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I'm not really sure I understand the outrage here. Just because the marginal cost of something is low/zero doesn't mean companies shouldn't charge for it.

Should an indie software developer using a freemium model be crucified because the binary they ship already contains the code for full functionality? Of course not. The cost is in developing the binary, not in manufacturing it. Same goes for silicon.

Also, "rent seeking" does not mean what most people in this thread seem to think it does. Economic rents are a very specific phenomenon and it simply does not mean charging for something that is perceived as being low/no effort.
Most advanced countries have surveillance in place for all medical interventions. In the UK we have the "Yellow card scheme". Most submissions are by medics but patients can write up their own reports too. Lying doesn't really matter because they're looking for patterns, so a few people writing nonsense doesn't trip the process up (but of course, please don't lie).

However, we don't have good baseline data. One thing that surprised me was, for the HPV vaccine which was initially being given specifically to teenage girls, they didn't have baseline menstruation symptom data. So, does having the HPV jab tend to make your period late? early? heavier? How often? We have no idea because we had no baseline data. Maybe the reports you get are actually normal - prompted only by the recent vaccination. Or maybe they aren't. If you were going to pick a group of patients likely to freak out because of minor and inconsequential menstrual changes you would pick teenage girls, but nobody had this data. Not just in the US, everywhere doesn't have this data. For easy stuff like "Do people drop dead when they take this vaccine?" we know long before authorisation if there's a big problem. But for subtle effects it's invisible until surveillance and without a baseline we have to guess what's important unless the numbers are overwhelming.
is this the disertation (.pdf link)?

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.34....
Is the inadequacy of existing mechanisms to protect against STDs your primary impediment for having sex at the moment?

I somehow doubt it given that the mechanisms to protect against STDs are much better than before, the treatments when you do get them are much better than before, and even with all of this Millennials and Gen Z are having much less sex than older generations.
If you'd like to ask the real Noam Chomsky a question you can just email him.
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Heh, I remember playing around with Hammerhead back in the 1990s. Nothing came of it, but it was fun.

Sadly, the download link appears to be broken. :-(
Fruits (as in from fruiting plants, not fruits in the culinary sense) I assume would still be fair game as they are designed to separate from the parent plant, often falling off without any intervention even.
How exactly is this rent seeking?
> one might want to get security updates

So you do want an ongoing service, you just don't want to pay for it?
It's possible but I doubt it. It runs linux, is an e-ink device, can be sshed into and customized heavily, and it has a large following of nerds that write custom tools and reverse engineer the software and hardware. And on top of that it's a great device out of the box. To me that makes it likely to be of great interest to the HN crowd.
But that means throwing out a large part of Django and writing lots of "interconnect" code. At that point I think it's better to choose a different backend, one that will generate typed Typescript client code (or use Typescript on the server and some clever metaprogramming).
People are talking about Web3. Is it the Internet of future or just a buzzword?
Brains are mostly fat... so it could be the time for enough heat to transfer into the brain for it to melt and all the neurons short out. Getting too hot is way more dangerous for your brain than getting too cold.

Some brains can also rapidly shut down consciousness in response to overwhelming pain, but I suspect that's not relevant for lobsters... getting their limbs torn off and re-growing them is a thing. If a bigger lobster rips your arm off, you'd better remember where it happened and respect their territory.
Build an inferior product (fueling takes 25x longer than a gas powered car) then charge you more to make it less inferior. I think electric vehicles are cool but when you push aside the eco/tesla fanboyism, the fact is that Tesla makes a car with one of the worst service records (next to last) of all the cars rated and when you take away all the government subsidies the car is hugely overpriced. A nice Audi A6 or A8 is a far better deal.
I’m not a huge fan of pycharm’s inference and autocomplete. It’s not that it’s bad, I was really just that I was hoping for more.

There is so much that could be done eg IDEs could enable proper exhaustive signature checks when running code in debuggers. Pypy could probably do some really good cheap checks in debug mode too. And if not checking while debugging, they could at least highlight failed hints in the call stack when the debugger stops.

A long long time ago before MyPy I made a runtime checker called Obiwan. I always preferred its syntax to MyPy, eg [int] instead of list[int]. I then got into playing with SSA within functions and that really helped type checking.

So there’s loads more I think could be done to do what typescript did for JavaScript but to python.
> The Remote Audio Output Protocol, AKA AirTunes, AKA AirPlay, has been using port 5000 since the year 2004. This is nothing new. All AirPlay receivers including AirPort Express and Apple TV use port 5000. If you've ever used Airfoil on your Mac (Airfoil Speakers was released in 2008), that also uses 5000 for the same reason. AirPlay receiving is new to macOS Monterey, but AirPlay itself is very old, predating Flask and these other web development environments. No, Apple is not trying to make web development difficult.

