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Office 365 has version history of the documents you edit. It is integrated within Microsoft ecosystem and makes any external version control obsolete.

Your claim of being able to track versions for any file makes it worth trying as office 365 apps only allow version control of their own documents
I ran into a car that abruptly turned in front of me, impacting at 40 kph, followed by a somersault over the top and landing on the rear wheel. the frame absorbed the impact with the road and nicely snapped both seatstays but otherwise held up rather well.
> without any port forwarding it just works.

Before folks get the wrong idea, this isn’t true. Plex uses universal plug and play to open ports in your firewall, unless you explicitly configure plex manually. At that point you still have an open port but you get to pick it.

That being said, the remote access functionality plex provides is very nice. The shocking bit but to me is that they are pricing remote play at 20$/yr. As far as I can tell you only use plex infrastructure when a direct connection can’t be made. I’m my experience that’s seldom.
Yes, that's much simpler, but doesn't it mean that every site owner needs to manage a hardcoded set of "places to look" for these published IPs?

If I want to create a good bot tomorrow, where do I publish its IP addresses? IOW, how can I ensure that the world "notices"?
Also for any problem in NP!

That's useful in practice, because producing zero knowledge proofs is sooo slow. But getting non-deterministic 'hints' can speed up many computations. Crucially, the hints are arbitrary data and do not have to be computed inside the computation-to-be-proven.

The most cliche example is probably verifying that a number is compound: you could either run a complicated test, or you could just 'guess' the prime factors and verify your guess via multiplication.

Slightly more practical: you can sort in O(n log n) deterministic time. But that's easily beaten by Bogosort: you 'guess' a permutation, apply it to your data, and check if it's sorted. Not only does that finish in O(n) if you 'guess' right, the constant factors are also much better than for a standard sorting algorithm.

Of course, your zero-knowledge computation manages to 'guess' the right permutation right away, because it gets a hint from a deterministic computer outside the 'zero-knowledge box' running the classic O(n log n) algorithm.

That's still an advantage over running the O(n log n) algorithm directly, because proving computation is so expensive.
Aren’t perovskites incredibly fragile? I thought the reason they aren’t used in solar panels is because they only last a couple years. Why should I believe LEDs made out if the same stuff would survive the test of time?
The secret isn't that they have the capability to block, it's that they used it.
lol that indieweb website. Join the collective or we won’t think you independent. Just run Wordpress with a few hundred million other site owners and you’re good. There’s a metric fuckton of activity in the space and you don’t need a manbun.
What do you propose as solution for companies to be able to embrace more "liberating" philosophies such as anti-lock-in measures or copyleft-friendly measures?

It seems that solving that is a cultural/economic problem, not a technical one, and that's a shame.
HELOCs are a thing.
That's a great idea. I can't speak about Mexican alternatives but there are many great locations in Canada for a conference.

If the conference was originally going to be held on the west coast of the US then Vancouver would be an excellent alternative and if it was going to be held on the east coast then Montreal is another excellent alternative.

Can anyone suggest some viable alternatives in Mexico?
I’m not sure how you can generate cryptocurrency with just sha256 hashes lol. Plus, there’s already a configuration file that lets you determine what you’re looking out for in terms of scrapers. I need to look at it more myself especially because I plan on using this on my own website soon, but I hope there’s already a good way to whitelist archival sites.
They can also grow almonds where it actually rains and requires little to no irrigation. Just because destructive exploitation of natural resources makes producing almonds 5% cheaper, that doesn't mean it is the only way or place to grow almonds.
Energy and motivation are irrelevant. Discipline is all that matters. Go out and do a hard workout every day no matter how tired you are or how miserable it makes you. Eventually it will just become a habit.
Portugal also cancelled the order, as tiny as we may be, it was still a few million dollars down the drain.
I've been in conferences in Ciudad de México and it was a very pleasant experience. I honestly haven't been anywhere else in Mexico.
Graphs are also really simple structures mathematically.

After all, an (undirected) graph is nothing more than a ground set and a collection of its two-element subsets.

It's the same reason why groups crop up so often: groups are also really simple structures, so it's really easy to satisfy their axioms 'by accident'. Same for numbers in general.
When you buy something online in the USA, the responsibility of the shipper ends once they hand it to the shipping company. At that moment it is your (the customer's) responsibility.

Which is weird, as you, the customer, don't have any leverage in enforcing any behavior of the shipping company (like make sure package is signed for). You can't even select them.

Apple for example charges you $9 for expedited shipping, which is essentially Uber delivery. But when the delivery person takes off with your $1,200 phone they don't have to replace it. It is on you: https://law.stackexchange.com/a/73842

When this whole thing is flipped around, where the sender is responsible until the buyer actually has it in their hands the whole system all of the sudden becomes incentivized to minimize losses.

