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Disclaimer: I am not all that religious, even though I am interested academically, intellectually -- in all religions...

I look at the Bible in the same way that a codebreaker looks at code; that is, I'm always trying to look at what is said in it (and other religous works) from different perspectives; the idea being that one or more perspectives may contain a gem or gold nugget or morsel or two of wisdom -- philosophical or otherwise...

I like to think that ancient people knew more than we give them credit for; however, let's remember that the Bible has had to make it through many years (and many censors/powers-that-be -- all of whom did not enshrine Free Speech the way that we do today in our Constitution) of Earth's history -- and so the result is that if one is to have any hope at recovering these "morsels of wisdom/understanding", then one quite literally has to "read between the lines"...

Normally I wouldn't submit a religious themed website to HN, however, I think this blog's author has done an excellent job in researching and putting together a whole bunch of scholarship on the subject...

Is she right in what she says?

I don't know; all I know is that the blog appears comprehensive, that is, in my opinion, worthy of further investigation for those with an interest in this subject...
I hate it so much when I want to do some obscure thing on Windows, but when I go to the place you used to be able to do it, it's gone! Replaced with a "modern" control panel which doesn't support that obscure thing. Instead, I have to find my way to the old window via a different route. Eventually the original control panel pops up and I can change that setting.

I don't have a problem with changing things if it replaces all the functionality.
In the US, 18F does a good job:

https://18f.gsa.gov
> I think the problem with Paypal was that they do not warn or provide reasons for freezing

Which is par for the course for financial companies.
It's clearly a thing that some people have significant physiological effects from/dependency on and others don't. I like coffee in the morning but I'm also fine with black tea and even herbal tea. I've no reason to want to give it up but if I had to for some reason, I could do so tomorrow without any real issue other than annoyance on the same order as giving up cheese or something like that.
I spent a few years completely avoiding caffeine and the last few years consuming a lot of caffeine (via coffee). For me, in terms of alertness or productivity, there is a difference only in the "transition" period when the body is readjusting to the (lack of) caffeine. Otherwise the only difference is that by being used to caffeine, I can enjoy making and drinking good coffee (one of the simple pleasures of life).
Do you mean a "'pter"?

Helicopter is (like gyro, from the Greek) a helico-pter (whirl wing)
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iOS can also do head and eye tracking along with the motion detection, and combine both automatically.
Yotter – open-source privacy-focused alternative YouTube front end
To push this up from the comments, if you're interested in why this is important or what the authors are trying to do the PDF where they describe their approach and architecture is really interesting.

http://www.rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/shioya/pdfs/Mashim...
> You used to pay $14.99 for a single CD that may have had 2-3 songs at most that you enjoyed. Now you can pay $14.99 a month for literally all the music in history.

Not if you picked the right album!
As of right now yes, but when there are more stakeholders and clear/imminent threats to the chain there will likely be more discussion. All proposed forks thus far have been unnecessary for the short-term success of the chain.
Yes, but that doesn't mean that going to the very opposite extreme is the right response. Nobody is itching to emigrate to Somalia.
Sounds like how Illuminati meetings are depicted.

You won't hear objections from me.
This talk was from kubecon na 2020, not 2019.

2020 was a looooooong year y'all
> "You might want to block Pinterest to save your data"

The irony is when the website that is posting such stuff consumes > 1mb for simple blog due to all the trackers etc.
How often are you typing and speaking at the same time though? I’m not talented enough to do that, personally. :)

I think this app is really clever. I would definitely use it if my version of macOS wasn’t nearly a decade too old.
I can count on all finger similar stories I have read where someone had to rely on big tech like Google or Facebook for their income, and it failed. These bastards could care less about you/us.

Now I feel fortunate I still have my service business, none of my 2 or 3 major competitors even use Adwords at all, I tried it for like 2 years, did not see any gain in customers, always paid with prepaid credit cards no more than $200 each, finally Google sent me a message they were no longer accepted prepaids - - I said "See ya later Google". I still get the same amount of business without wasting money on Adwords.

Anyone has to be a fool to give any of these FANG sites a REAL credit card with wide open ability to charge you what they want and screw you. Plus all the stories I read lately about fraudulent clicks on ads and such - - the rest of the world can HAVE all that crap. I am still earning over $100K gross annually from my service business, now mostly word of mouth from my reputation - - old school style.
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LibUV[1] would be useful for this.

What did you use?

1: https://libuv.org/
That's one big problem for sure. Another is when the information is costly to gather, and there is a Schelling point for people without the information. For example, we all get in the habit of saying "10 degrees" whenever anyone asks the temperature of any city.

