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The different national identities within Europe are not going anywhere. Broken English is already the common language of Europe, but the regional language and culture every part has won't disappear. A little traveling is enough to confirm this for oneself.

As for all the rest, they can't disappear soon enough. None of those things work in favor of the general people. And while we keep cultural and national identities, we could also do away with nationalist politics. They are irrational and nowadays it just feels like Religion Wars 2.0.
Small talk it's not just chit chat, it's also a social regulator, at least here in Argentina. It is used a cue of respect and interest but also of disregard and rejection.

How do the Finns cue interest in others, how do they cue rejection?
While people say that OEMs now have to pay up. The reality is that Bing will be paying.

The real trick is that Android has all the assistant features, which means that Android will be shipped crippled without them.
Granted b2c is an exception when based on advertising. But I've seen plenty of cases where raising prices resulted in more customers. And quite frankly better customers overall. The ones that get the service for free or an extremely low cost are the ones that bitch the most in my experience. The people paying a decent price tend to be friendly and while might encounter issues, they work with the CSR to solve the problem.
I feel like I'm missing some context here; why is FT8 controversial in the first place?
Why aren't they benchmarking it against the latest Threadrippers? They've got a i9-7900X up there which costs the same as the 2950x.
Your site could really use a picture of the product in action.
It's a digital mode that has impressive ability to hear weak signals. Which means you can have a small, inexpensive radio, a really suboptimal antenna, and still make worldwide contacts.

The basic mode only allows you to make contact, it doesn't allow for discussions or data transfer. It's simply a “I'm here, and I can hear you” mode.

It's controversial because a) to some hams, conversation is the reason to be on the air; and/or b) hams can be opinionated and grumpy, and some feel like if you haven't spent $5k on your radio/built your radio from scratch/exclusively use Morse code/devoted five acres of land to a 200 foot tall tower with a Yagi antenna you aren't doing it right. DX (long-distance communications) is an exclusive club. FT8 makes it a lot less exclusive. There's always resistance to that.
What is an iodine protocol?
The word 'right' can be redefined in context sure to make privileges considered as rights, but the typical and most useful meaning of the word is natural rights - that which you have the freedom to do at birth. Of course some rights clash with eachother, which is where some are naturally undone.

It was mentioned elsewhere how the right to freedom (and therefore freedom to kill) conflicts with the right to live. The right to freedom gets restricted in that case because that kind of restriction is the most minimal possible reduction of rights, which still allows everyone to maintain their rights. Life>freedom means a reduced right to freedom, and we don't want to do freedom>life as that results in a complete reduction of rights for an innocent individual.

So, rights aren't just absolute, they're a bit like the voronoi pattern created by intersecting circles. Privileges on the other hand don't even exist without other people usually. With cars, if one exists, you naturally have the right to get in one and drive it...until you're in a society with other cars. Then, it is difficult to exercise your right to drive a car without infringing on others, so much so that the right is entirely reduced and transformed into a privilege: you do not have the right to drive a car unless the state (societal structure) has confirmed you can do so safely.
Thank you for giving another example along that continuum. I admit that your example is in that gray area, and I have a hard time giving a definitive opinion on it.

But, to reiterate the point: that does not proof that all such hypotheticals are undecidable.

Imagine someone stealing 1 cent. Should they go to prison? Of course not! Now imagine them stealing 100 million cents, i. e. $1 million. Should they go to prison? Of course!

Just because we're both going to have hard time saying which single cent of those 100 million made the difference between something to ignore and something to punish does in way mean theft should be legalised.

And yes, changes in efficiency do matter. That's why even the US does not recognize a right to privately build, own and operate nuclear weapons.
> Private people can have secrets, the government shouldn't.

That's a rather extreme claim, isn't it?

Are you saying that governments should widely publish all defense research? Are you saying governments should widely publish and distribute military plans before putting them into action? Are you saying governments should publish the locations of all defensive and offensive weaponry, as well as constant position updates of all military submarines?

That kind of openness would be suicidal. I agree that governments should encourage transparency, but not when that transparency would endanger lives etc.
What about clouds? Lights that only work x% of the time isn't that useful, they'll still need to maintain all standard infrastructure which will surely wipe out the potential savings.

Plus the existing huge debt burden that we're starting to learn about, I doubt the central gov would greenlight this in front of on-the-ground problems.
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Alt: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13400/intel-9th-gen-core-i9-9...
They probably do care about the answer, it's just not a 'life story' type question.

You can say "I'm tired" or "Rough day" or, you can tell something that happened recently.

"How are you doing" -> "Well, my dog passed away last night, so ..."

Or

"I've been up all night studying, so kind of scattered"

Or

"Well I just won the CS101 competition, so, stoked!"
I don't have any evidence that I'm a (buggy) computer simulation, either. But that's not reason to believe that I am one.

