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> Simply making an operating system open source is insufficient on its own to guarantee success. If it were, Ubuntu Phone and Firefox OS would be significant players. Unfortunately, neither “crossed the chasm”, in part due to lack of manufacturer and carrier support.

Actually FirefoxOS pretty much has "crossed the chasm". It's just that that happened after Mozilla abandoned it and KaiOS took it over. They've shipped 100M units.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/22/kaios-raises-50m-more-hits...
Weird that a mobile-focused developer site would miss this.

It's true that Huawei open-sourcing HarmonyOS is no guarantee of success, but that's a bit obvious.
That's how a lot of people interpret it. That people take that away may be deliberate, if you look at the roots of where the idea comes from, e.g. Andrea Dwokrin and S.C.U.M.
Have you ever tried an APL-family programming language? If so, I’d be curious how you found it.
You give skeptics a bad name. I am a skeptic yet I hold the belief that if you state the negation of a claim, then indeed you should support it with evidence. They did not do so.

I agree, allowing "skeptics" to make you prove everything is a waste of time.

I agree, examine.com is great because for everything I could find on it contained backed up statements on a single page. It is a great resource. I use it mostly for nutritional supplements.
>This reminds me of Superman and General Zod in the "Man of Steel" film.

In that Zack Snyder was fundamentally incapable of focusing on one thing at a time, and decided to metaphorically barf up every half-baked idea simultaneously, making for an ungodly confusing incompetent mess of a film?
A crucial point here is that his punishments are unusual but not cruel.
Global Research: 65 Countries’ Digital Quality of Life with US in 11th Place
As someone who works in a hospital, we can bleach every single patient room, wear all the PPE we want, but pathogens will always spread; the only question is when, not if. Even in an isolation chamber a resistance to penicillin would develop independently of each other as penicillin resistance is usually predicated on a mutation in the penicillin binding protein.
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Another whoops in here!
I think the answers of these questions should probably be read through 'glossy folder skepticism'. If someone asks me about

> A tool that always reduces working time by 2 hours

VS

> A tool which saves 6 hours with 90% chance and costs 4 hours with 10% chance

I pick the first because there is a lot less space to fudge the first claim. Certainly, when such probabilities are quoted I am careful not to assume those probabilities will be accurate in my usage of the product.
It seems ridiculous to pay such high prices and have high coal emissions. Someone's stealing something.
This! This!
I don't think this conversation can proceed because I don't consider anyone who actively posts on HN as average.
That's a very generic dismissal. Are you saying that I can't contribute to the discussion because I'm ill-informed or because I failed to grasp the significance of the concept? Could you be more specific about what it is that I'm missing?
> I haven't heard of this Bee Farm thing, but I would have expected that sort of thing to be better in a more rural community.

Well, first, bee colonies have been shown to be more productive in urban environments than in rural environments.

Secondly, there are acres and acres of open green land where Detroit used to be. It's unusable for brownfield development or cash cropping because of soil contamination, but could conceivably be used for pasturage or bee foraging. I image any problems have more to do with rent-seeking politics than technical issues.
Try your local makerspace
Let me clear one thing people in Hong Kong are in China. Hong Kong is China with few exceptions of basic law.

For your question moving between cities anywhere is hard. Moreover most population in Hong Kong is not that well educated to get better paying jobs as locals have better university education and good English knowledge in tier 1 cities.

People live in Hong Kong as they don't have a choice or skills or resources. Most Hong Kong people with skills or resources are already either in China or other parts of the world.
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Yes, Hollywood isn’t very good at presenting the unvarnished truth.

I felt that the movie and particularly Salier’s (fictional?) role as a competitive observer of Mozart in the movie reifys the absolute genius of Mozart in a particularly effective way.

I notice that my daughter and her friends now really like Queen’s music because of Bohemian Rhapsody. In addition to Amadeus I’ve suggested The Buddy Holly Story, Ray, Coal Miner’s Daughter, and Le Bamba to her—all movies that I really enjoyed that might widen her appreciation of music outside of what she hears most today.
You can have high density, with front and backyards, with a garage (connected to a lane way), that supports public transit. Toronto was built this way in the pre-WW2 days (see Street View):

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/50+Westminster+Ave,+Toront...

These houses are a bit pricey now, but that's because urban living has become fashionable again. From the 1950s to 1990s prices were a lot cheaper because all of the demand was for white picket fences in the suburbs.

You can reasonable build reasonable density, where public transit is possible, without going to Manhattan- or Tokyo-like densities. Perhaps put some mid-rise (5-10 stories) buildings on the main arteries, but the side streets can be quite smaller-scale.
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rule #2 of hn: High signal to noise is preferred over low signal to noise. HN > twitter.
> Why did you focus on one irrelevant aspect of that document?

Because that irrelevant part was the only one that would give AMP any semblance of being open.

> iOS had broken iFrame scrolling for years. If you can implement safe instant loading while working around that iOS bug, let's hear it.

