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In the US, teachers sometimes count graphic novels (comic books) as reading material, especially for “read-this-many-books-this-week” homework assignments.

There are so many entertaining distractions that just being able to get kids used to reading something is an achievement in of itself.
Yep, Vienna has a team. There is also a Swiss one, I think.
They did die out. Their planning was crazy, promises to customers never achieved, some projects even completely cancelled because of major overruns etc.

They also started doing their own estimates since they didn't like mine. 3 months of work with 3 people -> 1 week of work 1 developer. Not kidding about this last one! We didn't finish it in 3 months because of scope creep.

Yeah they went bust.
i guess that there should also be a multi-region and multi-az kubernetes cluster to pre-render puzzles server side, right ?

and a highly-scalable distributed nosql database to store puzzles at a webscale level, also.

and don't forget a planet-scale, anycast-enabled cdn to deliver puzzles with low latencies.
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tme;dr

Too many emojis, didn’t read
It's already ruined. All this shows to me is that the best way to train an AI using people is to not tell the people they're training an AI.

Edit: I just imagined that it would post submissions to reddit instead and have people vote up and down. No mention of AI, just voting up and down on other people's art.

Then that could train the AI, right? I have no idea, never worked with ML.
Reminds me of the “Those are trading sardines, not eating sardines” punchline.
All of these arguments also apply to precious metals and gemstones.

Gold, for instance, is extremely energy intensive/wasteful to mine, heavily tracked, and (until recently) had little utilitarian/industrial value outside of jewelry.
That exists already. There are certification programs, and having certified people is often a requirement to get some contracts.

For example, if your company wants to build a computer system for the government, the contract usually requires certain certifications for the people that will build it.

There are also some jobs that require certain certifications for the candidates. It's not too uncommon I'd say. It all depends on the stakes.
I find desktop app no worse than whatsapp. Killer feature here is that desktop app after connection does not need a phone/mobile device to be constantly present online.
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yes

the crypto industry is one big scam industry
> As long as they don't skip steps. And they always do. So you end up running at 1/10th of the speed your tool could move at to avoid that, and even then you'll end up tossing workpieces because you lost synchronization somewhere along the line.

My experience has been roughly opposite of this. If you overload your motors, you're going to lose positional accuracy and probably wreck your workpiece regardless of whether you use steppers or servos. If you don't overload your motors then the difference is moot, and with steppers there's less to go wrong.
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What's funny to me — and I mean this sincerely, not as a troll — almost all the examples of good writing in Gatsby in this thread and the target article seem overwrought to me. If you'd present them to me out of context, I'd think they were examples of comically bad writing.

I'm sort of neutral about The Great Gatsby. It's not my favorite but I think it's become a popular testament to its era. Because that era in many ways is the dawning of our own, it has special relevance.
At least there's a macOS app. The craziest thing about WhatsApp is that they still don't have a native iPad app!
The difference is tiny as long as you stay on similarly featured apps. I thought the same, but after trying Telegram i disagree.

* editing messages

* pinning messages

* small things like polls ( great for group chats ) and location sharing

* great API and bot framework ( awesome for public chats, and it can also be integrated for personal use ( e.g. i get a Telegram notification when someone enters home, and when my blog or VPN are down)
I strongly recommend ShapeUp (see details here https://basecamp.com/shapeup)

In very few words how we implement this:

- We have a small team (Designer, Product, FE, BE, Mobile, Devops) = total 4-5 people (not all features have needs for all components). The team can change from cycle to cycle, but in practice it stays more or less the same

- A cycle is defined as a period of 6 weeks where we do feature development. What we work on is decided by Design + Product with feedback from us. During the cycle we refine the scope to be able to ship the feature at the end of the cycle

- Followed by 2 weeks of CoolDown where we usually do refactoring or paying technical debt or small improvements or bug fixing. The Cooldown is driven by technical team and during it the product and design are there to support the technical team when needed

- Very important: At the end of the cycle what is not ready to ship will not be released and has great chances of not being picked up again as before every cycle starts there is an assessment about what is most important/valuable to work on.

For me this is the best combination between doing product progress and keeping the quality of our technical assets on a steady line.

