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> Sturgeon's law is universal, and it doesn't explain differences in the distribution of the crap.

What differences in distribution? You're either not absorbing what I wrote, or what Sturgeon said, or some combination of both. Sturgeon was responding to the criticism that sci-fi as a genre is bad because of how much of it is crud. Sturgeon's retort was that "Ninety percent of everything is crud."

JS is incredibly accessible and, as a result, massively popular (just like Java). 90% of a large number is a large number.

> I put it to you that this is recognising that the structure of the language is significant in the emergent behaviours and consequences.

Have a reread. Java attempted to enforce good practices by language design. And yet, Java is the posterchild of the sentiment that goes, roughly, "Java sucks—after all just look at its programmers and the ecosystem is has produced". (I.e., the same thing people say about JS.) But Sturgeon's law is inescapable. Despite the attempt, the Java ecosystem looks like crud. Why? Because Java is extremely popular, and 90% of everything is crud, and 90% of a large number is a large number.

> The major browser vendors are all horrendously self-serving, for example.

They are. It has very little to do with the NPM mess. NodeJS and the browser are at odds, with NodeJS having forked the language. (Just look at modules: NodeJS has a known-bad, non-standard module system, and there was serious discussion about whether it would even ever support ECMAScript's standard modules.)
I'd call it "moderation" rather than "censorship", but if you want to view the "uncensored" version of the site, you can click on your sign-in name in the top-right of the header, and you will be taken to your profile. From there, set "show-dead" to "yes" to be able to view this and other flag-killed comments.

I and many others on the site prefer to view it in this form. If you have show-dead on and some minimum number of HN points (30?) you can "vouch" to revive a killed comment. I thought this particular example would have been better handled with a downvote-of-disagreement rather than a flag, so I vouched for it. I can understand mettamage's reaction, though, and don't blame him for flagging it.
As an American, I generally agree. Something I appreciate about some foreign TV is the idea that a season of a show (series in UK-speak) is a self-contained entity, and sometimes each season changes something significant about the show which keeps things interesting.
A lot of cockneys moved from the east end to essex during the 70-90s. My family was one of them.
While there's obviously licensed content on Netflix, HBO, and elsewhere, it's increasingly about rounding out their own studio content or other exclusives. I'm not going to subscribe to HBO for whatever non-HBO movies they may have.

If you're not interested with what's on the "channel" at all, you're probably mostly better off with just buying/renting a la carte.
They do give you you a list of playlists containing song titles and artists.
Question as this was before my time. Was Usenet considered public or secure (possibly a foreign idea back then with computing)? Curious if there are any security implications to large archive projects like this, especially considering how early this was, people may have taken confidentiality lightly?

I shudder at a potential early Myspace/Facebook archive in 20-30 years.
>So elites get all the resources secondly they give out to affiliates (Roman's debts forgiven, discount wheat for Romans, land to 75k Romans) then it becomes unsustainable because it has giveaways have no solid economic foundation, then affiliates become strong, then make everyone Roman so as to dilute power and then the former affiliated secondary elites

All of these events happened around the end of the Roman Republic. Blaming them for the "Fall of Rome" that happened around five hundred years later is just ridiculous. A rough equivalent would be blaming Columbus for America's current problems.
Wow. This is super intuitive. Impressive work.
Yet. Teenage girls have a depression rate that has been rapidly increasing through the years. Currently at 20%. Which would suggest the increase in the use of social media is the main cause. Especially when this study did nothing to correlate against it with its weak argument for sleep which if you look at statistics on depression had no effect on it.
This was a controversial topic actually, Spotify openly accused Apple for not providing the access to Apple Watch SDKs when Apple Music was first launched. The APIs are made available after a while I think, but Spotify is still mad.

Spotifys accusation:
https://timetoplayfair.com/the-case/

Response from Apple:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/addressing-spotifys-c...

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19377322
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That makes two, then! Also binged DS9, started VOY and came to the conclusion that out of all of them, DS9 is my favorite. And I do like, somehow, the naive optimism of TNG. Kind of a blast from the past, if you ask me.
Star Trek was cancelled after its third season.

(This is one of those pop culture facts I didn't realize until recently, as I never liked the original series, but adore Next Generation. All of its cultural impact was from just three seasons, and possibly most of its immediate impact from the first.)
DVDs are easy to get. DVD players are not so much. It gets expensive to attach one to every screen. And on my phone/tablet?
Sounds like perhaps Mac or Windows would be a better fit for you.
Agreed on the length of seasons for network prime-time shows.

