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> I'm much more comfortable talking with a conservative about why I think the death penalty is wrong than I am with a liberal about why I think abortion is wrong.

I don't think that's a good comparison for weighing the relative intolerance of a political group.

Support of the death penalty is not as uniform among conservatives as abortion is for liberals. Nor does it have as strong of legal support -- states can outright ban the death penalty, they can't ban abortions and have difficulty not having restrictions overturned by the Supreme Court. Most importantly, the death penalty is an administrative action, whereas abortions are seen as personal health decisions.

If you argue to someone that abortion is wrong, that person is likely to see that an attack on abortion as a personal right. Whose personal right do you threaten when you argue against the death penalty?
Does anybody know why they still use so many Seagate and WD models when the HGST seem to have the better reliability?

Am I reading the stats wrong or are other factors involved like higher prices or so?
Come on, if someone were to cherry-pick wrongness from your history, mine, or anyone else's, it would be doozies all around. Therefore this crosses into incivility, which isn't allowed here. Not to mention it defeats good conversation, which is the point of these threads.
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And that Amazon is Portuguese...
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Please invest your billions in this instead of apps that open the door by voice command.
Tens of minutes to get a position lock for your location in the entire Galaxy? Yes, that sounds completely reasonable.
Exactly my point - that function doesn't deal with modern windows. MAX_PATH is 260 characters. Yet Windows now supports longer paths (\\?\ prefix). So I presume there is another Windows function to combine long path names (and maybe canonicalise Unicode better).
I don't have enough patience for courses. I sort of scan the material for what I really need or want to learn and ignore what's not interesting to me. I can make consistent A's with the benefit of Adderall, but I don't feel comfortable with that.

Your recommendation was very useful and interesting to me, and I bought the paperback. I was surprised that it was cheaper to buy a used paperback than to rent it via Kindle for a month.
> I've seen this attitude from people who didn't want to use ansible/chef/puppet because their shell scripts were "good enough".

That attitude is also quite myopic.

Not to condescend, but if one isn't working on cloud-native apps in federated environments then maybe maybe maybe one should be intellectually humble enough to allow that there are some challenges people face that make "good enough" a non-starter, prohibitively expensive, or require direct competition with AWS/MS/Google in their core competencies.

Everything is a spectrum. Serious work can be done on a single server with no backups... Shell scripts can carry serious work far... Ansible or Docker Swarm rock for what they are... but the multi-cloud orchestration platform we're discussing rocks a oodles of things those solutions aren't.
I'm not sure the US govt has any direct jurisdiction to stop them. And the investors receiving the USDT probably weren't aware of the subpoena.
That’s not particularly fantastical. They certainly knew how to measure latitude pretty accurately back then, and clearly he knew the latitude of the Volga delta. Some maps of the era gave latitude measurements for notable places. It’s pretty coincidental that the mouth of the St. Lawrence happens to line up so closely, but I’m sure it is just a coincidence. There’s no island of Ogygia 5 days sailing west of Britain either.
Most places only need a fraction of the functionality of Jira.
> Call-by-name is just syntactic sugar for anonymous functions.

No, it's not. It defines different evaluation semantics.
Please explain which blockchain they forked? The original RaiBlocks paper and first beta implementation was published in December 2014.

If you make accusations, please back up your claim.

To be honest, I don't care about them cashing out. Everyone who builds a company that changes the world cashes out.

Nano is solid technology, doing what it promises in practice. So I don't see how this is a scam or a get rich quick scheme. If them make the new bitcoin, they can cash out for all I care, and I hope they do.

Beanie babies? Please explain how their technology is inferior compared to e.g. Bitcoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, ... .
”Instead, I opted for an egregious hack. In order to lock its database, photoslibraryd, need to be able to write to it. I simply removed write permisions.
[…]
Now, it’s possible to open $photodb, and poke around.“

If photolibraryd has that file open permanently for exclusive access, I think that shouldn’t work; photolibraryd either should keep write rights and others shouldn’t be able to open the file, as long as it has the file open, or you run the risk of database corruption (probably recoverable) when photolibraryd can only write half of what it wants to write (which will happen is, I think, implementation defined because of the existence of NFS)

I also think it is unlikely that photolibraryd has code checking for that the file becomes read only ⇒ apparently, photolibraryd periodically reopens that file for writing. If so, one should be able to race it for exclusively opening it.

