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> This zero use cases rhetoric is really low effort.

It isn't if you cared to at least read the link I provided

As to your use cases. First the obvious ones:

- event tickets. Have literally zero need for blockchain. NFTs are scam, and nothing but scam. All the fictional properties ascribed to ticketing via NFTs I've covered in my to responses to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29282931

- synthetic assets, decentralized asset exchange, decentralized prediction markets. Require neither bitcoin, nor blockchains nor crypto. Used almost exclusively for trading fictional tokens, scams, and pretending it's innovation.

The less obvious ones:

- sovereign store of value (useful if your government sucks)

"Let's convert our value into a fictional token that has no value outside the fictional world, and can't be used for anything but buying other digital tokens".

Buy food? Oh, you have to convert it to real money (because no one in the world, especially not in the world where government sucks, accepts these fictional tokens). Or if someone does accept it, oops, random transaction fees just doubled your cost.

Buy actual physical assets? "When your government sucks", people prefer dollars and euro to fictional tokens.

- permissionless payments

This is a very tiny part that is arguably useful, but it comes with a plethora of issues that make them unusable for wide adoption. Among them, reversibility, enforcement.
Note that this is only partially true, because the RFC includes only the DNS wireformat (for TCP, with a leading bytesize). [1]

The DNS JSON API is a google only thing, because even cloudflare's DNS use different MIME types and don't support the complete API and have varying support for base64 with/without padding characters and the full 65k frame size that the spec and drafts define. EDNS request options are also mostly unsupported in practice.

Even multiple questions (A/AAAA) are partially supported and oftentimes fail dependent on which server you get as an endpoint. The URL schema is also different from server to server because everybody implements their own thing.

[1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc8484.txt
The naval analogy applies especially in space: any weapon you put on a ship you can build one 10x bigger on the shore.

The shore in this case is the moon.

In the case of rocket interception from the moon, you put a big laser on the moon, not complicated. Could you do that from the Earth? Atmosphere, etc.

As for historical precedent for military dominance presaging development, it isn't really a good example, but it's the period of colonialism in Europe. Countries in europe raced to build economic exploitation empires elsewhere in the world, let by advanced militarization of the seas.
Companies are sociopaths by definition. You can't stop them being assholes, what you can do is regulate their asshole-ness so that it minimizes that effect on consumers and markets in general.

"Free trade" and "Free markets" has never meant "totally unregulated".

That's completely flawed reasoning that ignores the actual purpose of those things, which is to encourage increased/better supply of products and services to consumers at the best possible price.
Java Performance Tricks
All of these are as interesting as working at a bank or at a stock exchange (and those can be significanty more interesting due to amount of data they process).

Unless, of course, you're interested in outright scams like NFT. Yup, those are "interesting".
I don't know how accurate that website is. For France, it lists the following:

> Don’t Bank on the bomb identifies the following companies as producers of key components for the French nuclear weapons arsenal:

> Airbus Group (the Netherlands),

> BAE Systems (United Kingdom),

> Leonardo (Italy),

> Safran (France), and

> Thales (France)

(Neither of which has anything to do with nukes directly)

Which isn't incorrect but misleading. There are two French nuclear-capable missiles (ASMPA and M51, for air and submarine launches respectively) and one warhead ( TNA). ASMPA is a cruise missile designed by MBDA (which is the successor to government-owned missile companies), M51 was mostly designed by the military with some parts subcontracted to various subcontractors like MBDA, Safran, Thales, etc.

However, the nuclear warheads themselves are designed by a government-owned company, CEA, and everything nuclear related in France is at least majority government owned.
Breathe.

Field hospitals were proposed early on in 2020, they even sent the medical ship to NY up the Hudson. Its not my idea and it's not a new idea. If you're not aware of that, then I'm sorry for assuming the extent of your awareness.

We don't have to clone anyone. We can do 2 very easy things:
1. Rehire the unvaccinated that were let go.
2. Pay our front line workers more.

