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of course, someone on HN has to make this ultimate bike-shed comment about a project's name.
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The big Isms don’t exist in the real world - every country is a mixed economy to a greater or lesser degree.

IP is a bargain between state and author. The state agrees to let the author charge rent on their IP for a limited period of time, thus incentivizing the creation of that IP. In return, the public gets to enjoy that IP’s existence - and eventually enjoy it for free.

How long should the limit be? Here lies the debate. The longer the period, the greater the incentive to invest in production of the IP. For example, a movie studio spends $300m+ on a movie because they expect to gain that back via an income stream that lasts for many decades. If their period of protection was only, say, 5 years, their return on investment would be less and thus the investment amount would be less.

So one way to think about the copyright protection length is to ask: do we want to live in a world where investing $300m+ in a movie is a rational thing to do, or would we be content with movies costing no more than $30m, or $3m?

Sure, celebrities are paid too much, but for some variation of this argument you may agree that reduced copyright terms limit the type of movies that can be made.

You can substitute movies for pharmaceuticals if you like - longer patent terms mean a bigger payoff for investing in new medical research. Tweak patent length and you change what drugs exist.

I personally disagree with the patentability of some things (like software), and with the length of copyright, but I also like that movies like, say, Lord of the Rings exist, so it’s not a trivial issue for me. I want a healthy public domain but I also would be sad if the Bakshi LOTR version was all we ever had.
The US has laws against snooping on the mail - so before encryption, it was illegal for the government to even try to snoop (search and seizure). The only reason this is even an issue now is that digital information is not being legally treated in the same way as physical information. If we had laws to prevent the government from ever opening your email, that would be a solution worse than encryption (laws are easier to break than elliptic curves), but it would achieve some of the same goals. However, you will never see the advocates of cleartext laws propose that trade - they don't want the same rules as we had in the 1800s, they want looser rules!
Mayor of Nice calls for Covid-19 ‘health passports’ to enter or leave France
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Memoization is usually preferable if you can do it, sure. But you can't memoize a continuation, because what it expresses is a computation that has yet to complete and produce the result you'd need in order to memoize. And the use of the g_fnid hash table doesn't qualify as memoization, either, because the keys aren't arguments to the function that produced the values; what it actually is is a jump table, cf. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_table#Jump_table_exam...
It's not a binary choice, and honestly it doesn't take a whole lot on our part to make the product open.

Also consider:

1. The choices we make on mitigating the possibility of the product being waste can actually improve our product. For example, because the product can be reprogrammed easily, we can enter verticals that wouldn't be possible otherwise. Or because our hardware is well-architected and documented, it's easier for us to iterate on it.

2. If we fail because we couldn't figure out a way to make the product responsibly, that's a good thing. I'd rather we fail early than put out waste.
A great example of eliminating accidental complexity by embracing and clarifying the essential complexity. I have seen many such systems where a single exhaustive state machine could replace a mess of buggy and incomprehensible spaghetti code.
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Wait, are you telling me that

git branch -b ohnowhathaveidone

isn't right??
I think it's a cop out. Sirius XM purchased them and then pivoted to rental car fleets. Guess that didn't work out, so blaming the Covid economy is an easy way out.
I never understood one thing about American Politics. A lot of folks who are fierce advocates for people being able to keep weapons, go quickly up in arms against encryption. As if the guns somehow can't harm the children. Even though the US has had so many school shootings, it seems a lot of politicians are still hell bent on saying encryption harms children, while guns somehow don't land in the conversation.
It's not, that is a perfectly logical thing to do: Use a more generic primitive to implement more specific functionality.

It's not about liking one thing or another more. It's that coroutines are coroutines, and cooperative multitasking is cooperative multitasking. The two are often confused, and all I am saying is that that is incorrect.

Cooperative multitasking can easily be implemented with coroutines, but doesn't have to be. You could implement coroutines with cooperative multitasking but doing so is highly silly and a massive hack.
This guide has been posted to HN a number of times by others, typically with a very positive response.

I recently made a major update, in particular: strongly recommending _Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective_ and _Designing Data-Intensive Applications_; recommending _Crafting Interpreters_ over the Dragon Book for those new to compilers; updating a number of broken links (due to shutdown of Lagunita); and, adding a few secondary recommendations
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I think they've said everything will be up on youtube and their site in the next week or so
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That's not the sunk cost fallacy unless sticking with it now is actually a bad idea. I don't think you have enough info to determine that, and it's a lot less work to do so than it is to build something else and validate it.
If it had been a "buy the whole package outright, no cloud nonsense" service then having the company go belly up wouldn't render your purchase useless.

