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I wanted a really black ink, so I settled with the Rohrer und Klingner Leipziger Schwarz (~$11). It's black with dark navy tones. I really like how it looks on paper. Inks I tried that weren't black enough: Herbin Perle Noire, Noodler's American Eel.

Rhodia paper -- I use it two-sided with no bleed through (Rhodia Dotpad No 16, ~$6). Rhodia and Clairefontaine paper can generally be used both-sided with no issues. There's a Japanese brand, Profolio that I also like, and 2-sided is not an issue. The best paper I've ever written on is the Rhodia No 18 premium. It's $16 per pad (A4 sized) but the glide is smooth and the quality is amazing.
So, the NSA, who intentionally compromised NIST with bad crypto proofs, is now warning NIST not to make better crypto, in the name of "security".
> i can't argue, but it's a time thing

You have no idea
I specifically switched to juul from cigs because I knew of nicotine salts vs the type used in most vapes. Its a huge deal and has probably saved my life.
Tether it is then. \s
To my knowledge, this is Congress asking questions, not sending a subpeona. Participation at this stage is still voluntary, and mostly consists of political posturing.

If Congress wishes to pursue it, they have legal tools where cooperation is non-optional. The current conversation is part of the song-and-dance where Apple tries to avoid that by offering something resembling cooperation, but on their own terms. Many of the questions are meant to answer the question "if we conduct a probe for realsies, who will be the winner?" rather than the question-as-asked.
> I don't think that the cheaper goods that China gave the world only benefited the %1, and actually has helped a lot people in america and the world.

Extreme wealth inequality is making life difficult for many, many people today. Cheap goods from China make it easier for them to tolerate this situation, and therefore less likely to take action to change it. One view of this would be that cheap goods are helping people. Another would be that cheap goods help the wealthy elite to continue unchallenged, furthering wealth inequality over time, and making overall quality of life much worse for everyone else in the long run.
I agree. But I would also counter that it is worth killing cars even if there were a measurable negative economic impact, because of all the clear benefits we would gain in exchange for it. But of course even these subtler benefits (like mental and physical health), would necessarily result in improved economic output overall.
Having a persistent world does not need a 'serious' server.

And I mentioned trust in my first post. It's a reason to use a server, but it's not a reason to use a 'serious' server.

None of these are reasons you couldn't use 40 tiny weak throwaway servers in place of 5 big serious servers.

> As an example: it sucks being killed by an enemy obviously behind a wall or in another room, so fired bullet should be checked against world geometry.

That sounds more like a shooter than an MMO. And a shooter instance definitely fits into a tiny 2-4 core server.

> dev time is valuable as well

Which is why so much software is single-threaded. And single-threaded software only needs one core.

(And the dev time for what I was talking about would be tiny, and it would save money overall. There are good reasons not to do it, but I don't think dev time is one of those good reasons.)
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Because automation is an even bigger factor in the decline of manufacturing jobs than China. Because focusing on China specifically will not lead to outsourced jobs coming back to the US when there are many, many other countries with cheap labor (many cheaper than China at this point). Because even if you banned foreign trade altogether, automation would probably happen 10x faster since then the incentives would be so high. Because manufacturing has many steps, and sometimes the US is in the middle (buy steel from China, make motorcycle, sell to Europe) and lack of access to trade can put these jobs in jeopardy. Because even if by some miracle all these issues disappear, manufacturing is a small percent of employment so you don't fix the problems for the rest of the middle/lower class.

Because the expenses that are killing us (housing, health care, education) aren't outsourced at all.

As far as I can tell (and according to most economists), the idea that "we can fix the middle class by going after China trade" is intuitive, simple, and wrong. And it's popular on both sides of the aisle. And historically, it's always been easier to find some group to blame than to fix structural economic issues.

So I think the further we go along this path, the less likely it is we will end up fixing our actual problems, and the more likely countries will be distracted by trade wars and maybe real wars in various parts of the world as those problems increase, and various groups are blamed instead of fixing economic policy.

This is separate from the human rights issues. But I think if we want to put penalties to try to address the human rights issues, we should be clear about that. Because if the penalty is for other political reasons it doesn't add an incentive to improve human rights, since that wouldn't make the penalty go away.
Magnificent, isn't it?
I don't know if it really "rocked the world". Probably most people never heard it or discounted it as soon as they did because they "knew" it was wrong.

Motorcycle wheels are heavier and spin faster, so I'd expect the gyroscopic forces to be greater at speed, but the fact that you can go walking speed (or slower) on a motorcycle without falling over seems to disprove gyroscopic effects as a primary factor in stability.
What does the 4th amendment say about non law enforcement persons installing a GPS tracker on my car.

Can I go and buy a gps tracker and install it on your car? If not, why is Facebook or Google or whoever allowed to install one on my phone?