Also, I’m curious. Photos.app must have a way to open that database for writing. How does it do that? Does it stop photolibraryd? Send it a signal?
It’s, nice, for example, to see where your GitHub repositories were referred to
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Funnily enough I wrote an Illustrator script to draw superellipses decades ago.

It sat on the Adobe website for a long time until Adobe decided that they wanted to scrap years of useful add ons and content in one of their pointless reorganisations.

A lot of good code died that day...
Lost my mom 19 years ago to cancerous brain tumors. She was 46 years old (I was 10). Her loss ripped my family apart.

Each family's experience is unique and I can't begin to imagine what it's like to fight the sickness for years.

My heart goes out to the OP's family, and anyone else with an unforgiving disease. I am not a religious man, but I wish your wife the best of luck in her recovery.
The price is somewhat determined by the cost of mining in the same way that the cost to buy a chunk of some obscure element is determined by the cost of getting it, not the utility.

Want a gram of californium and it'll cost you even if it's not much use for anything.
I don't know why you are getting downvoted, because I also agree with this.

Tech wise it's the best cryptocurrency out there for this purpose. If someone else disagrees on a technical level, please explain.
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Well, hundreds of medium and large companies now rely critically on Linux so it was expected that slowly they will cooperate to steer its further evolution.

People do respond that the whole codebase is open source and hence if some really bad change happens the community can always fork from the last known good commit. But this ignores a subtler issue: soon enough so many of the critical subsystems and so many of their contributions will come from individuals directly or indirectly working for corps that if/when those subsystems start adversely impacting the original Linux philosophy, stripping them all out and starting over again would be not much better than abandoning the whole platform.

This is exactly why alternative efforts that seek to maintain working and up-to date alternative init systems, display managers and desktops are critical to the long-term health of Linux.

Linux thrives on multiplicity of choices, which is anathema for corps who always want to consolidate. But that road eventually will weaken Linux for the general community and varied use cases.
Density does not necessarily bring walkability. You can see aging "highrise suburbs" all over Europe, a well-intended experiment to make living close to nature accessible to the masses. They rarely have more than a badly serviced bus stop in walkable distance.

This is what many people think of when they hear density.
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I posit a new law: betteridges's law will always be invoked with a link to its wiki, whenever an article is posted with a headline that ends with a question mark.
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Adyen doesn't mean anything in Dutch. We, or atleast I as a native Dutch person, pronounce it AD (as in Latin ad) - YEN (as in the Japanese currency).
Agreed. I've been liking The Brain for it's treeless approach. http://www.thebrain.com/
I could never work for a company that felt the need to add mentions about gun rights to their advertisements. It's fine if you personally support it, but when you bring that attitude into the public face of the company, it's a big red flag about the work environment.
> Deployment and upgrades should be built in - as in it is part of your product. Not some afterthought.

Kubernetes is one of several products that offer environment agnostic mechanisms to handle deployment and upgrades.

If you're dealing with hundreds of 'products', or a mountain of microservices, or large batch job scheduling, putting the lot of it on Kubernetes is addressing deploying, upgrading, monitoring, securing, discovering, and many other things up front in a shared, consistent, and portable manner.

A forethought, not an afterthought...

I agree that owning your core systems is valuable. Focusing on core IT competencies and business value creation are more valuable, though, and if you're not dealing with multi-cloud-platform resource management I can't imagine how to justify writing tools that compete with established, mature, industry standard solutions. You're always better to focus on your unique advantages and competencies... If you're ok using an RDBMS system in your stack, then using a scheduling/upgrading framework should be pretty ok, too.
Works for FUCK and not much else.
I'd rather block popups...

Or just use NoScript.
From their about page, it's 'Surinamese for “Start over again”'. It seems to be pronounced as "Ah-dee-yen".
Nooooo, oh good, PayPal is available till 2023.
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It's mainly just to point out to those who constantly bring it up as if Crypto is somehow worthless because it uses so much electricity.... that gold, and fiat have very real costs as well.
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Well, the framework I was to use last (Qt) had bugs that simply can't be fixed by users (memory leaks, double free leading to segfault when exiting after reloading QML engine) and immature modules (for example translation) and forces complicated types to the user and forces bad architectural decisions to the user and significantly increases compile times...

> using a tried and tested framework is likely to give you higher quality product in less time.

This is a common sentiment, but note that a framework has huge handicaps

- not knowing your business requirements and concepts

- must be suitable for many software projects that need features you'll never need.

