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Did you read the original post? Its about distributions providing themes, not users who tweak their desktops.
Epic video by NileRed trying to make transparent wood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1H-323d838
I am surprised Jocko Willink's books aren't on here. His book on leadership, Extreme Ownership, is excellent. Intertwined are stories from his time as a Navy Seal leader and applications of what he learned there to the business world.
I agree that he is not a journalist and the charges are serious, but the legal case here feels weak to me. They should have just let Sweden have him.
> library/framework choice is the most critical thing one must do

This is officially trolling.
We know it is facebook's job to censor "stuff" because they already do it. Can you put a nude photo on facebook? No, because they censor it. They are already deciding what we get to see and what we don't.
Yes, quite seriously - I go to worship most every week, annual session most every year, am on several committees, including the one that does memorial services. There are actually a few computer people at our meeting.

Having a spiritual practice really helps keep me grounded. Keeping it relevant to the article, it's something I would recommend.
Google Pulls the Plug on ‘Project Campfire,’ a.k.a. 'AltOS' Mode
I liked that about v1 as well, but it seems like they have brought it over to v2 [0]. Trying it on a v2 project it only seems to have one commit for everything up until the first clone?

[0]: https://www.overleaf.com/blog/bringing-the-git-bridge-to-v2-...
Is it still flammable though?
I can't see anyone cladding an apartment building in flammable material, especially not after the Grenfell tower fire.
No bail-out, but a lot of tough decisions. Selling assets or subsidiaries in some countries, building JVs with erstwhile competitors (EE in the UK, a purchasing JV with Deutsch Telekom, etc). A lot of cost-cutting (Lombard’s number 2 at that time was Louis-Pierre Wenes, whose initials stood everywhere in the company for “Lowest Price Wins”). Almost no hires for more than a decade. In 15 years, the company went from 200k employees to about 100k (I don’t have the exact figures), mostly through not replacing people leaving or retiring. This is coming back to bite FT, as they don’t know how they will replace the ageing workforce who manages the telephone infrastructure: schools don’t teach those techs anymore, it takes time to hire and train apprentices, and most of the ops teams will be retired in the next 5 years (these were the guys and girls hired in 1980 to build the network)
> Meaning isn't binary and "system-search" could mean many different subtly different things depending on the application and the context.

Actually, "system-search" is always "The icon used for the “Search” item in the desktop's panel application.".[1] Admittedly that makes it a bad example because an application generally doesn't need this icon.

> For example, what happens when there's system searching element that needs to be in visual proximity to a magnification, zooming or loupe-inspection element?

Hopefully, the application uses the standard icons. The user might have difficulties distinguishing idiosyncratic, unfamiliar icons.

[1] https://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-nami...
> You cannot translate this digital phenomenon to that physical phenomenon.

I agree, they aren't the same in that regard. The expectation is similar, that's what I was trying to say. When people make a crude joke or call somebody an asshole on Twitter, they don't expect that to be read by everybody.

Somebody compared a public post to standing on a soap box. If you're standing on a soap box, you expect what you say to be heard publicly. I believe that's primarily because you usually don't stand on a soap box, so being that exposed really stands out. If everybody stood on a soap box all the time because the floor is lava and soap boxes are heat resistant, that would quickly change and people wouldn't associate a soap box with "public". The early days of social media certainly had that, it was new and everybody was acutely aware of it. That changes with exposure, now it's no longer an outlet to let the public know about your opinion, it's a chat where you talk one on one or in small groups (for most users, very few have large followings and get a lot of visibility) to friends and strangers alike. Having some tweet go viral is the equivalent of some reporter overhearing your private conversation and mentioning what a vile person you are in his column.
> The end result with U.S. policy is that maybe you end up with a different (often more democratic) regime.

I believe the Iranians would like to have a word with you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9...

I am looking forward to understand from you which part of your

"For imperialism, the result is a country under the political control of a different country, or giving up its resources to another country."

does the CIA sponsored coup against fledgling Iranian democracy not fit.

> No, you're the one conflating the two. The end result is different.

... like pressuring India to loosen its standards for agricultural seeds so that US companies can flood the huge market with theirs that have germination rate of 65% whereas the indian minimum standard was high 90%. Free trade when it is beneficial to US companies, protected if not, or else regime change.

... like forcing India to remove the separation of investment banking and consumer banking. These dont look any different from forcing ones way into markets and access to resources that they would not have achieved otherwise.

... like locating dangerous chemical plant with safety mechanisms deliberately omitted to cut cost that otherwise would not have been possible in their own country and using that to post higher profits (at the expense of locals bearing the brunt of the Bhopal disaster).

I dont perceive the difference that you are trying to point out. Unless you really believe the point of the ladt iraq war was spreading democracy, if you buy that I doubt we would gain much by a conversation.

