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> If you look through there source code, no desktop environment, something also true of Linux.

Right, a DE is not part of the kernel, or even perhaps the base install. But DE is something people do use with FreeBSD - there are people who run DEs.

> FreeBSD has no desktop environment, and likely little desire for one

The development of Lumina is a BSD-associated endeavour, so the desire part does't seem quite true.

> how are they being ripped off by Apple's failure to give them their DE?

The DE is just an example of something that could have been useful. The point is that Apple hasn't really contributed back to FreeBSD - the real-world behaviour of large corporations highlights the drawbacks of non-reciprocal licences.
Sad to have missed the exhibition as a student of the University. My coursemates also found this quite amusing!
I don't know about downvoting, but want to point out that the US presidential election is actually indirect.

The President of the USA is elected by the members of the Electoral College. The voting population votes electors into that Electoral College.

The expectation is that the electors vote for who they said they would, but there have been "faithless electors".
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15359574
If you look at immigration rates over the past 50 years, the US comes far far ahead.

The US look a majority of its immigrants in the 90s and early 2000s, while Sweden took near-zero immigrants until 10 years ago.

Additionally, many Western European 'immigrants' are actually just people moving between different Western European countries.
And democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

Also, the way EU parties are structured, you can't even really consider it in that sense. It's possible to divide MEPs from France and Germany between EU parties in a way that voting along party lines would always give a positive outcome for Germany and France. (If you don't get what I mean by this, then think about how gerrymandering allows for a minority to take control over the majority. You can do the same with EU parliamentary groups.)
I agree that the author was right about Zuckerberg. I also contend that, at this stage, it doesn't matter. You can't put the djinn back in the bottle. The tech world has been making the case for years that privacy matters but it's clear that it doesn't. The companies that violate it over and over, publicly, are not punished by the market and the companies that respect it are not rewarded.

People don't care about privacy.
I'm a Part-time truck driver.

Truck do have big powerful brakes, (newer ones with disk-brakes are really awesome) but it still takes a LONG time/distance to slow/stop 80,000lbs from 100km/h.
Kinetic energy is a real bitch.

There are videos of new volvos with 'automatic emergency braking' that is impressive to watch; but that isn't real-world.

In the real world during a 'panic stop' the trailer brakes lock up and the trailer starts bouncing. If you are lucky the tractor wheels don't lock up, but while you have slammed on the brakes, you are still steering and trying to avoid hitting anyone.

316ft for a car vs 524ft for a truck.[1] Almost twice the distance.

And that does NOT match my real-world experience.
I'd say on average it takes 3x-4x the distance to stop a rig.

[1]https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/stopping-distances-for-com...
I am aware of the numbers...but I don’t think they paint the whole picture.

But that’s besides the point, the point I was trying to make is that America worked much better for a person like me.

Likewise I can imagine a place like Europe working better for some folks.

If only people had free mobility...maybe everybody could just love in a place that works for them
I really do hate posts like this.

if youre not going to name where you moved your customers too, then who cares?
On the tax front it is empirically wrong. See eg California and New York, which have growing economies despite high taxes to Kansas and Nevada, which have low or no taxes.
Which comprised 90% of the browsers in use.
Yeah, people need to be more chill about that
I disagree with the conceptual basis for the concept of work/life balance. The entire concept of this bifurcation assumes that "work" must be defined as a drudgery in service to some ill-defined hedonic or Eudaimonian "life."

I wouldn't dispute that the vast majority of people do live in a cyclical state of drudgery and leisure.

However, if you have the luxury of being able to "balance" these states, then you're likely not doing the same kind of drudgery that seems to be descriptive of the concept. I've had those jobs and been in that position, my shift leader didn't care about helping me make time for my hobbies.

So my answer is, there is no "right" balance and what others do will only serve to create many different "greener pastures" in your mind.

At different times in my life I've worked 90 hour weeks for months at a time, and others 10 hour weeks. I've spent long periods (almost a year) as a stay home dad, at other points I spent almost a year completely away from my family.

The distinction is, I have made my life my work (ever hear of a "life's work"?), in that there are things that I want to achieve and I have created my career around progress toward that goal.
Why Big Brother Doesn’t Bother Most Chinese
A loved one went through a few rounds of Ketamine IV at a recently opened clinic. It was about $400 a treatment, not covered by insurance, but administered by credentialed professionals.

The experience was a bit like a dialysis clinic, where there are a bunch of beds in a room, tatami screens between the beds, and where a huge 2" diameter syringe dosing pump eases a tiny amount of Ket in the line over 15 minutes.

