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I'm a desktop Linux user; I preferred the old way. I do get that most people like multiplexing (I don't; I want exactly one sound source at a given time), and I'll grant that has improved.

I banged my head against my desk for a couple of days when Slackware switched to Pulse with 14.2, allegedly because it was needed for bluetooth. I still have difficulty believing that people actually use bluetooth for audio, but apparently some people love it.
Back in my Engineer days, where I'd spend much of my time writing technical reports, I'd always remove the Insert key from my keyboard.

It's sitting there in that block of six keys that you use all the time when editing text (home, end, page up/down, delete), and it's a little timebomb. You would invariably hit it by accident at some point and change your editor into "overwrite all my stuff" mode.

It would usually take a minute or two of ruining your document before you realized what was happening and spent the next several minutes repairing the damage.

I would go years at a time without ever hitting that key on purpose, so I just kept it in a drawer, in case it ever needed using.

Now, as a developer, there's an Insert in tons of useful keyboard combos, so it needs to stay there. And laptops have ruined that old useful six-key block so it's a lot rarer to hit it by accident.

But it had no business being there. Fifteen years later, I'm still not a friend of that key.
Milton friedman talks quite a bit about the seatbelt debacle which he was contemporary for.

A report-book was written by Ralph Nader called Unsafe at any speed, talking about motor accidents which prompted some outcry and political action that ended with the seatbelt legislation and other safety features.

Some time after the book was published, it was shown to have inaccuracies and wrong statistics.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/automobiles/50-years-ago-...

MF on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M90XvQD8eE
>You're somehow assuming that forming a union involves forcing everyone to join an organization whose membership is purely voluntary.

Well, the Seattle union is "closed shop" at Boeing which makes union membership mandatory for employment.

>That's an imaginary number that you made up yourself,

The GM union dues are ~$957.[1] The Ford amount is ~$693. The estimated union dues were ~$800 for Nissan workers who voted "no" to union representation. For all 3 examples, the union dues are not static -- they are expected to increase.

We can use the lower $693 figure if you wish. Can you see that many workers don't agree with you that $693 is "no impact"?

https://bigthreeauto.procon.org/view.additional-resource.php...
I not sure he exactly said that the 2008 crisis _should've_ been allowed to fail; but just that since it _wasn't_ allowed to fail, it has these consequences, compared to what happened in the 70's with the 'reboot'.
Treasure Hunter VR
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Plunge into the atmosphere of ancient Egypt. Help young Jane explore lost in the sands ancient temple, full of crafty traps and find all the hidden treasures of the Pharaoh.

Treasure Hunter VR -This is an atmospheric spatial puzzle based on the physics of light. The game was designed for a long immersive experience in virtual reality. We set ourselves the task to create not only unique mechanics of the game, but also to extend the average player session in VR.

- 12 unique levels
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Maybe someone in a union can answer this but from an outsider it appears that unions flatten the salary discrepancy between outstanding performers & poor performers.

I see this in education a lot where bad teachers that parents try to avoid end up making the same as the amazing teachers that parents beg to have. The bad teachers don't get removed so new teachers are prevented from getting a job at that school.
I was frankly surprised seeing this thread just how popular Stephenson is here. It makes sense though.
wonder how it effects mining difficulty
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https://www.coinbase.com/careers

I'm sure crypto projects and experience are a plus :)
Of course the outside would still be on fire. Most of the UK has either wooden or plastic window frames.

The absolute best outcome would be lower burn rates in the outer rings of the heat zone.

But in a full exchange fallout levels would kill those people regardless, and even if fallout didn't, they'd still starve.

I've seen maps from the 1950s - before the huge warhead build-up - which showed most of the UK being reduced to desert by fallout.

In reality, in a full exchange the larger cities would be hit multiple times, so the short-term odds of survival for anyone within 10-15 miles of a large city would be essentially zero.
Business Insider has annoying anti-adblocker popups. Is there some way to block websites that do this?

I tried living without adblocker for a while, but I started getting some very not safe for work ads from dhgate all over the place. Just because I buy electronics doesn't mean I want ads for lingerie...
> People keep voting for representatives that do this kind of thing.

People don't vote (less than 40% in that election). Make voting mandatory, like in Australia (or at least make it a national holiday), and require a certain amount of real political coverage in the media -- politicians would then better reflect the needs of the people.
Defiantly not rare. And I don't want to spend my evening complaining to tfl.
Calder's work has to be seen in person to appreciate it. Photographs definitely don't give you much of an impression. I'd compare it to the experience of standing beneath a skyscraper and looking up. There's no photograph that can convey the actual experience. The best they can do is reference it and remind us.

