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Making Issue Tracking, Pull Request, and other UI integrations with Git sound bad is weird to me. I don't think the "profit" motive has anything to with it. Whether free or for profit, I want integrated solutions, and integrated solutions tend to be more centralized.

Think of the watering hole analogy, developers who want to collaborate will eventually find some common location to assemble. If the features of this location are superior, or it has more popular projects, more developers will assemble, in a positive feedback loop, eventually this site will become a large, popular place for people to collaborate -- free or not. This behavior use to happen long before commercial activity was on the internet, back in the pre-Web listserv/majordomo/bitnet days. Certain people would become powerful gatekeepers purely by the size of their audience and the positive feedback effects of having a large audience.

That makes the central proposition that some kind of regulation is needed somewhat troublesome. I mean, take a large open source project like Linux or FreeBSD. A small group of maintainers, or a single dictatorial maintainer with veto power, wields enormous control over API and features that are included. If the maintainer gods decide not to support your hardware and refuse patches, does the government have to step in because it puts you at a disadvantage?

Levels of centralization in all things is probably inevitable. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there isn't some mathematics in network theory about scaling and hierarchy that would probably show it's inevitable -- even if you start out with something completely flat and fully connected graph, and without unequal incentives.

Basically, people with large audiences have larger power, whether it's commercial power, or even just social popularity.
Nukes kill more birds than wind? (2013)
One thing to consider is that humans don't have 100% accuracy for large numbers of things.
The point was it has deviated from it's original purpose which is a decentralized, identity free financial system.

Dark markets apart, it has almost no practical use today.
I've read some comments on people sending money cross borders using bitcoin, the author might have overlooked this. Anyways, without numbers it is mere speculations... What is interesting in his article is the fact that decentralized solutions are deviating from their original purpose, becoming less powerful, and centralized.
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"Obama lights" is the most common mishearing when I ask Siri to turn on the "apartment lights".
Then you both have terrible banking arrangements.
That's not exactly the point tho. I live in an actually democratic country where the government respects my privacy. However apple is not respecting my rights or privacy when I would use their devices. Ergo this whole thread is bullshit as they can't even protect any privacy from the state they operate in in their situation.
When microcode is so small (2K according [0]) how can it work to enable/disable specific instructions, or even change how they work?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Microcode
I wish we had a decent iOS app instead, but that also works.
It means:

- China controls the rate of issuance of coins, like a central bank, except it may be easier to mint coins as needed and direct them to a particular person or purpose.

- China has significant control over the exchange rate to other currencies, because it can limit activity of other exchanges.

- China controls the logic encoded in the coins, because digital coins are not like cash. For example, they are planning to program some coins to expire if not spent within a time limit.

- China can govern who is allowed an account and who is not, and can remove an account from someone if they choose.

- Above applies to business accounts as much as personal.

I think there's a good potential in "designed money", in particular with logic attached to the coins to influence how they are used and behave. But of all the governments in the world to deploy such a thing at scale, China is not high on my list of countries to trust, with their heavy emphasis on surveillance, control and worse if you're in the wrong group. Money is really central to people's lives.
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Dodged a bullet there. What is the company like if the interviewers are like that?!
"X is not a store of value"

"But the dollar..."

The dollar is not a "store of value" either. It's a currency.
In my opinion tech companies are also historically bad at "understanding" boundaries and blame the government for it.

In this case in particular Apple is not doing the government's job because government is bad at understanding tech, it's not about progress, it's about control.

They are betting, IMO, on the fact that politics and laws have a lot of inertia and are slow at adapting to new fringe interpretations of the norms.
The credit card companies still demand that it should be called cache discount and not credit card surcharge. Various marketing studies show that the term surcharge leaves bad impression supposedly due to priming effect.
No, I lost 100 HN karma in mid-2020 proposing the lab theory.
A good mental model is that Haskell has expressions that are evaluated and JavaScript has statements that are executed.

const io_actions = ["hello", "world"].map(s => console.log(s));
io_actions[1];

vs.

io_actions = map putStrLn ["hello", "world"]
main = io_actions !! 1

JS will print out "hello" and "world" and the value of io_actions[0] is undefined. In Haskell, the value of io_actions !! 0 is IO "world" which is just a value you can pass around in your program. Only when the Haskell runtime evaluates your code is when it will do the effect, which is to print "world". "hello" is never printed.

Naturally you can also pattern match on IO ():

f :: IO ()
f = case putStrLn "hello" of
_ -> putStrLn "world"

also only prints "world".

