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Kim Stanley Robinson: Let the Fed Print Money for the Planet
The irony is that the ARM architecture was also developed in the same way. A custom CPU, for a new machine, with an operating system specifically designed for it, and applications written specifically for that OS (the Acorn Archimedes/RiscOS).

The platform ended up failing, but they spun out ARM. If ARM end up overtaking Intel on the desktop, it gives the story some entertaining irony/symmetry.
Does Poland implement surveillance of their citizens in any excessive way? Just asking, as I do not know. The fact that the government is right-wing alone does not automatically mean it is going down the path of totalitarianism.
It's complicated. Hyperinflation occurs generally when the banking system's regulation is gets out of control and goes into a lending/money creation spiral. That can happen very quickly - within several month. All things considered what's more likely to happen at the moment though is a monetary implosion, as massive debt defaults occur destroying the money in the banking system. Which is why people are muttering about Great Depressions.
But the stack in JS is a terrible burden in itself, and people only accept it because we have no realistic alternative to JS on the most popular plateform in the world: the web browser.

PHP doesn't have this accidental monopoly: you can use a language that doesn't require discipline and tooling to make something decent.

Bottom line, PHP is better than it used to be. But the technical debt remains, and it's easy to avoid if you can, so we do.

I started with PHP, but I have no reason to go back to it. It has no benefit and is worth it only if you have already a massive PHP code base, or a pool of PHP devs you need to employ.
>I have no clue what is interesting about Banksy and know people who buy his crap who have no idea either.

For one, it's distinctive and iconic.

Second, in 2020, it still has an element of social commentary, whereas most "modern art" is abstract BS.

Third, it's not academic wordy social commentary (like some other art aspires to), but something plain folks can appreciate.

So, lots to like.
cornify.js [0], appropriate :).

[0] https://www.cornify.com/js/cornify.js
> the dollar was supposed to go away with Nixon's abandonment of what was left of the gold standard; the dollar was supposed to be doomed with FDR's various moves.

The value of the dollar in 1968 was - roughly - (1/40)th of an ounce of gold. The dollar today is roughly (1/1660)th of an ounce of gold.

That is a >95% reduction in value over less than a lifetime. The people who argued the dollar was going to undergo intense inflation would probably be confused about why people argue they were wrong. Some of the young ones (~30 in the 1970s) are probably still alive to argue that point although not on HN. Anyone who stuck with gold rather than dollars when Nixon closed the gold window has been making ~7.7% per annum nominal investment return from holding on to a rock.
How is it built? React Native, Cordova, SwiftUI? Maybe the technology chosen might provide a hint? Also, where are you based?
You might be surprised.

Check out what the fbi was doing to people a few years back hacking into victim's networks.
Would you care to expand on exactly why you perceive that to be an inaccurate description?
Fair enough wrt media. However SIMD e.g. MMX is done in the floating point unit (https://softpixel.com/~cwright/programming/simd/mmx.php)

I thought bitcoin mining was floating point, and that was why GPUs were so adept.
One of the biggest things confusing people about how public finance works is that everyone is focused on the Fed rather than the Treasury.

A good aspect of MMT is that it explains how the Treasury spending more than it takes in in taxes means more money is created into the economy than is deleted out of the economy. This is the more important thing to focus on.

Some of the MMT professors also do a good job explaining how QE (quantitative easing) doesn't create new net financial assets into the system, it just shifts around assets in accounts at the Fed.

All this focus on the Fed seems counterproductive.
You can lead a horse to water.... People are way to trusting.
> I’ve used it exclusively for hours at a stretch and I never stopped expecting it to act like a post-iPhone-X device. I swipe up from the bottom to go home or multitask.

Fairly sure apple could put that interface on these phones. On home button ipads you can swipe up to go home, and swipe left/right along the bottom to switch apps.

I wish apple would add this, but I think they wanted to keep new iphones exclusive. (The more benign possibility is that there wasn’t the space to do left/right swipes without messing with some app functionality)
This puts US patient 0 in CA no later than mid January.

