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This whole thing about character flaws and self control reminded me of the following passage from Raymond Smullyan's "This Book Needs No Title":

I know one woman who smokes. She says: “It’s not that I have to smoke; I choose to. I could easily give it up any time I wish to, but I see no reason why I should. But I can assure you, I could if I wanted to.” Her husband says to her: “That's only a rationalization! You couldn’t give up smoking even if you wanted to. You are not strong enough to give it up; you have to smoke. So to make yourself feel better, and to avoid having to confess your own weakness of character, you fool yourself into believing that you choose to. But it’s only a rationalization!” I know another woman who smokes. She says: “It’s not that I want to smoke; I can’t help myself! I have tried several times giving it up, but I have failed! I'm afraid I just don’t have a very strong character. I would love to stop, but I simply can’t.” Her husband says to her: “That's only a rationalization! You certainly could stop immediately, if you really wanted to. No, you choose to smoke (after all, nobody is making you) and you feel ashamed and guilty for doing that which you know to be harmful. So to avoid any moral responsibility for your acts, you fool yourself into believing that you ‘can’t help it. But this is only a rationalization.”
My only question about all this is: “Why are people so incredibly stupid?”

Pity he didn't expand on the last line, but I think deep introspection is required to understand what is really under our control
This is correct. Visit English and French versions of a Canadian retailer, e.g. Amazon.ca. The English version follows English rules ($29.99) and the French version follows French rules (29,99 $) even though the currency is Canadian dollars for both.

EN: https://www.amazon.ca/?language=en_CA

FR: https://www.amazon.ca/?language=fr_CA
I believe that's a current theory in the Physics community. Also, it reminds me a bit of the miniature galaxy from the original Men in Black film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ojSW5pODk
Could you explain the difference, in your own words?

The most obvious way I see to support this feature is to build up a big table of contact connections, so that when I join and put in my phone number it can send up my list of contacts and find all the bidirectional connections to what's already in the database.

This means you're building up a big graph of how all your users are connected to each other, and to people who don't use Wave (yet). Is that not 'harvesting' the contacts? Do you do it a different way?
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I find HN is pretty strongly pro-drug and pro-supplement.
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isn't prosecuting a prank orthogonal to your argument of only prosecuting rock solid cases?
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"Cultivate curiosity: If you're feeling tempted to procrastinate, bring your attention to the sensations arising in your mind and body. What feelings are eliciting your temptation? Where do you feel them in your body? What do they remind you of? What happens to the thought of procrastinating as you observe it? Does it intensify? Dissipate? Cause other emotions to arise? How are the sensations in your body shifting as you continue to rest your awareness on them?"

This sounds very much like meditation, and while it may well be beneficial, someone with a serious procrastination problem may have problems following through with their intention to meditate like this as well, and instead just compulsively do whatever makes them feel better.
The most notable difference is messages being stored inside capsules.

This means that you have to open a message to read it. You can only view it once. When displayed, messages do not include the senders name.
These are important limitations, but in the end, if their scoring system helps readers find good, in-depth news articles to read (even if they're not the freshest) then they'll be worth visiting.
This is highly misleading. The US provided absolutely nothing to the Iranian Republic that superseded Imperial Iran.
Capitalism transforms functionality from a cardinal concern (how much of the thing works, & how useful is it) to an ordinal one (which implementation is least-bad). Ordinal concerns are easily gamed: no matter how easy it might be to do something correctly, it's almost always easier to do it only slightly better than someone else (or to break somebody else's implementation so it's worse).

Capitalism also moves much of the emphasis to the initial selection stage: if any kind of lock-in is in place (even sunk cost), most of what matters is the implementation somebody initially picks, not whether or not they ultimately regret their selection. So, rather than making a solution that is stable and reliable or one that has deep rich expressivity, the emphasis is on making a solution that looks good on a shallow basis.

This kind of logic affects even folks who aren't getting paid for their work, because it's taken to be 'common sense' instead of a set of generally-undesirable side effects of a warped circumstance.

Software for a general audience expresses this in a more extreme way than other fields because it's nearly immune to costs like materials & liability, and because regulation largely hasn't stepped in to limit the worst of its side effects. If you build a house, it has to stay standing for long enough to sell (which is a lot longer than most software operates as intended), and it needs to pass inspection in order to be saleable; failure on either of these fronts is a big deal, because no matter how little you pay for labor, houses cost a great deal in materials, most of which lose nearly all their value in salvage. Software is almost pure labor, and can scale to an absurd degree because of this. Unlike publishing, software really doesn't have strong traditions left over from when manufacture and distribution was substantially more expensive & so quality was more important. As a result, the software industry behaves less like publishing and more like futures trading (that other entirely-abstract profession where people who are good at numbers inflate and pop bubbles while living in houses they can't afford and driving up the city's rent).
> I wouldn't call C++ a wild success. It's failed to supplant C for its entire life, and thrives only in a few niches.

