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>The US dollar hasn't been backed by anything since 1971 and is still ticking strong.

I think you might be overstating. The US dollar is not backed by an asset because it is an asset. At this point, the dollar is backed by the government, the government's authority, its military power, and the future value of its debt. That is not gold, but it is not nothing either.
That is right, it is an industry. It has established risk models. It has norms and remedies. Most importantly, it has the triumvirate of debt worthiness (aka credit bureaus) at it's beck and call.
Yeah, I'd argue that's the problem: the law's definition of anti-competitive doesn't actually address whether or not consumers were harmed.
Nesting is by far the biggest driver for me. I can do vanilla CSS in my sleep, but it's such a cognitive drag.
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That's the positive spin.

The negative spin would be: how to spend a lot of effort to solve a problem you would never have if you didn't use rust.
Yes it makes great blogs but it doesn't necessarily make his programs better.

I'm two minds here. On the one hand the safety is nice and it might or might not find a few bugs in advance.

But in a real project do you really have time to go through all this effort every time just to solve something do something legitimate that the rust designer's didn't quite consider?

If he had written it in C he might have had enough time to work on the performance to actually get a performance gain.

I still haven't made up my mind if the trade off is worth it.
This is only a small fraction of the 120k bitcoins stolen at the time though. It may be a coincidence.
Except they don't drop many more projects all the time, Funny that people here argues it should drop Dart. I am glad they are sticking to it.
I read somewhere a quote like, "a bad abstraction is worse than none at all." And for that I'm always on the lookout for things that look the same but aren't actually. Careful not to merge them via abstraction because they might deviate heavily all of a sudden and now you have to refactor a lot.

CSS is the #1 place where I spot those cases. And I feel that Sass and other CSS preprocessors mostly lend themselves to shooting yourself in the foot with abstracting similar things that aren't actually of the same category.
This is already the norm in NYC as of the past few months. It used to be that by declining optional free one-day delivery I could prevent LaserShip from handling my delivery but that is no longer the case. I would take three-day delivery if it meant that I never had to have another packaged delivered by LaserShip.
90% of users, which is a bit low for a lot of organizations.

They also aren't a full sass/less replacement, just one aspect
If you really wanted to go somewhere and be untrackable you could just wear religious clothing that covers your face and body. That way you blend in with the whole group without looking like a crazy person with facepaint.
Speaking as someone who was deeply interested in bitcoin in ~2013, cryptocurrency today is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. When someone tells me today that they are working on something related to crypto I make a mental note to never work with them or take anything they do seriously.
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Lard is pretty much alive and kicking in eastern Europe.
I don't think that's true. I'm no expert on facial recognition, but I believe those systems look at more specific details, like the corners of your eyes and mouth, and where they are relative to your jawline. They're less interested in things like "could this be part of a cheek? does that hair cover a head? does the picture as a whole make sense?". They're very precise (more than we are) at measuring the exact locations of specific features, but less good at checking if the picture as a whole could be hiding a person.

So they're better than us at some things, but can still fail dramatically at things that seem trivial to us.
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My experience is that every Electron app I’ve ever tried has a terrible “user experience” compared to average competently made native Mac apps. Their core UI widgets are non-standard for the platform and are full of bugs and inconsistencies. Latency is through the roof on all sorts of common interactions. They don’t integrate well with standard expected OS features/services. They burn massive amounts of system resources.

From my perspective as a user, Electron apps are for companies who don’t really care much about quality and are too cheap and lazy to write native apps. YMMV.
Yes.

They did it with ElasticSearch

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-open-distro-for-elastic...

And Java

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/amazon-corretto-no-c...

And something similar with Mongo DB.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-documentdb-with-...
Thanks for sharing this. Really insightful
Someone could have the whole wallet...

As I said, it is impossible to verify that that isn't the case. He could have taken a loan with the whole wallet as collateral. That isn't the same as claiming that Satoshi did that, but it's not like the audibility of the blockchain spreads all the way to the real world. There's really no saying what Satoshi has done, and the anonymity means there's no way to find out.
I have no idea why this isn't more common.

You basically get _huge experience_ for 10-20 hours a week and you don't have to shell out that cost at 40 hours a week. I believe there are many people who don't mind working an extra 10-20 hours a week.

Yes, they may not be your Googlers, but there is still a lot of talent/experience you are able to access without breaking the bank.

(Yes, there are also non-compete agreements and various types of reasons why this doesn't work, but I maintain that many experienced devs wouldn't mind working on projects in their spare time and leading/learning/getting paid for it.)
Side note, this[1] is absolutely fantastic.

1. https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/
Also, an hour for interviewing costs more than one hour of productivity because it interrupts flow state. A 3 hour free chunk in the schedule is more productive than three one hour chunks.
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Probably because of this little important detailed not mentioned in the title "Five participants underwent chronic implantation of a high-density, subdural electrode array over
the lateral surface of the brain as part of their clinical treatment for epilepsy"
I am sorry I don’t quite understand the point you’re trying to make here.

Who is the right that you are talking about?

Complaining is part of free speech as long as it doesn’t infringe on others right to complain back as well. If they complain because they disagree, that’s a very different thing than not defending or being hypocritical about free speech.

FWIW from my experience, the people I talk to respect players’ right to kneel even if they don’t agree with that action. That is the key to free speech I think —- to disagree peacefully but respect people’s right to express themselves.
A reminder that a significant proportion of HN readers lie outside the USA, and do not regard the CIA as an asset or benefit in any meaningful sense. Some of us feel the same way about the CIA as we feel about the FSB, and MI6 and DGCE (the list is endless)
As does US powdered/confectioners sugar.
No clocks, no time, right?
Because, $BAD_ACTOR$ may be able to target advertizing to $GROUP_X$ in one scenario, but in another, may actual have the underlying data which can be abused in MANY other ways.

For example, you search for porn content... an advertiser targeting porn content doesn't know YOU search for porn content in the former... in the latter they do know.
> not obvious to me

Program X measured less than Program Y.

> … comparisons where only one variable changes…

Seems like your idea of a comparison, between for-example Lisp and Java programs, would require writing all the Lisp programs as if they were being written in Java. (We used up our "one variable change" with SBCL instead-of OpenJDK).

> I spoke too soon

You chose to summarize data: "Java outperforms SBCL by a very wide margin -- 1.25-4x faster".

Do you mean that you made mistakes when you made your summary.
It was probably my mistake to link the paper despite it being the best resource I could remember reading, and a mistake on two fronts: firstly since it's aworkshop paper as you note, an secondly because the more forceful refutation of the speech as separate argument is in the other paper she mentions. That said, this one seemed more relevant to the legal aspects and the issue of free speech rather than only the metaphysical aspects of speech. At the very least, the paper (convincingly in my view) refutes or at least mentions refutations of the main arguments for a specific right to freedom of speech (such as the truth argument or the democracy argument).

Regarding the bulwark against authoritarianism, this is already hinted to - being particularly hazardous about policing speech doesn't make so much sense when we already legislate on many other issues which seem to have bigger effects - such as food safety regulation, or the law of murder, or laws against literal genocide. I feel similar to Schauer here, but I'm uncomfortable about taking the plunge and sticking to the unjustified status quo which already seems to produce unfavorable results without much going for it. Even under a system with no free speech law, we'd have no reason to think political speech would necessarily be repressed but good reason to think that various reasoned arguments against hate speech and pornography would be entertained - to me that's a good thing.
> So, for example, if you get a new versions of excel, which improves your productivity $100/year, but excel costs $100 this year to upgrade, you haven't gained anything in year 1.

Yes, but this is a tautology (it will always be true that making a capital expenditure of $x/employee/year to augment surplus value $x/employee/year will break even). Productivity itself is scalar (units produced/time), so to arrive at a dollar amount of $100 additional revenue generated per employee would suggest an incredibly small increase in units produced over 1 year.
Isn’t a black hole a spatial entropy gradient?
It would almost certainly cost Pinterest more than that $9/user-year to build and process payments.
Or in-person. Any criminal transactions, really (drugs, weapons, people, etc.)
I don’t see what privileges the hypothesis of “aliens” over “other countries’ aerospace R&D assets being used in an intelligence-gathering capacity.” Especially given the “seen over [i.e. examining] military bases” part.
Very much so... also, a lot of the time I see items that don't even ship for a few days. I don't think this will significantly change much, it's just they've decided that they crossed the threshold that they can advertise under the new constraint.
By the same token, cryptocurrencies are backed by the computing networks underlying them, the potential future usage of these computing networks, and by your ability to buy guns, drugs, and hacks with them. This is also not gold (although you can buy gold-backed cryptocurrency: see Digix), but not nothing either. That's why cryptocurrency evangelists harp on adoption and new use-cases: the value of any currency is primarily set by what you can spend it on. Right now you can spend Bitcoin on a lot fewer things than US Dollars, but your personal profit potential from holding a currency derives from the rate of increase in adoption, not its current level, and Bitcoin has a lot of room to grow while the dollar has virtually none.

