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There is usually a bunch of small improvements in every release, and those can add up over time. In Postgres 10 and 11 a lot of stuff happened related to parallel queries, and many more queries can be run in parallel now. 11 added a JIT compiler to the query planner, but I'm not sure whether that is enabled by default yet.
But if we acknowledge we adapted to it, we can't just assume that paleo is better for us strictly because it's "more natural" - we adapted to make milk natural for us to drink as well. And if we reject that - how can we say that our adaptation to a paleo diet is then better as it's part of our evolutionary tree?
I prefer the Southern convention of appending "... bless his heart." "Mark is just a sociopath hell-bent on world domination, bless his heart."
From the article you're replying to:

"Indeed, in the aftermath of recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes, the media routinely and positively refers to disclosures by “Boeing whistleblowers.”"
I assume any compatibility issues with Chromium will soon disappear given Edge's migration to being Chromium based but how well do the web versions work with Firefox?
I don't agree, but I also don't know the formalisms around addiction to articulate my argument precisely.

I have never heard of water intoxication happening with growing frequency over decades. I have also not heard of water intoxication having support groups, nor of water being described as a craving.

Additionally, there are no humans that have lived without water for years of their life. I have lived without sucrose for years of my life and I expect that there are others as well.
2008 and R2 are still in a supported phase of life. It's the "exorbitant support fee" phase. Nevertheless, you can still get Microsoft support for the two after the "EOL". It's more an end-of-public life
"If the software was changed to reconcile 2 sensors, it would then lead to a new "AOA Disagree" indicator which would raise doubts to the FAA that Boeing could just give pilots a simple iPad training orientation instead of expensive flight-sim training."

I always liked this quote from the "Mythical Man-Month": “Never go to sea with two chronometers, take one or three”.

https://blog.ipspace.net/2017/01/never-take-two-chronometers...
I work in regulated industry and you really don’t want the level of scrutiny regulated processes have in other industries. Innovation would slow down to a crawl or pretty much stop. In a lot of industries you can make trade offs quality vs speed or innovation and be better off by not having perfect quality.
The VR hypetrain left the station in the early-mid 90s. There were movies and TV shows about it. VR was going to be the revolution that changed everything -- William Gibson's cyberspace in your living room. But it was all experimental -- big clunky headgear and CPUs and GPUs that were too weak to produce any but a clunky, janky, laggy, polygon-y experience. And most people couldn't afford the fancy gear; for the most part VRML happened on people's monitors.

The recent VR hype happened because with modern PC hardware, the tech finally caught up to sustain an immersive, low-latency experience -- and some very smart dudes had the ambition to make 90s retrofuturism real.
Agreed that the solutions proposed thus far do nothing to address the problems. Even if we tore the company apart brick by brick there are no guarantees that we wouldn't have the exact same problems resurface in 5 years under a different company. Prehaps we should focus about ways to increase the transparency and accountability of any Media/Telecom platform.
That seems likely. What's funny is how Edge (and eventually IE) became even more entrenched in the system than before, yet nobody cares anymore. Almost like the whole thing was a bunch of arm-waving by nerds and regulators that wanted to pretend they knew what was going on.
I've used it a bit, though not extensively, and I've seen no issues.
Comment below states Niteo is a spam creator, so the block seems justified.

FWIW, PayPal has always worked for me and customer support gets the job done. Not sure what the problem is if your operation is legit.
I think the idea of your "company 1" is actually super interesting, essentially social Graph as a Service(GAAS?). But , I don't think that addresses any of the issues people actually have with facebook. What does facebook running both the front and backend of their site have to do with their market power?

That company 1 would still retain 90% of Facebooks value, as it would be the social graph where people acknowledge their real life connections. It would still have all the privacy liabilities, in fact Facebook's largest scandal (Cambridge Analytics) was due to the face they were too open with the social graph! And that it was misused! If we're selling the social graph now can't there be a million politically oriented "research operations" that spring up and use it?

Also, FB, IG and WA all have separate social graphs, them being frontend skins on one service doesn't reflect that. So they'd likely be completely separate companies full stop, maybe using a couple services from GAAS like spam algos. Sure new, potentially better frontends for FB could pop up with more specialized niches, but facebook is already exploring that with messenger and events getting their own apps and sites.
Caching is way more impactful than a 1% speed up. It is hard to know exactly, because it is impossible to disable on most modern operating systems, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it were an order of magnitude improvement in some situations.

By the way, caching doesn’t prevent RAM for being used by applications. If an application wants more memory, the os can always just evict some of the cache.
PayPal should avoid doing vigilantism if they want to keep people's money under trust.

It matters very little how despicable the company is, monetary services must not hold opinions unless explicitly told one by a local government.
> Cody Don on YouTube teaches the masses about science and regularly gets banned.

If only he sold out to NBC, PBS, Disney, or a Viacom company, then he could do whatever he wants and never be banned. ;)
> (Unless you consider Java’s interfaces to be inheritance when they are the language’s alternative to using inheritance.)

Having come to Java from C++, I always considered Java's interfaces to be a syntactic sugar on top of inheritance. In C++, there is (or was, back then) no meaningful difference between "interface" inheritance and "class inheritance" - and why would there be, if it boils down to stringing up vtables together?
They actually are, but the self driving cars use that subsystem as only one component of the whole and most of it is not a super-frog.
Wow, this is fantastic! Is this open sourced, anywhere?
KDE is nice and all and certainly better than GNOME from a UX perspective (at least according to my preferences) but it always suffered from Qt:

1. Initially Qt1's license made a lot of developers to shun it (if that was warranted or not is a matter of opinion, but that is what happened).

2. Being written in C++ makes it very hard to not break ABI and Qt broke it several times - either because of itself or because of C++ libraries.

3. C++ also makes it harder to interface with other languages, meaning that for most languages interfaces either do not exist or they do but are of inferior quality. In comparison Gtk+'s gobject was designed to be easy to interface with.

4. Even if you buy into C++, for a long time you had to wrap your build system around Qt with moc and all.

5. Qt was always controlled by a 3rd party company whose interests did not align with KDE's: Trolltech/TQTC wants to provide middleware to developers for developing desktop applications, KDE uses it to provide a platform API. These two overlap a bit, but they also are incompatible in other areas (such as API/ABI stability).

Some of these (e.g. license, moc) are not valid any more, but others (TQTC goals) are and even without them, GNOME has already a lot of inertia.

> Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce.

These desktop environments rely on technology developed primarily for GNOME by GNOME and/or RedHat (and to a lesser extent Canonical) developers, like Gtk+, Clutter, etc.

The original post was about why everyone uses GNOME if other environments are available: if there is anything that my answer implies is that if you rely on GNOME tech and/or tech made primarily with GNOME in mind (even under the disguise of a neutral tech) then GNOME will be where things will work better and first show up.

The only neutral tech that there is on desktop is X11/Xorg and of course the GNOME people want to tear that down and replace it with their own tech.
On Facebook's "Download your information", it says "Download a copy of your information to keep, or to transfer to another service". Is there another service to transfer to? Maybe something using ActivityPub like Mastodon? I can't find one.

There are third party apps that allow you to post to Facebook and check your Facebook status. Couldn't that other service post to Facebook and Mastodon on your behalf and read your friends profiles? I can't think of a reason it isn't technically possible for something like that to be created, but I haven't seen it created yet.
If you look at their other (past/sold) projects, it's part of a suite of software they've developed for "autoblogging", scraping, automatically reposting articles from prewritten databases, "enriching" them with random images, etc. It's very clear what industry they serve.
PayPal is the worst. I must use stealth accounts with both PayPal and eBay to do basic selling now after being banned. I make it work just fine, but its a pain.
"Demographic-focused products" or flat out racist products as they are otherwise known. How about we have products for categories that people choose to be part of, like "credit cards for stoner rock fans" rather than "credit cards for people who are Hispanic"! I guess that if that happens it'll only be weeks until someone launches "the card for the everyday Klansman".

Save us all...
> The big unknown is, who is going to eat shit? Some big part or parts of the Chinese economy will. Who the government transfers the losses to determines what can and can not happen in the longer term.

Based on recent history, as long as it's everyone except the PLA, the existing Chinese political system will survive. Mao was right about that much.

Not that it isn't going to be extremely ugly.

If you could afford it as a Chinese citizen, you'd have to be crazy not to be hedging personal wealth outside of China at the moment.
How do they actually enforce it?

Presumably, displaying a bitcoin address isn't illegal, and you are not in control of who sends you coins.
But it's more profitable to store multiple user interests & behaviors in a database to be exploited in any number of ways, including selling. The aggregation even lets you infer other valuable information about the user, such as the scandal with Target inferring pregnancies several years ago.
Thanks for bringing it. Sadly, I have no control over the current form.

"We are in the process of updating our website. Please feel free to feedback on your browsing experience using the above email address. Thank you! PSTYCZYNSKA@IAM.PL"
I did not realise he went to my high school. The school really should have pushed that more – as a student with a clear trajectory into tech they did little to encourage my learning, and I eventually ended up moving so that I could study computing in more depth.
It's important to clarify that "whistleblowing" should apply only to conduct that's outright illegal or that's morally repugnant to almost everyone. Over and over again of late, I've seen plain old politically-motivated leaking motivated as "whistleblowing". No, activist, you don't get to advance a political agenda by hijacking the word "whistleblowing" and applying it to your attempt to pressure the company via the press into enacting your preferred policy.
Convert your website to Android or iOS app
Lots of accusations here with zero citations.
Convertify is a tool to convert any website into a native app using just an url.
The article states:

> Indeed, in the aftermath of recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes, the media routinely and positively refers to disclosures by “Boeing whistleblowers.”

