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Do you think there'd be a good time to draw a line?

I suppose that's the $LARGE_AMOUNT question, isn't it?

As a personal opinion, I think copyright is OK as an economic incentive unless and until we find something that works better, but the protection should be determined by what makes it economically reasonable for people to create and share useful works, taking into account all the circumstances and over the long term. There is clearly no single duration of protection that is even close to that benchmark for all situations, because something like a blockbuster movie or smash hit video game might make several times its production costs back within months of initial distribution and that might be a large majority of the revenue it will ever make, while those small, niche-content creators I talked about before might not break even for a decade or two. As ever with debates about alternatives to current copyright, things start to get sticky when you try to figure out a reasonable way to estimate the effects of any proposed change without actually making it and then waiting a decade or three to see what happens.

I like the idea of shortening copyright protection but at the same time considering other rights to protect things of value that are, sometimes incidentally, protected by copyright today. For example, I have no problem with the requirements that exist in some places to credit the creators of a work, as an entirely separate matter from copyright. I think there is also a lot of room to explore safeguards against intruding on a larger creative effort too soon, such as where an author has put considerable effort into world-building and is continuing to produce successful new works set in that world, in which case allowing poor-quality fan fiction to flood the market as soon as the copyright on the first work in that world expires could sharply devalue the overall creative effort for the author and so result in fewer or lower quality works subsequently being produced and shared by that author, which is a harm to society as well.

In short, I don't think you can reasonably draw a single line with anything resembling our current copyright system. I think there should probably be several lines, in each of several colours, and some of them should be circles and triangles. But then given how difficult enforcement often is already and how widespread misunderstandings about the existing law are, that might not be practical either. Economics and intangible goods are a tough combination.
Ack, sorry, you are exactly right, @ 4266 MT/sec
I thought you were making a claim that Apple would eventually trend like Intel with hundreds of SKUs. I don't see apple complicating its CPU line like that because it has no need to: the M1 works in a variety of scenarios, which which is what the OP was pointing out.
> I don't transact car.

It could be taken from you with 'no recourse'.

> Code is law.

No it isn't

> It's not stealing if you take it from a smart contract. Like a DAO. I'm sure the illegality of their actions is of big consolation to every Turkish person right now. I hear there was an exit scam.

What kind of goal post moving nonsense is this? First you were talking about basic general cryptocurrency, now you are on to exotic ethereum specific stuff for some reason instead of confronting what you said before.

> It's not what anyone wants.

I just explained why that isn't true. Repeating your assertions doesn't mean anything.

> That's why Visa offers chargebacks and all issuers have fraud departments.

Visa is not a currency. There are debit cards that can be recharged with cryptocurrencies. This has been explained to you many times.

> when was the last time you heard any customer gripe at the merchant, "man, I really really wish I couldn't charge you back in the event this product isn't as advertised and you refuse to help me out -- what a nightmare!

When was the last time you heard someone say they wished transactions would take a month instead of a few minutes? Also again, credit cards are not currencies. Credit cards are a service and they add 3% on to everything you buy from their transaction fees.

Crypto currencies and credit cards can both be used to make transactions electronically, that single overlapping use case does not make them 1:1 substitutions for each other.

> Do people in hyperinflationary countries use it?

Called it. Also, yes they do. For all the volatility of cryptocurrencies, in places like venezuela, argentina zimbabwe, russia and many other places that have had huge currency crisies, having something volatile is better than having something rapidly diminishing.

> Worse, in the sense it comes with a $50 transaction fee, which is a months salary in a lot of these places.

Bitcoin is useless at this point. Any cryptocurrency besides bitcoin and ethereum fill these roles. Bitcoin was intentionally crippled, the technology obviously works.

> Not to mention the value of the crypto assets these Turks held dropped to 0

I think even you understand that having the assets you have a claim to stolen is not the same as having those assets 'drop to 0'.

> And yet it works great.

It works great for you, but you don't live in a country with massive inflation or banking controls. You don't need to send remittances. You aren't trying to get paid by someone in another country for freelance work.

> Because intermediaries add value. That's why we pay them.

This is not an argument anyone made in a general sense.

> Almost like it's not something people need.

Someone in Greenland might say that no one needs air conditioning and someone in Malaysia might say that no one needs a furnace to heat their house. They would both be exceptionally selfish and myopic positions to take. It is also objectively not true.
This is probably going to be the most common combination. EVs really shouldn't be cars, they can have so many form factors to fit every lifestyle. For long travel or nature, EVs are overkill
The difference now is the risk of tribalism becoming sectarianism, which is where anyone who doesn't agree with you is an enemy not to be trusted. The transition between those two is the determining factor on if civil war and widespread violence becomes likely. Sectarianism isn't common and hasn't happened en masse since the 1860s.
In addition to the other good comments regarding medical/automotive overlap, is that often those chip lines have long lifecycle commitments built into them - ie. we promise to make this set of parts for at least 10 years. For both both of those customer areas, not having to redesign your boards and recertify devices on an external timeline is of value.
But you'll have to be patient; it's still two years away.

