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> If you people want to eat soylent and live in free-floating space habitats, that's cool. I find that idea revolting.

How do you get from free floating habitat to soylent green pray tell? A field inside a free floating habitat grows the same wheat that a field on a planet does.

The air and water you breathe and drink on Earth has gone through many a dinosaur and you breathe molecules that Dschingis Khan breathed in with every breath you take here on Earth. Just because you don't realise that everything you eat, drink and breathe on planets is recycled as well (I guess that's what you're referencing when talking about "soylent green"), doesn't make it any less true.

> Either are just fantasies at this point, but one of them is timid, the other is bold. I'll go with bold. Bold or bust.

While it's true that both aren't achievable with current technology, one isn't any less bold than the other. Given the same amount of effort, one can create living space equivalent to hundreds of Earths, while the other yields a fraction at best.

Simple economics suggests that one is more efficient than the other. "Boldness" is very subjective and thus not something I'd choose as a basis for my argument. But YMMV.

IMO Planets are for research and recreation. Space is for living, working, and expanding into - why try so hard to escape one gravity well and its consequences, only to go back down into another?
Here you go https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2020/05/20/aws.html
Libvmcu (help wanted – bindings, driver, tests)
If we view it as an error checking process, it's better to come up with the two numbers independently. Whether the improvement is worth the costs, I don't know.
"build bigger cluster munitions to deter our enemies"?
> Isn't your entire argument that hedge funds are smarter investors, and therefore you cannot compete with them?

I don't think that hedge funds are particularly smart, outside of convincing their clients of their value. I'm saying that hedge funds are smarter than "investors" that think that buying GME at $300 going to meaningfully hurt hedge funds in any way. I'm not upset at the people losing money. I'm upset at the people peddling these imagined narratives as facts, which ends up causing people to lose money.
The mere mention of uranium is going to make the paranoid scared, and nuclear regulatory agencies raise much concern.

Even "depleted" uranium is somewhat radioactive, and it's a toxic heavy metal.
Seems like you've been around long enough to have read In Search of Stupidity. Lots of great stories in there, including one about a super famous tech person who once said the browser is too slow and will not ever be a viable place for apps. :)
This must look suspicious to people in other countries. Can you imagine what we'd say if Russia were censoring people for questioning their election? We'd assume guilt. It's not a smart move.
So now every website will require enabled WebAssembly to run god knows what code and I will have to install an anti-virus for my browser? No thanks. JS might be a bad language, but it's even worse in how it's abused with frameworks, tracking, etc for no good reason.

edit: funny how I can discuss extremely controversial political topics here and never have any of my comments killed, but having a negative opinion about wasm and JS frameworks is just a step too far lol.
Go to a theater in a predominantly African American neighborhood and watch a horror movie. You'll love it.
Previous HN post from 11 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616010
I have no idea where you got the idea that my games are mostly 6+ years old. It's not even slightly true.
A bootleg of a music show done in your city gets created. It get's passed on to friends who love it. Someone sells a copy to a friend of a friend.

There is profitting off from the bootleg. There is a benefit to the orginal band (new fans to buy official releases). The world is better off (think of how many bootleg Dylan recordings wouldn't exist, lost to time)

Things can start off as #1 and move into #2 but it doesn't have to be negative.
Agreed... How can they be proud to release such an extreme regression in usability and accessibility? It is entirely 100% inaccessible for anyone not using a visual user agent. And this somehow isn't considered a non-starter?
In addition to being very complex, tax codes change yearly. Whoever might take this on would have to take on that a tax code change made in December needs to be interpreted: What questions need to be asked to fill in the new line on one or more IRS forms? And any of the states can likewise make last minute changes. It's nasty time pressure because you have weeks to implement, test, and ship the accommodation to new requirements.

