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I think Trump is terrible, but Glenn is onto something here.
I don't really like N.N. Taleb either, but he put it like this and it kinda makes sense:

1) When a collection of journos getting around minimum wage call someone consistently successful "an idiot", one is entitled to invoke Wittgenstein's ruler: you don't just use a ruler to measure the table, but the table to measure the ruler. (in Fooled by Randomness)

2) In other words, if reality continously delivers something that doesn't "make sense" to you, it is you that you need to worry about.

3) Commentary by anyone who
a) ruled out Trump 's election,
b) thought mahket wd collapse if Trump elected
c) thought Trump wd be impeached within 1y should be ignored.

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For the record, the original, descriptive and not next-to-useless title: "How to talk to angry people: the CLARA method of de-escalation".

HN guidelines say: "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." Maybe it's time to add "or if it's vague and non-descriptive"?
Yesterday. We were unable to look at some code together. We had to sit and wait 2 or 3 minutes before I could start to make out text.

What kind of codec are you using? Are you using Amazon's streaming service or did you roll your own?
Professional art is a big trading card game where the cards don't have attack/defense values but attention/exclusivity.

Maximisation of good feelings when hung on a wall is just as valid as a "+n attention" modifier as scandal, backstory (this is where "(self) expression" has its place) or innovation. The scraps of exclusivity that can be attained from craftsmanship or materials are utterly dwarfed by exclusivity derived from the artist being dead and famous.

Works that are nice to look at tend to fall short in exclusivity, because design is abundant. But in the eyes of someone who rejects the idea of "ugly art", exclusive reliance of nonaesthetic attention drivers is almost a form of cheating.
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A "build your own thing" game always needs a point at which you draw a line under it and count up and decide who won. The better games will find a way to at least vaguely integrate it with the theme - e.g. in Keyflower you play through Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter, in Barbarossa you play until someone captures Moscow.

Still, even for a straight "first to 10 points" or "play 5 rounds", to my mind the positives outweigh the negatives. If you play until all but one player is knocked out then a) most players are gonna lose in a very personal, direct way b) players who've lost have to find something else to do while the game finishes c) there's no way to predict or plan how long the game's going to go on for. A lot of competitions involve a fairly arbitrary limit - why run for 100m rather than 110 or 90? Why play football for 90 minutes rather than 80 or 100? Why do 18 holes of golf rather than 17 or 19? Why drive 3 laps in Mario Kart rather than 2 or 4? Sometimes all you can do is find a point at which to draw a line under it.
Not with those patches, since they haven't been merged yet. The performance decreases that have been reported so far are for Meltdown patches, those new patches are apparently meant to mitigate Spectre.
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Hi,

I want to get deeper understanding and more involvement in blockchain development area. Please note that I'm not talking about on-blockchain development (smart contracts, etc...), but about development of the underlying blockchain technology.

If I would want to build a new blockchain (just hypothetically - I know I should use existing ones) what would be the best

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Thanks a bunch!
> Why isn't it just a good thing that Ethiopia had a part to play in the development of civilization as well?

Did Ethiopia have a part to play in the development of Western thought? Given his own final question, that seems to be the supposition of the author of the article - '... one might wonder: will Yacob and Amo also one day be elevated to the position they deserve among the philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment?' But Herbjørnsrud (the author) gives no evidence that either Yacob or Ano influenced European thinking any more than Locke's et al.'s contemporaries. (Quick - before looking them up in the Wikipedia - who was Christian Wolff? Francis Hutcheson? Nicolas Malebranche?) What evidence Herbjørnsrud presents indicates Yacob died in obscurity, unknown to Europeans, and Ano was at best '... one of the most prominent Wolffians.' [See Christian Wolff above.] Yet the author wants to immediately set these two among the luminaries (e.g. Kant) of European thinking.

Is Herbjørnsrud trying to push an Afrocentric narrative? He discusses only two African thinkers in his article, so it's easy to see why the OP might conclude this, but setting that aside, it seems Herbjørnsrud at minimum wants to promote certain Progressive principles, e.g. 'Neither was Amo alone in bringing /diversity/ or /cosmopolitanism/ to the University of Halle in the 1720s and ’30s.' [Emphasis mine.] While this is neither good nor bad, ignoring the undercurrent of Herbjørnsrud's article does nobody favors. (Of course, he wrote, _Global Knowledge: Renaissance for a New Enlightenment_, so what should we expect of Herbjørnsrud?)
That's true now (and I have several Alexa devices that I use daily and enjoy).

They're only a silent, over-the-net firmware update away from having always-on capabilities, though.
It would seem that Facebook is rather well-positioned to identify such problems in the data.

