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It's a chicken and egg problem. Those countries have terrible governments so most money that goes to them isn't used productively. Which in turn causes less money to go to them.
Okay, what kind of fine would you want? People on HN seem to want to lock up every CEO in existence and fine every company into bankruptcy, despite not even deeply understanding what kind of law breaking actually went on.
I'd argue that coherent experience vs "power user" features is a false dichotomy. They are at odds, but you can design a program to have a coherent user experience as long as you stick to a subset of features, and hide the incoherent features away from the coherent interface. That's rather abstract, so let me give a concrete example:

Gnome 3 comes with a settings application that allows you to customize keyboard shortcuts -- on my laptop I changed the maximization shortcuts to Ctrl+arrow_keys instead of Win+arrow_keys, which is easier to press one-handed. Most people probably know this. What most people probably don't know is that you can actually assign multiple key combinations to the same action (say I wanted to add the Ctrl shortcuts instead of replacing the win ones). This option is not present in the settings application gui - you have to edit the corresponding dconf entry and add another entry to the array of shortcuts. This is somewhat cumbersome and the gui still only displays the first shortcut in the array, but it lets "power users" do something niche without harming the coherent experience of "regular users".

The real dichotemy, in my opinion, is between quality software and developer time/effort. And I don't mean to belittle developers here (I am one, after all); getting a split design like this right -- such that there are few leaky abstractions -- is HARD. I found out about the feature due to one such leak: there are a few shortcuts on Fedora that have two default shortcuts (changing workspaces with either Ctrl+Alt+page_up/down or Win+page_up/down), and changing the one you can see (Win) doesn't remove the other one (a problem for me, since I wanted to use the other one for something else, and I couldn't through the gui; I had to remove the second default in dconf first).

Finally, the air quotes around "power users" are because I think it is a leaky abstraction. It's not one group of people who want to customize everu feature, it's a larger group of people who each want to customize one different feature. I think the winning approach overall is to provide a few low level hooks into your application's functionality, that people can use to code their own tweaks.This allows you to get rid of the options that cover a tiny minority of use cases, without losing the functionality. The android todo app Simpletask gets this part perfect with its lua scripting, although the UI is not as polished as it could be given more developer time.
It wasn't obvious at the time.
We've got some stuff up our sleeves...
Scientists develop 'super enzyme' that breaks down plastic faster than ever
More, it betrays a very simplistic view of physics.

How does the special molecule move? By magic? By willpower? By an internal combustion engine?

It needs some way of changing its course. Molecules don't have such a mechanism, except for bouncing off of other molecules.

And, how does the molecule know where the other molecules are? It's psychic? Lidar? Radar? How? What's it's energy source for emitting whatever it has to emit to be able to gather the information that it needs?

The analogy is, if we take a superficial knowledge of physics, and don't actually think about the details, we can construct a wonderful-sounding-but-not-actually-possible scenario. That's perhaps an accurate analogy for what Wolfram is really proposing.
I think there is one flaw to Occam's razor.

Who decides what the simplest explanation is?
It was my first programming language where I used IF statements
Good for apple.

The way this scam often works - you send your device in, they say there is a flaw and the device is not eligible for trade-in credit because it can't be re-used. Then they offer to "recycle" it for you. Then, instead of recycling they sell it. This is the consumer side of the scam.

It can also be run against manufacturer like apple. Apple can offer trade in credit to consumers, then send it to these guys who evaluate the device. If can be resold apple gets the $100 or whatever average per device from the recycler (who can then make a moderate profit selling for $150 or whatever). If it can't be resold the recycler promises to recycle it and doesn't have to pay out anything.

There seems too often to be a push on HN to support scams of almost every type. The outrage when apple worked to alert users when folks put the cheapo third party batteries in before reselling an iphone to make battery life look good for a few weeks (HN comments = total outrage when apple alerted users) is illustrative.

Do these "geep" executives sound like the role models you want to do business with? For many folks, myself included, the answer is heck no.

Reading hacker news, and the total hate towards apple for asking others to just do basic / fair things is really interesting. Following contracts and agreements is for idiots and chumps apparently. Be a scary world if the Zuckerbergs and other growth hacking developers end up in charge!

Consumer trust in apple is going to continue to go up - you just realize how slimy the rest of the tech world is - scammer after scammer after cheater.
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The countries to which we export agricultural products -could not feed themselves- without -our- wheat/soy/corn/etc.

Thats the national security issue.
Isn't the inverse true as well?

While this could have some downside re compensation, I look forward to employers smoothing the on/off-boarding process. Nothing is more frustrating than engaging with incompetent coworkers who are only around because it is too hard to find a replacement.
I think he's content with this reputation; also independently wealthy and not taking public funds or seats in academia.

