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Disagree.

The point of dying a millionaire is that it is really hard to plan your finances such that you die with exactly zero dollars. Because investments are so variable, you want to choose a plan that will likely end up with too much money because that avoids complete disaster in the bad cases.

When I'm dead, all the money is going to charity. Generational wealth is a cancer.
I don't really agree. I find the long-winded version confusing, and as I am not sure if there is a gotcha somewhere in there, I have to read the whole thing and follow the whole argument. You don't necessarily have to use math symbols, but it really helps to be terse.
That was the force draw down after the end of the Cold War. It did not go well for the Army, at least, and they had to boost recruitment in the late 90's to keep up with normal attrition.
Do you use a Mac or buy anything on the internet? You can buy iPhones with different payment methods at the Apple Store right? My point being iOS is basically one big lootbox where Apple sells the coins you need to buy (rent) the apps on your iPhone. Consumers deserve the choice to pay developers directly, just like they do on Macs (for now).
The problem is deciding what is waste. I think your gaming system is waste, therefore you should not be able to buy one. It has no important utility, given the catastrophe ahead.

You can't just pick one thing you happen to dislike or find unimportant whilst at the same time listing your own waste as in fact being very much needed.

The idea of mining being wasteful is of course a popular talking point for those not in crypto, yet the 100+ million owners of bitcoin would disagree and see it as the essential feature to secure the network.

Further, the word "waste" needs far more nuance. Clearly, mining is highly energy intensive, yet that doesn't mean it has to be wasteful. Increasingly, mining is done using clean energy whilst also in particular seeking out stranded energy, which is not in competition with other uses.
Does signing up at 50 work?
And yet I see people regularly who complain that they can't get ahead, yet they're driving his & hers new cars.

Though with Biden's plan to tax people at 40%, it's going to get a lot harder.
Same. Sup, faam.
It's modest for coastal people which is where most of the users on this site are from. This is pretty easy to spot when they're discussing not being able to buy homes for under $600k.
> They really can't go after US citizens.

Developing a technology, if it's not kept strictly contained (and honestly, who thinks that's really possible), means that it can be uses by others and for purposes not originally intended.

This isn't a "don't make it, it will only lead to problems" stance, as I think it's going to come about no matter what, but I think it's naive of us to assume it won't make it's way into use in some way against us as well. In this case it's fairly simple to see happening. Company that develops this creates separate division with talent from this program (or they leave to form separate company), and they market this in a way that it is used by some company/state against US citizens. We should just assume that at this point.
I've been using it for over two years, I absolutely love it. Check out pass-otp as well as rofi-pass (if on Linux) as I think it's the best way to have password entry on any computer. It sends the keystrokes so I can paste passwords in nested virtual environments where an extension might not be installable
I gave up with 1Password around version 7 because of the push for subscriptions and switched to Secrets (Mac and iOS) - https://outercorner.com/secrets-mac/
> It's similar to saying that "just because I agree with what U.S. Democratic Party Spokespeople say does not mean I am one!"

Happy?
Former college professor accused of serial arson is denied bail in California
I'm a feature developer for 1Password, and I want to clarify a few things. I've posted this already in another thread, but there seems to be some misinformation being spread that our technical decisions are being driven by VC funding.

Our decision to built the macOS app in Electron was absolutely not driven by VC money. For the past few years, we've been working on consolidating 1Password's business logic into a single Rust-powered core that could be shared across all our apps. This has many advantages: feature consistency across platforms, faster development cycles, and better security. When building the front-end for the desktop platforms that would take advantage of this new core, Electron suited us perfectly, since we could write our UI code once and make it consistent across Linux, Windows, and Mac. We actually did build a native Mac app initially alongside the cross-platform Electron app, but we eventually decided that having two separate versions of the macOS app (one in Electron, one in SwiftUI) would cause a lot of needless development churn and hassle for both customers and our support team.

I can understand your frustration about Electron, but I hope you find my explanation reasonable. Please stop spreading misinformation.
My thoughts from a user perspective are that a mandatory app store is only beneficial to me to the extent that it enforces one or more positive aspects in published apps that could be expected to disappear due to profit motives if looser alternatives were available.

The existence of such an option would seem to lead directly to most apps being exclusive to the cheapest and least stringent viable store (this doesn't seem to be the case for Google, but it is often suggested that it is hindered by factors like preventing automatic updates for apps from third party stores). I would not expect to have a choice of stores for a single app, or serious competition between stores on rule quality.

That primarily leaves the question of what positive aspects are enforced by Apple's App Store in the first place, beyond the omnipresent operating system security model.
Maybe more clearly - the Sreisand Effect is the resultant *BackLash* to censorship attempts

Censorship happens.

Censorship attempts happen.

The Streisand Effect is a backlash to the failed attempt at censoring something which a minority wants to keep information from a majority.

