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They are not. Or rather they have generally been deemed unenforceable as such (at least in the US). You can, of course, be banned by the service for violating them.

This is similar to signs regulating behavior that businesses might put up. By and large those are not in any way legally binding. Generally all the proprietor can do is ask you to leave. But since they can and often do ask you to leave, people generally abide by the posted requests.

In a similar vein "not liable for THING" signs are more accurately read as "we don't wish to be liable for THING and are going to attempt to refuse if at all able".
Well, to a point. It feels like some engineers are proposing to start building bridges out of wood, and others want to keep building them out of spoons and toothpaste, just like their pappy did.
I told my son this when he was 3. His mother was livid. I don't see the benefit to lying to children. And these kids were 11, I promise hes not the first person to tell them, at least one classmate has informed them of this.
You can, in fact, click to set the cursor position and even click and drag to select.
I am still puzzled as to why we don't do a better job at DDoS mitigation in 2024.

For example, it is surprising to me that it still seems to be difficult or impossible to deploy IP source address validation (although the situation may be improving). And there seems to be no easy way for UDP flood victims to ask (or pay) their ISPs to block UDP packets? (Most web-based services don't need random UDP packets from the internet. DNS and NTP can use TLS, etc.) Why are exploitable reflection-amplification vectors still in wide use?

There do seem to be bad incentives for companies like Cloudflare which sell DDoS "protection" services.
>"Wha Is Vim"

Something I've never learned. Not proud of it but I do not think I am missing anything either. I write native software for Linux for living at the moment.
The lack of a physical space.

If a mall were to replace Build-a-bear with Stuff-a-snail and the Stuff-a-snail tanks then the mall is on the hook for that space's rent (or really the mall just takes a profitability hit; w/e).

If Amazon decides to replace Duracell AA Batteries with Amazon Basics AA Batteries and every gadget comes with a lithium battery now so nobody needs AA then Amazon just cancels future orders and doesn't have to pay taxes for the land the battery factory is on. Not even sure Amazon needs to cancel future orders either; AmazonBasics might work like "Amazon Brand" and they let a third party use the AmazonBasics (or alternative) trademark.

If the item is just "Amazon Brand" and not AmazonBasics then Amazon literally has no risk as it's just a seller (not Amazon) having some exclusive agreement to sell that product on Amazon. If that seller does well then Amazon collects fulfillment fees and if that seller does poorly then Amazon collects warehousing fees.
> Your sense of aesthetics is not objective, so I refuse to base any definition of art on it.

Do you find this artwork aesthetically interesting? Pleasing? Intriguing? Which aesthetic properties does it have that make it worthwhile? I'm not arguing you should define "art" on my specific aesthetic sense, but rather on anyone's (everyone's?) collective sense.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find even one person saying this specific artwork is aesthetically interesting. The bar shouldn't be that everyone must find it interesting. We can debate what the threshold for "aesthetically interesting" or how prevalent that view must be among receivers of the art, but clearly my 3 year old's drawings and Vermeer's body of work are in different categories, so the distinction does exist somewhere.

> What makes this contemplation political and not artistic?

For starters, the fact that the contemplation is about "the role of these cameras and the policy surrounding" and not about the artwork. And what made me contemplative on what qualifies as art is the general insistence on labeling any type of creation as an artistic one these days, which is something that I have thought about frequently in the last 2 years or so.
Meanwhile, there's been an alternative storyline prioritizing other goals: low maintenance, high fertility, good yield on a grass-based or all-grass diet, high portion of milk solids. These genetics are also available on ice, for example, from New Zealand: https://licnz.com/products-services/lic-cow-breeds/

Nearish to me, there's a world-class cheese dairy that's making it work: https://www.meadowcreekdairy.com/herd

At my farm, I milk three cows from that herd and distribute the milk and cheese to family, friends, and neighbors. We all agree it's delicious but it's hard to say whether it's the breed, the diet, or the freshness.
This iceberg broke off Antarctica in 1986. I am shocked it hasn't melted yet.
I'm a parent and the last thing I'd want, if heaven forbid there was a school shooter, would be my kid (or any kid) talking on their cell phones or having the phones ringing and making noise that might cause the shooter to go investigate. A parent can literally do nothing about the situation over the phone.
To be fair, this means that solar panels are unlikely to be the source of any issues.
Or C code wouldn't have any bugs if developers were more careful?
> An x86 mini PC from the likes of Beelink is going to be way better at the computer stuff.

