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> we killed it

No, "we" didn't. Adblockers are a red herring, the masses don't use them.

The real problem is that the metrics and incentives of internet advertising are such that newspaper articles are simply not attractive enough to justify their (high) costs of production. You read a given newspaper article once a day. You check Facebook or Google multiple times per hour. The newspaper barely knows your name and age, maybe where you live; Facebook and Google know everything about you and your tastes. And of course, it costs almost nothing for FB or G to "produce" a page of content (in fact, they get it free from others!), whereas a newspaper has to pay a highly-educated worker. Where will advertisers spend their money, where will they get more bang for their buck?
,,Coinbase’s mission is to create an open financial system for the world.''

I will never forgive Coinbase for pushing so hard for centralizing Bitcoin by increasing the block verification time for nodes. I'm happy though that Bitcoin withstand their attack.

So thanks, but no thanks for this message about building a better world.
I've asked around a little this morning, and so far 0% of the parents of young children I know were aware of this. :-(

Plenty of them had been going to those weigh-in sessions before they stopped because of the virus, so apparently it isn't a universal thing.

Several were not aware of the advice about vitamin supplements either, so this discussion has had at least one benefit because now everyone is looking that up!
> employers should be required to pay a cost of living differentia

They do pay this. It costs a heck of a lot more to hire in The Bay Area than it does outside, and much of this increased salary goes to landlords and rents.
As a Swede the replies you get to this reasonable comment is like being sent back to the ~1970. The only thing that's "biological" is that women usually take the first months of parental leave and the father the second (and sometimes they overlap).

There's nothing whatsoever that's reasonable, and certainly not biological, about limiting that second period for the father.
For me it depends on the editor. I usually just roll with the default. For Visual Studio and Netbeans I use light themes, but I can't make VSCode to look good with a light theme, it always feels off to me.

The argument about light themes being "blinding at night" I don't buy. If the screen is blinding you, then you should get better lighting in your room, it's not good to work in the dark.

Also, dark themes give me depression. When I open the IDE and it's a dark grayish rectangle I am like "oh no, I have to work with that again".
> But China blocks American companies from their market, or extracts unfair concessions from them.

Then this is a case for WTO, which was successfully used in the past to resolve those kind of issues.
> seem to be stuck in the 90's.

Not sure if you would like to see newer machines or older ones. If you are complaining about the missing old ones, then it's not true.

The Deutsches Museum in Munich as a Z3 and a Z4:

https://www.deutsches-museum.de/ausstellungen/kommunikation/...

It also has a "Siemens 2002" from 1960.

https://www.deutsches-museum.de/ausstellungen/kommunikation/...

And a UNIVAC I (IBM) from 1956:

https://www.deutsches-museum.de/typo3temp/pics/c0ba1ee858.jp...
1. The two weeks at birth aren't legally full pay (most employers pay you anyway).

2. Yes if the mother doesn't qualify the father doesn't qualify. I think that there has been a court case that found that this is not legal. But the law has not yet been updated.
Yea I agree that one of the big problems with hot desks is not being able to leave things. If it's a public hot-desking situation you have also the problem of theft (it happens—even in Japan WeWorks).
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I knew that there was a proof, but never read the paper before. Now that I did, I think that proof is garbage tbh.

For Turing completeness, a fixed, constant-sized program needs to be able to handle arbitrary inputs and use arbitrary amounts of memory. It's important to distinguish the model from the implementation here. Theoretically, a language like Python is Turing complete. (And BTW you don't need infinite precision integers or anything fancy: you can simply simulate the tape with an object graph.) Practically, every Python program running on a real computer will run out of memory eventually.

Anyway, the translated Z3 programs in this paper contain one case statement for every possible memory location. This means that for a given program size, you're limited to run in O(1) space. That's only as powerful as a finite state machine, not a Turing machine.

I see nothing in the paper that convincingly addresses this limitation. There are some arguments to the effect that practical CPUs have limited address space as well. Which is true, but that argument only shows that those aren't Turing complete either, not that the Z3 magically is.

Maybe there's a subtle point that I overlooked, but at the moment, I'm simply not convinced.
The business just can function at a diminished capacity.
E.g. the team which had 5 developers now has 4.

If you're in a more singular position (manager etc.), then the entire's department workload can be rearranged so that your work falls onto one or multiple of your colleagues while you're gone. Since apparently most bigger orgs are in constant flux, it's not hard to do.

Also, since it's the norm that people disappear for long periods of time, businesses can hire with some slack (e.g. hire 110% of needed capacity) to easily absorb absences.
Right. I wanted to focus though in the most "demanded" programs back then and now.

I would say back then, the most demanded programs were command line programs (small utilities that do one thing well).