Tether intrinsically has none of these, but because of its adoption by many exchanges, it's convertible into other currencies that have more intrinsic value. So as long as it remains convertible, it will continue to have value.
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This says late next year, although looks like it’s just a briefing rather than a formal announcement:

https://www.whatcar.com/news/2020-audi-q4-e-tron-electric-su...

No formal price yet either so could be significantly more expensive.
There is always 'some' chance, but the article quotes 1.8 +- 0.5 so the error bars are already quite big.
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Elastic hoped to monetize someone else's work, but someone monetized their own work. Ironic.
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JS, no. A hand rolled framework is going to be a hindrance the more feature-ful your site becomes.

OTOH, css frameworks go the other way. The more you have to do, the more apparent that bootstrap etc. get in your way, largely because css isn't a "complete" language.

I know some few who swear by them, but the majority of people I know who did html/css exclusively for years feel they can write by hand anything they would want from bootstrap in less time than they would waste in fighting things like selector specificity and other inflexible choices.

YMMV of course, and you can pry postcss + preset-env + mixins from my cold, dead hands.
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>Android is definitely struggling and showing its age by this point

I have the opposite viewpoint on this. I've worked on mobile the last 5 years or so, and dedicated native Android the last 2.5 years. The last year or two have been dramatic revolutions in the Android developer experience, from my perspective. Things like ConstraintLayout and full Kotlin support with ktx have opened up a new world for me compared to the state of the art several years ago.

Then you look at companies like Peloton using large form-factor Android devices in their core products, and Samsung DEx using Android as a seamless mobile<->desktop computer.

To me it seems like Android is just hitting it's stride. Who knows though, it's Google.
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I remember having to compile drivers to get a /dev/mga device file that would be used to play videos with mplayer smoothly, which had a dedicated output option for mga at that time.
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I've discovered that some people say "blockchain" when they mean "immutable, distributed, cryptographically-verified database" -- which is actually a useful thing for many people.

The Byzantine fault tolerance, public consensus, and mining aspects that we associate with "true" blockchains are the parts that people can't find a way to justify and can typically be ignored.
Nice way to appear to be even handed while minimizing responsibility:

"Facebook has stumbled a lot on their own" - stumbled as if it has no organizational will that pushed in a certain direction e.g. the growth hacks & engagement efforts that have caused a lot of these problems.
Klinger, how would you suggest a person that has been "ignored" (with just cause) begin recompense?

Such as in the VampyrLee instance.
Yes, that’s a fair way of looking at it. Will be interesting to see what happens with the MEB cars, you’d think there would be a lot of effort there to work on a really solid thermal management system, and much easier to extrapolate data from one model to another.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I get genuinely depressed if I don't feel like I accomplished much at the end of the day.

I have never gone home at the end of the day and said "man, I wish I could have spent more time checking email today".
I was more referring to the risk of interest rates going up- would that not mean that the debt has to be either repaid or rolled over into a new loan at a higher rate, when it matures? What if the fed raises rates like it did during the volker shock- if you owe a lot of cash and the rates go that high, does your company not become insolvent?
I've used https://www.usglobalmail.com/ for years.

You could always forward your mail to a friend or relative, which I've also done, but whatever you do, get an address in a state without personal income tax. You don't want to get inadvertently flagged as a resident and sent a state income tax bill which you'll have to dispute.
Context : Podemos ( "we can" ) is a relatively new mainstream leftist party. There's also the traditional centre-left PSOE, traditional centre-right PP, 'new' centre-right Ciudadanos ( "citizens" ) and new far-right Vox ( projected to enter Parliament with as much as 10% of votes ), disputing this general election on a national level.

PSOE is projected to win the most votes but not a majority, Podemos would enter in a coalition government with them. Coalitions of right vs. left parties are almost equal in projected votes though, so it's anyone's guess how this will actually end, and of course there's the question of whether the far right will make it into government on a national level. They have in one of the autonomous regions, Andalusia. ( Spain is a federation in all but name. )

A few days from voting, one would expect this kind of move being done on Vox rather than any of the other four mainstream parties, given Vox's extreme right wing xenophobic rhetoric and destabilizing discourse.

Strange to say the least.
No, it's just mean almost everyone find it inline with their ethics but not yours.
The key thing is we DO NOT know what these are?

