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Trollish usernames aren't allowed here, because they effectively troll every thread they post to. I've therefore banned this account. If you want to pick a different username, we can unban you.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

On a different note, can you please omit swipes and putdowns (like "Your analytical skills could use some work") from your HN posts? That sort of thing degrades discussion and evokes worse from others, so we're trying to avoid it here. Your comment would be just fine without that leading bit.
Mr Traina had already invested in the start up and had set up a dinner for Breslow to network with Thiel and Hoffman. Both of those guys are massive VCs that any founder would be massively keen to get connections with. Thiel ended up Angel investing. This wasn't a test, it was a massive gift.
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Well yes, there's not going to be a free lunch. 64GB of ECC DDR4 is likely to consume 24W all by itself. This has basically nothing to do with the choice of CPU.
It sounds like a lot but it is about the same temperature as that of a regular wax candle flame.
Why? If you calculate it out taxing the rich can't help you. Even if it worked, it wouldn't provide a meaningful increase in government income. The "middle class" are the only ones that can be taxed to actually achieve sponsoring the government.

So while I understand the arguments for fairness, it cannot meaningfully affect my situation, and therefore it's a bit like an "there shouldn't be any homeless" type situation. Ideally, yes, I'd want the rich to pay. Practically, it's rather low on the priority list.
This is cool but as a long time macOS user who is now on Windows at least half time, I really miss Cmd + Tab application switching when on Windows.

Anyone know of a way to get that behaviour in Windows?
I disagree. If the distance is accurate (I've had a few trips where Google Maps seemed to be 10s ahead of my car location) then I don't need to worry about looking at lights or stop signs and deciding if these are the ones they are talking about or the one in half a block. I can easily tell that the next turn is more than 50m and this is the one I need.
Function parameters aren't messages. They're shared state. I'd suggest watching the talk and reading about message passing systems in general.
They will never do it willingly, but I wish Google would split the POI stuff out of their maps app. It's all getting incredibly bloated the way it is, anyway. Then I could look up a place in there - because it's an excellent service - but use Apple Maps for the rest.
Elon Musk would reverse Donald Trump's Twitter ban
Agreed.

The political foundations that have permeated its design are intolerable alone. Austrian School, "sound money," economics put the liberty of the individual above that of society. The entire community walks and talks like a fascist movement: they celebrate masculinity and "strong leaders," authoritarianism and oligarchy, they see themselves as superior and righteous, and above the law. It's the preferred way to fund blockades, white nationalist movements, etc.

Let alone that the technology is hot garbage and shouldn't even be out of the prototype stage. Hasn't your mother taught you not to eval a strangers code on your computer? Well that's what a smart contract does and it handles financial assets too. If you can read and understand proofs the attempts to formalize these machines have produced reams and reams of theorems and work in order to try and make this safe(r)... yet hackers continue to siphon off trillions of dollars in attack after attack. If the proof is so complex that you can't understand it then it's a sign your sniffing down the wrong path.

But that doesn't even matter. Most of web3 tech is only good enough to pull off the grift. I suspect that's why most scammers have moved on to target holders of cryptoassets rather than old folks and banks: it's easier, less risky, and way more profitable. So go ahead, spend 20k and invest in an NFT and flex on all your socials. If you have already I guarantee you're on someone's list.

If you're interested in following along with how much money has been lost, stolen, scammed, and simply disappeared: https://web3isgoinggreat.com
Apple Maps is great for “safe” navigation. Over time Google Maps have become more Waze-like.

Another great thing about Apple Maps is the haptic signaling on the watch.
Where I've found "microservices" to be sensible is where you have multiple different clients to power (ie, website, iOS & Android). They all consumer the same JSON and render natively.

Otherwise, microservices just turn what was once easy into very complicated.
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I just wished that all other vendors didn't follow in that stupidity.
Let's say you have Firefox and Chrome open, each with two windows. alt+tab on Windows cycles between all 4. cmd+tab on Mac cycles between each apps most recently focused window.

Hold cmd and press tab on a Mac, notice that it doesn't even show windows, it shows app icons.
With a monolith you can put everything inside a database transaction and have a an entire request's worth of logic succeed or fail together. That's a lot easier to manage that having parts of the logic spread over multiple systems succeed and other parts fail.
You are correct about the letter of the law. The Supreme Court disagreed in Citizens United v. FEC and ruled that the government cannot restrain corporations from making independent expenditures for political campaigns. It definitely applies to 501c4 orgs, as Citizens United itself is one!
Coming from a rails background, I have really enjoyed developing against Firebase.

Cloud Firestore so much easier than deploying a rails app somewhere. It comes with a lot of great analytics tools. The auth stuff works great. The documentation is very good. It has been extremely reliable. Syncing across devices is amazing and seamless in my experience.

