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>Android users deserve the option to freely choose their search engine, and that choice should not be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

Man, Google is getting some SERIOUS mileage out of removing "Don't Be Evil" from their mission statement.
I've never worked at HP, but I recall this: "The day the HP Way died": https://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/02/Mar/hpway.html
Hey thanks for finding my post. I have always thought I wasn’t cool enough for hacker news. AMA. To answer a couple questions 1) Before I joined any company I always had my personal lawyer review the contract to make sure it allowed me to make my own games on my own equipment. Wouldn’t work for a place that didn’t. 2) I am aware of the opportunity cost of having no to little salary for a few years. But I factored personal satisfaction and FOMO into what the actual cost was. Plus you gotta live a little.
> What is the impact of a continuous long-running process?

OK so you're asking about steady-state electricity consumption of a process that's idling? I would bet that it's still lower for a more energy-efficient language, but let's say purely for the sake of argument that they're both at parity, let's say (e.g.) 0. Now what happens when they both do one unit of work, e.g. one data science job? Suppose you're comparing C and Python. C is indexed at 1 by Table 4, and Python at 75.88. So even ignoring runtime, the Python version is 75 times more power-hungry than the baseline C. And this is for any given job.

> a faster language will just encourage a researcher to submit more jobs.

Sure, that's a behavioural issue. It's not a technical issue so I can't give you a technical solution to that one. Wider roads will lead to more traffic over time. What people will need to realize is that if they're doing science, shooting jobs at the server and 'seeing what sticks' is not a great way to do it. Ideally they should put in place processes that require an experimental design–hypothesis, test criteria, acceptance/rejection level, etc.–to be able to run these kinds of jobs.

> if using the interpreted language saved even one minute of developer time, it was a net win for the carbon emissions of the program

I don't understand, what does a developer's time/carbon emission have to do with the runtime energy efficiency of a program? They are two different things.
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For this audience, I would add that anxiety is in some sense often a career positive. During the years I spent as a sysadmin, the continuous feeling that something was about to gowrong and I really needed to prepare for it was useful to my employers. Even if it was bad for me, my relationships, and my physical health.
The world around you doesn't adjust it's volume to match human hearing sensitivity at different frequencies - so why would you want to do that when trying to achieve VR immersion?
A lot of programming can be done by piping packages together and routing them to a frontend. I remember a post on AskHN where the OP couldn't even solve basic assignments his GF got in uni yet worked for years as a developer. So the reason is simple: you don't need to know them to get a job. Personally, I think this is a trend that's detrimental to software quality, but apparently demand drives costs up as well as it drives down quality. There are already replies that suggest theory is unnecessary. These people are wrong. I'm sure they wouldn't go to a surgeon that merely learned to operate a surging robot. Btw I don't think you need to get a degree to learn the theory.
Why do EVs need to solve a problem that is already solved offline?

As you point out, there are plenty of real businesses with names similar to each other. And yet, they all manage to do business with their customers. How does it work? Because customers use more than just a name to recognize a business.

IMO this is a good example of how the goalposts have been moved on EV certs over time. They were never intended to solve name uniqueness globally, so IMO it’s silly to complain that they don’t.
Another fun fact is that, in my lifetime, Massachusetts will be a very green-energy grid. We are building a transmission line through Maine to connect to a Quebec hydro plant, and offshore wind is growing fast (though it all takes time). A Tesla I buy today will probably be carbon-free in its lifetime!
That doesn't seem to stop Twitter.
Funny, I just watched this last week - https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_37%27s_(episode)
It's a Steven Wright joke from sometime in the 80's. (I don't have a reference handy and I'm on a phone...)
> Other scientists—most notably, James Dale of the Queensland University of Technology in Australia—are testing genetically modified disease-resistant Cavendish bananas, but public acceptance of GMOs could prove a significant obstacle to their widespread adoption.

This is the problem right here. The lack of science education. A banana modified in a lab and one that is bred through selective breeding are both "GMO", it's just that one is done in a targeted manner and the other relies on random luck in the mutations.

If people weren't so afraid of science this problem would already be solved.

The two main producers refuse to even consider the "GMO" bananas because they are afraid they won't sell. If they would just take up the cause, they could put enough money behind this to solve the problem in a year.
Never want to work for a big publisher. I am trying to go the self published small label route. I basically see myself as a pulp paperback writer but with digital instead of words and pulp.
They do. Go to any supermarket in Brazil and there will be several different varieties of bananas, see [1] for the main 5 types. There, having just one would seem as understocked as an American supermarket with just one type of apple.

But they're grown nearby and can ripen very quickly. When they need to be transported between continents, I think that's what Cavendish is best-suited for.

Also to be honest, the difference in taste between the different types is a lot less than between types of apples or types of greens, in my opinion. The smaller ones can be sweeter and have more banana flavor... but it's not a huge difference.

