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> Well.. my main objection would be that it seems impossible to detect such manipulation, and therefore these ToS are toothless.

I don't think that's true: LEDs can also be used as light sensors. If the camera sees a bright day and the LEDs see pitch black, you know something sketchy's going on.
> then our specialness also gives us time travel powers

Why? Because the Quantum Eraser Experiment comes out as it does?
CDC says vaccines are only 66 percent effective at preventing Delta infection. As far as I can understand, this means 34% of vaccinated people develop a covid infection. I'm having a hard time squaring this with 'vaccines prevent infection' thesis. Perhaps I'm missing something obvious?

(Yes, I'm aware the fraction is better against severe Delta infection. Yes, I agree 3x reduction is infection rate is a good thing.)

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021082...
No. I prefer it. Having a personalized feed is much preferable for me to the old way of having little freedom over content and just consuming whatever limited crap is on offer.

Maybe not this specific instance but in general having 5 newspapers to choose from and 15 channels was awful compared to now.
Insufficient evidence that AI breast cancer screening is accurate enough
If you've had COVID, a vaccine can help with Long COVID symptoms, and it can reduce the risk of reinfection, so it's still better to be vaccinated than to catch COVID a second time.
To go further, the 3 million lightning strikes aren't really part of the shenanigans that destroy the planet. More of a side-effect, really.
I am not sure what time frame you're thinking of, but in my home country for most of the last centuries there were plenty of newspapers, often expounding news with a strong political bias, i.e. partys had their own newspaper.

Personalized news feed are making this worse, but it's not a new thing.
Oh yeah, and Zuckerberg. What could possibly go wrong?
When banks create money with a matching liability, they face the risk that the customer will try to take the money out in cash, or transfer it to an account at a different bank. In order to accommodate this they actually have to have the cash on hand, or borrow it from another bank with interest.

Likewise if you have 20,000€ on hand, or can borrow it from somewhere, you can use it to buy a car. You can then keep a mental note that you 'owe yourself' this money, but doing so makes no real difference.
> what so ever

I've always thought it was connected.
Video recording is already ubiquitous since everyone carries a camera. Glasses just make it slightly less obvious.
Sure, but all security mechanisms have problems. That doesn't mean they can't be good for limited purposes as long as you're mindful of limitations.
One was a traitor trying to keep his slaves, the other was fighting for Rights in China.
I think this is great as long as you respect GDPR. Tracking is not inherently bad. And I had some pain tracking downloads of our OSS project files, thankfully Eclipse Foundation has some tools for gathering anonymous statistics (I think the term "anonymous statistics" will fare better with the HN crowd than "tracking" or "measure"). Added your service to bookmarks for the next time I need such functionality.

However, you seem to have an incomplete understanding of GDPR judging from your homepage. For example, you don't provide a way for people to opt out on your homepage. This may indicate that you are thinking about GDPR in American "PII" terms instead of thinking about "processing purposes" and "personal data" (not necessarily identifiable, such as a 5-star rating for a taxi driver) as intended by GDPR. You can store my home address without my consent if you need it to deliver a book to me. You may not pass my non-anonymized IP address to anyone except your secops (legitimate business need has been explained by EU courts to mean a need to fulfill user's need, not company need, e.g. to show ads).

Further down the thread you also discuss the opt-out mechanisms. Again, this is only legal under GDPR for opting out of the kinds of processing you have a legitimate business need for. Things that require a consent may not be worked around with an opt-out.

Not a lawyer but a person in EU who sent GDPR requests and complaints to company DPOs and regulators. Hope your service grows well!
This is really cool. It's great to see someone pushing for good desktop applications. I'm not an electron hater, but I don't love it either, and I'm happy to see new alternatives emerge, in a fun language like clojure no less.
The entire industry is experiencing an unusually high Turnover.
Go go go Nikita! If there is anyone in the Clojuresphere who could pull this off, it is Tonsky.
It's not just about memorizing stuff.. I think you need to find a different teacher, if you really are keen to keep going.
Are landlines, like the ones found in commercial buildings, backdoored. Can we purchase development boards that the suppliers do not control after sale.

Whats difficult to get over is when non-tech companies, e.g., Bausch & Lomb, go along with the nonsense.^1 All this supposed corporate responsibility and yet they still partner with unethical "tech" companies.