Everyone should support this. It's an easy win.

As someone who's unvaccinated and had covid, I honestly don't know what long covid is or why we should be afraid of it anymore than the long term effects of the vaccine.

Though if you fell for one boogeyman, it makes sense that you'd fall for another.

Covid is out of the box, economic damage is inevitable. How much is up to us. If you look at Florida, Sweden, or even the Amish, it's clear lockdowns do more economic harm than covid does.

Last but not least, I'll say it again.

Hospital collapse has been a liminal crisis for 2 years.

We have more vaccinated than ever before yet were still somehow on the brink of collapse. Nothing has been done about it except to scape goat the unvaccinated. People are going to be unvaccinated. The vaccine is going to wear off. Try doing something about it instead of dehumanizing people you disagree with.

Enough is enough.
This is entirely impractical. Companies wouldn’t even be able own subsidiaries in other countries that can legally act as employers or tax payers there.

It would make it impossible for governments to own minority stakes in local subsidiaries of global corporations to veto some things. It would make it impossible to impose capital requirements on subsidiaries of big financial institutions. It would be impossible for larger competitors to rescue failing peers and keep them operating as a going concern.

And it would very likely create the most suffocating oligopolies on a national level as well as on an industry level as competitors would find it extremely hard to enter markets with entrenched incumbents if the only way to do it was to build from scratch.
Coincidentally I wanted to do that for a side-project I launched yesterday [1]. I tried their nginx-s3-gateway image but couldn't get the authorization to AWS S3 to work.

I replaced it with Varnish with the files publicly available on the (cheaper) S3 compatible Scaleway. I guess a simple Nginx would have work the same at that point. My goal was mostly to minimize the bandwidth cost (which is not metered on my server).

[1] https://abx.funkybits.fr
> Mandatory seatbelts are a simple mechanical device

Welcome, traveler from the distant past. It's 2021 now and you won't believe who were last two POTUS.

Seatbelts are not simple mechanical devices for quite some time. They are part of integrated safety systems including pre-tensioner, air bags and "pink noise" sound emitters etc.
It would seem, that Amazon "donated" the Lumberyard/CryTec Engine to the Open 3D foundation, which is a newly created subsidiary of the Linux foundation.

It's available under very permissive licenses - Apache 2.0 or MIT, whichever you prefer - no strings attached.

With Amazon being just one of 20 different founding members, and under the stewardship of the Linux foundation, it might just be, that this project is sufficiently independent from AWS now, to stand on it's own.

Does anyone know if the foundation does grant any special "founding member" rights to AWS? Could AWS theoretically still pull some crazy stuff, like Microsoft recently did with the .NET foundation?
Yeah but then the whole thing is very mellow, and showing that to people is the right thing to do, and not misinterpreting to blow something out of proportion to spread panic. But I guess it doesn't get enough clicks, and it's too late now to point out that the emperor is naked...
Check out TalkJS: https://talkjs.com

Disclosure: I'm one of the founders. Compared to alternatives, our main differentiator is pre-built chat UIs (that are still deeply customizable) and a fully integrated notification system.

We don't have an out-of-the-box Stipop integration (yet?), though, but it looks like a pretty cool service to integrate.
> there have always been some who deny or downplay the relationship between NSO and the Israeli government

But this has been the mainstream trend in major news outlets for years, no? Make no dirt stick to the IDF/Israeli government.
Try to criticise Israel for their war crimes against the Palestinians and see what you get branded as.
Water expands when frozen under constant pressure. Since meats and produce contain a lot of water, they normally expand when frozen, too. This expansion damages the cellular tissues, ultimately making the food less pleasant to eat. They are using rigid containers able to contain high pressures to prevent the food from expanding at freezing temperatures.
Um. I'm an org user and I'd like pandoc to have better org support, but this really could have stopped after the xkcd 927 post. Why not just roll the web back to HTML3 and call it a day? Or use something latex inspired if you want more generalized markup? Org and markdown both suck for document preparation, since among other things they have no way to make tables with multiline text in the cells. Mediawiki markup does a much better job of that. It is already used in a huge publishing project (wikipedia) and has about everything you could want. That org mode has its own weird markup language is a bug, not a feature.
The employment contract point I made calls into question whether or not Amazon understands indie gamedevs, and by extension whether O3DE (as both software and a community) is developed for indie gamedevs.

