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Next-Gen Xbox Scarlett Announced: AMD 7nm, Ray Tracing and 8K Support
My father use to always use this sentence:

"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."
I would imagine it’s more due to subsidies.
I believe WordPress, at least the admin interface, is essentially an SPA.
Small guide to making nice tables [pdf]
It is possible to not be in a review or aware and still be responsible if you instill a culture of fear and instruct your team that the plane should keep flying whatever the means.

I don't have any information whatsoever to say it happened at Boeing, but saying you were not aware is sometimes not enough.
To be fair it should last for four years, as that’s how long the keyboard replacement program covers it for. I’m not aware of any other critical flaws, although repairiability of this generation is probably quite bad overall.

Whether it will last much more than 4 years I’m not sure, I’m not that confident - could be worth mashing some biscuit into the keyboard just shy of the 4 year mark to get a replacement ;)
I want more transit too, but I think transit faces the same effect - add more capacity, and if there’s demand it will fill the capacity. Plenty of very very built out transit systems in the world that are constantly pushing full capacity.

But I think a difference is that since car traffic tends to get inefficient when congestion increases (traffic jams, etc) its a pretty inefficient way to handle large amounts of traffic. You can just fit so many more people onto a train than into personal cars, and they don’t gum up in the same way. Plus, it’s conceivable that mass transit capacity can be expanded to match demand, with sufficient investment, whereas we already devote like 60% of the land in our cities to cars and it’s still not enough.

IMO people will use any method of transportation up to the point where the pain of using it overcomes the value the person gets out of making the trip. The pain can come from operational issues like frequency of delays, fare cost, proximity of stations to destinations, ease of transferring - but can also come from overcrowding

I think that there ought to be increased transit but also much much better utilization of the land that transit goes to. It makes no sense that if you ride BART, you’ll notice that for all of the stops except for those in the most central parts of SF, they shuttle millions of people into giant parking lot wastelands with no shopping and few apartments. Make the stops worth going to and living in! You’re already sending people there and having people live nearby work reduces their transit usage.

If you like that idea, tell state senators to call for a vote on SB50 today. It got blocked undemocratically but that’s the best shot we have for well utilized transit stops in the foreseeable future.

https://twitter.com/kimmaicutler/status/1130497688581967872?...
> don't know, #cryptowinter makes me feel warm inside, and for Uber I only wish it happened sooner :)

What did you mean by this?
One of my post-grad friends was involved in environmental research. He was open (but disappointed) that if they didn't come up with the "right" conclusion there'd be no more funding from "Big $Foo". You may be tired of it, but that's not going to make such blatant conflict of interests go away.
Like those factories and workers would just disappear. Something new would be established, hopefully something better. We can't keep looking away when companies behave like Boeing did, actively killing people, only because we would put people out of work.
And we never found out what happened to Paul :(
TFA doesn't seem to expand on the opening claim that it's 'potentially disturbing'.

I think it could be great - better funded by 'power users' than by tracking and ads.
There are lot of non human terrible things happening, like viruses or earth-quakes, this is not a free will thing, do we blame the devil? or do we blame the humans and say that God is teaching them a lesson, or we say that the people that suffered will get rewarded in the after life and we don't even try to explain the nature because God knows better.

I dislike the fact that if something good happens is God fault, he made a miracle, if something bad happens we find someone else to blame.
> Make companies responsible for securing that data, and make it _expensive_ if/when they get breached. Make storage of personal data "toxic", so companies will _only_ keep it for the minimum amount of time required for whatever use it was gathered (where only companies like FB & Google, and to a lesser extent Amazon would admit to themselves that it was collected for the express purpose of creating a historical record of individually identified PII).

You're assuming they won't just mitigate the risk by spending more on securing the data and then still keep it all and hope their security is enough to avoid getting pwned.

Moreover, many smaller entities won't even bother with trying to secure it and then just hope it doesn't happen to them and declare bankruptcy if it does. Some of which will just have had no idea the liability even existed to begin with because they don't read HN and didn't have the money for lawyers.

