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Judge Rules Schools Can't Scan Your Bedroom with Creepy Proctoring Apps
iMessages aren't converted to SMS on Apple's servers side. It's a fallback on the phone's side. When you're on a WiFi but with no cell coverage, you can send an iMessage but can't send an SMS.
This seems to talk about the variant called Active Oberon. It’s an interesting and expressive language that’s fairly active.

It can run native or hosted. It can build binaries for your host or for Oberon itself. The Fox compiler is pretty neat!
There is a tremendous amount of human talent in the video game industry that usually does not bleed into the general tech industry or film industry.

I wonder how well such talent is compensated by the incoming tech giants..
Android apps work quite well already using waydroid. Unfortunate thing about some banking apps is how they go out of their way not to run without play services and safetynet.
What about something more like how tor sites generate url tokens and route traffic?

That way whoever owns the private key will always own the address. It cannot be seized.
This is either the Stack Overflowiest answer or just the Hacker Newsiest.
Yeah, I am reminded of that scene in the Sorkin Steve Jobs movie, where Wozniak is excited to show Jobs his Nixie tube watch until Jobs points out that it looks like a detonator for a bomb
Because they don't have a monopoly in any of those things.

Vertical integration should be pursued by any and every company.
I can't believe this article is 7 years old.
It is a Big Tech consolidation. If the Microsoft, Blizzard and Bethesda isn't an example of consolidation (Which is clearly is) with also Amazon's acquisition of One Medical, then nothing is.

The FTC probably knows it is overdue to break up the Big Tech takeovers, but needs more evidence of this consolidation and behaviour to outright prevent more of this and eventually break them all up.
It's pretty nice. At first I thought it was just a rebranding of R Markdown but it's been decently modernized/improved to the point where it makes sense that it is its own, separate thing.
> The cars aren't the problem at this point, it's figuring out how to allow those of us who rent in dense areas to charge at home.

This has stopped me from buying an EV. I park on the street. homes here have no dedicated garages to install EV charger.

How are they planning to solve this in a little over a decade.
I think this is a good philosophy for hiring employees, but when it comes to education, we wish to go beyond training employees, and what your capabilities are is not the only thing that matters. We should test practical capabilities, but we should test more abstract skills like how many facts you've ingested as well.

When I tell people a story about the history of the french revolution or something, I don't have the opportunity to go research it beforehand. I've already done that research, and I've already thought about those events for months or years, which gave me the opportunity to synthesize an insight or opinion I wish to share.

You don't get that if you don't know things in your head.
Yep, some constants are better to be generated than loaded, see the docs from Mr. Agner.

On a more global scale, all assembly "optimisations"/tricks are hidden deep into compilers, which are reasonably "transparent" to their devs only, that due to their abysmal complexity and size.

We would need some sort of online library for those assembly (boolean/branchless calculus...) tricks.

A job for wikipedia? Maybe linked to the maths/boolean calculus?
>I think trans activism with kids is a severe violence.

Have you ever occurred to you to consult a dictionary, to check the meaning of the word “violence”?
Now that’s a fun hackathon project if I ever saw one!
Lichess' page on rating systems: https://lichess.org/page/rating-systems
I think they are referring to the population at large being aware of it instead of actual actions taken

Like with the mainstream media and the fact that no one has put the Murdochs in a rocket to Mars
Given what you state here and what is written in that report on the Swedish grid I assume you agree that the "right-wing" Sverigedemokraterna is not a "rigt-wing" party? They want more efficiency, they want 100% fossil-free power generation, they want to focus on "climate" impact of energy generation.

Realise that the only reason I use these senseless "left-wing" and "right-wing" labels is to show just how nonsensical they are. I do not think in these terms, I just responded to your use of the "right-wing" moniker.

By the way, where would you put the CEO of a company like Vestas or General Electric? Are they "right-wing" because they are greedy capitalists or are they "left-wing" because they want to build more wind turbines?

