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> In the early 90's I remember being able to buy 4 whoppers for $1.

The simple answer is that your memory is wrong, and that at no point in the 1990's were you able to buy 4 Burger King Whoppers for $1. Other than your recollection, do you have any evidence that this price is correct? Or have I missed a layer of hyperbole in your argument?
Haven't used a Model M in 25 years but this comment brought me back to that time, wondering what the apparent speaker grill underneath was. For those who are also curious, here's what Wikipedia says:

>Until the late 4th-generation variants, most Model Ms have a 1.25" slotted, circular speaker grille in their bottom surfaces. Relatively few contain an actual speaker, however, which was useful only for sounding beep codes on older terminal systems. The most common P/Ns with speakers are 1394540 and 51G872, made for RS/6000 UNIX workstations.
From memory of listening to this a few times some time ago (caveat: I certainly didn't study the content of this video carefully, but I do understand some significant context of his work as he sees it reasonably well I think):

Deutsch here isn't trying to modify quantum mechanics, he's trying to "interpret" it. He wouldn't use the term "interpret" of course, for excellent and fascinating reasons that I can't quickly cram into an HN post, but you can find them in his book The Beginning of Infinity (I was convinced about this area of what he says in the book, not about everything else he says there -- there's a LOT of stuff in there!).

By the way, I don't know whether or not you meant to imply that Deutsch is not a physicist, but he is -- and well known for his work on the fundamentals of quantum physics.
I think 5 years of support is reasonable.
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It looks like the company has now gotten access to their GitHub account again, according to the original poster on the Twitter thread.

I don't know, it just looks like some kind of surveillance automation kicked in, froze the account, and customer service was slow.
I kinda get it if I move my mouse away as it shows more of the participant video. But if I am hovering over the mute button don't hide it!

It is very frustrating.

On GNOME I have set up a hotkey to mute my microphone (this is available but unbound by default). It is amazing as it works for all applications and doesn't matter what window is focused. The only downside is that you don't get the mute indicator.
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> Government is not efficient, and cannot effectively enforce rules, so cryptocurrency will undoubtedly survive.

So true, they can’t even keep prohibited drugs from being smuggled onto their government spacecraft by hand-picked government (cosmo|astro)nauts.

https://reason.com/2021/01/01/space-the-final-smuggling-fron... (what great article, must discuss https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25646360 ;))
Don't forget the other effects of caffeine. It raises blood pressure. Hypertension is called the silent killer with good reason. I've quit caffeine 3 times now. This last time was at my doctors recommendation (slightly elevated BP).

It really helped along with not drinking all the gunk in soda. Since then, I've cut salt intake, sugar binging, and set aside 30 minutes most days to get the heart rate up. I'm no "health nut" but after breaking my sedentary habits, I do feel better than I have in a long time.
My mouse only has artificial clicking. It's a rollermouse without any real click in the roller-bar. It's quite trippy to disable the clicking-sound, suddenly it doesn't feel like I'm actually pressing the bar. But with sound it feels like I have haptic feedback.

I think the trackpad on my previous mac was similar? Or, it had haptic feedback, but it was artificial and could be tweaked in SW.
> it’s pseudo-science to me

Maybe do some background reading?

For example: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07221
I think it’s certainly demonstrably complex enough to make drawing a binary conclusion difficult at this point.

This is an interesting study which takes a wide variety of factors into account - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.6043...
I think you've hit the nail on the head.

And there's still a lot of work to be done on the desktop gui. For example, adapting to multimonitor scaling differences.

And the year of the linux desktop will only arrive if we can achieve hw 2d+3d acceleration on an open hardware graphics platform.
Will edit that, yeah. I was am struggling to explain the GIL without having to talk about the GIL, because if open that can of worms it becomes a much longer article and goes off track.

All of the GL and event loop based stacks go multi threaded a the lower library levels, really. Will think about how to explain that. And will move Python off that general category.
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Hi Shrey,

What a great concept! If I knew more about ML/AI I'd be shooting you an email right now.

Keep it up, showing your peers your passion can only lead to inspire more people to become technologists.
can't you just push elsewhere, be it a self-hosted location or the one of a reliable 3rd party and tell Microsoft to go f§ck themselves?

I mean, what do you need github for to integrate and deploy?
pre-ordering from CDPR people has always worked out /s
Budum-tish.
You can use Apache 2.0 license with the "LLVM exception", which was made to deal with the GPL2 compatibility issue (though the LLVM exception is relatively recent, maybe it didn't exist or openssl weren't aware of it at the time). See e.g. https://spdx.org/licenses/LLVM-exception.html . Used by at least LLVM and CUPS.
It says it mutes the mic while you type.
> > offer users the option of generating an apk wrapping their native code in a usable way.

