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Richard Rhodes' two books on the a-bomb and h-bomb discuss this at some length. Scientists didn't agree at the time, even pre war. Nils Bohr once proposed an information release which Churchill pointed out put him at risk of treason, with perilous consequences if carried out.

Leo Szilard wanted people to clam up. He pointed to the complete drying up of soviet publishing in the field: it was a one way flow. Obviously, Klaus Fuchs not only disagreed, he took matters into his own hands.
Yes: this piece kind of lost me with the opening. Consumer software barely existed in 1999?

Even ignoring games, have you ever seen the contents of a PC World cover CD? It's all over the map: there was consumer software for every conceivable reason and purpose. Commercial, shareware, PD, and open source were all alive and well - in rude health, in fact - in 1999.

Going further back, I remember the 80s. Even the little market town I lived in had at least half a dozen different places you could buy software, and the mail order scene for software, and weird hardware devices paired with software, was very much alive and well. I'd go as far as to say that, budget games aside, mail order was my default mechanism for buying computer software until well into the 90s when online became more prevalent.

Chevrolet, of all companies, used to literally distribute a program that was effectively a virtual and deeply pixellated car showroom to consumers in 1987: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I89vPzhpNNA.

Consumer software back in the day was widespread, diverse, weird, and wonderful. Going back into the 70s and early 80s, much of the early innovation in consumer software for personal computers, came from the very consumers - the hackers, hobbyists, and tinkerers - who bought them.

Remarks like "Consumer software barely existed just 20 years ago" simply come off as out of touch and ignorant of history, which has the effect of undermining the credibility of any other point the piece is trying to make (especially as an opener - WTH?).
Wow that really takes me back!
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In my simple language, `F` is that context. And (A->B) is a single-argument function.

// Int -> Float
oneArgFn(x) = x + 1.1

// List of Int -> List of Float
ctxOneArgFn(xs) = ListFunctor(oneArgFn, xs) //ie., map()
> something in the realm of 20 years should be enough.

God no. Right now, we'd be getting remakes from every piece of pop-culture that was semi-popular in the 80s-2002 time frame. Not just movies, but TV series, books, theatre, musicals, ...

Sure, copyright should be shortened, but I don't begrudge (eg.) a one hit winner making money off their hit decades layer. Life of artist is reasonable, I think. They take a gamble on a profession with risky pay-out; if it works out at least once for them, let them reap the benefits.
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To be honest I probably didn't think this through well enough.

After some of the responses I realized that a group is probably not going to help much. Answers to questions can be had from various forums and I was probably looking for something like emotional support, or a 'tribe'. Like the Odin project. But if it's not already out there getting together with just a couple of people on discord won't lead to anything 99% of the time.

So I won't pursue a group anymore but I do thank everyone for their thoughts. And if others want to get together they still have the opportunity.
Wait. Is this true? As in they have laws they just don't enforce them?
„Be not content - A subterranean journal“ is pretty eternal for me. So is „On the road“. Or take „Middlesex“. Why, they tell the story about a different life. If you want to spend the rest of your life miserable then „Im Westen nichts Neues“ (All quiet on the western front).

Love those Ask HN lists, btw!!
You are presuming it was an automatic replacement. Some still type entire words via a thing called a keyboard, on a computer, others manually pick words to finish, from suggestions, not automatically.

Beyond that, google searches are not indicative of current usage, in SMS/messages, emails, etc. Google search spans all webpages, and many text pre-web too.
A major problem with pretty much all types of screws is identification. Slotted and Phillips screws almost never seem to have the right depth or width for the drivers you have on hand. Torx and hex screws have a metric (and imperial) bleep-ton of different driver sizes. Plus, there's security hex screws and weird abominations like Apple's pentalobe garbage to confuse matters even more. Robertson screws come in just 6 color coded driver sizes, only a couple of which are common. However, the U.S. has shitty non-tapered square-drive screws and drivers that mess even the noble Robertson up.

