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> On the one hand, Emacs is a very flexible platform powered by Lisp. Users can change and extend it to their needs, make smaller adjustments on the fly. That’s the source of its attractiveness and longevity.

And at the same time the source of most grievance and pain with emacs. It's so flexible that it seems many people fell into that hole where they invest to much time with tinkering. I'm curious how much of the customizing-disease in the emacs-world is driven by survivorship bias of other peoples "heroic" quest in taming and forging their emacs to their demand.

> What do you think, is there a potential niche for like NeoEmacs, a test editor written in a modern Lisp / Scheme (maybe, creating such a language would be the first goal), with the same flexibility, but with modern features included by default, modern keybinding and terminology?

There always will be a niche, if someone does the work on good enough quality-levels. But if you want it to be more than a one-men-show, something that can take over GNU emacs crowd, then you need to be more than filling a niche.

The focus on lisp seems like a fail from the start. That world is just to niche for great success. Today the best solution would be to take electron and build something like atom or vscode. Webstack is more than flexible enough for what most people wanna do, lisp would not give much benefit over this for most people. And most of emacs flexibility comes from the architecture anyway.
The ability to read comments without being told to install the app or fuck off to r/popular.
Actually you can teach your cat to use standard toilet and add there some sort of automatic flush.
You do if you want to use UDP multicast or want to enumerate MDNS services. That's what this article is about. If I understand correctly, they apparently don't even let you use multicast on your own phone for testing without requesting permission.
> And, hell, I guess that even after English becomes the world language, you’ll still want to spell people and place names correctly?

I suspect that anyone who believes that English is the final language (how can it be anything other than a lazy troll?) probably believes that dropping diacritics and otherwise mangling the glyphs of other alphabets is spelling them 'correctly'.
I want one but don't know why.

What's the benefit of have open firmware for this?
Amazon is turning into the fast shipping version of Ali Express. More and more fake / manipulated reviews and a sea of pseudo-English garbled brand names slapped on what looks like identical goods are making it exactly the experience you described, just shipped quicker. Ordering from Amazon is now a definite risk, and commingling is only a small part of that.
It’s interesting that, specifically with regards to the App Store and iOS API restrictions, the complaints more or less exclusively come from two groups:

1. Third party developers

2. A subset of power users

The broader end user appears to be quite satisfied with the status quo.

It’s a weird situation where anti-trust law (which ostensibly exists to protect the consumer) is likely in opposition to broader consumer sentiment.

It’s a very different situation than Microsoft’s antitrust in the 90s, where consumers strongly supported the antitrust actions.
This is over 8 years, which makes it somewhat less sensational than the headline makes out.
The users? /s
Why do you think, its normal to compare a union of 27 countries with a single country?
You frame it as a conscious choice, but in my experience more than 9 of 10 Apple users are completely ignorant of the issues. They only "know what they like" or think "Apple is best. " There's no consideration at all of reasons or consequences.
The problem is that the people who are onboarded 5 years into your project's development will be lost and will have to waste countless hundreds of hours learning your unmarketable framework.

They can't Google how to do something in your framework. They can't find component libraries that extend your framework. They probably can't find sandboxes that demonstrate every single one of your framework's use cases. The documentation of your framework is also likely to be worse than that of frameworks that have had tens of thousands man hours be put in their development and tens if not hundreds of thousands more battle testing them in production across a variety of projects.
At least, it's not "egacs" like some of the more recent apps.
Metabase Limitations and Top Alternatives (BI)
Are you literally not aware that all pieces of internet infrastructure currently in use have to be replaced every N years?
As another comment mentioned, this is through 2029 and Pinterest believes they are on track to spend that much.

Another useful comment from the thread:

> Makes sense for both parties.

> For AWS, it allows them to make hardware investments early on

> For Pinterest - it allows them to keep costs manageable and get a significant discount on MSRP
A 24 word mnemonic FIDO backup seed can fit AES256 encrypted in a 1K NFC tag, which come in sizes as small as a grain of rice.

You can store it in a subdermal implant, under the sole of your shoe, a belt buckle, or in a finger ring or other jewelry.

Options are endless.
> The distinction between buying and renting a house, or buying and leasing a car

In the UK you can buy a freehold house for £250k and that's it. Or you can rent one for £800 a month, although that confers certain rights. But between those two, you can buy a leasehold house, which has obligations to pay a ground rent. You can buy a freehold house where you are obligated to pay a management company to maintain common areas.

"Buy" and "Rent" are certainly not clear cut.

With a car, I can rent a car from Hertz, or I can buy one for cash, or I can lease one, or I can buy one with a loan payment secured against the car, again there's no clear line between "buy" and "rent"
Encodings are the easy part. To render stuff, you need fonts, and sometimes they are built into hardware (especially with dot-matrix printers, for instance, but even laser printers embed a couple of fonts, and likely custom Japanese fonts too), and software expects fonts with a particular encoding too. All of these were issues even for "simpler" scripts like Cyrillic (Serbian).

