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> Boats have been carrying waterproof paper maps for decades

I didn't argue that they weren't waterproof. I laminate all my maps. I know they can be waterproof.

> You do not need extra equipment to read in the dark

Fundamentally, you're going to need a torch or image intensification on occasion. There can be not enough moonlight to read a map to any extent.

> If you use paper maps for any period of time, folding them becomes second nature

Yes that's what I argued was a benefit of them - that they can be folded easily.

> On boats, navigational maps are rolled and there is dedicated space for unrolling them

Yes that's what I argued was a benefit of them - that they can be displayed on a table.

> Not all maps are used in the backcountry.

Yes, I argued an advantage is being able to put them on the wall.

> I feel like this post was written by someone who grew up in a post google maps world.

I've spent hundreds of days operating by map alone all around the world. So, no.

I feel like you read my comment and somehow got the opposite understanding of every aspect. I was arguing that paper is better, and you've come in said no actually paper is better?
Look I'm not arguing about which CPU is better. I'm arguing that taking the geometric mean of a bunch of completely unrelated benchmarks doesn't make any sense. There are clearly workloads in this very article where a cheaper part is better, sometimes even a cheaper AMD part.
Then Amazon shouldn't call it the AWS Partner Network. They chose that name themselves.
Another thing that isn’t lasting so well with wind turbines apparently are the blades. Their leading edges get seriously chewed up by tiny particles in the air (salt, dust, etc).
The airline industry has already been massively disrupted by innovative startups and new investment. Startups have drastically changed the business of selling flights and travel services to consumers, the rise of budget airlines has completely changed the competitive landscape of that industry, and there’s countless ways that outside innovations have found their way into the supply chains of the big players.
I also bought this one because I wanted a passive solution. Temperature looks fine (45°C in Idle). Although I think there are different versions and some of them don't fit perfectly on the RPi4. I got mine from amazon and it cools the three most important chips but the position where it touches the chips isn't perfect.
That's mostly a result of databases (kinda) converging, SQL being a declarative language and it primarily being a wrapper around relational algebra, with a bunch of flags. And of course, it's a very direct interface to the RDBMS, and you're just migrating between systems that try very hard to have the same interface.

As a language however, it's a whole lot of nonsense. Extremely inconsistent syntax, stuffing a trinary logic into a boolean system, a standard that gets extended arbitrarily, and even the tooling ecosystem is a fair bit pathetic (the lack of formatters particularly annoy me; everyone tries to support SQLs generally, and end up missing every extended feature.. if it's not a simple select query/ddl, you're not getting a decent format output)

And it most certainly is a whole lot of fuss to migrate unless your database is tiny, or you didn't actually utilize the DB except as a dumb datastore (eg you relied solely on your ORM + indexes); there's a reason no good translator exists, and those that exist only support a very limited subset of any particular SQL variant, despite programming languages having a whole array of transpilers; it's simply not at all a simple language, and the variants only superficially look the same.
Uber is all of the above. Some people are middle class folks selling car depreciation at a loss. As rates drop there are fewer of these folks.

A lot of these guys now are subcontractors in my area. Drivers frequently don’t match the picture and the standards for the cars drop. My final Uber ride was a male driver (expecting a female) in a 2006/7 Odyessy that was beat to shit.

I used to do work in systems for motor carrier regulation and its likely that the car and driver were unsuitable for passenger service. I had to get to the airport, but I deleted the app immediately afterwards.
JFC, this tribalism in the cryptocurrency space is harming adoption. "Shitcoin"? Please grow up..
This would be anecdotal, and caused massive stir in the community when it was realized.
After logging out of my google account, I was horrified to see "articles for you" contains some of the worst clickbait I've seen. Of course it goes away after you log in and they realize it won't appeal to your profile. This garbage content is being distributed without context every single time the average layman opens chrome to perform a google search on their phone.

