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> It's difficult to use

Not _that_ difficult. It's more complex to set-up than using Bitcoin directly but with an analogy to savings and checking accounts I think most people would be able to use it.

> it requires always-on nodes

First of all it's not always on, a phone that connects once a day or once a week is fine (the period depends on the channel parameters that your wallet software uses).

And even then that's only if you want to 100% trustlessly receive funds. To send you don't need to do it and by using watch-towers you can receive without having to periodically go online as well.

> and it requires the commitment of large amounts of currency to fund its channels and make the system work.

Only as much as you want to send.

> It's basically a joke at this point.

To people that haven't tried it or are overly critical of an in-development protocol with a small network of interested volunteers behind it.
> Everyone I know in astrophysics or engineering who can uses something else--Python, C++, and Julia, are big winners.

I know many other languages, but for engineering work I have started some projects in Fortran simply because it is a very good fit. Python is not fast enough, C++ is a huge mess, and Julia has just been released, it is not mature enough yet.

You would be surprised of how many people are writing solvers from scratch. It is not the most common job in research, but it still is an active field.

And your point about results mismatch is true, this is a very real problem, but independent of the programming language used. To give a concrete example, many people have reimplemented almost identical material subroutines for FEM packages and obtain different results, but this happens to people using Fortran and people using C++.
If the aircraft were being piloted manually, this crash wouldn't have happened. The increasing imposition of automation and removing the pilot from the equation was the cause of this crash. Your recommendation is to take this further, rapidly?
Many repos is just one or two people that work on it in their spare time.
Unless HR prescreens all the applicants before they make it to staff, then you need 200%, or 0%. Sometimes it's rather frustrating working for bigcorp.
I thought the vouchers were going to people living in refugee camps? Presumably along with "100% digital vouchers", you need to ship out any required infrastructure, stuff like iris scanners and computers. Are these computers and iris scanners also immune to theft and abuse? They sound amazing :)

Does the system require a working power grid?
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If the stock market is as amoral as you think then it seems something ought to be done to the stock market. But I don't think most people would invest in something that goes starkly against their personal ethics, no matter how profitable. And if you regard following one's moral compass as just "virtue gaming" I'm not sure what to think.
Exactly what I expected this device to be. Mine is on its way to me, scheduled for tomorrow. Can't wait.
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>We should not proceed down this road until we know far more about the consequences of what we are doing.

In the present climate of pessimism it's worth reminding ourselves that we never know all the consequences of what we're doing. The 'Precautionary Principle' kills people too; it merely does so in a less obvious way.

Personally I think we should be going hell for leather in identifying and eliminating genetic diseases that arise from known mutations. And we should of course expect new problems to arise down the road from these treatments.
tmux is a modern alternative to screen.

Oh, and while you are at it, have a look at mosh as well. Mosh bills itself as the ssh alternative for mobile, intermittent connections but it does take the idea of 'not all text needs to be written to the terminal, only the text when you actually look' even further.

Mosh also has lots of network latency hiding tricks up its sleeve.
Thanks, I started learning golang few weeks ago, and had a problem with how to structure my code.
Sad.

One pilot was able to figure out the problem, find the solution and land safely. The next pilot did not and hundreds died.
sure, I was obliquely referring to the headline - Extract main ideas in YOUR texts... - seemed to prompt the question.

on edit: fixed misspelling, just woke up from nap.
As a bit of a layman, is there even any legitimate reason at all (other than a user installing it in their own machine for reverse engineering purposes) for anyone to install a root certificate anymore?

I could understand it if it was a small company doing so at the time when certificates were expensive, but Sennheiser has plenty of money and certificates can be obtained for free nowadays.
Why is there no discussion of a this response: "Of course Uber says this; they're heavily invested in this tech and want it to succeed."

I don't understand how a tech company that's developing a thing saying the thing is being developed is relevant to bring to everyone's attention.

Why does this exist?
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You clearly didn't read even my post you're replying to, nevermind being aware of the rest of the story/context.
That number will be very small. I am guessing it is the farmers that couldn't buy more land and got land locked by their neighbors huge farms. I had a friend who's dad was a wheat farmer and he actually went and rented land and did his own farming. They both owned about 5 square miles of farm space. Last time I checked he was at around 12 squares.
I think the response you got pointing out that "disorder" is a poor approximation of the actual physical law is the best explanation but it's probably dissatisfying.