Also I really like the ingredients of a Pitch and how to shape the work to be done in a cycle. It is - so far - truly the most flexibile and most team oriented approach. A nice balance between driving the product and keeping the team happy (where happy = technical advance + being involved in decision making, discovering themselves the scope and working on constraints + making progress).
When scam becomes self sustaining (even in the face of repeated evidence it’s a scam), is it still a scam? It seems like this is built into the value of Bitcoin at this point. Someone could stand up and say “behold, I am manipulating the price of Bitcoin for my own gain, through nefarious means” and people would just think “well, after the price collapses because of this, someone else is bound to manipulate the price, so it’ll go back up!”
I remember the old times when there were inspectors going from door to door, often ex cops. Legally you weren't obligated to open your door, but if you did, and they heard a voice of TV, an invoice did follow. It was just crazy system.
We're also waking up to the fact that free speech is an incredibly difficult ideal to uphold. Hate speech, fake speech, etc are testing the limits. Other ideals like religion are much easier to uphold in a mostly secular society until a new religion threatens the place of a dying incumbent. Really all these ideals are great when we're on the same page, until we aren't.
Based on "uni" I'm guessing you are at a UK institution (as am I).

The notes are utter dogshit because there's no culture of publishing them online for the public.

Kibble's classical mechanics book is deep, easy to read and cheap, I'd start there. Most physics books past a certain level end up with an increasingly hand-wavy derivation of the Euler-lagrange equations in some context
Isn't literally all of capitalism an enormous ponzi scheme? The older your money (i.e. the earlier you've held it and kept it) the richer you are. Younger people who have grown up after you now face a uphill battle because you the older person have capital you've accumulated earlier.

I'd love to be corrected on this but as it is every value system humans participate in appear to be very pyramidal.
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Thank you for "mehikon" reference. It sounds as something out of a bad soviet joke.

Your point about random checkups is probably how it was done in most countries. You could opt out, but you would have to allow them to enter your home for a checkup. If you refused, you would have to pay again.
I agree with the basics and also that Signal is pretty much designed like Whatsapp and so the switch is rather easy. The article however also includes the setup process which is important to many. Just take Element (aka Riot/RiotX) as an example for a long-winded and offputting setup process.

That being said, I still prefer Element over Signal.
They're prompts you get when you have three Teams tabs open at the same time. When you click them, it refreshes the current tab. Kicked me out of calls a couple of times.
I think the reason why you're getting so many different answers (ponzi, digital-gold, digital-cash, hyperinflation-hedge etc.) is because Bitcoin is not the same as any other money/currency/asset in existence, and people are trying to figure out what it really is and what its uses are.

Here's a fact though, Bitcoin is the hardest form of money ever created. With "hardest", I mean the most difficult to mint new quantities of it. That's why some people call it digital gold, because up until now, gold was the hardest form of money available.

I think it's actually the most difficult for people in rich western countries to see the value proposition of Bitcoin, since they're used to having strong, stable currencies and rule of law.

If you live in a country with 20% inflation and/or expropriation of assets, then Bitcoin is a way out.

Bitcoin does have a payment system, but IMO people who compare it to Visa or think that it should scale to handle everyday transactions are misguided. Eventually only very large and very valuable transactions will be made directly on the blockchain, and other transactions will be done on higher layers, like the lightning network.

Concerning Bitcoin being decentralized, it is, but I guess you dispute that due to a lot of hash power being in China. The Chinese miners are however individuals and not some uniform block who all think and act the same. Also, the mining pools are made up of individuals who can fairly easily switch to other pools at a moment's notice. Of all the cryptocurrencies, BTC appears to me to be the most decentralized.
Your point has no value without an example.
Does Twitter enforce these policies most of the time? Were those tweets direct calls for particular acts of violence against particular people? Because the problem messages on Parler were direct calls for the killing of particular
US politicians. You know - the kind of stuff that can get the FBI knocking on your door.

Given the other comment earlier in this subthread, I am not sure if you are legitimately professing a truly extreme form of cultural relativism, or are simply not arguing this in good faith.

But let's not guess. Let's look what actually happened to Mahathir Mohammad and Twitter. [1]

> Twitter took action against a message from the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, on Thursday that declared, “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.”

> The post violated Twitter's glorification of violence policy, which requires the violator to remove the tweet before they’re able to tweet from the account again.

Right. I'm going to go with 'probably not arguing this in good faith.'

