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> trading in USD requires the transaction to route via the US

Is this correct? How's that enforced? Say, I have a company in Poland which sells some goods for a million dollars to another company in Poland. We both have USD accounts in Polish banks and the transfer is between these accounts. How does the money route via the US?
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Client certificates is also a thing.
> collects sensitive Android user data

Looks like it’s basic metrics like how often the app is launched. It is not sensitive (user content of the apps would be sensitive).

It is an antitrust issue but barely a security/privacy issue.
This is my favourite poem and was before I even knew how layered and knotty it is. In addition to its obvious interpretation it's also about readers and reading, how even if you are the mightiest ruler who has ever lived you still can't make people read you a certain way - the sculptor who "mocked" his features may have found the king's intentions absurd even as he was forced to sculpt his likeness.

It was an illustration by Shelley of the problems of a certain school of literary thought at the time which held that the author of a text is the ultimate arbiter of its meaning. That Shelley was able to make such an elegant counter-argument and encode it as one of the most lyrically and thematically beautiful poems of all time puts me in awe every time I think of it.
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I really appreciate write ups like this. While I had considered taking the Pinebook Pro for a spin, the storage and limited RAM situation is ultimately what broke the deal for me as I could not think of a use-case for me as it would fall short of what I need from a laptop. Hopefully I can muster the energy to write something similar after I get my Pinetab, for which I hopefully have more realistic expectations to use as an e-mail terminal (mutt and Syncthing) and occasional “browser peek” while jumping between meetings where I do not feel like dragging a laptop along. My only concern now is whether I can have it fully encrypted and what state video (not browser video) playback will be in.

In closing, I have to say that I really appreciate what Pine64 are doing. Their SoC boards, PineTime, and PinePhone are all great fun and I hope this is just the beginning of a long series of awesome hardware to play around with together with supremely hackable open source software.
This information can also obtained from the chamber of commerce in the netherlands
> You can throw a match into Jet-A and it won’t catch fire.

Yeah, well, we all know jet fuel burns very well and that's why it's so useful. Fire is the worst crisis on an airliner.
They are selling into the EU though, right? So they do do business with EU persons.
Well, I'm glad to hear it might have improved. After taking a battering in this thread, I'll take any possible small win.

What you reference is an attempt at a joke which requires certain cultural knowledge (Early Star Trek). On this point, I'm probably unlikely to change, and will just have to ask for your forgiveness. I like my docs to have an occasional joke, whether I'm the reader or the writer. But I am aware that this is not everyone's cup of tea (English cultural reference).
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That does not contradict my previous comment.

Colonizing the Moon is a big step up. One progresses better when they have a step by step plan.

In my view, targeting Mars and ignoring the Moon is not a rational approach, it's an emotional and PR-driven driven approach. It's a less effective use of resources but grabs more headlines. There is also obviously the race aspect and the drive to be the first to reach a place.

But in the long term I suspect that reality will catch up with the hype and that actual colonization of Mars will be preceded by a step on the Moon.
Call me old-fashioned, but if anybody knows when or how often I'm executing a particular program on my own hardware, that is a privacy issue.
Can anyone tell me why we do not have a mechanism like SSH keys to authenticate to websites? Genuinely curious.
The fact that GARMIN is incapable of offering e.g. aviation updates via an alternative route such as downloading from a website and then manually uploading to a device (needs only to be open in emergencies) is simply ridiculous. This obviously also goes for any other of their services, but obviously with aviation (and potentially also maritime) data there is a much higher and substantial need to offer such services, and I also agree: The fact that no SLA for anything seems to be (offically) in place along with the fact that not a single statement regarding expected downtime is made... I stop there!
The idea is that if you accept the fact that your loved ones may disappear at any time, you’ll appreciate them and love them more in the present. And when they do disappear, feeling that sadness is part of being human. The important thing is to accept that they’re gone, and not wallow in despair, as it’s something you can’t change.
Ask HN: Devs – how does it get decided what you work on?
I’d like to hear from other software developers who work for a company (not one man shows).

For context, I work for a smallish (40 people, 8 devs, 4 are in my team) company that builds a retail consumer app (both mobile and web). The company is less than 5 years old and is having reasonable growth. I joined about 6 months ago and the code base was super messy, which was apparently due to the company previously relying on short term contractors to smash out individual features. Funnily enough, I really enjoyed the mess, because there was so much to improve. We had stories coming through from product, but they also gave us a lot of freedom to just ‘make things better’ without too much coordination. Fast forward 6 months and we now have a new CTO, who demands everybody to follow a strict process. Anything you want to work on needs to be prioritised in a refinement session. And that’s literally anything - doesn’t matter if it would take 1 minute, hour or a day. I’ve had a couple of jobs before, but never anything that restrictive (even at big-corps). I understand that there are pieces of work that need to be widely coordinated, but this level of control feels like micro-management taken to the extreme.