I also observe that the tax code was crazy complex before personal computers became popular in the eighties. Blaming Turbo Tax for the complexity is misplaced blame, though no argument they have a vested interest in keeping them complex, and they pay lobbyists to safeguard their interests.
Sure, it's not Munich, but given how insane Munich is that doesn't mean much. That's like saying it's not San Francisco.
Seems like Microsoft Power Automate (Flow) is your biggest competitor? It's free for all Office 365 users (most people).
I read once that if you tried to build WWII-era aircraft according to specs and mechanical drawings, they wouldn't fly. The real design was found in the dies and jigs that were adapted after many iterations and test flights.
U238 is an alpha emitter. You'd probably get way more bitflips than non-radioactive semiconductors experience.
Honest question, what's Google's angle with flutter? It's one thing to be develop a toolkit for platforms they have a vested interest in, it's an entirely different thing to create such a toolkit for all platforms, including their competition.
Most of computing’s carbon emissions come from manufacturing and infrastructure
Honestly, I've lost a bit of confidence in the Internet Archive project's judgement and long term stability, given the risk they took in distributing books during Covid-19. I feel that they risked the entire project with massive (almost certainly fatal) copyright violation fines in order to distribute extra copies of books. That lawsuit is still pending and we don't know what the outcome of that lawsuit will be.

If they're willing to risk everything they've accomplished to date in order to issue a few extra copies of books, I don't see them surviving long term, nor do I feel comfortable donating to the project.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/868861704/publishers-sue-inte...
The app works fine although as of today it's still tagged Beta in the Google Play store, which may give some people pause.

NFC on the other hand is so unreliable as to moot the use of Google Pay, which is unfortunate. I really prefer tap-to-pay over anything else, but not at the expense of making people in line behind me wait as I try various workarounds like toggling NFC. I realize there's nothing you can do about it - my grumbling is more a warning to folks who (like me) may have used it previously on the Pixel 2 and loved it. It's problematic in the Pixel 4. :shrug:
Interesting rationalization. Don’t you think copying text is the norm and not the exception?
Immigrant here - I don’t see ANY difference between myself, Americans, Indians, Russians or Chinese I have met while working here - at the end of the day we are all people
Scheduling traffic lights at Google Hashcode
This looks like a great thing for people who are building web apps and need that app presence and want to keep a unified code base.

That said React Native is plenty good here even if the language ecosystem it's in is a bit of a mess. And I think there's a bit of work to do here with regards to the web before I'd adopt Flutter 2 for my business.

I tried a few different examples both on my desktop and my iPhone via safari and design wise the demos look really good, but the experience left a bit to be desired in terms of choppiness, user cues where pressing buttons left me wondering if anything happened until I saw red highlights around a text box and certain things not working, text highlighting is a big one for me and something I use all the time on my phone.

I'd definitely try Flutter out for a personal application but for my business if I was not going to develop a native app I think I'd still go with React Native for now.
I found this thread interesting https://twitter.com/SchmiegSophie/status/1367197192172179456
I see what you mean, still a lot more complicated than just dragging a "wire" in qjackctl though.
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A polynomial is a polynomial, a decimal representation of a real number is a decimal representation of a real number, and your representation of complex numbers has funny properties once you begin exponentiating that.

I'd like to see how you'd show kids that: (1+x+x^2)·(1-x^3) is a "repeated addition", both belong to the ring Z[x].
DDG is a great search engine. I trust they do not log and maintain privacy. One entity needs to be trusted.

That being said, with the private.sh offering, it requires two entities to collude to identify users.

Thus, it does provide more guarantees than DDG.
Jeff Hawkins claims he’s figured out how intelligence works

Where did you pull that title from?
I make client side Mac app with trivial copy protection and unlimited free trial, and people still pay for licenses.

My app is practically almost free except for a nag dialog, and I still make a living from it.

Piracy may matter to big companies that have lots of employees who try to extract every possible cent from their audience.

