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What the Heck Is PKCE?
This is incredibly lazy criticism. You add no analysis, reasoning or anything of value.
Lat week, a million dollars worth of USD has been put into Ethereum real estate
Sparing himself from the old '$5 Wrench attack,' I see... well, goes to show you that Bitcoin does in fact work after all: it proves to be capable of averting confiscation, even if it means giving up (perceived?) ownership.

I'd like to believe people who amassed this much wealth in Bitcoin would have backups of backups etc... but I've heard too many goxxing like stories about people losing millions, and other similar exchange exit scams over the years.
Ask HN: If you were going to build a CDN what technologies would you use?
I'm thinking of having a play around and looking for ideas. Curious about how;

- How would deploy your software to the edge locations?
- Which DNS provide you would use?
- Which cloud platform (aws, gcloud etc) ?
- Varnish or alternatives?
- How would you store files?
Keep in mind there is a difference between subsidies we have to pay now for existing installations but were promised years or decades ago when those were built (this seems to be what the article is mostly about) and those guaranteed payments to turbine owners and rules around adding capacity now (and consumers will have to pay for in the decades to come). Yes, the political "enthusiasm" for renewable energy has faded quite a bit...
Here is a goofy layman explanation:

-particles have variable density and gravity.
-particles rotate.
-slits create multiple paths.
-particle rotation + variable density and gravity makes particles choose multiple paths.

It's an explanation which is totally based on macro observations, as if particles where balls with a small heavy object in them, thrown out in multiple tracks. The initial configuration is random, the balls will roll into specific tracks, but since all outcomes are equally possible, over time the distribution of the balls will be equal for all tracks.
The courts never made a ruling on whether those Congressional subpoenas were legally binding—in fact, when one of the people subpoenaed tried to take that question to federal court, the House instead chose to withdraw the subpoena. I’m also not sure what Trump’s tax returns have to do with checks and balances between the Congress and the President.

Setting those things aside, claiming that Congress doesn’t act as a check on the President simply does not square up with such things as the government shutdowns of 2013, 2018, and 2018/19, the Senate’s refusal to confirm Obama’s appointment of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, the 2011 debt ceiling crisis, and it only goes on from there. Partisan polarization has made the checks and balances between the two elected branches more, not less relevant.
ETrade’s Sale Is the Death Knell for Discount Brokerages
A bit of off-topic, but I love the elegance of gravitational energy storage, like what the Swiss are doing:

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...
Or the media progress-bar.
I think this is a very modern thing... because internet.

"The medium is the message" applies to writing more than anything. The medium has been rapidly evolving.

Average people wrote very little pre-PC, and the contexts are totally different. Much higher rates of output, frequency, etc. Bullet point style is good for information dense messages, provided they are short enough. We do a lot of this now, it's how we "talk" at work.

The style isn't new, it's just that many more of us have a use for it today. In the past, it was common in a military context, for example..
Despite MeToo, opinions on sexual harassment have barely budged
Riiiight. Because no lawyers have ever smelled a new ambulance to chase kicking off dozens of harassment suits when new precedents are handed down. Oracle has already threatened OSS databases, Samba was once threatened by Microsoft aggressively, and whose to say WINE and other OSS API reimplementations won't be under legal threat the way Unix reimplementations were.

Any precedent that establishes clean-room API reimplementations are subject to copyright infringement is bad for everyone.

You're willing to risk throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Do you also ask cinema critics to show their own movies, food critics to provide their own food, etc.?
One does not necessarily need to be able to _make_ something to be able to _tell_ whether something is good or not.
Agreed, the solution is pretty good. But honestly, I also have a yubikey and hardly ever use it aside from company stuff related password safes.

Aside from the bad form factor (nope, usb "top" isn't necessarily device "top"), it really requires a conscious effort to use them.

That said, theoretically they are awesome.
Peter Norvig's Economic Simulation (2018)
It's worth mentioning that nearly every board on 8chan IS moderated, by the board owners. Its exactly the same as the Reddit model, paid admins only enforce the few site wide rules and board owners are left to moderate their boards however they see fit. That might be heavy or light moderation, but if people are upset with the moderation style they just make another board.
Recursive sarcasm?
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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>But I've seen some hang-to-dry things that could be used over a bathtub.

