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That's not a modern Linux desktop setup. For that, you'll need to see the default install of an up to date distro. Spoilers: it looks like the desktop of any modern OS. For example, GNOME resembles OS X.
I generally agree, but I think it's important to mention that factoring in externalities yields some surprising results on the local/shipped goods dimension. For example, in California, Chilean wines perform slightly better than local wines when it comes to CO2 emissions, and Austrialian wines are almost equivalent to Californian wines. This is due to transport in bulk by ship being much much better that by truck over land.
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Until the populace learns how to improve their chances of getting released and starts to game the system, introducing endogeneity.

(Also noticed the nice coincidence of a professor with user name klienber having a NBER Working Paper)
I don't understand the gatekeeping and deliberate misinformation in your post.

> A desktop is a computer sitting on top of your desk.

Besides the fact that the author indicated he's using a laptop hooked up to a 40" monitor, kind of necessitating the computer to be sitting on his desk, his use of "desktop" in general is referring to his everyday workflow. For some people, that's Windows and Windows specific apps. For others, it's macOS and its specific apps. For yet others, it's a Linux or BSD desktop environment, whether stock or customized. The fact that he's using a laptop as a workstation does not magically render his established work environment "mobile", and even if it did, he's still using a desktop environment of his own making.

> This article on the other side describes a workspace with multiple machines and mostly no free arrangement of work-elements.

Maybe we're reading different articles, but I see no mention whatsoever of what you're going on about. I see where he at one point mentions "multiple computers", but this in no way invalidates his desktop environment and software setup as violating some made-up rule about what is or isn't a "desktop".

I currently use five computers at home not counting my iPhone: A HP EliteDesk set up as a Windows gaming system, a Dell PowerEdge T310 server running Slackware Linux, converted into a workstation by adding a GPU and sound card and tweaking the BIOS, a mac Mini for music production and general Mac-specific things, a Raspberry Pi 3B+ for experimenting with IoT, and a HP Elite X2 convertible laptop for quick tasks away from my desk and occasional use at work.

Now, according to your logic apparently I can't possibly have a "desktop" setup because I use more than one computer, of more than one form factor, for more than one task at a time, and not always glued to my desk. That's total bullshit.
As someone who just received a cold call from recruiter I never heard of, with a 4 years old CV and haven't been on a job board for more than a year I must say that GDPR didn't do much. I actually previously reported a recruiter to the ICO for 3 different violations (no data disclosure, cold call, old CV) and they did nothing but advising not to keep CVs for more than 1 year.

/rant off

I feel that your point, even if valid, doesn't quite apply to what I'm describing, which is to go around ad blockers.
Actually we did expect that. 160-odd years ago, people started to suspect trouble ahead and many decades ago, the writing was clearly on the wall, scientifically speaking.
If you think leaded avgas is bad (it is), wait until you learn about lead-based stabilizer compounds in PVC (which is used in electrical cables and pipes/hoses, among other things). Those compounds aren't even chemically bonded with the actual PVC molecules, so the lead eagerly leaches out. Also there's lead in brass keys and in brass faucets (yes, even the ones marked "lead free", when it comes to potable water piping/fixtures, "lead free" actually means "0.25% lead").

AFAIK there's no regulation in US that will force reformulation with lead-free compounds (which do exist), the best the US has is California's Prop 65, which provides a bunch of useless labels which people are trained to ignore. What a disaster.
It's not "eo" that gives you the "o" sound, it's just the "o". The "e" is here to prevent the "g" from being pronounced hard, as in "green".
I don't think the article is advocating for agriculture - instead, my understanding is that it is advocating for taking a value system analogous to 'back to the land' and applying it to internet usage. To follow the analogy - instead of visiting factory farmed Facebook, we instead choose to spend our attention at the community blog.
> if people can ship WASM to the browser to do what they’re currently doing with JS

If if if.... That is not what WASM is or whats to be.

> I’ve long maintained that the reason that JS is so prelevant and popular is the result of it exclusively being the only language allowed in the browser.

People who hate JavaScript have long maintained that, without evidence. I can remember writing JavaScript long before it became popular and was still everywhere.

> WASM API comes along (and it will), JS will be as good as deprecated.

A DOM interop spec is underway, which will allow access into the WASM target from JavaScript. It will not allow access from WASM to the DOM, because that is insecure.
Your first job out of college can potentially define the trajectory of the rest of your career. If you're not pressed for time and/or cash, reject the sketchy offer and move on.

Also, are you really going to be happy working for a company whose business seems nasty to you? Even if you are "just doing the development part", some part of you will always be aware that you don't like the work you are supporting, and in my experience nothing is more motivation-sapping.
I'm not going to wade into this petty European vs Asian pissing contest but I'll offer that there was plenty of meat in the Viking diet (roughly 700-1100).
What if I track you server side?
It's an ongoing cat-and-mouse game. This is like the inverse of people using VPNs and proxies to get around filtered Internet, except it's now the server that does the tunneling instead of the client.