They could, for example, only count votes by long-term users. They also have almost complete knowledge of their users' political leanings, making it possible to counteract any attempts at manipulation.
Pc culture? What are you talking about? Linus is pc (in that he doesn't go on misogynistic, racist, or similar rants and doesn't denigrate people for their non-technical decisions) , he's just not nice to those that should know better.

While I think you've also been bitten by the "we accept everyone! (who thinks the way we do)" crowd as well, this is not the place or the way to express that frustration.
Rust has a strong policy of adding tests when adding/changing code, so almost all error messages are tested in some form, including "UI" tests, that check the exact formatting.

Additionally, there's https://doc.rust-lang.org/error-index.html
> Anyone affected working on the weekend knew that they wouldn't get paid.

They knew that, for certain, only after Friday midnight. It's not that far-fetched to assume that most people working that Saturday would already be asleep during that time and just showed up at their work on Saturday like it's business as usual.
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Very cool! I wonder if a slightly more elaborate tool could help with tracking of mood disorders.
Rust's error messages are (well, try to be) similar, and in fact explicitly inspired by Elm: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/08/10/Shape-of-errors-to-com...
Worse still, imagine a world where there was no Linux, and Oracle/Sun happened?
could someone point to the article explaining how Rust compiler reasons about the program, how different kinds of objects and pointers are represented in runtime - in a word, something that would help me grasp what is really going on when I compile and run the program. The tutorials I saw are written in assumption that you don't need to know that. Which makes me feel like a total idiot
I guess you're supposed to render it as LaTeX in your head.
Not sure where you're from but in Germany there are industry standards professionals have to adhere to. Sure, there are sloppy professionals like in any other job too but if they adhere to the industry standards, the result will be pretty much what you expect and they're not allowed to take shortcuts that result in lower quality work.

On the other hand, coming from a country that takes its trades extremely serious, I was shocked about what I observed every time I visited the UK. It seems the expectations vary drastically between different countries (though I'm sure there are quality professionals in the UK too).
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It's always been hard to tell what's real. Reading back over Vietnam and Watergate, or even recent news that Congress has settled members' staff harrassment accusations with taxpayer money, from today's perspective, suggests that.

I'm as uninformed about the inside as most people. The way I manage my head, and my navigation, is to assume that the bottom 80% (made-up working number) of political activity and speech is dirty, and discount the wild-eyed top 20% of partisan activity and speech.

As I said, it's uninformed, but it's safe, and much is borne out over the decades, once the tell-alls and declassified documents come out.
SDCC is also full of bugs and the compiled code is not well optimized. For a low level CPU like that, you have to write assembly at some point.
It's only stupid if you believe Facebook wants to solve their echo chamber problem.

Facebook draws its revenue from personality profiling its users for targeted advertising. How much more profit do they make when they can actively push people towards binary thinking, and make them easy to categorize?
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Actually, if what you are looking for is "to the point" reviews, then you should agree with the article's advices. To name a few:

- Pointing to a common reference instead of simply stating your opinion in a review will get the improvement you want done faster

- Writing a single comment for a repeated error is faster to do for the reviewer

- Explicit communication instead of emojis and sarcastic comments will bypass the need for further explanation, which will make the whole process faster

Finally, you seem to take issue with only a few of the author's points ('some of these rules go beyond a reasonable "don't be an asshole" line'), could you explain which ones and why? I am interested to know what exactly makes the process too taxing for you.
The best bit of the thread is Linus getting corrected for mistakes in his rant. Not only was he excessively rude, he didn't even have the facts right. Embarrassing!
Yes, I agree. My concern is more that microservices (as a sub-category of SOA) are a fad that few people will care about or use 10-20 years from now. Most services probably don't ever go beyond monolith, the rest move to SOA and probably a minuscule minority actually needs microservices.
> If you really want to fight the root of the problem, it's not likes and comments, but education.

But how do educate yourself though ?

The same argument was already made about books or newspapers: depending of the subject a lot of them are trash. Same for TV news. Wikipedia is also not a defacto trustable source.

Except for first hand experience on a subject, you will never be able to find a source that is inherently trustable (and you might even interpret your experience the wrong way, so you should doubt yourself too...).

