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> Would you consider such (common) systems to be authoritarian?

That question can only be meaningfully answered on a case by case basis. Many of them do cross the line as currently implemented in my opinion; to what extent varies. Oftentimes there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for their design rooted in history (ex being created prior to the internet or some other technology). On the whole most of them seem to work well enough.

I would note that the presence of one flawed system does not serve as justification for others to exist as well. The world is certainly imperfect, but that is not a valid argument against improving it.

> places a huge need on such intermediaries being present

I don't dispute this - what I take issue with is the inability to opt out.

> being a for-profit gate-keeper guarantees they will be perceived as abusing such a role

Regarding app stores, the manufacturers could have trivially set them up such that it wasn't possible to abuse them. Functioning examples of such systems already exist. They specifically chose not to do this, so I do not think it is unreasonable to assume the worst about their intentions.
You could run gke on preemptible VM’s and this on that: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/preem...
Gatekeeper only applies to software downloaded from the internet. Browsers set the "quarantine" attribute for downloaded files, and then Gatekeeper kicks in on first launch.

Software that you build locally, or that you install with a package manager, is not affected.

The goal of Gatekeeper is to keep your Mac safe -- not to control what you can do on your Mac.
In the early days of crypto, it used to be that China would ban it and the price would drop as the market would freak out. This is just another scare tactic that won't go anywhere.

China makes so much money from mining and crypto, there is no way they would get rid of it.
You know you can also boot instances that bill at hour and less granularity right? Billing is probably the least compelling argument to a service like this.
I am type 2 diabetic and half an apple will send my glucose levels into orbit. The same goes for many other fruits. Fructose is still sugar, and I haven't particularly noticed fiber slowing down its uptake in my metabolism. I just steer clear of most fruits except for strawberries and blueberries, and limit even those.
On what basis do they follow the IAS disagree procedure, and not the procedure in emergency AD 2018-23-51?

KNKT's preliminary report says the prior flight, Lion Air 34, was not airworthy due to continuous stick shaker activation. Further, that flight expressly requested a much lower altitude, citing control problems for that request. Neither are normal.
You can run this on your own gke cluster as a managed add on if you don’t need “instant” scale.
But it still doesn't waste as much energy as the standing armies fiat currencies rely on. And if your country doesn't have a large standing army then your currency is being subsidized by those you ally with who do have standing armies of significance.

And the good it brings to the world in being a non-nation state controlled currency is obvious. From enabling continuation of money transfer in failing or restrictive governments to allowing for capital exchange between individuals directly without rent seeking or censorship it provides good every day.
The Noncentral Fallacy
In the total Chinese economy it’s a blip. I don’t think the central planners at the Party care about crypto very much.
In Serbia, at least the northern part, a lot of people (used to) cook on pig's (or mangulitsa's) fat instead of vegetable oil. We rarely used any oil aside from pumpkin seed oil and olive oil for salads. Unsure what's the popular opinion on that, but it's a worthy replacement.
Yeah, I think it’s really per-oil that you have to worry...not sure a broad classification is going to help much. Better to just memorize the whitelist of oils that you want to limit yourself to.

Safflower, Sunflower, Corn, Soybean, Cottonseed and Peanut are all particularly bad. Canola (rapeseed) is about 2:1, so it’s not too bad if you need to use cheap stuff. Then there’s a bunch that have hardly any at all, so those should be fine...coconut and olive are my favorites to cook with since they withstand high temperatures better, but I’m also starting to love avocado oil in a lot of dishes, particularly ones where the oil doesn’t get cooked. And, of course, flaxseed oil has the opposite imbalance, so it should be a staple in everyone’s pantry to help us correct for oils used in restaurants and other food we don’t cook ourselves.

And it probably should be said that palm oil is killing us for a completely separate reason, so even though it’s relatively healthy to ingest, it’s a good one to stay away from.
That is what freedom all about user own choices not dictated by corporatism.

