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> It's not that hard to make non-allocating code in the first place

It sure is in cpython. `a = 1` may need to allocate/reallocate the dict holding the local/global variables. If an integer exceeds 256 or goes below -5 you're getting an allocation for the object - regardless of whether that number has been seen before or not. Of course you can forget about floating point and function calls - maybe even function calls to C functions.
You missed his reference to comma.ai/autopilot
Yeah, using Bitcoin as a currency is "foolish". Back in the day people bought pizzas with Bitcoin that are worth millions today. If any other currency would behave like Bitcoin it would be considered dead and its associated economy would be in shambles because people hoard the currency instead of doing useful activity with it. Bitcoin is dead as a currency but people holding onto Bitcoin don't care anyway.
Sure, and I wouldn't run Python on embedded devices either [1] - and that's not what I was suggesting in the first place.

The lack of Py3 support is not about Python vs $language on $environment, it's about using EOL software in general.

[1] - my last public embedded software contribution was in fact an ELF loader for a smartwatch so that I wouldn't have to use micropython: https://git.card10.badge.events.ccc.de/card10/firmware/-/tre...
The following is just for desktop browsers, since I haven't tried their app:

- they split their shows by season to make their catalogue look bigger, but it's more confusing for the user

- don't make it explicit on the thumbnail either, so you have to hover over it to know what season of the show we're talking about

- although they do a decent job at continuing to watch episodes in a season, they're not making it clear when you've already watched entire seasons and those remain on the screen and are recommended to you over and over again

- advertise a trailer as an entire new season (see: The Boys season 2), leading to pretty gigantic disappointment (vs the netflix experience where a red notification for something you like is actually a great surprise because you KNOW it's an actual release)

- have a lower chance of being able to reload a page of something you left mid-watch and the page successfully reloading to the right content and timestamp

- the overflow of their preview hides the show underneath the current one which means any directly vertical scrolling is infuriating because you will trigger the overflow of the show underneath (that you see 20% of) only after having gone vertically down beyond 80% of the div in question

- the line = product line thing is confusing, as everything starts with "prime" for a full screen, (so why the repetition? oh, it's because ->) suddenly you get news (I don't care about them) and movies to rent or buy (I also don't care about paying prime to pay on top of it)
Apple built Core Data on top of sqlite. There are probably a lot more Apple apps using it than just Safari and Notes.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coredata/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Data
You'd be using a 2nd layer solution like Lightning for that. Instant and nearly fee-less.
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But how cold? And what about the whole year's temperatures compared with the averages for that time period in previous years? Decades?

Your insignificant observations are just that - insignificant. Global warming is a much larger subject then the average Joe can observe.

I also never understood the counter-point of just "do nothing." If we do something and global warming wasn't real, what do we lose? Why are you blocking progress just to block it? Your children's lives depend on action, not inaction. Attacking science doesn't change the facts.
This is how I (and perhaps others) console myself for not buying at all. With the capital and risk appetite I had at the time, I would have made a nice five-figure profit before selling thinking 'this is the top, for sure'.
>vibrant, diverse, affordable and full of fabulous people.

If the last 20yr of history is any indication none of these qualities will survive a prolonged deluge of west coast money in their city.
ah, i see

the term threw me off
That is a good list. Have you heard about ClojureScript? Obviously, TypeScript is not supported, but everything else is.

> How long do you think it will take to incorporate them into your new tool which you just rolled from scratch?

Here is the news: we will never add them to the new tool. No TypeScript, no compilation, no routes, nothing.

> If I am your CTO

Good news you're not, right?
Right up your alley: https://archive.vn/jMbcO
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Your employer most definitely has access to your work emails. Reading your private email would absolutely be illegal in any normal country, but wasn't really under discussion so is a wild tangent anyway.

Your employer is allowed to monitor web traffic that uses their networks, which on a lot of work machines will be all traffic (office networks will be monitored to detect malware and abuse, just like VPNs will be).
I don't think this has anything to do with tech stack.

React is generally easier to use correctly than plain JavaScript, PostgreSQL is as easy to use as SQLite (and more powerful), Node is as easy to use as PHP (but has more libraries, and you can use TypeScript which makes it easier to write correct code), etc.

The only actually simplifying choice seems to be using a single VPS instead of a Kubernetes-based cluster.

It's far more likely that both the financial success and the tech stack are caused by a pragmatic attitude focusing on the business itself rather than tech details, rather than the tech stack being the cause of the success.
It is being used for high level things, so is electron.
In other news, hunger in the world is fake cause in our town we have plenty of food.
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As an interesting counterpoint, my first couple iPhones were only $200 plus a 2 year service contract (for the latest model). Now it's $1000+
Having read a bit by Alain de Botton I am left wondering why I did, and with no desire to read more. Something in his tone reminds me of what Nora Ephron said of Brendan Gill's: shall I compare me to a summer's day.
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Automotive grade Linux is not controlling the car.

