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This is related to a philosophical question:

Suppose (for the sake of a philosophical discussion) that the Internet must shrink to 10% of its storage capacity for whatever reason (Zombie Apocalypse, War, Societal Instability, Natural Disaster, etc.).

If that's the case, then which websites and content do you keep, and which do you throw away?

Now, if you can answer that -- then re-ask the same question, but with 10% of that 10%... 1%... what do you keep and what do you throw away?

Now, follow this line of thought to its natural limit, that is, given a computer which can store only 64K on a floppy disk, and given that all other content is going to be deleted, what content do you choose to preserve on that 64K floppy disk?

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One answer might be the knowledge of how to build that computer, and that floppy storage device... (We'll assume that if it doesn't fit exactly, then we could have a little bit more space, like 170K or what have you...)

This line of philosophical questioning could even be taken a step further and that is, ignoring technology altogether, we apply this line of inquiry to books...

So our question then looks like:

"What is the most important information that one, single, solitary, finite book should contain -- given the near-infinite amount of information out there?"

My answer to this, is, that that book should contain the knowledge of how to produce paper, how to make books, maybe even how to create a printing press and inks (if space permits).

That is, a book -- which contains the knowledge of how to make other books... that is, how to replicate itself (well, with human intervention!)...

That would be my answer -- as an amateur philosopher...

Other answers might be, and probably will be, different...

But, I think it's a very interesting philosophical question...
I clearly am biased towards thinking Apple deserves to set whatever price they want but at what point do you feel the App Store became rent seeking? Was it 2008? 2014? 2019?

My point being that at the time it was released the platform was welcomed as an amazing opportunity and at some point that soured, but why?
Funny thing, I was having a discussion about something related the other day with some folks and the only takeaway I got was that some people either don't understand 51% attacks or pretend they don't.
this. Every conversation about Go gets interrupted by a Rust fanboy saying "Rust does this better".

The HN comments on this article have been derailed from any interesting discussion about Generics in Go to an utterly pointless religious war about Rust and type systems.
The FBI doesn't need Apple's help currently. iOS exploits have become cheaper and more common than Android

https://threatpost.com/android-zero-days-worth-more-iphone-e....
Oh, there’s tons of evidence for this, largely in the writings of pre-electricity figures who clearly treated the subject as common knowledge. Advice manuals from the time even indicate that this was the best time for couples to conceive.

Modern tribes without access to continuous light actually still sleep like this too, which is fascinating.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783
Amazon.ca and Amazon.com accounted for about 10% of all e-commerce sales in Canada for 2019.

I wish i had some stats for the raw # of total packages/shipments, because that's where I think Amazon's marketshare would match the picture of "50% of every package"
Former Reuters journalist speaks out about US attack that killed colleagues
"X discovered at University Y" happens in graduate schools - not at the undergraduate level. And when you're admitting students in graduate school (excluding MBA and JD), you want the most academically successful members. There is no affirmative action for the physics Ph.D program at Harvard.
I just bought from Newegg for the first time in probably a decade and was surprised to see third-party sellers. I went there specifically because I remembered them being reputable, but came away with a different feeling entirely.
There is certainly some additional complexity here over the basic Lambda serverless setup. But I think the console-driven configuration as outlined in these posts often makes it harder to see what the core concepts really are.

With infrastructure-as-code tools, this can be a little clearer. At Pulumi we wrote a post earlier today on configuring the infrastructure needed to use EFS with Lambda, and it boils down to just a few concepts and a couple dozen lines of infrastructure code.

https://www.pulumi.com/blog/aws-lambda-efs/

Some of the complexity here also comes from the fact that EFS is a general purpose managed NFS service, instead of a fully-abstracted Lambda-specific feature. That does add a little additional up-front complexity, but means you can use EFS across all sorts of different compute in AWS - not just Lambda.
Scientists Edited Human Embryos in the Lab, and It Was a Disaster
Interesting read and even more interesting topic. I'd like to know more.
The information online about M4A vs M4B is wrong. There is no difference other than the file extension. The Wikipedia article links to a lifewire.com article about the bookmark claim. This container format can store XMP metadata, and you can certainly have a player that saves a playback position in the file's XMP metadata, regardless of its M4A or M4B extension. But every player I know of doesn't do that. They store playback positions in their own internal database.

