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The big update of SumatraPDF was out yesterday [1]. There are a lot of bugs fix and improvement in the backlog [2].

[1] https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/releases/tag/...

[2] https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/3672
I think this piece by Noah Smith fleshes out the different types of techno-optimism better:

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/thoughts-on-techno-optimism

They are in a 2x2 matrix per him:

* active-positive: There are plenty of technologies left to discover, if we adopt the right policies.

* active-normative: Technology will improve the world, if we adopt the right policies.

* passive-positive: Technological innovation is just going to keep happening no matter what we do.

* passive-normative: New technology will improve the world no matter what policies we enact.

He generally leans towards:

> Personally, I subscribe to both positive and normative techno-optimism, but with reservations in both cases. I think there are plenty of new important discoveries out there to be made, but I do think it’s likely that they’ve become more expensive to find. I also think technology usually ends up making life better for most people, but that this isn’t always the case.

> In both cases, though, I’m more of an active than a passive optimist. Whether it comes to sustaining the rate of innovation or making sure that innovations benefit humankind, I think that choosing the right policies is very important.

He thinks government is an important part of the equation in technological progress, but that bureaucracy can be a hindrance at times, as well as monopolies.
> Coming from Wintel, the vertical integration of Apple is a dream by comparison

You weren't around in the 1990s...
Yep. An obligatory hat tip to lervag — his vimtex plugin* is a beast.

*Which you are most likely using, since it integrates with Sumatra out of the box. And with MuPDF. And Skim, etc. It's cool like that.
Business Insider has predicted nine out of the last five recessions.
what's the difference between a P-core and an E-core? special machinery for caching, branch prediction and speculative execution?

i still have the antiquated view that performance and efficiency are essentially the same metric and these are the only kinds of ideas i can come up with that would separate them..
We're straight forward with voters that it's an AI

And we actually do have alerts that go to the campaign team if a voter asks something that the agent can't answer.

I don't see how it's anymore propaganda than having them hire a bunch of people to text you.
Only two currently, but that market will grow with time so long as Denuvo keeps going.
You have to show commercial use afaiui, in order to get the trademark in the first place. You have to submit evidence as such as part of the application.

This prevents name squatting
Grayscale (GBTC) Spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETF Court Ruling Made Final
This is a job for a therapist, not HN.
Its the perfect description of it. Andreessen and his crowd are insanely narcissistic and imo, that brand of techbro is one of the reasons people dont have purely good thoughts when they think of tech.

His whole schtick about people looking down on tech now is really lost imo. People still absolutely admire technology, but now its plainly obvious how the major techbros/CEOs/etc arent the smartest people on the planet, and dont deserve god-like status. Plus people see rich tech workers come into their neighborhood and can understandably be put off by that.
Oh, I joke because I know we are not that far away from it…

https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/15/f12-isnt-hacking-missouri-...

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/pen-test...
Same here. If you list a GitHub profile in your CV I expect it to show at least one repository with code you have written yourself or meaningful contributions to an open source project.

We don't do coding challenges during the interview, so I want to see you can actually write code.

But make it something useful, I don't really care to see you know how to press the "Fork" button or +1 a bug report.
This one feels a bit overstated.

Yglesias focused on attacking blind optimism, which makes sense.

Karpf is engaging in character attacks. It’s okay to not like Andreeson, not trying to say otherwise. But this essay reads more like a class warfare piece than a good argument for why techno optimism is bad. Hollowing out of the American middle class isn’t Google’s fault.

My read, anyway.
Bootstrapped founder (freelance with a startup side-hustle) here - seeing the startup side of my business continue to grow is motivating increasing investment over the next couple of quarters into the startup, so on the contrary, we are don’t presently have internal concerns.

Following this thread to learn about the experiences of others; always curious to see what is out there in the marketplace
You mean "ability to drag out a tab to open it in new window"?

If so, you can do in latest update [1]

[1] https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/releases/tag/...
> It’s eventually just going to give a monopoly to a domestically deployed mixer that the creators walk away from, or that one of the United States states or agencies deploy and walks away from

for domestic sovereign deployers: there will be no prosecution because of immunity

for users: there will be no prosecution because prosecutors haven't proved the source was something illegal to begin with

for sanctions: OFAC can't apply to domestic properties, and as we've already seen, onchain mixers don't stop working just because of the sanction, they are autonomous

crypto asset concepts get more resilient the more they get attacked, these are the paths that are just a matter of time after that kind of attack
They've doubled their military budget and are doing a nuclear modernization iirc
Yeah, sure. But I was confused about its relation to bank robberies specifically, and if this was a well studied thing or something. It's plausible sure, but is there data showing that a significant portion of the robbers were former military?
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I guess if my rep sheet was McDonalds, Subway, and Tacobell I wouldnt think food quality mattered either.
Anyone is welcome to sell GPL'd work, also someone else's GPL'd work, as long as the license remains GPL and source code is available to the buyers of the work, under the GPL, if you distribute the software to them. If you don't (i.e. SaaS, you run the software, it is never distributed further) then you don't have to give the source to anybody! This is what the AGPL was created to address.
E-cores are physically smaller and have fewer execution units and what they do have are more likely to be shared, I think.

