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> You suggest that the lack of even mentioning micropayments leads you to dismiss the article.

I didn't suggest, I stated it baldly.

> But then you point out that there is no viable micropayments platform.

No I didn't. I mentioned one that is defunct, and one that is popular but that I have a problem with personally. The article I linked to about Gratipay references Liberapay (https://liberapay.com/) and Open Collective (https://opencollective.com/) but I didn't want to mention them because I haven't checked them out myself. There are probably others.

> Doesn't seem like there's much to mention beyond "yup, still doesn't exist."

And yet this low bar is unsurmounted?

Wrote a whole article about "Subscription Hell" yet won't step over to the watercooler full of lemonade.

Good day sir.
And if you create an account on telehack.com you can finger me over at intelca where I was hanging out in 1984.
How will opening a trading account and trading help me learn about investing?
> Because I would say most people join combat arms specifically for what's described in the article.

Interesting, because the article strongly implies that it's strongly something you find on the battlefield, not go there for it.

>I think you're still trying to put the Nazi SS concentration camp guard into a category of his own -- which is what most "normal" people want to do, to sort of implicitly deny that they could ever do such a thing.

Why do you think that when I explicitly agreed with you? I'm not trying to deny it at all. I'm saying it's not what the article is about.
Indeed, you're right. Don't Adobe give you some "cloud storage" thing though? Fortunately now that we're using Figma I don't have to deal with the hundred pound gorilla called Photoshop.
Hmm, now I am super tempted to get one but $1k+ is steep. Has anyone bought any of the other stuff in the store (like the class and bed sheets)?
Wait, so a ratio by itself is meaningless without showing how the ratio was derived? If only we could verify the 1/12!
> I'm spending my time here with them in mind, not you.

I'm pretty sure you're here to hear yourself speak. I'm being terse because you're not fooling anyone else but yourself. You're concern trolling at best.

You still have not sufficiently pinpointed your personal deviance with the very vanilla definition of the word slave and how it could ever be disrespectful in the currently used context about Amazon workers.

It would be my pleasure to give you a direct link to the definition: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/slave

>Or do you consider this to be a normal way for people to interact?

Yep.
But it's just talking about the past 800,000 years.
Such as? Again, please show me where it says that a maximum fine for a first offense is prohibited by law.
In the very worst case, let the customers know you had to recover with the backup and tell them to delete again. How often do you really need to recover from back-up anyway?
No, the article says the CO2 levels are at their highest in the last 800,000 years. Its literally right there in the title of the post.
If statistics didn't converge to probabilities in the high-n limit then science would be impossible. In the 15:5 coin example, the conclusion is skewed by a massive prior that coins are fair. When we're talking about things like space shuttle launches, it's not reasonable to expect our understanding of the system to be so good that we can boldly forge through with estimates that disagree with results.
Waiting for an accident to occur before determining that the modifications that allowed it to happen were unsafe -- because the estimates are "essentially made up" -- is just naive.
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Hackintosh systems are easy as long as you're not looking to update them after everything is working correctly.

They are fragile systems that one doesn't really want to risk production environments on in my opinion.
K8s is "de facto standard" already? When did that happen? No doubt that K8s has a great future and I personally like it a lot as well. But to call it a standard requirement itself is premature.
> I don't have kids and don't intend to, in large measure because of the ecological destruction and the obvious impending doom if we don't change our ways. But I can't ignore it. To me it seems like learning to live in harmony with Nature is one of the most important things we can do right now.

I hope you realize that this attitude can not survive a generation. The next generation will descend almost entirely from people who thought it was still worth having kids.
Tesla’s moats are the supercharger network, and their direct sales and repair service networks.
I’ve been really stoked with Adobes offering around this, full access to all their products for $30 a month or so.
One more subscriber ;)
>Oh my lord you guys that is not how probabilities work. You can’t look at what actually happened and then say “Well that was the chance.” If I flip a coin 20 times and happen to end up with a 15:5 split that doesn’t mean the chance of heads is 3:1.

Erm, over a large sample size, yes this is exactly how things work. Sure 15/5 may be too small, but 150/50 isn't. That's well after the point where its reasonable to believe that your coin is rigged.

As the other user mentioned, if you don't have the prior that the coin is fair, a 15/5 outcome may (and does) indeed imply that heads are more likely than tails. In fact, 15/5 would imply a less than 1% chance of a fair coin, given uniform priors. (Beta[15, 5] -> 1st percentile is 50.175)
This has happened few times before. First comes some scientific understanding then it devolves into tinkering, "look what I got".

