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Intuition can be very misleading. If you know there's nothing behind you, and you're used to something every 100 km or less, then you might decide to go forward.

During WW2, the US kept German POWs in camps in the US Southwest. In the Great Papago Escape, some Germans constructed a collapsible raft, hoping to get to the Salt River and float down to Mexico.

The Salt River is perennial, and there wasn't enough water for them to do that. Germany doesn't have the same geography or hydrology. Because the escapees were unfamiliar with the terrain, most of them were quickly recaptured.

I've been to Death Valley twice, both in vehicles with A/C, and plenty of water. I cannot convey it either.

It's also huge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr tells me the Ruhr Valley metropolitan area is 4,435 km2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley says Death Valley is much larger, at 7,800 km2. (It's about 1/2 the size of the Rhine Rift Valley; Oberrheinische Tiefebene.) The drive from Badwater (the lowest point) to Scotty's Castle is about 170km. With no services along the way.
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Awesome, this is great insight...thank you for the reply!
Sorry, mind fart. The point is Apple requires that subscriptions be available through them, and then take the 30% cut - you can’t, say, use Stripe to take new subscriptions inside the app. So what the parent suggested is already there, the problem is the size of the fee. From the user POV Apple Pay vs IAP is almost the same flow.
Article headline is misleading, the article itself provides more context and is less sensationalized.

I believe that this is happening in NZ and per the article, Italy.

But in other places (USA and Brazil come to mind) it’s a whole different story. Seems dangerous to suggest it could just die out, while cases are on the rise.
This is not the announcement post but in the very first sentence it says "Today we announced that Mapillary has joined Facebook", linking to https://blog.mapillary.com/news/2020/06/18/Mapillary-joins-F...

Seems pretty clear to me.
It's important to keep that in mind re: improvements in inequality, but at the same time, for example, there is a refugee crisis that's been steadily increasing over time worldwide in recent times. GDP per capita is not the only metric of inequality, nor is China the only exception to the US.

I basically agree with everything you're saying, I just think something is going on that's not nearly captured by a lot of traditional metrics.
Could never get over Mustache using {{foo}} for safe auto-escaped interpolation but {{{foo}}} for dangerous non-escaped interpolation.

I wonder how many XSS vulns this decision has caused in the wild.
The entire concept that paying money will make companies not sell your data even harder is magical thinking. What better signal does an advertiser want than somebody that spends money, especially on something relatively frivolous?
>It’s also incredibly difficult for those living higher up on Maslow’s hierarchy to see that it’s their entire level of society that is - in aggregate - a force for negative environmental impact. Individuals won’t admit to this

Or maybe they just don't care? It's not exactly a stretch to imagine people value their wellbeing in the present over some impact to the environment. Most people don't even care about other people enough to give to charity, let alone care about the environment.
One thing to remember is that we are still early in the pandemic, as long as it feels like it has already gone on.

It is hard to say for many localities whether they had a good response or just haven't been hit hard yet. A lot of states, and States, congratulated themselves early on for their low infection rates, only to spiral quickly or slowly out of control.

The current hypothesis on New York (and New England in general) is that it was hit so much earlier than the rest of the US because the flood of people returning all at once from Europe due to the travel lockdowns created a super-spreader event at the airports.

Which isn't to say New England didn't drop the ball early on; I'm saying instead the difference between places hit hard and places not might not be "good response/hygiene/culture" versus "bad", it might be "bad and lucky" versus "bad and unlucky".

Time and analysis will tell; I would wait a year or two to start naming the winners and losers.
While that may be true, that does not mean that the answer is no/weaker regulations.
Classical musician here.

I'd start off with a good guide to the history of music. That'll give you an understanding of why what we call classical music has so much range in it. The context helps immensely.

After that, there's an element of accepting that the longer forms of music are going to take a while to listen to. Remember they were meant to be performed by musicians, with an audience listening from start to finish. The bulk of what you'll probably think of as classical music is essentially concert stuff, rather than 3 minute standalone pieces.

That being said, there's huge range in the canon. From short practice pieces and tone poems which stand alone to huge many hour opera pieces, and everything in between.

I'd start with The Story of Music by Howard Goodall, and How to Listen to Great Music: A Guide to Its History, Culture, and Heart
by Robert Greenberg.

After that, pick a period and start listening.

Feel free to ping me any time for more information.

EDIT: It's also worth noting that there's huge range in any particular piece depending on who's conducting it. For example, if you take a commonly performed piece like the Overture to Le Nozze Di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), you can get everything from Teodor Currentzis to Georg Solti to Karl Bohm. Three different styles of playing exactly the same thing. So it's also, in time, worth looking into how music is arranged and performed and how that affects both what you hear now, and how people composed at the time.
Yeah, it assumes having a competent government that actually believes in science.
At the end of the day a slim win by voting is enough in a democracy. However it would usually be considered poor form to use even a solid majority as justification a program of cultural eradication. Not to say it doesn't happen from time to time.

Besides, military action is kinda special. You need soldiers to have confidence that even if the orders are terrible they will get respect for obeying them - that is part of the deal they get for risking their lives in the army. It isn't wise to put that aside and ignore it.
Curious to know: do you feel that you are at any disadvantage to peers who came to your role who went through a traditional CS or computer engineering undergrad program?
> It did work out quite well,

Southerner here. In my opinion the reason that "it worked out quite well" is that the Union caved and ended Reconstruction in 1877. This was followed by the "Redemption" period in which Jim Crow was set into place and white supremacy was entrenched. For Southerners, both white and black, things were in many ways similar to pre-1861. White people had relatively little to complain about, and black people who shook up the status quo were subject to reprisals up to and including murder.

Meanwhile, my impression is that one thing valued in the contemporary South is "pleasantness". This showed up, for example, in the myth that slaves were happy. Today, conversation tends to be more indirect. For example, if you want to tell somebody that they're an idiot, "Bless your heart" will do the trick.

That said, despite having grown up here I never really identified with the culture, so I can't really answer the question all that reliably.
Thanks! The repo is at https://github.com/dsrw/enu, but it's still a month or two away from what I'd consider "reveal worthy". There are no docs, and what's there barely works. However, I really wanted to be part of NimConf, so I cobbled things together as best as I could. I'm going to do a bigger PR push when it's a little farther along.
I'd also like to push back on your cynicism about open hardware products. I must admit that history is full of open hardware failures, like the adorable Chumby (what went wrong?), but times have changed and I think you will find that the open hardware is building significant momentum today, I'd encourage you to take another look.

The purchase that turned me into an open hardware evangelist was the Planck EZ mechanical keyboard: https://ergodox-ez.com/pages/planck

It's a joy to use. The layers feature of the open QMK firmware blew my mind and changed how I think about typing. The keyswitches take seconds to replace so it's extremely easy to repair/maintain, which is great for the planet. It's tiny and portable, which was perfect for my needs before the pandemic hit and I stopped going outside. And perhaps most importantly, the company seems pretty successful, they seem to be a competent business that is in it for the long haul.

I am also very impressed with my Pinebook Pro: https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/ The year of the Linux desktop may never come, but this shockingly cost-effective open hardware laptop convinced me to quit Apple products after a decade of loyalty. For my needs, which are mostly browsing the web, editing code, and SSH-ing into servers, it's good enough for like 1/10 of the price. I'll grant you that Pine64 is more of a hobbyist project than a business, but it seems extremely successful on its own terms and seems sustainable despite selling stuff basically at-cost.

I've now ordered a System76 Thelio desktop, also open hardware (although closer to Apple prices, performance costs money I guess). https://system76.com/desktops

I don't say all of this to suggest that Remarkable is bad, it seems pretty good. I'm just saying that it can be better on open source software and hardware, without it hurting the business or the product. It might even help.
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In an alternate reality where we observed prime numbers in space, I suspect we’d be telling ourselves they must have a natural cause in the same way we’re looking at dark matter and arguing what type of particle it is made of.

And if we did decide it had to be aliens, the point is they don’t have to be intelligent to do prime numbers — they might be space cicadas who evolved to spread around Oort clouds by gathering enough uranium to go prompt-critical[0].

From the point of view of aliens looking at us if we detonated nukes in a prime sequence, the same arguments apply.

[0] this is a reference to a novel or short story which I can’t remember enough details of to find on Google or DDG.
Well yes, but their fate was sealed when they accidentally went off road. I preface "known" with, "the most obviously correct road for current conditions"

The people in the article already were going down roads that were not obviously compatible with their vehicle before they got lost.
While people can and do act illegally, its more difficult to base some of the largest companies on earth on a root of completely illegal activity.

