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> it wouldn't make people using other currencies poorer.

My country produces gas, oil, lumber, food, metals. When USA prints another few billions, they can simply come to any company producing these resources, and offer higher price. Because the money doesn't cost US anything: they just printed them.

For the local company it makes more sense to sell to the US customer at higher price than to local customer at lower price in local currency.

So, when US prints another billion, it means that local companies experience resource shortages and rising prices, because everything is exported to USA.

To add insult to injury, money earned by the exporters almost never end up in the local economy. Exporter just hoard them in offshore banks.

This scheme of things is extremely beneficial for the US economy and inimical to all other economies in the world.
The FAA failed to issue an Air Worthiness directive until after both 737 Max crashes. We have to hope that’s fixed, but until there’s more evidence, the FAA’s failure to ground a plane doesn’t give me much comfort.
I would. Languages aren’t as important as you would think. Certain people can pick up the new idioms quickly and run with it.

Look at someone like Yehuda Katz. Substantial contributions in ruby (merb, bundler), JS (jQuery core team, created Ember.js), and rust (created cargo).

But trying to elevate him or make him uncomfortable (he’s also a really humble dude), but just saying there are examples of polyglots that make substantial contributions.
Yep and that’s why it was always apt to call them fake news. Just like when they said there was no widespread election fraud or that the elections were the most secure ever despite them not taking the time to actually check to see if this was true.

It’s pathetic, even when they post a correction later, they know exactly what they are doing when they play it loose with reporting it is always clearly with a greater purpose to deceive for what they deem a better message.

Even if they essentially seem to claim “oh we had to lie a bit because it was safer”, that should not be acceptable at all.

For example lambasting people for taking Ivermectin by claiming it was horse dewormer, maybe they did this to “protect” a tiny portion of the population who may have otherwise taken horse medicine incorrectly, that shouldn’t be good enough, truth is always going to be the most healthy option overall.

The boy who cried wolf could have told you all this had he not been devoured.
It's really frustrating to see actual medical progress be pushed back in the public eye because some people have such intense dislike for someone.

"Some guy we hate said this might work - quick, write a thousand articles about how he's not smart for recommending it and bring on doctors who have no relevant experience/knowledge/credentials to 'prove them wrong'!"

This UV-A treatment looks very promising for people who have contracted a severe case of the virus. I do like how they're optimizing the UV light to try and find the best wavelength/frequency/etc. of light to avoid any unnecessary harm to the patient. It looks like from what I was reading that ventilators can cause harm to patients? I wasn't aware that was a thing!
I'm waiting for the exciting new movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, The Night Nanotargeter.
I've yet to try firefox mobile on my phone, I've had no reason to switch from safari (most of my browsing is on Brave on my laptop anyway), but I'll give it a shot.

Safari in iOS 15 also has extension support, and apps like Hyperweb[0] make the experience very pleasant.

I also love the icon :P

0. https://hyperweb.app
It used to be that twitter mobs couldn't get tenured professors fired, just have their guest lecture spots cancelled. Now they can have them fired.
I mean it might not even be the direct supplier's fault, if they sourced the titanium from a company which didn't deliver what they certified[1].

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/aluminum-extrusion-manufactur...
> focus primarily on making premium, profitable phones like the Galaxy Fold

believe it or not, apple's supply chain and verticals and operations are much more efficient than samsungs'. Tim cook did wonders during steve job's era to scale out their operations. So much so that samsung cannot really compete at the same quality.
Galois is a bit of an interesting and unique company I've followed for some time. Really interesting work in trusted and formally verifiable systems. But I can't shake the sense that there's a lot of bark but little "bite" -- Many of the utilities they release as open source seem half-baked; requests for more information (not even tech support) went unanswered; got rejected email notifications for listed email addresses. I've been wanting to incorporate their tech, but often feel their goal is to mostly to satisfy DARPA program managers, rather than be used in-the-field.
Yes there's a very interesting problem tucked in there, especially around authenticity and traceability in the age of deepfakes. But NFTs, being just another unregulated pump-n-dump scheme like the rest of the crypto ecosystem, ain't it.
> Asian countries with a long history of promoting market share, access to information, and knowledge transfer at the expense of short-term profit.

Apple doesn't transfer anything right?
Using the search box on Google. If you put search terms in the URL bar on Chrome you'll get search results.
Agreed. The quality is all over the place. "MISR the BIST" sounds like a class in-joke that made its way into the document. But it makes the questions just that much more useless for non-students of this professor.
> found, however, that there was an “internet adviser exemption” for advisers that give advice entirely through the internet. That sounded like an exemption I could qualify for — I would just have to commit to not giving any face-to-face investment advice

One thing I didn’t understand from this article is what “giving investment advice” has to do with being an accredited investor and investing into startups. Can someone clarify that?
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1. 120Hz screen with a HIDPI resolution. 60Hz feels very stuttery after using 120Hz on my phone/tablet/desktop.

