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It's because we had a common enemy, the USSR. The USSR also launched Sputnik, which alarmed the country. Of course this was the backdrop of the Cold War.

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

The common enemy went from Anarchism (WWI) to Communism (WWII) to Terrorism (WoT), but now it's each other; the Left's common enemy is the Right, and vice versa. I'll let the reader surmise where that will lead.
Being European, that almost reminded me of the good old Soviet joke about Mukhosransk :D
> Not recommending masks was because we KNEW the n95 type masks worked, but there were not nearly enough of them for health care workers, let alone the rest of us.

So it's not an oversimplification, you just agree with the tactic. It's alright to agree with the tactic without accusing the people who describe what happened accurately of arguing in bad faith.
I am writing my own kind of Roam-style editor which is more free-form. From my experience, it's way easier – from a technical perspective – to think in terms of list items (or "blocks" in general) where each one is some kind of mini-editor. It's much easier to link to a block instead of an arbitrary section of your document. Also, it's much easier to render a document consisting of blocks without thinking too much about performance.
The west coast of the US has the same minimum wage regardless of tipping, and yet it’s still the norm to tip.
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> You never came across a recipe that called for 200g sugar and 400g flower, for example?

Not in any American recipe book or web site. It's always by volume. This makes baking extra difficult.
Developer of Certisfy here. Happy to address questions.

Also send me an email (in profile), I can issue you a short lived trustworthy certificate to try out the service :)
Absolutely love the sheer amount of developers throwing themselves at this problem. I've built a throwaway one for myself but don't really have a use for it, but I'm excited to look back in like a year or two and see what best practices people have landed on. Maybe we'll just end up with Mediawiki, dunno, but excited.
You can like to set any expectation you want, but the expectation to tip waiters is an actual, real expectation and not some kind of fabrication for a thought experiment.

You could also argue that “driving on the right side of the road” is nothing more than an American social convention and choose to ignore it. Let’s face it—there is no logical justification for our society to choose driving on the right side of the road, versus the left.
I can recommend CACM aswell. It's currently my only computer related magazine source.
New Scientist magazine used to be worth a look too on a broad spectrum of popular science, it lately became more political and esotheric sadly though.
This simple messaging from a credible leader would suffice. What didn't work is the idea that masks prevent something we can't control. The hard problem is solving for credibility.
Explanation for what?
> If COBOL is so domain-specific, why not teach it as such on the job? Why is it the public’s fault for not investing in it?

That's what my comment was saying. According to the article, the banks used to pay for their staff to learn COBOL on the job. It's 100% the financial industries fault that they have allowed this situation to arise. Why did that practice stop? I think this is one of the areas where capitalism is slowly failing in recent decades.
cambridge analytica was absolutely academically affiliated when they requested research data from FB, they just lied about their research which is why the doors are closed now.
I could never tease apart the correlation vs. causation.

Is it the culture that drives progress or is it progress that drives a civil culture?
I was fine with The Economist. They advocate their beliefs, still want to reduce human suffering, still consider opposing views with respect.

I hate ambulance chase style reporting. So I most like the magazine-style news recap of current events, giving stuff 1-4 weeks to settle down before picking over the wreckage. None of the USA imitators have ever done as well (Newsweek).

I don't like unsigned bylines, but I get that's their thing.

With so many poor imitators, their dry wit (editorial voice) now just sounds snarky. I'm so done with it. As a Gen X, Boomers and my fellow Gen X exhaust me.

I canceled my subscription over their support for the second Iraq War. I can carry a grudge. I haven't resumed The Atlantic for the same reason.

But I've since filled my attention budget with more left leaning content. Neoliberalism had it's day. I'm interested in what comes next. Not becoming a curmudgeon yelling at the kids to get off my lawn. So I doubt I'll ever resub to The Economist.

I do miss the both special topic and the regional focus issues.
Americans also use tipping as a status signal, despite it being socially grotesque.

Even here on HN we'll regularly witness people proudly proclaiming that they've tipped 50% or more for "good" service. Not content with showing off their status to whoever had the poor fortune to be dining with them, and the waiter/waitress that served the group, they also relish in the opportunity of soaking randoms online in their lavishness post-factum.
The motivation was that the government of the day did arrest critics and made certain speech illegal, depending on its mood.

And no, it's not deeper then that. The constitution is a dry document pertaining solely to organizing a government. It's the entire purpose of the document.
Evading taxes with cash tips for food service workers is not the way to accomplish that. That is accomplished with marginal income tax rates.
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Yes. It’s replaced coffee and cigarettes for me. It instantly quiets all negative emotions I’m feeling (mostly boredom and frustration) so I can focus on the code. I’m lucky to live in a legal state.
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It's not the phrases themselves, it's (almost always) the context they are used in. They signify babudom at its worst.
> Did you try athens locally?