Having a subscription means it can disappear on you at any point.
I really loved this aspect of POV-Ray back then. As a "normal" programmer it was really nice to be able to script very complex scenes procedurally. E.g. https://vimeo.com/105317159
We have those in Dublin. Seems to be working mostly ok and pretty cheap to use.
A 20€ yearly membership and your rides are free if they last less than 30 minutes. Which means free for most folks.
Super cool, can you explain a bit how you make these?
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Increasing privacy?

Can you demonstrate where privacy has increased when compared to some previous time in history?
Let me be real with you for a second in one of those let's pretend we've just taken a bunch of psychedelics and all the structures that prop us and our beliefs and ideals have collapsed: I really think you should reconsider your position on this. Containers are ok, they are not a threat; the kinds of people who are going to be selfhosting your stack are the same kinds of curious, investigative people who will debug when it all falls down. Those people do not need to be pushed through a manual series of commands as a hazing ritual.

I'll be just as real with you that I'm not going to be the one to maintain it. It's in the best interest in the platform's broader adoption I make my plea. Because people like me will just flounder on the rocks of the GitHubs of the world. And that's not a future either of us really want.
air pollution exacerbates asthma as well as increases the chance for new-onset asthma. So the relationship here is more complicated. Just how lack of movement feeds into obesity which feeds into less mobility.

So better not be so quick to put the cart before the horse here. A lot of people don't use cars because they're sick, they're sick because we've built unhealthy environments in the first place.

Also as far as young people are concerned, not sure I've you've ever been to the Netherlands but biking with kids is perfectly fine.
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I got into a really deep conversation about this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042796

You may have seen it, it's in the same thread of conversation we're having.

Basically there's actually axiomatic proof that you can never know if you applied all possible applicable simplifications. Therefore you can never know whether or not more complexity can be destroyed or reduced.
> > OpenShift & Kubernetes is just ELBs, App Routers, scheduling, monitoring, and logging systems, some orchestration tools

> True but consider this - there used to be people whose job it was to do most of that stuff and the app developers did not have to think about it for the most part. Kubernetes/OpenShift just moved all of the complexity on the developer's plate - and the mind numbing stuff that results from that is worthy of few articles

Ignoring OpenShift, I don't think the comparison is quite that simple because it's leaving out all of the drawbacks from that traditional approach. Instead of writing a few lines of YAML you have to wrangle time and support from central IT, debugging is often a multi-party finger-pointing exercise with access limitations, and because you're talking about separate services and usually hardware changes and updates are hard because they need to be coordinated across multiple applications and teams.

That's not saying that there aren't legitimate areas for concern but I've seen fairly large amounts of developer time and downtime go into working around the limitations of that model (“<vendor> isn't compliant with this 15 year old RFC so we need to distribute forks of these 15 common tools for years until we can replace those $$$ appliances”).
I have been seeing all the ASL interpreters during government press conferences and have been very confused about their usefulness. These feeds are all on TV news channels with closed captioning. Do deaf people prefer an ASL interpreter on a small corner of a TV over written text?

The article mentions a deaf man who did not know about the stay-at-home order until a relative called him. Even if true, are we suppose to assume he had been watching the news broadcast of the Cuomo presser and only didn't pick up on it because there was no interpreter?

I would love for someone with more knowledge to chime in and tell me why I'm misinformed. I'm more curious than anything else.
> bikeshare bikes are usually one-size-fits-all, which I guess is fine if you're the perfectly average size.

I think they are tiny. I have wondered how they got this so wrong, but decided that it must be intentional. It prevents long journeys and limits the frequency of curb hopping and other damage causing activity.
China has 1,400 million people, US has 330 million people, and EU has 445 million people. Raw GDP is important for military power, but it’s Per Capita GDP that’s important for citizens.

China’s relative growth rate has been slowing down over the last 30 year, making long term projections difficult.
Fix the brand then I'll consider using it.
Better said than I could do.

One thing I’ve also thought is that if Linux had managed a first-class GNUStep environment with a compelling alternative to macOS in terms of dev tooling, it could have been great leverage in terms of keeping Apple focused on the core developer experience in macOS.
I've seen projects outlive multiple issue-tracking systems.

Nothing inherently wrong with having the number in the branch or commit-message, but please make sure the rest of the name/message stands on its own.
I had written a whole comment about this but paused and did some research.

