skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even as the Middle East and Afghanistan dominated resources and attention in the years after 9/11, U.S. intelligence agencies never stopped targeting China aggressively, according to former officials directly involved in those efforts. This intelligence focus intensified in the mid-2000s ...

Reminds me of this 2002 report, also from WSJ (https://archive.is/8zfgT):

> Revelations that a U.S.-made plane supplied to the Chinese president came riddled with eavesdropping devices is discomfiting China's leaders, but the low-key Chinese response so far suggests it won't upset efforts to improve ties, or a planned summit next month.

> China's government ordered the luxuriously outfitted plane, a modified Boeing 767, in mid-2000 for President Jiang Zemin, and a company owned by the Chinese air force flew it to Beijing in August. Within a few weeks, military technicians uncovered more than 20 listening devices, according to people familiar with the situation. Among the detected bugs were sophisticated models activated by satellite; one such device was found planted behind the headboard of the presidential bed, according to foreign diplomats and a Chinese scholar with military ties.
Straw person?
You can't please people sitting on the sidelines.
The SciFi (now SyFy) channel has always had ads. Go watch any of their early programs and notice how they have these fade cuts in them and are never an hour long.
I've had DirecTV cable boxes inject unskippable ads into recordings.
You have to realize what an outlier you are.

First, as others have pointed out, subscription based channels came later on. Cable TV had ads right from the get go.

Second, the vast majority of cable subscribers did not have subscription based channels. Most people either had basic (e.g. 20 channels), or some sort of premium tier (50 channels) which did not have ad free options. You had to pay separately an extra $10-20/month to get the ad-free ones (e.g. HBO). To counter your anecdote, almost no one I knew paid extra for them. As in, sitting right now, I cannot even come up with one name. They were for "rich" folks. Plebes like us simply rented if we wanted ad free.

Finally, I really don't get your point. When you got your ad free cable channels, the majority of cable channels carry ads. Even with the Prime/Disney degradation, the proportion of streaming services that have a paid no-ads option is still higher than you ever had at any point in cable history.

You want ad-free streaming options? They still exist!
The website is an MVP for a bigger idea I've been wanting to build.

Data is supposed to be sourced from the users who submit and vote on products they find durable and trustworthy.

The advertising section at the bottom is simply a placeholder. I plan on monetising mostly from affiliate links. However when there is an advertisement that would be disclosed.

I look at this like the product hunt for buy it for life products.
He’s absolutely correct about the ridiculous complexity of cloud tooling. The number of services, features, knobs, etc., available in AWS is borderline comical. I’m skeptical that half of the products they have really fill a gap and solve problems people had. Who’s asking for all of these new services that are constantly being rolled out? There’s so much cruft in their product offerings. Promotion at AWS is kind of like how it is at Google now, where a product is launched because someone needs to get their L8, not because customers are asking for it.
All things considered, the GBA is a pretty powerful machine. Running an ARM processor is helpful too, as high-level language compilers that output high-quality ARM code are common. It's for this reason the GBA is one of my favorite machines, since it hits that sweet spot between simplicity and power.

It's the Gameboy and the NES, running a Z80-style and a 6502-style processor respectively, that typically need more hand-holding from manually written assembly code. It's not just the processor but the lack of hardware features (such as lacking multiple background layers, the relatively low number of sprites that can be on screen at a time, etc.) that result in squeezing out extra performance to overcome these limitations in creative ways. Compare that to the minesweeper game just rendering all the board cells as sprites!
It's genocide which is worse.
They could possibly do what Epic do where it’s somewhat honor system and you’re subject to audits if you use their libraries/sdks.

But I doubt they’d bother.
Thank you this is great feedback.
The Sci-fi channel had ads in the late 90's. Maybe there was a time before that when it didn't?
As we used to say at the other site, it’s okay to be a redditor with a website; it’s not okay to be a website with a reddit account.
Usually the "security" operates on a similar principle, it's not actually any more secure.

Upgrades are (usually) complete poison.
I had a watch with a car racing game like 6 years before Game Boy was a thing.
But the stories are about either 6 or 7 stars, or 7 where and then 1 star disappeared after some time. So it's not only the number 7. And the legends are about the Pleiades specifically. So I see more correlation than coincidence.
As someone who's very un-savvy when it comes to managing email servers and mailboxes: what is the unixy solution for moving a mailbox from one IMAP server to another? Ideally is there such a solution that doesn't require me to have ssh access to both of the servers?

Like - can I download and back up an entire mailbox with mu? And restore it to a different server? Or can I do that with some other tool? If I had ssh access to both servers, and they both used Maildir. could I do it with mu?

