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> Technology removes the need for middlemen, and hence any trust needed for the middlemen.

Unfortunately, I see what happens when 'We' use technology to remove middlemen...

Apple: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/02/amphetamine-app-store-r...

Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22348568

(person 17h ago on HN talking about google acct ban remediation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26218795 )

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-users-locked-out-afte...

That's what technology has gotten us. Accounts get closed down due to automated systems. Something gets flagged as "fraud" and you lose access/money. Your previous business selling apps gets cancelled when your app is deregistered and removed.

At least, the recourse is "Complain on HN or Twitter". Worst case is you file a lawsuit against a multi-billion dollar company (hah!).

Now, what do you do to file a dispute against Ethereum or Bitcoin? Well, nobody. There is no clearinghouse and no masters - that's the selling point! But what about fraud or likewise? Too bad, so sad.

With the hawaladars, their word, ethics, and livelihood is on the line. You have a real human who can handle the squishy and nigh-unautmatable parts. And they can talk with the person trying to transfer money in case there is problems unforseen.

> Allegiance to the tribe means following the customs/social ordering/rules of the tribe.

Well, yes.

> For example, how well would a gay/non religious/etc person fare in tribes that don't believe in civil liberties?

But this seems like a veiled way to attack a way of moving money around solely because the name is Islamic. And hate crimes happen nearly everywhere. And there was the Kentucky county clerk who refused to sign marriage certificates because a couple was gay.... And unlike the hawaladars whom you can go to a different one, these people in the county had no such choice.

It's easy to set up a strawman that someone may not support your beliefs, but it's a false narrative to think that only those people do it.
> I think a bit of that is you don't expect to see someone famous just walking down the street.

Even if you somewhat it, you don't really expect it.

One early morning at tourist area (where I'd already seen a few celebrities), my friend and I are playing Daytona USA and this sunglass-wearing dude comes down and sits next to us to play. He looks vaguely familiar, but I guessed I had just seen him there before — there were a lot of regulars at this arcade. I'm bragging, but not exaggerating, when I say we were world-competitive at this game. This guy was good, but we destroyed him.

After the race, the guy got up, smiled at both of us, said nothing, and left. My friend and I talked a bit about the race — a sort of post-race analysis we often did to see if there was anything new we could learn — and during that process it sort of dawned on us that we had just played against a NASCAR driver.
Does this support 5.1 tracks. While rare, that would be game changing for folks with hifi setups.

Good news though. Losses saves you from conversion artifacts. Compression that's not further mangled sounds fine, but what's weird is if you run something with one crompression model through other compressors (ie, to get it onto a network then airplay then etc. )

The bitrates relative to the endless youtube / netflix / twitch streaming are still very small - 4K video streaming just crushed bandwidth, I'd love to know the youtube / netflix / prime video / twitch bandwidth loads, they have to be insane.
Doesn't Tether have to provide 3rd party audited accounts as to what they actually hold in reserve?
Because using an EVM in production is acknowledging what the market can bear and that market is worth trillions

Like any public equity there can be centralized services worth more a lot, as they’re just platforms

Being aware of what Ethereum mainnet does is okay but shouldn’t guide any of your decisions of whether you want to build on or be bullish on Binance Smart Chain or somebody’s deployment of any other EVM
> some I didn't but had a reasonable wrong guess and the interviewer(s) explained the right answer and we moved on. That was fine.

You would be surprised at the number of candidates who would start arguing with the interviewer. Being able to learn new things on the spot during a pretty stressful event, admit one is wrong with no shame and move on is a great trait to select for.
No, of course not. Look at his list. A "white whale" is something you especially DO want. "White washing" is making something bad look good by covering it in white. A white elephant is something so precious that it's inconvenient. The only word on that list that makes a white thing actively bad is obscure Australian political slang: white ant.

Meanwhile, I can just go black sheep, black magic, black market, black mark, blackmail, black hand, blackball, black mood...
Of course not, but that doesn't matter if a.) you can get out before the top or b.) the world will have changed by then in a way that makes your current position worthless or c.) there is no alternative.

Right now all three of those are true, to varying degrees. If you correctly called the top in 2007 and got out of the market, it wouldn't matter unless you got back in before 2012. As someone who lived through those years - at every point during that period, there was a loud chorus of voices saying that we were about to have a double-dip, prices didn't really correct far enough, and fair value indicated they should've gone back to where they were in 2002-2004.

Remember that if you're in cash, you've chosen to put your wealth in an asset class whose controlling authority's stated policy is to make it worth consistently less every year.
If you truly care about audio quality you can't go wrong with Qobuz, tons of 24bit material: https://www.qobuz.com/
The situation in three months can change with the advent of vaccines and the Israeli study suggesting that they really do reduce transmission. But the scenario I outlined above is precisely how the struggle between ruling parties and the opposition has played out over the last several months in a number of European countries.
I'm a programmer, and I know HTTP quite well. I know what HTTP semantics are, and this sentence is still gibberish to me.

