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Certainly a good question. I would say I understand the knee-jerk reaction because there are many who trumpet their choice to not have children as though it's some kind of merit badge. "r/childfree" for instance on reddit is one such place where this sentiment is rampant, along with some weird kind of child hatred/being happy when children are unhappy. I think if we had a conversation you would see that I bring up my perspective (and I only do so if the context comes up) not to chide people or feel better than them, because I'm not. My intention is purely to make some small contribution to raising awareness of what our exponential population growth is doing and will continue to do to our planet. The end goal is for people to have one additional shred of a thought before they have a kid. Not to feel guilty, but just to give a micro-second of consideration to the planet and its other inhabitants' wellbeing before adding another human to it. That's it.
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the real answer is to create your root partition as an incomplete raid1 and then pair it with a zram block device. then make the disk write-only with mdadm. you get instant reads and writes are saved to disk.
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It's not just the headline. The whole article is written with a FUD spin. The actual information about the results is presented in a very cryptic fashion , making it easy for news outlets to write "OMG Tesla hacked" articles, and circulating their name and their product in the process.

This is exactly the reason why I despise PR.
How does relaying on Overtime reduce costs? That's just an invitation for workers to indulge in Spanish practices.
Oh wow, thanks. They must not have covered that topic in all of the Economics classes I took in college. Thank goodness you were here to regurgitate the definition of such a basic concept to me on this fateful day. I will be forever grateful.
Both Shopify and Kickstarter are on Rails.

I wonder why Github didn't join the private Beta?
Psychology. When companies make moves to mark groups and projects as different in some way, it's not really that important what the mechanism is. It could be something objectively cheap and superficial, but still end up being a critical factor in moral and dynamics.
Ask HN: Solo founder but have a team of 4 people, Will YC accept?
I've been working on an idea and developing an MVP. I was never able to find someone with the same level of dedication and enthusiasm as me.
So, I have hired ~4 people (sales, engineering) to help in areas where I'm myself not good. I've offered time-bound equity to these employees (Work for 'X' years with me and get 'Y'% equity).

I'm looking forward to applying to the next batch of YC. But, have heard it strongly insists upon having multiple co-founders.

What are the chances of my idea getting accepted in YC batch? I'll have a good enough team and MVP ready but not co-founders.
I'm a 47 year old programmer who doesn't think a revolution is yet to come because I actually think programming is far more creative in nature than we can ever give to a machine.

Not that there won't be tools to assist the human programmers, but the robot uprising will never occur until we can at least answer the very basic question of why will the robots care, and how exactly, in some non-hand-wavey fashion, will they get creative about solving novel problems?

Consider this: You can write a genetic algorithm maker which will randomly iterate through all possible abstract syntax tree morphs and then run a test that evaluates whether the code "performs better" as a solution to some given need, and eventually you might strike upon some novel way of solving a problem through pure randomness. But here's the thing: The ultimate arbitrator of "what is better" will always be a human and the ultimate agent of "need" is a human as well. Machines just don't "need" things, like a faster way to ray-trace so your videogame open-world simulation is more immersive, or even a nicer GUI, much less a better way to make money... People need all these things, and people evaluate whether the machine reduces those needs. Machines DNGAF.
fuuuck

> Anyone whose data was affected will receive a 12-month credit monitoring plan, paid for by Desjardins. That service includes access to daily credit reports, alerts of any changes and identity theft insurance.

> "I want to be really clear," said Cormier. "Our members will be reimbursed [for any losses they incur.] There will be no cost to our members."

Not bad.
Yields are the main barrier to single pieces of silicon that big. You have a certain chance of getting a defect per square mm of you chip and as they get bigger the chance of a bad defect gets higher and yields go down. Often they'll occur in a place where you can just disable a core or bank of cache and still sell the chip but not always. So yield rates tend to go down as chips get bigger. Also larger chips make less efficient use of the wafer.

Economically, there aren't so many people looking for 1000 cores that it makes sense to put in the NRE to assemble a giant package to put all of that in versus just selling a system that can have multiple sockets. Cooling limits also make spreading out work across multiple sockets a better choice.
> Bundled, minified, and gzipped

Why gzipped? Bytes of source is a fairer comparison. Parsed source code should be the comparison, not transfer time.

> HelloWorld doesn't use much, so it'll be small, but most component are not HelloWorld and most applications will not have only a single component.