Nowadays the most "demanded" programs are programs that want to attract as many users as possible (and so, they have to "scale", they have to be "distributed"), programs that need to grow as much as possible (the bigger the program the bigger the company the bigger the profit), programs that need to be rewritten in new tech stacks every 3 or so years.

I guess the mentality has changed along the way as well.
You don't need to use the syntax sugar, a plain update function attached to the event will do fine, just more verbose. It's in fact _less_ magic when the output JS is perfectly readable, and doesn't require unravelling thousands of lines of runtime libraries.

I'm surprised you'd think of that as a leaky abstraction, but not a `@tracked` decorator. They are both 'different dialects of JS', and both use a compiler.
Your dog won't pay taxes in the future. And there is also some "light" difference between reproduction and having a pet.

For welcoming a dog or stuff like that there is minimum paid annual leave in developed countries.
I was very impressed with the camerawork too! The series is shot in Budapest BTW.
Specifically in France: Paternity leave is not paid by employers but by social security.

The person still needs to have worked (and thus paid into the system through salary contributions) above a certain threshold in order to qualify.

Employers can top up this payment but can then impose conditions (e.g. only after a year in the company or whatever)
This is not an isolated incident, it happens every day. The justice system is more worried about putting someone behind bars, no matter if it is guilty or not. That makes death sentences even worse.
> We have another problem that bad actors in our society are paying for misinformation to be spread in order to warp people's political perceptions.

> Define a journalist as someone who makes their entire living from selling articles

Where does https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/oct/03/daily-teleg... fit into this model?
If you don't know it yet, https://www.flipcode.com/ is also a great source of information. It comes from era of early 3D realtime graphics, when everyone was making their own engines using early Direct3D, OpenGL and Glide APIs. A lot of those articles aren't relevant anymore, but they show many algorithms that were used in that period of time.
I think aside from pay per article and subscription (give me everything you have for the year) there could be a discounted give me 5 for 3 type offer for the people who think they will want to have a certain number of articles from X over the year but that is all, I would never pay $221 a year for the NY Times because I probably only want 2 articles a month but if you offered me an article for 2 dollars I might think - no, if I pay for this article 2 dollars then (2 * 12) * 2 is nearly 50 dollars a year, I want a deal to make me think it is worth it.
Scrum masters were supposed to be a solution for broken corporate teamwork, while in reality, the real solution is staying at home and only meeting when necessary.

I bet I wouldn't be too happy myself if COVID threatened not only my very life but my job as well.
> What would the alphabet soup even gain by doing this whole circus?

They manage thesis and anti-thesis, the mainstream and the opposition. This is to say they maintain total control over the story arc.
Nevertheless, attempts to censor media should be concerning, no?
This requires long term thinking.

Neither the companies (Q-on-Q) nor the politicians (4-6 years ) have long term incentive to do lasting change by pushing unpopular policies.
That would be above my paygrade, but you’d start by asking what cards the US holds on the world stage: the dollar, oil, technology (for now anyways).
> Furthermore, because the proceedings have been going on for too long, the defense is not allowed to submit new evidence

So... like any normal trial then.
> I'm very disappointed by the lack of press for such a major extradition case!

I completely agree with you here, which is why I'm so glad that the last few articles Murray did on this have been posted here and getting at least some attention.

> What can we do other than sharing links to try and get the word out?

Sharing the articles by Murray and others is, I think, the best way. Protesting is a: somewhat unhelpful, because that doesn't seem to get picked up by the media either, and also because the government will most likely object to large protests due to the covid situation.

However, as Murray noted in other articles, news of the entire trial seems to get you shadowbanned from social media:

> Even my blog has never been so systematically subject to shadowbanning from Twitter and Facebook as now. Normally about 50% of my blog readers arrive from Twitter and 40% from Facebook. During the trial it has been 3% from Twitter and 9% from Facebook. That is a fall from 90% to 12%. In the February hearings Facebook and Twitter were between them sending me over 200,000 readers a day. Now they are between them sending me 3,000 readers a day. To be plain that is very much less than my normal daily traffic from them just in ordinary times. It is the insidious nature of this censorship that is especially sinister – people believe they have successfully shared my articles on Twitter and Facebook, while those corporations hide from them that in fact it went into nobody’s timeline. My own family have not been getting their notifications of my posts on either platform.[1]

1: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-...
China has subsumed Tibet wholly and condemned its people to reeducation and labor camps. If this doesn't sound like lebensraum I don't know what to tell you.

Predatory loans on ports in Africa and their subsequent control by the CCP are by proxy tools of dominion.
"and I didn’t catch any concrete description of why TikTok is dangerous aside from the typically general descriptions"

It's sadly, poorly communicated.

The CCP has entities within all Chinese corps to ensure they follow CCP policy which includes censoring individuals for all sorts of reasons. They will flag individuals for speaking out, possibly having them face arbitrary incarceration - all sorts of dystopian stuff.

