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Awesome write-up! This brings me back to early 2000's when we we typically owned most of our graphic design software. Yes it was expensive but, there was barley any "cloud" features added and if you wanted a new version you simply had to download the update or simply keep the software you were currently using.

My team and I have taken the initiative to offer a e mail design tool that is considered first-class software to the OS (https://bairmail.com). The last thing I would say is developing desktop apps vs a web app is considerably harder thus most companies are aware they are saving by controlling software updates, versioning etc.
You seem to think this level of prejudice for prediction is wrong. Why?

If someone has killed 12 people, being prejudice about their chance of killing another and using that to determine the length of a sentence seems reasonable.

Even with something like a health inspection. Measuring how they store and cook raw chicken is about predicting the health risks to the public eating it, not about measuring the actual number of outbreaks of salmonella. And even if they were to measure the previous outbreaks of salmonella and use it to prediction the future outbreaks, that is still two different things.
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Yes and no. Technically that results in UB with many inputs with platforms that use a signed char type.
This is actually interesting right now because Microsoft, Google and Facebook all seem to be trying to get into streaming. I would definitely like to see more competition in this space so that Twitch doesn't get complacent.
Possibly because back then there were a lot more narrow lanes sized for horses and impossible to drive through in a four wheeled car.
“Interesting new phenomenon”, not “new evidence [in a mainstream news story about a celebrity scandal]”. They’re very different concepts.

Dang isn’t saying it’s not a big/important story; it’s just not on-topic for HN. The guidelines are clear and long-established on that.

There’s the whole rest of the internet for discussing mainstream news scandals.
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I don't think that's worth the work for most tech-savvy audiences, let alone a non tech-savvy one.
Codecks looks gorgeous. Have anyone tried it for anything else than game development? Is it a good fit for other projects?
Compound interest works in both directions. Those w/ few resources are at risk of taking on debt -- which can quickly become crippling thanks to compound interest charged by lenders. I'd argue that understanding the perils of compounding interest on debt is even more important than understanding the benefits wrt investment.

[EDIT: PS Apparently Albert Einstein agrees:

>"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it."
Nonsense. Eat 4000 calories a day, every day, and lift heavy weights. You will quickly gain lots of weight.
The hacker seeking a technical solution is, I think, at least in part a consequence of the individualism that's so much a part of especially the Silicon Valley hacking era; along with the libertarian leanings of especially early hacker culture.

Seeking change at a societal level is the exact opposite of the hacker's free-wheeling individualism, but it's the only way to actually accomplish change at a societal level.

You're right, we'll never change advertising just by running individual ad blockers, and we'll never change privacy controls by trying to mask our identities; that has to happen through laws and larger society. We have to have a right to privacy and freedom from advertising be a thing that everyone wants, the bus driver, the butcher, hair stylist, etc., not just what we can foist on our immediate family and social circle.
Not sure. It was hard to find more info. It appears Danny Kim was in a pretty serious test-track accident:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lianeyvkoff/2016/02/18/what-imm...
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I acknowledged that already. It wouldn't be a comprehensive test, just a novel one that wouldn't rely on there being another compiler available for the same language.
Well, sir, there's nothing on earth Like a genuine, bona fide electrified, six-car monorail.

However I was more specifically referring to the "normal" gyrocar design which doesn't run on rails and is essentially (if I understand it correctly) a large motorcycle with the body of a car and an extra drivetrain powering a spinnig gyroscope on each side to keep the mass from falling over.
OP didn't say anything about ratios or scaling, just offered 1c rice as that's generally enough for 2-3 servings at a time. And it just happens that 1c water is generally the right amount for this and is easy to remember.
Stadia will clearly win, and people's stockholm syndrome about local consoles will melt away the way it did for other rejections of cloud. Local compute will become a niche.
I'm curious, wouldn't PKI be less anonymous than username/password?
The difference is the level of threat between a private company denying you a loan and the government deciding you should spend 10 years in prison. Please don't misunderstand, I'm not saying the former is good, only that it isn't nearly as bad as the latter.
If you want to know how to build a Prolog . . .

When I learned Common Lisp, I devoured the available textbooks in 1989 and for a few years after. A book from the early 1990s is: Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp. By Peter Norvig (now employed by Google)

The book first teaches you Common Lisp, which isn't that difficult to pick up. But that itself is a transformative experience.

Then the book shows you how to build a number of amazing things using Common Lisp. It starts IIRC, with pattern matching. Term rewriting. Unification matching.

Then you proceed to build a few things like:

1. A program that solves high school style algebra word problems.

2. A "prolog" (but expressed in Lisp syntax) that is a "hair's breadth" (in the author's words) from real prolog.

This book was mind blowing. A revelation. Insightful.

Learning Lisp (even from other textbooks before the one I mention here) was a transformative experience. But this single book stands out in providing so many amazing ideas expressed in Lisp.

Other Lisp texts I had read taught me things like playing two-player zero sum games (TicTacToe, Checkers, Reversi). I abstracted the technique to have a single re-usable AI engine implementing the Minimax with Alpha-Beta pruning, and then different layers on top of that which implemented different games (as listed earlier) by defining a game board, move generator and board scoring function.

One Lisp textbook I had from the late 1980s showed a program to plan movements of a robot arm to manipulate blocks according to english like commands.

All of these amazingly sophisticated things take up very little Lisp code. Often only a few pages.

The journey of learning Lisp, with a really good textbook, is an amazing learning experience. Learning Lisp will change the way you think about code for the rest of your entire life. I can confidently say that having learned Lisp starting in about 1986 and dabbling with it through 1993. The initial learning comes quickly. But you will play with this new toy for a long time.

Another book (The Elements of Artificial Intelligence Using Common Lisp) introduced me to the A-star search. I've used that technique, in Java, to build a "solver" for a game sometimes called "Traffic Jam" or "Unblock Me".
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Isn't that basically Youtube Red?
You are right and I see that as a flaw in the current system that should be fixed.
I'm wondering what do you guys think? I wish we could have higher resolution pictures.
> The S&P500 with dividends reinvested has averaged a real (post-inflation) return of 7% annually over the last 100 years or so.

TBH I don't think looking at the last hundred years is particularly valuable. Nobody invests over a hundred year timespan. Most importantly, look at a graph of interest rates over the past 40 years. There is a fundamental "new normal" of extremely low rates (or, rather, negative rates for much of the world), making it extremely difficult to earn that 7% without taking on a very large amount of risk.
The tribe here uses regular cattle fences. As far as I know only two juveniles have gotten out and that was at an entrance.
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Yea, very true. Up here in Seattle I believe we are in the same boat, a single level 1 trauma center.
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Nah; presuming the page’s real content continues to just be plain HTML, the worst things will get is that you’ll have to browse some sites with JavaScript disabled.

Also, re: “inline” static images, there could totally be client-side ML-model cosmetic filters that recognize and remove known as images, regardless of how they got to the page. The filter could even just throw a floating rectangle over then, so it wouldn’t even have to understand how they’re made in the DOM. This is the “thermonuclear backup plan” we’ve been expecting to need to pull out for a while now, though advertisers have been lazy about getting sneaky enough to necessitate it.
Nah, it really was all about movie distribution rights, and the completely bonkers web of agreements surrounding them. Since there used to be a desire to re-use 35mm film, countries would stagger cinema releases. So "6 months after end of cinema release" is different dates in different places. And there's also music rights which make the process even worse. A big problem is TV series re-releases which couldn't or didn't license the original music, so it's been substituted with something else.

Much of the time for small films the distributors wouldn't bother, so it was region 1 or nothing - or buy a hackable player.
“Parlez-vous Anglais” will get you nowhere, but “Pas de palais, pas de palais” is how you earn a nightful of drinks by a French guy.

Seriously, don’t learn boring words, we already know someone doesn’t speak French. Learn movie quotes and you’ll kickstart a discussion. Learn awesome movie quotes and you’ll have something to discuss about.
Does this affect Linux, LVM, or LUKS?
We have lost the WWW since corporate interests took over from personal interest.

Small community sites are still interesting, distributed web technologies may start to rise, or there's always gophernet...
Other similar projects that deserve a mention: tinc and yggdrasil.

I used to use tinc and have recently switched to yggdrasil, which was much easier to setup. So far it works great!
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6227174?hl=en

I added my domain and have never had it marked as spam at any major email provider, only a few small, self-hosted servers and that was probably due to misconfiguration or high spam sensitivity. See if this might help you out.
Yeah exactly. The spinning parts at rest as well as the rest of the vehicle. Having to have a wheel descend to stop it from falling over makes you wonder why not just have that wheel there all along? I suppose you could have a kick stand or something but those get a bit sketchy if the thing is heavy (which it would be) and getting it to level initially could be challenging.
The gist of your point is correct, but "West of the Mississippi" is the wrong dividing line. You have about a state and half of excellent land west of the Mississippi. It is all about the mountains - From when the mountains start just past the West coast, they cause clouds to dump their moisture on the west side. The east sides are arid, for a couple hundreds miles or more. And because we have multiples ranges of mountains, the western third of the nation is arid... with pockets of agriculture just west of each mountain range.
It was a unified theory, and Einstein approved (note, this was pre-weak and strong force so it was a unification of gravity and electro-magnetism only). It was eventually disproven, but the math serves as the basis for higher dimensional theories (i.e. string theory)
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The most accurate way to model memes is as a form of life that inhabits the medium of human collective consciousness. They are born, spread, and mutate, but they also adapt their environment to serve them.

