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> It is solved if phones use RCS.

Unfortunately, if the carriers impose the same attachment limit, it really won't help. The limit on MMS is largely artificial (considering the phone and the MMSC talk HTTP...sending an MMS is literally an HTTP POST).
When you are an easily recognized public figure, then I would say yes
People in Lebanon are so poor and desperate they are stealing metal manhole covers, and this engineer is replacing them with plastic covers.

He replaced 3 of them, and he's looking for donations so he can fund more of them.

Not sure about the "sustainable" part, but he is using recycled plastic trash to make them.
Yeah it's pretty baffling. Is there any designer even close to Ive? Is there any company making computers or phones that are even close in terms of aesthetic? I know that wishy-washy ideals like beauty, elegance and feel aren't that appealing to a lot of HN users but Ive's emphasis on them is a significant part of Apple's success
If you want to suggest this wasn't the forum to bring up the topic of parents discussing sexual situations with their children then, fine, I'll concede to that. I believe the subjects of parents educating their children can coincide with how to stop predatory behavior, but I'm willing to accept the desire to discuss them separately.

However, to suggest I'm blaming the victim is the epitome of putting words in my mouth and I soundly reject that suggestion as nothing short of offensive. I have done no such thing, nor would I ever.

I respectfully ask that you retract any such suggestion.
It's hard to see how this is a negative with something like broadband. as long as they can offer better quality service at lower cost, it's a win for every citizen
Yeah, i think part of what maybe you're assuming into the picture is that the engineer in the question is overworked and their labor has a net negative utility in their life without sufficient compensation to make up for that negative.

I see it more like people like/love their craft and sometimes it makes sense to just do it because one likes, and somehow gets "something" out of helping the other person too.

Think about a depression where people are refusing to work for eachother because no one can pay, nonetheless an engineer could build a website for a business just because they know if the business goes under it has perpetuated and exacerbated the depression... another more quaint example might be a cobbler who would fix people's shoes for whatever they can pay, because if he sticks to the normal price few could afford it and he'd be idle, but if he's generous enough to just do it anyways then at least the one in need is no longer.

In typing back and forth I guess it basically boils down to charity. The idea that charity could potentially nullify and turn around a vicious cycle in an economy because folks selflessly added to virtuous cycles. It doesn't have to be as brutal as a depression, but could be simple as a local business person you care about who cannot compete with the unlimited funds or whatever from another company.
If you don't think the SEC are keeping busy you probably haven't been looking very hard. Ignoring enforcement which someone else mentioned, they are the only thing stopping exchanges charging every human on the planet $1000 each time they blink.

It's a full time job in itself, and the SEC can be quite heavy-handed in increasing competitiveness despite a continuous onslaught of lawsuits from incumbents every time they sneeze. Recent examples include approving an IEX order type that fundamentally undermines a traditional business model for the exchanges (but is beneficial to just about everybody else), and the new market data initiative approved last year which should greatly reduce extortionate rentseeking on the part of the exchanges, while forcing them to share data with the public (depth of book) that previously cost 6 figures per exchange per user annually. Both of these generated immediate lawsuits from NYSE
> I dunno, I feel that’s like saying that Lisp and Haskell are part of what’s broken about the machine code ecosystem.

It would be if machine code were another high-level text-based language completely unrelated to either Lisp or Haskell with its own semantics, execution model and type system rather than a more directly machine-readable format of those languages themselves.

Javascript is fundamentally different enough from a bytecode for any arbitrary language that, at least to me the distinction matters. I can accept that it works well enough that most people don't care, even though I suspect most of the use cases for doing so (error checking, type checking) could be better served with linters or editor tools for JS itself.

But the decision to avoid actually writing javascript at all costs has contributed a great deal of complexity in the JS ecosystem, which translates into the bloat in the web that everyone complains about, because all of that javascript is wasting time and cycles simulating other languages.
It's hard to imagine that bitter-sweetness he must've felt. At the same time, how could he ever complain. Maybe he took no issue, but I'm sure everyone in the program was hoping to be the first man.
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Interesting, so it's not the rotation direction of any individual turbine that matters but how the wake of turbines affect others around it.
I mean the past year hasn't shown you that being stopped while being black is could end up being a dangerous situation?
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No because they are not counting the size of the browser or nodejs
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It's probably true that media companies tend to report more objectively on the affairs of other countries, because the country they're based in will exert more political influence over them.

The BBC is incredibly biased in terms of British affairs, or so I've heard, but it stands to reason that they'd be more willing to be objective about what's going on in America.
> Which is good

Only if rule-following is == honesty.

