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Complex things being more expensive than simple things is a non sequitur?

Surely your apparent position, that something made of superconductors is going to be just as cheap as something made of steel, is much more supportable! /s

And I wasn't talking about an exponent there.
This legislation is clearly aimed at Apple. Today Apple Pay and a Goldman Sachs credit service. Tomorrow a credit card offering if their own to compete with other Eurocard/Visa/MasterCard services.

There’s a lot of money on the line.
So is it just a single droplet? Seems to me that this would have to be useful for nano machine applications.
> a PyCon keynote is an obscure talk

Compared to the existence of Perl, yes. Anyone who does any amount of Perl learns that $_ is the implicit argument ("like 'it'") to most functions. It's pretty much one of Perl's main deals. The talk has about 100K views on YouTube, which is pretty good, but Perl is in another league.
This is precisely why I make it clear that I do not want a work phone. My mobile number is published in the global address book for emergencies, but otherwise if I'm not at work then I'm not working, and I do my best to not think about work when I'm not working. Having a block of metal and plastic specifically to intrude into my free time for the benefit of my employer is not something that I am interested in.
A limit of $25 billion in global revenue? This reads like legislation drafted by large banks to secure their moat against newcomers with enough heft to actually make a dent in their market share. I don’t think this will facilitate competition or protect the consumer in any meaningful way.
The charcoal is mixed in with soil, it is there.
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> Republicans are in favor of small government

“Small government” is rhetoric Republicans use when Democratic priorities for government (social services, etc.) are being discussed; it evaporated when Republican priorities for government (military, law enforcement, etc.) are discussed, and even when Republicans have full control of federal policy you don't
get smaller government, so the idea that they are for it in any way other than as a occasionally-convenient rhetorical dodge around discussing particular issues is not well supported by evidence.
If you know the specific issue -- the pathway the problem follows -- you may be able to do something about it more gently than some big irreversible drug.

My firstborn son has a genetic disorder and a long list of issues. I figured I had until he was about five or so to do anything meaningful about it. This turned out to not be true. The window for intervention was much longer.

He's 32 and much more functional than I ever expected him to be, though he still lives with me for now.

He still has zero interest in a romantic relationship. He and I have the same genetic disorder. I do not share his general lack of interest in romantic relationships.

I will suggest you try to not automatically lump in all of your child's characteristics with this one detail that he has a mutation. You might read up a bit on "ace" or "aromantic" people. There are people who just aren't terribly interested in romance. It's really not some bizarre defect.
Isn’t a banking license mandatory for a company that offers financial services? And if so, why does it matter what else a company does as long as it lives up to regulations?

If it’s problematic that a licensed tech company is offering financial services, isn’t there something wrong with the requirements for acquiring this license?

Seems to me that if Facebook lives up to the regulations, it should be allowed to acquire a banking license. And if there’s something problematic about this, the requirements for acquiring a banking license should be changed, and applied to everyone.
Ask HN: How do you use your tech skills for public good?
I'm curious what side projects, second jobs, hobbies, etc. you all have where you apply your programming, data, engineering, and/or other tech skills to help the world. By "public good" I mean anything from contributing to public health research to addressing income inequality, homelessness, climate change, etc. -- anything that you consider to be in the public good.

For my part, I've recently done some pro-bono data engineering and analysis work to help understand the impact of the Syrian conflict on the healthcare system there, in conjunction with some researchers who are trying to understand the burden of the war on the health of the population and diaspora. I'm considering a hobby project that would use the UN's Sustainable Development Goals as part of a strategy game, which would support SDG advocacy.

What tech projects and/or hobbies do you have that you consider to be in the public good?
If they'd make a simple HIPAA-like law that just criminalizes outright the sharing of personal data for commercial purposes, we wouldn't have to worry about fine tuning to catch privacy corner cases. No one even tries to wiggle or weasel out of HIPAA violations because the law is simple and none of the big shot hospital CEO's want to spend any time in prison. All the hospital employees are well aware of what will happen if they violate a patient's privacy as well. We need that same thing for all personal data, not just our medical data.

Perfect example of politicians giving us truckloads of junk we never asked for, like this "Keep Big Tech out of Toilet Paper Printing" or whatever, while at the same time giving us absolutely no part of what we do want, privacy protection.
$100B, but I think your point still stands.
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Let's just agree it is broken and do nothing about it. We have connections after all and only the other people will suffer so who really cares.
So it’s specifically targeted against Libra.
Someone I know has 2 postcodes for their house. You can probably trace that person on that fact.
> The remedy for the A350-941 problem is straightforward according to the AD: install Airbus software updates for a permanent cure, or switch the aeroplane off and on again.