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I think there are some higher-level Streisand-Effects that we have yet to experience.

Of which, it will always, ultimately, manifest as a violent act against those who are publishing (regardless of medium), information which the opposing elite(^Citation Needed) - want to quell...
Such a claim is either facetious, or misinformed. Apple severely restricts what is allowed on web apps on iOS devices, specifically against allowing them to become viable alternatives to its monopoly on native apps.
Empathy is a learned skill, one that we don't teach.

in the online world you have to chose to empathise, and its really easy not to. This is why I seek out what "the other side" are thinking, and why they say what they do. Because otherwise its really easy just to dismiss them as "stooges", "snowflakes" "nazi" or any other signposted pejorative.

but I'm not perfect, as my comments will show. Sometimes I fail.
Well, dammit.

Of course they come out with this now, after I've got a few antennas up on the roof, half a dozen GPS-disciplined OCXOs providing 10 MHz and PPS signals throughout the house, which are being fed into SolarFlare PTP NICs, and sync'd throughout the network using PTP.

Apparently my workstations' offsets (RMS) are currently 17 and 21 nanoseconds, though, so I suppose there's still room for improvement.
Having dabbled in productizing desktop software I think it's more because of API churn on modern OS's. It used to be you only need to buy once, and things work for years. Maybe a modest paid upgrade after a major OS upgrade.

Now OS's evolve continuously. Semantic versioning be damned!
Yes, Tether is nothing more than a weird bank. USDT is backed by real currency (or atleast Tether claims so). And is equivalent of the treasury giving you a bill and promising to pay you, just on a pollution causing blockchain
I'm not OP but sometimes I use it to draw designs on materials that you can't print on + vinyl stencils would not serve well.
Nothing. The 2016 Russian Facebook campaign had less exposure than most blogs I read, and who even reads blogs any more?

This is going to do far more harm than it could every possibly do good. Mostly by disenfranchising Americans from participating in the public debate, something I'm pretty sure the US government is expressly forbidden from doing to anyone, even non-citizens.
> In case I didn't make it clear, providing data about yourself and making yourself more "vulnerable" to advertisers is the currency you pay with for using the platform.

No, not really. No one uses a platform like TikTok because they are eager to share their personal data to marketers, and most are entirely oblivious even to which personal data is the service gathering on them.

Just because a platform or service or system is free to access that does not mean that we are allowing mysterious third parties to spy on us.
This is great.

When is the British Museum returning all its 1000s of stolen artefacts to their rightful owners?

Vox: The British Museum is full of stolen artifacts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoTxiRWrvp8

Here is a snippet from: Dalrymple, William. The Anarchy (p. 21). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition.

"The last hereditary Welsh prince, the memorably named Owain Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, built Powis Castle as a craggy fort in the thirteenth century; the estate was his reward for abandoning Wales to the rule of the English monarchy.

But its most spectacular treasures date from a much later period of English conquest and appropriation. For Powis is simply awash with loot from India, room after room of imperial plunder, extracted by the East India Company (EIC) in the eighteenth century.

There are more Mughal artefacts stacked in this private house in the Welsh countryside than are on display in any one place in India – even the National Museum in Delhi."
I’ve consistently heard this. Is electron actually at fault or is it poor coding?
I've bought apps on jailbroken iPhones and never had my payment method stolen. I agree with you, I can't believe people are so brainwashed into thinking it's scary to pay for something on a phone any other way than giving Apple a cut.
Thank you for pointing that final point out: as I read the article, I was feeling that something was off with the labelling of the imposter.
>Temperature of 48.8C sets new record high in Italy and Europe
https://weirditaly.com/2021/08/11/temperature-of-48-8c-sets-...

Now there's a readable headline.
>My fallacy is that there is a billion things that I am good at, but I don't consider them difficult (how could they be, if I am good at them)

It's like the paradox of AI, which is that as soon as we've reduced something previously regarded as 'intelligent' to something that can be coded in software, it ceases to be thought of as intelligence any longer.
Is there a meaningful distinction in this case?
> What's wrong with heavy AC/heating use during extreme weather events? You say runaway as if there's some sort of feedback loop.

Emissions is the feedback loop. I'm not talking about spending money. Using more heavy AC/heating during extreme weather events means we use more energy which makes it even harder to bring renewables online because as it is renewables aren't cutting it. Of course with money it makes no sense to spend money on insulation if you're only going to spend a fraction of that on AC costs for extreme events, but that's because externalities are not being passed on to emissions costs.
In a world where inherited wealth isn't a thing, house prices and politics and enterprise are very different. It's hard to really know if your concerns would be meaningful in such a world or not.

