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>> The only possible way to stop it, is to continue advancing computing power according to Moore's Law

> services being cheaper to centralize.

You are talking about its relative cost, while I'm talking about the mere possibility.

Back in the early 80s, having a personal workstation (not a home computer) to process private information was nearly an impossibility, not simply because it's cheaper to centralize but because it's technologically prohibitive. Even in the early 90s, I still read stories about how a hacker in a crypto community needed to import his private key every time he comes to work in the morning to read some personal messages, and to remove it again at the end of the day. The server could not be trusted and there was no alternative.

And today, everyone uses Gmail and the same privacy problem is still here - the server can't be trusted, but at least, if you are personally willing to spend some money and energy on your project, it's possible to host your own. It'll never be mainstream, yes, but it's possible and Moore's Law enabled it.

Maching translation, or personal assistant, on the other hand, now resembles a "personal-workstation-in-the-80s" problem. If computing power continues to advance according to Moore's Law, at least it's going to be a "Gmail-in-the-20s" problem after a decade or two.

> We're fighting uphill against a law of economics.

Moore's Law and personal computing, regardless of how sufficient or insufficient, is historically a balancing force. If this force continues to act upon, the level of centralization of future software applications will still be imaginable to us.

But if it ceases to exist, things will become much worse.

That is all I wanted to say.
Very interesting, I did not know you could use a RPi as a second processor. My dad has a 6502 second processor and we were wowed by the hidden line removal and colour on Elite at the time.

Didn't make me play any better though.

I just used to enjoy Chuckie Egg, Mr. EE, Dare Devil Dennis, Exile, Mission Impossible and Firetrack. Brilliant music on Firetrack.
Why is /bin/true so large?
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> Europeans believe in science

¿? I can tell you we have our fair amount of anti-science people. It has been growing a lot since widespread social media use.

> This collision of reality brought Europe to a logical conclusion. The money that is a consequence of production, and that only has value where there’s production, plainly ran out. Hence the layoffs. Crucial is that government can’t reverse this bit of reality. Only private production can. Which brings us back to what’s simple and easy: if countries want their economies revived, they must end the restrictions that are limiting the private production without which governments have nothing to hand out.

Man, where do I begin.

First, the only (large) country that has properly locked down is Italy.

Second, the whole article is... weird? What's the myth of 'safety nets'? They collapse if we don't have means to sustain it? Yeah, we knew it already, so? Is that the myth? That they are magical? I really don't get the point of the article.

Is it suggesting that we don't get the importance of tourism as an export?

Third, the has been quite a lot discussion in Europe about what to do, and divergent strategies. Results of such strategies are different too, even within countries with apparently similar approach. Why? We don't really know, there are so many variables.. even inside Spain there are wild differences between regions that aren't apparently doing anything different from others.

IMO the only consensus being reached it's that you can't divorce economy from public health. If you open an office and some people gets infected, what do you do? Even if you do nothing, some people won't go to work no matter what you tell them.

In my company we reacted quickly and pretty much everyone went remote, but some partners can't, and we've seen them doing quite a lot of acrobatics to keep the company going. One of those companies, aside from the mandatory mask and hygiene checks their workers often via private labs, changed AC and installed copper in some surfaces. I don't think they can do much more. But they keep getting infected people from time to time.
Interview: The NDB team on its revolutionary nano-diamond batteries
But this is pertaining to msdn subscriptions, which provide keys for a variety of Microsoft products. According to the article, you can't break them up to sell individually

>In a small victory for Oracle, the ECJ ruling prevents resellers from breaking up a license and selling only part of it if they have purchased licenses for more users than they need.
>Perhaps in the US, but other countries, even poor ones, manage to do rural internet fine without cluttering the night sky.

Most of sub-saharan Africa has slow and expensive internet. I would guess there is 1 billion people who will have access to the internet via mobile tower with starlink & competitors backhaul in a few years. This is enormous.
Funny timing, I just blogged about webrings on my personal website a few days ago: https://merlinscholz.name/post/bring-back-the-old-web/
I use Hammerspoon and Karabiner Elements on macOS to rebind keys (including the examples you gave). There's some examples and repositories available for these applications.

On Windows, I use AutoHotKey, though mainly for gaming (be aware it can get you banned on some games though; investigate this beforehand).

On Linux, I have a bit more difficulty with all of this because:

1) There's no standard application or configuration or even desktop. As of now I mainly use Gnome, but my preference would be to use more lightweight WM/DE on some of my devices.