Renaming parts of machine learning as Computational learning theory was an attempt to distance the research from tinkering that produced AI winters. Leslie Valiant, Vladimir Vapnik and Alexey Chervonenkis produced new insight and new algorithms were produced.

Then Deep Learning stated to work again. Small scientific insights are shadowed by the massive amount of progress that comes with tinkering with parameters.
Ah yes I completely forgot about that and you're right, that does sound ok to me
We let people log in. That’s pretty much it.
Conversely, I find Carrot Weather ridiculous when Dark Sky is $4 one time and uses the exact same data source. They (DS) don't try to gouge you for Apple Watch features, which I interpret as "they're probably rich so why not?"

$4 a year (or $10, if you don't dismiss the 'ultrapremium club' popup and buy that by mistake) plus the $5 one time is not remotely what I would consider worth paying for a weather app unless Carrot was out in the wild building weather stations.

You'll also note that Carrot's website nor App Store description even mention the existence of this buy-up (except on the support page - but why would I look at the support page for an app I was thinking about buying?) or the pricing. They also deceptively show a photo of the Apple Watch showing weather, which is technically correct (the best kind of correct) - but the Apple Watch doesn't update in the background (or give you weather notifications) unless you pay for a subscription. Because weather apps that don't update are really useful.

Also, it doesn't "cost the dev more" to send updates to a watch instead of the phone (they're going through the phone anyway,) so I don't buy your justification for paying more for it. It's just a way to market segment and try to scam more money from people who have already paid above market for a weather app. You get Weather Underground data with the 'cheap' sub... but only on the phone. If you want it on the watch, you have to get the expensive sub. This also makes no sense. There's no way in hell wxug is charging extra based on the target device.
> People like you [...] I am disgusted [...] I have no sympathy

There's obviously deep personal experience behind your comment, and that commands respect, but you can't attack other users here, no matter how wrong they are. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

I know it's not easy when one's struggles and wounds get suckerpunched by another comment. But we all need to remember that in a forum like this, where relational bandwidth is extremely limited, someone else's comment is constructed at least 50% out of our own interpretation of their words. Maybe a lot more than 50%. More here if anyone's interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13102115.
This is a popular science article, not a journal publication. This is also the first time I have heard of the peer review process being described as "nitpicking". Is this a new thing? Kind of hilarious! I want citations!
Wouldn't just not having something as superfluous as luxury cruise ship lines reduce fuel consumption even more?
You'll have to know how to setup and maintain your own database infrastructure, though, right? I'm not an infrastructure engineer, but patching, security, OS updates, database software updates, being able to quickly redeploy in case of failure, redundancy, etc.

I've read horror stories about the poor engineers at AWS who are on call and have to detail with physical pagers paging them at various hours of the night. Systems fail, dependencies fail, shit happens... So now you will need to hire some small team to do these things for you.

I'm not saying you never need to be concerned with any of these things if you're on Azure or AWS.

I am saying that you need to factor in these components into your costs.

Infrastructure management might not be a core competency at my company. That's why I pay some premium but hand it off to the Azures and AWS's of the world.

Is hosting your own database cluster at some other company for a smaller monthly fee actually saving you money each month? What are the other costs to your business from making the move?

The answer could be yes, it's cheaper and makes 100% business sense. All I'm saying is these questions have to be asked, investigated and concluded. Arguing on one side or another without going through these steps is shortsighted.
> If I flip a coin 20 times and happen to end up with a 15:5 split that doesn’t mean the chance of heads is 3:1.

Isn't it the best you can say, though? 20 is a small number but when it's all you have, there's nothing you can do about it. Of course we know the "real" probability is a 1/2 because we know how coin tosses work, but if we didn't know it and coin tosses were black boxes, we'd have to go with this 3:1 chance.
Neither supports IPv6 officially, though.

GitHub Pages actually had IPv6 support, but they removed it, because they added HTTPS support (that's what their support said). But I checked and the old IPv6 CDN endpoints actually still work, even with HTTPS.

Netlify actually has also promised IPv6 support "at the start of the year"[0], but I wouldn't count it.

[0] https://twitter.com/netlify/status/933104630925426688
It's not much different from Bitcoin really. Who owns a particular coin is based entirely on the consensus of who owns what, and for a coin to change hands you just tell everyone it has.
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From the same site:

> All we can say is that, over the last 400,000 years, there seems to have been a positive feedback at work: whenever the climate became warmer, carbon dioxide and methane rose and helped make the climate even warmer.
Air gap it.
The discussions of Thread.stop() inside of the Java group during the run up to release were some of the most interesting ones to me as a systems guy (rather than as a language person, which was a more common specialization in the group). I got a much better appreciation for the halting problem from them. And while initially the view that "most of the time it will do what you expect" carried the day, that decision was reversed on appeal :-)
We already tried this with pay-per-SMS, 1-900 lines, roaming charges, data overage charges and premium content on cell phones (ringtones, wallpapers, etc) and it was a nightmare-- before you know it your bill is $1000.

