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> The Dragonfly project was an Internet search engine prototype created by Google that was designed to be compatible with China's state censorship provisions.

> The public learned of Dragonfly's existence in August 2018, when The Intercept leaked an internal memo written by a Google employee about the project.

> […]

> However, according to employees, work on Dragonfly was still continuing as of March 2019, with some 100 people still allocated to it.

> In July 2019, Google announced that work on Dragonfly had been terminated.

(From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine), literally the first Google search result on that keyword)
the skills of conducting do not require any instrument. Many conductors tell someone how to play their part despite not knowing how to play it themself. However it is hard to imagine anyone learning music theory not in context of learning an instrument.
The Israelis were not preparing an invasion of Syria. They were led to believe so by the Soviets; the Soviets were wrong. Egypt and Syria thus mobilized unilaterally.
The private desire to please oneself motivates apathy to any strict morality forbidding that self-pleasure. I suspect more so than any supposed rationality; see atheists and religion.

The article on Russell is actually quite relevant to the overall discussion on polyamory & unfaithfulness. The final quote by Russell on his realization of what eluded him in his life, nails it.

Through the long years
I sought peace
I found ecstasy, I found anguish,
I found madness,
I found loneliness,
I found the solitary pain
that gnaws the heart,
But peace I did not find.
Now, old & near my end,
I have known you,
And, knowing you,
I have found both ecstasy &amp; peace
I know rest
After so many lonely years.
I know what life & love may be.
Now, if I sleep
I shall sleep fulfilled.
Seconding quartz. I also use it and love it.

It converts your markdown files to static HTML, understands Obsidian-specific markdown features, and just looks really nice IMO.

For publishing, I use Cloudflare pages to host the static HTML and Cloudflare workers to build the HTML whenever I push a commit to the GitHub repo hosting my markdown files. Quartz has documentation showing you how to set this up, and it’s all within the free offerings of Cloudflare.
TLDR; Vitamin D pills are a poor substitute for sunlight.
Outside of the the usual programming stuff that’s posted:

* cooking questions, like clarifying steps in recipes, asking for simple recipes

* conversation starters for long car rides

* games/activities for date night, family gatherings, kids

In most of these, it can occasionally be “wrong” (save maybe cooking, but I can use “common sense” to validate) and that’s perfectly acceptable.
Honestly, as someone who's been in the 3d printing space for over a decade... Bambu Labs isn't a competitor to Prusa. There is no Prusa printer that is as fast, as reliable, produces the quality prints, as any printer from Bambu. I've used both extensively, the X1C since Kickstarter days, the Prusas for... just about ever. The only edge, the only objective property that Prusa holds over Bambu Labs is customization; Prusa gives away all the details you need to majorly modify their printers. Beyond that there just is no reason to buy a Prusa. Print quality on any of my Bambu printers was equal or better out of the box (minus one that had a warped bed, that was replaced for free) than any of my Prusa printers, even ones with extensive tuning. It's just a better product. Better design, better manufactur, better price, better quality output, better software (though I've migrated to Orcaslicer). Prusa has spent the last decade being the top of the pack, holding market share and stagnating. Now they've been dislodged, and I can't see any compelling reason for them to come back.
>I can’t imagine why I would want to purchase BTC on a vehicle intended for retirement savings.

No capital gains, for one. "Buy BTC for my IRA" =/= "Bet my entire retirement fund on BTC"
My point was that anti-gravity clearly isn’t possible yet, but a patent was granted.

