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HN caps it at 2000 character but here are a couple more. Let me know what you think

5. There are no good tools for building my church’s community online

"This might sound a little weird but I am part of a congregation (church) and I wish that we could have a way to build our community online. I imagine something that combines Slack, Facebook Live, Shopify and Patreon.” All of these things can be done independently today but a software that bundles everything together would remove a ton of friction.

6. There is a need for tools (e.g. CRMs) for creators that will make use of Instagram’s new Checkout feature.

"This week Instagram launched checkout. There’s a massive opportunity to help a new generation of creators and creatives more easily become entrepreneurs." These sellers will be phone-only, and there are no good CRMs and adjacent tools to help these creators manage their business.

7. In the US It's extremely hard to compare prices across hospitals

"Hospitals in the USA are now required to publish online price lists of the services they provide. I hope someone is working to aggregate and make these easily searchable/comparable."

8. I wish there was something like MoviePass but for museums and other attractions

“It sucks that I have to pay $25 to go to SFMoMa. As a college student I got free access to all of these museums in New York. I wish there was something like MoviePass but for museums and stuff like that.”

9. A good karaoke app out there (for individuals or bars) is something that doesn't exist

“For a while now I've been trying to find a good Karaoke app that works with Spotify or Apple Music but there's nothing out there. Smule and Musixmatch are ok for lyrics but this isn't actually Karaoke. The same thing applies for Karaoke bars. They either use YouTube or some crappy software. One app that creates a great user experience for individuals and clubs/djs/bars etc. could be a game changer.”
Black market dealers would swap Terabytes of hot RAM with manually inputted data from the best e-sport players in the world. Corporate enforcers would hack those dealers to delete the data.

Call it Sonic Mnemonic.
To put it bluntly, the increased happiness of millions of children is worth a couple children's health, or even lives.

That's a tough sell, but that sounds reasonable (well, I can talk, I don't have children). This is basically the same reasoning Yudkowsky presented with his dust speck vs torture argument argument: a sufficiently widespread benefit, however small, will outweigh a sufficiently improbable horrible event.
Route, perhaps (though I personally like to mix it up), but if the right lane of a 3-lane highway is backed up due to an offramp that isn't yours, I imagine you'd move over one lane to get past it! That's what doesn't happen in C:S, unfortunately.
I can’t WAIT until we have to deal with time dilation problems on networks and certificates.
It might seem that way, but it's probably due to selection bias in the media. Normal business ideas don't generate interesting headlines.
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Seconds are only Simple if they are defined as such. If they are defined as a subdivision of the day, then they need to be rebound to the slowing rotation of the Earth as the Earth slows and as relativistic differences due to altitude come into play.

If the second uses some other definition, you still need some centralized authority to define its length, for the same reason that it’s measurement will drift depending on your reference frame.
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>Parent didn't imply it was.

Yes, they did.

The purpose of suggesting that "extremism" as a term is "so vague as to be meaningless" is to imply precisely that. It's a common enough rhetorical tactic that it can be taken for granted in any thread where speech or censorship (particularly of what is considered right or far-right politics) is the subject.

Extremism in context has a commonly understood definition, and claiming otherwise is not a convincing argument.
Yes, they are compliant. Congress could easily block this, but the senate won’t.

Trump is betting that low interest rates will prop up the US economy through the next election cycle. China is betting they won’t. The GOP is betting they can get Trump to “own” any economic fall out from the trade war.

(Edit: and you can stop him by voting)
Does infrared photography[0] creep you out too?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_photography
I started using Tweetdeck specifically because of how annoying this was.
I support sourcehut, because I would like to see it evolve, and hopefully keep the no-nonsense UI approach. Having a nontrivial site with a usable interface running without JS in 2019 is beautiful on its own.
'Capitalism' shouldn't be bad for your health.
The text is formatted as it comes in. Most plaintext emails are hard-wrapped at 72 columns and SourceHut doesn't molest them. However, there has been some research into format=flowed, where the sender can opt-in to having their emails reflowed on Sourcehut, but that hasn't been implemented on our side yet.
To provide a counterpoint, local taxes pay for a lot of local things. So why should a tourist benefit from a bunch of things that they did not pay for? A tourist tax is a way to make sure they are paying their share of it.
Actually, they do have their own police force and also an on-property jail. Nearly all Disney security personnel are undercover, dressed as tourists or other kinds of workers so as not to be off-putting to guests.

The book Vinyl Leaves is an incredible and comprehensive look at many of the secrets behind the Disney empire.
Adding a little support, from Joe Armstrong's thesis (which I've been reading):

"This version of Erlang was embedded in Prolog using Prolog infix operators and did not yet have its own syntax."

"Since Erlang started as an extension to Prolog it seemed reasonable that [...]"

