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> loneliness is a man-made condition.

On the contrary, any social animal can get lonely. There's a wide range of behavior in the socialization of animal species. Even slime moulds are highly social. What is considered healthy or helpful social behavior varies, both by species and by groups. Therefore, trying to extrapolate lessons about human social behavior from the frequency of whale calls may not be very useful.

Loneliness is an unpleasant experience caused by a biological motivator to seek out social contact. If you're a social animal and you don't have contact with social animals when you would normally want it, you will feel some form of loneliness. Loneliness is subjective because it is a symptom of a subject's need not being fulfilled, and those needs can vary.

Solitude is more complex than loneliness. Solitude is the state of being secluded or isolated, and may or may not be chosen. When compared to loneliness, it can be considered a positive, whereas loneliness is a negative.

While loneliness is a symptom of a lack of social connection, solitude has a vast array of features. Prolonged solitude can cause mental instability such as hallucination, time distortion, psychosis, and other negative physiological reactions. But solitude can also enhance self-esteem and creativity and be personally gratifying.

"How to be satisfied with being alone" could be more simply described as the ability to understand a particular need and how to deal with it. You may not be able to eliminate the need, because you don't necessarily have full control over the thoughts in your head, nor your situation. Mental illness and physical isolation, for example, can prevent you from eliminating the need for social connection. A child, adolescent, or teen also doesn't have much agency, and can have difficulty managing their thought processes. But an adult with full agency and who is mentally healthy can probably address their symptoms of loneliness.

So, how to be alone? I would say, first learn to understand why you are lonely, and whether this need serves a useful purpose. Then, find healthy ways to choose to experience solitude, and make it personally fulfilling. That's my take on it, anyway.
That is totally fair, but for me, I make internal company apps. They happen to use Javascript, but realistically we could ask someone to download 100mb of a binary, and it would still be an ok situation.

For other devs? I bet they say that people on slow connections are not the target market. After all, a slow line will choke on all the ads used to pay for the site.
The concerning prospect, which seems inevitable, is that the government gets heavily involved (after the nth scare story), regulates the hell out of the sector, and then I'm paying $5,000 for a service that used to cost $99. That is, after - if - I get permission and approval through my insurance provider, and after I give a doctor $500 before and after each test. Then I'll be reading articles about how expensive simple genetic services are in America and nobody can figure out why. Then more laws will be proposed to fix the problem, for something must be done about the gouging fees charged by genetic services providers.
Yes, spammers learned to switch IP addresses very quickly. The email filters became more sophisticated ways of identifying your spam from a different IP addresss and even from a different domain name. Spammers could run but not hide.

I think I see a LOT less spam that actually gets to my inbox than in years past. Hats off to those who worked hard on making an incredible amount of progress on hard provlems, and continue to plow ahead.
No way to opt-out? Just another reminder that our hardware isn't really ours..
Pilot wave theory
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Well first Duktape is only a Javascript engine. it is not a browser engine so there is no DOM, furthermore Duktape is not ES2015 compliant so you'd need to transpile your code to ES5. It's also debatable whether Duktape is more performant than v8 or not.

> to reduce the memory overhead of some of our favorite Electron apps cough VScode cough Slack.

are not going to take less memory with Duktape at all if the problem is sloppy programming or DOM related.
this comment reminds me of a shitty markov chain buzz word sentence generator
I would have agreed when I was a kid and a huge TV was a 27" 480i CRT. But now you can get a 85" 4k HDR screen at home, I'd say you can come close. Better than many theaters.
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Is this similar to VBScript that Microsoft's Internet Explorer used? I used to program in that for one of my former employers using Active Server Pages as well. JavaScript was a lot faster so we switched to that.
Why is Google publishing this?

It's late but I'm confused why anyone would spend time doing this, and since it is in the official Google repository, presumably someone at Google was actually doing it on paid time.
The article suggests sleep suppresses it. As a kid, I went to sleep at the outset of a deep sea fishing trip, and two hours later, promptly woke up and vomited.

I can’t even read in a plane, or walk with eyeglasses; must wear contacts.
I don't think this is really about credentials. It's about sources. What are your inputs? Outputs (opinions) are usually not that interesting without good inputs.

Sometimes you don't have any personal experience and then the best thing you can do is post a link to something interesting you read.

