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>Take for example religion. Nobody can be 100% sure whether there is some sort of god or not. But you won't hear anybody make any % predictions, especially the ones who believe. They believe 100% for sure there is a god. Atheist are on that front the same, and believe 100% there is no god. They are unable to make a % prediction, or really don't want to because it would break something inside of them (their belief). Very strange. I like to work with chances a lot.

The question simply isn't meaningful enough to give a meaningful answer? The ultimate answer isn't going to be true or false - it's null.

Humans seem peculiarly blind to the notion that sometimes questions just aren't meaningful enough to produce a meaningful answer. Or at least, the humans I tend to run into are. Maybe there are tribes in Africa where this notion is obvious.
Related read:

https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-toys-r-us-su...
> Except - you can check out the (old) version you want, and build it yourself?
Optionally disable the update code first...

I can't tell if you are serious or not. Really, this is nice example of programmers living in their bubble ... Or excellent trolling.
ME is an advanced science degree.
This is not about linking. Anyone can link to Wikipedia articles without paying a dime. There is a very significant difference between linking to an article like what HN does, and copying new articles and publish them which HN does not.
Sure, there’s always more work to do.
If you could/can work out the change from a pound on a 4s-6½ (four shillings and six and a halfpence) packet of fags (circa 1050s), you'd hardly be likely to have much problem with metric.

[As was: 1 pound = 240 pence = 20 shillings i.e. 1 shilling = 12 pence]
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HDMI works (only kernel support and xserver-xorg-video-fbdev for Xorg is required), I haven't tested audio.

Example hybrid image for Tinkerboard and RPi is here (based on Ubuntu): https://files.husarion.com/husarion-core2-ros.img.xz (unfortunately the build scripts are not public yet)
A topic very well explored in "The Innovator's Dilemma" by Clayton Christensen.
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I also struggle to understand why people buy it, when the rumours about it started I actually thought it was a deliberate misdirection aimed at Samsung et al.

Looking at the responses to your post there are clearly some fans here, I do wonder though how many are sat with a flat battery in a drawer somewhere.
Because a web browser is essentially an operating system running many internal applications. Simply open an empty browser with a single tab and watch how much memory it consumes. Compare that with a new command shell.
Many controversial Wikipedia articles are already protected in some ways. This is nothing new.
In the UK Toys R Us was really grim and dirty, the staff were distracted, the whole place felt like a prison you wanted to escape from. I'm not at all surprised by its demise.
DeepL is what I use for European language translations. I wish they added more languages and maybe a nice app like Google Translate. It blows every other translation service out of the water.
git reset should be renamed to git remove, because add is used to add the staging. Or "git add" should be "git stage"

"git remove" should then be "git delete".
Is it really that much worse? If PC hardware wouldn't require obscure old hardware features for software compatibility, the resulting architecture based on the newer stuff only (e.g. PCI) is way better. The cores of the available operating systems also improved a lot over the years. Windows now has a rather decent kernel at its core, for example.

The whole package is far from perfect, but it is better than what would have resulted from continued engineering at the level that we had in the 80s and 90s.
No I agree it’s not. But, my experience from many years is: people want leadership that is confident, which way to go. Event though, it might not be the right (I wonder if there is ever a right way, because as you correctly say, the world is utterly complex)
Excellent points. I would add this points to the broader issue of "license proliferation" [1] which is a total headache for the lawyers to sort out and as wikipedia describes "affects the whole FOSS ecosystem negatively by the burden of increasingly complex license selection, license interaction, and license compatibility considerations". And it making potential contributors hesitant about even using their project.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation
Old computers never die - their users do!

We should definitely not be throwing away old computers. They're just as useful as they were when they were assembled, and can be tasked to do all sorts of things we haven't even thought about yet.

I'm a huge fan of retro computing (Oric-1 Atmos, FTW!) and there is nothing more satisfying than to sit down and download a fresh new app, built this year, to run on a system built 30 years ago. I think this is a feeling that must persist, somehow, so I encourage everyone and anyone who has an old computer in their attic to dig it out, boot it up, and keep it running. Even if you can't find a use for it, there are a million other people out there who could. Give it to the kids and let them learn computing in the most distraction-free environment you can give them... my kids learned computing at the 8-bit level and its already put them way ahead of the iPhone-addicted peers. Sure, the Oric may not have the latest and greatest titles, but at least my kids know how to put a picture together with nothing but a few characters, an editor, and an understanding of hexadecimal ..
That's ridiculous. She would have gotten thrown in jail if she carried an ounce of cocaine. "Stealing from the rich" resulted in a "civil" violation. Big deal.

