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I spoke to him on the phone within a few hours of that post, as I had already prototyped an app to do what was described.

I didn't launch mine, nor participate in his (obviously). I suggested that a business in that space, if successful, would result in a similar outcome as happened to other founders of international money transmission systems that weren't under direct government control: i.e. swatting.

He was not dissuaded, to his credit. Score one for the "founders must have grit" camp.

To be honest, I'm still not sure why the hammer hasn't come down on something like Coinbase by now. It seems that cryptocurrencies in general are the exact opposite of the regime outlined by the BSA, PATRIOT, et c. My unsubstantiated theory is that it has something to do with pmarca, but that's just a guess. The founder of Kraken has expressed his feelings that it's coming soon.

I'm glad that Coinbase has permitted so many to participate in the ecosystem, but I wonder about how much of a benefit heavily regulated, custodial wallets bring to the ecosystem as a whole. It seems to me that Bitcoin existed to replace banks, and here we have a bank serving as the Bitcoin equivalent of gmail, re-centralizing everything in a place that is easily and instantly censored by the exact system it was built to replace. The fact that they're listed on a stock exchange and not as an ERC-20 or other permissionless token tells the whole story, in my view.

I have a special respect for those who can function in heavily regulated, guilty-until-proven-innocent style markets like financial services in the USA. I personally would not be able to handle it.
It seems like you are trying to argue that we don't get to argue... Please stop it.

Irony, incarnate.
Literally nothing is stopping you from using `&[u8]` for 7-bit ASCII.
Sure does. Thanks!
It's hilarious how your comment got immediately downvoted for sharing a personal anecdote about the very same thing. Must really be rubbing the people who downvote for political difference reasons the wrong way.
Thanks, useful clarification. However, I'll mention that although that's the one that the US signed it's not necessarily the one India would appeal to, depending on the exact nature of the complaint (which I think we can't really discern from the article). If the later version of UNLOS had granted that India had the right to refuse navigation of its EEZ to other countries, then it could complain about the US violating a widely accepted standard even if the US didn't sign it. Countries make those complaints all the time (reasonable or not), and as mentioned elsewhere in this thread

> the United States has said repeatedly that it views the FON provisions as customary international law.

So it's quite notable that even the most recent UNLOS don't grant India this right.
For many years now, we tell users that we're banning them when they have an established history on the site: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Shadowbanning is mostly for spammers and serial trolls. There's lots of past explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23686672 and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

I think vouching dates from 2015.

If anyone sees a banned account that's posting good comments, they're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com. If the account has really corrected its ways, we're happy to unban it. Occasionally we notice one of these ourselves and unban it. It's on my list to look at the oldest banned accounts that are still posting; I just haven't gotten to it yet.
Fundamentalism and tribalism seems to exist in any subject. - I find incredibly annoying, disappointing, saddening and infuriating — yet can’t help but wonder if it’s the necessary evolutionary byproduct of our species to collaborate and overcome obstacles too large to tackle alone.
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> It's important to remain objective in these discussions and not assign personal motivations.

Do you claim to be objective?

> Not really, the ultimate force is community goodwill and Doing the Right Thing. Apple could choose to satisfy unhappy developers and users by allowing more consumer choice. Even if the case was to be thrown out today and regulators to all look elsewhere, this groundswell of grassroots dissatisfaction will remain unless Apple deigns to Do the Right Thing.

There is nothing objective about this. It’s just you saying what you think is right. The fact that a small number of developers are vocal about it doesn’t change that.

You list a series of numbered points which are a strawman of the case against Apple being forced to allow sideloading or alternative stores. However suffice it to say that you dismiss a lot of stuff as speculative and unlikely, with only your own speculation as the counterargument.

I’m not going to bother to comment on every part of it, but a couple of points stand out:

> 6. That all of this will actually significantly impact Apple's market share.

My turn to say ‘nobody is saying this’. Possibly someone is, but I haven’t seen it and it’s ceerainly not part of any argument I am making. I don’t care about Apple’s market share.

There is a good chance it would actually go up in if they were forced to allow alternative stores.

> Not to mention, where's the Amazon app store for PC or Mac OS? Why would iOS be the only platform where you see dozens of app stores?

> Do you even have any idea of how the mobile app industry works?

Are you aware of how much money Facebook makes from ads for Apps? Can you see that they would make more if thet could take the 30% for themselves?

Are you aware that Google operates a search engine, and would be able to take a margin for themselves if they were able to complete App installs on their own store?

> Can you give a business justification for this?

Yes.

> So what, is Amazon just going to create an entire store for its Kindle and Alexa apps?

No, but are you aware thar Amazon search is starting to rival Google because people go straight there when searching for products? Getting to sell apps and take 30% would be an obvious complement to their department store mode.

