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I think the changes have happened slowly enough not to be perceived. Yes, it's not as dramatic as sci-fi, but if you presented today to someone living in the 80s I think they'd recognize enough Orwellian crap going on to fear where their future is headed.

On paper the UK is living in some of the most authoritarian times in modern history. Post 9/11 is a completely different world across much of western society, we have less freedom in many respects. It's almost a trope to say we've given up freedom for the illusion of security. Quality of life isn't entirely represented by how many cars you can afford. I feel like we live in constant fear of terrorism, war, and so on. And yet we never actually get close to these perma-wars, they exist entirely in the press and on TV. I mean, how much Orwellian prophecy do you need before you recognize you are worse off than before?
I usually do this after a workout, because you're still warm. Cannot imagine doing it in the morning though. How do you motivate yourself?
Is it compatible with InstantSearch.js? or reactive search? https://github.com/appbaseio/reactivesearch

Talking about fastest time to market this is the biggest one rather than setting up elastic, which annoying as it is is still faster than creating the UI.
I guess that I could up that, for myself, but I don't usually hang there to answer questions.

I'm too busy writing code. I try to give back to the community, so I do answer a few. SO is a hugely valuable resource for me, and I sincerely appreciate the help that I get there; even when it is delivered with a sneer.
Disclaimer: I'm the founder of this service.

I wouldn't trust a closed-source solution to be the privacy-focused identity provider. And with "Apple Search Ads", Apple could also be considered as an advertising company.

I have actually started out to create a privacy-focused SSO solution named "Sign In with SimpleLogin" [1] before "Sign in with Apple" was announced. The solution is from the beginning meant to be open source and even self-hostable. It's superior than "Sign in with Apple" in several ways:

- The dev experiences is far better

- The random email part is customized

- Name, avatar could also be customized

If you visit the home page, you would notice that it's talking mainly about the email alias part as the SimpleLogin button is not implemented on popular websites yet, which hopefully will come soon.

[1]: https://simplelogin.io/developer
Here's what I found:

> we are unable to respond to each submission individually. If you provide your email address, you agree that we may contact you to better understand the comments you submitted

Which makes perfect sense IMO.
> Except the market has succeeded fantastically. In my lifetime alone, AIDS and HepC went from death sentences to chronic conditions. Many forms of leukemia went from fatal to highly treatable.

Meanwhile, what has the government done?

Exactly that: "NIH funded the majority of support for HIV/AIDS, infectious disease and oncology research." https://www.thebalance.com/who-funds-biomedical-research-266...
> Edit: another thought comes to mind - has anyone compared the size of health insurers in the US and compared their purchasing power to government run single payers? I’d hazard a guess that United Health for example probably dwarfs entire single payers of some governments.

Medicare alone covers more patients than NHS England does. (Very few countries in Europe actually have single-payer healthcare; the four UK countries are the exception, not the rule).
Agreed. I find the Overcast app to be quite nice. I've been using that for 2+ years with few complaints.
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This one is actually kind of complicated. Healthcare costs are weird.

In general marginal costs to make drugs you already know how to make are usually low, so you can and do see a lot of free riders on the expensive part (R&D). It would be surprising if Illinois can't just join them.

That said, ideally if you're trying to contain costs by fiat you want these to be negotiated by governments and healthcare providers.
I guess you missed the comment I was replying to: it may cost you more money, in bandwidth and per page resources, to not provide an API than it does for you to provide one.

So no, I won’t pay you for the privilege of you saving money.
I agree with the overall points, less so the pointless vitriol. Installing software is cringey as hell now?

The main issue here isn't native apps. It's the existing framework for installing them.

For instance, would it be that far-fetched to be able to open an app in a single click?

Current extended process:
1) Click link that takes me to app store page
2) Find and click install button
3) wait
4) Click "open app" button

Streamlined process that accomplishes the same:
1) click link
2) wait
3) app opens up (download/install hidden behind spinner)

Even if you have to add a pop-up in there to display permission requests, it's still a much smoother experience.

You'd have to worry about app sizes but that's a solveable problem as well.
> First things first, why do I get a tab bar with 5 icons, and I only ever use 2 of them? I don’t care about “For You”, “Browse” and I certainly don’t give a rat’s ass about ”Radio”.

You lost me on the opening sentence. I didn't even bother to read the rest of the article. I was expecting this to be based some some valid objective reasons why the app sucks, not personal preferences.

I use Spotify, and have found the "Radio" feature really handy to find new music that is similar to music I already like - especially when creating a new radio station from a custom playlist I made or artist I like.
Yeah, but who issues those? The government is the obvious answer, blah blah blah Estonia blah blah, but that causes so many other issues... we already have debates over states issuing drivers licenses to “illegals” and “big brother” etc., so I don’t see this idea going over well.

At the end of the day it would require that the US government issue an ID to every citizen, green card holder, visa applicant, long term visa holder, etc., illegals be damned...

Even if that somehow happened, we now have the single largest hacking target in the world... are you comfortable with that? I’m sure not.
No, I get it. I know you didn't mean using heat from nuclear waste, but from the reactor itself: nuclear reactors do produce an enormous amount of heat. But the same is true of fossil-fuel plants; nuclear plants simply substitute burning fuel with a controlled nuclear reaction to produce heat, which then creates steam, which drives steam turbines. It's a heat engine. The problem I see is that it's hard to transport heat. Putting steam in pipes only works so far; you lose too much heat to the environment because the pipe's insulation isn't perfect. There are places (like university campuses) which heat buildings this way, but they're not transporting that steam hundreds of miles.
Many years ago, Jim Simons took an interest in my theoretical work on discrete topology (still unpublished) in the context of this fund. Among other things, this research provided a powerful mechanism for finding relationships in data that are effectively intractable to discover by more conventional means. Many of the mathematicians associated with Renaissance at the time had diverse and impressive theoretical backgrounds, all focused on different areas of mathematics that could loosely be applied to discovery of signals that, importantly, would be difficult to find via more conventional statistical analysis.

My immediate impression was that this was not a coincidence. Having talked to many other hedge funds over the years, I've come to realize that this is even more anomalous than it seemed at the time. While you will sometimes find a person on the cutting edge of these kinds of mathematics at other funds it tends to be an isolated case. Many hedge funds have boringly simplistic approaches to signal discovery. People overestimate how widely distributed and available this kind of expertise is.

Renaissance are not better at investing per se, they are better at signal discovery than anyone else and invested heavily in maintaining that (meta-)edge over the years, the investing part is relatively mechanical after the signal is discovered.
Why do they begin justifying by talking about 70% of buyers using mobile? Completely off topic
> labor force participation among males has been declining in past decades while the number of folks incarcerated has risen and that there is no doubt a relation between the two

Would be interesting to look at male education outcomes, labor force participation, and incarceration rates and compare them against their female equivalents. I know for fact that female education and labor force outcomes have been improving at the expense of male outcomes, but I'm not sure about female incarceration rates. My guess is that they are also increasing, but perhaps not at the same rate as male rates?
Yeah, this is most likely just a gross multiplication of CO2 absorption with plant mass that completely ignore the fact they are hiring some plant care company that's just gonna bin any overgrowth and completely neglect the absorption.

But hey, it lets guests make themselves look good on twitter and isn't that all that really matters?
They block you out after the first few profiles you view. Try a private browser and you can still see them.
Isn’t FileBot a graphical application?
You're right, missed a few comments there. Especially yours, which definitely fit what I'm asking for.

And I totally want to learn more about the set of libraries that leverage the free Plaid tier to automatically fetch bank and credit card transactions. Seems exactly like what I am looking for.
Centuries ago you could get executed for possessing the wrong map. Maps were considered military intelligence assets, a threat to national security in the wrong hands.

Kipling's novel Kim is based on the true history of how the British incrementally mapped the territory of India and neighboring regions.
With the right plants and a watering system, the upkeep shouldn't be insane.
It is amazing that wood can be preserved so well over hundreds of thousands of years, the Clacton spear [0] is one hundred thousand years older than these and look at the photo of it!

How many things from such a long time ago must be out there if we can still find any of them today? This is a serious question and if someone can point me to research with math on it, it would be much appreciated!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clacton_Spear
>I use ECC and mdadm+LVM+ext4. I haven't had any issues yet, but this thread is making me wonder if there's some data integrity problem that I'm setting myself up for.

Nothing in your setup there protects you from bitrot.

>With RAID6 I can have 2 drives fail without data loss. It does take several days to rebuild when a drive dies, so maybe that's the ZFS feature I'm missing?

Drive rebuild time is primarily a function of a variety of things - speed of the disks, processing power involved, etc. There's nothing magic about any solution here. ZFS does get a leg up in that it knows what blocks are in use, but hardware raid and mdadm are quite fast when they find empty blocks too, so it's not some overwhelmingly massive improvement.

>Otherwise, what's the data integrity concern? Ext4 is a journaled file system, which I thought was the equivalent of ECC for filesystems.

I think you're fundamentally confused about what journaling provides a filesystem. A journal helps you in situations where your system crashes, loses power, etc. and you had not finished committing your changes to the filesystem. It does not protect you from data integrity issues that are unrelated to this sort of situation - a bit flipping in an HDD from electromagnetic radiation or an SSD from electron leakage will not be caught by a journal.
> For `mdadm` to do that, it'd need to know a lot about the internals of the filesystems that are mapped to the block device.

