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Its certainly an interesting technology, but its not practical.

I'm seeing documents suggesting that this thing is NMOS-logic, roughly equivalent to 1970s era technology. From a process perspective: the 1970s (and older) computers had high static current.

Vacuum tubes, NMOS, BJTs (aka TTL logic) all had roughly the same architecture. The on/off switches only worked at a certain voltage/current, in particular... a current that was greater than 0. So you'd have to be sinking current from 5V to 0V all the time. (Aka: BJT "Active mode". That is: BJTs / TTL circuits cannot operate at 0-amps, there always had to be at least a little bit of current flowing through them)

In the 1980s, CMOS finally became feasible, which was a "complementary-MOS" (a combination of p-mos + n-mos transistors that were equal and opposite). Emphasis on the "equal" part, it was necessary to figure out how to make pmos and nmos exactly equal to each other to make a CMOS circuit.

Once you did CMOS, there was _ZERO_ static current. In practice, there is still a bit (aka: leakage current), but this is how you get 1-billion transistors to only use 1W of power (each transistor is leaking less than a nanowatt each).

An NMOS style chip will never be fast or efficient: it will draw too much power before it ever scales up. I'm sure these guys are working on making a CMOS technology on their plastic design but... computer chips don't seem to be a usable application of this technology.

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There are lots of analog circuits (maybe an OpAmp??) that could be made from nmos only. But until they unlock the secrets of CMOS... the realm of practical computers (1980s style or later) is likely outside the scope of this process.

Its a lesser known art: opamps, PID controllers, controller theory... its quite possible to build "smarts" out of analog circuitry alone. But that's what I'm thinking of when I see these articles that PlasticARM / Plastic chips can do.
ipv6 has most of the smartphone population
Okay, and? Yes, we don't have rules for every single possibly protective thing, but we do have rules for a lot of them.

Your line of reasoning could also be used against seat belt laws or building codes: why have those for public safety if we don't ban alcohol?

edit: also, while I don't support banning alcohol, it wouldn't be a violation of a person's basic rights to ban it. That used to be the law of the land in the US, and even today there are still some dry counties (alcohol cannot be sold).
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It's not like all the banned computers are barely over the threshold of ~10 watts. A lot of them using 50-100 watts to idle.
can i ask a question? is it possible for people to "own" ipv4 addresses? like we can own domain names? something like /29 Subnet or /28?

if i spent like a hundred bucks or something, i dont know... just asking. how would that work, does that "bring your own ip" that vps providers talk about mean this?

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A distressing response. The 5th Amendment is pretty clear that the right to not self-incriminate paramount, and does not mention obstruction of justice in any clause. The issue seems to be subjective views on what self-incrimination is and that it's viewed as a grey area, and that makes me uneasy.
And they are now trying to do ecocide in Serbia as well...
Italic script is one of the basic calligraphic hands; the fact that it's cursive (joined) and oblique (slanted) are key to its identity. But I would imagine it evolved into type the same way that other script styles did, so to say that italic type "should" look like handwriting seems questionable.
Discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27986106

And another big discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27986160
I agree to disagree then.

The No Smoking policy mandates what you should not do, same as there is a Must Wear Clothes policy.

On the other hand you have the vaccine mandate, which forces you to give up control of your body if you want the job.

Such a policy should not be mandated by a private company, at most it should be encouraged and optional.
Yeah, and if China is so confident about the Wuhan lab not being the source, why prevent an investigation at massive costs to your reputation?

Most people now assume that China is "guilty" because they've figuratively "fled from the trial".
You mean, you want to deliberately infect people near you? What a selfiss a*.
> As freelancer/WFHer, I'm already using Chromium for the unavoidable Teams, G-whatever-its-called-now, Zoom, or other videochat/collaboration app anyway

Tangential to the topic: is there any reason you could not use FireFox? I switched a while ago and was pleasantly surprised to discover all web apps work perfectly, including the Zoom webapp and Google apps (these always feel bloated no matter what browser I use).
Science doesn’t happen in a black box. There are no ways to search for answers if powerful governments don’t want certain questions asked.
Everywhere I publish, conflicts of interest appear under a specific heading though.

Thanks anyway.
Those who took $100 million aren't the mad ones, though.
We're not talking about Germany. The parent article is clearly speaking about a situation within the United States.
That's not an answer to the question. You asserted there is no legitimate criticism. Which is it? Do you think there is legitimate criticism of this vaccine? Are you aware of it?
So stop.

Leave the phone on the charger. When you fail and pick it up again, even hundreds of times, recognize what you did, and immediately put it back on the charger. Repeat.

