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I do not know what textbooks you read or economic history lectures you took to reach your conclusion. This is the second half of the 19th C, the US was absolutely dominating the industrial revolution in the era that produced the Carnegies Rockefellers JP Morgans and dozens of others of similar stature. Entire new industries and processes like interchangeable parts, telegraph, petroleum products, railraods, rise of malls/retail, electricity, meat packing, industrial farming, investment banking etc. was all either originating from or reaching heights in the US, which also had the highest patents per capita rate, and an international reputation for a general population that was technically competent for the industrial rev.

(Not to mention the gov was essentially giving away 160 acre plots to anyone who wanted to settle elsewhere, which created intense pressure to mechanize due to menial labor shortages, not to mention a broader based prosperity.)
I did not intend for you to become frustrated. I am being earnest.

Most software systems change only by adding complexity and features. This is because owners rarely have the courage to break any users' stuff. This is OK for a growing company since they earn more money as they add complexity. But it's counter-productive for security. Security depends on simplicity.

Evolving systems means adding support for new things. To evolve systems and maintain simplicity, we must also remove support for old things.

Dropping support for a feature is currently a political ordeal. Folks maintaining old systems don't want to upgrade them to use the new thing. So they push back against the drop. Regular dropping will force these organizations to adopt regular upgrade processes. With regular dropping, protocol/library/language maintainers can drop features without incurring much extra work for users. This will let them get rid of technical debt and iterate much faster, increasing the rate of innovation.
I've noticed a lot more writing using it lately, it's interesting to see this talking about the trend. I personally find it jarring because I'm used to the past tense, so it interferes with my personal enjoyment of such stories. I end up sort of mentally 'correcting' them which is distracting to me. I suspect that those not already long accustomed to past tense stories will not have the same reaction.
There was a Standard Notes app on fdroid. I don't know why they removed it
> People say how they hate surveillance tech, but at the end of the day, it pays half of the bills on this website.

It seems to me that HN is a gateway to advertise a bigger platform. It's more of a win-win situation than a "you're the product" kind of thing. Also right now µBlock Origin and Privacy Badger are blocking nothing.

And with more and more content producers soured by Big Tech creating their own private subscription based websites or opening semi-private platforms I wouldn't be surprised if we will see a decline ads revenue in the coming years.
Also simplifies accounting a lot. For the same reason you normally get the card processor to receive the local currency, not separate one for every customer's country.
While encrypted, encryption key for the database is kept as plaintext in a JSON file.

...which is kept right next to the encrypted DB and presumably has the same permissions, so what's the point?
Indeed, my mistake.
I think like usual reality is more complex. The reason why America became such a economic powerhouse by the beginning of the 20th century was clearly the large scale immigration to a land that was generally considered the land of opportunities, without the crust of established economic structures in Europe. Someone from any social background could make it there. Due to this background there was a lot of aversion to "elites" forming which I have seen given as reasons for the high top income tax and the strong actions against monopolies . Now the growth founded also by large scale displacement and killing of the native population and slavery would also have contributed.

I don't think that alone would have made the US into the superpower it is today, in particular in terms of science. That was clearly a result of the two world wars that devastated Europe. If you look at the scientific discoveries the US really became the powerhouse after/during WW2.

It's somewhat ironic that the US which was founded on escaping the large "unfair" inequalities of old Europe and a strong anti-establishment/anti-elite basis has since become a beacon of a new elite/establishment and inequality. The "anti elitism" that was always part of the US psyche is now almost completely about intellectual elite (scientific/academic elite) not economic elite.
> From then on progress towards the modern world was swift.

Personally I credit the printing press as the dividing line (yes I know the fall of Constantinople was at the same time).

Sometimes I idly think what would I invent if I was transported via mcguffin to ancient Rome. I'd invent paper and the printing press.
Peloton fights federal safety recall after its treadmills left one child dead
> paying huge salaries and then putting them under a layer of management that thinks two different C++ ML frameworks with the same goals is a good idea.

FB makes $1.3M/employee while average pay is $120K, i.e. less than 10% - thus the employees are actually very cheap and FB can waste a lot of employee resource, like doing 10 ML frameworks, and even though ML related employees earn $1M+ it still wouldn't move the needle financially for FB.
> So... Java is bad, but let's ignore Python's problems.

I don't know where you read either of your propositions in any of my comment.
But it's not number one, perhaps party because of geography too (size of country, lack of natural resources, location).
But not a temperate climate over its whole geography or stable government structures over the last 200 years.
> Good luck with that when you want to copy some large files

I never ever found myself, or any other person in the need for urgently copy some large files over the local network.
>> The fact that SpaceX is launching more rockets than everyone else

>That's just factually incorrect.

