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Steinbeck's Arthurian tales was spurred on by his childhood in Salinas, California. As a child, he used to play as a knight and he made his little sister play his squire. He dedicated the book to her.

I am generally favorable to a lot of what Steinbeck did with his treatment, other than "vamping up" Morgan le Fey, which seemed a bit too dime store novel of a characterization to me.

Otherwise he does a great job getting into the psychology of the knight characters. The published version also includes a great number of his letters on his process, showing how Steinbeck himself was on a sort of spiritual grail quest in trying to get to an authentic version of the telling.

If you are into the Arthurian literature as it jumped from the medieval to the modern, this is a great book to add to your collection.

Last note: be forwarned that Steinbeck never really finished his book. He spent years doing the research, but never really wrapped the stories with a bow. Just appreciate the tales he does tell, and how he tells them. You already know how the story ends.
So, yes, one of the core benefits of operating (mostly) inside the law is, well, operating inside the law. Including availing yourself of the law's protections. Criminals are in many cases "outlaws", in the original sense of being outside the scope of legal protections.

There are some limits to this, of course:

- There are people who have little choice but to live outside the law (undocumented aliens --- perhaps emigrating as children, petty criminals, the poor, those living in corrupt societies), who nonetheless have very legitimate criminal complaints against others (theft, robbery, assault, rape, etc.). In many cases, such people are victimised by both criminal and law-enforcement communities.

- There are generally-lawful businesses which engage in illegal acts. HBSC serving as money-launderer to the Mexican drug cartels, Google knowingly engaging in illegal pharmaceutical sales and imports to the US, as two instances. More generally, wage, labour, and safety infractions are highly probable among any business.

Either way, "lawful business" isn't a strict binary, it's more a heap of sorites.

In the case of An0m, the sting itself was putatively legal (I'm not fully agreed with that, I'm positing that for this argument), in which case the argument for fraud or contract violation is ... well, something of a long shot. On the other hand, the targets of the sting have little to lose.

The case with paper is that the costs and risks are very well understood, in ways that the risks and costs of digitisation are not. And to a very large extent, business likes certainty.

There may be measures which can be taken to minimise the risks of digital business-management systems. I'm not entirely sure what those might be, though anything which greatly increases data frictions would likely be a benefit. I suspect this particular discussion will be ongoing for years and decades, though it's possible that specific major events might precipitate change. I'm trying to think of analogues from other domains. Disease, hygiene, and predator-prey relations come to mind.
They have to provide it by law under GDPR and other directives in the EU.
In addition, encrypted backup means they can't do arbitrary scans and decide your content is wrong

While it does make it harder to share things directly, its well worth the hassle
Well, when you're making an omelette you have to break some eggs.

There has been a literal, yet largely silent, book burning going on with Google services in recent years. On youtube, many alternative voices are silenced, billions of comments deleted.

I know its a private company, but in the US there are free speech laws + the possibility of using the court system (if someone makes a libellous statement). But no, silencing voices is in the realms of corporate policy - the rule of law has been deemed to not apply.
I have no activity on YouTube, Blogger, or any other Google service since they tied up all the accounts, just to minimize the chance of getting my Gmail chopped off.

(Note to self: stop giving feedback on Maps routing. You never know.)
The first time that backfires, though…
There's thousands of safe medications that probably do nothing to stop covid. Just because one of them has been latched on to by right wing nutjobs doesn't mean it makes any sense for people to take that over the stuff that's actually been shown to help.
It doesn't exactly have widespread support; it's more that nobody can propose a better solution that doesn't blow the budget completely out of the water.
Yeah, maybe land wasn't the best thing to call out as it's not particularly scarce in the US. Water, on the other hand...

California uses more water to grow animal feed (Alfalfa + irrigated pasture) than it does for all residential and commercial uses combined.
Wow this is a super impressive project. I was originally expecting a device built around a Raspberry Pi, but this is a completely custom designed linux board!
Maybe Apple should enter the world-changing business instead of presiding over the money-making one, then.
There is a better solution to the problem: edible insects.

The first reaction most people have is that the public in developed countries wouldn't eat insects, but people once thought lobsters were gross. Changing people's tastes is not as large of a barrier as most people think.

If society is going to spend lot of money to spend on the problem, we should start investing it in the cultural shift to eating insects and see how far it can be taken via "influencer" and celebrity culture. It's a much easier problem than the alternatives.

https://theconversation.com/eating-insects-good-for-you-good...

https://theconversation.com/eating-insects-has-long-made-sen...

Before you downvote, look at the projected market size, even without an intentional cultural shift:

https://fortune.com/2019/06/28/edible-insects/
I'll gladly explain for the other people who might be scrolling by, since time immemorial has proven that user feedback falls on deaf ears at BraveCorp.

