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> I've never understood the appeal of Debian or Ubuntu, or I guess I don't understand why people would invest so much time in them compared to Fedora and Redhat.

For historical reasons. Debian was around before Fedora, CentOS, and Red Hat Enterprise (the last one I'm not 100%). I also remember growing up thinking Red Hat had a more enterprise focused community, whilst debian was more for the masses. Wrong perception? Perhaps, but a perception nonetheless. Practically everyone I know that used Linux back then did it also for ideological reasons tied to the free software movement. Red Hat was a company, Debian was a movement. It had a social contract: https://www.debian.org/social_contract.1.0 which aligned with most of the free software community's ideals back then. This was a time when not licensing your project under GPL and instead choosing a BSD/MIT style licence was frowned upon because "something something Microsoft BSD TCPIP stack you see?".

I imagine everyone has their reasons, mostly subjective, but the first time I got into GNU/Linux, circa 1999 with Red Hat 6 (pre-fedora days), and Debian was not yet on my radar. Fast-forward a year, and I installed Debian (I think it was "potato") on my machine, and fell in love almost instantly thanks to apt, their ethos, and just the way the entire distro was designed (relatively easy switching from stable, to testing, to edge...). Mind you, I was a very novice user and not that tech savvy, but I was (I still am) a "believer" in the free software movement. I only had a 256kbps internet connection and used to download packages sporadically. The Debian CDs came with quite a good number of packages, and I remember magazines that distributed CDs with entire repositories (you could add your CD as a repository source).

Fast forward a few years, and I had left Debian for Slackware, then FreeBSD, then Gentoo (they lured me with the "portage is like ports" hype), and then Arch Linux. I always kept my respect and admiration for the good experience I had with Debian, as a user. I never felt that for Red Hat. What always took me from one distro to the next was tooling. I'd say tooling is the number one aspect of user experience in linux distributions for a certain type of user which tends to be less tech savvy than the rest. People want to install packages that auto-configure, and then tweak if necessary. Debian gave you that (sort of). You even had unattended upgrades. Back in the early 2000s that was a real "OMG" feeling for some, myself included.

> I've also never understood the appeal of .deb or apt.

The same reason Homebrew is such a success in macOS, or chocolatey for Windows.
I think it's harder to find a modern language without a REPL than one with it.
The strains of third wave feminism that seems to have become a part of the ideology of a large portion of the modern left seem to depend very strongly on the argument "Men and women are the same. Therefore sexism and bias is unjustifiable both morally and scientifically." It also fits very nicely into the "gender as a social construct" theory of intersectional feminism and LGBT ideologies. In some respects they are correct that gender is a social construct, and also that "biological sex" isn't as clear cut as it first appears when you begin to consider edge cases. However, when you begin to think about HRT for trans people, I think the waters start to get murkier for their particular ideology. I'm not sure if they've found a way to reconcile HRT with the "blank slate" argument, but I haven't heard it. So forgive me if there is one.
Not so sure about that.
The US Government lists 13 places as “Do not travel” and 15 as “reconsider travel”. Looking at the list, it doesn’t seem unreasonable advice. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...
> The counterproductive flicker of rage I sometimes feel when working with uncooperative, small, delicate parts, which insists I should use large amounts of physical force ...

I specifically remember learning to control those impulses as a child while playing with toys that consisted of sealed, plastic labirynth with few small metal balls inside that you are supposed to guide to few specific indented spots in the labirynth.

I count this learning experience as one of my greatest lifes achievements.
IANAL, but I would not want to deal with the headache of underwriting whatever plan you're thinking about. Who would they be buying this insurance from? What specifically could it be protecting against?

Seems much more likely that they'd need to seek restitution against the producer of the planes through civil court channels. "You sold me a faulty plane/didn't explain what your product did well enough and now you need to refund my money" but on a multi-million dollar scale.
Your eyes may be the window to your soul, but thanks to new research, they may also be the key to detecting Alzheimer's disease early on. Researchers at the Duke Eye Center say a simple eye scan may reveal activity in the brain associated with the debilitating condition

Probably we can accept this fact and go on living without using it...
"I believe we would be prudent to not give in to substances/habits that form addictions"

I take it you're referring to abstention?

That would be very hard to do given the wide variety of addictions (everything?)

Think of addiction as a symptom rather than a problem in its own right, the article briefly goes there by revealing that one of the men was stressed.
>I'd say the Alexa is more like birth of the personal computer.

There were advancements in Text-To-Speech and/or speech recognition, stretching back to the early days of PC/Mac e.g. DragonDictate[1] using Hidden Markov Models, IBM ViaVoice[2], latterly Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking[3]. Although, they were not perfect in their early iterations. However, they got progressively better and fairly impressive once trained properly.

