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The people who have access to my private repos may or may not be benevolent, but they are certainly under contract, and that's the relationship that Github is helping me manage.

The contract says that the codebase is mine, and the contractor doesn't have rights to use it for their own purpose. The Github private repo rules just make that real in a practical sense. It means the default way of working comports with what the contract says. It makes it easy for everyone to do the right thing, and harder to do the wrong thing.

Sure, a rogue contractor could re-upload my codebase to a new repo in their account later, but that is a pretty obvious violation of the contract. If I found out, I'd feel pretty confident suing them (if it came to that). There's nothing they can point to that says I authorized them to do that.

In contrast, if the default was to leave an official fork of my code in their Github account forever, then it becomes easier for them to do the wrong thing, and harder for me to say I didn't want them to do it. Some future employee could even do the wrong thing accidentally.

To reiterate, Github private repos help me manage my relationships. They don't enforce the terms of my relationships.
> I don't understand is how that helps with keeping the code itself private, which is what I thought was meant at the root of the thread.

out of curiosity, what made you think that?
Your right that you shouldn't be fixated on past mistakes, but remember you can't take back what comes out of your mouth.
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Yet they can't even support WebRTC for audio/video in Linux? They are still 5 to 10 years behind everyone else and are a dying company.
Standard practice of their politics. Take from the public and give to the rich.
An intermediary solution would be to use a DappChain, which acts as a free-to-use sidechain of Ethereum. Loom is going to be releasing an SDK for their own sidechain, DelegateCall, soon:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdlnBsw1iRAks1F2pD6...

A similar initiative is POA Network, which has US public notaries acting as trusted validators for an Ethereum sidechain:

https://poa.network
>Where are taxis, ride-sharing vehicles, and delivery trucks supposed to stop?

taxis, ride-sharing vehicles, and delivery trucks should stop in the car lane. if that's not acceptable, roads should be designed with a designated stopping lane. The majority of the lanes on the road are already dedicated to private motor vehicles, and there's only one bus or bike lane. They shouldn't block a different (and more efficient) mode of transportation that has less road space dedicated to it when they want to stop.

If there isn't a bus lane or bike lane, that's what they do. Why does it suddenly becomes unacceptable to block a private vehicle lane just because there is a bus lane you could block instead?
Former Seattle (now Las Vegas) resident here. To make the buses run on time, the planners build in "time stops." These are locations where the bus should go through at specific times to not be too early for the rest of the schedule, and they also provide some buffer for buses to recover time lost due to bike loading, disabled passengers, and traffic congestion. If you're getting the bus after a time stop, you'll likely almost always get it on time. If your stop is before the time stop, bus arrival times will vary wildly.

It gets even more interesting when you add transport of the bus: the Seattle (King County) Metro also serves Vashon Island, so some of the buses travel on ferries with their associated delays and peculiarities.
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The majority of things I Co Sider crucial to keeping my current standard of living comes from private entities as well but that set of private entities is not the same as all private entities.

If my choices were to pay the tax man directly or pay a third party to calculate my tax for me because it's too complicated to do myself in part because of that third entities lobbying, then I am always going to choose to cut out the middle man

Also I agree the the IRS can figure out the taxes you'd need to pay if they ever cared to look at you, but I was responding to the parent comment implying that they shouldn't get more information so that they could go outside the regulations
I'm not modifying wiring. I am not an elecrrician. I am a homeowner. I have read California/County/City codes, and low fuse rating has little to do with safety. You can put a 10A breaker on a 100A #3 guage circuit less than 50ft long and it won't magically become a hazard at 7.5A, however you shouldn't put larger than a 80A breaker on it for safety. If someone is installing a 100A (or even 80A) breaker on #5 AWG, then they have a problem, and are likely violating code because the breaker won't protect them. That is too high a fuse rating and is unsafe.

How would a normal homeowner even know if they were approaching 75% of their breaker rating, unless the breaker tripped at <75% of its stated limit? If someone has had 100A service installed with 100A breakers and it's not wired for at least 125A with #2, then they have been defrauded by their electrician and contracor.

If you think that inductive power factor doesn't matter for power efficiency, rating, and safety then I also recommend that you continue your education. I can't imagine a licensed electrician saying that.
I would hope the average HN reader has a higher capacity for critical thought than a binary decision to blackball an entire news source. if you really do what you are saying here you won't read any source on anything, ever.
Google is worth over $800B yet growing at over 22% and accelerating and not figured out how to monetize data?
Good catch, interesting stuff. Not sure why, but your post was marked as "dead" but I vouched
Have you ever heard of LibreOffice Calc, which from my experience greatly outperforms Excel?
I think you're missing the overall point. It doesn't matter whether the demarcation is $200, $250, or $3000 between a misdemeanor and a felony. It is more important that a person has trafficked in stolen goods. For that reason, lowering the limit of a misdemeanor is far more likely than raising it.

