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This is the true reason. Although, we should have the ideological goal of colonization, as a failsafe option to prevent extinction.

Every now and again, people are able to organize themselves for a goal beyond economic gain (which seems like a foreign idea in our capitalist cultural context)
Exactly. And this idea started to cracking, which is the major reason for their problems, not cheap alternatives.
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Serious question, why post something for discussion if it's behind a paywall?
That looks impressive, but costs a lot of speed. It’s mostly useful for an aircraft carrier to hide behind another ship rather than directly avoiding torpedoes in open water.

As to acceleration they are something like 2.5 HP to the long ton. So picture a 5 HP car on ice.
Same - exactly where my brain went.
>So then you're just left with innocent people to spy on.

Those are who they want to spy on anyway.

For serious criminals, terrorists etc they have other tools, banning commercial encryption wont help with those...
I think it's clear that Apple security hasn't been as good as everyone would like. Remember the disastrous Mac OS login bug?
Who’s forfeiting anything? If you don’t want to unlock your device for law enforcement, just use the sleep/lock button to make your phone require the passcode (which the police can’t legally compel you to give, I believe). It takes several seconds to key in a reasonably secure passcode, and it ceases to be secure if you type it in view of any security cameras. Also, if you open your phone 50 times per day, it’s way more than just a few seconds.
This will just drive people to more and more distributed platforms until there is nothing they can do.
In my experience, Face ID is much faster and more seamless. Basically it's like my phone isn't locked because before I'd even have a chance to think about it, it's unlocked. I was VERY resistant to losing the home button, but I find that the new gestures are much more natural for me. Obviously this is a personal preference thing, but for quite a while I had a touch ID iPad and a Face ID iPhone, and it was really night and day how much nicer Face ID felt to me, and how nice it is to not have a home button wasting space on the phone. If they found a way to suppport Touch ID in addition to Face ID, without stealing space from the screen, I'm all for it, but I can't imagine going back to the old style of phone with no Face ID and a home button.
I think the fear is that we don’t have 20 years to spend on this ship, the F-35, etc.

Eg, fixing the problems with the M16 wasn’t that hard: chrome the chamber and change the training program fixed a lot for very little cost and without too many casualties (you can always pull m14s out of inventory!)

Not so with an aircraft carrier, destroyer (rounds for the Zumwalt will never be made), and maybe the F35 will only occasionally decapitate it’s pilots
Sometimes it's not worth to optimize too farther from the current local optimum. UI designers have a "budget" for weirdness and unfamiliar conventions and must spend it wisely
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I remapped capslock to escape, which simultaneously gives me back a useful key and gets rid of a useless one :P
From what I could glean from the combined 68000+68010 data sheet, the 68010 also dumps some internal state on the stack to support restarts, though that now just makes me more curious about the differences between 68010 and 68020 in that regard.
Quanta has the Simons foundation behind it. How free is a press if it can only live off the good will of a billionaire?
Every group has a subset of loud, crazy, vehement followers.
> it might be helpful to have an example or two

Apologies. The original source code from the early 1980's is stored on a non-DOS floppy. Maybe someday I'll retrieve and publish it. But meanwhile here's a taste:

One of the tasks is to activate a solenoid to ink up the lithographic plate after a certain number of revolutions of the press. That number, range 0 to 9, is read from a 4-bit, binary weighted thumbwheel switch which has been set by the press operator.

The code uses 1 instruction to test bit0 of the thumbwheel switch. If bit0 is true, we fall through to another test that waits (jumps to self) until the tachometer pulse goes high; this eventually falls through to another test that waits for the tachometer pulse to go low. So, that's one revolution. But if bit0 of the thumbwheel switch is false, we jump past all this (ie, don't wait for one revolution).

Bit1 of the thumbwheel switch is similarly tested, except the tach must go hi-lo twice (2 revolutions); and so on for bits 2 and 3 (4 revs and 8 revs). Then, with all the counting complete, the solenoid gets turned on.

I have simplified somewhat; actually the rev-counting portion is a subroutine, called from two different places in the code. The (very primitive!) subroutine calling convention is explained in the article. HTH.
I don't like the lack of a home button

I resisted the button-less form until my buttoned iPhone broke, and I got a hand-me-down X.

Now when I use my iPad, which has a button, there's a brief moment of indignation, "What!? I have to touch a button to unlock this thing!?" every time I use it. It's funny how quickly we get used to things.

That said, I wish the phone wouldn't unlock when I'm just looking at the screen sometimes.
It's impossible to evaluate the marginal return to Apple on increasing R&D by $1 versus increasing $1 in spending buying back stock in light of a tax windfall. They are both sources a potential value, neither is obviously correct, and the value of each dollar spent is highly non-linear.