[1] https://www.mundoecologia.com.br/wp-content/gallery/tipos-de...
You cannot steal an address on the blockchain.

You can, trivially, so trivially that the community has a phrase for shaming people when it happens: "Not your keys, not your coins."

One of the thorniest problems in credit history management in the US is that credentials are given to people who have apparent and actual authority to transact on behalf of other people at the time of the credentials being given but who do not have it at the time of credentials being used. The paradigmatic example is parents using their childrens' SSNs/etc to open accounts, which is routine, legal, and must be a supported use case and, btw, is also an enormous fraud vector. Related vectors include commingled finances of married couples needing to be extricated post divorce and elder abuse.

Blockchains do not solve for these issues, and the community's insistence that they do does not do it credit.
I've played with those too, but the bottle rockets I got in trouble for were small fireworks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyrocket
Hey you remember me. Sorry I wasn’t here on HN back when that went viral.
If it makes you feel better, my new car gets 10 more MPG than my old one :)
The problem with regard to RAM consumption is the tragedy of the commons. One electron app is okay, but once you're running up to ten or more of them, the resource usage gets out of hand.
The point of "... trusting trust" is not really the specific bug, but rather the observation that the whole supply chain matters. Built artifacts as exist on disk in the repo are a relatively small piece of that.

> None of those package repositories are maintained by a limited set of curators.

It's always interesting to me how few people seemingly know this. Python package maintainers realize how easy it is to add packages to PyPI, but many admins and even SOC operators inherently trust it because they think that it "must be reviewed by someone".

Also, there have been plenty of security issues with Ubuntu and Debian:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue52#Commu...
https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/32240.html

Also there have been bugs in apt:
https://www.fosslinux.com/6167/massive-security-bug-found-in...

Also the official ISO from the Mint website:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/linux...

Also the AUR malware mentioned on thread:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-found...

Also the kernel.org compromise:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-kernel-source-code-repos...

Edit: let's throw in the redhat ceph intrusion while we're at it (note that this includes InkTank). https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hats-ceph-and-inktank-code...
I get you're joking and while it seems to be trendy to put Xorg down, the reality is that it's actually the one that works.

Wayland is still very buggy and not at all ready for mainstream use.

I really don't get that Debian took it up as the default in Buster. Xwayland sucks also, it breaks applications that run fine under X.org and very few applications have native support for Wayland. </rant>
Wrong. Other languages require templating systems that won't allow you to dump variables because they won't be in scope in the first place.

Using PHP in HTML allows you to do just that.
The K is likely 'Kinky'
I didn't know what FOMO is:

FOMO = Fear of Missing Out.

Good luck zukalous !
The answer lies in your first sentence: the system “we” designed ... when you feel the system currently in power does not represent your interests laws are options, not hard rules.
> driving appears to give you more freedoms only because you live in a city

I don't live in a city, just like half the population of the US. You assumed that, and now the rest of what you wrote is irrelevant.
Thanks for your vote of confidence. It is still a risk but I wanted to do one of these “I quit my job” posts that wasn’t like “now all I have to do is learn how to program and I can make my open world mmo life simulator.” I have been very meticulous in my planning but still aware that this is a risk.
I totally believe that too.

And I do not care much. Their show.

Works both ways too. My investment is limited at any time too. So, take it, leave it, meh

No real worries, other than the occasional bump in the road.
did i miss something? did anyone do anything remotely illegal(other than some immigrants)? or will be illegal in future? or is this all about doing something that is legal, but offensive to some people's selective political sensibilities?
> you can buy a replacement at a small fraction of what the original cost.

For how much? If your future cheap battery costs $100 per kilowatt hour at the pack level, you're spending $8,000 for an 80 kilowatt hour battery. That's a large small fraction.
Hard to say if being so pro-Trump was purely a "don't bite the hand that feeds" or if he had indeed went from some sort of libertarian to having a halfie for the road to at least a police state, but this probably explains Thiel's behavior as of late.
The whole employment without papers thing is a bit of a mystery to me because: I am an employer. I was also an immigrant. Based on being those two things I can't imagine how you get a job without the legal basis to have one[1]. And yet, very large numbers of people do. I'm guessing there's a whole big story to how this works, but surely it has to depend on the government at least turning a blind eye somewhere.

[1]As a non-citizen I had a driver's licence that indicated my immigration status. I didn't have a US passport. I couldn't buy a gun legally nor could I vote. As an employer we are required to verify immigration status for anyone to whom we make a job offer, a task that our HR people take very seriously.
To me, the most important work in linguistics in my lifetime has been the modern ability of computers to convert spoken language to written language and thus use it to control software, which I use daily in things like Alexa and CarPlay driving directions. What I’m not sure about is, has the Chomskyan style of analyzing language been useful for that at all?

