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> Granted, but even broken clocks are right twice a day.

I doubt most Christians think the bible is a broken clock

> Just because someone wrote a pre-scientific text which, today, supports antiauthoritarianism ... does not mean that antiauthoritarianism lacks its many other merits.

Most of our culture and philosophy comes from pre-scientific texts. Authoritarianism didn't need science and the ability to stop certain people from participating in commerce doesn't require computers.

> (Not to mention how even some Christians think that Revelation is the writings of a hallucinating madman.)

A small number, while other groups have different interpretations of what the text means or how literal it is.
If only there was some sort of peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a
financial institution.
Browsers are far from perfect but their sandboxes are getting pretty good. I think you typoed WebAssembly though?
At Netflix, Who Wins When It’s Hollywood vs. The Algorithm?
Then they can delete your money if they find you don't like socialism.
I'm a big fan of micro-saas services like this.

I was going to ask how this is different from <insert-service-here> but I realized that I couldn't think of a service that made it this simple. Kudos!
There’s variety of reasons to self-host. Having in internal git service can be nice if your connectivity is bad or spotty. An extreme case of that would be an airgapped network. Company policy might require that code does not leave the company network. You might legal be compelled to have full control over your code and where it goes (think: code under export restrictions).

All of these people self-host and it solves a problem for them.
Wow, the X1s have come a long way. Possibly the only non-Mac 15" with a tenkeyless right now.
What's funny is I checked out https://developers.google.com/ and compared it to the others.....and 7 years later it is still accurate to describe it has "having been designed by a 5 year old". I'm a big fan of Google, it's too bad no one listened to this. Google Wave was amazing, I still to this day do not understand why it was shuttered before it even had a chance to get off the ground.

Speaking of eating their own dog food, still not sure why they are writing their own OS for Pixel. They have now shoved linux on top of it to make it useful to devs and I think that is akin to sprinkling people food around the bowl of dog food. The dog food was so bad your devs & community literally built around it.

And again, I'm a fan of Google. There are just some things they could do so much better.
There are a couple of outlets that sell new Apple Replacement Parts, this being one of them https://www.dvwarehouse.com and yes, they charge the full price.

Note: I am not affiliated with this company, sharing as a reference. I had two happy transactions with them related to my 2008 Mac Pro, a new logic board and a new power supply for a different Mac Pro.
> I see. The question here is not if there will be proprietary software: there will be. The question is which of that proprietary software runs on the CPU.

I'm pretty sure no closed source software runs on the CPU. As for the hardware that depends on your definition. Hardware often has firmware in ROM. That you now feed that firmware on bootup instead of it being in ROM just allows you to update the firmware from the manufacturer. If that's running proprietary software depends on your definition.
Decade is ten years. 50 decades is 500 years.

Kudos to their archivist. Might be a time traveler too.
You should give KDE Neon a go. It's Ubuntu LTS with the latest KDE, so you've got a stable base with a current UI on top. KDE4 drove me over to Cinnamon (Linux Mint) for a while, but I'm back on KDE5/Plasma, and I've realized I should have gone back earlier.

It's tight, streamlined and has a pleasantly small base install that doesn't get in your way with badly chosen default apps.
Olympia Moves to Further Loosen the Stranglehold of Single-Family Zoning Laws
Maybe they already have it...
That reminds me of Futurama episode where Bender finds a phone booth:
"Now I don't need to carry my phone with me all the time!"

Progress is sometimes a regress in disguise.
I meant something like "information and communications technology company," but apparently made up a new acronym that doesn't even match to that.

Sorry for the confusion, ITC is not a thing, except in international trade contexts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communicatio...
Bitcoin is borderless. Lets say for example, a government decides to ban all bitcoin/fiat exchanges in their jurisdiction, what will people who want to obtain Bitcoin do? Answer: They will obtain Bitcoin either directly (on the black market, as payment for labour or services), or they will obtain it overseas, where said government has no jurisdiction. In both of these cases, if hidden from the government in question, this is actively harmful to the government because it becomes assets which the government has no ability to levy taxes on.

Another problem is that governments which attempt to restrict bitcoin usage will suffer the economic and brain drain which will occur as people move themselves, their businesses and their money overseas to somewhere more friendly to Bitcoin, whose economies will prosper as a result. Also aided by having a stronger monetary base which can't be devalued by central bankers.

Governments don't want to say "we're going to make Bitcoin legal," because they don't yet know how to deal with collecting tax in a world of Bitcoin use. They also don't want to just say "we're going to make it illegal," because they would be doing so at their own peril.

Good luck enforcing any prohbition anyway. We've seen how prohibition of alcohol played out in the 1920s. We also know that many drugs, despite being illegal for many decades, are easily obtainable anywhere there is a demand for them, and largely at the loss of the governments banning them, who could've been collecting taxes all along on drugs sold.