Is this kind of strict process following common out there in the industry? Are there any experiences, opinions or stories you’d like to share?
I think that comment is more "Picasa was amazing" than "Digikam is bad", and it's right, Picasa was amazing. Hopefully Digikam will reach those levels soon.
The most efficient solution is ridiculously simple - put a tax on the emission of pollution. Couple it with a corresponding tax reduction on productive behavior.

This is based on the blindingly obvious maxim that if you want more of something, subsidize it. If you want less, tax it.

And by taxing pollution instead of regulating it, you generate revenue for the government.
then they need to close down and move. if i buy a house for 20k and when I retire the property values are sky-high and the property taxes, which pay for things like roads and schools are too much for me to afford, i have to move.

the people giving money to churches to attend that church, should pick up the cost of going to that church. which includes property taxes. if they are not willing to pay for that, it's their problem. excusing churches from these taxes puts the burden for the church not on its members, but on everyone.

let me ask you - that mcdonalds down the street. are it's property taxes paid by you? do you think if they declared themselves the church of fat asses, their property tax should be paid by you, as a county resident? because it would be, like it is for churches. when a portion of land isn't getting tax collected, the cost for the county doesn't go away - they get it from the people paying the taxes.
Prometheus is a monitoring system (it collects metrics and evaluates alerts on them), while TimescaleDB is a database. While it is possible to use TimescaleDB as a remote storage for Prometheus, I'd recommend taking a look at other remote storage integrations as well [1]. Some of them natively support PromQL (like VictoriaMetrics, m3db, Cortex), others may be easier to setup and operate. For instance, VictoriaMetrics works out of the box without complex configuration. Disclaimer: I work for VictoriaMetrics :).

[1] https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-en...
If you’re just looking for the original text, then acabal did a high quality epub (with MathMLed equations) at https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ludwig-wittgenstein/tracta...
For users of the intellij family (idea or phpstorm).

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10215-php-inspections-e... is amazing and well worth the price.

It has a free variant which is still amazing but lacks all the inspections of the paid variant.

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7622-php-inspections-ea...
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I know nothing about it, but what about hydrogen cells ? It doesn't solve this issue ?
What are you talking about? Sounds either made up or completely twisted Russian history.
Quick question: Does anyone know who runs/hosts/maintains/secures GARMIN servers? Are they owned and operated by the company itself or is all or parts of it outsourced?
As arpa mentioned in the other thread, client certificates are a thing. Outside of corporate infrastructure the implementation is somewhat painful though and OS/browser sides far from optimal in terms of user experience.
For reference from the UAV industry. The very best lithium ion batteries are about 250Wh/kg but limited in the instantaneous amperage they can put out. High amperage capable batteries are more like 170Wh/kg.

UAV compressed hydrogen tank systems with fuel cells in the 800-1600W range, the full system with tank, fuel cell and a small buffer battery works out to between 800-1200Wh/kg depending on size. Some guys in south Korea recently hovered a large hexacopter for 10.5 hours. The systems I've seen are typically configured for an output voltage equivalent to the float voltage of a 12S lipo.

Diesel fuel, jet a, avgas and other fuels are a whole magnitude more dense in Wh/kg stored than the above-mentioned hydrogen system.
This being England, the title should of course say “courgettes”. Nobody calls them zucchinis over here!
There are many aviation disasters caused directly or indirectly by the fuel catching fire.

Such as the horrific SST crash.

The idea that jet fuel is somehow safe is just a terrible misjudgment of the situation. What we have learned over time is how to handle it safely - but it is NEVER safe and it DOES burn. Another way to set it merrily burning is to scrape an airliner along the runway, or have the airliner hit any sort of obstacle, or for the fuel to leak onto hot engine parts, and on and on.
Ultimately, adtech has to broker between publishers and advertisers. If those have any business in EU, they will be liable for the data, even if the broker is outside of jurisdiction.
We have! Client certs been around since time immemorial.
They'll still be operating, and serving you ads, just beyond the reach of EU laws.
It's not really there. You're hallucinating.
Yeah exactly. I thought people would directly check all the Facebook apps for privacy concerns
In my city there is a bus using a hydrogen fuel cell.
I noticed it produced interference in my bluetooth headset with noise reduction (I can hear the engine in my headset), i'm curious if it will interfer with plane sensors.
A lot of the work that is done to become and stay compliant with the GDPR is invisible from the outside, but I can assure you that most large companies and a lot of the smaller ones are taking it serious.

The GDPR also has a "pull-in" effect on companies outside the EU that (often illegally) sell personal data because their clients in the EU (the data controllers) have to prove that these companies (their data processors) adhere to the GDPR if they want to do business with them. If a EU company buys personal data from a company outside the EU or sends personal data to that company they are liable if this data gets abused or if the personal data was not acquired in accordance with the GDPR. The whole "privacy shield" mess was about the question whether EU companies can still send personal to the US based on a self-certification process US companies go through (turns out they can't).

Some of the data brokers already feel this pressure and will be forced to change their business models unless they want to lose their clients within the EU. Sure there are still EU companies that do business with these data brokers today, but most of them know that they're exposing themselves to considerable risk and are already looking for alternatives.
Did they reinvent the phonecall?
> Isn’t Laravel the worst performing framework out there right now.

I'm more of a Symfony than Laravel guy but I've done both enough to know that application architecture and environment configuration has more of an impact than either framework's "performance" does.

Silly things are slow in most web frameworks.
>EVERYBODY is cheating.

All the big European companies I've worked for seemed to put lots of effort into complying.
Yes, you really are. The Apache Foundation is already free to do what it wishes to do with vscore, isn't it? I mean, the vscodium guys already do it, right? Whay stops you or anyone in the Apache Foundation from doing the same? What input do you actually need from Microsoft to achieve your goals?

Let's be honest here: your problem actually lies with Microsoft getting it's money's worth by paying their people to do their work. That's what's bothering you. MS started the project, paid everyone's salaries, managed the project, and once it started delivering arguably the best editor around... Now you want to push it out? Why?

If you really care about what you're advocating then just click on "fork" and be the change you want to see in the world. Then let us know what came out of it.
It is 1/1000 of the issue of looking into other app messages and 1/1000000 of the issue of looking into other app messages by humans and selling it to unknown parties.

If we call every issue equally important privacy violation, one day we will overlook the one really important issue, which this issue isn’t.
Thanks for the feedback. In this regard, I think things have improved a little over the last 8 months, stepwise.

In our busy world, people want more immediate summaries and progress. These docs arose out of me trying to teach my team how to think about coding in Clojure and to use re-frame (we were all new to the language at the time), so they definitely have a didactic flavour.

I continue to nudge them in the direction you recommend.
And they are an utter PITA to use, everywhere in the stack...
The bank will either have a presence in the US itself, or it'll have a partner that does that it'll route the transaction through.

If you've done a USD transfer, it'll most likely be a SWIFT transfer, and you can ask your bank for the SWIFT routing log. You'll most likely see an NYC bank (or NYC branch of your bank) in the middle.
Well, I can certainly provide an argument against expectations of long term usage as well.

I bought a pinebook pro, perfectly knowing the performances limitations this article discusses, and actually _wanting_ to learn to live with a less powerful computer, consuming less electricity. In a era where we're roasting Earth, this sounded almost like a duty to me.

But when I received the computer, I had a blocking problem with it : its SD card reader was faulty and would trigger I/O errors after a few writes, and the OS would remount the device as read-only. This is a major problem on that computer because it has very low internal storage space so you're supposed to use a SD card to hold data. I tried various OS, various SD cards, did my due diligence to confirm it was a hardware problem - it was.

I wasn't that annoyed at that point because pine64 sells spare parts on their web shop. So I went there to replace the SD card reader, which meant replacing the main board as well, but OK. This was all very fairly priced, so no problem. Except… the spare part was out of stock. So I waited a few weeks, and it was still out of stock.

I mailed their support presenting my problem and asking a simple question : will spare parts will ever be available again?

They answered by asking me to demonstrate this was a hardware issue, which I did. They did not answer my question, so I asked it again, telling them that I was not wishing to make the device travel the world and back, I just wanted to replace the faulty part. They answered me with the address were I should ship the computer to them. So I asked them again directly : will the spare parts will ever be available again? They dodged the question once again and asked me to send them the computer.

I guess asking to ship them a faulty product is totally fair, they want to inspect it. I'm not willing do to that because we fly way enough products around the world as is, and I can do any check they want me to do locally. But fair enough, they want it back to solve my problem.

What troubles me, though, and what is relevant here is that while they advertise selling spare parts for their computer, they actually don't, and they're shady when asked if they will again. Which probably means they won't. So yeah, I wouldn't bet on long term usage if you have an experimental device that you can't repair.
Working in transaction consulting I beg to differ: This simply already puts the earnings call on Wednesday in a bad light, much more so than if they e.g. communicated the real issue and, if required and possible, delayed the earnings call... Transparency is valued and priced highly by analysts these days, the worst scenario is that there is no real transparency in the call itself, then "all bets regarding GARMIN's future are off".
I have to say, my experience working with Google is that they actually resist the acquisition of information that's not in the public domain in a lot of ways. I've seen them fund another company's development team to do work, even buying the other company hardware for the task, just to avoid the data. I've seen them consciously exclude engineering tools you'd think are right up their alley, because the tools would acquire data which, while entirely in-scope and on-mission, could be considered too sensitive in some context.

If they're collecting this data, I strongly suspect they feel obligated to, maybe even compelled too. Possibly for purposes like app security, user security, OS security, user experience, etc.
Presumably they were there before the rest of the area was so built up?
It's gotten a lot better since I started using it ~2009 and now.

7.4 added typed properties.
8 is adding better caching, a jit and my favourite feature

match()

https://php.watch/versions/8.0#match-expression

for all the enterprise heavy stuff I write a nicer cleaner and safer (by default) alternative to switch is going to make some code much cleaner to write and read and really that is what I care about more than almost anything else.

That it also returns a value is just the cherry on top.
I am so tired of reading bad code with poor intent that has no comments and no documentation that's written in the most counter intuitive way.
Because market share indicates performance...?

The Intel-beating AMD chips are quite new, so them having less market share is to be expected.
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You’re right, it doesn’t mean active.

It’s possible many of those users did not grant the contact tracing permission on the phone when installing.
But I’m assuming anyone who went to both of installing would be open to allowing it.
They could also have uninstalled 10 mins later.
I don’t know how the number is being calculated.

I’m on iOS and keep app installs on my phone to a minimal but haven’t noticed battery drain so far. Android my differ.

Also your phone can collect the data by enabling in Settings > Privacy > Health > COVID-19 without the app at all.
For a view of how GARMIN must feel right now: https://www.feltet.dk/octo_cms/files/Feltet.dk/Billeder/2014...
I feel these things should exist without God. That is, they can be helpful to non-believers too. But I am having a hard time creating secular versions of these.

I think the root of the problem lies in the fact that God here is an abstract entity with whom the believer communicates but no such abstract entity exists for non-believers (duh!).

May be some form of general artificial intelligence can fulfil this role in the future?

Real people can fulfil this role too but they are probably not abstract enough. edit: And hence not "powerful" enough (to forgive, to protect etc.).

Just spit-balling here. Also not trying to offend anyone here.
I think software engineers should get together(online) and first start bouncing ideas together to help make the world a better place and then form various groups to work on those ideas. That will help start new businesses.
They already had carracks (ocean-going ships) when they embarked on this voyage. So what you are really saying is that we should wait for fusion reactors.
To me the most worrying is that while I intellectually know this is bad, emotionally it gets a solid “meh” from me.

Google is desensitizing us to this kind of bad behavior, to the point that this sounds like it’s only half the story, or not such a bug deal.
Maybe I'm just an ignorant American, but what is the issue with that definition? Lack of an explicit political goal?
Interesting video, not what I was expecting results wise.
I just read a bit on that site:

> The private person used a dashcam to make recordings of public road traffic and then published them on YouTube as a compilation.

What a PATHETIC thing this GDPR is. Fully agree that we should admit that GDPR is a massive failure (who would have thought!)

Greetings from a European.
We've already been to the moon though. We have not even set foot on Mars.

My point is to do both. Do things we've never done on the moon (colony/industry) while at the same time doing the things we've never done on Mars (set foot).
Yes, as the GP this is my original point. I completely agree that they are moving to GitHub. I don't think there are referentially false sentences in the OP, it's more a remark about the language (which is not a secondary aspect).
Having "much stronger" type system cannot be anyone's definitive reason for deciding to go with Hacklang instead of PHP.

Type system doesn't guarantee that the programmer will utilize it properly, produce optimal code or even figure out the problem that is being solved by writing an algorithm.

You also need to pay attention to the ecosystem, problems that come with HHVM, the fact you're undoubtedly tying yourself with Facebook and what you're gaining / losing with the decision to go with a fork of PHP.
Asked in a related thread already, but bigger audience here: Does anyone know who runs/hosts/maintains/secures GARMIN servers? Are they owned and operated by the company itself or is all or parts of it outsourced?
In couple years that will be also no big problem to crack with enough cheap FPGAs from today. Think about Kintex-7 boards for couple hundred dollars from AliExpress.
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