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Yes, there was even some new lately. "Voyager Spacecraft Detect an Increase in The Density of Space Outside The Solar System"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24826155

Dave Jones made a coupe of videos about the Deep Space Station in Canberra.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FzRP1qdwPKw
It the OP, but there’s a difference between holding a moral opinion and stating that opinion in a discussion. OP may simply have not wanted to obscure information presented from an insider perspective with personal opinion, in an attempt to stay objective.

Further, financial engineering by itself is morally neutral. It can create abuses sure, but it can also reduce unnecessary costs so that a company can employ more people, offer goods and services to customers at lower prices, etc. Tax is just one piece of a much bigger puzzle and it can’t always easily be disentangled from other issues.

I’m reminded of the saying about porn, you might not be able to define it, but you know it when you see it. There are plenty of publicly discussed cases of pretty clear and egregious tax evasion, but not all efforts to limit tax liability are abuses. Some of them are responses to deliberate incentives put into the tax system to encourage specific behaviour.
It is wrong to substantially rise the price of the health-related product if you suddenly see there is a big need for it. It is non-ethical and totally wrong!
Emacs opened it in about 4 secs on my 2018 MBP.
Is that the decrypted and decompressed video, or decrypted and still compressed? If the former, that's going to be a gigantic file, and you're going to lose quality when recompressing (although if you were planning to recompress anyway the quality loss is no worse).
For example if you use Linux on ARM you still need to build new containers, because the x86_64 won't work there,

Actually, it would with qemu user-mode emulation. This can be done transparently with binfmt_misc, which is a one or two-liner on many distributions.

BuildKit now can now also automatically without any additional setup:

https://github.com/moby/buildkit/pull/1516

But I do understand your point, Linux emulation on FreeBSD may be incomplete/incorrect in places, so you have to address to problems at the same time. Unfortunately, I think this is also what people would expect from Docker support - the ability to pull arbitrary images.
At least in the US, there are constitutional issues created by changing tax laws with retroactive effect.
>...”and they want people who have different thoughts to be silenced and tucked away..”

isnt that what the main stream/centralised media is trying to achieve through its endless tirade against social media?
We initially experimented with almost exactly what was described here, but it lacked one thing and that was third party expandablility. Sadly, I see no way for common and modern apps in their current form to be integrated into anything other than the traditional application format. If this changes, I hope to be the first to jump on board and get the ball rolling.
For me it's the opposite.

When I interview some of the things I look for:

- Are they comfortable and productive in their own coding environment?

- Do they understand the code they are writing?

There are more things I look for, but those two touch upon this... if someone interviewed and were fluently moving around their coding environment and the quality was high and they understood what they were doing (complexity, allocs, maintainability, readability, approach to the problem, etc)... then they'd be hired.

Further, their future perf reviews would never care about this stuff. Or if it did, it's only to say that this is part of the health and wellbeing of the individual who has chosen a work environment in which they are happy and productive - which is a net positive to the company.
> At this scale, paying for our services was a no-brainer.

What? I don't think so. If money is the only thing they care about, sure. But is it? Should it be? And if breaking the spirit of the law is fine, shouldn't breaking the letter of the law be fine as well? As long as the risk is low enough..

</rant>
> I'd choose Scala and get a large and active community, as many Java libraries as there are stars in the sky, and the most sophisticated runtime environment mankind has ever dreamed of (for better or worse).

Hahahaha oh wow. You never ever used Scala, aren't you? I did, I moved from OCaml to Scala.

Oh, good luck joining Scala community then, we don't have aforementioned problems, don't we? Because Akka vs Zio vs Cats vs Scalaz is not a thing. Because ensime vs metals debacle never happened. Because we don't rewrite the complete ecosystem each couple of years.

> most sophisticated runtime environment mankind has ever dreamed of

Which you need to tune quite a lot to fit Scala into it (hopefully, it's very tuneable). Oh, and this "most sophisticated runtime" doesn't support TCO btw.

Oh, and any AnyRef value (so anything but basic types) can be null, thanks, runtime.

I love Scala, but all these "I wouldn't choose OCaml, I would choose F#/Clojure/Scala/other obscure language" usually mean "I've tried ocaml but didn't try other obscure language, so maybe it's better"

I love OCaml is well, and most of your points could be reduced to simply "it's lacking manpower" (Scala is lacking it too).

Because all of the "why is stdlib vs. Core vs. Batteries and Async vs. Lwt still an issue" we have in C, C++ and many other popular languages too, but it's not a big issue. People complain on meson/cmake/autotools/boost/glib/qt but not leave for some reason.

