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That's entirely reasonable, and if you're in such a situation you probably don't want to ship a NixOS image. I've been in situations like that and I still prefer to use Nix (which is just the dependency manager) to build such images. I'd be curious if you could take a look and peruse this list of packages that are Kernel dependent and let me know which you think are unreasonably dependent: https://pastebin.com/njS40UzP
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It’s not about “emerging trends” but they should be familiar with a chosen technology stack that is in the “plateau of productivity” in the hype cycle.
Now: Trump announces US will order Boeing 737 Max 8s and 9s grounded
One thing that amazes me about Dwarf Fortress is that the creator(s) don't use version control[1] (as of 2014, things may have changed)

A friend of mine, years ago, took the "daring, revolutionary" step of convincing NASA management to embrace version control. I also know of a European consulting firm which made a lot of money swooping in and saving a major Euro bank's problems due to lack of version control.
> characters, which Unicode thoroughly and intuitively defines in the same way that humans think about characters

"Character" is a somewhat vague term, and Unicode prefers to use more specific terms like "code unit", "code point", "abstract character", etc.

In this case I think you may be referring to grapheme clusters, which come closer to how "humans think about characters" than Unicode abstract characters, which are building blocks of the technical encoding standard but in some cases don't really match a human concept of a graphical element of a writing system.

See also “Characters” and Grapheme Clusters in section 2.11 of https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode12.0.0/ch02.pdf, for example.
But somehow Bloomberg paints Tesla in a negative light, as they always do.

No -- they're simply stating the obvious: that the company's unhinged and basically sociopathic response to this incident is much worse than the any "document leaking" that Tripp may have engaged in. Especially when the "leaks" involved have turned out to be apparently quite innocuous.
Apple owns their platform. It cost a fortune to develop, and it's theirs.

Imagine it's the 1800s and you wanted to develop technology to let anyone listen to music anytime. You'd have to invent the computer, an operating system, and the internet (some means of distribution), then invent Spotify. (Or maybe not all those things in their entirety, but just enough to support the Spotify's functionality.)

Since it's 2019, there are platforms that provide the operating system and means of distribution, and Spotify merely has to deliver an app that floats in high-level-land. They then complain that that platform, who did all the work Spotify didn't have to, isn't being "fair." What does that mean? What are they rightfully owed?

Why doesn't Spotify create their own OS and App Store, and develop/distribute Spotify there? Because it's inconceivably hard? Surely that's why the people who did it get to set the rules.
The problem with DF was never the graphics but the UI itself. See Rimworld which is hugely popular but much more "playable". Basically the UI is holding back the game to become a much bigger success
Both companies have their own private data centers/infrastructure.
Making micro-transactions more profitable would be an unfortunate course of action. There are enough of those apps in the store, and they are clearly profitable enough if they can buy Super Bowl airtime.

Subscriptions for apps should be different, but I see a challenge in drawing the line between Spotify/Netflix and a scam app like "awesome culculator" that charges $5/mo to people who don'didn't realize it was a subscription (there was an article on HN this week about apps like that, targeting kids and the elderly, of course).

If Apple has a stipulation about requiring a website, then maybe subscription-based apps can get a discount on the 30% fee if they also have a web or desktop-based version of their application that provides comparable functionality and takes payments.
I'm quite interested in this space, I have been for a while. In my experience, one problem with Facebook events is that when people aren't on Facebook they often just don't get invited. Would be great to see an alternative that got traction. I wish suffhq luck!
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This is the case with all E2EE tools. You have to trust that they do their crypto correct and that they aren't evil. As Firefox Send is open source you can setup your own server if you don't trust Mozilla, but then again, if you don't trust Mozilla you might want to eyeball their code carefully first...
You should read an older history of this series of events; past views of the inquisition were vastly different than the present view. For a long time, it was seen as a humane thing due to their use of an actual legal process rather than people and local strong men burning heretics (who were probably mostly "heretics") at random. In other words, the inquisition was a Church reform designed to mitigate "private sector" witch hunters who were causing political upheaval. The use of standards of evidence by people like Bernard Gui (who wrote a manual on the subject) was a big innovation, as silly as it might seem today.

My historical point of comparison is the events leading up to the various religious wars. The protestant reformation unleashed historical and cultural forces in the same way the present slow motion destruction of the last 100 years of political consensus.
A huge influence on Mozart's success was his father, a renowned musician. He discovered his talent early on, and put a lot of effort into growing it, effectively making it his full-time job for some time.

I bet a number if naturally gifted kids just don't receive such a boost, and don't spend as much time and effort on unfolding their unique talents. Young Mozart worked a lot, sometimes against his wish.
You're right that changes in diagnostic criteria and statistical effects can cause a placebo group to look better or worse over time without the placebo having done anything. This is important, and thank you for the reminder.