Aren't web browsers one of the most used consumer software today? I wouldn't call them niche.
Do you have a recomended service? Part of our service has us hosting a form for our customers that is exposed to their users, so accessibility is a priority.

Thanks for any pointers!
In my utopia, everyone would have access to something like this and the internet would be free from the chains of corporate greed.

There's a lot to overcome (having everything be completely decentralized), but a person can dream...
Why not just say "euros"? It's not much longer and less ambiguous.
Ah, then use the Berne Transactional Analysis model. I provided that terminology as well.

Do you have any problems with viewing the world through the `Parent, Adult, Child` simplified lens?
I wish the article had started with “I don’t really care” about safety, and by extension, security issues.

It’s putting your head in the sand to hold this perspective in modern computing. The funny thing is, I don’t disagree with the author’s contention that Rust derived from C++, but this completely ignores the fact that C++ directly derives from C!

C++ wanted to make certain patterns in C easier, and to reduce certain foot guns. Rust is in essence, a reimagination if that same effort, but includes the next 30 years of language research in its design to overcome those same problems.

So Rust does derive from C. But who cares? It’s a different language, if you like Go more because it’s closer to what you think of as C, then use that. But don’t kid yourself that C safety concerns don’t have practical implications in the real world.
Why is an HTML document the bare minimum? I absolutely appreciate this far more accessible form, author's dedication to function and disregard for showmanship. Somewhat paradoxically, for a potential client like me, this is way better marketing than any amount of superfluous CSS sugaring or formatting.
In my company the managers I have talked to about this (they have private offices with windows) seemed to be thinking that the people who complain are just whiners. In addition these decisions get made pretty far up in the hierarchy so most likely the people who make the decision never have to work in that environment.

For example in my company facilities makes the decisions but they have a nice team room with windows for everyone.

So in short I believe that decisions about workspaces almost never that made by the prople who have to work there. And when you get to the level of people who can shape their workspace like CEO and VP you rarely see open office as the choice but usually private office with window.
It's strange though... there are so many movies coming out all the time. Way more than you could ever see, even if you wanted to. What drives a person to go to RT to explicitly say "I don't want to see this movie". They don't do that with all the other movies they don't want to see. It's all about politics, and has nothing to do with the quality of the movie.

I haven't seen it, and probably won't, but I have weird taste in movies anyway.
Square footage is an easily quantifiable cost. Knowledge worker productivity and well-being are harder to objectively measure. It's much easier for management to make (and defend!) decisions based on metrics that can be displayed on dashboards.
> Why couldn't the Rust team maintain a spec and keep it up to date by changing it in the same pull request that changes a language feature in the compiler? This seems like mostly a matter of discipline.

It's not that, it's that we take the idea of a spec very seriously. We want to have a spec that's extremely solid, and so there's a lot of foundational work that needs to be done first. That work has been ongoing. Not all specs are created equal, and good ones take a lot of time.

For comparison, C was created in 1972, and the first specification happened in 1989.
But isn't this how you end up with a 'bloated' language? Everyone has their own corner case, own little way the language can be improved. Over time, these will inevitability burden a language.

Adding features becomes necessarily bureaucratic as languages mature. You can't just add/change stuff without seeing how it interacts with everyone else, which gets difficult as languages grow and become popular.
Haven't worked there in fifteen years, but still know plenty that do (including my spouse), and that's...not true across the board. The summary is: depends on the team.

Which is unfortunate because it's one of the many things I liked about working at Microsoft: they really seemed to take your productivity seriously when I worked there.
Useful description from the documentation about what is new about this as amateur packet radio has a long history.

The NPR protocol is designed to transfer IP data over radio links, in a bidirectional way (single frequency).
This protocol is in the middle between old packet radio (AX.25) and HSMM-Hamnet with Wifi equipment.
This protocol is designed by a HAM for HAMs. The project is 100% open source : specification, software, PCB.

This solution is complementary to HSMM-Hamnet (which uses Wifi equipments), on lower frequencies 70cm). Radio links on 70cm band is much more robust to obstacles.
The data-rate available is also much smaller, but yet useable. We can achieve several hundreds of kbps. The protocol is designed for “point to multipoint” topology, with 1 central relay (called Master) and several clients around.
You solve the inverse problem once. That’s takes a while.

Then you build it. More time.

Then you run it for thousands of different inputs. There’s the benefit.

For example:

You build a kernel describing the acoustics of a sound (ie a body of water) once.