Maybe people don't use OCaml that much rather because there are simply too few jobs and too few programmers and it's a simple chicken and egg problem. And all these technical rationalization is not the reason because it's applicable to quite a lot of languages (safe for lack of libraries)
Another related mechanism is antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE)[1], where suboptimal antibodies bind to the virus and cell receptors, promoting the former's entry into the latter. It has been proposed that ADE increases the severity of SARS-CoV-2 infections[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhancement

[2]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-00789-5
If it's over 1 GB and single line you're almost always going to exit the editor, run some scripts on it, and open it again when it's correctly formatted.
Incorrect. The base64 command wraps at 76 columns by default.
The problem (okay, "a" problem) here is that it is indeed OSS, and not FOSS, that is being used.

It might be worth re-visiting "Post-Open Source" by Melody Horn (boringcactus) [1] on this. You might want to copy/paste that link instead of clicking. :)
It has been discussed here before [2] and (unsurprisingly, IMHO) gotten quite a bit of blow-back from the HN crowd.

The General Intellect Unit podcast recently had an episode on the piece [3] and I think they made the point clearer (well... also they roll the piece out to 1h 40min) by more openly posing it in a class struggle context. (Side note: please don't post replies attacking this as communist. The podcast has "marxists" in the name, you wouldn't be insulting them, and I'm merely engaging with their content, so if you're gonna try to attack their/my positions, please do the same and don't just throw scary words.)

The bottom-line is that Open Source Software has nothing to do with the freedoms of the developers. It is...

* a corporate entrenchment scheme: enlarging your hiring pool by establishing your in-house solution as the industry standard, giving you full hiring pipelines and stronger negotiation position against current and prospective employees.

* a capitalist commons: by tending to one industry standard, the companies (not their devs, who will still have full work days) save on duplication of effort.

At the same time FOSS (which does focus on the freedoms of the devs to read, modify, learn...) kind of misses the point by being...

* too obvious a trap, and thus ineffective. No sane capitalist company will go anywhere near AGPL code (and we just had an example on HN of someone trying. it wasn't pretty)

* ultimately not even clear on how this will make anyone's lives materially better, even if it were effective. It's not gonna raise your salary, nor give you more paid vacation, health insurance. As a dev, you'll still be producing surplus value (okay, in a hopefully less alienated way) that will then not be paid to you (that's the definition of profit) so from this perspective the "F" in FOSS doesn't really bring much to the table.

The GIU podcast concludes that yeah, working in IT was nice for a while, because it posed some fundamental problems to capital and as a dev you were in a much better negotiation position. However, those times are over. Capital has found a way to make IT labour just as fungible as manual labor, at least to the extent that we should expect those "rock star" benefits to dwindle soon. Up to us to realize that and take action.

Again: relaying analysis here. Not sure I buy all of it. But even if, please keep your replies centered on the content, not the vocabulary it's presented with.

[1]: https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/08/13/post-open-source.htm...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24397552

[3]: http://generalintellectunit.net/e/066-post-open-source/
> the "performance" you were testing was disk IO throughput

In part, yes, but not entirely. I was very clear that my load isn't embarrassingly parallel, so it is not expected to scale linearly with the number of processors.

> You seem to be implying that AWS/EC2 does CPU over-provisioning on all instance types; this is incorrect, only T-family instance types use CPU over-provisioning.

If you think you are getting a Xeon core when paying for a "vCPU" at AWS, I have a bridge to sell you.
I ordered this one:

https://www.waveshare.com/product/raspberry-pi/displays/e-pa...

It’s the same size as the screen on most Kindle devices; 12cm by 9cm.

So it’s not large except in comparison to most e-paper displays out there, which seem to most often come in at 6cm by 3cm or smaller. And it’s not exactly cheap by any stretch of the imagination, but for me it was at the ‘sweet spot’ between size and cost, as stuff bigger than this gets expensive fast.

Note that I haven’t actually received the display yet and can’t vouch for its quality or usability. But for what it’s worth, that’s the one I ordered.
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What does the "unix"ness of stuff have to do with the lack of popularity of linux as a market? Blaming a technical problem for what is actually social does nothing positive for anyone. Certainly, "linux" itself as a free platform is not necessary for liberation, let alone the litany of other brands you mentioned. Linux is unpopular for many, many other reasons than avoiding technical issues.

If "unix" is considered a success, I'm giving up on coding. What's the point? People will just gravitate towards brand loyalty regardless of the technical underpinnings.

When will it implement plan9's bind?
The wealthy tax the rest of us. Think about it.

Tax avoidance, subsidies, bailouts, stimuli, etc.

Want to tax the rich? No. They tax you.
Because he wants to give his technical expertise, and does not want to enter into a political debate about the way we organise society.

If you read between the lines, you can see that he understands that people have reservations (and probably he has chosen). He just chooses to explicitly not make a statement about it, and keep this a technical discussion.

