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>you stated that the Daily Sceptic specifically - the site this thread is about - had been "directing and encouraging harassment and violent threats against doctors".

No, what I said was that was what you were suggested, because you literally raised the Tavistock issue and I looked it up and found out a load of people are threatening doctors. Apparently that's not what you meant, but it's not my fault you aren't being specific. I don't think it's an unreasonable jump for me to look at what you cited and go "Oh yeah you're right, the death threats against doctors are a bad thing".

I told you, I don't read the website, I'm not going to trawling through it. It looks like it's full of terrible dross, which is why I deferred to your explanation. Personally, I could imagine it being any of a thousand other things. But that's life, if you fill your website full of absolute rubbish you're going to have trouble figuring out whats objectionable.
What do you think your technically inept family could actually do to your Linux system?

The permission model is such that the most damage they should be able to do, is to an account you've provided to them

Or are we assuming they get sudo and unlimited time, like the typewriter thing?

I'd be more worried handing it over to a experienced person who's familiar with rd.break, assuming the filesystem isn't encrypted

I specifically give family members Linux so I don't have to go clean hundreds of toolbars and the like, as I've had to with their Windows boxen
I think its unfair to say the real customers of IT are regulators and auditors. But meeting their requirements is legally mandated. You have to meet that standard. In an imperfect world with deadlines, overhead, and limited resources that's sometimes all you can hope for.

As for Teams being awful. It has problems. But all non native desktop apps do and that includes Slack and Discord. I use both Teams and Discord daily and they are about equal in frustration.
Nice article that starts with the background and origins of "The Three-Body Problem", the well-known series of Sci-Fi books. Note to the mods: The OP's actual title is "How Chinese Sci-Fi Conquered America."
I launched the webapp today and noticed it was dark (my system is dark mode, but I like my webpages light), so I knew you added the theming to the free version.

I don't need any of the features in the Pro version but I picked up a yearly sub as well because it makes me happy to see feedback so quickly integrated !

My bucket list of features now :
- <i> or <Enter> button in Command mode to enter Edit mode
- Maybe a search feature to easily find a task in all Pages
- More a "me" feature than a "you" feature but I'd love to find a way to be able to export the current running task name and timer and add it to my top bar (on Linux, with polybar). I have looked a bit at the application but didn't find an API endpoint I could hit or something like that so I might have to find a more hacky solution. To have something like this https://i.imgur.com/OUcyTyQ.png in the top-right bar

Thank you !

Imba looks awesome as well !
Does anyone know how this works in Iran? All the way from the decision making to the question of: who do you call? What commands do they execute? I would naively start with physical ingress points and add routing rules that stop traffic to service IP blocks (obtained by examining DNS records). Depending on how DNS is deployed (like, is there a national law to only use government run name servers?) you could freeze DNS records from updating.

That would be MY back-of-the-envelope approach to doing internet censorship in a totalitarian dictatorship. But I'm not convinced it's the best way.
Well if that's true, then who created Jensen Huang?
What sort of water tech do you predict we'll see, cheaper desalination? I thought sanitation was a pretty mature technology.
GraphQL was designed to solve a singular problem, slow mobile internet speeds. Now that mobile internet (5G) is faster then some wired home connections I'm worried that GraphQL will die off. It's a solution that no longer has a problem. Though it is a cool tech.
> the ultimate goal is to generate revenue for finding and providing useful, focused or curated information

The ultimate goal for who? If, as you say, Google has been watering down search results for their own ends, how does that square with providing useful information?
> Edit: can be a compromised CDN

I don't see mention of a CDN in the link or the conversation around it, the closest being "artifact of its infrastructure". Was it the correct link?

