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Yes seriously. Portraying conservative interest in small government as being a result of civil rights enforcement is pure historical revisionism. Hoover’s party advocated small government while FDR’s party advocate big government. Those orientations were in place long before FDR’s party got on board with civil rights.

What’s changed isn’t the parties but the valance of civil rights issues. The court cases today aren’t about facially discriminatory laws, but about whether the USDA can discriminate based on race in granting debt relief, or whether Harvard can use race as a criterion for admissions.
The party of FDR and Wilson is the natural home for those efforts at bureaucratic social engineering, while the party of Hoover is the natural opponent of such efforts.
A perennial complaint; Rob Pike had a trollier but similar version years back. I'm not nearly as optimistic that we have the resources to cope with the monstrous complexity of hardware now.

An anecdote I like to share is that while I was TA'ing CMU's 15-410 operating systems course (a great course - build a preemptive multitasking operating system from scratch) was that the student projects could run on real - if old - hardware. There was a PC that could boot your stuff if you put it on a disk.

This PC had to have PS/2 interface to the keyboard, though. A newer PC would be all USB. Apparently, the complexity of the codebase to talk to the USB device was around the similar level of complexity to the entire preemptive multitasking operating system the students were building (and, of course, considerably less educational). I mean, this wasn't a full-functioned OS, but it allowed multitasking and preemption of kernel calls, so seriously non-trivial.

Multiply this story by all the devices a reasonable OS would be expected to talk to and it's a scary prospect for the OS researcher... and if you don't have those devices up and running, good luck supporting most workloads anyone cares about.
Apple is under no legal obligation to license their material at FRAND rates, nor are they under any legal obligation to make you happy. So let's table that.

What does the App Store fee cover?

• Credit card transactions (~3%)

• Gift card transactions (10–30%)

• Absorbing the costs of credit card fraud

• Running the App Store, bandwidth etc

• Performing app review[1]

• A license fee for use of Apple libraries and APIs

• Having your App receiving the residual goodwill of being available in a store where customers know that Apple is constantly breathing down the neck of developers to do the right thing[2] and pushing the envelope of policies such as not allowing third party tracking by Facebook.

• Having your App for sale in a store where customers feel comfortable generally need to fear credit card fraud, malicious code, where scams are less common (and can generally be refunded), etc etc.

Let's imagine that Apple said "okay, you can have an open market" and replaces their App Store fees with a license fee of 15 percent of gross revenues, similar to how Epic charges developers for use of Unreal Engine. Now you can have an open market for apps. Let's see how alternatives compete for the costs of running and marketing their stores.

[1] Just because something is imperfect, doesn't mean it's useless.

[2] This alone is worth 30% to me personally.
> The Mac App Store came after there was a thriving ecosystem for Mac apps online/organically and without a middle man, and it provided close to zero value for developers on top of that. I don’t think it’s a fair comparison.

Perhaps the iOS and Android app stores are also middle men that provide close to zero value but forced themselves onto mobile phones.
That manually operated control rod was sophisticated compared to some of the earlier experiments. They used to stack bricks around a chunk of uranium, so the bricks would reflect neutrons back at the uranium. Eventually, once you stack enough bricks around the uranium it goes super critical and just goes nuts. They used to manually search out this super critical threshold by manually stacking bricks and then slowly move that final brick towards and away from the uranium and watch it balance on the line between sub critical and super critical.

One day, someone dropped the brick and there was a blue flash. Lots of neutrons were released that day. People died from radiation exposure soon after.

There's also a story about a fuel rod getting jammed, so they tried to force it with a crane and ended up breaking it in half, spilling highly radioactive water all over the place, and then the fuel rod catches on fire because it's not being cooled anymore. It's comical how quickly these disasters escalate.

Read https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Accidents-Meltdowns-Disasters-... , it's accurate and relatively fun given the subject. One of the chapters is titled "The US Government almost never lost nuclear weapons", which I find subtly amusing.
Flamewar comments like this will get you banned here, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Red Tape That Could Cost Millions of Americans Their Homes
Because otherwise your boss could tell you to sweep the floors while your software was compiling.

The negotiation of specified work duties resulted in an agreement between the company and the union representing the employee. If that doesn't matter, then why negotiate at all? Do employees get to decide that they're not going to do something because they don't feel like it?

If you want flexibility, you negotiate flexibility. You don't negotiate the reduction of work duties against wages, and then demand that employees do whatever they have the technical ability to do. If I have the technical ability to do accounting, but I'm employed as a bus driver, can my employer demand that I balance the books?

Employers don't own employees. There's a contract that promises specific wages for specific work.
‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ – Explained in Ten Minutes
I think it’s probably a limited market, honestly, unless it’s cheaper. The cow still only produces milk to an efficient level for about five years; after that you kill it. People concerned with the ethical issues won’t want it, generally; they’d continue to use either plant ‘milk’ or just no milk.

