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> The only way to make actions against climate change a reality is to make it profitable. If we can work out how to make it so that people make gobs of money by reversing climate change then things will be peachy.

> If we can't figure out a way to turn a buck from fixing climate change then we are all, collectively, fucked.

Well, that old world is fucked. But if you look at the lifestyles of, e.g. American Indians, they lasted 10,000 years in North America in a much more sustainable fashion. Granted, it wasn't perfect. Humans caused the extinction of megafauna in North America as elsewhere, but organized agriculture never really took off there, and because of that, that continent was relatively unspoiled until Columbus.
the original Gameboy had a Z80/8080 hybrid.
For your last point, you can probably check with your Chinese friend and I'm pretty sure they don't buy the idea.

Basically our brain already has built-in text segmentation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_segmentation). I tried to think how I actually do that. It's more like prefix matching over a moderate large dict. It's not complicated and worked pretty well for Chinese. For your particular example, maybe the difference lies in word lengths. Most Chinese words are under 2~3 characters, makes prefix matching way more efficient.
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My SO has a continuous glucose monitoring, and as you say, the reading lags behind by 15-30 minutes compared to measurement from blood. But the blood measurement is a single, instantaneous value while the GCM meter shows the last 8 hour glucose levels plotted and the current upward/downward trend. While it takes a bit of cross-referencing between blood and tissue glucose levels to get used to the readings, it actually provides better information to base decisions on (fast acting) insulin dosage.

The GCM (Freestyle Libre) has been a life-changer and improved long-term management of diabetes. In particular, it has been helpful for maintaining a reasonably flat glucose level throughout the night (because of better information for evening insulin doses), where they previously had high and low peaks (down to dangerous levels a few times).

I suggest you do everything you can to get a continuous monitoring system. Because you can see your glucose level history, you can then make decisions on whether you need an insulin pump or not. If your night time glucose levels are fine, you might not need one. If there are high or low peaks you can't manage, a pump will improve your life.
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Reloading a page I was viewing last night, and a 5px black bar has appeared site-wide on HackerNews. A search provided no one else asking the question, so I'm asking it.
I like this idea, but I wonder, would that be a net neutrality violation? Honest question, because I can easily imagine this being rephrased: “If you don’t pay for the extra news package, you cannot access NYT for free”.
I don't think the UK (for one) is especially hierarchical. For instance, people in the modern UK (as opposed to in Agatha Christie novels) are usually referred to by their first names. And still a Chinese friend of mine told me he found English people to be unusually polite, moreso than Americans or Chinese. The way I understand English manners is that they're based on expressing sensitivity for other people, not hierarchy.

And in English, you don't have the T/V distinction. In languages which do have one, it's impossible to talk to someone without implying something about their relative social status.
Yes I love travelling to Babylon, or visiting the sites of Troy. And the trip to Machu Picchu is definitely worth it!

I know London and New York look like that will be around forever, but no city in the US is older than 600 years. We don’t have enough evidence to support that cities are stable on millennial timescales, since a few hundred years is enough for drastic change.
I wonder if that is actually true. It feels like the average might actually be early 30s.
Core contributors. Not overall contributors. I should have specified but figured people could read the context based on the comment I was replying to.
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Agreed, but we need a bit more control of them than "dump nitrogen into bodies of water that happen to be nearby farmland".
> just wanted to point out that doxxing isn't there real problem but rather the swatting is.

The problem is that SS7 still allows anyone and their dog to spoof phone numbers. Swatting will always work because a (real) hostage situation is among the worst things that can happen for police, the others being terrorist attacks and serial killers.

Swatting can only be prevented reasonably by fixing telephony signalling and throwing the ones doing it into jail for a couple of years.
> The evidence is in the never ending list of posts like these that pop up all the time.

So posts hating on something are proof that something doesn't work?

