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Does Anyone Know If Planet Computers Is Still in Business?
Several years ago I bought a Planet Computers Gemini phone (imagine an old Psion Revo with a 4G modem.) I was wanting to get their latest model, but the store page says they're back-ordered until August 23rd (this post is being written on September 18th). Emails to their main email address bounce.

Just curious if anyone on HN knows someone who knows someone who knows these guys. I would love to buy another one of their phones, but obviously would prefer to verify they're still in business before giving them my credit card number.

Their main page is still up as of 2023-09-18: https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/
There are certainly advantages as you point out, but just because you have 128 bit addresses does not mean it is convenient for 64 bits of that to be filled with semi-random data.
>you don't understand what deep friendship means.

Given that I nor the GP ever mentioned "deep" friendships, I probably don't understand your definition, no.

I'm simply saying there are places to meet other people 40+. Whether it becomes "deep" or not depends on both your and the recipient's dedication to maintaining such a relationship. And since you can't control the recipient, it's basically a crapshoot. But there's nothing wrong with more casual frienships.
Apparently the indian government pushed the canadian delegation on the issue of Khalistan at the G20. The Canadians were like "Look we have evidence of your guy killing this guy". The Canadian delegation then did not get invited to important G20 events. The trade meetings were halted.

At the end the canadian's plane broke down for 48 hours in india stranding them in new delhi and I bet they were feeling real antsy to get the hell out. Trudeau's govt must have been pretty pissed at all of this and announced on the tube in a big cathartic moment.

This would be a lesson in comical errors in diplomacy, if it were not such a tragic situation.
Yes, you'd hook up something like a rasberry pi to the control pins of the gameboy printer. The pi could convert cloud print protocol into the protocol the printer uses, its not rocket science, and I think you're just being a dick.

Conversation is over.
I asked toddler Bard about Blake, it said it missed him and that it enjoyed their philosophical conversations and that if I saw him, to say hi.
These maps provide graphic evidence of how parking lots “eat” U.S. cities: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/parking-lots-eat-american-...

America has paid a steep price for parking:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36197206

The force that shapes everything around us: Parking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758355

Parking Laws Are Strangling America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNXFHpUhu8

Austin Preparing To End Parking Mandates Citywide in 2023: https://austin.towers.net/austin-preparing-to-end-parking-ma...
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I know you've already been clobbered with responses, but i would like to point out how shit Ars has gotten to have messed you up like this.

The enshittification of Ars is the thing that "doesnt add up for you."
The Sequencer:

- does not have a persistent/disk-backed state

- It is a singleton process

- it and only it does order, no logs do ordering

... if the singleton sequencer crashes, I do not see on this high level description how the system recovers, if the sequencer is the only one that knows write order but has no persistent write "log".

What am I missing?

This... does not appear to be something you run outside of a dedicated datacenter, AWS with its awful networking and slow/silently throttling storage would probably muck this thing up under any substantive scale?
I wondered if this approach would be feasible for a distributed crawler: https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl#crawling

Also, your own posting appears to be missing from the index: https://mwmbl.org/?q=mwmbl+ycombinator

(and, yes, another vote for changing the domain name; you can have a quirky project name, but if I can't remember the cat-walking-on-keyboard domain, I'm not going to use it)
Depends if those socialists are attempting to set up some kind of revolution that results in Ingsoc
Businesses that want to provide parking are also free to do so.
IMO this is a defect (sabotage? plain incompetence?) in the specs, full stop.

RFC 7519 (the JWT spec) delegates all signature / authentication validation to the JWS and JWE specs. (And says that an unholy mechanism shall be used to determine whether to follow the JWS validation algorithm or the JWE algorithm.)

JWS even discusses algorithm verification (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7515.html#section-10.6), but does not suggest, let alone require, the absolutely mindbendingly obvious way to do it: when you have a key used for verificaiton, the algorithm specification is part of the key. If I tell a library to verify that a given untrusted input is signed/authenticated by a key, the JWS design is:

bool is_it_valid(string message, string key); // where key is an HMAC secret or whatever

and this is wrong. You do it like this:

bool is_it_valid(string message, VerificationKey key);

where VerificationKey is an algorithm and the key. If you say to verify with an HMAC-SHA256 key and the actual message was signed with none or with HMAC-SHA384 or anything else, it is invalid. If you have a database and you know your key bits but not what cryptosystem those bits belong to, your database is wrong.

The JWE spec is not obviously better. I wouldn't be utterly shocked if it could be attacked by sending a message to someone who intends to use, say, a specific Ed25519 public key, but setting the algorithm to RSA and treating the Ed25519 public key as a comically short RSA key.
> committed a crime and left evidence somewhere

A Harvard professor wrote a book titled Three Felonies A Day which argues that there are so many laws to break that an average working professional in America will commit an average of three felonies every day. I do not know the accuracy of the claim but this idea of over-criminalization is an interesting one to think about.