1 Probably should not be surprised considering B&L is owned by Valeant Pharmaceuticals. (Who has sinced changed its name to try to escape its well-earned bad reputation.)
Godel's theorem is actually not that complex. Sure, you may think of "Godel, Escher, Bach", but that book is stuffed with sooo much material that is only tangentially related to the theorem.

Of course the consequences of that theorem are legion, and they do warrant many books worth of discussion. But the proof itself can fit in a long-ish blog post, I think.

Fermat's last theorem, on the other hand...
Rome lasted for 2,100 years. I'm not sure you can generalize the quality of life of a free person, let alone a slave.

> Roman slaves at least had a path to freedom

You need to be specific. Are we comparing Connecticut in 1784 AD to Gaul in 50 BC? Or Connecticut in 1783 AD to Gaul in 59 BC? Because the two comparisons are very different.
Why Amazon Might Become the Largest Quantum Consumer
I’ve seen disclaimers in YouTube videos by just about every channel with a larger audience for years now. I don’t really browse through publications on the daily enough to tell you about those (I get linked to articles directly most often than not nowadays) but I vaguely remember news about a whistleblower outing one of the bigger video game sites about two years ago, revealing that a staggering number of their posts was paid for advertising.
If only vaccines were to prevent covid spread. 'CDC: COVID-19 Vaccines 66% Effective Against Delta Variant'.

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021082...
I know it is a joke, but they do not deny the event. They just put it into a different context. It goes something like: 2000 lives for 20 years of stability. Well, actually 30 years now.
I tested in Safari. It shows a full-page error that says: "Download a supported browser to get started." with a link to download Microsoft Edge. Perhaps Microsoft is using this as an opportunity to promote Edge for macOS.

I haven't tested whether the site works in Safari if you spoof a non-Safari User-Agent string.
Well, in terms of AB5 the federal government tried to head this one off with broad legislation 83 years ago. The Fair Labor Standards Act defines an "employ" as "to suffer or permit to work" specifically because they understood that employers would try to classify workers as anything other than an employee in order to get around the law. It doesn't seem to have worked out that way, so there's an argument for being a bit more specific. (I learned about this from this excellent podcast: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/the-uncertain-hour/to-suff...)

I think the underlying problem is that these employers have disproportionate power, influence, and resources, along with endless creativity. If they can't get the government fully on their side every time, they'd rather it be dysfunctional.
Good point, but they should realize Roswell and just go along with it and make money.
JPM’s bank account at JPM is:

* an asset for the account holder, i.e JPM, and

* a liability for the bamk, i.e. JPM,

so one can cancel them out.

As a matter of fact banks have accounts for themselves, to facilitate administration and accounting for departments/branches/etc, but these accounts have, from an accounting point ov view, essentially no effect.
You could buy a lawn mower and keep it in your garage. Then you go and knock on the door of ten other houses on your street, and say "I've bought you a lawnmower for Christmas! You just need to keep it in my garage though, rather than your own. Come and use it whenever you like! Please put it back afterwards". And then, hey presto, you have created 10 lawnmowers out of nothing. Unless of course, there's a run on lawnmowers and two of your neighbours need to use it at the same time.
That's a good one. One of my kids is still thinking it out, I expect an eureka moment any time
For sure this is a socially unusual thing to do now, but the same was thought about having Gmail "read" your email, or having an always-on Amazon microphone inside your home. I expect attitudes will be different about personal recording in 10 years.
array.map is not inline, it consumes the array and returns another https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.array.html#method.ma...

But yes in the end this is all done in the stack

We could have an inline version of map (for arrays and Vec) if we had a way to assert that two types have the same size. This means we can reuse the buffer because all elements will fit.
> The GPU’s hardware-implemented tessellation is (a) not compatible enough.

I am unsure why we are talking about GPU-based tesselation again. I said do it on the CPU in my comment you are referencing.

> Counter-intuitively, stroked paths are harder to render than filled ones.

I would if it could be rendered via a 2D SDF? Similar to how you can do resolution independent fonts/decals via SDFs... basically use a cutoff distance from stroke midline or similar.

> Also, the code in general is slow compared to C++, C# and many other statically typed languages. It’s incredibly hard to generate fast code from very dynamic languages like JS or Python, where everything is a hash map.