Besides, different states have different laws. This isn't arbitrary but how our country was designed to work.
Yes. And those stairs are exquisite.
For example:

- A way for users to prohibit internet access per application

- no forced installation of the whole Google Play Services, just to get access to the Play Store

- better root management, so that manufacturers can ship access to root to all users

- less politics in the Play Store. Google has for example thrown out 3rd party YouTube apps that offered background playback, because those supposedly violated YouTube ToS with that, shortly before introducing a paid option for background playback in their own YouTube app.
Very well put. My experience of NixOS has been just the same.

I've so loved learning and using the Nix approach that these days the only distro besides NixOS that directly interests me is GuixSD. (I do feel like I should explore other distros just to keep up with the community, but GuixSD interests me for the same reasons as NixOS.)
That is pretty cool! I had to write all that stuff from scratch.
> Of course you'll have the same problem with these kits in 24 years

If you use and replace 1/25 of your annual consumption with them each year—about a day's consumption every other month—this is less of a problem (with 3-5 year shelf life, the gradual replacement strategy doesn't work as well.)
Thanks for that link. Manna was an amazing read.
Is anyone putting R&D into this besides Global Foundries? I've seen their name pop up in every spintronics announcement lately.
It comes from "chaste" (Latin castus) through an intermediate form meaning pure/non-mixed
Lamo ruined another person's life for no reason. Consider that before you offer sympathies.
Thank you for the great tool! I use it.
21st Century C is a really good book for writing C11. There is a .pdf of it in Google.
Nope, that is exactly what it is. There is no reason not to give read-only or export-only access to private repos if your account is locked. Otherwise just delete the whole thing.
Yes all about growth. Google is similar as now over $800b market cap and growing at over 22% and accelerating but also much more profitable than Amazon.
How is that open and fluid? Did you verify it by reading the law or did you just assume Big Scary China will do bad things? Lots of states in the US will suspend your driver's license for failing to pay non-traffic-related fines.
https://theintercept.com/document/2014/07/23/march-2013-watc...

DHS does not use social media posts alone to place someone on watch lists, but they are incorporated into predictive assessments. Given two people who are otherwise equivalent, the one with public stated controvsial opinions IS more likely to end up on a no-fly list. By the govt's own admission.
Data says no. First link has historic data, showing no reduction in the last three decades. The data shows that restrictive policies do reduce death, but that hasn't translated into measurable difference across the nation. Indeed, they found some police departments moving to more permissive chase policies.

https://priceonomics.com/the-case-for-banning-high-speed-pol...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/25/why-p...
Did you know that GitHub doesn't equal the definer of open source, in fact in many ways they are the opposite, and that GitLab and many other projects operate outside the confinements of a commercial solution?
Say you're way, way up in your Bitcoin investment, and you yse part of the gains to buy a $10 toaster with the equivalent amount of Bitcoin (let's assume no tax in the toaster itself).

Do you realize a $10/gain, and owe money on that? If yes, let's say you return the toaster, and your Bitcoin is refunded. Do you still pay taxes?
As a child, I loved this game.

I remember spending hours on it, not knowing what I was doing.

I had an english version of the game, and being 9 or 10 at the time, I didn't speak a word of english.

It took me ages to understand that you could switch from despotism to another form of government (monarchy, republic, etc). I was always wondering why my cities were so small, even with irrigation and railroads everywhere.

Also, I didn't have the manual, so with time, I started to learn the tech tree by heart (the "license" verification was based on knowing the parents of a given tech IIRC).

I've also read the civilopedia countless times.

I'm still proud to have beaten the game in Emperor ^^.

I've also spent a lot of time on other Sid Meier's games like Railroad Tycoon or Colonization.

Thank you for these lost hours.
Downside of this strategy is now you have another variable delivery cost that will be passed onto all consumers in the area.
But do we need that, though?
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> But nothing is stopping them from cloning and pushing up to BitBucket or a private git hosting service.

...which is not a github fork, and not what they're talking about.
if you can come up with a way to produce the nanowire substrate at scale, I didn't see anything saying it wouldn't be good for energy production - did I miss that section?
Active Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16601470
If you make enough laws that everyone is breaking some every day, and only go after what the people you want to punish, that is no different than having less laws and a secret police that have hidden criteria for punishing people.

The end result is still members of the executive branches of the government deciding who gets punished based on their whims.

Your point saying "...so long as laws are followed as written" cannot apply as long as you ignore when the government chooses not to apply those laws to everyone, even if everyone that's gets charged has violated the law
Certainly a lot of truth in that. But it is uncommon for women to engage in criminal behavior compared to men.
Great article, and really, really good work with analyzing all that video. Those blockage rates, 40% & 55% of the time, are insane, I hope they listen to start working on a fix, because the current situation is ridiculous.
Ok, fair point. Sometimes though you have to take a step back and appreciate the wonderful complexity of the universe. So long have we railed against utilities for their environmental destruction - when it looks like they might be the actual solution for what we face.

It really makes you question all of your assumptions about what you know and the people who you think might be working against you. Maybe there is some way they can work with you.
Having too many laws that are only selectively enforced nearly equals the absence of the rule of law, and invariably hurts those that are poor or otherwise not afluent more than others.
That already exists and is named complementary currency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_currency

There's no need for a blockchain, or distributed stuff, etc. The only thing you need is to convince people to accept it. You might as well make an app that transfers balance between rows on a database. And the reason why you never heard of complementary currency before, is that it's something done "just because you can" and has no real advantages.

I understand that none of the things I said are specific to you. But am I wrong?
It compares poorly.

Zoho is to GSuite what OpenOffice is to Microsoft Office.
I’m working on this problem now on the UK with a very similiar solution. Let’s get in touch?
I jump back and forth between Kindle and Audible versions of the same book frequently. Like others, I find that retention seems lower for audiobooks, usually because I am doing something (driving, walking, chores) when listening.

I do, however, find strong associations between certain book passages and the places where I was when I heard them. Particular road trips are inextricably linked to particular books and vice versa.
When I feel sad and frustrated, I watch the melodysheep remix of Mr. Rogers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFzXaFbxDcM

Definitely read the Esquire profile of him: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a27134/can-you-say-...

Honestly, I recommend reading everything you possibly can about Mr. Rogers. I never watched his show as a kid, but I still idolize him. Stories of his life and doings are good for the heart.
Doubt you will see Amazon compete in ads at a competitive level with Google or even fb.

Big problem is media buyers knowledge of their platform and willing to.learn it as well as integration with the ad ecosystem.
Probably not since there aren't enough competitors left to actually invest in chips. If you don't hear Intel, TSMC or Global Foundaries putting R&D into something then you have the way out there research of academia.

Maybe a random startup or two are investigating this but those are academics that figured something out from a grant and are attempting to make a company out of it. The road to beating silicon is a long one.
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I think the Chinese “social credit” system described here is pretty horrible. But your support of the American system drastically misses the mark.

A good summary is the ACLU’s position paper on Race & the War on Drugs. https://www.aclu.org/other/race-war-drugs

You also are repeating a common misconception when you state that “If you want to stay out of the felon caste, do not break obvious laws, like those regarding drug possession.” It has been shown time and time again that black Americans are disproportionately arrested and sentenced. And your trite remark about how “If you do not agree with such laws, work to change them” is puerile. The GP was expressing their opinion; in our democracy that is a critical component of working to change the law.
One of my favorite features of Audible is the ability to rewind in 30 second segments. Very often I'll be listening to an audiobook and realize that I stopped paying attention, hitting the rewind button a couple times makes it super easy to get back to where you last payed attention.
I want to know many things, but I believe that if the punishment a court ordered is over you have paid your dues to society and that should be the end of it.
That is not presumed. Reappropriating how value and effort are measured is just raising strawmen, as I intimated.
Any bridge can see announced HSDirs communicating to it. So technically you can be a bridge and save all HSDirs that are being passed.

This will get your bridges banned by Tor IF they know you're doing that. So the ones who do, stay quiet about it. I'd give it 3 days before their bridge is distrusted and revoked.
Something like jscity[0].

[0]: https://github.com/ASERG-UFMG/JSCity/wiki/JSCITY
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I think there's a big schism between cities and towns that have or used to have character and those that don't when it comes to retail. One reason NYC or SF are cool (though perhaps less so now), is that there are tons of interesting, well-curated, thoughtfully sourced shops with stuff to discover and explore.

I agree with you completely if we're talking about a Target in suburban Houston, but going to a handmade card store in NYC, or a rare books store in Charleston, or weird candy store in SF can all be fun exploratory experiences. I drop into the fancy grocery store nearby to look around and find ingredients I've never heard of, despite doing 90% of my grocery shopping online with delivery, because it's a fun way to get outside my comfort zone. The easy availability of places/stores that allow me opportunities to explore and be excited about new things is perhaps the thing I value most about living in NYC.
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I honestly do not like Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Go to his twitter feed. See how very smart he is. See how he comments on everything as if he has some magical scientific insight to the banal that transcends what "the average joe" thinks about. See his ego swell when confronted with an obviously impaired Katy Perry. See his patronizing outlook on life and realize he will never measure up to the man who sincerely wanted to bring universal discoveries to the average man, who sincerely believed the average man was capable of understanding if it weren't for all the pre-requisite mathematics and it's symbolic alienness.

I think Mr. Tyson is a phony. He does not deserve, nor does he know how, to bring science to the "masses".
More like things like hyperledger https://www.hyperledger.org/ . Maybe a better term I should use is permissioned ledger.
I was replying to submeta, who said:

> Honestly curious why Lisp has so much admiration and praise on HN.

So my point is that Paul Graham says Lisp was important in his success. His success was important in the creation of Y Combinator and therefore of Hacker News. So we should not be particularly surprised that readers of Hacker News include many that are favorably disposed toward Lisp.

submeta also said:

>But I would not think of Lisp when it comes to solving day to day problems.

...so I mentioned that Lisp is quite practical for day-to-day programming, if you know it well. For what it's worth, I've been using it for day-to-day programming for thirty years.
What a bunch of bigoted hogwash.

How many times must the particulars of the system be documented and disseminated before these arguments go away completely?

If you are white and wealthy, then drug possession is against the law only in vague terms on paper. It is not your practical reality. That's how the drug war has been made into the new jim crow. It's astonishingly simple, and very real.

> If you wish to stay out of the felon caste, do not break obvious laws, like those regarding drug possession.

Yeah, except that most humans don't consider the government a legitimate arbiter of their diet. I'm not going to decide not to consume cannabis because some person in Washington (or my state capital) overstepped his bounds. And yet, because I'm white and not poor, I suffer no consequences of this.

> so long as laws are followed as written

You can't be serious. The whole point is that laws aren't followed as written. If every person driving 56MPH in a 55 zone, if every person possessing cannabis, if every person violations "intellectual property" laws is suddenly subject to enforcement of those laws, they'll change real quick. But instead, only the "lower castes" are subject to enforcement, and they haven't the power to change the laws.

Just please stop spreading this nonsense. There are possibly young people reading these threads whose understanding of basic sociopolitical principles isn't developed yet, and we need to stop poisoning the well of discussion with this, "follow the law and you'll be fine" nonsense.

The world you describe is a world to work toward, but not the one that black and brown people live in today.
Planning of the system in its current form started in 2014: https://chinacopyrightandmedia.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/plan...

The Black Mirror episode about a system like this came out in 2016.
Virginia is unique here. Juries perform sentencing, not just finding of guilt. That’s why they asked the question.
My kid was into Daniel Tiger and our first attempts at getting into Mr. Rogers didn't really get anywhere. Now that he's 5, he's all about it (although Nature shows are starting to be the usual pick).

That being said, we're very regimented in screen time. My son maybe gets 20-30 minutes of TV time per day. We've also changed the format where each family member gets a turn to pick what to watch so we can expose him to more things.
Much much better than being forced to use an OS that you dislike.

Installing an additional browser is a nice sacrifice.
I mean, from a gameplay perspective it's absolutely more reasonable for this bug to have been fixed.

That said, the best user experience does not always derive from the perfect game. What the developers have to do is compare the experience for a new user (who knows nothing of Gandhi's warmongering history in the Civilization games) to the experience of someone who is familiar with the series and might even expect such behavior.

They clearly couldn't keep the old rule in place — that Gandhi suddenly gains the highest aggression value possible is unexpected for new players. Instead, they simply made Gandhi have a slightly elevated aggression — something that new players can handle ("Oh, haha, it's funny because it's Gandhi I guess") and something that old players will recognize. It's a good middle ground. (Note that they have kept around Gandhi's elevated aggression in more recent incarnations, though they have reduced its effect somewhat.)

But, again, from a pure gameplay perspective, the bug should have been fixed.
This is what I do. I also will read the Kindle portion of book when I can, only listening to audio when I'm in the car or doing something with my hands. I'm also a heavy user of "skip back 30 secs" (the back button on my truck's steering column does this out of the box). If I find my thoughts wandering, I will skip back to a portion I remember, and listen again. If I find myself skipping back a lot, I'll listen to something else.

In my personal experience, audio has a lower retention rate compared to reading. However, you can train yourself to do better. The benefit is I can listen at 2x, and get a lot books in during my commute.
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All of your comments in this thread are a great example of why people make fun of HN commenters.
I too recommend TNG. If you get to the end of the series and you still want more, there's also Voyager, which is essentially the same as TNG and slightly more modern.