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Would you give the same kind of excuse to slavers?
The only winning move.
That is basically what they do when deploying into FPGAs.
How can anyone think that Hong Kong new territories and Guantanamo, which were areas essentially taken by force and then had a dubious leasing agreement painted over them, is the same situation as an agreement between two formal allies?
It seems that at least some theorists believe the P vs NP question isn't even provable using our current axioms, and that a proof would require new mathematics.
With another encoding like Manchester, it wouldn't;-)
Some nice scripting techniques
I've created a todo app which allows you to do things
You can connect your Philips Hue, Tesla, door access system, alarm system, Shopify, Notion, Jira or your own API, which will allow you and others to DO things right from your recurring to-dos/routines. Open doors, close tickets, add products to Shopify... whatever it takes to get the thing done!
> I am bewildered at how these people rise to positions of authority without even the most basic ability to predict obvious consumer behavior.

Me too. It seems to be some kind of selective blindness as they'll happily pay advertising money in an effort to influence consumers and then not realise that consumers are influenced by product changes too.
Minix....
Yes, but you and I can't even talk to the exchange. We have to talk to one of many brokers that are allowed to talk to the exchange, and brokers do much more than just passing your orders to exchanges. For example, IIRC they can legally front-run your orders.
It's something I've wondered about as well. But I can see a lot of reasons why a loss leader is a good strategy here:

- It's a trojan horse onto the platform, that'll always be worth more than a subscription.

- New features utilise new hardware leading to upgrades, and FCP has been a useful way for Apple to show off the mac platform's speed.

- Standardising to FCP can lead to the purchase of some of Apple's more lucrative hardware such as Afterburner cards and MacPros, or even just halo purchases as teams grow. (I consider the iPad subscription one of these halo purchases.)

- So why not just make FCP free? They have iMovie for that - I think a free pro app would put Apple in competition hot water.
grubonce "osname" && reboot

is a pain in the ass? All the virtualization solutions are moot for gaming due to anticheat (plus 3d graphics virtualization not really working for windows)
> Obliteration of attention spans

Assuming this is true (some data would be nice though) how did smartphones themselves contribute to this?

> introduction and proliferation of (mentally and physically) unhealthy role models,

This is such an old phenomenon I'm not entirely sure how to respond. This is not remotely related to the rise of smartphones.

> the proven by now adverse effects on social media

I assume you mean "of". We at least partially agree here, though I think we need to delve a bit deeper into why social media has such adverse effects on our children, instead of just blaming the technology itself.

> the rising teen suicide rates

Again, how do you attribute this to smartphones?
A new company is shipping Arctic ice from Greenland to Dubai
True. Also government tactics 101.

Difference being that HP won’t shoot me for buying a printer from Brother.
A "Simulink" for GenAI Systems
What are GenAI systems and why do we need them? Prof. Dr. Jakub Tomczak published a sensational article on GenAI Systems a few weeks ago. We immediately realised that he had to explain it to us. His outlook: The idea of using LLMs as a backbone for Operating Systems and agents as applications has attracted a lot of attention. Here, we consider general systems with various GenAI-based components, not only LLM-based compartments. Either way, moving towards GenAI-based (operating) systems seems like the future, and the next step of cloud-based systems. Indeed, GenAISys can be deployed locally, but also in a cloud server; or as a hybrid (e.g., a GeM, a cache storage, and DEs are local but external tools and storage are in a cloud). The last option can be especially appealing for manufacturing since all real-life operations must be executed in real-time while data storage and other operations are carried out by external services (or agents).
In short: UK has no place there, US has no place there. A whole bunch of refugees probably do have a place there but no-one cares about them. Also crimes are probably being committed over and above what I’ve just described.

In other words: situation normal in the Chagos Islands.
"This concept of the infinite in a sense contoured the need for naming its mirror-image counterpart: nothingness."

Is infinity the mirror image of nothingness? I cannot conceive infinity let alone its mirror image. Same with nothingness.
I first heard of CoWs (cell towers on wheels) from Woodstock '99, when they tried to repeat the debacle of Woodstock '94. (AFAIK, the CoW did not work.)

The idea of cellular networks is simple: Put the "source" of the bandwidth near where the people need it.

The idea of CoWs is also simple: It's the same thing, but it's dynamic and flexible.

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There was a time in my life when I was using AT&T as an all-you-can-eat LTE provider through a third party as my home Internet access, because reasons (and hear you me, if DOCSIS had been an option then none of this would have happened).

