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Very excited to see a decentralized alternative to Amazon-owned Goodreads & LibraryThing, the latter which I recently learned is 40%-owned by Amazon through a subsidiary AbeBooks.

I'm not too familiar with the fediverse model. I noticed that registration is closed on the primary instance bookwyrm.social.[1] Is the ideal use case of bookwyrm for each user to host their own instance? Like this one: https://book.dansmonorage.blue/

As a user, I wouldn't want to sign up on someone's hobbyist bookwyrm instance only for them to shut it down later and lose all my data.

1. https://docs.joinbookwyrm.com/instances.html
It's just PR. Companies do this too, not just government agencies. You can say that PR doesn't work, but if done properly should at least generate some amount of goodwill.

I mean, if PR didn't work, why would any organization spend money to do it?
Shareware - Back when we had the relative safety of hardware too dumb to stuff trojan horses in, and write protectable operating system disks, it was commonplace to have a vendor at your local user group with floppy diskettes full of new stuff to try out, for $2-3 per disk. There are thousands of disks with dozens of programs on each.

This was mobile code on a scale that is currently impossible. Once we get capability based security that protects the hardware and our data from things we run by default, it's possible it'll make a comeback, and there will be another wild explosion of creativity in programming.
That this isn't implicitly clear at minimum says a lot about general shift in tone.
My screen is never perfectly horizontal and usually not close, so the "sunlight" is not in fact coming from the north.

This is a classic case of mistaking the map for the territory.
The Vinland Map is awash in 20th-century ink
right now the delta wave in the US is peaking with a hospitalization rate of [4 in 10,000](https://carlsonschool.umn.edu/mili-misrc-covid19-tracking-pr...).

Active SARS2 cases are listed as a bit under 9 million (or roughly 1 in 111 --- see https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries .

So for someone diagnosed with the SARS2, the risk of hospitalization for the average american (of average health and demographics) is 4.4% (roughly 1 in every 22.5 people).

The risk of hospitalization for an avg american that is healthy and maintains a healthy level of vitamin D will be orders of magnitude lower---this is extrapolated and hypothetical, by considering that 80% are deficient in D and other immune nutrients, and also about 80% are overweight (a stunning 42.4% of the US population is obese).
I see a lot of people making the argument of “a bigger car is safer when crashing with other cars”, but that’s not very sustainable when everybody thinks the same. A US truck is small when everyone is driving a monster truck to protect themselves from “normal” trucks
Not the expert you’re looking for but here’s my intuitive reasoning:
Because light will always be moving at the speed of light for you. You move at 0C. As you speed up, time slows down to preserve that.
For posterity the GP was flagkilled not the parent. It's been vouched since and parent was flagkilled.

Also thanks I didn't think many people would read my comment, I'm surprised how many people opt-in to showdead.
Although we should also note that most men also didn't have the right to vote for a couple of those lifetimes [1]. If I understand correctly, only a minority percentage of property owning men could vote before 1918.

And from all men being able to vote to all women being able to vote was a span of 10 years, so 0.2 of GP's lifetime.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z9hnn39/revision/2
perhaps oversimplified, but I think its the distinction between acute and chronic inflammation. You are talking about acute.
This is like saying forced labor isn't oppression because chattel slavery was worse.

Segregation on the basis of individuals belonging to protected classes is illegal, the law makes it very clear.

How would you feel about a "white couples only" restaurant or bakery? What about a "whites only" grocery store? Or a "whites only" mechanic? Do you feel the same way about those as you do with the "straights only" bakery?

People have used their religions to give a pass to discrimination for a long time[1]. Today's scapegoat is gay and trans people, but a few decades ago it was miscegenation. People discriminated against mixed-race couples and said it was a core tenet of their religion[1]:

> Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.

The ACLU has this to say about such cases of discrimination:

> Instances of institutions and individuals claiming a right to discriminate in the name of religion are not new. In the 1960s, we saw objections to laws requiring integration in restaurants because of sincerely held beliefs that God wanted the races to be separate. We saw religiously affiliated universities refuse to admit students who engaged in interracial dating. In those cases, we recognized that requiring integration was not about violating religious liberty; it was about ensuring fairness. It is no different today.

There were plenty of places these people could have chosen to do business with, as well, but that doesn't really matter.

[1] https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=55...

[2] https://www.aclu.org/issues/religious-liberty/using-religion...
Being able to use long file names. The "256 bytes' ought to be enough" attitude hurts in this age of emojis.
>> In the context of how to plan our cities, this has little bearing on the discussion.

I'm not sure where you get that. If public transportation is an inferior good, then to the extent we need people planning our cities those planners need to take into account that the demand for public transportation will decrease as people get wealthier.

