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Only thing left is to wonder, we don't have many examples of companies/individuals ignoring support to know for certain
They manage to run the trains on time in Japan for a fraction of the ticket price.
I know exactly what you experienced, jumping straight into Rails without knowing how to tame the beast is not worth it. What helped me get started and understand the concept was to follow their guide. Not kidding, it's that good.

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
The fact that the standard library works against you doesn't help (to_lower takes an int, but only kind of works (sometimes) correctly on unsigned char, and wchar_t is implicitly promoted to int).
Under the latest definition you made up on the spot, yes. And definitely not all.

So what's your plan when the fraction keeps shrinking? When you're no longer in it?

This is simple interpolation. It is plainly obvious that at some point soon, you will be faced with the fact that there's nothing magical about intelligence. When that happens, will you concede that, or start thinking of yourself as a soulless automaton?

If you can't project that far forward, I question whether you meet any meaningful definition of "intelligent" right now.
When Epic ships a phone or computer with the Epic Store as the only optional for installing apps or games, then we can talk.

Epic Store on Windows can't be accused of this monopolistic behaviour because Windows is not locked down and alternatives to the platform's distribution exists. Epic Store is one of those beneficiaries.

Windows and Epic's deals demonstrates there exists a market with competition and choices for developers and users. Developers can chose to take Epic up on their deal. Users can chose to use the Epic Store or not. The courts ruled that this choice does not effectively exist on Android because of all the dealings that Google did to prevent competition.

The whole point of this lawsuit is that Google suppresses alternative pricing models in the Play Store. You can not like a proposed alternative payment structure (as a developer), or not want to use Epic Store on Android. It would be great if the market could decide on what it wants here, instead of Google preventing any competition.
> Is it the developer, say, of some app for Android or iOS, at fault, or is it that the changing API surface coupled with App Store policies means that an app developer is forced to keep releasing new versions and deprecating older operating systems and hardware?

"Because of the release of GNOME 2.0 and 2.2, and the lack of interest in maintainership of GNOME 1.4, the gnome-core product is being closed. If you feel your bug is still of relevance to GNOME 2, please reopen it and refile it against a more appropriate component. Thanks..."

"Why not be honest and resign yourself to the fact that version 0.8 is followed by version 0.8, which is then followed by version 0.8?

But that's what happens when there is no incentive for people to do the parts of programming that aren't fun. Fixing bugs isn't fun; going through the bug list isn't fun; but rewriting everything from scratch is fun (because "this time it will be done right", ha ha) and so that's what happens, over and over again."
I still have that island fortress thing somewhere in a closet, or maybe my parents. With the pool that could swivel out the way, the trees that fold down and some sound effects IIRC. Was all the rage in my class when I was a kid (in the 90s).
No, I really just didn't say that it was a political topic.
Creating websites is easy: just don't try to make them into an app. Stop trying to reimplement the browser in javascript and just write plain static HTML with limited progressive enhancement where it actually makes sense.
Being developed in, and having to stay compatible with, ancient times is a real problem of C++.

The now-invalid assumptions couldn't have been avoided 50 years ago. Fixing them now in C++ is difficult or impossible, but still, the end result is a ton of brokenness baked into C++.

Languages developed in the 21st century typically have some at least half-decent Unicode support built-in. Unicode is big and complex, but there's a lot that a language can do to at least not silently destroy the encoding.
Nope, you still don't get it. Here's my last message to you:

HN: "AI sucks."

HN frontpage: 95% non-AI news

You: "Hey guys, so much AI. AI sucks, amirite? Anyone got non AI news?"

Me: "Why are you asking us, just look at the frontpage. That's the news we have."

You: "DON'T TAKE THIS PERSONALLY!"
not OP, but here's a nice example with Elixir Liveview: https://fly.io/blog/livebeats/

It has a tutorial, also a demo and some videos.
Have you worked on the paid vesion yet? (10$ after 1000 saves)

I've built a few browser extensions, but not found a super simple way to monetize them. Which technical solution do you plan to use for a paid version of your extension? Authentication? Other?
I've noticed that things have really taken a turn for the worse in the last few years. I used to have a decent following on Reddit where I’d often help out, comment, and even share a lot of open-source code. But it all changed when someone started falsely reporting my work as a scam. It got so bad that I ended up getting banned. There was even this one person accusing me of stealing money from accounts with my code, and I was like, "It's open source! How could I even do that?" But they didn’t care or just didn’t get it. First, I got a three-day suspension, and then, just like that—banned for no reason.

