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Brexit: UK must 'get ready' for no EU trade deal, says PM
The first computer I bought with my own money was an iMac running at 266 Mhz (not the first gen running 33Mhz slower!), Mac OS 8 something and Internet Explorer 5 I think.

Google didn't exist or wasn't evil yet and finding things was quite difficult specially at dial-up "speed".
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170814162334.h...
Great to see that Nim grows ever faster and more stable. Been a fan of the language for quite a while now and while I miss the old days of new and exiting changes with every release it's much easier to target Nim now that it has become this stable. Great work all around!
This is an edge case, but for sure they would have family members who would inherit the titles and in an event of absence of such people then the state should take ownership.
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The Lambo bit is rubbing salt in the wound, because the author isn't actually benefiting financially from this at all. Amazon is taking all of the profits. How's he supposed to compete against them?
Extrapolation, as the general act of generalizing from observed events to not-yet-observed events, is necessary for making any kind of prediction about the future, and for any awareness that goes beyond direct sensory perception. I think that's within the purview of science.
Actually yes, we do. And I don't think this is excessively onerous. While not a legal requirement, it is a legitimate expectation, like having your "Good Morning" returned by someone, and we feel sad when this does not happen.
I enjoyed PianoMarvel
Your comments show several common misconceptions/mischaracterizations about the topic.

Whether someone is an addict or not is not about the addict's (or anyone's) opinion. Addiction and dependency are very well understood from a scientific viewpoint.

It's not only “some” people that don't overdo it. A very large percentage of the population has used marijuana and yet you don't see most people in the conditions you described.

I highly doubt the root problem of your 60% of extended family is drugs (assuming we're just talking about stuff like marijuana or psychedelics). If they feel like they need to relax all the time, maybe it's because they're subject to too much stress or are (maybe hereditarily) oversensitive to stressors, in which case they might need some help regardless of drug use.

One last thing (but the most important), psychedelics are decidedly NOT addictive (again, following scientific definitions). In addition to not causing an urge and immediately causing tolerance that lasts for weeks, they're very well-known for ending decades-long addictions and all sorts of negative behaviors (including overuse of marijuana!). At high enough doses, they are nothing like a typical marijuana high. You really have to experience it to understand just how deeply and positively they can change one's life. Ironically enough, they might be a great option for your family to try (under proper guidance) in order to get out of their situation.
The same set of brains that caus accidents left and right every minute of the day?

The idea suggested is interesting. Some of it I solve by a regular navigation app. But looking at this screen on my right may not be the ideal experience.
Gwern has some interesting personal reflection [0] on tech optimism vs. tech pessimism.

[0] https://www.gwern.net/Mistakes#near-singularity
I spend most of my day on a computer so I prefer to have some limits. I read at around 9-10pm, so I prefer to avoid screens so as to not damage the quality of my sleep.
Show HN: Pong hosted in a single tweet
Tangentially, I think "what didn't happen" in the last decades is an interesting question.

Most of Kurzweil's predictions have two parts, implied or explicit. One is the technology itself. The second is how that technology affects the world. Between the two (1.5) is a lot of ambiguity, whenever anyone tries to "score" Ray.

EG Displays will be built into our eyeglasses. Tech that essentially exists but hasn't yet become widespread or impactful yet. Sometimes tech does become widespread & impactful, but we still predict impacts wrong.

PCs have been on every desk for 25 years. But, administration (to the extent that measurement is possible) seems to have gotten less efficient. HR departments, schools, etc need more administrators today than before PCs. Weird considering PCs are paperwork efficiency machines.

Meanwhile, dating and social life have been radically transformed by personal computing.

A lecture hall, library and university are notably inferior (eg you can pause the lecture) when digitised, yet Harvard is still Harvard. Even a local college is still the local college. Universities are persistent despite their most legible reasons raison d'etres becoming nonessentials.

When I was in college, "Keynes' 15 hr workweek prediction for the 80s" really fascinated me. He was right, on paper, in his efficiency/growth assumptions. I felt that the professor's explanation for why the prediction failed (people decided to keep working lots and buy more stuff instead of chillin) totally unsatisfactory.

"Why history didn't work out this way" seemed a much better basis for understanding the past than post fact theorizing of traditional economics. Lets take theory and its predictions and see why it failed. Often, I think the projected premises turn out correct, but their impacts do not. Demonstrates what we do and don't have a grasp on.
Yes it should be illegal to use OSS in SaaS platforms without paying the OSS contributors.
There is nothing saying that you couldn't make a living off of improving grapes, though it would admittedly be more difficult.

At the end of the day though, I am far more concerned about food security than the right of people to profit from IP. You can't simply wave the problem away by stating the state can take all they want. Many democratic states would be hesitant to do that and it would have far more grave long term consequences. If agriculture was more diverse, perhaps that wouldn't be a concern. The problem is the lack of diversity creates the potential to concentrate power over the food supply under the current model, never mind one with strong IP rights.
Do you have a reputable source for that claim?
Ridiculous.