(sidenote: it is a disgrace that Stackoverflow doesn't allow you to turn off auto-sharing of your ID when you share a link).
Thanks for showing me this. I had no idea it existed.
They never watched Avenger's 2
Reminds me of [1] from 2013, and [2][3] from 2017. This is not new at all, just affecting more people, and more importantly, more Western people now.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/05/us-scientist...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14643467

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24369233

Clarification: the “not new” part is foreign attendees not being able to attend conferences in the U.S. So, if you valued inclusion, holding international conferences in the U.S. has been a bad idea for a long time.
I remember when the ACM ICPC had to be moved from Egypt to the US during the Arab Spring. It's got to be a logistics nightmare to move a conference, but it's best to bite the bullet at the first sign of trouble.
> decoupled from the horrors of an unreliable network

The first rule of network transparency is: the network is not transparent.

> Or: I’ve yet to see a code base that has maintained a separate in-memory index for data they are querying

Is boost::multi_index_container no longer a thing?

Also there's SQLite with the :memory: database.

And this ancient 4gl we use at work has in-memory tables (as in database tables, with typed columns and any number of unique or not indexes) as a basic language feature.
My starting salary was a not-extravagant $55K 25 years ago when .coms were handing out $100K+ to CS grads. That's $100K today. $80K is exceedingly low even for juniors in a highly skilled profession
No, the "normal guy" was downloading Napster and Limewire and 100 other applications from fly-by-night publishers, following folklore suggestions on how to get everything they could for free, getting into messy encounters on Craigslist, visiting independently hosted warez sites, infecting their PC with all kinds of crap, etc, exactly because it was easy and exciting and inviting to do so.

Largely, the most "technically savvy young people" who you're engaging with on HN these days were not doing those things, but were complaining on their many independent and decentralized communities about all the headaches involved in incessantly being brought in to help those people clean up their messes.

Twenty years ago, it was the wild west. Those who had savvy had staked their claims and knew how to survive safely, but the news had made it to everybody else and rails had been laid and all the starry eyed naive people were flooding in to an exciting, if dangerous, new world of novelty and opportunity. It was very different than what we have now, and grossly less consolidated.
Most people have nothing of any interest whatsoever to say to the world at large. Running one's own website is a waste of time for almost anyone. Just send email to the people you want to keep up to date, if you know they are interested.
I must be getting old fast because every time I see something that goes so hard against what's common knowledge I can't help it but be skeptical about it. Sure, I am not saying this method does not work, but if you are proposing something that has been around for decades and yet nobody uses it... you need to give arguments for why that is.
Didn't read the article.

Washington State is actively exploring taxing all drivers by mileage driven, self reported, to accommodate this shift.
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I think you've misread the comment. They never called the "more corporate" era of 10-15 years ago the "early web", they were describing it as distinct from the even earlier "early web", which seems to be the same early web you're fond of.

I think the two of you agree about those time periods, they were just pointing out that they believe the peak sad, stale, corporate internet period was not now, but actually a decade or so ago.

FWIW I agree with them. I think people who romanticize the early days of the internet are quick to dismiss what we have currently just because it isn't exactly the same as what they remember. There's plenty of online spaces that have the same vibes on today's internet, and they have the same or even more users as they did back then (because there were a lot less overall users back in those days - like multiple orders of magnitude less - a small slice of the pie today is bigger than the whole thing ~30 years ago), they're just in different places and in different shapes.
When am I getting paid for them gobbling up my code and using it to cash out? It is not so one-sided, this whole matter.
Existing career auditors are not the problem. The problem is that changes in department audit priorities occur whenever a new department head comes aboard. That person, in many cases especially over the last couple decades, has no prior exposure to department programs, experience in that domain, and only received the appointment as a payback for their support of a candidate who ended up in a position to dole out perks to supporters. Check a few bios for department head appointees to any federal agency over the last few decades.

These people come aboard with skillsets in different domains and need to be brought up to speed by the people that they are expected to lead in all the agency programs, directives, initiatives, etc and the rules governing each. They also are beholden to the one who appointed them and expected to prioritize the agency mission based on that benefactor's objectives for their own administration.

Add to that the inevitable desire to put a personal stamp on an agency while you build your resume that you hope will place you in a situation where you can run successfully for an elected office now that you have built some name recognition. Your party needs you, blah, blah, blah.

Career auditors know all the rules, regulations, congressional mandates and guidelines and if they are ineffective it is only because they are held back by those above them who have a different, variable agenda.

