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I may be a rare-bird type of user on StackOverflow. I started using StackOverflow to ask primarily ask questions from the earliest days, I have an ultra high reputation, my question count dwarfs my answer count by more than 3:2.

My answer to this question is that I simply got better at solving programming problems on my own without having to ask for help. That increase of skill coupled with the the overly aggressive moderation that acted as a deterrent for me to ask questions has led to a point where I have practically no need for the platform.

I have even noticed that I will typically bypass stack-overflow when researching a problem, preferring other resources first (official documentation).
The title is specifically referring to a possible reassessment of his later, quasi-mystical writings, post retirement from mathematics in 1970.

It’s a bit too long for the HN title submission but the actual article title in the Guardian is

“ ‘He was in mystic delirium’: was this hermit mathematician a forgotten genius whose ideas could transform AI – or a lonely madman?”
Anti-russian? Russia is a major security threat to Lithuania that engages in cyber warfare, disinformation and sabotage campaigns.

- Two months ago there were major arson attacks and failed attempts linked to Russians in multiple states like Poland and Germany.

- Russian linked agents at the beginning of school year dissiminated false information about bombs being planted at schools in Lithuania which disrupted the process in general and undermined trust of parents and children.

- They are also constantly creating false narratives about ongoing social events with ant-lithuanian anti-european spin and spreading them online.

- Lets also not forget that Russia is constantly using migrants to attack borders of European states.

Russians are trying to wage war in every gray area they can find. Why this paragon of free speech (kekw) constantly engages in anti-lithuanian policies?

Even more interesting recently they started mapping out locations of optic fibers scattered across the ocean. Lets hope they wont use this information.
X is the site I was referring to.

Virtual Private Networking is the communications technology I was talking about.

Banning VPN's is what's shocking here.
Just to play devils advocate, I think part of what the OP may be saying is that our intelligence is mapped to our survival. From that perspective, animals can be more intelligent than a 2 year old. A stray cat is infinitely more capable of surviving the wild than a 2 year old human; they are more “intelligent” in that survival capacity by far. So again, to the OPs point, it depends on how we’re measuring intelligence; if it’s based on the skills humans are specialized for, of course humans will be shown to be more intelligent.
Your kernel has no external library dependencies.

Relaxing library requirements can introduce security issues when the dependency behaviour changes, so I'm not sure what the argument is.

If your bgp is bugged, yeah it sucks, but it's recoverable. We're using encrypted traffic these days to ensure that even captured traffic is safe.

The difference here is that data corruption is not recoverable.
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It is to me :) (though obviously it depends what kind of user you are and what you're looking for in your OS).

As a 'personal' user (rather than sysadmin), I tried more distributions than I can count before settling on linux mint, both 'beginner friendly' and 'advanced (e.g. Slackware/Gentoo)'. Ever since I've discovered Linux Mint I've not looked at another distribution (except occasionally for 'shits and giggles' in at least a decade. I feel it is very respectful of its userbase and has exactly the right mix of user-friendliness and non-patronisingness that I would expect from an OS project.

Small example from the latest release: ubuntu suddenly decided to only provide its thunderbird package exclusively as a snap, so the mint team assigned a maintainer to preserve a mint-hosted .deb file on their own repo. While ubuntu has been moving to snaps and flatpaks, mint has listened to its user-based and allocated resources to 'undo' stupidities by ubuntu where they occur. And they've been wise enough to maintain a debian-based rolling-release alternative as a contingency.

Having said that, I have been using the XFCE variant exclusively over cinnamon, which I got used to when I had a line-up of severly underpowered laptops for years. So a lot of it is probably also habit by this point.
It’s hard to comment on that case without knowing what was Tweeted but on the surface of it, I do agree with you. However he wasn’t sent to jail and thus it wasn’t the incident the GP described.

What the GP was referring to was those jailed for inciting violence and hatred during the wave of riots the UK suffered last month.

Their actions were a lot worse and had real world, tangible, effects on people and their property. It wasn’t just them sharing a meme (which is the popular trope some on HN describe the event as).

It’s worth noting that people in America get arrested for similar actions. In another comment I drew parallels to the Capitol riots.

The crux of the reason people get put in jail “for posting mean things” is because they’ve broken other, much worse laws in the process.
Jim Crow laws were also laws (among countless other examples or bad or inhuman or downright immoral laws).

"It was the law" for such cases is just an excuse to tell a judge.

Not an argument in favor of the morality and humanity of the person following it.

