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Just like homeless shelters, somebody's going to want to impose rules on their use and that will immediately exclude people.
Apple should buy Docker. Only a partial /s on that one. I’m shocked Microsoft hasn’t bought Docker yet. Docker has so much mindshare it’s crazy. They’re the most valuable company that isn’t worth anything in the whole tech sector imo.
> I doubt it had any significant revenue.

We don't know, and what's significant? Return on investment regardless of size of investment is significant when running any business.

> At some point, fundamentals of the business matter.

I think the fundamental outlined in the article is "Narendra Modi government’s new foreign direct investment norms for digital media," and not described in relation to revenue.
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And full of phytates which impair absorption of minerals. There's much more to food than just macronutrients.

Vegan diets work great until you get IBS, which unfortunately affects more and more people with no discernible cause. Meat, so reviled these days, doesn't.
A related question is why policy makers should trust experts with a history of lying.
I've been buying no-kill eggs for years now, there are plenty of egg distributors that hatch two-use chickens, the males grow large enough to be edible, the females lay eggs. Available for years.

I really don't see an advantage of this technology for the consumer, the real advantage lies with the producers.
> Are languages slowly over generations going away in small european countries?

On the contrary, small countries are the ones most likely to keep languages alive.

Consider Luxembourg: with less than a million population, they still have their own distinct official language, Luxembourgish (in addition to French and German). If you picked any Luxembourg-sized chunk of Europe and went back 200 years, you'd find a similar situation with a small community speaking a language as distinct as Luxembourgish is from other official languages in Europe.

But the formation of nation states with a centralized compulsory education system also meant compulsory instruction in a standard language, internal migration of people who only speak the standard language and not the local dialect and eventually mass media only available in the standard language. So by now, "one language per country" has become pretty much the norm, with only limited recognition for sub-national languages.

Even in Luxembourg, not everyone speaks Luxembourgish (Wikipedia says 50.9%, but that's suspiciously also the proportion whose nationality is Luxembourgish, suggesting some confusion between the two concepts). But if I had to choose whether Luxembourg or some random city in Germany is more likely to preserve a distinct language, I'd definitely bet on Luxembourg.
> Agree to disagree on Big Sur, I love the new look. Keep in mind they’re calling it macOS 11, so there are probably bigger and less superficial changes down the road.

Agree. Hardcore Linux user (custom KDE theme) here, and I have to say that macOS 11 is easily the most aesthetically appealing desktop theme I've ever seen. Just completely mops the floor with everything else, especially the previous version of macOS. The changed margins / white space are great, colors fantastic (eerily similar to the ones I use on KDE), perfect font rendering (as always), and I really love the changes to Finder.

In terms of actual usage I have quite a few issues, of course. Requires some heavy work with Karabiner and settings changes to make it usable, in my opinion, and you still can't beat KDE because of its customizability. But in terms of pure visual appeal it's unmatched. Apple's visual design team is the best.

That said, I don't use the App Store at all (at least as far as I can help it), nor do I really use any Mac specific apps (Photos, QuickTime, iTunes, etc) since this is a development machine, so a lot of rough edges are probably invisible to me.
Great links. Whilst I'll admit a confirmation bias on my side, benchmarks aside, I'm pretty happy with my AMD X13. This is after literally 15 years of only purchasing Intel laptops - aside from thunderbolt, I dont feel like I've lost out on anything.

An interesting little excerpt from the first link:

> this tuning Intel does is in software and for Windows only. If you change OSes or even if the OS is upgraded, chances are this tuning will vanish.
Isn't that pretty standard throughout the internets. Otherwise the sites will be storing your copyrighted material on their domain (IANAL but that sounds like legal troubles for the site):

This is from HackerNews' legal page:

> By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed.
I think so, since v2 and v3 are two different things they made a mess of things. It should have been two different specs. Continuing with docker-compose name is just bad, release any improvements in a clean spec.
In undergrad lectures I constantly have students refering to "fork" or "curly n", or just misnaming different Greek letters (and, I find myself sometimes doing the same). The Greek is (to me) unnessary block to discussion.
Isn’t the solution to increase these farms’ economies of scale? So the same civilisation-enhancing forces that drove development 10,000 years ago can show their force more broadly?
The “sweating” feature was the best idea for the spacecraft.

When I first heard of it, I was thinking, this must be a bad April Fool’s joke, or an incredibly great idea. Turns out, it was the former.
If we had self alternating magnets we could have built motor that run without using energy. The reality is not ideal for our desires though, so we don't have free energy motors.

Anyway, I don't know what courses will fix the disorganisation problems and make the farmers turn into MBAs while still accept to live in a village and do hard work but if there's an success story of this, I would support it.

