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> Well, i think what you called convenience is mostly a UI question

Gordon bennet. No. Do you really think stallman's view is about who owns your car, or about the knobs on the dashboard?

From https://conversations.e-flux.com/t/every-non-free-program-is... :

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What’s your definition of free software?

Free software is software that respects users’ freedom and community. [...] With any program, there are two possibilities: either the users control the program, or the program controls the users. [...] If they don’t have full control over [the program], then it’s user-subjugating, non-free proprietary software — the program controls the users, and the program’s owners control the program, so it becomes an instrument of unjust power for the owner over the users.
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> although the initial debate was whether we could trust proprietary software at all

Precisely that.
The article should state clearer that the answer is no, as it made no sense to me before reading your comment. (Edit, it's fixed now)
Imagine that same exact mindset from the point of view of Bolsonaro and his supporters.

That land is ours! If we burn it all down, there won't be anything left for them to "protect", and we'll be able to build whatever we want on it
Not helped by social trends. Disrupt, invent, etc.. there's good things in simple productive, social, regular and predictable work. They're probably healthier.
if the law says you need to stop doing business with Iran, then yes.
Well, surely there should be smart people on this planet. Amazon is a lot more important for the planet and humanity than the country it resides in.
I’ve heard that the classiest cruises are the ones with the highest staff to customer ratios. An approximation, at least.

Obviously they’re going to also be more expensive.
https://www.cruisewatch.com/top-10/ships-passenger-crew-rati...
The issue is, I think, that the Chinese financial system is not open and that currency exchange is restricted.
I regret getting involved in this discussion. It's not even relevant. Amazon wasn't mentioned in the article and nobody was talking about them until you brought them up. Nobody in this discussion was saying that big companies should be held to lower ethical standards than individuals. I accept you have an axe to grind about big company conduct and regulation, as do many people. That's fine. I'm done here.
The postal savings systems are designed to help people get access to basic banking and bill-pay services. They may help expand access to these systems to those who might not otherwise have it. It is not the worst idea for a city to open one of these, though they would probably partner with an actual bank to help keep down technology and administrative expenses.

Tellingly, postal savings systems are not designed as a way for the government to get money for projects that no sane lender would underwrite. The real purpose of the proposals we see here is to make the government less accountable to taxpayers and reality so they can underwrite their fantasy spending schemes with free money from their own bank. The endgame is the bank's inglorious failure, a federal bailout, and incoherent ramblings about how this is all the fault of the evil capitalists who hate poor people.
> make it unenforceable for a TOS to ban reverse-engineering for compatibility reasons

While I appreciate that (and since I don't appreciate my work being locked up in proprietary formats, I primarily use either plain-text or LaTeX for documents), there's a whole can of worms around that.

[note that I do not know the specific details of .PSD files, nor the patent status of things below. It's an example]

As an example off the top of my head, Photoshop has a feature called "Content-aware Fill". This lets you delete a region of an image and have it be replaced by auto-generated "reasonable" context (if you delete someone standing on a hill with the sky behind them, it'll interpolate grass and sky for you).

So now I'm reverse-engineering the .PSD format, and discover that a content-aware fill operation is stored in the file as the pixel coordinates and CAF parameters; not the pixels themselves. The CAF algorithm is patented. What now? Under your proposal I'd be justified in carrying on figuring out how to make an interoperable implementation, but... I couldn't distribute that implementation without violating Adobe's patent.
That was a different time. They had to do that otherwise they were dead. PPC was not keeping up with Intel.
I find these to be very Internet 1.0

Back when people posted things just because they wanted to share something they thought other people would find interesting.
A monetized viral video can earn thousands of dollars in advertising revenue. It could even be tens of thousands of dollars if the video receives millions of views.
Those are some pretty important "only things". If you're concerned enough to have thought about and acted on this, why would you entrust these things to an inscrutable third-party?
It's predictable that you would get downvotes, but your points are generally true. The Monetary Union of Europe is failing just like the socialism of some of its member states. Europe's economies are strangled by taxation and regulation.

