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A significant part of the establishment supports Brexit precisely because it forces the country to do unsavoury but profitable deals. They want Britain to be an amoral self-interested global actor, taking advantage of regulatory arbitrage and beggar thy neighbour practices to extract rents and windfall profits, like a kind of global parasite.

The powerful people who support Brexit most visibly in the media are not themselves concerned with immigration or the working man's difficulty competing with global labour and capital; but they leverage those fears effectively.

This piece is obviously part of a PR effort to try and reduce the appeal of that path. What happens next with the office will be a decent indicator of the prevailing winds.
aaahhh that's why it sounded right. I'm disappointed :-)
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We don't need a Linux mono-culture.

First, people need to learn how to write OSes, even if that is all they do with it.

Second, the only way to prove there are better ways to go beyond UNIX is to write other OSes, since many in IT only believe when seeing and sometimes not even when it is shown running on front of them.
Training of professional by using simulation.
Already well established in military, aviation and shipping. I expect it to also do well in medical.

As the tech becomes more commoditized it becomes viable for other businesses that don't spend as much on training.
You will kill people with this advice. I'm not even kidding or exaggerating. I wish these quackery articles were banned on HN. Sleep deprivation is incredibly debilitating, it can be worse than being drunk. If you operate heavy machinery in this condition, you put yourself and others at risk. Its impact on mental health can be equally dangerous.
Firebase Static Hosting can do that and it's very easy, fast (Google's CDN) and free for up to 10 GB/month transfer.
I have my doubts as well, but one way to look at this announcement in a charitable light is that VR and AR are technically demanding use cases which will require the Servo team to keep a strong focus on performance. In one way, it's a good testing ground for further refining the high level of performance that Servo has already achieved, especially if the work aims to make the user experience of shifting between 2D and 3D content to be seamless (which could result in performance wins for 2D content as well).

I still have a hope that Servo will be used in a next-generation Electron competitor, as that's what I thought would be the best use of Servo (in the short term). Hopefully the developers can keep this use case open by maintaining the code that allows Servo to be embedded as a component in other projects.
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Have you ever flown on a commercial plane? There are several parts of the US that you can't fly over because the USAF says you can't. They also control the GPS constellation and can turn it off at will or degrade the accuracy however much they like- although they've promised that they won't use the ability. The Army Corps of Engineers is involved in a significant portion of public construction like hydroelectric dams and do a lot of environmental regulation.

The military has jurisdiction over more than you might think, they just try to stay out of the way unless it impedes the national defense.
They are the cause of high prices in places like Kensington and Chelsea. The cause elsewhere is low interest rates - low interest rates lower the cost of renting money. Most of a monthly mortgage payment is determined by the interest rate, so a small drop in interest rates makes buying look much better than renting on a monthly basis, and we've had low interest rates for ages, conditioning people to think they won't rise much.
There's nothing better than actually writing some code in the language of choice. I'm also no fan of videos on the subject. A few helpful blog posts can however be great.

My go to way of getting my feet wet is rewriting a library or a part of one I've developed before. I know the problem domain and can figure out how to tackle problems in the new language. Understanding the dependency management and publishing tooling is also always great fun!
> Moreover, what's the point? You must know you're not going to convince me with a low effort comment sending me to a Wikipedia page describing one of the many possible ways an argument can be fallacious. You didn't even both to explain why it applies (which, again, it doesn't).

YES IT FUCKING DOES YOU HYPOCRITICAL TWAT. Obtusity is NOT nuance.

> to honestly criticize the diamond industry, we should criticize the entire market of veblen goods in general.

You're both defending the diamond industry and admitting that they're bad, but saying we are only allowed to criticise it if we criticise everything that has remotely similar workings. That is the whataboutist fallacy

It would have taken you three sentences of reading comprehension of linked WikiPedia to figure this out. I do not for one second believe that you are arguing in good faith yourself sir. Good day.
Sales and marketing. Especially showing previsualization of something that will be built to desicion maker. Like a house tailored to your specs, you can walk around inside it.
I see your point. Also, they can still "control" the flow of QUIC (to a lesser degree I'd imagine) by dropping some of the packets.
I really like all the questions and remarks being placed here by people who have experience with the challenges of MR or are unclear about the goals of Servo, and the Mozilla people interacting here.

For those of you simply dismissing whatever's happening because VR has been hyped before and it didn't pan out this time, I'd highly recommend this post: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes
As with most supplements, ask your doctor. Do a blood test every year. Maybe see a nutritionist.