Facebook and Google have completely unrivalable empires of data that hundreds of thousands of employees work every day to perfect and extract conclusions from, scale matters here, and its a lot harder to scale up a completely illegal enterprise.
Or they have real value by helping developers deliver features that users love while contending with the inherent statefulness of clients.
Woocommerce on it's own VPS running CentMinMod: http://centminmod.com/
I help manage an Ecommerce site which gets 10,000 vistors a month, and our $20 per month Linode instance + Centminmod handles that level of traffic easily.
As for Wordpress themes I'm a big fan of GeneratePress. https://generatepress.com/
IIRC each side of the macbook pro only has a single Thunderbolt controller. So it's actually 2x 2 ports sharing 40Gb/s. If you need more than 40Gb/s, for say dual external gpus, you'd need to use cables on opposite sides.
Personaly I don't understand the advantages. I've never had an issue with the cable that runs from the keyboard over the side of my desk. Maybe for the mouse as it moves around (although I usually use a wired trackpad) but I'm not too convinced. Maybe if I tried using one for an extended period of time I would change my mind. In general I'm not too worried about the reliability in the wireless sense but I don't like the idea that these things can run out of battery. I like as many of my devices to just work without any maintenance required. (even if the maintenance is minimal)

Furthermore I generally don't have batteries on hand. (Right now the complete list of things I own that use batteries is the TV remote and the thermostat) So when I get the low battery warning I need to go and buy some.

On the other hand I completely get the case for Bluetooth headphones. I love being able to run to the kitchen without losing my music or still being able to hear someone else speaking. Also when using them with a phone the cable running down to my pocket does actually get in the way. Synchronization shouldn't be an issue because any not-terrible Bluetooth speakers will report their delay to the computer so that everything remains syncronized. I do have one set of cheep earbuds that don't report it to my phone correctly but this is rare (and I probably should have sent them back).
I agree that i may be unsolvable. But that is also point for 'pro-choice'. It is not symmetrical debate. It is debate about whether state is allowed to restrict some personal behavior.

In liberal society restricting personal freedom requires strong claim of necessity. Therefore it is a burden of 'pro-life' side to make such strong claim. As such claim requires fetus-person claim, the 'pro-life' side would need to show that (or at least show that it is universally hold position in society).
I think OP is saying "without writing my own code and scripts to tie a bunch of tools together, I can't seem to do what I want".

Which is true. There is no software I can see today which you can open a text file, select a font, choose a page size, and click "Print" and have a plotter do the drawing, just like Microsoft Word can do with a regular printer.

In a way this is because 3D printers and plotters decided to have their own custom tooling and protocols (GCode isn't really a standard, since it is so machine specific), unlike printers where a PDF file will print on any printer pretty much.
What do you think is the best buffer protocol to use for multiplayer games? We used Protobuf for a fast-paced .io game, but encoding-decoding turned out to be pretty slow and generated a lot of garbage in JS. We were in the process to switch to FlatBuffers (before the company went bankrupt), but the syntax made it feel harder to use compared to Protobuf, not sure about the performance though (we expected it to be faster and less garbage created because of the zero-copy).

So, would you recommend Protobuf, Cap'n'Proto, FlatBuffers or FlexBuffers for multiplayer games? The usual packets are game states or user input sent at high frequency.
I read one of the threads linked from that reddit post, I may have had to use archive.org. Someone names a specific power management IC and says they reflowed it. Sounded like a timing issue between CPU and the power management.

I mostly use my laptop in sporadic short bursts so battery time is not a huge issue, and the freedom of moving it around without it crashing is huge
> it's full of insane quirks and vendor bugs

As someone not familiar at the low level, can somebody explain how this can still be happening today? Are there not libraries that help ensure proper implementation? I really don't understand.
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Note that in practice fancy frequency analysis is usually overkill, and may even lead you astray against texts that don't match your assumptions. A cheesy match against ASCII alphanumerics plus space is both simple and often effective.
They qualified that as “without too much fictional technology”. I think that is an important caveat.
> > Look at the left sidebar...

> Look at the Go language manual for comparison[1]. Go is simple (some would argue, simplistic) and there's a lot there too. Programming languages are complex beasts. "Number of things in the sidebar of the manual" is a poor way to judge a programming language.

I don't think you're being fair to me here! Look at the _content_ of the sidebar of https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html and you will see the massive variety of language features listed there for the Nim language.

I am certainly not talking about the raw _length_ or _number_ of items in any list which is definitely a crude and silly measurement. Here your link to Golang's specification is missing my point.
Ask HN: What is the one (impossible) thing you wish your editor could do?
If you could magically wish an IDE/Editor feature into existence, possible or impossible, what would it be?
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Not to be that guy, but Monteverdi, Schutz and Gabrieli, along with their ilk predate Bach by a century and kick off the Baroque period, and you've got the entire two centuries of the Renaissance period before that.

