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Shameless plug: the problems that you describe are almost exactly what we're trying to solve with DAML and Canton [1]. From the Canton whitepaper:

Building distributed applications that involve multiple organizations is hard with today’s technology. For each application, all organizations must agree on the data encoding, transport mechanisms, and interaction rules, and all must implement their part of the interaction correctly, including authentication and authorization. Once implemented, such an application often becomes a silo: there is no general convenient, secure and privacy-preserving way to integrate such applications and compose the business workflows that they automate.

The big problem is bootstrapping the network; as you say, setting up yet another format (DAML in this case) is a huge ask. But we're starting to see the beginnings of a network, as in the next couple of years the Australian [2] and north-bound (i.e., mainland China) Hong Kong securities [3] will be accessible through DAML.

[1]: https://canton.io
[2]: https://www2.asx.com.au/markets/clearing-and-settlement-serv...
[3]: https://www.ledgerinsights.com/hkex-daml-smart-contract-stoc...
Thanks for pointing that out, I had indeed forgotten to account for that.
> If you run containers anyway, wouldn't you want the host running those containers to remain stable and predictable?

For this use, I'd say one should use a disto focused only on running containers. Everything else is overkill and subject to "feature" creep on the server.

There is also the issue that all the container stuff is still a moving target feature-wise.
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What a nice, positive note to start the day off. Congratulations on your success.

Feedback:

- Could you remove the email requirement for getting started? Maybe figure out a way for people to associate an email account after they do the "Getting Started"?

- Could you put a back button on the tutorial?

- In addition to the poll at the end of the tutorial, I hope you are capturing implicit feedback data to determine how effective it is. Things like average time between clicks and whether users click the buttons you suggest immediately after are indicators of effectiveness.

- For the registration form, maybe get rid of either the label "Display Name" or the placeholder text "Your Artist Name..."? It was confusing having them be different.

As for actual content, unfortunately I can't help you. I don't have any personal music to upload so someone else will have to give you feedback. I hope my suggestions on registration were helpful. Congratulations again on your early success and good luck expanding in 2021.
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>Has anything else relevant changed so much in the last decade or two?

No. Not a thing. Certainly not the election of an African American President, the Republicans normalizing conspiracy theories like birtherism in a cynical race-baiting attempt to regain power through neo-revolutionary proxy movements like the Tea Party, or the election of an extremely divisive President who pushed the Overton window of American political and social discourse so far to the right that beliefs which would have been too insane for talk radio are now standard discourse.

Definitely do not look too deeply at American culture itself and study the deeply rooted, endemic issues which have been festering for decades and only allowed to burst forth in a pusculent river of hate and paranoia when the lunatics started running the asylum. It has to be social media and cannot be anything but social media. Everything is Google's fault.
First names are not given names. Family names are not last names.

Given names are not familiar names. Given and family names are not legal names.

Please do not use 'abstractions' this broken. The appearance of patterns you're trying to abstract here are cultural windows, not global truths.
Offline facial recognition is the way Apple does their face ID unlock mechanism. If it required an always on network connection and cloud inference the system would fail miserably.
But... I don't disagree with this. This is exactly what is happening, and it is yet still creating monopolies. Just because it is what people want does not mean it is a good thing.
And the articles renders so fast and so smooth on my laptop. In fact they render more smoothly and loads faster than 99% of all much much less technically advanced articles out there. Wow!
It really fucking annoys me that they are not just EOL, the copy suggests that they are forcibly disabling it? What about all the old Flash content that will never be updated? I am talking about things like Ishkur's EDM guide (the new one is kind of terrible and lacks the sass of the Flash based on). How are we supposed to use that any more?
It's funny how from my perspective the reality is quite nearly the exact opposite of what you puport
It's a mistake to assume that just because you're using docker, you now shouldn't bother understanding how (debian's) packaging works.

You're usually still installing packages and working with a debian/ubuntu/whatever distribution, except they're in a container now.

Docker is an additional abstraction layer one should understand, not a replacement for an existing one.

If you are used to dealing with debian packaging and running stuff directly on your server, using docker can feel like taking a step forward, but also two backwards. A few things are better, but a bunch are worse.
This made me think of how people don’t have enough air and it is used for coercion on Mars in the dystopia of Total Recall.
That history graph’s not looking too healthy for the past couple of months.
Is it real? A patch of 50GB?
Yesterday I received a Valorant patch of 1.3GB and it broke my mood.
As an industry term, "suborbital" implies space flight, which means crossing the Karman line (100km). Fast enough to exit the atmosphere, but not fast enough to achieve orbit.