"Erlang now had its own syntax (up to now it could be regarded as a dialect of Prolog) and could be regarded as a language in its own right, rather than as a dialect of Prolog."
It's a library of complete physically-based simulation and rendering algorithm implementations.

You seem to be assuming that "library" must mean a layer or an API providing certain runtime abstractions or functionality. That's not really what this is. It's more about code reuse and a rationalized core of tools for implementing the various techniques.
> what is the compelling reason to not just pick Java at this point?

Oracle.
As soon as everyone leaves Twitter for Mastodon then that becomes the place where people go to yell at eachother.
If you have a relatively-short, curated list of people you want to see posts from, I suggest adding them to a list and viewing your "feed" that way. I've been using lists over the home page/feed for a few months and my experience w/ Twitter has been much better. Only posts from the people you've explicitly chosen to get posts from, which also means zero ads (at least on desktop).
I've long had the sense that Twitter's leaders (including, but not limited to, Dorsey) feel deep down that they don't really understand why anyone actually uses Twitter. They have this product, some people seem to like it, but none of them could explain to you why they like it. They're baffled by the appeal of their own product.

Which leads to an incredible amount of change aversion; if you have no idea what it is about your product that people like, you're naturally going to be terrified of changing anything, for fear that you might punch a hole in the wrong place and let all the magic leak out.
I was talking about work life balance and discretionary time, not physical fitness.

Also some people have physical abilities such that walking is not a valid lifestyle choice. For instance, two year olds.

I'm pro-walkable spaces. But it's not across the board superior to other arrangements.
Ruby is the most prominent one in my opinion - Matz developed Ruby entirely from Japan, was announced on Japanese mailing lists etc.
His brother, Roy, and the other members of the Board did want to do the full Epcot but they didn't think they could pull it off without him.
> "What these type of pieces never discuss is how much they think rents will be brought down by upzoning."

[slighted edited for clarity]

according to some quick and dirty searching, we build about 140,000 units per year in california and need another 110,000 to house the net increase in population. that means we need 250K units per year total. it now costs about $400K to build a unit of housing. so that means we need $100B of new housing per year in cali. incidentally, the gdp is about $3T and the annual state budget is about $200B.

at that rate of building (250K units/year), you'd expect housing prices to stabilize. if you want prices to go down, you'd have to build more than that (hard to incentivize unless costs are brought down or subsidies are brought up).

according to the census, even in metropolitan statistical areas, new residential construction is mostly (90+%) detached single family residences (SFRs). so if we upzone all SFRs (R-1 in LA) to two-family residences (R-2 in LA) and encouraged the building of 2-family structures, we'd expect housing prices to stabilize, at least in metro areas, where housing is at crisis levels.

i think this was the reasoning behind california cities (like pasadena) experimenting with allowing in-law/accessory units (based on the quick calcs above). i would actually go even further and upzone to R-3 (as proposed by scott weiner in SB50 [0]), which would then allow fourplexes on what would only have a single home. fourplexes are nice because the massing (from the street) is about the same as a single family home, but it potentially quadruples density. then you'd actually see decreases in housing costs.

i'd also encourage owner-occupied fourplexes to create more coherent neighborhoods, rather than corporate-controlled rentals that extract and deplete wealth from a neighborhood.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-single-family-zon...
Yeah, Ruby uses the doublequote/singlequote distinction from Perl, but Ruby tags variables to interpolate with #{}, while Groovy and Perl use $.

Oh, although I guess Perl got that syntax from the Bourne shell…
Good one! Thanks.
I’m glad you appreciated that! I want results to be reproducible.
I suggest testing by running `telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl`. I have found it to be much more entertaining.
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> Having said that, I don't think they would ever attempt a nuke plant and I'm glad about that.

I'm... not?

If they did it well they could demystify and de-...demonize nuclear power and maybe return some of that "Magic of Science" feeling they were famous for before the 90s. Disney was a real innovator back in the day, I'd be quite happy to see them take on nuclear power and do it well - maybe with a Gen4 reactor like thorium MSR.
We sure can judge whether it's before or after sunset though.
But it also means that we're neutering some really important mechanisms of human development. It seems very costly to squeeze out those teensy little bits of extra safety.
Hi,

> They say its for rollback, but why wouldn't you just mark rows deleted during transaction, then actually delete them later in the background?

> Anyone know if other database do this differently, I think Postgres doesn't log the full row on delete but haven't been able to find much on it.

Yes, postgres doesn't do that. But that has substantial disadvantages too: It's why postgres then needs to VACUUM that relation later - to remove all the deleted and updated rows. Postgres cannot reuse space on the page with the deleted rows, even if the the transaction that performed the DELETE also would like to reuse the space (in some UNDO based systems the space won't be reusable if another transaction wants to reclaim it, because there needs to be space for ROLLBACK to put the tuples back).

