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IBM has a long history of competent software development, hardware development, and product development. This isn't a kickstarter. It's backed by published research as was the case for relational databases.
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It's a little weird on HN to see someone refer to "rural wifi". Unless you're talking about a relatively rare form of mesh networking, there's not really any such thing as rural wifi, at least not in the sense that its different from any other kind of wifi - a very local RF network designed to share an access point. I assume you're using wifi as a stand-in for "internet" or "broadband".

4G speeds are completely fine for watching video - I do this often in very rural locations using a Verizon hotspot (4G only). Sure, less than that is problematic for video, but 1.87MB is still small over 3G.
> High-frequency trading doesn't need to exist

Neither does most of the stock market, for many definitions of “need”. But on the flip side, nobody has ever really demonstrated strong negative effects from HFT and many studies show positive effects, so bans seem very kneejerk to me.
Show HN: Bicycle – A Database Tool (Rust, gRPC, RocksDB)
Bicycle is a framework for defining database schemas whose access patterns are generated as code and compiled into each server binary.

We're striving to reduce dynamic query parsing at run time.
I've never really thought about this. Perhaps I missed it from the article and maybe this is a dumb question but is there a font that is truly open source, royalty free and recognized / built-in to browsers? Is there such a thing as a royalty free font family that the popular browsers would all recognize by name? Could that even become a legal battle?

Monotype owns most major fonts: Arial, Helvetica, Gotham, Times New Roman.

font-family:Open Sans,Arial
font-family:monospace

If I use any of those in HTML can someone claim royalties on my text? Should this concept itself become a font family? e.g. font-family:royalty-free and let the client decide on their favorites royalty-free fonts?
It’s an error to assume Americans act according to their rational self interest rather than ideological fancy.
90% of ULEZ cameras in south east London have been disabled or stolen
“This is a monitoring system designed to tax you for using your car. People are upset about the restrictions on their ability to move around.”

“Basically taxing poor people $15 every time they drive there car because they can’t afford a new car”
While willpower may work for some people, what actually works for me (and i believe the majority of people) is self-deception or distraction.

To sleep, use white noise/rhythmic music/soothing voice

To climb a mountain, tell yourself that my next goal is to just reach that particular rock about 100 metres higher

In the gym, make a friend and chat and joke with them while doing your exercises

While sprinting, divide 32 by 13 to many decimal places, as Joey from Friends once suggested.
The BBC article has a bit more details. The alcohol will be reused for hand sanitizers, cleaning products and perfume.
This is a problem that philosophy has long tried to tackle. Imagine your mother dies in a car accident on her way home from the store. A mad scientist finds her lifeless corpse on the side of the road and creates a perfect robotic replica, complete with an AI “brain” trained to act just like your mom. Would you feel differently about the robot compared to your real mom?

My answer is that yes, I would care. For the same reason I would prefer the original Mona Lisa compared to an atomically-perfect replica. There is something special about unique individuals and objects, and this is not something that can be replicated by a machine.
Can you please give us "grep -v" or inverse search: allow us to enable filters which find everything that doesn't contain such a property. This is a horrible omission in so many search/filter interfaces.
I heard they are good during vasectomies as well
It appears as though the real problem is address near the end of the article under a heading that has nothing to do it: Monotype is switching to a subscription model that will likely weigh strongly in their own favor, and there is little that anyone can do about it since they are essentially a monopoly.

Most of that was buried under a heading about AI.

While the handful of sentences addressing AI were dismissive, my initial thoughts were directed towards the opening paragraphs of the article. They were describing a case where the creator received $12 in royalties for a font used in a major film. The irony is the font emulated handwriting, which is the sort of font that would benefit from all too human variation even if that human variation is emulated by a machine (e.g. using AI).
I am adding
Just get the youtube kids app. It only contains preapproved videos that are fine for kids. Works great.
Or deep down they admit they are winging it and don’t have a clue. But it sure is nice to see all those butts in seats.
You won’t find anyone who agrees with that more than me, except maybe my mom. My point is simply that the country seems to have found a groove as of late. Any instability could be disastrous at this point. And I just hope America doesn’t fuck it up over Ukraine.
A lot of other countries are doing something similar with diary or other food products.

You don’t want to lose the capacity to produce vital products like wine or cheese in case some unexpected event happens.

What if 30% of all wineries close and you have a severe drought in a few years. It would result in a extreme humanitarian tragedy…
Show HN: Hermes – SMM backdoor and client for usermode privilege escalation
Hermes is an open source system management mode backdoor which allows a user mode application to elevate its own privileges and interact with memory without any direct access at smm level.
I’m honestly not asking to be obtuse, but what difference does this “tracking” actually make? I block ads on the web because they’re so obnoxious and usually so utterly stupid (One weird trick to blast belly fat!!”), but I couldn’t care less if an ad profile exists on me or on some GUID tied to a browser I use[1]. What’s your pitch to someone who doesn’t care, that they should care?

