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Came across this in a thread on Reddit. It’s been discussed on HN before as well but I think it’s worthy of being resubmitted.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15766249

In that discussion multiple people said that they preferred the non-stabilized dithering, and they argued that that is “how it was” on the old 1-bit Macs.

“The original effect is how it's supposed to look and how it would have looked on an old computer with 1-bit graphics.” says one commenter.

I think these comments are missing the forest for the trees.

It’s not about faithful recreation, it’s about artistic inspiration and invoking certain feelings.

See also the talk “8 Bit & ‘8 Bitish’ Graphics - Outside the Box” by artist Mark Ferrari. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcJ1Jvtef0

If you artificially constrain yourself too much, your game will suffer and no-one will want to play it. On the other hand, if you can give a nod to the past and a feeling of nostalgia but at the same time acknowledge that we have had progress, and incorporate that progress in your game, then there is potential for a game that is actually fun to play.
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Probably not. I don't think booting another OS on an iPhone is doable.
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because firefoxOS is no longer under development. /e/ probably doesn't want to take over development of the whole operating system.

also, there is no easy way to collect all FOSS apps available for firefoxOS, because firefox didn't track that information. that is, if the market is even still running.

the goal of /e/ was to start with a fully functional system, and remove the bad bits one by one. lineageOS and f-droid make that easy.

developing firefoxOS would be more like starting empty, and having to develop or port any apps needed to make it good.
It seems, these days, as though the human race has passed a Rubicon and is now on a straight path toward the end of days, or at least the end of the social order as we know it.

Is there some name for the phenomenon that as things get better, our assessment of where things stand seems to get more and more pessimistic? I feel like you see this in issues of racial and gender equality as well. Things are so much better than they were 100 years ago, but even as I write that, I'm tempted to pre-empt it with an acknowledgement that things are still terrible, because I know that I'm going to get a bunch of comments about how bad race and gender relations are today. And those comments are not wrong, but they ignore the context of all the progress that's been made.

There will always be some kind of crisis and existential risk looming for some or all of civilization, but the more objectively better things get, the more disinclined we seem to be to acknowledge the progress that's been made. Why is that?

Don't get me wrong, climate change is horrific. But for almost the entire second half of the last century, we faced the very real threat of nuclear annihilation at any moment. It's terrifying how close we came to that tipping point. For the first half of the last century, we had two global wars that killed tens of millions of people and whose outcomes were not certain. When I read the history of World War I and II, I'm struck by how easily things could have gone differently and perhaps left us with a much worse world than the one we face today.

So while climate change is a huge problem, I think it's preferable to all-out nuclear war. I think we'll figure it out in the long run, not without a lot of suffering and cost, but we have options. Maybe I'm wrong though.

Regardless, as soon as we do, there will be some new problem that isn't quite as bad as climate change, and humanity will be as pessimistic as its ever been about our future ability to thrive.
Not without re-compiling.
"it takes all of 30 minutes to just wipe your hard drive and install Ubuntu on your ThinkPad and you'd be much better off for it" is a VERY incomplete picture.

You're leaving out the part where you're spending countless hours figuring out how to make $TASK work on Linux (i.e. scan + OCR, photo editing, accounting, pivot tables in a spreadsheet, to name a few examples) with any number of WORKAROUNDS, rather than a it-works-out-of-the-box experience because software exists for Windows already, that works out of the box.

You might want to deal with getting those workarounds going, because you're a purist, or you're in your 20s, and have nothing but time on your hands.

I'm 45, have a family I want to spend time with. I don't have time for that shit anymore. I want things to work and stay out of my way.

macOS used to be that good. I don't feel like it is any more.

Windows 10 has been that good, here. I turn off the telemetry. I don't know where you've seen ads. I get no ads. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Interestingly enough, New Balance positioned itself to be the anti-Nike, touting its shoes as U.S.-made and not benefiting from exploited foreign labor. I read somewhere that the way their N logo is put on their shoes is meant to echo the Nike swoosh. And people have criticized that branding as insufficient, as well.

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-balance-needs-to-redesig...
It's sort of the thing one expects from a person who publishes an article through Quillette, where behaving like a misogynistic moron is perceived as a virtue.
Of course it’s impossible to say with complete certainty, but... Vancouver’s housing market has stalled since the foreign buyer tax and vacancy taxes started to bite. Inventories are high and stubbornly stuck there rather than falling as they do toward the end of the year. Prices on high end homes are down a great deal - 20-30% for homes priced higher than $3M.