If you just want to make a living from your software, you should not waste time worrying about piracy.
Exactly, and for all the skeptical folks on here, I do not feel Flutter will the the ultimate solution, just another step forward like Cordoba was for abstracting some things and making development faster and easier and paying the bills by shipping more stuff sooner.
>Dart makes Typescript look like a joke.

Dart still does not even have union types, probably the best feature of TS. I would hold off on that claim for now..
>> "As of Rust 2018, this still can cause undefined behavior."
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> This is referring to the fact that you have to be careful when accessing the fields of a packed struct that everything is aligned correctly. Normally anything where "you have to be careful" in order to uphold memory safety requires use of the `unsafe` keyword, but due to an oversight Rust doesn't currently require it in this instance.

No, there's a huge difference between UNDEFINED BEHAVIOR and UNSAFE BEHAVIOR (in the sense of "be careful here").

Take Ada's "Unchecked_Conversion" function, it operates essentially the same as C++'s bitwise-cast, and thus is unsafe ("be careful" sense) but is not undefined.
Dart is extremely easy to pick up if you've written in any C style language.

Someone in our team had a small Android TV app working in 2-3 days with WebSockets, web views, some animations, etc.
In mathematics, sometimes a wrong approach can be used as a teaching tool until you get the concept, at which the correct definition may be disclosed. Example: derivative calculus is easier to teach with infinitesimals, even though the derivative is correctly defined in terms of limits.
In 1996-1997 I ran Java 1.0 or 1.1 on Solaris, MacOS 9, and Windows. I developed for, and on, all three. It was available on a number of other Unix implementations, including Linux and DEC. In addition to HotJava, Java applets ran on Netscape. In 1997 Symmantec had a popular free JIT that ran on most everything. These platforms dwarfed Solaris installations. How exactly were these minor Solaris boxes helping sell Java again?

Quite to the contrary. If anything, Java was helping sales of future Sun boxes, rather than the other way around. Sun worked hard to make sure Solaris ran Java efficiently and stably, so if you were a Java developer you might consider Sun boxen professionally.
I don't think so, at least not outside of the channel bandwidth - based on the FCC filings and the observed behavior, initialization seems to happen on 5839MHz (Channel 8) and then the device hops to a user-selected channel, where it seems to stay.
Did Schnorr destroy RSA? Show me the factors
Yeah, tiny differences that would nag the hell out of me. For example double clicking for selecting word is implemented, but triple clicking to select whole line is not implemented ;(
Yeah, using the magic of DeFi I can easily get a loan for $100K with no bank approval and no wasteful bank employees checking my credit.

All I need is more than $100K worth of crypto assets I can tie up as collateral for my loan. So I'll be able to buy a car or a house, as long as I have more than enough money to do so already. Banks don't know about this one weird trick that makes them obsolete!
Mk1 Golf came out in 1976. The increasing size of the same model of vehicle is more due to brand loyalty retention. They know that in your teens and early 20s, you needed a cheap small car. As you get older, you may want more space to do more things, but you really loved your old car. So to keep you as a customer, they increase the size of the new versions of that car. The new car is still the same model as before, but now it meets your changing needs.

You will see that the Golf has gotten bigger, but now the Polo has taken over as the small car. The Civic is no longer a small car, and has been replaced by the Fit/Jazz. The Focus has gotten bigger, and the Fiesta has taken over as the small car. The smaller car still exists.

Compare a modern Polo to a Mk1 Golf. The Polo will be safer, quieter, more efficient, and probably not that much heavier. Same goes for any car that I mentioned above.
They were 15% lower than my other job offers in August timeframe. Given the rep for requiring crazy hours and the middling pay, I wasn't interested.
Wouldn't this cost money to implement? Money that Congress would need to appropriate?
I looked at their demos and was less then impressed. Would've probably make more sense to get some mature multiplatform GUI capable tool like Delphi add WASM as their compile target and be done with it.
Re-reading you comments, I think you might be confused with regards to what MMT is. MMT is a novel monetary theory, it's definitely not the standard monetary theory, and it's not widely accepted by economists. The standard theory of money is the Quantity Theory of Money, which has been re-discovered many times since the ancient times. Why you think MMT is important in this discussion, I don't know.
>Moving forward, Flutter is the default choice for future desktop and mobile apps created by Canonical.