So they simply can’t process as much clock for clock.
Michelle, the sheeel.

Yeah. It works.
How would that result in a better system exactly? The money going into research each year would grow and no would ever admit if the thing was impossible as it would mean willfully ending a jobs program.
Or perhaps you have just worked for more efficient private industry groups.
Exhaustive testing is used? Only in some very special cases that can be done... Take the PMULLD instruction. It takes two 128-bit inputs. If you assume you can verify one input in 1ns. An exhaustive test will take 3.67 × 10^60 years. Orders of magnitude longer then the age of the universe.
I understood it as agreeing with the main point ("technology is good, it's something we should work towards, AI can improve society") while acknowledging the caveats ("technology isn't always good, we should be careful introducing it, and definitely no 100% free market")

Because technology has made the world significantly better place in the long term. But that doesn't mean it will continue to do so. Moreover, despite the fact that average QOL today is generally regarded as much better than anytime sans maybe the last 10 years, it's still much lower than it can and should be, and partly so due to processes which technology and free market have enabled.
I have heard about using ammonia as a fuel in vehicles but burning it in a coal fired power plant sounds insane. You think they'd use a gas turbine at the very least.
There are also geopolitical considerations. If the US goes to war with China, is every OnePlus device a security threat? The fact manufacturers have more control over my phone than I do is infuriating.
"but he and his wife turned out to be the ultimate NIMBYs when it was actually their backyard: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andre..."

This episode is all you need to know about Andreesen. Disruption is only good for others.
How's that? I wasn't a Mac user back then (except in school), but IBM-compatible PCs were still a headache back then. I over-applied thermal paste and misconfigured `config.sys` or set the wrong COM port baud rates more times than I can count...
I'm not sure why you took such offense; it's a reasonable interpretation of the words you spoke for yourself:

> there is no such thing as excessive "playing it safe"

As you noted in your other comment:

> I'm asking them to "play it safe" when developing components for the car so the car doesn't kill me while I'm in the car.

As in the old adage in computing ("the only unhackable computer is one that isn't connected to anything"), there's no way to ensure that the components of a car don't fail, even while in routine use. There is only more or less likely that they won't fail, and of course, less and less likely to fail is more and more expensive.

We might say that the only uncrashable car is one that sits in the garage and never goes anywhere. Obviously, that would be playing it safe excessively, since it would defeat the purpose of having a car to begin with. But what about less obvious cases? Toyota recalled millions of cars for their "unintended acceleration" issue. The merits of that particular case aside, how much more would someone pay for a Corolla that would be progressively less likely to have safety issues? At some point before infinity, it would be considered excessive.

I think the sliding scale of how safe is playing it too safe is a discussion very much worth having.
It's moreso I don't believe there was a ton of government pressure being applied to startups with 15 people.
Marcel is just a name. Like Julien or Kevin.
You can even fork it for your own use.
Did they detect it again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37991863
I don't think that's a very helpful takeaway from the situation.

Early in my career as an EE, I learned that your world could suddenly be upset and swaths of components could suddenly become unavailable to the small manufacturer because an auto company or some other massive customer got preference, so the majority of parts went "on allocation." Meaning that the production runs were allocated to certain customers and if you were lucky then you got the leftovers. You could suddenly not be able to built product for a year because critical parts just couldn't be found on the market. I remember one vendor selling a part that normally cost around $16 for over $400.

It's not specific to the Pi: this happens everywhere.
The idea of the free market in this context comes from Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations, in which he says that a market is free if buyers and sellers can pursue their own self-interest. It's in the interest of the seller to sell the phone at a price higher than they paid for it, and it's in the interest of the buyer to purchase the phone from the seller at a price lower than would otherwise be available.
What makes that the key difference? Doesn’t it depend on what you care about?

The voluntary part is the key difference from a libertarian perspective, but it is not the most important bit if your goal is to, say, minimize suffering for the worst off in society.
I am more perplexed by people on a hacker forum who clearly do not have a hacker mindset.

There are plenty of forums for normies to hang out and not be bothered by us hackers geeking out over tech.
I think it was back when I ran a utility called MenuMeters which no longer exists.

iStatMenus is a similar utility that still exists and is far more popular.
> Can someone explain why people still choose Okta?