I like this analogy from Sean Carroll, explaining the difference between disorder and complexity: the moment you first pour cream into your coffee, the coffee-cream system is low entropy. All the cream is at the top, all the coffee is at the bottom, none is mixed together. It's very easy to describe the system. If it was stored as data, you could compress the data very easily. After you stir the coffee for a while and it's all mixed up, it is in its highest entropy state. It's all smooth and mixed together. This is also very easy to describe: everything is mixed up. It's in the middle where you get all the neat swirrles and interesting patterns. We're living in the middle state, between the low entropy moment at the big bang and high entropy heat death of the universe. The galaxies and clusters and life are the swirles.
If you have good generational GC (with relocation), then creating and destroying short-lived objects should be almost free?

In practice, you will be re-using the same areas of memory.
Can you suggest some better-informed sources for us? I'd be very interested in more nuanced available sources
So, you're saying you love WordPress? :)

I hear your complaints, but WordPress is still the best tool for marketers and companies. What we need is something that combines the benefits of WordPress with the benefits of static sites.

Maybe something like Strattic: https://www.strattic.com :)
Oh nice. I forgot SubEthaEdit existed but it was first text editor on macOS before the TextMate hype in the early Rails days :-) While I support the right to release commercial products, I think it's very noble to open source things after a certain time, if only for the purpose of history and preservation.
Trying to "remove the pilot from the equation" is exactly what caused this crash, by giving primacy to this automatic trim adjustment system over the pilot's control inputs. We need to design systems that are more respectful of the pilot's input (in particular, that respond to the pilot's obvious intent rather than requiring the pilot to use some unusual cutout switch to achieve the most basic aeroplane functionality of: push stick forward => pitch down and vice versa).
This is not the news media trying to point at just one party, it is the reporting of Boeing doing so in order to deflect the criticism that has been directed towards it. US pilot's unions are divided over whether they think Boeing made a serious error in not disclosing the existence of the new system in question, but the fact that many pilots apparently think it was an error counts for something - in addition to actually flying aircraft, professional pilots are our safety watchdogs.
People do this in America as well. Possibly for other reasons. Article: https://splinternews.com/roleplaying-jail-in-iowa-with-ameri...

Book your own stay: http://www.hamptonjail.com/
Yes.
I did not remember tutorial's name, but I found it when I searched.
I think it is easy to understand.
https://tour.golang.org/
I'm not familiar with some kabal that keep a blacklist. However, potential employers will check references and will call previous employers. If you've burned bridges, that could be coming back to haunt you. I believe one question that can be asked is, "would you rehire this person?" If the answer is "no," then you could have a big barrier.

Smaller startups/companies are less likely to check with your previous employers. Maybe try more of them.

When you say you can't find a new role, are you not getting any interviews or are you not landing the jobs post interview? It could be that you need to work on your interview skills. Or it could be that you need to retool your skill sets. There is not enough info to say much on that.

Again, I've never experienced black listing on the interview side. But, depending on the community, people do talk. If someone knows people at a previous employer of yours, they might ask them about you.

Also, it matters how you present being fired to the potential new employer. It is viewed as more risk to take on someone who got fired vs someone who left on their own terms.

Best of luck.
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If you have a way of 'presetting' in advance the number of tenants.

You could use Postgres's partial indexes.
(basically an index scoped per tenant).

Your 'WHERE' clauses would need to include the field indexed by those partial indexes.

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/postgresql-indexes#par...

I have not thought more though this, but may be combining that with the PG 11s partitioning, would get me even closer to tenant-specific archiving/backup and other admin tasks beyond query.
Why would you need Linux on your fridge? Besides, I think the whole point of sticking IoT stuff on kitchen appliances is planned obsolescence.
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I do the same thing every time and I am glad to see there are so many others who feel the same way.
Perhaps companies over-list requirements because everyone knows requirements are not ANDed together. There is a scoring scheme that combines all of these, and the quality of the requirement.

And let’s be honest having spent “5 years of Python” at a Google is a different story from having spent “5 years of Python” at an Infosys.

To be honest, I’ve never seen a job description that exactly lays out what you’re going to be doing. And the reason for that is that hiring software engineers, you don’t actually know. You want them to also come up with what the future looks like.
'Information' is another way to translate. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
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Layers are interesting but the benefits of layers are vastly overstated, you can achieve the same without layers and the overhead and complexity in image management. Piling layers upon layers to build a container is a really bad idea and adds a lot of complexity in basic image management. [1]

The big problem is technical decisions like the use of layers, single process containers and ephemeral storage that add a lot of complexity and overhead have not met technical scrutiny and thus not well understood. But they should be as they can add a lot of management overhead and debt. [2]

Many users who use LXC will realize a lot of benefits and flexibility actually flow from containers and not these 'modifications'.