AGL targets infotainment systems and other aspects. It can have access to more important data but it's not controlling the car.
I agree, it's essentially a large redistribution scheme that requires those that are supposed to be giving not having a chance to just leave.

Tax havens and loopholes are a problem even today, but hard to fix. Germany or France would (ostensibly) love to fix them, but can't make Luxembourg or Switzerland stop offering deals and havens. Introducing UBI (and higher taxes that provide even more incentives to leave) in France or Germany won't change anything on that front.

Anything that requires global cooperation seems outside of current possibilities. Building something on the basis of "that'll work, no worries" sounds like leaving out authentication of a bank system and saying "no worries, we'll convince everyone not to cheat and log into their neighbors' account". Sure, in theory that's a great concept, but practically I'd personally avoid using that bank.
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Even Europe has seen a great deal of architectural convergence. The Nordic style, for example, spread from Finland to the surrounding countries, and if one has known the Baltic countries since the 1990s, one marvels at how in the post-Soviet era they have begun to converge architecturally, and in terms of certain aspects of urban planning, towards the Nordic countries.
Conversely working for FAANG or even just a generic corporate job can land you in a position where you can be comfortably mediocre. Are those people failures too?

Going solo means you have to get shit done, and you have to pick a viable niche. There's no inertia to rely on, and no safety net.

So the tech stack makes a difference. Because if it takes you months of learning before you can start making a site out of cloud + containers + automation + components you've failed before you started.
In my opinion, there is really only one valid complaint in the article:

> We need more choices for our ISPs

If you fix this, e.g. by requiring all last-mile owners to offer the last-mile access at or below their (audited, sufficiently-profitable) input cost to their retail products, most of the remaining problems would sort themselves out, without having micro-managing of ISP features.

Unless you are going to start regulating OTTs in what features/value they can provide, I think it's unfair on (non-monopoly) ISPs to prevent them from providing innovative features because of "net neutrality should trump all" opinions.
Why is this on "Hacker" news?
You know it's up 2% today?

You know it has doubled since the bottom this year?

Early my ass.
If a text corpus correlates with human knowledge (your "presupposes a certain model of the world"), then it necessarily encodes the portions of the knowledge it correlates with. That is, correlations drive the search of model parameters that explain the correlations. The stronger or more numerous the correlations, the more accurate a model can be computed. But the search space informed by this network of correlations is much more restricted than a naive brute force search, thus the correlations provide information about, i.e. encodes, the correct model.
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I'd love for somebody with knowledge to comment re: the SpaceX flight control platform. There's Linux in the UI to be sure, but I'd strongly suspect there's a hard-realtime OS that's doing the hardware-level communication to the flight hardware.
Guys, don't even bother responding to these troll accounts that are created explicitly to post BS comments like these
The playbook is getting the "army if HODLers" large and influential enough where regulatory capture can occur and they together can lead to more adoption, so more of the latest adopters shift to becoming earlier adopters - unnecessarily shifting wealth weighted towards earliest adopters to late adopters - so current late adopters can realize a gain, for doing nothing except. It's a financially incentivized religion and/or Pyramid-Ponzi scheme. I do say there's room for a digital currency on blockchain but not in its current structure that's the incumbent purely for the greed aspect tied into the VC-financial industrial complex.
>(People being responsible for their own purchases, imagine that?)

Why would you ever want to defend fraud? There is no justification for fraud on either side. Especially when first parties like Amazon stand to profit off of it and therefore do nothing to stop it.
Pieter, thank you for this post which motivates me this morning to get things done. All the best.
I've spent time in many cities in North America and I would have to say the vast majority, but definitely not all, feel almost the same.

Toronto doesn't feel vastly different than Calgary, Houston, Manhattan, Washington DC, London, Brussels and a large portion of Paris. Seattle felt different, perhaps because of the ocean, but saying that it felt quite distinct from Vancouver which very definitely has its own vibe that I adore. Bar Harbor as a city felt kinda like a quainter version of Boston, it reminded me very much of Cabot Cove from Murder She Wrote which I loved, but both Bar Harbor and Boston definitely felt like their own cities distinct from one another and from any other.

The last city I spent time in was Nijmegen, NL and I felt a lot of similarities to Colchester and Canterbury where I grew up in the UK and York and to some extent even though it looked a lot different, it had the feeling of old Carcasonne which I adored.