I cannot believe nobody has called Google out for this yet. To me, this seems far more dangerous than clickbait on Facebook--where you can at least add a comment and let grandma know the article she posted is fake.

Worse yet, I suspect they highly favor AMP content in articles for you.
I just switched to iPhone after 10 years, and have to say I love it so far.

For me Apple Watch is the star, the battery life is a bit short but it can do everything I need in a wearable device (calendar, notifications, chat) and nothing I don't need which is a bonus.

I would buy a cheaper phone and get the best watch, but your use case might be very different.
Google’s rollout of RCS chat for all Android users in the US begins today
> but to me it seems that you can jump in and out of employment with Uber & Lyft quite easily, to the point that it does seem more like contract work

You can't really look at one aspect of it and make a determination, it's based on several factors. The main ones that come up in this scenario are if the contractor/employee can set their own rates, and how closely management monitors how they do their job. Flexibility of employment - either in terms of scheduling or to take periods of time off - is not considered.
The Pi 3 has the same thermal throttling issue as the 4, and the 4's performance under throttled conditions is much higher.

Though IMO even calling it an issue is overblown, most phones and laptops cannot maintain their peak clocks under load for extended periods of time either. Intel calls it turbo boost so it's a feature instead of a bug.
How much is it a issue of chargebacks?
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It's supposed to be called government. Public banking (like what California has recently approved) should be the answer for legal and under-banked.
A quick search suggests that's not true.

>Our feline friends carry broken versions of the genes that build sugar detectors on the tongue. As such, they’re completely oblivious to the taste of sweet things.
So are Asian otters. And spotted hyenas. Sea lions and dolphins too.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2012/03...
Without the consumer market (read: games), CPUs probably would have evolved slower, too.
Behold the tremendous amount of effort for Mercurial:

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/log?rev=py3&revcount=2...

They've been porting hg into Python 3 for the last 10 years and are only now nearing completion.

I've written a bit more about this in Lobsters:

https://lobste.rs/s/3vkmm8/why_i_can_t_remove_python_2_from_...
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hey — i'm a journalist at the New York Times. I'd like to chat more about this with you if you're interested. you can reach me at charlie.warzel@nytimes.com or via protonmail cwarzel@protonmail.com
They really should have used the breaking nature of v3 to drop features that prevented good JIT implementations or speedups in cpython.
Nuclear fission would obviously be the sure thing. (As opposed to fusion.)
Membrane in a minute: Singapore scientists produce in-vitro human skin
Isn't this making the point of why folks want a multi-cloud capable solution?
The problem I think is they typically try to go ahead and reinvent the entire RDBMS as well.

It's not clear to me why postgres hasn't simply grown a whole array of frontends..
Free speech? Corporations can set their own rules!!! The same thing they say to stop the evil nazees.
The article's opening sentence: "Any positive number can be found at the beginning of a factorial..." is a strong statement but no proof is given.

Missing: "... with high probability, and supported by analysis of the digits of factorials from 1 to 10,000"

The work by Diaconis mentioned but not cited:
[0] https://statweb.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/digits.pdf - The distribution of leading digits ad uniform distribution mod 1 - Persi Diaconis

The sequence:
[1] https://oeis.org/A076219 - Smallest positive integer m such that m! begins with n in base 10 ::
1, 2, 9, 8, 7, 3, 6, 14, 96, 27, 22, 5, 15, 42, 25, 89, 69, 76, 63, 16, 87, 113, 54, ...
I think the last time consumers were swarming AMD for their CPUs was Athlon 64 X2 around 2005.
> Who does, so that that "map reading at night while maintaining night vision adaptation" to be a real non-outlier concern?

