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I am curious what the UK was like 20 years ago, can't say I was very aware around that time. Would love to hear your thoughts on how and why its gotten worse.

I think its easy to shit on the UK at the moment because we're in this period of relative decline. The point I was trying to make was that in absolute terms, it's still a great place with a lot of upsides, it just takes more work to realise it and even more work to be grateful despite of it all.

Going from 5 to 4 hurts, going from 3 to 4 feels good. Either way, you're still at 4. It's on the people of Britain to recognise that 4 is still OK, better than the 2 that many countries experience, and better than the 1 of fighting lions and being murdered by your fellow tribesman because he's bigger than you.
The good thing with the time of ICQ was that it was common that 3rd party messengers implemented the protocol. I used QiP and Pidgin. With Pidgin, it was possible to have all chat history across different chat networks (MSN, ICQ, IRC, Jabber) and accounts in once central place. I still have the chat history to this day.

Today, the only multi-protocol clients you get is "Slack/Discord/Teams/etc as tabs inside electron". Every app is isolated and keeps their history.

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Do you speak hebrew? I don't see subtitles to that video, where do you get that?
If someone believes that Pfizer/BioNTech and the Manhattan-Rochester Coalition have anything in common that is relevant to their trustworthiness, there's no amount of transparency that can convince them of anything.
FWIW those pull-out answers always were dubious. For instance Google has pulled out answers out of forum threads that were plain wrong, even the original poster conceded that in the thread later but Google just didn't get it.
I can still remember my ICQ number by heart, but have no access to it.
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“Should have” is, at best, wishful thinking. In air filtration, a good rule of thumb is that, if an actual quantitative spec isn’t given, then the filter doesn’t filter. I’ve seen this with expensive commercial systems with stamped plans, I’ve seen it with very fancy European IAQ systems, and I’ve seen it with cars. Seriously, go look for a stated spec for a cabin air filter, which you generally won’t find, then drive on a freeway, bring a PM2.5 meter, and compare windows open to windows closed.
This is starting to feel even more important now that HexChat is over.[1]

Is anyone aware of maintained forks or a revival effort?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39326630
Aren't government nutritional health guidelines heavily influenced by politics/outside influence?

I know we've gotten past the food pyramid, but don't guidelines continue to heavily favor dairy?

(and doesn't mcdonalds still have a lot of saturated fat?)
Are you saying that non-monoculture practices will never give better yields per acre or is there a more nuanced explanation here?
If they win the bet against you, you'll both be dead by definition of the bet. Therefore the bet doesn't make sense and shouldn't be taken seriously.
I don't know how to take this in. On one side, it's great to have a cross-platform GUI toolkit that's easy to use; on the other side, it feels like a React-like UI is contrary to the spirit of simplicity and resource efficiency of Go.

I'm sure it has its perfect use cases, though.
Depending on who you ask, Google's search issues started as early as 2010 (Instant) or 2016 ("brands"). Many of the things people complain about regarding Google's culture - shuttering projects arbitrarily, hiring issues (the interview gauntlet, anti-competitive practices, etc.), the slow erosion of Don't Be Evil - are 2010s products, also. I don't think this is WFH, at its root.
Singapore Airlines tightens seatbelt rules after turbulence flight death
If the battery is swollen, get rid of it as soon as possible. Swollen battery == ticking time bomb, and I'm not joking about the bomb part. These things can, do and will explode randomly.
This isn't a medical-grade EEG device at all. This is a hobby-level PCB to connect the ADS1299 chip to an Arduino. This isn't at the level of something you'd use for actual research or patients.

I think the market is people who want to experiment with EEG, but those people would be better served purchasing the ADS1299 evaluation kit from Texas Instruments (which is, coincidentally, the same price as this Arduino shield).
Inside Google "Advancing our bet" is a euphemism for shutting down (hat tip to Fiber). I'm deeply surprised that an article came out with that title that is actually true, given how negatively that phrase is seen.
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Well, no. It makes a big difference:

1) If the exponent is >1, it doesn't make much difference. Everyone will catch "it," for whatever disease.

2) It makes sense to have interventions prioritized by ROI

3) Many interventions are individual, and there is no exponent. Should I, as a [doctor / immuno-compromised-individual / patient / etc.] wear a mask?
Man, loved ICQ. I used to text chat to the early hours with this Greek girl I met online. It was platonic but we got quite close and exchange physical letters and actually met up a couple of times. Good times.
On the contrary, I think that the reliable update cadence in modern electronics means that people should generally all but ignore future product roadmaps.

When you actually need to get a new device, just get whatever the up-to-date thing is.

OK, ok, I suppose that it's reasonable to check the rumor sites to see if you should delay by a month or two. But not any longer than that.
Lol I was going to say: None of the hundreds of square miles of crops where I grew up have this problem. Maybe corn and soybean fields omit the structure to attempt to get more yield? In which case, crushing some of it is still likely a positive yield compared to not planting ruts.
You're saying that the results of the experiment would be "obvious", so what's the reason for doing the experiment at all? If you're going to do the experiment, why do it with an alcoholic?

Far from being odd, his alcoholism was almost an ideal way to dismiss any concerns about fast food. Having a reasonably healthy non-alcoholic go to McDonald's when they are hungry, and still doing the gimmick of accepting "Super-sized" when offered, would be what you should do. The problem is that the effects of that wouldn't be very dramatic. McDonald's isn't a magical gypsy curse, it's rich, high-quality food with too much sugar (in the soda.) You can do the same thing to yourself cooking raw ingredients at home and drinking sweet tea. If you're an alcoholic, you can fuck up your liver without eating a thing.
Yes, if you scale down the antenna/coil (and the aerial vehicle).
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/a-ukrainian-teenag...
Straw-man fallacy.

Obviously you wouldn’t have to be Pfizer to poison someone’s vaccine dose as part of an experiment.
Don’t forget option C: in cold, dry weather, a disposable mask can be an impressive comfort improvement. And you can throw it away when it gets disgusting. They often outperform balaclavas.

Or option D: allergies. A well fitted disposable mask removes allergens, at least until it collects so many that it starts triggering allergies all by itself. Achoo!
I always thought microservices did solve a technical problem, but one that only appears when you're the size of Twitter or similar. I would agree with you for the huge majority of companies that don't build their own datacenters.
The UN was created when india was a subservient colony of britain. When veto powers were being given out, india didn't exist as an independent country. That's why the UK has veto power while india doesn't.

There definitely needs to be a rebalancing of power within the UN but none of the P5 want their power diluted. And they have the all powerful veto power.
According to this article [1] last month, Google deliberately made search results worse in 2019 because they get more ad revenue from the spammier sites.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976
Is it common for a CEO to not know that their NDAs are highly restrictive and punitive?
I will remember that sound for the rest of my life.
law in most countries unless you get to sucessfully practice on your own or as a partner of a firm doesnt pay well. Banking/finance is similar to a lesser extent with few good positions open compared to the talent pool.
I think when you forgo high scrutiny you end up with a lot of sloppy research.

You literally have problems with a sloppy study showing something and then needing ten increasingly rigorous studies to show it's bunk.

So ethics review probably puts the kabosh on a lot of bad or unnecessary studies. Which is a positive.
this particular rig is too lo-res for that.
you need a different detector setup, and slower closer flight.
The Internet being an opt-in thing that you'd consciously connect to at a set our of the day, not something that would reach out to you and notify you about all kinds of things at random times, was definitely a different feeling.

Back then, it felt like a parallel world; now it's more like an overlay on this one.
So, general things I've learned from comments are it's competitive for sure. Small businesses don't care much about how good a website looks. There is less demand for web design and more agencies and people to fill that demand. A website doesn't make such a big impact on users, so they won't pay as much or care as much about it.

So, it's becoming clearer that I should not start web design. But this discussion is not over. I want to understand the creative business more, so feel free to share your thoughts on parts of the creative world which are high in demand but low in feeling that demand.
If 'swutch' is the (past) participle of 'to switch':

Perfect: "to which I have swutch"

Pluperfect/past perfect: "to which I had swutch"
Wash Post announces further steps towards irrelevance

After the recent change is accessing articles by disabling javascript, this seems like the next step to elon like platform irrelevance.

It's not like bozo couldn't setup a guardian like trust to fund the wash post in perpetuity. Instead, his top priority is doing whatever the other idiot wealthy are doing.
And presumably not just SGX, but also the funding goes to future development in confidential computing hardware platforms as well (Intel TDX, ARM Realms, NVIDIA Confidential Computing, etc.). As you mentioned in another comment, there are lots of flavors from different vendors. Intel SGX is notoriously difficult to implement, and the newer Confidential Computing architectures like AMD SEV-SNP make different trade-offs towards ease-of-use.

Every modern smartphone user benefits from the mobile flavors of confidential computing today, protecting biometrics or mobile pay wallets with implementations like Apple's Secure Enclave or Samsung Knox (based on ARM TrustZone).

It protects from real attacks seen in the wild. For example, Volt Typhoon (state-level actor) as reported by CISA https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa... , or the attack against CircleCI in 2023 as I wrote in https://www.anjuna.io/blog/memory-dumping-attacks-are-not-ju... .
Do you have examples without signing up?
Don't they? The only experience I've had where this isn't the case is startup mania, where gasoline is poured over open flame.
Yeah I did not realize how much people like to have low number IDs. I signed up very early on but my friends bailed so I did too. No idea what even happened to that account and the email addresses I used at the time are also lost after being abandoned. Given average password sophistication at the time, I'm sure it got hacked/hijacked at some point.
Sounds great, although it is not super cheap. Also interesting to note that they are creating the Orion browser (I recently downloaded on iOS).
"Ample evidence" isn't the legal burden. It's a lack of reasonable doubt.
My approach is to have strong opinions (weakly held), and ask if people have objections to the tradeoffs. That tends to keep the focus on specific reasons to choose a given path rather than you and someone else just having different preferences. Doesn't always work, but it's a lot easier than fighting over whether option A or option B is just universally better.
> The problem people have with Israel is not that they're killing Hamas fighters or that IDF soldiers are being killed. It's that they're killing civilians (amongst other war crimes and crimes against humanity).

There is also a deliberate propaganda effort to blur the distinction between Hamas and Palestinians. Look at every conservative news source that reports on pro-Palestinian protests. Every one of them uses the term "Pro-Hamas protestors" instead, even though you'll find very few people there who support Hamas terrorists. This is clearly deliberate.

See also the deliberate conflation of IDF = Israeli government = Israeli people = the Jewish Ethnicity = Judaism. So, thanks to propaganda, if you oppose one of them, they think you oppose them all and are antisemitic.
Perhaps if someone who gets the language did it for today's date, we'd both get some clarity. I've tried working backwards but the labyrinthine explanation doesn't project
holy shit. they're already a living legend but somehow i didn't make this connection
Haha, what Siemens phone could you patch to run native apps on? I must have switched to Nokia/Symbian before that became a thing. (That could run both native S60 and J2ME apps – basically infinite apps and games!)
How researchers in remote regions handle the isolation
They've been working on other ones. You can set up an AIM server, too.
Not having read the paper carefully, could someone tell me what the draw is? It looks like it is going to have the same asymptotic complexity as SGD in terms of sample size, per Table 1. Given that today's large, over-specified models have numerous, comparable extrema, is there even a need for this? I wouldn't get out of bed unless it were sublinear.
Begging the question fallacy.

If a government agency doesn’t use vaccines as a vector for some ulterior purpose, then it’s nothing like the other time when it used vaccines for some ulterior purpose?
> when you are not necessary a guy who makes decisions

I think a lot of it comes down to: if the guys who do make decisions make them badly, stuff is going to suck. You need the right people at the top.
The C language has rules around 'effective type' which determine what object type a block of memory can have, while the C++ language has rules around object model which does basically this AND requires that a constructor is called on an object before it is properly regarded as being of that object type. In my opinion the reason why the C++ standard cares about object lifetime is because C++ structs can have reference members which are required to be initialized in any instance of that struct type. In contrast it's compatible with what C has of an object model to just say to language users "If an object is in static or automatic storage the constructor is called automatically but if an object is in heap storage it's up to the user to call the constructor themselves."

amateur C++ coder
> And presumably not just SGX, but also the funding goes to future development in confidential computing hardware platforms as well

Exactly!
Sure, sure. But we know this story already.
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Europe's ludicrous hydrogen bet [video]
The citizens ask LLMs (or more advanced future AIs) to identify if government finances are being used efficiently, and if there is evidence of corruption.

The corrupt government officers then start using the AIs to try to cover up the evidence of their crimes in the financial statements. The AI possibly putting the skills of high-end and expensive human accountants (or better) into the hands of local governments.

Who wins this attrition war?
Impeccable tagging is something to strive for. I would look at the music libraries of my friends and be disgusted by the chaos.
>I would just move as physically close to a major university as I could

Actually not a bad idea, thanks.

>paying tuition though for this reason is as bad an investment as I can think of

True, but my 'smart' financial decisions have led to a life I'm pretty unhappy with.
I wish I could do development for 90% of the day. It seems the more experience you get in the software industry the more you are pushed away from just coding. It's a bizarre underestimation of software engineering..