The 12-ish km of this test is within the operating ceiling of most commercial jet liners. This was an atmospheric test of an orbital-class rocket.
These stable packages just postpone the inevitable technological debt and when you have to pay the debt, it's too late.

I really hope these stable OS just die. Some debt could be avoided if RHEL/CentOS didn't exist.
It's not just "cleanup" - they would probably reuse the raptors and maybe batteries/ other stuff too. Losing 3 raptors is probably what hurts the most at this point (but it wasn't unexpected). All in all, the test was most definitely a success.
Thank you for sharing. I was actually thinking of using fire base for my project. They make us so easy to sign up for free tier. Awaiting to see what happens in part 2
Ah, I got it through Steam as I already had a Steam account. Been playing around with HL2 and the input lag is there but not horrific. I probably wouldn't use this for multiplayer. Just need to source a gamepad of some description.
So you are saying Trump should have closed the borders, a proposal he was heavily attacked for?

Anyway, it is more difficult for non-island countries and bigger countries with more global ties.
> unable to point to anything convincing?

It's pretty well documented that poll watchers were denied their lawful right of meaningful observation.

The counter-claim to this is that the poll-watchers were being rude/abusive but this is the claim that does not have evidence.

The lack of meaningful observation in MI/PA alone, contrary to election law, would result in 100's of thousands of ballots being thrown out.

There are many other ways election laws were also broken. This is just the example I use that, to me, is the most straight forward and best documented.

> Why in most cases did they not even try once in a venue where lying would have penalties?

Often times the courts haven't even provided the opportunity to swear in witnesses.

Other times, e.g. Arizona, only a few were deposed unfortunately. Probably for time reasons? It took weeks to document the affidavits. I would have preferred that Binnall had chosen other witnesses/affidavits to swear in, but there certainly wasn't time to do them all.
That’s absolutely ridiculous. What exactly are you implying?
These items have copious amounts of gold plated contacts and platinum/palladium capacitors. Many hundreds dollars of scrap value.

EDIT: to people downvoting, selling stolen equipment for scrap value is extremely common in former USSR.
Can AWS abide by the rules of AGPL though? If they don't opensource their modifications and their whole AWS system?
Apple is not a monopoly.

I believe Apple folks recently said it's actually good to have Android around, so it prevents them to be under anti-monopoly laws.
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Made me realise how little what we build matters, as most knowledge will be lost in an extinction event regardless. Since then I care less about quality and meaning in my work, and just roll with the days. I hope to get a garden next year to plants some flowers for the bee.
No, because CORS can only restrict which origins (scheme, domain, port combinations) are able to access the site's data. But you're not even connecting from a web origin but from localhost and you're trying to defend from all access except by your frontends. For this, you need a shared secret between the server and the frontend.

A further limitation of CORS is that certain requests are allowed even if they are not from an allowed origin.

To conclude, you definitely need a secret.
There's always a "but", isn't there? "I'm not racist, but [racist shit]..." "I don't mean to be rude, but [rude shit]..." "I'm not a Trump supporter, but [parrots Trump's lies]..."

Whatever comes after the "but" always proves whatever came before the "but" was a lie. That's what "but" means.

Again: where do you draw the line? Tell me what he'd have to do in order for you to give a shit? This time, try not using the word "but".
> those least vulnerable don’t feel that they should make a sacrifice for those more vulnerable.

Young people will be hit the hardest, if there's an economic recession in the coming years. It will be especially hard for young people to find jobs.
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>That population is every person ever born - no one was born believing in Anti-semitism or Nazism.

No one is born tob believe in anything, however one typically has opinions on matters by the time that one is capable of reading.

>Wait - we're not just limited to first order effects, someone who reads may relay those ideas to another in a different form. E.g. by starting a social gathering of some sort.

And even there I feel the reading of material in print is negligible as a proximate cause to inspire that.

>The Nazi party membership reached over 8 million people.

And most had never read Mein Kampf.
They were members because their friends were — most Christians have of course also never read a Bible from cover to cover.
> You need so little water for drinking that it's essentially free or close to free.

Yeah, that's developed-world life talking.

Markets absolutely work at dissuading growing almonds in the desert. Until there's too much wealth disparity, and Peter is willing to pay more than Paul has in total for desert-grown almonds. Either Paul steals the water or he dies, and thieves aren't popular.