I'd wager the reason I don't is because I'm not that familiar with the erlang ecosystem, so have no idea what mochiweb is, and don't know what this does differently.

Your first sentence was quite condescending, FYI, not sure if it was meant to be.
well, no. that's just default behavior.

and it's also just for depedencies it downloads.

_your_ code lives where you put it
Pretty good, though I disagree with their opinion on SOAP ;)

Many REST APIs have problems for the same reason SOAP had, and it involves lack of deliberate API design and abuse of "automagic code generation"
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/phe-monitoring-of...
I bet a lot of artists develop a drug problem, hit rehab and recalibrate.
According to a civil rights lawyer I talked to, the judges for the courts don't care unless you suffered extensive monetary damages. That the DA and the judges tend to side with the cops because they work with them on other cases often. On top of that, there are so many minor rights violations and an extensive case backlog. Issues like ours are common, so the system basically overlooks them so it can process the 1-2 year case backlog (pre pandemic times even). Mix that with the public perception that if you were arrested or cited, then you must be guilty and deserve it.
Saw them at Even Furthur in 1996 and they melted everyone's mind. One of the most amazing musical wow moments I've ever witnessed.
I thought so too, particularly given the lack of of consent from Lacks.
> good experiments change a single variable at a time

Although this is a tangent from the above conversation, this isn't actually true: well-designed experiments can indeed change multiple variables at the same time. There's an entire field of statistics dedicated to experimental design (google "factorial designs" for more information). One-factor-at-a-time (OFAT) experiments are often the least efficient method of running experiments, although they are conceptually simple.

See the following article for a discussion:
http://www.engr.mun.ca/~llye/czitrom.pdf
Careful there—those conclusions may be overstated because of bias in the people getting tested in vaccinated vs. unvaccinated groups (https://mobile.twitter.com/ZoeMcLaren/status/136358205077574...)
Not everyone can be vaccinated for a plethora of reasons. This would do nothing for that cohort.
Rust's Futures don't have asynchronous destructors (I don't know if coroutines do).

When a Future is aborted early, it's destroyed immediately with no remorse. This means it can't simply offer its own buffers to the kernel, because the kernel could write back after the Future has been freed.

An API contract that includes "just be careful not to do the stupid thing" is not good enough by Rust's standards, so the only way to guarantee safety would be to have Future's destructor wait synchronously until the I/O operation is cancelled on the kernel side, but that's inelegant in an async context.
I don't see a problem with writing "childs" or "persons".

In this scenario, consistency is more useful than grammatical correctness [1]. And the simpler pluralization logic makes it easier for non-English speakers to work with the codebase.

[1] Related example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer#Etymology
This is a good example of why "ad hominem" is one of the worst arguments you can try to use against something.

In actual human discussion, pointing out that someone is making claims about something they don't know anything about is the very basis of common sense. Trying to make this out to be a logical fallacy only shows how useless that label is.
Is it murder/suicide when you get blackout drunk and lose a few hours of memory? Imagine it comes with no risk of brain damage and choosing to do it somehow lets you achieve your pursuits more effectively. Is it different if you do it a thousand times in a row? Is it different if the thousand times all happen concurrently, either through copies or time travel?

Death is bad because it stops your memories and values from continuing to have an impact on the world, and because it deprives other people who have invested in interacting with you of your presence. Shutting down a thousand short-lived copies on a self-contained server doesn't have those consequences. At least, that's what I believe for myself, but I'd only be deciding for myself.
To be honest it really depends. It is a mixed bag when it comes to quality. I have seen some of the smartest people in those organizations. It is truly about how well you can manage the people working on your project.
"Not even wrong" is a great sort of wrongness
Like most technology I think the key is to interact with smartphones and social media on your terms as much as possible. I'm not willing to totally ditch social media because it is the only way I communicate with some people who I still want to communicate with. The compromise I've come up with is I installed facebook messenger lite on my smartphone, but I won't install the full facebook app. This lets people contact me but lets me choose when I interact with the news feed, I find their mobile browser version works just fine to include my occasional post or upload.

In general I find using the smartphone as a works anywhere web browser to be the tradeoff that is best for me, I try to avoid installing apps as much a possible for privacy and annoyance reasons. I also run as much privacy software as possible and only use a phone brand that allows a road warrior VPN setup so I can route my traffic through a network that has additional privacy protections. This does take effort but so does anything else that gives you any degree of privacy from surveillance capitalism.
It's true for any of the tier 1 VCs. YC and a16z (and others, like SV Angel) have some of the highest reputations in this regard, though.
Usually it's not just the bitrate, but also the compression in mastering process that's different (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression for context). The "HiFi" versions are less compressed and on my highend audio system the difference between Tidal HiFi masters and Spotify is pretty stark and obviously noticable.