In a thread on investing in Europe these are important perspective to bring up.
> But I don't think making the iPad's operating system usable is an attempt to somehow position the devices as "PC killers.

I agree with that one - meaningful improvements to make the iPad a better choice for the users that can get away with using only the iPad as their primary device is a good thing. There's also a significant number of those users. But in practice, deciding what those capabilities are and how best to implement those are far more complicated questions - adding a mouse pointer is maybe a perfect illustration of the conundrum - should we, how should it look, what about the click targets, what about touch first, pencil etc.
That’s not an adtech company then, it’s just a criminal organization, if not a direct part of some organized crime syndicate.
Ontario isn't 100% fee-for-service. GPs are capitated, they are paid by how many patients are enrolled on their roster. It's the specialists who are paid fee-for-service - but yes your point stands, perhaps its not the best model as it incentivizes this sort of chicanery.
It is astonishing how bad for the environment cruise ships are. To such an extent that I can't see how any modern citizen would support these enterprises.

Some friends of mine go on the JoCo cruise every year, and I lament the fact that they do - otherwise ecologically sensitive people, who do have an awareness of their local ecological footprint, nevertheless insist that the JoCo cruise is 'different' because its a nerd event. This kind of duplicity is very disappointing.

Cruise ships run on giant Diesel engines which emit far, far more pollution than is warranted for the 'pleasures' delivered. It is the height of decadence to be floating around dumping shit (literally) into the oceans and pumping pollution into the skies, while sitting around watching TV. This is just so irksome.

However, you can't limit peoples choice and the freedom to decide for themselves. Its a pity that the cruise ship industry is so good at hiding the ecological impact behind a good time. This is something ripe for disruption in my opinion .. based on what I've heard of the JoCo cruise, it could be replaced with a bunch of VR headsets at the beach, and still provide the requisite nerdgasms without killing wildlife ..
And all of these range examples are completely irrelevant to the distances you'll achieve using lora in practice. But while we're on the subject there's been lora from/to geosynchronous orbit. So I think that's the distance record: https://hackaday.com/2018/02/22/at-71572-km-you-wont-beat-th...

At VHF and up the only thing that really matters is line of sight. Everything else modulation wise is just frosting. Unless you're in a plane/balloon/etc or paying for power and location on a very tall building Lora isn't going to go any further than your 2.4 GHz wifi router.

These contrived setups for distant records (and using transient tropo ducting) are just for fun.
Want to know what will happen if people need to pay for a like?
I hit that wall somehow hard. There's a very odd cognitive notion about 'know how'. Even stupid simple obvious things, when you've never done them, good chances you will feel weirdly stuck for tiny and absurd reasons.
Even on teams of small people (< 10 people) you can quickly run into issues if you don't develop in the same environment you deploy. For example at one company I worked for, developers would use pypi packages but the operations team required us to deploy using the version of the python package available on the Debian our hosts ran. This would create not infrequent discrepancies that certainly could have been dealt with a number of ways, but would have been pretty simple if we could just bundle a single environment and use it locally and in production. Vagrant and VirtualBox VMs are another alternative (that we did use too!) but Docker allows you to get even closer more easily if teams can agree on it.
His management is thoughtful! Plotters are cheap, but the entire chain of events leading to an effective sign being installed is almost certainly higher than this one guy spending a few hours on a sign.
Everyday photos fool the best AI
Google is doing something different in regular search results.

They are showing a small extract for context OR a summary specified by the publisher.

That’s completely legit and fair use.
In both, NoSQL or cloud providers that provide predefined networking it is easy to stay, but it will vote you in the butt once your project becomes bigger.

Using RDBMS has a stepper learning curve, but organizing your data right will pay back in bundles.

VPC is similar.

