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Ok so the article is garbage and the author loves to claim things without data just for the sake of cementing his opinions.

Past that, I think it would be interesting to see how Google is going to operate Fitbit moving forward. I personally never found Fitbit attractive (as a product or company) and for the time it was public neither did Wall Street.

I think companies like Fitbit and GoPro will always struggle to create a defensible position in their market. On one side you have Apple squeezing pressing with their cult-like brand and high quality, taking all the upper-end of the market.

On the other side you have the Chinese brands leveraging thier efficiency to create products that serve the lower-end of the market. They compete on price but also have a lot of upper room to apply their efficiencies and squeeze market out of the middle.

And who is the middle? A company like Fitbit that has to compete on both ends while trying to avoid cannibalization.

I think Google's opportunity is to fold that wearable business into their smartphone business and attempt to gain terrain with very tight integrations that can't be used by their Chinese competitors. I don't see any other way for them to win with this acquisition.
Further, reddit is built from the ground up to force consensus. Counterculture cannot exist on the site by definition, as anything prevalent on the site is there by consensus.
Yes, I think this is exactly the right kind of reason to use bash.
The Dark Forest analogy strikes me as apt as well. All of the best (most interesting, most active, most insightful) groups that I belong to are off of the public internet these days. Some of them are just small Discord servers, some are even more heavily encrypted groups on Signal, Mattermost, or Mastadon. But what they have in common is that not everyone is welcome, and we don't even advertise our presence.
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OK boomer isn't obligatory.
1) I think the NHS is a red line for many people in the UK, whereas criticising the EU has been a national sport since before there was an EU. I think you are misinformed

2) left wing journalists? For what newspaper? The UK newspaper industry is dominated by right wing papers. I think international readers may get there wrong idea about it because they see the guardian online... because the guardian is free it gets shared a lot. If you want to see a typical British newspaper try the Daily Mail (Don't take this as a recommendation!)

3) The idea that the Corbyn election defeat was mostly about rail nationalisation is one of the most absurd things I have ever read.

4) The businesses I work with spent trivial sums on GDPR.
I actually posted this on reddit (mainly to get other viewpoints besides the HN echo chamber), and I’m not new to the tech entrepreneurship scene. I’ve launched 3 startups, two bootstrapped that are chugging along quite well and a third one VC funded that is doing just ok.

This is less an attack on Superpowered as it is a critique of YC. I think the idea of a unified Notification Center is interesting but the space is quite simply too crowded. You have slack, plus all of the companies like station trying to solve the same problem with much more features and a much bigger moat. YC used to pick companies that were more or less going to be at least decently successful even if they had never encountered YC, while this one seems like it wouldn’t have been successful without YC.

It seems like YC has fully switched to the shotgun model of fund everything and see what sticks instead of the boutique smaller cohorts of the past. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but that also comes with a reputation change as well.
Nanoracks does commercial things on the ISS other than cubesat launches. IIRC the Doubletree thing was they sent up an oven and had an astronaut bake cookies using their recipe
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Same here ->> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26436558
Maybe unlimited, as in you can buy yourself as many hard drives as you want to allocate to it?. I'm not at all sure how it works though.
>I expect Photoshop to contain many highly optimized function routines

Ah, I see you have never had the pleasure of using it.

Sarcasm aside, the whole Adobe suite makes atrocious use of your machines actual power, most is still single core. My machine can simulate the entire virtualized interactions of simulated light photons on glass on multiple GPUs in the time it takes photoshop to encode a GIF.

and you think "well maybe encoding the gif is more work?" yet try any GIF encoder written in pure Javascript and they still outperform Photoshop and also the 3D render.
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Yesterday and the day before I wrote this eco-logical simulation: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/qabbits

It's fairly simple: "qarrots" spawn nearby qarrots and get eaten when a "qabbit" collides with them; qabbits die if they get too hungry or old; qabbits in a certain age range colliding with each other spawn more qabbits; qarrots and qabbits inherit some attributes with slight mutation, so regional variations develop over time; and so on. I tweaked the parameters so that it's interesting to watch and neither the qarrots nor the qabbits dominate. This is not highly advanced software engineering, and if you've never wanted to do something like this, there is something wrong with the way you are living your life.

But the very simple O(NM) collision-detection scheme I'd used the other day to implement Space Invaders was too slow. With even a few thousand qarrots and a few hundred qabbits, I could only simulate like 4 time steps per second, which is ridiculous even given that JS in the browser is not the most performant platform. So now I'm doing a little bit of sorting ("broad-phase collision detection") to cut down on the number of object-to-object collision tests needed, and now performance is around 12–24 time steps per second, which makes the simulation way more fun. But faster would be better. I can afford about 15000 object–object collision tests per time step and still hit 60 time steps per second, but my simpleminded sorting algorithm is only cutting it down to about 20k–80k hit tests per time step, which is still a good improvement over four million or whatever it used to be.