Meanwhile, at about that time, the WHO was still denying there was a problem and was still acting as a relay for CCP' misleading statements.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/23/who-declines-to-declare-...
> normally the microkernel means the minimum needed primitives to implement the OS and after that everything is build on top of that

Sure, the minimum amount of full trust code. In this case, the full trust code is the eBPF VM which enforces protection boundaries instead of the MMU as in a classic microkernel. I'm not sure a microkernel classification ought to depend on the MMU specifically, it's a general system design philosophy.
Which intermediate representation is being used?
Will Covid-19 Speed Up Tech Automation and Job Loss?
Most of us here work with workstations or laptops, daily. But generally speaking not as many people are using them in their home. A lot of folks do use their phones primarily for media watching and browsing. And that's a big chunk of Apple's market.
A Software Forgery: James Bond's Apple IIc from a View to a Kill [video]
> M. Whether I run my Python or C# or Java on ARM or Intel doesn't matter too much to me and if AWS can offer me ARM servers at a discount, I might as well take advantage of that.

I think that's the fundamental mistake in reasoning:

If ARM is cheaper for AWS, then AWS has no reason at all to offer it to its customers at a discount because the customers will not move if no discount if offered. As long as there's no mass market for ARM PCs/servers that work with all the modern software that anyone can rack and sell a-la ServInt/Erols/EV1 circa 1996 there won't be pricing pressure.

This has played time and time again in transit pricing.
What's the advantage of Neon over Kubuntu?
There's no linter for hiring candidates. When you announce a PHP position, you are acknowledging that you'll get someone that doesn't care about maintainability, security, and whatever. Candidates will react accordingly.

And yes, Javascript has similar problems, but much less severe.
eBPF is just an in-kernel VM. You can do a lot of things with it, which makes it hard to figure out what to do with it.

Original BPF is in most Unix kernels, it was just a way of writing simple packet filtering programs that run in-kernel. For example, tcpdump is effectively just a frontend that emits BPF bytecode.

eBPF expands the capabilities of the VM, but it still has tight restrictions on what can run: no unbounded loops, arbitrary memory access, etc. I would recommend trying out bpftrace as a first step:

https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace
It's worth pointing out how extremely far ahead Apple seems to be in terms of CPU power and efficiency. It tends to go under the radar a bit because it's not easy to run your own software on an iPhone, and most apps on these things are not serious workhorse loads (a few specific use cases are, most are not).

The Apple A13 - even its implementation in the iPhone SE, in microbenchmarks achieves on par single core performance [1] with the Core i7 8086k [2] and Ryzen 9 3950X [3]. That's the highest single core performance you can buy in PCs in principle.

I don't have to explain how insane it is a 5-ish watts smartphone CPU delivers that kind of performance, even if it is in bursts. By sticking to Intel or even x86 in general, there is ample evidence Apple is leaving a lot of performance on the table. Not just in MacBooks - but for the Mac Pro too.

[1]: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q... - the iPhone 11 with the A13 has to do as a surrogate while the SE is just out, they benchmark the same.

[2]: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q...

[3]: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q...

It's worth noting that Geekbench is a pure microbenchmark. The iPhone will not sustain performance as long as the others. The point is that Apple could solve this when moving to bigger devices.
I use a hatchet.
https://twitter.com/lapcatsoftware/status/121929275891082854...
KVM/Xen don’t give you a full cross-host networking overlay (VSphere does) - that’s where a lot of the challenge lies.
How do you figure? Apple has a minority market share in celluar phones in literally every country in the world, and other than the US, doesn't even hit 25% market share.

Microsoft, at its peak, held a worldwide monopoly of over 90% of all desktop computers (I believe it was in the mid 90s).

