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My point is that, on an international site where English is only used as a means of communication, you should generally be more sensitive to cultural differences in the use of a language such as English. It is often used as a common common language between people who don't speak English natively, and so idioms and nuances from their own languages seep into this common English.

The finer points about the semantics of a word such as 'man'/'men' and when it can be taken to refer to people unambiguously vs when it may accidentally imply you are talking about adult males are likely to be lost on a non-native speaker, especially if they come from a culture/language where this distinction and its implications are not subjects of general interest. Even if they are well-versed in the use of English in general.

So it's better to follow HN guidelines and assume the best intentions where meaning is unclear, instead of calling people out on their use of English.

Now, if you know for a fact that the GP is a native English speaker, and especially if you know that they are American, then what I'm saying is not very relevant.
> Well, extremism is a relative term, depending on environment

Sure, but "hardline extremist" means something in particular, and is not a generic term to refer to any outlying behavior or view.

You can't label someone a "hardline extremist" (with all of the associated connotation that entails) for having reasonable views shared by many millions of others, and then pedal it back with "it's a relative term".

> is you oppose and obstruct highly needed government action

Nobody's obstructing anything, first off, but I absolutely oppose action that's undertaken at gunpoint (or threat of same). There are vastly better ways (from a standpoint of morality, efficiency, and effectiveness) of getting people to act in coordination in their own interests than threatening them with guns and cages, which is the only authority a government has to achieve things.
> do you want to make money from your product (rent) or from services around it. Rent is exactly how proprietary products make money.

I didn't get this at all.

If I have a free software product (GPLv3), and I require that you pay me $100 for me to send you a copy, how is that characterized as "rent"?

I looked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent for guidance:

1) "Renting, an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good, service or property"

Since you have a copy under the GPLv3, which is effectively permanent, that's not really applicable.

(Also, proprietary software licenses can also be under a permanent license, so don't count as 'rent' under this definition.)

2) "Economic rent, any payment in excess of the cost of production"

That's a complicated definition that I didn't understand. I do see 'the total income is made up of economic profit (earned) plus economic rent (unearned).' So why is my commercial transaction for you to acquire GPLv3-licensed software from me 'unearned'?

That "cost of production" is not simply the labor+goods cost but includes opportunity cost. Which can be quite high when deciding to distribute free software instead of proprietary software. So I don't see how choosing to "sell free software" (as RMS describes it) is reasonably described as "rent".
Automated cars are still decades away. As road space is even more valuable than parking, that's a net loss. There would have to be a multiplier for people sharing use of a vehicle. But people already hate mass transit, people are still expected to get to work at 8 a.m., and ordering a ride will never be a convenient as having their own vehicle available 24/7 so the maximal size of the fleet of all cars might only 25% less.
Maybe we need email over the matrix protocol. Decentralized and using an already existing modern open protocol. The problem is that email has too much inertia.
I know that it's the default. Doesn't make it not racism. It's not only racism when it happens in desirable countries people want to immigrate to en-masse.

Functionally it's the same thing. They just turn a blind eye because "hey it's normal, right?". It has been an ongoing shift over decades and even hundreds of years in the so-called melting pots of the world to get to the point people can live alongside people different than them and at least pretend they're equal and should be treated as such. It wasn't always the default in the West.

The rest of the world needs to catch up. They're behind the times.
The killer feature of racket is it is very easy to make Domain Specific Languages (including the teaching language) and related tooling.
However last time I looked the library ecosystem didn't seem great; there were many libraries but few that were actively maintained.
> Lawyers don't like GPLv3 and they don't like AGPL.

Whose lawyers? Why would the lawyers at your company object that your choice of license for the free software that you publish is the AGPL or the GPL?
Yes. Unfortunately Waymo continues to act more like an R&D company not a product company. Ultimately I don't think Waymo will be a major player when it all shakes out.
I'm not sure where these items fall in their priorities. You can explore issues that are tracked on the JIRA instance here:

https://clojure.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/CLJ/i...

A couple that are related to the items 'Scarbutt mentioned:

- https://clojure.atlassian.net/browse/CLJ-2365 Integration with java.util.function interfaces

- https://clojure.atlassian.net/browse/CLJ-1255 Support Abstract Base Classes with Java-only variant of "reify"

- https://clojure.atlassian.net/browse/CLJ-1001 Proxy cannot call proper super-class method

My take on this is that Clojure provides host (Java) interop, not replacement. Part of that is if you're doing really Java-y things, such as extending abstract classes, that's probably better done in Java. These class-based inheritance/extension concepts aren't core to what Clojure is about. Polymorphism and extension is addressed by other means in Clojure.