Or 1password for that matter... do you really trust them as well?

"we are continuously enhancing our security measures"

How about not using Okta to begin with?
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37991863
Ummm... During the ice age, did humanity have any literal lunatics in charge of any weapons of mass destruction, capable of wiping out entire cities at the push of a button? Weapons that could alter the state of natural weather systems? Weapons that could unleash diseases or poisons on global scales? Sure, humans have survived nature in the past, but this is humans with really deadly technology this time around. Even if we survive this, what's the stupidity of warmongers with those sorts of weapons gonna do to the world during the ensuing chaos? Will it be a world worth living in anymore, or will we wish we'd died with the rest?
My understanding of "heterogenous computing" is that it's more about splitting a task across a CPU and coprocessors, or writing the same code to target both. Asymmetric means there's multiple CPU cores but they're not equally performant.
i like murray bookchin's version: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lewis-herber-murray-...
I'm not sure what answer you are looking for / what alternative you are suggesting?

OSM is the biggest community effort - NGO, volunteer, corporate, etc - to solve data quality in GIS. The participants do everything to improve quality from individuals walking around with GPS devices to companies launching low earth orbit satellites into space and self-driving cars in the ground with AI error detection.

There is a more corporate and afaict anti-google effort more recently by tomtom and google competitors (Microsoft, meta) called Overture, which seems to be attempting a more closed and big corporate governed fork & ecosystem replacement of OSM, even if they phrase it as complementary. Your questioning of OSM-as-misinformation seems interesting in the comparative context of alternatives like Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Overture.
Yes, to an extent. But there is a long delay between raising wages and having a pilot ready to work for an airline. The pipeline takes years. It takes years to earn the necessary licenses and build up enough flight hours.

What would help more in the long run is for airlines to hire untrained candidates and then pay them to go through training. Lots of people would like to become pilots but can't afford to pay for their own training. Some foreign carriers already do this.
Pronghorns would like a word.

Not only could they race an entire marathon, they would beat those inline-skaters. 30mph for hours and 150 miles in some journeys.

They evolved a different cooling system than sweating.

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/211/5/749/18118/...
Age of moon gleaned from zircon in rock from 1972 Apollo 17 mission
> As far as I know, the system usually relies on essentially phony job postings made specifically not to get filled (despite, in general, plenty of perfectly qualified applicants who'd otherwise apply)

You're confusing green card applications and H1B, as has been tradition on tech forums since decades.
We need some kind of screening for these high-stress PTSD inducing roles ... a Voight-Kampff test. Or limit the number of years one can be in these roles.
I was surprised at how much I dislike these things!

When I find them, I pretty much avoid that establishment from then on.

One would think the brightly colored labels on the products is advertising enough!
istat menus doesn't show you _which_ core a given process is running on though? It only shows you total core activity?
I've been testing a setup that automatically generates OpenStreetMap/OpenMapTiles formatted pmtiles and mbtiles, then makes them available by torrent. The torrents get placed in a rss feed at https://planetgen.wifidb.net/

Basically what I did was set up 'qbittorent' client to watch the openstreetmap rss weekly torrent feed. when it downloads a new pbf file, it runs this script I made at https://github.com/acalcutt/PlanetilerTorrent , which was based of the osm torrent creation process.

The script creates pmtiles and mbtiles using planetiler, then makes torrent and starts seeding them in qbittorent.

In qbittorent I have options like how long I want to seed for (30 days), what do do when done seeding (Delete the files) and also speed controls so I can limit bandwidth during my working hours.

I have this running on a old laptop with 2TB nvme/64GB memory. It seeems to work pretty well so far. It would be nice if my internet speeds were a little better for initial seeding, but at least the torrents share the load with other people who are downloading/
They also have smaller resources like reorder buffers so they can't speculatively keep nearly as much in progress work around, leading to more stalls.
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> Isn't Tinder the dating app that seems focused on casual hookups?

Started out that way, but I think it's no longer just that.

But since Match Group bought up pretty much everyone except Bumble and eHarmony and the Christian sites, they've all become pretty similar anyway. It's too bad.
Is it really just for hiring? GitHub has Patreon-style sponsorships now, perhaps repository star counts impact that.
Yeah, I believe 100% of people who tried Flash for Android convinced that it's dead end.
What's the SumatraPDF for Android?

It used to be Repligo, but it got removed from the Play store ages ago. I still had access to it, but since it wasn't being maintained, it became harder to use with each android os update.
> Can someone explain why people still choose Okta?

Most people don't choose Okta. Somebody at the executive level chooses Okta and everybody else gets to deal with it.

Yubikeys mean that your IT department now does customer support for every single password issue instead of handing it off to the outsourcing company.