Basically, a lot of pre-1980 theories of mind seemed promising at the time because they had some explanatory power and made sense. But more recently, machine learning techniques of treating the mind more like a large-dimensional statistical object rather than something with complex internal structure seem to be proving more effective. I wonder whether in time the Chomskyan style of linguistics will prove to be a dead end.
[1');DROP TABLE tickets; --]

(Damn. Way too many letters...)
That phrased stopped being their mission statement in the spring of 2018.
It’s possible to encounter a concept and not emotionally “get it.”

It’s one thing to hear about something on TV and another entirely to change your entire life.

If it were “gotten” by the masses via Disney shows, we’d all stop chasing it at all.

Social ties and bonds existed before money, achieved via other means.

So yeah we don’t all “get it” in the same way. As someone with enough to retire on at 40, money feels pretty pointless to me. Same old cheeseburger or whatever Gates said.

It’s what other people gave me for satisfying their goals. ️

Economic anxiety, a policy pushed by financial planners, is what motivates. Not money.
> the epicenter of the global banana export industry

Sigh.
That sounds like a claim made by people that have enjoyed immense privilege. One could also claim that, while life is intrinsically "meaning"less, the existence of a body is all there is, and making the body comfortable is a worthwhile
The "black budget" is probably a monster of waste and graft. We're lucky we even get to see how much Palantir is getting.

Reminds me of this old article about TARP I was reading recently. They loaned out $700B to a select few companies, many who were former employers of cabinet and treasury members. And they weren't even required to tell the public what they did with it:

> They’d decided not to even ask banks to monitor what they did with the bailout money [..] Instead of lending their new cash to struggling homeowners and small businesses, as Summers had promised, the banks were literally sitting on it. [..] From the start, taxpayer money was used to subsidize a string of finance mergers, from the Chase-Bear Stearns deal to the Wells Fargo­ Wachovia merger to Bank of America’s acquisition of Merrill Lynch.

> Congress had approved $700 billion to buy up toxic mortgages, but $250 billion of the money was now shifted to direct capital injections for banks.

Only $4 out of $700 billion ended up going to help home owners directly, the other $696B went to Wall St, even though it only passed congress because it was sold as helping the home owners:

> In fact, the amount of money that eventually got spent on homeowner aid now stands as a kind of grotesque joke compared to the Himalayan mountain range of cash that got moved onto the balance sheets of the big banks more or less instantly in the first months of the bailouts. At the start, $50 billion of TARP funds were earmarked for HAMP. In 2010, the size of the program was cut to $30 billion. As of November of last year, a mere $4 billion total has been spent for loan modifications and other homeowner aid.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/secrets-...

It's always a great time to have friends in government, but even more so in recent years. Especially the way Trump has only increased spending, just like Obama and Bush did. Likewise public/private partnerships and investments directly into private firms have increased in numbers, particularly in defence.
Mind is pretty blown. There really is so much overlap
Have fun at the ATM taking cash out to buy film.
Absolutely. Developers can pick from many native-widget frameworks in pretty much any language, heck I bet there are even Qt bindings for node. But there are just so many people doing web development, it's probably a hiring/design issue in that hiring web developers and designers is just so much easier than hiring whatever people know the GUI framework that's driving much of the code.
I hope you're right and they find it.

But let's also be honest here... the blurry spec smaller than a grain of rice in the original photo doesn't look like anything, specifically. [1]

It doesn't look like an aircraft landing gear at all. Now you can make an aircraft landing gear look like it if you make it blurry, but that blurry grain of rice looks like nothing.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190812112844im_/https://tighar...
I heard about his all human languages look the same to a Martian antropologist at primary school.
Fortunately I live wo either of these im tools. I know I'd go crazy trying to live an 'always on' life.

I doubt the numbers MS throws around though to show how they are succeeding. If they are bundling Teams with Windows or Office of giving it away for free with Office 365 or Outlook, they could claim every single Windows laptop and PC as an active user and soon be at 1B users. Technically correct but oh so wrong!
Evolutionary psychology says that women are looking for men who have the characteristics of a strong leader. That means assertiveness, calm, self-confidence, happiness, etc. If you look around, that seems to be very much true. I don't think women are necessarily paying that much attention to wealth, but it definitely seems like they are drawn to confident and charismatic men. Men on the other hand, don't seem to mind if a woman is shy or anxious.

It puts you in a tough spot, as a male, because you want to be truthful and honest, express your feelings in a genuine way, but at the same time, there's that voice in your head, that strong societal pressure telling you that telling a woman that you are afraid, anxious or unsure might push her away. I've had a situation recently where a woman suggested that she wanted to sleep with me and came back to my place. We were both shy and nothing happened. She suggested that our being too shy was my fault, that I should have broken the ice and made her feel comfortable, and then she left. I kid you not. My self-esteem was shattered for a week afterwards.