This is the essence of the argument you keep repeating. You just claim that nobody serious would bother to create alternative stores.

The business cases are fairly obvious, and the dollar amounts are in the billions. I’m surprised you don’t see this.
You might like GiveDirectly then, which is all about giving poor people money for them to spend as they see fit.

(There is more to it than that since distribution is nontrivial and they do scientific studies to see how well it works. After all, how do you prove it’s a good idea without studying it?)

It’s a recommendation of GiveWell and favorite of effective altruism types, at least as a benchmark.
As far as I can tell the markup is just there for accessibility reasons, and all the visuals are being rendered via WebGL in the two <canvas> elements at the end of the page.
Ok, I can see why it's not the default, but do you know why they didn't give it some syntax sugar to at least make it less painful/verbose to create one?

let a = "abc" // this is a &str
let b = s"abc" // this is a String
I presume even reading a Facebook post (or clicking on a Google search results link) provides a signal about popularity. Probably a little too far down the slippery slope for the law, though.
I distrust every site. What sites do you trust, and why do you assume they haven't been hacked or xss'd?
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> Conspiracy theories usually deny consensus or cannot be proven using the historical or scientific method and are not to be confused with research concerning verified conspiracies such as Germany's pretense for invading Poland in World War II.

So do we even have a term for “true conspiracy theory”? Where is the list of vindicated theories? This Wikipedia page is about FALSE conspiracy theories only...
Nah. He took a break to reform himself, but has posted abusive messages since then again here and there.
It seems clear whatever Linear thinks user stories are...is not what UX professionals and product managers use.
just your country to go offline, how you gonna pay someone to get you out(keep you safe, etc).... A few ounces of gold on the other hand will take you anywhere you want to go

People keep using that argument about gold, but is it really realistic? If the SHTF and the USA goes dark for whatever reason, how good is gold really going to be?

First, how does someone know you're really giving them pure gold and not some worthless alloy that looks and feels like gold?

Second, how much is gold going to be worth? Will a gold bar buy you a house, or a loaf of bread? (probably not a good example, after a month or so, houses will probably be less valuable than food)

And without any government to enforce a stable market, how will you even trade safely when the guy who has all the stuff you want can just hit you over the head and take your gold and whatever other possessions you may have with you?

Eventually these things would be sorted out by forming some sort of communal groups for protection and resource gathering, and barter prices will eventually be set, but will the guy with the most gold be valuable, or the guy with real survival skills (or at least some more immediately usable possessions like weapons, farming tools, etc)?

For the short term disruptions that are far more likely (like a regional power outage), cash is probably going to be just as good or better than gold because it's got an accepted value and everyone knows what it is (product values may rise, but in a society that's not used to using gold as currency with infrastructure to do so, it's a lot easier to sell a loaf of bread for $60 than for a gram of gold)
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Don’t wait for billionaires to sell their stock. Tax their riches now
I agree, imo the biggest change would need to come from governments themselves. This is why I think I get more altruistic "bang-for-my-buck" by donating to Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang, the Squad, and other progressive candidates b/c we really need to move beyond capitalism.
> that scales with the number of videos, not their length.

That seems pausible, but if so, the entire calculation would have to be redone from scratch, with qualitatively (not quantitatively; different units, not just different values) different numbers, so bringing "1.6 million" into it is still a misleading non sequitor.
That's been helping out my valheim server. I was expecting it to hanger kinda frequently but my IP hasn't changed in more than a month in counting
Dr. Seuss has a lesser-known book called The Tough Coughs as He Ploughs the Dough (based on the observation that none of these -ough words rhyme -- the /tʌf/ /kɔfs/ as he /plaʊz/ the /doʊ/). (And yes, that's not even all of the sounds that are spelled by -ough, like /-u/ in "through".)

Trough is /tɹɔf/ and rhymes with "cough".
The goal for the dev is to be able to compile rust code in governmental code base. As all the static checking will still be done with rustc, it doesn't need to be a full compiler.
You know what I see in 20% of instagram pictures tagged OP-1? Cassettes. Are you telling me there is no hipster aesthetic that a lot of these posters aspire too?
A single poor person may be able to have a large impact on ~dozens of people, but even a small impact on millions of people is likely more valuable and 'altruistic' in terms of effect.

But again, both paths should be encouraged. There will always be relatively few 'rich' people with the means to help millions.
And you'll never see that one corner of the room that the camera somehow missed, where the ceiling has a hole due to the roof leaking.
By "stuck with it", I meant stuck with the problem. e.g. flood damage renders the place unihabitable (nearly always not covered by insurance even), renter packs up and moves, owner is stuck with the problem and the expenses.
Most people don't know you can just dial ##004# to remove all conditional call forwards that normally default to voicemail. Or if the network doesn't unset it, you can set it to a deadend like * 004 *0000000000# - or some other fun automated line...
If people want to make their voices heard, more power to them. I am not going to tell them they should do something else instead.

