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Ask HN: Why no hardware virtualisation of a dual OS boot?
I need to use windows for work and like to dualboot into a gnu/linux for everything else.

Why do i have to reboot the machine to switch the operating system?

Software virtualisation is not an option.

Couldn't there be a bios level implementation of some real dualboot function, that assigns half of my cpu cores to each os, splits the available ram in half for each os, and then boots them both at the same time, so after that i can switch between them near instantaneously with a simple buttonpress, like i would be running 2 computers.

What's the big technical challenge here?
Or is this just a fringe desire?
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Your analogy would more accurately be, "it's been dark all my life, so the sun's never going to rise again."

The paper goes into this starting on page 12. After establishing estimates based on a variety of factors, they then adjust the results by pointing out that "there were no Type III Kardashev civilizations using more than 85% of the starlight in 10^5 surveyed galaxies" and that "the lack of observable settlement provides a strong bound on extraterrestrial intelligence".

They proceed to offer approximations for Bayes conditional probabilities with different formulae for no stars having been observed to have civilizations, no civilizations within a detectable distance, and no settlements within nearby spacetime.

After putting all of this together, they conclude in section 4.0 that, "The Fermi observation thus raises our 52% credence for being alone in the galaxy to somewhere between 53% and 99.6%, depending on the type of evidence considered. It likewise raises our 38% credence for being alone in the observable universe to somewhere between 39% and 85%."

Essentially, they're saying that if the probability of detection is some value if there are intelligent civilizations in the observable universe, then how does it change the model that they haven't been observed? I am not a knowledgeable enough mathematician to judge whether this is an appropriate use of Bayes or not, but I would expect that someone would have already pointed it out if it weren't.

They then conclude section 4.1 with, "...unless one assigns a very strong prior to [a systematic failure to detect observable civilizations], our qualitative conclusions still hold."
US Congressman Calls for Ban on Crypto Buying and Mining
It's not how many kids you have, it's how old they are. The period of time between 0 and 6 months is very challenging from a sleep perspective unless you avoid taking responsibility for the child at night (e.g. by dumping nighttime responsibility on your intimate partner), which I view as generally unacceptable.

Initially children have no circadian rhythm, which is very difficult. Later, they are awake frequently for feeding or otherwise, which is also difficult. Once they settle into a routine, however, it's fine.

I would particularly advise the "cry it out" technique. This seems cruel, which is why I waited with my first-born until he was 14 months old to do it, at which point it took a mere 3 days for him to start going to sleep on his own and sleeping through the night. We did it with our second child at 5 months with the same level of success (at least for going to sleep - very young children still wake up in the night more than older ones).

After around 6 months old, the sacrifices you make for your children are significant but no longer revolve primarily around sleep or the lack thereof.
I'm slightly confused by this paragraph, what is being emulated and aren't most android devices 32 bit these days?

"It comes with PicoLisp binaries for Arm64 pre-installed. If your device has an Arm32 CPU, you can - after installing the PilBox App but before starting it - download and install the emulator version https://software-lab.de/arm32.zip. If this was done by mistake, you can revert to Arm64 binaries with..."
1) the fact that so-called 'incels' think so lowly of themselves and other fellow human beings as to call for sex redistribution is disgusting.

2) the fact that 'incels' are an actual named group with an identity and discussion surrounding them deeply disturbs something within me. I feel simultaneously that free speech must be upheld but that we cannot give these people a platform. This dissonace is uncomfortable. I also feel that identity politics is is generally bad and that it caused this: the emphasis on all experiences and ideas being special and valuable, and the idea that people with similar apolitical characteristics can and should support each other politically, set the stage for this.

3) There is nothing inherently wrong with sex workers or sex robots but I still wish that myself, my friends, and my family never have a need for them.

