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I feel like any article on the Olympics should mention that >80% of the Japanese population was against holding the Olympics [1].

And that in most respects it has be a disaster, I've lost count of the number of scandals and resignations... [2] Rather than being good PR for Japan, it feels like it's been overwhelmingly negative.

On top of this, COVID19 infections are rapidly increasing (now at their highest level). While the government expands the state of emergency, asking people to restrict their activities while holding the largest sporting event in the world...

[1] https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14351670

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/19/tokyo-olympics...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/world/asia/yoshiro-mori-t...

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14347483
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Since nobody mentioned it, imapsync[1] is a gorgeous command line utility that does one thing and does it well: copy an IMAP account from server A to server B, by sync only, so you can stop / disconnect at any time and continue where the copy left.

We use it to transfer around email hosting, but it's also suitable for backups due its sync only mechanism.

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for your [1], yeah, people don't really know how to bike in France, and that's becoming an issue in cities that started being bike-friendly.

It took 20 year to La Rochelle to have a really good bike infra and to get people to not be reckless.
Haha. True. Some parts of physics are way shakier than others though. For example, the whole big bang, dark matter, dark energy area needs the qualifier of, "We know we've got something wrong here, but its the best we've got". (eg see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang#Problems_and_related_...). I'm trying not to be controversial here. I'm just using this as an example of physics with well known problems.

Regarding, "Quarks are the fundamental building blocks", do we actually think that? If so, why? I'm genuinely curious. Is it just because we haven't seen anything more fundamental? That would violate your "We now think that" qualifier - ie if that is the reason, the qualifier should be "We have NO reason to think that...".
I’m not sure this applies to companies like Apple. Plenty of people will jump at the chance to replace those who quit Apple over a wfh stalemate. If you don’t have Faang on your cv you’d be foolish not to bite the commute bullet and take the role.
Maybe they already do. The problem is by September they’ll be 2 versions behind, with no fix in sight.
I'm really not a fan of cryptocurrency but yeah, this is it's ace card. It's "store of value" is absolutely terrible though. If someone pays me $10k for a used car, I know that I'll have $10k in 6 months. With bitcoin I could have $5k or less.
> Link?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27568709
I’m not sure if this is sincere but Apple do not allow other browser engines. They are all Safari skins.
A perpetual favorite read of makers everywhere. If there were a variant that didn't require sand casting of metal, it might be a lot more approachable.
Or forcing Apple to accept real competition in the browser engine market and fund their team appropriately. Google puts literally several thousands of manpower into Chrome while Apple puts roughly one tenth into Safari. This is not acceptable.
Olympics is such a massive waste of money that nobody except politicians who want to show off with taxpayer money or industrials benefiting from government contracts would be for it.
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I was kind of expecting a discussion around getting quake or zork implemented...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27568709
Is it though? We are in the middle of a chip crisis where prices are raising to record levels...
In the grand scheme of things, Biles stepping down is inconsequential, and it is definitely not a reason for an asterisk in the history books, no matter what this week's news cycle try to make you believe.

One year delay, and basically no live audience due to the still ongoing lockdowns and pandemic would be a reason for the asterisk.
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Less than a year since the last house with a gas explosion nearish me.
Hasn't British Columbia where Vancouver is at, had terrible weather this year? Looks like Vancouver is actually more vulnerable to the climate crisis compared to other major Canadian cities;
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57654133
> Having 1000 dependencies sounds crazy to me!

I was thinking that too, but then I did a quick check of a few of my Java services for work, and many of them have more than 400 dependencies (most transitive, of course), with a few getting up to 600.

Obviously comparing Java and Rust is not exactly apples to apples, but I rarely care much about the number of dependencies in my Java projects, so I guess I shouldn't be too worried about Rust projects either (aside from link time, I guess, which javac doesn't have to do).
> Amazon is almost the only thing that works during COVID

Only in the US, thank goodness. Or I suppose I should say: everything is still working here in Norway, not quite at 100% but close.

Why is everything but Amazon underperforming in the US? It sounds like mismanagement to me.
Off-topic, but I remember feeling disappointed that Ozymandias was a Greek name for Ramses, probably the most famous pharaoh. There are still valuable lessons from the poem, but there was something beautiful to me about the idea of such an important leader fading into such obscurity that people don't even recognize his name.
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> That’s odd, arguably it’s the one thing we know exists.