[1] also, if tracking can help to replace idiotic ads like that with ones for some b2b software product I’d actually be interested in knowing about, please track me.
I don’t think it’s ever safe to procnosticate on the basis that something is “Just an efficiency increase”. Plenty of tech that is just an efficiency increase has ended up having profound impact on society.
MyFonts is a very convenient marketplace. Perhaps the indie designers should band together and create something like that of their own.
Either way, having the arbitrage between the U.S. and Euro markets be 9ms faster does absolutely nothing for anyone's 401k.
Amateur radio isn't just voice and Morse. In most countries if you want to build your own transmitters, especially in a private hobby capacity, you need an amateur licence.

HF at 3 - 30 MHz happens to be low freq. enough that a fast standard ADC and DAC can work as a direct conversion SDR. Surprised I don't see more projects around that yet.
How the Human Population Reached 8 Billion
Thanks for your comment. I think it's an accurate headline, as the client and server code I wrote (which goes through the hardware TRS-IO (which, yes, has the ESP32 chip on it)) allows for ChatGPT interaction on the TRS-80. The I/O module (TRS-IO) is just providing a way for a BASIC program (the "client") to send and receive network requests over the serial port. The client is essentially a dumb terminal, and doesn't have much logic at all. I’m running a python "server" on a Linux box (AWS EC2) that handles the request then constructs an OpenAI call from there, then passes the response back to the TRS-80. So that's what I'm trying to represent as the client/server in the headline :). Most of the work I did was in creating the client and server, not just plugging in hardware. Although I did spend a painful amount of time cleaning the keys, and just generally figuring out an approach. I think a good title would be "TRS-80 as a dumb terminal to ChatGPT".
OpenWrt is generally the best option for keeping old hardware fresh, but it would be really nice to have a Debian-like automatic update mechanism.

I often delay updating my router because it takes ~20 minutes of work to reinstall packages, manually merge config files, and make SSH stop complaining about the host key.

There is an incentive to use as few features as possible, because every divergence from the base config is a perpetual maintenance burden.
Remote workers are feeling more disconnected than those in office
It relies on things being correctly tagged. Over or under tagging will reduce discoverability. If you have a product (or tag) that is loosely defined or changes over time, this can cause issues as well. It's easy to do this for something rigid like technical specs. but if you have ever looked for something hyperspecific (e.g. multiple tags) on a site such as Newegg you've no doubt had some run-ins here and there with incorrect tagging. This is further exacerbated if you allow individual vendors to do the tagging of their own products, who will have a perverse incentive to do "SEO", or may not spend enough time/effort resulting in undertagging.

Often times what you are left with are only a handful of "high-level" tags/filters that don't actually filter much, forcing you to spend more time looking at and evaluating multiple products (which marketing/sales teams of companies probably view as a net positive).

TL;DR: Filtering is an absolute boon when there is proper tag curation.

Edit: I should clarify that I think Newegg is really solid as far as tagging is concerned, but the fact that this occasionally happens even in that environment just goes to show that it requires effort to do right and you may not get 100% discoverability.
I suppose if by "lost" you mean "extremely well documented with 457 thousand views" then yes, Bonsai Kittens are lost forever?
The important thing is to wake at a regular time and to go to sleep when you're tired. It's not necessary to go to sleep at a regular time.

This no-bullshit page has some more detailed info with references: https://insomniasos.net/
https://archive.ph/t1lUO
> the conflation of grinding leetcode with growing understanding is a problem.

It's understanding something, even if it's not the job skills. Can you imagine someone who performs well at these kinds of challenges being a bad hire?
Many people living in these countries, know what's going on. They silently support the violent levels of censorship because they think our government is just as bad and often hypocritical (even though the US is objectively better in most reasonable cases)

IMO, the disagreement between the two political parties doesn't just cause domestic polarization, it also delays foreign progress towards democracy. People get jaded internationally from it. I'm hoping we can either have more parties or just help the two parties make up.
Yes, not testing at all on a real device meshes nicely with their company's signature:

Solutional is an *agile* software development company

Emphasis on agile.
That's the second time on HN where I thought some article was about the window-system :(
Property developers need not downgrade the number of bedrooms because they decrease size. It's a cynical ploy to segregate the market.

