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>Second; CIA torture is American torture. It's important to discuss it, here and elsewhere, until it stops. But it's an off-limit topic. Not cool.

The purpose of this forum is to gratify intellectual curiosity. Righteous, even justifiable, anger about American war crimes or anything else doesn't satisfy that goal. Most political threads don't lead to any insights, rather they tend to degenerate into cynical piss-takes and partisan rancor. That may satisfy the impotent rage one feels about an unjust world or grant an endorphine hit by dunking on one's ideological enemies, but as far as content goes, they're usually an intellectual wasteland.

Hacker News isn't going to solve the world's problems. This is mostly a place for bored tech nerds to waste time avoiding the real world. If you want speech to lead to practical results, get involved in political activism.

>You may feel this isn't the proper venue, and dang may feel that way too. But there's no evidence that's the majority view; in fact there's quite a lot of evidence to the contrary.

For better or worse (I think it's both,) the majority doesn't rule here. Hacker News isn't a democracy, it's an oligarchy - rule by elites. The majority getting what it wants is practically the definition of Eternal September.

That's why downvotes and flags are weighted more heavily than upvotes, so the few can override the will of the many. And when the elite minority gets it wrong, the mods step in and start turning knobs.
I think it's just higher intelligence in "nerds". We know marketing lies.
> The ML server will verify the original authors SPF. The N recipients will verify the ML servers SPF - the chain (which matches the series of MTA's involved) is still verified end to end.

The recipients have no way to check that the mailing list server has checked SPF/DKIM/DMARC. Mailing lists very rarely drop messages because of a failing SPF/DKIM/DMARC check.

ARC tries to fix this, but requires recipients to trust the mailing list server. Just using plain DKIM is much better, recipients can just treat ML-forwarded emails just like direct emails.
sexism is inherently not only about "women-hating". You making that assumption is showing your bias, not the bias of the wikipedia article.
You mean Jira right
In History they have the concept of "The Great Man theory":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory

Which ties everything that happened to some individual hero.

We do that in tech for people too, but also devices. I think I'd be interested to read a smartphone (and indeed general computing history) that focused on the other elements like the relentless miniaturisation of tech, battery improvements, radio technology, societal adaptations etc. rather than "this obscure/famous person/device invented the future".
To clarify, Pessoa did write also in English and French. His poems in English are not translations, he did write in those languages.

If I'm not mistaken, his famous "Give me some more wine, because life is nothing"[1] was originally written in english.

[1] https://disquietthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/11/there-are-dise...
I'm less likely to have Perl installed than Python on Windows, where I sometimes want my scripts to run as well.
I had the 9110, 9210, and 9500. None of them really made sense as connected devices because data services were so slow. Web pages would literally take minutes to load, and for heavy use you were paying by the byte.

The main benefit was a nice(ish) keyboard for texts and emails.

I once wrote and emailed in a consultancy report from the back garden of a pub, just to prove I could. But it's not something I'd have been happy doing regularly.

If Psion had somehow added mobile data to their Organisers they'd have killed this market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5

The main thing these devices did was normalise ARM and pocketable form factors for serious mobile use. But they were really micro laptops and not large mobiles.

They were more like very early versions of the MacBook or Air. The iPhone - rightly - went in a different direction.
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I have seen Imba evolve from v1 to v2, and I am using it in many production apps, small and medium scale. I think it's ready for the spotlight. Come try it out. I go months without creating vanilla html, css, js with imba. And I don't miss it.
There is something special about being able to separate or unify concerns of app development by features and not file types (html, css, js) And the minimal syntax, makes development ridiculously fast. It almost feels like playing and prototyping.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes

You cant be too shocked about stuff that has an actual wikipedia article ...
There's a huge underbelly of companies nobody ever hears about holding the technological torch in various industries. Some obscure mittelstand firm in Germany will be the world leader in ball bearings or thermostats or something like that, in a thousand little niches.

TSMC is admittedly must bigger but like these types of firms, they don't need to tell everyone how important they are.
Local geology is a factor. Trenching through mud, clay, or sand is going to be a lot cheaper than rock.
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> Marketing is used because it works.

This is an oft-repeated meme.

Advertisers will produce statistics to prove that their kind of marketing "works". But how could one prove such a thing? It would involve peering into people's minds.

Also: advertising != marketing. Marketing includes product design, pricing, channel development, and a load of other activities that are basically useful. Like, there's no point in developing a product that has no market; a marketer will warn you if that's what you're trying to do (just before he resigns). An advertiser will tell you that everything's groovy, your campaign is going great, and by the way, here's your invoice for the last quarter.
Additionally to HN the game is also featured right now at Germany‘s popular gaming magazine GameStar:

https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/widelands-siedler-aufbau-str...