The crypto world is crawling with scammers, unfortunately. But I’ve been writing, designing, and running trading algorithms for over a decade now, and I still open-source some of my work on GitHub. The frustrating part is that I don’t really have much of a community to connect with anymore.

The thing is, trading algorithms are highly specialized. They take time to develop and fine-tune. But most people just want quick fixes, fast answers, and hope to make billions overnight. Tensions are high when people lose a lot, especially when they're overleveraged. For me, though, it's always been about the challenge and the fun of it.

I’ve managed to find a few people I chat with on a personal level, but in terms of a real community? Not so much. When you mention an "advanced community," what exactly do you mean? If you're already a trader and have a solid understanding, you might want to try checking out r/quant.
There is still not a censuses as to the definition of a static website. Is a website without a MYSQL database still static if it has JavaScript or php template include files? A pure static website in which each page has to be manually edited would be a headache.
It’s highly unlikely for Apple to choke on hardware given their cash.

And as someone who’s done native for both, Android’s native SDK is a mess that even Android devs actually hate it.

Meanwhile, iOS’ SDK is incredibly exhaustive and coherent. I don’t know what your basis is for “better designed software”, but being able to fork a desktop OS from 20 years prior, make it into a mobile OS, then to a tablet OS, then to a watch and a headset OS, and then have billions of users on it all and make a trillion-dollar company out of it⸺does that not sound like good engineering to you? All while the competition can hardly build anything that actually lasts.
Where is the best place to interact with the Rails community?
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Tangential, but I was once told a story that seems fitting here. It was told to me by a mechanical engineer who was educated at Eindhoven Technical University in the Netherlands.

He claimed that in the early days there was a lecturer or professor there that, at least in Eindhoven, was very important to his field of expertise. If I understood him correctly, this prof's ideas about engineering mechanical systems revolved around restricting the degrees of freedom as much as possible. A three legged table cannot wobble, but a four legged table can and usually does because it is overdetermined. In mechanical systems (for instance sensitive optical mechanics) reducing "wobble" is key. And the best way to reduce wobble is to make sure it cannot occur.

Here it gets interesting. My source claimed that this professor had laid down his ideas in a standard work in Dutch, which was never translated in another language, restricting its influence to Dutch mechanical engineers. He also claimed it is not a coincidence that Philips and later ASML took an early lead in designing optical systems.

Not sure if it is true, but an interesting story nonetheless.
Never knew this series but little me (from the Netherlands, from 1982) would have loved this show, I certainly loved Thunderbirds (even though 50% of the show was the same TB launch sequence ;) ). I feel sad that I seem to have lost the capacity to experience the epicness of such series/films.

Anyway, very cool that that Mars base is from 2020... It seemed so far way back then. The SciFi future with Mars bases and flying cars that never happened. We did get Smartphones though... What will humanity look like in 40 years? Unrecognizable probably.
that remote conrol will be like all others. disappear until I need it least.

I just needed to link a google account and permissions are minimal. nearby devices for the bluetooth/NFCand nothing else. other 5 permissions disabled. worth the convinience since I have control over what it can/'t do.
Different parts of a string can be in different languages too[1].

The lowercase of "DON'T FUSS ABOUT FUSSBALL" is "don't fuss about fußball". Unless you're in Switzerland.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching
Energy efficiency is improved even in this case.
One can only imagine how authoritarian regimes look at this from the outside. My guess is "The house of bezos has lost favour at the court of the king and is thus to be disbanded and reliefed from oligarch status"..
Maybe stores should simply be uncoupled with mobile OS. Imagine a store, that has apps for various OS, run independently from the OS' vendor, Google, Apple, whoever. Then we wouldn't have all the issues with the vendors behaving like dictators about what can be on _their_ stores, because it is no longer their stores. Only question: How does it get financed and maintained, if not big tech is behind it?
> Btw, having a garden with growing vegetables and fruits is perfect for reduce resource consumption.