However that is not to say that the placebo effect never helps you. As http://protomag.com/articles/the-placebo-problem shows, people who are receiving a placebo will experience medically significant effects, and which effects they experience depend on which placebo they got. Furthermore the reason why double blind studies became standard is that it turns out that the doctor's knowledge has an impact even when the doctor is trying to not communicate it. That is, if doctors are told that one group is receiving a placebo and another is not, the group that is not will do better EVEN THOUGH both groups are in fact receiving the same placebo! (I heard about this some time ago as a classic study, but I can't seem to track it down easily.)
Is there any concern about them sending fake tax returns?
there are actively people downvoting such comments. I guess that's suspicious too.
This sounds like a bunch of frat boys helping each other out. It’s not so much whether an idea works but whom you know. I think this is the type of thing Peter Theil mentioned about SF being monoculture. Makes me kind of sad it’s no longer about meritocracy and more about joining the club.
Hear hear! That said, it's pretty damn useful to have a log of my changes. Commit often, and it's even more useful! IntelliJ IDEs have pretty nice ways of viewing the diffs over time per file, and many other tools exist for doing this. Super useful!
Setting up comprehensive centralized logging with AWS Services for Kubernetes
I've started to get the same feeling from Factory Town. Conveyor belts and elaborate production chains, but this time in 3D!
Have a Nexus and iPad at home. Would recommend the iPad over other Android tablets anytime.
There's no trick - just Apple being better at this than the competition.
Anyone who didn't see this as the predictable end-result of requiring cookie awareness and consent was hopelessly naive about how large vs. small organizations respond to unfunded government mandates.

The money and time could have been a lot better spent on international awareness campaigns arming consumers with more privacy knowledge instead of expecting website owners to shoulder the informational burden (because those orgs in aggregate have no core incentive to treat user's privacy as an inherent good).
I am befuddled by your befuddlement.

Consumer protection laws regularly put limits on the freedom of contracts between companies and consumers. A rental car agency can’t give you a rebate for renting an unsafe car.

The fact that no money changes hands doesn’t change this. If you’re offering free taster portions of bread to passer-bys, you can not use lead as an ingredient. Neither being free, nor putting up a sign with the list of ingredients will change that.
> The friction of switching from iPhone to Android is high for most people: purchasing an iPhone quality Android device and repurchasing apps could easily exceed $1000.

But...so could the cost of buying a iPhone quality iPhone (without trade in or other discount the XS Max seems to be $999 to $1499.)
I feel like GDPR and such had some good spirit to it... but the result isn't what they had in mind and the consumers just click through everything / have no more clue. Piling on or malforming GDPR seems like it would just make the already unworkable situation more of a mess.

I like the "ideas" behind GDPR, it's just this isn't the way to do it and really accomplish anything that really helps an individual.
You must have noticed why there are a lot of still-life studies in painting. Sometimes, starting out with a 4-shade monochrome palette. The reason for studying still life, classically by countless masters and in today's fine art courses, is that it teaches you about few things:

1. Being able to draw/paint from life. Still life objects are easily accessible without paying for a human model.

2. More importantly, household objects can easily be broken down into primitive shapes. Cups, Cans, Pots, Apples, etc..

3. It teaches you about illumination, finding values by "Squinting" and finding edge quality (soft, hard, lost, etc.)

Furthermore, the classical masters practiced "Chiascuro", i.e. high contrast and wide dynamic range light conditions that can be simulated indoors with still life. The reason why drawing is prerequisite for painting is that the act of application of paint depends on local values where your brush stroke is being applied to. In order to find the value of the color, you need to know the form. In order to know the form and how it is illuminated, you need to "internalize" the 3D aspect of the object. Therefore, always, drawing is 80% of the work in painting (80% to make a point, obviously, I don't know exact percentage).
AWS has a bulk/templating mail option that might be more like what you were hoping for.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/messaging-and-targeting/introdu...

My concern about truly self-hosting this would be my sender reputation - you might find you end up in more junk mail boxes compared to using a service like SES.
I'm 100% behind Spotify on this issue even though I don't use the service.

BUT

If you're going to ask someone else to play fair, then maybe you should do the same i.e. have a revenue-sharing model that is fair to all of big labels, indie labels, and independent music producers.
That's how the GDPR works - unless the data being collected is required for the operation of the service, you cannot make data collection a requirement of using the service.
I like where you’re thinking is at. I see the opportunity. Best of luck!
Flying American or Southwest is going to be an absolute shitshow in the coming weeks, if they are truly losing such a large portion of their fleets it's going to be hard to accommodate so many passengers at once.
US to ground the Boeing 737 Max 8
I will tell you what I tell my students;

To learn to make art you spend time working with the materials. That is it.