From my point of view, these things need to be done in huge scale. To achieve scale, owned by single company or governmental body or cooperative is all good by me. Probably proper regulations and governmental programs could be a solution too.
Technically all deploys are one click if you disregard the previous X steps that sets up that final click.
It is crazy because in India political parties can indirectly accept foreign funding through a recent change in constitution by ruling party.

Foreign funding of political parties is equally if not more dangerous than foreign funding of news media.
>did not engage in undercover or open military operations

He had an Iranian general assassinated.
Is there a list of backward incompatible changes?

Also, how would you describe the overall health of the code base with all of these new features added?
Thanks, this is what I was looking for. I didn't want to dismiss them fast, but it did sound like the founders don't know what they're up to.

Maybe they figured out some advanced materials science we don't know about, but that seems unlikely from this article.

> Over the next few years, the team ran hundreds of high-speed tests. Most of them were to study and improve the system, but some were to mollify skeptical investors and potential customers who didn’t believe a payload could withstand the extreme forces. The team sent solar cells, radio systems, telescope lenses, batteries, GPS modules, and control computers whirling at high speeds; they all survived with little to no damage. In one test, Yaney attached an iPhone to the tether and spun it up until it experienced forces 10,000 times stronger than gravity. Afterward, he used the phone to FaceTime a colleague. Each test was a step, however small, toward space.

Something tells me that an iPhone definitely cannot withstand forces of 10,000g.

Like someone below said, this either has mil implications or a way to separate investors from their money.

Juan Alonso, an aerospace engineer at Stanford who did due diligence for one of SpinLaunch’s investors, understood my reservations. “It's an exotic technology, and the first time you hear about it you think there's no way that could possibly work,” he says. But after checking out the math himself, Alonso gave the investment firm the green light.

So a Stanford guy is putting reputation on stake. Interesting.
and interestingly, HuffPost India was the exclusive publisher of the Electoral Bonds series.
here's a compilation of the entire series
https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/ew07en/compilation_o...
>documented with awkward English

Sorry, not everybody on Earth has perfect English. The author has a point about APIs being UIs but remarks like that make me think his expectations are a bit too idealistic.
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Using horses is also frowned upon...
Yes. You have to memorize the mapping between the meaning and arbitrary Greek letters whereas the meaning is more obvious with emoji. But both (greek letters, emoji) are bad solutions to a very stupid problem math has. See my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25207527
This has been a shitty thread to read, tbh. It's clearly not pointless if there are improvements which could be made to make the product more spec-compliant, such as handling terminating dots in Host headers. And I'm saying this as someone who's never used Caddy for anything, ever.
Absolutely - the only thing about Nikola that looks dodgy on purely physical grounds is the claim of super-efficient electrolysis. Whereas SpinLaunch seems quite uncoupled to reality. Meaning of course the reality is that they'll run giggling to the bank...
There are established "ways of doing things" in API design, but they are manifold and conflicting because there are major technical constraints and traditions and more importantly vastly different needs. While, for example, graphical techniques to make interactive elements in a GUI stand out from read-only content are partly universal and partly consolidated by tradition, even a noncontroversial principle like providing "apt documentation" is an abstract concept that can have a very different meaning for different people and in different situations.
Isn't this regular old Pareto Distribution?
Again you're making all kinds of claims without any proof. Citation needed!

All of these beans include all amino acids. They may not have 100% of your RDI in one serving, but they have them:

1. Black Beans: https://tools.myfooddata.com/protein-calculator/173735/wt1/1...

2. Kidney Beans: https://tools.myfooddata.com/protein-calculator/173740/wt1/1...

3. Chickpeas: https://tools.myfooddata.com/protein-calculator/173757/wt1/1...

4. Hemp Seeds: https://tools.myfooddata.com/protein-calculator/170148/wt9/1...

5. Beans/Rice/Corn together: https://tools.myfooddata.com/protein-calculator/175200-16999...

6. Toast w/ flax and peanut butter: https://tools.myfooddata.com/protein-calculator/174294-16941...

And that's just scratching the surface.

