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> let me say a word about diversity and inclusion.

Blind person here. On line learning is the best thing that can happen to diversity and inclusion, particularly when disabled people are concerned. For me, being in an environment free of students constantly shouting over my speech synth made a huge difference. I could adjust the volume of the teacher, or even mute them for a while, when I really needed to focus on the speech. Being able to request the name of the person talking, or hear who joins/leaves/raises hand is really useful too. I imagine the difference is even bigger for blind teachers, as they normally don't know who raises the hand or talks, and that's very important to them. Other disabilities benefit too, wheelchair users were very relieved they didn't have to move / be moved through inaccessible buildings etc.

There are a lot of accessibility implications to on line learning, most of them positive. Personally, I wish I could just stay that way forever.
Why kill it?

Why not just re-value it instead?

For example, make its value $1000.

Would maybe be a neat solution to the 1% problem.
The parent post to the one you're responding explicitly calls out that they cannot unsubscribe from lists when they've subscribed with a +-address:

> I have several services I will never be able to unsubscribe from because of the latter—and yes, I tried manually URI encoding it
You should be putting punctuation inside the quote when it ends a sentence.

Single quotes, not double quotes, should be used in your comment since you are not completely and directly quoting your source.

You should not be capitalising the first letter of a quote when it occurs after the beginning of a sentence.

These are just some of the grammatical errors you've made in two paragraphs. I've probably made some too. It's pointless to discuss these things outside academic contexts as long as the text can still be understood.
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That's not going to help, since everybody knows you can just strip everything after the '+' and get to the main mailbox.
>But IMO the biggest risk would be pieces that simply aren't original. There's quite a difference between an original burst, and some conversion burst. Both only one of them will yield extraordinary good ROI.

This is what I was going to ask you: what about the modifications?

One quite famous LP is the one from Jimmy Page, and I think that when he bought it either it came with a wider neck, or he changed it after getting it - one thing is sure, it wasn't the original neck. Plus he had many other mods. This would devalue a lot the guitar no?

If that happens, and it belonged to a super star, then it will get the value as an item from the super star, and not the item itself?

It's just odd the perceived value of collectibles - some people value the story behind items, others love the story of the item itself, others do it because they think it's a good investment. But when it comes to guitars, despite the history of Gibson, I'm pretty sure any '59 LP that reached 2020 must have a hell of a story to tell, with mods or no mods - unless it stood in a former studio player attic getting dust.
If you're fast enough to click the reader button, the paywall is indeed omitted
"Primo" is US slang for first-rate: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/primo
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I agree too. Rewrites are a scary thing. The best is to do some test with a few new micro services and see how it feel to code from 0 to production. Learning the tool chain etc..
You're some 40 years late :-)
>Shopify is serving multiple billion-dollar brands

Your are right except an exception Shopify might be used in some very small parts of big brands with few SKU's. For moderately large SKU most use flexible systems and shopify or BigCommerce is not one of them. Indeed like many companies even if one small division in one country of an MNC or brand is using BigCommerce or Shopify they will add their logo on their site to show they have this big brand as their customer.

Having worked for many multi-national brand can say they use Magento, Hybris, Demandware (now salesforce commerce) more than Shopify or BigCommerce.

Indeed even all those brands can be served better by open source multi-channel commerce system whose source code they control, otherwise they might have same issue when Oracle and IBM stop investing in ATG and WebSphere commerce platform. Indeed many of our old customer moved to in-house system as ATG, WebSphere commerce and even hybris cannot keep pace with the fast paced changes required in multi-channel commerce. Shopify and BigCommerce will need to primarily serve their SaaS customers and being limited by single code-base for all customers, cannot serve the needs of individual brands or multi-nationals that effectively. Even if they come with a program to provide on-premise or deployment option on a cloud of customers choice, given domain expertise they still will not be able to provide that flexibility offered by customized solution.

So for those brands its a better choice if they retain control of their core multi-channel commerce platform than leave to the whims of Shopify or BigCommerce which are anyways not that flexible and all the additional functionality needs to be developed in-house with partner using plugins or extensions.
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Amazing birds. I’d love to photograph one one day
Well, as I expand in the second paragraph above - the ONLY real pension scheme is having kids, and more kids. Everything else is just an obfuscation and/or securitization of this basic fact. If you don't want to work, someone else has to. And if we (jointly as a society) decide that "old" people are more deserving to not work, then, well, we need to make & have enough non-old people.

That's why to some degree I think asset-hoarding (S&P, real estate, cashflow-positive businesses etc.) is a good idea and actually my preferred plan, because I fundamentally don't trust the governments (they're all delusional with their long-term plans re: pension obligations, education, family planning & birth rates, immigration, ...), but at the same time I'm aware of the fact that while this strategy works individually (i.e. if I own more property, I'm better off than the next retiree), it doesn't quite work for the whole society. Pension as a social transfer really is the only way to go.
Yes, we don't need such small amounts of money.
Just always round up, when paying and when giving the rest back.

> All those $9.99 products? The prices would be jacked up to an even $10!

Only logical thing, I know this "wow less than 10$" tricks people into buying stuff, but it's just stupid that it's the default to give me back 1 penny whatever I buy.
I pay taxes

Taxes go to FBI/Europol etc

Security services pay these shady data brokers with my taxes to access data

Shady data broker buys hacked data from criminals with my taxes

Cybercriminals live off my taxes.

Cybercriminals hack more sites, selling/leaking my data.

I don't know whether the ends justifies the means here, but it seems really off that our security apparatus pays money to maintain a criminal ecosystem. On the other hand once the data is available it would also be wrong not to use it to catch pedophiles, mafia members, tax evaders, ...
I disagree.

But, my point is that the article describes teaching more as controlling student behaviour, rather than teaching as communicating knowledge and understanding.
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Wondering what is so special about black holes?
Yes.

Canada stopped producing pennies in the fall of 2012. [0]
The sky didn't fall.
There was no great debate, no public opinion polls and politicians swearing heartily about the demise of our great nation. (Ok that's probably not true. For too many politicians that's all they do.)

There was resistance when Canada dropped the $1 bill in favour of a Loonie (a $1 coin with the image of a loon on it). People bitched about having too much change in there pocket, pockets became too heavy, etc. I do however see more coins in tip & donation jars now then I ever saw paper money.

This is a key difference between US policy & Canadian policy that I have informally noticed while growing up on the border (with family ties on both sides).

Canadian government: We think it's a good idea, so we're going to do it.

US Government: Lets have more opinion polls, and countless politicians swearing against any decent public reform or change to the status quo. Watch the media whip the public up into a frenzy. I guaranty that this will create a more frantic response and airtime then the BLM & Police Reform protests did.

Side note: If you drop the penny, for the love of $diety change your sales tax structure so that it's a multiple of 5. 5%, 10%, 15%, etc... Since Canada changed but left the taxes the same (14% in Ontario IIRC) there seems to be a lot of rounding-off in favour of companies instead of consumers.
$0.01-$0.02 per transaction * millions of transactions per day has got to make some accountants happy.

[0]https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-s-penny-withdrawal-all...
> It's interesting that Apple said they were working with Docker to make sure MacOS on ARM is a first class host for Linux Docker containers.

I wish Apple would actually natively support containers, rather than supporting containers via a linux VM.
Someone already did:
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferrari-eyes-innovative-p...
I moved from a country that has pennies (Germany, so EUR cents) to one that doesn't (Switzerland, CHF) age 18.

The smallest coin is 0.05CHF. It's still worth enough that you might use a handful of them to make change for a small
amount like, say, 0.40CHF.

Grocery prices either have a resolution of 0.05CHF (all major retailers) or if not, your bill will be rounded to a resolution 0.05CHF to the customers advantage (e.g. at Lidl).

I have never ever once missed the equivalent of the 1- or 2-cent EUR coin. They were a pain to have in your wallet, and an insult to any tip jar or piggy bank.

I have no rational idea why the concept hasn't caught on more widely.
Old Reddit link: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/hptczj/ama_we_ar...

Previous discussion on "Blue leaks": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23599081
Not exactly the same, but I've gone through sleep paralysis 4 or 5 times in the last 10 years and it remains one of the most terrifying things I've experienced. It happened upon waking up from a short nap, and always while I was on my back (I usually sleep on my stomach or side at night).

The first time I went through it I had no idea what was going on and for the ~60 seconds that it lasted I went from thinking if this was really happening to whether I would be able to tell my family I loved them again. The subsequent 3 or 4 times I experienced it (after extensive research following the first episode) I repeated the thought that this was temporary and would go away soon forcefully until it in fact did after 60-90 seconds.

I know this is an evolutionary defense mechanism our brain/brain stem have developed over time, but wow is it awful if you ever go through it.
No, coin collectors have enough problems as it is
> Why not just re-value it instead?

> For example, make its value $1000.

The US used to have $1000 bills (and $10,000 bills, but those were only for internal gov't use). I'm pretty sure we're stuck with $100 as the top denomination to make organized crime more difficult.

Also, it's WAY easier to counterfeit a coin than a bill.
Foodora suffers data breach 700k users in 14 countries affected
you can run your browser anywhere. Then connect to it from anywhere. the point is to make you safer and increase your privacy. thanks!
Nano to replace Vi as the default editor in Fedora 33
100 miles?

Saharan dust makes it all the way across the Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico and then moves up the USA east coast.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/abnormally-large...

And it does that without flapping wings!
A prayer: please bring back the MAX038. That chip was discontinued ages ago and never replaced, although it would still be handy today in places where DDS or PLL are too noisy and/or complicated.
Actually, the pricing of individual items doesn't change. (Not least because of GST the price you pay at the till is not the sticker price.)

Where I live the 1c and 2c coins were killed some time ago. The smallest coin now is a 5c.

The way it works is that you go to the checkout, get a final total. If you pay cash then the change is "rounded up" to the nearest 5c mark. If you pay via card you pay the exact amount.

It's really not complicated, and frankly no-one cares about it.
Their laptops have the highest resale values and their iOS devices have far far longer lifespans than their Android equivalents, I think it's hard to fault them on this
> But for a significant chunk of people I school is something you don't like.

That is much milder sentiment through and I think the difference matters. And significant chunk of people perceives school positively or neutrally.

> This makes it an easy target, and a useful hook to get support for any anti social institution criticism.

My problem is that while I see this a lot on HN, I don't see it anywhere else. Including in people who loudly criticize this or that aspect of education or school. The positive attitude toward school is unrepresented on HN, despite being present in real life and in studies that measure attitudes.

Similarly, the people on HN are way more pushing homeschooling then anyone else I know ... including people on forums for stay at home moms or general mom forums (who would be in position to do it and tend to be biased more toward family/children interests). Reading HN, one would believe that the only reason to not homeschool is that you cant afford one parent at home. And that those parents are unhappy for having kids in school and that those kids are unhappy. That sentiment is not present among people who are actually at home and could theoretically homeschool if they were inclined to.

The whole thing seems to me political ideological. Some people here want everyone to hate the school, but it does not make it so.
I remember reading years ago that the reluctance to get rid of a penny is usual the unease in the central bank of a particular country to accept that the currency has inflated.

I imagine retailers would still price things at £9.95 instead to perpetuate the 'psychological trick' that "it's not really £10!".
The scientists are trying to determine why we judge distance differently, and found that each individual will consistently have problems with particular areas in their field of sight.

They think this is a result of various imperfections forming when your eyes connected to your brain.
This seems really flawed.

Let's plug in numbers. This says that if a service costs 125$/month/employee and I have 1000 employees ($125000/month) I will save ~5 million a year.

However a service costing 1.5 million at such a company has other costs.

Namely that a product that costs that much almost always needs an in house support team. I have never seen the case where an expensive product also didn't need 2-3 people in just to maintain and support it. But the employee time savings is still worth it.

The next cost is much harder. In the tool we said this will save everyone 1 hour a day. However saving people time is not normally what a tool actually does. PagerDuty for example doesn't save people any time, it just sends alerts. Alerts that come from another tool that must be set up. At 40/person/month for 1000 people, that is 40,000 a month for zero "saved time." The value of pagerduty for very different.

But anyone who has been in the field has seen, that list hidden cost is that a paid service isn't normally a perfect fit. It is missing something, or your particular use case doesn't map cleanly. You then have an army of people working around the tool, saving negative time. The business might have reasons to still use that tool. But saving time is not one of them.

So seeing this tool tell me that a service which cost $2,000,000 a year is going to save me $5,000,000 feels like naive marketing nonsense. And it isn't even marketing a product.
I don't think it's fair to say it is ridiculous - it has pros and cons - with the distortion of areas towards the poles definitely being one of the latter

https://connectusfund.org/13-major-pros-and-cons-of-mercator...
The comic is actually referred to in the "about" section (question mark)
Oh but you did it, you do it, and you will continue to do it through out your life, even if you're unconscious of it.

Brands have history, and we're emotionally tied to it. It's how we work, it's how part of our decision making process works and it's quite efficient.

Even if your argument will be : "NONSENSE! I only buy reliable items that perform their practical duties with their practical properties." I'm pretty sure those items are tied to a brand that worked hard to own the title of having reliable items that perform how they are supposed to perform.

Collectibles is just another form of having a piece of that. Can be fueled by nostalgia, or something practical like a specific sound or texture, could be a story you relate to, etc.
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I'm totally with us ditching the penny, but I really wish we had a paper (plastic) $1. Any time you break a $5 bill you're left with a pocket full of change!
Wow, thanks. There's the level of support I wish to have from some commercial software providers :D
Israeli Parliament Passes Bill to Save El Al from $400M Lawsuit
That isn’t a good comparison. While podman can run systemd inside a container, it isn’t widely adopted in the images in docker hub and elsewhere. There is probably just fedora supporting this. Whereas in LXD it’s normal to run a full systemd inside a container.
> So what ?

I too can ignore every big budget predictable cliche and say so what. Lets ignore the successes of alternatives.

Is Kanye West and Britney Spears the best you can do with millions of dollars ? I'll stick to punk and EDM ... no thanks.

> I’m a huge fan of indy media but, because of that, I pay for it, and I don’t like it when people freeload.

Is copyright / patents the only way to finance and get money back ?

Absolutely not. Thats the argument I am making.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
Piketty tried to analyze this, and the idea is to have a minimal wealth tax. (I have no idea what's the current best evaluation/assessment of his work and this idea, but Land Value Tax is something many economists already favor, and it'd help decouple the pain of growing cities from housing as an investment.)

So similarly there is probably some sense in trying to counteract low-interest-rate inflated asset bubbles via some kind of tax or other financial structure. (A progressive capital gains tax might help, but that might just make markets less efficient by introducing a chilling effect on the high end.)

In the end this is a purely political question, because obviously the problem is not that it's unfair that some very "desirable" assets price inflates, but that the majority of the population did not have the means to buy into it before the inflation happened to reap the capital gains.

There's already serious trouble due to inequality. (The recent protests about police brutality follow a long series of other symptoms that highlight how socioeconomic inequality manifests and persists on an ethnic level.)
The way I read the parent comment is "arrogant people expose their opinions" (which unavoidably exposes them to challenge) and "arrogant people have full confidence they know exactly what to do" (but are actually unaware of the risk involved due to them being wrong).

I share your final observation though.
The author here. If you have any questions about the article, I'm happy to help. :-)

I do believe, that the query based ML will replace the trained model based ML in the long run. I believe this not because the results would be better, but because it offers higher productivity and greater simplicity.

What are your thoughts? Does the query based ML makes sense?
Michael Feathers, in Working Effectively with Legacy Code, uses that definition.

Super good book if you're dealing with legacy systems at work.
It's a question of ressources. Just like it's hard to see Microsoft becoming irrelevant simply because they have so much cash that they can just keep trying.

What exactly was Tesla first on? They managed decent range but there EVs are simply not that difficult to build compared to ICEs. Software is big but they know they are behind they have the ressources, and the institutional commitment.

It's not that I think Tesla should have the same cats/validation ratio as VW. They are ahead after all. But it's very hard to see the extend of the discrepancy in validation as justified over the long run for me. And it's not like VW is ignoring adjacent markets, Moia is a reasonably successful pilot, etc...
See also, the seaplane-yacht: http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/art...
For me it's vision and hearing that seems to go; I'm aware that I'm still awake, but my mind has drifted off elsewhere and isn't processing any visual / auditory things anymore. Mostly if I'm dozing off in front of the TV.
I honestly can't understand why any country on Earth is still using paper for notes. Is basic materials science some bizarre
foreign concept?

And for anyone who thinks otherwise, I'm going for a swim with $300 in my pocket.
I come from France, where we use pennies and live in the Netherlands where we don't.

It's always a great deal of fun seeing the family come over and try to hand over / or wait for their pennies after doing the groceries; struggling to really understand each other because of the language barrier.

There is something very charming about it .
The Fitbit for your carbon footprint
what do you mean? docker for Mac uses xhyve, which uses Hypervisor.framework aka “kvm”. wsl1 had a wine-style syscall shim but they switched to virtualization too for wsl2.
I certainly can't imagine trusting a robot with a dog any time soon. Maybe there's a semi-autonomous, supervised use case, e.g. human takes dog & robot to a park; robot walks laps with the dog, staying close enough for the human to see what's going on and intervene if necessary. The set of people that would help (i.e. for whom it would be both needed and feasible) might be pretty small, though.
I dunno. I'm sure there are people who have bad experiences, but I've always had good experiences getting Apple hardware fixed with and without Apple Care. It's one of the reasons I've used Apple hardware for so long. Maybe my experiences are routinely good because I live near an Apple store and only deal with people in person?
Go further. I haven't used coins in 10 years. Get coins - put them all in the 'penny tray'. Or give them to the cashier. Or hand them to somebody nearby. All else fails, toss them in the trash as I leave the store.
No it was Indonesia-made. I guess I got lucky!
Yes, in a simple routing setup, the limiting factor is how many ways you can divide up your address space hierarchically, not some giant 2^N number.

10../8 could be split into three hierarchies each with 2^8 entries:

• 10.X../16: sites (e.g. global offices)

• 10.X.Y../24: on site vlans / individual buildings, typically a broadcast network (although switches use MACs to limit actual broadcasting.)

• 10.X.Y.Z/32: individual hosts

It’s not an enormous amount of space, really, hence IPAM. You could divide it on non-8-bit boundaries. Oof.

With 128-bit IPv6, each ISP has a /32, each client a /48, and each broadcast domain a /64, leaving a remaining 64 bits for clients to just randomly make up addresses as they wish.

That’s still 16-bits of address space to work with when creating networks (just as you have 16-bits for the X.Y in 10.X.Y../24) but all addresses are globally routable and each network can support essentially infinite hosts and without needing DHCP, instead of just 254.