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I have one friend who set up his own Mastodon server. Had some fun with it and seemingly forgot about it. The server is still running tho.

Some people just don't have the need for social media, they have enough life without it. That's fine. For most, though, having some form of social media presence is beneficial. And the platform on which they have that presence better not be based on the scourge that is the attention economy.
Probably meaning 'panic' - e.g. unwrapping a Result without allowing for an error result.
He provided reasons for not providing pictures on the github discussion:

> I'm not posting pictures, because I'm certainly not going to compromise the ongoing investigation of the BKA Heidelberg because some kiddos want so-called "proof" which they will turn around and twist around until it fits their sociopathic logical needs.

Tbh I don’t think it’s particularly relevant whether or not he can convince online people whether he was physically attacked. There is clearly evidence of online harassment and that is enough to justify him stepping down.
Theyre spot-on with their nationalism, they have a right to it, and their "state propaganda" bias, its accurate. Blaming the jews and calling-out dumb liberal mentalities is never baseless.
or, to state the obvious:

def _(x): y = x+1; z = 2*y; return -z
[ _(x) for x in range(1,6) ]
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The fine article and your comment both say crypto is 'old' tech. TFA points to iPhone's 2007 release date as if no one (even apple themselves had tried to crack the personal digital assistant before). Which is a laughable omission of history. The first PDA landed in the 80s. Apple started development in 87 on the newton and didn't have a product til 93. The iphone stands on the ashes of 2 decades of product and engineering iterations. The AI winter lasted from 80s until the 2010s. Technology takes time and innovation is a discrete not continuous function. If we all gave up after 10 years we would be sitting in caves and probably not even planting seeds.

TFA is full of blustery arguments to say that crypto is a worthless dead end and should be banned deserves more reasoned arguments. Toning down the emotional levels might be a good first step.
It is valuable enough that a fair bit is stolen:

https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=kil...
I can't. That's why I'm saying it's the real problem, not the engineering side.
I like this feature, I don't like code to be executed "on my behalf" but Jesus, people complain about anything nowadays.
1984 is slowly becoming an optimistic book.
I agree there's no need for facial recognition in this scenario and I'm not an advocate for its use, but think of how many times you can point a gun at someone and pull the trigger in 30 seconds. With each shot potentially representing a life, a couple minutes really would matter.
But you need one government that can lock everything down and control all borders easily. Controlling all borders would only have been viable on a EU level, but a unified strategy was and still is impossible.
Right I guess I was assuming metallic off the bat. But is that even true? Basically every non-ferrous metallic ore deposit is the site of an ancient volcano?
What’s wrong with “25 best survey sites in 2021” (or change.org for more serious questions)?

Will your HR find survey site CEO and buy them several times over?

Is there a hope to fork your company?

What you described looks like a solution looking for a problem. And it wouldn’t solve it either. If a change is worth enough money, “they” will add as many real-person fake opinions as needed until it’s not done.
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We've been limping along with a late 2013 (with an amazing keyboard) for a long while waiting for Apple to come to its senses.
I think code formatting should be mandatory and one of the first things you adopt in your project. Resist code style rule changes as much as possible, and if you do, apply them across the whole codebase in one go to avoid churn and noise in diffs down the line.

And if you do make style changes, put them in a separate commit at the very least so the diffs are cleaner and code reviews are easier.

In my project I use gofmt (goimports) for back-end code and prettier for front-end; I've configured my editor to apply those on save, and a pre-commit hook to either run the formatter, or error if the formatting is not according to the spec.

One of Go's proverbs is "Gofmt's style is no one's favorite, yet gofmt is everyone's favorite.". Consistency and low noise is more important (in that case) than a specific code style preference.
> It's worked for gold and diamonds for generations.

Gold has literally millennia of tradition. Diamonds have minimal resale value and are not bought as investments.

> Not to mention pretty much every artwork or other concoction human beings create and then collect.

> There's not a lot of cash flow from first edition Marvel comics, but there are an awful lot of them stored in plastic bags.