The open-source way used to be "come up with an alternative and win on merit". These days, since what systemd is trying to do is complex, it seems to be "complain about it online but keep using it" which leads to a super toxic user base, which might explain why bugfixing it (since you have to interact with said users) is so hard.
Sure, but if you can just get full stack traces right off of your production code while it runs, then that's even easier.
No it doesn't. FATCA applies to foreign corporations because otherwise the US financial system will freeze them out, moreover FATCA requires recursive application of this rule, that is part of FATCA compliance involves determining if your counterparties are FATCA compliant and freezing them out. It has nothing to do with bilateral treaties.
It's more that they'd prefer to keep the competition out of their datastores, AFAICT
That's a commendable goal with type 2 diabetes. Still, therapy will start with insulin to normalize glucose levels.

Sad fact: patients that don't manage to change their liefestyle or are too far into the disease will stay on insulin until they die.
Politicians started to suck on the teat of Hayek and Friedman, to disastrous results for all but the already wealthy.
> This is not a problem worthy of legislation.

Yes it is. Don't you remember the state of things before the EU decided to make law on phone chargers? Literally every model of phone had a unique charging plug, you could pretty much never borrow someones charger.
It could be that they simply don't care for that 50%, in which case, no skin off their backs.
That statement confused me too... I think she/he means the Game Boy Advanced (ARM7TDMI @ 16.78 MHz): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance
Charlottesville.
If only we knew why our feet walk the way they do.

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/calf-path
I'm afraid I stopped reading that 1/3rd of the way through after 50 paragraphs just repeating "liberals [American democrats, they mean] are smug" in slightly different ways without really delving into detail. (disclaimer: I'm European)
There's a great quote on his wikipedia page:

"... while riding a bus in New York City, he observed a mother with eight small children embark. She asked the driver the amount of the fare; he told her that the cost was thirty-five cents, but that children under the age of five could ride for free. When the woman deposited only thirty-five cents into the payment slot, the driver was incredulous. "Do you mean to tell me that all your children are under five years old?" The woman explained that she had four sets of twins. The driver replied, "Do you always have twins?" "No," said the woman, "most of the time we don't have any."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg#Work
I think the pleasure of doing something like this is in the pure tinkering. Setting up the system just like you want it is kind-of fun. There's some value in that.
For context, they mean the live video feed of JuliaCon 2018. Here's where the release was announced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jN5wKvN-Uk
It isn't clear what dev.to is, so I was looking for the About page. The link is at the bottom of the page, on a site with infinite scrolling. WTF
Likewise, I'm sorry, I didn't mean "you have to inline CSS that doesn't apply".

However, if you have non-render blocking CSS, or CSS that's used for below the fold or generally lower down the page content, "only render critical CSS inline" is usually coupled with "and then have the rest of your CSS in an external stylesheet". Which you are not allowed to do.

Accordingly, it's ALL inline, all the time.
I've seen people on Twitch playing multiplayer Mario Party using Dolphin's multiplayer support, and it seemed to work pretty well. I think the trick is to add latency until everyone's inputs can be played in lockstep.
I was watching a lecture by vaclav smil talking about the the importance of the Haber process. Without that invention 40% of the world could not exist - there just isn't enough nitrogen in the soil to support our consumption. And it's guys like Steve jobs that get called innovators! Absolute nonsense!
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Which stock chart are you reading? It went up 11% then down 2% the next day. That's not "erasing" the pop...
> I'm glad to see as much development in the space as possible.

I'm sure you are aware of Nitrokey. If not, here you go: https://www.nitrokey.com/
> This seems to be really common practice in modern software
> development, and it sucks.

I recently deployed an upgrade of an "enterprise-type" jboss application, and it failed. The log file was literally 200kb of stack traces with some "INFO" entries sprinkled here and there.

I sent it to the vendor, and their response was "everything looks okay"
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The only benefit I can see in this, is that if each time I call GetError, it will give a useful list of conditions that were not met, so that in conditions where fast-fail is not necessary, but letting the caller know everything that might have been incorrect, useful information is available.

If that's not the case (and it's not clear from any of the documentation), it seems like this adds no real value, and in my opinion actually makes the error handling ugly and harder to maintain.

Also, use package-defined, exported error types that you can refer to by name, and errors become useful data again like Go intended.
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> You can’t drink the water in the ocean

Yes, that's why I wrote only about rivers, but I think a lot of the big coastal cities are built on an estuary too. My point was implementation on a river is not just for transportation, but also access to other benefits, like easy access to water. For coastal cities, they also have access to fishing (rivers can also give access to fish, but not the same amounts).
Cool, I've been waiting for something like 'verifier'. A while ago I read 'Errors are values' [1] and always wanted to upgrade my error handling, but never really did. Verifier looks like a small library which can help me with that easily :-)

[1]: https://blog.golang.org/errors-are-values
I'll freely admit that despite my considered screed above, it's often far simpler to merely downvote.

HN mods are responsive to emailed notices of questionable (or flagrant) misbehaviour. Not always in agreement, though often so.
The other part necessary to trigger the bug is that uid 0 is not root and is not able to read the user-only mounts. root would still be able to read the user-only FUSE mount.
The image on that webpage suggests there were no Roman roads in Greece
This in part addresses your remarks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17722767
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> We don’t have enough evidence to support that cities are stable on millennial timescales

Some cities have existed for millenia, like Rome, but with ups and down. And drastic change can be even quicker than hundreds of years, for example a plague or a conflict will cause change quickly.
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Does the writer realise that a clickbait title followed without any statistics to back up the claim is also just a form of trolling?
pish posh. It could be written in Egyptian and it would make no material difference to the ease of debugging for most people.

The number of people who are C++ programmers and can deal with strace vs. C programmers who can deal with strace is really that significant? I don't buy it. The two groups intersect significantly.

The point is that other people who are not C or C++ programmers have to deal with this kind of stuff from systemd.

This is just pedantry for the sake of it.

Systemd would be only marginally harder to debug if it was in C++ or heck, even rust, or go.

No one is opening the source code here.
Agree. Same view looking at it from India.

They aren't bridging any gaps or increasing understanding in society. They are playing the same game everyone else is playing in amplifying an us VS them narrative. Because that is what the underlying social media architecture of likes/clicks/views/upvotes produces in everyone.

There is no genius about this.

It's just their method to survive. Obv it benefits them temporarily but the costs are accruing to society.

Journalism cannot be built on top of likes/views/clicks/retweets/upvotes. Stuff that is built on top of that architecture conditions journalists and talking heads to pander.
That architecture must change. There is no sane reason for these numbers to be shown to journalists and their readers in real time.

It's like watching E.B.Skinners behaviour experiments with rats.

Changing this architecture of real time counts used as behaviour conditioners can be changed only by the tech world.
The majority of corn is used for Ethanol production:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/austinfrerick/2018/08/06/10etha...

Which has negligible environmental benefit, and is a pointless long-term strategy given that the vehicle fleet is becoming increasingly electrified.

Its a shame that political solutions to more effectively use the Earth's resources are more difficult than bioengineering corn.
Cartago, Cartago Nova(Cartagena), Roma, some Egyptian cities, etc are far older. we are talking of two/three millenniums.
But is true that some older cities disappeared, displaced by more modern cities, climate changes, geopolitical changes or recurrent races by frequent wars.
What a weird thing to get downvoted on!
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Looks like:

ban = 20%

limited = 50%

anything goes = 30%

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx

So 70-30 for at least some form of restrictions on abortion.
This is because there is a massive confusion of the political spectrum which is better divided as 4 parts rather than 2.

The NYT isn't left at all when it comes to its views on how the economy should be run. But on social issues it certainly is a left rag. In fact, in what kind of environment but the leftomost extremist side could one tolerate the presence of an employee like Sarah Jeong who said such nice things as "white people are only fit to live underground like groveling goblins"? Not only did they not fire her but they even came to her defense.

The NYT is the poster child of the new generation of leftists, whose core obsessions are not whether the proletariat earns enough to make a decent living but whether they can dye their hair blue and still find a job.
Having bought a number of maker projects where the PCB is designed to plug into the USB port, like this one, I find that the mechanics generally don't work all that reliably. Not sure about the exact cause, maybe manufacturing tolerances on PCBs are not tight enough.
"Far left" is a pretty polarising way to describe them.