A comparison: I know little about Kotlin, but I wouldn't be surprised if it has a better story about Java class extension and interface implementation as I think one of its goals is to be in some ways a better Java. I don't think that's a goal that Clojure shares. If those are features you are looking for, Clojure may not be a good fit.
The proximity of 'lost all engines in flight' and 'major direction changes' in this thread suggests that even if those major direction changes materialize it may not be good news.
They absolutely do have these associated costs.

Robust electricity networks? The US has spent trillions on transmission networks in the era dominated by coal.

Dispatchable power plants? We’ve had both base-load and peaker plants for decades. Indeed, base load gas is cost-competitive with solar now. But all base-load gen is so slow to start up and shut down that peakers can charge 2-3 orders of magnitude more per MWh.

Storage technologies? Given the exorbitant cost of peaker power, pumped storage has been in use for decades.

Demand response has also made sense for decades, but we’ve lacked the technology and market structures to make it a reality until recently. It was introduced before renewables had real market share.

In short: yes, renewables require these technologies. So does fossil-fuel generation. The IEA’s bias is showing if they’re implying that this is unique to one technology.

Of course, our current system is optimized around the characteristics of huge fossil plants, and a lot of capital will be required to optimize it around a different technology. These investments are worth it if you consider the externalities of carbon emissions. If you do it correctly, and include extreme weather costs, we should try to get to a zero emissions ASAP.

But even if you ignore externalities, as you appear to be doing, renewables are now so much cheaper that there is no economic reason to replace obsolete generation with non renewables. Under this approach, we’ll still get to 100% renewable in 40-50 years.
I understand the point of view, but it's one that makes no sense to conservatives. How can you have a democracy and agree to respect each other's votes if you don't have a shared view of the goodness of your basic institutions?

Put differently, I tend to agree with you that this vision of extreme pluralism is closer to how America was intended to function, and I agree that would be preferable. But if you're going to force my kids to school where you're going to teach them A or B, and if people in California and New York are going to have so much federal power over people in Iowa, that makes that sort of radical pluralism hard to achieve.
Jackson Wyoming gets a lot of tourists in the summer, probably way more than they have residents, and most come by car...
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The cost of solar often takes into account replacing the panels every few decades.

Most home solar panels have a 10 year warranty so you want to make sure your payback period is less than 10 years.

I believe we should be doing a better job of calculating how much it costs to dispose of those panels once they are no longer working.
I've found a similar solution to my sleep problems.

I used to fall asleep listening to audio books. I eventually found audio books that are barely interesting, with certain narration styles to put me to sleep faster.

I now have a series of audio books, mostly gumshoe detective novels, that I use to sleep on nights when I'm dealing with stress. I set the sleep timer for 6 hours, and invariably get a good night of sleep.
I am questioning the presupposition that one chooses to make any account at all.

Using your analogy:

I don't need to create an account to view a subreddit or reddit.
I don't need to create an account to view federated instances.

When I publish content on any social network I am always thinking about who it is intended for.
I don't post the same things on Facebook that I would on Instagram, for example.

Users have to make the same choice of what to publish with any other social media service.
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> Elastic could have grown (or not) organically with closed source software but that's hard without community help and being able to hire top developers to build your product.

Yea I don't know. If I saw claims made at [1] by a startup that made proprietary SW, I'd think "yea right".

[1] https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/service
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I mean people have already died sleeping with it on. But it’s also likely saved lives based on their deaths per mile number.
If you want batteries included and probably the nicest runtime of all the lisps I would suggest racket.

I use guile since I think it more fun, but racket is a lot easier if you want libraries around.
> It isn't an issue of "clean"; GPL/AGPL aren't "legally murky".

Yes and no. I'd agree that, in general, they're legally safe and clear, but when you're talking to the legal department of a company, it is not about whether they're clearly defined. The actual worry is whether a patent troll or a more litigious competitor can sue the s out of your company and extract millions upon millions of either legal costs or settlements. Yes, you _might_ win, but it will still cost you and courts are known to not always be deterministic in their decisions. So once your out of the "thrown out without a second thought"-cleanliness, corporate legal will not be happy.
This is really about two different strategies for dealing with cultural and regulator norms more than two different engineering strategies.
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I'll take that at face value.

I'll only add that it's going to be difficult as hell to stay on topic as FAANG pushes back against attempts to deal with their monopoly practices. Uber and Lyft effortlessly destroyed the original meaning of "ride-sharing" for their own interests. Expect Google, Facebook, and Twitter to put all their weight behind narrowing the meaning of free speech to simply mean ensuring everybody has equal access to be manipulated by their commercial blackboxes.
I bet you can pick out almost any medium-sized city and find some "cool" neighborhoods that are pretty affordable.
> I think it's a bit of a knee-jerk reaction leftover from when SpaceX was still trying to get its foot in the door and was more vulnerable to the whims of public opinion (since early on, it was wholly dependent on NASA contracts which strong public pressure could get cut).

