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It blows my mind that you've never once had an internet outage. This is like a monthly to weekly occurrence for me.
What sometimes gets forgotten is that even a programming language _is_ a model! And it is a model that fits exactly all the details that are necessary to construct an actual program with all the little special cases.

Modeling all constraints and runtime behaviors in UML is cumbersome and hard to understand. UML could be used for showing larger building blocks or complex flows (e. g. with sequence diagrams), but it is a bad fit to model a complete program in it.
> but we can't get there overnight

Why not? Buses are cheap and can operate on existing infrastructure. Sure there are places like Seattle where the buses are congested and more expensive rail infrastructure is needed, but that is not true in majority of American cities. Quite often the bus lines are even already there, but run so infrequently that they are unusable for the majority of people (think El Paso).

For most of Americans the problem could literally be solved over night.
Those are excellent points and I think you're right. It's not the right recommendation for people just looking to dip their toes into the field.

> try reading through the chapter on PBR without prior knowledge

This is a tangent, but I honestly wish I could. It's a wistful fancy, but sometimes I wish I could experience something for the first time again.
> Private companies being able to do this is a form of speech.

I’m also conflicted on this point, but my present feeling is that these tech companies constitute a different situation from a “regular” private company exercising their own free speech rights. Several of them are too big and monopolistic (Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook) and the ones that aren’t on that scale, like Twitter, are still very shielded from competition because their product (social media) relies on network effects (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect). My take is that when a company has so many users that its scope of influence is larger than most governments, or when it has unprecedented financial size, or when there are barriers to competition like network effects, we have to take action. That action could be breaking up companies, or regulating them like a public utility, or just taking them into public ownership. Otherwise I feel the erosion of rights from ubiquitous all-powerful private entities is a loophole that runs around our intended fundamental rights.

Leaving all that aside - what platforms do you believe hold promise for a decentralized future? I remember looking at Mastodon but they seem to have gravitated towards their own form of censorship. And then there’s the chicken and egg problem of getting users, content creators, and advertisers to move. Has anyone thought of a plan to make that happen?
The US certainly has more vaccine doses Americans want to inject, but does it also have more doses than it needs?

I'm not sure about the US, but where I live I'm almost certain that too few people will be vaccinated now. We'll have a fourth wave in October/November. Only when people die and vaccines are available from the nearest GP, without waiting will the stragglers do what's right and we'll achieve herd immunity.

https://archive.is/zbqTQ BTW.
I doubt it is EOL. There is demand for "owning", so there is a business-model there. It might be shrinking or changing, but at least for a niche, it will stay.

For example e-books. I try to buy as many from the authors (or their publishers) themselves. Surprising how often an author sells their book themselves. DRM-free, almost always cheaper. Owned-by-me. As opposed to e.g. my "kobo", which I cannot backup and download for that inevitable moment that Rakuten/Kobo decides to close my account, "pivot" or stop offering services.
You literally said "If enough people do it" as though that's remotely possible.

The law doesn't necessarily have a process for this because you can't simply maintain a lawsuit whenever you feel you've been wronged. You have to make a claim for which there is a legal framework established by... the government! Do you have any reason to believe this former student would have a legally established right that the NCAA violated by following its policies?

And besides, your own comment recognized that this is a bigger problem than this one individual case!
Realistically Starlink will register as an ISP in the country and follow government rules for censorship like all the rest.
Yeah, that detail. Maybe on given days, or under or over the influence, he might more readily have been open to it, or as an intentional endeavour to express himself in different ways.

I think that although contrary to external appearances people are never singly defined - we all have different psychologies and facets, some that we consciously or unconsciously embrace or expound in given situations others that we consciously or unconsciously repress or try to tame, without needing to be (innately) something extreme or unhealthy - that's why I like that aspect of his work, it just runs with it.

He also says "so that my qualities of inhibition and rational thought are suspended", so he basically thinks of "inhibition" and "rational thought" as valuable (and/or higher value than other qualities, probably given his usual day to day work and education) - but his actual "work" - the thing by which he is remembered and valued - seems to be an attempt to break from those "qualities".
> I think it would be pretty hard to sneak a Starlink device in undetected,

I am sure people who smuggle drugs will find a way.
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The comments here read like most other threads on the Internet. Heavy defence of censorship.