If you do have some personal experience, you can tell a story based on it.
Those (like me) who like using Google products know the bargain. Until a product reaches critical mass, it could get canceled.

Wave died. G Suite has succeeded. Chrome succeeded. Reader died. Google+ is in a coma. Hangouts and Google Photos which came out of the ashes looks like they will stay, though what they are doing with their chat tools is a real mystery. In hardware, Chromecast succeeded, Nexus faded away as did a bunch of other stuff. Among the ones i am a little worried about : Google Keep - which i am using more and more. I hope it does not die. Also, Google wifi which i am using now - hope it stays. I tried Inbox and liked it, but I did not invest a lot in it.

The ones you can be certain won't go away are the ones with a billion+ users : Gmail, Android, Chrome, Maps, Search, Youtube, Google Drive (almost 1B) and Google Photos (500M+) should be fine as well.

But Google does not owe me anything. And I don't owe them. I don't have to use any of their products if I don't want to.
They won't sell it to embedded developers... They'll sell it to javascript developers who want to try out embedded development.
I’m a bit wary of this idea but I can’t say I haven’t wished for it many times when my wrists are in pain and a deadline is looming so I can’t take a recovery break.
$150 for 40 users is quite a lot, is it fixed rate or will it rise when DAU rises?
One word. Why? Serious question.
Thanks. Is there anyone auditing that process, or that there’s not a secret key?

I’m more worried about hackers that governments... but all the same.
This is a fun toy program. VBScript was a pretty comprehensive language built by some of Microsoft’s top compiler people back in the day. It was infinitely more powerful than this and was often used for serious development.
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As an AI professor, I have a love/hate relationship with my job, but I suddenly have four other job opportunities (none of which I applied for). One of these is an AI start-up. The mission is important, but it isn’t something I would be interested in doing on my own, unlike my lab’s research (fun but worthless in the short-term). I’m very successful in my current job, have a lot of impact, etc. (big fish, small pond), but it is hard to achieve my goals without going to a higher ranked university. So, I’ve been considering leaving. The start-up opportunity would include a leadership role making new algorithms with the help of software developers. The start-up has received press and has done a large Series A. Very rich folks are trying to convince me to join.

I love a lot of things about my current job (mentoring, working on the things I am super passionate about, shaping lives), and I hate a lot of things (always stressed/busy, very low salary compared to industry, tons of distractions from research, writing grants that will probably be rejected and without them I can’t do my research, teaching required courses to students that don’t want to be there, politics, etc.). It would be hard to return to academia if I did this. The salary is 4x what I make currently, but the cost of housing would go up by 3x. If I was to do this, what should I ask for in equity? What would be the right things to ask for to make it worth the risk?
To be fair firewire wasn't used all be that much. It really was under deployed. Apple didn't have the clout to push back then. When you are 5-10 percent of a market for twenty years, maybe they are not the power house they are known as

The nomad was far superior to the iPod in my experience (you didn't have to use the garage iTunes software). Currently the Dell XPS line kicks the shit out of anything apple has made. A pure Android pixel surpasses an iPhone in every way possible.
My 9 foot projection screen with dolby surround sound in my light controlled living room would say otherwise.
Google did not request and were not granted EV treatment for this CA. So even if it mints certificates with an EV OID in them that will get ignored in Firefox.

Although the Google CA, Google's root trust programme, and the Chrome TLS implementation people are three distinct teams at Google, common sentiment among the technically savvy (which would include all three groups) is that EV is either entirely or largely pointless and nobody cares, so it would not make sense to request EV treatment.

Your general thrust is right, there are other things CAs issue that Let's Encrypt does not, but the numbers still tell a story of solid growth even in the Web PKI, Let's Encrypt grew the market considerably, seizing 75% of a market that is now five times bigger than before doesn't squeeze out other people.
I had some similar nostalgia and tried out FreeBASIC the other day. It was dead easy to get started. I couldn't believe how simple it was to get up and running, and while I mostly worked on some command line programs, it was really cool to see how GTK and Qt and other GUI tools were made usable as well.

After this experience I can easily see how someone could still be writing BASIC for a living in 2018, whether for standalone desktop apps or for web CGI, etc.
The author has a fascinating discussion of basic on his blog.

https://flagxor.com/article/source-code

I might be coming around to the why of this.
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This looks like a good idea for everyone, though from your blog post, it’s clear that there’s a massive gap between the DNS firewalls that work and those that don’t, assuming the numbers you cite are accurate and I believe they are.
And C lacks a GC. Practically GCs don't fulfill the constraints of a lot of embedded projects. Even the real time GCs come at a heavy perf cost.

C++ has had a remarkable amount of uptake over the past few years. TI has been pushing it hard for using C++ with their DSPs.
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I had to work with a genetic counselor before my doctor would allow me to order a specific exam. The interaction was not very useful. They charged $450. My insurance did not cover it. They only met remotely via Skype. They read the exact material that was available to me through google.

They were more about ethics counseling than interpretation of results at all.

This person was not a very helpful consultant, but a layer of bureaucracy. I would have loved someone to help me interpret results. In my case it was someone who I said “I want this exact test on this exact gene.” And they said “Are you sure, if you know here’s what it can mean.” And I said “Yes” so the lab ran the test and gave me my results.
What does "protection" and "guarantee" really mean? If a dozen meteors simultaneously strike every Google datacenter and office location, would the products continue to live on, even in the face of every conceivable guarantee their leadership makes before the event?

Point being; the only guarantees that any consumers should hold companies accountable to is: Does the product make money, and is it parallel to their conceivable long-term vision? That's literally all that matters. That's the only data consumers can use to decide whether a product will still exist in 10 years.

Google Cloud is this. Its absolutely profitable. And cloud tech is so deep in their DNA, they're literally decades ahead of anyone else. They were running containers and clusterized homogeneous server resource pools 8 years before anyone else knew to call them that, its just taking them time to productize everything they use internally.

Trust money. Trust vision. Don't trust words. G-Suite, Cloud, and Domains are very safe products.
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Setting aside the specifics of milk, there are situations where it is more economical to run a business at a loss than not at all.

Let's say producing a product costs $5 in fixed costs (interest, depreciation, etc) and $1 in variable costs (labor, raw material, etc), for total of $6 per unit. If you can sell the product for more than $6, you make a profit. If you sell the product for $1-$6, you lose less money than you would if you didn't sell it, because you have to pay those fixed costs even if you don't produce any units. You should only stop production if the price falls below $1.
> since it is in the official Google repository, presumably someone at Google was actually doing it on paid time

Unlikely. Google (like many companies) assert ownership of everything their employees create, even on their free time. There are plenty of projects under Google organization that have no other affiliation with Google.
Sidenote, that is one obnoxious color scheme :/
Damnit, why did you have to tell me this existed? I was perfectly happy with my Kinesis Freestyle II, and now I'm lusting after the Edge :(((

But seriously, I really enjoy split keyboards. I've got a trackpad in between (!) the keyboard halves, and I really like that kind of setup.
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Are the arrays untyped? If all enemies are the the same struct with various data components (state, speed, etc.), how would you implement different behaviors based on enemy type? Function pointers/references? Does the game loop have a 20-enemy-long switch statement which calls 20 different functions based on which enemy type is present? Does the game store 20 optional behavior components per enemy, and run 20 different if-component-present tests per frame per enemy?
I also own one of those hobby farms. My simple answer is, No. At my scale, barter is pretty useless. How many vegetables will you trade me for one pig? It better be a lot because I only have 6-10 pigs to barter every year. We have a lot of hobby farms around here. But they all raise animals. Nobody is doing potatos or cabbage. I mean we all do a few onions and tomatoes. But nobody is growing enough of anything that they could trade for half a beef.

When people want half a beef, they pay cash.

The old style barter systems require scale just like the OP said. That scale no longer exists. Everybody is either too small or too big. If you are small enough that I can barter with you, you don't have enough of what I need. If you are ADP, you don't have a human who can interact with me to execute a trade and you have no interest whatsoever in my goat.
I was surprised to learn that MoviePass has been around for 7 years!

They started in 2011 and only had 20k subscribers in 2016. It wasn't until late 2017 that they sold majority stake to Helios and dropped the price to $10.

That's quite a Hail Mary pass. What lead to that after ~6 years? Were they out of money? Out of patience?
What are the advantages of this over just writing C/C++? Is there a key application/ what problem does it solve? I read the “what for” section and wasn’t convinced. :)
After reading your comment I just realized something..

