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There was this hilarious John Boehner riff when he was speaker after 2010:

“History has shown that future spending cuts rarely materialize,” said Andrew Roth, vice president of government affairs for the Club for Growth, which is best known for financing campaigns against Republicans deemed not conservative enough. "Nothing binds a future Congress from erasing them.”

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0728/Why-John-Bo...

However theoretically true Boehner's statement, the entitlement spending IS treated as binding, for all the unmet obligations of the government are something like an order of magnitude higher that the already ludicrous debt.

No one can credibly accuse Congress of fiscal sobriety.

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It's hard to pinpoint what the problem really is, but me and a few colleagues had corrupted brew installations lately, where various things would just randomly stop working after updating a single package.

The trick of disabling auto updates doesn't really work when you do want things to be updated. Sometimes there are conflicts and the usual path was to upgrade everything.

Not that it matters: it seems that the usual "upgrade everything" from 2 years ago has changed into "delete every folder and reinstall everything from scratch".

Also, a few years ago, updating everything or reinstalling lots of things from scratch was fast. Now, it requires much more time due to the massive number of dependencies every single package has.

Also, the maintainers have a super weird aversion to everything that is "too simple". I've seen packages rejected because "the build process was too simple and there are no dependencies". The excuse was that "users can build it themselves". This is not for silly stuff random people wrote on weekend, this is for 20 year old tools used in production written in C.

I can't say for certain why or how it got worse for other people, but for me it started when they doubled down on dynamic linking. That's why installing takes 5x the time it used to, takes more disk space, breaks all the time and makes organising your tools a fucking mess.

As for me: I've replaced most of my Brew usage with Docker (for most development tools) or with static binaries compiled weekly using Github Actions (for cli tools like youtube-dl, etc). I'm also using download links straight from language websites (Rust, Ruby, Python, DotNet, Haskell).
Do you have any writeups/examples in the public?

I am on purpose not addressing the exchange of information between people – never considered it, no vision, would just confuse me.

I'm also not so keen on indexing. I'm envisioning this more as a file system layer, where data is added to the database as it gets saved. Ideally there would be no way to access the data outside of the database (that would cause desyncs and the need to reindex stuff). We don't need no POSIX file systems ;)
Wow, terrible misfeature. Why is that the default? I could maybe understand it if it were just dependencies, but upgrading everything is insane.
LOL lawyers are so lawyers, always trying to claim everything to be their "proprietary property" with everything reasonably and unreasonably relevant altogether. Next they will probably sue somebody for merely looking in their code so they could even discover it has something to do with Mastodon and try to convince the judge there is no evidence which was obtained a legal way and can be taken in account this way :-]
Bit concerning for democracy when people are clamouring to offload political and moral decisions of the limits of free speech and regulation of online spaces to mark zuckerberg
> If all software was licensed that way, 5-15 years would pass then suddenly there'd be a whole bunch of "Wow, Stallman was right again! We should have been using free software licenses!" style articles.

Why do you think that would be the case? If the license doesn't achieve what the creator wanted, then they can just change it. It's not up to the greater community to decide what the best license is for other peoples projects.

It sounds like you have your own idea of what will "improve the world" and want other people to license their work to match with it.
>There's a very negative connotation of "verbose" like it's the worst thing in the world. The better way of describing this is the language is explicit and focuses on describing intent. This means it doesn't take long to learn to read and understand standard library code or code from other projects.

I agree that it's good. But it's objectively longer, which is what I meant.
No, it's not. SMT is specifically when you're running two threads simultaneously on a superscalar processor that can execute multiple instructions in a single cycle. During SMT one thread might be using execution reasources the other thread doesn't need further increasing performance beyond just having something to do during a cache miss.

What the article describes is temporal multithreading where only one thread executes at a time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multithreading_(computer_archi...
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Now I've only watched to the 2nd episode. But there are _some_ very special people in Asimov's universe. I'm withholding judgement on who that pregnant woman might be, or who her child might become... it's a detail left mostly unsketched in Foundation & Empire, and might turn into an interesting tale.
> Not sure what to think about that.

That right now all aspects of our lives are wasteful and that society won't or can't change fast enough.
I mean, it's not the same thing as an entirely unrestricted license, but then again, neither are open source licenses entirely unrestricted.

