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> You’re saying this as if it’s a “when”, not an “if”.

Yes, the fact that Blackrock has now applied for a spot Bitcoin ETF makes it much more "when" than "if".

> Chargebacks aren’t something to worry about for customers – they are the reason they feel comfortable giving new merchants a try!

Correct, but merchants care a lot about how much they fork over to Visa/Mastercard for every purchase. Most people won't care about not paying through a credit card for small retail purchases. (e.g. People know if Starbucks got their order right and can have it fixed right there on the spot)

People dealt in cash long before credit cards ever existed. The scenarios where you really care about the chargeback protection do not make up a majority of purchases and can be addressed through other mechanisms. IMHO, credit cards will still exist in the future, just in a greatly reduced capacity.
> The command key has been around since 1983, but is was never labelled "Command" on the US-English keyboard, nor was that key referred to as "Command" in the documentation. It just lore that this strange cloverleaf key was called "Command", and passed down through oral tradition. Apple finally labelled the key in the late 2000s.

Nope. It was referred to as the "Command Key" many, many times in the original 1984 Mac manual. See the index:

https://vintageapple.org/macmanuals/pdf/Macintosh_1984.pdf

The NeXT workstation, circa 1987, actually replaced the cloverleaf symbol with the word "Command".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NeXT_Keyboard_Command_Key...
so, will OpenTF also care about Vagrant and Packer? That would be nice.
probably it's good to have plastic everywhere if it decreases environmental damage

the hsu analysis is wrong because it's omitting the energy consumed by growing the trees; it rates "craft paper" as 12.6 kJ/g, but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#In_chemical_rea... burning wood produces 18 MJ/kg = 18 kJ/g, which is to say, more energy than that is still available in the end product, without even taking into account the "embodied" energy dissipated in processing

the energy consumed by the tree in growing is about 20× larger than this, 300–400 kJ per gram of wood, which is close to 700 kJ per gram of paper, because about half the tree is lignin, which is digested in the papermaking process and then discharged into waterways

it does give a reasonably plausible (if misleadingly precise) figure of 95.4 kJ/g for the polypropylene straws

also, it incorrectly compares 200-mg polypropylene straws against 200-mg paper straws. but paper straws are, as everyone knows, enormously thicker than polypropylene straws of the same level of durability; even with the accounting error of omitting the embodied energy of the paper, its conclusion presupposes the opposite of my premise above, which you should have mentioned in your comment (but presumably could not because you had not actually read the study you were citing)

in fact, a typical 6-mm-diameter paper straw made from 330 gsm paper at a length of 200 mm weighs some 1250 mg, roughly 6× as much as the hsu study's 200-mg estimate. a 200-mg paper straw would be 53 gsm; that's like tracing paper. it would collapse immediately if you tried to suck on it

finally, it is not correct that hundreds of billions of plastic straws are thrown away per year, and those that end up in landfills (which is the vast majority) are not a problem at all. nor are they a few % of the total, as you say, but 100× less than that; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_straw#Environmental_i... says, 'In total, they are less than 0.022% of plastic waste emitted to oceans.'
Yeah. If they already had a large php codebase, moving to Hack makes complete sense.
> the businesses are unlikely to spend more their entire valuation on fintech products

If the fintech company has a controlling interest in the business (more than 50% of the share ownership), what's to stop them?
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Apologies I did misread - removed original comment.
I'm not really replying to this post per se, but the NES emulator is pretty cool. Just wondering if anyone who has posted here can help me. I posted my very first hacker news submission, but it only shows up on the "new" tab when I'm logged in (with an orange asterisk next to it). When I log out it's nowhere to be found. When I log back in, I see it. The FAQ says that "All Ask HNs appear on newest and asknew". Just a shot in the dark, but if anyone has any ideas what might be going on, it's appreciated. And sorry for spamming this submission.
Wendover does make entertaining videos, but lately he’s gotten a little full of himself and occasionally includes annoying political commentary.
Susan Kare selected the symbol herself. I wouldn't exactly call her explanation "revisionist".
For passengers, maybe, but people really should not be eating and drinking while driving vehicles. Distracted driving kills. Stuffing your face can wait until you pull over or get home.
Rumour has it that the 30b ran into safety issues and thus was not released
> Those percentages just -feel- way too high at first glance