Yeah you can make your phone show in black and white, or set up artificial locks, but your lack of willpower will quickly make its way around those poor restrictions.

There is no "magic pill". Work on your willpower and self-control. When you falter, forgive yourself and immediately get back on path. It will pay dividends throughout life.
Does the team plans to release the training code? I see they have a google form in order to ask for an access to their dataset.
Probably related to kryptonite, I don't know the details.
The grid should never have had controls over the internet.
Why will taxation (or better yet remove subsidies for extraction) not work?

At some price point, the economics of extraction simply don't make sense anymore vs. other means of energy production (see: coal, nuclear).

We have an extraction "economy" mainly because of government subsidies and support. And that continuing because extraction industries have corrupted governments.
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Indeed, just got that email 30 minutes ago. Apologies for any misinformation I may have pushed elsewhere in this thread.

Still, it sucks to pay €1.00/mo for an IPv4 address I don’t want or use.

Also, they should update the marketing site to clearly show the impending price change.

Edit: they’ve updated the website.
Related, free template: https://github.com/vercel/nextjs-subscription-payments
I've supported v6 on a few small sites hosting OSS projects for almost a decade now, and I kept statistics over the years. The increase in v6 adoption has been glacial. Less than 1% increase per year.

My own connectivity at home doesn't support v6 due to my ISP. At work, v6 is so badly managed it's the first thing we rule out when diagnosing connectivity issues.

Kind of a sad state really. I wish v4 prices increased tenfold, not barely double.
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1. https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/l7b4gl/south-park-we-re...
Mr. Ken Wyatt is probably on the take
What appellate courts have ruled in favor or biometrics being protected?

That would potentially upend decades of case law - the government can compel somebody to produce a physical key (which now includes fingerprints and other biometrics) but cannot compel production of a passcode/combination.
Adding tracing to your own infrastructure is all well and good...

But so much infrastructure is a mishmash of in-house, opensource and closed source. Even the opensource stuff you probably don't want to maintain patches to integrate your tracing tool. In that case, you'll end up with big gaps in traces, making it less useful.
The Wuhan lab is more than 1000 km away from related pathogen's natural reservoirs.

Shi Zhengli said this herself:

Shi, a virologist who is often called China’s “bat woman” by her colleagues because of her virus-hunting expeditions in bat caves over the past 16 years, walked out of the conference she was attending in Shanghai and hopped on the next train back to Wuhan. “I wondered if [the municipal health authority] got it wrong,” she says. “I had never expected this kind of thing to happen in Wuhan, in central China.” Her studies had shown that the southern, subtropical provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan have the greatest risk of coronaviruses jumping to humans from animals—particularly bats, a known reservoir. If coronaviruses were the culprit, she remembers thinking, “Could they have come from our lab?”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-wo...
It got on HN one year ago too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23376236
It will if there are cheaper alternatives.

Bean counters still use the cheapest means of production to run business. Burning fossils isn't required for most businesses, it's just the cheapest way to do business.

For example, if carbon taxes are high, then all the sudden trains becomes super economical so you can expect a large increase in train shipping vs truck shipping.
It looks like I can not change it now.
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Anything you can think of, chances are there is not only a PHP package for it, but probably an out-of-the-box Laravel package.

Whatever this is, it won't beat Laravel.

[0] https://nova.laravel.com/
[1] https://laravel.com/docs/master/billing
I'm 55 and still a programmer. However, in my job I also do other stuff like mess with sensors, cameras, motors. Early on in my career I realized I loved programming but not in a pure SW company.

I did make the conscious decision to never become a manager of any sort, that's really hard and I wouldn't be very good at it.
Have you ever tried to model a sailboat hull in AutoCAD, SketchUp?
I remember trying out all the"new" cad software in the 80/90's, it was impossible.
I still think it extremely difficult. What you can do by hand is easy, conceptually and practically. Software is there now, but still extremely complicated.
Not a single bit of straight line, anywhere, in any direction!
"you people" -- you don't know the first thing about me. And this argument to excuse to treat adult consumers like infants, and use the people that don't mind as the measure all other adults have to reduce themselves to, is used for a lot more than just a wifi toggle.
this statement is true but meaningless...

Majority of pandemics in history are a result of this rare in absolute terms occurrence.