It had nothing to do with the 4th amendment. I can buy a GPS tracker on amazon right now. You don't have to be a cop to install a tracker.
I'm more curious with this question

> "A better question, however, might be why aren’t other similar cases around the world treated in the same fashion…? "

It would seem you can't really divorce science from politics, ever.
Goodhart's law applies to psychological safety. It is a good measure of a culture until people starts to actively work towards psychological safety. I feel like most of these tips and tricks people use to improve their social skills are just making it harder to rat out the toxic people, it doesn't actually make people less toxic.
Platform Co-Op Startups
Platform co-ops are startups in which the users and/or the workers own and control the platform. Some see it as a viable and more equitable alternative to the traditional model we currently see launch. I'm trying to weigh the pros and cons of such a model and discuss how to address the concerns.

Benefits:
Barrier: Large established companies can’t copy a co-op model. For example, I can’t see Facebook becoming a co-op.

Niche: The co-op model would be a niche that focuses on users that would like a voice in the platform they are using.

Disadvantages:
Network Effects: Currently, large established companies have the dominance of network effects and vast resources.

Are there any other pros or cons to the platform co-op model?
System76 developer here. We do offer several AMD option on our Thelio line (and they're less expensive than the corresponding Intel options, generally speaking).
You should check out the Braid project. We're already working on IETF drafts for a protocol of this nature within the HTTP working group.

- https://github.com/braid-work/braid-spec

- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/braid-http
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This is one of my pet peeves: you are in the middle of a test, or maintenance, or similar ... then the weekend could come, it could be a simple bathroom break and you're at a good spot to pause for five minutes.

You come back, and someone has somehow messed with your equipment. Obviously no one is using anything, everything must be available! They could have done anything from disconnect a cable to outright taking everything over for their own pet curiosity project -- all non-priority, of course. Total break of configuration to say the least, to speak nothing of potential safety issues to people or equipment.

I have had multiple people ignore multiple "test in progress", "do not touch" signs and indicators multiple times for [honestly] no good reason, LO-TO or not. If I had the authority to ban them from the area unless escorted I would have.

High priority emergency? Yes boss, I'll wait to finish or redo from scratch whatever I was doing for you. But if you're low on battery and want more Stardew Valley? You can wait or go somewhere else.

/rant
From his FB post, they got him to give information on the org structure of the protest groups he was in.
Indeed. The probability of government agencies not at least seriously considering a “Manhattan project” for quantum is zero.

But it’s a different situation from the 40s in many ways, consider this: quantum machines could potentially revolutionise several fields, including medicine. So by keeping an advanced machine secret (whether it has arrived or in the future) could be passing up the opportunity to save millions of lives. It’s a hell of a moral judgement call to make. I’d go so far as to say that any intelligence advantage is just not worth the trade off. You’d have to find some way to share that technology. If your hypothetical book emerged, it’d be fascinating to see how it is justified.
In Microsoft's case, the free and privileged position of IE was specifically chosen to prevent the success of a competitor (Netscape) whose product created the potential for cross-platform applications (enterprise, early web applications). IE deliberately implemented some things counter to the specifications in order to be incompatible with the spec (and thus spec-conformant browsers) forcing developers to select their target platform. IE's substantial market position meant that more people supported it (thus all the sites that were IE-only, and some still are because banks and governments suck at IT). MS spent hundreds of millions (if not over a billion, it's been a while since I read the reports on the subject) to give away a product that would cripple a competitor's position. Netscape, though, wasn't the only target of MS's action. By doing this, they helped ensure Windows dominance would continue. Enterprises considering, or using, other operating systems but wanting to advance the state of their IT systems (that is, adopting web-based solutions) would find themselves in the same conundrum. Implement to the standards and use any OS, or implement to IE and support one OS that was already dominant within the corporation.

This worked to effectively reduce the potential market position (in businesses and for consumers) of alternate OSes to Windows.

Of course, that's not the only thing MS did. The full report of the anti-trust case was pretty interesting. There were many things MS did beyond just the browser. They favored OEMs who exclusively sold Windows-based computers with lower OEM pricing, but if they attempted to use another OS then they were threatened with increased licensing costs (this was a large part of what killed BeOS's momentum).

While many people remember and focus on the browser, it was only one piece of the whole case. To draw a comparison, you'd need to demonstrate that Apple's Safari-only (or really Safari + limited WebKit-only) policy is taking advantage of its substantial market share (currently iOS is sitting at something like 55-57% market share in the US, so it isn't actually that substantial a lead) to harm its competitors. And you'd have to place that in the context of other abuses of market share position.
Non-clickbait title: Don't Charge Your Phone With Public Cables or Ports.
Well, I’d answer so much yes, but if we condemn them to the same penalty as Microsoft, it’s gonna be 0.00.