2) I sometimes use a Linux desktop in a VM, from macOS.
I am pretty sure this is possible. The program called by Interception Tools can basically do anything (including being stateful), it just reads input events, rewrites it, ignores it, or raises entirely different input events etc. You could probably move your mouse with arrow keys if you wanted to.
I work in HFT, and one of the key concerns when writing low-latency code is "is this code allocating memory, and if so, how can I stop it?" Zig is the perfect language for this use case as none of the standard library implicitly allocates, rather for anything that allocates, the caller must pass in an allocator. The stdlib also provides a handy arena allocator, which is often the best choice.

This is a huge advantage over C++ and Rust, because it makes it much harder for e.g. the intern to write code that repeatedly creates a vector or dynamically allocated string in a loop. Or to use something like std::unordered_map or std::deque that allocates wantonly.
The FB apologies are starting to become sarcastic
In all your anti-american rambling, you are ignoring that SpaceX isn't the only company doing this.

> Other operators include the London-based OneWeb, which has launched 74 of what it hopes will be a gigantic fleet of 48,000 satellites
Minor correction that does not detract from your point:

DMV actually nets out a surplus in most states given the fees it collects.

When states cut its operating budget, it's because they're looking across the budget for ways to cut costs. This is only irrational from a budgetary, as opposed to service delivery, POV if the cuts somehow undermine revenue collection, like reducing the number of IRS auditors.
My guess would be that Onlyfans do a lot of fraud prevention on their end and negotiated an exception with Stripe...
The real fact is you are being played in an election year game by the Postal Union whose declared who they are backing unequivocally. Go chat up a CCA, I have two I know and one lives in my neighborhood but it close to quitting now. They are basically the equivalent of those food delivery service drivers but without the freedom to choose when they work.

As in, they get shat upon by a small but not insignificant number of regular carriers who know how to game the system let alone see CCAs are beneath them in every way. You want the truth about how this service has been running for years, well before recent issues, just google CCA horror stories.

This whole debacle is an engineered slow down by the union using the typical quiet encouragement that never has official backing but crawls along emails and word of mouth.

The worst Post Office examples you see in the press have always been this bad. There is no consistent management across the system. One place is well run and the next can be nightmare fuel.

tl;dr this is all an election year con job designed to make you come to one conclusion relying on the disposition of many to automatically assume any negative story concerning the current administration is true; while the current administration sucks on many levels much of what is claimed isn't always exactly true.

ps: HN is being bombarded by thinly veiled election year propaganda and sadly eats it up. the number of stories deserving to be flagged reaches ridiculous levels at these times.
I'd take any sleeping pod any time, even if I had to bring my own sandwiches, piss into a bottle and have 0 entertainment than sit for more than 8 hours in economy flight of any current airline.
A years old post with interesting comments on how it works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3514721
I think Facebook should blame itself and other ad-networks for opening their platform to all kind of abuses like fake information and political campaigns with nasty agendas.

They made tracking so harmful with no respect to users privacy that everyone hates it now. It used to be that at least half of the users would prefer to see relevant ads until tracking become the evil thing that is right now.
> .. company's anti-competitive behavior ..

I'm an Apple user and I paid premium specifically for this "anti-competitive behavior". I'm totally behind its policies. I feel protected from malware, scams and privacy leaks. Developers may complain all they want, not my problem.
But in the MongoDB case (when it was still using AGPLv3), those companies who violated AGPLv3 did have a solution: pay a fee for a commercial license of MongoDB instead of AGPLv3 which is free. In this way, those companies don't need to open source their code built based on MongoDB. MongoDB get money to go further, because I guess MongoDB people need to raise their family.
take your meds
Because we need rural areas to supply us with food and other materials.
An average web site isn’t any faster than it was 10 or 20 years ago (unless you still had a modem back then).

Overall the Web is in much worse place, with decentralized hyperdocuments replaced with centralized application server model. FB and Google turned internet into AOL.
BSFC as in horsepower generated per unit of fuel tends to be better in Diesel engines, but they’re heavier because the combustion events are more violent, requiring a stronger block and pistons.
I know you mean Low Earth Orbit (LEO), but it got me wondering about Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) satellite networks.
> That's an unfair comparison though. Everyone used to play with high latency.

I played a lot of Quake and that was not remotely close to being the case. There were the high ping and low ping players, with not much of a % inbetween. In 1996-1997 the vast majority of people were playing Quake online via dial-up modems. The best players had low pings and were playing over ISDNs or better (a lot of players were on fast university or corporate networks).

> today's pro gamers are likely at a higher skill ceiling than the best players were 10 years ago.

The pro-level players in the later half of the 1990s were as elite as anything that exists today in the FPS space. They were playing like it was a job even when it wasn't, and they had been doing it for a while (Doom LAN competitions were common before that). Quake clans were prolific. They also had professional caliber competitions / tournaments back then, see: the 1997 Red Annihilation Quake tournament in Atlanta, where Dennis Fong won Carmack's Ferrari.
Show HN: Startingcondition.com – “Who goes first?” from open source conditions
https://startingcondition.com

Hello HN!