> Spaceflight is also one of those subjects that tends to attract opinions and fears more based in sensationalized headlines and Hollywood depictions than reality. This is natural since space isn't exactly accessible to general public, but it can be frustrating for enthusiasts, especially since unfounded claims spread much more widely and quickly than corrections do.

Well said.

> All that said, no company is above criticism

Agreed.

> and I do not encourage fanboyism.

Nah man, it's cool to be a fanboy of SpaceX. But I think the point is that we're not overly sensitive to criticism of SpaceX.
This is false. Birth rates are down because people are choosing to have fewer children, not because something is preventing them from having children they want.
I have daydreamed about the same many times and considered trying to start it myself, but it didn't take too long before realizing that the reason I'd want it is the same reason I wouldn't stand a chance at building it.

It would certainly be a wonderful resource though. Especially if it could be implemented with a "code review" style interface for showing the votes on each of the bills representing a commit.
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The problem with Twitter/"microblogging" isn't just post length.

The problem with Twitter/"microblogging" is also lack of hierarchical structure. A BBS has a series of subboards, those subboard have posts and the posts have comments. Sure, things can degenerate to just a series of "mega-threads" but if it's done, everyone the topic and the subtopic and so you can good contextual discussion. Facebook has a three level structure; post, comment and reply. Some of the oldest boards had full tree-structure as does HN, here. Multilevel comment and reply can be confusing but can be really useful to drill down to the detail of discussion wants.
It's bound to happen, but also likely to be the result of the driver not paying attention.
I'm 35, somewhat frugal, always driven old cars, never buying new clothes and such, all furniture gotten for free (facebook has these "giving away" groups), even my stereo and TV were free. Only thing I spend money on is a new computer once every 4-5 years (but then I build a nice one).

I own the house I live in, I bought it with my savings, no loan, meaning the house was cheap to begin with, saved a good amount of money by not taking a loan.

I have around $30k in the bank and around $80k in real estate.

I work as a codemonkey, normal yearly salary for my country, about $80k/year.
I do not find that to be the case investigating the Global Web-Based Corpus, which contains modern, global internet-published English:

https://i.imgur.com/EG4zaoU.png [sadly the corpus cannot be easily linked, but one may search in it here: https://www.english-corpora.org/glowbe/]

The way I look at it, the usage therein of the word “man” to specifically discriminate sex is very rare but definitely occurs. What does occur is the use of the word “man” to refer to a specific individual, which would typically be male, but in most cases where the word “man” is used indeterminately to refer to a class, it seems to be used without regard to sex.

Apart from that the most common usage seems to simply be vocatively as address, which is also gender neutral.

I would agree that it is rare, outside of compounds, to use the word “man” in a determinate sense for a female man, such as “that man over there” which would mostly be used in a military context, but in an indeterminate context to speak of “a man in general” or “men in general”, the most common usage from context seems to be sexless to this day.
I haven't had any moderation issues on my instance.
Brakes are easy compared to keys. I keep getting out of ICE cars and just leave them running. Whoa, you need to tell a car you got out? Why?
By those calculations, todays launch could have brought 15600 cubesats to orbit.
I mean you are essentially selling yourself short with FOSS unless you were in a very saturated industry and selling support was the bulk of your revenue.
Not being able to pronounce or hear the words is a problem. Associating the words just with the symbols seems very taxing to the visual parts of the brain. Also using the voice/vocal/speaking parts of the brain seems advantageous.
If folks at HN ventured to take a guess, what would be your bets for the next successful OSS startups/companies? Be it a great exit or an IPO.
> [...] even a whiff of anything short of pure adoration is enough to send some fanboys into a tizzy. It's tiresome.

I think it's more that the question you asked, _in the way you asked it_, is so oft-repeated and shallow that it's indistinguishable from concern trolling or other similar kinds of low effort drive-by sniping.

Of course that doesn't mean that your question was insincere. But consider that pretty much anyone who has shown the slightest bit of interest in spaceflight has probably seen nearly that exact question hundreds, if not thousands of times. It's nearly as common as "why are we spending money on space when there are still so many problems to fix down here on Eaaaaarth?" It's likewise not a constructive question, and it's just not reasonable to expect a positive response.

