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From what I have read, there are maybe 14 surviving books out of the hundreds of thousands that we took. Possibly less since that museum fire. We destroyed 2000 years of an entire continents written history. And many people simply do not give a shit.

Was talking to someone who identifies strongly as Christian about this recently. She said that she didn't care what had happened to the Maya, because these people practiced human sacrifice. I had to point out to her that you do not get to complain about human sacrifice after committing genocide.
Is there a good listing of these, or could we crowdsource one quiclky to make sure they are at Internet Archive?
I actually love these kind of trashy archeology-themed books, where the brilliant linguist decyphers the ancient writing system over his/her lunchbreak, but it's rather spoiled by the inconvenient fact that the actual process - mountains of data, years of slog - is so unsexy by comparison. Plus, there is never a Rosetta Stone (that would make it too easy!), whereas almost every real-world decipherment has needed something like one. The only exception I can think of is Linear B; I've always thought it'd be a fascinating exercise to repeat Ventris' painstaking cataloguing and cross-referencing on a computer to see if his breakthrough could be repeated more quickly, or automatically.
I recently encountered a bug in an Asrock UEFI (CPU power limits ignored in the X299 ITX motherboard) and contacted Asrock about it.
Got a fixed version emailed to me within a couple of days. Perhaps try that instead of the forums.
Aha, the DT770 Pro are awesome! And they do exist in 80 and 250 ohms variants, which would probably have solved your volume problem...
Urgh - I find this sometimes too since upgrading that randomly bluetooth would become disabled on boot :/
In all the documentaries I've seen (e.g. Robin Hood, Avengers Infinity War, etc.) blacksmiths are for spouting exposition and building the hero's super weapon montages.
> except you don't really get too many benefits from it

Being able to do big business doesn't count?
UEFI implementations are a bugfest, with every other board exhibiting a new idiosyncrasy.
I probably don't even remember half of the bugs I've encountered.

My favorite one was when the integrated EFI shell wouldn't scroll, so every new line would just print over the previous one.

The most obnoxious and common is hardcoding the boot path to be "\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.efi", ignoring what the boot entry says on that matter.
One technology that F9 manufacture uses extensively wasn't even invented until the 1990s.

I refer to Friction Stir Welding, the wonderful technique that welds aluminum alloys by plastic deformation below their actual melting points.

The landing algorithms for the F9 first stage make use of advances in optimization algorithms that weren't available 40 years ago as well (as well as exploiting faster processors).
I suspect what's actually happening here is there was an old GPT partition table on the disk which was not wiped before mdadm -C was run. This means it has a correct primary partition table (with correct CRC etc), and MD RAID has overwritten the secondary PT at the end of the disk.

Unfortunately (and I genuinely hate to be "language lawyering" when someone has lost all their data), the ASRock firmware is doing the right thing according to the letter of the UEFI spec -- see section 5.3.2 of http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%20Spe... :

> If the primary GPT is invalid, the backup GPT is used instead and it is located on the last logical block on the disk. If the backup GPT is valid it must be used to restore the primary GPT. If the primary GPT is valid and the backup GPT is invalid software must restore the backup GPT.

Good time to promote my videos visualizing how GPT and Linux RAID work :-) I did some cool live visualizations of mdadm, mkfs.ext4, gdisk, injecting errors etc. https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/11/26/nbdkit-fosdem-test-pre... https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/11/06/nbd-graphical-viewer-r...
Thats one of the most fatal flaws. Apples proprietary plugs aren't even standard across their own devices.
Vision sounds like a really tough way to solve it, challenging lighting conditions just to make things trickier.

I know that in some contexts, RFID tags are used for livestock tracking. Don't know if they would comfortably work on birds though.
if Apple can do it on top of bluetooth

I think the heart of the problem lies here. It's the fact that we have to pay solid attention to the UI when we make these changes- and we have to care about the UX. This thread is focusing on bluetooth, but I had this experience when iOS updated their text-message interface. I guess there are more buttons to push now, but what is missing is being able to attach a photo that you've already taken by tapping an icon next to the text entry. Now that only opens a camera, and you have to go to the "lower level" to attach a pic that you've already taken.

No big deal, right? Now, if you were going to change your UI and add an icon that signifies attaching a photo, what would your icon look like? If you were going to hunt for one, what would you expect to look for? They use something that doesn't call to mind photographs in my mind[1]. It took me an annoying amount of time to figure out this change because I was in one of those situations I was trying to get the picture off quickly.

In fact, this whole trend of replacing labels with icon and having no mouseover fallback is a huge time-sink. Now, that might have been Apple's icon for a long time, but the fact is I never needed to know that before. It was in a place that was obvious (next to a camera or something, I really don't remember what it changed from).

I mean, am I seriously supposed to know what this means[2]?

[1] http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/photos-ap....

