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The ruling class stole these, not "white people". Throughout the history and the world, all places and races had their own class of oppressors, surprise - usually from the same race as the oppressed, and of course from a very wide racial variety. That US were built first from white colonists, who set the precedent for that place, does not mean whites are any different that other races in oppression. The ruling class also stole their wealth from the working class, including the white people in it, and if your aim is to bring equal racial representation, or a change on the dominant race, in the ruling class, rather than the abolishment of the present social and economoc structure, you are just maintaining the current situation and playing the capitalists' game.
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Reminds me of Outside from Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine - also a nontraditional post-apocalyptic RPG, but a tabletop one.
> Viaweb sold for a lot of money. But then it turned out that it was an unmaintainable mess that needed to be rewritten

I think that's because the code after the sale had to meet different requirements than the code before the sale.

Before the sale, the chief requirement, at least from what I gather from pg's essays, was fast implementation of new features. That was the secret weapon, and Lisp was a key enabler for it. The number of people touching the code was very small, so having the code be understandable by others was not a high priority.

After the sale, the chief requirement, I suspect, was maintainability while running at scale. The before-the-sale period had already sufficiently explored the feature space that fast implementation of new features was no longer a requirement, so the advantages of Lisp were no longer crucial. But having code that lots of people could understand and modify reliably was crucial.

So the code had to be rewritten after the sale. That doesn't mean the code before the sale was bad, just that it was tailored to different requirements.
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Matt Levine would be having a field day today. I hope he's having a nice time off.
Was it Symantec? You can import that into Authy/Google Authenticator/1Password if you want. It's good at least for backup.

https://github.com/dlenski/python-vipaccess
'How to destroy surveillance capitalism,' a book-length rebuttal to S. Zuboff
does anyone know why EVs dont use gears for more efficiency?
A mysterious radio burst from space is back, right on schedule
I wonder if this tech is fundamentally different than what NASA has recently rolled out with the X59

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-x-59-quiet-superso...
The two big changes:

1. permitting natural persons who have "professional certifications" or "credentials issued by an accredited educational institution".

2. include as accredited investors, with respect to investments in a private fund, natural persons who are “knowledgeable employees” of the fund.

Most of the other changes fill in gaps that shouldn't have existed: expanding the definition of spouse and adding orgs with >$5MM assets (including tribes, family offices, etc.). YC relevant: "demo days" will not constitute a general solicitation.

Overall a welcome change. I assume that they'll use an existing set of professional certifications in finance, which tend to require non-trivial self-study, so it'll probably also create a market for short educational programs offered by accredited institutions.
You haven't addressed the thing I'm confused about. I can do things thoughtlessly and people thank me for being helpful. This goes against your statement that goodness cannot happen without just intent.
The creator of Ruby on Rails is Danish[0].

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson
I agree with some of your foundational sentiments, but as long as we're deviating from the topic of discussion, Poland's hands have been far from clean, too, the past 100 years. What Poles did to European Jews was truly horrific (US immorally turned many of them away, but we didn't slaughter them wholesale like many Poles did in places like Jedwabne).

By the way, as you likely know, it's illegal now in your country to even mention the fact that Poles willingly participated in the Holocaust in such places (whereas I'm free to describe My Lai and Abu Ghraib).

Right now, the US has power, and often misuses it just like Poland has at times when it has had power. China often misuses its power. It's almost like there's something to do with power, abuse, and corruption.

> it is that US rallies for some causes where it seems to suit US interests

Let me introduce you to the concept of the nation-state.

> to get obsessed after this one when more kids are dying to malaria every single day or for multitude of other problems.

For the same reason as we treat murder victims differently than people who die from some tragic but preventable disease. Are those two on the same moral plane to you?

> validates the whole point that US doesn't like to acknowledge resentment it gets from most of the world

Interestingly, the US is up and awake, yet you have not been downvoted into grey, and many of the comments disagreeing with you have been. So you were wrong here.

Edit: To the folks downvoting because I mentioned downvotes, I respect and applaud your adherence to HN guidelines. But please be sure to downvote the parent comment for moral consistency, since he brought it up in the first place.
What’s special about selling a 13% larger battery pack for a much higher price?
The first work of Tom Lehrer's that I heard is "The Elements", where he recites chemical element names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_(song) ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3NOQnsQM
At some level I think we should stop calling it "journalism". The state of journalism in general is pretty sad, not just with regards to science and technology.

The amount of effort required to get down to actual information after reading most stories (about anything) is not trivial. In other words, they are now in the mode of writing click-bait pieces for traffic and letting interested readers to the work real journalists used to do in order to produce substantive material.