> Posted 2 weeks ago by jeffjohnson

Come on people, it's not like we're not pulling dev server ports out of our asses. Apple is using the port in a standard way, let's just pull a different random number like 8080, 3030, 6000, 6666 or whatever for our random devserver.
> To be fair, this behaviour isn't one-sided. Often bicycles, e-bikes and motorcycles squeeze through small gaps between cars moving slow'ish in packed traffic.

The speed is the issue. A collision at low speeds is much less likely to be fatal [0]. Being closely overtaken by a car when you're going at 20-25mph on a bicycle is 1) a scary experience and 2) unnecessarily dangerous for the cyclist (and not at all for the driver).

[0] https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/relationship_between_speed_risk_...
their certification process as oitlined on https://ryf.fsf.org/about/criteristates:

BEGIN

> there is one exception for secondary embedded processors. The exception applies to software delivered inside auxiliary and low-level processors and FPGAs, within which software installation is not intended after the user obtains the product. This can include, for instance, microcode inside a processor, firmware built into an I/O device, or the gate pattern of an FPGA. The software in such secondary processors does not count as product software.

>We want users to be able to upgrade and control the software at as many levels as possible. If and when free software becomes available for use on a certain secondary processor, we will expect certified products to adopt it within a reasonable period of time. This can be done in the next model of the product, if there is a new model within a reasonable period of time. If this is not done, we will eventually withdraw the certification.

END

this explains their decisions in terms of their software freedom ideals, and its perfectly clear. i keep trying to explain to you that FSF is not about doing their best in terms of security. FSF is about doing what they believe is best for software freedom. althought it would be nice, i just dont see why they MUST inform their users about security entailments

of course, it is perfectly fine to point out security flaws in such an approach, but FSF is not selling security, and since the original topic is GNU Guix distro, GNU Guix does not market itself as a security-centric distro. why is this so hard for you to accept

alot of your argument rests on failure of their logic and bluring of a clear distinction between hardware and software. fine, it is a VALID point, but it is a corner case. FSF has taken an approach they believe deals best with such corner cases and explained their reasoning. they might be right in their approach, they might be wrong. you cannot satisfy everyone and not accepting that is just simply infantile

FSF is a pretty large organisation. for large organisations some form of bureocracy becomes necesary to achieve normal functioning. however, bureocracy will always entail some ilogical elements, esspecially in corner cases. that is just life, i believe
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Yeh it got enabled to limit the never ending spam battle
Diffusion models are better - but their inference times are orders of magnitude slower.

GAN models are really cool. Don't get me wrong. But they are popular _because_ they are fast at inference. They are still challenging to train (hopefully projected GAN helps with this) and have a very tough time representing highly diverse datasets with lots of data.
subsection1h, learn to cite most recent and applicable IETF.

RFC 6761

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6761
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What I find strange is the support that the Indian (opportunistic) left's narrative gets in US media including niche tech communities like HN. Any one who has grown up in India in the past 50 years has witnessed the devastation caused by Socialism in this country. Socialism did not make India equal - it made India's bureaucracy and politics a cesspool of corruption that did enormous damage to India's poor. Anybody on this community who wants a crisp, fair view of the situation should spend a minute reading this editorial from India's largest newspaper before commenting: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/swa...
How would that undo the unfair comparison done in the benchmark game?
That's not entirely true, you DO get syncing with no plan, just not unlimited syncing. But yes, I agree it is expensive for just connecting to somebody else's service.

https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/44082491463...
-> Absence of evidence here means that while you can't rule it out, you can't positively state it either.

Right, so calling it a "myth", as in the headline, is incorrect. That would imply that you know it to be false. The author is taking the lack of evidence to mean that it can't be true.

And as for the burden of proof, as with any hypothesis, anyone is welcome to try to falsify it. I just don't believe that the evidence here has done that.
> You have to commit to learning NixOS and understand that you are only learning NixOS, it won't help you use anything else.

As a NixOS user, I did learn a lot about what is part of Linux distributions and what is part of the kernel, and how they interact. Compared to my previous Ubuntu knowledge, of course. If I would have ran Arch, I would have learned similar things.
it's not as harsh as you describe it, but it's a well know issue in nix community
which is why flakes were introduced
It's this one: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.29...
I don’t think that pain requires consciousness, but not in a way you probably think I am right now. I think that we don’t feel pain either. It’s a combination of a prediction and a sensation that assembles to pain. And when you split pain into parts, interesting things happen.