Bach is awesome, and the man had an awful lot to draw on for the emotion in his music, but he was a long way from kicking off the evolution from plainchant to Messiaen.
The device is waterproof regardless of whether or not you use the water mode feature.
Nobody commenting on the (lack of) formatting? I mean, I know we techies love plain and simple markup but this looks like taking a piss at the readers.

The content is not that great and the plain text does nothing to make it feel technical coherent or valuable.
Anecdata: in 12 years of owning Macs I personally have never had this experience. In fact they usually went out of their way to provide solutions to extend the hardware lifetime as much as possible.
PyCharm vs. VSCode
This kind of antisemitic balderdash has no place on HN.
Would this be solved by making it mandatory for all aircraft to have a HUD with an artificial horizon?

Also it seems like a level 5 autopilot should be possible, and obviously making that mandatory would be a perfect solution.
I try the same but had to give up once. HarperCollins released a book series as a series of early Android apps. When the app launches for the first time, it downloads the assets. I paid for them and came back to read them several years later but the server was down.

Reviews mentioned this and the official reply was to contact them for a refund. I did but multiple times but they alternated between ignoring me and refusing. Eventually I gave up. I no longer buy anything from HarperCollins.
Yeah and I know a lot of people who couldn’t pass the medical for the ppl get them too.
Ask HN: Did VSCO just trick me into signing up?
I just got an email from VSCO saying my account was logged into from a new device. I didn't remember having an account but the email looked legit and linked to an actual VSCO password reset link so I followed it.

I "reset" my password on VSCO's site (using a randomly generated password) and then when I went to login it asked me to set a username, which I'm not interested in so I aborted the process.

I double checked my emails and the new login email turns out to be the first email I have from VSCO. It seems like something shady is happening here but I'm not quite sure how to pinpoint what it is.
I'd never heard of OSSU, thanks. The maths courses linked in that are good, too.
The whole teaching towards the test, and prepping kids for college (which I've heard we even do a bad job at), is just awful. We don't typically educate to teach people in a way that can make a connection that to what can be used in the real world, nor do teach real world things, such as basic money handling matters. I was able to take a Math of Money class in high school, but that was my senior year and your had to have had to pass other classes to take that.

I know there are some classes for stuff like electronics and mechanics, but why not offer more career based classes?

I think the requirement for more advanced computer classes has come down, don't need a AP calc/trig credit to take a basic programming class anymore (it's been well over 20 years since I graduated).
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Severe ADHD? Either way good on you for knowing your limitations.
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Show HN: Multi-armed bandit optimisation service
Hi HN,

I'm looking for help validating an idea for a product that provides multi-armed bandit optimisation over an API. The idea is that client sites will provide impression and conversion events to our API, which provides recommendations about which variant to display, optimising performance over time.

I think this could be useful to businesses that currently use A/B testing but am trying to understand if an API on its own is useful enough to be a standalone product.

Please have a look at the site and let me know if it's clear what the product is and if you think it'd be useful. I'd also appreciate any advice on how to validate an idea like this, how to identify problems this kind of product to solve, etc. Thank you!
my 2018 macbook pro just got cleaned by apple when they replaced the keyboard. I assume it will be done by them every 18 months or as long as the recall is in effect. (sucks that your data is all deleted though)
Well, you called it a "weird object" that throws errors if you "look at it funny." They tried to demystify it for you in just three sentences.

That jQuery lets you willfully cling to the corpse of familiarity instead of spending 30 seconds looking up what NodeList was years ago says more about you than anything about jQuery.

And with your end-cap comment about the pipeline operator that they were already, helpfully, pointing out was going to be introduced in the future, you just sound like sour grapes. What gives? Kind of a weird attitude to bring to a forum of craftspeople.
I'll start: The ability to automatically find and repair bugs, while traversing the project structure to fix the related issues in relevant files.
Parable of the Sunfish
It's hard to say love is a frivoulos need.

Adults that are loved do thrive, usually.

On the other hand, lonely people do suffer a lot.
Signatures are not really anti-forgery proof as most people expect...

Instead they are protected by law. If you sign something claiming to be someone else, you have broken the law.

That's why credit cards required a signature for a long time, yet nobody ever checked the signatures on the receipt vs the card. It isn't hard to fake someone else's signature, but doing so is a crime. Using someone else's card without a signature would just be a breach of the T&C's, but not a crime.
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Fair enough. I have been on roads in that area of the country where at some point I went "Nope. I have neither the skills nor the vehicle for this" and turned around. (With very considerable difficulty in one case I remember.)

It appears in this case that the family probably felt very pressed for time so they kept on. Which is the sort of thing that often factors into events like this.