> You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain
One counter-argument to agriculture is Jared Diamond's classic article: "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race"

http://discovermagazine.com/1987/may/02-the-worst-mistake-in...
I really hate the current system of CAs. Google may act trust worthy, but I personally don't trust them.

Same can be said of other CAs.
so just put in a fake younger age
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How engineering education implies not thinking that much about politics?
> you won't have to repair when they break.

I hear this as a reason not to own, but I struggle to understand it, given my experience with how reliable modern hardware is (with notable exceptions[1]).

Regardless, you don't have to repair anything broken at all. It may seem preposterous at first, but, for low enough failure rates, on things with low enough replacement cost [2], using warm spares and abandoning in place can be a reasonable strategy. This can work remarkably well for disks in remote locations, especially in non-hot-swap enclosures.

> depending on SL network topology

One doesn't have a choice, though. There's no alternate topology (nor maximum bandwidths) available. Not taking maximum advantage may be premature optimization (optimizing for stability, rather than performance).

> Anybody making a service today should be able to buy a server at any provider, or setup a colo anywhere and join those resources in and get advantage of those resources instantly.

That would be nice, but it's tantamount to asking everyone go "multi-cloud", which removes too much of the "don't have to think/worry about it" purported benefit of cloud/IaaS.

[1] high-density (say, more than 1socket/U) seems to be the worst offenders

[2] by which I mean the current equivalent, including something like half of a server of a quarter of a CPU
This idea of targeted phishing drills sounds cool. And I’m guesssing at least most users kind of dig the game?
Because with this javascript library, you can run BASIC programs on the web.

BASIC was for many people their introduction to programming, and it has a simplicity which is nearly unmatched today.

By providing a way to run the language inside the ubiquitous web browse, one may hope to spread the usage of BASIC as a learning tool, especially for youngsters.
Cool site. Like a lot of folks here, I always appreciate things that are minimal and quick.

However, I’d like to ask:

1) what, to you, makes HN annoying? In my experience it is already a very minimal, light, and quick site. What problem did you aim to solve?

2) does this offer any advantage of the many minimal HN sites? E.g. hckrnews?
Well it's not perfect, but can you give some idea. Some times removing code and adding back a small chunk of code can be helpful. That would give only a negative LOC, so yes it has problems. However, it's definitely one those things that I don't think will ever have perfect generalize-able metric.
Two things which I think are technically possible with Google as a CA (please correct me if I'm wrong):

1) Google's new business in China enables Google to give China tools to inspect TLS traffic of arbitrary sites that use Google CA-derived certs

2) Google becomes a competitor to CloudFlare and uses position as CDN to inspect all encrypted traffic for data to mine, and then uses data to make more ad revenue (the way it does now with Gmail, search, etc)
Didn't Musk talk about something like this in the Rogan interview recently?
It explains when you click "What is this?", it sorts under a different algorithm.
I remember when they came out with Goog411 where you could could google and search for businesses and such. This was way before smartphones so it was a solid, free option for finding stuff on the go. They canned it after a while, but used all the interaction data to further their voice recognition services.
The above poster said few, not zero.

Google has killed off dozens upon dozens more officially launched projects.
TIL what a space hopper really is. Danger Mouse has a spaceship by that name, and I never got the joke, being American and all.
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What’s the objective? Is it meant as deterrence of future attacks, retribution, or maybe other objectives? I’m not criticizing, I’m trying to learn.
(which is something Cloudflare explicitly does not do)
This.

I used to take a coworker on kamikaze night runs up and down the california coast in my track car. He would envision he was driving to avoid motion sickness. Imagining braking, steering, blipping the throttle, shifting gears, operating the clutch, everything as if he were playing a video game.

One night I decided to test it and started driving poorly, braking early for turns, picking the wrong gear, or just not accelerating hard out of the corners.

He became angry and sick immediately, we had to keep pulling over for him to vomit. It was uncanny, we had been doing this stuff every weekend for months without any motion sickness issues ever. The moment I started driving unpredictably - it wasn't even driving poorly, just not what he expected, he fell apart.
With respect to googlers, I 100% do not even consider google solutions because I have so little trust that what I do on whatever platform they role out this week, however great it may be, will actually still work in one year.