Also who do you think the top shareholders of Apple are? Apple making a profit doesn't necessarily hurt the Vanguard ETFs my government-employeed middle class American family members sock retirement saving into...?
Honeycomb's CEO on these "wide events":

> The most effective way to structure your instrumentation, so you get the maximum bang for your buck, is to emit a single arbitrarily wide event per request per service hop.

> We're talking wiiiide. We usually see 200-500 dimensions in a mature app. But just one write.

https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/1042817542648082432
the point is that being wrong once or twice isn't bad, but being wrong all the time leads to hurt and backlash. to compensate, we have elaborate cultural rituals and coded language to avoid such situations (e.g., "giving face").
Right now honestly zero, unless I came across the deal of a lifetime that I believed I could justify responsibly long term. The film idea was fleeting and not realistic. If it becomes possible I am hoping to get a used full frame body with a good low light capability, like a 6d and a couple good lenses. A shutter replacement would be a likely need one day but can be found for a reasonable cost. But IQ and features would be enough. If the rest of the bits kept working/could be cheaply serviced, it could feasibly last me the rest of my life for my needs and wants despite whatever else comes along.
Personally, I just remapped capslock to esc, since I never use capslock. The touchbar does seem to hang more often nowadays, though. Especially when I'm trying to adjust the volume.
Please take this talk of gender supremacy elsewhere. It is wildly outmoded and unwelcome here, at least by me. Thank you and good day.
France was Germany's largest trading partner before the Great War. The cost was immense, but that didn't stop the war. The Nazis had a great alliance with the Communists in the USSR, but that did not stop them from committing suicide by attacking the USSR.

Parties like the CCP that have no concern for human rights tend to get the countries they control into trajectories that unavoidably lead to conflict. Even countries that, logically speaking, would be much better as allies, or at least cooperating.
Any time I'm about to go through security, I long-press the volume and side buttons which immmediately activates the requirement for passcode to unlock.

It's a quick and easy shortcut to enable the passcode requirement.
> In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science'. The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc. And even technological progress only happens when its products can in some way be used for the diminution of human liberty. (2.9.30).

> The Party employs science and technology to curtail human freedom and privacy, and to control human behavior.
> What is exactly wrong with share buybacks?

AOC presents a good argument against Buy Backs from Big Pharma which incentives CEO's who's compensation is tied to stock price, which as a result she attributes as the cause of rising costs of health insurance:

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1154794058272972801

Although Big Pharma doesn't operate in a natural economy where products are priced at optimal demand / supply for max Revenue. Instead their cost is hidden from the end-user, absorbed by insurance companies and amortized across all plan holders with rising cost of health insurance.

In the long-term Buy Backs shouldn't increase a companies value as it's just trading one Asset for another, i.e. it's cash reserves for shares in their own stock, they'd choose to do this if they've maxed out their R&D budget (very healthy at $14B) and if they believe their share price is undervalued, which at a 17 P/E is significantly lower than all other FANG stocks.

They could try and follow in AMZN's footsteps and try to expand into all areas outside of their core competency, but it's not their style which is to do a few things and do them well. IMO it's due to protecting and not wanting to dilute the high appeal of their Brand and Products.

The result of which they've ended up with an excessive amount of capital and no effective place to invest it, although IMO they should've invested a lot more in content like Netflix a lot sooner than they have with Apple TV+.
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[I'm deleting this, I don't think it is spurring constructive conversation]
I hear things like this from time to time, but among programmers that I hang with almost no one ever uses any math beyond a basic primary school stuff. I really wonder is it:

- us doing boring projects (quite possible), or

- web dev and business apps are a specific niches that don't need anything more complicated than interest rate formula level of math, or

- it's just that people complaining about not knowing enough math really don't know even the basic math?
I think you're missing my point.

If we wish to be taken seriously when attributing claims or beliefs to people, we need to substantiate those with evidence like a cited quote, not just hearsay. The author is PHD candidate so they should understand why it is important to cite sources.
When there's a cure for cancer that prevents Alzheimer's and grants immortality I'll come to HN to find out why it's shitty.

