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I get the feeling the pilots (recreational) in my area really don’t like drones. I file my flight plans electronically and, maybe this is coincidental but, every time I file a flight plan a small aircraft will apear right overhead flying low within a few minutes. It happens every time. Sometimes multiple aircraft will arrive and buzz me.

I of course have to stay under 400 feet but get this, those pilots are often flying at right around 400. I don’t know what’s going on but it’s weird. I plan to monitor the radio traffic in the area next time if I can find a way to do that.
This is completely backwards.

Each card is assigned a rarity (common, uncommon, rare, mythic rare) based on its power. All cards of a given rarity have the exact same probability of showing up in a given booster pack. It's possible for a card to get reassigned during a reprint, but it's pretty unusual.

Wizards doesn't set the secondary market prices; the secondary market prices are determined by the demand for that card[0] and the outstanding supply. The outstanding supply is also fairly straightforward: with the exception of cards in pre-built decks[1], cards are basically only printed through booster packs. So, if two cards are both printed at "rare" in a single set (and not printed in any other sets), there will be exactly the same number of each card available in the market - the price there is solely driven by the demand. Wizards has some control in the sense that they can decide which cards to reprint in a given set, or which new cards to print to alter the metagame, but that's very difficult to actually predict, as anybody who plays Magic regularly is aware.

As for the expected value of cards in booster packs: that's always going to be lower than the price of the booster pack. Why? Because stores purchase packs wholesale, and if the expected value of the pack is greater than the MSRP of the pack, they'll just open the packs instead and sell the cards individually.

So Wizards can't tell you the expected value of a given pack, or even predict the price of a given card on the secondary market.

[0] The demand is determined by the metagame, which Wizards has only very loose control over in the short- and medium- term.

[1] Pre-built decks almost never contain cards that are particularly valuable; they're meant for beginners or casual players, whereas the players who care about the valuable cards are "power players", so to speak.
> my Apple computers have lasted longer and have been more reliable than any other computers I've ever used.

And my Ubuntu boxes are running on 10 year old Dells. <shrug>
The article photo is cgi reconstruction from another geological site -- not from the city described, and it says so in the caption. In fact it's in a different country altogether: Guatemala.
The point is that after the support runs out you're out of luck - there are no alternatives in the Apple ecosystem.
Think he's trying to give a cautious warning but end up going binary 1 or zero. infinity or zero.
Most people who got into the market at good times in 2017 have not seen how insane the market has behaved in percentage term. Bitcoin went from $30 to zero before back then.

Another note, it looks like these days currencies rarely go to zero. last i checked the infamous bitconnect that has collapsed https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/bitconnect/usd is still trading and has value

i starting to think of it like physical coins that goes out of circulation. wanna buy an old franc or roman coin, its worthless but people are trading it for its rarity; or it becomes cheap enough to be speculated again.
The biggest misconception is that adverisers track or even know anything about you. They simply ask fb to show this ad to such and such people and they pay fb to do so. This is the greatest asset of both fb and google, they know who and what you like, the moment they give this info away to 3rd parties, they become obsolete.
"but nobody uses ReFS" - citation needed. It seems to come up on the Veeam forums quite a lot which implies to me that an awful lot of data is stored on ReFS.

I wont disagree with you that I do have access to a lot of file systems but I should point out that Linux has a lot of developers and some of those filesystems picked Linux for that exact reason. I like choice and I have lots.

A variety of FAT is also used for UEFI partitions (cheers MS) and you seem to have missed out exFAT which is quite handy.

ZFS is great on physical hardware in some cases and deserves its name but for me: ext4 does the trick. It's just complicated enough, and no more.
I'm responding to the unsubstantiated claim that:

> lots of mass market products are terribly designed

Insinuating the iPhone X is terribly designed which isn't my experience (the only one I have). By definition all personal experiences are anecdotal, so no I haven't conducted any empirical studies (neither have you), but we can infer given the iPhone X is Apple's top selling phone that most people prefer the iPhone X despite its higher price.
Historical note: Some of us remember POSIXLY_CORRECT as POSIX_ME_HARDER.
Without going to deeply into the content of the article, just because a company has “peaked” doesn’t mean it’s “failing”. IBM peaked decades ago, but still has a somewhat successful business. Microsoft peaked in terms of influence probably a decade ago, but is still important. I doubt that Facebook will go the way of MySpace or Yahoo anytime soon.
Honestly, I don't think there's any way to get around it, if you've got an indexer daemon in the mix. It's pretty much the same as trying to store billions of rows in a RDBMS table, except that file systems+metadata indexes don't have any concept of table partitioning.
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If, as seems to be the case, Instagram is the popular destination to migrate to will Facebook be too bothered by a drop in Facebook numbers? Sure some will go elsewhere, and block enough FB tracking to disappear entirely.

