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Python and Perl don't run natively in the three major browser engines.
"The natural cost of information is the marginal cost of copying."

Wow, no, this is a fundamental misunderstanding right at the core of the issue.

The 'cost' is that of 'creating and developing'- and FYI it's not 'information' - in most cases it's 'creative works' not some kind of 'discovered knowledge'.

MS Windows is a 'Developed and supported Product' - not 'Information'.

In much the same way it only costs $2 to 'make' your pair of Nike shoes - it's definitely not the 'cost of parts and labour' (though that's obviously an input).

Making anything working, of material value is usually an excessive grind involving a lot of people. 'Software' is not 'the implementation of some algorithm' it's all of the ugly complexities around that and the sausage-making realities of getting things to work well and play nicely with other platforms. And then of course it requires ongoing support, maintenance, docs, training, security updates etc.. That's real work.

In then 1990's when we 'controlled' the software that went onto our Mac/PCs ... that we didn't have access to Windows or Adobe Photoshop source code wasn't really an excessive problem.

Especially the fact that there was a clean delineation between 'OS and Software' (other than for say MS Office Products) - then it 'mostly worked'.

IP protections are absolutely not going away, for good reason, the challenge is to make those work as the situation evolves, moreover, they are not the 'real problem' frankly, as excessive platform control (i.e. Apple, now Google) represent a more fundamental issue, and consider that happens while technically most of Android is open source anyhow.

Even Linux is open and popular, and to this day it's still a mostly 'dev/interest' OS that most people don't use in their homes, partly due to distribution power controls by MS/Apple, but also because frankly managing massive real world deployments of 'Moms, Dads and frankly most people' who 'just want it to work' is an operational challenge as much as it is an R&D/Creative effort.

Consider the basic economics involved: Even reasonably smart corporations with 'good IT' still don't generally deploy Linux to regular userbase. Why not? Because $50 a year to MS is very cheap, and frankly worth every penny in terms of value created. Any 'supported' Linux variation is going to cost 'something' anyhow, so what's the difference between '$20 a year' for some 'supported Linux variation' and '$50 a year' for MW Windows? Basically nothing. In a per capita basis, the true cost of a lot of software is marginal.
Fuck no, they didn't back down. Hundreds of thousands marched across Germany, in Munich where a friend of mine organized it was one of the largest rallies in recent histories - and all for vain, we got the upload filter crap regardless of all the promises.
What?

We don't do any of what you describe. When I said "continuous video", I was referring to the transporter taking a video of the state of the car — two minutes max. No livestream or tracking or anything.

I don't watch or control my employees or the transporters (they are just a client of a client). I don't even see the pictures they take before transport, usually just our customer.

It feels like you're wilfully misunderstanding something.
"First of all, in SQL NULL is entirely your choice - no column is forced to accept NULL values."

That's not true. Aggregate functions and outer joins produce NULLs even without NULLs in your data. This absolutely can cause weirdness.

"The only exception are aggregation functions..."

It's more weird and subtle than that. See:

http://thoughts.davisjeff.com/2009/08/02/what-is-the-deal-wi...
There will come a point when walled gardens predominate to such a degree that general purpose computing platforms will show themselves to be one of the last remaining impediments to the kind of absolute censorship of ideas (or even empirical facts) that "woke" HNers cannot tolerate--at which point they will abruptly switch sides and endorse outlawing, restricting, or at the very least stigmatizing those platforms and their users.
Many people don't have the misconception that they can compete athletically at the level of olympics. And yet, somehow, a lot of people mistakenly believe they could perform intellectually at that same high level!
And as much as RIAA is mostly a slimey pit of lawyers, they would stand no chance again msft's goblin hoard of attorneys.
Yeah - I totally don't use it for standing. I get to engrossed with what I'm doing and I forget to to stand. But it hold my 4 monitors, laptop and mic stand just fine.
I’ve learned through many failed alarmism through history to generally take a conservative view on these matters.

The examples you provided with general human stupidity and disorder is a good one.

Another one, besides
The Singularity fluff, which is very much related to your own two and which we see often today, is with AI. You can also find other examples littered in the history of sci-fi literature, especially towards real life projections, not just fantasy.

My big less was that humans are naturally inclined to massive overestimated our ability to master these systems and are terrible at projecting how these systems will also be adopted and run (typically always assuming some masterfully run corporation or government full of geniuses).

The reality is almost always extremely more underwhelming.

Not to downplay the need for things like controls on privacy or surveillance.

But even something like the NSA is probably a good example. They are capable of so much with today’s technology and do in fact work very hard to have said genius’s work there. But I’m sure general bureaucracy and institutional incompetence has stopped many of our worst imagined fears from being realized on a wide (and therefore meaningful) scale.

