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US oil from Saudi Arabia: 876,000 barrels/month.

US total oil consumption: 19,690,000 barrels/month.

The US is now the world's largest oil producer. OPEC is scared.[1] For the US, oil is a sideline. For Saudi Arabia, it's all they've got. The US is headed for energy independence, just because of market forces.

[1] https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/19/opec-rising-us-oil-output...
> In the US voter turn out is often 30-40% of registered voters. Total vote count would certianly not be a useful metric there.

We seed it with the # of registered voters. Sure they could try to withhold some % of votes and vote themselves but hopefully that should be noticed.

> It doesn't sound like you're describing a blockchain anymore or at least getting any of the purported benefits of a blockchain.

The blockchain here makes sure the votes are delivered and counted correctly, without permission or trust.

Yes we need to trust the government to set it all up but after that they can't interfere.

> able to revoke and re-grant tokens at will,

This is false. Only the voter can do this.
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What's wrong with having a viewpoint that's in the minority?
> Everything was and is perfectly fine and cordial without them.

For you.
That's mostly my reason for disliking it.

We used Bugzilla for a while, but management wanted more integration with other services, and we didn't have anyone in house that we could spare to build it (and plugins didn't exist for it). Jira filled more of what management wanted, so we adopted it.

At first, I (tech lead) sat down with our QA team and we came up with something that worked reasonably well, and developers and QA were pretty happy. Seeing the success, upper management stepped in and wanted some changes. We pushed back sometimes and made slow progress, but eventually upper management took over and started making changes that everyone hated (lots of micromanagement).

However, there are a few tangible things about the product itself that I dislike, such as:

- slow loading times (apparently taking a few seconds to fully load is "acceptable")
- too many options for customization, which makes it too easy for management to break stuff trying to do things "the right way" (especially permissions on transitions)
- can't remove states from a workflow without copying and replacing the workflow (seriously, why?)
- no dark theme (I'm only half joking)

I'm trying to get a feel for what people dislike about it in case my hobby project of building an issue tracker ever gets serious enough to become interesting for outsiders.
Excellent point.

There is no excuse for any of us to behave like the moral equivalent of a paperclip maximizer.
USA != Rest of the World. Most problems are not issues, only for US devs as tech tend to be very US centric.

I'm all for being civil online, but against everyone behaving defined by a template.
Yes, you have correctly detected that I wasn't making an argument. Into the "add comment" box, I put my comment.

I think that's fine given that I'm in the target audience for his post. I'm somebody who has been making occasional open-source contributions since the early 90s but who has mainly stayed out of it given that it tolerates a high level of jackassery up to and including outright abuse. This is a good step forward, but a small step done at a point I'd call very late in the game.

Is there some specific thing I'm supposed to have an argument on? As far as I can tell, Stallman has had a very "it's my bat and ball" attitude and has for decades, so even if I had some sort of argument, I don't have any impression he'd listen to it. I'm content to let him continue being very Stallmanesque until he retires. I'm much more interested what the younger generation is up to, as I think they're much more plausibly the future of open source than he is.
I am typing this on a (keyboard attached to) Lenovo P51, which has a user swapable m2 disk (and space for one more, plus an SSD), user upgradable ram, user swappable battery and I can install a SIM card, should I want to.

The only thing I can't do, which I could on my last thinkpad, is to add a 9-cell battery.
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> Worse, it has led to increasingly frequent financial crises. These began first on the fringes of the global economy (in the 1970s and 80s), but in 2007–9 moved to its core, the US and Europe.

Far as I got in TFA...

Anyone who doesn't recognize "financial crises" have been going on for, like, forever probably isn't that much of an expert on the subject to even consider their argument.
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Maybe soy sauce on rice can be done really well? A lot of my favorite rice dishes are equally plain sounding (saffron with rice, coconut oil rice, and even japanese donburi are mostly "just" soy sauce and rice).

If it's literally just plain soy sauce on plain rice though, it's probably just nostalgia over childhood poverty meals. It's not bad but you don't do it by choice!
How extensive analytics did you need? Do you believe it's possible to make enough money with respectful and privacy-friendly attitude?
While this is completely true, it is worth noting that a huge majority of the $100 ads that are marketed as the channel that enable small businesses to "thrive" are Facebook or Google ads, and they are professionals at confusing these business owners with vanity metrics, payment / pricing models, constraints on packages, etc (and this is just from the buyers side, these cos have massive leverage on the publishers' end as well).
I was blanking on the name when I was originally writing this, but yes it is Brindle Room.
I couldn't agree more. I have a friend who's pushing fifty years old and he's been trying to make money with the same product for nearly thirty years now. I see his friends on Facebook constantly encouraging him, and telling him that he does great work.

He doesn't.

