skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this happens, Bitcoin and the rest of cryptos will drop significantly. Watch out since we are due for a big drop (30-40%) after this huge run up from March.

Also, this will impact large buyers of crypto and we should see less demand from the larger buyers (those that trade in the million $ plus range). Hence, more downward pressure on price.
Right-to-repair and freedom to install and operate apps without going through a single centrally-controlled app store.

Here's a question: Should the wireless networks that your phone requires to function follow net neutrality? Why or why not?
> Why do I have to pay Microsoft to play via Xbox Live?

Exactly! If you bought your Xbox through Apple, you'd be paying Apple a chunk for the privilege of using a Microsoft service. See the issue?
I think you are ignoring the TCP/IP overhead. Add:

22 bytes Ethernet Header

20 bytes IP Header

20-32 bytes TCP Header

16 bytes Ethernet Footer

That's 78 to 90 bytes extra - trying to optimise the websocket packet size is really not going to help much.

See https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269031593_Performan...
That sounds different. In your case, they happily bribed the officials, to make more money later?

Compare with:

> When I approached the restaurant staff and expressed my intention to pay, they were horror stricken

Here they instead fear something bad would happen, if they don't pay (offer the food for free)?
I am certain I used this skin way way WAY back in the day! Thanks for making it and bringing back good memories!
> How exactly did ‘Steve Jobs cripple the web browser’?

Some examples:

- Automatically erasing all script-writeable storage after 7 days, crippling local PWAs and preventing them from competing with native apps

- dragging their feet on Service Worker support for ages, another PWA issue

- delaying WebGPU standardization

- blocking the standardization of numerous web hardware APIs:

- Web Bluetooth
- Web MIDI API
- Magnetometer API
- Web NFC API
- Device Memory API
- Network Information API
- Battery Status API
- Ambient Light Sensor
- HDCP Policy Check extension for EME
- Proximity Sensor
- WebHID
- Serial API
- Web USB
- Geolocation Sensor (background geolocation)
- User Idle Detection
I have really enjoyed the likes of Foobar, Clementine, Strawberry etc.
Well that’s precisely why we have all these customer onboarding / AML regulations. To onboard trading clients (think hedge fund) I’ve seen compliance ask for corporate structure diagrams, lists of the major shareholders with bios, list of the board of directors, articles of incorporation, addresses, copies of the counterparty’s AML policy, etc.
I don't doubt that PHP has some benefits. That said, the reasons cited in the blog post don't seem that unique to PHP.

> By starting each request from a known state, we get a kind of organic fault isolation; if request t encounters a software defect and fails, this bug does not directly interfere with the execution of subsequent request t+1.

Is there a modern web framework where a failed request can crash the entire server? I'm not sure this is a problem in other languages.

> Second, concurrency. An individual web request runs in a single PHP thread.

Huh, so maybe this could be an interesting concurrency model. But it's not that different than say, Node's promises. The only difference is Node's promises aren't tied to literally making a web request.

The restarting the server problem also is not an issue. Almost every mature web stack I've seen has hot reloading. Yes, even in 2016.

There are certainly reasons to use PHP, but the trap I see a lot of PHP proponents fall into is assuming that the benefits they see are somehow unique to PHP. Laravel fans love to cite packages, migrations, the ORM, etc. as reasons to use PHP. I certainly think all of these are great features but they're not unique to PHP.
It’s the opposite of growth. Would you buy a house if you knew it wouldn’t be there in 20 years?
A subscription mechanism seems like it would be broadly useful. Maybe "push" is the wrong framing for this? I've seen some efforts in that direction [1], but don't have a real sense of what's coming when.

1. https://braid.news/
"Oh but nobody's talking about this other shitty thing so everything must be permitted" is...certainly a way to approach the world, but not one to which I subscribe. Nor should you.

And Steam doesn't, and in fact cannot, prevent you from installing GOG Galaxy or downloading games from itch.io. (And devices like the Steam Link will happily play games sourced from GOG Galaxy or itch.io through them!)

