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Having played around with XL, Tao3D and Elfe, I have to say there was/is a lot of fun to be had and some very compelling concepts and unique ideas in these projects. Its great to see them mentioned on HN. I found the parse tree approach very educational and its a very nice and powerful alternative to S-expressions. Tao3D was an very quick way to build simple interactive graphics apps and a lot of fun. ELFE has some interesting concepts for distributed computing. While I ended up using Erlang and LISP rather than ELFE it was defintely eye opening in a good way and reminded me of the fun and creativity to be had - - so a huge thank you for the past projects and good luck with the next evolution.
Global health club market is 87 billion based on, err, googling. How much would that market benefit from highly targeted advertising? Only Google knows that: but you can take a guess from the money they paid for Fitbit.
Someone needs to stop them because they can sell any business that benefits from target advertising better than its current owners.
The purchase itself is Monopoly abuse.
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Wow, pretty much everything that article suggests are the very things that drive me away from websites.
Uh, yeah? A common rule in IT is 3-2-1 backups.

3 copies

2 different devices or medias

1 offsite

If your data isn't that important, then don't.

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Totally get what you're saying, have known people like that. But then it begs the question -- end up in a better place for what reason? If being "in a better place" wasn't going to improve how he felt internally, why bother? I think its hard for us normies to understand people like that, because its so obvious how it would be "better" to have more money, stability, etc, but perhaps the definition of enlightenment is to be truly happy regardless of circumstance. If that's the case, is there really a reason to do those things (if it truly won't change your internal state in any way)?

Like if you knew that no job or money you made would ever lead to any fulfillment of any kind, and you would be equally happy without the job / money, would you still do it, just because its a "better situation" (how we define better is again tricky here)...

This is extreme, but there's an old zen koan about a teacher who tells his servant to leave him alone while he drinks tea, as his house burns down. He then walks back to see it burned down, and no one can understand why he did that, and he says something like "I was enjoying my tea". The house was as meaningless as if someone had said "if you don't come quick a leaf will blow off your patio" -- totally meaningless and of no impact to your present mood.
Except in China where it will simply be:

Fit -> We know where you are -> We're gonna make you into mush with tanks. Thanks for the help, Google.
Psychedelic medicines allow people to attempt to heal themselves. Individual-driven intervention is not utopian.
Even a "link changed" or a cross symbol or any kind of indicator would be nice!
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Thanks, saw it in my lecture notes a while ago and figured it was a formatting error...
The thing is that you can't make a point in two paragraphs. You can state something, but it leaves room for all sorts of interpretations.

I cover all these points in the book. But just to be clear this isn't just about China as the bad guy--the US is in the same direction.

I agree on your point about that in the past democracies ended up winning. But today we're seeing that the technological disruption is killing the very essence that makes democratic society democratic. The fact is that liberal democracies have to evolve or Data Dictatorships are going to take over.
dang, it's not name-calling to call concentration camps what they are. ICE literally runs concentration camps. There's no exaggeration, trolling, or flame-warring involved in saying so.

It's simply the same way that it's not libelous to call someone who committed murder a "murderer"--because they earned the title when they committed the murder.
Big companies already have the HR staff to deal with health insurance. It’s in their interest to keep health insurance tied up with employment, as it gives them an advantage over small business and individuals, because individuals who work for small businesses that don’t offer health insurance have to pay for it with post tax dollars.
We often hear the complaint here that nobody cares / cared about Snowden's revelations. But to me it seems he did provide a lot of the impetus for having HTTPS virtually everywhere and a lot of the instant messenging apps being end-to-end encrypted. Most of WhatsApp's users are as non-technical as it gets, and yet they use the kind of encryption that only computer enthusiasts were interested in just a couple years ago. It's a great development (all the limitations and caveats notwithstanding) IMO.
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This has the potential to be a very beautiful thing. It seems like companies want us to focus on becoming as private as possible because less info we freely release, the more valuable it is to them. I'm a firm believer that privacy will be a hot topic of the past one day for the benefit of us all. I understand something like that would be a long way off, requiring massive cultural shifts, but a boy can dream.

That said, the signup process for this is horrible, all the micro videos and all.
The Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro are each better because the other exists. I think Apple users should be especially happy when Google enters the game.
In the world of international relations, there really are no good guys.

But in a world where everyone is a bad guy, hypocrisy can be forgiven, since it keeps other bad guys in check despite its self-serving intent. Hypocrisy, whether European, Russian, American or Chinese, keeps the peace.
I have used the Apple Watch to do all of the above (some with 3rd party apps), but it does need an iPhone to work properly, so it could be a non-starter for some.
That's actually kind of worse, though, isn't it? They can track it end-to-end, they just refuse to make the extra effort unless forced?
Yes, that's very much what the video goes into. For any rational approximation of 2 pi, say 22/7, you won't get lines at multiples of 2 or multiples of 11.
I have 3 issues with it

1) Don't use an iPhone
2) Battery life too less (my versa lasts me 4+ days)
3) Too expensive. I bought my versa a month after launch for $150 and my wife's for $90 (albeit a holiday deal). They also just work without an issue and I don't imagine paying significantly more than that on another wearable.
When I said name-calling I was referring to words like vile and cynic.

Words like concentration camp seem to me in a different category. They aren't necessarily name-calling, but they do have dual semantics: a factual aspect and a pejorative one. If all a comment does is repeat those words and add additional pejoratives, that's not a substantive comment by HN standards.

Repeating pejoratives very much feels like "saying what something is" or "naming things as they are". But it feels like exactly the opposite of that to others, who then feel justified in escalating. That is the dynamic of flamewar, not conversation. We can't have both, and HN threads are supposed to be conversations.
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The Federal Government may not like this but this is heading to as it should be. Sometimes the government needs to be saved from itself!
For me, I primarily think about stability:

Python/Go/JS/C -> runtime crashes due to type errors and/or data races

Rust -> no runtime crashes due to type errors/data races
Many fields are shallow.

But this really boils down to a distrust of intellectualism, and the idea that Joe Sixpack's off-the-shelf opinion is more valid than the opinion of someone who actually studies the subject seriously - that the real student is merely an elitist snob who uses their study to lord over the cretins. Sigh.
Hello world being 50MB might be one.
Do iOS or Android have any requirements vis a vis HSTS or HPKP?
Could you give some examples of the outward practices? As it is, your comment require the reader to have the same mindset as you, which will not give the variety of perspectives you’re probably looking for.
So if we stopped using pesticides tomorrow things would recover very quickly. Pesticides are destroyed by exposure to UV radiation and weathering very quickly, that is why farmers have to keep applying them over and over. They don't generally persist in the environment or in living things for more than a few days or weeks, with the exception of biological reservoirs where the few types that can accumulate in living things might last for months (and these types are not common, this is why DDT was banned in the first place). If we stop dumping massive amounts of CO2 into the air tomorrow the Earth will continue to warm for hundreds of years.

It's clearly much, much more important to deal with CO2.
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> Apple-designed H1 chip employs 10 audio cores, creating incredibly low audio processing latency that enables real-time noise cancellation
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Your concerns seem to revolve around right wing causes. To balance that out, I would encourage you to look into Noam Chomsky who has been talking about de facto corporate censorship from a left wing perspective for many decades.
Easy, there's a double standard here: Chinese companies can buy US companies but not the other way around.
Dominates? I don’t even know what means. It’s an economic system. What is the other 20% exactly?
> Amazon is doing exactly what we've been asking them to do for ages -- policing their marketplace against counterfeit products

Banning the 3rd party sale of an entire category of product to defend against counterfeiters is like cutting off your arm to prevent paper-cuts. This is a lazy way to combat counterfeit products that will not scale to every other product they sell. What they should be doing is making more of an effort to identify and remove bad sellers across their platform but tracking complaints, vetting sellers, and identifying scammers takes actual work on their part.
Are neonics known/suspected as a cause as to why mosquito and insect populations are down so much in the US?
What are some good FitBit alternatives?
A church as a tax-dodge is not a new thing.
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Yeah, latest upodate on GKE:

> Google Kubernetes Engine - Cluster operations including creation, update, auto scaling may have failed due to the networking API failures mentioned under Google Compute Engine - New Cluster operations are now succeeding and further updates on recovering from this are underway as part of the mitigation mentioned under Google Compute Engine. No further updates will be provided for Google Kubernetes Engine in this post.
That's all true. But at some point if you really need to avoid GC, you end up writing in a subset of C# that is so limited, it's really just C.

Most people don't have those kinds of performance considerations. I use C# for soft realtime all the time, but in the instances when I have done actual realtime embedded work, I just used C.
This one worked well for me: https://github.com/Angristan/OpenVPN-install .
> While that is correct, I'd argue that the military value lies more in force projection than actual force itself. Sure it's predicted that if the US were to enter into a proper engagement with either China or Russia that every carrier on the seven seas would be under water within a few hours.

> Within those few hours however those carrier groups could deal a good bit of damage.

I just don't buy this argument.

1. As you admit, carriers are really only good against poor nations. But lots of ships are good against poor nations: patrol boats, destroyers, etc. These other ships are _way_ less expensive to build and operate.

Ultimately, air power just isn't very useful against most of the US's modern adversaries. Yes - air power can destroy targets, but that just doesn't seem to have much of a long term positive political effect.

2. I'm not convinced that carriers can do much damage in a suicide strike. Non-NATO countries have been very busy over the last few decades creating really good SAMs. The S-400 is a great example of this - much more effective than the patriot. Russia has been pretty aggressive about giving their military systems a chance to be tested in combat zones.

I'm sure someone will talk about 5th gen fighters and how great their stealth is. Maybe. But the SAMs are getting much better at penetrating that stealth by using sophisticated integrated anti-air systems, and by using a broad spectrum of radar. They may not be there yet, but in 10-15 years? It's at least an open question.

3. I don't think they'd get even 1 hour. The modern space race has widely dispersed the technology for creating ballistic missiles. There is no effective defense against them.
After having looked at it for a long time, I'm convinced that "institutionalized corruption" is a pleasing myth with no grounding in reality.

Money in politics flows to candidates who already agree with those who control the money. It doesn't go to change the minds of those who disagree.
Positioning it as a tanker is a smart move. Taking on the least glamorous job helps keeping the scope down, lower expectations, provide value from day 1. It's what they should have aimed for in the first place.
> Returned it and just bought it locally instead. Amazon is pretty much a wasteland for collectors. Ebay is far better and more reliable overall.

And also, somehow, much lower-priced for the most part.

For out-of-print but popular and relatively recent toys and books, I've often found things for half the price or less on eBay than what Amazon is pushing. Now that Buy It Now is common and I don't have to mess with the auction system, it's my first choice for stuff like that.
Stay for another 15 years dude and then 'retire'
Interesting, didn't know that. That trend is a bit sad then as I've been quite enjoying the interactive ASN.1 viewer when developing rcgen, an asn.1 library: https://lapo.it/asn1js/
Latest update on GCE:

> Google Compute Engine - Networking-related Compute API operations pending to complete if submitted during the above time. - Resubmitting similar requests may fail as they are waiting for the above operations to complete. - The affected operations include: deleting backend services, subnets, instance groups, routes and firewall rules. - Some operations may still show as pending and are being mitigated at this time. We are currently working to address operations around subnet deletion as our next target group
> If the median white American man understood this, he would understand that he is siding with the wrong people.

I'm sorry, what groups are you saying actually support the "median white American man"?
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I think you're too worried about that. I saw plenty of weird fetish shit on forums in my teens and I think I turned out okay, plus a preparedness to accept the breadth of weirdness in humanity. The main thing you should care about is teaching your daughter to recognize clickbait and worthless content.
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What are you talking about about? I think you better look up how https/tls works??? Sure you have to trust the certificate authority. Also can you imagine the scandal that would erupt if Google or AWS cloud was discovered to be eavesdropping on companies running things in their cloud? I don't think so.
That is not a compelling argument. Yes, tests are important. However tests also require maintenance, so they are debt just your like dependencies. If writing my own build and HTTP service requires a few tests I would happily take that over failing for weeks with hundreds of megs of extraneous code that doesn't work.

Honestly, I think people justify this nonsense to themselves because they are scared to write original code, even if its incredibly tiny. The primary purpose of writing software is automation, if you aren't automating things with everything you write you are probably just an expense center. This is the financial way to say that your misplaced objectives make you unproductive and/or unreliable. It doesn't have to be that way.
This is a completely ridiculous title change, doesn't match the article title, and totally obfuscates the relevance of the article.
Err. I made a typo. You're correct. Non-REM deep sleep comes first and REM comes second.

https://youtu.be/bEbtf7uS6P8?t=6790
Through the years I have noticed that (most) permanent employees build a bubble around them. They stop working for the end-customer but they end up working for themselves. Create a comfort zone and then build amoat with crocodiles around it. Some people (like the author) wake up from this slumber and change this. The £€¥$ may be good, but work stops being excited. I used to change companies every 4-5 years just because of that. After the 1st-2nd promotion you are part of the "political" landscape and need to join a clique or another.

(Imho) 7 years is a long time to be working on the same topic, in the same company, moving only vertically.
You're not wrong, but the realistic alternative is having it the same way, just without any encryption.
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Hey -- I tried a few emails to matt@ several months ago and never heard a response (even to reject me). Is this a functional email address?
>Do you think that Apple is a good example of what to do?

For certain purposes and audiences, yes.
The market is no longer free when China is involved. They'll gobble American market share (and use that market share to further their political goals) while completely blocking out American companies from the Chinese market.

Nobody would care if TikTok were Taiwanese or South Korean.
Speaking of, has anyone tried working with Rucene [1], the Lucene port to Rust?

[1] https://github.com/zhihu/rucene
Product Dork? Death by a terrible name.