I would be curious to see those stats that show they are no longer in poverty, as poverty is relative, aka when rent goes up many still can't afford it. Just because they have more money coming in, it doesn't mean they aren't poor. Wealth per capita in the UK, US, Germany, and so on is good but there is still rampant poverty in each where people struggle to afford food, housing, and utilities. The wages don't match the outgoings.
How very sad. Whilst not my piece of software of choice, it is definitely still used by plenty to do cool work. I do think it will eventually be surpassed by Python and Julia but it still has it's place right now.
Guess that makes sense assuming the cinema is still round the corner.
I miss the days of the CEX store when it sold import games just round the corner as well.
Considering you have to travel through New Malden, Raynes Park (which for me is the border), and Norbiton to get to London, they would be wrong. I always assume many think like that as it potentially increases house prices but just having a TFL tap and go bus doesn't make somewhere London.
Without even looking I assume this is the art installation in Kingston Upon Thames (a lovely town outside London, and next to Hampton Court). I remember this from childhood as I used to get my haircut opposite these phone boxes and regularly shopped with my nan at the Wilkinson's on the corner (an everything shop like a small Walmart).
Two questions, how can you trust closed source? And how are they already on release 8.0; what are these significant improvement each time or is it like apple's yearly release?
Gog and Steam often release versions years later, sometimes items are well abandoned for a decade plus with no interest in release and people fairly download to play. If you then decide to monetize that, I don't think morally you can really blame those who downloaded it and shared it when it was abandoned.
The whole copyright system needs a huge overhaul as it is taking away the ability to share what is the art and creation forms of today.
That is the case of course in this instance but still it isn't cheap enough anymore where I will just purchase off the cuff. Some now are £40 (Monster Hunter for example right now) for all the content which is a huge price increase from years gone by.
Ignoring the website itself, it's an interesting point. I work on photonics research and the range of equipment needed all usually from different stores is significant. It's clear at this point, it's not unified enough a field, nor mainstream enough a research area, whereby people have decided to stock all the key components.
I've not bought anything on humble bundle in ages now. The prices have increased greatly. I'm sure the content is good but just not that spontaneous purchase anymore
That's a different scenario. All you can eat buffets people will turn up and all eat a similar amount. At a company, multiple people will want to logon and look but fundamentally the only entity that needs to download is the business. Each staff member won't each be downloading similar numbers of photos. It makes more sense just to have multiple access points to one fixed account.
I hear you but how much change do you really feel we can make on the government. Whatever they end up wanting to do they will do. The bigger change we, especially those on sites like HN can make, is making sites, protocols, and new networking methods to bypass that issue. Mesh networking, sites more similar to a gopher protocol, utilising the eventual QC and Photonic computing for the community benefit, and so on. It interests me that you are rightfully anti banning vpns etc but still happy to use Google/YouTube,/unwilling to accept any slowdown. There surely has to be some sacrifice to support change.
A internet based company in many countries can not be held to any law because the UK aren't a fan. Companies don't need to collect cash in the UK to run a business worldwide.
The power to prosecute and the actual ability to prosecute are two different things. They currently can't prosecute CSAM offences nor piracy due to capacity. It won't happen.
However no matter what the government or security services want, they won't be able to stop people who want to use VPN or End to end encryption. Nothing would ever change in that regard.
Yes this is really common. Not all universities own the research you do. I have a similar setup within my university. They get to use the research technique I've worked on, but I have the rights to take it out of the university and sell it.
You are better being able to quickly deduce ways of acting from memories of previous scenarios, than have to attempt every scenario to build a fresh memory of each, which is a lot of memory, and requires exposure to every situation before being able to do it.
I see why, but I don't feel this is the solution. Being able to search thru the endless LLM responses is not viable. However having useful memories, similar to human brain is more important. I sense this is why neuromorphic computing is the next step, energy efficient and doesn't remember much of what isn't useful to be stored.
The obvious energy saving step would be to utilise previous searches by others. Many of the tasks people do are rather similar, it is such an energy waste to start again each time.
(Obviously ignoring the huge energy saver, which is to observe if you even need to bother doing the task at all.)
I said in the name of children which is always how it is sold to the public. At the end of the day it is eroding freedom. A VPN ban won't stop people using vpns; it most certainly won't stop those who are trying to hold companies to ransom using them. They won't think twice; "I wish we could hack in and hold Canva to ransom, unfortunately they have banned vpns in my jurisdiction so we won't.".
I am not sure whether I will order one yet (who am I kidding I probably will) but the products I have ordered, the ploopy knob and the trackball have both been great quality and very usable. The knob in particular is very handy size to use alongside a small computer like a Pocket Reform. As others have said, the track point is less useful off the keyboard although it still requires less hand gestures to move like a trackball so I believe for comfort, there is still value. Track points coming back into vogue would be fantastic though, so anything to support that. There is currently someone trying to install a track point into a Pocket Reform. I am surprised no one has tried similar in a framework laptop
This fight against the right to use a VPN or to privacy online needs to be fought. It's a shocking how much privacy is eroded in the name of the children. When really it's clearly fighting against dissidence.
I understand how it is supposed to work, but myself and many other academics do consider wanting to write a certain point and then look for a paper that backs that up. I am not saying for the main subject matter that should be done; that should be read prior to starting, say when conducting a literature review on the current research. However sometimes you find yourself writing up at the end and you found a result in your experiment that had a surprising output and you want to have a reference to explain it or back that, that you hadn't considered before. It is especially done that way as it is a time saver as you can't nowadays realistically read every paper on an area as there are too many. The above method works just fine, but you do actually have to check that it covers what you are wanting. You can not just use an LLM and not check if it is correct. Likewise I can't just ask a colleague and not check it is correct.