This sort of thinking helps us become more practical in our projections and our handling or what is possible (and a counter to knee jerk reactions for hyper control through hyperbolic and extensive law - which we’ve seen frequently elsewhere in history places such as drug prohibition and race controls, where the controls cause far worse harm than any betterment).

I also think this is why older people tend to be more conservative in their expectations. Personal failures and learned education of those in history help push us in this direction. Unbridled optimism is for the youth. And I still think an important thing for society to move forward. As long as it’s not the only voice in the room, as it seems to always want to be.
Because good managers are hard to come by so you have to give some sort of incentive to attract and retain the good ones.

Good managers increase the output of their team, bad ones try to make themselves look the best.
Computer pilot will make them safe and easy to use. Nuclear fusion might provide us with a cheap energy. But there's another problem and it's light and dense batteries or other means to carry energy. Now that's not solved and I have no idea if that would ever be solved. May be with hydrogen?
Yes, but I don't know if you have to track the branch first or not in order to pull down the data into your local repo.

But this is exactly how merging a PR locally[0] works.

0: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/colla...
The people who are responsible for this SHOULD have their lives made as difficult as possible.
Off topic, but reading about this guy, who has apparently invested in 60+ startups starting at age 24, makes me feel a bit of a sense of inadequacy. I just can't believe this happens often... does it?
yuck, yet another reason to get people to do commit signing - and enforce it by github not attributing unsigned commits.
> you can just search one or two large ones.

if the LOC is similar in size, i don't see why having them in different files vs same file makes any difference at all.

Also, your IDE should be able to navigate you to definitions and usages etc. If it doesn't, it's not a good IDE. So the problem of understanding code reduces understanding the abstract structure, not how that structure is represented on file.
TBTF is the public justification they give, but the actual reason is probably that the chaebol and government have always been very intertwined, and not always in the direction of the government exerting influence on the chaebol.
Credit card companies charge ~ 3% to manage a far more complex and fraud-prone ecosystem.

It's Apple's sandpit and they make the rules, but I think it's hard to rationally justify their take other than "because they can".
You should ask for immunity for tools that could potentially be used to infringe copyright, but that are not actually infringing copyright.

If guns don't kill people, people kill people, then certainly congress can accept that software doesn't pirate copyrighted works, people pirate copyrighted works.
Maybe slightly radical idea for beginner, but since we’re on hackernews.

Try to write down solutions to known, quite easy problems (that you are able to solve easily by hand) step-by-step (line by line) using SymPy (https://www.sympy.org/) library (or any other computer algebra system; but SymPy is most well documented, free and most beginner friendly IMO).

It may seem counterintuitive at first (you want to do learn mathematics by heart and I’m proposing to offload it to computer...) but carry on.

Contrarily to hand written math, it’s harder to abuse notation using computer algebra system. Don’t use pre-made functions (such as Integrate, Simplify, Solve) right at the start, but manually work your way (via simple operations like expand, substitute, and your hand-written functions working on expression parts) to the point when expression is in form you would put it by hand.

Each step, substitution, transformation etc has to be stated explicitly in order to be understood by SymPy! That way if you are able to “explain” it to a computer (that has no intuition about objects that it’s working with, maybe beyond some basic algebra and fact that they are symbols) it will be much easier to explain and present it more clearly.

That said the obvious con of this method is learning SymPy, but believe me it will pay back both by understanding math more deeply, as well as in ability to solve problems that are too large/tedious to do by hand in the future.

Btw I believe this is basically the way the applied math (computational, non-proof part of math) should be presented nowadays. When I (hopefully) finish writing my phd thesis I hope to to write CAS dedicated to this purpose (doing math in by-hand like way, but with help form computer) from scratch. Until then SymPy is IMO your best bet for that ;)
Working with 1 or 2 large files is vasty more productive/faster (for me) than working with 50

Seeing as Bellard is very prolific and has done more than you me and three others in a lifetime, there must be some merit to his approach.
App store taxation is theft, comrade! Wait, I think I'm getting my ideologies mixed up here.
"I wish we could live in a world where the default was to contribute with time and/or money to support each other"

Hmm, maybe we could 'exchange' our services and creative works for some kind of 'credit system, or currency' - not controlled by a 'central source' - but, you know, acting as 'free acting agents and groups of agents' - freely exchanging our products services for one another, setting our own prices and terms with one another.

Hmmm ... I wonder if there's a term for that kind of system ...
Quartz crystal oscillators make use of the piezoelectric effect. Do they not qualify as solid state? For that matter, capacitor whine is due to electrically induced mechanical vibration as well; I've never heard anyone claim they don't qualify as solid state components though.

To me, moving parts generally refers to physically coupled but distinct pieces that move relative to one another. Otherwise heating anything that contained a piece of metal by a few degrees would disqualify it.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, it's a fair question.