Right, and IMO that kind of collectible is a much better model for thinking about bitcoin et al. than commodities or currencies. Do some people flip them for a profit? Yes. Are they a good investment strategy? Generally no. Look at e.g. stamps, where the whole bottom has just fallen out of the market as the generation that cares about them disappears.
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Pixel count matters if you are coding for a device with 32MB of RAM to handle it. 41 million pixels at 24 bits/pixel is 123MB.
Wrt Azure App Service, thats basically just Kubernetes (well, AKS to be precise) under the hood anyway so it's really not an argument against the perceived complexity of Kubernetes. Which illustrates nicely that offloading the complexity of managing K8s clusters to cloud providers is a very valid way of doing things imo.
Having said that, I really don't like AAS, but that's a different story:)
Seems like most people did nothing in the first wave - only to pat themselves on the back when the rates were low in the summer. You may have to wait till the winter in the simulation to see how well that strategy really works... funny how art imitates reality!
What I really want to know is what can I use to diff XML files, semantically?
His website has several such articles about the crypto space,they sometimes end up on HN. He's quite negative towards crypto.
> Approx 1% deaths. Which I think is acceptable, to allow 99% of the population to be able to return to a normal life so quickly.

That's 100 million people dead, globally? And higher than UK deaths during WW2?

https://topforeignstocks.com/2016/04/19/chart-world-war-ii-c...
I think those things nowadays serve the role of easing you into the film, allow everyone to settle down, finish what they're doing, etc - a lot of films start with something important right away.

And it's better than it used to be, older films used to have a long reel of credits before the film started.

Anyway, services like Netflix should be able to add a skip button for those.
I think that's the wrong question to ask. There are many instances where it may make sense to have a large microservice just as there are instances where it makes sense to have a 500 line function. This is a territory where there is no right or wrong. The problem with pegging metrics like this is you run risk of coming up against Goodhart's law, where the metric becomes an end in itself. Rather, it is more interesting to think about what problems you are facing in a given situation and patterns of addressing them. Bloat is definitely a signal that may point to something, but if you are not facing a tangible problem to start with, it most certainly does not matter.
Oil drilling is pretty unsafe, as is mining underground. Mining volcanoes will probably fund a lot of research into understanding volcanoes so that mining companies can predict them better, which might make other communities that live near volcanoes more safe.

But in general it will likely be unsafe for the miners and their surroundings, like any other mining method. Initially probably much less safe than traditional copper mining.
Well, MMA is a one-on-one sport, with all that entails. No multiple opponents, no small joint manipulation, no gouging, no biting, no spitting, no striking the neck or back of the head, no kicking the head of a downed opponent.... etc etc. All of which could happen in actual combat and non-sport fighting.
I can't see how - if they wanted a consensus, there are myriad ways they could have a vote without blockchain.

The typical organisation that does stuff like this is quite large, has heavy bureaucracy baked-in, and has an HR department whose aim is to "protect" the company and squeeze every drop of productivity from employees at the lowest price possible. They do not care half a shit about people, and hell would freeze over before they allowed their people to vote on policy changes.
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Question is whether it'll be financially / commercially viable. I think that greatly depends on how much data the telescope gathers or whether it needs more time. Also keep in mind that the Hubble got multiple upgrades over its lifespan, which will be much more difficult with the Webb - is it feasible to do spacewalks that far out? Has any astronaut ever done a spacewalk outside of Earth orbit?
Some more info from Brian Krebs:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/06/revil-ransomware-gang-st...
This is very true in dim lighting. Take a photo in low light and any skin imperfections are washed away. Less true in daylight conditions, which is when mobile cameras shine, in my opinion.
>> However bitcoin is a technology which did not arise out of an engineering effort directed towards a specific problem or market inefficiency, but instead out of a anarchist political narrative that views democratic control of the money supply and law enforcement as the problem.

>A completely false claim.

my admittedly not in depth understanding of the history is that it should be written as:

Bitcoin as a technology arose out of an engineering effort directed towards solving what its anarchist political creators saw as the problems of democratic control of the money supply and law enforcement.

I mean I would say it is false that it did not arise out of an engineering effort to solve a problem, just not a problem that most would agree is much of a problem.
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> Precious metals and gemstones are also physical objects with strong industrial demand, that people hope will survive a civilisatory collapse; blockchain tokens can't even survive a prolonged power outage.

Industrial demand for natural diamonds is approximately nil, synthetic ones are cheaper and have better properties. Industrial demand for gold is larger, but it wouldn’t remain that large in case of societal collapse.

> Artworks are desirable because they're physical objects with a limited supply that we can use to impress our peers. Memecoin #21983 can't do that.

The NFT mania (and CryptoKitties before that) have shown that at least some people are impressed by it and are willing to pay for it. I don’t get it either, but I can’t deny it’s happening.

> Currencies are also backed by the physical assets of the country/countries issuing them, guaranteeing that you will find a buyer and will get value for it. Worst case, by making the country in question pull a Greece and sell you its lands. Who will give similar guarantees for memecoin #19381?

