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> Sure...in your fantasy land. In the real world, it's not (because, as a sibling comment noted, it's the status quo and not even a very controversial one at that).

> deluded or a liar

LOL I'm deluded? You're the one who believes in owning numbers.

Let's talk about the real world then. In the real world, barely anybody even knows or cares what copyright even is. Copyright infringement is the norm. People infringe copyrights all day every day and they don't even realize they're doing it. They infringe copyright when they save pretty pictures off the internet, when they print screen Instagram posts because the app won't let them download the photos. They infringe copyright when they create funny memes and share them with friends. They infringe copyright when they listen to some illegally uploaded music on YouTube. Could even argue we infringed each other's copyrights when we quoted each other's posts. All of this is happening every single day at unprecedented scales and exactly zero people lose any sleep over it.

You see, in the real world, copyright is so irrelevant it barely even registers in people's minds. Copyright infringement is the custom and banning it is like banning alcohol consumption. This is the real status quo. Nobody really gives a shit about "creators", "authors" or whatever. People do what they can do and what they want to do. The world changing technology that is computers allows them to freely manipulate information so that's exactly what they do. Information is infinite, it's numbers. No amount of copyright will ever change that. You'd have to completely destroy computers to roll the world back to a state where copyright matters.

> All I was doing was show that you're confused and you don't really seem understand the implications of the arguments that you're making.

Only thing you've shown is you don't understand what you're talking about. We're talking about ownership of ideas, naturally infinite, intangible. You move the argument to the scarcity of the physical world and then compare copyright infringement to killing people.

The fact you even think you can "easily" kill someone is notable. Have you ever killed someone? Killing another human being fucks you up for life. Even when you're justified in doing so. Pulling the trigger on a weapon even in self defense has significant psychological costs. It gives people PTSD. You can find accounts of soldiers whose entire jobs were to use weapons to kill others -- it fucked them up for life. Militaries all over the world have to literally dehumanize the enemy in order to soften that blow to people's psyches because otherwise you'll get soldiers who have the enemies in their sights but are unable to pull the trigger.

Killing people is universally understood to be a terrible thing even when you're right. That you're even putting this in the same conceptual space as something so victimless as copyright infringement is straight up offensive. I'm honestly too angry to even argue coherently. Not a single person in this world loses any sleep over copyright infringement. Only lawyers even understand exactly what that even is.
Guess giving mark Zuckerberg a something like a 1.7% mortgage rate was a bad idea. Yeah first republic literally did that. Not sure how that would make any business sense, the execs should be subjected to massive claw backs.
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> Most search engines use TF/IDF or BM25 for relevance calculations ...

Ahhh. That's what's SQLite's "bm25()" function is for.

Was white listing the SQLite FTS functions a few days ago for DBHub.io (eg so people can use them), but don't really understand (yet) how most of them are actually used. Some day I'll get around to learning about them properly. :)
That's something that isn't OAuth2 or your end point is accepting something insane.

Are you talking about the PKCE variant of authorization code flow which is what replaces implicit flows in native apps and SPAs? Because those use code_challenge and code_verifier fields, not the state field. If you're doing all that in the state field with signed nonces you really should move to PKCE.
No love for American nation-state threat actors?
Nobody was trying to surprise anyone here. The point was precisely that the margin depends among other things on what the company does and the things that Apple and Microsoft do are not really comparable.
Yes, due to the causal structure, but you can also refer to the singularities. The simulation of black hole mergers can be carried out both by excision method and moving puncture method. The existence of black swans does not disprove white swans, it simply proves that black swans exist.

General relativity has absolutely no problem describing singularities. The existence of a singularity is not in and of itself evidence of a breakdown. Annihilation of matter via singularity formation may be the correct description of the laws of physics. We have no evidence to the contrary and it is a prediction of our best theory of gravity.
Start paying attention to driveway deaths involving little children, and you might wish a retrofit mandate of existing cars was already in place.
If there are downsides, do you ever try to change them?

Your argument seems to be you should be a good little employee and never complain and never do anything to improve your work life, because your sole choice is to let your bosses dictate things, or leave.

And it would seem you believe this so strongly that you want others to voluntarily reject legal opportunities they have to try and improve their work life.

It seems your approach would only work for people like you who are quite happy with their job, while making a lot more people miserable.
And scrolling is unavoidably all wrong: dragging two fingers from one end of my touchpad to the other should scroll by about four screenfuls, but only manages two thirds of one screenful; a quick swipe should send it dozens of screenfuls, with inertia, but manages even less than that two thirds of a screenful; and these limitations are fundamental due to the web not possessing the right primitives. (Then there are more fixable bugs like that, after focusing the page, you have to move the mouse before scrolling will work.)

And input element behaviour is non-native, which will never be properly fixable since different UAs have different behaviours, some of which cannot be emulated even if you sniff which platform you’re on (e.g. scroll bar grab and drag behaviour when you move far outside the window). (Then there are also simple bugs: holding Left or Right while the range element is focused only bumps the value once, not according to key repeat. And Up and Down don’t work.)

I have written about these things a number of times, fundamental limitations of the pure-canvas approach that make it unavoidably and permanently unsuitable. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33861831 is probably the best thread.

(And just for a bit of fun: the demo can have slightly negative utilisation, drawing outside the box!)
I'm sure they receive intelligence from Five Eyes countries. I don't believe that it's anything remotely comparable to the actual breadth of FVEY data. Taiwan is deeply, deeply riddled with PRC intelligence at every level, but especially military and intelligence. It's why the US won't give them the F-35 until they have confirmation that the PRC got their hands on one some other way, and it's why they're not going to be sharing the very large amount of intel that Five Eyes governments have access to. All intel shared with Taiwan on any sort of systemic basis should be assumed to be acquired by PRC intelligence within the week it's shared.
Starts off with premise of why performance matters and why you should care. Proceeds to only top 10 biggest tech companies as examples. Are you working in a FAANG? If not, this article does nothing to convince me that I should care about performance (even though I kinda do).
Obligatory jaw-dropping egui demo:

https://www.egui.rs/#demo

Egui slaps and is clearly going places.
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>It's not that people don't want to be competent.

There are plenty of devs that are just there for the paycheck and have minimal passion or interest in learning more.
the algorithm is actually quite good but you need to give it signal. Most people prefer entertaining videos over educational videos. If that's what you tend to click, that's what it will show you.

Entertaining is hard to resist, so just create a second account and curate the history of one of them.
Not really, or it has some pretty weird ideas about preferred units in my region. When trying to get a conversion for 1 cup, it tells me it's 0.5 pints. My region is Finland, language is Finnish, and roughly no-one understands those units.
From a Rustacean's perspective: Golang is a no go because it lacks enum types, sensible error handling, generics (I think it has some version of this now), non-nullable types, or macros. Once you've gotten used to using these kinds of features in Rust, it is really annoying to go back and work in a language that lacks them.
Basically, golang takes such an opposite design approach to Rust, that if you like Rust you'll probably hate golang.

We also find that once you get used to the borrow checker, we mostly don't miss garbage collection. And garbage collection isn't a panacea either, as almost any large project still ends up with memory leaks caused by stray references.

So, basically, we like Rust and think its a well designed language. It is quite frankly better, as a language, than any of the alternatives that we could be writing in. As such, it'd be nice if we could develop GUI applications in it.
Not geothermal in the sense you might be thinking (tapping into geysers); rather, it is taking advantage of underground temperature remaining constant around 55F, essentially using the soil underground as a giant and consistent heat sink / heat source.

My first thought was whether heat demands would overwhelm the capacity of the ground, but I read that soil has a thermal mass about 1/5th of water so a rule of thumb might be that you don’t have to worry unless more than about 15% of the total volume underground is replaced with heat pipes, which it is definitely not (first concrete numbers I could find suggested 10cm boreholes spaced 5 meters apart, which is less than 1% of ground volume).
>It's kind of hard to follow the moral stance here.

Fighting for civil rights often makes you look like a prick, because you keep laser-focused on your goal and need to counter all the reasonable-sounding objections of people who were following their daily routines before this ball-breaker came along; but it is nevertheless necessary.

Contrary to Hollywood films, people don't stamp on other people's rights because they have some inner impulse to do evil, but because injustices are ingrained in the common way to do things, and fixing then implies to deviate from those routines; that's why it's so hard to change them.

That's the real meaning of the sentence "for evil to triumph, all it takes is for good people to do nothing". The movie script of a hero taken the matter in their hands and saving the world with heavy guns is but a fantasy
It's not a deep question at all, which is wherein lies the fallacy.

We can and do add to our observations. Our vision is not 2D or 3D but "stereoscopic": we gain "depth" information by simply moving slightly, and we can move around a lot to get more info. Sometimes we figure out other ways to add more info, and sometimes we fully acknowledge that we can't do that and take the uncertainty as is.

This is all trivial stuff we do understand: we understand when we lack sufficient information to claim something with certainty.

Just like your example of square/circle/cylinder.

There are certainly limits to our understanding of the phenomena around us, but your examples miss the point, because they are exactly not it.
Im a Flutter developer, and, though I love Dart, it's still only my second favorite language, so I can't wait for a viable "flutter alternative to emerge in the Rust ecosystem.
Thank you. I showed up ready to argue that graphics plateau’d some time ago, and that unless you intend to use ML to make it look more real, it’s only going to look more detailed.
It doesn’t read as cynical at all to me.
So maybe it's age related? 30 years is a lot more than 5-7 (not quite sure how long) ;)
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The kind of development you’re describing happens in aerospace. I know some people who work in aerospace. They’re not any smarter than the people who work in automotive, but the people in aerospace have a much higher tolerance for dealing with bureaucracy, and management is much happier to get something less impressive but reliable.
The AC just stops. I think some brands send you a notification on your phone.

There are no technical reasons not to have the ac/heating run longer, they just decided to cap it to an arbitrary 30 minutes.
The Tesla screens' responsiveness and clarity is just amazing, at least on Ryzen.
your article showcases the perspectives of different quantum gravity researchers on this topic, highlighting the complexity and uncertainty surrounding the search for a truer theory of gravity.
When I cancelled my le monde subscription they asked that you write a letter.
I discovered recently that Mac Safari will translate text in images, as well as regular text, if you tell it to translate the page. Very useful!
> “If what you’re buying has gone up a lot relative to what you’re selling, you’re going to be worse off.”

People are fully capable of understanding that.

But advertisers 24x7 are pumping the opposite message into everyones head - that standard of living/status (ie your worth) = how much you consume. How are you supposed to buy a new iphone, if your wages dont go up? Why not ask apple to take a break from releasing new veblen goods every 3 months and accumulating mountain ranges of cash? Thats not possible obviously cause status has value just like cash does.

I think we need a large ass tax on advertising to slow down the passing the parcel story. Its not going to happen any other way.
This is exactly the kind of theatrics I expect from the "security" industry. Couldn't just call Russia "Russia", that would be too simple and understandable. Have to make up cool and scary sounding code words and logos like we're in Hollywood's version of the CIA, doing secret missions.

"Nation-state actor" is another hilarious one. For some strange reason everybody in the computer security industry decided to misuse the term (https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog128/node/534) because... it sounds cool or scary or something. Why? Certainly doesn't signal anything positive about their understanding of geopolitics. If they'd just communicate like normal people then they would be taken more seriously. It all just reeks of snake oil salesman behavior, where words are not used to communicate and create mutual understanding, but to confuse and conjure the appearance of authority and grandiosity.
What they actually want is monopoly protections in a legislative regime that is ostensibly anti-monopoly.

So they pretty much have to lie.
The industry works as follows: the OEM (Daimler, Toyota etc.) says they want a software spec implemented. Other companies (Tier 1 suppliers) bid to win the contract. The cheapest usually wins.

If you have a company and refuse to take the crazy deadlines and low quality and low pay then don't worry, there is another Tier 1 supplier across the street who will do it for you. OEMs know that you need them more than they need you.
> Browser does not have a fuck ton of well supported widgets [...] And it works.

I beg to differ. When the economics of doing UIs shifted away from APIs like Windows Forms, Carbon, JavaFX towards the current trend of doing everything in a browser, it brought with it some serious regression in how powerful and user friendly those GUIs are.

With Microsoft-level resources, you can take on a mammoth engineering task like implementing Office or Visual Studio in the browser. But if you are resource-constrained in the way that most developers are, you cut corners and drop functionality, and that's where we are today with browser GUIs ...not that any of that matters if all you're doing is CRUD, like most people are. But one shouldn't judge technology by its easiest, most boring, and degenerate use cases.
GPT-4 presumably.
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Yep. It's part of your job to tell managers "yes, it's possible, but it'll negatively affect performance in a significant way because of such and such hardware limitations, so it's not the most valuable feature to implement at this time".
I would love to be a fly on the wall in Microsoft APT research whenever a particular actor they're looking at shows signs of being US origin. "Whoops, nothing there, Pentagon contracts are safe once more - say, I'm pretty sure the name for that container is actually an obscure reference to an Iranian ice cream brand. Glad we figured out their nationality!".
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Since EM's takeover the state of the API is ridiculous. Any way to get 500 Tweets per month without paying 100$?
Perhaps it is time to split up some of these tech companies? Lots of their ecosystems are potentially separable into different companies.
That's a good idea. I didn't think of walking out from direct follows. Maybe I'll try and implement that this weekend.

Any pointers for getting started consuming mastodon data?
Look up their bugreports for stack overflow, besides unsafe blocks everywhere.
> realistically I don’t think you can even generously consider anything prior to perceptrons

I mean, sure, but for the practical reason that perceptrons (proposed 1943, implemented 1958) are about as old as digital computers, and ML as a field is tied up pretty strongly with the existence of computers.
Thanks. Last time I looked in depth (about 6 months ago), nothing supported accessibility, but you are right, it looks like egui at least has made excellent progress.

I still keep my comment about the article -- I feel discussions of GUIs should talk about this type of thing, as so many people require accessibility support.
TIL you can swipe to scroll on the pop-up (in addition to tapping the “>”).
> Preservation has nothing to do with copyright. Buy a book, and preserve it yourself. Done.

Wrong. My house burns down, the book is gone. Your advice is worse than using RAID is as a backup solution.

Preservation requires multiple independent redundant copies widely distributed over large geographical areas, cryptographically verified. Surely you can see how that flies in the face of copyright, a legal mechanism to give authors a monopoly on the production of copies.

Truth is bittorrent did more for preservation of culture that copyright ever did. You could even quantify how well preserved the data was since you could count how many redundant copies were present in the swarm.
Call me biased, but I've learned over time that anything that comes out of the Waston team looks good only in PR statements but sucks at production - especially at tasks like OCR. YMMV.
So they will invest probably hundreds of thousands of dollars into a tech that will make them use a lot less electricity for heating and cooling, only to stop using that technology 5 years later and pay for expensive energies? Or will they completely uninstall the heat pumps?
The thing with this kind of investment is, it's cash heavy at the beginning and then lets you save a lot of money. It makes no sense to ditch the installed technology once it's working for you and saves you money.
>Blackout rules feel like a completely untenable situation if baseball wants anyone under 45 to get in to the sport.

It's crazy thinking about baseball growing up. It was just on TV. Or it was on the Radio. Or it was in the newspaper. Either way, it was everywhere you looked during baseball season. These days its a different world. People don't subscribe to the newspaper and see the big win on the front page anymore. They don't listen to AM radio swing by swing while they drive, cut grass, watch their kids, operate the cash register at work, doing whatever with the game on. It was so amazingly unavoidably accessible.

These days its totally locked down. You can't fire up any TV you encounter and get to the game in a few presses of a remote anymore. You can't be sure you'd see the game when you'd go out in bars, much less overhear anyone's AM radio. Executives forgot why baseball became America's pasttime: because it was in your god damn face all the time! It's like making friends, you tend to make friends with the people life happens to have you spend more time with, like your classmates or coworkers you spend the bulk of the day with. Baseball is really in a death spiral with the direction of the current mlb office IMO. And that is to say nothing about the actual state of the game of baseball (various hardly punished cheating scandals, favoritism in officiating, juiced balls, etc).
Also note that “Facebook reduces the storage it needs to store user photos by 50%” is something that contributes, like, nine-figure dollar savings to the bottom line. Facebook does all sorts of crazy stuff to improve performance–I don’t think many people who work there understand how the javascript bundler works, for example. It’s a lot more than something like WebPack.
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>Are you saying modern car infotainment systems have fewer resources allocated to the UI?

Relatively speaking: Yes.

Response lag is always because the hardware is chugging to process all the bits in time (they're not in time). Between underprovisioned hardware and shittily written software, hell yeah fewer resources are allocated to the UI.

We need a small supercomputer's worth of resources allocated to bring the software of today up to snap like it was the 90s.
I agree with you here. Just I was referring that Black hole mergers is not something that can be taken as an example here talking about singularities.

But yes, existence of singularities does not mean a breakdown of GR. It suggests that GR is not a complete theory of gravity and means that ww cannot make a meaningful prediction about behavior of the system at the singularity points. We can even consider that GR predicts singularities when the curvature of the spacetime becomes so strong that it becomes infinite.
I just think they'll play around with it in smaller regions to see the effect and run a cost-benefit analysis before they risk angering their primary money maker
Does it have anything to do with women being in more traditional roles?
turning on and adjusting the defroster on a ford edge rental is insanely dangerous. turning on the defroster to full blast takes one touch screen yes, but no one leaves it on full blast. Adjusting the fan speed requires poking a small icon in order to get a slider to pop up and then poking the narrow slider in just the right place.

It's crazy that's replaced physical controls. Poking a large physical button and then turning a large knob can be done blind folded in half a second.
I doubt Rust is going to become used for (the GUI layer of) GUI apps far outside of Rust enthusiast circles. To build a widely attractive ecosystem it needs a dominant framework to which enough of the many widget and theming and distribution libraries and tools necessary for broad adoption attach. Rust's culture in this respect is far more Clojure (bolt together your own from a thousand options) than Elixir (just use Phoenix).

I have no doubt Rust will be used as part of many GUI apps via Tauri and others. 1Password shows how successful it can be as the real core of an app that has a separate web-tech GUI layer.

There's enough energy in the Rust ecosystem that I'm sure niche adoption will continue. But all-Rust apps beyond HN/Github-browsing/System76 circles? My guess is it's unlikely.
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