This is terrible news. I thought Canonical learned from it's last decade of painful failures to converge desktop and mobile. They have different needs and it doesn't work. What this means is another dark age for the Ubuntu desktop environment.
The overall law had a good reason, to keep parents from transferring appreciating assets to their children (who wouldn't have any other income), in order to lessen the tax burden of those assets. So the tax code references any unearned income.

It just isn't logical for most people to know that their unemployment income is also unearned income, and that you could be underpaying your taxes even after filling out the 1040 completely (and following the instructions in the 1040 instruction book).

Maybe this case is called out specifically, it doesn't apply to me so I haven't looked for it in the instructions, however it was just something that I ran across that made me scratch my head.
Lot of people do not make a distinction between URLs and search terms sent off to the browser-default search engine. When they want to visit google.com to make a search, they don't notice any difference between typing "google" into the bar and "google.com".
> Otherwise would be unfair to the natives.

Says who ? These arbitrary rules were made up by someone, and are always subject to change.

Life’s not fair
Gave it a try, couldn't get the Test Drive to work due to code signing issues. But to be fair code signing is always painful.

I filed https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/77173
I torrented lower decks when it came out because they refused to take my money. It was out in Sep/Oct in the states, but not until January in the UK. Exactly the same reason I DCCed voyager episodes in the 90s

I've seen american TV, it's unwatchable. If there's no option to actually buy the content without pop up adverts for other shows, breaks in the narative, squishing of the screen, etc, I'll go to a supplier who can do that.
Wow, I made same GUI in react and got 0 stars :(, but I would still rather use mine since it is more performant, has less css bloat (don't need css in middleware), and has more useful functionality and features which I need such as precise range dragging, infinite menus, anchor snapping to edges of screen, some realtime line/bar charts, and a more slim ui. https://lerp-io.github.io/editor-gui/
Hey all! This is something we've been working on for a while now. It's the future of native cloud storage on macOS. I run ExpanDrive (www.expandrive.com). We use a derivative of macFUSE (https://osxfuse.github.io/) on macOS.

Third party kernel extensions on macOS are on the way out. On M1 machines any third party kernel extension requires a reboot into recovery mode, lowering the security settings, and then finishing the install.

This is a terrible and unfriendly model for users (by design). This is the primary reason these Google/Box/etc aren’t shipping M1 versions of their software.

The replacement for apps like Google & Box Drive (and everyone else) is their new File Provider framework (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/fileprovider), which they quietly launched but didn’t publicize at all. It’s basically a technology that enables something like Dropbox Smart Sync (project infinite) built directly into macOS fully managed by APFS.

It’s a pretty big departure from the macFUSE style interfaces we've been using for years now. File Provider apps are userspace extensions that work with with placeholder files and on-demand hydration of remote files by the system via APFS. It’s a pretty cool framework, but pretty new (and a little raw).

Box/Google/Dropbox/Microsoft will all eventually be using it, but the rollout has been slow.

The whole macOS File Provider project is an off-shoot of the iCloud drive and iOS file provider projects, but with one key component they’ve added called the replicated extension that has an apple-blessed extension to APFS called “FPFS” (presumably file provider FS) that can intercept read/writes/etc to these on-disk placeholder files and download content (and thumbnails!) on demand. Provides data directly to spotlight indexes, etc.

