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> None of the judges are answerable to the people because none of them are elected.

Small mercies and that's by design. Actions of a lynch mob is very popular within the mob. Its an ironic example given the protection to the pro-government lynch-mobs in India. Lynch-mobs and pro-government it-cell trolls.

Furthermore given by the proportion of the citizens who voted in this government, its quite a stretch to claim that their actions enjoys wide support because a sizeable proportion of the citizenry did not vote, possibly as a symbolic rejection of the poor quality of choices available.

Its possible for a small group to manipulate democracy in the name of populism. History is replete with such examples. Police too needs to be removed from the ambit of politicians. In India they are nothing but henchmen on the hire, supplicant to politicians, serving their criminal aspirations rather than the people who pay them.

That exalted position of 'will of the people' carries meagre weight if one can win elections by buying people TVs, promise them 15L (of course without delivering on it) and lynching communities that a more populous community does not like.
> is that this isn’t as objective as you’re trying to make it.

I mean, I started with my reply to a comment that literally said this: "Every adult I've introduced Mandalorian to loves it." :D

Of course everything is subjective. We can still say about something "something is enjoyable, even if something is simple and is mostly aimed at kids", or "despite apparent complexity and serious themes something is boring and unimaginative".

For example, basically all of Marvel is based on the formula of "simple but enjoyable". Ain't nothing wrong with that :)
I wonder if clojure codebase found a right balance there. Hickey made it explicit to have short but very obvious nouns except a few macros)
It is, I definitely agree, but the statement I quoted is pretty darn straight-forward.
I really doubt you can still hire $3 per hour labour in China anywhere. $11-$14 per hour skilled assembly line work is nothing rare these days in China near big cities.
10 years ago, there was a lot of traveling hippies on CS. We (4 guys) had an appartement in the city center of a touristic town and we did have some female visitors that quite openly talked about how they like the concept of free love and sampling for biological compatibility before committing to a relationship. That said, I don't think any of us ever took any of them up on the offer. That openness tends to come with certain hygiene and style choices.
Works for me. :-)
And GMAC Bank later became Ally Bank.
What about the Year of the Linux VR Desktop (http://www.simulavr.com/)?

A new platform could give people new reasons to consider alternatives?
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Thanks for this! Found another article where this is better explained: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-one-spanish-soccer-...
https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Modern-Specific-Ways-Improv...
~300000 CPUs is about 2K racks worth of servers. I would think if you have such constant load it would be more economical to move that on-premise.
Systematically undermining other countries' defense industry is not only "business", it's a full-fledged economical war waged by the US.
The advertisements I see online or in email spam happen to coincide with whatever I had just been discussing with my mates. This has been the case for a good part of three years. May be its the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon as someone else in this thread points out, but the ads I see, at the time I see, make me quite uneasy knowing what I know being in tech.

Edward Snowden, famously, rids of the entire microphone-array from his phones and only uses external mics: https://youtu.be/ucRWyGKBVzo?t=888

See also:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27932952 (Snowden on Privacy and Democracy)

https://twitter.com/snowden/status/1175422816403038208 (Snowden on smartphones)
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This is quite unfortunate, I am sure many countries made their best efforts. Increasingly solar and wind power are becoming cheaper so there is still hope. Also plenty of young people are now looking to go into climate science as a career which is very promising for the world.

We will solve global warming eventually.
Nothing with banking is technically that difficult, it is about licenses and permissions.
If there is no power relation then there is hard to argue an abuse of power. Since I am neither an iphone user, iphone developer or parler user/developer I can't know if such power relation exist.

However could not the same be said about the app in the article? What does the app do that they can't do through the browser? If apple has no power in this relationship then the impact of the decision should be zero. It seems however that Apple do have some power or else the Russian government wouldn't have gone after Apple to censor the app.

Censorship is just an other word for power abusing their position to limit the powerless. It is not about forcing people and entities to provide a service, its to prevent people and entities that holds power to abuse that power in order to keep others powerless. If that translated in a specific case to being forced to provide a service, then there is always a second choice. They can open up and give up the thing that gives them power. In the case of apple that would be to provide alternative ways to install software without tricks that keeps apple in power. It is an active choice of Apple to be the door keeper for what the captured users can or can't do with their own devices.
This is correct. We even have a brain circuit for this: the reticulating activating system.

It's the reason I hadn't seen a Volvo for over 10 years until I mentioned that fact, then saw three that day.

So to your point, the RAS filters out/ignores 99 ads but will bring to your attention the one that is similar to something you've mentioned recently.
>provide a Domestic return option for items and orders under

Why only £20 . . . (USD $27.48) ?

