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Ah Space: 1999... The British answer to Star Trek that once took its own shape, went thru "redesign" only to end abruptly. Such a shame nobody ever pick this series ever again.

A small trivia: there was this educational tv series in Poland created in the early 80s and aired in the end of that decade called "Przybysze z Matplanety" (Visitors from Matplanet). The series explored mathematics for grade and high school. The main characters named Pi and Sigma were traveling in Eagle Transporter - at least that's how their ship look on the outside. A slightly repainted model is seen in the intro and few times in the show: https://youtu.be/CnJcZv9DnAA?t=87
This aesthetic is of its time but is really import - I went to the share@open air parties in ~2003 or so, continuing to visit periodically through their run at Santo's Party House. I didn't know anything at the time, and the overwhelming obscurantism was part of the appeal.

I have a lot of feelings about this movement, and I'm happy that I was a part of it. It's driven my feelings about music and art in general, and I've spent a ton of my time since then trying to figure out how to make things that put music first while still containing the cold stochasticity of this time.

I found a great set of pictures on Flickr from ~2007-2008: https://www.flickr.com/photos/oblaat/with/3062581867
Or maybe just humorously alluding to swamp castle in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Not sure where you are getting your analogy from, but my guess is Jim's not really making an analogy. Mixing a batch of metaphors is not cooking chips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNaXdLWt17A

https://montypython.fandom.com/wiki/Swamp_Castle
Exactly. I love programming. I do it in my free time.

It's forcing myself to dig the ditches of corporate software engineering that I hate.
You can also install extensions that auto convert shorts to full videos.
Ooof, yeah, left handed with a fountain pen is not easy. I once foolishly went left handed "just to try" and ended up with a beautiful shade of dark green ink all over my palm and wrist. The ink just doesn't dry fast enough, even with premium papers. Maybe there are new inks that work well for this?

It sounds like you've found some other pens that work well for you if you managed to hand draw hundreds of diagrams. I do feel sad you won't be able to fully experience "the glide" you get from fountain pens though. It's a real treat.

(also, side note, thanks for writing Game Programming Patterns, Crafting Interpreters, they are excellent books!)
I've experimented with Windows, Linux, and Mac to varying degrees and have recently settled back on Windows. Here's my perspective:

- Mac: Ideal for those who don't mind a more controlled environment, where Apple dictates much of the user experience. While it's possible to customize beyond Apple's defaults, doing so can complicate things.

- Linux: Suited for users who can tolerate some unpredictability. It offers the most control, particularly on desktop, and can be incredibly efficient when functioning smoothly. However, maintaining this state can require significant effort, as updates may disrupt previously stable features like hibernation, graphics drivers, and Japanese input. The introduction of Wayland has further complicated the landscape.

- Windows: Strikes a balance between Linux's flexibility and Mac's controlled ecosystem. While it lacks Linux's high degree of customization, it's less restrictive than Mac. The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) provides a competent Linux experience for many use cases. Although troubleshooting can be challenging, issues are generally less frequent compared to Linux.

After transitioning from Windows to Mac to Linux and back to Windows, I've gained a newfound appreciation for Windows, especially its later versions. Despite its flaws, Windows emerges as the platform requiring the least maintenance, efficiently facilitating both work and leisure with minimal friction—at least in my experience.
There's a lot of legal history there. The US never had feudalism. The overthrow of feudalism resulted in reduced land rights for large landowners.

There's another amusing historical accident - Blackstone.[1] Blackstone's Commentaries[2] are a self-contained four volume set on how the English legal system worked. They had a strong influence on the US legal system. Most of the drafters of the Constitution read them. There were few if any law libraries, but many copies of Blackstone.

Blackstone was a property rights absolutist. He wrote:

"So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. If a new road, for instance, were to be made through the grounds of a private person, it might perhaps be extensively beneficial to the public; but the law permits no man, or set of men, to do this without consent of the owner of the land. In vain may it be urged, that the good of the individual ought to yield to that of the community; for it would be dangerous to allow any private man, or even any public tribunal, to be the judge of this common good, and to decide whether it be expedient or no."[3]

This is further than English law goes. US law arose from that interpretation. That's the power of writing the most widely read book on the subject.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blackstone

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_the_Laws_of_En...

[3] https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s5....
> The whole point is that you're not paying for it

Tell that to anyone who paid extra for a K-series Intel chip.
My last two stolen packages required the vendor to open a claim, I did in both cases and both vendors refunded me. Fedex wouldn't even entertain trying to help me.
It's been disheartening to see the degradation of desktop computing because of the shift to "mobile first".