Well, depending on how you interpret it. It appears that in the first six months of 2021, SpaceX is accounting for around 25% of all orbital launches. So it's not more than everyone else combined right now. But it may be (by a slim margin) more than any other launch provider taken individually.
A Tiny Particle’s Wobble Could Upend the Known Laws of Physics
This was a phenomenal article.

"A small number of unelected agents, operating largely behind closed doors, are increasingly important to the lives of millions who barely know of the existence much less the identity or inclinations of those agents."

A little bit of Python can fix at least that small part.
Positive Technologies' official statement following U.S. sanctions
Then you've clearly never edited video or moved around a disk image of a virtual machine, or anything else that will tax your patience copying 5GB over shoddy wifi (nevermind things much larger than 5 gigs).
Who says they're not...
Readng is a great alternative to GoodReads: https://beta.readng.co/

It’s currently in private beta.
Bitcoin has thrown up it's hands and fully embraced the store of value story largely giving up on medium of exchange.

Ethereum is working on reducing gas fees and there's tons of L2 systems with zkrollups there.

Saying doge is better because it's lower fees is like saying you should do all your driving in montana because there's less traffic there.
some patents are actually classified: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act

why patent such things at all if they're classified? probably to keep other defense contractors from using your technology to compete on bids.
Relative to their size, they have done extremely well. The lack of natural resources has not held them back, nor has the location, lack of rivers, etc.

The feature that matters is a free market.

The best thing a poor country can do for its citizens is move towards a free market economy.
I don't think I agree that the local filesystem is a good, common abstraction. It's a serviceable abstraction most of the time, and a terrible abstraction at other times. This isn't just some contrarian stance I'm taking--I've just spent too much time fighting with filesystem semantics on too many OSs.

Going through FUSE is, in my mind, a last resort.
Massachusetts regulators seek to revoke Robinhood's license
As Squarespace released it's S-1, I wanted to show our new version of the Odoo Website Builder, an open source alternative.

In addition to the website builder, Odoo does all business features: eCommerce, appointment, jobs offer, subscriptions, elearning, forum, ...
> And then they have the gall to sell the power adapter separately from the laptop, for an extra $59? What brand new laptop on earth doesn't come with an AC wall adapter/charger in the box?

This is a good thing IMO, since I already have two AC chargers which are compatible with the Librem 14: One from a Librem 13 and another from a Tuxedo laptop. Chargers stay alive a lot longer than laptops, so it's more sustainable of I can keep using them.
Does Standard Notes require a network connection to store data, or is data stored locally and synced when a network connection is available?

I wonder how important (offline) local first storage of data is these days to users of these types of apps?
I'm guessing you'd have (slightly) fewer deployment options with Julia though.
"It's the best performing asset class in the last decade, way outperforming Bitcoin, best performing asset class this year, mass adoption imminent. Insitutionals coming! Why wait, put it on your books! Peaked today at #6 by market cap. Low fees. Can't lose! Have fun staying poor if you don't."

"Can't help but feel a lot of folks in this thread are coping that they didn't get in on Doge sooner."

Now where have I heard this narrative before.
Python is a distant fifth place at Google today behind Java, C++, JavaScript and Go. It may be behind Typescript too at this point.

Performance critical, lower-level servers are typically written in C++ at Google - think things like Spanner or GCS. Google only allows a very restrictive C++ subset.

Application servers are typically written in Java or Go. Which is preferred depends on the organization.

Google of course makes extensive use of Guava and Guice, and Bazel, which itself is written in Java.
The USSR was stable for 70 years. Long enough.

The problem was lack of free markets. Free markets are the common thread among successful economic powers. Not population, not resources, not rivers, etc.
I always saw the hormones that regulate our emotions as primitive forms of memory, older than neurons. So an organism can remain in a certain state for a while.

There is also the possibility that RNA is used for memory:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44111476
Turkey has banned the use of cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin
Show HN: Generate Storybook Files for Tailwind UI Components
Self-Supervised Video Object Segmentation by Motion Grouping
> Not exactly something users want.

Not quite.

Users want to get bugfixes and the latest and greatest without being bothered by updates and upgrades and popups and progress bars. Even with automated processes, app update fatigue is a problem.

If your use pattern already involves reloading/redeploying the app at start, that fatigue goes away.

What users do not want is losing features they care about, or see breaking changes in their workflow.
I guess this is feedback to them, then. They have a longevity statement https://standardnotes.org/longevity but this is talk, and you need to see some more foundational information that demonstrates that it's worth taking their word about longevity.
Could you expand on how a fixed rate of monetary issue would drive inflation to zero? Aren't there other factors (e.g. velocity of money) at play? I'm struggling to understand why.
I'm pretty sure everyone except journalists have already moved on to using GAFAM.
Users, especially those able to flag (meaning somewhat "senior" users, not sure about the exact karma threshold), are often annoyed, because the nature of the discussions some topics provoke are foreseeable and mostly questionable.

