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I disagree with everything you said but I use to think along the same lines. Then one day, in a conversation about collective stupidity someone shared this observation:

There are countless species in this world and all of them are doing just fine without the giant brain. A large part of humanity really just wants to live their live, reproduce, enjoy a meal, sleep properly, sit in the grass and look at the lake and the forest.

We keep arguing that we have to think our way out of whatever the current situation is but you cant find a single problem that was not created by similar "solutions" for the previous "problem".

It sort of blew my mind!

It took a very large brained human to come up with the bread and circuses. It takes such very large brain to punish innovation or to have people ignore it. It takes an even larger brain to argue "what is desperately needed". You talk of saving the world but the world doesn't need to be saved. People are going to die sooner or later regardless. If you or me get to live a little bit longer that would be fantastic for you or for me.... but for the world? The world needs me for what exactly? We are the parasite devouring the host.

I do get it! It seems terrible this "amusing yourselves to death" but why not amuse yourself until you die? Utopia is a world full of 300 year old grumpy old men? I'm sure we will get there eventually if we push hard enough but that will simply become the new problem that those few bright men with their large brains so desperately need to solve for us.

I look at my cat sleeping on the sofa, why doesn't she get to have this complicated disposition? Why isn't she worried about the economy and innovation? What a joke, after the great collapse she will just go fishing, catch birds, spiders and mice, fight the neigbours, roll in the grass, look at the lake and the trees. At least, assuming we leave any of that behind.

Think about it!

The moon? mars? why not go to Antartica if you feel we ran out of self-made problems to solve? Antartica seems just as much umpf as Mars?
It's not so much hoarding as setting prices from future expected prices. If I'm writing a contract where I promise to deliver a product during the next year, and I expect the prices of both components and labour to be 10% higher by the end of the year, I of course factor that in when I set my prices now.
When I negotiate my salary for the coming year I of course factor in that I expect my living expenses to be 10% higher by the end of the year, and that I know that my employer already is increasing her prices.

Then everyone does the same, and of course everyone's inflation expectations are vindicated. Rinse, repeat. This is a very tricky trap to get out of. Last time it happened the federal reserve increased the interest rate to 20% and forced a recession just to get inflation back to normal.
IIRC the front-end JavaScript frameworks had considerably less coverage than node.js projects.

2011-2014 was the time everything that could be written in js was written in js. Didn't matter if it was a good idea, I just loved the energy here!
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Not just this release, all of Edge. I looked up the source code out of curiosity, found the Github repo (https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdge) ... which contains an MIT License.txt for that repository and a Readme.md with hits such as „Our new mobile browser has been based on open source from its beginnings over a year ago“ and „While we’ve been consumers of Chromium open source“.

I was pretty baffled and continue to be. Why the f** would they make it proprietary? It’s sad because Edge really is the nicest spin of Chrome I know, but I‘d have liked to use a version with some features removed.
Google, Apple and Microsoft have been making a lot of security-related changes in the OSes in the last few years. The result is that a lot of apps need updating or just no longer work.

It's not an issue for apps that are actively developed -- but it's devastating for side projects or open source apps that rely on volunteers.

Some changes (like new code signing requirements) might be possible to implement in a few days, but if you need to make bigger changes you are quickly looking at weeks of development time -- which is kinda hard sell for people who develop software in their free time.
As a result, there are many companies (at least in the US) which will refuse to honor sick time taken through your final day without legal pressure - they'll take it out of your vacation time, and if not there your salary.
Yes. These are called common law marriages. 7 states have them.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/common-law-marr...
You start by pretending you're 10 users to create social proof, then a massive spamming campaign should get you to 100 users, and then you fudge the books and say you have 1k to anyone who asks.

That's generally what the companies listed in the article did too.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/468405/global-oil-tanker... has you covered; over 2000. I do think oil tankers are less than ideal and that "they" prefer direct oil pipelines from oil fields to refineries.
I largely agree, but would only say -- consider if your use-case needs LTS[1]. Not every use-case does.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26478175
Staggeringly obvious—not sure why you're getting downvoted.
There was a previous post from that blog which was not accurate so it’s worth pointing it out.

Also setrlimit and getrlimit let you query and set stack size which are settable via ulimit utility as well. I don’t want to roll my eyes here but this is some serious FUD.

