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I set this blog up 24 hours ago and just started moving old writings to it and still have another 200ish to go.

So the honest answer is I don’t know.

Tbh, getting on HN today was completely unexpected.

I believe you can subscribe via email for updates. And hopefully I’ll figure out the RSS thing soon as well. Thanks
Socialized food production inevitably leads to shortages and famines. Governments can't be trusted with something as important as food.
As an intermediate runner the info is great.
We’d go outside? Derive pleasure from being around people near us instead of seeking external validation and watching shows crafted by Hollywood midwits? Maybe we’d have more hobbies and do sports?
> They can. My local state operated ferry plays an announcement on every ride that if you harass the staff, they will issue a no trespass order banning you from the service for 60 days. Violating the order is criminal tresspassing.

I might believe that for ferries, they have personnel for that.

Our local bus drivers were told that fentanyl fumes are not harmful, and that asking the state to do anything about junkies smoking _on_ _the_ _bus_ is systemic racism or something.
> You can use all the regular operators you want on these numbers, just remember to x10000 when storing them, and /10000 when extracting from them.

??? You can only use addition and subtraction in this way. As soon as you touch multiplication and division the rules don't hold anymore!
I am bitterly disappointed in the error message:

cat: food in tin cans: No such file or directory

because at some point it used to report:

cat: can't open food in tin cans

At least that's not as great a loss as:

make: *** No rule to make target `love'. Stop.
What exactly was Netflix doing that infringed? Using AV1? H265?
Yeah. That device came with a stylus for a good reason.

I think my main contribution to the N900 software stack was a bug report I dealt with during N800/N810 development cycle. I dove deep into the stack to understand and explain exactly why a certain annoying usability snag (dreadful UI latency in media player) was not possible to fix without ripping up larger parts of the UI toolkit layer. After my dissection the bug was eventually marked as WONTFIX, with a remarkable note: "we do not dare fix this bug".

For N900 that part of the toolkit was rewritten. As a result the latency bug was finally possible to tackle, and the large arrows in N900 media player were actually pretty responsive. My guess is that whoever in their UI team had had the bright idea to specify which exact GTK widgets were to be used for the navigation buttons was either told off or removed from their effective decision chain.

And I actually used N900 for some time as my mobile media terminal. It worked really well. (Coworker got its GPS chip working reliably without a SIM card, but that feature was never released. To the very end, GPS state machine in N900 required AGPS to expose its position, even if the chip itself had managed to get an accurate fix on your location.)
> they'll eventually get caught in many cases

Can you share how exactly 'caught' and in how much 'many cases'?

I'm exceptionally skeptical this works for any settlement bigger than a 1000 people.
Central planning of anything is generally very inefficient and results in the concentration of power.

So far, we haven’t been able to find a way to concentrate power without corruption. The lesson is: only give the government as much control as necessary, never more.

In a system that is more socialist, the people forfeit their power to the party. Super easy for one party to dominate in these systems so votes mean little and you enter a doom loop of inefficiency caused by corruption.

In a system that is more capitalistic and consumer-based, the people retain a good amount of their power through purchasing choices. It is also tough for any one political party to take complete control, so the people also retain power through votes.
Let’s add a function which lists up all sub domain.
It has always seemed strange to me that restrictive speed limits persist in a supposedly democratic nation despite the functionally unanimous opinion of the citizenry, expressed through actual driving behavior, that the legally prescribed safety margins are excessive. I doubt you could find any other issue on which Americans of varying political persuasions would demonstrate such a high level of practical agreement.

In comment threads like these, one invariably views vigorous venting of virtuous vitriol versus the vice of velocity, but simply getting out on the road and having a look around - pretty much anywhere in the country - will show that such opinions must either be hypocritical or held by a small minority.
Why? Arm macs run that software fine through emulation. The transition was an excuse to also drop support of x86 mac ports for companies that used to put these out as part of doing business. I run mac ports of x86 games through rosetta. Max graphics. The only cap is a seemingly frame locked 40fps that I think rosetta has something to do with. Seems to me if that cap were lifted the fps would rocket considering how cool and quiet it was, and this is through emulation not a native arm port.
I have been making notes for a decade now. I have moved through plain txt files, no extension (linux style) txt files, CherryTree, SimpleNotes, LogSeq, Notion, GitHub Pages, Obsidian and may be more.

I have moved through phases of putting notes in physical notebook and scanning. I have 10s of scanned notebooks.

I have taken digital notes via stylus, via wacom pen and tablet, Samsung notes (best note taking app with stylus), a bunch of linux apps (xournal, xournal++ etc) and more...

I have written notes in pure html.

