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I've said it before, and I'll say it again; online platforms needed to be treated like their offline equivalents. Why can an ISP not censor traffic but a web host can? Why can the utility company or a credit card processor not 'shut down' customers they disagree with while the likes of Cloudflare or PayPal or Stripe can?

There's no logic behind this. No, you can't just say 'offline stuff has a monopoly', because it doesn't. It might in some parts of the US (where choice in ISPs is limited), but it certainly doesn't in much of Europe, other parts of the US or other countries around the world. You've got multiple choices for banks and building societies, multiple choices for electric companies and multiple choices for ISPs, yet we're sane and don't let them discriminate by political views at will.

It's time similar standards were set up for online services too. If you market yourself as a platform or network or service that should be morally neutral, then you should be obligated to act that way, just like your offline equivalents generally do. There should always be a way to host a platform for your views, no matter how many people hate them and you in the process.

Google and Apple should also be looked into in regards to their app stores too. They're defacto monopolies on their platforms (unless you jailbreak them), and their standards for what's 'acceptable' are clearly broken and biased to all hell. Apparently something like Gab isn't allowed, but dozens of copyright/trademark/whatever infringing ripoffs are? It's fine for apps to ripoff consumers and target kids with exploitative in app purchases but not provide a platform for 'questionable' views?

Yeah, that doesn't add up much, and it's clear they're falling short as both a platform and a publisher.

Finally, something should definitely be done about the whole 'contact their employer and try and get them fired' crap. I'm not really sure what, but there should be a legal way to stop people trying to screw over people's livelihoods based on online disagreements. Maybe an actual ban on contacting someone's employer/company/coworkers unless it's about illegal activity? I don't know, anything I can think of seems like it'd hurt freedom of speech more in the attempt to save it.

But something does need to change, before the laws basically become ineffective and trial by media/mob becomes the judge, jury and executioner.
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It is a shame they don't offer ECC memory for the Ryzen and Threadripper based systems.

I built myself a Threadripper 2990WX based system a few months ago, and the hardest part of the built was ECC support. In particular:

1) confirming ECC support on the mobo was not disabled by the mobo vendor

2) finding "reasonable" speed ECC UDIMMs (ended up w/2666) in a high enough density to reach at least 64GB.

I would have been happy to pay a premium to a company like system 76 in order to save days of research into different parts.
Ok. Excellent - I too think that terraforming is dubious practical use.

I put it forward for two reasons - To leaven the bleakness and because pursuit terraforming is inevitable.

It’s just the perfect PR product. Spend money; create jobs, fix the environment.
I stand corrected and feel quite old. Hard to believe it’s been 21 years since Harry Potter. Next up: Harry Potter and the Midlife Crisis.
> They call bugs 'details' which, I find, is a frightening state of mind for someone publishing an algorithm.

It really depends on the algorithm. For example, a bug in the random number generator of a stochastic search algorithm that affects, say, the variance of a distribution won't have a relevant impact on the outcome.
Text-only adventures from the 80s really make minds work.
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How could there be zero tobacco companies on this list? They're paying over $200 billion in total.

Edit: apparently it's only for fines issued after 2000 and the big tobacco settlement was in 1998.
I don't see how that has anything to do with it. Living costs in rural areas isn't the problem. This seems like a variation of the "luxury apartments are actually good for affordable housing" argument. Which of course is popular on HN, but not particularly true.
Nothing you said made any sense. I'm not saying this to be rude.

I recommend (if you're interested) that you really study things more thoroughly, not just skim some material, as you plainly did. That way you avoid mixing up concepts like you are doing right now.
strongly agree.

i am looking at this laptop:

https://system76.com/laptops/galago

it's obvious these guys took their design cues from apple's laptops, but they've paid about a tenth as much attention to the details as apple would. unnecessary bumps and blemishes, odd discolorations here and there, couldn't be bothered to do anything about that hideous rectangle at the top of the screen where the camera is located, etc.

i am contemplating a career move (no more ios development) that would mean i am free to leave apple's ecosystem. if some other company could make laptops as beautiful as apple's, without duplicating the mistakes apple has been making over the last few years, it would really grease the skids for me.
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There isn't really any law that disallows housing cooperative from generating profit per se , but generally there isn't any reason for it to do so. Some very old ones actually do pay dividends and do not ask fees from owners, but that usually requires that the cooperative is debt free and has a way to generate income (i.e. owns some of the apartments/business premises that it rents out) and that it has saved up enough to pay off planned maintenances.
That part I was less pleased by. Though as any savvy HN reader knows just holding down the back button on an iPhone, or the equivalent elsewhere, solves that problem neatly.
Or become target for local mob that did not get the job. Become target for police which might also be corrupt.

