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I disagree that everyone else does this except distributions.

Companies apply their own patches to projects all the time (as an upstream maintainer I've been asked several times to help debug a patch that some company has used internally). Almost every company using Linux has patches on top of it that are for their specific project (all versions of Android have a forked Linux kernel). GitHub uses patched versions of Git (though one of their engineers is also incredibly prolific upstream). And so on.

The reason why people think distributions are the only ones doing it is because we maintain all of the software that is available for a full Linux system. So instead of only having patches for just one or two projects, we have patches for (probably) ~50% of packages in our distribution (most are bugfixes but there are plenty of not-just-bugfix examples). I think some folks just like to bash distributions because no matter what decisions we make we're going to piss someone off.

But again, we don't apply downstream patches because we like it. In fact downstream patches are an outright headache because we have to rebase them on version upgrades and so on.
What's going to happen is the transformation of people believing that you succeeding in SPITE of hardship is no big deal since you got a leg up.

I truly loathe those who "help" the disadvantaged by lowering standards for them.
Ooh she spoke with a 15 year resident, at the pie shop, the twee pie shop that took over the flower shop that had been there for 50 years. I got mine, now everyone else leave.

And in passing she name checks Philz as part of her listing all that is gone is replaced by start up millions spiel. I’m not a fan of Phil personally, but thats between me and him. Whats interesting is the story of Philz. He had a corner store on a corner with 2 other corner stores. His wasn’t doing any business. Phil, I assume he’s an immigrant, rolled up his sleeves and went to work. He experimented with coffee and figured out the whole pour over deal. He got a good mention in the SF Weekly back when weekly papers were still vibrant. Word spread. I went to Philz to see what the fuss was. He had one pour over station. The store still had metro racks with canned goods and a cooler with soda pop. Phil made my first drink at Philz. The interesting part is how Phil turned a dying corner store into a growing business with backing. In the passing example of Philz by the author, she shows how shallow and superficial her article really is. She knows nothing really about Philz. She only knows he’s backed by millions. Philz is a classic american success story. And so are many of the tech businesses.
Ah, I understand. I was reading more into your statement than I should have. I'm a 50-something man and I often hear others of my general age complain about how hard it is to make friends, but they rarely realize that's something they can actually fix.

> The situation is much different when you have to find a babysitter for your kids to free up what little time you might have each day

Indeed! That was what taught me the real reason to arrange "playdates". It's not really for the kids, it's so that the adults can socialize with less hassle around babysitters and such.

But having children certainly makes lots of things more difficult. Mine are adults now, and I can tell you from experience that once the kids are off to college and beyond, then your social life can come back in its entirety.
I just re-watched first 10 minutes of Up-in-the-air to see if my hypothesis holds true. I wasn't as frequent of a flyer when I first saw it, but now I am even more convinced it's filmed by somebody who understands :).

It's about:
1. There existing a system
2. You understanding the system, thoroughly
3. You using the system, thoroughly

Watch: he walks through the metal detector at specific pace, with his body in specific pose, to reduce the risk of accidental set of. We all do it subconsciously, after a while.
He knows what's in which pocket. He doesn't fumble for ID, search for boarding pass, it's all always within subconscious reach.
He packs consistently, knows how many bins he'll need and how to unpack and pack for the security line. He has priority, status, pre-check, and everything else he needs. His demeanor is low threat, he obeys the requirements, and reduces friction efficiently at every step.

Simply put he doesn't need two hours of margin, and yet his risk is slim to none :>

[and this is why on the other hand,when I travel for vacation, I do need hours of margin:). The system is disrupted and efficiencies are lost]
I doubt that claim so much. Every Electron application I've ever used is seriously deficient in many ways. First every app has its own set of UI controls, so right there you loose one of the best things about native Mac apps, consistency. Next I've yet to find a single Electron app that doesn't break some core Mac feature such as copy/paste, system wide spellcheck, system wide dictionary, the emoji picker, system wide settings, scrollable area bounce, zoom, tabs, windows, menus, keyboard shortcuts, drag & drop, screenshots, and so on. Third every electron app consumes way to many system resources and almost all are painfully slow. But, hey I'll give Figma a try and report back.
Wow. If they really connect transactions and people by name that would be super amateurish. It just shows that no single entity should have that much data because the bigger they get it will be more and more likely that people will do stupid things. There is no way around it.
Kind of an interesting comment because growing up the comment I always heard from people was "Avoid fresh produce at Aldi" because it had a reputation for being bad.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? That bit of the title is the least interesting and least important thing to post about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thatcs actually supposed to be read as encouraging, as he said the guy did something better than him and in a shorter time. And thus he should feel less remorse than he does, which he doesn't. If that makes sense...
I'm a new member to Costco. I started describing Aldi as like a dollar store version of Costco. It wasn't and definitely isn't after the remodel: it's smarter than Costco on product side. It's like an evolution. That I can get more stuff from Aldi at lower prices with acceptable to great quality proves it. What Aldi is doing, selling products singles in cases, is what Costco should be doing in majority of situations. They're already doing a version of it for those special, treasure-hunt-style items like people describe for Aldi. A lot of them are way overpriced, though, compared to some upscale competitors. I'd adjust it to balance giving people brands they can brag about but aiming for more sales growth.