(The difference obviously has nothing to do with compression format.)

I hope Spotify will match the quality because Spotify Connect is way more reliable than the Cast broken mess.
> If you make the disease half as deadly,

I think you undercut your own point for no reason.

Less deadly diseases get less reverence, leading to more risk taking. The percentage of people who die goes down, but the number of cases goes way up, resulting in potentially greater loss of life overall. Look at how cavalier we are about influenza, and then we set policy based on whether things are worse than the flu.
Given how right-shifted politics are these days, the "liberal left" is authoritarian right wing, too. So no, if this is liberals attacking conservatives, they've discovered another footgun.
New generation does not remember it... but I agree
Software is just a tool, it can be used to build good or bad things.

It would be hard to see this in e.g. Scandinavian countries, where incarceration is seen as rehabilitative rather than punitive.

In the US, racial discrimination, free market extremism along with "tough on crime" laws have created unimaginably cruel systems; together with private prisons, the goal has been on cutting costs rather than rehabilitating prisoners. Software is just a tool to further that goal.
On AirPods, no. With audio set ups that cost few grand, yes.
Don't worry the relève is here : https://youtu.be/CpdKWPrGxpk
That would be awesome, do you want me to submit a PR?
I agree it's not simple. I am advocating for activist (engineering, political, etc) efforts against The Bureaucracy. Public data is a component of that, from a transparency and accountability perspective, very similar to FOIAing everything you can get your hands on (ie muckrock.com). You want to be able to "show your work" in broad daylight.
Apple Surpassed Samsung as Largest Smartphone Maker in Fourth Quarter
Not really something to be disappointed by, considering that money would eventually have to be involved in fintech?
> The powerplant building company cares nothing about the economics of keeping the country powered 24/7, they care about the economics of building their plant. If their business model works okay while selling nothing at night, then it works, and that's that

It doesn't work like that.

Contrary to your repeated insistence that there is no central planning, there is indeed extensive government planning in electrical grids. You can't just say "we'll only give you power during X hours of the day" to your customers. Likewise, you can't just tell customers who don't live near a dam that they won't be getting electricity when it isn't windy.

Wholesalers can do this, because they sell to other grid companies who actually sell to consumers. But no, if we have solar and wind and these sources aren't producing enough electricity then they have to burn gas and pay the carbon taxes. And if the carbon taxes are high enough, it's less expensive to build nuclear plants that emit no carbon and don't suffer from intermittency.
I agree with no Social Media, but not having a Smartphone seems really too much.

My cell phone allows me to instantly communicate with my family members, know their exact whereabouts, monitor my home security and energy usage etc. Using it for super helpful driving directions (Waze or gmaps) and decidedly 21st century technologies like Instacart have been game changers. When I'm dropped (pre-covid) into another country, my service (tmobile) just "works" and often times my phone is preconfigured for the local transit system app (or just "works", due to NFC e.g. Suica in JP or Oystercard in London). Not to mention all the online and offline media (Netflix etc) that is almost endless these days.

I would never go back to the bad old days of T9 Nokias by comparison.

I'm not a fan of social media, annoying notifications or interruptions and have them mostly turned off. If someone 'really' wants to interrupt, they can call. That's fine.
> what's the type signature of `print()` then?

Dynamic typing doesn't rule out polymorphism.

void print(PyObject objects...)

where `PyObject` is a base type.

Additionally, you could perfectly well have constants, or require variables to have a fixed type, in a dynamic language. You would just pay a cost at runtime to check the type on assignment.
Exactly, it's literally a different sound file - not just format/delivery/etc.
It gets kind of convoluted as to what’s acceptable and what’s not. My comment was addressing another upstream that said something like “ No one said concentration camps in China were fine”

In this situation should Disney put a preroll that says “While we filmed this movie in an area where people are being oppressed and gave financial support to the oppressors, we don’t support concentration camps?”

I’m not sure I understand what reasoning Disney is using to put a preroll before a muppet episode where someone dresses as a gypsy. Or even a generic warning around a specific episode where someone sings in front of a confederate flag in a way that sounds pretty racist.

It seems like Disney has made a decision that one situation requires one and the other doesn’t.

