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It's the social effects of centralization. Different people have a very wide range of ideas, opinions and interests, so the natural thing would be clustering. You stick together with the people who share your ideas, and you don't welcome other into your club. It's OK because they have their clubs where you are not welcome and you understand that it's OK as well. It's like being on different sports teams. You compete, but you don't hate each other. In civilized societies people also agree that some basic human needs are above the club/clan mentality, so if your neighbor's house catches fire, you call 911 even if you are ideological rivals.

Except, having multiple independent communities is a lost profit to the tech oligopoly. Everything must be centralized and automated as much as possible, so one minimum-wage moderator could handle a cluster of 10K users. The moderators also have to be replaceable, so there needs to be a common corporate standard applying to all communities. So now, instead of letting people find others based on the interest, and set their rules, you are forcing the same global average of rules on everybody. Of course, people will hate it.

It applies to the society in general as well. The economy where a handful of big players is telling people what to do, instead of forcing them to build mutual trust and work out business-driven relationships with each other, is making everyone miserable and increasing tensions.

Oh, and one more thing. If you let corporations choose one culture/set of values, and force it on the society, it will be in there interest to pick the one that maximizes their profits and your dependence on them.
I think it was addressed in the article, partially with:

"[...] Private companies are not just where a lot of the fraud is, they’re also where a lot of the growth is. "

I believe his point was that money/wealth is not a good differentiator of sophistication, AND it puts an unnecessary bar to anybody investing in today's opportunities (to your point).

Instead, open up the investment but ensure people are aware and reminded of the risks. Hence the tongue-and-cheek "Dumb Investment Certificate" :)
I've been looking for an off-site cloud storage provider that takes encrypted zfs sends, so I believe I'm in the target market for this. My use case is a home storage server with a zpool of several hundred terabytes.

However, there are some product compromises that would preclude me from using this. First, I already manage drive purchases, parity, dealing with scrubs and errors, etc. for my pool. I don't want to duplicate my effort for a second backup pool. ZFS sends are, ultimately just a long binary, and I simply want them stored, without much hassle. If I'm planning a zpool expansion, the work in using this service is now doubled, having to (non-trivially) determine the best pool geometry for my own pool, and for a backup pool made up of differently sized drives.

I also don't understand why someone would want to give you their encryption passphrase. A service like this should just take encrypted sends, and send them back when requested. I don't want my plaintext anywhere other than my own hardware.

That said, your main competitor suffers from all of these problems as well.
Allow people to make their own investment decisions and prosecute those who defraud investors. This is the way to do it.
When you look at 30% of revenue from Peloton, and that their interest rate revenue is lower than merchant fees, it's basically companies paying to finance larger purchases for their customers because they get to book the full revenue on their books immediately, pay down the interest through merchant fees themselves, get higher numbers on their books, increase their market cap, and for consumers it's a benefit because why not finance it over a period of 39 months than be out of pocket immediately or finance it through a credit card with high interest rates.

So really it's a great way to take advantage of the credit markets and public company comps being extremely high while benefitting the customer.
I don't think atmospheric absorption/scattering is as much of an issue for radio telescopes as it is for other kinds.
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A lot of investment is about minimizing risk. If you want examples of hyped-up tech companies that failed after IPO, just look at the dotcom bubble, it wasn't that long ago.
> At the moment the Earth is rotating faster than in recent decades: these shorter days, with a lower length-of-day, means the milliseconds accumulate more slowly, and we get fewer leap seconds.

Does anyone know why Earth's rotation has sped up?
Both are true, in my experience. Lots of good documentation for some crates, while others (usually with fewer maintainers or less intention of reuse) just have the autogenerated index.
Lunch debt is also used to separate children from parents: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/07/20/school-d...

The black panthers used to serve free breakfast to schoolkids for a reason.
The article is bullshit. Apple is making the claim about laptops sold. Not about particular models. They are clear about that.

You could definitely make the same about any high end machine. You could of course find a machine where the figure would be 99% or even 99.99%.

But Apple is making this claim for their entry level machine.. And that machine does this with nearly double the battery life of the competitors.

That is what makes it impressive.
So that client side web applications can run git.
Not sure... even with an infinite budget, you need time to build your repair solutions. It's possible that for no amount of money can you repair it before it suffers complete collapse without doing risky things that may cause loss of life.
> Personal mortgages are non-recourse in most states.

12 out of 50 is not "most".