I know what Maildir is but I don't know how to determine if my IMAP server is using it, or something that looks like Maildir but isn't. My mail server runs dovecot and I'm pretty sure stores mail as Maildir, it looks like Maildir in the file system, but I wouldn't know how to positively verify that.

I know these are very random questions, just trying to figure out how to have more control of my mail...!
I maintain a daily email to myself in a shared mailbox. I have 3 sections:

SIGNIFICANT

\* topic1

\* this happened

\* topic2

DONE

\* This project

\* Made this change

\* Made another change

\* Some training

\* Completed this section

TODO
...

I'm in a setting where I'm incredibly temporary. I could be tasked elsewhere tomorrow. Every day I reply to my previous email and work on the draft throughout the day as my notebook. At the end of the day I send it, received in the mailbox I'm attending. I title the email "Captain's Log" and my supervisor and peers can read it, as well as the draft, whenever. This keeps them clued in on where my head is at, what I'm working on, etc. Great for performance reviews mostly. Not as convenient as something like my Remarkable tablet.
Saying that it's physically possible to build and service a desktop that lasts a quarter century has no relationship to the length of support a consumer electronics company should offer.

I can still boot my white clamshell Macbook from almost 20-years ago. It didn't disintegrate at the 5-year or 10-year mark.

That doesn't mean Apple must continue to support it.
You're the one moving the goalposts to make cable mean only HBO and Showtime. Cable existed for decades before HBO launched, and HBO wasn't even the first cable-only channel. Cable's original pros was absolutely not about freedom from ads, no matter how you slice it.
I hate how many options we have when making purchasing decisions. I'd rather buy a few things that last a lifetime instead of hundreds of garbage products that need to be replaced every 6 months.

Which is why I built:

https://bifl.xyz

A simple website where users can submit and vote on the best BIFL products in a range of categories.

Help me build out the site by either commenting a product I should add to the database or by submitting a product yourself here
This is an excellent point and I think that while most languages will fade away in time, if they even contribute one new idea the project is worthwhile. If we had asked programmers in 1991 what the point of Python was, the responses would have probably been similar to the parent comment, and look at where it is now.

I played around with Vala (a C# style language that compiled to C on Linux) back in 2010 and while I never used it for anything serious, it was fun to try out new ideas and see how they could work. There is value in these projects, maybe some of it will carry over into other languages, in others they may be the dominant language in 10 years.
This sounds like someone who has studied a lot of math or physics but has never even heard of the humanities, art, philosophy, etc.
I will continue to pay for Prime and Netflix and Disney but I will
also just continue to pirate all the content I want and not watch it through the services. They are all getting so junky lately. The quality of content across the board has gone way down.
I picked up a Libra H2O a while back, I've had no issues whatsoever. I used the default software without issue before discovering KOReader, installation was easy. The hardware is very solid, have not noticed any problems with the outside casing, screen, or issues related to power.
I think Starbucks is disgusting and undrinkable. I've been a coffee enthusiast for four decades now so it's not an uninformed opinion.
Although, I agree re: Cadbury vs Hershey. I'm not much of a Cadbury fan, but imo it's orders of magnitude better than Hershey.
>Customers have the option of paying an additional $2.99 per month to keep avoiding advertisements.

people, it's 3 bucks a month extra to get rid of ads.

I hate Amazon for many reasons, but the $3 is not going to be the deal breaker
Everything ships fast enough even without prime. Sometimes i get stuff on walmart which also ships free over a certain amount.
I won't even use my own language. But writing compiler is a great practice!
Yeah I really like Lindt
Wow, that’s even worse.
I think you need exceptionally good eye sight to distinguish more than 6 stars. And it's not surprising that folklore stories originate around what most people's experiences are.
The Switch also has unified memory, which is a tremendous boost to performance for certain types of gaming workloads. The same doesn't apply to PC even if you're using a desktop iGPU, because the memory model is different.
Why does this username appear green on my screen?
Yeah, but they’re focused on the wrong stuff, now, and evading their detection is easier than ever.

Pirate all the things.

The relationship between publishers and consumers has been almost 100% adversarial for a while, now. It started with payola for radio DJs in the 1950s, and it has only escalated since then.

PIRATE ALL THE THINGS! It is almost our duty, at this point. Publishers are closer than ever to being able to take your money and provide nothing in return if they choose. They keep inching closer and closer to that reality.

Again, this relationship is adversarial. Fight back or lose the fight forever.