Instagram, of course, will allow Facebook to keep tracking and advertising to people just fine. No doubt they've already linked Instagram and FB identities wherever possible.

So all that remains is to see if ads work as profitably on that platform. If they don't there will no doubt be an Instagram redesign for that.
What’s truly sad about this is the misappropriation of resources. Why not donate the money to an efficient charity instead? I wish there was an onerous tax on this nonsense. This is exactly why high VAT + tax credits to the poor is the way we should generate our tax base.
Another perspective, how many users are actually dead?

http://www.theloop.ca/dead-facebook-users-will-soon-outnumbe...

EDIT:

Well they do measure active daily users but I still think the article above is interesting.
Everything you know how to read, and peppered with comments you know how to read is more readable than everything you don't, without such helper devices.
Are there ways to use Facebook data to serve advertisements outside the Facebook platform? I was under the impression that FB customers (advertisers) can only serve ads on Facebook i.e. Facebook does not display ads on other websites (unlike Google), and it does not pass on user data which advertisers can use to serve ads on other platforms/websites.
All buildings require significant ongoing maintenance to avoid demolition and many have a way of mysteriously burning down when the insurance value exceeds the market value. To learn more from recent US history search “The Bronx is burning” and dig a little.
> Most people can.

Any sources? Most of the professionals seem to think otherwise.
> I absolutely, 100% would not volunteer to go through a "horrible torture."

Even if it was to unlock a new level in a game, or to remove a tooth? :)

More seriously though seems like i didn't manage to express what i wanted to say in my comment.

My point was that people are afraid of torture, and many other things (like roller coasters) because there's a large chance to die in the end. And without that chance the whole thing is just some neurons being active, and is not a big deal.

Your point about needing to erase all memory of the experience to not get mental illness is very interesting. I'd expect the brain to be more stable, but we don't know enough about the brain to say for sure.
It's not just the prison system either, it's the whole justice system.

Make the penalties for everything unreasonably harsh you escalate what criminals are willing to do to avoid their people going to jail. They're more likely to carry weapons and murder witnesses and the whole works. Which allows the police to justify more SWAT teams and military hardware and surveillance gear that all come from private for-profit corporations.

Arms dealers love an arms race.
Ah okay. I thought at first you may have meant something illegal in the USA, but not Europe, but that didn't really make sense. Although, the first Google result for "convicted for having an abortion" is this sad case:

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/appeal-indiana-woman-convicted-ha...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purvi_Patel
You understand that, in much of the country, you can be fired simply for being a Democrat or a Republican, right?

I was once pushed out of a job for being perceived as "too leftist." In retrospect, perhaps I should have claimed harassment.

I don't think any but the most ideologically fervent would consider firing someone for simply being a Democrat or a Republican anything but a crappy thing to do. I understand that at-will employment is a beneficial freedom to employers in the same way that free speech and freedom of association are beneficial freedoms to individuals. However, at-will employment was once used to actively discriminate against people on the basis of race, religion, or place of national origin. Society came to recognize that as a problem, and society came around to change "the social compact." The exploitation of ideologues to use at-will employment to implement "thought-crime" is abhorrent, and by your own admission, has come to be a widespread societal phenomenon.
I think you severely underestimate how much painful torture is.
I'm not sure where you've gotten a latte, but I haven't noticed a significant difference between a latte from a US coffeeshop (and I've been to various across several states and regions) and a latte in Spain, for instance.

I haven't been to Starbucks recently, so I can't comment on their products.
The graph I posted shows Azure and Google growth being much higher as well. Think of it like this though: if you have 100 pennies and your growth rate is 75% then next year you will have 175 pennies. If you have 700 pennies and your growth rate is 35% then next year you'll have 945 pennies. Amazon offers a stronger product and just isn't going to "lose" market share at any point soon. I'm surprised IBM is even on there - I'd guess 90% of their cloud revenue is current customers that they converted over.
I didn't mean that happiness wouldn't be considered, just that that appropriate thing to worry about is suffering (can we call it negative happiness?).

There is obviously not going to be a simple happiness score at each moment of life—it should at least be a vector of scores. Would make sense to integrate over time, but then there's the spectre of a "happiness maximizer" (like a paperclip maximizer) that might produce undesirable outcomes, whether it's average or aggregate happiness you consider. Ethics is difficult to formalize.
Your argument is reasonable, until a better way to market to individuals comes along. It's not about the size of Facebook's user base or their reach on the web, it's how cheaply and effectively brands can sell their product by paying Facebook to help them do that. Once someone else can do it better, that's when it's game over for Facebook.
My wife's laptop suddenly decided that the boot drive was corrupt a few weeks after she updated to APFS. None of the recovery tools were of any use. We had to reinstall the OS and pull the files from a backup. This story did not make it to Hacker News.
The reason extremely old iOS devices (not just iPads) are not receiving OS support any longer is because iOS 11 switched to 64-bit architecture (dropping 32-bit support) and all apps written going forward will be compiled for 64 bit processor architectures.

Apple is industry leading in terms of software support for their hardware. Which other manufacturer provides OS updates for 4+ years? Certainly not any of the Android OEMs.

It's not as black and white as "it's supported" or "it's not supported". There's a lot of context around certain decisions that gets filtered out of articles like the one you're referring to.
I don't think the snooze worked: Pretty sure I triggered it yesterday, but I got a match just now.
Where are kids getting the money from?
That's known as 'the structure of scientific revolutions' but it applies to revolution/innovation in general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...

The book is free online.
I have no evidence that a lobster has consciousness, and it's consciousness (particularly intelligent consciousness, like yours and mine) that, to my very crude ethics, grants "personhood". With personhood comes the right to live and my thinking that it's immoral or some great loss to the Universe to kill you. That is why I think I can eat (and cause untold suffering) to lobsters with impunity for my benefit. :o (Not, to massage your image of me, that I would enjoy harming lobsters; I'd sooner keep one as a pet or release it if it materialized in my kitchen. I don't even like killing spiders or cockroaches, and I don't even eat those! BUT. If other people kill lobsters, I don't consider it immoral, and I'd gladly eat them served to me. But not the cockroaches or spiders.) Pain is bad, but it's bad to conscious beings. A computer can be programmed to react to keystrokes much the same as a creature "with no lights on" can be programmed to react to damaging stimuli, but that reaction brooks no rational response from me. It brooks emotional responses, but acting on reasonless emotion is silly.

Even if you accept my position, you could argue that maybe lobsters do have consciousness. Maybe they're even way more intelligent than we think they are. That'd be a problem. But, being scientific, you have to operate on what you have evidence for, not on what you don't. For the same reason, I don't think abortion is human murder (unless it's late term, after the brain's been thoroughly developed).

Another problem, of course, is where you draw the line. Lobsters aren't intelligent enough for personhood. What about dogs? What about chimps? What about severely mentally handicapped humans? Do you draw the line at doing calculus? (Because then you exclude a lot of normal humans!) That's the problem with fascism. :B I need to rethink my ways. But it's too difficult, and meat is calorically-dense and tasty!
Note however that these questions can only arise if they are caught.
I think your bar for good faith conversation is set unrealistically high. Outside of friends and family most people have no incentive to concede anything in a conversation if they don't want to. Some people don't care at all about burning bridges to "win." For anonymous conversations on the internet this is almost the rule rather than the exception.

Don't get me wrong, I wish most people weren't assholes just as much as you do but it's a race to the bottom. If one person values "being right" they will take your good faith argument and eat you alive in public with no mercy.
That might be misinformed, although $2-6k per infusion is very very high. That price is simply providing a high profit to the provider

There is a group of doctors who provide ketamine therapy and they've created some resources for interested patients. They say cost should be $400-800 per infusion and outline the drivers: http://www.ketamineadvocacynetwork.org/cost/
This doesn't help, and crosses into personal attack. Please don't post like that here.
Extending from your outline:

Another source of depression is the realization that your life cannot work unless the world at large radically changes. Maybe you know what needs to change, but not how to make it change. Maybe you know what and how, but you also see the high cost involved where becoming the revolutionary leading the charge just lands you in prison or other drama and fails to get you the happy life you desire. Even if it benefits people who come after you, it won't benefit you. There is nearly zero hope of achieving a fulfilling life.

Death becomes the only relief you can imagine. Depression is the only alternative to hurling oneself into the path of potentially violent revolution.
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microsoft? linux distros? Lets not pretend ARM devices falling out of support isnt anything but OEM apathy, its not like the hardware suddenly stopped functioning.
Supermicro blows AMD out of the water when it comes to density.

Here's equivalent 4 node in 2U AMD systems (they differ based on disk configuration -- SAS, NVME, or a mix of both). They also support Supermicro SIOM, so you can choose what integrated networking you want:

http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/system/2U/2123/AS-2123BT-HNC...

http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/system/2U/2123/AS-2123BT-HNR...

http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/system/2U/2123/AS-2123BT-HTR...

