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People are losing money trading a lot of things, including but not limited to stocks, commodities and cryptocurrencies such as Cardano. I don't really see the issue with that?

I'm guessing it's the shady exchanges. There are several exchanges that have been around for a few years now, do you take issue with all of them or are you thinking of a specific one?
I have yet to hear a good explanation for this. Rendezvous on the surface of the planet sounds much more challenging than simply taking new samples, even assuming you need significant equipment to ensure you're taking the most interesting samples.
I tried setting up new insurance for a couple properties I own. It took 4 or 5 phone calls and the insurance agent just kept talking so much. Sometimes I just don't have time for all the banter. I have kids, a full-time job, etc. I don't want to spend my free time talking to some stranger on the phone. I kept telling him to email me the details and he would call anyway and "it will only take a minute".

If there was a lemonade for insurance broker type deals then I'd use it in a second. (i.e. I want to bundle my landlord insurance, personal home insurance, and auto insurance)
Yeah, Google Docs is not great for documents with lots of code in them. There's an add-on called Code Blocks which helps a bit, but it's still nowhere near as simple as Markdown.
>device tree is easier to maintain over a long period.

I don't really disagree, but for the most part all I've ever been able to buy are ARM boards with horrible support. If people aren't going to take up DT then it might be wise to find some middle ground.

Also -- you can probe for I2C/SPI devices.
You are ignoring the laws part of his comment.
Amazon has a thing called Amazon Household. Your solution would have been to create a 'teen' login for them and buy the books they wanted on your adult account, which they would then have access to via Kindle.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

> Adults can share digital content (eBooks, apps, and games) with children.
But generally what you want from these bikes apps is a recording of your run. So that you can see a speed/elevation graph, maybe overlaid on a power graph.

These apps should also let you export/import gps data, which Google does not do.

For simple directions around town I agree that Google Maps is good enough, but as soon as you're beyond riding just to get from point A to B, it's nice to have something more.
Yeah, just a century ago the reserve currency was the pound sterling, a century before that the franc, a century before that the Dutch guilder. I guess people in those times also expected the status quo to last forever.
> Can you spot the problem with this piece of code?

Sure. There's no error handling :-)

(Also, if it's not some magic fetch, the return value needs to be json-ed.)
What do you mean, climate consensus has changed?
Another option for sport equipment is to rent before you buy. You can rent skis and boots for a week for less than a cheap kit, learn, and then choose to invest. More difficult with some items (shoes), though.

I had a homework problem in some math class about the optimal online algorithm for deciding when to rent vs. buy. It works out to "rent until you've spent as much as you would spend to buy, then buy," and I think that applies well here. You may spend up to double the cost, but you avoid spending _a lot more_ on incremental upgrades before getting gear that actually fits your needs.
I think it was caused by the alpha test geo-blocking filters I had in place that should have been removed.

The servers are well structured for scaling and right now they all show very low load usage despite the surge in traffic from HN.

I have removed all geo-filters so hopefully that will allow you access the site now if you care to try again.

I do appreciate you letting me know about it!
I miss the defer keyword in coffeescript.
A contactless card just proves physical possession of the card. An Apple Pay payment means that a password or biometric authentication was performed, AND possession of the device, which raises the barrier to fraud. So there is a good reason to wanting to discourage the use of the card when possible.
Thank-you for your first few paragraphs. I am an avid reader and always try to buy new physical books to read to support my favorite authors.

The publishers are overreaching when they try to end reasonable online lending, and it is good to see what individual authors think.

For the last two paragraphs, I have to disagree with your conclusion and will try to justify my reasoning.

First, have there been any numbers released for how many excess digital copies were lent, for how many books? Does anyone still have access to those uncontrolled copies? Did any of those exceed the total physical copies in their partner libraries' inventories? If the true total loans is limited and never exceeded physical copies, then it's hard to see how this aggregation of potential inventory was any more harmful than controlled lending.

Second, publishers and rightsholding corporations have been fighting for their own interests for literal centuries. They cannot be relied upon to strike an appropriate balance of concerns on their own. First it was the authors they stole from. Publishers were the original pirates, and authors had to fight back. Now publishers are stealing from the public, and there is often nobody to fight back on behalf of the public. Corporate cooyright terms now exceed the lifetime of most people. Publishers fight to erode basic fair use. Media companies bully others to build automated extralefsl systems to harass independent producers and reviewers. The balance of power is far too much in the hands of publishers, and the IA and other libraries need support when they try to act as a counterbalance.

