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interesting language, didn't have the time to read the details/spec but, what i found most difficult when reading recipes on the internet that the ingredient names change dramatically between countries(event with the same spoken language), does this language attempt tackle that problem? also it would be nice to have alternatives for some ingredients.
Pretty please all maintainers, please stop using this bot!

I usually take the time to write well-written bug reports for any problems I spot. If my reports are closed as "stale" by this bot, that is a surefire way to get me to never report a single bug again and probably also to stop using the project altogether. It's demeaning because the bot is telling me that I wasted my time and that I shouldn't bother. Next to patches languishing for years, this is the absolutely most annoying "misfeature" of any free software project. Please stop!
I feel like it is more telling about tech media outrage hits here when Apple does a thing.

But not for websites... Google... etc.
Why would maintenance be covered in the connection fee? Not only is it backwards from the usual financial game of lowering up front costs by hiding them in recurring costs but there is no way to know up front if you'll need to maintain that line for 2 years or 200.
The crucifix is different, besides the Uranium glass it has engravings painted with something I think is tritium.
Snowden is an activist pushing for an agenda too. Sure, one we agree with and seems ethical but it's still an agenda. Side note, when did "activist" become a dirty word?
I would never, ever, in any way, direct any of my money to Nathan Myhrvold or his circles; if my public library considered buying that book I would object. In fact, thanks for reminding me, I will write a few letters in case this is "a thing"
I think the logic goes something like this:

Apple is a trusted brand for privacy. Even if FaceID is harmless in terms of surveillance potential, it still associates positively in the minds of users, such that when other vendors — or even the government - decide that they want to use it to, and not with the same on-device protection, etc - people will accept it willingly because it was safe when they did it with Apple.

I agree with other commenters here that these arguments lead to a sort of infinite regression. All of the things Apple has implemented is rather old tech by now. If we accept those as surveillance, we practically can’t have anything. Which sucks.

Apple is trusted now. But they might not always be. They could go the way of their competitors. Then where would we be?
New Oura Ring Generation 3
This looks great as a portable NAS device. I could run it using Raspbian or whatever will run on the rpi. For me it would be perfect if there was a TrueNAS port to arm hardware that could run on the pi. As it is, I use a 2GB pi4 in an argon m.2 case as a traveling NAS. I run FreeBSD on that and it's not so much of a NAS as it is an NFS server.
This is the difference between productivity and efficacy.
Mine is gauranteed to be 3 59s uptime. 595959
> The world is a far less bad place than people credit. The impact of speech is still not the same as that of sticks and stones, and guns, knives, or fists must still be wielded by people, not Youtube videos. Generations have been wrongly certain that children needed legislation to keep them safe from the evils of crystal-set radios, comic books, video nasties, satanism, “dungeons & dragons”, and Kate Moss’ “heroin chic” — let alone Instagram.

This guy underestimates the power of speech, and seems to get there by cherry-picking his examples. I'm generally supportive of privacy and opposed to censorship, but there are some pretty serious and legitimate problems that exist nowadays that challenge that view (some are new, some are amplified versions of perennial problems). Hand wavy dismissals of those problems don't make a compelling argument.

Personally, my sense is the democratization of industrial-scale broadcasting technology might have made some bad tradeoffs, compared to the previous system where that technology was controlled by well-educated elites subject to social regulation by peers. That previous system certainly had its flaws, but it did slow many things down and tended to be more restrained (on average), and that was probably better.

So you might be able to avoid the need for censorship by making wide-scale broadcasting technology as hard as it used to be (or at least harder than it is now).
Or an excuse for mismanagement....
> Everyone has had years of opportunity to buy into Bitcoin at a fraction of its current value

Making money by buying and selling bitcoin is zero sum. People are only making money because other people are losing out. There is no possible way that everyone buys bitcoins and gets rich from it. Bitcoins depends on the existence of rubes and the continual expansion of the pyramid to make money for "investors".
I feel like Twitter does this for me. I'll go over the limit on a long tweet, and I'll go back and trim and exchange long words for short ones and remove words that don't contribute anything.

The result will fit, and basically say the same thing. I've never had to fundamentally alter the meaning of a tweet, I just make it shorter, which is a healthy writing exercise.
It sounds to me like Apple destroyed Facebook's competitors in the mobile ad space with relatively modest impact to Facebook.
sadly, discord ToS forbid "self-botting", so the only legal option is to use a Discord bot, and that's far from seamless and requires guild admin cooperation, I assume that's why they aren't advertising it
The stale bot is trying to solve a set of problems with a single solution that fits almost none of them. Old issues never resolved? Not enough information? Too many issues created? Issues that will never be worked on? Just one solution - close them all without comment, while also spamming the inboxes of anyone who might be watching them... which leads to +1 posts and duplicates and "why was this closed?" - again more spam. Most people just want some sort of explanation that makes sense. Even something as simple as, "Don't have time for this right now, try reopening in 6 months" would be better, while accomplishing the same thing - closing issues that won't be worked on.

