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Abraham buys land in Genesis: "For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place." Gen 23:9. Private property contract law is nothing new. My thought is how many of these landlords will end up turning to more nefarious means to make ends meet? It seems when the legal system fails people inevitably turn to vigilantism.
You literally commented that there is video of the officer being struck by a fire extinguisher.

“The statement that it had not been determined that blunt force trauma specifically caused Officer Sicknick's death doesn't make the attack BS - there's video footage of him being hit with one.”

Does the word “one” not refer to a fire extinguisher? Did I fail to comprehend your claim?

Assuming the video you refer to does show the fire extinguisher attack, then law enforcement needs your help. Investigators are trying to find out if the officer was attacked and who did it. Please share the video with them instead of arguing with me on the internet!
The fabs would be a write off in any prolonged conflict. So they're not actually a good reason to defend Taiwan.

I think America would defend them anyway out of a sense of righteousness and pride. They wouldn't let China give them a black eye like that without hitting back. But could they actually prevail in the region? I'm not sure about that.
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Well one way to look at it is Bitcoin is up against USD because USD is suffering massive inflation. Thus, BTC is doing its job.
>% Short float is public information. And based on the discussions I've had online, it seems people are confused between %short float and %short outstanding.

My understanding of this is that it's released on a bi-monthly basis. So the active count is not reported. There are people who try to track it based on the outstanding shorts by watching the stock market and predicting what the current daily short percentage is, but I don't think they have verifiable data until the publication comes out. https://nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=ShortIntPubSch

Any short before the surge was probably shorting the price below 20/share. Say there are 100% shorts at 20/share. Then it goes up to 50/share and now it's 80% at 20/share (because 20% of those closed out) and 20% at 50/share.

When it was at 400/share, no one knows if those were shorts at 20/share, 50/share, or 400/share or when they expired. If I was a savvy investor who was being squeezed, I'd have cleared all my shorts at 20/share at a loss and then shorted the stock again at 400/share keeping the percentage around 100% of the market. I have no way of showing this and unfortunately very few people do (to my knowledge). If I'm wrong please show me I'd love to learn more, I find this incredibly interesting.

That's what I mean is not public information, no one knows what the breakdown of the short value is.

>Clearly not. My friend was buying in at that time, despite me arguing with him that he shouldn't. There's also plenty of retail-buys that occurred at $300 to $400: millions and millions of shares bought.

They thought it would go up to 1000. Which it might have, but they thought it would surge up and they could sell off at 1000.

That doesn't mean the price is maintainable. Everyone was passing around the last Short chart and it wasn't a maintainable boost. You can't even see the jump on a 5 year timeline of the market.

EDIT: Sorry I keep saying everyone. Everyone who was on WSB during the mania. I am sure there were individuals who didn't fit this. But I assume your friend thought the price would hit 1000/share and then they'd sell there. Or they were sold on buying the dip. Either way, they had an exit strategy (I assume) and it wasn't 10 years from now it was in a few days or weeks. Which is why I said isn't maintainable.
> Having two very similar string-like things is unnecessarily complex for little (no?) benefit in return.

Using symbols (or :keywords) and strings together offers many benefits:

1. Like with JSON's richer syntax for aggregates, omitting the "" makes for much easier visual parsing. Especially if symbols are usually used for keys.

2. Symbols may be suitable for interning, perhaps into a set used to validate input data. Strings usually aren't.

3. Most importantly, with this distinction, symbols can be imbued with particular semantics: they can be commands, references, lookup keys, whatever the program needs. Strings are just data, usually to be displayed somewhere to be read by someone, or to be parsed by something nasty like an interpreter.

The most human-readable data notation I know of is EDN. It combines the best of JSON and s-expressions.
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Definitely true, not something that can be applied elsewhere.

There's also a silencing effect if you're in a good quality of life that you don't want to potentially risk that by being annoyed about some aspects of society.

I think that applies to China and it applies to Iran. And you can see it in other countries where they have no policy change, but due to outside reasons the quality of life decreases and people start demanding policy and regime change.
Only if you’re a partner of some sort, and even then your access is going to be fairly limited.
This is extremely good to know, thank you - I have turned off my M1 Mini and probably won’t be booting it until Apple announces a fix and explanation about the hard drive issue.

I am not quite sure if this Time Machine business is directly related (though it might be due by poorly optimized rewrites, particularly if there’s outstanding hardware shenanigans with encryption on M1s). It is baffling that the disk usage appears to be a deliberate decision.
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Sick of being accused of being racist just because I wanted a PS2 in a white case.
Speaking as someone surrounded by fragments of unfinished projects—many of which I abandoned after discovering they could never be what I wanted them to be, or simply didn’t have the confidence to even attempt that—I can say I can’t exactly blame him for never finishing them, even if we wish he had.

