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Given that a British "journalist" lost her house to legal fees after libelling someone and refusing to take the tweet down, I think there are reasonable reasons to want to take down libellous, abusive, dangerous, or wrong tweets without having to sue Twitter.

("Journalist" is in quotes because, while that was her job title, she specialized in abuse, libel, smears, and calls to murder, and I'm glad she lost the libel case)
The premise of your objection to it is that there is nothing of a higher moral status than protecting ownership of property.

Why is that more important than any other moral axiom?
Ask HN: Do you stumble into design while coding or do you design and then code?
Recently I realised that I start coding and then a design evolves from that effort. Effectively I stumble on the design while coding rather than design first and then code. What is the right way, first to design and then code, or to start coding and then let the design emerge?
maybe yardstick for real friends
I think most Americans will choose the subscription service over ownership. Subscribers will have instant access to any type of vehicle at any time. The subscription cost will be lower than the cost of ownership. The whole fleet will always be new and incorporate the latest technology. Robotocized cleaning centers and user ratings will mitigate “tragedy of the commons.” I think even at the high end people will use luxury subscription services more often than whatever car they may own as a backup.

It’s not cheaper vs. better. Subscriptions will be both cheaper and better.
I wonder if Redox (rust OS project) will take off one day.

A lot of the goals of the project seem to line up well with dealing with issues noted in the post.

A huge endeavour of course - to build an OS from the ground up. I hope they get there.

ref: https://doc.redox-os.org/book/ch01-03-our-goals.html?highlig...

"Redox is an attempt to make a complete, fully-functioning, general-purpose operating system with a focus on safety, freedom, reliability, correctness, and pragmatism.

We want to be able to use it, without obstructions, as an alternative to Linux on our computers. It should be able to run most Linux programs with only minimal modifications.

We're aiming towards a complete, safe Rust ecosystem. This is a design choice, which hopefully improves correctness and security (see Why Rust).

We want to improve the security design when compared to other Unix-like kernels by using safe defaults and disallowing insecure configurations where possible."
They don't always. There are self-driving trains operating full time in London and Paris as well as many other cities around the world. But they are low-speed trains operating at only around 30mph. High-speed trains run in excess of 180mph and heavy goods trains are often a mile long and weigh more than 10,000 tons. While much of the signalling is automatic these days, I think it will be a long time before we could think about running something so dangerous without a skilled human in the front ready to override the controls if necessary.
Idk if this qualifies as "in production", but the JavaScript package manager Yarn (version 2) and its users use Prolog to define rules for their dependencies. Like if you have submodules A and B and both depend on package C, you may use Prolog to constrain that both A and B must always use the same version of C and updating C must be done in both packages.

https://yarnpkg.com/features/constraints
This could be a game where you have to fly a plane, looking only at the instruments (this kind of training exists for real pilots).
No shot he's losing sleep. You're thinking of normal people who take care of their own kids, not billionaires who have in house staff
Scarcity falls into three distinctive categories: demand-induced, supply-induced, and structural.

For money, scarcity is demand induced. For cryptocurrency/money the number 21m or 100m does not matter as long as it's divisible.

For something like paintings, scarcity is supply induced.
> If Amazon decided to enter the German supermarket landscape, Lidl (also, Aldi and others) would be in serious trouble.

I doubt that since I think that Amazon's vision is very different from what many German customers want. Here is a (German) text of a German blogger who went to Amazon Books in the Empire State Building. His experience was not positive:

> https://www.danisch.de/blog/2019/06/18/ein-seltsamer-einkauf...
Don't forget to dye your hair orange :)
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Given that people have called this 'wavefront based correction' I would guess you need light source where all photons are 'in phase' like a laser. The sun is not such a source.

However, I do not know near enough about physics to say the above with any degree of confidence.
He also performed several times in MASH, one of the biggest sitcoms of all time.

Edit: Song for Loudon Wainwright III by his daughter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdvk7O3Tz6A. Don't know if he deserves it or not, but it's a remarkable song.
The core of Clark’s argument is that the advantage is not due to accumulated fortune, but rather is genetic in nature.
Sounds like a fun game if all your friends are on it. We used to play this game as Management Consultants -- we'd go into a restaurant/venue and pretend to offer a semi-serious unsolicited strategy update for the place. Extra points for keyword bingo and more extra points if you could do it with a straight face.
> Even in your extreme example all of the deaths would have to be extremely old people to work out like that. People that statistically have very very few years left.

> And for your extreme example to be true, it would have to be the case that the disease doesn't discriminate healthy from weak. But still somehow only kills old people. Because if the disease does discriminate healthy from weak, all of the deaths would be those that would die soon anyway.