2. S3 suspend or at least a good S0ix implementation.

3. Good support for replacing UEFI Secure Boot keys.

4. No numpad so that the keyboard is centered.

5. Absolutely no coil whine. My Dell XPS 9560 had this since day 1, while my work MacBook Pro and Lenovo P1 developed it over time.

6. Biggest battery possible. I don't care about charging time or weight.

7. Good Linux support (including firmware updates via LVFS).
the surveillance infrastructure now makes more sense..
I also ran into issues like this while trying to migrate to Parcel 2.
> Sounds interesting — right and then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning?
> All of this is now provided with superior quality by the internet. Now the only advantage of a university is signaling where you got accepted, networking with similar people for future jobs, becoming socialized by a culture of university-types, and showing you have the discipline to jump through 4 years of fairly arbitrary hoops. There is value to this, but is it worth $200k+?

You are leaving out some of the main benefits of going to a university. Specifically, that you have people to guide you through the process of learning; to point out the things that are important to learn, to be able to talk to them about the topics, etc. The internet has a lot of useful information, but there are things you don't get from it. Just like you don't master the English language by owning a dictionary.
Sure thing, I don't like heated conversations either.

To explain it succinctly, I've become wary of a certain group of people attempting to use subtle language choices to slip in their controversial ideas without being noticed. Equity sounds very much like equality, and therefore people are more likely to sign up for it without understanding the difference. It's a weasel word.
> Changing the tooling around ZFS probably isn't a great idea, but coherency has clearly taken a backseat to features in this case.

Right, because ZFS is a foreign piece of software that runs on other operating systems. At that point you are better off keeping those tools coherent with other ZFS implementations. This is a good compromise.
Correct, It was north of 100% for several quarters when HTC was flailing and Samsung was net burning money trying to establish the Galaxy as the dominant premium Android phone. I'll try to pull up the industry report that had those numbers.

Quick link while I look: https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2016/11/04/apple-gra...
Graham Sellers, the co-creator of Mantle and Vulkan APIs, leaves AMD for NVIDIA
Whoops.

But also, interesting.
That seems like a specific problem of how copyrights are assigned than the legal/NFT system itself. Bearer bonds are a thing. Are bearer assignments a thing? ie. "I assign the copyright of this work to whoever bears a certificate, or whoever bears a NFT?"
>>>and your performance may now also be judged on the performance of your students.

What is stopping them from passing all students then thereby degrading the whole quality of education? Accountability is good but if other states don't implement this, GA is at a disadvantage as professors would prefer other states now. Among all disadvantages I can think of this rule, this is the most immediate.
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Amex?
Show HN: Amtrak Train Tracker (Comments for more info)
It's a guarantee that someone has been teaching the same thing for years can continue teaching the same thing when political winds shift. It's there so that people such as yourself can't replace them with those whose views they prefer. You classify professors as if they are all the same, which means you're creating a straw man to weaken the position as whole without actually providing any sort of specific point to argue about.

How else would you consider professors to be privileged? How do you consider them elite?
thank you, great news.
They had much bigger issues than just data sharing though. It's not like things would have been fine if only your medical appointments were never stored on AWS.
You can "expand" the diff, but sometimes that breaks the UI, makes it unable to add comments, etc. That's probably the reason they don't show large changesets by default.
A few weeks ago, I published Amtrak.js, an NPM package which allowed for easy access of the Amtrak API. If you know anything about the API, it is not a simple process fetching data.

I expected that apps and websites would pop up using my library (and the rehosted API at api.amtrak.cc), but none ever came. As my uni classes cooled down from the start of the year, I decided to take it upon myself to make a train tracking app.

My main intention here was to have it use quite a bit less data than Amtrak's official website while also being less clunky on mobile. Why? Well, trying to track your train on 3G and the page happily munching through 10MB of data as fast as possible is, well, not ideal.

I should probably make a more technical writeup over how all of this works at some point in the future, but feel free to ask questions and I'll do my best to answer!
Yes! Gitlab's offerings are great, and our team doesn't even scratch the surface of what's possible with its feature set.

