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I find that the biggest intellectual mistake of pessimists is that they take an actuarial view of reality: "99% of startups fail, thus we are doomed from the get-go and our <current problems> are evidence of that".

This might be correct if you take a 3rd-person perspective view, but ignores human agency and the ability to steer situations - sometimes via sheer willpower.

See Paul Graham's essay on Intellect vs. Determination.
Possibly it was something in a restaurant's food or bar.
I don’t have the first-hand source right now but according to Doing good better [1] a book by William McAskill on the topic of Effective Altruism, there is a strong correlation between individual choices and economic outcomes. For example, if you refrain from buying an egg you would normally buy, egg production is reduced by 0.7 eggs or something close to that number.

The logic of this being that you as an individual might have a small probability of affecting change but if you do that impact is rather big. So the first person not buying an egg doesn’t change the situation but the 50th person does lead to one pallet less being bought (and so on). If you attribute the effect across individuals you arrive at a reasonably high impact each individual choice has. The same argument goes for voting!

[1]: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/doing-good-better/
Thanks, but Android and the Google App Store do fall under the "mandatory registration" thing I would like to avoid. No?
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I am impressed. Most of the HN comments are praise, but A380 is failing because of airlines strategical choice of avoiding hub. Is again the best technical solution killed by intense lobbying ?
I second that. 5 years ago I could swipe a whole message blindly with no errors. Now I have to correct every second word.

I'd love a feature to disable all that deep learning and AI and just use the algorithm they originally had (proximity of where you typed to words in the dictionary). That worked so much better.
This kind of automatic subscription needs to be regulated, it's still the most prominent dark pattern.

Amazon is actually really good with this. I got a mail early January that I had just been signed up for a whole year of amazon prime, which I saw after my holidays 2 days into the 'subscription'.

I was instantly fuming and ready to rain down hell fire when I conveniently found a button to cancel. I could easily undo the whole thing from the site with no user interaction. They made it very clear the money would be refunded. Props to them.
Gmail also drops sent mails occasionally for no apparent reason. They don't even bounce back, they simply disappear and never reach their destination.
Wait a sec. If he had been sentenced to 10 years for sexual violence, then how is he 17 years old? Did he escape from prison?
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DuckDuckGo returns that link as the third result, though.
I’m on an iPhone now but in many ways it’s a step backwards from my old BlackBerry Pearl, let alone the Bold I got next
Facts support that this is a state-wide problem:

The Cal budget center presents these facts: http://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californians-parts-stat...

* The problem is state-wide. Cost burdened or severely cost burdened renters; Far north 42%, San Francisco Bay Area 37.8%, Sacramento Region 38.4%, Central Valley 38.9%, Sierra Nevada 36.8%, Central Coast 42.1%, los angeles and south coast 46.1%, Inland Empire 42.7%

* more than half of California's renters and over a third of homeowners with mortgages face high housing costs

* 8 in 10 low income Californians have unaffordable housing costs

The US census shows that people without means can't afford the living costs are self-selecting themselves away:

* A snapshot of more recent U.S. Census migration numbers shows that nearly three-quarters of those who have left California for other states since 2007 earn less than $50k a year.
To be fair, >90% searching for "furce" probably meant force. For the rest it's one click more.
Thanks. The technique from that thread (from 2013) is what I used while it worked. It stopped working after some update which didn't allow you to mount the device to hack the database until after it was convinced that you had registered correctly. (I think. It's been a while.)
Absolutely. I've done some work with Lambda, and the cold start times for Java and C# were horrendous. Node and Python were pretty fast. I would expect Go to be more the latter than the former, with the added advantage of running really fast as well (and not being JavaScript), so my advice to my former colleagues on implementation language for a Lambda-based solution would be different if that pans out...
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There's a difference between a backdoor and a vulnerability - as exploited by a third party, say, Cellebrite. Nobody claims that any OS is free of vulnerabilities.
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I've long felt it would be worth trying some "diminishing returns" mechanics in SO. It might result in more attention given to the "long tail" of problems rather than people seeking "retirement investments."
The A380 doesn't make sense for cargo. Too much volume for the weight it can lift. At the average plane cargo density, an A380 cargo would be at weight capacity way before it gets to volume capacity.[1]

The A380 cannot lift much more than a B747. But it has more volume, which comes in handy for passengers, not for cargo.

