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the Tamil written script indeed doesn't distinguish th and t or kh and k and indeed more sounds. However when they are spoken, especially by the more educated folks, they are pronounced differently from contextual knowledge.

the contextual knowledge in this case is that both these names are actually from Sanskrit. When you write Sanskrit in Devnagari script, it does indeed distinguish and so the educated folks will pronounce it correctly being aware of this.
> I'd probably answer I knew the word "degauss" but if I had to explain what it physically is, I'd struggle.

It's a button on old monitors.

That's all I know about it. It sounds like it undoes something magnetic-field related, but I have no clue what.
Maybe more Atlanta proper than the South overall; despite growing up in Mississippi and Tennessee, I only heard of Hicks after I moved to Baltimore. (Then again, we're not not the South here, exactly...)
Driving into Toronto, some car is zipping by. Watching it weave in & out. An hour later we're in Toronto traffic.. that car has since gotten ahead by a dozen cars, which in traffic now translates to less than a hundred meters

Amdahl's Law can be applied to stretches of road
What about the other people that you kill while having fun?
“Imaginary” was an unfortunate choice of word. Positive integers and rationals feel “legit”* to most people, even (or especially) the non-mathematically trained.

But “imaginary” numbers are no more or less legit than, say, transcendental numbers. But in middle school you learn this confusing thing and maths starts to fall off the rails.

* Had to find a synonym for “real” here.
Statistics. Around 96% of administrative assistants are women. That's THE entry level office job.
This view isnt "scientifically supported" because science is neutral on (indeed, even presupposes) the existence of abstract objects.

No one believes abstracta have a physical location -- they lack physical properties. The claim "2 + 2 = 4" is true -- and clearly not true invirute of anything anyone thinks... if we kill that person (/people), it is no less true.

Indeed, if numbers don't exist (for example), do we suppose that we can't communicate issues of quantity with other species (, & possible alien life, etc. etc.) ? (If we can, what shared things are we talking about when we quantify?)

It seems deeply implausible to say that our use of number is circumstantially psychological -- any description of reality is going to be indispensably quantitative --- quantity is what we are talkng about. We are not talking about ourselves.
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I'm in the UK and I pretty much drive at the speed limit - so at 20 somewhere like central Edinburgh, up to 60 on normal roads and up to 70 on motorways and similar.

I'd estimate at those speeds I am about average - I overtake some traffic and get overtaken by others.

We now have average speed cameras on some roads I drive on a lot (such as the notoriously dangerous A9) so speeding really isn't a good idea.
There are no rights to Bored Ape works. They are algorithmically generated so they are public domain.
It might be easier for local government to control telcos but much more difficult for a foreign government when compared to what might be a secret court warrant etc.
Easier to use, but less reliable. If you don't get the words right (years after you first created them) your key is gone. It's also less secure to depend on a set of words that a human can remember (and thus leak via rubber-hose crypto). There's versioning and other issues mentioned in the critique of the paper, leading to them recommending nobody use it. And no, you wouldn't send the photo from your phone to the computer, you'd do it all on a phone, off-line, and could then copy the key to a YubiKey from your phone.
So you think your "enlightenment" is worth the millions of work-hours people are putting in just to read and click a cookie banner they give absolutely not a single crap about?
>This is laughably wrong (I literally bursted our laughing). Tell it to the crusaders, to all the people who took part in pogroms for centuries all over the place, to the ethnic nationalists who are in power or close to post right now in Europe. Tell it to the refugees dying on boats in the Mediterranean as well...