I say the future generations will be better off for Wolfram having gone down his rabbit holes.
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> But the number of your customers who want unbounded complexity is very, very low. Some of the most vocal customers might mislead you on this fact

I wonder what the world would look like if the creators of the spreadsheet had this attitude.

Formulas are awfully complicated, after all - to say nothing of pivot tables...
I thought about this, but I ended up just paying the $6 per month for YouTube Premium (student discount)
> their situation is not captured by the data you cite

Exactly. They're people too. Their circumstances matter. Also, let's not forget that not everyone even in a high-demand area is also high-income. Somebody has to do the "lesser" jobs, and for them housing is even more of a problem. Arbitrarily excluding certain metro areas because "you're a techie and can live anywhere" is just counter to reality, and just seems like a way to skew the numbers.
Ask HN: What software will space need?
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> Beyond this, and not unlike systemd, flatpak has been pushed hard down people's throat by powerful entities within the ecosystem, [...]

Sounds like a tinfoil hat theory to me. Powerful entities? Pushed down people's throat? You are free to ignore Flatpak, no one is forcing it on anyone.
> courts are allowing data scraping even though LinkedIn disallows it and forced LinkedIn to stop blocking it

Courts only said "If your server responds to an unauthenticated GET request, that's on you". Linkedin is free to stop providing that data or move it behind a login wall, they just don't want to because it helps them with SEO. Contrast that with these plugins that are absolutely accessing data behind the user's login.

Also with regards to the antitrust assertions you make, Facebook is absolutely not required to share their data with anyone. People give their data to FB, FB can do what they want with it (as long as it's within the ToS). Facebook can't stop me from also giving my data to someone else outside the platform, but they do not have to facilitate that process in any way.
The problem with this is, if the intern doesn't add any value to the company does the intern not get paid or still gets paid the $40k? What if the intern only added $10k worth of value (however that's measured). Does the intern return $30k?

You can't have your cake and eat it too; get all the reward without any of the risk.
I'm not sure that ordering doesn't matter for most TCP data. For example, HTTP depends on ordering. Any time you are transmitting messages larger than the size of a packet, you need some degree of ordering, even if it's only to reconstruct the individual messages, when you don't care about the order of the messages.
Tldr; Using naturally occuring enzymes to break down plastic into it's original parts.
Still takes 6 weeks, but it's a vast improvement on the centuries it takes to break down plastic currently, and makes it recyclable.
But is still worth noting. Science tends to be pretty rigid, and often dismissive of outlandish theories because participants in the field are too close to 'socially accepted facts'. Which as we know from human existence - humans have small minds due to social conformity.....
Less ethnicities than cultures and metaphors. Darmok notwithstanding.

The Klingons were originally intended to look Asiatic and resemble Mongols or Japanese samurai, with the Klingon Empire being essentially the Soviet Union In Space. And there is an uncomfortable elephant in the room that Klingons, a species mostly known for violence and bloodlust, are all (or almost all) black coded. While the implications are obviously unintentional, it's impossible not to draw parallels in the history in sci-fi and fantasy to the "swarthy, dark-skinned savage" archetype.

Speaking of which here[0] is a video on Klingons and the history of racial coding in Star Trek if anyone is interested.

The relationship between Cardassians and Bajorans is clearly a metaphor for post-war Germany, with the former being Nazis and the latter Jews. Romulans, obviously, are Space Romans.

The Borg clearly represent the dehumanizing effect of technology and collectivism, making them a perfect foil for the Federation with its techno-utopian ideals. I've heard but can't prove that the Borg were meant to be a parody of Japanese business culture. There are alien stand ins for racial prejudice from "Let That Be your Last Battlefield" and nonbinary gender persecution from "The Outcast," and the Trill species in general. In cases like these, the aliens are meant to serve as a mirror to some aspect of humanity.

And of course the Ferengi have already been discusssed here.

Although in one egregious case (TNG's "Code of Honor")[1] the "aliens" were literally just African caricatures in space. And of course TOS gives us planets with literal space Nazis, space Romans, space Cowboys, space Greek Gods, space whatever costumes they could scrounge from the Desilu lot that week.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqbSQWKV_T8

[1]https://trekmovie.com/2020/06/14/jonathan-frakes-and-denise-...
Yes, Wolfram is asking for a much bigger leap.

That does not mean he is wrong or that you can easily brush all this work away because it is too speculative for your taste.