Then why dare other to compare sizes of a Hello world example? :-)
> We used `params` because Method#parameters was what they called it in the standard library

Super interesting. We should probably have being consistent for naming parameters vs. arguments in stdlib. It's too late though!
Thanks for pointing that out! I think we made the wrong call too. Will and I updated that bullet to strongly recommend recovery codes, and note they provide an acceptable usability/security tradeoff.
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To me it smacks of constructional reasoning, in the sense of fabricated a justification to support a pre-conceived narrative. As a prompt to investigation or a search for evidence, ok, fine, but on its own it’s just a conspiracy theory.
If we have all these federal programs now, why are there people that are food insecure in the United States now?
This documentary contains rudimentary information and applications about bubbles - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Ub_r_GFZY
The same host had one on the same topic from the BBC I can't find, it was also great. BBC docs are very often very well done. Never overproduced or reliant on useless special effects.
I guess temporary shares (like in Instagram stories or Snapchat) could be a good trade-off between the desire of 15 minutes of fame and privacy. Future social networks will probably put an emphasis on this.
Secure is obviously a very wide term but as an approximation you can look at how much exploit vendors will pay for an exploit, assuming higher price = harder to exploit = more 'secure'.

On that measure Chrome wins easily: https://zerodium.com/program.html
> Kennedy

Glad to finally know that cancer actually has a name. Kennedy made me stop using Google Reader and the GMail web UI.
The article:

> That employee has been fired. He was arrested by Laval police but has not yet been charged.
”Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind."” ― Kurt Vonnegut
The way we value ownership may be something to think about. I'm very capitalistic, but I'm not happy. I'm reading "tribe: homecomings and belonging" (subtitle paraphrased due to poor memory).

I am a millionaire and I am thinking about how to use it to build a community, and while I dont think we should use force to take wealth, I did believe we need a new leadership class to inspire and influence how ownership is shared.
I've lived in several HOAs in the past, and yeah, they can be a pain. But in my experience, they are mostly concerned with not destroying the property values. In practice, they're only interested in stuff that's egregiously stupid. (Say that crazy old lady with the weird, creepy Halloween decorations including the beheaded baby that stay out from Labor Day to New Years.)

Plus, it's easy enough to avoid HOAs.
The economist just had a really fascinating interview with parents of extremely gifted children. Apparently many of these types of children start obsessing over this grand parade and it can become quite debilitating for them.
They were doing this stuff in high school then?
I'm starting to suspect that you share the same shitty beliefs yourself.
> over the long term on average home prices don't increase.

I assume you mean adjusted for inflation here? Even then that hasn't been true.

The problem with renting is that you're still paying the mortgage, only in the renting case you're also paying the middleman who then pays the mortgage. This is why rent per month is higher than mortgage per month for the same house. So the returns from that downpayment you instead invested need to make up for the monthly loss in rent, plus the lack of an asset at the end of the process.

It's not a small difference either. My current mortgage is $1250/month for a single family home. 13 years ago when I was renting the rates started at $1600/month for a tiny studio apartment unless you were willing to commute an hour each way. Rents have gone up in the meantime. You need to be making some baller returns on your downpayment if you're going to beat that.

This comparison isn't entirely fair because the rental unit also included maintenance and groundskeeping. In my house I have to do all that work myself or hire someone. However, in the rental unit I had to pay for the utilities. This is a problem because the landlord will never replace something like an AC unit or a refrigerator with anything but the absolute cheapest and most expensive to run model. In my house when I replace it I have the option of buying the high efficiency model and enjoying the cost savings over the life of the unit. Plus when something breaks in my home I just fix it or go out immediately and hire someone to fix it. In the apartment you have to contact the landlord who then sits on it for two weeks before contacting his maintenance guy who only comes by once every couple of weeks to look at it and then order the part so maybe he can fix it on his next visit. In the meantime I'm freezing my ass off with no heat for all of January. I don't miss renting at all.
Good point - I shouldn't have said "don't care" about the criticisms - "don't mind" is a lot better. The Chinese government need more reasonable criticisms.

As for "anti-Chinese" vs. pro something else - if I may, that's a false dichotomy. There are a lot more commonalities among people from mainland Chinese/Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau than differences (practically none if/when the human race rises above this nationality bullshit). Ethnically speaking >90% of the population from those places are Han (there is an uncomfortable undercurrent of (at times reverse) Han chauvinism that I won't go into). I couldn't find (after searching through a couple recent HN threads) positively voted comments that are anti-Chinese so people and mods are doing a great job. OTOH, even downvoted and flagged posts are still representing opinions, unpopular as the content might be. Or maybe I am overly sensitive.