I wrote this little tool as a way to change up the flow of our daily stand-ups. Whoever best meets the starting condition—as determined by the group or moderator—starts. It's been a fun way to learn more about the team in an unexpected way.

The list of conditions are thought of by contributors to the project: https://github.com/higgins/starting-condition

It supports multiple languages and its an npm package too!

Lastly, if any of you have access to GPT-3, I'd love to generate a GPT-3 "language" option.

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Yeah, the last mile is huge. My parents have paid between $100 and $200 per month for the last decade to get metered Internet that's worse than this.
Does that include Halloween as well?
Ask HN: How to be credited as the publisher of my own software?
So, I made this game, Wizznic! some years back. Open source and all, and while it's not great, I still take some pride in it.

Someone else made an unofficial port for Android, I've got no beef with them. (Yes, Wizznic! is a re-implementation of Puzznic, but an improved one and definitely a clean-room implementation)

Google, however, will display them as the publisher of that game, even though they're only publishing an unofficial port for an unsupported platform.

This rubs me the wrong way, even the google search results clearly shows that they're not the official publisher.

Lots of documentation has been provided, source-code repositories, blog posts.. I even emailed them photo id of myself to prove that I exist, but I could not claim the panel, since I am a person, and not a company, and apparently, persons cannot publish software.

What to do now?

Can I start a campaign somehow?

If I could, I'd like to start it here, as I urge you to search on google for Wizznic! and leave feedback where you mark "Mikrosoft Android" as factually wrong..
"In the long run, the utility of all non-Free software approaches zero."

But to be fair, that is allmost true of any software, with changing archtectures programming languages etc. but a thousands times yes! With free software you have at least the option of doing the work of migrating.
The alternative is that Apple could tell the user the phone battery was going bad, so they'd buy a new battery rather than a new iPhone. The other alternative is that Apple could test the battery and apply the throttling only when appropriate (rather than generically over entire models). Weirdly, both decisions contributed to Apple's bottom line. What an odd coincidence.
Plus airports, airspace, immigration, depreciation, insurance. So more like 20k.
Don't stress too much. She was good with calculations, just like Kathrine Johnson.

https://www.nasa.gov/content/katherine-johnson-biography
Some things are just common goods.
It's only for file formats after all? Because those modern flat designs look like they are drawn in paint with bucket fill.
My impression is that this might make it more difficult for facebook to track people in the short term only. Surely facebook can and will find other ways to achieve the same result through device fingerprinting, etc. It probably won’t be as simple and easy as the IDFA but I don’t imagine it will be particularly difficult for facebook either. And considering how much revenue they claim they’ll lose it seems it would be a worthwhile use of resources. I’m not really familiar with how facebook advertising works and I hope I’m wrong but it doesn’t seem like an impossible ask to me and I’m guessing most of the engineers at facebook are far more skilled developers and data harvesters than I.
> EG efficient HFTs can reduce bid ask spreads which does save a lot of money for retail traders.

Berkshire Hathway has $1000+ spreads yet you dont see a lot of people complaining.
It's a big leap from WordPress to software engineering. If you're trying for a serious development role, you're going to have to learn modern UI frameworks, build tools, and software development methodologies (many of which you list in #4). You can learn these on your own, but you're not going to have the resume to back it up. It'll be hard to get a foot in the door. You'll have better luck learning--and better luck getting interviews--if you go to a crash-course coding school program (General Assembly, AppAcademy, etc).

Neither CS nor math have any real bearing on frontend software development. They don't matter much for the majority of backend development roles either. You'd learn more relevant skills much faster on your own or in a code academy than you would in a university setting. By all means, get a CS or math degree if you can, but not because you want to be a JavaScript UI/UX developer.

If you're trying to get a job developing English sites, I'd also recommend improving your English skills. While your English is great for a second-language speaker, and perfectly fine for casual conversation, it's not ready for public exposure in a professional setting. You might be able to work on backend code without any difficulty, and you'd be able to communicate with your coworkers, but there are many grammatical errors. Appearance counts a great deal if you're looking for a frontend job. Even most native English speakers struggle to write well enough to be the face of a company.
Shutters for astronomical instruments are specifically designed to open and close evenly, so that each pixel of the detector receives the same amount of exposure time (as good as is possible). Otherwise it becomes very difficult to calibrate the image, since some parts of the image received more light than others.

Even opening and closing the shutter multiple times during one exposure will cause issues - but probably still possible to get under control.
But covering parts of the detector will create significant variants that will be extremely hard to control for. Keep in mind we don't really want pretty pictures, but we use these images to measure the brightness of objects in those images (photometry).
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It's not anti-American rambling. As I said in my other comment I'm aware of other companies doing the same. Although an American company will be first, with clearance from the American government.