Been thinking about this in the States. Why can't this be required in USA ? Are our politicians already bought out by the Chinese sellers ? Who voted to put these people in office ? That would put all the Chinese sellers of their cheap garbage on notice.
Right but that's assuming 100% of employees even want a co-working space when it's more like 40% if that. That would leave 60% of office building space still vacant, which would be enough to make most landlords / CRE brokers default after a few years.
Thanks for thinking about the longevity of your application!
What city do you live in? Also while 2 bikes occupying a large portion of living space is not ideal, people do it in NYC in 400 sqft apartments.
Holy cow, another Gecko browser!? I thought I'd never see the day. I commend the authors for that if nothing else.
It's no conspiracy theory, the US and the UK have played secretly behind France's back to close the deal.
I have learned one thing, regardless of assumptions about if they are listening... never name your smart speaker "computer", the number of false triggers is frustrating as heck.
I agree that the platforms don't currently allow them default access to microphones, but that's not how it used to be. I also agree that we would have likely heard about this (old) capability, due to the number of people who would have worked on it (unless they were supported by a TLA).

However, your description of what it would need to work is woefully naïve. There were startup funded apps that matched entire recorded song libraries to ambient sound (along with location) in the age of flip phones to track copyright violations in clubs. They relied on matching compressed periodogram hashes with an error tolerant database. The databases were large, but not unwieldy, and the computational load reasonable in the early 2000s. The ability to craft a database to a person to match a large set of commercial words/names with very low bandwidth is not impossible. Machine learning has made it easier.
Exposing WireGuard to the standards process is the absolute last thing we should do with it. I mean that literally.
> Neither currying nor partial application delay running of the function once all parameters have been passed.

Currying does not, partial application can (and should).

> sum = curry((a,b,c) => a+b+c)

> sum(1)(2)(3) equals 6 under currying.

> sum(1,2)(3) equals 6 under partial application.

Sure. Now what happens to `sum(1, 2, 3)`? Or if the function is `(a, b, c=1) => a + b + c`?

> Perhaps you are thinking of calling the function with no arguments as a signal to execute the final calculation. That is NOT how currying normally works.

Which is the point. It's not how currying works. It is, however, how a "regular" version of partial application works e.g. Javascript's Function#bind or Python's `functools.partial`.

> I believe you are confused.

Nope.

> I believe you think currying works like this:

No.

> The implementation I provided is defacto currying by the book.

"Currying by the book" does is defined for strict arities and can not generate variable-arity functions.
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But these are comics based movies, it's excepted of the genre to go hyper just a bit. Same for anime. It's not made for reality, and actually it was the value of these movies, the ability to take physics, bend them just enough to reach wooh and call it a day. Just like comics are amplifications of physics to match our fantasies.
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I wonder if there is any discussion of whether they could make it cheaper with Google’s compression ASICs, which I assume will be a cloud service at some point.
Modern Java in Action is a fantastic book. It goes into Streams, Optionals, new Date Time API, basically the "big features".

More recent changes are relatively smaller and probably don't need a full book to cover.

Would recommend it after Effective Java (3rd edition).
I think its funny that these servers use FreeBSD but if you zoom in on the CPU graphic in the slides it is reading a book called ‘Programming Linux’
I've tried putting my phone in airplane mode and the feature still works. You can easily try that yourself.
> Public health messaging exhorting people to eat less and exercise more has failed to stem rising rates of obesity and obesity-related diseases.

This isn't because eating less and exercising more don't make you lose weight (they do). It's because people don't follow the messaging.

Also, aren't Twinkies the exact kind of food that this says makes you obese? How does the Twinkie diet work then?
How do you distinguish the, assumed, encrypted transmission from a foreground app sending this data compared to just requesting an update for the app's viewport?
Hmm...will have a look.
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It very well might. This would vary heavily on a per-building basis. Perhaps some buildings would simply go vacant.
The problem is that for those of us that used it since the beginning (1997 in my case), it's a change which broke the workflow which worked for 15 years for zero benefit for any user, old or new. I still get it wrong every time a decade on. The keyboard shortcuts are awkward, and it's all around a bad choice for usability. It has no actual benefit. Its only purpose is for the developers to force you to use XCF in a not-very-subtle manner.

I do use layers sometimes. But all of my input and output images are PNG, TIFF or JPEG and I have no use for the intermediate state. XCF is a non-standard application-specific format which has no use other than with the GIMP. It has its place, but the assumption that it is the central part of the workflow of end users is simply incorrect. It wouldn't have caused so many complaints if it was the case.
Ask HN: Is there any discord where systems programmers hang out?
I’ve got a laptop with a couple of frustrating bugs when it comes to running fedora/Ubuntu. I want to manage the hybrid graphics mode to enable the full refresh rate of the screen and to fix the stuck brightness problems. I see it as a really good learning opportunity and I was really inspired by the asus-linux project. Anyway, I’m new to the area and would love a hub where I can read about what others are doing and ask quick questions etc. Do any exist?
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Only if it's affordable, easy to apply, and easy to maintain.
Yah, because you must only compare Sweden to "other nordic countries"
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So, does Instagram upload meta data such as GPS infos of your entire photo library if you give it access?

