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My recurring dream for the JWST is that it actually ever launches. :(

>Watching that launch will be the most heartstopping moment of my life.

You got that right. When Elon launched the car I was like "eh this will be just like any other launch" then as the launch started I was perched on the edge of my chair shouting "CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB BABY CLIMB" at my phone. JWST will be one of the most nerve-racking moments of my life if I watch the launch due to it's many delays.
Hah, that is amazing and baffling at the same time.

Elsewhere, you unfortunately sometimes have to plain emulate the instructions. VM86 mode on x86 is notorious for that; not so much when accessing memory but for all the vast privileged instructions that can trap into the monitor (e.g. CLI, IN, OUT, POPF...). VM86 Extensions ameliorated it only somewhat.

But VM86 also does not have much relevance anymore. It was a mode for running 16bit real mode software, and 64bit x86 CPUs don't support it anymore when in long mode.
And especially back in the '60s and '70s, when Unix and its predecessors were originally developed.
Those sound interesting. Got any recipes?
The American Dream 2.0: Why America Should Reject Silicon Valley’s New Wealth
> the first task for the police is to protect innocent civilians

The first task for police is to keep crime reduced. Notice the police don't usually arrive until after a crime has happened. Not to say they won't genuinely do their best to help you, but that isn't their job. Their job is to keep crime down. The only person responsible for your safety and protection is yourself.

> Even if it causes harm to the policemen themselves

A fair bit of cops get killed in the line of duty. A lot more are "lucky" and only get injured - that might mean losing an eye, permanent spinal cord injuries, or just losing a few fingers or toes. Sucks to be the police officer, also sucks to be their family.

Cops deal with the worst of the worst on a daily basis - the rapists, the murderers, the drug dealers - and they have to constantly make life and death decisions. Is that junkie reaching into their pocket to grab their ID or a used needle to stab you with? Would you take a bullet for a serial rapist or a spouse abuser?

It's easy to cast stones. It's a lot harder to be the one driving up to a potential hostage situation where innocent lives may depend on you. Sure, it might be a prank - or it could absolutely be a barricaded suspect with innocent family inside the house with them.
One thing to keep in mind is that you may have signed a non-compete when you joined your company. If you have, that should be a major factor in how you respond.
In S.F and Vancouver, the city can't expand in most directions thanks to salt water. Therefore, the old buildings tend to be razed, in order to make room for a new buildings. This is a stark contrast to say, Houston or Calgary.
Except the laptop that got stolen and one which the GPU kind of blew up, all my other laptops had an average life of 10 years.

I use laptops as main computers since 1999.

Maybe I try to take good care of them?
I do machine learning and stats for a living. You could describe practically all of what's called AI by the popular press in the same way. Mostly "complex algorithms that classify/predict/optimize/decide between things." The lesson is still there and is still applicable to those things.
Initial loading aside, the site is great and I've bookmarked it.
I've never heard of this before, but it reminded me of this other command line tool for wrangling csv files in a cli. This tool makes use of SQL syntax much more than xsv, so there isn't 100% overlap here.

https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
Takes me back to Riven
your first sentence is an extremely disingenuous and bad faith argument. we did not have anything remotely like two car family quarter acre lot suburban sprawl. we also had nearly a full order of magnitude fewer people.

I also never said "everyone". this is very common response from people who feel personally attacked, they respond defensively with an extreme re-formulation of what was said.

you're posting on HN so i'm hoping I can appeal to whatever piece of your brain is capable of reasoning in the abstract. look at both lines of your response. think about them.
This is a complicated issue because the Drug War is inherently discriminatory, and asking for our government to enforce these laws will always lead to discriminatory practices. All of the other issues definitely need to be addressed, however.
So many good people... gone.
It would only take ~50 years to reach Barnard's star with a theoretical fusion engine according to a research study named Project Daedalus. Someone shoot a probe at the planet and maybe our kids can see some cool imagery!
I believe this has been a known issue for years now.
What If You Could Manage Information Overload?
I don't know why they didn't put this in the abstract.
Sure, but you can "demonstrate" the details after it's fixed.
So is this a wrapper around https://www3.sqlite.org/csv.html ? It mentions sqlite.
The point isn't that it can't be done, it's that voters are strongly incentivized against trying, so they only do so when the political system is completely broken and they feel like they have nothing left to lose, or they feel like there's such massive support for their third party candidate that the party shift has already occurred. It's a chicken-and-egg problem.

Depending on that to fix problems with the two dominant parties is like seeing an infection and doing nothing to treat it until gangrene sets in and you have to cut off their leg (and give them a robotic prosthetic that you hope will be better than their real leg).