The IO type in Haskell is akin to IO (State World -> (State World, a)), ie. the state monad where the state threaded through the computation is the "real world". This can be demonstrated with the following:

f :: IO ()
f = IO $ \world -> case putStrLn "foo" of
IO _ -> case putStrLn "bar" of
IO g -> g world

prints "bar".
Hey I probably know you.
I really suppose it depends on the crypto you are talking about. Still, most cryptocurrencies are undergoing rapid development today, so I don’t see why people are complaining and calling it dead.
Is it illegitimate to criticize something which was freely obtained?
There never was any real world application to cryptocurrency beyond what Satoshi invented in 2009 with Bitcoin — a global currency of fixed supply controlled by computer algorithms.

Every coin launched subsequent to Bitcoin has been a money grab dressed up in heaps of ludicrous marketing lingo, defended by paid-off law firms and celebrity VCs on the take, obscured via technobabble, and powered exclusively by FOMO and greed.
That's the problem with saying bubbles = inflation. They can go up and down. There is an underlying trend that keeps increasing the value and a small chunk of it is indeed $USD inflation but the rest could just as well be growth of the user base.
no gold or diamonds in my childhood, amber did the trick though. From dirt cheap to mildly expensive, yet you'll never leave empty. Some people do it as business, some just as occasional hobby. It seems that any meaningful private commercial operation of digging, selling and jewelry producing is still mostly illegal today as it was back then in USSR, yet it have been a pretty booming business in Russia and Ukraine (and probably Poland, though can't say anything about amber legal regime there). Today's "Amber rush" in Ukraine https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-21/illegal-amber-mining-...
Octal is amazing iOS app. Been using it for six months and it’s amazing.
I think @laurent92 didn't say something like: Bitcoin is bad, because bad countries use it.

I think it was more like: There's a risk _for Bitcoin_ if the US brings out the ban hammer, because bad countries use it.

Nowadays a lot of people are not libertarians that would see the US opposing it as a proof it's valuable, but more speculators whom would have nothing left if Coinbase and co. were to shut down.
> the general line of thought there is that bugs are worked around in software and there's little expectation of being able to run existing code flawlessly, unlike with a PC.

How does that work for Apple's M1?
"But I'm..."

A specific user from a niche geek website, a rounding error, an anecdote.

I'm glad for those fighting against these walled garden overlords, but let's keep in mind we're talking about a side with thousands of people VS a side with billions of people. Numbers matter, and the fall of these giants is still far away.

If anything, the battle is starting from recent anti-competition and privacy concerns in the public sphere, which is a good thing, but the public remains unaware of these niche distributed tools.
It’s only a matter of time until someone finds that dog’s old Twitter posts and it all goes wrong. :P
> Nowadays there’s hardly a device that can’t easily be updated after shipment - so the cost and effort required to make a perfect error-free CPU is not as incentivezed.

This ignores the fact that there can be security exploits.
I drive a $300 car so my standards of luxury are fairly low.
Another one is OpenGameArt's Sound Effects.[0]

[0] https://opengameart.org/art-search-advanced?field_art_type_t...
She'd be wrong about that too. Just look at how much better email is than instant messaging. It has succeeded infinitely more at being a decentralized application than IM.
With the universe being so big, lots of highly unlikely phenomena are bound to happen here and there. Like if the terrestrial planet originated from a metal-rich star system, got kicked out by gravitational slingshot, wandered for a while, and happened to come near a metal-poor star with a suitable velocity. But this would be an extremely rare.
Am I correct in thinking that no other car company is doing meaningful updates regardless of the technology stack they’ve implemented? I have a Ram 1500 with a giant screen and lots of bugs in its software, but have yet (2+ years) to see any updates. I have a family member with a 3 year old Mercedes and it still apparently costs $500 to have the dealer update the GPS mapping (bizarrely competing with the free and far superior Google Maps or Apple Maps via Android Auto or CarPlay…)

I think Tesla implementing major advances like intermittent wipers via OTA update is amazing and related to their culture. I don’t expected to see Ford or others follow suit. The only company that could possibly take this on IMO is VW because they’ve embraced EV beyond any other competitor with ground up new designs.
There's a difference between an injustice somewhere in the world completely unrelated to oneself, an an injustice one witnesses and doesn't say something (e.g. discrimination) or an injustice one is part of and does not change anything (e.g. climate change if one lives in a wealthy country).
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How do you measure "best"?
"Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system" is the title of the original whitepaper.
All laws are backed by the threat of overwhelming violence. If you have a corporate fine, and you don’t pay it, the state will seize your property. If you stand in your doorway and obstruct the sheriff, he will arrest you. If you resist the arrest with weapons, he will bring his own weapons. If you have enough weapons to require a military response, a military response is what you will get.
From a PR standpoint, yes. Public opinion will deteriorate. Bitcoin is being criticized for using China's energy grid which heavily relies on coal.

People should look into the root of the problem instead and I do hope this change suggests that China might be looking into better energy production methods.
Buildkite is pretty good.
Cray-2: nearly 2 GFlops.
Apple Watch 1: around 3 GFlops.
M1 MacBook Air: nearly 1 TFlops.
>We're not asking for modular connectors (although those are nice) or larger competents.