Personally, I've found that JS off and all the GA/GTM domains (along with many others) blacklisted is sufficient in daily use; no JS gets rid of most of the crap, and the blocked domains clean up the rest. My goal is not to become completely untrackable (I believe that's next to impossible), but just to stop slow-loading pages full of junk I don't care about (which is what I suspect most people using ad-blockers are aiming for.)
Over the years I have been going more and more towards the text interface side. It turned out that very few things are inherently graphical. If you know how to use a shell and a text editor you have the opportunity to do everything in a very straightforward way. That way can be very seductive as it never changes all that much. You can go decades without having to learn anything significantly different. The world of the big time desktop environment is still finding its way. It has been a mostly a bunch of arbitrary changes so far so for now at least I choose the simple way.
>was the impact of lack of compaction on heap allocations over time.

On the other hand, heap compaction is itself very expensive, as you are stopping the world while moving data around in the heap.

With Go allocation being so stack-oriented, not using compaction could very well be the best choice.
Ask HN: How do you deal with Learning Anxiety?
I am not sure if that is an actual term. What I am referring is the crippling anxiety felt when I pick up anything to learn (or read). I try to mostly learn Technical stuff, a language, a framework, a project etc..

The factors that freak me out include:

1. Is this even worth it? Am I wasting my time?

2. Others are doing so much! What am I learning this for?

3. There is so much to learn! I am never getting around any of it!

4. I should just leave learning and do my job.

5. How do they know so much!

etc.

This has prevented me from learning anything substantial since almost a year now. Things weren't as great before that as well. Is there anyone else facing this? How do you deal with it? I am sorry if this has been asked earlier. If so, please point me to those posts.

Thanks HN.
Setup please? It works for me on 2 different computers/OS + phone and had other people confirming it.
Rather than being an ethical or moral question of whether they "deserve" (i.e., they're only deserving of it if they are directly responsible for it) a better wage or not, why not just look at it like an indicator that the overall economy might be becoming less healthy?

A low-income earner is more likely put any extra money they acquire towards the local economy rather than, for example, lodging it in the Cayman Islands for storage. This is good for keeping the local economy healthy, from which may come the next person to create a technological breakthrough.

We generally want the median person to have money to spend with our businesses rather than slowly edging towards living in a slum.
A while ago, before I realised the obvious truth that arguing with people on Facebook isn't exactly productive, it dawned on me that many people mistake the ability to form a grammatically correct sentence for thinking. It's nice to see a more formal argument for that theory.
1. the numbers are government healthcare expenditure, not private healthcare expenditure

2. CPI won't change a the bottom line take-away. Feel free to run the numbers.
Consumers value the benefits of efficiencies of scale, such as online ordering, being able to return anywhere in the country, rewards programs, being able to find consistency in quality wherever you are, etc.

It's also impossible to compete on price with bigger competitors. How can a small business compete with Costco? Technology has allowed the bigger players to wring out all the efficiencies bringing margins down to as low as possible, so it's only viable to start businesses that have higher margins, such as professional services.
> Why is this a big deal? It matters because algorithmic justice, of a complex or simple variety, has come in for a lot of flack in the US, in part because of one truly major mess that was caused by the COMPAS system. So, it’s great to see algorithmic justice doing good.

That's because these don't seem like the same things at all to me. Lumping them both under "algorithmic justice" with an agenda to make the one look better doesn't change that. This thing in this story involves zero machine-learning, zero statistics at all, zero attempts at statistical prediction of likelyhoods of anything, or even any heuristics at all. Those are all the things that have come for a lot of flack. Looking things up in databases and using them to automatically fill out forms, indeed, has not come under a "lot of flack."
Intel’s neuro guru slams deep learning: ‘it’s not learning’
The mistake is thinking the precision of analog sound is infinite.
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The examples he presents of false text can all basically be discriminated from human generated text by looking for logical consistency. I wonder if this will be something attention focuses to within schools. With all these fake news articles, spam emails, and fake viral images I think this new generation should be trained to recognize these things early on. Even if we can’t make discriminating classifiers through technology as of yet, we can hopefully train ourselves to discriminate between fake and real media in the meantime.
How are you combating against people putting vast amounts of money and effectively deciding what is worth discussing?
same, though tbf i am not well versed in logic boards, i was unsure of exactly what i was meant to be aiming for.