However, that's not really what the article is about. The shows mentioned are 8-10 episodes per season (both the canceled shows and Stranger Things).

This is more about Netflix throwing shows against the wall so fast they never get to see if any of them stick. Which is silly - many of the best shows out there took a few seasons to hit their stride. Look at season rankings for Seinfeld or GoT - few people rank the first season of either as the best.
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Well, for what it's worth I've been using YouTube Music for over a year and it's coverage has never disappointed me - even for little-known songs (though that's relative). Just my experience and observation.
Braille seems to be very machine-readable, in that "OCR" would easily be able to pick up the 6-dot cells, much like a barcode.
Perhaps a downvote would've been better yea. Thanks for mentioning that.

Edit: unflagged and downvoted. I'll let the original comment stand as I can't edit it anyway.
To clear some details, this is the source:

https://freiheitsrechte.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/...

Some quotes:

"Factual evidence exists for the fact that the suspects, who at the point in time relevant for the criminal complaint were CEOs or staff members of Elaman GmbH, FinFisher GmbH, or FinFisher Labs GmbH, have made themselves liable to prosecution because of deliberate violations against the obligation to obtain licences for dual-use software in accordance with section 18 para. 2 no. 1 and section 18 para. 5 no. 1 Foreign Trade and Payments Act (Außenwirtschafts- gesetz, AWG) by exporting the surveillance software FinSpy to Turkey during the period between October 2016 and July 2017 without having previously obtained the required licence from the [German] federal government."

State malware:

"FinSpy is highly developed spyware which, according to the company’s own description on its website, is sold exclusively to governments for the purposes of strategic intelligence and criminal prosecution,"

This is not an old case, it has been submitted only recently, as is clear from the date mentioned here:

"The companies are neither so large nor is the number of potential FinSpy customers so high that it would suggest itself to decide about and carry out exports without the knowledge of the CEOs. The fact that the federal government, according to the information it gave on 19 June 2019, has not issued an export licence for intrusion software requiring a licence since January 2015 additionally either suggests that the export of such software is not routine business, which would support all the more that the CEOs knew about it, or that numerous additional exports violating the export provisions have taken place in recent years, above and beyond the business deals with Turkey."

Interesting read.
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The UK's national grid is currently running at about 35GW. A wind turbine, produces on average 1MW (from a potential 3.5MW with a 120m blade diameter). The turbines need to be spaced at 8x the blade diameter to be optimal, call it 1km. (edit)

So at the moment, the UK needs 35,000 wind turbines to match the national grid.

We'll need at least double that again to charge all electric vehicles in daily use if we get to 100% electric vehicles, e.g. only 5 million vehicles with 7kW chargers, but we have almost 30m registered vehicles in the uk.

That's almost 200km by 200km of wind turbines, or 120 miles x 120 miles right now.

No wonder we're putting them in the sea. I can't see all of Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Essex, London and Hampshire being covered with wind turbines somehow.
Yes, you're right.

I talked with people from the east of EU and while they like the money, they aren't always treated well by the western companies.

Guess, that's why I always overreact when I see outsourcing to the east.
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Same for me. I was really surprised when I used their chat like four weeks ago and actually talked to a human being. Didn't expect that from Amazon.
Do you have any examples of projects doing this? Thanks!
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Not sure I understand ;) Do you mean for sponsoring this research? I must say I already had trouble finding a publishable URL as the Nature Communications Journal doesn't seem to have one.
One of the most interesting potential wind sources is Lake Erie: it's relatively shallow, fresh water (less corrosion), and dotted with population centers: Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo, London. It's also quite windy. But I do wonder about the potential impact on fish, there or anywhere else.
I think it's about money, not security.
Hywind is a demonstration site, I understand it was not optimised not for foundation design, it’s main purpose was to get an understanding of the dynamics of the turbine blades as the structure pitches and rolls, so I wouldn’t focus on the 10,000te figure. Future generations will reduce this significantly.
In my case, yes. It was amazing. You can substitute motorcycle travels with something that will bring you more joy than a slightly better phone.