Inherited wealth is unearned wealth, and sure, it's nice to think about your kids having a little unearned wealth to make their lives better, but less nice to think about them competing with people with insane orders of magnitude more unearned wealth (and power) which is the actual world we're living in, and most likely a big part of why you can't afford to buy your own home.
Do you really believe only Apple is doing this matching?
I'm a big fan of capturing the toolchain(s) with the repo. I have had to hack this for embedded toolchains out of necessity for years (decades?) using VirtualBox on a Mac. I still have a Windows 95 VM sitting around containing a copy of Keil or something that is the only known way to rebuild the code for a certain weird-ass micro from some consulting gig in the late 90's. I wonder if it still boots? Hopefully, that customer forgot about me...
If that is actually true, then you will still be willing to do it even if I were allowed by Apple to tell you how much money Apple was taking and even if I were allowed to present the option to you in my application and make it just as easy for you to buy using an alternative payment system (instead of having to only implement the feature on my website, and then hope you are curious enough to look). Apple, however, seems to be very confident that it isn't true (well, maybe for you, but that you are an outlier)--that if presented with two payment options, one of which cost $5 and one of which cost only $4 (I needn't even add a markup: my goal might be to make more volume at a lower price), that a lot of people would choose the $4 option--and so they specifically ban both of the above practices.
I think they mean IAP, not Apple Pay. Apple requires every app (unless it's for a physical product and some other exceptions) to use Apple's in app purchase system. You can pay with credit card, gift cards, etc, but 15% (30% over $1mm) goes to Apple, not the merchant - which is what this bill is about, since Apple has a monopoly as the only app store they can charge whatever they want and developers have to put up with it. You can't embed your own payment system, or even make references that such system is available elsewhere (e.g. on your website)
this is false. I am an actual impostor and I acknowledge it.
Seems like MS has imposter syndrome.
Right. People who suspect they are a con-artist are not con-artists. However, I don't think it works for incompetence -- people who suspect they are incompetent may very well be incompetent.
Ask HN: Do you guys now any good low overhead radio websites?
A while ago https://www.lofi.cafe/ poped up here on HN, and I really liked it.

Instead of having a large website loaded (Spotify, YT, etc..), this seemed to have a lower overhead while still getting me that zone music for work.

Do you guys now of any other websites like this?
Can we put an R in there too? Does Redit count!? Did you know that modern farming is very high tech?
Both statements are not mutually exclusive. I would agree most Bitcoin holders hold it only for financial returns, yet one of the core tenets of it likely/possibly going up in value is the decentralization itself, which enforces scarcity.
Where he lives - i.e my hometown - public transport is absolutely non-existent. Twice a day you can take a bus if you need to visit neighboring towns, but that's it.

Cars are expensive. Some people enjoy buying new cars every 3-4 years, but that's also money that could be spent on retirement funds.
I think there's a significant number of people who like decentralized currency systems because they can be used to circumvent border currency controls. I'm sure there are some reasonable reasons for disliking nation-states but practically speaking these people are mostly just avoiding taxes.
If the implication is that waste conditions are too diverse then we take it on a case by case basis. 100+ million owners can still be wrong. BTC is still no better than the US dollar for almost all transactions that don't require obfuscation, which is most of them. And furthermore since its economic value in use is primarily pegged to its ability to convert to USDT, it's then just a form of USD derivative which banks have had to regulate in other settings.

Spending all that energy to mine addresses that act as USD derivatives, when USD is still there, when derivatives can be created without these numbers, is waste.
Ironically, your position as I understand it seems to be the most susceptible to misinformation. Outsourcing critical thought to some trusted authority just means you get that authority's version.

Anyway, pretending that critical thinking is the same as vetting every piece of information you see is disingenuous. Like anything else, there is some severity vs ease of checking position that a given putative fact has. If you're going to die imminently, best to make sure you carefully understand. If it's today's urgent revelations on the news about ongoing issue x y or z, why worry too much how accurate it is.

I do agree it's not the same as "stupid or ignorant" and often these labels are applied to people challenging orthodoxy as opposed to those not thinking critically. It has more to do with credulity, need for acceptance/ belonging, and what I would call religious tendencies.
Valorant's voice assistant is, at first glance, in the gray area of cheating.
> doing nothing is also a choice, with consequences(which are observably harmful) should be considered against the possible benefits/consequences of trying.

> To me it is seems worth the attempt, but I'm also not an expert in education policy

My point is that relying on an ill-specified "invest[ment] in education" with idealistic hopes for its effectiveness is pretty much equivalent to "doing nothing." The people who most need it will not seek it out. If it works (a big if) and it's incorporated into compulsory education, it'll take at least a decade to show any results at all, and whole generation or two to work its way through the population and have a chance to actually solve the problem. And like another commenter mentioned, it's not like our current educational system hasn't been trying to instill critical thinking since before any of us were born, so I have little hope that some new investment will solve that problem.