If it fits your use case (I think mostly CRUD apps with data sharing that is somewhat limited in its breadth, e.g. not something like twitter with N-N data relationships), it is really amazing.
Looks great! I've currently use https://contexts.co/ but might switch over for the thumbnails
Yeah i loved the Ipod, and I loved the ability to listen to "my music" whenever i wanted. It was a major game changer, and now I can do the same but "my music" no longer feels special so it hardly seems to matter. Media has become a commodity good with the maturation of the internet, substitute goods have never been easier to find.
> should we allow abortions into the 108th trimester

Yes. That's not a viable fetus, and keeping it in the womb forever isn't going to change that
Saw like the exact video in your example - it had 50% downvotes.

I'm using the Return YouTube Dislike addon for Firefox.
There was a lot going on at the same time. Some jumping around could not be avoided.
> But...the gameplay is just boring as hell.

Depends on what you are doing. The first time you manage to escape with your ship intact after an incursion in low security or (specially) Null sec space, you get hooked. Or when you do the same, but in wormhole space.

If you are doing missions or participating in alliance shenanigans... yeah. Lots of mindless button pushing. At that point, trading in the market is more fun.
I think one issue here is that there do appear to be people with a mathematical edge similar to the casinos in gambling: the people who create individual coins and who manipulate the market directly.

This may be less of a concern in stabler, larger coins like btc and eth. I'm still not sure I get why staying longer yields any sort of edge, though. If my expected return over some small period is 0, adding a bunch of those small periods together does not yield a positive expected return.
I was talking abut income tax, so Parole yes, sales and property no.

I also excluded registration and Licensing fees, and capital gains.
you mean ⌘ Command + `
Sorry about that - I didn't realize my comment would turn so intensely off-topic!
No. There is no way to get MacOS to be able to switch between open windows on a desktop via a keyboard shortcut without installing 3rd party software that adds this basic functionality.
I'm still using an IPod Nano 5th generation (2009).

I bought it off ebay as a replacement for my iPod Nano 4th generation (2008) that was stolen in a home break-in!

I love it. I dread the day the battery stops working, which it will eventually, and which is probably the only thing that would ever lead the thing not working anymore.

I still put podcasts and mp3's on it. I listen to it in my car (which is also old enough to work with it via a hardwire USB hookup, I also dread the day I replace my car with one that own't), or with headphones when walking.

I've become one of those middle-aged people who doesn't want to change. But the iPod nano still seems like amazing futuristic science fiction technology to me. it's tiny. It Just Works. (although MacOS has started having trouble sync'ing files to it without going crazy with duplicate files, I'm afraid).
> making mass surveillance more common, lessening the impact of mass surveillance

The fuck?
A 10% chance of a million-dollar healthcare bill you can't pay and will spend the rest of your life dealing with is still shitty odds on top of all of the other risks involved in starting a business.

Also: parents. Childbirth is expensive and most parents want some reasonable level of certainty that they can afford good healthcare for their kids. Or, to put a finer point on it, when forced to choose between health stability for their children and starting a business, most will sacrifice the latter to get the former.
Yes, you always want to start with a monolith then break out micro services as the API, scaling and deployment strategies, and team sizes become clear from running in and scaling in production for a good while.
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How would you call a person belonging to the Mittelstand in German? In another Germanic language, Dutch, you would say "middenstander" (or plural"middenstanders"), derived from "middenstand".
⌘ Command + `
Has anyone from Goldman ever actually been in trouble from the authorities?

That was my take from the 2008 financial crisis: the government had to fix everything. Again.
And no Hollywood movie about the European, American and Asian finance ministers who had to make sure the ATMs kept working.
> there's next to zero risk

It's never zero, though. Which is a far better situation compared to many MMO games where they really have zero risk areas (or the whole game is zero risk).
French has a word for this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlan

Verlan is itself verlan of l’envers (backwards). It’s super common to make slang words this way.
New battery is a few tenners compared to a whole new server.

Of course, if the competition is a VPS (if a few GB storage is all you need for example) then that will win any day.
Yes, but it's more complicated.

For example - I think in the US, Verizon etc. has to keep a history of 'call records' - so that, in the event of some issues, that information can be acquired. I don't know how much oversight goes into that later part, but ideally, it would be a lot.

Even in that case, there is kind of a 'record' or 'background tracking' related to what would otherwise be 'very legit' situation.

Same for search, tweets, DMs etc. etc..

I'm fine with it as long as there is 'really good oversight' ... which I don't trust any of our governments to do. Not the EU/UK/US/Canada etc..

The answer is always the same: 'it depends' , 'it's nuanced', and always requires 'high degree of competence', 'transcend politicization', 'transcend descent into bureaucracy' and 'unforeseen situations' esp. 'data leaks', 'weird constitutional rulings' and 'weird populist political situations'. Etc..
Pretty sure this also doesn't bring windows to the front when selected, either.
not true: ⌘ Command + `
Mainly because for a very long time, Linus reviewed every pull request.
My experience has been a little better than yours. I've definitely worked on some spaghetti codebases, but I've worked on some really nicely modularised ones too.
In the Trudeau case the comparison is at least not 100% wrong, as is usually the case when the N-word crops up. Hitler famously engaged in forced medical experiments on people who were deemed disposable classes of society, and he brooked no dissent or resistance. Regardless of how you personally feel about the COVID vaccines they were and are based on experimental new medical technology, which was then forced on people against their will including on people who thought it might harm them. And as we saw, the protestors were then destroyed by a leader who gave so few shits that he didn't even bother to turn up and talk to them, and who then engaged in vengeful financial attacks on family members or anyone who tried to support the protestors.

Obviously that doesn't make Trudeau literally Hitler, but the point of talking about WW2 is to try and learn lessons so it never repeats. If you're only allowed to notice similarities by the time there are no differences left at all, it's already far too late. That's why the comparisons are always so tricky and fraught with controversy. On one hand, comparing everything to the Nazis is a tired rhetorical trick designed to shut down thought. On the other hand, to ensure something like that never happens again, people have to be willing to say -wait. That looks bad. That looks like something the Nazis did. That shouldn't be happening and maybe the people who are making it happen are bad people, they should be stopped. But the bar for it has to be high.
They're HK based, but I doubt that that would help all that much.
> would love an industry standard way of doing the merges automatically

We've been working on a standard for merging conflicts over in the https://braid.org group! This will let different tools (like filesystems and web apps) interoperate with p2p synchronized state.

We've made great progress already— JosephG's Diamond-Types algorithm can synchronize perfectly with Yjs, Automerge, and Sync9, just by swapping out a single function in the source code. Standardized sync is possible!

Come join us if you're interested! We have open video meetings every two weeks.
I mean, the whole argument on the sacredness of life by the religious right is hypocritical as the new testament is anti war, and any justification of war doesn't come about until post 400 A.D. when the "saints" weigh in on the subjects. The apostles were pretty "hippy-ish" about it.[1]

Their pro-life stance would hold A LOT more weight if they were out protesting wars and military spending, not to mention foreign occupation through military means and trying to have that money spent on humanitarian programs. I give credit to the Amish for at least being consistent (and no, I'm not religious).

[1] https://www.christianbiblereference.org/faq_war.htm
Seems many people don't know:

⌘ Command + ` to switch between windows of same program
GDPR mainly forbids abusing data for your own purposes. It probably allows abusing it for the government through law enforcement cooperation.
As far as I understand it, it's always been the European Commission who wants this, and the European Parliament that opposes this. Hopefully they will do so again, but it might be prudent to remind them that they need to oppose this.
Not only does that not trump the Constitutional rights of a US citizen, the AUMF text specifically refers to "those who participated in or planned 9/11", which does not apply to Al-Awlaki anyway. So you're not just wrong, you're double wrong.

And you have refused to answer the question posed numerous times - why wouldn't the US Government just charge him with a crime? We're expected to go with "just trust us bro"?
Discussed at the time:

Give Me Back My Monolith - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19382765 - March 2019 (411 comments)
You may have some luck with antidepressants. What about ADHD (even with treatment)? Even more luck is needed.
Monolithic – yes. However, my concerns with Remix are that it intentionally doesn't align well with the premise of GraphQL – for better or worse. However, that's a very common pattern when you do need microservices.

I.e. Remix doesn't have a good story for off-boarding from a monolith – so it's inherently risky to build on top of.

GraphQL really isn't that hard, and if I'm going to build an API anyway, why not just start with a piece that's going to eliminate the endless refactoring of data-stitching when the needs of my pages (or underlying components) change?
So use transactions? I don't understand what part of microservices prevents that. In fact, transactions are pretty fundamental to reliable systems.

https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-85.7.pdf

From the abstract:

>It is pointed out that faults in production software are often soft (transient) and that a transaction mechanism combined with persistent process-pairs provides fault-tolerant execution -- the key to software fault-tolerance.
Well, and they also disagree on where the censorship should occur.

One side is trying to prevent kindergarteners from having teachers discuss gender and sexual identity issues with them. The other is openly claiming free speech is problematic on widely available public discussion platforms, with thought leaders claiming that strict moderation of these platforms is necessary to preserve democracy.

But yes, arguably both sides are supporting some degree of censorship.
This seems a bit disingenuous since you conclude the post with:

> I believe there is a moral imperative to destroy web3 and to protect those that have been infected
> There is no proof that transwomen are any more likely to rape ciswomen than other ciswomen are.