Aside from the expense, it didn't particularly help my loved one's condition. She said it felt more like it just got her high, and not the kind of high you want. Maybe if they used a stronger dose, but those cost more as I recall.

I feel there are at least three treatments one should try before Ketamine, for PTSD/Anxiety/Depression/Suicidal Ideation.

• EMDR. So successful it's amazing that it's not standard fare in counseling and therapy.

• Neurofeedback. The literature is equivocal at best, but the anecdata is very strong.

• LSD. As our nation struggles with medical marijuana still living on schedule I, LSD similarly inhabits schedule I (where the government knows better than your doctor about there being no possible medical benefit). Studies show LSD is over 10x as successful in curing alcoholism as AA.
Is that really true?

Most of the trendy tiny homes are 200-300sqft with a loft bedroom.

My townhouse is modest by US standards at 1500sqft and 3 bedrooms. I believe this was about average in the early-70s (when the home was constructed).

The average new home in the US is now about 2600sqft and 4-5 bedrooms.
Interesting! Please tell me more about the can anyone detect the AI comments?
At first glance I don't think it's fair to say "ENet did this a decade ago". ENet simply provides multi channel communication over a UDP stream. It doesnot provide 0/1 RTT handshakes, encryption of the protocol beyond the initial handshake, or HTTP bindings. Based on some Github issues it doesn't even look like there was a protocol extension/version negotiation.

QUIC is also decently old itself, the last 7 years have been spent proving it is well suited for the real world and able to be iterated upon. This is the kind of difference that matters for standards track vs ignored.
> let people make their own decisions about what they put in their bodies

why not let people make their decisions about what they put in other people's bodies then? if they do damage - they suffer consequences, so it all should be fine right?
I disagree JavaScript is fundamental to the web - I'm a huge JavaScript fan (top 1% I'd say), and write it for my job... I've written a few books on it even... but I always use noscript when browsing the web: hackernews, reddit, twitter - can all operate fine without JavaScript. Dodgy third-party ad scripts/malware do need it, but I don't really want them running anyway.

Yes, 20% of sites I load are either a blank page or "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app" (it's the new "An error has occurred"). If it's a friend's site, or something that obviously needs it - like a game, or art project - then I'll temporarily whitelist it. But if not, then hey, I just got a 20% productivity boost by saving some time on whatever it is that thinks it needs JavaScript!
You seem to have forgotten what the original statement to which you responded was. Let me remind you.

"To Forrester, low-income housing was an especially egregious example of a “counterproductive” urban program. According to the model, these programs increased the local tax burden, attracted underemployed people into the city, and occupied land which might otherwise have been put to more economically healthy uses. Housing programs aimed at improving the condition of the underemployed, Forrester warned, “increased unemployment and reduced upward economic mobility” and would condemn the underemployed to lifelong poverty."

This involves six claims.

The creation of affordable housing would, per the quote:

1. Increase the local tax burden
2. Attract underemployed people
3. Foreclose a more profitable use of the land
4. Increase unemployment
5. Reduce social mobility
6. Condemn the underemployed to lifelong poverty.

You seem to be focused on only one of them, the least contentious and consequential - (2).

That would do nothing to support the claims you made in your last post, about the entire model following - "logically and mathematically" - from basic economics.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments so we don't have to ban you again? Your substantive posts are just fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Has that happened, like, anywhere?
You're saying suicidal ideation is "the natural state"?
>> It makes givers and takers, and there will be resentment on both sides.

This is oversimplified. There are already takers across both groups, except that the taking is pretty much always looked at more negatively when done by the poor.
You literally gave an example for why free-market capitalism supports innovation; e.g. the product was stupid and the market rejected it.
I'm a former journalist and spent the first 10 years of my career at various magazines and newspapers.

About eight years ago, I landed my first full-time software development job in part because of a walkthrough I gave during my in-person interview process of a tool I'd developed while working for a metro daily newspaper. It wrote lottery results stories with the click of a button.

Writing those results stories was a daily chore. We would look up the state's daily lottery results and also report Powerball and Mega Millions results. For those larger lotteries, we'd also adjust our headlines depending on whether there was a big winner in our state. But aside from that, it was just tedious and formulaic, so I wrote a script that would hit the various lottery sites, scrape the data, and generate a two- or three-paragraph story that was ready to post. It took the task down from five minutes to five seconds. (I later worked on a similar tool for generating short weather reports and alerts.)

Since then, I've worked on other NLG stuff, and honestly, it's pretty hard, and the topic really has to be data-driven to begin with; we're probably decades away from really insightful NLG that offers "why" explanations, as opposed to "what" or "how" descriptions.