Its a bit like China. When the concept "face" is being compromised, its vital to cover up the issue then to actually deal with the problem.
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By purchasing anything that requires the interstate to move product. So literally everything.
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I agree. IMHO, corporations must be hold morally accountable(whatever that is, locally). However, if the local morals say that "It's all about profits" or something permissive then they will operate in oppressive regimes. What I disagree with, is the expectation of enforcing US morals to other parts of the world. If we are going for the moral stance of "should not tolerate censorship", instead of expecting Twitter to "fight the oppressive Indian govt" , it's more reasonable to expect Twitter not doing business there.

So far, as we see with Apple, Twitter, FB, Palantir, Oracle, Cisco and many others, the Americans are fine with their businesses working with those governments.
Wonderful. I've been using the native compilation branch for months now and have had zero problems with it. I would estimate the speed increase to be a factor of 2 to 4, very noticeable and game-changing in some cases. Amazing work!
That really doesn't affect the legality (or, frankly, morality) here for many reasons, but the most obvious is that the word "unofficial" is certainly not going to be used in all of the discussions about the software as it simply isn't actually in the name, which is clearly only "signald".
What happens if you are in a border area and one country its legal and one country its illegal?
Just like taxis
Because the word is german indeed.

Ferrero has an long history in using foreign words in their product names.

E.g.

Mon Cheri chocolate in 1956

Nutella in 1964 ("nut" also not an italian word, which would be "nocciola")
the hand drown styles and specifically the old anime tv shows such as Pokemon always fascinated me. In the last 2 years I have been learning OpenGL and other general Graphics and I hope to do a master in that area after the summer break. In that master i would like to study how a programmers could recreate that style. If anyone has any suggestions or has links to games / resources where they try to recreate that old water color / gouache style than that would be very helpfull.
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As far as I'm considered, the purpose of std::optional is so you don't have to allocate memory on the heap and then check for null pointer. I don't want it to throw exceptions, just like I don't want the language to check the validity of a pointer every time I want to dereference it.
Because they're applying Western ideals to a country (or more specifically a government) that doesn't share those same ideals.

Larry and Sergei were of the opinion that any information, even if censored, is better than no information at all.

> "While removing search results is inconsistent with Google's mission, providing no information (or a heavily degraded user experience that amounts to no information) is more inconsistent with our mission." [1]

They could have pulled out but they were idealistic and felt that their presence was one step towards making the world a better place. Well, that and

> The Google statement said the tradeoff for going against its basic principle of making the "world's information universally available and accessible" is gaining greater access to a quickly growing Chinese economy.

That's the general gist anyway. I forget the specifics but it's covered in a book called In The Plex[2]

[1]: http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/01/25/google.china/
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Plex
That was my reaction to the video: Aren't there franchisors with many stores in a large metro area that can actually carry a lawsuit or get together with other franchisors to start a class-action lawsuit?
I don't understand your point. Murdering children is an unequicoval act of heinous evil, deleting posts from your website is a shady business decision.
Your tax dollars pay for roads the same way the tip jar at your coffee shop pays for the barista's college tuition... true in a sense, but ultimately meaningless.
You seem to imply that the two cultures are pure vs applied but that’s not really right. Something like Sturm-Liouville theory is generally very applied and useful but falls into culture 1. The sort of mathematics that Erdős did was pure but fell more into culture 2.
This reminds me of the early web. Those DIY websites had the same playful and convivial quality.
> Swiss company doing banking by the Swiss laws in US

In the end, Swiss companies doing Swiss style secret banking in Switzerland were deemed unacceptable to the US and forced to change. It's realpolitik all the way down.

This stuff tends to come down to whether you support the specific policy and outcomes.

Hyped up nationalism is a problem in lots of countries; there's only so much blame you can apply to social media before having to look at other actors as well.
I think the barrier of entry isn't training, it's trust. McDonalds corporate signed a contract with Taylor with the caveat that only Taylor maintain the machines because they trust Taylor to do it correctly and, because the contract with McDonald's is probably enormous, Taylor has a lot of incentive to make sure nobody gets listeria from McDonalds.

It's "artificially restricted" in the same way that I could give anyone a key to my house (duplication is trivial) very easily but I don't.
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And the first uses of bitcoin where shady, or outright illegal, given those users had the greatest incentives to use alt currencies - this was the main attack by detractors.
In case it is not familiar, the title of this alludes to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures
If you have an upvote/downvote system that requires authentication, thresholds of useful upvoted activity to unlock (like HN), and perhaps some kind of spending or at least account balance, you could have a reasonable front page and subforums, and the discouraging noise you describe would only come up if you manually paginated or manually searched/filtered for it. Assuming wide enough usage by the public.
Beached whales are difficult to manage considering their dimensions ... and they attracting sharks.