In general diseases that are already highly evolved for their host, mostly innocuous... everyone gets the common cold like 2 times a year, 80% of people have herpes, etc... in most cases the pandemics are caused by diseases that have crossed the infection boundary but arent evolved enough to appropriate limit themselves, this commonly occurs because the disease recently jumped from one host to another..
Well nobody admits that the government is controlled by space lizards either. Does that mean that’s the case? Or could it be just that it’s not true?
They always did and it always was, subscriber model is just more direct than advertiser model
Opt-In self moderation is great. You can even do that here on HN with add-ons like uBlock.

From My Filters

ycombinator.com##.itemlist > tbody > tr.athing:has-text(political)
ycombinator.com##.itemlist > tbody > tr.athing:has-text(political)+tr
ycombinator.com##.itemlist > tbody > tr.athing:has-text(political)+tr+tr

More examples [0] and there are a few other incantations of this.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22781635
> What makes you think lead paint tastes sweet?

Lead acetate has a sweet taste. Lead paint flakes/dust contain lead acetate.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/sugar-of-lead-a-...
Outside of a narrow range of work - with existing STD testing regimens - people aren't supposed to have sex at the office. They are required to breathe, however.

Do see now how requiring a vaccine because it would mitigate disease transmission risk in real world scenario that's a requirement of in person work is reasonable, vs requiring it because two people might sneak off to the head to get the leg over?
> you should have an external password necessary to unlock the drive; not a TPM.

i thought the whole point of hardware oracles like TPMs was to avoid loading a PSK into RAM, making removable RAM sticks simple non-destructive attack vectors.
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Some of this isn't necessarily true.

There can be health risks. This is a very sedentary job with a lot of eye strain and stress.

There can be legal risks, like with HIPAA or even other more basic things.

You do generally need a college degree for most places to even consider you.

I don't make money to the point of it being addicting. I do dream of quitting, but there's not a lot of interesting stuff out there.
True. Nowadays, the names are: Skull candy, Amnesia haze, Lemon haze, Rhino, Bruce Banner, Parvati...

I have no idea if they relate to names in the USA.
Yes, after some more features we gonna make electron app.
I feel like it's really only partisan for anti-vaxxers. For others, it's the same as stuff like building codes, or health codes for restaurants: just a common-sense protection.
Even just knowing basic physics ruined Gravity for me, let alone orbital dynamics.
Because "idle" is not well defined for manufacturers. For instance, core parking is a thing.
Ah, spiffy— that's neat to know that it can switch modes like that. Looks like this has been a matter of evolution over time, too:

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1096942_2016-chevrolet-...

I guess if you were only connected at higher speeds, that would also greatly simplify the transmission story, since you probably no longer need 1-3.
There was always some layer of abstraction. It’s just the ISA is a more elegant abstraction than a mobile platform is.
This is a perfect example of the point. I hold your view too, but your comment is being downvoted and I have no idea what the counterarguments are. It would be enlightening to know.
> with almost no feedback when things break

It was kind of like that back in the days of "shrink-wrapped" (even if it wasn't really shrink wrapped) software, too, though - I remember trying to debug problems that were specific to a particular environment on remote computer users computers before the internet. At least with apps you can build in some sort of telemetry.

But yeah, things are way more complicated than they used to be, and it takes a lot longer than most people appreciate to go from zero to productive.
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I'm not an expert about Webflow, or Bubble. But, if I'm not wrong, I don't think you can build a SaaS with these two nocode tools.
> Peter Daszak being one of the authors of this paper basically removes any shred of credibility for what is effectively an opinion piece.

It does come across as completely shameless. But why include him if not for transparency? Obviously publishing without his name is a boost in credibility, so why not do so?

In any case, it's not a very well-written or convincing letter, so it's even more puzzling. This part really got me:

> Recently, many of us have individually received inquiries asking whether we still support what we said in early 2020.1
The answer is clear: we reaffirm our expression of solidarity with those in China who confronted the outbreak then, and the many health professionals around the world who have since worked to exhaustion, and at personal risk, in the relentless and continuing battle against this virus. Our respect and gratitude have only grown with time.
> Fingerprints, other biometrics, and physical keys are all things that just are

For nontrivial biometrics (and facial locking may not usually meet this) the act of unlocking is testimonial (as it demonstrates both the specific action and your knowledge thereof) as much as a password is. A command to “unlock this device with <biometric method>” is different than a command to simply provide, say, a fingerprint.
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After you watch enough videos, you learn to look for kids doing unsafe things (e.g. climbing on flotation devices) to spot things ahead of time. Sure, you learn what drowning looks like, but if you watch, the lifeguards often react instantly which means they predicted that person would get themselves in trouble ahead of time and reacted as soon as the person went under.