That said, MRs with over 1000 lines of changes are painful sometimes impossible to review. Even small MRs feel clunky, due to how many panels there are (yes, I know they're collapsible). Because MRs are one of our most used features, it sometimes makes me consider switching to GitHub for their much nicer PR UX/UI.
I am still amazed mankind survived all these millennia without sunscreen. How can that be?
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Interesting! I'm going to have to get a hard-copy of this book.
Well then it's time and effort well-spent. Saying "that's a conspiracy" won't change anybody's mind, and they'll still be on their next grift.
The NFT crowd has come up with the term "right-clicker" to describe someone dastardly enough to download an NFT's content without being the anointed owner.

https://twitter.com/KirinDave/status/1443331312195018759
In the 1980's, taking away the 'choke' lever which assisted starting a car was seen by some as removing a critical control.

Yet automatic chokes became standard, and today's drivers usually don't even know or care what a choke even is. Todays people have other things to spend their time learning.

People of tomorrow may not need to know or care what the difference is between a search box and a URL bar. All they know is they can type what they're looking for into any box, and they'll find it. And like the choke, it might turn out that most people might prefer not to know.
The problem is that you flip your problem from a huge selection of items in a big store to a big selection of stores with a small selection of products. Why do you think you wouldn't have a similar level of anxiety picking from lots of boutique stores?
I suggest following better people ;)
You can not say you get feature parity just after plugging an ORM to express.
Of course if you're building a todolist, I understand the point, but as soon as you have more need, the journey of searching for packages, comparing them, test them, read their doc, starts.
Some things I have in mind: security, authentication, file uploads, role management, testing, cache, admin, etc.
I wouldn't say that JavaScript is necessarily an "easy" language. I think what you're after can easily be accomplished in most languages that have a REPL or equivalent (including interfaces such as https://play.golang.org/)
Yep, same thing with calling ivermectin horse medicine instead of representing it accurately, a nobel prize winning medicine of which billions of doses have been safely administred to humans.

Good journalism is hard to find nowadays. But journalism infested with politics is worse, and so widespread nowadays.
I agree that the evidence suggests these programs are useless, or close to it. That's not what the Reason writer said though. Instead he produced a strawman stereotype and dismissed them in a way that if I hadn't seen the University of Toronto study already, I would have interpreted as bad-faith subtle racism on the writer's part. Heck, it might still be, but I'll be gracious and assume he just forgot to mention the basis for his obvious animus.
> People will listen to a reasonable, nuanced discussion.

Is this actually true in the today's world of social media and 24x7 news cycle? I honestly can't think of anywhere (of any popularity) that still engages in nuanced discussion. Probably because people don't tune in.
> To kick off the flamewar: is discussing any treatment but vaccines still == "spreading anti-vax misinformation"?

No, only if the discussions on other treatments are done without misinformation and some basis on science.

For example, it would be good if you didn't say things like "it sounds like it might be a little better than ventilator damage" when there's no data to back that up, and there's a major difference: ventilators help people stay alive. Even if the UVA treatment worked, you still need something to support patients when their oxygen saturation is dangerously low.
This book is only ~200 pages long. What am I missing?
In the same way the Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X aren't competitors.

Many hard core gamers will have both. My Switch is for Smash Bros and the Advance Wars reboot. Advance Wars was one of my favorite games as a kid, and I'll pay 300$ for a machine just to play it.

The Series X also plays games, but it's a completely different experience. No one expects Switch quirkiness on an Xbox, and no one expects 4K gaming on a Switch.

GitHub is for your public portfolio. Gitlab is for getting stuff done once your GitHub portfolio lands you a decent job.

GitHub is synonymous with programmer portfolio, but it's CI/CD system is rather primitive.
I understand what you're saying, but I'd still argue that they're supremely familiar with their toolchain, and have a deep understanding of the problems they're trying to solve. My comment said they've usually solved the problem at least once already, but I don't discount people solving new problems.
my favorite least favorite is hiding everything but the domain. clearly, nothing useful can come from displaying anything after the TLD.
> Then why should I bother paying the mortgage to my house or car because that APR sure ain't right in them terms. Dam' bank found me desperate for a new BMW and is slaving my balls off!

You're being obtuse.

And no, I'm not comparing you to an angle.
> Do the math. What is so shocking about spending <$1/hour on something so heavily used and important? What price privacy/security focus and long term upgrades? Subtract too the resale value. What is surprising here?

What's surprising is that for the vast majority the same can be done for <20ç/hour.
100% sure...or shall I say like the VR? It has its use but we are not there yet. Maybe in 10-20 years.
I am inclined to agree with you but I am also somewhat conflicted due to recent events at my alma mater. It was just revealed that a tenured CS professor is the author of a hate filled blog that disparages women, lgbtq+, and minorities [1]. Ostensibly this guy is "protected" due to his tenure status. I am not sure this is really good for anyone.

[1] http://www.montanakaimin.com/news/computer-science-professor...
This is bound to happen when you do away with UI controls labels.
Google Play Services does need to be enabled to use many (most?) mainstream apps.