Yes, one wont go to jail for following it. Is that how low you hang the bar?
this is a good point that it does add a lot of weight to a build process. I might try it though. If the ‘weight’ is a lightweight Linux build environment referenced by ISO hash, it might not be that bad (TM) in practice. And, generally, trading bandwidth (cheap) for human refactoring (crazy expensive) is a trade that’s often nice to make.
I think that's a false myth, there are now EOR like Deel and Remote.com that make this super easy today.

There's also the "false contractors" route, i.e. hiring remote contractors but treating them like employees. Which is also a quite common setup among early
stage startups with a fully distributed DNA.
Russian Media Leverages Meliorator Software for Foreign Influence Activity [pdf]
> There's something increasingly messed up with Google's algorithm lately and there's little control.

I've also noticed this for pedestrian routes inside cities. For some reason, it likes to send you zigzagging when there's a perfectly good straight route. And this is Paris, so it's not like the straight road is an 8-lane highway with no sidewalk.
No, they are pretty far away as far I understand it. Based on various tests available to see how far along a browser is with specific standards.

Also makes sense as Ladybird is a much younger project, even with the hiatus in development with Servo.
I love Debian for this stability. It is a great host OS for all my VMs.
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> secure their monopolistic position

Mastercard is rolling this out in India.

In India and other countries that skipped the credit card phase (eg. China, Vietnam, Phillipines, Indonesia, Thailand, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kenya, etc), most non-cash payments are done directly via an e-wallet and OTP.

This is an attempt by Mastercard to try and merge that payment flow into their environment, otherwise they face a low adoption rate in growth markets across Asia and Africa.

Most vendors do not offer payment via card, and those that do will almost always also offer e-wallet as a payment method.
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I didn't like the other tools out there - either they cost money, or their interfaces aren't what they should be in 2024. So I created resize-image.com, a dead simple tool to resize and compress images online for free.
Building Your Own Dynamic Language (2007) [video]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10246135/

> To provide causal as opposed to merely correlational evidence on this question, we take advantage of the fact that in Wales eligibility for the herpes zoster vaccine (Zostavax) for shingles prevention was determined based on an individual’s exact date of birth. Those born before September 2 1933 were ineligible and remained ineligible for life, while those born on or after September 2 1933 were eligible to receive the vaccine.

Basically, the people born around that date are about as perfect a control-vs-experimental group split you can get in a large population.
Slides: https://www.piumarta.com/papers/EE380-2007-slides.pdf
Wut? It changes before the click? That sounds ... magical. And what is "the hi"? Typo of "ui"?
I've never heard doctors worry so much I might change my diet as when I read the Wikipedia entry on histomine intolerance.[1] MCAS is one thing, maybe, but the primary diagnostic for histomine intolerance is whether symptoms improve with changes in diet. So, if the whole of TikTok changed their diets with positive results, why would that provoke derision from the medical community as opposed to curiosity?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histamine_intolerance
the amount of time i waste in hn grew immensely after the pandemic. is this long COVID?
> Adwords - clearly marked as ads. Or are you suggesting the results themselves could be bought and sold? This was definitely not the case.

Ad words spending had clear manipulations on the organic search algorithm. More spending meant better organic search placement. This is officially denied, but I saw this take place.
There's certain devices (e.g. firewalls) that don't allow you to save your public key for SSH authentication, so you're stuck with passwords. I've used "expect" for automating backups to a TFTP server.
Well as I understand it, the best answer to that is a government controlled (and subsidized) entity like UPI in India, which was developed together by public banks, private banks, the govt, the reserve bank and Big Tech. For all the concerns about privacy, I'm not really concerned about my less than $2K transactions I carry out via UPI, and the cut that the companies take out of it (which right now is zero, but eventually will be charged).
> positions itself to be used in mission critical systems and yet essentially requires you to implicitly trust hundreds of maintainers

It doesn't require anything. You can write those things yourself if you want. And for some critical things you should.

But given the tiny number of languages with logging, uuids, and error reporting built in... what are you taking about? They're doing just fine.
I wasn't suggesting that Wolfram never acknowledges a team or never uses "we".

It is just a question of ratios. Wolfram's writing/blogging seems to assume we want the inside scoop on what it is like to be Steven Wolfram. There's nothing inherently wrong with that - plenty of people want the inside scoop on what it is like to be some entertainment celebrity, so why not a scientist-business-y person - but it is unusual for the disciplines Wolfram considers himself a part of.
So parts of dutch government are introducing rules where eg ministers aren't allowed to have phones on them anymore for important meetings.

I'm a bit curious why Netherlands would then hold a neutral position in this case, further weakening phone security.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2534226-schoof-over-telefoonverbod-in...
It's been like this since always. "Doctors think they're gods, judges know". My legal medicine professor, a coroner, told me that during a class.

