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No worries. I learnt the concept at school, I guess? Mid or late 90's? :D

My definition is the same: Free from government meddling, although most markets obviously have some regulations on certain products and services and that they obviously aren't completely free.

Anyway, "free market" is being used by a lot of neo-liberal politicians here in the EU at least. The idea is that if you create a demand for some good or some service, then the private sector will automagically start providing the good and/or service simply because there's money in doing so.

What I meant was that I do believe that the politicians behind Article 13 think that the private sector will simply provide the 100% foolproof upload filters they're mandating, simply because they pass a law that mandates such filters.

I hope that made it a bit more clear. Some of it might have been lost in translation. English isn't my first language.
Where can we find that manual. I would love to read
New Yorkers are sick and tired of mega corps getting tax breaks to fiddle the tax system while their infrastructure suffers even more. Perhaps if Amazon contributed the $5b they would 'save' on NYGC subway improvements then the people would be more favorable to them being in LIC. But, nadda.
Why leveling if you can just use Lua? Hacking Lua inside Games
Right on. Different fragment selectors can be used depending on the media type of a representation: https://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-states/#selector

Expanded here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19169582
> If citizens of NY don't want their government to be able to bargain with a business or organization on an individual level

The people clearly don’t want to give NY that power carte blanche. They want oversight to that power—oversight which they just exercised.
How is an ICBM not already a lethal, autonomous robot? I think they may mean affordable lethal autonomous robots.
Where can we find this sales manual? I bet it would be a interesting read, maybe better than the original article. I would love to read. Can someone post a link? Thank you
well we sort of do with prisons and death penalties.
> By that logic it was a waste of time for Firefox to exist -- there was already IE,

No, IE would need be to be open source for that logic to be applicable there, since the idea is to use a well-developed open source code base instead of rolling your own thing.

> or it was a waste of time for webkit to exist as there was already khtml, or blink because webkit,

You actually undercut your own point with these examples: WebKit was a fork of KHTML, Blink was a fork of WebKit. The developers in question believed that it would have been a waste of time to start from scratch, and so they didn't!
The entire plan9 system takes less than 10 minutes to compile from scratch on one core of my 11 year old laptop. OpenSSL alone takes 2-3x that on two cores.
It's hard to recall conversations from 1994, but I came away with the overwhelming sense that the Plan 9 guys thought shared libraries were bogus - certainly that they were bogus for the non-plugin use case (which is the one that pertains to this discussion; libraries like Motif were not plugins). So you've accused me of raising a strawman (actually a "starwman" - "he'd like to cwome and mweet us, but he thinks he'd blow our mwinds") by raising a point absolutely not germane to the discussion, but you when refute my point with this devastating rebuttal:

"For everything else, not so much".

Most people I know also use the web and menus and buttons and dialog boxes and so forth and expect all this stuff to look vaguely like other computers do. The fact that the Plan 9 folks were trundling over to non-P9 machines to read the web seemed to suggest that they also liked seeing things that weren't just text in plain boxes.

The point remains that these two propositions are both at the least contentious, and only by combining these unrelated points could anyone really seriously take Plan 9's approach to shared libraries (at the time) seriously.
Very little of what you're talking about there matters.

What matters is that new nuclear reactors have come in grossly over budget. Who is going to buy a reactor when the vendor's promises about cost are demonstrably untrustworthy?

In contrast, new utility scale solar and wind installs typically come in within 10% of estimate.
This is really shady of Google to do, and the fact that they think that it's acceptable just shows how far we've come. "Don't be evil" apparently means "spy on people, censor based on politics, help dirtbags stuck in the 12th century treat women as property, and assist totalitarian regimes to stay in power and censor their populace".

Google is literally cartoonishly evil at this point. That slogan of theirs is an absolute joke.
Shitty device then. Or is there a legitimate usecase for such behaviour?
I’m pretty sure the folks at Cisco, Juniper, BBN, etc., are getting paid. Also, fun fact: more than 85% of Linux contributions come from developers with corporate sponsors: http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/02Data...
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It doesn't matter how much money Amazon got as it's the perception of the fact they are getting a tax break which is why it's shocking. Amazon isn't some two-bit startup which has no VC funding. It's the richest company in the world so why the heck do New Yorkers need to hand over their cash to bring them the Queens?
What is the macOS support like on this, is it using Cocoa underneath?
I highly doubt that you can get a paper at any respectable conference or journal showing something is Turing Complete.
Wow, this is big. I disagree with some of the negative comments here, but that is what I love about HN: diverse opinions.

Being able to not transact large amounts of money and instead using a permissioned blockchain to prove you have the funds seems like a great use case to me.

