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Weird to get downvoted for a historical truth. Trade unions had their assets seized and their leaders thrown in concentration camps. But here’s the reference anyway...

“The Trade Union Movement and the Redistribution of Power in Postwar Germany”

Clark Kerr
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Vol. 68, No. 4 (Nov., 1954), pp. 535-564

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1881876?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con...
I have a genetic disorder.
It ran for maybe 5 years from memory. 99.999% certain nobody got killed. I only got to play once. It was _amazingly_ stupid fun!
Love HackMii.com. Their wii “jailbreak” really enhanced my enjoyment of the system back in the day. Many thanks to the authors
"Microplastics or microbeads are mostly used in soaps, shower gels and facial scrubs to exfoliate skin..."

So, wait... If we just stopped using microplastics in soaps, shower gels and facial scrubs we'd mostly stop dumping microsplastics in to the environment?

But we don't because we'd rather have this totally optional, cosmetic benefit?

Humans are so stupid.
You are generalizing. I am doing a MicroMaster in data science from MITx and they grant the equivalent credits of the first semester. It's worth something if I ever apply to a similar master program.
I haven't really been this exciting for a new technology on my phone for a while. Am I just drinking the UWB hype kool-aid it is this actually revolutionary? So far it is difficult to tell but I guess we'll see.
> Facebook promises to encourage dealing in their coin and airline would frown on that. Not much difference otherwise.

Not much difference except it is controlled by one of the most powerful, and richest companies on the planet, with the most data on everyone, ever compiled. That if you are a member, knows you likes, dislikes, politics, sexual preferences, entire social network, where you live, when you get home, where you go, whether or not your like your friends. That has a bigger market cap than the annual GDP of small countries, that competes in local marketplaces, could easily take on and possibly wipe out craigslist, ebay, and more, and could conceivably beat entire national currencies in capitalization, reserves, convenience, and ease of use, thus supplanting the currency of entire small nations.

Yeah, pretty much the same thing as airline miles.
The actual process of GMO is completely safe. Just like the process of nuclear fission. You have to treat it with care though, otherwise very bad things may occur.
I think people are beginning to realize, that just as there are more asteroids than planets, and more space junk than large asteroids, there are a lot more free floating planets than stars.

It could well be the universe is filled with life, but the dominant mode is underground chemo/radiotrophic microbes on planets without stars.
The detectors are extremely sensitive. As the article stated, a cow walking by or leaves rustling in the wind can be picked up.
Clear Linux is blazing fast (compiled with Intel compilers), and supposedly has a strong security model -- but it also has an extremely limited package selection. To the point that it's just not usable for me.

Also, its package manager forces you to install "bundles" of somewhat related packages rather than just the specific packages you want and their deps. Maybe I'm missing something, but I find this very odd.
My understanding is with EKS or similar you still have to manually size your kubernetes cluster, that is you have to make sure there's enough hardware instances in your kubernetes cluster for whatever scaling you'll need. With fargate you're effectively using AWS's own cluster. Your service can scale up and down, and you only pay for the resources that your service actually uses.
Independent moviehouses often struggle to keep the lights on
No need for utensils while eating pizza! Publish me!
Microbeads are already banned in many places. The United States for example banned it back in 2017. But there are many governments that haven't caught up to it yet.
If the EU goes tits up, Germany will be using marks again before the month is out. The EU could never have been started if member states had to give full control of monetary policy to the EU Council.
Yeah the Chemistry Ignobel wasn't deserved; that seems like it could have relevance to the right pediatricians.

That Engineering Prize as well! What?! I'm reasonably sure parents would adore such a marvel of engineering... assuming all concerns are addressed.
We grappled with rates when I was engineering manager for the team at Coursera that created course statistics for our partners.

The completion “rate” does not matter because the denominator is a very noisy signal. It’s a count of enrollments and what does “enrollment” signal in an online course, when it takes two clicks from a tweet.

There are other complexities but completion rate in the “are MOOCs worth offering” question is silly and tired.

What matters is people getting value they otherwise wouldn’t.
It's a fully managed version of Amazon ECS (elastic container service). With Fargate, you don't need to manage the EC2 instances that make up the cluster, as is required with ECS.

Early on, Amazon tried to avoid offering a managed Kubernetes service, and so they rolled their own container service in the form of ECS. Later they caved in and created EKS, their Kubernetes platform. ECS is still used as the underpinnings of some of their other services, such as Batch and Fargate.
These are for MOOCs, not online degree courses, though.

There's no certifications with these. You can't get an accounting, law, or medical degree, bachelor/associate certificate, or anything you'd need professional accreditation for.