MFA has two problems: the technical one (technical security aspects of implementing keys, fobs, phones, SMS, whatever) which is almost irrelevant and the social one (customer support, forgotten passwords, key through the wash, can't get email, etc.) which is the gigantic one.

Everybody wants to outsource the gigantic, dumbass customer support role of security. The problem is that everybody is also incentivized to cut corners once having done so.

Which gives you Okta ...
As a project that's been around for a decade, this joke has gotten very old.

This old: https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm-website/pull/19
You asked "Can someone explain why work visas are an acceptable thing?". It's literally a power of Congress.
with which point though?

i admit that the for last one about divorces caused by lack of equality more evidence would be good. but the other two are solid. if you have a different opinion on those, i'd love to hear it.
If this antitrust action could also be taken against Etsy for the same reason, that would be great.
Go Build a house and take advantage of the high prices!
https://immersed.com does this too.

According to them, they are the only app which can spawn virtual screens larger than an iPad on OSX
Who would you recommend as an iDP if not Okta?
This was the logical conclusion of step porn.
(2013)?

Some discussion from then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6950646
Bless the heart of whoever looked at the PDF spec and said to themselves, "Nice, I'd like to writer a parser for this."
I actually think if a bunch of companies started hosting their own SSO, we'd hear of a lot more hacks. I'm not sure orgs would put in enough resources to do things properly other than "hey we got keycloak working"
Seems to me that half of government spending winds up in billionaires pockets. Nice work if you can get it.
I haven't tried it yet (or checked the datasheet), but I've heard that the ESP32 has a really crappy ADC. It's nonlinear to the point of only getting 10 of 12 useful bits out.
Yubikey or other browser-based MFA would not have mitigated this attack - the attacker obtained a valid administrative session token from _after_ any MFA would've been completed. MFA or not, this attack would've happened regardless.

Enforcing hardware-based MFA is good practice and may protect against future attacks (the attackers might be back with a spear-phishing campaign?) but is completely irrelevant to what's actually happened here.

> Can someone explain why people still choose Okta?

Nobody's been fired for buying IBM. Also blame outsourcing - if your run your own Keycloak and get pwned it's on you, if it's Okta then it's not your problem.
SD outputs have an "uncanny valley" type of quality to them. You just KNOW when an image is from SD. And I have looked at getting started with SD, but the requirements and setup and +-prompting "language" just kind of turned me off the whole thing.

Whereas with DALL E you can get some hyper-realistic images from it with very little effort using plain human language.

I guess my point is to ask whether SD is worth bothering with at this time when DALL E and Imagen and possibly others are just on the brink of becoming mainstream and just going to get better and better. Clunking together something with SD seems unnecessary when you can generate more results, better results, in a faster way, with less requirements, and without the steep learning curve, by using other methods.
I know I bought more house than I initially considered, partly because I knew that rates at the time were going nowhere but up, and the home prices too. (Though I wasn't buying simply with a rising price in mind.)

Even with that, I generally play it safe (20% DTI), so I can only imagine how extended some people are and how that affects the pricing.
> Was the industry ready for this concept of a computer having a number of meaningfully different kinds of cores?

The industry didn’t have a choice. The market was demanding higher performance within the same thermal envelope and the same energy consumption. These are mobile devices, you can’t put a bigger heat sink on it and then crank up the power.

You can find tons of academic literature discussing the necessity of this development (along with many other things that have come to pass), how it would work, etc. in the decade leading up to the introduction. ARM didn’t just release it to the world and say “Surprise!”

We knew it was coming, we just didn’t do the best job of preparing for it.
Another thing is the fact that we're already are at neck breaking speed of adoption an embrace of new tech, to the point I'm sick of it or rather I wished we start focus on our decaying communities, socialization, lack of unity and no sense of belonging.

The tell tale sign in my book that we ought to focus on other areas in society, is the fact we are very far behind legislatively on how to handle tech.
At this point any self-hosted option would do just as well. Not perfect, but not only it would require a targeted attack to pwn, but if you do end up pwned at least you weren't paying tens of thousands a year for the privilege.
Aren't Yubikeys for MFA and Okta for iDP somewhat orthogonal? A common pattern that I've seen is companies use both.
Nothing, Fairphone, Nokia
Respectfully I would say there are a lot more problems than that going on. The federal government has an incredibly dark history with Puerto Rico regarding health, the rhoads scandal alone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_P._Rhoads#Scandal but also human experimentation and other misdeeds compounded by the complex status of it as an american territory.
I don't think that most pilots do know how a plane work, they know the fly theory of course.
on a similar note, I wish Apple screen time had a feature where only a consortium of your friends could approve your override request

definitely room for more collaborative gamified things