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The Particle Accelerator Experiment That Could Rewrite Printing Press History
This is how PoAIP book [ch. 1] starts:

"You think you know when you learn, are more sure
when you can write, even more when you can teach,
but certain when you can program.
—Alan Perlis "

So I was curious as to who is Alan Perlis. Sorry, assumed others had also accessed the pdf :{}
All of the things mentioned as requirements for the cover letter are stuff you'd add to your CV in short form. Why companies require the ritual of writing the same things in prose addressed to the company is beyond me.

I'd understand it if the cover letter was the place to write your unique motivation and what makes you stand out, but this article confirms it's just bureaucratic nonsense.
It would be nice if users could mark predictions as true.

I would love to see how the predictions trade on prediction markets like https://manifold.markets/. Could you automatically create an entry for every prediction?
Hmm… a personal website that has taken many hours over the past twelve years, a handful of abandoned Free Software projects, …

These things were and are valuable to some people, but I find “marketing” them somewhere between tiresome and repugnant, so I don’t.
Interesting idea, but: is Puppertino as pro-mouse and anti-keyboard-navigation as Mac OS seems to be?

I love my Mac, I really do, but I do find the mouse focus frustrating. For example, there is not, AFAIK, a simple way to navigate menus, e.g., Windows, without the mouse. There may be, and I may simply be ignorant, but I haven’t found it yet.

There are keyboard shortcuts, but they can be frustrating. E.g., I don’t know what changed recently, but I have used gmail with Safari for years, and just recently, Safari started swallowing all of the Gmail formatting shortcuts.

It’s not a constant battle, keeping keyboard navigation working, but it is a tiring and repetitive one.

How does Puppertino make accessibility easier?
UK-specific - scraping online grocery store prices across stores daily since 2020 but never built on top of it, and not packaged to market as api or data set..
Actually publishing the documents via Evernote is a stopgap measure until I perfect the pipeline from Evernote to the static site I plan to put up.

Evernote allows me to take notes in real-time and access it regardless of place or OS I'm using at that time. It also allows me to collaborate on stuff, so I don't think it's concentrated evil juice.
After I wrote that comment I realised it's actually started. First episode is already very good and a promising start for the season!
When I was in school, the kids that had the best grades and were in all the good programs always ended up reading. aloud. like. this.
IIRC there was an ad involving a dog food manufacturer feeding their own dogs the food they made. "Dogfooding" then became synonymous with using your own product.
What are the "Human guidelines" from Apple? Do you mean the Human Interface Guidelines (aka HIG)? From what I could see in the examples, this doesn't look very Apple-like.
> dap

Great word, that.
Vintage Digital VT420 Terminal on Raspberry Pi (2012)
From my experience, it's not very common in tech companies in Sweden. They often lack collective agreements and in the last company I worked at I never heard anyone talk about it or say they were a member.
For what it's worth, the article seems free to access on mobile here in Australia. I'm using an Android phone with the Vivaldi browser. Each article prompts with an offer to subscribe to the NYT for $20/year or 50c/week, but that prompt is easily dismissed. I also have the free New York Times login account that increases the number of free articles you're allowed to read, but apparently I wasn't logged in to that anyway.

Perhaps I have paywall free access because I took their "Not ready to subscribe? Tell us why" survey a while back?
No one said an author shouldn’t choose what words to write. They are astonished people want browsers to choose. If politicians want a to use simple words, good for them.
Would be nice to include explicit predictions that don't start with "I predict" from the prediction threads.
Steel man arguments for staffing agency?
Hello -

I'm an experienced embedded systems developer, 62, and I have been approached by a staffing agency for a gig in nearby city.

I have interviewed with the team lead. It went really well. I'd like to take the gig, but I'm choking on the idea of working with a staffing agency.

I have had my own business since 1996, and I've been contracting with individual clients ever since. It's a been a good business.

I see working with a staffing agency (I'd be corp-to-corp) with them as introducing a third party into the relationship, and that they would be basically rent-seeking off of the relationship over the longer haul.

I think this gig could be 5 years or so of good, interesting work at a reasonable rate.

At the same time, I want to be objective as I can be in my thinking about this. I'm having trouble seeing any benefit from having them in the loop for the long term.

Are their any good arguments for working with a staffing agency on a gig that would last more than a year?

As you likely know, the staffing agency makes it contractually difficult, if not outright impossible, to cut them out and for me to work directly with the client on a corp-to-corp basis.

I would be willing to put up with the staffing agency for six months or a year. What I find hard to swallow is working with them in the loop for a longer period.

Thanks for any advice you can offer.
System Preferences > Accessibility > Keyboard > Navigation then enable full keyboard.