There are probably honest people who can't afford to follow the rules (literally, in the sense of paying for the labor to check boxes on forms correctly) and dishonest people who can afford to cleverly check boxes on forms.
How do you intend on preventing people from just exchanging crypto for goods instead of having to go through offramps?
I think I'm gonna get a pet mouse.

We really have a lot of excellent therapies to keep mice healthy.
The Imperial College report included projections if all recommended NPIs were implemented. That includes lockdowns, masks, social distancing, and so on.

Those projections were still wildly off the mark. There is no way to look at their projections and take them seriously as modelers. They were simply wrong. They made bad parameter assumptions, didn't question their results or cross-validate, and ran with the scariest projections of their models.
For some reason your Wikipedia link doesn't include the period at the end.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_v._Exxon_Mobil_Corp.

edit: maybe a bug with the way HN handles the text to HTML.
I have done both. C++ is miles better in comparison.
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You could write a monolithic kernel using composition for your code structure. It would just be composition at build time rather than at runtime.

It seems pretty hard to write a microkernel without using composition, though, since the runtime requirements kind of dictate your code structure.
>If Alice values potatoes at 1.01 apples and Bob values apples at 1.01 potatoes, and they trade, maybe they've created 0.01 apples worth of value but they certainly have not created two, they started with two and ended with approximately two.

I believe this to be incorrect. For instance, let's say that Alice runs a hamburger stand, and wants potatoes to sell alongside her burgers. Conversely, perhaps Bob makes apple pies which he then sells.

In a situation like this, they both would value (the verb) the other food more than the one they had, which would cause them to enact the trade - they are increasing their wealth by doing so. (This leads to a whole additional conversation about wealth, but I'm trying to keep it short here.)

The reason they would value it more is because they could create more value from the other's food. Bob can sell an apple pie for perhaps 10 bucks, of which most is profit. He cannot do anything with a potato, so the value of a potato is significantly less. Likewise, Alice might be able to sell one potato's worth of french fries for $5, generating a significant profit, and thereby creating value.
It would be nice if municipal fiber just provided a dumb "layer 2" pipe to some nearby PoP where you could shop around for an ISP who knows how the internet works. Basically the dialup model, but 10000X faster. Then municipalities wouldn't have to worry about stuff like IP addressing and DMCA notices.

The main disadvantage is that packets to your neighbors need to hairpin through the PoP instead of staying local, but that's probably not a big deal for residential traffic.
RCS does not use MMS so attachment limits do not apply.

RCS is its own technology. If everyone in a chat uses RCS, SMS and MMS are not used at all. It is like iMessage - but based on an open standard
I'm sorry this happened to you. I definitely believe it happened to you, without knowing you, because I don't see much reason for you to make it up..

It's a shame your ex made up lies about you, that probably happens a lot.

It is worth pointing out that you are trying to make a point with this story, and you are the only one telling it, and I'm supposed to take you on your word that this actually happened..

Yet here we have multiple adult grown adult women, unrelated to each other yet similar (minorities, poor, vulnerable), trying to make their point with 3x the "backing", and so many want to call them liars immediately.

It's funny in a sad way.
And what would be the problem with that?
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The technique is definitely cool, but can it really be called "sustainable"?
Wait... Calibri has been default for 15 years?
“Stealing” two SC seats? Tell me which law was broken. Filling a vacancy in short order is a far cry from what Biden wants to do now, which is add seats to the SC. All this pearl clutching over breaking some supposedly sacred tradition of not filling a SC during some arbitrary number of months before an election and nary a peep about packing the court, how odd.
It's not much different but yet it needs a solution built in another language to "build" it. I understand the process is not much different from other scripted languages but I find it funny that JS cannot reasonably do this itself.

(p.s. I'm aware)
So when the CIA tells me some foreign government is doing something bad, I should believe them? Then when the CIA denies they lied about the foreign government was doing something bad, I should ignore them?

This advice makes no sense to me.
When people scoff at the source, like when people sniff "but that's on faux news", the report is unlikely to be accepted at face value. This is a major problem, in that real information surfaces on both "political sides" (they aren't really both sides, but that's a discussion for another day) and people discount items that conflict with the particular narrative they believe in.

You can see that here. In the downvotes.
My personal take? Inflation affects cash - dollars - only. Not investments. Bitcoin and other cryptos are 100% inflation resistant just like investing in SPY shares, or in real estate, or in ham sandwiches. Once you're not holding dollars, your goal is to find the optimal productive asset based on constant dollar rate of return. Inflation affects the units of measurement of invested value, not the invested value.

For the record, on average across the US, house prices on a dollars per square foot basis have kept pace with inflation, as have wages. [1,2] Should they not have? Maybe, but that's a fiscal policy matter, not a monetary policy matter (i.e. take it up with Congress, not JPow).

Inflation is a forcing function to invest your idle capital as idle capital is worthless. GDP = Supply * Velocity. If you hold your capital, you're lowering the GDP.

Yes supply tends not to drop, the Fed prefers to allow the economy to "grow into" the supply, through increasing productivity, increasing population and through the 2% inflation target.

[1] https://fee.org/articles/new-homes-today-have-twice-the-squa...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
> How does a simple Python program, that one cannot determine whether it halts or not, look?

That's not exactly the right way to look at it. The better way to think of it is to say: for every potential solution to the halting problem, there is a program for which that solution doesn't work. So what the counterexample looks like will depend on your proposed halting problem decider.

Let's imagine your wrote a function "halts(program)" that takes a program as input and returns whether that program halts or not. Let's also for simplicity assume that the program input is just the string representation of the source code in e.g. Python. And let's ignore programs that depend on arguments for now.

Now write the following program, let's call it X:

if halts(X):
while true:
pass

it might seem strange to see the value X, which is supposed to be the string value of the source of the whole program, appear within X. In fact, this seems impossible at first. However, with some clever tricks, you can actually always do that, at least in a turing complete language (including Turing Machines themselves).

now, what is the response of "halts(X)"? (remember: X is just the source code of the program above)

Well, let's first assume that X is a program that halts. Then, wenn we run X, it checks whether it itself halts. Since it does, it then goes into an infinite loop... wait, but then halts can't be right, since it told us X would halt, but it doesn't.

If we assume that X doesn't halt, then conversely, X checks itself, finds out it doesn't halt and then... halts. Another contradiction.

This proves that the function "halts" cannot actually be written, for if it could, it would immediately give the wrong answer for this program X.

The central argument is, in principle, not more complex than what I've shown. The actual complexity of the proof comes from the whole self-referentiality argument, namely that we can actually embed X within itself. This is quite non-trivial, since we have to prove it in the general case.
But everybody also knew everyone else was broke, so they had mentally discounted the future value of their accounts receivable (though obviously not to the point of actually writing it off yet). So their subjective sense of their future worth was negative, until the stranger showed up and injected liquidity into the market.
Some people believe flat earth theories. It's still unreasonable to paint that as a widely held belief of those who disagree with you.
which, honestly seems fine to me. it's likely to be running from the floor anyway, probably from a nearby place to the power outlet. one cord on the desk.

some have also mentioned potential synergy with future MacBooks, which might also adopt this port on the power brick. that could bring a magnetic connector back to laptops _and_ ethernet without a $30 dongle
I’ve thought about this method. I think this is what should be done for sites where you log in very infrequent (say, yearly). Do you know of any examples where this is implemented?
Here's my speculation: After the stellar early growth years for the iPad (here are some graphs from 2015 https://qz.com/376041/the-ipads-first-five-years-in-five-cha...), there was an impression at the Apple that the future of the Mac is iOS. Then that growth leveled off, and now iPad looks more like a comparable category to Macs (see the more recent Six Colors graphs https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/04/apples-record-second-quar...).

So Apple appears to have been asleep at the wheel with the Mac (which is perhaps why Ive's had so much leeway with clearly unpopular decisions like the keyboard, missing escape key, etc...) resulting in its worst years ever. The laptop keyboard is one example, but the iOS-ification of the Mac is another (i.e., moving towards the iOS security model), as is the stagnate Mac Pro.

Now things are back to normal, see the M1, the new Mac Pro, the new iMac, etc...

The M1 transition going so smoothly, and with such an emphasis on backwards compatibility (they ported OpenCL! they helped with Blender!) is my favorite example of this, contrasted with the complete &$@^*% you! treatment that developers got with things like notarization, new security features, and pretty much everything recent going all the way back to Mac App Store Sandboxing, which I'd personally consider the start of the dark years (and I'd also consider that the single worst decision in all of this, worse than the keyboard, that's the one that fundamentally broke the Mac ecosystem, maybe forever).
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Jobs put that strategy in place. He did not want to leave price points unfilled with hit products. You saw it with the profusion of iPod models, colors, and storage. Jobs was also still the CEO when Apple decided to keep the iPhone 3Gs in production after launching the iPhone 4, in order to meet a lower price point.
You are so sarcastic, and pricky. You will not be getting more popular like this.

I advice you to come to India, and tell it to people dying on porches of hospitals. Tell it to doctors seeing people come, and die.

