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Yeah, transferrable digital goods are 99% of the pitch for game-centric blockchain infrastructure companies, and it's an absolutely ridiculous claim because while it's TECHNICALLY possible, the incentives for developers to actually make it viable simply do not exist. Making any item interoperable between games reduces its value in any single game, or at the very least makes the value of any item unclear, which means that it's just as likely to add negative value to the game economy and make things worse for any developer that implements it.
Made me smile. No, I'm questioning the meaning here. I have a vague inkling it's a property of the dataflow graph of a program, I'm just struggling to remember what. Is it literally that repeated collapses of basic node types (if/while/sequence) will end up with a single node? Basically 'does it properly nest'? Or is it something else? (and I'm a brit too BTW)
Our approach to the future relationship with the EU [pdf]
Yes, clearly being able to keep your blog running when it's on the HN homepage is NOT one of necessaries.
My multi-tenant web app does this but I don't know if you'd call 100 unique users a day "at scale".

I believe it will be helpful if it's necessary to separate customers into "pods" as we grow.

The main advantage I feel we get however is that it was quite easy to write a wrapper around mysqldump to retrieve data for development purposes.

I worked at a company that stored all customer data in a single database. The performance was comparable but the agility was poor. Firstly, you had to download all customer data to get a copy to debug a problem. This was a security concern I had, and eventually we had to build a serialisation format to retrieve the "slice" of data we needed. This tool needed frequent updating as new tables were added.

You might argue that we should just try to imagine the bug and recreate it but we have some pretty complicated data structures which can make investigations very hard.
Well, a bit of hyperbole I guess. The police actually arrest anyone that opposes the regime too vigorously on such grounds as them being “antisocial” or “dangerous.”[1]

With the current diplomatic relationship between the USA and Cuba, hanging around Americans too much is likely cause for suspicion.

I imagine fraternizing with Maduro-Venezuelans is not cause for concern, nor Chinese. Not sure about North Koreans, I'd hope that North Koreans are always cause for concern for any secret service.

[1]:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/world/americas/cuba-judge...
“I want to do something that makes this not just about trusting us.”.

Is that because deep down inside you know the public would be foolish to trust your company in its current form?
Indian review-bombs, but for the other reasons entirely. The dumb ones as well.
My personal belief is that any educated, native English speaker who peddles in non-apologies like "I'm sorry that YOU feel that way" is to be avoided as much as possible (socially or professionally). In my experience, these are typically the same people who will do other weasel-y things like tell lies by omission and justify it to themselves (and others) by saying didn't technically lie so what's the big deal?

Indeed I've learned this the hard way.

Having said all that, the above apology goes even farther in accepting personal blame than I would have expected... so I'd be slightly torn on this one if the cynic in me didn't know he was likely coached heavily in crafting it.
Explanations in comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837

Synopsis IIRC: Dark paterns, requiring ID to close account, 30 days to close account (and they quietly cancel the request if you log in), only 7 days notice, no permanent opt-out.
State owned production and distribution. The things these markets sold were (most likely) not state produced or distributed, since they were Western goods.
Guaranteed termination of a sound dependent type system is only useful as a mathematical property, not a practical one (yes, I know the mathematical consequences have practical benefit but I mean directly it doesn’t say anything about what a typical user thinks of as “termination”). You could still trivially write an algorithm at the type level which is Turing-complete in a practical sense.

For example, write a type that implements a Turing machine parameterized by a program and a natural number N of evaluation steps to take. Apply that type to Graham’s number or some suitably large natural number. You now have a type that is, for all practical purposes, Turing-complete, even though it is theoretically guaranteed to terminate.
It seems like the continued evolution of TLS is a huge barrier to retrocomputing with current networks. Relatedly, I happened to be writing some TLS code on a bit of a side project and I was curious on what old OSs I could get it on with minimal effort. I found the builtin SChannel on Windows XP for example cannot interact with www.google.com at all, or even some of my own TLS-enabled hosts that I maintain myself.

For projects with source available or that you're hacking on, it's not very hard to build libressl. It's a shame that some of these older OSs probably can't have support bolted on for 1st party APIs. Of course, they also are probably full of security holes and you probably don't want them on the public internet anyway.

Another barrier some day will be that those old systems are ipv4-only.
It’s a three year old account. Not everyone wants a HN account in their real name.
I was going to say that any potential hostile takeovers by chinese hedge funds probably wouldn't involve anything as kinetically hostile as the EIC's presidency armies, but a little surfing turned up 先丰服务集团 (Frontier Services Group)...