His product is atrocious.

They're just being nice and he should've thrown in the towel twenty-nine years ago. His income is literally less than $100 a year. (I believe he's on SSI disability now, which is how he gets by.)
The one problem I have, rational or not, is just how worn out those laptops look over time. The plastic gets all shiny and worn down and the thing just starts looking greasy.

That's probably the only thing I miss from my older macbook.
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I'll try it out.

BTW, is there any chance of a dark theme on either the web or mobile apps?
The question is how to talk to and about other members of the community.

Calling other people by their preferred names is a basic norm that goes beyond gender.

Gender expression is rarely relevant in the context of software development, but gendered language is common enough in English to make the issue of gender identity unavoidable. You can require speakers to respect others' preferences, mandate gender-neutral language, or allow speakers to refer to others however they like.
Ask HN: Is Benjibobs a HN phishing scheme?
A search led me to Benjibobs.me today, which looks like a "clone" of HN. It has it's own login, which seems like an easy way to steal people's username/passwords.

Is this a known thing? Is it a nefarious site?
the jobs link is interesting. Takes you to a functioning command line but has no other hints or instructions. An interesting gating function: those who don't know how to proceed further (or can't problem-solve sufficiently to find out) aren't likely to succeed in the role and can safely be excluded.

Might also have the added bonus of being safe from headhunter bot scrapers.
Better than "animal spirits"?
First, it depends on what you mean by these terms "math" / "numeric" / "analytical".

The vast majority of software development and even computer science relies mostly on logic rather than "numeric" math (some sub-disciplines aside).

I initially ignored CS because I hated math in high school and thought it would be "too much math". Turns out I am really good at CS even though I sucked at things like calculus.

So my first point would be to make sure you try some actual programming before you get scared away about any "math"-related concerns.

Secondly:

> Is the analytical part of your brain something you can build and improve?

Absolutely. It is just like a muscle. The more you practice, the easier it will become. To be able to build powerful software you have to learn new patterns of thinking, which takes time. But it is definitely doable, provided you enjoy it enough to push through the tedium. But it's not everyone's cup of tea.
The story is about hype vs. reality of self-driving vehicles. The main point is that "self-driving" is such a large and abused term, that even cruise control falls under the definition (it was actually called Auto-Pilot when introduced in the 1950s).
Right in the first section, people:

"However, those who wish to participate in the SQLite community, either by commenting on the public mailing lists or by contributing patches or suggestions or in any other way, are expected to conduct themselves in a manner that honors the overarching spirit of the rule, even if they disagree with specific details. Polite and professional discussion is always welcomed, from anyone."

Edit: I am not religious at all.
Funny to see PG listed as "Paul Graham, founder of Viaweb" and not "Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator" :-)
> I have often wondered if Microsoft could use this type of system for Windows 10? Not only would it make the update process more reliable, but faster too (especially when it comes to feature updates).

From what I understand this isn't far from what Windows 10 does? Windows doesn't use a separate physical partition because it can't trust any specific OEM or user to follow a specific partition scheme, so it uses something more of a "virtual" overlay in NTFS for big Windows changes, based on how I understand it. It's something like a partition scheme in that it virtualizes entire directories (like C:\Windows) and then swaps them. For dumb backwards compatibility reasons, Windows can't just assume that it can just outright swap one C:\Windows directory for another one, so supposedly a lot of the time in major updates is stuff like inventorying directories like C:\Windows for non-Windows stuff and copying it across to the new pseudo-partition before the swap.
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That's true for the "threading MVP", but there is also discussion about adding "pure wasm threads" as a follow-up which avoids worker overhead/limitations.
Ask HN: What Can I Do a Software Developer to Help Curb Climate Change
I'm wondering what I can do as a back end developer to help fight climate change. Are there any projects, companies, or niche industries I could work with? I'd like to work on something that has a direct impact, not like helping a campaign but a project that has direct, tangible benefits for the environment. I've been reading about 3DFS, and I'm wondering if there's more companies or open source projects like this that I just haven't been aware of.
Usually the kind of people who esteem journalists as philosopher-kings, and the organizations who employ them as paragons of perfect, unassailable virtue.

The Fourth Estate is not to be criticized.
I don't think the topic is particularly stale. The joke is very stale. It was an adequate joke at the time, but if one were to make a joke today with similar intent, it would be written much differently.

And just to be clear, I agree with your politics here, and probably Stallman's to the extent I understand it. My issue is with him planting a firm flag for "neutrality", when "neutrality" actually means something more like "agreeing with my conveniently unstated political views".
A lot of sensitive people work in the field now, and they need a set of rules so other people won't be mean to them.
The fact that companies have programs targeting recruitment specifically to minorities says otherwise.
A cool use case would be if they open sourced their designs for use in prototypes - it would be super compelling to pitch an app with Iron Man or Captain America as the central user.
out of curiosity, how is this different from meteorjs https://www.meteor.com/ ?
Nothing. You use TempleOS if you want to talk to God.
We have no plans and I see no reason to make you have to sign up. (Although to cut down on abuse some things aren't available for anonymous users like long-term web hosting).