As for Huawei, I don't have love for any Crony capitalism or Plutocracy. They are doing some good research work though, and people working there are still people.
Hah! Well thanks. I think the idea partly came from Cormac McCarthy - was it No Country for Old Men? The protagonist has a dream where he and his dad are on horses at night, and the dad rides ahead, into the "darkness," and is waiting for him to follow.
That is like spraying perfume in a stinky room, it might work short term though. Good solution is to clean the stinky room :P

Jokes aside, I don't believe any amount of laws/hacks can completely fix the issue, they sure can help. The attitude has to change. There is more to life than work, money, titles, corner office etc.

The saddest part in all of this is a large part of the workforce has nothing to show for all those long hours they put into work. It might be a tiny bit comforting, if they at least got something in return for their hard work. They've been brainwashed into thinking "at least I have a job" :(
That's correct. I am currently considering upgrading from my 13" 2013 Macbook Air to a 15" 2019 Macbook Pro (I want it for the IPS/bigger display) and I noticed this while I was testing it at Bestbuy.

Personally, if I make the purchase, I will probably just remap the Caps Lock key to ESC - assuming I can remove ESC from the Touch Bar.

The one thing I didn't care for is that the Touch Bar display can time out. I would personally prefer that it stay on - or at least have the option of it staying on.
Companies that use Rails have also started working on https://github.com/chanzuckerberg/sorbet-rails, worth checking out!
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Oh very traditional in heavy engineering, I know one industrial relations expert who told me, when a big turbine was due for delivery suddenly the tools and screwdrivers would get suddenly heavy and every one got very tired.

Until of course the brown envelopes came out then as he said even the tea boy got a grand - this is mid 70's btw.
High home prices are often a symptom of easy money and inflation localized to that sector. (Specifically, the houses described in the article seem to be poster children of this type.) That was the whole 2008 thing, right?
We were in school (computer electronics class) and we had two machines on opposing sides of a row with this installed. Granted, we had other games and stuff installed too, but the highlight was when two people would man these particular computers and use it to trash talk the person on the other side. The voice was so bad it made the whole experience more comical than it was insulting.

Good times with bad software.
It doesn't have much to do with being male- that's the point! It has to do with the roles men are expected to play in society, and how "being a man" is culturally defined.

Of course men have children too! Again, that's the point- to a significant degree, the "normal" family- where culture defines what's "normal"- consists of a man who works and focuses on his career, and a woman who takes care of the kids.

So when they talk about toxic masculinity, they're talking about norms. In this case, it seems GP's point is that society considers it more acceptable to expect men to stay at work for long hours than it would for women.

This isn't anything intrinsically male - these are external, social pressures that might influence that CTO's view of a male employee who leaves "early" v.s. a female employee who did the same.

That's the thing so often misunderstood about the term "toxic masculinity" - it's not about what it means to be a man, it's about what society at large expects men to be. It's about stuff like men being expected to be more stoic, and the negative outcomes that can result- things like men not going to the doctor as much and suffering negative health outcomes from treatable conditions as a result.

That said, in this case I think GP is overreaching a bit. A male employee who replied to the CTO's remark with a laugh and a "Got to get back home to my kids!" would probably not raise any eyebrows.
Agreed. Strangely the reply button was missing when I went to reply to the other comment.

I'm claiming that humanity should not be held so supremely important that in the name of blind procreation we should be displacing and bringing to extinction other forms of life and potentially bringing the habitability of the planet for all life into question.
I don't see the difference in impact of a laser vs. this setup. If anything, the laser is far more effective, because most cars still have human drivers, so you'll have many more targets in the same span of time.
Where did GP say the CEO was a man?
That's a pretty unintuitive use, since "sigil" is more commonly used (in programming languages) as a single symbol, as in a non-alphanumeric character that's used as some kind of syntax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_(computer_programming)
It is important to keep always in mind that Wilde had been born into a world of talk. The sound of human voices – vital, informed, humorous, provocative – flowed around him from the moment of his birth...

This is such an odd truism. It is like saying a young chef's early life was redolent with food, or that a young interior decorator was born into a home filled with furniture.
Bingo. I live in a “constitution carry” state in flyover country. Currently on travel in a heavy gun-control state that looks like a documentary on the opioid epidemic. Can’t wait to get back.
"o tempora o mores" as some famous bloke once said. The world is going to hell in a handcart - or words to that effect.