I was told then that explosives could still be used in some situations, especially if the "beach" was more mud than sand for instance.
The thing is, everything I first described already happens. Software companies have been moving towards SAAS and online game servers and other ways of running key parts of the code only on their own systems for some time, and the initial motivation for that was often copy protection even if today there are other advantages from the developer's perspective.
Ah, yes, I've only been doing this with single markdown pages. I believe people use pandoc for multi-page.

GitHub style linking doesn't really lend itself to "book" format so I suppose there's no auto way to do that.
Twitter doesn't have a homepage. It's just log in / sign up.
Casey hasn't a clue. He's only written games and he hasn't actually had to solve the issues that are being solved by in other domains. If he actually did have that experience he'd see his ideas don't scale. Games are in generally, vastly different than other apps (word processors, video editors, browsers, etc) in for one, for the most part, they get to choose all of their data upfront. If you're making "The Last of Us 2" there is no user data. There's no "some people will use this to write a letter to grandma and yet some other people will write an 800 page book on physics with mathematical diagrams" and yet another will write a report on the market with linked live data.
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> Leaving all that aside - what platforms do you believe hold promise for a decentralized future?

https://urbit.org/

I think stuff like mastodon is dead on arrival and will never succeed outside of its extremely niche audience. Urbit has the potential to solve a lot of these issues because of its architecture.
While I agree that part of the solution is to increase density (and more importantly provide affordable housing close to where people work; and also—just as important—provide good jobs close to where people live), you can for sure improve peoples lives a lot in the mean time by throwing some money at the problem. A frequent bus route from the less dense neighborhoods to the center might not be profitable in the strict sense, and might run many trips empty or near empty, but it will certainly improve many people’s lives.
As part of my job I keep close tabs on all alternative ways of farming. I have yet to find a model that is profitable and scalable.

A lot of profitable "farms" make money by selling their ideal to other wannabe farmers. Courses, books, influencer schemes, you name it.

Or they sell their produce to rich, idealistic people, who can afford to pay 10x the price of regular produce.

Or they are truly innovative, but make money by selling their technology.

None of this is scalable or capable of replacing the system we have right now.

Even vertical farms, with all venture capital that has flown into it, are basically incapable of competing with age old greenhouses.
You can get quite detailed timing data from the F1 app. If you have the speed and time data for a sector that's completely full throttle and straight you can calculate quite a lot.
Twitter banned an individual Account for violating their policy. Not quite the same as a government forcing them to block tweets.
> Actually Vulkan uses C, not C++ as usual in most Khronos APIs

You are technically correct--Vulkan is a C API. However, all the tutorials you will use are written in C++.

I have never seen a C-only Vulkan tutorial. Link welcomed.

On Windows, everyone is using DirectX 11. That is a very different (and much simpler!) beast than DirectX 12 (which--unsurprisingly--looks very much like Vulkan).

And, as for Apple, I suspect the fact that Valve/Steam is all-in on MoltenVK(Vulkan on top of Metal) for development means that way more gamers are running games with Vulkan on OS X than plain Metal. (DotA 2--for example--is MoltenVK only on OS X, IIRC).

However, most game developers DON'T CARE. They are writing to a game engine that handles all that behind the scenes. As long as the game engine is ported to the appropriate system, the underlying implementation is irrelevant to them.
The idea that Nazis are the special case where it is ok to censor people, has simply turned into the habit of labelling anyone you want to censor a "Nazi".
I still regret telling a few friends about Ultima Online at the time. They got addicted and it spread like virus and in no time the whole town was playing it. There was no place you could hide from conversations about weapons,attacks,and custom servers.
Unfortunately the article quickly descends into a long defence of the merits of Combinatorics, rather than a description of the two cultures.

Since combinatorics are so ubiquitious today in computer science, algorithms in particular, it would be more interesting for me to better understand the "algebraic number theory and differential geometry" world thst the author continously refers to.

I guess I should just read the Michael Atiyah interview that this article sometimes feel like a direct reply to.
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I am well aware El Chalten is in Argentina, hopefully there's not a requirement to have a national base station to serve a particular country. The Patagonian location should be able to cover both Argentina and Chile effectively.

Interesting to see Chile's new Fibre network taking shape. I guess it was a factor in the placement decision for these base stations though I imagine they were also located in Chile for the higher wealth and economic stability compared to Argentina.
Thank you for that!