You do realize these are contrived examples to show errors in your math? They aren't suppositions about the actual true death rate of the coronavirus.

> Then you must divide whatever estimate you get from that by one hundred. Assuming the highest estimates that it kills around 1% of the victims, which I think are bit high.

> I don't see any possible way you could run the numbers and get more than 2 weeks lowered life expectancy. There just are so few young deaths, and the total death rate is very low.

I don't think you can "run the numbers", because the data you're using isn't enough to come to any conclusion. Unless you have data that breaks down deaths by age group, and data that breaks down deaths by age normally, you can't answer this question, as far as I know. If you think there is only 2 weeks lowered life expectancy or less, you haven't shown that.
The tone of discourse on hackernews seems to have worsened substantially in the five years. :(

Lots if snark and point scoring and no charity any more.
the idea was to get inputs about what you guys do. Many times you feel influenced by your environment and there are probably better options you can work with. But thank you for your honest answer
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no complexities in particular, but with next I just don't have to think about it.
> Why do some of you think that finding a wierd edge case is enough to invalidate a whole infrastructure?

Why do you feel you need to talk about a different infrastructure when people talk about the one you yourself acknowledge is needed to transport people to/from trains?
In the UK, discounted or damaged items have a special sticker meaning "discounted to £0.70". That sticker has a barcode on, and is what is scanned at the checkout.

That means they have no way to know which items were sold, since all those discount stickers are the same, no matter what item they were affixed to.

Given that, I don't see any way they could do decent stock control in-store. If you don't know what went out the door, you don't know what needs to be restocked.
So I like this outline. It is very MIT-ish where there is a sense of teaching someone to solve practical engineering problems with matrices.

But, I do foresee some difficulties. One thing that I find really difficult, for example, is that I take undergrads who have had linear algebra and ask "what is the determinant?" and seldom get back the "best" conceptual answer, "the determinant is the product of the eigenvalues." Like, this is math, the best answer should not be the only one, but it should be ideally the most popular. We would consider it a failure in my mind if the most popular explanation of the fundamental theorem of calculus was not some variation of "integrals undo derivatives and vice versa". I don't see this approach solving that. Furthermore there is a lot of focus from day one on this CR decomposition which serves to say that a linear transform from R^m to R^n might map to a subspace of R^n with smaller dimension r < min(m,n) and while in some sense this is true it is itself quite "unphysical"—if a matrix contains noisy entries then it will generally only be degenerate in this way with probability zero. (You need perfect noise cancelation to get degeneracies, which amounts to a sort of neglected underlying conserved quantity which is pushing back on you and demanding to be conserved.) In that sense the CR decomposition is kind of pointless and is just working around some "perfect little counterexamples". So it seems weird to see someone say "hold this up as the most important thing!!"
They don't fix the problem. Nowhere on earth is there a sustainable electrical grid that doesn't pollute the atmosphere, let alone one that supports electric cars for every household. Not only that but electric cars create local pollution in the form of particular matter from brakes and tyres and they are worse than internal combustion engine cars in that regard.
We used his book then too, at Drexel in Philadelphia. Our prof at the time invited Dr Strang to guest lecture one time and I remember it being so clear and obvious as he talked that I thought “wow this is why an MIT education is so revered”.

I waited after the lecture to personally thank him and have him autograph the textbook; very glad I did in retrospect.
Also, retailers don't like AWS. For them using AWS is gifting money to your biggest natural predator.
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Yes, I felt the same kind of loss, familial, and unique to him over other celebrities for me, just as you describe.
> tech workers in Bay Area pity Denmark

If there is an apples to oranges comparison, the only one closer would be to the Netherlands.
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Accumulation of wealth by a single individual is a very inefficient distribution of resources (from a maximizing utility perspective) due to the diminishing value of each additional $.
For some time now I think why Hetzner is that weak? We've used them in my last Startup and their cloud offering was fine (price, quality), but to use them one would need loadbalancers and managed Postgres and some caching
We managed that on our own but it felt unnecessary. AWS has a lot of bells and whistles not every one needs, but there is a set of tools you need to operate a website. I currently use DO who are very slow but get there I think.
He also married a 15 year old. He's "fortunate" he passed away before Operation Yewtree [1] got going.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peel#Personal_life

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yewtree
You can't treat people in your own office like you treat those people on the street. Office people do not have to bring their own gear to work everyone knows that.
There are some good Korean fried chicken places in Sunnyvale. It's a bit lighter than normal fried chicken, still just as delicious.
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Curious thing about JP I noticed was how he spoke. Everything he said was spoken a little slowly with a kind of constant measuring of quality with the result that whatever he spoke was worth listening to.

He didn't waste words, he didn't (that I recall) ever 'chatter on'. Every word seemed to count.

