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> even if EU states decided that they needed to start teaching another language besides english to their kids

It's already the case that we learn another language beside English in most (all?) of the EU. Typically French, German or Spanish.

It's also an explicit goal of the EU that every citizen speak two additional languages besides their own native language.
You may think differently as you get older.
I'll gladly take a few minutes of outage, if it means some guy doesn't have to run into an oxygenless building with nothing but a breathing apparatus to restart my server
> Thanks for sharing, I love these types of stories. Really makes me pine for the "old" days, and wonder if there's a parallel universe where technology took a very different route such that languages like APL, Lisp, and Smalltalk are used instead of JavaScript, Java, and C#, and what that world looks like.

Easy, here is some time travel,

"Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw

"Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4

"Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto │Smalltalk-76 Demo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqKyHEJe9_w

However to be fair, Java, C# and Swift alongside their IDEs are the closest in mainstream languages to that experience, unless you get to use Allegro, LispWorks or Pharo.
Merely banning exchanges or mining != making Bitcoin usage illegal in general (including buying/selling/transfer/etc.)
You most likely do - founding a corporation is trivial in most European countries and the US. But you don't even need any of these things to get "access to the same loopholes" as "the 1%" - buy some stocks and hold them. You've now achieved the same tax "avoidance" that the ProPublica article is talking about.
With the exception of super huge cities like Paris, London and Hamburg 2000 USD is enough for a very good life even in western Europe. I lived in a couple of places in Germany, smaller to mid size cities, with an average of around 800 EUR per month in a single room apartment alone plus food and other costs.

Sure 2k will buy you much more in the east than in west but one really must have the aptitude to live in a place that is very corrupt, psychically and morally dirty, depressing and everyone is super unhappy and always complaining. Wouldn't call that the good life.
No, they just taught you, a person with a level 1 understanding of domain expertise, about how domain expertise works ;)
That's a false dichotomy between option A), have your students sit exams in person and kill people, and option B), grossly invade your students' privacy with obnoxious spyware. Option C), just trust your students to take exams at home and slightly dilute the signal of your test scores, has always been on the table and is a totally viable alternative.
I am sorry, I managed to find it but for some reason it dissapears after year 1818!
We are. If I understand correctly also the UK, where I believe GP is based.
Exactly! I have enough of tech at work - in my down time I don't want to read about more tech, I want to read stuff that's engaging, interesting, unusual and thought-provoking. In this respect HN doesn't disappoint. I also come here for the discussions: they too are frequently interesting and more often than not I learn something new. Long may it last.
The law enforcement would be able to trace the payment trough Western Union. Especially a million and more transactions. The money laundering regulations apply to money transfers.
This is also a great resource for a project like this: https://www.oldmapsonline.org/

These are mainly links to georeferenced raster images and databases, not vectors / OSM data. But, still -- I've already spent hours browsing old maps of my home city. For anyone interested in contributing to this project, oldmapsonline might be a great reference.
> So it's less a street address and more of a mobile phone number.

For me, I see the domain name as the sign above the shop front.
The 802.11 header has 4 MAC addresses: Source Address (SA), Destination Address (DA), Transmitter Address (TA), Receiver Address (RA). The TA and RA are those of the Wifi station and SA and DA are the Ethernet addresses. This allows bridging Ethernet and Wifi interfaces and it is how many (most?) Linux-based Wifi routers work.
Replace Bitcoin with cryptocurrencies in my comment.
I believe QM and GR contradict each other for any curvature, but measuring the extremely small curvature/gravitational effects caused by a single particle would require enormous amounts of energy. Specifically the problem is the way that the uncertainty principle interacts with GR's assumptions.
FB, Google etc dropped gate keepers.
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I don't know what he considered the mainstream -- perhaps not Smalltalk -- but the comment pre-dates Java. (I think his POP-2 pre-dates Smalltalk.)

If you take the remark seriously, it's probably not just a question of having closures but what you (can reasonably) do with them. A Schemer might experiment with implementations of different object systems, Smalltalk-like, prototype-instance (about a page of code), and CLOS-like. Do people do so in Java (or even Smalltalk) and what does it look like if so?
that "would" in your shift argument is already reality, that's the lightning network, which transmits bitcoin off-chain for pennies, but in a decentralized way, because it utilizes existing bitcoin balances on lightning nodes for it. There is still no bank, BUT there is a more centralized "arbiter", yes. So your argument does hold about the trustlessness, though not entirely the centralization.