I'm not seeing how a CDN exploit would result in Instagram replying with "your post has been removed". That said I'm only inferring how Meta uses its CDNs (e.g storing static user posted video/image assets)
The region around Taiwan has the benefit of mutiple, unsinkable, carriers, namely Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. Not sure how far Italy deployed its carriers, that being said the above mentioned countries offers quite a few sophisticated naval bases as well. At the very least Harriers are still good enough for escort duty, if shit hits the fan someone needs to keep shipping lines open. A carrier is great for that, Harriers are great for that.

True so that US carriers, and vessels like the De Gaulle and the British carrier (Elizabeth-class if memory serves well) are different beast than the Italian ones. And the US has quite a few of those.
Brains on board: Smart microrobots walk autonomously
Newsflash: Jira Server end of sales was in februari 2021. Support will completely end in februari 2024.

You better start scheduling your migration.
> It's a walled garden, because you can't use their various services on their own or with third-party services. The games themselves are just rented to you, you can't run them without your Steam account.

If this really were an issue, GOG would be a lot more popular. Most people just don't care. It's actually really nice having Steam just auto-manage my entire library across all my devices, seamlessly, with all the mods and updates and files and such all taken care of. And being able to seamlessly stream to the TV/phone/Steam Deck is great, along with Big Picture mode.

I have several DRM-free titles on GOG that I never end up using -- only bought them there because they were slightly cheaper -- but now I wish bought them on Steam instead, because it's so much easier to actually PLAY the game that way.

Sometimes walled gardens are nice if the alternative is the untamed wilds...

As for "renting" games, well, not so long ago they were $50 a pop and if you broke the CD, too bad. Now those same games are routinely discounted by 75%+, and my library has increased in size a hundred times because of it. If it takes a rental model to get us there, that seems like a great tradeoff, honestly... like movies, most games don't really have infinite longevity anyway. If I can play it for a few years and then it eventually disappears for whatever reason (which almost never happens, btw), usually they will re-release an updated version later on with improved graphics and such anyway. It's not like digital games are a collector's item. In fact the subscription services (Xbox Game Pass, etc.) take that one step further I wish more games did that. The idea of "owning" a copy of software is dubious to begin with... one way or another you're paying for the development, whether it's a buy-once model + expansion packs, buy-once + DLC, subscription, lootboxes... every game does it differently these days, but overall players have a lot more games at a lot more price points.
As a prepper I do not plan for specific conflicts or emergencies. I assume any random bad things will happen and plan accordingly all the time. This makes storing up supplies easier as I just get a little extra every time I go shopping as a form of insurance. As for specifics one could watch any of the prepping or emergency preparedness Youtube channels for ideas.
Ha!

I’d call it an art project.
Norway: population of 5M people. Incredible oil wealth. Massachusetts is larger in population that Norway. It's not a reasonable comparison.

Sweden: population of 10M people. Roughly the population of Michigan, for example. Just elected a rightward moving parliament on a law and order and immigration-restriction agenda.

Denmark: population of 5M people - again - compared to Massachusetts (which is larger by population), not a particularly exceptional place.

I admire all of these EU countries but you just can't compare them to the size, geographic distribution, and non-uniformity of the entire US.

Why is it no one ever compares Hungary, Latvia, Cyprus .. or other less prosperous EU nations to the US? And never compares highly successful states to the EU as a whole?
Draft dodging does not make you a refugee
For nonfiction, one thing I've realized is that books are highly contextual and personal. A book that I found utterly useless and couldn't finish 10 years ago is suddenly extremely relevant to my life situation, and a book that I was excited to read again because it was my favorite a few years back is now completely irrelevant and boring. That's why book ratings and recommendations aren't really useful... Just read whatever topic you're currently curious about.

It's probably different for fiction, but I've just recently started to get into that.
AMD Launches Mendocino APUs: Zen 2 Ryzen and Athlon 7020 with RDNA 2 Graphics
FTC dismisses Amazon's request to not force Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy to testify
Sounds like a scale of 1:1,000,000,000 so the Earth is 150m from the Sun, Mars is 75m further, and Pluto somewhere around 6km. That's the same (mind boggling) scale as our local one - and to complete the picture you can put a toothpick 23.585km from the sun and move it every day 147cm further from the sun. A 20nm fleck on the tip of the toothpick is then Voyager 1 represented on the same scale.
How can you live in our society? So many things around us have been made by despicable people...
> Communications software is powerful enough to put fear in the hearts of political rulers!