I'm more drawn to the fact that the American government can greenlight this, even though it has global implications.

These things will also impact astronomy in Argentina. Where can they lodge a complaint? They will impact the night sky in Europe, yet we have no say in American government or decision making.

I can understand this has never been a problem because no one has ever been planning to launch 14,000 sats! But within 10 - 15 year maybe 3 or 4 companies might do it. Then we have 50,000 sats in LEO.

Will this be worth it? And if so, who weighs these pro's and cons? Just one government?

Feels like we're running headfirst into a new world where no one has thought of the consequences yet.
This is absolutely awful. I love it.
Updates are really important in terms of security.

The problem here is the hostile relationship from the companies to their customers.
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The US is terrible when it comes to infrastructure. Sweden is similar to France here, expanding fiber internet to all households that want it even if they are rural. Someone mentioned Norway as a reply but I think it's an unfair comparison as Norway will have more trouble building this infrastructure since there is mountains everywhere.
Oh I was thinking we are discussing if solving a burning problem is a necessary requirement for startup success. Maybe I should have been clearer
Who's the "we" who are "stuck"? The vast majority of programmers don't use low-level languages for writing applications even today, but there is a big niche of domains where close to perfect control is needed and that's the domain low level languages like C, C++, Ada, Rust and Zig try to address. I wouldn't (and don't) write "ordinary" applications in those languages, but I don't think the domains they target will ever go away or become less important.
What can you even do with an Apple TV without internet? Did you jailbreak it?
Schrödinger’s Cat When Nobody Is Looking
A lifting body sounds like you are getting something for free, but it does not really work out that way. In terms of efficiency, what matters is the overall lift/drag ratio, and so the first issue is whether shaping the fuselage for lift can be done without creating so much extra drag as to reduce the overall lift/drag ratio. In this regard, note that fuselages are long and narrow, while efficient wings are wide in span and short in chord.

A second factor is the effect of a lifting body on stability, and the cost of compensating for it. Even in the case of nominally non-lifting fuselages, they tend to produce lift at high angles of attack, and that tends to be destabilizing, producing an increasing pitch-up moment as the angle of attack increases (ordinary straight wings do too, but the effect is proportionately less, as the wing chord is considerably less than the fuselage length.) This has to be corrected with measures (typically a larger stablizer) that also create drag. Having a fuselage designed to produce lift exacerbates this problem, commensurably with the amount of lift being generated.

Modern sailplane design is a case study in the persuit of aerodynamic efficiency, at least at low speeds, and lifting bodies have not proved to be useful. The fact is that, once you are flying, you do not need more lift; what you want is less drag.
Now all violence is political violence because politically we don't want mobs of violent rioters looting and burning things down, so stopping them is political.

No thanks, I don't believe you to be anywhere near correct. You're an advocate for tribal warfare and that is where your policies will lead. Disaster.
Why Simon Sinek is fundamentally wrong about starting with “why”
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A couple of months ago i flashed a ye olde Samsung Galaxy 5 with the LineageOS 16 version. I was very surprised it even notified me of updates on the latest build! I was even more surprised it updated without losing any app or data.

I was not surprised the phone also performed way faster than the original Samsung OS. I kinda expected that. I think that is because LineageOS was more designed with the (power)user in mind than getting money from companies who want uninstallable apps tracking people forever.
So you put China and Burundi on the same category? Really?
I have seen few people with webrings on HN as of recent. Hard to tell if it's gaining momentum or I am just lucky?

Example: I was reading https://www.jefftk.com/index yesterday which also included webring.
There are blank spots on western maps too, I can think of at least one [1] that isn't in Google maps.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviano_Air_Base
Ok. Well, I guess ‘social media’ is a nonstarter for him.

OTOH, maybe his insight says something about our addiction to social media. He has a real life and the rest of us have less of it. Who knew that computer scientists could craft a tool that Could steal our lives.
Or maybe they could not commit genocide?
I'm French too. France is tiny. It is not about the number of bakery you have but how far your are from the closest medium size city.

Also, the satellite are not geostationary above the US. They rotate above the Earth and will bring the internet everywhere... Bringing internet to everyone in the World is nothing to sneeze at.

(I agree with the last bit of the rant. It sucks that private companies can launch whatever they want in space. That is not specific to the US however.)
Yes I think all French villages have at least super fast ADSL.

The US is much larger than France of course, but whatever the reason, it's incredible and really upsetting that they can pollute the earth like this, and for the rest of eternity, just to solve a temporary domestic problem.
Maybe there are better non-dehumanizing terms? Honestly, this term is basically the gist of nazi terminology 33-45, creating a mental analogy of a human group to animal pests.