Penalties were dropped I think in the wake of September 11, 2001.
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Americans are admitting our flaws, constantly. And when we do that, we don't compare ourselves to China to divert the issue. But debates about China always end up with this diversion into US flaws.
Is there a good book on Unix history? Something accessible like "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet"?
> I'm afraid I'm going to go back to smoking when my remaining 3 packs run out in a week or so.

How can you say it was a useful smoking cessation device when it hasn't stopped you smoking?

> This Juul hysteria

Juul targeted non-smoking children and --as you have experienced for yourself-- gave them an addiction for nicotine which they'll try to maintain with Juul or cigarettes.
> Safari's track record on privacy technologies is longer and better than everyone.

Certainly I would say Apple is doing better on privacy than Google, but when it comes to the browser specifically, I don't think they're doing significantly better.

Google, for instance, pioneered Incognito mode (edit: nope, Safari beat them). They developed and deployed their privacy-preserving telemetry tool RAPPOR in Chrome a few years before Apple adopted the technology for anything. Chrome allowed you to configure DuckDuckGo as your default search engine pretty much from the beginning (as long as you did it manually), whereas Safari took years to allow it.

Safari has been slowly shutting out many forms of third-party extensions which are frequently for ad and tracker blocking. (To be fair Apple has a design that reduces the amount of trust you need to put in an ad blocker to see your browsing behavior, but it is far more limited, and likely sees far lower adoption.)

I do think Apple is prioritizing privacy-protecting features higher than Google is, so it would not surprise me to see Safari come ahead with features like Intelligent Tracking Prevention which conflict with Google's business interests.
I'd beware of drawing general conclusions about HN or HN moderation from examples that stand out to you. Which particular examples stand out are going to be highly conditioned by what you're already interested in and/or feel strongly about. (I don't mean you personally, but everyone.) That tends to lead to erroneous conclusions—and people who feel the opposite way derive the opposite erroneous conclusions.

Based on how we work as moderators, I'd say it happens to a lesser extent the further the post is about tech—but that's not really what we're looking for either way. What we're looking for is topics that are intellectually interesting and can support intellectually curious discussion. Topics that have already been debated to death are much more likely to get penalized whether they're about tech or not. Initial discussions about the Damore thing spent much time on HN's front page, just like the Snowden thing in 2013, and the Stallman thing a few years later.

Why do we tend to penalize topics that have already been debated to death, unless a story contains significant new information? Because curiosity withers under repetition and people's responses become predictable. In other words, moderating this way is a simple consequence of intellectual curiosity being HN's organizing principle. That's the one thing we optimize for in everything we do here.

Even with all that, I'd say we barely get by in terms of having an intellectually curious site—but there are so many strong forces acting against it, that barely getting by is probably the best one can do. From the beginning, the idea of HN has been to stave off decline for as long as possible. I've always liked that goal, as it seems modest enough to have a chance.
How else to turn HN guys to do illegal and/or immoral privacy-related things if not to make them feel that they are doing the right thing?
Julian Assange and visitors were spied on by security firm for US intelligence
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You would need an N-key-rollover keyboard to be able to do this, at least in the general case. Baseline keyboards do not register overlapping keypresses correctly, unless you are using the ordinary modifier keys.
Your last sentence, in parentheses (yay, Lisp!), is what I was thinking.

The person seems to be flagrantly defaming Apple, in tantrum fashion, because the person violated Apple rules and got scolded?
That would be the first three years of the Internet.
I know you very well, you specifically only target pro-trump posters. You have NEVER ever said anything to anti-trump baiters.
The biggest value of Latin in today's world is the existence of what are called Latin roots in English.

Latin (and Greek also) roots are building blocks which are 'clicked' together to form many, many English words. We don't have to learn the meaning of several hundred separate words, when we can learn a handful or so roots and discern what an unknown word, new to us, means by disassembling it into its component roots.

Examples: (Latin) vid/vis=see, audi=hear, equi=equal, voc=voice

(Greek) scope=see, micro=small, tele=far

Using these roots we can make up words like 'microscope', 'equivocal', 'auditorium', etc, etc.

So if we come across some new word like 'television' and break that down to the Greek 'far' and the Latin 'see', we can work out that a television is something that lets you see something that is far away. The word 'telescope' does the same thing using Greek-only roots and also lets you see something far away in a different manner.

In the past, it was considered bad-form to mix both Greek and Latin roots in the one word, but since the arrival of 'television', it seems we aren't as fussed about that any more.
The version you are comparing against is ancient and assumes a low-memory footprint. It only uses something like 10KB of data. It also has a ton more features -- like command line parsing, the ability to read from a file on the command line or stdin, and locale-specific recognition of whitespace.