I have this in my apartment (Sweden). After I've done laundry I hang my clothes to dry over the bathtub, then move them onto a separate drying rack in the morning (so I have space to shower), and by that time the clothes have dried enough so there's no risk of dripping on the floor.
you can give https://github.com/tonsky/datascript and https://github.com/replikativ/datahike a spin
The new Bluetooth stack in Android is brilliant and the documentation proves it
The Android bluetooth team has finally released some documentation for the new android bluetooth stack called gabeldorsche (or gd for short).
They discuss it in the informative video linked in the GD readme found here:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/bt/+/refs/heads/master/gd/README.md
For the library, you are right, it has to support any tabular structure — but that’s what even ricks are for, to encode that there are parts that you don’t know until use.

When using the library, though, there is some level of assumed structure (otherwise your code wouldn’t work since it would be accessing fields that don’t exist. Sure data is messy in real life, so you encode that messy-ness into your structure as variants or optional that you then check, and ideally are forced to check so that you can’t silently let errors slip in).

This works in statically typed languages right now using generics, templates, types that aren’t inferred until the library is used, or whatever the specific language has to deal with this.
Not even cinema critic, cinema viewer.

"yeah I don't really like the Marvel movies, I think they're overrated"

"oh? Can you show me your movie so I can see what a good movie looks like?"

What a complete and utterly garbage thing to say on that guys part.
You seem to think poorly of Signal, but you don't give any reasons. What are they?
Oil and gas firms 'have had far worse climate impact than thought'
The end notes aren't referenced in the text right? I haven't seen the window/balcony quote before - would be interesting to know which part of the text it links to specifically.
When I was fighting some splines at work I found this website very good and very interactive when explaining how Bezier curves work under the hood, a great resource!

https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
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> but my data is dynamic

In my experience, most dynamically types code makes assumptions about structure that may not hold later (better have tests!) and when it breaks some kind of validation is needed anyway to select between the correct version of the different dynamic options. In static languages this is simply typically done sooner, since the type system requires it to parse the data. (Or it’s in variants that are accessed without checking that the accesses are valid, sigh)
Sometimes a banal reply is just a banal reply.
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There is also a great podcast called Django Chat (https://djangochat.com/).

If I remember, they mentioned the book or spoke about the writer quite recently and said a lot of the principles still apply.

I've found they still greatly helped my projects.

Things quite might change as async becomes a bit more popular with the framework
At this risk of being accused of snark, tu quoque. If you don’t understand the basis of the OP’s opinion, you’re welcome to ask. There’s no need to assume bad faith.
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There's one more. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20730146 from six months ago is titled "California’s Biggest Cities Confront a ‘Defecation Crisis’" and deals with "excrement on the sidewalks of San Francisco".

It has 159 comments, probably because of how it affects "first world wealthy people".
Our product literally exists to present a single simple interface to consolidate and orchestrate across dozens of SOAP interfaces. We handle the complexity so customers don't have to. So I'm glad SOAP exists and is much more complex than REST.
I'm more familiar with the solar aspect of Energiewende, but a goal was to kick-start an industry to make renewable energy viable in the first place. This couldn't happen without significant amounts of installation caused by political commitment.

Yeah, I'd love for them to fix the bad power-vs-gas incentives. But I would not expect this to happen any time soon in the current political climate were no one will be willing to take the hit for something consumer will feel that directly.
Most of the historical greats are fairly comparable to Stalin and Hitler; winners write the histories. The main novelty of Stalin and Hitler was modern technology and communications let them do a lot more damage.

At the time, Hitler probably assumed that history would see him in a similar light to Napoleon.
>- Basically the effect of going away from nuclear is increasing CO2 emissions

Phasing out nuclear delays the phase out of coal. It doesn't add any new coal. The problem is stagnation instead of an increase in emissions.
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I did a stint at GSK about 13 years ago. The large scale mechanised experiments also produced big databases of compounds and their properties and mechanisms to make these accessible to researchers and build bigger clusters of systems to run models on. There was a lot of talk of ML but implementation was nowhere near the scale we see nowadays. I think what has changed significantly is the scale, second to that the methods including algorithms and methods to feed back real data into it. It's an evolutionary improvement but I sense it's one of those things where one lucky step in the evolution could make a big difference in productivity.
Why working from home might be less sustainable
I'm also unwilling to endorse alcohol consumption, I'm just an avid reader.
You live in a power structure based on a hierarchy of control down to almost, but not quite, the individual level.
All monies are stolen high up in this hierarchy and filter down as bribes to the lower levels. China is perfecting this to attain the individual level.
The control mechanism in these power structures is:- Fear, pure and simple. If you attract the attention of the structure they will deal with you in one way or another, ranging from cash at one extreme and a knife or bullet at the other.
Why do people tolrate this? In the USA they would not, but Africans are drawn to these people in power, it is a tribal thing and as you can see with all the African dictatorships, pervasive. Even those that resemble democracies are actually power based dictatorships.
To change it? Until the basic African mind set changes you can not. Any attempt will attract the attention of the system to you = death or $$ - you choose...
I've got a couple of students online and the one pattern I've found is, have a project in mind you'd like to build. It keeps that inspiration for longer vs. just going through tutorials and pushes you a bit more to learn specific things, "Okay, how do I process a CSV file now". You SHOULD still go through a good tutorial or two to get overview of different concepts and components in the frameworks (the tutorials others have mentioned are solid).