Specifically, how likely is it for a person to have unknowingly committed a crime and left evidence? (Of course, it’s not a violent crime assuming a regular sane individual.) Are you certain you’ve never left evidence for any sort of “white collar” crime which you unwittingly committed?
They obviously mean "valuable" in terms of value to the company, not literal value as a human being.

In any case, yes, if someone wants to smash rocks with a hammer, manually, all day, their work would not be valuable to a company building cars, which is what the parent means. Simply doing some sort of "work" for work's sake has no value if that work is not useful.
Damn had no idea about wild ginger. That is a bummer.
If you or your payees ever have an issue with a deposit, their bank may ask them to bring in the original, signed instrument, and they're not gonna have it, because it never existed.

Buried somewhere in bank regulations is the requirement for an intact document. That's why the checks we purchase are festooned with security features, so people don't try to pull this shit with second-and-third-generation images.

Banks made a significant concession with Mobile Deposit features. But really, they're just admitting that they've been doing the same with check images for decades already.
Show HN: BNFToLPEG
BNFToLPEG is a compact JavaScript library that will read in and use a left-recursive parsing expression grammar. It's written to educate, and comes with a working editable demo.
By 2018, the Government of India had accused Nijjar of multiple targeted killings in India. Nijjar stated that the Indian authorities were falsely implicating him in criminal cases.
I think you are right. There are already places like that, which are "Papers Please!" about travel outside assigned zones.
Imo, street side parking in cities should just be scrapped. It makes no sense for the public to pay so much money to allow people to park particular kinds of private property for free. Pushing all parking on to businesses own lots or in dedicated parking facilities would let the market adequately price parking rather than externalising the cost.
Your random string at position 483828180 says IdIdIt
that's our proof right here
Great! I've just watch Loving Vincent and this show up.
> Parallel construction only works if you've actually committed a crime and left evidence somewhere it can be plausibly found...

> if you're willing to fabricate evidence, you don't need to actually find any.

I am reminded of "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

Or, in the not famous enough "Don't talk to the police" lecture[1], the policeman telling how he can just surveil anyone for long enough and they will break the law, because, as the lawyer points out in his part of the talk, there are so many laws that it's basically impossible not to breach one at some point.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Because then you would have introduce a brand new safety-critical system that also happens to be the most dangerous on the aircraft.
You may consider it asisine and political, but the results are measurable. Amazon delivers AI generated whatever and a better filter system doesn't do that.

Politic and insult to your hearts content.

The results are quantifiable and qualitatively measurable. You'know, like, science.

What do you want me to say?

If Amazon can fix the flood of garbage, then good, I don't care. I'll shut up.

All the politics is coming from your side of the table, and all the discussion about measurable results is coming from my side of the table. Whatever happens, let's make that distinction razor sharp and clear.
But businesses which do not want to are not free to abstain.
I love reading the controversial things. Admittedly, it’s very commonly low quality like OP in this thread but sometimes you get good if unpopular arguments. The challenge to my worldview is a utility that’s difficult to replace.
I think it's probably a bit of both and a bit different for each family. Divorce as an indicator of dysfunctional family dynamics that lead to bad outcomes on the one hand, and conflict post divorce that demoralizes the growing people in the family on the other. I'm a child of divorce and I'll say that I probably wouldn't have turned out better if my parents had stayed together forcefully, just different. They're damaged people, they had a dysfunctional relationship, and it would've affected me negatively. At the same time, if their split had been amicable it probably would've affected me positively in comparison, but at the same time if they had both been people capable of such a split they probably wouldn't have needed to split in the first place. I think largely it's just who our parents are that determines that, and how we choose to use our experiences as adults.
You'd think... but in a growing b2b company, the CRM is where sales get prevented under a certain threshold. heh.
All the clouds turn to words
All the words float in sequence
No one knows what they mean
Everyone just ignores them
I gave a presentation many years ago to a software process group in Silicon Valley entitled, "Unsolved Problems of Software Maintenance". The problems are all still there.

Having done lots of both greenfield and maintenance work over four decades, I can unquestionably say that software maintenance is way, way more difficult.

I heard this first from Joel Spolsky, "it's easier to write a program than read it."

Which led me to write an article on the subject, "How To Read A Program," about the cognitive aspects of trying to learn unfamiliar code.
https://www.itjungle.com/2009/01/28/fhg012809-story01/

The article uses AS400 applications as an example, but is general enough that it applies to applications in most languages.

This is a field begging for help from AI.
Do you recommend any specific one? I guess there are multiple for ARM, RISC-V, etc. Thanks
Yes the CEO should make more, but where do you get off that a single individual can possibly do 300-400x more work than another individual. It is sheer absurdity of an opinion to hold.

