questions like these, we are able to turn to corpus linguistic methods nowadays, whereas we used to have to rely on the intuition of native speakers. I don't think the author's narrow definition of nation would survive either of those tests.

I think it's great to read about conceptual distinctions such as the ones the author brings up, regardless of whether those concepts are lexically distinct, so I enjoyed the blog post anyway.
Oops, I meant this one: https://www.bentasker.co.uk/documentation/linux/407-building...
>>> Uber drivers make more money today than taxi drivers used to/or do today.

Hmmm, That must depend on the market as it's not necessarily the case based on discussions I had with both in Ottawa.

(note, when Uber first started, that was the perceived story - almost "free money!" for bored white collar workers with a car and few hours to spare here and there. I've had people in $50k, $60k cars drive me around, to "meet new people and have fun". However, once full-time professionals joined the ranks, and did math on maintenance and insurance and fuel etc, the story RAPIDLY changed).
Real estate is a bit different than a company whose underlying assets and future revenue expectations are 50x out of sync with stock prices.

Or, I should say that we haven't seen real estate values be that extremely overvalued. Generally speaking, if you can hold on to it, in the long term, you're fine. If you owned a $500,000 home in 2008 and it dropped to $300,000 it was meaningless unless you needed to sell your home or couldn't make the payments. You may be up $100k now, and -$100k a year from now, but if you can hold on to the property and bring in enough revenue to cover expenses like property taxes & maintenance, you'll be okay. But it could take 5 or 10 years to claw back up.

The problem is that the more irrational people there are, the bigger the collapse, when it comes, the more likely you'll be to not be able to hold on to your assets (market collapse == job market collapse == liquidating assets at a loss just to survive, or satisfy bankruptcy courts)
Additionally, if they had trained on private repositories then they risk leaking code, and accidentally making it public. Even if that was within fair use it would still be a violation of the trust people put in them.
Unlike what the mass outrage here makes you believe, this is a reasonable exception. Because non-commercial flights (business and hobby) already pay local taxes like VAT and excise on the fuel.

The thing is that fuel commercial aviation is exempt from tax due to historic regulations. The EU is proposing to change that by taxing jet fuel for those users. So it makes total sense that they exclude those that already pay tax on their fuel from this new tax.
AFAIK that would require changes to the customs area, which might have consequences for other aspects like transiting goods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_control#Customs_area
The proPublica article says that paypal raised half a million dollars less than a month after he sold himself the shares. It raised millions more that year. Peter absolutely had been given a valuation by the venture capital firms when he sold himself the shares, deals like that don't suddenly materialize in less than a month. We can get into semantics about if paypal was actually worth what the firms were about to pay, but I think it's pretty clear that Peter committed fraud by selling himself shares for far less than he knew them to be worth.

This isn't a "I feel like these are worth a lot" scenario. This is a "we'll give you half a million dollars in a couple weeks" scenario and then Peter undercut that valuation.
Since their website doesn't say which exchange they offer data from... let me chime in after signing up and looking. You get:

NYSE and NASDAQ exchanges, with some mixed crypto-related instruments as well.

tldr; no CME/CBOT/CBOE/etc
> When companies get large enough to wield power as de facto government, then it makes sense to demand that they too respect our natural rights.

How do you encode "large enough" in the law? And are you suggesting Twitter is wielding power equivalent to that of a government?
How many of them supported a curfew before 2020?
I’m in the EU so that probably skews my view on it. Tbh every time I hear your take on right to repair I find it lines up with where I stand. The more that you can be pushed as the voice of right to repair the better. I think the vast majority could agree on this position.
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Well, you're factually wrong that hospitals weren't at the breaking point - several in the United States were, as well as healthcare systems in Italy. The relative lack of use out of notable expansion sites was due, IMO, to mis-steps in the bureaucracy and prep, not in the lack of help that additional beds could provide.

Just flipping through your source of "50 months of quarantine", and without (yet) reading the entire article, it is citing an extrapolated number from a hypothetical, which you cite as a statement of fact. Covid has been around for 18 months. You are being misleading, or English may not be your first language.

In any case, I'm not saying certain measures or lockdowns were overkill. I believe governments and experts, in a transparent fashion, should be discussing what went wrong and right at all levels, and how we can do better, quicker, safer the next time a pandemic hits.

I strongly reject the notion that this was a massive conspiracy to test the reach of government restrictions.
In Europe, people flying private are overlapping with those sitting in the parliaments.
This is nonsense. Germany was not 'asked to pay for WW1'. To cost imposed on Germany would only just cover repairing Northern France and Belgium. Even just including pentions for French war widows was not fully paid for.

And they of course never paid for the utter deforestation they forced on much of Eastern Europe.

And this debt payment was not the reason for WW2. By the time Hitler came to power Versailles was a dead document. The financial terms had been revised multiple times and in those negotiations Germany got a pretty good deal and a number of additional benefits and access to a gigantic amount of US loans and trade deals.

And after WW2 Germany still had to pay some debt but because of financial restructuring after WW2 those were not as large. Part of why this was possible however was because the US actually promised a great deal to nations who accepted debt restructuring. Including economic and military aid, and trade deals.
> I mean look at them literally banning encryption

This did not happen. Only extremely stupid people who uncritically swallowed extremely dishonest headlines without further research believe it did.

Thank you for letting us know you're a fucking idiot.
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And not only that, the people running it are arrogant and mean.
I created an account for the sole purpose of telling you how much of an auto-masturbatory, gatekeeping wiseacre you are.