Unless including a garage, there's no reason why a 2400sqm, which is 220m2 in the rest of the world, should not be 4-5 bedrooms.
Here's something to add some fuel to your philosophical fire :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_brain
The nuance of the Dutch translation is slightly wrong, possibly implying eating glass in general doesn't hurt. Just a heads-up for those going to the old archived website in search of medical advice.
Reaching the Unix philosophy's logical extreme with WebAssembly
> Podcasts

I used to be the same. But I find it just keeps me up more because there is so much potential for it to become interesting...even the most boring pods. Now I remove my bed from the bedroom and if anything I use a Calm sleep story.
LLMs with access to real-time data and reviews should be able to simplify this process a lot. “Show me a white and gold sectional in the art deco style for under $2500.” “Actually none of these look comfortable but I like the vertical lines on this one. Also make sure that any option you present does not contain toxic fire retardants or otherwise contains materials that result in the California prop whatever warning” “this looks great but can you find one with power reclining” Etc…buying something linked from the LLM will count as a referral and generate revenue for its developer.
Maybe superglue the iPad speakers shut?

The only other way I see is welding (for iPads with an aluminum back) or opening up the iPad to physically disconnect the speakers.
All languages have quirks. It's the degree of WTF-ness and how much they affect majority of its users that it becomes popular as a WTF-y language.

The more the users the more chances of this too.

Personally I find Python to be ergonomic and I've been less bitten by it. But you might get a totally different opinion if the same question is asked to a different group. This is a Python post so I guess majority would be pro-Python?
If inflation is persistent throughout the decade it might end up as a better deal but its a long shot for a small payoff.
This is, frankly, why one should approach all the "why should you use commercial, licensed fonts?" blog posts with a jaded eye.

There are so many "they may have missing glyphs", "free fonts may breach copyright", "there's no support" stories. And they amount to FUD from blog sites that don't talk openly about being on commission from commercial exchanges.

If you want great results on a website in particular, you could use a system font stack (which is often kinder on your users) or a common readable open font for body text, and then consider paying a brand designer with experience designing fonts to design a caption/headline typeface paired with it just for your own use. Or you could pair a system font with an existing font from an indie designer that does not use a font-serving CDN or have per-view licensing rules.

But there are high quality fonts in Google fonts that you can easily extract (the Create Block Theme plugin for Wordpress will now install Google fonts locally) and there are font-pairing tools that can help you make good decisions.

This is one of those things that has just moved on. There are so many ways to do this that don't involve stolen fonts.
Sigh...

Be the adult/parent here. Tell them they must, always, use headphones. And that if they do not comply they will lose the ipad for X hours (potentially increasing amounts of X for each subsequent infraction).

Then, actually apply the stated punishment when they test the boundaries.
Bad infrastructure, and impatience.Not a good combination.
I'd love to see a picture of your setup, if you're comfortable sharing it. I have a hard time imagining what it all looks like. It sounds like it's quite a production!
What’s the difference between GraphQL Mesh?

Is this thing any relevant if I’m using React Server Components to fetch the data from the db directly?
645 in binary is 1010000101 which results in an amusing 2-hand gesture if you're 6 years old.
"The Cybersecurity Body of Knowledge The ACM/IEEE/AIS/IFIP Recommendations for a Complete Curriculum in Cybersecurity" might be helpful as comprehensive overview to navigating different cyber security subject areas.
Those are better handled by typing.ParamSpec, it should keep track of the unwrapped function's arguments.
111,111.1 meters is reliably 1 degree of latitude
This does sound very intriguing. Even if it would only take away some inference load when it becomes viable. Has a non-zero chance of spawning the next leap in computing?

Considering IBM likely isn't going to crater in stock like some riskier bet might, and even if it's just to benefit from initial hype, I don't see a negative in moving chips I have laying around to big blue even though I very rarely do trades nowadays.
Saudi court sentences brother of prominent cleric to death for tweets
Burning funds, instead of transferring them, would solve two of your three issues.

Obtaining the funds creates extra friction, yes, but it’s possible the benefit outweighs the cost — e.g. because an attacker can no longer utilize the idle CPUs of botnet devices.

Ultimately, any form of anti-DoS protection also punishes legitimate users. The question is (1) how much it punishes attackers relative to this, and (2) whether this punishment for legitimate users deters them, too.
> There is something special about unique individuals and objects, and this is not something that can be replicated by a machine.

of course. but what happens when you can replicate 1:1? would you still feel the same way? will the person that was replicated feel wrong for it? i don’t think things are as clear cut in this scenario.
Or, the irresponsible wanting to pollute the air.
Explainer: Why are countries racing to the moon's heavily cratered South Pole?
You'd have to ask Fabrizio. I assume desktop is the cheapest because it's just you, and app/website is more expensive because there's some nontrivial risk you expose the font files in a way that others can get them for free.
”Private equity” in general may just mean some familys wealth -that may be managed in some unified manner.

