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Wacko conspiracy theory: Microsoft really wants the end user completely separated and unaware of the file system so the user can't tell the difference between cloud and local files. This allows Microsoft to create dependency on its own cloud services, the government to have access to everyone's files, and laptop makers to cut down local storage significantly.

Therefore Explorer is no longer going to get any love from Microsoft.
The modern 'rule-based' international order is more of a limited correction to 'might-makes-right' than an alternative to it. It works really well to the extent that we figure out good 'rules' that actors will genuinely want to enforce. Luckily for us, many such rules are quite possible and they do generally push us towards a better state of the world.
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Brave is trash, but to say Firefox hasn't done shady things is a bit of joke after the whole incident where they sent full site URLs and interaction data over to Cliqz's servers for a random sampling of users in Germany while being neither opt-in nor clear to the users about what data was being sent.
Counter-narrative. Flagged!
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Wow, that huge for Japan I believe.
I live at Kichijoji and it takes me 1 hour to get to work in Akasaka. I love my place and somehow get used to this routine, but honestly I wish I could rent a place in Japanese countryside.
If tracking scripts are correctly set up they’re asynchronous and don’t affect load times.
C wasn't from 1972? Basically a decade later?
ISIS has something important to say that I should read? My lifestyle isn't conform enough to the standards of Wahhabism?
How about removing Slack from your phone and using only the web interface while in the office?
It certainly feels like that huh? I’m thankfully still working from home, but we haven’t had a permanent work from home announcement yet.
His investments into Locately in 2010.

Locately is pioneering the science of Location Analytics. Locately's software analyzes semi-continuous GPS data from mobile phones to better understand what consumers do and how they shop.

Edit: why the downvotes? :/ I like my HN points...
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"But what if something goes wrong!?"
as someone who was in a hedge fund shorting JCPenney in 2015, let me assure you that it wasn't "obvious". jcp was one of the most shorted companies in the entire world, its valuation was already low, and if it saw any real turnaround (as was hoped when they hired their ceo from Apple) all the shorts would have been obliterated. careful when you armchair quarterback with literal 2020 hindsight.
Do you actually do this? You do realize that means you need to ignore the police, military, and virtually every politician? Especially every person who has been president.
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“undisclosed reasons”

There comes a point where I simply won’t believe in magic. Whether it’s 3 writes or 7 writes, at some point there is not enough contextual information left on rigid magnetic media to recover any amount of useable information.
You know, this idea that removing whitespace is the best way to reduce code size for delivery can be debunked by any student that takes a compiler class. That technique + gzip is a shortcut that we have taken as a defacto “right way” of delivering web code (of course taking out the whole conversation of WebAssembly). Perhaps something good can come up out of this - just like people pissed all over the idea of js on the server when node.js came out, perhaps this has the potential of doing the reverse on the client side. Stay open minded.
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Interesting document! There's a lot of information in here that I never really realized.

Looks like on any given day, you have an opportunity to be exposed to about 3 hours worth of commercials.

Further, total revenue from ads tops around 65,000 euros on a week day (on Tuesdays, it seems), much less on weekend days as more long-form programs are scheduled on those days. (The NPO does not interrupt shows for "ad-breaks"). On the other hand, there are some sketchy schedules, like the 6 PM news is a 15 minute thing sandwiched between two 8-minute ad blocks, and the "sports news" is a 5 minute update sandwiched between two 5-minute ad blocks.

These are the stats for the NPO 1 channel, which is the flagship channel for the NPO and bound to bring in the most ad revenue. If all days were to bring in this much revenue, it would mean a revenue of ~24 million euros a year, meaning
a little bit over 8 NPO 1's would be necessary to bring in the revenue the STER claims to bring each year (which is 200 million euros).

I must be missing something..

Update: Ah, the stated price is for 30 seconds of ad time, rather than the price for the full block.

Update2: Recalculating, the daily top comes down to around 675,000 euros, meaning around 246 million euros a year.
But always against his teammate.

You can put whatever driver you name in a Mercedes from 2014 until today, and he will end at least in second place in the championship. I cannot imagine a single driver, not even Maldonado, that would end worst than 2nd except due to incredible bad luck with the car reliability.

Verstappen is an incredible good driver that probably deserves to win multi-championships. But as it is now, Bottas is closer to that achievement than him.
> health, lifestyle

I think this is a big one, at least from my 40yo pov.

Getting a boss to tell the client "we will add that feature to our list" vs telling me "we really like this client, how fast can you crank out this feature for this stupid deadline"

I value my personal time/health more than salary.
Win32 UI libs however were heavily optimized asynchronous systems based on callbacks from the OS, where you avoided storing bitmaps up-front or anything like that, except as optional caching.

This is what enabled fast drawing despite very primitive drawing system (essentially GDI would get you a pointer to a window of VRAM, the origin of various fun graphical bugs people remember from windows, like dragging broken dialog boxes around that leave a "trace").

WinNT OTOH, has realized async support across the whole I/O stack, essentially finishing the never-finished concurrent QIO of Digital's VMS (VMS afaik to this day haven't got fully working concurrent QIO - the API is there, but if you actually enable concurrent operation too many applications die), and has a bunch of undocumented async mechanisms as well (including mostly free-form asynchronous calls from kernel to user - again a VMS invention - which are in many ways similar to POSIX signals except you aren't limited to a small table of events to attach handlers to, and they support concurrency by default)
The following table from that article provides a nice overview:

https://anvil.works/blog/img/python-in-the-browser-talk/comp...
I think it depends on the company and on the team.

In my company, my productivity skyrocketed, while that of my work colleagues crashed. It largely correlated with things like tech literacy and being open to change. Where I work, there are a few people with who invested in nice WFH setups, work-life integration, and all the things needed to make this work, who found productivity going up. And then there is the majority of people who stubbornly still refuse to even use a headset or learn to use tech, and are just waiting for the office to reopen.

Outside my company, it's not quite the same split, but most people are dipping their toes in rather than diving headfirst.
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If there is no event loop I assume it has to be callbacks from the OS?
Good to see corporations identify that their "knowledge production units" are often also people with the full spectrum of human experience and responsibilities. This should actually be a strange observation to make because most corporations are staffed with people. But incentives can skew this reality.

The flip side of this is companies that are family hostile. I've worked in and around multiple kinds of businesses. Any that are family unfriendly are usually defective in the long term due to bad fundamentals. I now view businesses with poor people-connectivity, including a lack of awareness of families, as somewhat suspicious.

Its kind of like how an individual that always shows up poorly dressed to job interviews is likely to be perceived as less suitable. You might still ask questions just to scratch the surface, even just to find out why, but you know something isn't right or working well.
Ennio Morricone single-handedly "invented" the typical style of Italo Western film music. US-American Western film music used to be lush orchestral scores, instead Morricone used electric guitars, whistling, screaming, Mariachi trumpet playing, various percussion instruments, etc. The music for "A Fistful of Dollars" was something people have never heard before.

However, I can see a similar approach in Masaru Satō's music for Kurosawa's Samurai movies with its sparse instrumentation and inclusion of jazz elements. The whole score is in stark contrast to the music of earlier Jidai-geki movies, which also favoured large sweeping orchestral music.

Given the fact that "A Fistful of Dollars" was basically a remake of Kurosawa's "Yojimbo", I have been wondering if Morricone had been influenced by Satō in any way.
They burnt 100 masts down.
Any reasonable definition of "you" would suggest a mind with free will (at least to a certain level of approximation).

Also, aside from any philosophical mind / matter or free will / predestination arguments, it's not just a question of what is, but what is a more adaptive belief.
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The entire point is that he did have to kill people to get his message out and, ooops it changed the way we thought about technological culture and our impact on the world. Your argument that "why do they not have articles about them", well they do, but they didn't get their manifesto published in a national newspaper in full. You want to live in a world of goodies and baddies go ahead.

I'm not saying that not wanting people to be blown up is uniquely capitalist. What I am saying is that people seeing the _value_ of their actions as whether they encourage or discourage good or bad behavior is very capitalist. It's also arrogant, self centred and intellectually moribund.
The price list is indeed for a 30-second television ad. However, it seems like you can't just buy one slot, you need to spend >€30k before they start to do business with you.

[in Dutch] https://www.ster.nl/hoe-werkt-het/tv-reclame-bij-ster/
In practice? Yeah. It sucks. In Javascript, I'd simply add curly braces and be done with it.

Code is meant to be clear. And often times with Python lambdas, there's no reason to give the function a name. It's a callback. What would you name it? "Callback"? You're adding extra complexity for no gain.

But, whatever. It is what it is. Javascript has its own pile of limitations. I was just saying that Python isn't a flawless butterfly.
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Large chains pushing cheap, processed crap food in food deserts that the poor are trapped in?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
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They often see a factual basis.

For instance the young earth creations could go into a great deal of depth about various topics in archaelogy, geology and ancient texts. It wasn't a blind belief, they had been exposed to arguments/evidence that had reinforced their pre-existing beliefs.

The people believing in pizzagate and deliberate SARS importing are a tiny minority of the american right-wing voting population. Try talking to a more random sampling of them (a gaming Discord for instance), you'll be pleasantly surprised!
Sucks for the worker who now has to bear the cost of providing office space and internet connections and your local network.

Also longer term a lot of housing stock will become les desirable and new residential housing will become bigger and more expensive.

Oh and H&S inspections will now have to be included
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> It is small scale venture capital with no guarantees.

Kickstarter at least is not this, because if it was VC then backers would be buying equity, not product (often at close-to-retail price).

Fig is closer, since it is set up so that you can purchase shares in future revenue of the project (or just buy the product like Kickstarter), but IIRC you still don't get an ownership share, technically (I haven't looked into it closely since it's not my thing, so could be mistaken).

IMO either one is actually preferably for creators to a VC model since they get to maintain full ownership and their only (semi-) obligation is to deliver the product people pre-paid for.

Imagine if you could fund a tech startup by pre-selling product to customers instead of slicing up ownership of your company before it's even off the ground.
Are you sh!tting me?!!?

Had enough of HN ...

This place is bullsh!t.

Ban me.
I include this in sugar as in:

You can refactor an arrow function into a specific regular function but you usually end up with something more verbose.

Or in other words you can express all things "arrow" before it existed. Which is exactly what we did before they were adopted. And we still in fact do, just automated by transpilers like Babel[0].

But more importantly, in the context of the article: all functions in JS are closures, regardless of how you write them.

[0] https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-plugin-transform-arrow-func...
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An interesting idea...

How much heat a material can store is called thermal mass or heat capacity. One of materials that can store the most heat per kilogram happens to be regular old water.

I wonder if anyone here could do the math of how many kilograms of water would be needed to absorb the day/night temperature changes of a desert and keep a human body inside at an acceptably stable temperature.

I'm kinda afraid the weight would be more than enough to crush any human into a bloody pulp?
It’s not exactly censorship when you can start your own blog or platform with the exact opposite form of ‘censorship’, is it? Give me a break - someone saying “you can’t post things I think are racist on my website” is not a violation of your human rights, any more than the host of a party saying “you need to leave after what you just said” is dire political censorship akin to burning books.

Bigots of all stripes like to use the goodwill of others and their belief in freedom to say horrible, bigoted things and demand everyone listen to them. But we don’t have actually have to. That’s not what freedom of speech means.
Employees HATE hot desking - you'd also have to disinfect / clean much more rigorously similar to hospital standards.
>> Kaczynski's manifesto functions primarily as a rationalization for his violence and anger.

> this isnt an argument.

No. It's an assertion. You're free to disagree. However, if that assertion is true, then there's no reason for techno-optimists to bother with his text.

Also, it is an assertion that we can reason about at least somewhat independently of the text. We can examine how the text was written, the manner in which it was disseminated, the reason for its cultural weight, etc.

> either the text is sound or it isnt

That's the point. Reading the text for the purpose of determining whether it is sound will be futile exercise and a waste of time. In the same way that reading Harry Potter as a religious text would be wrong (not morally/ethically/politically/etc. wrong per se, but rather simply and plainly wrong in the sense that a literary analysis can be incorrect).

lucideer's post addresses this directly and ultimately concludes "Overall, the manifesto is not worth reading". I would simply add the qualifier "...unless you proceed from the understanding the the author is a sick man". In other words, it's not worth reading just because you're a techno-optimist. It's perhaps worth reading if you're interested in terrorism or mental illness.

> either the arguments are presented clearly from first principles with evidence or theyre not.

The first principles from which the arguments proceed are the personal vendettas of a sick man. From that understanding of the first principles, the text can be read properly. From other understandings of the first principles, the text will be misinterpreted.

> the intent or state of the writer is irrevelant.

This is not true of any other political text. The intent and state of the founders is highly relevant to interpreting the declaration of independence. The intent and state of Marx is highly relevant to interpreting the communist manifesto. Even scientific revolutionary documents such as Darwin's Origins are not possible to read deeply & understand completely without learning more about the man.

The founders were nation building in a very particular context. Marx was movement building in a very particular context. Darwin was writing into a very specific scientific and political context. Reading these texts without appropriate historical and personal context would result in misreadings, or shallow readings, or, most often, shallow misreadings.

History and personal context always matter when reading texts deeply. We never ignore those things when reading other texts. Why would we suddenly start ignoring these salient details just because the author is a terrorist?
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I’m generally a fan of simple mechanical devices over electronics, but I think digital scales are a good example where electronics really do makes things simpler; and as it’s a commodity (like calculators and digital watches) the electronic version is amazingly cheap too.

The ability to zero the count as you add each ingredient to a single bowl is very useful.
Yeah part of this is definitely true - Rust is more more verbose about things you often don't really care about (e.g. `String`/`str` in code that only runs once - who cares?).

But a lot of the extra effort in writing Rust code is about moving runtime errors to compile time. It's like static types - more effort writing it but you don't spend ages debugging typos at runtime. I've had way more instances of spending several hours writing complex code and having it work first time in Rust than in any other language. In C++ it's so rare it makes me extremely suspicious when it happens (did I actually recompile?), whereas in Rust I'm almost starting to expect it.
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The text reads like a phishing scam in places too. Strange word choices, slightly off grammar and missing punctuation.
I don't think that could be made to work for impulse, on-demand ordering ("I've just decided I want food as soon as possible, and my stomach/brain seems to think $dish sounds good"), which in my experience is the bulk of it. People don't plan out what they're going to eat when ordering restaurant food as much, they just do it when they're ready.
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I'm curious, what all do you include when you think about a "nice WFH setup"? For me it's largely a defined space, a nice desk, a nice chair, and a nice monitor. Anything else on your list?
Funny, that would make me want to use Ansible more.
> What differentiates addThreeTimes(i) from sqrt(x) or average(x,y) or pow(x,y) or multiply(x,y)? Not how many call sites it has, nor the presence of a dedicated operator to the function in the language. Instead, I'd say: the function's reusability, composability, commonness, ... or to put it another way: addThreeTimes is an "abstraction" - it's just a poor garbage unreusable unremarkable unrememberable abstraction with no expressive power.

I agree that call sites or presence of language operators is not the defining distinction here. But I disagree that reusability, composability, or commonness (is that not "call sites"?) are somehow defining features of an abstraction, either. Obviously, those are good qualities for code to have, but that's not related to what I'm thinking about.

The difference in my example is specific to the ladder of abstraction from addition to multiplication. When I was taught multiplication in early grade school, I was taught it as basically just being another way to write addition. When I first learned it, I would do exercises that involved taking an expression like "3 * 5" and translating it to "3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3" and then evaluating that. However, after time, I've stopped thinking about multiplication as addition. In my mind, I just think of multiplication as its own thing. I've fully internalize the "abstraction" because I don't even think about addition anymore when I see multiplication.

So, when we take a Year, Make, Model, and Color and group them together and call it "Car", we're making an abstraction and it has little to do with code duplication. It has much more to do with wanting to think about higher-order constructs. You and I agree here, as per your first paragraph.

If I have some kind of rendering engine and I find myself often rotating, then shifting a shape, I can write a `rotateThenShift(Shape, angle, distance) -> Shape` function and not feel like I've abstracted anything. I'm still "talking" about a shape and manually moving it around. Even if I just rename that function to `foobinate(Shape, angle, distance)`, I feel like I'm closer (but not quite) to a new level of abstraction because now I'm talking about some higher-order concept in my domain (assuming "foobinate" would be some kind of term from geometry that a domain expert might know).

All other points about good or bad abstractions apply. I just don't think every single function we write is a new abstraction.
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$2.99/month for Facebook isn't unreasonable. Could be rolled into your phone or Internet bill. Then we can start looking into social media sales taxes.
They might be referring to SSDs which would also be bad to do overwrites on since you are essentially killing the life of the drive. Better off just outright filling up a whole drive.
not this topic again...
Could you compile Python to Web Webassembly instead of JavaScript? Presumably that would have better performance.
I don't use an app to browse reddit, so it usually went like this: close reddit tab. Open new tab. Automatically type in reddit.com.

And I'm sure, 100% sure, that I'm not the only one with that problem...