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Is archive.is/today/ph working for anyone today? Yesterday .is and .today were giving me an eternal CAPTCHA but .ph worked. Today .today and .ph are giving me an eternal CAPTCHA while .is loads the website, but tries to redirect to .ph with an eternal CAPTCHA when I click on the snapshot link.

Makes me think whoever runs this is trying to fix something really annoying.
This comment is pretty funny in the context of a world where there are currently cars driving millions of miles without human intervention in a variety of conditions. I don't think anyone cares whether it meets your personal definition of "self driving".

Reminds of the Chinese proverb: “Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.”
Given the very loose definition of racism and xenophobia these days, you may be right, but in the same sense that you can call a woman sexist for not wanting to be followed by a man when walking alone at night. Calling her a sexist repeatedly does not make her behavior unfounded or unreasonable.
The beef industry is an enormous producer of greenhouse gases, both directly and indirectly. They manipulate the government to make their product cheaper, and they manipulate their customers to consume more than is healthy for them.

We should absolutely fight their government abuses, but we can also push back at the consumer level. It's bad for them personally, as well as for the environment.

Even at best that would only fix a tiny fraction of the problem, and we do need to push at the corporate level. But unlike the stupid straw thing, reducing meat consumption really does have environmental benefits.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this. This is the kind of feedback I'm looking for! :) I'll address those point by point, and ask for clarifications when needed

1. Montreal roads are horrible indeed!

2. Fixing the back button is in my top priorities, good catch.

3. My landing page does mention that there are 18 languages available, but I should make it more explicit like in my app store descriptions where they are all enumerated

4. As a baseline, I copied other popular language learning app's pricing strategies. Since it's a Freemium model, I don't want to show Pricing until the Free limits have been attained, or else people might think there is no Free option. Could you clarify when and how you would display the Pricing?

5. Right now, it speaks the text, it translates the text, you can speak to it with your voice, it explains every single mistake word by word. Basically, the UI is better suited for language learning specifically. Later, you'll be able to create flashcards from new words you learn, and much more.

6. Thank you for your encouragement and feedback!
> "Docker is just one thing."

I think you meant to say

"Docker is more than just one thing.", right?
>I have jk mapped to escape in vim, and for a key combo that seems like it should never occur naturally, I’m often surprised how often it misfires when I actually need to type “jk”.

I saw that great recommendation somewhere so immediately set that up in vim. But those are my initials, and usually the beginning of my username... So took that out real quick.

-jk
If anyone seems excited about Atmos its a handful of audio engineers. Most people aren't set up for Atmos mixing and so some see it as a way to differentiate their studios, but the reality is its very scammy and an Atmos set up is expensive.
The same issue arises over and over. Like the destruction of antiquities by religious radicals in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It's good to round up antiquities at risk and export them, but with the right provenance and to suitable institutions to hold with a public display of that provenance, so that when an appropriate time comes, they can be returned. I.e. treat it as "borrowing" or "safe-keeping".

Not just take it and sell it to unscrupulous buyers who will keep it.

How would you like it if someone swooped down on your house in advance of a hurricane and said "hey, your house is going to get destroyed anyway; why don't I take your appliances and electronics and sell them to other interested parties for my profit? After all, you won't be able to use them while you don't have a home, so what's the harm?"
Look at this map.

https://windexchange.energy.gov/maps-data/325

Now tell me where you think the entire southeastern quarter of the US should deploy its wind farms, bearing in mind its periodic susceptibility to hurricanes along the coasts and offshore.

Geothermal? The largest geothermal plant in the world is the Geysers Geothermal Complex with a capacity of 900 megawatts. It is made up of 22 power plants and spread over several kilometers, located north of San Francisco. This is hardly something where "you can put it in the middle of a city without disturbing anything." Additionally, it sits on top of a deep magma chamber that spans over 30 square miles. If you don't have a thermal source quite as abundant and close to the surface, costs and losses rise dramatically. (For reference, Diablo Canyon in California has two 1,100MW reactors on a single plant that has already been producing CO2-free power for decades, and folks are still trying to take it down.)

Don't believe the hype. I'm firmly in the camp that global climate change is an existential crisis that we may already be too late to properly mitigate. This also means we're far too late to be discussing hypothetical solutions to the problem like geothermal and wind options that simply don't exist in large swaths of the US let alone the world.
> the H1B slots

The number of slots feels extremely arbitrary to me. Is it based on anything remotely 'real'? As in statistics or other hard numbers? Or is it some 'magic number' that Congress handed down at some point?
>Docker Engine builds Dockerfiles to Docker images

Docker Engine uses a Dockerfile as an instruction to build a Docker Image
Well that's of course the case but I meant it in the sense of algorithms used to pick what shows up on my screen as opposed to others entering the same search query.