Your original point about profits and freedom makes sense now. If Apple allowed side loading or other stores then its profits would decrease. There would companies who would like to bypass that 30% cut. So yes your point is correct its all about profit rather then privacy or freedom.
Cmake won against the incumbent, which was autotools. Still it's still far from being an enjoyable tool, whose experience is made even worse by its god-awful docs.
Seriously, after I read that I was like "every bad thing that comes after this is totally predictable". This is like worse than co-signing a loan. You're basically solely signing a loan, all to take on the risk of someone you've never met.

Seriously, why are there no "avoiding scams" classes in schools?
Interesting development. There's a massive amount of accumulated capital and equipment inventory held by Chinese miners.

These are mobile, and will surely emigrate.
playing devils advocate, but taking peoples word prima facie is dangerous. Especially when it deals with financial issues. Pretty sure you can any contempt person could game the system if people found out “students” automatically get refunds for bs charges. I think AWS is different as they have their educate program and distinguish between students and free trial customers. AFAIK gcp doesn’t have an education system for students, so it’s harder to differentiate a legitimate request
> Edit: Downvotes don't win over users.

HN policy is to not gripe or discuss reasons for being downvoted.
A better question is does it need to have tooling or IDE support to be worked with?

It's good to have tooling and IDEs for CMake because CMake is complicated and hand-editing the files is very tedious. But if Meson eliminates the tedium of CMake by providing you with different abstractions then you don't actually need the IDEs or tooling.
The Next CSS Frontier – Classless
Bitcoin has proven time and time again to be a giant ponzi scheme

https://www.reddit.com/r/buttcoin contains good reading
> Now we have N+1 incompatibile build systems.

To be fair, cmake was at a time the n+1 build system but nowadays it's pretty much the only option in C/C++ land.
I Drove My Childhood Favorite Racing Game in Real Life [video]
> "how to live your dream by becoming an Instagram Influencer while travelling"

Gosh, imagine how that traveling looks like, documenting every moment of it, creating all these fake, yet real looking spontaneous stories. I doubt that one can actually enjoy traveling like that, but maybe that's just me.

I feel sorry for these people.
Prepack is an example of a (not production ready) tool to do abstract evaluation of JS.
Google+ and google wave were browser extensions? How about google talk with xmpp support?
For the influencer itself that probably feels great. You do actually have some influence over all those people that follow you.

The question is more why so many people decide to follow those shallow meaningless things...
Why should Fiat money use more energy than global bitcoin adaption? Bitcoin already used as much energy as medium-sized countries (I believe it was as much as Ireland last year or the year before) and nearly no one uses it for daily payments.

Compared to that, I'm not aware that the Swift Network or Visa/Mastercard would run whole power plants to support their energy needs. They just need a medium sized data center to support hundreds of millions of payments a day.
Sonic is a fair bit more expensive for me, and I can only get DSL so I have terrible upload speeds.

Worth it. Calling support has been fast and pleasant, and I'd prefer to not give that money to comcast.
I would agree with this sentence if "optimizing" were replaced with "making marketing claims". Optimization is the process of finding the fastest implementation. In the case of ListDir each successive version is faster than the last on a benchmark with warm IO caches, therefore it'll be faster on the same benchmark with cold IO caches (this is not a general claim; I'm talking specifically about ListDir). Benchmarking with warm IO caches is easier (invalidating caches is generally very difficult) and yields more reliable and more actionable results, hence it's better to benchmark with hot caches. It has nothing to do with the average vs worst case.
Probably more hassle than it’s worth. 30-day notices (and “ignorals”), having to go to court, etc.

Even without being named explicitly on the lease agreement, AFAIK this “Alec” still maintains full tenants’ rights.
I love getting to finally see honest-to-god real images of astronomical phenomenons like this. After so many artist renderings, there's something riveting about seeing the real thing, even a blurry picture. Very exciting.
What is the actual argument that you support with pointing out that Zig is "largely single contributor"? Linux was largely a single contributor up to a point.
Does max. RAM usage need to be specified upfront, or what's billed is the live-allocated amount? This is important for scenarios like running Chrome Headless when the RAM usage varies a lot between invocations.