> This seems a promising solution: compile from source, create an apk, install - your custom distribution! For popular collections of packages, a pre-built apk.

FPM could probably generate APKs in addition to the source archive and package types that it already supports.

The conda-forge package CI flow is excellent. There's a bot that sends a Pull Request to update the version number in the conda package feedstock meta.yml when it detects that e.g. there's a new version of the source package on e.g. PyPI. When a PR is merged, conda-forge builds on Win/Mac/Lin and publishes the package to the conda-forge package channel (`conda install -y -c conda-forge jupyterlab pandas`)

The Fedora GitOps package workflow is great too, but bugzilla isn't Markdown by default.

Keeping those APKs updated and rebuilt is work.
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Ya, but if only six of the 16 are hashed, I'm trying to think of where an attacker will deduce the other 10? It's a known integer space, but how do they know which 10 belong to the other 6?
Yeah, when entire wings in your headquarters are named after a fascist and authoritarian, that's not a good sign. It'd be like if there was Goebbels building in the German intelligence.
When I downloaded it the DMG file was 12.2Mb. I was suspicious of why an app this small in function would require such a large download, and looked inside, but the actual contents was only 1.4Mb, half of which was icons etc., which seems much more reasonable. If I right click on Unclack.app and choose "compress", I get a file under 1Mb in size.

Does this always happen with DMG files, or is there something weird going on here? This file is 10× bigger than it could be.
Would that be the same number you tattooed on their arms, or is this too humanizing for this approach?
That's strictly false. ~65% of the US budget is mandatory spending, and ~86% of that goes to things like social security, unemployment, Medicare, and so forth. Military spending is priority #3 by share of the budget, not priority #1.

Even if this wasn't a falsehood, characterizing all military spending as "bombing brown people in the middle east" is ignorant, incendiary political flamebait.
The big difference people need to understand is between "core" inflation, and consumer price index, and whether that index includes super volatile items like food and fuel, and how they are weighted. It's one of those torturing data until it gives you the policy you want exercises.

You can make inflation say whatever you want it to say with selected goods and index weighting, so I don't get into arguments about it because it's mainly an obfuscation proxy for ideological conflicts.
Option 3 seems to be exactly what I had in mind! When it's stable I suppose we might as well establish ZFS as the perfect file system.
It is hard to discuss hypothetical violations so I won't do that. It absolutely is a safe course of action to do a blanket ban. That said, is it reasonable to assume violation based on IP address ( and that is what seems to have happened here )? Banks don't automatically (typically ) block MUHAMMAD JIHAD even if they may end up questioning it.
I would try it, but it requires login, normally stuff on Show HN should be able to be tested without having to register.
nice! can you add data for US and Asia (especially China)?
I don't think load testing is hard, it just requires time to do properly. Maybe some people think they can get a tool, record a script and hit play. In some cases that might be enough. Once you are concerned about performance testing, you have to do work to get it right.

I usually have a test from the 'front' of the app and separate tests developed for each component (services, dbs etc). I do load and stress testing. Stress testing is very valuable as a preventative measure. Depending on what is available I use different hardware monitoring tools to gather data. Sometimes its OS specific or a vendor tool like PRTG. On the software side I run profilers for the language the app is using.

I run focused tests - what the 'expected' use will be and general tests that hammer as much as possible.

I have found and addressed problems at all levels. Investigation is the hard part. I find it fun and you learn a lot about infrastructure configuration. Most hardware problems that show up are can usually be remedied by throwing more resources at it. Often times the cost is lower than diving into full investigation / software changes. Server configuration is another inexpensive option. It requires more investigation, if the bottleneck is the number of connections you have to determine if its: one of the many webserver settings or one of the many lower level services. I once discovered a cap on TCP connections on a low level OS service was limiting performance. After those you hit software. Modern profilers will catch most issues. I find with code network latency is the biggest offender. I had an app that took 1.5 seconds round trip. The client wanted it 500ms or less. The fix was simply being smarter with database requests and having a local cache of some data. In the end a cold request took 300ms with subsequent requests being approx 70 - 100ms.

I could go on but performance testing is a discipline like any other. It's not hard if you put in the time.
what were the reasons it didn't work in Germany?
Two kind of sanctions:

- sanction the leaders responsible and their buddies, the most common (that's what we do with russia, turkey, ...), hurt their wallet but ultimately is a soft sanction, and also your populace sees it as ineffective / nothing is done

- sanction the country directly, embargo, complete block, kick out of swift, that sort of stuff is what was done to Iran. Can only be done if you're part of the bigger/more powerful group.
Massive effect, causes lots of poverty and pain for the populace but that's on purpose, so they are forcing their leaders to change some stuff. Doesn't always work, but both outcome are victories in a way: either the country is forced to change and stop the original abuse, or it doesn't change but is so crippled that it's not longer a problem.