The solution to this is better when it comes from the demand side. People should refuse to give this information to these companies; then they won't have it and can't use it for anything nefarious. So the question then is how to convince people of that.

Certainly a good first step would be to eliminate any existing rules that require companies to collect this type of information on people.
- And wear sunscreen.
Everything that makes Hong Kong unique will be erased and whole of Hong Kong will be crushed and incorporated in the CCP into greater bay area.
The sub-$3K flagship era of the Power Mac G5 and original Mac Pros is something of an anomaly.

Apple actually was able to maintain this pricing for entry-level Power Macs and Mac Pros from 1999 (I haven't checked earlier prices) through the 2013 Mac Pro model. Here is a list of prices I compiled:

Blue and White Power Mac G3 (January 1999) -- $1,599 ($2,453 in 2019 dollars)
Graphite Power Mac G4 (December 1999) -- $1,599 ($2,453 in 2019 dollars)
2001 Power Mac G4 (January 2001) -- $1,699 ($2,453)
2001 Quicksilver Power Mac G4 (July 2001) -- $1,699 ($2,453)
2002 Mirrored Drive Door Power Mac G4 (August 2002) -- $1,699 ($2,413)
2003 Power Mac G5 (August 2003) -- $1,999 ($2,776), reduced to $1,799 ($2,499) in November 2003
2006 Mac Pro (August 2006) -- $2,199 ($2,787)
2010 Mac Pro (July 2010) -- $2,499 ($2,929)
2013 Mac Pro (December 2013) -- $2,999 ($3,289.83 in 2019 dollars, but you can still purchase an entry-level 2013 Mac Pro today from Apple for $2,999 in 2019 dollars).
it is possibly to respond in your own time but not really practical in the flow. im is pretty much the same thing as chat now days. the flow of conversation can go fast.
Can you develop in which way this is supposedly worse than for say the hp laptop of my wife that ran out of warranty after 1 year without official removable battery parts sold by the manufacturer?

Also touchscreen start to literally fell off after 2 year, but can’t tell if it was weak design or if my wife was careless to be honest.
Remove China from the numbers and Pinker and Goslings points pretty much disappear. Both aren’t a secret, they are well known and criticized a lot for their use and abuse of numbers.
Bay Area quality of life isn't great. Endless strip malls, hardly any culture vs Europe. It's pretty shit.
Well, when first plane crash, and the second one, they blamed the pilots ...
I wouldn't be so certain Seattle is truly different. It's called the Seattle process for a reason.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_process

Honestly, I don't know why the transit politics are working so well here. Partly because Sound Transit has been unusually courageous for a political entity. They have successfully stared down the two richest areas in the region Bellevue and Mercer Island when faced with opposition.

Maybe it just comes down to propaganda. Quite a bit of money was spent to market ST3 to voters. Which is the most recent and most expensive transit oriented ballot initiative.

The whole time there has been a tremendous amount of work done to oppose the improvements. Many in the area will be familiar with the near constant efforts of Tim Eyman to defund transit projects

You might chock it up to uber lefties in Seattle but other liberal priorities have not faired nearly as well on ballot initiatives.
This. The one problem is a lack of a solid networking library. Unix sockets/winsock is ancient and terrible with tons of corner cases, Boost ASIO is creaky and "boosted", other useful things like 0mq are good for IPC but not Internet. Qt eats the world and is a pain to integrate. Libevent, libev etc. are not C++ and still pain to integrate.
Maybe there is some library that is lesser known but good.

As for time to develop, besides networking, C++ wins, even for hack projects, in comparison with Python even, JS/HTML/CSS w/ framework stack being far slower and making for terrible UX. (I'm not writing about languages I do not use.)
Java and C# can be fast too, but it hits the limits when you actually have to calculate things which gets real awkward real fast.
The main win is... Tooling. Java tooling is best now since maven and ant are mostly gone legacy, then C++ (I'm counting Qt Creator and Glade, cmake is eh, cmake+something is ok), then finally JS tied with Python. JS fails terribly on debugging and the creaky rarely adaptable UX libs, while Python after all these years still has tooling issues. (Plus performance where it matters.)