There is no proof males who identify as trans (transwomen) are any less likely to commit rape than males who do not identify as trans. The rape risk of being housed with a male is real regardless of how the male identifies with regards to gender. If you have data to the contrary (data indicating that trans identifying males are less likely to commit rape than other males) please share.
> they give you a loan

Yes, they do, if you can provide a security for the loan. More often than not, the founder is the guarantor, which sucks for them if the business fails. This is moderately founder friendly, to say the least.
He’ll just hire the Truth Social censors.
Clearly today "emulsional" pseudo-societies have developed in which communion is ruled out: people which should not be mixed are pooled in a single pot. The social crisis extends today from past base instances to, nowadays, irreconcilable divergences in aspirations.
Wow, that makes complete sense. What an elegant hack!
I'm looking at http://facebook.github.io/zstd/ "Benchmarks."

P.7 of your slides doesn't seem to cover Zstd --fast or decompression. It would be interesting to see how Zstd performs in those modes.
The problem was that the lack of controls meant it was so easy for the fraudsters to set up situations where they would get the money and not face the repercussions.

We saw the same thing with unemployment--the system got overwhelmed so they quit checking and the result was a lot of identity thieves collected unemployment for workers who weren't actually unemployed. (Of course the real problem is the unemployment system has been deliberately kept dysfunctional because that reduces the amount they have to pay out.)
There's tooling like bors that will rollup commits together and run CI on them before merging to master. If it fails then the commits will be retried individually.
SOA usually involves a bunch of separate services, but all connecting back to the same shared RDBMS. That's the biggest shift in microservices - no shared data stores.
Really? I never noticed any particularly high barrier of entry with either.

Pygame for example was very popular with hobbyist game programmers in the early 2000s as it provided a much easier way to get started with game programming than C, which was the most popular alternative back then (Unity 3d only released in 2005 and Unreal Engine only became free in 2015).

What I do remember from the early 2000s, though, was legions of aspiring game programmers struggling with C and C++.
ACA luckily paid for itself

https://www.cbpp.org/blog/more-evidence-of-post-aca-slowdown...

there's a lot of slack in a lot of publicly funded sectors (from education, defense spending, research to various other social programs), where ACA style laws could help cut out rent-seeking intermediaries/vendors/other-artificial-bottlenecks (for example a pretty large chunk of public spending is going for buildings, their maintenance, transportation, energy costs, and so on, which all are high because of bad/missing/inefficient infrastructure, which is kept in that way because by lobbying and other kinds of selfishness)

but simply increasing the money supply and giving money to people to spend on healthcare will push prices up. (which also immediately means that the money that was just handed over to someone who needed to buy healthcare services gets less of it.)

just like you keep saying botched response... I keep saying botched spending :) yes, both can be true at the same time.
Shame! A bunch of our retail clients use them as in-store devices for staff who walk the retail floor -- they don't need to make calls or take gigapixel photos so the iPhone is overkill (and thus expensive) for them. I expect they'll move to Android and mourn the loss of cachet ...
This size of company and mindset seems pretty well served by MicroConf [0], which tends somewhat to the bootstrapping crowd but is very much not the "4 hour work week" crowd.

... Is that what you mean by "optimize for lifetyle"? "lifestyle business" is used as kind of epithet in some circles, as an "othering" term to identify people who don't work as hard as they do, but the MicroConf audience has a lot of people who want to grow their companies as much as is reasonably possible, but with non-negotiable ideas about family time, taking actual vacations instead of working vacations, etc.

One of the creators of MicroConf also is one of the hosts of the podcast "Startups for the Rest of Us" [1], which I don't see talked about very much on HN but which is very much my jam.

[0] https://microconf.com/

[1] https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/
No problem -- it's a very valid question and deserves to be clear to everyone.

Supabase open-sources everything and nothing is behind a paid license, except for any stuff related to us providing the hosted stuff. For instance, our internal software we created for billing customers who host with is not necessarily open-source.
> The difference is largely a historical artifact of the Macintosh operating system not originally supporting "multitasking."

This is a nice story, but reading on it seems like you're saying that the way app switching works on Windows as the Obvious and Correct thing to do, and that the Macintosh way of doing things is nothing more than a choice that was made too long ago to change.

Honestly, that's absurd.

The Macintosh has a menu bar at the top of the screen which belongs to the foreground application. This is a reasonable place to put a menu bar, because it is easy to click on things which are at the edge or (better yet) corner of the screen. This is a perfectly reasonable justification for having a foreground application.

Windows places the menu bar inside each window. So there is no need for "foreground application", only foreground window.

That's all that you need in terms of explanation. The Mac puts its menu bar at the top of the screen, Windows puts it inside each window. There's no need to tell some story about how the Macintosh was created during a more primitive era of computing history, because that story has no explanatory power.
The ACLU has historically been associated with nazis :^)