So, I guess there are some whistleblowers?
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I disagree, when I finally got the option of running a Postgresql server in WSL in Windows 10, I uninstalled Linux and never look back.

Linux on desktop is a bad joke.
This is not true. They are not always the same thing and assuming so is a bad idea.

My debit card can't be used online except via iDeal, and only sites in this country (largely) support iDeal. I can, however, use it via paypal.
> One of the people who helped me the most was Margaret Mead, of all people, the great anthropologist. When the American Anthropological Association had its meeting and was entertaining a resolution to condemn sociobiology, at least human applications of it, she rose to ask: Are you out of your minds? Are you actually going to judge a piece of science according to political ideology? And they voted it down.

I'm not sure this would happen again in this day and age of people mixing pseudo-politics with almost anything.
It’s not clear what you mean by a distributed system in this context, but RAM is used for caching, costs or no.
Does PayPal still require you to arbitrate in California? This is why auto-sweep is so useful. At most, they can only have 3 business days of your money.
If the study had shown impairment of cognitive functions during normal U-boat operations, maybe they would’ve upgraded the ships with extra scrubbers.
Well supported older releases of the database engine, with clearly defined migration documentation and technology -- are the hallmark of successful Open source software ecosystem.

Because it mirrors and supports the reality of the business world.

Every large or small organization that manages their business, every year make 'Grow/Invest', 'Maintain', 'Disinvest' decision for each of the product/service lines.

Does not matter if is software, or making kielbasa.
Postgres is exceptional, and is supporting the first 2.
Reddit has been a declining trash heap for quite some time now. It definitely has to do with its emergence into mainstream popularity (the problem gets worse the larger the subreddit). It's the perfect platform for every armchair expert with a bigoted view to gain admiration and affirmation of their views from other uninformed bigots. It happens to be much easier to be a loud and belligerent bigot than to express an informed and nuanced opinion.

The only thing stopping HN from completely morphing into that cesspool is the diligent and fair moderation and the diversity and quality of opinions expressed. For the most part, hackers tend to be more critical and suspicious of authoritative sources than other groups.
These claims are not russophobic. We are at war with Russian Federation for 5 years. It's clearly demonstrates that we have no phobia. They are anti-russian.

Please, list claims you are interested to dig in.
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It would have to be something closer to:

from x expose y->z->w

otherwise you just wrote an alternative syntax for a wrapper, which then - in accordance with Law of Demeter - you'd have to repeat in y and z.
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The Swiss bank model.
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>> you sort of lost me here. I will not say it is a bad idea, but it would never work in any country I know.

Bitcoin works this way though. It is a set of tools to manipulate a highly abstract data structure. These tools are developed by a minority of the population, but the rest of the population trusts them.

This works because it has value for the folk.

Now you're speaking about elections. Most of the people speaking of e-elections are _mostly_ trying to get to the public that if you could make the elections work electronically - then there's a bunch of other things that could be done digitally too.

One example - company board voting. What if you could be present at any board meeting because everything that is said over there is cryptographically signed by each party thus providing non-repudiation of whatever they said?

What if every newspaper reporter had to sign their articles with their signature which is linked to a news trust network?

Contract signatures. Inheritance.

This is a reply to your:

>> Again, it is not that it is evil, as much as there are so many possible problems for so little gain

Little gain is only for people who have no idea of what you can do with "digital".
The output is targeted for printing and then possibly further editing in the future, so I think SVG in LO will be unstable for that—that's why I'd prefer the native format. But guess I could try.
> Clearly somewhere in your code you have to explicitly handle tab closing and break the references to allow the GC to do its job. Why not free the resources here while you're at it?

You are missing the point. The main point behind GC is removing the complexity of writing the software. Writing your own destructors, thinking about when to free your memory or writing lifetime annotations, needing to design your app in specific way to satisfy the borrow checker etc in languages like Ada/C/C++/Rust all are additional complexity and mental overhead that is removed by GC.
Your point about "just do this X and you don't need to use GC" is a reason people use GC languages, because they don't want to think about or write this "X".
> it being September so I guess college?

Yes. September was the month that many new users discovered the Internet for the first time, because they were given access at University and other higher education establishments, which had many and varied implications.