EDIT: Here's what I just had for breakfast: https://tools.myfooddata.com/protein-calculator/170554-17018...
Yes, we are on the same page in regards to the problem statement, but I have no illusion about this being feasible, unless you are suggesting we forcibly take hundreds of millions of people from their homes, rob them of their cultural identity, and place them in re-education camps. Your belief in humanity's ability to work past our differences is admirable, but unrealistic. For both our sakes I hope you are right, because this isn't the last time someone comes up with ideas like this.
Interesting, sounds very similar to the situation in Switzerland. So maybe there's something to this competition thing after all ;-)
While I share the concern, I'm hoping the FAA and Boeing realize that a single additional crash that involves US citizens would unleash a fury that would make the last one pale in comparison. I would be surprised if either of them would make it out without being completely gutted and rebuilt, with massive executive jail time. I hope for everyone they do realize the stakes of allowing anything similar to the MCAS failures to even be a faint possibility.
why, isn't that the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey ?
Have you considered a wildcard cert?
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I don't think this really makes sense. How many of the benchmarks that people have been running are written in Objective-C? They're mostly hardcore graphics and maths workloads that won't be retaining and releasing many NSObjects.
Modern OSes and apps make aggressive opportunistic use of available memory for caching and other performance-enhancing purposes. A side effect of this is that however much RAM you put in your machine (within reasonable limits), it always looks as though you're using the majority of it once you're running a few apps. Hence the large number of people who think that they "need" 16GB of RAM when in fact they are just getting a small to medium performance boost from it.

You can see a concrete example of this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP1_4wek4nI The 16GB Macbook Pro is "using" more memory than the 8GB model to run the exact same tasks.
It's exactly the same text as in the document by the government of British Columbia that they link as a source: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/british-columbians-our-gov... I wouldn't be surprised if the person who prepared that document didn't speak Cree themselves, but was just copy-pasting what looked like random gibberish to them.
In terms of high performance products, I’m actually really excited for the next Mac Pro. They’ve got novel design options open to them that no rival has.

The M1 costs Apple relatively little to produce per unit - I would expect them to keep the overall design for a Mac Pro but have stacked modules such that the side wall of the Mac Pro is a grid of 4 or more such modules each with co-located memory like the M1 has. Obviously performance would depend upon the application being amenable to a design like that but a 32 or 64 5nm core Mac Pro is not out of the question, and would be impossible to match for performance in the next few years by any Hackintosh.

Even after capacity frees up at TSMC for AMD to move to 5nm, they won’t be able to co-locate memory like the M1 does due to standards compliance with DRAM sticks.

I think the next couple of years will be really turbulent for other vendors - the M1 is likely far more significant for the PC market due to how disruptive it is than it is for the Mac market.
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> I don’t know that the “Apple tax” moniker is really fair anymore, either.

I think it's still accurate and honestly that's apple's business model.

I think the resale value for a student macbook doesn't really matter. It still costs the student - while they are poor - as much as 4x what other students pay for their laptop. Many students are paying $250 for their laptop.
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And greek letters and emoji have the same issue of dificult type-ability, non-ASCII-ness, dificult printability and dificult displayability. Emoji only add color.

The real solution is normal multicharacter names.
I thought they meant that as a joke?
However real case usage of such massive amount of data are limited for typical desktop user. Massive database load usually happen on specialized servers in which 256Go RAM and more are pretty mundane.

So on customer PC ram is maybe more used as caching mechanisms or eaten away by poorly designed memory leak/garbage collection.

And if your GPU is able do to real time rendering on data heavy load maybe you need less caching of intermediate results as well.
Huh, it seems HN really isn't the place for jokes, if it wasn't obvious from everyone taking the article seriously.
I don't know why they should, but I suspect I know why they do. It's the same reason the public supports policy makers and politicians with a history of lying. The willingness to tell convenient lies an in-group likes is more useful to them than a commitment to telling the truth.
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The article says the chicks are used for reptile food. And now basically the eggs will be used for reptile food instead.
Why are we even talking about 8k video? It's something that almost noone needs and even fewer people have to edit. My guess is most people are still happy with editing their FHD videos. Something that works well on a five year old laptop.
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yes, they really need to architecture their service. they don't seem to have a reliable scaling up plan.

I've had a similar ddos attack which manged to bypass the cloudflare protection and our app handled it without $0 increase in bill.
What games can I play on it this way?
Does a strong argument exists for this? To my understanding agriculture was turned into big business in the beginning of 20th century because of political process, not because it was obviously a more efficient way to produce food at the time.
Yes, and there is a reason why Chinese is so hard to learn: There are so many characters that learning them takes years.
This quote is a gem too:

> We’ve been putting together a team of engineers who, for the most part, are too young to say SpinLaunch couldn't work.
Yes but guided munitions are compact lumps of steel, not squishy rocket tanks full of liquid. The forces are also all in one direction, first in the positive direction from launch, and then in the negative direction from atmospheric deceleration.