By that logic, I could generate an AI application to patent all possible things. IMO something is wrong if this is allowed. It presents needless legal hurtles to people actually trying to innovate and produce tangible things.
No one who has bought and held Bitcoin in self custody has lost their shirt.
Of course it is :). It's a bunch of Markdown, something that dozens of static site generators happily ingest and turn into a website. I am using 11ty (https://mikka.is), a sprinkle of git to get things into production, Obsidian Git to simply push everything I write, as I write, and my website is done.
Neatpad Tutorials
It might be! Or it might be the seventh recession predicted out of the last three. Nobody's going to know until later, so is this kind of veiled, content-free foreboding actually like...useful?
> except the carbon intensity (carbon emission per electricity generated) of France stayed basically flat throughout the last 20 years, and it actually slightly increased in 2022 compared to years before, likely due to corrosion issues in reactors and droughts which led to reduced nuclear output. Are they being complacent because they already are "ahead of the game?"

Well, it stayed flat because it was already very low to begin with. Only Sweden was below that, and they are the only countries which didn't "improve". See [0] for the CO2 emissions to produce 1 kWh of electricity in the EU. It stops at 2020, so it doesn't say anything about your point on 2022. But it shows that Germany, even though they reduced CO2 emissions by a hefty amount, are still quite terrible compared to France, emitting more than three times the CO2 per kWh.

[0] https://www.statistiques.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/editi...
In a consulting and support business, the economics usually require a relatively low fixed overhead cost. You can build such a business around any existing piece of software. That you develop the software in-house doesn't change the nature of the business but it does make for a poor implementation of this business model.

Deliberately incurring a high fixed overhead (product development) in a well-understood business model where profitability is highly dependent on minimizing fixed costs is creating the conditions for failure. To make this work you can no longer survive by being merely average at executing the revenue side, you have to be exceptional at the revenue side and most people are not exceptional.

Success in this model requires two separate miracles instead of one. Good startup opportunities are single miracle companies, and you focus all of your attention on creating that miracle. Companies that require two miracles to be successful are poor investments because you now have to solve two hard problems that split focus.
AI is not even close to having true logical reasoning, that's probably decades away. The issue is that cognitive scientists are clueless. Scientists have a good model for associative reasoning, which is the basis of modern neural networks, but we don't have a clue how abstract reasoning actually works. All birds and mammals have advanced abstract reasoning and are far more intelligent than GPT-4:

- birds and mammals are inherently able to count in almost any context because they understand what numbers actually mean; GPT-4 can only be trained to count in certain contexts. GPT-4 would be like a pigeon that could count apples, but not oranges, yet biological pigeons can count anything they can see, touch, or hear. There's a profound gap in true quantitative reasoning, even if GPT-4 can fake this reasoning on specific human math problems.

- Relatedly, birds and mammals are far faster at general pattern recognition than GPT-4, unless it has been trained to recognize that specific pattern.

- Birds and mammals can spontaneously form highly complex plans; GPT-4 struggles with even the simplest plans, unless it has been trained to execute that specific plan.

The "trained to do that specific thing" is what makes GPT-4 so much dumber than warm-blooded vertebrates. When we test the intelligence of an animal in a lab, we make sure to test them on a problem they've never seen before. If you test AI like you test an animal, AI looks incredibly stupid - because it is!

There was a devastating paper back in 2019[1] proving that Google's BERT model - which at the time was world-class at "logical reasoning" - was entirely cheating on its benchmarks. And another paper from this year[2] demonstrates that LLMs definitely don't have "emergent" abilities, AI researchers are just sloppy with stats. It is amazing how much bad science and wishful thinking has been accepted by the AI community.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07355

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004
Why do you think it’s a death rattle?
Love the Christmas card generator! That was awesome.
...I've once had an installer refusing to install the program because I had several GiB of free disk space and obviously disks so large do not exist. Thanks for having this sanity check, I guess.
The magnet & mediafire links seem to contain only the larger (PW protected) file. Where could one find the other one as well (not the I would download them)?
Your best bet would be to follow the court filings and look for the words "unwilling licensor" and "unwilling licensee".