This is well documented, and it's why 'WeChat' is getting banned outright.

TikTok is a slightly special case, because it's not an overt tool of CCP control, that said, anything and everything grabbed by TT can be used by the CCP for any and every reason.

Imagine if Donald Trump could order FB to provide detailed data on any Chinese user at any time, for whatever purposes.

I've referenced here several times how China literally has CCP entities within every company, this is 'normal' there I'm loathing to have to look up the reference yet again, but it's public information.

New information has come to light about ByteDance that's rather scary, from NPR:

"ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming has made public statements showing he is "committed to promoting" the agenda of the Chinese Communist Party."

"ByteDance, according to the document, employs 130 Chinese Communist Party members at ByteDance's Beijing office."

"ByteDance employees organized a party in which they faced a Chinese Communist Party flag, "raised their right hand, clenched their fists, and reiterated their guarantee as a party member and vowed to never betray the party.""

This is pretty serious stuff in an autocratic nation with no judiciary etc.. The CCP is effectively forcing control of the entity, even on the basis of morale.

It would be one thing for Trump to be able to legally order FB for data, can you imagine the farce of him requiring FB employees to 'Pledge their fealty and loyalty to the GOP'?.

It would be better for the US Gov. - probably in concert with other nations to make some 'new rules' on this, because it's simply not going to work to have Chinese media apps in the 'rest of the world'. I would say the same for Russia and some other states.

Finally - there are simply issues of trade, on the basis alone, China wouldn't allow an American TikTok in China without censorship, and frankly, I suggest they just wouldn't allow it no matter what.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/26/917134452/new-doj-filing-tikt...
I'd agree with this idea, but Rails isn't the only game in town. Laravel has huge market share, and livewire + alpinejs is an awesome stack.

But there's also django if python is more your style. I like rails, just saying for quick projects I'd advise people to look into each of the 3 big frameworks (laravel, django, rails), maybe try out a demo of each and code a little to see which you like better.

Laravel's new jetstream starter is amazing as it creates an entire SaaS app in a few commands. Compared with Rails where devise/authentication is a diy solution, sure it's pretty straight forward, but having auth at it's core gives laravel a leg up over rails. Also caching, queues, mail, there's a lot of niceties built into laravel that rails needs 3rd party packages for, albeit there's also tons of laravel packages.

I recommend packalyst.org or larablocks.com to discover the best packages to use and that are currently being supported.
Do those languages really have that relationship? When I scratched surface of Chinese language in university it felt almost English written in Kanji. No resemblance to Japanese, and it even made the classical Chinese interpretation methods taught in Japanese education rather dubious to me.
Many Linux terminals can monitor for activity/silence/bell/process exit. Using these facilities, notifications can be done without modifying the script.
Yet I have 3-4 reactor near my neighborhood and I'm not against.

It is used for research, and produce Technetium-99m that is used for nuclear medicine for scintigraphy.
Nuclear waste sits in sealed concrete containers, and is stored by burying it in bedrock with no aquifer. There's so little of it that we can store it securely. Solar panels on the other hand... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X1....

Nuclear waste is measured in the tens of thousands of tons. Solar waste is in the tens of millions of tons. Most of it just dumped in landfills.

If your concern is about wanting to minimize the amount of waste left to future generations, then there is absolutely no reason to choose solar over nuclear power. The energy density of nuclear power is such that it generates orders of magnitude less waste.
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Tasteless joke, or substantive call for a privacy invasion?

One must to keep in mind that cognitive bias has us parsing those we dislike quite literally, while giving those we fancy a pass.

And that's true in all 57 states.
Lots of kills. I even sent off to Acornsoft and received a badge through the post.

Or, there was the hack where you could just rewrite the save file which was published in The Micro User.

You could even tweak the missiles, power of the laser and a few other bits IIRC.
SGML, of which XML is a proper subset, has had custom Wiki syntax parsing (such as for a fragment of markdown or CSV) since 1986. Agree with what you said about pointless comparisons of JSON vs YAML vs XML, though.

Edit (regarding your point about humanity not having an adequate and widely used text format): we have SGML and it's offsprings XML and HTML. We won't be getting any new formats/standards in these times of platform economy and vertical integration, ever
Not GP, but no, I don't use the App Store at all, I'd `brew cask install` it and probably be blissfully unaware that you were trying to sell it too.

But then I suppose I'm not your target user anyway, since I don't want a GUI for this.
Agreed. Colourful math symbols sounds like a great idea.
It's just that I can find any trace of that sub-group of Wikileaks, I get its an organization that inherently benefits from a certain degree of secrecy. It just seemed if someone wanted to be involved that was a logically well separated means.
> Another "success" of ecologist was that they've managed to scare people.

And that saves lives and protects the economy of entire areas.