The internet is not made "good" by by browser manufacturers. This is something we fought about when Chrome assumed dominance, and it holds true today. The thing that makes the internet good is content: a perfect browser does literally nothing except format content properly into an open window. That's why power-users will still reach for Firefox, Chrome, or god forbid Safari before they consider trying "the cryptocurrency browser by a guy nobody trusts". Hell, I'd probably install the stupid Opera Gaming Browser before I'd be caught using Brave. That only leaves you the market of people who would like to earn pennies on the dollar browsing the web, but also pay for their DSL access every month. In all fairness, it's a market you've capitalized on very well, which is why it so closely resembles abuse. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and talks like a duck... I won't believe you when you're telling me it's actually a lion.
I think you'd have to factor in the resource input required to create that mass of crickets vs beans/pulses/etc. I realize crickets are pretty efficient but they could end up being very similar. I also don't have good sources for this.
"Not Found", did a SysOp accidentally rm -rf?
I've been experimenting with some progressive enhancement style HTML. You can build forms that post the "normal" way, then get the full liveview experience when the socket is mounted.

If an app can be reduced to just CRUD, I think it works very well.
Not a troll: how do you know that number? Pfizer’s own RCT showed no difference in all cause mortality after six months
I'm waiting for the same thing, but with fungi. Mycelia alone are protein rich and love to literally grow in giant vats. Culturing fungi is well understood and massively scalable compared to culturing animal cells.
I don't understand why people are looking to insects over legumes for protein. Legumes are widely cultivated and socially and culturally acceptable. Protein is pretty much a solved problem.
Shame they don’t sell Airport Express anymore.
> It's important to note that almost all of the land that cattle are raised on is unsuitable for any other purpose

I'm not so sure about that. Brazil is the second largest producer of beef, and there have been huge outcries because large swathes of the Amazon are being cut down to facilitate beef production (as well as crops such as soya - which I should note is mostly used as animal feed - and palm oil).

Apparently the soil does soon become unsuitable for even raising cattle, so it does become land unsuitable for other purposes. But it certainly didn't start out that way.
What about public transportation? OP doesn't want to drive.
George RR Martin still writes his books with the DOS program WordStar. Given the pace he releases books at, this might more be out of preference than desire to focus though...
> the average number of applications for a job at a publicly traded company is about 250; the average number of people interviewed is five.

This sums up the problem. As an interviewer, you're practically DDoS'd by applicants. There's a lot to do and you don't have time to vet the applicants.

Anecdotally, it seems the only way to get to a human is to have referrals or the perfect resume. Ironically, the internet has made people in my life more reliant on who they know IRL to get a job.
Calling it horse dewormer is either propaganda, or just a plain bad faith argument. The inventors of this drug won a Nobel prize for the discovery and it’s use in humans. It’s recognized as an essential drug.
What's the skills gap? Do they mean job openings?
But the larger problem has been the the non-scientific audience running with with things to support their political narrative. If someone from the right infosphere were to promote skinned habanero inserted rectally as a potential prophylactic therapy there would be lawsuits demanding that treatment for people's family members and a furious debate on twitter as to whether habanero or ghost peppers should be used.

Bad science has always been around, you learn how to spot them in grad school. It just now the larger population is learning that bad papers exist.
I'm a little confused; why is rural Texas less able to support human life than Manhattan? Other than the infrastructure that was built by humans, I assume the primary advantage of Manhattan is protection from human invasion and easily accessible water?
When I studied CS 15-11 years ago in France, nobody had laptops in class. All practical work was done in a computer lab. I still find it weird to see a picture of a lecture hall and a sea of computers. What do people do with them?

This aside, in the dorm Macs were maybe 10-20% with a healthy amount of mac hating.
> > and made the calling syntax much more complicated.

> How is this true? Swift is very straightforward, and similar to other languages

Swift is objectively one of the most complex languages out there[1]. Just recently, they adopted basically the entirety of Smalltalk syntax as an edge case of an edge case[2].

Just the rules for initialisers are more complex than many languages and still don't cover all the cases[3].

> Meanwhile Objective-C is slow,

The only people who believe this are those who have never measured (and have uncritically accepted Apple propaganda on this topic)[4]. Objective-C is a language you can easily write very fast code in (languages by themselves aren't fast or slow)[5]. Objective-C code is almost invariably faster than Swift code, and often by quite a lot.[6]

> unsafe by default,

Also not true. The id subset is quite safe[7] (and pretty fast), as are primitives. The parts that make C dangerous, particularly strings and other raw pointer accesses are abstracted away behind safe NSString, NSArray, NSData and friends.

> ugly syntax

Keyword syntax is actually highly elegant (Smalltalk's fits on a postcard) and extremely functional. So functional that Swift just recently added pretty much all of it as an edge case of an edge case of its closure syntax. Oh, did I already mention that?