Although mining some ether was fun as was making money on bitcoin, I believe that the really interesting applications will probably be in permissioned systems that either like JP Coin allow virtual transactions or support smart contracts. To get started, taking the eDX course on blockchain for business is a good start.

I also admit that after working as an AI/machine learning practitioner since the 1980s that blockchain applications interest me just because it is something new (for me).
I'd imagine they'd be fine. They're not deciding. as you say
Using the hash for navigation is still quite common, because usage of history pushState requires server support to correctly work on reload.

I’d also argue that SPAs using it for navigation are not abusing it. The purpose is to allow linking to different sections in a document. Navigation is effectively an advanced form of the same concept. It’s just that as you navigate, the DOM happens to mutate to bring the content you linked to into view, instead of just scrolling down to it.

Hash fragments are for page authors to define, not the browser. While this sounds like a useful feature, it’s implementation is simply wrong.

What they really want to do is extend the RFC for URLs to add an additional component. There are already unsafe characters that could be used for this purpose that would be nonbreaking.

For example, add a | at the end of the hash fragment, and anything after that can be for the browser to communicate page state independent of the page author’s intent.

The current proposal, however, should be firmly rejected.
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Divisive factorials
Shared libraries are a pain for sure. They also have a lot of really nice advantages, including:

- You can upgrade core functionality in one location
- You can fix security bugs without needing to re-install the world
- Overall, they take up less disk-space and RAM
- They can take much less cache, which is significant today

The cache aspect is one that I'm surprised not to see people talk about more. Why would I want to blow out my CPU cache loading 20 instances of libSSL? That slows down performance of the entire system.
I guess it becomes an arms race. Hard to be proud of your 100ft yacht when everyone else in Monaco harbour has long ago traded up?
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I think they don't want algorithms to make high level ethical decisions like whether to fire the ICBM. It's a thin line though between firing and correctly navigating to a target.
But then where would all the cool historical spy movies come from as time passes?
There is a difference between rarely enforced and rarely punished. In antiquity before forensics if someone murdered someone on a country road and cleaned their clothes and cleaned or disposed of their weapon nobody would ever know who did it without a confession. However if they saw someone murdering a man in the street they would mob the assailant and capture or kill him.

The first case they may bury bodies and set an armed patrol of some sort for roving bandits but the murderer would never be punished per say.

However if nearly everyone drinks and alcohol is illegal but bars operate openly yeah that law is bad it is only being used as a pretext.
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It's rarely punished because it's hard to prosecute. When an actionable case is dropped in a prosecutor's lap they're happy to take it to court.
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Isn't it more or less a cliche that using sed etc for stripping HTML tags is unreliable and potentially hazardous?

I've tried it. I could get it to apparently "work". But then I'd get some input that hosed it. Now I just use "w3m -dump". I mean, it's a browser.
Fine, substitute "state actor" or whatever pedantic term you prefer.

Jargon nitpicking is my second-least-favourite kind of HN nitpicking, coming in close ahead of "Boy there was an advert on that article!/Why U no adblock?" nitpicking.
The new designs are not going to be available for many years. They have to be proved in operation, particularly if they involve new chemistry like MSRs.

By the time they're proven, renewables will have expanded to global dominance and likely run down their experience curves to cost points that even Gen IV nuclear will find very hard to beat.

New nuclear designs are a hedge against renewables suddenly stopping getting cheaper. An insurance policy, but hopefully one that won't be needed.
It has been, we are still very actively doing updates. Small team of 2 people.
According to the bulletin of atomic scientists it's climate change and nuclear weapons [0].

I used to think when climate change was mentioned that it's something that won't really impact us in the near term.

After looking more into this, reading more about what James Hansen, Peter Wadhams, Dr Suzuki and other scientists are saying it's basically very very late, but not too late to avoid major catastrophe.

We need major action now - real commitment and action from our governments that protecting our life-ground is top priority and not economic growth at all cost.

Small things are already happening, like school kids striking, people doing civil disobedience etc, people reducing or not eating meat, trying to avoid buying too many plastic products, using public transport etc, but I'm thinking is this enough?

It really doesn't help that we have a US government or president that doesn't really believe in human made climate change. And then we have the new president in Brazil who doesn't think it's important to protect the Amazon.

What's your outlook for the next 10 - 15 years? Do you think we can make it? Change our ways and get off our fossil fuel addiction, change our destructive farming practices, change factory farming and move to a planetary diet (reduced meat intake) or even plant-based diet?

Do you worry about food security issues caused by extended droughts?

Will city life in 10 years or so be worse or better?