Anyone doing alpine climbing will at some point start in the dark and/or return in the dark.
US PayPal is not a bank. They don't actually perform money transfers between individuals. You pay PayPal and they disburse it to your designee. There are two transactions involved.
> It's criticized because it's useless for this use case, people involved in this scene in practice don't care about it to any serious degree beyond it being a talking point

This is demonstrably false in the amateur porn industry.
How do you use that with a GPIO cable?
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Thats the thing, even if you get the technique down right, then the system has to be engineered to transduce that energy and other product into something we can use. such as mechanical motion or electromagnetic generation/propulsion, or harvesting products such as isotopic helium.
Marijuana is separate from the deplatforming in the traditional sense because federal banking laws and the DEA's stubborn Schedule 1 tautology when it clearly has medical uses are to blame as opposed to uncooerced choices.
That stance is pretty clear when you take into consideration data egress costs, which are pretty high and makes cross-cloud deployments usually more expensive than using the AWS alternatives.
Having recently built a picade with a Pi4 and ran it in a cool room for around 2 hours, the device kept crashing when playing various emulators. After the final crash, it didn't start up again. Opening up the back was like opening the door to an oven and the Pi4 was just steaming. Nothing was obviously melted, but it didn't work again :(
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Okay.

Name an internet company that neither directly participates in gathering, selling, analyzing user data, nor stands in explicit opposition to it. Nor uses such services that do this.

The fact is? Even traditional retailers are getting in on this game - starting with grocers and their "discount" cards. Then there's store credit cards.

You'll find capitalist firms also exist to aggregate this data into a clear Capitalist analog to the Chinese "Social Credit" system. I was about to point to an example... But you seem like the type who might enjoy the free advertising.

Just because the initial goal isnt to elicit compliance to a repressive government regime? Doesnt mean government is the only source of repression. And this also doesnt stop repressive governments from subpoena-ing the data as well.
That which is optimal for one state is not necessarily optimal for all states, but some powerful people wouldn't benefit from a reoptimization, so it won't happen.
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My guess is yes. In Valis quite a bit is made of the play on words with Phillip meaning horse-lover. So Phillip K Dick = Horsedick (though that's not the sense it's used in Valis).
> It doesn’t actually break code, it just wraps it on mobile devices differently.

I meant it breaks the flow of the code by inserting line breaks.

> Make your window bigger (80 chars) if you want to see full lines. For mobile it’s still more readable than horizontal scrolling code.

Not all code uses 80 as the standard, many use 100 instead. Regardless, it is not at all true that wrapping is more readable than horizontal scrolling. Wrapping doesn't obey the indentation of the surrounding context.
Europe Opens Second Front for Domestic HPC Processors
The article title and contents appear to be intentionally inflammatory: "AWS forbids partners even mentioning multi-cloud!" Except that's not true. A more accurate title would be "AWS won't participate in co-branded marketing campaigns that promote competing clouds".

I'm not an expert on this topic, and have no familiarity with the co-branding guide beyond having just read it, but it appears to describe the conditions for AWS and other companies to work together on a co-branded marketing campaign. From the guide:

> Co-branding occurs when AWS and an APN Partner ... agree to work together to achieve a shared marketing goal.

I see no restrictions on partners having or advertising multi-cloud solutions on their own. The guide just says that AWS isn't willing to participate in marketing campaigns that mention them. Here is the entire relevant section:

> APN Partners should not promote the use of their solutions on other cloud platforms in joint marketing activities or in high-visibility assets used at our events ... The focus of these assets and campaigns should be on customer success with AWS Cloud. If you prefer not to reference AWS specifically, you may reference "the cloud" or "your cloud". Booth collateral, such as data sheets, flyers, and whitepapers may reference all the specific cloud platforms that the APN Partner's solution runs on. [emphasis mine]

Thus the article seems to misconstrue the issue, and the truth seems to be merely that AWS isn't willing to participate in marketing campaigns that promote competitors.
They also have shift work husbands and are more likely to have a female spouse at home when kids are young. Pension systems make it very difficult to get out of the job after a few years.