- there is no OS indicator

- it doesn’t require CPU time

- it doesn’t require much bandwidth

- it could happen only occasionally and could’ve slipped (automated) third party security screening

I don’t know if they do it. But I assume they can and might have done this. Hence, no access to my photo library.
300k cpu cores is “only” about 1200 nodes these days, definitely not 2000 racks.
It’s probably worth noting that there have been huge scalability improvements - including introduction of epochs (+/- RCU) - in FreeBSD over the last few years, for both networking and VFS.
Let’s say Oracle sues Red Hat (now IBM), so what? Are android devs all totally screwed because Oracle sued Google?

I’m not going to defend Oracle’s business practices but this seems like FUD. You can use Red Hat, Amazon, or Azul’s jvm. If it’s too “scary” to do so for your company than you need better executives and/or lawyers.
Good explanation, thanks. The scenario is 'translate on device, steganograph the output on background traffic'. There is a huge push for 'on device ML', driven by noble intentions of hiding raw data from Skynet. Alas, the end of that road is devices that compress the raw sensorial input and report, possibly stealthily, the digest to Skynet.
Price's law: the square root of the population produces 50% of the trouble.

Apply that to the US (328.2 million people) and we have that 18,116 individuals are responsible for 50% of problems.

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Nothing the Dropbox client does that rsync can't do.

Running even a NAS storage with remote backups and decent security is not trivial job.

While UX/client features is a factor for buying into Dropbox, the storage and backup costs are the primary cost driver.
It was less widely reported that Telegram, supposedly independent messenged closed access to Telegram bot which Navalny team tried to use to replace these apps. They claimed it was done in compliance to russian laws.

Source (in russian) https://www.dw.com/ru/pavel-durov-soobshhil-o-blokirovke-bot...
At a deeper level currying is just a specific application of the Hom-tensor adjunction to the category of Sets. In particular the curried function is equivalent to the original. Partial function mappings is a restriction, and inherently not a injection. That is, generally the partial function is not in an equivalent Hom space to the original function.
The floppy disk icon never took off in the Apple ecosystem, so every time I see it in Windows world it seems like a bizarre anachronism. Which it is. Emblematic really of Apple’s ethos of plunging forward and Wintel’s backwards compatibility at all costs approach.
Hopefully said businesses didn't lock themselves too deeply into Salesforce's infrastructure.
Trustroots has to be mentioned too. It appeared as a reaction to the rigidity of how things were managed at BeWelcome.
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The simplest explanation of this is that there’s an antecedent reason you’re discussing what you’re discussing, and that’s the reason that correlates to the ads you see, rather than your discussion itself.

Perhaps it’s content you read. Perhaps it’s another product you researched. Perhaps it’s something someone in your office or home looked for from the same IP. Perhaps another ad campaign triggered the discussion. Then you talk about it. Then you see an ad related to the original trigger, and you notice it (the Baader Meinhof bit).
You can always find a comparison that is extreme in either direction. There is nothing that suggests that the outcome in Sweden would have been that of Norway, if the policies had been more similar. It’s possible, but far from certain.

Also, given how many deaths are of extremely vulnerable elderly (many of which would have died from any cold, or within a year regardless), “total deaths” are perhaps not the best measure of success. It will show how well the disease was kept out of living facilities for the very old, mostly (which in Sweden was “not very well”). The difference in how elderly care is operated in Sweden and Norway is pretty big, and that I think is a policy failure that should be looked at.
Ask HN: How did Google botch messaging/video/hangouts so badly?
Several years ago, from within Gmail, I could:

* Make a phone call

* Send an SMS

* Send a Google chat

* Start a video call with my parents

Now, all of this has been split up, and to start a video call, I have to start a video and send an email inviting someone. SMS has been split up into a separate web app that won't work without my phone being present.

How did it come to pass that they took an easy, integrated system and mangled it so badly? I mean, it wasn't perfect, but it mostly just worked, and was easy to use.
They used her name explicitly, and claimed something that was not true. This isn't "my life exactly matches this character, except for the name, and a bunch of other details". This is a direct reference, by name, to a chess champion, that misrepresents her accomplishments.

Nobody would have said anything if, within the fictional universe, they didn't use the name of an existing champion.
That figure would predict a much larger investment in anti-ageing that is actually seen.