Of course there's another form of currency - votes. I can't really say they're universally distributed, because FPTP screws up the purchasing power of a vote. But I'd give good odds on a very strong correlation between a functioning democracy and cheap water.
Thank you for your great explanation. The overlap was the missing piece in my mental model ...
> inheritance is a problem because it's un-earned wealth

> Inheritance taxes should be high, without being overly punitive

What's strange is that when you talk to people about inheritance tax they become instantly outraged at the idea of the government taking their money by force, yet they seem to have no problem with the government forcibly taking close to half of their salary.

It's a strange paradox and it seems that people just aren't used to the idea, despite it being much fairer. Tax the wealth of the dead rather than the earnings of the living.

If we could slash income tax in half but implement an inheritance tax of, for example, 50% above a certain threshold, it would be a win-win for everyone. The rich would still leave lots of money to their kids and the average person would get to keep more of their earned money. It's more meritocratic on every level.

Sadly, so many of our leaders now are very wealthy themselves, so this isn't a proposition they're likely to be enthusiastic about.
Fuji also use what they call an X-Trans sensor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujifilm_X-Trans_sensor
I’m going to work that into every conversation I can now. My workplace is theoretically involved in supplying IT functions to a university but mainly seems to employ an army of yak shavers.
Agreed on all fronts. More of a 'woulda-coulda-shoulda' than anything.
1 acre-foot = 1233m^3 = 1233000L
0.41$ / m^3
You are right that we are probably using different terminology.

What I would have in mind is policy more guided by econ 101, or alternatively, whatever Estonian, Singapore and Hong Kong are doing.

The latter only by-and-large and with big exceptions obviously, since they are complicated real world places.

So called 'free trade agreements' are an interesting example: econ 101 tells us that free trade agreements are pretty silly. Adam Smith and Ricardo already showed that you should abolish your own trade barriers unilaterally regardless of what the other guy is doing, no need for any agreements.

(But that's a digression. I agree that free trade agreements are largely seen as pro-market by the general public.)

In any case, NAFTA stems from the bygone era of the Washington Consensus. It mostly predates the time I am talking about.

Yes, there's a tiny bit of market in the American healthcare system. But it's a very small sliver.

Have a look at https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost... and https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/17/highlights-from-the-co... for a more in-depth and even-handed discussion than I could give you. Especially the 'certificate of need' is interesting. (Basically, existing hospitals in an area can veto any new hospital.)

Yes, if you by "market" you mean "corporate welfare" and "crony capitalism", than what your comment makes total sense.

A perfect free market might never have existed, but good enough approximations do; and it's useful to move more areas in that direction.
The fact that most users don't understand this changes and can not make and informed decision and the fact that the ones who can make a informed decision are so tiny that their voice can easily be dismissed by chromium developers is what is really concerning. I would expect that from Apple or Microsoft, but now I have to expect that from Google too
Surely it does not automatically work, or we would all live in totalitarian states already.
I'd be interested what counts as a charity ... I bet there are a lot that wouldn't qualify as charities by my own personal sensibilities.
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Interestingly, the rolling release approach is already the way companies like Facebook or Google are releasing their services: when all tests pass it goes on master, and whatever is on master goes to prod. There are no releases, no backporting, no humongous release notes, etc... In a sense I like the idea that my server acts the same way, because the server is there to provide a service the same way Google provides a search service.
Why? Is messenger your only option? I personally don't use Messenger but there's still WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc.
Yep down for me too.
Honest question, from an economically ignorant perspective:

If people hold houses to speculate with the price of real state, that makes the price I pay for the necessity of a place to live way more expensive than it would be otherwise (this is something I empirically know to be true).

Why doesn't the same logic apply to water once it's possible to speculate with it?
No sure if that's in youtube's interests, but would be a interesting question.
>> So e.g. when the light is pure orange, it falls down into red wavelength range and is counted as red

'Pure' orange light isn't red. It has a wavelength of 590–620 nm. Red is 625–740 nm and Green is 495–570, so 'orange' is between red and green. The sensor filters each allow a range of wavelengths through. So green is triggered as well as the red filter. In RGB terms orange is 255, 127, 0, i.e. with a strong red component and a smaller green component.

White balance is computed downstream from the sensor, and is used to resolve the effect that a coloured light source creates a colour cast on objects, most noticeably on white ones. The human visual system auto-compensates for this but cameras require special processing, sometimes done using presets for different types of light (sunlight, shade, tungsten etc).
Contrary to what you might have learned on hackernews, monopoly doesn't mean there is no alternative and having no alternatives is not the primary downside to monopolies.

> United States v. Grinnell Corp., 384 U.S. 563 (1966) Grinnell made plumbing supplies and fire sprinklers, and with affiliates had 87% of the central station protective service market. From this predominant share there was no doubt of monopoly power.
In stories like this it's important to consider that returns on R&D for these large pharma companies have recently been getting quite low, 1.8% in 2019 according to [0].