Well, yes, is this a surprise? Did you miss the "Arab Spring?" Or the Rohingya massacres?

It's a double-edged sword. It can give you a revolution whether you need it or not or whether it's justified or not.
Just spit balling ideas here, how much of the problems containerizing is meant to solve would be solved by merely static linking? Because it feels like that's what containers are mostly used for. Static linking + a sandbox to get most of everything.

Using shared libraries but then shipping the .so's in a container defeats the point of a .so in the first place. If the reason containers are okay now since disk space is cheap, why not return to static linking of executables?
How to Tip When No One Carries Cash? Hotels Have an Answer
May I plug my Hacker News app reader? In the app the image associated with this title makes it immediately clear it's about aircraft

https://mclarentimes.com/
Jakarta EE 10
Without the paywall: https://www.wsj.com/articles/tipping-hotel-cash-housekeeping...
Tired light theory is quite testable! It's failed.

https://www.science.org/content/article/tired-light-hypothes...
Interestingly, most of the Ditto folks originally worked on Realm, an object database that eventually monetized into the "sync via a central server" space.

Of course, Realm was later acquired by MongoDB, and currently exists as some kind of Frankenstein's monster product in an attempt to drum up Atlas sales.

Interesting how the acquisition pushed some of the devs to create better tech, but they had to give up the original product along the way.
Remastered photographs from the Apollo space missions
>like they did the US Office.

The UK and US The Office are both great shows in their own right. But they aren't very similar, outside of the setting.
It's the first line on my LinkedIn bio. I've gotten no shortage of recruiter inboxes saying they don't use Teams.
Ha I thought it was a new airline
This reminds me of the days when vBulletin 3 was the hot forum software and this was called a "shoutbox".
I imagine SNI too - which is in cleartext. There is encrypted SNI but I don't know how far that is along in terms of deployment.

But really for a company like FB you could just blackhole their entire IP range(s) and/or AS (AS32934?) which would take everything offline very quickly.
The Next Silicon Valley Will Be in the US Heartland: Steve Case
The Gobi desert and the bottom of the ocean are far more hospitable for human colonization than anywhere off-planet (not to mention far, far cheaper and more energy-efficient)
Teams is corpocrapware.

Employer was using Skype for Business. I hated it. Had to install pipeline jobs to detect non-ascii crap that developers copy pasted from message chats. The text processor on Skype loves to convert quotes to curly quotes add some weird character that looks like a space but its some rich text aberration.

When company announced it was moving to Teams I was very happy. We could finally ```exchange some code``` right? I'm not happy right now. Its slow, it hangs all the time, it makes a mess with audio devices and behaves erratically when copy-pasting text. Sometimes it copies what you select but most of the time it copies the whole message along with the metadata.Some people can still use Skype. When you send messages to those people it flattens out everything into a single paragraph.

I suspect some of those issues might be caused by security crapware that the company implements on the locally installed Teams software. Doesn't change the fact that I kinda miss Skype now.

I'd blame Electrum but vscode is kinda ok. Not my choice for editor but still not as terrible as Teams.

Come on Microsoft. Discord which is a tool for gaming teenagers is miles ahead in usability and features. Slack lacks features but its a breeze to use. Even Element which is a company that probably has less than 5% of MS resources can output a decent product.
Does Signal support signup without a phone number yet? Otherwise Iranian telcos could easily eat Signal's SMSs to block signups.
I get these all the time. Likely nothing and/or a low value report. Stay positive, thankful, and ask for more information.
It was called a guestbook before that
And not just an engine design but an engine design that fundamentally changes the economics of commercial supersonic flight.
There's a really nice lecture series on data compression with deep probabalistic models https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL05umP7R6ij0Mp1dW2HuX...
There are two actions that need to be taken:

1) fix the bug in the vulnerable package (cut a new version)

2) make sure the new, bug-free version is actually in use

1 is the responsibility of upstream (though sometimes distros will do this too, and release it themselves while they try to upstream the patch).