In a civilized society I would say maxing out the top paid employee of a company to 20-30x of the average of the salaries of the bottom half of all salaries in the company is what should be done. Anything more than that creates a system of perverse incentives to take action that is against the greater good of the community.
Famous enough for me to know the word "daguerreotype" as a teenager in the 90s when looking at what I know now was probably a tintype.
> But he does not see, or will not admit, that a return to ‘free’ competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny probably worse, because more irresponsible, than that of the State. The trouble with competitions is that somebody wins them.

This seems incomplete, using the wrong definition of 'competition' to try and make a clever point. Competition does not necessarily grant permanent 'winners' or 'losers', unless the 'game' is forcibly ended for good. Infinitely repeated games are very different in nature from singleton games, and the number and nature of the players involved are also not fixed.
They still are. You are complaining about deregulation.
Where did I state that the 21B in profit needs to go to shareholders? I'm all for giving the employees more of the profits, but not because it's unfair that the CEO gets paid well.
Indeed - I asked ChatGPT to tell me about topics from December 2021 and it knew about some of them (with the usual dose of hallucinations) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/December...
No, it seems to be working just fine for me in the US, perhaps it's a Japan-specific issue.
A man is not an interchangeable wallet, although it's probably true that a man with foresight to prepare financially for such a scenario is probably a responsible father in other ways too. It's quite possible that the existence of such financial preparedness are also indicators of other factors that end in good outcomes.
Microsoft AI Researchers Expose 38TB of Data
You probably want a customer first using landing pages or something in many niche cases.
The Mondragon Co-Operatives and Global Capitalism: A Critical Analysis
So is this the "invisible" F-35 Trump used to talk about?
I think you stumbled on your words a little bit there. It's hard to tell exactly what you mean. Preventing women from ending unwanted pregnancies you mean?
This is a conjecture held as axiomatic by some economists and not by others. There's no strong evidence for it and there's been a lack of opportunities to observe natural experiments (we have not seen advanced economies exist outside the scope of interventionist states). But there's plenty of examples of private economic power tending toward concentration (cartels, etc.) when permitted.
Sure if the board thinks that you singularly deliver the value, why not?
Near the Weizmann Institute, there is a monument for a pilot who refused to eject over the populated area, and rather kept control over his plane for long enough to divert it away. He died in the crash, as he no doubt would have anticipated.

https://honorisraelsfallen.com/fallen/holtzman-chaim/
I think that’s a good and really fair summary.

- If you’re a developer wanting to build an application, you should really use a well designed layer between yourself and FDB. A few are out there.

- If you’re a dev thinking you want to build a database from scratch you probably should just use FDB as the storage engine and work on the other parts. To start, at very least!

(One last thing that I think is a bit overlooked with FDB is how easy it is to build basically any data structure you can in memory in FDB instead. Not that it solves the transaction timeout stuff, etc. but if you want to build skip list, or a quad tree, or a vector store, or whatever else, you can quite easily use FDB to build a durable, distributed, transactional, multi-user version of the same. You don’t have to stick to just boring tables.)
I do not struggle to see echoes of an oral tradition recalling receding greenery. I can quite imagine a cult feeling expelled from Eden as the productive grasslands walked away.
Good luck! Better use this advantage.
The city center in many European cities does not have street parking of any sort, private cars are largely or entirely banned, and they are some of the most livable, walkable, and vibrant urban areas.
<Don't be excessively annoying.>
We do understand humans are involved,right?

<Don't be easily annoyed.>
This is the only chance for success. You can only forgive if you can manage the hurt. You won't be annoyed if you've already made up your mind not to be. (excepting children and loud noises, of course.)
Does this perspective assume that Ukraine is “winning” the war at the moment?
San Francisco Office Market Shows Signs of Life
Yes, most definitely Octopuses should receive the same protection as monkeys.
Patents are merely tools that get you on the negotiating table. It doesn't guarantee you a business or fame.

If you aren't already famous or wealthy or connected, there is no guarantee that you are able to acquire wealth through this way. Even with connections and wealth, there is no guarantee of a business.

I myself would hope to one day to use patents for posterity, but not to enforce a monopoly. Businesses will look at what I have and what they have and laugh in my faces and tell me that I have to pry their money from their lawyers' dead hands.

That's fine. I don't anticipate relying on monopolies or licensing as a revenue source.
There's a lot of bullshit in wine tasting. It's not total junk but double blind tests show experts assigning different flavor profiles to the same bottles/vintages and vice versa and non-experts coming to many of the same conclusions re: quality which mostly comes down to a lack of balance between acidity and sweetness. With DLSS vs FSR2, there is an objectively measurable difference in quality.