On the other hand, it's roughly aligned with cancer drugs. Perhaps anti-ageing it just really tough.
They do mention it, it's at the end of their conclusions:

"The results explicitly show the strong tension between null results from disappearance searches and appearance-based indications for the existence of light sterile neutrinos." p7

So yes they are saying there is tension between disappearance and appearance experiments, which is which?

"In this analysis, the measurement of muon (anti)neutrino disappearance by the MINOS experiment is combined with electron antineutrino disappearance measurements from the Daya Bay and Bugey-3 [16] experiments using the signal confi- dence level (CLs) method [17, 18]. The combined results are analyzed in light of the muon (anti)neutrino to electron (anti)neutrino appearance indications from the LSND [8] and MiniBooNE [9] experiments." p3

So yes they are saying there is tension between MiniBooNE results and MINOS, Bugey-3. I've no insight into the results either but GP's characterization of this paper was accurate.
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This excludes all artists. A single piece of graphics art exceeds 512KB in nearly all cases, except maybe low fidelity pixel art. Also all musicians. Half a meg even in the best audio codec is less than a minute of music.
More office space also contributes to increasing traffic yet curiously there is no widespread, organized NIMBY opposition to offices like there is to housing units.
Java is GPL2+Classpath Exception licensed.
Ask HN: What books have you not finished?
I frequently read books 2+ times. I find that I get a lot more out of a second read after some time, than I do on just one read. So I rarely give up on books. The only two I can think of are:

Dereliction of Duty: HR McMaster - This was waaay too detailed for me. I got really bogged down and just strggled about 2/3rds of the way through.

God Delusion: Richard "Dickhead" Dawkins - This was a gift to me. I made it a few pages in. I just got turned by his sense of rightness. I don't believe in any god/gods, but I don't think that you can break down religious belief with logic. I don't think it works that way.

So, what were you not able to finish?
Essentially, elites come from among the people. People generate elites, who generate policy. Bias flows the same way. In any given nation, the people are very likely biased. Which generates biased elites. Who, in turn, generate biased policy.

The problem is not biased elites. The problem is that humans are biased, and little can be done to remove their biases. Much less to ensure they don't manifest those biases in the results of their work.
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Terraform definitely has it's warts, though, as other commenters wrote, not everything in the article is true (the reconciliation part): dependency resolution blows up in time as your number of resources grows, so you need to split up your statefiles; it can't passively listen for drift happening in a dataflow-like way (that would be awesome); it's not transactional like CloudFormation (which is more of a tradeoff, than a cons), and more.

It is however a great improvement over the previous ways of doing things, and probably the best out of the current similar alternatives out there (you might mention Pulumi as a strong contender, especially for AWS glue writing).

And - though as per the disclaimer, I may be biased - until a better tool comes up, I'd advise looking for specialized IaC CI/CD tools to ease your path with Terraform, like Spacelift[0].

It can help you with orchestrating dependencies among multiple state files; take care of scheduling regular drift detection/reconciliation without going into your way and locking your state; gives you a policy system for making sure preventable mistakes don't happen (i.e. recreating a resource you definitely never want to recreate); manages your credentials depending on whether you just want to run a plan, or apply your changes, and much more.

I can't imagine doing Terraform again without a tool like it.

Disclaimer: Software Engineer at Spacelift. If you want me to expand on the "and much more" part, you can find a demo-scheduling link in my bio!

[0]: https://spacelift.io
Yes they do need them, because they are cheap and long term (technically they are overnight but in practice, banks and regulators assume limited retail run-on-the-bank, so they are effectively long term liabilities).

If you don't have deposits, the only three ways a bank can fund are

a) issuing term wholesale funding (i.e. issuing bonds, no liquidity risk but expensive, if not uneconomical),

b) short term wholesale funding (money markets, cheap but dangerous, what happens if the wholesale funding market dries up like in 2008?). Banks are now prevented from taking too much of that risk by the introduction of the LCR ratio (which requires them to keep in liquid asset the equivalent of a 30 days bank run) and the NSFR ratio (which forces banks to maintain as much long term (>1y) liabilities than long term assets),

c) and the "originate and distribute" model, i.e. make some loans and resell almost immediately them through securitisation. Though banks are now required to retain much of the credit risk and are therefore limited in how much they can do that by their capital requirements.

And yes, your deposit has been lent out, at least 70-80% of it. That's because everyone assumes not all retail customers will request their money back the same day (and if they do the bank is dead).
and "cassette tapes" (for computer or radio/stereo/receiver) are the same material, but the magnetic media is in a roll of tape instead of a spinning disk shape.
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Was licensing also a contributing factor, or was that irrelevant for you?
Thats really sad. I see a future where we all get along just fine. I think black people sometimes have a tendency to come across as overly aggressive and that can be scary to white people. But really once you get to know some black people well you find out they're really chill and they invite you to the neighborhood cookout ;)