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This is lovely and extremely interesting, thank you for sharing. Thinking of your father and your family.
Tails 5.6 – Released
Ha. I had the CFO once call me angrily asking where I was......I was in the bathroom. She told me to get back to my desk. I took my time.
Don't forget about WASM as another platform; it's coming as well. An experimental version actually ships with 1.7; it's just a bit unstable and under documented and very much a work in progress.

I think Oracle is catching up slower than Kotlin has been evolving in terms of new language features. Most of the stuff they add to Java (including most of the stuff they are talking about adding), Kotlin has been doing for quite some time. Kotlin is pushing out minor releases about every 3-4 months and major ones pretty much every year. Basically, they do 2-3 minor versions in between major ones. The pace is relentless.

If anything, Kotlin could use an LTS release because it's actually getting hard to keep up with the ecosystem.

A slower pace might be helpful with that. The main issue with frequent releases is that many libraries take weeks or even months to update and don't necessarily work well (or at all) with newer Kotlin versions. I've had repeated issues with e.g. code generation plugins requiring specific version of Kotlin breaking because some other library suddenly requiring something newer. So that then starts blocking a lot of library updates. We've actually put some effort in unblocking some of this for some of the dependencies we have by creating pull requests.

But I'm excited about the next 1-2 years. I expect Kotlin native to stabilize and grow beyond just being a thing for IOS. I also expect wasm support will become usable in that time frame. I hope to be able to use it with WASI for edge networking or serverless stuff. And maybe even some command line tools. IMHO Kotlin has potential for data engineering as well. There is actually jupyter support for Kotlin. And some machine learning frameworks. It's becoming a proper full stack language.
At the grad school that I went to, senior grad students were offered a chance to move out of the lab and into a private "dissertating office" as they became available. With a couch I could nap on, an incredible window view to gaze out from, and a door I could shut for focus work, it was amazingly productive for finishing my dissertation. Those few months were the only time that I've ever had a private office and to this day I still rather miss it.

(And most of my favorite papers came about from ideas that I'd had while on vacation.)
An asynchronous, multi-producer, single-consumer (MPSC) bounded channel
Kotlin has one of the poorer LSP implementations out of the popular JVM languages. Last I tried it was buggy, and slow. Developers are pushed into using JetBrains products directly or indirectly (Android Studios) I suspect leaving the wider ecosystem poorly supported.
As far as introductory courses go, the older/simpler the processor,the better it is for everyone. My class groused at being taught "old tech" because we taught the 68k, but very few of us had done any assembly before, I think most of the class would have failed if started of on amd64
You didn't break up with me, I broke up with you!
Lithos: Carbon removal using the power of enhanced rock weathering
yeah I'm also on firefox and its working for me. this shouldn't be a problem mozilla supports webassembly
Copyright infringement detection could be formulated as a ML task. A model can copy the idea but not the expression, if it's copyrighted. Fortunately a model can sample again and again until it looks ok.
Where exactly do you see dramatic interest rate increase? Are you referring to these tiny .75% increases? We have 3-3.25% interest rate with 9% inflation.
A precursor of "fail fast, fail often" perhaps?
This is horrifying. I'm very curious how they obtained the relevant data to track each cell phone, and even more curious how anyone gave permission to be tracked.
Tails 5.6 – (Portable Debian O/S and Tor Browser) Released → (October 25, 2022)

Tails 5.6 Change Log (Text) : https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/raw/master/debia...

Tails Install : https://tails.boum.org/install/index.en.html

Tails Documentation : https://tails.boum.org/doc/index.en.html

Tails FAQ : https://tails.boum.org/support/faq/index.en.html

Tails Support : https://tails.boum.org/support/index.en.html

*** Note! – The Persistent Storage on the USB stick will be lost if you install instead of upgrading. ***

Tails (amd64-5.5) Distribution Directory : https://mirrors.wikimedia.org/tails/stable/tails-amd64-5.5/

Debian (Recent Security Advisories) : https://www.debian.org/security/
They do seem to have it down. Startups on the other hand absolutely do not.
They make every effort too silence people who cut against the grain on this issue: browbeating, gaslighting, censorship, and eventually the ban hammer. Of course, this only slows the fight against these dystopian oligarchs. My hope is that the tipping point will be reached before they have silence too many of us.
What changed? Corporations who raise prices to increase profits isn’t exactly a revolutionary never before seen business strategy.
Most companies will pay people the absolute bare minimum to get them to work there while barely being angry enough not to quit.
You are misreading it and it's easy to do so. This is the money quote:

"Thaler does not assert that the Work was created with contribution from a human author"

All it takes is for the copyright submission for this Artist to say "I used a computer to generate this image through x y z steps selecting for q r s features until I was satisfied." I'm confident they would accept it.

