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Thanks, I'm aware of these maps. I was interested in how I could procure some of these devices given my location.
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If the moral behavior can be agreed on, surely it can be stipulated?
Signal is conspicuously absent from the list of supported platforms...
Because an awful lot of this goes over my head, can anyone tell me if these findings could potentially apply to all auto-immune diseases? Or just those related to the brain?
They have bitten off an even bigger chunk of the meal they had nearly finished already:

- Developers

- Creatives

- Dutiful citizens of The Ecosystem

What they are no closer to biting off is gamers and hardware enthusiasts. Anyone who actually needs to open their PC for any purpose whatsoever.

I know Apple wants to be the glossy Eve to all the PC market's Wall-E's, but I will continue to shun them forcefully as long as they remain hell-bent on stifling the nerdy half of all of their users.

I assume the developer popularity is a result of the iPhone gold rush, which Apple exploited using exclusivity tactics. Therefore I consider it an abomination to see developers embrace the platform so thoroughly. iPhone development should feel shameful, and when there's no way to avoid it, it should be done on a dusty Mac Mini pulled from a cardboard box that was sitting in the closet ;)
I agree with you on your take. The “announcement” isn’t much of an announcement.

However, the writing is on the wall. I don’t think the general public realizes just how quickly new car buyers will look at electric versus gasoline and be unable to financially justify buying the gasoline model.

(Sure, the used and possibly the “cheapest new car MSRP possible” market will involve gas cars for a long time, but not the “I need a crossover SUV for $35-45k” market that dominates sales and profits.)

By 2030 you’re going to be looking at luxury car electric models with 600 miles of range at current prices or lower, with better reliability and lower cost of ownership.
> It’s 1/2 + 1 isn’t it?

The parent post is talking about the number that can go down while maintaining quorum, and you're talking about the number that need to remain up to maintain quorum. So you're both correct.

However:

> That would mean in 3 servers you need 2.5 aka 3 machines to commit a change.

That seems wrong. You need N//2 +1 where "//" is floor division, so in a 3 node cluster, you need 3//2 +1, or 1+1 or 2 nodes to commit a change.
Car use decline for the poor but stay the same for the rich?
Interestingly, comments like the one you're replying to are the reason why I'm ignoring Rust.

It's reached critical mass, meme status, where people will come in and shill for Rust or shill for how bad C++ is, not for any concrete or logical reason, but just because they've seen other people say the same thing. Which then, by becoming yet another person memeing that idea on, encourages more people to hold and repeat the same opinion, which then encourages more people to hold and repeat the same opinion, and so on. It's a viral idea, there's no stopping it at this point.

The people repeating the same lines rarely have any actual reason to repeat them other than the fact that they think they're true since they've seen so many other people repeat them. They'll just come in and assert that "C++ is an anti-pattern", with no rationale, no facts, no arguments, it's more political than technical, it's a mantra they've been brainwashed into repeating since everyone else in their echo chamber is repeating it. Of course this same pattern of a viral idea/meme extends much further into politics and all other areas of our life, enabled by the internet / mass media.

Maybe objectively C++ is pretty horrible and Rust is great, I'm not even saying anything about the objective reality of the situation. It's just so easy to spot the patterns at this point, across all areas of conversation, that I now just by default ignore and assume false anything that shows the same viral pattern, because I know the viral pattern is usually backed by nothing but itself. Maybe in the past if enough people believed something to be true it'd be easier to assume there's some reason for them to believe that, but in the era of the internet / mass media that's pretty much gone.
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Looks like Matrix is really taking off - this is the third "unified messaging interface" app on HN this week.
it seems evident that if "fists or pistols" are in play then certainly intolerance for that is a given. you are correct that its not tied to that exclusively, and given the obvious intolerance for that the more material threshold seems to be abandoning engagement altogether.

that said, I don't agree with your assessment that people saying the news is fake meets the test. from my vantage point the mainstream news is fake, for the most part, at this time, at least when it comes to politics. "the news" is not the forum for rational argumentation, not in my country at least. it seems to be close to pure propaganda, at least on the issues that are the most divisive. the forum for rational argument are the online public squares and in-person gatherings. and this is where Popper's argument in my opinion holds increasing relevance.

people retreating into filter bubbles and presuming their ideological opponents are evil, immoral to even engage with, etc, seems more in line with Popper's argument and is as prevalent as the news media propaganda. it doesn't take more than a few minutes to find examples of people on the right saying those on the left are secret communist pedophiles, and people on the left saying those on the right are white supremacists. (not the fringes, but that the mainstream views are in alignment with those labels.) this is the kind of intolerance the tolerant ought to push back against.
According to Pai, 3mbps passes the bar for high speed internet [0]. This is what happens when you let a lobbyist in charge of setting goals. Just imagine what could be done if everyone in America had 50mbps symmetrical.