In the modern world, with no animals and insects, but full of invasive species, you will find this endevour quiet difficult.
Yup, same. I don't still have it though. :(
There's a cool tool for adding these ID connections to Wikidata:

https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/

It let's you review existing potential matches as well as upload CSVs or generate regex web scrapers to ingest database IDs to be linked against others.

Here some related to places, since the article is geographical:

https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/group/ig_authority_contr...

But it's got all sorts of people places and things, anything that someone might have built a catalog or list of.
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The Libera IRC ##math community [1] has been around for over 29 years now! Originally based on the Freenode network, the community migrated to Libera in May 2021 following a controversial shift in Freenode's management.

This community played an instrumental role in my early days of beginning to study mathematics seriously. During its prime, weekly mathematics seminars [2] were organised by the members, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I still vividly remember the IRC user "TRWBW", who seemed to have an answer for every question, no matter how complex. TRWBW's ability to explain even the most challenging concepts with clarity and precision was very impressive. Sadly, he hasn't been seen in several years.

Although many of the original regulars have come and gone over the past three decades, the community continues to remain active. It still remains a good forum for discussing mathematics as well as asking and answering questions.

[1] https://web.libera.chat/##math

[2] https://freenode-math.fandom.com/wiki/Seminars#Past_Seminars
Tesseract: Open-Source OCR Engine for High-Accuracy Text Recognition
All piloted combat aircraft seem questionable at this point.

More weight, more vulnerability, more ethical issues, less ability to take high g force, more expensive, more focus and endurance issues, more constraints on taking risks.

When bombing runs are guided bombs anyway and air to air is all about over the horizon missiles anyway then there really questions around why you need a human in it at all.
I disagree with your last sentence. As someone who runs a few online businesses, the goal is to move the traffic from the walled garden directly to the domain as much as possible. TikTok, Google, Facebook and all the rest can derank or ban you with no reason at all at any moment, imploding your business overnight. It presents an untenable level of risk that I think a lot of people overlook. For that reason, a strong domain remains extremely important.
What you call "policing" they call "exploiting". Every single country that has dared to vote too left wing has had CIA or USA army having something to say about it.

This happened in europe, south america, and middle east.

> I suspect you won't read any of them though

That's very unacademic of you to suspect I won't read "the books", which you didn't even bother to list.

I have read this book in the summer. Perhaps you want to give it a read and step out of your bubble? https://www.amazon.it/del-marcio-Occidente-Piergiorgio-Odifr...

> Pax Brittanica

That's now how you spell it.
Are you looking to hire at all? This is the kind of technical work that I'm very interested in.

I'm based in Europe.
I actually loved the new series

https://www.amazon.com/Thunderbirds-Are-Go-Season-1/dp/B086H...

As well as being a huge fan of the originals
OP is probably using an AI accelerator like this: https://coral.ai/products/accelerator which works great on a PI and uses very little power. It will do the Yolo part, but you can't really expect it to do the multimodal LLM part, although you could try to run Florence directly on the PI too.
{Code-and-Response, Call-for-Code}/DroneAid : "DroneAid: A Symbol Language and ML model for indicating needs to drones, planes" (2010) https://github.com/Code-and-Response/DroneAid ..
https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#story-22707347 :

CORRECTION: All but one of the DroneAid Symbol Language Symbols are drawn within upward pointing triangles.

Is there a simpler set of QR codes for the ground that could be made with sticks or rocks or things the wind won't bend?
They were not allowed to.
I'd say Ada is a great choice, but I wouldn't call it technically superior. Some Ada features are nice (e.g. delta types for fixed point calculations), some Rust features are nice (e.g. very expressive ML inspired type system with sum types, borrow checker helps with concurrency and memory lifetimes, ...).
> these have centuries of evidence

This sounds like the good old 'we have always done it therefore it must be good'. That is not evidence.
to_lower is in the std namespace but is actually just part of the C89 standard, meaning it predates both UTF8 and UTF16. Is the alternative that it should be made unusable, and more existing code broken? A modern user has to include one of the c-prefix headers to use it, already hinting to them that 'here be dragons'.