I advise you learn something for yourself. Several fixes were provided to AMP but they were rejected without discussion.

> Exactly the same as RSS.

Let's see how AMP is "exactly the same as RSS":

- RSS is a feed, AMP is not

- RSS feed is discoverable via a meta tag, AMP pages are not (you have to search in a search engine, or have a cache of pages)

- RSS is a simple format that can be trivially parsed to retrieve data such as: author, publish date, url to original page, description, and content. AMP requires a near-full HTML parser with AMP-specific extensions: AMP is not valid HTML 5, AMP validator will allow some non-valid HTML5. Additionally, AMP relies on custom elements.

- Any and all RSS readers and aggregators link to the original website in a trivial and discoverable way. There's no url hijacking. AMP all but requires AMP Caches to be fast, and AMP Cache design all but requires to display content not at the original link, but at the Cache's URL. For several years the "open" AMP would deny this was a problem and pretended "it was an implementation detail that AMP is not concerned with" and "we will work with browsers on how to present the canonical URL". And even now the largest AMP cache regularly employs dark patterns to prevent users from visiting the canonical URL.

So yeah. I see how AMP is exactly like RSS.
Assuming you were in a city rather than a rural area, is it because US school are larger & fewer? Nowhere in my hometown (250k mid-sized city) is more than 10-15 minutes walk from a school.
They think the HK police might not follow orders and shoot their own neighbors, friends and family.

An army division from a different region, properly instructed (brainwashed) can do “wonders” in terms of viciousness and brutally.
They're usually part-timers or neighborhood parents volunteering.
The questions are horrible
Hypersane sounds a little smug, but it feels close to something.

Like, there seems to be a difference between how smart a person is, and being [effective? rational? non-reactive? introspective?].

It feels like there's a spectrum of to which extent people are programmed by, and are reacting to, their environment. A spectrum that might be separate from how smart they are. Give them a text-book or an IQ-test and they'll do great, give them the news and they'll ineffectually berate and hate each-other, and so on.

So while a sane person might have a common social programming, an insane persons programming would be corrupted/deviant.

And a "hypersane" person would be someone who is more able to see their own (and others) programming, and to a greater extent be able to opt-out of some of it?

Maybe there are better words for it.
Argentine citizens will seek US dollars
Sometimes it's the gift of being removed from the struggle which allows one to advance it further.

Ohanian is hardly the only voice for this policy. And many who are in similar positions to his actively oppose it (if rather more circumspectly).
It's definitely a variable, but in the UK "domestic" sizing is up to 4kW. I can induce the same variability in the grid by making a cup of tea with an electric kettle.
Is Guantanamo already closed?
Most US cities and towns have minimal public transit that wouldn't be anywhere near sufficient for getting kids to and from school, so they run school buses instead. In some places with good public transit, like Somerville MA where I live, the city doesn't run school buses and people walk or take general purpose public transit, but that's very unusual here.

It's the same deal as the tech shuttles: in places where public transit is good (NYC, Chicago, Boston) the tech companies don't run shuttles because there's no need.

> What do the US school buses and their drivers do for the rest of the day and on weekends? Just sit idle?

Yes. The drivers typically work a "split shift" with time off in the middle of the day, and the buses sit empty both then and on weekends.
The downside button is not meant as a disagree button.

Anyway, there was likely nothing Boeing could do at the early design stage to make up for poor choices on the engine manufacturers part except a higher degree of scrutiny with regards to the actual manufacturing facility and essentially double checking all of RR's work.

Considering they are questionable at certifying their own work, I'd not necessarily look to burden them with being an engine manufacturer on top of an airframe one. As irritating to me as that is that quality departments typically don't integrate vertically or even share that type of info to enable that type of analysis.
> subsidies were set in stone for 20 years

How does that work? A new government can change the law and decide otherwise, well at least that is what they do here.
If you take a blank W10 machine and do a 365 fat client install on it you get the ‘Teams machine wide installer’ installed on it, which then hooks the teams installer in on a per login basis. Your workplace must have endpoint management in place that somehow prevents this.
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The text is still in the page.

console.log(document.querySelector('#site-content').innerText.replace(/(.{80}\w*)\s*/g, '$1\n'))
They also didn't put any individual home owners in jail for falsifying mortgage documents. They had the upside available and simply filed for bankruptcy.
> But all the great, tasty, small bananas you are talking about cannot be shipped anywhere by the means we know of today

I'm fairly sure I've seen labelled-as-imported dwarf red and apple bananas in California, but certainly the transport properties of most plausible replacements by taste are inferior to Cavendish (and I don't even know if any of them are Panama disease resistant, and if they aren't, they aren't plausible replacements.)
You would not be taxed for generated energy. Imagine that the cost for you to buy one kWh is ~20 cents. Currently, when you push power back into the grid you get 20 cents back from the power company. The government makes this so. However, the power company actually only really needs to bill you about 4-6 cents (depending on which one you ask). The rest is taxation. This means that after the government stops subsidising panels, you would just get 4-6 cents back per kWh.

