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Stats on Godot's Growth on GitHub · Issue #30000
> most software is now free

Is it?
The intellectual fidelity on Facebook may be a symptom of the non-linear presentation of posts.

It is like organizing a library, by dumping all the books into a pile. It increases engagement at the expense of efficiently finding information.
The two hard things in computer science are naming things, and cache invalidation.

Remember; the computer could quite literally have been completely reconfigured out from under the BIOS. Testing that everything is the same from the computer's point of view is anything but straightforward.

Also, most recognizable boot time isn't spent waiting on BIOS and POST; it's spent waiting for either the boot loader, disk encryption, or the OS to spin up all the background stuff (graphics stacks, session managers, HAL's, message busses, desktop environments, network services... etc) it needs to offer for fulfilling the particular purpose the system is intended for.

Computation is amazingly fast, but by no means either free or magic.

Everything takes time. However, I make no excuses for Windows: They had 3-5 second boot nailed for a while. Then, they done bloated it to the point of unrecognizability.
Except when you need to buy something online.
Stories of viral growth and failed startups of a young entrepreneur
Apologies. I was so focused on explaining common sense and advocating my basic human rights that I missed your straw man. I regret the oversight.

My cheap, fast credit comes from my high earnings, high savings, and low burn rate. I receive zero benefit from Equifax (et al). They, however, benefit from my data.

My data is me. Anyone profiting from my data owes me my cut.

Further, aggregating and warehousing my data is done on the expectation of future profit. So, again, I should get paid.

AKA royalties and licensing, respectively.
Bill Gates on Startups, Investing and Solving the World's Hardest Problems
Fair, but it's still interesting to understand why they feel compelled to publicly hew to scientific fact, but leaders in the US do not.
Messages on Rails Part 3: RabbitMQ
And this is news why? The NYT has become a treasonous rag. If anything thinks major state sponsored cyber attacks are not being carried out between world powers they're either ignorant or having been paying attention. To call out the US like this is a sham. How about the NYT times writes about the cyber attacks carried out by China, Russia, Iran, NK, and more?
I will switch to Firefox as soon as Workona creates an addon for it, similar to the one that they have for Chrome.For whoever doesn’t know it yet, this is an awesome productivity tool, which changes the way you use the browser.
> Many scientific experts don't believe that enhanced technology can be the main solution. True, technology can be a part of the solution, but changing our values and life habits are much more important.

Are you sure these are scientists? Because this sounds a lot like an ideological belief, not a scientific one. I definitely know a lot of activists who believe this.
> Warming is unstoppable, second order effects are already happening. Thinking that we can do anything about it is naive.

This is probably true. However, it is possible—if highly unlikely—that something could be done. This would involve effectively halting CO2 emissions in the next 10 years and massive investment in carbon sequestration research.

Is this likely to succeed? No, not really. But why on earth would we be spending our time trying anything else?

(Well, I guess we could be spending that time preparing for the coming changes. Which we should also do.)
Understanding FFT Through Pictures
The Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge Will Not Receive Security Updates
Which doesn't handle DSP and BRAM primitives properly, it can't even do packed Verilog arrays, there's no VHDL capability AT ALL, and it supports only extremely primitive Lattice parts (and "eventually" will support the Xilinx 7 series).

Great for blinkenlights. Useless for work.
Well, it is unlikely in practice because home access routers usually come with a stateful firewall. The important point is that that doesn't change when you remove the NAT. And that is important because people come to all kinds of nonsensical ideas about how IPv6 is dangerous or what you should do to make it less dangerous because you typically don't have NAT with IPv6.

Like, that you should use ULA and NAT with IPv6 so you don't lose the great security benefits of NAT. That is a completely logical conclusion if you believe that NAT provides security benefits. But it's just wrong.

And, yes, TR-069 is also a potential attack vector that you probably also should prevent in any halfway serious business context. Giving your ISP('s infrastructure) access to your internal network probably is not a good idea, no matter what the mechanism is.
We have simple norm at work lunch - no googling for answers! It does make conversation better.
I've been trying nightly as well. But it seems to sporadically reset all my settings whenever it upgrades.
For example the DoH was turned off again. And there are some weird settings like this: $$$apz.fling_curve_function_x1$$$ and it isn't editable nor deletable.
Your extinguisher vs firemen analogy is a good one IMO:

We need to do something right now, carbon sequestration fits there.

We also need to change our ideology, and our energy resources, if we stick a plaster (ie bandaid) of carbon sequestration on it now and assume that is going to fix it, that's where we going to get to the point where land usage is going to go up against that. We can't simply go on using carbon based fuels and just "plant trees" forever unless we also create a reducing global population ...

Sequestration needs to be at greater levels than current use, we shouldn't allow rich people to go on 'using' by only sequestering to counter current usage.
But why is this seemingly different in western Europe?