This is tiresome. I will not reply to you further.
Thanks! Accidentally copied the wrong link in haste.
But read his other book first: Accidental Superpower.

Also, he narrates that book but not the new one. Which is too bad because his narration is truly additive to the book.
Sectoral bargaining is rare, its typically within individual employers or workplaces, even if we decide to do sectoral bargaining unions are democratic, and we could change what we bargain for or refuse to participate in sectoral bargaining
> The next step is going to be nobody wanting to update to IPv6.

I hate that IPv6 has such low usage, and it is exactly the same problem you describe. We have a protocol meant to replace IPv4 and eliminate several kludges (NAT) in the process. But guess what? People would rather keep on hacking the previous protocol to the extremes than learn and implement a newer better system. IPv6 is better than IPv4 in literally every sense, but your sysadmin can't be bothered to deviate even slightly from her decade old knowledge.

So now we have all sorts of v4 in v6 tunneling, someone even talked about NAT for IPv6 (WTF?!). The end result is that v6 is incredibly complex due to these backward stuff.

We need Apple to deprecate IPv4 like they did 32 bit. Otherwise companies will keep us locked into old technology for eternity.
Absolutely not.

I'm against giving up my ability to negotiate for myself to someone who is going to negotiate for compensation that I can't use at the expense of compensation I can.

Also, weird take. In a scenario where compensation has no lifestyle strings attached to it, both the childless person and the child having person can use that money. Pushing for heavy parental leave is the "fuck you, getting mine" option.
> If you don't trust your government you've got bigger problems than crypto. If you trust your government crypto is irrelevant.

This is far too black and white. You may trust your government not to engage in a vendetta against you for no reason and still not trust them not to pass onerous regulations that harm you unintentionally and then provide no recourse for the victims of that outcome.
Nice, a fresh paywall bypasser!
Very interesting. I can’t help feel the irony given Alexa itself was a brand Bezos acquired* in 1999 to get in on being a Search Engine just when Google was on the rise...

I can hear it now “We finally have a use for that brand we spent all that money on..”

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Internet
Vaccination cards will be issued to everyone getting Covid-19 vaccine in the USA
There are systems languages and then there are systems languages. As the Golang team have pointed out, there's lots of systems programming going on outside of OS kernels. Neither of those links mention kernel development. Pervasive refcount updates (ARC) and a vtable-unfriendly dynamic dispatch mechanism inherited from Objective-C are fine for userspace, but most kernel code is very performance-sensitive.
Being self-sufficient with food was also what people did for the longest part of their days. I wouldn't want to go back there.
Why are you even comparing it to life in the wild anyway? These are animals that we're bringing into existence and the alternative is no existence at all.

You clearly have no clue as to the intelligence of these animals and the complexity of their desires beyond being "pampered, fed, and protected". If it were you, would you rather take a chance on surviving in the wild? Or being enslaved, separated from your children, shackled, fattened, and eventually butchered is preferable?
The more installs done, the lower labor can get as everything is streamlined. A whole roof can be replaced for less in labor- which is coincidentally a much larger market than panels.
You're missing the point that standardization usually creates subpar products, which allowed Apple to break standards and create a more valuable product. Standards are inherently stifling in so many ways, you risk a lot with heavy-handed forced standardization. Air bags, tire standards, and headlights are small parts of a car with limited standardization, it's not comparable to inviting the government to involve themselves in application & hardware platform creation that they have no expertise or stake in developing.

Apple's behavior is definitely a problem, but government mandated standards are almost certainly not the answer.
So where do you think it will be mandatory to present these? Federal government buildings?

Have we ever, in the history of the USA, had to provide things other than a passport or driver's license to go about our daily lives?

EDIT: I would also like to suggest that this is a stepping stone to an app or other electronic tracker. Not because evil, but because convenient.
> No, it says "that without building a single new dam" [hydro could roughly double its existing capacity in the US].