Pirate. Everything.
Yes. And for bilingual patients, there seems to be a greater effect on the more recently acquired language:

> Southwood et al[49] make the same recommendation based on oral interviews conducted with a single male patient who displayed more language disturbances in his second language than in his native language. Armon-Lotem et al[50] also describe schizophrenia patients who display more problems in their second language than in their first. Smirnova et al[42], in their study of 10 Russian Hebrew bilinguals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, also found that some syntax and semantic impairments were more pronounced in the later-learned language.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4919257/
There is a journalist who was covering this for years who once said in an interview that she could determine which ER Departments were owned by PE by searching the job listings for ER staff in the area. Ads placed by PE were easy to spot. She said when travelling she would deliberately avoid those hospitals.
Your comment is not out of date, the screenshots in the article are how it still looks, but it really is not hard to cancel. It is on the less "dark pattern" side of subscription sites. For example, the NY Times is worse at whole other level - can't unsubscribe online without either calling, or chatting with a rep.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/13sedmx/...

https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/10j2lkv/new_...
On the other hand this is sort of like saying, you already spend hundreds of dollars on unnecessary entertainment and other discretionary spending so you shouldn't be complaining when a new mandatory "entertainment tax" is established. Whether a business (or a person) is accepting of any given set of losses does not obligate them to be accepting of further losses.
Google's displays are fairly decent. No ads, can cast Home Assistant dashboards onto them (with functional touch), and the 1st gen hubs sell for around ~$30 and 2nd gen around ~$50.
In the Air Force, my dad's assigned office mate was Major Smart. A line of my ancestors were the Dumbles.
It’s a recently created account.
> created: 14 days ago
Not the OP but I think that's what the OP had in mind, yeah.

It's interesting because that limit has made me even more "radical" (by the unwritten standards of HN), i.e. when I know that I only have a limited amount of comments per day to make my point I use those comments in a more "push-y" manner by responding to the most provocative replies to what I had previously said, while also ignoring replying to comments that are too bland. Which means that I go by the logic of "why should I reply to this reasonable comment when there's this other more radical comment that's a lot more thorough and violent when trying to debunk what I had just written? I should use my limited number of comments by answering to the latter, not the former".

One of the many paradoxes of confrontation ("war") at work, that is if you regard many of the discussions in here as confrontation (even "war") of ideas.
> Objects, list and maps variables are only reference to them. Meaning you can't assign a new list to a constant variable but you can modify the list itself.

In what contexts is this useful? I know it matches some other languages view of `constant`, but I feel that this sort of behaviour is very surprising to a user.

Assuming the following code:

object Person {
str name = "Joe", | Fields can have default values
int age = 35,
}
const me = Person{...}
const [int] list = [4, 5, 6]

In what contexts is it useful to allow the name of `me` to be changed, or the length of the list to be changed, while disallowing the variable to reference a different underlying object?

Wouldn't the expectation of a programmer be the other way around? IOW, a symbol that is declared as constant can be a reference to any constant object, so the programmer can always assign that symbol to another constant object, but the objects themselves should not be mutable.
Since Amazon Prime Video got serious about region locking and eliminated essentially everything except videos they produced, I pretty much gave up on the service anyway.

Amazon use to be a legitimate competitor, but now, Netflix is a more obvious choice than ever.
There's the matter of scope but there's the matter of motivation too.

When an opensource application like GIMP, Blender, or even Manuksript for a lesser known example, are started, it's mainly because proponents of opensource want to use such application but dislike closed source. They fill a need, so getting new people willing to participate even after the people who started the project moved to something else is possible.

For an opensource game, whether a clone or not, the project is generally started because some proponents of opensource like the original game and want to share it with the community. But they are not really needed per se. That means it's more difficult to get new people joining the project, and consequently if the original team cannot keep getting motivated for many months/years, the project end up abandoned.
A single fullscreen image for game boy is almost 6KB. If you were making something pretty you could have several images per level and go over a megabyte without much effort.
FSR, XeSS, and DLSS negate this issue entirely actually.
That interested me, as well. Where I live, Cadbury chocolate was the go-to option for chocolate. I remember the switch to them using palm oil - I hated it. Stopped buying their product after that.
The energy and time required to go from 60% to 90% is about 0.1% of the time to go from natural occurrence to 60%.

The JCPOA has put Iran on a path to nuclear capability.
Excellent posts indeed! Thanks for sharing these.
Does it seem like a criticism of Rivest, Shamir and Adleman using the name Alice? Or of others projecting gendered assumptions onto Alice?
As a non-American, I have to disagree. All power to you if you like it thou.
Outside a handful of providers (Amazon, Barn & Noble's Nook, possibly Kobo), e-ink devices tend to not be subsidised.

You can look at pricing for, e.g., Onyx's product line to get a good sense of what the cost of a given mass-market device at a given e-ink size (and capabilities, e.g., Wacom, frontlight, touch interface) are.