And a minimum of 5x more expensive, and more like 10x in most cases.
Yes. And it's not money that is the root of all evil but the greed of a small number of grotesquely rich few to the detriment and suffering of society as a whole. A poor society cannot survive and sustain itself in misery and lacking of basic human dignity like healthcare.
When you live in a city with lots of crime and there's a shooting in the parking lot of the school at one in the morning, it's not really something that needs an urgent text from the kids.
> low efficiency cows

Interestingly, the "alternative" breeds I'm familiar with are marketed as _high_ efficiency because they produce milk on very little input (all or mostly grass; very little corn and soy). For example: https://licnz.com/products-services/lic-cow-breeds/
Isn't all that going to eventually go away with in-stream advertising?
The Nintendo 64 basically has a hidden extra megabyte of RAM [video]
You have to get all the parents onboard and have other options.
I should first note that I sincerely appreciate the thoughtful reply and how honestly you've engaged in this conversation. It's why I love coming to HN, so thank you.

I used to have very loose grips on the boundaries of the word "art". I've been there and done that. Then I realized that humanity has more to gain from holding art to higher standards than it does from the "anything goes" approach.

I did note that art can be political. By all means it should be political in those situations where the artist has a certain objective in mind and believe art can be a meaningful way to make politics. I have nothing against that and I appreciate the historical and current relevance of art as as means of being and acting political.

If you're keen to understand my position as explained by someone much more knowledgeable than me and much more studied in art and philosophy, I encourage you to watch this remarkably interesting video essay by Roger Scruton: https://vimeo.com/groups/832551/videos/549715999
I live far enough away from you that I think your English needs tuning up, and I couldn’t agree more.

In my college town the scooters around campus, ridden both on the roadway and on the sidewalk, add another element of risk to the “headphones are not helmets” crowd.
If you like Project Orion, you might like to read about the Medusa Drive, which is a related, but probably more promising concept using a sail instead of a giant pusher plate.

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2012/07/20/medusa-nuclear-pu...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DYuBt2nFG98
> Interactive Patrol Enhancement Response

Man they came up with a pretty clunky name in order to shoehorn it into the cool acronym VIPER
The tone deafness is in the silent suffering of millions while there are selective cries of foul by the establishment enablers. Neither are good, but no one is crying for the millions because the rich have made their bed.
Organic farming uses larger amounts of less effective poisons. Modern poisons are highly targeted and require smaller amounts. Typically they target disruption of metabolic pathways that are specific to plants.
Setting aside that you can enable mouse mode in vim and use the mouse to your heart's desire --

and setting aside the "declarative" vs "imperative" nomenclature debate --

vim is pretty dang efficient. Typing `gg` to go to the beginning of a file, or `G` to go the end. Or all the other variety of motions. There are a lot.

Also, there is not necessarily any need to move the cursor anywhere. For example, if I'm in the middle of writing some string and I've decided to change the whole thing, `<ESC>ci"` does that, with no cursor movement required.
That still doesn't make it aesthetically interesting or contemplative. It's a cool project about an important topic! I haven't disagreed with that once. I just don't see how it can be art.
I have a feeling certain religions are onto something in this area.
No time like the present. Give it a try. Even if you just use it for editing /etc files it’s much more efficient than nano.

Don’t be intimidated by the huge feature set. I’ve been using it practically daily for 25 years and I still only use a small fraction of the available commands.
That actually lends credibility as it probably wasn't written by an AI.
Even though I wince at mis remembered muscle memory using it, I still wish nvi had progressed a little further. I mostly turn off vim features. Default cut-paste with code indent is a giant mismatch. It's cruder, and itself a mishmash of non-joy code, but I found nvi suited me well for decades on netbsd and freebsd, and I use it still. I do run the port on osx but somehow each upgrade I find myself slipped back into vim. And on debian and the like.

I live in Emacs for org, and vi for code edit. Happy mix these last 40+ years.

Sometimes it's hard to recall that ex exists, inside vi. But if you do any :command that's where you are. Inside a simpler editor landscape embedded in the visual world.

Ed is a sometimes tool. Always gratifying to use it!
I hope this is generational thing. The traffic and travel is really unnecessary for most knowledge work.

I don't care about the productivity conversation, it's just logistically dumb and if there's a cost in making fewer widgets for getting rid of traffic than so be it. Dangerous, expensive, time and space consuming... It's a huge collective toll on society that robs us of quality of life and many thousands of hours.

We just shouldn't be doing it in the same way we don't toss the contents of chamber pots into the street anymore. Let's embrace the modern era.

Mandating daily travel unless it's genuinely needed to do the job is really unjustifiable.
I agree with most of this, but the ethics question intrigues me: did any human ever have a chance to consent to the circumstances they were born into?
Short answer: it's not happening yet.

