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disney shows itself time and time again to be an organ of the DNC.
> Does anybody remember something like this

This? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak
Mostly agree, but I would click the shit out of "Archaeologists found a pot on Tuesday." :)
The 128GB was also $299
I really appreciate your optimistic perspective — thank you for posting it. I think it's very easy to be cynical and just assume that things will get worse than they are now, and when you do that, you get to be a wise, world-weary and jaded commentator.

It's actually a lot more work to imagine a better society, because that requires actual ideas for what could be different and how we might get there. Saying, "things will be the same but worse" is a lot easier than saying, "things could be different and better, and here's how". (Full disclosure: I'm stealing this idea from Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit, which I'm currently reading and thoroughly enjoying.)

Notwithstanding its potential to become (or current reality as) a propaganda tool of the Chinese government, based on my very limited experience with it, TikTok actually feels both healthier and stupider (in a vapid entertainment sense) than Facebook and Twitter. I have yet to be outraged by anything I've encountered on TikTok, whereas if I so much as glance at a tweet on Twitter on its web interface, while not logged in, I'm almost guaranteed to be presented with other tweets from people who infuriate or disgust me. Discord also feels healthier than either of those platforms, it's really just a much better version of IRC. As such, perhaps we are already seeing a more healthy ecosystem emerge.

But setting aside the platform side of things, this discussion [1] on the Ezra Klein show calls the current disruptive era "transitory" in the same way that the dawn of other communication media were disruptive and transitory. Eventually, people adjust. Perhaps we are on our way to becoming immune to attention hijacking, outrage politics and FOMO. Speaking for myself, I've certainly become far better at resisting the pull of those phenomena.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC?
Don't quite understand why you would like to use Starlink in a city, especially without roaming support. Damn hipsters. What is awesome about it is to have internet in remote location that have no chance of ever getting a land line.
Our time on this planet is short and I choose to amuse myself in my own way. :)
I'm thinking about fast food locations in cities, not suburban strip malls and stuff. We expect Starbucks for example to have nice locations in high-rent downtown areas, but I always see McD's not far away from there too.
This is definitely gonna get me killed or heavily injured. Also I don't want to get my family in danger, that's why I was looking into some way to anonymously jam their speakers.
> Even rust's memory model has places where it can't do what C++ can. (you can't use atomic to write data from two different threads at the same time)

Perhaps not in safe Rust, but can you provide an example of something Rust can't do that C++ can? It has the same memory model as C++20: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/atomics.html
11,000,343 RPM is a lot!
One slight difference: fzf is cross platform, whereas I believe his solution is not.
I think that's why sleep has been called the 'little death' since ancient times. In a sense, you die every time you sleep, and wake up a slightly different person.

Edit: ya'll have dirty minds. Homer refers to 'sleep as the brother of death' in the Illiad. Apparently Buddha said something similar too, though I can't find a source.

Edit2: just going to leave you with this: "each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death." – Arthur Schopenhauer
This is awesome. It will probably bark more than my actual dog haha
I was working on an application for Symbian mobile phones and I was able to implement large parts of it as a portable library - the bits which compressed results using a dictionary to make them tiny enough to fit into an SMS message or a UDP frame. This was before the days of flat-rate charges for internet access and we were trying to be very economical with data.

I was able to build and debug them on Linux with Valgrind finding many stupid mistakes and the library worked flawlessly on Symbian.

It's just one of the many times that Valgrind has saved my bacon. It's awesome.
>"Have you considered that complaint in itself might be considered the "shrieking" you so despise?"

No. In fact I see this as a very underhanded rhetorical cheap trick - essentially a catch-22. Only on the most basic level is criticism of critical people some kind of hypocritical indictment.

'You say you don't like people taking things too seriously, yet it sounds like YOU are the one taking things too seriously. Curious'.
1. Make bomb threats.

2. Occassionally call in SWAT for suspected sex trafficking or drug dealing.

3. Smear their entrance with literal dogshit covertly.

4. Destroy cars of the visitors. Start by simple scratching.

5. Leave bad reviews on Google.

6. Threaten families of owners.

7. Burn down the building.
Sub 8 second 0-60 is needed on backlane country roads to enable safe passing.

Having said that, I mainly drive on city streets and interstates now days, but I still understand why someone would want a car with a little pep.

Funny how EVs have changed the game on performance. I don't think anyone sells an EV with a 0-60 over 8s, and one can pretty easily get a model 3 with ~ 3s 0-60. That was supercar territory not so long ago.
Isn't Hulu only available in America?
It's literally a checkbox a cop clicks when they request data with no vetting that it actually is an emergency or consequences if it is not.
Zettlr + Zotero is a winning combination for me!
Hardware-based attestation of the running software is an important security feature, especially in a world where data leaks and identity theft are rampant.