In my experience, the number one problem I see on github / gitlab projects, is the maintainers not being able to or willing to allow others help them. Volunteering to triage issues, review code, etc. is very often meant with silence or reservations, even on projects that are specifically asking for help.

Maintainers want help but they are very untrustworthy of those who wish to help them. That's completely understandable. The work is their baby and they want control over it. The internet is full of people who are untrustworthy. But this is a huge problem and there are a ton of open source projects that die as a result.

The tools offered do not provide a good solution for this ownership problem, but they are all that is offered, so things like stale bot are used to try to reduce the load on the maintainers, which ends up making the problem worse, not better.

There are some projects that don't run into these issues, at least not to the same degree. Those projects almost always have a high degree of collaboration between maintainers and contributors. It usually feels more like a collective than a maintainer/user relationship.
Facebook AI’s NormFormer Significantly Improves Transformer Pretraining
Yes, it will likely be reverted [1] for bitwise ops, while keeping += and ++ deprecated (to save face someone would say).

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2021/p232...
It seems like most of the top-level comments here are some version, "zomg, I hate wired" -- no reason, just passionate fury.

That surprises me, and makes me think that this simple article showing up in Wired UK is potentially very impactful -- so it is being attacked very forcefully, with lots of handwaving.

Apple's new Citizen Surveillance and Management (CSAM) technology is serious -- the article refers to it specifically -- the privacy concerns are not new. The tech is a legalized version of terrorist technology provider NSO Group's Pegasus software.

We already have a group of people, QAnon, terrorizing the world in order to 'save the children' -- we don't need to add another group in the form of a global $2.5T company.
Seems doubtful to me.

Apple doesn't have to score the absolute highest in performance. For better or worse, they need a credible high-end chip that they can marry with their proprietary OS and computer designs to win customers via a compelling package not some benchmark result.

After the M1*, intel is facing an uphill fight to keep other laptop manufacturers on x86. They may well pull together and come out stronger, but the last 10y haven't been stellar and Apple exposed that weakness.

So, will intel win back some of the performance benchmarks? Sure, no doubt. But will Dell win over Apple customers using the latest intel chips? Let's see...
Agree, this was a last-minute hack. If you have an idea how to rethink this you can share one in a spec repo issues if you don't mind https://github.com/cooklang/spec. Thanks!
> Sadly though, a lot of Americans and especially people on the far left are not appreciative of the freedom of speech this country has, and continue to squander it.

Can you expand on this? I’d like to understand your view better. How does the far left not appreciate it?
Laptop Xeons generally won't be doing too well here; I'm fairly certain they're _all_ smaller than the Xeon in the Mac Pro mentioned in the article.
Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation? (2011)
at the rate of Marvel movies, I think someone farts an idea and it gets greenlit. not telling me much here /s
Fully agreed. While his life would have definitely been much easier if he followed the "reasonable rules", easier != better. And to be fair, I am glad Carmack went for what he thought was the right move vs. him going for the move that he thought would lead him to an easier life.

He is one of the very few people in the industry (not just gaming, but technology in general) who manages to move the entire industries forward not once, but many times, and consistently so. All while remaining true to himself, caring about what he thinks matters the most, and not jumping head deep into corporate games just for the sake of it.

Maybe I am fanboying a bit here, but after reading Masters of Doom (a biographical piece on the early life of both Johns [Carmack and Romero], how they started ID Software together, and how it all turned out; heavily recommended for everyone here), it feels like I am experiencing an even more exciting sequel to it happening in real life in front of my eyes.
That is the kind of comment that freaks me out on HACKER news.
How can I verify you're running unmodified, unhooked source in your server if I'm a user?
I have some training as a VFR pilot (for ultralight aircraft). I was under the impression that true north was always used everywhere (maps mainly), and adjusted with the local (and current) magnetic deviation when preparing the flight plan, to be able to take accurate bearings.

Using magnetic north in maps and databases seems... misguided. Not updating instruments with the latest value too, although it must be a lot more complex to do so over long flights, with non-negligible deviation changes.

Don't lose your bearings! I can imagine it's easy to rely too much on instruments when they're available.
They allegedly do liveness checks with an IR sensor to make sure they are scanning a live eye
I agree that Tor should be modernized. This move will definitely encourage a lot of people to try Tor. After all, privacy is our human right.
Hack Club receives $1M donation from Elon Musk
> Is it okay to be cowardly?

> It's wrong.
Martin Shkreli's Wu-Tang Album Was Bought by NFT Sellers for $4M
In case anyone else didn't take latin in school, it translates to "Who watches the watchers".

Not sure if this is common knowledge (I highly doubt it). While legitimate, the English saying would have done just as well IMO.
Ground-source heat pumps take advantage of the fact that the earth stays at reasonable temperatures below the frost line.
An update on New York transit construction costs
Apple managed to book entire TSMC 5nm production or close to all last year - that's the main reason for this performance.
and by managed - its passed on consumer ofc.

ill just wait for amd 5nm offering that will also be in ram/cpu upgreadeable form factors and Linux compatible out of the box for half the price.
I got forced to upgrade to Big Sur recently and it’s working okay. The Lock Screen is my only issue. It flashes several times and makes me re-enter my password halfway through typing it
you can do that but there are consequences to your actions. good and bad.
Why I didn’t apologize for that Yale Law School email
Yes, I think this is it. It all might have been started as "bugs" or "Issues" but over time, the functionality was extended to have feature requests, different discussions, etc. I don't have an alternative name for this, Notes maybe? But Issues sounds more severe than what it usually is.
That's all well and good, but I believe the original complaint was more concerning the second party in the conversation. There's no way for me, a hypothetical person who wants to keep my Signal messages 100% encrypted in the Signal ecosystem, to opt out of my contacts using an Element bridge.

Sure, I can go around and tell everyone I know that they shouldn't bridge Signal to Element One because <cryptonerd rant>, but there's no way for me to tell that my advice has been followed. Previously, the chances that someone had set up such a bridge were small, but by nature of making these things accessible, Element One also increases the risk of my conversations being (benevolently?) MITM'd.

I think it's a great offering, but I share GP's reticence about a system that puts what used to be zero-knowledge conversations in plaintext on a third-party server...all without me realizing.
I still have my healthy skepticism over that.

It would join the very short list of usable reverse engineered GPU drivers, and not for lack of attempts. Just look at noveau for an idea of what to expect at most...
At that point it’s basically clientside bridging (or multihead messagering), given having decrypted the message (even if you had the right keys available) you’d need to speak the protocol of the remote service.
TraceTogether was already in wide-scale use in Singapore before Apple + Google’s exposure notification system was released.
TL;DR a police officer from higher ground shot an armed, suicidal person in the leg so that he could not commit suicide and/or hurt his family members. Very well handled, my respect from NL. I cannot imagine this happening in USA, btw.
> Is Hacker News reliable as a source of advice?

> It's not.

https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=Is+Hacker+News+reliable+as+a+...

> Was Richard Stallman right?

> It's wrong.

https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=Was+Richard+Stallman+right%3F
> Isn't their slogan serve and protect or something?

It is their slogan, which has the same value of a McDonalds or Coke "healthy food" marketing campaign.

I think there actually was some kind of ruling in the US where it was ruled that the police in there do not have to serve or protect their citizens. [1]

[1] https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-y...
The Glory days, when both Google Talk and Facebook used XMPP, and you can run one client to chat with all of them. We ran Prosidy and Pidgin at my old job, and it worked great for our company chat server.
How feasible is it to drive a 5G (or any G after 3) modem with a low-power microcontroller?
Because heroin (and similar opiates) are one of the hardest addictions to quit.

It's also easier to accidentally OD on heroin compared to cocaine or alcohol.
I don't know where your figures come from. I've seen Tesla's 2020 FY R&D expense was $1.5Bn, but that is dwarfed by the other players if the linked data is correct[1].
So apart from paying a massive premium, dollar for investment dollar you'd get much more R&D for your money buying a basket of non-Tesla automakers than tesla.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/566060/automotve-firms-b...
Not only the car industry. Big farma and Nestle are also good friends of some ministers.
HN seems to forget about this in HAM threads. Obviously the odds of losing internet access suddenly and for extended periods of time seems pretty unlikely in the US, but a few days ago many in Sudan probably thought the same. Radio requires no additional infrastructure between you and the receiver, receivers can be improvised by someone with an undergraduate knowledge of electronics, and HF communications can reach literally across the planet. Yes the internet is superior for the overwhelming majority of use cases, but if it's not available, radio is a very important fallback.
This 16 core $2000 part from the article only marginally beat the M1 Max, so seems somewhat unlikely that those smaller Xeons would do that well: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/193753/...
> Sadly, they're eventually likely to get it all.

Not mine! But WTF, I'm just a paranoid weirdo.
Michael Jordan game-worn rookie sneakers sell for record $1.47M USD
> (because you’re an activist or whatever)

How about because I'm a regular person, and I don't want everything I say analyzed by the federal government and stored in perpetuity? I'm increasingly repulsed by this notion that unless I'm doing something illegal or in opposition the the ruling party, encryption is just a luxury. Encryption is for anyone with any desire to express themselves honestly without modifying their behavior because someone is watching.