Relying on education in this case is like having window break during a rainstorm and deciding to fix the problem by ordering a new window from the manufacturer, with a lead time of a month. That might eventually fix the broken window, but it's not going to solve the problem of rain pouring through the broken window now. If you've got a rainy month ahead, the incomplete solution may even lead to more problems, like mold.

This is a problem that requires both long-term strategic and shorter-term tactical solutions.
Other than electron what options are there?

I’ve heard electron has poor performance but it’s all anecdotal, I’m curious about opinions to the contrary
Absolutely. Also consider that a vast portion of the Earth's crust has been recycled into the mantle over the millenia.
Yeah, same. This is fine by me and changes nothing for me as a customer.
I read «C» and had another C in mind, and confirmed - most of us have read the Kerrigan and Ritchie, many of us in front of the title though "ok minus 32 times by 5 divided by 9..."
I really hate this quote. It's always trotted out by certain types of people in every discussion about wealth in the US.

It presumes that one should only support a cause that they themselves would benefit from. It also implies that the American poor are too stupid to understand what they're voting for, but only the poor that vote against a certain party of course.
We've spoken to at least one small NIC vendor that puts ~48GB of RAM on their FPGA based smart nic. That let's them handle TCP rexmits without paying the price of re-DMA'ing data from the host to re-encrypt it. I wish the FPGA didn't blow our power budget, because their solution would be ideal for P2P DMA.
> I am not as good in the technical areas I care about as those I measure myself against.

This for sure. I find too often that I’ve been at this stuff longer than actual teenagers that blow me away nowadays.
Let's just tax CO2 production and let the market sort it out.
> This, I think, is a place where we need some regulation to codify some different forms of privacy and give the government a big stick to bop companies over the head when they violate those definitions.

I 100% agree with you, but doubt this will ever happen in a heavily pro-surveillance government in an effective corporatocracy. Therefore, I think open source can and needs to do better in providing free competition against potentially-dystopian closed-source alternatives
Ask HN: What do you think about type coverage in Python?
I was thinking about a concept lately I would refer to as type coverage.

The idea behind it is to measure how well a python function is tested by recording all inputs/outputs during a complete test run and comparing the values with the annotated types.

e.g. a function `foo(a: Optional[float])` which is only tested with `foo(5)` gets a low coverage because `foo(None)` is not being tested. Or it could be hinted that a more feasible type annotation would be `foo(a: int)`.

As a use case I was thinking of testing APIs, to make sure you covered all use cases of your API which you advertise by the annotated types.

An extension of this concept could be that you check how extensive you tested a type. Like did you test `foo(a: int)` with negative, positive and zero values?
If not it could be a hint that your test coverage is too low or you have a wrong type, maybe a enum would be suited better.

I am curious to hear about your thoughts about this concept.
This might be true, but it's not what regulatory capture I'd talking about.

That's a very specific term with a specific meaning.
It is either a joke, or a troll. Either way why is it on HN?
the power density of AA batteries may not have changed much because AA batteries need to be disposable in ordinary trash

but if you have used a notebook in the 90s and one now, how can you say that capacity hasn't improved?
> The way you phrase that it sounds like these social media companies black mail you with dirty secrets they learn about you.

You may come up with the hyperboles you wish, but the truth of the matter is that a) these companies spy on their user base, b) they don't divulge or inform you about how they spy on you, c) they obviously do not defend you or have your best interests in mind, d) they don't even clarify what they do or intend to do with the data they gather on you nor ask for your informed consent about anything.
same experience here. i can afford everythihg but i dont need much. i dont think people understand what kind of stress relief is to say that u can live the life you want for 30-40 years without having to work.
Imagine being dev at GitHub, coming on, on the first day, setting up your dev env in a couple minutes and rolling out a simple fix to millions of users on the very first day, maybe even the first few hours. That would be extremely gratifying.
Military retirement is worth like a minimum of ~$700k for an E-7, before tricare. It's worth like $1.3M for an O-5. People who seperate from service at like 12 years astound me.

Edit- People who seperate thinking they can earn more money on the outside. People who seperate for family, mental health, or similar reasons make total sense.
What's the point of clicking through to the article if you're not going to read it, though?
It's an important point that multiplying and dividing temperatures in F or C makes no sense. Some people are somehow assuming half way from freezing which is arbitrary. Would a F user assume it means half way from 32F or 0F?
I would love to see Apple forced to allow alternate app stores, which this bill also seems to require.

And since both app stores charge a 30% fee, I can really only see this helping consumers in the end. Epic demonstrated it pretty well when they were willing to offer half off to customers who pay outside the app store. Apps would allow you to likely still purchase the 'easy way', but could give a discount if you use a sane processor that charges the standard ~3% fee versus 30%.