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I agree that sport should be sportsmanlike, but there is also an entertainment factor. These pro cyclists are public figures, paid by teams funded by corporate sponsors, cyclists have public rivalries and journalists pour fuel on the fire. Events from one race carry over to the next. There is lots of drama, there are rules which change over time (and usually lag a few years behind technology advances), race officials have to make decisions in the heat of the moment, usually very controversial decisions after rule changes. (look at the recent disqualifications due to the new anti-littering and dangerous-bike-position rules this year, and the bike-lane rules a few years ago)

On one side it's unfortunate that technological details and possibly human error make it hard or controversial to decide the winner for this race, on the other side this event has kept the cycling community talking for 3 weeks (even HN is talking about it right now). And most likely in the next few months or years we'll see some rule/regulation changes to handle these cases better. Just like in politics, something needs to happen first before action is taken. All the recent rule changes were triggered by dangerous crashes or other events.

And imho all of this combined makes pro-cycling one of the most exciting forms of entertainment to watch or follow.

A little side note: Many amateur races don't have photo finish equipment. In my race days sometimes not even a camera, and 3 race officials would stand on a little platform above the finish line with voice recorders just calling out jersey numbers and then get together in a room for 20 minutes to compare recordings and compile the final result. Draws were much more common back then.

edit: all of the previous races and media coverage and drama and the first 250k in this race have led to this super exciting final 1k that is ultimately decided by millimeters. To me that is beautiful.
The largest known beaver dam in the world resides in the neighboring province and stretches over half a mile (0.85 km) in length [1]. It is so large and remote that it was only discovered by satellite image in 2007 [2].

[1]: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/worlds-largest-beaver-da...

[2]: https://www.mensjournal.com/travel/explorer-first-reach-worl...
Cold war in space is an outgrowth of cold war on Earth, not an independent development. People do not want to share important know-how with other people who may plausibly use the same know-how against them.

And having a new Space Race may actually be good for our capabilities. The stagnation in space technology after the USSR disintegrated looks like a bad case of winner complacency.
Computer Science as a Medicine
> It's not distributed, and silo'ed of course..

But that's the key.

Can I write my own slack client to automate everything just the way I want to, relying only on standard APIs that cannot go away?
Fascinating. Is there any conjecture where it came from?
I mean at work you have literally nothing to gain by being honest about your views (it's not a polling booth) and could curry favour by professing the same views as those around you.

Therefore, it's not surprising that this tends towards groupthink that agrees with the Highest Paid Person's Opinion whether that should be on the left or on the right.
Indeed there was a bike throw, and tv footage shows pidcock first crossing the line. So maybe the bike throw is a good explanation.

You guys may be on to something. Maybe worth looking at the axis of the wheel crossing the finish?
This happens in swimming because of the tolerance of making an olympic spec pool. A good swimmer goes a bit over 2mm every 0.001s. The pools have 3cm tolerance meaning the lanes are not the exact same length (it would be crazy expensive to make pools to smaller tolerances)

So to solve this they just don't measure beyond hundreds (no human can swim fast enough that the distance they travel within 0.01s could make a difference). And thus can not use photo finish either as again the lanes are not guaranteed to be the same length.

https://interestingengineering.com/significant-digits-and-po...

edit: In other sports like running it is easy to have accurate track length as you just paint the lines after building the track so you can have it as accurate as you want (+photo finish). In swimming it just does not work like that.
I have never seen it mentioned in a history of techno, but it's quite popular with many people who like electronic music today.
> Please search instead by 'COVID app mandatory for';

In case I can save anyone else the time I spent, I initially read this as op saying that I should search for the phrase 'COVID app mandatory for' in one of the two articles op previously linked [1][2]. This phrase does not show up in either link.

I believe op is suggesting that I google this phrase but I think I already have spent too much time on this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_apps#List_of_countrie...

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/covid-19-tracking-tech...
"Well, if you want to ruin their investment then issue building permits for more of them"

For the past 30 years this has not happened even once in a major city. Developer will not build so many building as to drip the price. Maybe its time to accept that you are perpetuating a myth.
This question is one for the ages.
No music style appeared out of nowhere. So it will always be hard to pinpoint where things started. Maybe it is even impossible.

I always have a mixed feeling about music style classifications.
It shifts focus from the music to discussions about what style a piece of music is.

Maybe techno originated from rhytmic tribe music. Who knows. Personally I don't care.
Not quite; the Earth is an oblate spheroid. Assuming it's a sphere is certainly a close enough approximation for this exercise, though.
"They" is the proper method for referring to a singular person of unspecified gender. In this case, since we don't know the gender of the person in question, using "they" is appropriate. If we knew the gender, then a gender-specific pronoun could be called for.
Liz Rice – Queen of the Geeks [audio]
That almost sounds like it's endorsing check fraud
> This allows companies and spammers to track when you open an email.

"Email" doesn't allow that. If your email client does, that's a flaw in the client but clients are replaceable.

I use mutt and no links are ever followed.
Would you say it is also your job to not question things like diversity initiatives?
I think I would prefer a separation between the package manager and build system. I’ve already got a build system for my FORTRAN codes, and that system can handle all the complications. SPACK, for example, can easily work with a pre-existing build system. But I definitely think that the worst part of FORTRAN compared to modern languages is that it takes so much work to manage external dependencies, so I appreciate the effort.
I think most people know, I made my comment referring at humanity in general, like looking back in history and all the wars and suffering and realizing that collaboration would have resulted in more riches then all those costly wars.
but a cheque has a giver and a receiver, the receiver cannot then give the check to someone else as payment since the giver and receiver printed on the cheque are different
Laravel Scout – MeiliSearch as an alternative to Algolia
FUN == FU*ing Nightmare? ;)
How does it benefit uk to launder proceeds of crime and squeeze productive citizens out, forcing them to travel further and pollute more?
Frankly, if the price quoted in the article is correct, this would make economic sense all around the world.
I guess they didn't go down that path in order to increase portability. A good chunk of crossover (wine with paid support) customers run macOS.
Love it, as a solo dev I'm gravitating more towards a kit that also offers its components library as a code equivalent (looking at Tailwind UI right now), but I can definitely see the value in this for actual designers!

Makes me want to step up my Figma-game, did you do write-ups or do you have recommendations on how to build up the skills required to craft something like this?
If the hardware is really old to not br able to support animations properly, just disable those animations. Transparency effects can be disabled as well. Everything. It is by far the lightest and most efficient DE
I've never heard anything about this track in the context of techno, its a synth pop tune really.
They will not tell you not out of malice, but because they don't know. It's literally a black box, and we don't understand whys.

And it doesn't take a deep CNN to become a black box - any sufficient complex algorithm will do. I doubt anybody in the world understands all the details of how the latest CPU actually works, for example.
I don't dispute the point of trivia posts, I actually quite like them. What I have a problem with is the framing. I find cultural fetishism generally despicable, regardless of the culture that's being talked about. I get a minor aneurysm every time I see someone praising the "eternal robustness" of Roman roads, for example.
Typically Ad5 causes upper respiratory tract infections which may manifest as a cold if you’re lucky or lead to pneumonia if you’re not, although things like conjunctivitis and gastroenteritis are not unheard of. Obviously we don’t know how applicable this knowledge is to the Sputnik Ad5.
"The math doesn't work here in the way I am understanding it."

The maths is very simple. Government spends $100, and that is taxed at x%. The person receiving that spending as income gets $100 - x%($100) as income. They then spend that income with somebody else, and so on like a stone skipping across a pond. Total up the deductions in the geometric series and you'll find that it matches the initial injection for any positive tax rate. All that changes is the number of hops.

All very straightforward once you realise that money is a dynamic concept and pops into being as required to ensure transactions get done before disappearing again. Loans create deposits.

"So that little delicatessen on the corner that makes the most amazing pastrami sandwich and is a neighborhood gathering spot is very very inefficient but is serving a great purpose."

It is. And if it is that great then it will be able to charge a sufficient artisan premium for its product. If it can't, and it can't raise the capital to fund its productivity curve, then it will go bust. That's how markets work.

You don't get to push the cost down onto poor people by using a system feedback that ensures there are always a lack of jobs. There should always be more jobs than people that want them, not fewer - because the harm from the lack of a job is far far greater than the harm from the lack of a profit to the undercapitalised.

Then those products that are genuinely great will come into being - having been funded by adequate capital.
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It's a constant weapons race - no matter how many pests you destroy a vast amount of available biomass would attract new ones.
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> No cloud processing, no 3rd party services, no compromises. Ratio computes everything on your phone.
Europe's malware industry has mostly been legalised in the name of fighting (narco)terrorists and pedos:

E.g. on this "legalized" end of the spectrum Netherlands, Italy, UK, Germany, Switzerland, France, all have _very_ active companies and strong talent pool for offsec skills and what is "legal malware" (Bundestrojaner varieties like Mini/Mega-Panzer, etc).

ETSI in France works hard so that the term "malware" doesn't even enter language (instead it's middleboxes like eTLS or standards covering the framework of Lawful Interception). The countries listed have strong relation between offsec vendors and consultants and the IC. E.g. Kudelski Security in Geneve prides itself on breaking phones, supplying tooling and a lab to Europol. HackingTeam, Gamma International, EncroChat, Sky ECC, Vupen, ... = all European.

The EU countries which have (some) talent but lack the jobs are often "painted as corrupt" backwaters where "everyone is a criminal[1]", usually cover the rest.

[1] e.g. see this PR/FUD video produced by the ghouls at Norton pretending to be journalists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_XI4MM6QI
General settings : "Ask before displaying external images"
You missed out on the Plasma5 transition. It surprises me how no one eyed Gnomr for the mess Gnome 3 was. Gnome 40 is a mess as well, trying to reinvent the UX.

But KDE's desktop gets criticized for what it was when it tried 3D graphics at a time when Qt wasn't ready.
We’ve never homesteaded truly unoccupied land by some definitions of “unoccupied”. Depending on how far back we want to take the social justice, even Neanderthals drove out earlier pre-humans from their rightful homes, however sporadically inhabited and/or poorly defended they might’ve been.

Regardless, I think it’s a horrible critique of the miserably dystopic political climate we’re in today that such plain statements about factual reality can’t even be made without someone feeling it necessary to call attention to a more recent historical example of the powerful driving out the powerless — a dynamic which has been with humans and every other creature on this planet since time immemorial.

Nomadism in antiquity had at least some chance of resulting in zero cost homesteading for those brave people willing to endanger their own lives to engage in it. It was more a reflection on the hidden plight of modernity — not being able to afford a home, despite our forefathers being able to just homestead at zero up front cost mere centuries ago — than a projection of jealousy or some other contrivance.
> how willingly other people bring up politically sensitive issues in the workplace

I'd say I'm a mix of conservative/Libertarian and this kind of blows my mind over the past few years. It seems like I constantly hear people on the left openly voicing their political opinions around crowds of people, and always speak in a way that they genuinely believe everyone around them agrees....and often have a condescending way of saying it. It amazes me how they seem to have absolutely no idea where the right-wing people are even coming from. I think this recent over-confidence is mostly due to them not realizing the major media outlets are essentially feeding them communist propaganda (if you don't agree with this I'd consider researching cognitive dissonance). I experience this on a regular basis, and it usually leads to me completely losing respect for that person purely due to the lack of awareness that person is showing.

The other dynamic, and what the leftists don't realize (or can't process), is that the left's arguments are primarily things that sound good in practice, but don't add up in theory. It always sounds good when someone says they want to help someone else, no matter who says it. This allows them to go crazy in public giving one liners about the surface level of their political policies ("everyone should have world class health care!", "everyone should have lots of money!", "No one should ever shoot someone else with a gun!"...all because they sound good (even to conservatives). Conservative policies take a bit more explaining to get their point across, and are much more focused on the logical and realistic side of things. No one likes to say "someone who doesn't work and doesn't contribute to society doesn't deserve govt handouts"...but it makes logical sense. That kind of talk doesn't exactly sound as good around the water cooler. Also, the time horizon for conservative viewpoints is often much longer (think about generations in the future and the impact today's decisions will have down the road). Compared to the left's policies that solve shallow issues today while mortgaging the well-being of future generations.

The simple fact is that conservatives have an easier time seeing where the left is coming from as a result of the left's primary policies being shallower and less thought out. These aspects also make it easier for the left to create snarky comments around. Conservatives however, simply don't agree and think it's all a pipe dream. They see the shallowness that the left is not able to. The left on the other hand, not only doesn't understand the right's overarching viewpoints...they also aren't even willing to try to understand where the right is coming from.
I am facing with this exact problem at work - I have a tool that scans thousands of files and tells me No. Why ? I don't know why. The algorithm it performs is split between 10-20 other subtools (microservices, right?) making following the decision tree almost impossible.

What happens when this kind of tool will calculate your credit score, social score, or the proceeds of your savings ?
Imagine the outrage if it was chinese maleware, HN comments would call for the boycott of china and political measures
Progressivism is the new Christianity, taking over the pagan landscape.
It used to be that politics (in the UK) was class based. You are this or that based on your background. Two people from different classes would understand why the other did not support the same political party. That was how it was, and nobody felt the other should not exist. Everyone felt the other had a place in society. These progressive ideologies are different. Everyone can be part of them. You can be a pauper progressive and also a billionaire progressive. Secondly if you are not one of them, you are the enemy, and you do not belong in society, and the aim is to eradicate you.
This is what changed.
No conservative in the 1970s would have thought, everyone in Britain should be a conservative. That would not make sense. They would not have felt that was something reasonable to demand, or even at all possible. But now you got progressives who think that is indeed what should happen. Everyone should be progressive. If you are not you need to be exterminated.
And paradoxically, they want to include everyone in their ranks, but they also stand for very little. When you have all kinds, within your ranks you cannot accomplish much of substance without upsetting your own comrades.
> think it’s much more likely for both these orgs to be telling the truth when they’re accusing their enemies of doing bad things