Also, I can't tell you how many times I'd have bought something at Costco if it wasn't a megapack, humongous size, etc. Some corroboration for my hypothesis in the fact that most of Costco's food doesn't move quickly in my visits there vs Aldi, Kroger, Walmart, Dollar General, etc. The latter stores have whole sections of shelves wiped out with lots of individual items going low. Stockers are usually all over the place stocking those isles with hardly any stocking at the Costco outside clothes and perishable foods. Even perishable they're mostly date or quality checking. Although it could be key to strategy, I'd like to see them at least experiment with smaller sizes on meat, bakery, prepared items, and common non-refrigerated.
>For truly complicated systems (like brain) accurate predictions are impossible for even short time spans. The only way to make accurate predictions is to have 100% exact simulation.

>But since the simulations is exactly the same as the real thing, that means you are not predicting anything, you are simply waiting for the brain to make its choice and tell you about it!

If rerunning the simulation will always give result the same outcome, wouldn't that mean that there is no free will, that the system is deterministic?

And how could any of the reruns possibly give different outcome?
> That said, that’s absolutely no argument for regulation. People should be free to entirely destroy themselves seeking short-term dopamine hits—if they so choose. It is staunchly immoral to impede them.

i could agree with you for individuals

but for corporations who are making money off of (and actively marketing) certain things (that indeed do harm people) i would say regulations should exist to at the very least mark thier products so the consumer is informed “this will most likely kill you if you take more than once a day” or “there are no proven claims in this product” etc...

after working at a few very large firms, i have little faith in companies being genuine about their products’s safety, and if one was to leave things to “the market” then being informed is the absolute minimum in my opinion... idk though maybe i am missing something...
I want to elaborate a little further because I thought this might be unclear if you don't really know what a catch-all adress is:

A catch-all adress is an adress where all emails of your domain that you didn't explicictly make a email adress for will land.

So if you own foobar.eu and you made catchall@foobar.eu your catch-all adress, you could just make up arbitray email adresses on the spot (e.g. shady-online-service-x@foobar.com) and all mails that are sent to that adress will land in your catch-all adress.

There are multiple cool things about this:
- you can just block that adress if it annoys you
- if you ever get spam and it is adressed to shady-online-service-x@foobar.com you know exactly who fucked with your data
- you don't have to disclose your primary email adress to stranges, you can just make something up.
Why do you assume that retail companies are not looking at data already? Target was (in)famously able to predict that a teenager was pregnant before she herself knew based on her shopping habits. It's entirely possible that retail companies are already following a close to optimal strategy (don't sell too many items at such a low price because they're a loss leader?).
One of the things that drives me crazy at our local Albertsons is that it is very expensive in general but they change the price (reduce to reasonable) every week on one brand per category. Result is one usually (4/5) can’t buy a favorite product without overpaying ~30%.

Hopefully Aldi doesn’t do this, I know Trader Joe’s doesn’t.
No screenshots as far as I can tell?
Which country? I absolutely would've tried to use this option if I had known it existed/if it was available.
So we need to correct the SAT so that the students most likely to be doomed to fail will be admitted to higher education?

To me it doesn't sound like you're trying to make the SAT reflect say academic potential. It seems like you're just trying to inflate the appearantly already inflated scores of the disadvantaged. Who will proceed to not get scholarships, fail out, and be saddled with debt they can't pay off or be discharged. This of course is the road to an egalitarian society!

Who needs to bother with difficult things like making the disadvantaged do a little better in school? Just add 100 points to their SAT. Problem solved.
Or it’s really a gift shop. Stuff that you wouldn’t buy for yourself but is kind of nice / high end looking and uncommon enough that your giftee probably doesn’t have it already.

Stores like these are great for buying small gifts for people impossible to shop for (they already have everything!) and if nothing else the items are usually optimised to be a talking point.
The recent shutdown of Google+ was another case of this.

As one of the people helping coordinate information among those still using the platform and hoping to migrate off of it, discovering the Archive Team's GoogleMinus project this past January was a huge boost. That ended up being the largest archival project undertaken to date, 1.6 PB, and succeeded in capturing 98% of all G+ profiles, now stored at the Internet Archive.[1]

While it had long been obvious that the project was ill-stared, the shutdown announcement came as a surprise, and Google's tools, communications, and support for both individuals, and far more importantly, groups, looking to continue their existence off the platform, was abysmal.

