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one can "overload" operations on table instances, most importantly, accessors by forwarding them to another table, which is somewhat similar to prototype-based inheritance
That's a good idea, thanks.
Thank you, I've joined your newsletter. This is exactly what Lua is currently lacking. When I have more time, I'll probably do some writeups on Lua, especially CI/CD and developing libraries.
Yeah, I disagree with FORD totally.

FORD is heavy and personal. The point of small talk is that it's small and light. You have to make sure you trust a person before you start talking about personal stuff.

Small talk is about progressive disclosure. You make the conversation a little bit more personal and see if the other person reciprocates--but you have to start small, that's the whole point. If someone started out asking me about FORD I'd think they were odd/awkward or maybe snobby.
We seem to be losing our playfulness.

In light of that, I'm going to take some time today to do something random, just for fun, and share it with others.
Why does 500 years matter? Again, that's the survivor bias. "Gold is great because we all decided it was valuable for a long period of time, but based on no specific usage". It's desirable because it's scarce and has a historic usage as currency. To assume that will continue to be valuable because of those (arbitrary) points seems like a flawed assumption.

Gold is valuable because there's a perception of gold's value. It works as a currency. Like Salt, or tea bricks, or gems, they have some applications, but were being used as trade goods because of the perceived value.

My point is simply that people in the 1400's didn't know that petroleum would become as important as it is or that high purity sand reserves were magnitudes more valuable than "regular" sand or that pounds of sugar would only cost a fraction of a laborer's hourly wage.

If the worry is "inflation/devaluation of a currency without without the complete collapse of modern society" SOMEBODY will have a valuable currency. You could just as easily say that instead of storing gold you could store bank notes from several different nations. You could also store bitcoins, or bricks of drugs, or all sorts of things that carry value in the current climate. Hoarding wealth in the form of non-useful items is a gamble. You're assuming someone will want your currency. It's plausible they won't. Wealth, as opposed to trade goods, is only worth how much someone else wants it.
>interact with others in a programatic way.

Yes, there's something demonic about intentionally rule-based behaviour.

>It's this kind of attitude that there is a "right" way to be social that contributes to social anxiety. Fucking stop it!

Here's the problem. You're claiming both that it's wrong to interact like this and that there's no right or wrong in social interaction.
The aging population is countered by powerful forces:

- movement into few urban mega-centers (you can't even say "into cities" because there are plenty of cities with little or even negativ population gain)

- immigration (e.g. see https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-immigration/immig...) -- and they mostly want into the already crowded areas, of course

- aging population needs different homes than young families
But "saving lives" doesn't affect their bottom line, and it's at best an incidental and indirect effect of their business model. And furthermore, it could easily be argued that if their growth model encourages nicotine use by children, it will actually create more smokers.

If people need to sleep well at night (and many don't care), this reasoning is duplicitous. It'd be better to build a service that helps with smoking/nicotine cessation.
I don't think it counts as a "strawman" if it's reflecting the way reality actually is, and shows a huge hole in their philosophy.
Just talk about the weather over and over again.
From the context it sounds like "insanity" here is used with a positive connotation.
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How does this different from an SSO (single-sign-on server)?
> Renters are a growing political force.

Renters (often under rent control) are NIMBYs as well, don't understand or are convinced that supply and demand don't apply to housing.
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> No it doesn't

> No judge will put up a fine for that.

You're contradicting yourself...you have to go to court to get charges dropped by a judge.
Windows 10 is supposed to block both setting apps as default browser and pinning to taskbar. There are ways around both.
"Switch to Chrome, a smarter browser Google recommends using Chrome. Try it?"

Every. Single. Time I open Google using Edge. And Chrome is just as annoying wanting to be the default browser.

How is this different to a prompt when I install Chrome?

Both are highly annoying.
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Yes, it's good to be mindful of Chesterson's Fence [0]. We should understand the reasons for policies before changing them. In many cases, we understand the reasons for exclusionary zoning; they're repulsive, and they should be changed.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
> GDPR [...] were intended to hurt American tech giants.

GDPR builds on previous EU privacy regulation, some of which has existed long before the US tech giants.

Here's the Council of Europe's Convention number 108, introduced in 1981. https://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/full-list/-/conventio...

Hesse, Germany,introduced data protection law in 1970. Sweden introduced national law in 1973. Germany in 1977 and France in 1978.

The OECD introduced guidelines in 1980.