The one thing that's central in this debate is to understand that current currencies are built to be inflationary, which causes the need for constant economic growth. Bitcoin is not. The "bitcoin fixes it" meme is hopeful utopianism, I grant you that, but bitcoin would not carry this growth mandate in its bowels that state currencies do.
Deja vu. I feel like I have seen this comment before.
Wow: "Source code is a version of computer software which is usually much easier to read and understand than the end version in a finished product, and could be used to reverse engineer parts of the product."
Fair's fair. The most cost effective solution is to hack Chinese servers and practice intellectual property theft. You know, pick the flowers and bring the honey back. Or perhaps some kind of 1000 talents program where some Chinese AI researchers only pretend to work for China.
As I understand it, safety testing has already been done but it's apparently more difficult to test the efficacy.
I despise the title "Thought leader" because it is often artificial and as the author wrote, it doesn't necessarily mean very much. It is also used by conference organisers to make their speakers sound more impressive!

Anyway, I think this scenario sounds very much like the "pigs and chickens" metaphor in agile development. An external thought leader is a chicken. They have no skin in the game and their ideas are easy to communicate without really understanding the context.

In many of these scenarios, multiple product teams are supposed to exist specifically to allow you to use whatever the hell DB engine makes sense to your team. The question isn't then "is squeaky better than bongodb" but which is suitable in this scenario? Will it perform well for this project, can it be supported by this team etc.

Perhaps engineering leadership likes the idea of homogeny across the entire company "we use MySQL exclusively", but is that really necessary? Let's ask the Thought Leaders!
Maybe it is not going to be available publicly after all.
True, but wise accounts make it easier and also cheaper than 2% that Stripe charges.
To bad, would love to see more discussions on this.
+1 to this. We're now in a world where long urls are the norm. The ominbox or urlbox should be [optonally] multi lined with word-wrap.

(Adds the idea to the list of things he wants in his 'Ultimate Browser' that one day he'll write.)
There's already the 13" MBP with M1. You mean 16"?
Hmm, doesn't the latest version of Firefox show the domain in a slightly highlighted way? Wouldn't that be a good middle ground, if we wanted to make URLs easier to distinguish for the average user, without explicitly hiding that information?

Example: https://i.imgur.com/KludkrC.png
Start with an empty box of instead of x. I have found that an empty box transfers to them the concept of placeholder that needs to be filled. it can transition to a x later
Another option is to also regulate it into oblivion.
Since about three weeks ago I cannot sleep. It’s very strange. I know the feeling of anxiety and how it leads to not sleeping, it’s something I’ve had in the past at very stressful jobs. I’ve learned techniques to deal with this, like breathing and mindfulness. But right now this feels different. I’m tired, I’m lying in bed, and I don’t have any stressful thoughts. Yet somehow I just don’t fall asleep. It feels like something in my brain doesn’t “click”. When I do sleep meditation I can feel myself “sinking” towards sleep, but then I just remain awake.

I’ve been to the doctor and all she did was give me benzodiazepines which I don’t want to try. Has anyone out there ever experienced something like this? I feel so thoroughly broken after not sleeping for nearly a month.
My "new tab page" in chrome shows me clock for Mountain View, Zurich (local time for me), and a few other relevant ones. Very useful when working accross multiple time zones.
> "using more resources than it genuinely needs"

Are you going to create a commission which decides what a "genuine resource usage" is?
My view is: mammalian is sufficient, but not necessary.

Crow-level intelligence is probable likewise sufficient.

I think aiming at mammalian is a good long-term ambition. I think, either way, we are hundreds of years off.
> Fauci has admitted on record (in the New York Times) that he lied in order to manipulate people's behaviour at least twice (masks, HITs) and thus he's very likely to have done it more often.

This one needs to be highlighted. Public officials, at best, have collective interest in mind, not individual interest.

I've seen the phrase "the risk still outweighs the benefits" thrown around a lot lately. I refuse to believe that this is an honest assessment, because the data just isn't there. During the trials (mostly done on healthy young individuals), absolute risk reduction hovered around 1%. That number is bound to have been higher during the second/third waves, but it's probably lower today.
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I've been thinking about this. Surely, if the app stores maintain that their restrictions prevent users from being infected with malware, then they are legally liable for any malware that is installed?

I know they have a disclaimer saying that they're not responsible for damage caused by the user installing stuff, but that may be legally unenforceable? i.e. you can't remove someone's rights with a liability waiver.

If they have the authority to approve/disallow apps on the store, then surely they have to take responsibility when they allow malware on the store?
I hope this gets more contributors, as it could be quite useful.

I wonder how difficult it would be to build some kind of `OpenHistoricalStreetView`. We certainly have enough historical photos to do something interesting.
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I 100% believe them. I'm doing something similar but with 3x concurrent roles and am considering adding a few more. You'll be surprised how bad you have to be to get fired. I can go days doing nothing, then crank at a few hours work for one pull request on a Friday and people are happy.
> and the ransom only payable over WU, then they would have done that instead.