In todays highly politicised society, this is (in my opinion) a sensible thing to do.
Another 'niche' use case is doing DSP calculations on an FPGA. If you can accept the trade-off of some degree of error with fixed-point, you can have very fast and heavily parallelized implementations.
The post was apparently sponsored by them. I've got to at least applaud them for bringing a lot of this info out into the open.
If you're a salaried employee that gets a W2, you're gonna pay taxes.
It is being reported in New Zealand as well. I don't think it is fake clickbait, but it only affects farmers in a few areas.
The tech has existed at least theoretically since the 60s but nobody is willing to use it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propu...
I think either way is fine, life will find a way. The important bit is to stop cutting it.
Care to explain why? You wrote that you think it is wrong, but no explanation.

Are you saying that all health products should be excluded from normal market forces and that someone (government?) should mandate fixed prices on all of them at all times? That just by virtue of being health-related they should not be in the normal market? We sure don't seem to do or particularly fancy this type of economic planning anywhere in the west...
It's a fair point, certainly interesting, however most or all of it is an assumption (you didn't try the other thing in an elaborate way, let alone double-blind-tested it), plus it might not work like that for everyone.

In the past decades I have written (and still do) like 50/50 in IDEs and plain to somewhat less plain text editors, and if there's something which is a flow breaker for me, then it's coming up with the exact name and method in such plain editor when I just know there's one which does what I need but cannot remember the exact name. Fuzzy matching it against a list doesn't break any flow for me on the other hand.

Which matches how my memory works: I cannot remember hard facts and data well (function DoSomethingVeryHardCore). However I'm good at remembering abstract things (function which does something hardcore). I am pretty sure learning many things by heart from the many very different codebases I work on would be a complete waste of time. Instead learning some abstract mental model of the codebases architecture, and how to navigate through it in text, is what makes me fast and efficient.
Actually it wasn’t, all PPE could be sourced and sold at prices that matched their scarcity and utility, which is my point about why this belief in price gouging restrictions just caused confusion. There is a way they couldnt, it was very hard to do that.

The legal reality was more nuanced than the governor, legislature and DA ever imagined because prior emergencies were never larger than an isolated area. This market distortion covered the entire state indefinitely and crossed state lines, their power was much more limited than they imagined.

They thought the federal government was going to solve this for the states and were wrong and this cost the states months, especially California due to its size and population, which is still realigning and adjusting to self-autonomy and procurement while being ahead of many other states.
at least in europe , there is a market for "tax optimization" for middle-to-upper middle class people that is not prohibitively expensive, involving the many tax havens of the EU for certain kinds of businesses, for those willing to go through the hassle.
No, those states have well-understood roles, though East Texas is diminishing in importance because of the notoriety.

There's a couple of states that quietly hide money, nothing to do with any useful purpose to the public.
> Apple will change your messages to white text on green so none of your friends can read them easily

Messages always shows the received message as black text on a grey background.

Sent messages can have blue or green backgrounds. Your Apple using friends continue to read your messages just fine. Re-reading messages they’ve sent you is a different matter.

More surprising is that someone would complain about the SMS experience in 2020 in the context of smartphones, given the breadth of rich cross-platform alternatives that do not charge by the message / picture / audioclip.
Really rich people do this with a complex network of shell organisations that's as opaque as possible.

It's not just that a corporation owns their house, it's that another corporation owns that corporation, and a holding company in the Cayman Islands with a nominee director who lives in a postbox owns everything, except the IP rights which are in Panama - this year. And personal spending goes through a credit card set up by their own personal offshore bank, which effectively makes it loan. Etc.

If there are enough shell companies you can decide your own tax payments, because you can hide everything you choose to hide. It's not that these networks can't be disassembled, it's that they can't be disassembled efficiently. It can literally take months or years of full-time auditing effort to trace all the relationships.
This is a US specific comment but I was reading the David Shor article yesterday and he pointed out that the (vast) majority of funding (for democrats?) comes from individual (wealthy) donors - ie not the corporations who tend not to own the politicians so much anymore.
Sure. I'd not be able to actually do anything useful with a gigabyte single-line file so what I'd want my editor to do is say "Longest line is over 100k characters, truncating display to the first 100k".
We built a widget exactly for this! https://feedback.fish It integrates in your website so that users can give feedback immediately once they feel a need (whether that's a bug report or a feature request).

We have found that our customers collect up to 35x more feedback than before once they add the widget to their websites! It does depend on where you place the "Give feedback" button though — the more visible it is, the more feedback you'll collect.
This comment just completely flew over my head. Please explain?
> I am staying far away from all countries that treated their citizen like prisoners until the pandemic is over

Good — you're probably not welcome there anyway. The countries that did lockdowns and quarantine properly are the ones that have best controlled the pandemic.
It sounds like this need only existed because the product existed in a zero-sum game. If supply was increased, presumably players would need more.