In 1974 somebody wanted to build a nuclear plant in Murcia Spain. Same BWR model as Fukushima. A few ecologists marched with home made banners, a famous actor protested, and the plan eventually was dismissed.

In 2011, just 37 years after, the same area chosen to hold a nuclear plant suffered a 5.1 earthquake that devastated the city. The idiots were trying to build a nuclear plant over a fault.

Sometimes, ecologists just are right. Things would be really different in Europe today without this heroes daring to say the things that nobody wanted to hear.
I can remember spending, many, many hours looking for non-existent space dredges (or whatever they were called), that was mentioned in the marketing blurb.
This is totally wrong.
We have free speech but the major problem is that poor and educated aren't ready for this level of openness in our society.
OK then let's find it. We're not really looking. Maybe it is indeed detectable, and maybe it will be hard. Maybe it's already staring us in the face, and our ideas about it are -wrong-.

We -believed- the Clovis story. Until some people -looked harder-. Plate tectonics ... laughed at. Until some people -looked harder-. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
That doesn't answer the question. What do they gain from it? Because to me, this seems like a fairly blatant and rather hamfisted attempt to prosecute someone for inconveniencing them. That's not the sort of action a group in complete control would have to perform.
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>it's not good to work in the dark.

well I might be working in the dark because I am sitting in the same room as my sleeping son because he might have problems if nobody is there. I assume other people might have similar reasons why they would be in the dark instead of a well lit room at night, given that most people have electricity and know how to switch on the lights.
This is really not a big problem. Most places can hire a substitute for that time. And everything is planed months ahead (pregnancy is 9 months).

Also, by your argument it is not viable to hire women of fertile age. Which, in Sweden at least, is really out of touch with reality.
However the Fukushima cleanup has been very expensive (hundreds of billions of US dollars). If you factor in the cost of accidents like Fukushima then nuclear becomes pretty uncompetitive cost wise.
I think what would be much better is a redefinition of the publisher role: Most (big) news outlets already run a lot of their own infrastructure. Web servers, this whole paywall mess, etc etc.

What if they could just provide their articles through an API (which is also consumed by their own website) and aggregators can route these articles to their users. Aggregators would become publishers of sort.

Let me flesh it out a bit.

Scenario 1) I am a subscriber of news-site1.com. I have an account with their system. I can read all their articles on their website. At the same time I browse this news-aggregator1.com. They collect lots of links, and with the power of SSO/OAuth I can already read all news-site1.com articles directly on news-aggregator1.com (since they are consuming the API with my account). Additionally I have an account with news-aggregator1.com and pay them a fee, which allows me to read N articles from any outlet they have connected with.

Scenario 2) news-aggregator2.com does not offer a subscription base, but is connected to all the APIs of the news outlets. Their users can buy on an per-article bases from all connected news outlets and the articles are saved into the user's account.

Just two scenarios how this _could_ look like. The reasons I think this is not done is 1) you lose ad traffic, which is somewhat predictable, 2) you lose predictability/control in general 3) nobody has done something like that and made it work, so there is little confidence 4) they might just be right and it only appeals to a small audience
Foone I kinda wish Hacker News was a Twitter account so I could block it
linked, sorry foone xd
Somebody tell Apple then!
I think they mean "stuck in the 90s" in the way of presentation and exhibition design, which I'd tend to agree with. They have a lot of cool artifacts, and I can totally see why older relatives raved about it, but to me it felt stuffy and drab compared to other museums when I was there a few years ago.
China banning US apps and US banning China apps are for mostly separate reasons.

At very least consider China bans foreign apps because they won't help the CCP oppress their own citizens, which is obviously not the case in the US.
> Before this it was two days. TWO days!

Until a few years ago, NY did not require paternity leave at all.
Because I consider the renewables solution to have comparably bounded risk.
Is Netbeans still used? I remember it was a thing long time ago. I'm going to install it just out of curiosity and see if it can handle my java project.
Do things that don't require scale
I'm reading many negative experiences of Thailand here, which saddens me. I've been there multiple times, it's a beautiful country that I enjoy very much. There's definitely problems with lousy tourists going there to purchase sex, but aside from that it's a very nice place and I haven't had any issues.

This isn't strictly related to the story, but I just wanted to add some alternative point of view to this thread.

Caveat: I've traveled to many "less developed" countries so I might be more street-conscious than the average traveller.
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I install apps that have no ratings, from a package manager without any centralized rating system whatsoever, all the time. The basic curation by the distro maintainers is enough for me.

At most I look at wiki or into the docs if the app may do what I want it to do for me, before giving the app a try.

I don't have any pre-judice against apps with no in-app store ratings. If I can find the documentation/source code/review online, and the app seems to do what I need, that's good enough for me.
Why do you think this is about economical efficiency?