At this point, I'm happy to let Robertson and torx screws co-exist. Just phase out, obsolete, or otherwise fire into the sun all the truly shitty screws out there to help reduce the number of drivers you need to have banging about in a respectable driver drawer. Seriously, there's just too damned many different things out there. Any company (e.g. Apple) that feels the need to make their own new screw just for the heck of it can go sit naked on a soft-boiled egg and spin.
I'm not sure if I can agree with the author. We moved from plain AWS EC2 to K8 to improve our continuous delivery pipeline and it worked. Before we had dozen of custom terraform scripts, custom runners on gitlab, and it became much cleaner now with K8. Other aspect that improved was monitoring and introspection. I think mainly because K8 offers a reach set of tools and patterns helping exactly in that matters. It comes with its own costs, but I can definitely say that we went from a tailor made solution to a standard set of techniques and tools, which is a huge improvement, IMO.
Well GTK sucks almost as much as Wayland, so they're welcome to each other. The GTK file picker has to be most annoying thing. It has numerous horrible bugs that are if ignored for 5+ years. You cant choose any view except filename list, so if you work with media and are used to big thumbnails, forget Gnome.

And X11 now fixed the couple of issues that Wayland people complained about most.
Good compression of lots of epub files can likely be way more efficient, as deduplication/compression algorithms can be run on lots of books at the same time. Especially so with a good dictionary.
I still use Gnome metacity flashback because it wastes less screen space and has a nice virtual workspace switcher.

I'm less happy with the configuration/tweak tools and the fact that they are only accessible from within the account and the display itself (not easy to administrate for different users). I wish there was someone keeping a list of requirements so that every new WM could avoid mistakes in the previous ones.
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According to the surgeon who ultimately repaired the hernia, it was not an uncomplicated hernia. He said it was incarcerated and that there was an adhesion.

Ultimately, it could well have been the case that treating the hernia was not recommended, and that could have been discussed. But simply denying that there was even a hernia and refusing to perform any further investigation is clearly a failure.
Poweramp is what you're looking for. It is paid player, but it's worth every penny
I mean, just look at the commits with "fix" in the specs folder: https://github.com/seL4/l4v/commits/master?after=4f0bbd4fcbc...
There is a myth that "monads" are magical insights of some sort -- it's not.

Difficult to understand: likely yes because the myth is not groundless. What "monads" capture is how to combine things with a lot of ceremony: (0) the things that we want to combine are sharing some structure/properies (1) we can inspect the first thing before deciding what the second thing is (2) we can inspect both before deciding what is the resulting combination. What requires a lot of thought is appreciating why "inspect, decide, combine" are unified in a single concept.

Important: indeed, because in Haskell-like languages monads are pervasive and even have syntactic primitives. It's also extremely useful when manipulating concepts or approaching libraries that implement some monadic behaviour (e.g. promises in JS) because the "mental model" is rigorous. If you tell someone a library is a monadic-DSL to express business rules in a specific domain, you're giving them a headstart.

Some final lament: there's a fraction of people who found that disparaging (or over-hyping) the concept was a sure-fire way to yield social gain. Thus, when learning the concept of monads, one situational difficulty that we should not understate is that one has to overcome the peer-pressure from their circle of colleagues/friends. Forging one's understanding and opinions takes more detachment than the typical tech job provides.
Ah! When the AI cometh then, blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven - all others shall be automated away!
In France, it depends a lot on the target and size of the store.

They are still relatively rare in city stores that target the general consumer, but they are readily available in larger suburban/rural stores. However, even in these, small boxes are usually only available in Pozidriv, but bigger boxes are often available in both Pozidriv and Torx, the latter being a bit more expensive.

Never seen a Robertson screw there, however.
Allocate resources to it.

See: https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/04/04/things-i-learned-managin...
> "So all you need to do is take your water and yeast and cellulose and put it into a container, then slowly add the uranobenzene and methylated lead, bubble some nickel carbonyl through it, and gently warm it up to 900°C..."