I would say that at this early stage it looks like the new taxes are working precisely as intended.
Perhaps this is far too controversial a view for HN, and for many Americans, we'll see.

The terrorists absolutely won. Least that's my perception as a non-American. Your first mistake was legitimising them as "the enemy"

When the IRA were bombing Docklands, Manchester or Birmingham pubs we'd make a poor taste joke the next morning, walk past the wreckage and forget about it the day after that. When the Baader Meinhoff Group were killing public figures, and bombing Brits, Germans and Americans over in Germany they were treated as a bunch of insignificant extremists. Even by the Americans it seemed from news reports. There'd be a poor taste joke or two, and they'd be ignored. Much the same for other terrorist groups hijacking aircraft or killing people through history. "Don't deal with terrorists" was heard from every politician.

Then came 11/9 and the "war on terror." So determined were your politicians to legitimise the terrorists it became a war. Against a legitimate target. Globally. So determined were you to preserve your "freedoms" that you built an apparatus of surveillance to ensure that freedom. Apparatus so far reaching that it is indistinguishable from an apparatus of oppression. Most other countries played along too in support, and built the same apparatus of oppression to preserve freedom. Not only did the USA lose, and the terrorists win, but the UK, France, Iraq, Malaysia etc lost too. So did freedom.

No more bad taste joke the morning after and treating them as a bunch of irrelevant idiots unworthy of but the briefest air time (like I get the impression most Americans still do with a group like the Westborough Baptist Church), but an unwinnable war with a legitimate enemy and a leader, and endless analysis. Everyone except them, globally, lost.
All right!

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/india-climate-chang...

https://qz.com/india/1049730/heatwaves-could-turn-parts-of-i...

https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/07/africa/sudan-climate-change/i...

I'm curious why you felt that such a hostile response was justified. You could have just said "I'd like to see a source for that" and I would happily have provided. Did you really think I was just making up lies, and would slink away in defeat when challenged?
I'd need to see an independent assessment of the structural integrity of this type of ideas, especially if it was designed and built in Indonesia.

Even if it was assessed independently, I still would not feel safe because the engineering scrutiny and structural discipline was perhaps not an integral part of the development process. I just have a hard time trusting novel civil engineering projects without insane amounts of engineering data.
Medically-supervised fasting has been shown to reverse T2D, even in patients who have been on insulin for decades. Beta cells seem to be able to regenerate themselves: https://insulinresistance.org/index.php/jir/article/view/31/...
This has been a HackerNews phenomenon for years. The default stance of HackerNews is contrarian.
But /boot is a FAT32 partition, it's mountable on practiacally any os I'm aware of. On a mac it'll be under /Volumes/boot.
Yep. I often go for walks alone in the countryside and I'll often stop and have a short conversation with every person I see (which may only be one or two). I wouldn't even do that at the large company I used to work, let alone in a city.
You might really enjoy the short book "The Abolition of Man" by CS Lewis. It's not a fantasy or apologetics book like he's known for, doesn't presume any christian or theistic view point, but it describes a very similar phenomenon to your observations, what he calls "men without chests".

I will say that there are actually places (in the US at least) where what you describe is not the societal norm at all. But there's tradeoffs with everything. Super visible religiousity and expectations of constant amiability and politeness do have some downsides. It is less lonely though.
Appreciate your comment, I think it sums up well what I intended to go for with the platform. Taking aside what people might think about diversity, we've seen that ideologies radicalize when we are only surrounded by like-minded people, usually from similar backgrounds. Having the chance to find people based on a variety of filters allows you to discover pretty much any kind of person, and it can contribute to avoiding this issue in particular. Do I think that everyone must equally follow the same people from those different groups? No, not at all. But even having someone outside your bubble can help you broaden your view in a multitude of topics, for sure. Thanks!
Oops, how presumptive of me.
I don't think the pessimism is unrealistic. Unless there is a scientific miracle, we are headed toward significant increases in global temperature over the next 50-100 years. The temperature rise itself probably won't kill us, or at least most of us. But the temperature rise itself is not what we have to worry about. Think about the events that triggered WWI and WWII--they will pale in comparison to the consequences of climate change. How is climate change going to affect China and India (two nuclear powers) and their neighbors?