Why can't they be unicorns?

As long as you're jumping to conclusions they could be flying unicorns as well as aliens. Both are as plausible considering that we have no evidence for either.
The "evil" characterization is from the comment you're defending. The comment you're replying to just appears to be using the same terminology to discuss the same concept.
> I often see Americans attempting to explain why things happen in their country by pointing to domestic events, with said events failing to account for an identical thing happening all over the world.

I often see American colonies who labor under the delusion they have agency. Lard going away in Norway is much like Lysenkoism being popular in communist Poland.
Nothing. The issue is that your changes don’t actually do much when the web moves on without them.
It is that last bit where it gets sticky.

If you tank the market and create systemic insolvency then you might hold $1B of short contracts at an exchange where the operators have packed up and fled to anonymous sandy beaches, and for all your cleverness those contracts and $10 might buy you lunch tomorrow.
FTR: Eben Moglen is no longer working for the FSF:

https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-announces-change-in-general-cou...
It would tank, but he still may be able to do it. Even if the price plummeted to 1/10th its current value it would still be a fortune.
Allowing participants to choose between financial and time off compensation (at roughly equivalent hourly rates) is kind of a cool idea.

Of course, PTO is less of a clear incentive at places with “unlimited” PTO.
That's what I meant -- thanks for the catch!
Not to mention, cross platform (think x86, arm AND linux, mac, windows) from a single compile target.
> I just think the analogy to arithmetic is compelling, in that a closed sum type is a more primitive notion than open ending subclassing.

I agree, sum types have a real beautiful elegance. But I often wonder if that's some sort of "appeal to mathematical aesthetics" fallacy. When I see, for example, painters deciding what brushes to use, I don't see them choosing brushes whose diameter follows the Fibonacci sequence or something.

Simplicity is a virtue because it lowers the cognitive load of a language. I don't know if mapping something to arithmetic tells us something actually profound about the productivity of a language feature, even if it gives me a little shiver of delight when I think about it.

> Any time you are describing a data structure, an ADT is immediately useful

For what it's worth, I often run into problems where I think I can map something to a nice set of ADTs but then it ends up still having ugly corners. As elegant as the language feels, when I use them in practice my code is still awkward sometimes.

> It's very difficult for me to understand how anyone could possibly say subtyping is on the same level as basic operation like addition, one of them is clearly a more basic idea.

Subtyping is set theory, and sets are obviously more fundamental than arithmetic! :D

> we already have multiplication of types, and everyone accepts this as a primitive.

Well, actually, lots of languages don't have tuples and records/structs aren't simple product types.

> I suppose I do have an uncharitable opinion of mainstream programming languages

I wasn't talking about languages I was talking about people. There are languages out there with all of the features you describe. Yet millions of people are choosing other languages. You must have an uncharitable view of those people if you presume that all of them are making a choice that goes against their own self-interest to be happy productive programmers.
I think that's the crux of your misunderstanding here. There are networking issues where one side thinks a request has been sent or received successfully while the other side does not.

In this specific case, if a networking issue prevents the final ACK from being received by the server then the client assumes the connection is closed and the message has been delivered, while the broker will wait for the connection to time out, which I assume is a failure condition.

There are other cases where the client can receive a complete message but the server is unsure that it has, and will time out the connection while the client continues processing, assuming everything is fine.

You cannot build something on top of a networking stack that does not guarantee exactly-once semantics at any level (TCP, IP, HTTP, physical) and expect to get exactly once. You can mitigate it, sure, so maybe Amazon is super-dooper sure that these networking conditions won't ever happen.
To be fair... $150 an eng hour? That's a 312k salary. I don't think that is accurate. And a recruiter makes 200k salary on average?

These numbers are a bit nuts.

Agree with a lot of what is written tho, but not this crazy number.
Absolutely... I have a suspicion that Node may actually expand its' presence as a defacto runtime for wasm outside the browser.
Doubt it. Google is interested in supporting iOS, from what I see, but they don’t own the OS and it’s really hard getting the details right.
Including benefits/facilities costs/ etc this isn't entirely unreasonable.
The question's answer is approached but not quite reached with vague words about sensitive cameras. The article does not explicitly say that the phenomenon even is or isn't visible to the naked eye. The wikipedia article [1] suggests that the phenomenon was 'discovered' in 2016. But that leaves a little room for the possibility that it was occasionally noticed before then but not rigorously observed with photographs, witnessed notes, and the like, to document the sightings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_(atmospheric_phenomenon)