That makes me think of this quote: "The heater was warmed to approximately 700C. The heater block glowed a dull red color, observable with room lights turned off. The ballast tank was filled to 300 torr with oxygen, and fluorine was added until the total pressure was 901 torr. . ."

from: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
You know, this seems like a perfect example of what a "simple" approach to scaling is: realizing that CI is the most likely thing to cause issues in the future due to how popular it is and then splitting the database along that particular boundary, due to the actual need that has arisen.

You don't always need to experiment with bleeding edge tech or very complicated multi-leader clusters (though those also have their own use cases at a certain scale), sometimes just splitting the whole thing, especially when using something as solid as PostgreSQL, is enough!
The brain doesn't typically rotate inside the body - a person referred to as left handed today was the same as someone left handed 100 years ago... Got it? -- some of us are even old enough to know people alive in the 1920s and prior, but there are plenty of books to confirm this... the prevalence of right and left handedness didn't swap sometime recently.

The left brain is the side of the brain that is on the left side of the body. There was no reason to ever make it more complicated than that.

100 years ago is not that long ago - so the snark is more about the "how can we possibly know?!?!" tone - you can look it up - I think 1800s editions of Gray's anatomy are scanned online. Wikipedia still uses the fucking things from the 1910s because they're out of copyright - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain#/media/File:Gray65...
This is not new for MS. Windows 98 and XP would get a lot of BSOD because of third party drivers doing illegal things. MS have been investing heavily in formal verification since early 2000s because of that. My master’s adviser (and many more professors working in formal verification) would get most of their funding from MS. One early successful example I can think of is SLAM[1]

1. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/slam/
Runbooks give more scope to human judgement and experience. But I don't know a formal difference.
> The world is made of [...]

Either define concretely what the world is made of (i.e. particles and what they do), or don't use this sentence. Currently you just say "wow this is so abstract, it's actually <something else that's also abstract>". Turns out neither paradigm has anything to do with real life, they have their own niches and their own place within different contexts.
It was in need for a big renovation itself and the whole of north Berlin will disagree with your statement. Since its closed, every place, flat/house and especially parks/lakes etc. are so much more livable. Having the airport for a city of this size a little outside of the city and not the outer part of the city centre is very reasonable in my opinion.
Yeah LED bulbs usually have their power supply go long before the LED itself due to inadequate cooling, LEDs themselves last a long, loooong time if properly driven.

That failure mode is more, it works fine when initially turned on, then starts failing/flickering on and off once it has gotten to temperature.
There are two things that guarantee a click on HN due to the community's ignorance and arrogance: Crypto and Kubernetes.
This, definitely. If you don't have one with you, you can also hammer a slightly larger torx bit into the rounded square and unscrew. This may damage the bit, though.
Lol, because Linux users are the biggest whiners on the planet.

Almost no one appreciated Unity when it was around.

All this nostalgia for it is just that.

If Ubuntu switched to Unity tomorrow people would just start whining like mad about it.

I bet Gnome Fladhback doesn’t even get 1% of the usage of actual Gnome.
What you quoted I find incredibly disturbing and unnecessary. But at the same time it seems like an attempt to fight fire with fire, with “their” language. So I get what he is trying to achieve here.

I’m not a fan of this tactic. But as someone who has been attacked by neonazis multiple times, I don’t mind as much if people are aggressive towards them. Tolerance paradox.

I still think it’s counterproductive, because it acknowledges their ways to a certain degree? Hard to pin down.
> The constant internet connection can be solved by downloading media to the device,

Well, you'd think so, but I've had albums which I had downloaded disappear if I hadn't listened to them for a while.

So the "download" isn't really stable.
Often to get access to things that integrate well with kubernetes.