If you're lucky, you can have both. Even then, wouldn't it be nice to shave a week or two off your retirement age here and there? How much time at the office is a flagship phone worth?
> (Windows Store) is worse than (random.exe)||(wget -O some.stupid.site/something.sh | sudo bash) is worse than (Proper package manager)

Why? Name a technical reason and not ideological BS, please. I've yet to hear a proper argument that isn't just "because Microsoft".
Hasn't this been clear since the Amazon leaks some years back? Each season needs to attract new subscribers compared to something ad-driven where a season needs to have viewers.
Funny now the one time a title change would be actually useful the HN mods haven't changed it.
> If things like Star Trek were canceled season three, it'd never have reached such masses

This comment strikes me as very strange. I guess you're talking about TNG? But the Original Series was canceled after the third season. Nonetheless, Star Trek reached the masses. The reruns in syndication became more popular than the original airings, and countless films and spinoffs resulted.
I think it's clear that the problem isn't cancelling TV shows, it's that Netflix cancels them unexpectedly.

I'd prefer a model where, after one season, a number of seasons is determined with input from executives, writers, cast and crew. Then everybody marches in lockstep towards a satisfying conclusion at that target.

You don't end up with the 8 season long show that drags on, no end in sight. And you don't have a cliffhanger series ending.

Can someone run this up the flag at Netflix please?
> Spotify doesn't seem to support the newly announced home pods as well

Is this really Spotifys decision or something about how Apple handles announcements and development access to their devices?

Or: Does Apple want Spotify in their game and on their devices? Or would they rather sell Apple Music subscriptions?
The first sermon is said to be recorded by the dhammacakkappavattana sutta.

Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu's translations of the pāli Canon are usually sensible: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN56_11.html

or Bhikkhu Bodhi: https://www.budsas.org/ebud/ebsut001.htm

There are also translations around that come via the Chinese cannon instead.

The suttas are probably very hard to understand without background knowledge or commentary (or, really, actual practice), but of course I don't know which of the commentaries GP refers to. The dhammacakkappavattana sutta, being one of the important/famous ones, has truly voluminous commentary from truly voluminous sources.

GP refers to "continuous effort to face the uncomfortable". I'm not sure that I'd use that sentence to summarise the Buddhas teaching to be honest. But I suppose that it could be a reference to the 6th limb of the noble eightfold path (right-effort), or the 7th (right-mindfulness), or to the 1st noble truth (the truth of unsatisfactoriness/ suffering).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path

First sermon aside, his last words also, as given in the maha-parinibbana sutta, were to be "heedful" or to "strive diligently".
Slam dunk for Apple. Arguments about the environment aside, seems like a breach of contract, open shut.

Also if people cared about the environment they wouldn't be using a phone with a glued-in battery in the first place. So check your phone (if you even have one, phones are so 2015) and your privilege.
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Of course! If they made independent software distribution impossible at the same time as introducing the store there would be an enormous backlash.

The strategy is to introduce the store and slowly make independent distribution more and more onerous, using security as justification. When people complain you can say "just put your app in the store and you won't need to worry about signin/notarisation/etc."

Apple are doing exactly the same thing.
Why would a producer intentionally throw away $millions to $billions just to test a hypothesis that people don't like bad things?

GoT died because the writer was replaced by a pair of hacks when the writer couldn't write fast enough to keep up.
I think you’re being too hard on Europe. There are tons of smart people on the Continent working on unique and interesting startup ideas. The only thing Europeans may lack is access to funding and resources.
There is unfortunately no alternative in many cases. There is no cloud provider with concierge service, nor any alternative to the dreaded Finanzamt.
> Wouldn't drag be proportional to the surface area, hence the square of the length scale, whereas orbital energy is proportional to the mass, which is cubic in the length scale.

Are you assuming the ISS has a similar surface-to-volume ratio as other orbiting objects?
Say, that's a nice business you have there. Sure would be a shame if anything happened to it.
Yahoo! hasn't been a company for years. It's just part of Verizon's media group.
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I'm also curious, but sceptical because "toxins" is often used as a generic vague term when advocating pseudoscientific remedies.

Wikipedia states that no pharmokinetic studies have been done on this "Kambo cleanse". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kambo_cleanse
We also have a fractured policy landscape in the US. We have weakened federal regulations due to the denier in chief and his former-coal-lobbyist EPA director. We also have a lot of states with great renewable potential, either solar or wind, that because of their fossil industry and corruption in politics, leads to denialism and slowing of renewable progress.

Contrast that to the EU, where most member states are energy importers and don't have their own fossil fuels to use. If they do, then like Germany or Poland, they still use a LOT of coal. It's easier for UK to be done with coal: they mined up all of theirs and used it already. Add these factors onto a much more literate and well-educated populace who reads about and cares about climate, and we have an EU that is leading but still not perfect.

So, in general, the US has great potential, but there is definitely the most progress happening in Europe.
I'm really surprised that nobody mentioned vitamin K2 MK7 in the comments.