Meme's have existed as long as we have, but the internet is a like a mass-transit system for them. Memes are able to spread farther and faster than ever before and find their disparate niches to thrive in.
Yep, I think this is a natural tendency to someone who has /tried/ to cook over a period of time. And doesn't mind eating leftovers repurposed. I find myself doing almost exactly what you described, only my chips came out terrible and I have not since tried again. (I have made my own "dorito" flavoring though of plain chips, and you can make some neat combinations)
> I don't think this is accurate. I think that Trump's popularity is mostly due to his "realness". He's the exact opposite of a career politician. He doesn't talk like a lawyer and, despite being rich, he has an everyman quality to him. He's incredibly unpretentious.

I think both your theories about Trump's popularity are right, as are many, many other theories. It's unfortunate that the mind seems to have a tendency toward aggressively forming rapid conclusions rather than logical analysis and curiosity driven brainstorming. Granted, we're the product of crude evolutionary processes, but the lack of activity in this realm even among the academic community seems far less impressive than one would predict considering what we are capable of in other fields.
Maybe the author is onto something here.
The more live-chat widgets are blocked, the better. Most of the time they're just as annoying, unwanted, and intrusive on the page as ads.
I’m going to teach Racket in my PL course next semester. I’m excited to have an excuse to use it again :)
Im broadly aware of a range of techniques which can be involved in adaptive optics. The quality of debate seems very low to me and not worth laboring words on when people are imagining low power satellite trails represent a big challenge to astronomical image clarity.
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Yes, both Rust and Zig are two of the most promising languages in this field IMO. Rust's generics is probably the best example of the 'best of both worlds' (high level abstraction, with predictably high performance), but it's also not without tradeoffs[1].

Rust is more mature, well-known, and akin to C++ in its philosophy (big language with powerful features and abstraction capabilities), while Zig[2] is less well-known but IMO a beautifully designed language akin to C in its emphasis on simplicity, while remaining modern in design (e.g. unlike Google Go, which is very simple but intentionally repeats many of C's mistakes[3]).

[1] Such powerful generics usually come with unavoidable explosions in compile time (and sometimes mental complexity for the coder). This is because while it may look like you're simply calling a library function and passing in a reference to your callback function, what it's really doing most of the time (to achieve good performance) is recompiling the entire library from scratch (or nearly so) with your function inlined. Also, the performance characteristics of any given block of code won’t be as obvious and predictable at-a-glance as it would be in a simpler language.

[2] https://ziglang.org/

[3] https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2015/08/31/the-worst-mis...
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Not one I can easily point you to - my in-laws' neighbour apparently used to be an engineer on board such ships. It's possible this is no longer accurate as this would have presumably been some decades ago.
How to use a password manager (and then spending the next 45 minutes changing your passwords).
This is all true. Plus, the military, like aerospace, is inherently technologically conservative: it doesn't fly unless it's flown before.

On the other hand, governments can throw a lot of money at an interesting topic. See John Clark's Ignition! for rocket fuels.
I use an 80% keyboard (TKL) for gaming, but a full-sized keyboard for work/normal typing. The TKL keyboard lets me have it positioned a lot closer to my mouse, which allows for a more ergonomic posture for long gaming sessions. I could never give up the ten key for numeric input though - it's just too convenient and quick.
Great answer. I'm frequently crushed by the weight of day-to-day things, and only recently identified that it's when I intentionally separate myself from them to the point where I'm literally not sure what to do with myself that I get find inspiration and energy to go and do the really interesting, valuable things.
Regular expressions (regexp) can be understood at a pretty impactful level within a solid hour of focus. For all the developers or even just heavy computer users, the ability to find and replace exactly what you're looking for is a game-changer.
How so? To give more detail about the system, users generate private keys client side, which are used to sign their requests. Providing an email address is optional, and even (initial) usernames are randomly generated.
Not sure why you're getting down-voted, because you're totally right. I'd add the fibulae to the list of "female" archaeological artifacts closely studied by, well, archeologists. For example the history of late 6th - early 7th century Slavs in South-Eastern Europe is mostly "deduced" by studying women-worn fibulae like those presented in articles like this [1]

[1] https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=639506
Also check out https://opentelemetry.io/
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Do the wheels really add gyroscopic effects? Some years ago the revelation that gyroscopic effects weren't what keep a bicycle up rocked the world, then everyone seemed to forget about that and talks about gyroscopic effects again. Is that the case here?
Every organization and project I've worked for, for companies much smaller than Google, has done its best to comply with eliminating PII.

https://www.gsa.gov/reference/gsa-privacy-program/rules-and-...
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I think the press also made the mistake that it too often excused, ignored or even justified bad behavior of special interests. Their own ambitions to protect their business model and their monopoly on information left the role of the 4th estate neglected.

I think that information available today is more accurate than a few decades ago. Sure, weighting the quality has become harder because the quantity increased, but people will learn to adjust to that.

It is quite sad though. I remember my favorite newspaper writing about itself how it is economically forced to use services of facebook to get enough engagement and how they would still report critically about their business partners. That was around 2013-2014 I believe. The newspaper in question is quite a big player in the media landscape (not US).

The idea here can only be described as an indecent proposal at best. Business financing the news media? This is basically back to the roots with all the problems but with far more subversive methods. I think if the need increases, people will find a way to finance investigative journalism again. There are already some creators that are on this path. And they seem to be way more independent.

Many really good journalists might get lost on the way though.
>to a device that tracks it all the time

There is the problem with hand devices and quality of measurements they do

Article describe it more properly

If you have heart problems and you need some measurements there are a lot of medical _calibrated_ devices for that

There are 0 devices for that which has only hand wearable part

Also consider such cases when such devices can do a lot of harm https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...

Any tech has pros and cons
It depends on your users need and the service you provide. Usually decentralization is thought of when you want to avoid Single-Points-of-Failure in a network or when you are giving a service that can't work properly without multiple nodes contributing to it.
Similar to what AdNauseam does: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20048216
The exact same applies to blockchains.

Blockchain is mostly a marketing tool, not something you would want to use in production for anything.
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Or just use Nebula, which is superior in some ways (though presumably not every way) to ZeroTier, and MIT-licensed.
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Hello

Twitter seem really big here in France: every tv show pushes some hashtag, a lot of big companies provide support throught twitter, and you can't here some news without an hashtag. Policitians announce everything on twitter. (Negative) social trends and riots have their roots on twitter.

This is understandable: Twitter is showing really big numbers for audience. And lots of advertising and communication companies are showing the same. However, they all profit from these numbers. So far, so good: Twitter is the ultimate media!!!

But... I own 2 twitter accounts: I published 2 pictures on the first one, created 3 years ago, and created another one last year to talk to some customer service (no publication). I follow almost nobody. In fact, I just don't like the Twitter way of communication (short, definitive and mostly basic sentences without any interest). I sometimes have a look to some tweets through links found on HN. No friend of mine is on twitter. No colleague either (i'm working in IT). My teen daughter and her friends are not on twitter (but on insta, snap, and co).

So, I'm wondering: is there anybody really using twitter, except people selling ideas (politicians) or advertising?

I guess that - for Twitter - I'm considered as an "active user", because I have 2 ghost account and sometimes read a tweet (even if it's because I'm following an outside reference and not because I found the information on twitter). But, as a matter of fact: twitter could desappear today that it wouldn't change the littlest thing in my life.

So I'm wondering: despite the huge numbers, how many users are really "active and engaged" on Twitter (meaning tweeting and reading tweets from the platform at least once a week)? How many real person are really engaged (because I guess that a lot of people have 2 or more twitter account)? I couldn't find "hard" numbers, only "advertising" (so biased)... Any idea ?
This is a great start. You should spend an hour a week having a conversation about your shared future, whatever that may mean to you.
I was thinking about doing the same with mailgun. Do you have any obvious delivery issues with outgoing mail marked as spam?
I think you misunderstood my statement.

> is it worthy of scorn?

No.
IME the best way to do it is to configure a WPT (WebpageTest) instance with geo-distributed clients, and trigger test runs from your local terminal.
I wanted to demonstrate that it can be simple, but you are right there are a lot of variables, but I think they are small. The size/type of pot you use may affect water amounts.

But I found it very useful to learn to cook with whatever you have available to you. And then learn to adjust. All of these things take tiny amounts of time and yield great results. (mainly through practice of course)
Yeah, I don't understand this either. "I feel I was harmed." OK, where's your empirical reasoning to come to this conclusion?
Technically once you invest it's not your money anymore and using it improperly can put you in legal jeopardy.
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