Personally I don't see too much difference between kube yamls and systemd units and cloudformation or whatever and the "cluster maintenance" itself is not the burden it used to be if you stay on the "paved road" provided by your cloud.
"but this time it's different!"
> but aiming at being the mobile environment first

I'd say, being 'touch environment first', not mobile. And it resulted in a very poor UX for mouse users, while touch GNU/Linux computers never appeared (except androids, but they have no use for gnome anyway).
Once you find a hashtag for a particular niche, you will see if glamorized extremely heavily! It can make anything tempting - new job, new trade - and it can affect anyone.

Suing TikTok isn't the solution for that.
How long did it take him to do this setup, a year you say, and that is impressive? I am not trying to be cute here, my question comes from a genuine place of curiosity. I've love to learn to spin-up a system like that, but from the tech/sales talks I see I am made to believe this can be done in a day. Expectation management is important, if people say ops is just a solved problem then I expect this to take very little time and to be easy to learn. Maybe I am learning the wrong thing here, and should do learn Helm or something more high level.
There is also a disturbingly marginalized section of society who would like to move on from having to support the cult of a known war criminal. These people also put the stamps upside down.
> life in prison at $100K/year to the tax payer?

I think the point was that these scams wouldn't exist if the laws were better.
This isnt my view. I dont think any crypto project delivers -- and this is an extremely strong claim requiring only a single counter-example. I'd love to hear the counter-example.

I dont think a distributed immutable ledger whose state changes one when everyone recomputes it is a good technology for almost anything. Think of this from a devops/data-eng perspective... what, in your infrastructure, do you want to work that way?

In practice, we are always able to assume a non-trivial amount of trust which would eliminate almost all of that excessive computation. OR, if not, coordinate in such a way that we can acquire non-trivial amounts (eg., first exchanging keys).

This technology is an engineering revolution in the minute "data-engineering cyptographic problem space". That might be a business somewhere. I dont think it has almost anything to do with any marketable proposition.

I cannot think of any single business case thus far offered where removing the blockchain doesnt produce a better product.
You can't look at current crowdfunding levels in a world where the crowdfunded product is the exclusive "IP" of those receiving the money and then assume that tells you anything about a different world where there is no copyright and pre-funding creators is the only way to get new content of a certain scale. Or in other words: you're arguing that not having copyright would not work in a world built around copyright.
Most 'fullstack' positions don't have nearly the complexity where worrying about concurrency etc. is actually that relevant. The idea that most frontend devs have any knowledge about optimising for browser paint performance beyond using the correct CSS or framework is funny ;-)
What balance to consider while calculating interest payments
I've been learning solidity and want to implement a function that gives a 10 percent interest on the users who deposit their tokens. But to calculate the interest, what balance do I consider? end of each day/hour?

Or something a live interest -> Balance is X and time stamp A. Calculate the interest till the balance changes

Thanks in advance
“It is now a given that rates in the US will rise another 150 to 200 bps between now and the end of the year,” says Siddharth Mehta, Founder & CIO at Bay Capital.
Within the larger context of this thread, the intent was clear. You yourself were responding to a post that gives this necessary context: Intellectual property is absurd and evil. The poster you reply to tells you why it is absurd and evil. Those two things together lead you naturally to the conclusion that it must be abolished.

As such, I would say what they said is absolutely what I claimed. I just explained it in plainer terms and without requiring you to (re)read the rest of the thread.

Edit: The fact that you summarised "this system must be destroyed" as "hopeless" says something about your own fundamental hopelessness and despair. Which you kind of ironically attributed to someone else.
Am I the only one feeling there's a certain amount of dishonesty in having these kind of complaints aimed at TikTok as if it was uniquely bad, when Facebook YouTube and Twitter are just as bad?
> Great fun and perfectly safe!

Sounds like a Homer Simpson quote...
True. This seems more like a general-purpose task-runner like Task [1] than a self-contained build system.

