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Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, especially not ideological flamebait. It just leads to crap discussion.

We've had to warn you a lot about this in the past. I appreciate that your comments have improved considerably. But please don't relapse. The temptations to post like this are only rising, and we all need to resist them.
"The question is, what alternatives currently available would do any better on the whole...."

That's been our problem, and remarkably, there's been little concentrated and little continuous discussion, let alone successful remediation, in all of these years.

And so I've had to avoid all of the alternatives ... far from ideal!! I'd sure choose to use a service with much less sophistication, many fewer options, much less 'slick' presentation, but was forthright, dependable, and adequate. Shouldn't that much easier to create, fund, and maintain? And yet ... no show.

WHY? HOW did these terrible practices become thinkable, let alone acceptable? With all the spirit, spunk, and can-do sophistication of the pioneers in our community ... WHY?
I’m not seeing the problem with plastic going into landfills. That means it doesn’t result in plastic pollution in waters and the ocean and is sequestering the carbon back in the earth.
Suse has been pushing btrfs, zypper and other neat tools forward for years. IBM/Toshiba's 4690 POS (used in all the Kroger stores, Fred Meyers, etc), Walmart's in house POS, OfficeMax/OfficeDepot and numerous others use Suse as a base for their point of sale system, deli scales, and other edge applications.
Fair enough.

And yes, the inefficiency of it all makes my eye twitch uncontrollably also.
I didn't really recommend it, and the reason I borrowed from it in my comment was for an economic point which was not its main focus.

To borrow from your own link:

> Lawrence Summers criticizes Piketty for underestimating the diminishing returns on capital, which he believes will offset the return on capital and hence set an upper limit to inequality.

We are moving further away from the original point, but this is very close to what I said. Sometimes a complex topic doesn't need to be complex. What Pikkety argued was simple math - almost high school level math. He still spent decades doing the research groundwork (very very complex), but the take-away for the rest of us is very simple.

If we return to a low-growth world, then it's very very hard for me to accept that returns on capital will remain high. From where will these returns come from?

Pikkety only has 1 real reference point for the high-inequality world, and that was the 1800s.

One very very major unanswered question for Pikkety is this - if capital returns hold strong indefinitely, where will the negative feedback come from?

I could never tell if the book was literally apocalyptic. If you mathematically describe something which multiplies infinitely, then either you're making the point that some negative feedback is missing, or you're predicting collapse for any real world system where that model applies (also a negative feedback, just a very jerky one).

I think he thought that in the 1800s, the rich found a way to balance their expenses with their income. This is silly. Perhaps there was no means of re-investment due to the illiquidity of land. This is also silly. Anyway, I can still accept that some negative feedback from people's behavior existed in the 1800s, but even if I do, I don't accept that such a feedback would exist today. Rich people today have no natural limit to how rich they want to be, and no neo-feudalistic system that prevents further expansion. This all argues for the apocalyptic interpretation.

My take - I don't think we can be at low growth for long. If we are, things will start to change Perhaps climate change, perhaps war. We're not going to just hang out in that state. Maybe we can then stay at low-growth, but low-growth with capital destruction. However, the more disruptive historical events tend to bring back growth. I think potential for technological productivity growth is still very very possible, but with a restructured way of life. Right now, the incentives just don't work. That's all.
It still blows my mind that I used to make plans with friends to go see a movie a week in advance and everyone would just show up.
Ok, I'll reply to that one too.
I don't see a problem with having more actively developed and supported distros to pick from.
Hopefully in the future they’ll be slimmer, cheaper, and last more than a day without recharging.
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Also, my company switched from PagerDuty to OpsGenie and after a week everyone was used to the new system, so that strikes me as more of a commodity.
What do you mean by the velcro strap? Is it the "Sport loop" (https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/4982/as-images.apple...)?
One day I will probably have to do that. Until then, I'm sticking with cygwin. If it ain't broke...
It's borderline useless. And can do lots of harm if assumed that it's useful.
HTML Periodic Table
The perilous life of a computer virus cracker making enemies online
Just 3 days ago, an investigation into Facebook data sales started. The NYTimes posted an article about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/technology/facebook-data-...
The content is amazing. Concentration, insomnia, etc.

Is it difficult to build systems?
I had the opportunity to do this about 15 years ago. I found it pretty shocking. The recycling center consisted of two large and open warehouses on the site of a landfill. Inside were a series of multi-level conveyor belts staffed largely by Hispanic workers.

In front of each worker was a station on the other side of the belt with several chutes for different types of materials. The workers operated in shifts with the belts moving at what felt like an impossible pace. The primary job requirement according to an overseer was not vomiting during a two hour trial run working in front of the belt.

