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> In particular, I think he's right that rewriting sqlite in a memory-safe language would introduce a bunch of bugs and likely result in a couple of years of instability.

AIUI, the SQLite test suite always is praised for being especially expansive(complete?), so assuming it's not testing C-isms, which would be weird, then I would expect a rewrite to be less risky than trying a trick like that in most business software
Is it fair to compare salaries in one specific place in USA versus the average European city ? Seems like you are comparing max salary in USA vs average salary in Europe.

Seems fair to consider max salary in Europe when comparing with SV.

There should also be arbitrage opportunities for cities outside of SV in USA.
Tare weight for a shipping container is 8000lbs, so no.
We will think about this for sure.
Anyway, Thank you, I appreciate your taking the time to write. We value and respect your opinion.
High latency isn't just concern for the gamers. It matters to people holding online meetings or working on remote desktops. Which means almost everyone who wants to work from home.
This isn't terribly clear from the title, but I assume that they only tested plants, in which case evaporative cooling is also relevant.

They should have just compared it to a roof literally painted green (or white) though, as a control.
You used the term ‘shitcoin’, which is commonly used pejorative term by bitcoiners against anything that isn’t bitcoin.
Well in this case, Apple make a ‘tool’ that lets you send multicast packets (it’s actually built in to the device, but it’s behind a lock) - and they will even give you the key to unlock that tool and instructions for how to use it if you apply through a form on their website!

That doesn’t seem quite so evil, does it?
I did not expect a positive answer here. I wanted to know what the implicit constraints are so I chose an example that was obviously impossible.

I worked across domains for a while (CS, simulation, mathematics) and one thing that was really problematic was that people from one domain used a lot of implicit constraints that the other partners weren't aware of. This then led to incorrect software and weird simulation results.
Good news is that you can use char* for UTF-8, which is an ASCII superset, and many operations such as splitting on an ASCII character work just fine with UTF-8 strings without any code changes.
Isn't Iraq democratic now?
Ireland checking in: if you go outside of Dublin, most people own cars and use them as their main mode of travel.
A recent post on Reddit /r/AskUK came from an American who was astounded that someone would be given directions to a location and told "it's about a 30 minutes walk". They asked if British people really walked "that much". A redditor responded with Bill Bryson's piece about Americans and their cars, which included an anecdote about inviting his next door neighbors over to dinner, in which they drove. While Irish people certainly aren't allergic to walking considerable distances, I've seen "country people" here drive obscenely short distances. The car becomes a habit. Once you're outside the city, the car is still king, unfortunately. When I visit my family, I get a train to their nearest town, and if there's a convenient bus, I'll use it to do the last 20km. But that bus only runs every 2 hours and, stupidly, doesn't align with train times. When I'm there, my family constantly offer to drive me stupidly short distances. Occasionally I accept if it's raining or after dark, since most county roads have no foot path and are unlit. Also, because almost everybody in the country drives a car, there's a far higher percentage of idiots behind the wheel. For example, those between the ages of 17 and 21 who think that they're amazing, omniscient and indestructible, even after a few pints. In the city, many people hold off on the unnecessary expense of a car until they "need one", since rent costs a ton, and decent public transport makes a car a luxury that you don't need until you get a space-wagon with 3 child seats.
Basic human nature, push it as far as the other side will take it. If the other side is significantly weaker they'll compromise a lot before they snap and push back, or try to.
If the people of your country vote that you are a second class citizen, and you are stripped of the rights that everyone else enjoys, should they have been free to choose that?
Apple has been crystal clear in their marketing and documentation about how app development and distribution works on iOS since the day it was announced in 2008.

The specific question here is why Apple is putting new restrictions on multicast. Unfortunately all the informative comments are far below this rehash sub thread.
What compelling evidence?
Once you’ve made a mistake, plucked chickens you’ll make. You’ll be beat with a rake. You won’t get a fair shake. Your dignity they’ll take. You’ve no idea what’s at stake.
The UK is part of Europe - no democracy of voting system can change tectonic plates.

But I'm aware many transpose the two terms as the same. Either way - what is not known is how those ventures were funded and whilst a company may startup in EUrope, it don't mean all that financing came from within that domain.
So, you don't own other people's networks? Right.
Hey Apple employees, this is the future you're building:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
No doubt. I've posted this in several threads on HN already. But what I'm stating stands - people (mostly media) are starting to treat and report on "Long Covid" as if it's own disease. You are left with permanent long term issues from cold, flu, and all other infections.
Rule by unaccountable large organizations isn't specifically "capitalist", as it has existed in societies of every type of economic organization. By this definition even the Soviet Union was capitalist.

I totally agree with you that private organizations being above the law (especially sadistic ones like this) is bad.