"Great, this will lead to half the comments discussing BLM in a questionable and highly politicized manner on hacker(!) news ; this will surely be productive ... /s"

Political and sociological stuff is sometimes here on HN (and technology often overlaps, so they might be relevant of course), but especially those topics that have little chance of inviting meaningful discussion are questionable and might get flagged.

I consider "flagging" part of how this site works, and a meaningful feature. Right to free speech is not the "right to be listened to or read by others." HN also isn't Facebook, or Instagram (size, societal influence, scope in topics which are discussed) and you can still read it, upvote it, and comment on it even though it's been flagged. So I don't think it's as bad as you make it out to be. Posts about the banning practices of Social Media (be it Facebook, Youtube, Twitter or other platforms) are regularly featured on HN.
They're talking about an absolute/total sense instead of relative to per-capita situation.

If we forget that the US has more people, they are the best at many things. Science, GDP, sports, and so on. That's probably what he means when he says "best".

It'd be like calling Google or Apple the "best" tech companies even though you can make more money at some small startups. It's true in some sense (they're the biggest, dominant, etc), not necessarily true in the per-capita sense (I might have a better time somewhere else).
as someone who occasionally needs a wheelchair, I'd miss my friends if I got shipped off to Mars! I'm also pretty sure that the gees wouldn't be good for my condition. there's also the small matter of radiation exposure, since Mars doesn't have much of an ionosphere.

I'm waiting on powered exoskeletons as my sci-fi mobility aid of choice.
I'm 54, so news like this is a little bit of a scary reminder of my mortality. :-(

Still, a couple of years back now I had to setup an IP-limited SFTP server for our comms team. But I made them 'sign in blood' that it was a temporary solution until their supplier could implement a more secure alternative. Like I said, it was a few years ago...

FTP definitely still has its uses, it just needs careful thought and setup.
I wonder if there are plans to build rockets in orbit. Shipping things in small incremental steps that distributes risk plus the obvious advantages of weightlessness when it comes to heavy infrastructures are maybe the way to go for the future?
the way they have their free and paid features separated seems pretty lame. with other note taking services, if i decide to go back to the free tier for a while it will still be useable for the most part but with standard notes i would lose basic features like the ability to organise notes or to edit them in the same way. so basically once you start paying you are locked in for life
> Have you tried to write an X.509 DER PEM file parser? I started one. Just reading the specs (X.509, ASN.1, DER, & PEM) takes two days. If writing a JSON parser is a walk down the block, then writing an X.509 cert parser is a marathon.

I have. It wasn't particularly difficult. Yes the specs took about two days to get my head around but that's not a large amount of time. I certainly wouldn't describe it as a marathon.
There seems to be more investigative work:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44111476
That's how I pronounced it initially, and I'm sticking to it also.
> It would make me 10x more likely to work on the kernel

Seconding this. I don't think I would ever touch the Linux kernel with a twenty-foot-pole in C. In Rust? Maybe I'd give it a try and contribute one day.

Knowing the exact set of constraints on my code, having them enforced, not having to hold the entire system in my head just to avoid a catastrophic memory error. These things make contributing to a project - especially one as incomprehensibly large and complex as the Linux kernel - orders of magnitude easier.
Economies which run on debt are doomed to crash. Other than paying off that debt, there is no way to prevent the oncoming crash. If you understood how money is created out of thin air because banks are only required to put forward a small fraction of actual cash (which is still a made up number, not actual fiat currency and therefore isn't backed up by anything real) before they give out a loan, and that this effectively enables private institutions to create money out thin air, you would never claim that I am financially illiterate. Please, educate yourself on:

1. how the financial system works;

2. how broken and corrupt it is.

For several decades I worked in the financial industry, in the very core of it; I was there smack dab in the middle of it, working at a certain institution when that institution caused the 2008 crash (that's why I exited stage left, because I am not a crook and disagreed with it). The current debt-based economy is a time-ticking bomb. When it comes to the great reset, it will be the worst recession which the world has ever known.
WSB doesn't permit crypto conversations, penny stocks, or any other form of pump and dump.
Outcomes are the only things that matter.