Rich people don't ride the bus. Maybe that's OK?
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Except we no longer execute people for association and organising peaceful protests nowadays. Not in civilized countries anyway.
I have to agree. Unit tests are some of the most helpful things I’ve used whilst refactoring the Libreoffice vcl module. In fact, I’m now at the stage where if I only move a class into a new header I’m writing a test that covers that class.

An example I’m currently working on is:

https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/121403/5/vcl/qa/cppu...
Maybe it’s naive to think that that we can legislate those two options into existence where a company can pick an option (and maybe even switch between them under some circumstances), but it would be nice to see a “free market” finding one that most efficient without everyone being forced to just use one.

For Visa, wasn’t the latest OnlyFan thing that payment networks almost forced them to self-destruct due to some morality rules? That would be a bit too restrictive for “carrier” case I think…
I think this papers backs up pretty well and goes into a lot more details of why it matters to focus on the flow. In fact it’s crucial that such issues that stop production including predicting and identifying demand-supply mismatch is essential for a smooth flow of operations. BUT, humans are humans and we plan for the best case scenario without giving due consideration for failure modes. Manufacturing is hardly an exception.

https://businesswales.gov.wales/sites/business-wales/files/S...
None of this federated stuff will ever gain mainstream acceptance. I would bet my house on it. It adds multiple layers of complexity and a ton of UX trade-off, and doesn't solve any problems for a typical user.
You're... you're still putting l33t sigs at the end of your messages, like it's still the late 90s and this is USENET.

Frickin' love that.
AG, is that you?
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> Money is a great gift for someone who really needs it.

Perhaps ask the opinion of others in a similar situation first?

There are a lot of overtones to money, perceived status signalling being an ugly one. I have more than one friend that really needs money, but they would definitely feel hurt if I did the simplest thing and just gave them money, so I have to be more creative to find ways to help that are joyful.
What alternatives are you considering?
Gotta step in as a GrapheneOS User. You have multiple options.

The easiest and most approachable one is: install Aurora Store from F-Droid. It gives you access to Google Play + App Updates without logging you into Google. This almost feels identical to Google Play itself.

Next: think about install the Experimental GMS Support that GrapheneOS offers. If you e.g. absolutely need an App that has troubles working without Google SDKs embedded, this might be an option. This is documented in the Usage Guide of the Website.

https://grapheneos.org/usage

However, just dont forget that you wanted a Google-FREE Phone. So dont overdo installing proprietär stuff.

Oh and stay as far away from MicroG as possible, it seriouly cripples the security of GrapheneOS by a lot.
"Big orders require pre-payment." That's neither criminal (ex: fraud) nor civil (contract) law. That's just one of countless things a party may or may not choose to do as personal/corporate policy. I might ask for a downpayment, or a full prepayment or a credit card or collateral or just trust you or whatever. It's irrelevant to the question of criminal culpability or civil liability. Unfortunately, you can be at risk even when you are in the right because of practical aspects of recovery such as legal costs, unpredictability of court outcomes, ability of the other party to pay even if they lose in court, etc. So there are extra-legal (not illegal, just private policy) methods of reducing the risk.

Whether you choose to avail yourself of such policies or not (including even getting the contract in writing) has no relevance to the legal question of whether a contract was breached.
I’ve never really looked into Linux laptops, so excuse my ignorance on the topic, but can’t you just install Linux on any Windows laptop? I don’t see the point in Linux focused laptops, so please enlighten me
Even prehistoric humans were trading metals and pottery (and other things that decomposed and left no evidence, surely) over thousands of miles. It's easy to forget that they were as intelligent as we are but did not have Isaac Newton's shoulders to stand on.
It's a good observation, but IMO this has been the lifecycle of many, many technologies. Take the jet engine. It was invented in the 30s, applied to exotic military applications in the 40s and 50s, available as transportation for the rich in the 60s and 70s, and finally became the dominant long distance transport mode for everyone by the 80s and 90s.
Is your bot that does this open sourced? This seems very interesting
A lot of laptops use components from vendors that don't release either Linux drivers or the specs needed to create them, so things either don't work at all or don't work well in Linux.
Well weirdly when I tried it, I remember the bandwidth was limited to 50 Mbps on the free tier. I think this restriction is applied on all machines made after a certain date.
Not sure why I'm getting downvoted here. When POSIX subsystem of the NT kernel they added support for many POSIX style features. Namely POSIX ACL support, hard links and case-sensitivity.

I guess the reality of this is lost to history and folks like me that remember NT for what it was before it was relegated to just hosting Win32.
> Oh and stay as far away from MicroG as possible, it seriouly cripples the security of GrapheneOS by a lot.

Doesn't this severely limit which apps you can install?
100% here. We need to drop old terms and methods that are now obsolete.
Tailwind is in not coupled to React, Adam Wathan its' creator used Laravel when he made it.
The demo video looks exciting. Congrats on the launch.
Yeah it remains to be seen how well this will work in practice.