What is the indian or chinese equivalent to "The Fox and the Crane"?
Seems plausible. Some guys offered to feed us lobster so we went to theirs, but they insisted on hiding the cars we'd rented. People seemed pretty careful about cops.
I'm not doing anything particularly special. Most people might more accurately describe what I am as a "contractor" rather than a consultant.

The points about moving and college are about people shaping their entire lives in such a way to be successful and meet their goals. The landscape might change a bit, but people don't stop being willing to hustle and adapt to the changing landscape.

I think probably the best thing that happened to me is I didn't have all of these mythologies about what I was allowed or capable of accomplishing drilled into me by the standard path that most people take. I imagine if you've invested your whole life in the understanding that the way to "make it" is to graduate from a top tier university and take a very narrow set of employment opportunities, it would be hard to escape that mental prison. But that's all it is. The hiring committees at FANG might reinforce that mental prison, but you don't have to deal with them. If you went the conventional path and got those fancy credentials, it's not like it will be harder for you to make it out here in the non-FANG world than it was for me. It'll probably be easier.
> FDISK /MBR Re-writes the hard disk drive's Master Boot Record.

I didn't know it's undocumented, and many people I knew used it (as well as FORMAT /U) countless number of times.
Single-purpose accounts aren't allowed on HN, and the religious material is off topic, so I'm afraid we've banned this account. Nothing against Jesus.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Lol. Gotta have priorities. That's some serious b school negative work.
Just so you know why I downvoted you:

- your comment is not at all unpolitical, even though you claim to not "have a political horse in this race." Your dismissal of the opposition to PiS as hypocritical, small, and a "certain minority" is deeply political.

- saying "evil people X" say Y thing, therefore Y thing is false/unworthy/etc. is a fallacy. Saying that (former) communists are upset about the removal of the song has no bearing on whether this is an important story or not

- all Polish people I know (my in laws and Polish friends) know about this and think it's a big deal. Yes, they live in Poland. I don't have a clear overview of all Polish newspapers, but those that I saw definitely ran the story prominently. It's also been big is Polish social media. This story made waves in Poland.

- criticizing all Polish state media in a general fashion when this story is a bout Trójka specifically is absolutely fallacious. Trójka has not praised Potassium exports or had similar stories; even the NYT piece says that Trójka has been a special case among Polish media as far back as 1982.

- there can be no doubt about the current ruling party's intention of trying to subsume all relevant media under its control. Examples [1][2][3]. Lots of pieces have been written about this, and it's nothing new. It's not even going on in secret.

Your tone is not apolitical with respect to the situation in Poland, and the content of your writing isn't either. Claiming you're apolitical is disingenuous. That's why I think you deserved the downvote.

Me, I'm against PiS, and similar movements throughout Europe. I believe they are harmful to their countries, and to the European project.

[1]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/31/polands-government-is-s...
[2]: https://www.publicmediaalliance.org/threats-to-media-indepen...
[3]: https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/04/21/polands-ruling-l...
Aren't you then the ones making the rules? "Rolling back draconian intellectual property laws" means the world has to accept your vision of intellectual property, and I assume that's true of whatever other changes you envision as well. What if people disagree with your vision?
Went to Cuba with my girl. (She really wanted to go; I was the skeptic.) Walking around the ruins of the Centrum, and someone invites her in to get a haircut. Sure, she says, why not? $5 (convertible), but all we had on hand was a $20.

Little Cuban girl heads out running through the neighborhood to scrounge up change for a $20 because that’s almost a month’s salary.
Police call it "tourism siege" or ideological diversion. I am cuban.
> most of the island is mired in poverty

the elephant in the room is the 60 year old embargo and its third-rail effect on American politics.
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Yeah, my default behaviour for any international company is to navigate to companyname.ca. Even if they don't use TLDs for their regional websites, it typically redirects to their Canadian site. (e.g. apple.ca redirects to apple.com/ca, microsoft.ca redirects to microsoft.com/en-ca, ikea.ca redirects to ikea.com/ca/en, etc.)
The Soviet Union may have invested in war heavily but failed to take control of global commerce.
The United States invested more and "won" the cold war.

It gets more complicated when you look at where the money went.
The U.S. built up a massive global navy to control commerce and the shipping lanes.
Meanwhile, the Soviets focused large on the European theater and ultimately could not compete with the U.S. Navy.

Eventually you wind up considering a philosophical question about money, especially modern fiat currency, where there is a big question about why we continue to value it the way we do. Sure, we have all agreed on some common exchange rate for goods using it, but this is backed by the "full faith and credit of the U.S. government".
It can be argued that faith and credit is ultimately backed by the war machine behind it.

