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I've been in the too-awkward position of suggesting a solution "like" one that I have made, knowing already that there is some specific reason why my solution won't ultimately be the one that is accepted. Arguing this way results in a stunted discussion, giving away the foregone conclusion that my specific solution is obviously unsuitable for some reason or other, and is therefore not worthy of our consideration at all. (But we have a lot to learn from it, and we should have this discussion before putting it aside.)

It's better to not go down that rhetorical road. If they haven't heard of your solution, let them evaluate it and come to their own conclusions about whether this specific solution doesn't meet their needs for some reason or other. Don't plant that seed, especially if you would consider it a favorable outcome for your particular solution to be used.

I don't know anything about Taler, but I assume he didn't say "something like GNU Taler" on purpose, for just the same reason that he doesn't work on some other project like Taler, because there's no specific alternative that he can recommend which is at least as good in all ways, from at least his own perspective.

Writing "something like GNU Taler" is almost a suggestion to fork the project, when we haven't even talked about what particular characteristics of Taler would make it a favorable choice, and what benefits. If, in the end, it's better or cheaper for them to build their own whatever it is, better than it would be to work with you on your project, they'll have no trouble coming to that conclusion on their own.
What support do you get by buying a non-open source module?
The Zwiebelfreunde raids were not because of their TOR (hi dewey) activities, but rather they collected donations for the riseup email service.

If the police can convince a judge to raid the board members and their families of registered club just because they, among many other things, collected some donations for an US org, then some overzealous police detective or DA going after some dev who made a webcrawler for the "dark web" and is probably in possession (knowingly or not) or illegal content isn't much of a stretch either.
It is simply a wicked problem, and not the one Crypto is intended to solve.

Crypto is intended to automate the role of the trusted third party. Bitcoin's ledger is much less intelligent than even the dullest central banker, but it has no self-interest. In cases where the trusted third party to a transaction has a reason to abuse their power - see e.g. 2008 bank bailouts - having a transparent algorithm handle that role is a massive savings. The problem of assigning creditworthiness remains, it's just that there is one less party whose trustworthiness needs to be assessed (and compensated). It's not that it solves the creditworthiness problem, but it makes the problem easier for others to solve.
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Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
If someone seemed to not like talking I’d probably do this a few times and then stop. However if someone seems untrustworthy/manipulative in work settings one of my responses is to say incredibly mundane things to them.
> yes we should probably be using t2.small

Go with t3.small. It's cheaper, faster, and you don't have to watch your CPU credits like you do with a t2.
For one project, I agree, it makes no difference.

But if the received wisdom becomes "if you're not rebelling against an oppressive regime, you should only be using 1 hop" then the advice has real harmful effects.
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> Help make the web usable with Javascript deactivated.

I agree with RMS here, in that user privacy is aligned closely with user freedom. I also believe the Internet is losing ground on this point.
For my organization, Lambda has been instrumental in allowing us to take some highly trafficked, small API services, and migrate them from NodeJS based servers that we manage to Lambda and Application Load Balancer that just works with no involvement. We're not relying on the API gateway (which is expensive and better suited for non-public APIs).

Many of these APIs are Ajax type status updates, JWT issuers, authentication handlers and other utilities. We use the serverless framework to deploy the code, and it works very nicely for us.

The hate is real in these comments, but for us we are able to move 500 million+/month API requests with minimal code changes, easy scaling up and down, and we were able to learn a little something about serverless architectures and their viability for other possible things in the future.
Workers are pretty significantly different. They don't have a meaningful cold-start time, for one.
“Quantum supremacy” has been a long-standing term invented by the quantum information science research community for the QIS community many years ago. It wasn’t made recently and settled being “the” term to mean a specific mathematical/empirical result.
Quote from https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

> It is theoretically possible to program in HTML and CSS, but in practice this capability is limited and inconvenient; merely to make it do something is an impressive hack. Such programs ought to be free, but CSS is not a serious problem for users' freedom as of 2019.
i thought it's an open source project
I personally have no problem sleeping on planes, even without artificial aids. I just have empathy for others who are less fortunate, and such issues are not at all "particular" or "unique". Try empathy, and while you're at it try reading comprehension.
I still have a creative commons communist shirt I bought when I saw it on BoingBoing https://boingboing.net/2005/01/06/more-gates-creative.html

They were created in response to Bill Gates comment that people who want to weaken or eliminate intellectual property laws were "some new modern-day sort of communists" https://boingboing.net/2005/01/05/bill-gates-free-cult.html
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See my response to chrisseaton, who seems to have the same issues you do.
How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance
It's interesting how many still seem to (in this thread) believe you either have to run your own Linux servers in your basement or do FaaS (much better word to avoid the confusion), when there are many great in-between options.
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> We have that in the UK, and unfortunately it doesn't work very well.

the problem isn't the model as Japan has the best trains in the world and runs on a similar one.