Armed with a hotspot device that had external antenna connectors, band selection, and a Yagi antenna, I found a cell tower that I thought to be about 14 miles away that had consistently good Internet bandwidth. It was a ton better than several other much-closer towers (some only 1 or two miles away), presumably because it had better backhaul(s).

I made quite a study of things to get that dialed in and working reliably. And it was reliable for months. But then: One day, the signal had turned to shit.

So I did the right thing and I drove over to where I thought that tower was, 14 miles out, to have a peek. And the tower was right where I expected it to be.

But there were men actively working on the tower (with ropes and stuff), and a CoW of much-smaller stature was parked there and providing (rather lesser) backup service.

Which, you know: That explained that.

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They additionally get used some for natural disasters if a tower fails, and also sometimes for other dynamic events like festivals and concerts and such. They're pretty useful when they work, in that a tiny sliver of bandwidth is superior to zero bandwidth. When properly-managed they can reduce contention on neighboring towers so that regular people doing their regular things are less-affected by whatever dynamic event is happening nearby.
This is totally normal procedure and has been for years. The only difference is now it makes the news because "Boeing" gets clicks.

> I do not have and insight on how that industry work, but

This is why I think these articles shouldn't be submitted. People who know how these things work don't click because they know it's just the media sensationalizing the routine, but they're a magnet for uninformed speculation.
Dealing with an HP printer easily was the worst tech experience I have had in my life. I don't understand how "non-tech" people even deal with this. The process was so unimaginably convoluted, requiring third party software, new accounts a very bad mobile app, a tiny display with terrible delays on the printer and so much more.

This has to be another peak though and something where I think the EU could reasonably step in. Selling devices so utterly broken and ridiculous to set up and maintain should not be acceptable.
You need to read How I Met My Wife!

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/07/25/how-i-met-my-w...
DEI Becomes Discrimination
Ultimately advertising is a zero sum game anyway. If you convince someone to buy your product then they are not going to spend that money elsewhere. Sure, they might have instead saved the money but that just means spending it later.

The only reason why anyone needs to advertise is to prevent others who do advertise from stealing all their customers. This is also why ads are becoming more intrusive and annoying over time - because you need to make your ads even more effective than the competition if everyone else already also uses ads.
I am talking about diversity hiring obviously.
While the community may be a good source for ideas, you should retain an attorney. The community is not your lawyer.

There's also the BSL. It specifically calls out competitive products. It automatically falls away for code older than a given time to another OSI license: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Source_License. Per the Wikipedia article this still has issues: contributors are handing over their work for to you for free for that duration, they can't use their own work for profit.

The AGPL does make your project extremely unattractive to competition, without affecting your contributors. The issue is that it is still possible to compete with you using it, so long as your competition releases all their code (i.e. infra, billing, etc.) under AGPL.

I would personally go for AGPL because it will keep the worst offenders (Amazon, Microsoft) away from your code.
> You are the very reason why I use adblockers, and block a bunch of URLs and IPs on my router (to protect myself and my family), _and_ try to convince loved ones to up their security/privacy game; while at the same time I know that most people are sheep and have this exact opinion, so I own stock of MS, Apple, Google, and others, that 'feed' on the people with that mindset.

Interesting hypocrisy at work here.
That's the "international" law order for you. Some people will still use these words with a straight face.
We are undergoing the same CASA audit (required to access Google Drive API). And we do have people forking and building the project from source, so one can hope they read what they compile. Strongbox' source code is half-closed (see #784 in their repo) so source-level independent audit is impossible.

Otherwise, no. A third-party audit costs like a year of part-time developer, and at this stage the developer is more useful.
For me it's infrequent enough that I'll just go the the library if I need to print.
> Let f:{0,1}*→{0,1} be the constant 1 function if God exists, or the constant 0 function if God does not exist.

A slightly longer way to write this that I think would cause fewer parse errors is

> Let f:{0,1}*→{0,1} be the constant 1 function if God exists, or let f:{0,1}*→{0,1} be the constant 0 function if God does not exist.
This is a bit of an extreme ask, that's basically an entire product in its own right.
This. Also not having to worry about ink drying out or being lost due to automatic printhead cleaning during long periods of non-printing, or not having to worry about anything ink-related at all and automatically getting a new cartridge in the mail is extremely convenient.