The function has existed since at least 2002 when I started using OS X full time, though it did just take me almost 5 seconds to find the current location of it by googling (I enable it via defaults).
> even if we were, that type system wizardry wouldn't help a whole ton in getting strings from browser A into database B and back again.

Some of it does. The usage of two separate types for validated and unvalidated input entirely removes a class of bugs from the programmer, and enforces it at compile time, making:

string my_str = <some untrusted input>;
db.exec("select * from A where name='{0}'", my_str)

A compiler error instead of an SQL injection.
It looks nearly identical to Go. Am I missing something?
I guess my two main questions are:

* What is the economic impact of trucks needing to stop to charge for X number of hours versus traditional refueling?

* Who - the truck driver or the company they work for - is typically responsible for the capex in purchasing the truck?
the lack of noise with EV compared to diesel is the big win
PG described it that way, but two languages could each have a weird and powerful feature that programmers in the other language don't understand, and then each language is a blub for the other.
UK, with Sky

>Sky Broadband Shield

>weblog.raganwald.com has been blocked by Sky Broadband Shield, which lets you choose the websites that can be seen in your home.

>The site was blocked because it matched the following categories:

> Pornography and Adult
> Also no real-life product or business is built using a single PL

I've worked on many "real-life" products where that was exactly the case. And plenty where the only second language was for the script for running the build.

I certainly agree choice of PL is only one of many factors that contribute towards success of a software company, but it's still an important one. Choosing a language that makes it impossible to find good devs who want to work for you is almost a guaranteed death sentence.
Around 2005 or so I developed a full Visual Basic-to-C++ transpiler, a visual form editor and an IDE to easily develop Palm apps, all in C#.

Some friends and family told me that the IDE was "awesomwe" (well, awesomeness is very a very relative thing with your F&F) but I never found the time/motivation to polish it and market the thing.

Edit: typos.
Ask HN: What Are Your Principles?
No your credit card does not. Your credit card can show one of your office address for example and be very legit. You can possibly losing some very wealthy customers, or customers who are victims of domestic violence. They don't want their sleeping address in a database because of crazy fans, stalkers and more. Many addresses in various services are very likely to eventually be sold by some ad tech / marketing company one day, where for the low price of $1-$50 you can get all the info you want about people.

But in your B2B use case you'll just say setup an office VPN proxy and make it look like your coming from the office ISP connection.
> we'd secure the future from literally any calamity (including CC)

What is CC here? Cosmic collapse? Credit cards?

Edit: Ah, of course. Thanks.
What I'm hoping for here is for you to point to the specific comment(s) you have in mind.

You're ... being somewhat less than helpful here, and are doing much the same as you've repeatedly accused others of doing: hand-waving vaguely in some general direction without being specific.

I'd be interested in discussing, or even simply understanding, what point(s) you're making. But you're failing to make them here, or indicate where you've made them previously.

If you have a specific comment that discusses the objections to the e-ink patent encumbrance concept, please link them or make them again here.
Build open source tools to help humans solve the grand messes they are creating, and prevent future messes.
Alan Kay wasn't involved in Star, except as a PARC influencer.
Debatable. And the point is that the benefit of solving/ameliorating the climate problem on Earth is far far far greater than the benefit of a Mars colony. We just have to put ourselves on some sustainable footing and survive until the 22nd century, before we start trying to solve problems like “ensuring humanity’s survival post Earth-shattering asteroid strike”, which is all that a serious Mars colony would solve.
Things were way, way worse in the past. The US fought a civil war. The cities were systematically looted and burned in the 1960s and all manner of figures were assassinated. It is far, far from that today.

It is far easier today than ever to get material support with food stamps, section 8 housing, the EITC, food banks, and things are so good that we literally can’t stop the poor masses from illegally crossing our borders in order to live here.

There is a fever dream in the woke / intellectual left in America that some long struggling proletariat will rebel. This is against the ethos and culture of America as a bootstraps, capitalistic nation that even the leaders of the Democratic Party have to bluntly reject socialism (see Nancy Pelosi’s shouting at the question).

My wife is Vietnamese and her parents were boat people. The entire extended family despises democrats and specifically faults their hatred of meritocratic education as a sticking point. The left has no idea what minorities really think because the party is run primarily by rich white people who exist in an echo chamber.

America is the land of opportunity. It will continue to be so provided we do everything we can to stop the deranged, intolerant, anti-business left from ruining what makes our country the best in the world.
Things that are electrified, on average, only require 44% of the energy of those that run with combustion fuels. The raw cost economics are not a surprise.
The shadow was wrong in the man-tree-beach-sea image. I guess it might be artistically wrong, but I'm sceptical of what that even means in this context.
It would note your own pronouncement used many difficult words that could easily be replaced with shorter and more common words without sacrificing too much clarity.