> give the medical system in India at least a tiny bit of respect and stop trying to armchair quarterback

Before demanding respect, one has to learn how to behave respectfully himself.

Please stop this.
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The have sufficient industrial oxygen that can be repurposed. The problem is delivery to hospitals. They need more tankers and cylinders.
> that money is not value.

Very much so!

Money is a tool used for accounting, while value is a system for perception. They interact, but as you say, are not the same.
Seconded. I liked that there's no romanticizing or villifying of the nomadic lifestyle, just tells it as is - it's compromises, lack of options, need to feel free, allure of the nature and everything in between.

Good info on the homestead act and its actual effects too.
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That's great. Maybe they should consider making them with rebar inside to get the strength up while keeping the scrap value nominal.
Thanks. But, I was trying to find out - how ‘DO’ - or any other breached company for that matter - come to know about the effected users. Sorry, I missed mentioning that
The old interface will remain available, so if requeue performance is important, you can keep using that. Also at least one kernel maintainer considers requeue to be historical ballast [1], so it's probably not used much anymore.

[1] https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/87o8thg031.fsf@nanos.tec.lin...
Pollarding, according to Wikipedia, was first mentioned by a Roman poet 2100 years ago.

You could claim sort of convergent evolution, but I find it hard to believe that a 1500 year old Roman cultivation technique was reinvented in Japan almost exactly at the apex of China's naval power. This smells of corporate espionage.
Yes - and my point being that, to my dismay, FB is the best and/or only way of consuming this information because it is the primary (increasingly the only) place this information is shared.
I'm sure I read somewhere that Ive actually really wanted to push the Watch as a high ticket device for rich people, and it was him being ousted that lead to Apple taking the more health-focused direction they're taking now.
I see r/superstonk is leaking.
If I could only afford one, I would recommend the o-scope. Most firmware runs on bespoke hardware and the programmer can’t assume the hardware is abstracted away from the software. MANY bugs I’ve tracked down required electronics probing.
and yet the differ very little in their outcomes (156 v 162 in D/C) as compared to NY at 267
There's a pretty huge difference between general NSFW and child porn. I don't think adding a child porn toggle would go very well for Latitude.
Exactly, we already have the “censorship resistant social network” (gab), but for reasons completely unrelated to not restricting speech third parties seem hell bent on nuking it from orbit. Such is the fate of any similar social network.
Reader Mode in Safari is the main reason I use it. One click and any unfortunate website styles change into plain text, any size and/or font I want.
by "notorious" you mean in the far right muck making mschine
> The problem is delivery to hospitals. They need more tankers and cylinders.

If the number of tankers is as much as Indian media show, then the situation should've been resolved weeks ago.

Please read my comment below on what's actually happening. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26974630

All those sudden oxygen leaks, equipment failures, or massive amounts of stored O2 disappearing is all about O2 infrastructure being in a bad state long before the Covid, and it coming to surface now.
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In the Ember.js ecosystem there's a really exciting new build tool project called "mho", that replaces webpack and uses a novel strategy running in a service worker to interpret native javascript modules with minimal overhead & near instant rebuilds (disclaimer I'm not familiar with how snowpack works under the hood).

https://github.com/ef4/mho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09USvAy7w9g

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Of course you're right about all the stupid wars fought in my parents' lifetimes. It's also true that by the time WWII broke out, it was too late for USA to avoid it, so in a sense it was "justified". I don't find USA's actions in WWI to have been either justified or beneficial to humanity.

Wilson ran for reelection promising not to enter WWI. Upon winning, he immediately broke that promise. When USA entered the war, it had already ground to a stalemate after three years of carnage. The various warring parties had been open to a negotiated peace. As soon as American lives were on the line, France, Britain, and Italy discovered a determination to see the war to its bitter end, which took another 1.5 brutal years and millions more human lives.

Wilson claimed to prefer reconciliation to punishment of Germany, and initially during peace negotiations he reined in the worst French and British excesses. Then he got Spanish Flu, suffered severe mental decline, and functioned as a doormat for the remaining "negotiations". The French and British somehow concocted such draconian penalties that they created brutal fascist dictatorships not only in their enemy Germany but also in their ally Italy. Hitler's and Mussolini's empowerment, not to mention the transfer of Germany's Chinese colony to Japan, guaranteed a conflict like WWII.

https://www.history.com/news/woodrow-wilson-1918-pandemic-wo...
Sanity, Borden, ineffective management, fear of skills becoming irrelevant. Desire to grow. Desire to be relevant. Distaste for company ethics.

My job is great pay, very stable, and I hate every day of it. A place for careers to end.