Did not, just followed the development. It seems like an extremely ambitious undertaking.
You can to reach me through github.
>pre-built libraries and software compatibility

Surely this is the main con of ARM devices?
I see your point. The problem with old laptops is that they can have quirky or unsupported hardware or unstable power saving firmware. This can be like playing russian roulette.

The RPI on the other hand has some software that mostly just works.

I'm personally not a huge fan of the device, as the sd-cards always dies on me. But as a quick prototyping board they are great.
The methods were vastly different.
I think this article misunderstands the purpose of signatures.

The purpose of a signature is to inform the signer that they are entering a binding contract. It is simply the modern equivalent to a handshake.

Sadly, precedent around Eula’s mean that signatures are no longer necessary to execute contracts.

If anything, society would be better served by making it more difficult to enter into binding agreements than to make it less difficult.

Imagine if, by law, for a EULA to be binding, the end user had to scroll through the entire document, and initial each separate section. Eula’s would be much shorter, and much less common.

In a digital equivalent of “no trespassing” or “cameras in use” signs a few standard clauses could be made enforceable by displaying them prominently on each page. For instance, there could be a clauses such as “you are purchasing a transferrable non-exclusive license to this software”, or “your subscription to this service is at-will with a fixed rate of $N/time-unit.”
The HN discussion is technical.
Unions are always better than casts. It would be better if casts in C looked like union deselection, because parenthesis are ugly. There really should be an infix casting operator.

An example of where this matter is an AST forest, like this:

struct node { int tag; }; // Generic node
struct infixnode { int tag; struct node *l, *r; };
struct intnode { int tag; int val; };

But it's really ugly to use. If you have an expression represented in this AST like 'a(b(c+d))' and you want to access 'd', you need to do this:

struct node *n;
int d = ((struct intnode *)(((struct infixnode *)(((struct infixnode *)(((struct infixnode *)(((struct infixnode *)n)->r))->r)))))->val;

But if you use unions:

union node { struct infixnode infix; struct floatnode floatval; struct intnode intval; };

Then you can say this:

union node *n;
int val = n->infix.r->infix.r->infix.r->intval.val;

The same holds for C++. In C++ you could make a class hierarchy for your AST. But you still have the casting to convert to the derived types, which is just as ugly.. But you can instead make inline access functions in the base class whose sole purpose is to do this casting, you end up something like this:

node *n;
int val = n->infix()->r->infix()->r->infix()->r->intval()->val;
A quick look at the code reveals a kernel module with major security vulnerabilities, so I wouldn't call it "privacy respecting."

Avoid...
Re: load testing setup - isn't the result compromised by putting nginx in front? Or does ZeroHTTPd not have high enough perf to be bottlenecked by that?
Also fair point.

What makes me say that? Experience.

However, I will say to counter my own point: it’s not all roses. Using password by necessity means that your password is now stored somewhere that is likely more easily compromised (In my case: secure passwords are stored in 1Password, but passwords for script usage are either stored in an ENV or in the script itself, neither of which are great from a security standpoint)
The number of attractive waitresses as proportion of all restaurant workers has to be a minority, surely? I can understand that a few will miss out on the possibility of flirting to get a higher wage, but that wasn't the OC's assertion.

Also, aren't most young women feminists, they should be against such things ...
I think this article misunderstands the purpose of signatures.

The purpose of a signature is to inform the signer that they are entering a binding contract. It is simply the modern equivalent to a handshake.

Sadly, precedent around Eula’s mean that signatures are no longer necessary to execute contracts.

If anything, society would be better served by making it more difficult to enter into binding agreements than to make it less difficult.

Imagine if, by law, for a EULA to be binding, the end user had to scroll through the entire document, and initial each separate section. Eula’s would be much shorter, and much less common.

In a digital equivalent of “no trespassing” or “cameras in use signs” a few standard clauses could be made enforceable by displaying them prominently on each page. For instance, there could be a clauses such as “you are purchasing a transferrable non-exclusive license to this software”, or “your subscription to this service is at-will with a fixed rate of $N/time-unit.”
Most recently, protein engineering, before that, medicinal chemistry.
The vast majority of "no tipping" policy restaurants I've read about fail in large part at the protestations of the staff. Maybe there's a lot I haven't read about, but I encourage you to look at the case histories. This does not mean however that it could not be accomplished by fiat as state policy, albeit with significant grumbling I'd assume.
This isn't really true, in most cases you can write FDWs over foreign resources that let you query them like any other table, use them in joins, etc. Postgres is really more of an application platform than a database at this point. Just don't try to have the same PG instance be your master and your platform.
Developer of the Certisfy service here.

>I find it interesting that a couple people on their partners list are Notaries Public--adding digital signature to the list of functions a Notary can perform would make the migration to digital signatures easier.