> This is always a big problem when I try and use SQL server to store things like logs where you want to retain them for a period of time then delete them. At high volumes the logging overhead becomes an issue especially in the back up system. Usually have to do a separate DB in simple mode or start doing partitioned tables with truncate, would be so nice not to have to think about it much.

Using partitioning usually is the right approach for this kind of load, in postgres as well.
While the bluetooth stack on the Titan is probably well written, that's not the case more generally. Clearly even Google couldn't get it right the first time around, and they were merely tasked with implementing the simplest possible mode of the protocol. I wouldn't enable bluetooth on my smartphone or laptop while in public. Bluetooth driver stacks receive less attention than cellular comms or WiFi stacks, and those are already bug ridden nightmares.
spot on, basically you now have to worry about the domain being lost or hijacked also. for me, the flexibility to change email providers behind a domain is worth it though
No, I haven't heard of anyone being criminally charged for ping, but I have known someone whose ISP cut them off and he had to go through an onerous process to get service restored. I've also heard of people that use EC2 instances and get their AWS account terminated.
One reason I can see is the same reason that linuxkit [1] is a really interesting way of putting together Linux OS images: the container ecosystem has produced some tools that are really useful for building and packaging up Linux userspaces, and being able to reuse those tools in other ways is valuable.

With linuxkit you give up some of the niceties of image layer caching, but with an approach like this you get the best of both worlds -- the isolation of VMs but the tooling and usability of containers.

[1] https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit
I hated it at the time, but while growing up my dad made me help him with a lot of his side jobs. These jobs often involved power tools like various kinds of saws, chain saws, log splitters, etc... There was also minor electrical, plumbing, and engine work often involved. My dad would point out what to do and how not to get hurt. Obviously he would do anything beyond my ability or strength, but I learned a lot just being part of the overall process.

Fast forward many years and I'm thankful for the learning that came out of those times.
"Perhaps a better argument for an early and complete local ban might be that it allows other regions to be the test subjects."

It's a valid thought, honestly. Though seeing how tightly the police hold onto this tech once they have it makes it extremely difficult to just test the waters (and also requires vigilant public oversight, which the sheriffs' associations will fight tooth and nail).

Also having cops test this tech out, knowing they're going to be deliberately monitored to how often they use it for good reasons (e.g. child abductions) vs abuse it, would probably produce incredibly biased results. Think about it-- the experiment would be entirely self-serving: cops get to trumpet that it helped them for the legit crime here and there (and sitting through public safety committees, believe me, they will TRUMPET it), while showing that zero cases of misuse happened.

Ultimately, we have to think in systems: sure, ubiquitous surveillance would undoubtedly solve the horrific crime here and there, but at what cost to who we are as people? At what cost to how we protect minorities and the undocumented? At what cost to our already eroding public trust?
Great plan. All it takes is a government to designate a group as terrorists and any mention of them results in mega-fines.

nit- Among others, neither the 9/11 gang nor the Christchurch shooter were poor.
I loved this from one of the article's comments by Deb:

"The coup de grace, though, came the day I went to pick a student up from the playground and as the child was running to greet me, the preschool teacher sang out ‘Remember the new rule, Kai! No running on the playground!’

No. Running. On. The. Playground."
One thing that is annoying is that ARIN recently raised the amount of money it costs to maintain a /24. I was unexpectedly hit with a $500 bill when previous prices were $100. Was quite annoying considering is very little cost in providing these allocations (they really beef up their headcount). Been thinking about trying to get on the board but it is near impossible.
It seems like you're talking the difference between suspicion and proof? Saying "it's obvious they're doing it" when you mean you suspect they're doing it is just going to start an argument.
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I'm not sure what you mean by KVM syscall trapping for the guest. The bluepill refers to the fact that the Sentry runs transparently in VMX non-root ring 0 and regular host ring 3.

I'm not sure what to provide re: docs -- the code is all there, reasonably documented and there are discussions on the public groups of how the KVM platform works. I feel a bit like you're coming in with a specific set of ideas and skimming files (e.g. the performance guide and the code itself) in order to confirm an existing understanding, but it's just not working.

I'd love more precise criticisms re: adding to the attack surface, but otherwise I'm not sure how I can help.
Perhaps we don’t anymore? Not for most of us anyway. In a sense we too are domesticated and brought up in captivity.

Even if we knew how to survive. Between private property, most wildlife being eradicated, the rest being protected, loss of natural ecosystems to farmland (private property) and ranch land (private property), commercial fishing reducing the abundance of fish available, other areas being protected from fishing, rivers being dammed up or polluted, water tables dropping due to the pumping of ground water, and our sheer numbers. Perhaps Living like hunter gatherers is no longer a choice available to us. It is either live as we do now, or perish. I know that is how it would be for me.