I would rather draw comparisons with their current day counterparts like Amazon Polly or Lyrebird[4] et al., than associate voice assistants with a paradigm shift.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition#1970-1990

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonDictate

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ViaVoice

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_NaturallySpeaking

[4]https://lyrebird.ai/
Yep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_effect
At least on BSD, you want to be able to separate external 3rd party libs and system libs in case they overlap, so that is why BSDs don't automatically include things under /usr/local.
I always say that $100 never feels like as much money as when you're trying to spend a $100 bill. I'm guessing it's similar for a £50 note.
Receiving admissions in exchange for tax deductible donations is also fraud, and just as severe.
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ex-cloudflarer:

Cloudflare is undergoing a lot of big projects to break away from the image that they are "just a CDN". Raising a round now instead of going public allows them to invest more on those projects instead of focusing on quarter to quarter results. Also, avoiding brain-drains post-IPO while they need those talents the most.

Raising another round also allows them to have a higher per-share value which helps hiring. It's been a long time since the last round and the real value of Cloudflare's stock offers was higher than what the last funding round would suggest. Now it's easier to point to this round rather than just give vague promises.

I do wonder how people feel about this internally though. There's a lot of expectation that the company would go public this year (and some even expected it would go public last year). Hopefully no one needs the money they put in to early exercise any time soon!
I've participated in the Debian community for 18 years, since Potato (2.2). I have a fairly good practical idea of how Debian operates. The above description was based on many, many, many decisions over the years. On the rare occasions that Debian has to actually decide something rather than answering "X or Y" with "yes" (and the decision doesn't fall solely to a small number of developers responsible for the packages in question), it results in painful institutional friction.

I love using Debian, I care deeply about Debian Policy and Debian's procedures, I enjoy many aspects of the Debian community, and I'm also well aware of where Debian has difficulties.
It would still be prudent to ground them anyways until they know for sure they avoid the problem with their solution.
Discovberability is solvable. Amazon has chosen not to focus on solving it, and instead they are focused on sheer volume if skills and ease of use to make them. A lot of Alexa skills can be made in a day.

I'd argue this is the wrong thing to solve for. The best skills take a long time to make and require privledged access. Sonos, Spotify and others have this, and they work amazing. It's the large mass of Alexa skills they were quickly made and that don't have privledged access that are dragging the whole experience down.

And this is entirely Amazon's doing.
I'd be curious to see whether this expands into the BuildingLink market.
> supplanted families who want the land to be healthy for their children?

That's a fairy-tale story that the farming industry has been pushing around for decades to portray the image of the old-school farmer working dawn to dusk to support the family.

Agriculture hasn't been like that since the dust bowl. And even then, they didn't really care about the "healthy for their children", the dust bowl happened largely due to farmers (mostly small and mid-size by then) overfarming their lands and using deep plowing to overcome top-soil degradation.

Agriculture is a high-risk, capital-intensive industry that benefits dramatically from economies of scale.

Drop the romantic, nostalgic fantasia that so many still carry around farming.
I worked in an MRI lab (academic) for a few years (as a tech/programmer/statistician) and honestly these kind of sex difference findings were really common.

We never did fetal scans, but we were also studying resting state fMRIs connectivity in adults. I'm semi ashamed to admit it, but a lot of times, if your main hypothesis didn't come to fruition in the data, you could usually just fall back on some sex-difference finding. You wouldn't even need to fish very hard for it. There is probably no other single 2-way split you could make that would more reliable give you large magnitude differences.

I don't know how else to present that idea though. It's not completely unreasonable that there might be some inherent bias in the processing. There are really a handful of tools that everyone uses. It's possible that there is some undiscovered bias somewhere. But if that is not the case, then I am pretty convinced from my time there that the differences are real, and they are usually of large magnitude. At least larger than the more interesting findings researchers look for.

Pretty crazy that they did fetal scans though. We had a lot of trouble normalizing even toddler brains on one study. I can't even imagine fetal ones.
> Can someone (likely younger than me) explain to me why the concept of gender-associated cognitive differences has become so controversial, and why the “blank slate hypothesis” is the only one considered acceptable?

I speculate that the "blank state hypothesis" has a media footprint that's disproportionate to the number of people who actually believe it in its strongest form.

Perhaps more media attention is given to people who argue for extreme nature-vs-nurture positions, rather than more moderate nature-and-nurture positions?
You're right, there should be a way to make twitter accounts private.
I object to considering the techniques in the article "hacks". They all employ minimal markup, without extra boxes or complicated classes, and the CSS side is very simple.
An engine compressor stall (which is more common at low altitude and high thrust) can cause fire to come from the engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQWYhsYfMxE (jump to 1 minute for an example, found in an earlier HN thread).
That would mean Southwest strongly believes the lack of "AOA DISAGREE" caused the crashes, so they are safe to continue flying their fleet. If so, they should come out and say it.

