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I think you are talking past each other.

The real problem is network effect and collective action.

Whether it's whitelisting, "impact factor", or whatever, lots of tenure committees will have evaluation criteria you have to meet. So in that sense you are very correct.

What misterdoubt was saying, I think, is that nobody in the field actually actually cares that it is Y Journal of X, what they care about is who is publishing in it. Elsevier or whomever isn't what makes it a high impact journal, it's the papers and researchers.

So while what you say is true, it's also true that if everyone in a field could mostly agree to drop Y Journal of X in favor of X letters, or whatever, it would work fine and the tenure committees wouldn't take long to catch up. There might be a year or two of confusion, but that's it.
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In grapes, our lead consortium prevented botrytis, a key fungal pathogen, to a level statistically indistinguishable from chemical pesticides. Biological don't typically do that well.

We anticipate benefits that we have yet to prove: higher efficacy, lower risk that the target will evolve resistance, and better persistence in the soil.
Yes your private key is needed for that, and that is encrypted and will not leave your browser at all without that.
For nginx, versions 1.16.1+ and 1.17.3+ from upstream fix at least three of the vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-9511, CVE-2019-9513, CVE-2019-9516), however if you use a version provided by a distribution’s repositories (e.g., nginx 1.16 included with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) you’ll need to watch for those security advisories and fixes separately which may have different version numbers due to the backporting.
A bait and switch would imply more of an implicit contract than there ever was along the way.

In the 90s, people were making websites because they wanted to make websites, and some of them were informational, and some of them were just whatever cool thing somebody decided to publish. Keeping track of your favorite sites was harder, but eventually browsers added bookmarks and it became a bit easier.

Okay, now how do you find all of that stuff? Three answers kind of sprung up: sites that are list of sites, directories (Yahoo) and search engines. They kind of work, but finding good stuff is still hard, and while the best answer here is probably search, the indexes aren’t entirely comprehensive and the algorithms aren’t good at sorting good stuff from bad stuff yet, they’re too easily gamed.

Google came along and went with search, but they did two things differently: they built a comprehensive index and they had a good algorithm for sorting good stuff from bad stuff. This didn’t stop an entire industry from springing up to try and game it, but they made gaming their algorithm an increasingly expensive proposition, and just doing the right thing easier.

So now we have a good search engine with a comprehensive index, now the web has a different problem: as much stuff as there is, it turns out there’s not enough stuff about a lot of stuff, and this is obvious once you have a good enough search engine that will till you whether there is enough stuff about your term. Well as it turns out, it is already 2004 and people are just now figuring out how to make lots and lots of money with this internet and web stuff. Google has come out ahead of the pact as the obviously superior choice for searching all this stuff, their competitors get a lot better, but Google stays ahead of them, and they’re able to maintain a lead by simply being so much better there is no reason to stop using Google so long as they’re not evil.

They also figured something else out: people are looking for information, or the tools for getting that information. Who knows more about getting information than peoples whose jobs it is to find and surface the right information? And it turns out that some things you can’t find with just a webpage, you need other kinds of tools, like calculators. So they built them in, because at the end of the day, it’s the information that people actually want, they don’t need the debris that comes along with loading a full webpage.

tl;dr Google is an information services company and always has been. Characterizing them as a search engine or advertising company is a massive understatement and was always inaccurate.
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No, and no, and no.

Just fix it. Repeat until completion.
Ok, then whatever the equivalent is for landlines. I don't know how telephone numbers are assigned to particular physical lines, but however that's done, it can be changed.
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Your doing great. You are getting a project off the ground. That's what matters. Positive movement forward.

Congrats on being so proactive. :)
Legal equality != true societal equality
Not on the site! I mean here - I'm trying to understand the context that you have on people with mental health issues, so I can better communicate a way to get to a better mindset.
It seems extremely rare for me to find any car in the US market that does not have at least 1 12V outlet. On a very recent model car I own it has 4 plus a 110V outlet!
That exploit seems limited to applications that are designed to execute arbitrary commands based on user input (consoles). This exploit goes a step further and finds vulnerabilities in the CTF protocol's implementation so that any process's privileges can be hijacked to run arbitrary code.
Instead I've heard that Apple essentially designed the USB-C standard after the successful design of Lightning, and gave the standard to USB-IF. (Apple is a member of the USB-IF.)
Sometimes I wonder whether going the "homelab" route would have been easier/cheaper for me. I built my server a couple of months ago, from scratch.[1]

However, being forced to use a proprietary tool (ssacli) and limited drive compatibility do not sound desirable. This seems like an odd limitation - is this a normal thing with these types of projects/machines?

[1] https://chollinger.com/blog/2019/04/building-a-home-server/
Ugh... that's crazy. Instead, look at ASRock X470D4U AM4 server motherboard (with IPMI and ECC) paired with something Ryzen 2700, which should give you near complete silence, 25W idle power usage and 8 modern cores boosting up to 4Ghz, for well under $1K

Link:
https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=X...
They (the OPs) have an article for that as well:

https://www.reifyworks.com/writing/2019-02-25-the-first-ques...
I don’t trust the avast data. According to Microsoft bing has 9% market share. While avast data shows it as 1.4%.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MSFTAdvertising/status/8982080475...
So, do the fish just willingly swim into this cannon? How fast does it go? Can I ride in it?
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I know you're taking heat for it, but I kind of like the quirky wording.

I'm probably a part of your target audience, and I don't have any problem with calling myself unusual. It feels a lot less loaded than "neurodiverse" or something of that ilk. And it's true.

I think being able to recognize that you're unusual and that it's not inherently bad to be unusual is a powerful thing for certain people.

I also like that this is a place besides reddit to talk about that stuff, because I feel awkward using my main account there to talk on certain health-related subreddits.

I'll probably sign up eventually. Best of luck.
Automate the boring stuff by Al Sweigart. Good practical one for beginners.
I don't like this much. I'm using React as a UI engine for IoT devices, where the interchange is defined with protocol buffers.

Yes, just protocol buffers .. which generate templates for React to slurp up and render.

Doing this the "Web-first" way, means I have to sign up to produce code? This is where I object.

Please people, push things into the smaller end of the stack! Its the natural order of things...
> If there was any reason to believe that the authorities were "altering the narrative" or trying to hide information then I would agree with you

Most of the US disagrees with you on that one. They have since the polls predicted Hilary would win in a landslide. The authorities and the press constantly lie about even the little things now. Why should we trust anything they have to say?
its ok for microsoft to do anything they want with pricing.
its ok for customers to complain about anything they want too.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20681003. Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20674066
I missed your reply contemporaneously. Of course undergrad stats programs introduce the normal/t distributions; but often in either a matter-of-fact way (the normal PDF is ...) or in a sort of intuitive way (think of t as a normal distribution, but punishing ourselves for the additional uncertainty of needing to estimate...), but rarely in a beginning to end way. I'm not critiquing this as pedagogy, although I think a lot of students get bombarded with poorly motivated distributions that aren't well connected to a broader problem class. But that being said, I think we teach students how to characterize distributions rather than how to prove or derive them from first principles.

I don't think most undergraduate stats programs deal with the dart-board derivation of the normal distribution, or read Gosset's original t paper, and moment generating functions are rarely discussed.

Here's an example of a fairly elementary question I don't think a stats undergrad would learn without self-guided study: You run a linear regression. One or more of your outcomes or regressors has a skewed distribution. Standard errors are often motivated under CLT claims of normal convergence. Suppose convergence is poor in your finite-sample. What are the consequences of this for your estimates and standard errors in terms of nominal coverage, bias, and consistency?

It's possible an undergraduate class would cover Gauss-Markov and mention violations of normality, and maybe get into mitigations via transforming parameters... but to actually deep dive into the skills necessary to self-verify the kinds of consequences observed in the data you have? Nah.

I mention this because it's a question that first came up to me in a graduate regression class and I was not well prepared for it, and now when I teach statistics undergrads I don't think they would be.

Never mind any kind of analytic result, the notion of really digging in and running the kind of MC simulation required to get empirical results is typically a fourth year undergraduate topic.
The marginal cost is next to zero, but the cost is certainly not.

As to what something is worth, surely the cost of production is not the sole factor.
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It is a site that I can just toss anything onto. It is really new, and doesn't have much content but it is mine.
I agree with this. We have become such a significant geophysical force that we will have to take a more active role in managing the resource and energy currents of the biosphere. Climate change is a result of a failure to do just that.
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I keep seeing people spread variants of "if we don't act now, climate change will destroy the world 12 years" and "we only have 18 months to stop emitting CO2". Not just by random social media users - quite a few journalists and even members of Congress have said those things. I've even seen a few people explicitly claim that they're suffering depression, not saving for retirement, etc, because they expect climate change will kill them personally by 2050. Of course, none of those claims are backed by science at all.