Vitamin D is ambivalent: as said in the article, it helps calcium absorption so if you're too low on vitamin D you might be too low on calcium and thus have frequent cramps and what not.
But if you're a little too high on vitamin D and consume your fair share of calcium, then calcium absorption could be too high and you'll end up with premature atherosclerosis and other vascular issues.

See https://academic.oup.com/ndt/article/27/5/1704/1844110
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Have you ever tried something like magic mushrooms to perhaps rewire your brain? To remove that everyday filter for several hours and flood your brain with totally new experiences and a new way of looking at things. I think it's worth a shot but you'd have to do it in a controlled environment with people you like and who understand you.
Its budget has been slashed steadily over the years.

As has just about every government department, I'm not sure you can read much into that.
Well it is true that Italian coops are very left wing as opposed to Uk coops which are mildly leftish (I a using the uk/euro definition)

Btw I was a member of a UK tech worker coop - Poptel

One amusing anecdote when one of our guys went out to Italy to try and sell the idea of the .coop domain to coops he got the view that some of them thought the internet was a CIA plot
The US has also destroyed two of its satellites, P78-1 Solwind in 1985 and USA-193 in 2008.
Presumably, the hope is that they mostly rob foreigners.
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I would rather see nothing, or a solid block of colour, than a very blurred image; I have heard this opinion espoused by others as well when the topic comes up. A blurred image, especially with a sharp edge, is surprisingly disconcerting, and having the content change while you’re looking at it too.

I wish people would just leave it to the browser to handle, and I wish that browsers would start improving their approach to this sort of thing so that developers don’t feel the need to mess around with it, because they always get it wrong.

Let me be absolutely clear on this: I hate all scroll-based lazy loading of images.
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Yeah me too - I've tried many different IDEs but always find myself back in Geany. Just an awesome tool.
Absolutely. The point is, though, that the model isn’t intrinsically better than public corporations, once you reach a certain size.
You might model software data and operations in some formal system at various levels using a language like "coq" and develop some formal verification proofs. I've not read this book that apparently explores verifications like these: "Certified Programming with Dependent Types: ...".

I'm not sure what types of enterprises actually use formal verification since it's very costly. Writing software is much faster than verifying it. Embedded auto, aerospace, industrial applications, sure. Facebook? I doubt it.

Such methods could be useful, maybe coupled with fuzzing, for breaking software too. It might suggest avenues for exploit.

Systems like coq are used more naturally in math proofs, but even there it's very hard to apply.
I agree on the under investment of platforms like twitch on those use cases. Quite a missed opportunity
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Well yes you might pay lower wages but make it up in more tax efficient dividends. - certainly being a member of a UK coop does have some advantages.

It is true that coops ae inherently political as all the members should be taking part in the internal democracy.
Some crtical thinking would be good for a society. Tools are just tools.
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The FCC is charged with regulating communications of all distances, not just those crossing state lines. One of their primary missions is ensuring fair access to the wireless spectrum and keeping someone from jamming it and preventing others from communicating legally. Satellites must communicate to be effective, and satellites form a significant portion of our communications backbone. A rogue satellite operating over spectrum it isn't licensed for prevents other from using that spectrum, and a rogue satellite colliding with another satellite could cause debris and disable a bunch of other communications platforms.

The FCC isn't being orbital traffic cops, it is doing its job. While the FCC has done a bunch of distasteful stuff regarding net neutrality recently, the folks taking actin agains Swarm are clearly in the right.
I have a history of depression and anti depressants. I stopped them some years ago, and I went to a 2 weeks military training 3 years after I stopped those meds.

Not only did I love it, but it really gave a big energy boost. Awesome sleep.

Maybe depression comes from boredom.
Was East India Company really independent from the government? Wikipedia says [1] in 18th century the government effectively had control over those territories.

I think the idea was to allow private investors to colonize new territories and later seize control from them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company#East_India_...
err no the 7th principal for coops is concern for community
Quite a useful list. I wonder how many companies today have such high awareness when doing ML
I think that's a jokey reference to the left-pad debacle.
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Fusion propulsion would be very beneficial to any space operations beyond the Earth's orbit. I think NASA have a project investigating this technology.
Solid color isn't actually too bad of an idea, I'll look into that.