As if WU and crypto don't have very different KYC requirements (as in - none for crypto)
Yes and it was a magnesium deficiency. Try a pill with a good amount of magnesium (400+ mg). Jamieson magnesium + vitamin d 500 for instance: https://www.jamiesonvitamins.com/products/magnesium-d3
Well if they ban it we know for sure people will loose money.
My favourite historical map resource on the internet is the National Library of Scotland's georeferenced side-by-side viewer: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=5&lat=56....

View a variety of historical maps on the left, with the same area "now" on the right, with the pointer synced between the two sides so that you can trace roads, building outlines, etc.
For the UK, the National Library of Scotland’s historical maps are a fantastic resource:

https://maps.nls.uk/

Ireland’s Ordnance Survey also has some good historical resources:

https://www.osi.ie/products/professional-mapping/historical-...
I've heard Titanfall 1 and 2 multiplayer are basically unplayable for many people, as a hacker with knowledge about the game's internals managed to get such comprehensive access to the multiplayer servers that they can literally ban certain players (like streamers) independently of IP address or game account. And so far developers haven't been doing anything even though it's been going on for many months.

So the worst case scenario could be worse than just a few cheaters. Either way EA will endure it without problems because it's barely different than the average bad game launch.
If all other fingerprinting techniques would magically disappear, then FLoC is an improvement.

If other fingerprinting techniques stay, then it's actually worse, since there is now an extra data point to better identify users.
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I'd take a look at this: https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer

Lots of great content about the basics of system design, should be very helpful for someone new to backend.
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Ubisoft and Crytek were also hacked last October
> Are you going to create a commission which decides what a "genuine resource usage" is?

Uhm... if it's necessary, sure? I already suggested a starting point: the current state-of-the-art provides a baseline to compare against. If we need a commission to gauge this, then sure, how about have an agency like the EPA or DoE figure it out. We can even give a good name to products that meet high energy-efficiency standards... like, I don't know, maybe "Energy Star"?
I must be missing something but I don’t see any mention that the Battlefield 2042 source code got leaked, nor in this article nor from any other credible sources. There is a difference between the game engine and the game itself.
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As a person who lives in the Nordic countries, the sun is a major problem in here when it comes to sleeping and seasonal mental health issues. Yes, we do get by, but not without a cost. It is a serious interference with grave consequences for some people, and minor consequences for others, but nearly everyone is affected at least in some way.
>you typically dont go and hangout on the DC floor, only the personel who is really required gets to go in.

times changed. I remember my friend bunch of years ago complaining to me that the DC at their branch of a large well known transnational was the favorite place of the employees for various informal activities, including that he was constantly dealing with used drug paraphernalia being left all over the place.

Answer to the comment below: yep, mostly syringes/needles.
Yup, where I live as well. However it's fairly common to see people play outside at around 11pm during the summer which is what I meant. Additionally, from your comment, I wonder if you grew up there. There is of course a difference between moving to a country with "abnormal" lighting and growing up in one.

EDIT: Updated to elide personal information
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I live in the Fens in England and noticed the same thing. You can set it back 1000 years and not only is the Fens still drained, there are artificial drainage channels that weren't dug out for another 600 years. It seems an assumption has been made that rivers and coastlines don't change over time but it's so far from true! For me it's one of the most interesting, and scary, things when looking at old maps. Does the data model support changing natural features like rivers and coastlines?
This doesn't work in some fraud cases. If Madoff is selling you an investment, it is obvious what you think he gets out of it, he invests your money and keeps a proportion and that is normal business right?

As the article says, his clever angle was not to over-inflate the ROI of the investments which might well make them look implausible.

What is harder to spot is whether an investment is actually taking place.
I use Bandcamp App for 99% of listening and things like lack of playlist, lack of "individual track" favourites, etc. really lags behind other apps.

Hopefully these things will be introduced with a new release
> Also they didn't have breathing gear (and trained staff) so you could go in and restart without waiting and also in case of an accident being able to try and rescue people.

At that point without actually going in and checking they have no real way of knowing if there really is/was a fire or not. So the proper procedure is to let the professionals handle it (wait for the fire department to clear the building). No amount of server downtime is worth sending a "not a firefighter" into a possibly burning building.

And facilities like these have strict control of where people can be so they know if someone is in there or not without of going in to check.
No, laugh to them for getting hacked. It's EA afterall.
During pandemic lockdowns I had the opportunity to teach my 7yo son maths at home. It does not work for all kids, but he showed a very strong interest in symbolic manipulation. School overemphasizes arithmetic and arithmetic algorithms ad infinitum (extremely tedious and boring!). Our work plan is simple: a problem each day (together when the concepts are new), immediate reward after he finishes, and increase difficulty once he is ready. After one year, we have just started trigonometric equations at home, while they are still working on simple multiplications at school.