Greece could not devalue the Euro unilaterally. Investors in Argentinian bonds had a different experience.
1% doesn't mean much like that but let's say for the UK alone that would amount to 680k deaths. Does that still sound acceptable?
WWII death toll for the UK was 0.94% of the population.
I see kind of a silver lining here, in that it has the potential to get US-based lawmakers to care about mass data-harvesting enough to make some laws about it. I imagine that privacy laws are easier to get through congress if the perceived threat is a foreign government rather than a home-grown tech giant
> For two sensors of the same resolution (= number of photosensitive cells), a physically larger sensor will have a greater number of photons hitting each photosite.

Nitpick: this assumes that you're holding the f number constant. In practice smaller sensors tend to be used with smaller f numbers, which somewhat offsets the effect (especially if you are not someone who's given to shooting everything wide open on your DSLR).

A more useful way to think about it is to forget about the sensor and just consider the absolute diameter of the aperture (for a given angle of view). Your phone's aperture is a few mm in diameter. If you're shooting at the same angle of view with your DSLR, then the amount of additional light hitting its sensor (as compared to the phone) is in proportion to the additional diameter of the DSLR's aperture. So if you're shooting at, say, f16, you may not be getting any more light than the phone is at f1.8.
There is a lot of that. But my own feeling is that this is mainly a novel form of gambling. Sure there are stories of people risking their entire financial security on these things but I am willing to be the vast majority of people invested are playing with money they can afford to lose.

Vegas is a ridiculous "unsustainable" city built where no city should be and so are cryptocurrencies and all that's built on that.
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Kotlin's null safety is only a selling point when one uses 100% libraries written in Kotlin.

PMD, SonarQube and nullable annotations have long sorted that problem in our Java projects.
You're right. Pretending that FF and IE were doing a good job would've made for a better web today, and we shouldn't have levelled actual real substantial criticism at them for that reason.
Chrome did infinitely better than both for a long time.
They built the framework to take over the web by actually doing a good job first, unlike the other two players.
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Aluminum and silicon is very common in the earth’s crust, so I don’t believe it is correct. Maybe there’s some jargon definition at play, like astronomers referring to anything heavier than hydrogen/helium as «metal».
Wireguard’s founder, Jason Donenfeld, reviewed Wireguard implementation in Pfsense/FreeBSD. The review was very negative, with numerous pointers to critical (sometimes childish) security flaws.

Why would someone use a router operating system with such strongly negative review from a respected security specialist?

A minimal Linux installation is an option, if your firewall is simple.
Why have there been so many own goals at the Euros?
Indeed. Actually with-in the demo samples folder you can find a simple QuantLib example (quantlib.json). Although you'll need to install the QuantLib package separately as I didn't include it in the dependencies.
Maybe I get this wrong, but doesn't this rely very classically on aligned interests and various parts keeping the other parts in check? No blockchain or tokens required...

I did not see anything how profit is verified. Could always use expenses to funnel money out, opex and capex are mixed creatively etc.
I would hallucinate the heat death of the universe, or so it resembled, when I was a kid. In my late twenties, something occurred, my eyes glowed at night, things were like that movie, information was emanating, I saw everything. Underneath, its horses running, and snakes. I interfered with electrical equipment, a sweet flavor was always dripping, I started to float
As a network engineer this was just a weird read.
Well they didn’t really say anything, is my point. Just a shallow dismissal of an individual’s work.
Not at all.

What I am describing is what a large majority of .NET consulting projects do, because async/await taints the whole call stack up to Main() or event handlers, and almost no one is doing .NET Core projects from scratch.

Just because it is discouraged at conference talks and blog posts, doesn't mean devs aren't doing it on the trenches when dealing with the crossfire of project deadlines and massive codebases.
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I don't think you should conflate my comment with the TFA article. I didn't write it, and I have no interest in defending it's points.

But I don't totally understand your comparison of early PDA's to the current state of cryptocurrency. Palm pilots were a successful product in their day. Blackberries were hugely successful. It's not as if the iPhone was the first example of value being created in this space.

As far as blockchain, from what I can tell, the only value its creating so far is for drug dealers, those executing ransomware attacks, and people running cryptocurrency exchanges.

I'm not ruling out the idea that someone will find an interesting use-case for cryptocurrency in the future. But what seems a bit strange to me is that cryptocurrency advocates seem to want us all to give a ton of attention and investment towards this space which so far has produced nothing of value. It seems to me that the rational standpoint will be to ignore it until someone can actually demonstrate the "potential" which has been promised for so many years now.
I got into motorcycling because a friend of mine had one and posted lots of pictures riding on mountain roads, which I thought was very cool.

