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Archived from http://ourwebhome.com/TENP/Historical.html

Interesting (alleged) factoids include: Populous cities got low-numbered area codes not just because they got assigned "first," but because low numbers take fewer pulses to send, thus reducing wire traffic. AT&T rejected the idea of putting 16 buttons on the touch-tone phone in part because they didn't want to attract new antitrust scrutiny by making it look like a data-entry device. "Will you ask your father to call me back? My number is CApital 7-4203." "I'm trying, mister, but... how do you make a capital seven?"
War/Weapons industry has been very active lately.
Except animal fat is not ultra processed. 200 calories of Oreos is simply not the same as 200 calories of red meat. Anything in excess is bad, though, agreed.
One of the most exceptional scientific minds of the time, who, I might add, despite not picking up a pen, nevertheless wrote books!

Strange example to pick as someone who did not write.
Only tested the mobile app, the design is heavily inspired by things3 and I see no option for a graph which is one of the things obsidian is most famous for.
How is this not dead?
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Literally every industry does their best to distort reality to what best fits them. People naturally do this too, so it's not particularly surprising or even necessarily malevolent.
Are fast moving startups the best vehicle for rapid software development in 2024?
I note the conspicuous lack of examples, and it’s irrelevant in this case where they are working to get the changes merged upstream exactly the way, say, Red Hat might have something they work on for a while before it merges upstream.

VS Code is the most common example people have, but it’s not the same: that’s always been their project so while I don’t love how some things like Pylance are not open it’s not like those were ever promised as such and the core product runs like a normal corporate open source project. It’s not like they formed Emacs and started breaking compatibility to prevent people from switching back and forth. One key conceptual difference is that code is inherently portable, unlike office documents 30 years ago – if VSC started charging, you could switch to any of dozens of other editors in seconds with no changes to your source code.

I would recommend thinking about your comment in the context of the boy who cried wolf. If people trot out EEE every time Microsoft does something in open source, it’s just lowering their credibility among anyone who didn’t say Micro$oft in the 90s and we’ll feel that loss when there’s a real problem.
There are people who disagree with that idea
I'm excited to try this, whenever it's ready. Fediverse services like peertube are great for building small communities around specific subjects/ themes. Sometimes it even feels like the old days of subject-specific forums and IRC channels that became social groups unto themselves.
Instead of binging a game over an entire weekend and burning yourself out.. slow down, just play for an hour a week. Treat it like a weekly TV episode of a currently airing show. I follow a couple television series weekly and don't fret myself for wasted time because I only spend 2 hours a week watching them.

Life is all about experiences. I am sad for those who go through life without experiencing video games in moderation. They provide one of a kind interactive experiences that you won't find anywhere else in life.
> Before anyone gets too excited, best to remember that Nina is regarded as something of a joke

Hi KempyKolibri. Was this intervention so important that you needed to signup for HackerNews for the first time to call her a joke ? I think this is quite against this forum guideline but (unsurprisingly) you are being upvoted.
As a kid I had a hand-me-down World Book Encyclopedia that was published in the late 1950s and I clearly remember the entry for "Sugar" starting with something very similar to, "Not only does sugar taste good, but it's good for you!" (I tried showing it to my parents in the hopes of them allowing more sugary desserts, but fortunately they weren't buying it.) I came to find out decades later that many of the entries in the World Book Encyclopedia were written by industry.
When I compare my handwriting to my father's I can see nearly 100% computer / phone use for writing has had its effect. With a gigantic number of characters, it would obviously be worse.

It always struck me that a phonetic alphabet for writing rather was much simpler and easier to learn than a system based on pictograms. So much that a society could achieve the same level of literacy with much lower cost if they adapted a phonetic system.

But I wonder if that is actually true? Has there been comparative studies of what mainland China did compared to Taiwan (which kept the traditional system) or Vietnam (which adopted latin letters) and its effect on literacy. Obviously hard to do ...
School is Not Enough: Learning is a consequence of doing (2021)
> Interesting, I might need to do some reading,
> Does macOS have any form of MAC yet, or do they just rely on sandboxing?

Kind of. There is a set of permissions an application can request in order to access protected services and areas of the filesystem, but maybe that's what you meant with sandboxing?

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchl211c911f/...
Paul Saladino isn't a credible source of information or theories. He's a non-practicing psychiatrist and social media influencer who's gotten rich making contrarian videos and selling supplements.
The mains frequency is literally how fast the generators in power plants are turning. If the load on the grid increases, those generators slow down slightly and more natural gas/coal/heat needs to be added to increase the frequency again. This whole process is quite complicated as not every plant can react in the same time. Some plants are always at 100% capacity, while others are dedicated to governing the frequency.