I assume that the government doesn't necessarily care to have a single family control it. But they'd perhaps rather not push a legal campaign against that controlling family, and risk causing harm to (or retribution from) Samsung in the process.
I've contemplated a timeless world a few times.

What would things be like if there were no synchronization or concept of hours, minutes, seconds at all?

There would still be loose concepts of time because of the position of the sun, but without precise time things might be less rushed.

In space we'll have to deal with a truly perpetual existence. I wonder what we'll be doing for scheduling 50,000 years from now.
A couple things:

- a beautiful visualization of how much drift spans across timezones: http://blog.poormansmath.net/the-time-it-takes-to-change-the...

- local railroad time tables back in 1857: https://twitter.com/_tessr/status/900870734238449664/photo/1
We are heading to a point soon in Australia where 90+% of the cost of household power will be for the grid infrastructure
I agree with you on the word blockchain. I hate it. I hate the crypto associations too.

How about we start calling real use cases PNL (Public Notarized Ledger) use cases? I love that term.
Scream for the blood of their enemies while calling them sinners. It’s as old as time.
Ask HN: Why get expensive ANC headphones when a cheap inear one can do it?
I have both expensive ANC and also low cost (but good quality) inear buds without ANC. When I turn on music,the differences are not that high after you get used to it, I can put the inear buds in my pocket. Also noise-cancelling is as good in any of them passive noise-cancelling with in ear buds == ANC with headphones.

Seriously after you get used to any of them, you don't notice the differences in between them because you got used to the sound out of one of them that is unless you compare them.

Why do you prefer pricey over ear headphones over in-ear buds?
Illusionist will conjure you the evidence of rabbit teleportation. Andrea Rossi will show you cold fusion. It does not mean anything. You need experts to verify that evidence. In modern world verifying evidence requires years of education and might require millions of dollars of equipment. So in the end you still need someone you trust to verify or decline that evidence.
Every home likely has five to six linux OS running locally; routers, TVs, phones, refrigerators, video doorbell etc.
Prop 8 passed.

Obama had the same position I did in 2008.

What's with the ignorance or (I hope not) revisionist history?
Just... wtf? How much can one person reasonably know or have the time to actually do extremely deep dives?!

Fabrice Bellard truly is one of a kind in the programmer world.
Why github/dmca? Why not e.g. tensorflow or numpy or some other package that people actually depend on?
https://www.palemoon.org
Cool project, but who is is this for IRL?
They also provide an excellent break from the kind of thinking required in things like programming IME. I can be exhausted from a day of coding and happily sit down and practice with the piano in a way I couldn't with other intellectual topics like maths.
Apple probably gets more leeway because they don’t force manufacturers to do anything — they are the manufacturer.
Sure.

I'm also thinking, how do they trust my server?

With photographs it makes sense - A server that can tamper with photos live is not sci-fi, but it's also just a little bit expensive.

In my case I want to notarize text. What if I store "evil message" in my database and publish "good message" to the PNL?

Unless the end recipient of "evil message" is also logging to the PNL, (Which is hard, they're supposed to be a dumb client) nobody will ever contradict the server. I could round-trip the messages through the PNL. Make the recipient pull them from there instead of the server. But that sounds like extra risk.

It's a tricky problem, and in the end I'll have to cut lots of corners for convenience. That makes me sad.
The Economist graph shows "covid-19 excess deaths".

The article is about "September 2020 least deadly month ((...)) 2020 third least deadly year ever so far".

AFAIK there is no normalized way to count COVID-19-induced deaths.

If so there is no way to compare official "COVID-19-induced deaths", because a given case may be counted as such in a country and not in another one, or even in the same nation by a given doctor and not by another one.

The total amount of deaths seems more objective.

Moreover the pandemics is running, therefore any comparison offers only a peek on a fraction of the challenge. Isn't this "herd immunity" approach a sort of "let's endure more short-term deaths, then durably much less afterwards" bet? In such a case any accounting may be moot for years.
Even more
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What is wrong with a poor retirement? What is wrong with enjoying life today? What if your plan is simply never to retire?
I guess this is relevant today as many (?) countries switched from dst back to normal time. As someone who happens to live at a location where normal time aligns pretty well with solar time, that makes dst feel extra bit silly. For reference, today solar noon happens at 12:04 local time. During spring the difference is greater, e.g. in late March (before switch to dst) solar noon will be at 12:25 local time. But the final irony is that dst shifts the time in wrong direction, pushing the solar noon to 13:xx during summer!
They signed a contract willingly, no one forced them to.

Also they are completely fine with the console stores.
I doubt they'd fear the PR backlash. They didn't fear it before SOPA, and even when SOPA was defeated, it was largely because the backlash was driven by efforts by sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Google advertising counter-SOPA messaging, and that drives far more traffic than sites like GitHub.
>I think Microsoft is losing mindshare with GitHub.