The game failures I highlighted call into question whether or not Amazon Game Studios produces high quality software, and by extension whether or not O3DE is likely to be high quality.

Just look at the contributors to O3DE and search for "AMZN", nearly every contributor is an Amazon employee[0].

Your argument seems to be that as long as the code is open source, the rest doesn't matter. It does.

My intent isn't to shit on people's work, but rather to call out that to me this feels far from some "open" initiative like Blender, GIMP, the Linux Kernel, etc. It feels more like how Android is "open source".

[0] https://github.com/o3de/o3de/graphs/contributors
So? It's good that we have a "representative" of the CCP on this website then. It can't only be a US/NATO-aligned echo chamber. There's people from all over the world here. And more than two sides.

Unless you are convinced that NATO are the good guys and CCP are the bad guys so they must be silenced, but I'd tell you that's the propaganda doing the thinking for you.
It seems to run with native framerate in firefox while chromium gets maybe 20fps on my laptop
Is it? I've been interviewing with them recently and they told me they're using their own internal framework.
This seems oddly specific ha ha
Uber to test audio recording safety feature in the U.S.
That would probably be the easiest to add, wouldn't it?
Does the author (whose company is namechecked five times in the article) have any data to support the thesis that DAOs (explained nowhere in the article) would resolve the talent problem? Plenty of vaguely inspirational messages in the article, but not much of substance.
What does IAMNAM stand for?
>Does anyone know if the foundation does grant any special "founding member" rights to AWS? Could AWS theoretically still pull some crazy stuff, like Microsoft recently did with the .NET foundation?

Why does it matter ? It's Apache 2.0, they can't pin you for using it on patents or copyright. For a 3D engine it should be more realistic to fork if you don't agree with the direction.
AIUI there's no EULA problems virtualizing macOS on Mac hardware.

This is about a minimum 24-hour rental of Mac Minis tho.
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> Honestly I don't understand why so many screens are needed, haven't felt any need for more than one in 15+ years (though I've always used max possible resolution + very small UI scaling). I even don't use multiple desktops.

I feel the same way, but I use the "medium large" scaling that macOS offers in Displays under Preferences. I do use multiple desktops, however, and using Cmd+Tab to switch between them.
Step 1: don't post on HN about how you want to minimise your work-time I guess?
And what you think about https://supabase.io/?
They have a managed PostgreSQL and managed Auth.
"I will argue that bullshitting is triggered by
a speech community with many conceptual
entrepreneurs, significant amounts of noisy
ignorance and permissive uncertainty."

Right now, "metaverse".
> could look to the cars metrics like I am driving drunk

Same as sudden acceleration or breaking. Don't buy car like this.
> Godot's 3D support seems promising, but at a very different level than the "big" engines

While this is true, "big" games require a small legion of 3D artists. Very few indies will ever come close to maxing out Godot's 3D abilities.

If you "need" a big engine you also need a multi-million dollar budget.
I live in a rather modern European apartment/condo and I don't think this would be true for my home at all. Sure, with the right tools you can get windows or doors open, but it will be very loud and not that easy. Windows are triple glazed (for insulation, not protection) and they have a fair amount of locks on all sides (can be annoying as they won't close if any of those are blocked by dirt or leave).

If you just close the door without locking it, it's possible to open them without causing too much damage. But I heard from neighbours who got locked out that if you have your door locked, even a locksmith will at least need to destroy the lock, potentially even part of the door, to get inside.