So there are small fluctuations, often between 0.2 Hz around the base frequency, but the average is very close to the theoretical 50/60 Hz. And for an alarm clock that is good enough.
I actually use round robin into a set of ssh servers.

There is never a delay if one of them is down.

I am using a closed-source client (Bluezone Rocket), but I'm assuming that it pulled a lot of code from PuTTY as it uses the PPK format.
advertising companies still pretending (and pushing the idea) that ads work
You Don't Learn (2016)
> Do Chinese usually use pinyin to enter characters or what is the normal method?

In mainland China, it’s pinyin, but in Taiwan, they often use Bopomofo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo
I agree very much with Paul here. Many a times as I'm thinking, I realize none of those are legitimate thoughts until I can put them in words. Describing your intuition is fundamentally a hard task, because it is trying to decipher the vague strands of reflection. Clarity emerges only when focused harder.
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> popular and useful as Wikipedia is not going to go unnoticed by the Indian media.

without dwelling into the nuances of this case and who's on the right, it would be myopic to think that the block is not a realistic possibility.

it has been over 4 years since the TikTok ban (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23679286), and while it might be apple and oranges, it does not remove from the fact that a major site was blocked, reported widely, and is still standing to this day.
Lots of comments in this thread are reacting against the idea that writing is required for clear thinking. I think this is true, but a little more nuanced.

Writing and clear thinking are are related in at least two ways:

1. Both good writing and good thinking require structured thought, which is the ability to organize and categorize ideas in relation to eachother.

2. Both good writing and good thinking require meeting other minds: expressing your ideas in such a way that they are also comprehensible to someone who doesn't share our own brain. This is important because it's entirely possible to _think_ you have a good thought without actually having a good thought. The ability to articulate a thought is an effective discriminator between the two scenarios.

It's probably possible to think clearly without writing, if these two elements are still present. But writing well is an effective forcing function, which is why they're so closely related.
It's not insane if it works.
As someone working on linear extensions of partial orders (some of the time), I found your observation very insightful, a perspective I haven't considered before.
Does a (mechanical) door lock maker have liability when someone batters down the door? Or when someone’s key is left exposed and copied?

It seems like some (most?) of the security vulnerabilities are analogous to things that physical goods manufacturers do not have liability for either.
Not particularly weird, but they radiate energy as they accelerate.

You don't want to be in the same room as this thing when it's running.
If the bug is egregious enough, somebody else will find it. If the bug is important enough to you but esoteric, then ask on a forum or enlist the help of someone you know who does know Python.

How do you currently submit bug reports on e.g. MS Word or Adobe Photoshop? This way is certainly more open than those commonly-deployed software.
How could you drop the ball so hard that you write an article titled "highest voltage electron gun" and not even state once what the voltage is in the article?

It's like writing an article about "the world's tallest tower" and just saying "it goes really high!" to convey its height.
Sounds like a losing battle to me. Handwriting in general is doomed to go the way of the dodo. The difference is that with Latin characters, you can at least "draw" them fairly easily from memory.
There are countless peer reviewed studies and articles on both sides of the argument sure - but the sheer volume of anecdotal evidence and the overwhelming consensus across 100K and even 1M+ subreddits against seed oils is unique. You don’t see this level of unified backlash against most other everyday substances.
I doubt the prowler was getting mocking comments… they are a cool looking unique vehicle. People didn’t buy many for the same reason most people don’t buy an actual 1930s roadster they’re based on: they’re expensive and impractical- even as a sports car you can get a Porsche for much less money that will outperform it and can still fit a bag of groceries.
Idk if capitalism is solely to blame. Is not like we’ve seen less corruption on the other end of the spectrum.

Many European countries are also capitalist, but don’t seem (at least from the outside) to have the same rampant corporate influence on government as the US.

Granted they are more open to socialist policy, most of which seem like good ideas.

We have some companies in the US that have been around for nearly as long as the country itself. These companies pre-dated regulation and had a hand in building it. As a legislator, you’d want input from experts before writing laws.
IMO that’s why corporate involvement in politics is so normal in the US.

I’m not sure if that the case for many European countries.

It’d be great to find a new economic axis that can break us out of the planned economy/radical free market axis.
That seems a bit reductive.