That AI UI designer (Aiuzard?) doesn't even know what a "desktop program" is. Everything's expected to look like a website or a mobile app.
Arc browser's new AI-powered 'pinch-to-summarize' feature
But things can remain overhyped longer than I can afford to short it. Hence why I believe it's not relevant.
Earlier this week I was thinking similar..

How do I teach a young person about to travel the world alone as a new adult the scams like bump-and-rob.. the pick pockets in new orleans and the ones that 'tell you where your shoes are from'..

the ball and cups people in NY, the purse snatchers watching from the alleys..

There are so many scams and criminal things I've seen over the years (and I am sure many more I do not know) - how to prepare people for predators that are waiting for the noobs in the cities..

the dating app free dinner people and the dating app drug and rob common in Columbia these days..

/random quick thoughts.

We need a compendium and video to show some things they should be aware of and looking for instead of staring up at the pretty new lights or what not.
A friend is working on a slightly related project, I’m curious how they map out the room in voxels, anyone care to suggest how this is done?
Won't it be better to transform documents into Q&A style instead of "chunking"?
>Seriously, he's easily worth hundreds of millions since years and he lives like a normal dude and spends his time just blogging and being a bitcoin evangelist.

Maybe I'm just reading it this way, but it seems like you are implying that this is a negative and I'm really not sure why a millionaire living like a normal dude could possibly be considered negative.
It looks like you're trying to get some sort of "confession" from relevant people based on recent memes against the company? The reality is likely that the developers sincerely believe in the value of this product and are proud of its launch. You're just adding uninteresting, irrelevant noise to the discussion and you probably won't get what you want.
Exactly this. Except, there is zero chance they just looked at mamba and went "meh, too new for us". People are definitely trying stuff. It takes a lot of fiddling around with a brand new model architecture to get something working well. OpenAI aren't going to give a running commentary on the state of all the things they are looking into.
You might have to buy a second one to this one for folding [1]

[1] https://pantor.github.io/speedfolding/
Huh, ok. Split panes are one of the killer features of iTerm2 IMO, and also one of the reasons why tmux control mode is so great on it. :)

To each their own though, so if it doesn't work for you, then it doesn't!
US?

What about Brexit…the yellow vests in France…?
Maybe he will cash out in the future if his cryosleep awakening will be successful

Allegedly this guy is nakamoto https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scienti...
I would love to know if he regrets it or not.

Like the dude who found cfcs
For sure, I got a couple Dysons though I ended up making my own using a industrial vacuum HEPA filter and a 12v blower fan.

DYSON: $500
Self made: ~$70
Can you be more precise about how a high-amperage short circuit can produce a "shockwave" of a form that would be ameliorated by a "real" surge protector?
My first thought as well... it's so unlikely my kid would respect the rules at all.
> After [von Braun's] death in 1977, greater detail of the German native’s service in the Nazi party and military would become more widely known.

That may technically be true, but it's not as if the broad outlines weren't already clear; consider the 1965 song "Wernher von Braun".

A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience.
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown,

(also: my take on the future as seen from the mid-70s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39084117 )
It may eventually fall out. Not guaranteed to. Unlike OneDrive.
The argument I've seen made for crating from an evolutionary-history perspective is that dogs are den animals -- they actively like having a small nook that they can feel safe in, where they're comfortable and nothing can sneak up on them.

I have a crate for my dog. The door stays open all the time, it has a comfy mat on its floor, and sometimes he goes there to take a nap. He's only ever shut in it when there's a reason -- a contractor in the house, or I need to keep the front door propped open for a while, or similar. (When he was a puppy it was incredibly useful, though, because it was a way to teach him to settle down.)
> Bank transfers are free in my country even cross country.

Try any fancy private bank or a bank on the other side of the world and you'll see.

Even national interbank transfer are generally complicated and slow and the complexity of the system is just well hidden mostly by low rate lending guaranteed by central banks.
If you dig a lot you will find a footprint. There is evidence that there was a small core team and that satoshi may not be a single person, if it is, he is most likely to be Wei Dai. The other likely alternative is of course the hypothetical state-backed actor.
A quick search to WP Dog Intelligence [1] will quickly note that there have been cases of 1,000 words and this is actually fairly well known. It's perhaps interesting that researches are confirming anecdotal reports online, although as noted in another comment below, there are 10M+ videos from multiple channels all on the same subject. I donno, it's like humans are just realizing animals might not be that less intelligent. Parrots ask existential questions. Prior research on dog language:

"2008, Betsy, a Border Collie, knew over 345 words by the retrieval test, and she was also able to connect an object with a photographic image of the object, despite having seen neither before."