AFAIR AWS Fargate requires an upfront allocation?
> Three months into the hell of living with him, I saw his wallet sitting out in the kitchen. He was passed out drunk in his room, so I looked in it

Oh okay, someone left some glitter in the bathroom so it's okay to root through their shit.
Just today, I saw a a bunch of comments on an Insta page about selling blue ticks. I reported all of them as scam.
Would be interesting to see, if Instagram responds with the de-facto "Doesn't violate community guidelines".
The biggest issue isn’t being able to run locally, it’s getting access to systems where an unexpected error is happening in production that didn’t happen in dev.
Presumably he couldn't afford the apartment by himself,
Are you serious? Are you naive ? Is OP a psychotherapist?
This is true but it's not cause and effect like OP suggests. If it were then marketing would be a solved problem.
Do you mind sharing more info on the palm oil thing?
Not even that. Compiler flags are compiler/platform/library options, naturally, as build options need to be propagated from dependencies.

The people behind cmake already learned that lesson with their modern cmake approach, but it seems the xmake people didn't do a proper review of the state of the art.
Interest rates vary depending on how much you earn.
https://www.gov.uk/repaying-your-student-loan/what-you-pay

It's basically inflation + 3% if you're earning more than £45k/yr+.
Sounds terrible.

I've so much used to have almost unlimited 4G data for 5bucks a month...
I wonder if bitcoin will try to go the Ethereum route and move to proof of stake [1] instead of proof of work.

[1] https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ
Big caps even if discharged are dangerous unless you keep them shorted (wrap some wire around the terminals).

Thanks to dielectric absorption, a cap that has maintained a charge for a decent amount of time cannot be fully discharged easily, as it will recover 1-15% of its total voltage to zap you later.
It is much easier to measure amount of scam than detect. That means that company can report "cleaned up numbers" (at least with error bars) but not able distinguish all bad stuff from good stuff.
Flossing really strike me as an American thing. You can buy dental floss anywhere, but only in the US do you hear it's the most important thing ever, probably because of the really high sugar consumption.
It's had 3 decades of experience and bugfixes.
It's taking a step of good faith. If momentum carries every state to do this (and it itself is a very popular idea, one that politicians get points for supporting), then we've done the impossible and circumvented the electoral college.
I believe OP is referring to the mass deforestation caused by harvesting palm leaves.
In theory it would encourage more people to vote. There's a lot of fatalism that gets people to stay home in deep-seated states because their votes don't matter. This makes their votes matter.
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> A better question is does it need to have tooling or IDE support to be worked with?

No, that's the wrong question and one that's only purpose is to deflect attention from its shortcomings.

All build tools need tooling because if they are adequately integrated into development workflows they are transparent and easy to use. Cmake meets that requirement, and until other alternative build systems do then they will always be far more complicated.
hn should have a filter for these kinda inane marketing submissions
Check out Calculate Linux.
The right request would have been to revoke it, not to try to remove it from the repo.
CMake is only complicated if you need to make use of its complicated features, which many build systems simply omit. Meson looks nice though.
I think most people are taught to communicate with people they have problems with. Communication is key to any relationship; you don't need to be a psychotherapist to know this. In the US, proper communication with roommates is a basic social skill that most people learn in college.

You can't expect to do nothing in a bad situation and then complain when it gets even worse. If you read a post about a guy complaining about loud neighbors, you'd be pretty skeptical if he didn't mention "asking them to turn the volume down" even once.

