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The discussion about "strategic autonomy", "digital sovereignty", whatever you might call it, is led fundamentally different in various countries. Here in Europe (on the EU level), the discussion is led on how Europe is caught between the US and China, both sides trying to exploit our data. [1] Here in Germany, the discourse is usually more focused on our state trying to exploit our data and disturb our privacy, or on american companies. In the french discussion some people go so far as to call the US dominance in software a kind of "digital colonization". [2] Of course there is danger in China's products, and there are a lot of serious efforts to minimize the risks, but the US hasn't really been any help, it is just the pot calling the kettle.

> Did we not see this already with H&M stores in China? I can't believe there are still (smart) people here on HN who pretend like there's no danger involved.

That comparison doesn't really hit the mark: A consumer-led boycott within China, dubious as the reasons may be, is in no way an attack on our sovereignty. Apart from pretty wack but minor diplomatic incidents, there hasn't really been much actual damage done by China towards the EU. I agree with you that 5G infrastructure should probably fall in large parts under any strategic autonomy policy, but buying Xiaomi phones seems pretty inconsequential.

[1] https://ecfr.eu/special/independence_play_europes_pursuit_of...

[2] https://sur.conectas.org/en/digital-sovereignty-or-digital-c...
In a country with a sensible healthcare system there will likely be no difference. In the US, say, there may well be. For example, if there are health consequences due to taking the vaccine, who pays?
Regarding A, getting the test every few days is even more problematic, privacy wise and convenience-wise. Plus it's an expense. Not a much better alternative than living like a monk.

Regarding B, yes it is France. The pass itself is asked for in ALL restaurants and a shitton of other establishments, e.g. (large) supermarkets and dept stores , libraries, public transportation, etc. <https://www.gouvernement.fr/info-coronavirus/pass-sanitaire#...>
Meh. If it's like in France there's a lot of dramatization: we got an official report about last year: COVID represented 2% of all hospitalizations and 5% of intensive care.
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It's not as clear cut as you say. The German constitutional court has not given its last word on the topic, even though they said in a preliminary decision that sufficient protection against Measles outweighs the right of unvaccinated children to go to school.

Nobody's actually forcing one to get vaccinated against measles in Germany. It's only mandatory for kids which go to daycare, kindergarten or school and their caregivers and teachers. OTOH, going to school is mandatory, so for kids it is pretty much mandatory by extension.
No, if you think so I don't think you properly understand IPFS. IPFS suffers the same problem as HTTP, content disappears when people stop serving it. Yes, it's easier to make sure it's online as it's content-addressed, but content still disappears. Filecoin is supposed to solve that particular problem, but seems to have trouble maturing right now as it's not mainstream yet to use, or maybe it solves the wrong problem/solves the right problem with the wrong solution.
This looks really neat, although I share other commenter's feeling that the price was surprisingly high.

As a minor edit, the word "breakout board" is used in a non-standard manner I think. It usually applies to small pieces of circuit board that hold a single integrated cicuit or other component with many/small/fiddly pins, and route them (break them out) to typically 0.1"-spaced pins. This makes the IC or other component accessible for breadboarding and/or hand soldering.

A circuit board that holds multiple such components with tracks routed between them for connections is not a breakou4 board IMO, that's just a circuit board.
it seems that we are entirely talking past each other.

I am talking about implementing a web browser. Writing a program that can load www.example.com and displays it, in at most a few milliseconds. Of course loading a bloated website will be bloated but that's because websites use a turing-complete language - if my web page has <script>while(true);</script> of course things won't go fast, but it doesn't matter, what matters is that we write an engine that is able to execute that "while(true)" and burns those CPU cycles as fast as possible (because then a "normal" website won't be much slower than the theoretical best it can do).

It's a (semi)well-defined problem: how fast can you do network requests, how fast can you parse the DOM, can you fetch content such as images concurrently, how fast can you execute JS, which is all benchmarkable. It does not matter than it's going to be slow when loading www.facebook.com ; what matters is that it isn't slower than it should be.

That's like writing a generic sort function: you care about the performance of the sort algorithm ; of course if people use a sorting predicate which does filesystem access for them it won't be fast but it is also utterly irrelevant to measuring how fast your sort is.
Ah LTI, it’s been a while.

The tough thing about LTI is that it assumes the piece of content you’re trying to serve is a single resource. So if you’re serving a video or a single HTML page, then cool. If your page is some sort of JS player that loads the content from an API after the page loads, you basically have to create a relay race of auth systems to tie it all together. This is a super common format (a JS lesson player that lazy loads each page/slide as needed) so a ton of people have had to solve this problem in different ways.
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It is also pretty secure place and there is a detachment of the Russian Army nearby just in case.
My fondest memory of Duff's device is implementing it for performance purposes in Java and watching the unexpected Havoc it wrought on Java decompilers.