This kind of thing is hard to cope with. I think I obviously need to pick kinder women to go on dates with, but I understand why so many men are drawn to alcohol and drug use. It's because they feel society can't accept those feelings of inadequacy and anxiety that they have... And they're partially right. As a male, if you show weakness, you can lose social standing. I think attitudes are maturing and it's easier to be truthful and honest as a modern male, but it's still tough. The worst part is that it seems society generally does not give a shit about the struggles men go through. The popular narrative is all about oppression of women by men, and there isn't that much room for listening to the issues men face. I know that's how it feels to a lot of people. Anyways, just my two cents. To the men who struggle out there, you are not alone, and I hope that you can find good friends who are willing to listen to you.
De-Anonymization Attacks on Neuroimaging Datasets
If open-back headphones are not closed-back headphones, these off-ear headphones are not open-backed headphones — there seems to be as much differentiation to me.

And they didn’t say “revolutionary” or similar anywhere, as far as I can see.
Actually, no. Drivers here are required to yield to a bicyclist already in the bike lane and then enter the bike lane and turn from the curb. He did. The cyclist showed up later and tried to pass on the right, in the legal sense.

The heavy focus on “cars suck” isn’t realistic here. The reasons why are well known. The cities and especially the suburbs were built around cars. You won’t catch me arguing against much more difficult to acquire licenses or more bike lanes or better crosswalks. You won’t even catch me arguing against fewer cars. But it’s going to be a long time before there’s significantly fewer cars.

The idea that drivers are the only ones out there responsible for safety is reflected in the dangerous and inconsiderate behavior of bicyclists and pedestrians. The reality is all three groups need education. But culturally the bicyclists don’t care and the pedestrians are lead to believe drivers are always at fault, causing them to do things like step into a crosswalk unexpectedly after a car is already halfway through the intersection.
These things are awesome! They used to ship the A8 with STAX Ear Speakers... which when I discovered it almost 10 years ago was the first time I had ever heard the term "ear speakers" or had ever heard of electrostatic headphones, or the brand STAX (from Japan). All in all, The Realiser and the STAX were unbelievable! I got bored of the A8 after awhile but I never got bored of the STAX... I wish electrostatic headphones were more widely available in general, they're a true gem. Everyone that hears them is in awe.
It usually involves fake/stolen documents, with the employer either negligently or intentionally turns a blind eye to, and that's the employer's defense if raided.
I wonder how that sentiment will change when people have no other choice. I can imagine now that it’s easy to say no to GMO bananas because there are still other varieties; it’s not something that people may see as directly affecting them. I think it’ll be a different story if non-GMO bananas become crazy expensive or non-existent.
> Running the algorithm in the summer of 2017 allowed for the system to eliminate 50 buses

Or read another way: "Running the algorithm eliminated 50 jobs due to automation".

This right here is what Yang is all about. The incredible loss of jobs due to technology.
Leverage 3D on Your GUI App
Sprawl taxes are badly badly needed in the united states.

Really it's just the inherent assumptions of the "science" of economics. Nature and wildlife are worthless, except maybe as backdrops for the bay window of a McMansion. Maybe a park provides tourism?

Oh you mean destroying all the wildlife and natural preserves of the world might destroy us all in a couple centuries (but a blink of the eye on geological timescales)? Nah, no concern. We only care about the quarterly revenues.

It's not just the tragedy of the commons. That old economic saw is just about inconveniencing your fellow humans by shitting on things they need. It still doesn't encompass any notions of conservation.

Game theory is misapplied reductionism and oversimplification of the real world (which is what economics is too, which is why that is the darling math discipline of economics).
I had trouble believing those were truly dyslexia symptoms until the reading/writing portion of the page.
Thank you for writing this.

Last December I started getting some kind of weird 'fog' in my head. I didn't take it seriously when it first started and thought it would go away on its own. But instead it became worse and I got severely cognitively impaired. My speech got slow, I forgot basic words, I forgot names of people I knew, my logical thinking was impaired. It improved a little bit but I'm still incredibly cognitively impaired.

I spent hours searching online, using complex search queries and APIs to gather a lot of info on other people that report the same symptoms. This wasn't because I felt anxious, but I just really wanted to continue with my life ASAP and my symptoms seemed very vague. The conclusion was that, besides some medical causes, people with the same symptoms usually had anxiety.

Since I don't feel anxious or depressed and it appeared suddenly I still want to rule some medical causes out. But it is comforting to know that when all medical causes are ruled out, there is still a huge chance of it being just anxiety.
Study: Many of the “oldest” people in the world may not be as old as we think
I don't really get the Trump hate to be honest. Because he wants to lock down our border?
At this moment the only thing we almost surely know about nutrition is we do not know one goddamn thing about it. For a popular version, see Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma.