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What if multiplayer video games actually teach your kids to not blindly trust people ? At first they will be scammed a few time, but they will learn, and with minimal consequences.

Isn't it better for your kids to experience the "worst" behaviors in a virtual simulation under your control rather than in real life when they will be adult and possibly alone ?

I believe it's fine to have your kids safely experience "unethical" behaviors, as long as you speak with them.

I guess there have been studies about it, I'm wondering. Does anyone have scientific pointers about it ?
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I run several websites either aimed at helping homeless individuals generally or that can be useful to people who are homeless. In addition to the above website (the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide), I also run:

Street Life Solutions

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/

Pocket Puter

https://www.pocketputer.com/

The Genevieve Files

https://genevievefiles.blogspot.com/

Write Pay

http://writepay.blogspot.com/

They make me very little money, but some local homeless services and the local police department give out fliers of mine that list some of my sites. At least one local individual got back into housing, probably in part because of the information on my sites. I was acquainted with him and gave him a flier personally.

The police department seems to be my best ally in that regard. Unlike most homeless services,* they don't need the homeless problem to continue to exist to give their lives meaning or justify their paychecks. They would be thrilled to see the local homeless problem resolved so they could dedicate their limited resources to dealing with crime.

* (The Shirky Principle and Homelessness:

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-shirky-...)

I'm still struggling to make ends meet and I seem to be making a dent in the homeless problem. It makes me really unsympathetic to arguments from more well-heeled people about how hard it is to solve or similar excuses for continuing to do nothing.
Brex using the company’s credit instead of the founder’s makes it a leveraged but diversified bet on the startup ecosystem as a whole. From a financial engineering perspective it occupies a plum position because diversification in the startup ecosystem is traditionally very hard to achieve for investors who are bullish on tech but don’t want to take a position on whether AR or VR is better.
I can attest to that, having stayed in Canada for 2 years. US is also expensive. Germany is dirt cheap, but slow.

When people say Germany is expensive to the rest of Europe I think they need to check the salary levels in the rest of Europe. German internet and cell is probably cheaper going by percentage of average income.

It's only the lack of coverage (and maybe the blocked YouTube videos) that bother me in Germany.
Oh, so you're that weirdo who always makes everyone around him in the vehicle listen to his loud phone conversations, making it next to impossible to focus on a book, or whatever else they were trying to do. :)
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Hostile architecture is fundamentally sick. To take public space and purposely make it hostile to the human body is just so abhorrent, I don't understand how it isn't illegal everywhere. There's something about it that really gets to me. It's just so twisted at such a deep level that it feels like it is (or borderlines on) a human rights violation.
Yeah, but the technology is not good enough for the level of authenticity here.
Mars is cold, and could be reached (by some humans) in a lifetime. However habitable is another thing.
RegexBuddy is a fantastic piece of software. It also runs fine under Wine.
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Is there any reason to ever use it (or: Why does it still exist)? In-memory databases for caches or other things that are not critical? I have to admit, I was astounded when I first got the error message from MySQL that a table was corrupted and that I should run REPAIR TABLE. That sounded like very weird behavior for a database.
Speech is a God given right. Nobody can stop you from saying anything you like, but that doesn't extend to inviting you to share that belief with the student body of your local school. The school are absolutely free to refuse to allow you to use their podium if they don't like what you have to say.

Equally, you have every right to set up a website to say whatever you want. That doesn't mean the people who provide the infrastructure behind that website have to continue to host your platform, it doesn't mean other peoples internet providers have to allow access to your website, and it doesn't mean search providers have to list your website in their results.

Freedom of speech worked really well when the largest audience you could get was the people in your local tavern, but it doesn't scale to a global internet without some adjustment. Just like your other example of the right to self defence - the idea of taking arms against a tyrannical government made perfect sense when everybody had muskets, but it doesn't really scale when the tyrannical government has drones and nukes.
You can loose consciousness from hypoglycemia, but normally the body will do everything it can, even autophaging your heart muscle proteins to bring it back up. Unless you have been fasting for a really long time, it will just release glucose from glycogen reserves and you recover quickly.

The diabetic coma thing is the opposite spectrum when the blood sugar is extremely high but the cell metabolism has to run on ketogenic fuel because it gets no glucose. Which leads to ketoacidosis, which can ultimately lead to a coma.
Ask HN: Would it be possible to reimplement Qubes OS but lighter?
Would it be possible to reimplement a concept like QubesOS using something like Kata Containers, maybe with Firecracker MicroVM?

SubgraphOS uses sandboxes, so I think it's maybe a closer concept, but has critized because it has several vulnerabilities.

With Kata every container would be on a light VM with its own Kernel, so it would be closer I think to what Qubes provides, without needing Xen.

Would having a Host OS without an Hypervisor like Xen be a problem from a security point of view?
Cmd+Shift+G, in any finder window. Go to Folder with keyboard nav, very handy.
> the entire model of NFS is arguably wrong to begin with

On local networks (everything attached to a single switch) with good hardware, it is reliable, and soft/intr is the worse choice among others.

To wit NFS is one of the commonly supported VM storage options (libvirt, VMware, etc).
Chrome: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/memo...

Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Memory
That's the problem with leftists in censorship discussions - they fundamentally don't believe in free will. It's not the website that shot people. It wasn't Trump. It was the individual. Believing otherwise is highly problematic as it leads to authoritarianism.
That is the entire purpose of the Net Neutrality Debate, which most on HN support but then go against the spirit of that debate when a company shuts down people they find politically abhorrent

You can not support Net Neutrality and support this action by CF without being a hypocrite
On a low memory computer I had configured FF to not show images unless I alt-clicked them. Together with not using JavaScript this meant using significantly less memory. I suspect browsers still have to have raw bitmaps in memory, which for the 2mb jpegs you are fed everywhere quickly adds up...
- founding fathers are not gods

- they can be wrong

- there most likely is no god

The absolutist nature of these discussions and the near deification of a bunch of well-meaning but ultimately fallible humans has me puzzled. There is no way that the people that wrote up the constitutions of the various still functioning (to greater or lesser extent) democracies had the foresight to deal with 100's of years of technological progress.
It is so bad that one German Minister does not take a call anymore, if he is driving on the Autobahn. Because it would be too embarassing to redial again and again because the call will drop. Not might. It will!
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Not sure why you're getting down-voted as having people talking (often loudly) on their phone on public transport makes it unpleasant for everyone else. I try and save calls for the car part of my commute, but then get accused of only calling cause I have nothing better to do...

You do appreciated the relative silence (no one on their phone or talking above a whisper) on trains in Japan.

Brisbane trains on the other hand - you need to wear noise-cancelling headphones (music optional) to block out other people's conversations - even in the quiet carriages.
I think you're struggling to imagine the impact that good public transport has on a cities design. Schools, parks, shops, sporting facilities all start congregating around transport stops/hubs so basically everywhere you need to take kids is within a 5 minute walk of one another.

> yeah, now imaging you have two of them going to two different schools, each 40 minutes walking distance from home, different directions and your office in somewhere else too.

I can't imagine why you would send them to different schools, unless one is a high school in which case they're old enough to get there by themselves. For most people the school they're taking the kids to is right next to the transit stop they'll be taking to work.
The fear I feel when driving is not fear for my own safety, but fear that my actions (or momentary inattention) might lead to the death of another.

I think driving without that consciousness that you could kill someone else is extremely dangerous.
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Props to the engineers at BT/OpenReach for making the most of a pair of copper wires. Even at my parents place, built in the 80s, and a mile and a half from the local exchange/cabinet they can get 50mbit down with VDSL2.

However I feel BT as a company needs big changes. They are a monopoly because most people (especially older people) don't realise how easy it is to change. Their prices are consistently higher than competitors, and they get a lot of government incentives.

I now live in Lithuania where most households within city limits can get 1000/1000 FTTH, and even in remote areas you can get decent 4G speeds (50mbit+), and it's costs less than half of what BT charge for the cheapest BT Infinity package. This has all been rolled out in the last few years, and I can't see BT doing anything like that anytime soon in the UK.
I'm in European city with great public transport, and my commute is 50 minutes by bus or 20 minutes by car (one way).

Every time someone says "we should forbid cars in cities", I hear "we should take away 1 hour a day from your family, you should sit in bus instead". (or more likely stand, since the bus is always full)

I'm not fan of that.
An excellent essay on Voting Security by Bruce Schneier, showing how hard this problem is:
https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2004/07/voting_secu...

And more on the same topic:
https://www.schneier.com/essays/elections/
I take it you've never been to a playground taken over by the homeless and drug addicts? Had to wash down the the sidewalk at 5AM in the morning so people don't step in filth walking into the office or store?

I don't see anything wrong with hostile architecture, per se. What's wrong is hostile architecture in the absence of shelters and housing programs. But the solution isn't giving over playgrounds and store fronts, but to provide housing.

And as someone who has lived in multiple large cities, I've seen firsthand (as an observer, as an acquaintance) a not insubstantial fraction of homeless will simply refuse assistance, whether because of mental problems or drug addiction. So the presence of hostile architecture doesn't necessarily mean shelter doesn't exist, it simply reflects other societal ills.
Visited Berlin last year and was quite surprised by how cycle-UNfriendly it is. For some reason I had expected it to be really progressive
IMHO the architecture is actually it's weakness. I know a lot of Android developers who don't want to go near it because they have to give up a lot (language, nice frameworks, etc.). Marying Flutter to Dart in an age where everything has been trending towards LLVM based compiler tool chains on native for well over a decade seems misguided.

Yet Flutter fills an important gap in the market: pure native experiences are slowly dying because native look and feel is increasingly meaningless now that so many apps use non native UI kits. Also, supporting multiple UI teams developing for different platforms is a huge risk for small companies and a lot of hassle even for those teams that can afford it. We need more cross platform stuff but I don't believe Flutter is the solution here because of its architecture, which is a combination of "our way or the highway" and vendor lock in. I'd say there is a big risk of Apple doing something smart with Swift on Android and web. I actually know of a few Android developers using Swift on Android already. This is becoming a thing. Like Kotlin, Swift is perfectly positioned to start targeting cross platform via LLVM. Also WASM is becoming a thing. IMHO, Google needs to make U turn here and rip out whatever it is that prevents Flutter from being driven from Kotlin (jvm and native) and other llvm languages.

All that's missing is a proper cross platform UI toolkit that actually works properly in that ecosystem. Things like QT and GTK are obviously usable in that space but a bit clunky/ugly on mobile.
Sure, but over here in California USA I routinely get no service at all Pretty much all of Skyline Boulevard, Route 1, large swaths of I-5 are big dead zones for me. All regional parks, state parks, national parks are dead too. I've had generally better cell service in Europe.
That doesn't invalidate the point
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Nuclear is too expensive, too slow to build, and not suitable for all countries.

Perhaps things would have been different if more countries had been like France and built a large network of nuclear power stations to fuel their weapons program; but even France is regretting it and had not built a new one for decades.

https://www.ft.com/content/c7421fbe-f326-11e8-9623-d7f9881e7...
isn't that monopsony?
I think the situation for Amazon is different that for Ford, but I'd agree it seems `single buyer` rather than `single provider`
Why would they need to walk 40 minutes? In countries with good public school systems, all of the public schools are equally acceptable so you just send them to the nearest one which is generally less than a mile walk away.
>They easily became obsessed and were violent when removed, even with a tightly controlled schedule. They would try to connect to offer WiFi networks to get access and would steal our phones to get access.

Is that not a sign of bad parenting?
One person’s ‘currency manipulation’ is another person’s ‘monetary management’. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system:

”The chief features of the Bretton Woods system were an obligation for each country to adopt a monetary policy that maintained its external exchange rates within 1 percent by tying its currency to gold and the ability of the IMF to bridge temporary imbalances of payments”

(See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_exchange-rate_system, which lists many examples of ‘pegging’)
Yeah, it's definitely not just video games. I became physically dependant on opiates in much the same way.
Rail transit
> The fear I feel when driving is not fear for my own safety, but fear that my actions (or momentary inattention) might lead to the death of another.

Did you watch the video? It's (also) about pedestrian/biker safety measures. All new crash tests cover this and you can see very well that cars brake automatically these days.
They may be referring to messages which were sent as end to end encrypted, but were later backed up in Google drive or Dropbox etc. in plaintext. This is something I have done in the past.
The hazards of nuclear power are less than the hazards of not having cheap and plentiful energy.
>dozens of homeless people in varying levels of distress

The homelessness problems in the US vs EU is a whole other topic.
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What incentive do you have to keep the information I provide you for a consultation confidential? If I actually give you the information you're asking for (strike price, shares outstanding, shares granted, company name, etc), you basically know far more about the cap table than anybody outside of the company should know. Additionally, most companies have NDAs that probably prevent the disclosure of this information.

If you're not an RIA, how can I trust you with this information?
I guess this becomes like horse riding. You can still do that and it's not even that expensive.
As the other commenter wrote: bonuses are variable compensation that is part of the negotiated contract/wage, so not at all 100% voluntary.

So the employer can refuse to pay the bonus, but they have to give a valid reason. There are two levels to this: first, basic employment law, which places very hard limits on what you can do. Second, many companies (like this one) have agreements between the works council and the company, agreements that regulate these and other matters and become part of the employment contract, and are therefore also legally binding and enforceable.

In all cases, the employer has to have valid, provable performance-related reasons, these have to be communicated to the employee in a timely fashion and the employee given a chance to improve their performance.

In my case, management was so clueless that they knew none of this, they thought that bonuses were gifts they can shower on people they favour on a whim, just like a king to his subjects.