> More than half of Apple's CVE/iOS vulnerabilities lately have been from parts of the OS that still use ObjC

Citation needed. Also: way more than half of the OS is still written in Objective-C, so you'd expect that.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Which-features-overcomplicate-Swift-Wh...

[2] https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/06/the-curious-case-of-swif...

[3] https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/04/swift-initialization-swi...

[4] https://blog.metaobject.com/2014/09/no-virginia-swift-is-not...

[5] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321842847/ref=as_li_tl?ie...

[6] https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/04/faster-json-support-for-...

[7] https://blog.metaobject.com/2014/05/the-spidy-subset-or-avoi...
You can't even install apps outside of the app store and don't feel controlled, i mean everyone is different and have different opinions but there needs to be a limit to the amount of ham on the eyes, what should they do more, handcuff you and put you in a genius bar decorated jail?
Google locked a 10 year old email account of mine and never followed up.
If they have video of a car theft (or any other crime), they don't need to mention the intercepted message. There the defendant is, stealing the car, on video. That's illegal. It is only when they need to prove marginal stuff like conspiracy that intercepts would matter.
Good to note—I should at least in the video have a little text overlay that shows 'KVM = Keyboard Video Mouse'. You forget sometimes how acronym-laden our industry is, and even the ones you find most basic... better to spell it out for someone who might not operate in the same area.
It also means your phone's battery is not draining while you're playing music. I use spotifyd on a Raspberry Pi and it's pretty wonderful.
I have never seen these things come from anything other than guesswork. It's educated guesses, but guesses nonetheless. It's why products get killed too early or too late. Measuring these things properly and causally is hard and sometimes infeasible.
I'm guessing you're talking about America?

50% of the surface area of Denmark is dedicated to growing feed for pigs, and we import a lot as well. All that land could be used for growing food for people directly, or for other things. Since there's basically nowhere in this country where you're more than five kilometers away from some sort of settlement, almost all of it is interesting for other developments as well. So at least here, some of us would very much like agriculture to change.
Buy ebooks from Baen directly, or from Tor on your service of choice. These publishers release books DRM free, so you actually own the file. Any other ebooks you “buy”, you’re renting.
Penalisation under a "KYC" law would have to be extreme.

And I suspect there'd be all kinds of challenges to such a requirement.

Again, the Good Sam loophole is huge.
Note that this "strength was greatest at noon" was also said to be true about Gawaine, and there is a version of a combat where after the noon hour his strength waxed and he was defeated.

"According to the Vulgate Mort Artu, Gawain had been baptised as an infant by a miracle-working holy man, also named Gawain, who named the boy after himself, and the following day announced that every day at noon, at the hour of the baptism, his power and strength will increase."
I don't follow, you need to account for things like property tax, home repair costs, insurance and the realtor fee to know what the return would be.

If you are considering renting vs buying the best calculator I know for these things is here: https://michaelbluejay.com/house/rentvsbuy.html

But the results are all dependent on your assumptions. If you assume houses will increase in value you get much better results than if you assume they will lose value, or not keep up with inflation.

If you assume stocks will go up a lot, it makes housing a comparatively "worse" investment.
I was not aware there was an OSS Spotify client before reading this article.

That’s neat!
>If/when better evidence comes to light, the field would move accordingly.

This is a bit of an idealistic view.

It's entirely possible for large players within a given system to pick and choose winners, specifically in where they direct funding. This isn't the same thing as actively platforming against a particular path, just funding the one that they see as most promising.

I think the argument here revolves not around the "gerontologists hate this one trick that big pharma doesn't want you to know" but rather than there's some small number of people making decisions based on their own biases with regard to research directions and there's a dissenting group that would like to see broader research done before committing the finite available resources to just that one path.
We've worked on things like this in the past without success. Even just saving the html of the web pages that get submitted to HN is a nontrivial problem, and extracting text from them for similarity searches even more so. If people wanted to work on this as an open-source thing, we'd be open to supporting it somehow, but it'll be quite a while before we get back to working on the problem at this level ourselves. I think relying on the community to co-curate related-links lists (and duplicates) is likely a better and easier strategy.
This is equivalent to saying: "paid labour may never be cost-competitive enough to replace slavery".

Sure, "traditional meat" is cheaper. But that's because it involves the torture and murder of animals.
Very personal opinion here: Apple innovated as hell, pure lab of goodness and years and years ahead of any other OS. Sad reality is that they are now a 100 billion mega megacorp, user is second in the money dance. I don’t see them as innovative, freedom (not as in free beer) means a lot and they don’t contribute to it at all, if anything even more closed ecossystem - long gone the days of OpenDarwin. Most people I know switched back to Windows for better drivers support. UX is still second to none in Apple, but at what cost? In the end, you want to press a button to turn on the system and get things done. I think there’s more than just Apple nowadays - but unique strengths in different contexts for sure
In my testing and my Dad's, about 100-300ms. Very noticeable, but you kinda get used to it.

