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> but that's not a concern when e.g. the backend is written in another language anyway.

well, for anyone who's been in this situation, it should be a concern, since it's incredibly easy to get out of sync between backend and frontend (e.g. model, validation, etc.).

Ideally we could all code in preferred-language; target all major platforms using a single/universal UI framework, and call it a day...but reality is messier than that, we're often forced to code apps in multiple languages, multiple UI frameworks (if targeting native iOS + Android, and browser/PWA), and hope it all comes together such that the house of cards stays standing through language/framework/platform upgrades.
>who's going to build the best quantum processor?

Nobody. Besides quantum processors are not general purpose, and as thus, they're of no real consequence for the kind of computing 99% of people do...
Ironically, there are companies offering long-term storage cubicles. I wonder how that's different from bank deposit boxes from the government's POV.
If only a comparatively small number of adapters is produced and you already have the SoC and the kernel, it may be cheaper to develop than anything else.
>but there is not much productivity software available

Huh? There is more productivity software available for iPad's than for a PC in 1995.
This does seem to assume that ad networks are the main or only way to support sites that rely on ads for their funding. I'm not sure why we should make that assumption, though.

We're talking about a built-in feature to safely and transparently include ad content from a third party in your own site. It seems possible that advertisers could set up standardised content to work with that feature. Then the kinds of hosts who make enough from advertising to be worth keeping it anyway could either delegate to an advertiser's own server or self-host. Payment could be either a direct transfer or use some new, simpler and more transparent service just to handle that aspect.
I can second the recommendation for "Pythagorean Crimes" by Tefcros Michaelides.

While not as good as "The Parrot's Theorem" that Tefcros translated from French, it manages to seamlessly interweave famous figures into its otherwise fictional plot.
Curious do you apply the same logic to for instance Google? The majority of people that once did good and wanted "no evil" have left the company since 2000s. Will Google now forever remain that no evil company in your eyes?

I think companies change, especially over the course of 20 years and if the change is positive, why not support it?
I always thought it was crazy how all those alternative history folks think that the material & chemical sciences of the time that could barely rev an IC engine made out of the most industrialized material ever over 1000 rpm without knocking or throwing a rod could also handle batteries which today require rare-earth materials and exotic chemistries.
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Macs don't have enough sale volume to have multiple SoCs. Heck even iPhones and iPads share the same SoC. They can't justify having a new SoC for each of their Macbook, Macbook Pro, iMac and the Mac Pro with dozens of cores. If they transition to ARM then half of their Mac lineup will still stay on x86.
In the case of banks I think they have proven conclusively that they do need laws for everything and extensive oversight to ensure they are complying with those laws. They are always looking for loopholes and just the right wording to put their interests in front of yours. At least in the US, maybe banks are better behaved in the rest of the world. In the US we have three federal agencies and countless state agencies all dedicated to keeping the banks in line and they all stay busy.
Is there a piece of software that doesn’t require even occasional bug fixes or updates in order for it to run reliably on even a single operating system/browser?
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He’s said since that while that was true when he left Apple, they have clearly made strides in the direction of making bitcode platform-neutral. Notably the shift from 32-bit to 64-bit ARM on the Watch was totally transparent to developers; they didn’t even need to resubmit their apps. And that’s not a small architectural change.
How?

Edit: still no good answer to what I did wrong :-/
There's a few of these peltier coolers on the market already [1][2].

The theory is that since we are cooling using direct-skin-contact and utilizing blood-flow to cool the body it is much more efficient than air cooling.

[1] https://embrlabs.com
[2] https://www.dhamainnovations.com
[3] (DYI) https://www.instructables.com/id/Wrist-Cooling-System
Only Chinese citizens can pay with WeChat Pay outside China.
I think google was only retransmitting lyrics, and they are getting sued now. Can’t imagine google was actually storing the lyrics although I may be wrong [1]. If someone could clarify this I would really appreciate it as it has implications for a project I’m currently working on.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/6/16/18681225/gen...
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The need to do all of the above. The old trains are in appalling condition, and desperately need to be replaced, no doubt about it!
I work in marketing/advertising.

I assure if you the industry disappeared tomorrow, I would certainly find some other way to continue making the world a much worse place.
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I think it is a good summarizer, I also saw a few others cited in the comments. Has anyone seen one that is a browser add-in where if I am surfing around and see a long article but don't have time to read it I can click a button without copying and pasting the link ?
That's not a snippet, though, it's wholesale copying.

When you Google a newspaper article you get a verbatim snippet, same concept.
To my knowledge Microsoft pays well - maybe not like Facebook, but on the other hand employees have a life and can focus on family, whichbin return reflects the Nadella version of
Microsoft.