String theory was also quite speculative.
If applications are distributed by the same people, at the same frequency, linked against the same versions of the dependencies, why have two distribution mechanisms at all? What you're describing sounds like it could be a separate APT channel ("backports", "non-free", "edge", hell call it "flatpak" if you want) but doesn't need another package manager and package format.
That’s odd. Are there standards in iOS Safari that macOS Safari doesn’t support, or that Firefox doesn’t support? It seems that if you have iOS in your user base, you couldn’t do Chrome only stuff anyway.
How would such deal making be hindered for a non-profit entity? It's not like that deal is a highly variable cash flow for them to meet profit targets or something.
From an environmental point of view, recycling should be the last resort.

Sending 100k usable devices to recycling is an absolute waste of resources. It's immoral and in contradiction with Apple's environmental commitment.
Adaprox has various "finger bots" for those who don't want to build their own: https://www.adaprox.io/
Adjacent but related to this topic, I also use an RSS reader and I think it's something which a lot of non-programmers would really appreciate more. There are a lot of techy reasons why I like it (self-hosted is always nice, back-search is fun, I like the customization, etc) but especially during these stressful times, it's a great way of limiting obsessive scrolling in newsfeeds. I follow 300+ feeds, most only semi active so I can very easily get caught up on all the new article titles. Once I'm caught up, it's much easier for me be done and not keep scrolling. This is in stark contrast to other newsfeeds, and the control I have over the rss subscriptions means I don't get algorithmically manipulated to the same extent as other places. There are niche feeds I love and it's great having them collated

So three things: 1. talk to your friends about it, I've been advocating it to a lot of people and lots of them are interested. Feedly is relatively easy to setup for a layperson and showing them cool lesser-known feeds is a great way of getting them started (as you all know, there are niche blogs lots of places and the act of self-curation is really empowering). But if you self host, maybe offer to give them an acct...

2. I think gReader was a start but it was a slightly different newsfeed environment. Now everyone I talk to understands the dangers of newsfeeds and algorithmic manipulation, but they don't know what to do. I think there's a space for a RSS startup (or even feedly) to really press their advantage on self-curated feeds and no infinite scrolling that would appeal to a lot of people. The little RSS advertising I see are not focused on this

3. One thing people might miss is some twitter/fb/etc accounts which they know they like, and want to bring to their readers. I think a lot of people know the difference between the people they follow who they actually care about and the ones that are just on the same platforms. I'm thinking especially about Cory Doctorow's Adversarial Interoperability (https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6c-cory-doctorow-on-adve...) but if the platforms won't do it, having a free/open source twitter/fb/etc scraper that is reliable would be a huge win. I've tried some but a lot of them are buggy or expensive and it's annoying for a layperson. This could definitely be improved and I wish some of the platforms would export rss feeds too (e.g. youtube did and then it got weird). Also having easy integration to html-diff non-RSS websites would be great. I've used it to check for job postings, cdc news, etc, and I think a lot of people would like it.

All of which is to say, we have this old technology that is secretly adopted by a lot of websites (especially because of wordpress/etc which make it a default) and which could solve a lot of deep problems that a lot of people are struggling with. I think HN type people could really make impact here in expanding the userbase
But information traveled as slowly as people then, unless we're talking about short distances that pigeons could cover (or I guess something equivalent to the pony express, but that seems unlikely). They still had to send a courier to actually deliver the message to exchange the money, and there may very well have been a requirement of receiving this message (otherwise how would you know that the money hadn't already been moved since there can be a weeks to months long delay between messages)?
When case count is super low, you can do contact tracing and keep it from flaring up, all while having live return to mostly normal.

Vietnam had had 35 deaths in total.

Singapore, an international transit hub, 27 deaths.

Thailand, 59.

Read about how Vietnam handled coronavirus. Heavy lock downs at the very beginning quarantine for everyone entering the country, and then localized lockdowns in areas that had breakouts combined with extreme levels of contact tracing.

People in other countries are back to school, back to work, back to living normally.
By treating their employees as if they were working for an abusive startup
I tested Hugo a few days ago on 10K posts and it took 40 seconds for a full build. It builds in a fraction of second if you've only got a few pages.

I don't love the template language but aside from basic template features like if/then/else/not/forEach I don't really find I need to do much fancy when jumping between different static site generators or even WordPress. Hugo's speed wins out for me a lot of the time.
As long as we're clear that it's unbelievable. Invoking Occam's razor really helps decide it - is it more likely that you are experiencing altered perception while consuming chemicals that are use explicitly to alter perception, or that time itself doesn't follow the rules that are observed and understood and reproducible by some other quality of the perception altering drugs.
Another vote for Pelican. I've been using it since around 2012. Easy to use, and usually you can find a plugin for what you need. If you can't, it's not hard to write one, as long as you know Python. I wrote something to allow me to use org files as input, instead of md or rst. Many others have as well.
Rolleiflex or Rolleicord - I will get one of these if I came across them at really good prices but I am looking for a compact mechanical SLR as my main camera on trips etc, at least for some time.

And yes, I might have to get an FE2 or FM2. Because FM3a is indeed quite expensive.

Compact mechanism SLRs are not made anymore at all, are they? Nikon stopped in 2004. Nothing like that were made later? Or are there comparable cameras - like FM3a, FE2 in look, feel, build, functions, size - but more affordable and readily available?

However another camera I am looking for is an instant camera. I liked one and ordered it on Amazon. When I received - it had a LCD on the back (then I realised the product didn't have an image of the back and it was not mentioned either). It was an absolute deal breaker and the all plastic thing felt very cheap.

Market supplies what the majority wants and to be honest digitals are great and versatile.
It's hashing the ordering key to map to a partition right?

That's what I meant, access to ordering via partitions but without the full addressing of named partitions like Kafka.
All that, and they are still WILDLY better than Snaps. You chose poorly, Canonical.
So Amazon wants all of my biometric data? Mmmmm.

If you own an Amazon Alexa, they have your voice print.

If you own an Amazon Ring Security device, they have your face scan.

Now they want your fingerprint and palm print also for "contactless payment". I guess they never heard of Visa Pay Wave, contactless payment method.

The people who willingly agree to hand over their biometrics to Amazon, deserve to loose their privacy. Ignorance is no excuse folks.
Could you explain/elaborate about the Dharma Initiative structure and how it applies here, to a person who’s fascinated with lost but never found the time to actually watch it.
Latency is not related to frame per seconds, yes.

You could feed a thousand frames per second to a TV and the TV can have 100 ms latency (delay to display a frame after it received it).

You could feed 30 frames per second to the same TV and it'd still have a 100 ms latency.

The latency is rarely advertised. It's highly variable per TV and per image. There's the time it takes to start displaying an image and the time until the image is fully set (it is much longer to go white to black than white to grey).
A lot of languages like Rust and Go (but also C++) mostly do static linking.
Languages aren't mathematics, you can't losslessly translate between them. All translations are at least to some degree "an interpretation of the underlying meaning".

As someone who was raised bilingual, I always struggle when asked to translate a specific phrase between languages because literal translations are often less useful or accurate than the "interpreted" translation. I would be very suspicious of anyone who claims they have translated something someone else said without changing its meaning at all.
> Low income salaries actually experienced a higher increase than higher income salaries

In percentage points. If someone gets a pay rise from $1/hr to $2/hr, they will experience a dizzying 100% wage growth, more than any CEO could ever hope for.

This is simply a mathematical property if small numbers, it doesn't contain any meaningful information on economic development or policy.
It's tough to say. I was young and didn't have the kind of capital to do that myself. It was in the depths of a shitty economy and this hypothetical start up wouldn't have had much of a moat, so I don't think that it would've been easy to get outside capital either. And what would the pitch be? We can do this non-unicorn company's job better and still not be a unicorn? This was right round the beginning of the whole 'everything has to be a unicorn' thing, or at least my awareness of it.

It's unfortunate that the only way to capture the value of my innovation might have been "well, just be an owner instead of a worker."
> the IRS freely admits it has become too expensive to audit the wealthy

The IRS is no longer receiving enough budget from Congress to successfully bring these cases. It's not literally too expensive.

> The best (only?) approach is to try to manage the negative externalities that the free flow of capital creates (rapidly accelerating wealth inequality, etc)

Nonsense. We already have laws on the books that would allow an enthusiastic regulator to break up the power of capital. What you are describing is a continuation of the liberal surrender to big money, with the hope that some kind of socialism takes form to offset it. Following the beaten path is much more likely to succeed.
Are they perhaps booking tax benefits for having paid to have the devices recycled?
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Our science fiction us based on what we know and what we can dream. I think our modern dismissal of ancient alchemy has probably discouraged scifi writers away from scenarios where any other conceivable alchemy prevents the necessity of hunting resources across the cosmos. Sure, you can write anything in fiction, but you do things For Plot.

To answer your question: no.
> String theory was also quite speculative.

Doesn't string theory take a lot of flak precisely for that reason?
String theory is still quite speculative.
There is always more engineering work. The questions is does the app need to add new vocabulary type features to get there, or is the work focused on making the API more flexible for 3rd parties, or the signup process less onerous, or making exports take half the time they normally take. There's definitely a balance but they have to be seen as worthwhile and valuable goals instead of adding new words to the object model or new pages to the site. Typical product creation can sometimes be "can I make this thing possible?" instead of "should I make this thing possible or accept that this is not the job of this application". Of course you can make your app do anything you could possibly want... what should it do?