Despite being in central Arizona, the interior was darkened with a confetti of small paper particles hanging in the air and covering every surface in nearly an inch of "dust". The only thing I could liken it to was the ash particulate in the aftermath of a volcano eruption. I wouldn't want to spend any time in there without heavy air filtering, yet I saw many workers operating without even light paper masks.

The experience brought home what the cost was for single stream recycling. Short of automation I have a hard time justifying that human sacrifice even as I continue to recycle out of habit.
You might like the Withings Steel HR, which has a traditional mechanical watchface, a heart rate sensor, and about 25 days of battery life:
https://www.withings.com/us/en/steel-hr/36rgw/shop?screen=de...

Some Garmin and Fitbit models have good battery life — often about a week.
Actually most cancers do self-resolve in that your immune system kills them before they get large. This is one of the reasons being on immune suppression drugs leads to a significantly higher risk of developing cancer that gets large enough to be detected.
I came up from poverty and its a trap. I grew up in a trailer park with parents that didn't care how well I did in school, who I hung out with, what I did away from home, where I was most of the time or when I came back. They treated me like a burden not a part of the family. At least not the TV families I saw growing up. Started smoking with the neighbor kids when I was 15, started drinking shortly after. There were no examples to me of life outside of that, I couldn't comprehend what life was outside of being a fuck up. Until I met my uncle. He was a former cop turned SysAdmin @ TCI he introduced me to a side of computers I didn't know existed. I envied what he had, I daresay I coveted his gear and his lab and his stuff. I had been a run-away about 4 or 5 times from the time I was 10 well when I saw that life could be different I decided to run away one last time. I moved in to his house and he taught me a lot of what I learned, not about computers specifically but about learning how to learn. How to teach myself.

I eventually got fed up with him being a bit of a strict hardass about everything. I mean, dude was a cop. Everything I did had to be by the book in terms of life outside the house. I ended up just kind of traveling around the country with my gypsy blooded estranged mother, started a pretty serious drug habit for a bit. But all the time I kept thinking about computer stuff. I kept learning, and eventually I got fed up with my situation. I took a look at my mom's boyfriend and at the time I thought he was pretty cool but one day I was smoking pot with him and I looked at him, like really for the first time. I saw a dude that paid child support to 3 different women, who, if he wasn't dating my mom, basically lived on other peoples couches. He worked at a winery and made less than I made @ McD's. I looked at him and then I asked myself, do want to be this dude when I'm 45? I stopped all drug use except the occasional drink, spent all my free time learning the stuff that my uncle had been trying to teach me and moved back to my old home town. These days I'm actually a Developer which I never thought I could be. I'm content that I made it out, but I know that my case is unusual.

I've driven through that trailer park occasionally and I still see familiar faces more than 20 years out. The truth is we're all poor. If your not making $300k a year you are no better than a generation away from trailer trash. I mean look, here they were, two brothers, grew up in the same house with the same opportunities and I was born to the crappy one. I made it out basically on accident. The difference between being rich and being poor these days is generational, not situational. I disagree with this article, its not that you are broke, it is that you are poor, unless you're filthy stinking rich, you are still one generation away from trailer trash.
>but they perform a lot better than coin toss

I'm curious how that was tested. And if there is a source for this.
I second the Amazfit Bip. Mine has around 40 days of battery life.

On iOS, I use AmazTools [1] to sync the heart rate data to the Health app.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amaztools/id1386033880?mt=8
There are cheaper services that do same thing. If you aren’t living in PagerDuty to do actual incident management, but only use them as an operator, it is hard to justify 360 a year. That’s way more than even something like gsuite.
Thanks for the support! The love goes both ways.
This is good news. With IBMs acquisition of Red Hat it's valuable to have one of their direct competitors be fully independent.
Exactly. Speaking of the deficiency of the RGB model, it is most apparent when one tries to linearly interpolate colors (for example to construct a gradient). Linear interpolation in the RGB space produces gradients that are noticeably less natural than those in Lab.
It's about 30 USD ct in Germany (25 euro ct) for plastic bottles (that you have to pay up front). Very few bottles are not returned around here.
Ohhhh, that is much better. Totally agree that is fair given there is a cost to actually page someone.

Nice work!
The first few paragraphs just explain what the hex codes mean literally, but the article gets a lot more interesting after that. As another poster mentioned, his heuristics aren’t perfect, but they’re pretty handy. I’ve memorized a bunch of hex codes and the general “shape” of colors over the years, but this more disciplined approach is really interesting!
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?

Also, if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. (The last sentence of your comment breaks them.)
I actually sold my last MacBook before going away and got this because I loved the form factor and wanted to try it.

Now I've decided to keep it as a secondary display for my next Mac, which might be a Mini:

https://lunadisplay.com/pages/using-luna-with-mac-mini
If you continue to troll HN we will ban your main account as well.
Our solution is both software and infrastructure. On the infrastructure side, we our own distribution license, fleet of trucks, warehouses, and more. And that's all wrapped under our web portal to help make shipping and compliance easy.

We're METRC approved and working on the integration now. API is on its way too.
It was my first distro when I picked up some installation CDs for it at Microcenter. I never had any issues.
> how would the government have any idea that you bought that suit for work?

Because your work tells the IRS. I have expensed a shit ton of stuff and I don't say anything about that to the IRS when I file my taxes. I'm hopping that the W2 says enough.
Thanks for the support. To be clear, we are open to remote work! Please email careers@getnabis.com and we can send you more information on that :)
What a coincidence. Just the other day I was going to take a trip down memory lane and fire up a few VMs of my first Linux distributions. Then I realized Suse 7.3 (I had a physical box set) wasn’t freely available in ISO format anywhere. Bummer.

Still going to hunt down an early Slackware ISO and might try the first versions of Fedora and Ubuntu again.
It's a common myth that you can get less noise from bigger pixels. Smaller pixels only allow you to see more of it, as you can see higher frequency noise that you wouldn't see with the bigger pixels, but the SNR shouldn't be any worse.
Please keep political flamebait (or any flamebait) off HN.
Good point on the health externalities.
> > The modern Web requires Javascript.
> I disagree.

The argument was not that the modern web requires devs to over-rely on JavaScript, forsaking all others and creating experiences which fail to function without it. The argument was that for the majority of users to interact with the majority of modern websites, JavaScript is required to be turned on. Which it is.
We do actually offer remote positions, particularly for engineering. We'd love to hear from you if you're interested. Email us! careers@getnabis.com
All of the above! We operate our own warehouses and trucks, as well as an in-house engineering team that builds software.
Please keep this toxic trope away from here.

If you review the site guidelines, you'll see how your comment breaks them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Our LA office is located in Chatsworth. We'll be expanding our SoCal operations soon as well!
Where's Mr. Fusion when you really need it?
It was described in detail much earlier than that, in ESR's The Magic Cauldron, part of The Cathedral and the Bazaar:

"...When the development of the open-source X window system was funded by DEC in the 1980s, their explicit goal was to 'reset the competition'. At the time there were several competing alternative graphics environments for Unix in play, notably including Sun Microsystems's NeWS system. DEC strategists believed (probably correctly) that if Sun were able to establish a proprietary graphics standard it would get a lock on the booming Unix-workstation market. By funding X and lending it engineers, and by allying with many smaller vendors to establish X as a de-facto standard, DEC was able to neutralize advantages held by Sun and other competitors with more in-house expertise in graphics. This moved the focus of competition in the workstation market towards hardware, where DEC was historically strong. ..." from http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/magic-cau...
The parsing problems have long been solved. The `foo * bar;` issue is solved in D by the observation that the * operator returns a value, and no use of the value is made here, so it must be a declaration. No symbol table lookup is necessary. (D explicitly does not rely on a symbol table to parse.)

It is possible that the * operator is overloaded and the overload has side effects that are relied upon here, but D discourages overloading arithmetic operators for non-arithmetic uses, and considers the side-effect only case as particularly wretched and so has no problem not supporting it.

Lookahead issues are also trivial to solve, so shouldn't be a factor in modern language design.
Isn't/Didn't Suse use to be one of the big competitors of RedHat in the OS market for enterprises?
What? It's often helpful to form a full sentence if you want others to engage in a discussion with you.
That's certainly something that we're aware of, and we're actively working to build up our SEO to address that :)
Play cookie clicker.

At first, it's slow. As it progresses, you get more cookies per click. It'll hit a point where improving cookies per click has diminishing gains.

At some point, you'll invest in an autoclicker which is pretty slow and you think you might as well just click the cookies yourself. But it's additional cookies in parallel with your clicks. That's nice.

After a while, the autoclicker and passive income gets good enough to match active income. You start to optimize it. More income per click for some routes, or more clicks per second. It compounds.

It seems slow at first but anything compound is powerful.
Unfortunately we don’t ship to consumers! For now, we’re focused on B2B shipping.
Please don't repost flagkilled comments. Maybe not all of them have been flagged for legit reasons, but most have. If a comment is dead that you believe shouldn't be dead, you can vouch for it by clicking on its timestamp, the clicking 'vouch' at the top of its page. Or you can email us at hn@ycombinator.com.
> I was relatively young for the surgery, mid-50s, so I don't doubt that that was a factor.

Ex-gf's ex husband needed a valve replaced at 25 due to damage from an infection. That lasted 15 years. So at 40 he had to have it replaced again. And at 55 he died because they can only do it twice. So yes I suspect your surgeon wanted to push that as far into the future as possible. And every decade that passes is an opportunity for better treatment.

> I would definitely prefer a less invasive procedure.