Here’s my previous response

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28696047
an airport is a hub for an airline, but not for other airlines. if southwest has 50 planes at an airport, and delta has 10 southwest is going to be impacted. when your plane takeoffs are cancelled at your hub, every single flight that was going to use that plane later in the day, or the following day, is now missing a plane.

if Chicago O'hare is shut down, United is done for the day in half the country, because half its planes are stuck at O'hare. if Chicago Midway is shut down, only Southwest is screwed. if Atlanta shuts down, only Delta is screwed.

Yes, I'm sure there are other cities that also had planes. Like Phoenix. Except the plane that was supposed to land in Phoenix is stuck in Florida. Or the pilot piloting the plane already in Phoenix is stuck in Florida.

Planes go from one city to another. If you introduce a blockage along the way, you've now taken that plane, or a crew out of commission.
Clicking this thread I thought "at least this is something HN can't bash Google for" but of course I was wrong. You guys are really creative in your hate.
France has recently lost that Australian diesel submarine sale, in favour of American nuclear subs, and has made their displeasure very clear.

Perhaps he misread the situation and imagined France would be receptive given that fact.
Zoom’s acquisition of Keybase could only mean bad things for Keybase.

It means Keybase loses internal developer attention (since Zoom ostensibly bought it for the tech talent) and/or Zoom plans to somehow boost its own services through existing KB users (privacy loss, but also unlikely given the relatively small userbase).

KB did also have some attraction because of its Stellar integration, but Stellar has not been managed well enough to attract enough developer attention (a different topic).

It’s too bad Wire became so corporate. KB and Wire were arguably the most secure messenger systems, and now we’re stuck with Signal.
It's disingenuous to say it is supported by the US. If the US is "supporting it", so is France, UK, Italy, and Spain.
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> I grew up watching the original Star Trek series in reruns in the 1970’s.

And you are still alive today, that means you lived through the transition from analog to digital and the arrival of the Information Age. That’s a pretty big thing that has happened.
This is about V7 Unix.
All Pythonistas should switch to Go or okay, maybe just half
I apologize, but it's clear to me from your pointed responses that you have no idea what you're talking about.
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You're willing to sacrifice people that you consider "expendable", because you think vaccination and masks are more dangerous than a highly infectious disease with long-lasting detrimental health consequences even for survivors.

Such a severe lack of empathy is disturbing.

> the vast majority of the dead will be the very old, and people who took extraordinarily poor care of their health.

This is incorrect, the Delta variant is hitting young people hard, including children.

https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/how-covid-19-d...

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/young-people-make-up-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/young-unvaccinate...

The ego-driven vaccine denial and lack of respect for distancing and mask requirements is killing people.
Find SageMath for details on Wikipedia.
One that does not require a lot of power and has a huge battery =(
In a world where cash is starting to dissapear, payment processors and banking in general should be regulated and treated just like some sort of utility company (Ex: Water, electricity).

Advertising is a different beast altogether. Being able to to exchanges (money for goods, etc) is something quite a basic right(If I can call it that). That doesn't apply to making money though. I don't think it's normal in any way to force anyone to conduct business with someone they don't want to unless is a basic necessity in that particular day and age.
When will we get an unlimited number of command-line args?
Worth a read!
In most environments it's better to use a LTS version
SqlAlchemy 1.4 async ORM with FastAPI
So you totally can work on your own project for 20% of your time but you won't get 20% of your time to work on your project. Right.

So the policy is dead with only a dishonest echo remaining..? Doesn't even qualify as evil anymore on google's standards, but when google hired freelance recruiters were ringing me several times a week it really would have. Those were the days, we used to think microsoft were horrible. And they were!
The problem with that is the site the user is on is http:// . Security at that point is pretty iffy. You kind of need to say "foo.com or some MITM attacker pretending to be foo.com wants to scan your local network. Allow Once/Deny/Block".

Full disclosure I work at Google, but not on Chrome.
> We have a billion people on earth who do not have enough to eat (living below the UN poverty line). That has to change, and that requires even more productive farms.