Another theory : if you live closer together you have a more visceral understanding of how you depend on the good behavior of others.
Yes. And while we humans deserve every bit of suffering and pain on our way, it really gets me that we will take so many innocent non-human lives and homes with us on that inevitable journey.
It is alive and kicking: deep learning with TensorFlow on VB.NET: https://github.com/losttech/Gradient-Samples/blob/master/VB/...
That's not the bargain you get with a startup, though. The bargain is that you bear the risk of the startup failing in the market and you getting zero, in exchange for all of the upside if it succeeds. With that bargain, it's rational to focus entirely on money, because you get all of it and you get none of it if there is none.

The bargain you're describing is a side project:

> And if you have no real business and just want to work on your own stuff and maybe make money later then that’s just a side project.

And you actually can take that bargain, if you have suitable qualifications - it's like being employed by a research lab of a big company, or an internal tech incubator, or an EIR position, or just being friendly enough with a VC that they give you seed capital to work on whatever you want. And yes, > 50% of big company employees, if offered that deal, would probably take it.

The reason why they're not taking it is because there're barriers to entry put up in front of it - a Ph.D in a hot field for research lab positions, previous corporate success for internal incubators, previous startup success for EIRs, and personal connections or pedigree for no-strings-attached seed funding. And the reason why you have those barriers to entry is that this deal is not economically rational for the person fronting the money unless there's a decent chance that the person they're sponsoring will come up with something valuable during the time period in question.
And yet, not a single facility like that exists anywhere. In the US, Frace, Germany, and every other country with nuclear waste, attempts to built long-term storage have been stalled for decades.
Be careful: Facebook's best weapon in these situations (as has been done wrt "we don't sell your data") is for people to create arguments in the zeitguest that are easily debunked. They are relying upon off-the-cuff hot takes to emerge which they can shoot down effectively so by the time a real analysis of what they're doing can result in a cogent, irrefutable argument, the skeptics have already been "debunked" and they can move forward.

The absolute worst thing you can do when Facebook announces initiative X is, that afternoon, write a one-sided think piece based upon surface-level understanding and emotional appeal that does not methodically include counter-arguments pre-emptively to their inevitable response. With regards to Libra, this article fails completely to address the governance structure and the other fail safes involved to prevent the outcome the author mentioned. This does not mean that insolvency is not an issue, but it does mean that this kind of analysis will be weaponized by Facebook to deflect from more serious analysis that will be forthcoming after experts digest the whitepaper, plan, etc.
This "laser focus" would just drive up the cost of healthcare for anybody not on a cadillac plan.

Doctors need to learn how to exist in a world where there are a lot of patients who can't foot the bill for expensive toys.
>This just shows how shallow web programming is in intellectual content.

Not really, the same rule applies for a hell of alot of other things.

>And is that because other fields are merely more obscure, or because they’re actually harder?
It's simply because other fields don't have the same knowledge sharing culture and you end up having to use SciHub and doing the knowledge sharing yourself.

>Could one be a mathematician or physicist by googling things?

I think a number of fundamental cultural problems with mathematics needs to be fixed before this is viable for the broader population, but I do think it may become the case over time.
Things I learned making the fastest site in the world
Then we have a match: postmarketOS is the type of project that happily accepts code contributions ;)

Here is the big overview link of all sorts of things where people can contribute to: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Contributing

I suggest to familiarize yourself with the project first. That is, play around with it in qemu, flash it to a device if you have one or start your own port (porting is quite feasible, as one can see from the steadily increasing count of booting devices). Then work on what interests you most, and if you need some inspiration, take a look at the gitlab issues that are tagged with "help wanted". (Some are also tagged with "easy", which is obviously a good start.)
WhatsApp is the defacto "the phone" in many countries. They will simply add Libra payments into it, copying WeChat but on global scale.

Re: the author of the silly article, on of the reasons of the downfall of the West is that women were given (still fortunately limited) decision power about money.
His co-author, Hal Varian, has been Google's chief economist since 2002.

https://www.gv.com/team/hal-varian/
>An additional breach, according to one person briefed on the operations, targeted other computer systems that control Iranian missile launches.

Determining the effectiveness of a cyberattack on the missile launch system is particularly difficult. Its effectiveness could be judged only if Iran tried to fire a missile and the launch failed.

Okay, that doesn't make any sense. If an Iranian IT guy reads the NY times, wouldn't he just go reinstall Windows on the missile launch computers?
Decade of FPGA work here; thought the same thing.

Fundamental misunderstanding of FPGAs, presents no alternatives. Zero worth article.
I assume he was better than an average programmer, since he was responsible for designing Excel Basic at Microsoft. I think the very best programmers keep coding in their 40s and 50s, because there is simply nothing they could be better at. It's the "upper-middle class" of programmers, who often transition into new roles at around 40, because they no longer feel the progress in their careers. How many years can one spend being a Senior Engineer at Google?
Montreal is very different than the rest of Quebec.
Boycotts have never toppled an industry as far as I'm aware. In this case the beef or aviation industries could be targeted. They have only succeeded in small changes and when customers have very similar alternatives they can use.
Pro Tip: You can use most chrome extensions in Firefox. This is what got me to switch.

I don't recall if I used this but I am running all of the chrome extensions I had in firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...

Not to mention, their new side view feature is great to have reference and code on a single window.
As I recall, Kernighan and Ritchie in The C Programming Language admitted that C had "idiosyncratic syntax" (with lots of results on Google and I'll save time by not searching the book itself). Then C++ used that, and C# borrowed some of it.

The .NET version of Visual Basic, VB.NET, seems to be about as good as C# for getting at the .NET Framework and taking advantage of the "common language runtime" (CLR) but with more traditional syntax (Kemeny, Kurtz Basic, Algol, Fortran, Pascal, PL/I, etc.) easier to teach, learn, read, write, and debug. So, shock, I wrote the code for my startup in VB.NET! But, IIRC, there's a translator to convert at least one way between C# and VB.NET!
Funny, I always feel like HN has a fetish for nuclear energy as if renewables had not advanced in the last twenty years. It’s as if nuclear tech featured prominently in the science fiction of people’s youth, and they remain emotionally attached to it.
There was a long time where the 486 was the sweet spot before Pentiums were commonplace. I didn't so much run Win3x/9x but did have both OS/2 and WinNT i486 (desktop and laptop) machines with up to 66 MHz 40 MB ram before moving off them.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=chrome-7...
It seems like a counter productive strategy to advertise this kind of attack. Though it may benefit humanity by influencing politics domestically, letting the war hawks feel like something was done to quell the beating of the war drum.
Should Scare You More Than Terrorism: The Opioid Epidemic
> it's never late to start, especially if you are rich (relatively).

It is. It's too late to start. In the immortal words of Magnus Carlsen, Too weak, too slow.
> But the sentiment of "do not touch any resource!" is irrational, and brings more harm than good, to the cause of using the resources we have wisely.

The point is that we should be assessing the impacts before we blindly use it and then later figure out "oh, this is bad". It's fucking 2019. We need to evolve as a species, not keep making the same stupid mistakes over and over. We're garbage creating garbage. How about we make a measured analysis first before running in and wrecking everything? And why am I being downvoted for not wanting to turn our world into shit?

In any case, fuck all of you who think it's okay to ruin our environment just because.
I remember doing similar but to my own computers. I would install Linux over and over from those CDs until I finally got the right combination of software and configuration. Seems more than silly now. But I sure learned a lot!
Regardless of the controversy on the risks of nuclear energy, don't overestimate it's potential. We simply can't build nuclear plants everywhere we need them. We still mostly need a reduction in energy consumption and deforesting.
Yeah this article is terrible.
As an author, that’s my decision to make about my blog posts. My choice of pictures belong in my blog posts, much as my choice of chords belong in my musical compositions.

It’s a perfectly valid choice to write essays that are hyper-focused on just teaching the facts as efficiently as possible, but that isn’t some kind of universal rule that must be applied to all essays.

I personally don’t care for the popular “American Folksy” style of essay that is heavy on the author’s journey to learn the thing it purports to teach, but I wouldn’t dictate that nobody should write in that style.

There are no gatekeepers to writing words, just as there are no gatekeepers to writing code. That has its benefits, aand its hazards.
If implemented correctly, you’d have 2 generators cooking the food.
I think around 2016 was when I found it had become really difficult to find what I was looking for
Well, we are already engaging in eugenics like I describe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Study_Memora...

Just the means we employ of pushing birth control and abortion are more politically correct in our intellectual environment.
It's the silicon valley mantra. Grow for multiple years at a loss so you can be the first and biggest player in your business segment and instigate a monopoly, giving nobody else a chance to establish themselves. They all want to be the next Google, Amazon or Facebook.

I remember seeing a silicon valley VC, in an interview, saying that he wouldn't invest in a startup if he couldn't see a path to a billion dollar valuation. Of course, this guy has the right to his own investment strategy, but it also seems kind of idiotic to suggest that every business that can't have a billion dollar valuation is worthless. There are plenty of niche business out theres that occupy smaller market segments that the tech giants will likely never come into. Personally, I wouldn't say no to owning a significant share of a 600 million dollar business.
Unfortunately considering climate lag[1][2], feedbacks[3], and the fact that aerosols are actually cooling the atmosphere[4] it's safe to say that +2ºC is a given.

[1] https://theconversation.com/if-we-stopped-emitting-greenhous...

