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> There is no chance 1.2B people will migrate to Europe.

That is precisely why it will cause a catastrophic war -> do you expect them all to just lie down and die peacefully?
Yes, but not the IE. Opera Presto! Source code even leaked after Opera switched to webkit, and some Russians tried patching new things, but legal status made unsustainable :(.
Remember the advice of "How to read a patent in 60 seconds" [0]. In this case there are two very short independent claims (1 and 3), all the way at the last page. They both seem to just be talking of some specifics on cache coherency.

[0] https://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/09/how-to-read-a-patent...
Yeah I think a lot of commenters here are seeing popular gameplay diverge from the gameplay they prefer. I like the gunplay of Half-Life, Quake, etc, and still fire up openarena with some friends every once in a while, but I spend most of my time playing games with different gun models. Right now I'm busy with Hell Let Loose for example, which is about as far as you can get from the arena shooter gunplay model. People looking for gunplay more like 2004 gaming might want to look into boomer shooters instead
Here is a news article about it:

https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-8/sgi-debuts-killer-new-n...
> A page can be terribly designed and render as typewriter text in 80-column ASCII monospace, and readers will still read it, even if they complain about it.

Ha! I would never complain about that. I'm a programmer!
Who said anything about it being the only way? It is still the best demonstrated way to provide the most opportunity the most amount of people that has ever existed throughout humanity and you still don't have a viable alternative other than a sarcastic reply.
What always bother me with this stuff is, well, you say one approach is more sensible than the other because the images happen to come out more pleasing.

But there's no real rhyme or reason, it is a sort of alchemy.

Is text encoding strictly worse or is it an artifact of the implementation? And if it is strictly worse, which is probably the case, why specifically? What is actually going on here?

I can't argue that their results are not visually pleasing. But I'm not sure what one can really infer from all of this once the excitement washes over you.

Blending photos together in a scene in photoshop is not a difficult task. It is nuanced and tedious but not hard, any pixel slinger will tell you.

An app that accepts a smattering of photos and stitches them together nicely can be coded up any number of ways. This is a fantastic and time saving photoshop plugin.

But what do we have really?

"Kuala dunking basketball" needs to "understand" the separate items and select from the image library hoops and a Kuala where the angles and shadows roughly match.

Very interesting, potentially useful. But if doesn't spit up exactly what you want can't edit it further.

I think the next step has got to be that it conjures up a 3d scene in Unreal or blender so you can zoom in and around convincingly for further tweaks. Not a flat image.
Chomsky tries to point at the 2021 cooperation talks.. but Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014.

They were the entire reason Ukraine sought foreign help.

Russia invaded Georgia too, lest we forget.
Isn't this a symptom of insanely crazy programming whiteboarding interviews?
Yes: https://clcouncil.org/economists-statement/

It’d likely cause a lot of inflation on manufactured goods, but it’d make manufacturing here a lot more competitive, and greatly increase the leverage of blue collar workers in developed countries, which should reduce income inequality within the country - it would make the rich poorer, but the poor potentially also richer in real terms.

It’s the only way I see of realistically tackling climate change.
An Introduction to Ethereum
-$5 or less a month
-simple web interface
-accurate results
-privacy oriented
-NO ADS

That's all I want from a search engine. I don't care about shopping or maps or any of the other 'features' all of these alternative are trying to implement. I want a gnu style search engine. I want something that "does one thing, and does it well," and I want that one thing to be 'search.'
No, he did not read the manual to something that could be life threatening if used incorrectly otherwise he would have known that the action he took would put the scooter in reverse. It even displays it on the screen so he did not read the manual, did not look at the instruments and did not turn the scooter off despite not riding it. It's on him.
Really, they were shocked to learn that customer support makes only $18 an hour?

