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I don't know how to make this point clear and concise, my apologies.

As a Dutchie when I tried to learn Italian I just did it mostly. I did it exxagerated and in stereotypical fashion because I found it fun. Doing it in exxagerated manner also gave me the feeling I could have fun with the language, was allowed to fail and had an understanding where the exxageration came from and soon got to understand how to do it in a more normal fashion.

This approach worked so well that my teacher at one point said to a couple of Russians in class "just pronounce it like Mettamage." They were dumbfounded, "really? Do we have to? It is so over the top." They did it anyway, their Italian accents improved immediately. Before they were really monotone and had a heavy voice, and now their tone was all over the place and their voice was less heavy.

Dutch and Italian are closer in pronounciation than I initially thought. So you have a point. But not quite:

The point of this whole post is this: when I got back home to The Netherlands, I wanted to continue my studies. I suddenly lost interest in Italian. I realized that learning Italian words on paper is not the same thing as learning Italian words in Rome. The biggest reason: when I learned Italian words in Rome I saw people speak. Not only did I learn a word, I apparently remember how their lips moved to such an extent that the movement was encoded in my lips. This didn't happen straight away but if you forget a particular word a couple of times and you see the word being said all the time, you start to remember how people say the word with their lips. I could clearly remember a distinct feeling of not feeling any muscle memory in my newly learned Italian words that I learned in The Netherlands.
Machines may beat us in debate, but will they ever have the human touch?
Is the Big Deal about this having what used to be different cards/chips sharing a cpu-style insanely fast bus, instead of trickling stuff over pcie or dram channels? If that is the case, the advantage of this will depend on the amount of bus saturation to be eliminated. Should be interesting. Everything works on Infiniti fabric!
Number of new things broke == Theming. Which was specifically marked as unstable, together with a reason why it was marked unstable (being reworked with CSS).

Gnome and other apps didn't break, because they weren't concerned about theming themselves.
How many illegal immigrants are working in the EU. You don't just get a work visa. Believe me I have dealt with it as the owner of a company in Denmark hiring people from outside the EU.
>Over two seasons of excavations, INAH archaeologists collected 180 mostly complete skulls from the tower as well as thousands of skull fragments. Now, those finds sit in a lab next to the Templo Mayor ruins, being painstakingly examined by a team led by INAH anthropologist Jorge Gómez Valdés. Cut marks on the skulls leave no doubt they were defleshed after death, and the decapitation technique appears clean and uniform. "[Mexica priests] had extremely impressive anatomical knowledge, which was passed down from generation to generation," Chávez Balderas says.
This is something I wish people would do when trying to grasp gender and sexuality, especially where it's outside a binary. Too many attack helicopter jokes and "bi people are untrustworthy", not enough trying to understand another person's experience.

I reverse this when dealing with religious people, for example. I don't understand where they're coming from, and I draw hard lines for those with beliefs that are harmful to me, but I understand them better than when I was an edgy atheist teen.
Bye HN: Existentially-rational, self-termination
I’m not depressed, sad, angry, hurt, drunk, high or self-injurious... I’m just tired of boredom, misery and wasting. I’m homeless in a vehicle that doesn’t work in a parking lot that’s not precisely safe.

The following is text of an email to the only person I know, my mother:

9 years of living homeless is enough. I have no purpose and no future. I have to stop idling and face reality. I have nothing, am nothing, provide nothing, can’t interact with people and offer nothing. I’m tired of all of it. I don’t have anything to do and refuse to do pointless “painting for dementia patients” meaningless “work” that doesn’t change anything. I can’t think of anything worth doing, I can’t think anymore (cognitive decline) and I don’t have any means to do anything if I did. It’s not your fault, it’s bad genetic dice and my fault for where I’m at. My mind is failing, my health is failing in multiple ways and I can’t keep delaying the inevitable.

I wish this didn’t have to be so but wishing doesn’t help the facts. I’m a parasite whose lifecycle needs to expire sooner rather than later, so you must let me go. There is no viable alternative that I can think of that I could live with. I don’t want to live in this failing world anymore and I’m failing too. There’s nothing for me here or anywhere. I can’t build anything, I can’t do anything, I can’t have friends, I can’t have a family... so I don’t want to live.

It’s over.
You can get a J1 visa in 2 weeks which gives you 18months.

You can get an EB1 (greencard in 3 months if you qualify.

You can get an O/L/E visa in a few months same thing with H1b.

And you have way more ways to get in.
Explain please? Immigrants pay into safety nets just like anyone else who pays into them.
It's almost as if God was helping Abraham understand what He felt like sacrificing His own son (Jesus) to the world.
Interesting though. Home assistant devices (Echo/Google Home) might be a first step in this direction, since they're entirely task-oriented. Not quite the same as a GTD system, of course: they just do a thing immediately. But the non-visual interface means that you can't idly flip through Facebook posts even if you tried.

On the other hand, they don't have any support for in-depth tasks. If the things you wanted to get done were writing a letter or editing a photo, you're not going to get far without a screen.
Ok, let's play then

Either news agencies don't influence elections or fake "news accounts" did: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/how-the-k...

Some review of IRA-run accounts featured in popular news outlets: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323703483_The_Twitt...

Either celebrities don't influence elections, or IRA accounts like ten_gop did: https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/10/19/how-ann-coulte...

More detailed story of a specific post-election hashtag: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/04/trump-twi...

And of course there's the cozy bear / Dutch agency episode, confirming the source of some documents releases to wikileaks: https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2213767-dutch-intelligence-...

Each story is present it a few places - sourced mixed to reduce bias. We may never know what was the scale of the influence, so that's the debatable part. But unless someone claims that popular social media accounts have no influence over the results, they agree that IRA did play a part.

You could also speculate that IRA is not led by silly people eager to waste government money for internet LOLs. If their efforts were not effective, why do they continue that for years?
The core of every leading browser is open source. You can create your own browser if you can run the build process. This is how dozens of new browsers have been created over the last 15 years.
But first one must be able to connect with people... since I can’t do that, the rest is considered behaviors of an pointless, unrespectable, unworthy fool, while everyone else is mostly “take, take, take.”
I am wondering how many of those are influenced by the movie Pi:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/
No, the steam engine started the industrial revolution.
Diversity and parallel principles are more general than cybersecurity. If these the design is properly implemented, complete failure in one subsystem (even intentional) is not going to cause a catastrophe. All the attacker can do is to trigger controlled shutdown from analog subsystems.

Different countries have different safety requirements for nuclear power plants, all plants are not necessarily equally secure. Safety is expensive to implement and manufacturers provide different choices.
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5000 people in just over 0.32 miles, plenty of trees and Greenspace.
If she likes that, may I suggest “She Persisted” [1]. It covers 13 notable American women with short, 1-page stories, artwork, and a quote. My girls like it.

1. She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World https://www.amazon.com/dp/1524741728/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_OI5l...
"Whether you like it or not" isn't the legal part, it's the result.
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Isn't that just polytheism?
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this is why annual internal hackerfestathons are so successful in some companies. "Hey Joe, Look at what cool things our developers/designers can do without us!"
Yes it was! My short term memory isn't always reliable but glad if I got the gist right -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17373062 was your comment I was referencing for those following along at home.
Park had history of activism behind her when she remained sit. And community leaders stood by her, because she had track record to prove she can stand the heat (which came, she had to leave town in the end). She continued to be active afterwards. She was rebel before that one act, but she could be made look nice and unthreatening for political reasons. Had she be so nice and good submissive girl and unthreatening, everything that followed would be much harder.

What she was not is out of control impulsive rebel - she was not lashing randomly, did not risked pregnancy to prove something to herself or out of being coerced by boyfriend. Did not broke law out of lack of impulse control.

It is not just that Park was not teenager. She was also known as someone who won't break under pressure, someone who did activism before and was known in that community.

Good submissive girl would never sit on that bus in the first place.
I’m a Russian citizen living in the US, and here’s what I think is true.

1. Social media was constructed for all sorts of parties to influence the American consumer as a set of bought & sold “audiences” (in adtech speak). Some of these audiences are defined using political parameters. Some advertisers targeting these audiences via social media are politically motivated. The whole thing - all of social media - is a form in interference in the way people think.

2. Some advertisers are based in Russia. Most are not. Anyone can buy ads targeting a specific audience on any number of platforms.

3. I’m surprised they bothered to create a shell org to do this. Russia - like many other countries - has vested interests in US policy. Consider this a form of lobbying: just like American corporations go to Washington in order to lobby (“have undue influence over”) elected officials, so do countries “lobby” the American electorate come election time, because the public is seen as susceptible to such influence. In fact America even built platforms for this: social media.

4. Probably, but so is the US, and everyone else. I cannot believe Americans are so upset about something they themselves made possible.
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I agree with you. Proponents of “old values” would argue they come with billion$ of benefit$.
I don't know if they did it intentionally, but that was one of the worst implementations/uses of a carousel i've seen yet -- scrolls every like 2 seconds, so you can't even finish reading a sentence; have to keep hitting back to try and read each block.

After looking at those "studies", it really seems like nobody is using it appropriately, not that carousels are actually bad: too fast; not clear its a carousel; broken implementations; being surprised when people click the first item, despite that probably being the item they were looking for.

To add, if only 1% are clicking the first item, perhaps reconsider what people care about and are looking for, because clearly they don't :)
I like to grow plants from seeds. It's a pretty damn cheap hobby. One of my favorite sites for seeds is rareseeds.com

Also ham radio/SDR.

Been learning piano slowly, which is fun.

I've been doing some simple lock picking - tons of fun, pretty cheap. Knot tying is kind of similar and even cheaper.

3d printing is also an amazing hobby.

Also getting into MAME and classic arcade games is cool.
In the same general category, I just wrote a script to download episodes of anime as they're released.
Are you saying they shouldn't go out of business? Because they should -- they just won't, because we have a system that enables them.
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I have a Thinkpad from work and a MagSafe MacBook at home. I wanted to love the Thinkpad so I don’t have to even entertain the possibility of being ripped off buying a new MacBook in the next couple of years. It’s a great pc laptop, better than most I’ve used. But it’s not in the same league as my old MacBook. A lot of the problem is how the hardware works under windows - it just doesn’t quite ‘click’. It feels disjointed and it’s really not enjoyable to use. I’ve only had it for a few months so it may grow on me. But the trackpad is really bad, like all other pc laptops I’ve tried. How on earth did they (Microsoft? Lenovo?) decide dragging a single finger on the trackpad could sometimes be a drag, rather than moving the pointer? Did anyone actually test it and decide it was good? Or just ‘good enough’?
The objective of law is not to emulate but rather constrain and govern society.

It is not hard to argue that the subject matter of each and every law and code is based on immediate or at least likely, if not precedent, events rather than to naively assume that, that which is illegal should not happen and leave your car unlocked.

Besides, my argument and criticism is not concerned with sanctioning of unfavorable behavior but rather holding accountable those who make promises and sales you products.

> It’s not their area of responsibility and I would rather they did what they do well - make money.

But why not? the car maker is not in the business of providing security guards, but I bet you wouldn't be happy if they made cars that were easy to pick, why would this not apply to other business?

Most online business make a big deal of security in their sales, why not holding accountable for those promises?
Facial recognition is here to stay. And we should all probably accept it
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The taxable value will likely accrue at dollar value at the time you receive the fee.
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My kids used to celebrate "holimoments" (after the pattern of "holiday"). These were occasions when they'd look at the digital clock on the microwave and see something that didn't quite look random, like "10:01" or "12:34". They had a little ceremony when they saw one of these, pretending to take pictures with an invisible camera and doing a dance which involved wiggling their butts (because butts are always funny). There are a lot of events which deserve a holimoment dance and nothing more.
Your email and post/comment history seem quite cogent. You still have the ability to write clearly and effectively. Please consider your options. Reach out to someone locally for help/contact. I would be surprised if there weren’t something you could work productively towards.
There's nothing stopping you from receiving an iPhone, taking a photo of a brick, and getting a refund either. The payment provider will most likely side with you and refund your money, unless you do it repeatedly, in which case they'll investigate before just refunding.

The difference with a third-party escrow is that they should not have a bias towards either the buyer or the seller. The traditional markets are clearly biased towards the buyers because they don't want to lose buyers from their platforms. They don't want to lose sellers either, but the risk is smaller, because it's more difficult for a seller to switch to using another platform, and a certain amount of fraud is kind of expected from sellers.

The use of one or more independent escrows can prevent the marketplace from unilaterally taking money from the seller and refunding the buyer without performing their due diligence (which PayPal frequently do not)
A path that might bring us out of there would be if the browser vendors defined a subset of HTML, CSS and the DOM API that guarantees an extra fast path through rendering and JIT. Basically leave out everything that makes browsers hard and resource intensive to implement. The increased speed would be the selling point for developers and the simplified and efficient APIs would make it possible to implement something like Electron-Light from scratch which would only need tens of MB RAM, instead of hundreds.
As I read this I began accumulating comments to make on various points, but eventually realized that this author isn’t the expert in enterprise software as claimed.
Remote can be far more effective than offices. From what I see, full remote actually works much better than partial remote.

If you go partially remote, communication tools are disjointed; you'll have meetings with some, lunch with some, Skype with some. Skype as a core communication tool is a red flag.

But if everyone is full remote, you start to adopt more effective communication methods. Instead of status update meetings, people stay up on Slack 24/7, shitpost constantly, which also includes regular status update. You'll start adopting project management tools as a way to maintain project updates. Little private channels form up where people can vent disagreements or flag problems with the rest of the team.