Though I suspect this is more on Apple. Going to be blunt for a bit, but Apple has a habit of assuming only it produces innovation worth paying for. Apple usually doesn't wind up actually taking the import ban in the end, but there's a whole host of patent litigation that has targeted Apple. It's kind of funny, though - I remember the days where Steve Jobs insisted that them owning a swipe-to-unlock patent meant basically any phone with a touchscreen and a not-ass operating system was infringing them. "Zero-length swipe" my ass.
Node JS based generic workflow engine for data transformations
A very small dataset, but people I talked to about Tether (even early on) didn’t trust it. It was just so useful a functionality to have they were willing to use it expecting it to someday fall apart.

So the music-stops metaphor is apt, “greater fool theory” I’m not so sure — collectible NFTs? Yeah.
What are the higher end/full solution type features/integrations you're thinking of?
We were developing software for an office in a timezone several hours different from our own. We flew there the weekend before the Monday launch, did several tests over the weekend and everything looked good.

Monday morning, minutes before go live we do a couple more tests with staff and discover a critical timezone bug that if not fixed, we cannot go live. Even if our developers were able to quickly turn around a fix and skip formal QA, it still would be ~30mins before everything was updated and another 30 for us to do local tests on site...

So we went around and changed the timezone on every computer in the office.
The day was saved, devs fixed the bug during their day, our night and we fixed the timezones the following day.
I feel that modern c++ is a game of how many times you can fit `const` in a single declaration. I usually have at least three for the simplest of functions.
Regarding your company:

At some point the incentives become misaligned, though, we've seen this happen over and over.

Someone proposes and sends a PR making huge quality of life improvements, it's shot down because it would reduce consulting revenue (the rejection reason is officially not this or not even stated at all).

Someone proposes and sends a PR implementing advanced functionality that the core company sells as part of a paid extension, the PR is rejected (for obvious but not mentioned reasons).

A cloud provider starts offering a service based on the software, the license is changed to non open source.

Plus, these kinds of businesses generally only scale to mom and pop store or maybe 100 consultants.
It's like modern art at this point, anything from the 1800s qualifies.
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Twitter nowadays has almost exclusively ads for ‘drops’ and ‘pumps’ and all other kinds of crypto scams.
>> What’s the alternative?

Don't play the game of building products that are subject to other people's patents. If in doubt, buy them out. Pay for the international rights regardless of whether you think a patent invalid in some market. Apple isn't exactly struggling for cash at the moment. It can afford to pay for the patent rather than stage what is starting to look like a PR event.
But chicken and rice canned soup contains rice and the word is part of its logical title.

You should be able to unearth the soup with a partial match. What makes the alcohol/alcohol-free problem is that alcohol free is one token that can't be subdivided.
Motte-and-Bailey (Rhetorical) Fallacy
I’m using ChatGPT as a discussion forum/collective intelligence.

The GPT I built, Choir — https://choir.chat — learns from the prompts users write, so the performance keeps getting better and better.
> Holiday Spending Increased

> numbers are not adjusted for inflation
That's true today, I agree.

Having watched this movie a few times, I like to have the insurance policy of open source licensing so that it stays true tomorrow.

Once something is proprietary it's arguably easier from a developer perspective - and preferred from an investor perspective - to make it steadily more proprietary over time.

Then one day you wake up and even if your notes still aren't saved in some some obtuse format that only loads properly in Obsidian, your experience has gradually degraded but by this stage you've got so much tied up in the proprietary extras that you stick around unhappily.
Scene Creation Engines and Apprenticeships
It was likely frostbite. Or maybe the print was done in stages and they wore jewellery.
Either way, this dominant narrative of ancient humans being complete savages is quite annoying.
Good News Stories You Didn't Hear About in 2023
> Do you have any information on what the likely cause may have been? (e.g., hot weather? unexpected sparks?)