The other tough challenge about computer-generated journalism is that getting the data is often the hardest part of the process. Oh, sure, businesses are going to release their quarterly earnings reports, and sports teams are going to release their game data. You might even use computer-assisted reporting to generate FOIA requests for data that governments are required by law to release upon request. But you're not going to write a story that leads to Nixon's resignation or Enron's collapse simply by asking for the data.
> If we include virtual interactions, the range of people a person interacts with each day continues to grow. This essentially means that the number of opportunities to “simulate” strategies for interacting with others continues to grow. If being nice is the winning strategy in modern society, then the increasing number of interactions will increase the speed at which people “learn” to adopt this strategy.

I'd certainly like this to be true, but the past couple of decades have shown that unmoderated internet fora can tend to get pretty toxic, so it's hard to be so optimistic. Part of this could probably be explained by algorithms promoting contentious content for page views. But such toxicity was also present before the rise of modern algorithmically controlled news and social media, such as USENET newsgroups in the 90's and early 2000's.
I used to hate it, but now I abuse this to watch the trailers that autoplay.

Make no mistake: Netflix has certainly been measuring how well this works and the impact it has on the product. What we might hate has been proved to improve metrix Netflix seems to care about…
> I eventually went back to a country with a social safety net where the working class people on my bus talk about their vacations.

I sincerely wish that everyone who wanted socialism just went to a socialist country instead of trying to import it here, and I really appreciate that you did. Thank you! We can admire and appreciate each other from afar. (100% genuine, well intended comment here). My family came to the US from a socialist country, seeking freedom and capitalism. I have no idea what to do now that socialism is arriving here.
There will be nothing of the sort.
Perhaps. If customers are really doing their research and there is no other way to differentiate, sure. In a perfectly rational world for sure.

But there is a real cost of offering a money back guarantee: it may be distracting you from other issues. It may encourage a "throw stuff against the wall and see what sticks" type of mentality. Which can get you started, but random experimentation based on "best practices" and "do what the others are doing" is not the shortest path to very high conversion rates.

The real way to increase conversions is to "sleep with your customers". Get to know them so well, you know what their heart wants. You know the real reasons why they want your product or a similar one.

And then fulfill those desires. Give them what they want and explain it in a way that they understand.

But if you don't know your customer, which takes just a few days of conversation...well, you're throwing darts on at a "best practices" dartboard.

If you do your homework, you can narrow it down to:

I don't understand your product.
I understand your product, but I don't see how it would help me.
I don't trust you.
I can't figure out how to do X on your website.
Your product is priced too high/too low.

A money back guarantee does nothing to address to above 5 objections.
The answer to all the above questions is: is in the interest of the elected officials.
I live in an apartment in the U.K. and this is just not the case - I have absolutely no idea what anyone else is doing. Proper construction goes a long way. There’s something about America that makes proper construction of apartment buildings impossible, apparently - whether that’s building codes or cost-saving exercises I don’t know.
If they rebel, then either there is a use for some of them for guards, or those we can hire for guards are better (and will win).

The US indeed have a large amount of land and many guns, but that land is already termed "fly-over" country, do you think most people on the coasts care if somebody runs around up in the Apalachian mountains with a gun shouting down with the rich?

If (which I do not believe) those persons will have no value at all, we will deal with them when/if they riot.
Probably thinking about the Melissa Virus: http://archive.arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/2q99/melissa-1.htm...
To add alternate experience to the children of this post, I worked for a company w/ unlimited vacation, and while I took very little vacation, there was no pressure from outside to limit it. Other people tended to work less than I did and took vacation more or less in line with what they would have done elsewhere.

I wouldn't take unlimited vacation as a sign of anything other than "we expect you to be reasonable and we don't want to micro-manage everything." Although if my experience had been different, I might think different.
TLS 1.3 _being required_ makes me sigh loudly. What about local development, where tools like tcpdump and wireshark are really handy? What about air gapped systems? What about devices that are power constrained?

It's not that I think an encrypted web is bad, it's a very good thing. I am just spooked by tying a a text transfer protocol to a TCP system.
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3) it will increase the incentive to send work offshore to poorer countries
I hear the west coast is like that. I work out of New York, and it feels a lot more egalitarian with a variety of different types of jobs.
I actually wasn't joking, but that link made me rethink, so thanks for that!
On raising others’ aspirations
They are different things. As a customer, I always prefer a solution where my money remains in my pocket.

Depending on the product, a timeboxed trial may not make sense. If I'm buying shoes, it makes sense to have a guarantee. If I'm consuming a productized service, the trial makes more sense. (to me)
Thanks, very helpful and more power to you.
It's amazing how many of our current awful cultural and financial trends can be traced back to "during the Reagan Administration."
truth eventually was found with regard to tobacco and lead, sugar is just around the corner.
Just look at SF. Junkies running wild, injecting marijuana oil procured from the many legal “dispensaries”.
Where the 'problem' is that the copyright cartels, despite reaping growing, record profits, want even more money.

