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That article is obsolete. There are newer standards that fix the problems with IPv6 and make it usable. Slow standard development big reason for slow adoption of IPv6. But IPv6 is now usable; Hacker News and Reddit are the only IPv4 tabs I have open, the rest are IPv6.

A good example is NAT64/DNS64 which allows IPv6-only hosts to access IPv4 internet. The result is that makes sense to use IPv6-only or IPv6-first for new networks.
Dear Lord, why would they do such a thing. I think I've experienced this, and decided I hated Obsidian because it made my computer feel slow (it's not).
That's the original vision of hypermedia: cross-linkable book pages who can express metadata about their content while maintaining flexibility in their visual output.

I never thought I'd say this, but HTML4, with all its billions of warts, was a pinnacle of this vision. Later developments swung too hard towards an excessively content-focused vision first (XHTML, the "semantic web"), and then swung all the way in the opposite direction, turning web protocols into dumb pipes for the general-purpose VM runtime that modern JS/HTML engines have become.

Unfortunately, the industry always, always wanted this runtime. Plugins, applets, ActiveX -- people just refused to accept basic form-based interaction. DarkWeb properties accept it only because doing otherwise would be too dangerous, in the same way people don't wear jewelry when going through a ghetto.
Having no stake in the long term future is not the same thing as having nothing to offer. We also don’t generally allow other “transient” populations like non-citizen immigrants to vote either, despite them having a lot to offer too. If you’re not going to be here in 10 years you don’t get a say.

We also have lower age limits on voting and there’s very good reasons for that too.

People try to raise the voting age limits all the time to curb the political influence of the younger voters. It’s a situation like class wars where one side is playing hardball and the other side isn’t even aware they were playing.

Point out the nature of the game you’ll be pounced (just as you did here) for “ageism” despite ageism already being written into the rules, and despite the elderly here (in the US) are continually trying to shift those rules even further in their own favor.

The hand of the dead should not bind the living, nor should the hand of transient populations bind those with a long-term stake in the society. And there will inevitably be some edge-cases where people slip around the edges of the rules (citizens with deadly illnesses, immigrants who own homes and settle, etc) but those are just the guiding principles society has agreed upon, except when it comes to the elderly.
Agreed. If WEI means browsers can more aggressively restrict fingerprinting in all for it.
Ask HN: Most productive programming language for individual use?
I’m seeking the most productive language for my daily use, for small software I need for myself. One criteria: The speed I’m able to get the task at hand done. I keep hearing good things about OCaML, Lisps and Smalltalk, any ideas?

Edit: In clearer words, in which programming language do you feel yourself the most productive discounting factors external to the language? (like platform monopoly, runtime, environment, package ecosystem etc.) Think about the language itself.
Tiny C compiler actually has a "bug" in not implementing the "big bug".

That is, the following expressions are cleanly compiled without any errors:

_Generic(0, float: s/<[^>]*>/ /g, int: 1),
_Generic(0, float: now the thing about this tcc implementaion is, int: 1),
_Generic(0, float: that it just skips until the next comma, int: 1),
_Generic(0, float: keeping track of parentheses nesting., int: 1),
_Generic(0, float: [[ Suprizingly it doesnt validate which parentheses)), int: 1),
_Generic(0, float: {{{so this bullshit is possible))), int: 1,
default: #else #define this is great isnt it?);

See: https://godbolt.org/z/o7jne7hWM
I've long held the opinion that the government should ban all forms of paying a third party extra for shorter waits in security lines, but then wealthy frequent travelers would start pushing back on the security process itself.
If it didn't require authentication, Comcast could just MITM you.
On the internet, no one knows you're a dog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
It’s just corporate profits combined with market forces, not a some sort of malicious conspiracy.

You can rent a 2-socket AMD server with 120 available cores and RDMA for something like 50c to $2 per hour. That’s just barely above the cost of the electricity and cooling!

What do you want, free compute just handed to you out of the goodness of their hearts?