Whereas FUSE is a really low level API exported into a safer user-space process, this is a little higher level. You give the file provider framework lists of directories, help it monitor changes, provide item info and then it will in turn issue callbacks into your extension to initiate downloads to a temporary location.
Benefits

1. All on demand, driven by placeholders. “regular” sync downloads contents ahead of time, this is not the case with file providers. It’s more like network filesystems in this regard

2. Doesn’t eat up free space. Providers can mark their content as “evictable” which lets APFS know it can toss out the data if space gets low. But what I think is extra interesting is that when you mark the content as evictable it doesn’t even register as being used against free space. You could bring down a 10GB file from the cloud and your free space remains the same

3. Integrated with all the higher level APIs so that applications that open a file with swift/objective C don’t beachball while waiting for a download (for an open) to complete. They appropriate waits and expectations are in there now

4. All sorts of other stuff, happy to keep going
I'm playing with it. This is cool. I can't wait for SFTP support. (I know that is difficult for a myriad of reasons, but that's also why it would be so rad. Don't be afraid to assist it using SSH POSIX commands like find when they're available and compliant. There's no prize for SFTP implementation purity.)

Does the File Provider integration support block-level random access? Like, if I have a 1 GB .mp4 video, does it need to download the full video file before playback? This has always been one of the tricky scenarios for high-level OS file APIs.
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Very interesting read. Thank you.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of progress, I say.
The other post (which was strangely marked as a duplicate of this) was towards https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/a-more-privacy-fir....
You could probably use a static type system to ensure you're not allowing string arguments from untrusted input and possibly even allow string constants to be used as arguments. Not that I think this provides any sort of advantage (or that I've even seen this), but it seems like it would be possible and work.
Let me guess, zero children?
Claiming that Gebru has no tangible accomplishments is factually wrong. She's lead author on multiple highly impactful papers.

> I asked a question, and was put on a list proclaiming everyone in it as alt-right bigots.

Were you, or are you editorializing her actions? Because what you actually described is that she put you on a list

> of "fan boys" of an academic critical of "wokeness" as he calls it

That's not calling you alt-right. I believe the stated purpose of the list was to have a set of people that allies could engage with constructively if they wanted to. In other words, it was a list of people whom might be good to engage in verbal discussions with. Because of that, you're calling for her to be fired. Why?
Compare it to DogOS or CowOS or even FungiOS.

We are extremely sensitive to our own differences. But humans are by and large very, very similar when put in perspective of all life.
This isn't necessarily something to celebrate. "Not divorced" doesn't automatically mean stable. I'm Indian, and know so many couples (mainly older) who have been locked in loveless and joyless marriages for decades. Divorce is such a taboo subject in the community that it isn't something you can even consider. If you peel back the curtain you will see a shocking amount of infidelity, emotional/mental/physical abuse, marital rape and more, not exactly stuff I would associate with "stable" marriages.
Maybe it's just me but I don't remotely think JS is a bad language since es6. Tooling is another story entirely.
I don't think anyone here is advocating for a system where you cannot prepare your tax return privately. The problem is that private tax preparation corporations have lobbied to make an IRS system illegal.
They provide the fortran code too! Sweet

https://github.com/kazumi-ozaki/lifespan
Love Letters of Intent
Why is gatekeeping FPV drones so important to you? Opening it up to new potential users some of which will want to eventually invest in better setups seems very much like a good thing.
I actually requested a card at Safeway (wanted for convenience, not privacy), but apparently they are not giving those out anymore. You have to give them your phone number or else accept the additional costs for your food and lack of benefits at the gas station.

The rewards card is a much better model in my opinion because while it gives them quite a bit of data, it does provide some anonymity. I'm sure it is possible to reconstruct from that data who I am (i.e. convert it into direct PII like name and address), but that at least takes a lot more effort and processing than if they have my phone number.

Most people are ok giving up SOME privacy for the sake of convenience/cost savings. I doubt most people are truly willing to give up all privacy for said benefits once they understand what they are actually giving up.
Your comment is written as if immigrants are a homogeneous group, all identical to each other. That seems like a far more pernicious view than suggesting that they might differ (in positive ways, no less!) from natives.