Smaller e-ink devices are quite affordable. At 10" and above, you start seeing a pretty significant price premium, though IMO the benefits are worth it.

(I own a 13" Onyx device, for three years now.)
This is also my first product I've built thats gotten genuine feedback from users.

I know it isn't perfect right now, but it's a start.

If there is anything you would want changed what would that be?
https://vimeo.com/731037615 for a discussion of wafer scale integration design issues.
The best way to cool is to go for immersive cooling.
Even better is to eliminate most of the heat of the wires with free space optics.
Keep in mind that these scalers need additional buffers and video memory to operate properly, which can in turn lower your framerate and increase the game's resource usage. So they're not a free lunch, and some games simply can't generate the buffers necessary for these algorithms to work.

See this DLSS diagram from nvidia for example: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/geforce/n...
Yeah, I'm working on a fly by wire eVTOL project, we are using the CAN bus as our primary bus, but there are a number of off the shelf components like ADAHRS that we use that talk ARINC-429 so our FCCs will have a number of ARINC-429 interfaces.

But at least for the components we're developing, we have basically standardized on ARM, the TMS570 specifically since it offers a number of features for safety critical systems, and simplifies our tooling and safety analysis to use the same processor everywhere.

Z80 is pretty retro, and while I'm sure there may be some vendors who still use it, it's got to be getting pretty rare for new designs, between all the PowerPC, Arm, and now RISC-V processors available that allow you to use modern toolchains and so on, I'd be surprised if many people were doing new designs with the Z80
Did you just learn this word too from another recent thread on HN? I did, haha!
Show HN: Ec – a small tool to inline build commands in stand-alone source files
Property investment sinks as WFH hammers industry
> people, it's 3 bucks a month extra to get rid of ads.

It’s $3/month to continue a level of service you were already receiving. If this were a new ad-supported product with $3/month discount it wouldn’t feel as dirty.
I guess this works like the Javascript `const` keyword.
Okay, until they bring ads to that tier and ask you to pay $3 more to avoid ads again….. Do you really not see why this is a problem? It’s not about the $3 it’s about paying for a service and still being advertised to.
At least it has some movie recommendations.
Very weird that you consider this an American problem. To me it’s a human problem.
oh man its 50 loonies per year in canada. Reliable 2 day shipping in the only big city. What are we not getting for 110 usd less? Less content or just cheaper to service Canada.
This guy does hour long videos on many large popular YouTubers. I tried watching one but it was so. drawn. out. Is he just creating controversy from nothing?
Jon Edwards (VP of Falcon Launch Vehicles at SpaceX) said:

"We are planning to salvage the engines and do life leader inspections on the remaining hardware. There is still quite a bit of value in this booster. We will not let it go to waste."

https://twitter.com/edwards345/status/1739684677714104759
The VRMs work at 100KHz-1MHz, they are not pure DC. When it comes to "reactance", it's orders of magnitude worse than the well-known 50/60Hz AC.
At least on TV you can record the program and fast forward the ads ;)
Sure, but there are lots of good science content creators out there and I'd rather just watch one where I don't have to worry about it. The Waymo video is over the top credulous, even for something they were being paid to review. In general, the idea of building a channel based on "the element of truth", establishing yourself as an educator, and then shamelessly selling your credibility in that way is kind of a turn off. At least I'm not going to see you as credible in the same way anymore, and others feel the same.

That said, the channel is more popular than ever so who knows.
Honestly, except for some of the syntactic quirks, this looks fabulous.

I definitely think there's a need and space for type-safe embeddable scripting languages like this. Lua usually dominates this space but the lack of type-safety always kept me from adopting it wholeheartedly.

With Zig also in the picture, I can totally imagine an ecosystem that uses something like Buzz for scripting the high level parts of an application, Zig for the lower level performance critical stuff, and leveraging interop with the vast abundance of C libraries out there.
Well yeah it’s our military doctrine. Your whataboutism isn’t persuasive here. Also Xi’s been all about combat readiness all year.
if you had diabetes, would you be ok with a fraction of the insulin that you need to survive?

it's unethical/immoral to offer a fraction of a livable wage to desperate people who have no other options.
I wonder if I can get this as a WASM module?
One of the reasons I don't like building on top of external apis.

You are the whim of those people.
I initially was going to cancel as well - I don't care that much about the fast shipping, and if you hit the minimum order, you get free shipping anyway. But, it means 3% back instead of 5% on the Amazon visa, so if you spend more than 150/12*50=625/month, prime is negative cost. Especially using it for many groceries, I usually hit that.