The above is 100% incorrect. The trick is to not use slow hashmaps and then your code is near the speed of C++. Use ArrayBuffers instead for everything. I said this in my earlier comment.
I think the example might be contrived but the point was that any bank operation eventually comes back to the settlement layer being reserves and since those get settled at a later time an opportunity for money creation mechanism presents itself and occurs. It’s not that the banks want to cheat it’s just a by product of the system.
I sometimes wonder how anything about economics can be tested when the world’s manufacturing has been outsourced to China. All of these theories rest on the fact inflation has been largely under control in the west, not because of a lack of gold standard but because almost all physical items have had zero or negative inflation for 30 years or so. All the things not “Made in China” I would say have been massively inflated. If we were to start having to produce say plumbing supplies locally (say due to Climate change) will these theoretical money creation mechanisms still work?
I use things that filter out (((Trump)))'s stuff and I dont use things that dont.
It shifts over time - prestige has a shelf-life of about 3-5 years. It was Google from ~2005-2009, Facebook from ~2009-2012, being a startup founder from 2012-2014, US Digital Service from 2014-2016, making shitloads of money off cryptocurrency speculation in 2017, being a YouTube/Instagram/TikTok influencer from ~2017-2020, working on COVID tests or vaccines in 2020. I think it's now climate change - basically anything related to renewable energy, carbon capture, energy savings, etc. Other hot areas include real estate, cryptocurrency speculation, politics, and (still) being a YouTube/Instagram/TikTok star.
FYI, fire safes aren’t necessarily waterproof. They’ll protect your documents from the fire but not the firefighters’ water, or the drop through the burned out floor to the basement. Mine, for example, requires an additional treatment to be waterproof. Something to keep in mind if you haven’t already.

(I keep my backups in three places: local drives, safe deposit box rotated quarterly, and BackBlaze. I’ve only ever needed the first, but I feel safer knowing I have the other two.)
> Considering that American-owned slaves were treated much crueler on average than Ancient slave populations

Not as cruelly as Arab-owned slaves (the trans-Saharan slave trade started in 650 AD, which is pretty close to ancient). Despite importing as much or more slaves than both Americas, there is barely any Black presence in North Africa. Try to imagine why.

Source: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-tcc-worldciv2/chapter/...
Well that's a very unsatisfactory answer. As to the 1st paragraph: what do you mean? That's not at all what I'm saying, buying shares in JPMorgan doesn't give me money creation privileges. As to the 2nd: if you restrict rights and privileges to one group of people you better have a good reason why! Just saying "it is so" is not a good reason :)
> Budget deficits can be financed through the issuance of bonds, which look a lot like loans. But they can also be financed by just printing the money. The end result is the same, money into the pockets of people, but the implications are very different.

Actually, its worse than that. The treasuries are created, sold to bank and the bank immediately sells it to the Fed for cash for a nice little profit (at least in the US)

From the Fed:

> The Federal Reserve purchases Treasury securities held by the public through a competitive bidding process. The Federal Reserve does not purchase new Treasury securities directly from the U.S. Treasury, and Federal Reserve purchases of Treasury securities from the public are not a means of financing the federal deficit.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/how-does-the-federal-res...
>But the government as a whole hasn't really made up its mind.

It's probably better to view the 'government' as a coalition of self-interested groups. It's never really monolithic.
Almost every company has a some hidden need to hire software developers in some capacity. Maybe not full time, and it will be doing random things, but the need for some level of process automation, better analysis, custom reporting, integrating systems together. There are things that a developer mind set is really well suited to - analysing a problem and finding a solution.

Here’s a subset of industries quoted or worked for, and thus is coming from a small regional town in Australia.

- high end design and manufacture of transfer chutes

- charter bus operator

- ferry tour operator

- mining material processor

- jewellery online store

- rag import wholesaler company (yes, those bags of treated cloths you buy at the hardware store)

- anaesthetist

- equipment finance

- gas hose fitting parts
supplier
- business coach

- childhood movement teacher

- and so many others

There’s lots of hidden demand out there if you can find a way to reach it and help people solve problems
Irrelevant. The people who own the most morally corrupt and toxic companies, that are destroying the planet, have all the money in the world to advertise and influence "organically" when everything they do is as inorganic and unnatural as it gets.