But there are always dragons. It's strings. The mere assumption that they can be transformed int-by-int, irrespective of encoding, is wrong. As is the assumption that a sensible transformation to lower case without error handling exists.
Why do you need upper- or lowercase conversion in cases that have nothing to do with human language?
Can the Wii U burn games to Blu-ray? [video]
There is

reddit.com/r/quant

many of these strategies are proprietary , so you can understand how people are cagey about discussing this stuff.
Always remember that X-free or similar claims of not being toxic only means that the substances used instead of X are not yet known to be as toxic (or at just that the laws haven't caught up yet). It isn't guarantee that the new product is any safer than X and it might even be less safe. After all, the X in question was also seen as perfectly fine at some point.
The SBC is called Banana Pi M1+. Thank you for introducing me to Helios (Kobol). Their blog and wiki were a very useful and humbling read.

After I posted my question I learned that BPi didn't open source their PCB layout. It looks like I will need even more help than I originally planned.
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Duden mentions this: "Bei Verwendung von Großbuchstaben steht traditionellerweise SS für ß. In manchen Schriften gibt es aber auch einen entsprechenden Großbuchstaben; seine Verwendung ist fakultativ ‹§ 25 E3›."

But isn't it also dependent on the available glyphs in the font used? So f.e. it needs to be ensured that U+1E9E exists?
> just for technical legal compliance.

no, the reason is to respect the rights of end users when you make use of other people's work under lgpl. it's perfectly okay to choose a different library to base your profit-making product on.
Got it. Additionally the videos give a snapshot of what the features are.
Probably "don't fuss about Fußball" for the same reasons, right?
Also anyone who has worked on a significantly large C++ code base will be really happy about 17 seconds iterative compile times.
Is this synchronisation (theoretically) possible over p2p communication protocols like Bluetooth or wifi direct?

I would more than love to have local networks that can be emergent and growing and shrinking in this way.

Reminds me of my student days when I was traveling in the train, wondering why we couldn't have a p2p social network for people who are in this train _right now_
So you admit that those links you posted don't constitute evidence towards the products you suggested. Interestingly enough, you were so happy to dismiss the studies about probiotics yet you are so keen not to do the same for yours even when none of them have any evidence towards its benefits
That cannot be guaranteed of any table with equal-length legs: imagine the ground as a perfect slope!
It's 'obscure' in the sense that something like To Kill a Mockingbird is 'obscure' (The only reason I know it is due to the prevalence of US pop-culture and it being referenced there). Sure everybody in the US probably knows about it and many read it in school, but outside of the US it's pretty rare to meet someone who has read it. I'd be willing to bet a lot more people in Europe have read The Master and Maragrita than To Kill a Mockingbird for example.
What about paintings or artwork? Or just photorealistic CGI?
Cutting Vercel Costs by 80% Without Compromising UX or DX
It’s been 30 years. Unicode predates C++98. Java saw the writing on the wall. There’s no excuse.
> HN: "AI sucks"

Here's your delusion, I personally don't believe that.

> You: "Hey guys, so much AI. AI sucks, amirite? Anyone got non AI news?"
> Me: "Why are you asking us, just look at the frontpage. That's the news we have."

But... There were not many news, like I pointed before and you so conveniently ignored :-) there were tech links, but not many tech news. Later on the day Ruby's new release and later on Python's new release didn't even reach the front page.

I'm sorry you are this mentally limited on the internet to even see that there are tons of AI news.

I even pointed out it is not just HN!

Well, there isn't much I can do.

It is just funny how much time you lose on me replying each time since it's just something you don't want, lol
JS and Python are still old enough to have been created when Unicode was in its infancy, so they have their own share of problems from using UCS-2 (such as indexing strings by what is now a UTF-16 code unit, rather than by a codepoint or a grapheme cluster).

Swift has been developed in the modern times, and it's able to tackle Unicode properly, e.g. makes distinction between codepoints and grapheme clusters, and steers users away from random-access indexing and having a single (incorrect) notion of a string length.
Terrahawks
In the end I get it, you just want others to like only what you like on HN. I will ask for your permission before asking something again next time
Does it matter? He clearly has no idea what he’s talking about. That domain would easily sell in a day for over $1M if he were willing to sell it.
Writer of the article here and one of the co-founders of HowdyGo. Happy to answer any questions you might have!
Maybe I shouldn't have eaten that tuna from Ghana