That's taken care of by TRIM/DISCARD, which all modern filesystems support.
It seems like there is a perception by these companies that there is a discoverability problem. If they are truly making a useful and safe drug, there should be a market for it. Instead of marketing, shouldn’t there be a way to make all products and services more discoverable? By doctors in this case and generically in the larger sense.

Incidentally, I have had two occasions where I wanted to search for a product by its physical dimensions. One was for furniture and one was for a refrigerator. I haven’t seen a search engine that lets me start by searching by physical dimensions: length, width, height. On these occasions, I had a specific physical space that I needed to put something into.
Spotify can't compete on the apple homepod, which is a huge (primary?) selling point for apple music.

Sure, you can use airplay, but that's more involved than "hey siri". Being able to just use your voice is great when you're cooking or washing the dishes.

Cesium is a great app.
As the article explains, that is not true under English law; there is a special exception for money. That's what the comment you're replying to is talking about.
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This is similar to the idea of Beginner's Mind in Zen. Shunryu Suzuki wrote about it in this book: https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Mind-Beginners-Informal-Meditatio...

Which influenced Steve Jobs, among others. It's a great read.
It may be abandonware, but it works well, and has very few bugs. I hope it stays abandoned in its current state for a long time.
I've always loved the illustrations from Froissart's Chronicles. I'd love to find a full-color reproduction some day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froissart%27s_Chronicles#/medi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froissart%27s_Chronicles#/medi...
I thought the cool thing to do was declare React Native dead for your org, not the new hotness?!?

I try to re-evaluate my opinion of the mobile ecosystem monthly, and would love to know how people agree / disagree with my rankings:

1. Just make a web page

2. Native iOS & Android

3. Flutter

4. Some ordering of remaining cross-platform tools depending on requirements. (React Native, Vue Native, Xamarin, Ionic, Titanium, PhoneGap, Kony...)
My main beef with Music as it currently stands is that the Now Playing tab is just a tiny phone-sized thing that refuses to fill the screen of my tablet. I wanna plug that thing into the stereo, play music, and SEE THE ALBUM ART like it’s 1986 and I’ve got the LP jacket sitting in front of the turntable.

Also the occasional attempts to upsell me to their streaming service that bring up a blank window that sits there waiting for something to load off the net and can only be dismissed by force quitting Music and hoping it doesn’t decide to do that again when I relaunch it can die in a fire.

I don’t curate playlists much and when I do it’s on the computer.
> The trip from DC to New York on Amtrak is slower today than it was in 1960.

serious question - does a profitable private passenger railroad company that actually owns/maintains tracks, stations, etc exist without subsidies anywhere at all in the world? And Amtrak itself is nominally public-private and was formed in reaction to purely private railroads collapsing..

> In 1980, DC’s Metro had self driving trains. They had to shut that down in 2009 due to lack of maintenance and the unions.

even if the trains were self driving, for the 10y or so I lived there before this, there was still a conductor, so not sure if this is really a good argument..
I use a Files app on iOS so I can work with files. I edit PDFs and word documents with Pages. I have my email, everything I would need on a PC plus SMS and phone. This author has it all wrong. The reason Apple sucks is because of what they’re doing in China and their devices are overpriced.
Only if mobile web can jump the hurdle of feel. Even the best mobile web apps still feel kinda clunky/laggy in subtle ways that the average native app doesn’t.

It’s actually pretty comparable to the situation with desktop Linux where the gaps between the layers are subtly perceptible, which leads to a sort of slipshod/duct tape impression that isn’t great.
Funny story: I was rejected by YC last batch. But I get it- I thought they look for traction and what not, so I rather made the pitch video on a very specific aspect of Hexafarms- which is monitoring, since some people were willing to check it out. No doubt YC would reject it. On the other hand, Thiel Foundation reached out to me, but they had some drop out thing and what not which I was not able to fullfil (and after a while they also stopped reaching out too).

Thanks for the references.
Are you really saving that much space doing that on a block level rather than a file level?
"The programmer is free to reinvent the language, write new control structures, and so on."

I don't remember that about Tcl.. How far can you do that? And how do you do that? (an example would be great). Thanks.

I've been getting into Forth lately, where you can redefine absolutely everything[0], and make your own anything, to a ridiculous degree. Not sure what this quote means. I'll be pleasantly surprised if it's true.

[0] Well, you are stuck with the stack(s) I guess. But that's about it.

edit: Thank you all for the great answers!
>How would a country guarantee this right?

Via its taxpayers of course.
Shouldn't the copyright belong to the creator not to youtube? Basically youtube shouldn't be able to sue you, it should be up to the creator to do so.
I think a good test for IO bound is: will it run faster if disk is faster? If yes, then it's IO bound, if not, it means the bottleneck is somewhere else.
It is nearly everywhere, with New Zealand and the US allowing direct to consumer advertising. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_marketing
Policing, by and large, relies on a high degree of consent from the population - you need people who are willing to provide evidence, report crimes, etc. Leaving civil liberties issues and effectiveness in a direct sense aside, doing things like this which don't appear to have public support will result in the loss of a chunk of that consent and make policing harder. This feels a bit short sighted to me.
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I'd believe you for some of those apps. But definitely not for Google Maps. Even on their own OS and their own hardware, they are clearly pushing performance limits for the Google Maps app. And have been for years.