You can also go to repl.it/languages and see all the langauges.

As for our plans to become an IDE: we've given ourselves the hard task of being a REPL-first IDE and to always load in under 2 seconds. More here: https://repl.it/blog/platform

For the landing page: we've found that most people coming through there go through the signup/login flow anyways so we've emphasized that. You can still get to the languages in the footer.
This isn't a "report", it's a political opinion piece. No matter your views on Trump's administration, there's (from my count) 2-3 sentences total giving a slightly expanded version of the title of the article, along with a link to WaPo for the actual "report. The rest is just the authors political opinions.

Save yourself time, and deny them clicks. Not worth clicking through. Nothing to see here. If you actually care about the issue, use this link instead that actually talks about the issue: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/22/white-h...

The OP should modify their link to this.
Senior in this context probably means superiors. Someone has to look the original Latin version up.
Small nitpick, but I believe you meant "instead going for," which has the opposite meaning of "instead of going for."
BTW is it time yet to improve on RJ-45? Esp as ethernet typically uses 4 wires - its ridiculously large.
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Port all unity projects to quake

Port all windows 10 features to lubuntu

Port all electron projects to html, js, php (lol)
Lockheed's involved in the maintenance (and previously, manufacture) of thermonuclear weapons. I'm pretty comfortable with my comparison.
They can be but AFAIK edits don't garner the editor points, so from a gamification perspective, people might be less inclined to edit than to put a new answer with the updated information.
Sure, if I have to choose between hypocrisy and improvement, I'll take improvement. But I'd rather have both. And given the extent to which this is written as highfalutin moral principle, I don't think it's unreasonable to deal with it on its own terms. He could have just announced this as an improvement without taking slaps at political views he disagrees with.
If you're interested in this there's a Rust crate for creating UEFI-bootable images and accessing the runtime and boot services.

https://github.com/GabrielMajeri/uefi-rs

https://github.com/GabrielMajeri/uefi-rs/blob/master/BUILDIN...

I'm using it for my kernel development tinkering and it works fine except for being a bit incomplete as far as implementing all the services.
I wonder if the skew towards men in software starting in the 80’s corresponded with the rise of the “meritocratic” software community because that movement made people on the autism spectrum (including aspies) more comfortable in software development (judged based on their contributions alone) —- which may have helped to create the impression/generalization that people in software are “geeks” and socially challenged—-and thus others (including women, among whom autism occurs less frequently) felt less inclined toward that community.

Sorry - quickly tapped out. Hope that makes sense.
Agreed, these prices are ridiculously low.
It is fundamentally how processors work. That is how context switching happens IO happens etc. I mean if you are at work and you need to go the doctor the school will call you to interrupt you. If someone didn't what would happen to your kid?
Op here --

I'm one of the primary developers on this project update. This is a massive multi-year overhaul of the site from custom application code to using the Drupal CMS.

You can get a brief overview of the project from the About page and see how it's evolved over the years:
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/about

Other items in the development stack are Apache Solr and Bootstrap 3. A goal was to make the site responsive and expand the search capabilities from the legacy website.

If you have any questions please let me know! I'm happy to see this site launch as I've vested so much effort into it.
You mispelled "full of fee's that suck out the value."
If you had enough experience in tech such that you were actually building things, then this question would have answered itself on the basis that you can build things, which extrapolates to things that you can get paid to build.

But since you don't have that experience apparently (despite whatever "write up a storm" means), then you have no clue what might be preventing you from entering the tech scene as it may (and is far more likely to) be related to any of the other things that keep people out of tech, like tenuous interest in the subject at all.
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Dig through https://github.com/robotrovsky/Linux-Magic-Trackpad-2-Driver and make sure you install `mtrack`

I found that I had to modify the 50-mtrack.conf and also the 90-magictrackpad.conf to get the two-finger tap for context menus. There's probably a better overall configuration, but I'm still fresh to this specific thing.

When I get back to that system I can post some more detailed information.
I don't think that's a legitimate comparison unless you compare a dual socket epyc.
The 25th anniversary edition should just be an X62.
Thanks; that's the most valuable comment on the page.

In a way, that's much like people in any industry, they only trust people in their profession: Doctors trust only other doctors; lawyers trust only other lawyers, etc.

