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> Only if whatever enhances their intelligence also amplifies their ambition

Or if it amplifies their entitlement. I wouldn’t be surprised if the more people spend of college, the more they expect in return.
>You can put an unsized type at the end of a struct, resulting in an unsized struct. Using a slice as the last member is equivalent to a flexible array member in C.

News to me! I figured it was inherently a little "unsafe" and Rust's thing in mem safety. Good to know!

>Unfortunately they're barely usable in the current state, since there is no good way to construct such a struct.

Ok, well, now that's just bizarre, but I assume there is a good reason. I'll get on Rust when it's "official" somewhere for embedded. Until then, a strange and mystical shadow in the forest for me.
> they're just reimplementations of already-existing solutions to problems

They're also federated, but at the cost of being exponentially more expensive to run.
But Abuja, Brasilia, the new capital in Cairo etc. are all pretty recent; why the changes in those countries?
"common sense" isn't data.

And we're obviously not talking about the forces that would remove a properly fitted helmet (and perhaps head) as well.
Remittance is something cryptocurrencies have tried many times to do, and generally failed completely at.

To do remittances, you have to have money flowing in both directions, or you will run out of local currency. Cryptocurrencies do not have that. There are not an equal number of people in foreign countries that want to buy cryptocurrencies as there are that want to send money and convert it to local currencies.

The solution for this is, ultimately, arbitrage using the traditional financial channels. And at that point, you are paying the costs for those channels, plus the costs of the extra middlemen you have added on top of them.
There are a number of tools available to many who want to securely send data to one another. A bit of internet search is enough to learn.

And those who plan to hurt India, would not use mass communication means in any case.
Yes, escape from circulating neutralizing antibodies (so the virus is able to infect you and replicate) is one thing.

Escape from CD4+ T-cells is another thing (the dreaded "reset to 2019" fear).

And the 1918 H1N1 influenza circulated as the only form of seasonal influenza until 1957 (when it was displaced by H2N2 which later became H2N3). From 1957 to 2009 H1N1 mutated in swine. After 50 years of mutating in probably billions of pigs the H1 envelope protein jumped back to humans in 2009. Since old people had pretty universally been exposed to pre-1957 H1N1 they had cross reactive partial immunity from T-cells that still recognized the H1 envelope protein and that pandemic fizzled.

If you can't escape CD4+ T-cells after 50 years of mutating in pigs, I don't think that this coronavirus is going to be able to escape them in a year or two.

Also at some point to achieve escape from neutralizing antibodies this virus is likely going to have to start making "choices" which make it less virulent.

A decline in vaccine efficacy against delta could also indicate that the enhanced transmissibility of delta comes through partial vaccine/immune escape and not through ratcheting up R0/Rt (which would be more consistent with reports that it isn't more lethal / doesn't have higher viral loads, since those switches are all likely to move together).
This story was close to my heart.
Having grown with naxalite-maoist ideals, I used to rever them.

During 1940-1990s
Moaists did an phenomenal job in fighting for oppressed, they were solely responsible for minimum wage enforcement, stopping the exploitation of tribals.

They fought off razakars with armed guerilla groups and saved innocent women from getting raped and mutilated.

Post 1990s,
The land reforms, abolition of feudal landlord system, employment creation actually solved most of the problems the poor were facing.
Migration of people to urban areas increased.
Thus, The maoists lost their purpose, and started searching for monsters to fight.

Post 1990,
maoists are bunch of thugs living in forests
doing contract killings in their free time.
They claim to fight for poor, but they oppose anything that bring out poor tribal people out of their poverty.
In the last 10 years there were hunderds of incidents of maoists killing contractors laying roads to remote villages fearing the tribals will be out of their grip.

Hence I have zero sympathies for these 'activists' aka hired thugs.
Real economic use cases appear to be suppressed in favor of frivolous tokens. I don't know why this is the case.

If you're genuinely interested, you can check out my project which tokenizes real estate rental income: http://leasehold.io/

I wrote a detailed article which explains how it works: https://jonathangrosdubois.medium.com/how-leasehold-achieves...

The idea is to use blockchain tokens instead of shares but later we will also allow people to use LSH tokens to pay for rent when staying in one of the properties in our network.

