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It's a tough thing to express. Certainly, we feel like good people are ones who aren't simply calculating a benefit.

But that doesn't mean people don't expect a benefit, it's just that the people we admire expect it without crudely calculating it.

I'd say in a lot of ways, a person entering into a relationship expects benefit and expects to form an "us", a commonality, a partnership, with their other, so that what benefits is "us", the common group, and not simply the individual as a completely separated entity unconcerned with the other.
This project looks awesome. I can imagine it being used instead of the ESP8266 in many of my IoT projects. That would be a huge time saver.

It will start to become competitive once it is actually cheaper than Raspberry Pi Zero. Especially as the Vocore2 is MIPS-based.
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For reference, the overwhelming majority of airports don't use air traffic controllers ("non-towered"). That's because they are way too small and service too few aircraft.

For those airports, the procedure is to dial the unicom frequency that the sectional chart gives for the airport and tell everyone what you're doing.

It's unclear what exactly this control tower actually does for pilots flying into the airport. It's supposed to centralize ATC so they can remotely control air traffic? From the project site, it seems like it's just the cameras and monitoring. No communication otherwise.

https://www.codot.gov/programs/remote-tower/TheProject

http://www.cfidarren.com/r-radiocommnta.htm
Excellent article.

I think TempleOS migrated most of the interesting parts of the c64 over to the pc quite well and updated as the developer saw fit. Deliberate limitations, eg screen resolution, remove a massive amount of work which is necessary if you’re a lone developer. Priorities are important.

That said, a lack of networking and decent sound support are the missing items I’d add. A web browser would be nice but the layers of complexity required makes that much less feasible. Networked versions of TempleOS would raise a lot of interesting design decisions that are still worth exploring.

I like the thinking behind the shell, the hyperlinking etc and other os are quite backwards in comparison with the integrated approach to the shell. There’s a lot to be gained from grabbing some of these and bringing them into linux etc. Curses could easily be used to do this, or something like Electron or node.js. The thought of all that javascript to do the equivalent... the mind boggles.

These alternative operating systems show that the mainstream doesn’t have all the answers.

If assembly language doesn’t scare you, have a look at
http://menuetos.net/
This is an incredibly spot-on insight.

My own experience/struggle confirms, and I concur 100%.

A viable solution to this problem would bring immense life transformation / healing / success.
> Serious question: How do you even convert Bolivars to Bitcoin anyway? Who is selling Bitcoin for Bolivars?

The problem is that the Bolivar is so toxic it's almost radioactive. An exchange wouldn't want to deal with Bolivar's at all, since the price could drop 5% in a day, say.

Even if you could exchange Bolivar cash for black market bitcoins, the black market would have Bolivars to get rid of. And that would manifest itself back into the price of the transaction.
How many f_epsilon functions do you set up at compile time?

If it's countable, then your computer can now reflect the previously-computable numbers across these epsilons, and give you new numbers, but you're still only covering 0% of the reals.

If it's uncountable, covering a range, then you just moved the problem back a step. On top of that, such a computer doesn't even have to do real work. You can spend 20 seconds using grade school arithmetic to map the input range to the entire set of reals, 1:1. But mapping a range of reals into a bigger range of reals is a pretty lousy definition of "computable".
Tried Vaadin? It's a different take on the "write Java rich client code and run it in browser"-idea. It uses GWT as its "backend". They switched to GWT several years ago - too bad if they have to switch again due to GWT dying.
> It is also the way he did what he did that ruffled many feathers. He did not consult Parliament. He did not solicit advice from many learned advisers. He did not give the public any warning.

Anyone who makes such statements is a complete moron. Sorry about the inflammatory language, but that's the truth.

Can you imagine what would have happened if the Parliament was "consulted" ? All of the money hoarders would have immediately converted their cash, negating the move.

When you want to set a trap to catch something, the last thing you want to do is announce your intentions loudly and put big blinking signs there.
How does this predict the right move? Sure I can see people buying the dip in SBUX, but how do I know people will continue buying the dip after I enter? This shows me what is happening, and in most cases its rather intuitive. Of course there are more people holding SBUX as the price goes up. Isnt that rather intuitive?
In my opinion, marriage in the traditional sense is a form of prostitution. Man as provider in a household is the same as man in the role of sugar daddy. It seems like in other parts of the world, people are more matter of fact about things. In the West, people seem to look at relationships through Disney goggles.
>narrated by a banker friend

BS. This is a right wing fundamentalist template cooked to save the face from pathetic failure of demonetisation.