Ideally there would be such a facility to allow for the removal of at least one layer of algorithmic suggestions.

PageRank for videos is a neat idea though, maybe call it VideoRank?
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The biggest issue I have with the movie is it attempts to shoe-horn the RiM story into the same mold as Apple. But RiM was a large company when it began developing devices for two-way paging - and the BB was the output of a team of engineers evolving existing products, not some flash in the pan new device developed by one guy in his garage.
Besides, as anyone who has read "Losing the Signal" knows - it was not the devices but the proprietary servers that were the real money makers for RiM. The spectrum providers PAID RiM a monthly fee per user to have RiM servers in their datacenters. It was the loss of that revenue that doomed the company.
To answer your question, I’m waiting for you to enable the service outside of Europe. Also I wonder if your service works well with businesses sending several millions per month or the KYC nightmare will start then. It’s unfortunate how banks never want to support big businesses sending big transactions around the world
Typing is bursty, agreed. I'm not saying someone who is an extremely slow hunt-and-pecker is ideal.

What I'm saying is that, past an average typing speed, obsessing over WPM gets you diminishing returns, because that's not where the bottleneck is. You should rather spend time improving other aspects of your process, but of course, "thinking better/smarter" is harder to improve.

For the record, I never measured WPM but I'm mostly a fast 2-fingers typist. All keys are typed with my index fingers, and the spacebar with the thumb and some of the special (shift, CTRL, etc) keys with some other finger.

I will lose every competition with a WPM-focused typist, but I can guarantee you my effective tasks -- the actual job we're meant to complete -- will not take me longer, unless said job is transcribing a document (which is never my job).
Even this has some culturally confusing elements, doesn't it?

It's never not going to.
The power/weight thing is largely solved thanks to cell phones.

But they probably can't just buy it from industry, it has to be custom made for the project, with some gov-heavy regulation no doubt.

But surely they could do far better than 1 megapixel.
Apple hardware is prohibitively expensive for most of the world. That's probably the primary driver for the market share gap. Even in the US, the brand is a status/class symbol to some extent.

That said, I have heard the "trust" version of the pitch from some VC types floating around UNLV and I find their trust in Apple to be perplexing.
Yes, when I remember correctly, they said they didn't release the 34B Llama 2 model yet because they haven't had a chance for "red teaming" that one, where with "red teaming" they mean something along the lines of identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities
Shouldn't a database backend be able to semantically determine the two queries are equivalent and perform the same operation?
The eventual solution was that email lists with more than k (500?) people on it required an admin to approve all messages going out on that list.

It really simplified things.
...that none of them could figure out how to debug.

>t. The guy who gets endlessly tired of having to unfsck the layers of abstraction into something mere mortal devs/testers can reason through about.
Yeah, this has been a pet peeve of mine in online conversations where people call for sources. It's pointless, and maybe harmful. You can't just go looking to attach a citation to prove your point, without critical thought.

I've seen countless examples of "citations" that literally contradict their point. I can recall and exchange on reddit were someone smuggly claimed "they use science" when trying to make this crazy claim about how intermittent fasting is good for managing blood sugar and you should skip breakfast.

The citation said that people with blood sugar issues should always eat breakfast, and have small meals throughout the day. How did any of this help us get to truth?
Hypoglycaemia during sleep is the big one. My hypo sensitivity isn't great, but if I'm awake I'll always notice before it gets really dangerous. Sleeping is a different story though. The days when even a slight low would jolt me wide awake in a sweat are gone though, and now I'm much more reliant on sensor alarms to not just sink silently deeper.
Is AI being used to moderate comments now on HN? I ask because I don’t find this comment to be particularly moderation-worthy according to most modern standards of flamebait.
> Honestly, I think they’re all going to get away with it with zero repercussion.

Suppose for a moment that I completely agree with you on all points of substance. Even then, I would have to tell you that corporations are designed (not metaphorically, but literally designed) to deflect and shield liability. There never is anyone to be held accountable, because everyone who acts is an employee, and the ownership is divided among millions of people, through many layers of misdirection. None of whom make any decisions.

Unless you were careful, and if you have a 401K, you yourself may in fact be part owner. Or owner of an owner of an owner of an owner. Should you be held accountable?

You can't arrest a corporation. You can't put it in a holding cell overnight. You can't sentence it to prison for 10 years. You definitely can't give it the death penalty and execute it. And it's no accident this is the case. The major (and perhaps only real) difference between a corporation and simpler business customs is that the corporation is this magical wall between the owner and the business that can't usually be breached. If the business goes bankrupt, no one can seize the businessman's home as collateral. That's what a corporation is for. You live in a society that, however upset it might be over climate change, isn't upset at all over this "design". They like it. They revel in it. And it's not going away.