There's a trove of clever people on HN, I never lookup usernames or track who posts what. It's enlightening in a way to remember even smart people are still people.
Does it go something like: when the company tanks due to mismanagement > shareholder value suffers > employees feel vindicated?
You might unlock your phone 10,000 or 100,000 times over its lifetime. It is just a hugely convenient thing to have that work as quickly as possible, without needing to enter a passcode every time. How likely is it that you will experience an unexpected breach of your 4th amendment rights where you don't have time to disable biometric access to your phone in advance, especially as the iPhone has a 'panic button' specifically to do this quickly. Face ID requires you to look at the phone anyway so in theory it's simple to avoid giving access to a cop.
A government can punish people for using cryptography, punish failure to disclose keys, or treat use of cryptography as circumstantial evidence.
You're counting on your ability to (and memory to carry out) access and disable your phone after encountering law enforcement?
>I wonder why the military doesn't add "it works or else you don't get paid" clauses in these lucrative contracts they award?

Any general or admiral who pushed hard for strict performance-based deliverables in procurement contracts would never get a cushy job at a defence contractor after retiring from the military.
Isn't that still confounded by new management or shift in thinking at the top? You need an RCT to tease everything out.
They didn't remove it, at least not functionally. There's still an ESC, it's just on the Touch Bar now.
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2019 is another year I’m stuck with my iPhone 8 from 2017. I use to upgrade every year then some genius at Apple thought bigger phones are the only way to go from here on out. Maybe that person no longer works there?

Also Touch ID over Face ID or offer both or I’m not interested along with millions of others!
What does this have to do with "in bulk"? Seems like you're the one misrepresenting the situation.
The thing is even if QA and testing is fine now as the business or domain needs evolve over the years just the fact the context has changed can lead that code to be a liability. I'm kind of tired from work so I hope I can make my point: As an example, let's say you have a billing system that allows anonymous payment that works fine it has thus far been an asset, but new legislation is released that states that all purchases must have legal identity associated. Orwellian thought aside, some or all of that code has transformed into a liability depending on how deeply ingrained anonymous payment is and whether or no you can extend the existing code or you have to rip it out. Your code can be perfectly functional but a change to the domain need rendered it a liability.
I feel like a walking cliche now, but you've described my introduction to Linux to a T.
Yeah, I think you are forced to re-train how you pickup and use the phone. An older non-smartphone could be easily picked up by grabbing the entire girth of the phone. With smartphones, people learned to pick it up using the side edges without triggering any touch interactions. Old-folks found this confusing as they constantly kept inadvertently dialing someone or launching random apps. At-least with the change from non-smartphones you got a bump in functionality, the face-id change seems to be entirely superficial to me. I'm still rocking my 6s, but will have to eventually upgrade when Apple slows down my phone with their updates. I held on to my 4s too till it became unbearably slow..

One feature I'd upgrade for is if Apple completely sealed off their phone and made it waterproof.
For POs to constantly look over your shoulder and tell you to change stuff.
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I'm the same way. I was an iPhone 7 hold out for a long time because I didn't see the value in Face ID or any of the other stuff and now I really regret holding out as long as I did. Face ID is so seamless and it's just so much smoother to do everything. Going back to my work phone is more than a bit awkward trying to remember how many times to tap or double press to do whatever. On the iPhone XS I have the gestures really make a lot of sense to me.
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Windows 95 is very difficult to get working in a VM in a reasonable way, and this machine likely relies on custom ISA cards, which is likely impossible to virtualize.
Just wanted to point out, no one in their right mind should/would try to use a hypersonic missile for a "short-range" attack.

The missile needs time to maneuver onto a vector to the target, and to accelerate. Once accelerated, it's not going to be drastically changing it's trajectory on anything resembling a "short" timescale, seeing as hypersonic turning radii are measured in miles. Rocket accelerated gliders this goes for doubly to avoid overshot.

It just isn't a practical utilization of the delivery vehicle.

Furthermore, the point of carrier's is air superiority, and force projection. That carrier is a mobile slab of sovereign soil from which all sorts of logistics can be dispatched from.

It's the difference between "I could get bombed today," and pointing at the spec floating on the horizon, and saying "There's where the bomb that would get dropped on me today is," if that makes any sense.
Also, there is no exception in the law for LEOs or intelligence officers, the same rules literally do apply to them.
No, the US started a war with the remnants of the Spanish Empire to gain Puerto Rico.

The US stole plenty from England during the Industrial revolution. That much is well known. In fact it was taught to me as an example of patriotism that some engineer immigrated from England after memorizing the schematics of some machine. The name of the engineer I've since forgotten.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-18/us-complains-other-na...

What has happened for Africa with all that Western aid? The West wants to "help" the "poor" starving Africans but it seems doubtful that they would actually be happy if Africa became self-determining.
I'll bite because it's a reasonable question. I think linking to paywalled content is allowed because there are fairly easy ways around paywalls, but posting a roundabout directly goes (I believe) against HN policy.