When the urge arises to judge the quality of your work, it will be tempting to say this is good or this is bad.

Take that energy that you might put into assessing the aesthetic and put it back into the materials instead.

Persist and grow. Avoid aesthetic judgements, and instead produce work.

Inevitably as you deepen your experience you will begin to autonomously develop techniques and content that you find yourself returning to.

As you progress through this process your style will begin to take unique, identifiable shape.

Through this process you will become a true painter.

Many people mistake technical capacity at predefined aesthetics as painting, but I would argue that this produces uninteresting work.

Every identifiable style was born from people who chose to work outside of preexisting style.

Goodluck.
Of course you have a choice, but in reality who leaves a site because they see that warning? I imagine almost no one. Hell, I understand the implications and I don't care because site X has what I'm after and perhaps no one else does (or they all have the same warning anyway.) I have no reasonable option but to accept whatever these sites want.

The warnings accomplish nothing. It's just another nag screen. It was a bad idea when it was thought up and it still is today. It's an attempt to seal a wound (misuse of personal data) with a piece of string. It wasn't even a half decent band-aid.
> The law will not see a company as having a monopoly just because they have a monopoly on their product.

Having a monopoly on Clorox bleach doesn't mean you have a monopoly on bleach. You have to define what the market is.

The issue is that iOS app distribution and Android app distribution are two separate markets, in a way that Clorox bleach and Great Value bleach are not. The apps being distributed are not the same (they have to be written specifically for each platform), the customers for each are almost entirely disjoint, etc. You can't substitute one for the other. You can't distribute your iOS app to iOS devices via Amazon or Google Play.

It's like operating a school. You don't have a monopoly on schools, but you control what kind of books and equipment your students have to buy. If you specify commodities (e.g. any laptop with a minimum spec and a web browser), you don't have a monopoly there either. But if you require the students to buy a specific thing that only you provide, now you have a monopoly. You've created a market with no viable substitutes and no other competitors -- that's what a monopoly is. And that's what the App Store is.

> They can't be compelled to provide app store and ecommerce services at no cost.

Nor is that what's needed. What's needed is competing app stores for iOS apps.
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Imagine being a kid born after Facebook became a thing, and finding out later in life that your parents robbed you of the chance to decide for yourself whether or not you wanted corporations to have that data.
Hey, look at it this way: Capitalism in healthcare does drive a better consumer experience!
I hope they can included TWBT as the multi-level view is kind of needed for any proper graphics visualization.
This is a great idea and events are one of the things holding me on to FB, but the friction to signing up by not offering an option to OAuth (even for event creators).

I don't want another email/account and potential leak in the future -- just let me oauth with Google/FB/LinkedIn, etc.
Don’t worry, Apple takes a 100% cut of Apple Music’s revenue
What manner of failure would cause such globally deployed and distributed systems to go down like this? I'm very interested to read up on this when they release details of the failure.
They -always- care about money. That is why I said to focus it on hours and pass it to someone who deals with money. If you focus it on best practices and tech trends then there may be no one who will care but (except in real dumpsterfire companies, which often includes start ups) someone always cares about the money.
The price is high but they are really nice. I bought Pixel 1 on launch day and still have no desire to upgrade. (To be fair I have replaced the device a few times due to cracked glass but still a Pixel 1).

This could just be a slowdown in hardware needs thought. Good enough is sometimes good enough.
Quick Note. We have built a collectord (container-native log forwarding tool), that is compatible with AWS Services, including AWS S3 + Athena + Glue (partitioned in Hive compatible format).
With this, you can significantly reduce price for the log aggregation tools and keep much longer retention for the logs.
We actually have built a calculator, that can help you to estimate the cost of using AWS Services with Collectord for managing Kubernetes and Docker logs.
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Trump says FAA will ground Boeing 737 MAX aircraft
What people miss about the new GDPR notices, compared to cookie warnings of yore, is that they offer you the choice of opting out.

In my experience, the option is usually hidden (look for “options”). But a surprising number of sites do actually comply and make this not prohibitively obscure.
That link provides no actual information. It's like a superhero film: junk food for the mind.

Here's the actual article at Check Point, not linked from the garbage article:
https://research.checkpoint.com/simbad-a-rogue-adware-campai...

Turns out the malware is delivered in the RXDrioder SDK, which developers incorporated to get ad revenue, I guess.

Check Point claims that the app developers appear to have been hoodwinked into incorporating the SDK because they are independent of the SDK developer. Which may mean that these DL numbers are not as inflated as people think.

Fuck. If that's true, our app market really is driven by 12-year-old boys. Which is why my serious technical apps with years of development behind them are selling like 3 copies. And why Apple thinks innovation equals new emojis.
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> We could stop inventing bullshit, low-paying, wasteful jobs that contribute to cycles of poverty and environmental degradation. We could slash the number of hours we work and spend time with people and pursuits we love.