In other words, you probably don't need to do anything. Most orgs will naturally ask you to mentor others, then manage teams, then manage projects. If there are companies that have senior or higher roles with 90% development, I would like to know because I want to code as much as possible for as long as possible.
I was in one of the 30 Days episodes. It was... very very very much reality-TV, not reality.

They made things up, planted things, and generally hammed it up to make things interesting. Still maybe interesting to watch, but not something I'd treat as accurate.
I can guarantee you that Lockhart drilled in the basic arithmetic problems until he knew his times tables and such by heart. He couldn't do things like algebra without this fundamental knowledge ingrained into the fiber of his being.

You can't play a Chopin sonata, at least not smoothly and beautifully, without having played lots of boring scales and finger exercises. And you can't get to the fun, creative, beautiful bits of mathematics without having drilled in the fundamentals. Not unless you're Gauss or somebody.
Leica FOTOS app is excellent (and also transfers tethered for even faster speeds), but it’s also the most expensive ecosystem to be in.
> And what actually prevented a global conflict after the world war II is not the UN succeeding into what League of nations, it is nuclear war and MAD doctrine.

This is wishful thinking and a history revisionism. Mathematically speaking MAD will always result in a nuclear Armageddon. People knew that and worked with the UN to prevent proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and escalation of the Nuclear Arms buildup. Without the UN it is hard to see something like the Comprehensive Test Ban treaty or the Non-Proliferation Treaty striking balance to the Nuclear Arms race and preventing a nuclear Armageddon.
Can you share that tool.
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I think ive heard this before....did matt damon sing a song about sleeping with your gf so then you took off to find this girl and ended up going on a tour across europe with your best friend and a pair of twins?
Asana used to sometimes have textareas that would take a full three seconds to display each key press. On then-current MacBook pros. You know, something that had nearly zero latency on first-gen single-core Pentium chips. Hell it may still do that, I never saw them fix it, I just finally got to stop using it.

Never underestimate the ability of shitware vendors to make supercomputers feel slower than an 8086. These days it usually involves JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Good memories from a more innocent time. The ICQ client truncated long filenames in the UI, so you could send "image.jpg (50 spaces) .exe" which would open an embedded picture and install a back-door while just seeming like regular picture.

I do miss casually texting with people on the computer rather than the phone, and I don't think it's only due to nostalgia or having more leisure time back then:

- If someone was online, it would typically be a good time for a casual, interactive chat. Texting someone on the phone is (at least for me) rarely "live", because it usually happens at an inconvenient time for one of the parties.

- Much faster to type, and easier to copy-paste stuff from other places. Can communicate almost as effortlessly as a spoken conversation.

- Easier to multi-task in case of a slow reply.

I don't enjoy texting on the phone. Millennial logging out for the last time. AFK BRB.
Top story on HN because we all secretly think we can be the next Jim Simons when in reality we're a few months away from posting loss porn to /r/WSB.

If standardized LLM models are used to analyze statements, expect the statements to be massaged in ways that produce more favorable results from the LLM.
Am I the only one who was shocked to see this still exists? Honestly I thought it was shutdown a long time ago. It does bring back very fond memories, however.
>People didn't stop working on this in 1989 - they realised they can make lots of money doing it and do it privately.

Mind elaborating?
This is all true, but the camera vendors are adding insult to injury with their ugly half broken apps that mostly don't work on top of that.
Why not the opposite?
Some folks have looked into it, and it doesn't sound too bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY-tMBk9Vx4

For me at least, the best possible outcome of this is that Windows handheld gaming devices become more power-efficient. That might be an advantage over Linux-based handhelds for a while, unless Valve decide that Proton needs to also be an architecture emulator. The chip efficiency wins must surely be tempting in this form factor.
Life sentences should be capped at a decade, and all charges related to an incident must always be concurrently served (discourages charge stacking). Criminal records should also ghost after 10 years from release (like a credit report).

The death penalty should be abolished; outside of war the state should not possess the legal ability to execute anybody. Reason being is the state screws up; just because the state can pass a law doesn't mean those it victimizes under said law deserve it. Homosexuality and cannabis are great examples of this dynamic. You cannot give back years taken, you can only make them very wealthy and cost taxpayers for continuing to elect unrepentant jailers.

None of these protections should apply to oath-taking elected office holders convicted of treason or other high crimes against the people. Other than for said oath takers: criminal punishment should be made optional, with the other option being expatriation from the nation with the punishment on pause in the event you return. The fact we have a system which acts to make the 'offender' actively miserable, rather than separate the 'offender' but otherwise treat them with dignity, shows we are still a very barbaric society in the West.