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I wanted to give it a try, but attempting to build a Debian package fails.

$ dpkg-buildpackage

...

gpg: skipped "John Factotum <50942278+johnfactotum@users.noreply.github.com>": No secret key
gpg: dpkg-sign.LHxm7FS6/com.github.johnfactotum.foliate_1.4.0.dsc: clear-sign failed: No secret key

dpkg-buildpackage: error: failed to sign .dsc file

edit: build does indeed work and I could use the viewer, building a Debian package fails though.
For that to work correctly, the piece of code generating the signal should never be interrupted.

To my knowledge, this is not possible with a Raspberry Pi. You should see glitches on the output when your loop generating the 1s and 0s is interrupted.

That may be ok it if you just when to send one static light pattern but the glitches should be more evident if you want to create beautiful, flowing light patterns.

That's why it's better to drive those WS2812b with an Arduino that you code bare metal.
the real question is what colour it should be
While you do that in the core, the outside of the city still grows, and that's all car based - there's no way around a city expanding and not building it for cars, unless you get the bus infrastructure out there before the people show up, which would appear to be a monumental waste when every city in the world's focus seems to be cutting taxes.
Your skull IS such an adaptation. Not hammer, but it does protect your CNS from many physical harms, and was evolutionarily gifted to you back in the days of early vertebrates
I'm sorry but you are being naive.

> I don't believe the intent of the AMP team is to strongarm developers into using their framework, or to funnel all traffic through Google.

Embrace, extend and extinguish. Microsoft invented it and Google now leads the way. Google is a virus on the web. Search, Chrome, AMP, Gmail, Maps... They are leveraging their monopoly and creating extremely user hostile choices. They then back in some plausible deniability based on some potential technical improvement (faster loading times on mobile in the case of AMP).

Google is one of the biggest companies in the world. Anyone above middle management (and even some of them) are extremely rich. If you don't think people like that make decisions based on extending their competitive advantage, you should spend more time listening to the complaints on this site, not less.

I won't even go into the overt political culture that Google has cultivated and pushed on people as that's more controversial. The short of it is: There are a ton of reasons to criticize Google. You should listen to them.

For the record I'm a strong advocate for technology companies (feel free to read my comments), but it's a step too far to claim there are no business reasons behind these decisions and that they are being made in favor of the users.
You fail to understand selection pressure. AMP is necessary now for a competitive ranking. This is not a small matter. Moving up or down a single space in search engine results can be the difference between a successful startup and washing dishes for a living.

Very quickly, a strong selection pressure can establish a trait "at fixation", as biologists say. When this happens, AMP just is the web.
Thanks for your thoughts! Perhaps I am a bit jaded as I went to a large university and I don't think a single professor could recognize me as a student, even the ones I went to office hours for. (always just help I never really struck up a conversation).

I will concede that for K-12 education, especially closer to the K side, having a patient teacher is certainly going to help students learn, and guide them when they are frustrated.
The education industry is not doing its job? Who knew?! Me! Because I went through it and had my life ruined by it. I say this as a 30 year old man. I went to public school where the following happened:

- I was not only intellectually neglected, I was intellectually poisoned. The result was worse than if I had just been left by myself as far as education and intellectual development. They don’t just not do their job, they sabotage kids

- I was subjected to bullying that has had mental health ramifications that persist even now. Everyone knew and nobody did anything. The teachers don’t do anything and the admins don’t do anything. They watch knowingly as kids under their care are viscously bullied, doing nothing.

Teachers are stupid. There is no other way to put it. Public education is a free daycare service. The kids who succeed in public school succeed in spite of the teachers and their circumstances, not because of them. It is not an exaggeration to say that subjecting a child to public education is abusive. Look at the average Americans understanding of maths and geography — they are basically retarded compared to other western nations. But nobody cares and nobody does anything. Saying that any alternative is too expensive is bullshit. Utter bullshit. Take grandma, who is starved for human interaction, and move her in. She watches over the child while he does assignments given to him by you and while he is tutored by starving PhD candidates and undergraduates who are actually smart and passionate. They will do it for peanuts. I know I would have when I was a starving student. Socialize the child by engaging in social activities such as soccer leagues and other things. Sleepovers, whatever. I just invented a method of education that is guaranteed to give you better results than a public school and probably costs a similar amount when you account for all the therapy you’d have to pay for from the bullying and whatever.
> teacher-student interaction

Should help identify gaps/misunderstandings. Should...

In my 1:20 math classroom, this didn't work, despite me asking specific questions. I've had to identify them myself years later by labouriously going through Khan Academy and other on-line resources.

Maybe your education, like everything else, is ultimately and necessarily your own personal responsibility...

