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>I'm not sure about your use of "caution" here.

I was alluding to caution in reference to fossil fuels specifically because nuclear power causes less deaths per megawatt than any fossil fuel (and, interestingly, hydroelectric, if only because of the catastrophic failure of the Three Gorges Dam), and the extra scrutiny it receives in comparison is thus unjustified in my opinion. Over 100 people are killed in car crashes every day in the US alone, which helps put the potential value of self-driving cars in better perspective (although, of course, the switchover to self-driving cars opens us up to the possibility of malicious actors suborning the entire fleet; a worthwhile hypothetical to consider, I think you'll agree, given the... lackadaisical information security standards both IoT and vehicle manufacturers adhere to). The example of economic models is more speculative, but I could well imagine any potential new system being derided for being unproven or too risky even as our current one encourages and rewards looting the planet and poisoning the communal well.

To your point on ignoring unpleasant potentialities, I couldn't agree more. The optimists have always led the way, and as long as there is more commons to translate into immediate success, it shall be so. We are living in a time of whalefall, with a surplus of resources sufficient to support a maximally extractive lifestyle for perhaps one generation more, before it is gone forever. I have grown increasingly disillusioned with our potential to avert the coming global ecological and subsequent economic catastrophe; it seems that our Neros would rather fiddle while Rome burns.

>But if we're going to build tools, imo they must be easy to dismantle and supersede.

An interesting point, and one that I never considered before. My assumption is generally that for physical goods, robustness and long lifetimes are strongly favored over upgradability. Or rather, that "ease of transition away from" is basically never considered in the design or proliferation of new tools. That's a difficult point; is a meme that provides a path to a better meme more adaptive than one that locks the target in? Can it be made so?
export all of your email to Protonmail and stop sucking on that Google breast
> perfectly good MacBook with 30minutes of battery life

What the heck, all MacBook batteries are replaceable! Apple will do it for you in the first 6 years or so, and after that there are still 3rd party shops who will happily replace it.
The idea is that preregistration is done publicly, so a reviewer of a paper could easily see that you have registered multiple analyses and reject the research based on this.
WASM lacks garbage collection and is statically typed. You'd have to write a whole Python interpreter, so I'd expect the end result would be slower than the official Python interpreter.

I imagine it would make more sense to compile Python to JavaScript and leverage the optimising JavaScript JIT engines, but no doubt an efficient transpiler would be a significant undertaking. The Transcrypt project [0] does something like this but I don't think it emphasises performance.

[0] https://www.transcrypt.org/
How large is Rupert Murdoch's reach through News Corp in Australian media
Denmark to permanently cease using AstraZeneca vaccine
He is right. Implying that Webassembly is strongly typed is garbage and tells much about the rest of the content.
I have the opposite problem. My problem with ADHD is that if I start a novel and the novel is decent, I will not stop reading until I finish the book or series of book. No matter what work I need to do, I'll even forget to eat and will not go to sleep until I'm either finished or I'm so tired that I need reread the same sentence multiple times before I understand it. It's great in that I've read a lot of books, but it's also been a source of problems more than once when I blew things off because I have a book to finish.

With non-fiction, it depends, if the subject interests me, I can become equally focused, if it doesn't, there's very little chances that I will finish it. But I also have weird interests, once I became obsessed with finding the best health insurance plan and read all the 100 of pages of terms and conditions of the different plans in a day (very dry material). I know that now that I'm no longer in the mood to do that, I would never be able to read a single page.
Seriously, goddamn. He had, say, 2002 million, he gave away 2000 and he kept 2 for himself, and people are fucking OUTRAGED. If he had 2000 million and gave all of it away, well, people still wouldn't be satisfied because people suck.
Ask HN: Is there a cloud-based email service where one cannot be deplaotformed?
I use Gmail. While I don't think it's likely won't ever be deplatformed for my personal behavior, you never know these days I could get deplatformed for something stupid I did years ago, because I piss off the wrong person on the wrong day, or simply because some bot goes on a rampage. Are there any cloud-based Gmail alternatives where one doesn't risk being deplatformed? I could self-host, but that comes w/ it's own set of risks. Basically, I dreaming of an email account that carries zero risk of being lost, short of an external even like a natural disaster or the government itself declaring my email address to be a national security threat.
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> The USA, UK, Scandinavia, Australia have embraced these kind of transparent and simple taxes, and their societies are much wealthier because of them.