Galileo was persecuted and could have been killed for his "crimes."

That is not comparable to Twitter refusing to allow your content on its platform. It is not "silencing" when you can publish it elsewhere or make your own platform.

It is of course dangerous and fallacious to automatically assume the majority is correct, But it is even more absurd to assume an idea is correct because it exists in the margins.

- Lots of folks said it was absurd that there were canals on Mars, presumably populated by little green men.

- The vast majority of people mock the idea of a "Flat Earth"

- The majority of people think the antivax movement is dangerous and dumb

- Anybody with even a minimal science background understands that a perpetual motion machine is impossible, and that anybody who thinks they've created one is delusional or fraudulent.

- etc. etc. etc.

I feel pretty confident I'm on the right side of history. At least as far as those examples go.
Ah, I had it right the first time, you're stuck in partisan war rather than a property rights absolutist.

Don't trade principles for that, it's not worth it, the news cycle will be different tomorrow anyways. Certainly don't trust the corporations over individuals or the press for a one news-cycle 'win'. What kind of liberal values are those? "George W Bush liberals"?

(I'm a Bernie voter, not a conservative, btw).
The Egyptians built the pyramids without computers or modern construction equipment. Building the Great Pyramid of Giza today would be a massive project even with modern technology. Yet someone figured out not only how to build it, but organize the workers, the logistics, and manage a long term project without much more than a reed and papyrus.
Stop asking “Why aren’t more Africans dying of Covid-19?”
It is mandated by law that cars have an OBDII port that supply diagnostic data over CAN interface for emissions testing.

It is not, however, required that said CAN bus is used for anything other than for passing emission tests. Easiest way to implement that feature is by exposing main CAN bus on that port, but you don’t have to.
Babies' random choices become their preferences
There's a pretty bright line between "code they use" and "project they fork".
Using OpenNebula + K3s to deploy multiplayer game servers on the edge
But you are also going two generations backwards with the CPU, albeit with extra cores. It doesn't make sense. It seems like they should be offering the Pro's with an A14X or equivalent by now.

I wonder if they are holding it up because it will use the same CPU as whatever is in the ARM Macbooks.
Another part of the problem of journalism/advocacy is cancel culture. Some people want to deny that it exists, or that it's problem, even if it does. But it's precisely the reason that you felt the need to virtue-signal that you didn't like Taibbi (whoever he/she is; I don't know). Everyone feels the need to "take sides" in whatever is being discussed. All of this tribalism is part and parcel to the problem you're decrying. It's the thing that's blurring the line. The twenty-somethings have been raised in this culture, and it is a normal function of society to them. Only people in middle age or better can readily remember what the world looked like before the Fairness Doctrine was repealed, and opened the gates for pure advocacy. We're all living in Rush Limbaugh's media world now, and Twitter just gives everyone a platform, and takes it to the extreme.
That's storage, not memory.
Oh the good old companies paying in exposure... If you make a profit from using someone else software you should pay them (plus appropriate tax) regardless of the software license.
Yes; for an interesting and well-researched take on this subject -- entheogenics -- try James Oroc's "Tryptamine Palace"^1

1. https://a.co/fY76eFW
Each side very much has outliers, but I am referring to the mainstream politics. Read up on how the modern Republican party was reformed and various reactionary movements within the party. It’s fascinating from a strategic and political standpoint.

A striking example is the libertarian party acts like a third axis drawing from both the republican and democratic voters, where the Green Party attracts almost exclusively from the Democrats. That represents a fundamental split in the left and a more fluid political makeup. The Green Party is tiny but actually had a significant impact on several elections.

Though this is mostly looking back, I don’t really follow recent politics that much.

PS: Personally, I vote more for the candidate than the party. A young and living George H. W. Bush for example would have easily gotten by vote last election over Hillary, but was never going to vote for Trump. It’s like both sides looked at their primary and thought, what’s the worst option?
This is what I was curious about, how long did the coffer dams take to erect and pump out and were they done separately or two or more at once?

Still it seems that video makes it look far simpler that it truly was. Just the carting of the stone from quarry to the job site had to be an immense undertaking
why the prediction failed (people decided to keep working lots and buy more stuff instead of chillin) totally unsatisfactory.

Why not?
It’s actually a very modern and well equipped system. I think it’s fault is that it is sized for what they wish were the ridership numbers rather than what they are in reality.
> 2. Non-propagation agreements and propagation fees are extremely common. Newer varieties of grapes almost always having a fee back to the breeder.