Maybe after this law passes, they'll decide they finally have enough, and will stop tightening copyright laws?
What kills me at work is down time. Better to be on HN than just watching a half hour build ...
Post: Tries very hard to avoid any use of the word roadmap

First comment: Hey is X on the roadmap?
I work 9-5, 8 hours per day including lunch (I hate companies that try to squeeze an extra hour basically telling you that they don't pay for your lunch time, yet they require 1 whole hour for your lunch, forcing you to stay 9 hours in the office..). Sweden. I work 50% from home 50% from the office. When I work from home, I play once a week tennis nearby (I have a car) during lunch time. When working from the office, I go regularly to the gym before work. Sometimes I start my work from a cafe and then switch to the office or the opposite.
After work, I will probably do a side project for a couple of hours and then spend some time with my SO and housework.

My tip would be to go to the gym just after work as it relaxes your mind a lot, especially if you are a developer. Unfortunately doesn't work in my case since my gym is fully packed at that time. So I take a half an hour break then walking outside or something similar before I jump in my side projects. Another tip would be to wake up and spend time on your side projects before starting your work (ideally if you can start a bit later as well) since your mind is working at 100% at that time. Of course this requires that you are a morning person..
Assuming https, the querystring is encrypted, so should be safe in transit. Could show up in server logs though, I'd think. The server can log a lot of things though, depending how it's configured.
direct link: https://siepr.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/...
Would you say that people who've been hmmm... victims (?) of identify theft have been harmed, or is that also a "no"?
I was only aware of docker. Thanks for the list.
Dark patterns are still patterns!

They key is consistency. Please leave your morals at the door.
At least in my case, I didn't need to continue with the monthly blood work once my optimum level was found. Also I fortunately never experienced the nausea you mention but did experience tremors occasionally at the beginning, when trying to find the right level. Too high and they would begin to manifest.
Well, except 'household' is not the same as 'worker', and 'typical' is not falsifiable so it could mean anything. When you take a 'typical' household, say 2 employed parents 2 kids and they own a home or other assets it's far from an unreasonable estimate.

But this isn't about reasonable estimates, of course. Hence the deceptive per worker per week comparison. You got played by the household versus worker they snuck in there.
Ah yes, poor because they are not smart. Because the US is a perfect meritocracy. This is ludicrously off the mark and shows how out of touch people really are about how the world works for others.
I am coming to realize that ARMv5 and earlier are “dying” in the many projects are slowly removing support for them (e.g. node.js), or weren’t initially supported and the line in the sand is drawn at ARMv6 or later (likely due to the popularity of the early raspberry pi’s), for example with clozure Common Lisp: https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/issues/190#issuecomment-46068...

Perhaps I can use something like this to port the ARMv6 assembly backwards to ARMv5?
We had a policy of "we only want satisfied customers". Being very forthcoming and easy-going with a return policy makes support super easy. When people complained, we pro-actively offered to reimburse them (sometimes they would even decline). This resulted in three things: It got rid of the cheapskates/difficult customers early on. It combatted negative reviews. It pleasantly surprised a few customers enough for them to put in free word of mouth or add positive reviews, sometimes adding up to 20 new customers. (The default is for customers to have to jump through hoops, excellent support can knock them off balance).

We started out with the guarantee and used it prominently in our marketing copy, so I don't have numbers on conversion rate improvement.
... and why not celebrate that as a healthy development? Living small and mindfully doesn't mean living poorly.

"Embracing experiences and minimalism over material possessions" is precisely what philosophers and spiritual teachers have been advocating for millennia. The material excesses of our parents' generation are a historical anomaly. Earth Overshoot Day is on August 1st – we shouldn't be able to afford that culture in the first place.
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If you think of 1994 as late 1990s, sure.

Cookies have been around almost as long as the web proper, and vilified for about the same amount of time.
Why should we assume that tiny houses would be insulated beyond the bare minimum? Yes, the current trendsetters care about the environment, but nothing is preventing them from building well-insulated apartment blocks.

Soundproofing techniques are well-understood and not horrendously expensive (of course, many builders don't bother because it's not worth the cost, from their short-term perspective). And separate buildings in close proximity still allow plenty of opportunity for sound to carry—again, unless soundproofing has been performed.

You seem to be making the assumption that tiny houses will always be built well above minimum code requirements, while apartment buildings will not. If tiny houses really go mainstream, that will no longer be the case.