Regarding net neutrality, I have no doubts that many ISPs had really profitable ways to monetize this change. The real question was how long until net neutrality was restored? Probably not long enough for an ISP to really do something about it.

Truth is carriers and ISP completely missed the boat around 2008 when Steve Jobs effectively turned them into bandwidth providers, a commodities market. All the value added on top of the network connection is now captured by Apple and Google.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/21/22242635/fcc-ajit-pai-int...
I've always been amazed that Apple did the camera bulge.

I'm quite sure that an iPhone not being able to lay flat on a table without wobbling would have caused Steve Jobs to throw it at whoever designed it.
+1, the real challenge here isn't UI design, it's integrating with several messaging services that are actively preventing being integrated in such a way.
There are alternatives to Google for advertising revenue.

No intermediary needed, newspapers used sell advertising directly.
Here is some of the internal advocacy going on at Microsoft.

- Managed languages if you can afford a GC

- Rust

- C++ with Core Guidelines

https://github.com/microsoft/MSRC-Security-Research/tree/mas...

Note that there are still some teams like Azure Sphere and Azure RTOS, which are only providing C based SDKs, so no everyone is on the same wave length.
I feel like EV boosters overstate these problems. I have a 12 year-old Toyota with 200k+ miles, and the only parts that have ever worn out have been suspension and brake parts (wheel bearing and brake rotors/pads), which of course an EV will have as well. It's never had problems with the engine or transmission. There are oil changes, and it'll be nice to skip that once I have an EV, but it's also like a 20 minute thing twice a year or so.
Earlier alternate -> https://valyr.io/

Planned support for also Email (first priority), SMS, Signal, matrix, etc
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On the upside, it looks as though the production silicon has a lot of performance headroom. The 800x600 mode overclocks it all the way to 400 MHz!
I built an app (https://actualbudget.com/) that uses a local sqlite db and syncs changes, and that's exactly how it works. It takes quite a different approach though, using CRDTs to represent changes and those are synced around. When a fresh client comes into play, it downloads the latest sqlite snapshot from a server and then syncs up.
EU memberships are voted by the people. We have already seen that populism can get a country out of the EU even if it's not a great idea. And there are already vocal people against EU memberships. Imagine giving them more reasons to rile up people.
Note that this Noise Protocol is just an alternative to TLS; it is not actually about adding noise to your data to prevent metadata leaking (sending noise to random people to hide contacts, sending noise to hide how much you're talking to different contacts, or just sending noise alongside messages to hide how much you're talking to one contact or how large your messages are). I'm confused every time this noise protocol comes up (apparently not often enough for me to remember right away). The "communication" in the title should also not be interpreted too specifically. It's just about two computers talking to each other, not about securing your communications by adding noise, perhaps that added to the confusion in this case.
Laila has been in back-to-back calls since she posted this (thanks to everyone who filled out the form & booked a meeting with her!) so I'll share what I know on this topic.

The high proportion of women studying STEM is definitely not a reflection of men not being interested in these fields. Engineering of all types are admired in the region, and computer science has gained traction in the past 5 years. There's increasing participation in competitive programming competitions... and that's mostly men so far.

Until about 5 years ago both men and women in Palestine were pressured by their parents to study medicine. That has changed because people have become aware of the opportunities in the tech sector and the unemployment facing all other fields. There's an exam you have to take at the end of high school in Palestine called "tawjihi"... it's similar to the A-levels in the UK or the matural in Poland, closest equivalent in the USA would be the SATs. At one university I know of in Palestine, 5 years ago a "tawjihi" score of 78 could allow you to study computer science. Now it's 92+. So it's a more in-demand field amongst both mena and women. (That's one reason it makes sense to start Manara now: the pool of super smart talent in computer science is growing quickly.)

As for why women study STEM and do so well in it... Laila always tells me that it was so normal to her that she didn’t really think about it. Women studied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, etc at high rates. I remember telling a woman in Gaza once about the stereotype that we have in the United States that men are better than women in these areas, and her response was, "Are you kidding? We all know women are super stars in those fields."

The fact that women do well in STEM starts off early: it's the only region in the world where girls outperform boys in high school math (and again, not because the boys are underperforming).