That said, if you disable JS, your browser will load all the images, and that's not exactly ideal itself for most people (the page loads ~10x longer)
From the article:

"Importantly, this rise has translated into tangible benefits. The Chinese live six years longer on average and have full access to electricity, less than two percent of the population live under the global poverty line and the average calorie deficit has been cut by more than half, according to World Bank data going back to 1992.

Over the next five years, China's per-person economic growth will see it bypassing the likes of Mexico and oil-rich Azerbaijan, putting it just shy of Argentina."
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You would make the distinction by prepending “fully” (parallelism) or “partially” (concurrency). Unfortunately the language of Dante doesn’t really allow for the finer points of CS :)
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Actually, it’s not as bad as you think. The Shanghai-Beijing line had a final budget of around $35bn for an 810-mile service. California is looking to spend $78bn for a 520-mile service. That means a cost-per-mile of $150m for California vs. $43m for China - in other words, California’s system is around 3.5 times as expensive as China’s.

Honestly, given the difference in land values and regulation, that doesn’t seem entirely unreasonable.
If we are to mass deploy self driving cars, we must solve this problem. No one would want to travel by cars that could be tricked so easily.

This also leads to a moral and legal questions. If a self driving car injures someone, who will be responsible, the person owning the car or the manufacturer?
What about the concept of turning Gecko into Servo piece by piece?

That is, continuing the Quantum work until there is either no C++ code left, or the C++ code left can turned off via config option ("prefer perfect security over perfect compatibility") while still having a browser that works on the vast majority of the web.
If anyone's interested I've got a geany-lua script repo here https://github.com/DGivney/geany-lua-scripts
Does the starting point have to be Javascript?

If so, a good bet might be this HashLife Javascript implementation:

https://copy.sh/life/?gist=31aa52b9430970a28e4c199444e5a873

If not, well, Golly is open-source, cross-platform, supports custom rules via rule tables, and would welcome contributions to its editing-tool department:

http://sf.net/projects/golly

There's even a lifeviewer.lua in the Scripts/Lua folder that duplicates some of LifeViewer's functionality, and is also obviously open source, though it's definitely also a work in progress.
Its possible, but the fact that they applied for a US license that was denied makes any actions taken by a foreign headquartered company look fishy. At the very least, the US based portion of the company is still responsible for following the law in the US and the foreign country would be held responsible for approving the launch of a dangerous satellite if there is ever a collision. Considering that the founder and the employees live and work in California there probably isn't a foreign headquarters and probably isn't approval from a foreign country.
All coops are made up of owners its what a coop is.

Your talking a producer coop which a lot of the US ones are including one that supplies KFC.
Yes, of course I'd like to see some details. Go for it.
Yes a producer coop may well employ non members - though in theory a worker coop doesn't John Lewis in th Uk is looked down on by the rest of the worker coops fro employing non members as cleaners
You kid, but seriously: Of course you will have to restructure your code as the product evolves. Good refactoring support is not crucial for this, but makes your life easier, and I found that by making my life easier, it lowers the mental threshold for taking the plunge and restructuring that bit that does not quite fit anymore.

Refactoring support is part of the 80% an IDE gives me over a good code editor. I would consider code navigation, autocompletion and integrated debugging to be the other crucial features of an IDE.
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So you think the stock market and 80% of the banking system is a bad thing by that definition.

Where is your pension/ 401k invested pray?
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Regarding justifying the hype, people are always going to hype new tech they're interested in, regardless of its commercial potential (I realise VR is nothing new, but this current generation of devices has already made further inroads into the mainstream compared to their predecessors). I don't think hype requires justification, it's just a reflection of what humans get excited about. To put it another way, imagine someone you know told you they were going on holiday to somewhere you've already been before, and they were really excited about having the chance to go there. Even if you didn't think this place was that great, would you expect them to justify their excitement?

As for investment, you have a point. Perhaps the level of investment will prove to be a mistake, but at this point in time we don't really know how big of a demand there will be for VR and AR. I'd struggle at this stage to predict how it will end up, but what I can say is that I can see evidence supporting the prediction that they'll be mainstream, as well as evidence supporting the prediction that they'll be niche. We probably won't know with any certainty until after the second or third generation of current devices is on the market, as that's the point where they're likely to take off commercially if they're going to. Speculation before that point can be fun, but I don't think it'll change the outcome.
Geany also has its place in my launch bar with a nice balance e between low key IDE (class browser) and minimalism while feeling Linux native.
I also use vim and sublime but for small quick projects I like the comfort of this. One thing I miss (maybe I didn't search enough) is multiple cursors though. I can't live very long without it.
It's possible that they have nobody on their team with any government experience nor space experience. This is a fairly common way that startups fail, they think they have a great idea but are unfamiliar with the regulatory environment they must operate in (banking and medical startups are particularly vulnerable). Consider that a cubesat launch costs about $40k, add in $10k for the satellite cost, you're looking at just $200k to launch these satellites. Add in a spare system or three, multiply by a generous margin of error, and you're still under half a million bucks. That's basically the same as hiring a couple employees. To further realize that they could be doing this on the cheap, these are apparently 0.25U sized cubesats, which are even cheaper to launch than the "standard" 1U size: http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/spacebee.htm