It was a bit of a rude awakening. :-)

They then tried to create a "case" retroactively, but apart from the fact that there was no case, it also wouldn't have mattered at that time.
Click-baity title? Not using soap isn't the same as "not washing" (i.e. not showering) is it?
The issue is verifying whether the system is broken or hacked, otherwise you wouldn't even need to verify your own vote.

> The only other way to forge votes would be to invent new people that don't really exist

Exactly.

> straightforward to address

The question is how? I don't think it's considered that straightforward in blockchain voting circles.
They can't use that arsenal to buy Chinese stuff.
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In NL it is mostly bikes. Even for larger distances (10 km and up).
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I don't think name as domain is important anymore since it's pretty much a numbers game - it is unlikely you'll get your name as a .com domain(the only domain that matters if you want more than a toy website) is going to either be squatted on or already occupied.

There needs to be some sort of TLD with authentication. Let's call it .name
You only get .name if you do a KYC/register with the government.In case of collision you get bidding wars, however the money goes to a non profit internet charity. Instant SEO and a guarantee that you actually get to have a web presence without gatekeeping.
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Thank you for the reply.
at the moment i'm working on more brand identification on my home page :)
You're right, I should have submitted that one!
When I moved to the USA for a few months from Europe, I was surprised by the fact that you simply can't walk to places. There are so huge spaces between things except for maybe city centers. (I was mostly in CA and FL)
For browsers, this problem is "once removed". Firefox and Chrome both go to heroic efforts to reduce memory usage. However, given the html and javascript which fill most websites, and users expecting responsiveness, it turns out to be very hard to use less memory.
I know Ron Rivest has a lot of interest and work invested into securing voting system.
I can't point you to a direct paper, but if you Google it I'm sure you'll find more then enough.
I remember suggesting one of my colleagues to take an interview instead of me and my manager disagreed and said I never saw him admitting to make a mistake.

Ideally you only hire people with good soft skills, but if you couldn’t, at least you should make sure they don’t do the interviews.
Japan doesn't have public trash receptacles and they manage quite well. Conversely, in SF I've seen plenty of public trash receptacles where people have literally dumped their trash onto the street, even though the receptacle was clearly not full.

These are reflections of our societies, not root causes.
Google's pretty well done with the reCaptcha or are counting on a lot of sites to keep using v.2 for a while.

There's more saleable data to be collected tracking people's interactions in a website, under the guise of predicting who's a bot.
Well they would surely loose this one if the missile didn't blow up before impact...
I can remember this issue having been raised a lot of times before.

The main issue is not so much about Trump himself, because he isn't sophisticated enough to profit of virtually anything more complicated than a licensing deal with money launderers, but rather the billionaire "friends" he talks to on the phone all the time.
Astounding insensitivity. It's the parents' fault that a kid becomes addicted to a game literally designed to be addictive?

Not sure about others but these stories parallel my thousands of hours in RuneScape, including "trust trades". Nostalgic.
They have parachutes installed. In the 2nd crash it deployed but the line hit a sharp part of the craft and was severed. Upgrades are being made (redundant cords and metal braiding) and the whole fleet was grounded in the meantime.
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In general, the out of memory condition doesn't always come from the Linux kernel however but from the underlying memory allocator which typically is the memory allocator in the CRT in libc. Just because some process's memory allocator returned NULL or threw bad_alloc doesn't mean the system as whole is running out of memory.

When the kernel is running out of memory it will just start the OOM killer which will kill a process with low "nice" value.
To a lesser extreme, so does Singapore.

Not that I have a reference anymore, but there used to be articles in the state controlled newspaper mentioning the fuzzy bounds of allowed political discourse akin to I'll know it when I see it and if you so happen to cross this boundary, well that's your own fault for getting involved in politics at all, you should've stuck to simple peasantry.
Haha can't argue with that! :)
Pardon my space-rookieness.
> They sell at a loss until they shake everyone loose from a product, then dominate all sales of that products on the Marketplace, raising prices to profitability when they feel like it.

This has actually happened? Can you point me to examples with price charts?
What do you mean? There’s usually no way to pay without credit card / debit card / cash in most countries. Contactless payments are still not as popular as they could be.
Free market is how you've gotten cities where natives can't afford to buy property since non-natives(mostly chinese investors) own all the property and refuse to sell or rent at reasonable rates. I think the free market concept has fundamentally failed for non-renewable/expandable resources and should be recognized as such.
Yeah we can't even stop ourselves from destroying working ecosystems but we're apparently going to terraform systems which are currently not livable at all. That sounds likely.