It got worse in 2019. Some magazine ran a damning article on them. In retaliation, they granted themselves virtually limitless power to investigate, prosecute, judge and punish "fake news" of all kinds, with themselves as the victims. They determine what's fake of course. Their powers just kept expanding until they essentially usurped everything. It got to the point this judge started proposing changes to laws directly to our representatives. The changes were rejected but he just rammed the "fake news" nonsense down our throats anyway via his "resolutions". It's under the umbrella of this "fake news" inquisition that the judge-king banned X in Brazil.

And not a single politician will move against them. Precisely because they're all so hopelessly corrupt. All the judges need to do to put them in the ground is unearth one of countless corruption scandals.

This is not a democracy, it's a dictatorship of the judiciary. Unelected judge-kings with lifetime mandates whose pens directly make the people with guns do their bidding. It's kind of ridiculous to even discuss "laws" at this point. These guys could write whatever they want on a piece of paper and it becomes law.

Even more context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36543423
Try switching focus mode from the lockscreen (by long pressing somewhere inbetween all notifications, widgets, the clock etc). Always takes me several tries and I end up feeling like something is broken.
The point is not the specific language, but the approach.
Ask HN: How come HN's search shows different counts based on sorting criteria?
I was playing around with the algolia search tool recently.

I noticed that if you ask for all items ordered by Popularity you get 38m results: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=&sort=byPopularity&type=all

But if you sort it by Date instead you get only 32.5m results: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=&sort=byDate&type=all

Can anyone help me understand this difference or point me to where it's been answered?
I disagree on both accounts. It’s not difficult to code truly immutable classes in Java. And encapsulation is beneficial regardless of mutability.
The charges against Avery were suddenly dropped without explanation Wednesday.

That’s the difference from the UK.
Im 9 months into long covid. Just about recovered enough to start doing light cardio again. But during the first 5 months or so my brain was literally scrambled. At Christmas, simple trivia games were impossible. Recall of certain words that were usually available to me just didnt happen. It was awful, especially trying to keep my new job at the time. I also found myself doing things that I'd never done before, like leaving a tap running or heating a pan full of vegetables without any water in, as I'd forgotten I was midway though something.

Gradually, I began to get better, and this was in lockstep with my garmin's reporting of my HRV which had massively declined immediately after onset. At my worst, walking up one flight of stairs or showering would have me out of breath and send my heart racing.

Before all of this, I was an extremely fit young person (very high VO2 max and exercised daily). Im only just starting to get a resemblance of my former life back and I fortunately only had a mild case but it has really woken me up to the seriousness of post viral syndromes. I now actively avoid _any_ sick people, no matter how mild - my initial infection barely registered as a sore throat and sniffles.

I hope we really ramp up investigations into this field as I know there are a lot of people suffering in silence being fobbed off by archaic medical thinking in this area of medicine. Who knows what long term lasting damage has been done to my body
Sun actually paid for the development of some of this. Sun definitely had a business interest in having a Linux compatible product that wasn't Linux.
It was a prediction. Which came true less than 24 hours ago.
I really don't know why Google doesn't just let users pick the how many copies to keep, and how many writes must be ACK'ed before the VM sees a write as complete.

Then users can decide the cost vs reliability vs durability of data written milliseconds before an outage.

Perhaps give users a web-based calculator where you can put the numbers, and see how much it would cost in $ per gb per day, the mean time to committed data loss based on historic data in years/centuries, and the typical increase in write latency (loss of performance) compared to a single replica.

Then the user can decide.
The point is not the specific language, but the approach. The split from Serenity OS (and its "C++ only, no external dependencies" approach) made Ladybird a lot more attractive for both funding and potential contributors.
> moral or political positions

It's legal and fraud considerations.

You have a toxic mix of fraud risks, money laundering risks, and the potential risk of accidently enabling legally radioactive CSAM when supporting pornography.

This is way too much risk to bank an industry that is smaller than most other sectors.

In the Wikileaks case, the lack of redaction meant Wikileaks and its enablers could face multiple national security and espionage related charges. That is too much risk.

At the end of the day, if you are a payment processor you will have to assume liability for abetting your customers actions. And if you do not moderate well enough, as an executive your head is personally on the line for plenty of civil and even criminal charges.
> to imply that dissenting opinions aren't supported by science to be pretty offensive

Unless I missed something, you have yet to share the science that supports your view. I'm not bowing out of discussing this because we have different opinions, I'm bowing out because I shared a study (and could provide more) and you responded by shifting goal posts and standing by your claim, not by responding in kind with similar studies or different interpretations of the data. There's not much discussion to be had if we're not working from a shared understanding of data and facts, and those data and facts aren't driving our opinions and beliefs. Anyway, best of luck out there!
Just wanted to say, your ADHD wiki is part of what made me get a diagnosis in year 7 of a 4 year PhD, the meds of which then allowed me to finish it successfully.