2 has to be done by somebody for every application using the vulnerable package, either a) automatically (for example, by Debian releasing the new log4j version and all dependent applications picking it up at runtime) or b) individually (by each dependent project's upstream updating the dependency, cutting a new Flatpak or container image, and getting users to update it).

a is much more pleasant than b, at least in the universe as currently constituted. We can imagine a world where b is mostly automated so it is about the same or less work, but we don't live in that world yet.
You also have to develop tools to block spam, child porn, and (in practice on almost all social networks) legal porn that there is nevertheless considerable censorious pressure on.
Well yes, 200 grams every day is different from a kilogram every now and then. I'm not saying that you can't get into trouble with licorice, you're just reasonably unlikely to, and the claim that "a few pieces a day" is the limit is just asinine.
Apple's hidden redesign makes the iPhone 14 much easier to fix
HN submission titles can be improved based on feedback, which is one of the functions of comments. As you can see, the usage no longer appears in the title.

The meaning being understandable isn't an effective criterion for good writing, because even egregiously poor writing with multiple errors of grammar, spelling and word usage can often be understood.
I don't actually want my customers talking to each other.
You do realize that these topics arw differwnt? Also a nice stab at supressed women standing up for their rights in very repressive country, doing so takes a lot of courage. Don't diminish that.
Yes, this has been discussed many, many times. Some people hate this style of thread representation with a passion, and some people, like me, find it to be exactly what they need to trace complex discussions.

Thanks for your input on the issue.

added in edit

PS: Sorry, forgot to mention ... if you don't like this presentation, click on any node and you are taken directly to the discussion in Twitter's interface.
I don't see the connection between that and what OP said?
Thanks for the deep sleep tip (ON and SPC). I just put my 48GX to deep sleep.
Very cool project, congrats on the launch!

Just some thoughts and findings:

- After creating one theme, the plus-button on the dashboard page keeps loading forever after clicking it. The error in the console seems to indicate I have to upgrade to create another theme, but some kind of message would be nice.

- I feel like the editor really needs some kind of undo functionality. It's a bit frustrating/risky to experiment with the settings after you have found a combination you like.

- It would be cool if I could change the text/language in the preview. I get this might be a bit much, so providing more examples in a dropdown of some sort could be an alternative.
E.g. I would like the see how a vue or svelte component would look like. Also a terminal preview would be nice. IMO all this becomes even more important (or necessary) when you consider that people would need to pay $6 to actually see how the theme looks for their use cases.

- I feel like letting people download one theme (maybe limited to a few apps) for free would lower the hurdle to get them to pay for it. Maybe that's not a concern and people don't mind, but it would definitely convince me.

Hope there's something useful in there.

Really cool product and definitely something I would use regularly after trying basically 99% of all themes out there and even creating my own.

Best of luck to you!
What’s really bizarre is from what I understand is those photons spend something between 10,000 and 170,000 years bouncing around colliding with stuff inside the sun. From there it takes a mere 8 minutes to get to earth. [0]

[0] http://www.astronoo.com/en/articles/journey-of-the-photon.ht...
I like your "dark forest" analogy! With students I used to talk about "fog" or simply "doing things blindly", but the "dark forest" image makes everyone want to get out there ASAP!
I'm actually reading his Black Hole War book right now and he does a great job of explaining things conceptually.
Anything that lets a city run on much less water than it currently does...for example, better leak detection tech
HN, which is about as fast as sites get in my experience takes between 600ms and 800ms to fully load with cache disabled. Around 350ms to load just HTML and CSS.