It actually just requires better distribution of the food. We've had enough food to feed everyone on the planet since the 1970s.
They have been printing money for more than a decade. And of course all the inflation truthers feel vindicated now. But as the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Thanks, that’s great to know! Maybe you should clarify that in the website, since people still seem to think Waterfox == Outdated Firefox with XUL.
Have a look at Qubes OS then : https://qubes-os.org. It's even more secure (hardware VT-d virtualization), with a nice gui and allows to use webcams and microphones securely.
Super insightful. Do you have a background in psychology or just good at joining the dots on human emotion?
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It's incredible how much risk people will take for a measly 30k. This guy has ruined his life for less money than he'd need to get a new car.
Ah, so you can leave the channel open without being online?
According to this substack[1], it was a pilot walkout/"sickout" due to vaccine mandates. It's actually happening in more companies/industries than widely reported. I imagine it's also picked up steam since last weeks revelation from leaked internal Pfizer emails[2] that they used cells from aborted fetuses while testing the RDNA vaccine (testing - it's not in the vaccine), but have publicly stated otherwise. It was also pretty clear that they did not want the public to know from the text. And a lot of "religious exemptions" are being turned down. This would be a bit like taking a staunch vegan and forcing them to eat something (via threatening career) that was tested on animals while they said otherwise.

> The pilot emailed following the first Southwest post today (and provided his SWA ID to prove his identity). He asked that I paraphrase the email.

> Essentially, the union cannot organize or even acknowledge the sickout, because doing so would make it an illegal job action. Years ago, Southwest and its pilots had a rough negotiation, and the union would not even let the pilots internally discuss the possibility of working-to-rule (which would have slowed Southwest to a crawl).

> But at the moment the pilots don’t even have to talk to each other about what they’re doing. The anger internally - not just among pilots but other Southwest workers - is enormous. The tough prior negotiations notwithstanding, Southwest has a history of decent labor relations, and workers believe the company should stand up for them against the mandate. Telling pilots in particular to comply or face termination has backfired.

[1] https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-a-southwest-airli...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUXGB5FzhPc
> This is not an assumption, they'll have to do the right thing when society is properly setup.

Who is doing the setting up? Some kind of Roman deity?

It's human individuals. If the individuals in a society are selfish then the ones in government will enact a kleptocracy. If they're not, you don't need to force them to do the right thing at gunpoint.

It's the culture that matters.

> It is just a mater of time before we agree that unlimited profit is bad for our future and outlaw it.

What is that even supposed to look like?

The closest realistic example would be stronger antitrust enforcement so that companies didn't get so big. But if the people in a society can't even manage to stop patronizing a company which is screwing them over then how can they be expected to organize enough to cause meaningful antitrust enforcement to happen?
And Snapdrop (https://snapdrop.net)
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Fairphone 4 review: the price of sustainability
Why not https://godotengine.org/ ?

I think that these kind of things is similar some years ago the stuffs for macromedia flash...now flash is dead and all things around this are dead too.
God's curse is not a copyright restriction.

All the discussion so far has been about adding to, not taking away.
That comment is only partially related to those primitives - the primitives are used in a bunch of other places with more obvious functionality - it's the doing something strange because the SSWAP is set that you're not supposed to understand - where that bit is set is miles away and not obviously connected (plus there's that "return(1)" from a routine that no one who appears to call it uses the result).

V7's save()/restore() are more portable and easier to understand
How is this not abuse of power to get into the guitar tuner market? I hope they get sued by the tuner companies.

And before you respond, think how you would feel if your service was "front-run" by Google upon a user search.
Not totally surprising. The way I've seen it working is people trade around where the price was yesterday and it goes up and down a bit. Then every so often - when not enough coal is being produced - the buffers at the mines and ports run out and the situation becomes a straight auction for the last scraps. That usually makes the price graph draw a ski-jump shape.

It is a pretty good time to be a coal mine. A lot of investment has been scared out of the sector, so not so much competition. But people still keep using coal.
That's interesting - still seems like a "military action".
Aha. I totally agree. Here in the UK the Sunday Times has a significant (for printed news) following, and is so full of stuff that people devote their whole Sundays reading it.
getrlimit is POSIX only thing, it's not a standard C feature.
This looks to me like a single-use check of the user database for "bad" usernames. A manager comes in, says he's gotten complaints about "bad" usernames and asks an engineer to check the DB and give him a list of them. This does _not_ look like something used in production.
Parent probably meant the EU which Norway is not part of.
So basically "program without subroutines" okay thanks.
That makes them even worse.
DeFi.

It's an ugly callous teenager as of now, but it grows quickly and is ingenious.

(Edit: I am about the same age as you)
When people have 10 different ideological choices, it doesn't matter as much. I'm pretty sure that the Republican party would be represented by e.g. a Traditional Liberal party, a Conservative party, a National Conservative party, and perhaps small fascist party in any traditional European democracy. And that Traditional Liberal party would also contain a whole bunch of Democrats.
> business even more vital to them than AWS

AWS is totally the most vital biz to amazon. Its the cash cow, and the one with tight contracts to meet.