They do it by changing the meaning of the word "consciousness" so that they can then show that this new thing they've defined doesn't exist. It's a remarkable strawman.
Android is used more here in India. Personally I haven't even touched an Apple device till date because it's just hard to find except in Apple store or if you have very rich friends. So I had no idea.

> They are all Safari skins

That's crazy.
It's open ended, however I can't do everything from the start. I plan to start with helping people decide on their idea and whether to start it.

Financial advice and emotional support are two big areas I hope to cover. I think emotional support is where a lot of new founders find themselves unexpectedly in trouble.

Yes, this will be to help companies internationally.
Inasmuch as I don’t want to discredit any theory without proof of their wrongness, this is so out there it’s a bit fantastical. More importantly it seems like a solution in search of a problem. As one philosopher is quoted in the criticism section of the Wikipedia article on this theory: “ Pixie dust in the synapses is about as explanatorily powerful as quantum coherence in the microtubules.”

I’m not going to say Penrose should stick to stuff he knows about; after all schrodingers hypothesis about life were prescient and chilling to read even today. But if some dudes gonna make theories about things he’s not an expert in, he better make sure it’s at least slightly warranted and a bit more rigorous.

The other issue is that confluence of two disparate fields Always attracts cooky theories like this because no expert in the individual field (at least the good ones) would feel qualified to comment about the other field they have limited knowledge about, so there’s a vanishingly small number of people who can mount a real defense against this. Fields like quantum consciousness, longevity research and crypto are further fueled by stoners who think they’ve figured out the universe because they had an acid trip. So it’s even more of a futile exercise to try and correct these people.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduc...
I'm not trained either, but it seems like worrying that a human with a horse's head might be born anytime soon. And the mention of "proofreading mechanism" seems to suggest the DNA (or something?) rejects many of those chaotic mutations and don't duplicate them.
Honestly I have no idea how HN is not overrun with spam and crap comments. It’s too easy to register anonymously similarly to Reddit. I suppose the “boring content” and lack of images keeps some people away.
Not related to https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/RenderingFeatures/Lu...
Yes it is. In the grand scheme of things, looking at how far we've come DDR4 modules are cheap dollar per gigabyte.
That's good to know, thanks.

But Joel was talking about C rather than C++, where your comments about std::string wouldn't apply, right?
Had to disable IPFS companion for the site because /ipns/davidar.io doesn't resolve (anymore?). It's nice the initial integration was there, though!
My experience is that it is a night and day difference to adjust all the angles of the chair to fit your body frame.

If you have pressure on your knees with these modern kneeling chairs it is possibly not correctly fitted.

When I sit on mine my body weight is distributed between my butt, thighs and shins equally, I am not pressing down on my knees in any measurable way. What I do feel is that my spine assumes a completely neutral position, like the feeling of balancing a weight on top of a long pole.

For full disclaimer I have no idea what (if any) will be the long term consequences of this on my knees. But to be brutally honest I would much rather have a full knee replacement in my old age than a spinal surgery/disk replacement.
Right. Having the big three engines released as open source, where everyone can make a fork or use them like Microsoft is doing with Chromium, I don’t see the point.
Tangential, but can WASM be used to run massive legacy C/C++ codebases in a memory safe manner without slowing down too much? One example is iOS and Android messaging apps previously could parse messages that exploited the OS.
Why? It seems to be reasonably well cited; is it wrong?
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Same error on Firefox 90.0.2 desktop.
Oh I see, thanks for the reply. I did a quick search and came upon https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-client-hello/ which does shed light on ECH. Though I am not sure if only Cloudflare-backed servers provide ECH, or if it is even available. Seems relatively new.

EDIT: Ah, the blog post does indicate that ECH is a work in progress.
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The DVDs were pretty widely available, sadly. I knew someone with one through the local university snowboard club. Not my favorite person to put it mildly.
You are conflating a browser (Safari) with a web rendering engine (WebKit). You can not use other web rendering engines on iOS, but you are free to use any of the 100+ different browsers that exist on iOS. Some of them are privacy respecting, some are not, some of them are ugly, some are beautiful, some of them are free, some of them are paid.
The need to maintain or replace / upgrade infrastructure places an obligation (liability) on the owner of the infrastructure to do so.