I've since used it to show 6 fellow high functioning AuDHD people, 2 of which were getting into the depression and anxiety spirals that can come with the Systems failing.

Just in my corner of the world, you saved the dreams of at 3 people with your wiki, I would call it slightly more than moderately successful. Thank you so much.
There’s a great article with explanations on the net. But the gist is that macOS renders like a giant image with no care for pixels and small details. It works fine when using native resolution (low dpi) or have enough pixels for their “retina” approved resolution. Anything else and it looks blurry.

Linux and Windows use actual pixels for their rendering, and even with anti-aliasing, it looks sharp. If you’re stuck with macOS, aim for 4k at least.
I already read a few summarised podcasts and I love it! It's super useful if you don't want listen to the full thing, but you still want to know the main points.
For anyone else, who speaks German though, you can already buy it here: https://www.kosmos.de/de/von-angesicht-zu-angesicht_1179000_...
Hence the need for a hosting service that you trust. You can't force that header on an untrusted server.
That's how I do many kinds of percentages... like 72% is 50% and then 10% twice and then a couple of 1%s
In the same vein, converting pounds to kilos is "divide by 2, subtract 10%".
> “…i'd rather do that than suffer people who are unfriendly or uncooperative…”

I assume if you had interview questions to root out cooperative groups you would have shared.

So maybe the next question would be, What management or leadership practices are indicative of a better group dynamic?

Otherwise, in my experience, the group dynamic is an interpersonal dynamic— the result of quality of work the group achieves and the synergies of individuals in that process—unpredictable.
It’s very easy to reproduce this bug, even if you don’t go quickly. Basically, if your tap becomes a “swipe” that leaves the button area, then a previously registered “tap” that’s already shown up in the field will actually “unregister” and disappear from the field. Try it yourself: tap down on a button, watch the dot appear, then without lifting your finger, swipe out of the button, and watch it disappear. This happens a lot when tapping quickly since you are tapping and beginning to move your finger in the direction of the next button. You have to train yourself to make only up and down motions to be able to go quickly. It is indeed very annoying. The way these buttons should work is like telephone buttons (registering on the “mousedown”, not “mouseup”), and not like OK buttons (that register on the “mouseup”), but instead they chose a weird combination of both.
Fair point.

I do think we need to reevaluate how security is managed in terms of software. It's often the case that we say "this library version has a CVE, we need to update it!" However, it's not often the case that the CVE in the library is even exploitable from the parent application.

I'm thinking of a recent 9 CVE against zlib... But actually it was a rarely used extension API for working with compressed files.

Something like path tracing to see if a vulnerable API is even accessible from the parent application/library before instructing the universe to adopt a new version.
But how could such treatments work? The drugs are a wide range of organic chemicals mixed in with the literal crap of sludge, which is also a wide range of organic chemicals. Just how is this supposed to separate out or degrade the drug residues without also destroying the sludge?
Why not both? Crazy people can be smart. As for mystic delirium well that's our modern sensibilities talking. Hell there are people today who believe in Marian apparitions.
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Hungary lost vast swaths of territory after WW2. People who were Hungary citizens weren’t after the new borders were drawn.

I don’t see a big difference between that and Germany giving citizenship to all the people who were Germans prior to WW2, but weren’t after the war.
What symptoms do you feel recently?

Are they improving?
This is pretty dumb on Debian's part. First of all I don't understand why they insist crate dependencies must be pulled from their repository. They are just source code, not built binary. AFAIK there is no other distro that does this, what they do is that they would download crates from crates.io (`cargo vendor` is a command that does this automatically) and build against that. Arch does this, Gentoo does this, NixOS does this, why does Debian has to be different?

Secondly, even if they have to use crates from their repository, I don't understand what's so hard to just have multiple versions of the same crate? That will solve the problem too.

This is just all-around weird what Debian is doing.

(Full disclosure, I am the one who introduced the first piece of Rust code into bcachefs-tools)
I call it a dictatorship of the judiciary. Simply because our representatives don't matter. They pass laws, judiciary ignores them. They reject laws, judiciary acts as if they had passed. And in the end, it's the judiciary who makes police show up at your house to oppress you.

I agree that it's hard to say what specific class of clown world Brazil has degenerated into but whatever it is it sure as fuck isn't a democracy. Hearing the word "democracy" come out of the mouths of these judge-kings makes me laugh psychotically like the joker.
Peer-to-peer web where people don't need to pay for servers but donate some disk space and network bandwidth to participate. The content generated by passionate people that only wants their content to be out there, not make money out of it. A p2p geocities if you will.