The Council of Europe had Convention No 108 in 1981.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tyfYCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA47&lpg...
Is there currently a single source of truth for the content of books and other written media? Something like a hash of all the contents that can be stored in some indelible way (blockchain maybe?) so that as time passes people can verify that the content has remained the same?
If you mean "finish it" by picking up the code and continuing development, that's ugly at best. Someone owns that - you might have a claim! - but you'll spend more time and money with attorneys than anything to do it right.

If you mean "finish it" by taking the idea and starting fresh, it's probably competitive so I'd double check that you didn't sign some sort of non-compete or "won't reuse this information" kind of thing.

Of course, either you could roll with it and see what happens.. no one is going to pop up to make a claim unless you a) offend them or b) are successful. And even under (a), it's unlikely they'll hire an attorney to cause you angst.
I would suggest removing the cause of the seduction. Go buy a simple Nokia handset. Remember the ones that used to be a phone, not a computer. Try it, you will be surprised how free you are! Every time you want to check FB, just give yourself a gentle slap :)
I wonder if it's even legal for Apple to maintain a copy of the movie in iTunes for customers who've already purchased it once they have lost the right to host it.

Actually, I'd put this on Apple legal: the contracts should specify that customer purchases can continue be hosted, and served to those customers in perpetuity. It's possible that Apple didn't have the leverage or foresight to negotiate these terms, but the "fix" here is straightforward because it's an issue of contractual terms, not some notion of "legality".
Turn data and WiFi off. Battery lasts longer, too.
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It's a bit tougher with kids but not much tbh (obviously it's harder if you're a single parent). You just have to do it in the morning before they get up, after they go to bed, or during lunch hour.
> The article lost its credibility in the opening paragraphs.

How?

Microsoft was fined for bundling IE.

Google have not been punished yet but will hopefully IMO soon be for abusing their position to push Chrome.

Edit: Two remove all doubt; I do not intend to defend any of these two. This is abuse of market position by both of them IMO.
I can't really help, then, I'm not really familiar with what the state of the art in four-cylinder hot hatches are at this point (and in any case, Subaru will not be leading edge in that regard; I have loved all my Subarus, especially my two STIs, but automatics are definitely not something Subaru is any good at). The newer A8 and A10s that GM uses in their performance cars (and Ford in some cases), as well as the latest stuff from MB, are fantastic automatics. Until this latest generation came along, I assumed DCT was the future. Now I'd be surprised to see it hang on much more than a few more years before being phased out.
Yeah like the Bearenstein bears, amirite?
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That's what I have. Actually switched to Android after the iPhone 6 was too big for me, then switched back when the SE came out.

Unfortunately the (all but confirmed) rumors for today's iPhone announcements are that it comes in 3 sizes: Huge, Enormous, and Gargantuan.

If you've held an iPhone X before, that's now the small size.

Given that the SE was a years-old manufacturing process (basically an iPhone 5) and they couldn't get it in stock consistently for months after release, I don't know why they keep doing this. But here we are.

In fact, 9to5Mac is reporting that the iPhone SE may be discontinued today. We'll find out soon.
Not everybody, a small minority of the planet actually (the EU is a mere ~6.7% of the planet's population). The ideal solution if you're a US service like HN, is to ignore EU laws like this, as HN is governed by US law. For YouTube, it's a lot more difficult.

Put simply, if you're a US (or Australian, or Brazilian, or Japanese, etc) service: tell the EU to go fuck itself. US courts will laugh at their attempts to enforce EU law over US law.

Keep your servers in the US, if that's where you're located. If you have no need to do business in the EU, then you have almost nothing to worry about. The EU's reach largely stops at its borders unless you're operating in their jurisdiction.

For my service as a US operation, EU copyright law is meaningless. I'll continue to allow EU users to sign up, and entirely disregard EU law.

Ultimately the only way the EU can truly enforce their backwards policies against a global Internet, is to set up a Chinese firewall and hold EU persons as captives of that creeping authoritarianism.
Steam handles this much better. If a game is removed from sale for some reason people who already purchased it still have access. For example, I still have access to the original Prey even though it's no longer available.
Might be worth getting a urine sample and check how much protein there is. More than likely you are urinating most of that protein out through out the day.
There is everything to love about this. It’s left me with a smile on my face. I’m pleased that Antirez has found a productive outlet for the recent trouble. Kudos
The arguments sound good, until you consider collissions have already occurred ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision

And once you open door to reckless processess the chance of Kessler Syndrome rapidly shoots up, especially considering upcoming exponential growth of satellite count. (OneWeb, SpaceX)
One thing to note is that it’s the land itself that appreciates. The housing built on top of it generally doesn’t. That is, structures generally depreciate unless labor and material costs rise significantly.