In some places you can get badly beaten up, robbed and whatever else for having only a bit more than others.

I am not saying they are entirely right with what they do, but there are legitimate reasons for that kind of approach.
similar to reproducible builds or nix

research just jumped onto jupyter notebooks, it's halfway there, someone helps the remaining step
Faith Goldy literally said the 14 words and claimed they weren't controversial in a recording.

If we aren't putting her in the white nationalist classification I'm not sure who does end up there.
His editor setup may be arcane, but just look at his raw productivity!
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"The US government coming in and telling a private entity, no you must tolerate free speech on your property is historical fact and precedent."

The first amendment says that the government cannot restrict free speech it has nothing whatsoever to do with a private entity tolerating "free speech" on their property.

The totality of the public space being private property in the aforementioned scenario sounds like a unique situation and a poor position to reason from.

In general not only do you not have a free speech interest in communicating on someone else's property the government forcing facebook to carry your message would actually be compelling them to communicate their approval of your message.

You would be protecting a wholly imaginary free speech interest while trespassing on a real one.
Oh that's awesome.

For non-slavic speakers, I especially like how it stops at the border, so you can get half a screen of normal map and half a screen of strange words.
> instead of fixing it, tried to bury the guy who raised the alarm.

Ain’t that always the way.
I used up all my Mishas for covering books unfortunately :/ Have just a couple of them. It's not that difficult to find the Science/Math books - Yakov Perelman, Little Mathematics Library etc in old book stalls in Andhra but you have to be really lucky to find children's story books.
The problem is that due to the way most property taxes and house prices work those people are getting a free ride off of the prosperity of the city: a tragedy of the commons.

Assuming this quiet neighbourhood is near an urban area with nice jobs/schools/amenities etc, the value of the 'hood is created by the network effects of the city. Growth of the city means growth in the value of that 'hood. The people living there usually aren't doing a lot to increase the value of their properties. But as property assessments lag market values, or the way taxes are structures, those owners can see flat costs for their housing while their values rise. Meanwhile by refusing to add density to their neighbourhood they are driving up the costs for others. When they eventually sell or move they get all of the gains in property value all the while having very low carrying costs.

If they wanted a quiet neighbourhood they could move to a smaller town or further out from the city centre, but I don't think they do. If the market were better organized then their behaviour would be dampened by higher taxes as their property values rise. Owners would then have an economic choice: resist density in your 'hood and pay more for that privilege, move somewhere cheaper, or allow more density which will keep costs flat.
Letting people travel between cars changes the shape of the problem quite a bit.
Cheaper phones rarely get more 2 software updates, and security patches can take years to roll out. This is mainly because manufacturers have no incentive to spend money on patching/updating software that a small number of people use. https://www.statista.com/statistics/271774/share-of-android-... Google is working on a new OS for the pixel which will attempt to solve this fragmented Android issue.
If any Facebook employees are reading this, there's a really annoying "feature" that will show a list of suggested friends to add to a private group. I've accidentally added people to private groups by accidentally clicking a single time while scrolling.

Imagine being in an AA group or HIV support group and adding your coworker to it on accident.

Please change this.
No offence but literally everyone can design a language without bothering to implement it - in fact I am pretty sure that most programmers have done something like that at some point of their journey. I would suggest to post about it again once you have completed its implementation as well as share your experiences on it. If you have not implemented a language before I would suggest that you start with something simpler, such as a stack-based language or a lisp instead and ignore more complex features like exceptions or classes.

As for the language itself, is there any reason why would you want booleans to be primitives? I would suggest to investigate something like haskell's ADTs and move them to the standard library.
At least IBM is pretty evil when it comes to software patents. They heavily lobby now Congress to get a law for restoring software patents and abolish Alice jurisprudence. Pretty insane.
Whether parent is right about his idea of physics (which I don't know and haven't seen written here), what he says in the above comment boils down to:

"Don't confuse the map with the territory".

His reasoning seems to be:

Math is used as a tool in physics to model reality.

But the mere use of math doesn't make such a model real. It could be still way off.

And his example is:

Similar to how we use math to model physical reality, we also use OpenGL (or 3D graphic APIs in general) to model real world objects (e.g. in movies).

Well, just like OpenGL doesn't correspond to some deeper reality (it's just a tool to make models, which could be totally non realistic), same is the case with math. It's just a tool we use to build physical models, it doesn't automatically lend legitimacy to those models (i.e. it's not like "this physics theory uses math so it must be correct representation of reality').
Population growth can increase demand everywhere at once.

And affordable housing away from a high demand urban center is no use to anyone and not going to attract anyone if there aren’t good jobs there.
You might find the book Why We Sleep interesting.
See my comment below -- I find what the parent said quite clear, even though his english don't particularly help him make his case.
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Notice how your comment is content-less and makes no arguments or actual corrections.

Not saying this to be rude, just found your comment rude.

As for what the parent said, it's quite clear. If it doesn't hold up, it's not because of lack of clarity:

"Repulsion is time reversed attraction so IIRC if antimatter is a time reversed normal matter then it should behave as a negative gravitational mass".

I.e. => seeing something being repulsed will be the same as seeing something between attracted played in reverse. (e.g. if we film a falling ball --attracted to Earth by gravity-- and play the video in reverse, it will look the like it's repulsed by the Earth and goes upwards).

Hence, the parent argues, if antimatter is "time reversed normal matter" (something often used as a description of antimatter, at least in layman terms), then it should behave like it is mass with inverse gravitational force.
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Yes:

1. Before I ported my CV to LaTeX to fully automate assembly, I had an AppleScript that would export a CV generated in InDesign to PDF with certain settings.

2. I have a small AppleScript that toggles Dark Mode on Mohave.
> There is nothing I own that I could fix myself

Are you talking specifically about electronics, or is this all-inclusive?

I do many of the repairs on my car, most of the maintenance around my house, and in general repair pretty much everything I own, except my phone and laptop (and even then, I have repaired my old ThinkPad). YouTube is a fantastic resource for fixing nearly everything, and I only play for someone to fix something if it's dangerous or requires skills or expensive tools I don't have (e.g. welding).
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Were we still talking about platforms like Facebook or Twitter, I would agree with you. But I think it's a bit different now that platforms like Gab are themselves getting deplatformed, because those are the places these people would go to communicate with people who share their viewpoints.

I have no desire to listen to that speech, so I just don't visit Gab. It's not like I've ever been forced to.
> how much the sea level will rise etc

this will be the least of our problems. we understand very little about nature to have any reasonable prediction model. we don't know the inflection point which will cause massive collapse of major ecosystems we depend on.

all we know is that things are changing fast. faster than many non-human organisms are able to adapt.
Until about 1990, if you owned a mainframe or a mini, anything that needed chilled air and a raised floor, you knew the vendor field engineer. Because the computer itself, the disk drives, or the tape drives broke and / or required periodic maintenance. pdp 11 was an outlier, as it was highly reliable (and slow as a turtle).

removeable disk packs were always a problem due to head crashes.

my point is, every computer had downtime due to poor reliability, when evaluated against what we have today. and most things were not 'user serviceable', unless your user was highly skilled in electronics, test equipment and digital logic.

In my field, once we moved to SGI's you started to see the salesman a lot more than the FE because the machines were so reliable. And today it is all commodity parts that anyone can cheaply swap-tronix things back to operational.
Git is way more complicated than VMware.
The figure 8% of GDP sounded mind boggling. But apparently it's true.

Quoth the wiki:
"Approximately 43 million have student loans, with an average balance of $30,000. In 2017, average student loan debt reached $39, 400, an increase of 6% compared to 2016. Americans owe more than $1.48 trillion (44 million borrowers) which is roughly $620 billion more than the overall credit card debt in the country."

Just to compare to a communist I mean socialist country (Finland in this example), where we had an article about the massive increase in student loans (doubled in the last 10 years).

400 000 people with loans totalling 3 billion (about 7600eur per person). To scale that with the population of the US so about 60x we get the number 180 billion vs. 1480 billion.

Man you have it tough there :) Good thing that you all will be multi billionaires (or so everyone apparently thinks when voting) so no need for tax reform or any other kind of communist/socialist crap :)
> For a multi-platform C++ project, these are quite reasonable prerequisites, as bad as it looks at first glance.

For anything C++ coming out of Google, it's shockingly reasonable.
Not quite. The goal is to add a suite of JMH benchmarks for the JDK itself into the OpenJDK repo. I don't think they're trying to integrate the JMH APIs into OpenJDK in any formal capacity.
> The number one problem with SCCS is a locked checkout paradigm

That's common amongst the older breed of VCS: VSS or Perforce do the same.

It's useful when working on binary files which can't be merged. Some centralised VCS (e.g. SVN) can be opted into locked checkout on a per-file basis.

Definitely not a great default though.
Here's the core argument of the article, rephrased slightly: housing cannot both outpace inflation and remain affordable indefinitely.

This is not incompatible with some people being able to find affordable housing that is a good investment. All it means is that in the long term - especially when real wages remain relatively constant [1] - these two policy aims are mathematically at odds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_wages
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Housing is a cost and a necessity. The goal with housing is to minimize both cost and risk.

