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> There are tricks you can do with animation cycles where if all cycles are relatively prime, then the pattern only repeats every few minutes, hours, centuries. It's part of why we have 13 and 17 year cicadas. They align on a frequency of over 2 centuries, and they have near misses (appearing in successive years) around every 50 years

You didn't explain how this observation fit into the rest of your comment, but if you're saying that putting two things on simple cycles is good enough to look acyclic to players, I don't think that's true. If you have an oak tree and a fir tree next to each other, animated in 13 second and 17 second cycles, and it takes four full minutes for the oak+fir system to repeat itself... people will still notice that the oak tree is on a 13 second cycle, and the fir tree is on a 17-second cycle. There's no rule that says you can only consider things in the context of everything else that might happen to be nearby.
So you believe the official account of everything? Authority is everything to you?

What about all those conspiracies that turn out to be true? Libor rate fixing, US tapping merkel, certain groups in media conspiring with certain political party, etc? Every war we've been involved in the last few decades have been conspiracies. Or did you forget about yellowcake?

Extreme paranoid thinking is detrimental but so is extreme naivety. Categorically rejecting conspiracy theories is as ridiculous as categorically accepting official narrative.

So do you accept everything Trump says as gospel? Should we shut down CNN/MSNBC/etc since they peddled conspiracies about Putin owning Trump?

For someone who rejects paranoia, you seem quite paranoid about conspiracies...
If you're happy with the current state on linux...don't ever use a macbook trackpad. It'll ruin you.
There’s so many head games that goes into US politics that seems pointless. Democrats in particular compromise with themselves so much before even offering something to republicans before compromising even more.

Republicans pretty much never do that, it’s just boom, let’s give big tax cuts to the rich or stop all immigration.

Left side of the US needs to boldly actually fight for things rather than step my step planning out what “seems reasonable to republicans”, it’s just a bad losing idea, go boldly with what’s the moral and reasonable thing.
Like in most other jobs, the quality of work does deteriorate. People get bored, take their employers for granted, cut corners and so on. In case of family, things are more complicated.

For domestic work, you usually can't offer them a career progression path to keep them interested. So the alternative is rotation. Though trust is definitely an issue, if your location has maid agencies that arrange for this kind of work, that aspect can be mostly addressed.
He was bragging the other day about eating his neighbors.
This is an american perspective. In the UK, people are proud to be "on the dole" and very few support restricting it.

EDIT: Of course brits will still look for work. My point is that Ive seen brits in talk shows audiences talk about taking public assistence without thinking of themselves as "bad people" the way American conservatives would. The desire to eliminate all public assistance is absent in Europe. Don't mean to offend brits, I think you guys have the right attitude here. Take assistance if you need it and dont needlessly refuse to help others.
I live near this.
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/running-afoul-of-th...

About 30 blocks away, years ago there was a peacock farm that shut down.

I fairly far away, but every morning we have the neighborhood peacock walking in front of house, coming to the front door.

Supposedly there was a big capture effort, but this last month I see 2 extra babies.

They are beautiful to look at, but they are a nuisance.

Shitting all over the place (they take big bird shits).
Blocking traffic, struts down middle of 1 lane pathway.(and new neighbours/visitors stopping to take pics

And causing damage to vehicles, just last week a male was tripping out pecking neighbors car denting it.

Always coming to your car or door for food.

I have seen one stop the roof of the house across the street (3 stories).

Always squawking.

Gawd I hate peacocks
Thanks - much appreciated. What I primarily believe in is being open and honest with our users, and avoiding corporate speak whenever possible.

Privacy means different things to different people and I probably am more open than he average person on hacker news. A full comment on what it personally means to me would be quite a long essay!
Compare that to England where a note or coin can be discontinued with just 6 months notice.

Sure, they say you can still convert the old notes to new, but only in small quantities, and only with ID and proof of where the notes came from.
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Thanks and noted.. Have you seen the Privacy Center in our app? This was meant as the area to get plain English explanations on how things work along with various opt-outs. It is still a bit more legalese-ish than I would like but the intent was very much to be open and let users make informed decisions.
thanks for the link. it looks great and is inspiring. i have a domain that seems right for this and will try it.
This is definitely her field. Pretty much every individual topic in the paper was present at the conference mentioned in the acknowledgments, either during a talk or at the coffee breaks (not all put together, of course). I don't think she focuses on Khovanov homology and the Rasmussen s-invariant per se, but its one of the main obstructions to a knot being slice. I think it's more than just fresh eyes: she could see farther than others because of how good she is at these geometric calculations for knot traces!
Sort of handy
Consider how all sides are pretty fractured, left and right. Policies that were widely popular for the political right a decade ago (free, unrestricted trade) is now dead in the water with tariffs or the threat of them raining down. Similarly what’s “important” on the left is very fluid, and the political left is headed for the same upheaval the political right experienced with the tea party where it essentially became a populist platform.
I didn't knew about Anbox. From their FAQ at https://anbox.io/