I understand that people want to look at this like a kind of slippery slope (if you can define one kind of restriction, why not define another and another - until you have closed source software by any other name) - but just because arbitrary restrictions mean something isn't colloquially "open" doesn't mean that certain specific restrictions might not still reasonably be compatible with something described as "open".

Certainly we should not accept a formalized definition of any language term like this; i.e. just because an OSI or other group wishes to claim the definition of open source doesn't mean we all need to use that definition. Specifically, let's not accept https://opensource.org/docs/osd as a kind of gospel truth. It's a fine initiative, but not necessarily the only possible one.

I'm not convinced that allowing a few restrictions would be a great idea, but then again, I'm also sure it would be dramatically different from the status quo, nor that is makes sense to no longer call such software open source.
> And you're supposed to see their names on a deal and go, "oh, well, if they invested, there must be something of value here!"

I think that ship sailed a long time ago, nowadays it seems like many investors invest based on the ability to hype other investors which becomes self-perpetuating. I wasn't surprised to see that https://magic.link/ says it's "Blockchain native".
One inaccuracy in this article is that BUSD( Binances stable coin) is issued by Paxos which is a New York State Bank.

Forcing Tether to become a bank would be interesting...
Most, if not all, bakeries in my vicinity allow card payments. Even the small, owner operated bakery a few blocks downtown.

I know, purely anecdotal. But it goes to show that we Germans maybe aren't as backwards-thinking ;)
Protecting the kid against immoral or chocking things is a, IMO, not as important as not exposing them to constant brain washing from ads.

If I have to chose between naked people and a coke ad, I'd rather have the kids see sex. Honestly, the former never had a negative impact on me, but the later really had.
The video and audio quality is still more reliable than anything else I've tried. In the sense of not "breaking up"; not that it's actually high-res audio or video. It's the only one where regardless of participants network or machine quality, the conversation hardly ever gets interrupted.

It also still can show more simultaneous "squares" of video than most (maybe not all anymore) of it's competitors.

Also it's atrocious UI and UX may still be better than MS Teams.
Many "American" cars have been made in Canada since the beginning. In the beginning US automakers set up factories in Canada for export to Britain to take advantage of Canada being duty free as part of the empire. Then in 1965 the Auto Pact was signed which unified the US/Canada car market in exchange for American car factories in Canada. Since then Canada has produced ~10% of "American" cars, but has imported a similar number of American cars.
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And unlike Google Meet or MS Teams, it doesn't cause my Macbook's fans to spin into orbit.
Ship. Sailed.
agreed, back in days at least in New Delhi you could see those "war nests" (military points) made of sandbags with heavy machine guns at some locations like Red Fort as if there was actual war going

but I can imagine seeing everywhere policemen with big guns can be scary, luckily in my not so multicultural location in Europe it's still odd to see policemen carrying those uzi guns, usually you see just policemen with pistol or nothing at all

and while we are discussing guns, my biggest experience with guns presence in Eastern Asia was in Phillipines, where you can see security guards with shotguns at normal shops every few meters (at least in Manila, outside Manila it seemed better), that was quite crazy and also security guards checking me when going to subway obviously not for drugs, but for guns
> Nowadays, software should use a license approved by OSI or FSF, or the software will find itself not being worth consideration.

I wonder if Mongo DB and Elasticsearch are currently learning this lesson.
> Everyone is free to use the software. [...]

The rest of your reply disagrees with your first sentence. It seems that only the people who share ml5.js values are allowed to use the software. There's no problem with that, but they should be clear about it. They should also state clearly that ml5.js is not free or open source software, as its license violates the first principle of Free Software:

> The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).

And the similar principle in the OSI definition of Open Source

> No discrimination against fields of endeavor: The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
Mastadon: "Trump is using our software!"

Also Mastadon: "Lol Trumps social media site got hacked!"

Also Also Mastadon: "Changes to the look and feel of the site violate our license!"

OK that's not encouraging anyone to use their software. I have a feeling this is much more a knee jerk reaction to who is using their software rather than a well thought out complaint.