People flock to Signal for a reason and a lot of them will use this "bridge" without understanding what they're giving up. You're doing more harm that good to try to usher people towards your platform.
CouchDB dev here, I can confirm that CouchDB is very much not on life support. Active work goes into PouchDB and CouchDB, some of which is addressing the issues brought up here. Nothing shipping yet (aside from maybe native jwt auth in this months 3.2.0 release), but definitely ongoing :)
Not everybody hacks on everything. Many of us pick and choose our hobbies. I don't sysadmin my phone for the same reason.
I am normally not a fan of Zimmer but I thought his score for Dune had some great parts.
I was thinking to make it public, but it's based on an Arduino shield I purchased the day after the Fukushima accident, it is no more in commerce. I should make it more generic changing hardware. I think you can find online similar projects.
I think you’re overthinking it. It’s certainly feasible, I’m sure it’s been thought of and brought up many times in meetings, It’s just not profitable. The answer, like with many things, is simply money I believe. The compute resources needed to implement & maintain this type of feature at scale, for even a single platform would probably cost many millions of dollars.

So unfortunately, I doubt we will get this anytime soon. They would have to spend huge amounts of money & resources to add this, for essentially no financial gain.
> Homebrew hacking in an airplane sounds like an awful idea.

These are not for commercial aviation. The only area where homebrew can "fly" is experimental airplanes. And in that application it kinda makes sense. Many of those airplanes were made in someones garage themselves, so why stop there and why not make the instruments yourself too?
Let's not forget that it also gives Apple's own App Store advertising a significant advantage, since they still have the ability to correlate ads with app installs.

For Apple it's a win-win. Public gets more privacy and Apple nets a few billion dollars more in revenue in addition to anything additional generated by goodwill.
This is a very common misunderstanding of how monetization works. The actual value of Bitcoin comes from demonetizing other currently monetary assets (dollars, gold, real estate, etc.), plus some additional (partially externalized) value from increased efficiency as a monetary mechanism. People who are long those assets and not adequately hedged with Bitcoin are losing money to people who are long Bitcoin (assuming Bitcoin people are correct and it works out).
Perhaps im just a jerk but all im seeing here is a very expensive diskless nas case that i can already buy from aliexpress for an order of magnitude cheaper. I'd be glad if you could change my mind.
'it happened before, it'll happen again'

Nihilists remedy to FOMO
> The outdated Xeon Apple had in their old laptops

Apple has never sold a laptop with a Xeon in it.
App Store paid search placement
> I think it's a great offering, but I share GP's reticence about a system that puts what used to be zero-knowledge conversations in plaintext on a third-party server...all without me realizing.

Element CEO here, you must be a tinfoil hat crazy person, everyone should communicate in cleartext, you're not a terrorist are you
Ads every 2 minutes, host has zero personality and seems to have no real understanding of the safety issues he's dealing with. Not for me...
Sure if you DM me on Twitter I can send one your way.
syncing between clients requires a network between clients and normally, clients only have connections to servers. But if you are in a situation where clients can open TCP connections to other clients, CouchDB can sync over that.
yes, mom and pop companies suffered the most
A lost hiker ignored rescuers' phone calls, thinking they were spam
Primarily the app store, which has a number of placements with sponsored content.
This is what newspapers learned. They thought the internet was a paradigm shift at first.

Turns out there is a group of affluent folks willing to pay for quality journalism- as it has been the case for 400 years.
> I miss some of your points

I will rephrase a core concept more plainly: people are supposed to be trained to be "reflective": whatever input (intellectual, emotional, informational, ideal - so external or internal - etc.) they get, it should be put on a buffer with a label "tentative, provisional, waiting for further validation, digestion, development". Whatever incites to shallowness, cheap, immature thought, reaction etc., is against civilization.

> social media not inherently bad, but the way it was implemented was

Yes indeed. Some environments clearly "point towards evil".

I was mainly thinking about incitation to rush, quick consumption, construed emotional response etc. But already the policy of one of the biggest boards out there, encouraging upvoting and downvoting according to "feeling", (mis-)educates people to give value to a knee-jerk reaction (which should at most be there as a preliminary orientation) and consolidate it through the psychological trap of a statement of position, and create identities in the deterior sense, self-images based on stagnating undiscussed assumptions.

> design (regulate?)

You need to promote, through function and policy, better examples and work recursively from them (let them lead and criticize). In fact, the very example you provide is all about credibility of the proponents.
No - the bridge could be compromised without your conversation partner’s involvement.

I.e. the bridge is a vulnerability that enables man in the middle attacks.