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Hi again Oliver! Just got your email and I'll reply there you tomorrow as well. Thanks for the feedback.

>The grids cannot be solved by themselves. Some external knowledge is required

I introduced this kind of feature in another custom made puzzles, such as one about blood types ("the universal donor is ...") and I got a lot of praise for it and I thought it could be extended to another themes. But I can see that it might be too broad and uninteresting. Will revise this.
If you haven't seen them, Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister are excellent (up to a point?) explorations of the agency issues between a permanent civil service and an ephemeral political leadership. (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abba_Eban#Family )

> whereas we mask it with a thin layer of democracy

I understand China has a yearly meeting where a few thousand regionally elected delegates get together and vote on various national proposals for the year to come...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_People%27s_Congress

http://www.npc.gov.cn/zgrdw/englishnpc/Special_12_2/index.ht...
Domination apart from the CPUs that power the main computing devices for the large majority of people (billions) around the world.
> I'm glad we aren't currently so dedicated to destroying stuff.

Agreed, it's 2024 after all, not bloody 2019 . . .

The Christian converts who are setting fire to sacred Aboriginal objects

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-20/the-christian-convert...
Why would you abbreviate “solution”?
The reverse explanation (bowel cancer recurrence -> decreased coffee consumption) should be kept in mind.

There have been similar findings about caffeine and miscarriage, for instance, with higher caffeine intake associated with greater miscarriage risk. Then it was found that women who eventually miscarried are less likely to get morning sickness, and therefore less likely to feel nauseous from drinking coffee, and therefore drink more of it.

A similar causal path might be going on.
A tail is grabbable.

I'd think in primate fighting, a tail would be big negative. It could be grabbed.

Can you imagine Chimp fights if they had tails that could be held on to and the owner dragged around.
> There is a footnote about Amiga offering preemptive multitasking 7 years earlier.

The thing is, that's only part of the story.

There's a generation of techies who are about 40 now who don't remember this stuff well, and some of the older ones have forgotten with time but don't realise. I had some greybeard angrily telling me that floppy drives were IDE recently. Senile idiot.

Anyway.

Preemptive multitasking is only part of the story. Lots of systems had it. Windows 2.0 could do preemptive multitasking -- but only of DOS apps, and only in the base 640kB of RAM, so it was pretty useless.

It sounds good but it's not. Because the other key ingredient is memory protection. You need both, together, to have a compelling deal. Amiga and Windows 2.x/3.x only had the preemption part, they had no hardware memory management or protection to go with it. (Windows 3.x when running on a 386 and also when given >2MB RAM could do some, for DOS apps, but not much.)

Having multiple pre-emptive tasks is relatively easy if they are all in the same memory space, but it's horribly horribly unstable.

Also see: microkernels. In size terms, AmigaOS was a microkernel, but a microkernel without memory protection is not such a big deal, because the hard part of a microkernel is the interprocess communication, and if they can just do that by reading and writing each other's RAM it's trivially easy but also trivially insecure and trivially unstable.

RISC OS had pre-emptive multitasking too... but only of text-only command-line windows, and there were few CLI RISC OS apps so it was mostly useless. At least on 16-bit Windows there were lots of DOS apps so it was vaguely useful, if they'd fit into memory. Which only trivial ones would. Windows 3 came along very late in the DOS era, and by then, most DOS apps didn't fit into memory on their own one at a time. I made good money optimising DOS memory around 1990-1992 because I was very good at it and without it most DOS apps didn't fit into 500-550kB any more. So two of them in 640kB? Forget it.

Preemption is clever. It lets apps that weren't designed to multitask do it.

But it's also slow. Which is why RISC OS didn't do it. Co-op is much quicker
which is also why OSes like RISC OS and 16-bit Windows chose it for their GUI apps: because GUI apps strained the resources of late-1980s/very-early-1990s computers. So you had 2 choices:

• The Mac and GEM way: don't multitask at all.