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pharmaceuticals-r-d/pharm...
I don't see a good reason to view it as akin to a power-grab. It's profoundly unhelpful when terms are diluted and muddied. We should use the OSI's definition not because they say so, and not for legalistic reasons like trademarks, but because it's important to have meaningfully precise language.

It's right that when a thread is submitted of a project falsely claiming to be open source, the HN community unfailingly tears it to shreds. We don't want the term to be cheapened into becoming meaningless. I don't see that the origins of the term are relevant.

Personally I tend to capitalise, I typically use Free and Open Source software to be more clear that I'm referring to free software as defined by the FSF, and open source as defined by the OSI. It's unfortunate that I've found this to be necessary, to close the door on obtuse misuse of these terms.
> fine, you still have your games.

.. in theory. In practice, I like most other people don't have access to most of the games I ever bought, or no convenient way to access them, or no desire to.

This goes for almost all of what I consume to be honest with the exception of some LPs I actually take very good care of.
Adobe has form on nixing old products because of third party code. Last year they said that users of old versions of Creative Cloud apps may be subject to third-party legal action if they kept using them: https://fstoppers.com/legal/adobe-customers-using-old-softwa...
This cookie insanity has to stop. Instead of adding popups everywhere, users should’ve been trained to use the options of their browsers, which have existed for decades.
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Are you sure you’re disagreeing with the parent poster? It sounds to me like you’ve just outlined a plan to achieve the same goal.
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At about T+1:40, the three engine bells appeared to shake and diverge away from each other slightly, and one appeared to flame out, spewing flame around the compartment, with one side of the chamber (and maybe craft) catching fire. https://i.imgur.com/KER9nqc.png

Is that what happened, or was it perfectly normal?
> If Reese doesn't get to collect $400 then this bet is an academic wankathon.

You know, there is a conflict of interest. It was Reese that created the academic wankathon in the first place.

The bet is a sure win if he had predicted 1 million casualties through a virus. However that's not what he did. He added extra restrictions that decrease the probability of his bet turning out to be true. The challenger is obviously taking those restrictions into account and thereby estimates that it is easier for the challenger to win. If you now go and change the terms so that the restrictions are gone then if the predictor wins he has merely won through deception. A shallow victory that undermines longbets as a platform.
>they started selling something they did not have the right for as a counter-offensive against those that bought the rights, if I remember well

They've sold several series without having the rights and nobody would work with them anymore.
> Umm what's the incentive or motivation behind making this trade able?

Why shouldn't it be? I buy water every day.

> At first glance this seems incredibly concerning

Why?

> While we don't need oil or gold for our immediate survival, they do play key roles into how our society operates. I'm hoping to understand more on why we should treat water in the same way.

Because it's very important for our survival!
Companies would still have to be mandated to respect said options, as when the voluntary DNT was added, companies went "lalala can't hear you"
I lived in a totalitarian state before.
I'm not American so I overlooked the US-specific question in my response. Things seem more divided in Australia too. We also have social media...

A lot of what you have raised are topics/movements/messages pushed/strengthened via social media, easier publishing, etc. I didn't raise social media to blame Google; I was thinking of what these tools enable alongside the cooking blogs and DIY videos.
That would be a terrible strategy. Imagine how many people who have only used Facebook messenger between them are switching to another messaging platform now; some of them may like the alternative better.
Please if you feel like making claims like that, provide context and at least a reference.

Otherwise it sounds like conspiracy theories and ... oh who's this guy at my door in a black suit, he has a shiny ligh...
I heard the same argument about providing personal health data, then CMS eventually started pushing Project Blue Button [0] allowing users to get api access to their own data. And that’s helped quite a bit.

There is risk, but saying that users can’t be trusted with an API to their own social graph seems to be throwing the baby out with the bath water.

[0] https://www.healthit.gov/topic/health-it-initiatives/blue-bu...
And the ``{.acyclic.}`` hint applies to the later.

In the future we might have formal verification helping as well: https://nim-lang.org/docs/drnim.html
This. If you need stability, nothing beats Debian.
The fact that cloud providers don't have a simple "This is how much I can afford, don't ever bill me more than that!" box on their platforms makes development a lot scarier than it really needs to be.
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Typical Google. Let us not even get started with the impossibility of loading Google in private mode without needing to agree to everything. Rejecting all is a dance that takes more time and mental resources than the amount i want to spend for the few times I want to turn on private mode and search something. My colleagues have also declared defeat and just accept everything. Hope the fine bites.