Modern western countries with christian historical traditions do indeed welcome people from different ethnic backgrounds to a degree that no other countries on earth match. How is this wrong. Take even a brief look at demographic information from nearly any western european state or any of the anglo/saxon countries in the world. There's nothing at all laughably wrong about it. Pointing to boats in the Mediterranean is a case of finding the worst, extreme examples when they don't even closely represent the whole. What the crusaders and christians did centuries ago in the west is absurd as a criticism of TODAY'S western states.
They don't need to browse the free web as well, but they choose to do.
It's the only example I know of where swallowing one thing is totally harmless, but swallowing a second one is really seriously dangerous.
Controversial because it's disconnected from reality. You're putting ALL the responsibility on devs as if they are free to present any estimate they like that will then be then accepted without questions or negotation by management. In this fantasy land management is presumably operating in a vacuum with no pressure from customer deadlines, costs, investors, long term product roadmaps etc.

I don't know about you but that is typically not at all how things go at my job.

I can present a 3 week estimate to manager, he will say why 3, seems like it should be easy??, Bob says it would take 2, can you provide a breakdown of the estimate, why does estimate have 3 days for "unforeseen obstacles"?, let's cut that out. We only have 2 weeks but we can't cut scope. 1 year later everything takes twice as long as it would in a cleaner design, management is wondering why dev productivity is low and won't allocate time to maintenance (we can't spend even MORE time on some refactor thingamajig, our productivity is already low!!). Meanwhile im trying to figure out some monstrosity of a codebase written by an engineer who left last year, and also neglected to document their code (unfortunately their manager felt 1 day for documentation was unnecessary). I think this is closer to the scenario most devs operate in. In all but the best high trust scenarios, every estimate is a negotiation.

In reality technical debt is 10% a communication problem (as this and many blogs like to frame it) and 90% a "do you trust your mechanic to have your best interests at heart" problem.
This sort of thing will never end. The rush comes from finding ways to circumvent law enforcement.
The scarcity of land is physical. And to supply more housing you need to pay for the ownership of physical assets, and then for people to physically demolish them and physically build bigger structures, which is a lot of expensive to take if the demand for property doesn't already exceed its supply

Or you could create more "limited edition" monkey pictures at essentially zero marginal cost.
Which router support ZeroTier? Or are you using a custom router firmware?
It has fell from standards years ago.

It turns out it wasn't the first time they have questioned or even sourced their own reports with suspicion and skepticism. [0]. They just follow the hype and report the same content that every other mainstream media does.

They are supposed to be exposing and investigating these scammers, not praising them.

[0] https://twitter.com/RossMcCaff/status/1491362600483180547
You must have missed this part:

> The ruling directs the website to stop providing IP addresses to Google and threatens the site operator with a fine of €250,000 for each violation, or up to six months in prison, for continued improper use of Google Fonts.

So, if you feel brave you can challenge some courts on this.
You are not the only one, and I even have the Oculus DK1 in my closet, I have tried the various more mature hardware, but for some reason the experience is always lacking. I think VR would be absolutely awesome amusement park or gaming cafe experience where it's combined with other immersive hardware to create experiences that nobody can actually do at home. But just the headset for in home experience, it's pretty meh, like 3d cinema was.
CLOG / GUI interplay makes me think it has to be intentional. It's just too bad in the best way.
That's just motorsport being motorsport. Note all victims were part of the competition - two racers and two officials.

Formula1 used to have one or two victims almost every year, now thankfully it's more one every 15-20 years - the last one was Jules Bianchi in 2015.
I'm working on something like this: https://nexusdev.tools/

Designed to support multiple back-ends and front-ends. The first back-end will be Nim and the first front-end will be Flutter.
I am currently reading "Where Mathematics Comes From" by George Lakoff and Rafael E. Núñez - the same Lakoff who authored the seminal "Metaphors We Live By", so I have a lot of time for him. At first it seems like they're just going to explore the pedagogical psychology of mathematics - how interesting! But then right at the end of the preface they hit you with "and by the way this is all there is to it, mathematical Platonism is a lie", which struck me immediately as straying out of their lane. But it seems their investigation into the titular question overwhelmingly led them to this conclusion. The argument is pretty simple - if there is a "platonic mathematics", we cannot have any direct experience of it. All mathematical thought, like all thought in general, is metaphorical. The predictive power of mathematics in the real world is unsurprising because we throw away the metaphors that don't work well.