Then you can solve instantly what and where sounds (acoustics) are coming from
This is really cool. The aesthetic is amazing. This really speaks to the hacker in me, the no-website thing is a really inventive way to stand out from other backup services.

Great execution!
Does anyone know where to get and verify a known good version if Asus’s software, or identify and clean a system of backdoored software? I ask as an owner of an Asus motherboard.
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Jolla has a very limited amount of money left. They have abandoned manufacturing hardware long ago and are focusing only on software development & licensing.

If a phone maker is willing to install their OS on their devices, they can contact Jolla.

Try with a VPN.
"Asus has not informed customers of the vulnerability after it was discovered earlier this year."

This is typical of Asus, isn't it? After that Windows update last year or so broke their ROG motherboard software and it wasn't fixed for over a month, you'd think they would have learned by now.
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The behavior they describe reminds me of Stuxnet: only certain machines seem to be executing a specific payload.
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> But most news stories are irrelevant to almost everyone's lives, and those few that are, don't have a direct and immediate impact.

Seemingly yes.

A murder in the closest largest city/town has NO IMPACT on my life (unless I know the victim) but yet tax or health policy changes on the national level do in fact have a direct impact. Guess which one gets run on the evening news? Which one does your family talk about at the dinner table?

Nightly network news should be focusing (and condensing unlike "cable news") on national/state and local laws, policies etc. not fire/murder/theft.
How so? I pay exactly 51% in Germany (and I’m ok with that).
> They do retain the bolt forward assist design, but anecdotally I've heard from some people who have actually used them in combat, so perhaps it's not as useless after all.

Unless you can manage to keep it super clean and perfectly lubricated (which kind of counteract each other) you'll be using the forward assist now and again.

There's also a difference between perfectly clean and having used it a while where carbon builds up making it more reliable -- a lot less likely to need it after the third time through a live-fire exercise than pulling it out of the weapons room and heading down to the range.

> It was originally safe/semi/full, but M16A2 replaced full auto with 3-round burst. It's generally considered a failed experiment, and M4A1 walked it back to full auto.

We'd get yelled at if they caught us using 3-round burst because it was a waste of bullets. Each squad had 2 SAWs and each platoon had 2 M60s so they wanted the riflemen to try for precision fire (as opposed to "spray and pray").

I've spent too much of my life with an M16 it seems...
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I was measuring by number of projects. Consider that most web browsers also depend on a dozen or more C libraries.
Nobody has commented on what jumped at me as a great feature: detecting if the backup seems bad.

* get notified if the file is too small
* get notified if the file is too old
It's very pleasant to have 0 dependence on anybody or anything other than these games. You go in whenever you want, do your thing, and at the end of the day you have earned or lost money. It feels something like a microcosm of a purely merit based capitalism.

But the major downside is the lack of creation. I enjoy construction as well as software development for the same reason. At the end of the day (or year perhaps...) you can see something, that did not exist before, that you have created. That just feels really good. In gaming, you can make plenty of money but you aren't really creating anything and so it ends up feeling quite empty - especially when variance is doing its thing.
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Why wouldn't I want a spinbox for something like product quantity? I didn't really understand the example in the article. I get that it doesn't help if I mistype 39 when I meant 2, but is helpful in other cases.

If I'm not mistaken, using type="pattern" also means I can't use min or max.
Some, but right almost certainly a lot less than in previously generations...

If one partner made enough to support the whole family and you had kids, then I imagine there are some families who would want a full-time parent caring for their kids vs relying on daycare/parents/nanny.
This seems far too complicated. The UX of Dissenter (boo, hiss, I know, control yourself) is simple by comparison, doesn’t involve another destination site, and doesn’t involve a committee deciding whose reviews are more worthy of consideration than others. What Id prefer is a ranking system of journalist merit: does this story cite anonymous sources? Is this story original reporting? Does this story simply repackage someone else’s original reporting with an editorial headline? Is it news, editorial, or opinion? What corporations advertise with the parent company? These are objective measures of newsworthiness and Credder would track none of them by default.
Living in the bay area was good as long as you were single with no stuff, no attachments, no desire to run home to your spouse/kids. It's very easy to live with roommates who you don't care about.

As soon as those come in, the 1.5 hour commute + parking + prices starts biting. There are entire areas of bay area that are so weirdly connected (because of geography and no public transit) that makes some jobs brutal. Eg: Living in east bay but working in mountain view-san jose-cupertino. Or living in San Jose and working in mid-center SF
That does discriminate against a large group who work in tech.
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There's no problem in principle with using public key cryptography to sign messages sent by ham radio. So authentication is possible although it's not common in practice. It's encrypting the content of messages that's not permitted.
A major part of why I like the SE design so much is that I can easily one-hand it. An edge to edge screen would be actively antagonistic to that feature, at least sideways.