This is nonsense. All of these states have complex and much higher rates of income tax than Serbia, plus consumption taxes.

The UK tried a poll tax once and there were riots, up to a third of people refused to pay and it was one of the main reasons a Prime Minister of 11 years lost her job to someone who promised to replace it. And that was a relatively low one just to fund local services with a reduced rate for registered unemployed. Of all the potential income tax alternatives it is undoubtedly the worst.

It makes far more sense to distribute the burden of paying for pensions according to current ability to afford it than to force people to pay money they don't have into a scheme which simply promises to give it back decades later if they're still alive.
The change to IR35 lets companies decide the status of the worker hired as a contractor - the contract only needs a few clauses to ensure it falls in-scope and it means that a deemed employee is not a subject of employment law as a result. Now nothing stops e.g. Amazon or Uber from hiring any kind of worker this way.
Some MPs now urge that this gets changed so that worker in-scope would enjoy employment rights and they are hoping this will happen during this Finance Bill. My guess is companies are going to wait few months and see.
I recently gave Rego a shot but had a difficult time grokking it. It's also inspired from Datalog. How would you say Logica compares to Rego?

> It supports modules and imports, it can be used from an interactive Python notebook and it even makes testing your queries natural and easy.

I don't see any examples of how to do tests in the announcement. Consider adding some.
Nice to see Datalog being validated by a big name, though I don't see what's modern about Logica in particular, or why one should use it over plain Datalog (as syntactical Prolog subset) when the available backends are restricted to SQL rewriters or locked-in to BigQuery. Will have to look into the model for aggregate queries which I guess is a selling point for Logica (as is modularization/composition with optimization), and a weak point since typically neither in Datalog (the decidable logic fragment) nor portable.

Edit: also I find the title a bit grandiose since this isn't about Logic Programming in general, but only database querying
The net result is not so much that the loopholes have gone away, but that the contracts have. Employers are refusing to engage with the new IR35 system rather than risk getting on the wrong side of HMRC.
This "it's the original title" policy that gets thrown around a lot seems counter-productive to me by now. Someone will post an actual description of what's significant about a release, but then it gets edited to "ObscureName 1.2" which leaves you wondering: what is this? Should I care? Is it a software tool, a hardware product, can I eat it? Is it even news, a significant milestone that makes this a viable product that I'd like, or is 1.2 a version interesting for nostalgia? It tells me absolutely nothing, but yay it's the original title?

Similarly here, it tells me every little about what the post is going to be. There's a bit of what happened, but also it's a writeup of what it is and how it's made. A better title might be "How I made an Open Source Clones List go Viral on GitHub" - just off the top of my head, you can probably do better, but it would already help you figure out whether you're interested in what it has to offer before having to click.
Design isn't the biggest issue of Element imo. The speed it. It's super slow. I used another matrix app (can't remember the name now) and that also had the same issue. And the speed wasn't the app issue I think as everything else worked fine but loading messages and sending them took forever. Has this improved recently?
Tell that to women getting their skull crushed by biological men in female sports.
Time to install GPT-3 on your own server and unleash it onto Google-Support, YouTube-Support, Alpha-Support, etc. to complain about your situation ;-)
You just need to answer the captchas to keep it goin.
If OP wants to drop welfare and switch to extended-family-provided safety net...
I think the "not picking" is justified. If the journalist who wrote this can't get the headline right or intentionally made it misleading, than can we trust the rest of their content? Journalistic integrity is a valid concern.
Not original commenter, but maybe “Open-source clones or alternatives of popular sites”? Something more descriptive about the content.
You could try, but miners aren't going to include a transaction from that address in a block, especially not to some sort of mixing service.