The main reason cannabis is becoming legal in many places now is because it is hugely profitable, and governments want their slice of the pie.
This is how I feel as well. I loved my 2012 MBP but it’s about time for an update. However, I don’t like any of the new laptops. I don’t understand why they had to screw with the keyboard so much. It is the worst thing that I have ever tried to type on. If they just upgraded the internals of the 2012 MBP but left the ports/aesthetics the same, I would buy it.
Anti-fraud is done for the bank's benefit, with little incentive to prevent false positives. In my own experience, 100% of my blocked transactions have been false over the last few years (since I moved out of the US, where fraud is more rampant). It's extremely annoying - it's my money, but I can't use it because the bank is being overly conservative.
Their post history is full of racial comments and should be flagged/investigated - potential concern trolling going on.
Cashless society is not an utopia, it's an antiutopia. Every penny you pay or receive cashless (unless it's some sort of privacy-centric crypto) is monitored.
To the downvoters: care to say why? I read the entire article, read the comment I'm referring to, and have personal experience that the solution I'm proposing works as I'm describing. I'm left with only that everyone must think my question reeks of crypto currency evangelism, and that's a BAD thing here on HN. Is it something else? My grammar or phrasing?
I suppose that would be because of EU regulations against money laundering.
Tracking Bad Apples: Reporting the Origin of Null and Undefined Errors (2007) [pdf]
What about nim?
It's an almost exact equivalent of "unwashed masses" in English.
I was working on a project which uses github.com. I never knew before how often github is actually down.

A business is often enough to spend that extra cash to be independend from a thirdparty.

The risk of not being able to deploy anything, because github is down, is real.
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Yes, I have a lot of fun! Apart from being able to instantly download any movie/series, book, journal paper that I want[0] (and I do a lot of that), I have friends in a lot of countries that I chat with on FB, in English and Spanish. (I started learning Spanish after meeting Latin Americans online. Finding teachers was super-easy thanks to sites like livemocha and lang-8, which I was only on for a few days because immediately I found an amazing teacher who became a dear friend.)

I used to play online chess a lot until recent years - it's very addictive, also I chatted with people from many countries during/after playing them, made one very close friend from that. (One of the most recent people I played/chatted with was a blind pianist in Iran, not sure how blind people can do that!) Nowadays just watch commentated chess tournaments online, a format that didn't exist 10 years ago. I prefer to watch commentary in Spanish; then I can improve my Spanish at the same time.[1]

[0] I grew up on a farm pre-WWW, and every day I marvel at how different things are now. Like I watched that Rob Pike talk on Unix history yesterday, and it took me about 10 seconds to find and download the Ken Thompson paper on regular expressions.

[1] There are unexpected effects, like: OMG I can't stand writing names of languages with Capital Letters, it seems soo weird. (Spanish doesn't use capitals for that, or a lot of other things English uses capitals for.)
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Looks like an interesting idea. Will join. Good luck!

Some of your links sometimes fail with a "Secure Connection Failed" error. Not consistently though!!!
Just would like to say that being able to leverage an immutable DB at work is amazing, just give it a try and value (timestamp) and you can roll back to any point in the dbs history. Has saved so much heartache between debugging and undoing changes
Advanced SVG Shape Thinning Using the Medial Axis Transform
6502 source code for BBC Micro game Crazee Rider from 1987
Festivals I've been to will, say, require deposits of 100 peso increments and then the beers cost 80 pesos. And you can't get your money out.

Even if you could get your money back, you're still waiting at lines to recharge the bracelet. It's a joke.

With cash, you just come prepared and withdraw at any ATM long before the festival. Bracelets didn't solve any problem except disconnect the money handling event from the purchasing event so that you lose track of it, like how microtransactions are never priced in actual currency.
How is it painless? I've been using gitlab since v7 and looking at the install instructions of gogs remind me of gitlab a lot.

I recently got rid of my personal gitlab because it's too painful to operate. I only need a simple ssh user with a directory for my own purposes.

Gitlab is only necessary at work where we are an entire team using it.
Online Codes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_codes) are very similar to Raptor codes for rateless erasure coding. The construction consists of an inner an outer code. However unlike RaptorQ, they are not optimized for an entire range of block lengths.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17006848

tl;dr "additional functionality" yes, and also some missing functionality.
The opposite is true. Take the interval [0, 1], "sample a random real number x" from it. P(x is rational) = 0, P(x is irrational) = 1.

Informally, the overwhelming majority of real numbers are irrational.
And then the same seller will pop up a day later under a new name.
It is the future, but there are at the same time a lot of unsolved problems involved. Tourists not being able to pay unless they happen to have a VISA card is one, old people not understanding technology another. And the dependence on the private sector for cash that the article refers to is also a real problem.