I'd been aware of Calder's mobiles for over 20 years, but only this summer did I see one in person. The one I saw was much larger in person that I'd expected. But the main impression I had was how balanced all of the pieces were (they had to be to make the sculpture work as a mobile) and how light and airy it was (there's a lot of empty space surrounding the pieces). What makes the mobiles interesting as sculptures is that your standard sculptural work just sits there, the forces which act on the sculpture are static, whereas the mobile is constantly in motion, it's a very dynamic arrangement. If a person had a poetic way of speaking, they'd say the mobiles were a little bit alive. But if not, they are captivating to watch, their behavior is both predicable and not (chaos rather than disorder).
The lesson of history is that there is no "ideal" parser; it seems that every major version of every programming environment (Java, Python, PHP, .net, ...) gets a new XML parser because people could not stand to use the last one.

Here are some features (sometimes mutually incompatible) that parsers can have:

* fast
* low memory consumption
* streaming operation
* building a complete document tree
* streaming document chunks
* being strict
* being lenient
* being extremely lenient (handle "last Thursday" as a date)
* intelligent error handling
* intelligent error handling of errors discovered downstream (ex. some invariant of the document is found to be untrue when we are using the output of the parser, we can point the user to the line number and give a clear explanation of the problem)
* static orientation (take a document with a known schema and populate POJOs with them)
* dynamic orientation (easily handle any document without anything known about structure)
* really, really, fast
* use same parser for multiple formats (or at least look that way)
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I came here to mention Scroll Lock which normally doesn't do much in Windows applications but I was utterly confused the other day when my Excel started behaving weirdly !
Possibly, but as mattlondon's sibling comment alludes to, the statement of a single rape prosecution in more than 300 years is still a long way from the truth.
F2 is also rename on a host of Windows applications, including Windows Explorer.

I've popped it off more than once but couldn't get used to not hitting F3 instead of F2.

What I ended up doing was to rename Windows Help (winhlp32.exe at the time) to something else then copy and rename cmd.exe (or command.com, depending on how far back) to "winhlp32.exe". Now when I pressed F1 it would open a command window, much more useful and less intrusive if hit accidentally.
You can set your goal lower and still use all the described methods.
Looks really great. Keep up the good work. I'm looking forward to all the new musical instruments that can come out thanks to the iOS audio engine :)
No proof whatsoever, but the ceremony and who was involved was most certainly known ahead of time.

Is prudence not prudent in matters such as these?
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I can't think of one time I've ever intentionally used the overwrite functionality either.
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How's Deponia? I picked it up cheap for PS4 but it's been in the middle of my ever growing backlog of games for awhile. Cool that it was developed using this engine.
Sorry to disappoint you:

> P.T. Barnum:

> Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!

Basically, you keep promoting and promoting and maybe, maybe, there's a slight chance of something happening. But by default nothing happens.
It's very visible to the population when a regime blocks a popular site or app.

That shines a bright light on the regime's censorship.

It also puts pressure on the regime to relax their iron grip, since it makes them look bad to their own citizens and to the rest of the world.

But implementing the regime's censorship inside your app or site hides the censorship. It reduces the pressure from citizens and the international community.

You're now collaborating with the regime against your customers.

Doing the right thing is almost always better than collaboration.

I will not use my engineering time and talent as a tool of your repression, and if you block me, your citizens and the whole world can see it.

(By the way, the EFF is doing amazing work with advocacy, legal affairs, certbot, etc. This Saudi article reminded me to give again: https://supporters.eff.org/donate )
I think you probably are fairly special. Most people I know have had some pretty intense infections that could have been fatal, though only two of them would have certainly been fatal. As for myself, I've had a jaw infection that actually got into the bone, meningitis, lyme disease, and walking pneumonia twice. Compared to some of my peers, I actually consider myself pretty healthy.

That being said, I have definitely been prescribed antibiotics a few times that it wasn't necessary.
This is why cycle infrastructure, like one finds in Perth, WA is so good. In some places there is a separate cycle-road distinct from both pavement and road, in others there are cycle tracks running alongside train tracks, away from cars and pedestrians. It works really well, because someone bothered to plan.
I totally understand. Btw I didn't know that upgrades for free. If it's on the website, then I missed it. That makes it good value.
Going with your examples, I think "leave your phone at home" is more actionable than "stop wasting time on the internet", and both are vastly more actionable than "stop staying awake" and "just be happy".
I am amazed at how many companies are working on "scheduling meetings." How big is the market really?

I can also say that this is not a U.S.P.