As your good man Herbert Simon showed, we are chimps with 6 inch brains dealing with many a problem that require slightly to hugely more than that. When the upper bound of Rationality gets hit all chimps blunder. Dont waste your time analysing the blundering.
Open a thread on the Signal forum.
1) Given that "science" means knowledge, anything successful is science.
2) Given that "science" describes a fact-, logic-based approach to doing things, anything following such an approach is science.
> On top of React, no less --

I really do not understand this blend of jabs. To me it seems like the people complaining about React and React-like frameworks are completely oblivious to the fact that well-designed desktop apps, where UI is decoupled from business logic and driven by state machines, are already pretty much React without hand-written widgets.
2 to 3 was about incompatible changes, and many companies switched to 3 because of eol of python 2.7, or its EOL would have been a minor event. What I thought about was a backwards compatible branch. We would then see if people need more features or if its enough, but I understand I'm only suggesting more(maintenance) work.
humans have never worked that way. it's why advertising exists.

if we want different products to succeed we can't just close our eyes, cross our fingers, and hope that humanity acts the way we fantasize it ought to.
Give me ZFS option in the installer, I will give it a go. Presently om Ubuntu because it has the best desktop experience with excellent ZFS support out of the box.
> Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania even wants to make installation of the app a prerequisite for participating in public life.

This is the trajectory for everything essential it seems. Want to function in the modern world? You need a pocket computer with approved applications on it to do increasingly important, but basic tasks. Banking, health, transportation, etc. are all sitting on the pocket computer that can watch where you go and track what you do to the minute.
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For the longest time I was using a Thinkpad X41 with a 12.1" 1024x768 4:3 ratio screen as basically a glorified web browser, VNC client and ssh terminal, and it worked great
Ramadan is not really about fasting in the way science is studying it. During Ramadan people really eat a lot when it is allowed. It may be considered intermittent fasting...
You Have to Read This Letter
There's plenty of other subs, including r/satoshistreetbets where you can go if that's what you're into.
I think there’s some doubt over why he did it, but it seemed like he did still do it?
My pet armchair theory: that's because nuclear power requires humans to be consistently superhuman (smart, precise, meticulous, thinking ahead). Solar, wind, oil and gas don't -- a normal human can run all these things perfectly fine.
> Of course there's something magical about live sets that often get lost on studio recordings.

I went on a SRV bender a couple of years ago, comparing the studio cut of Lenny to pretty much any bootleg live recording i could find. There’s no comparison to be had, the live ones are just better.

There are a million other examples of course but possibly a surprising one is Miley Cyrus. Her energy during shows just hits highs that seem unavailable in the studio. Her vocals have come into a new era these past few years, especially her covers.

Anyway, thanks for links!
I think you're making adequate observations but missing the point.

The Librem line of products are targeting a market niche of Free Software/Hardware, transparency and security.

If you're comparing to the offerings available in Best buy, you're probably not in the target audience.

Not sure why they sell the power adapter separately though. Judging by the Librem 14 page, the adapter is not sold separately, it's something you select while setting up the order..? Cf. https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-14/
There’s two ways to look at this.

First, we can say “let’s not verify identities, anyone can be as many people as they want”. We have that today. It’s killed a lot of businesses and has deeply harmed society. Swell. we can of course redouble our efforts and refuse to take other steps, which is certainly a popular choice.

Or we could discuss the pragmatic path: verifying identity. Phone numbers are popular. Email is a tire fire. SMS is simple to hack. So, what’s next to try? What should this startup be using instead of phone number verification? What platforms exist to build revenue with clearly-identified customers on the internet?

The folks refusing to consider the question here seem to only care about the former, but I’d like to see pragmatic verified-identity solutions that address the firestorm of hate that anonymity has brought down upon us, and I’d like to see someone make a billion dollars from it.

I’m here for a pragmatic discussion, not for another retread of the same boring “everything must tolerate sock puppets” that we’ve been living with for the past two decades, and I’m not going to waste productive time and energy in idealistic debates that have failed to deliver what they promised at ETcon’03. We owe society better. We owe ourselves better. At least this startup is trying.
As a South African I have seen this all before.
There’s a saying in finance, the more complex a financial product is, the more money banks make on it.

I feel it quite aptly applies to advertisement industry as well. Massive amounts of complexity and red tape over getting people to buy things
Kelly does not depend on the expected return -- it depends on the joint distribution of outcomes. That is a big difference!

Accidentally thinking that "E log X" and "log E X" are the same thing is a common mistake, but Jensen's inequality tells us it can be a costly one.

Of course, your general point still stands: if we only knew the joint distribution of outcomes the battle would be over already.
Sounds like Roman Mars and 99 percent invisible
I take your point, but for reference at 65MbPs you could transfer 10Gb in under 3 minutes. I would imagine that's more than sufficient for the majority of people.
It looks beautiful, but I don't want flatpack anything.