I think that, if I use a grid ("spatial hash") and maybe update it incrementally, I should be able to hit 60 time steps per second. If I could get to higher numbers like 1000 or 10'000 time steps per second, I'd be able to see the impact of changed simulation parameters much more quickly. Alternatively, I could run much larger simulations, which might give rise to qualitatively different behavior—if the simulated world is too small, the qabbits tend to wipe out all the qarrots and then die out themselves.

ArrayList and HashMap and the Golang intrinsic containers don't really help much here. You probably don't need generics to solve it. But you do need to think about what data structure to use. Your years of professional experience avoiding such problems and posting anti-intellectual comments about how ignorance is just as good as knowledge, well, condolences, but you aren't going to convince these rectangular bunnies to simulate faster.
I don't get any of it, and that leads me to think that you might be projecting, but ok.

I think the fact that you said 'owning the libs' speaks for itself.

We should end this discussion as it isn't going anywhere

down: defining yourself as either conformist or non-conformist is cringe, but ok
I believe your statement misses a crucial condition:

> Building something customers want, but cannot or should not build themselves, is a competitive advantage,...

With which I want to stress the important part from my comment: it certainly makes sense to build something as quick as possible to assert the market. But if you cannot move beyond that, fast, your business model is risky.

I think in early stages, for example, an "online bike sharing service" that consists of only an excel sheet and a mailbox is by far preferable over a web-app, with stripe integration and a blockchain, microservices or kubernetes cluster or whatever overengineerd paradigm is hot this month.

But if your entire "bike sharing service" is as easy as "getting a mailserver and filling an excel sheet", your business is extremely easy to copy. Anyone with a bigger marketing budget will overtake you in days. Anyone with a larger reach can push you out of business in mere days.

At some point, you'll need to get a competitive advantage, which cannot be copied in hours, or bought with spare change of any of your competitors. Whether that is a full software-suite or kubernetes-hosted microservices with blockchain integration (I hope not) or just a large happy customer base, matters little.

I'm not saying "don't do no/low-code", I'm only putting forward how business might change when anyone can build an online business in mere hours. I'm not a historian, but I certain there are numerous examples of existing fields and niches changing or dissapearing because innovation removed the barrier to entry and anyone could copy the business in hours, that would previously cost months or huge loans to get off the ground.
Premier league has one of the worst VAR I've seen in top 5 leagues. I think Bundesliga does it the best (but still not perfect).

> handball calls are still shambolic.

that's because handball calls are interpretation of intent and slow motion won't help you with that.

So then they changed the rules to ignore the intent and it became a valid strategy for a striker to try to shoot the ball at a defender arm for penalty.
You're ridiculously off-topic and plain wrong. Internet access is in fact necessary for a lot of people. And since now in many countries children socialize online, not just in real life, it's a necessary aspect of their life.
Because they likely get a large number of users doing git pull first thing Monday morning.
Please don't add supercilious dissing on top of the flamewar this thread has already degenerated into.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Assuming you are talking about a case where some app is illegal in US, but not in UK, as long as Apple has sufficient safeguards, they should be in the clear. For example, don't you need a valid address in another country to create an app store account there? Or maybe a credit card from that country? If yes, then that sounds like a sufficient safeguard.

Not that it really matters, given I haven't heard of any Apple app store apps that are legal in UK but are explicitly illegal in the US. I remember there was a scare like that with TikTok/WhatsApp last year, but it never went through, so there isn't really a real life situation that could've set the precedent for such a thing.

I don't doubt that once such a situation occurs, Apple might indeed get looked into by the regulators. Would be an interesting case to observe for sure. Either way, that hypothetical situation is much much less clear-cut than what's happening with Binance right now, though I can definitely see the similarities.
> we have 2 options

hum. this is a telltale that you know very, very little about latin america.

There is actually 4 options. And you left the TOP TWO out.

1st is boleto. where you get a payment slip with the total bill split in monthly payments, with instructions to pay at the bank with special cases for late payment, etc.

The 2nd most used is to write pre-dated, pre-signed monthly checks. That work like an informal version of the boleto and gives more leverage to the seller.
The Overton Window hasn't widened. It hasn't narrowed. Instead, it shattered.

Take gay marriage, for example. 50 years ago, 95% of the population thought that gay marriage was ridiculous. That meant that 95% of the population thought that the position of 95% of the population was reasonable. That's an Overton Window.