> A general conclusion was drawn that antimatter technology and its development for propulsion is still in its theoretical stages.
Yes, they still exist! In my limited experience the milk does taste better but I think it's because of management, not genetics.

The "get big or get out" Holsteins of conventional dairying will produce themselves to death. That is, they'll make milk even at the expense of their own bodies. To handle that, they need to be fed very intensive grain-based diets (corn and soy). Otherwise they'd waste away.

But low-input cows can produce milk on grass-based diets without wasting away. Grass milk is healthier (https://extension.umn.edu/pasture-based-dairy/grass-fed-cows...) and in my experience, tastier, too!
I bought something called brick which lets me lock some apps with a Bluetooth app. I have to walk to a different room and touch my phone to the little cube magneted to my fridge in order to unlock them. Just this extra friction has halved my screen time. No phone in bed no phone while I’m working and no phone on weekends while I’m bored.

Instant improvement in mental clarity and quality of life.
Add more particles, get more possible states. Hydrogen is a proton and an electron. Deuterium adds a neutron. More possible states means more entropy, assuming your knowledge of the system stayed constant.
If this cost $5 more and had the M.2 slot and some way to access it reasonably easily, I would buy one immediately. Without that, I probably won’t buy one at all.

This thing is a desktop computer. The degree to which the performance is improved by using good storage is huge. Excellent NVMe disks in the M.2 form factor are cheap and widely available. Excellent SD cards are not so easy to find. Excellent USB devices are not as good as their M.2 counterparts, are more expensive, and are sufficiently awkward dangling out the back of an RPi 400/500 that’s it’s barely worth considering.
Banana Pi BPI-R4 Review: Wi-Fi 7 OpenWrt Router Board with Dual SFP+ Ports
The linux kernel is people doing good work from home.
How often is their a school shooting when this would be useful?
"Vell Vim's just zis guy, you know"
If nothing bad happens when something unsafe happens then code is safe. If you don't use the feature set that declares the code as unsafe then it's safe.

A knife is unsafe, but when a chef uses it correctly it's safe. As is code. It's only when you use syntax incorrectly does it become unsafe.

A tightrope is still unsafe and now you're relying on the safety net to catch your fall. What declares the safety of the safety net?

However both standards should apply. But as programming is now more rapid rather than a dedicated skill, prototyping of new code landing in production.

We are tend to rapidly program ignoring the correct way to program and now relying on the language to do the checkup. That itself is still just as unsafe and now passing the buck of lousy code on to as a fault of the language itself.

Safety doesn't come from the language. It can, mainly it comes from the code. Use syntax incorrectly and you have unsafe code in any language.
You tried to make a file search utility a startup? Did you sell any copies?
> Other than PI, what PC actually drives its own GPIO?

They used to be able to using parallel ports. When the controller was on the southbridge and accessible via DMA, you could get hard realtime even on Windows using device drivers and interrupts (pre-Vista, which changed the security model). There was software like Mach3 that could control a whole CNC off of a parallel port and lots of hardware companies used Wintel instead of SBCs or rolling their own PCB. San Francisco BART still uses parallel ports to control their trains and they have to hunt down for replacement parts on eBay [1].

Nowadays a PCIe GPIO card is at least a few hundred dollars and you're unlikely to get hard realtime guarantees unless it supports uploading custom firmware. Sharing functionality with the most common printer interface was a boon for PC GPIO but that's gone now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884814
Medi-cal
I’m so proud of this man.
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WhatsApp in India is inescapable, but also quite useful, primarily because of network effects. But you really have to be careful and sparing with it, else it becomes a nuisance. Thankfully they've done some work to that effect.

Example, adding an option to have to seek your permission to join a particular group is a godsend, since family members are all too happy to add you to their group where every post is a nonsensical forward, or random people add you to their "investments" group (pump and dump schemes). Also, considering the scale of WhatsApp, I get far fewer spam than I get in direct phone/SMS communication. Also I can block businesses permanently if they start abusing their messaging privileges.