This case is an attempt to set new precedent for copyright by granting it to a computer. And rightfully so, the Copyright office refuses to do so.
That’s just a shitty situation and I empathize completely. You would think OneDrive would have conquered that problem by, say, three years ago.
While I understand this in some sense, the efficacy of these systems going through the regular push message queue is going to be poor.
So far there is a pretty serious tempo at my FAANG but the complexity is not very high so it’s really simple work in terms of stretching the brain.

Lots of working with other teams (XFN) so collaboration is almost as important as execution. Pay is good.
I think the parent comment's claim is that serving a CAPTCHA page to potential attackers may actually be more resource intensive than serving a lightweight page that has the actual content on it.
Yi /Kami camera bait and switch
I just received this email from Kami. Being an owner of multiple cameras they will apparently soon become great paperweights. Any thoughts on how to enable them locally. It’s so frustrating to purchase a product only for it to be literally castrated. I’m starting to dislike the cloud of things. Anyone else have this experience with another product?
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Do they? I tried to buy a new car last year and gave up. They try so hard to push all the BS feature packages on you that they won't actually just sell you the car you want.

So the base car costs 26k. It only comes in Orange. But if you don't want it in orange and you want us to remove the interior fart smell package you are going to have to upgrade to the metaverse deluxe package that replaces all the windshields with a vr set. Unless you are a fucking moron and you can't afford the upgrade to 48k and you are too stupid to understand how great replacing every functional thing in the car with a touchscreen is. Then just order the orange one from the factory and we'll deliver it in 2026.

Ok, whatever, I'll keep my 2011 Mazda that I want to get rid of but will still run for another 20 years if I change the oil once a decade
U.S. charges two Chinese nationals with obstructing Huawei case
Like it or not, Docker is the Kleenex of containers.
Interesting that they're saying they have a target of replicating GPT-3 with 175B parameters, but since the RETRO paper it should (in theory?) be possible to replicate GPT-3 with a tenth of the parameters. Are they not planning to use a retrieval system, is it difficult to adopt their system for retrieval, or is their readme out of date?
> But, local media say, Amou Haji finally succumbed to pressure and washed a few months ago.

> According to Iran's IRNA news agency, he became ill shortly afterwards and died on Sunday.

Wicked Witch of the West effect? Consequentiality does not mean causality, but Jesus !
What's even worse is this chart that the article is based on is:

https://www.newstatesman.com/chart-of-the-day/2022/07/wages-...

Title: UK income has fallen significantly behind that of its rivals

Actual data: Change in median disposable income

I'll repeat my common comment that I wished I lived in a world where 'journalists' had to take basic math lessons.
From what I've heard, depends upon the FAANG. Google apparently has good work/life balance. All of them are all about making it through the interview process, which is a nightmare.
It's not just the tooling. Having tried to work with Python in Intellij, the lack of typing means you literally have to GUESS what any non-primitive object can do.

It might also be an unhappy coincidence, but the library I was playing around with (scrapy) also had HORRENDOUSLY documented code. With Java/Kotlin, you can just click into any method/class and you'll get a useful doc string 99% of the time. With Python, I had to read the (incomplete) documentation.
Although it’s made of countries, it is also a country, so the headline isn’t wrong to refer to it as “one” country, in case that’s what you were implying.

Source: am British
> When my job gives me a task that's hard and complicated and has lots of paperwork, I don't get to say "naw don't want to".

I would probably see it more like low priority bugs in an issue tracker. They only get done when there's nothing with higher priority or someone takes a person personal interest.
This is scary, but also seems still fairly limited.

FTA: “PredictWise harvested location data from tens of millions of US cellphones during the initial Covid lockdown months“

“two billion global positioning system (GPS) pings”

So, that’s, at most, 2 × 10⁹ pings for 10⁷ cellphones, or 200 pings per cellphone, over, say, 2 months. That’s about 3 pings per day per phone.

“high-dimensional data covering over 100 million Americans”

That would make it at most 20 pings per American, on average, so (again assuming 2 months) at most about two a week.

The GSM infrastructure must have way more tracking points about telephone locations (possibly with lower resolution)
I would absolutely not call caffeine "quite" toxic. It's barely toxic, you need to consume over a gram to do anything really nasty iirc
> "Mac has so many quirks that day to day users learned to live with."

Depends on where you started. I've been a Mac user for over 30 years; Windows to me is a frustrating, unintuitive mess. That doesn't mean that it actually is a frustrating, unintuitive mess. I'm just not used to using it. Please, you all call yourselves "engineers". Well, engineers deal in facts, can you all stop posing opinions as facts.

I agree with everything you said about Linux distros.
You want miracles to be reproduced in experiments? That's kind of the opposite of what a miracle is. A miracle is something that can't be reproduced in an experiment, but which actually happened. (There's a bit more to it than that - it's not just random chance - but a miracle isn't just "science that wasn't known at the time".)
The original StarWars trilogy flipped this, too. In my mind Empire Strikes Back was literally the best of the originals.
Gustav was known as "Gustav Eriksson" in his day, "Eriksson" being a patronym. Family names wasn't really a thing at the time, as coat of arms were. The form "Gustav Eriksson Vasa" first appears in the 17th century and simply "Gustav Vasa" isn't used before the 18th.
I miss n-gate.
When people say they want career progression, and opportunities, what they mostly mean is they want more money. Unfortunately, most companies have fallen into the trap where if someone has a title of X they can only make up to Y, regardless of how good they are at their job or how long they've done it. When that happens then the name of the game is getting a promotion in order to keep making more money. That creates a perverse incentive, and the result is political bullshit that is typically misaligned with the company's interests which further drives away your high performers.

End the perverse incentives. Pay your people well if they're doing a good job, regardless of how long they've been doing the same job or what their title is. Reward seniority and loyalty. Suddenly, you'll find that employee retention goes through the roof, and you don't have to worry about hiring new people all the time.
Intermissions feel dated. But when I saw Ben-Hur at the fathom event, boy did I need it!
Yeah, there’s a fair few levels where you’ve got to plan your route very carefully, use particular weapons for particular fights, be strategic about power-ups.

Suburbs is a pretty nasty level to begin with, but IIRC the only way to deal with the two archviles efficiently is double shotgun at close range, which involves popping the invulnerability or it’s not going to work.
That would be a very buggy /bin/true implementation.
The webpacker rails 6 approach was a mistake that has been fixed with rails 7. Rails 7 offers a very good solution.
So they value "grit" which is defined as the ability to code and push features in near real time, as told to the CEO at a multi day trade show, then follow that up with explaining the importance of building a solid foundation.

Pick a lane.
I think the compromise would be an optional build parameter that allows this functionality.
When making these kinds of rulings, it is necessary to balance two competing interests; The benefits to public health of vaccination, and the harm of unemployment for the individual. Since the primary rationale of a workplace vaccine mandate would be to prevent workplace viral transmission, a vaccine having only a moderate effect on transmission would weaken the benefits. This makes it more likely that the harms of non-employment would outweigh the health benefits.
I just wanted too say, this is a beautiful thing. I'm not sure why, but it seems so pure and wonderful.
Indeed they do left pad instead.
Sure, the sixth largest economy in the world is “poor” because too much wealth is generated by financial services in the capital and not mom and pops in small towns or whatever. That’s like saying California is poor because most of the wealth isn’t generated by McDonalds employees. You picked some romantic ideal for how money “should” be made and voila now you can complain when it isn’t so.

The article actually wants to make a point about falling living standards, but the author couldn’t resist a clickbait title so nonsensical it overshadows the rest. There’s probably some interesting analysis that could be done about UK PPS, absolute, mean and median incomes, incomes vs average cost of living etc. This is not that article.
I always find it weird that in some states the "Supreme" court is the lowest court. Why did some states (like NY) name their courts this silly way?
That's too simplistic of a statement. Sometimes you have to drive some segments out to keep others or to keep advertisers happy. If HN didn't put effort in curating the community would a lot of us still be here?
Although it would be nice to save money too, I don't think that should be the main focus here. The main impetus for this project should be the well documented effects diesel exhaust has on the health of school age children.
The point is that the migrants could stop in France or Germany rather than cross the channel, but do not choose to do so.
Cell carriers sell location data.
Just migrated one of our projects from webpack+babel+tsc to just webpack with esbuild-loader, the difference is astounding. Just need to remove webpack itself now so we can use their transforms.
Or at least raise the salary cap alongside seniority for roles beyond a certain level.
See, that's why I think Stadia is an example of their failure in marketing.

You didn't actually need both the subscription and the game. Subscription is just for > 1080p streaming and other 'pro' features. You could just buy a game without any subscription.
Foster City will amplify any shaking since the entire city was built on compacted fill and reclaimed earth.
I know theoretically this is a problem, and I've heard people make similar statements, but I'm having a failure of imagination at thinking of specifics.