You might not, but OP did: "Why can't Apple make their products easily repairable while making them aesthetically pleasing?"
Thanks for the idea. Getting the app in front of companies that need it is one of our challenges.
What's so great about what the iphone camera does specifically?
I think it's because nice lines aren't a super big use case for WebGL. Most people use it for 3d scenes, 3d objects, etc.

In other words, I suppose that three.js doesn't have nice lines because nobody contributed it, which is usually a sign of low-ish demand. (I know nothing about three.js governance and goals so I might be mistaken)
> A smart contract can currently take your tokenized USD (we'll use USDC since its backed by Coinbase), use that as collateral to borrow ETH on AAVE.com (a lending protocol), use 50% of that ETH to buy up USDC again, use this USDC + ETH to create a liquidity pair on Uniswap, and earning 0.3% fees on any swaps made between USDC and ETH.

And... What does this accomplish, exactly? Besides "get rich, quick, in virtual money that, for now, some folks will convert to real money, maybe"
I bought the first Ciro board back then in 1998 at a German department store called Karstadt. They took the boards into their stock as a small "test balloon", to see if the idea of small boards with roller blade wheel is accepted by the customers.

Hell it was fun riding with the board. Now, in 2021 spare parts are still available and I took the chance to refurbish the board for my child. The aluminum parts are very durable.

Unfortunately, the boards are almost forgotten but still used by a faithful circle of enthusiasts who are enjoying the unique driving feeling and the durable construction details.
Depends on the industry as well. Cell counting is a huge part of life science research and it's a well established business in lab-based pipelines (integral part of commercial solutions). However if you try to enter the realm of clinical field such as histology and pathology assistive technology it suddenly becomes tricky. Same with innovative diagnostic tools. You need clinical trials for those.
> There never was any real world application to cryptocurrency beyond what Satoshi invented in 2009 with Bitcoin

All this shows is that you haven’t spent even 5 minutes trying to understand crypto, and yet you judge it regardless.

- The introduction of true anonymity (as opposed to mere pseudonymity) with XMR has been significant.

- The introduction of rapid, feeless transactions with NANO has been significant.

- The introduction of smart contracts with Ethereum has been significant.

Each of these solutions completely change the crypto sphere and significantly expand its potential use case. Each of these provide something at the protocol layer that Bitcoin does not. And there have been plenty of significant developments beyond these. But bitterness is blinding.

I would be fascinated to hear your evidence for why these are “a money grab dressed up in heaps of ludicrous marketing lingo, defended by paid-off law firms.”
In case you missed, yesterday a plane flying from Athens to Vilnius was intercepted by Belarusian fighter jet and a helicopter and landed in Minsk, to arrest an opposition journalist.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57219860
>The ideal interface here is really good, interactive voice. Hands-free and eyes-free.

No, voice control - including Siri - is more dangerous than driving at the legal (UK) drink limit and worse than texting in Siri's case. Several studies have found this. Tesla is amount the worst. It's a very common misconception that voice use is safe but it really isn't. It should be banned. We have much safer and well-tested systems in good old buttons..

https://www.caradvice.com.au/312763/automotive-voice-recogni...

https://www.iamroadsmart.com/campaign-pages/end-customer-cam...
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My experience binding a couple of scripting engines with C++
I really feel this. At some point, all those hobbies became metrics to optimize for monetary gain, things to put on a cv. Somehow that seems to have changed everything.
Whether a kernel hobbyist will want to work on your CRUD app is another thing.
Built-in web server has experimental concurrent support since PHP 7.4

> Set the PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS environment variable to the number of desired workers before starting the server

https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver...
There are three people in this fictional economy. You get a paycheck and you decide to save it. The other guy stays unemployed. 3 years later the second guy got hired by the third. You decide to spend your savings. The second guy says he already has a job, you should have asked while he was unemployed over the last 3 years. You raise your offered salary until he is willing to work part time for you. Bang, inflation. Therefore, "saving" is impossible.

What really happens when you save your money is that you stopped consuming. There are products sitting on a store shelf that do not get purchased. If those products spoil then they are gone, not saved. If the vendor doesn't get customers then his shop will shut down and his labor will be wasted for those 3 years. You cannot get those 3 years back, ever. Saving is impossible full stop.

However, investing is not. If you can invest your money and let that unemployed person build a house, that house will last 50 years and it will generate rental income and rent prices in the future are greater thanks to inflation, having a future income stream will defend against inflation.

Edit: Deflation lets you pretend that the labor has not disappeared and therefore the second guy has to work twice as hard to catch up with his unemployed years all. To make things worse the person that decided to not spend their money caused his unemployment but still demands him to work twice as hard in the future.
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Been using MiniHack for a couple years to pretty good success.
For some reason it's very common here on HN to trivialize the difficulty of automating tasks. But you're not new here so you probably are familiar with it!
You are confusing Fujtisu MSP with Fujitsu BS2000.