But I do agree with the premise that it is progress in action, it just isn't the case that we are moving towards a steady state but the end goal is still constantly evolving.
So there's ten incompatible package managers and one incomplete one. The situation will improve in future, but isn't there yet for all use cases.
Apple’s unit sales of iPads have been declining sense 2012. This wasn’t the first year of iPhone sells decline - they dropped a lot the year the 7 was introduced.

Not to mention that iPod sales dropped from high of almost 55 million a year in 2008 to less than 10 million before they became basically meaningless and they stopped giving numbers.

So if they were going to not give numbers because a product line was declining in volume. They would have done it years ago.

But more importantly, the only product line that Apple has ever had volume dominance in was the iPod. When has Apple ever cared about volume and market share and not revenue?
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You're right, it may not have had that result. But I think if the pharmaceutical companies had potentially significant results there would be a strong financial incentive to follow up with a another targeted study. It would be interesting to test, look and see whether the average number of trials per unit of time, probably year, increase after this change was made. I'm curious, but not enough to actually do the work :) Always more interesting question out there than time to follow up on them.
As is the risk of not being able deploy because your self hosted service is down.
Yeah, around here any old homeless alcoholic would have a bank account, because that's the only way how they'd get social security payments, and also any student (or working teenager) would have a bank account, because that's the only way how they'd get paid for a summer job or internship or study loan or whatever.

A bank account is a basic thing that's required (at least in come countries) for any participation in the economy and should be available to anyone; IIRC there's an EU directive about a requirement that everybody must be able to access basic banking services.
Wow I remember when this was published and such a good rant. Had to read again for laughs. SOA is sort of the older term... a subset which is a better description of where platforms should be heading is microservices. Issues like rate limiting still exist but need to get away from things like api gateways as well as they are becoming a sort of antipattern for scaling massively. They're useful for certain problems but not necessarily as useful as lower level message queuing engines that need to handle high volumes of transactional throughput.
Got a "Content Encoding Error" when trying to activate account via email. May I suggest, testing well before launching?
He mentions persistence. Probably for use in an ORM-like fashion, where only the table columns that have changed are to be updated.
It's baffling though that the compiler doesn't at least warn when you forget to check the err. So many edge cases with that (especially due to `:=` vs `=` if reassigning a prior err).
I would say the trick is making the problem statement coherent. Sure, coming up with a firearm that can't kill innocent people is impossible because the innocence of someone is subjective. So instead, you can choose to approximate a solution and then iterate until you have a solution that is technically imperfect but so close to your initial goal that the difference is negligible.

For instance, in your firearm example, we can't determine who is innocent and who isn't. But we can use embed a facial recognition device into the firearm that then cross references whoever the firearm is pointed at against a database of known non-innocents.

And then exclude any targets obviously under 18.

And then make the model probabilistic and add greater weight to targets that appear to be carrying weapons of their own or that are acting in an obviously dangerous manner.

You get the point. After enough time, you would have a firearm that is (arguably) better off than the one you started off with and so closely approximates the goal of your initial problem description that you don't care to make a distinction.

I could be wrong, but I imagine this is how AGI safety researchers think about their work to some degree.
In practice, similar fees are attached to businesses that move their cash to their bank account. Many companies (including public ones - many buses don't accept cash anymore) actively stop accepting cash because it increases the risk of getting robbed, and that is an increasing pressure as fewer and fewer handle cash.
Here in NL, the name field recently has gotten even stronger validation. I think this coincided with a system where minor spelling mistakes are corrected by a suggested "Did you mean ...?"
>>You know how people are always saying Google is arrogant? I'm a Googler, so I get as irritated as you do when people say that. We're not arrogant, by and large. We're, like, 99% Arrogance-Free. I did start this post -- if you'll reach back into distant memory -- by describing Google as "doing everything right". We do mean well, and for the most part when people say we're arrogant it's because we didn't hire them, or they're unhappy with our policies, or something along those lines. They're inferring arrogance because it makes them feel better.

Given how Steve moved to Grab it's funny how his "they hate us cuz they ain't us" bit in itself comes off as arrogant.
It's kind of absurd that any company has to make a specific arrangement with Amazon in order to protect their brand. Nike reached a similar deal with Amazon [1]. Last year's ruling by the ECJ allowing luxury brands to block sale of their goods on online retailers might have led to this deal between Apple and Amazon [2]. Apple probably used that ruling and a similar deal they made with Walmart/Jet to gain leverage with Amazon [3].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-nike-resisted-amazons-domin...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/luxury-brands-win-right-to-bloc...

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-jet-apple-reseller-2...
I just stick to buying Amazon Basics or from the Anker store.
Water withdrawals by U.S. power plants have been declining
A MacBook Pro is slimmer than an X1 carbon in every dimension? Its slightly heavier, but that’s due to physics (carbon vs aluminium).