An example of how to get around the Economist paywall is already elsewhere in this thread.
I thought that lumping together of beliefs was interesting too.
> considering men have dominated every aspect of society

Some men. And a minority of them.
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That's like saying that a bathtub and a swimming pool are the same thing because they both hold water.
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depending on which VPN provider you chose, (1) could be far safer. at least your local sysadmin and ISP have A) a direct work/business relationship with you that they'd likely rather not harm, and B) possibly some laws governing what they do with your personal information & which sites you visit.
Anyone curious about ithkuil should apprise themselves of the attempt of the number two most wanted terrorist in Ukraine's tangential involvement with this language as a result of some Institute for the Harmo ious Development of Man or other (not the institute of Gurdjieff's, just similarly named)
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It wouldn't be such a big deal if these "wrong" communities didn't seem to be so outrage driven, but they tend to be more about the anger than pursuing their "truth".

Acts of "proving" oneself to the community gain a person favor, which ends up being the stuff that effects us "normies", rather than their mere existence.
Sounds like he's the type of person who thinks getting upvotes from his fellow redditors is more alluring than being right. Thank you for confirming that there is no reason to click this link.
As a shareholder, thank god you are not a decision maker.
Are you suggesting men don't have the right to stand up against abuse?
Thanks for the note.
Doesn't The Economist let you read four(?) articles a month without subscribing?

Anyways, here's the relevant excerpt from the HN FAQ

Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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I don’t remember numbers but it wasn’t a crazy high return. Just a lot of capital being moved.
I _loved_ the wobbly windows! But not enough to figure out how to reënable them in my most recent install ️
I got had to fight with template metaprogramming lately, and I can't be happier than reading about this. Do you have any sources when one can learn in a non-confusing way about this new stuff, especially Concepts?
There are scenarios where simply being able to stop quickly is evasive. If the torpedo has a 50 km range and the submarine captain assumes it takes you a 1 km to stop, the submarine could attack from 51 km away. When your target is slow to decelerate or change course, you have a greater effective range when attacking from from the front.

All forms of acceleration (be it speeding up, slowing down, or turning) will modify the effective range of enemy torpedoes as a function of launch position relative to the ship.

Consider even a ship moving at a constant speed and heading. If you draw a line around the ship to represent the maximum range of a constant speed torpedo aimed at the ship, that line won't be circular. If you abstract away water drag and assume submarines can move as fast as carriers, then the line would be circular. But in reality drag on the torpedo means that sub can't simply match speeds with the carrier and expect the speeds of the torpedo and the sub to add up. The torpedoe's top speed is relative to the stationary water, not to its launching submarine.
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Equally honest counter-question: all modern browsers essentially support ES2019 already, so why would anyone still need babel outside of turning JSx into JS because React is still a hot tech, or in order to turn normal modern code into the kind of legacy code that >99% of your visitors won't need?

I'm sure there are plenty of build systems out there that still indiscriminately turn things into ES5, because "that's how we wrote it years ago and it still works", but anyone who actually cares about performance will think twice before using babel today to turn nice, clean, concise modern code into incredibly verbose and shimmed legacy code, and will certainly think twice before serving ES5 code to users on a modern browser.
A friend of mine one jokingly but reasonably accurately described Ithkuil as, "Build a language with as much derivational morphology as humanly possible, then add some more, and you've got Ithkuil." It's a fascinating experiment and a lot of fun to read about.

As a fascinating side-note: the language was also at one point adopted by some kind of fringe pseudo-religious movement called "Psychonetics" as a "…technology of human consciousness." There's a fascinating article about Ithkuil, its creator, and its adoption by that movement here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-be... (and the previous HN discussion of it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8180493 )
This goes way beyond flat earth and the other beliefs he listed. People will laugh at you if you claim that rocks grow out of dead birds, but almost no-one really convinced themselves of where rocks come from or where dead birds go and that it's not the same place. We trust authorities but we don't think it through or investigate it for ourselves. It's much easier to trust authorities because that's what everyone else is trusting too so you get automatic agreement and friends without having to think for yourself. We also have no idea that the Earth isn't flat except from trust in authorities.

What is kind of strange is that even though some wrong beliefs are mocked by people who don't agree (eg flat-earth, Scientology), others are put on a kind of pedestal of respect, such as Islam and native rituals. The justification I can think of is "Let those poor savages have their special beliefs because they're weaker than us and maybe that's all they have to cling onto so we shouldn't hold them to the same high standards that we hold ourselves to." Scientologists and Christians are part of us and have no excuse for being "wrong" so we're more openly critical of them.