> by the market

How is someone forced by the state to perform free labor a market participant?
The US is definitely much worse, yes. Even just looking at the biggest prison system and all of the invaded countries.
Welcome to the fun that is address field localization. Some countries have house numbers first, and some have it at the end.

742 Evergreen Terrace vs. Platz der Republik 1.

Google's Contacts app just has a text field and lets Google Maps take care of the parsing.
That's how we ended up with UTF-16, the abomination from Microsoft. UTF-8 or bust.
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So, no democracy unless it's the correct type of democracy? Maybe just install a correct authoritarian regime and call it a day?
> I don't recall them before Unicode. I do recall "dry clean only" on the tags, etc.

These icons are far older than unicode, and in fact is not in unicode at the moment. There's a proposal to add them, but I don't believe it's passed yet. The standardized icons themselves date from the 1970s, though non-standard laundry symbols are much older than that.

Design use of icons over text has nothing to do with Unicode, it's a natural part of human expression. Icons are everywhere, from traffic signs to laundry symbols to buttons on computers to ramblings signs. I think your reading of the typographical history here is simply wrong, neither Apple nor Unicode is responsible for the "iconiziation" of communication. We've always used icons for communication, and we always will.

If your issue is with Emoji, then you should make that case instead. Personally, i think it's great that if I send an emoji from an iPhone to an Android phone (or from/to essentially any device), you get a consistent symbol, instead of being locked in to whatever your manufacturer was using (the fact that this kind of lock-in was occurring was the original motivation for adding emoji to Unicode).

Btw, laundry symbols are a perfect demonstration for another wonderful feature of using icons: they're cross language. You can put one tag on a piece of clothing and sell it anywhere in the world. Not everyone speaks English.
no, not really... just on paper. like Afghanistan 1 months ago.
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Reminds me of this (less math-heavy!) analysis of "Skateboarding Science" about Rodney Mullen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFRPhi0jhGc
I think this is a very good question!

The case I was thinking of is a highway I was in last week, where temporary work has one of the directions going through the other direction, so the 2+emergency lanes in one direction become 2 lanes without emergency in one direction and one lane in the opposite one.

In this case, there are temporary lane markings on the ground indicating you should not follow the old ones, but rather align yourself further to the right then you would normally do.

OTOH, I am familiar with the situation in Rome where often the lane markings are deleted and a road may be 2-3-4 lanes depending on how people queue up, in which case people would generally rely on social/experience cues, which I'm unable to formalize.
>Cloud is known to not be the cheapest option at large scale, so it is a bit curious they decided not to build their own infra.

The "cloud" provided by AWS is cheaper -- if you use the higher-level AWS portfolio of services . E.g. DynamoDB, Redshift, Kinesis, etc.

If the mental model of "cloud" is just "bare metal servers", aka EC2, then AWS is more expensive than self-owned datacenters.

So yes, if you're only looking at cpu and egress costs, AWS as a "dumb data center" is a terrible deal. But that's not how Pinterest uses AWS. They use AWS high-level services:

E.g. they use AWS Rekognition -- machine learning service to annotate images with text : https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/innovators/pin...

Pinterest also tried self-hosted Elasticsearch but it cost them more money than AWS Elasticseaerch: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/pinterest-elas...

(Yes, those are AWS marketing articles but writing those case studies require cooperation and approval by the customer (Pinterest in this case.).)

So far, Pinterest concluded it would not be cheaper to build their own machine learning algorithms to process images. Paying for AWS Rekognition is part of the ~$400m/year cost.
They're too busy writing spyware for iOS 15.
Can you share details about the CO2 emissions per kg-mile of cargo as compared to e.g. trucking or traditional air freight?
> coöperative

Not that I agree with going back to ASCII, but cooperative is already the dominant spelling by a wide margin to the point where using coöperative comes off as pretentious.
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In a home owner's association, the home owners are part of the association. You have to play by the rules, but you are also part of the body that makes the rules.

In this case, the party setting the rules is more like the rich person who originally built and "sold" the houses (but still enforces curfew, and changes the rules whenever they feel like it).
I have to imagine this is related to the release of Matter, the smart home communication standard. Cutting off multicast cuts off a standard way existing network connected home automation devices work, forcing users to Matter and to ultimately buy into a new ecosystem.
> Further, number of casualties is a perfectly fine argument for "who sacrificed the most," but not necessarily for who "won" the war.