Python has had three decades to care. It only got around to thinking about women a handful of years ago. And telling people how they should do things is at the core of its culture.

Given that the Dutch were a enthusiastic colonialists, that’s unsurprising.
To clarify — the website owner can fully add Tor to your allow list if you’d like to. That’s entirely your choice if you’re concerned about Tor users being CAPTCHA’d. Also you control the overall security level — so drop it if you’d like to reduce the likelihood of any CAPTCHAs.
Long story short, Rust slices are contiguous collections of identically-sized elements. Strings, by being UTF-8, are not guaranteed to be identically-sized. So they require a distinct type that lets you work with them in spite of this detail.
vacuous does not equate to toxic. I would gladly take an internet where the biggest problems on the internet were tired jokes and excessive emoji spam.
Milkdrop was amazing for its time. I used it to do visuals at concerts and music festivals in the mid-00's. It was especially awesome because you could drive it with a microphone input so you could jam and get real time visualizations that synced with what you were playing.
That's the price we have to pay in order to stop global surveillance. There should be limits to what authorities can know and do. It shouldn't be possible for them to analyze every transaction that ever occurred.
What'd you really do is just send it to a liquidity smart contract and use a function parameter to send it to different wallet(s). These pools pay out big money to alot of different wallets, you'd never be able to track it out the other side.
Priced in, only if you're completely insane. Have you priced in the risk that the SEC shuts down the offramps before it gets there?
The new Google Cloud region in Warsaw, Poland is open
Yup, at that point it's within the scope of bash's debugger. It shows the command that is actually being run, so it expands globs, shows the command within if predicates, and so on. If bash shows a command that isn't actually about to run, that is a bash bug.
I think macOS has some C++ in the kernel, but I'm not sure. And Windows is heavily C++, if you're willing to count WSL1 as "*nix-based".
This is nice. Work with Personal COBOL IDE from 1983.
> The difference is that it's limited in scope, and auditable. Even in a kernel, if you do it right, unsafe is the vast, vast minority of code.

That’s true but it’s also slightly misleading. Any code that uses the unsafe wrappers technically must be checked and all code that uses that code must checked in turn, ad Infinitum. Misuse of the Unsafe wrapper can occur at any level. For instance, if you misuse a DMA command that corrupts memory, it’s not simply the DMA command wrapper that must be checked, the entire sequence of logic that led to the bad command being executed must also be checked.
"Certainly they don't want to, but that's immaterial, they aren't allowed to. They are within the sphere of American order."

If we are referring to the Serbia-Romania example, the peace track record is way longer before what you call American order to be a thing (and even longer if we'd count peace between their people, before statehood), then afterwards it's safe to say that they kept their peace despite America's interests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia
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I agree the FOV takes some getting used to, to mentally adjust for, but I like that you can see so much more of the room that way. In listings without the super wide lens, you just see a little corner of the room in each photo.
LKY also said, not that long ago, that “Singapore wasn’t ready for an Indian Prime Minister”.

Singapore’s perception of causing “racial disharmony” is very different from the West. In fact, the ruling party in Singapore has been speaking against importing any sort of “woke politics”.
The Behringer thing is really confusing to me. I know there are other personal/ethical reasons to dislike them, but cloning out of patent devices is not one of them. That's what patents are for and why they're only valid for a defined period of time. It makes even less sense to criticize them when the originals they are cloning aren't even made anymore.
> But it's not good to interpret the downvotes as correction method for yourself because it only leads to more echochamber.

Oh certainly, it's just that this seems eqally applicable to upvotes, hence why the asymmetry seems perverse.
if you look through his twitter, you can see the kinds of things he promotes....
Suggest expanding "EMS" to "Element Matrix Services" in title as HN readers may not know what the EMS acronym is, but "Element" and "Matrix" would get the attention of those interested.
Yes, asking the question “where should I donate money” limits scope, but it’s still an important question. It’s also easier to answer than job placement or new charity incubation, which depend a lot more on the individual.

There are plenty of important questions in life that nobody can answer unless they know you well.
There was an article about bad service at apple stores. I commented that I had mostly positive experiences. Was downvoted.
Amusingly, I learned to program on paper because I couldn't afford a computer. I'd write all these programs during the week on paper and then on weekends go to a friendly Radio Shack to type them in and test them.
Memory for strings is often more important because there's a lot more of them, and image memory can be file-backed more often but strings need to be swapped to disk.
"I log into it once every couple of years."
That probably explains it?
This gets posted here every so often but to be honest it still isn’t demystified for me even on the third read.
> Who cares if there is a dangling dns records somewhere or an extra allocated floating ip

What if instead of a dangling dns record, its 15 large EC2 instances?