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/loans/recourse-loans-vs-non-r... ["In all but 12 states, home mortgages are also considered recourse loans. If a borrower is underwater on their mortgage—meaning the outstanding debt is greater than the value of the home—the bank may not be able to recoup all of its money from a foreclosure sale. In this case, the bank can get a deficiency judgment for the difference between the debt and the foreclosure sale price and then garnish the borrower’s wages or file a lien against other assets."]
This is a good idea. I like the easy-to-use interface and that it's free. Have you thought about making it open source?

I used this on a repository for an open source framework I'm working on and it looks nice [0]. Thank you for building this.

[0] https://repository-images.githubusercontent.com/173404546/a5...
Why does google have to explicitly block these sites? No doubt all those garbage, ad-strewn recipe sites rank low on user experience metrics. So if there were a better recipe site out there, Google would show it to you. It seems they (recipe sites) are simply having a hard time monetizing without being uber annoying.
What are the alternatives that actually offer a better experience? Vimeo, floatplane? Serious question. Because I would love to start spending some time at one.
Or maybe use all that money to build a good one on the Moon.
Perhaps. Also try outlines of various styles and weights rather than just solids.
Steve Jobs would be proud. I imagine Apple didn't say anything like that, but I really think he would be stoked with this, especially a cooler computer (no fan) and a leg up all competitors.
Whose money are you volunteering to be spent on that?
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Is this useful for when you need to run a browser on a machine but don’t want to install a display server and all the libraries required for GUI apps?
Why not? The vast majority of laptops sold today have iGPUs that support it. Both Intel and AMD docs even refer to it using the term "Unified Memory Architecture", and document use, including things like zero-copy. Is being available in most modern computers by sales volume not good enough?
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There is also https://www.38north.org/ if you are interested in North Korea.
You've reduced this to only two possible positions: support the police or don't support them. How polarizing is that?

What about supporting the need for police while also supporting a need for reforming the police? I doubt there are even many cops that would disagree with a need for reform to some degree.

But creating two extreme positions, and then lumping everyone into those positions, is called politics and is considered mostly harmful.
Ad-free youtube is $10/mo. I get the impression from patreon and Consumer Reports that a lot of monthly services expect people to sign up and quit as needed.
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After 57 years, the Arecibo Observatory’s iconic telescope is shutting down
Not really in this case. It’s much cheaper to build a larger and more capable installation on the ground.
Sorry, as someone who doesn't use Facebook, how does Facebook have the power make me disappear, socially and financially?
My point is, Apple purposefully engineered the product to give them more access to it than you'll ever get. It took them extra effort to do this, it's easier to make a device/OS without DRM than with it. You can't exactly hack it because that would require millions of dollars worth of equipment and some very specific knowledge.

I'm not renting it. I'm not licensing it. I'm buying it.

> Expecting them to change how they design their product for the masses (that LOVE THEM), because you can't do exactly what you want, is wrong.

That would empower their users. Developers would be actually making MORE apps for the platform because they would have the confidence that they'll be able to get that app into the hands of users one way or another. I've seen some stories of someone doing a lot of work making an app only to have it rejected because its very idea didn't resonate with the review team. There's nothing they can do to bring it into compliance — countless hours of work were wasted.
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What is a tensor? I remember from physics course that a tensor is some multidimensional matrix that maps vectors/matrices to other vectors/matrices, and vary from point to point in space. Looks like all arrays are called tensors now? Is it for coolness reasons?
I'm discussing the law in germany, which does not just apply to professional data center operators but to every site owner.
Only in HN a comment like this is not laughed out of the room.

Biology is packed with useful, relevant models, from the lock and key model for enzymes in one extreme to the Lotka-Volterra (predator-prey) for ecosystems population in the other, there are plenty of models who are A) Theoretically sound. B)Has great quantitative explanatory power.

> Watson and Crick were not math savants. They did not have natural gifts.

You have a very quaint and naive view of biology. Since the work of Maynard-Smith at the very least, has rigorous mathematics taken an important role in biology. Population genetics,neuroscience, systems biology, biochemistry among others are underpinned by lots of math. People working deciphering all the signaling pathways in the cell are working with what is effectively a complicated,messy but fascinating discretely-encoding program.
Shoot. I had the chance to see it this year but decided to drive past instead. (It is somewhat off the main road that surrounds Puerto Rico.) Granted, most of the island was still without electricity because of the M6.4 earthquake that shook the island two days before, and I had other priorities at the time (eg, tsunamis, survival)...
There’s basically one site for video. Until and unless that changes, it’s all over but the tears for everyone who wants to make video content.