The subhed and the above graf say it's as straightforward to fix as installing Airbus software patches. But I assume this process is not as streamlined or convenient as iOS or Tesla OTA auto-updates. Anyone have insight to what installing patches on an airliner entails? I'm assuming it involves more downtime than powering down and restarting, if that's the current status quo.
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Well, not Jekyll, but similar. I built my own static site generator.
Did some more reading and it seems you are right.
You guys wanne be my friend? I need rich friends...
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Wall Street just takes advantage of any financial advantage they can get their fingers on no matter the casualties.

Tech companies like Google or Facebook are actively trying to shape your opinion. Must have been an ingenious move they made to look worse than Wall Street in a few years.

edit: The unpersoning they have committed isn't a viable strategy in the financial industry. Even if players like Mastercard have fallen into that trap. But I wouldn't trust them with a penny.
>they have to create research that their peers appreciate, understand, and value.

That's the problem. They SHOULD be creating research that is USEFUL, not a play for status in a tribe of over inflated egos.
It seems very particularly targeted at Libra. I don’t think it’d effect either company.
Sexit? Is that your own neonym?
FYI, you can do this yourself with GitHub, by changing the URL.

for example: https://github.com/snovvcrash/usbrip/blob/master/setup.py?ts...
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> Isn’t a banking license mandatory for a company that offers financial services?

No, banking is a subset of financial services, and not all financial services firms are banks.
Flowers for Algernon explores this issue and had a profound effect on me as a teenager. Probably the best book included in the school curriculum.
While I don't disagree, climate change is relatively new, so to point to the Arab spring and the effect climate change potentially had on it is newsworthy, and deserves it's own treatment.
Technically it was Pykrete used for the construction method. It is a an ice conglomerate with pulp or some other solid debris substance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete

Mythbusters did a show on Pykrete that was fascinating. Man, do i miss that show.

https://mythresults.com/alaska-special-2
Can you please elaborate on what ACH currently lacks?

ACH is for low priority (and low value) stuff. Fedwire (an RTGS) is for high-priority / urgent transactions (securities and the like.
Hey, that's awesome. It was important to me to design my website to be amenable to user styling so I'm glad someone is taking advantage of it!
Beat me to it. Fantastic book.
Would it be possible to write a rust compiler that skips llvm entirely?
It's perhaps less a limitation of JSON and more a limitation of JavaScript itself[1].

But still, given that easy consumption from JavaScript is the ultimate primordial reason for choosing JSON over other formats, it seems like trying to transmit integers with more than 53 bits of precision over JSON is asking for trouble. Because it's only a matter of time until someone will want to do something like write a new service in Node, and the JavaScript parsers for other formats are at least somewhat more likely to guide people toward using BigInt for large integers.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
> by the chase of profit

I am honestly surprised how Google was able to keep up YouTube for so long despite a severe lack of profits. Even though Youtube made a net loss in the hundreds of millions for years Google kept it up and running and drastically expanded its feature set into areas like live streaming etc.

As far as I know YouTube has now reached break even, but I believe Google deserves credit for having the vision and tolerance for failure to keep YouTube up for such a long time without a dollar of profit, not to speak of the enormous political and financial risk YouTube poses because of copyrighted or harmful material.
The documentation also says that /cgthreads is the number of threads used by the code generation and optimization passes of the compiler, not by the whole compiler.

A compiler needs to do a lot of stuff beyond code generation and optimizations (e.g. in debug builds optimizations are even often disabled). For C++ you have overload resolution, template argument deduction, template instantiation, constexpr evaluation... and well parsing, tokenization, type checking, static analysis (e.g. for warnings), etc.

Parallel optimizations and codegen is trivial when compared with an end-to-end multi-threaded compiler. All LLVM frontends for all programming languages do parallel optimizations and parallel codegen, it's only an LLVM option away. You enable it, and it's done.

> The /MP (Build with Multiple Processes)

This is one process per translation unit, each single translation unit is then compiled with a single thread until optimizations and codegen.

Often you need to finish compiling/linking some translation units before continuing.