It takes something pretty extreme to get the consensus of enough miners to matter, but the hack of Mt. Gox was that extreme.
What do you mean by 'at first glance'? With JS disabled I just get an empty black page.
Thank you for clarifying. But how would IR35 apply in this case - she was an employee anyway, not a contractor and did not have her own limited company.
https://github.com/hardpixel/gnome-hud
That's wonderful - my favourite moment from the video I picked was when 'Lenny' was invaded by ducks :-D
Legal ransomware. Nice.
You can put the money in an off chain escrow like Lightning for things like this though.
That isn't how any of this works.

There has been a constant allegation that Lambda School sells its ISAs and therefore no longer has incentives that are aligned with students. The assertion is that, in “Big Short” style, we sell off all the risk of our students being placed to someone else and don’t have to care about outcomes.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

When Lambda School finances ISAs here’s how it works:

We get together with investors and say, “Based on past performance, we predict this ISA will be worth $x.” We can then receive an advance of $x, minus interest and a possible margin of error.

Importantly:

1. That amount needs to be paid back, plus interest.
2. If the value of the ISAs ends up being less than predicted, either we have to reimburse investors for the loss, or we won’t be able to continue borrowing in the future.

This is not a unique or predatory structure in any way.

If a student drops out, doesn’t get hired, or doesn’t pay back, Lambda School makes less money. If a student does great, gets hired, and pays back quickly, Lambda School makes more money.

This is not a scandal, and holds true to incentive alignment in any way. Lambda School remains entirely aligned with its students.
I got to go on a dig a few years ago. We were excavating a site that likely was once the location of a large building. My supervisor pointed out a long, shallow, obviously man-made cut in the bedrock that ended abruptly and had no obvious purpose. He said his theory is someone screwed up and started cutting the foundation in the wrong spot.

It was comforting to realize that none of my mistakes are likely to be preserved for the next few millennia.
How is it with lots of text being displayed? VSC's terminal is unbearably laggy for me when there's more than like 10% of the terminal covered in text, is this similar?
The headline is a bit missleading, as the main article is about AssemblyScript, a typescript subset compiling to WebAssembler. So it seems, quite some of the mentioned problems come from the immaturity (or design problems?) of AssemblyScript and not necessarily from wasm.
>So yeah, I wish I'd be broke with a $2 million net worth

You wish it now, which is a trivial wish to increase your net worth.

The impressive thing would be if you would wish it once you had 8 billion dollars in the bank, when it would be a wish to hugely decrease your net worth, like this person.
You're not seeing the full picture. People chose to use products and/or services which collect behavioural information for advertising purposes (or put it simply $ for data). This wanting to install tracking software on a personal device is a side-effect of this data collection mentality.

Maybe it'll come crashing down - this whole concept of $ for data - some day, but until then you'll see all of these abuses. And again it's sad how conspiracy theorists were mocked at for this exact hellish scenario.
Either people start demanding for something different or the abuse will not stop.
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> You can flip the argument of "accept monitoring or get fired" around in favor of the employee as in "you are doing a poor job, normally we would fire you for that, but it may not be your fault, so if you allow us to make sure of that (by monitoring), we will try to find another solution".

An interesting parallel to ankle bracelets (also mentioned in the article). As a form of punishment, it's the justice system's way of saying, "you're doing a very poor job as a citizen, but we don't think it would be fair to put you in prison for it, so if you allow us, we'll impose some lesser restrictions and monitor your adherence, to make it easier for you to improve your behavior".