So, why not cap the profits that can be gained from squatting on land? Or increase taxes on under-utilized land? Then, wouldn’t land owners have incentive to build more housing?
> The package ecosystem is growing

That is a nice euphemism. The lack of something even remotely resembling a standard library is what keeps me from using lua more than I absolutely have to.

Because more complex constructs can be created so easily in Lua everybody is happily copy/pasting half baked stuff from the web. That means there is no common style which might make it consistent across code bases so Lua remains a "Bring Your Own" language. No proper arrays, no easy exceptions, no easily recognizable classes ("but it is so easy with setmetatable etc."), iterators, prettyprint...

Plus the various annoyances, such as nil access not being an error, no += (I read all the reasons against it), weird "false" concept, that tables are - if you look closely - neither arrays nor dictionaries, the "require" imports are not modules but more akin #include.

In my opinion Lua 6 should drop some historic weirdness (~=!) and make the core language more in line with JS or Python and provide a standard library - even if components there sacrifice some of the holy performance.
One thing that I like about Lua over Javascript is how self-documenting, fun to write, and easy to read it is. It has a very simple syntax, but the extensibility of its core structures (like tables) let you accomplish a lot with that simplicity.

Its 3rd-party libraries also tend to be closer to C/C++'s "drop-in" solutions like STB[1] than the enormous JS ecosystem which often requires extra tools like Node and/or extra packages like JQuery.

Admittedly, Lua's ecosystem is much smaller than Javascript's, but in my experience Lua is vastly easier to maintain. You can certainly write bad Lua, but it's one of the only languages where I don't implicitly dread reading other people's code.

It is sort of annoying that tables which are treated like arrays are 1-indexed by convention, though.

[1]: https://github.com/nothings/stb
Are you on your own? Can't you run after she goes to bed?
This is a pretty hilarious headline. But maybe we could change it to say, "an unexpected literary afterlife"?
The way one goes about doing it, however, can be quite evil.
Yes, it's a f...ed up system that pretty much benefits everyone but the patient. Employers have control and providers and middlemen make boatloads of money.
Again:

This is why computing is going off the rails, and computational literacy is critical.

The computer belongs to the User. It's sole purpose is to compute, FOR THE USER. If your software is running on someone else's machine. And you want data exfiltrated back to you, normatively speaking, you should ANNOUNCE your intention, EXPLAIN it, and ASK for permission, this includes honoring their decision if they say NO.

The industry has clearly been sliding down a slippery slope in which businesses have unilaterally decided that running THEIR software exempts them from having to respect the User.

This is madness. If a society operated on the types of practices that are considered "appropriate" in computing, we'd be liable to label them as savages.

Keep your interbusiness competition OFF MY MACHINE!

(Thank God for Linux From Scratch!)
The thing I actually care about is computer games. Good ones, well made, and designed around being fun. I enjoy opening my dota2 chests - but they have (basically) no negative impact on the game.

I actually agree - it's "pure" gambling in that sense. You're spinning a wheel and getting a random payoff. I just don't think that's an inherently bad thing
This is right, and this is the problem with solely YIMBY/market urbanist approaches to housing. Developers will all chase tech workers who can pay significantly more money for housing, and the housing market is segmented enough that it doesn't really free up housing at the low end. See this article for more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-expensive...

We do need to build housing, but it can't all be "luxury" housing.

This should be familiar to people because it's happening in the commercial space, too. It's the same thing as when storefronts would rather sit empty and waiting for a Chase Bank to come along than accept the lower rents from some other shop. The Chase Bank will pay far more in rent.
Fun project! I think Julia could be a great language for implementing things like using Bayesian statistical methods for estimating efficient query plans. :-)

Do you use the new iterators to implement the joins? If so, it seems reasonable that you could implement the join/filter as logical separate components but have the filtering happen in-line with the joins during iteration. Then you'd get the best of both worlds. It'd be interesting to see how well the Julia jit can inline that type of code!

Also, if you're just getting into relational databases, definitely take some time to read up on the relational calculus, and relational algebra.
it is so funny that the author just jumped off an international flight with his complained jetlag, yet he choose to praise cash when he couldn't buy coke from a vending machine using his foreign credit card. he further mentions that "Cash transactions are peer-to-peer, requiring no intermediary, and are thus transactions that Visa cannot skim a cut off", I really want to know how to buy a can of coke in Netherlands using Chinese Yuan/USD/Japanese Yen in cash in such a "no intermediary" no "cut off" fashion.
If the book I was reading was correct, there was a period of years where all precious metals were required to be taken to a government building and traded for paper currency, though I'm not sure how long it lasted. But you're right about the silver being the main metal in use.
I view any digital distribution platform where your content is tied to the platform itself as renting rather than buying. Makes things much simpler.