That’s... not how that works at all. Disinformation campaigns very frequently include publicly signaling you’ve come to a different conclusion than the real one you’ve come to.
I grew up with Drumcode. It was quite common with forest raves here in Sweden, basically a huge sound system in some remote place and people dancing over night. And at one point there were also some organisers who rented a whole cruise liner, with people like Adam Beyer and Thomas Krome DJ’ing. My favourites include: surgeon, headroom, the advent, invexis, chris liebing, planetary assault systems, mark broom, pounding grooves and richie hawtin. Then I fell into the rabbit hole of more experimental music such as autechre and have been stuck there ever since
As terrible and inefficient as it is, humans are primarily motivated by competing with each other at every level: international, national, local, interpersonal.

United Earth would necessarily be a terrible, repressive thing going agains everything that our monkey brain stands for. That is, unless some more remote out-group appears, say United Colonies of Musk, or Lunar Robot Empire.
Configure your client to never load any external links unless you specifically select one for viewing.
I am happy that this great idea is so successfull!
Congrats!
I think it might cause less confusion if you moved the end-note to the beginning.
Those golden cages at the FAANG companies are getting brighter, last time I had looked at their engineers' compensation they were around the 200-300k mark, and that was seen as high (around 2015-2016, even though I could be mistaken by a year or two). I guess monopoly power does indeed pay.
We had 80 employees, and very few of us liked anything about our Blackberries—including the unified inbox. How is that ignoring the point of the article?
Apart from the usual bells and whistles of KDE Connect, I have my devices connected to each other over awireguard tunnel. This way KDE Connect works even if the devices aren't on the same network. It was the best thing I did for myself!
Any closed community ends up as a cult, derangement reinforced through the circular patting on the backs. HN already got a bit of a loony reputation (for example, see the comment about being a think tank), and it’ll get even worse behind a paywall.
I'm not really sure what the amendments to the US constitution have to do with a post about British workplaces, but I think you have a very different view on "freedom of speech" than the classically liberal one that it is arguably founded upon. That's OK, of course.

In the UK we don't have and have never had freedom of speech. In fact, we have some of the harshest libel laws in the world. There are very many consequences for saying or publishing things that you're not allowed to here.

But this post is about people self-censoring their opinions, particularly in the workplace, for fear of repercussions, and that is something that absolutely is getting worse. Like many others I steer clear of all of these topics myself, as even though I hold "approved" opinions on them. I fear that someone may wilfully misinterpret something I say and cause me irreparable harm by going on some weird crusade to have me fired and my life ruined, as that seems to be what normally happens these days.

If one has fear then one is not free.
This is a very detailed and informative reply, thanks. I don't know how I could arrived at it just based on the terms they used to describe it.
While I've only inCluded that single image in my analysis, having a look at the video of the full race where they pass the finish line many times it is clear the red sign is aligned with the finish line.
"right leaning" is a minority in the UK, and if you exclude those who've retired it's a small minority. Minorities tend to be more accepting of speech that goes against the majority view.
With a VDI, you're stuck managing windows.
As anyone who works with open source software can tell you, cooperation beats competition in the long run. Or, as the old saying goes, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together”
>People do not want to share important know-how with other people who may plausibly use the same know-how against them.

Won't mathematics and sciences contradict this? If we stop antagonizing each other and create doom scenarios and propaganda we could avoid the "use against each other part".
Also in a few years China will have a space station(and nobody else) and then you will want they share information with the science community .

I am wondering is some older US citizen that reads this and also played Fallout, was US such a paranoid and propaganda filled country? do they see communist everywhere?

I still hope that the number of paranoid and nationalistic people will go down. world wide (I am not accusing any specific country, so no need to defend )
For what it's worth, the 'shy Tory' effect isn't really a thing, at least in British opinion polling. Maybe in the 1992 General Election, when it was coined, not since. Polling errors go both ways, most polling misses turn out to be a result of turnout modeling problems or (occasionally) unrepresentative samples, and voters have no problem at all telling pollsters they're going to vote for the Tories, UKIP, or anyone else.

Take the present prime minister. I don't think it's particularly controversial to say that he's repeatedly proven himself to be a fairly brazen liar. Voters don't actually like liars. They do, nevertheless, like Johnson (and quite a bit more than they like Starmer). And they're not shy about saying so.