> The initial proof-of-concept was done on an Ubuntu Touch based device. Since then Anbox has evolved quite a bit, making desktop devices its main development focus. However, recent experiments show that Anbox still runs fine (with a few tweaks and lifted confinement because of older kernel versions) on mobile devices based on Ubuntu Touch.

and the link to Ubuntu Touch is

> 410: Page deleted. Ubuntu for mobile is no longer supported

as we all know. I guess other companies could be working to make Anbox run on their hardware but I'm not expecting anything in a short time. However I could use Anbox on my desktop for a few apps.
20 years ago, there was Perl that was often claimed to replace sed and awk: I remember several books that said things like “there’s no reason to use
awk now that we have Perl”
OK, but that raises another question: Who decides? Censorship requires a censor. Who are you willing to let decide for you what you're allowed to read and hear?

I don't know about you, but I'd like to decide for myself what media I can consume.
Yes, but "included in the block" means you either wait some hours or pay higher fees.
As said DNS operator (founder and CTO of DNSFilter.com) - I concur. We’ve been offering DoT for years, but are about to improve the offering with 0-RTT support.

We’re also working on POCs of DoH support, but it’s mostly moot compared to our DoT offerings which cover the whole OS, not just the browser.
Then trick is, the 'compromise' suggestions are what the democrats want.

The USA democrats aren't a left wing party, they're a center and even center right party. A politically established left wing doesn't exist in the USA like it does in Europe.
Sounds like org-mode or vim-wiki would be up your alley. This appears to be quite similar but with a modern interface and probably better prebaked configs.
The entire point of end-to-end encryption is to prevent this from being automated and abused by either the legal system or the company. Requiring a warrant to access the secret key on the user device reduces the risk of mass surveillance. Metadata (access logs) remain in clear text and can still be used to help authorities identify nefarious activity.
> Using this for blanket censoring is deceitful.

From the point of view of the censor, this is a feature. Censorship is more effective if the people being censored don't realize it's happening.

Also, I'm not sure Google has any choice in the matter of complying with any and all of China's demands, if they have any operations in China.

If Google has any boots on the ground in China, it's nothing more nor less than a building full of potential hostages: China can arrest those personnel at any time if Google doesn't fully cooperate with any and all demands to participate in this censorship and gaslighting.

If Google takes that whole "do no evil" thing seriously, doesn't put boots on the ground and tries to operate entirely outside Chinese borders, China'll just cut Google off at the Great Firewall and give all the market opportunities to others.

The classic play of making an offer you can't refuse...
Facebook have tried this earlier, but it didn't work, and i personally believe ... it won't work.
And when Republicans don’t want to abolish food stamps, they are trying to make it less cash driven.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-budget-resurrects-har...

I would not go as far to say it operates in peace, but not having it cash based is the position of the less extreme people.
Many more believe now that measures taken were an overreaction even though data from Spain random testing indicates that 5% of population there already got Covid, which combined with their number of dead gives over 1% mortality which is nothing like the flu.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/study-5-of-spanish-populatio...
We have some forms of this, such as the earned income tax credit, but it doesn’t go nearly far enough.

I like the the idea of a reverse income tax at the lower levels and wish it was more popular, but it needs to be done in a way that it doesn’t discourage earning more money.
>North Korea has nearly perfect USD$100 printing plates, and finances imports with them. There have been several news articles written about this

I believe there has only been one report of a "superdollar" found since 2008, and there has never been overly strong proof that North Korea were the ones producing them
Isn't this the basis of domain squatting? Buy up great domain names and sell it.
What am I misunderstanding? when I search for tiktok for Android I find https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.android... with 4.5 stars. Does it take time for the reviews to propagate?
Is this the reason Notion has adjusted its pricing?
As models go this is ok to highlight the cost/reward incentive to mine at all, but with the original whitepaper we all already knew that full network hash rate depended on cost of electricity, the block reward, the fees of transactions in the block, and the purchasing power of bitcoin. What's new, other than an incorrect focus on "per transaction" when the real cost is system-wide and depends on different/more parameters (sum of F, difficulty rather than hash rate, and transactions per block which individually contribute arbitrary amounts including 0s to the sum of F)? It just seems like another tiresome way to make the years-old remark of "wow look how much electricity the full system (a decentralized trustless ledger) consumes and how few transactions per second it supports!"
On stories about catching large birds: when I was a teenager I had a job at a DIY store, the owner of which also had a pet store, which in turn was known in the area for selling all sorts of exotic animals (this was 20 years when this was still allowed in Belgium).