That said, I heard multiple stories about people buying non-online-only printers, activating Instant Ink without properly understanding what are they signing up for, then canceling and complaining they can't use the cartridge they "paid" for.

So if Instant Ink is really dead it's probably a victim of shitty overly-aggressive HP marketing.
I wonder if there is a way to sustainably fund individual contributors too, most FOSS funding mechanisms seem to focus on maintainers.
Wonder if this might help with mosquito bites also.
Not just corporate tactics.

"We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back. "

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Juncker

It is just rare, that a EU president says stuff like this loud in the open. Otherwise it is politics 101.
Read what I wrote.

The organizer should pay if they don't want to get sponsor(s). As you say, expecting participants to pay is generally too high a hurdle. If they don't want to/can't have sponsors or foot the bill, then, yes, there just shouldn't be a meetup probably unless they can randomly beg space from somewhere. Dropping the bill on an amorphous "society" isn't really a solution. I have no problem with a town/city library offering space if it's available but there are many competing demands including lots of talks and activities that have no hope of attracting a corporate sponsor. There's no more reason for my town to support a Kubernetes meetup than a talk on medieval castles.
The underlying book and author data for many of these is sourced via a lower layer of openlibrary.org and wikidata (which in turn are building on isbns and the collective records of many national libraries) and when they aren't, they should be. The underlying data should be a shared endeavour.

Openlibrary.org provides book tracking (want to read, currently reading, have read) itself, as long as you can cope with it being neither beautiful nor social, which seem to be the key selling points of many of these.
Show HN: A live and interactive SaaS Sales Agent – Fluidworks
Is college worth it? Poll finds only 36% in US have confidence in higher ed
Slightly misleading title

"20 MB Linux.EFI" ...

Download 25MB ...

Leads to 26MB download file ...

Holds a compressed partition of 209 MB.
Quantum sensing tools to replace GPS
PFAS Toxicity and Human Health Review: Current State of Knowledge (2021)
I made this exact thing like 2 years ago except with a custom busybox based environment, huh

It worked by building the system into the initramfs, then using a kernel feature to basically bake the initramfs into the kernel image, and then using efistub to make the kernel bootable
Brief history:

Diego Garcia is an island of the British Indian Ocean Territory, a disputed overseas territory of the United Kingdom also claimed by Mauritius. It is a militarised atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of the 60 small islands of the Chagos Archipelago.

Portuguese sailors under Pedro Mascarenhas were the first Europeans to discover the island, finding it uninhabited in 1512. After a 1786 British colony failed, the French began using the island as a leper colony and, starting in 1793, coconut cultivation by enslaved labor. It was transferred to British rule after the Napoleonic Wars. It was one of the "Dependencies" of the British Colony of Mauritius until the Chagos Islands were detached for inclusion in the newly created British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) in 1965.

More recently:

Between 1968 and 1973, the Chagossian (Îlois) inhabitants were forcibly expelled from Diego Garcia by the UK Government so that a joint US/UK military base could be established on the island.

In 2023, Human Rights Watch condemned the action as a crime against humanity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia
In the 19th Century, the U.K. (and France, the US and others) militarily defeated China and imposed humiliating “unequal treaties” on it. Nowadays the US does the same to the U.K., e.g. an extradition treaty that gives US citizens far more leeway to fight extradition than the other way round. The occupation of Diego Garcia is just another example of the U.K. being America’s poodle.
In case I wasn't clear, I too believe in equal opportunity.

Equal outcome is a farce that only brings everyone down to the floor.
Some more thoughts on The Browser Company
Understood, Thank you. Really appreciate all that information.
There was a time when you wrote a software for a version of the OS and it was done (except security fixes).
>I do not have and insight on how that industry work

The industry works by doing safety right before the plane first flies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition
It wasn't the wrong kind of stubborn. It was exactly the right thing to do, for this organization.

I'm not sure that it was, in the aggregate, the most beneficial decision for the company, but it was the decision they made, and I had to go along with it.

I do think that we could have addressed the Quality issues, in a couple of months, and the app was something that I think would have been "revolutionary." That "revolutionary" part probably contributed to its demise. Many QA types are very conservative, and risk-averse. I suspect that they wanted to find problems, because they didn't want to deal with a very different (albeit awesome) kind of application. There were also a couple of other reasons, which I won't go into, here, but they weren't particularly well-handled. They did make it easier for the conservatives to sway upper management.
India isn't so great an example insofar as there are plenty of sources detailing common deficiencies in the Indian vegetarian diet - namely B12 and protein.

