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> There's something truly unique about alcohol that isn't true of any other addictive substance on the planet.

Alcohol is a viable a substitute for carbohydrates for feeding nerve cells. Ethanol -> acetate -> ATP. Some research was published a few years ago about how the brains of heavy drinkers switch to running on acetate....

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/joci-eba0301...
> then you'll get a split ecosystem

Agreed. Point in case: Have a look at D and the discussions about their GC.

I haven't kept up much about the last year, but my general impression runs down to: If you want to use their standard library. There's gonna be garbage collection. Period. If you want to avoid it, enjoy implementing its functionality all by yourself.

With rust and exceptions you would likely not have a problem with the main ecosystem, but the same problem is bound to pop up with some big & famous library.

Edit: Similarly, exceptions are one of the reasons C++'s SG14 exists.
The article says 89 employees. A game studio in Seattle I worked at had 77 FTEs and we made AAA sony games. We'd contract up ton 120 or so in house pre-launch and of course hired mocap studios and other project shops. But I'm actually surprised Phoronix has that many employees.

Anyway this is actually a pretty large size for a game studio. More numbers from studios building much larger (RL is more about balance and in game items than story or world building):

Bungie had around 550 (heavily staffed up) before Destiny came out. Zipper had 250 before they shut down. Naughty dog I think had around 150 before they spun up LoU, I recall them around 250 now.
I don't like the way they fudge the graph axes to make it look more dramatic. It's a significant rise all on its own, why make it look suspect by messing with the presentation?
Context: https://jenkins.io/blog/2017/04/10/security-advisory
Wow, this is an amazingly detailed blog post. I only skimmed it, but since I'm in the process of setting up my own NAS I'll definitely have to revisit it and read slowly.

Is anyone here using FreeNAS Corral? I've been toying around with it for a few days, and its been a frustrating experience. My first sign that I should've avoided it was that trying to install 10.0.3 with UEFI just fails. With 9.10 they have a nice docs page with lots of details and info, but with Corral they just threw it all out. The web interface provides no help, and the cli just gives a brief sentence which is usually of little help. I can see the long-term potential in Corral, but right now it feels like a rushed out beta. Should I just install FreeNAS 9.10 instead, or is it worth sticking with Corral? Are there any other OSs that I should try out?

Since we're on the subject of home networks, what are people's thoughts on running FreeIPA and FreeRadius? I'm hoping to use it to setup a home VPN server, as well as provide a means of performing authN/authZ for multiple "personal cloud" applications. My goal is to reduce my reliance on cloud providers, since I've grown increasingly uncomfortable with their practices and the loss of privacy.
I don't like sensationalism as it clouds the mind with short-lived buzzes. Instead of always trying to alarm people of the big invisible terror lurking in the dark, we should educate people on how to handle the situation. What are the scenarios? What can we do ourselves for those scenarios (not to prevent, but to prepare)? Which cities and countries will be lost at what point in time? How do we protect ourselves?

Be constructive, be creative.
I really resonate with this comment. The best way to 'deal' with climate change on an individual level is to always vote for folks who are trying to rein it in, to live your life with a minimal carbon footprint, and to create plans for larger, more intense weather events.
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Will London fall?
Or rather because of one difficult corporate miscalculation and unwillingness to pay more for people to get off. I got one would get off pretty much any flight for $10k. That seems cheaper to me than the cost of removing your paying customers by force.
Playing Regex Golf with Genetic Programming (2014) [pdf]
I don't know much about the Go ecosystem but this makes me want to try it. You can't really control for age though... how does it compare to Rust in terms of stability (a language of similar age and scope)?
I believe I'm productive for about 70% of the time. I'm most distracted when I'm swiching to other project. I need to re-focus again.
I'm a bit confused why this got downvoted. I can understand my parent post being downvoted, but the explanation for my parent post? Is it false?
I wouldn't call this fudging. It's just easier to see the effect when the Y axis starts at the low point of the line, rather than at 0. Especially when you consider that the atmosphere always contains a baseline level of C02, and we wouldn't want it otherwise; it protects us from a significant chunk of the UV spectrum. This choice could actually be seen as less arbitrary than starting at zero.
When autocorrect refuses to cooperate I find that spacing things out between normal words then deleting the spacers usually works. Correction usually only occurs after typing punctuation, not for deletion.

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First 'Silk Road' Train Leaves for China
And pretty much any form of renewable energy has the same problem.
It is less expensive (for society) to prevent the release of previously sequestered CO2 than it is to deal with the consequences of introducing the CO2 into the carbon cycle.