This claim seems to originate from the fact that the old iPods only remembered the last played position on M4B files. But that's entirely a player convention, not a file format convention.
"The double-spend attack is not the same as the 51 percent attack. It is strange to have to make this point in 2020, but it is true: while having 51 percent control of a blockchain makes double-spend attacks free, that is only because it makes ALL economic attacks free. The vulnerabilities are distinct (you don’t even need 51% to pull off double-spending), and fixing the 51 percent attack requires far more than addressing double-spending."

Author here -- impetus for the piece was a few discussions with proof-of-stake people who switched immediately to talking about "finality" (i.e. using validators to prevent chain-reorganizations) in a conversation about economic attacks.

It was actually IMPOSSIBLE to have a conversation about the economic fundamentals of their networks (and vulnerabilities like discouragement attacks) because they kept insisting they they were addressing them with finality. It took much tooth-pulling to get them to see that they were two different problems and they were making no headway on the more difficult one. This is an attempt to condense that red pill into a more digestible form.
yes, but the article is discussing Generics in Go. Nothing to do with Rust. Rust is absolutely NOT worth talking about in this context.
Oh man, raising an infant and sleep deprivation hit me too. For about a week, I had to just chart if I was awake or not and just sleep when the chart said to sleep...

Other than the couple of times where I ended up not sleeping for 24 hours, I thought the wake up/eat/sleep cycles around 2 hours were ok, but 3 hours was torture, the wakeup would always happen in the middle of deep sleep and really mess things up. Once it got over four hours, it all seemed fineish. Not a lot of memory retention from that period though. Pretty happy we had a good sleeper or I would have been wrecked.
> I'd argue that artists lived as such because the large majority of them couldn't afford furniture.

They couldn't afford furniture because they prioritized, in com2kid's words "shit to do, paintings to paint, music to write and practice."

You're not arguing, you're agreeing.
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Good. The only people who come up with new ways are the people who have the ego to try, and the world is richer for it. I'm glad the world is filled with engineers who try and fail and learn instead of those who would rather not create a fuss.
The best advice I've heard from hacker news in a while. I've been procrastinating this business paper for a bit.
I was on a polyphasic sleep schedule for two weeks when I was in high school. I had an econ class where the teacher didn't mind if I fell asleep. It worked fairly well for about two weeks. Towards the end, I was very sleep deprived, but I didn't realize it: I had forgotten what it felt like to be fully rested.

While the increased hours in a day we're incredible, mentally intensive tasks were difficult. Homework was easy, but working through AMC practice questions did not go as well.

It's a clear quantity vs quality trade-off.

I stopped the experiment early when I started having trouble falling asleep in that econ class.

Also, I felt perpetual in this somewhat giddy state: that feeling when you just catch a second wind and everything seems funny. Mild delirium. In retrospect, it seems like hypomania.

I could see a case for polyphasic sleep for a few weeks at a time if you're in a crunch to do a lot of work that doesn't require too much thinking. Recharge for a week and repeat if necessary. Otherwise, it's a really, really bad idea.
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Maybe check the references in this article?

https://theconversation.com/did-we-used-to-have-two-sleeps-r...
I think it's very subtle stuff, an example may be having kosher food being the default.

When living in Singapore, I used to make the faux pas of mixing together Muslim food (no pork), Indian food (no beef) and Chinese food (lots of pork/beef) together.
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Anecdotally I remember reading that in Britain it used to be more common for some to wake up in the middle of the night and do light reading, but you’ll probably want to do some more research as I don’t recall the source.
If Apple were the only game in town I would be right behind you, but they’re not, Android is right around the corner with open arms, a larger global market and everything!

If Apple is “not adding shit”, why are we even discussing this, why aren’t they being run into the ground by Android?
So now we need the government to get involved because poor little Google can’t create a compelling ecosystem?
Why are you putting words in their mouth? The parent commenter is saying that only the folks more susceptible to potentially misleading political ads will be the subject to them.
Not a developer's problem if $100 isn't enough for Apple. They are free to charge a fair price and get rid of their anti-competitive behaviour.
There is a somewhat popular, entirely legal version of that created by western companies hiring outsourcing companies for different functions.
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I get that but again, it's not like these folks want to speculate with their life savings, right?

If that's the case, it seems like a stablecoin would be the right choice rather than BTC.
Formatting like this makes what you posted unreadable on mobile.
> Sure ban ZeroHedge, they're crazy

Please, please no. A bedrock ideal of our society is that we should not seek to humiliate or ruin people simply because they look different or think ideas that are different from our own.