Instead of international… use “global” or “world wide”.
Instead of make sense… use “be good”.
Instead of discourage… use “put a stop to” or “warn off”.
Etc.
So many substations are necessary that it would just be better to rewrite the sentence.

For example “The web is used by many people in different places. Should apps warn you if you are using words that many people do not know?”

I had to substitute browser as it is a jargon word to many people. They just go online using their phone. They don’t know what is actually handling the data of the web page.
As does using a throwaway to make multiple useless comments on a thread.
I was ready to give this a try, but the use of BearSSL is concerning. It goes on to say that it's not a widely adopted SSL implementation, so how can it be trusted? I suppose adoption has to start somewhere, but I'll watch from a safe distance.
Porting ZFS to OpenBSD has been attempted before. See this blog post from 2013: https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/ZFS-on-OpenBSD
> anti-keyboard-navigation as Mac OS seems to be?

This is total nonsense. macOS has always had the most consistent built-in keyboard navigation of any OS I can think of.
I’m not discounting what you are saying, but this has been the case for years. I’m not sure how long for but I’m betting I began to feel the buzz 8+ years ago on laptops. if people were going to die I think we would have seen this by now.
More fluid than mechanical.

Note that even electrical displays can suffer burn-in, with CRT, LCD, and LED screens all exhibiting this. (I'm unsure about plasma displays, as I don't understand that technology.)
"Last in, first out" is stipulated in law but you can still negotiate, which means the employee themselves quit and get compensated for it.
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Every time I hear these notions of well-meaning billionaire philanthropists set on making the world a better place, I'm unavoidably reminded of this short passage in Conrad's Heart of Darkness:

> "It appeared, however, I was also one of the Workers, with a capital—you know. Something like an emissary of light, something like a lower sort of apostle. There had been a lot of such rot let loose in print and talk just about that time, and the excellent woman, living right in the rush of all that humbug, got carried off her feet. She talked about ‘weaning those ignorant millions from their horrid ways,’ till, upon my word, she made me quite uncomfortable. I ventured to hint that the Company was run for profit."

If it was real philanthropy, the model would be one of no-strings-attached grants, delivered via a competitive process open to people in disadvantaged communities - not a model based on loans which must be repayed with interest, with collection agencies lurking in the background to go after defaulters in this manner.

This is why people are better off cutting deals with the hard-nosed businesspeople who spell out risks and conditions upfront, rather than the liberal do-gooder snake-oil merchants with their ulterior motives.
If the prediction sentence contains a url, the sentence ends at the first `.` in the url. For example:

> I predict that some cities will eventually desire persistent aerial surveillance systems like http://www.

The full sentence from HN is:

> I predict that some cities will eventually desire persistent aerial surveillance systems like http://www.baesystems.com/product/BAES_162772/ARGUS-IS for many reasons, this being one.
Yes, basic/toy versions.
Exactly, I wouldn't be surprised if a driver's paycheck is a substantial part of the total cost, so you might end up needing two to four trucks to haul the same payload due to extra weight of the batteries (and there's an 80k combined weight limit afaik). At $25/hour average (googled) trucker pay that 200 mile trip taking 3-4 hours would cost > $75 per driver. Fuel savings are calculated to be $140, every additional driver costs at least $75.

That's maybe the best use-case for FSD I've yet to see.
Oh, that just drives the point home. Any flaw you can find in these models to build your hope on will just get corrected in the next iteration, only a couple months down the line.
Trucks, at least in Europe, are already required to stop every X number of hours for regulated rest. If they time it, so that they charge at the same time - there'll be no economic impact.

Also as I understand it, the Semis aren't really a long haul type of truck, so that won't happen as much. (feel free to correct me, HN)
Nobody does that. The .gitnor file should block it.
Or maybe they were removed because the integration test failed and no one felt like fixing it so they just axed it.
> and you can't tell the model "the hat should be tilted about 5 about degrees"

Actually, I think you can.
I like Adam Something’s commentary on issues of urbanism, but as an engineer myself I find his engineering criticism lacking.
I worked at a place where the executives constantly sent out company wide congratulations emails, to each other.

The HR director wrote “why it is a great time to work at X part 1” and then we did some layoffs… and part 2 was sent out the next day without missing a beat.

