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Ask HN: Read the Docs Like a Book?
I think I have wasted too much time trying to get readthedocs epub files to work on my kindle. I have also found android epub apps slow or limited. How do you read the docs?
They came for Florida's sun and sand. They got soaring costs and a culture war
RCS has enough features for most people, and it will be pre-installed. After people will realize that mobile operating systems can do modern texting without any crutches from their respective app stores, they will increasingly not bother with them, and that will make Whatsapp to gradually be less and less important in an accelerating pace.

Those who actually care about e2ee don't use Whatsapp, because it is closed source and it nags users into enabling plaintext cloud backups.

Of course, if Apple's RCS implementation won't work without carrier-provided RCS, it will be dead in arrival outside North America and China.
Not too late to buy NVIDIA stock
Also people would complain that their tax money is being wasted on pointless government infrastructure when Twitter, Facebook, etc. are right there, and free.
My understanding is that Board members are intended to be personally responsible for actions of the company.

Which is why homeless people and ne'er-do-wells get paid $10 to sign a piece of paper (which remains unread) but states this responsibility for shell companies X, Y, and Z.

Also, by design, shell companies don't tend to have assets worth seizing.
Many OSS contributors likely don't have "fly to distant country for mandatory meeting" money.

You are excluding a ton of contributors based on geography and income.

It's not common that I find this line actually decent but check your privilege with this kind of comment.

This is really a small step away from segregation.
Incapable is a strong word—but much (if not most) of the Muslim world advocates for Sharia law which is essentially the opposite of a democracy. When it's practiced in it's truest form it's the most repressive system of laws against women in the modern world.

As the world becomes more modern and democratic principles become more highly prized, I think we see some glimmers of hope in the muslim world as parts of the population begin to value more democratic principles. But they have to do this in the context of the theocratic states in which they live in where these values were never first class citizens—so I think that's why we haven't seen much progress on these fronts in that part of the world.

I agree with you that there's a double standard in regards to the application of the law—I'm not privy on why Palestinians are subject to Israel's laws, and I wouldn't charitably say it's for reasons that are morally sound. I do think that allowing Palestinian's to vote in Israel's parliamentary elections is a non-starter for obvious reasons.
Woolworths in Australia has a solution called Scan and Go. You use the app on your phone to scan barcodes as you take things off the shelves. When you’re done, the app charges your stored credit card and you scan a qr receipt at the door as you leave which opens a little boom gate.

I believe there’s still some AI based visual monitoring in place but it’s much simpler. Instead of needing to identify exactly what you’re picking up, it just needs to flag when it thinks you might have picked something up without scanning it. If that happens, it triggers a staff member to come have look in your bags when you scan your receipt to leave.

It seems like a much more pragmatic way to realise 80% of the value you get with “just walk out”.
Yes, the xx(x) number in the 27xx(x) EPROM series indicates the kilo (1024) bits. So indeed this is 2 KiB.
This sounds OK for the application described, especially as it was no doubt written in assembly and obviously bare metal. When it does not fit but not far off it's when the fun of code optimisation kicks in ;)

Edit: Very interesting how easily available they still seem to be according to Google.
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There's millions of Palestinians living in the West Bank or as refugees abroad, expelled or descended from those expelled in previous rounds of ethnic cleansing. Even if IDF go final solution on the 2 million Palestinians living in Gaza ghetto, this will not be the end of all Palestinians or the Palestinian struggle. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_diaspora
If 5+ companies can build it up in ~6 months, it's a low barrier
Mozilla was like that because Mozilla was a clone of Netscape Communicator that had been like that since 1997 when Netscape acquired Collabra and turned the standalone browser into a groupware suite with email, calendaring, directory services, and more.
He was pretty much trashing lunar starship (which makes sense for the first landings) but seemed to be very much cheerleading SLS. It's boggling to me that no one (not even destin) is talking about scooting a lander + engine module up with F9H and rendezvousing with crew brought up with a normal F9.... After all F9H is even slated to bring up the lunar space station.

This would be relatively easy and doable basically "today" plus or minus a year or three of capsule design

Edit: clarified to say "lunar starship", added details on F9H
In most locales, kinky sex parties between consenting adults are also perfectly legal - depending on details, of course.

In very, very few locations is it a good idea to let all but a small subset of people know you’re having them. Jealousy is an ugly thing.

Same with money.
Honestly that's hilarious, I love it.
> In the context of this thread, how are those other rights relevant?

That a company isn't a person. We know this because a person has rights a company doesn't.
Let's hope they don't switch to the BSL license too
Related:

FCC to Vote on Restoring Net Neutrality

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39923231
Because their competitors are growing.
"You violated a template rule. Here's a novel on everything that's broken as a result"

It's why the Constraint system was important for C++.
You can target the manufacturing plants since they are military objectives but you cannot target the workers. If any war-sustaining activity would make you, as a person, a target, pretty much anyone could be bombed: farmers, bankers, power plant engineers, truck drivers, ...

For a source, you can check out the Red Cross document I linked. Specifically, Ctrl+F for "continuous combat function" and read the commentary on recommendation V. The Guidance is considered authoritative in legal circles.
What’s this “transportation right” you speak of? The right to roam isn’t guaranteed by the constitution, but protection against unlawful seizure of private property is. We should be careful to not conflate the rights actually guaranteed to us by the law of the land with things that various individuals feel are “nice to have”. And certainly not deprioritize the former in favor of the latter.
In the case of Hamas, the US and Israel are the primary weapon manufacturer, as unexploded ordinance is the primary source of their explosives.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/hamas-is-using-unexplo...
> Only those who have the "continuous function" to "directly participate in hostilities"[1] may be targeted for attack at any time.

The problem with Hamas is that they don't shy away from hiding combattants in civilian clothings or use women and children as suicide bombers. There is more than enough evidence of this tactic, dating back many many years [1].

By not just not preventing, but actively ordering such war crimes, Hamas leadership has stripped its civilian population of the protections of international law.

> Otherwise, the allowed list of targets of civilians gets so wide than in any regular war, pretty much any civilian could get targeted, such as the bank employee whose company has provided loans to the armed forces.

In regular wars, it's uniformed soldiers against uniformed soldiers, away from civilian infrastructure (hospitals, schools, residential areas). The rules of war make deviating from that a war crime on its own, simply because it places the other party in the conflict of either having no chance to wage the war or to commit war crimes on their own.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_child_suicide_bombers_b...
F3D, a 3D viewer I'm working on just added support for native 3D gaussian splatting.

You can just open and view your .splat files out of the box.
Let's merge this thread into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39912448, which was posted earlier. Then your original comment can be part of the main thread.
In javascript, what data structure can you implement without objects? Pretty much nothing. Even arrays are objects.
Related:

Carr Opposes Biden Internet Control Plan

https://www.fcc.gov/document/carr-opposes-biden-internet-con...
Wow... what can't Terraform do?!?

https://www.terraform.io/
Note "net neutrality" described here as "Internet Control Plan" by FCC Commissioner
"Recursion is fine [for your use-case]."

In general it is naive, often dangerous, and an inefficient space/time trade-off.

I have been writing software for several decades... does that make one less insightful or more biased?

https://youtu.be/pmu5sRIizdw?feature=shared&t=31

=)
I live in a city in Québec that is, according to 2018 census, 94.2% white. And the land use, parking and "neighborhood's character" policies are present. The divide is among the socioeconomic status.
I don't understand at all how some growth is a required precondition for continued existence. There is no rule saying that companies must grow or else they automatically vanish from existence.
Title is misleading: they will no longer use route servers at exchanges, is all. This won't affect regular peering sessions, and they explicitly invite folks to request them. Much ado about nothing.
> StatCounter says Windows 10 is still used by 69 percent of all Windows users, compared to just 27 percent for Windows 11. That’s a big gap that Microsoft is unlikely to close over the coming 18 months, leaving many Windows 10 users having to consider paying for security updates for the first time.

Do you want people to migrate to 'x'? ...because this is how you get people to migrate to 'x'.

*Where 'x' = any other OS but MS Windows.
I know war isn't pretty, but I really didn't expect that openly displayed level of callousness. Saying 'we think these people should be dead, but they are not important enough to warrant our "good" bombs', to me, says a lot about the mentality of the people in charge of that military assault: those aren't human lives, those are items on a 'to kill' list, and they aren't surrounded by civilians, but 'acceptable collateral damage'.
I’ve always wondered if you can design a business plan to encompass the birth, growth, and death of a company with full transparency. It wouldn’t work as a public company, but it seems it should be possible to go after one specific goal and have everyone participating know what the end game is. Some finite wealth at the end of it. You could push whatever idea you want to a limit, then let someone else carry it further in the same way when the OG company dies.
Wonder what the economics have to be for a single AI powered search?
Thanks for your work Madelyn and I wish you and the team the best of good fortune!
Among my Baby Boomer parents and their siblings (my 9 aunts and uncles), 15 years after high school only one of them lived in a house with the mortgage already paid off. None of those people even grew up in economically disadvantaged households. Did the majority of people in that generation (or an earlier one, if that's what you mean) actually own a house outright 15 years after graduating from high school?
also applies for c/с - the с (Cyrillic s) is on the same key as the Latin c on a Russian keyboard. bottom row starts with zxc/ячс respectively.
They've figured out how to detect and cut off the flowers. No solution to picking the threads yet.
The best part about FireWire (from the perspective of someone who never actually used it) was that it was very tolerant of uneven voltages; thus, all iPods that could use it (which went at least through the first Nanos) had very, very inexpensive car power adapters - they could just use the "12V" that's really more like 13.4 V. No real circuitry inside, just a cord to plug into the iPod.
I mean.. let's be fair, you open that site only when something isn't working, and are curious, if it's your phone/pc to blame, or if others have the same problem.
A lot of youtubers who run full time travel channels have started their own backup streaming video system. A lot of these guys have half million dollar sailboats or catamarans and getting demonetized would be disastrous.