> I do believe they are real in a sense.

Which ones are real, the Greek gods or the Norse gods?
Yeah, that is typically the case, sure. But you are comparing business-as-usual operations to an incident investigation. Sure, Tim Cook likely new nothing or very little about the organization's business dealings with Super Micro before the story broke, but not now. If this story is true, the implications for Apple are huge. It makes them look inept and creates a large problem that must be solved. Tim Cook would be very aware of any potential problem at this point.
AMD has a cost/performance advantage. The Ryzen 2700x sells under $280 with a free cooler for 8c/16 threads.

The Intel i9-9900k sells for $550+ to $580+, requires an added cooler, and 8c/16 threads.

The difference is that the i9-9900k can single-thread turbo to 5GHz, which makes a big difference in single-threaded situations. The i9-9900k also has 256-bit AVX pipelines, while AMD Ryzen is 128-bit based AVX pipelines.

So any AVX-heavy code (H264 rendering, Blender benchmarks, etc. etc.) will be hugely beneficial on the Intel platform.

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AMD still wins price/performance. I'd personally still take a Threadripper 2950x for example. But the i9-9900k is impressive because of that 5GHz clock, even if its a bit restrictive to use.

Anyone who cares about maximum single-threaded speeds is looking at the 5GHz clock. That's huge.
Paranoid response: if such a versioning ledger were to exist, how could you trust it? The feasibility problem still remains (it is feasible to alter archives that were formerly infeasible) and you now rely on trust that (1) all alterations are accompanied by a versioning notice, and (2) the summary presented in the notice is accurate and complete.
The EU is dedicated to preserving national culturalisms (if that's the word), they passed so much legislation related to that, that this is fairly self-evident.
Android Protected Confirmation (Hardware-Protected UI for Android)
My mental model is that the brain is a black box and unlike so many other human components, we can't break it open and learn how it works on a mechanical level. We're left with feeding it inputs and seeing what the outputs are as a way to understand how it works.

This means that at best we can have a cause-effect understanding of the brain. Until we can describe the mechanics of the brain with a strong enough model where the resulting behaviours can be predicted, we can't truly understand what the brain is doing.
I bet it depends on region, distance to station, maint, etc. I moved an hour outside a major metro and my electricity prices increased 60%, but gasoline only 2-5% in the USA. Plenty of trucking, but not much hard infrastructure. Most neighbors still burn wood or truck in propane for heat, yet the average home value is quite high. Its an odd situation, and points out how many of these solutions miss even the suburban populations, much less the rural.
(Semi-)plausible strategies for moving a whole damn planet
Our deployment model assumes a single administrator. With reasonable network operations, Byzantine fault tolerance is largely irrelevant. (Although it's an important problem in other contexts.)
> the other being the "wild" horses that we're too stupid to cull.

I'd like to hear more about your take on this. This past August I had an opportunity to take a ride with a lady who had adopted and trained several of these wild horses through an adoption/auction program run by the State of Oregon. To my ears it sounded very effective - the state rounds up the horses to keep them off public grazing lands and cares for them until they can be sold off. Felt like a win-win for nature, the horses, the state, and horse owners.
I've been reading HN for a long time. I never attempted a startup, moved to the Bay Area or applied to YC, so I've always been on the outside looking in, but over the years software developer salaries continue to skyrocket and I've realized that financial independence is quite possible with a normal "boring" software development career. So I'm focused on maximizing compensation and savings while ensuring that I'm enjoying my day to day life.

My advice to people starting out: if you can save 50% of your take-home income in a month, you have a month of "runway" to do whatever you want, whether that's a startup on your own terms or something completely unprofitable.
This solution doesn't take into account basic supply & demand though.

There is a significant demand for housing in SF & the bay area. If housing is provided for free or even below market, demand will come from far & wide. Barrier-to-entry is basically a bus ticket.

Any real solution needs to at least attempt to balance supply & demand.
> But isn't the IRS knocking in a few years better than the IRS knocking THIS year?

There's a 3rd option: How about the IRS knocking never? I say that in jest as I know you have a 1:3 chance in getting audited just through the normal course of business. I suppose it depends on your risk tolerance.
Exactly, the cost difference has been transferred to China
No, self-inflicted communication overhead due to a bloated bureaucracy is not what separates engineering from hacking.
I'm surprised that I'm the only person who thought this was a Helm chart to run a personal email service on Kubernetes.
Sounds like shellscript.
Because the dryer makes my clothes all soft and comfortable and smell nice.
I can remember my dad in the late 80s early 90s wearing a suit as an EE. Slowly it changed from suit to shirt and tie to no tie. Now it’s polo and jeans.