The problem, ultimately, originates from greed for material possessions. It also originates for a need for meaningful work and contribution to society.

I'd love a world where, if I quit my job, I could live in subsidized housing with free food and transportation.

But how do we "pay" for it? Yes, in theory, we can automate so much food, shelter, and energy production that the cost of living is so low that it's essentially free.

IMO: The way to do this is to keep the bullshit jobs, but figure out how to let people retire young. Perhaps there can be some kind of government-managed program where, once someone performs 1-10 years of full-time, minimum-wage work, there's enough money in the system to sustain that person in government-managed housing, with government-managed food, clothing, ect.

At that point, work becomes truly optional.

Furthermore, for people who choose full-time work, we can also do things like pair cost reductions in housing and transportation with shorter loans. Instead of targeting lower monthly payments, we can target shorter terms.
Whatever side is more populated with people who think that is an important question, is likely to be the side that I'm against.

Reality is. I am willing to accept that the best well-conducted research available is a better guide to that than my own knowledge unless it is in one of the very limited areas where I have personal expertise. And those are very, very limited areas indeed.
The tragic thing about gender (and related) studies is that beyond the political extremists on both sides who've latched onto various aspects of it, it addresses things that absolutely need to be addressed.

LHoD does a great job with this. It is thoughtful, fascinating, and not at all dogmatic.

It makes me so sad to see all the people on the left screeching about wrongthink and identity bullshit at the slightest provocation, and all the (willfully obtuse) people on the right hiding behind their dictionaries as if the fact that gender and sex have historically meant the same thing in some contexts somehow invalidates this whole domain of thought. Absolute idiocy, all of it. I'd say people have forgotten how to think critically but I don't have data to support the hypothesis that they ever had that ability.
The C-series is much closer to competing with the 737/A319.
As an Xoogler, I can tell you that promising products that "will never be a billion-dollar business" get killed all the time. $100M in projected revenue? Yawn. Kill it.
I'm glad to see DDG in Brazil's list :)
I believe they are roughly to scale. I remember reading how Goodsell does some back of the envelope calculations when planning an illustration.

You hear in pop-science how the human body is ~50-70% water as if that is a lot. Really it’s a rather low level of solvent to run chemistry reactions in. I did some undergraduate research in a biochemistry lab and when we would perform an experiment with a protein we were studying, the proteins and other chemicals would always be very dilute, maybe ~99.9999% water or higher. Cells are very “sludgy” and it’s surprising to me that anything works at all the proteins don’t just immeadietly stick together and precipitate out of solution like egg-whites when cooked.

It’s a tricky number to estimate because the orders of magnitude are so stark. Proteins are at very, very low concentrations but each protein is made of hundreds or thousands of atoms. The number of protein molecules is small but the they are almost big enough that their volume is not insignificant. There are other things that are unintuitive about chemical reactions. A lot of chemical reactions are faster than the movement of molecules. A protein maybe able to catalyze a chemical reaction faster than it can diffuse through water so it sits around most of the time waiting to collide with the molecule it will catalyze. Basically like a CPU waiting an eternity for data from a “fast” SSD to show up.
RimWorld doesn't really compare. The world is dead comparatively.
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He has probably reached a level of consciousness that he is an awareness suspended in a transcendental meditative state. His only output medium is Twitter.

On a serious note, he has done a lot and may be taking time off with family and friends. I would love to hang out with him for some time.
Let the downvotes begin.

HN guidelines ask that you don't bait people this way, it's toxic to discussion.

While you're trying to field a rational argument, doing so using pejorative language (panicking, giving in to pressure) preemptively delegitimizes other points of view and thus undercuts your own credibility. Certainly facts and procedure are great but it's also a fact that a large number of people just died in circumstances that are uncertain; you're essentially arguing that the uncertainty should not be considered absent a causal mechanism.

Why is it so important not to adjust our course while investigations proceed? After all we have an elaborate financial services industry devoted to the mitigation of economic risk, so why shouldn't we allow that to operate? Voluntary risk-bearers (insurance and reinsurance firms, option issuers etc) can do their thing and shoulder the financial burden of the disruption rather than expecting passengers to shoulder vital risks which they're not qualified to assess.
So like Amazon Mechanical Turk but free?
What if the ads are required for the operation of the website, because without them the site has to close? People are rarely willing to pay for big sites, they surely won't pay for many small sites separately.

Smaller sites don't have the resources to curate their own ads, that's why they use ad networks. If we are strict about this then this rule will eliminate small sites while tightening the grip of the big sites on the net, because they have the resources to adapt.