MacBook Pro 13” 2017 - height: 1,49cm, width: 30,41cm, depth: 21,24cm, weight: 1,37kg

X1 Carbon 2017 - height: 1,52cm, width: 32,26cm, depth: 21,59cm, weight: 1,13kg

Perhaps the X1 has some perceived slimness going on, like the MacBook Air..
That equating Swedish (in terms of residency, citizenship and belonging to nation) with whiteness is just wrong.
I’m assuming this is getting down voted because of doubt around whether supplements do anything. But to this point, might adding a few oranges to an otherwise fruitless diet not help stave off the disease? Genuine question.
> I doubt most Christians think the bible is a broken clock

Their choice, and I'm sure it must be good for their pretty little stained-glass filter that they keep in-place between their eyes and reality.

> Authoritarianism didn't need science and the ability to stop certain people from participating in commerce doesn't require computers.

All the more reason to oppose the general centralization and empowerment of authority, on principle, not just on the topic of this HN article.

> A small number

No doubt, and I feel that my phrasing conveyed that appropriately: "some Christians".

> while other groups have different interpretations of what the text means or how literal it is.

No doubt of that either; as we all know, Christianity is very diverse in the precise natures of its adherents' fantasies; be they Revelations-enhanced or otherwise. It's still all fantasy, though, which, I suppose, is what really matters in the end.

But, my point here in all of this, is that some of the things their Bible says, do happen to be inherently wise, when extracted from the original context. The "Mark of the Beast", I daresay, is one of them. And like any piece of the Bible that is actually of-use, its wisdom is best put into our own words and then the Biblical association discarded lest it cause weakness.

* * * * *

While I do focus on Christianity specifically, since that is the immediate topic, I should make it clear that I do not discriminate:

Religion sucks. All of it. And I pity those who need it, and those who only think they need it.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/society/religion/
Basic introduction to programming article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_(computer_science)...

I first heard of that in context of writing to the screen, actually, when you don't want to redraw all the things every frame, or simply can't afford to, and only draw the things that have changed (i.e. are "dirty"). So if you were to keep track of the old position of an object, you might redraw the area of background where that object was, and then just draw the object at the new position, instead of drawing the background for the whole screen, and then the object.

Browsers are also kinda heavy on this when it comes to both layout and drawing. E.g. when the content of a div with fixed size changes, you only have to layout and draw the text in the div -- but if the size isn't fixed, you might relayout and redraw everything on the page that follows the div, but might not need to touch anything that comes before it. I'm sure it's incredibly complex, but still much faster than not doing it.
The trouble with cash is that you cannot really control high-school dropouts to charge $10 for a $2 beer without skimming a bit on the side. Hence this whole "here's some fake money that only works here" BS.
What made it so painful?
I don't know about this specific case, but if you used a credit or debit card, it would be processed by Visa or Mastercard, which are both US companies, subject to US laws and regulations. That's how the US entities would know.
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They are used to transmit data through very lossy connections, satellites being the primary application.
My problem with cashless and just about everything electronic tech is: What happens when the network/power fails? What's the goto alternative? No one seems to point that out? It should not stop progress but it's important to make contingency plans in case of mass failure.

I wonder if salt as money will be fashionable again? :)
So the i.MX 8M SoM package will be smaller and dissipate less heat in the final handset?

I wouldn't expect the same chip going into a smartphone to require a heatsink or any thermal consideration at all on a sparsely populated, open-air circuit board.
A view of what they had to stop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W667v-zBfNE
There’s two episodes of How I Built This with the founders of other employee-owned companies that are worth listening to:

- Bob’s Red Mill https://www.npr.org/2018/05/17/612108005/bobs-red-mill-bob-m...

- New Belgium Brewing Company https://www.npr.org/2018/09/07/645620049/live-episode-new-be...
Are you saying that a majority, possibly a huge majority, of the people arrived after 1767? Or rather, that a huge majority now are the descendants of people who arrived then?

Then perhaps I should ask the reverse question, about which districts still have much Guaraní and Kaiowá presence -- is there perhaps a map? If things are as bad for them as you say (which I can fully believe, sadly) then all you would need is for them not to be perfectly uniformly distributed, to produce what this paper sees.

The paper's hypothesis then seems increasingly crazy. Did the Jesuits do something magical to the soil, so that the subsequent inhabitants of that area would be more literate?
When you think about it, it amazes me. So many people, including me, would love to have these switches. Like physical switch for the mic, camera and radio. And yet, the companies that are supposed to listen to the customer seem to do exactly the opposite to what the customer wants, like installing all these unremovable crappy apps nobody uses or removeing the headphone jack. Are these people so out of touch with reality?