Disclaimer: Founder at Flockport and trying to build a simpler alternative with LXC containers.

[1] https://www.flockport.com/guides/understanding-layers

[2] https://www.flockport.com/guides/say-yes-to-containers.html
You can eliminate all kinds of selective bias and incompetence by first filtering candidates based upon a battery of personality tests. You don't have to know anything about the candidates until this pass through the initial filter.
So you suggest I just throw my $300 perfectly working headphones?
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Right, but that has nothing to do with connection pooling and sync. And there is no structural reason that makes easier to implemented prepared statements for PostgreSQL than for Cassandra. It's anecdotal evidence.
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I know it's a little off-topic but I wish they'd let the content speak for itself. Are the Geocities-style background and animated GIFs really necessary? I feel they add to the cognitive load rather than adding to the story.
I meant David Hess, not HN per se - but yes there is definitely a pro some-silicon-valley bias on HN.

edit: corrected typo
How is it not relevant? It's PR to keep excitement and anticipation growing so that they can continue to get investors putting money into it.
Corporate MITM proxies, like Forcepoint/Websense. For loose definitions of "legitimate."
I have several major news apps on my phone and what I've found is that they're all reporting the same story, with very similar biases, within minutes of each other.

They all seem to drink from the same fountain.

You'd basically need to know what biases which outlets have to what stories and apply a filter accordingly, which can be extremely time consuming.
You end up having unwritten obligations to your users.

You can start from the position that you can write your software, make it public, and you have no obligation to do more. Some people do just this. But once you have to (or feel that you have to) answer support questions, fix bugs, add features, make releases and do so on an ongoing basis, you can end up in a situation where you effectively have a second full-time job.

I'm not saying that this is desirable, or even necessary. But it's a reality for many open source project maintainers and contributors. You get sucked into it. End users have expectations, and it's only human to try to meet them. I've personally been very badly burned by this, and I've get to contribute at anything but a minimal level for the last six years as a result.

One of the things which I don't like are that people can have very unreasonable attitude towards what they can expect from a person who does this in their spare time who helps them for free, sacrificing their spare time for someone else's benefit. The longer I've been doing this, the more I appreciate that it's not as sustainable as we might like to believe, and that being fairly compensated for work is no bad thing. We should be more willing to say that we would be happy to fix that bug, or add that new feature, so long as we are paid for it. But in many projects this isn't politically or practically possible.
In general, you can implement anything with any programming language. Having a particular nice syntax (and semantics) usually is what makes a language better suited than another one.
It's perfectly normal to install new root certificates - for example, so that a company can sign internal websites (or for MITM proxies).

It's incredibly shady to have random software install into your trust store.
The terminal couldn't do that as it wouldn't know the difference between a user typing `cat lena.png` into Bash from typing the same sequence of characters into vim (for example).

This is why there are separate commands like `icat` which will output ANSI escape sequences for rendering a PNG. Unfortunately a great many of these are terminal specific (iterm, terminology, kitty and VT200/VT300 (sixel) all have their own unique escape sequences. The closest to a standard we have is sixel and, frankly, I don't think it's that good on modern systems[1]). So you end up with different command for each "standard" you want rendered.

The approach I've taken in my own $SHELL is to have a builtin command like `cat` (I call it `open`) and that auto-detects which terminal emulator you're running and picks the right encoding to match what is supported by the terminal (if no standard can be auto-detected, then it falls back to ANSI art using coloured blocks). However the issue with that is now people need to run new custom shell instead Bash / Zsh / whatever. But the logic behind the auto-detection is really quite simple so that could be written it's own standalone tool.

[1] sixel re-encodes images in character blocks of 6 pixels. Where as iTerm, Kitty and Terminology send the image as is over the terminal via a base64 encoded string. All those solutions are inlined via ANSI escape sequences though.
I run some services for my private use. It's crazy that I need to have them certified by some third-party over-seas CA since I can't get my own devices to trust my own certificates.

We're not at that point yet, but running your own trust root is getting quite annoying. For example, Android constantly nags about "network might be monitored" when custom certificates are installed.
You can stop using the tool yourself, but still have a large active userbase depending upon it. As a result, you can still end up with an unwritten obligation to support that userbase.
If you can pay the insurance, anything is possible
I thought that was going to be the conclusion of the piece.
To do the comparison you're attempting to do, surely you need to get data that excludes employees who are currently here on a visa. It would seem insane to criticize facebook for not reflecting US demographics when quite simply it's not hire from the US.
First of all he said little by little so calling it rapid is a bit misleading.
Second this was not ultimately a hardware/software failure but the failure of the overall supervisor of the system(= pilot). We can't (yet) make hardwares that are immune to failure but we have redundancy and procedures to deal with these failures. It seems like in this case the procedures were not properly executed which lead to the tragedy.
To also address @lmm's point: the leading cause for aircraft accidents are human error and not hardware/software failure so more automation = less accidents. Edit: after reading some more on the subject it seems like boeing share some of the blame for not including the new system(or system changes) in their training program which is again a human error.
Really well put from the corporate perspective

I'll give a perspective from a small company: boss is doing hiring, asks what tech we use, try to explain that I don't care if they know React, if they've used Vue/Angular/FooBar4Ui2038, good enough. Then some explanation that we should put specific tech to attract people with that specifically, & we can select for people who have tangent experience. In the end we hired some guy with experience with Ruby on Rails (we don't use any Ruby, PHP/C#/Nodejs)
Interesting enough, even though entropy is in some sense a property of a description of a system, there are things like 'entropic forces' and they play a big role in physics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic_force
What makes it a business vs. hobby is inability to plan for the not great years. Business is farming. Hobby is gardening. Even if it is on a large scale.
For all small electronic phone/charger stuff I buy Anker. Hasn't let me down once.
Well, apologies if I think kids being encouraged to go to libraries is more important than grown ups who can go _anywhere_ refusing to finding somewhere to read.
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> Android constantly nags about "network might be monitored" when custom certificates are installed.

This is why I baked my home network certificate into the system trust store when building the ROM.
Maybe I should have said "used in large project more often"

> (Note also that this data shows a majority of people do use stable.)

Well, that kinda proves my point then, right?

> What's a "large project" to you, incidentally?

It's more that the larger the project (either in code or number of devs working on it), the more tool-stability becomes a requirement. Just my experience, and it is quite understandable.
If the price and size of an MRI machine could be brought down to that of a tanning bed, how might you see having one in every home improve health care?
This is a lot of fun.
Can this make the weekend a special color?
Not exactly popping over to leaf through those with my kids, tbh.
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> Sure, poor people might not have access to it, but the upper classes in all countries will.

Who cares about the 1%? It means the majority will not have access to it at first.
> Open source developers need not be burning themselves out

What about responsibility to one's users, and the computing community in general? As we very recently saw with the event-stream fiasco, there are consequences when the author of a popular piece of software tries to retire from maintaining it, because of burnout or any other reason. What if they can't find a suitable successor? What do you suggest should happen then? Just freeze it, letting it break as things it depends on continue to change?
In Perl 6, you can also use "kebab-case":

my $is-it-time = True;

The hyphen is allowed inside an identifier as long as it is not the first and as long as it is followed by at least one letter.

my $foo-42; # interpreted as my $foo - 42
The question is In your opinion we should only have integrated "experiences"? aka should MS and Google pull an Apple and not sell the software to the customers , but sell you the hardware with the software included ?
Have any hardware companies ever written good accompanying software? From all the custom-ui graphics card config nonsense to utilities that phone home of their own accord, to things like this which are laughably awful.

I feel glad I left for the mild shores of Linux in the early 00s.
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Imagine it is easy. The downside of it as well.

Whatever capacity that drone will have, it will cost more than a taxi. Now you have already something with high risk and higher price. Who will use it? The avg John Doe? Nope.

It is only usefull for a handfull of people. Probably people who have enough money to use something quicker than a car on the road. Do i wanna have some rich ass idiot flying above me in a city legally?

No.

And for everyone asking why: Noise and Risk.
What is this proposed personality filter letting through and what is it filtering out?
My pleasure!

I think the idea is that people feel that news sources can't be trusted in general so don't want to pay for access to a "news" article in particular. The idea of the registry is then to represent social validation by a community incentivised by their own selfish best interests (ie the token would appreciate hence they can resell for a profit...) to be accurate and judicious about their curation efforts.

The paywall tech could be something like what SpankChain is doing for cams, for instance. Technically it's an interface that allows token holders to sign a message to access a content URI by placing the tokens in a state-channel contract. If the consumer does "enter" the site, the tokens are deduced, otherwise they remain available for future use. Users should be able to pay with fiat but behind the scenes the balance would still be kept in tokens for the payment infrastructure to remain trustless.

(caveat: I'm speculating on a solution that doesn't exist yet and I'm not involved in building)