I have written personal app for taking notes in browser and storing it in postgres.

There is nothing better than text + git. Markdown is second.

My current configuration is: text/markdown + git + vs code + (plain) obsidian + plantuml + mermaid + local-git-server/github/gitlab etc.
Humans create art like snails exude slime. Not getting paid for art doesn't mean no art is gonna get made.
The barrier to getting paid is significantly higher though, so in the end it’s more or less the same: if you want to make a living off creative work you’re going to have a hard time
Thanks, I'm convinced and happy to be corrected. Thanks, HN!
Chatbots and the Problems of Life: Resisting the pedagogy of the gaps
Manjaro with KDE is much better.

Or Fedora with KDE.
Looks cool, but no demo or code that I can find available.
I feel like the title should qualify th at this is 4⁰F.

It gets up to 16 versus more insulating fabric. I'm sure it is even more "cooling" compared to my winter jacket.
>and none of its users complain of an allergy.

I have a hard time imagining that's true for any material, ever.
> did cookie banners exist without the law?

Yes!? They existed long before GDPR was even passed.
"The Department has not received any reports of emergencies impacted during the interruption."

What does it mean, exactly? How do they know? They said they were able to collect numbers of people who called during outage and call them back, but could they manage to call *all* of them back?
That works for a time but it’s ultimately not great for new/external contributors to be faced with your code being full of unfamiliar idioms and utility functions coming from a single kitchen sink package.
Atlanta is a diversified economy though. When I think tourist dominated I think tourism is the main industry. Places like in the Caribbean that had to turn to that industry after the economics of whatever former niche cash crop the imperialists grew was obviated due to globalism.
One Process Programming
Is it cupfuls or cupsful?
Dude, malicious compliance is not a real legal term and if Apple is charged, it's going to be for non-compliance, because even if you comply "maliciously", if you are compliant, then you are compliant. Either the text of the law matters, or it really doesn't, but out of the institutions that form the government of the European Union, the EC is the one with exclusive legislative initiative; the EU Parliament doesn't write the laws it is asked to vote on, nor do they have the power to compel (only ask) the EC to write a law so if anyone within the EU can write what they mean into the text of a law since they're also the ones who will be enforcing it, it is exactly the European Commission. The EC seems convinced that Apple's reading of the text is just wrong, and most likely the dust won't settle on this until they take this to the CJEU.
AWS Lambda Web Adapter
Adolf Hitler's eye color in a rare color photo
Do the shareholders get to vote for imprisonment instead? As surely that is the more preferable option for most of them...
You clearly didn't listen much since Chollet's point is exactly that there is no one task that can test for AI. The test he created is supposed to take that into account.
A halving of build time, for even a medium volume project, could be a big cost reduction. If those builds were much longer than 30sec, compounding through a CI pipeline with many changes, leads to much shorter cycle times, faster time to prod, faster to find and fix defects, which translates to much more than just infra cost reduction benefits.
I created a visualization once, of the release pipeline for a big project, showing the feedback loops that exist and the compounding effects of small improvements like that. It was eye opening for me, and everybody.
What specific market regulations would you suggest in this industry?
Just a clarification, art has never been overvalued historically.

In point of fact, artisans and musicians were considered a fairly lower class as a mere trade within the medieval time period outside of a few rockstars such as Beethoven and Liszt (later in the 18th and 19th centuries).
I always wonder if the authors that write these articles know that the exact same "tech is dead as a career" articles appear every time there is any downturn in the business cycle? Going all the way back to dotcom and probably before dotcom they were calling programming dead.

Still nothing I would rather do. I don't know anyone outside of tech that can just apply to almost any decent sized company and at least get an interview.
Even in 2024, the <table> element remains an easier, HTML-native way to build multi-column layouts than flexbox or grid. Is it responsive? No. Does it work acceptably in the absence of the above? Yes!
Historic chroniclers described counting devices used by accountants that look like the carved devices. The name of these devices "yupana" literally derives from the verb "to count". They all preserve some kind of 5-3-2-1 relationship that's related to the usage.

What's shown would make for very strange terraces. Most Andean terraces run perpendicular to the vertical face. Saddlepoints are much less common, probably because they're small, usually at the wrong altitude, have lots of erosion, and the air dynamics are really weird.
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I agree with all of that; I was responding to a comment someone made about only using rems for everything. I probably posted it to the incorrect thread.
Why Germany? Both Netflix and Broadcom are American companies, so isn’t it more logical to pick a venue in the US? Was Broadcom’s case so flimsy (with regards to US patent law) that they had to find an overseas jurisdiction to get a favorable ruling?
What is missing for you? I don't see much missing anymore coming from Laravel. There are a few things which I wish were more batteries included, such as "forgot password" but that can be made in minutes with code so it's not a big issue.
Intel has also faded away. As did Sears, Kodak, Xerox, GE, even Walmart was eclipsed by Amazon. Disney has lost its footing. AT&T. Novell. Cisco. Kmart. RCA.