A few lines of otherwise easily decompile-able Java turned into hundreds of lines of dealing with "broken" control flow (if they didn't just crash outright).
Black turtlenecks won't recover for a decade.
It's tempting to assume incompetence but I'll go with the following: they might be testing the waters and check if the Western society is vigilant and reacting to their actions.
The thing that costs 7$/user/month(home version)+119$ for Windows 10 Home is better than the thing that is free, Gee, I wonder why is that? Everyone should use the thing that costs a lot of money for it to just make sense.

Over 15 years you would be paying 1260$(paid 7 per month) for the office. 119$ for windows.
> Let's see if Martin pulls a Jordan.

Dying before finishing the final book? That seems pretty likely.

> At the start of February, Martin told his followers that lockdown had enabled him to make headway on the eagerly anticipated Song of Ice and Fire Book Six. He said: "I wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages of THE WINDS OF WINTER in 2020. The best year I’ve had on WOW since I began it." However, he added some less encouraging news.

> Martin added on his blog (called 'notablog'): "I need to keep rolling, though. I still have hundreds of more pages to write to bring the novel to a satisfactory conclusion."

This sounds almost like "I only really started working on book six in 2020 because the lockdown meant I couldn't gad about the world doing conferences." given that he only writes while on his Wordstar PC that's at his home.
Ah yes, true capitalism, that thing nobody ever tried before, much like the true communism we (as in humanity) never truly experienced - or so say my Trotskyist nemeses.
Is (online) education is an attractive market? Before Covid, the answer was: Meh. Lot of competition, little funding in most countries. And Moodle (or Canvas) is a good enough solution, both also enable kind of third-party marketplaces. We looked at different LMS solutions and some better ones could best be described as "Moodle distributions", centered around a theme and some plugins.
Plus pay a fine and maybe do some jail time (probably in solitary as nobody wants to risk contagion in either direction). But all in freedom of course! Okay irony aside, I'm definitely uncomfortable with mandatory vaccines, and I'm also uncomfortable with the amount of sheer stupidity shown by most of antivaccine movement (notable exceptions of course). But when it comes to vote, one has to choose an answer and that answer is only yes/no...
my initial other post[1] got auto-banned and I'm assuming it's because it pointed to a non English source. So I'm reposting this from an English language source. Apologies ...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29275454
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Not a misnomer. Features of an LMS are used by the learners
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It's the opposite, using a decentralized Youtube would save a bunch of bandwidth.

Imagine (granted, a ideal world and maybe not actually possible) a world where every routes and computer is a node that both serves and receives data. Suddenly, your ISP can start to aggressively serve traffic from their edge-nodes. If a video goes viral, your local network can fetch it directly from your neighbors network instead of reaching out to the internet to fetch it. We'll be reducing the traffic massively.

But yes, it's a ideal world and probably not possible to execute in reality as the market forces behind paying for bandwidth is so strong.
But... If you vaccinate all kids, you've effectively vaccinated all future adults. As of today, most countries in the EU, including Austria, have their populations vaccinated against a bunch of things ( measles, tuberculosis, etc.) by mandates for child vaccination. Just because now it's to be done to adults doesn't change things much IMHO. If Covid stays with us, a vaccine against it will probably be administered to future children as a matter of policy like tuberculosis today.
That would make sense. I wonder if, laying on the stomach is actually freeing the phrenic nerve, allowing the diaphragm to work better, and therefore providing more oxygen.
Likewise the other way, say you need power at a building site for a couple of years, you can do that by delivering hydrogen bottles to replenish your generator, rather than having to take charged batteries and swap them out somehow.
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Inserting "Lorem ipsum" into what is made to look like an argument? That's definitely a new low here, even for discussions on Covid related measures.
I don't think so. The payoffs depend on the mix of the opponent. You can't say "the probability of sub-strategy x is higher so it must be a better strategy". If it really was a better strategy, you would pick it all the time, not in some mix.
We (humans, AlphaZero) are both distilling the rules down. Some rules are easily distilled (a queen is worth more than pawn) some are more difficult (mobility, knight vs bishop). I would expect the easily distilled rules to be discovered by both of us.

What I think would be cool is trying to distill or revise better guidelines from what AlphaZero does.
Registering for the highest tier plan definitely shouldn't mean a free trial. Why didn't you charge them upfront the moment they wished to choose a bigger non-free plan?
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While LMS's support LTI, I have rarely seen it actually used; usually you would have all or almost all content hosted "natively" on the LMS you use.
> grocery ruin

A very on-topic typo. One that has me wondering what this would look like. A crumbling, mediaeval tower to store harvest, maybe?
The parent mentioned high transaction fees, that for some people may equal their whole savings. For these people, the best option is just to trust the exchange. But people with even moderate sums can and do transfer their cryptos to their own wallets. We support multiple networks and withdraw methods and transfer fees can be as low as less than a dollar. In fact our daily deposit and withdraw rates are usually comparable.