[0] https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/

EDIT: typos
What's the best way to get in touch with these people and do some freelance/software consulting for them?
Yes, 300GBP is typical for a tech conference in London. Cost of venues and catering can be astronomical, so even with that ticket price it may be difficult to run a conference.

Some community conferences are half of that (and depend on sponsorships), but OTOH there are also plenty of "serious business" conferences that are 10x more expensive.
This highlights the foolishness of relying on magical government solutions. Nuclear power has plenty of promise, if the waste is magically taken care of by an as yet to be implemented solution from the government. Since this solution never arrived, the waste gets stored at each nuclear plant, where it needs to be actively cooled for some period of time.
Why create a throwaway for this anodyne question? It’s fine to have pseudonymous accounts on HN. But HN is a community: if for some reason you don’t want to tie this to your main account, create another one for such questions, but keep some consistency. HN isn’t intended to be a collection of disconnected, orphaned statements.
Reads like a case for passing that off to whichever program responds to a request to open some help HTML.
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Also, we've seen more things go wrong.

When you design a nuclear plant, you need to do a really careful risk analysis. That's why they are so safe.

But as time progresses, and actual designs meet reality and Murphy's law kicks it, it turns out some of the assumptions are factually incorrect. More elaborate safety requirements are needed to compensate, increasing cost.

You can't build a car the way you could 50 years ago, and the same is true for nuclear plants.
No, the reason nuclear is shunned is largely one of cost. Rate payers don't want higher rates. Nuclear has led to huge financial risk displaced to the rate payers, and they don't like it. And they let their politicians know they don't like it.
If someone is trying to invade the area you are living in without your consent, killing the intruders is perfectly justified. And people don't generally like to be replaced by another population. Indigenous population certainly has the human right to repel invading forces by any means necessary.

Countries whose population has skyrocketed to unsustainable levels should blame themselves and not even try to f*ck up more responsible people in other countries. No sympathy for those who destroyed their own land by overpopulating it, they will do the same elsewhere if allowed.
That's correct -- I hand curated the products and entered their nutrition info. The actual application is the product funnel / data entry side. My goal is to create a curated, searchable list of keto-friendly products.
Doubt that, looking at my list of applications - I have 124. So, 100mb * 124 = 12.4 gb and I have half a terabyte of storage... Windows 10 requires 16 gb of storage. Heck most phones have 64 gb these days.

We need to stop living in the past - this very issue has probably contributed to the scourge of Electron crap being thrown at our faces since it doesn't suffer from dependency hell they just throw a bunch of javascript into an encapsulated instance of chrome and call it a day.
Ourselves.
There's smaller companies that just require a name and cash (via postal mail), e.g. http://www.mediaon.com/ I've used them once for fun and it's impossible to get a domain out or transferred later without revealing your name and address. Expect little to no support.

You can also use free domains https://www.freenom.com/en/freeandpaiddomains.html I've only encountered them fighting spam but I guess they have their use.
The control rods had a plug of graphite on their ends, I believe, which made reactivity briefly increase as they were first inserted.
> Rust achieves memory safety without a tracing GC. D has traditionally relied on the GC for that

Isn't D memory unsafe by default?
Regular LTO for large sized projects (think Chromium sized), in my experience is by far the biggest bottleneck in the build process. It's partially the reason so much is being invested into development and improving parallel linking as well as techniques like ThinLTO that all aim at reducing the link times since often, LTO linking takes around 60-70% of all build time combined despite the heavy use of C++ code (although with no exceptions or RTTI).

Unless you have build servers capable of rebuilding all Qt, WebKit etc. and performing an LTO link (which pulls in all build artifacts in form of bitcode archives/objects) in a reasonable amount of time (big reason buildlabs exist - it takes a long time), LTO is not likely to be suitable, it's an extremely expensive optimization that essentially defers all real compilation until the link step at which the linker calls back into libLLVM/libLTO and have them do all the heavy lifting.

At the very least you need a workstation grade machine to be able to do that kind of stuff on regular basis, you really can't expect everyone to have that. And there's a reason libLLVM.so is usually dynamically linked, it cuts a massive amount of time spent on builds, which is especially useful while developing and it's a middle ground between building all LLVM and Clang libraries as shared objects and having to wait for static linking of various LLVM modules into every LLVM toolchain binary (which tends to result in the toolchain being much much bigger). The build cache with shared libLLVM.so for Clang/LLVM/LLD builds is around 6-7GB (Asserts/Test builds). Statically linking LLVM modules blows that up to 20GB. God forbid you actually do a full debug build with full debug information with that.