> Wikipedia suggests...

Wikipedia has become weaponised and is even less of a trustworthy source than it was before the weaponisation.
You can only really pull off the new architecture trick once or twice

Apparently not.

The Mac has gone from Motorola 68000 to PowerPC to Intel to ARM.

And if needed, they could do it again.
The Amazing Amazon
Dairy. Milk contains a protein called casein, which breaks down capsaicin.
As long as emails can be routed to/from the old system, more technical adopters can still adopt a more secure solution.
France's issues with nuclear are long lasting. They are running only 24 out of 56 power plants today and a lot of that outage is ongoing for many months. France is a net importer for almost a year I believe which is untypical for the country which normally exports cheap nuclear electricity.
Figuring prices as "per square foot" is a big part of the problem: a 100sq ft "tiny home" and a 2,000 sq ft "livable barn" both need about the same minimum fixtures and systems to be considered acceptable housing. Thing like the toilet and shower will be similarly priced and required for both buildings.

The installation effort of many things outweighs the amount of materiel being installed. Painting the interior walls of either of these buildings will require a lot of the same setup but the smaller house won't be much cheaper because its using less paint.

The economies of scale in construction, now, happen at the subcontractor level. For example roofing contractors range from folks able to finish a roof in hours and set up to do 100 jobs a month, to Uncle Joe and his beer buddies who work cheap and take "two weeks" (and innumerable cases of beer) to do the same job. They can both charge about the same to their customer tho.

There are things that scale and get cheaper, but its very hard to realize that savings in a single project.
Did it, though?

I mean, yes, I agree with you, Plan 9 is the true successor to Unix.

But Inferno is the true successor to Plan 9.

And yet, both are obscure and relatively rarely used anywhere, whereas VMS Software Inc. just shipped OpenVMS version 9.2, the first production-ready release of native x86-64 OpenVMS.

Here's a news story I wrote on it:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/10/openvms_92/

VMS has now run on 4 different CPU architectures, migrated 3 times, and it is still out there, still in production, still being used by enough organisations to pay for another port and a new native version in 2022.

1. VAX → Alpha

2. Alpha → IA64 (Itanium)

3. IA64 → X86-64

It's doing well for something "obsolete".

Plan 9, sadly, has not even managed to replace Unix enough to hinder the vast uptake of an original 1970s-style monolithic FOSS version: Linux. I'm typing on it right now.
> Newspapers

Newspapers is free or dirt cheap. You basically pay the paper and distribution costs if anything. Those that do charge to read it online don't show ads to subscribers.

> Cable tv

The main selling point of cable TV was no ads. Eventually they started adding ads, and that's probably the reason cable tv is fading away.

> Netflix

Doesn't have ads right now, and if they do in future, people will just move away.
No, because of the financial risks involved in constructing, operating and getting rid of them. The costs associated with Fukushima are estimated to be at least 200 billion dollars [1], Chernobyl 235 billion dollars [2].

Even leaving out disaster scenarios: A modern EPR nuclear power plant is at ~1.6 GW [3] at a cost of 11 billion euros, taking a decade or more to build, and about a billion dollars to tear down [4]. A wind park half the size costs two billion dollars in two to five years [5], has less risks in construction, no risk at all of a catastrophic failure, and assuming 80€/kWh in teardown costs [6] 16 million € for the teardown.

That means wind power at a capacity factor of 0.4-0.5 [7] (meaning, you need two of them to achieve the same available capacity to the grid on average) is half as expensive as a nuclear power plant even when ignoring the efficiencies that building at scale brings with it and has virtually no risks attached. Financially, it's absolute irresponsibility to go nuclear.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK253929/

[2] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/chernobyl...

[3] https://taz.de/Finnischer-Reaktor-geht-ans-Netz/!5829751/

[4] https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/energie/energiewend...

[5] https://renewablesnow.com/news/construction-starts-on-800-mw...

[6] https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Parlamentarische-Anfragen/2...

