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> the role of Federal Overseer that we accidentally found ourselves in

Not so accidentally since Ireland has pursued being the place for Big Tech to park their EU's HQs in through incentives provided by the Irish government. With that comes big responsibilities to the bloc as well, I just challenge the notion of "accidentally" since Ireland designed itself on tax schemes to be a hotspot for the HQs of international Big Tech.

The Irish DPC also had to be forced by the EUDPB to comply with GDPR enforcement, it wasn't out of goodwill that the Irish DPC got so active in 2023.
It depends if you count cryptocurrency as a currency; if you do, then it deflates that currency.

Similarly, if I have some Euros, use them to buy USD banknotes, set fire to the USD banknotes, that deflates USD but not Euros. (Would that inflate Euros instead? Or deflate both?)
Man, and I thought 'Seveneves' was a quick one, fast moving.

Should I see a doctor?

I honestly didn't realize others saw it that way. Now I'm worried.

Lol, if you like Stephenson, you might need help.
> Paris is far from the only city in Europe banning the most polluting vehicles

Hmm, this is about making parking more expensive for large SUVs of non-residents, not air pollution or polluting vehicles.

Note also that only 5% of people showed up to vote in that 'referendum'.

This is really all a distraction spun by the media and Paris mayor. But it works!
I'm not sure if that's possible but in the most simple way, just open a webrowser tab as a panel in VSCode so you don't have to switch between the editor and browser.
A one line combination of YouTube-dl and ffmpeg can do this btw (without downloading the whole video)
In the description it says app is for mobile devices
> I use VS Code, Sublime Tet, Word, Powerpoint, Obsidian, Google Docs, etc

Why are you using all these editors? Surely you only need to narrow this down to one or two?

Anyway..
One of the great things about all these choices of editors (or even IDEs) is that if gives you the CHOICE to solve a problem.

For me - Emacs is my main editor. However, at times, I also use Notepad++ when on a Windows Server or similar.

The reason I chose Emacs over things like VS Code or SText is because it is more than just a text editor. I use it for note taking, git interaction, coding, building, debugging, FTP'ing, shell.. and others.

By having all this in one editor means I can use the same set of commands.. and reducing my need of using the mouse.

Without emacs, I have seperate programs for 'this, another program for 'that, and they all come with their own flavour of GUI and shortcut keys.

I am sure other editors can also "do more than code" - but emacs takes it the extra mile (or 100 if you want it)
That’s not true at all. The most interesting research into components of consciousness involve astrocytes, glia, and formerly assumed “helper cells” throughout the brain. It isn’t “all synapses.”

Source: neuroscience MS (dropped out after defending to become a software engineer)
> In a similar way, every membrane in every cell came from extending and then splitting an existing membrane, again more or less independently of the nucleus.

Can you elaborate?

As I understand it, the manufacturing of the cell membrane and coordination of splitting with other features (eg, intracellular features that pull it apart) requires the DNA transcription and is regulated by particular genes.

That is, depends on the nucleus.
He published a correction in the hardcover WhatIf that the "fusion zone" at the front of the baseball would not actually form, as the collisions are too fast for fusion to take place. Instead, the protons would "ghost" through each other, resulting in some awesome energies and exotic radiation. Unfortunately, I can't find the underlying science behind this. Anyone know where that could be found, assuming it's still correct?
Podcasts are just a type of media like music or TV.

It's akin to saying "wherever you get your music".
Isn’t that usually called extortion?
Thats fn cool
Ohne Makler sponsored the project with 10k USD to make their website render correctly in Ladybird, it was covered in one of the browser update videos last year[0].

[0]: https://youtu.be/xdVOdrWuzLQ?t=147
> I'm sure I've seen research that suggests students in lectures who take notes on paper get better grades that students who use laptops in lectures.

Honestly, I hated taking notes in lectures (and considered the necessity for it to be a distraction from paying full attention). On the other hand, there were these students who live-LaTeXed math lectures on their laptops ...
I totally disagree. Overflow almost certainly represents a bug and the violation of various invariants. Your code is doing something, even if it isn't giving radiation doses. Computing the wrong data and storing it can cause problems for customers, modify data you didn't plan on touching, or render data entirely inaccessible if various encryption operations are performed incorrectly.

Just like most things are not the Therac-25, most things are also not safety critical when they crash. Some web service that crashes just means that it returns 500 and you see it on whatever stability dashboard.
Sad, I wish for a modern web engine in plain and simple C99 (let's allow us some benign bits from c11).

I guess I'll stick to links and/or lynx and/or netsurf.
Other replies miss the point - the problem doesn't lie with Typescript itself exactly. Setting up a nodejs/js project with all of the fixings (linting, Typescript, spell checks, builds if needed, etc) is quite tedious.

Sure you can accept some template project or CLI tool to kickstart things if just starting out, but at some point you will need to tweak the configuration and there is an enormous realm of options.

I'm surprised no one mentioned this already, but a runtime like Deno goes to great lengths to solve alot of these pain points. You get testing, linting, bundling, and Typescript out-of-the-box with sane settings. If Deno worked better with GRPC I'd probably be using it right now in my work projects!
It’s also very much not just about the neuronal synapses.
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> better than forcing Linux and LibreOffice [...] well-designed web apps hosted in Denmark

Sure, instead of replacing Windows/M$-Office with Linux/LibreOffice, replace them with a web app which requires the elderly office workers to change their habits even more?

Why not sponsor developers to contribute to LibreOffice and fix the parts that aren't working or are causing problems instead? If all the public sector entities interested in replacing M$-Office in Europe contributed, they could really make a difference...
I think that is quite innacurate. He wrote Snow Crash in 1992, if you compare it to Diamond age in 1995 or later stuff like Anathem or Cryptonomicon its pretty obvious his writing changed (in my opinion improved) quite a lot over the years.

Snow Crash has similar themes to the other works, but its more raw, less polished and kinda less professional than the writing he did later on. Its definitely possible for someone to not really get on with his early stuff, but really like his later stuff (or even vice-versa if you enjoy the less polished style).
Kudos to your technical lead for fighting a good fight.
I read Snow Crash as a young teenager and it inspired me in some way.
Aw sweet, man made horrors beyond comprehension
Actually yes. The PC app can be 'easily' exported to WebGL, as shown here: https://z-anatomy.netlify.app/
This version has the UI bugged, I share it only to show that it is possible, and in fact, it should not take much work.

This was in process just when the association dissolved, which is why it was left half done, but it is something I have pending, along with implementing all the improvements to the code that I am programming in the VR version.
Pages and pages treatises about orbital mechanics, PhD dissertation on how space station docking works. Seveneves fast paced? yeah, no.
From the point of Google, what's the point of collecting students data?
Back when I was working (a few years ago now), my company laptop had some lame Cisco DNS proxy installed in the name of "security." The laptop ignored the DNS servers provided by DHCP and the proxy used a pinned company DNS server. Any DNS requests that could not be resolved would redirect to some questionable server on the open Internet that also happened to have an ssh server on port 22.

None of this bothered me until the time I tried to ssh into one of my local boxes, was and redirected to the bogus server, which prompted me for my password, which I stupidly provided out of habit.

So now some random server on the open Internet has collected the hostname, username, and password for my local machine. I reported this to the company IT department and their response was a shrug.
I still use Python for scripting simple things and for writing web services. I use fastapi for simple things, but I will use Django for anything that needs a database because it has the best migration tooling that I have used.
https://archive.is/newest/https://www.theatlantic.com/techno...
Ha! Didn’t know. Very cool IMHO.
Blame the UX and Product Managers, not the engineers.
python is already written in plain and simple C, it is sad to make it depends on such complex language which is rust (no less worse than c++).

Actually, I would not mind a python interpreter in rv64 assembly (near 0 SDK) instead.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39287610
I always amused myself daydreaming of writing code that would catch errors then insult the user and finally revoking their account.
Yeah honestly he just keeps getting better IMO. Seveneves in particular gives me chills just thinking about -- so dark at points.

Likewise, I think the Blue Ant books are Gibson's best work, though I have a strong attachment to Mona Lisa Overdrive just because of where I was in life when I first read it.
I think they try to edit words that don't have much value out. I haven't kept precise notes, but if the first word is "how", that is often removed. And I've noticed hyperbolic adjectives like "greatest" are removed too.
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Perhaps I'm a dinosaur but I don't like the range-over-function addition. I don't think it adds enough convenience to justify the complexity it adds to the language, and the functional style feels at odds with Go's explicit, imperative (albeit verbose) and feature-lean style, which I think was one of its major strengths.

For the same reason I think the range-over-integer feature is a misstep. Go's lean feature set and minimal mental load have always been major strengths and differentiators of the language.
To me, 'Seveneves' took longer than usual to world build and get things going. Once it got going after 'the event', things moved along as a pretty good clip. Don't know if he has any plans to revisit that world but it would be interesting to explore things from after the time jump in more detail.
This is a misdiagnosis. Lamenting that it's too late is the complete opposite of partying like it's 1999. We're not having fun. It's the climate change denialists who are partying like it's 1999, pretending that nothing has changed, that there's not a problem, and that we don't need to do anything. They're the ones who are complacent.

By the way, the lyrics of the song 1999 were very much tongue-in-cheek. Prince had a political streak, he had not given up on caring, and he wrote a number of other political songs, such as "Ronnie Talk to Russia", "Annie Christian", "Free", "America", and "Pop Life".
Tell HN: We need a complete thread on CLI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39273932

Y'all have amazing BOFH in your head - share some here. CLIs ALIASes etc...

Work hacks that are seemingly mundane to you but have been helfu

BOFH werx.
Then you file a complaint with your favorite reordenarías because somebody skirted the GDPR?
each one of Peter Norvig's etudes at https://github.com/norvig/pytudes

from the sudoku solver http://norvig.com/sudoku.html to things like "NPL in python" https://colab.research.google.com/github/norvig/pytudes/blob...

...

https://cryptopals.com/ (a remake of the Matasano crypto challenges) understand crypto by actually building and then subsequently breaking it (it's not strictly single-page, but wget can mirror it nicely)
Autism, like most personality traits in the DSM, is only a problem if it affects your every day life in three spheres (e.g. work/relationships/hobbies). Otherwise you might just have the superpowers without the side-effects.
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Hey there! You're right, apologies for not including the screenshot on the landing page, we'll add some asap as well as quick video to get you onboard.

In the meantime you can also sign-up and check how it works on your own and tell us if the features are intuitive enough or require additional explanation.

As we're in beta we're still tweaking the product and would love to hear your thoughts :)
Second paragraph

From 1 August 2024 onwards, Danish schools will no longer be allowed to enable Chromebooks and Google platforms to collect students' personal data for processing
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Loved Seveneves and Fall, in particular the little slice of Ameristan in the Fall, but I feel like in both cases they are great books with a mediocre book attached to the end.
I'd like a Really Simple Podcasts site where I can just log in with a username and a password, drag and drop an MP3 file from my computer, and have it get published as a new episode. Bliss.
This article advocates for Linux (Chromebook is already Linux) on refurbished hardware (a random mix of old laptops in a large-scale deployment lol) and a laundry list of other "technology solutions" which would be, obviously, impossible for a school system to smoothly maintain or even deploy.

I'm not sure privacydad has ever deployed or maintained an IT department. A school system is very complex.

For what they offer - Chromebooks are actually very good. My kids' school computers are probably better than most of the corporate-issue windows laptops I've ever had. Google docs/classroom are also very good compared to grab-bag of apps my kids have to use.

--- (general computers-in-school rant) ---

The clear answer is to get computers out of schools as much as possible! I know they won't so if you happen to work on this kind of software - PLEASE advocate for shipping better software!

My kids aren't even taught how to type but are expected to put together slide shows and things every other week.

The testing and assignments done on the computer are full of UX issues like missing scroll bars and confusing + inconsistent <form>s - Some tests allow you to go back and read the material, some don't, some lose your answers in-between, etc.

Every year there is massive churn of "apps" the school district was corrupted into buying to replace last year's crop of junk.
Deno fixes most of the issues you're describing.
I'm a very (very, as in: too) avid podcast listener and the fact that apple run one of the biggest "phone books" has literally never stopped me from doing anything podcast related. I find new podcasts just fine, by word of mouth as well as in other directories.

The only player in town that seems to really make a dent in the openness is Spotify which have been aggressively buying out podcast teams and taking them off the open web, and that's one of the prime reasons I cancelled my subscriptions.

Then there's smaller losses like the BBC4 which made most of their podcasts have a 1 month delay vis-a-vis their own app. I have no interest in that. In effect, this just served to curb some of my compulsive newsy consumption. If something isn't important enough to still be heard a month later, maybe I didn't need to hear it in the first place.

Anyhow, I very much agree with the article and I'm happy someone made the point so much more eloquently than I've managed in my many debates about the matter.
Are you suggesting that the hypothetical anonymous apology by the flight company in your example is insincere and shouldn't have been given? Because if not it changes very little about the actual point, which is whether such apologies make sense or not.
2N? Could not see anything related in the article, which I did skim.
His books have a certain…tone…that you either like or don’t like. Personally, as much as I enjoy cyberpunk literature, I didn’t really enjoy Snow Crash. Too much snark and Reddit-style humor for me.
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I kept thinking it should be possible to make something like it back in the day, and now with LLMs and deepfake, it's even closer to reality!
The expression "this is why we can't have nice things" comes to mind. Like their FISA powers, spying on communications of journalists with surveillance powers, political abuses within the IRS, etc the government has massively abused asset forfeiture as well and we should return to a liberty centric mindset. No forfeiture without conviction by a jury.

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."

The government has proven they aren't angels we can trust.
Or not? I remember when banks required you to have IE long after nobody was using IE. I remember when banks showed an alert against using Safari long after it became the most common mobile browser. Banks also have their own apps and are not dependent on Chrome.
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Then, 3b-a. Uninstalling rewind to see whether it helps.

I remember to have had similar things on Windows+Firefox. No matter what website, no video. It plays, but black. It was like it was overlayed with something, because going full screen and back fast, or start/stopping it fast, somehow helped for this one view. Also while going full screen and back, I could see some parts of the video flashing on the sides..Next view, may be - may be not - black.

There, switching off hardware acceleration helped, too. Until it started to show the same behavior after a short period of working, too. Then switching it on again helped. Also, switching off and switching on while video played.

I think, then I switched off the settings flag to use some specific codec (like "always use .264" = off ) in my browsers settings. The problem went away after some system updates or some codec installations.
... May be there's a codec pack for Macs?

Your next steps could be:

- 3b-a (if each drm video has problems..)

- Try to find out if there is a possibility to switch off/on forcefully set codec in your browser. May be Netflix will serve another codec'ed files then.
Is that 48 hours even if it's faulty? It's 30 days under law here to replace or refund (your choice) and within six months the retailer is still responsible for providing a repair or replacement (their choice).

I do wonder if that drives the higher prices we pay here though...?
Looking for feedback, steer me in the right direction!
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JRE used to be distributed on his personal website before Spotify. And it seems like they're now going back to hosting it on several platforms.
>I will honestly prefer to just ban all tech from schools.

Woah what a reactionary! No ballpoint pens, right?

>2028 the effects of the tech ban were apparent, in mere years, the productivity of this countries students had dropped well below global levels. Graduates the year before were becoming first class citizens as inequality became based on the year you were born.
Great to hear. We are looking to make something at Tax Titans and this is one of our issues. Will try it out
One problem with 2. is that subscribing to changes isn't always good enough, since if you go to act on the changes things may update out from under you regardless. Like, if you react to filesystem events, if a new file is created you might have it get deleted before you even register that it was added and do whatever you wanted with it.
Sorry, no clue, on Android you would've probably been able to patch it with Revanced but no clue for IOS
we've seen already how the rog ally with a similar (very similar) chip performs and here they bundle it with a higher resolution display @120Hz. What is the point of it if you can't drive this ? Just for winning on the specs ? maybe but then is nothing more than marketing and we don't even have the price yet

I also don't understand the phone comparison, this is a gaming handheld, very specific purpose compared to an all-rounder device. Please elaborate
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers
Mostly. There are some “seedless” fruits (bananas, grapes, etc) which have been bred to be defective, or have become defective because of some natural mutation. [1]

There’s also fruits like coconuts, which don’t have seeds like we normally think of them. The coconut we eat after removing outer layers (exocarp, mesocarp) is a seed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenocarpy
So how do you manage the versions of helm charts you have installed? Or are you manually running helm install from a local machine?
That’s the dream of HW GPU designers everywhere. I’ve got a bunch of dead Cell and Larrabee chips laying around upstairs that’d like to disagree, though. Coverage rasterization is just one tiny piece of the GPU story; the really hard parts (software-wise) are things like varying interpolation, primitive synthesis (and varying synthesis), change-of-basis, and specific sampling and blending modes. It turns out that once you add in the HW to make “a few edge cases” faster, you end up with all of the HW you need for a complete GPU.
I always wonder how much data these companies have taken down that isn't their client's.
For the functions that are being removed, is there a list of the native replacements. eg $.isNumeric() == parseFloat() ?
Except that really, for music there's only 2-3 stores you can get any significant amounts of it. And all of them suck, and lock you into their own apps.

Even with physical media there's only so many big labels, and the rest is vanishingly small.

Who offers podcasts and operates them is so different from these in quantity that it makes a qualitative difference to the medium.
I was an avid pitchfork reader in the 2000s, but by 2015 I hadn't used the site in years. I didn't even know this had happened. The last thing I remember on pitchfork was their crappy redesign in 2009.
> It would be good to see checks on Google's dominance in schools, currently achieved via attractively priced hardware and free proprietary platforms built for this purpose.

Is this an excuse to use Windows on schools? I mean... if you use expensive hardware on closed and paid proprietary platforms, then that problem goes away.
Its paywalled, so it right there with the topic and classism.
Sounds like we agree. Given the right instructions and environment, tools are useful.

Handing out knives/computers/chemistry sets without training and unsupervised does not help.
You find

func Backward[E any](s []E) func(func(int, E) bool) {
return func(yield func(int, E) bool) {
for i := len(s)-1; i >= 0; i-- {
if !yield(i, s[i]) {
return
}
}
}
}

simpler than C#'s

IEnumerable<T> Backward(T[] s) {
for i := s.length-1; i >= 0; i-- {
yield return s[i];
}
}

I think that's quite hard to defend, honestly. Granted, Java doesn't have anything comparable, so I'm not sure what you're comparing this feature to.