And the startup costs would be high; getting it approved for human consumption would not be cheap, and there’d be a risk of it being barred on animal welfare grounds anyway. Notably, the reason, at least officially, that hormones can’t be used on farm animals in the EU is animal welfare, not safety (you could speculate that it’s actually about safety, but animal welfare is an easier one for governments to win on).

Ultimately you’d be looking at a high risk of never getting it approved, and even if you did it’s unclear who’d want it.
these guys, look like they've a great product. but damn, why are they cash flow negative. if financing dries up, the business goes kaboom. I feel like at the revenue they had maybe they shouldn't have taken vc money. $50m revenue, with a lean team team turn profit. now things can look up, if they get acquired by a PE firm that trims the fat.
Schemer or Naïf? Elizabeth Holmes Is Going to Trial
This is an underhanded way of saying, “If you’re not
with me, then you’re against me.”

I had a number of extremely unpleasant conversations online that went like this on some well-known tech sites.

No room for nuance. Just a constant blast of attacks on character, strawman, and hysterics.

So far Hacker news readers don’t tolerate this but sometimes I wonder for how long.
Yes, the processes would be different. A misfunctioning gas furnace will kill everyone from CO poisoning, and wood fireplaces are even more dangerous.

Surely an in-home reactor would require safeties of an appropriate degree. Perhaps those would make in-home nuclear infeasible, I wouldn't know. With a bit of careful planning, any given house could easily take out half a city block or more given someone with intent to cause harm, though, and without knowing the actual amount of radioactive material in any given in-hime reactor, I couldn't begin to compare.

Edit: this is why I am a whimsical commenter on the internet and not the person in charge of whether or not we give redneck engineers nuclear reactors.
> WebGL export using Three.js, which is how the interactive models on this page work
Google delays its return to office until January
This is an underhanded way of saying, “If you’re not
with me, then you’re against me.”

It’s toxic and intolerable.
Yea I agree it’s something we can and should debate via legislation. However there is another part to that spectrum: laws prohibiting institutions from mandating vaccinations.

Anecdata warning: Over half of my wife’s healthcare colleagues refuse to get vaccinated. These are people who regularly treat the extremely frail and immunocompromised.
BuildZoom (remote project management for construction) is hiring
Or you can log it and never fix it. I noticed a flurry of crashes that came about on restarting the vm. Almost certainly transient startup race conditions. Causes effectively zero service downtime and no degradation of QOS for end user (other nodes in the cluster could service requests). But having a disorderly startup is less of a pain in the butt to program and may even result in a quicker time to start. So who cares. Never fixed it.
A Chinese CEO Stole Control of All of ARM's Intellectual Property
There have been very public physical attacks on Asians in SF if you have been paying attention.

Trump was also never recalled unlike this school board member.

You have a consistent theme of using every opportunity to magnify bad actions by non Republican actors no matter how insignificant the person might be, discount the apologies etc. while downplaying Republican racism (ex Stephen Miller who wouldn't let a brown ass into this country if he could) and providing convoluted arguments to support blatantly antiscience stance taken by the Republican party. Its tiresome to see this shtick play out in every thread.
Long haul fibres need EDFAs to boost the optical signal so that it can travel through thousands of kilometers of fibre. EDFAs need laser light to perform amplification. Generating laser light requires electricity. Electricity requires conductive wires. Conductive wires are susceptible to induced currents caused by solar flares over large distances.

The IEEE brings this up every few years into relation with the electrical grid. A massive solar flare will likely result in humanity being thrown into chaos for multiple years with large chunks of infrastructure being offline until low volume high cost replacement parts (especially high voltage transformers) are built.
> impose increasingly larger taxes on those who have more simply because they have more

You're free to disagree on the ethics, but hopefully you can accept the logic of it. If I may ironically steal a line from William Francis Sutton Jr., they tax the rich because "that's where the money is".

To be a little more nuanced, though, money has diminishing marginal utility, in the sense that $10 means less to a billionaire than to someone who is broke, and therefore if a tax system takes into account the perspectives of the people who hold the money, rather than the perspectives of the pieces of money themselves, it makes sense to tax not just as a fixed proportion of people's wealth, but to tax wealth above certain thresholds at higher rates.

Consider also that the median US household pays about $10k in taxes per year, and has a net worth of about $120k. That means that, just to tax billionaires proportionally (not progressively), there could be a wealth tax of 8% per year. Instead we tax income, which punishes people for working and rewards the idle rich.
Google, Facebook, Microsoft top EU lobbying spending
NixOS on Underpowered Devices
If the core of your argument is that contracts are suboptimal for people who want more than what is in the contract, it's not hard to sidestep.

