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At work most of our developers run Linux. The hardware mixture is Dell (XPS 13, XPS 15), some Thinkpads and two who use System76. Several of us use 4K displays, and I can't remember the last time anyone had trouble with a projector. Maybe the older XPS 15 might have, once upon a time. It has an Nvidia GPU and so I want to believe it has been flaky at least once, but I cannot recall a discrete incident. All the rest have the standard Intel graphics and everything's peachy.

Distros are all either Ubuntu LTS or Linux Mint with default DEs. I am pretty sure one fellow switches to a tiling WM some of the time, but I forget which.
Same car? Could improved aerodynamics play a part?
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I’m working on a tool somewhat similar to OpenRefine called Data Dojo. The emphasis is more on learning and experimentation, but I’m now looking into adding apache spark integration for more serious use cases. Would love any feedback from HN folk!

https://datadojo.app
Where exactly vulnerable against which type of attacker?

In 4G there are location and identity leaks, and denial of service (which is why smartphones and carriers should drop 2G and 3G).

Or is this a "technology is all bad" kind of comment?
It's not a political issue if you want to force distros to move their entire packaging infrastructure to a backward incompatible format that might still not be compatible with other distros because they ship specific versions of some packages which are in addittion packaged in a very particular way.

Switching to RPM/DEB/PKGBUILD is not a simple problem, because the problem isn't really which packaging infrastructure is used.
HN seems to love these sorting algorithms visualizations

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=sorting%20algorithms

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=sorting%20visualization
Ask HN: Would you buy a foldable phone?
Foldable phones are going to hit the market. Do we really need such expensive foldable phones?
The problem is the level of trust. I don't trust Google, as an advertising company with a side business of technology, to keep its paws off of user data even in "anonymous" form. That's not malice; it's just temptation. There's way too much to gain, from Google's perspective, and comparatively little to lose by not keeping that wafer-thin wall intact.

FastMail, et al, alternatively aren't primarily engaged in the advertising business so they'd see a very small return from violating that trust and massive losses, so the gain/loss relationship is inverted.
Lots of people discussing the pros and cons of livecoding. I'd like to share some alternate thoughts if possible. I believe that there is a niche interested in watching and/or participating in livecoding and for them they do it because they can be productive and have a good time.

So I took livecoding pretty seriously for a while. I recognise that Noopkat is a pro at this and is one of the most consistent live coders I've seen in a while. I need to pop into one of her streams one day to see how it's evolved.

From my past experiences of her stream, my own streaming and others' streaming it feels like there's one big unsolved challenge in livecoding.

Coding hasn't lent itself well to "liveness".

At least in its current form, sitting down in the middle of a session of someone coding and trying to figure out what they are doing is HARD. It's not like a game where there's a dashboard that carries the score and you can gather all the context you need in under a minute. When joining a stream of live coding, the questions to be answered:

- what project is the person working on?
- what "feature" are they working on?
- what are they trying to achieve at this very moment?

These questions are similar to a game

- what's the game the person is playing/or what character is the person playing/what teams am I looking at?
- what's happened so far?
- what's about to happen?

Summarise these as

- bigger picture context
- current historical context
- immediate and future intentions

And all of this should be gathered in about a minute with no interruption to the stream(er).

So far, no live coding experience has been able to satisfy this. I do believe that this is one of those cases where technology needs to solve the challenge. Either in the form of a new livecoding specific platform or better integrations in twitch/other live streaming platforms.
Typical cows in the US gain 50% of their meat mass at the feedlot, mostly from eating corn. Also, large parts of our natural environment are degraded by running too many cows on it, including a lot of "protected" areas.

So sure, you can find whatever example you want.
I use my own instance of OpenVPN server running on a VPS
curved edges were a marketing move for foldables by samsung.

They started back with the Note Edge since samsung flagships are their main advertised and mass market product that demos to the masses their hw design supremacy
"It should be possible to configure pretty much everything via GUI". Not true. I have to use regedit all the time.
Wake me up when you can use these in outdoor and dark lighting conditions. At that point they will be useful for several of my scientific needs.
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The 'dumbcoin' jupyter notebook is also a good reference: "Dumbcoin - An educational python implementation of a bitcoin-like blockchain" https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/julienr/ipynb_playground...
Pyston as far as I was tracking, it seems to be mainly 2 devs from Dropbox, hardly that better off.

You have a point though, no company can replace javascript , the cost is straightly forbidden. But Python as mainly a backend language at the time, it can be more realistically replaced, with newer more performant alternatives like Golang, and to some extent node.js.