The simplest example of this are very short articles with an enticing subject line and lots of ads on the page. After reading such articles (and feeling cheated) you immediately go to Goggle and have to track down such things as the company URL, research papers, historical context, current state of the art, supporting documentation/legislation/whatever, and then apply some critical thinking. Yeah, what we have today, at many levels and kinds of organizations, is far from what I would call "journalism".
The title should be updated as it is misleading in a critical way.

The word "big" suggests the size and weight of the battery is bigger, which is not the case. That would be entirely unremarkable. Their quote directly states this: "It's relatively easy to achieve more range by adding progressively more batteries, but gaining 'dumb range' that way increases weight and cost, and reduces interior space." He continued, "Lucid Air has achieved its remarkable range whilst also reducing battery size"

A better title: "Lucid Air's EV 113.0 KWh Battery Is More Powerful, Efficient, and Lighter-weight Than Tesla's"
The final section of the post was a Java port and size comparison. It also noted that while it was smaller, I simply don't want to use Java and the minute any external dependency is added (such as for CLI parsing) I'm right back to needing R8 for minifying.

I removed that part since the post was long enough.
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Remember the Apple //e released in the early 80s? Apple has been selling products more expensive than the competition for almost 40 years. People have been accusing Apple’s customers of being brainwashed for four decades.
> and doesn't make my eyes bleed from the brightness

Some of the frequencies used in the audio do make my ears bleed though. :\
Once your journey gets long enough comfort starts to trump speed for a lot of people, especially if you're taking a vacation. For me that's somewhere in the region of 10+ hours of travel. After that I'll consider it a full day and I'd be very happy to trade 10hrs for 36hrs if I got a lot more comfort.

Something more akin to a recliner that I could actually sleep in, enough legroom, a place to put a laptop that wasn't hunched over and awkward and maybe enough room to get up and stretch for more than 3-5min at a time.

I don't know if it would be feasible to make a really wide, fat winged lifting body dirigible that you can put a huge amount of solar cells on top of but if you could do that and also make it somehow go ~150mph you're getting pretty close to 1/3 the speed of an airliner with the added advantage that you might not need anywhere near as much fuel.

I go from Texas to Florida semi-regularly There's 2-4 hours of pre and post flying travel and sitting around plus about 2-2.5 hours of travel for a total of 4-6 hours of total travel time. If the flying time went to more like 6 hours and you kept the pre and post travel flying times the same it wouldn't make a huge impact on me. I might actually ask if they could slow the "plane" down so that I could make it an overnighter and hopefully get enough sleep!
I hear you. But I feel that saying real life is too messy for TDD 99 out of 100 times, is an appeal to fatalism.

I believe, in good faith, that more often than one percent of the time, the existence of a good plan is what enables TDD to be the successful demonstration it claims to be.

The trust that we grow as practitioners of good software architecture is what enables us to have these talking points. I believe that we should feel enabled to discuss how to succeed, and less so how to fail.
Exactly the right step. In the long-run, this will do a lot for housing affordability in the city.
You may enjoy reading the fiberglass weave effect in circuit board designs [0][1]. At multi-GHz frequencies, it turns out the grid-like microscopic structure of the circuit board creates dielectric constant and impedance variations, which can cause distortion in high-speed signals such as PCI-E. The solution? Always run the signal traces at an angle, so horizontal and vertical lines that are parallel to the microscopic grid is avoided.

At this point, even the direction of the traces matters, and it's not even the cutting-edge, every commercial server motherboard is designed with this effect in mind, pretty amazing, isn't it?

[0] https://www.ti.com/lit/an/spraar7h/spraar7h.pdf see page 4.

[1] https://blog.lamsimenterprises.com/2011/01/08/fiber-weave-ef...
If you have used Kotlin you would have known that no sane person wants to go back to Java after being exposed to Kotlin.
Presumably the 3rd parties would want a referral / affiliate fee, which would come out of the 30%. That seems more than fair -- this is clearly about control, not money.
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Too bad they didn't adopt the "Dumb investment certificate" [1] instead.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-09-24/earnin...
This seems disastrous for homeowners and landlords hoping to recreate this Silicon Valley success flywheel https://twitter.com/nextdoorsv/status/1129046954409902081
Atlassian outage – media service is down
> this WHO body declaration has nothing to do with the facts

...par for the course these days.
Lying about safety? These are opioids which have been around for more than 100 years.