The 18 month stat is a mashup of two totally different deadlines. First, that we need strong emissions commitments by 2020, which is not a meteorological deadline but a political one: UN meeting schedules and the Paris Agreement call for strengthened emissions plans by 2020, so failing to act by then implies an overall lack of political will. Second, the IPCC report that CO2 emissions need to peak by 2020 to keep warming below 1.5 C by 2100. That's important and hard to reach, but "peak" is not "become net negative" and >1.5C is not "doomed".

The 12 year stat is basically backwards - confusing an emissions deadline with a temperature peak. The IPCC finding is that we'll reach 1.5 C of total post-1975 warming between 2030 and 2050, and that major emissions cuts by 2030 (and net-zero by 2050) could limit warming to 1.5C. The worst case described was 3C by 2100, not 2030, and harms arriving some time after their "locked in" warming thresholds.

None of that means it's not a serious problem, or that rapid action isn't needed, but I'm really disturbed to see people predicting death and doom for what are actually emissions deadlines. It seems like an attempt to trick people into acting fast, but action that fast isn't actually possible. I think that instead we're going to get to the 2020s and be hearing "you said the world would end but things are still basically ok, you're full of shit, clearly we don't need to keep taking action".
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Similarly, meat processors pump carbon monoxide into meat packaging to keep it looking cosmetically fresher/redder.
37% of people in Aarhus, Denmark cycle everyday, and Aarhus is quite hilly.
this "desktop app" somehow doesn't want to run on my linux desktop?
Article should be: Avast antivirus users click less than half of google searches. Their data isn’t representative of the market broadly. For one thing Microsoft claims bing has 9% market share, while avast pegs it as 1.4% market share. https://mobile.twitter.com/MSFTAdvertising/status/8982080475...
Which is good coz most of these communities are time sucks so consciously having to open an app instead of just opening a new tab is great.

Currently i use another browser for this(firefox is for browsing hackernews, chrome is for work since devtools are better)
Another way to say this could be if you decide to take the route of explicitly not solving an edge case or write throwaway code, that feature becomes a leaf until the branch of immature code can be pruned and a new, stronger one put in place.
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CBS and Viacom/Paramount to Combine [pdf]
I recently learned on a trip to the United Kingdom that former hop-growing areas of the Southern UK have been purchased by French winemakers to grow grapes, because global warming has made that region amenable to it [1], while regions in France previously associated with viniculture are finding it increasingly difficult to grow traditional wine grape varieties [2]

1. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/02/english-sparklin...

2. https://www.france24.com/en/20180914-down-earth-climate-chan...
The vendor is Hak5. Among the products they currently sell is a USB drive lookalike that's actually a keyboard that can send preprogrammed keystrokes.
The closest thing to a historical application of terra nullius is Australia, where the British (and later Australian) government did not consider the natives to have any legal title to the land, and therefore no one had any title that would need to be extinguished for the settlers to occupy.

Countries like the US did recognize that the native Americans held title to the land, and this title was somewhat orthogonal to the rights acquired via European diplomacy (e.g., Louisiana purchase). The native rights were extinguished via treaties that were quite often violated, but there was definitely a recognition that indigenous peoples had a claim to their territory that needed legal processes to be extinguished in favor of the settlers.
the poster mentioned it was for greeting cards, I remember their used to be a lot of greeting cards that would play a recording when you opened them. I bet they loaded low-quality samples into the ROM for that.
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>and I always seem to forget my reusable bags.

The key here is to make a habit of keeping your reusable bags in your car's trunk so they're always there when you need them. Then if you forget to bring them in with you, punish yourself by going back out to the car to get them; after doing that a couple of times, you'll remember when you park to get your bags and bring them in with you.

>Those of us who find value in these bags can continue to use them

They are actually pretty useful for many small things. I use them for lining my bathroom's tiny little trash can, for keeping food waste in my fridge until I throw it out (you can't put avocado pits in the garbage disposal, and if you throw them in the main trash they attract insects), and I also keep a couple in my backpack just in case I need an extra bag for carrying things.
just over 58,000 American dead vs. roughly 2 to 4 million Vietnamese dead (depending on how you count the casualties). I'd say they did a lot more butchering than they received.
The "God will save us" was not a dig against Christianity as a whole. I'm not a foaming-at-the-mouth God-is-terrible atheist. I just suspect that the reason people can continue to ignore climate change is due to an assumption that somebody will save us. For some, it's God. For other's it's a C Clarke-ian scientific magic. I actually attribute fiction to a certain extent. There's (understandably) not a whole lot of fiction that deals with an utter extinction of the human race^[1]. Even disaster movies end with the protagonist alive. What especially doesn't help is that there's a degree of romanticism in being the survivors. And everybody loves to imagine they'll be the ones to live.