This will have lateral forces, then sudden relaxation of those forces (shock unloading) and then sudden vertical forces when it hits dense atmosphere.
this is a brilliant insight that i've never considered before but would probably bet my entire networth that it's the type of scummy/genius thing facebook would do.
> the males grow large enough to be edible,

It would seem to me these are still killed. Lacto-ovo vegetarians might still prefer no-kill egg as shown in the article.
Neuland.

It’s especially bad with mobile data caps. I had a 500mb cap in ~2014.
Giving horse meat to animals is a waste :-)
Ha. Reminds me of the use of mirrors in elevators, basically they give us gullible humans something to do while the machine wastes our time.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-lifts-elevators-have-mirrors
React has staying power this time, thank God. It's almost 8 years old and popularity is still increasing. Angular is dead to me though, which means big rewrites coming for me in the next few years...
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What economies of scale specifically do farms have?

A farm is not a factory where you can create a uniform process...
If you want the background story: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/1632

This is all from four years ago. And kuschku hasn't taken no for an answer after all this time. It's frustrating and annoying to hear their complaints on every HN thread since.

I agree with you the thread is shitty. I'm just hoping being direct will end the trolling.
Conservation and biodiversity is about humans manipulating the environment away from a natural equilibrium to something better.

A desert is at equilibrium, if we plant stuff and water it, it's more diverse and ecologically better.

Often conservation requires active maintenance to keep the benefits. Usually this maintenance occured as a side effect of historical human activity (resource extraction, grazing, hunting, fire).

As humans do less interaction with the environment as they progress in cities they make nature less bio diverse paradoxically.
That's what I was thinking. On the other hand they do have an amazing vehicle for selling high margin goods already.
They're going to need an ablative heat shield or make it out of pure titanium.
Apple was the one who provided and wrote those Bootcamp drivers for Windows, not Microsoft. That's how it normally works: the hardware vendor writes (or contracts, whatever) the drivers for the hardware they ship, not Microsoft. Windows by itself isn't much of an obstacle; it'll boot on just about any x86 device as long as the drivers are there...
Have done the same in December 2019.
I'm telling myself I really need 2 external monitors, as that's what I use at home. The M1 machines only support one external monitor (even in clamshell). Not a lot of people seem to be mentioning this.
I use the browser extension Wappalyzer, which tries to detect the tech used in every site, and you would be surprised how many use the duo :)
Wow, we are blaming app developers for a lack of success in dating. Ok maybe it has an effect, but I can think of a ton of other things that would be worth addressing fist.
There is a niche for small scale farms, but those had to be run like a business. And let me tell you it is tough business to run with high capital costs and low margins.

Huge companies have many advantages in certain production areas, but there are many others like intensive vegetable production, wine grapes, poultry, rabbits (just to name some animal production) and some speciality crops that favor small producers. Farms just need to invest in building their own supply chain.
Ask HN: Is HTTPS useless against NSA MitM?
Lately I've been thinking that HTTPS, while good for most MITM attacks, is basically nullified when using Cloudflare, Google, AWS or any load balancers that break the encryption in between the app and the user. I bet 100% that NSA has found a way to install their sniffer in between.

What can we do about it? I guess to mitigate these attacks, there's also custom encryption in the app itself if needed?
It isn’t always straightforward what 0-100 means - if you are downloading a file then that is one thing but what if you need to call an api, fetch some data, process some data, call another api - what percentage is each section or api call?

Users just want to know it is working.
Freedom of press is not the same as unbiased press. For example, US citizens can watch Chinese news media in the US, but Chinese people cannot watch US news in China.
From the original article:

Third, Marcel Weiher explains Apple’s obsession about keeping memory consumption under control from his time at Apple as well as the benefits of reference counting:

>where Apple might have been “focused” on performance for the last 15 years or so, they have been completely anal about memory consumption. When I was there, we were fixing 32 byte memory leaks. Leaks that happened once. So not an ongoing consumption of 32 bytes again and again, but a one-time leak of 32 bytes.

>The benefit of sticking to RC is much-reduced memory consumption. It turns out that for a tracing GC to achieve performance comparable with manual allocation, it needs several times the memory (different studies find different overheads, but at least 4x is a conservative lower bound). While I haven’t seen a study comparing RC, my personal experience is that the overhead is much lower, much more predictable, and can usually be driven down with little additional effort if needed.
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My first ever PC, that was mine mind you, was some cheap AMD Athlon back in 2008, after that when the i7 came out I was on that train until very recently when I picked up a 3700X instead -- so essentially 11 years of Intel for me.

I'm not really attached to either brand just what's currently the best, can run Linux, and whose owning company/companies are behaving themselves (stability/support/development).
Precisely. As an analogy, the Julia programming language allows Unicode variable names.

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/variables/#man-varia...