This is bound to something very, very, important: if the country does change and does what you asked, you start lifting.

Part of the message that's more of an european rant: that's why Trump action on the Iran deal was a disaster, because, now the population doesn't believe it's their own leaders fault, and even if they did their leaders don't believe it would ease if they did what was asked. That's how you end up with a north korea.

According to every report I've seen, Iran was fully respecting their part of the deal, and allowing all the inspection necessary, when the USA did a "AHAH ! it's a trap !" trick on them and screwed them. You're not convincing countries to behave, you're telling them that if they don't behave, they better go all the way to the other side.
> How does this not impact inflation?

Ask Japan. Their M1/2 has growth bigly over the last few decades and they've had next no inflation. Remember, the 'general' equation is: Inflation = Money_supply x Velocity.

Yes, there's a big tank of money sitting around, but it's not sloshing around the economy that much. And if it does start, there's at least one tool to cool things down: raise interest rates.
Best wishes with your projects, please drop the capitals though.
If anyone knows how to configure pulseaudio to use both RNNoise and module-echo-cancel together, I'd very much appreciate some pointers. My results have been a very distorted robotic voice.
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Microsoft should boycott the sanctions, they are cruel and the only reason they exist is that our current president hates our previous president.

They are way too big to actually be penalized in a meaningful way and doing the right thing once in a while feels great.
I would blame the automatic sanctioning software triggering such as situation, without checking if the new access from Iran was by a tourist or citizen. Adding an org block for minor access within two weeks is overreach.
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Off-topic but I wonder if there's some creative department at Nvidia, whose job is to invent a compelling mass-market uses for their beefy GPUs, as crypto rush is fading out and the gaming market hasn't much potential to grow further.
True, and I'd agree. But these companies are private entities. I can disagree with them but I can't force them to do anything, aside from not using them. Economic sanctions are introduced by governments, supposedly from and for the people.
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No, it is not. Oil is used for more than just cars.
I love these solutions but none are as easy as "install an app and click a button to turn on." RTX Voice has that locked down. I'd use RNNoise instead if there was a standalone app that just "worked" on my mic input. But here I have to jump through hoops for it to work.
Welcome to the new non-complete blue Control panel for Windows.

There was a time where opening the control panel gave you a view of all subsystems. I hardly remember it anymore. A faint memory.
> economic sanctions end up as a way to use the people of these countries as a way to pressure their governments for political gains?

It's not as if this isn't commonly known. But when you view sanctions as a de-escalatory alternative to outright conflict, which also has huge negative impacts on the people of the countries in conflict.
Infinity or -1/12?
I would bet that acceptance follows the rate, not vice versa.
I like coffee though for the flavor, the caffeine is not the point. I'd like decaf but never found any I like and the decaf process looks pretty sketchy with lots of chemicals.
I usually quit caffeine for a month 3 or 4 times a year. Cold turkey gives me bad headaches for a few days, but I’ve been tapering over 4 days with almost no withdrawal.

The main reason I have to take a break is eventually it starts giving me muscle spasms. Combined with a little stress or being low on sleep, and my muscles will sometimes twitch nonstop. The worst is when it gets to my eyelids. Green tea, however, makes eye twitching worse than coffee does.

> It took 10 years to get to this level of caffeine dependence. Spending one year to unwind this addiction is relatively fast!

I don’t believe that’s how caffeine actually works. Dependence builds in a matter of days, and withdrawal symptoms dissipate in a matter of days.

https://www.healthline.com/health/how-long-does-caffeine-wit...

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/15496-caffein...
> title claims.

Discussions based on the title are useless. Good articles frequently have titles that are bad or not even relevant. Title of an article:

1. May not be chosen by the author. Its often editor decision.

2. Article can have multiple changing titles. For clickbait reasons.

Discussions based on title are generally worthless. In the HN you can ask someone to change the title to be more relevant.
Pure caffeine is quite different - it removes many of the (negative) effects, notably stomach upset, bloating, frequent urination.

For me, powder in capsules works best, pressed tablets are slower to take effect, and the brand also matters, although there's so many of them you'd have to try and see for yourself - either part of the extraction process or the source of caffeine is different, but some brands are noticeably and consistently different in effects.

Some have that brain fog and jitteriness that is common with coffee, some are just a clean alertness with clean withdrawal.

Quitting coffee using pure caffeine might work for some, and not for others.
That math store sounds interesting, have a link?
I'll be honest, that is a bit terse for a lay-person like me, but the links hopefully give enough pointers to properly grok what you said with a bit of reading. Thank you!
> companies are private entities.

Private entities chartered and regulated by the government, of course.
slightly offtopic: I am surprised by how much patience thestinger has on the thread replying to people who clearly have no context about the issue - enough to repeatedly explain the tradeoffs and reasons behind the decisions taken.
Like others here, I also quit cold-turkey, getting headaches and light nausea for a week and a bit. The benefits were immediate, greater awareness, energy, and quality of sleep.

What I also found is that I had been using coffee/caffeine to control certain aspects of my daily life, such as when to have focus and when to get tired/sleep. Without caffeine I was felt distracted by little things I was noticing or thinking of, made worse by the WFH situation.

I've gone back to consuming a limited amount (~1.5 cups) only between 10am and 6pm. I used to have none on weekends feeling a bit off to reset but eventually even this seemed pointless, so 10am-6pm every day has been working well.

If I didn't have a job where I had to hold a house of cards in my head daily for hours at a time, or have a distraction-free work area, I could probably give it up entirely. But then I don't think I would, I enjoy the flavour and ritual of coffee and frequently drink decaf espresso or americano even when out, which is actually pretty good if you find a good local bean roaster.
Thanks for sharing your experience. This is the kind of thing that makes me question if removing coffee from my routine is really worth it in the long run. I have two young kids so a bad nights sleep (not from insomnia but from kids) is going to make my next day super unproductive.

I definitely drink large cups in the morning but don't feel like it's causing my problems except if I don't drink coffee and the afternoon lull. If I was being honest the hope would be that going cold turkey would have a completely level, focused energy all day long but that isn't a realistic outcome and I trade out an enjoyable morning routine (coffee w/bagels, coffee w/biscotti).

The outcomes everyone talks about don't quite resonate with me - though I don't love the idea of being beholden to coffee/caffeine. Not being dismissive of everyones benefits I find myself questioning the long term benefit. I feel like I'm missing something.
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How many bites of the pie did you lose during those 4 transactions? Besides, you still need to convert DAI to fiat to use it IRL in most ways, DAI is just another form of space money despite being pegged to the dollar.

I could also see criminalization of mixing tools being a thing.
It is increasingly impossible to live in my country without a number of apps that require an iOS device or an Android device with all the Google services enabled. There's one de facto monopoly payment app[0], a lot of places where you can't park without an app etc., but the big thing is we have a government mandated single sign-on solution. You can still get one-time-pads in the mail, but there's also an app, and some features of the service are now app only.

The web allowed us to avoid a world where everyone had to own a Windows machine, but mobile phones are now making that a reality.

[0] A privately owned replacement for cash, doesn't that just sound great...
What I first replied to is about a specific private key algorithm that doesn’t have any patterns, and using it over something that can’t be backdoored. Using OTP is not just using crypto, it is pretty much the only “uncrackable” encryption if used properly.

My point is that using something like PGP to communicate over TOR (or even OTP over TOR) doesn’t matter if whoever you are trying to hide from has a backdoor to your OS or has the ability to exploit a vulnerability in your OS (which only requires something trivial like you having loaded some random JS in the past year). And there is no way to protect against an undocumented bug in some software you depend on other than to not use it. You can only hope that a government or criminal doesn’t care enough to burn a 0day on you.

(Of course you can still airgap a computer with the private PGP key and manually copy the encrypted data over but the question then is whether that is worth the minuscule chance of it mattering)
This. If you’re in the US, Blue Bottle is easy to get in the mail if not in most cities. Vertigo is another brand making my current favorite, it’s more complex than 80% of even caffeinated 3+ wave coffees. Those are if you drink black / medium roast. If you use cream, any Starbucks or Philz decaf is pretty good these days too.
Because its community driven FLOSS project.

And it would "OK" if there would no releases with new features... but bug fix releases which is worse.

Instead, team (owner & core members) just dropped & disabled everything, leaving Android 5.x/6.x device owners in frozen state.

Even more, team not proposed itself & ignored any proposition from others to at least support Termux for Android 5.x/6.x in LTS-way.
That's definitely a bummer. On my work laptop I'm stuck on Catalina for the foreseeable future, and that's where this app would be useful. Presumably most people using macs for work aren't on Big Sur yet.
So you trust your VPN more than your ISP? They can just log the exact same data! And probably do with it as they please...
The Win10 search randomly throws me into a web browser and giving away my search query to the search engine.
Not sure what would you have preferred? I can only think of inline, but I'm not sure how well that would have worked in an IM application, where you'd typically expect things to be in chronological order. You basically described the point of having threads in the first place, and I also cannot think of many other existing implementations, so I'm curious.
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I'm in this boat. I didn't drink coffee til mid twenties, and I have never used an alarm clock. Now, I love the taste of coffee.

I have given it up a few times, but have never really felt better or worse for it.