You're not wrong. Sure, the cloudflare browser checks and antibot pages on gitlab are aggravating, but there are a litany of documented reasons people are walking away from Microsofts latest acquisition. maybe the biggest one is the ICE contract they ardently refused to back out of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub#Controversies

Its also pretty obvious MS doesnt check any of these DMCA claims, and just rubber stamps the commits with an insulting and sterile "Process DMCA request" commit msg.

gitea and github both host splendidly inside kubernetes or standalone.
That's not good then. There were some concerns before that the project wasn't active anymore, so I hope it's not a sign of maintainers deciding to pull the plug.
According to TFA, they did use aerial drones as well.
For marketing my own content and just being social
Taking down GitHub would instantly make millions of developers at thousands of companies unable to do their work.
I really don't get the game. How do you play it? I put a good 5mins and couldn't figure out anything.

As a child, I remember getting hooked to Super Mario in < 5min after I saw my friends play it. I'm telling ya, these pretentious "researchers" really don't know how us "normies" think.
It isn't a straightforward parallel because those countries have universal (or near universal) language homogeneity. Even with the exception of China, there isn't nearly as much variation as there is in India (e.g. here are some languages from an Indian banknote: https://puu.sh/GGwOj/3537211eb7.png).

So, the closest thing India has to a universal language is English. If you don't learn that, you won't be able to communicate with a significant population, even discounting international relations.
It's always funny to so see Spains ridiculous time zone. Madrid, along with most of Spain, is west of Greenwich, but they stubbornly are at +1
And if GH deletes, and anyone else opens a new PR like you did, then those commits would remain until a second GH admin intervened, and so on?
COVID-19 has at least 2 main solutions, which are mutually exclusive: (lockdown) or (no lockdown).

If there is no major other new pertinent factor, then when it comes to compare those solutions (deciding when to assess is a challenge) there are (proportionally) less deaths where the more efficient one is implemented.

Am I wrong?
Sorry all, could nobody have kids right now? You see, we’re about to launch this awesome streaming service. Thanks!
A Tree That Owns Itself (2018)
Ok. I think that the popular aesthetics in science fiction actually do have a very significant effect on daily life though. So although it's great to actually work on solving problems, it's still somewhat worthwhile to have science fiction, and in that case think about the worldview.

Maybe that would be good. At least to go more in a SolarPunk than CyberPunk direction.

I was into CyberPunk in the 90s. I always wondered what came after it in science fiction. I mostly stopped reading novels so I don't really know.

What is the actual normal common flavor of science fiction today? Or flavors.

I guess I did read one or two Singularity genre books and also Altered Carbon which is CyberPunk.

What section does Ramez Naam go under?
While I agree there is no need to brand everything, it can serve a useful purpose, eg especially if a philosophy wants to try to spread a shift in thinking around reducing consumerism/how we live etc. This could be seen as 'tech-hippie' or other such labels, 'solarpunk' seems quite descriptive in that way. Being able to succinctly describe a philosophy that might agree with your life choices and values, it can also help reinforce those ideas to yourself in hard times as well as organize + discus with others who might share some overlap of values.

'in-groups and out-groups' and division can result from this but doesn't have to, it's not a given. Like a lot of philosophies, gate keeping via some kind of strict rules/definition I've found is usually (not always) done for other reasons by self proclaimed leaders. Being inclusive, from a community stand point, commonly is pushed aside by those that want to min/max some profitable (monetary, power, influence etc) aspect of that community causing said division. So while it might not need a name, a narrative around those ideas with a name does improve the ability to spread those values, 'solarpunk' being a brand isn't inherently bad.

We do have "very real, very big problems", ones that will need an almost unthinkable amount of cooperation to resolve. These aren't purely tech problems, these are largely social problems, and narrative/branding is immensely powerful in that sense. And all these possible solutions (technical or otherwise) are individually only going to solve small parts, slowly but surely as people work extremely hard on all these very real and hard problems, we move towards a new 'normal' without those problems, but during that long long time without those touch stones of values as reminders of _why_, it is very easy to lose focus. Narrative and branding can help solidify those ideas.

It's kind of funny in a sad way that some of the biggest companies in the world are advertising companies but when those same techniques are even slightly used and not rammed down our throats we pick up on those methods and say they are not needed. To solve those very real, very big problems, I'd say we should use everything we can to move the needle in positive direction and that 'branding', in that sense, is needed to drive the level of cooperation to address them. Maybe not the branding of 'solarpunk' but if that resonates with people, I'm all for it.
Yeah. This seems like something that the industry decided was a bad practice many years ago.

My best guess is that this is more of a fun project than anything and spending too much time on such concerns would detract from the fun. I do the same with my side projects.