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> It shouldn't take years of conversations to understand that pedophilia is bad.

[Without taking the bait of addressing "pedophilia," but the specific comment RMS made that got generalized...]

Your objection is he committed thoughtcrime by not taking certain gospel on a taboo subject at face value, has actually thought about it and discussed it with folks, and even changed his opinion on the subject in the end. Note that there is zero evidence he has shown any personal interest in having sex with children and this is some abstract analysis by a heterodox, and analytical mind, dare I say neurodivergent and on the spectrum, looking at it.

If it helps, what you consider such an obvious settled matter, even on its simplest dimension, the age-of-consent, varies among the united States, let alone the entire world where lots of cultures have different opinions about it.

> Ironically BSD doesn't have "a ruler", a cult-like leader like RMS. It is more democratized than GNU.

The BSD community has had their fair share of drama and accusations of misogyny too. RMS is hardly the driving force behind modern decisions that drive Linux distros. That crown, if any, probably belongs to Red Hat.
> There are multiple NFC standards with differences in speed, protocol, and range, including NFC-A, NFC-B, NFC-C, NFC-F, and NFC-V. The MIFARE Ultralight cards use NFC-A, which is defined by the standard "ISO/IEC 14443 Type A".

Pet peeve: Calling these chips "NFC" is a bit misleading. NFC-A isn't defined by ISO 14443-A, but builds on it.

NFC is an umbrella standard that defines a way of storing structured data on a wide variety of existing contactless IC technologies (including, but not limited to ISO 14443) and products (such as NXP's various MIFARE chips, which in turn are based on various layers of ISO 14443 up to -4).

For the concrete example, it's correct to say that one possible implementation of an NFC-A tag is MIFARE Ultralight (that would be a NFC forum type 2 tag), but neither is NFC the only thing you can do with MIFARE Ultralight (and this transit use case almost certainly doesn't put an NDEF container on the ticket), nor is this the only type of tag you could use for NFC.
When I read the headline I thought this was going to be a terrible idea but I quite like it, especially the bit about using tab to list all your tooling.

Anecdotally I haven’t had many namespaces collisions recently. I’ve also let myself go a bit after going into management. My tech skills are 10 years too old.

Any tips from someone else on where they started to be hip again?
> There are twelve semitones in every octave and they make up just about all the music we hear in the West today.

Is it just me, or is this strict division into semitones making e.g. piano music sound like it's slightly off-key at times?
I think they almost broke about 25% of all articles by changing the link in the Awareness article recently from philosophy to psychology
This. 1-3 character names should be reserved for user aliases/functions/scripts and standard utilities.
Yeah but also the antenna and I wonder how many chemicals are used in the lithography process.
Good idea overall, I must say.

It's one more key press, but I'm pretty sure I would use underscore for the first character.
Yum hangs not because of Python but because Fedora's RPM metadata is bloated compared to other distros so yum has to load and process much more data.
Oh, it is if you’re on the right side of history.
You need to understand the business to design a good engineering strategy
The new Turbo 8 morphing is incredibly productive for building dynamic sites.

Start with that pattern from the beginning.
All my personal commands begin with 'j'. Got real fun when java came around. Using commas is a rather interesting idea.

But at least I did not start them with a 'k' (KDE) :)
As would 97% of all conversations, if people had the patience, curiosity, and lack of anything immediately productive to do.
Man, I can't get higher than 8mh/s on my m1 Pro with multithreaded rust. I already got 11 zeros, but I am now more interested in beating at least 20mh/s.

Time to comb through this code :D
That's due to clipping. For a sine or a triangle, you'll hear clipping at a volume where a sawtooth or square still sounds fine.
> I'd never (not so far) encounter a word or text that starts with a comma immediately followed by anything.

Agreed. I prefer using `!bang`s for the same reason for expanding text.
Be aware that this is not a TV. The PVM Series of monitors are professional video monitors that are not offered for sale to mere consumers. This is the kind of thing that would be installed in the control room of a TV station to display the station's final output.

20 years ago the small video company I worked for had a $30K Sony PVM monitor that was probably only 30-35 inches. So the $40K price in 1990 doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

The only thing interesting about this is "biggest CRT ever made" because it shows the limits of CRT technology.
Never thought about that, cool!
Bringing hydrogen to the front lines is hard. Liquid-based fuel cells are not nearly as energy-dense.
> i.e. Face and objects in foreground get more.

Encoders have been doing that for decades at this point.

AI-related models are actively being researched for multiple applications in video encoding. From generating predicted frames, to generating fine details, choosing tools and parameters for each frame, narrowing the search space, etc.
There are vast amounts of land in this country that only have roads and infrastructure because of logging and mining.