For instance there was an influx of beginner questions in Usenet groups, questions to which the answer was "please read the FAQ before asking more questions".

There was also just a general influx of activity: groups would see a bump in user numbers and activity that didn't fall back off over time.

New users arrived all through the year of course, but in smaller numbers and tended to be more technically proficient (and aware with network etiquette) to start with because they had sought (and paid for) access for a reason, rather than being given it and being told to go explore.

From 1993 onwards the public more generally were becoming a lot more aware of the Internet and being told about the things it could potentially do for them, so there was a more constant flow of new (often relatively non-technical) users & activity rather than just a big glut each September, which is why that year was referred to as "the September that never ended".
Multilayer perceptrons share many of the same problems single layer perceptrons have, such as trouble with high level structure and generating weird nonrobust features. They are much more nonlinear through and thus somewhat more powerful. (I'm imprecise here but it is easy to find papers on this ancient tech from before AI winter.)

DNN is essentially one of these with more layers than just typical 4 for MLP, because we figured out a way to propagate error and training gradients. (Plus a few important but interesting details.)
They are not really qualitatively different according to math they use... The main difference is use of gated or not differentiable activation functions with various ways to compute approximate gradients when faced with this feature. Especially convolutional nets are similar to MLP.
Anecdotally, I agree that it isn't that moderate carbs is bad and low carbs is good. The one thing that I feel is not talked about enough is the human aspect. Some people can limit themselves to a small helping of carbs, others can't. For a lot of people, the only good strategy is denial. If I know I'll be tempted to eat too much pasta or drink too much orange juice, I have to just not buy it or order it at all.

I always talk about this analogy. It is really hard to eat 8 medium oranges with a meal, it is trivial to drink a 16 oz bottle of orange juice. It is also pretty easy to have a second 16 oz bottle of orange juice (but no one is likely to eat 16 medium oranges). Most people struggle because life is stressful and eating the whole bag of chips is a release. It is hard to stop after 10 chips when your day was sh!t. Just my two cents....
I bet there are already projects in the making that will immediately claim the cash prize.
This is the point of having Professional Engineers and a very strict deontological code; it tips the incentive scale towards doing the right thing.

When asked to do something unethical, the P.E. has a choice: they can refuse, in which case they might lose their job; or they can comply, in which case they might lose their license altogether (and thus their job).
My day job is writing C for on an embedded real-time system. No manual memory management necessary... because we're forced to declare all struct and array sizes at compile time! Not a malloc or free in sight. Obviously, it's extremely limiting - pretty limiting as far as algorithms beyond "read data off bus, store in fixed array, perform numeric calculation, write back to bus." But I've gotta say, it's pretty freeing to write C in such a limited environment.
I think you hit a good point. I'm fairly confident that most engineers/people will make the call if it's a clear-cut case of "this will inevitably lead to catastrophe"

But in the real-world, everything is shrouded in a level of uncertainty. For most bad scenarios, people are really good at rationalizing why it's not going to happen. Unfortunately, it seems the level of rationalization is directly proportional to their incentives against admitting that bad outcome is a real possibility.
It IS fiction. It contains true events, and way more real than "based on a true story" fiction. But we're reading the story this mother told herself about events that transpired.

The writer needs this to be a story about descent into a seedy underbelly, slowly becoming more and more unreachable by those around him, followed by a come to Jesus moment. Hell, it even has a clean three act structure and villain (a dangerous influence that Mom and Dad don't understand and are powerless to stop).

It can't be a story about an isolated kid that memed too hard and needed to be see with his own eyes how retarded the people in the deep end are IRL.
> You want to have all your batteries inside trucks, working as much as possible, not sitting around stored at swap stations waiting to be used.

Batteries don't sit at swap stations just waiting to be used, they sit there charging. (The big difference is that the vehicle, which is also an expensive asset, doesn't have to be attached to them while doing this.) Stations will have the minimum number of batteries on hand to ensure there is always one available to swap in.

Insofar as you need extra capacity to handle fluctations in usage, leading to charged batteries sitting around, you have a a strictly worse problem if the batteries are permanently attached to vehicles (since vehicle demand fluctuations don't go away, and you have the additional problem that you can't remove batteries from vehicles that aren't going to be used for a while). Another way to see this is that swappable batteries is just an extra ability; you can always charge the battery attached to the vehicle if you want.

If you have a link to a technical argument for what you're trying to gesture at, I'd love to see it, but the argument you've given doesn't hold water. Arguments relating to the cost of the swapping infrastructure are at least plausible.

> and recharge times aren’t really an issue. In Europe, truck drivers are required to take breaks every 4.5 hours anyway.

In that case, there is no point to the overhead charging system discussed in the OP article.