How is Apple's (not a) monopoly worse than Microsoft?
This is a bug and is already fixed, debs can be installed by clicking. (Source: Alan Pope in the Ubuntu Podcast Chatter Telegram channel)
Scientists discover brightest supernova ever seen
Except it's not rationing per se, it's demand outstripping supply. You'll still get your elective procedure, but since it's not life-saving in the strictest sense you may have to wait a bit longer for it.

But the flip side of that is a bout of cancer, a heart attack, baby needing to spend a month in NICU doesn't bankrupt you.
The tsunami of legal work and e-discovery work to come
I can imagine a wild in which the US pursues science based policy, but it swiftly results in the corruption of science to provide evidence that fits certain conclusions. I think this already happens to a degree in certain fields, and especially among think tanks.

This isn’t a reason to avoid science based policies, but just a potential snare along the way.
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I'm now logged into work VPN (captive network) and it's reachable going out the company network routes. shrug

Edit: it's HTTPS - I use the SmartHTTPS plugin (including on mobile FF) and when trying to go this site with SSL it fails, if you force it to non-SSL it works.
As I said, my point of view is strongly skewed by living in here. Nearly everyone here knows who Dvořák was, but I was unable to tell if he's somehow known elsewhere also. Good to know he is.
Your regular 9-5 corp job is probably the safest way to financial freedom.

At least in the short term. It's turbulent out there right now to try to find a new job or start your own thing.

Freelancing is hard, really hard, it's possible but tough to transition to.

Checkout the podcast, StartupsForTheRestOfUs.com, start in the archives, episode 1 and follow Rob's story.

It's definitely a lot of work upfront and luck to do your own thing. But the podcast is good and might give you some inspiration.

I would plan on returning to your 9-5, at least till the pandemic runs it's course, I'm expecting that to take 12 to 18 months minimum. Stable income, health ins.

Up your life insurance, make sure it isn't tied to your employment, part of what you're looking for might be peace of mind that your family is taken care of.

Focus on your health. My friend early in college was diagnosed with stage IV cancer, she got in to St. Judes, was cured and is still doing well today.

Your own thing can introduce stress, but if your wife works you can probably balance that.

What should you do right now?

Focus on getting back to your 9-5, but also build an audience, teach what you know, if you provide value there is a huge opportunity to sell info products to developers if you can distill your valuable knowledge out to an audience.

https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/098-adam-wathan-of-refa...

Good luck my friend.
Google Cloud Secret manager: a better place to store your secrets
Hold down Return after typing it for a very blinged-out window!
If you don't have too much load, heroku could be good for you, but you'll have to use postgresql. The free tier is nice though.
That doesn't seem unreasonable.

If you're avoiding paying into a system because you don't want to claim from it then letting you hop back on whenever you need it would destroy the system very quickly.
This is where I take issue. Messages is completely inferior to competitors like WhatsApp. Using on your laptop? Everyone has that now. There is nothing that messages has that it's competitors don't. What's something that the competitors have? They work everywhere! Which is the most important part of a messaging app. If half your friends can't use it (which is statistically likely, unless you only make friends with people who use apple) then it's useless.
No, just uncultured. Not as in uneducated, but as in not introduced (which should best happen at an early age) to certain cultural environment, ideas, and tastes.

It's like someone only liking McDonalds who can't understand why people would ever eat Chinese food. Or someone liking pop who can't understand why someone will listen to jazz or classical.

It's a cultural thing, and it's limiting themselves, even though nominally they don't appear to / have to suffer anything for this self-limiting (it's a free country, anybody can like whatever they want, but it's still some kind of loss).

That is, if you speak about all kinds of modern art, from 1900 to 2020 say. Because sure, there are lots of crap within it, and easy for-the-money, by-the-book boring works, but also lots of wonderful works in there, so to dismiss it all is problematic.
Well, if you have a 100 billions of dollar that sits doing nothing like Apple does, spending it to get a new competitive advantage may make sense. They can do what no other computer manufacturers can no in that position.
I still can't quite believe those crappy computers in my school IT lab eventually morphed into iPhones.