- there is a clear maintenance boundary (framework vs your own code), which requires a complex interface with maintenance overhead and typically forces you to use concepts that don't really match your requirements

If you're experienced in the relevant domain it's almost always simpler to do it yourself / reuse your own work.
You said europe like it represents every country
If I'm reading this correctly, it's a nasty personal attack. That's not allowed on this site regardless of how wrong you think someone else's views are, and we ban accounts that do it. Please don't do it again.

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I don't understand your position here.

If you're opposed to charity but also opposed to market manipulation, how do you propose to support people who can't support themselves?

The only alternative is forcing people to do it.
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>> And it doesn't seem like it was solidified at that time according to Google Books, which shows usage of the term being relatively negligible until the 1980s:

I didn't claim machine learning solidified ("became established" might be a better turn of phrase) as a field right when its name was invented. However, in the present time it is a field of AI research. It doesn't really matter when it started or how - the main point is that it's not an alternative term for "AI", but a part of AI.

I don't know what the google trends searches are meant to show. To understand the development of machine learning as a field you'd have to look at statistics about the publication of machine learning research in scholarly journals- not what's being discussed on twitter and facebook (and even HN).

Btw, may I clarify this? I'm not so much preoccupied with nomenclature here (though I can't help it when my inner pedant revolts). I'm mostly pointing out the fact that the article author has no idea what he's talking about and is just making it up as he goes along. Which is obvious in the rest of the article also.

I mean, really? Every AI has sensors and actuators? And "actuators" is everything from hydraulic systems to html form fields? That's a bit of stretch.

>> Isn't it possible that the OP is wrong about the motive, but right in observing that "machine learning" has become trendy term for AI work in general?

Sure, in the lay press. There's a scientific community that does research on AI that doesn't use "AI" interchangeably with "machine learning". Whose understanding matters most?
Such as?

The only one I can think of is IOTA, but it mainly focuses on IOT or act as underlying technology, not really user friendly.
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Look, you don't like CEI? Fine, me neither, from the looks of it.

Are they spinning a libertarian agenda? Yes they are.

Is this article mostly an attack on uber and "shameless, greenwashed crony capitalism"? Yes it is.

BUT

Is it true that a group outlined those 10 proposals? Yes it is.[0]

Is it true that proposal #10 is about only permitting fleets to operate EVs? Yes it is.

Is it true that Uber (and Lyft, and Bla Bla Car, and...) signed this proposals? Yes it is.[1]

Will those companies greatly profit from that kind of regulation? You betcha!

That is the gist of the article, and that is what we should be discussing about.

[0] https://www.sharedmobilityprinciples.org/

[1] https://www.sharedmobilityprinciples.org/signatories/

EDIT: OT, but is your name a reference to Snow Crash? Because if it is, good job! :)
Could you please not do generic ideological arguing on Hacker News? It's off topic here.
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They aren't using many WD drives at all, and in the high use drives HSGT's roughly 1% failure rate against Seagate's roughly 2% failure rate is offset by price.
Ah ok. But why then doesn't the ad's embed code just contain the URL of the page it's on in the query string / POST data? The (website that shows the ad's) server knows what page it is providing.
I managed to short $100 but then couldn't execute on any more. I'd be short boat loads if I could.
> Yet Windows now supports longer paths (\\?\ prefix).

I know. And this is the attitude that leads to complex software. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy: "I can't do it on my own since the problem is so complex". In which case the problem does get complex.

I recommend not wasting time supporting this crazy feature (unless you are writing infrastructure code for tools and you're required to - in which case I'm sorry). 260 character paths are more than enough for any project. And I certainly recommend against using the crazy abstractions from Boost::filesystem.

(Personally I think it's an unfortunate example. I'd prefer to avoid paths from the start, since nobody understands the semantics of hierarchical filesystems. Alas, typically you need to deal with them to some degree).
You've crossed into spamming HN with those links, a long time ago in fact. Please don't do this.

It's fine to link to your stuff when it's relevant and serves good conversation. It's not fine to use HN just for promotion.
> I don't see him taking the position if he didn't have an incredible vision for the future that he could drive.

How much influence does a chairman really have on the the vision though? Isn't that more of the CEO's business?

I suppose the board picks the CEO, but that spot doesn't appear to be changing anytime soon.
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I understand, though I think you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater here, especially since unlike quantum-woo BS, the hard problem of consciousness or the essence of "matter" is nowhere near being solved, (and I would argue unsolvable using any scientific method), so I try to differentiate between people's subjective feeling about it vs their competence in the scientific realm.