> If humanity is still around in a couple hundred years, there might be retroactive virtue signalling. But that doesn’t matter cause everyone responsible will be long since dead.

But that's already true from a pragmatic standpoint. Even the CEO now, he was hired in a few years ago, He's just some schlub taking the jobs he knows how to do, without any real power to change what you want. If he tried, they'd fire him and get another. The people who set the ball rolling made sure of that. And even they aren't guilty in any real way, either, unless you want to pretend that someone in the early 1900s should have known better.
My current setup allows me to use the TV built in speakers (Sony TV and SoundBar).
It’s absolutely awful. The built in speaker sounds like a speaker sealed in cheap plastic box. It only degrades the experience. I turned it off.
I wonder how successful filing in a small claims court would be.
Never heard of this rule of three, I was expecting this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(C%2B%2B_program...
"In the Wall Street Journal story in May, the Petersons said they bought the home in 2007 for $16.65 million, invested $10 million in renovations and decided to sell it because their teenage children are in boarding school and they have another property in the city, as well as homes in Aspen, Colo., and Indiana."

I imagine their "financial situation" has left them completely out of touch with the common person.
For me, it's the incompetence and level of corruption in the US justice system starting at the police level on up. I have very little faith in it.
Edited that otherwise they will flag this question.
I really despise this trend of companies not acknowledging their product or service is down, but instead simply say their service is 'degraded'. On top of that, they will use language like 'some users'.

Be open about it: your service is stone cold down and no one can use it. Cut out the stupid business speak.
>> Consider whether we'd be arguing against our own goals.
>> How anyone reasonable could consider this a bad thing, I don't know.
> Because it's completely unproven.

So, just to be clear, you are saying it's unreasonable for the ACLU to consider whether a case would directly harm their mission.

Your words say that rather than consider the harm their case will do to their mission, instead, they must blindly defend the case. The result of which could hurt their free speech advocacy.

You might not agree with this interpretation, but that's what you are arguing against here based on your quotes and what I said. If you disagree with my interpretation, you need to rethink what you read because you are clearly misguided.

> It seems very much to me like they've just turned around and said 'yeah actually free speech is bad because it helps the bad guys more than the good guys, trust us, it's no good' and left it at that.

No. You are wrong.

"Free speech is good even when it helps bad people (as proven my our track record), but we will not defend those who attack free speech."

That's what they are saying.

tl;dr: You are wrong and arguing against free speech.
The cynical way I interpret this: "We need private enterprise to step in to fill this gap, because the public infrastructure is failing".
Because in this case its the government killing its own citizens.
Medicine is human error, one person with no more legal power than the victim made the mistake. The military kills people but they are not citizens (that sounds terrible and it very much is, I am not excusing the deaths of innocents). With death row mistakes, you have the full weight of the United states government using its power to kill one of its own citizens. In addition, its a long process where the person that dies for a crime they did not commit has to witness their life taken from them one step at a time due to compounding failures. It can also happen to anyone which is the frightening part, a government actor (police, prosecutor, judge, etc) can just decide that you fit the bill and take your life from you.

I am very much in favor of executing the worst criminals but I find myself generally against the death penalty due to the risk of executing an innocent person. I am conflicted and find myself moving back and forth on this topic.
> In an infinite universe, it'd be surprising if there weren't infinite simulations of universes just like ours.

I disagree. Physical laws hold throughout the Universe - or, that is the consensus null hypothesis anyway. In even an infinite Universe, assuming it is infinite, there are limits to that which is possible, and it is not yet demonstrated to my satisfaction that a computer could even theoretically simulate a Universe.

That's leaving aside my fundamental objection that the space of what the Universe can possibly be is infinitely vast compared to the singular assertion that it's a simulation. In other words, that this is the correct view is exceedingly unlikely simply because it has been thought of. Imagine that I generate a random complex number of arbitrary precision and ask you to guess it. It could be `0.46451453499412721134961376996+5.275644069844024487293819737719i` for example. It's my view that you have a far, far higher chance of guessing that complex number than we humans do of coming up with a simple, correct cosmology.

> the prevalence of computation in the universe

I also disagree that it's certain that computation or even mathematics are universal or fundamental. I suspect that these both are based in a very human outlook and perspective. Their apparent universality is an illusion deriving from our inability to see outside of our human perspective.

> In other words, we have no basis for saying our universe exists, that we have physical existence, that anyone but ourselves exist, or that we exists in time

While true, I'm not sure what this has to do with the simulation hypothesis. Really, given this premise, the Universe could be anything at all.
It's not a good look for Mark Cuban who invested in this business on Shark Tank and is known for taking charge of his companies' tech.
I disagree with this screed. Are you okay with the PM being called names? Milosevic indeed. Are you an adult? Show some respect for your elected officials. After all your neighbours voted for them. Are your neighbours dictators and fascists?