I don't fault Google for killing the service -- I was suprised it survived as long as it had. I do fault Google for how they did so. And that episode was hardly the worst in history.

One of the lesser-known parts of G+ were its Communities. In the process of the shutdown we came to realise that there were over 8 million of these, about 50,000 with 1,000 or more members, of all descriptions. Many frivilous or worse, but many also not. And all stuck in a very hard spot by Google's actions.[2]

Even preservation of individual data does very little for groups, and is one of the issues we're considering in the post mortem of the G+ mass migration, intended to be of use to others.[3]

________________________________

Notes:

1. For those preferring not to have their content archived, the IA WBM respect DMCA requests, and as Google+ posts are all listed under the user's account, requesting removal is exceedingly straightforward.

2. Characteristics of number and size are collected here, compiled by me, based in part on on data provided by Friends+Me: https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Migrating_Google%...

3. Discussion at Reddit and elsewhere. Compilation at the PlexodusWiki.
https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/boa97x/g_migratio...
https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/G%2B_Migration_Po...
These are not "graphical proofs" in the sense of pictures that suggest patterns in mathatical relations. This is (or can be) a formal graphical language for (a branch of) mathematics. Like any formal language it's not self evident how or why it works and needs to be rigourously defined.
Cannot drive yet but can do AI
mwahaha! Americans encountering our unfiltered, brutal, German efficiency ... you better start learning how to pack your groceries at the checkout at German speeds ... see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LfkwjJdITA
see: https://freight.amazon.com/

also: https://ship.amazon.com/
10k you mean? Although it sometimes feels like people have smaller brains just lately, too...

It’s plausible that early humans broke into the “success through smarts” niche by a sudden expanded brain mutation that left them with a horrendous birth mortality rate, and that since then selection for mutations for smaller heads (and thus better birth safety) has been very strong (though hopefully not as strong as overall selection for intelligence- essentially evolution finding ways to pack more into a smaller space.)

Those huge Neanderthal brains were just the clunky and unstable Minimum Viable Product; ours are the more refined version.
Why should financial aid help people who can afford to pay sticker?
...with JS disabled.

The list of sites I have whitelisted JS for is extremely short.
yes, from what i've read, it costs roughly $400K per unit ($440K is actually the number thrown about) in the metro areas of california (whether it's affordable housing or not). that apparently includes the direct building & overhead costs, land, building code compliance, regulatory costs, and the costs of legal and bureaucratic delays.
If it's not the _worst_ solution, it's pretty close. When you're really sick you should be resting, not working.
Creator claims Lenovo stole foldable Moto Razr video it played at a press event
I'd like to see the math behind the orbital parameters here. The most I've seen is one million Earths in a single system[1], and so I'm curious how you could get a few orders of magnitude more.

[1]: https://planetplanet.net/the-ultimate-solar-system/
This must have been a fun place to work at. I did a lot of work on the Newton during that time and it was super exciting how the industry developed.
The Future of Microprocessors – Sophie Wilson
Does leaving Gmail matter if all you're doing is switching one third party with another? At least when Google is doing something wrong, it makes the news; with others you might never find out. (And for the people repeating the "if you're not paying, you're the product" - it's quite possible to pay Google, too.)

The only sure way would be to self-host but that has its own considerable headaches.
$1 is cheap.

Free is author offering knowledge for free.
Yours are probably just heating. Theirs are cooling
It's not exactly what you want but I have made a little software that is a sort of mix between Inkscape and Geogebra in which you can define a lots of shapes geometrically (https://www.ludigraphix.org, recent show HN : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19942367)
A non-scientist tries to read a Science paper
Lost Your Passport? For Americans in Austria, Any McDonald’s Can Help
The HP 50g RPN graphing calculator is the best calculator ever made. Unfortunately they moved on to make the HP Prime, which is vastly inferior.
I am sure there are more you just don’t know about but pen computing in the 90s was super exciting and fun. Maybe 3D printing is in a similar state where the little guy still can make a dent.
I have met Fabien a few times at work, he is a lovely human being. I don't want to be too presumptuous and speak for him, but I don't think he cares about making a profit from this. He just likes to write and wants people to read and enjoy his works.
You don’t need a quarter, just something quarter-sized. Google “shopping cart coin keychain” for examples.
I don't understand why people don't have a problem trusting Google with all their information (as is the case if you use Gmail).

Even if you ignore the privacy implications and the fact that it's a company whose business is to target ads, there is still incompetence. Case in point: my YouTube history regularly gets mixed with somebody else's. I get videos watched by a child that likes Masha and the Bear and Peppa the Pig. Reported to YouTube a number of times, they seemingly ignored it and don't care.

I turned off my history, but I still get recommendations for Masha and the Bear.

Now, that purchase history of yours, who else gets to see it?
What's the worst thing Facebook can do to me?
Sell me shit I don't want?
That's nothing in comparison to what the government can do to you.
> "The impact on full-time undergraduate and graduate students under the age of 24 went largely unnoticed until the waning weeks of tax season."

I disagree. So many Phd. students were complaining about it. I guess it has hit them hard.
Don't forget --warc! :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive
There's no conflict between state and federal law.

Immigration law a federal responsibility. States don't maintain national borders.

California isn't contravening federal law, they've made it unlawful to use California-funded networks to enforce federal law.

Federal law enforcement officers are violating California law, currently with impunity. Seems to me if you believe in the rule of law, then you shouldn't support law enforcement breaking the law.
I have a lot of similar thoughts about Slack and also had the idea to go head to head with it a couple of years ago. I partnered with a PHD researcher who had expertise in the area of focus.

Before I started building I launched a paid sales campaign to see if people would be interested with a mocked up website looking like we already had the product. I had a lot of website visitors, but nobody signed up for a demo. Not one person. At that point I realized that whether or not the product was a good idea, I didn't know how to sell it, so I ditched the idea, deleted the test website and moved on.
OK, we've replaced the title with the top photo caption (shortened to fit the 80 char limit). Those are an underappreciated source of more specific titles, though in this case it still doesn't really cover the whole article.
> Will there be an EPUB version?

> EPUB doesn't let us set a minimum length. EPUB also doesn't have line-folding glyphs. We are unlikely to release an EPUB or MOBI until they offer some way to deal with this problem.

> What big tech publishers do to get around this problem is embed low resolution jpegs of the source code in their EPUBs. This is a terrible solution and we will not put something out that does this.

> There's an e-reader formatted PDF which, on the 4 or 5 different Kindle models we've tested or seen it on, works great. No scrolling, no zooming in and out. Just works. Page turn your way through. For now, we're not going to release an EPUB.

http://haskellbook.com/faq.html
That’s the standard, not the exception, for PhDs. Which is why it’s not really “those cases” that should be earned income - its the entire category.
You need to go through process to be declared emancipated minor. You need to not be declared as a dependent on their taxes.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/student-loans/fafsa-gu...
It can give your information to the government. Now it's as bad as the government.

The argument isn't that strong though. I admit it.
I think they know exactly what they're doing. Those soda deals are usually loss leaders, i.e. the store takes a loss on every 12-pack they sell, but make it up in all of the other stuff you buy now that you're in the store.

If they can get you to come into the store and not buy the soda, that's a great outcome. Of course, if that happens too often, you'll stop going, so it's a balance. They've probably figured out how much to stock to maximize profits -- which might seem nonsensical if you were thinking they were trying to maximize soda sales.
Dumb question, but what defines a supercomputer? I would say EC2 is a supercomputer too, which is effectively computing The Internet live.
Yes but fucking with the metrics costs almost nothing. Does almost nothing too.

It can even backfire by sending a bunch of disadvantaged kids to programs they're not prepared to succeed at to "help them" get saddled with college debt they can't discharge.
To cut drug you have to face the downtime. To not cheap on human rights if one look at it that way you have to do something. To avoid china domination of internet, 5g, sea ... you have to do something.

It is hard for all of us agree. Especially started by an orange. But it is now a common consensus of us think tank and politicians,

China is really a problem one has to deal with. Can chinese in china read hacker news btw.
Back in the mists of time, I used to use wwwoffle proxy. It was great for low-latency links, but also had the benefit of keeping an offline archive of whatever you'd browsed.

Project's still there, although not sure how well it does with the modern web.

http://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/wwwoffle/

There are a bunch of more modern variations too:

https://archivebox.io/ - "Your own personal internet archive"

https://getpolarized.io/ (as seen on HN previously)

https://github.com/kanishka-linux/reminiscence

https://github.com/fake-name/ReadableWebProxy
It is not 10 miles bumper to bumper, but in that 10 miles you will see very many apparent vehicle residences.
College education is likely not the primary route out of poverty. That medal would likely go to the military right now, and I hope I shouldn't need to mention the myriad issues of having an entire class of citizen whose only potential route out of poverty is by joining the military industrial complex.

Everything that you mentioned otherwise comes as a result of universities designing for-profit over for-education. Because they have to attract the people with the deepest pockets, which means resort-style amenities. The easiest way to solve this problem is to just make college free and give people the choice of going the traditional route, going to a technical school etc.

If people want to get a college education, they should be able to.