And pharma companies are one of many sources of information about drugs. Doctors aren’t forced to only listen to them.
Sadly, the options are rather limited.
Palemoon (https://palemoon.org)
is what I use as my primary browser. I they are better off as far as the privacy/security is concerned, but certain features, like webRTC are intentionally disabled. DRM video sites won't work either.
For unsupported features, I use Firefox. Privacy is slightly better than chrome/chromeium I think, if you disable google safe browsing.
The rest of the modern browsers out there are based on chromium, so it probably won't be much of an improvement.
I would highly suggest using ublock though, Ads now use up a lot of CPU and memory, some even trying to mine crypto currency with your computer.

Because I'm not happy with the current browser landscape, I've been working on my own browser, including rendering engine, from scratch, but is isn't ready for use yet.
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Did they really not have anything except a wealth test previously? Nothing for people working in the industry etc?
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500+ miles range. Nice.

At a constant 70mph, that is over 7 hours continuous driving (...although I wonder how much range decreases at that speed?)

I do wonder what the magic numbe needs to be before people stop complaining that x00 miles is not enough and that they reguarly drive 19000 mile a day etc.
Tedu had an interesting blog post about testing recently:

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/against-testing

What I got out of it was that tests for regressions are really good, but there are lots of considerations to make when determining which other tests to write, and why you are doing it. A good read nevertheless.
This really yanks at the human-to-computer latency.
These transitions are incredibly long. Though the execution is delightful.

It's better than Deus Ex 2.
>Microsoft got into trouble for bundling a web browser,

But to clarify, Microsoft ultimately won the case on appeal and had the initial ruling against them overturned.[1]

So in the final verdict, MS did not get into trouble for bundling the browser. In 2001, the DOJ settlement didn't force Microsoft to include Netscape Navigator or any other 3rd-party software on their standard desktop.

The developers in 2020 really don't want to hear this but Apple Inc actually has decades of case precedent to support the idea that Apple controls its own hardware with its own exclusive app store. To force Apple to include Epic's app store would require some new legal arguments that today's judge would be sympathetic to. Not saying it's impossible but it's not a slam dunk antitrust case as many on HN believe.

In other words, the status quo established in previous decided cases (including MS winning its antitrust IE case) actually supports the idea that Tesla is not forced to include Apple's Carplay in its cars' infotainment hardware, and Apple in turn is not forced to include a 3rd-party "Tesla app store" so the Tesla can bypass Apple's App Store review policies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...
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And that person, if they have any sense, will write tests.

Source: I am that person (in general, obviously not in specific).
> there wasn't enough market demand for aviation or space flight beyond 1970s technology
For teaching in present time, I would start with Python, and may be for CS oriented students go to functional languages, e.g. scheme.
The goal here was to get the binary size to be small enough, not the smallest it could possibly be. The tool was written in 2 hours because I used a language I was proficient in. While I love me some Rust it would easily double if not triple the time it would take me to build the thing in the first place
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I wanna make my eleventy blog look like this. It’s so cool
So “One Thousand Lawyers of Oregon” came up with a new scheme to cram people in density after they banned development on millions of acres of land right outside Portland.
81% is actually pretty monolithic.

What this tells me is that the rioters do not represent the people.
Netflix pirates their own shows to generate extra attention.
Man this gives me some feels
> I've found that the ability to learn is fungible.

The ability answer a question effectively instead of exhaustively is important too, though, right?

Personally, I'd be more impressed by the candidate who answers this by first asking "is there a particular aspect or perspective of this task you're most interested in?", especially if they can highlight the broad aspects involved, and offer to drill down on any in particular.
My dating life is better than ever. Although much of the improvement I would attribute to being older and more experienced, some of it is indeed thanks to my lifestyle changes.

I used to waste a lot of time on trying to date people I was not compatible with. Now it is much easier to avoid doing that, because someone who might be interested in me only for my nice clothes or social status is no longer an option. I'm spending more time talking with people I am compatible with.

The whole experience has also led me to open up and be more vocal about being poly, something I used to brush under the rug in the past.

I do not buy clothing, and wear the same clothing for days on end until I find new ones. It allows me to be more easily recognized by both humans and animals. It also helps my microbiome not get wiped out. This also saves me a lot of time picking clothes out, washing them, etc.

As I mentioned in another comment, I do not use any products like deodorant and toothpaste, except for Dr. Bronner's soap on my skin.

I do not always shower daily, sometimes going for weeks without showering if I am outside. If I am indoors with access to a shower, I only wash with water.

If I feel too smelly and have to clean up, I can wash without a shower, aka pirate bath.