Saying that, I did write my first ever computer program on them and ended up making iPhone apps.
Author here. The problem is, on a long enough time scale, you don't just need your data to be intact - you need it to be interpretable and relevant, too. How would you communicate with someone 10,000 years in the future? I did address this in my article: the answer is, you need a real life chain of human beings between you and there which is maintianing the data to ensure it is understandable and useful.
A reasonably good physical picture is to imagine the transistor as a hose. The gate is a valve, and basically works by smushing the channel closed.
In standard planar designs, the hose is smushed from the too, and eventually, you cannot close off that flow.
A finfet let's you smush that channel.closed from three sides.
And a nanowire or sheet let's you close it from all sides.

You can reasonably ask: why not make it really small and make sure it closes. The reason is that you need current to drive the computation process.

So anyway, you balance these factors at each node, which is what BSIM lets you do.
Ubuntu tests upgrades between LTS releases extensively and so do Ubuntu community developers and advanced users.

As you said, server users always upgrade. Enterprise desktop users upgrade. A lot of general users don't - they reinstall.

The upgrade process you should use with Ubuntu is different to Debian. In Debian you'd use apt, in Ubuntu you should use the update manager. Update manager specifically checks for upgradability, it has specific warnings and workarounds that are added for each release following testing and reports from end-users. This makes it much easier to upgrade.

The reason why users think the Ubuntu upgrade process is less reliable compared to Debian is they serve different user segments. Most Debian users are technically advanced, engage with the distribution and they often stay in their stream (e.g. testing). Ubuntu is used by lots of normal users - many may not pay particular attention to how packaging works - this means they often do things that make upgrades complex: install community PPA's that advance packages past the next LTS version, install Node into /usr by wiping out apts package knowledge, etc, etc. The range is just bigger.

For many normal users upgrading may no longer be the best option - it's just faster to reinstall. I personally do upgrades, I still find them magical and it's part of the fun: http://www.futurile.net/resources/ubuntu-upgrades/
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I've had an idea for the longest time that we should get rid of all the processes we've put in place to deliver everything "on-demand" and instead work with nature to get what we can.

What I mean by this is that instead of deciding "I want to drive 200 miles to the beach" and buying a tank of petrol, you would instead wait for favourable wind/solar conditions in order to "save up" the energy you need such that you can afford to drive to the beach. If you are unfortunate one year you might only end up with half of what you need, but you'll still be able to do something.

This goes for things like food too. Stop demanding the same food year round. Instead work with the seasons and eat what is available locally at that time of year.

This would be such a huge boost to happiness. You can't see light if it's light all the time. We just don't know how great our lives are because we simply expect it to all be available at all the time. Expectations are simply assimilated and become invisible very quickly. Not only that but it turns out that meeting these expectations comes at a huge price. Let's instead take what nature gives us, but no more.
So if the fund declares bankruptcy, who has to deal with the oil?
I've disabled snapd and set it on hold so it's hopefully never installed again precisely because of this.
Won't gaming stay behind now because of no Vulkan on Macs? Or are the Vulkan -> Metal translation good enough games?
Has any company ever raised more VC money and then produced so little? This has to be up there with Theranos, not sure if there are other contenders.

Magic Leap is one of those companies where it seems like everyone (in tech) was rooting against them. Too confident, too much money, too little to show. The only people I ever heard defending them were people who were financially invested in them or in AR as a whole.
Starlink internet private beta to begin in roughly 3 months
New Coke, 35 years on
Just a marketing device. Carbon neutral since 2007? Let me laugh in CO2, "green energies" are nowhere near carbon neutral. See planet of the humans by Moore.
Well, as good a time as any to remember an old exploit.

Back in the old days, to put the modem back in command mode, you had to send it +++ and wait one second without sending anything.

Hayes, a modem manufacturer, owned a patent on this "and wait one second" idea. Some manufacturers had to implement this idea without that one second.