As other commentators pointed out, it was underprivileged people who were most affected by this preposterous nonsense.

1. Poor people died of starvation, standing in queues at ATM i.e if they had a bank account in first place. [Only 53% had bank accounts as of 2014 & much of it was inactive] & mental agony of loosing their life long savings.

2. Privileged people exchanged their demonetized unaccounted money to new one's by bribing bankers & by forcing under privileged people to do it under their names.

3. Paytm (India's leading payment wallet) grew over 1000% in revenue with demonetisation running full front paged ads featuring the prime minister.
It's wild to imagine but 100% believable to think that the US Navy already has technology to defeat a large mass of cheap weaponized drones. And even more entertaining if it's lasers.
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> If demo was any good you would see such exercises all over the world on a regular basis.

Most countries of the world don't have the black money problem that India does; and of those that do (many third-world countries) there is no will to crack down on black money.
The human animal is not cognitively adapted to cope with the world we have built.

It's quite astonishing actually when you realize how all of our tiny individual inputs made this massive machinery that individuals physically cannot truly understand the impacts of.
There is stuff that you can't learn anywhere but classics. Take, for example, Nazi Germany. We tend to have this stereotypical image of it as evil murderous empire where everyone was either a murderer or a victim.

Heinrich Böll's "Group Portrait with Lady"[1] is a book about that period. You expect particular kind of stuff in such a book: Gestapo officers torturing dissenters. Jew hunts. Nurnberg rallies. Etc.

Then you read the book and Hitler or concentration camps and not mentioned even once. It's full of people trying to live their lives. Teenagers are in love one with another. People go to work. Try to build a business. Pay their taxes. Play piano. They have problems with their children and extramarital affairs. They have varied political opinions. They die of natural causes.

It would be pretty hard to get that kind of (very terrifying, in a way) understanding of the period through history books.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Group-Portrait-Lady-Essential-Heinric...
Is this a joke?

I quote: "A neat little trick is to make the link to close the modal small and put it very close to the link that lets the user install the application. This will make users much more happy as it’s so easy to install the application and not accidentally close the dialogue!"

Go away with your concept of the "modern web". I must be post modern as I do not install random apps. What a stupid horrible negative pattern!
IPv6 will _not_ have NAT be the default case... IPv4 NAT is the default for the vast majority of [home] routers, and offers a bit of privacy protection built-in.
Don't know why this was downvoted, probably because not in English?

Anyway IIRC (and as the help page confirms) there are multiple conversion layers: letter-by-letter conversion tables (provided by MediaWiki itself), customizable word-by-word conversion tables [1] and special markup `-{...}-` for explicit variant selection [2].

[1] https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Conversiontable/zh... etc. You can also put them into the article itself, allowing domain-specific or article-specific conversion table.

[2] Mentioned under the heading "控制自动转换的代碼"; also can be used to turn off the wrong automatic translation.
I have. I'd rate it neutral. If I was starting from scratch I'd probably try out PL/Python or PL/V8.
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Awesome you linked to lygte-info.dk! It's one of my go-to sites to find decent tests of chargers.

Lots of reviewers simply don't do decent testing like the writer Henrik Jensen does. For instance he does over-voltage testing, which sometimes breaks an otherwise decent-looking charger.
Do people not realize that this is satire?
> All of the money hoarders would have immediately converted their cash, negating the move.

You mean those holding 0.7% of the currency?
I prefer the term solid state 3D printer. It makes the concept seem more feasible and helps to steer conversations towards more concrete solutions (All the while joking of course that we’re building Star Trek Replicators! Because they’re awesome!).
Your first example is pretty malformed. If you're promise-chaining why would you be trying to assign to variables in the outer scope? Why are you assigning to constants? Why are you calling somePromise a second time in the first then?

It's almost a strawman. Anyone would have written:

somePromise()
.then(anotherPromiseFuncThatNeedsP1)
.catch(e => whatever);
An example already in circulation are the ocean plastic shoes. I like the idea that ocean plastic goods become fashionable

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/adidas-shoes-made-f...
This is a Rust version, btw:

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/abomonation

It still needs me to opt in to declaring methods as unsafe, rather than automatically surfacing my uses of unsafe. I could definitely "trick users" by not doing that and pretending it always works (it doesn't).
Where did you see that? I see this in the article: "Carbon nanotube is the most likely material to be used for the cables."

A steel cable would have far too low a strength to weight ratio to work in a space elevator.
That seems consistent with what the author is saying.