If you wanted even more density, there's the MicroCloud and MicroBlade series (although they use Intel processors):

https://www.supermicro.com/products/MicroBlade/

https://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/MicroCloud.cfm

That being said, these don't make a lot of sense unless you're very space-constrained, or your racks have a ton of power available. Given a 30A 208V circuit, I could only safely run three of the above AMD systems at full power. I'd rather just get dedicated 1U or 2U servers, and not have to make compromises about expandability or serviceability.
Variable size (sparse) disk images make it possible to backup e.g. two 1TB volumes that are on average <50% full to a single 1TB disk. Very useful to have for networked backups (Time Machine) of multiple machines.
`fsck_apfs -n -l -x /dev/rdisk1s1`
I know this, but still, I think temporary CO2 removal from the atmosphere is not totally worthless. It buys us more time until more clean energy comes online. And if this time is paid for by rich coffee aficionados, I think that's not a bad deal after all. Oh, and I doubt there's any deforestation going on in California.
Airplane pilot here. I suspect there's enough noise and downwash/turbulence that a bird doesn't get anywhere particularly close to a hovering helicopter.

If the drone is clearly outside the radius of the main rotor, you'd set down. What if it's above the rotor coming toward you? Probably set down and hope it doesn't get sucked in? What if it's below the main rotor coming toward you? You may not want to set down unless you know (?) the downwash is something the drone can't put up with, but how much time are you going to have to decide whether to risk striking it with a rotor vs throttle up delay and ascending away from the drone?

I think the behavior of various sized drones in proximity to helicopters is going to become a necessary training item. There will be planned and unplanned close proximity of s/mUAS and the worst enemy is going to be having never thought of or discussed these operational what ifs.
I updated day one and had usual apple problems (finder broke so I had to use my terminal, sometimes it wouldn't wake up from sleep so I had to force it to reboot, my fans would spin up for seemingly no reason). Most of the issues were fixed a week later or so.

Anyway, I recently switched to Arch on a 2018 LG Gram and I'm not really missing anything. Battery life is great (8-12 hours of Firefox) and it has a quad core x64 processor for non-browser things.

Windows Ultrabooks are worth the purchase again.
There are providers who charge $2k+ per dose, but providers can charge much less and still make a profit. For a list of cheaper providers see here: http://www.ketamineadvocacynetwork.org/provider-directory/

Cost info here: http://www.ketamineadvocacynetwork.org/cost/
Seems fitting to me, but Getty Images obviously had a lot of say in the matter, and I doubt they wanted their images delisted completely.
I agree with you. Amazon, like Walmart, is sort of in this grey zone for me. They smell and feel a little funny.

Both are relentless in their customer focus, they drive prices down, they both continue to add more and more services and offerings that seem to be what consumers want and might even be good. There isn't any particular thing I can point to and say with any definitive backing that they are doing and it's bad. I like small indie stores, but Walmart and Amazon beat them on prices and win the market; that's capitalism. Truthfully, I don't see either of them really doing stuff that is bad for the market, they're just better than the competition. Worse, if you go to a small town after a Walmart is built (are there many of these left?) it seems like the locals are almost in a hurry to put the local businesses out of their misery, the Walmart parking lot will be full.

It's more of just a concern about the immense power these businesses have and an innate distrust I have of giving that much power to a business. There will be an Amazon backlash, there are already lot's of people that at least claim to not shop at Walmart for various reason, I expect the same will come true with Amazon. Not sure it will amount to much but it's coming. Nobody has made a move to break up Walmart, it's hard to say that anyone will for Amazon.
We recently added support for embedding LaTeX expressions (and really, any dynamically-generated DOM) within Markdown template literals to Observable notebooks. So you can say md`I like ${tex`\\KaTeX`}`, and KaTeX renders its logo, which is then embedded within the generated Markdown.

I’m admittedly biased, but I love the ease of writing Markdown combined with being able to inline arbitrary DOM for math, sparklines etc. More examples here:

https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/measuring-color-diff...

https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/introduction-to-html
40% of India is vegetarian. Approx. half a billion people. It is very hard to believe that they suffer from deficiencies. However, the 'vegetarian' food in the west is mostly salad and potatoes, a far cry from the variety of veggies found in tropical countries.

[1] http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/blogs/blog-datadelve/article...
I can’t imagine what this looks like if not the proven democratic socialism most of the western world has already agreed to.

There is no market measure for treating employees fairly; only social safety nets.
You have a good point, but you also crossed into personal attack, and broke the site guideline which asks "please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." This leads to crummy threads, so would you please not do that here? Regardless of how smug another commenter may be, or seem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think my expectations align with HN guidelines and with a fair amount of observable behavior here. Granted, some folks can't be arsed. (shrug)
Agreed. Many of the issues with Apple's software quality lately are fundamentals, not issues of scale. Stuff like this, the root password bug, the many issues with reliability in High Sierra, etc.

These things speak to organizational issues.
"man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food"

Most studies I read found that vegetarians were more healthy and lived longer than heavy meat eaters, but the once-in-a-while meat eaters were healthier. One of the reasons I stick with the last group.

Selfish?

Yes. But not only for appetite.

Besides, without predators, you probably would not have much forests ... and much more dessert.
LaTeX for scientific documents, Markdown for lightweight text documents, and ODT from a text editor for everything else.