First, it is a unconditional limb/muscle reaction that is hard-coded. It’s uncomfortable but doesn’t constitute “suffering”. Then there is a sensation: burning, broken, cold, etc that makes you do something in the range of acting to reduce the damage to screaming (message danger to others and maybe get help) and kicking erratically (to counteract a predator). It’s more close to “suffer”, but short episodes don’t really add up to long-term or intensive “anguish”. Some people have high pain tolerance, but it doesn’t mean they don’t feel it, they simply don’t change their state of minds so much. And then may come the understanding that you’re going to unfair die or become disabled for life, and these feelings and thoughts may be comparable to a situation of no physical pain at all, e.g. if you end up with an unfair life sentence. So basically my idea is that dying in pain is just a very negative sum of these negative components, but consciousness is not the key. It only helps to see your fate, whatever it is.

Which parts of “pain” we are trying to reduce by these laws is unclear.
You can buy those? I could use some!
We're doing that with Envoy and OpenResty and both are (at this stage) faster and more flexible. We use Lua in both cases, so I suppose it becomes a .NET vs. Lua thing. But to me, when your infrastructure becomes a language/framework fight we're in the wrong battle anyway.
The point is that even the IANA doesn't give a fuck about the port assignment document. It's full of dead entities.
Reading those numbers is only a minor part compared to processing the data in the slicer. While you are right, that a better format could be imagined I would call it a minor or even non-issue. After compressing the file sizes should not be so much different as the raw data suggests.

> Text formats are good when human readable, but no sane person gonna read 1GB of data.

People are regularly editing the resulting G-Code file which is even bigger in size. They use old fashioned text editors for this which works because it's not binary but simple text with readable numbers. Then those huge files are processed with little 8-Bit computers which have barely enough processing power to move the motors.
The problem is that this can be arbitrary if the market doesn't supply enough competitors. I don't think Intel is in a position to enforce this, but the competitors that would prohibit them from implementing such restrictions are fairly weak in numbers. AMD alone isn't enough regardless of whether they ship superior products or not.

It also tells me about the focus of Intel and who is in charge of the company. They have many flawed products lately and they seem to not want to compete on a technological level anymore.

That said, proprietary DSP aren't unusual. It would still a shame if they find their way into general computing too a larger degree. Can make sense for the line of XEON CPU perhaps. I just wouldn't buy them really.
When has Intel ever sold processors that were all homogenous? They have always created many tiers of products that appeal to different customer segments and price sensitivities.

This allows for upgrades without having to replace the hardware. Consider you buy consumer gear at consumer prices without ECC functionality. Then you decide you'd like to run ZFS or something where ECC is encouraged. Instead of having to replace the processor, you just upgrade the microcode.
You need to read the full text I'm afraid:

"Even though vaccinations offers protection to individuals against severe hospitalization and death, the CDC reported an increase from 0.01 to 9% and 0 to 15.1% (between January to May 2021) in the rates of hospitalizations and deaths, respectively, amongst the fully vaccinated"
I for one will have no compunction about:

a) abandoning CPU vendors that do this, forever if needs be
b) pirating features in my CPU
> If it's very old and common it goes in the crusher.

Repeat until the hardware is rare and worth something?
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I have the same issue with the OCR. I've been using it for taking notes for my masters courses, and ironically as part of the course just finished making a machine learning model for OCR on armv7 devices that works as well if not better then the proprietary OCR service they use, and could easily run on the device without needing the network at all.

My biggest issue with the rm2 is not any specific feature, but the total and complete lack of support for 3rd party software. The people behind the device make great hardware, and nice device drivers, but kind of suck at user facing software. They should stop trying to do the front end stuff, and just give us the ability to let the community do it ourselves.
Sounds like an architecture full of features you'd like to avoid when you want to run on battery, run as many of them in a datacenter of a given heat dissipation capacity or simply when you're big enough to tailor a CPU design to your needs because you can buy from a chip manufacturing as a service company. Truly an architecture for a different century.
QuickCheck generates its own test cases and possible shapes. More importantly, it tries all possible constructors of a type (or a reasonable number). So you're reasonably confident that you tried a lot of "shape-cases".
What kind of treated timber lasts hundreds of years? When I think of treated timber I’m thinking of Bunnings treated pine... what is the industry standard timber for longevity?
My setup has a PSU of just 550W and a max power draw less than 200W (around 80W in regular office apps) while allowing me to play any title at the native resolution of the monitor. It is great to have the best eye candy in 4k, but is it worth the price in $$$ and climate warming?
Your comment is nonsensical. You are talking about two entirely different families of medications.
Yeah, that's for sure. I was once very happy with a Fintech app (a bank), very techy, an API, modern and cool features, tight community. Then they pivoted and started targetting another more mainstream crowd. They incorporated their insta-feed into the app, and all kinds of social and greenwashing features. Reviews are still poor. I keep wondering if they could not somehow have kept the techy, early adopters happy and started targeting a more mainstream crowd. Is that very difficult? Two versions of the app would have done it. But maybe the tech group is so small it's worth pissing off this small group- that jumps on new stuff eagerly and helps you debug and grow in an early stage. Quite depressing.
Yeah, it is annoying that there is so little competition. I was made aware of this after being a very happy Boox (A4 size; I use it literally for everything I used paper for before when reading, writing, sketching, flow charts, mockups etc) user for 6 months. I am not going to toss it away and so far, after trying the reMarkable from a friend, I would buy the Boox again instead... ...if not this gpl issue.