[1]: https://www.flexport.com/blog/airbus-a380-no-cargo-equivalen...

edit: 747 n° mistake
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I believe it's not that direct. It's optimising for what most people search for and how to keep them using Google most. That in turn leads to more ad revenue.
That's for courts to argue. He's not a criminal avoiding justice; anyone can sue it at any time for perceived wrongdoings. So far, the courts have been involved a few times in the past, and Microsoft paid the price determined by them.

(Personally, I don't care about that either. In my eyes, all the good Gates has done to this day already far outweighs any shady business practices Microsoft has been engaged in the past.)
>I that every struct had to have unique field names

Nope, different structs could have fields named the same.
Take a step a few centuries back: Tanzanian
DDG is now also using Yandex. Not sure which one is better though, I find complex queries still better answered at google (luckily that's quick via !g)
Is-ought fallacy with a bit of whataboutism?
Ottawa: barely 10 minutes from downtown is $90 (non-promo) for 50/10 with Bell.
> You can't accomplish anything in this life without being hated for it.

Yup. In case of accomplishing good for other people, that's sometimes called "the Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics", per the article already linked elsewhere in this thread.

https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
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> Why doesn't Mexico just legalize heroin and cocaine distribution?

Well, aside from treaty obligations and public opinion, because...

> Wouldn't this put an end to the cartels?

Maybe, and the cartels own a lot of the politicians, and can kill a lot of the rest on a whim. And Mexican legalization would weaken the cartels over the long term by enabling new entrants, but wouldn't destroy their power overnight, before they were able to inflict punishment.

And legalizing would also weaken the government, as a lot of US aid is dependent on anti-drug cooperation. And that impact would be a lot quicker than the impact to the cartels.
It's clear from these comments that I need to explain the project more concisely on the blog (which I mentioned in the conclusion), but here is a short response:

(1) In retrospect, I should have responded to the first commenter differently. He was clearly angered by having to debug other people's shell scripts in the past. But that is exactly what I'm trying to fix -- I'm trying to provide an UPGRADE PATH OUT OF BASH. I explicitly state that in this long post, which I think some people have missed.

These posts show one part of the plan: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/tags.html?tag=osh-to-oil#osh-to...

(2) I'll repeat my objection: trying to convince people not to use bash is going to be about as successful as convincing people not to use PHP. Not only is it not a solution to the problem, it also ignores the humongous installed base of PHP code, like Wikipedia, etc.

Even if another line of bash never gets written, you'll still have to deal with it on a regular basis!

I am providing a path out of bash, while other people are just wishing the problem would go away. The world is not how you want it to be, but exhortation on online forums isn't going to change the world. Less charitably, "you're wasting your breath".

I need to write a blog post entitled "Reimplementing Bash is the Only Way to Kill It". This is analogous to how Facebook is "removing" PHP from their codebase by developing the Hack language and VM.

It's also analogous to how Microsoft "killed" Lotus and other competitors by understanding their file formats.

(3) I also don't think you understand why cloud projects like Kubernetes are using shell scripts, probably because you don't work in that domain. Shell really is the best tool for that job.

I think it's presumptuous to state that the people writing that code don't know what they're doing. A lot of the project is in Go, but a lot of it is in shell, and there's probably a reason for that other than ignorance.
This was also recently discussed on an edition of the BBC Radio 4 program, Gardeners Question Time (GQT to fans):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09h6x6t
Call me a crazy person, lately I've been thinking long and hard about going back to the BB (BB Bold 9930) and am willing to make all the sacrifices that come with it for a lot of the frustrations with smartphone OSes listed in this thread. Maybe I'm getting older and my demands on what I expect from a phone are beginning to normalize and simplify: Text, Calls, Email, a browser for sports scores and reading news articles on the train.

Honestly it's very probable that I'll only ever keep a smart phone around as a music/podcast/audiobook device.
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Thanks for sharing! Some of us on the Jitsi team can answer some questions, if any. Ask away!
Lining the pockets of leaders

If you consider the most hated politician in the UK, Tony Bliar, he netted a personal fortune of estimated £20m. That’s a tiny fraction of what a dictator could amass in a far poorer country.
Startup idea: a service that will let you search your inbox. Aka google for searching.

Seriously, this is egregious. You rely on your email provider to accurately search your inbox - some emails are important business, tax, and legal documents that are relevant for years, even decades. Or at least be fucking transparent about the fact that you are not really searching all emails. I know Gmail is a free service and in the T&C you agreed to (figuratively) sell your soul but this has huge real-life implications.
The same BlackRock that's just made a killing short selling shares in the failed UK public sector contractor Carillion?
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His best observation is "Anthropologists like N. Harari, and S. Mithen are in general agreement that the decisive ingredient that gave our Homo sapiens ancestors the ability to achieve global dominion, about 40,000 years ago, was their ability to choreograph a mental representation of their environment, interrogate that representation, distort it by mental acts of imagination and finally answer “What if?” kind of questions." I can agree with that.