Climate change and the resulting water shortages aren't going to leave the West unscathed either, even leaving aside the political issues elsewhere. At the rate the Ogallala aquifer is being depleted, farm production in the Midwest of the U.S. will peak in 2040. Farmers in Kansas will have to drop their groundwater pumping by 80% in order to preserve the aquifer indefinitely. There is a real possibility that water shortages will get very ugly. Then of course you have major west coast cities that depend on the Colorado river for drinking water, and are already fighting over a resource that's at capacity. I don't think it would be out of the question to see civil unrest or outright military action between U.S. states within a century if some scientific advance doesn't change the course of the water situation in the U.S.

These scenarios are not unrealistic or unduly speculative. Major environmental stressors will happen this century absent some unforeseen technological interventions.
I degoogled my phone by installing LingageOS and by not installing any Google app (no play services etc). Everything is great, except one major annoyance: I do not receive any notifications of chat apps, because I am not connected to GCM /Firebase. Does /e/ somehow fix this, e.g. by providing their own cloud messaging services?
Could you point out what the problems were, and what technique did you replace it with?
Just played through it and really liked it! I think this is just the right level of abstraction for a beginning CS student. Makes it easy to grasp the compositional nature of computers without having to deal with all the details that make circuit design hard, like the non-instantaneous response of real components.
>That said, sinking say 10W of heat into your organs overnight is going to do serious damage.

Is it? Electric heating pads and electric blankets are certainly a thing, and they're around 10W (the one I have says 50W).
Generic checklists for Pull Requests are great. It's easy to write a Tampermonkey script that lets you paste a prewritten checklist into a new blank PR description, reminding you to do linting, run tests locally, and so on.
It's for DOS and is a shareware.

> better UI

I doubt that from the screenshots. But it's a personal preference.
This was a good reminder, habits are hard to break. As others have pointed out, the comic is a bit one sided, but it's trying to make a point, so whatever.

However, the comic does fail to recognize that the priorities of the woman (in this case) are also societal constructs. In the same way that women are taught to be the cleaners and boys are taught to go off to "save the world," women are also taught to value things like a tidy home. There's no inherent value in not keeping my jeans on the floor of the bedroom. That's something that women writ large have been taught to value.

If the men are being encouraged to think about what society has taught them to do, and change it based on this comic, I think it's only fair that the women also take a minute and consider the same.
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One problem with bamboo is that it easily grows mold. So even if you treat the outside it's entirely possible mold is growing on the inside. I'm sure there are some good ways to "dip" bamboo and coat it in something to prevent mold growth. I live in Hawaii and I won't use anything with bamboo because it always seems to eventually mold.
yes, the very same
Here's a recent blog post that describes some of the massive amounts of data that iPhones collect: https://www.mac4n6.com/blog/2018/9/12/knowledge-is-power-ii-...

Granted, this data is on-device, and we don't know how much (if any) leaves the device, but if Apple really had privacy as their top priority, they wouldn't collect that data in the first place. Privacy is surely important for Apple, but it's not the absolute top.
I’ve had similar recently. Only it’s been an extended period of time (months) since I last searched for what started coming up. Led me to believe something was sold to someone recently.
I'm curious about your take on something. ADHD was not recognized as a disorder until 1968. And the popularity of pharmaceuticals for ADD/ADHD didn't really take off until the 90s when a pharmaceutical industry astroturfing group called CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit) started marketing ritalin hard. Since then the use of using various pharmaceutical stimulants has become extremely widespread - jumping up by multiple orders of magnitude.

Okay, so:

- people claim that not being medicated for ADHD would result in homelessness and other such things

- medication only started to really take off in the 90s, and has since exponentially increased

So why is that when we go a bit further back in time, before the 90s, that we don't see some massively exponential increase in homelessness and other such things? I mean if that's the alternative to not taking the drugs, wouldn't this be precisely what we'd expect to see?
So how do you expect me to respond now that I've seen this cartoon? I genuinely have no ill will towards you or anyone, I'm simply trying to defend what I think is right in what I think is the most reasonable and civil way possible. Accusing someone of "sea lioning" is creating a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation, if you're criticizing them for being reasonable and civil, how else should they defend themselves?

Is it possible to bring up ape behavioral studies without being accused of bad intentions? What do you propose is the best way to go about it?
It's not hard to find sources. For example:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-countries-tha...

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-...

A great book on the effects of climate change is Six Degrees by Mark Lynas, who read 3000 peer-reviewed papers on the effects of climate change and summarized them, one chapter per degree, with extensive references.