If career auditors had full say over which audits to conduct, and if there was no one immune to the consequences of an audit, then we would not have the levels of fraud that are so easily documented and so rarely prosecuted. These people love their jobs and they take it all seriously.

The only question DOGE is part of the answer to will end up being the question about who took the fall for all the criminality conjured by the current administration as they assisted in looting federal resources.

EDIT: Remember that in order to become an auditor you need to reach a certain educational level, for example you need to pass the CPA exam and then hit all your training targets during the year to maintain that CPA status. They likely get training and certs as a CIA, Certified Internal Auditor. They may also be a CFE, Certified Fraud Examiner which also is a professional position requiring training and recertification. They also have to have ethics training to maintain their certifications.

From current news reports, it sounds like DOGE got ethnics training which clearly is not the same thing.
Hugged to death?

Edit: Seems good half an hour later!
Neat project! I’ve seen a few analytics tools starting to use SQLite over Clickhouse. It’s great for small to medium sized projects, and can potentially scale (but I haven’t tested it over 200k hits per month).

I rolled out a similar project a few months ago using Django + SQLite.

https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearlytics
> It was over faster than the hackathon, so I guess that's why it didn't make big news.

It absolutely was big news, at the top of all international news feeds for a few days.
That's just a cultural bias blind spot. It can be easily cured by finding a child, pointing your finger at them then say the magic words: "You must feel useless without a job!"

I had to watch this office space clip again just to be sure. https://youtu.be/Fy3rjQGc6lA ah yes, the meaning of life. ha-ha I love the classics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBdU9v5nLKQ

A much more terrible issue we suffer from already is that without participating we forget how our civilization works. Having a job gives you at least a tiny bit of insight that may partially map to other jobs.
While you are correct, you also have to consider the fact that cows are fed alfalfa, which is a crop that requires no fertilizer or pesticides and actually produces excess nitrogen fertilizer, which otherwise must be produced from natural gas. It also takes very little physical labor to harvest and store grasses and alfalfa compared to human food sources.

The only downside to alfalfa and feeding cows with it is the water usage, but for large parts of the country that aren't California and get decent rainfall, growing alfalfa takes no irrigation. You could maybe also consider the land area needed for it, but US cropland utilization has been dropping for decade after decade and isn't really a concern.
the current risk are all government created highvtech artifacts. this has the potential to be as destabilising as the ak was fot teibal societies .
> have a theory that every major technology shift happened when one part of the stack collapsed with another.

If that was true, we would ultimately end up with a single layer. Instead I would say that major shifts happen when we move the boundaries between layers.

The author here proposes to replace servers by synced client-side data stores.

That is certainly a good idea for some applications, but it also comes with drawbacks. For example, it would be easier to avoid stale data, but it would be harder to enforce permissions.
London's Heathrow Airport Halts Operations, Throwing Global Travel into Disarray
That 1611 liter figure looks like nonsense the second you dig into it, if the link even went anywhere. Random google result when you google the quote that responds to the source of the claim: https://talkveganto.me/en/facts/almond-milk-water-usage

A more reputable source would be https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impact-milks which lists almond milk as half the freshwater volume of dairy milk, and far better at every other metric (land use, greenhouse gas emissions, and eutrophication).

So you'd have to stretch things much farther than you did in your post for dairy milk to have an edge over almond milk. And even if you somehow did it, then dairy milk would have to then beat out soy milk which is even better than almond milk in all of these metrics, which it won't. If you care about environmental impact, dairy milk just isn't going to be in the cards. Let it take the L.
https://archive.ph/TQaAJ
Hear hear. Great initiative. I am not in the US but I do feel threatened by the way the US is conducting itself these days. It's time for people working in tech to push back.
> Why is Apple struggling so hard with LLMs?

Depends what you mean. Building an LLM seems to be easy enough that several companies have built one, and even Twitter was able to magic one out of the ether from pretty much a standing start given the resources.

Getting an LLM to do the right thing for you 99.999% of the time? Has anyone managed that yet? Frontier models still hallucinate the most basic shit, and consistency is very, very difficult.
Well, same here... :(
> To fix that you need either unequal votes or to remove the voting rights of those with incorrect opinions and understandings.

Not necessarily. You could also punish liars several after the fact, ie after their term, and hope that incentives will do the trick.

Though my favourite idea is to make voting with your feet easier. If you have more issues decided at more local levels, then it's easier to up sticks and move to the next town over, if you disagree with a policy.

I call that the "McDonald's flavour of democracy": McDonald's doesn't let you vote on their menu, but if you don't like it, you can always just head over to Pizza Hut.

You can either (A) do that inside an existing system by aggressively pushing responsibility down. That's what subsidiarity is meant to capture. And also how the US was supposedly meant to be structured; but over time centralisation won out.