IMO a few hundred milliseconds for something that is actually webapp-like rather than just an information website is quite reasonable.
As a counter example: I once had a short conversation with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian about he and Steve dropping Common Lisp in favor of Python. They loved Common Lisp but I think the expression he used was something like "the Common Lisp code kept falling down" and said that moving to the Python ecosystem stabilized things.

I share this experience, as a Common Lisp developer (for 40 years!). I feel like while Common Lisp is a fantastic language for many reasons, I also understand that in many situations the Python ecosystem is a better choice.
Was there space or even time before the big bang?

Didn't the big bang create space and with that time?
Ask HN: Figma just got bought by Adobe – is Sketch cool again?
I am preparing for a presentation I am giving next month and realized all my old slides where created in Sketch back in 2019 when Sketch was kind of cool still.

And that made me think. If I was working at Sketch, the news of Adobe buying Figma must have been the best of news, right?

If Sketch would copy-paste every single feature Figma has, hell, they could even make it their new motto: "We're like Figma before they got bought by Adobe", they'd eventually win.

Thoughts?
The capstan is where the maximum torque is, although the very slow rotation would need some gears in order to extract some power from a small dynamo; the tape rolls torque is very limited on purpose to barely keep the tape in tension without breaking it, and they would be unusable for this purpose. Also it wouldn't be easy to keep something in contact with the capstan to extract its energy, since the capstan/pinch-roller pair has been designed to work with tape, not pulleys or gears.

The hardest problem is hence mechanical; a repurposed small stepper motor could work great as generator, and the electronics involved beyond the standard Lithium charging chip would be minimal. But adding the necessary gearbox to this device would likely raise significantly the cost of production, which is probably the reason we didn't see it yet.
Among politicians. Military spending is the one thing that never sees top-line cuts, even among so-called fiscal conservatives in Congress that are otherwise happy to slash "wasteful" federal funding for social programs.

You can lobby all you want to cut other types of government 'pork', and you'll probably have some champions in Congress on the same page. Only the military is untouchable. It's un-American to even consider cuts in that sector.
Occam’s razor tells us it all comes down to demographics as the root cause. In particular, the demographics of the general population and the demographics of the ruling class effectively determine a country’s government policy preferences and its ability to implement those policies effectively.
Takes me back to my favourite (UK) games magazine of the day - Zzap64! which featured "Elite 64" on its debut cover (May 1985) to celebrate the CBM64 launch of the game.

https://archive.org/details/zzap64-magazine-001
It's actually really easy. Traditional threading has a very obvious design pattern, where if someone isn't doing this you can be sure there's an issue.

TL;DR, if you don't have a "getter/setter" you're doing it wrong and it's a sign of bad code.

Firstly, make sure that there's only ONE place to write. Write being changing the variable in anyway(Obviously make sure you have a lock or other primitive here). If there's multiple places, that's a big smell for a race condition, and a massive turd for a shitty design pattern.

Secondly, just like the write, all reads should be done from a single place.

And then for the advance developer, you also may need to make sure that the cache is synchronized. Pretty much all libraries will do this for you, but if you ever need to dive into internals that alot of "guides" or papers DON'T cover, you need Fences or whatever your architecture provides. I have this page bookmarked for when I need a quick refresher https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27627969/why-is-or-isnt-...
Those cloud subscriptions are pretty common now, in case you weren't aware... not ALL games though, but decently big libraries. EA, Ubi, Microsoft all have their own subscriptions, and most of their titles can be streamed or downloaded (on GeForce Now, Stadia, Luna, xCloud or whatever it's called now).

Sadly, like the fragmented streaming video ecosystem, every publisher wants their cut and there's probably not a future where they're all integrated under one roof. Sad, really, because that would be so much easier for players.
That’s literally the point of the kanban board. I don’t understand how these projects were configured for that to be true — did they hide the backlog?