In general I think it's an awesome idea... but years of "that sounds cool and logical" when it comes to cache coherency at those speeds leads my actual reaction to be "yeah... that is going to break in a horrible way or expose nasty side channel attacks".
This is really cool but I feel like it glosses over married accounting, which is a longer session of yelling things like "Honey! What's this PayPal for $117 3 weeks ago?!"
It isn't a solution, it is a rejection of the problem. There isn't such a thing as a 'chip shortage', because that implies some natural number of chips that should exist.

That number isn't a constant, it is a function of supply and demand. Therefore there is no such thing as a chip shortage. We'd maybe like prices to be higher or lower depending on our perspective.

> What happens when the good in question is food?

If there are 10 mouths and 9 meals then there is a food shortage. But that is a biological observation, not an economic one.
Chesterton is mostly in the US public domain now (and wholly PD in death plus 70 regions), so we’ve got a decent selection of his work available for free at Standard Ebooks. I have a soft spot for The Club of Queer Trades if you’re looking for a recommendation.

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/g-k-chesterton
> Get some damn sleep.
>The OpenWrt 21.02 series focuses on bringing all supported targets to Linux kernel version 5.4 and introducing WPA 3 support into default images. [1]

It somehow wasn't a specific headline / item in the release note. But I thought updating to 5.4 was a big deal.

[1] https://openwrt.org/releases/21.02/start
I'm surprised that the Dutch "Leewendaalder" (Lion Dollar) wasn't mentioned in the discussion. It was a coin of similar size to the 8 reales, also circulating in the 1500s and 1600s. The Dutch presence in what would become New York and other colonies would have been a likely route for the term to enter the colonial vernacular.
POWER10 is unlikely to be available in until Q3 or so 2022 I would imagine. With things as they are unobtanium is going to be status quo for some time. :(
>The image is never scanned either, unless you consider generating a hash: scanning.

You are a really torturing the language and logic,

Example, some malware lists all the files on your system and sends the file names to Disney. Your logic says that is not scanning your devices, it is just listing the file names and your logic implies the scanning happens on Disney server.
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The most shocking one to me is always going to be penicillin. There are still people alive who were born before it was discovered. 90 years ago you could die from an infected scratch and now we have the whole arsenal of modern medicine available.
I have a 15" Macbook Pro, so Air / iPad Pro will be in addition to MBP. The iPad Pro appeals to me on 4 (or 3.5) points:

1) As a reader I don't read that much to justify a separate ebook device. I am cautiously optimistic about iPad Pro for documents / articles / papers etc. Also highlighting with pencil.

2) Split Keyboard. Air will force me to use regular keyboard, and I will get RSI after long typing sessions. I think iPad Pro + Dock + small ergo keyboard will be about the same weight as Air.

3) Sketching, drawing, highlighting (via Pencil). Seems nice to have the alternative way of input/draw things / diagram stuff. Also promising for PDF annotation etc.

4) Form factor, seems like it's easier to take iPad Pro to the park to read/ browse / check emails. Not entirely sure about this point though.
> That number isn't a constant, it is a function of supply and demand. Therefore there is no such thing as a chip shortage.

It does take some time for prices to adjust, and if the supply and/or demand curves shift very quickly, there absolutely can be a temporary shortage. I think that's what we're going through now.
The person(s) who wrote this war-mongering trash are working for Israel, wether they know it or not.
AI and Quantum Computing comes into mind for the next era of inventions.
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I'm talking about the whole of Australia right now (remote but country based). I can see job listings have all exploded in listed salary and every company I talk to is looking to expand.
There is such thing as a shortage, but persistent shortages are only possible due to government meddling.
Safari privacy is a joke until I can install UBlock Origin on MacOS and iOS Safari. Until they support proper browser extensions outside of their App Store, Safari will remain a privacy leaking toy compared to chromium and gecko browsers.

Also the amount of bugs and missing features I face in Safari as a web developer is a nightmare.

Cute animations though.
I feel like this question doesn't have much of a point, other than encouraging people who want to talk about themselves but sure why not maybe somebody will come across my post and be like hey mr wizard that's nifty keen we gotta some serious Venn diagram waddlely overlap let's be BESTIES. My background is as a software engineer / ESL instructor fwiw.