Finally, this was a very limited duration experent in a very unprecedented time. How can you not support an organization that reaches out to help the disadvantaged during a global pandemic and lockdown? There was no taking from authors. No sales were lost -- people like me will buy books no matter how easy they are to borrow. This was humanirarian work at its digital best.
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There is degree of questionableness and I think it makes sense to say that some money is more questionably earned than others.
But I rarely take either card out of my wallet. I use Apple Pay almost everywhere.
I fundamentally don't like UBI because, like other forms of welfare, it makes the poor ever more reliant on the government without incentive to become self-reliant.

I'm a strong believer in self-reliance. I think solutions that tackle poverty should have a path to self-reliance in there. Current welfare programs reward continued reliance and punish self-reliance (i.e. government benefits yanked if you try to supplement income too much with self-reliant sources, etc.). The ideal program helps people work their way to a state where they are no longer reliant on the government to survive. UBI locks the poorest into government reliance permanently.

You might say "yeah, UBI will help people be more self-reliant because now it's unconditional and you can supplement however you want". And maybe that's partially true. But I still think without an incentive, indeed a culture shift that values self-reliance, the poorest UBI recipients will still be stuck in rut, because they don't just lack money, but fundamental financial education that middle/upper class receive as intellectual inheritance from their parents. Just like today, it doesn't matter how many government subsidies you get, the poor's standard of living will scale to their income until every penny is gone. Someone needs to teach the poorest how to live below means so you can save, invest, avoid expensive addictions and health problems, etc. and an unconditional check in the mail won't automatically bestow that knowledge.

I predict if UBI becomes a thing it will actually increase the divide between lower and middle classes, because the middle class will use it more effectively (i.e. saving, investments, etc.) while the poor will use it less effectively (as a consequence of lacking financial education).
State mandated income sounds more like Communism 2.0, but this time with tacit acknowledgement and acceptance of an elite class and a serf class.
Oh I like that. With hypothesis pre-registration, journals could commit based on the hypothesis (and perhaps methods) rather than on the result.
Generally when a party deliberately misrepresents an opponent's position like this, it's because their own position is legally fucked and they're trying to move the goalposts so that they have a chance. Alternatively, they've already assessed their chances at zero and are trying to lay the groundwork for an appeal.

Reading through their response (the actual filing, not their press release about it), it appears that the IA has admitted to a number of claims [1] that would constitute copyright infringement, so it appears they're hoping either for a miracle or to take this to a higher court and try to get some sort of ruling that would dramatically alter copyright law in their favor. Neither is very likely to happen.

[1] For example, they admit that their own founder and executive director stated that the IA didn't seek consent (i.e., a license) from IP owners prior to launching the uncontrolled lending program that is the National Emergency Library. With that admission alone, the judge could grant summary judgment for the publishers on at least a few claims prior to reaching the discovery stage.
Amazon serves Amazon's board and shareholders. Also, many Americans are priced out of Amazon entirely, as it is cheaper to shop elsewhere.
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"Truth is out of style" -- MC 900 ft Jesus

The comparative value of "beliefs" is derived from the quality of the predictions based on those "beliefs".

I've observed that other people's "beliefs" are based on identity, culture, "truth", whatever.

I'm provisionally calling my new worldview as "post-Popperian". Until the smart people, philosophers & epistemologists, share the proper phrase with plebes like me.

--

Tying this back to the OP...

The "beliefs" of the climate change skeptics have negative value, because their predictions have been consistently wrong.

About everything.

"Negative value" meaning harmful, potentially maliciously, akin to Murray Gell-mann's pejorative "worse than wrong".
If you are wondering why many people hate updating working systems, no matter what the security implications, look no further than this.

Time and again it is an innocent security update that would end up in a reinstall, finding a bunch of bloat ware on a system, losing critical functionality, data loss and time lost.

Updates should be restricted to the absolute minimum and tested to the point that deploying them does not put customer data at risk.
I think "media-constrained" means you could only read the books through the Internet Archive web reader, or an encrypted version only readable in Adobe Digital Editions. You couldn't just download a plain PDF or EPUB to read anywhere and share with friends.

https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360016554912-Borr...
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Clickbait title. Beware of not reading the docs and making noob mistakes.
Requiring replication work for a PhD seems like a great idea. PhD programs already use a mandatory exercise—the qualifying exam—to check a student's competence, with ambiguous effectiveness. Turning the qualifying exam into a replication study seems like a win: it tests the student's ability to do their actual job rather than pass an abstract test, and produces output that is useful both to the student and the community. The qualifying exam committee (usually ~ 4 PIs from different labs) can do quality control on the replication.

> All it will do is devalue the value of replication studies because only PHD students do replication studies. It's also not in their best interest especially if they dispute findings of established researchers.

Most studies are done by students regardless, so it seems unlikely that replication studies would be devalued merely because they're done by students. Although disputing the findings of established researchers can be risky, they would be publishing jointly with their PI (or, with the above implementation, multiple PIs), not alone with no support. Few students want to stay in academia, so it usually doesn't matter to them if a professor at some other institution gets offended. Most importantly, if everyone is doing replication studies, there will be so many disputations flying around that any particular person is less likely to be singled out for retaliation.
Yes, I agree with you, and I think IA's uncontrolled digital lending was a gross violation of copyright.

I was just explaining the Controlled Digital Lending system because the person to whom I was responding was saying that all forms of digital lending were problematic.
Not sure why you were downvoted, so I gave you an upvote. You have a valid opinion, expressed with a bit of amusing hyperbole. I agree with the gist of it, I don't trust any cloud connected smart devices, because I know how the sausage is made, from the device firmware, to the cloud software, to the all-consuming pressure to make a profit regardless of privacy or ethical issues.
Ray Bradbury died in 2012. I don't think you can freely make the association that because he supported the SFWA, he would have supported their stance on this.
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I'm working on a project using kd-tree for high-dimensional embeddings. Could you send me some pointers?
I have no idea to be honest. I think here in the UK, the government have done such a bad job of handling things that I suspect they're pursing herd immunity but I won't pretend I know if that is a thing or how long it would take...
I don't really care for how naïve this description of "how economy works" is or isn't, but being upset that instead of Haskell being used virtually nowhere, it is finally used somewhere is pretty hilarious.
>In addition, I thought the justification for expanding controlled digital lending was around COVID-19, not rights for people who have low vision. Was this issue a central part of the the IA's reasoning before the lawsuit?

They're grasping at straws and trying to see what protections they might to be able to slip under, since what they wrote in their announcement is a slam dunk case against them [0].

>And so, to meet this unprecedented need at a scale never before seen, we suspended waitlists on our lending collection.

[0] http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/30/internet-archive-responds...
When I saw the news yesterday I did think it was fishy because I have never successfully gotten a refund for a broken app store purchase from Apple before. I assumed returns weren't ever given so how could there possibly be a refund commission policy?
Love your design guys.
> because consumers have absolutely no idea how cards differ and what the options are

Well if there's a time and a place to educate people, it's here and now. Your knowledge would be appreciated, TIA
I don't think that was there when I commented
I stopped warflaming but I really struggle on nano these days :)

weird right
Sure, but if you have an Apple card you're going to have an Apple phone, most probably, and that can do the contactless bit for you. Not sure if apple cards and android phones work, but android-pay is the other option for most cards.

Both are more secure than using the card directly with contactless - you have verified to your phone that it is you using it, by logging in with face ID, touch ID, passcode, PIN, whatever. It's a form of cardholder verification that is missing when you use the card.

That was my (slightly snarky) point - you don't need contactless on the card when you have a smart device that does it better.
The in-house built hypervisor is open source too: https://github.com/napocahv/napoca
Capitalism has ended poverty at a faster rate in the past 20 years than anytime in history. Capitalism is why we have nice things. The destruction of the environment is more extreme in non-capitalist countries that are poorer. A clean environment is something that people value, they just value it less than basic survival -- which seems to make sense to me.

In fact, if UBI slows down growth and progress -- it will in fact do more damage to the environment than not having it.
None of that should really matter. Either it adds to the conversation or not. Conversation being the key word. Even if its a poorly thought out or written argument, if its mistakes generate good replies, its good for the goose.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules in the future. You may not owe better to late-stage capitalism, but you do owe better to this community if you're posting to it.
Yeah, I couldn't understand what the article was about until the end because it's so obvious that the requests would not be in parallel.
Digging and packing gear has been demonstrated many times, and sounds way less risky and complicated than robotic rendezvous and transfer on a planet's surface, which I believe has never been done. Moreover, why not just make the digging mission and sample-return mission the same mission?

Like, was it really the case that (1) the current digging mission could not be delayed AND (2) there is little independent value for a later new digging mission AND (3) it is easier to rendezvous and transfer than just re-dig?
they do not degrade over time as physical books do

It's worth pointing out that libraries will rebind a physical book if it starts falling apart. It's weird to argue that publishers' rights should last the full term of copyright, but readers' rights only last until a book wears out.
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I hate that await has made it easy to turn JS in to a synchronous language. I see so much front end code that would be better for users without await, but lots of developers prefer to write code that's easier to think about rather than fast. It's hugely annoying.
Let me start by saying, [citation needed].