" As of April 2015, 211 companies and entities were
registered with MLIT as railway operators in Japan.3 A
number of these are involved in multiple activities,
combining operations of both railway and other
transportation services. "

https://www.eubusinessinjapan.eu/sites/default/files/railway...
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Snap can blame Facebook all they want, but what they had was a feature, not a product, and then they alienated their users with the redesign.

Nobody else is to blame for their own stagnation then failing to reimagine their product.

I mean, Snap Spectacles, really?
you can try the interface on sugarizer.org

it really is quite different. it centers around activities (which are apps effectively) but it has no windows, only fullscreen, and you can only open one activity at a time. to open another you have to close the current one.

the state of an app is logged to a journal. to continue work that you did before you go to the journal to pick up the state that you are looking for. by default you get the apps last state, or you can choose to open a new fresh state.

so for example you open the paint activity. first time you get a blank canvas. next time you get your last drawing. or you can select to create a new drawing. or use the journal to pick out an old drawing.
That sounds like the "improve from the inside" argument, e.g. keep your trap shut until you've managed to attain a position power to solve the problem you've got.

Whether or not you feel that is feasible or appropriate is, ultimately, going to require insider knowledge and experience. While I do have some experience with BAH (painfully apathetic[0]), I've never worked for the NSA so I can't say whether that is a plausible alternative to Snowden's action.

[0] - FWIW, we had a number of employees passing out promotional religious literature around the office. I'd raised some concern about it, basically should we be worried about legal trouble, and was told to keep my concerns to myself. Among the reasons I didn't last a month in that circle of hell.
More on the project: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/snapchat-stop-st...
Marketing latches onto that because 1) executives understand front-end use cases better than glue cases; and 2) it's way more profitable.
I think we all know the pros and cons about running Javascript on web pages. But it becomes more and more obvious, that while Javascript gets abused for a lot of bad things, a modern web completely without scripting in web pages isn't feasible either.

Consequently, I consider this as something the GNU project failed to address. Why isn't there an official GNU webbrowser with a reasonable Javascript implementation? One where the browser and the JS engine would be free software and which could be seen as a reasonable platform for a modern web?
If schema needs to be changed in many cases sp interface will stay the same e.g. I can do changes/optimizations to schema without changing the calling code.
Loved this book when I was college age
Strangely enough, I could read this one in private browsing mode, as I habitually use, whereas usually NYT blocks access when using private browsing.
This is more due to bad lawyers not understanding things than gpl itself, especially considering agpl, apache2 etc. Usually because nobody takes the time to explain it to them. Using RedHat as an example tends to be the most productive with legal and the C's in my experience.
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I was surprised to hear that not only is there a known treatment ("methylene blue"[0]) for the condition , but that a smallish hospital like Miriam actually had some on hand.

The wiki page explains that "methylene blue" actually treats a variety of problems.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylene_blue
I prefer to put my head in the oven with the gas on, especially when I am trying to tackle a landslide of difficult problems
Actually, the official term is Onion Services (https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/onion-services.html.en check out the first paragraph)
> ... I'd love to see what you consider exciting!

I mean, in the age of Kubernetes and AWS, having your entire stack running on a single server does sound kinda dull to most people. I rather have the performance and simplicity, though.

> Just a side note, do you all have revenue? This seems very overbuilt for a private beta product.

Yes. All customers on the private beta have a 50% discount, but our profit margin is pretty high, to be honest.

The "Medium" plan, which is where all tests are happening, cost us €215,88 per month, which includes the dedicated server, one IP address for each LXD container, about 700 GB of bandwidth from BunnyCDN and emails by Mailgun.

In that plan, we offer 16 GB of ECC memory and 240 GB of NVMe storage. One of our competitors charge $1500 per month for 200 GB of storage, our price is €599.00 per month.

So even with high-profit margins, our cost is below our competition. Which makes you wonder how much profit they make.