Conceptually, I really like the idea of being able to monetise one’s own attention beyond just one’s own time employed.

Ultimately, jt would be super cool to gain a better understanding of one’s own time value beyond just employed work but also leisure and how it might help us to better conceptualise the limited time we have.

Perhaps a less intuitive/instinctive and more quantifiable approach to how we might optimise our time.

Even if the world doesn’t turn into a micropayment dystopia, I would think there’s great scope to utilise strictly voluntary smart contract personal incentives.

Perhaps Jenny Craig turns into a smart contract blockchain platform that unlocks food pellets when the customers performs X. I’m mostly joking.

My first thought is how it might be of value with my kids when it comes to school performance, fitness goals, as well as leisure/fun.

We already do it, but maybe we could do it better.
Where do you draw the line? Lots of people would say that heavily silencing government criticism is evil. Not heinous evil, but can't we be mad at boring evil?
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I don’t know about that, the swiss banks i was aware of getting into trouble with the US were very much not doing business in switzerland.
An interesting piece of industry-insider information, at least as far as I recall from the Sony pub regulars I knew back in the day: the colloquial term for the polar artefact you describe is the cat’s bumhole.
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I think the free speech of posting coronavirus facts is far more important than the danger of dealing with the parler crowd. For people in authoritarian countries like India or Myanmar or anywhere else, it's the government that is the main obstacle to having free speech—not groups of hat-wearing nitwits.

Anyone posting something outright illegal on a social platform is making themselves a target for law enforcement anyway — why subject the entire platform to censorship on their behalf?
This is how it is with IT companies paying well above average. Given that they are able to pay such salaries this interview strategy is compatible with big profits.

It could be that by changing interview strategy to look more similar to other professions that profit can be increased even farther, but nobody is risking it.
This is a warped framing.

I don't buy moral relativism, it may be legal in China to put the Uyghurs in camps but any company helping to enable that is on the wrong side of history - legality is irrelevant.

Stuff above that threshold (kinder eggs) sure, follow the country's policies - provided the country is a real democracy, with a free press, and rule of law.
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I think the 4x4 is legible only when you are already used to it and/or have the the full font as a reference. There are several letters and numbers which, when seen on their own, cannot be unambiguously deciphered.
You haven't known suffering until you tried to rewrite a large C++ codebase in Java. No clear ownership you say? All those members that clearly belong to one object suddenly have to be guarded against accidentally having their references shared, all that clear math code turns into an indecipherable mess and you can forget about lifecycles unless you guard every resource with a try block. Sadly I end up writing Java code from time to time because I can write passable swing UIs faster than I can set up Qt.
I wrote a blog post a few years ago[1] making a similar claim about computer science. I said there’s 3 main camps of programmers:

- People who enjoy programming because it’s mathematically beautiful (eg Haskell programmers)

- People who enjoy programming because they like reasoning about machines, and like mechanical sympathy (eg C programmers)

- And people who like programming because it can solve real problems for their users.

I got pushback here and elsewhere that lots of people fit into multiple camps - which makes sense. Maybe they’re better described as an ecology of values. But I also think there’s something real here. I worked in a consulting shop a few years ago and my boss came back from some front end development conference gushing about a talk he’d seen that I had to watch. The talk was a layman’s description of FP’s immutability approach applied to react. My boss had never heard of immutability before because it had never come up in front end web development circles. There’s lots of opportunities for our software to improve by cross contaminating all our best ideas.

[1] https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/
> I would like Matrix to provide a setting to advise UIs to not use e2e encryption for the same domain -- that's useless if you trust the home server (my family do trust my home server).

It's not useless. What if there is a server vulnerability and someone (or something) hacks your server? Now all your logs have been exposed because they were stored plaintext.
> Wikipedia is known for many things but not for its wisdom.

I was not the one who posted a Wikipedia link. I was only responding to the fact that the Wikipedia link did not support the prior poster's claim.

> Counting is counting things. For example sheeps. You don't have 0 sheeps. Either you have 1 or 2 or 3 or you don't have any.

Not having any sheep is literally having 0 sheep.
That sounds close, but I thought you got a plain executable out rather than an installer.
You don't think urbit is extremely niche?
> Many times I notice that I have written a hex number as 'ox1234' instead of '0x1234'.

On old fonts 0 was ∅ (well not this letter but with a line like in this example) so it was easy to spot it. But we are living on a planet that's revolving and evolving ...