No, they did not launch their first all-electric SUV. They announced it. There's a difference.

[EDIT] Sorry, that's the "ID Buzz." A "people carrier in the spirit of the old Volkswagen microbus."
“And that they do this on regular occasions.”

This is news to me. I thought the main advantage of iTunes compared to other services was that purchases would last as long as the iTunes service is operational and that iTunes has outlived “purchase with DRM” services so far. Are there concrete examples?
MinIO is an option as well and would allow you to transition from testing in S3 to your own MinIO cluster seamlessly.
Designing an electric car has a lot of different design tradeoffs than a gas car, so cars that are designed from the ground up as electric are going to perform better than gas cars that are electrified.

The biggest two factors are that the battery is large and heavy, but is flexible in the shape it assumes. For good handling, you'd like to have this weight as low on the car as possible, and close to the center. The almost universally accepted solution is the skateboard design, where the batteries sit under the passengers, spread out over a large area.

The electric motors are also small and you can do away with a lot of systems like the transmission, exhaust, starter motor, alternator, gas tank, various pumps, pollution controls, etc. This means much less need for under hood space.

Once you take these factors into account, the designs of various EVs make a lot of sense.
The GP is correct in many cases. Part of the reason Eevee was created was for this exact purpose. You can't preview certain shader nodes (though you can preview most of them), and you can't preview raycast-only effects like indirect lighting (unless you bake it) and certain volumetric effects. But you can preview your geometry and direct lighting and physically-based materials well enough to get an idea of how things will look, and then you can make a final pass where you preview the actual Cycles output.

If you're fixing your UVs, or adjusting the depth of a bump effect, or arranging a scene to see how objects' colors balance with each other, or tweaking the metal-ness of a material, Eevee works great as a preview even if your final render will be in Cycles. Eevee is particularly useful when working on an isolated object (minimal indirect lighting), vs seeing how an entire scene gets lit.
There is a key sentence of this article that speaks to this:

> This new vaccine (R21) uses a circumsporozoite protein (CSP) antigen – that’s a highly conserved protein of the parasite, involved in several functions as the parasite makes the move from mosquito to human and into different human tissues such as the salivary glands.

Circumsporozoite protein is a highly conserved protein meaning that it is a genetic sequence that is very unlikely to change regardless of adaptive/evolutionary pressure.
Is this why volkswagen.com is down?

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Wow that’s up to $500,000 just to export 10PB (depending on region).
If you can't find the word Factory in a Java snippet, is it really Java?
> The current official plan is for Starship to take astronauts from the Gateway to the surface of the moon and back.

Even before announcing the choice of Starship for HLS, NASA was already talking about bypassing Gateway for the first crewed lunar landing (Artemis III) and only visiting it on later missions – https://spacenews.com/nasa-takes-gateway-off-the-critical-pa...

They haven't completely decided yet though. They don't know when the bits will be ready. If come time for the first crewed landing, SLS+Orion and Starship are ready but Gateway isn't, they'll just do the landing without Gateway. On the other hand, if Gateway is already ready by then, they might consider using it. One advantage Gateway has, is it gives the two astronauts who stay-behind on Orion a bit more room. It would also give them something to do – testing out Gateway systems.
I was discussing pointers. I only commented in passing about C being portable over assembler. You could rephrase this as it being a language for programming an abstract machine and it would not change anything about my comment (nor would it change the fact that C is an abstraction over assembly)

Thank you for your reply...
>Evolution is a somewhat random process at its heart, but I stand by what I said as the likely outcome, because that's the path new diseases normally take. It's early days yet.

So that's why malaria is less deadly now?
I've seen this said many times with zero backing, and it just really doesn't correlate with the history of disease. The reason we don't deal with the majority of deadly diseases is vaccines, not because they've evolved to become less deadly.

>I think we have a petty good idea by now actually

We have an idea of how well they work on the original covid-19 strain that we saw last year. We don't know how well they will work on actually eradicating the virus.

>I think the risk is small given such a mutation would possibly render the virus much less virulent

Based on what? It's already evolved to evade antibodies produced by infections from the first wave (P1 strain in Manaus specifically is a good example). Those have been mutations in the spike protein, and have made the virus more virulent and deadlier.
where I live, having reliable transportation (i.e. owning a car) is pretty much a job requirement wherever you work.

a lot of people don't exactly understand just how _sprawling_ the US is.
Do what? Use a bicycle for tasks many use a car for? If my guess is correct, I have to ask why you think California is unique in that respect given the absolutely huge set of data to the contrary? I mean, you have heard of the Netherlands, right?