Working inside of YouTube, he was in a position to see that the algorithms heavily promoted Brexit. However, for people not directly involved in YouTube's operations, this is not necessarily apparent — and is essentially impossible to check.

His point is that the ultimate outcomes of this algorithmic selection has potentially massive societal repercussions, and therefore the citizenry deserves to know what is being selected for promotion.
This is being done around the world. My home city will be the first in my country: https://www.airways.co.nz/media-centre/media-statements/inve...
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From economic theory, the concept of time inconsistency [1] in my opinion explains pretty well whats currently going on:

For current governments, it is allegedly optimal to not take immediate action but to announce/commit to actions in the future. Problem is, that for the next government, the same result from the optimization problem arises.

A similar pattern can be found with nuclear waste, a problem that is known since many decades, yet there are very few permanent solutions.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_inconsistency
> A promise by rich nations to provide developing nations with $100 billion a year to tackle climate change is only one part of the huge transformation needed, she added.

This sounds like a joke when the military budgets are in the trillions. But on the other hand when poor countries become inhabitable and people start moving military will be needed to push them back .
Definitely a tragedy of the commons or first mover disadvantage situation we have here: systemically it'd be better for everyone to discuss their salaries, but individually I'd never be the first one to start that discussion.
Talking about museum heists in Rio, I went to see the Museu da Chácara do Céu -- an art museum hidden away on a mountain top -- because they had a Dalí, a Picasso, a Monet, and a Matisse according to a guidebook. I didn't see any of them. The front desk told me that they were all taken in a heist. They had a poster offering a surprisingly low R$5000 reward, about US$1250, for their recovery.
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I fear things you mention are exceptions that don't scale - that can be mostly traced down to a bunch of individuals believing in a mission and having a means to accomplish it, supported by lots of people doing it for money or being coerced. That, and religion, which is a way of rewriting people's cost/benefit calculations at scale. So with cathedrals, I'd expect most people involved were either paid, coerced by violence, or coerced by their religious beliefs; with Voyager, I expect there was a bunch of scientists and managers who cared and got public money to command, and thousands of people who were simply paid to do their jobs.

I'd love to see money go away as a factor, but I can't see how - especially for projects that require large existing industries (leveraging economies of scale).
That was true for Mac OS but not for iOS. You had to manage memory manually with alloc and release.
What are you afraid of will happen?
I accidentally got paid my Indian colleague's salary as well as mine a few months back. Rather awkwardly, I discovered that despite being more junior than him, I actually got paid more.

Obviously I'm not complaining, because I want to earn as much as possible, but it does seem a bit unfair. On one hand, I guess I'm better at negotiating a higher salary (mine's not that much higher, maybe 5-10%), but at the same time, it seems unfair that he does the same work and gets paid less.

How would discussing my salary with him benefit me (in a purely capitalistic sense)?
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The National Geographic film Before the Flood [0] did a reasonably good job of covering this topic. If you haven't seen it, it's worth a watch.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_the_Flood_(film)
Sabine's recent lecture at SFI is worth the watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdhKfzABsEQ
>Although just two prototypes exist today, both companies have expressed interest in producing the object for sale.
Speaking for myself, I'm afraid, that I'd lower morale and create division in my well-running and competent team.
This is not "by definition". General rule: Uses of "by definition" outside of mathematics are almost always wrong. Good article on the subject: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cFzC996D7Jjds3vS9/arguing-by...
unless the law says "it's your internet connection and you're responsible for what happens" I doubt it matters that much. Standard of proof is much lower but still have to prove that x most likely downloaded the movie.
Replying to other sibling comments similar to the one above:

> We have an institutional failure.

> What we are experiencing is a failure of particular institutions - government, industry, NGOs, Intergovernmental organizations etc. What an average brain might or might not care or related-to is a significant distance from this.

Those institutions are other humans. Why do we pretend they're not?

Is this more of a social hierarchy thing than biological; i.e. trusting our "superiors" to take take care of it, or basically "not my job."
HR professionals will tell you that many people lie about their compensation. This is probably not worth talking about without sharing your pay stubs or tax returns.
I think their fixed header is way too big, even on my monitor.

> Let's never go back to hosting our own writing on our own websites. Medium has made that obsolete.

Medium has not made that obsolete at all, and you sound like a shill. Encouraging people to host their own websites leads to a more free future. Search, networking and analytics can be done on top of that layer. Strong network coherence is why social networks currently exist as centralized services, but it's a bandaid that patches an unsolved problem.
> I don’t presume to know what the original intention of bitcoin was, I’m only interested in it’s current viability as an investment.