That is also where I found the game.
Do note that many banking apps use google safetynet, which means they won't work on anything that deviates too much from normal android and it won't work on anbox.
> This implies the US population being held responsible because the US is a democratic nation

Such "proposal" is completely irrational. Proposals must be defensible, irrational ideas are not universally defensible.

One is not responsible for other people's choices, and cannot be held responsible for other people's (or coinhabiting peoples') choices, nor for the barbaric systemic faults that hinder the ideal implementation of a political system.
The main rotor hit his head -> Because it suffered a material/design/ structural failure -> Because design validation or material quality checks or weld quality NDT checks or bolt sizing or balancing or lateral vibration suppression or a million other things were not checked -> Because you need to know to do that, and those are taught in an engineering course.
Thanks for clearly explaining your perspective. I appreciate clearly explained counter-arguments to my, sometimes backed by overly-dramatic language, opinions :)
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Fair enough, for me it's just timeouts.
More money on switches?! Are you serious or exaggerating?
This article kind of misses out the later Nokia N900, which had great hardware, but suffered from Nokia's lack of support (IIRC they stopped supporting it about 6 months after launch).

If you like that kind of form factor/functionality, there's current devices too like the cosmo communicator https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/cosmo-communicator
> As far as I know, none of the major escrow agencies accept Bitcoin directly.

In Washington State every attorney is automatically a licensed escrow agent. I believe this is the case in many/most states. [*] They certainly aren't the cheapest escrow agents, but there are enough attorneys that you simply need to work your way down the list until you find one that handles bitcoin. There are a lot of fish in this ocean, and they like getting paid.

This advice applies to pretty much any "$BIG_ESCROW_COMPANY won't do XYZ for irrational reasons" problem.

[*] in fact, technically it's the other way around: WA escrow agents are licensed as "limited practice attorneys" who are only allowed to practice one very narrowly-defined type of law: escrow arbitration.

https://www.wsba.org/for-legal-professionals/join-the-legal-...
I just see it as useless. :) The time when I start feeling some emotion is when it's really hard to find product details on the website. And it's those simple baby feelings of I waaant thiiiss. aaa.. nooOOW! :D Impatience, I guess.
> the web would likely be a decade or two ahead right now

Seeing how the trajectory of web development seems to be "pile on more and more complexity, most of it unnecessary", I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be sad or happy about this.
Where do I pay to see the rest of the headline? These trickle and dime outfits have taken it to the point where I expect clickbait in one word or fewer.
You're one of several people to mention this.

Care to spell out what they do right?
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Excluding infrastructure is a pretty big exclusion, especially if your infrastructure includes tools like New Relic, Data Dog, Sentry, CircleCI, and the countless other developer B2B SaaS tools in place at thousands of companies. Most of those purchases were driven by developers even if not using their personal credit card to buy them.
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I still really prefer a hardware keyboard and miss my android G1 in many ways. I'm typing this on my touch screen phone and it's so much slower than texting was even on an ordinary numeric keypad with predictive text. For me touch screens ended productivity on phones and they solely became consumption devices
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"Innovation" in the sector always came at tremendous cost. The startup cost for the foundry for a new node has been increasing every generation (requires more wafers and time to amortize over), and the cost per wafer (on a production basis, not including the amortized development cost) has been increasing over time as well (and you're going to be competing with AMD, Nvidia, and Apple for fab space... those are deep pockets to fight against). And finally, the (per customer) development cost at each node is becoming more expensive as well.

All of this means theres tremendous value in exploiting mature processes. And it's going to continue to be this way for quite a long time based on all the trendlines and projections that the big players put out.
This may sound a dumb question on HN but is there a primer on all this?
> He had just been conducting research in Afghanistan, and was expecting to begin college at the end of the year. Instead, he was accused of being an al-Qaida leader, kidnapped by Afghan warlords and handed over to the CIA

this is the only information information in the whole arricle about why he was sent there, and it is pretty sparse information.

If i were to put on my critical thinking media hat, this gives the impression that its not the whole story, or at least an idealized version of it.

Also its not explained his connection between Yemen and afganistan.