But it has its own stronghold, which is data/ml land stuff. However, that community has gotten around with Python in its own way, either they are tolering the slowness because that happens behind the scene, or they are bypassing the performance bottleneck to c-extensions.

So in the end, I guess people love complaining about Python's performance, including myself, but it never reaches the break point where they said enough is enough.
> there are notes in the documentation that call out parts of CPython's behaviour as "implementation-specific"

In a document like this, that means "doing whatever CPython does in a way that we are not bothering to commit to documentation" (and that any other implementation will have to reverse engineer and implement).
Really? Maybe I am just too bad at this. I cannot actually see most of the differences and get 2/10.
These kind of silly ideas refuted here: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/01/electrons-dont-thin...
Tl;DR only the physical properties of matter observed in the Standard Model can contribute to consciousness at the energy levels in the brain, apparently.

These kinds of problems are not going to be solved by "philosophers" who don't know enough neuroscience or physics, as any proposed ontology will have to fit with scientific observation.

When will cranks like the author of this article be booted out of the academy? The article is utter drivel.
Oh, I didn't know Twitch requires CBR. I guess it makes it easier to determine what the end user can stream without issue.
Taiwanese here, I can tell you it's mostly just that - they make fun of Xi's appearance. But since the joke and the term "Winnie the Pooh" is entirely blocked in China, which is totally absurd, it becomes a meta joke about China's twisted policy, implicitly.
I thought so too until I saw Westworld. As you'd expect, they use the device like a laptop, except it doesn't need a place to sit.

Relevant scenes:
https://youtu.be/qvrSUwqt6Mw?t=54
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Why must I not fake it? Who cares?
If someone wants to eat meat substitute, who are you to tell them otherwise?

You sounds like when the LED lightbulb that reduces energy usages of the old light bulb by 100 times, you will say "Why fake it? If you want to reduce energy usage, you must live without electriciy! Using newer, more energy efficient light bulb just means you don't save the world the true way".
> The service seems far from something I would trust with handling my email.

I think that's entirely fair. This is a pretty new project, and trust is built over time.

> The attempt at monetization strikes me as extremely premature, given the competition.

Free email services leave a bit of a sour taste in my mouth, since you're not the customer. I'd also have to put more work into stuff like adding hard caps to prevent abuse, but my thinking so far is that email really isn't something you should fuss over storage caps on.

It might be ultimately necessary to attract people (although Fastmail doesn't have a free tier), but I'll get there when I get there. I'm content to take it slow for now.
> Laptops and 2-1 devices are the future desktop, and Linux has hardly won there.

That is more due to how OEMs lock out non-windows OSes from running on their hardware. If users were given a choice, the "windows tax" alone would be enough to convince people to give linux a try, particularly in the low-end segment.
In https://hackalong.devpost.com/ hackathon last year I implemented a basic tool, to make the 5 last recently edited files (updated via live-polling) available on a website from vs code: VS Code Extension Tab -> StreamCode.
PyPy is faring pretty well in terms of performance and compatibility.
Posteo.de, run by a group of treehuggers so they make a big deal about how their data center is run by renewable energy, but they also care about privacy too. One down side is that you can't use your own custom domain.
Sadly, on internet today, encryption does not ensure the connection is private for the client. What happens today is a client can connect to a middle server that implements TLS encryption between it and the client, but then forwards the connection unencrypted to the real server. This is an actual service people use, and the client has no way of knowing it.
So your problem is because it taste worse, and not like chicken. Your problem is not because it's made from vegetable.
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> What if moving away from animal foods in our diets causes an increase in heart disease, cancer and overall mortality?

This seems like a very strange thing to say, given that the scientific consensus seems to suggest we'll see the opposite effect:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26853923 - This comprehensive meta-analysis reports a significant protective effect of a vegetarian diet versus the incidence and/or mortality from ischemic heart disease (-25%) and incidence from total cancer (-8%). Vegan diet conferred a significant reduced risk (-15%) of incidence from total cancer.

Wrt driving less, people go for the easier option, and it's far easier to eat less meat than to drive less.
Good point! I probably rushed to judgement. A little more believable then, that his car spontaneously caught fire and he walked home 10km -30C in inadequate clothing when he had another option available. Also the corporate corruption, the fake broken English, etc. makes somewhat more sense.
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That's a package to create a namespace. The compiler doesn't know you're doing that. Nor are those variables really thread-local. You can pass a reference to them to another thread.
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No problem. Hit the back button and select one of the alternatives from 10k+ search results..