[1] https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-takes-action-as-ex-mal...
Is this plane landing or departing? (2017)
But the crucial bit here is the "large" in "large numbers". I expect that even for quite popular drugs the number of studies are maybe in the hundreds, which depending on statistics could well be quite a way from large enough. In particular if a significant fraction are crap studies.
My Note20 Ultra is hacked
I am not a hacker but joined this forum to search for help because I don't know what to do anymore. I recently purchased the Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra and everything was perfect until now. I know for a fact I am hacked and I think it was by logging in to my cable provider's Hotspot, I think they spoofed the captive portal page. But somehow settings on my phone are turned on after I've turned them off. They downgraded my phone and all apps and when I try to update it doesn't let me even though I show there are updates available. Sometimes though I see there are updates available and then a second later it shows that the app is up to date. At first when this started I downloaded anti virus and anti malware apps but they never caught anything because some of the apps that are causing all these issues are my real system apps but they are somehow modified and others have similar names to real system apps. I did a factory reset and that fixed nothing as I knew it wouldn't but still tried it. Now I can't download anything or update anything, it shows that it is downloading but it'll take a whole day to finish but a few seconds before the download is about to finish it just stops and never downloads. I tried updating by downloading apks online and same issue. Also whenever I am doing a search about how to fix these issues my network connection is suddenly cut off. This is the 4th device I get hacked in the last 6 months. I just don't know what to do to get this person off my phone. I don't want to have to get rid of this phone like I did the other devices. If someone would tell me what I can do and would be nice enough to help me, I would really appreciate it. THANK YOU
Using is possible with microG [1], but it’s not stable yet and purchasing is indeed very rarely possible (the only Android App I have bought outside the playstore is Titanium Backup)

[1]: https://microg.org/
I went in expecting yet another shallow unfair analysis but found an excellent one instead. Great work!
All of this is spot on.
Nano addresses these concerns, excluding privacy. The node's API is also straightforward. Nano was the first cryptocurrency I landed on when I wanted to pay players microtransactions in a browser based RPG. It works as described without undue hype. Solves the payment problem without promising to do everything under the sun.

Transactions are settled instantly and without fees. Rent seeking miners are taken out of the equation. Developers of services are incentivized to run nodes to have access to the network.

If cryptocurrency isn't intended to be used as a currency, only traded on to others or used in some perpetually forthcoming usecase - then concerns about it simply being a finance scheme may be on target.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_(cryptocurrency)
https://docs.nano.org/whitepaper/english/
How much Ethereum is used for actual transactions? All things I hear from it are tech toys/demos and weird financial instruments/gambling...
I think the idea is to make it harder to fiddle with the BBC budget
Maybe try FDroid?
That used to be more of a thing, but the recent governments have politicised the control of the BBC in a way that was not nearly as overt in the past.
"Mock the Week" if you want a more comedic take on the news.
Damned bribery and corruption act. I could really do with some free holidays and lavish parties. Now it's all branded mugs and that's your lot. Someone offered us free beer and we had to refuse. Oh, the humanity!
Crosswords are grid based word games. A text editor displays text in a grid. It seems like a great fit to me.
The amount of FUD in every Bitcoin-related thread on HN is mind boggling.

The network is decentralized, permissionless, pseudonymous and cheap. It is a stable protocol and layer 2 solutions are being built upon it to address the downsides blocking every day use.

He who controls the money, controls the world. The control is slipping and the roaches are starting to run around in panic.
If the current government want to kill it completely why have the ruled out decriminalising non-payment of the licence fee? There are pretty strong ethical reasons for why you shouldn't get a criminal record and, possibly, face prison time for not paying for a TV licence, so it would be politically quite easy to pass.
> Arithmetic operators instead of XOR
In that case, It uses Python that supports arbitrary long numbers out of the box so overflow of integers wouldn't be an issue(in Python3 default is arbitrary long integers).
> just use iPhone, FDroid or a dumb phone, duh

Honestly, we need a optimised non-custom rom alternative to smartphone operating systems, which is not iOS or google/android.

While the custom-rom development has come a long way, it's to fiddly, often lacks long-term support, shortcomings in terms of stability (network/singal disruptions, battery usage, crashes, bricks)and even privacy.
I presented both solutions because "it depends". Though I agree with "usually".

Yes, if in doubt then block the caller. I mainly provided it as an example because the article had it as an explicit requirement.

You're right about errgroup. One can fit only so much in a HN comment. And I didn't want to distract by making it look like "no, you should use my favourite library instead".

But again it depends. If an error is handled by doing log.Fatal(), then there's no point in using errgroup.

I'm also not passing ctx, which much (most?) nontrivial code should pass.
I've pulled it off on my threadripper but I can't seem to assign it more than 8 cores. Other than that there's a problem with connecting an iphone. It's not perfect, but it's not bad. I'm on debian.
To quote Charlie Brooker talking about Oliver Postgate (it's a brilliant piece of TV - watch it, it's on YouTube)

"Saying what were they on is an insult to the intelligence of the creators"

Although I agree some kids TV is gloriously mental
Sounds like that's your cue to leave if you ask me.
I bet even then they would be able to track you.
ManyChat is the most popular chatbot builder of 2020
Maybe. That said, Gab just added 3 million users in 12 days:

https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1351448855422799874

I created an account out of curiosity, and three of the default “Suggested Groups” were for QAnon conspiracy believers. One group has over 100k followers.
No, but it became a bit of a victim of being unfashionable. I think partly because of an influx of new devs who weren't in the position of having little choice but to learn at least some of the non-GUI way, particularly in the web sphere. As things have matured (arguably) and become more complex, and those devs have gained experience, they've started seeing the benefits of other methodologies.

I just hope it doesn't swing back too far the other way as it has before (I've been around long enough to have seen the cycle previously!). I'm a big fan for command line, scriptable, tools and plain text pipe-able output, and have been since being introduced to pipes & redirection all those decades ago, but we need to avoid the holier-than-thou thing that seems to develop when our old timer ways get the lime-light for a while. It only serves to put people off learning that they are great tools for many jobs and definitively the right ones for a some.
It hardly invalidates it, but it does point out how weird US political labelling is. The widespread use of "socialist" and "communist" for bits of extremely mild social democrat public policy.

No wonder there are so many twitter tankies when the right has been spending years saying that communism == free healthcare.
As they were buried deeper and deeper in the sediment, presumably oxygen levels fell lower and lower.

That will have caused selective pressure to manage to survive with so few resources. Those that can't simply become energy for others who can.
Yeah, telegram is a pretty neat instant messenger based social network but it shouldn't be described as a secure messenger.
One of the first things I do when launching htop on a new box is to disable threads. The current way of showing threads by default is untenable because some programs launch hundreds of threads, making it hard to get an overview of a system unless you make the terminal size very large.

I appreciate the author wanting users to discover a program running amok and producing a bunch of threads (anecdote: I've never seen it happen), but there's a bunch of ways to solve it from a UX perspective:

* make threads collapsed by default

* add a column showing the number of threads a process has

* add the threads toggle to the bottom bar for easy discovery

* add a prefix to all threads, e.g. [THREAD]

All of these are a lot more obvious than the color green.

The authors story of having users ask him why processes are green is simply an indication that the user interface is hard to understand.
Ponzi-scheme has very narrow definition. Bitcoin itself doesn't fall under it, though many such schemes have been run on it. It is more of mania or bubble. Not yet popped, but I still believe it is coming. Or maybe just slow deflation when investors have run out...
They're gone simply because people found little reason to keep them. They've been replaced by social things HN where you and I are having a nice discussion. (Too bad it doesn't involve hefting a pint, sigh.) That wouldn't have happened in the 80's, when I communicated with Zortech in London with a daily fax.
How would price discovery operate on externalities? Who decides what's an externality? It seems like you're suggesting centralized planning under a different name.
Yes and the argument some people are making is that the government and private companies should not be allowed to regulate speech.
Thanks for the edit. In Germany, the means are to put people leaning to certain parties in top positions. Or people with the right connections. As a result, the bavarian contribution, the BR, is not necessarly known for its liberal agenda. Others are more left leaning.

One other way is to have former press and spokes persons from a government taking up positions at the braodcasters. When the current (?) spokesman of Angela Merkal left as a news presenter from the ARD (or ZDF, to lazy to loo it up...),that was regarded as a braek from customs and more or less a no-no affecting the independance of these broadcasters.

TL;DR: Political parties, and not so much the "government", use soft power to influence these briadcasters. Quite often by having certain people selected for certain jobs.
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Not an electrical engineer.

Why not inductive charging or any other wireless technology? Also it does not require a single entry point - do it in parallel.

Also when 1 minute is not possible, how about increasing the time?

Edit: in addition, charging entry does not have to be on the side, it can be on top or on bottom - we do not need any gravity assist.
I'm sure that is part of it, but I would love to see the breakdown of the costs.

When it was first introduced it made sense to have a fee, not many people had a TV so by collecting the fee, you didn't tax the people without it. But today everyone has it, so this no longer applies.

Independence argument has some merit, but I would expect that there can be different methods that would provide the same level of independence.
Doing it with RF was perfected in the 1950s but the actual use was definitely limited if at all.

See Operation RAFTER
Biggest UX challenge with Signal for a normal person is the backup and recovery step. Whatsapp has made the process so seamless and Signal by design just cannot do it.
My main gripe with any non-WhatsApp chat app on Android is the same: notifications never "just work". I don't know if it's just my Samsung or what, but I can't get Telegram or Signal to reliably deliver notifications to me when they are closed or in the background, only when I open the app.
It sounds like regulations are coming.

Bitcoin had better buy some nukes to protect itself. It’s about to get a big stick shoved down its throat.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."
I still try to find the advantage over Whatsapp in the long-term. I get that Signal is not Facebook, so it has that going for it, however beside that it leaks the same data (which Signal says it is not storing however). You could probably compare it to Whatsapp before it was sold to Facebook.

So I have to ask myself: What happens if Signal has financial issues?

edit: Signal is open-source and non-profit as commenters pointed out. That's indeed advantageous.