I recommend reading "Hit refresh" from Nadella. Fascinating book that teaches a lot about being humble and grateful.
It’s not really a fair comparison. In terms of where people actually live (the upper two thirds of Sweden is almost empty) its roughly comparable to Ohio: about ten million people clustered in 4 or 5 major cities within a few hours drive distance from each other. Of course it will be easier to provide superior rail service there. This is not so say that Ohio has its act together as far as public transit is concerned (ha), but getting that level of service to the US as a whole would be a totally different beast.
Trolly troll trolls. Just ignore it.
We seem determined to undermine all attempts to save ourselves. It makes me very depressed sometimes, when striving to be better as an individual, to see things like this happening. I truly do worry we don’t have a lot of time left.
It's Cliff Stoll, not just some wacky guy. He is extremely famous among people who were interested in computer security in the 90s. I know that's not the sense of "hacker" that "hacker news" refers to, but still.
There is Microsoft Office and Adobe has previewed full Photoshop on it. What other mainstream productivity software do most people need?
Well maybe we free-software people need to think a little more in terms of convenience for newcomers and inexperienced users?

That doesn't mean we can't have the scripting/theming system power users just love. But maybe we can provide usable defaults and a nice UI?

(When i say a nice UI i don't mean necessarily a GUI with blinks and flashes everywhere. some CLI tools have a good UI, some don't. See for example https://github.com/chmln/sd )
Things like this strike fear in my heart and make me feel helpless to prevent our species from dismantling our ecosystem until it can no longer support us.
No, it helps me realize that my time is more valuable to them then the salary I receive.
The lock-in with not just all your infrastructure with one provider but also all the skills and proficiencies with one provider's stack is a high risk that I ranted about recently: https://blog.flurdy.com/2019/06/all-eggs-in-one-cloud-basket...

Having your teams doing little POCs with other providers will ease your project/company cloud bus-factor significantly.
I really wish there was some sort of proper monetization model for rss. The web has no reason to be this obnoxious pile of bloated unreadable spyware. I want to support more of these companies because I think what they do is important but it gets hard to justify 10 bucks a month for each of them. When I try and whitelist ads I often find I can’t even find content on the site anymore and my browser slows to a crawl.
....how so? I read a lot of different car magazines, motoring-related websites, I'd say I'm quite engaged with the topic. If I am not the audience for motoring news, then who is?
Well that's great but it doesn't answer the question. Let's say it's something you don't need to enjoy except when you want to pull it out of storage.
Interestingly, apparently Justin Sun / Tron's founder hasn't completed the final payment to Bram Cohen for the purchase of BitTorrent https://twitter.com/bramcohen/status/1154436575251447809?s=2...
I like how you managed to turn a question about VPC networking on AWS into an advertisement for MongoDB!
Service agreements exist for that reason. That’s not the same as a subscription model because I have the option of purchasing that.
Sorry, I don’t have a philosophical axe to grind. I wasn’t presenting a philosophy.

I just spent a fair amount of time trying to unpack the Buddhist concept of non-self, and offered up something that I found to be a novel way of elucidating the significance and usefulness of non-self,
and shone a light, for me at least, on the habits of mind which obscure the understanding.

In the context of the quote, omniscience is a valid term. In a practical context, a literal adherence is not necessary to derive a meaningful understanding and experience.

For example, a child may say “I’m no good at maths”. Yet you spend some time helping them patiently, and in time they gain some confidence, maybe even some mastery, and that particular once firmly-held notion is proven to be false, an obscuration. The first level being the thought “I’m no good at maths” and the second level being the firmly-held belief that it’s an immutable fact.

Beyond all this, the identity you ascribe to me (“kook”, “my philosophy”) is all your creation.

I appreciate now that you don’t like Buddhism. That doesn’t automatically mean that I came here to argue with you about that.
He was adopted by his step dad. However, his (biological) mother came from an educated family: “Bezos is the maternal grandson of Lawrence Preston Gise, a regional director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in Albuqurque”. - Wikipedia
Yeap. And some people wonder how millennia's spend their time. It turns out by playing 10 hours per day for 6 months can make you a millionare.
But they can't because the government are communist thugs and no sane person will trust them with their money unless under duress.
People regularily cross the country with these. My neigbour uses his Kona to cross the mountain to the west coast so it isn't limited to only the most expensive Tesla models either.
“The Amazon is ours, not yours,” he told a European journalist.