Most industries employ honest people, don’t have to cover up anything major.

There’s a big difference between slightly misleading marketing (say, calling your 10% hand stitched clothes “hand stitched”) and outright paying scientists to cover up genuine harms to health and the environment.
This is just wrong as far as I know. How are you defining complete nutrition and where did you get the idea that you can get it from an all-plant diet but not an all-meat one?
Maybe unintentionally, the word ‘little’ is quite dismissive. Perhaps you’re thinking of one of the three very minor Preludes which no one plays and not included in the 24 Preludes Opus 28.

If you do mean something like the 4th Prelude in E Minor for instance, should it be prefaced with a trigger warning that ‘you're about to hear music that is - effusively sad or full of self-pity; extremely sentimental or 'tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly? (American Heritage Dictionary definition of maudlin).

Written much later, would you regard Rachmaninov's Vocalise (1915) or Barber's Adagio (1936) as 'maudlin' not to mention a vast number of other compositions that explore the kind of intensity of feeling that is expressed in the 4th Chopin Prelude. Given that the pianist Alfred Brendel considers ‘Chopin’s Preludes as the most glorious achievement in piano music after Beethoven and Schubert’ you might wonder why he takes a somewhat view from you. Could you be missing something?
Last three years I've been in the Netherlands, all pop was glass bottles, similar with most water
> Looking at a snapshot of the WB now is looking at the end result of worsening relations over many years

Including the Nakba?
Olivetti also owned ARM/Acorn for a time.

If they had held it, Italy would be playing a much larger role in embedded electronics.

https://www.elleeseymour.com/2012/02/24/how-olivetti-stitche...
I don’t think you’re wrong. I think you’re looking at the data and that’s what the data is telling you. Some would present alternative data or say “we’ll see during the election.” But I think the real pushback is due to possible knowledge of the future giving people the burden of temporary anxiety, even if it’s only 9 days away.

There are other people who are weary from these elections having gone on for so long now and were long ready for it to all be over months ago.

The whole reason for elections and democracy is for the administration and party in power to have a peaceful decent from power. Because without them, in history the only prior means were to overtake the administration by physical force and peaceful descents from power were rare and uncommon.

That had the negative ramifications of the power being concentrated by people with the strongest weapons, not the people with the best leadership, governance, and the most care towards it’s own populace, citizens, and constituency.

If I’ve answers this in any non-neutral or biased way, please let me know as I’m NPA —- the 3rd largest political affiliation.
EDR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endpoint_detection_and_respons...

I mentioned that because security software blocking things locally or at the network level is such a common source of friction. I don’t think Teams is perfect by any means but the core functionality has been quite stable in personal use, both of my wife’s schools, and my professional use so I wouldn’t conclude that it’s hopeless and always like that.
Are you sure about that. In most cases it seems stuff like market factors beeing much more important. Take Nvidia for example. Without lucking out on AI or bitcoin it would not even approach the current level of valuation. It really didn't take a genius to take advantage of this. There are only really a few key moments when a CEO can truly go boom or bust. Which is similar to an IC really. For example do you think Nichia Corp would still exists today without Nakamura? The more I think about it. Key IC and market factors are way more important to a company. CEO is relatively fungible. There are unicorn CEOs. Steve Jobs and Elon Musk for example who can not be replaced however.
Are you under 30? I ask because I wonder if you had to get your own health insurance prior to the ACA passage. I disagree with your premise about healthcare. If you don't remember the dreaded "gap in coverage" or "pre-existing condition", then you might not appreciate how much has been accomplished for improving healthcare. It didn't solve everything, clearly, but things are much better than they were 20 years ago.

Beyond that, saying "there are still problems, why didn't one party fix them" is a little unrealistic when another party has shared power and actively fought them. You might want to research the circumstances around Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, the FY25 Education Appropriations Bill... there are a lot of examples if you look into it. The two major political parties are very different.
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68% of the land surface of the earth is in fact "northern". What percentage of scientific publications originate in the southern hemisphere?

We should immediately classify all human knowledge by the geography of its originators and refuse to accept anything not of "southern" origin until the imbalance is addressed.

Remember, only statistics can enforce equality!
IMHO, a couple of major issues with this are some properties of Nix documentation websites, that make them not popup in search engines on certain queries.

In this particular case it would be great to have "nixos Android SDK" or "nixos adb" return either a hypothetical page like "NixOS.org/programs/adb" or at least "wiki.NixOS.org/pages/Android-SDK". There's a problem with "nixos.wiki" showing up instead. If both are controlled by the community, "NixOS.wiki" should instead do permanent redirects to "wiki.nixos.org" so that search engines would correctly show it.