That's a terrible argument against dynamic linking. That's not to say static linking is bad, in fact, recently it's been making a comeback for exactly that reason - LTO and next-generation optimizers. But saying LTO makes static linking viable for everyone including consumers is somewhat far fetched.
“It is a dark day when small retailers in NYC are denied the opportunity to pay the expenses of their largest competitor.”

https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/
You also can't easily stop working on your side business if you have paying customers that rely on your product for their livelihoods. Dropping your responsibility on a volunteer charity organization board isn't something you can just ditch in a heartbeat without hurting other people. Both of those would clearly count as "me time" in the context of this article.

Chose to have a relationship for 5 or 10 years, your partner moved in and built their life around you? You won't go to jail for deciding that you'd like to allocate the third slot differently now, but it won't generally come without causing a considerable amount of harm. Also counts as "me time" here.

Sure, kids are a long-term commitment, and the consequences are more drastic if you suck at it. That's not the point though - the point is that how you plan out (or fail to plan, or had your partner plan) your non-work time makes a major impact on what you can get done during that time. Had kids, out of choice or for lack of birth control? Say goodbye to the third slot, maybe more, don't get it back for maybe 20 years or so. You had a choice at some point.
Mathematics wasn't unreasonable effective until the invention of the calculus. Indeed, mathematics-led physics was circling the drain with epicycles.

As it turns out, the calculus has a good correspondence with the idea of dynamical systems. No surprise that it was invented together with modern physics and to serve modern physics.
Having worked with existing solutions in a top 4 bank in my country I would rather be a beggar then work with those systems. The banking system needs change and needs it badly, they are so far behind the rest of the industry. Blockchain is still way more decentralized then current solutions which mainly work on a Master/Slave HA mode.
I found during my ten years in Plan9 it was the most usable OS I have experienced in my 35 years of computing. My only problem with it is every other platform is now ruined because I gnash my teeth and say "would have been easy in Plan9".
Old saying about boats is the two best days of ownership are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.
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And as you begin to flesh out some kind of calling convention, you pretty quickly end up with what could very easily be called dynamic linkage of sorts, even if it's not strictly the linking of object files, etc.
I would equate time travel to being a memory and thought process. We're able to regenerate the images of events in our minds vividly when we think about past events which make us happy (e.g. child birth) or things that make us sad (e.g. manager screaming at us due to another bug crashing our software). This is time travel to the past by my definition.

For time travel to the future, I think it's about predicting future events of a few seconds before they happen, based on past knowledge we've gained or learned. An example of this for me is seeing a situation where somebody is about to crash their vehicle, as the driver doesn't see another vehicle then it happens. I recall a recent fender bender like so in Manhattan during January. I knew it was about to happen given there wasn't the space then crash.

So those are my definitions of time travel.
I'm assuming what the article says about operating costs is part of it. If you search around, you can find fully operational small cruise ships for a few million. The hulls and engines etc. last enough that the cost of these ships, whether outfitted for use as luxury yachts or cruise ships is dominated massively by operating cost.

So you can dream of being able to drop X million to own a dream of being on a yacht all the time. Then you realize you're not on it all the time, because you have a life, and whether you're on it or not you're dropping close to X million a year to keep the crew on hand and keep the yacht ready, and if you want to offset that, you're now running a yacht charter business.
Not disagreeing per se, but I think we often underestimate how much of our definition of 'race' is based on context, separate from our genes, such as:

- where we see a person
- who this person is with
- what clothes the person wears
- what a person smells like
- body language
- spoken language
- the manner in which they speak (loud, soft, etc.)
- the way they walk
- all sorts of other cultural markers (like stance, eye contact, etc.)

I suspect that all these contextual, largely non-biological factors play a huge role in how we decide a person's race. Possibly so much so that the biological markers we do have available are mostly useless.

Please correct me if I'm wrong though; I am far from an expert in this area!
It is, I believe, unprecedented to use a state of emergency to achieve a policy end which Congress has been asked to support and declined to do so.

It may likewise be unprecedented to use a state of emergency to address a long-ongoing condition for which there is no relevant emergent change triggering the declaration.

So, yes, a declaration here would be new and different.
Oh they know, it’s why they got rid of it and it lives on as a sub note in employee guidelines. Because no one reads those.
>Yeah, launching an IDE and getting four floating windows feels weird today. I'm sure tiling-window-manager fans like it

Doubt it -- tiling window manager fans use tiling window managers to get windows stuck into place and easily controlled.

That is, they have even less tolerance of floating windows than the average user.

I'd say it's not that they like it, but that thanks to tiles they have the means to remedy all the floatness.
Very questionable, as fallback possibly ok but not forced. Is it the same with home mini devices?