Who is party to these agreements? If I am a grape researcher/breeder and buy a bag of grapes with this plastic wrapper, why would I be affected by this agreement? If the strains are patented or protected in some other way, then of course those protections would affect the end purchaser, but that is beside the point.
Agreed - definitely https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/ science material and possible future winner in the making right there.
No, bane of my life. It’s glitchy even with WSL2.
I don't see why AWS shouldn't have to BUY a license from the developer. Why are developers giving away their work for free? If you require a thank you, you might just as well require them to pay you money. That's the only thank you from corporations that counts.
"when was the last time you used a piece of software that truly achieved something useful on its own rather than solving a perceived problem that only exists because of the idiosyncratic nature of the web and cloud stacks?"

Go and Rust. Probably unpopular opinions, but I'm very glad those two languages are open source.
Big companies use OSS to avoid hiring employees and paying their wages plus taxes. It is a loophole that should be regulated.
I’m with you on that one, but if you are literally just forking a package, rather than depending on a package, and rebranding it into your ecosystem, then a big “thank you for making this and making it open source” is appropriate.
> That is really hard to do if you have even a 0.0001% chance of hitting something and dying because your car didn't do something right.

Have you ever flown in a plane before? Some people are more nervous than others about giving up control but billions of people still do it because the benefits vastly outweigh slight anxiousness about that billion to one chance. People will not want to drive in an autonomous vehicle right up until they see they can give up their $40k car and hail a driverless taxi to go anywhere for pennies on the dollar.
You may want to check out https://synthesiagame.com/ which is a commercial product that does the same thing. You don’t have to use the guitar hero style of notes, you can turn on proper sheet music.
I've taken it a total of three times. Never used it regularly. The last time was 3 years ago. Now I don't use any drugs, including alcohol.
> 1. Speed limit for the area/road I am in.

That one already exists, many manufacturers already provide 'intelligent speed' systems, which combine gps and traffic sign recognition camera info to determine the current speed limit in that stretch of road and display it on your dashboard.
For those that want to go down the rabbit hole: https://github.com/alangibson/awesome-crdt

I'll be adding this link pretty soon.
If I recall correctly, I read that the intention is to eventually make ORC the default, not ARC. (ORC is like ARC, but it avoids problems with cycles.)
New JSON encoder for Haskell that is up to 3x faster than “aeson”
Second Nagle-related post I've seen this week! https://www.kdab.com/there-and-back-again/
My gripe with LOOP and other crappy instructions is that they use up valuable space in the instruction encoding.
Construction timelapses can have a similar vibe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuAvFDGED3k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BC5GmT--I8
The great unravelling: Witnessing the horror of planetary collapse
IntelliJ Ultimate is $500 for a commercial license I believe (and you need a commercial license to do work for a company over a certain size, even if you pay for it yourself). Sure it's not going to affect my finances either way but:

1. The 2 minutes it takes to file an expense report is a good trade for $200 (I don't make $6,000 an hour at my job)

2. It's the principle; they should pay for it, not me.
Yes - If Best Buy did control the market (i.e. was a monopoly) and then abused it's market position to price-up Dell and force adoption of their own brand, then it would be the same.

The difference here of course, is that Best Buy can't control the market in this way because there are other options and customers will go elsewhere, and Dell can sell direct to consumer and through other channels.

Apple can control the market in this way, and Spotify can't sell direct to consumer without Apple taking a cut (unless they build a web-only version, which would not be competitive with Apple's own offering). Spotify could go android-only, but then the same issue exists with Google and Google Play Music.

Why do you think Apple is in this market? They realized that market control in one industry (the mp3 player / smartphone) could be exploited to get market control of other industries (e.g. music distribution).
I think you missed this detail:

> ARC was first shipped with Nim 1.2... [ORC is] our main new feature for this release

Seems like they should phrase it like "use ORC unless you know you don't have cycles" rather than "use ORC if you're not sure you have cycles", but that's a reasonable responsibility to take on if you're choosing to use an alternative garbage collector.
No, but they do it typically: "Announcing AWS X, our implementation of {open source project}" (they do this with MongoDB, ActiveMQ, etc). The product mentioned here is more than just a managed version of the open source project; it is a major component however. (good example is Redshift, though when they announced it they barely mentioned the role Postgresql plays in that to be honest)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-redshift-the-new-aws...
No kidding.

The number of people I see that say "oh I just use it to relax" is quite high. It is a way to ignore what is in front of you and not have to deal with it. I understand the idea quite well.

What twists me on all of this is the blame shaming of people who say 'do not do that junk'. When they can clearly see the chaos these choices bring. Choices are made one at a time and little choices eventually turn into big nightmares or happy times. Not everyone ends up there. But many do. I know a decent number as well.