EDIT: I am intrigued that this hasnt been responded to for an hour whereas responses were pretty quick before.
XXIIVV, a digital playground and personal logging system
Sorry, do you have an example of a "large media group" "selectively editing" a video to make someone look drunk for the purposes of propaganda? Anything equivalent?

This sounds like a clever attempt to "both sides do it" a way out of actually admitting that this video and its pushing by a bunch of partisans (right up to and including the office of the President of the United States) was awful.

You agree this is awful, right?
Can you give an example that's on the scale of Pelosi?

Trying to take myself away from my own biases, perhaps you can say Trump but coming from the executive branch you could say he's not that comparable, also people on both sides have called him outrageous.

More direct comparisons would be Paul Ryan, Boehner, Newt Gingrich. I didn't see them getting Pelosi-scale smearing.
> There does seem to be a weird user-hostile school of GUI design and I would really like to know where it comes from, so that we may try to mount a re-education effort.

The Web. It comes from the Web.

Web development has this bullshit school of UI/UX design that prioritizes branding, dark patterns, and treating users like toddlers, at the expense of making the software functional and usable. Since we all get industry news from the Web, the Web patterns are the most well-known, and they pollute desktop software development too (doubly so when desktop software is nowadays built as webpages bundled to a browser runtime).

It's not that the Web school of UX is completely wrong; the problem is that it mixes ergonomics with a whole range of tricks designed to make the software more popular and more sellable in spite of the utility reduction they cause, and then sells the whole bundle as "scientifically validated" and "data driven".
Have Democratic presidents ever tweeted/emailed/promoted/sent out doctored videos that make their rivals look bad?
Canva Security Breach
Well, there's not a choice anymore - everyone HAS to go and see those other hundred monumental cathedrals, after Notre Dame went up in flames a month ago...
Hmmm well I hope it's not noticeable because starlink is planning 24 orbital planes with 60 satellites per. With that it's safe to say you could see up to 50 or so of them in a night due to the constellation pattern. That's a lot of flickering and moving light in the sky when coupled with AWS' initiative also. I'm hoping your right but at first glance it doesn't seem great.
I know! Let's try and photograph some satellites with a potato on a bright city street! And for extra fun, make sure that we position the potato so that there is a street light shining directly into the lens!

Quality astrophotography.
I haven't done a write-up yet, but my partner and I use MIDI as part of our custom lighting setup, which we bring to gigs and other events. A MIDI controller is hooked up to a raspberry pi running some Python software. We use the `mido` library for decoding MIDI. We then drive a bunch of RGB LED strips using DMX. Video: https://www.instagram.com/p/BtjLSUeFjtJ/.
New Twist on AI Evolutionary Algorithms in Neuroscience
Bill of rights doesn't apply to US citizens outside of US as well.
It is always deeply ironic to me that unpopular sentiments about censorship are routinely censored on HN (the parent post is getting downvoted, which is censorship here)
How to End the Child-Care Crisis
Not only that but it was a phish not a spear phish. They sent the same phishing email to tens of thousands of people. It was just a generic common phishing operation. Only thing notable about Podesta was he asked his tech guy if the phishing email was legit and his tech guy said it was and he should click on it and sign in.
Gratifying but mostly forgettable and infused with advertising also describes broadcast radio and TV.

I remember back in the day one of the biggest concerns was how we could prevent the Internet from becoming like TV. We clearly failed, at least for the popular use case.
For comparison, the relevant excerpt from the Iliad (Fagles translation): https://home.ubalt.edu/ntygfit/ai_01_pursuing_fame/ai_01_tel...
> My computer is not your billboard.

It's also not the distro's billboard, but you seem happy for them to impose their branding upon your desktop, even if they break functionality.
I did.

Two things to consider:

- Distributions are users

- Users may choose a distribution that suits their desired aesthetic

Not everyone who wants a custom desktop aesthetic is technically adept enough to undertake the customization themselves, or perhaps they simply don't want to expend the effort. That's where distributions come in to assist.
The gain falls off as the RMS surface roughness becomes a fraction of a wavelength; see figure 1 here:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1007.4600.pdf

So it would be interesting to see how that effects it. I suppose a crystal fractured along the lattice for an atomically smooth surface.
> most large media groups are propaganda tools for their own political side

No, most "large media groups" are not.
> Its a massive amount of state aggregated from billions of events that needs to be served at extremely low latency, but couldn't it be partitioned somehow???

The bidder/pacer state is not necessarily massive, and certainly it does not consist of all the gazillions of past events. Depending on the strategy/bidding model, it can range from a few MB to several GBs, something that can fit in a beefy node.