I think you're definitely right about gatekeeping, though. Apple's app store gross revenue is ~$50 billion/year. That's an incredible incentive to make sure that web apps will never be as good.
I’m not just giving examples. Education and infrastructure are two of the big pillars of why we have government in the first place, and US government bodies have failed miserably on both fronts despite enormous funding.

As to municipal internet—its great until it’s not. Maryland has municipal cable systems that were built a couple of decades ago, and they have struggled to keep up with the DOCSIS upgrade treadmill. Additionally, what problems exist with broadband in the US are largely government created. Comcast has no data caps almost everywhere in Maryland, because it’s in competition with Verizon. The only place that’s not true is Baltimore—where the city legally prevented Verizon from coming in and competing with Comcast. Verizon wanted to wire up Baltimore—the city wouldn’t allow it to do so.

Speaking more generally, DC Metro was snazzy at first too, but was unable to maintain the system long term. It’s interesting you focus on the price point: is $50 sustainable? Charging too little is actually a big problem. A subway ticket in London can cost 2-3x as much as one in New York, despite the two systems being very similar in age and size. Unsurprisingly, the London subway is doing fine and the New York subway is falling apart.
A subsequent sentence mentioned no longer being able to customize the tab bar, which was his real complaint.
> I believe there were faster than C versions that were rejected

Believe but do not know? Shade?
I went ~2 years without running a scrub when I first started using ZFS many years ago; when I ran my first scrub, it found 2 file corruptions, one in a random picture back when I still copied pictures from a digital camera to a hard drive, one in a random file in the browser cache.

(If I'd been scrubbing regularly, these almost certain would have been found before corruption crept into the mirrored copy of the file, and been recoverable.)
DM does, via dm-integrity.
Very clearly written, easy to consume, easy to navigate. Thank you for this!
Rating - nothing to see here. This is a W.E.I.R.D. article... Western, (highly) Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic.

So, you have a PhD from an Ivy school -- what next?! of course this applies to .. who?

The most immediate response to the essay topic is .. the biggest difference between Academic life and starting a business is that in the latter, you potentially engage with about six or eight billion humans that do NOT have a PhD from an Ivy school.. and who knows, maybe the living world, dirt, floods, sales, and/or servitude.. the way a substantial portion of the rest of the world is..

This is a fine subject and is applicable to some readers, but the "insider" writing point of view, without self-examination.. leaves little to admire here for anyone not in the seat described. Is this elaborate bragging on the part of the individual author? even less to admire then..
The cheapest climate target to hit? Around 2°C
What kind of stuff are you making with SML?
Boring here means more of the same. Every cool new startup is selling a product that has existed for a long time, but with a fancy website.

Uber is a taxi with a website. Airbnb is a hotel with a website. Facebook is having friends in a website.

And that's not to say this is necessarily bad. As OP points out, it's this boringness that can lead to success for businesses. I as a consumer am not looking to radically change my life. I am looking for iterative improvements to convenience, etc. That's what startups often offer: an existing service but a little cheaper and a little more convenient.
On par is an understatement. It beats C++ in 8 benchmarks and loses in 2. Quite impressive.

Rust has more potential for better optimisation than C++ because the compiler has full information on pointer aliasing.
Correct. Cancer survival rates in the US are generally the highest in the world (it varies a bit by cancer type).

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/articles/concord-2....
Does this mean Google can't stop me from scraping their results anymore? If I do it from an US ip address of course.
The wall is close to 200m long and 40m tall. If it were made of 4000 cubic meters of concrete, it might weigh 10,000 tons, and the whole building might weigh 4 times that amount. 2.5 tons is a rounding error!

Unfortunately, the chemistry and energy use to make a cubic meter of concrete releases about a third of a ton of CO2. So this building, implemented in concrete, would extract 9 tons of CO2 annually and take more than 1,000 tons of CO2 to pour.

Edit: I now see that the images (especially [1]) describe a more expensive steel-and-glass building. It will probably still include lots of concrete, but 2.5 tons across the whole building is not a big concern. (Not to mention they'll likely have to do some gardening occasionally).

[1]: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/...
They probably embedded the browser in a client.
This is one reason why defined benefit pension plans are a terrible idea with hidden risks for employees, employers, and taxpayers. Everyone pretends things are fine but when investment returns come in below expectations the illusion will fall apart. As a society we should aggressively phase out pensions and replace them with defined contribution plans.