But in any case I don't think turning consumption into something moral will ever scale. If you want to curb consumption you have to price in the externalities. This is true for everything - fast fashion and cheap flights too.

I don't think it is cultural - my point is that as someone who appreciates food for more than just sustenance you'll never convince me that tempeh/tofu/jack fruit/bugs will one day make me forget that meat is delicious.

I will gladly vote with my wallet or blood sweat & tears to continue eating meat especially if it becomes sustainable via price hikes. And I don't say this from a position of arrogance - I'm saying that I would cut many many many other things out of my life before I gave up meat due to affordability issues.
Show HN: Convert CSVs to ScrollSets
In this context ESP = EFI System Partition
I will be using escrow.com in between won't they be responsible for tax laws.

Also my website is just a platform for bidders and auction listers so they are the one's who will be paying taxes right?

And regarding the taxes on fees, I guess I will be using MOR such as lemonsqueezy Or paddle.
Further down this thread you point at a specific website and claim it doesn't have popups, even though it does. The same is true of free.fr (modal popup) and (sliding cookie banner). It's not great that you keep defending cookie popups when you not only very clearly block them, but did it so long ago you forgot about it.
Likely because:

Between 1968 and 1973, the Chagossian (Îlois) inhabitants were forcibly expelled from Diego Garcia by the UK Government so that a joint US/UK military base could be established on the island.

Many were deported to Mauritius and the Seychelles, following which the United States built the large Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, which has been in continuous operation since then.

In 2019, this action and continued British administration of the archipelago were deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice in The Hague, a ruling the United Nations General Assembly supported.

In 2023, Human Rights Watch condemned the action as a crime against humanity.
While gesturing at religion and saying he's a fundamentalist is an easy rhetorical technique, it doesn't add much. Yes good resources do exist, but they are few and far between. The number of new undergraduates from cs or software engineering who learned to think in the ways needed to make low latency applications are a rounding error based on my experience with them. Most forgot it, weren't taught it well, or never saw it at all. They are more worried about learning the syntax of the current hot framework rather than on anything even resembling "Avoid copies, never allocate, keep the hot path local".

The religious comparison is also a telling one given the state of the industry; for we aren't the theologian, we're the common folk looking for someone or something to follow in order to write better code.

Who are Casey's alternatives? Gesturing the cppcon as a learning resource has "read research papers to learn about a field" vibes. They can be highly informative and worth the effort, but not for beginners.

Who are Casey's contemporaries? If he's a fundamentalist then the atheists are nowhere to be seen by the beginners. Instead we have agile ceremony shamans, clean code bible missionaries, tdd doomsday cults, oop/rust/haskell/etc. zealots, a thriving megachurch industry of Lambda schools, and the mother of all cargo cults masquerading as web dev.
The RTB industry is IMO missing a trick by using properties of people for targeting rather than "info vectors" and "bloom lists".

The info vectors would be generated by a neural net based on all information known about a customer. The vectors would specifically not be usable to identify a customer, and therefore not count as PII under GDPR rules. The vectors would be trained to predict the probability of clicking an ad (the pCTR). Using that training metric, everything an advertiser cares about will end up encoded in the vector, whilst no individual private piece of info (eg. sexual orientation) is extractable with any certainty.

Notably, these vectors will be addable, allowing multiple companies to add their vectors on one visitor, creating a new vector with even greater predictive strength, but no company shares their private customer data to competitors.

The 'bloom lists' will be able to identify customers, but only probabilistically. They will encode data such as "user bob@mail.com has an account at Walmart, Lowes and Target". However, the data they hold is only right ~99% of the time, since it is implemented with a bloom filter. That allows businesses to do remarketing to specific users, for example past customers. No individual user could ever be sure they are or are not part of such a filter, and hence it again doesn't meet the EU's PII definition.

By using the above two, I believe the total CTR can be increased (since users get better targeted), whilst also giving users the privacy they expect.
was starting to think it was just a scam to see how long people would wait
I'm not certain, but Clojure supports this through CIDER's Enlighten mode: https://docs.cider.mx/cider/debugging/enlighten.html

It would be even better if larger values were inspectable, as it becomes challenging to view more complex data types beyond numbers and short strings.
Pretty much the same situation as Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.