It's not that hard to configure it, it is actually very trivial compared to setting on prem data center, you can learn it or how someone who knows this.

Same with RDBMS, learn it (it is not hard) or hire a DBA.

I worked at one of popular car shopping sites, and while they used postgresql they stored car information as a thrift encoded blob. Every car trim was a separate row. A data had to be ETL to a NoSQL database to be extracted, that means to look up all car makes took 7 hours (the ETL happened through AMQP, don't ask) of course it was them stored in dedicated collection, but it was ridiculous. Out of curiosity I wrote code to convert the data from that form to relational database (postgresql) this actually helped to find that the were duplicates. The queries on postgresql database also had lower latency it didn't look like it would have a problem handling the traffic. This data it's also read only for users so it is trivial to scale out.

They also had a database to map up and latitude/longitude to a zip code. The data on MongoDB was taking 30GB and they had to use instances with enough RAM to hold all the data otherwise MongoDB would choke. The same exact data when stored in postgresql using right types (PostGIS and ip4r) took a bit over 600MB.

They also used Solr for storing inventory data.

I'm sure you are shaking your head that you would not do such things, bit of you have NoSQL blinkers on you often will run into problems that aren't problems at all.
Exactly, Casinos are successful in a business sense as well.

These companies get most of their profit from addicting people and keeping them addicted.

They have the same moral standing as a drug dealer.
I don’t think genius exists.
I would say the law that's needed is advertising-based. There's a huge disconnect between what "safety deposit box" means to people and what those actually, legally, are in 2019 according to the fine print. That's the main issue.

Imagine if it were legal for companies to pass something off as a "bank account" when they weren't actually a bank. And it explains it all in the fine print, but as we all know nobody reads the fine print, especially when the offered product is so seemingly familiar. We'd have fly-by-night operations losing people's money left and right, and then legally washing their hands of it.
My wife and I just finished a one-week cruise from Vancouver up the inside passage to Alaska. The ship carried about 1400 passengers and 600 crew. We wanted to see glaciers; our ship was able to go inside Glacier Bay National Park for closeup views of a tidewater glacier and lots of different wildlife: mountain goats, grizzly bears, seals, otters, sea lions, humpback whales. And at Juneau we went up to see Mendenhall Glacier.

At other ports we hiked around (not taking any cruise line-arranged excursions) and had quite a nice time. There were more people in the gym than in the casino. Our food was included in the cruise and we did not buy any drink packages. We didn't buy an internet package either and only missed it when we wanted to confirm our return flight (which we did on arrival back in Vancouver). We met people from different states and countries and enjoyed our conversations during meals. We took the stairs up and down and took walks around deck. There were lots of planned activities, but also plenty of time and quiet places on board to get away from crowds.

But you're right about the impacts of cruise ships on the port towns, especially the smaller ones. Ketchikan, which could berth up to four ships, expected over 50,000 visitors the week we were there. Skagway's population is 1,000 in the winter and 3,000 in the summer, with an influx of workers for the tourist trade. The ships burn a lot of oil to cruise; our ship got about 4 miles per ton. Carnival has been fined $20 million this year after violating terms of a previous judgment that included a $40 million penalty, and they're not the only offender.

This was our first cruise and we wondered beforehand whether we'd like it. We enjoyed the resort experience and being able to visit a number of interesting places. I liked not having to drive, because our ship was a moving resort. At the captain's toast, while we had some bubbly, he had ginger ale, because as he said, he was "our designated driver". We enjoyed the views, the food, the conversations, the side trips, and the relaxed pace. If you are clear on your personal values and goals and if you do your own research before traveling, you can likely find one that would appeal to you.
I see your point that hardware keys can fail, but that is a completely separate issue—print it out and shove that paper in there as well, redundant copies in multiple locations, etc... it is just a standard backup problem. The hardware key is about ease and safety when you are using it, not as some perfect storage.