Though since the costs of releasing sequestered CO2 are socialized, but the benefits are privatized, the US (at the federal level) continues to choose inaction.
It certainly is, but I think it's a nice contrast to have in comparison with your day to day friends that are not hackers and wouldn't understand why you left facebook. You just should have in mind that the average HN user is pretty far from the average person.
Have fun with global warming then. I think that humanity needs to come to terms with renewables and nuclear power (with fusion being the best case scenario) for the future of everyone on this planet.
According to the comments I'm the only one who liked the article. I've had a lot of math but never any signal processing (i.e. FT) and never really got to wrap my head around the concept of a FT. I realize that the person here is making a lot of simplifications but you've gotta start from somewhere. Great job on making an article that is both engaging but still "mathy".

Can't please everyone I guess ... especially not on HN.
Isn't that what we used to do with striking employees?
The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI
Glacier is not a good primary backup. It's not designed for that. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10921365
A while back I was chatting with an engineer who worked on the network code and infrastructure for a popular simulation game. After all the heavy lifting was done, he and others were promptly fired and replaced by contractors. The guy poured his heart and soul into the project and was vested way beyond a paycheck, yet he was literally replaced like a cog the minute a spreadsheet called for it. So much for wanting talented and loyal employees. It must be too easy to forget that all these business decisions affect real human beings, not empty automatons.
Herpes Vaccine GEN-003: Back in the News, but the News Isn't Great
a lot of this is still driven by the hardware arms race

Only a handful of AAA games are in the "HW arms race". By sheer numbers, the overwhelming vast majority of games sold are casual games downloaded on mobile devices.

The game industry is driven by people's short attention spans. It doesn't matter how fast you upgrade the technology, people get bored of playing the same game in the same way they get bored of watching the same movie even if you upgrade it to super-purple-ray-3D-smellivision. You already know the plot.
This seemed surprising to me on the first read, but it makes sense. An average senior software engineer probably makes ~$120K in US. They often work on systems that aren't in any way critical and are more or less replaceable. Anything in COBOL these days is by definition is crucial and highly expensive infrastructure. The talent pool to work with that tech is small. They are by definition very experienced and probably highly specialized even within that pool. So upper six digit salary actually makes sense.

To be honest, the idea of companies paying through their noses because of decades of short-term thinking makes me smile. Karma in action.
The kid might have some mental problem the parent has no control over. Being unable to pass through supermarket at age of 5 is highly out of norm even if the kid is spoiled.
I just bought one two weeks ago.

8 Core, 64GB, 1TB, 12GB GPU Ram.
For devs who want to go offline for a bit I recommend Zeal (offline docs) + kiwix (Offline Wikipedia app that also parses stackexchange/stackoverflow dumps) Check their github page.

The entire stackoverflow dump is about 10 Gig.
> Its a fantastic toy model, but over all I think, it did more harm than good. People took its thin tail behavior too seriously.

Options theory is popularly misunderstood. Makes being a former options trader fun and annoying.

First, the impact. You can model almost anything as an option. Equity? Call option on a firm's assets struck at the liabilities. (Literally anything else? A portfolio of Arrow–Debreu options [0].) Modern risk models, and these include some very successful ones, would not work without Black Scholes.

Second, no professional uses a Gaussian assumption without knowing what they're doing. (In any case, people started re-writing Black Scholes for other curves since at least the 1990s.) No model can economically ascertain every possible risk. One must always choose risks one considers negligible. This is true in finance as in life. Sometimes we choose to ignore the wrong risks. When that happens, it's easier to blame highfalutin math than admit "I didn't think about that".

No amount of "fat tailing" will substitute rigorous risk management. Case in point: the multitude of funds launched after 2008 focussing on "black swans" and "fat tails". Pretty much all of them lost money [3]. They missed--with everyone else--Dubai's near default, Greece's actual default, the 2010 Flash Crash, 2011's summer volatility, China's 2015 crash, the following August's international crash, Brexit or practically anything else that one might consider both significant and unexpected. (No shit.)

The real "magic" in Black Scholes? It's not the distribution. It's volatility. Modern models expand this once single term into a multidimensional beast [4]. This is the other reason for the prevalence of Gaussian assumptions. Traders trade computation of the distribution for computation of the volatility surface. The latter (tau) almost always dominates the former (delta) in terms of what's being mispriced.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow–Debreu_model

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portfolio_insurance

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/watch-out-investors-the-black...

[4] http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/series/sfb-649-papers/2005-20/PDF/2...
After a long addiction where I had used my phones as projects rather than tools, I decided to unwind. The blinking notification light was the first one to go, as I couldn't concentrate when it was active (which was most of the time). The next step was to buy a huge battery which made my phone twice as thick, but I only needed to charge it every few days which was a huge thing not having to worry about constantly. After a couple of weeks I started disabling more and more of the apps which made my phone buzz, and at the end I had only the most basic apps.