Is the crypto real and backed? As far as our exchange (the biggest in the local market) is concerned, totally yes. Aside from matching local request and demand and local mining, there are big providers that can provide USDT/USD inside or outside Iran. Then you can exchange them on many international exchanges ignoring all limitations. As I said above, there are many traditional ways of bypassing laws/sanctions and big players actively use them. The cryptocurrencies and exchanges are just creating platforms for ordinary people to have access to it.

There are inevitably “banks” and large holders/miners/etc, but the best thing about crypto is that anyone can be their own bank and trust no other person, or even mine their own money. Just as you can setup your own blog as well as using big platforms.

The regulation is in its early stages, but even here exchanges use KYC to prevent really bad actions like laundering stolen money. The trust is also more reputation based than regulation based. If an exchange is operating for a long time with known founders, and was able to satisfy all withdraw requests even in low markets when everybody was getting their money out, people tend to trust it. Our users usually do not even tolerate a minute of downtime. But of course good regulation (if there is such a thing and governments are agile enough to provide it) can help to prevent frauds that may happen in any market, including crypto. But probably making everyone more knowledgeable, with a light supporting regulation, is a better approach to preventing fraud.
leppr is talking about Chia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_(cryptocurrency)) which Bram Cohen founded, not BTT.
I agree with you but why not fear both the USA and China? :D

Not like there's only threat in the world.
Haven't seen any mention of an "incentive to work/train" or "motivation" trait, which is kind of a huge oversight.
Talent is good and all, but if a genius never gets motivated to work on anything, this would clearly affect success.

The results are still interesting, sure, but they clearly should'nt be taken as an accurate representation of reality.
we fail and fail and fail again. then we succeed.

feels crazy i have to say this on HN. this place has really changed over the years. what happened to the whole earth quotes.

"fail fast fail often"

at least Stuart Brand is still daring to explore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLGZdLpHl1w
I guess this post got autobanned because it points to a non English source. Sorry about that. Here is a repost that points to politico: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29275773
Sounds like a good plan. Switch as many possible tools and libraries to GPLv3. This forces Apple to either give in, or have to maintain a growing library of tools (costing them money), or do a one off rewrite and not maintain it, exposing their users to unmaintained software and showing off how much Apple simply cares about profit and not its users.
Sounds about right. Add compounding stock gains on the inherited wealth, rent and growing land prices, and you'll have more than half.

> This proportion will probably drop if we exclude land.

Sure and if we exclude stocks it will drop further, but there's no reason to exclude land, the single most important form of property, from the calculation.
It's difficult to understand a "I've heard"-style of argument in the age of internet. Unless it comes from China or Russia where there's a different official understanding of "information highway".
Hi, one of the project's co-authors here (SAPI that is).

The aim of SAPI is a bit different than whole-process sandboxing. It's about retaining the original running speed (and lack of sandboxing constraints) of the main project part, while making sure that only some parts are isolated (sandboxed), and the programming interfaces to the sandboxed parts still look familiar.

I'm not that well-versed into how WASM works when it tries to integrate with the rest of OS. But I'd assume it's some form of whole-process sandboxing, where practically all code is WASMized, and only some kind of loaders and trusted stubs are written in native assemblers (something has to invoke syscalls in the end).

In this case one can use Sandbox2, which is part of SAPI, though not very prominently exposed - https://github.com/google/sandboxed-api/tree/main/sandboxed_.... It's a full-featured Linux sandbox in its own rights, with C++ API. Examples might be englightning: https://github.com/google/sandboxed-api/tree/main/sandboxed_...
> but I think there is also a widely accepted opinion that if data can't be connected back to a specific natural person by the data controller/processor, then it is no longer "personal data".

It can't be defined that way. Consider:

• Company A collects data that it can't connect back to a specific natural person, and sells it to Facebook.

• Company B collects data that it can't connect back to a specific natural person, and sells it to Facebook.

• Company C collects data that it can't connect back to a specific natural person, and sells it to Facebook.

• Facebook identifies a specific natural person.

GDPR protects against this.

> Obviously in the system I am proposing, the data controller/processor would have to deliberately not log the IP address or a user agent string.