That company eventually stumbled and failed largely because they wouldn’t cancel a product that was clearly deficient (a far superior product was available but wasn’t invented by the established engineering manager, so they killed that product instead ).
Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory
> There's quite a lot of developers at stodgy Fortune 500 non-tech companies

"Quite a lot"? There are more developers at Fortune 500 than FAANG for sure.
What are reasonable ranges for N in a typical severance package?
Hi all! I'm not the author, but I'm part of the effort to turn PAIP from a scanned pdf into a lot of markdown.
A friend and I experimented with using it to generate images for DnD items. It’s a quick way to get a visual for something that doesn’t exist, and therefore, does not need to be totally accurate.
Furcadia
> It's like the model gets you the first 90%, and then you need a trained painter to get the second 90%.

Call me a doomer, but I think this makes the possible consequences even worse.

Remember the 80/20 rule.

A lot of modern product innovation is not really about improving quality - rather, its about introducing lower-quality versions of existing products which are significantly cheaper than the original but still "good enough".

Dalle2 and friends could fall into the same bucket. If they produce artwork that is objectively worse than a human-painted version would be, but still "good enough" for many mundane usecases - stock photos, concept art, etc - we might still see a wide adoption and displacement of human artists from those usecases - along with an overall drop in quality of artworks.
This is an interesting hypothesis and I’ll take it to mean that among all the things that need to be solved, the business process is the biggest one. Because clearly there are many problems that need to be solved.

But I think the hypothesis fails a bit on its face. Setting aside the question of whether an agency has money of the correct color to spend on something like Cloud.gov, interagency acquisitions are a fairly well-trodden path. It’s a very regular thing for an agency to purchase goods from another agency, and while software purchases still have wrinkles, it’s generally been done and can be done. Not always super easy, but easier than you seem to be implying. This goes for interagency transfers of money as well, but that’s really its own thing. It requires willingness from both parties.

Still needs to be made easier, but I would still argue that the personal liability that attaches to an agency official that comes with accepting the risk of a security breach or other information loss is the biggest blockage to change. Put more plainly, would you risk your personal interests that Cloud.gov is secure enough for you to deploy your agency’s application to? Most people would not take this risk, which is in my estimation the biggest reason among many you only see small, public projects like EPA’s AirNow tracker on cloud.gov and nothing more sensitive or closer to an agency’s core mission deployed there.

My understanding last I heard, which was a while ago, is that Cloud.gov team is scrambling to get new clients because that’s largely how it pays for or supports itself. I expect it will be deprecated eventually and that will regrettably chill any future initiatives like this.
As an ignorant person who occasionally repairs things, something I have often wanted is a handwavy guide to failure modes of components expressed in terms of their audible effect.

What I mean is something that would help me to take a problem like "the bass keeps popping out and back in again in the left channel" and make a logical decision about whether to look first at the output transistors, amplifier bias current, some capacitors somewhere, the volume pot, quality of contacts for the input or output connection, or something else entirely.

I'm not able to watch a video right now - does the "What Goes Wrong?" part of this go there? Is there a transcript or a source article?
I far prefer Discourse myself, and it is superior in useful features. "More modern" is mostly what I heard others saying in response to me recommending Discourse. Suppose it is a look&feel thing mostly, and personal preference. That said, you can customize Discourse quite extensibly.
Protonmail does not allow VPN only registrations I think without payment?
If EVs became the primary automobile of drivers, and also became the primary semi-truck form on the road, the economics change significantly. When there's demand for charging from an additional tens of millions or hundreds of millions of vehicles in the US alone, my guess is that prices for electricity are going to increase significantly. Especially prices for any type of fast-charging capability while on the road.

Curious to see what this means in 10-20 years when comparing costs between EVs and ICEs.

That being said, long-term maintenance costs, reduction in road noise, etc. are all a win for EVs.
I appreciate the effort but other than the play on Ed woods movie title, I'm not exactly sure what makes this book "quirky". Skimming through the first dozen pages available for free, it struck me as a relatively academic and dry treatise on scheme.
Digital art is not permanently interesting. My sympathies go out to people who feel like they will lose some of their business. However, a group of developers has shown what was always true about digital art: its computational art even if you draw it because it is encoded digitally. In other words, it was always going to be reproducible and remixable.

The problem with being shocked by Dall-E, in my view, is that it shows an ignorance about the historical development of art and its incredible diversity of practice + the final productions and forms of art. OpenAI have sort of Warholised digital art in a way and that's just very standard in art history. People went crazy when Warhol productised art but in reality this was an overreaction and plenty more stuff came after that which completely different in its orientation towards art (e.g. something like Hans Haacke). Dalle-E is a system for producing digital art in the way that Warhol's practice was a system for producing visual art as a commercial product.
If you still want to do something with the plotters, maybe consider the wedding market? Change to a calligraphic font (IIRC there are some Hershey fonts that might be a good start) and sell a bundle with invitations, place cards, and so on.