I am no Edward Said, but I find something a little comforting about this; like yeah, even this guy had trouble putting his stuff out in the world.
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Toilet, it was a beautiful autographed fountain!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)
I read their question as: "Are the images I uploaded private? Will they be used to train ML systems or sold to a 3rd party without my knowledge?".
This has no relevance. People keep trying to compare Bitcoin to anything they think will help them make their point, but it’s nonsensical.
> Type accented characters like é? Only with charmap.exe

The way I did this back in elementary school was by memorizing Alt codes. é was Alt+0233. I remember one of the schools I went to had little placards taped under the monitors with an Alt-code reference. If you're like me and have keyboards without a number pad, this isn't an option and you're stuck with charmap.exe.

These days you can use the US International keyboard map and use the grave or apostrophe key before hitting a vowel. Much more intuitive. Annoying when you want to type something like "c'est", however. You have to press Space after ' so it doesn't accent the e.

macOS is much more elegant.
I mean. You're correct, in an off color way. I'm typing this from a Thinkpad with 128Gb of RAM that I bought for <2k (total machine+aftermarket RAM).

So it sounds like Apple has made very little progress in arena.
I am slightly surprised about the general take on this I see here. I am definitely no python-hater and would take it a hundred times out of a hundred over, say, javascript, but as a language I feel like it is showing its age in a number of ways, and is becoming a little bloated as it tries to be all things to all people. What keeps me from ditching it is the best-in-class datascience ecosystem. Personally, I would prefer that the direction of travel be that I write less python, but keep the ecosystem. Whereas this project is facilitating writing python in other ecosystems.
>And as far as a governing apparatus, I'm not sure these tools really help provide the structure needed to declare any given piece of media misinformation or not.

If my post came across as suggesting that the methods I linked to should be used in some sort of [quasi]-governmental way to determine what is "good" or "bad" information, then I apologize.

My focus was strictly on answering GP's question[0] on an individual basis:

"What would an effective vaccine look like for these thought viruses?"

I was also trying to imply that there are already ways to "separate the wheat from the chaff" that are quite well-known and well thought out.

But they are just tools. And what use someone (doesn't) makes with such tools is up to them.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26244080
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> "I find this variable name confusing. Can we change it to something more like X?"

My problem with stating it like this is that when the person saying this is in a position of authority it’s extremely hard to say no to it. And that person might not always be necessary right, or the person writing the code had a good reason for this naming, and now can’t argue against it.

While there are best practices for naming, people often have different opinions, but that doesn’t mean one is right and the other one wrong.
Long-time democrat here. I am terrified of what my party is becoming!

I'm more critical of my own party because I hold them to a higher standard. I'm getting very disillusioned with them at this point. All the behaviors I decried of the right so many years ago are now in full swing on the left side. The difference now is the consolidatation of control and power makes it an even greater threat. I fear a point of no return.
A really nice thread from the Beinecke Library at Yale with photos of some of his correspondence: https://twitter.com/BeineckeLibrary/status/13643599808628695...
>There's no point in giving someone the tools to find the truth if they're so wedded to their "truth" that evidence will not make them change their minds.

Are you making the argument that because some folks won't use them, such tools/methods are useless?
There has only been one UI change since Snow Leopard that I would consider to be an improvement, and that is the option to enable dark mode. Big Sur reminds me of Duplo Legos.
I am definitely not talking about the mobile app. I explicitly say site. I talk about the prompts to try to get you to download the mobile app. I also reference a mobile OS and web browser. I have no idea how you could think I'm talking about the app.
A third thing you should keep in mind in your future efforts to understand cause and effect is that the multiple causes behind two (or more) distinct events might only partially overlap. In some cases, they might not overlap at all!
I think printf/format and interpolation/fstrings both have their place, and it's nice when languages support both.
I've been regularly bemused by people graduating with a degree in X, and then bitterly complaining that nobody told them that the pay for X was very low.

I wondered how can one go through 4 years of college majoring in X, and never once google: "starting salaries for major X".
I bet they were writing Vector Unit assembly in Excel. The VLIW design meant that you literally packed 2 assembly instructions together into a 64-bit word. Each side had it's own subset of execution units it could utilize and would have it's own separate latency for each operation. So, to keep track of everything going on you pretty much had to write out two columns of code containing your own no-op notation to represent the delay cycles between instructions. That would be much more convenient to do in Excel than in a linear text editor.
Would be interesting to see something like that in place of state lotteries her in the US. Neither is a good investment, but the longer term nature of the prize-bond system makes it less likely to attract desperate short term gamblers.
It works if you copy the Catalina version of Network Utility over to Big Sur.
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I'm not sure what the plan is for the SDKs, that's handled by a completely different team.