Right now, 737 Max Fleet is the deadliest plane per mile that is in the air [1], by a wide margin. Maybe it's an anomaly and the rate is much lower, but by the same reasoning, it could be worse. I'm not flying on one, and my opinion of Southwest and American is at a new low.

1. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-boeing-737-max-is-now-the...
> isn’t selected

I chuckled.
Congrats on the launch! Do you imagine scaling up to work with larger properties like condominium associations? I ask because the property management company at my current complex isn't that great. We have many outstanding projects in the queue and they never communicate onsite issues such as when the hot water went out. From a tech perspective,
the website they lease to us is so old, not mobile friendly lacks notifications and doesn't have a CMS to allow our HOA to make updates.
webrtc, webasm, webgl, and a million other things, right?
I'm not aware of any way to check insulin levels from home - how did you do that?
"Alexa, set timer for 14 minutes." Great for keeping my iPhone clean while I'm cooking. Otherwise I'd have to try and convince Siri to set a timer...

(But yeah, i agree - definitely nothing very innovative about it. I don't really think voice control is ever going to be the next big thing)
Because THEIR religion is old and silly. But OUR religion is The One True Way.
Two patterns I notice in the arguments (in general on many sites):

* Interest has been conflated with ability. You can see this most prominently with the James Damore diversity memo, which was all about interest, but has been declared to be about ability by almost everyone lambasting him for it.

* Misunderstanding "average" as "all", another common misrepresentation of Damore's diversity memo.
This is Ethan, one of the founders here. Yes, we handle common area, snow shoveling, cleaning, sidewalk maintenance, etc. We even handle unit turn inspections and punch list creation.

No minimum number of units. In fact, 80% of our units are single family residence.

We have Spanish speakers on staff, but all of our automated texts/emails are in English. So that come some times be an issue for Spanish only speakers. Generally we have to get on the phone with them.

We charge $25 + $1/unit per month for handling all tenant calls, troubleshooting, and emergency coordination. For $25 + $10/unit we do coordination for every time of job (snow shoveling, cleaning etc.) The monthly subscription does NOT include the cost of the handyman/contractor going out to do work.

No plans to go into full on property management. We feel like maintenance is a big enough headache to solve for now!
it highlights one weakness with the model

By applying the strategy in an unintelligent way which seems designed to make the model fail.

it will always say a longer possible search is better because it raises your odds to success and the model features no cost for searching

That's kind of the whole point of this tradeoff and of the analogies used with it. That there is a cost for searching and not "finding."
I had the same problem with google home. I already had a shared (with the SO) google keep note for my shopping list. I wrote a google keep integration with an IFTTT app to solve this, letting me do a "OK Google, we need X" to add X to the list.
https://github.com/Resinderate/shopping-list/blob/master/sho...
The CDN aspect isn't really vital to our application or business needs at this time. We really liked the security aspect more and we could check off quite a few boxes without having to build that ourselves, ie, IPRM, WAF, DDOS.

Websockets was a requirement in the application at that time and of course we knew we we needed to remove it as a dependency and we have for the most part.
Seems like once again people just need to pick the right tool for the job. The problem is that people get stuck into one framework and it’s familiar to them so it gets forced into a project it doesn’t make sense for down the road.
Hi. I don't know of any fires, revolts, or crackdowns. GitHub is independent of MS, and Nat has worked hard to keep it that way. We do have org changes, but I don't things get "taken" so much as "we work together to figure out an org structure that will make us most productive and build a great product".

FWIW I'm very happy at work
An intent-to-ship has to be sent to blink-dev, so per the Blink dev cycle this cannot be an I2S.

There has however been an intent-to-experiment[0] and as the article says it'll be available as an origin trial in Chrome 74. (For those who don't know, origin trials are essentially an per-origin opt-in, time-limited way of shipping. It won't work by default, and in this case it won't work beyond Chrome 76.)

[0]: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/sEw...
This appears to be a North American beer list (generally speaking) so I’m not sure it would necessarily overlap a World Best Seller list substantially.
> Otherwise no, because everyone would be suffering and stockpiling what they could for their own citizens.

This is not how it works. People going hungry in spite of their country having a good crop is a sadly regular theme throughout history. Crops going to the highest bidder and crops going to whoever has the most political influence are sadly regular occurrences. (the most recent example of relatively widespread hunger of this sort that I'm aware of occurred in the aftermath of the 2008 recession, although economics isn't really my thing)
From what I gather, RethinkDB hasn't seen a release since July 2017:

https://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/2.3.6-release/

The project may be transitioning to new governance.
Find your most productive hours and squeeze them for all they’ve got. The rest of the time do passive activities. Spend time with family, go to the beach, eat, sleep, chill.