Have a source for them sending less data? Even if it were true, the use of that data differs.
To echo what others have said here, my role as CTO and now CEO has gone from 95% coding to about 5% these days. So some nights I code on ideas and things that have been swirling in my head, just because it’s nice to just quietly write code and solve a finite (but possibly difficult) problem without interruptions. It actually IS therapeutic.
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> Why is a private company involved in this?

Because capitalism.

> Shouldn't this be the responsibility of a government agency?

If it was the responsibility of a government agency in the US, private companies would still be involved, both in executing the government functions and in compliance. See literally every other government responsibility for examples.

And government agencies are involved in the U.S., though given the social harms Facebook has historically been used for, that it might now engage in prevention beyond what it is compelled to by government action is, in and of itself, not a bad thing.
And in this case, we're talking about assigning power from the professional class to the executive class, whilst in the same breath bashing Twitter "mobs".
> I was talking with a MediaMarkt employee last week, we were talking smartphones and we both were dumbstruck about iphone prices. We agree it's good hardware/products but the price is insance.

They start at $400, right? Only really, really budget Android phones come in much under that.

> Yet people buy them in bulk. The brand is that strong. Apparently people also rush to replace their old models every year or two.

I have encountered three major species of iPhone owner:

1) Breaks a screen every couple of years, just replaces the phone when it happens.

2) Upgrades every year or two but leverages iPhones having a much better used market than Android to recover half or more of the original price via resale or trade-in, so they only pay full price for the first phone. (some of these now simply lease their phones, for convenience)

3) Holds on to each phone 4+ years, since the phones receive updates for so long. Pays full price every time, but goes a long time between upgrades.
Nearly everyone's skin color/melanin-level was adapted to where they were born.
Not sure when this xkcd was released, but music is now drm-free on iTunes. You can just copy it around and it'll still play.
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Agreed. Can we axe the Dupe tag?

The Reuters article and this one are two separate investigations, examining different sources.

@dang (does this work? how does one summon dang?)
Does this thing even need to be introduced?
Protecting your currency against fraudulent activities was the responsibility of the government too, until they put the responsibility onto the credit card/processor companies.

So many things that should be ran by a government agency are being ran by companies themselves now. It's only a few more decades until governments are supplanted by corporations.
Believe it or not, but "stock Android" has been tried about 10 times. It failed. Only techies care.

Regular users want a ton of features.

Edit: Sales numbers tell you all you need to know about "stock Android" success :-)
I use Syncthing to sync my KeepassXC db file between laptops and my android, always on a local network. For the most part I like it. I get a lot of conflicts though and I can't use ediff (or similar) because the file is encrypted. Curious if anyone has figured out how to fix conflicts with Keypass db files because I don't think Syncthing's conflict resolution can handle them very well.
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Because if it protects elections well enough, it gains tremendous political power than it can later profit from.

What politician will propose legislation hurting FB when FB is the gatekeeper to a fair election ? The FB election protection group can just slip for a while - they have so much to do - and foreign actors spread fake news that messes up the politician's re-election. Just letting fake news drop the politician's polling numbers for a few weeks will rattle them enough. What a shame, couldn't be helped.

These may sound like a fever dream now.
I have a bunch more to say about this but unfortunately I have to run out for a training. A couple super quick points though:

> Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, but not HN

HN is orders of magnitude smaller. Sites face qualitatively different problems at each order of magnitude. I'm not saying that proves anything, but it's a sensible reason why we don't see the data they do.

> just a few thousands of bots generated spikes of conversations

I can tell you from deep familiarity with HN's data that it isn't bots that are generating these conversations on HN. It's established users, who are divided on divisive topics. It's easy enough for us to ban accounts that are behaving like bots, and we certainly do. But the odds that a bot was posting about Julia in 2014 (I always use this example) are minuscule—no?

> I honestly believe that it’s become more toxic and divided

Yes, but because of the point I just made about established users, I believe this is explicable by divisions in the society at large. People (and especially internet users!) have a strong tendency to look for external factors here—blaming outside enemies, spies, shills, foreign agents, and so on—for our own problems. This is also a well-established historical pattern. I'm not saying it doesn't happen! I'm just saying we need to see specific evidence. If anyone has a link they think might lead to that, we're always willing to take a close look. But people should at least look at the public commenting history of such accounts before jumping to conclusions.

I wrote a bunch about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27398725. If you think there's a problem with the argument there, I'd like to hear what it is. I'm not closed at all to the possibility that we're missing something and we need to do more. I just know what we've found after the last several hundred (if not thousand) requests for investigation that people have sent to us.
"Thousands of businesses in production" + "still pre-1.0" in the same sentence perplexes me a lot.
That FB whistleblower with PR and legal team
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