Of course, if my guess is wrong, ignore me. And be more clear next time. :-)
Simple tips to manage stress at work
Originally, MBTiles was designed for mobile offline. Then, Mapbox started serving directly from the SQLite for web & other clients, creating the Node.js SQLite bindings in the process. Eventually, they had an unpacker for MBTiles uploads that would stick the tiles in CDN. So, really no more complex than old school static content hosting.

Source: I created MBTiles ;-)
4chan founder Chris Poole leaves Google
The "application" in this case is for example a packet->radio bridge application, or a VPN tunnel endpoint. Something that is chewing on packets mid stream where you don't get much choice in the matter.

One thing I like about IPv6 is the minimum MTU of 1280. That's big enough that if I'm really uncertain about the environment I can just set my MTU to that and avoid future headaches without impacting performance too badly. IPv4's 576 minimum nearly triples the number of packets you generate, which is really noticeable when you're running routers close to their limit. Forwarding speed is often dominated by packets per second, not bytes per second.
Here is a great no frills review of the ID.4
https://youtu.be/3oC9sUiwyL8

The TL;DR is even if its electric its not a serious competitor to tesla. The UI is terrible as the drive is unable to find a charger while navigating to their destination.

Electric car charging stations are going to look completely different the gas stations as they costs a few thousand dollars to install rather than a cool million for a gas station. So rather than having a bunch of high profile gas stations we're going to end up with somewhat ubiquitous electric charging stations of varying capacity.

Enabling drivers to know where to charge their cars is a killer feature of Telsa and any company that wants to compete will have to make it as easy if not easier to ensure your car is always charged and that you are able to charge on long trips.
Pretty much every discussion of covid had multiple people claiming that suicides went up so much, that they probably turned lockdowns, masking etc contraproductive. Cause they supposedly drove more people to suicide then saved.

The suicides went down thing really goes against what significant part if HN wants to believe.
Anyone who's driven on a highway in Texas knows this is likely untrue, at least for most F150 owners. I see a shocking number of pristine, washed and waxed F150s every single day when I'm driving. Those and Ram 1500s dominate the roads here.

I don't even live in a rural area. I live in DFW.
I think you mean 12 cents a kWh? (So, a 60kWh battery can store $7.20 of electricity. Charging isn't perfectly efficient, so more like $8 to fully charge.)

Let's say you can go 200 miles with that $8 of energy, that's 4 cents a mile.

Let's say a gas car is 30 miles per gallon of $3 gas, or 10 cents a mile. Over 200,000 miles, that's $20,000 for fuel, versus $8,000 of electricity in the EV. Seems like the total cost of ownership just about breaks even with federal rebates, and ignoring maintenance costs (generally expected to be higher with the gas vehicle) and ignoring that paying the cost up-front for an EV removes the potential for that money to accrue interest (which favors the gas vehicle).

I'm hoping the EV costs continue to fall until we get to close to parity in terms of vehicle purchase price. This can happen either by battery prices falling, or for people to adjust their expectations and accept shorter range, or for the need for large batteries to become obsolete due to electrified roads that let you charge while the vehicle is still moving.
I’m in no way a medical expert but probably the fentanyl, or a combination of that & panic.
10 petabytes at AWS is $210,000 per month just for storage (even excluding AWS's very high egress and transaction pricing), so even $1M (which seems like a high estimate indeed) would be amortized in less than six months.

Also, the hardware can be depreciated, which reduces its net (of taxes) cost dramatically over time.

Five years (probably the useful life of the equipment in general) of $210,000 per month is $12.6M. That's a lot of savings.
There's one in my driveway right now, I guarantee you it's not two years away
Also similar to Moodle, but I guess it's less confusing and don't have so many lawyers.
Ed25519 isn't quite as simple as people make it out to be, at least in the sense that it's an answer to a problem that's been entirely elided in these discussions, whilst the problems with older alternatives are more familiar.

Both RSA and NIST-defined elliptic curves support both signatures and key exchange using the same public key. Not so with Curve25519. Ed25519 is just for signatures and X25519 for key exchange, and the "opaque" 32-byte public keys are actually different. You can convert Ed25519 public keys to X25519 public keys, but for a reverse transformation there are two incompatible methods, and so any protocol where you would like to keep a single public key association for parties--particularly offline protocols where a sender can't ask the recipient to generate an ephemeral key pair for confidential message reception--one is faced with a couple of choices. And the choices made by some existing protocols aren't always obvious. Indeed, the very fact that these differences exist isn't necessarily obvious until you're already knee-deep in the weeds.