How insulated from the rest of society in the US do you have to be to find that shocking?
In 2021, Germany got 55% of its gas from Russia (the rest from other European countries). Depending on how much overall consumption can be reduced, European suppliers might be able to cover most/all of it.
For me livestreams are only good if you are a complete beginner on a subject. Actually, even if you are a beginner, I don't know if streams/youtube videos are a good starting point.

I like learning. I remodeled my house with my father, I rebuilt an engine, I completely modified a car, built home servers and computers, I'm planning a patio project. Youtube videos and streams often have a lot of bad information, additionally I don't want to watch a 1 hour stream just to learn halfway this person doesn't know what they are doing. There is sometimes a lot of fluff in those videos and marketing. Books and even online tutorials are much MUCH better, easier to briefly see what is in it.

A lot of people who are making these videos is basically a blind person leading another blind person. They don't know the subject well enough but want to make a how to video. For example, anyone can build a patio that looks nice......however, not everyone can build a patio that will stand the test of time. There are different guidelines for different climate/soil types.

Imo, if you are really want to learn something you need to dive deep, start with the basics so you can then at least filter good information.
> - climate kills very few people currently.

"Climatic changes already are estimated to cause over 150,000 deaths annually."

https://web.archive.org/web/20220302105033/https://www.who.i...

> - hotter climate will encourage food production.

"By the 2040s, the probability of a 10 per cent yield loss, or greater, within the top four maize producing countries (the US, China, Brazil and Argentina) rises to between 40 and 70 per cent. These countries currently account for 87 per cent of the world’s maize exports. The probability of a synchronous, greater than 10 per cent crop failure across all four countries during the 2040s is just less than 50 per cent."

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/09/climate-change-risk-ass...

> - a economic analysis (need to find the reference) was done projecting climate change impact and apparently, it's minuscule. On the order of 5% by 2100. Global wealth is projected to increase by over 300% during this time.

"By mid-century, the world stands to lose around 10% of total economic value from climate change. That is a real scenario if temperature increases stay on the current trajectory, and both the Paris Agreement and 2050 net-zero emissions targets are not met, according to new Swiss Re Institute research."

https://www.swissre.com/institute/research/topics-and-risk-d...

> - so called "developing nations" have no money to move to alternative energy sources.

The so-called developed nations can help with that transition, though. Many so-called developing nations have plenty of sun available to them, for example.
Indeed. Complaining about one lie from decades ago in view of the torrent of lies every day from the Russian government is like complaining about a grain of sand in an ocean of piss.
International grid doesn't mean "import whatever is on offer". You can contract for renewable energy, and fund international production capacity. Depending on Russian oil was a geopolitical (and environmental) mistake. Depending on French nuclear or Spanish solar seems much safer.

International grid ties also means:

* When it's cloudy or calm, you can import from somewhere sunny or windy. When it's sunny or windy, export to somewhere cloudy and calm. Shortages a thousand miles southwest aren't going to correlate strongly with shortages where you are, and if you if you have multiple sources a thousand miles in each direction you should be able to balance demand far better. Weather conditions are reasonably local. Demand patterns will also vary a bit.

* You can import solar from somewhere sunnier, or sunny at different. You're not going to transmit your electricity 12,000 miles east/west, but Madrid has sunset an hour later than Berlin, and demand tends to be closer to 7pm than 2am.

Yeah, it's a hard engineering problem, and there will be downsides, but we can do it if we seriously commit to it.
It really depends on the friend I suppose, I wasn't in a place to do all that many family friendly things before having kids personally.
German dependency on Russian gas is a lot older than that. Ostpolitik dates back to the ‘60s.
There are _a lot_ of companies/teams that don't need/want to manage the complexity that comes with setting up and configuring generic CI environments. They want to get going as fast as possible and never have to think about what's going on behind the scenes - that's especially true in some specific areas. For example mobile apps. 90% of people aren't too happy about managing all the complexity that comes with having to juggle Xcode versions or Android emulators etc in a scalable way.