Even in older times, if you traded in a currency, and you had to go collect a debt in that currency from another nation, what are you going to use to collect it? Angry letters? No, you're going to send the military.
apple.beer is actually a pretty good domain name for a cider company. Not technically accurate of course, but pretty good from a marketing perspective.
It's worth noting that MarkMonitor ownership has changed in recent years.

Regardless, they certainly can register all the names for you, if that's what you ask them to do, but at some point, there's an awful lot of names, and it feels extortiony to pay for them all. I was working for a MarkMonitor client when the 'landrush' for all these new tlds was happening, and we'd get frequent emails about which tlds were going live soon, so we could decide if we wanted foo.bike or foo.sexy or foo.personals, or whatever. And then, if we wanted to pay rediculous prices to get it early, or wait and see if we could get it at normal price (+ hefty MarkMonitor markup). We would almost certainly win a UDRP, but that's expensive too.

Then we got bought, and the new corporate overlords liked throwing money away on dumb domains, so foo.bike got registered by their team (and they had an actual domain team, so I got to shed that hat).
Yes. Source: I'm cuban.
He admitted he only registered it because netflix didn't, and he had no other non netflix related website in mind to host there. I think that's borderline bad faith. Its not exactly good faith. If he had never heard of netflix he never would have registered it.
> You interviewing for a job isn’t private unless both parties make it private with a legally binding contract.

I would gently suggest that you look into the idea of "reasonable expectation of privacy" which has a long history in the courts.
>The things these markets sold were (most likely) not state produced or distributed, since they were Western goods.

wonderful! so then you must understand why these stores were orthogonal to communism right?
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I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to strongly disagree on your first point.

I've used Nest.js extensively over the past year or so and I find the documentation extremely lacking. Sure there might be a lot of hello-world style examples, but advanced or sometimes even basic usage is often not well documented and the actual API itself is completely undocumented (you might have an example of 1 way to call a function, but that's it).

You often have to piece together examples from various "Documentation" pages, which should really be called Examples, or dive deep into source code to find the list of functions or parameters that are available.

Another pain point is that I sometimes ran into extremely hard to diagnose issues with Nest. I had to add Swagger documentation to a project recently, which uses previous version of Nest.js (v6). It turns out that the latest version of @nestjs/swagger is not compatible with this version of Nest.js, but the docs don't mention which version you should install to get it working.

I installed the library as described in docs for Nest.js v6 and used their example to include it in the project. When I started the application, it didn't print any errors or really produce any useful output at all (besides all the DI logs and the fact that initialization was successful). Instead, the application simply fails to print "Application Started" and it just doesn't listen on a port.

I fixed that by comparing release dates of older @nestjs/swagger versions with release date of NestJS version that we were using. There's nothing to go on in cases like this and whenever something like this happens (multiple times over the past year for us), you can probably imagine how frustrating that is.

With TypeORM, we also frequently run into issues that haven't been addressed in years[1], missing functionality in their query builder[2] and strange behavior in general.

I commented about this previously[3], also I should point out that I appreciate the effort they are making, but I would recommend that anyone considering using Nest.js in production takes a hard look and really evaluates whether it supports all of their use cases. In our case, it looked really good on the surface, but once we got deeper into the project it started showing a lot of its warts. Expect to do a lot of babysitting with this framework if you venture outside of their narrowly documented use-cases.

[1] https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm/issues/2065

[2] https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm/issues/296

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21962492
He is arguing over whether we should have property rights because he apparently doesn’t believe it.

And your convoluted and unlikely analogy fails because you can’t describe why this person should be allowed to steal food others are willing to pay for. Paying for food allows the store to stock more food to feed far more people, stealing the food forces the store to stop selling food.

Why isn’t the government buying food to distribute to people in need without destroying private businesses?

If I believe in property rights and using government to distribute food to the needy, am I a lefty or a righty? Or is there some other label to demonize me with because I don’t believe all of the exact same things as you and the author?
One of them was a reaction to a well-evidenced trend of excessive police force against black people. The other one is literally a neo-nazi dog whistle intended to promote the theory that there is a conspiracy against white people in western society and draw well meaning white people into nazi ideology. I'm not biased on this point, I simply know the facts. I suggest you read the ADL's coverage of it, and similarly "think really hard". https://www.adl.org/blog/from-4chan-another-trolling-campaig...
Not always, i had for a few years the domain name of a top 10 website we all know, with a TLD for my country (.pt). I just kept it and did nothing with it and one day got a €30k offer.
> Forcing someone to work for those who do not contribute to society is theft.