By the way, what are the recommended levels of 25(OH)D in your countries?
Spotify is so much better than apple music, and this is probably minimal compared to what apple music does to convert/retain users from Spotify.

Think of all the barriers apple music has created (apple watch app for a long time was the only one that supported offline, apple music is preinstalled, when you hit play and no apps are currently playing it will go to apple music, probably much more).

My main thought though is that Spotify is much better anyway, why give people the ability to export their curated playlists and use somewhere else. They’ve built that service that helped you discover all those songs — if you created all those playlists from scratch with no help from Spotify’s algorithm (discover/recommendations) good for you but I doubt that’s most people.
That's fair, but completely besides the point of the OP.

If the complaint is "because it doesn't work well enough", the proper solution is to just disable it, which is of course an option. Crying "foul!", however, is neither constructive nor helpful in way.
A nicer and more complete syntax for anonymous functions, or some reasonable equivalent (like JS arrow defns, or Ruby code blocks) might serve most of the same needs as a full-blown macro facility, without some of the complications. It's pretty common in Ruby for libraries to define DSLs with syntax similar to what macros were used for in, say, '80s LISP code.

(The nearest current Python equivalent is lambdas, but there are very awkward limits on the varieties of control structure they can contain.)
I don't, but the wait time from when I ask my HomePod to do something and when it does it is fast enough for me that I don't much mind.

If I say "Hey Siri, turn on my lamp" it turns it on within a second or so of asking.
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A resource like this is just what I need to try it out.
Well one thing is a "pause" in production, another one is total and final cancellation. Has any of the NF titles been resurrected yet?
The ballot question is actually about the "Right to WebApp Development Competency." Voting yes means you believe that, after a "Such platform shall be directly accessible by the owner of the vehicle" law passes, webapp developers will MAGICALLY gain the competency needed to rapidly deploy a life-or-death-critical service for access by millions of unsecured client endpoints, and deploy it with no security-relevant design or implementation flaws.

There's at least some hope of delivering a secure service to dealerships. (I don't know whether this has succeeded.) There's also some hope of delivering a secure service to registered endpoints at independent shops that can be audited for client security practices. This is the correct next step. With the state of webapp security today, there is NO HOPE AT ALL of delivering a secure service to the general public.
> How far do you have to drive to find a supermarket that doesn't sell Coca-Cola?

Sounds like you've identified the key difference on your own?

Spotify can be avoided. Groceries largely cannot.

(There's also a difference in revenue model. You can't subscribe to Spotify without part of that money going to Rogan. You can skip Coca-Cola products at the grocery store and ensure the companies you don't like see $0 from you.)
The Buddha taught that the root of all suffering is desire, tanhā. This comes in three forms, which he described as the Three Roots of Evil, or the Three Fires, or the Three Poisons.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/beliefs/fo...

This is the first random "source" I pulled up, every other will say the same.
I don't know how it plays out in practice, but I agree that it seems as if having the must-have subscription impact of a House of Cards or Game of Thrones when they first came out would trump having a dozen meh middle-of-the-pack mainstream network procedurals or sitcoms.
Eh, I don't think that's especially accurate either. GoT grew pretty steadily in popularity over time. The first season was well received. Controversy about incest and sex scene made it fairly newsworthy.

If you want a good analogy you want to pick a show that performed poorly in the initial season.

This is a chart of wikipedia page views which is probably a decent proxy for popularity on netflix.

https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&pl...
Exactly, the main problem these people are having is not a mystery - it's that they don't have housing. There are often addiction or mental health issues, but anyone who has experienced these problems in the past understands that being homeless at the same time is catastrophic. Giving people housing while they get on their feet is the simplest, cheapest, most humane, and most effective policy. It's been proven to work in Finland and other places to great effect: https://amp.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle...

I think it says a lot about the HN crowd that people are downvoting you for saying this. Everyone wants either to police/arrest homeless people (even more than they already are, apparently) or to make their lives even harder so they'll go somewhere else. Neither of those "solutions" addresses the root of the problem - that these people have nowhere to go - and homelessness will continue until they are provided with housing. People love to wring their hands about how homelessness is such a hard problem but they don't want to even consider the obvious solution that would both fix the root problem and treat people with dignity.
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Usenet was public and distributed.

Once you posted something, you had no real control over it being retained and archived. There was a message header you could set ("X-No-Archive: yes" IIRC), but it could not really be enforced.
The fact that it may have better features or that other services also have lock-in does not in any way excuse this behavior from Spotify. It's anti-user and they should stop.