It can and does happen, there's even a term for it, iirc: electoral realignment. But it hasn't happened recently, despite a clear sense by everyone that our political system is broken and stupid. Ross Perot tried to incite one in '92 and look what happened.
Can a senator do that? At least in the US, a single senator can't. If it is something in law, a senator will call for review, determine if other laws have been broken, draft a new law, get the law passed, etc. But the review process is often enough to get things moving. The governor might be able to take a direct action depending on the state, as could the president.
> You can definitely use Ubuntu without it having to "phone home".

How do you know? You're assuming they aren't phoning home, probably because it's open source, but you've probably never verified it. And you're unlikely to be enforcing that or proactively monitoring it. So how do you know an update didn't change the rules?

You don't. You just have trust.

And you can equally use Chrome OS with the same level of trust that it's not phoning home after you turn off the analytics that tell you they are phoning home. It's not actively malicious spyware. The settings aren't ignored.
I would second the HCG (or similar, clomid?) for anyone that wants to prevent atrophy by keeping your LH levels up. From a medical perspective I would be curious if you could play with HCG or similar by itself to cause your natural T levels to rise without having to take T.

As an anecdotal single data point of how far you can go after keeping my LH levels as low as I could after around eight months straight my testes decreased around 75% in volume.
To be able to compute all the moves in chess and to play perfectly is literally impossible. There are more possible games in chess than atoms, protons, etc. Even the amount of possible games from ELO 2900 and up are still going to a number humans can not even comprehend, and that a computer would not be able to solve. Theoretically there is perfect play in chess, but theoretically there is also perfect play in basketball or baseball.
> ... developers that made them billions.

Those are the developers creating macOS, iOS and watchOS applications in Objective-C and Swift, not the ones using macOS as pretty UNIX.
The decline is still manageable and Facebook could potentially bounce back. If stock prices continue to drop dramatically in the next year I'd expect employees to "cut their losses" and an exodus will happen. The gold mine will run dry.
* There are places where you shouldn't be using wireless.

* Bluetooth don't work where there is interference, such as near a microwave.

* Bluetooth is a massive security risk.

* Bluetooth allows for tracking.

* Headphone jack is DIRT cheap.

* Because of batteries, longevity etc. they are much worse for the environment.

Bluetooth is still awesome. But ditching the headphone jack is an unequivocal travesty.
Those are typically run by third parties in anonymized manner.
Google isn't trying to control or limit what people think.

The Web Spam team at Google is corrupt, such that a single person can affect rankings in ways that destroy or legitimize websites. And they do fully take advantage of this power.

It’s literally impossible to say that Google doesn’t control or limit what people think, given that there’s zero transparency and zero accountability.
$700–$800 a month, in the U.S., with the usual "who knows what insurance pays" caveat.

Good ol' injectable testosterone is a full order of magnitude cheaper.
This is really interesting. Previously, I asked my doctor to try it, and my first dose of the T Pill sent me into a panic attack and scared me from it.

Same history with family and SRRI use.
I don’t think they actually found an exploit for Nginx: they state that “we assume such a memory bug exists”, rather than saying outright what bug they exploited. It almost sounds like they planted a bug and then exploited it in a binary that was hardened (using this non-standard hardening technique, i.e. not exploiting a binary that was ever used in a real deployment of Nginx).
I've never understood how "the police have a systemic problem rather than this being an isolated problem" is supposed to be a defense of the police. That just makes it worse!
Then ban me for using colloquialisms. I'd frankly love it. Flag the comment, "He said something in a way I don't agree with. Also, if you checkout his comment history, he fails to use the Oxford Comma. That has to be worth something!"

Also, you don't need to include the period when you're quoting me. "Nope"? is valid too.
Whenever a topic like this comes up I find it meaningful to mention the number of people who lived in North America in the year 1500. The population is thought to have been roughly one hundred million. Now the indigenous peoples are nonexistent in most places. Our government policies should cherish these populations.
> Note that for men in particular, loss of muscle mass as you age is a big health issue, and regular resistance training directly combats that.

How come this isn’t such a big problem for women?
Can someone tell me where this breaks down?

1. Testosterone and estrogen have an influence on mental characteristics like disposition, interests, and motivations.

2. Male and female bodied people have on average significantly different levels of testosterone and estrogen.

3. Therefore, male and female bodied people will on average have differences in mental characteristics like disposition, interests, and motivations.

I understand that 3 does not follow from 1 and 2, but have not been able to figure out the reason why.
codewars.com already does this I believe.
> Approval doesn't have to mean the same thing for everyone.

If it doesn't, then your ballots have no consistent meaning and any process for aggregating them produces garbage output in terms of aggregating social preference.