Maybe the completion rate is similar for people who buy books. I'd end up getting a book thinking it'd be an investment as it would be good as learning a subject. The next day I didn't really want to spend 12 straight hours learning Visual Basic.

Also these aren't like auditing a class and listening in on a real lecture either. Just from the list for UT Austin (a very good school): https://www.edx.org/school/utaustinx

There are university lecturers people listen to all the time though, through the Great Courses / Teaching Company. Those sort of fit the leisure-learner path and don't require logging into some system for it.
I used everolimus, which works the same way as sirolomus, for a few years. Like a fair proportion of people taking this class of drug, I developed severe proteiuria. Large protein molecules making their way through the kidney are considered likely to cause kidney damage.
No:
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-cgi-works-in-jurassic-pa...
There were cgi dinos as well. Remember the First scene with the brontosauruses, or the stampede scene? Or the scene when the raptors jump on the Tyrannosaurus?
How I wish it was this way in Sweden. Unfortunately it's not - there is no requirement to accept any specific kind of payment and it's by now rare to see anyone pay with cash.
> Plausibly in phones (or something in a normal household) in the next 3-6 months, sure.

I don't know, I remember reading 25 years ago about this awesome technology called OLED that instead of blocking light it actually lights up and you can even bend the display!
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>WARNING: At this time we have to warn people against coming to Rachel for the botched Storm Rachel event next weekend. The organizers are suing each other and in the meantime nothing is being done to prepare for the event. We expect riots when those visitors that may show up and paid good money find out that the reality looks nothing like what they were promised. People will get hurt. STAY AWAY FROM RACHEL NEXT WEEKEND!

From http://www.rachel-nevada.com/
Looks nice. But I put in 2 apps with 4 cpu and 1gb of RAM each. And I selected MySQL database with 1gb of RAM and 30gb storage.

And it quoted me $400/month.
Good luck, sounds like everything's falling into place!
Fargate lets you run containers without having to think about the underlying VMs. You say how much CPU and mem you want the container to run with and off it goes.

Kubernetes is a container orchestrator. If you have a k8s cluster, you can launch a container with a specified amount of memory (and I believe CPUs) and it will look much like Fargate. However, someone needs to manage the underlying hardware/VMs for the cluster as well as the cluster software/updates (k8s version, various k8s addons/operators, etc). With k8s, you will also need to make sure that you are using resources effectively (total resources required by containers == total resource available on the VMs in the k8s cluster), which is particularly challenging if you are launching new containers often. If you are using a cloud k8s offering (EKS, AKS, GKE, etc) then some or all of the VM management will be handled by the cloud provider, but the software management and resource utilization work will still be up to you.

TLDR Fargate and k8s can be used very similarly, but k8s has a much higher ops/management burden. K8s was designed to do many more things than Fargate and, while that is sometimes great, it comes with a large ops/complexity cost.
The inconsistency with Kickstarter is at best odd, and they either did wrong by that employee or screwed up hiding what they're doing.

But I've been at a place that fired without PIPs, so it does happen.
THat's great. Software piracy raises the costs of software for non-pirates
There's an even more compelling reason why Apple's waiting a while before announcing the tracking tags: crowdsourcing.

At WWDC this year, Apple announced that all iOS devices would begin reporting nearby devices' locations back to Apple. U1 probably only works at relatively close range, so they want to wait until their "crowdsourcing network" includes enough devices for long-range tracking to work. (IIRC they aren't going to let users prevent their devices from contributing to the network, so it's just a matter of waiting until everyone has the latest iOS update.)
Thanks for sharing! Yes, mine often end up quite elaborate as well.

Here's a question for you: Are the people in your dream from real waking life, or are they more like characters in a story/NPCs in a game?

In my dreams I have charachters who aren't from real life. Like for example, I don't have a sister in real life, but in one dream, there's this person who is just casually my sister, and it all feels like it makes sense, even though in real life it makes no sense. In a related fashon, there's associations with people that aren't logical, but feel logical in the dream. For example, in one disturbing nightmare, I discovered a box belonging to my father - but there's no reason why in the dream I should conclude that the box is his, it's literally a box with zero context, but the context was somehow there none the less.
What do you expect them to do, ask Saudi Arabia pretty please? They're fighting a war against a superior funded opponent. Half measures aren't going to win a war, they're going to be a slow loss. Go big or go home. They're going big. It might or might not work, but fighting a traditional sort of war is a 100% chance of losing.
While it may or may not be the primary motivation for research, I'd speculate that it's great for making stealth satellites.
And from my experience they are not. I have never met an unhealthy looking vegan. If we are both telling the truth then it must mean that it is entirely possible to be a healthy vegan, but some of them are not.
Fraudulent conveyence is not the same thing as "piercing the veil". Although it is a subset of it.
you are wrong. in north america, forests sequester layers of methane in burred layers of rotted material that are supposed to keep building up. however, the arrival of the earth worm has been releasing those layers of methane into the atmosphere and destroying forest layers.
Pricing is fine for small things (most people's side project, etc). Fargate still feels very young and I don't think it handles very high scale or resource intensive work all that well/affordably. I think that will come in time.