It's also suboptimal for the employee not to get paid twice as much, or work half the hours.
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Yes, yes they would. And they do. Regularly.

When you've spent enough time in the IT Department, you'll see companies demand that you "cut laptop costs" or similar. Because when you're buying 250 laptops a year, the people with the budgets go "OMG we're spending half a million a year on laptops". So changes are made to the configuration, maybe small SSD but often times it'll be something like less RAM, or slower CPU - because purchasing controls aren't that fine. Great, you've now cut $200 per laptop and the money people are excited to see you've saved $50,000/year.

Do they understand that now there are 250 people, which probably all cost more than $100,000/year, whom aren't quite as efficient as they could be? Nope. And they don't care. The budget says you get X. The personnel cost is attributed in some other category not to be touched.

Almost no one at a higher level looks at the puzzle and goes "Well we should spend $250/year to get this $250,000 asset productive". They look at the situation and go "We've got 100 developers, ain't no way we're spending $25k/year on this product. It's not in budget."

Lastly the per-employee cost adds up. It's $11/mo for SSO. $18/mo for email suite. $19/mo for Gitlab. $14/mo for Jira. $5/mo for Confluence. $3/mo just to put SAML on Jira & Confluence. $8/mo for Password vault. $12/mo for Slack. $17/mo fro Zoom. $17/mo for Lucidchart. $12/mo for Laptop MDM. That's not everything an employee needs, heck it doesn't even cover HR products (Workday? 15Five? Applicant Tracking?), Training (probably a couple of those), EDR/AV for laptops, and dozens of other smaller services. Sure adding another $21/mo isn't going to change the number a lot on an individual basis, but it adds up really fast when you multiply it out across all your Developers.

And don't forget. How do you rationalize that your container software costs more than your source code control solution? One of those two things you can very easily live without... and it's Docker.
So how big were these ships that they could carry 500,000 pounds? That is 8000 ft^3 of water displacement, or a 20 foot cube.
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Seems like the only included indexers which are available are PHP/Hack or Flow. I don't follow PHP much but Flow is definitely very niche at this point, and I don't get the sense that it's user-base is growing.

https://glean.software/docs/indexer/intro
> 2. Any ownership required the Judge to recluse himself. Thus (3)

Probably a typo but recuse != recluse
That would take over the usual [k]ick, [l]ook, etc.
This makes me want to flamingo a friend!
I don't know why you keep pushing narratives that are borderline asinine. Yes, the Republican party is about "small government" and "civil rights" as exemplified by Mr. Trump and his lackey Stephen Miller.
History doesn't repeat but boy does it rhyme.
Simple like ‘love your enemies’
to be fair Hanford dates back to the Manhattan Project. wWe have learned allot about containment in the intervening 80 years since ww2. Like don't mix chemical weapons waste with nuclear waste and throw it in a single walled container that is prone to corrosion.
You seem to be making a weird argument. Obviously Apple isn't allowed to sell a smartphone that contains a large chunk of plutonium, or that is fake and doesn't actually contain any electronics. There are limits to what corporations can do.

But they are free to choose the price. They can sell the next iPhone for $10,000 if they really wanted. Perfectly legal.

They are free to choose under which terms they license their intellectual property to third parties, so long as those terms are lawful.
No shit, that doesn't change anything I said. The definition of depression is hilariously vague, the last thing we should do is lump additional (relatively) well defined issues under "just depression". Besides, there are certain symptoms that do appear in a high percentage of patients, gaming addiction is most definitely not one of them. The point is not about aligning symptom profiles exactly between individuals, it's about looking at classes of symptoms across a broader population. Nobody in their right mind would say addiction is "just a symptom of depression", even though it can be correlated with depression to a similar extent as gaming addiction can be.
It matters if you're making an emotional argument, but I'm not sure it's relevant to any legal argument.
why would i use this instead of aws-vault?

(yes, i acknowledge that may be a very ignorant question)
No, I'm not defending the CCP's actions, and my best argument for the CCP is that I'd like a diversity of economic, political, and cultural systems around the world. I don't like monocultures. They're brittle.
"Democratic discourse" is one of the main causes of this. We are pushed into teams and forced to decide how best to subjugate those around us. Of course hating and seeking to ruin our neighbor the result, meanwhile those in power over us profit and get away with literally whatever they want because we're convinced it's the fault of our friends and families rather than our rulers. The state is satanic.
Faulkner's final paragraph includes this optimistic assertion: "I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail."
My general feeling is "good riddance".

As someone with autism, I find professional business environments entirely navigable, and have been able to thrive in them. Almost all interactions — even those involving professional workplace politics — conform to a reasonable set of established rules.