Maybe my memory deceives me but I do remember this, and it's something I try to emulate.

Anyway, I'll check all this out. I did love the variety of stuff he played. Thanks, article poster.
> Then again, I live in a place where I did not had to go into lifelong debt for it.

The average Bachelor’s graduate in the US has $38K in debt the day they graduate. If you go in state to a state school you will on average pay even less. If you don’t get an expensive graduate degree in a field with no jobs you’re not going to be swimming in debt.
It's not absurd, it's undersized in fact.

AWS is nearing 50% larger than SAP in sales, which have 101,000 employees.

AWS is now approximately the size of Oracle in sales, which have 136,000 employees.
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> However, it's more putting the milk in the pantry type stuff

That's an Americanism, right? Your milk isn't shelf-stable?
> I would love to buy a small electric vehicle, but the cost is prohibitive. A small vehicle, safer than a motorcycle and more idiot proof,

Why don't you own a Twizy already?
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FWIW if anyone else comes back to this I spent a little time last night and I've addressed my font rendering issues by;

* Removing an errant font-config lcdfilter configuration entry (this was a left over from when I was running "infinality" and should have been removed)

* Switching font from Noto Sans to Ubuntu

Its not perfect, but its a lot better. I'll probably play with oversampling (rendering X at a higher resolution and scaling down like OSX) at some point to see if I get the quality I want.
I had it in Atlanta and it was great.
Yeah, but are they doing "$35 billion per year"-well? :-)
You refer to Bitcoin Cash (BCH) [1]. You are right that it split from Bitcoin BTC to follow the original scaling plan: increase the maximum block size and improve the software to make such bigger blocks work in a P2P network. Its adoption has been slow, but don't forget that it had to begin from scratch, as BTC was the one who retained the network effect. That's one of the difficult problems of cryptocurrencies: bootstrapping.

The big question for me is where would we be today if Bitcoin BTC hadn't sidetracked the original scaling plan and its adoption hadn't stopped in its tracks 3 years ago. Remember when Steam accepted Bitcoin? Microsoft Xbox Online? Dell? NewEgg? It was almost every week I read about some big company starting to accept Bitcoin. Then when they realized people were not using it because of the raising transaction fees and long confirmation times they dropped it.

[1] https://www.bitcoincash.org/
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I never knew that. It does explain why I enjoy his show on 6Music though.
Ask HN: Why are you against open plan offices?
This topic seems to come up time and time again on here. As someone young and new to the industry I have only ever experienced open plan offices, so I don't really know what the alternative is like. However I'm inclined to say I don't think I would enjoy cubicles or private offices. I feel like you'd miss out on so much collaborative effort and serendipitous & spontaneous conversations with colleagues that solve problems out of the blue. I also think it's just plain isolating being on your own in a room all day. What's wrong with just putting some headphones on if you want to put your head down and do some deep, quiet work?

Having said all that as I admit I haven't experienced the alternative so I'm open to being convinced I'm wrong.
> the other half focused on educating people

I don't buy the idea that being educated to be a productive person is not an education, or is somehow inferior.

I've seen too many non-STEM educated people who could really use a couple courses in statistics, what the scientific method is, how to discern gold from pyrite, what percentages mean, using data to find answers, distinguishing wealth from income, understanding exponential behavior, understanding what a chaotic system is, etc.

Besides, knowing what general relativity is just mind-bending (pun intended!).
Thank you very much for your answer, it has taught me things I didn't know
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I don't have firsthand experience but from what I know those salaries come with very high expectations. Things like "you have to drive to some random neighborhood on a Sunday to check that flyers were being delivered correctly'.
Have not watched the videos yet, but that seems to me more like an 1820 vision of linear algebra :-)

If you look at the order of topics in his book "An Introduction to Linear Algebra", you will find the topic "Linear Transformation" way back in chapter 8! Even after the chapters eigenvalue decomposition and singular value decomposition. But understanding that a matrix is just the representation of a linear transformation in a particular basis is probably the most important and first thing you should learn about matrices ...
You started off strong, but overreached. If I say to my spouse or child "You fucking stupid cunt, I've told you a thousand times to put the dishes away! You good for nothing piece of shit, you can't even get that right!" That's violence.

EDIT> Speech is an act. That act can be violence.
Universities in NL have been in the proces of becoming businesses over the last 20 years, as they have been made partially responsible for their own budget. And it shows.
> Name something that isn't dangerous. There isn't one because anything can lead to danger so that is a moot argument.

> it is yet to be shown that speech is destructive, my question still has not been answered.

I truly do no understand your question at a logical level then. Is your point that speech is not a physical object and cannot be smashed against things, in an opera singer breaking a crystal glass the counterexample you are looking for? Do dolls have eardrums?