Edit: also, I believe one of the people in that reddit thread might have the correct answer; the eInk drivers (and probably more notably the waveform) will be proprietary and they do probably worry about losing their license if they publish anything they are not allowed to. Which would end their business immediately.
Honestly I mostly only want #1 on that list, not #2, since most of my stuff is fairly low level (systems programming, network stuff, etc.). So that’s not the best generalisation.
That is rather an audacious statement. Company dead != unused. Also, the process is well-defined and guided by an RFC itself, so it's really in IETF's control, just stewarded by IANA.
Our customers all get the same executable file. Yet if they've paid for it, they get more features as the license will unlock modules.

The code is all there for everyone, compiled and ready in case the customer decides to upgrade their license.

Is what we're doing "rent-seeking" as well?

Of course we could make differentiated builds, just add in a bunch of ifdefs and provide a new executable to the user when they upgrade their license. Would that be any different?

The result would be the same, the user would still pay more to get access to the additional functionality.
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I think your mental model of a castle is not quite correct. It's not necessarily a simple stone box. A lot of roofs lead to higher points, or to walls.

Your mental model of what can happen in a castle is also not complete. It's not just sieges, there are any number of reasons someone could be chasing you. It could just be one assailant.

Finally, perhaps I didn't describe the step well enough. The step is not the top one, it is the second one down, and the face of it is around 2cm higher than all the other steps. It wouldn't make any difference to the drainage. Don't get angry that there are features of castles that are not adequately explained, and some people try to explain them.
It's probably not worth it on its own.

But if that tripled salary enables you to do things you love you can't do now and it enables them both today and long term... then it might be worth it :-)
Yeah I'm keen to see what sorts of toolkits and programs are developed.

Are there toolkits/programs written by enthusiasts that could be used on Pinenote?
> The problem is that this can be arbitrary if the market doesn't supply enough competitors.

What is this referring to? What is the problem? And why is this problem arbitrary?

> It also tells me about the focus of Intel and who is in charge of the company. They have many flawed products lately and they seem to not want to compete on a technological level anymore.

Ok, that's one take and you're certainly entitled to it. As someone who personally had to replace some hardware so I could use ecc ram in a zfs nas for my media server, I would have loved to just pay a few bucks to get a microcode update instead of a full hardware upgrade.

Now, you can complain that ecc should be standard, etc but that's a different discussion. But it's classic economic theory: if Intel can charge some people more for ecc, and charge other people less who don't want it, that is an optimal pricing strategy.
What are the advantages of creating a whole new language, as opposed to creating an implementation for a strict subset of an existing language? I skimmed through some tutorials and didn't find anything special about the syntax/semantics. The blog post doesn't explain it either.
What's magical about Tesla that its going to stay a non union shop?

If every other car company has to deal with unions then its only a matter of time until they are as well. The only way they can prevent that is to pay more than the other places but then their profits wouldn't stay high.
We are back to the November 2020 study, where nasal flushing with saline-iodine-solution easified Covid-severity 19 times at hospital entry. Better than the applauded Pfizermectin, I say.

Imagine everybody doing this daily and every time your nose feels dry or irritated.
>> Other readers may have a broader range of skills

Relax.

When comparing anything, the comparison has to be fair. This is obviously not the case here. It's like Java is a Ford Mustang from the dealer and C# is a Camaro with a F1 engine installed.
What about .arpa[0]?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17093337
right now NixOS is for a small subset of geeks(who are ok with using custom functional language for pretty much all configuration) but it's entirely possible to make a GUI based like a SUSE configurator based on nix, and with mature enough nix ecosystem it will work flawlessly an be powerful and simple to use for the end user
I'm still in the learning process, but one thing I've had a hard time is finding out what functions are available. e.g. there's stdenv.mkDerivation for a generic target, and as your docs mention pythonXY.withPackages for a python virtualenv [1]. But what if I wanted, e.g. Ruby? How do I find out what's available? What options they take?

https://nix.dev/tutorials/ad-hoc-developer-environments#beyo...
Ok, but if it goes up that much, why would anyone want to use it as legal tender?