But, of course, none of this account for operational costs, employee costs, SaaS costs and things like premium plugins which are offered by default and CDN bandwidth above 700GB — which realistically speaking, will be higher for some customers.
You're overgeneralizing. The vast majority of people in the military are quite young. A few developed the habit when they were young. None have significant health problems, or they wouldn't still be in the military. It's a bit different when you're dealing with an older, less fit demographic. Consider the fact that your bubble does not represent the whole world.
I find the response is always, "we have limited time and we need to move on."
Not really relevant for the antitrust investigation.
If someone makes an effort to present themselves as extraordinarily competent I’ll start watching them to try and figure out whether it’s true. If they’re extraordinarily competent then there’s not much to conclude. If they’re just normal but exceedingly interested in looking competent, I know they’re self-promoters and not really trustworthy.

If they act normal and are of normal competence, then again there’s not much that you need to think about. If they’re very competent and act normal my guess is they can be trusted to give generally honest assessments of different situations without worrying too much about looking good.
> however, despite other interesting finds in the paper (such as being able to collapse state and read output from multiple qubits at once), claiming quantum supremacy feels to me to be somewhat aggrandising and disingenuous, given what the quantum circuit was actually computing

As the person says, they have been out of the field. For better or for worse, this is the term the field settled on years ago to mean showing that a quantum computer can sample from the Porter-Thomas distribution more quickly than a classical computer, “beyond reasonable doubt.” (What I mean by the last bit is that it must be an empirical demonstration that matches the very well established theory.)

It’s maybe worth repeating: “Quantum supremacy” isn’t some gimmick made up by the authors of this paper. It was used as early as 2012 [0] by John Preskill, a well known scientist in the field. It has well-defined meaning in the research community: a specific experimental verification of a mathematical result which shows plausible rejection of the extended Church-Turing thesis.

This result may not seem like much to the average reader, but—provided it passes the muster of peer review—it’s a huge step of progress in the development of quantum computers.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.5813
Lambdas @ edge don’t either. There are different optimizations than regular lambdas and you wouldn’t use a heavyweight environment and of course they wouldn’t be running attached to a network.
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Disney's Bob Iger walked away from a Twitter purchase because of “nastiness”
> then the small interactive interactions you can make them in JS

With JS enabled any site could potentially run non-free code so this has no benefits. As far as I can tell the proposed solution wasn't to develop some tech that ensures (somehow) that all functionality JS provides is transferred to something "free-only" but rather to give up that functionality entirely. That's not a solution, that's just running away from the problem.
They also have those auto-updating e-ink price tags on everything.
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I feel like that would be an ideal situation.
Nice work.

Hopefully this doesn't get flagged to death by bots on here, as is often the case for a story with climate in the title (particularly if it hits the front page). That would be far too ironic.
The article is about Facebook copying features and draws a connection to Snaps subsequent downfall.

I’m claiming the downfall was inevitable (no product, bad redesign, those useless spectacles), and once again Facebook is the scapegoat in all this.
Tinder Created a Show to Give Its Users Something to Hook Up About
Shoulda just FaceTime'd...
You sure that's not just for GPL? I worked at a place that had a strict no-GPL policy due to the legal risks of non-compliance. LGPL and MIT software was fine though.
The paper argues the opposite explicitly. From the abstract: "Rather, the evidence shows that the strongest predictors of cross-national variation in entrepreneurial activity were normative, with social norms being the most strongly associated with entrepreneurialism and rates of organizational founding."
So, for several years the actual efficacy of antidepressants has been called into question. There's lots of reasons for this, some related to the general replicability crisis, but in general it followed from reanalyses of datasets suggesting the efficacy of antidepressants is significantly lower than previously thought, and some might not have any efficacy at all.

At the same time, there's been acknowledgment that the forms of illness encountered in reality don't really map on well to diagnostic categories. So rather than major depression and generalized anxiety disorder, it's more like there are levels of general distress, and specific problems with low positive emotion, or high negative emotion, or arousal. This has contributed to things like the NIH RDoC initiative.

These two things have sort of combined to lead to a lot of questions about what antidepressants are actually doing, in terms of how it's affecting dimensions of mood and other areas of functioning, thought of in a more detailed way. So in this study rather than targeting a specific diagnostic population, they did a randomized controlled trial of a heterogeneous group of patients, and then assessed antidepressant effects on distress and well-being in a more detailed, comprehensive way than the typical diagnostic assessment.