I wonder if there's a scenario somewhere, already worked out, where this is not true anymore. A military takeover of the amazon basin.
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http://www.timingexcellence.com/sites/default/files/webform/formel1-Gp-Deutschland-2019-im-live-stream.pdf

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Deviations from purchasing power parity in currencies have a half life of seven years. Unless you’re investing for the short term the effects of currency fluctuations on returns to your portfolio will be swamped by differences in growth across national economies and their stock exchanges’ growth rates. In the long run currency risk washes out in differences in economic growth. You’re better off investing in the stock market indices you think will grow more. Population growth in the US compared to the EU alone would suggest investing in the US over Europe. If you think we’ll continue to have a more or less peaceful 21st century you’re better off investing in economies you think will grow more, which would suggest investing in the Indian subcontinent and Africa. If you don’t think that’s the way to bet you should invest in places likely to have political stability above most anything else so you should invest in places with strong states unlikely to have massive political unrest that will maintain good relations with your home country. For security you’d invest in property in someplace like Switzerland through real estate investment trusts, or the US if you think the West will endure as a political reality and the US will avoid civil unrest in the coming decades.
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The Titanic looks so much better.
You can have a look at ETF from Amundi, Lyxor, Legal and General (UK), Vanguard EU/UK.

There are three problems broadly speaking. First is the currency, American index funds are in dollars while you don't have dollars. There are a couple of index funds that are quoted in EUR/GBP, above.

Second you need to find a bank that offers trading accounts and allow to buy these. It is god awful to find one. European banks are simply disconnected from the stocks market, they don't run brokerage and might not even know what it is when you ask for it. The only thing they sell and know about is their shitty in-house investment plan that's losing money every year.

Third is taxation. American have lax taxation because it's local and they depend on it for their retirement. On the other hand Europe can have high taxation which really kills your profit and some classes of assets have dual taxation (US export + EU taxes) that makes even the best investment worthless.
vinyl plotters are so fast an cheap they ended hand lettering as a trade, I wonder how hes spending hours on these without management pressure for faster and cheaper temporary signs?
The other day there was a thread on HN where most people agreed that Amazon should pay France more taxes because even though it’s an internet business, it benefits from things done by the French government.

Maybe developed countries should start paying a tax to Brazil and other Amazon forest countries so that they can preserve it. After all, most didn’t do a good job preserving their own forests, so demanding underdeveloped countries to do it is somewhat hypocritical.
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Currently, we don't provide that but that's a very good suggestion.
I think you are oversimplifying the issue. There are cultural differences that influence things like that too. As priorities shift things can change. So in US you have people living in large houses driving large cars and on average having crappy public transport infra. In Europe you have people living in much more modest size houses mostly driving tiny cars and often having good public transport infra. For me European option is better cause I do not drive my wife much prefers the US option.
Apple full control over what is being developed on it and how.

What “control” did Apple have on what was developed on classic MacOS? Famously, the only decent compiler during the early PPC years was made by a third party.
I don't think there is really such a thing as a logging town anymore. I mean, I live in a county where logging equipment is manufactured, and regionally logging is quite important to the economy, but it's all itinerant, there's no need to be settled near the work.
Intel Begins Commercial Shipments of 10nm Ice Lake CPUs to OEMs
If I understand correctly, that would still require information to be transmitted to the server, ergo copyright infringement.
Yes, but then it's all or nothing. In advanced mode you can have a global configuration to block all third party scripts and frames, and then allow scripts from specific domains (or neutralize the global deny for that domain, so that block lists still work). Particularly useful when you just want to move forward and Google's captcha is blocked, but don't want to allow all the other 50 scripts on the site.
Yeah. The other interesting bit was how it could cost 1/1000 as much as the existing state of the art (pennies per bandage instead of $100s), which is pretty cool.
I don't disdain junkies. Addiction is a disease. I fault junkies for letting themselves get the disease, and they are a huge pain once they have it but, disdain? Why?

I relayed my experiences with the people I basically grew up with- most of my friends when I was a teenager did drugs and by that I mean that they hardly did anything else. A few were honest-to-god junkies, who ended up in rehab and never really left, most of them (except the fortunately only one friend who died).

Is "disdain" derived from my statement that you don't take drugs to get smarter? My observation is that drugs make you you do stupid things and that most people who take them know this very well. Sometimes they seem to take the drugs to justify stupid behaviour that they wouldn't dare adopt otherwise.

The two examples are provided are general examples. I consider them examples of unreasonable thinking, and of how drugs make you do stupid things. I don't attribute the stupid behaviour of people on drugs to a moral deficiency (if that was the cause of the disdain interpretation)- I attribute it to the effect that drugs and the resulting intoxication have on their mental faculties.