Possibly one of the above plus gasoline vapors which are a lot more dangerous and explosive than gasoline itself and can be easily ignited by a spark not necessarily due to a short circuit.
Why would anyone use a LLM with ads injected when there are alternatives?
Another politician threatened to sue me through a Facebook message if I didn’t take down his profile because it would be defamation. The interesting thing is that this politician was highly rated on the app. I explained this to him and removed him from the platform. Then he asked to come back and I refused.
If you can find a copy of this anthology [0], it's in there.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov_Presents_The_Grea...
So this is a 10-year old repost (2014), of an original article 10-years older than that (2004), describing and event that happened ten years before that (1994)?
Complex things must be looked at from many different angles before one can try and draw conclusions about them,

Willingly choosing to restrict yourself to one very narrow aspect (tether) of a rich and complex ecosystem such as Bitcoin and deriving a definitive conclusion from that narrow and restrictive point of view is very likely going to lead you to an incorrect outcome.

And even if, by miracle, you happen to predict the correct outcome, it'll be by sheer luck, not on the strength of your analysis, thereby lending no credibility whatsoever to your ability to predict things in general.
Hanoi building fire misinformation makes EV charging harder
Autogenerating Stoic Quote Images Using Html2canvas
Spent the last 4 days trying to get the raylib example game to run on my Android. Yesterday I changed course and got rawdrawandroid running instead. That was my black triangle (actually it was green heh), proof that my goal was actually possible. If rawdraw can build and run, so can raylib! I got raylib working shortly afterwards.

It's funny I always thought C gamedev would be hard, I just didn't think the hard part would be the "hello world"... I'm looking forward to actually building the game now!

(My experience is more like "the triangle that should take a day", but I still thought it was relevant as a kind of major milestone that puts you in a qualitatively new reality where now you have an actual working thing you can fiddle with.)
Start around 38 seconds and watch to 2m13s. Your definition of "in excellent condition" and mine seem to differ greatly.

IMO, that car was between "driver" and "restorable" condition and I tend to think it was much closer to the latter.
Yes, of course. IMHO only.
Aluminum doesn’t work, but any cast iron or stainless steel should be fine. I don’t think I even own any aluminum pans.
Show HN:Shopify App for Variations and 'Add to Cart' on Product Listings
Hi Hackers,

I'm Ahmed Mobin, a Shopify app developer passionate about creating solutions that make life easier for Shopify store owners. Through my freelance work, I've identified common challenges and developed apps to streamline processes.

I'm excited to share my latest creation, the "Spark: Add to cart button" app. It's designed to simplify the addition of variations, quantity fields, and an add-to-cart button to your product listings. Whether your products are featured on the homepage, collection list page, or anywhere else, this app is a one-click solution to enhance your customers' shopping experience.

I build apps that I believe save valuable time in coding for Shopify store owners. If you've been searching for a straightforward and effective way to boost conversions on your Shopify store, I invite you to check out the "my app.

I'm eager to hear your thoughts and insights. What challenges have you faced in your Shopify journey, and how do you envision apps like "Spark" making a difference?

Thanks for your time and consideration!
> You claim here that there is a cost to creating the domain but rule out Ens because it has a cost? You can't make both claims

It's HN, they don't understand how blinded they are by their bias against blockchain. I see these contradictions all the time and have learned it's pointless to reply.
Inflation means the Fed will increase interest rates, which means there isn't much money sloshing around for speculators to put into Bitcoin. Which is why BTC went down when inflation was high, and now is going back up after the Fed signaled interest rate cuts next year because inflation is going down. So it doesn't sound anything like an inflation hedge because the demand for it isn't constant.

Bitcoin is tracking tech stocks speculation more than being stable during inflation.
With a high carbon footprint due to the price local labour is paid and the amount of stuff they purchase. When you buy from China and India you know people are only getting paid enough to just buy food and a small place to live, drastically reducing their carbon footprint.
By using dang's comments I can fetch all historical discussions and render them on the same page. Easy made simple :)
Prusa's big problem is that they stopped innovating. They plateaud on their current tech, and just made tiny incremental improvements, years apart. There was plenty of things they could have been working on, new technologies, massive speed increases, etc. Bambu Labs created a better product in all ways (but one; very hard to modify), and now there's just no reason to buy a Prusa. You'll be spending more for an objectively inferior product.
I'm making a note that you're not supporting the current thing.