The results aren't really surprising but are interesting to think about in the context of these issues. For instance, it's not surprising that antidepressant effects might manifest in well-being or anxiety measures, because general anxiety and depression measures can be correlated as high as .8 or .9, and well-being, while less correlated, still tends to tag along. From a replicability standpoint it raises some interesting issues because there's sort of a "fishing expedition" given all the measures, even though things were preregistered, which is worth some discussion, but the effects are all in the anticipated direction even if not significant, raising the question of whether or not p-values really are the most important thing in general.

Overall the study is one piece, but it fits together with a more general body of evidence suggesting that antidepressants are really fuzzy in their effects, and might better be thought of as "antidistress" agents, or as having a general calming effect. Not mind-blowing, but does contradict the way the meds are typically portrayed in public discussion.
I've always thought that a natural 'friend library' for libargs or libopts could be produced which parses the args and creates a dynamic gui from it .. but now I look at this and wonder, why hasn't someone done this already? It seems like obvious low-hanging fruit ..
Something I wonder is whether productized software needs to exist as an industry in its own right. Maybe it is enough for software to be incidentally produced in the course of other industries. The Linux kernel is today developed mostly by those with a commercial interest in using and supporting it, such as Intel, Google, Samsung and IBM. LLVM is supported largely by Apple; Go by Google; React by Facebook.

Comparatively, science and mathematics, which software is arguably conceptually closer to, haven't ended as human endeavours for want of direct commercial exploitation.
> Lambda can often actually add to development time because it takes more work to test locally and remote testing adds significant time to the write/test cycle.

This has not been my experience at all. Maybe because I have a lot of experience with Lambda, but I find them to be a very fast way to get code written and running.

Granted, Lambda is a great tool for a specific category of task. Namely, when you need to programmatically respond to some event which was triggered by another AWS service and can do so in under 5 minutes. But it's poorly suited for tasks outside of that domain. In that sense, it's like Bash: you don't want to do everything with it, but there are situations where it's the best tool.
It's a good sign that people who only talk about FaaS when they say "serverless" didn't understand serverless at all. And I see this as a failure on the serverless proponents side.

The serverless proponents are selling their paradigm as simple solution, which leads many people to believe simple means FaaS.

Throwing Lambda on all backend problems is a setup for failure. Often transfer and simple transform of data can be done serverless without a Lambda, which cuts costs AND leads to better performance.
Ask HN: Do you have a personal email archiving solution?
I've sorely regretted not having an email archiving solution for my personal inboxes. I've been fired from jobs, closed down startups, or graduated from school, and then regretted not being able to reference old emails in those inboxes.

Ease-of-use is paramount. Before I build a quick "bcc-to-ElasticSearch" tool myself, I'd like to know if anyone knows of a self-hosted tool for personal email archive. Fast search would be a huge plus.
I don't know about other Americans, but for me it's because you can't give unexpected answers to such questions even if they are true. Instead you're just playing out a culturally mandated script.
Highly recommend reading The Gervais Principle by Venkatesh Rao for a more in-depth discussion of office talk, and much more.
quantum tunneling
He probably Carmack'ed a hack.
Commentator appears to have a layman's understanding of quantum mechanics.
Atoms spin backward while flying along a surface
Devil’s Advocate - it’s not their job to educate themselves about the vagrancies of open source, it’s the developer’s (or more accurately tech lead’s) job to educate them about the particulars of a project, to prove that the project is healthy with good support today and will be healthy with good support tomorrow.

Without those assurances, and without investigating the project myself, I’d probably turn it down too.
I don't find this so surprising really. Serverless removes a significant amount of initial work and ongoing maintenance. No server, no patches, no initial setup, no lots-of-things. Seems like a premium offering with premium pricing.

I also don't find it the least bit surprising that a semi-cold box in a data center can't accept a request, associate it my my account, spin up a worker thread with my stack and service my request in the same time as a box running my stack with a pool of ready worker threads.

It's nice to see someone put some real metrics on it though.
I like your approach and in general I do the same. But some interrupters just never learn.

So in some cases when the interrupter keeps interrupting I simply ask him/her: "Can I finish my sentence?" In this case whatever the interrupter does it's too late for him, because it becomes obvious that his way of communication is not welcome and he was not even aware of this fact (i.e. he lacks self-awareness), and learning self-awareness in a group setting this way makes wonders.

Also I guess you make small refactors instead of reactors :)
A support contract, typically. Few people sell code alone. They sell code plus a contract to support that code.

Support contracts can be very lucrative.
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