That's why it was so disheartening to buy the x-com remake and find nothing but a steam activation code inside the box. I don't feel like I own that game because it's tied to an online account.

I know that you can just keep a local copy of it, but it's still tied to the platform and if you wanted to go to a different platform, you couldn't take it with you.
Presumably you mean with computers you own. The use case in this article involves the data on computers owned by Apple.
I'm not the OP, but I started on Stronglifts and now run 5/3/1. Current 1RM lifts are around squat 155kg, bench 122.5kg, deadlift 220kg.

I'm 35, I've been lifting for about 2.5 years. Most of my progress was linearish for the first 1.5 years or so, and has tapered off. 5/3/1 is a periodized program so the gains come more slowly (as they must once you exhaust linear gains), but they're still coming.

I started at 310lb and ~45% bodyfat and at my lightest got down to 230lb/~18% bodyfat. I'm currently about 260 and around 24% bodyfat (via DEXA; calipers underestimated my BF% by around 10%!). I'm 6'10", for reference.

I've had a few bouts of tendonitis in my wrists, mostly due to incorrect benching technique. I had some really bad knee pain around the 100kg squat mark, so I went to go see a sports medicine doctor who referred me to a sports physical therapist, who taught me how to squat using my hips rather than my quads. I'm now moving quiet a lot more weight with no knee pain, which is a remarkable achievement given that I had chronic knee issues for most of my adult life - bad enough to necessitate surgery.

I love what lifting has done for me, and think everyone should do it.
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Except that it lowers game cost for everyone else when whales buy a bunch of cosmetic items.
I don't think the core of UX is really that subjective. It's all about consistency, polish, and most importantly cognitive load. Eye candy is highly subjective but that's not what I'm talking about.
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This feels like reinventing the wheel. There are a bunch of really great "desktop" web frameworks out there, e.g. https://ant.design - which is great.

Apparently the Select component doesn't support any keyboard commands - something quite many users do use on a regular basis. So apparently it's a downgrade over the default browser behaviour.
And the other party will be found guilty of disrupting your business by having you get into court for complaints without legal grounds.
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> Ironically I recently realized tourists visiting China might be victim of this too. If you're coming to China you won't be able to do much until you open a bank account and get a local phone number.

Just visited China a few weeks ago. While it is not possible to open an AliPay account, you can verify WeChat pay with a foreign CC. You then have a problem of getting RMD actually added into your WeChat wallet; while I worked with a friend to manually transfer currency (Venmo'd him USD, received RMB from him over WeChat), my friend also recommend https://theswapsy.com/.

Warning: WeChat has absolutely terrible customer support compared to Alipay. My account got locked at one point and somehow magically opened up after a few days - I could never get a hold of any CX agent.
> Purchasing the right to see a movie, listen to a song, on a service, will never be the same as holding a physical copy.

I'm pretty sure you could design a SaaS offering in two parts: one that sells you a digital copy of a thing as a product (rather than a license), for delivery to a digital storage locker; and then, the other, a digital storage locker.

Oddly enough, Apple already has a digital storage locker, called iCloud Music Library. It's where your uploaded songs go when you use iTunes Match and the song doesn't actually match any entry in the Apple Music library.

If iCloud Music Library were properly designed (it's not), your purchased, matched, and uploaded songs would all be available permanently through iCloud Music Library in its capacity as a digital storage locker, whether or not they're still available through Apple Music. The licence-holders wouldn't be able to do anything about this: this isn't Apple broadcasting a song, this is Apple acting as the moral equivalent of bank, offering a safe-deposit box service, where you hold a box into which you've put a USB stick containing the song you bought from them.

Sadly, the synergy between Apple Music and iCloud Music Library is actually exactly the opposite of what anyone would want: when an artist's license agreement with Apple Music expires and their tracks are purged from the system, Apple will actually delete not just your purchased licenses from your iCloud Music Library; and not just the licenses of Apple Music tracks that fingerprint-matched local copies you had; but even your uploaded (!) copies of songs by a given artist that didn't match any Apple Music license, but just happened to have ID3 information corresponding to the artist whose rights were expiring. (In that case, the tracks still appear as entries in the iCloud Music Library list, but they're under a permanent "waiting" status, because their backing storage has been removed. There are many support threads about this issue, none with answers—well, that's what's going on.)
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