Anyone who spends any mount of time outdoors at any longitude west of Denver, is sure to drive down these forest and mining roads when camping. Not to mention, these roads often open up access to lands for new towns and communities. And, as we are approaching the season, these roads are used for emergency services and additionally the maintenance of forests through controlled burns and the prevention of further spreading wildfires.
Go through The FAQ (that I have added recently) You might find it useful!
I feel like 99% of people would not benefit from single use public transportation tickets. Even if you are a tourist, if you use public transportation once, there is a high likelihood you will use it multiple more times, in which case it makes sense to get a regular card. Most systems let you return the card and get the deposit back if you'd like.

Personally I collect the cards instead because I have a tendency to revisit cities years into the future. I just wish cities wouldn't make their cards expire so damn quickly. Wuhan's metro is nice, the cards don't expire until 10 years later. But I've found Singapore and Taipei expire within 3 years and you lose your stored money.

I have this "brick" of public transit cards for about 20 cities. It feels powerful. I kind of wish I could just swipe this brick in any city and just go. Unfortunately they all interfere with each other.
CUDIMM Standard Set to Make Desktop Memory a Bit Smarter and a Lot More Robust
The wasm shaper is an experimental feature that is not enabled in any browser at the moment.
That’s insane. And yet when I see what we can do with coax or twisted pair, I anticipate we’ll get to gbps speeds one day. :)
Is the source code available?

Also, how is the search working? Just by title or are you also looking into the paper content?
best idea i've read in a while, will do
As I recall, philosophy is somewhat of a “fixed point”, or attractor. Wherever you start, you’ll land on philosophy, and stay there. You won’t random walk far away again.

It makes sense. After all, philosophy is concerned with the fundaments of knowledge, so an article on a knowledge sharing platform could be consistently near philosophy.
Review of Linux on Minisforum V3 AMD Ryzen Tablet
You can probably get a 2x speedup by shortening the string so that it fits in one block.
The 97% number was true in 2016, but is no longer the case after an edit to Awareness that switched the order of Psychology and Philosophy:

> After an edit to the Awareness article in May of 2024, among others switching the order of Philosophy and Psychology, the amount of articles that lead to Philosophy this way has been greatly reduced, as Awareness and Psychology form a loop of their own.

The title of the actual linked page is "Getting to Philosophy", which should have been the title as submitted.

Edit: someone from this HN thread found a way to break the cycle, so 97% is back for now!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thought&action=...
Honestly I prefer running Ansible for that. Once you have a boilerplate set up the overhead is minimal and you don't have to fight each specific program's config file syntax just to figure out how to do comments.
Funny. My ~/bin is filled with commands that I want to override the system version.
> Depending on when exactly they formed, primordial black holes could have masses as low as 10^-7 ounces (10^-5 grams), or 100,000 times less than a paperclip, up to about 100,000 times greater than the Sun. [1]

Also, very small ones could have already evaporated.

> Hawking calculated that any primordial black hole with a mass greater than 10^12 pounds ([10^12 kilograms]; that’s far less than the mass of any planet, dwarf planet, and most named asteroids and comets in our solar system) could still be around today, while those less massive would have already disappeared. [1]

The theories for the likely formation of primordial black holes have been around since the seventies, and they all point to small black holes (compared to, for example, the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies). The Wikipedia page has a better history of the thinking around PBHs.[2]

What's remarkable about these new findings is that the age of these quasars being studied suggests that, though they are supermassive, and just like other quasars that are far younger, they appear "the same" and must be labeled "primordial" because of their age. (This is pointed out in the last paragraph of the original article.)

[1] https://www.astronomy.com/science/what-are-primordial-black-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial_black_hole
Botai culture was before, but whether it was close enough to be in the area and whether they rode as well as ate their equines are both open q's.

Interesting, I had been talking about chipping not in the quantum regime, but in the classical[0] and metaphorical[1] regimes.

Sorry, I had thought I had the referent to be J-Y G, as I'm currently in the middle of The Blind Spot[2] and enjoying how he'll discuss something foundational in mathematical logic one moment and the next he'll make a social or political observation. (as does Körner, but Girard is more gallic and more so)

泰德干公 (am I doing this right?) might've done better as a physicist, but (unlike, say, Pol Pot) thankfully he combined revolutionary[3] fervour with a human-organisational capability unlikely to have been up to running a church bake sale[4].

Finally, I really enjoyed 187:

> in making such appeal care should be taken to avoid misrepresenting the truth or doing anything else that would destroy the intellectual respectability of the ideology.

I mean, nothing says intellectual respectability like claiming "I needed to do a few small bad things (like killing people) in order to publish my manifesto in which I worry about big good things (like upholding copyright)"[5]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum#:~:text=Moreov....