Let's say I'm a healthcare provider, and I'm about to send your medical data to a third party vendor. Wouldn't you prefer that your data only be able to be decrypted by a computer can prove to the world it booted a clean OS image with all the latest security patches installed?

If the vendor wants to install some self-built OS that they trust on their computer and not update it for 5 years, that's their business, but I may not want to trust their computer to have access to my data.

Remote attestation gives more control to the owners of data to dictate how that data is processed on third-party machines (or even their own machines that may have been compromised). This is useful for more than just DRM.
Blind-writes and an LSM
> Meta still owns your content. It never gets deleted.

How can you verify that? This would be against the GDPR and other data protection laws in other countries.
Child mortality fell from 40% to 3.7% in 200 years
I agree, it could also be a sensible public infrastructure investment.
Hulu’s “unwritten policy” on political ads sparks backlash
Ask HN: Stealth Agriculture Startups?
Anybody working on anything or have thoughts?
The big difference, is FOAM notes are meant to be flat (or you can use folder I guess) and you explore just via the links whereas Dendrons have hierarchies of notes.

So "food" is a note about food in general, "food.chinese" is a note under food that's about chineses food, "food.chinese.tao-chicken" is a note about tao-chicken under chinese-food, etc.

You can also just skip notes in the hierarchy, so you could have just "food" and "food.chinese.tao-chicken" and a placeholder "food.chinese" would appear in the graph.

I personally really liked the note/subnote model used in Zim Wiki, but that program wasn't great for code snippets or to write graphs so I'm pretty excited about Dendron. In comparison, trying to connect my notes is just such a pain with a flat system like foam and Obsidian.
Yep, whenever he was lapping up water, he'd have his front two paws submerged in the water dish the whole time! He was an interesting cat- he seemed to have sensitivity stuff going on. For example, while all cats raise their hindquarters when someone touches the base of their tail, he could be in a dead sleep and even the lightest touch on the base of his tail would activate this reflex to the extreme. He was a funny little guy, I loved him :). He liked to come and curl up on my chest whenever I'd recline during a zoom call, only to leave as soon as the call ended.
Did Hulu start airing commercials to those paying for the premium plan?
People hate the cable company. There are a lot of rich people in cities who would love to burn dollar bills to spite the cable company, they compete with people in a radius of 300 miles or so for bandwidth.
https://www.templeton.org/grant/nautilus-magazine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Templeton_Foundation

Just a friendly reminder.
Electric Car Ratings
Intent of the artist does not matter, art is subjective and the production of the system of many artists layering their works over time has a beauty in itself

It's some seriously privileged classist stuff to make the claims that you're making
Better false positives than a burglary I guess. Plus it's probably off when you're home... unless it's on at night as well.

Anyway, improvements can be made, I'm fairly sure there's off-the-shelf "is this a person" detectors out there.
That was what I was thinking about too. Unfortunately, I think since the noise is coming from a point source and the entire room has to be denoised, it is difficult. I doubt there would be a speaker configuration that perfectly destructively interferes with anything like that, unless you got a row of speakers (and there wouldn't be software for that either).

(I'm no expert in this though, so am probably wrong)
That's why I have a solenoid triggered rifle in my backyard that shoots off a round every two minutes. It used to be full auto 24/7, but ammo got expensive :(
It’s also the same as what it was like before you were born. I “remember” nothing from that time period, I felt nothing, I was not somewhere else. I simply did not exist, and nor did my consciousness.
I think the 1962 Candid Camera version [0] is a lot more poignant and harmless way to point out the human desire to conform.

I can't quite nail what the emotional difference is (to me) - maybe it is that laughing (at no-soap-radio) is a an action showing much more vulnerability compared to facing the "wrong" way in an elevator.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztFv6OSFeUA
"And the like"
That's rather a defeatist approach to philosophy. "We might not understand each other so shouldn't bother, lest we upset Paul."

I get that we're all amateurs here, but I think there's plenty of scope for meaningful conversation about consciousness, including explaining what we're talking about.
> say you solve the above and decide to deploy the gun.

We're talking about a handgun not a artillery peice, "deployment" is taking it out of a biometric gun safe, 5 seconds max. Also you wouldn't open fire on someone just beacuse they are near your boat.
Can’t wait to see how much Nancy Pelosi made on her call options.
I can attest to having a barking dog being an excellent deterrent. One night about a year ago, somebody was snooping around our backyard (we saw them on the security camera), one sharp bark (from the little dog no less, our bigger dog isn’t much of a barker) sent the snooper running.