Perhaps technical liability would be more accurate, but I like the sound of technical debt.

There is always the temptation to say, 'We have made something. It works. Pure asset.' (E.g. concept of passive income.) But it is seldom true over the long term. The debt is almost always there, or will be as the rest of the world moves on and the existing asset needs to be developed or becomes obsolescent.

The trick for asset owners (asset defined as the right to future economic benefits) to profit from an asset is to spend some of the returns from the asset on paying others to maintain and refresh the asset. In this way, the asset owner enjoys the truly passive net benefit.

Infrastructure carries both the attributes of a static, tangible thing (a good) and a service.

I like that the coding world is so conscious of technical debt, and it makes sense: the sector is moving so fast, and the fixes can be applied with access to a skilled problem solver, a computer, access to software and time. The maintenance &/or switching costs are comparatively low in comparison to the benefits.

I think that providers of physical infrastructure could pay more attention. Maintenance contracts and dilapidation reserves do make (small) inroads into acknowledging the ultimate sclerosis that additional large infrastructure introduces to the built environment. But the time scales for its regeneration to a large extent alleviate developers from the obligation to apply a more overarching perspective of the debt it will place on future generations to improve on what has been laid down.

Rather than questioning the term, it should be rolled out more widely.
No. More than 80% are against doing Olympics during COVID lockdown.

I think the majority is for a non-COVID olympics.
> You can't claim they were just following the rules, because they weren't. They bended and broke whatever rules they saw fit to get the vaccine done, including doing multiple phases simultaneously.

I don't get your argument here. On the one side people are insinuating that the democrats influenced the FDA to delay the vaccine, then you suggest that the FDA rushed it.

> Trump was called racist by Congressional D's for wanting to shut down the international travel to prevent the spread in February.

It is tiresome to discuss with Americans. Why rip everything out of context?

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/the-facts-on-trumps-travel...
This what and why?
See also Gleam, a statically typed functional programming language for the BEAM:

https://gleam.run/
serious or joke?
A curious family tale: after the Spanish Civil War, my grandfather extracted gold and silver from broken devices like radios. Then he sold it in the black market to survive, and he briefly went to jail for smuggling. What a turn of life for a watchmaker.
Java wasn't crashy as I recall it. Nor was it slow once the applet started. It was slow in the sense that downloading the class files (usually over a modem, sob) and firing up the JVM wedged your webpage for a good while!
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I don't think it's even harsh. It's probably not harsh enough
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>However, you require a fully-features browser to browse the modern web.

That isn't really true since if it were we wouldn't have had the problem of IE back in the day or Safari today.
Damn, they forgot to integrate people into the model?
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That's not quite true, PnP has always been the default and we have no plans to change that. The only thing that changed is that when you migrate from v1, we automatically enable the node-modules linker.

The reason for that is that PnP tends to require recent versions of some of your dependencies, so migrating to it can be somewhat involved, and it's better experience to let you keep using the install strategy you're used to until you decide to change it yourself.

New projects, on the other hand, already use the latest versions from their dependencies, so it's a much better starting point for PnP.
> If you forgot the /s remember sarcasm doesn't transmit well over the internet, and by not clearly indicating it, you encourage or legitimize the people your sarcasm is aimed at.

I didn't forget the /s. I declined to use it. There's a point at which a suggestion is so absurd a reasonable person is bound to interpret it as ironic. If they don't see the irony that's unfortunate, and 1) I wasn't talking to them and 2) their foolishness is only amplified if they feel legitimized.
Was it just infrastructure, or did they also invest somehow in education? Maybe Paris could learn from La Rochelle and avoid what didn't work out.

My point is that people should really have this ingrained, and not put down the phone / not do stupid things just because there's a cop looking. Because as soon as the cop turns away / is on break, the bad behavior happens again. Also, being on the lookout for cops so that you can scroll your FB feed without getting fined only detracts from paying attention to the road.
Thanks a lot for your reply. Yup I got this feeling after the presenter dodged that question. However I also got the impression that it is currently unknown wether the axis of the eye shortens after these exercises, is that true? I read more about the topic and some people call the improvement in visual acuity "blur adaptation" - can "blur adaptation" really produce such drastic effects, and if so - are there potential side-effects?