[1] in which Algolia, rather than high dot products, allow us to reconstitute a more-or-less linear convo

[2] I'm not very convinced by the circularity argument, because if I wish to ground out boolean logic, I'm happy to either present either a truth table, or if I must, just define `∧` to be the symmetric, idempotent binary operator that tends to falsity, and so on... However, I am intrigued by his program to escape to the geometric (or at least topologic) from the algebraic, in an attempt to make the equivalent classes of proofs more explicitly syntactic and less implicitly semantic.

[3] TIL that "revisionist" may not (etymologically) have meant that someone had gone off-commie-message, but that they had gone off-revolutionary-message, in that they believed it might be possible, by making a series of incremental revisions, to accomplish the stated goals of The Revolution without bothering with all the unpleasantness that tends to accompany actual revolutions. In this sense I suppose I am both an earnest Bumble-Puppy[6] advocate and a card-carrying capital-R Revisionist.

[4] even on personal, not organisational, axes there are lacunae in dealing with volunteers; eg (exactly like certain segments of HN) Ted/"FC" advocates large family sizes for others, despite failing to adequately demonstrate any personal reproductive success.

[5] see his note to note 16.

[6] He was at least consistent in choosing to emulate "When Adam delved, and Eve(cf [4]) span" (although aren't postal services post-technological?), but I know quite a few people who have both pre-technological and "surrogate" interests, and while all of us enjoy visiting the pre-technological, we've all opted for living in the "surrogate" world.
Wait k3s is abandoned?!
Only ISO 14443-4 uses the same protocol as ISO 7816 (another way of saying this is that ISO 14443-4 represents the higher layers of ISO 7816 over a different physical interface), though.

MIFARE Ultralight does not actually implement 14443-4/7816/"smartcard"-style APDUs; it's significantly simpler, since the ICs are much less powerful.

To make things more confusing, some MIFARE ICs really do implement ISO 14443-4 (e.g. their fixed-function MIFARE DESfire cards, and their programmable smartcard ICs like SmartMX), but not all of them.
Show HN: I made hydration easier with bottle-based units
Water Watch helps you manage your daily water intake and how to meet your hydration goals. Remembering your water intake can be difficult, especially if you are unsure how much water your container holds. That's why I made it easy to estimate your water intake using predefined bottles or you can upload a picture of your own bottle for a personalized hydration plan tailored for you.
You mean transformer/diffuser based when you are talking about AI in this context? Because there are a lot of ml papers out there for encoding video. Stadia (RIP), Parsecs, Epic (Unreal Pixel streaming), META, Apple and Nvidia doing amazing stuff for their streaming services/VR/AR plays.
> It's just daft to go all in the other direction and pretend that cars aren't useful or don't count or something, though.

Useful for what? More useful than what? Less useful than what?

How many people does private car transportation move? How much can a car lane move per hour? How about a bicycle lane? Bus lane? [0] What do private cars interfere with? Goods transportation / delivery perhaps? People's health (through pollution and/or lack of active mobility)?

It's not that cars cannot be useful, but are they more or less useful than other options? What does leaning towards cars inhibit?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passengers_per_hour_per_direct...
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Let’s say they do alter the price based upon demand (which it sounds like they won’t do at a granular scale like the other commentators are suggesting). It will punish customers who come later, but reward early customers who buy in bulk. Imagine scalping ice cream in a parking lot on a hot day!
But seriously, i would like to see non linear scaling of prices for people who buy a lot at once, for scarce items. Everybody gets a little seems like a more moral way to handle scarcity, but Walmarts new pricing system won’t handle this. Oh well. Overall though still a fun development.
> Because my shell script names tended to be short and pithy collections of lowercase characters, just like the default system commands, there was no telling when Linux would add a new command that would happen to have the same name as one of mine.

Not sure I understand this problem. I just put my bin directory at the front of $PATH rather than the end. To browse my commands, I simply `ls ~/bin`.
Well we did say idealistically didn't we? But in general I don't really think this idea is so radical. This seems to be one of the very few topics countries of widely different ideological values could see eye to eye on. It's not because of some sort of grander ideological values or whatever, but good old fashioned self interest.