Capitalism has been in the US for what, 250 years? You'd think the theory that capitalist businesses grow to take over the world would have been repeatedly verified by now.
> Nope.

Do you buy things you don't want?
I like Bishop Barron's definition (inspired by Saint Thomas Aquinas):
"Love is willing the good of the other as other"
Very much this. Please stop building Jenga towers.

It's always alarming to encounter build instructions that start with "you need this specific version of this particular compiler for this particular obscure language..."

Bonus points if your build process fetches modules from online endpoints that may or may not be there in five years' time.

[And yes, I'm as guilty as anyone of creating over-engineered but ultimately fragile scripts to automate a build. My favourite is a bash script which parses a text file for filenames, matches against the file extension and processes them accordingly. If you edit the text file with a Windows-style editor so it acquires CR/LF line endings, the bash script can no longer parse it. Fun times.]
> Oracle has some cloud infra, that nobody is using (lol).

Nor should they, Oracle is awful!
I didn't pull that number out of the air, but from the attached paper. I disagree with your second comment in that your position suggests any criticism of the rich is unwarranted. The startling upward transfer of wealth pursuant to the pandemic, for example, is a rather stark illustration of a particular social group exploiting a general tragedy for profit.

https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/qa-how-pandemic-savings-are-...

Consider the recent phenomenon of 'shrinkflation', where consumers are sold a lower volume of a commodity product for the same price they were paying previously. I find this interesting because it's not a pure supply-and-demand situation where the price of a bulk good changes and you get less product in a box or bottle; companies have to invest money in changing packaging and retooling their production lines. In other words, they choose to spend money on concealing the change in value proposition, whereas if cost inflation was the only economic factor they'd keep selling the same product but raise the price.
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Programmers Should Never Trust Anyone, Not Even Themselves
Programming Forth caused the most massive change in my programming mindset (the LSD of programming languages). Even more so than Lisp. Thinking of the rapid rise of the base language to the problem domain (i.e. it's a DSL construction kit) opened my eyes to how to design useful and extensible APIs.

https://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net is worth reading, even if you have no desire to ever program any Forth.
It's not a problem unless you're a puritanical retard. It's actually one of the things that makes life worth living, like guns and liquor and trucks.
> we are simply acknowledging

We?

Please, for your racist views speak for yourself, without 'royal we'.

Also people like you always conveniently omit anything what would show your people not as those saints as you try to portrait it.
low barrier to entry lowers cost, so this is exactly the desired outcome
Retired army general's chilling warning over China's chokehold on US Military
The author has this mostly backwards:

"promotion is given to the smartest or most performant, with often no regard to how they behave towards others."

Instead promotion is given to those who best seek it--often because of how they behave towards other competitors for the scarce resource of the next promotion and always because of how they behave towards the people with the power to give them the promotion.
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I just 403 them as best I can.
There seems to be a category of "archaeologist" that likes to explain artifacts they don't understand as being ceremonial or religious, because they can't think of any other explanation, and without having any information about what the ceremony is, or how the religion is supposed to work.

I take such claims to mean simply "We have no idea what this artifact is for; it might as well be something magical, for all we know".
And no affiliation, but I've been enjoying https://mmm.page which isn't open or self hostable, but also a long the same lines. (I think I found it here on HN)
Implementing lazy arrays or xappings naively is easy - the Petalisp reference backend has just 94 lines of code [1]. The challenge is to implement them efficiently. With eager evaluation, the programmer describes more or less precisely what the computer should do. With lazy evaluation, you only get a description of what should be done, with almost no no restriction on how to do it. To make lazy evaluation of arrays as fast as eager evaluation, you have to automate many of the high-level reasoning steps of an expert programmer. Doing so is extremely tedious, but once you have it you can write really clean and simple programs and still get the performance of hand-crafted wizard codes.

[1] https://github.com/marcoheisig/Petalisp/blob/master/code/cor...
if you think it is a raw deal, don’t use the platform.
This partly happened in tango in the 90's, when Gustavo Naveira, Chicho Frumboli and Fabian Salas came together to create a structural and kinesiologica base for something that previously existed more as "an intuition".

For each basic configuration of leader and follower and their bodies they looked at all permutations.

Then they constrained it first to the subset of those that are possible to do at all, kinesiologically.

