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> Decades later Kissinger is still considered a role model of a diplomat in some circles.

Honestly, why wouldn't he be?

I think the mistake you're making is presuming that a role model of a diplomat is determined by your notion of morality. The definition of "diplomacy" is "spoken or written communication by representatives of states (such as leaders and diplomats) intended to influence events in the international system", and the job description of a diplomat is "a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution (...) to conduct diplomacy."

Knowing this, and knowing a bit of Kissinger's legacy, it's hard to disagree that he's one of the most successful and influential diplomats in history. He's been directly involved in all the critical events that determined the course of humanity during the 20th century, and he personally influenced or determined their outcome.

You might argue over your views on morality and Kissinger's legacy, but it is not possible to reject the fact that Kissinger is perhaps the top diplomat of the 20th century.
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No, it is the response of someone about to become psychotic from all the war mongering that got into fashion lately.
Sadly, that's not how it works. The claimant just has to have authorization on behalf of the work they are claiming is being infringed upon. Essentially making this part of the law useless. IMHO, it was just added to make the layman think there is some protection or responsibility on behalf of the people making the claim.
I would be really surprised if those are burned out and not simply people not blinking + dumb Breaklight Software.

The whole regeneration breaking + breaklights is really badly regulated & implemented in a ton of cars.

But might be wrong, might be they keep burning up in your climate.
It’s literally the topic of the article. The article is exactly about accounts like yours. That’s not whataboutism. That’s the topic at hand.

Obviously you can’t explain how you are responding to these articles at all hours of the day, within minutes.

> “I generally don't comment, but I feel strongly about US-China relations, which makes me comment.”

Why on earth would you create an account 4 months ago, then only comment pro China and anti US sentiments? Hacker news is not a place for political arguments in most cases.

In addition, you cannot explain why you literally spread false news and misinformation. In an earlier comment you stated specifically that Peng Shuai never disappeared.

This flies in the face of multiple international, indisputable facts. References which can be found on the Wikipedia page about her disappearance. The typical response then is to attack Wikipedia, or hand wave away the proof with something like “western media is bias”.
Yes, this is the exact issue. My eyes can't even interpret this as motion sometimes, so it just looks like a juddering mess and I can't really see anything.
I did consulting for the first 8 months of development, and then the company roughly broke even for operational costs since day one. I built most things myself which led to lower costs. My main cost was just rent and health insurance, which in America, self-employed, is both expensive and useless. I had savings from working for a decade in tech and minimized other costs. So, lucky position to be in, but also your average startup's monthly burn is enormous compared to what you can do by being scrappy.
Google-funded study[1] finds Google DeepMind's new weather forecasting model beats traditional systems more than 90% of the time.

1. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi2336
> It’s not just or fair that people lose their source of income and ability to support their families through no fault of their own.

There's nothing unfair about it. No person or company is entitled to other people or companies buying their services or goods. Your "source of income" is just other people making decisions with their money. Which they are free to make however they want (as long as they honour agreements that already exist, of course).
actually i find it easier to debug other people's code than my own, because most bugs really only exist in your mind

a bug is an inconsistency between what you intended a piece of code to do and the logical results of your design choices: for example, you thought for (i=0;i<=n;i++) would iterate n times, but actually it iterates n+1 times, as you can ascertain without ever touching a computer. it's a purely mental phenomenon

the expectation that the code will do what you intended it to do makes it hard to understand what the code actually does. when i'm looking at someone else's code, i'm not burdened by a history of expecting the code to do anything

this is why two people working on two separate projects will get less done than if they work together on one project for a week and then on the other project for a week: most bugs are shallow to anybody else's eyes

the ones that aren't can be real doozies tho
Not really, I find the blender workflow is still very similar to the old 1.7, fits on a floppy disk, days.

It's the same modal editor with a million hotkeys and dense packed stacked dialogs, the most intrusive workflow change was when they swapped the default mouse keys.

Not to say the blender project has not done amazing work making things more discoverable. But as a occasional blender user from the sgi 1.X days. I suspect "the complete 3.0 overhaul making blender more standard" was more marketing than anything else. Blender had got a reputation has being hard to learn(all 3d programs are hard to learn). So while they did do a lot of work on the UI and it is much better, mainly it was loudly saying "we made the UI easier" and everybody sort of went along with it.
That is much clearer language, you might consider adopting that instead of "Request" which is very ambiguous.
Your comment about the market is incredibly wrong and jingoistic. The majority of popular feature and TV animation is made outside of India.

Canada is a larger competitor to the US market than anything else, and very few companies have Indian outsourcing for feature/TV animation. Its more prevalent for VFX jobs, but even then many studios still have a large presence in North America/Europe.