Yes, you can come up with examples of trivial dangling resources, but it's just as easy for me to come up with non-trivial examples of dangling resources.
SQL is king...
I got that same advice circa 2015. However I'm under the impression they started moving away from "earning-to-give" recommendations around 2015-2016.

It's still there mind you, but research and policy are prioritized higher. I'm not sure what else they would recommend to someone who is ill suited for these other careers.
As far as incentives go, bounties are like contract programming, only coupled to the roulette of being rejected or gazumped, which dramatically reduces the effectiveness of the inducement.

The main barrier I experience when contributing to open source projects is being ignored by the clique. If you're short on the time, energy, or disposition for joining the in-group, then set expectations low: feature PRs, and sometimes even simple bug-fixes, may go ignored for long periods, and receive only cursory attention.

(There are exceptions to this. I'll call out three projects I remember for very positive interactions despite being a drive-through contributor: Dovecot IMAP, and Ruby on Rails, and, showing my age now, wu-ftpd).

From my own experience, solutions to the social dynamics move the needle more than financial incentives. By which token I reckon the most effective agent of the last three decades was Github, but there is plenty more to do.
E.g. iOS <7
Energy needed to brute-force a 256-bit key
Not really. In terms of functionalities, I consider ansible as a superset of terraform, without all the state management stuffs. Distributed systems are hard, and I will just let my cloud providers to be the single source of truth of all the states.

Here's a comment from the author of ansible when terraform was first released: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8100036

> One of the things shown in the Ansible examples are how to do a cloud deploy in one hop, i.e. request resources and also configure the stack all the way to the end, from one button press, and can also be used to orchestrate the rolling updates of those machines, working with the cloud load balancers and so on, throughout their entire life cycle -- all using just the one tool.
This was a fun trip down memory lane, lots of nostalgic good-feels.

I wasn't aware of either effort and this brought back the sense of an era of computing I once loved. It reminds me how transparent (perhaps moving towards ubiquitous computing) certain applications are becoming. I couldn't tell you how many times when listening to background music and working, I'd occasionally switchover to appreciate my current Winamp skin and even take a small break staring off into Milkdrop and then shift back to work. Now, I rarely take time to even look at my music application, it's just a means to an end--really a different era of computing where modern software just doesn't seem to give the same sense of personalization or character.

Thank you for your work!
Could a custom panic handler ( https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/panic-handler.html) be used to handle allocation or other panics in a more graceful way?
I'm not saying that b) is OK or means that everything is going well. I'm saying that assuming that the policy is bizarre means you're most likely looking for the problem in the wrong spot.
Terse but unhelpful.
Maybe testing? Companies like Browserstack offer that sort of thing as their core business.

Say that you just made a big frontend change to your website. Before you release it, you can open it on the last 10 major versions of desktop and mobile Chrome/Firefox/Safari/etc. Any rendering failures that you find are the sort of bugs that can be very frustrating to debug from occasional user contacts.

But it can be tricky to automate the detection of visual bugs. And what if you have to make a few clicks and execute some javascript to get to the screen that you want to test?

Anyways, that's one use of browsers-as-a-service.
Yes. As far as I can tell those two firms hold 21% of the stock.

But that's true of pretty much any IPO. All the biggest winners are winners mostly on paper, they can't really dump it all on day one.

My understanding is that there are firms that specialize in buying up assets from VCs that need to close out their funds, so things like this or private companies that they've held for 10+ years already, stuff like that.

There are probably ways to sell all the shares from one entity to another all at once that won't tank the shares, but I'm not totally sure.
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Yeah, don't get me started on how offensive those furniture renders are.
It's pretty good in C with assembly, inline or not. SIMD usually involves a lot of aliasing violations and intrinsics have weird hard to read names, so I find assembly easier to deal with than C here.
> As all the static checking will still be done with rustc, it doesn't need to be a full compiler.

So then this is just a backend?
FeedBurner has had so few updates that the page that I was directed to in the email I got about exporting my subscriber list still has an FAQ about adding FeedBurner links to your MySpace page.
But the "effective" part means more than just that. From their site:

> It is a research field which uses high-quality evidence and careful reasoning to work out how to help others as much as possible.

This assumes that reasoning and evidence are sufficient to determine what will be most effective. Compare this to the Buddhists, for example, who believe that the networks of causality are so complex and intricate that trying to make such determinations (at least, on any humanly reasonable scale) are doomed due to missing a lot of the picture as well as generally incorporating many faulty assumptions.

In other words, what is ultimately most effective at ending suffering may not fit into the metaphysical framework that EA implicitly adopts.