People say this all the time about Apple and the app store, and they're right. More or less the same situation exists here -- they're the only game in town, their way or the highway. Your choice.
It's funny how this is always presented as some sort of natural process when in fact there are marketing people in Big Tech whose main job is effectively to find ways to get people off those independent platforms. There is only so much time in a day and you can only browse one thing at a time. Every minute you spend on some forum is a minute you're not engaging with Facebook/Twitter/YouTube/etc. Do you really think they're indifferent and neutral towards third party platforms?
I've seen the argument (not sure if this factored into rustdoc's design or if it's just someone's opinion) that structured per-parameter docs tend toward useless boilerplate, e.g. "foo: a foo object," while a holistic description of the function itself is easier to make useful.
Yeah, I still remember when people would complain on the internet that forums were a downgrade from newsgroups.
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Yeah, I'm paying for Spotify Premium for music discovery, but each album/EP I discover gets downloaded to hardware I control without a second thought.
Our intellectual capability is not degraded; rather, it's funneled into adtech, porn, social media click optimization, and entertainment. Critical distinction.
Well, it's a proof as long as you stipulate somewhere that all the logical connectives are "if and only if." This doesn't mean that a student who writes down a long series of equations beginning with some identity to be proven and ending with some known fact has proven the identity.
> I asked what we do we know about the long term effects of RNA vaccines?

But that’s a completely open-ended question that really can’t be answered without referring to a primer of the underlying biology. I really don’t understand what you expect me to do here. It seems like you’re asking me to prove a negative and don’t tell me which negative to prove.

> … I am skeptical that we can say anything conclusive.

As I said we can say some things. And, contrary to your claim that I haven’t yet “named one thing that we know”, I’ve actually given a very concrete example: we can completely exclude the (often-cited, but completely unscientific) risk of viral RNA incorporating into the genome. This isn’t a straw man, it’s a frequent claim by opponents of the COVID-19 RNA vaccines. In fact, as far as I can tell this is by far the most prominent claim.

In the same vein, one can of course make long lists of potential long-term risks (cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes) — but unless these are plausible, this is unproductive. For most of these, there’s simply no biological connection at all. Demanding that all such far-fetched risks be rigorously excluded is unreasonable. By the same logic you could never cross the street because you can’t rigorously exclude the possibility of getting hit by a car, or a meteor. Rational risk assessment is always tempered by likelihood estimates.

The most likely, rational, long-term side effect of RNA vaccines was hypothesised to be a severe immune reaction, which might lead to the development of an autoimmune response. However, if that was the case, we would see the same effect in long-term animal trials, and we would see the start of this effect even short-term in human trials. But by now we have evidence against both of these: long-term animal testing shows no indication of an autoimmune response, and human trials don’t show any short-term ramping up of such a response.

So the most likely, hypothesised possible long-term effect is contradicted by existing evidence. Which goes back to my point: we do know some things.

Do I claim that the vaccine is risk-free? No. For conventional vaccines we have decades of data showing their safety. The evidence for brand new mechanisms obviously isn’t on the same level, and we can’t categorically exclude unknown interactions. But it’s really hard to communicate the magnitude of this risk, except to say that it’s really very small — because we can exclude plausible risks.
What hope do we have that M1-like chips are available soon in regular non-apple notebooks? I guess the chance is zero.
Yeah something is fishy here. Could be the new RAM which is way faster
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Enjoy the day!
Strong disagree. The potential damage done by mass surveillance would be against private communication, not public. Intelligence agencies can and do gather a lot of intelligence by just observing publicly-shared information. And considering the surveillance excesses observed since the war on terror has unfolded, there has been no discernible decrease in speech freedom nor has anyone ever been provably prosecuted or persecuted due to data wrongly collected in one of these programs.
A space-based solution won't get you such a large dish. And that means you can't get effective 20 terawatts of output power for active radar across the solar system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory#General_in...
Poor households tend to have many kids, and the parent/s are often very young, sometimes even under 18. It's not unseen to have 32-year old parents living with their 16-year old daughter and her two babies, a 14-year old child and another ~12-year old child. Of course these are extremely poor compared to even most of low income households. Perhaps that's what was meant by the comment.
Occasionally I stumble on a Facebook thread that allows multiple tiers, and I'm not sure what the enabler for that is. I'd love to see that extended to all threads even if I would vastly prefer a true forum over their groups.
Hi Loup, glad to hear from you in so laudatory term. By the way, could you please post this message on my LinkedIn ;)
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YouTube premium is great, I'm surprised it's not more popular. I'd cut my Spotify subscription way before YouTube, but that's not what I typically hear from my friends.