I have a hypothesis for this but it’s really just a wild guess. I ran across one study in the USA in which middle school girls’ math scores improved dramatically & quickly as soon as their math classes were separated by gender (i.e., girls did better when studying this subject with just other girls). In countries like Palestine most elementary, middle, and high schools are separate for girls and boys, so that might be a part of the reason for girls' confidence...
That's great news, the 2MB flash are not quite enough for some
projects and this could fit the bill for me.
They'll have to change their business model. Half an hour is a very long time for an extremely captive audience. I'm very certain they can figure out a way to make money off of that.
Yeah but people already miss being stuck in traffic and their daily commute so it's not going to last
when your disposable income is zero, doesn't that drive the statistics way out of wack?
Just found out "Lorien" is also from LoTR, so I now see your point. I was far too hasty in my original comment and didn't do the proper due diligence to understand what I was talking about. While I still don't feel the names matter, I do now definitely understand why some people feel that they do matter. My apologies.
Can salt intake/blood pressure affect IIH at all?
Well yes, probably you're right.

I mean, I truly believe that each person is unique.

For some persons it's okay to live a measured, calm life

But for others it might be okay pushing. E.g., in the evenings some people go home & drink bear & relax. Others lift weights and "suffer". Some work 24x7 while being happy.

"Burnout is a real thing but it's ridiculously overblown" - I like that :) Let's keep pushing than!
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If you support change, but only in a particular way that's unavailable, then do you really support change? Or have you found a way to gesture in the direction of change while being content with the status quo? Does this distinction have any actual difference to it, in practical political terms?

That's the kind of behavior pattern that leads to people being regarded as left-NIMBYs. They're not opposed to density! They're just opposed to every proposal that comes before them and insist on perfection. Whether or not that perfect solution, the mix of public housing for all and perfectly tuned rent control and running evil for-profit developers out of town, is reasonably achievable seems irrelevant. Until that wonderful day, the status quo is just fine.

So perhaps this is why they're called left-NIMBYs. They find the status quo acceptable and are willing to fight for it.
CUDA you mean?

Or LibGNMX, GX2 and NVN?
I think the sticking point is that during that transition you have to have people to release the constant updates that currently happen. Maybe they can be volunteers, but maybe not.
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You are correct. At the time, AOL had released TiK and documented the TOC protocol but TiK was a bit slow and clunky, so Mark Spencer, the original author of GAIM, implemented faster client in C using GTK for the UI. OSCAR support came later because OSCAR supported some additional presence features (I think?? It's been a while...) and because ICQ also used OSCAR.

Pidgin and libpurple also have roots in another project called Everybuddy which was one of the first multi-protocol integrated free software chat clients. As I recall, Torrey Searle started Everybuddy because he was having a hard time getting traction on adding multiple protocols to GAIM at the time for a variety of reasons my hazy memory doesn't really remember.

For a couple of years after GAIM started to get plugin and multiple protocol support, much code was shared between GAIM and Everybuddy, and then eventually effort centered around just one of the code bases which eventually became Pidgin and libpurple.

Source: I was involved in GAIM early on and Torrey is a friend from those days.
"News" has little value and that's fine. It is "new" things and in this internet world it is fleeting, click-bait articles purely read for entertainment. Main stream research journalism is what I fear the market does not value. The best researchers now have private highly paid news letters.
tayo42 i'm sorry to say this but I genuinely think that you're out of touch with the reality. maybe you ought to get out some more and actually interact with people.
5.10.x kernels are very stable and feature complete with AMD Ryzen Renoir - I update one almost weekly once new patch version is out on Ubuntu Kernel PPA. Here is nice script which makes the update trivial: https://github.com/pimlie/ubuntu-mainline-kernel.sh
Texts is a live product (landing page has a real screenshot) and it does support iMessage on Mac by connecting to the official process. We've done the most extensive research on it afaik.
Even if there's no QA issues, the interior of the Model 3 is just so cold and bare IMO. Sitting in one next to a luxury or near-luxury car is night and day difference in both style and comfort. The Model S is better, but it's still blown away by other cars at the same price point.

I understand that style is subjective, but the majority of people I have talked with about it agree that the interior is a disappointment given the status of the brand.
Johnny Ives was obsessed with thinness - it’s the same problem which lead to the bad keyboards. Now they’ve been putting people who haven’t forgotten about usability in charge I would not be surprised if the next case design included a non-terrible webcam since it’s unlikely that anyone is going to stop video conferencing even if we do go back to the office.
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Is WPF actually that popular though? Honest question... last time I did any WPF dev was 2008 and I haven’t really seen it used much since. MS certainly aren’t hyping it much (although that could just be the decline of the desktop app in general).