Then came the Internet, and with it the ICMP protocol, which is a neat way to make a remote connection repeat stuff back to you. And lo and behold, you could send a ICMP packet with data that contained "+++ATH0" and when echoing back the packet your modem would pick it up as a command and disconnect. Same goes for IRC /ctcp ping commands, and many other protocols.
> Can it be helped with a good linter?

No. But it can be helped with a tech lead/team lead who can kindly but ruthlessly enforce good coding practices. I was lucky to have one of those when I was learning Java, and a lot of the habits they've taught me ended up being pretty universal, and I owe them a great deal of gratitude.
If you know a magical language that can result in excellent code without discipline, I'm all ears.
This is the most HN answer ever.

"I'm having trouble creating an Apple Developer account, has anyone had similar experiences?"

"Have you considered an Android version?"

When someone asks how to do X, telling them to do Y is almost never the right answer.
> because it's not easy to run your own software on an iPhone

Then why do I need all this performance? Perhaps to run js on shitty websites. Well, maybe for gaming.
A MacBook Air with a touchscreen would be a nice introduction to these chips.
a bit longer ≠ 2 years IMHO

>But the flip side of that is a bout of cancer, a heart attack, baby needing to spend a month in NICU doesn't bankrupt you.

>Cancer services may be rationed to those most likely to survive, says NHS report

>National Health Service insist limited care for cancer patients is 'unlikely scenario'

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/22/cancer-services-...
> I think this is why 'Street Art' is gaining momentum

That's hard thing to say, I mean graffiti has been a cultural ingrained thing in popular media since at least the 80s. Its competitive subculture took to 'bombing' as turf wars and one-uping for street cred since I was a kid in the 90s.

And then you look at places like Berlin, London or Bristol all with DEEP underground music cultures and its hard to envision a time without that street art.

With that said, I wish I had spent more time in Modena, I only had 1/2 a day off when I lived there, as one of the things I really enjoyed doing with my gf at the time was go look for these type of murals in the back alleys and abandoned buildings.

Here are some examples of the those that I saw while out for aperativo and a stroll around town

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=modena+street+art&t=lm&iax=images&...

It's a lot sketchier during the night, which is normally when we were off, but it was like an Easter Egg hunt (on a bike) I used to do for first time guests in my hometown where large Surf or Ocean based murals were commissioned by local artists and sanctioned by the municipality and local business owners, they served as cultural icons all throughout out town--many of them were actually not easily visible unless you actually went looking for them.

> satoshi

Funny, you should mention that; several Bitcoin street artists have actually been paid by observers in Bitcoin for their art throughout the years, here is just one example:

https://bitcoinist.com/street-artistincorporating-bitcoin-qr...

I'm sure this is how a Banksy should actually be validated, rather than being a 'social status' vanity piece hanging in someones living room.
I suppose this depends on what you do with the device. I'm now using Mac because of project requirements, and for Android development this is a clear downgrade from Linux. The emulator is like it's running in a pool of tar, pretty painful to do anything with it.
Also, if we want to be pedantic about it: way more than half the cells that make up a fertilized zygote are from our mother. Those cells are a living part of her body until the zygote is fertilized. The particular egg might not be fully formed at disease exposure, but it's part of her body just like any other cell.
Dang, I can't find it right now, but there's a service out there that pays you to reduce your consumption on demand. Use their app to link up with your smart appliances and stuff, and the rest does itself.

Basically they've plugged into the ISO as a "generation" resource, and when the price of power goes high enough, they say "okay we can produce that much power", and they have all their users reduce that much power, which has the same effect. They get paid for the power, and pass some of it along to their users.
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The "no matter what" in this case is that more people suffer and die for all time into the future so that fewer people can suffer and die today. That's a steep price to pay because the future and the amount of suffering people in it is functionally infinite. I think as long as you're willing to say that out loud and really mean it we've had a principled and honest discussion.