If you hitch your wagon to the google bus, and the bus crashes, you don't have much recourse.
Black Uber Eats driver banned after "continued mismatches" by facial-recognition
By the same logic, we’d still be writing assembly code on 640KB RAM machines in 2024.
I signed up for the mailing list when it was first on HN a few years ago, but haven't seen many signs of progress. Website still says mid 2023 for a launch.

6502 was my first CPU so I'm totally down to buy one, even though it's going to be pretty expensive. I'd be pleased if they could make them for less than $5k.
The sad and simple truth (trying to not sound political, but it's pretty damned hard given the context) is that it seems that not so long ago, lists and very flimsy justifications were at the root of a lot of pain and suffering for the very people perpetrating the same.
Please consider reading Ritchie's "Not the End of the World" book I mentioned (or even just a summary).

Of course "awareness" is merely a necessary - and radically insufficient - condition. But a lot CAN be done, and it matters a great deal how MUCH, and how SOON we do them. The typical narrative of "we're completely screwed no matter what [so it doesn't matter what we do]" is both inaccurate and extremely harmful in that it impedes progress.

Acid rain and the ozone layer are a couple relevant examples of real success in global environmental challenges. Climate change is bigger and harder and more complex, but it's NOT "all or nothing". And there is room for -- even urgent need for -- rational optimism, which in turn motivates change of which we are capable.
Isn't that point of having car parking requirements is equal to car-oriented urban planning?
so consuming stack frames is no reason not to use a recursive function.

Saving stack memory isn't the point (even though a static array definitely does, because instead of multiple pointers and variables on the stack it only would have to store the node index of a tree).

The point is that you can see the whole stack and all the data that you're using at one time in a debugger instead of trying switch through call stacks to find data.
i’ve said it before here, so apologies if you’ve already read it, but:

> It’s literally just mobile devices.

It’s probably very unlikely that it is “literally just” mobile devices. I agree that is probably one of the major contributing factors. But when we’re discussing a very large complicated human problem, it almost certainly is not “ literally just” one thing.

If we want to accurately diagnose an issue so we can accurately address it, then we have to catch ourselves before we accidentally shut someone else down when they are very likely correct as well.

Many of the issues we’re facing are fractal level depths of human problems which are a result of years of denying the problems existed. They will almost certainly require many levers being adjusted, not “Just” one.

As I mentioned earlier, from my perspective, in addition to the GP comment, you’re likely also correct that mobile devices are a major source, I would add that it is almost certainly also unregulated social media companies, unchecked marketing, unregulated algorithms, and unchecked greed.
I've only read "The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor" 30 odd years ago, which tries to make the fantastic world of the Arabian Nights mundane in juxtaposition with a magical Chesapeake Bay. The former work better than the latter, but it's certainly inventive.
I mean running a service only for officials. They don't have to accept any type of content that they wouldn't accept in their own published websites, and they would moderate the content just like it was an account hosted on the existing platforms. Why would it be any different?

> What degree of promotion by govt constitutes propaganda?

How does that differ from any information that is distributed through Facebook/Threads/Instagram?
Good. I wonder how many people do and also if their compilers support it. (One would hope so, of course. I assume clang and GCC do.)

... but the question is really what you ship to production.

Btw, possible signed overflow was just an example of things people do not want warnings for. OOB is far more dangerous, obviously... and the cost for sanitizer in that case is HUGE... and it doesn't actually catch all cases AFAIUI.
I actually think the reason we don't have electric airplanes has to do with traction vs propulsion.