There's no such thing as perfect protection, but most thieves will ignore objects that take longer than a minute or two to break in to. There are too many alternatives and any minute spent at the door increases the risk of detection.

Also, apart from doors or windows there are no openings. There's ventilation but the diameter is way too small to crawl through. And access from parking is secured the same way as through the front door.

So yes, I think a front door lock will keep out thieves. Not because it makes it impossible but because it's just not worth it. Same as a well protected server all but keeps out intruders. Unless you're a very high value target, they go after easier targets first.
Old monopoly mindsets die hard.
I believe it's form investing into your employees

People will mess with fancy tech, crazy projects and not only learn from it, but also feel less burnout
Unlikely, it's more that the vehicle manufacturers would be affected directly if these things became less competitive. Vehicle manufacturers are essentially component assemblers that buy their components at various levels of assembly from 3rd party suppliers.

It also is a major US industry so that enables the FTC to describe in the court cases the impact on competition outside of the specific chip design/manufacture industry.
The week is related to the phases of the moon. Aproximately four phases per month.
Take a look at history to see how bleak it can get.

At this point I'm less worried about covid and more worried about the global rise in authoritarian trends.
Sooo any proof for your thoughts on the missing benefits of a vaccinated person u der 60?

Wild statement to make without any numbers.
The old ruse of "We need more surveillance to ensure safety."

It is opt out of surveillance and not very obvious.

"Uttara Sivaram, Uber's senior manager of public policy, said the company would initially focus the recording feature on U.S. jurisdictions with one party consent laws."
I wanted to smack someone at work for doing this (being facetious). It was truly demoralizing to watch that person go through with it too. I think I even heard one of them verbally utter ‘that’s not how real big boys do it, that’s not how the pros do it’. They said words like that out loud, absolutely shameless.

This hilarious part about it was, they never actually worked at a big company.
Despite ~20 members in the Open3D Foundation, it's nearly impossible to find any impactful contributor that is not an Amazon employee[0]

[0] https://github.com/o3de/o3de/graphs/contributors
> but until Amazon gets their documentation and tooling in a working state,

That's...unlikely.

> It could be any of these, and how it acts is WILDLY different for every service, and also undocumented.

CDK is an abstraction over CloudFormation, which is an inconsistent (in how it deals with similar things at the next level down) abstraction over the individual APIs of AWS services, which themselves are not particularly consistent to start with.

> There is a reason your Devops people are not falling over themselves to use it.

Well, lots are, because it's less tedious than raw CloudFormation or thin improvements over it like the Serverless transform, and AFAICT most of the inconsistency is from the underlying CF behavior, so isn't avoided by cutting out the additional layer.
If you expect an encyclopedia to be an exhaustive record of all knowledge, then yes, it's never going to explain every subject.

If you expect it to be a review of subjects, like an abstract -- as encyclopedias generally were before the advent of Wikipedia -- then it seems like something can be said on most notable topics.

It's a difficult task, it not only requires a thorough understanding of a subject but a special skill as an educator. It's a hard task.

Yes, it's going to be impossible for some articles, but if they're notable aspects of mathematics then it's worth a try.

I note that shelves are filled with books explaining complex topics at lower levels (easier in a book than a few paragraphs!?). Also, YouTube is replete with explanations that get closer to being encyclopedic than simply splurging graduate level textbook pages into a wiki (which is also a useful thing, but useful to different people).
The matrix chat software desperately needs an alternative implementation,
I don't think it matters too much who will do it first.
Demystifying the use of the Parquet file format for time series
> The prevalence of cataracts by age 64 is in the neighborhood of 15-20%.

But what is the lower bound where it starts to get that common, is the question? Does it affect people in their careers that often? probably not.

>Dismissive attitudes like this among the visually acute are one reason website accessibility is generally so poor.