I have a 2011 Honda CB600F (Hornet) which I ride around the city becausethese past few months it was either unusually cold, or raining, or just didn't have time. Planned a 1000Km trip next weekend, and now I can't go any more because life happens. No matter, riding around the city with some good music before/after work is bliss.
> BGI said in a statement it “has never been asked to provide – nor provided – data from its NIFTY tests to Chinese authorities for national security or national defense security purposes.”

...as if those two very specific use cases are the only possible "reasons" authorities can ever come up with when they want the data.
Those were great games. I especially liked the way that they used stereo sounds, it made it a lot more realistic.
It being a cultural expression is (I think, I'm no expert / armchair, etc) an important motivator for erasure. If missionaries think this cultural expression is pagan or anti-christian, they would have tried to suppress or erase it. And it's well-established that China's cultural revolution erased (and is erasing) culture, see also Tibet and the current erasure of Uyghur culture and identity. They seem to have come to an understanding with martial arts, but there were attempts to erase it.
Ok smart-ass, what are you going to do about it except shame people who state the obvious, which is that we literally don't have to do anything, and nobody has a plan anyway?

Exactly nothing, right?

The denial I mainly see is people like you waiting for somebody else to fix our climate, all the while furiously virtue signalling.
Why would you doubt it?
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I don't understand how parents in those schools don't go mental over this. Unless they don't know about it...
Admitting means understanding how exactly it would help. For issues described in TFA and this subthread the platform trust issue (which “crypto” part is supposed to solve) doesn’t exist. You may discuss both on twitter with the same effect.
This is a great learning tool.
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The outrage-bait approach in this thread detracts from it. Yes, they trained it on everything. No, it's not clear if that's legal or not (probably is) or if that is much of a problem.
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Ask HN: Do you still recommend Fastmail?
I've seen plenty of posts praising Fastmail, so when I got my own domain I decided to move there.

My experience has been all but stellar. My emails simply won't send or send after days. When I contacted support, they said that for the first month my emails will go through an "intensive" spam filtering "just in case" I'm a spammer, so it's "natural" to expect delays in sending email.

When asked if it's normal for it to take more than a day for the email to be sent, they escalated to L2. It's been a few days yet I haven't heard anything back.

Clearly this is not a company I would usually support with my money (what email company can't _send_ emails and treats paying customers as criminals?), but the high praise here on HN makes me think I'm an outlier, so I'm wondering if people still think Fastmail is great, or there are other alternatives.
The 'find' implementation should read:

(1⌷⊢){⍺/⍵}⍨⊣=0⌷⊢
To be fair, this could just be a mistaken interpretation from the support staffer that answered the question - they didn't sound sure ("apparently"). It certainly needs an official response from GitHub senior management but I wouldn't call the foul yet (not that it's even clear that it is a foul).
> The notion that these technologies can transform financial services in any way is laughable, because there is no mechanism or specific problem they aim to address that is not currently better done with a simpler solution.

Well, he hasn't obviously tried to send money from Europe to Latin America.

On $2000 transaction.
$25-40 bank transfer (takes up to 5 days).
$80 Payoneer (can be fast, but can also take 2 days)
$1 Bitcoin (4 hours)
There is some good cheap glass, but I am not aware of any good $100 glass.
I also assume that 6mpix camera has to be quite old, and that means that computational photography in iPhone 12 wrt dynamic range will be vastly superior.
In any case "infinitely better" sounds like a big stretch. Can you share some examples?
OP’s rhetoric, and most discussion I see, asserts that training a model on copyrighted data is a copyright violation. Personally I don’t find this to be so obviously the case. Think back to when we were listening to AI generated pop music, for instance. I don’t recall any concern in HN comments about the copyright holders’ music being used for learning.
Really hoping to see a max exodus from GitHub after this. Microsoft back to their old tactics like we all knew they would.
The real trick is getting people to buy a virtual asset with real money.

Intuitively it seems strange to pay for something virtual with real money, and in fact it is, but apparently many people don't feel the same way.
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I suspect it'd be most practical in areas with limited heat and were other alternatives aren't as handy.

There's also a few areas where combustion engines are more practical than electric ones and hydrogen engines could be used as a stop-gap solution until electric alternatives catch up; there's only so much humanity can do at once and using combustion engines with renewable fuels could reduce emissions while we take our time focusing on other areas.
Even some seahorses or spiders, arguably (arguably because we have no idea what's happening in those brains)