I got a lot better at it after a little bit of practice and most of the improvement was figuring out who was doing dangerous things that you needed to keep an eye on.
> This statement sounds very disingenuous

I don't agree. The lab leak theory has a disproportionate share of the public discourse's space compared to it's scientific plausibility. So it's time to turn down (not off) the rhetoric, and evaluate all hypothesis in a scientific way. You will notice at no point in the article do they say that non-natural hypothesis should not be investigated, quite the opposite:

> "[...] whether it occurred wholly within nature or might somehow have reached the community via an alternative route, and prevent future pandemics."
Those paper based ads works exceedingly well particularly if you don't know the area. For example, growing up my grandparents knew next to nothing at all about what toys kids were interested in. When they wanted to buy us toys for christmas or a birthday or something, they'd seek out relevant advertising in the form of the Sears catalog toy section, and browse through all popular toys on offer and their prices all in one place. We'd even circle the toys in particular we wanted from that catalog. I can't imagine what they'd do today if they were still around trying to buy things for grandchildren. You can't exactly get a catalog from Sears anymore. You have to go on a wild goose chase on the internet. Its a chore even for me having grown up with the internet.
Note to Google/Amazon:

My hand-curated list of well-regarded programming books that my programming site cycles through has been a success. Not a single person has ever complained about those ads.

I view a proper set of ads that are relevant to the site content as a service to the user, not an annoyance.

I (and presumably my viewers) would appreciate a way of specifying this to your ad servers. I would also appreciate a way of restricting ads to being text/picture/link and nothing more.
I wish destroying aboriginal heritage got its due media coverage and widespread resistance. The topic reminds me of a satire news article about Canada, poking fun at oil pipelines passing through and destroying first nations religiously important lands.

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2016/12/catholics-beaten-police...
So what is the distinction between the following scenarios:

1. Checking to see if your fingerprint matches the pattern left on the stolen painting.

2. Checking to see if your DNA matches the DNA left under the victim's fingernails.

3. Checking to see if your face matches the face pattern stored on the laptop recovered during a search of your premises.

4. Checking to see if your fingerprint matches the pattern left in the Secure Enclave of the phone that was located near the scene of the crime via phone company records and GPS.

These scenarios are all slightly different. I'm not saying this is or is not a 5th Amendment issue. Would really like to get a legal argument on the important distinction between #1/2 and #3/4.
Is anyone here familiar with Matomo? I noticed the linked page attempts to run it before seeing it mentioned, because Ghostery blocked it.

It's a “Free software alternative to Google Analytics” “which can easily be configured to respect your visitors' privacy”[0] (emphasis mine). But can it be configured in a way so you can claim “without any tracking code”? I wonder whether the claim in the headline was supposed to be merely “no third-party tracking”. [Edited to add:] Waiiit a moment, is the intended meaning simply “no Google tracking code”? (I don't think the article addresses this anywhere; hope I didn't just miss something.)

Or maybe I'm supposed to know that “no tracking” is jargon for something like ”attempts to not store PII” in this industry? I doubt that it can be configured such that, for example, unique visitors are statistically estimated instead of counting unique IDs from tracking cookies — but I'm too lazy to research that in detail, so it would be interesting to hear from someone who knows more.

[0] https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo
Anyone around from the Anarchy Online Engine update shed any light? Looks like it was a gigantic task.
> If we get there, the whole browser ecosystem collapses, and the open web is in very serious trouble.

I don't get this take. Everyone says if Apple doesn't catch up to Chrome then Google will control the web... But like... If Apple is implementing everything Google releases in Chrome to "stay up to date" then don't they already control the web?

Isn't Apple staying back and saying "Nah, we won't be implementing that stuff" making sure that Google doesn't control the web?
I doubt Automattic runs Gravatar for free out of the goodness of their hearts. It can track in two easy ways: firstly the user that requests different avatars, as they move through the web and different sites, and secondly the users whose avatars are requested, as to what services they use. Their privacy policy allows for this at a quick glance.

Personally I proxy Gravatar requests through my web service's backend to get rid of the first type of tracking.
I feel like this exchange may have been a manufactured strawman, because the flaw in the shower argument is obvious: no one is mandating showers, and there are no widespread objections to showers.

Even insofar as minimal personal hygiene is implicitly required, it's left entirely up to an individual's conscience how to achieve it. A fair comparison would be mandating "either a vaccine or avoiding crowds in indoor spaces or any similar measure", since both of those are known to significantly reduce (but not eliminate) the risk. (How effectively they do so is beside the point of the inapplicability of the shower analogy.)
Yeah in the medical industry treating all the cancer victims who are exposed to their hazardous waste when they illegally dump maybe