It's down to numbers. It costs about $40 to produce a barrel of oil in the sands. When the price is above that mark, it's profitable to produce and sell. When it's lower, it's not. That's the supply side.

On the demand side, oil is sold on the global market, US is a large customer but certainly not the only one. There is always a market for oil. The key is transportation. Alberta is a landlocked province, it needs a transportation infrastructure to get the product to market. Canada has the third largest reserves of oil on the planet, and the world uses oil for far more than gasoline engines. To leave it in the ground when there's so much demand is folly. It should be harnessed for the betterment of the country.

Why can't we be like Norway and use the profits from oil to make our energy infrastructure greener? Why does it have to be a zero-sum game?
Newpipe allows this (until Google decides to cut them off anyway)
What if I told you that “imperative” and “declarative” are subjective terms and a matter of opinion
Most of todays TV speakers are awful. Doesn't matter since the audio bitrate from streaming services are also very low. Even BluRay cannot help in many cases as localized audio often comes without the good mix. I don't even know good websites to check if things come with good localized audio on the blurays so I can only look at piracy releases since they list bitrates and audio.
A fish that sees with its skin
What we need is a way to objectively quantify the reduction of quality over time so that people will have a clear idea of what they’re actually buying rather than relying on a hazy and outdated idea of the brand’s reputation. People would know that the drill B&D is selling in 2023 is a 40% drill, not the 80% drill they were selling in 1993.

Reducing quality and coasting on goodwill isn’t really alpha, it’s actually just stealing. They used information asymmetry to sell the customer less drill than they thought they were getting and it shouldn’t be allowed.
I wish we had world culture education as a part of grade school, including things like how to address people / naming conventions. I've learned a lot (and continue to) in the last 10-15 years through working with people and reading things in dribs and drabs, but it'd have been nice to know these things before I needed them and not ad hoc.
It's possible to work for someone else without being a mindless drone.
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You can certainly do mathematics and publish your work while in prison.

See Christopher Havens https://www.christopherhavensmath.com/
Because the criminal justice system gets things wrong, and we can't undo the death penalty.
It's really hard to understand, I originally thought it was a spam link, heh.

It looks like you can somehow use Sourcegraphs "Cody" gateway to utilize Claude by Anthropic. I guess SG was rate limiting, and user HopeMan gained access to SGs admin systems and is asking people to drop their emails to get them un-rate-limited? Best I could make of the thread.

https://docs.sourcegraph.com/cody/explanations/cody_gateway

https://claude.ai/

(desuarchive seems to be a 4chan archive)
I wonder what the percentage is. Refining alone is ludicrously energy-intensive, plus end-to-end transport costs.
It's a bit confusing to young people, because in this millennium enforcement has been so lax as to be almost nonexistent.

I don't see anyone prosecuting Google for bundling Chrome with Android and pushing Chrome in Search, or prosecuting Apple for bundling Safari and iCloud with the iPhone, or prosecuting Amazon for bundling streaming video with Prime, or prosecuting Microsoft for pushing Edge with Windows.
Have you read the original article, not the CNN interpretation? They are talking about harm vs benefits of screening. In simple words: you performed colonoscopy, got colon perforation and died of complications. Was colon cancer prevented? Absolutely! You didn't die of colon cancer! Is it any easier? No, it's not. The chance of dying of breast cancer is around 2.5%, so 1 women in 39 will die from that. OTOH annual X-rays affect the other 38 too, how many of them will die from X-ray exposure (which can cause e.g. another type of cancer, not necessary breast)? For the sake of discussion let's say 1 in 380. Congratulations, you've just increased breast cancer related death by 10%! Only it won't be in statistic as deaths from breast cancer.
I try to remain positive, but climate change is the one area where I have pretty much lost hope. People (and I include myself) are simply unwilling to accept that their lives have to change. Barring some of unforeseen technical miracle the next 20-30 years are going to get increasingly grim.
I love the comment of "Degraded Performance"

Only the site loads. Any request made to ChatGPT fails, using their APIs fails with 502 or just no response for 5+ minutes.

So the whole service is down...
Is this the new "Google is down"? In terms of impact on desk worker productivity?
If you are a 2 finger typist and also think people are "obsessing over WPM" because they're wanting to utilize their own tools to the fullest advantage, that sounds like some mental block kind of thing.

If you can type at least 80 consistently then thats probably would I imagine the dividing line is between "flow/concentration not breaking" and "breaks constantly"

Try a 50 word monkeytype https://monkeytype.com/
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I had the exact same feeling several years ago so I made a graph-based app that does that! ablf.io/?q & ablf.io/goodreads (the latter lets you upload your existing goodreads lib if u want)
Because there can be nice things in bad people. The world is complex and subtle.