Many companies are trying to emulate west coast tech companies. Especially Silicon Valley. I’ve seen a lot of initiatives geared toward “millennials” in a couple big companies I worked at. Including getting rid of the khaki business casual.
I joined a large company last year after years of freelancing and found immediately that one of the skill sets which I had to develop was my ability to talk about technical details. When freelancing I would often be the only person on the project - I would have to talk to clients about the interface and the behaviour, but never about the details. Additionally the way I organize my thoughts about technical things doesn't naturally lend itself to verbalization.

It's been a bit of a struggle and initially the sheer amount of time I had to spend talking to people was a bit exhausting, but FWIW, I did get better at it and I think it was actually very valuable for my growth as a dev. Really, it was unrealistic to think that I could be dropped into a completely different atmosphere and hit the ground running with all the skills I needed. You're probably an overachiever to get hired there in the first place, so the experience of not being great is probably somewhat new to you - the rest of us have to deal with this more regularly ;)

Good luck!
I agree that perhaps a newer CL standard is called for. On the other hand, there's more to the Lisp family than Common Lisp. The Scheme folks have updated their standard a few times.

Maybe it would be nice to see threading, Unicode, coroutines, and some other things put into a standard library with as little change to the core language as possible.
Just curious, what would the libel case complaint be, how would the argument be structured?
> I have yet to actually speak to anyone because i don't feel like there is anything i would want to say.

A lot of this probably has to do with where you are, or more specifically, where the people you're hearing are. I first got into ham in North Carolina. The people there were talking about hunting and meat preservation techniques.

Then I moved to San Francisco, and later to Seattle. The people in these places are more talking about things like high bandwidth microwave and forming mesh networks, making reliable contacts with man-portable rigs, antenna design, raspberry pi vs adruino, sending video from remote controlled aircraft, and dozens of other things that fascinate me.

It's not an age thing, it's an interest thing. And the types of things people are interested in is strongly correlated to their geographic area.
I have seen that with an acquaintance. She had insurance but there was a never ending string of things that cost $20k here, $10k there until she was wiped out and had to file for bankruptcy.

In the US even if you have insurance it's still a gamble whether you'll get wiped out or not.
IMHO Depends on the use case:

- If glyph sizes are known ahead-of-time. Then use character atlas, generated either with CPU things or GPU things. This can be optimized for power consumption.

- Glyph sizes are not known, or text is animated (rotation, etc). In this case Distance Fields are a good trade-off, as their shader is fairly trivial, hence battery consumption should be quite good. On another hand runtime vectorization is viable only if you have a good GPU and connected to the power outlet.
It's also "the exact kind of story you would want" in order to:

- PR a HW verification firm.
- manipulate a stock
- and many more
You mean, there haven't been a few weeks for someone, ANYONE at Apple to say "hey, Tim, you know, about that hack..."
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Yes. Rain doesn't contain methyl bromide, which can cause cancer and permanent damage to the lungs, kidneys, and nervous system.
In the US a plantiff must prove negligence or malicious intent to win a libel case. That's a very high bar.
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You lack empathy if you teach your child to enjoy the things you enjoy instead of helping them find what they truly love. Maybe the child doesn't care about any of that Usenet stuff and may prefer to use reddit or Snapchat.

Or perhaps the child won't be interested in any of that and will gravitate towards something else entirely, like playing music or playing sports.

The role of a parent is to initiate the child to the world. Past a certain point, the parent must take a step back and realize the child is a human being with it's own set of preferences and ambition. That doesn't mean the child is a king, but if the child is not interested in something, then what can you do?
Sometimes I’m just amazed that people haven’t risen up in bloody revolt yet. Recently my mother had a flare-up up radiation-induced pneumonitis and the PPO insurance she pays $14,000 annually wouldn’t approve a single unit of Advair. It took a week of talking to doctors and insurance drones to figure out that they were pushing her to an alternative that cost them $100 less.

If I woke up tomorrow and people were burning Wall Street to the ground I’d be less than shocked.
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> The user has no skin in the game so won't use it.

I agree 100% with this statement. The first startup I was involved with decided to give the product away for free to build an audience, and then attempt to monetize the audience.

The "business" felt more like a "hobby" and our users were not helpful because they had no investment whatsoever in the product.
> The big difference is, you instrument a program, but you do not instrument a system.

We do instrument systems, consider strace or https://zipkin.io/

> A comparison would be a computer system is like a biological ecosystem.

Excellent analogy and one that I really like. What are the 'programs of biology'? One way of decomposing this is 'spacial' - e.g. a cell is a program, a limb or an organ is another larger one etc. But what about the nervous system, circulatory system, etc.? Aren't they useful perspectives but they span different units in the spacial decomposition. Can I view and modify them directly? What about updates - consider attaching another limb vs changing the electrical conductivity of neurons - while preserving some consistency and enforcing constraints.
Next week: Hacker News thread about investigated companies included commenters who take money from them (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18257185)
All of these features are on my mid-2014 model.

Due to the design of the case, the bottom has bowed out from temperature changes, but the battery is fine.

Shame what they did to the new ones. I ended up getting a Razer Blade 13” to use at home, which seems tantalizing close to what new MacBook Pros should be.
> Ancient peoples would think this is ridiculous.

How would we conclude what ancient people think?
They don't? Different marketing channels is very different than some egalitarian no advertising model. Tesla was launched on 'incintive to buy no matter the price', their roadster was hardly practical, nor superior to supercars at the time.
Well the original post was that Gandhi did great things and that maybe they were worthy of praise despite his bad things. You then go into his problems were really big problems and all the time not just intermittent (although focusing mainly on sex related stuff when he was really old and probably somewhat corrupted by power) and the implication seemed to be that his problems somehow colored or soiled the great things he achieved. So the great things he achieved are generally regarded as being in some way related to Indian independence. It seems to me that your argument is basically throw the baby out because I saw some really dirty bathwater in a nearby basin, and hence my facetious implication that colonialism should have been kept by that measure.

Am I interested in historical truth, sure am. Especially relevant historical truth.

For example if I am discussing Chuck Berry's effect on Rock n' Roll music - which is basically the way Chuck Berry was historically important - the information that he liked to video tape people in the toilets of his restaurant and was a fecal freak towards the end of his life at least doesn't have any relevance to the subject. In the same way if someone says Gandhi did good things and those good things are worth valuing then if you say Yes but Gandhi supported Nazi Germany against Britain that is something that detracts from the good actions because it relates historically to the good things under discussion but saying hey he was a pervert and basically a rapist doesn't really have a relevance to the great things he helped to achieve (unless our narrative is one of those 'but these victories came at a terrible cost!' ones)

As far as people who crossed Gandhi looking like complete incomprehensible idiots - I seriously doubt that any significant number of people who crossed Gandhi in relation to his great achievements did so because of his sexual habits. In his private life sure, but nobody was arguing that it was his private conduct that was admirable.

on edit: sorry about the run on sentences.
I should add that it is not correct to say 'our throughput is constrained not by our consensus protocol'. A trivial example would be a workload of transactions, where each transaction has at least two non-conflicting writes on different partitions. FaunaDB will serialize those transactions, and you will bottleneck on the consensus protocol - compared to NDB.
The genetic issue has been addressed below already, but linguistically the Indo-Aryan languages and the Dravidian languages are unrelated.
i agree with you, interviewing the founders is not a proper way to go about it. paul is full of it. there is no way past 50 or maybe 100 employees that you are going to have or be able to request an interview with the founders. and if you did pull it off, your time allotment to ask questions of them would be 10 minutes.

but, how would you do a reference check on larry, sergey, or holmes? none of whom held a job before they founded their respective companies. as will be the case with most startup founders. are you going to stalk their college friends?
Uggggghhh, this isn't an attack upon democracy any more than being spammed on Reddit. It isn't corrupting a vote for office or legislation. It is, however, an easily corrupted online comment system that is merely informative and not in any way asserting an outcome or action.

If you want to reduce spam and bot participation there needs to be a formal registration process with multifactor authentication of unique identifiers and it must not be anonymous.
Ask HN: What's with all environmental disaster stories on HN?
Has anyone else noticed that HN has thing for environmental catastrophe stories -- e.g. shrinking aspen, dying insects, ocean plastic etc? Interesting given it's probably an ancillary interest of the main, tech/startup oriented audience it is. I'd be surprised if these one-off horror stories are really providing a complete, unbiased look at the global environment.
that's a credible perspective but let's not be vague: fitzpatrick wasn't a primary source, he is an expert on hardware implants who was consulted by the reporter prior to the original publication.
> I also find it very interesting that the FBI, the one organization at the center of this saga who is allegedly investigating the spy chip, has remained completely silent, neither confirming nor denying the story.

The FBI has a policy of never publicly commenting on ongoing investigations. You might remember certain exceptions to that policy causing an uproar about two years ago.
I really like the basic idea of being able to choose a town or region where an alloted part of one's taxes will go. I live outside my hometown for business reasons, so I'm paying taxes on the most well-funded region in my country. Even if the government redistributes tax money, I'd love to have a small say in where my money goes.
.. and return the money to shareholders, right?
I’m working on http://www.apilope.com - I think it’s cool for monitoring rest apis with test cases, which was kind of a scratch my own itch thingie.
Again and again history reveals a surprising fact: you can push people really far before they finally reach their breaking point. And when that breaking point is finally reached, the trigger will not be what you expected.