In any case, the issue of securing something that you only want to use in extremely rare cases is still an issue—"nowhere" isn't a solution to that problem, although I can see the argument that hardware keys aren't the best choice of storage medium (although as an efficiency measure it could be useful to have one in there as well so you can go quickly if it works).
Nope. That is overconfidence of the ignorant, and this is dealing with trusting the high confidence of the correct.

It doesn't really matter here that people answered incorrectly.
Vocabulary fail on my part. I can't find the term. Say 'in the shadow'.
Yes exactly. My local pool is 50m lengthwise and 25yds the other way.
The Great Hack tells us data corrupts
> However, the local government bank has just written off a bunch of bad loans so the local government's credit rating has fallen off a cliff.

...and, presumably, the Fed steps in and bails out the bank by buying up the bad loans.

Seems, from a politician's point of view, a much better option than having the city go into bankruptcy when they can get a bunch of "loans" from the Fed to keep chugging along. Moral hazard be damned.
Just jumping in to echo the obvious uhh trees literally already exist
NLTK (python) will do it. I'm working on a similar project and the text summaries are great, even for non English articles.
Possible and practical are very different things. It’s taken a lot of innovation just to get the charge time inside of an hour.

That’s not practical when everybody on the highway is driving them.
If you have to spend a minute or more to read something which might or might not be useful, that's an annoyance, I would even say disturbance. Takes precious time to find the right information in a place where minutes or even seconds matter. If you never lived in Tokyo then you have no clue what I am talking about. If you did, you would exactly know what I am talking about.
Actually, not just one counter-example, there are several: Steve Jobs, Winston Churchill, Lee Iacocca - and many many others in Business, Politics or Military, weren't exactly paragons of modesty. On the contrary, they were often bombastic and very arrogant. But they all projected a sense of competence, self-confidence and calm and imbued their team with a sense of mission. I think this article makes some fallacious suppositions and arrives at some dubious conclusions IMHO.
I had this happen once too, and was shocked that bank allowed same check to be deposited twice.
I mean the prices you need to pay to upgrade the machines beyond the basis configuation. Currently Apple charges 240€ for 8g of memory, and 240€ for 128g of ssd upgrade. The latter is 1920€/tb, while market prices are between 100€ and 300€/tb. A MB Air with 16g/512g is at 2000€, not counting Apple care, which is basically mandatory.
Such a tax seems game-theoretically unsound.

Instead western countries should ban imports of food products that are produced in unsustainable ways. It would apply to everyone equally and remove one of the main economic drivers behind deforestation
Airports as Incubators
Map Iteration in Go
The Bay Area is one of the richest parts of the US on paper sure but much of that wealth comes from absurdly inflated land valuations that are taxed at very low rates.
There is an implementation of docker compose for podman in development: https://github.com/muayyad-alsadi/podman-compose
Don't be absurd. We can't let people own their own retirement savings. We need to entrust that money to CALPERS, so that they can use our retirees' savings as a political cudgel, divesting from certain companies for ideological reasons, and buying board seats on others to exert their influence.

The political machine doesn't just feed itself. It takes other peoples' money and abuse of the public trust to make the magic happen.

(Worry not. If there's any shortfall from investing money politically, California taxpayers will make up for it.)
Anomaly Detection with SQL on BigQuery ML
The non-capitalist systems didn't fare much better. The Soviet Union was largely responsible for exterminating whales, without even getting much use from them: https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-senseless-environment-c...
We’ve been on two of these mega-ship cruises in the last couple of years and another one next week.

My kids love the kids’ clubs, which are lively and seem to be well run. The younger one was excited to go every morning and always came back happy. She’s a normal, friendly, smart kid. My teen boy had more freedom and used the teen club as a central meeting point, where he also made friends easily.

Unlike at a resort or camp, where kids come and go and cliques form, these kids are mostly strangers on day one and it’s only for a week—they are literally in the same boat. This seems to produce less pressure and more fun.