When the Department of Justice charges, convicts and throws her in prision -- then we can talk about the "number one rule."
But as parent said, "Technology has infitinite uses", so what about the other infinite uses?
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It's kind of like taking out a mortgage to buy stocks, or, these days, bitcoin, and then expect to pay it off with dividends and appreciation.
when in major cities in China, my experience is that Google Maps is almost unusable (not due to the censorship, as I use a roaming SIM which avoids those problems, but rather due to wildly incorrect data, missing metro lines, etc), and Apple Maps is at least on par with the quality that Google Maps achieves in other countries, and often much better.

I find it interesting that Google doesn't care enough to add the most recent several metro lines in (for example) Beijing or Shanghai, considering that many people try to use Google Maps in China when visiting and usually seem to end up switching to Apple Maps as a result of the complete trash the Google Maps experience is there. I wonder if they switch back when they go home.
Those 10 seconds were staged. She knew that they were coming, she was in a small "room", and she probably took a look at her surrounding before those 10 seconds kicked and planned what to do and in which order in her head.

In real life, the warning such as this would catch people by surprise. That's not to say they wouldn't be useful, but I highly doubt they would be that useful as they were on that video.

Even if I'm in my own home, I imagine it would take me at least a fifth of that time to look around and come up with a plan of what is achievable in such a short time span.
Sate machines and pipelines are very much about programming though.
Siri's amnesia is the biggest painpoint for me. Lack of context and compounding errors when I can't extend an initial sentence makes it entirely unusable.

Anything useful requires speaking a longer sentence. Siri will interpret most of it but get one (key) word wrong, but Siri won't let me clarify my statement or add a statement without starting all over again. So I can't use Siri on top of it not understanding my accent (I've tried Australian, America and English accents and using "G'day Siri").

I know there is an NLP engine in the background deriving entity relations - just let me add some more to the same context and remember it for 30 seconds and I'll use Siri a lot more.

E.g. "Hey Siri, search the web for minumum cut graph algorithms."
Siri: "Now searching for minumum cut Graaff I'll go rhythms."
Me: "Graph, not graaff."
Siri: "Hello, I'm a web server!"
Me: throws phone out of window
I like this.

Would be great if i could define what i want news topics i want to see. Similar to newsnow.co.uk
Talking about compiler flags and need for OS-level handling of multiple library versions .. . You do know that not every dev is C dev?

And your "general consensus" isn't as general as you think, look up OS usage among developers. I have never seen source claiming 50%+ usage of Linux, and "consensus" implies much more than simple majority ...
In my experience the only way I learnt how git works was by being forced to use it, and to do that you need to know the commands that do things first. You don't need a deep understanding of git's internals to use it, despite what most people seem to think.

I also found Git much easier to understand with a GUI client so you can easily see the state of the repo. GitX is a good one (on Mac).
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I use it to set the alarm, a pretty basic task. Works in 6/10 cases. This is totally unacceptable in the age of “smart”.
Youtube is indirectly compensating Wikimedia though; the benefactors page lists Google Matching Gifts as a major benefactor (https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Benefactors). Looks like that's a 'matching' foundation of sorts that will match / double certain donations - maybe from googlers?
which will, of course, trigger the reminder as you walk down the street away from home, forcing you to go back and get the change of clothes that you forgot.
The UK has socialised health but Vitality Health are also offering an Apple Watch as part of the health insurance:

https://www.vitality.co.uk/rewards/partners/active-rewards/a...
> Matthias Schulz. Teaching Your Wireless Card New Tricks: Smartphone Performance and Security Enhancements through Wi-Fi Firmware Modifications. Dr.-Ing. thesis, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, February 2018.

might be coming soon. Feb 2018 is pretty recent, and publication is sometimes delayed due to procedural issues. However, it might just be "published" by having a number of copies in the university's (as well as the state's and German federal) libraries.
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Indeed. If 7% of your genome were replaced with something else, it would be incredibly unlikely that you would still be alive.
On a side note, I'm amazed Digg is still alive.
License proliferation leads to complicated license compatibility relationships [1].

Imagine someone wanted to, say, provide native support in GNUradio - as has been done for the RTL-SDR. It's impossible unless you relicense one or the other.

Of course, the code's being given away for free; you could argue one shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. And it's quite possible no-one would attempt such a merge even if it was permitted by the license.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation#License_...
If you can't make basic calculations with ratio and percentages, it seems unlikely that you can compare different costs per unit weight/volume or do the maths to figure out how much food you need without waste.