BTW I think a brilliant tutor could do this, but they'd be worth (and charge) about $1,000 per hour.
> Oh, they say my website has mobile access issues? But it is a bootstrap website optimized for mobile. Clicking on fix issue .... checking live version ... your site is mobile ready..

Same here. That a company with that amount of brainpower fails to deliver the very basic tools to partake in their market really baffles me.
>excluding some costs

So, not really then?

From the same article:

>The company also posted a narrower net loss of $7.7 million

Dropbox is still not profitable.
OP wrote:

> I am currently struggling with Google and been even considering just straight up creating a Brazilian "Yandex/Baidu" clone or something somehow.

While FTC's definition of monopolization is interesting, its of particular relevance in the USA. Different legal definitions will apply of Brazil (where OP appears to be from) or EU or The Netherlands (latter 2 where I'm from). Other countries where Portuguese is spoken could be of relevance, such as Portugal.
I'm a Python "snob", going on 24 years and If I ever "I care about performance and memory footprint" I'd not use Python.

Python is good enough 90%. You get faster 2x 10x, etc code by picking better algorythms or solutions. In Python, you should not be caring about 10% or 30% speed improvement. It's not worth it, It's not Python's strength.

When you need faster you go to C based libs (the python libs that need to go fast are already in C), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cython https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numba etc.
You can change URL for DNS resolver in Firefox using 'network.trr.uri' option or disable it: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Trusted_Recursive_Resolver
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I noticed a $0.40 service fee on each payment. I understand why you're doing this (fixed payment processor fee), but you could be a bit smarter about it.

For example, eat it on the first order to validate the payment method and reduce a bit of risk. Then on subsequent orders, don't bill the card immediately. Allow the customer some amount of credit based on e.g. how many previous orders they have paid for successfully and the age of their account.

Once you've reached your threshold for whatever amount the user is allowed to buy before you bill, you then bill the card and send a receipt with the orders you've just charged for.

This will take some work, but it will reduce the friction of users seeing that fee on checkout.
Who. Cares. It's a colloquial usage of the phrase "not to". The clear meaning is that the writer acknowledges a potential negative perception, as a show of good faith, but still believes there's a valid reason to continue.
Yes, olivine is highly abundant, but due to lack of demand, most of it is currently staying underground. We seek to change that.

We are looking for synergies like that, such as covering eroding beaches, breakwaters, etc with olivine.

If you are interested in sand in construction and otherwise, I highly suggest you check out the book The World in a Grain.

The importance of sand in our everyday life blew my mind. I mean the device you are using right now to access this website, has a processor made out of silicon sand, the screen is made of quartz sand. The building you are in is likely made of aggregate sand, and the road to get to your house etc. But also, don't forget that sand was used to make the lenses for reading that made possible for our older academics, extra decades of research and enabled us to carry out astronomy and to create microscopes...

Sand has shaped the world in such a massive way, and we are hoping it can save us from our CO2 problems as well.

https://smile.amazon.com/World-Grain-Story-Transformed-Civil...
An assurance from a random guy on an internet forum is hardly assurance.
4,000 ppm was a period far before humans or advanced primates, and very different flora.

200ppm is around the level humanity, and much of the flora we share the planet with, evolved. It's the level we started to develop from, to farm.

Nature and the planet has no ideal, it copes with whatever there is. Humanity on the other hand would appear best served by the level we evolved with - 200ppm or thereabouts. 400ppm causes problems for us, 4,000ppm would almost certainly be the end of us or as near as makes no odds.
This was also a persistent urban legend in Cambridge, England in the early 90s. I'm not sure how much I believe it, bikes were/are easy enough to steal as it is
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The problem is that putting cyclists moving at 10 to 15 mph (14 to 22 feet per second) at the pedestrian position results in situations where neither the cyclist or the motorist see each other until the last second and that results in a collision. This isn't as much of an issue for pedestrians because they're moving slower 3 to 6 mph (4 to 8 feet per second). Also, pedestrians are able to stop much faster than a cyclist.

Second, these intersections place a much higher burden on cyclists. That is, they have to check for traffic coming from behind to see if they're going to make a right turn and avoid getting hit. They have to watch for traffic coming from the side to make sure they don't get hit. And they have to watch for left turning traffic far to the left to make sure they don't get hit.

If they're riding in the standard road position (center of the lane) instead, then it's much easier to see traffic and it's easier for traffic to see them as they approach an intersection.
I'm not talking about this one project, but multiple projects going on at the same time. And yes we can measure it daily but do we know what's the lag? If we remove 1mln tons of CO2 from the atmosphere today, will it show up in the results tomorrow? If not, do we know how that's going to affect the climate?
A great deal of Israel's history and culture revolve around existential risks. I think this newspaper is just catering to it's audience.