So he had an outdoor area next to the DIY store where he sold garden statues and stuff, and behind that there was a small paddock he used as 'overflow storage' for animals he didn't have room for elsewhere. Usually there were some ostriches in there, which were quite an attraction and drove part of the business.

Anyway one day he sold an ostrich and they asked (well, told me I guess... although to 15 year old me it was much better than stocking shelves) me to catch it. They weren't large ostriches (I've seen much larger ones in Australia) but it was still taller than I was at the time (1m80 maybe? maybe there were really emus and not ostriches? I'm just going off what I was told here).

So I put on some overalls and the plan was that my colleague would chase it into a corner, I'd jump on it to hold it down, then he'd grab its legs, tie them together, and we'd carry it into a horse trailer they had standing ready. The 'chasing into a corner' part went fine, but then when I got on top of it, it started kicking its legs (obviously) and ripped straight through the legs of my overalls - literally kicking it straight through (mostly without hitting my leg though, fortunately, because those feet are more like talons). So now I was stuck to this ostrich with my overall pants, and to make it worse, it turned out this thing was much stronger than we thought, and it literally took me for a ride. I couldn't jump off because I was stuck to it, and I needed my two hands to hold its neck to keep it from biting at me. So there I was, riding around a wild ostrich with all the customers as audience, my other colleagues laughing their asses off. So I basically had to squeeze my legs to hold on, trying to control its wings, and sort of wrestle it to the ground after which my colleague had the unenviable task to get hold of its feet.

In reality it can't have taken us more than a few minutes, but it felt like half an hour, and I came out quite scratched (but with an applause from our 'audience' so the scratches didn't matter).

Moral of the story, I guess, is that birds can be much stronger than you think, and overall I'd recommend against tackling ostriches/emus head on. So good thinking to the guy in the OP.
Why is banning speech a great travesty?

Because it hides the truth. Perhaps someone will discover people you wouldn't expect involved doing things we wouldn't expect which may cause some aspects from being denied to cease to be true. Silencing one groups end up silencing another.

Why don't we have a law banning denial of other genocides like the Armenian genocide. There should be an equal concern for all genocides being denied.
Pretty cool stuff
The problem as I see it is Magic vs being exact.

Imagine the magical language that builds things for you, based on a high level business document. There may be 15 pages of detailed requirements that expand into tens of thousands of lines of code, but the people who wrote that 15 pages don't truly understand what's going on.

When they change some small requirement on page 11 it may affect the deeper structure of the entire system, and have ripple effects on everything that happens.

The reason "all languages are equivalent" is that if you really try to avoid the magic, you're stuck with the basics that almost all languages share.
> Jeff Braun was the only manager for a staff of 32 people – even for the financial staff, a problem that was swiftly corrected after Maxis got audited by the IRS.

Why does the IRS care how one organizes their company?
That seems extreme given that in Switzerland almost everything is now reopened. The UK has it worse but mostly because of care homes; for universities there surely no difference given the virus didn't affect the young.

I wonder what Cambridge students think of that. I'd be pretty furious.
It doesn't even exist right now
That guy os full of shit and you know it. If a waiter makes less than min wage, the restaurant makes up for the difference. And guess what? Waitresses like that, because on all but the slowest of nights, you'll make much more than min wage from tips. I swear you people spend more time circlejerking about how shitty America is without knowing anything but the newest Javascript library.
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Arcadia is Los Angeles just has feral peacocks that roam the streets. It's quite a site if you aren't expecting it.
We could always get them addicted to opium again, worked last time. /s
"wanna take this outside bruv?"
Nah, they are using that as a front to push their agenda, because otherwise they'd be super in favor of google and youtube's free speech too, which they are not.

Alex Jones isn't legally prohibited from saying lies about Sandy Hook, and the people up in arms defending those hateful lies and saying we should be careful to preserve hateful lies on private platforms are either idiot patsies or purposefully misleading liars(like Alex Jones himself actually.)
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Chrome is getting a ton of big safety and security updates soon
isn't it a risk to e-commerce giants?
Is that really your defense for posting 100% false information? Seriously? Owing more money to the irs than you make, because they "assume" you made minimum wage? You're a dumbass, straight up.
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This is interesting, would you be able to find something on YouTube that highlights this dexterity? I’m not entirely sure what to look for to see this new way of computing.
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As a Brit, I've never heard of anyone being "proud" of being on the dole - and the actual amount people get from Jobseekers Allowance and Universal Credit are pitifully tiny - the current JSA of £75/week doesn't even cover my weekly food shopping costs, let alone my mortgage.
Because while "ready" for new features includes API support, it does not include CloudFormation support. The problem is entirely AWS politics and culture.
I’m almost surprised this welcome feature was implemented at all, as ECS development appears to have slowed in favor of EKS (Kubernetes).