[2] https://boilingpointdev.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/game-cen...
Misleading title. As the article points out, the Alexa ranking puts it outside the top 200k most visited sites.
The main problem that fission has isn't safety, it's cost. Fusion promises to make this main problem worse, not better.
My point is that suicide isn't usually a rational decision.
I’ve tried AirPods, which sounded ok, but they fall out. The included headphones don’t sound good (and also fall out) compared to any of the headphones I already own. I’ve been to the Apple store four times in the last year and had to sit and wait to get a dongle replaced. Once, while in another country the adaptor just quit working. They had a certified Apple store, but the dongle was out of stock so I had to wait four days for one. The second day of waiting was in a motorcycle accident which left me in a hospital bed with no headphones.

I start a lot of audio/visual sketches on iPad I can’t use Bluetooth headphones because of the quality and latency...

Get it together Apple, I’m really tired of this dongle adaptor’s poor quality and the kludgy nature of Bluetooth.
s/yachts/salaries

They're not _actually_ advocating buying company yachts. But a CEO salary? Sure. You can buy your yachts with that.
Looks like it has been two weeks so far and no response. That's pretty bad. Someone should at least acknowledge that they are looking into it.
One thing I don't understand is that if the port size is really a problem, why don't the big tech companies agree on a smaller format?

The same applies to ethernet. Pretty much all laptops have dropped the ethernet port, mostly because it too bulky for modern formats. Why can't they simply agree on another socket?
By curiosity, are they guaranteed to be free forever ?

I know that the current licensing is as open as it can be, but if Google or the actual legal owner changes its mind, will the current users need to go through a clearing of everything they have that uses the font ?

I would guess there’s no guarantee, and wouldn’t take that risk if I was in the BBC.
> From a security point of view, it's really worrying that a lot of users refuse to upgrade software because of the track record of Apple making devices less usable with every upgrade.

Sure it is, but this is what you get for not separating security and feature updates. I tend to avoid updating applications (both on desktop and mobile) for that very reason (though I do update the OS).

If each vaccination you took came with mandatory remodeling of your house, directed by whims of some "artists", you'd see much more antivaxxers too.

> I prefer the method of Samsung in this case, they clearly state for the monthly update that it is mostly a security update.

I have an S7 and my experience doesn't confirm this, though I don't know whether it's Samsung's fault or operator's (Orange). Either way, I find most updates I get to be indistinguishable by their description. I'm not worried though, because I haven't caught any of them installing bloatware. That said, from what I understand, they're still linear - you're expected to apply one patch after another. I see no way of opting out from feature updates, and sticking only to security ones.

Anyway; why oh why it's so hard to include a changelog in an update?
That depends entirely on your evaluation criteria. Your point is only that you don't want to commit suicide. Other people may.
There is a better article on the subject here [0] - it's indeed a long tube with lots of temperature sensors (48) to measure temperatures at different depths in the liquid argon volume.

The data can be used to check whether the cooling and filtration system is working correctly and correlate that with contamination of the liquid argon by other material (e.g. outgassing from building material).

These detectors aren't described (but mentioned) in the original DUNE design report [1], but it's an extremely interesting 'read' if you want to get a feel for which parts work together in the detectors.

[0] https://phys.org/news/2018-08-temperature-protodune.html
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.02984
The Third Large-Scale Bitcoin Drop Could Be the Worst One
I wanted to know what happened so I read the report.

I have to say that the "details" are scarce in the report. The investigator not even went to place where the attack happened (because of the danger).

The conclusions are also interesting, because they accuse ISIL, and not Assad. While sometimes ISIL and Assad have shared interests in the ongoing war, that doesn't mean they are the same. After all, we have seen some USA/Iran cooperation in the area too.

So, I find your accusation to the grandparent of "provide leeway for murderers " when he is just saying that the facts are not clear dishonest.
Google Assistant Leading the Way in Smart Home Technologies
I use Netlify (specialized in JAMstack / static sites). It has a generous free plan.

They can also register your domain, and the integrated interface makes it very easy to sping up a new site from a GitHub repo, assign it a new domain name, get SSL and be up and running in ~2 minutes.
Useful for Example Mapping https://cucumber.io/blog/2015/12/08/example-mapping-introduc... technique to define acceptance criteria for user stories
Historically that often doesn't really happen with such debts. Instead the debt falls a percentage of GDP due to GDP growing, at least in nominal terms.
Can any Googlers answer: Does turning off these "history" sliders actually affect the data Google gathers from you? Or does it just mean that the information is hidden from your own account view?
Almost certainly the code doing the GPT partition table recovery here is stock edk2 + a bunch of proprietary drivers to initialize clocks on the motherboard. The edk2 code is open source under a BSD-ish license, although I take your point that the full blob running on the ASRock motherboard doesn't come with compilable source so it's not much help. https://github.com/tianocore/edk2
Open source licenses have no expiry date and allows free redistribution, thus what is currently available will remain free for good.
It seems to have started with the Bloomberg story, which is still to be proven, and has escalated since. There was the Huawei story, the social credit system story etc.