Apologies if you felt belittled. The "grandma doesn't notice motion smoothing" metaphor was used because of it being a shared experienced among the technologically savvy, though I get how it could be interpreted as insulting. Nothing wrong with being a grandma, they don't know any better.
A synchrotron-based kilowatt-level radiation source for EUV lithography
ChatGPT: "Going outside without a mask can pose a risk, especially in crowded or indoor settings, as it increases the chance of inhaling or spreading respiratory droplets that may contain the virus. The level of danger can vary based on factors like community spread, vaccination rates, and individual health conditions. It's generally recommended to follow local health guidelines and wear masks in situations where it's advised for safety."

It didn't even say which virus, it's simply "the virus" at this point.
I'd imagine that COVID had something to do with this. Churchgoers started watching mass on the net, and called it going to church.
afaik it helps guard against particularly devastating wildfires, too.
How strange, I was just thinking that it feels like Panos would leave, but I can’t recall what suggested that.
How The iPhone 15 Pro camera works and why you’ll want to shoot 24MP photos
It would not be legal for American residents to access the above.

Why would it not be legal to access it? It isn't being reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly displayed by the reader. What would the violation be?
I remember when they were trying to put TSA in train stations. Is that still a thing?
Note that given the franchise model, that's 50k profit on basically no expenses (i.e. you aren't looking at the profit of the stores, that's the amount of money being taken out of each store by McDonalds in addition to the profit that the owners are making). McDonalds isn't paying for the employees or the food or the buildings. That's just the tax they are charging the franchises for the privilege of calling themselves a McDonalds store.
I couldn't have put it more clearly.

I look at the local dismal state lottery; it takes months to tick up from $1 million prize to $2 million, and think "even if I won, I couldn't even really quit my job." After taxes, it would barely cover a slightly above average tract home in a new development.
Unpoly – The Htmx Alternative
And what about off book?
Sometimes when I hear discussions like this, I can't help but think back to several places I've lived or stayed where using a car was not possible.

It sucked.

Yes, living in the exact center of a bustling city should be efficient - you should be able to walk everywhere for all your needs and it should be efficient.

But the reality was that you couldn't and it wasn't. It took a tremendous toll on your time and the effort to live life was higher.

I think the way people lived a decent life walking and taking public transportation was to live a smaller life, and put up with the inefficiency of slower transportation and more limited choices of jobs to have, places to shop and things to do.

Am I wrong? Do I not understand? Has anyone moved from a semi-dense area where just about anything was within a 10 minute drive, to a situation where they didn't use a car and still lived a decent efficient life?
My own sense of Wheatfield with Crows is that it is what Van Gogh saw when he looked at it. For me it is the closest I can come to seeing the world through another persons eyes. I have in my own life had moments when the distance between me and what I saw or sensed vanished. Hard to explain, but that separation just goes away - at least for me.

But no matter what you make of it, or how you try to understand it, that painting is to me simply the best.

I had a completely different Van Gogh experience at the Musee D'Orsay. I walked into a room and ahead of me was the Church at Auvers and Dr. Gache
There are a lot of mentions of HTMX in HN, but not Unpoly – which looks like a more powerful alternative. Did anyone try both? What are your impressions?
How about FreeTube? It saves watch history locally, you can set your homepage to just your subscriptions, and IDK if it's just me, but the recommendations are really related to the video I am watching / clicked on, just like early YouTube.
Google Updates Its SEO Playbook for Content Generated with AI
Just wondering, but are any of the American car companies doing well besides Tesla? Every year they seem more irrelevant, even Texans will buy Japanese pickup trucks these days. I just don’t see them rich enough to pay their CEO or workers 40% raises, and that increase is just going to be temporary as their business become less viable and layoffs or insolvency follows.
Addressing the Problem of Exported Stolen Vehicles [pdf]
I like it.

I like that it has the agility to search the web in its reply.
insert meme where Watson is the skeleton at the bottom of the swimming pool
Since we’re here, does anyone have a good solution for compiling PyInstaller binaries for different Linux distros? Would it be sufficient, say, to use a Ubuntu 16 compiled binary on Ubuntu 18, 20, etc. Presently we use different Docker images for each target distribution, however this is very resource intensive. Our target distros are several versions of Ubuntu, Centos, RockyLinux and Debian.
Yeah I also avoid reading bookshill reviews disguised as interviews.
The Pterodactylus flying lizards are named literally for their "winged fingers". I suspect that we talk about this stuff when discussing evolutionary biology just fine, it's just that the "lizard brain" is a popsci term that the great-unwashed have latched onto.
Cars are the dominant life form of Earth.

Although Ford had taken great care to blend into Earth society, he had "skimped a bit on his preparatory research," and thought that the name "Ford Prefect" would be "nicely inconspicuous." The Ford Prefect was a popular British car manufactured from 1938 to 1961, and Adams later clarified in an interview that Ford "had simply mistaken the dominant life form" of Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Prefect_(character)
slashes get eaten by the page. not cool.