I've been saying something like that since the 1980s, but less abstractly.
I've argued that "common sense" is the ability to examine a proposed course of short term action and predict generally what will happen. I used to work on this at a low level, along the lines of "much of life is about getting through the next 15 seconds in the real world without falling down or bumping into anything". That's needed to survive in the real world. That led me into automatic driving, legged running, grasping by touch, and similar low level problems. Most of the brain in lower level mammals manages things at that level. Once you've got that, maybe some higher level can back-seat drive the short-term system to achieve higher level goals. I argued for getting the lower level right first. AI still isn't very good at this, which is why mobile robots are not yet useful.

It's clear that machine learning as we know it today has real problems doing strong AI. We all know that. But this paper does not demonstrate that the author's pet approach is any better. There are no examples. No working systems. Also, trying to hammer the world into predicate calculus just doesn't work. I went through Stanford at the peak of that idea in the mid-1980s, and watched all the big names hit a wall.
But the A380 takes longer to unload, clean and load again and so takes up gate space for longer. I'm sure it's not long enough to equal three 787s, but it's certainly diminishing returns.
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In Canada, like in the US, warrants have to be specific about what exactly the police are looking for. If the warrant really was "give us all your data so we can see if you're hiding something", that's not legally okay, and I can't blame them for trying to prevent the disclosure.
"banking the unbanked"

It has never been the goal of bitcoin. The original Satoshi paper rather implies the "unbank the banked" objective which is to remove corrupt middleman.
Does this shed a new light on the mystery of why the area of modern Poland was spared, remaining largely unaffected by the plague?

Also it makes a certain novel sound a little bit less realistic.
Exactly. It is my belief that the people who ordered this should have their asses dragged in front of the UN and should be tried for crimes against humanity.

You don't mess with vaccinations. Ever.
> all the enterprise baggage that makes user experience range from meh to painful

Could you give specific examples?
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You can pirate or copy apk-files from your phone and install them unverified.
That's what I thought too when I saw this. Telegram is nice but with no monetisation they will run out of cash. This could make Telegram profitable, or at least give it a longer runway.
$ cat run-bash-script.sh
#!/bin/sh
which bash &>/dev/null && exec bash "$@"
source /etc/os-release
case "$ID" in
debian) apt install bash || exit 1 ;;
redhat|suse) yum install bash || exit 1 ;;
arch) pacman -S bash || exit 1 ;;
alpine) apk add bash || exit 1 ;;
esac
exec bash "$@"

I don't know how to detect and handle the BSDs etc., but you get the idea. ;)
The problem with that variation is that:

1. Both sub-entities are part of the same company

2. One is acting on instructions from the other

So how about this:

"As a Corleone, have a very tight-knit family, and the senior members are afforded a great deal of respect. My uncle the gun enthusiast firmly instructed me that if I were to ever discover my wife in bed with the mailman, I should immediately leave him a message, unlock the doors and windows, and leave the house until he calls me back with additional advice."
Hypothetically, if police caught your periodic-vibration setup in action, and figured out what it's meant for, and found some kind of evidence that you had just recently created this setup, and turned it on before leaving the house and (according to other evidence) committing a homicide…

Well, I don't know about "ironclad", but it would be circumstantial evidence that you were trying to cover something up, which in combination with other evidence might be able to establish premeditation.
The problem with many search algorithms appears to be that you profit massively if your content is on a highly ranked domain. Pinterest is very highly ranked so all content automatically also is assumed to be of high quality.

The same content hosted on another domain would appear much lower on Google than a Pinterest post (or a post on any other large website). Not sure if that's really the best approach but I guess it's not easy coming up with a better one.
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And enable DRM in my web browser? No thank you.
> Microservices are about organisational structure, not performance

The above statement is also not about performance. (It is about keeping "consistency by default" even if you do have performance critical areas.)
SwiftKey seems to manage three languages (Finnish, Swedish, English) simultaneously pretty well. No need to explicitly switch language either, it figures out the current language as you type.
Hey there! I'm a citizen in a country where the current minister of finance was caught with a briefcase of 100.000 DM illegal "donations" from an arms manufacturer to the ruling party. The then-chancellor of 16 years took the fall to protect black party accounts, but nobody spent time in jail. That same party produces nepotism scandals in their home state but nobody cares because nepotism is an open secret through all state institutions. Every citizen knows this dt a continuing functioning press.