Its also a nightmare for those of us who have to keep a close eye on AWS spending. Someone spins up an x1-large you didn't notice? Too bad, now pay us.

Its a terrible model for consumers in general. My wallet should not be open by default.
This is possibly the worst use of the term "pyramid scheme" I have ever seen used in print, and that's really saying something with how often it's abused nowadays.
If you don't think the tools we use shape the abstractions and solutions we pick, then I don't think you've reflected much on the matter.
I have been programming for 20 years. C++/Python/JavaScript/Visual Basic/Objective C/Java.

Most of my work these days is in JavaScript (Node).

I agree it is annoying to write, but I find well documented headers to be more usable than the other environments, if the project is large enough that I cannot read everything.
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Who is "everyone"? Because it certainly isn't actually everyone.
Thank you :) Will do!
I think we agree more than we disagree.

My comment was mentioned to highlight that in many practical ways, the Christian population was practically enslaved to the Muslim overlords (regardless whether them being "real" Turks, or, more commonly, local converts, or even Janissaries). Much more than a Christian serfdom was a lightweight variation on slavery.

Christian population as a whole had very little to choose whether their children will be taken away and become Janssaries, at least until late times, and once taken away, those people had very little influence about their career choices. They were slaves in all practical ways the slavery means. For some exceptions, that slavery turned out to lead to high positions (like Sokollu) but, on the other hand, if the subject population retained their independence, talented people like Sokollu might have had opportunity to build up their local communities/states, instead of conquering the world for Ottoman sultans? :)

PS. I am personally an atheist, so I do not tend to look at the things here from the Christianity: right; Islam: wrong perspective.
this is actually what I've been moving towards. Over the years I've become addicted to way too many news sites be it tech or politics and given that I've noticed the same trend as the author I went the other way, just prune my consumption habits.

I've cut it down to one physical newspaper subscription, use the BBC or DW or other public news sources only once or twice a day, and that's pretty much it.

The most notable thing is that I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything, I was just reading the same stuff obsessively before anyway. It's a little hard these days to escape the event driven newscycle but it's not a bad idea.
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With all fairness don't you think this is not really time-crystal formation in the strict sense (those have been shown to be impossible), but rather an analogue to a "forced" crystal formation? I.e. the direct analogue would be setting up some spatially periodic potential and trapping some atoms in it then finding out it took every second spot. I admit that the doubling appears a bit mysterious from a condensed-matter point of view, but on the other hand period doubling is a well known phenomena in classical physics.
I'm a physicist, though not working on time-crystals - some of my friends do.
Came across this article just as my training model overfitted!
The type of AI that philosophers, media, government officials associate may not even come yet so much fuss and paranoia.
This is a delightful example of the flexibility of the human concept of money.

I particularly love the story (which doesn’t seem to be mentioned here) of the stone that sank on the voyage back from the quarry. The islanders discussed it afterwards and decided that it still counted. Someone owns a giant stone on the ocean floor that they can use to pay others, and as long as everyone else agrees, it works.
Well, which would have more impact, not shipping electronics from China across the Pacific, or not shipping exotic fruits? I don't actually know, but I'm willing to wager that global supply chains for consumer goods outweighs that for foreign fruits.
> The problem is that pbpaste and pbcopy do not work under tmux

They do in recent macOS/tmux versions. You don't need reattach-to-user-namespace anymore.

These are my keybindings for copy/paste to clipboard:

bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 'v' send -X begin-selection
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 'y' send -X copy-pipe-and-cancel pbcopy
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi MouseDragEnd1Pane send -X copy-pipe-and-cancel pbcopy
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi MouseDragEnd3Pane send -X copy-pipe-and-cancel pbcopy

`prefix + ]` then pastes using the clipboard contents
I for one who would rather sit on top of a rocket being loaded but have a LAS ready to go than going anywhere near a loaded one with no way to escape within a few seconds.
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As the article itself says, you're unlikely to write correct code if you use these language features. :)
I actually was expecting a reference to bitcoin in the article, as this stone money was talked about on bitcoin forums as early as 2011 IIRC. It was considered quite a good analog.
I liked CloudFront until I realized that getting DDoSed also DDoSes your wallet.
I’m confused. Can they only operate this when the wind I perpendicular to the direction the ship wants to go?
Yes, the Cambrian explosion indeed was an even wilder change in environment and ecosystem than what we're going through now. A hypothetical human time traveler, however, wouldn't survive a hypothetical time travel back to that.
I have a gogs installation. One of the main thing I was it for is to synchronize (and backup) my github repositories.