We essentially invented a new concept called 'Proof of Profit' - Imagine if you could have irrefutable proof that a company earned a certain amount of profit in a specific month. Typically you need to trust company financiers and accountants. Not so with Leasehold. If you just launch a node to sync with the blockchain, you can verify the profits yourself with absolute certainty; just by looking at on-chain buybacks for that month. Tell me this isn't innovative and useful.
For the life of me I can't understand the full negativity on HN. Crypto is the wild west. It may even be the last frontier of the internet. It's a corner of the web that hasn't been fully co-opted and dominated by centralized trillion-dollar monopolies hell bent on quantifying your ad preferences while beating all divergent thinking out of you. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

Unlike the Web2 revolution, retail users get to participate and benefit from the value creation. Between social tokens, NFTs, decentralized finance protocols, and DAOs (decentralized organizations), there is now a burgeoning ecosystem of tooling for organizing human capital around a cause or a goal. This goes beyond centralized tooling. It's all open source, it's all forkable, it's creative, it is fresh and reminds me of the early promising days of the internet. It's a chance to get a redo on the promise of the web.

I'm spending my time learning several things in the Ethereum ecosystem. One is using Ethereum for authentication, by using the wallet as a public key login and ENS domains as a user-friendly user name service (effectively acting as a decentralized auth/identity solution).

I'm also learning about IPFS and decentralized data storage through solutions like Filecoin and Arweave. I'm exploring a peer to peer database called ThreadDB.

And I'm studying Solidity and all the tooling for creating and interacting with EVM based smart contracts.

It's a very fascinating space and HN is doing a disservice to itself and its users by not featuring the positive side of it more.
Great idea!

I feel like there is a gap in the market for experiences engineers who want to work for good rates on well defined projects and occasionally (less than 1 month) and don't bother with client management.

I've seen some people charge good hourly rates on Upwork but from talking to them there is a lot of friction / time spent in managing clients, chasing payments, filtering out all the low paid jobs.

It would be nice to have a platform that does product / client management for you and just use you for your coding skills.
People shipped software before users had internet connections.
Right, understood. You can’t have your beliefs without excluding mine. Totally understand where you’re coming from. I refer you back to the pointless battle to understand why this is the last time we will speak. I gave you room to do your thing, pointed out people could have different priorities, and you still spent half your comment telling me how my behavior is wrong.

What are you expecting? My gosh, you’re right, the freedoms I’m depriving of my users not subscribing to your orthodoxy? Show me the light? Not happening, sorry. The free software community has had decades to win me over and every time it ends in this. You’re not the first. Won’t be the last.

If your community spent more time listening rather than wagging fingers and tutting at the choices of others you’d get somewhere among the (most) people who don’t respond well to that. This thread is a pretty good microcosm of that because you’ve heard precisely none of what I’ve said; if you had, you’d have known the shaming sermon with a lot of “you” thrown in probably wasn’t the way to go.

Perhaps the GPL itself is incompatible with not explaining someone else’s business to them because that’s its whole trick to achieve the outcome desired. This thread kind of helped me realize that. You don’t even know you’re doing it because unconsciously you’ve accepted that telling others what they can and cannot do is a workable approach as it’s codified into the whole methodology of your movement.
There is no reason to assume that you can't trust a switch. A microphone is, essentially, available to every program installed on the computer at any time without the switch.

Plus adding a physical switch is not hard or expensive. You can even integrate it with a switch for the webcam.
How does Windows track all the things? What of the information they do collect doesn't have an opt-in/out? The opt-in/out is part of the setup process (in the cases I've seen) so it's not hidden away.

I'm not a Windows fan or anything like that. Don't even use Windows as one of my main systems. I'm just dealing with it so I've seen some of these things.
If it's just software running locally, you don't have common data with global consensus on updates.

If you have the common data, it's on a central database and the developer is paying for it.

Blockchains give you the common data without the developer paying.
They didn’t identify it? Or they are claiming it’s not present? Those are two wildly different claims. Presumably if both labs did their documentation correctly, it should be easy to compare hashes and see whether they examined different filesystems, which would be a prerequisite for any claim that the malware was added at some point following the initial government custody chain.
>but they're still picking from the menu of options the studio makes available.

They're often not, just choosing whatever gets more promoted.
The requirement is most likely facial logon with a camera being the prerequisite.
A hardware switch is something that can be trusted. However a software microphone switch can't.

Having a physical, visible, mute button for a laptop would be an incredible boon to video conferencing. Rather than having to shuffle through all the awful, terrible, hard to decipher button for "mute" on the plethora of poor visual designs of video conference UIs, a clear and physical button on the laptop would be sooo helpful. No more finding the mouse cursor, navigating it to the button and clicking, you can just move your finger directly to the button on the keyboard that controls whether people can hear you.

Given the huge number of audio faux pas from mute buttons, I'm surprised nobody has added one of these yet...
> The power plant, Greenidge, which is being closely monitored by the Department of Environmental Conservation, is allowed to suck in 139 million gallons of water and discharge 135 million gallons daily.