Some of the problems with fonts remain even with Unicode (due to Han unification, different CJK regions will prefer different fonts; there might be OpenType locl-aware fonts these days, but they'd be huge).
> ...now I have to prostrate myself before some review committee to use a staple of TCP/IP?

Does anyone have any examples of using TCP with multicast? I'm not personally aware on any, and I wouldn't describe multicast as a staple of TCP.

I guess multicast is a staple of IP (not TCP)... but does Apple let your apps use raw IP? (I didn't think so.)
You may be right, however one would think researchers at Carnegie Mello would know how to ensure statistically valid results.
At least northern alamance county and over through person county is confirmed at this point by me and my friends ^_^

Maybe the other commenter is right and now its saying not available because it is saturated?
I don't even know where to start.

I mean first of all "great weather and culture", debatable as that is, isn't diversity. Diversity =/= good. It means different. Again I'd debate that the states even has the best weather (what is the best weather anyway?), culture, pay (certainly not from many of the horror stories sometimes told on here, but I guess if your upper middle class theres no need to worry about that), entertainment and food, but that's just subjective.

There's also this idea that europe is just one big country, which it obviously isn't. It's 44 countries, all with very different cultures. I don't really know how you'd define culture, it seems to be very loosely measured, but one easy way of doing so is language, in which europe has 24 official languages, and the states has 1. Switzerland alone has 3 official languages.

I don't hate the states or anything, if you enjoy living there then good for you, but yeh, theres a difference between "I like the culture here" and "here is the worlds greatest culture"
That likely won't happen unless the service becomes unprofitable. Which, given the demand for fast internet around the world and the drop in launch prices, can only happen through competition.
What about all the surgeons that perform multi hour long surgeries then?
Unfortunately, our current vaccines are simply not good enough. Just take a look at the data from Israel and Iceland. From the article, it was clear already from last year.

How many other variants do we need, as we let the apply yet another selection pressure with the leaky vaccines? (AY.12 variant is now the dominant variant in Israel).
I like the idea of having to grant applications permissions to use multicast, and to make the suggested behavior be "deny permissions", but whatever this form is I don't like it.
20 of the 72 created unicorns in 2021 are located in the UK. That's about a quarter with 15% of the population. Which means that the UK is over-represented, but that's a strange definition of 'all' or implying the EU is not already competitive.
Alas, I live in Sydney and have never even seen one in the wild. Hopefully someday I’ll get the opportunity to go where they live.
I'm thinking by "all over Europe" they mean "transfered between 2 terminals in CDG"... which truthfully is about as soul crushing as it gets.
How is keeping the money on top of forced labor legal? Doesn't the USA have anti-slavery legislation and why doesn't it apply?
There’s no reason these security measures couldn’t be opt-out
Not really separate. Many extensions designed for other browsers will still depend on quirks of the respective extension implementations, JavaScript engines, rendering engines, etc.

Of course, there are (supposed-to-be-but-aren't) browser-agnostic WebExtensions — but again, only Safari implements them on iOS (starting with iOS 15), they must be bundled with an iOS app, and non-Safari browsers don't have access to those bundled extensions.

Perhaps those browsers will implement support for WebExtensions by some other mechanism but it certainly won't be the case that Firefox for iOS could run extensions intended for Firefox on desktop, nor would one expect extensions from the Chrome Web Store to work properly on Chrome for iOS.

Perhaps that's an upshot? Better support for browser-agnostic WebExtensions?

Even then, that's up to whether or not Apple permits that in the App Store.
How long do you think a terrestrial internet connection would last if the ISP that owned it stopped maintaining it?
My dog gets bitten a lot (has a collar now) but why are you getting bitten?
I was told ticks don't fall from the trees, as I assumed, but linger in the grass and then walk up your legs. Stuffing your trousers into your socks should prevent most of them, no?
Wait, even to develop/test on your own device, without releasing, you need to fill out the form?
While I understand your line of thinking, I think is bizarre that short life span is seen as good thing in a world, where we should probably be careful with how we use every single resource for the sake of the environment and future generations.
This doesn't involve littering our sky.
Tesla to Be the Most 'Deeply Integrated Automative Company'
There are a few subjects that engage the downvote hivemind reaction on HN, one of them is implying that Elon Musk might not shit cinnamon roll scented gold.

It is probably going to be particularly bad in this thread because pretty much everyone hates their ISP and is excited for an alternative that doesn't need to deal with every single municipality separately the way Google Fiber did.
at least you know what you don't want. once step at a time. you'll get there. good times ahead!
The article seems to imply they only called it Christian because the rules for 'Christian' rehab are more loose than for regular rehab.
There's more than 30 languages in Europe.