(this isnt to validate the practices at guantanamo, however)
It's certainly true that for a some mathematical problems memorizing the steps to the solution is often the most practical way forward (especially if you're planning on passing an exam), but there is definitely more to it. Most of the work proving things is actually exactly what you say - going down a different route. That's why mathematicians have careers, they spend days/months/years going down different routes and taking different appraoches to solve something. Naturally, they don't explain all the ways they didn't solve the problem when they finally do solve a problem. You don't need to know the answer to get to the solution. This is just like saying "The problem with a maze is you need to know the route through it before you can get through the maze"- no, what you do is you search for the route through the maze and once you've finished searching then you know the answer and suddenly you can walk through the maze repeatedly very easily.

And similarly, whilst one proof might have limited practical applications, it's very difficult to know which proofs do have practical applications and it's almost impossible to know which results might later yeild further proofs that do have practical applications.

None of this is really a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of putting in work (although obviously there is intelligence involved to find particularly neat ways of appraoching problems).

And why do mathematicians learn proofs? Often, to see the approaches that you can use to solve other problems.
If it was easy to market to developers we wouldn't use free tools and software. Instead everyone would push for the heavily marketed expensive proprietary tools, compilers, languages etc, just like most other groups. Business managers mostly use proprietary tools you have to pay for, artists mostly use proprietary tools you have to pay for etc. Developers don't, not because people haven't tried to sell expensive tools to developers or because developers can't afford it but because it is hard to do so.

I agree that developers are irrational as a group, but they aren't easily manipulated via marketing or companies would abuse that to sell them crap.
Or Pinephone with a keyboard addon: https://www.pine64.org/2021/08/15/introducing-the-pinenote.
> I have seen pics and video of the copter. Its a frame, and some blades, welded in some shop. Not safe.

Not only that, but how well did he really know how to fly a helicopter or any other aircraft? It's pretty bold to be your own test pilot when you haven't had instruction in the first place.

Here's why you don't try to fly an unfamiliar aircraft without instruction, even if you have a pilot's license: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAwwKoz8Diw

Years ago, when I was taking sailplane lessons*, someone brought his brand-new autogyro to the airport. For all practical purposes, it was just a frame with a pilot's seat and a column for the main rotor. He fired it up, started down the runway, pulled back on the stick too soon and too far, and went tumbling when the main rotor contacted the ground. He was securely belted in and didn't get hurt, but his brand-new toy was a total loss.

* I got cold feet after a scary but harmless crosswind landing.
> 25 years since it changed the world

Nokia’s Communicator may have been the most capable phone computer of the pre iPhone era, but it didn’t change the world. It was too expensive, too closed, and not well enough marketed to change much of anything.

I’m surprised to see it glorified here, not because it wasn’t a nice piece of visionary tech, but because the company that made it had such little impact on changing the world despite pioneering the category.
That page is great, but the synth.app homepage seems weird to me.

"Browser from thefuture. Augment your work and your mind with the internet, don't just browse it."

What exactly is synth.app you offering? I couldn't figure it out from scrolling around their homepage a bit.
We have all noticed that the world has changed with iOS and Android, and we're still trying to recover from that disaster.
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Ah but how do you know where the fault has occured? Do you turn off power for an entire neighbourhood?
From the article:

The group is thought to now be stronger in numbers than at any point since they were ousted in 2001 - with up to 85,000 full time fighters, according to recent Nato estimates.

So less than half of the Afghan National Army's 180,000 troops:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_National_Army

There is a rule of thumb that attackers need to outnumber defenders 3 to 1 in order to win. But that assumes the defenders actually want to do their job.
Huh, I'm not sure how I missed that...
You also shouldn't forget to hold the other powers to account that made it impossible to have peace in Afghanistan.

Russia put out bounties on US soldiers, Iran armed the Taliban, Pakistan sheltered them and I'm sure China had their fingers in there just as well.

The Taliban have never been the legitimate, much less the benevolent government of the Afghan people. If you've seen "The Handmaid's Tale" you have a general idea of what happened in the 90's and is going to happen there again.
This game is hard. It's settlers 2 but with many many more ways to mess yourself up. Sadly the community is mostly german, otherwise I'd be an active participant. It's a great game and a great advert for open source gaming.
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I've played 0 A.D. lightly for about five years, and am excited to learn of another FLOSS RTS! I did a quick comparison of Widelands and 0 A.D. Overviews from the games' respective sites are [1,2], LibreGameWiki articles are [3,4], and source code repos are [5,6].

It seems Widelands focuses more on economics and transport, and maybe less on combat. Screenshots show Widelands has much simpler graphics.

Developmentally, Widelands seems to use GitHub as its main source code repository and issue management system, whereas 0 A.D. uses GitHub as a mirror for its main Trac deployment. Both codebases are roughly 2/3rds C++. Beyond that, Widelands has lots of Lua (27%) and some Python (3%). 0 A.D. has lots of C (24%) and some JavaScript (6%).