Exactly. It's possible to have that many casualties and then lose the war. All those casualty numbers tell us is that the war on the Eastern front was far more brutal than the war on the Western front, not how strategically important the victory on either front ended up being.
I would say that it doesn't mean that someone is inherently bad, just that there are factors out of their control leading to them doing something that is unwanted by society as a whole. From this it follows that it would be unethical to "punish" people for such acts and the more ethical approach of society should be to try minimize the occurrence of these factors.
Didn't some of the churches long ago have underground meeting places allowing people to meet in secret so they could practice religion without persecution? Do those still exist anywhere?
No because 99% of users will never need to look at a dotfile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Egyptian_presidential_ele...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_e...
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I certainly don’t want to suggest that Apple couldn’t do more in terms of security, but 0-days are inevitable. Every OS has them, and will continue to have them. Throwing money at this can make it better, but I don’t think it’s possible to “fix” it without creating some sort of new paradigm for how software is made.
The IMF and the World Bank serve an important purpose. They provide a great standard of living to otherwise unemployable economists and policy analysts.

Therefore, regardless of how many people they kill, and, yes, they have killed people due to statistics and economics illiteracy combined with blind career ambition, they will continue to be around for a long time.
Hey, that's pretty good information coherence for that long a game of telephone.

(Or wikipedia is wrong about R0 values for various diseases, including the delta variant)
A well-known still-private YC unicorn has a similar spend to this, if not more.

Thousands of beefy EC2 instances, petabytes of warm-to-hot S3 objects, chunky RDS instances and a large data warehouse add up pretty quick.

It's important to note that these negotiated prices are way, way less than the sticker price. It's a win-win.
TIL AI thinks plants and reproductive organs look a like
I strongly disagree with your point, but it is well-articulated and I also felt the need to upvote given the LISP syntax.
Note that these are the same simulations that cannot accurately predict future climate based on past/present conditions. At present there is no model in use that can predict current conditions from past data. It's shameful that government policy makers are relying on this junk.
The third world is becoming 1984, the first world is debating itself to either become the third world or A Brave New World.
So it extracts RSS feeds from websites?

https://mergefeed.net/WFH?urls=https://wfhjobs.us/
The EEA, the Eurozone and the EU are all things that aren't equivalent to "Europe".

Great Britain was in Europe millions of years ago and will still be in Europe a million years from now. It doesn't matter whether the subject at hand is economy or geography. Some parts of the former Soviet union or Turkey could be debated whether they are in Europe and it could even be dependent on context, but great britain will never be outside europe even if Nigel Farage paddles for the rest of his life.
Do you find that 500 GB is enough for storing everything?
> year after high school

> not allowed to leave the compound

Wouldn't you have been at least 18 at this point? Unless I'm missing something you were absolutely allowed to leave the compound, but I presume then your parents would no longer pay for your housing.
You let them go fundamentalist because it will swing back the other way.

This only works if social changes are made allowing for these things to happen.
No. You have octagonal blocks of Barcelona, wide streets of Haussman's Paris and canals of Venice. And that's not even touching the postcommunist part of continent.
And I'd argue that this "reminder" needs to be harsh, direct, and not easy to forget.

Not that I would ever publicly advocate for assault, arson, etc. But it'd be <cough> a real shame if it would happen.
Do you even need to sign it to run it locally? I thought that was only if you wanted to use the App Store.
$1300 will not get you a carbon bike. It will get you a new Trek Domane AL3 which is aluminum. Carbon is usually an option on prebuilt bikes starting in the $2000-$3000 range.

You don't need carbon to workout or bikepack, but your comfort level increases.

I love SPD, but that's because I have had my feet slip on flat pedals and seen how close I was to getting injured because of it

If you're going bikepacking in a place where there's not going to be any high end mechanics then I agree that using the most common components makes sense because then anybody can help you. Although I've heard that to go bikepacking in China you need a local handler in a car following you, so I would probably just have them carry spare components there.

And yeah, I don't lock my bike outside, only in groups where we can maintain eye contact with the bikes while sitting down. If I commuted by bike I would use something much much cheaper.
Bandwidth is probably way up there on the list. Thats always been a surprisingly large chunk of the large AWS bills I've been a part of.
> These icons are far older than unicode, and in fact is not in unicode at the moment. There's a proposal to add them, but I don't believe it's passed yet.

And yet we get bagels both with and without cream cheese. Says something about Unicode's priorities doesn't it?
I don't think the two choices described are the only choices available. The point of a democracy is that — if the people are unhappy with those ruling them — they can change those in power without a revolution, civil wars or similar violence. Such a change is hardly imaginable with radical islamist powers.

This principle of being able to get rid of those you voted in is more important in a democracy than the actual representation of the "will of the people", because the "will of the people" can change and so the people should not be allowed to make a democratic choice that robs them, the oppositions and the coming generations of their future democratic rights. This is what we in Germany call "wehrhafte Demokratie" ("militant democracy").