What is the rationale for the suck in allowance being 4 million gallons a day higher than the discharge allowance?
While it's true that almost all recent laptops have built-in webcam and most of the time they don't break themselves out of blue, I'd rather have the OS to not care about whether I do have one. None of microsoft's business if I can't/don't need to join a zoom or whatever on my pc.
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How is using Win 7 which hasn't got any security updates since 2020 January better? I mean might as well switch to Linux now because basically you are just cutting the tree under yourself
Question: how are people using Workers today?

I'd love a service where I can push my {INSERT_YOUR_FAVORITE_WEBAPP_FRAMEWORK} to the edge and not have to manage the OS and Database. Is that what fly.io is building?
Well, no. You’re talking about using all the flags and tooling like i just mentioned, which 99.99% of people don’t use every time they run a build. Even then the best and strictest of flags + Werror still falls short.

Then you still have to run extensive fuzzing and testing to trigger different paths and whatnot.

Or you could just use Rust.
Do you know of Genki Audio[0]? Sure, it's expensive but I trust Genki. I have their covert dock and it works perfectly.

[0]: https://www.genkithings.com/products/genki-audio
Who is “we” though. I think a lot of deva cut corners, a lot of managers insist on cutting corners (preferably without a paper trail pointing at them), and a lot of businesses hire inexperienced devs that wouldn’t even know where to start, because cheaper.

I don’t know how you coordinate this without regulation and something like P.Eng type certification (which comes with it’s own problems).
And single socket is equally cheap, except it takes twice the rack space - but it also gives you redundancy. One server can fail and you can carry on.

The advantage of memory bandwidth vs Ethernet for scaling to x2 really doesn't matter. If it did, you're not horizontally scalable and at best you buy a little time before you hit the wall.

If the price difference isn't much, I would heavily prefer single socket.
> but now that covid is over I have the bandwidth and drive to take this product full-time!

Saying that Covid is over is such a slap in the face to all those people still dying from it in countries that don't have the resources or access to vaccines like some countries do.
Nim is memory-safe and compiles to C, which is a big plus for integrating an existing C codebase.

> Rust's ownership system also tracks shared/immutable references

See https://nim-lang.org/araq/ownedrefs.html
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It'll be a requirement for OEMs, not for consumers. OEMs already have a list of requirements they have to meet in order to sell Windows devices. For example, for the last several years it's been a requirement that OEMs include a TPM in devices.
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I think we’ve lost control of our machines. At least when we attach them to internet.

I’m not sure what the answer is but better security and a rethinking of user authorizations seems to be in order.
Useful. Bookmarking to watch.
That’s very reassuring. I was worried they’d just keep “doing what the other guys do” and not try to invest in info sec as a specific business strategy. However I do wonder if average people won’t ultimately side with the small businesses, their dentist or local mom and pop, over rich young programmers, cyber gangs and their bitcoins.
Just FYI, "dearth" means the opposite of what you intended here. "Dearth" means "scarcity".
Focus changed. The 90's was the rise of the PC, the 00's the rise of the web, and the teens rise of the money making mobile platform.

The rise of the PC is what sparked open source as we needed cheaper (free) tools. Once the tools were free it accelerated the growth of the web which was built using said free tools (remember LAMP stacks?). Mobile built on the web and used the same free tools allowing more money to be made. It basically put a computer in everyone's pocket in two decades which is no small feat.

In the end open source did win in a way. We still use open source tools. Linux powers most of the web as well as Android. Much of iOS/MacOS is built of/with free tools (GCC/clang, BSD, etc). But OSS remains a beast of burden which powers money making platforms. And there's a lot of money to be made on those platforms so focus has greatly shifted.

Reminds me of a phrase used to describe the evolution of Jazz music: "Born in a whiskey jar, grew up on pot, and died on heroin." Open source was born in that whiskey jar of general purpose beige boxes. It grew up during the wonky web years and showed great promise. Now its highly addicted to corporate money and slowly fading away.
The most wealthiest and developed country in the world, the USA, could not educate its own citizens enough.

And you think a country of half a billion gullible folk need to be educated.

Do you know how much time that will take, and if at all it will be successful?

US politics and the Trump machine have shown that no matter how much you educate people, a small group of people, often available to the highest bidder, will be able to influence millions of people.
It's ludicrous to imagine that Windows 11, at the operating system level, requires a webcam. Obviously Windows 11 is going to be installed on desktops and workstations, and it's going to be installed on VMs.