• The 16-bit Windows and RISC OS way: multitask cooperatively, and hope nothing goes wrong.

Later, notably, MacOS 7-8-9 and Falcon MultiTOS/MiNT/MagiC etc added coop multitasking to single-tasking GUI OSes. I used MacOS 8.x and 9.x a lot and I really liked them. They were extraordinarily usable to an extent Mac OS X has never and will never catch up with.

But the good thing about owning a Mac in the 1990s was that at least one thing in your life was guaranteed to go down on you every single day.
Ach, programmers! You ruined programming!
Windows XP I think, maybe windows 2000
That's true of a great many books in this vein. Yes, examples and research can flesh things out a bit, but a TED Talk or an article probably provides 90% of what you might want to know. But TED Talks and articles don't put food on the table.
Downvotes but you all have the wrong idea. Classic hacker news... "Dont tell me!!" lol, eat a bag of...
Downvotes but true. Hacker news hates truth.
I find new music mostly through Bandcamp weekly or just browsing, KEXP on YouTube and by checking out concerts in my area.

Though Spotify has randomly played some artists that I hadn't heard of and I ended up really enjoying. But I agree it's somehow not as great to just sit down and discover something new.

I use Spotify in my car because it's convenient. I buy albums on Bandcamp and listen to those at home or at work. I take a lot of chances on concerts, my best concert experiences have been the ones with $20-30 tickets so I can afford some misses.
What’s the context of this post?
No downvotes here, direct attack at the Ycomb-King-Slum-Lord himself
> Having an (expanding) empire keeps the dream alive.

A trouble with naive expansion is that logistic-S curves can't stay on the exponential path when one approaches 50% market penetration.

see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39729186
MS book reveals it was plenty serious about making Windows 10 "the last version"
We’ve ramped up our outreach because experience shows it’s critical for building the contributor base and fast-tracking project evolution—our flurry of repo activity is a testament to this strategy. On the email front, a technical snag during our provider’s migration led to the mix-up where some subscribers were left enrolled. We’re on it. Meanwhile, we believe Daytona’s as a product will make up for the noise. Check our Friday release v0.7.0 for the proof in the pudding.
Everything in Its Right Place
This came out about the time during a trend where some idea/concept like this, which could be nicely explained in a 10-20min TED talk or long form article was then padded out and published as a full size book.
It premiered 25 years ago today
How it compares to electrolarynx, which give you robotic sound.
> Do you gets ads on BBC Sounds when you listen abroad?

No. Sometimes when a program on replay is streamed as the podcast there's an announcement at the start that BBC podcasts may have ads outside the UK, but I've never heard one.

I'm in Japan.
I don't believe there's any service that offers that - piracy concerns and all. At best you could set up a media server and a tunnel to your home server.

What I used to do was create a smart playlist that would be randomly filled with a selection of music every time my ipod was synced.
Perhaps there’s something similar on Reddit or Lemmy? It could be more around the context of “weekly recommendations” inside subreddits for specific genres.
Spreadsheets were not so great back then. I'd be surprised if Lotus 1-2-3 was able to render cells in multiple colors, and I think it could render only about 8 columns at a time.
The first chapter of James Michener's "Hawaii" is a nice description of what exploring the Pacific in a huge catamaran might have been like.

FWIW Taiwan seems to have been the cradle of Pacific seafaring culture.
This validation dialect (and SQL dialect are main things) I used in all my web development for years using Rebol. So in Rye I made it part of the base builtins. It's nothing particularly special or complicated and could be improved to cover more cases.

I then had custom functions in Rebol that instead of argument list accepted this validation block and what it returned gor serialized into JSON and returned from the webserver. In case of valiadation error it also got automatically returned and sent back. So you defined such fucntions in a context and got an web accesible API and also you could call them on serverside to render something there (or fill in JSON directly into page that is served).