That is not to say we grant license to speak or wrote just anything, but I think over the last ~240 years we’ve stuck a fairly decent balance. It doesn’t include mob rule calling for firings, de-platforming, and de-monetization based on politics ideology.

ZH is not crazy. They are neither always right nor always wrong. They have no greater or less or claim to Truth than anyone below God.
Microsoft wasn’t hobbled by the government it was poor execution first in the media player market and then in the mobile market. Nothing forced MS to come out with the failed Plays4Sure initiative and then the Zune.
I agree with your point about syntax - we're still not at the point where you could roll your own map-like type, and I think that should be a goal for this implementation.

And yeah, operator overloading leads to utterly illegible code. Let's not go there!
How does it have a negative social impact? In any case,the common definition usually includes getting money without generating wealth, which does not make sense here. Apple generates wealth for the devs. Apple produced the ecosystem and the user experience thus generating value for the devs. I get the social impact thing but it eventually leads to "anything I disapprove of is rentseeking". You can be against Apple, there's plenty of reason to be, but its important to use the right terms. If rent seeking is really all business manoeuvring leading to damaging social impacts, the word becomes much less meaningful. Social impact is subjective and hard to measure, lack of wealth creation and profiteering are much more useful metrics in economic.
Humans have been constructing houses and doing maintenance on them for a few thousand years, but we've only been writing software for a few decades. We certainly didn't reach out current process for framing houses in the first few decades of carpentry.

That being said, I assume that the first few decades of carpentry didn't undergo as many changes as software has in its first few decades. My theory is that software changes so quickly because it can be bootstrapped. When framing a house, you can learn from the process so that you can make the next frame better by changing the process, but the output of that process (the house frame) doesn't directly affect the next time you attempt it. On the other hand, you can write software that invents an entirely new process for editing software (e.g. a compiler or interpreter), which then you can use to write software that might not have been possible before. You can then repeat this process with the new software, creating yet another paradigm for writing software, and so on. More generally, when a process produces a tool that can then be used for to do the process in a new way, the process will be able to evolve much more quickly than if updating the process can only be updated with the output from other processes.
> getting all my sleep in <2 hour chunks is HORRIBLE

I can sympathise with this. My son spent about 18 months (from 4 months old onwards) only sleeping 45 -50 minutes at a time, before waking up crying. It felt like every aspect of our lives at that point was outside of our control and any attempt to organise ourselves or to co-ordinate outside assistance (in the form of family, friends, medical intervention) was an ordeal beyond our mental capabilities.

Things improved just before his 2nd birthday. He went from 45 minute sleep to 6 hour sleep in the course of two days.
> A lot of us have seen friends and family lose their minds to the conspiratorial "news" like Zero hedge, Fox, etc.

And how many liberals do you know lost their minds when Trump won the election despite the media assuring them Hillary had the lead, or were convinced that impeachment would finally get him out because the media covered so much "highly suspicious" activity? These were both equally "conspiratorial" stories pushed by the media,just from the other side. Delusion is just going around.

> I for one welcome these sort of moves

Sure, everyone welcomes oppression that works in their favour. Doesn't make it any less short sighted.
Lights help extend the evening. Such that you sort of barrel through a time that would make you tired by just cranking up the light.
I am sorry. I did not mean to sound dismissive. I was just observing.

I guess the strongest emotion is fear which “motivates” us. And one should verify whether some actions are based on fear and how it influences our lives. And maybe now this is only procrastination. But as the previous commenter said, one had to watch out for themselves.
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I think there may be a valid line of reasoning here but I’m not quite feeling it. Seems like MS vs was about stifling competition via market share which isn’t the issue here, the issue here is people not waiting to pay Apple the cost of distribution on their platform.
Sensible defaults. Consistent developer API. A great big pile of components that can dropped in and reskinned rather than having to be rebuilt each project. Easy theming. Accessibility, mobile... I dunno, it just seems to do the right thing from the start.
Yes because car safety is comparable to a few geeks whining about Apple’s “walled garden” when their are literally hundreds of phones running Android.
There is almost certainly something to this. Sun exposure is dangerous.
In enterprise IT, I'm seeing more and more shops that refuse to give us support unless we switch from Firefox to Chrome, because that's "all they know works".

Which is to say, a lot of your potential customers already probably have a dozen tools they depend on that don't work in IE already anyways.
I should know better than use sarcasm here.