No, that's not what it says. It says:

> The report estimates that without building a single new dam, these available hydropower resources, if fully developed, could provide an electrical generating capacity of more than 12 gigawatts (GW), equivalent to roughly 15 percent of current U.S. hydropower capacity.

Without constructing any new dams, you only increase it by 15%, not double it. Also, consider that 12 GW is 105 TWh per year. US consumes 4100 TWh of electricity per year. It would sure be nice to increase non-fossil electricity production by 2.5%, but that's clearly not very much. If the plan is to use hydro to cover the shortfall when the renewables are not producing enough, you need much more generating capacity than 12 GW, and more than 65 GW your link suggests could be potentially built. Finally, 2.5% is on the order of our annual growth in electricity consumption, which will in fact accelerate as we move off fossils. Thus, building out all possible hydro will only buy one year of growth in consumption.
Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo
But they seem to have had an intuitive grasp for something out of your reach. Seems like a wash on superiority complexes.
Opposite for me. The more people complain about Apple on hacker news or elsewhere because they aren’t making enough money and have to play by the App Store rules the more I know it’s the right thing and the more likely I am to buy an iPhone or new Mac. Especially because the arguments are so inconsistent and just come from generic mindshare. People don’t think. Apple Big! Apple bad! Conveniently ignoring that their business practices bring benefits to customers, they have extremely high brand loyalty and approvals, and are making money because people buy iPhones precisely because of the opposite reasons that you espouse here.

I don’t get it. If you hate the iPhone and apple App Store philosophy why can’t you just buy a different phone? Put your money where your mouth is. Apple and the App Store suck? Prove it with your purchases. Don’t sit here and complain about a “monopoly” that makes developers a shit load of money.

Ok how about this. If developers want a different store, they can all pay a fee to Apple to continue to develop new hardware and provide updates for iOS. Sounds fair to me.
Yeah that's usually what ends up happening.
https://www.runnaroo.com
Short-to-medium term this can damage crypto prices, but long-term it's further evidence that crypto was right all along. Bitcoin (to name the most popular) is valuable because the government can't manipulate it. That's essentially its value-add to money - a computer controls its inflation rate, it's capped at 21 million coins, and the government can't print it at will. Such a simple concept being such a danger to the monetary system should be a damning indictment of central banks' mismanagement of our economic system.
People do this with cars and those depreciate the moment they get off the lot.

Japanese homes have a lifespan of 30 years.
The concept is really neat! Well done!

Keep up the good work, a bit more polishing and it's going to be even better.
The only thing stopping the US from turning Saudi Arabia to glass is that we need their oil. If we don’t it’s game over.
Besides the common gripes, the thing that ruined PHP for me was learning that empty("0") is true. I learned this the hard way when this edge case caused an incident and I spent half a week rewriting code to be...not that.

PHP has some great properties, and if you're tolerant of its sharp edges, great. But up until recently (and perhaps still?) it's got many of its safeties turned off by default. When I left PHP, (insecure) mysql bindings still came included pretty much universally, but often not PDO. They have every amazing helper function under the sun at your fingertips (urlencode and htmlentities!) but also some tremendously dangerous ones (backticks! variable variables!).

What's most striking to me is that Slack is 100% off of PHP now (onto Hack). There's something telling when neither the syntax nor the runtime nor the standard library are sufficient for the biggest users of a language. With recent versions of the core runtime finally getting fast, I wonder if they'll rip off the bandaid and break backwards compatibility to dull some of the larger sharp edges.
It’s like the periodic table of juggling
> I hope they (EIA) are off the mark. If the predictions from the EIA a will materialize, we’re going to have a huge carbon problem.

The only way EIA will be off the mark is if we get something like fusion. Currently the major geopolitical issue is natural gas pipelines. Major nations wouldn't be fighting over gas pipelines if people believed fossil fuels were over.

> 1) the EIA forecasts linear growth of renewables, while its been behaving exponentially over the last 5-10 years.