(mentioned in article) "Rico initially knew the labels of over 200 items [and] inferred the names of novel items by exclusion"

"2013, a Border Collie, "Chaser", who had learned the names and could associate by verbal command over 1,000 words[...], and [was] capable of linking nouns to verbs"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_intelligence#Learning_and_...
I think what's way more interesting is that dogs can master class inclusion: they can understand that this toy is "Mr Shakey" and this toy is "Elephant" but they can also understand that there is a superordinate category of "toys" that includes both Mr Shakey and Elephant, and when asked "Go and get me a toy" can choose either. This is mind-blowing, as children normally have to reach 7 or 8 before they have a solid grasp of class inclusion [0]

0 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1129264#:~:text=showing%20relat....
It is not entirely fruitless. Doing this with different things you might eventually stumble upon something that will become your hobby.
Emergence of stone-tool use behavior in a population of common macaques
this is the role of sport
What's the difference between a "take home coding test" and an "online test"? As far as I can tell, these are functionally identical perhaps save for the submission mechanism.

Explain to the candidate that there will be a 3 hour time limit enforced once the prompt is revealed. Close submission 3 hours after the candidate chooses to reveal the prompt. This could easily be done in GitHub, if the submission mechanism is pushing updates to the company's repo. Voila, you have enforced a 3 hour time limit on your "take home coding test".
> Which is exactly what happens to your debit cards -- and then people are subject to the whims of Visa and their opaque capricious KYC implementation.

Not really. The merchant decides what kind of card to accept and how to route. It's just that customers will choose not to visit your establishment if you only accept debit, even if you have lower prices. Because they like the perks of a credit card.

The reality is the merchants pay a blended average of about 1.8% and they do so because people spend more on credit cards. It's relatively cheap, super fast, very easy and secure.

KYC is hardly capricious. Visa, issuers and acquirers have no interest in cutting off customers because, and this is true, cut off customers don't make them money. There is room for something like 'payment network neutrality' where legislation requires networks to process all legal transactions. Things can be better.

> And then we're stuck with the incumbents forever because anything new and different can't build a network effect when customers would have to pay a de facto 2% tax on everything they buy in order to use it.

I don't buy this either. The last few years saw the development of a whole new network in BNPLs. And guess what, it's not cheaper, at all. They charge 4% or more and they don't kick any of it back to customers.

The value in credit networks is in the loan origination, the insurance and to an extent the rewards. The credit networks do just fine in Europe where interchange is capped at 0.2% for debit and 0.3% for credit, and I haven't really seen a wellspring of competition. What I do see is a dearth of loyalty programs, which is a tradeoff you can choose to make.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/politics/china-hacking...
This is well put. Coincidentally in the example the results are the same , but they need not be. given repeated experiments with the same intentions one may expect different distributions.

However, one could just move the argument up a level and manufacture a case of different intentions leading to the same distributions and then ask the same question.
>at this point every wallet is indexed, tracked and any wallet with significant value (regardless of cost basis) is being mined for potential vulnerabilities.

The point being made is that once a wallet is connected to a real identity (as opposed to just knowing that wallet X has Y amount of BTC), the attack surface for that wallet is increased by magnitudes and entire vectors of attack are opened up (e.g. phishing).
The analog loophole is the idea that I can always just use a camera and/or a microphone to record any content I want to pirate, rather than rip the original exact digital bits. The reason why this resulted in low quality results in the past is that cameras and microphones lose fidelity of the original source... but the technology behind cameras and microphones just gets better over time, and there is only so good that the original digital content with the original hardware playing to the human perception system was going to be in the first place, so if you point a good enough camera at a video and re-render it on a high-quality enough display you don't care that it goes through that analog step anymore, making DRM implemented inside of display protocols meaningless (and yes: opening the door to using the analog loophole to pirate and then modify/remix everything you see and experience in real time using AR).
Question from the n00bs, this is the encryption algo used in Signal and iMessage, right?

Also, why use this and not AES-256 or ed25519 ?
I wonder how true that is.

It used to be that 90%+ of citizens were employed in agriculture.

Your hypothesis is that we switched from replacing all those farmers with "even more" factory workers building farming machines.

This seems like an extraordinary claim. If one tractor replaces 10 farmers, why would you need 10 workers, full-time, to build this one tractor?

It seems much more likely that the slow disappearance of all those farming "jobs" was, kind-of coincidentally, timed with the need for building cars, clothing factories etc.
Decentralized at the wholesale level.
WA state has a private way of necessity [1] (edit: i had the wrong word here). If my land has no access except through your land, you may not deny me access. Although you're welcome to attempt to negotiate with me to get to something that works well for both of us, but if not, I can do something reasonable.

WA also has easements by traditional access, but it seemed pretty limited and easy for property owners to avoid, when I was looking into it.

[1] https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=8.24&full=true
In every car I owned so far the can bus was just behind a removable panel near the steering wheel.
This is very effective.

Also, just try really hard. Repeat. It's new language to explain concepts you likely already know. You don't remember spanish by looking at the translations once.
Billions of people are denied the chance to do just that, so instead of "increasing headcount" like a bad manager, maybe our species should look into better utilization of the "human resources" we already have.
If you are looking for a non-web-based cross-platform GUI in rust, check out EGUI. It has an easy-to-use API, good docs, runs fast, and can integrate with 3d graphics, maps etc.

> By being built on Rust, Tauri is able to take advantage of the memory, thread, and type-safety offered by Rust. Apps built on Tauri can automatically get those benefits even without needing to be developed by Rust experts.

How much of this is mitigated by being web-API-based?
The question is whether we should draw different conclusions from one set of observations depending not just on what we are observing but also on different ways to define "what are all the worlds that I might be in that are consistent with what I'm presently observing".
Nobody is a strong word. There are many competent engineering teams that understand the value of strong foundations.

However the problem is quite real in large companies where promo driven development takes over and the incentives are shifted from building what is valuable to customers to building what is valuable to get a promo.
The sugar doesn't hurt either (it's like half as much sugar as soda, but it still helps some).
Oh my, I remember Avast. Fastest I ever nuked an HDD was after seeing it on there.
So if you port your stuff and blusky bans you, you keep all your posts, all your friends posts, all your groups' info, all your DMS, everything..

.. and the only thing that happens is you can't send data to/through blusky (or receive?) any more and and new data ?

I'd like to test this, any way to get someone from blusky to ban an account to test this?
Psychopathology Ate Personality: The Thickening DSM and Erosion of Normality [video]
From the video description:

> Once upon a time there was a field called Personality Psychology, which concerned itself with normal-range individual differences between people, as distinct from dysfunction-inducing extremes classified as psychopathologies. Over the last 40 years, however, mental health diagnostic categories have broadened markedly, making the range of what we used to think of as "normal" much narrower. Diversity has become disorder. Although intended to broaden the availability of mental health services to more people, there is no evidence that this trend has contributed to improvements in population mental health - indeed, the opposite seems to be true.

Edit: clarified that this quotes the video description.
Oh yeah. You'd get shot.
I bet there’s also just selection bias: if you don’t use it, you’re more likely to skip a story about and if you use services like Twitter or Facebook they’ll stop suggesting things you don’t click on.
That still doesn't make Apple a monopoly.

Apple is the only place you can buy an iPhone, yes, but you don't have to buy an iPhone. You can buy an Android phone instead (in fact Android has about 2/3 of the market worldwide, which, condiments aside, make the claim that Apple is a "monopoly" pretty dubious).
So who build an hackernews room for fun ?
Looks great and I was amazed to see so much content on it already. Mobile also looks pretty neat! Only thing that always annoys me is this: https://imgur.com/a/W7zsDLe — what do the five stars mean, where do they come from, it's just an image you can post underneath everything, it's a bit offputting to throw these around so nonchalantly, at least in my opinion. Good luck with it, looks like a huge project already!
I refused to go down this route; the hours lost in frustration are not worth it.

I purchased a UPS that supports a network management card, basically an overpriced SNMP daemon with an Ethernet interface, and have been happy ever since, since every system can query the status of the UPS.
I respectfully submit that your perception deviates from the definition of nihilism and not just the connotations…

Belief in Nothing…
But publishers that were not profitable and didn't go out of business were ZIRPs.
College Student Flies to Campus to Avoid Paying Rent, and It Sort of Makes Sense
Even though this has been down voted into oblivion, I’ll bite: to what political ends would you propose the labor class exercise their power?
The more-fun part is that using the wrong one can instruct an APC UPS to shut down immediately.

(I'm not convinced that anyone has ever been behind the wheel of the ship that is called APC.)