I don’t think you can outlaw buying stuff in the genral sense. Ofc there is specific legsilation to defend the market at large from monopolies.

But the fact is some people collect stamps … other collect companies.

In general the whole point of ownership is that you can buy and sell things.

There is nothing to stop a new owner destroying a beloved IP.
Most companies don't have to go bust to get around lifetime subs, just release a new separate app version or service.
Making a font from one's own handwriting is an intriguing experience even if you don't go for cursive.

I decided I wanted my own (rather idiosyncratic) handwriting to use in some training materials, and an evening spent with a cheap and cheerful iPad app gained me a font to use for labels and captions. It's slightly eerie to see it.
Pretty much. Essays are a great medium for this style, I think of them like a curated conversation almost. You've organized your thoughts in a way that you could present them to a friend in polite conversation; you're trying to convey a point without the need to be pretentious or serious in order for it to be respected. Publications like the New Yorker and the Atlantic are a good place to find lots of high quality ones. Many authors also publish their essay collections as books, my favorite being "Consider the Lobster" by DFW.
Especially in the past, but even also today, most Linux distributions have indeed installed by default shitty free fonts, which were the main reason why the GUI of a default Linux installation looked much uglier than that of a default Windows installation or of a default Mac OS installation.

Nevertheless, the default fonts can be deleted and replaced with nice fonts, which can make any Linux look better than Windows or Mac OS.

I have been using for the last 20 years only Linux on all my desktops and laptops, but since the very beginning I have never used the default Linux fonts, but I have always replaced them immediately with beautiful fonts.

When I have started using Linux, it was much more difficult than today to find good free fonts, so I have bought many good typefaces from companies like Linotype, which no longer exists, because as mentioned in this article it has been bought by Monotype, or from Adobe, which appears to be the last big commercial vendor of typefaces which has not been bought yet by Monotype.

Nowadays, it is much easier to find good free fonts. Especially for programming and CLI windows there are a lot of very good free fonts from which to choose.

For proportional typefaces, it can be a little more difficult to find good free fonts, though there is always the solution to grab some fonts from Windows or Mac OS. I have stopped using Mac OS more than a decade ago, but I have still kept from it a Japanese typeface that I have liked and then I have continued to use on Linux, while from my last Windows I have kept Palatino Linotype for polytonic Greek.

So if some people use shitty fonts on Linux, that is their fault, not of Linux, because it cannot be expected for a free product to include good licensed typefaces, like those whose price is included in that of a Windows license or Mac OS license.
I've spent a lot of time cleaning up the messes created by Experts like the article's author and I'm simply not convinced. It's easy to say "product market fit is King!!!" When you aren't the one working long nights and weekends reverse engineering code after a bug in pmf-hunting payment processing code made all purchases free for a day.

Stuff like ci lets you ship safely.
To add to this, funding autocratic governments in these countries with billions in "aid" also delays foreign progress towards democracy.
German here. Really sorry about how the situation makes you feel. I'm with you on everything you said. I don't trust the Germans no more and the non-AfD parties are just absolutely destructive in anything they're doing. It all feels like the stuff you can read upon from the late Weimar republic. Thanks god, we have the EU and can freely move and work anywhere.
> Separate your space. Make sure your work and home environments don’t collide.

Depends on what works for you. For me it’s the exact opposite. I don’t think separating work and the rest of your life is natural or healthy way to approach things.

It feels really wrong to me to have these major parts of your life completely compartmentalized, not just in space but in time as well. For 8 hours a day I should only think about work, and ignore every other part of my life and vice versa?

For me the exact opposite works way better: I try go blend my work and my personal life as much as possible.

If I get stuck on something work related, I don’t stress out and try to push through it, trying to be productive because I’m inside this arbitrary 8-hour window. Instead I go do a chore around the house, get my mind off the problem. Usually this helps and gets me unstuck and I’ll continue with my work related things.

The reverse is also true: when inspiration strikes outside work hours and I just need to turn my idea into code, I’m not going to hold it in for hours (or even days if it’s a weekend) until it’s 9am on a work day, I’m going to grab my laptop and implement it right then and there.

I find trying to force myself into these time/space separated compartments for work an personal life extremely stressful. I’m actually one single person, this is not Severance. For me life/work balance means that these aspects of myself are balanced at all times, instead of switch between the two.
Democratic Authority at Century’s End
What you're saying is totally true and the only pragmatic way to update/release. But it is a shame that if the api update compiles you can't expect things will just work the same way.
The last sentence in the Wikipedia article you link provides reason to believe that the extensive and largely unfocussed show of action Google made in 2017 did not, in fact, solve the problem.
Steven Pinker on sentence construction, language, and today's grammar police