1. Piano performance and music composition (mostly classical baroque, but also ambient electronic)

2. Obstacle course parkour training (ninja warrior type stuff), exercise, ping pong, badminton, tennis

3. Juggling (pins, contact, and soccer)

4. DND adventure writing, puzzle creation

5. Philosophy musing (just finished writing a paper on my thoughts on the physiological constraints of free will)

6. Gaming (spelunky, cuphead, precision platformers), mtg

7. Trivia nights / jeopardy

8. Amateur piloting (Cessna 152)

9. Studying Foreign languages (Traditional chinese, Russian)

Things I'm not into but are (I feel) disproportionately popular among my tech friends

1. Cooking

2. Swing dancing

3. Quadcopter drone stuff
Would having two meshes of opposite charge work?
I was asking more about the "unceasing efforts of activists" part. That seems like it would've been controversial but I don't remember hearing anything about it. Who were they?
You are only "just [a] number" for a very brief period. As soon as you generate enough data points[1] to establish a recognizable subset of your pattern-of-life, the not-signed-in account can (and probably will) be correlated with your other accounts, some of which probably have data that identifies the real "you".

One of the most common mistakes people make when discussing the data collected by someone like Google is only considering the data in isolation. In reality, data is often combined with other databases.

[1] The minimum number of data points might can be very small: handful of timestamped locations at your home and job is probably unique, matching browser fingerprints if you used the same browser for logged-in and not-logged-in activity, or - as this is Google and their OS - maybe even simply a single even: hearing a MAC address known to be om your home wifi over the radio.
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The French Revolution and end of feudalism happened in the lifetime just before the electric motor. It's easy to forget that the middle class is a very recent invention.
I learned logo initially in middle school in the 70s. (Even got to demo it for the local art museum’s “festival of the future”)

But in high school I took another programming class and learned a lot of programing concepts with Mac logo. Recursion and drawing fractals and graphing equations.

While I appreciate the logo turtle moving syntax, it’s weird seeing it in python. Though I wonder if logo still exists, I’ll search for that.
We've been seeing 'shortages' since 2016; I remember there being a lot of trouble sourcing a good GPU. This is probably some deeper problem than a short term issue.

It isn't like COVID is a surprise any more, it has been with us for nearly 2 years.
Ask HN: Who Uses Hacker News?
I'm wondering who the types of people are that view/use HN on a daily basis?

My names's Tim, I'm a product designer that also enjoys front-end web development (HTML, CSS, JS, Svelte, React).

edit: If there are other posts related to this question, I'd really appreciate people sharing them here as well? thanks.
I dont think that held in the examples or a lot of what I have seen in practice once comments become the norm. Most classes should not need a comment in them at all. Most methods should be self-explanatory. A comment detailing every line of code is a huge smell.
"the pencil-making family that had been Schmidt ("smith") became Faber"

It's interesting to consider how many common names are forms of "Smith" that an English speaker might not recognize. I've idly imagined writing a story where all the characters' last names are some variation on Smith.

For instance:

Ferraro
Haddad
Kovács
Kowalski
Herrero
Kuznets
They don’t mention IMAP in the pricing page.
Braillendromes are fun too.

"Weir" is brailled ⠺⠑⠊⠗

"Andy" is ⠯⠽
On a weekly basis that would be a one time 52x increase in incoming orders. On a yearly basis it would be a one time doubling. But that is just semantics.

What is important to discuss is that no one was paying for a extra idling factory before, and now suddenly it is needed for one year to satisfy every customer wanting to keep a one year local buffer.

One also have to take the effect of a one year buffer for the whole supply chain into account. The demand for the manufactured good also increased due to their customers wanting to keep the same one year of buffer, so the one year buffer (based of your previous demand) would be consumed solely by your customers buffer and your orders would have to be larger than one year of inventory for you to keep one year of inventory after the demand spike.

In the end it is easy to imagine that new buffers would lead to a huge scarcity, especially for the longer supply chains.
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I can see few options for 23.53 EUR right there

Either way, it's auction page, may not always have the deals you're looking for in this price range
You're confusing absolute and relative wealth. Sure, wealthier people in a particular metro area may be less likely to take transit than less wealthy people in that metro area. Plenty of wealthy people move to dense urban areas from car dependent suburbs and then stop driving as much.

> Rich people don't ride the bus. Maybe that's OK?

It's not practical to have a dense urban environment where everyone drives everywhere, because cars and car infrastructure take up an incredible amount of physical space. So if people want to live in those areas (and clearly many people do - they're willing to pay a premium for it), then a good percentage of people in those areas need to walk, bike, or take mass transit. If they don't, the city will shut down due to gridlock and nobody will get anywhere.
Sci-Hub and LibGen have contributed more to my PhD than my so-called advisers. So thank you Alexandra for your unselfish efforts to make science accessible to all!
> Privacy is a set of curtains drawn across the windows of our lives. And technology companies are moths that will chew through more of the fabric every year if we let them, and especially if we encourage them.

That bright future and empowering innovation that most of us expected from tech companies was really a mirage…
If the cheapest is $25/month, I think it would just make sense to get a used school/office PC. I was able to pick up a used Haswell i5, 8GB of memory PC for $200, which you would probably get better performance out of, and break even at ~8 month mark. That being said, pandemic prices might shift those numbers.
Is there actually any update on the case?
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