Sorry you disliked my analogy but it has nothing to do with website accessibility, merely the way you structured your argument/post in reply to my reasonable response of 'get glasses' to jumping to macular degeneration.
Predpol leak confirms that it drives racist policing
I migliori regali di Natale a tema cucina
The lab-leak theory has never had any significant support in the scientific community, and over time, every new piece of evidence has even more heavily favored the scientific consensus that SARS-CoV-2 emerged naturally. For example, French researchers have discovered a virus circulating in bats in Laos that is closer to SARS-CoV-2 than anything the Wuhan Institute of Virology had. That alone is basically a 100% refutation of the conspiracy theories about the lab.

> What that has to do with reopening or Trump’s positions is not clear

Australia is a US ally, and has increasingly aligned itself with the US' more aggressive position towards China over the last few years. It's not a coincidence that Trump and Morrison began attacking China over coronavirus at the same time.

> Apparently inspectors did eventually go with a lighter treatment and rights and they did not end up with any results.

The WHO team put together one of the most informative reports yet on the origins on SARS-CoV-2. The actual contents of their report were almost completely ignored in US media, though, which was intensely focused on pushing the lab-leak theory and disappointed that the WHO report found it extremely unlikely. If you watch the press conference announcing the results, it's almost comical how the US journalists were completely uninterested in anything the researchers were saying and kept asking about the lab.
This is very similar to Isabelle's Isar [1], except that Isar definitions and theorems can be formally verified.
MMathLingua has no doubt a much better presentation layer for mathematics than Isabelle/Isar. This can be improved with a custom presentation layer, see for example rendering of topological groups theory from IsarMathLib [2] written in Isar (disclaimer - my project).

[1] https://isabelle.in.tum.de/Isar/

[2] https://isarmathlib.org/TopologicalGroup_ZF.html
Selenium: Lightning Fast Client Libraries
And what did you to help out?

Did you suddenly switch your job to become a nurse?

How do you think we would have been able to ramp up everything while in a pandemic?
That does not means the 3% just go "Yeah let's become Chinese".

And this is off-topic. The idea is simple: "China is culturally an ancient agrarian society focused more on defending farmland than conquering nation" does not stand. Conquering happens a lot on that land way before PRC is a thing.
Not getting vaccinated is not antisocial, assuming that those people take care otherwise.

The only people which exhibit antisocial behavior are those that don’t care about protecting themselves and others from infection. Wearing a mask, avoiding meeting others and getting tested is just as valid as getting a vaccine. Perhaps more, because those that do get vaccinated (at least among my acquaintances) seem to wrongly assume that the vaccine is enough and don’t take any other measures except what they must (masks). So they’re meeting in groups, going to restaurants without getting tested, etc.
Convenient reactivity models have existed for a long time. Someone, bring them to the react developers.
https://dev.to/ninjin/main-aspects-of-reactivity-58co
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If you're a sysadmin for a large company or if you're a public person then I'd agree, but I believe for 99% of us, no one would spend the time to perform these attacks on stolen hardware. And even for large companies, they'd just look for the next sysadmin who has their password on a post-it on the laptop or in their bag (still happens enough).
> random mutation unlikely to improve

indeed, but subsequent success or failure does. Mutation and selection. Mutation prepares the pool to sieve the successful ones.
This is a very interesting topic. The article is well written, but _in my opinion_ the concept of the 7-day-long week is not artificial at all.
Like a comment says, it is a fraction of a lunar month. Many of the ancient calendars were based on the Moon.

Little self-promotion: I recently started a newsletter with little similar curiosities about culture, religion, myths, and folklore I found around – https://godsip.club
Just use Vim and learn modal editing, all this hassle for so little benefit.
Some OSS advocates get too caught up in "community" and feelings. At the end of the day OSS is only about the licence. It's just about code ownership. Everything else is noise.

As long as it's an OSS license it's good to go.

Also, Blender used to be a commercial, closed source project (a very long time ago). Look how it's grown.