They don't necessarily need to be a huge team with a bunch of experienced industry insiders to pull this off. They could just as easily be a couple of recent grads with some of Grandma's inheritance from selling her house in Palo Alto.
I am so sorry to hear this. I wonder if it is possible to conciliate in some way with these two (appease them in a dignified way, keeping out of their way) - (horrible, but necessary). If they are related, surely they wouldn’t pull the trigger on you no matter what their attitude is. (Humans, especially relatives, can be funny that way). They have power over you and sound as if they are miserable with each other, and you are getting the fallout.

I find it appalling that there are no options for you. Its hard to find words. You are obviously highly literate and intelligent and could be good value for some one or entity with that kind of remote work. (4 hours a day and not having truckloads of qualifications but interest, software and operating system skills, life experience, maturity and reliability are a good signal to an entity with this kind of work).

Generally Phd’s and credentialled individuals don’t get jobs like the one we discussed, they will move on - niche jobs are the toughest to get, but employers really aren’t looking for elite credentials, just specific talents and trays.

Finding someone with your skillset who will work for 4 hours a day consistently and reliably is tough for employers - the other side of the coin. (Finding a job like this and an employer in this situation is the problem).

Hold on. This post may be buried but it isn’t going anywhere. (You are depressed and rightly so, I don’t know if there are any disability options for that, and you have investigated the system pretty thoroughly). I’m probably irritating you about now, but you know, you did what you could with this post, and risked it, that is something pretty good and very brave. Hang on, hang on, hang on, sometimes at the 11th hour..... (ok?).
You have been in the industry 20 years, I have been in the industry nearly twice that and as far as AI is concerned, it is a no show. Certainly we have systems that can play games, we have systems that automate factories and other processes, but none of these are AI.

As humans have no understanding of intelligence and certainly not human intelligence, their ability to create an artificial one is effectively non-existent. Compared to the existing natural biological systems that we find around us, we cannot even duplicate their simplest processes with any aplomb. Our attempts are extremely inefficient in all areas, energy, speed, production purity, etc.

If one looks around, one will see much change occurring. Yet, in so many ways, little changes. People remain people, the problems that plague people remain the same the same. If anything, our technology is only speeding up the rate at which these problems are occurring. Much of this is because we don't actually sit down and ask if we should be doing something at all.

Just because we have varying success at developing various kinds of technology, doesn't mean we actually have the wisdom or understanding to use that technology properly or that we will achieve duplication of intelligence in a non-biological system.

In regards to your pond analogy, instead of using exponential growth, I think we could say that it is logarithmic growth.
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This article [1] states that the nature of the offense doesn't necessarily distinguish civil from criminal fraud, but rather the party pursuing the legal action:

> A single act of fraud can be prosecuted as a criminal fraud by prosecutors, and also as a civil action by the party that was the victim of the misrepresentation.

> It might lead to an inference to that effect, but it's not indisputable proof.

Again we're back to the lack of evidence not implying innocence if the supposed crime wasn't adequately investigated. That's what an investigation is for, to find and assemble evidence for a suspected crime.

Its a common belief that no serious effort to incriminate top bankers was initiated. To me it is beyond argument at this point. Do you still believe that is a questionable supposition?

[1] http://bochettoandlentz.com/criminal-fraud-vs-civil-fraud-wh...
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Hey... made a HN account just to reply you.
Just wanted to say that what you wrote very much so resonated with me, or probably more so, me at a point in the past.

If you ever feel like you just need to talk, please reach out. Sleep is actually always a good thing and once you get on a decent schedule there’s nothing better than a solid 8 hours.

Personally, I always feel a lot more in touch with who I know I am, whether that’s the best version of myself or not, after consistent rest. Would love for you to someday find the same.

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