It really is so sad to hear about yet another iconic species shuffle (with unseemly haste) off to oblivion.
A single laser can be pointed at many eyes. If anything a laser has a much bigger scale than this setup, since most cars are human driven and you would have a lot more targets in the same span of time.
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Not just 30 in this region, its 30 of this subspecies.
Maybe this isn't the right thread for this, but it really bothers me what home IoT has become. The "connected home" should be designed solely for people with disabilities who can't see a thermostat or don't have motor control to work a lightswitch, and if it happens to be cool and trendy, that's a bonus. Instead it's this convoluted mess of many walled gardens for software engineers who don't get their fill of technology at work and want to keep working at home. Smart versions of fridges and TVs are objectively worse than non-smart, just a ploy to collect and sell data. They require tons of work to maintain and become disposable when the company moves onto a new line.

Thankfully I'm not handicapped and can use non-smart appliances, but it'd feel pretty bad to not be able to and have this kind of ecosystem as the solution.
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And you reset the password after you find out about the leak- but that may be a long time or even forever after the leak occurs, so with only a password, you more vulnerable.
>The well-meaning bureaucrats aren't out there to take away your freedom. They're there for all the other people - people who aren't anywhere close to being perfectly rational market players engaging in fully voluntary exchange of goods.

I never claimed to be a perfectly rational market player engaging in a fully voluntary exchange of goods. Any human claiming to be fully rational lacks a healthy amount of introspection, and we're almost all faced with the prospect of starving if we don't partake in the exchange of goods. I want choice despite these shortcomings, and I don't have any desire to deprive others of choice if they're less rational or more desperate during their decision making processes.

>History teaches us that if the market can get away with unsafe goods, not only it will, but those goods will become the only thing available to people without lots of discretionary income (i.e. most of the population).

If those goods are banned, the alternatives will cost more. Who am I to tell somebody who can't afford a car with airbags that they shouldn't have the option to buy a car without airbags? You rightly point out the wretched state of the world with dispossessed masses of people, but then you deny those dispossessed masses the ability to make their own decisions about what to do with those few possessions they do have.

Edit:

> I might not like you telling me which tradeoffs to take, but I would appreciate if you were able to take some of the things forced on me and turn them around, or at least back into real tradeoffs.

Cost saving quality cuts are a real tradeoff -- they make goods and services available to those who would otherwise not be able to afford them.
Just in case you don't have Python :)

I got a tad fed up with having to remember the line for Python, Node and Ruby. This one works as long as you have bash and curl.
There will always be people who either fall through the cracks or just simply people who are bad at managing their resources. I don't know if there is any real solution to fix that.
That would be nice but NVidia got in legal trouble with x86 patents when they tried to do that with their Project Denver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver
Every lease I've seen has a provision that allows the Landlord to kick you out if you are deemed to be a nuisance.

IIRC there are renters rights in many areas that make this more difficult, requiring a court order typically, but not all areas have this and Landlords will put those clauses in the lease regardless just in case the tenants aren't familiar with the law.
The article is getting edited live. It was not in the article when it was first posted by OP but thank you for pointing that out!
This how you win elections now? Ban stuff?
https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js

Plus remove all the http(s) references to mozilla and google servers in about:config in your user-overrides.js file...and then tweak everything to taste.
At what point do people take ownership? What if governments as we know them today are replaced by trillion dollar AI/robotics corporations that litteraly own the means of production? We'll all get very cheap goods and services, but at what cost? You're now beholden to a megacorp that provides food, housing, entertainment, transportation, and employment. Sounds pretty dystopian to me.
Only if you were forced to liquidate before the rebound. Even if you bought at the absolute peak in ~2008 you'd still be way ahead today.
It's a pretty standard alt-right tactic online. When the topic at hand doesn't suit their worldview, manufacture inflammatory content until it does.
Flexport is hiring software engineers in Chicago and San Francisco
Don't you think market share is a factor?
> However, "Like, uh, their purpose." is grammatically and semantically meaningless

How can something be grammatically meaningless? Further, because you're not able to understand the semantic meaning of a phrase does not mean it has no semantic meaning. I don't understand German--is German semantically meaningless?

> I am all for using a more casual voice

> I am against colloquial, spoken styles slipping into written word

Are these not contrary to one another?
I know identity theft is not a joke, but (I'm too lazy to check how does it work in Canada, this is for the US):

• Under most state laws, you're not responsible for any debt incurred on fraudulent new accounts opened in your name without your permission.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/pdf-0009_identitytheft...
The agency cost of any landlord is much larger than the savings in capital cost. For example, for a tenant there is an incentive to complain over the smallest problem instead of fixing himself or just living with the problem. Management agents charge a fortune to deal with these issues.
Perhaps this thinking on UBI isn't bulletproof, but when you recognise the distribution of wealth is so concentrated, at the very least this is a great beginning to start thinking outside of the box in terms of how we approach Human Rights.