The Rust compiler has pipelined compilation: compilation of a translation unit starts as soon as what this requires of its dependencies is already available, before its dependencies have finished compiling. It also compiles each translation unit itself using multiple threads end-to-end, so that if one of your translation units is bigger than the others, you can speed the compilation of that one by throwing more threads at it.
Eric Weinstein wrote a good article several years ago arguing that the concept of kayfabe, taken form professional wrestling, is a great thing to have in your cognitive toolkit https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11783
I did not get your comment and I would like to understand it better. Isn't "whitewashing" the process of forgetting about the contributions or tribulations of non-white people in our history? Acknowledging atrocities committed by western civilizations seems like the opposite of that (and I do think we should hold ourselves to a very high standard and being aware of these atrocities is part of that).
This should be at the very least a reminder to try and use wrappers and disable/uninstall as much as you can from your phone facebook.
The issue is more obvious when rounding something like 0.5, which, due to lack of precision can become either 0 or 1.

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PayPal is a good example of a financial service company that’s not a bank.
One can lead to normal life for the child if the condition is severe. Not doing anything can hinder child's future, while medical experiment can save the child.

Other has no positive benefits, while it can be dangerous to the child.
IIRC it's called 3/2 pull down. Basically they double a frame every so often.
It sounds reasonable if you value chores and compliance above everything. Why should children be "productive"? Is there any time left for play, discovery, spontaneity?

As to your final paragraph, I'm wondering what effects using "productivity" tools like Trello have on a child's memory development. Do they remember chores better or worse independently? Do you remember typing a ticket as well as writing it down physically?
> The publication has a specific bias, but often tries to appear unbiased.

You just described all mainstream publications.
Thanks so much for pasting it here! That's my website and I'm on the phone with my hosting provider.
There's a reason I don't own one :-P
Most people using metrics aren't great at interpreting them on their own in the first place. Look at Chile's notorious misuse of waiter ranking (you fill out a survey after your meal). If a server gets less than 5 stars, their job is on the line. Nevermind the fact that each customer will use the 5 star system differently to communicate different feelings. Some people will never give a 5 star rating.

If it involves people other than you, your metrics likely don't mean what you think they mean.
But they need a license, right?
I was about to say that a torrent is hardly necessary. How big could a 1000 mostly-text files get? Pretty big as it turns out. Downloading a dozen random entries from that list, the sizes seem average around 2 MB, and that's including only the small images on each page (not the big picture you get when you click on an image). So 1000 entries at 2 MB each would be 2 GB.

Picking apart just one page (the Jane Austen entry), the plain ASCII text with no markup is only 88 KB. The 19 small images, plus some tiny buttons and logos, are 536 KB, and the markup (HTML, CSS, and whatnot) is 497 KB. I was surprised that Wikipedia, in terms of page weight, is mostly images and markup. (Not complaining, of course. Wikipedia is one of the few big sites on the web that doesn't throw in gratuitous and irrelevant images and videos.)
>What do you do if you're lying in bed watching a movie when you remember that you need to schedule a meeting with X for tomorrow at 11am?

I schedule it when I get in the office at 8 AM.

>I also really struggle with what IM programs to keep on my work laptop these days. Medium of communication doesn't map cleanly onto work/personal contacts so I either deal with friends pinging me while at work or missing vital messages from people expecting a business response/having long professional conversations using a phone keyboard.

My advice is to separate your work and friend accounts. You can have whatever messengers you need for work on your work laptop, but make sure that none of your accounts you share with friends are logged in on that machine. Same for your personal machines - only log in the accounts for friends. Then you don't have that problem.

In most cases, all you need is an email address to make a new account, and you can slowly move all of your friends over to this new account where friends and work do not overlap.
I was not asking why the microphone permission is needed, but why it would be used with the app in the background, not being used.

> I have pressed that voice message / microphone button by accident in the past

App in the background. It's not due to a keypress or to do any user-initiated action. Googling it, seems it's not a one off and that the app does indeed access the microphone from the background from time to time to do god knows what
But according to the article, the bug has been fixed:

> The remedy for the A350-941 problem is straightforward according to the AD: install Airbus software updates for a permanent cure, or switch the aeroplane off and on again.

Maybe the update process isn't streamlined enough, or maybe there are other reasons not to upgrade, but in general, the airlines need to install the updates.
Surprisingly ”University” is only level four. I’d say it definitely deserves a place on level three, being not just a subconcept of ”school”, but an institution responsible for the majority of scientific research.

Edit: Okay, these are definitely the weirdest downvotes I’ve ever got on HN.
> This legislation is clearly aimed at Apple.

Really? Because I was under the impression that they're more worried about companies minting "currency".
For Lydia’s, there are only two others in the entire world — one in Greece and one in England.

That we know of. There may be many more who were, say, born in a developing country and simply died without ever being identified as having this issue.

I generally agree with the impetus here to find some way to generalize treatment for "orphan" diseases so that more people have some hope of effective treatment. I have no idea if this particular approach will yield any real benefits.

Orphan disease: A disease that has not been adopted by the pharmaceutical industry because it provides little financial incentive for the private sector to make and market new medications to treat or prevent it. An orphan disease may be a rare disease (according to US criteria, a disease that affects fewer than 200,000 people) or a common disease that has been ignored (such as tuberculosis, cholera, typhoid, and malaria) because it is far more prevalent in developing countries than in the developed world.

Source (I don't recommend actually clicking on it. It had at least two pop-ups.):

https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=1...
If you use Ableton Live you should check out Magenta Studio https://magenta.tensorflow.org/studio/ableton-live/
The workaround doesn’t even suck, IMO.
You people discussing semantics and even "clickbait" in this context truly make me sad.
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That's a very broad statement. Focusing on specifics would be more helpful. For example, 149 hours isn't that long, especially for aircraft which have high duty cycle percentages. Why didn't the original test plan estimate how long it would take to find a certain percentage of [insert-bug-type-here], and find this issue? Would re-testing the code-base pro-actively find related latent issues?

But none of these kinds of observations are fundamental. There's no general conclusion regarding software engineering to be drawn.
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How is that distinct from the bait and switch trick in the post?
Are you including page history? Are you allowed to re-distribute without page history?

Also, you probably know this but there is a prize for compressing bits of Wikipedia. Here's the wikipedia page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize

http://prize.hutter1.net/

About the test data: http://mattmahoney.net/dc/textdata.html

And discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7405129
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Thats not 100% true. Paypal may very well own a bank, or at the very least cooperates with a bank, to stay in compliance with some of the services its offers.

Financial services companies are often a complex arrangement of licensed and/or white-labeled services that are necessary to maintain compliance with regulations in the multitude of jurisdictions in which they operate.
Many tech companies are also in the business of advertising. It seems clear to me on the face of it that combining an advertising company with a bank is a fundamentally bad idea and would be a clear conflict of interest. An advertising company that "knows where you click", serves you customized ads and has full access to your bank account information strikes me as a step too far.

I agree that even today companies like Facebook, Amazon and Google have way too much of this information already. A move like this may be the first step into teasing some of this data apart and, ideally, preventing one company from collecting it all.
That is 2^29 milliseconds. I dread to imagine the reasons leading to 28-bit millisecond time in an airplane.
Especially when you compare that to all the other maintenance that has to happen routinely on a plane for it to remain safe. Not a reason to not fix it though.
I have a friend who received a similar windfall at a young age. He bought multiple super cars for himself, paid off his parents mortgage, bought his sister and girlfriend a high end SUV, bought a house, spent a lot partying for two years, then invested most of it in a new business that is struggling. He’s renting out his supercars now. He told me that it’s not as much as you think and it’s not easy to reproduce that kind of result.
I run servers on Ubuntu LTS, my personal machines on Arch. Frozen packages are great for servers but for desktops I just don't see the benefit. Hence my comment.
Whatever method prevents buffer overflows.

AFAIK that is what happens here.

"The CPIOM is effectively a mini computer; in the A350 CPIOMs run discrete avionics "applications", in the sense of apps. CRDCs themselves do not host or run applications, suggesting that the failure condition detailed in the EASA AD may mean loss of a particular app on a CPIOM after a buffer overflow."
> Culture reflects society and not the other way around.

The entire fields of sociology, media and literary criticism would like a word with you. Or several million words.

The important thing to think about is cultural reproduction: the things that we carry with us in our heads that make up our culture have to come from somewhere. They are acquired over our lives but especially in our youth, and in the 20th century and beyond they are to a very great extent acquired from media. The 20th century was the TV century. A significant part of the hours devoted to watching TV and absorbing culture from it have now switched to youtube.

And there are two important feedback loops that youtube has accelerated. One is the process of making a piece of media in response to or influenced by another. The hyper-accelerated version of critique is now the "reaction" video. The second is the process by which we influence other people's culture by making suggestions as to what they consume. To a certain extent recommendations are culture; we used to have a standard ""playlist"" of literature we called the "canon", and within film and music genres you can still find discussions of canonical works.

Every recommendation by Google's automated system is a cultural statement, and in aggregate these can have as big an effect on society as a TV channel's choice of programming. The BBC's Reithian mission was to inform, educate, entertain; what is the mission that Youtube are carrying out with their recommendations?
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It's not quite the same, because navigation systems aren't typically black boxes to their creators. Someone down the chain understands how they work.