One problem with learning while building (or learning by yourself in general) is bad practices. "Two Scoops of Django" is still a good one, though a bit old, but again it will teach some overarching concepts and approaches. And then getting feedback from others!
The ideas in Zero to One are not new and can be summarized in a few paragraphs. As with basically every other book/essay/speech written by a financially-successful person, it is over-valued simply because its author is good at making money.

That said, it is certainly better than your typical business book - but that isn't saying much.
They are funded by several big pharma companies (from which they have learned a lot in terms of QSAR). One main point of the collaboration is the creation of production ready toolkits.
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There’s a difference between interpersonal social behavior and publishing written work, though.
This reminds me of one of the big telco company I was working for:

Big announcement came one day that youtube and other "non work releated" websites were blocked to "encourage" people to work "harder". After two days, blocking is gone without futher announcement since some C-level started to complain to IT, that they use it.
Show HN: Pre commit Google-Java-format maven plugin
ElectionGuard: Open-source SDK for secure and verifiable voting machines
Because the regulation, at the time, mandated CO2 tariff on ALL electricity, regardless of origin. That was the broken part of the regulation.

The tariff was/is calculated per kW and not actually based on CO2 emissions. It's basically just an extra tax placed on the consumers to help subsidize green energy. It just kinda backfired the cases of the heating plants, because they weren't never thought of a consumer of electricity.
That's a very different skillset from a normal driver; in fact, I think that in driving The Beast aka Stagecoach, road safety is an afterthought to a host of tactical considerations: the goal not being "safe driving", but "keep the President safe, to the exclusion of anything else." With 4 MPG, this is a plainclothes APC, not a normal car ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_state_car_(United...
Yeah, that seems about right. My kids like to jump on every part of the couch (arms and back as well as the cushions), but their weight (or lack thereof) prevents them from being able to do too much damage. We don't have teens yet, but I suspect that they'll continue to abuse the furniture (sitting on the arms, for instance) while also being heavy enough to do damage.
I saw this in the DoD when I was a contractor. Meetings full of buzzwords and abbreviations, some of which seemed to be tribal knowledge more than an actual thing. Things like "that solution won't work because of ABCD," and everyone nods in agreement. I had written down every abbreviation I heard to ask my supervisor later, and some he (and others) couldn't tell me what they stood for, despite being there for decades.
Why Doesn’t Everybody Have Dark Skin Today? (2015)
The “Original Formulation” uses “irreducible complexity”. Isn’t that the same thing?
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

...

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts."

https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli...
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Convey a singular point with intent. Below is first paragraph rewritten. Just my 2¢.

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Essays should be persuasive. But we can aim for something more ambitious: that an essay should be useful.

Useful writing makes a strong claim without resorting to falsehoods.

It is more useful to say that Pike's Peak is in the center of Colorado than somewhere within.

Precision and correctness are like opposing forces. Useful writing is bold and true. It tells people something important, that they might not have known, without resorting to manufactured surprise or equivocality. This is formative of fundamental insights.

Any idea will not be novel to all, but may still have impact for the many.

In argument: be correct, be important, be strong. This will ensure usefulness.
I've also noticed that effect. When you are motivated to sit down and write something, you have a strong point you want to put to words and elaborate. The more effort you put in, the more thinking you do and more related threads to go down, qualifications to elaborate and so on.

You say this is a 'nasty effect', but I'm not convinced it is a negative thing. You started off with a black & white idea and ended up with better grasp of matter. Maybe the edited text isn't edgy and pointed, but it is more mature. Do you consider your v1s better than your v2s?
I would guess a lot of cash paid manual work anywhere in the world is done by poor and vulnerable people, avoiding taxes or any regulations.
> It's an uncommon way to denote date.