No country on the planet forces everyone to wear ankle bracelets by default.
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This looks like the Serbian government's mistake and not something that workers did. Mindboggling the government is now acting like a thug even if it's the one to blame.
That would be amazing, the problem there is privacy... Grin with CoinJoin can take somewhat close but definitely not enough. We are far from scaling up to a point where a coin has low fees, fast tx's, privacy and decentralization
Or use something open and decentralized like Matrix that no one single party can control the future of.
> I'm confused. Isn't the US dollars something like a legally-backed "we-owe-you" of US goods and services?

Not at all. You can't take your dollars to the issuer (the Federal Reserve) and have them redeemed for goods and services. They are not redeemable, hence not "backed". Fiat simply means not backed.

> Why else do non-US residents value the USD?

Do you mean why they demand USD? For different reasons. One reason is to pay for goods and services imported from the US. Another reason is to use it as reserve currency.

> And why does EURUSD vary with relative economic output of the two countries?

It doesn't.
This is "correcting" in the sense that someone is pointing at something and you're "correcting" people to look at the finger instead of the something. Yes, you are technically correct, but you aren't making any friends.
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And my opinion of Forbes journalistic integrity and accuracy has just plummeted. Why should I trust what they publish if they can't get the headline right or made it intentionally misleading?
Journalists making attention grabbing headlines is not big news

A man giving away $8bn leaving himself $2m really is. I mean it really really is.
XFCE has the Whisker Menu which does exactly that.
Wonder if this will lead to lower usage of the Suez canal
I'm seriously considering it, but I'm a heavy IMAP user. When you enable IMAP in ProtonMail, it's no different than any other mail provider, security wise.

This is the dilemma for me.
This is very similar to https://mak.ink, sans the WYSIWG part.
Just another reason for rich people to justify their current behaviour. Why donate, if you would still be shat on by envios poor bastards? Fml
It's not a desktop environment, they are extensions for the gnome shell.

If you look at the source of gnome shell extensions and themes you'll find that they use JavaScript and CSS. If you spend enough effort you can make gnome look completely different.
Probably because it misses the point entirely and in an almost comical way uses “HR” as an excuse to exclude from the hiring process someone for a reason other than merit or ability?

Maybe OP would also exclude folks from religious institutions as well, people who learned to code at BYU or a Catholic college, or one of the like 30,000 Christian high schools, but I would probably downvote that sentiment too.
Yet the reality is that nobody wants to live in rundown houses in countryside. And a nice house in countryside still costs €€€.

Even with the current system, you can easily move to countryside, live in super cheap rundown house, do little work for cash and avoid taxes :) Abandoned gardens could replace food kitchens if you invest some time to preserve food in fall.

Yet most people ain't interested in that. And if we allow the masses to escape welfare, I'm sure they won't resort to above lifestyle when life gets difficult.
I agree it's not exactly broke by any reasonable definition, but keep in mind the man is 89 years old. This is his retirement, and while statistically he could spend $200-250k/yr and probably have a bit left over when he dies, conventional wisdom says he can pull off $75-80k/yr if he wants to pass on the majority of the principal. Not exactly living the lifestyle of a billionaire.
You know what, I heard of Gaia-X since over a year. I've read many landing pages. I don't get it. I live in Germany, have a PhD degree in computer and natural science, I regularly write funding applications and reports for public money, but I just don't get it.

This is really not supposed to be a rant, but in my ears, Gaia-X sounds as a gigantic washing machine of bullshit bingo words. Can somebody explain this project in simple terms? Why do we need another public cloud? What can it do what other open source networks cannot do?
It is interesting that they chose to use a first person shooter as an example screenshot since gameplay would be broken by visual changes in occlusion.
Well, let's fix Stavros' summary then. How about:

To me, your comment sums up modern online discourse.
"Billionaire gives away all his wealth"

"BULLSHIT, LET ME RANT ON THE WORD CHOICE OF THE EDITORIALIZED TITLE".
On the other hand, Sega is known for being much, much friendlier with fan projects.