If you go to a police or fire station and ask, easily 30% of the wives are nurses, as it’s a job with super flexible schedules. MLM gets pitched as a way to make some extra dollars.
Boy, terraform is one of my favorite tools, looks like they are pretty fked from a quick google search of the relevant terms.
The syntax of a language is an abstraction over what is actually going on under the hood. There's no reason python couldn't have designed their OOP abstraction more elegantly.
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It works fine with every kind of drawing implement I have tried:

* pencil
* charcoal
* ball-point (needs additional weight on the pen)
* roller-ball
* felt-tip
* fibre-tip

It draws so slowly that there's no issue about waiting for the ink to dry.

But what I like best is soft pencil on slightly textured paper.

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Most Android OEMs stop updating their phones after 2 years, no? That's not a problem exclusive to Motorola.
As much a yc attracts "smart" people, they are usually plagued with a lack of wisdom.

You only need to venture to yourbrainonporn.com to meet your rationalization's end. At least if you can read english.
Uber is legally limousine service, not cab service. i.e. hired not flagged on the street.
> these translations are still useful as a starting point, not a destination.

This was the case for the Go compiler (automatic translation from C to Go), and it has worked out well in practice. There are still some vestiges, but it's moving more and more toward idiomatic Go all the time.
I dunno. A few other leaders-for-life like Mugabe, dos Santos, Zuma all stepped down due to popular pressure. Morals had the Supreme Court rule that the term limits in the constitution violated his human rights to seek a fourth term ! (He had the excuse previously that the new term limits reset the number of terms he had served!)
The policy was listed on their website and confirmed by a customer service representative. Just because they saw the error of their ways after being contacted by the press doesn't mean they didn't actually have the woeful password policy in the first place. There's no evidence anywhere that "someone at the bank made an error", in fact it says right there in the same quote that you quoted that the bank "decided not to suggest anymore to our clients to do so".

Your other claim is also false! Just because it costs something for the bank to physically mail a new password doesn't mean that they weren't in fact charging their users a fee to change their passwords--they were! Just because you feel that the fee was justified doesn't mean that they weren't charging a fee.

To conclude, everything described in the article was completely true, and everything you claim is completely false.
> Almost no one thinks this way

You would hope. But don't you remember the huge backlash from Demore's memo? Many people (or at least a very very vocal population) do think this way, unfortunately.

So no, not a strawman.
DHS Awards $199K for Blockchain Credential Lifecycle Management
The easiest way to do that is K8.

Though that is only a good solution for a large enough org.
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The "firearms industry" is a subset of the "arms industry." "Firearms" are rifles, pistols, and shotguns. "Arms" include those, plus tanks, fighter jets, artillery, nuclear weapons, etc.
One need only look at the STDs impacting each profession to clearly see models != sex slaves (uh I mean "workers" uh i mean human trafficking)
And the article states clearly: "[the Core i9-9900KS] does pull out ahead in a number of ST tests as well as in low resolution (CPU-bound) gaming."

Regarding the geomean, they clearly state that their benchmarks prioritize multi-core benchmarks: "This metric also puts the 3900X above the 9900KS, because despite the 5.0 GHz all-core on 8-cores, moving to 12-core and 16-core at almost the same performance per core gives more of an advantage in our test suite's MT-heavy workloads."

They're not hiding behind anything. Everything is clearly stated.
This article lost me at "printing money does not cause inflation." How would that be possible? The only answer would be that money is increasing in value for some reason, and the government must print more to keep prices stable (otherwise they would fall). Even then, it would be a technicality.
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There's now a literal shitcoin to track San Francisco street poop
DJI Drones to Warn They're Near by Sending Wi-Fi Signals to Phones
Could a Real Men’s Movement Be a Good Thing?
Coinbase has essentially become another bank. They go well beyond KYC requirements and have banned people for things they don't like.
My old cat was obsessed with margaritas. It made zero sense.

One time I caught him licking a counter that I had just sprayed with a bitter lime deterrent.

Cats are weird.
> There seems to be an inherent assumption that running your own services necessitates taking care of maintenance yourself.