I've yet to visit San Francisco, but from everything I've seen and heard about it, I would be surprised if it feels vastly different than Toronto.
Yes true, but with Databases you should change the recordsize to 8 or 16k (Mysql or Postgres) and tune full_page_writes in postgres to off (zfs takes care of that), and just cache the metadata because the postgres-cache is better informed of what to cache.
What is the tooling and workflow you use for this? It's not something that had occurred to me, but now that you mention it, it seems like something I'd like to try.

Edit: It looks like none of the major bundlers support this feature out of the box, but there is a project called in inliner that does exactly this: https://github.com/remy/inliner
In the beginning there were no transaction fees. Miners were happy to include your transactions because of the mining rewards alone. Plus there were just not enough transactions to charge a fee.

It was cool to use Bitcoin in 2013 as a currency and sadly the number of useful things you could buy then are about the same as today.

These days Bitcoin is too expensive and too slow to be used as actively used currency for every day transactions.

Lighting Network is not looking too hot either.
Not GP, but I'll take a crack at this.

The stupid game would be making your article title not an immediately obvious summary of your article.

The stupid prize would be this HN thread now that is only discussing the title, instead of the actual article.
The video by the same author
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuKV2DI9-Jg
Queue org-mode namedrop in 3.. 2..

Actually, I can just be that guy as I use it myself, and it is great. However I do find myself spending energy I wish I didn’t on meta-things like how to organize it all (files, tags, hierarchy etc). I think it could benefit from having preconfigured setups like doom-emacs or ruby on rails or whatever («convention over configuration»). One for a hardcore GTD, one for zettelkasten, one that is bare bones, etc..

I realize the agenda should make this less important, but I still get caught up in it from time to time (tags? Properties?)..

I haven’t tried org-roam though. I just feel like theres so many moving parts to my setup already. Anyone had any good/bad experiences integrating it into your workflow?

Speaking of org-mode, maybe I should start looking at those scheduled items in my agenda that are now some 600 days+ past its due date...
This is a poor take. Bitcoin can be made almost instant if paying via the Lightning Network. The downside is that you must pre-load some channels with satoshis that you can spend, which involves a bitcoin transaction which may take a few hours/days depending on how much you're willing to pay to have it prioritized.

Before you complain that "this is too slow," consider what the equivalent is in the banking world. Imagine you walk into a shop which only takes cards, and you have no bank account.

You must go to a bank, talk to a rep, fill out a bunch of paper work, wait for some background checks to be done, then have a card issued to you via snail mail. Now you can go to the shop (days later).

Your initial, flawed assumption is that people have already done this and already have a card to pay with. Most people in the developed world have this access now, but it didn't come instantly - it has progressed over about 3 decades. Back in the 90s, if you weren't paying with cash, you would be writing out a cheque in the store and holding up the queue.

So when you unravel your assumption, it's actually much faster to acquire some bitcoin and load some payment channels. Just few people have done it yet, and the software for doing it is under heavy development.

Give it a decade or so, like we have allowed for payment cards to proliferate, and the assumption will be that people already have some loaded payment channels which are ready to make instant payments. There will be no standing in queues waiting to pay.
> So again I do not find this law, that is actually on the books to be burdensome

You might consider yourself privileged, then. Because there is extensive research about the costs that are associated with voter id laws[0].

> or are you just reading too many NYTimes stories about the evils of Voter ID

NYT is fine, although not my favorite. I prefer The Intercept.

> Point to any statement I have made that says or even implies that?

It was my impression, that's why I wrote "You seem" instead of "You say [...]" or "You write [...]".

So; what is the problem do you want to solve with voter ids?

[0] https://today.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Ful...
> a lot of the benefits of top colleges come from being exclusive

which is something i feel is a bad outcome for society in general, even if this is good for those individuals.
I've used a plugin called WP2Static to turn WP sites into static HTML. You can also use WGET to crawl the site and export HTML, but it requires some tinkering. Google "export Wordpress to HTML using WGET" to find some walkthroughs.
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What Berlin got right is that they tried to get all of society into the same building. As in the well-off into the 1st floor (Belle Etage) the poor under the roof, but the idea was to have the doctor living in the same building as the plumber. I think that idea is key to having livable cities.

Of course a lotbof happened between these ideas and the situation now.

Heidelberg is of course pittoresque but not a city in the same league in size. Maybe Mannheim could be taken as a town planning model.
If the media communicated this like “There won’t be any more BBC Planet Earth featuring polar bears, because there won’t be any polar bears anymore”, I believe more people would act.
I know, it’s a ridiculous example, but I don’t think people understand the severity of news like this. I believe that the consequences just seem too far away, both geographically and in time, for people to care.

Makes me sad.
That comes really handy when you want to, say, transfer some files from your PC to your phone/tablet without uploading them somewhere else first.
>but it doesn't mean that they want to drop it.