I'm from the UK, which is a country which is firmly on the right of most of Europe, and policy in the US is extremely far right of here. The reporting I've seen from the New York Times is barely left, let alone "far left".

The right seems to have moved so far out to the far right, and yet people act like the centre-point of the Repbulicans and Democrats is still somehow the neutral position.
Same here. Plus, location is a very limiting factor when it comes to musical selection. There aren't many artists in my collection I could have seen live in my area.
Furthermore, the e-mails are sent in clear-text and readable by any endpoint on the way transporting the e-mail to its destination. It's akin to sending your information back to yourself by post card rather than stored in a file with a third-party.
I found that article quite unconvincing (I am not alt-right nor American). A lot of her tweets were clearly racist even when taken in context (e.g. “dumbass f*ing white people").
Their stance is Jeong used to imitate the language of her harassers, has since learned that was wrong, and has apologised. We should all be seeking rehabilitation, not retribution, and although I personally don't think her tweets were particularly objectionable, her remorse should earn her a second chance.
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There was the practice of excommunication, literally, to put outside the community and communication. Today retained in the form of denying communion.

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

https://www.etymonline.com/word/excommunication

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resources/politics/politi...

https://www.catholicvote.org/bishop-deny-communion-to-border...
I think Dropbox, with its free tier, is a counter-example. The storage offered is advertisement itself.
The shunning thing is more Islam and Judaism nowadays. In the olden days of the Spanish Inquisition apostasy and heresy were rather roubustly dealt with.
AMP is not a search ranking signal. Non-AMP pages will end up in the carousel in 2019... if sites can easily be sped up, why do 80% of websites still suck so much and are slow? AMP won't be for specialized dev teams, but it helps plenty of average websites.
this should ask the user to upload a ROM manually.
Yeah, 10G just isn't that much nowadays. And bigger NICs have more features in the VFs.

I've just built a quick test setup:

* two directly connected servers

* 6 core 2.4 GHz CPU

* XL710 40G NICs

* My packet generator MoonGen: https://github.com/emmericp/MoonGen with a quick & dirty modification to l3-tcp-syn-flood.lua to change dst mac

Got these results for 1-5 worker threads in Mpps: 3.84, 6.65, 10.17, 11.57, 11.3.

~10 Mpps is about 10G line rate for the encapsulated packets; this seems a little bit slower than I expected and it looks like I might be hitting the bottleneck of the distributor at 4 worker threads. Didn't look into anything in detail here (spent maybe 30 minutes for setup + tests), but we've done some VXLAN stuff in the past which I recall being faster.
Ah, but they sort of do. HTTPS also protects you from your ISP injecting trackers and ads (which is something US ISPs like to do), and also protects you from third parties listening in on what "benign" sites you visit and building a profile about you.
This is really interesting to me -- I'm super into working on/learning about old motorcycles (and cars), and it's always pretty difficult to find parts/procedures/torque specs/etc for a vehicle, unless you can find the factory service manual online. I'm not sure to what extent (if any) that data is covered by copyright, but if it's not, this seems like an excellent idea that I'd be interested in working on.
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Sure, that's possible. But it's also not what happens in most cases. The amount of times I've searched for an answer, found something that sounds like my problem but isn't, and then posted my own question just to get it closed is just stupid.
Gerald Weinberg has died.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17716098
> it actually provides better information to base decisions on (fast acting) insulin dosage

Would you say that's because you can get a better idea of trends once you have enough data? My understanding has always been that the true value in a CGM is revealing those trends and patterns that are really unique to the person and that are hard to spot with regular glucose testing.

EDIT: I realise that this is basically what you've said. Apologies, brainfart.

> I suggest you do everything you can to get a continuous monitoring system.

I'm currently jumping through the hoops to get myself one now. I can get my hands on one via the NHS fairly easily, it's just the pumps which are hard to get. I've done a lot of work over the past few years to get my control to a place I am happy with (finishing uni and that awful realisation that you are in fact mortal). I also wanna say that I recognise that as someone who is able to control my diabetes using injections it would be wrong for me to demand a pump when there are others who for various reasons can't control their condition. In a perfect world it would be great, but hey, we work with what we've got, right.