I do not like this conclusion. Mathematics has always been something of a religion for me. But I can find no flaw with the argument. From a scientific perspective, mathematics bottoms out at "what goes on in human noggins".
It will be sent back in time to kill John Conner
WGU. Online, accredited, self paced (must maintain a minimum pace though), and relatively cheap.

Wish they had math degrees.
Those were a blissful couple of weeks, for sure. Took my Camaro SS out for enjoyable drives both in the city and out in the sticks. Didn't do anything too crazy, but it sure was a refreshing experience. Makes me want to move somewhere farther from the city traffic.

It's also the one time I went by a cop and got a "slow down" gesture instead of a ticket. Just the local speed trap, so it wasn't crazy fast, like 65 in a 45. For a highway, with ramps! Don't ask me why the speed limit is 45. I'm sure if I had been going legitimately fast he'd have overcome his desire to avoid the covid plague.
Why Sprint Retrospective feedback can be far from enlightening
nul n'est censé ignorer la loi.
KTH has a course called Language based security ( https://www.kth.se/student/kurser/kurs/DD2525?l=en ) which indeed does come from people involved in formal methods.

Formal methods is a huge area though, but in essence it's about establishing proofs of correctness.
> If Zoom were even skirting the line here, their lawyers would put the kibosh on it real quick

Their lawyers didn't stop them from claiming to provide end-to-end encryption, a blatant misrepresentation that resulted in receiving a consent order from the FTC [1] and settling a class-action suit for $85M [2], so I don't think it's safe to assume that they would prevent the company from doing obviously unacceptable things.

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/1923167zoom...

[2]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/zoom-to-pay-85m-...
I also just deployed plausible on Fly.io
I wrote a [blog post](https://intever.co/blog/plausible-self-hosted-with-fly) and a created a [github](https://github.com/intever/plausible-hosting) repo to document the process
> It's not even sure you could diagnose the problem in the first place, let alone deploy a workaround.

It's easy to detect: ntpdate -q will tell you the drift, your logging would tell you when ntpd gave up because skew was too large.

Correction would depend on why it was happening: you might be able to tell ntpd/chrony to adjust more frequently or to accept larger deltas, but at that point I'd also say that the best path would be pulling that instance from service and replacing it so it's not critical.

> You'd have to send dozens of email to tech support who of course would say there is no problem because their machines have 999999999999999999% uptime and nothing could be wrong on their side, but hey they can sell you advanced support/engineering if you've got way too much money to help you find the problem in your code.

Has that been your experience? Based on mine it would be more like “we confirmed the problem you showed and have contacted the service team” followed by an apologetic call from your TAM. I've opened plenty of issues over the years but have never had someone insist that something is not a problem because their systems are perfect — they'd basically have to be saying you faked the evidence in their report.
There's databases out there with everyone's career record where you have no control over but the employers do? I rest my case..
Eating tainted meat can kill you. What’s the worst corporations can do by tracking you? Better ads?!
if the hardware landscape settles for a while (in terms of the capabilities of devices and networks - which is not a crazy precondition given Moore's law has run its course) then it may be that these server/client pendulum oscillations get damped around an "optimum" of sorts.

An optimum defined both in terms of what it enables users to do with software but also how easy it is for developers to deliver it. Since simple is better than complex it feels that any architecture that does not require two distinct ecosystems might have an advantage (all else being equal).
Have you seen http://cactus.chat?
Show HN: Makers.so – A website builder inside Figma
Founder here. Makers.so is a Figma Plugin to build and publish sites without ever leaving Figma. Here’s a demo [0].