What you say is true of Fujtisu MSP. But there was never any stolen IBM code in BS2000. BS2000 was originally developed by RCA (as TSOS) without using any IBM code, and then Siemens purchased TSOS from RCA–and used it as the basis for BS2000–and then Siemens in turn sold BS2000 to Fujitsu.

Fujitsu had motivation to steal IBM code for MSP since MSP was trying to be MVS-compatible. RCA/Siemens/Fujitsu never had the same motivation for BS2000 since BS2000 was never aimed at MVS compatibility.
Wanzhou was not "pulled off her private jet"; she was detained after Canadian customs processing for something that was a crime in both the US and Canada.
> Fun fact: the max speed of a normal GA plane (think Cessna) is below the stall speed of many interceptors which can result in amusement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD77nyoEyug&t=116s
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I disagree, Amazon has been pushing and growing Amazon Basics brand, among many others, leveraged by data from all the other sellers.

Remember that retail gives you a lot of cashflow, and Amazon only allows you to transfer part of your funds, and transfers are made every 2-3 weeks. They probably have more money sitting around then many banks.
What happens if we treat GraphQL Queries as the API definition?
That is, some 'metals' are present in the centre of stars, but not near the surface so it doesn't show up in the emitted light spectrum.
Show HN: Mezon Router is up to 222 times faster than Steampixel Router
> "DeFi" is bullshit leverage products for speculators

No. With Compound, Aave and dydx you have DeFi-Dapps that allow you to borrow Dollars (I.e. stable coins pegged to the dollar) and earn interest between 2-15% APR (there are no savings accounts out there that will get you that rate, at least in Europe with negative interest rates). All apps are integrated in the Coinbase wallet. In contrast to speculation on rising Bitcoin or Ether this is a rather safe investment. It’s only still hampered by the Ethereum transaction fees which are currently really high (but not all of the time).

Furthermore, there are decentralized exchange Dapps that seem to have been going on well so far even through the current dump.

If I were you, I would invest a little bit of your savings in Ether and just wait what happens. It’s got a huge potential to disrupt the banking business and change finance forever.
I have many things to reply to this, but I don't feel like Hacker News, and especially this sumbission, is the right place for that.

Please drop me an email if you want.
This highlights further damage to Dr Fauci's credibility, after his lies about masks not working and his insistence that the U.S. not close international arrivals from China.

Dr Fauci recklessly claimed in May 2020 that it's "very, very strongly" impossible for this to have come from a lab. [1]

When will public officials actually be held to account for their flip flopping, often times leading to massive distrust from the population and killing people?

How many people are refusing vaccines because officials like Dr Fauci have lied repeatedly?

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/05/politics/fauci-trump-coro...
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I wish I could get a bead on how useful ML is. Hackernews makes me think it’s all hype.
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That kind of thing is why I'm treating Android Auto/Apple CarPlay as a required feature for any future car I get, and treating the car's own infotainment system as merely a substrate for that functionality.
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Why some astrophysicists are questioning Einstein‘s theory of space-time
> because people who ace them suck at writing code

Is there such a high correlation? I used to do a lot of hackerrank-style problems for fun, a few years ago. If I had to evaluate my ability to write code back then: pretty crappy.

I was good at writing functions, I was bad at writing programs.
https://www.aeroinside.com/15715/ryanair-sun-b738-near-minsk...
Kind of sucks that the other vendors are not mentioned by name.
Then maybe regulators should put a stop to it, since we're figuring out that after a certain scale customer support, fraud, counterfeiting, abuse, etc just goes to shit.

No matter how much they paddle that AI will take over that part of the business, well it won't for a long, long time and we're not the ones that should be training them.

Maybe the concept "too big" should be brought to the table, to at least make them pay for the bad service.
The diverted plane has been discussed here yesterday at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27255561 .
Anti-competition cases are about consumer protection,as it says in the article.

We'd be in a grim society if our values were "Don't like? Don't use it" without any capacity of deeper discussion.
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I'm far from starting any personal project at all during my Saturdays but I do have a useless stuff fascination.

I'm often wondering myself why I watch so many videos about people fixing or modding old Amiga and 68k computers. Those computers are bare and raw compared with what we have today. However I find those fascinating. I wonder what is like to write programs in these machines.
Singapore Approves Covid Breath Test That Gives Immediate Result
You should read about the Helium Network.
Not sure if that would work. I think an explicit title is clearer in defining the subject :)
Research shows touchscreens are much more dangerous. Even voice control is more dangerous than buttons in all but a few cases (siri and Tesla bad, Toyota okay, etc.).
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