To sum up some thoughts and respond to sibling comments: Sex is beautiful but can be horrifying. So much evil has come from it. It seems to me that it should be a private thing done in moderation. 'Private' could include multiple partners or whatever you're into, and 'moderation' could mean different things for different people, I suppose. But the idea is respect and humility and that is found nowhere in this article. Sex "work" seems like a twisted oxymoron, as does a sex "coach". But both may be practical and necessary, I don't know.

I admit this is not really rational argument but an emotional appeal. Is there still room for that in the modern world?
I thought the filesystems lurking in the DNS echoed packets, and in ICMP, and in other things like mail headers were just bad RFC april-fool jokes, but doing an attack on the commons in keystores and then descending into namecalling fits on the mailing lists and wontfix is just .. crass.
But you shouldn't want the full power of a Turing complete language in a config language. All of that belongs in application-space, configuration is supposed to be simple and static, with as little logic as possible, preferably none.
>That means sending people out.

"People" can be made pretty small if all you're sending is DNA and robots to grow them.
He was never tried for that. He should be given a fair sentence for the website (he had to setup categories, so there's still culpability), and then tried separately for other crimes.
good question! i'm not an expert.

my understanding is go is slow because each function call has to copy over to a bigger stack (goroutines have tiny stacks to start, and grow on demand, but c code can't do that, natch) and because it has to tell the goroutine scheduler some stuff for hazy reasons.

this github issue has a lot of interesting discussion of go ffi: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16051

these benchmarks https://github.com/dyu/ffi-overhead seem to show that a c call via cgo will be about 14 (!) times slower than a c call from c# in mono, which itself is about 2 times slower than just a plain c call.
I've never done so outside of FreeNAS appliances, partly because I remain persuaded that offloading the RAID portion to a card is more cost-effective and higher-performance, especially on otherwise RAM- and/or IO-constrained servers, and partly because the ZFS support under Linux has, historically, been less than ideal.

Higher-level checksum failures are, however, a situation, where I would appreciate an integration between filesystem and RAID, as I'd want a checksum error to mark a drive as bad, just like any other read error.

Do you happen to know if ZFS does that?
That argument does not hold much water. Natural Gas is the preferred source for almost all new power plants, and the US has a LOT of it (Shale oil/gas). Not to mention the shitloads of good ol petroleum in the Permian Basin, Alaska and the Arctic.
The Princeton companion to mathematics
The State of Artificial Intelligence Adoption in LATAM
True, "censorship is wrong" is my own personal opinion, and I agree with you in that censorship of your own platform is practicing free speech.
well put. I am for both options existing on the internet - for people who want an AOL/Compuserve/tailored kind of internet as well as for people who like to live on the UNIX command line and peruse gopher for news :).

The 1st Amendment, which I admit I treat as the 'gospel' of free speech in these cases, allows for both. It just seems private enterprise in certain geographic areas of the world tends to skew more toward one view of the internet while leaving out the other in the cold... I'm trying to put this is mildly as I can :).
Any techniques on exactly how you do that?
I learned assembly by reading two books, the first was "hacking , the art of exploitation " and the second is the Z80 book
Where is the gate keeping? Anyone can get their music on iTunes, Spotify, etc. by going through a company like CD Baby. Getting noticed on the other hand is harder.

I don’t know how it works with pop music, but hip hop artists have a long history of selling CDs out of a trunk, marketing through barber shops, etc. and going around the establishment until they get noticed.
Surprisingly, it's 5 completely separate bots:

"OpenAI Five does not contain an explicit communication channel between the heroes’ neural networks. Teamwork is controlled by a hyperparameter we dubbed “team spirit”"

- https://blog.openai.com/openai-five/
Can you seriously imagine a world where behavior and speech are restricted to that which does not cause people to get angry and potentially violent? Can you both imagine that world and also want to live in that world?
EU, you are fighting the wrong war.

Bundled user-space software means nothing compared to the bundled OS.

We should have a phone without OS, install the OS of our choice, just like ordinary computer.

The non-free smartphone ecosystem doesn't allow me to do that.

So, I refuse to own or use the phone.
Not being ever able to make more coins is a pretty serious feature! Whereas USD can be printed any time.
The Future of Genetic Privacy
Isn't Obama just arguing for a version of the broken windows fallacy?
Shipwreck Carrying Billions in Gold Rediscovered
I absolutely support using Lua for a configuration language.

Yes, you have to load a parser, but it's tiny, and the syntax is everything people like about JSON but without any of the listed drawbacks, and even simpler.
How would you rate the firmness and does it breathe? I’d imagine wool would retain body heat quite a bit.
> Dave Lee's youtube video is a withering takedown, presented dispassionately.

You've said this in two threads that I've read and I truly do not know what you mean by it. Is it a bad thing that Dave doesn't scream at his viewers when making a video? Or do you mean something else entirely?
I don't do fancy things in my jenkins builds, so your mileage will vary.
Linode datacenter in Newark is down
Comparison of Antibiotic Prescribing in Various Settings in the United States
Right, it us up to us to enjoy the content we want. The internet provides everything from porn to gambling to politics to hacker news and that is a beautiful thing.
Another old joke: "What's punk? Punk's dead, man."
I feel a bit like the Princess and the Pea, but those lines down the middles would bug me.
No, it is not a paradox to anyone anymore. If you accepted common terms before, you had a paradox because your calculation yielded millions of civilizations and we've observed none. If you didn't accept those terms in the first place, there was no paradox because either you had no opinion of the matter or your calculation yielded close to zero to begin with. Since that fits the observation there is no paradox there either.
Europe's Google Decision Brings New Calls for U.S. Action
Announcing Cirq: An Open Source Framework for NISQ Algorithms
Spotify has a couple of playlists that might help OP learn a bit more about the genre:

The Road to Punk Rock: https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWU0...

Complete Chaos: https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX1f...

Punk Unleashed: https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXdJ...

Skatepark Punks: https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX3M...

New Punk Tracks: https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX0K...

These playlists are not really definitive of the genre but can at least give a broad range of styles, plus, they're fun to listen to.
So punk is vandalism?
In my opinion the sentence is just and will hopefully deter others.
Mulesing: Cruel or Kind?
To the extent that it's possible, yes. Just look at Canada's hate speech laws if you want a real world example.
Sure, I don’t have any objection to the commission determining Google’s current businesss model is anticompetitive or forcing Google change it. However, when google then does change their business model, no one should react with surprise.
Ironically, when I asked an old timer about the IDC field format, I was told they were that way "because that's how they were on the previous paper forms."

Point being, using proprietary data formats works up until you need to share data (e.g. labs, consults). And then the forms are the API. So either you're writting a translator or you aren't communicating with the other system.

But this is prolly a bit of a tangent. Standardized forms and coding are actually a huge benefit to efficiency.

The biggest loss in productivity (I saw) is the back-and-forth nature of the system. Provider submits claim. Insurance rejects it. Phone call is made. Claim is updated. Insurance rejects it for a different reason. Claim is updated. Claim goes through. Note: rejections are usually for technical / procedural reasons, not necessarily not wanting to pay the claim. And that process is different for each insurer.

If you really wanted to eliminate hours spent in billing, enriching the "negotiation" phase somehow would be best. But also difficult because you're essentially coding the legal contract between insurer and provider, then attempting to apply it to an actual situation. And have to play nice with the existing systems on both sides.
This view is usually only shared by those who have never had to deal with all the things that come with being poor.

Social Safety nets are just that: safety nets. They are not meant to provide a living for everyone, but to cushion the fall for those who have fallen on hard times. To not let the weakest members of the tribe left out when there is no shortage of the basic commodities for existence.

We tried Brutal Capitalism before. It lead to all the evils of the Gilded age: poverty, inequality and wanton destruction of the environment by corporations gone amok.
Anyone have a good way to run Qt Creator locally on their desktop, but edit, build, and debug code running on a remote, headless server?

I love Qt Creator, but this use-case has led me to settle for Vim+gdb over ssh.

[edit] Clarification: X-over-SSH isn't a good solution because of the lag.
My intention was not to save money but to get a particular product that didn't seem to exist otherwise (large mattress in the US, and then large mattress with particular properties). I tried to buy one first, there wasn't much else for me to do.
Honey, did you leave the lights on downstairs?

Well, I don't see any evidence of light, but that isn't evidence for the absence of light. So I guess I just can't know.
“Hacking” the public Venmo API
It so hard to say. Our oldest didn't learn how to sleep through the night until she was 7 years old. She typically woke up screaming around 1am every night. Even if we just let her scream, it always woke us up. Other kids slept through the night from early on. Maybe someday there will be some genetic test that will tell you where your kids lie on the spectrum, but it seems to be a crap shoot right now.
The last time I went to warped tour (2004 i think?) Anti-Flag played. Great show - being part of 5000 people chanting lyrics is very much like a religious experience. Such things are actually used to induce religious/trance states among many niche and ethnic religions (see Kecak/Sanghyang, which you may know from the movie Baraka).
This is false, and damaging to believe.

I was one of those you speak of, that merely getting there was a great effort. Therapy did me immense amounts of good, where I can thankfully live a reasonably normal, content life today. But, starting out, you better believe it took everything I had just to get up the will to drive there, and even sit there, and nothing more.

I don't think you understand how much of a breakthrough it is for some people to even get to this point, and how _fragile_ things can be at that point, either. Just even getting someone to agree to sit down with a therapist can be a massive step for them - to finally start working to confront things.

Psychiatric medication does not provide a magic pill that restores your will and motivation. If only it did! Things would be so much easier, and I could have saved a lot of time on therapy.
I wonder if they'd be up for a redesign on the site. That could be something.
Google monopoly is a byproduct of proprietary hardware/firmware, that's what a lot of people is missing. Going every time after this or that corporation because it built a monopoly is useless when trying to build a monopoly is everyone's untold ultimate goal in the current economic system; we would better spend our energies making sure that nobody can't even attempt to build a monopoly, and open specs hardware would be one step in this direction.
I can understand telcos wanting a closed layer before the radio section to prevent people from tampering with cell service, but to me everything else has to be open.
This reminds me a lot of the old "BAT" keyboard:

https://www.infogrip.com/bat-keyboard.html
I appreciate that. Something that might be interesting for you - I used to have horrible eczema between my fingers when I was younger. more fat in my diet (Along with switching to grass fed beef and eating more and fattier fish like salmon), paying attention to which foods made me feel ‘bloat’, and reducing allergen stress triggers (ocean air being a big part of mitigating those I couldn’t avoid) helped my eczema much more than exercising did.
> One feature that is absolutely vital for a configuration language is comments.

Disagree. Fight me.
They aren't unprofitable. Their EBIT last year was 2.2 billion dollars.
I have more usually seen the term Wetware, not Mindware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetware_(brain)

(Not a criticism. Just an observation.)
Cool. For some reason that link is a 404 at the moment.
"Trump won the election because we fundamentally don't understand how democracy works in practice", and "Trump won the election because he had a 1 and 5 chance of winning, and sometimes 20% chance events happen."

This is a great point. Still, if you say "we don't understand democracy because we don't understand that 20% chance events happen" then it seems like the points converge.
Practical Animation on I2C SSD1306 OLED Displays
State of Rust
It may not be a reasonable way of calculating damages but it is a reasonable way of punishing wrong doing.
In Some US Cities, There Are Over Ten Times More Parking Spaces Than Households
Everyone gripes about HIPAA, but from where I sat, it was a pretty sane standard. Admittedly I wasn't in implementation.