> However, that is kind of like looking at the first version of the segway and ignoring the cheap ”hoveboards” that showed up at 1/60th the price. At say 1,000$ you can bet some people would use them for dog walking.

The Segway was from the get go a product with immediate and obvious uses. It didn't take off the way Kamen thought it would, but it was a product. This by contrast is barely a product at all, it's almost 100% a research tool. Even most of the people who use this thread suggest as much.
apologies, but yes, you're correct - I was referring to green threads
I think you're talking past the author. When the author says minimalism, they aren't referring to a lack of household equipment, but to a certain form of interior design, and a preference for lack of ornamentation in fixtures.
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So it’s “injustice” that Apple is being “too consumed friendly”?
I've discovered some pretty neat projects from the trending page and the "Explore repositories" thing on the main page. So for me that works well unlike most recommendation things.
Ah right, it was under the "retailer" filter (was looking for "Seller").
eBay Sr Staff Including Safety and Security Lead Arrested for Cyberstalking
How can you have functional minimalism without aesthetic reality which reflects that? And if a minimalist aesthetic betrays functional minimalism, is it actually aesthetically minimalist or is it merely generic? It is a clumsy perversion of language to conflate minimalist with generic when the two are different.
To be fair, I assume that a lot of Google advertisers would not want their ad next to that. So while it smacks of censorship (and it may be) there are also a lot of valid reasons to stop the ads. Google has to sorta police their ad partners' content.
Funny thing that footer is broken.

I like bootstrap, but after playing with tailwindcss I prefer it.
This is not relevant for Hacker News. You are a s0n of a fi1thy wh0re.
20 minute naps? That seems like barely enough time to lose consciousness let alone get any kind of REM sleep.
ZH has a very wealthy audience. They can do just fine without AdX revenue with contributions and membership, and can probably juice this Google slap pretty hard.
The problem isn't over consumption [0]. We have the capacity to produce; and unless you are suggesting that society should be hoarding warehouses of miscellaneous goods, production must equal consumption. When some external stress hit, our capacity to produce (and, in this case, consume) goes down for non economic reasons. Fortunately, we have such an overcapacity of productive capabilities that outside of a few goods that saw a sudden demand spike, this loss of productive capacity is nothing more than an inconvenience. If our productive capacity was only that which was essential, not only would we be sacrificing goods and services during the good years; but we would also not have so much slack that we could weather such a drop in capacity without without serious supply shortages. Indeed, there are still parts of the world that do not have are level of "unnecessary" production that are now facing famine.

The problem we in the wealthy world are facing is one of distribution. When we made the policy decision of shutting down non critical production, we also broke a critical component of our resource distribution system (namely, giving people tokens that can be exchanged for resources). Since we don't have a centrally planned economy, no one is really in the position to make this kind of policy decision, so we are left with the option of mainting something like the previous system just giving people those tokens by central fiat.

[0] Unless you want to blame the pandemic on environmental changes and travel consumption. This isn't completely unreasonable, but even in the "natural" state, pandemics happen.
Why do you want karma?

I suggest that you just try to have interesting interactions.

Karma is just a number anyway.

I’ve been here since 2008 and I have accrued less than one karma point/day. Big deal. I still have had many interesting discussions and I’ve learned a lot.
I read ZH regularly for the nuggets of truth found nowhere else. They have changed a lot over the years. And, not for the better.

The comment section used to be an equal opportunity Fight Club with omnidirectional contempt for mainstream orthodoxy regardless of source. The U.S., Chinese, and occasionally the Russian governments met with distrust and ridicule. So balanced was ZH that ZH (and HN) used to be available in China without a VPN. But now both ZH and HN are blocked there.

But, over the past two years or so, ZH content has become much more partisan and white nationalist; and the comment section has morphed from Fight Club into Racist and Anti-Semitic Sewer nonpareil.

The racism free-for-all in the comment section could be laid at the feet of non-moderation if ZH's comments section were indeed a free-fire zone. But ZH manually approves all commenter accounts and it consistently violates its stated policy on racism by refusing to remove blatantly racist comments or commenters.

> Racism, to include any religious affiliation, will not be tolerated in ANY FORM on this site, including the disparagment of people in the comments section.

> To report any form of discrimination, please right click on the comment number, copy the link to the comment, and send the comment link to abuse [at] zerohedge.com.

> Any user found to be discriminating against ANY race, religion, or affiliation, will be banned immediately, and have their comments removed from the system.
https://www.zerohedge.com/help/notice-racism
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