Studios like wild brain, titmouse etc are all North American based, while most feature animation is a mix of North America (Pixar, Dreamworks, Disney, Sony) and Europe (Illumination, Skydance)
If you're not wiring anything but power, LilyGo T-Dongle-S3 is an ESP in a USB-A thumb drive form factor complete with a shell and optionally a 160x80 color LCD.
Anything that people decide to do with their property is just and fair.
My thoughts exactly. I'm confused how this is news
I said the majority not all, and I didn’t say no debt.

And $52k is the average paid by all students with a family income of above $110k. Not the price paid by every student once you hit $110k.

This average is skewed by people making much more than that.

For specific numbers, if your parents make $150k, they are expected to contribute 10% of their income.

You can look up the numbers here https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculat...

For a family with an income of $150k and one student in college, they are expected to pay $15k per year.

If they were instead making $110k, they are expected to pay $5k per year.

If they make $85k or less, they are expected to pay nothing.

Harvard also looks at assets but excludes primary residence and retirement savings.

So yes the vast majority of people can afford to attend harvard with almost no debt. Even in the rare situation where you take on large amounts of debt, the connections made there and the brand recognition of the degree are almost definitely worth it from a financial perspective.
Rider is absolutely great, give it a try. I have used and continue to use professionally macOS + VS Code/Omnisharp combo and it has been working nicely with Rider serving as an escape hatch for more complicated debugging scenarios, profiling or when you need to step through (possibly decompiled) 3rd party code.
If tech debt doesn't already get fixed, I doubt it will ever be. Taking time to fix debt is a mentality issue: you'll need to prioritize that work against racking up features, and that means seeing them as more important.

If someone in that situation started signaling they have free time, they'd likely get assigned to shovel more features rather than fixing debt.
Link to the report: https://github.com/trailofbits/publications/blob/master/revi...

They seem to not have analysed client-side of PIP itself, but I suppose there isn't anything you could say that isn't already obvious to everyone.
Seducing a LLM. Oh well.
Uh, I don't want to see an unmoderated, distributed CivitAI. That would be a unspeakable wasteland.

And there already are torrents of SD models. Just filter by the .safetensors filetype.

If would be nice if their hosting was decentralized though. Users seem to hoard LoRAs and merges in personal collection anyway, mind as well help distroute them so Civit doesn't have to enshittify so quick.
Technically, the NTSB could order an immediate recall for all Rivian vehicles due to this issue, as the disabled defroster controls are a critical safety issue in cold and/or humid environments. Tesla was forced to issue a recall notice over the controls being buried in a menu; Rivian’s ”defroster unavailable during driving due to manufacturer error” is far worse — especially given the mass and torque of their vehicles, relative to unarmored road users.
> there's nothing on the site about the team

This is a landing page testing potential demand for a service, is why.
IMO simply being reflective is a dead end. Future materials will have to absorb wideband energy and actively emit it in an atmospheric bandgap to be effective enough to matter. I would think this would be an excellent application for quantum dots and have been sort of low-key waiting for an announcement or paper to drop for the last year or two.
>The original post has no details whatsoever, it's just praising Windows for no reason. To me it does look like trolling.

The details are in his post:

"this is the most beautiful OS UI ever, more than GNOME and MacOS in my opinion"

The author lets us know he likes the interface of W11 more. Very important aspect for a OS you'll have to use regularly.

"After years of distro hopping and constant problems [...] not have to worry about Wayland, Nvidia"

The author lets un know he distro hopped but had issues with Wayland and Nvidia. Again an important point, what use is a OS that has issues with your HW/setup? Better stick to what already works for you. Most people don't have time to go into wikis, forums and tutorial rabbit holes to get $DISTRO working on their HW if Windows already works out of the box.

To me at least, the author has made it clear why W11 is better than Linux -FOR HIM-. So either you didn't read his post or you're the one who's trolling.
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brainfart on my end, should have said "below 0c for a prolonged..." I'll mea culpa that.
That was my hope for Fear the Walking Dead, a show about society collapses under a zombie apocalypse. Instead we got some hints in a pre-zombie LA, went straight to a cordoned of quarantine zone and a time jump to "now the world, except your little suburb, went to hell". Seems writing convincing stories about why everything would collapse is a lot harder than stories set after an assumed collapse.
But you've never seen it with a market share of more than 90%, which could happen eventually. It's a matter of incentives and those play against you.
Apple's solution is Globalstar. You can tell because their SOS has the same limitation of no responses.

It is impossible to do NTN without new satellites. Starlink is launching new satellites with huge dishes that can do LTE to the ground.
Both proton and tuta cripple search so that deleting mail detritus is tedious so that you'll use up your free storage quota and have to subscribe.
That already exists though, I just paid a guy in a truck a bundle of money to clean my roof. Maybe this is mostly a thing in the PNW though?
That's the only way I'd find people credible when they're claiming they can predict 2 to 5 years in the future from now.