My impression was that it wasn’t worth it for small apps and not performant enough for things like CAD, etc.
That is cool, and at $4, I suppose the risk is pretty low :)
> It’s 1/2 + 1 isn’t it?

> That would mean in 3 servers you need 2.5 aka 3 machines to commit a change. Then 4/5, 5/7, 6/9, 7/11.

No, the requirement isn't 1/2 + 1. Any strict majority of the cluster is enough to elect a leader. So you need 2/3, or 3/4, or 3/5, and so on.

> Not to mention the time during which 1/n machines are down due to an upgrade gets longer and longer the more machines you have, increasing the chances of double fault.

Generally, this is not the case. If individual machine failures are random and equally probable, and if each machine is down on average less than 50% of the time, then adding more machines makes things better, not worse. (This is a basic property of the binomial distribution.)

Of course, if you have a single point of failure somewhere -- e.g. a network switch -- this assumption can be violated, but that's true regardless of how many machines you have.
I'm right there with you. Our condo building is just over 100 years old and has 2 parking spots for 6 units (we're not one of the lucky ones). We'd love to own an EV, but it's just not practical.

This gets to my big complaint with companies like Tesla. They designed an impressive, game changing EV, but their solution ecosystem works best if you have a home with a garage in the suburbs. I don't have a garage to install a Tesla Powerwall that's charged by a Tesla Solar Roof for me to park a Model S.

If Tesla wanted to truly address climate change and get more electric transportation to more people, they'd solve city charging and start designing commuter transit.
> But heavy charging cables have enough copper you're basically leaving a few dollars for every person with a pair of bolt cutters and a shopping cart.

This is an absolutely critical point. We can dream up all the beautiful systems we want, but as long as they have some reliance on a high-trust society, they will fail in America. America is a state in decline; the high point of trust was decades ago, and now most Americans live in a situation where they can't leave anything unlocked lest it be stolen.

A lot of pie-in-the-sky sharing service ideas fall flat when we realize that people abuse shared property as much as they can. People like to suggest a future where electric, self-driving cars will be summoned on demand and show up at our doors, obviating the need to own your own vehicle; but the insides of these vehicles will be filthy, and the utility of having emergency stuff carried along with you (from a change of clothes on upward) will be lost. We can imagine banning people from such a service, but we can also imagine someone enacting a law banning banning....
But none of that was configured in one place, with every other program taking its lead from that central configuration. Instead, effort must be made to work through every program individually, customizing its color scheme.
Don't forget about the cows eating seaweed development, that will be huge for the climate too
I've been a fan of Chris Crawford for a long time. I find his framing of games in terms of "verbs" (the things you can do in the game) and "nouns" (the things you can do them to) to be incredibly eye-opening. It feels like games are constantly getting more nouns (NPCs, cars, buildings, other players), but remain incredibly verb poor.

I think a lot of the bubbling frustration with newer AAA games may actually be an unconscious reaction to enormous, beautiful landscapes where you can't really do much beyond shoot nice looking mannequins, open doors and follow the strict roller-coaster rails down the dialog tree.

Heres to hoping he and other clever people crack the code and give us some better tools and methodologies for building interactivity.
I just can’t fall in love with EVs. They don’t seem to have the same ‘soul’ as ICEs, which feel beautiful from an engineering perspective.

I would happily have an EV daily, but I’ll always want an ICE exotic of some kind for weekend fun.
Yes, but Chat is a totally different code base. Hangouts API clients will stop working.
Is it possible that Sars-cov-2 epidemic will eventually save more lives than it cost, through the long term and short term effects of decreased pollution and climate change? If that's true, we have to entertain the theory that the virus was purposefully initiated by a time-traveler charged with averting climate catastrophe through the only means possible.
You do if the only place to park is on public streets.
That's not what one usually mean by the dual licenses
Are you possibly confusing Volkswagen Group and Volkswagen? For example Volkswagen don't own Bentley, if that's what you're thinking. Volkswagen and Bentley are both owned by Volkswagen Group. Volvo does simply own Polestar.
What I find frustrating is that I cannot read or write SMS or iMessages on my computer (I don't use OSX). I'm not going to be that person who asks all their contacts to message them using some new app. Can this service really interface with iMessage somehow? I thought it was locked down by Apple.
You had me at overpaid
Previous discussion(13 hours back, 200+ comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25868713
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