Now, 30%[1] of the population still agree with the previous view. 40% of the population thinks that gay marriage is perfectly reasonable, and that thinking otherwise is completely unacceptable. And 30% are somewhere in the middle (gay marriage is acceptable, but it's OK to think that it's not, maybe). That means that 40% of the population has an Overton Window that excludes 60% of the population, and a separate 30% has a window that excludes 70% of the population. There isn't a society-wide Overton Window on the topic any longer.

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[1] All numbers are gut-feel estimates, with no statistical validity.
Just a quick note that I consider WSJ (Wall Street Journal) neutral, they mostly report on business news and I find their news to be fairly non-biased.
Since you want everyone to be fined, why not start with YCombinator? You can ask them for a list of all of their PII removal requests and to see proof that it was all removed.

I’m sure that’ll go over well.

Then maybe you can submit an Ask HN to see how many startups will self-report to you.

There are over 26M small businesses in the EU. You’d better get started...

By the way, GDPR isn’t just about misuse of PII, it’s about use of PII after it’s been asked to have been removed; and most sites use email addresses as usernames which are PII, so that’s all over the application logs, comments, etc. and when people submit a PII removal request, you can’t share or store the PII in the request itself, so better not use Slack, email, etc. and accidentally refer to the PII to be removed. If you do and need to follow-up again with clean-up, don’t refer to it then either, or you could get stuck in a endless loop of PII removal. Also, how do you know you removed the PII of the user who didn’t specify all of it I’m the removal request? You ask them for it- but does that allow the PII they sent at that point to be kept? I don’t know!you know why? Because it’s not fucking defined in the law clearly enough. What if they requested removal of data that wasn’t their PII?
I’m gay so things like this matter to me. A lot of trans rhetoric is deeply homophobic.
I do not like languages that make code look like regexes, but to each is own
Hey Paul, thanks for the thorough questions and feedback! We can go over the questions in more detail at the demo 12pm PST. Download: https://www.venu3d.com/downloads.html)

1. Yes to all. It's just a screenshare, so you can share anything, slides, video, webcam.

2. Yes, everything you see is customizable to the event organizer's needs.

3. Yes, we have 3D spatial audio meticulously tuned to allow you to speak with those around you but not be bothered by background noise from the next group over.

4. We work with event organizers with an annual budget ranging from $10K-$150K+. We understand each event organizers' needs are different, and we match our level of service and custom requests for each customer.

5. Yes, system requirements will be lowered in the upcoming months to allow more users with different computers to have a smoother experience.

6. Attendees with Q&A questions line up and walk up on stage for questions. In the upcoming months, we will also have a built-in Q&A chat as requested by one of our customers.

Would love to meet you in the demo and connect over email and get more of your feedback on some other things around user experience. If you're interested in chatting, feel free to shoot me an email at jeremy@virtualworldarcade.com. We appreciate the help and feedback!
It cost me almost $3000 in fees to get my green card. That’s direct fees, no lawyers or anything.
> this is the least productive use of energy

I agree! Proof-of-work cryptocurrencies are tremendously wasteful.
While this may be true, I've also never needed as few third party repositories as I do with openSUSE (particularly Tumbleweed). Virtually everything I've needed is in the official repos in modern versions. (Arch + AUR is a similar story, but honestly I prefer my experience with openSUSE.)
You ban dangerous actions, not speech. When you start censoring speech, you give a very small group of people the ability to silence whoever the please.
Are monthly payments for “things that are built using moving-target APIs” acceptable?

How many months/years of maintenance (“warranty”) do you typically expect to be priced into a one-time purchase price for software?
I think there could at least be some geopolitical reprecussions.

The US is so willing to proscribe various Iranian government officials as terrorists and to sanction Iran so far as to deny them medicine and food from other countries, and they have not done anything close to resembling what Myanmar has done (genocide).

Democracy doesn't have to be the answer but there should be pressure on the state of Myanmar to change in case of genocide. We don't have to go forcing other countries to accept our values (democracy, socially liberal policies / conservatively fiscal policies, etc.) But we should at least draw the line at genocide.
> Because if someone has mostly bad opinions, you have to wonder if he managed to have just one good one or if this is a bad opinion too.

You are arguing for ignoring the content of an opinion, and only evaluating it only by the association of people who agree or don't agree with it?

So, tribalism as the only acceptable form of reasoning?
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This came up when people started looking sideways at the ballooning costs of the Space Launch System. Even though we have extensive blueprints and even parts left over from Saturn V rockets, the institutional knowledge to use any of those things simply doesn't exist anymore, and would have to be re-created at exceptional cost of you wanted to build another one.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/6281/why-not-build...
please RTFA before commenting, it goes into detail as to why one might not want to use p7zip
LSP is great. The thing about VSCode is dark patterns. VSCode is great, one sees that it's MIT licensed, downloads it uses it and is like wow nice. After a while realises that the official build is not FOSS licensed and contains telemetry code. So one finds 'VSCodium' which is a community port without telemetry. You carry on working but now remote things are not working. One looks why - the only reason is MS made it proprietary. Remote is essential for lots of developers. One feels f*cked by MS. Few years ago, Github's 'Atom' editor was getting popular. Then MS bought GH now Atom reduced to atoms - can't see it anywhere - though getting updated.
> From well-compensated marketing teams, to hordes of self-interested proselytizers (see: bitcoin), to propaganda teams looking to influence public opinion, mainstream dark forest sites simply shift the balance of power from the platform itself to the most motivated and well-funded members of the platform

This is making the perfect the enemy of the good.

Also, voting systems take care of a lot of this, because naked propaganda spam gets downvoted by the users.
Not that I've used it in several years, but Teradata and AsterData used to run on SUSE. It was extremely stable in my experience.
It is being argued that was not constitutional

You can check this for more info: https://melissacrouch.com/2021/02/07/the-illegality-of-myanm...

That professor is an expert on the constitution.
You're just fishing for a nice and spicy example. Here is a bland one. I have a big cup of coffee on my desk right now. There are very nice people right here in the USA, some of whom have been my neighbors and about whom I will say nothing derogatory, who think I am endangering my immortal soul by drinking from it. Some might consider taking one or the other stance extreme. I think weighing in publicly on whether such behavior is "redeemable" as if it is for you to decide is wholly inappropriate.
If a small business cannot delete customer email address from their database, then it does not deserve to survive. It is not a rocket science and it is not unaffordable to have this functionality even in a custom solution.
> ThreadX ... rules the system

> The GPU is still in charge

Can you explain in specific, concrete terms what this means?

For example: I've read that the undervoltage monitoring happens on the ThreadX process, and that it throttles the ARM cores when low voltage is detected. The vcgencmd has more info on this, including the following bit field returned by vcgencmd get_throttled:

Bit Hex value Meaning
0 1 Under-voltage detected
1 2 Arm frequency capped
2 4 Currently throttled
3 8 Soft temperature limit active
16 10000 Under-voltage has occurred
17 20000 Arm frequency capping has occurred
18 40000 Throttling has occurred
19 80000 Soft temperature limit has occurred

What else does it do?
While GDPR's intentions were good, the implementation is hilariously vague/wide and has had a chilling effect on small and large businesses worldwide since going into effect (not to mention the additional costs immediately levied on every business to develop, verify, and maintain GDPR infrastructure).

I'm sure this is a minority opinion on HN but I'm glad to see some countries pulling back, especially in light of recent calls to expand GDPR even further (!).
This is more a culture thing than anything technical. Wayland is meant as a replacement for X which is "just" the wire protocol that windows use to talk to the display server. But compositors like Sway, Mutter, and Kwin are angling to replace Xorg, the single monolithic display server that happened to speak X. Xorg could have just added Wayland support (in theory not in practice) and so the death of Xorg left a huge hole that everyone is trying to fill and no dominant project as emerged yet and Wayland has made it easier than ever to just DIY.

To me this is a good thing because having multiple competing implementations of a standard makes the standard authoritative and avoids the "do what Xorg does" problem.
>spiraled into calling out individuals with even a small following who hadn’t come forward with a timely public statement of solidarity or remorse.

>timely public statement

Being a public figure sounds exhausting.
It literally mentions p7zip on the article and talks about why that isnt a good choice.
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Hey, cofounder here, thanks for the interest. We just released our beta and I'm happy to answer any questions / take them to improve our site/docs. Here a couple of answers on questions I'm seeing in the comments right now:

Privacy: The clients are operating peer-2-peer and their communication is end-2-end encrypted. Meaning you and your peers host the data. The relay servers if needed are never and can never see your data.

Unlimited Storage: As it's a peer to peer system, there are no 3rd party servers storing any of your data. So it's limited only by your clients capacity

Open Source: The relay network servers are open source on our github site. The GUI client is closed source, you pay for the convenience. We might open source a pure command line client in the future.

Privacy Policy & Terms: They are linked at the bottom of the page: https://diode.io/privacy-policy/ & ttps://diode.io/msa/

I'm happy to answer all questions on this. Keep em coming.
That's not actually accurate. The genocide started way before 2016. It started with the 1962 law and the more brutal cleansing in 1980s.

There are a few books that I can recommend if you would like to read more.
I have been using this in beta form and works fairly well, early days but shows a lot of promise.
The ISS orbits at 400km altitude and 27000km/h, while many small satellites will orbit lower - I suppose this is what makes it possible to “drop” a non-propulsive satellite from the ISS like the one in the article.

As their orbit decays, they would actually need tons of fuel to accelerate and raise their orbit to reach the station, it’s totally impractical.

EDIT: not geostationary
so... might makes right?