..at least that's my experience and why I founded an extremely opinionated CI service for mobile apps years ago :)
Single language stacks are simpler. For heavy duty webdev tasks you should use a real web language. For simple sites this looks fine.
> On the other hand, Eigen didn't claim to be faster than any BLAS during my interaction with informational side of their website.

It claims to be faster than any free BLAS in the FAQ (but talks about ATLAS and GotoBLAS there). Given how close GotoBLAS in the guise of OpenBLAS gets to peak performance for GEMM, that would be dubious without measuring 2/3 of OB DGEMM performance. I assume claims of speed are for when BLAS is actually providing it. (I'm too experienced to be susceptible to appeals to authority of HEP software!)

Thanks for explaining the memory thing. I'd hope HPC code wouldn't be subject to SEGVs due to memory allocation failing (for two reasons), but you typically want arrays on the stack and otherwise large pages to minimize TLB misses (per Goto).

I'm not intending to bash Eigen, happy if people can use performant free software.
> The US almost had a coup because of organized hatred and lies spread through social media.

But notice how all of these deep faking technologies weren't actually necessary for that.

People believe what they want to believe. Regardless of quality of provided evidence.

Scaremongering idea of deep fakes and what they can be doing was militarized in this information war way more than the actual technology.

I think this technology should develop unrestricted so society can learn what can be done and what can't be done. And create understanding what other factors should be taken into account when assesing veracity of images and recordings (like multiple angles, quality of the recording, sync with sound, neural fake detection algorithms) for the cases when it's actually important what words someone said and what actions he was recorded doing. Which is more and more unimportant these days because nobody cared what Trump was doing and saying, nobody cares about Bidens mishaps and nobody cares what comes out of Putins mouths and how he chooses his greenscreen backgrounds.
It is confusing because Apple is using Apple Pay to refer to multiple things.
Admittedly a guess at part of his motivation for saying this follows:

Google is a target to get sued in patent disputes or when the Justice Department needs to score some points. It's less risky to every business when you can talk about things in meetings and nothing borderline-illegal is ever written down. Then, at your congressional hearing or deposition, you can say "I don't recall" or "that never happened" without risk of a smoking gun being produced that risks some perjury charge, fines, etc.
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Those are free speech but also anonymous. In real free speech you still have to put your name to what you're saying. If you suddenly stuck everyone's real name on every single comment they wrote then it'd suddenly become a lot more civilized.

Conversely, because there are no identities, there's no way to follow specific people you agree with.
I think this definition in the middle is quite intuitive.

> That’s an example of “supernatural” behavior: e.g. when something happens not being obviously related to natural forces of the language. …And is bad exactly because of this fact: your natural tools and intuitions stop working, you need just to remember entire spellbook to deal with magical code.

The words natural and spellbook could probably map onto idiomatic and confluence. lol

I like it because magic code isn't bad, or slow, or unclever, it is often magic to achieve the opposite. But it does lack something like "being plain spoken"
One of the best parts is the bindings! They are present in most shells/terminals, GNU readline-based programs, and even native macOS text field. If you're in a terminal or using a terminal-based program, there's a good chance pressing any of the core Emacs keybindings does what you expect it to.
Show HN: An open source Patreon / Substack
Hello everyone!

I am the developer of a media centric distribution of Wagtail + Django called Rent Free Media.

It is basically an open source Patreon or Substack.

https://rentfree.media is the site and the git is linked there. The license is AGPL for obvious reasons.

It generates RSS feeds from web page content, using the Django RSS feed framework, so that users can publish both their site their podcast episodes (or paid written content, if they are a Substack-type written content author) all in one edit.

Summary of features:

1. Integration with Stripe for subscription payments.

2. User permissions are handled via a segmentation library which is also open-source, so custom and complex pay tier rules are easily attainable.