There's a lot left out of this story. Did OP even bother confronting the roommate about his problems? Did OP just remain passive-aggressive and sulk the entire time he lived there? I'm curious why OP left out that side of the story. You can't really hate on the roommate that much if OP didn't even vocalize his concerns to him.
>> “They wanted to A, save money and B, to minimize the certification and flight-test costs"

This seems to be the root cause of the problem. Competition is not always good.
Bitcoin transactions don’t use a material amount of energy: no matter how many miners the transaction capacity is fixed. Energy use just increases as miners compete for the block reward.
How're you key to 3 startups? Do you work as a consultant?
Only time I've seen capacitor failure impact a system is on an old (Win XP) motherboard I got recently, most of the aluminium caps near the RAM slots are leaking, and only 1 of 4 slots work.

Oh and there was also the 33uf capacitor I put in backwards across 12VDC. Venting failed, and now there's a dent in my ceiling.
There is a huge difference between Google and Google Cloud.
I'm not quite sure if this is talking about the same research but it seems relevant:

"Important note: there’s a lot of craziness out there around “keto” diets, and this does not mean that a ketogenic diet prevents cancer or is a treatment for it. No, what it means is that if you’re a cancer patient taking a PI3K inhibitor, a ketogenic diet could help the drug to work, and that’s it. In fact, in at least one rodent model (AML), putting the animals on the diet actually accelerated the cancer before the PI3K inhibitor treatment began, so be aware."

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/11/16/pi3...
You're misinformed, please read https://blog.bitcoin.org.hk/bitcoin-mining-and-energy-consum...
Google+ is still a managed G-Suite offering. XMPP is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
Mainframes running a ton of financial transactions bill by CPU usage from IBM. Banks etc want to use as little computer resources as possible.
> Zig appears to be a largely single contributor

That's a good thing. The less contributors, the better the project usually.
I only use lard and butter for cooking and have done for years. I hope people keep using vegetable oil, though, because it makes lard really cheap.
Cmake is a makefile generator. The output of cmake is a series of makefiles. That's it. If you need to build a project and you don't have make, nmake, jmake or whatevermake in your system them cmake does nothing to get your project built.
World adoption -> increase in BTC/USD value (lambos!) -> USD block reward increase -> more GWs spent mining.

It's not linear at every stage (for example, more USD per block reward will reboot Bitmain to produce even more efficient miners, which will eat up some of the rewards) but it's close enough to be concerned.
Yeah, I've had bad roommates before but my reaction has always been to avoid them and want less to do with them, not invade their privacy and find out more about them. I guess that doesn't make for as interesting social media posts [edit: or advertisements] though.
This is a thread about Google Cloud.
Harnessing ferroelectric domains for negative capacitance
Well that's 10 minutes of my life I'm never getting back...
"their mostly-non-renewable power generation"

Actually, most crypto mines in China are located in Sichuan or Yunnan, precisely because of an oversupply of hydroelectricity. More than a quarter of the world's hydropower is generated in China (350 GW) and most of that is from Sichuan & Yunnan. 350 GW is more hydropower generated than the next three biggest hydro producers combined (US + Brazil + Canada.)

Because of the demand-supply imbalance in Sichuan an Yunnan, kWh prices are cheap, hence mining is profitable. ~90% of the electricity in these regions is generated from hydropower.

The oversupply is a result of inadequate grid infrastructure preventing the transport of electricity to resell it to neighboring regions, and a slowdown of China's economic growth.

Sources:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2018.01.090 — Hydropower curtailment in Yunnan Province, southwestern China:
Constraint analysis and suggestions — "The increasing curtailment of hydropower generation not only
caused large-scale waste of sustainable energy [...]" In 2016 alone, Yunnan was forced to waste 15% or 31.4 terawatt-hours of hydroelectricity.

https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/chinese-... ("In 2016, for instance, overcapacity from hydropower stations in Sichuan and Yunnan amounted to a whopping 45.6 terawatt hours")

It's so bad that China is now restricting the constructions of dams in Sichuan an Yunnan to not exacerbate the overcapacity problem.
or better wyhash. xxHash and xxh3 still has some weaknesses.
Yeah, it's a drop in the sea.
Banks run green. They only require lights in the building, the building, the branches, and the atms, the employee's cars, the oil deals financed, and the wars financed.
CMake is still a DSL for generating makefiles.
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Saw it with Dell Optiplex GX 270 as well. I supported between 50 and 100 of those at some time and we had to swap 30 motherboards in 6 months.