Not really, no. Large corporations have lots of employees per corporation, but there just aren't that many of them, so the total number of jobs they represent is still a minority of all jobs, and the fraction of firms they represent will indeed be tiny.
Why does every drink need a straw, anyway?

For my wife, because it ruins her lipstick less than a lid with a hole in it.

I've heard some people say they do it because they think it reduces the effect of the soda/coffee/whatever staining their teeth.

I think it just increases consumption because you don't feel it filling your mouth as much as when you drink from the rim of a cup.
Confessions of an Ex-Cyberpunk (1991)
Skiff is very good so far.
I’m not surprised you replied in less time than it takes to read the first paragraph. The study is about embedded energy, so yes one assumes it does account for energy used growing trees (remember the solar energy they use is free), unless you have evidence to the contrary?

I can’t even start understanding that logic. The whole reason we’re having this discussion is that we know the environment, especially marine life, is being ravaged by plastic waste.
Even better 'du -h | sort -h' for human readable sizes.
This 100x. A VIPER codebase I inherited for some client work a few years ago was perhaps the most cumbersome and tedious codebase I’ve ever had to work with. Needless to say they missed their launch window and market opportunity.
> which I think seems to keep getting lost: It is not impossible to enforce this, it is (like any arms race) a costly ongoing burden that is much more difficult to implement than the "you can easily enforce this" responses in this thread.

Right, but my idea is that the cost is less than the payment they receive.

> So, having said that, to answer your question: at 750GB per day, uploading 1PB in a week only requires parallelism of 200. That is not many users for an "enterprise" account. (And I suspect this becomes costly well below 1PB per week.)

I think you missed part of my argument, which is that if you want parallelism 200 then you need 200 licenses, which means dropbox gets $4800. That's much more than enough to pay for the 120 terabyte-months such a user would consume in that week.

There is the worry about how high of a spike it would be versus their buffer of free space, but someone signing up for 200 licenses at once at maximum upload rate and thinking they'll avoid scrutiny is... pretty unlikely. Also if we assume they'd run it similarly to how they used to do it, they'd have to be manually approving increases on that giant pile of data, so that brings even more scrutiny.

Also I think their limit for quite a while was 100TB per week for the entire organization. No need to worry about petabyte spikes then.

> Because, like I keep saying, it's just a normal arms race pattern. It's not that there is nothing you can do about any particular thing that people do, it's that you have to keep doing it ad nauseam.

Which is not a problem if you're getting enough money for the trouble.
The bloke on hugging face usually has quantised versions minus the legal form
> Terraform itself is pretty simple, the hard work is in the providers. HCP makes some of the important providers, yes, but so many providers are made because Terraform is popular. HCP wants to make this all about them. They want you to think they put all the work into making Terraform what it is today. They did put a lot of work in, but the community did too!

Could not agree more. Terraform, the tool is quite simple, engineering wise. Its the providers that interact with all the different apis, thats where the complexity lies in, and where a lot of community (+ corporate, through official providers) effort has gone in, and what has provided the most value.
Maybe one of its founders, Alex Ohanian?

https://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing/
Some people think that, I guess. I'd rather have somebody who is explicitly advocating for me in the room rather than a faceless committee that is almost completely unaccountable.
My thoughts exactly. Maybe add a button that can load the "HD" version of a site if the user actually wants it, but I suspect for many types of sites and many users it really doesn't matter.
Just search wikipedia for "Visa requirements for $COUNTRY citizens" -- will not ask for your email.
Those cups in themselves are a pain. Why cant they just hand out PET bottles like you get everywhere else? (at least in europe)
hand out a reusable sport cap aswell and you have a perfect bottle without the need of
a) a straw
b) a cup
c) a lid
The presumption that all advertising is merely crass mass manipulation in order to force consumers to do things they otherwise wouldn't want to do is, I fear, continued elitism.

And in the context of this discussion, you might be asked to prove that straws are used purely because of the manipulations of marketers.
That's what it should be about. I thought the same thing. I'm so tired of looking for where the "submit" button is or trying to figure out your stupid new password requirements. Must contain: 1 letter, 1 emoji, 2 uppercase, no "Z"s allowed... smfh
Didn't realize Mountains were pollution until you pointed it out. Thanks for your meaningful and on discussion contribution!
clickable link to repo: https://github.com/liam-ilan/crumb
> Unfortunately all the profits became their salary.

Genuinely, why is this unfortunate? It sounds like the workers in the business are getting to keep the value they create, and were more likely to be committed to the business as a result.
It happens to all of us, no worries :)
Swift and Android also both have accessibility built in.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/view-acces...

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/accessibility/...
Threads is just an instagram feature, comparing it's speed of market adoption to netflix and OpenAI is pretty meaningless, especially considering the drop-off and lack of notable innovation.
I can't seem to fathom the why in this. Why is Rust different from, say, Python?
>but i also think that if your hardware budget includes enough ram and battery to run linux it's unlikely that issues like these will be very significant

Yeah, when you have that much ram, code density advantage matters less (although in L1$ it will still matter), and other factors weight more.

When it's designed for realtime, then high assurance and formal verification enter the game. There, I'd argue that the complexity of the ARM ISA runs counter to the goals, and RISC-V does an order of magnitude better.

>this weekend i'm prototyping a jit compiler with the objective of keeping most of my code in a bytecode form that's denser than even thumb-2 or rv32c; i anticipate about 20% better code density and about a 2-4× slowdown, with on the order of 64 clocks per instruction of compilation time. i think this should mostly eliminate the rv64c code density advantage, which i agree is pretty killer. that's not why i'm doing it, of course (i love risc-v)

Seems you're having a fun weekend. I am instead playing with old hardware, and reading some 80s book on serial comms.
> The article is about the EU, not Europe

The thread you're commenting in is about whether workers can still do good things even if they get breaks, not whether they're currently a member state.

A cursory googling says that Swiss workers get 4 weeks and UK workers get 5.6.
> ARM is a simple architecture with a low instruction count

This has not been my experience with ARM assembly. There are several RISC machines with far smaller and simpler instruction counts.
Would love if they weren't so coy with pricing numbers. No, I don't want to reach out to you.
It’ll have to change, because pollution from tyres is worse the heavier the car. As that becomes a larger proportion of the pollution as emissions drop, eyes will turn to that next.
You have a single cell that keeps dividing, and dividing, and in each division it becomes slightly different, and at the end some end up being the hart, some is the leg muscle, some are brain, and some are eye nerve.

Incredible, almost DIVINE..

The terraforming script behind this mechanism, is one of the most complex and most beautiful mechanism that exists in this universe.
To try to restate that. Someone owns currency A then buys B which is a cost, but it has a good exchange rate with currency C and C has a good exchange rate with A. So the B-C-A move yields a profit which would be representative as a negative weight. Is that right?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=UgLCf2-pBPFS5-2a&v=JI7NXpw8jF...
configurable family firewall. Deep-packet inspection with work-friendly VPN passthrough.

turnkey HIPAA-compliant EMR. Site-specific requirements modeled as temporal snapshots of plugins, or changes like a package manager.

ecommerce platform for trading cards. Plain ol' forum, payment, blogs tech from the ground-up. Include tools for probabilities and simulated draw phases.

automated home vacuum robot.

novel dogfighting (planes) simulator. Communicate physics as moment-to-moment "energetics," flight replay with GPS-style navigation aids to execute "the perfect scissor." Pilot can "hop in" to a saved flight track to retry maneuvers.

human pose textual notation language. Encode movements in plaintext, which then generates stick-figure videos. Good for encoding workouts, yoga, and martial arts.

private AI/ML device "in every home."

QA automation training course. This would actually be a stealth course in hacking and Kubernetes. From Selenium to automation pipelines to pentesting, containers, and orchestration.

laptop anywhere. A whole distro around disposable communications on commodity hardware.

arguments tree. Model arguments as trees of graphs. Users can tag collections of paths as types. Visualizing graph "diffs" would pretty easily highlight misperceptions or bias.
Cell architecture goes way back, at least 10 years. Tumblr for example.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/5/9/cell-architectures....
It depends. If your threat model involved an attacker being able to monitor your power supply (as in some kind of embedded system), they’d be able to see the real work done and separate that from the fake delay.
There was a time when this was the case (and electron was the punching bag for critics at the time, iirc) but I don’t think this criticism is fair anymore. Slack is quite responsive and performant these days.
Its pretty hard to give any problem which you absolutely have to solve using only one particular technique. Nevertheless, there are some problems which require more than just being able to add positive numbers together in order to solve.

Consider, for example, the problem of moving an electric car with regenerative braking along a grid of very hilly roads, using minimal charge from the battery. When you go down a hill, sure, you can add energy to your battery by hitting the brakes. But when you go uphill again, you may have to drain your battery of charge.

Indeed, if you can find a course which is largely downhill, you may very well end uo with a "negative amount of energy charged" to the battery :-)
Just stop using straws, simple
The ability to introspect is something they still need to master.
Interesting experiment though the writer is write it's very tiny. Only 1 browser on 1 OS on single hardware, not taking into account energy spent for conversion as well as time using a device spent for the code doing the conversion. Also not taking into account if results would differ if a page has 5 images instead of 1. Many variables.
Does the UK or US have more of this than France?
How does Russia have a strategic location?

The vast majority of their country is a frozen wasteland, and they desperately needed Crimea to have a decent warm water naval base. They have decent mineral resources and have shared borders with several important countries, but that is about all that is strategic about their geographical location.
It's very tricky because the way to distinguish them is to call the other ones in the same larger group 'true Salamanders' which already indicates that there was some historical confusion around naming these.

The tree of life has been re-arranged many times already and as more genomes are sequenced we discover more and more non-obvious mistakes. For instance 'Comb jellyfish' have caused a major stir amongst evolutionary biologists.

It's interesting how we needed taxonomy to figure out that there is such a thing as a tree of life and the basis for genomics and then, once we had that we had to go back and do (multiple) fairly major revisions to fix stuff that turned out to be wrong. The interesting thing is that the overall picture is still subject to such major changes.
FWIW, RustCrypto is neither written in safe rust or only rust. It uses inline assembly, unsafe byte manipulation, and unsafe intrinsics
Uh, the airline did not pay the passenger to travel somewhere. holy shit the mental gymnastics to figure some way to pretend that something isn't absurd.
I disagree, I repaired in the past my old iphone se cheaply (replacing battery) or samsung sg2 (broken usb) and sg4 (broken camera). I could buy components either locally or cheap from aliexpress. In south east asia many wizards can even fix your macbook and even upgrade ram, ssd as a bonus.

Repair can be cheap in the same way as car repair can be cheap. Currently iphone repair cannot be cheap because of their DRM.

You mentioned before that cheap repair cannot be done because of more expensive labour. But I mentioned that authorised repair shops quotes me ~300euro for repair and apple for just ordering single component wanna charge me ~280usd - it's obvious they just price component so expensive to make it not worth making repair yourself.
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None, all news outlets are biased to some degree, because we humans are biased, and even if these news outlets are not biased (impossible), they will be reporting news from biased people, and if the news AND the people they reporting them are not biased (impossible^2), no one will watch these news because the audience is biased and would love to hear something affirming their bias (confirmation bias)

So simply don’t listen to the news as an ultimate truth by any means, listen to this side, the other side, and a third side, and if interested in that topic do your research about it just like a research you would do when you buy your next home server, if you don’t have the time or the energy for that, don’t listen to the news, your life will continue going without it.
But if they're helping everyone else be successful, surely a managers who cares about that will know that's what they are doing and be able to incentivize them to continue?
I believe you paid 70 euros.
I just wanted to highlight that, beginning 2013, that's not a problem anymore thanks to the semesterticket.
Not the only one. For some reason I clicked more than once. Maybe the name clicks with me? I’m not even looking for a job.

Seems like a weird company with a solo founder who explicitly says they aim to be a 1 trillion company (not sure if they’re joking) and lists values such as “Grind. We work long hours to be the best at what we do.”
> There used to be a behavior in UIKit where you could scroll a view and tap to stop the view and quickly tap a button to move on to another screen, and at some point in time when Apple moved away from skeuomorphism, the UIView scroll behavior changed in a way that from then on forced users to wait for scrolling to stop before tapping a button, but they also injected a full fraction of a second, probably somewhere between 200 to 600ms before you could interact with UI controls again.

Is this specific to certain types of scroll views? I just played around in my Mail app inbox (most likely built with UICollectionView) initiating flick-scrolls and then double-tapping to stop the scroll and select the message under the tap and it works exactly like the original behavior you describe with zero delay.
It just assumes that only people that work for companies like Amazon and Tesla have the pedigree to manage a company.

I look at it like how every politician either elected or appointed seems to have gone to one of 10 well known universities -you know Harvard, Yale, Stanford..etc. It's not about what they know or what they want to do as much as the fact that they are all in the same club. I've always said that being a CEO is just a game of playing follow the leader -one CEO cuts their 401K, they all cut their 401K, one CEO switches to "unlimited vacation" they all switch to "unlimited vacation". It's not a surprise that these companies all act the same, all the leaders all went to the same schools with professions that went to the same schools. They've all bee taught to think alike, they aren't disruptive-it's just group think.

When was the last time you heard of a CEO that went to community college and some shitty state school -even if they founded the company they are quickly replaced by a person more suited to be the CEO- someone for a Ivy school/FAANG once they IPO.
Downvoted, but valid.

I would claim that Ugg’s effort counts as a lower bound on the size of the Earth, and is therefore a legitimate constraint on true measurement. This bound might even be sufficient for some purposes.

It also seems like ancient mariners should have been able to use the visible arc of the horizon to get a rough guess, long before Eratosthenes.

All we are really arguing about is, how good are the error bars?
I think Wendover is a team of like 6-12 people? I just paged through the video and there's a lot of world map stuff (time consuming), Google Earth stuff (fairly quick) and crowd-specific CGI (super time consuming). Then they still need to fill the rest of the time, so yeah, stock footage will have to do.
The individuals founding the bakery took a risk in firm formation (incorporation, initial lease collateral, equipment loans which may have been cosigned by the owners as individuals, etc.). The rewards received were purely salary based -- exactly what a worker receives. The net result is that while the owners of the business received a return (a good salary), this return is not a capital return based upon the risk absorbed as founding which may have been greater.
You don’t have to outlaw anything. Disincentivize it.

“But then only the rich will get to rot their teeth out!” Good, I guess? So what?

“Poor people will still spend money on sugar water! You’ll drive them deeper into poverty!” Then the price isn’t high enough yet. It needs to exceed the cost of the dental and medical work it will precipitate. Which by definition will price many poor people out of sugar water. Which it should.
the ad/ceo seems pretty obnoxious and in my opinion smacks of a toxic "grind" culture

but, it might appeal to some, so to each their own, i wish them success