Microsoft mandating that hardware OEMs not ship garbage laptops that don't have webcams makes a lot of sense. Otherwise there are going to be complaints that the integrated Teams video calling they're advertising as a big feature doesn't work.
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Ask HN: Any tips on database design (schemas)?
For example:

- Is it better to create fewer, but larger tables over lots of small tables? Does one approach give you faster speed? Or does it not matter?

- Is it a good or bad thing to add tables to your database design even if those tables are not immediately needed? For example, adding features that you may (or not!) implement in the future. Is it easier to add these features to your database design at the start (call it foresight!) rather than modify the database design in the future?

Any wisdom on the above, or indeed any tips you've attained from creating database designs/schemas is much appreciated. Thank you.
The simplest solution remains to ban the formal exchange of crytpo for fiat, across Western nations.

Its a lot harder to justify giant ransomware campaigns when you're paid in Amazon gift cards instead of easily exchangeable cryptocoins.
Could you be more specific as to what looks too much like source code? The most common difference between the two would be *multi word emphasis* vs _[multi word emphasis]. The former may be less conspicuous, but both read fine to me.
This is a very elitist and narrow way to look at society. It advocates to have an uneducated underclass that would not have the tools to improve or protest their situation.

Brave New World is a good book to understand why this is a bad idea. It seems that Orwell and Huxley books are being used as manuals instead of the cautionary tale that they are.
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> a fixed lens he allowed himself to view the world through

That's true of any philosopher.

> to Aquinas, those Neoplatonists from whom he derived his cosmology and philosophy were nothing better than pagans

Ahistorical nonsense.

https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com//mobile/view/1...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvqsf13g
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> The Pentagon said in the press release that it still needs enterprise-scale cloud capability and announced a new multi-vendor contract known as the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability. The agency said it plans to solicit proposals from both Amazon and Microsoft for the contract, adding that they are the only cloud service providers that can meet its needs.
There's no shortage of privilege escalation bugs in Windows, Mac and Linux. Hell, if you spend a week with a decent dissasembler, even an amateur can probably find a 0-day.
> He complied with the contribution cap and the income cap that year.

Not if he used am old pre round validation after the investment occurred at a higher valuation as has been reported.

Also your penalties where off: However, if the individual for whom the IRA was established or the IRA’s beneficiary engages in a PT with respect to the IRA, the sanction is the loss of the tax-exempt status of the IRA as of the first day of the taxable year in which the PT occurs.

As such, all transactions after the original transaction lack their tax exempt status. As such based on listed rules and including interest and penalties and he’s potentially facing a multi billion dollar tax bill.
> Of course there are indeed serious hackers doing game-changing work in the blockchain space and I believe blockchain does have a future, but right now it's almost impossible to hear the signal from the noise.

100%, seeing people who just learned the word blockchain explain to me how I can make 100x my money on crypto is pretty annoying.

My recommendation would be to stick to github, the technical parts of bitcointalk.org and whitepapers at most. Those tend to have better signal to noise ratios.
The opening of this article had me recalling an old TED talk: "People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it."

Of course, the author here isn't really selling anything, at least not to the lay man. He's writing niche articles for a niche audience. That is to say, not me.

https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_insp...
If I'm following this correctly, this isn't about the OS requiring a camera, it's about microsoft not letting laptop manufacturers sell "substandard" machines with windows. You can almost certainly install the OS on a laptop without a camera, or a desktop, yourself.

Makes sense to me. People bundle their hardware experience with what they consider a windows machine vs. an apple machine.
Of course. If you put out a video expressing your views on a political situation, and YT labels your video as "manipulative video", won't you have a problem?
> For usage data, it allows developers to focus on features that matter and know which ones you can remove.

Sorry, but if devs are requiring THAT tight connection with end users to MAINTAIN software, they are probably should stop and leave. Its impossible to figure out a new feature from the such reactive approach, and they would have to resort to more traditional way to interact with end users. Thus... making coverage analysis a totally redundant thing.

Tighter user connection is suitable for enterprise software, not for general deployment.

And why so much worries about removing working(!) features?
The "feigning shock" is whenever any of these climate alarmists are told the majority of the population doesn't see a crisis and simply doesn't care a whole lot. That is what is revealed in this interview and is always met by feigned shock. Study after study reveals that most people don't care a whole lot, and yet always shock must be feigned whenever someone points out that they don't see a crisis.
I don't think so, which makes the resulting amalgamation in violation of the original source in that respect for both of them. Beyond that, even if you add the license and attribution manually, the GPL is still not satisfied, and may require the entire source it was used in be released depending on whether you've shipped that product to customers or used it in specific ways. That's an entirely different class of problem than just needing to go back and add some comments to your code to note where some of it came from.
I've had great success following this model

https://jjba.dev/posts/jenkins-shared-library/