I’ve long thought that this could / should be a simple home security system. Glad to see somebody did it and that it worked for them!
Good to see the strategic decision to re-incorporate as a B-corp. Growth and return to investor is important, but shouldn't be the ultimate north star.
Annoyingly enough, they will still show previous of shitty shows you're not interested in watching.
> a { @nest :not(nav) & {

FYI, this `:not(nav) a` doesn’t do what you almost certainly intended. It doesn’t match “an <a> that is not inside a <nav>”, but rather “an <a> that has at least one ancestor that is not a <nav>”. You can’t currently express what you wanted there; the best you can generally manage is if you can anchor it with a parent selector, e.g. `:not(nav) > a`, which will match any <a> whose immediate parent is not a <nav>. I can imagine something along the lines of `a:not(:has(nav :scope))` working in the future too.
That is an inference in error.

Merely two things that are true and referred to in the opposing sense.

Religion is built upon dogma, which science should not be. Honesty is built upon truth, which science should be.
I bet you remember Delta and Omicron. They need not be human names.
The request for feedback could have been discussed at w3, and google could still have made a blog post about it saying something like "this is what we have been discussing at w3 so far, your feedback is welcome on w3.org"...

The post is on chrome.com and mentions the decision makers as "we".
Yeah that's exactly it; it only takes a little uncertainty for burglars to be like "yeah nah".
You can pay more to remove some commercials but not all. From their FAQ:

> Q: I subscribe to Hulu (No Ads) but I’m still seeing ads during on-demand videos

> A: Most of our streaming library is ad-free for Hulu (No Ads) subscribers, but there are a few shows that will still have ads.
Occam's razor specifies that "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity." Materialism cannot be true, despite it's seeming simplicity. Therefore one must multiply the entities until one can arrive at a true, simple explanation with the fewest number of extant entities.

The mind is not a physical thing, despite it being connected with and informed by the brain. Consciousness and the body cannot be separated, because consciousness is not physical and thus no separation can take place. Consciousness 'winks out' when the mind is anesthetized. This is not possible for a physical object but eminently possible for an non-physical (abstract) one. Physical objects are subject to state change, while abstract entities exist, well, differently. It may involve state change, but it also may simply be there/not there.

Abstract things can still exist, when you learn things, it is an abstract thing, the mind, interacting with other abstract things, learnings. These abstract things interact with the physical world through the instrument that evolved to allow them to do so, the human body and mind.

There's another example I can use. When we model a system using state machines, the diagrams of those machines provide a representation of the workings of the model. We can point, on the state diagram, what the underlying system running the state machine is doing. But that 'pointing' isn't the actual system, it's an abstract thing that helps our minds understand the underlying system it's running on.

Did you catch the invocation of the law of parsimony in the last paragraph? The very existence and usefulness of Ockham's Razor invalidates materialism. Entities are not physical objects.
My only concern with PHEVs is that gas goes stale. That gasoline in your tank has now started to undergo all manner of nasty transformations that will clog fuel injectors, ruin fuel pumps, etc.

It can be combated somewhat with fuel stabilizers, but it's absolutely a concern.
Foam is more barebone and you're supposed to use other Extensions for that kind of stuff.
How does it work? What superpowers customers have in Japan, which they don't have anywhere else? Few years ago Sony had global week long outage, no one could play multiplayer, yet it is still a successful company.
Is anyone really surprised? I am not. Google has such a bad relationship to data privacy, they don't see the problem. Getting a warrant is so easy in the US right now, so there is very little reason to disrespect your customers privacy. They just don't see the problem.
You're right mind you, there was indeed a golden period for our state, where other states had covid, and we didn't (we had interstate borders closed too). We had no restrictions and it felt like some kind of freedom utopia, like we had "won". But it was clear that it wasn't something that we could sustain for long. The community didn't want it to and eventually people have to move around again, to say nothing of required movements like transport and emergency health.

When we think about international travel, I think it's the same discussion. I do believe you that it's technically possible to have that level of containment, but I'm skeptical that it's possible at the scale that humans want to move about. The scale of travel is easy to underestimate, even mid-pandemic when the world was closed.

Australia only has a population of around 25 million, and in 2019, 4 million people flew in or out of Australia every month. In 2019 we moved close to the equivalent of the entire country across the border TWICE. For all of 2020 and 2021 it was still above 100,000 people per month, while we were locked down and international travel was banned, that's a lot of movements to get perfectly right to prevent a breach. Trying to scale that up to levels people are happy with is going to be really tough to get right. ( https://www.bitre.gov.au/statistics/aviation/international )

I think you're right that if a disease we decide is deadly enough comes along that we'll have no choice but to reduce throughput entirely, but at the moment I think you can reduce part of this discussion to a tradeoff we're making, between throughput and level of containment.
By definition, if you want to escape reality, you need to disconnect from it.

How can you expect disney, the largest entertainment company in the world, to disconnect you from reality? By using hulu at all you're explicitly opting into reality. By being on the internet at all, you're participating in reality.