As another exaple, I had a friend who started stealing our stuff when he took barbiturates. Once we were at my place and I showed everyone a silly trinket I had bought. After a while I noticed it had gone missing and I started looking for it. Seeing my frustration that I couldn't find it, my friend told me he had taken it and gave it back to me, _very_ embarassed at his own actions. I laughed, of course. Later another friend accused him of stealing some other trivial thing from his own house. My friend who stole those things (he was one of my inner circe, so to speak) was a pretty straight-up guy with very conservative values and he would have never deigned to stoop so low as to steal stuff from anywhere, in his sober moments. When he was under the influence, he basically turned kleptomanic.

I think this is a more relevant example to our discussion? If so, apologies for not bringing it up earlier.
What if you have a lambda with a full admin role that is not sanitizing its inputs? Or maybe it's using an outdated file parsing library (csv/yaml) with a vulnerability. Now your entire AWS account could potentially be compromised.
The same as “it sits” with console makers.....
Now that I have Norwegian passport, I'm indeed in the police database; when I applied for a new passport I only had to deliver the old one. But with important stuff like this, I don't fully trust IT systems. Extreme solar flare, sabotage, security breach, … there's a number of (unlikely, but possible) reasons why IT records might fail. In a fireproof safe, paper is still the best archival method.

And then, administrative f*ups are not without precedent as exemplified here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Erased

IIRC the cover letter I got with "statsborgerbrevet", it is non-reissuable. It is handed out only to you in person, you can't even send your lawyer.

In the unlikely case I'd need a new birth certificate, I'd, I'd have to travel to my country of birth. Hassle.

Call me old-fashioned, but paper is still the best archival/backup medium for stuff of real importance.
5. Someone knows they're going to be moving soon, but they're going to have to do so in a hurry. So they put some of their stuff in storage ahead of time, thus making the actual move much easier.

6. Someone is going to be traveling/in the military/in the hospital/in jail/homeless for a while and can't or doesn't want to keep paying full rent just to store their stuff.

7. An older couple have houseful of truly nice furniture and/or tools but are moving to retirement home. Their kids/grandkids want the family heirlooms but don't have room for them - yet.
Why is Sony crowdfunding? Surely they've got the money already being a massive corporation....
I've found I can really dig in to any task no matter how trivial, offered to me at work and get enjoyment out of it.
The work part of work is the funnest part.
The issue the makes work unpleasant is PEOPLE and the inherent complications that accompany that. Managing up and managing down.
Politics, poor leadership, meetings to plan other meetings, open offices, promotions based on allegiance instead of skill, office parties that are a pretense, I could go on etc, etc.
If I could just work...that would be glorious, but people always seem to get in the way.
Maybe like Sartre I'm a misanthrope and 'hell is other people' for me. This emphasis on 'teamwork' over creative individuality and self-expression these days really just bugs me.
It's also early and I'm just drinking my first cup of coffee.
Users Absorb Rules (Until They Can't Trust Them)
Yeah even today after several more decades of battery science we can just barely make an electric car economical. We still can't get one down to Camry prices.
I'm not very familiar with this case, but a quick google shows me they are subject to at least two consent orders [1], [2]. The statements of the consent orders are almost identical, however the implication is that Equifax will have to persuade multiple regulators that they fulfill the conditions.

The requirements of the consent order are what you'd expect: firm up your internal controls, and do everything possible to prevent another breach. For example here's the first requirement:

"1)Within 90 days from the effective date of this ORDER, the Board shall review and approve the written risk assessment that identifies:(a)foreseeable threats and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality of personally identifiable information (PII)1;(b)the likelihood of threats;(c)the potential damage to the Company’s business operations; and(d)the safeguards and mitigating controls that address each threat and vulnerability."

So, what's going to happen is that between now and the time the consent orders are closed Equifax will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to convince the regulators that they are atoning for their sins. You will actually be able to track this in their 10Q and 10K disclosure forms. For example in their most recent quarterly filling ([3], p. 5) you can see the item Selling, general and administrative expenses at $1.3 BN compared to the same quarter in 2018 (i.e. before they entered the consent order) when it was at $0.6 BN. That's $700 MM right there. Could it be the settlement? I don't know for sure, but there's another $700 MM the quarter before ([4], p.5).

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33185/00011931251820...

[2] https://dbf.georgia.gov/sites/dbf.georgia.gov/files/related_...

[3] https://otp.tools.investis.com/clients/us/equifax/SEC/sec-sh...

[4] https://otp.tools.investis.com/clients/us/equifax/SEC/sec-sh...