Or (B) you can ensure that by having smaller independent countries. Ideally city states.

That's one of the reasons why Singapore is my adopted home.

Moving with your feet is about the most direct democracy you can get, but you also don't have to worry about the usual downsides of direct democracy.
Yes ok but when does this come up in the real world?
I suspect the most significant thing holding Apple back in the realm of AI is the fact that Apple prides itself as a company that delivers revolutionary products with ‘wow factor’ that is leagues above the competition. Apple just doesn’t have anything like that with AI.

Furthermore, the challenge with AI is that even though it can deliver some shockingly impressive results, it also generates some bafflingly stupid responses, as well as answers that are seemingly correct but are never less wrong in ways that are hard to determine. Those hallucinations really shatter the illusion of quality and reliability, which ultimately undermines confidence in the functionality as a whole.

Given that, Apple is stuck trying to catch up to the rest of the products in the AI space while also realizing that everyday AI is nowhere near as polished as Apple would expect it to be. So the more Apple pushes AI, the more customers are likely to pick up on the errors and inadequacies of the product.

Even though other AI assistants suffer from the same fundamental problems, the ones from Apple Intelligence are going to seem more embarrassing because of Apple’s brand image.
The first isn't the same at all: Chinese scientists were prevented from attending based on an official government policy, not randomly arrested and detained.

The second and third are the same incident, from the prior Trump administration. But the visa was denied; nobody was arrested or detained.
Not sure if I grasp your question. It's like asking "why do we care about lists or any data structure for that matter"

Graphs are just a very simple generalization of lists. And many problems can be easily modelled as graphs
I can’t find this in the spec: does it tune continuously from 160 to 50m or only in the ham bands?
I'd appreciate an insight into what above poster allegedly misunderstands.
I heard last night from my friend who works in astronomy that they decided to cancel their event in the US and let the US attendees travel to Europe instead.

I can’t get used to the fact that the US seems dead set on destroying its reputation in the world.

But with the direction the comment section of HN has taken over the last few years I’m sure there will be lots of commenters who will dismiss this as virtue signaling.
We can afford them, it costs maybe 5% more to grow them other places. We just don't anymore because that is 5% someone can skim off the top because they don't have to pay for environmental destruction and other downstream effects.
This is kinda true, but places blame in the wrong place.

The TL;DR is that the stress caused by EV's being heavier is miniscule in practice on any road with any meaningful truck traffic.

Whoever is heaviest should be paying most of the cost of creation and maintenance. Sometimes this would be "any EV" + ICE trucks. For most of the roads being talked about, it would be larger trucking companies.

Why?

Roads are weird - the stress caused by axle load is a fourth power law.

So one 5 axle truck causes as much stress as 10643 cars.

Don't confuse stress with damage, because as the trucking associations (correctly) point out , properly designed and maintained roads aren't damaged by loads they are meant to handle - environmental factors matter as much to deterioration as anything else.

But building, maintaining, and updating the roads so they can handle the load and not be damaged does cost much more for these roads than other ones.

This is because roads with a single 5 axle truck has to be built to handle as much load as 10000 cars in order to not be damaged. It also has to be maintained in that state. So it's a bit of a red herring to say the trucks don't cause damage - this is true on roads designed for them (and not true on roads not designed for them) - but doesn't change the fact that they are causing most of the cost to build and maintain roads that can support large trucks.

In the end, because of 4th power law here, the cost should be apportioned to who you have to design and maintain for. Nobody should be freeloading, whether it's ICE trucks, EV's, or larger trucks.

Anything else is just one group externalizing costs onto another. For examples, in states that just use "mileage driven" and charge everyone the same, most drivers are subsidizing truckers and larger vehicles, and because of the 4th power law, often to an insane degree.

Maybe that makes sense, but i've not seen good arguments as to why.
Would Americans Go to War Against China?
I don't think that's a full explanation for groups, because groups other than the free or permutation groups are rather "unlikely," in the sense that they're much smaller.
Depends on when the conference is scheduled, but Mexico has some world renewed venues at the seaside - say Cancun- that nobody minds visiting when it’s winter at home. :-)
If you are using Linux, other clients like Evolution still have working OpenPGP support.
The edible root of the PNG plant.

/s
I have developed an exquisite back end system template
Looks like tracking number scraping is so much of an issue now isn't it? (Although, in this case, this incident is also include bribing an employee too.) Quite the same story with the GPU delivery scam covered by LTT recently. [0]

In my country, at least, some provider is now requiring related party's phone number to be included in order to access the tracking data. [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NpOw1Onf2I

[1] https://th.kex-express.com/th/track/