once i realised that i was meant to be setting the output results i figured it out quickly.
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Except my understanding is that the greeters at Walmart aren't there greet but to deter fraud and theft. They scan and place stickers on items being brought back into the store to be returned to prevent people from pulling items of the shelf and "returning" them with a found or previous receipt. They also periodically check receipts deterring folks just walking out with unpaid items, particularly those that go through the self checkouts.
Must be a different definition of "hilarious".
I'd consider it more a sign if they were able to do that and not know you.
It certainly is a 'desktop', it might not be yours but it bears resemblance to mine. The 'desktop' metaphor might have been equated with complicated all-integrated environments like Windows, MacOS, Gnome and KDE but in the end it comes down on something-on-a-computer which provides a place to work and access to the resources the computer has to offer. Like physical desktops these come in al shapes and sizes ranging from an empty slab with a lamp and not much more to ornate baroque monstrosities with a zillion drawers, Rolodexes, mail-in-out-boxes, staple machines, paper dispensers, coffee machines, vortex portals and flux capacitors.

Some ascribe to the diction that 'perfection is reached when there is nothing left to take away', depending on your starting point you either end up with a lightweight environment like Xmonad (et al) plus a few tools or at a lobotomised full desktop like Gnome.
Not so controversial, in my opinion. I always think of the opening scene of "Idiocracy" and how true it is.
The issue that the GP is pointing at is that the ability to reason in the abstract the author is implicitly stating to be the marker of intelligence.

It may be one form of intelligence, but certainly a brilliant writer, a gifted musician, or an exceptional artist can all be considered intelligent even if their ability to grok logical constructs is limited compared to those that spend their waking hours doing just that, and almost certainly have been honing this skill for their entire lives.
Note that GPS compensates for relativistic effects to allow GPS receivers to act as very accurate clocks (GPS time receivers are considered stratum 0 clocks). If you didn't care about using GPS time receivers you wouldn't have to care about relativistic effects with GPS at all (because all satellites are more-or-less exposed to the same relativistic effects), because a 3D/4D fix already synchronizes the receiver to the satellite's clocks.

Relativity compensation in GPS satellites does not increase spatial accuracy.
And LLVM can do better than those in turn, would I prefer if we were using LLVM as the underlying target for machine code? Hell yeah I would, but we’re not quite there yet, and if it’s a toss up between the JS powered 3MB+ websites and endless shitty electron apps or WASM, I’m going to elect for WASM.

At least with WASM if it takes off, it can at least path the way for a more better and more appropriate (LLVM, AoT CLR, etc) universal machine code later down the line. That’ll never happen if we’re chained to JS though.
There’s something wrong with the methodology here when Cuba is ranked higher than the US. People are starving in Cuba, with no health care...
It was just one of them. Take it or leave it. You're still have some opportunities out there. But better to speak with them until it is no doubt for you to take / leave it. Good luck for your career!
The laws changed and smoking inside public spaces was all but abolished. There are still holdouts in the countries that passed these laws more recently but the trend is clear and it's acceleration.

I also noticed that one big factor that actually worked in discouraging teens from even starting is the "uncool" image built around smoking.

Unfortunately it look like the coolness factor is moving to electronic cigarettes and there's not much data to discourage the use yet.
On Gnome I can use "Super key" + left key if I need multiple aligned windows on my screen. Can you still convince me to try i3 :) ?
Paying money. That's an easy choice.
The post is not about this implementation (the link of the original post) though. This implementation is not about the browsers.
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I'm glad for wage stagnation, so long as inflation stays down.

For people at or near retirement, it's a great thing. Nothing erodes savings like rising prices.
That’s what Go’s bets and rc builds are specifically for - to test your code against a new version before it’s available. The only changes to Go during an rc are ceirical bug fixes.
I had the same issue using unity/gnome on a laptop with 1-3 monitors. After I switched to i3 I was forced to set the monitor config manually with xrandr. I set up keyboard shortcuts for switching between 1-3 monitors. This fixed all the issues with automatic window placement since the window manager no longer tries to do this in an automatic fashion.

Tiling window managers definitely have a learning curve, but after I spent a weekend switching to one, I can't see myself ever wanting to go back to floating windows.
If by "people" you mean "a vocal minority", then sure.
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Yes, it is naive. All code has bugs. Some time ago some people though it would be good idea to encode contractual agreements with code. I guess it should be no sutprise that someone found a bug in the contract and got him/herself most of the money that was tied into the contract framework. If I recall correctly, we are talking about tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars of involuntary bug bounty in this particular case (google DAO hack of you have not heard)

Further, in my opinion there does not seem to be any solid logic what me and other humans think that is right or wrong, which makes it quite difficult to spell out preferred laws into code. (If someone disagrees, I am happy to hear one counterexample of moral axiom that holds always, without any exceptions whatsoever, realistic or unrealistic. Even for one single person)
That was one of the most interesting ideas I came across while reading science fiction. The exact reason I like this genre. I still think about it today. Why does intelligence need consciousness? Does it really? Evolution is full of sup-optimal solutions, consciousness may very well belong to this category. Highly recommend the book.