EDIT: By the way, I do find the question of what to do about all the stuff already zipping around in various Earth orbits, and how we regulate the addition of new satellites to be a really interesting and important topic. It's only that I've never seen "how much X is too much X" — especially when asked in response to a report of someone doing X — generating meaningful discussion. How about... "if one country regulates its own space industry to mitigate addition of new LEO debris (limits, tracking, investing in clean-up tech), then at least some other countries will just ignore it. Are there any existing multilateral agreements in place for this stuff specifically, or maybe agreements in other domains that have successfully avoided similar kinds of tragedy of the commons down on Earth? Nuclear disarmament and ocean protection aren't working perfectly, but have had some positive impact..."
Almost everyone vaccinated has sterilizing immunity once it builds, so the main thing is the immunity lag time. The Dakota's reached herd immunity around 60% serological (only 12% test confirmed). So based on your numbers, May in UK would be basically normal.
I actually like Waymo's cautious slow roll out of self driving compared to what Tesla seems to be doing.

I agree with your larger point though. I don't know what Waymo is doing internally but we haven't seen a complete product vision outside.
> The gist of it is that it takes about 6-7 years to recoup the investment

Now I wonder how to compute the best time for investing if you consider both the diminishing rate of panel prices, and the electricity you'll need to pay while you don't have those. Is it always worth it to invest ASAP, or is there a panel improvement rate at which it is worth waiting a bit?
There's a leisure class at both ends of the socioeconomic spectrum.
I’m not sure, but even if not I still feel like that’s a silly complaint.

Party A says something on the Internet that offends party B.

Party B says something on the Internet that offends party A.

Party A complains that they’re being asked to self-censor.

I see it as both parties using the service as designed to speak their minds. Party A also has the tools to mute Party B if they don’t like what they have to say.
Not a reason to spike anyone's water source. Aren't poor families more likely to make stews/soups that they'll store in the fridge for many days and bring to a boil every day so that the whole family can consume? Won't they top this off with more of the water you (collectively) spiked? And bring it to a boil again, increasing the fluoride concentration.

Why not distribute this incredible miracle/poison in tablet form for free to these poor families you think this is aiming to protect or provide free dental care if you think dental care is of utmost importance?

We clearly think kidneys (dialysis) are special because a past president had a relative that suffered from a kidney condition.

None of this is being done out of good intentions. Most involved are either misinformed because they are taught science is settled and it is safe and great, or simply uninformed.
I agree with Strong Towns that we've gone overboard on cars, parking, highways, and sprawl. But their focus on road costs is not based on facts. I checked my town budget and roads are <10% of the budget. The vast majority (2/3) is hiring cops and firefighters and parks staff.
I think it's far worse than even this. Facebook reportedly receives over 50000 posts per second on average. With 200000 moderators, each one would have to read a post every 4 seconds every hour of every day. I would place the number of human moderators at least an order of magnitude higher.
Which bytes? A raw 2352 byte copy that includes the P and Q channels (timing) can behave differently than a 2048 byte copy depending on the software.
Is this purely a US phenomenon? I don't see this much at all from people who live here t(the UK), but we're really starting to feel the effects of social media censorship hit hard, and I know a lot of people are really angry about Big Tech pushing their own moralistic world view on our country.
He obviously means software ( libraries, tools ) which become part of your product. Not tools to build your product ( compilers, bug trackers, operating systems and the like ).
Because you literally didn't do anything to get it (except, maybe, murder).
There's such a thing as an unreasonable, unrealistic, or downright stupid demand as well. What you often see is a house of cards hacked together to try and support such demands on the web.

Sending reasonably well visually formated text is definitely a reasonable demand though.
If Apple were white-labeling M1's for anyone to use, I'd expect full-blown panic at Intel. Intel can at least breath a little knowing that Apple and AWS are going to keep their ARM CPUs in-house.
The data of emails is very easy to secure, but the metadata is another story... for example, your email could consist of a single gpg file.
Decentralized, opt-in publishing requires decentralized, opt-in moderation.

I have designed some solutions around this, but haven't found the right product/ecosystem in which to implement it yet.

The basic idea is that you need multiple independent publishers of append-only "credit rating" feeds, publishing their own views/opinions of the reputations of different servers, users, or hashtags across the whole of the network. Services can aggregate all of these moderation/rating feeds in realtime, and provide to their users a list of all of the different "social credit rating agencies", or moderation feed publishers. You as a user could then choose your moderators from across the internet, then their own moderation decisions are applied to your feeds. It's sort of like outsourcing the management of your block/mute list. You could, of course, disable all of the moderation feeds and see the firehose of slurs and spam, or switch to different ones.

We solved this with email (poorly, and over a long period of time), and RBLs were part of that process. We'll eventually see the same for federated/p2p systems as well.
Right, but if the car does it right 99% of the time it's just human nature to stop paying attention. The article makes a great point that slowly improving the autopilot with a person behind the wheel is super dangerous because we get lulled into a false sense of security. I hope Tesla just keeps it to highway lane keeping until they're ready to roll out better sensors.