Personally, this is why I don’t pay much attention to these things and don’t draw conclusions based on them. They are so cloudy and subjective, it becomes hard to try to address all the hypotheticals.
man I hate Scotland and the witch so much.
CAN is pretty typical interface for inverters & drives. We communicate the commands via CAN and receive currents, temps, speed, torque, and errors back via CAN. We are using PCAN systems at the moment. In the past, GUIs that I have used are Kvaser, Vector Canape, ATI Vision, and LabView. A lot of our post processing is done in MATLAB, Excel, or python. Feel free to reach out directly if you would like more insight.
I’m not a Spotify user, but I have upgraded to the HD Music option on Amazon. Amazon provides music at SD (320KB), HD (850KB) and Ultra HD (up to 3700KB) — when available.

I’m not an audiophile but it sounds amazing on my AirPods and great on my Echos and in the car. My wife even said she doesn’t want to go back.

If Spotify provides bitrates near that, you will want it.
The difference will not be audible to most people because of the equipment and environment. Besides, audio has been mastered for 128kbps MP3, which most people prefer. So unless they are going to change the mastering, this is double worthless.

But I’m not in the habit of telling people how to spend their money. If they enjoy the music more because they paid more for it, no objections here. I’ve got plenty of wasteful hobbies myself.
> But he also worked on it shamelessly while on the clock and using company equipment and using a sales guy who worked at the company. I sh*t you not.

Don't we all? In Minecraft, of course. The part about using the company's sales guy is great though -- I've never heard that one before.
>Above all strip malls, big box stores, modern bridges, overpasses and underpasses are all eyesores for me.

They're an eyesore for everyone. But this is one of those situations where the local maxima for individuals results in a local minima as a society. Once you have a car, it makes no sense to not use it. And no one is going to beat big box stores on pricing. So I'm not going to spend 15% extra at my neighborhood store when I can save a ton of money by driving to Costco, with the car I already have.

And I find that anything more than 30min away walking is basically not in walking distance, and in a suburb with large intersections where you have to wait 45+ seconds for light changes and cross large intersections, it's very easy to justify just driving. Especially for the old or those with little kids.

I would like to think your solution would work, but I'm at the point of saying it's politically impossible (in a timeframe relevant to a voter's quality of life).
What I find interesting about coroutines is that they are relatively trivially achieved in hand-coded assembly using `jmp` and being careful about registers in a way that makes sense. `jmp`ing around is a pretty normal way to code in assembly. In a sophisticated environment they become a beast. It surprises me that we actually do lose something meaningful when abstracting to higher level languages.
Investing in Deep Tech for an Abundant Futur‪e HBR/EV [audio]
On 20 Years of Drupal – An Interview with Marco Molinari
We take the 80/20 approach here. We start with analytical design (can be done pen on paper, but typically happens in excel/etc) to get a high-level view on the "continent" of design possibilities. This can be done readily with magnetic circuit models and thermal resistance networks.

From there, we identify the best high-level design traits and begin some optimization work to get most of the way to a fully-optimized solution (this is more FEA-based, both mechanical, magnetic, and thermal). This gets us climbing up the right "mountain" on the continent.

At this point, we put the pens down and start building something, because we will learn more building a prototype and iterating than we will spending too much time in simulation-land.

In parallel, we have been putting together a workflow to co-optimize the design across mechanical, magnetic and thermal simultaneously. Thus far the jump across each discipline has been a bit more on the manual side, but automatic co-optimization is a long term project, and would get us to the "peak" of the mountain.
I’ve been using tree-sitter via FFI from Common Lisp, but what I’d really like would be a way to write my own code generator so that the generated parser could be “native” lisp code. Otherwise, it’s an amazing tool: my only other complaint would be the lack of a grammar for objective-c which would be useful for a lisp/objective-c bridge I’ve been working on.
Importantly, the imbalance has changed, and the valley has not seemed to hold a grudge. There have been shifts during the recessions, and certainly after the 2000 bust, but it's a fact of life: the power dynamic sometimes changes, and the best deal you're able to get at the time is the deal you are going to get.

It's not entirely unlike mortgage rates, tbh; when you refi matters, due to the rates being variable. When you raise also matters, but sometimes raising is the important part, and the terms are the terms.
HN doesnt like blockchain because its disrupting their jobs.
I would say it's closer to "Go doesn't do a really simple thing that nudges people towards writing more readable code, while having basically no tradeoffs".

Considering the far more tedious tradeoffs that Go does force on users in the name of supposed readability (for example: the lack of generics), I'd consider that a pretty big failure.

I don't expect them to be perfect. I do expect them to try.
Safe automatic refactoring requires the ability to do static analysis of the code. Many refactorings are harder in loosely-typed languages.
Video calls? Skype initial release was in 2003. Consumer OS with server-grade kernel? Windows XP first release was in 2008. USB thumb drives? Windows 98 didn't have drivers for them, so they came bundles with CD with drivers? Web browsers? Firefox initial release was in 2002, much hated IE6 - in 2001. In 90s you had IE5 - I doubt it was much better than IE6.