Off topic:
There was also another book that made it clear to me, that "the stars do not belong to mankind". Something about the spiritual awakening of humankind, leading do another evolutionary tree for our children, while the adults are left to die, knowing they'll never be able to explore the universe. Forgot the name, but still think about this, too.

Lastly, the Three Body Problem with it's "Dark Forest" theory. I'm not completely convinced by the idea, but it's thought provoking.
It actually looks more like an exponential curve with 50% of the area under the curve fitting in the last few devs. If we normalized the "flat" side of the curve to be a 1x dev, the we probably have 80 1x devs, 5 2-3x devs, 5 4-6x devs and 10 8-9x devs.

Rather than quadratic scaling, we're dealing with scaling by root. This actually meshes very well with the "mythical man month"

If we almost double from 100 devs to 196 devs, we only go from 10 to 14 devs doing half the work.

We've already accepted that 10 devs were doing half the work of 100 devs. We've also accepted that those devs must be giving it their all. So, doubling the devs, but only getting 4 new people to fill the doubled top 50%. Either we have some new 20x devs or the actual amount of work hasn't increased at the same rate.

I would still say that is probably incorrect though. The "mythic man month" doesn't apply to total work done -- only to total useful work done. As the social complexities increase, the ratio of other work decreases, but the those top developers will still have to carry both increases (to at least some degree) in order to still be doing half the work.

I suspect that as the social overhead increases, you should see three interesting cases. Those who can deal with the social overhead more quickly, so they have more real work time to compensate for being slower at it (potentially bumping a 5x dev with better social strategies higher). You could see the opposite where a 10x dev simply loses all their time in meetings. You could also see where a 1x dev with better social strategies handles most of a 10x devs social workload so that dev can instead focus on coding (it's rare, but I've worked on teams with 1-2 devs who did little except keep the team productive by fending off the bureaucracy).
Example:
https://twitter.com/AsharJawad/status/1072387135485943808
"After BJP defeat in state elections & Pakistan's masterstroke in Kartarpur, Indian estab. is on backfoot. Don't rule out false flags in Kashmir & India (esp. INC ruled Punjab) followed by border skirmishes with Pak to revive Hindutva nationalism ahead of 2019 G.E. Ram Mandir too."
Why do you assume the problem is with the methodology of the study?

Cuba has a longer life expectancy than US.

As a European, I'd say there's something wrong with US approach to health: people living under a dictatorship in a poor country have better health than Americans.
I wonder if this isn't going to be seen as a mistake in the future. What if a faster map is discovered in 3 years that happens to not preserve order? This stuff is really hard to detect, so there's no going back on it.
Great uplifting article. It's awesome to see a geek get ahead in business by using his/her favorite open-source tech tools.
> I often miss being able to conveniently layout terminal windows

You should be able to do that using the "Super key" + e.g. left or right
Plenty of people in the US do not have health care either.

Meanwhile, Cuba actually has a very high number of doctors per capita.
There’s another reason Wasm succeeded: it’s tiny.

I'll agree with him that Java is very much not tiny, but I disagree about Flash. The last time I remember setting it up, the browser plugin was a single binary of a few MB (and I'm sure that could be made smaller.) SWF files are also a great example of a well-designed space-optimised vector graphics format --- remember that it was designed close to 20 years ago for the computers of the time.

Edit: care to explain, downvoters?
We have the right to run whatever software we want on our computers -- whether we are on the browser side or the server side. To the extent that users have the right to run ad blockers websites have the right to try to evade them.
To be fair on the clickbait, a more truthful "eight vaguely smile-inducing XRP jokes" wouldn't have driven much traffic.
> I know you are not saying the report is propaganda, but I understand you mean appearing in media is.

No, I do not mean what you are saying.

I was talking about what is on the newspapers these days on here:

* Catalonia

* Next general elections (on April)

* "Minor" cases of corruption (relative to others in either money amount or the person affected)

* Football (Soccer for the people from USA)

* Venezuela

* "Famous" people (only famous because they appear on media as "famous")

* Bad migrants

* Memes

What is not talked about is:

* Mayor cases of corruption

* Dismantling of the public sector (before it was in big steps, now it is in small ones)

* Housing bubble (again)

* Low salaries

* Bad support to small entreperneurs

* The reasons why there are more migrants and what to do
Underpaid moderators are a side effect, not the main issue. If the network were federated each node wouldn't grow to such an unmanagable size, at least not without other nodes severing ties.
Absolutely. I, like many others, spent quite a few years in the gentoo/arch+minimal riced tiling wm camp but am now happy and comfy on "bloated" fedora 29 and kde. More than anything it just feels like i've grown out of it, and it's nice having a computer I can actually rely on for once.
What is up with their website? Immediately prompted me to allow them to known my location but promptly froze my browser.
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