I suspect it has something to do with the media being fed stories to boost U.S. position in the trade war. They're probably gushing themselves over getting such 'exclusive' pieces, while it's all per-planned.

It's not even far fetched, as that's exactly what happened prior to the invasion of Iraq, but if it indeed is the case, it would be a huge irony, given that we often, (correctly), point out how much control the CCP has over the press.
Not only you, I see that too. The wonderful people who make HN readers, are just beginning to discover for themselves a surreal fairyland that Chinese politics is.

The further you go down that rabbit hole, the more you ask yourself how such a crazy country as China can even exist, and the more it fires up your curiosity. After dealing with China for 11 years, I haven't come any closer to understanding that.

This nation is like the Dark God Azathoth: any attempt to understand it rationally is futile. The more it feels that trying to understand it is breaking your brain, the more you want to understand it.
It's exactly how video game audiences are.

But honestly the stakes are higher than video games. If you go around advertising your package, get people to depend on it, then compromise them later, that's malpractice on your part. That isn't how society runs so it's rather obvious when people get mad that there's a landscape full of anarchy when it should look more like modern civilization.

Like it or not, npm and the node community has not prioritized its reputation. And the mechanisms that keeps bad operators out of npm open source rely on a relatively small company considering the actual business livelihood that relies on npm integrity. It means the community is okay with continuing to use npm, and that means that the community doesn't have a healthy way to maintain itself and build trust. It's going to rot, I think (and hope). It's just going to be a bunch of tribal nomads moving from project to project until someone social engineers a compromise and they're off to find another huge dependency graph again.

At the very least, Clojure is telling people what it's about upfront.

Other package managers are not immune to this, btw. npm is just often the whipping boy.
Human sacrifice was practiced by the Aztecs too of course (don't know about the Incas, but it was clearly an accepted and unremarkable part of life for a large region of the new world); the revulsion that it provoked in the Conquistadors was surely a significant factor in enabling them to convince themselves that destroying these cultures was justified. But I suspect that the conquest would have played out very similarly even if the Europeans hadn't been confronted with pyramids caked in human blood.
well, you better have the luck to own a big business first. Once you do, becoming a party member, had you wished it isn't a hard thing. No difference than rich people like Trump gets into politics eventually.
> Though Rich is right, it pains me to read this because it is indicative of some disputes in the clojure community.

I am genuinely curious why you, or anyone else, would think he is right. I can see why people would agree or why he wants to do things a certain way, but to be right you have to have arguments backing up what you are saying. I don't see that in this post. Am I missing something?
It is superior if you take into account human psychology and the fact that we have unlimited supply of food.
So a crime isn't a crime if it is commonly perpetrated?
Agreeing on a standard is hard. Meanwhile, while no agreement exists, there's plenty of space for people to make money on incompatible standards, each trying to become the dominant solution.

Frankly, I'm sometimes surprised by the amount of things that _are_ standardized between platforms, especially when that standardization isn't forced by regulation.
SpaceX raises $250M in high-yield loan sale
Most people who commit suicide are not accurately judging their situation, due to a long term mental illness like depression, or often due to a momentary emotional upset. Just because someone "wants" to do something doesn't mean that it would actually serve their interests, and it doesn't even mean that they would want it one hour in the future.
Do you mean hackers. I guess hackers would trade my data in secret without providing me any compensation or itemised record of it.
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Always makes me think of Brian Fox's canned response to people who flamed him about bash: "Please return your copy of bash for a full refund."
Delhi Airport handles 1M tonne cargo in 12 months
I think there were two things that made a difference in Libya:

* Khaddafi ordered his soldiers to shoot non-violent protesters
* There was (as a result) an active rebellion against him that could use some support

There was no invasion by western forces, and I think the air support was mostly to stop Khaddafi from massacring his own people. I don't think western forces ever assisted in an attack; it was fairly limited and mostly denied Khaddafi the advantage of his air force.

A thumb on the scale to tip the balance between Khaddafi and the rebels, basically.

And in fact, Syria is not so different, although the involvement is on a much larger scale. It's still mostly various rebel factions that do the actual fighting. Iraq, by contrast, was a full scale invasion, and one based on a lie.

I'm not saying that makes Libya and Syria completely justified, but it's clearly a different case than Iraq, and much easier to justify, if you accept the legitimacy of the rebels.
Because they have the resources to do it abd they want that level of control?
We do know there are inherent problems with fusion, particularly DT fusion. In fact, we've known for 35 years or more. Even if the plasma physics issues are magically solved, fusion has grave engineering obstacles.

http://www.askmar.com/Robert%20Bussard/The%20Trouble%20With%...

https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_2131865/component/file_2...