If your democracy can be lost by voting in facists or religious nuts it is not a sufficiently enough militant democracy, seperations of powers didn't work as intended etc. Democracies should be designed for this case in mind, not for the normal "we have leaders who are a tad bit corrupt but things are otherwise ok"-case.

So every nation should be able to vote in whoever they please, but those voted in should not have the power to abolish democracy, human rights, etc. because it, is not their right fundamentally.

This is why one can be for democracy in a state and at the same time be against certain antidemocratic powers that will ignore, circumvent, undermine democratic guarantees like the ones mentioned. But the whole discourse is quite old already and had been well discussed by Karl Popper: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Should we tolerate the intolerant in a tolerant society? No. Not even if they are the majority.
You may not be aware of the spectrum, but there are plenty of forms of government between democracy and authoritarian.

For instance, there can be an indirect democratic republic that is configured in a way to protect the rights of the minority against the desires of the majority.
Wait till you hear about orchids.
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>The convict gets the option of jail or chicken farm

I'm not convinced that's always true. There's many different courts from different states sending people there. At the very least, there are probably threats of much longer prison times. Like "1 year at the chicken farm" or "3-5 years in prison" perhaps. Or "1 year at the chicken farm that's eligible to be expunged from your record" vs "1 year in prison that will always be hanging over you in the form of background checks". Prosecutors and judges are quite good at making optional things not really optional and have all sorts of levers they can pull (credit for back time, waiving court costs, dropping X of Y charges, "enhancements" of charges, pre-sentencing conditions, deferred adjudication, and so on).
I own a Wyze scale and I noticed my cat standing on it. So, I created an account for her. She steps on it often enough that the wyze app gives me weight charts for her. I bet it would give me readings multiple times a day if I just set it in front of her food dish.
> Hey, they got that system in place already in China! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

From your link: "By 2020,[needs update] it was intended to standardize the assessment of citizens' and businesses' economic and social reputation, or 'Social Credit'."

It's 2021 now and the "Social" part of "Social Credit" is still science-fiction, let alone somebody's web history affecting their ability to obtain credit.

The part that is in place already and works somewhat is a national registry of unpaid debts, so you can find out e.g. that the state-owned investment fund you're dealing with owned a large stake of a mining company that went bankrupt while owing a large sum of money to a state-owned bank, leading to a court case in which the fund was ordered to service part of the debt. Stuff like that.
> They say never meet your heroes, and perhaps their is wisdom in that.

That's a weird way to say you chickened out of making small talk with someone.

My 2c: instead of idolizing people make friends with them, and only then give them the hero appellative
I tend to agree with you, but it’s also definitely possible that segments of the population are unaware of issues they would care about if they were.
On the surface this seems blatantly illegal: after the sale is made the no-longer-owner removes functionality.

Can someone please explain how this is legally not some sort of theft, or bait-and-switch, or ... something?

I read comments about firmware licensing, or Japan's camera noise thing. Those sound like Samsung problems, while disabling a camera sounds like an actionable user problem.
This is the same system used for Internet contracts, buying work tools, renting apartments and buying houses.

If you can afford those things more safely, you should be considered less desirable? Instead, it's the people who are likely to be in debt until death that are better?

But I guess, yeah, fuck society, get rich while you can.
Good point. Reminded me of that talk of Ronald Reagan about Freedom being one generation away from extinction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDouNtnR_IA
A lot of our democratic law influenced by lobbyists is trampling on the rights of the majority to benefit a small minority.

We can't bomb democracy into these countries. We have to show them that our model is superior. We bombed away many dictators, just then to be unhappy with what the people voted for afterwards. How are you going to convince the Afghans that Democracy is better than the Taliban and Sharia, when their president was corrupt and fled the country with a helicopter full of money, instead of protecting the nation?

Imagine Apple bombing the house of a Samsung user to convince them to buy an iPhone. That's what we do in Arabic countries. And while we talk about democracy, we steal what they have.
Have you seen the cost of housing in the blue states? Where are the booming blue collar job bases to support people without high-end skills and education?
I like this. Text is too large when viewing on my phone though.
Those reporters are modern heroes. These "christians" should be sued into oblivion, stripped of their illegally obtained assets and rot in prison.
lol. wow. nice article.

Of course the IMF has it's own goals which are fairly easy to guess. It's no surprise that a 'credit score' is more a way to separate friends from enemies rather than a measure of creditworthiness.

It's interesting to think of machine learning let loose on the problem of a persons likelihood to pay back their bills. The uproar about the 'unfairness' of the decisions would be tremendous. No doubt that's already been done to a large extent, but the politics of the era won't allow it so there's bound to be a bit of tension in the system.
Not to be confused with https://stedolan.github.io/jq/