For example in my case I have medium myopia (< -3). The prospect of not wearing glasses anymore is very appealing to me and I don't really care about the length of the eye if all the symptoms disappear with this "blur adaptation. What am I missing?
Are there good articles that explain why it seems we're at a dead end in explaining consciousness without needing to go subatomic? Because I've never read anything convincing that concludes consciousness, when described as an emergent property of the macro-level operation of the cells and chemicals of our brains, is proven to be impossible.
In the world today: only the government, the media, the entertainment industry and certain protected groups are allowed to frighten people. Thank God for progress

Individuals with dangerous and, God forbid, frightening ideas are the real threat to the stability and peace of our world. They cannot be permitted to exist.

They must be stamped out within civilized society, because the standard of morals in civilized society that separates good from bad is if someone, somewhere might be frightened by it, then it, whatever it is, must be bad. Otherwise, it might be good. Fear is the overarching principle around which we ought organize our world. Ask not what you can do for your country, rather ask what things you might be frightened of that you need to report to Miniluv.
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Pretty sure they were speaking ironically.
>That probably has something to do with Biles stepping down

People failing to medal due to mental issues is likely rampant in the games. Nothing is unique about her situation, except she stepped down first.
I don’t think “two PhDs” is the flex you think it is to most people with PhDs.
Is that the original opening date for the line or the article publication date?
Even when you are in a situation where most of your code belongs in the controller layer, nobody forces you to put it all in one class.
That's not ring 0 but ring -3.
I think it was irresponsible to hold them, but I can't see any particular reason why they might not be considered valid.

And I certainly I don't think Biles's decision is meaningful. Why would it be? It seems entirely inconsequential to me.
Doesn't that only convert to pdf? Most modern features are interactive features, like Ajax and add-on APIs. I doubt we'll ever see an interactive facebook.com in pdf, though I'm sure Adobe would love to make it happen.
Just anecdotally, the warehouses around here pay $15/hour for unskilled workers who do not drive lifts. In a low cost-of-living Midwestern suburban area.
I'm surprised they extracted more silver than copper from the discarded electronics.
> It is called handover in English, but somehow in Chinese it is return to china or hand back to china.

The UK recognizes the PRC as the successor regime of China, and thus the rightful owner of all that's due of the UK to China under the various treaties between them.

Somehow? That's how.

> Only New Territories belongs to the them, not Kowloon or HK Island

Kowloon and HK Island had always been Chinese territory. The British defeated China in a series of wars, mostly for the right to sell opium in China, and took them as spoils.

When China became strong enough to defeat the British, they wanted them back, and there's nothing the British could do except handing them back.

Funny how that worked out, wasn't it?

My advice? Read up a little on history.
Other than popular science writers or physicists thinking they understand everything because they understand QCD, who said consciousness is stuck at a dead end for a lack of theories? The current standard hypothesis is that our synapse based computational network is more than sufficient to explain consciousness, we just don’t have the tools to prove or disprove the same. Connectomics research is still at its infancy unfortunately. Trying to invoke QC where we haven’t even gotten the bandwidth to prove or disprove a far simpler theory seems like a bad idea.
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Observation is evil. Such state surveillance leads to coups and revolutions. I believe that it is better to avoid such a tyrannical dictatorial regime before its formation. If there is such a regime in the UK, then I will most likely leave for any other country. I don't want the Chinese scenario to repeat in our country. Even at home I keep a security system https://ajax.systems/, and not the Amazon praised by the Americans. This is much more reliable than sharing the image from the cameras with the police.
I'm in France visiting the in-laws right now and was actually surprised how bad the cycling infrastructure is compared to what I remembered. In particular around Paris. Also hardly anyone on the roads in the outer suburbs. If that is like that in most of France, no wonder that they haven't had a tour de France winner in 40 years (which really bothers the French) . If kids don't start riding early and use bikes as a mode of transport they will not get into it as a sport either.

Let's also not forget how incredibly empowering bikes are for kids, essentially they can get anywhere they want to if they can ride around on a bike.

About French drivers, I have the feeling that French drivers are very inconsiderate to every one not just bikes at least for urban traffic.
> Yeah that worked for Brazil and other countries.

Hello from Australia, where guns are very restricted. It works well, thank you. In fact it works well in more counties than it doesn't.
Sure. It is taking a break from doing that.
I think this is a (good) joke, but just in case - the article.