Has anyone played both Widelands and 0 A.D.? How do they compare?

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[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210410230450/https://www.widel...

[2] https://play0ad.com/category/game-manual/

[3] https://libregamewiki.org/Widelands

[4] https://libregamewiki.org/0_A.D.

[5] https://github.com/widelands/widelands

[6] https://github.com/0ad/0ad
Technical leads and contributors tend to respond poorly to mainstream marketing techniques. The mood, image, trend, and similar mechanisms.

What we do respond to, especially those who are experienced, is a solid signal that the proposed solution (hardware, software, service, information) will in fact address real needs and avoid future pitfalls. Those of us with some experience under (or spilling over) our belts have been burnt multiple times, both by vendors and by "solutions" imposed by others in our orbit (managers, executives, clients, vendors, business partners). We may not have perfect bullshit filters, but we're highly sensitive to it.

For a long time my most highly-upvoted HN comment was "Please forward to marketing", my own set of recommendations for how to capture my interest. I updated that slightly and blogged it:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/27d5xr/please_...

More generally, why programmers (and other technical types) hate advertising so much:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/24107v/forbes_...

What I respond to:

- Documentation. Publicly-available technical documentation, preferably downloadable (an offline PDF or ePub on my ebook reader is a lifesaver when everything's gone to shit).

- Public bugtracking. I want to see what issues exist, and what resolutions and responses are like.

- Public support forums. This need not be the only support, but I've long found that user-to-user support is very often as good or better than vendor-based support. It's also an insight as to how open the vendor is to critical commentary.

- Generous trial and return/refund policies. I'm quite wary of crab-pot / roach-motel intake funnels. If I can't get out as easily as I can get in, I'm not getting in. (Similar rationale applies to data and other forms of lock-in.)
It's a lot of exploration and learning as you get deeper into it. Many resources out there that are scattered about.

It should be easier!
You could argue Trump didn't have the wits, opportunity and time to do as much damage.
> Lots of classic liberian nonsense in here.

Alex Tabarrok is a strident libertarian who is in the employ of the Mercatus Center, a place that was started with "ultraconservative" Koch brothers money and has long been funded by them. Read Dark Money to learn what the Koch's expect in return for the many millions they've poured into the Mercatus Center.

1. "ultraconservative" is Dark Money author Jane Mayer's term for the 'extreme' big-business liberatarian politics of Charles Koch and John Olin.
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Yup - or at least that’s what Google tells their employees. Want to publish something - you’d better get permission, and stick the Google name on it. And based on my limited understanding of the US contracts, is also true in practice.

There are some exceptions depending on local laws and contracts though, so it’s only mostly and not always true.
>Panjwai massacre,[1] occurred in the early hours of 11 March 2012, when United States Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales murdered sixteen civilians and wounded six others in the Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan

He was sentenced to life without parole.

>The Maywand District murders were the murders of at least three Afghan civilians perpetrated by a group of U.S. Army soldiers from June 2009 to June 2010

Five of the Army soldiers faced murder charges while seven others were charged with participating in a coverup.

War is waged by people. War crimes are inevitable but it seems to me the US has done a fairly decent job of holding themselves accountable. How should the "US" be held accountable?
Turn off the power.
Has there been any legitimate, benevolent government there in living memory? Perhaps they're simply better off with a king, much like the frogs in Aesop's tale.
Obama held a lot of his promises and he cleaned up much of what went wrong in the war on terror.

He was kept from closing Guantanamo Bay by factors beyond his control.
I find it interesting that phones never got cheaper but now they are more useful so large number of people actually consider 1000$ to be ok price to pay for one.
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> But the hotel is the same thing, right? If you don't check out, and they keep the room empty because they think you're using it, you're still monopolizing the resource.

Sure but how easy is it to accidentally book an open-ended hotel room stay?

I'd imagine "not very" because there'd certainly be a huge deposit required and/or proof of finances, etc.
Broadcom has a stranglehold on both chips for the top of the rack, and multi-terabit ones.

Intel makes very timid inroads into high end switching chips with Tofino, and that's it.
> Advertisers will produce statistics to prove that their kind of marketing "works". But how could one prove such a thing? It would involve peering into people's minds.

Or, say, running an A-B test and measuring whether people in the control group buy more of the product or feel more positively about the brand than the exposed group.
Yeah, marketing with documentation is bad, but some of it is pretty convincing. Here's some from Pine64 that worked well on me: http://files.pine64.org/doc/PinePhone/PinePhone%20v1.2a%20Re...