One reason we know what to expect is that the Earth has gone through warming cycles before and we can see what happened in the geological evidence. A good presentation of that evidence is in Hansen's Storms of My Grandchildren.
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I spent about a year or so reading and reimplementing interesting papers around machine learning on audio - probably six months was actually getting to know signal processing in a real way and learning tensorflow, and then some months doing seq2seq for ASR slightly more seriously. And now I've been doing things that you can find in the lifeclef or dcase competitions, with a group that focuses on one of the sub tasks.
...well yeah, the worlwide famine and political instability coming after the massive climate change will kind of obviously lead to this, thank god for the nukes.
I rewatched both 12 Monkeys the film and Brazil and they both share an incredibly unbelievable romance - in the first the scientist falls in love with a homeless man and kisses him passionately over the span of about 10 minutes of screen time after thinking he was insane and finding proof he was a time traveler (homeless people are humans, too, but if Cole had been living like a homeless person long enough to appear like that he would have had a pretty foul odor) and in Brazil, Sam Lowry and the female lead are arguing and he singled handedly ends her career and in the next(?) scene we see them together they are in bed pre/post consummation ( though of course that scene makes more sense if it's only in his head after we watch the end of the movie). The TV series also manages to top Brad Pitt's crazy guy, that I thought was going to be impossible after hearing about the TV series initially.
So people should ignore a counterargument that makes sense to them because Terry Gross has more experience? We should blindly follow authority in spite of our own reasoning abilities?

I'm always disappointed when these dismissive appeal to authority ad-hominems [1] are not only posted on HN comments but voted to the very top. These types of comments take no effort and don't add any information to the discussion. Isn't HN supposed to be better than that?

Why not instead respond to the actual specific arguments people have put up in objection to Terry Gross's advice? Then the insufficiency of her experience is plain to see: She has 40+ years of experience indeed, but in a relatively narrow form of conversational interview, and commenters here are rightfully pointing out that her advice doesn't generalize.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

> "DH1. Ad Hominem. ... Saying that an author lacks the authority to write about a topic is a variant of ad hominem—and a particularly useless sort, because good ideas often come from outsiders. The question is whether the author is correct or not. If his lack of authority caused him to make mistakes, point those out. And if it didn't, it's not a problem."
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Why are these drugs underserved though? If, as another commenter suggested, the core reason for the shortages is because the government is such a large purchaser and they're keeping prices too low to encourage investment in new supply, wouldn't it make more sense to just pay a bit more to create some oversupply to cope with shocks to the system and long-term growth?
I came here to say exactly this. I've always loved his version of Dune and I was genuinely surprised when I got online years later and starting seeing that most people seemed to think it was bad.
99% of his post is about learning new things.

>hard left swing
Taking an average is the wrong technique here. The author is trying to measure variance between equivalent code due to hardware events. I mean, on average, DRAM access is very fast! But sometimes it's not, and that's what the article is about.

And in any case on a modern x86 system that call (which is in the VDSO, it's not a syscall) just reads the TSC and scales the result. That's going to be reliable and predictable, and much faster than the DRAM refresh excursions being measured.
Cant even get a crack shack in SF for that.
> ...them...them...them...

It's not just us vs them. There's at least a third group: future generations. In a realpolitic sense, should we allow "them" to screw over the future generations because of "our" blame attribution (correct or not)?

Reconsider the percentage of 50%: at what percentage do you change your stance? 40%? 30%? 20%? 10%? 5%? 2%? 1%? or absolutely strictly 0%?

Suppose this passes at some non-zero percentage, you are of course free to buy into Republican membership (or perhaps Democrat or other climate sceptic membershipif say a Green party or other succeeds in passing this) and reveal your true colors if you refuse to pay the larger tax...

A systemic problem needs a systemic solution, up till now it has been mostly the system moralizing the individual (who realises all too well we need a systemic solution)

The future generations would look back and see who can't prove they were in the added ecotax paying bracket..., of course they would see it is totally unfair, but as the problem becomes ever more urgent, the question becomes less and less about what is fair, but more and more about how the f!ck we are going to implement a timely and systemic solution, regardless of fairness...

It seems like this puzzle forces one to rediscover the true meaning of humanism, patriotism and sacrifice.
When I read Africa I assumed they would be hosting it in South Africa which would be a much better choice for LGBT. Pretty much every other country would be a bad choice.
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Did you see the sci-fi mini series? It was very faithful to the books, but I don’t think it made billions.