To educate yourself, there's a point where you have to try to trust some of the information you get. Having that info come from a trusted source or with a high level of peer review is a useful first level of filtering. From there you can (and surely should) invest in more time to double check or cross check if you want, but IMO quick filtering is necessary, and can't be brushed away saying "people should know better".
Where do you draw the legal entity line between a facebook page and a blog entry?
One thing I struggle with understanding for all these blockchain based solutions is the fact that the "trust" aspect fails in the face of an adversarial counterparty. For example, how do you know that the fish with id XYZ was _really_ ethically sourced? You only know that the counterparty asserts that fish XYZ was. The only advantage that I can see to the current system is that you can trace that assertion back to the originator.
Because the sugar industry suppressed it... doy.
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Have you tried https://stackshare.io/ ?
Yet LWN is struggling to make ends meet.
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I'm sure Facebook wouldn't care about a few million spent on a panel of the world's greatest connoisseurs of real news.

This feature is in fact guaranteed to cost far more than a few experts ever would.

But Facebook knows that any expert panel will without a sliver of doubt quickly converge to a ranking that has the Economist and the New York Times in top positions, and Breitbart somewhere behind a random word generator.

Any working statistical method will lead to the same result, obviously. But it gives Facebook the option to invoke HN's favourite argument: "it can't be political because it's the algorithm. See: here are numbers."[0].

[0]: Compare, for example, the libertarian love for bitcoin, and how it's free from the politics that undermine Central Banks,
> A silver bullet is having one smart guy at the top who doesn't care how much pressure you exert on getting something into the codebase,

Well if Linus goes too far, Google and a couple other big corporate contributors could team up and fork Linux, and it would be very hard for the open project to compete. I think the fact that Linus is so good is a big part of what makes the whole thing hold together.
I wish someone would have shown me those charts when I was like 15 ;-)
If someone starts a new company and gets rich, the wealth did not "go" to him -- he created it. On a more prosaic level, my investments in the stock market, which did well last year, represent ownership in companies that employ people and produce consumer goods. If the wealthy did not save and invest, there would be more "equality", but society overall would be poorer.
There is also another effect, which I call recursive over-valuation.

The "high-end" art collectors tend to be extremely wealthy, and - with of course some exceptions - wealthy people are wealthy also because they care about money.

So, imagine that you are a wealthy art collector and you have just paid - let's say - 100,000 US$ for a painting by an "emerging" artist.

It is only human to show off your new painting, and the people you frequent are likely to be also wealthy and art collectors.

So, if you have a name as an art collector, that painting soon becomes in your elite a "set point" for the value of the new artist work.

The year later, a gallerist that is selling at 115,000 US$ another similar painting of the same artists can well say "Last year TheOtherHobbes bought a similar one for US$ 100,000, and you know him, he wouldn't pay that kind of money if it hadn't this value".

And this sets a second precedent, and it goes on.

BTW it is all in your interest to "defend" and "promote" the artist (because you defend your investment into it) even if the painting is awful.

In a couple of years this way you will be able to re-sell the painting for - still say - US$ 200,000 while having - besides the profit - reinforced your fame as good investor and educated art expert, capable to see the potentiality of the artist ahead of all others...
Aesthetically pleasing, possibly depending on what you mean; that description sounds like it would cover a lot of metal album covers.

But relaxing? That would .. require more explanation.
For many of them you only need an append only ledger not a full blockchain. And you still have to deal with the oracle problem.

Is my Picasso real? - If I trust the entity that put it into the blockchain, then I believe so. Wait, why did I need a blockchain for that?
No not really. The fact is, Linux kernel developers are in an abusive relationship with Linus. If you look at a high quality Unix such as FreeBSD, there's none of this temper tantrum nonsense.
I hope they sue the underpants off each officer, their supervisor, the SFPD and the warrant issuing judge - who, in turn, should jail the person(s) providing the wrong IMEI, for perjury and contempt of court.
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I liked soooo much more the previous title. The new one removes value of the article.
This is usually true but I’ve recently been introduced to a legacy codebase which is so bad it can hardly be modified.

Mixed tabs and spaces, sometimes one space indentation or no indentation at all, 1000+ line Java methods, meaningless variable names, no comments or documentation. SQL transactions aren’t used, the database is just put into a bad state and hopefully the user finishes what they’re doing so it doesn’t stay that way. That’s just the server. The UI is just as bad and based on Flash (but compiled to HTML5 now)
That's difficult to ask when you are kicked out of the session with a "have a nice day, please rate this conversation". Come on, just give me a link to click on or an email address.
I'm just stuck with this thought: I spent 6 years "accomplishing" very little. Others (programmers eg) will have 5 years advantage on me, or even more, as a lot of people will have been programming from an earlier age.

I realize I've spent too much time playing video games, hanging out with friends and so on, to realistically be able to compete with someone who has been on a track and dedicated for 5+ years.

So the thought of "You only just have to start _now_", after I've been through 20 years of education completely paralyzes me. I wouldn't want to hire me. And I can't concentrate or focus enough to actually learn programming (been trying for 4 years now), since the negative thoughts just keep returning, and I have a hard time convincing myself that I'm wrong.

It feels like I'm just waiting for things to get worse, and what scares me is, that this thought doesn't even bother me anymore, because I feel that my situation is justified.
I used to be a subscriber for LWN for like 17 years. It was so nice to be able to look only once a week to their site and got all important stuff in a nice format. I let my subscription to expire when they started to move to daily news format with less focus of their high-quality weekly issues. I have found that it brought extra noise distracting from more important issues.
Isn't it? If you're the unchallenged dictator of a project, it seems to me that saying "I will brook no more of this nonsense" is a better de-escalation strategy than inviting further discussion.

Edit: I hope my downvoter understands the irony in their actions.
At this point you discover that everyone in the call centre is called "Dave" for professional purposes.
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Can you explain this? maybe it's because of the filter bubble i live in but i almost never see this on whatsapp (then again, maybe i wouldn't know if i had.)
are you ignoring all the major (incremental) advances made in the previous few decades? Like adjuvant chemotherapy?

You are also ignoring the immense dollar cost we had to make to have these achievements- not really justified by the massive expenditures required.
Oh those were the good old days!! IRQ conflicts, jumpers all around and thinking which device I need less :)
People don't care about "fact checking". The NYT, or the Wall Street Journal's newsrooms simply don't make factual errors, except occasionally spelling someone's name wrong, Nobody cares.
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Yup, my background is in biophysics but I do software engineering because it's relatively easy. billion-line codebases aren't really complicated to a single cell.
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How about opening multiple emacs frames and letting your window manager act as the "tabber"?
Art is not utilitarian. Art doesn't have the function of being hanged in a wall or maximise good feelings
Except when it is, especially in architecture, product design, and some clothing. Sometimes it is just there to distract you from something crappy, sometimes it is there to make folks happier.

That's just a low trick to make common people buy it.
Only, it isn't always. A lot of common people are buying stuff to make their home prettier - not everyone will hang disturbing pictures on the wall because folks would rather stare at something less disturbing on a daily basis. Some is positive, some makes a statement, and so on.

Art is (self) expression.
Except when it isn't. I can't imagine every animator at disney (back when a lot was watercolor) was expressing themselves, just like a lot of commissions aren't self-expression. Some folks just do things they think will sell or others will like. Sometimes it is just something the person thinks looks neat (no more expressive than a webpage layout or product design, honestly).
Can we stop repeating this? Assertiveness and assholery are not one and the same. Linus has both in abundance, and we can decry the one without wanting the other to go away.
Some people think that directness and honesty is identical to saying racist, sexist, and homophobic things. So "PC" becomes equivalent to "lying to make people like you."
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Art is extensively used to, ahem, conveniently move around large sums of money [1]. It is difficult to differentiate unusual prices due to money laundering from unusual prices due to manipulation.

[1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/arts/design/art-proves...
Well, let's stop the internet too then. It has all of these things in it! It can't be any good then.
Exactly.

Ironically, today, we read about a supermarket with no checkout yet we still have simple ticket barriers that quite often don't work?
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It seems like it's repeating old messages over and over, then eventually crashing.
The function of the "shouting and cursing" is to draw attention. If Linus had used mild language, it wouldn't be on Hacker News and we wouldn't be talking about it. When Linus rants, it's always something worth ranting about; it's a powerful shaming tool to enforce good behaviour in a world where there's little other leverage.

And in the unlikely event that your theory regarding undisclosed vulnerabilities is true, this will certainly make them think twice about leaving Linus out of the loop again, no?
You’d think the value of art would depend on its aesthetic value; a picture you enjoy looking at on your wall.

Considering a lot of the art collectors buy is immediately whisked away to temperature-controlled, pitch dark warehouses where it can be kept safely until it's put back on the market a decade later, I really wouldn't expect the value to be related to what the art looks like at all.
sure, sugar is BAD. but this is the meat industry's last diversion before they get scrutinised.
Linus is a pure techie.

No politics, no bullshitting around, your code sucks and he calls you out for it.

The best kind of dictator to have.
I'm a die-hard DIYer. I hire out drywall and blueboard/skimcoat work. Two guys who do that work everyday can do in a 6-hour day and ~$800 what it would take me two weeks and $300 in materials and their job looks 4x better than mine.
Exactly. It's not. It's the history of it that matters.
I’m pretty sure that it was the Turkish government who put hundreds of thousands of innocent Turks in jail. Installing chat software shouldn’t be a crime.