Yes, you can look at a chicken and say "that's enough for 3 people". Yes - in the UK - it's quite likely (legally required?) that all products are labelled per 100g or per kg (although I'd contest people failing these tests are likely not to be understand or care for that labelling). It's a tough argument to make that these skills have no impact on on budgeting at all.
Not all developers can or want to have alternative revenue streams. It is completely unreasonable to expect a developer to support software for 10 years if you are not paying for this service. Sadly, on Apple platforms there is no way of doing paid upgrades so there goes that.
> I mean.. people can't do math in their head. Who cares?

I kind of agree. I guess I can answer to the first question :

"If you bought four packs of tea: chamomile ($4.60), green ($4.15), black ($3.35) and lemon ($1.80) with a $20 note, how much change would you get?"

but to be honest, it would take me an embarrassing long time to do it, and in the end I could very well have made a mistake.

Don't get me wrong : mental calculus is an awesome skill and it so happens that I have lately been trying to improve in this regard. But the fact that not everybody masters this art should not be a surprise.
I think someone in a chatroom I'm in is working on something like this; embed a WASM runtime in a fat ELF (or PE) that will also load a runtime from disk if it's newer and then compile/JIT the included WASM code.

IMO WASM can probably learn from the JVM mistakes a lot, especially when the runtime gets baked in so you don't need it on your computer just to run it (looking hard at you JVM, don't try to hide!)
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It's their work, it's their prerogative to select the license. If you don't like it, leave it.
Why do you want to connect your phone to your laptop?
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Does that mean that socialism (a necessarily coercive human-elaborated system) assumes people are stupid and make trades and decisions that are irrational and bad for them? Perhaps it does in denial of the evidence from the history of the 20th century.

People don't have to be sold on capitalism. It comes naturally because it's not a scheme devised by some right-wing Marx though people have elaborated on it. People trade with each other because it comes naturally as it does to every single living entity on the planet which trades with its neighbours and its environment.
Wise capitalists see that it's in all our interests to take compassionate regard for the weak, old, distracted etc,. given that that's the fate (in some measure) for all of us ultimately. That's trading.
You're plant example is not really convincing. It would make much more sense, that only one tries it, in small amounts, and than later everyone. And this is what indigenous people also do.

Just "all go for it" would be evolutionary very hindering as there are many, many poisonous plants out there.

It makes sense in other scenarios, though.
Or just in general, should we take path A or B.
Doing a "maybe" decision won't get you anywhere in many situations. Like when you either have to go far in that direction, or in the other direction. Staying means starving, but finally reaching A or B could mean food. So it is better to go choose and be determined, even when you don't know for sure whether the prey really will be there and not the stronger enemy tribe.

Still true today.

Just not in all the scenarios, our "leaders" wants us to believe...
I really meant a 'cataclysmic astroid hit', one we could do nothing about... but fascinating point none the less.
Is there a non-twitterspasm version of this essay?
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I certainly don't know a lot about Autism, you are right about that.

Since this drug is found in the dirt, I became curious if there might be a link between microbial exposure and autism.

I started to look and came across an article in the American Journal of Public Health that said the one of the biggest factors for risk of autism was urban vs Rural and that researchers speculated it may have to do with neonatal microbial exposure.

AUTISM AND URBANIZATION
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2882422/

I spoke with an SF biohacker doctor friend who said that autism "for certain” was connected to the microbiome.

I don't claim to be an expert, but my curiosity is certainly leading me to some new personal discoveries about Autism.
Also, the steep mountain sides occlude the sun for large parts of the day - especially during winter[1].

[1]: http://www.tinderangel.no/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IMG_018...
OT but what do you mean by "English speaker with no accent"? Clearly every person has an accent, and every system that understands language must be able to understand the various accents that people have.
About time. Why should criminal activity and harassment be supported? You can have all the rights you're entitled too, provided you don't trample on other people's.
I believe this is because offset uses an llvm intrinsic with the extra requirements, as it uses that info for optimization. Your version doesn't.
This bears no resemblance to reality... You can disagree with the “fake news” narrative, but you should have the decency to attack a good faith interpretation of it, not whatever straw man you’re alluding to.

Here’s the gist, just in case you are actually confused: there are some sites both large and small, from shady operations in the balkans to infowars, that publish stories completely made up. One example might be the child abuse enterprise run by Hillary Clinton from the basement of a pizzeria.

As we all know, that pizzeria didn’t even have a basement. So we can agree, hopefully, that this was an insane conspiracy theory.

Such stories were/are extensively shared on social media in the run up to the last election. And while they may not have been decisive, it’s hard to argue that they had no effect whatsoever. At the very least, they fed the cynicism and distrust already rotting in the core of society.