Spotify = Streaming music $12/month
YouTube = Streaming music + learned SolidWorks + learned Blender + learning Spanish + general entertainment of all sorts... $12/month. YouTube is incredible.
Preferably of old age, surrounded by friends and family, in a comfortable bed with a gentle breeze coming through the open window.
One key point in approaching an IPO is the company becoming significantly more transparent. For those companies and likely every single one there would have been a pre IPO point in time where only hindsight can say it was wise to invest then.
People love math. Look at youtube channels like 3Blue1Brown - 3 million subscribers, 160 million views, or Numberphile with 3.4 million subscribers and 511 million views. Millions of people of their own free will go out of their way to at least get an introduction to math concepts. Most of this isn't practical knowledge that they need, but rather abstract concepts they learn purely for fun. Think of what fraction of the population who would rather do puzzles instead of what they actually are supposed to be doing at the time. Strip away the tedium of rote arithmetic drills and people can't get enough of real math.

Saying people simply don't like math because their eyes glaze over in math class is like saying people don't like stories because they're bored by Great Expectations.
What a great BF4 map.
Brahe's measurements weren't classifications, they were measurements.

Physics-through-classification dates back to the failed attempts of ancient philosophers to explain the natural world. They had ideas like, "there are two kinds of things, things that fall down, and things that do not. The things that fall fall because they are things-that-fall." The present-day bad blood that physicists have towards taxonomies probably has something to do with the fact that their field was founded the day physics taxonomies were abandoned.
Ask HN: Best place to live for climbing, skiing and surfing?
Sorry if the question is a bit off-topic but I'm a software engineer that's looking to move somewhere that I can have quick/convenient access to at least two out of the activities, but ideally three.

Any suggestions? Would be nice if there's a good SWE job market there, but I suppose with the possibility of working remotely that's not a make-it-or-break-it aspect.
I had a soccer teammate who was a grad student in mechanical engineering. I was having problems in my Trigonometry class and asked for his help. I was absolutely shocked at how precise his handwriting was when he was writing stuff down and explaining it to me. It looked like he had typed out his notations, it was crazy.

He said something similar to you, "I'm not a doctor writing prescriptions, I need to be precise. If my writing is precise, its easier to read, easier to understand now and later."
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Disgraceful? Notepad++ is free software. The free software movement considers the right of all users to modify and redistribute software for any purpose, without obligation or restriction (other than respecting those rights for other users,) to be an unqualified moral good.
Okay, so why do security reseachers hate that?

because it advertises the hacker's services and monetizes that hacker without that hacker actually having to go through the trouble of weaponizing the data themselves for monetization?

because it advertises the breach for sale on a dark net marketplace as people instinctively go look for it? except for people indoctrinated to believe dark net is "scary" instead of just like Amazon because they never looked.

some other reason?
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1Blocker on iOS does a great job of handling ads, but you raise a good point - perhaps I should whitelist Youtube :p
I've never used Spotify, I use bandcamp all the time. I've bought a bunch of music off there. It may not be as convenient, but I really like the idea of being able to pay artists directly and have them get most of it minus a small cut for Bandcamp.

I also tend to find music I like better on there, though that comes down to personal taste I suppose.
Is it possible to link your local core and library docs yet?

I have my dependencies documented locally, I have the standard library documented locally, both of these work well with the ability to do searches just like the online docs. The problem is they're separate. The local docs for one of my crates cannot link to my local standard library docs; instead, I have to jump around different browser tabs and manually look things up.

There used to be some hacks that could work around this, but those hacks stopped working.
It would seem unlikely in PR given the state of infrastructure there.

The hurricane destroyed a lot of the already failing power and port infrastructure, for instance.

https://www.rollcall.com/2019/11/12/report-puerto-ricos-infr...
Not really, people seem about back to normal, but (mostly) with masks.
I like putting "Cat TV" on for my cat.

No matter how many ads they show him, I'm certain he won't be buying anything because of it.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPJXfmxMYAoH02CFudZxmgg
https://reclaimthenet.org/reddit-banned-for-upvote-policy/

If you're curious as to what a reddit-wide policy on "wrong," well ... it's all about who is moderating, isn't it?
I mean, it's location is still surely ideal. But it's clear the construction that's there isn't safe. I wonder if, provided they're able to dismantle the remaining facility without complete collapse, if it'd be reasonable to "rebuild" on the same site.

It sounds like the towers should be rebuilt, all of the cables replaced, etc. And obviously the dish at minimum needs repair. I can't imagine anything would be salvageable from a complete collapse, but if they can bring down the observatory safely, it might not be crazy to think they could erect a new one over the dish at a later date.
How about vimeo?