Sometimes Sega even hires the developers, as was the case with Christian Whitehead, who did some Sonic ports for them, and then went on to make the critically acclaimed Sonic Mania.
Sometimes the comments make you happy you read them. Yours did! Thank you! :) ;p
I don't see what is inflammatory. I guess it's somewhat dismissive in tone, but there's 60 years of safety practice that lead to modern gas cans.
Unfortunately, it's not.

TS classes are not JS classes, TS has it's own implementation of async/await, etc. Just check any compiled TS code and you'll see it. It's very frustrating when you want to quickly patch a bug in 3rd-party library.
Why is that garbage?

Is this maybe something with academic definition of strongly typed?

Because the way I understand Webassembly, it surely is strongly typed.

edit:

"Strongly typed is a concept used to refer to a programming language that enforces strict restrictions on intermixing of values with differing data types."

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/24434/strongly-typed

Seems to back me up.
> The slowness happens when you ask the browser to parse that HTML string and generate the appropriate DOM

If you do it right, that step only has to happen once for each user interaction. You can entirely dispense with the need to do multiple edits to the DOM via pure JS.
Well, as someone who worked there and knows people actively doing dev there I can vouch that that isn’t the case.

You missed out on a unique life opportunity.
Was that the business model before FB offered them the deal though? If I remember right, before then, they has a $1 per year subscription?
Close to $8,002 million but the point stands.
Can't wait until they rebrand Teams in a year or so and all these devices look out of date because of a logo.
That will destroy your concentration over long term.
YouTube, like most of the "Internet" these days it's just a shopping center. It appears to be the Universe because these sites/companies are so massive but at the end of the day it's their turf and they do what they want.

Now, once they reach a certain scale, why are they allowed to operate like a "normal small company"?
The cash to train students needs to come from somewhere. So in Lambda School's case that's either VCs or some other investors.

Instead of running the entire school on venture capital, which wouldn't make sense (VCs need a huge return per dollar), we use an advance from investors based on the future value of an ISA to offset the cost.

If we work with investors to say that an ISA will be worth $x, we can borrow $x minus interest the same way you would be able to for any other asset.

Of course, that amount needs to be repaid. So it's still completely risk-aligned.
Discussed at the time, 7 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24483283 (1336 points/853 comments)
I'm not overlooking it, we all fully realize these things are complicated and nuanced, especially things like comments and speech.

Just because things are 'grey' doesn't mean we don't draw lines 'somewhere' and try to have a policy.
Not a great introduction to the language, IMHO. There is not a clear use of logic to automatically reason about anything, just query composition. It seems the language is much more powerful than what this introduction makes it to be!

> English words (...) often capitalized to keep the old-fashioned COBOL spirit of the 70s alive!

I like logic programming a lot but a convention not technologically enforced is a poor reason to argue for a language change. When arguing about SQL limited abstraction capabilities that space would have been better spent talking about CTE limitations, for example.

Also:

> To make things worse, SQL code is rarely tested, because “testing SQL queries” sounds rather esoteric to most engineers, at best

So nonexisting best practices require a language change, apparently. It was also not showcased how this can be done in Logica, beyond the table mocking that could be done with a "with xxx as (values a, b, c) select (query to be tested)" approach in sql.
Cool idea, I hope I can find developers for my task on your platform. Nice work!
I can recommend it. They use the relevant data centers in Frankfurt, right in the middle of Europe. The "Browsermessung" works nice and reliable on Linux and there is no Flash or advertisements. Of course you can also use the standalone apps. And interesting thing is, they value the Ping (actual speed and most relevant for Gaming) and not just the data throughput (Up-Download, relevant for Updates and Streaming).
Maybe it's time for a public company-independent complains-platform where all companies are obliged by law to respond. Each complaint of course is hidden behind some anti-bot captcha/protection so that the companies themselve can't use AI to answer your complaints.
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This is a great deal, aside from the fact it would require living in West Virginia.