Similar, there are cases like "What is the capital of the state of New York?" A Schelling-point answer might easily be New York City, even though the correct answer is Albany. There's research on this stuff in the "peer prediction" a.k.a. "information elicitation without verification" literature, e.g. Prelec, Seung, McCoy 2017: https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/...
I think you may have either misunderstood me, or maybe have gotten the logic backwards.

I'm not saying that US companies should not enforce US law. I think they should. That is: strictly within the US market.

When they operate outside the US market, they have to (also) adhere to whatever law exists for that market. If that creates a conflict, the company has a choice to either open up show elsewhere, outside of US jurisdiction (if that's the only way to comply with local market rules), or stay in the US and leave the foreign market alone.

Either way, being a US company should never be a valid excuse to violate laws (and/or legal protections) somewhere abroad.

It ultimately is up to a company to choose what they do and where they do it. To me, the current status quo appears to be that many US companies have been (illegally) enforcing US laws outside of US jurisdiction. Aside from that, and maybe even on a far worse level, they have been essentially been making up de facto "private laws", in their TOP/EULA "contracts".

Last time I checked, law should be left to governments. Preferable through democratic due process. Certainly not to commercial companies, who are either privately owned, or publicly by a select few rather undemocratic entities.
Yes, it's a great article. Too bad many commenters won't have read it ;)

The most interesting part to me wasn't actually the lab leak part. That's been widely discussed for some time. The more interesting bit was how the anthrax scare turned out to be a lab worker who had a financial stake in vaccine research and apparently wanted funding to be increased ... and how that scare was used by the USG to justify drastic increases in funding towards bio-defence. If anyone has ever managed to more successfully or more cheaply achieve their goals through terrorism it's hard to think of an example!
Don't forget that caffeine may not be the only thing causing lethargy. You may also be deficient in other vitamins (quite often people don't eat anywhere near enough vegetables), or you may just be getting a bad night's sleep. Maybe you're not sleeping for long enough, or suffering from sleep apnoea

Maybe you're simply sat in your office chair for too long every day and just need to go for a wander once an hour to get the blood flowing.

Quitting caffeine is just one step, but if it's not what's causing your issues, don't forget to look into other aspects of your lifestyle,
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Monero (XMR) is the most notable example, but there are other coins that implement the same technology of truly anonymous and untraceable transactions.

FinCEN will not change their course. From their perspective, they would rather try to kill or stifle all cryptos than allow illegal activity to be done within that market without an ability to seize assets or trace funds.

Right now they have total control over traditional non-cash monetary transaction - and the US gov't specifically has a long reach into the global economy to enforce things like OFAC and sanctions.

Cryptocurrency openly defies that power base by design (censorship resistance). There is fundamentally no solution here where the two will play nicely together.

Cryptos will simmer in the background as the section of the global economy they facilitate grows (black market transactions), and erode the western financial power base. It's mostly limited today by the lack of scalability in the coin networks.

I wonder if there's a future where innovation in scalability allows for a single crypto to reign supreme globally and eliminate all national currencies in our lifetime.

It would be a monumental shift of power, which will undoubtedly involve a great deal of political/technological struggle and civil chaos.
I wrote a Hammerspoon script to do the same, but Microsoft Teams unmutes the default input every time you join a call. Did you run into this/have any idea how to get around it?
Yeah, that could mean roughly anything at all.
The video is great.

But it fails on two counts. One is that it doesn't say what the title claims. We know now what the Rieman Hypothesis is, but how did the author learned to love, and more importantly to "fear" the RH? What's there to fear? The name of the famous movie (with the bomb) doesn't even have "fear" in it, so the author had something in mind with "fear", but after watching the video, I have no clue what.

Second is the promise in the beginning of the video to give us a hint why the RH is important. What we learn is that somehow each zeta zero adds another harmonic to some type of series approximation of the (cousin of the) prime counting function. Which is great; if we add enough harmonics we get to approximate this function as precisely as we want. But why is it important that these zeros are on the vertical line Im z = 0.5 ? I have absolutely no clue.

Don't get me wrong, I find that watching this video was a very good investment of 16 minutes of my life. But there is no need to overpromise, especially since the video delivers a lot as is.
How can one even reliably detect if one is loging in from crimea? There is no Ukranian/Russian ISP operating exclusively in crimea, is there?
Windows 10 is much better than Win 7. IMO one reason, desktop search that works. Some may consider the reliance on search a UI failure, but I think it has become the dominant organizational principle. The other being pinned apps to the task bar.
Wow good catch indeed, thanks for pointing out
I can't speak for everyone, but as someone who tries to buy local, I wish that existed. There's a few stores that have reasonable web stores, but most have a single web page that was updated in 2017.