> Calendly is different because we built it from the
> ground up to be simple, flexible and enjoyable.

it just isn't.
I've seen many cyclists go through red lights in cases where doing so is obviously safe. But for comparison I don't think I've met a single car driver who obeyed speed limits, indeed they seem affronted when I raise that question.
OK, but plenty of that is spent on chores, washing, getting dressed, transportation, and other drudgery, so it's not as much time as it sounds like.
> And what happens when someone loses their encryption key?

DigitalLocksmith.io (YC S2018)

Jokes aside, this is why combining accessible and strong cryptography is hard. Certainly not impossible but hard. And historically, not at all within the competency of companies like Equifax.
I wrote a very basic script to rank hacker news stories based on comment/score ratio, found it to be pretty interesting:

https://github.com/paradite/hn-ratio

The idea is that stories with high ratio would mean active/intense debate, whereas low ratio means extremely insightful post. Both categories are very interesting to me.

Example output:

https://github.com/paradite/hn-ratio/blob/master/results/201...

Sadly I never completed the project with a web UI.
Of course what should happen is that if a patient with a viral infection goes to 1,000 doctors, they should be denied antibiotics 1,000 times.
And writing a comment here instead of in an issue where the developers might hear of it is not a smart move either :)

He should definitely have done it elsewhere.
In undemocratic countries, I think the answer is no, since the elites do not really need to accede to citizen's demands. In democratic nations, I think it depends.

I think the company's complaints have to seem reasonable to the populace and for there to be no credible alternative. Uber and Lyft pulled out of Austin for a year in the hope that would put pressure in lawmakers to change the rules, but instead local competitors who were willing to deal with the new regulations setup shop and Uber and Lyft both returned.

I don't think Medium or Snap are important enough to have any leverage anywhere.
Arterial calcification is largely reversible with healthy lifestyle, adequate vitamin K etc.

Unless you are talking about pineal calcification, of which there doesn't seem to be much in the way of provable negative consequences within normal ranges and is indeed mostly mentioned by new age psychedelic gurus.

And I'm not sure why we should assume fluoride is the main culprit for any of this. But sure, there's a dose-response curve for just about everything.
Their reputations probably would suffer if anyone cared or if it wasn't ubiquitous.

There are 5 PR hacks for every reporter in America. And that counts people who are functionally equivalent to PR hacks as reporters because of their job title.

The market has spoken, and actual journalism has been deemed unnecessary. The short era of actual journalism, with journalistic ethics classes and investigative journalism and the "baseball test" was a short term market inefficiency that has been solved (the idea of this era was also always very overblown).
Mental health professional here (well, currently on internship). "Giant red flag" is a bit of an overstatement in this particular situation. It is very common for people without significant attention problems otherwise to have major difficulty self-motivating and structuring when working independently. Many of my depressed and anxious clients became so by getting further and further behind, because there was no structure or accountability imposed on them and they simply did not know how to do it themselves. Most of them did not meet criteria for ADHD and improved quickly with scheduling, goal-setting and accountability systems.

That's not to say that procrastination is not a symptom of ADHD. It is. But the modern world is built to distract even the normal, and most people are capable of developing bad habits.

Also, the actual ADHD diagnostic procedure is very involved (3-5 hours of testing that can cost upwards of 2k). A lot of diagnoses aren't actual diagnoses, and no one is qualified to make a Dx from a brief verbal assessment.

So long as we keep those cautions in mind, I agree that if a person thinks they might have ADHD, by all means look into the symptoms, do a little research and consider getting tested.
I might be interested can you email me? in profile.

Also, I had an project I'm about to start that might help.
What I would like to see is a sort of /r/DepthHub - a set of permalinks to interesting (thoughtful or factual or those that you can learn something from) discussions in flamewarred articles or the comments by subject matter experts 3 replies deep that can't bubble up to the top of comments section.

EDIT: hmm so I've created it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HNDepthHub/ Submissions welcome!
I try to take a lesson from supermarkets: what blew the mind of many Russians during the Cold War was the existence of supermarkets. Many assumed they were either propaganda or only available to wealthy Westerners, and it had an extremely corrosive effect on the beliefs of Russians who understood how generally available such stores were in the US. The existence of supermarkets turned out to be one of our most powerful propaganda tools!

At a practical level, one of the most important things we can do if we really believe in Western society is simply live it and let other people be exposed to it. Time and time again, simply living well is infectious and does more to undermine totalitarian regimes than pretty much anything else. Most people (on any side of an issue) really want the same thing -- to live a nice life. Fighting stems from different visions of how to do that (or an inability to do that because of poverty, oppression, etc), but in a competition between ideals, the winner is generally the one that lets people live "better".

So as a method of protest, I'd argue it's a complete failure: it removes our most powerful tools, which are primarily exposure based, while leaving a power vacuum behind and getting virtually nothing in return.

The flow of culture from sharing messaging platforms is simply too powerful a tool to abandon as mere "protest".
Agreed. I actually got so irritated with this site, that I have added the simple blocker add in to chrome to block this site. I refuse to support them anymore. I dont care if they have something I want to read, Im not visiting that site ever again...
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This seems like a great introduction to the history. I have a problem with it, though.

In the first example, the method compute_error_for_line_given_points is called with values 1, 2, [[3,6],[6,9],[12,18]]. Where did those values come from?

Later in that same example, there is an "Error = 4^2 + (-1)^2 + 6^2". Where did those values come from?

Later, there's another form: "Error = x^5 - 2x^3 -2" What about these?

There seem to be magic formulae everywhere, with no real explanation in the article about where they came from. Without that, I have no way of actually understanding this.

Am I missing something fundamental here?
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I think this may be actually the source of much confusion in discussions of how much "work" is good.
A well run company will always have more work for each employee than is possible for them to complete. This is because the employee is then forced to prioritise their work themselves and only focus on the pieces of work that align with their incentives. Which should align with the company incentivies.

If this was not the case, then the organization would need to employ additional staff to plan work, in order to maximise efficiency. Which would be waste.

So if you're working for someone else, prioritize and cut what you don't have time for. You'll be surprised what you can cut.
I live in the SF Bay area now and use no filter and the water is fine.

My parents have a well and when they were concerned with their water they subscribed to a water delivery service that dropped off reusable 5 gallon bottles every couple weeks that is still orders of magnitude better than individual bottles. (Each 5 gallon bottle replaces 40 16 oz bottles and is refilled)

One of their neighbors installed a big (200 gallon?) water tank and hired a service to refill it. My parents ultimately ended up installing a filtering system when it became clear that the well wasn't going to get better. Which would have been cheaper that the water deliveries long term, but less than 2 years later the city ended up bringing municipal water to their neighborhood.

There are lots of more environmentally friendly alternatives to single serve bottles.
You should at least present their argument charitably if you're going to call them hypocrites. They have no issues with state IDs which is what would be presented at the polls since you vote in your state's elections.

Look, when the ACLU is against national IDs you have to at least admit that the idea is worth discussing. https://www.aclu.org/other/5-problems-national-id-cards
The books still exist. I still use books as a crash course or refresher from time to time. And I've gotten back into reading more on my Kindle or phone while walking my dog in the mornings.
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You don't have direct debits for this sort of thing ie bill is paid automatically?
In what part of London aren't there multiple cab firms operating locally? Certainly not "as far out" as Zone 2, where I've caught a cab from dozens of times, and that's not even thinking about firms like Addison Lee that operate across London.
I was entirely happy with alsa and still don't know of any use-case I have that's better served by the more fragile, more resource-hungry PulseAudio. I assume it's useful to someone.
> It's very visible to the population when a regime blocks a popular site or app.

I don't think people living in these countries are unaware of the situation.
Thank you. It's such a toxic sentiment which seems to only originate from people with limited exposure to the condition. It makes my blood boil as well to hear/read things like "you might want to try behaviour change first". I want to be like, "what do you think I've been trying to do since the age of 8?"

Meds have been absolutely indispensable for at least starting to implement good habits, extended focus, etc. And it's still a huge struggle.
bribe to early adopters? Same with gold and US dollars, a significant difference is the guy that created bitcoin didnt spend any of his bitcoin yet and didnt kill anyone to get them
Nothing to be done...
My hack is to "find on page" "minutes ago" , at least it gets me the last hour.
> I don't; I want exactly one sound source at a given time

Really? So you want all app feedback to cease if you're playing music? No IM or new email notifications? That just seems like a pain to me.
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Ah sorry, I'm a bit emotional about this because I see an ideology that says that people are worth less than before because of automation, don't find job because they don't look hard enough, are less paid 'cos they are no risk takers, etc. And often this ideology is (on purpose or not) presented as almost mathematical. It's not the fact that there is an ideology question that hurts me, it's that the language used to talk about it often implies it's almost natural.
The message could be right, but the unnecessarily condescending and derisive tone of this article undermines its effectiveness. I for one don't feel any more informed about the data showing that longer courses of antibiotics create enhance the chances of creating resistant bacteria, nor about why this happens.