The people involved with these Slack channels and associated "organizing" efforts are consistently bringing their (eminently messy) "whole self" to work, and the result is a corrosively unprofessional mess — one that they want to introduce to the rest of the company.

I do not trust for a second that salary transparency, with these individuals, would lead to more fair, equitable outcomes for us all. I do not trust that they would evaluate the information maturely, with an understanding of the complex variables at play.

I do not trust that they wouldn't use further politicking and social dominance games (including leaking to The Verge) to advance their own personal or political interests, at a cost to others.

Ultimately, I shouldn't have to navigate their complex, subjective, toxic social hierarchies — which have nothing to do with advancing business objectives — just to get through my business day and be successful in my job.
Covid-19 patients with severe symptoms suffer long-lasting cognitive impairments
> you can ask "hey can i have your phone #" and then text them. you can ask them "can i have your email" and then email them.

Can you do this on company property? If not, you seem to be proposing some sort of psychic divining of the payroll and addresses of workers, or some psychic communication of phone numbers and emails.

Can you stand outside of the gates and flag down cars as they leave?

How can you be all for unionization but be against any possible way to establish a union?
Is this some sort of “no u” about thumbnails in the file picker?
That was very stirring. Thank you.
My wife got it. Had no trouble.
I'd argue that implementing a USB driver would probably be far more educational, in a practical sense, than implementing a kernel. The number of students who will go on to work on core kernels is vanishingly small, but driver work is never going to end.

Plus, if we ever are to transition to the world of microkernels (something that OS researchers have been pushing for decades now), we're gonna need a massive amount of people writing drivers just to get us to the point where things are barely functional.
The article is about parents who want school choice because their local district does not mandate masks. There are also parents who want choice because they don't want their children, especially those in elementary school, to be masked.
Early project management tool, im Looking for honest feedback
Lots of things are like this. I program my network using a network. I run a server (BMC) on my server. I start my engine with an engine (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird).
Hey! Im looking for a super honest feedback about this tool i built, hope you like this approach.
The business of the government is in enforcing the consensual contract, not in the content of consensual conduct between two parties. It would be quite draconian to suggest the government should have an interest in what particular consensual activity you choose.

Or maybe you really believe it is in the governments interest to clearly define what consensual conduct is allowed. Just curious, but do you check with government interests before agreeing to a certain sex position with a partner? After all, it is the government's business; they should really probably know. I hope you also seek government definition of your conduct of pissing in a bush next time you're out in the public woods (make sure the contract of your public use of lands isn't ill defined).

The idea contract law makes what voluntary consensual conduct you do the business of government is a hilarious and gross misinterpretation of the the utility of contract law.
The next step is Apple completely disabling IAP in Korea with a message that pops up telling the user which law is responsible.
Imagine that you pulled in all your dependencies in different languages in source + windows source and visual studio source. Now you want to click around that source. This is what this tool is for.
And sane strings. And I really like Mix.

That said, I generally prefer Erlang, for the syntax, for Dialyzer, and for the one less level of abstraction. But recognize the future in the space is probably Elixir, and being fluent with both is probably helpful.
Very nice, no Nvidia which for me is a big plus.
18% of Android users would consider switching to iPhone, down 15% from last year
The service you are offering is SATA compliance for storage, or USB (sub)protocol compliance for one of myriad reasons. E.g. I have projects where the main interface is USB or CAN bus. I expect the AGPL to apply. I mention this explicitly when discussing the license as well just to be airtight, but it's my belief it is already.
That's the low level details loom takes care of for you. It maps the fibers onto threads and keeps the os threads active even if your fiber is blocked.
Another big one is Blender; I don't think I could use it without a numpad.
As if Linux users don’t care about their image.
How easy was it in 90’s to have a go to definition over, say, 10% of today’s maven central?
> But can you scare every single person out of [tampering with a home atomic reactor]?

I'd bet there's a reactor design that's tamper-proof enough to be less lethal than vending machines.

That just leaves very determined, educated terrorists trying to harvest the fuel for radiotoxins or a dirty bomb. There are probably less convoluted ways to cause mass death and destruction than that, but "radioactive" and "fallout" are certainly more terrifying than "gunman" "bomb" or "poison" even if the actual damage is likely much lower.

> The most dangerous thing a mad person can do right now is blow up their house with natural gas.

Wiki says the Oklahoma City bomb cost USD5000 and was equivalent to 5000 lbs of TNT. I don't have a TNT figure for gas explosions in buildings (even the worst-case intentional one you describe), but it sounds like they're way less powerful than that. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271492483_Hazard_an...

Don't forget to weigh all this doom and gloom against the massive (green) upsides of distributed power generation!
Peer-reviewed publication != science
Another example is if I want a $100 keyboard I need ahead of time VP sign off for the non-standard expense, if I want $10000/mo extra in AWS services I need any other engineer to approve my change