You can of course opt to participate in reality and try to adjust it to your liking. Most of it you have quite little control over, though.
> No one knew whether or not the rioters were armed or not

Ever heard of secret services? Even the FBI has admitted they had undercover agents among the participants.

> they controlled the electoral process and disabled the counting of the electoral college votes

So what? It would never have lasted more than a day until security or the army took over. There was no risk at all of a coup d'etat or something.
Humans almost always and almost everywhere in almost every context make the short-term choice with immediate consequence with very little concern for the long-term effect which is usually much more diffuse.

Person A going out to buy a Chinese-made microwave from Walmart today isn't going to lead inexorably to decreased property values, but it is going to give Person A something in which to stick their microwavable popcorn tonight. In fact, many Person As have been buying Chinese-made microwaves from Walmart for many years now, and still property values are going up!

Eventually, sure, enough people making those choices on a macro scale leads to factories closing close by, and if there's no corresponding rise in other industries, that will lead to negative economic consequences for the entire area. But that's a far off problem with a lot of uncertainty, and this popcorn isn't going to pop itself tonight!

Of course, it is also true that Person A could go out of their way to shop at a local store and buy a microwave made by an American company, but that the American company decides that there's much more profit to be made by moving production overseas, and the negative economic consequences happen anyway. Not because of the short-sightedness of Person A, but the greed and short-sightedness of CEO B. That's even more reason for Person A to not be too worried about their individual purchase.
Ask HN: Do you keep learning new technical stuffs without any application
I have been learning a few technical topics mentioned in the threads or books by Hackernews. But there is any opportunity to use them in real world context. Am I wasting my time?
Breaking News: Facebook Causes Increase in Burglaries

But in all seriousness, all forms of crime have just about monotonically decreased throughout all of human development. To say that "modern society" has an increasing problem with burglaries due to a "lack of self respect", there's no evidence it's true, and there is evidence to the contrary.

Before you point out the bump in some crime types in recent years, let me remind you that recent years have not been typical, nor easy on our generally monotonically-improving social safety nets. Compare burglary rates in America from 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010. Lower, lower lower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#/me...
ah yes, the PR PR
Aren't microservices nice because they allow you to have different teams own different parts of the code and minimize the communication overhead?
More like the other way around, I think.
If you are outside the US do you actually get served US political ads?
>A Python script kept alive by Supervisor

I laughed a little. Sometimes the job needs to be done quickly and in a familiar way, I suppose.
Ask HN: Is drip marketing worth it?
Have you used it in your product ? is it really that important to implement ?
> "We cannot ignore the livability and environmental crises facing our world’s cities, and NEOM is at the forefront of delivering new and imaginative solutions to address these issues"

Imaginative and imaginary, apparently.
How so? References are not polymorphic in SML (that's what the value restriction ensures).
I was randomly on Snapchat recently and it's bizarre the short of content that major brands are running their ads on. It's roughly Daily Mail-level of drivel. And they also run every few seconds, literally seconds - and are often unskippable. Maybe the kids are ok with this? But no matter Snap's recent recovery, it's a defeat in a different sense.
You don't control a country by controlling a single building. And worst case, you send the military and the crisis is over in a few hours. If you believe that this was an insurrection, that was the most peaceful insurrection ever in History.
Japanese Government Invests $680M in Kioxia, WD Fab
Well, I mean, the passion doesn't come from a vacuum here. The controversy here was started by a group of campaign directors. You can be and I am concerned about the media dynamics here, but it's not a big mystery why campaign committees would care deeply about buying a lot of ads or why Disney might decide it's a good business move to let them.
Hah! Yes, that's it. Thank you!

oh boy, relevant patents are expired, there's a hacker community and everything.

It would be fun to build a modern version of this, with an Arduino or Rpi or something providing the "brains", and with some input sensors (ultrasonic distance sensor, camera, etc). But instead of just having the input buttons on top, you could also program it over the network (or USB) using a real programming language.

I guess that wouldn't be much different though, than some of the other low-end experimental robotics platforms that are out there?
Same here. There is something about the mundaness that piques your interest.
Big Trak? That's the big one I recall.

I think there was a knock-off one that was vaguely similar.
> Simplicity leads to reliability and I don't know of a more reliable database than SQLite.

JSON file on disk might be a reasonable competitor here. This scales poorly, but sometimes you don't need to scale up to something as crazy as full-blown SQLite.
Nailed it, thanks!
My problem with this is defining exigent circumstances as it relates to video or similar data. I can't easily think of a circumstance where the police are outside my house, encounter an exigent circumstance, but also have the time to request/obtain data from Google. And if the police are made aware of to something in advance, they have time to get a warrant.