If the team is only partially remote, this doesn't happen. Problems fester, tools like Slack or Trello fall apart because they're unused by upper management or the people doing the work. And these tools will be unused when there are "better" tools like face to face meetings.

I actually get a lot more honesty from remote teams because the can speak up on issues which they wouldn't face to face. Regular shitposting on Slack also breaks the ice better than doing team building outings.
Perhaps. It's a logical option to consider in a vacuum. It's not logical with context.
MySQL, Postgres etc. all support transparent compression. I'd be curious how small the database would end up after compression, and what the impact would be on querying time.

I'm skeptical it would be as good as the parquet/sqlite option the author came up with (postgres I believe does compression value-by-value, can't remember how MySQL does it).
I would come to the number by calculating how people will support themselves and others, and yet have a reasonable load on them.

That number seems to be at least greater than 3. So 4. Probably it's more like 3.1 or so.

How did you get to the conclusion that the island of the Philippines can't support (from now, and for a VERY long time in the future, even if perhaps not indefinitely) 3 children per woman ?
> By any reasonable measure, we're in a renaissance of creativity

There is a really interesting historical pattern here where new communications technologies create an initial splurge of independent creators but after some time the technology is consolidated into a smaller number of platforms (by regulation or monopolisation or sometimes both) that provide the main route for content to its consumers. These platforms tend to stifle peer competitors and are only replaced by disruptive rivals. Creativity on the platform depends on how much it stifles the content, the classic example being the Hollywood film industry in the 1940s .. 1960s which was highly vertically integrated and thus became an excellent vehicle for enforcing the so-called Hays Code, which defined morally acceptable content and attitudes.

This idea is explored really well in the 2010 book ‘The Master Switch’ by Tim Wu [1] who shows how this pattern is played out with Radio, Films, Television and latterly the Internet. It would be really interesting to see an update to this excellent book to reflect the consolidation of Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc since it was published.

My own concern is that because the internet is perhaps more pervasive than the prior media, any lockdown could have more severe chilling effects. As an extreme, consider future cloud-based compute appliances that don’t allow side-loaded software and whose content creation tools delete or report inappropriate language.

[Edit - just noticed a similar comment from Jedd below. Next time I should read a bit further before commenting!]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Wu#The_Master_Switch

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code
"What’s worse is that you can find many different recipes on the web on how to fix X and most of them don't work", that is basically Gnome/GTK3 in a nutshell.
I use https://torrent.express/ to integrate BitTorrent resources over HTTP. This helps with streaming, downloading and various programmatic use cases which are all better supported with HTTP.
I’m sure the folks you’ve engaged with here at HN over past 7 months would want you to call a crisis number. If you value HN enough to post here, do them/us that favor?

Not sure what country you’re in so:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines
The stakes are lower at work and less (if at all) emotional at least for me. At the end of the day I really don’t care enough about a job to get upset. My job is just a paycheck. It’s purely transactional. My job is disposable. If my job causes me stress over a prolonged period of time, I can easily find another one without any regret. I haven’t invested anything emotionally into my job. My marriage on the other hand is different.

I’m not saying that is an excuse for fighting unfairly or being hurtful. But my wife, my parents, and my (step)sons are the only people I have a deep emotional connection to that I won’t separate myself from awhile if they get on my nerves.
I'm sure we agree but a caveat like "if properly implemented" is quite a big one to make in this business - bad stuff happens largely because of implementation bugs. And we don't know how to eliminate implementation bugs. And this is one reason why we see successful attacks on systems with multiple "sound if properly implemented" levels of security.
Wasn't YouTube supposed to do this a few years ago?[0] Yet some videos at full volume are still quieter than other videos at 10% volume. Does it not work?

[0]http://productionadvice.co.uk/youtube-loudness/
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The point is that you'll always have to ensure a chunk of time for your "main" activity and give it sustained efforts. Reading broadly and exploring a range of topics is always good and beneficial, but you need to limit your time on them. If you just spend your whole day reading various disparate newsletters and articles instead of focusing on one book, one particular area that you dive deep into, your career prospect, etc., it wouldn't work.
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The article talks about water as if it's an exhaustible resource, but it's not. What's the big deal if my quarter pounder requires the flow of hundreds or thousands of gallons of water, it's all released to the atmosphere at some point, right? I could understand if they were talking about the power needed to pump water (assuming artificial irrigation), but they don't mention that at all.
You're wildly off base here.

The chances of getting a counterfeit item in some product categories is basically 100%. Go ahead, try to buy a real pair of Apple iPhone corded headphones on Amazon. That assignment is quite literally impossible.