Typically the people who shill bitcoin the hardest are the ones with an active stake in it. If this were the stock market, it would be a pump and dump.
The article in this post is clearly satire.
Dynamic inconsistency assumes a person actually wants to do something in the future, but in the future, their calculations change. I fear it's much simpler than that.

Political system is a strong selection process in itself. It selects for people who can pander to public the best, and make best deals with their colleagues. Any effort spent on making something good happen, or even making good on the promises used to get in, is an effort wasted; it's something the system slowly but surely selects against.
>This kind of problem just doesn't trigger an existential threat response where we throw everything we have at it.

You're right, I think it's because the consequences are too abstract / too far in the future. I still think it's fair to expect governments to take the lead on this though. Of course, on an individual basis, people can choose to reduce their consumption. But we are social animals and seeing everyone else around you indulging in pleasures while you 'take the high road' just won't work on a societal level.

Governments used to have this kind of authority / determination. What comes to mind is banning lead from gasoline (something which was also met with considerable opposition from industry).

EDIT: Of course having lead in your gasoline won't give anyone much pleasure. We are dealing with a lot harder problem here. Still, many people are yearning for a change in the right direction. It just takes leaders with courage and determination (and a buttload of money presumably).
Ask HN: Transpiling a C lib to use in Electron app?
Many years ago, I worked on a C library [0] that implements the IEEE 11073:20601 protocol stack. It was a mistake to implement in C, but it was a sponsor requirement back in 2010.

Now, some folks have an Electron app that needs to talk with a 20601-compatible device, and asked for help.

Apart from encapsulating the C code in a subprocess or in a Node.js module, I was wondering if it would be practical to transpile the lib into Javascript. That would spare the app from native code, platform-dependent build settings, crashes, etc.

[0] https://github.com/signove/antidote
If your employers were savvy, they might realize they could replace you with more senior staff at a lower cost (never mind their nationality).

You can make your job a little bit more secure by encouraging your colleague to demand more pay.
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Yeah it will. Often people are sad someone is leaning, and they may start to look for other jobs themselves.

But all this is actually in the interest of the people working there. They may get higher salary and better work somewhere else.
No, we haven't extensively tested it... but everyone who makes vacuum cleaners are telling us they won't clean up dog poop, and people who know about carpet cleaning in general are saying there are other better ways to clean it up and the vacuum will just make a mess. But, of course, as you said none of these analogs are really apt, they are just silly simplifications of a major issue.

I'm just trying to say that nobody is arguing for inaction here, on any front, they are arguing for trying to use the available resources in the most effective way possible. But people love magic bullet solutions, they want to back something that will just fix everything, so they ignore whole fields of experts and professionals, jump on the bandwagon with one buzz-worthy genius, and waste resources that could be better utilized elsewhere.

My concern is less that this particular project will fail, but more that it distracts people from the real long-term solutions, and the changes that need to be made for us to work towards those solutions, and actually gives them an excuse to ignore them. I've actually heard people cite projects like this as a reason NOT to worry about the amount of waste they generate. Attention is a valuable resource, and when it comes to ecological issues, it's in desperately short supply.

Also, unless any proposed clean-up solution can ultimately remove all the waste, it's actually less effective then any solution that uses the same amount of resources to prevent the same amount of plastics (yearly) from entering the ocean ecosystem. The net amount of plastic in the oceans each year will be the same in both cases, and you remove the negative impacts the new plastics have before they are removed from the ecosystem (leaching surface coating chemicals into the water for example), and since new plastic is not cycling is as quickly, it will increase the rate of decomposition. This is the argument for making reduction a bigger focus, as opposed to clean-up.
> The damage this would do to the firm in the article was chief as a reason to carry on using it.

And that's largely why the US government keeps minting 1 cent coins. It costs the US government over $50 million per year to mint pennies, not to mention the wasted time counting and transporting the things. The zinc lobby is a large part of the reason they're still produced, there's no practical reason for them any more and a lot of countries have removed their lowest denomination coins.
> Definitely! I often wonder about the evidence (who knows if the dinosaurs had computers and mechanical flight for a short time(geologically speaking)?) How could we?

We've found fossilized dinosaur bones in silted up riverbeds, but no dinosaur-era subway tunnels that silted up with what would now be mudrock. If dinosaurs had computers and mechanical flight, they'd almost undoubtedly have had subways, sewers, and bunkers that we could find at least trace evidence of.
There's a brigade of hardcore right wing Modi supporters who downvote anything that's critical of Modi.