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When you say "dig up," do you recommend the remaster or the original?

I used to be able to stick to precise language in my professional communication. After I got thrown into fields I was less familiar with, I had to do the circling-around-the-point thing. I think of it as technical pidgin. It's worked fairly well for me but maybe I should focus more on catching up on the precise terms because I miss that precision.

I'm unfamiliar with Italian piracy laws and surveillance but I can tell you that accessing torrent sites for me was a simple matter of choosing a proper DNS provider.

Sawing the first shot, I thought the LED candle on the coffee table was the device. That would have also been cool, having flickering affected not by wind, as with real candles, but by radio waves.

The question is about systemic solutions:

- Invest in 3rd places:

· Zoning that allows small businesses and cafés to be near where people live.

· Invest heavily in public libraries.

· Invest in public parks and spaces. For places where it rains a lot, maybe that should include roofed structures.

· Increase and promote funding for social organisations. Give money to orgs for every member.

- Create more free time:

· Make legislation that accommodates and promotes work weeks shorter than 37 hours.

· Ensure decent and reliable support for people who cannot (find) work, so their time is freed up to support their community.

- In disaster readiness checklists, include a point about knowing the names and special needs of your neighbours.

- Invest in mental health services. Both serious stuff and some light-weight sit-and-talk-groups.

- Set up laws that promote public transportation and carpooling.

- Anti-trust social media companies. Promote competitive compatibility between social media platforms. This is to let consumers choose the services that give them the best outcomes.

> Having content you want to hide?

This has some use cases. Besides, keeping content from users was already present in HTML through the practice of not sending it to the user.

I have lamented the fact that download buttons can be hard to find on software home pages sometimes. But having just a download button and a "more" button on your landing page seems to be taking things a bit too far.

"This technology will radically transform the way our world works and soon replace all knowledge-based jobs. Do not trust anything it says: Entertainment purposes only."

I like to imagine a world, a worse one, where programming languages were localised. This might initially have been a versioning nightmare, with different compiler binaries for each localisation. Later, it could become standard practice to ship a single compiler containing all supported localisations, the correct one being chosen from either system language, a project-wide setting, a preprocessor flag in each file, or some combination of these. Everyone would have to learn a little Polish, and "Source Code Translator" would be a profession.

Not to mention they have to store the data after they download it. In theory storing garbage data is costly to them. However I have a nagging feeling that the attitude of these scrapers is they get paid the same amount per gigabyte whether it's nonsense or not.

Although this is objectively an advantage, it means I've spent just as much of my time mucking about with customisation in Typst, as I have in LaTeX :p

Way back when, my prof was using his Linux machine to demonstrate how to use GCC. He called the end result .exe but that might have been for the benefit of the Windows users in the room. (Though Linux users being considerate to Windows users, or vice versa, is admittedly a rarity)

Maybe using VLC Media Player from an early age has left me with too high expectations. But if I have a program designed to view or edit a certain class of file, and it doesn't support a certain file format, I will blame that program.

Never mind quality - how can you achieve the same reach as someone with an advertising budget?

I slammed the reader-mode button, which unfortunately killed the videos.

Not having looping/procedural animations in your articles is an accessibility feature. People with ADHD simply can't read blocks of text if there's visual noise flitting about everywhere.

My thoughts immediately go to all the queer kids in rural areas who stand to be cut off from the only support networks they have.

My goal is explicitly to publish, and I have the impression this is the case on a national level.

I don't want to speculate why this is the case, but tech enthusiasts rarely have the social capital that it takes to move friend groups or local forums over to specific platforms.

The sad reality is that we can either accept the monopolizing forces like everyone else, or make ourselves apart from important social contexts.

I can see many benefits to this approach, but there is one area where I'm sceptical:

The article mentions moderation in different cultures several times, and this made me curious – what would be the "default" culture assumed by the site-wide moderation? (Unitrd States?)

Will the moderation team paid for by blue-sky be responsible for all languages or only English posts, and what would it mean to be from a culture without "official support"?

Interesting! I was wondering what in the world you could do with a computer inside a toothbrush. From the product page[1]:

- Zone reminder for uncleaned aread

- Intense pressure reminder

- Some kind of tracking through an app

- Send each other stickers through the display

Typical case of very niche/almost useful feature set for smart devices. If the zone tracking is accurate, it could potentially help a lot of people who have trouble concentrating on brushing. And some sort of reminder would be great I'm sure.

But bundling all that with an app and a big expensive display is just silly. An indicator LED and haptic feedback for over-bushed areas would be just as good (if not better) usability.

[1]https://store.evowera.com/products/planck-mini-for-adult-sma...

Hahah I'm in formal methods, not graphics, so I'm picturing a literal green glowing fog. But what I'm gathering is polygons partitioned into cube chunks. This is of course not including the particulars of this impressive contribution, but I fear that's beyond my ken.

Wow! What am I even looking at here? Polygons, voxels, or something else entirely? How were the benchmarks recorded?

The use of AI and voice recognition seems mostly designed to make the result seem more sensational than it actually is. Does any computation actually happen in the "organoid" part? How would you even train such a cell to perform a task?

From reading the article it seems to me that the answer is no. The actual contribution is feeding the organoid electric signals, and reading its reactions. (Probably the machine learning algorithm used would have had even better accuracy, if the input signal hadn't been fed through a layer of goo. It doesn't say whether this is the case.) The rest is speculation of future applications.

> To test Brainoware’s capabilities, the team used the technique to do voice recognition by training the system on 240 recordings of eight people speaking. The organoid generated a different pattern of neural activity in response to each voice. The AI learned to interpret these responses to identify the speaker, with an accuracy of 78%.

It "generated a different pattern," with no indication that this pattern was optimized to be useful in any way.

I think the key part of a (bio-)"computer" is the possibility of programming/training it, not just reading input from it.

Good of a platform to stand up for their users against DMCA abuse. Obviously Shopify relies on credibility if they are to handle the business transactions of their customers, so it is a smart move. Though it may be costly for them. Wish certain other platforms would do the same, if not for every bogus claim, then at least to set a precedent.

I know sarcasm is frowned upon on HN but I am compelled to point out that in the 1830s there were also a lot of people who couldn't write fizzbuzz. If you cherry-pick random people today and compare them to historical figures, of course it will seem like things were better in the old days.

There are so many great games out there which can run on anything 64bit, that I'm still letting my old desktop PC chug along with its 740 and whichever harddisks I've had thrown at me over the years.

Might upgrade at some point to try some of these high profile releases, but I have to say I don't find it appealing enough to go through the hassle atm.

If you can reliably recreate this, then you may be on to something interesting. I couldn't guess what.

Otherwise, the most likely answer is coincidence.

There is also the question of inertia. People are used to certain software, and recommend this to others. In many cases I'd rather have a CLI that I know how to use, than a finnicky GUI that I don't.

Even this is not always the case. I gave it a very rough draft and it actually made my structure worse, while at the same time using imprecise language. It looked like the correct style, but the content was not salvageable.

Some ad-blockers already provide optional block-rules for "annoyance" elements. Unfortunately, they are less well supported. I used them for a while with AdNauseam until it ate some important UI element or other.