That's the main idea here, to delegate trust generation to appropriate entities...this would scale to meet the need of the internet. Today, unless you have hundreds of billions in the bank like facebook, information verification is not practical.
Sometimes we use our phones (often no signal in the field) to send photos back to the office over mobile radio using the robot36 protocol. You just load up an image, it plays a modem sound, and the receiving station has it on loudspeaker, with another phone listening. It works remarkably well as long as the sending / receiving environment is relatively quiet.

I even had a telegram chat with my kids where we would share memes back and forth as wave files. We called it 56k meme chat lol.
What we need is a SBC with two ethernet ports.
The point is you don't have to pay an optional tip if you are dissatisfied.

But you do have to pay the full total of your meal regardless of how you felt.

That's why making "tips" mandatory is the scam. It's not a tip if it's mandatory.
For main ingredients, sure: when baking bread, I measure flour and water into a bowl sitting on a kitchen scale, and it's great.

But there's no way that I could measure the yeast with my kitchen scale! When a (US) recipe calls for "1/4 tsp yeast", I'd be lucky if that were even one gram, and that's my scale's resolution. Same for salt, and for lots of other seasonings. (I suppose I could get a high-precision lab-grade balance for that sort of thing? Seems a bit more complicated than just using a few measuring spoons.)

That said, I completely agree about the ambiguities involved. If anyone out there happens to know what the heck "1/4 tsp of saffron threads" is supposed to mean, I'm all ears. (Thoroughly crumbled, I'll bet I could fit $20 of saffron into 1/4 tsp. Not crumbled at all, even half a dozen threads arch up above the spoon like some sort of abstract wireframe sculpture.)
It doesn't need to be an "organised global network" as in "sinister people gathered around a shady table". But it's naive to think the mega-rich don't use their immense power to influence entire countries and the fragile democracies therein.
Explanation for what is actual state of BrickLink resources. Until BrickLink was acquired, LDraw used many resources from BrickLink website & BrickLink used resources from LDraw website.
The original paper on computed caustics used a CNC to make acrylic that had the right shapes to create caustic designs in real life.

https://chateaunoir.net/caustics.html

https://www.youtube.com/embed/R00IvqcI9jU
Why are these devices limited to ram that's soldiered directly on the board instead of sdimm? type interface that can take any supported ram and would work (I assume) with some timing info provided to the bootloader?
You can do that with keybase. If you have the kbfs mounted just do `echo test >> /Volumes/keybase/private/<username>/clipboard.txt` and on the receiving machine you can see the text arriving with `tail -f /Volumes/keybase/private/<username>/clipboard.txt`

And it's e2e ecrypted by default! You can use this to make a DIY encrypted chat app in a few lines. Just write to the respective folder which is implicitly there by default i.e `echo "Hello world" >> /keybase/private/alice,bob/chat.txt` and the files is automatically encrypted with alice and bob's keys
First reason is that everybody likes to believe they are exceptional and will earn above average tips. Second reason is they want to evade taxes.
Unfortunately tipping is becoming more and more common in the Netherlands. Seems to be blowing (back?) over from the States. I wish places would just charge higher prices and pay decent wages and keep things simple.
It takes about 10 minutes and a box of salt to master how to use your cupped palm to measure teaspoons and tablespoons. I’d recommend anyone that cooks take the time to do it and you won’t ever need measuring spoons again.
I think there would be more compliance if we could have an adult conversation about the conditions under which masks will no longer be required. Given endemic seasonal viruses that already kill people in waves all year every year, one could argue masks should be required forever. However, I think there’s a real value to smiles in public, and the community and goodwill they engender. The moralism that has defined the conversation to date gives me no hope we’ll ever find our way out. And it quickly begins to appear less about helping people in an extraordinary time of crisis and more about virtue signaling. That, I think, is what breeds the hostility to mask mandates. People want to help one another, but there is a wide range of individual risk profiles that are completely rational, that politicians routinely ignore. “Science” can’t tell you how much death is an OK amount of death. Life requires we impose non-zero risk of death on others.
I suspect the developer is into bird watching.
Regarding the tactile drive: there was recently some research in the news regarding neurons in the skin that react to stroking movement with a specific speed of about 3 cm per second, which are common to many mammals. Related Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_tactile_afferent
"Anytime I hear "censorship" on on HNews because techies are upset a Neo-Nazi site got dehosted..."

Would you mind showing some links to this? Seems rather hyperbolic, to me, but I'll keep an open mind about it.
They always BS on the onion thing, especially for certain recipes, like a the bases for a lot of indian dishes they'll say 1 onion for 20 minutes when what you actually want is 3 onions for 40 minutes.
Hey Poonia, I do hope that you start a fund and hire the best lawyer(s) possible.
Will contribute what i can, and again after a few months if it drags on. good luck. am sure many others here will too
MediaWiki works fine with SQLite. If that's still too heavy, there's always DokuWiki. Love it.
People aren't refusing anything.