More info used to be available here: https://www.badcaps.net/, haven't verified recently.

One thing I've heard recently though is that Dell still makes batches of bad hardware and their service is stil (or again) bad. In particular a recent xps batch has had a 50% failure rate while Dell support keep blaming the users IIRC. Source: sysadmin friend of mine.

PS: once you get through, their technicians used to be great.
This might be the case, no way to proof, but bitcoin has been proven to be useless as a medium of exchange so it's best to stop wasting all that energy on it. I believe there is a future for virtual currencies but there's still work to be done to work out the bugs.
Since the lease was in his name why not kick out Alec and find another roommate? Better than paying to break the lease.
Pray tell how you would argue it, keeping in mind the (supposedly) pretty beefy salaries being paid out and the enormous nest egg the foundation is currently sitting on.
Here in the UK Amex do that too: instant push notifications from the Amex app or from Google Pay, even if you used the physical card.

Monzo did offer the novel feature of convenient, temporary, self service card disabling / enabling (useful if you lose it then find it again) but loads of traditional banks have now copied it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_and_environmental_impac...

When you take flights over Southeast Asia, it’s quite a sad sight. It’s just endless palm plantations in what used to be pristine rainforest habitats. You can understand the perspectives of these third world countries because palm oil can bring in a lot of money to places that tend to be very poor, but from an environmental standpoint, palm plantations are a disaster. They’re destroying some of our most valuable carbon sinks to produce the stuff.
>Why should Fiat money use more energy than global bitcoin adaption?

The problem was the original poster in this thread setting up the strawman that bitcoin is for every single transaction (or even a decent fraction of them).

But to answer your direct question: because the security and processing of it's transactions depends on the security of a nation state. That nation state's security stems from the military among other things. The energy expenditure is enormous and the influence of the nation state's desires on what transactions are processed is an everyday factor. This is obvious in watching the Justice Dept. interact with the major credit card companies.
Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them
> Unsurprisingly signed malware has been far from uncommon

Malware is very common on the Play store as well, signed software by one gatekeeper does not guarantee anything.
I find the docs to be fine...
The worst part about playing video games is you get a brain full of lots of totally useless video game trivia. When I realized that programming was almost as fun as playing video games I just did that instead. Even the most aimless screwing around programming will have a better long term impact on one's life than videogaming IMHO.
Supply reduction should pump up the price, right? Good for holders.
That's simply not true, they have large mining operations.
> Marketing isn't intrinsically evil.

No it isn't. It's just a shame that 99.99% of the industry are ruining it for the rest of them.

Advertising a new product or service is great, but showing me the ads over and over again is manipulation. Creating a brand to get people emotionally invested is manipulation. Almost the entire industry is manipulating people to buy something they didn't want, spend more than they should have (including the costs that marketing adds to the product) or trying to convince them to buy from you instead of someone else.
This "article" is a clever ad.
It's also the same with open source work. You need social connections to big influencers or successful startups in order for your project to get popular. The main channel seems to be Twitter; that's where open source projects tend to be shared and a lot.

I barely use my Twitter account so I was very lucky that one of my projects became popular (over 5K stars on GitHub now). It's a general purpose back end framework.

The only hype that my project got was that it appeared on the front page of HN a couple. of times at the beginning (this was a few years ago).

Because my project grew organically (and mosly linearly) without much social hype, most users tend to be small independent developers who use it for side projects. Also it's now being used by 2 of the top 100 cryptocurrencies (by market cap). Cryptocurrencies tend to generate their own network effects.