US feels like a capitalist monocolture, where every city looks pretty much like the others.
You're welcome. I see from the Library of America website that the novel is A Time To Be Born.
I love Rust but I agree with you. For sqlite in particular the argument seems heavily tilted against a rewrite.
Are you really comparing bridges to be replaced every 50 years, and regular satellites expected to operate for 2 decades, with these Spacex sattelites which are expected to last 5 years?

You are being dishonest here
Yes, my job is this product: https://moodistory.com
"Long winters with heavy snow fall and icy road conditions. Sure, some folks drive them year round. But the number of rwd cars on the road when snow is on the ground is nearly zero."

Eh, I grew up driving an old caprice in the mountains of PA - no anti-lock, no traction control, not even posi-trac. My current truck is RWD only, although I don't live in the mountains anymore. While FWD can offer a slight advantage, I don't think it makes much of a difference as long as you have the proper tires and make smart choices.

So it is drivable.

I think it's more that the people who own the nicer trims of those cars try to save them from the salt or people who can't drive. Not to mention that RWD cars are already a minority of the vehicles on the road, except for 99% of the time the trucks you see will be in RWD.

Yeah, it's definitely more of a single person's car, or a second car for a family without small kids.
This is inaccurate.

You can't duplicate entry level devices like Yubikeys but hardware wallets like Ledger and Trezor both support backup of FIDO seeds in the form of 24 english words you can store endless ways, or recover to a secondary device.

I have duplicates of all my MFA keys.

These devices are also more secure as they show you the website you are approving on screen to avoid being tricked by malware.
Gaming Metaverses: All You Need to Know
A gaming metaverse is multifaceted and complex. To make things easier, check out this helpful all you need to know piece on HackerNoon about how a gaming metaverse works, what makes them engaging and how they might be dangerous.
Well, 3% into the video he mentions it's a sponsored video, so I'm not sure that saying it's too ad like is valid criticism. Perhaps him using his platform for ads is a valid criticism, but nearly every Youtuber makes their living at least in part doing sponsor videos/segments, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

For what it's worth, I enjoyed the video. However I'm bullish on Waymo's approach to self driving, so I wouldn't feel it as much if the video is too positive.
Are there any options for silent clicks? A few mice have this option these days but impossible to find for trackballs.
> Kids aren't at risk.

Well, the Delta variant seems to be changing that.
Also, we do not yet have a good idea about the real world levels of reduction in "death/hospitalization/severe illness". Currently, in the United States, known deaths from Covid19 among people stands at "eight point seven per million fully vaccinated" (aka, 8.7/million) and has been steadily increasing since April[1,2].

Hospitalizations from Covid19 among the fully vaccinated stands at "thirty six per million fully vaccinated" and steadily increasing.

Since both outcomes come at the end of a process (get vaccinated -> get exposed to the virus -> get an infection -> require a hospital visit -> die from illness), there is naturally at least five or weeks lags between someone completing the full vaccination schedule and the hospitalization/death outcome occurring.

Given that about half the full vaccinations in the U.S. happened since April and given that the consensus seems to be that vaccine conferred protection lasts about 6-8 months, I would not expect the "deaths from Covid19 per million fully vaccinated against Covid19" to stabilize until October.

In the mean time, the unvaccinated will either have to submit or driven into the shadows with the current policies. Pretty soon, it will be a miracle to find anyone whose natural immune response without vaccination can be measured/tested at all.

[1]: Current version: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...

[2]: Snapshots since April: https://archive.ph/https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/hea...
I think there is because “rent” and “lease” implies your intent is to stay there short-term. “Buy” says you literally are buying the home whether it’s with your money or someone else’s via some mortgage terms.

With an Apple device it certainly is muddy waters because you purchase hardware while simultaneously in some weird lease agreement for the software.

I guess it’s like buying a house in a gated community with very strict home owners association. You can purchase the house but if you want to put a new door on it you gotta go through the motions to ultimately get denied the color you want, etc.

And if Apple was the association they’d have a neighborhood watch ensuring 8PM curfews.
It looks more concise but if you're like me not into functional programming much, .map() is magic.

Consistency is more important than conciseness. Clear is better than clever. Plus, a function invocation / .map() is heavier than an err != nil check / condition.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the Either pattern as an alternative to if err != nil, but I also appreciate the really dumb and straightforward approach of non-clever Go.
I agree, I am far away from criticize how modern IDEs works and looks like. My point is that this extensions are jump on at the startup without stricly specyfing new user needs.
Extension linked by you are really cool, all best!
https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/ nice stuff
You are falling to No true Scotsman aka appeal to purity fallacy with religion.

Christianity is defined by Christians not how others interpret the bible. Different Christians define it differently. There is no one real way to be Christian.
> Yes that is the business model and business is good. As opposed to EU which is a wasteland where nothing grows.

Endlessly burning through infinite cash isn't a good business model. And it ultimately results in a significantly worse wasteland than the perceived wasteland of Europe.

Where in Europe you have lots of companies in lots of different markets, in the US you have continuous price dumping that drives away any and all competition (unless that competition has more infinite money), and preys on people.

For example, the explosive growth of gig economy is the direct result of this "good business model". And who woulda thunk it, but predators like Doordash are predictably a "YC Top Company".
Mozilla considers File System Access API to be harmful (2021)
From the title, I thought it's a horror story about how people got ground into a powder, mixed with some plants, and fed to the chickens. So the actual events didn't sound too bad by comparison.
The problem I see with NFT (not blockchains in general) is that, while the token is valued because it's a reference to something specific, there's no authority or enforcement for this reference to be relevant:

- you may have a unique NFT relative to the next hit of Taylor Swift;

- nothing requires Taylor Swift to agree/disagree about this;

- nothing prevents tons of other NFTs relative to the same item to pop up;

- so all you have is some value coined to an arbitrary digital artefact referencing non-exclusively to a specific item, without anyone guaranteeing it is indeed relevant now or in the future;

- so why would you burn money and energy for that?

- you may as well print paper money with Mona Lisa's face on your cheap home printer.

OR. There's still something I miss there.
If you think about it, the satellites disintegrate in the atmosphere, reseeding the planet with whatever elements they're made of. Same as how many elements on Earth comes from asteroids!
Could you explain your posture in the CSAM scanning thing? I'm not an apple user but the way I see it, it's not some sort of nudism / age detection mechanism where a very incopetent system could land you in jail for an old digitalized photo of yourself after a shower from 30 years ago when parents actually took those kinds of pics.

The way I see it, it just hashes them with whatever mechanism they came up with and there are additional mechanisms to verify it if for some fringe conincidence your cat pictures hash matches some CSAM hash which would be annoying but not the end of the world.

Now, in the other hand, let's say the snitch detects actual CSAM in someones phone, what's the problem? if it was sent without their consent an investigation can lead to who sent it, and if it was well, tough shit...

I know it sounds very 1984ish but honestly I don't think it's any worst than the kind of surveillance power google has with all their platforms combined (chrome, android, google, any web thing they didn't kill already).

I guess, what I'm asking for is for real arguments on why and how this truly violates privacy and to what extent it is problematic for a legit non CSAM consuming person.

I'm not trying to argue with you but to understand this point of view since I read so many comments against it but nothing that seriously made sense to me.
I think the mentor gave up and said just use what you are comfortable with. Nothing wrong with that, best to use the tools that we are most productive in. Weird article though.
(namespacing-so-the-functions-and-variables-dont-need-these-sorts-of-prefixes)
Definitely not true in the UK, definitely not true in The Netherlands.

Not true among my Paris based friends, had dinner with some of the latter which included someone who was on their third startup and a few Sciences Po / X types who have the kinds of jobs you would expect and the latter were extremely interested in the what the former was up to and how the startup ecosystem worked. Definitely not a sense that they thought having tried and failed to start a tech company was somehow a bad mark - and realistically grande école types tend to be very status conscious so would have picked it up if it was there. I can't speak to what older people, people outside of Paris would think of it. I would guess much more conservative.
Cliodynamics
This is a complex question.

Tens of thousands of satellites looks like a huge constellation, but compared to the worldwide fleet of cars, bicycles, or even laptops, their total resource footprint isn't very big. Their ratio of users to machines is incredibly high. And they are designed to burn up completely, so they do not end up in a landfill somewhere.

Fast improvements of worldwide Internet coverage may well be net positive for the environment and future generations. For example, protection of animals in national parks of Africa against poaching may become easier / more efficient.
Currently in progress: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/23/22399008/apple-lawsuit-ov...

As much as I want the court to decide that “buy” cannot mean anything less than “indefinite and irrevocable license” I’m expecting the judge to decide the case in Apple’s favour on the basis that consumer expectations have changed over the past 15 and that no “reasonable person” would expect a $15 impulse-buy of an intangible product to _last_. After all, you may have your VHS tapes from K-Mart you bought 30 years ago, but can you actually watch them? And you are “buying” a license to DRM’d content after-all and “buy” isn’t legally defined that way (Yes, I recognise it’s a terrible argument, just playing Devils’ advocate)

…or Apple will just change “Buy” to “Get” and it won’t make a difference to their bottom-line at all. I’ll bet that Apple’s profits - or even revenues - from purchases on iTMS for movies and TV shows are a rounding error compared to AppleTV+ subscriptions - and iPhone hardware sales, of course.
There's a whole identity crisis going on.