There's room to gain some extra vertical real estate, though it would presumably involve getting rid of the home button and going with a notched screen. I'm ambivalent about the desirability of either option from a pure hardware perspective. I like being able to get a secure grip on my phone by putting my thumb somewhere that isn't touch-sensitive, especially when I'm doing something like trying to use my phone on a crowded train. But, where so many UI people (including Apple's own) have taken to being actively wasteful of vertical real estate these days, I can also see where it might still be a net positive insofar as it would mitigate some of the UX damage they've been doing.
> Correct, both of which you have to take into account when picking a programming language today.

Shrug, you're not really wrong. Early adopters of Rust will suffer (have suffered) some issues. Maybe you can try it out in 2060, when Rust will be around the age C is now. To Rust's credit, for this metric it's around ten years further along than any other language that we could propose to supersede C today.

> I wouldn't call C++ a wild success. It's failed to supplant C for its entire life, and thrives only in a few niches.

I disagree, but I'll admit my bias here having spent very nearly all of my career working on C++.
Did you have a pay adjustment?
That is only correct when writing in a language other than English. Doing it in English is a mistake transferred from doing it in other languages.

http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-370303.htm#position
I don't see anyone in that discussion who is on the Rust/Cargo teams.

I see a bunch of disagreement from people involved in gstreamer/meson (and some other non-team folks), which makes sense, disagreeing with something on your own project isn't external hostility, it's how decisionmaking works.
And it ruins the experience too. I remember when I used to go to arcades, and there were games that paid out tickets, and games that didn't. Playing games that didn't pay out felt like a "waste", because I couldn't get tickets. ...Even though they were likely more fun, and the tickets weren't worth all that much in the real world.
I don’t know much about analog computing, but how well can analog computers solve PDE’s in 3 spatial dimensions?

I know that until digital computers came along, structural analysis was done with strains lacquer techniques, so the circuit way seems limited
If they hire people who have colostomy bags they won't even have to worry about micromanaging their bathroom use.
There are two main points here that Apple should take away from this discussion:

(1) People like the SE.

(2) People are confused by the placement of the “Clearance” section inside the “Refurbished” section.

If they can’t take action on the first I hope they at least take action on the second.
No it was corporate building services deciding they know best.
Too bad that cost is levied on people who don’t even need or want those services. The rich, childless, houseless, and single are subsidizing services for everyone else regardless of whether they personally derive any benefit.

If that doesn’t strike you as unfair I’m not sure what would.
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Rust can as well, and it can also expose the C ABI too, so it can work both ways.
However, the above link does point out a convention ripe for abuse:

Because suspects are put through continuous interrogation which could last up to 23 days as well as isolation from the outside world, including access to lawyers, both the Japanese judiciary and the public are well aware that confession of guilt can easily be forced.
And if you have questions about the credibility of Credder, you can just check the Credder ratings on Verrit, which is itself verified by Truther and Accurit, which are backed up by Credder. Solved!

News trustworthiness is not a technical problem and cannot be solved by technical solutions. News: something you don't know. Verifying news: asking people to opine about the trustworthiness of something they don't know.

> "Here's an opaque cardboard box. In it is a banana. Now rate my news story on its accuracy. NO, you are not allowed to open or inspect the box in any way. Also, a lot of you have strong political opinions about bananas. Ready, GO!"

Garbage in, garbage out.

Far too gameable, a fundamentally insoluble problem to begin with.
If you really want an iPhone or Android alternative you can buy a license (they sell an Sailfish OS for Xperia X or XA2 (you have to bring/buy the device by yourself)) also from non-supported countries:

- https://together.jolla.com/question/187365/shop-sorry-not-av...

- https://together.jolla.com/question/169734/sailfishx-not-ava...

If this is too complicated you likely wouldn't be happy with Sailfish anyway as there are quite some drawbacks (and also of course highlights).
Not sure if I should call dibs on “iLoveCRIME”.
The website https://ui.baxx.dev is, in fact, serving HTML, CSS, and JS.

I get the point, but the "without a website" claim is kind of a cutesy attention-grabbing prevarication.

I'm usually pretty tolerant of those, but personally find that here it mixes poorly with the idea of a backup service. From such a service, I'd prefer to see total honesty, and a sort of buttoned-down, almost military humorlessness/seriousness.
I wrote a comment about this over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19483241

One of the goals of this year's roadmap is to significantly improve the reference, by the way.
Excellent concerns! Do you have any resources you could link to on relevant FCC regulations? I'm a curious bugger.