Then once lets say you get 'cleaned up'. You now have to re-learn how to cope with life. As the usage of whatever is how you used to do it. But that is no longer there. So it is quite an emotional roller coaster for everyone involved.
> What I found interesting is how many parts modern Christians habitually ignore, either because they'd be arrested if they'd follow them, or because those parts don't fit in with their personal beliefs. Of course, the entire corpus of text has also seen numerous redactions, in an effort to streamline it and make it more coherent (with mixed results).

The parts you describe are a history book. They are not meant to be normative to someone living in a modern Western Democratic context. They are background to explain a people, a time, and a discontinued form of government. Other more pertinent parts of the Bible (see the prophets or the epistles referring to The Law) make sense with that background available.

I also suspect there's some deeper truth buried in those laws about what happens if a community stays distinct, and how that can be enacted (clothing, food, calendar, etc.). And there's certainly a lot of history of the Hebrew people to describe what happens when distinction and noteriety happens, even through long periods of diaspora.

Finally, it's worth having some historical context. Considering the Israelites of the time to be unconscionable doesn't take into account what the typical society looked like in that time and place.
In Norway you get fined for driving under influence proportional to your income, typically 1.5 times your monthly income before taxes.
Well, it enables a greater proliferation of 'smart' devices with greater bandwidth, so yes.
The big problem with implementations in interviews (or coding challenges in general) is that they don't test what the interviewer is thinking they are testing, and it is usually a clear indicator that the business looking to hire has some major shortcomings in their developers.

For what it's worth I've been on both sides of the table. I don't bother with code when I interview because it's a waste of time. I may show a (non-critical, not-worth-NDAing) section of code to a prospective employee and have a discussion about it, but in general I can suss out whether someone knows what they are doing in less than 30 minutes just by having a conversation with them. Why make the applicant or me wade through 2-3 hours of code and not get a sense of what they are truly capable of when I can talk to them for 30 minutes and assess their technical ability, communications patterns, and fit for work culture simultaneously?

The smartest people I've ever worked or interviewed with don't bother with code as interview.
...yes? This is an automatable process these days, AWS / Amazon certainly have the resources to do it, and under many OSS licences it's a legal obligation to give attribution.
Yes, you're totally right! That's the exact reason ORC should eventually become the new default GC.
Is it just me that's really annoyed they put the p values in the abstract, but not the effect sizes?
Remdesivir has "little effect on mortality" in blow to COVID treatment hopes
"During lockdown 700 volunteers from across the country collaborated to produce a first draft of the Slow Ways. This incredible effort has led to the creation of 7,500 routes that collectively stretch for over 110,000km."

The map visible is from the first draft. I don't know why they haven't released the first draft, but it could be that they don't want to release potentially unsafe routes. The pretty website is designed to entice volunteers, which is why "Up for helping us?" is front and centre. It led me to sign up.
Yes, but its ubiquity and political impact was vastly underestimated. We'll pay dearly for that.
OK, but that only works for prologue/epilogue --- it's better if you can use the instructions elsewhere too.
Nurseries agree to a propagation license from the breeder and when they sell the vines they pass a fee (usually something like $1 a vine) back to the breeder.

Growers typically buy their vines from said nurseries, who try to insure virus free vines and produce in bulk and do grafting to rootstocks, etc.

A breeder would not usually be affected, because they would work with pollen. If they were working with this vine as a parent (unlikely) they would probably as a courtesy reach out to the original breeder, but they'd just be taking pollen from it, so the "EULA" would not apply.

There are thousands and thousands of grape varieties out there. Most consumers only ever taste a dozen. The genetic diversity bottleneck for grapes comes in general from consumers lack of education and their preferences for the same thing over and over again, usually with a fancy European sounding name so they can feel sophisticated while they drink their wine from a clone of a vine from 800 years ago that had to be sprayed with fungicides every 5 days to stop it from dying.
Guardian is in on the "Great Reset" where they try to take the wealth you earned by collapsing the global economy. Look it up, but not on goog.
>We haven't improved efficiency at all, it takes far more resources to keep a person going today than it did in the 14th century.

We very much have. We couldn't support our population with 14th century levels of efficiency. We wouldn't have enough farm land, fresh water, etc, etc.
Isn't that the point?

Companies want to take and exploit free/opensource licenses in exactly this way.

By putting in a clause for attribution for example, you winnow away the companies like Amazon who would totally want to fork and re-release without crediting you.

If a company doesn't want to credit you, and your license is dissuading them from forking your project, then the non-standard license has achieved its goal.

You can't have it both ways. It's like people complaining that the GPL is "viral". That's the whole point of it. Companies that don't want to re-contribute their source changes are dissuaded from using it at all.

If you put an attribution clause in the license, the companies that don't touch your code is the company you never wanted to use your code at all. You can't have it both ways. You can't say "I need the exposure so I use a totally permissive license" and then say "Oh but I actually want attribution in a way that if people knew about this requirement, wouldn't use it to begin with"