Somebody really needs to work on this, this hurts the adoption A LOT.

Edit viraptor in the sibling said it is the fault of user they didn't use documentation. No, it is not. We've known for long that global search is much better interface to docs, the approach with custom UX and per-feature search (in Nix: programs, services, setup instructions, wiki, options, etc) just sucks and needs to support the efficient one.
The way the body responds to food is much more complex than the way a calorimeter does. For example, having lipids (components from fat) in your small intestine reduces your hunger, because your body knows you have a lot of good energy coming up. Sugar and other low-complexity carbs, on the other hand, is quickly absorbed, and does not do much to reduce hunger even in the short term.

Even different sugars (glucose/fructose/sucrose) affect the satiety response differently.
Kids are learning how to make their own little language models
it's meth. It works the same for everyone. Even better for non-addicts as their receptors haven't been fried
The entire premise seems to be that if you are stuck using not Rust in some way then CHERI helps. How is my comment not correct then? This is a bandaid to help poorly written code handle memory faults with hardware exceptions. MMU and MPUs do this as well without the cost of fat pointers which is non negligible. Rust does this with the compiler before the firmware even runs.

Is it neat? Sure. Is it practical and useful? I’m skeptical.
You can also watch a video that will add waste to your brain.
Yeah, smart door locks are notoriously easy to break
I always wondered what’s their energy source?

Also when people see them that means photons have had to bounce of them and into the observers eyes. The same goes for the sounds they make, they need to move the air molecules for sound to travel.

Or could it be that it all just happens in the observers mind?

But that doesn’t account for poltergeists.
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And people still can't hold two things in their head: Saturated fat and added sugar are both bad. Two things can be bad!
Fizeau Experiment
you asked:

What’s the evidence for the claim “cholesterol by itself isn’t harmful?”

And got a response that is more than just an evidence. A smart person would not just change the goalpost but one with nefarious intentions, maybe.
Auto industry with the creation of suburbs and jaywalking laws.
you seem to have some other motive with these statements but i’ll bite, what’s the solution to a less “cult like” political environment?

should one party move to the other or something else?
I don't always agree with everything PG writes.

Here however, I do agree with his articulation -- "writing is thinking" -- and like you, I've thought a bit about the linear nature of writing.

My view is that the "jumble" of ideas/concepts/perspectives is just that -- a jumbled mess -- and the process of linearizing that mess requires certain cognitive aspects that we (humans) generally consider as constituting intelligence. IMO, the rapid generation of grammatically-correct + coherent linear sequences by LLMs is one reason some folks ascribe "intelligence" to them.

I liked his analogy about how the disappearance of widespread physical work meant that one now had to intentionally invest Time and Effort (at the gym) to maintain physical health. The facile nature of LLMs' "spitting out a linear sequence of words" will mean fewer and fewer people will continue to exercise the mental muscles to do that linearization on their own (unassisted by AI), and consequently, will experience widespread atrophy thereof.
Paywalled.

An ideal business model is to showcase the finest storywriters in which to garner subscriptions and subscribers.

Not a jarred FULL-STOP from a useless content-free link.
I'll give you a hint, starts with useless rhymes with ducking
People were dunking on the Cybertruck before Musk made that sharp turn into a political lightning rod around when COVID hit. I recall seeing discussion about how silly the car is, even during the height of his popularity.
> Elon does something particularly stupid with Twitter, Mastodon takes on another wave of new accounts

It seems that Bluesky has a different opinion on who actually benefits from the Twitter implosion, at least the last episode https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/bluesky-now-has-10-million...

And at least one Mastodon user seems to be very anxious about it: https://masto.es/@pablogilah/113064426425857890

But my point is not about protocol wars or disputing that fediverse platforms are "good enough" for a small number of niche users, predominantly techies. The challenge is to take the fediverse mainstream. When somebody is building a "Tiktok competitor" this is clearly what they have in mind.
Most big industries are, at the least, hiding labor rights violations overseas or among migrant workers. Usually legal, of course, but not ethical.
If you haven’t read William Zinsser “Writing to learn” you’re doing yourself a disservice
Google sure seems to think it’s solved and prevented many exploits. Do you have similar credentials to back your statement suggesting Rust doesn’t solve a category of security issues? The same kind this hardware extension is looking to solve?