But it read a lot like an IETF RFC. "Covered entities shall implement network protection." "Covered entities shall not disclose PHI." Outcome-specified, implementation-agnostic. And then set penalties based on whether the breach was accidental / willful / limited / or ongoing.
Dashes are customarily used for ranges. 500-600 wpm; 35-75 Kph; 2-3 grams. While a / can be used for words "and/or", using it with numbers leads to confusion with fractions: 2/3.
There's no way that Google will license Android OS for a mere $5/seat. They instead will price it on a multiple revenue potential revenue they collect from users under the current "free" model. I suspect in a market that Europe that turns out closer to $100/seat.
Google is building a private subsea cable that runs from Virginia to France
Is it time for a post-growth economy?
The world has changed. Today what determines the success of a mobile platform is availability if applications. If Ubuntu's thing could run WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram apps (especially the first b/c it has to be an app), it would have a completely different fate. If I was Mark Shuttleworth, I'd go to Facebook and offer porting WhatsApp for free. IDK the US, but for most of the world, it's an essential means of communication.
I agree and in the first rendition you could feel the borders between the gel sheets, which was quite distracting.

An encasement that made those lines invisible might be too thick and negate the benefits of using the gel. When the fitted sheet is over the mattress, you cannot see the lines.
that is very true, but with a huge game like Star Citizen you could likely strip out a huge share of the intended final-cut content and still have a quality and complete product.
Someone could be offended if they considered it something other than educational (sexual, religious, political). That's highly subjective, though, which is why most companies have policies to use company resources only for official use.
Also, depending on the workplace, some people might get pissed by seeing their coworkers idly browsing the web at work.
I can kinda read Spanish by virtue of taking it in high school, but I think most of my understanding of that article comes from similar-sounding words:

> armis nuclearibus in paeninsula Coreana

I don’t think you need a Romance language to understand that.
Yup. Same experience here... had to have an emergency appendectomy and my biggest worry wasn't the operation itself but its cost. I persisted in asking the doctors for an estimate, but they wouldn't budge. Neither would the clerical staff... which made 0 sense to me. Its not the first operation they have done, I just wanted rough figures (i.e. 5k? 50k? 500k?) but they wouldn't give me that either.

Final billing: 55k in total, but because of insurance I paid about 5k. Which still left me wondering... what did people without insurance do? How could they possibly pay that much money, if they couldn't even get insurance?
There isn’t one dark matter theory there are many candidates none of them are exactly implausible or impossible.

We can’t account for the mass of the universe so we are looking for it.

There are two options either there is mass that we cannot detect through non-gravitational related observations or that we don’t understand gravity on a macro level which also puts relativity at odds.

MOND was pretty much killed last year and it’s now completely off the books so modifying Newtonian gravity to fit in our understanding of the universe won’t work, which leaves dark matter which is again a place holder name for one or more types of matter that are very hard to observe.

It can be wimps or it can be that there are a lot more brown dwarfs, rogue planets, and other bodily objects that we can’t see.
I don’t use eBay much as a buyer. My primary dealings on eBay tend to be in collectibles categories, and they have a real problem with fakes. It’s better to go to a reputable specialized auction house, and just mentally subtract buyers’ fees from your maximum bid, IMO. Stuff I still buy there tends to be low value, but moderately uncommon stuff I can find there simply because they have so much of it.
Most of these drugs are just expensive patent medicines.

> Since Ramadan joined the committee, the drugs Invega Sustenna and Abilify Maintena have always made the preferred list.

These two drugs are atypical antipsychotics. They are palliative drugs that are prescribed to hopefully prevent patients from further deterioration, but experience has shown they don't work very well [0].

Abilify's patent expired in 2014. Ability Maintena is a still-patented injected form of this drug that sells for $1000/injection.

Injected drugs of this class are used because patients don't appreciate Abilify's side effects (compulsive behavior, etc). When a court orders people to submit to their psychiatrist, the doctor doesn't have to care if the patient is actually being helped by their forced treatment.

[0] https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/07/new-research-suggests-b...