Renting and ownership both carry their costs and risks. We have not had inflation for a long time, but I remember the Carter years where we had inflation and people who rented were in a world of hurt. Owners had no such problems. The 2008 crash hurt owners, but only if they had to sell. At least where we are, prices are more than fully recovered.

Since you need housing for your whole life, you have to take into account these sorts of historical occurrences. If you are an owner, you can ride out most of these things. If you are a renter, your rent will go up unavoidably.

Ownership is the best approach to avoiding cost/risk, but only if you (a) build up a 20% minimum down payment, (b) attack your mortgage and pay it off early, (c) have a minimum 6 month emergency fund (which you should have whether owning or renting).

If you approach ownership like a rental, only looking at the monthly payment, you are taking a big risk and subjecting yourself to higher cost and risk. The same can be said about renting, though. What will you do if you lose your job and do not have a 6 month fund built up and have to pay rent?

Having a paid off home and not having to worry about rising rents contributes to peace of mind, and opens the door to other life modes, such as early retirement or taking extensive time off.
It can, but I've never heard of a building where this is actually the case.
A blockchain is just a bunch of cryptographically-signed messages chained together. You can determine the state of the system by taking these messages and applying their effects in the correct order.

We have lots of names for this pattern because it keeps being reinvented. Within the last decade we have both "blockchain" and "event sourcing" describing something very similar, with "blockchain" having the additional property that the messages are cryptographically signed.

In ordered event-driven systems, you almost never want to tamper with history. If you need to reconcile the state of the system with some external reality, you add a new transaction! I'm not sure where the assumption about tampering comes in.
No I don't think that's the case.

This JEP is about writing a suite of benchmarks that use JMH, but it looks like JMH will remain a normal build-time dependency and will not be integrated.

> The JDK build system will need to be able to download or in some other way access to a binary version of JMH
No. Are you Riemann?
I agree but what does this have to do with the topic at hand? We are not talking about life investments here.
Ok, it's a show HN. But there is literally only a license and readme. I don't get why you would even post this. What language is the interpreter or VM? being implemented in?
Just an example: the average price per square meter in Berlin has increased up to 4x between 2007-2018[1], and it was possible to buy a 42 m² apartment for 25k EUR in 2006[2].

[1] https://guthmann-estate.com/marketreport/real-estate-report/

[2] https://www.toytowngermany.com/forum/topic/48094-advice-on-b...
Landlords improve rentals when they think it will allow them to raise the rent enough to make back more than the renovation cost in the long term.

Or when they think it will allow them to attract a “better” type of tenant who’s more likely to pay rent on time and take care of the space instead of damaging it.

Or because the real estate is their nest egg and they want to maintain and increase its value. Or because they live in the building and the improvements will improve their own quality of life.

Every apartment I’ve rented in NYC has been in a building over 75 years old. Even at fairly low rents (by NYC standards), every one had been gut renovated less than 10 years before I moved in.
Their parents fought in WWII. That's enough to cause some distortions in life expectancy.
“No one benefits” is not an accurate statement at all.

The purpose of a coop is to be able to choose your neighbors in the building.

The reasons for doing so could be indefensible, like keeping out blacks and Jews, or they could be things like ensuring the financial health of the building, blocking people who will engage in endless construction, or avoiding drama by excluding celebrities that draw paparazzi.
They are not 'programme'-ing anything. They are tagging images and labeling objects in those same images.

They 'sweatshopped' the whole image tagging industry to 3rd world countries.
I'd love to see Republican senators voting to fund an antifa 24/7 channel. I mean, they can't even get behind Sesame Street so I'm sure that wouldn't be a problem.
indeed. skimmed through the article for 10 seconds, eyes picked "read over 10,000 books" - instantly called it bullshit and closed
Makes you wonder why they haven't, despite controlling all three branches of government.
> The above probably fails in a statically-typed language

I am not sure that this is always correct. I am pretty sure that your example would be accepted in some static type systems with union types such as https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mlsub-preprint.pdf
>That's the peril of unskilled labor everywhere. You can't fix it by fiat.

Actually you can. Forbid companies to outsource labor outside their target market country, or impose heavy tariffs, and voila.

That will mean less cheap gadgets in said market country (e.g. US), but more actual jobs, and a healthier middle class (and thus economy), and thus better access to necessities.

This will also force third world countries to actually become competitive in quality and delivery, not just throw sweatshop-like labor (including from children and in some cases, slaves) and cheaper dangerous working conditions at the problem.
Isn't this what happens in SF an SV? Big tech money certainly 'disrupted' the local housing market to name only that facet of the economy and social life.

So the article is right about the local disruption, but who are they to decide what's good and what's not for local people who deserve a fair compensation?