I think the most important part of this debacle is that the site itself wasn't supposed to be launched. This is the equivalent of someone leaking footage of (lets say) a baseball being thrown at a truck window, and the window breaking, and everyone going "oh well that's obviously rubbish" in Jeremy Clarkson's voice. Nevermind that the truck was obviously a mock-up.
I have moved to Nix on two of my three machines – the two laptops have Archlinux32 and MacOS Mojave. I should replace Homebrew installed packages with Nix packages on my desktop iMac too, but in the mean time I have used Macports and some Nix packages for installing new packages.
That is the case in India enforced by RBI guidelines.

https://rbi.org.in//Scripts/NotificationUser.aspx?Id=11668
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Don't tell this guy about Entity Framework Code-First, schema-based migrations!!
…and yet the only actions they’ve taken were to send a letter asking them to come into compliance with the AGPL within 30 days.
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Senior dev (>10 yoe). Not the type that looks down on people and not a fanboy or an evangelist of any sort. But I regard developer experience highly. I.e. I hate to have to spend days to fix a dev sandbox before I even start doing my job.
It is kind of hilarious to argue about the skin color of people millennia from now as if they would be static. Considering the amount of globalization, I would expect humanity to look quite different in a couple of hundred years already. If there are major visible differences between people 10k years in the future, they probably are along planet boundaries, and in which way they express is difficult to estimate. UV radiation might still play a huge role in skin coloring, but there could be many other differentiators being common.
Anyone who thinks deplatforming works should read Goebbels.
Yeah Cruise announced this Walmart delivery with self-driving cars in Nov 2020 to launch in 2021 [1] and it is now available at the first location in Arizona. Cruise has been testing here but probably more on proving grounds like Apple has. Apple just bought a proving ground this year that they have been leasing since 2017 [2]. Testing picking up as well as competition.

I am sure Cruise will expand it in Arizona. Most of the self-driving operations are in the East Valley (Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe) as the roads are pretty simple and square. The Scottsdale area this is in also pretty simple and by the reservation.

Self-driving cars are everywhere with Waymo in Arizona as well, many entirely unattended. If you drive anywhere you see them.

For Waymo samples, this JJRicks Studios channel [3] did a series on it for a while to show rides with no driver.

Waymo does have a team that follows cars in trouble, on the infamous "cone" one you can see it [4].

For the most part the operation is solid, very few incidents like the "cone" incident where the cone was just in between LiDAR and CV detection and probably caused a covering of the line that confused the decision process. These types of issues are best to resolve in a baseline test with little change before the more challenging ones.

[1] https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2020/11/10/walmart-te...

[2] https://azbigmedia.com/business/could-125m-land-deal-launch-...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBJ0GvsQeak&list=PL-13jt3ZPb...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdKCQKBvH-A&list=PL-13jt3ZPb...
(Meanwhile, <party> does continue to advise persons to invest diversifiedly and non-volatilely in order to meet or exceed CPI (Consumer Price Inflation))
> Which country that has a realistic shot at military supremacy right now

Moving the goal posts.
this is because PhD students are expected to be indentured servants to the tenured professors for, at least, five years
>In short, ultra-processed food is food that's [...] there to make you buy the product, and keep buying it. It's food whose purpose is not to nourish, but to sell.

This isn't really supported by the quote you posted. That aspect only gets a mention in one sentence, and even that's qualified by "It is speculated".
I could not get Postgres installed through NixDarwin, so I installed with Postgres.app for MacOS. With it you can easily manage Postgres versions.
I also found it deeply amusing that the "fediverse" proclaimed its diversity with "look at all the banned nodes!"

I peeked at the Mastodon code and it gave me a headache before I got through the "required for installation" section. Makes me want to go set up an RBBS node again.
How can that work without a giant Eustachian tube?
The claim that the last 5% can only be provided by either higher embodied fossil fuel costs in the batteries OR by burning fossil fuels wouldn’t be true, BTW, if you used fuels which are non-fossil to provide that last 5% of energy. It’s problematic to have a sort of alchemical understanding of energy that it HAS to at some point come from fossil fuels OR you have to significantly reduce capability somehow (in this case, website reliability).