Edit: and don't forget to add the broken website to your "remove from search results" addon, so you never see it again in search results..
Given my personal experience in this industry, and around adtech companies, I wouldn't. It's easy to get things wrong, and hard to verify against reality.
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I'm aware of that, but I find downvotes without reply so much more boring. It's not like HN seems to care about the abuse of that, at all, it's just a mechanism for double standards and intellectual dishonesty.

Can you tell me what in the world is wrong with my comment? I don't have a smartphone, I joke around with people about it, that's a fact. Maybe not super interesting, but I just wanted to support the person I replied to with literally the only practical experience I have with what they were talking about... so was genuinely stumped, and because I don't see why I would beg for someone to please explain (that only gets you people who didn't downvote guessing at the motivation of people who won't respond).

It also kinda fits the topic: people mostly in their own heads, clicking buttons, thinking that means something, but being unable to articulate what that might be. I guess that comment deserved to be downvoted because it got downvoted, and I'm not supposed to talk about it because I'm not supposed to talk about it.

A voting system itself makes for boring reading and for boring discussion, because people think if in doubt, they can just tag team people and then the numbers speak for themselves. It's like one-click sophistry. I don't care about the karma, I care about the form of communication that is, and what kind of person I would have to be to tacitly approve of it. The guidelines also talk about a sense of community, but I guess that's just a word, like thoughtful. But have an upvote because you just tried to help :P
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FWIW, as currently legislated, the "backdoor" scheme still requires warrants to be issued for data captured under it.
> If I am reading FastMails statement right, they have been forced to add backdoors to their codebase and not been allowed to tell their team about it.

No, that’s not what they said.

Such statements can hurt a business and in this case it would be a pity since the business in question is doing everything they can to serve their customers.
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> whose turbine engines have the habit of stalling at the worst possible moment

Helicopter turbine engines operate on exactly the same principles at the 90,000lb thrust turbofan under the wing of a 777. They are incomprehensibly reliable.

Things that lead to helicopter autororation are usually mechanical failure of the transmission.
> I know Apple engineers are pressed for time by calendar-driven deadlines, but sloppy work is sloppy work.

This seems to occur only on Softraid (and maybe SD card) filesystems.

So it's just an edge case that probably never was considered or only manifests until certain circumstances.

Hardly a guaranteed symptom of sloppy work.
If you don't want to have to think about it, the answer for laptops is to buy a thinkpad.
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My answer is perhaps too facetious, but I think mostly supported by the link. In particular:

So, what about dating? It's not difficult to see a continuation of pre-war Paraguayan society in this regard. Back then, there were less men than women. After the war, this was still the case. Women were still commonly the head of the family and births out of wedlock were a common occurrence, something that was also the case in the pre-war society.

There is essentially no research into the exact numbers and status of these children born out of wedlock. All that's really known is there was essentially no stigma at this time due to being born out of wedlock:

This is unfortunately where, as Pottshast herself points out, documentation fails us. We don't know. In fact, the documentation in general considering how many of these children were born is not entirely known. With the mother being the identifiable stable force in the family, it seems that identity was tied to the mother rather than the father as in the case of children born out of wedlock. A lack of stigma could therefore be seen as a continuation of pre-war Paraguayan society.
Which study desk is it? (Its not mentioned in the article)
The problem being that the signal to noise ratio is very low as to whether or not there are harmful effects. Normal exposure to glyphosphate in people is very low and at those levels you are exposed to many different substances even in wholly natural food.

Compounded with that is there are very few people doing research without an agenda.

You also have to realize that "organic" in the US doesn't mean treatment-free crops. There are a large number of substances approved to treat crops for pests and weeds and still be counted as organic with the rationale that those treatments are less synthetic. There is absolutely no guarantee that this means they have fewer negative effects.
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What is this exciting dana analysis you speak of!!??
Email services claiming e2e encryption are snake oil.

It’s interesting to me how a demographics like that of HN can fall for it.
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Then we don't have enough memory to understand our technology either. We accomplish that as a superorganism, and by building tools to augment our abilities. Maybe bacteria built us as complex, extraterrestrial spore capsules.
It also helps that they are based out of Switzerland, which has better privacy laws than almost every country out there!
Why do you expect this stuff from the right? The right supports equal rights for individuals ala the US Constitution.

The left supports special rights based on membership of a group such as race, gender, gender expression, sexuality, etc...

It seems to me the left is behaving exactly as expected.
Apple is not in the foldable phones? Not yet. They are in the "sell decent hardware at high margins" business still, and have been long before the iPhone X. And competitors of course have longed to do the same, of course there have been other expensive Android phones. This all fits with my comment's point about a reason for high prices.