You can get it down to sub-100ms using a few hacks, but honestly, this kind of setup is not optimal if you need remote real-time control (e.g. for gaming or video production monitoring).
I actually really don’t care about kindle because it’s only useful for certain formats I tend not to keep anyway and is a lot more convenient and cheaper than hunting down physical copies of stuff.

I originally had over 200 books, all read, gathering dust so I gave them away. They took up space and attention and were a pain in the ass when I had to move house.

As for the convenience, I do a lot of hiking and it’s not much fun dragging two books from the expanse series with you versus a kindle in a ziplock bag.

I have physical copies and PDFs for technical books and reference material though. And a lot of text files.
Google should just take control of Linux, then they can just use the mainline kernel, and merge in whatever they want whenever they want.
That is called a canary trap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap
A $30 Raspberry Pi with free Volumio serves the same purpose for me, and I can attach a DAC hat to the top of the Pi for high fidelity audio - but this looks so much better with it's beautiful wood finish.
Why can't it work like an FPGA? I set the coefficients in software, it programs the analog computer through a serial interface, and then I don't need to tweak knobs every time I want to change something.
Showing that someone can do it doesn’t say much. Those roles are very competitive and a tiny tiny proportion of all the software jobs out there.
> Also - and this is the deal breaker for most people I know - you can't display graphs within your notebook. Until we get that ability - everyone I know who does work and lives off of their matplotlib workstream is going to continue using Jupyter Lab/Notebooks.

Hmm? The latest demos seem to imply that a plt.show() does embed the plot images into the Notebook.

The major limit on cell outputs is more limited interactivity.
From https://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/download.html:

> To play you must enter moves in algebraic notation, and to make the computer do a move you should press an extra enter. You can alternate sides whenever you want, the program accepts or plays moves for the side whose turn it is to move. After having done a move, be it yours or his own, micro-Max prints a board with the new position. To quit type control-c.
And only a tiny fraction of them would care. I’m quite happy with my iPhone and don’t want a random HN freedom phone. I don’t ever even intend to develop something for my phone and if I did, I would want to target android and iOS.
> because the performant parts were written in C

Objective-C is C. More specifically a strict superset of C.

> Ignoring slick animations (which were written in C, if not in hand-tuned assembly)

Nope. The reason the animations were smooth (not necessarily fast) is that they were processed by the GPU and orchestrated by a separate process.
Amazon says “time has come” for U.S. to legalize marijuana
This may not be the norm, but I have found Anaconda to be extremely useful because I get 90% of the packages I need in a single blob. Certain networks don't allow you to go around pip installing packages and it is easier to push through a single approval than 20 when a major update comes along.
There's a criminal trial going on in downtown San Jose as we speak, of someone who also applied lessons from elsewhere to a place where they don't fit: Elizabeth Holmes & Theranos.

Her responses whenever someone challenged her were similar to most of the commenters here: "first they say it's impossible, then you change the world." She was thinking of computers and her idol, Steve Jobs. She would never talk about blood tests and accuracy, only about how cool it would be to change the world.

Unfortunately, Moore's Law does not apply everywhere. "Hard sciences" are hard. We have it easy in software. Boundless optimism is only appropriate in certain domains, not in all of them. Most of us on Hacker News (not all of us, I'm sure) have spent our lives in the domains where it is.
The word is "ponzi scheme" ;)
Maybe the real future of factory meat is figuring out how to grow animals that don't have an appreciable amount of brain aside from the minimal bits required to sustain life. Could certainly alleviate the moral concerns a bit, even if it doesn't really solve the efficiency problem.
Vim with a lock-out mode would be enough.
It can go the other way too. Some hospitals will charge uninsured people much more than they would charge the insurance company for the same procedure.
No one at Mozilla kept calling me anything. You may be thinking of

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/mozil...

None of those people worked for me as then-CEO, they were in the arms-length Mozilla Foundation.
My hot take is that meat eating will be the smoking of my generation. I say this as a proud degenerate meat eater myself. It's been shown to be rather unhealthy; beef is terrible for the environment; and most animals are raised in profoundly unethical environments. I've noticed more and more people my age going vegetarian or low-meat and I can't say I blame them. As much as synthetic meat is tempting, the solution might just be to stop eating meat altogether.
I'm surprised it was downvoted. It was a good point. Those of us in the computer industry can well remember when "640K should be enough for anyone."

We literally cannot imagine what the future will bring. I'm still waiting on my flying atomicar.

I think it will end up being necessary to make food this way, and that we'll figure out how to do it (Soylent Green, anyone?).