And it still amounts to nothing. Solar/winds accounts for 1% of energy. And that's after 10 years of subsidies in the biggest economies around the world.

> 2) nearly all of the energy consumption growth is non-OECD and will require newly built generation. If cost of renewables continues to drop, it might just be economic sense that pushes renewables over coal

That will be all fossil fuels. The developing nations aren't going industrialize on solar/wind. Even developed nations can't do that.

> 3) at least on the EU side, fossil fuels are increasingly getting a negative connotation. On top of the financial comparison, I expect this could dampen new fossil growth as well.

Right... One of the biggest per capita producer of oil is norway.

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

The 2nd largest oil company in the world is a anglo-dutch company.

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

And of course europe just invaded and took over libya for their oil. The EU is trying to take over venezuela for their oil. Etc.

The EU is one of the biggest direct consumers of fossil fuels ( and the largest consumer directly+indirectly ).

Fossil fuels aren't going anywhere. That's just physical reality. It's physics. Sure renewables may slow the rate of growth, but growing more slowly is still growing.

The only thing that will cause a decline in fossil fuels is economic collapse or a genuine scientific breakthrough like fusion energy.
Again, why do I have to follow their rules for their App Store?
I also value my right to life and people being careless and needlessly propagating the virus puts that at risk.
You seem confused. Go use Linux or something. There is plenty of choice.
Yes, if I get my money's worth out of that 20 years.

Hell, I'm currently renting an apartment and I don't own shit now, let alone 20 years down the line.
> I'm speaking for your freedom, whether you accept that or not.

Uh thanks, I can speak for myself and so can others here. You're not some savior dropping new knowledge here in this community so don't act like you're some second coming.

> Please don't gate keep tech.

Hardly what happened here, just a critical point to consider before your wall-of-text should be read by others. When the SV folks are telling you that you might be off track, it's time to listen to them.

And the whole "second coming" thing doesn't suit you.
I'm trying to simplify parsing.writing by making it less variable. The spec is the one with the optimization to save 3 bytes for short messages. Why?
The quote is really profound. Thanks for sharing it. I haven't heard of Axel Oxenstierna before, but I am looking him up right now.
Ah I see. I was tripped up by

> So, if you currently use a cold storage wallet like a Ledger Nano S or a software wallet such as MetaMask, you may soon find yourself running afoul of new regulations.

But apart from that, the rest of the article seems to agree with you.
> I use VPNs so my ISP does not have a record of my internet traffic

Unless you're self-hosting your VPN, then your VPN has a record of your internet traffic, and most VPNs are even sketchier than your ISP.
Thats why we should be exclusively nuclear.
What about unions like the UFW which were among the greatest champions of immigrant rights in the US. The accepted line in unions these days is anti immigration efforts divide workers
Out of Limits Can Help You Survive
> Can they not make more of the previous design?

MAX exists as a response to competition. One may assume the previous design is no longer competitive. And no, the body count isn't being considered; fuel efficiency, capacity and leveraging existing training are among the considerations.
Bash Linux tool to search list filesystem
I think Journalists would. Not sure what to call the people we have writing stories now.
Given Boeing's recent problems, I would be much happier on an old design that has been well tested, than on a brand-new design.
Congress Sets Stage for Exiling Chinese Stocks from U.S. over Audit Dispute
If you say it with the right cadence, "cocaine poodle" can trigger it too.
...no because this doesn’t make any sense. If you bought your Xbox through Apple for some reason it would be similar to buying it from Best Buy... where Microsoft still has a monopoly on Xbox Live services.
Absolutely. 足 is an augmentation of 止, which itself originated as a drawing of a foot. 母 is a picture of female breasts. Both are pictograms.
This kind of alarmist narrative sidesteps some simple economic realities: as soon as non trivial amounts of wealth are locked up in blockchains, basically the powers that be are hopelessly dependent on them. Rich people outlawing being rich is prevented by power facilitating corruption. BTC for all its flaws already is well on its way to replace the Switzerland as a popular place for all sorts of shady characters to park their wealth; hence the high prices.