Eg: spinning a jet engine to propel air backwards is very different than spinning a motor that is (through a series of solid objects) directly connect to the ground.

and while a battery is only 1/5th density, the motors on a tesla deliver 3x the range per energy compared to a prius. (not true break even, but impressive that one of the most efficient hybrid ICE cannot compare KWh for KWh to a battery + electric)
Nice Dr. WHO reference
Is Monte Carlo AI?
I always insist to use plain ASCII text format to write the specification of any file format, since otherwise it will be difficult to read the specification in order to be able to implement it, so that you can read it. So, using file formats that are easy to retrieve and to read is especially important if the file contains the specification of another file format (I dislike that many formats unfortunately don't). This is also true of the protocols for accessing the file; a simple explanation should be possible in only a few sentences which is sufficient for accessing the specification file itself, even if the actual protocol is more complicated than that. However, in any case, there will be complexity in the other parts to support them (e.g. ASCII, MS-DOS, TCP/IP, etc), but hopefully you can use what is simpler than the alternative.
>> Comparing against some imaginary scenario where cars have no collisions and cause no deaths doesn't make sense.

That's not the whole story. For example, we ban certain kinds of weapons -cluster munitions, chemical weapons, biological weapons, ideally we'd ban bloody mines- not because they kill too many people compared to "conventional" weapons (they don't) but because they are considered especially ... well, wrong, in the moral sense.

So maybe we decide that being killed by a machine, that decides you're a target and pulls the trigger autonomously is especially morally wrong and we don't accept it.
Stable Storage for LLM Training in Multi-Cloud
And had much larger "nodes", given that those tubes are much, much larger and farther apart than the SMT transistors on this 6502 replica. It's not even close.

But I think IBM's SLT from the 1960s might come close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_Logic_Technology

Those little square "chips" are not actually integrated circuits, but effectively small PCBs with surface mounted discrete components (including transistors).
Pretty cool. What framework/tech did you use for the multiplatform app? Curious for a future side project I may start on soon.
Is Bing not viable? It looks pretty ok to me. DuckDuckGo and Ecosia also lean pretty heavily on Bing and they work fine. If you know how to change your default search engine (and want to), you can pretty easily be Google-search-free nowadays.

Of course the problem is that most people just use the default search engine on their device, and Google has paid big money for being the default. And if you're not interested in tech, why would you bother setting up an alternative one?

> The problem is Google having 90% dominance on the search, without credible competition.

Certainly agree with this. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosia :

> In January 2023, Ecosia handled 0.29% of European search requests, behind DuckDuckGo's 0.53%, Bing's 3.65%, and Google's 92.23%.

Pretty incredible market shares.
Yes. I was responsible for kicking off that project. At Mozilla we'd been working with Europe on the Bergamot LLM translation tech and in 2022 we started work integrating it into Firefox. It began shipping last year. New language models are added regularly, all pivoting off English so French to German would actually be French -> English -> German and so you'd need two models for that. Each model was a few megabytes when I was starting on this but I've been away for a bit now so maybe they've improved on that but it did mean that we had to pull models down on demand because doubling the binary size for an initial Firefox download wasn't an option. (BTW, I was the guy that shipped Firefox v1 and my target for its download size back then was 3.5 MB or "about the size of an mp3". We made it down to about 4.5 MB which was close enough. It's over 10 times that size today.)
if you really want to use standard C string functions, use instead:

int ret = snprintf(dst, sizeof dst, "%s", src);
if (ret >= n || ret < 0)
{
/* failed */
}

or as a function:

bool ya_strcpy(const char* s, char* d, size_t n)
{
int cp = snprintf(d, n, "%s", s);
bool ok = cp >= 0 && cp < n;
ok ? *s = *s : 0;
return ok;
}
> Isn’t it more likely that the exorbitant cost of childcare is much more a function of Baumol’s cost disease than parking minimums or land use requirements?

If labour were the principle cost component of childcare, yes. That does not appear to be the case. (EDIT: Never mind, labour is the principle cost [1].)

Consider, for example, how the problem would be solved if people could (legally) run childcare out of their apartments.

[1] https://raisingnewyork.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/1...
They're capturing CO2 from the atmosphere, if they leak methane back out to the atmosphere that's much, much worse. Over a 20-year period, methane has ~80x the warming potential of CO2.
Official release:

FCC to Vote on Restoring Net Neutrality

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39923231
> This database will eventually be hacked, leaked, shared with local law enforcement (further allowing it to be leaked).

In the UK, all of that information is freely available to anyone via Companies House.
I wish they sold 13k Hilux Champs, spending 20k on customization.
If you think about it, the "productivity revolution" is only needed because of how expensive it is to run a childcare facility in a place where there are lots of children. If you lower the intensity with which a facility in a city needs to produce income to carry the cost of parking minimums and housing for its employees, then that would eliminate the problem too.

In-home childcare that resembles a hobby is called "parenting" and in the absence of a commercial option one half of a couple often ends up spending all of their time doing this until the child is of age to be placed in school. I think a lot of the problems our society has come from not valuing this or denigrating it as "hobby" work.
All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds