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It's just fascinating to me to see the cryptocurrency world gradually rediscover how financial regulation came to exist in the first place.

The US's capital and commodities markets started out very wild west. Over time, they've become highly regulated. Not because of mean, bad government, but mainly because market participants wanted regulation to drive out bad actors and increase market trust. That high level of ambient trust means that many non-US companies will list on US capital markets. It's a sign they pass more rigorous standards than elsewhere.

As you point out, "ICO" is becoming synonymous with "keep away". I've already seen many cryptocurrency participants lament the decline in brand value. If it hasn't happened already, I'm sure some bright spark will try to put together some sort of "Good Housekeeping seal of approval" for ICO-like vehicles in hopes of salvaging some sort of investor trust.

Although I hope otherwise, I suspect it won't work. Between the rising interest of regulators and the ability of non-scammy businesses to raise funds via more traditional means, I expect the bad will continue to drive out the good. Ponzi himself never really repented; in his last interview before his death, he said, "Even if they never got anything for it, it was cheap at that price. Without malice aforethought, I had given them the best show that was ever staged in their territory since the landing of the Pilgrims! It was easily worth fifteen million bucks to watch me put the thing over."
I actually really like the usage of borders in these "brutalist" designs. Current design trends seem to minimize or eliminate borders altogether, which makes it hard to visually separate content, which makes it hard for users to find the content they want. I thought I could browse through the text on these new sites faster because the borders were so much more prominent [0].

I think the random placement of links is a tricky thing though. One one hand it brings identity to your brand, but on the other hand, it’s not intuitive for the user.

[0] http://www.zku-berlin.org/, pkamb below also linked https://nwfilmforum.org/
None of the above. What the parent comment is sarcastic about is a line of argument people use, especially politicians who want to promote their agendas.
This is awesome. Huge potential to be a quantum leap forward.
My guess is that Apple will find a way to secure their own copy of GrayKey using a shell company and reverse engineer the exploit. Like others have said, it's a cat and mouse game.

This seems to be a software exploit if it requires not opening up the iPhone. There are more sophisticated hardware techniques (one was "decapping" the chip and reading the data out so you can try passcodes elsewhere), but I believe Apple's also finding mitigations for those as well.
> loan rates may go down but there is no risk about “performance”

They can default. Twino is a Latvian LLC [1] that walks back its “guarantee” in section 7.4 of their User Agreement:

“TWINO shall not be held liable neither by the Investor, nor by the Assignee, or their legal successors or
heirs, or any Third Parties in the event that the Loan Agreement is not performed by the Borrower completely or in any part thereof and if the Claim is not repaid and settled.”

If you think you have an investment with “no risk about performance,” you should not be investing your own money.

[1] https://www.twino.eu/ws/public/user-agreement-stream?lang=en
>That surprises me because Spanish is one of the few languages that what you read is pretty much what you have to say.

Sanskrit is like that too, pretty much, i.e. as far as:

"what you read is pretty much what you have to say"

goes. There is only one way to pronounce any letter or compound letter or word. In fact Hindi is too, except for regional differences in pronunciation, and both are unlike English in this respect, where a non-native speaker often fumbles to pronounce some words right (even apart from accent), because the right way to say a word can be very different from how it looks when written (if you try to build up the sound of the word from its component letters, at least in many cases).

Examples of this are: cut and put, argue and vague.

IIRC George Bernard Shaw made a well-known observation that I learned as a kid in English class; he is supposed to have said something like: in English, going logically by how you say / spell parts of other words, you could spell "fish" as "ghoti", i.e. "f" as in the "gh" of "laugh", "i" as in the "o" of "women", and "sh" as in the "ti" of "nation".

>Each letter has its unique sound and in very few cases the combination of them forces you to make an unexpected sound

In Spanish, the letter combination "ll" (two ells) sounding like a "y" is another unexpected one, as in "amarillo" (yellow) for example.

https://translate.google.com/#en/es/yellow

Click on the speaker icon under "amarillo" to hear it spoken.

"j" being pronounced as "h" is another one, at least for speakers coming from English.

Interesting stuff.
That is the governing philosophy of the WHATWG, sadly.
And yet there are whole fields that are dominated by open-access journals; presumably they also have societies, and those societies have found alternate business models.

That someone is going to be forced to change their business model does not strike me as a compelling argument for the current system.
These people are conflating brutalism with postmodernism.

A brutalist website would be one without a stylesheet, or a simple txt file rendered in monospace.

These are just websites that go out of their way to be ugly and unusable. Nothing to do with brutalism, and more to do with pretentious art school graduates ruminating on the critical theory of intersectional webdesign or some other bullshit.
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Hi HN, let me know if you have any feedback on the site. I plan on adding more Fiat currency conversion in the near future.
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There's a section in the Wikipedia page for bike helmets about this topic, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet#Opinions_for_an... .
The Goldman Sachs analysts didn't ask an unreasonable question. What are absolutely dismal are the conditions that make it a reasonable question. And what makes them dismal people is that they are totally cool being part of the system that makes such questions reasonable.

> In the absence of original source material, whatever interpretation you apply will inevitably be a projection of your pre-existing views on the matter.

Literally all interpretation one does about anything is a "projection" of their pre-existing views on the matter.
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I’m not sure why there is all of th controversy. This is not new.
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>It’s not likely all their customers default at once, so the risk is lower then most instruments.

I mean I would question this. Of course that's true in a good economy but it's not true at all in a bad economy. To invest in this I think you need to ask what actually happens if there is a downturn.
Right wing media has pointed out the same 'creepy talking point synchronicity' happening in the larger mainstream media for many years. Just like with Cambridge Analytica, certain behavior is only raised by the media as a scandal when amateurs try to the same thing the big boys have been doing for years/decades.
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I'm confused. I don't see what makes most of the examples cited here "Brutalist" in any meaningful fashion.

Brutalism is, of course, a fuzzy (and contentious) label to begin with. But the article cites two interpretations of the term that we could use to evaluate how Brutalist a given design is:

honest, unpretentious and anti-bourgeois

and

a sense of roughness, exposed structures and visible thought processes

The problem is, I'm not seeing a lot of either of these in the examples provided.

If you asked me to name a site whose design is "honest, unpretentious and anti-bourgeois," for instance, examples that would leap to my mind are Craigslist and HN -- both of which focus on simple (even drab) layouts dominated by plain old text. But the examples are full of vibrant colors, big images and irregular, unconventional layouts! They're refreshing and interesting to look at, but that doesn't make them Brutalist.

And to the other definition, "exposed structures and visible thought processes," I'd point to... well, I'm not sure what I'd point to. I'm not sure there is any web site that would qualify as Brutalist by this definition. Are there any sites that let their plumbing hang conspicuously out on the sides? Bloomberg and Dropbox and the Outline certainly don't. I'd think of this more as a site where you interact with it via an API or the developer console or some heavy, overwhelming user interface than as a news site that happens to have decided to use giant fonts and screaming neon colors.

If we want to have Brutalism as a valid design approach for the web, we first need to decide on what exactly the word means. Otherwise it will just become a parking lot for whatever trends happen to be fashionable at the moment, which is not a great way to build something that will make a lasting impact.
> Society has never perceived jail time as truly resetting the scarlet letter back to zero. Therefore, the debate is whether "Google results" is in the same bucket as "sex offender list". For many in society, they think it's wrong to remove those results from Google.

I mean, on the most basic level, a prior offense is an excellent predictor of a future offense. If I want to hire somebody to supervise women or children, I'd like not to hire somebody who (at any point in their life) victimized women or children, because it's not too much to ask!

I, for one, don't think a murderer should be forgiven. A murderer gets to live, and the victim is no longer alive, there is fundamentally nothing you can do to be forgiven for murder. To me, that is as it should be.

At very least, the perpetrator of a crime should not be left to decide whether or not I forgive him, and to enforce that through the courts.
HomePod is a _much_ better speaker than the Amazon Echo. For playing music, the Echo is terrible. The more appropriate comparisons would be to the Google Home Max ($400) or the Sonos line (Play:1 is $200, Play:3 is $250 and Play:5 is $500, with the HomePod probably somewhere in between the 3 and 5 in terms of sound quality).

All that said, Apple is foregoing a big opportunity by not making a cheaper equivalent of the HomePod like Echo Dot or Google Home Mini. Those devices sound terrible, but consumers are happy enough with them given the price point.
The staus quo appears to be getting laws passed because they have positive sounding names such as “The PATRIOT Act” and that the people suggesting the laws made the correct choice of teams red or blue.

I didn’t want to learn psychology because I didn’t want to lose the magic of not knowing how my mind works. Now I’m learning it to stop people — myself and others — from deluding me. I’m a neural network too, just an organic one rather than a silicon one.
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Hey there,

Just wanted to offer some feedback. Prosemirror's docs are woefully incomplete. The way controls are added is extremely confusing. Why do we need some node module called "prose-mirror-example-setup" ?

I know I'd personally prefer being able to add all the markup and style for the editor, and then just use prosemirror underneath the hood for state management.

Another thing that I found quite difficult, was programmatically inserting images at the cursor.

Finally, storing state as markdown has turned out to be a nightmare. Not really your fault, but perhaps something you should be aware of.
What's different about this?
Bulgaria played a vital role in introducing yogurt to the West
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Anything you say is going to sound dumb with that username
How can you or other 3rd parties repair devices if Apple won't sell parts or provide manuals and it sues people who claim to be able to do such things on your behalf? I think it is fair that apple withhold an "apple certified" designation but everything else beyond that is them trying to squash 3rd party repairs so that they can maintain a monopoly on that work, prevent you from upgrading memory, etc and ultimately keep you on the upgrade treadmill. You really don't think that is the case?
> I think it's always strange that the media frames this as "threatening" to shift power.

> ...on the other hand I do not fear other countries of the world overtaking us.

What if those counties are authoritarian and explicitly reject Western, liberal values?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan

Is the suicide rate really significantly higher than other developed countries considering it's 5 more suicides per 100,000 people?

The article seems to imply that it's a big problem with it being the leading cause of death in Japan, but there are few things that can kill you over there since most people don't drive, and violent crimes are almost non-existent.
Are there any ML APIs or web services that accept a vector and run various regression scenarios to identify optimal fit?

I suppose vectors for both training and testing would be required.

Would gladly pay $1-$5 per batch for a service to do this.
Can anyone compare Ginko Bioworks to Zymergen?
What's wrong with dying in the streets in their 60s? They're better off than the 99% of humanity that lived before them. Why should the next generation pull the weight of the previous?
> Speaking of magic, json tags are weird stringy magic only used at runtime via reflection.

Annotations are used at run-time via reflections. JSON marshaling is a common use for annotations.

> If I have a struct with the tag `josn:"foo"` instead of "json", I won't get an error, it'll just silently blow up.

well it won't blow up, it won't function as intended - much like a logical error. A linter, like the one that comes with VSCode will catch this error for you.

Annotations don't need to conform to any format and are not compile time errors. I am unsure how this could change while maintaining the Go1 guarantee. Perhaps this could be an area of improvement going forward - having typed annotations.

> If I add a new field, I have to manually add the tag too.

It will work in go too. If you want it to deviate from the naming of your struct field, you would need to describe the map. It's like complaining that when you add a field to your database, you need to add it to your code too. Sure it's not as powerful as Rust, but that's the point.

> In rust, I write '#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]' above a struct. If I typo, it won't compile. If I add new members to the struct, they'll work without me having to remember some boilerplate.

That's handy, but incompatible with Go 1. It is worth noting that Go and Rust are different. Rust is more focused on power, while Go has more of a focus on simplicity.
> Disregarding all critique of a language as "personal opinion" as long as you can "build cool stuff" with it.

I can't tell if you're arguing that all Turing complete languages are equally useful, or that "utility" is a bad metric for evaluating programming languages. In the first case, of course this is false or Docker would be written in BrainFuck. In the second case, you've given no alternative (maybe you rank languages by the coolness of the type system?) nor given any justification for why 'utility' is a bad metric.
Foreign interests? Domestic interests? I struggle to see the difference when it's all said and done. In either case the spirit of the republic is spat on. In either case, We The People get some perverted version of a gov said to be: of the people, by the people, for the people.

Death is still death whether by foreign cancer of domestic cancer.

If you trust (e.g.) Wall Street more than you trust (e.g.) The Russians then I have a bridge you might be interested in. Given their presumed loyalty - but ultimately the lack there of - the former's violations are relatively worse.

Let's not be naive.
> Something about that just feels comforting, if not nostalgic, like what you'd expect to see from an early 2000s webpage before things got fancy. I think what makes these sites pop for me is the contrast of colors, too much white ruins the effect. Having out of place, darker colors thrown in feels like its breaking the rules, in a good way.

To me, the page feels like a Geocities site that "grew up"- in a good way. The "chunkiness" of the element borders reminds me of the traditional default styling of <table> elements.

You're also spot on with the contrast: I just checked, and this site's design is based on only three colors: #fff, #000, and #ff0. That's a pretty bold design statement, and they pull it off.
Since the DMCA prohibits the circumvention of Access Controls, couldn't Apple litigate the heck out of the GreyKey?
It's not that simple. Until literally 3 days ago I held exactly your same view "why don't they just become Apple authorized repair shops?"

Well, apparently Apple actually restricts the repairs you can do. For example, if you have water damage, you aren't allowed to just fix the actual components (capacitors, etc) that blew, you have to replace the whole board, resulting in much higher costs and eWaste for customers. (This is from Louis Rossmann, a well known YouTuber who fixes MacBooks). You are basically restricted to mostly replacing boards and things like that, not fixing individual chips.

For a company that toots their horn about being Green, their policies sure generate a ton more waste than necessary.

And I say this as someone who almost exclusively owns Apple stuff. I am holding out with my 2015 MBP dearly for the next iteration of their laptop keyboards that don't require a $500 repair because of a spec of dust.

All this has made me a STRONG proponent of the right-to-repair movement. If Apple actually cared more about less flashy and sexy parts about being green, they'd make these parts readily available.
Any justification for censoring Sinclair would apply 100 fold to Google or Facebook.

Its just not constitutional to ban Sinclair for running pro GOP content.
it is new when the POTUS has ties to the new owners of Sinclair. This isn't Russia, and real Americans will keep it that way, thanks.
Maybe that's a side effect from the sheer number and low production cost of Anime.

In my opinion when the Japanese are inventive they have some really out-ther stuff, which is a sign they are really extending themselves in creativity.
On device with the key exportable and optionally escrowed to iCloud. Key management isn't exactly an unsolved problem.
Since about a week ago, the links have been commented out from the original site (http://profileengine.com/groups/profile/433187197/fek-duan), presumably since none of them work anymore, since all the content has been removed from archive.org.

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Because I don't want a company to be criminally disallowed from rejecting former criminals.

There are some jobs where that matters.

What I want is for companies to NOT, outright reject someone because of a google search. After the person is 90% THROUGH an interview process, and the company has spent significant amounts of resources interviewing someone, THEN they can reject them.

The problem isn't rejection for a potentually valid reason. The problem is the immediate instant judgment without giving someone a chance.
IIRC China recently bought a major Hollywood studio.

Also notice the increase in token Chinese actors in recent blockbusters.

Transformers even had some CCP pandering in the script.

The self-censorship this brings is a real problem.
>> It's like the secret discussion/chat system that uber uses, I can't find the name, that guarantees protection against legal discovery by encrypting the chat and making sure it is ephemeral.

Wickr, but while it guarantees protection from discovery, it doesn't guarantee freedom from implication. It is not legal to use such services to hide illegal activity, which is what Judge Alsup clearly laid out in the case. How would you know if illegal information was being traded? Because Uber management implied that employees should use Wickr if they were going to talk about anything illegal, which, uh, isn't something you want to do.
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I guess I'm missing the connection on those websites to Brutalist architecture. It seems more like they're bored with regular design, and want to be more experimental.

It reminds conceptually more of Emigre magazine [1] or Ray Gun [2], where the design didn't have to be "readable".

[1] https://www.emigre.com/Magazine
[2] http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/t/tag/raygun/
I think you're again missing the point. What matters is not even the act of creating in this case. It's the notion of shared experience communicated [in a variety of forms] when we undeniably experience a range of emotions and states that can make us feel endlessly apart from anyone or anything else. It matters that another human was responsible for the creation.

That's just to start.
Agreed! that's really interesting and I've had no idea these it happened.
Another way to deal with the situation is to sell the book from the ExtremTech web site.

The drawbacks are:
1. Lack of the huge audience that Amazon have
2. Lack of low cost transport costs

The first point is not really valuable anyway as there are lot of junk books on Amazon that come from Createspace. Usually it is books written in the XIXcentury but with a title that suggests they were written recently.

Amazon would really improve the value of its brand if it would remove this useless kind of books.
1. If you read enough, (spaced) repetition occurs naturally. No need for a software.

2. It's not bad to forget words during the learning process.

3. Purely personal: SRS reviewing is the ultimate bore, however you design your cards. And making the cards is even more of a bore. It's the opposite of fun.
True. But out of curiosity, how many people live within the "traditional" broadcast influence of Sinclair media properties.
The sex part (passive and active) has not been my experience as a guy who lived in Japan but then again I'd say that both Japanese girlfriends I've had were rather atypical. Sex without showers being considered gross is true though.

One factual error too is that maguro is an insult. Maguro is hardly considered to be a delicacy either, I mean it's the not so great part of the tuna... Otoro or chutoro would probably be more adequate if it were supposed to be named after delicacies but then that would conjure fat and oiliness which I'm not sure would make most girls happy.

The rest is rather true with the exceptions that I've had drunk japanese girls be very direct about their intentions. So, while I agree that they tend to not be direct, alcohol does play a role. An average though, girls or guys who end up with foreign boyfriends or girlfriends will tend to be more open minded than the rest of the population, so there's a bit of a sampling bias.