[7] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volllaststunde
So you think Germans will not blame Russia for problems caused by the lack of Russian gas?
> The double-blind review process has eliminated natural biases that may have influenced our reviews in the past, including tendencies to reject based on gender or to accept from the “better” institutions.

I don’t know how much double-blind really helps. Especially in a specific field, you can usually tell what person/lab/company wrote the paper without seeing the authors’ names.
>"I thought 'this is crazy,'" Joy McClain, 81, said when she saw the mountain's name in a local paper and felt called to action.

..because she's so fucking stupid she doesn't know that the swastika [both name and symbol] existed for hundreds, if not thousands, of years before the Nazis commandeered it.

https://reclaimtheswastikasymbol-bl-blog.tumblr.com/
Serious question why would you need "studies" or "research to know thr police is racist.

That will just not help solving the problem
In general I agree that low acceptance rate with negative selection based on arguments like "it's not novel", "it's obvious" is toxic.

I get it that capacity for conference might be limited, so gatekeeping might be necessity, but personally I like to learn useful knowledge, so something novel, but theoretical might be more boring for me than something well known, but improved in some interesting ways.

Also composing solutions is interesting, you should not have to reinvent the wheel, just to get approved, if you want to focus on broader perspective. The whole is greater than sum of the parts.
Because there will be some kind of razzmatazz at the Grand Prix this weekend.
While it is a bit late to close the door on JS usage within SMTP protocol, choices of client SMTP becomes paramount given its legacy stage of SMTP protocol.
Just a few comments:

- the things you list are insanely expensive (just keep that in mind next time you say that nuclear power is expensive... you also need to figure these costs in when comparing to EE, because you wouldn't need to do this with nuclear)

- PV with battery storage is great for autarky and reducing fossils, but won't reduce the need for base load after a week without sun in winter, when all the batteries are empty..

- things like heat pumps that replace fossils will increase electricity consumption. I think current estimates are that electricity consumption may increase 50-100%.

- there is just not a lot of potential for additional renewable base load in Germany. Bio gas, hydro, geothermal.. they are all pretty must at their limits. there is just no way around either burning fossils, using nuclear or having an insane amount of storage.
Giving the Indian government access to your data when they allowed the Indian government to specify an individual to hire and then not have internal controls on what information that person has access to.

Sounds very similar to how the Saudi Arabian government spied on Twitter users using a plant but in this case knowingly supported by Twitter executives.
BTW, that is Norsk Data:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsk_Data
TRON Smart House
> Will there ever be a point where as a society we agree to put an upper cap on the size of companies?

it would be great if we could first put a cap on the biggest culprit: government.
I hated take home tests in undergrad and grad school because they were the hardest tests I took. Memorization was easy lol.
Also the TV Show Mr Robot with E-Corp.
For the moment the rents are cheap and domain revocations are few enough that, practically speaking, this is how it is now.
Basically already happening in many Chinese departments and conferences, just without the AI yet, but of equivalent quality.

(I'm ethnic Chinese and this is not meant to be a racially charged comment)
I'd say this transcends language.

Sure a language can define some abstraction that says "hey I'm length-0 array!". But this is more like a statement of "hey I don't exist yet, but if i do exist in the future I'll be of type array and at least length-1".

You can't access index 0 of a length-0 array.

You can only access index 0 of length-1+ array.
>I wonder what would have happened if Musk had not requested data from all accounts, but a more targeted list of valuable targets. Would that have been granted?

Not likely. Discovery requests have to be justified to the judge that they are applicable to the lawsuit. If e.g. Musk's lawyers asked for all data on Trump, the judge would likely deny that request as "overly broad" since Musk's lawyers (presumably) would not be able to demonstrate how Trump's records could be used to make their case in court.
Exactly. They also need to be broken up as well.
No information about energy density and vague information about "..the new battery cells can withstand hundreds of charge cycles, and charge very quickly..."