As a front-end developer I constantly go from Figma to code / site, but it’s tedious… I decided to automate the process with this plugin. It works great for simple projects like:

- Landing Pages

- Portfolio / Personal sites

- Resume sites

- Careers / Wiki sites

So, not a Webflow / Framer competitor (yet). Webflow and Framer are amazing tools, but if you are in the Figma ecosystem, it's boring to duplicate your work on a different tool. I'm trying to make life easier for Figma users. If this seems interesting, you can install it here [1] and give it a try.

—

For a bit of context, I'm a solo-founder and I started Makers after sharing my idea on the Figma subreddit about how awesome it would be to have a button in Figma to publish my designs. A good amount of people seemed to agree, and that was enough to start working on it. This is turning out to be a super fun project, and I’ve been working full-time for the last two months.

[0] - https://twitter.com/joaodmj/status/1488216877511884805?s=20

[1] - https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/991438050654881175
Thinking of upgrading from my current entry level phone S20 to S22 because it's already two years now. To my surprise the specs for RAM and display resolution are lower compared to two years back. Not sure what the engineers at Samsung have been up to, is it due to chips shortage or getting complacent?
Hmm, that's interesting. I suppose more cloud providers could do something like that, for the benefit of customers and GDPR?

E.g. Amazon already bills me through some Norwegian entity of some kind, to get VAT done right etc.

If they had servers in Norway, I suppose it would have been possible to proxy everything - not just billing - in AWS Norway through this sub operator?
First: Cool project!

Second: I'm probably missing something, but:

Therefore, I would at least need to start a process
that would understand my intent to leave

How did you solve the "intent" issue? It looks like your solution simply detects when your phone stops responding to pings, and then unlocks the doors when it resumes.

This doesn't seem like it would distinguish between "going for a run", "going on a car trip", "turning the phone off for 10 minutes and then back on again, but never leaving the house," etc.

I suppose one (fun, overkill, probably) solution would be if the phone's sensors could be queried. Once the phone "returns", your home network could query the phone and ask it if you've been exercising or not, based on your heartrate/motion since the phone was last seen by the network.
I really want to use aspect-ratio, but a recent thread on HN, that now I can't find, has me worried that I shouldn't be counting on CSS until its been supported by the browsers for a couple years.

The recent thread was about all the reasons that even "evergreen" browsers might still have plenty of people using old versions, and was on a thread about a Chromebox still in use that could not have it's version of Chrome updated.
> conventional wisdom

You mean what the SEA people tell you? Yeah, we'll all probably be out of business tomorrow, if we don't run the whole Google stack.
TLDR: ads are annoying, but now I'm making a living from it so it's fine
There are a lot of places where there is enough land to build more and more, but the governments don't allow it. And there are also places such as san-francisco, where replacing single-family houses with apartment buildings would solve a lot of the housing crisis, but the government (and NIMBYs) don't allow it.
Another very happy user here. Was super easy to add to my Jekyll site hosted on GH pages. I believe the creator is active here as well btw.
Oh, I came here because I thought Burt Reynolds and Dom Delouise were back at it.
The definition of "middle class" in the UK is different... Unintuitively middle class denotes a social standing well into the top decile - members of the middle class would be typically educated with a graduate or professional degree, top-5% salary, multiple properties, children in private schools. (Whereas in the US, any white collar person - so basically half the population - is "middle class".)

Yes, the UK middle class is over-represented at Oxbridge, but the definition is so narrow that they are outnumbered by the lower classes - state school kids and other riff-raff constitute two-thirds of Oxbridge classes, especially outside the upper-class signal subjects like Classics.
Profit for the firm might be the goal for the firm as an entity, such that it is, but the goal for each individual is their own self interest.

The worker wants a pay rise, the manager wants a promotion, the CEO wants a better gig at the next company. None of that is a goal of making more money for the company.
For me, it was a combination of

- Light weight lifting and stretches.

- Kinesis Advantage II keyboard with some key mapping (I think Ergodox EZ is also a good option).

- A bigger mouse (MX Master 3).

- VIM keybindings everywhere to reduce how often I need to reach my mouse.