At this point the solution is more-or-less settled--just publish Ed25519 keys. But it wasn't always that way considering that the Ed25519 signature scheme is much newer than Curve25519. And of course the legacy of this complexity will always be around to some extent.

Also left undiscussed is the different modes of Ed25519--regular and prehashed message digestion, a choice that is absent for older schemes. That's a whole 'nother can of worms.

Time and usage effect almost every new protocol and format--they don't stay pristine forever. The sheen has already dulled on Curve25519. If you want the fewest possible interoperability headaches Curve448 is the new hotness, if only because Curve448 has been standardized more times than actually deployed. It's also more secure--longer keys[1] and slightly better mathematical properties, AFAIU, of the type that originally made Curve25519 and DJB's SafeCurves initiative appealing.

[1] Arguably useful if there's an extended period of time between quantum computing scaling to threaten 128-bit classically equivalent but non-quantum-safe asymmetric schemes, and scaling to threaten ~256-bit equivalent schemes. You're probably better off with RSA in that case, though. Or just not worrying about it and sticking to Curve25519--one of the few times where "but 32 is such a nice, round, convenient string length" is perhaps a legitimate argument.
> I’m not sure the larger batteries are even necessary.

They are not. What's needed is expansion of the infrastructure. And that's not even about quick chargers. In cities you don't need them. What you need is standard level 2 chargers wherever you may want to go. Work, school, shopping, movie theaters, whatever. Most vehicles spend most of their day parked somewhere. They should be charging then.

Larger batteries are only really going to be needed in very remote regions.
It reminds me of an Australian 60 Minutes episode that was about the energy crisis in the country. I don't know if its been resolved yet, but at the time of the filming, which wasn't too long ago, Australia was facing a severe energy issue in which the cost of electricity became astronomical. A significant portion of people's income was being spent on energy alone. And this seems to be a highly contentious issue in the country. A significant portion of the episode was about solving the problem by utilizing Solar Energy technology from Elon Musk. This bothered me, because it was emblematic of the silicon valley mindset. Which is to obsess over solving the world's problems with technology. Many problems can be solved with good policy alone. Having the right laws, the right incentives, the right talent, and the right balance of power is the most effective way to solve issues. The discussion about technology should come after not before a discussion about proper policy takes place. Sure, maybe the solar tech in this case will help lower costs. But that's probably only because it is an efficiency appended to something that shouldn't be inefficient in the first place. Another way to frame this is: there are many other countries out there with similar infrastructure to Australia that do not have the same issues thanks to better policy.
I disagree: That is an extremely diverse selection of hatred, with the occasional inane entry.
I would side with you on this bet. Lots of brodozer and parking lot princess F-150s up here in Michigan suburbs.
According to the site[1] they're shipping (shipped?) First Edition purchases to buyers in Q1 2021 and will be shipping cars made with reservations starting this summer for the lower trim and Oct-Nov for the higher trim.

[1]: https://www.vw.com/pre-order/
There used to be a weird theory that malaria parasite has descended from algae.
We need thousands, and we need them in humidity-sealed trays. A handful thrown on a table isn't enough.
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I will be very frank here: it was much much less isolating then period I spent at home when kids were small. And that for me puts these complains into perspective.

Which is why a lot of people don't take these complains so seriously. Because of was much less isolating, everyone was going through the same thing, you was still member of same team.
Why do you need all 10PB accessible? Have you analyzed your usage pattern to see if you really need that much data accessible? This seems so unlikely and could solve most of your problems if you change the parameters.
A reminder to people who think they are safe from their government because they’ve “done nothing wrong” or “have nothing to hide”
The young white supremacists being radicalized online are taking the bait.

The bait is this silly narrative that the reason they talk in depth and at length everyday about exterminating non-Whites is because it's elaborate "trolling" to own the libs, until they start sprinkling in enough "justification" and repetition to radicalize you into becoming a white supremacists.

Sadly many young men are taking the bait and becoming radicalized online.
How else would they justify the 2x price premium for all-electric?

This is a curse of the classic auto manufacturers. Look at the pricing discussed for the all-electric Ford F-150. Somewhere around US$100K. Where the gas car makers have come out with electric cars in a gas car product line, they've usually had about twice the base price.

Electric power is priced as a super-premium trim level. "More car per car".

This provides a huge opening for Chinese automakers, who don't seem to have that hangup. It ought to provide an opening for Toyota, if they ever get off their hydrogen fixation.
> It would be great if there were a solution that was as simple to get started with as My Maps but also had the flexibility to easily add custom data layers programmatically.

I believe _with some trickery_ you can use Google Earth for that
He's a primatologist, but has been a leader in studying emotion and intelligence in primates for decades. Both this book and his follow up, "Mama's Last Hug", are life-changing reads, literally.