Gogs is able to sync an external git repo every 12 or 24 hours.

That way, if one day, Github goes belly-up, even if it's unlikely in the foreseeable future, I would have a backup plan.

I also use it for personal and not public projects (automation scripts, secrets, etc).
Fair, but that doesn't detract from the point that CO2 levels maintained 1000-2000ppm for over 100 million years. This was during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, when life was thriving on earth.

Present CO2 levels are low on a geological timescale.
Are you contradicting yourself?

From the article: "The pace of innovation, he [Elon] said, is more important in the long run."

And you include "These companies spend billions a year on updating their moat's" as part of your argument.
I'm happy about warfare channeling through economic relations but the rest is bullshit IMO. I believe more in locality rather than having constant supply of things from all over the world. And that it's "THE" point of a modern economy couldn't be more pointless to me.
> We didn’t need paywalls on the early web because we focused on plain text from other users.
> Plain text is easier to produce

So can we go back to plain text?

Actually is this even true? Take a newspaper like the Washington Post. Now I've seen All the President's Men, where two reporters spend days and weeks, driving and flying around the country, for just a few articles. I know Watergate was an usual amount of investigation, but I still would think the research and writing is the most expensive part of an article.

> Today’s consumers [...] want immersive experiences, well-designed pages with fonts,
> graphics, photos, and videos coming together into a compelling format.

I smirked because I have JavaScript turned off. In fact I run my own little script that strips out all the CSS and starts over.

Of course a member of Hacker News is unusual, but I know my family members are the same way, always complaining about how complicated websites are. Maybe we're all just old fuddy duddies. But if it's the young who want all this fanciness, those are the same people who aren't going to pay more than 99 cents for a newspaper subscription.

I still think pretty websites should not be a huge expense. Hire a graphic designer to give you a framework, some stylesheets. Custom multimedia affairs for each article have always, always, always been annoying to me.
That's exactly what unfair means: he's not a genius nor a lunatic. Favorable (never used that term) ≠ Fair
That may have been a reason once, but I think it's unlikely ever since the Walkman was invented.
We don't know how effective the launch escape system is in a pad explosion. It might only save the crew 50% of the time, or 10% of the time.

If we assume the launch escape system is unreliable, then the numbers strongly point towards loading the crew after the rocket has been fuelled. The crew avoid the riskiest part of the process, and they are on the rocket for a shorter amount of time.
From the developers perspective though it is way easier to run a business when your software is sold on a subscription basis. If you know to a decent level of accuracy how much income you have, you can easily work out how much you can afford to spend to keep running and growing the business.

If you have no idea how much income you are going to make, stuff become a hell of a lot more complicated, unless you have a substantial cash reserve available - not a luxury that everyone has. The directors spend a hell of a lot more time running around banks begging for short term financing, cutting costs and planning out 100 different potential scenarios.

If I had to run another business, I would definitely look to running some kind of subscription scheme..
> People too often get used to the routine and will end up skipping bits from checklists, or even outright missing stuff.

This depends on the person and their approach.

If I understand the need for each checklist step as a means of avoiding future hassle/work or outright danger of some sort, and I'm buying into the concept that I actually need to reference the checklist (perhaps even going so far as to print out a copy and actually physically check things off), and being properly conservative (no "I think I did that...", only "I know I did that" or "I double checked and yes I did that"), checklists stay very effective.

In other words, it's not enough to have a checklist, you need checklist discipline, the kind of discipline that can only be accomplished through buy-in to the concept. The same checklist approached with two different mindsets can range from a damn-near error free way to accomplish something, to a piece of scrap paper that would be worth more blank.

This does sometimes make checklist handoff problematic.

And your discipline might depend on the checklist. I'm way more disciplined about a release checklist than I am about a weekend chores checklist - and this is perfectly fine.
Sorry but nobody is forcing you to use sublime.

If they started charging just for use they wouldn't need neither an excuse nor a justification.

I really don't see your point.

If you could explain further why you think sublime would need an excuse for charging a monthly fee I would really appreciate.
But in this case the samples are small. If you flip a coin once and got tails, what is the probability of heads?
In the EU, the GDPR will make data takeout APIs (or some guy exporting as CSV and mailing it to you) mandatory.
I expect you are correct but not because the sail is not efficient enough, just that it would be impossible to implement without displacing several stacks of cargo containers. Thus the energy savings would be offset by a loss of cargo revenue. Not to mention the additional challenges of operating near loading and offloading cranes.