So it does not have enough density and thus useless in BEVs and if amount of charge cycles is not counted in thousands, then it is kind of useless for renewable storage as well. But at least it is cheap.
Is the top end deflating? If deflation comes from young high-variance players does that affect the players at very top? As they might be good enough to consistently beat the young players.
Actually, thy were, because said safety feature was malfunctioning. The definition of malfunctioning with anything based on Machine Learning however, is much murkier, because there is no guarantee that the function you've learned is actually the one you think you've learned.
Even if I think the C syntax is already too rich, in the end, it is absurdely simple compared to other abysmaly complex syntaxes, like c++... yeah, probably not worth the conference.
I think I agree with your point that antitrust laws should focus on preventing monopolies rather than on limiting size per se. Ideally, a company should be able to grow to any size so long as it doesn't prevent competition.

In practice, large companies have been able to use their leverage to influence political outcomes and antitrust laws have not been enforced. It's good that we have laws to ensure a free market, but they're not much use if they're ignored.

In this case, I'm not sure that Amazon acquiring a video game company does much to hinder competition. There are lots of indie video games and I don't see that Electronic Arts has any particular technology that locks in customers or excludes other vendors.

As a society we absolutely should be vigilant against concentrations of power, foremost of which are the big tech companies. But when it comes to monopolies, there are more significant things to worry about than this particular acquisition.
Agreed. In addition my Pine phone needed a heatsink to handle 95+ degree weather. That's in the open air... when sitting in the pocket it radiated a scary amount of heat.

They are a neat gadget. But I don't think they're more or less of a neat gadget than any other Quectel 25(?) based iot device. The phone form factor, for me, was rendered useless.
IATA – International Air Transport Association
This is a reason I gave up doing systems research. It’s full of cliques and negativity. It became a process whereby we were even trained to accept this rejection frequency as normal and to expect retrying for years. You keep submitting a paper and revising it for months even while working on the next idea (can’t just sit around fixing a paper, PhD work must always continue).

Rejections also directly impact a student’s graduation. No accepted papers at decent conferences? Delay graduation. It’s grating and unnecessarily stressful.

After graduation I was unmotivated to continue to bother publishing because I don’t care for this culture. I’m saddened by it.

There are positions in industry like at Sandia National Labs which require regular publication to remain employed. Again, given good work is done, rejections affect your livelihood. Too much stress.

I lost my “spark” thinking the field of CS systems research was one of exploration and community. It exists, but not as a whole.

/rant
I go to Italy every few months and buy a few bottles of generic balsamico for cooking. Cost about 1.20 EUR per 700 mL bottle at Coop. No caramel or funny ingredients. Surely not aged like the expensive stuff but it performs its job well in my kitchen.
Maybe this is too hard to quantify outside of mass-production?

I'd assume that a well-tuned mass-production cycle would drastically reduce size over time, like it did with lithium batteries?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think you’re trying to say that the phrase “toxic culture” signals something exasperating or frustrating to you about the person using it.

Is it because you don’t think that a culture can be toxic? Or perhaps that the phrase is overused or misapplied?

Or is it something else that you dislike?
What’s wrong with suppressing religious “teaching”? Let me remind you that freedom of religion was mostly about freedom from religion.
There's a strong correlation between the early users of the internet and neurodivergent individuals. I'm one of them. We love to info dump, and the early web provided the perfect means to do so.
The GDPR didn’t focus on cookies but on informed consent to be tracked. Do not tracked died when Microsoft set it as default in internet explorer.
Acme was inspired by Oberon, and Oberon was inspired by a system called Cedar[1] which was created at Xerox PARC.

From "Acme, A User Interface for Programmers"[2] by Rob Pike:

> Cedar was, however, the major inspiration for Oberon [Wirt89], a system of similar scope but much smaller scale. Through careful selection of Cedar’s ideas, Oberon shows that its lessons can be applied to a small, coherent system that can run efficiently on modest hardware. In fact, Oberon probably errs too far towards simplicity: a single-process system with weak networking, it seems an architectural throwback.