It's a very common way to denote date, and you would have to be borderline retarded to not understand it.

> If you're used to the usual date notations (day before month)

This is not usual at all! You've just handwaved away the #1 stupidity of localized date formats: the special flower that is the United States and their crazy M/D/Y shorthand that means that nobody can ever parse these "common" date formats unambiguously, anywhere. Not humans, not computers, not even hyper intelligent AIs of the future. Critical information is being thrown away, and can never ever be recovered.

> Habits

What habits? I just assume that any site showing me a date like 3/4/5 could be either the 4th of March or April 3rd. It's like a Quantum Date, in a superposition of possibilities. That's the habit I'm currently used to.

If you're not confused, then you probably live in the US, which is a 4.25% minority of the world population, so it's a small group that I think we all agree can be safely ignored.

> And why should we all go do stuff differently because someone has come up with a way that makes lexicographical sorting of dates possible?

Why would you not "do stuff" when as a bonus you get trivially sortable dates on top of having unambiguous dates that both humans and computers can interpret correctly?

Doesn't it drive you crazy that randomly things just don't work because some twat left a Windows servers on en-US so that CSV export or import just shreds data? Or if you're in the states, you get data sent to you and you can't figure out why there are sales in the future? Doesn't it drive you crazy that when you see a security hotfix saying 3/4/5 you have no idea if it's next month or the month after?

> Clicking an icon on a computer is too hard a habit to change

It isn't, people just like to whine.

One of the few smart CIOs once told me: Don't worry about the icon changing. Don't even bother telling anyone. We're not paying $100K to people too retarded to do their job because the colour of the icon changed.

> metric-only information and input fields for everything.

This actually happens all the time, and people figured it out without their brains leaking out of their ears.

What nobody can get used to is a single number on a webpage showing a measurement without units.

If I tell you to buy a "5" screw or dig a "7 deep hole", you would have no clue what that means. You can't possibly. No matter what.

A date in a format like 3/4/5 is exactly the same thing: meaningless numbers without units or context.

A date in the format of 2020-04-03 or 2020-03-04 have only one interpretation.

> There's a difference between what academics and engineers use and what the general public uses.

Yeah well, academics came up with the Metric system and 95.75% of the world population loves it.
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> a one sized solution does both good and bad

Not necessarily. Who says morning people have a problem with later school start times?

They can still get up earlier if they like and use those hours for something productive (e.g. doing homework in the morning vs. in the evening / at night)
But even in the same neighborhood super well-furnished apartment and shell apartment will have very different prices per square foot. Also depending on construction year price per square can greatly differ.
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> You start writing something because you had something you wanted to say, and then you start proofreading and editing and moving things around, and eventually you realize you're cutting entire paragraphs because your entire position has changed. You're not saying what you intended to say, and you're not sure if it's because what you were going to say was wrong, or you just edited yourself into a completely different essay.

That’s kind of the point. Writing isn’t just a way to communicate ideas to other people, it’s also a structured way to work through those ideas yourself.
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> ... sometimes use business talk as a tool to ...

I think it's natural to want to speak in a language or style which one might think others approve. However, I have found that while many managers are apt to use biz-speak/buzzwords themselves, it's not necessarily what they want to hear from others.

If you can instead speak in clear, concise, and empathetic sentences that get to the point, most people really appreciate and crave that-- especially when things are critical. Unfortunately that's very hard to do. There's a fine line between getting to the point and coming off as a cold-fish personality. It takes lots of practice.
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We will agree to disagree, I suppose. For you things are simple, and for me they are not. For me, some thinking in Thiel’s book was absolute heresy hiding in plain sight. I suppose we could argue over your concept of over-valued, but I have no interest in doing so.
I did not completely understand to what graphs this applies. Certainly not generic ones, that can't be true.

Is it only complete ones? It seems intuitively true that complete graphs can be tiled this way.
Because the person conducting the meeting has already failed miserably at their job and must be made aware.

A boss that conducts a useless meeting, knowing it's to hear themselves talk while knowing their subordinates are busy with important tasks that actually keep the company afloat is generally considered, and this is the technical term, a dick maneuver. His/her choice to have a time wasting meeting greatly increases the chances of those employees having to work overtime to accomplish a task on schedule, cutting into their family/personal time. Since most of these types of jobs are salary, there's no overtime pay. So yes, negativity is important in this matter. Why cuddle someone who wants to waste other people's time just to hear themselves speak and have some artificial self-important time?
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