1. https://taskfile.dev/#/
And without copyright, modified playback systems with the restrictions removed could also be freely distributed so DRM becomes even less effective.
I know. My whole collection lives in Apple's music.app - I jsut don't want to rely on their (or anyone else's) streaming service. I use Spotify merely to preview releases I consider buying.
Ask HN: Can competitors catch up to Apple Silicon?
The Apple M1 Ultra SoC chip achieves 87% of the performance of the Intel 12900K and Nvidia RTX 3090 combined while only consuming 34% of the power. The entire M1 Ultra chip draws 225W at full load and 11w at idle. Forget the Nvidia card and the other PC components, the 12900K alone can draw 250W and the Ryzen 5950X 140W.

This is a seismic shift. Can Intel and the other players like AMD and Nvidia catch up to this peformace per watt that Apple has on their hands?
I'll be honest - i've worked places where kubernetes was a thing, and places where it wasn't. Both within the last 5 years.

Kubernetes is a layer of complexity that just isn't warranted for most companies. Hell even Amazon still sticks with VMs. Autoscaling and firecracker solve most things.

Its nice to have cluster (pod?) management as a first-class concept, but you get that with tagging of instances just as well for most use cases.

In short - i think the author has a point.
The Whole advice of using same language is especially silly - iOS is stuck with Swift, and the web is stuck with JS, and maybe you need an applitation that scales using actors across mutiple machines with Golang or Java, or maybe you need to plug into Windows tightly and need C#.

Kubernetes is not 'harder' if all you need is to host a webapp. Where it falls on the hardness spectrum depends on what you are trying to do, and what is the alternative. I am very fluent with Kubernetes but have no skills in managing traditional virtual machines.
Check into Amazon ECS or Google Cloud Run.

It's basically a higher level of managed Kubernetes ( EKS or GKE ). You give your containers, and they take care of running it.

Tim Hockin (one of kubernetes creator) support the idea to use something as much managed and automatic as possible : https://twitter.com/thockin/status/1539987108521054208
"I have never seen a square (Robertson?) screw in the wild, I assume that's regional."

Simpson makes very large diameter, 4" stainless steel screws that I rather like:

#12 x 4", model number is S12400DBB

... those are 306 stainless but if you want 316 you would get T12400DBB.

IF we use screw fasteners in framing, we typically use GRK 3-1/8"-#10 but once in a while we just want something beefier and those simpson 4"-#12 are fantastic ...

... and they are square drive.
Remote: Yes (Remote Only)

Web Technologies: React, JavaScript/TypeScript.

Mobile Technologies: Flutter, React Native, Java, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C.

Résumé/CV: CV on request.

Email: elena.mongrab@gmail.com

Hello, I am Elena, an experienced senior-level web/mobile engineer with 8+ years of experience. I've started migrating my Web2 developer career to a Web3 and looking for a Solidity engineering position.

I would like to join a team of talented people, where I can quickly grow and master my skills around Defi, DAOs, and Web3 which I am really excited about. If you are considering an entry-level candidate with a big motivation and senior-level software engineering background - please let me know.

Looking forward.
> And X11 now fixed the couple of issues that Wayland people complained about most.

No, they did not. The tearing is still there.
I have never seen a Philips screw/~driver in [continental] Europe; it's either Pozidriv for woodworks or DIN for everything else.
No Robertson outside of North America for historical/licensing reasons.
I've taken some time to try to comprehend what this tool is doing, but I still don't get it. Could someone kindly clarify? Similar websites include http://webflow.com, https://siter.io, and http://www.squarespace.com. ? What exactly is this?

I understand:
Speed - ok, the same can do other platforms

Migration - ok same can do othe rplatforms

Create content in Microsoft Word or Google Docs - realy Adobe?

Stop wasting developer time on framework churn - start wasting time on Helix.
I used Algo to make my own, it builds a VPN server on your host. If you choose to host on digitalocean the script sets everything up via API and you're done in minutes.

https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
Haven't seen tearing in X11 for years