People were being told that masks can be effective to stop spread, government agent says don't wear masks, then later says you must wear masks, then admits they said this to prevent you from getting a mask when they were available to you before the government and private industry squashed access to the supply.

That level of deceit is enough to make anyone skeptical of anything else going forward.

Then move 6 months into the future after we get more data, we know specifically who the virus harms, how it harms them, we've all interacted with someone who had it and realized it wasn't the end of the world, which adds further to the confusion on the overreaching response.

We can also finely target the response now to mitigate spread if needed, yet governments are still using total lock down as the only model, despite having the data to do it better.

A further issue, total "cases", which we now know most are mild, are the only metric used by government and media to engineer a propaganda campaign against a population as justification to destroy everyone's livelihoods and freedoms.

Being a little salty at this point is justified, we don't lack understanding at this stage.
If your mask is warm and moist, you should try taking it out of your mouth.
? Why would you imply they haven't?

Our mandates are focused on indoor gatherings, and we have access to high quality masks.
Because you tested positive.
establishing causation is not impossible, just hard.
I did arrive here a bit before 30, but I've been pretty lucky with it. In fairness, most of my friends are from work, so I got lucky. I've also been able to find love here.

I firmly believe that if you go to a country eager to impose your own culture and your own way of doing things, you'll see friction. If you're open-minded and willing to attempt to integrate, you'll find even a little bit goes a long way, and the locals will willingly meet you halfway.
On the other hand, your COBOL job will last a long time. And you won't be talked into taking a shitty salary with the promise of big payout that doesn't happen.
I can see a reason why receivers of cash tips would not be honest with how much they earn, especially to the government.
So is this audio (cassette) boot method still there in modern pcs? I would love to have a pc that had to be booted by playing a track, then executing a hdd bootloader
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>The cost of delivering the video decreases over time and unlike Netflix which has to pay for content YouTube doesnt which gives it tremendously better margins.

Youtube has to share it's revenue with content creators, unlike Netflix.

>The cost of acquiring content is so much greater than serving it especially now that every traditional media company has launched its own streaming service.

Does this hold true for constantly changing HD video content, unlike traditional media ?
It will probably eventually be pretty good or at least the CPU parts should be well supported since this is the same part that's used in the Pinebook Pro & RockPro64 and there's a lot of work going on to get support fully mainlined.
Ask HN: What device do you use for reading scientific or technical papers?
I (or some small child in my household) broke the screen on my iPad, which is what I normally use for reading scientific papers. I print a few but don't like doing that for the vast majority of papers; most just aren't worth the waste of paper and ink. The iPad was satisfactory.

I cannot stand reading them on my 1440p desktop monitor. I cannot stand reading them on my 2017 Macbook Pro. So now I am looking to replace my iPad for the majority of my paper reading.

What do you use for reading sci/tech papers?
Legos were one of my favorite childhood toys. Nothing was better than completing a design then smashing to start over again.
i think the point is that no academic is owed any of this data, and while FB was collaborating with academic institutions, its clearly not worth the risk
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> Private Eye. Probably only of interest to those in the UK

I am from Latin-America, I learned about the existence of Private Eye from the famous Hawkings-Thorne-Preskill bet . To this day it's one of the publications that makes me laugh the most, right from the cover, to _pseuds corner_ (Oh man they would love HN comments section), Coleman's balls, the Lookalikes,etc.
Right!? That's the first thing I looked for in the project page. I'm really surprised it isn't using ebpf, but netfilter and a kernel module let them run back on 2.4 (but why?) I'm waiting for a bpf based solution to pop up as I think it will be superior in performance, ability, and maintainability.
I am a fan of this approach. One should get Google involved, they would probably make very clear that it's all made-up.
True, but Bell labs is hardly an example of normal capitalism. As I understand it, AT&T during the Bell labs era was more like the East India Company, or a PRC-style state-controlled corporation, or Pacific Gas and Electric.

(I find that this is an under-explored option in discussions of socialism-vs-anarchism-vs-capitalism these days. State-controlled corporations seems to have a very good track record. But I haven't seriously studied this.)
This is actually an attempt to manipulate me. I usually know what I want/need and research a lot before I buy based on both reviews and product descriptions. They strategy doesn't work .. just annoys me.
The amazing thing I’ve seen is tipping makes people feel better just like charity makes them feel better. The little aspect of having the power to treat someone with your funds is a nice ego boost.

Paying more in taxes or increasing the minimum wage doesn’t have the same effect, even though it would result in a more egalitarian society. The power to select who received the benefit from you is important.
"Europe didn’t get to be Europe by doing that..."

No, because all the troublemakers left to the US!

I kid. I kid.
I see now it was an original pc, so, no lol