See other HN submissions for it: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=israelhayom.com
> No it wasn't, you were replying to

No, I was not, I was replying to the section I quoted (hence quoting it, that’s how that works).
I'm a big fan of the RPI, and use them in various home projects, but I'm going to continue to wait out the RPI updates until I can get a proper m.2 slot for a "real" hard drive. Working with SD -- especially when continually developing, is just too slow and painful. Not to mention questions about lifetime and lifecycle.

The price of m.2 drives have come down so significantly that I think SD should be slowly phased out, or added as a secondary option.
They are required BECAUSE cars are base for the sprawl.

Again even in Denmark and other places that are extremely pro-public-transportation and anti-car, cars are still used by the majority of people because its the base means of transportation which provides the most benefits when you boil it down.

Forcing people to live in big cities with public transportation makes no sense on a continent like America.

Public transportation is only good for very dense areas and becomes extremely expensive once you need to cover less dense areas. This is true even in countries like Denmark which are geographically pretty small.

Denser cities mean more expensive real-estate which means less money for yourself and your family.

The sprawls and laws came after the cars, not the other way around.
The avarage bike around here retails for about $1500, so $15000 in a single swipe isn't bad. I have seen an entire bike rack being pulled out of the ground using a truck and winch, so yes it does happen.
Research has shown over and over again that penalty is seldom a factor in decision making, gain vs perceived risk of getting caught is, and stealing a single bike is still a felony.
You don't need a tow truck license to own a flat-bed, craigslist is full of them.
>The fietsvlonder is a “bike platform” that temporarily swaps one car parking space for 10 bicycles. If deemed a success, the curb is permanently adjusted, and the structure is moved to the next location.

What makes it a success or failure?
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I appreciate this, I really do. But that is a problem that could be solved by just adding more Starbucks and Dunkins, who already have their own platform.

I travel a lot. And one of the unsung features of the Starbucks app, is that the density of stores and the app means I'm never more than 15 minutes away from a consistent coffee experience.

I also did exactly what you were doing back in 2012ish. We even had an app. I thought preordering was going to be the next awesome thing.

It turns out that not waiting 5 minutes for your order kinda leaves out the whole experience of talking to the barista, getting that smile at 6am when you're not feeling it yourself, and the personal experience of the hand crafted beverage. My barista knows my name and my order.

And you know how often I use the mobile ordering feature of the Starbucks app? Like 3 times, and only when the line was really long.

Now if you wanted to create a niche market of curated handcrafted delicious coffee from friendly independent baristas, that's an app I might be more inclined to use.
It seems pretty agreed upon that the legal system bends towards wealthy and powerful in the US. The current Jeff Epstein scandal highlights this double standard pretty well.

That said, we should absolutely be going after the rich and powerful more than we currently do. These guys committed fraud and money laundering, significant financial crimes and potentially ruined other people's lives in the process by forcing victims into settlements of thousands of dollars. That's incredibly disgusting behavior and absolutely worthy of a significant prison sentence.

What specifically about this case makes you think they were punished too harshly?
(I work at AWS, but I'm commenting very generally)

Looking at many outages, the root cause is usually novel and the result of a combination of known and unknown changes to a system and its context. This includes your typical "operator did something too fast/too big/without code review", because there's usually something very interesting in how someone was able to do that in the first place. We should learn from them and mitigate them to our best ability, but IMO I don't think you can drive these novel events to zero.

What's more interesting (to me) is the blast radius of any given outage, along both externally visible and internally visible seam lines. For example, the EBS outage of 2011 should have been isolated to a single AZ, but caused impact in other AZs for customers because of regional coordination (and work was done to push more functionality into each AZ to improve isolation). The better we partition and isolate down workloads in our services, the smaller the magnitude of any particular incident, and the easier it is for downstream users to move around it.
Dissolving olivine on beaches means releasing nickel into the environment. What is the effect of the release of many megatons of this element?
it's clear that influencers make a lot of money on IG but IG doesn't get a cut
Ok, idiotic was not the right word. I apologise.
Can this be targeted to areas with lots of erosion that may welcome a bunch of additional rock/sand as a barrier?

E.g. Florida, New Orleans?
But apparently, in this case, they didn't. They criticized another company while staying mum on theirs.
XRP (or Libra) has decentralization, just not in a form that is accessible to the general public, because that brings in all sorts of other issues.

If you look at how we generally solve problems in the world, the idea that the untrusted general public should be involved as a matter of principle is ludicrous, because that requires significant defenses against bad actors at multiple levels.

Bitcoin didn't even solve this problem, it just raised the economic barrier for bad actors to cause trouble. In practice, many smaller cryptocurrencies are highly vulnerable to 51% attacks, but even Bitcoin mining power is highly centralized to a few companies.