If they couldn't see ChatGPT coming, I'm not convinced of the whole "it'll never be able to..." spiel.
Honestly I've had it guide me to better practices (like described) on side projects than I would have implemented on my own.
It's easy to underestimate how hard and expensive it is to build, deploy, and remotely upgrade software that runs reliably on a fleet of diverse cars (different models, different years, slightly different components from batch to batch, etc.). It makes updating a mobile phone OS look trivial in comparison.

So far, only Tesla seems to be able to update car software remotely, regularly and reliably. I'm certain it's neither easy nor cheap.

All things considered, physical buttons and dials are probably easier and cheaper, because they don't require software updates!
Are we now having a philosophical debate? It is a delusion to believe that you can "get privacy" by switching to Tutanota, and the harm of acting on such delusions is that your precious data will be delivered directly rather than indirectly to the BND. Perhaps you are thinking that it can't be a mental disorder because there are so many people who think this, therefore it is more like a religion, i.e. an obviously irrational behavior that is tolerated because of an in-group.
Some of the things I considered:

* Connecting wirelessly to the computer would be ideal. Camo and Apple's own Continuity Camera do this so it's certainly possible

* There should be a computer companion app that lets you tweak the position of the monitor segment displayed on the phone screen - both for position, offset, color, temperature etc.

* There would be a parallax effect, even with how thin today's phones are - I wonder if you could correct for that in the phone app and make it appear to be on the same plane.

* Should it hand upside down from the top of the computer/laptop screen via a (magnetic?) widget or allow for positioning with a tall, skinny phone stand on the desktop in front of the monitor? Ideally both I guess.. Even left/right side if that made the engineering easier.
It depends...

.NET 6 was already capable of most things you are looking for, but there are some limitations. I personally think it is a really versatile language and if you know it, you can get the most things done somehow.

I wrote a little cross platform C# command line tool called `tone`[1] for tagging audio files and it compiles via github actions for windows(x64), linux(x64,arm64,arm6,arm7), macOS (x64, arm64) as a single monolitic binary (similar to `golang`), which is pretty cool.

With the right compiler flags it is not even too big (about 20MB, for comparison a `golang` binary with similar features would be about 5MB, `rust` more like 1MB or less). You can also go WASM (which is generally supported, but feels a bit experimental at times).

In the GUI department there are three main competitors:

- MAUI - Windows, macOS, Android, iOS (Microsoft's pet, xamarin successor)
- Avalonia UI - Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, WASM
- Uno Platform - Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, WASM

All these feel kind of unfinished, I like Avalonia UI the most, but it's lack of standard libraries for real world apps (Preferences, SecureStorage, Encryption Wrappers, Phone-Hardware-Access, Media-Players, WebView) and the outcoming App Size (>50MB) made me use Flutter for my personal projects (App size ~15MB for the same feature set). For some Apps it might be ok.

.NET may also still be incompatible / unfinished on other OS and platforms (e.g. RISC hardware or BSD operating systems). So if you only target the mainstream systems like x64 and the raspberry pi, it might not be a real problem.

[1]: https://github.com/sandreas/tone
True...but this is currently the #1 story on HN, so evidently "good hackers" find it interesting.

And if the current situation is "nothing special happening", then let's not waste any good hacker's time with a pretty-ambiguous headline.
Computer graphics is based on linear algebra. Behind the artists are lots of engineers and technical director jobs where you're building software tools, render engines or character rigs. Animation is a lovely meld of art and technology, and has been so since the very first animations existed. Its one of the reasons I really enjoy the field.
Staying completely free of caffeine and other toxics like that whether natural or synthetic.
It's less a workaround around bad dependency management, and more about the fact that it's simply easier to reason about a smaller set of dependencies regardless of the ecosystem. This includes both vetting, ensuring version compatibility, checking license compatibility and reducing the SBOM, as well as governance over the project and integration between different modules.

Too often have I seen the equivalents of frameworks in other languages being split over sometimes hundreds of packages, that don't always make it clear that they're to be updated in tandem, what their exact relationship is, and that the same organization manages all of them.

As for QtBase, it's a superproject, but that doesn't mean that you can't use its individual modules separately, and depending on the distro (e.g. debian) install them separately as well. A singular project installing multiple related libraries makes a lot of sense.
Before covid I organized regular friending events in several European cities. Using a mobile app participants would be paired with a new person every 10 minutes or so.

It always fascinated me to see how people experienced these events. People were silently waiting in line to be checked in by the host, to be paired (for example) with the person behind, a person that was there for the same reason: meeting new people! But still the structure of the event was needed to start a conversation with that stranger.