In non-zero-sum real life, things are different. People didn't need antibiotics before they were invented just as people don't currently need to live to 200 years old since we don't have that technology either. I can't find a clear boundary between need and want. Need seems to be just "very want". Some people end up with less than others and the world keeps turning. We don't even need seemingly essential things like water because we can survive a few days without it. Just as seriously ill people can survive a few days without treatment (which may or may not have been invented yet), and normal healthy people can survive a few days when they're already 100 years old and we don't have anti-aging tech.
> The "free market" is literally designed to make that not happen, if someone else with more money is out there and willing to pay more money than the hospitals.

The free market is not designed at all to do anything, let alone acts with a bolted-on moral load.

What the free market allows is that economic actors like the hospital are free to purchase their supplies from anyone at all from anywhere, and allows anyone who has any interest in producing said supplies to present their offering. That's it.

I live in a country where, when the demand for N95 masks started, had a few unrelated corporations quickly enter the market with their own product. I'm talking about companies ranging from office supplies to coffee makers. Hell, even beer producers quickly entered the hand sanitizer market. Consequently prices dropped drastically and not only is there no shortage of protective equipment but it's also affordable.

That's what happens in a free market.

How come you're talking about this sort of stuff not happening in your country, and still you talk about a free market?
Maybe?

Ingvar Kamprad net worth was "only" 3 billion $

That's about 25 billion $ lower than if he had unfettered access to all of IKEA's worth.

https://www.forbes.com/profile/ingvar-kamprad/

If you like how the company you built spends money more than how the state spends money, you're going to want your company to capture more money/worth without relinquishing it to the public. Another rationale could also be when you can give a stake in your company to your family, that way you won't ever have need to pay profits during your lifetime, since the company (which could be a charity) will actually work as a cross-generational fund.

Also, this works well with the ethos of some companies (like Amazon, allegedly) which reinvest a lot of their profits to cut margins/develop new products... And overall just tighten their hold on the market
But thats just Flutter, and it can already run on Linux. What is the benefit of Fuchia?
I noticed something very odd in the retraction:

"The original version of this article stated that Sloane has a son. Before publication, Sloane confirmed this detail to be true to The Atlantic’s fact-checking department. After publication, when a Washington Post media critic asked us about the accuracy of portions of the article, our fact-checking department reached out to Sloane to recheck certain details. Through her attorney, Sloane informed us that she does not, in fact, have a son. We independently corroborated that Sloane does not have a son."

I really hope this is not how any fact checking organization works. It appears the fact check was to ask the person whether the fact was true. If this was relatively crucial fact, couldn't they ask for some kind of evidence? I'm truly astonished at how bad some media outlets can be.
I'm still installing mc on every linux machine I own just o be able to use mcedit. It's still the best text editor for me and it's sad it stopped being included by default.

I'm used to the shortcuts, the syntax highlighting works, and you can run shell scripts on selected text which is the best "plugin system" if you ask me.

I've tried to switch to vim and emacs a few times but they are too big an ecosystem and I don't want to change EVERYTHING at once.
> It sounds like you didn't want to pay the price that the seller wanted, but instead of simply refusing to buy you tried to go around and try to abuse the reporting system

Or perhaps they simply know Ebay's policy on the matter.

"We encourage our community to report any listings they suspect of price gouging to us."

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-ite...
What is a "FAST" programming language? It can't be "it's theoretically possible to write the absolute fastest code using this" because then the answer to everything must be assembly.

Look e.g. at Rich Hickey's interviews - when building actual systems, the "theoretically fastest implementation" doesn't even matter that much in practice[1] - actual practical C++ code (written by experts!) can be slower than even Lisp code. I've witnessed this first hand, too; you've witnessed it too - in a micro-benchmark, no less - where Rust surprised you by being significantly faster than 3 state-of-the-art C++ compilers. But instead of concluding that Rust (the language) maybe did something terribly good, you conclude "meh, it's not that the compiler is better, it just got lucky in this case".

[1] I know there are a few domains where this matters (e.g. embedded systems). I'm not saying that "Lisp is better than C++" - I'm saying that your conclusions about Rust are... surprising, at least to me.
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Can you give some examples of places that meet those criteria (good transit, walkable, major cultural venues, varied dining scene) with $200k houses?

I don’t think there are many places in America with good transit that are walkable so I think it’s going to be tough to find that for $200k. And if the solution is just to move somewhere so small you don’t need transit, then you lose out on the varied restaurants, cultural events, major airport, etc.

The better places for transit like NYC, SF, Chicago, and Denver are all major cities so you won’t find dirt cheap houses near the transit.
What are the problems caused by tight coupling?
Finally release is getting closer.
I was hoping for StimulusReflex like additions sponsored by Basecamp.