Mine are early morning or late night, that’s just how I’m wired.
> The bottom of the engines are a mere 40cm of so above the ground when the plane is on the runway

Jeez. How are pilots supposed to land that thing in heavy wind scenarios? One wind blow at the wrong moment and it will make ground contact.
I don't like it but U.S. courts do not consider party donations, or even more direct benefits, to get contracts bribery unless there's explicit evidence; B following A does not mean A caused B unless the people involved say so, even if there's a clear pattern.

I think it's a corollary of their misguided "money is speech" interpretation of the 1st amendment. A university admissions bribery case is unlikely to benefit from such 1st amendment arguments.
Yes, precisely... rather disappointing that HN users -- the very people you'd expect to know the difference between one protocol and "a set of them" would make this mistake - what hope is there for Joe Public :/
If you keep making more and more food, the population keeps growing, and more and more land needs to be turned into farmland. Increases in efficiency only produce more food.
This is not fixed by diverting farmland from animal protein to grains.
youtube-dl is also usable on Android. Available through Termux.
It was an acknowledgement that there aren't enough people like myself for web devs at for profit businesses or institutions to care about.
> Sorry for the dumb question, but given the total calories are the same, does this mean that it is generally healthier to eat one big meal per day rather than 10 small ones?

We can't answer this confidently, the way I would say it is: there isn't strong evidence to support the idea that either is better.

> Given my current understanding from all the intermittent fasting hype lately, it is indeed better to eat big meals rarely rather than small meals frequently. For some reason, your post got me slightly confused because I lack the necessary knowledge to have a proper model about nutrition in place.

The IF people (along with the Keto people) use a variety of tricks to try and prove their point. There is absolutely not a single paper showing calorically balanced food intake has different clinically significant outcomes. Period, full stop etc. There are tons of papers saying things like if you force people to eat in constrained windows they eat fewer calories (or if you force people to eat high fat diets they eat fewer calories etc.). Those are all useful outcomes: they are "compliance hacks." But they idea that any of these are significantly metabolically different is not at all supported by the science.

As for yourself: nutritional science is weak, and if the nutritional science says do something, and you observe a bad outcome in yourself from doing it, I'd take your own personal data over the nutritional science, frankly. For instance: fiber is a great modulator. If you go to a GI specialist and say "I'm having dietary issues," increasing fiber is usually the first thing they recommend. But also, sometimes that doesn't work and then the next thing is decreasing fiber (FODMAP diet). So it's really hard to make sweeping recommendations because the body is so complex and nutrition involves so many different cooperating systems that can all go slightly wrong.
First, because taking aircraft out of service for design issues is incredibly rare (less than once a decade across all kinds of passenger aircraft).

Second, because airplane manufacturers have a significant amount of negotiating power, combined with airlines very often not being in a great financial position: Boeing certainly wouldn't want to be liable for storage costs and the logistics of getting a fleet of planes back to a central facility if an airline went bankrupt, for example. Leases also get legally interesting when the assets involved move internationally on a daily basis...
The problem comes from political views being dressed up as scientific. There's no question that there are biological differences caused by e.g. hormone levels but that hasn't been linked to high-level cognitive skills the same way, say, testosterone levels correlate with muscle development (this also raises the question of the degree of overlap between populations). This is especially complicated in humans because the brain is famously plastic and high-level cognitive skills represent years of practice so even if you did find, say, a difference in the size of a brain region you would still want to study whether that's innate or simply reflecting that people who do something a lot develop capacity for it. Similarly, most higher-level tasks combine multiple skills, often in different combinations, so it's really hard to try to go from a low-level measurement to explaining performance on something high level.

The neuroscientists I used to support were very quick to acknowledge that innate effects were possible but that they hadn't been linked to anything high level and were in all likelihood weak because if there was a strong effect so many decades of studies looking for them would have found something.
I used experimentation and data to improve my diet
The article is full of exaggerations. Quantums computers are more efficient for some kind of problems, not more efficient for every problem.

In particular this paragraph:

> And then there’s the price. Most modern classical supercomputers use between 1 to 10 megawatts of power on average, which is enough electricity to meet the instantaneous demand of almost 10,000 homes. As a year’s worth of electricity at 1 megawatt costs about $1 million in the US, this leads to multimillion-dollar price tags for operating these classical supercomputers. In contrast, each comparable quantum computer using 25 kilowatts of power costs about $25,000 per unit per year to run.

Since the current quantum computers are much more smaller than a supercomputer, it's ridiculous to say "each comparable quantum computer".