Also helpful would be a browser plugin (or something) that would allow me to find the product on Amazon and see if it's available locally. I do this with books all the time (find on Amazon, find the ISBN number, and the go put it into the local bookstore website). The local bookstore also does local deliveries.
Indeed, the $2k example was misleading, but the fact it's still $800 for a phone with 2014 specs alone would have been more than enough to get his point across. You do have to pay 3-4x the price you would otherwise to get the privilege of running another OS on older hardware with arguably less functionality (OOTB, at least).
What is the option 'd to pass a custom domain key'? What is a domain key?
>Second, and the big point that the article missed entirely, is that real gdp per capita HAS been declining, reflecting that decrease in standard of living that one would expect to see if inflation were understated.

Not true. See https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA

And why resort to conspiracy theories? Look at other data sources. They are consistent with the official inflation rate. E.g. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10YIE or MIT Billion Prices Project.
That's what a VPN is for. Your ISP can't see the destination up addresses and only see your connection to the VPN endpoint
Do you have an email address? (I don't use Twitter.)
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Like having the Governor go to maskless dinners at the French Laundry?
> Quick note: Google's Advanced Protection program disallows sideloading apps, so you can't install F-droid.

It's still possible to sideload apps if they are installed with ADB.
GP did set it up to a keyboard shortcut. The problem they're calling out is needing to do it to the global input rather than app-specific. Many people use multiple VTC apps throughout the day.
I think you are seriously underestimating the number of essential services which are now mostly been conducted online. Try finding a property to live in or a new job without using the internet.
I like a cup of tea too, and I really like pepsi max, but after a while I'm perfectly happy with a rooibos tea, squash, fanta, fruit juice and there's nothing wrong with the occasional pepsi.
This reminds me of the Harvard architecture:

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

Perhaps most familiar to the typical HN reader via Arduinos, and contrasted with von Neumann:

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

And anyone who has tried to make any kind of interesting general-purpose system on a Harvard design will tell you that it's not really practical.
Considering that they colluded to avoid paying talent, it seems that do have some trouble. Having money isn't the same as spending it.
How would you prevent the Mom-and-Pop business from, eventually, becoming essentially a franchisee of the Not-Amazon system?

If you list everyone's inventory with one-click ordering (assuming that order fulfillment is solved somehow), it is going to be an immediate race to the bottom on pricing, perhaps accelerated by arbitrageurs. Consumers will initially be happy, until service suffers, but vendors will be hit hard on margins.

One niche where I could see such an app succeeding: less-urban areas. In the past year or so, Amazon has neglected my parents' market in the college town of Blacksburg VA. My Dad broke his computer mouse over the weekend; while I could get one in hours via Amazon here in Seattle, the earliest delivery Amazon offered via Prime on Monday was Friday, with no option to pay more for faster delivery. I guarantee that there are hundreds of computer mice in existing store inventory within an hour's drive.
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Just 6 days ago you published what was a pretty great writeup on message queues, now this thorough dive on connections & pools; what's your writing schedule like? At some 12k words of fairly accurate and precise technical content I'm kind of blown away by your pace.
Those other companies certainly do too, yes. Or at least that is what I am convinced of. I would say that what I wrote about GitHub should equally apply to these companies too, or any company for that matter. Not just US companies, but any company that operates internationally.
It's not so much being a strong brand, but becoming known in a small niche that is key to avoid becoming reliant on Google. You only need to be reliant on Google if you don't know who your audience/niche is. Once you know that, you don't usually need Google to reach them.
Desktop UIs are mature, and were such by the end of '00s, in the sense that they've made the best use of the keyboard and mouse. Sure, it's okay to add subtle new things, like window snapping on Windows (the thing where you drag it to the edge of the screen) or inertial scrolling on macOS. It's absolutely not okay to take a perfectly functional and polished UI and "refresh" it with disproportional controls and huge fonts because people now carry phones in their pockets. The only good reason for a complete UI redesign is change in the way it's interacted with, for example because some novel kind of input device came about. But then again, the mere existence of touchscreens shouldn't be detrimental to the UX of those who use keyboard and mouse.
the author states that they _still_ get withdrawal symptoms if they miss their caffeine window -- which is now a single jasmine tea ball every other day? Sure that's not some kind of placebo? If I replaced the jasmine pearl tea ball with a decaf placebo would you still feel the difference
hmm acquired taste perhaps
https://youtu.be/21AuWT1lDMc?t=13
although not sure if same sound as the repo you linked

though I do use a mechanical keyboard at home
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Others have claimed that the author buried the lede by placing the chart which shows runaway healthcare (hospital and medical care services) inflation at the end of the article.

However, there are sound arguments for why healthcare costs have not actually inflated much. Essentially, the argument goes, you're not buying the same thing that was available in the past. It's an apples to oranges comparison.