As for the adults, yes, there’s expensive, banal, crowded “activities” aplenty. There’s also (as others have mentioned) our Kindles, a quiet balcony with a nice view, OK food if you choose wisely, and transport to some interesting destinations.

Ship-sponsored excursions are bus tour hell. Pro tip: Don’t do those. Organize your own day out. There’s this thing called the Internet, and it’s loaded with info. I bet it catches on!

We had an amazing private expert-guided back-alley tour of Pompeii for half the price of the cruise line chain gang slog. My son and I found an ancient/modern graffiti tour of Athens, zero tourists. Etc.

Even at a completely fake port like Costa Maya, you can get a small group bus trip to Chacchoben and it’s just as amazing as if you virtue-hitchhiked there.

Bottom line, if you have kids, and if you use it as a base, and if you can deal with a few annoying crowd moments, a cruise can be fairly relaxing.
Let's look at another toy example, using made-up numbers:

Q: Is the earth flat?

Yes: 10%
No: 90%

Q: What do you think most people will respond to that question?

Yes: 3%
No: 97%

Analysis:

Yes: 10% - 3% = 7%
No: 90% - 97% = -7%

Conclusion:

The earth is flat, I guess ;)
Yeah, it's a bit like "second order" wisdom of the crowds.

First order: "How many jelly beans are in this jar?"

Second order: "What percentage of people will get the wrong answer to this question about Pennsylvania's capital?"

There's also the interplay with the Keynesian beauty contest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest

In some sense the stock market is an infinite regress of these "what will other people think about value..." questions.
Saner: no language extensions and a bit more explicitness with imports, plus claims of other cleanups.

More practical: claiming smooth interoperability with JS, whose package ecosystem sees more development and whose runtime is widely available.
There’s always been two major threads to container software offerings - the container tech itself and container orchestration tools like Swarm/kubernetes/rancher etc.

Docker have had great success with the former but have never really delivered an industry leading product in the later. Swarm has had a number of drawbacks over the years vs some competitor offerings.
The insanity of crowds
While I agree the sentiment that the silly range ones are just for fun, I have in practice seen good links over ranges with no line of sight.

I've personally observed links through many buildings, over hills, and so forth that easily dwarf the range of the average 2.4Ghz link.
It's hinted at, but you have really latch on to this statement at the beginning.

>is a wisdom of the crowd technique that taps into the expert minority opinion within a crowd.
Decentralized blockchain enables businesses to capitalize on data protection
Couldn't that be achieved with a 'like' button?

I guess put your money where your mouth is...
My target use case would be to write the domain logic parts of a business system in PureScript together with a lot of other services where Go makes more sense.
Does anyone have links to papers on text summarization that you would recommend for research?
But then you wouldn't get the free publicity from all the people interested in your unique hand-made signs.
Firebee – The Atari Coldfire Initiative
Subscriptions absolutely benefit cash strapped freelancers. Rather than having to outright pay several hundreds or a thousand dollars up front on software, they can get by for 10s of dollars a month. As long as they are getting any sort of work, they can easily offset the cost of the software.

But nobody is forcing you to use Adobe products. Buy the Affinity tools or use GIMP if you like.
Show HN: Bookshulf – Rapidly make a book list that is shareable
Don't know if it is the HN effect or what, but the article says that the channel has 100 subscribers whereas at the moment of writing this comment, the number is around 12.2K.
Suddenly disconnecting a dock today is a minor annoyance; worst case, you lose some file descriptors/mountpoints, and network connections. If you plug in processors, accidentally unplugging outright drops processes, and likely panics the kernel.
The runner who makes elaborate artwork with his feet and a map
I see people mentioning whenever the answer is right or not, but that's actually irrelevant. The heuristic only measures how surprising the popular answer is to the population.
Game subscription services will force developers to make difficult decisions
Have some decent insulation and sun blinds. Keep windows shut during the day and open at night.

Works in many hot places around the world. AC can be complementary, but you dramatize.