Industrialists will be first to the guillotine(in Minecraft of course).
Then it's possible an even broader term is needed, but "REPL", to non-lispers' minds in 2021, means narrowly "a prompt where you can type code and then hit enter and see a result". I think "hot-reloading" would be a dramatically more descriptive term even if it isn't perfectly descriptive.
Tangent: While I've listened to him on podcasts, and am reading his Deep Learning textbook, this is the first time I've seen Goodfellow in person. I'm crushed to see that he is not, as I assumed, some 60 year old professor who has spent decades earning his expertise, and instead is someone young enough to pass as a college student!
It sounds like "creating money out of thin air" here more specifically means "increasing the amount of currency in circulation by exchanging it for liens or other obligations for payback." Not just printing money in a vaccum.

I don't think a bank without deposits would get very far issuing loans.

My understanding: The bank isn't required to hold 100% of the money you deposit in cash, though. It can lend it out up to certain limits. So if everyone tries to cash out all at once, shit will go sideways. But it's not because the money didn't exist before: the bank has a claim to a lot of assets to still attempt to balance it out in the case of collateralized loans.

If the bank wasn't there, we'd have to P2P all our lending. The bank just acts as a bigger, hopefully-more-efficient middleman, with a bunch of government regulation trying to balance out the risk/reward. If you, as an individual lender, chose the wrong person to lend to, your money would be at risk - similarly to if you choose a bank that massively fucks it up. But the deposit bank would have to fuck up way worse, under normal circumstances.
The US is a net exporter of food, and yet the price of food has significantly undershot headline inflation over 30 years.
if it means taking away my right to do X (where my doing X doesn't endanger others), then yes
Thanks for all the advice, I know it is well-intended, but unfortunately this late in the project there is nothing that could change my mind anyway. It's too late.

But even if I had to start from scratch, I would still use C++. It is the most-used language in this field for rational reasons, not just for mistaken beliefs. Multi-threading is important, supporting custom pen tablets hardware is important, accessing Metal and Direct3D graphics API is important, being able to use the core as a shared library for command-line tools is important, being able to not crash when another tab makes the browser crash is important (okay, for this I could use electron). Being able to embed a Python interpreter is important (yes, it has to be Python it's a design decision). And we're not talking 1Ks vertices, but millions.

Again, AAA games are not developed in Javascript for a reason. Professional productivity graphics application have the same requirements than AAA games.
Insisting that people that work at a company you don't like should kill themselves seems a bit much, no?
> It seems Wise (nee TransferWise) doesn't ('yet') support SVC, but assuming you don't actually specifically care about El Salvador, it does support quite a range of not particularly major currencies, and that'd be my answer.

We don't support SVC in El Salvador either. The USD has been our main currency since 2001.
https://www.titancomputers.com/

I haven't done business with them but their website is badass.
It's an externality because the people who are paying aren't the people who are causing the damage.

This isn't so much unfair, but it does remove incentives for the shippers to cause less damage to the roads.
Good point, that's really what it is .. a complex entity.
I have a mentor who was prominent in the ship holding space and as with technology, requirements as well as desire for cost savings (bigger ships) is taking place while the infrastructure (canal) has had minimal change. It’s the classic bottleneck/theory of constraints principle. Watching to see how the canal adapts/evolves.
It's one of a handful of ways of reacting to a post or comment. If you want to indicate that you've seen a post or comment and found it amusing, you select the "laughing face" reaction.
160 Request /s for a No DB Call, Simple File Serving on a Single Core System.

Why am I the only one not impressed by this.
> Do you think it should be illegal for a manufacturer to implement features in their product that attempt to detect and prevent usage of the product that is dangerous or harmful to the user or others?

Yes. I use knives for cooking. I could use them for butchering my neighbors but that would be none of the knives' manufacturers business.

Not just knives. Anything can be used in a dangerous or harmful way. You can suffocate someone with a pillow. So this line of reasoning leads to any company having the right (or maybe the duty?) to monitor us.
The Chinese Government is speeding up their efforts to swallow Hong Kong and Macau into the Mainland.

Closing the media outlets, museums, websites that speak against them. And a few key people get abducted here and there to scare more people and force them to accept the Beijing Regime. But... The people from Hong Kong still demonstrates and tries to fight for their lost rights.
Interesting, that reminds me of what somebody did to display an always up-to-date clock [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14996715
Two Haskellers enter a bar. Two hours later both leave more confused than when they entered.

This is what got me with Haskell. Any question is derailed into theory to the point where getting anything done is difficult.