I just wish they had kept it a more chat-focused platform rather than adding other stuff (channels, status, AI agents, etc). It's a pain that I can't disable features I don't need (eg. I don't want to use Meta AI, but I still have to see that annoying icon). But it's Meta, and they don't necessarily respect people not wanting something, so don't think you can do much about it.
I've been drinking raw milk almost exclusively for about 5 years (and milking my own cows for the last 1.5 years). Whenever I get store-bought milk, I'm hit by the "cooked" flavor of it. I assume it's the pasteurization that makes the difference because I've also scalded milk on the stove -- same taste.
I mean, there kind of is a special Mormon healthcare system in that they are traditionally forbidden to take part in drug use or to drink alcohol. I would not be super shocked if alcoholism made up some of that seven year gap between non-LDS and LDS males.
I recently gave up on VSCode because the Vim mode is still substandard, missing keybindings, and constantly glitches out in new and fun (read: not-fun) ways. I’m just gonna use NeoVim and program the IDE myself, in a true moment of going super-saiyan as a programmer
Intel N100 and N95 MiniPCs are cheap as chips, the last one I bought was $60 and had 8GB of RAM and 256GB of NVMe SSD, plus it included the power adapter and two ethernet ports.
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You're conflating some sort of heritage cow breed with raw milk. It's being intentionally misleading.
Doable for sure, however an incredibly boring running route.
Our school has similar restriction, but then shoved Chromebooks in front of every kid and they use chat instead of text, watch videos, and play games all through class instead. When I’ve tried to find alternatives for my more distractible kids, the school acts like we’re putting them out.

What is the point of a cell phone ban when it’s just replaced with a more capable device?
Unfortunately no M.2 SSD slot. You have to use SD cards. Lame. There are unfilled pads on the PCB too, Wonder what they are up to. It doesn't sound good.
I see Beelink systems on their site for $169, which is less than 2x the cost of a Pi 500.
There are so many confounding variables here, the study doesn’t have a control group.

The study was made with kids from the same grade who “were convinced” to give up their phones, so basically it could be the study hypothesis is right but there’s a high change it could be anything else.
Temperature and entropy are directly linked; it follows that temperature is also anthropomorphic. Although I think "observer-dependent" would be a better way to put it; it doesn't have to specifically be relative to a human.
This post feels like it was written 10 years ago. There are plenty of excellent dependency management systems for Python these days. Honestly, the biggest problem is that there are too many ways to set it up.
> I do not think I am missing anything either

How could you possibility know that unless you're familiar with Vim?
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People with incurable diseases or just strange individuals can volunteer for such experiments. After that, if they write about their experiences, it could be featured first on Hacker News.
I do not understand all those links behind paywall here. what's the point
Had a CEO who extolled how much better open plans were, how vibrant it made the workplace, and so on and so on... Years later she admitted it was just to save money. I refuse to call an open office an "office" - that vibrant office she described back then? Full of people wearing headphones to block out all the noise they otherwise couldn't escape.
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Sorry, you've lost any credibility in my eyes with this constant goal post moving; I'm not reading all that.
That doesn't work well (enough) if you have one project that requires Python <3.10 and another that requires Python >=3.10.

To really pin everything you'd need to use something like asdf, on top of poetry or a manual virtualenv.

Otherwise you get your colleagues complaining that pip install failed with mysterious errors.
It still doesn't make Python's dependency management not to be horrible. Every other modern language has a single tool for these built-in. Python doesn't, with half of the tools coming with the core and half of the tools coming from third-parties and many issues, conflicts, and incompatibilities. Even Poetry, which makes things much, much easier, makes decisions that are incompatible or makes managing dependencies more difficult in some cases.
> > Programming languages should be safe by default

> I disagree. Programming languages should teach you how to program safely.

One of the best things about safe-by-default languages is that they do teach you to program safely! If your program fails to compile you then have to go and find out why, and that's a fantastic learning opportunity.

In languages where there are no guard rails, it's much more difficult to work out what you don't know that you don't know.
If the goal of schooling is to improve sleep and mood, they should also include giving up school entirely for 21 days as a control.
Why are taxpayers paying to enjoy the thing they paid for?
It sounds like lifestyle has some significant effect on life expectancy. The difference in life expectancy between the U.S. and Canada pre-Covid was about 3 years—half as much as the difference between two mostly white groups within the state of Utah that differ mainly based on religion. How much of the life expectancy difference between the U.S. and Canada is attributable to lifestyle versus healthcare system?
Ask HN: What tech initiatives can help Syria recover after dictatorship?
I’m looking for ideas on how tech professionals can help Syria rebuild after decades of dictatorship. The country is facing significant challenges, and I’m especially interested in low-cost, tech-driven solutions especially if can be done remotely.

How can we use tech to:

-Support governance and civic engagement (e.g., promoting democratic values, transparency)?

-Provide education and skills training (online platforms, mentorship)?

-Aid economic recovery (job creation, entrepreneurship)?

-Promote social healing and unity (mental health support, dialogue platforms)?

-Ensure access to reliable information (educating citizens on rights, opportunities)?

- What are some scalable, affordable tech initiatives that can make a meaningful impact?

I appreciate it if you have any ideas, references, books, videos, other countries stories that can help get educated about the topic.