3. Automatic generation of authenticated RSS links for podcast apps and news readers.

4. Mass and "drip" email marketing tools.

5. Remote and locally hosted files are supported for public /
free content.

6. If you like Markdown, it will make Chicago-style episode notes in iTunes, Spotify, and Google's app for podcasts ;)

7. Default HTML templates are Bootstrap 5, and custom CSS can be applied to block elements in the CMS without getting into the template code for simple styling of page elements.

8. Podcasts may be published in both series and serial format, with or without visible previews of paid episodes, with or without combined pay/premium feeds. All configurable in the CMS admin without touching the code.

9. JSON+LD schema data is generated automatically including breadcrumbs, per page.

10. Dynamic web forms, optionally with conditional form fields based on the user's entries.

11. Auditable / actionable download tracking of premium content on a per-user basis.

12. 2FA out of the box, optional for users and optionally required for admins.

13. AJAX comments wherever you want to put them, just include the block on a page in the CMS editor (or not).

14. Full text / full site search via the Postgres DB.

15. A simple cache is included for anonymous requests, supporting all Django cache backends.

As the readme on the git states, it will work locally on the Django dev server with the caveat that media files won't "play" without Nginx to respond to the X-Sendfile requests, and a minor SQLite complex field filter support oddity which is not breaking in terms of functionality.
"Also most people would probably prefer to store their savings in USD/CHF/EUR rather than Ruble"

Only globalist anywhere people. Ordinary Russians keep their savings in Roubles for the same reason I keep mine in GBP - because that's where we live and where we intend to continue to live, with everything around us priced in that currency.

I don't even care what the current GBP/USD exchange rate is. Why should I? Same with Russians with Roubles.

"Main categories of goods imported by Russia in 2021 were: ‘Machinery & Equipment’ and ‘Medicine’ and it’s not like Russia can just stop importing these of they want to keep their pump jacks and hospital running."

This idea that Russia is a backwater that can't make its own stuff is very peculiar.

We've just removed the cheaper competition. Russian producers can now expand, massify and gain economies of scale.

Hence they've confiscated a load of planes which they intend to make parts for themselves. Since IP rights have been suspended in Russia for foreign goods, they can make whatever they can physically make with nobody skimming off the top.
Exactly. It bothers me immensely that we cannot have an adult conversation about topics such as these, because people who only have a superficial understanding try to pick a certain phrase or argument as proof that you are on "the other side". It's actually part of the problem of why we cannot have reasonable public opinion a the moment, as journalists and intellectuals have also adopted this way of thinking.
Inner work that actually matters (meaning it makes a genuine and relevant impact) isn't going to be specific to whatever you mean by "indie" and "maker" and such.

It may align with some particular philosophy that resonates with you; the nature of the "work" may fit what seems "right for you" within your particular context (not everyone needs, wants, or benefits from a psychedelic meltdown, or a ten year hardcore meditation retreat, or three months of sensory deprivation, or prayer, or splitting logs, or ...); but there is an "essential" core underlying the things that would actually matter.

"Self-development and inner work" largely amounts to clarity/awareness. Most of us are completely clueless regarding the values that drive us, and fewer of us are aware we can choose them. We don't examine the goals that drive our choices and behaviors. We don't actively monitor and adjust our physiology. We allow thinking errors in their wide variety to accumulate and distort. We over-identify with thinking/feeling/states/etc. We don't examine the beliefs we have about ourselves and the world, and again, we don't realize we can change these.

There are lots of ways to examine/inspect/alter the software you're running, installed by you, your family, your friends, your teachers, your culture, your country, your experiences, your environment, your everything else.

Find one that clicks and go for it. The idea that this will be somehow unique to "indie and maker world" is, ah, "not very helpful".