It's really not solving the same problem.
Beauty is subjective. And luckily, that's not really a perspective you're often to encounter when using a laptop in the real world.

IMO, the XPS laptops don't really look a ton different when viewed from that angle.
Article cites gulf royals and king of Swaziland as examples of corruption but neglects to mention the UK's own royal bunch who are just as wealthy or even more so with no good explanation for how and why they're entitled to so much of the country's wealth. A one-eyed take if you ask me. Typical of the economist.
I'd imagine there's some complicated SEC-related reason why they can't provide specific numbers w.r.t revenue
hmmm perhaps we can do better than just leaving,
after all we do have these robots to do our bidding.
Some places don't provide a power socket I can plug an adapter into. Just the USB socket. Sometimes I'm carrying a phone and a slim cable I don't mind putting in my pocket, but I really don't want to put an AC adapter in my pocket and carry that around with me. Sometimes the AC adapter is in my checked luggage rather than in my pocket. Sometimes my AC adapter is made for a different kind of socket and I don't have a travel adapter for it. Sometimes I don't have a cable or an adapter, but someone lets me use their cable for five minutes. There are a lot more combinations in life than carrying a bag with an AC adapter inside that fits the local plug shape.

And if you're worried about a shortage of outlets the savvy traveler thing to do is carry a multi-outlet tap and facilitate sharing

Carry MORE things? I'm not worried about a shortage of outlets; I just use the USB slot.
> not give unsolicited advice to friends, family, acquaintances, or even strangers.

I strongly disagree here. Friends should try and help friends IF they have the skills to do so. And we should all try and learn how, while recognising our limitations (I'm an engineer stereotype so I don't pretend to myself I am very skilled).

I agree that knowing when to keep your mouth shut is obligatory, and I completely agree it is extremely difficult to help without alienating.

You should know some people who do have the skills to gently and successfully help others, often older and less obvious. I personally try and learn that skill by copying their tact and non-judgement. Beware that many people completely lack the skills even though their job should need it (I've seen nurses, psychologists, social workers etc with nearly zero ability - Dunning Kruger?).

> People will ask for advice if they really want it

Yet there are plenty of counter-examples, especially when people lack the insight to even see their own problems.

> I’ve lost friends over this

I've risked losing friends over this when I've felt strongly about it. Take time to myself to think about whatever the issue is. Losing a friend can be better than not trying to help a friend.

Acquantances are different: personally I let most people do what they will - who am I to judge their path? How can I help if I don't know them well, and I am not around as needed? I guess there are people that can and do help in a short encounter, but either they are uncommon or I don't recognise the skill.
Yea sorry. Totally my privilege speaking here. I just found the claim "everyone should do this" a bit too broad.
I have transitioned to Brave [1] a few days ago and never looked back. Brilliant browser for my use case.

[1] https://brave.com/
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The sentiment in the DHH post really hits the mark as far as describing dynamics of the problem.

But, sadly, I think that any given investor can hardly be bothered to think about these things -- at least as it applies to them.

IOW -- "sounds good (except for when I am trying to make a return on my money)"
I couldn't agree more. Firefox is the only browser I use on the desktop, and I do think it's the best. But the lack of native context menus is annoying.

Also, other native features are missing. Like the rubber banding and pinch to zoom, although that one works okay if you switch the config entry.
Is this sound basically the same as the Hebrew Chet? You can hear it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI5EJGAUGsc
Certainly not. The first emacs was created for the TECO editor on ITS by various people. It was further developed and maintained by RMS. Gosling's emacs came a few years later.
I’m a coach in training and question number 3 there is a powerful question. That’s a really great question to ask because you’re not getting involved in the topic, you’re not giving them ideas, and you’re not working through it for them.

The others are too nuanced to easily explain, but “what are you going to do with that,” is a fucking fantastic question when a friend confides in you. You’re right that this requires some level of safety, but you are making sure they are still self-empowered.

The worst thing you can do is remove that agency and try to solve someone’s problems for them.
> What's stopping Ubuntu from just taking back the parts of Pop!_OS they want?

Nothing. Everything we create here at System76 is open source, either GPL or some form of permissive license.

(Edit: To be clear, I'm just answering your rhetorical question, not insinuating anything about the tone of your post for sure.)
Can we start a Gofundme or Kickstarter or something to get 24/7 bodyguards for DJB? We gotta keep this dude alive.
> Safari's track record on privacy technologies is longer and better than everyone

Uhh... Mozilla Firefox anybody? If Apple cares about privacy so much then why don't they allow ad blockers on safari? I mean, even the Brave browser on iOS is better then Safari at blocking trackers and advertisements. Firefox also tells me how many trackers they have blocked and also give me the option to completely opt out of any telemetry data collection.
Less cool when you keep showing you photos of your exes every year on the dot.
That's exactly what they're saying.