It's a sobering thought.
> What these type of pieces never discuss is how much they think rents will be brought down by upzoning.

That's not the way to measure success. The way to measure success is the number of new people living in the desirable area.

It's not "Rent is now $200 cheaper"; it's "3,000 people can now afford to live here that couldn't before (because, FYI, the rent is $X cheaper)".
Perhaps because we are endurance hunters, we are programmed from birth to seek comfort & idleness. The way I see it, we were "designed" to live in tension between wanting to be idle (to save energy), but having to be active to survive.

Once we became runaway successful, that tension between a need to be active & a desire to be idle started to disappear.
This might be the most amazing and interesting comment I've ever seen. Thank you :-)

What you say makes good sense too since many RVs have propane refrigerators. I've long wondered how it works exactly. Probably time for a DuckDuckGo search.
This 100%. Anyone educated on the issues beyond the surface level propaganda knows this is the right call.
Yes, that's what I've done for my home city, but it's not especially practical when travelling, when compared to other mapping apps that let you download entire countries' map data at once.
This just goes to prove that even a racist clock is right twice a day [1] because it's clear that:

- China has engaged in state-sponsored corporate and military espionage; and

- Chinese companies are not separate from the state.

The only reasonable conclusion here is that Huawei gear on key networking infrastructure represents a security threat and really that's all there is to it. I find it odd that it's taken Trump, who otherwise is a disaster on pretty much every front, to actually say what is otherwise obvious.

[1]: https://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/the-racist-clock-4...
I don't think it's useful to add conditions to UBI - if you want to spend your UBI on a car and I don't agree with that, it's tough luck for me.

You do raise a valid point, which is that a car is a luxury. Having lots of land is a luxury. Having kids is a luxury. Living in a long Urban center where the grocery store is a 2 minute walk away is a luxury.

It's up to the people receiving the UBI to decide which luxuries they want to spend it on. You can't have it all unless you can earn enough to pay for it all.
NYC is already relatively affordable compared to the Bay Area despite its massive population, thanks to aggressive upzoming. Sure, Manhattan is expensive but it manages to absorb a ton of people and makes the surrounding areas far more affordable. Contrast with the Bay Area, where anything within reasonable commute time of SF or Silicon Valley is still very expensive.
If a thing requires an eternal gag order, maybe we shouldn't be doing that thing.

Kudos to EFF for casting light on the shadows.
Is this the same company that's threatening to sue people for using old versions of Photoshop?
>It was actually a trick question: you cannot tell me what “violent extremism” means in this context, because you don’t know. You don’t know because you’re not the one who gets to decide.

Oh, ok.

The powers that be. The shadowy cabal. The unseen hand which controls all aspects of society with absolute and arbitrary power.

I thought I was going to be able to have a rational, intellectually satisfying discussion but once again no one is capable of defending free speech without resorting to slippery slopes and absolutism. Ah well. Here's another valueless thread I can ignore.
Maybe it's because the most common stories of this type from the US are about corporate environments rather than small businesses. European corporations also spend obscene amounts of money on services and contractors, but few of us get anywhere near it, and large European companies tend to be more conservative in procurement and rely on big names or the "old boy's network" more.
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In the extreme form of a free market (some would call that 'in a truly free market'), there is no such thing as regulating out bad behavior because, that is a limitation on actors' freedom within that market. As the view goes, even if everyone in the market agreed on what was bad and how to enforce the regulation, it would be wholely unnecessary to actually regulate such bad action, because all participants are rational actors who will naturally punish that bad behavior themselves by preferring a competitor over the bad actor.

And yes, regulating poor behavior is absolutely picking winners/picking losers/picking specific companies to disadvantage/advantage, and not just because of issues with uneven enforcement. Determining which behaviors are disallowed and which behaviors will be policed by "natural market forces", especially when talking about modifying rules for a preexisting market, means picking winners/losers/who gets advantaged/disadvantaged. This is why encouraging/fostering competition is antithetical to making/maintaining a free market.
You literally bemoan identity politics. The catholic church certainly does not celebrate all kinds of diversity ;)
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There's a difference between playgrounds and work environments: as far as I am aware, workers aren't any more miserable in safer work environment. Children in "safer" playgrounds, are.

The value of life is not infinite. It is perfectly reasonable to sacrifice a few to improve the conditions of the many. Funnier, riskier playgrounds do exactly that.

That said, the article stated the "safer" playground engendered more injuries, mostly because bored kids were taking inconsiderate risks. The more dangerous playgrounds actually looked more dangerous, and the kids in them ended up taking less serious risks.

There's a good chance that more "dangerous" playgrounds are a one sided win. They could be better than the "safe" ones even if you disagree with my first two paragraphs.