> Google Fi/Spanner and BigTable have certainly been developed to support these issues.

I doubt any external store can be used with so low latency constraints (2-10ms) and high throughput (millions RPS). Perhaps Aerospike but even that is a stretch to put it in the hot-path. At this scale you're pretty much limited to fetch the state in memory and update it asynchronously every couple of minutes/hours.

Source: I also work in ad tech.
That clause can only be used to upgrade something that is already a federal crime on its own.
This is similar to how a metal box blocks radio waves, and how x rays can still penetrate it.
Higher Social Classes Have an Exaggerated Belief That They Are More Capable
Standards organizations should not be dragged into political disputes.

(not to say they don't have enough politics of their own)
This.

We accepted that bugs are fact of life, and instead of burdening the engineers with fear, we reduce the scope of damage through data: we use canaries, experiments and monitoring to limit the damage and react fast.

Going against human nature as a result just slow things down. The other benefits to above setup is engineers are less afraid to make mistakes and are willing to try ideas more since it is now very cheap to try them

There are times when you need to be more thorough such as medical devices, space programs, and so on as they might risk human life, but for the most part you will go really far with above

Disclaimer: current google employee
There is more explanation here[0], would have linked this instead but HN couldn't figure out the #anchor URL.

[0] https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#about
Looks as though body counts are back. Not an encouraging sign for getting this mess cleaned up. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_count
Good tutorial for Latex?
Shooting a journalist because you think his camera is a gun means you did not exercise reasonable diligence in identifying the enemy target and are still liable for the death. If someone goes to a playground and shoots the children there and says they thought they were armed robbers, it isn't accepted as a defense.

The pilot came back for and shot a guy in a van who was taking his two kids to school. He had stopped to help the reporter.

Anyone watching the video can see the kids in the van. That the pilot didn't proves he was criminally negligent.
Anyone who uses a DSL is a programmer. Another way to say that "DSLs for non-programmers are a hoax" is: Good DSLs make programming easy enough that people who aren't otherwise programmers can successfully program.
Reading that article, do you think that her quotes are used fairly in each case? The article repeatedly tries to read between the lines, accusing Wolf of "implying" a number of outrageous fact patterns, but I'm not sure that her posts actually imply any such things.

She states that SITE received a US government grant (true), that similar US government grants have been used to fund disinformation (almost certainly true), that the New York Times relied on a single primary source instead of sending an investigative journalist to do on-the-ground investigation (true as far as I know, but feel free to correct me if I've got it wrong here), that the US has history of militarizing Africa and empowering African dictatorships (true).

She also points out that, given the quality of the videos, if they were fake (which she doesn't not assert or even imply to my eyes), then the work can have been done by just 4 people. And thus, the responsible act for a serious news gathering outfit is to confirm the authenticity of the video instead of assuming it is real on the US government's say-so alone. I hope we all agree on this. It's not like these videos are cryptographically signed by a known keypair belonging to ISIS. Real journalism means doing the hard work of confirming the provenance of pieces of media - even if doing so might require hypothesizing that a piece of media is fake and working to disprove that hypothesis.

Finally, she points out that calling any organization "evil" in passing, in an otherwise dispassionate news article, is not in keeping with the traditional editorial style of the New York Times. This is also true as far as I know, unless there is a standard for "evil" defined in unpublished style guide.

So for Vox (or anyone else) to jump all over the road about what she implied by pointing out these truths is not particularly relevant.

I also can't help but notice that these kinds of smear pieces against her started just as she began to embrace some of the more effective and sane libertarian movements in the US (eg, her high-profile appearance at New Hampshire Liberty Forum). I assert that much of corporate media (and the ecosystem that relies on it) is unable to properly contextualize figures who cross political lines and form alliances that don't fit neatly into a right-left narrative, and that this often takes the form of painting these figures as extreme or unhinged.
>For most of us, they easily soak up far more time than they save, capturing our attention dozens of times daily, and directing it to gratifying but mostly forgettable activities, usually infused with advertising.

I suspect this to be one of those things we all think everyone else is doing but that very few people are actually doing in reality. Frankly, all time I spend on my phone is actually valuable, or at least not better spent doing anything else, and I think it's the same for most people.
That's perfect thanks!
This is my interpretation. Usually bad devs I've worked with will mistakenly keep things DRY by reusing code in a bad way, for example modifying existing classes to handle cases they were not meant to handle. The most primitive example is reusing a function because it does 80% of some logic and then adding some bool flags to make it do something a bit different. Instead one should always abstract things and extract reusable bits, but only if it makes sense. But more often than not, lazy or misguided devs will see a similar piece of code and try to reuse it by modifying it to add new behavior, because "copy/pasting is bad".
Reminds me of a speech rms gave about programmable editors. Money quote:

"
Multics Emacs proved to be a great success — programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program."

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.en.html
The counterpoint would be Visual Basic. It was meant for non-engineers/managers to be able to write programs, but that never really happened. It was always easier for a manager to write an email 'I need an app that does X' than to write the app themselves.
Disable Javascript and you too can surf the WWW like it's the 1990s!
>Social networks are centralized attention monopolising machines where sophisticated algorithms work to manipulate users.

That's not true for WhatsApp though is it? It's just messaging + forwarding, not unlike email.
I don't want to be a full-fullstack developer
How to Unit Test React Applications with Jest and Enzyme
I really enjoyed Extreme Ownership especially the story about the BUDS team leader complaining about always losing because of his team, him being switched to lead the team that always won previously, and the team that kept losing making a comeback.

Great book about leadership and entertaining.
Phishing our email is extremely low on the scale of “bad” things governments do.

Personally, I am much happier with intelligence agencies collecting information remotely than supplying weapons and overthrowing governments etc. In relative terms releasing accurate information is just not a major issue.

So, my concern is people take issue with this not because of what happened but because of the country that did it. And if that’s what’s going on, it’s the continuation of some very dark times. I have genuine concerns about what’s happening to the in Russia, but I think we need to judge their actions in absolute terms rather than let bias spiral.
Towards Neural Decompilation
Haha, good luck, usually the project is "agile" and experimenting and pivoting and "we'll know it when we see it" and only 7% of people are actually clicking a button so let's redesign those screens and so on.
> It would need a good synthesis engine plus samples which consumes much more CPU than reproducing a MP3.

My 386 could do a decent job running DOS trackers (software synths) years before mp3’s were feasible on PC hardware (there was not enough storage, bandwidth or compute for MP3’s).

The Kosmic Free Music Foundation published a ton of music on one CD-ROM this way:

https://archive.org/details/KOSMICD1.tar
Not so. A person can get a complete range of essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals by eating a balanced and varied diet (which includes plants and animal foods).

Some diets, including a standard american diet but especially exclusionary diets like vegan, vegetarian, keto, carnivore/paleo diets can have major nutrient gaps. Those types of diets require careful planning of meals and/or supplementation to address gaps.

Magnesium isn't hard to get. Vitamin D and EPA/DHA are easy to get if you eat animal foods (esp fatty fish, liver, cheese and eggs).

Probiotics is a vague category and hasn't been shown to be necessary in a diet. Medical science understands so little about the gut-biome that you should be extremely suspicious of anyone claiming to be an expert. The advice usually boils down to general platitudes like,"Fermented foods and fiber feed our gut bacteria and is good for overall gut health." without defining what any of that means or how it works. I guess other animals/omnivores that don't eat fermented foods or fiber must really be undercutting their lifespan potential.
This is because in the real world audio always arrives late compared to images. Our brain is trained to compensate.

Personally I start getting annoyed when the delay is above +200ms or under -50ms.
The video Orange man posted on twitter wasn't doctored. Media has changed the definition of doctored to suit them. It was edited to show only relevant parts but there was nothing fake about it.

Why not let media show the original so called undoctored version?
There are well over a thousand operational satellites in low earth orbit currently, plus I don’t know how many dead ones. Have you noticed those?

They’re only visible for about an hour after sunset, since the satellite itself still has to be illuminated to be visible.
Thank you, the design you described look natural to me, but I don't understand how this reduces the complexity coming from having lots of objects.

If I understood you correctly, repository abstraction hides only one object - a Cassandra or MongoDb repository.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not attacking your point (in fact, I think we most likely would agree on almost everything), I just don't understand what you mean.
To be honest, the guy looks like he's physically wasting away before our very eyes.
There is OSC, which I think is under appreciated. It's super easy to implement, it's literally just UDP.
I used LaTex in college, to typeset all my essays. I also used it in my creative writing class, and people were amazed that I was able to add line numbers to my work so we could easily discuss it by referring to line numbers! I'm pretty sure I got better grades in all my writing based classes based solely on the fact that I used LaTex to typeset my work.

The last time I wrote a resume[0] I used LaTex to do it too, and I provide the LaTex source[1] on my website. I've seen bits of it show up in other people's resumes, which is exactly what I want to happen! But what was funny was how often people would say "boy this looks so clean and professional!". Pretty sure I got some interviews just because of how "pretty" my resume was.

[0] https://www.jedberg.net/Jeremy_Edberg_Resume.pdf

[1] https://www.jedberg.net/Jeremy_Edberg_Resume.tex
Thanks for the reply. I will admit I live in a bit of an atheistic bubble, so it’s interesting to hear a different perspective, especially from someone as incredibly accomplished as you.