An assumption that should be challenged. You can run your own chat server, with end-to-end encryption, thanks to the work being done by Matrix. Check out https://modular.im (I use them and am quite happy with it.)
Even this depends. In DC political affiliation is a protected class.

https://ohr.dc.gov/protectedtraits
I am a regular 99PI listener and enjoyed this episode, but I was also a little disappointed that they never discussed Sim City's notorious "Reticulating Splines"[1] type loading messages that date back to the early 1990s.

[1] - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=reticulating...
Note that the question is not "Shall we support Unicode?". Clearly we should.

The question is rather whether it would have been better to gradually improve support for it in a Python2-esque way, rather than creating a discontinuity and a raft of new problems, some of which linger to this day.

Also, for many purposes, there is wide agreement that ASCII is still the way to go. Even if Americans vanished tomorrow, the majority of remaining programmers in the world would prefer to look at source code in English, which they already know, rather than a host of other languages, most of which they don't.
Looks like somebody spotted the black helicopters flying over their house.
In case anyone else was curious, Bedford's Law is apparently just a fancy name for the phenomenon where 1's appear much more frequently than 9's in any random sample of numbers. I think Bernie Madoff got caught faking the books due to the distributions not being shaped like Bedford's Law.
Pornography is a symptom of the commodification of sex, much like legal prostitution, sugar-daddies, and even the transactional swiping hookup apps that dominate dating among lower age groups. It is the tendency of a capital-dominated culture to turn everything into a commodity that is bought and sold; sex is merely one element that this system has consumed. After the wide acceptance of the birth control pill, the trend has been for women to take the same career and life path as men. Women no longer need long term relationships for sex or material needs; sex in the age of the birth control pill is done on women's terms and negotiated for a price they accept, as long as that relationship does not interfere with maximum capitalist production.

It's possible that if sex were not a commodity, we would be happier and more mentally healthy.
How did you do that? I can’t find a way to pay 1Password in € rather than $. Every year my bank is stealing^W taking a fee because 1Password is billing in USD.
Todays leftists seem more communist than anarchist.
It's a credit card thing (which arguably are much more common in the US).
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments, and especially stop posting personal swipes, to HN? We've had to ask you this before. Continuing will eventually get your account banned here. I'm sure you can make your substantive points in a thoughtful way if you want to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They had me at Gattica.
The footnote and comments talk about this, but don't exactly mention that what you want for the probability of the leading digits "2019" is log10(2.020)-log10(2.019).
How this would work in reality? It is easier to change and obscure the money trail of liquid assets than issuing warrants.

In the 90s it was not too hard to get a diplomat passport of a developing country, even if you have never set foot on it.

Worst case scenario is when you going to operate from a jacht under a Monaco flag at St Tropez harbour. Life is cruel.
That was the same pitch I got, you triggered the memory space in my brain. The company was Quixstar, which is/was the Amway online of that era.
I met with a Rackspace rep today who explained how they can support AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and of course their own cloud, including several simultaneously.

Not sure what this article is referring to but it did not seem to be restricting that particular relationship.
>They can manage to be surprised by the same things everyday.

Sounds like most human beings, given an unpleasant stimulus, for example a spider.
There is an even better take on the whole-case heat sink concept, although it gets pricey:

https://wickedaluminum.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-standard-...
> Part of the problem is that as datasets get bigger, it's rarely sustainable to put a lot of care into each and every version of a plot, but automating creation of figures is really hard.

That's actually a good reason to learn R and the ggplot2 package. Whenever I write a paper, what I do is that I make a quick shell script that invokes Rscript, with a simple R program that takes a CSV file and outputs a PDF file of the plot, which can be automatically loaded in LaTeX.

Whenever the data changes, it's just a matter of updating the CSV file and running the script that rebuilds the figures and the LaTeX document. As an added bonus, it makes keeping the data with the paper easy, since they're part of the same source control repository.