In fact, the US didn’t use hardly any fossil fuels (virtually all wood or water) until well after the Industrial Revolution (late 1700s to 1820). Even for ironmaking, the US primarily used charcoal (not coal) until around the 1840s, after the first Industrial Revolution, and coal didn’t exceed wood for fuel in the US until the mid 1880s. American industry (and much of Britain’s) was powered by water power, channeled to different buildings, etc. American trains and steamboats ran on biomass. Most US iron used to build these things was made using biomass. (Britain was different because they simply didn’t have as much land and had cut down their trees already.) Sustainably harvested biomass (or electrically synthesized fuels like hydrogen) is a valid source for that last 5%.

Ultimately, there’s a large energy cost to non-reliability, BTW. Any kind of real automation (which mass production—and thus abundance and solar panel production—relies on) relies on its components being highly reliable. Non-automated handcrafted everything means large embodied labor, which means energy usage from human metabolism.
Ask HN: Have you been impacted by the new RBI regulations on online payments?
Hi,

We are a SaaS business having customers all over the world and some of them in India. Recently, with the new Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) regulations on online payments, which we use for recurring subscriptions on our SaaS products, we have lost all of our Indian customers. While it's a "small" part of our revenue, it feels really weird and sad as we can't do much to help them back: currently, Stripe doesn't provide any update on their off-session (ie. automatic recurring) payments APIs and don't even provide a clear plan so far as to when we could get it back (we are in contact with the support, which told us to wait for it).

We had dealt with the Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) regulation in Europe last year and it didn't have such a big impact.

Have any of you dealt with that? Did you forced Indian users to manual payments each month?

I imagine it should be quite a hell for Indian users right now, not being able to use many SaaS products.

Have any of you, as a business providing service to Indian users, or as an Indian user, been impacted by this too?
I think calling open fascism something as simple as a "differing political opinion" a bit reductive.

Additionally, a former president (and future presidential hopeful) taking advantage of someone in this manor is more newsworthy than a multinational corporation.

Though, I agree with what I assume is also your opinion that that Amazon situation matters more.
Where it explains the harm done by the prohibitions on branching:

>>Thanks to the combination of a large country, poor (though rapidly improving) transportation infrastructure, and unit banking, when notes traveled any substantial distance from their source, getting them redeemed could be quite costly. In smaller nations, and especially those, like Scotland, where banks were allowed to branch nationwide, banknote discounts were unknown: the fact that there were many different banks of issue, with varying assets, didn't prevent such nations from having "uniform" banknote currencies. Even Canada, which was geographically as large as the United States, but much less populous and with a far less developed internal transportation system, managed (with the help of several private clearinghouses) to achieve a uniform currency, based on the notes of several dozen commercial banks, by the early 1890s.[4]

>>Had it not been for unit banking, the United States might well have had a uniform state banknote currency before the Civil War, thanks to its by then impressive railroad network. Even with unit banking, it came a lot closer than most people realize. Despite already having had over a hundred banks of issue at the time, with hardly any branches, New England managed, with the help of the Suffolk System—an early, Boston-based banknote clearinghouse—to achieve a uniform currency as early as 1824.

But yes, the most harmful restrictions were those barring banks that didn't hold the state-mandated reserves, which made banks, and the money supply in general, susceptible to changes in public finances, and made those changes systemic in nature, since all banks were affected in the same way, and at the same, by a change in the availability and value of the statutory reserve assets.
It's interesting how the X11 server is the only major category of infrastructure where we have one and only one open source implementation.

With browsers -- which are massively complex nowadays -- at least we have both WebKit and Gecko.

C++ compilers are at a similar level of complexity and there is GCC and Clang.

Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD etc. are all separate kernels.

But for X11 there is only the the X.Org server, the reference implementation. How much work would it be to implement a practical X11 server in a safe language like Ada or Rust, which supports the widely-used extensions?
I am wondering if SyFy's The Expanse succeeded completely in their adaptation of novels that were written in contemporary times. Apple's Foundation is awkward at times and its writers seem to believe that they needed to correct and reinvigorate books that were outmoded, but, apparently, the production itself is said to lack real faults. It's really easy to kill a franchise these days because you want it to speak to your audience, but it is seen as much less aspirational with its mixed messages. Of course, that's just my general impression, and I could be talking about any franchise that starts with "Star".
There are lots of ways to rewardingly expend your time without worrying about money. Volunteer. Do open source stuff. Get into dungeons and dragons. Have kids, or get into Warhammer 40k minis, if you want to go broke.