Cliff Asness has a great article touching on this topic: https://www.aei.org/articles/the-healthcare-myths-we-must-co...

Higher education on the other hand...
These lines cluster in interesting ways. Is this a mere coincidence? Is this a weird selection bias in how the graph was created? Is this an actual correlation in where these prices come from?
You have the right derivation and you've broken "helicopter" correctly, but what exactly is a "gyroco"? It seems to me "gyrocopter" was very likely coined in English from the root "gyro" and the "copter" from "helicopter" as a back-formation.
Hmm.. I type and talk at the same time. It's not all the time, but I talk in meeting while I'm still typing the last part of my sentence.
Sell oil, buy electric cars. Is this the definition of hypocrisy? At least it is better than the alternative, sell oil and buy fossile fuel cars.

Edit: I would like to rephrase the last sentence as "At least it is better than _an_ alternative, which is to sell oil and buy fossile fuel cars." which is a fairer categorisation of the problem space and less consumerist.
You have yet to make any useful argument that derives from your definitions. And I was only providing the examples you demanded, of other workers using your body.

"It's not "mine" though, these are centuries old analytical concepts."

Yeah but Marxism has not taken over the world. Lots of concepts are centuries old but have still not proven correct or useful.
G is short for MAFD (multiplication, atomics, floats, doubles) and C for compression.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V#Design .
>You don't get to 'not go to jail' because 'it will be depressing'.

To add to DanBC, a country absolutely can decide not to extradite to another country they believe plans to imprison someone at well below what they consider to be the minimum standard for human rights, the same way many countries do not extradite to a country that tortures or has the death penalty. There is a difference between making the argument “I don’t want to go to jail because it is depressing” and “the country’s planned imprisonment would violate my basic human rights and is to such an inhumane level as it would likely cause severe physiological damage”.
Librem 5 provides features which no other phone provides. Simple specs comparison does not show the whole picture. See FAQ: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....

Edit: Also, why do you need a better performance? Browsing and 3D games work fine.
The touch screen UI experience design isn't well thought out.

I never use tablet mode even though I have a few windows detachable devices.

All they need to fix it is to realize that windows isn't a mobile is. And that windows users keep their important stuff in the desktop.

In tablet mode, desktop is hidden and you'd would have to jump through hoops to access it.

It seems windows cannot distinguish between a touch screen tap and a mouse. Because long pressing on desktop randomly shows a touch optimized context menu or the normal one designed for mouse.
Hot water isn't essential either. Some of us prefer cold showers!
As much as people like to dump on smart phones; yes, they really are essential. My having access to news, music, books, podcasts in the palm of my hand is revolutionary. Literally any curiosity about any subject can be indulged at a whim. Social media might be toxic if you let it take over your time, but the benefits to society cannot be overstated.
That is BY FAR the best product video I've ever seen. Wow. "Really makes me excited for the product."... well said! I think that's what marketing is supposed to do.
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windows 7 was good. They could have just stopped with it. Make some security upgrades and call it a day.
I'm not sure that college textbooks are written once. It depends on the subject, but they are often replaced frequently e.g. as technology or laws are updated, and each one makes only a small number of sales. Yes, printing costs are relatively low, but they are also a relatively small part of the cost of many kinds of book.
You can also make almost the opposite point. We used to spend a lot on basic needs like food and shelter, 3/4 of the average income on food, and more money on bread alone than on housing (IIRC, 19thC rich countries). As growth/technology made these cheaper, or if you prefer, made us so rich that they can be had for a tiny fraction of our income, we spend it on other things.

Many of these are status competitions -- it's the location of your house that's expensive, not the drywall, and that's an auction against others who also want it. Education in these graphs is arguably like that too -- what's expensive is a top name, rare connections; the actual knowledge is very close to free.

Healthcare isn't a status competition. But it does increasingly seem like it's possible to spend an unlimited amount of money on it -- why not try a million-dollar cancer treatment if you can (somehow) afford it? None existed in Maslow's time partly because the science hadn't advanced, but also because there were too few potential customers. As a society, it isn't crazy to think that this should be a growing proportion of what we buy. If you think it should be a decreasing slice of the pie, then what exactly should be increasing, over the next 50 years? (Although obviously I'm aware of the ways in which how we buy it is deeply broken.)
Your reference talks about a different set of entities, the information from most data brokers is inconsistent and often wrong (much like display).

Because they have first-party information, neither Google nor Facebook suffer as much from this problem (although the most common school attended on Facebook is Hogwarts, so obviously they're not perfect).
This behavior shouldn't be praised. Having to go on twitter, get on the front page of HN, and make Github look bad seems like the only way to get help these days.