From a cloud provider PoV, Fargate is a very hard problem - like Lambda except harder because the container might need to run forever.
The unification of North and South Yemen in 1990 was a mistake and there has been trouble ever since.
Montenegro has a population of about 600K. Its annual GDP is $12 billion.

There are also small countries that are pegged to the US dollar.

When you are a small-potatoes nation-state, and have a non-diversified or small economy, it is a great idea to use a larger, better established, currency.

* It's more stable
* Trade is easier
* More than 3 banks accept your currency!

The incentives of the nations controlling the euro are well known to Montenegro, and they trust that those countries will keep the euro stable.

Libra is a whole different ball of wax. It's not just a currency. When you use it, you are tied to Facebook's terms of services, Facebook's desires, and Facebook's fate. Your individual citizens could be locked out of the economy for reasons that have nothing to do with your nation's laws.

If Google and Apple wouldn't agree to use Facebook-dollars for all their transactions, I don't see why a company would agree to.
You could do further browser optimizations through about:about
I have never had much paperwork besides a few signatures. And we have had some extensive procedures.
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I hope you continue to fail at dying.
I don't know first hand, but since it has been consistently tens of thousands of people, it's become really organized, according to what I read. The logistics aren't trivial or spontaneous. The people coming have some idea of how it works, not to mention many of them have a lot of resources.
Ask HN: How do you automate the App Store Connect / Google Play Console dance?
For each new app release, a typical app developer might upload with Application Loader, log in to App Store Connect (2FA), babysit-refresh until the icon goes from "Processing" to Ready, answer the question that encryption has not changed, edit the app profile, delete the old build, press + to add the new build, submit, answer more questions about the IDFA advertising identifier, then truly submit.

How do small teams or solo developers typically automate this? Apple provided an App Store API last year, but then which framework on GitHub is most recommended to use with it? I'm less familiar with the Google Play Console but so far the experience feels similar, so same questions apply there. In some cases does it make sense to bite the bullet and keep using the painful UX flow rather than automating?
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The basic issue in Europe is that train and bus travel is insanely expensive relative to air travel. That's why Ryanairs of the world even exist and are able to offer fares comparable to bus and train.

If governments are serious about making travel less environmentally stressful, they should consider underwriting rail infrastructure investment and just have the companies recoup operational expenses from fares.
https://www.gog.com/game/airline_tycoon_deluxe

https://www.gog.com/game/world_of_goo (was also free on Epic Game Store a while ago, plus in a million different bundles)

for example.

The games used as tests seem to be lower end indie titles that can be found DRM-free (because you don't also want to have to work around that)
I'm sorry, but every time someone argues this point, I feel they are completely side-stepping the actual issue.

Anything can be safe depending on how you use it, almost by definition, because "rare/no usage" is included in that. The real argument to be had is not whether or not something can potentially fail whatsoever. The argument is, "What are the consequences at the expected rate of failure?"

Viewed from that perspective, much greater stakes are revealed. When the consequence of failure is "Irreversible alteration of an entire species", understandably even a single failure should be cause for pause.
That's a good point. Besides the potential dangers of allowing a tech company (one with no ties to your country) to run the money supply, there is also the understanding that you (as a smaller country) are inviting even more U.S. monetary policy into your country.

People may decide against that.
Science is deeply imaginative: why is this treated as a secret?
Such type of warnings and claiming that people should not leave their home would just increase commitment to «Area 51» conspiracy theory.

This is some sort of recursion.
> some data structures are autosized at boot

It's probably a good idea to audit all the things that are autosized at boot by ram size; some of them are probably much too large on a system with 128 GB or so, given some of the sizing was written when 128 MB was big. I know I've run into the size of IP fragment buffers being way too big, but not sure what else.
> this sounds a lot like kubernetes ... is this just a proprietary version of that?

Not really, in fact, they announced EKS (their Kubernetes service) on Fargate at the same time they announced EKS, even though they've since seemed to have abandoned it; conceptually they live at slightly different levels of the stack.
Well, you can speculate on what number of people would try that, and how many could succeed. It's not hard to go there if nobody else does.
> Libra will afford people the option to invest in and use a token that is backed 1 for 1 to a basket of global currencies and government bonds at a low cost.

That part sounds good to me - tying together the international money and trade system has reduced the threat of war.