In a way it makes a lot of sense: Would anyone here trust a farmer's, doctor's, or lawyer's recommendation on something for your profession? If a doctor said, here's a much ergonomically healthy layout for server racks in a datacenter ... I would think that maybe it's healthier - not all claims come true - but I'd assume the doctor had no idea what is needed for datacenters or server racks. If another IT professional said, 'I'm using this and it works great', it would be a different story.
What reminder? The OP threw out an awful no true Scotsman argument.

Pro diversity programs in all of the big tech companies that specifically target diversity quotas are a blatant example.
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Because it's easier for most people to understand? It's not rocket science.

Besides, most implementations keep the absolute date format in the alt tooltip if you need it.
> by writing that codes of conduct are "punitive spirit", RMS shows a misunderstanding of how these texts came into existence

Why? It seems like he's just recognising that these codes are heavily focused on identifying and punishing "bad actors" rather than correcting the undesirable behaviour, or developing practices that reduce the chance of undesirable exchanges from occurring.

If Linus really is as socially incapable of recognising the effects of his tone, then punishing him for something he doesn't understand serves no purpose, and you'll lose a good contributor as well.

> correcting the biases, conscious or not, that have led to the poor diversity of our communities, must be part of our mission

Aren't you assuming the conclusion here? Uneven demographics are not necessarily indicative of any kind of bias. If you just focus on good encouraging good communication practices that aren't exclusionary, anything beyond that is unnecessary to officially codify. Certainly you can make that a personal goal, but you're talking about taking it far beyond that.
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SO loves those "click-bait" questions. I.e., "why does this weird thing happen in C++." 99% of the time, these questions are nothing more than trivia, AND they are posted by a person who already knows the answer and is just gaming for 10k+ upvotes.

All while asking or answering a legitimate question is likely to be worth maybe 2-3 upvotes and risks getting down voted into oblivion.
We are not talking about exaggeration, we are talking about people who make actual fake news. Fake and as in completely artificial, no basis in reality, and imaginary. Its creating news that doesn't exist.

> Sun Won't Rise Tomorrow, Click Now To Find Out Who's At Fault

^ This is what is effectively going on. Its objectively false and fake news. But the problem is that people are believing this shit.
Not to mention "launching" 10nm with 2 low speed cores on a 4 core die and a busted GPU.
As in "I was against child labour, but then I've inherited textile factory in China and paying adult wages is not efficient".
There already are polyfills for it based on the draft spec
Connected a SCART TV and STB when I first moved to France. The cable was stiff, heavy, and unwieldy and it neve quite fit once everything was pushed back into the cabinet.
Can you cite one page in the K&R2 where the authors are using some 32-bit-specific integer? Or any other decent C book: Harbison and Steele? C Traps and Pitfalls?
What kind of conspiracy nonsense is this?
We need a database of “lines”.

The challenge is, Line Space is probably impossible to be adequately parameterized, with anything less than Turing complete parameters.

So the database would have to be a database of code, which describes people’s “lines”.

In order to put a front end on that you need to solve End User Programming (EUP) for some subset.
I understand being upset about the tracking aspect, but attaching query params to a link isn't breaking anything. Of all the ways Facebook could have implemented something like this, I actually prefer it this way. Query params are easy for me and other adblockers to strip off. Imagine if they were messing with request headers or something that was harder to notice or change.

An incredibly small number of sites might already be using `fbclid` internally, and an even smaller number won't be able to update their sites.

I am totally on board the don't-break-the-web train, but this just doesn't seem like a problem to me. Maybe once stats come out we'll see that it's a bigger issue, but... I kinda doubt it.
'a lot of them' means exactly nothing. How many? Do you have some numbers?

Last time I checked, the dept of labor was saying that about 40% of all agricultural workers are illegal immigrants and United Fresh Produce Association between 50 and 70 percent. So yeah, a lot of them don't use 'legit' systems. It must be very hard to cheer for building 'the wall' while employing illegals and getting federal subsidies. That's why I have great faith in farming automation as it would provide some well deserved relief.
Gig E uses all eight. Just learned this recently when some of the Wi-Fi access points in the office kept falling back to 100mbit
Everyone is faking it until they make it. I think a deciding event is when someone takes on no other employment for 1 year at a time and works 110% all in on their startup, then they are definitely an entrepreneur and have made the leap from the sidelines.

One idea I didn't see listed elsewhere: Try to go and work for an early stage startup if you are having trouble getting a startup off of the ground yourself. You will learn a lot more as one of the first 10 employees as you do as one of the first 10k. If you tell startups founders you eventually want to do your own startup they respect that and will try to give you opportunities and can share a lot with you about their startup experience.

Also hopefully if you are part of a successful startup exit you will get some street cred and some money to live off of. If it's a failed startup even better as you will learn even more from that experience.
Congrats on the fundraising and the momentum Amjad!
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