Function in Rebol (and Rye) also have a docstring and it's accesible within the language so these functions could also self-document. Show their description and validation rules if you called them with &_x=1 (as in explore mode).

Of course I tried to redo all this in Rye and make it even better for this.

Ok ... I got a little carried away ... :)
> For RSALv2 "Software" and "Modified" is not "software" and "modified". It's capitalized because it refers to terms that are provided in "Definitions" section. From there you have:

Notice how they deliberately don't define "service" or at any point specify "the functionality of the Software".

> It's because open source has problem with cloud where big players not involved with the project cash out on it by simply selling it as is (as managed service) and by doing it they also automatically strip original authors from any chances of competing.

This is, quite obviously, highly subjective. I (and many others) don't think there's a problem, VC-backed companies think there's a problem. Go ask (for example) the Linux, Postgres, Memcached or any of the CNCF folk about whether there's a problem.

> It's not targeted at users. It's targeted at providers.

Providers are also users.

> OSI doesn't have (or will ever have?) licenses that are compatible with this new era of cloud providers because it equates end user with cloud provider. This is wrong and people will have to invent new adjectives/nouns to describe what they mean by open source contribution + not allowed to leech on us (compete with us through cloud offering without giving us a cut).

It's also pretty insulting to the thousands (millions?) of open source projects that choose to adopt an OSI-approved open source licence to suggest that they somehow don't understand what they're doing or are "doing it wrong".

If you're worried about not getting a cut when cloud providers use your software to make money.... don't release it under an open source licence. This isn't hard?
I'm not sure what this has to do with capitalism. If anything, throwing people in a gulag was a favourite past time of communists and their definition of infectious disease was non-communist thought, which indeed is capable of jumping from one host to another. Scary!
I am usually annoyed by "Why is this on HackerNews?", but sharing random Wikipedia pages without context seems to warrant it.
I first learned about the Scythians in a small book written in 1880 about the Jewish Tribe of Dan. There was a very interesting analysis in the book comparing their oral history and origins.

https://www.amazon.com/Dan-Colonel-J-C-Gawler/dp/B002YBHRIQ/
Codex usually does not mean stone, but more like a book (albeit usually something like vellum instead of paper)
How do you see an escalation using one of listed in the article tool (unless a binary has suid bit which you shouldn’t set if worried about security). Many of these tools provide convenient access to /proc - if an attacker needs something there they can read/write directly to /proc. Though in case of eBPF - disabled kernel support would reduce attack surface and if it disabled in the kernel’s user mode tools are useless.
I like it, as much as I am a Sony shooter with different tastes.

When I got my Sony a7ii I first though “the kit lens sucks categorically” then thought “wait, I took some really nice pictures with that lens” to “I gave it a try but I take better pictures with other lenses”

Lately I have been thinking about adding a long reach lens, like maybe the 24-70mm GM you mention but usually I pack something really long or really wide unless I am packing one of these

https://7artisans.store/products/7artisans-50mm-f0-95-large-...

(I know I shoulda got the full frame) which is manual focus but takes pictures like you’ve never seen before which puts it above many lenses that cost 10x as much in some way.

Packing too much is a vice of mine so I can understand some of the appeal of more compact lenses but I’m not willing to give up any image quality for it.

To that end I like primes, this is one of my favorites

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1126140-REG/sony_sel9...

which in my mind is a very versatile lens that is great for portraits, served me well when I ran into a pan anti-war protest the other day, and makes it easy to make shots of flowers, dolls, and other small things that nobody will mistake for a smartphone snap. (Of course I think a 70-200mm is really versatile too.)