That’s the idea of „fake news“. You can dispute that it has any effect. You can argue that some good comes out of this free-for-all. But note that traditional media publishers simply play no role in this. To make this about some perceived failure of the New York Times takes quite a lot of logical gymnastics.
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> Does that mean that socialism (a necessarily coercive human-elaborated system) assumes people are stupid and make trades and decisions that are irrational and bad for them?

Yes, that's the whole premise of collectivism: I can't take care of myself, so someone else has to.
Though now that I think about it, if 7% of the human-specific genome was changed, then it must mean that 7% of the rest was changed too. I mean it's not like cosmic particles specifically target human genes, is it?
What's the name of the SaaS that aggregates small cloud provider spare capacity?
I can't remember the name or find it in search and it's driving me mad, please help.

I read about it on hackernews last year some time.

It was a blog post by an existing company launching a new product that aggregates the spare capacity of small cloud hosting providers and lets you deploy code to them and handles live migration between them.

I wanted to look into using them today but couldn't remember the name or find them!

Thanks for the help
Well I guess you can divide them in illegal uses (license does not matter) and legal uses (license could matter). I guess from all the legal uses, the authors disliked military etc. use enough to exclude it. Their choice.
Maybe PayPal should disclose this?

Not

- Your data MAY be shared with these 600 companies

but

- For this transaction to complete, your data WILL be shared with those 10 companies
There's no evidence that any civilisation will ever have enough computing power to simulate a universe.
Yeah that's not a strong argument at all. The 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands are known widely as "garbage bands" due to how terrible they are to work with (e.g. rain will heavily attenuate your signal, they're literally how microwaves work to cook your food, etc.).

Moreover, there are plenty of radios on the market that transmit all kinds of noise on these channels that isn't WiFi (e.g. my neighbors had a baby monitor that I could tell when it was on by how shit my WiFi was at that moment, FPV drones somewhat frequently use this band with proprietary analog video transports, etc.) This is permitted because these channels are "unregulated" (or, more realistically, "regulated for unlicensed operation").

On top of that, the FCC's official statement on this very topic was that what they really care about is the amount of power being put into these channels, as some aftermarket router firmwares of varying repute would let you crank the output wattage above FCC regulations for these frequencies (<1W power to stay within unlicensed operation regulations for 2.4GHz), and apparently some in-market WiFi routers picked up those firmwares as a "supported" option (I think ASUS and Linksys were both named). Most of these routers have since patched themselves to stay regulation-safe.

So, go nuts, just stay below 30 dBm/1W from the transmitter in 2.4Ghz channels or prepare for a visit from the FCC. (You'll have to do your own research for 5GHz).
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Am I the only one still using it? Seems like a sudden decision with no explanation.

Shame - I still like RSS as a way of getting updates from people and sites I follow.
VSCode is the most used editor (see SO survey), so I guess department making it qualifies as "user-friendly".

You can't really make sweeping statements about large orgs.
In the UK I think the big seller was the Bat Pack [1]. Batman was a pretty amazing action game which had the bonus of being completable and at the same time as the film was a massive hit. New Zealand story was arcade perfect Mario style game. F18 interceptor was just brilliant. Hours of trying to fly inverted under the golden gate bridge. Deluxe paint - just brilliant! Coming from the spectrum this was a big upgrade.

http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/a500batman.html
hiring developers to help develop software to make editing easier. wikimedia has stated this as one of their uses for donations in the past afaik
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Do you use search engines? All of them use their own sense of judgment to decide which content is best for your query. You rely on curators in most areas of your life, why would news be exempt?
I’m not sure which “reputed media sources” are granting any trust to any unsubstantiated stories they find on social media. Fox News does. And while they have a reputation. I doubt it’s the sort of reputation you mean.

As for Twitter: it’s just a tool, like email. If the president uses Twitter, and actual policy news break there, it’s perfectly fine to report on it.
Well aren't you just full of yourself.
Glass is widely used and recycled in Europe.
No it's not.

That's supervised for one thing. Also this is bot detection, not attempting to detect fake news.

I'm not the first author and I'm not sure what the convention is for pre-prints at WWW.

It's the kind of thing I'd love to talk about because it's so damn amazingly effective, but it isn't really my place to say anything.
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At least in Christianity, doubt is a major component of the faith structure. Generally, the more thoughtful believers will recognise that the concept of God is something that exists outside the realm of things humans can assign probabilities to - and likewise for thoughtful atheists, they generally refer to the overwhelming improbability of a god existing, not to any particular number, certainly not 100%. It seems to me that people willing to place probability numbers on such things (outside thought experiments) generally don't understand probabilities (or, frankly, religion or atheism, either) very well.
Recruiters do it on top of your salary, not as part of your salary, and the pain is felt by the company, not the employee.
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Yeah, while they're at it, could they please ban all political figures? I dislike their positions either.