I'd like to point out, that I _do_ support the current thing.

Thank you for your attention.
The Power of Virtual Influencers
From a quick glance of the literature, including this piece, it seems that there are no big differences between human and AI influencers. By implication, the former's jobs are likely to be disrupted by the latter.
The Baby Boom Was a Marriage Boom
Sure, for example I had accounting done as part of a study which also fitted meters (which I wanted anyway) and read the data (which I would likely have freely agreed to but obviously does need formal permission) and their baseline basically go well, about 60% of your income isn't accounted for in these days so we assume you turned that money into carbon emissions at our default rate. Actually the money was just sat in a bank account, which AFAIK doesn't cause net carbon emissions.

For individuals I don't think this approach works very well, but over a population I can believe it comes out in the wash.
Of course spending is up, everything costs almost doubled.
I’m slightly disappointed. It’s a single (even if “wast” and double sided) book case. And even so it’s barely visible in the photo.
Black Flag Waterplane
It should be regulated just like alcohol and gambling.
Just worth it _for me_

I make a lot of lil one offs, and I want a static page, and neocities (from main account) simply has an input box for a new site name, so I "spin up" w/o registration

neocities is cute, the spirit of it. I have no idea if they're still accepting $100 of btc, it was just appealing when I noticed once upon a time
We got pretty good at making it acceptably safe to drive around at 80mph with tanks of volatile liquid fuel right behind or under us. We’ll get good at this too. Lithium batteries are already surprisingly safe for what they are.
What product of theirs is a clone of the HTC M7? I'm looking at the device, and I don't get it.
Pretty cool, but...

The article "Kelp is the planet’s fastest-growing plant"

... kelp is not a plant? Second sentence of its Wikipedia article.
On officedepot.com when searching for a produect I have found no way to filter by "in stock at my chosen store" you have to search, then click through each individual item.

The one and only reason I am considering office depot as a place to spend my money is because they're local and I can go get whatever cable or thing I need, right now.
You need to be profitable to remain alive as a company. I agree with you we shouldn't race to the bottom, but if there's room for Prusa to compete without compromising value, they should do that.
Ten bucks says that Vitamin D is worthless, and only shows up as important because it correlates with sunlight, which turns out to be hugely important to health.

For example - our skin is constantly covered in bacteria and molds, surely sunlight impacts these.
Have you written a serious game engine? Parent is right, a bunch of them basically are a real-time OS sitting on a small amount of the underlying OS (if one exists). When you have to write your own malloc() and fopen(), and your own thread scheduling, that counts as Operating System. This is becoming less true today, as the hardware gets better and bigger and faster and resources are less constrained, but it wasn’t that long ago that many console games literally were the OS.

Your analogy and definition is one reasonable viewpoint, that the OS is the thing that bootstraps software on top of hardware and provides access to resources like memory, filesystem, network, and display, but it’s also an incomplete definition. An OS provides a standardized environment for whatever processes run inside it. In that sense it doesn’t matter whether or not it’s contained in a different OS. Ubuntu doesn’t suddenly become not an OS when you run it in a VM, it still provides the Linux OS to the processes that run inside the VM. Windows doesn’t become not an OS if it boots on a hypervisor. Similarly, even if an OS requires another OS to run, when it provides a different environment or container, it’s still serving the purpose of providing a specific Operating System to the software it runs.

Some consoles used to not provide an OS at all, the game provided all of it. The developer was responsible for handling things that would (and should) otherwise be the purview of the OS or drivers, power loss, out of memory, cables yanked, etc., otherwise they would not be allowed to publish. Nintendo did this longer than the others, in my recollection of events.
Tagging products sounds like something a LLM could do rather well with just a little human supervision.