Owning a crypto wallet is of course nice but it is the financial equivalent of putting money in an old sock under your bed: it's kind of not very safe at all. Sure they are hard to hack or break into but the very real scenario you have to worry about more than the government coming after you is that of a person with a gun forcing at gun point you to transfer your belongings to their wallet.

What's going to happen is that those people currently making use of loopholes in our laws to avoid paying taxes by using crypto currencies will find that using their secret stashes of wealth in a system that basically implements an extremely hard to forge transaction history, is going to be increasingly hard. There are ways around that but it doesn't change the reality that working in secret in a surveillance society is going to be increasingly hard. And like it or not, that's where we are heading. George Orwell was only off by a few decades.

In any case, laws can be changed and they change all the time. Changes provide short term opportunities. But the long term perspective is always that people with power impose their will on people without.
Mobs are a fact of life, you can either live in denial, or you can try and make things better
Thanks. Even though I am not the op
How quickly will people be making them up and/or selling them? I see service animal tags everywhere. If you dog yaps at every passing animal, it is not a properly trained service animal and shouldn't be in the stores.
"Moderating a private property isn’t censorship. It’s not."

Yeah, I get it. That's why I said what I said about all public debate being moved to private property.

"I don’t know the precise formula but I know with certainty that one downvote doesn’t get me greyed."

I don't know, and don't care. The graying out of comments happens quickly, and people use it to hide comments they don't like.
Put bluntly, being a PITA when it wasn't at all necessary, as corp-issued devices are common. If I were a manager hiring this guy and heard that he kicked back the standard contract everyone else has for a pointless reason that had a workaround everyone already knows about, I'd have ended it right there because it casts their judgment in a poor light and I could see them causing me or my department issues in the future.

"Poor culture fit".
Why not also wechat etc. from china. You cannot weaken your own internal devil but let in the external one.
Microsoft is becoming more flexible but the default is still going to be in office when all the quarantines pass.
Doesn't seem to be working in this case though?
The only way is to book on an airline who doesn't have the MAX, doesn't have them on order and has no history of wetleasing. Alternatively you can fly only on routes where the MAX is unsuitable i.e. longhaul.
Semi-related to businesses not doing business with privacy-minded individuals:

Best Buy will cancel your orders after you successfully place them, if you order while using a VPN. They won't tell you why if you call and ask, but it wasn't hard to figure out.
Decentralized finance is all about automated counterparties, smart contracts that run code to match buyers and sellers, execute transactions and move funds. There's nobody there to verify KYC information.
> Are you claiming Apple harms its users?

Yes!

The people building the future that don't happen to work at Apple have to work that much harder. They are less productive because of the toll Apple extracts.

App Store rules, policy conformance, release restrictions, and Apple tax impose a huge overhead on everyone. There are higher order, dynamical impacts that tough even non-Apple users. (Kind of like secondhand smoke!)

Apple users are serving their device by surrendering freedoms to it. It should be the other way around. Apple users pay more, they get less, and the software delivered to them is 15% less good than it could be.

Competition can't get started or survive. The ocean is being over-fished, and natural evolution has been artificially controlled by one entity.

Apple users are worse off than in the parallel universe where App Store didn't happen.
Most people probably bought Tilt Brush post Poly integration due to the slow uptake of VR. I didn’t even realize Poly came out after Tilt Brush.
Yup, I felt incredibly stupid about six months ago finding out about atan2 for the first time, given the number of times I've made stupid errors using atan, and then correcting those errors by manually checking what quadrant I was in.
I mean, the tax implications of doing anything with crypto as an "investment" already made it a basically useless asset class to get into. Not to mention, anyone with half a brain knows that exchanges manipulate markets with favored liquidity providers. This is really kind of hilarious.

I guess I'll have to lose my Ledger Nano S along with my firearms in my boating trip planned for late January ;).