This looks like a facetious interpretation of the question. We could apply similar level of deconstructionism to many other laws and regulations. The only way I can see this as relevant is to transform this into a conversation of whether governments have the right to pass laws at all?

The question I would like you to answer then is: Should all speech always be lawful? Are there any kind circumstances where speaking certain things should be a crime?

I guess we are trying to find a common ground, but I have no idea where you stand.
Ok so let’s slice it up. 25% of the pop is, in your view, legitimately poor... lowest quintile. Which leaves 61-25 = 36% of the population of the US is just bad at money and it’s their own fault?

I would be very hesitant to make an uncharitable assumption about that many millions of people - their situations are likely more complex than you or I understand.

Best case scenario, you are right, and we are failing massive swaths of the population by not teaching good money management as part of the core education everybody receives. Either way, things are broken right now!
See, I don't really get the downvotes. Here I'm trying to express my admiration for the guy and his project, and at the same time lamenting that in my current life, I don't find the time any more. My life conditions are mostly influenced by having a job and a family which in my case takes up most of my time.

What is there to downvote?

I used to have much more spare time (family, d'uh!) and so had more time to spend on fun project. Don't get me wrong: I wouldn't treat my family for anything in the world but what's wrong with being nostalgic every now and then when you see someone else realizing a cool project like this for which I certainly would not find the time these days?

Was the perception that I was implying that this is a trivial project that anyone could realize, even me, if only had some more time? I can't imagine that, unless the downvoters stopped reading at the three dots - otherwise it would certainly have been clear that I find the project admirable.

So, I don't get it.

I do understand the run-away effect that someone sees a downvoted comment that has, say, 2 downvotes already and then feels the urge to be part of the club and downvote it a third time. I know the temptation.

At least some people express their thoughts in their answer but from reading the replies to my comment, even when someone disagrees what (what they think) I meant, I get the feeling that they wouldn't have downvoted necessarily because they're simply expressing a different viewpoint.

But again, I wasn't talking about other people who might be able to involve their family into their projects. That's completely besides the point. Of course, everyone is different. I was talking about myself. I find it hard to see how my remark could be construed as an alleged statement about life in general. And it wasn't even a negative statement either.

So, before I start repeating myself too much, I sometimes don't get HN'ers. Plus, anonymous downvotes suck. I guess that is a general statement about life.
Also the Aixam and other "license-free" cars typically used by people who lost their license for some reason.
GCP is moving the corporate needle. Not a lot, but it is. It won't be cancelled.
> One advantage is they can be parked sideways on most streets

They advertised this but in reality it's rarely possible. They are 2.5m long and most cars in Europe are <2m wide.

E.g. in the UK standard parking is 2.4m wide so a smart sticks out
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I've done a small run of ~100 devices.

It was basically the same process as looperhacks: hook stuff up on a breadboard, turn that into a prototype PCB design, iterate on prototypes if there are problems, then just put 100 on the order form instead of 5 when you send it to the manufacturer.

You asked in the other comment about flashing and that depends. For me, my project was basically just a motherboard for an ESP32 dev board, which would serve as the logic controller. Since it has a micro-USB port and there were only 100 of them, I just flashed it from my laptop the same as any dev board.

For larger scale manufacturing, you can have the flash written in advance, before manufacture or put some exposed contacts on your board that can be reached with pogo pins and write your flash through those pins.

You can also outsource all of this to a contract manufacturer like Seeedstudio [0].

As for updates, the ESP32's software has built in OTA functionality that you can configure however you please. My boards are connected with MQTT over WiFi anyway so I added a simple "update now please" command that triggers the OTA. Aside from that you could add a USB port or stream the OTA over bluetooth from a smartphone.

[0]: https://www.seeedstudio.com/propagate/
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That's the thing I tried to point out in my original comment: They don't embrace automation because it will 100% lower prices in the whole industry.

In the German market, ALDI/LIDL/REWE currently have a healthy oligopoly. Why destroy end user prices and your own margins by automating?

Amazon is not directly attacking their store-focused model because for the billions needed in investment to reach the automation needed for main-stream adaption, they can get way higher margins in other categories (e.g. non-food).

IMHO the perfect supermarket of the future is not food delivery, but a drive-in/pick-up model where you can go 24/7 and where your order is packed 100% by robots. Until we reach this point in terms of technology, the traditional supermarkets will not change due to the above-mentioned oligopoly.
Taxi Driver with COVID19 charged with attempted murder for continuing to work
The irony of bringing up the right to work in a discussion about a US corporation wanting to reopen their plant. So is Tesla going to offer everyone who wants to work a job, because it's a human right? Exactly, that's not what the right to work is, neither does it mean that corporations can just be restart plants without care about regulations.