The SDKs are open source and can be installed fairly easily, e.g. the python sdk is up in pypi, as is the oci cli.

Vendors are welcome to sign up and start publishing images via the marketplace on our platform. That's an option available today, without specific need for OCI to engage. SuSE are in there, for example.
This will be the usual left wing lesbianic Jews, collaborating with alien species to destroy proud patriotic conservatives. Keep these ultra-Marxist E.T. invaders off our planet.
Meanwhile the left dominated media was a major enflamer of the violence of BLM and Antifa.
Holy crap I love this. Great job, you guys!

A thought on pricing: per machine is probably the best. If you do per zerk, customers are going to try and do one zerk on the machine, and track it on a per machine basis, instead of per zerk (which is what you want).

The employees will then learn this, and grease that one spot. The customers won't see the value (since the data will be crappy), and might end up seeing it as a boondoggle instead of the valuable service that it obviously is.

Some other thoughts, and a reason to sell per-machine: early warning systems for parts that are about to fail. If a part is leaking grease, and using up more than it should, warn the customer about it. Could be a gasket going bad, but in any case probably needs maintenance attention.

Good luck!
Only if allocated appropriately. I'm fine with more money going to education, but shouldn't there be some accountability from school districts as to where that money goes? Otherwise how do we ensure it's going to the educators to attract more talent rather than get lost in the bureaucracy?
Can't say for Canada but in the US the colleges look to the parents unless the student is over a certain age (most commonly 26).

There's the FAFSA[1] required by almost every college. Many private colleges also require the CSS Profile[2] which is far more detailed and intrusive. Many people agree that the colleges do this for maximizing their profit and/or providing an incentive to go where it's "less than sticker".

Some 18 year olds are not on good terms with their parents and can't get their parents to complete the processes. Not sure what happens then but you'd suspect nothing good.

[1] https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa Free Application for Federal Student Aid

[2] https://cssprofile.collegeboard.org
> likely

I do not think that word means what you think it means. Please stop trolling HN. Your comments are filled with baseless claims such as this.
Yep, "serial number" was basically the argument for using a number type in the first place, and here they were sequential. Even then, ignoring the JSON peculiarities, it would have been ok up till someone had the brilliant idea to have x digit serial numbers for one product line, and y digit for another. With only zero padding to tell them apart. This person, not a programmer, could not fathom why it caused the "tech heads to go crazy".

Sometimes I debate collecting stories like this.
The markets this company is targeting are many trillions of dollars. Zero sum thinking is a waste of time. Any slice of the pie is a huge business.
I think that is a tough question. If the pace of democratic change is too slow, there aren't a lot of options. Essentially strip people of their voting rights and install a undemocratic government.

I hear your concern, but I think that the biggest change is that people have become accustomed to immediate change and more cynical overall. Democracies don't make sense unless you believe that people are good and correct ideas will ultimately prevail.
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I like your quote. It inspired me to share another.

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I loved all the old welcome videos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2uzNyiODsw
Baseline M1 MBA, about 1 month of regular usage

Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 9,670,166 [4.95 TB]
Data Units Written: 6,898,714 [3.53 TB]
Host Read Commands: 75,916,955
Host Write Commands: 41,914,954
Power Cycles: 80

Fwiw, my swap tends to hover around 2.5-3gb lately
It does, and it is also configurable in Energy Saver in System Preferences.
Are you talking about M1 Macbook Air? Since Apple sell M1 Macbook Air with 30W adapter and I guess it can draw more than 30W, but personally I haven't seen any of it while playing both GPU / CPU intensive games.
It's very relevant. To claim Bitcoin is a success because people have made money from it is nonsense.
Remember Mojave?
Hey, here is a startup idea.

I've been sitting on for a while and given my lack of engineering experience will probably never work on.

Problem:

Unnecessary/excessive noise from outdated/not properly maintained or purposefully broken devices (e.g. combustion engine powered leaf blowers, excessive and outdated reverse gear warning sounds on large vehicles, hollow motorbike ~mufflers~, garbage bins with metal wheels/lids)

Solution:

Create noise pollution maps, showing the areas with most frequent/most excessive noise pollution.

Noise data will exercise economical and political pressure putting an actual market price on the noise levels and requiring the governments to enforce noise limits on vehicles and other registered devices.

Approach 1:

Mobile apps capturing and mapping noise levels in a privacy friendly way, while providing useful diagnostics and recommendations for the users.