Good – GDPR calls this the principle of data minimisation. But the data is still going through your systems, when it doesn't really need to be created (however briefly) in the first place. Certainly not via software that people had no reason to expect would be executing on their computer. Honestly, GDPR is the least of your worries; one might consider that malicious software, and then you've got the whole book ready to be thrown at your head.
This was honestly what crossed my mind as I read that article as well. They're basically asking for Crystal and it's already done. Static type checks, performance, fibers and channels. As a bonus things like compile time null checks.
>if everyone refused to pay there would be no profit in it

Of course it's very saintly of you to refuse to pay, but often not paying is a very bad business decision. You can be sure that enough people will pay for your refusal to not make any difference.
What I want to know is if it is possible to do the opposite: extract novel, useful and human-understandable heuristics from a chess engine?
Presumably you would have a wifi router in that case? Those work as NAT, even support port forwarding configuration.
Can it be found online? If not, can you provide the translator’s name?
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Who knows what's happening? Everything depends on the enforcement, and there's no details on that yet except that it will be a "Verwaltungsstrafe" not to get vaccinated.

This would be a fine, but that's not saying much.
A sober reminder of why this is too little, too late...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/31/lorry-driver...
>Another is height. There's a very strong correlation between height and lifetime earnings; tall people are seen as better leaders, trusted more, and frankly, more physically intimidating.

Napoleon Bonaparte, Benito Mussolini, Alexander The Great, Joseph Stalin, Hirohito, Silvio Berlusconi, Nicolas Sarkozy, Vladimir Lenin, Francisco Franco, Amenhotep I, James Madison, Mahatma Gandhi, Nikita Khrushchev, Kim Jong-il, Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, David Ben-Gurion, Deng Xiaoping, Benito Juárez would all like to have a word with you. :)
I applaud whoever put this site together - it's a simple thing that aggregates stats and runs counters, for what reason I'm not sure, but it seems like they put a decent effort into it. And they don't run ads, which is great. But it really got its boost in 2020 when everyone who was watching had to look at it every goddamn day for pandemic numbers.

There's nothing new about this site, but it is a nice site.
There was sufficient data available from China before even COVID19 hit the US. You had to be either incompetent or malicious not to recommend masks.
i know you are being snarky, but still, people are working on it https://radicle.xyz/
The argument for vaccinations and against abortions is it is protecting the lives of other humans. Same class of ideas. Seatbelts don't protect other people.

In Australia we have to be able to prove we are vaccinated to take part in civic life, including visiting friends. It is a concerning new assault on basic civil liberties.
"Being rich" doesn't appear as an input factor on the model, that's my interpretation.

The paper describes how, assuming a meritocratic setup where everyone starts out the same, wealth accumulates as a function of repeated lucky events, largely unaffected by the particular talents of the individual.

We all know that money makes money and the wealthy have a lot more ways of seizing opportunities than those without resources, using wealth as a leverage way more powerful than personal talent. Nevertheless, the model works as a thought experiment showing what would happen if everyone began from the same starting point; even in that case, talent would have little weight in how wealth accumulation would evolve.
I wonder whether clockwise was generally favoured over anti-clockwise (or widdershins [1]) for superstitious reasons. Clockwise is "right" vs anticlockwise as "left".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widdershins
I agree with this, but as I get older I realise what a mistake it was to be this way. Wealth is an enabler that helps us meet our goals, however high minded, and give us the freedom to do things the way we want. It gives us the ability to make our own mistakes instead of implementing others’.

Those who know this and are able to optimise for it will have a sustainable advantage over everyone else, creating a virtuous cycle.
Another dark pattern is the use of credits.

You subscribe for $X/month. That buys you Y credits, which you then spend at different rates depending on your usage. Some services are credits per minute, some are fixed credit amounts.

Not only do you have to guess your capacity requirements, you also then have to translate that into a series of tiered variable costs and fixed costs, and translate from credits to currency (often working through bulk purchasing rates) to figure out how much you'll be billed.

I manage a SaaS contract that bills like this and I'm not sure I've ever accurately predicted our bill. Also one of their fixed credit cost items is clearly 10x more expensive than it should be when you actually work through the numbers to see how much it costs.
The "hard to be compatible" is a feature by design. If it was easy MS would have lost its biggest advantage by now.
The irony of all of this is that the finance industry is providing all the liquidity for bitcoin so that their ransomware payments are actually worth something.
The first time, a while ago, when I tried Ruby, coming from Java, it was pure joy of freedom :) I really liked the duck typing approach and the dynamic feel of the language. It's rather sad to see static "Java" creeping into it.
I remember an old demo that would play a loop of the chorus of I Say a Little Prayer through the PC speaker. It was hard to believe that the speaker could be pushed to such limits.
Drupal has some distributions aimed on this.
You can look here:
https://www.drupal.org/project/project_distribution?f%5B0%5D...

Or build yourself using modules on a vanilla drupal.
From a biodiversity point of view. Everything.
I thought to go to school you had to be vaccinated, even in Australia.