At the final step I realized that I had a huge expensive phone with only basic functionality and a web browser that always seemed to steal my attention (procrastinating on the web). I bought a Nokia C5-00 (dumbphone) and told my family that if they needed to reach me, they'd have to text or call - everything else would be dealt with a couple of times a day on my tablet.

It's been a year, and I love the freedom to work and be with friends and family without constantly having my phone in my face. I also seem to handle boring situations much better as I no longer can rely on my phone to entertain me whenever I have 3 minutes to spare. I am now a 22 year old Swedish programmer with a dumbphone that I charge once every 1-2 weeks, and I love it. Also, the reactions from co-workers and train conductors scanning my SMS-tickets are very interesting.

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Where does that constraint come from? Is that self imposed?
Those maps look extremely similar to UK canal maps: http://www.macclesfieldcanal.org.uk/mcmap3.htm

These tended to be made into an almost straight line and printed on a single piece of paper with notable junctions and features only.

It would've been obvious at the time that the format would be ideal for fixed routes that these could be scrolled.
Qualcomm says Apple would be nothing without its technology
OK. Interesting. One of the benefits of JSON is that it is ad-hoc extensible. Otherwise why not use an efficient binary format? When more strongly typed environments add JSON support they often screw this up, which is unfortunate.

Maybe an opportunity for someone to write another library to better support more idiomatic usage of JSON.
"Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated."
- Thomas Sowell

Earning money != equal to contributing to society, but prices are society's most effective way to communicate which contributions it considers value.

Using coding and STEM as your sole examples is a strawman. Mike Rowe, for example, has demonstrated on many occasions that we have a skills gap for many jobs which society needs done that you don't need higher education to perform. There are many jobs that society wants done that aren't STEM or software engineering.

https://www.inc.com/christina-desmarais/young-americans-have...

Once many of these and other in-demand jobs are lost to automation, I'll buy the argument that massive numbers of people are unviable, but until then, there are many that still are very much viable that just aren't looking at prices to determine what contributions society finds valuable.
'neural networks' are actually very different from the neurons inside the brain. There's almost nothing in common, once you look at the mechanics of the two systems.
I once recorded some audio tapes, so that I could listen

while working and driving. After reading several book (~20

hrs each) I noticed that I had become more glib & talkative

- I think it improved my voice & diction, and helped my

confidence. I need to do something again, I like the other

ideas: practice - but I'm thinking of more recordings, too.
Are Canada's CO2 stats material to global warming, or are they being over-dramatized because this is a Canadian publication? The graph in the article shows that Canada has 5x the per capita CO2 extraction of China, but on the other hand China has 40x as many people.

(For context, I think global warming is very real and addressing it should be a top priority, but I also believe that sensationalist articles often do more harm than good.)
I agree with you, but I don't think it's wrong that there's a general feeling that we're working on this problem, and we're getting better. Look at all these solar panels and electric vehicles we're reading about. We know there's still C02 being pumped out, but at least we're starting to get a handle on it. This shows that actually we're not. We've got a positive second derivative here. The current path leads pretty quickly to likely disaster. If you really believe that, maybe you're willing to accept more pain (economic, etc.) to make a significant difference than you otherwise would.

Personally, I live in BC, which is about to have a provincial election. I've been struggling with my choice, because while I generally align more with the NDP (left-wing party) on ideals, a number of their platform pieces seem misguided or vote-buying at best. The Liberal party (which is really a conservative party in all but name) doesn't really align with my values, but they do seem more competent, and less likely to make poor fiscal policy.

However, one key difference between their platforms is on expansion of natural gas extraction, and environmental issues in general. Reading this article got me thinking that climate change is a big enough issue that it should probably trump other concerns.
> Having to allocate memory while processing an exception probably isn't a big deal, since Rust does not claim to be able to operate in an out-of-memory condition

Allocating is definitely a big deal for a pervasive error handling! For instance, parsing a number might not succeed. Both the actual parsing and the failure cases are cheap, but not if the latter has to be indicated by allocating and unwinding and doing a pile of the dynamic checks up the stack.

Additionally, whether the language is able to operate in OOM isn't the only reason to choose an error handling scheme. However, even if it was, I don't think it applies directly to Rust: Rust-the-language (and Rust-the-core-library) can operate in an OOM condition, e.g. people run Rust code without needing a dynamic allocator at all. You are correct that some parts of the standard library don't handle OOM, but, using exceptions pervasively means that there is one error handling scheme for things that can rely on having an OS/malloc and one for things that don't need them.

> Besides, unwinding already causes allocation

Yes, and that is one reason why unwinding is not used as a pervasive error handling scheme in Rust: there are various fairly fundamental problems with it. It is one of the reasons why panics can be switched to abort.
Yes. It has been scientifically proven that if you eat all your foods in an 8 + \epsilon hr window that you will gain 5lbs whereas if you eat them in an 8 hr window you will not gain any weight.
I work on several languages professionally being the only one without exceptions Go and I don't see how its idiotic pattern of checking the value returned after every single call is a massive improvement on anything except masochism.
To go slightly off tangent, will it make sense for Twitter to enter into the micro payments landscape? All (almost?) bloggers, people working on open source projects have twitter account; even if they don't have one, creating one is easy. Donors can get some kind of acknowledgement on their (and receivers) twitter feed and the content creators will get some money.
> It's also a bit ridiculous to point out the improvement in solar technology, and ignore everything else. Sure solar technology is improving over time. So is nuclear.

The solar improvements are a lot more demonstrable, the nuclear ones are usually more theoretical due to the time and cost of building new reactors.

>In fact it's existed for quite awhile. We could have gotten rid of coal decades ago, if not for irrational fear.

Unsafe nuclear has existed for quite a while. Safe nuclear has yet to prove it's practical, which includes being cost effective against wind and solar.

> And I find this sentiment really hard to understand. Why bet everything on solar?

Parent mentioned wind and solar, and they didn't exclude others like hydro and tidal where appropriate. That's not betting everything on solar.

>All that discussion of the coming robot revolution surely applies to coal mining.

To a large extent it already has. New mines are human intensive to create, but largely automated after they're online.
I expect he meant the high range of 100K-200K. It's a colloquialism I hear periodically. I took it to mean $180K-$200K.
It's been a long time since I've read that. Thank you.

I do not think these are lies. Most of these scientific articles we read are highly sensationalized. The problem lies within the state of journalism. That isn't to say there aren't scientists who skew results to get more grant money, but that isn't really the case here. If you want a more accurate depiction of how the scientific community feels, stick to reading papers and not popular science news articles.

That being said... 2/3 of the country's reefs being bleached is not something you would consider a disaster?

You're conflating budgetary issues here. We can try to save the coral reef AND allot more money towards humanitarian efforts. That's the point of this article. They are forsaking their politicians for not making the right choices with their tax money. They are seeking international help. They aren't asking Doctors Without Borders to make a donation or bugging local food banks for money. They would probably rather the money come back from whatever scandalous Australian political/financial scams are going on. I don't know much about the state of affairs of the Australian government but don't you think this pretty much captures the issue?
Having tried multiple diets (keto, 8 hour window, 4 hour window, alternate day fasting) I have come to the conclusion that everyone has a different body and YMMV.

What works for me is skipping breakfast, just drinking some coffee and eating regularly throughout the day (lunch, dinner) while trying to generally eating some protein rich foods. This works for me, but my girlfriend for example cant skip breakfast because she'll faint. Again, YMMV.
It would be great to have some compiled data on various companies/teams and the obligations + merits that they do or do not meet.
> Certainly Wind and Solar can scale to 11%. The question is about the other 89%.

Is it still in question? If you can get to 11% then you can get to 100% with enough geographic distribution and batteries. Wind and solar are now cheaper than coal, even old unsafe nuclear never got to that point.
The site could use a little work but otherwise looks awesome
Even though Canada's total contribution may be small compared to one of the greatest-polluting countries on the planet, our contribution is still significant. Yes it's highlighted because it's a Canadian publication, but it's still something we need to take more seriously. Personally I see this article as more of a wake-up call than sensationalist.
DuckDuckGo also has keyboard-friendly navigation. No clicking necessary.
the real question
Except it isn't "15,000X" larger. It's just different. You didn't even acknowledge my second paragraph, and instead decided I'm some shill. If nothing else I say matters to you, let me correct you on this point: I'm actually employed by a wind energy company. Feel free to dismiss what I say, but don't paint my name with baseless suspicion.

Back on topic, ...

Golden Eagles are generally sparse breeders with some of the largest home territories of any bird. A successful pair typically produces one or two chicks. As many as 55-70% of successfully reared offspring don't live through their third year. It takes birds typically six or seven years to reach full maturity, although breeding is possible by their fourth or even third year of life--however, young parents are rarely successful ones.

The point I'm making is that this is not a species with overwhelming numbers, nor the ability to recover readily from steady declines. This is especially true when you speak of Golden Eagle populations typically in terms of hundreds or thousands of pairs (not tens or hundreds of thousands as you might with some more common songbird species). The steady "take" of even just a few percent of the GE population each year should not be conflated as having the same impact to the population as plinking house sparrows with a pellet gun.

(Edit for typos and clarity.)
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Solar may fail somewhat on the clean, but wind doesn't. And both are cheaper than safe nuclear will ever be.
It's not real-time sync afaik, at least not when I used it in 2016, might have changed since though. You'd have to manually grab files you wanted to open/change and then manually update.