It's interesting examining the recent efforts, public and private, in light of these venerable critiques.
This isn't important to most people and it is just an annoyance.

All of my devices have a headphone jack, BECAUSE I buy my devices with a headphone jack.

I have a LG V20 which had the best headphone jack on the market. People didn't buy it. People don't care about headphone jacks enough to buy headphone jacks in devices.
Stop Being Afraid of Regexes
Well, he and other 147 people, according to the GH contributors page. Though, granted, none with anywhere near the same level of contributions to the core.
The Weird and Disturbing World of Chinese Livestreamers
On the one hand, that suggests either shitty Bluetooth devices you're using, or some pretty unusual density of Bluetooth users in the crowd.

On the other hand, this is what mass adoption of wireless headphones will lead to, and it shows how ridiculously bad this is compared to the tried-and-true wire.
Yes; it’s definitely less convenient to write and maintain your own software compared to having someone else do it for you.

As a project maintainer I’ve made the mistake several times of being too permissive with pull requests. Someone comes along with a feature they’re excited to add to my project. I don’t need the feature myself. They exuberantly make a PR, and I eventually merge it. Before long it turns out there’s a bunch of bugs with that feature, and the original author is gone. Do I waste my time fixing their code, for a feature I never wanted and don’t use? Or do I ignore the bugs and let the smell of low quality work waft over my code base?

These days I default to refusing most feature requests, even if they have decent PRs. I write most software for fun, or to scratch an itch. I don’t do it because I want to manage a community. If you want to add features and build a community around a project I’ve written, great. I’m happy to link to your fork in my readme.

Forking is not a symptom of failure. Maintaining a fork is sometimes just the ticket price to control your destiny.
In Churchill's History of WW II he explains the reasons. I don't remember all the reasons but one of them was that they were (of course) not 100% certain that the bomb will work so they couldn't get the whole world in a "watch this!" stance only for the bomb to fail.
OK So I'm trying to understand. This is about using some Google software to annotate videos without actually changing the underlying video? I'm made annotations, but always in my video software (openshot or whatever) so they are baked into the video. They should still work ok. It would be pretty easy to do this for things you really needed. Just import your video and add some keyframes with the overlay. Or maybe you lose your URL when you edit?

and just not leave everything up to Google to decide in the future IMHO.

EDIT: reading farther down, I see the answer to the latter half: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18540470
This is one of those times where as a working creative that frequently reads Hacker News I straight up face palm.

I have to imagine a lot of these commenters would say the same in regards to any sort of subjective artistic choice that isn't purely optimized for efficiency.

I would like to leave you with a quote by Briano Eno from a really good lecture he gave several years ago that I hope can provide a jumping off point for alternate ways to think about style, and why I think y'all are asking the wrong questions.

"So the first question is, why is any of that important? Why do we do it? And notice it’s not only us relatively wealthy people, in terms of global wealth, who are doing it - it’s everybody that we know of. Every human group we know of is spending a lot of their time – in fact almost all of their surplus time and energy – is spent in the act of stylising things and enjoying other people’s stylisations of things. So my question is, what is it for? In fact, my friend Danny Hillus, who’s a scientist, was asked by a well-known science website, along with about 300 other scientists, he was asked what is the most interesting scientific question at the moment? A lot of the other people replied with things about the cosmological constant and Ryman’s Hypothesis and all these very complicated things. And his question was very simple: he said why do we like music? And if you start thinking about that, that is really one of the most mysterious things you can imagine. Why do we even have an interest in music? Why do we have preferences? Why do we like this song better than that one? Why do we like this Beethoven sonata better than that Beethoven sonata? Why do we like this performance of that same sonata better than that other performance? We had very fine distinctions about things that we prefer, aesthetic things. And, yet, none of it seems to have much to do with functionalism, with staying alive and certainly not with industries I would say." - Brian Eno

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/speeches/2015/bbc-music-jo...
Sure, but nobody is going to be suspicious that you paid yourself $10 million/year while the company was losing money?
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"For the BBC to remain a vital and relevant digital service in an increasingly busy marketplace, we need to appeal to as many people as possible. Having a broader range of expression and visual tonality allows us to stand out in a crowd and aid recognition."

I love designer talk.
Reliability, too. I don't trust bluetooth at all.

And price: a jack is dumb tech and cheap (cheap anough that I always had about 10 extra jacks of all kinds with me when I was doing a gig).

But to be fair, wireless transmitters/receivers do exist for musicians. They don't use bluetooth ofc, but that means that the latency can be bearable with wireless. It's made for live playing though (freedom of movement), no point using that in studio
If a user buys some second-hand hardware that's 3 years obsolete and does out-of-spec things to it… yeah, I'm hardly surprised the vendor isn't looking into it.