Rust is not there yet, maybe soon. Scala is nice though fewer people can use it than new C++.

Honorable mention to specialized tools like R, Faust, Lua, Matlab and Fortran. Note they integrate well with C and C++... Try anything else and you're in for a ride. Even second most supported, C# and Java, go through a C FFI layer.
I am surprised there was no mention St. John’s College, in Annapolis and Santa Fe. Its entire 4-year program focuses on engaging students and tutors alike in these life questions.
You can’t compare it like that as the calculation is different. If someone eats a small part of their meal or the whole portion doesn’t change the outcome for the restaurant. They can’t sell the rest to someone else, if someone doesn’t use bandwidth someone else is going to use it.
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If food prices drop, won’t farmers make less too and hence lower income?

Maybe I am not understanding the math properly. Food is cheap in the USA because we import them from poorer countries where labour is cheap. And we also consume a lot. This benefits the exporting country. But if we were to produce our own food, the local production won’t be cheaper.
More important than "the execs believed all planes have the feature" is that the claim after the Lion Air's crash was that at least these companies which did pay for the "extra" would be able to not fly the dangerous planes, as the technicians would discover that one of AoA vanes is not working while the plane is still on the ground. But that was also a lie (from the NYT article):

"“We were told that if the A.O.A. vane, like on Lion Air, was in a massive difference, we would receive an alert on the ground and therefore not even take off,” said Dennis Tajer, a spokesman for the union representing American Airlines pilots. “That gave us additional confidence in continuing to fly that aircraft.”

But in the last several weeks, Boeing has been saying something different. Mr. Tajer said the company recently told American pilots that the system would not alert pilots about any sensor disagreement until the aircraft is 400 feet above the ground."
Pretty sure the comment you're replying to is talking about development time, not compile time. They're claiming it took months longer to develop a similar app in C, not that it took longer to compile. Even if compile times are negligible now for the reasons you state, they still have a point about it taking longer to develop an equivalent app.
I'm wondering why you need so much power in 1 machine for DCC work. Wouldn't it be better to have a relatively cheap model, and when you need to Render, to farm it out to a cluster of computers?

For example, they claim the beefiest model will be 4x the old Mac Pro. But at what cost? $10,000-15,000 for maxed out system? How many cheap PC renderfarm computers can I get for that? How many cloud rendering instances could I rent?

To me, it's like they "listened" and built a Bugatti Veyron instead of a Ford F-350. The people wanting an upgradeable workstation are not looking for a max-out computer off the shelf. They simply want the capability to upgrade it over time or modify it according to their needs. In particular, for rendering 3d workloads, it seems renting cloud computers is far more scalable. If I am time limited, I can easily buy enough power to render 20x faster than this system in a crunch.

This seems more like a vanity project.
Ask HN: Flutter or Electron for cross-platform desktop app?
HN citizens, can I get some advise on what should I choose - Flutter or Electron to build a desktop app that I am required to support all three major platforms - Linux, Mac and Windows.

I am equally skilled on Dart as well as CSS and JavaScript.

My main objectives are - build a secure desktop app that stores data locally as well as protect the source code.
Convicts being able to be employed is likely a net good for society at large. There are also countries where asking whether someone was ever convicted of a crime is not the default and they are fine.
Graviton: A Minimalist Open-Source Code Editor
Nah. I played it before Monkey island and have never played manic mansion. I remember being addicted to it right away and thinking it was hilarious. I remember having to load about 10 floppy discs sitting next to the PC. Good fun.
Happy Birthday BGP
I felt the same but found axios to be trust worthy.
Off-topic, but I came here to say that my long-standing fear just came true about the word "crypto"; namely, that I totally misread it in TFA as meaning "cryptography" - which is of course what the term always used to refer to - and honestly forgot that it might refer to "crypto-currency" until reading your comment.

I knew someday that would happen! I made up some story to myself that comments in TFA about "#cryptowinter" and "FUD in the community" might refer to communities losing confidence in cryptography techniques after too many companies getting hacked. Out of touch, I know, to not be aware of that hash-tag. O_o

I really hate that we have another meaning of "crypto" now so that misunderstandings like this can happen often. As programmers, we know how important naming is and how costly it is to create confusing collisions. Cryptography is too important of a concept in tech for us to not have a clean word for it. smh
> It still costs them the same for a day of my work, whether they slow me down or not.

Yes, and they know it too. People often value your attention more than your productivity, and with good reason. Think about how many meetings you've been in and steered somebody clear of a trap just because you were there. Or how some input you give from meeting with the CEO could impact the direction of the company. Your attention is probably more valuable than your productivity more often than you think.
A paid Firefox version would be great. Companies often have less of a problem buying software than donating to another entity, so adding features that are primarily of interest to companies might be a good way to earn money.
Can you link to the site where he says this?
Ah ah ah !
How can one says that in 2019, and even get listed on HN ?

Couldn't laught so much ...

IM is as useful as any other tools, just in right place (how on earth would like to have an inbox full of smalltalks ?

I mean you always need a hammer, but not to use with screws ;)
But the density is being suppressed by zoning limits on building heights, parking requirements, mandated road improvements to handle additional traffic, and a building permit process that is heavily influenced by NIMBYs. Pass SB50 and watch the upper peninsula become viable for subways.
What?! Please excuse my disbelief but I'm an old Linux veteran from the era when we typed M$. ;)

Where can I find this? I assume somewhere in the 1060 repos of https://github.com/Azure

I also assume that even though it's open source, it requires licensed MS Windows servers to run.

Still though, this is just another nail in the coffin of the OLD MS image.
So break off the civilian plane division and kill it off. No reason to hurt all 100,000 employees, just the division that was responsible. It sucks to hear “sheesh I wish there were more competitors” after Boeing just kicked Bombardier in the Crown Jewels for daring to compete with the C-Series, which is only an Airbus product now because Boeing took advantage of the US political system in the first place (a severe miscalculation in retrospect).

Monopolies aren’t capitalist. Monopolies keep putting us in uncomfortable situations like this. There’s a reason we have regulations to keep them from happening (or at least break them apart post facto) even if we choose not to use them.
The 2012 Mac Mini was the high point of the Mini. Strong hardware, decent prices (I think I bought mine for 600 Euro), very serviceable. RAM was replaceable by removing the cover on the bottom (no screwdriver required). Replacing storage was a bit more work, but definitely easy for someone who has built a PC.

The Mac Mini 2014 showed the Apple to come: an overpriced, non-serviceable slab of metal.
Half the workforce in webdev has an average work experience of 5 years or less which leads to self-sustaining generational churn in this area, and a whole industry of bootcamps and fizzbuzz-style questions handed out to employers and webdevs alike. Being hellbent to deliver webapps regardless of fit is no progress, and will hit a wall as customers and regulators demand power efficiency.
Any thoughts on price of it?
It is hard to do the things you love when you aren't wanted. Setting aside the statistics for a moment, imagine being a teenage girl and overhearing boys talk about how girls are dumb. Brainless machines of no consequence. That women can't code or contribute much in fields like math. "They just don't have the brain for it."

These moments stay with you and they impede you at moments when you need to be free. They push you away from being the best version of you that you can be.
A New Metal Foam Is as Bulletproof as Heavy Steel Armor, Researchers Say
Not everyone has the freedom to make arbitrary lifestyle changes either, if they don't make economic sense. This isn't about only taking action that's available to everyone. It's about each of us doing all that we can.

Forgive me if I misread, but you seemed to exclude monetary contribution as an option on principle, not out of poverty. What principle?
The biggest question for me is what we are gonna do as professionals in the coming "long winter."