Consistency of meaning of ballot markings and the resolution process being sensible in terms of that meaning are the most critical minimal standards for a voting system. Otherwise, voting is a farce and distraction, not a serious way of guaranteeing that government is accountable.
Pain Can Be a Self Fulfilling Prophecy
Thanks for the good words, stranger!

I'm a terrible writer, but, there's only one way to get better! I really, really like your own blog, too :)
Thanks! xsv is new to me. I love Andrew Gallant's ripgrep(rg) grepping cmd tool.
Welcome to the club. I'm on DDG for search, Apple Maps where possible, Zoho for shared spreadsheets etc., Youtube in a browser in incognito mode, or downloading via youtube-dl in the terminal, and my old gmail is set to forwarding to other accounts, which I primarily use. Anything else one can do to degoogle? (How nice it would be if that word also entered the language...)
while the [non]scaling of benefits argument does have a lot of merits in theory, to show that it isn't the primary reason on practice : imagine that the 10-man team comes to town simultaneously with Amazon, then it is kind of obvious that addition of their $109K salaries would provide proportionally the same benefits as those Amazon salaries. Yet that 10-man team would still not get the same tax breaks/etc. Because the benefits are _forced_ from the government by Amazon for Amazon, and not _given_ by the government to the businesses satisfying some criteria of being beneficial for the locality.
The time of easy moves to California was decades ago. Sure, it's physically easy to travel to SF, but moving is a different beast.

Not all devs are in our..."tier" so to speak. They're not picking up full relocation packages or even a few grand upon signing to make the move easier. They'll need cash in hand to get a place.

Funding a move is hard enough as a new grad without many possessions.

It gets even harder (unless you keep sharp enough to get paid relo) to move as you add vehicles, maybe buy instead of rent a property, and gather stuff like furniture.

That's before factoring in how some people have social ties to their current town. SF is good for well-compensated mercenaries or the few lucky people that got to grow up there.

I find it ironic how you point out someone else as tone deaf elsewhere in this thread.
Zuckerberg rejects facetime call for answers from five parliaments
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I think yakz meant, that its easy to say "he reached for his waistband" whether he did or not, because you know, somebody shot him and lets just say there was a reason other than the officer was terrified and/or coked up so we don't have to prosecute one of our own.

The article says that NPR reported that the Deputy Police Chief said this, but is there video evidence of it? Was this Deputy Police Chief even on the scene? Finch was shot within seconds of stumbling out of the door with his hands up, lets not forget that.
> the lack of fast travel late game.

You can fast travel via stage coach or train (for a fee) or one-way out of camp with the fast travel map (if you've purchased it).
Maybe we should demand better of a group of people we legally allowed to raid people's homes with deadly force.
>Since there is no alternative to inefficient software, products such as the 2019 iPad are praised because they can bludgeon through these tasks and still appear fast, but only due to their sheer power.

The iPad is the alternative to inefficient software. In this case, the inefficient software is a web page that doesn't just have to load the media you want, but the entire application to run it too.

It should be telling that a lot of shops use Electron, because even though it takes 500MB+ of RAM to run (for example) an IRC client, at least you don't have to download the code more than once.

Contrast that to a thin client devices that already have this feature, have had it for the last 10 years, and have it already done natively. This is why it should surprise nobody that iPads are "good enough" today.
Google have actually been fined for circumventing privacy settings more than once.

In addition to the civil penalty, the order also requires
Google to disable all the tracking cookies it had said it
would not place on consumers’ computers.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2012/08/googl...

https://venturebeat.com/2013/11/18/google-privacy-settlement...
I disapprove of all main parties in the UK. I’d still prefer one of them over the other metaphorical Adams’ Lizard, and have voted accordingly, given the parties I do approve of get so few votes that my vote does make a difference but only for the question “do they get their deposit back”.

I genuinely can’t comprehend the problem you’re raising. Even if it can’t solve Arrows Impossibly Theorem, and even though I’m leaning towards technocracy rather than democracy anyway, it doesn’t seem worse than the current systems.
On problem with approval voting is you can only vote yes or no to each candidate. Imagine there are 3 candidates, Candidate-A you like, Candidate-B you dislike and Candidate-C you are so-so about. It's obvious how to vote for A and B, but not obvious for C.

Under ranking voting systems (such as AV) is is obvous how to vote. You do it in this in this order: Candidate-A, Candidate-C, Candidate-B.

Under scoring systems, where you give each candidate a score (say 10 for the best to 0 for the worst), it is also reasonably simple for to vote: Candidate-A 10, Candidate-B 0, Candidate-C somewhere in between. But here again there are problems? If I give C a high score, he is more likely to beat B (which I want) but also more likely to beat A (which I don't want). So that's an incentive for dishonest voting.
Additionally, are you familiar with toastmasters groups? They are Meetups/clubs for people who look to practice public speaking. Maybe there is one in your area?
Or just use the noprocrast setting. I set mine to boot me off after 1 hour, doesn't let me back for 6 hours. Works great.
Is Greenpeace still using bunker oil to power its ship, and dumping garbage and human waste at sea, or is that all fixed now?