I think the way XRP or Libra solve things (in principle) has very strong arguments going for it, but they are pragmatic, not idealistic. I haven't heard any good arguments on how the way Bitcoin solves things is so beneficial that it becomes a worthwhile tradeoff. I don't see why it should be the defining factor on what is or isn't considered a cryptocurrency.
It's hard to guess at the reason that Netflix is canceling these shows, but many shows simply have too many seasons. I suspect it's because the way the networks estimate their viewership (things like Nielsen households or telephone surveys) are less reliable than the detailed metrics that Netflix can track.

While everyone misses their favorite show when it's canceled, it could be as simple as viewership has dropped below some bar Netflix has established for that particular show. I don't think it needs to be as nefarious as large scale plan to depress the earnings of those who work on these shows.

Certainly it looks like it now makes sense to plan for a show running no more than two seasons and then negotiating appropriately.
That's a good idea. Especially since the solution that scooter companies seem to be going with is putting pretty useless locks on the scooters and calling it good.
It's also more efficient processors and hardware in general. You get more power for a smaller battery, which results in a thinner frame and lighter laptop
"Fewer machines" would be a great solution, which I think might have been the point?
Don’t forget about the part where they didn’t pay taxes on their settlements!
Yes agree. That's the whole point.

The car took over because the car was the optimal vehicle compared to the alternatives not because of some law which is easy to show since it's the same in other countries like Denmark where the opposite was the case and yet cars are still hugely popular.
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"I just didn't find Sapiens to be that interesting once it got out of discussions about pre-history."

Quick question: Why do you think its version of pre-history is better than its history? (Or are you familiar with pre-historical archaeology and find it to be good there?)
Cancelling show after two seasons is a blessing: original idea has usually already ran its course by then, and the story becomes more and more convoluted and boring. Very few shows remain high quality in third or subsequent seasons.
I don't care about relating these two tings, because they are an intentionally weak straw-man chosen to hijack the discussion.

Carbon emissions are mostly from transportation and energy production - neither of which are goods. Both have more sustainable alternatives that a carbon tax would easily push people to use via market forces.

The relationship between tailpipe carbon emissions and temperature, and then sea-level rise, is absurdly strong scientifically speaking. Energy accounting is a very hard science. We know what IR bandwidths CO2 gas absorbs, and that translates directly to an additional heat flow. We are watching the northern sea ice disappear because of carbon emissions, and we will witness much more. The most stinging effects will be reduced agriculture output, direct temperature rise consequences, and sea-level rise. The consensus science on sea-level rise (see IPCC) results in extremely quantifiable economic damage within this century, and those are low-ball numbers. The confidence level is simply "confident". There is no reasonable question that things will be as-bad or worse than the consensus predictions. There are reasonable questions about low-probably chances that things will get much, much, worse.
You're right, any viable replacement for a filesystem must be compatible with existing filesystem APIs. That doesn't mean you can't implement the storage layer differently, or add additional APIs.

Look at ZFS. It's a filesystem, but internally looks like a database. If you try to define the terms "database" and "filesystem" generally, you'll realize how difficult it is to separate the concepts.
First step in convincing others would be to eliminate the elitist sentiment here. Implying that “we”, a tiny group of under-represented software engineers, are the new democracy?? Gimme a break.
Not really... there is a standard 32-bit and 64-bit representation of posits. They use the same memory as a float or a double, just with better accuracy and other desirable properties. You only reduce storage space if you switch from “double” to “float”, which you can only do if you didn’t need most of the precision of a double in the first place. They’re not THAT much better.
They will crawl ipv4 and ipv6, whichever your DNS advertises for your sites.
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It's call market segmentation.

A seller want to sell their good to every buyer at exactly the highest price that buyer is willing to pay. The seller can't do that if they give everyone the same price so they look for ways to segment the buyers into groups which have similar valuations and charge each group a different price.

If you pay attention, most pricing schemes are about market segmentation. Region locked items is obviously one. Most digital goods are sold at prices that decrease over time: it's basically segmenting the market by time. Buyers with high valuations buy first, those with lower valuations buy later, etc.
what the hell are you on about? I made no argument, simply explained why some people think pointing out that IQ for blacks is lower is a racist statement and others do not think it's a racist statement.
Hey, heads up to anyone associated with Project Vesta... currently your webshop shows an empty store[0].

Also, if executed right then this project could market itself. Travel "influencers" love to show off unique beaches and destinations, and uniquely coloured beaches are always a huge hit. By marketing these beaches appropriately it will generate a lot of attention and (hopefully) a lot of funding for the project.

Good luck! I'll definitely support the project once there are more items in the store.

[0] https://projectvesta.org/shop/