Also too bad that it’s still CloudFormation.
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They also ported OpenCL and OpenGL to it via Mesa. Vulkan is in the works, and you can use CUDA if the host GPU supports it.

Would y'all be so worked up about VMWare upstreaming their virtual GPU bridge?
Diverting some of that military budget towards something even more important strategically might help.
Vanilla K8s is not meant to be directly used by everyone. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqQTEdHVaCw for insight on how K8s team expect the project to move forward. Frameworks like OpenDeis and Knative are meant to be used by developers.

IMO K8s will become akin to Linux Kernel. Almost no one uses bare mainline Linux kernels, you choose a distro based on your needs. Companies like RedHat and Canonical will pop up and provide their own packaged "distros" of K8s and you will choose which philosophy best suits your needs.
> nice surprise: sounds like everyone in the A round will see a 5x+ return. This would be my best performing investment of all of them most likely.

Looks like it just took some time for him to get his money. Doesn't sound newsworthy
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I'm surprised about how many of Microsofts announcements isn't working products. Seems pretty big this build.

The purpose of this announcement seems only to stop enterprise people from starting to use AirTable.
They don't, but they certainly care that you can provide proper accounting. I'm guessing that wasn't happening pre-audit.
>When I build an application, I build frameworks along the way.

I do believe this is also referred to as simply "building an application."
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U.S. Is Using Taiwan as a Pressure Point in Tech Fight with China
That would be nice, and I love the camera LEDs. Also, it is far harder to physically stop a microphone from receiving audio as compared to just slapping something on your camera. Physical barriers are important, as software cannot bypass that.

There are things like Mic-Lock[1] but software could be written to bypass it and use the built-in microphone (still love these though!)

While not a hardware LED you could use Oversight[2] or Micro Snitch [3] on Mac. Oversight users free, but Micro Snitch comes with Little Snitch. I use Micro Snitch, so I do not have much experience with Oversight, but I love how you can set Micro Snitch to have a floating icon in any corner you choose. This icon would turn on when either your camera or mic is activated. Therefore, you could see when it is turned on. If it gets annoying, you can have it in the menu bar as well.

While it is still a software solution, it’s the best we have. Hopefully one day we can have a microphone LED.

[1]: https://mic-lock.com

[2]: https://www.objective-see.com/products/oversight.html

[3]: https://obdev.at/products/microsnitch/index.html
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The notion that people are proud to be 'on the dole' in the UK is deeply pejorative and not at all backed up by the evidence.

For example, sequence LFM2 at the Office of National Statistics entitled "inactive - wants a job". That's 1,869,000 people at the last estimate.

The overwhelming number of people who end up short of work due to the structural failures of our current economic system want to work. And they should have the opportunity to do so.
Ask HN: Any recruiters here willing to give their opinion on an idea?
Hey there I'm developed a product for recruiters.

I'd like to be able to talk to some recruiters about it and hear what you think, if the idea makes sense to you.

If you're available by email or by phone please email me - address at https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=andrewstuart
I do not agree. I find modern digital softsynths just as "rich and interesting" as analog, not to mention 1,000,000 times more convenient to work with.

Something like U-He Diva for example can sound as analog as anything analog that I've heard. Then if you get into wavetable or granular, you can get sounds that are impossible to achieve with analog, which are in my opinion very "rich and interesting".

I suspect that the people who don't agree may have heard a digital synth many years ago and are unaware that the technology has improved markedly since then, which isn't surprising because there's a lot of money in it.

Just my opinion, but modern analog emulation sounds just as good as real analog.

Nothing wrong with enjoying the workflow of analog though, although personally I dislike that workflow.
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Special cases like this make generic code very hard to write. If I'm writing a library that needs to handle user-provided data agnostic of type and I want to do a sum operation, now I have to add checks all over the place for whatever special cases python has.
The political argument in favor of universal basic income stresses the importance of the universal.

That is, when the argument is "the others are getting cash", some will oppose it. But if it's "we all get cash", the opposition is less.

In America, Social Security straight up gives up cash to ALL older Americans. Assuming you live long enough, you'll get Social Security. It's not immune but it remains popular. Indeed, efforts to cut back on Social Security are framed as attempts to "save" it and keep the program solvent.

In contrast, food stamps, welfare, and unemployment benefits are very much on the chopping block year after year, their recipients stereotyped as "welfare queens" trying to cheat the system.