Very interesting to read about the origins of patents. Not what I expected!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Monopolies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Patent_Statute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_patent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Brunelleschi#An_innova...
I’ve never heard anyone say they were against encryption.
That sound really speculative. What exact wording did you see that makes you think this?
If you manage to hack this, let me know (retiring VP Eng here)! The latest device contains a custom ASIC with hardware security :)
Dropshippers are literally rent-seeking [0] middlemen, though, and their actions are contemptuous on the surface, for the harm done to consumers. In addition, it seems like their relative wealth is creating wealth inequality in some Southeast Asian locales, which is the calling card of neocolonialism [1].

I don't see why we shouldn't judge marketers harshly, in general, and these folks in particular seem particularly unctuous.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocolonialism
Switching sides, kinda: OK, so you might not be able to assign much culpability to any given data block, so just assign culpability to sharing the metadata that A⊕B⇒C, right?

It's my understanding that that metadata is stored in a "descriptor block" stored in to the network like any other data block (but isn't combined with a set of random other blocks already on the network). I am unsure what the format of that data is, it might very well be easy to identify a block as being a descriptor block (or maybe not, I have no idea).

Going after those who download the descriptor block is problematic for the same reasons--that block will end up being reused for other files, the same as any other data block; they could be using it for any number of purposes.

OK, so you go after those that say "hey, use this X descriptor block to get such-and-such copyrighted file". Well, there's a reasonable amount of precedent that that sharing a link to a copyrighted work doesn't constitute infringement in many jurisdictions (e.g. hosting a torrent file or a magnet link isn't infringing; it's actually seeding or leaching the contents of the torrent that's infringing).

OK, so you go after those that downloaded the descriptor block, then shortly afterward downloaded the data blocks referred to by the descriptor block, and that's reasonable suspicion. Well (1) tracking that is a lot harder than tracking who downloaded an individual block, and (2) there's still a sliver of plausible deniability, so then then you get a subpoena to search their computer for C.

Again, the whole point is to make it really _hard_ to tell who's doing what.
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Wow, they spend $2B/year on content and somehow manage to only have Clearchannel garbage stations? They're getting ripped off.
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The same ones who are poised to strike off any gun regulations that don't date back to the Revolutionary War, presumably.
Probably because that immediately becomes:

Senators want to look in your bedroom so they can see you fucking children.
The problem with time is that it is (typically) not a causal variable. If you are modeling the price of a stock for example, time is certainly not what is causing to go up or down! Yes it is true, that the price at time t+1 is highly correlated with the price at time t, but extrapolating outwards must require a more sophisticated model that includes the real causal variables.
This is the "I've nothing to hide" fallacy. The question will become: who gets to decide? Who will watch the watchers? If everything you say and do is captured, it won't be societal norms but some singular point of view based on who is in power. Governments have shown an inability to protect citizen's rights when give this kind of power. Look at China and North Korea and Russia for proof. We don't have to conjecture about this, we know. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. I prefer freedom with consequences.

Honest question: do you know your neighbors are doing today, pre EARN IT passing?
The distinction is not so much about source of income as it is about the reason for their relocation, in my experience. Expats come to a country more so for adventure than opportunity. Not to say they can't thrive there and integrate closely with the culture, just that it wasn't really a relocation driven by necessity.
The article's own subtitle is misrepresenting itself? You'll need to make a better case if you want people to buy that.

Btw, the change I made was because of HN's rule. The original title was linkbaity, so the rule called for it to be changed. More explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23045233.

It's true that the subtitle was also somewhat baity, but less so—and in any case, the change was an experiment, as I explained. If I hadn't been deviating from regular practice, there would have been no experiment, no explanation, no complaints, and therefore no responses to complaints, and this comment wouldn't exi
Smartphone shipments dropped 18% in China, thanks to Covid-19
Their floppy disk care icons were hilarious: https://thisisagoodsign.wordpress.com/2016/04/26/beagle-bros...
Well. You can be pro-gun and pro-encryption. Technically encryption is actually considered under the same rules as ammunition by US customs.
New Firefox service will generate unique email aliases to enter in online forms
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In short, thunderbolt. I suspect they went to the USB Type-C connector (on the iPad Pro) mainly for power delivery and while they got DisplayPort, they don’t have full peripheral support. USB 3.1g2 (putatively 10 GBPs) is the fastest supported; may be ok for an iPad but not really suitable for a non-archival external disk.

These limitations are perfectly reasonable for an iPad but not for a laptop.

FWIW nothing but a single TB 4 port (not even an audio jack) would work just fine for me, but I know some others feel differently for their use.