Lately I’ve gotten a few lenses with aperture rings (like that 7Artisans) and I am gaga for them. Last year I got into sports photography and got one of these

https://electronics.sony.com/imaging/lenses/all-e-mount/p/se...

cause I was struggling with shooting volleyball
indoors. I would not say it is versatile but if you can get composition right it takes amazing basketball shots not to mention field sports if you can get close enough. I am still feeling like I could use something crazy long for (both kinds of) football but given what those kind of lenses cost I might settle for a teleconverter.
Haha. Very true.A person who has a solid community has no reason to uproot him/herself and go through a risky venture. You could argue a healthy civilization needs a tribe of lonely rootless people to maximize their risk-taking abilities.
My very unscientific test is to ask new models I'm trying to build a basic React Native component using a specific library. "Please make me a react native component, using typescript and react native reanimated that creates an animation of a circle that bounces when it hits the ground. It should loop indefinitely."

Both GPT4-turbo and Claude 3 Opus produce a generally acceptable output. Claude 3 gave me a ball that bounces off the "ground" and "roof", but in a smooth and continuous motion. GPT4-turbo gives me a ball that bounces on the ground then "snaps" back up to the top and does it again. Mistral large gives me garbage output. It imports a bunch of function from react-native-reanimated that don't exist and produces nothing usable.

Technically GPT4-turbo's response is a bit more faithful to what I asked, I suppose. However, Claude 3 Opus animation looks much more "polished" even though I never asked for the ball to bounce off the roof.
There's some tooling out there: "NilAway: Practical nil panic detection for Go" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38300425
Build time is a collective responsibility
Filling Nuclear Power's $5T Hole Is Beyond the Banks
Unspoken Expectations
Of course, in such a case , you’ve likely waited (as I had) until the tooth is really bad. Despite antibiotics.

I think because of the infection it was quite loose, and prying a little with the elevator was all it took to get it to where it could pull it out with my fingers. If I had not had dental tools, it might have been much harder.

The pain is already really bad, yanking it out really wasn’t much worse than the steady state and once the nerves were severed it was instant reduction in discomfort.

Half a bottle of gin made it easier. The hard part was having to wait until the sea conditions were good enough that I felt like I could safely be numb-faced drunk.
https://archive.is/0dh6E
Hello Herman, I like your project! I noticed that you are working on LLM tutoring projects for parts of Africa. Do you have a link to more information for that? Want help?
Adding chat widgets without modifying WordPress theme files
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The problem might be size, lots of smaller primates have tails which can be very useful as a fifth arm for holding onto branches. As you get larger, tree foraging becomes less viable and the tail less useful and it would need to be oversized to be able to function properly.
Hello everyone,
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> the "audiophile" is a microscopically small segment of the music market

A small portion of the market but the portion most willing to spend large amounts of money on music and music related products.
I had a suspicion it would play / recommend the same random tracks (autoplay after an album/playlist finishes) to ensure cache hits instead of needing to download songs off their servers.
Exactly, the problem here is the consolidation of the industry so there are only a few large corporations and large bars of entry for new players. It's not a free competitive market anymore. It's also food, a necessity, and not a luxury people could choose not to buy anymore.
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Well... what will happen if you don't do it? 10 years from now, where are you going to be, what are you going to be doing?

And what will happen if you do it? 10 years from now, who are you?

30 years from now, looking back, what advice would you give you at this point?

:)

Good luck! :)
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The last common ancestor language of Hellenic and Iranian languages dates back to something like 1500 years before their individual classifications, so it's quite unlikely Greeks understood Schythian languages.

Scythians were also illiterate, which I imagine would not have been the case for long if the languages were closely related.
I made a thing which is pretty close to what you're after: https://dailyalbum.art

It picks 12 random albums every day. It's picking from a number of curated "best of" lists (Rolling Stone, Mercury Prize nominess, Rough Trade, etc.) so there's often a mix of familiar and unfamiliar options
Also non-colonizer Europeans, for the same religious reasons, did burn more knowledge (and persons) here, in their own towns.

Most of the history that we got, is what those ancestors did leave in their writings.

Today the inquisition simply consists of our beloved governments, covering up their dirty dealings, and telling a different story in the media, media dominated to the most inquisitorial extreme.