- Trying not to type too fast.
So, your ability to have food every day depends on ads.

You don't need mental gymnastics to justify surviving in a capitalist world using ads, it's okay, everyone understands it.
I've seen the cycle too many times over the past decade or so. It's really bad with the various desktop UI frameworks, but it happens with most everything they put out. If something doesn't get immediate traction, and doesn't have strong champions inside of Microsoft, things all too often wither on the vine and go by the board. Big bang initial rollout coinciding with Build, showing off some fancy capabilities that never quite actually are realized in the version released to general availability.
You may be right. I just don't think you can collect accurate data on this topic from any angle.

I think we can at least feel confident that there is far greater ease of broadcasting eugenic ideas to credulous masses. We've seen from the anti-vax movement that a small handful (meaning fewer than 10) of determined, unscrupulous, and wealthy people can convince millions of people of pseudoscientific ideas.
Maintaining things is not necessarily less costly or even viable, compared to building things.

Also, labor costs have gone up dramatically due to a variety of factors. Increased safety standards, less supply of labor relative to demand, increased liabilities due to tort laws, etc.

Also, borrowing from the future to build today is easy when population is exploding and you know everyone is having 3+ kids which will expand the tax base. That has not been true for quite a few decades now, with tax bases declining in many areas and political appetite for subsidizing those areas is waning, in my opinion.

Less future growth means more restrained borrowing today. There is also a significant and increasing amount of the country’s resources being spent on keeping old people alive that was not the case when all the old infrastructure was built.
Science has nothing to do with it, rather it's a question of philosophy and what we define as being real.
I can't think of a legitimate reason for it other than to create problems for people that leave Apple. That practice sounds pretty dirty.
Hacker News hasn't been very "hacker" in a long time. Still a decent place for tech news.
Wouldn't there be other ways for you to prove you were a "Level 4" or whatever at Apple and not an associate? An offer letter from Apple? Or just the totality of circumstances in general. If say you're interviewing for a "Sr Engineer" position, you're just not going to have an instance where the candidate shows experience and knowledge but doesn't get hired because some record from Lexis Nexis says that he was an "associate" at Apple prior to coming here. Something like that I feel would get resolved in conversation very quickly.
Shouldn't Google etc. go after the draconian US laws making this an issue? I feel most of them try to attack EU or fight the courts there.
> because going from long focus looking forward to short focus looking at a screen a foot away, and going back to long focus forward was weird

You don't normally find this a problem with windshield-mounted mirrors? I wonder what the difference is, and if you'd get used to it if driving regularly.
> What is the worst corporations are doing with our data? Better ads?!

There is often no clear dividing line between government and corporations. You give one freedom to abuse privacy and it will be used by the other.
One time I was driving on the I-5 a ways north of Seattle late at night. There was a stretch of freeway with virtually no lighting, surrounded by trees, and there were no cars in sight in either direction. I completely lost any sense of speed, and when I looked down at my speedometer I was going about 120 MPH. Fortunately I had the presence of mind to not slam on the brakes and to let the car slow down naturally, but it was scary to realize how dangerous my speed was, and I was lucky a deer didn't tumble out of the woods.
I think htmx.org got the HN Hug of Death
You can bypass the de facto ban that VISA and Mastercard put on the existence of some websites, for example Gab or the other similar one which now I can't remember. If I recall correctly, you can currently donate money to those sites only using cryptocurrency. This is kinda important, in my opinion, because "only offensive speech is free speech" (this doesn't mean I like those sites, but I don't want the credit card companies to decide what can exist on the Internet)
Imagine there is another travel agent not doing all that, but it costs money while the first is free. Wouldn’t you like to have the right to choose which one to visit, or do you prefer that choice to me made for you by politicians instead?
MS did the same in Germany with Deutsche Telekom as a partner, that shut down around 2018 [1].

[1]: https://nextcloud.com/blog/microsoft-and-telekom-no-longer-o...