But that argument doesn't imply the need for a foreign (or domestic) corporation to administrate your currency.
That's not how math works.
No argument/doubt, Brenden Greene was the guy behind all those in some manner, shape or form.
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> Just remove the sleep(2700).

Such high quality discussion too!
Ask HN:Will internet cost drop when SPACE X satellites start providing internet?
The cost of internet service is mounting while speeds are not improving. A reasonable high-speed intent plan costs $60/month on average. I was thinking if prices would drop when SPACEX satellites start providing internet.
The Government Digital Services platform (UK) is built with Ruby.
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I can't imagine the temperature of that car after sitting in the sun for an hour.
What Makes Dictators Vulnerable?
I hereby nominate posts discussing actual deeds of actual Nazis to be exempt from Godwin's law.
The tap cards are using the same tech as apple and Google pay. So they have really started showing up everywhere all the sudden.

I haven't seen a dollar coin in years. Though maybe because I just don't pay in cash much anywhere.
We don't seem to have used Terraform for everything since day one. Even if we had, we can't migrate to CloudFormation without abandoning our Terraform-created datastores and live-migrating to new ones. (Not that we necessarily want to, at this point.)
The article mentions that taxing fuel was found to be legally problematic.

One assumes the laws preventing taxing fuels were lobbied for by oil companies.
The article is correct only in the sense that that is the purpose of many manufactured microplastics, and the teenager's quote hints at it: "The method used was most effective on fibres obtained from a washing machine and least effective on polypropylene plastics".

I strongly think it's the majority, though I don't have a source, that most microplastics come from wear and other sources. From consumer sources, microplastics come from synthetic fibers and wear from regular plastic products, among others.
It can be done for limited production, but it doesn't fully hide from LIDAR

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/bmw-x6-vantablack-paint-c...
You could also use SIMD instructions, and there are bitwise operator tricks that might be able to mostly avoid branching.
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> > > It’s a “narrow banking” model that would back its deposits with 100 percent reserves, located at what is deemed by nearly everyone as the safest of safe locations —the U.S. central bank

Let's say I'm a country, say, not the U.S. Could you see me having a problem with having my currency backed by a U.S. corporation, who's reserves are held in the U.S. central bank?
trolling Anish Kapoor?
If I were in a position of authority around there, I'd be working to fuel a conspiracy theory that Storm Area 51 was put together by the federal government to provide an excuse to field test Microwave Area Denial systems on actual crowds.
From the CNET article:

>> Typically, the lidar unit can spot things from more than 328 feet away.

>> In this case, the company said the darkest of dark BMWs would need to be about 72 feet away before the lasers and ambient light register the moving black hole.
> How will the reserve be invested? Users of Libra do not receive a return from the reserve. The reserve will be invested in low-risk assets that will yield interest over time. The revenue from this interest will first go to support the operating expenses of the association — to fund investments in the growth and development of the ecosystem, grants to nonprofit and multilateral organizations, engineering research, etc. [0]

If I were a country's finance minister, this single paragraph would be enough to get me to say "no".

This currency generates returns, which we don't see, and we don't control the allocation of. basically, it's slowly bleeding money out of the countries that use it, though accumulation of capital and capital investing.
This is great, but I assume we now have to deal with Blizzard’s always-online DRM shenanigans.

I would like to be able to play games on LAN and not be required to connect to the web all the time.
Andrew Ng's deeplearning.ai, simple but a very solid foundation.
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It wasn't always like that
Nice progress towards making x86 redundant.

Too bad it targets ARM and not rv64gc, but it's a start.

I'm curious why it isn't based on qemu-user.
> Should Starbucks be regulated as a bank because they let you prepay for a cup of coffee?

Yes. Including how the funds in the pre-paid card are managed and invested, and certainly including all the rules about when the user is allowed to reclaim their money.
I'd really like to get my raspberry pi booting in a couple seconds. I have a few ideas for things I'd like to try but the boot time is too long. Don't need X11 but I would like to use raspbian.
Seems like the higher levels are a bit undercompensated compared to other FAANG companies but otherwise pretty average for a company like them
Basically the same as a 99% absorbent black.
Perhaps he means 79% of the cost, rather than 79% by mass or volume.
I'd hope so. Or they could leave it in as an old-school quirk that you have to hack around in order to get the most out of a bleeding-edge vintage home computer. I'm not sure of their intent here?

There's this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg-6Cjzzg8s&t=2082 from his "Building my Dream Computer - Part 2". I'm kind of wondering if David understands the issue, or if he just had problems communicating it to his audience, or if I'm just plain wrong and this clip is just a coincidence?
> Maybe the completion rate is similar for people who buy books.

There's an even lower bar to entry: all the MOOCs I've participated in have been free.