> Acme is a new program, a combined window system, editor, and shell, that applies some of the ideas distilled by Oberon. Where Oberon uses objects and modules within a programming language (also called Oberon), Acme uses files and commands within an existing operating system (Plan 9). Unlike Oberon, Acme has does not yet have support for graphical output, just text. At least for now, the work on Acme has concentrated on producing the smoothest user interface possible for a programmer at work.

[1]: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/CSL-83-1...

[2]: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...
Yes, this is actually why the Tesla Big Battery in Australia was so cost effective, it stopped gas plants from manipulating the prices:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/06/how-tesla...

> The big gas generators – even though they have 10 times more capacity than is required – have systematically rorted the situation, sometimes charging up to $7m a day for a service that normally comes at one-tenth of the price.

> (You can read reports on how they do it here, here and here, and for a more detailed explanation at the bottom of this story.)

> The difference in January was that there is a new player in the market: Tesla. The company’s big battery, officially known as the Hornsdale Power Reserve, bid into the market to ensure that prices stayed reasonable, as predicted last year.

> Rather than jumping up to prices of around $11,500 and $14,000/MW, the bidding of the Tesla big battery – and, in a major new development, the adjoining Hornsdale windfarm – helped (after an initial spike) to keep them at around $270/MW.

> This saved several million dollars in FCAS charges, which are paid by other generators and big energy users, in a single day.

> And that’s not the only impact. According to state government’s advisor, Frontier Economics, the average price of FCAS fell by around 75% in December from the same month the previous year. Market players are delighted, and consumers should be too, because they will ultimately benefit.

Of course, just decent regulatory oversight can stop this kind of thing too, but fossil fuel producers seem to be really against that kind of thing for some reason.
I used Gandi for exactly this purpose years ago. Then emails from certain popular domains suddenly stopped getting through to me. When I complained, they told me in somewhat vague language to use a proper email service instead of a free add-on to a cheap domain plan.
The latest release of nbdev has fully embraced Quarto! It's very awesome, check it out.
They are broken up, as separate companies that cooperate between them.
I really enjoy the Hot Ones series where celebrities are interviewed while eating extremely hot wings. It helps that the interviewer and his researchers actually take the interview side very seriously as well.
> Personally I like the taste but also the mild high I get

I make a sweet curry that guests have called "the stealth chicken" because the heat grows slowly, and people don't realize it is actually pretty brutally spicy until they are into the second helping (BTW - I do warn people about it). It takes 15-20 minutes to cool off, and even people who don't like spicy end up downing a plate or three (if they like the flavor of curry). Usually dinners with this dish are a blast because everyone is laughing at everything, no matter how unfunny. I've always wondered if it was endorphin that was enhancing the experience.
> It's even worse in big European cities. Lack of housing is a big issue. This means you have to move outside of the city and boom your life is car dependent now.

None of my friends own a car, we all live in big European cities.

We all pay less than ~25% of our income for housing.
Is there any game that does not run on M1/M2 Macs in emulation mode?
Can you explain how vertical integration is anti competitive?
He is referring to Goering.
Umbrella Corporation from Resident Evil?
> P.S., thank god for indie developers who make games without input from accountants and psychiatrists who specialize in addiction, they may save us all yet.

Yes, I think indies (and AA studios before they inevitably get bought out) will always keep the art alive. Of course that means missing out on some types of games that are simply not feasible for smaller groups or without significant up front funding.

> There's also a glimmer of hope at gog.com where they still sell real games without DRM.

That is no longer true for all games on GOG unfortunately [0]. Similarly Steam does require games to have DRM once downloaded and there are many that you can just copy and run wherever you want (without a technical restriction anyways). I wouln't count on any distributor to have a significant effect on the keeping games clean.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24419237
I’m not disagreeing with the general jist of your argument, but EA hasn’t exactly been a hotbed of innovation in years.