You're technically correct, poor Apple is just an $815B company right now with MSFT at 851. Want to make any bets they won't exceed last October's $1T in the near future? Or do you have a point? https://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/market_cap
Having people trained in practical and outdoor skills is indeed a benefit to society at large, I agree there -- but I think you can learn this in school, getting kids out of the classroom more often would probably be a huge benefit to everyone involved.

I mean, we do already have kids captive to be taught for over a decade, and a lot of that is repetitive.
> The problem is, the people who want to make the web lightweight again seem to want to do so by eliminating the modern web entirely.

Not entirely, though it may seem that because many proponents of lightweight web - like myself - are just tired of the modern one, and have comparative experience of how to make a site many times more functional and use the fraction of resources at the same time.

> No one seems to be asking how we could make the web that exists, and that billions of people actually use, better

Circling back to 'pdimitar point upthread: people use what they're given. They have no love for it, they just don't have any other choice. This way people adjust to the growing bloat of the web, and the same way they could adjust back to the leaner web.

And yes, many are asking how to make the web that exists better. Not many want to hear the answers, because they begin with "stop doing the crap you're doing right now". The answers are, stop doing SPAs for pages that fit the document model (which is 90%+ of them). Stop putting useless gimmicks on the frontend - like that Cleave.js thing from yesterday, for example[0]. Stop pulling in all the trackers and ad network scripts. Design your page function-first, form-second.

It's a hard sell, because it goes against several strong social phenomena, like CV-oriented and fashion-driven development, very lucrative surveillance capitalism business models, vendor lock-in and SaaS-ification of everything. That's why at least part of the solution will have to be technological - just asking people to behave isn't going to cut it.

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19233637
> query that referenced n users plus their orders is probably a reporting type query

No, there are enough other valid cases, e.g. display last customers and their orders or some simple "others have also bought". In practice you will need to join a lot spontaniously and can not just defer that to a data warehouse.
I wonder if they produced human lab-grown-meat, how many people would eat it out of curiosity.
bad seed: horrendousperm (horrendous + endosperm). Possibly produced by a fertilizer miser.
You're describing opt-in pessmisation, not opt-in optimization.
Why did you expect a vegetarian to be less selfish than anyone else?
DNA data?
The law has no privacy implications regarding FastMail: They always could, and had to, comply with legal orders for data. This is also true of Gmail and most other email providers. The primary difference here is that FastMail will only hand over your data in that scenario, but will never use your data for ad targeting or other corporate abuses of privacy.

ProtonMail and the like do more to protect you from the government, if that's your threat model, but you're going to lose out on a lot of features as well, because a lot of common expectations in email don't work with end-to-end encryption.
> Experts were consulted, and ignored.

This led to my point, though I made it in a roundabout way. None of these laws are made in a vacuum. When you get a law that seems to cause undue harm to industries or to general consumers, it's unlikely the case that lawmakers wrote up something due to negligence of the issues, but because another entity specifically pushed to have these laws written in this way.
But you can't send "from" your address with that method. Replying sends from your Gmail.
These gateways will give you a free SIP account:

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> while we sit here and argue about whether or not we "deserve" to work less or whatever.

Among the results of this increasing productivity is increased consumer choice. Consumer choice is almost always considered a good thing. As consumers, we don’t just argue about whether we all ought to buy X brand of bread or Y brand. Instead, we get a plethora of choices and the individual decides. Shouldn’t we expect this same ballooning of choice for producers? At a glance, it seems asymmetric, and it doesn’t seem like the present consolidation of production towards fewer but larger companies is going to help this.
I just use some 5$ cloud offering and ssh tunnel through that. Works fine in my dictatorship.
https://purelymail.com/signup/

Am I missing something? The domain dropdown has no options and all usernames are taken.
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If I had two experts, one of whom was security and one of whom was business, and they disagreed with each other, I would also be listening to the security expert first.

After all, there have been major catastrophic failures because some IT tech followed the orders of a CEO to give them access to a mission-critical system from their insecure home PC. Isn’t that essentially what the whole “but her emails!” (and, it turned out later, his emails) was all about?
Now get off my lawn!
Still waiting for that improved AMD experience to give me back the hardware video acceleration on my Brazos APU.
Good point. Which makes it even more bizarre that there's any question whether animals can be self-aware.
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Yes - several, at varying degrees of fidelity, the highest of which is an exact replica rover named MAGGIE that lives in the garage next to the JPL “Mars Yard”.