Approach 2:

Low power GPS-enabled devices distributed across the city contributing real-time noise data to a central database system for evaluation.
"Long cylindrical" doesn't even sound like whatever weirdness is going on in the Navy tapes. I'm guessing military experiment that got off track somehow.
Your analogy doesn't hold. If someone needs a new plug for their dryer, they might want to hire an electrician instead of doing it themselves. But they can hire any electrician.

It doesn't have to be from the company who makes the dryer, whose electrician charges 30% above market and requires you to use that company's electrical panel which in turn requires you to use that company's stove and refrigerator and buy your electricity from their power company and pay your bills with their credit card whose agreement prohibits you from having any competing credit cards.
Due to govcloud, S3 + docker is increasingly normal. We're helping a team who have that... but not much else (ex: no outside internet).

In utilities/industrial... docker, but not s3.
There’s a nice syntactic sugar for debugging with f-strings: if you place an equal sign, it will print both the variable name and the value. For example:

>>> f"{name=}"
'name=Rodrigo'
I hope this doesn't get "fixed" in the next update by making it impossible to run smartctl.
I like Reddit, especially the wide variety of subreddits. There's literally a place for everyone.

Having said that, Conde Nast is busy screwing it up just like they screw up everything they own. Time for a truly open distributed alternative.
That's also my understanding. Heroku, on the other hand, has no time-limit on their free tier, but it's always kinda broken (startup times). AWS's free tier is the real deal. That's a trade-off.

But that's orthogonal to the point I was making, and the comment I was replying to. If someone likes Heroku because of it's pricing clarity and its ease of setup... well, the pricing simplicity of an EC2 instance is just as good, and the ease of setup is even better.

More broadly, if you're evaluating them against each other....

Heroku isn't the easiest to set up, nor is it the simplest. It's not the easiest because you have to learn a bunch of Heroku-specific things, that you'll just have to reinvent/relearn/etc if you ever want to switch providers. To call it "vendor lock-in" might be a bit of a stretch, but it has aspects of that. With EC2, it's just server management, same as it ever was, same as it'd be on some other cloud.

(Note that many OTHER AWS services are far worse than Heroku in this respect. And/or better, depending on your goals.)

Heroku aims to be a sweet spot. A few hours (or days, maybe) invested in learning to use it properly, and you get a pretty reasonable bundle of tools and support and so on. But if you want to dive deep, Heroku's probably a waste of time. And and the other extreme, if you don't want to learn anything about an individual provider's proprietary crap, then Heroku also will not work out that well for you. Saying "this is our sweet spot" is a respectable position, even if you don't like the sweet spot.

(Personally, I'm still boycotting Heroku over their years of misrepresenting their "dynamic mesh routing", which was always fiction and which they lied about for years, and charged customers for something that they knew full well they weren't delivering. Don't get into bed with sociopaths, even if you like their sweet spot.)
I still use my apple 16GB ipod touch to play music, its in a speaker that has a dock for it. Still works, and I use it to play music. The hardware works. But almost none of the software works, except the music player. The browser no longer works, otherwise I would play music off of spotify or youtube. That thing is probably 13 years old now.
> it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing – moving really fast right over the top of us.

Vaguely Identified Flying Object
Using pay as a single data point - especially an OECD based average - for comparison is enormously bad practice/praxis.

The OECD includes Germany, France, Denmark as well as Mexico and Colombia - the US is most definitely unlike those countries.

On the one end, countries like Mexico and Colombia will have significantly lower salaries because cost of living differences.

Germany, France and the others will bring up the average, but the cost of living in those countries is impacted by the existence of a safety net and the structure of their school systems.
It's because the Go philosophy is "tests are code", so you use the standard language features like != instead of a whole new domain-specific language that you have to learn. I've written more about that here: https://lwn.net/Articles/821358/

Personally I find the "cutesy" names like Expect(a).To.Equal(b) and It("should ...") patronizing and too English-like (code is not a human language). Similarly, I wouldn't like a language that made you write:

Please.Print(1.Plus.2)
Log.To(Console).Text("did something")

The vanilla Go approach can get a bit verbose when you're doing lots of asserts. In that case, you can use standard language features like refactoring things to variables or helper functions, or table-driven tests.

But if you really want assert-style code, I like the https://labix.org/gocheck approach:

c.Assert(a, Equals, b)

Because there's only one function (Assert) and a bunch of comparator names to learn.
Still use my 2010 MBP 15”. I changed out the battery twice and swapped in a SSD drive. It’s my only dvd drive. I also have a 2011 Air 11” that still works.
Sure, I guess that is technically considered living.