We have not a single project for a "tech" brand in the pipeline, we are only now learning how do tech projects for complete industry outsiders.

Not so few have some tech expertise, but they are all strangers to ways of the industry. They all have own ideas where tech goes in their business model, and I can't say that all of them are "amateurish" or not thought through, I'd say some outsiders were better at running tech projects than some de-jure "insiders"

I bet that it will be all about ability to get more tech business outside of tech industry for us.
A simpler solution would be to use SRC for the individual files for which you wanted versioning.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/src/
Along these lines, I don't have any words for my younger self, but I would probably thrash the hell out of him with my fists until he stopped being such a brat.
All of this really depends on the work environment.

> I so truly just want to clock in, clock out, work about 40hrs/week and have time for my family.

Some people I worked with at HP did just that. Maybe try large, corporate environments?
Depending on the price point, I can imagine myself paying some non-zero amount monthly just for the peace of mind of supporting the existence of a Mozilla browser.

Although there isn't much information, I can't see myself really wanting/using any of the premium features personally, though. Unless they can reliably replace Dropbox or my password manager. Also, I feel they'd likely be making a mistake by putting any useful future core browser features which emerge behind a paywall (and that's going to be a constant temptation).
Does it seem more believable that when Cisco and Huawei had a dispute about what code was duplicated they picked an absurdly unqualified engineer or Cisco, one the world's largest router providers, has a highly optimized and specialized strcmp built out for their routers? The second seems way more believable to me than the first.
That's great news! Can't wait to vote for FF with my wallet.
It'd be nice to hear what the experience of running a Blackbird with an AMD GPU is like, as a primary machine.
No, all these services need my identity in order to offer me services that i want/need (my blood analysis results, bank account including cards/loans/leases, IRS, DMV, etc. Basically everything that is tied to my real identity and should be seen/accessed only by myself).
I am not from US so just using IRS/DMV as comparable examples. Third party ID providers or Government ID provider returns only my name and personal UID to all these services.
This is a pretty great approach, I agree. My version does not offer you a way to easily use multiple repositories.

I will probably have to use this approach at some point as my config continues growing.
Wouldn't someone like you be better served on a 32 or 64 core
Threadripper workstation then?

I assume there's I/O bottlenecking in there somewhere, but for the rest, surely you're not 100% pegging all 16 cores all the time, but more parallelism would still benefit you to a certain extent... While not costing $6k+ for a base 8 core machine.
German is a bad example, "fett" means "fat" in both senses of the word. But still, people don't care so much about nutrition in general over here.
Yes, that is true, but most WordPress sites are hosted on a cloud provider.
Just learned about GNU stow. It's a very useful tool.
Found this tidbit interesting:

> We have repeatedly commented on Mozilla's precarious funding situation. According to Beard's answer in the interview 90% of the organization's income comes from search - i.e the royalties received from companies like Google and Yandex for including their search engines in Firefox. From our report on its 2017 balance sheet, the latest year for which it has published its accounts, Royalties amounted to $539,168,000 of total revenue of $562,279,000, which is around 96%.

Anything to lessen that reality is probably a step in the right direction.

In agreement with others, can't wait to vote for FF with my wallet (even though I might not use any of the features).
Remember the joke of “never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 full of hard drives”? That’s the render farm. Throw a ton of work at it, and it’ll get done faster than a big single machine could. What would have taken a week now takes a day.

The Mac Pro in our analogy is 5G wireless: not nearly as much bandwidth as the 747, but at much lower latency. Lots of interactive/real time applications are possible that in a farm would be bottlenecked by network bandwidth alone.
Why did you not defer going to college for two years?
This is good stuff but in one case at least - jobs - add to your list the need to perform background checks during the application process, which does require an actual identity verification.
When you consider the costs associated with running, say, a proper VPN or cloud storage solution it doesn't seem unreasonable to offer a paid plan.

Supporting Firefox and getting some perks normally associated with other paid services sounds like a win-win to me.
Yes, apparently I was wrong. Thanks for the additional data.