The event was usually 1 - 1,5 hours and sure enough they would talk to anybody else in the room after that :)
So it's an echo chamber?
I think an issue here is that .NET was closed source for most of its existence. It was only 2019 when Microsoft announced that the open-source .NET would be the future of .NET. That will mean that a lot of startups wouldn't have chosen it. Even now, it means that a lot of the "trendier" devs will have learned other ecosystems that have been open source for longer.

It takes time to shift developers.
I can't wait for more molten car incidents when it becomes even easier for curved designer buildings to focus massive amounts of light at random points on the ground.
I actually watch Shawn Willsey's content for everything but this topic. I find his Grindavik coverage isn't that great. It's overlong, over-speculative, and sometimes missed more current or extended information available elsewhere. Some of this I think is due to his being a relatively newer YouTuber (in terms of gaining traction) and his personal interest in Iceland: to be clear, its not that he's disingenuous or unqualified... its more that he's not yet crafted a public presentation style which fits the medium better. However his roadcut geology series is interesting even if you're only getting his on the spot opinions of what he's observing.

By far, the best source about what's going on in Grindavik I've found is just the Icelandic Meteorological Office website: https://en.vedur.is/ (English version, which is quite good). That in combination with some residents of Iceland that post shorter updates the keeps close to the reported local news seems to be the best.
A/B partitions
I used dotPeek. Made quick work of it!
> Is the article suggesting that it should be shut down entirely?

No, its misleading by selective focus (like the previous article it references) to get people to come to that conclusion themselves, a much more effective persusasive technique than the explicit demand because with the explicit demand people assume your evidence is selective to support the demand which may have ulterior motive, while they are less likely to do so if your presentation is superficially merely informative but actually selectively crafted to motivate a particular conclusion.
I regularly text in 3 languages. The increase in autocorrect frustration is exponential, not linear.
The code went through early release tests successfully; the problem came with how it was more broadly released.

They should have had further staging of the rollout (randomizing when it is offered to users).
Apple Silicon truly is phenomenal for dev stuff. But gaming ... oh well. And you obviously can't heat your room with them, so your feet may feel cold. ;)
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but I think you have it backwards. It appears that the new array spread being introduced does use two dots, which could mean potential conflict with the existing range syntax?
Just a counterpoint: my dumb car has been undrivable way more often than my electric car.

They never deployed bad software updates but they sure have designed & deployed bad fuel pumps.

In some ways it’s all engineering and quality control.
iwon.com - a search aggregator / search gaming site that a) produced pretty good results (back in its day) and offered prizes for using it

altavista.com - before Google, the single best search engine in existence (predated by altavista.dec.com - since it started as a DEC project in the early-mid 90s)
> how many billions the companies like Debian and Redhat are worth

Er, why would you even mention those in the same sentence? RH is worth a fortune. Debian is a community effort with no company behind it. They're completely different.
Already lots of groups doing solar panel cleanings. I imagine the venn diagram between people who invest in solar and in these roofs may have some overlap.
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Makes sense that it mimics humans. Carrot is often better than the stick.
I've never studied weather forecasting, but I can't say I'm surprised. All of these models, AFAICT, are based on the "state" of the weather, but "state" deserves massive scare quotes: it's a bunch of 2D fields (wind speed, pressure, etc) -- note the 2D. Actual weather dynamics happen in three dimensions, and three dimensional land features, buildings, etc as well as gnarly 2D surface phenomena (ocean surface temperature, ground surface temperature, etc) surely have strong effects.

On top of this, surely the actual observations that feed into the model are terrible -- they come from weather stations, sounding rockets, balloons, radar, etc, none of which seem likely to be especially accurate in all locations. Except that, where a weather station exists, the output of that station is the observation that people care about -- unless you're in an airplane, you don't personally care about the geopotential, but you do care about how windy it is, what the temperature and humidity are, and how much precipitation there is.

ISTM these dynamics ought to be better captured by learning them from actual observations than from trying to map physics both ways onto the rather limited datasets that are available. And a trained model could also learn about the idiosyncrasies of the observation and the extra bits of forcing (buildings, etc) that simply are not captured by the inputs.

(Heck, my personal in-my-head neural network can learn a mapping from NWS forecasts to NWS observations later in the same day that seems better than what the NWS itself produces. Surely someone could train a very simple model that takes NWS forecasts as inputs and produces its estimates of NWS observations during the forecast period as outputs, thus handling things like "the NWS consistently underestimates the daily high temperature at such-and-such location during a summer heat wave.")
This is how soda fountains work
Well, IIRC I just tapped whatever autocomplete suggested :)