What is a German like me to do?
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There is a suggestion that HSBC and others may have been working with inside knowledge. Blackrock also hired the outgoing chancellor of the UK George Osborne who was responsible for awarding vast numbers of contract to Carillion.
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I don't know a lot about the particulars of this situation, but I do know a bit of history. If things are how I expect them to be, yes, they were using it for preserving food.

India has a warm and humid climate and it's hard to preserve food for more than a few hours/days. And here we're talking about a world before fridges or freezers.

It depends on the type of food, but for example for meat, in a world before refrigeration, you could:

* smoke the meat (kind of hard to do for a poor Indian, especially since large parts of India don't have abundant firewood)

* drying, etc. (probably not as effective)

* curing aka salting (probably the most popular solution)

They probably also needed salt for iodine, otherwise you run into nasty issues:

> Iodine deficiency affects about two billion people and is the leading preventable cause of intellectual disabilities.
> And now every shell that tries to position itself on the market has to implement the same quirks, bugs, and design flaws in order to even be considered.

That's patently false: https://fishshell.com
Hm I probably could have said "distros are suboptimal" and it would have meant essentially the same thing. But I wasn't disparaging anyone's work, if that's your concern. "Debian is broken" would be closer to that, but I didn't say that. :)

But yes I do think distros are doing the best they can with the raw material they have to work with (upstream sources, autoconf, etc.) I have some ideas for a distro but I think I have my hands full with shell, and it is a big problem because you can't do it by yourself. You need an army to help you maintain packages to some standard!

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For the shallow problem, I'll probably implement something like set -o hijack-shebang. It's relatively easy for OSH to open scripts it runs and check for a shebang that looks like a shell, and then prepend "osh" to the argv array.

It should really only be used for debugging OSH, because it wouldn't be good practice to "lie" about your shebangs. That logic is fundamental and baked into the kernel!

"trap" has come up a lot, although I'm not sure if it will be in the 0.4 release. I'm making releases pretty often -- every 6 weeks or so. "alias" is interesting because it sits between the lexer and the parser, and no other shell feature is like that.
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I worry that upvoting this will just give Project Deceit some free press...
Great to see a come back to old values some of us been taught before the NoSQL trends have gained strength.

One can only hope Google contributes some of their strong consistency mechanisms to open source so that more developers can be swayed towards strong consistency-based architectures. Spanner is great but creates huge vendor lock-in and some businesses will not repeat old mistakes.
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Also known as, "it's easier to port a shell than a shell script" :)
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I know that a lot of sales are coming from China but in Europe if you do not buy "european" the others throw a hissy fit about european solidarity and blah blah...though yeah there are exceptions to this :)
Poo in a bucket, put a lid on it. If the alternative is eventually dying of thirst or having to venture out into a contaminated neighbourhood, necessity compels.
Is there an auto answer option that also works with video calls? Skype recently updated all their clients and removed that option which is really useful for monitoring someone you care for (eg. kids, older relatives, pets).
Yes, this the real reason. It's a variation on the Tyranny of the Majority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
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Another example: Arch Linux is an entire distribution developed (at least 90%) in shell scripts. For example, the installer [1] is three shell scripts of 300-400 lines each. Packages are built with `makepkg`, which is a 2400-line shell script.

It helps that the Arch developers are good at writing clean shell scripts.

[1] In the package "arch-install-scripts".
You make an interesting point, According to this link https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/uploads/005/841/RTT_RPI...:

* Large urban school districts are experiencing the greatest numerical decrease in Black
enrollment. These districts include Oakland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Inglewood,
Lynwood, and Compton.

* The largest percentage increase in the Black population occurred in smaller, rural
communities (Susanville, Tehachapi, Calipatria, and Elk Grove). Before 1980, these
communities had a very small number of African Americans.

According to the cal budget center http://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californians-parts-stat...

* More than 2 our of 3 Californias with unaffordable housing costs are people of color

And there are a few more interesting facts in both links, so you are correct that it is a complex problem. That said I don't think you can access the best opportunities in California from where the largest percentage increase in the black population is, but it might be that they also moved to neighborhood populous counties in which case percentage increase is not interesting.
I don't think so. A few years ago, Google worked much better when you knew how to phrase queries. I often helped family members to find something online, just by rephrasing their original query.

Today, it doesn't matter how you build your query, Google returns good results in any case. That also means that you can't search for specific info by phrasing queries differently but for the vast majority of people it makes life much easier.
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