I did not make all of these changes overnight. I transitioned over the course of several years, and I was already prepared by having tried other things outside of the norm, having camping experience, etc.
> everybody who wants security for themselves could choose to use the App Store exclusively

this is not what's going to happen in my opinion because 1. many people don't know they want security 2. many people will be tricked in installing from 3rd party stores

note that I don't have a solution to Apple monopoly, which I think is bad, but I also believe that the app store kept at bay a lot of dangerous software for less tech savvy people.
There's so many fun things you can do w/ telecom networks that it's a bit sad to see the phreaking community dead nowadays or relegated to just "modifying" roms.

You could enable any phone to be a receiver for SMS and literally see the network traffic around you on the SMS paging channel. The phone real time operating system actually discards messages that do not match your number (to put it very very high level.)

https://silo.tips/download/exploiting-open-functionality-in-...

Also, great reads if you can find them: Qualcomm standard PDF's.
Are they achieving the additional range by just using a bigger battery? Or new tech/chemistry? Removing weight from the rest of the car? Better aerodynamics?

If it’s just a bigger battery, it’s not all that interesting. I’m sure Elon could build a prototype S with 1000 miles range if he felt like it. It wouldn’t make sense though.
Nobody wants to live out there, there are no jobs or transit.
> The new revelations show how, at almost every stage, the Rhosus’ deadly shipment was connected to actors who used opaque offshore structures and lax government oversight to work in the shadows.

This is an apt description of the international shipping industry as a whole. Flags of convenience, shells upon shells upon shells, where nobody knows who they work for, or who should be sued, fraudulent certification, all enabled by port authorities who are hesitant to seize incompliant ships.
Yes I am. It became the property of the Lebanese government in 2014 and it blew up in 2020. Any attempts to blame the explosion on the original transporter are pure propaganda.

>There had been suggestions that it was meant for Beirut, to be used by Sunni militants or Hezbollah, and the final destination of Mozambique was a cover.

Aha. So? Good job confiscating it then. Lousy (or criminal) job not getting rid of it after.

Besides, did those "suggestions" only surface after the explosion by any chance?
Removing `-dontobfuscate` will change all the package, type, and function names to be single letters for the same result of greater compression.

The goal here was to just get it small enough, not the smallest it could possibly be.
I used to sell software and I used to be a developer. Happy to jump on a call to share some frameworks + approaches if you'd like. My email is in my profile.
Because it doesn't make sense.

Combustion engines have some limitations that require gearbox to mitigate them:

https://x-engineer.org/automotive-engineering/drivetrain/tra...

Electric engines have none of those limitations, so no need for gearbox.
I guess I just don't care about baselessly speculating the motivation someone may have for the positive thing they are doing.
Empirical evidence: They would denounce citizenship and move to other countries. This happened in France with a wealth tax, which caused high net worth individuals to move to other countries (like Gérard Depardieu). You can see the same thing in other places of Europe, where citizens flock into Monaco, Jersey etc. The US is no different, plenty moved to Singapore, Cambodia, Monaco, Jersey and other places. The same is true for Chinese nationals and others.

Wealth can be used to influence political power, which can be used for good or bad (In the past billionaire Pablo Escobar was overthrowing the Colombian government, funding terror group FARC etc.). So it depends on what the billionaire wants, not democratic process.
As another commenter said, it means natural body of water, like a creek, stream, river, lake, ocean, etc.
> So it's not criminal to push habit forming narcotics from behind a corporate curtain?

Basically yeah.

The "war on drugs" was pathetically laughable for reasons like this.
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Presumably control of iOS means Apple would never lose the ability to distrust/remove a given store and apps installed with it. But Apple would need to be under clear regulation that it could not do so for a revenue-related reason.

Presumably a store openly promoting pirated apps would be a reason, and a store which has significant malware problems, could both be compelling reasons to permit Apple to do this, but I would go so far as to suggest they should be required to involve the legal system somehow in the process, rather than make a unilateral call.
Gifts from pharma hasn’t been true for a couple decades. They don’t even give pens now. Sure they can get a free lunch, but it’s usually brought to their office and it’s fast food.

Customer satisfaction is relevant, but only because hospitals have put so much emphasis on it.

But regardless, nobody can get these drugs without a doctor writing a script, so there is plenty of blame to go around.
The reason this will make economic sense is that there will be no need for laid-back seats because of short travel times.
Yeah, there's some great stuff in here. Lowering and removing parking mandates is huge, too. That allows for a much more walkable city as we don't have to reserve a bunch of empty space for cars.
I wish we had a standardized test for range at continuous 70/80/90 mph instead of the EPA and WLTP tests. Those are designed for overall efficiency testing when what people really want to know about EV range is how long they can go on road trips. For everything else charging at home every night makes pretty much any EV range enough for the commute and the efficiency is always great compared to gas.