> disgruntled enough workers may be willing to sabotage the infrastructure as well so you cannot even migrate.

Fast way for a union to get no support from the internet-using population.
"As the philosopher of science Paul Feyrabend wrote and made the convincing case in his book Against Method"

Convincing case? I think not.

Feyrabend is about the worst of the philosophers of science, and that's saying something[0]. He forms part of the tradition of humanities scholars who feel they have something of insight and utility to add to understanding science, but who offer insufficient evidence to match the claims they make.

It's with value-vacuum and nonsense statements like this:

"Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives."

and this:

"Science is neither a single tradition, nor the best tradition there is, except for people who have become accustomed to its presence, its benefits and its disadvantages. In a democracy, it should be separated from the state just as churches are now separated from the state."

that these people trade in. What does this even mean? Where is the actual evidence to support such claims?

Science is far from an 'anarchic enterprise'. It has the most rigidly regulated mechanisms for knowledge procurement and knowledge dissemination available to us.

Further, science is a single tradition (underpinned by the scientific method) and it is the best tradition we have; no other field of human endeavour has progressed as far in 2,500 years as science has. This is in sharp contrast to Feyrabend's own field, philosophy, where such a claim cannot be sustained.

[0] Popper is easily the least-worst of this group.

[EDIT] Grammar clarity.
No matter if it takes you a single run or ten thousand runs; qualified manpower to code and supervise it costs more than $12/run, so with prices like that the limiting factor is how much people-time you can devote to it.
Operating a business is a lot like flying an airline in one respect: It's not your average hight above the zero point that matters so much as never, ever going below it.

Failure to maintain altitude above ground level and failure to maintain solvency are in many ways equivalent.

Both domains involve taking risks, but with severe consequences when either risks are miscalculated or ground truths change. Financial bets can be hedged in ways flight profiles often cannot be, and Southwest are credited for doing this (with fuel purchase futures notably), but there's a sense in which businesses are arbitraging latent risks for present profits in ways which can prove catastrophic. (Venture start-ups are particularly prone to this IMO.)

Southwest's single-airframe fleet affords efficiencies, but also risks should faults arise with that airframe or subsystems of it (as with the 737 MAX scenario).
Absolutely. However, if I were to do this I'd go more direct. If you have an NN that assesses writing style then you can do a "style-transfer"-type GAN that ensures that it will classify as some chosen style other than your own.
This time it's different ;)
You could try reading the articles I posted for some examples of what I consider modern exploitation. Terrible working/living conditions, paying less than minimum wage, etc, and they get away with it because the exploited lack the resources to fight for their own rights, and general apathy of the rest of their society that enjoys the cheap goods/labor the exploited produce ensures that no one else is incentivized to stand up for them.

edit: And that's just more modern examples exploitation, Western society didn't suddenly spring forth into existence in it's current state of being. If you wanna talk about how exactly Western society reached its current level of wealth and privilege I'm more than happy to talk about that as well.
Cool! FYI some French dude named Voltaire appears to have stolen that line from you and claims he wrote it.
Back few years ago I was using it on my rescue eMac - it did the job well, I could order new computer parts but it also reminded me how complex browser and modern web have become. A rescue mission - possible, reading simple sites like hn - that too but as a daily driver on that eMac - not really lol.
It would have to be a stream anyway, so you could do it for your program by using a fd=3, like:

prog 3<input_args

or by using a here-document

prog 3<<END
args
END
>"it says that inflation increased 1.8% from 1.7% in August. In a lot of EU lands it increased from 2.5 to 3.2 during the same time."

Only 2.5 to 3.2 percent?! That would be great if it were actually the case in the real world, but the government provided inflation numbers a pretty much b.s. these days as the formula and items used for the calculation are always charry-piked by the government to make the final number look good to their voters otherwise they'll be ripped apart come the next election (which politician in their right mind would like telling the citizens that they're all worse off and expect nothing bad to happen? Much worse off).

For the real-world inflation numbers just look at assets like stocks or real estate that have shot up +20% or more.
Metals aren't thermite, even more so you need tremendously high temperatures, and it needs to be sustained. Finally, liquid surfaces only burn if there is enough air firstly and enough temperature to sustain the flame. Dumping a match into a vat of kerosene will put out the match.
Which, when looking at Hollywood movies, is considered "an explosion" by most "common people".
What I learned is that it never helps to argue with these people. Just say we will start working on it and when the deadline expires come with the things that were done abd say that it will take longer to be done.