This is a terrible way to think about a functioning society. Taxes are not theft, and we absolutely should be supporting those who do not 'contribute to society'.

What about folks with mental illnesses, physical impairments, advanced age, pregnancy, recovering from injuries, drug/alcohol addiction, or any other number of reasons why someone might need to have us all cover for them? Why is it any different in this case?
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If you believe the humans roughly follow a bell curve in terms of success/work ethic/conscientiousness/mental health/ability to get your sh*t together, pick your metric, there will always be some tail on the bell curve who legitimately can't hold it together. The trick is finding the sweet spot. Help too much, and disincentives become a drag on society. Help too little, and campers in the park and crazy guys waving needles around become a drag on society.
It's a classic WP mistake to not turn on one of the WP cache plugins (WP Super Cache, for instance). It's less about knowing scalability and more about just ever thinking whether your blog can have more than your 6 friends visiting it.
If Triplebyte has no staff or assets in an EU jurisdiction, what could they do?
> In your analogy, if you donate a bunch to a church led by a pastor whose brother is your boss at work,

No. This is not my analogy. This is further stipulation that you've added to my analogy that changes the moral calculus completely. My analogy is just volunteering your time to help old people at your church. By your reasoning, this would be considered selfish because you are choosing to patronize members of your own church with your good works, rather than random people.

> My main point though is that pro-natalists should really stop pressing the "it's selfless"/"not having children is selfish"

FWIW, there are plenty of people making the argument that having children is selfish (our exchange here being a good example of such). What do you expect people to do when you call the single most important endeavor of their life, which entails massive amounts of personal sacrifice, basically selfish? And, truly, to call having children selfish shows that you have essentially no conception of what parenting entails.

If you want to argue that it's irresponsible because children have an environmental impact, then I still think you're wrong, but you're not preposterously wrong. Just subtly wrong (IMO).
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The analogy I always used as a kid was a heavy, free-spinning water wheel in the path of the water. It would tend to resist changes in current.
Yes it means properly-nested, or really the same thing as 'structured' as in 'structured programming.' I'm sure there's some graph-theoretic definition but I don't know it off the top of my head.
And there was even more folklore in the comments but Microsoft killed them when migrating the blog content to a new platform.
It's not something to take personally. Having those 2 economical systems running in parallel creates a big split, some things being available only in tourist shops. People have to find ways to access some goods, some will take a scammy route.
At some point though I found it quite good to get outside of the touristic areas to get a break from people wanting to sell you something, but other than that i didn't find it that annoying.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22263274, which is a recent thread about a post this article mentions.
> unlike most prototypes, this one wasn't thrown away

I wish...
Really good documentary on Disney+ about the training dogs go through, and how they reinforce this type of behavior is really interesting
Hey I’m not sure this is the best venue, but I’m trying to make the case for getting my org off of sequelize, and your library is right in line with my goals. The hardest sell is going to be publicly visible test coverage. Would you welcome a dedicated effort from an early adopter to introduce tests?
> Anyone who approaches you speaking english is a hustler and does it professionally.

Outside the cities it's a bit better. Hitchhiking is common in Cuba and when we visited it was both fun and instructive to talk to the people to whom we offered a ride. Also talking to the people at CUP bars and restaurants like Dona Yulla was fun. We spoke Spanish though (or a mix of Spanish and Italian).
The concept of a social contract is axiomatically immoral as it relies on the use of involuntary compulsion and violent police enforcement, in violation of the non-aggression principle. Educate yourself on a world where the non-aggression principle is actually respected on an institutional level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism
I guess it's possible to build something similar to this, but for Dell:
https://www.tindie.com/products/mikepdiy/lenovo-charging-por...
> Did you know it costs a minimum of $185,000 to create your own domain name ending?

If I were a blackhat with money, I'd register the ".con" TLD.

... Sure hoping a whitehat gets it first.
>"Another reason was the enraged fans of famous Indian YouTuber Carry Minati flooding PlayStore with 1-star reviews.

Carry Minati had created a video titled YouTube Vs TikTok, part of an ongoing feud between YouTube and TikTok users. His video went viral and was taken down for violating YouTube’s terms of service. This happended because many TikTok users reported the video saying it was bullying in nature."

Seems reasonable enough to remove those because this is just brigarding and has nothing to do with authentic users of the app.
I'm planning to add this as a setting in the next increment.
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I have actually used this in production for cooperative multitasking framework for Verifone VX510.

I needed this to run multiple stuff at the same time (for example printing while also doing network -- both serial devices on VX510).

Could have done this with setjmp/longjmp but it would not be as fun:)