The cost of participation would be less than zero in one case - don't screw around in other people's countries, and negligible in the case of allowing emigration, which near to all countries excepting a handful of places like North Korea, already do. While the benefits of not having others screw around in your country would generally be significantly greater. So violating the agreement would generally not be in one's self interest.
That's not how I would characterize philosophy. A lot of things that are very important in the pursuit of knowledge like logic, science or ethics are philosophical concepts and branches. It lays the foundation of what we call "objective".
People respond to their environment, or their circumstances, or whatever else by making decisions. We both know this is true, but it is not possible to reconcile this reality with the position you’re taking here. Unless you want to start taking people’s ability to choose away from them, by say setting up obesity internment camps, then any solution you could possibly imagine must require people to individually start making different decisions. Your insistence on absolving people of this responsibility certainly isn’t constructive.
They very much are, right now. Lots and lots of big layoffs, the FAANG/MAGMA companies have completely dropped the halo effect they had over the industry. Everyone had to chase them on comp to get the best people; now they're ejecting people left, right and centre and there's no incentive for the smaller players to try and keep up with the competition anymore, because the competition in gone.

I've definitely noticed this myself when I was working my last job (quant finance in London, startup fund). We were getting premium talent applying for roles that we never dreamt of getting before then. A lot of them were ex Meta, ex google, ex Palantir etc. Guys who were very good but went to work mindless jobs for big tech for that 300k pay package. Now they're asking for half that, and desperate for a job.
Indeed, I didn’t know what kind of ticket we are talking about - folks please include a picture and some context in your blogs, for people from other places and countries
Faster than light is a bit of a misnomer as it actually has nothing particularly to do with light.

It's actually "Maximum speed of information". There are things that are FTL, but nothing that carries information is.
Okay I will play this game without a crawler. i looked up UFC fighter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khabib_Nurmagomedov.
Then you see oh his personal life says he's a Muslim, that leads to islam article, Quran, religious text, religions, Philosophy of religion,Ethics, then philosophy!
> I changed the root password

If you're going to set a root password, you might as well just do this and if I'm not mistaken it accomplishes everything you want

alias sudo="su -c"
I've been doing this for at least a decade. Was introduced to the idea by a colleague who might have read this blog post.

I usually do the same with commands where you are able to create sub-commands too, like git-,home (which allows you to run `git ,home add -p` and it conveniently set GIT_DIR to something and GIT_WORKTREE to $HOME). Sadly you can't do it with git aliases, I have to live with them starting with a dot (via '[alias ""]' as a section).
Ask HN: What's the oldest file on your computer?
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that mine is rtest.mf, part of the MiKTeX package by the venerable Donald Knuth, last modified June 8th, 1986.
Nice overview, there's a bit hinting at being in k8s but you are absolutely in k8s. It exists in an untrusted namespace on an AKS cluster. There's a lot you can poke around to find out about that but it's very locked down.
Could someone just use an nfc enabled phone to get it to act as a ticket?
On one hand it is probably small in comparison, but on the other hand, it seems much more feasible to reuse transit ticket ICs than e.g. food packaging.

Many transit agencies do explicitly incentivize reuse, e.g. by offering cheaper fares using a reloadable contactless card and often charging a deposit for that card.

Even then, many of these systems have been struggling due to the IC shortage, given the low margins these single-use tickets have to operate on. In some Asian countries, including Japan and Malaysia, it was tricky to get a new transit card for several months or even years, even though there is a deposit charge.
I spent hours trying to get the content-aware-fill-equivalent to work in Gimp (which was unhappy with the Python2/3 issue) until I noticed that G'mic was already installed and worked just fine.

If you're a Gimp user you may already have this plugin.
Genuine question, why is that bad?

I had contact with emacs in university, decided I do not like it and moved on to more modern tools.

And today so many moved on that they do not even mention it in some schools and academies.

Or is knowing Emacs a condition to qualify as a hacker? Well, that wouldn't be my definition.
One is easy an people don't do it, while one is complicated and people don't do it.

You could drop stuff from a drone or have a drone shoot a gun too, but people don't want to hurt other people in general.

What scenario is in your head that you think being able to drop something and hurt or kill someone is going to happen more if people can do it automatically?

Who are these people that aren't hurting anyone but are suddenly going to do it once it becomes a science project?
Encountering this idea 5 years allowed me to bring order to my bag of shell tricks! I have over 50 ,commands between aliases and ~/bin and my shell life is way smoother than the previous agglomeration.
That's not my experience at all. Shell is often glue between different utilities and unless it's being run in a controlled environment like a docker container, you have no idea what's on the base machine.
You can tax Waymo and they pass on. The public should pay for shared infrastructure, and I would assume Waymo isn’t the exclusive monopoly and I would also assume private citizens would acquire their own autonomous cooperative vehicles that have enhanced comforts (such as TVs, gaming systems, etc). The key would be removing humans from the loop and a cooperative protocol.
Decreasing the gamut before encoding is not my definition of "advanced video encoding". I"d like to call it "ghetto video encoding" instead.
What bothers me most about it, is that many people are slowly getting used to it. It also makes me feel sorry for the people who worked hard on the production. Very few people will ever see the true quality of their work.