There is incredible demand for high-end GPUs right now, and market prices reflect that.
that's still bacteria that causes that
Or they are supplementing because they don't get much sun to begin with
Ah the hardware isn’t gonna be in SF (not the cheapest datacenter space)

But I do think a lot of our customers will be out here —- SF is still probably the best place to do startups. We just have so many more people doing hard technical stuff here. Literally every single place I’ve lived in SF there’s been another startup living upstairs or downstairs

Good idea to host some in person events!
It merged in 2006, with Bandai. The combined company is anything but defunct, and their IP is not abandoned or up for grabs.
> Is there any chance of a hard fork? What about, let's say, a web 1.1 where we intentionally remove all the fancy new web APIs and mostly revert back to what we had in the late 90s?

Sure. It's really just a matter of mass appeal. We could fork the existing browser base and eliminate the new attestation API. Some projects are already doing this from what I understand.

What will keep attestation from being used is websites will lose business if their customers can't access the site. We went through this with user-agent string checking in the 90's/00's when IE and Netscape/Mozilla were at war and every site had a very strong opinion on which browser they would support. Even today you occasionally see sites that will hit you with "unsupported browser" errors if you aren't running a specific version of something.

The solution to this was everyone realized they were throwing money away by excluding a large portion of their customer base. At the time no single browser really dominated the market share so it was easy to see that an IE-only site was losing 33% of internet traffic. These days everything is basically chrome-based so this hasn't been as much of an issue.

So in the future we'll see this same thing. Non-attestable browsers will be locked out of attested sites and it will be a numbers game to see if sites want to risk losing these customers/viewers.

At the end of the day, you have to remember that everything on the web is just a TCP socket and some HTTP which is a flexible text protocol. We can build pretty much anything we want but it takes inertia to keep it going.
It's probably the best of its kind (mmo), but the number of players is constantly (slowly) decreasing. Mostly from players getting too old or dieing. Alternatives: Warbirds has even lower numbers. I'm not sure about the current state of the war in the air in WW2-Online.

Can an open source game of this kind find players? Probably not many, but possibly dedicated ones. The problem with that target group is that someone will reference the charts from the POH or from published test flight data and complain that the simulation does not match the numbers.
I disagree 100%. There is literally nothing you can do within init.el that you can't do within `.spacemacs`, and you will rarely have to venture outside of `dotspacemacs/user-config ()` except to add layers or packages to the appropriate config variables so they can be installed automatically for you.

I've been using emacs for over 10 years and had zero issues with making the transition. On the contrary, it's simplified my emacs life quite a bit. The only thing I have not been able to get working is `eaf`, but that's clearly not the fault of spacemacs.
I once tried talking about how there is probably a fundamental limit to how deep of a graph traversal chat bots can do to a colleague. And he started blankly at me and said "it'll work". As if chat bots can now solve NP complete problems with ease because "AI"...
I'm so glad I left the field the level of snake oil relative to sustenance is pretty hard to stomach.
> The polyester T-shirts smelled significantly less pleasant and more intense, compared to the cotton T-shirts.

This is consistent with my experience. I stopped buying expensive exercise clothing many years ago because they only last a season before they smell too bad. Instead, I buy them at the end-of-season sales or at discount retailers like Winners [0].

Unfortunately, in Canada it isn't feasible to hang them out in the sun to dry - for much of the year they'd just freeze.

[0]: https://www.winners.ca/en/how
In other words, 10 kWh per wafer - a couple of dollars per wafer in energy costs.
Well-known older influential works tend to be where things that have become cliché came from.
Wow! I never thought you’d see the light. All I ever see from your posts is praise for TRC. As someone who got started way later on, I had infinitely more success with a gaming GPU I owned myself. Obviously not really comparable, but TRC was very very difficult to work with. I think I only ever had access to a TPUv3 once and that wasn’t nearly enough time to learn the ropes.

My understanding was that this situation changed drastically depending on what sort of email you had or how popular your Twitter handle was.
Untill you play it.
I said the same in ~2003 with the first Deus Ex. Dull graphics, not the best usage of the first Unreal engine, cliché conspiacies almost straight from the X-Files series
and common urban legens.

Yet the emergent gameplay and the semi free-roaming playability made it better than most FPS crapware being shold from 2002 to 2009 save for Half Life 2 and Crysis.

This might not be the best game on the flying combat genre, but don't forget that these games are built for fun and if they work on multiplayer, for quick matches quickly forgetting the rest.

Heck, a lot of pro FPS players put the texture settings at the core mininum and with a 1920x1080 resolution at best so they can spot the rest of the players at a quick glance...
It just seems so incredibly unlikely to know a “handful” of people who had this unless you met them in the ER. And while I guess it’s mathematically possible, you have to know that it’s incredibly rare and essentially nobody else is in your situation.

FWIW I know one total and barely know them it’s like a friend of a friend of a friend deal.
Most TLS connections these days use cipher suites with perfect forward secrecy so governments won't be able to decrypt the connections without an active MITM attack. Since Certificate Transparency is effectively required for all CAs now, that will leave a paper trail.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36910372, which has the original source that this one points to.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Autonomous aerial hygromorphic bio robots to seed the planet
"Display boxes" aren't shipping grade perhaps? Product boxes are usually notably far thinner unless they are already meant to bear a heavy load.

Manufacturers of direct to consumer goods seem to generally eshew "display boxes" anyway, at least in my experience. But it could imply retail packaging and package packing for others.
Great point & example, but I'm curious how well that translates to simulation games, where immersion is a large part of the selling point, as opposed to fun & tight game mechanics full of balanced flow & fiero.
Buy a steam cleaner, they're quite inexpensive now if you buy a "steam mop". Just make sure to get one that has attachments for cleaning clothing. They're great for cleaning everything else as well.
data should be stored locally in the first place.
It seems unfair to attack someone so personally without providing neutrally presented evidence to support it
Use of vitamin D supplement is also probably correlated with sunscreen use. That is, health-conscious people use both.
Icebreaker sells some good stuff. Get em on sale though
Not in my experience. Cotton takes your sweat, and makes you feel like you are soaking in it (and that's why it chafes more - skin loses elasticity in prolonged contact with water). Nothing is airy about it.
Show HN: Pyflo – a free, interactive guide to learning Python
TL;DR: https://pyflo.net is a free, interactive guide to learning Python

Hi Everyone, I am a CS educator who has taught a variety of university courses, including many on introductory Python programming. Over the past few years, I've written down a number of Python programming lessons and has culminated into Pyflo.net. This tool is a completely free, introductory guide to learning Python. It is more-or-less an intro programming textbook, but with a few twists, including:

* It is totally free. You don't even have to give me your email to use it

* The lessons are short and modularized

* It's interactive, containing embedded questions that provide instant feedback throughout.

My hope is that this can be a useful resource for those looking to learn Python. Feel free to use yourself, or share with those you think would be interested.

Feedback is very much welcome and appreciated.
Copilot is a much older model than GPT 3.5 even, so there's no surprise that it's worse. Thankfully Copilot will be upgraded to GPT 4 soon, Microsoft said.
Well, more accurately, an anecdote about a previous Sam Altman project, which is pretty relevant when discussing a current Sam Altman project.
I think the point is that JS/TS has broad employment prospects. This will never have that. It's useless beyond an academic or personal project toy.
Why doesn't the prime minister of UK become the king of Britain, even though it's less work for way more luxury?

(In case you can't reason your way into it, some positions are gained through nonzero amount of luck rather than pure "hard work and grit" or whatever boomer nonsense.)
Significantly more expensive than equivalent 3090 configuration if you can do model parallelism
The premise is that you can make spam filtering and bot filtering and circles of trust work if you have a finite amount of accounts. Currently on the internet there are infinite accounts. If there's only a billion accounts, filtering becomes much easier.
Not likely, particularly if you depend on modules written (partly) in C like numpy/scipy etc
why is it racist to worry about a somewhat adversarial authoritarian nation state having the capability to disrupt life in the U.K.? I also cannot read the whole article, but you'll note that the article isn't about Taiwanese cars, or for that matter Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese cars. Its specifically about cars from a nation state with an arguably adversarial security relationship with the UK
I see, that must be why we see so much dissent from the Democrats in Congress. Must be hard being the whip. /s
> cpu hungry services

Have you benchmarked musl vs glibc in any way? Data I've seen is all over the place and in curious about your experience.
Battlebit and Minecraft (which was mentioned in another reply here) won't ever actually be mistaken for a game from the 1990s, there's way too much detail into the far distance, the lighting is too good, and the UI looks relatively modern (especially in Battlebit).

Linux Air Combat on the other hand really does look the way games looked 30 years ago, and the UI looks worse.

It's fine, we don't need good graphics in everything. But it will hurt its popularity in a way that Battlebit is not hurt, because people can tell the difference between intentionally making a game with a retro look vs. just not having the art resources for good graphics.
Show HN: Perplexity.ai styled response streaming
What types of garments do you use that are made from merino wool, and what sports do you engage in?
> In general, if you can think of an obvious confounding factor in about five seconds, then it’s a safe assumption that professional researchers thought of it too.

I work in academic medicine. I read a lot of papers. This is not at all a given in my experience, except maybe in the tippy top journals (Nature, NEJM). When in doubt, read the paper, see if they mention the confounder you thought of.
Maybe they chose that name a disambiguation so as to be only associated with the god Atlas, and not the city Atlantis or its suggested founding leader Atlas (son of Poseidon).
Re (3): asyncio does not give you a boost for CPU bound tasks. It's a single-threaded, cooperative multi-tasking system that can (if you're IO bound) give you a performance boost.
Sam Altman's work on OpenAI is hard to characterize as selfish when he owns none of it and doesn't get paid for it.
Yeesh this dude went to the Word Store on a $5 budget and put $300 on the in-store credit card.
I believe it looks and feels like this because of limitations of SDL 1.2, and not because of the lack of art contributions.
In what way? Like it or not, we exist in a world of finite resources. It's wholly appropriate to argue that "No, we should not use our limited resources on X when there is the problem Y out there that we could apply them to instead, and derive a much larger comparative advantage from." These are the types of questions faced in the real world by decision makers every day. If anything, your position is the utopian one.
This exists, but one of two things happen, which still significantly slows things down. Either 1) you generate multiple python instances or 2) you push the code to a different language. Both are cumbersome and have significant effects. The latter is more common in computational libraries like numpy or pytorch, but in this respect it is more akin to python being a wrapper for C/C++/Cuda. Your performance is directly related to the percentage of time your code spends within those computation blocks otherwise you get hammered by IO operations.
Ok, could you do the math then? Try to see how many Starbucks coffees you have to forgo to afford a down payment at a median house in the US.
I'm a Parli debater who went to quarters at TOC this year -- our format may be handicapped, but in terms of Ks, pretty much everything Maya discussed applies directly to Parli. You may be thinking of east-coast ("lay") Parli where internet prep & files aren't allowed, as on most of the west coast pre-written Ks are run pretty regularly.
> Because they will pinky promise.

It goes a bit deeper than that. Many companies these days "choose" to get certified under a variety of standards (the most common one is ISO 27001), everyone who hasn't been completely ignorant is looking for or already got cybersecurity insurance and on top of that comes the entire GDPR saga. Basically, you got three levels of auditors that at least make sure the basics are covered, and on top of that come industry specific requirements such as TISAX [1], US SOX Act compliance or whatever AWS had to go through for GovCloud.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Information_Security_A...
ECH is a good idea on paper but will never work in the real world.

Oppressive regimes just drop any connection lacking a plain text SNI. The browser will either retry without ECH, or the user will retry with a browser that does not support ECH.

I think people in the Western world don't exactly understand how internet censorship works. They don't give a shit about blocking large legitimate sites or breaking connectivity for large swaths of users if it helps them avoid losing power.
>Not looking at ads is a crime.

Oookay, I had enough HackerNews for today.
I watched my younger cousing playing the new Rainbow Six. Compared to the fist one,
they are completely "arcadized". Just a narrow step down from Urban Terror on "cinematic gameplay". "Realist", but not so much.

Graphics, yes. But the actual gameplay... a joke compared to the first Rainbow Six and tactical matches on SWAT3.
Two points:

> experts continue to weigh in that we don't get enough essential vitamins and minerals through our diets

First, would be better to list some specifics rather than "experts say". But even if so, saying that people don't get enough of some micronutrient X from food, it doesn't necessarily follow that supplementation with pills will lead to better health (except in some specific and extreme circumstances that rarely affect people these days, e.g. scurvy).

Second, this was not the entire controversy around Pauling's vitamin C fantasy. His recommended doses were orders of magnitude larger than recommended amounts - it wasn't just about being "more personalized". Nevermind that Pauling's vitamin C theories have been thoroughly disproven.
I'm inclined not to think Patrick is lying about anything. He's not the type. (If you know me, that's only like 85-90% a compliment.)
Honest question, what if I pay the government itself (Nexus/Global Entry) for the shorter line (in exchange for a one-time but deeper security scan)?
Looking in the network tab, there are a lot of 406 responses. What is that all about?
>After scrutinizing Roosevelt’s record for four years, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian conclude in a new study that New Deal policies signed into law 71 years ago thwarted economic recovery for seven long years.

Doesn't seem to have been a great move.
Modified orbs won't be able to add iris scans
25+ years and there’s no way to have ipv6 only connectivity and access the Internet. Definitely a failure.
How many streaming subscriptions do you need to forgo to have a down payment on a house? Could you please do the math?
Sorry, I missed the spot in the DNS RFCs where they said RRsets are limited to 20 records. Got a reference? Thanks!
Whenever I see a company using Prestige in their name, I can't help but think back to the hit Hollywood movie 'Stepbrothers', and the titular brothers' fictional company, Prestige Worldwide
Finance is also much easier to move: all of the companies which shifted from CoL to their offices in finance hubs which are still in the EU just need offices, computers, and relocation bonuses for their employees. The lawyers are going to get small fortunes dealing with details but that’s still much lower inertia than something like a heavy industrial plant and its supply chain.
You can't "take away" fingerprinting, because it isn't a single API or even a single set of APIs. Fingerprinting is a set of techniques; you can nullify some of them, but there is nothing stopping companies from inventing new ones.

Despite what Google say, fingerprinting will never go away - any new feature in that space will just be in addition to existing and future fingerprinting techniques.
Ask HN: Best language model for PDF search?
I apologize for the misunderstanding. Here's the body of the Ask HN question:

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I've been exploring various solutions for conducting local search and inferencing based on PDFs. While inferencing answers to questions is a desirable feature, my primary focus lies in the vector or embedding search capabilities. Currently, I'm interested in a solution that can effectively handle approximately 10-20 PDF files.

Any recommendations as to which of the various solutions that have popped up on GitHub would be the best? So far, I’ve tried privategpt and seems to do OK, just wondering if any of you have incorporated one of these tools into your workflow.
> Basically the moment "use mmap" or "use multi-processing" is a reasonable recommendation for something ad-hocish there is something rally wrong with the tools you use IMHO.

Hmm. So you're saying only languages which bury lock and mutex over shared data are appropriate to use for async parallelism over shared data? Because calling explicit lock() and releae() isn't that hard. However it does incur a function call overhead. I suppose some explicit in language support could minimise that partially.