Personally, I mostly use hypnosis/self-hypnosis/some forms of meditation/inquiry and the like, but that's what suits my inclinations. (And I'm a hypnotist, so of course that's what I prefer.) I got interested in that when I was a wee teen and it's been a very fine tool. But your mileage varies because you're driving a different vehicle.
This is very cool. I've always been very disappointed that programming is so utterly dominated by the linear text format. It feels like so much potential for expression and feedback is getting left on the table, making use of our capacity to understand and work with spatialisation, patterns, sounds, colours, dynamics, etc would make a lot of sense.

Bret Victor's The Future of Programming and other talks come to mind - https://youtu.be/8pTEmbeENF4
Ask HN:  What Societies or Clubs Are Beneficial in IT?
Are there any societies or clubs that you have found to be beneficial for those in cyber professions? Thanks
I haven't used it myself, so I cannot speak for it, but straight.el [1] has functionality to freeze the version of packages.

[1] https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el
Dedicate an iPad for notes?
Ha, right? IIRC this was well before local scheduled pushes existed, so the Remote Montana problem was real!

Mobile has come a long way for sure!
It can't be worse than patenting laser as cat exercise tool. This is not a joke.
Running your target in a vm?
Given all the emacs ninjas here - what’s the best way to do JSX/TSX formatting while playing nice with js2-mode, tide and web-mode? I’ve been stuck for months on finding a good config and almost wanted to move to VS Code to try it out. Then, while using it I just couldn’t do without emacs buffers and panels flexibility — so moved back :))
The tail end of programming will be the last thing to be replaced, maybe. I don’t see why CRUD apps get to hide under the umbrella of programming ultra-advanced AI.
NATO expansion is an argument, not a reason.

But even as an argument it conveniently denies self-determination, agency, hopes and dreams to the countries, nations and people who don't want to be ruled by post-soviet mafia.
I'm curious about your opinion on this. I may be thinking about this incorrectly.

Suppose you are Twitter and operating in, say, {Ghana, Russia, Korea, Mexico, and Pakistan}. You're served with subpoenas and legal IP requests in each country. If you dont respond in time, your license to operate may be revoked. Each request is in the native language. How do you "scale" this technically? Can one lawyer handle these across the world? How?
I have ADHD and I find meditation to be very useful for dealing with my challenges. I think of it as exercise for the mind. Just like the body, the mind needs exercise to function well.

An acquaintance recommended the Headspace app and I really like it. Hadn’t done any guided meditation before that. YMMV but I think mindfulness and meditation can be useful for anyone.

Then there are other types of inner work, such as learning empathy, or studying ethics and philosophy. I don’t really have any solid advice there. For ethics and philosophy, there are lots of books out there to further one’s knowledge and comprehension. It will expand the mind.

Some day I would like to acquaint myself with Nietzsche’s works, but so far I haven’t taken the time to do so.
How so? The claims have very little to do with the diagrams. They are only there as an example processor for the claims being presented. The claims are specifically about cache. More specifically clearing/invalidation. What better way to prevent the competition from implementing something similar than using the competitions architecture as the base to show how it could be implemented? It is Intel's prior art against AMD.
There’s a third group for your list: AI stuff that’s so good we don’t think about it any more.

For example, recent phone cameras can estimate depth per pixel from single images. Hundreds of millions of these devices are deployed. A decade ago this was AI/CV research lab stuff.
Trash-as-a-service? This ENS domain trashwallet.eth will take your spam NFTs
Similarly, from the prologue to Nikos Kazantzakis' "Askitiki":

"WE COME from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. As soon as we are born the return begins, at once the setting forth and the coming back; we die in every moment. Because of this many have cried out: The goal of life is death! But as soon as we are born we begin the struggle to create, to compose, to turn matter into life; we are born in every moment."
Being malicious means you actually intend for people to suffer harm. Do you really think that's what Apple wants? What evidence do you have of that?
Feels like the classic Developer wants to start a business but doesn't really understand marketing, traction, product-market fit, etc. etc.

Granted I've done the same thing 5 times now, but never again.

Should have mocked up a bare UI in a week, then tried to sell it for a month or two.....