(Fueling a ship with bunker oil is only slightly less bad to the environment than shoveling baby koalas into the furnace.)
There are a variety of aromatase inhibitors which prevent conversion to estrogen. But they tend to have not great effects on cholesterol and lipids. And, the stronger ones, notably exemestane, can bring your estrogen levels too low on a TRT dose of T, which has its own bad side effects.
Oh, huh, I guess Google Fiber counts, and GV was called Google Ventures while being an Alphabet child for a few months.

That's pretty misleading. I wonder if the news leaked before a name was picked?
To drive parallels with programming - once you develop muscle memory you can become very efficient at coding. Thinking required only at the time of learning. Yes, learning Vim/Emacs is hard. But you have to go through that process only once. And after that typing/navigation becomes such an unconscious activity.

And if you choose simple and less obtuse language stacks, e.g. Clojure(script) - that will allow you to stop thinking about "mechanics" and concentrate your focus on solving the problem (instead of fighting the ecosystem, dependency management, language idioms, style guide, etc.).
They don't need a Farday cage. They can remove the SIM.
I just naturally assumed Gmail only filed things into Sent when it... sent them. I know that it does "pay attention" to what it's sending: if you're accessing Gmail through IMAP/SMTP you don't need to have your client store sent messages on the server; Gmail will populate them there for you when you send through their SMTP server.
I noticed Facebook's feed is now only 4 posts from friends between sponsored posts. To me this looks like they are starting to push the boundary of advertisement beyond what makes sense for the UI. I didn't think they were desperate for revenue but that's kinda what it looks like.

They feel like AOL in 1998.
Performance investigation using BenchmarkDotNet and PerfView
Scheduling with constraints is a significantly more difficult problem than you suggest - well beyond junior year and the really general stuff holds open research problems.

You are right about the popular (and, increasingly, technical also) mis-use of the term "AI" but that ship sailed a long time ago.
A different one than the article but also weird/dangerous, it (was? is still?) possible to manipulate someone else's contact identifiers.

This may have been fixed, but I stopped using gmail years ago so I'm not sure..

For example imagine Alice emails Bob and Chad, and in the To: field for Bob she gives Bob a different "Name" like "Brad" <bob@bob.com>. If Chad replies to this email, Bob will now be in his contact list as Brad. The email is still bob@bob.com but you can see how it could be malicious, or at least fodder for fun pranks.
This might be putting the cart before the horse but is it easier to implement these kinds of policies when they are mandated by a central authority? I'm thinking about nationalized healthcare here. This is the type of banal evil that the free market can stand against. The moment the word gets out about the practice that isn't forcing sterilization, I'd imagine they'd go there if the option was available.
> police have no choice but to operate under the assumption that the 911 call is in good faith

Why the hell not? Swatting is a well-known phenomenon, and even if that weren't true, killing somebody without a single shred of direct evidence that the situation calls for that level of response is insane. We absolutely have to do better. Police cannot (responsibly) put themselves in completely unknown situations and then start shooting to kill at the slightest suggestion of danger.

It seems that police departments have started to respond to the threat of swatting with streamer whitelists and such. That's good. It's just a shame that someone apparently had to die for them to sit up and take this obvious problem seriously.
Bringing politics to a discussion thread that's very definitely and correctly about politics? Wow, what a problem. Or is it just that they give a point of view that you don't like.
Please don't do nationalistic flamewar on Hacker News. This comment takes the thread a major step further into hell.
> The symbiosis event that created Eukaryotes from a random combination of Archaea and Bacteria appears to have happened only _once_ in the entire history of the earth.

That story is very much in flux still. We're not very certain on how that occurred, let alone how many times over those billions of years.It's linked to the Great Oxygenation Event, likely, but we're still in the very early stages of understanding that era.

> A practically infinite universe means potentially infinite diversity, including phenomenon that may not recognize as life at all to us, but should be equally interesting.

As is usual in science, it depends. If you are dealing with matter like us, then there are only a few universal solvents (5? I can't find the citation). In those solvents, there are a countable amount of ways that the chemistry will allow for 'life' to 'evolve'. The ways that the life can then evolve are really complicated and diverse, but there does seem to be a evolution/development trade-off, where you have to go through developmental 'keyholes' to get to a new level of complexity. Is that infinite? I've no idea, but it feels like a different ordinal of infinity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_evolutionary_h...
7. reddit ?
A 15MB Node.js Docker image, to which most people will add 200MB of dependencies from npm :)