I wasn't trying to suggest there was no mention of Firefox in their roadmap blog - though it is telling that the Firefox mention you pointed to is in context of an argument for developing non-Firefox products. Nor was I arguing that they will drop Firefox. Even if they wanted to, they wouldn't be able to because Firefox is their sole revenue driver and the only thing that gives them a seat at the table for developing open-standards.

To me the telling part was when they listed their five areas of focus, and Firefox was not one of them.
what about disabling the short advertisement preview played before what I actually want to watch?

sure I can skip it, but why should I have to?
> enter into a marriage that would be an exercise in mutual frustration or force me to give up that which gives my life meaning and purpose

If you have only a single interest and/or taste (like you imply here), it shouldn't be very hard to find someone with 100% overlap with you. After all, if they enjoy entertainment then they share your every taste. I think it is safe to assume that Alain de Botton writes for what he feels is "most people". Most people have interests outside of entertainment.
It's almost like all "modern JS" are written by new programmers hired on the cheap by companies to work on their new hip UI frontends.

IMO UI is generally something new programmers like because of the visual/visceral "I built that", but once you get exposed to the sheer annoyance of UIs, programmers will migrate to backend.

So the most experienced people don't want to be constantly undercut in price by the incoming "talent", realize that WebUIs get chucked every 3-5 years anyway due to browser tech churn, and move to data monopolization.
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Meritocracy does not require strict ranking of individuals. Selecting cohorts instead of individuals is still meritocracy. You could use weighted probabilities, with higher scores meaning higher probabilities but still short of certainty, and it would still be meritocracy. The OP's point is that when measurement error is as large as it is for college admissions, using a simple lottery to narrow the cohort is as good as any other method wrt getting the best students, and better in terms of fairness/diversity. Not saying it's correct, or that "meritocracy" as it exists now is something we must preserve, but "it's not meritocracy" isn't true.
Googling "are algae plants?", gives this as the first answer:

> Algae are in the plant kingdom, but technically they are not plants. ... Algae range in size from microscopic to meters long and from single-celled to complex organisms that rival large plants. These organisms may look like true plants, but unlike plants, algae do not have roots or true stems and leaves.

Either way, I wasn't thinking of algae or aware that they might be net oxygen producers for the atmosphere.
Exactly. Elon musk said something about the amount of solar required to power the entire country, and it was a very very small fraction of the land area. There is plenty of room for both plants and solar - separately.
what happened to the lost money? it was worth 450 M bucks then. probably a lot more today. was it ever recovered by end users?
None of this explains how modelling time sequences of events does not sufficiently approximate the kind of causal knowledge you mention.
Everyone making this "general purpose computer" argument is disingenuously taking care to define the term specifically to rule out game consoles while covering the iPhone. The fact is that modern gaming consoles are general purpose computers complete with media center capabilities, operating systems, application stores, multitasking, networking, web browsing, streaming, etc.

Just like the case of the iPhone, the only thing that makes them appear otherwise is what software their respective owner companies choose to allow or disallow.
There was a bunch of attempts at this and I even have passing experience working with Intel guys on their IVI project which was integrated into AGL (https://wiki.tizen.org/IVI). I don't know what makes the people think this will work this time when it did not previously. I just know that it previously was restricted to infotainment even in its name and mission statement and now that does not seem to be true any longer.

"Automotive Grade Linux is a collaborative open source project that is bringing together automakers, suppliers and technology companies to accelerate the development and adoption of a fully open software stack for the connected car. With Linux at its core, AGL is developing an open platform from the ground up that can serve as the de facto industry standard to enable rapid development of new features and technologies."

See, nowhere it mentions this is for infotainment only.
No they wouldn't.

Every single plebeian on earth wants the polar bears to survive. But their own economic, day-to-day survival is first. These thoughts you have are only for those with the luxury of time.

Edit: so if you TRULY want to help the earth, help your own kind first.
In case of Postgres it knows better what to cache, you can let zfs additionally cache but it's a bit of waste, better give that ram to postgres than to Arc.
I think that the climate change denial positions of leaders may be examples of the same kinds of memes that have caused cargo cults in response to other threats to a way of life.
That's impossible.

In my country, our anti-ISP media claims that we have the most expensive internet in the world, but 10/5Mbps FTTH (in most cases with free upgrades to 20/2Mbps for the duration of COVID-19 WFH guidance mandated by the government) is quite commonly available at < $20-$25/month, and where it isn't, 10/1Mbps ADSL is available for $25-$30/month (including POTS voice service).

Thus, it is impossible that you, in the country of ~$20 1Gbps service, have worse and more expensive service.

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