If you are using a fully open source toolchain what does the threat model actually look like in the real world? Even if a device itself is malicious, what can it actually do to exfiltrate information about what's happening inside it without being incredibly obvious? How can it know what register bits are even of interest given some configuration bitstream? It just seems like there are so many hypotheticals that it isn't worth being concerned about. Would love to be educated about this.
You're using the master branch of a pre-1.0 tool, and you expect it to be stable without regressions? I feel like your expectations are too high.
This is either cell carrier data or data that is gathered from those "free" apps and games people love to install and grant all permissions to.
Uh, no? Twitter is where the eyeballs are.
Considering that many people willingly work with languages like Python and JavaScript, which make ANY IDE/Editors job of completion horribly difficult, the worst case is you end up with an editing experience on par with other languages.
Building a decentralized global blockchain DLT financial trading ecosystem (FXE) that will entice conventional digital financial exchanges to transfer onto a more flexible and more secure, immutable, and less expensive FXE.
my favorite clever google url hostname will continue to be their cdn's 1e100.net
I’ll be the first to admit I know little about economics, but I despair at the state of things.

It feels like half the electorate live in a fantasy land. Over two million people using food banks—many in work—and yet all the chap I see on my morning dog walk wants to talk about is “all the people on the dole who live in big houses and drive brand new cars” (Jobseekers Allowance is £77/week, for reference).

Meanwhile our household income is far above the national median, and we still need to scrimp and save far more than our parents and grandparents did to work towards a deposit on a house. I truly feel for the low wage earners in this country, even though a significant portion of them continue to vote for these monsters. We seem to be totally without compassion as a nation right now.
GIMP doesn't have that many contributors; it's hard to estimate the total contributors at a quick glance because so many committers only commit translation updates, but it doesn't seem more than about 20 over a 25-year period that have some serious (non-drive-by) contributions, all active at different times. Just 4 people seem to account for well over 75% (3 of which are no longer active). At the moment it's about 4 people, give or take, who work on it somewhat regularly.

Is the state of GIMP annoying and frustrating? Sure. Is it a failure to more effectively allocate resources to work on a fairly critical piece of software? I think so. But if you look at the technical side of things it's not that clear-cut at all. Remember that back in the day GIMP had to invent their own toolkit (GTK).

Being a webapp is probably an advantage here. What's the big thing for GIMP 3? The port to GTK 3. Does that really add anything for users? Not really, as such. But that kind of stuff is quite a big time-sink and doesn't really add any features. Same with the new build system, wayland support, i18n changes, etc. which doesn't really "do" anything other than keep the thing from bitrotting.

Photopea has had someone work on it full-time for over 5 years; if you put that against the evenings and Sundays that people work on GIMP, and consider all the "plumbing" they had to do that Photopea doesn't have to deal with then the differences in time spent are probably much smaller than you'd might suspect at a glance.
Unless that serving that segment drives away another.

For example: I could be a shop in LA and say "I'll happily serve the nazis", but I'd be dumb if I thought that wasn't going to result in other potential customers going elsewhere.

> I don't have a favorite political party, they are all trash (in the United States)

This is BS - you can say that neither party is great, but this is acting like they are equivalently trash, which is objectively false, regardless of your politics. If your politics are "LGBT people are not people", or that only a specific type of person should be allowed to vote, then the liberal parties are trash, and the GOP is your savior. If your viewpoint is that all people should have the same basic rights then there is no way you can look at the GOP as being an option, no matter how fiscally conservative you might be.

But as I said later on, you have repeatedly taken the stance that LGBT folk aren't human, and then proclaimed you don't have a political viewpoint, which is BS that I'm tired of putting up with or ignoring.

Look, I do not care if you're an asshole in real life or just online, as we are unlikely to ever meet in real life. Even if we did, we are unlikely to agree on this topic because you've repeatedly taken the position that you think that "should this group of people have the same basic human rights as other humans" is a reasonable question, and that is only the case if you've already decided that that group is subhuman.

Like I said, I am just tired of reading your BS comments in which you try to act like you don't have politics, or that you aren't at the very least transphobic, when that's very clearly BS.
> Samsung is what ties together a Windows Laptop, an Android phone and a Tizen TV.

This is mostly hypothetical - does Samsung actually do that in practice? I haven't heard of anyone using -, nor am I aware of Samsung publicizing any such unifying services.

I own several Samsung devices, and have a Samsung account, and it is something of an annoyance to use. The power/potential is there no doubt, but services aren't a Samsung core competency.
FWIW pull down refresh is a feature in Firefox nightly, not sure what is taking so long getting it in to regular FF.
Get µBlock Origin on Firefox, also works on android.
This sounds great on paper but I have a hard enough time getting buy-in to finish the prototype. I've never seen anyone throw away the prototype and rebuild from the ground up before waiting years and then calling it "V2"
I invite interested readers to go back in time and read comments and articles posted here from mid 2020 through late 2021. Take note of how often claims that this sort of thing was certainly not going to happen.

As Ricky said, atodaso.