[2] https://skepticalscience.com/Climate-Change-The-40-Year-Dela...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_feedback

[4] https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/aerosols-a...
Your dad contacted the bank and told them to send you that.
I agree with you if you naively do that isolated, but if you play the political game you can get more value for your productivity (like becoming an ambitious manager’s secret asset and then riding on their promotion and just having they back you up when you skip a meeting)
Eventually but not immediately: https://www.quora.com/Can-a-dead-body-fart

"Definitely yes. Having worked as an undertaker’s assistant in my youth I have witnessed this at least twice. The odour is unmistakable and the gas (should there be any in the bowel) easily comes out when moving the deceased from the hospital cold slab to the coffin. I have not heard any sound but the foul smell is there - so yes."
If you have the ability to hack things like a missile control system, it seems almost wasteful to do it when there isn't an immediate concern. It's just a less friendly pen test: now Iran knows which systems they need to do a better job securing (or a subset of those systems)
Trump Tariffs Will Increase Price of Laptops by 19%
Every thread about AMP on Hacker News goes exactly the same way. It’s annoying, repetitive.

But here’s the thing: while I get criticisms about AMP for web, pretty much none of them apply to AMP for email. The author of this article keeps bringing up points about AMP for web as if they have anything to do with AMP for email.

AMP for email basically does one thing: it enables interactive emails without allowing arbitrary code. It is standard and other email providers can implement it. You’d think this premise would be popular on HN, but it’s not, all because people are still caught up over the effectively unrelated usage of AMP in Google Search.

If you don’t like AMP in Google Search, fine. I find it fairly annoying too, though admittedly once the URL issue is fixed it will probably stop bothering me. Or not at all, since I actually tend to use Duck Duck Go anyways. But can we stop ruining every discussion with this non-sense? It’s tiring, and I don’t even like AMP. It’s gotten to the point where saying something bad about AMP is probably the easiest way to hit HN frontpage with no effort.

(Disclosure, I work for Google, not on anything related to AMP. Seriously, I still dislike AMP.)
> Firefox just doesn't have nearly the security credentials that Chrome does at the moment

I think this claim deserves a justification. Not saying you're wrong but I'm interested in how to compare browser security.

(Counteranecdote: the HN-popular article [0] which explained the Firefox zero-day, mentioned in it's last paragraph a Chrome zero-day from March 2019.)

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-patches-firefox-zero-d...
Inevitably.
I'm far from being in the 1%, however the things I've done personally so far is

* Use public transportation to work (bus/train)

* Drastically reduced meat consumption from every day to
once a week. I still eat fish about twice a week.

* Converted part of my garden (my house is 150 square meters so I wouldn't exactly call it a mansion) to a vegetable garden.

* Make sure the food I do buy is produced locally, it is clearly marked in the stores. I buy honey and eggs from the farm right next door.

* When I do go to the store I walk instead of driving.

* I bought but have not yet received an electric car. Yes it's a tesla but I have a normal job and with the way taxes are structured here it's a very common car on the road along with other electrics like leafs, e-trons, kias, e golfs etc.

* Not travelling too far for vacations, avoiding air travel as much as possible. Recently I've mostly use air due to work, but there too I often drive/take the train 8-10 hours instead of taking the plane.

There is plenty more to do, but for me personally I can't just sit idle and you have to start somewhere.

And last I did not tell anyone to radically change their lives, I said I did so myself. But the more people that do it the better.
> "Facebook, the world’s least trustworthy company since East India Co"

We've got big oil ruining the environment, big pharma extorting folks on prescriptions, big defense's insane government contracts, big telecom working with the NSA, credit reporting agencies vacuuming up our info and getting hacked, wells fargo's account fraud and redlining, and HBO with that game of thrones ending...

With all of that, we're really going with facebook for least trustworthy? :)
Another article about this posted/discussed a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19535119
The earth was once covered in forest and the carbon was beneath the soil.

Planting a tree reverses some of the damage done by deforestation. Bt reforesting the earth would not restore things to how they were. As the OP said, that only happens if the excess CO2 is stored below the ground, too.

Planting trees is good, but only part of the full sequestration needed.
Yes, most founders still get the order of operations wrong and build too much before understanding a problem. I actually think [1] the term "MVP" gives people a misleading idea of a lean startup, because you don't need a "product" per se to serve your first 10 users.

[1] https://medium.com/bloated-mvp/the-lean-mvp-flowchart-add48d...
Something's terribly wrong there. I'm using Firefox on a laptop with 8GB RAM and hundreds of open tabs. Chromium is unusable with just dozens of tabs due to maxing the available RAM; Firefox just slows down a lot after reaching something around a thousand (and it depends on the version - it's periodically getting better or worse at handling such amount of tabs), but no RAM issues whatsoever.