Then further to the subset of those that could be danced with reasonable comfort.

And finally the subset of those that are easy enough to be taught to students and would work on a crowded social dancefloor.

None of this was done with the help of computers.

The most systemic documentation of this is possibly Mauricio Castro's book "Tango -- the structure of the dance".

But lately a lot of new books were published on tango technique; I may be out of the loop.

A friend of mine who's also a tango professional is currently looking into the feasibility of doing a PhD thesis on this topic.

He wants to use ML to spit spit out the full motion tree of tango.

Both to be able to document it automatically, i.e. using generated 3D animations, as well as to discover new combinations the manual approach used by Naveira, Frumboli and Salas, over a quarter century ago, will have missed.
The main problem here is that millions of people somehow convinced themselves that they’re not responsible for their own lifestyle choices. Which is certainly a systemic problem worth investigating. If people want to stop being obese though, there is no substitute for lifestyle changes
I don't think Netflix's board going to prison would benefit their shareholders very much
> Tl;dr - motivated individuals will build something if they want to, but I think the motivation has gone.

Author here: you are right, but it's a shame that those who are motivated skew towards building a "product" of some sort, like a Substack, or a "personal brand". This means they will be well-served by the existing business-focused options out there.

And on the other side of the spectrum, there are creatives making cool things on itch.io, Blender, and elsewhere. It would be great if there was a "middle ground" option for the average weirdo that could use a pure drag-and-drop anywhere web canvas to express ideas, without being hamstrung by the steep learning curve of running anything beyond Medium.com.
90 something percent in SPY, the rest in speculative stocks. Hard to beat the s&p without significant risk.

Get to $1M without considering your primary residence net worth so you can invest in other mediums unavailable to the general public.
This is exactly what they do. They don’t drive slower, they drive the speed limit. I’ve taken a lot of Waymos and their priority is safety, for everyone.
artists were not lower class compared to the vast majority of the population and that generally remains true.
You're all over this thread saying "We couldn't scale it, so you little plebs certainly can't." I'm sorry it didn't scale for you, but it's telling that you think your experience is THE experience. Facebook uses it, I think your company of 100 devs could scale it fine, as many do.
This was a great ride, a very gripping read and a very touching story. Congratulations on your adventure and I'm sure your father and his second family is proud of you.
I mean. The idea sounds fun but doing photolithography on a pipe's surface sounds like absolute hell.
> it’s likely 3.1 as the ME platform has heen around since approximately 2007

Then I guess it's one of the 3.1.3x versions released in 2007 (see https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix...), or maybe 3.1.2 from 2006, depending how long hey had to implement the ME.
Well, Apple says it complied, the EU says it didn't. If the letter of the law was the whole law, this would be objective, but apparently it isn't, since they're disagreeing. As you say, there is the "reading of the text", and yes, it probably needs the CJEU.
Humility --believing in one's lesser importance compared to others-- is the only ethic we need to live together.

Sadly, the self-esteem movement teaches people just the opposite, essentially keeping them in that infantile state where the most important person in the room...
I highly recommend a silk sleep mask, there are some that stay cool on your face and once you get used to it, it's better than blackout curtains. It took a few weeks before I stopped pulling it off in my sleep, but once I did, I was able to get to sleep much easier and the quality was much better
Technology advanced a ton since the last time it happened. And food making is no longer that lucrative. Other industries give more opportunities for corruption.

Besides, I don't advocate for nationalising entire food production. Just carving out small segment that by design operates at a loss because it acts altruistically not with market ruthlesness towards consumers.
Yes, tools are cheaper, but the big barriers to entry remain the hours invested in learning whatever creative craft is at hand.
How come specifically American, and how'd you reach that conclusion from glancing at the site? A huge number of people speak English as a second language. Usually the notation follows the number, so it's kind of lazy to just say it's written for americans specifically - moreso as a counter to someone saying it's Farenheit instead of Celcius since I also clicked immediately thinking how is that possible.
I've added some passes, thing is there. Last time at the AWS summit I had to hold the blasted banner on the edge of the iphone with a finger while they scanned the pass.

This is a well-known issue: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253699496?sortBy=best.
Something short and easy for people to remember and tell each other, think about all that free word of mouth marketing you can get because people love your product and want to share it.

The worst names are the ones that you have to spell out, or have some weird character substitutions. It makes it hard to spread via word of mouth and find on search.

Bonus points if it's related directly to the product, but it can also be an abstract reference if that isn't possible.

Lastly, don't overthink or waste too much time on naming it. Spend time building a great product that solves a real problem and name it closer to launch if you're stuck.