At least in Spain, videos are deleted, the monetization of certain channels on social networks is cancelled, forwarding of certain content on WhatsApp is rate-limited, and today, Telegram is closing in Spain, while all the ministers, the president and their families are involved in continuous corruption scandals, forgiven by judges who have been put in position by the same politicians.

Politicians forgiving the robbery of politicians, while TV only talks about the color of the air (if they don want to be reported and economically punished).

Journalists without a journalism career, who only look with a magnifying glass to the families of the monarchies, but totally forget forever about the families of the hundreds (thousands?) of Spanish politicians and ex-politicians.

Journalist without a journalism career, who try to tell us that life has increased a 6% (hello, do you mean that what previously did cost 1 Eur, now costs 1 Eur and 6 cents? where? basic education mathematics, please?)

The same supposedly lefty politicians, who criticize priests, are worse than priests, in this inquisitorial sense.

Something I ask myself... if the history that we got, was what the priests did write or didn't burn... what history will get about us, people in 500 years? That lies published in the media? 24 different versions of the same fact? Nothing at all if it's about ministers stealing public money? Whatever the generative AI tells them?
I wonder if there's an AI product/startup idea here. A personal AI firewall that aggressively curates social media content and only shows you content that benefits you (posts that are information dense, curious, and not angry), instead of benefiting the corporation or benefiting someone's ideological agenda by keeping you doomscrolling.

Anyways, I've been moderately happy with Bluesky. It's got an obvious left-bias (probably just due to a flight of left-leaning people from X), but it doesn't have racism, gore, porn, so I don't go away feeling down like I do after using X.
It's also no surprise that Iceland has the highest number of authors per capita!
Apple iOS Fake Lockdown Mode PoC (2023)
Embrace the truth
Oh crumbs you shouldn't have shown me that! I didn't know about the 90mm f/2.8 macro. It looks very nice. £614 second hand.....

One aspect I've loved of writing the reviews is some very cheap lenses (the Canon 135mm cost me very little second hand) take truly extraordinary pictures, and I don't think I'd have tried that lens if I hadn't had a go at this blog.
Just tested the fix on the Fossil's db. The arrows are displayed correctly. Thanks!
Semantic HTML[1] and Tufte style, all in one[2] CDN'd file. Me likey.

[1] <aside> at least

[2] Not counting normalize.css
I think the world fossil fuel capitalists will have something to say about that unfortunately :/
How does loss of biodiversity cause civilization to collapse in the next few decades?
- No one is trying to prove they are smarter.

- Towns don't "turn around" spontaneously.

- people don't usually gamble every dollar they have

That's why this gentleman is a great object of curiosity. He's the perfect story of sheltered, with money, hitting reality and being flummoxed.
Data Centers Are Reshaping Rural America
The point was to counter the idea that country invading another country in this day and age is silly.
Like many things, it'd not be much of a big deal on local (except needing a GPU with enough VRAM) .

I read this as adobe using AI to improve search, but it seems like some people are reading it as using unpublished content for training purposes.

Of course, either way, once data leaves your own network, you don't have control over it, and you simply have to trust that the other party won't (ab)use it.
I'm curious about the numbers reported by the researchers that led to those results. Do you have any references to those studies you can share?
Sieve (YC W22) Is hiring ML engineers to build the future of video AI
These social benefits is something they can revoke anytime (with an apology). Remember that few years ago they simply upped pension age to the average life expectancy for men? “You work, then you die, please put money in this box.”
I mean, Op started right off the bat with the idea that op would love to live in a communist society.

By all means Op can say that they agree with some Marxist ideas, but when the real human costs of that model are very well proven out by now it should be a red flag if someone doesn’t acknowledge those costs from the jump. I’m not surprised this quickly went to suggesting Stalin wasn’t so bad.
There doesn’t seem to be any elemental sulfur in these batteries, so how would those be formed? In other articles this chemistry is said to be much safer than Li-ion.