^[1] Arguably Snowpiercer but people still interpret the ending in an optimistic fashion
Thanks, sudosteph very much for your kind words! You are very welcome!
That's probably why they use the word "curable"
Me? No. It would violate my values and the planets worth would be an absurdly large multiple of the entire world’s GDP over the long run.

Someone else? Yes. They might not share my values and they may prefer short term gains or otherwise directly benefit from such an act.

That’s the point of trying to define the problem in a reasoned way. It helps you keep the politics of it focused and de-politicized. Don’t let the example blind you to the principle.
VxWorks is a serious, long term player in the embedded space. This is the operating system you’ll find on the moon. Not really related to the fly-by-night internet of shit.
Consumer Ryzen requires unbuffered ECC RAM so most usual RAM options are not compatible.
CCP has not decided not to extend "one country, two systems" either. 50 years is in the agreement with the UK when Hong Kong was returned to China. CCP has not said that they would not extend it either. I don't see why they would not if it works well for Hong Kong and CCP.
The mistake was having a previous product called "Mac OS" (OS 9.x and lower) then calling the new one "macOS", which is too similar. I still call it OS X.
The article has some answers to these questions:

> My very subjective opinion is that at 50 dB the sound level is reasonable for a server like this, but it's definitely not quiet. I would not be able to work, relax or sleep with this server in the same room.

> Although this server is fairly quiet at idle, it does need it's own dedicated room. When the door is closed, you won't hear it at idle, but under sustained load, you will hear high pitched fan noise even with a closed door.
That was happening all on it's own. This is an attempt by the authorities to paint 4chan (and by extension, 8chan and the rest of the internet) as unreliable, not worth paying any attention to and even dangerous (gasp!). It won't work, but I'll give them a B for effort.
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Another svg optimizer (link contains comparison to svgo): https://github.com/RazrFalcon/svgcleaner
great idea, definitely seems like something I would use.
> an American dad claimed a tiny parcel of African land to make his daughter a princess.

Can I just point out that this would be a fantastic plot for a movie or a novel? Could throw a lot of interesting themes into this
While I sympathize with the prescriptivist impulse, I can't help but feel that your conscientiousness is misspent on protecting the branding of one of the world's richest corporations.
So you blame Google for paywalls and full screen ads on the pages... you demand they send you to in lieu of just hosting some content themselves? Seems like Google just can't win in that scenario.

FWIW: I agree that for a long time, the need to rank highly in Google's searches pushed content sites to be a better experience. And the equilibrium we've reached isn't as nice as it was 10 years ago. I just don't think "because Google" really captures the complexity here.
Right, except that communication between developers is the least scalable part of running a software team. For every new member you add, there are n existing developers to communicate with, so your communication costs go up as O(n^2).

If the goal is to grow a piece of software over time (as in many startups), any architecture that relies on "better communication" is doomed to fail, simply because it limits the size of the team that can handle it (and thus growth).
Interesting that you’re inoculating with yeast. I imagine it’s a very particular strain? Seems like yeast would be everywhere and in the soils already, but I guess maybe not in the required amount?

How are you profiling the microbial ecosystem anyway? E.g. how do you know that 2+ species actually work synergistically with one another? I suspect a lot of trial and error based on what your profiling data suggests?

Sry for the many questions, it’s a fascinating topic.
Basically, a somewhat decentralized YouTube implemented on top of BitTorrent.
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Are these synthetic bio constructs of the single bacterium and yeast? Or are these soil isolates?
Yeah, how dare they try to use the exact model they've been using for years, scaled onto rented hardware!
Completely random aside, but the site's scrolling is horrible. Clicking near the edge randomly starts scrolling when the bar isn't visible and I can't middle click and drag to scroll the page at all.
Meanwhile in the U.S., the GOP is banning the banning of plastic bags (hopefully soon to be undone by the new Democratic majority in Michigan).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
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If anything, the biggest inadvertent feature is that its resemblance to Slack means you can browse those things at work and look like you're being productive.
And with AMP, Google is trying ti do the same with entire sites.

In the long run why will we continue to produce content for Google?

Google must stop trying to suck the hole world into itself. Google is starting to look like a black hole.

And the "it is good for consumers" or "users like it" are just offensive. It's good for Google. It may be good for users today but it's bad for content producers and in the long run it's bad for everyone.
No need to imagine, it's been done. Successfully. https://saabaircraftindustry.com/en/roads-to-new-capability/...