I'm incredulous that an article which states, "Even if you're still doubtful you can see it's the least worst [sic] solution we have to make capitalism work in the 21st century." is getting this many upvotes. HN has a reputation as an evidence-valuing rational community that appreciates articulate arguments. I guess that these principles do not apply when we are talking about UBI (or when accusing Apple of business practices they do not engage in, apparently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23995750)

It's obvious that the author doesn't have more than an introductory macroeconomics course under his belt. The article reads like something an idealistic first-year undergraduate might try to pass off. It is full of cliches and incredibly bold statements with no citations used to prop up a flimsy argument.

For example:

"[The increasing size of markets] is why wealth inequality soared when capitalism went global in the 20th century."
The increasing size of markets may be a factor in inequality, but it is certainly not the only one. Also, a graph would be nice. Inequality was higher in the late 19th century and took a dip in the early-to-mid 19th century. Without seeing this data, it is foolish to make sure a sweeping generalization.

"If we can give companies overwhelming demand so they have to scale up production instead of spending all their money on advertising, we can have both happy companies making profit hand over fist, and happy consumers who get everything they desire."
First, the phrases "Happy companies", "profit hand over fist", "happy customers", "everything they desire" sound like they were written by a 12-year-old.
Second, money is an abstraction used to allocate goods from production to consumption. When production does not match consumption, this causes either excess inventory or shortages - neither of which are desirable, but both of which tend to resolve themselves quickly. One of the often-stated goals of UBI is to free workers from unfulfilling labor. However, labor is an essential factor in production, and by "freeing" labor, we will reduce production. Since consumption is equal to production, workers will not be able to magically "get everything they desire." In fact, they might get less.
As the parent comment referred to the Geisterbahnhöfe as in East Berlin, it stands to reason that they were patrolled by East German guards, hence discussing the reasons for East Germans to keep them closed.

(As an aside, why do you feel the need to be so confrontational...?)
All around great and accomplished guy. He will be missed.
Yeah. I use them instead of Amazon.
> It is not a politically motivated campaign to destroy books

You don't consider a legal dispute over copyright to be political?
I work in this field and whilst it's true that there is no direct medications that can seriously slow or halt the progression, there are effective avenues for slowing it via diet, exercise, reduction of stress factors: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5546647/

Early identification absolutely matters, the question is HOW early. 5 years doesn't do much, 15 years? You can change your entire lifestyle and the changes can take effect with that much time.
Partly playing devil's advocate here, there's no right to a business model but there's a copyright and the IA violated it when they broke their digital lending agreement. Calling other people's work "our own culture" is a misleading appeal to emotion.

Should we have a copyright system as it is today? Now that's a completely different question. And I don't think what they did helps at all in changing it for the better, at best they're just helping in testing and defining the limits of the current system.
There isn't, but I frankly think that many people would call the IPCC consensus "anti-climate action" if you summarized it without telling them what it was. The IPCC consensus doesn't predict anything tremendously apocalyptic; they just think the required adaptations will be disruptive and costly, enough so that some countries won't be able to afford them.
I will state the same comment as last time.

Can distros maybe consider moving to systemd-boot at some point? Systemd is already built in and can handle things like mounting pretty easily and simply.

It is a hell of a lot leaner than grub, doesn't use a billion superfluous modules. That and it is a lot easier to prevent tampering compared with the cumbersome nonsense that is grub passwords.

Oh and it enables distros to gather accurate boot times and enables booting into UEFI direct from the desktop.

It works with secureboot/shim/Hashtool. Also each distro has it's bootloader entries in separate folders to avoid accidental conflicts.
If you don't want to install anything, you can get a taste of Dafny by looking at its online tutorial.

https://rise4fun.com/Dafny/tutorial

Dafny is a good example of what formal verification looks like for imperative languages (as opposed to e.g. dependent types for functional languages). Gotta love loop invariants!
You know your stuff, I can tell! In a pre-release version, we had hidden the native scrollbar and put our own scrollbar graphic on it that would animate using CSS transform according to native scroll offsets vs. DGXL viewport dimensions. The scrollbar size (width/height) and position made more sense, but at the end we couldn't get it to feel quite right.

We're quite happy with the native scrollbar. It's fine on mobile too.