In the same way that some kids are good at sports, drawing, music, foreign languages, or playing videogames, some of them are very good managing abstractions. Those would be very happy learning calculus or other advanced mathematics, just for fun!
It's true, and it is not just a Dutch problem. Basically all major river systems change throughout the centuries: meandering arms evolve and others get cut off; river deltas grow and change shape and of course human activity shapes the landscape (canals, irrigation, drainage of swamps and floodplains etc.). The ancient city of Eridu for example was a coastal city around 5000BC and today lies hundreds of km inland.
> Can you just declare a static array and return a pointer pointing to any part of it? Like in the C example?

Indeed:

lazy_static! {
static ref BUF: [[u8;1024]; 16] = [
[0;1024], [0;1024], [0;1024], [0;1024],
[0;1024], [0;1024], [0;1024], [0;1024],
[0;1024], [0;1024], [0;1024], [0;1024],
[0;1024], [0;1024], [0;1024], [0;1024]];
static ref BUF_INDEX: usize = 0;
}

(You'll need to re-implement a `push_str` method on arrays yourself though)

> BUF is also visible to other parts of the program, correct? If so, it's not quite similar to the C example.

No, because it's not marked as `pub`, nobody outside the current module can access it.
I agree with you here. I don't love PoW but I also see issues with PoS.

I am a single computer miner but I only ever turn on my miner if I am net exporting back to the grid (solar).

Main reason here is that the money I get from the grid is ~25% what I pay on the way down and through mining its anywhere from 500-1200% for the amount of energy I am using.

If my energy company paid me more or there was infrastructure for me to sell my excess to my neighbours (such things exists in the world) then that would be appealing to me.
Because going into F-Droid and clicking "update" is too hard? You're already inside F-Droid every now and then anyway.
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Do you think this hack will mean that EA bring their games into the Gamepass PC Xbox app sooner rather than later?
Your words are too kind.

It doesn't even make it easy to play music you bought with the app.

The app is truly dreadful.
> I often see it on unsubscribe link.

Those are meant to load a page with a confirmation form that makes a POST request. The GET link can still expire over time, but must never be expired from a GET request: you never know when a link preview bot is going to follow links.
Well the ad has had it’s effect.

Hey this seems like an interesting appliance, tech gadget, item for camping or toy for a child. And then after some use and the novelty wore off it isn’t really that useful anymore.
> mRNA vaccines have been around for ~40 years with pretty well identified side-effects and risk profiles

I'm having trouble reconciling your statement with Wikipedia's claim that the Pfizer vaccine is "the first mRNA vaccine to be authorized for use in humans"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVID-...
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That's true, I've heard of more people complaining about seasonal mood swings. It'd be interesting to read something in the "mainstream" which at least acknowledged people in "unnaturally lit" areas though.
A lot of Chinese companies are filing to go public in the US. This week you had Zhangmen (tutoring) and Kanzhun (job board). Are we nearing the top?
Depends on your definition of a simple car.

Manual transmission is simple and requires little to no software, but it's not simple for the end-user. Automatic transmission is simple for the end-user but involves a lot of software behind to make it work smoothly.
I think I probably wouldn't get into it. It's difficult to be convincing without a fair bit of background, and it's hard to convey that much information to someone who doesn't agree with you. I think I would come across as belligerent and arrogant if I tried.
From that Wikipedia page:

“The motion of the rod was only about 0.16 inches (4.1 mm)”

At first sight, I find that surprisingly large. Thinking of it, he used heavy objects (300kg in total), it isn’t hard to twist a wire, and falling down even a meter hurts, so perhaps it isn’t that surprising.
Applies really nicely to music. First you learn the rules so you know when you can break them. But if you start breaking the rules from the start, people will think you have never learned them in the first place.
Just consider the number of persons that died in the history fighting to earn and preserve your privacy!
Is that possible? Every system we use has to be trusted at some point. I don't trust the internet so I use https but that is only really saying that I trust the IETF or my certificate provider and I (personally) have no realistic way of knowing whether either is trustworthy.

Did the IETF miss a vulnerability when they inveted the protocol? Was there someone on the team planted by the NSA? Do the cert authorities provide the means to hack my data in some way?

I don't think they do but that is because I trust them that I don't think it would be in their interest to do this and I think that if the IETF messed with the protocol, someone would have noticed but we have seen OpenSSL bugs that have sat there for years because it was too complex for most people to understand.

It just sounds like turtles all the way down because ultimately you have to trust someone or something even if it is just time and experience.