Cross fingers. My friends brother is a young[1] cardiac surgeon that does really whack less invasive valve replacements. So this stuff is becoming available.

[1] Gosh he's like in his only his late thirty's!
Is a mission to Mars morally defensible given today’s real needs?
Mine was actually Gentoo. It was a fucking brutal experience.
I totally agree it's naive for people to do this stuff!

Fully.

But that people shouldn't be taking advantage of people's naivte, especially for some kind of ostensible 'public good' like 'internet history archive'.

Zero surprises if Visa, FB, the NSA and 'some insurance company' were doing this, for their own selfish reasons, being able to claim 'hey, it's public, so it's legal' type thing ... but I'm not sure that the local librarian should be doing this.

I think sometimes good intentions mean some different things to different people. We HN-er types tend to live a little outside of 'normal' as I'm often reminded every time I visit my parents/siblings homes and am reminded of how normal folks live.
Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ (2017)
And, just like money is a layer built on top of cash, I assume that one could build a third-party escrow service on top of GNU Taler which has this “buyer protection” feature, with the added bonus of not one actor having a monopoly on it – whereas if Paypal stops liking you, you are out of luck.
Raising children is the primary function of society. Someone going beyond their means in order to raise more, harder to raise children should be celebrated. That we would see any fault is damning evidence that our society is malfunctioning.
Do you think they’re doing it because they love XUL, or because of the number of extensions that require XUL and no longer work in Firefox?
Antivirus frauds are like insecticides: I'll kill all the bugs ruining your crops, but I'll ruin your crops too.
This doesn't bother me nearly as often as the inevitable popup asking me to "sign up" with my email address. Does anybody ever enter an email address into these things?
SoftBank in Talks to Invest $1B in Uber’s Self-Driving Unit
Kind of from a different point of view but at my old job (Escrow.com) we took our chat widget seriously (powered by Olark). Most of our direct support communication occurred at least initially through the widget (moving to email for ongoing issues) and from time to time the CEO has been known to man it. As an engineer I regularly walked over to the other side of the floor and helped support with technical issues so I know first hand that we regularly solved people's problems.
Most supermarkets have bottle recycling ATMs (outside the entrance) around here in Germany. The homeless scavenging bottles from public bins and returning them are doing just fine. I'm not aware of the lot of mess this causes though, not sure what you are talking about there.
Personal attacks are not allowed here. We ban accounts that do that. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting to HN in the future, we'd appreciate it.
I recently updated my editor (https://github.com/DigitalMars/med) to highlight in yellow all search matches on the screen. It works so damn well I am disgusted with myself for not thinking of this decades ago.

It neatly finds the first use, etc. It also does a word search so `it` does not highlight when searching for `i`.
Easier to go down than up, and the people on your level will often try to make you feel bad for trying to move up and out. Good on you for escaping the trap. Props to your uncle for giving you tools to do it, hardass though he was.
What lenders you are specifically referring to?
Link for the curious: https://www.samsung.com/us/business/solutions/samsung-dex/

Ubuntu: https://www.linuxondex.com/ "Linux on DeX beta is only supported on Galaxy Note9 and Tab S4"

I'm thinking about getting a Tab S4 so I can play with it.
This question isn't substantive enough to post here. I'm sure that's why users flagged it.

You can always look at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=newyorker.com for what other HN submitters found interesting.
From my experience it's been very reliable and yast has made admin changes very easy.
SQL-Like Sorting in Python
There are startups that automate listening to devices. See www.deepgram.com
Yeah according to https://www.linuxondex.com/ :

"To operate properly, packages (apps and programs) must be built for ARM 64-bit and must comply with Android security policy."
I got an erection around 1:10
Nitrogen-fixing trees “eat” rocks, play pivotal role in forest health
First issue of Visions, a self-funded hand designed and edited sci-fi magazine
The world pulls the Andon cord on the 737 Max
Koenigsegg 7 clutch 9 speed transmission [video]
The essay you linked attributes the concept to Joel Spolsky, saying that he wrote about it in 2002 and quoting from that. So the concept was coined quite long ago.
> I think what I'm saying is that in some way, "poor" is in your mind, and as soon as you consider yourself poor, you are poor

It is very well known that people's perceptions of their economic status is well off. Including a very strong "reverse-into-the-median" effect on who is middle class or not.

I personally quite enjoy finding evidence that I'm poorer than I think I am, but I'm deep into the (upper?)middle class to that being a stressful realization.
ODM - Original Design Manufacturer, the specifications and some design work is done by FB and then this company goes and actually designs and builds the equipment that FB buys.
I love these articles. I know they’re frequent and always come with the same caveats but I dream of the day I can effectively work from an iPad Pro. I have no idea why, it’s completely impractical when I have a perfectly good laptop. I just want to.
What a lovely piece!