Of course this makes the value proposition for moving power into the grid much worse, but it changes precisely nothing for power that you use from your panels (you are still getting 20 cents worth of power from a panel that has already been paid for by you).

For this reason it is best to rely on the subsidy as little as possible and maximise the power you use directly from the panel, either by changing your habits or by storing the power for later (in a battery). Sadly using batteries adds additional costs to this picture and is not currently worth it at all, even without subsidies.
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> FUCKING CANNABIS is legal in MI now

I tried that but it left the cannabis too soggy and hard to light.
> This could be a good opportunity for new mobile app developers.

Chicken and egg problem.

New devs need users to buy their apps to justify developing for a new platform. The new platform needs a wealth of apps (especially common apps) to get users.
There's a solution for that: create a file called "Teams." in %APPDATA%\Microsoft. The installer will absolutely try to install itself to %appdata% (instead of, say, %programfiles% or any admin-configurable path), and having a file there will prevent the installer from creating its installation directory.
No, this is a new collection of studies. Here is the link to the studies: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15325415/2019/67/S3
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The comparison with Tesla is not valid: when you buy a Tesla, you buy a Tesla from Tesla. When you buy a Boeing 787, you chose the engines (GE or Rolls Royce) and buy them directly from the engine maker. You would also sign a maintenance/support contract with the engine maker directly.

It is not rare for plane contracts and engine contracts to not be signed simultaneously: the engine maker might be decided months after the contract for the 787 is firmed. Aircraft engines do not qualify as "some 3rd party component".

A slightly better comparison (but not perfect) would be if you buy a server from Dell with an Intel microprocessor, and there's an issue with that Intel chip: will you blame Intel or Dell? After all you could have picked a Dell server with an AMD processor.
I have been to Europe. And I’ve taken my bathing suit top off on several beaches there. In my experience they don’t really have “topless beaches” so much as they just have beaches.

If you re-read my comment you’ll see that my point of starting with nipples is precisely because they aren’t the adult content that Automattic is understandably interested in avoiding. Why are your nipples nbd while mine are adult content? That seems “pretty silly” if you ask me.
This public effort is still way behind private efforts like google earth, it seems.
Will there be grocery stores every four blocks in your bike structured city?
The amount of effort here and critical thought is eye-opening
There are but the thing is - vsync is a trade-off in itself. That's why there're variable refreshrate monitors with freesync and gsync, so obviously the better solution is to use them. But intel needs to support those first. Until then... you just need to deal with either of those trade-offs[0].

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/intel_graphics#Tearing
If we assume this is right, it could be interesting to search why.

Is it the same for small teams and big businesses ?
Are indie developers less biased towards risk avoidance ?

It feels to me that when you are in a large organisation, you have incentives to be risk averse, moreover in your expertise domain where you have to justify every delay, problem, risk...etc
Are Variable Names Important?
For what it's worth: I know that writing is not the same as speaking, and of course I don't know how long it took you to compose that comment, but your English is excellent.
In civilised countries when the government makes a promise they by and large stand by it.
I am aware of the word’s multiple uses, and I resent the suggestion that I don’t.

Dyslexia is a diagnosis about reading text. That page very clearly uses underhanded horoscope type wording to make you think it applies to you individually.

Hogwash. Absolute hogwash.
The mesalock project is run by Baidu's X-lab.
Demanding men to not get offended over the term "toxic masculinity" is toxic masculinity.
> The US went to war, in Europe's backyard, to stop a genocide of Muslims with the Kosovo War.

Bullshit. The US went to Kosovo war to show Europe they are bunch of incompetents, and to show others it doesn’t pay of to be Russian ally, like Serbia. There was no genocide on muslims, there was only a fight of regular troops against separatist terrorists, which were supported by various international Islam terrorist groups.
Been there. Done that. Pretty much every open source developer hits a point where they realize that even very popular open source projects don’t keep food on the table.

However, what gives open source value is that a project with 10,000 Github stars looks very good on a resume. That doesn’t matter now, where pretty much any programmer can get a good job, but it will matter after the current economic expansion stops and we are in the next recession.

I got not one, but two job offers in the middle of 2010, during a very tough recession, because of my somewhat notable open source project. My open source project allowed me to keep my skills current while I was living in Mexico as an English teacher and professional translator.

To this day, in job interviews, it allows me to demonstrate I was still working on computers and with technology after the dot-com bubble crashed.

The important thing to keep in mind is that users are not customers until they pay for the code. If they don’t like the fact you won’t implement their favorite pet feature request, you can give them a full refund, which won’t cost you anything. Never let your users cause you stress.
That is nowhere close to true, unless you are counting suburbs as cities.
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No, it's not. Most of the city, and close in suburbs like Cambridge and Somerville, were built before cars. This is one of the few places in the US where I'm happy living without a car.
Well, it was explicitly promised at the time, and has survived a couple of changes of government. It may be a quasi-contractual agreement, I'm not sure.
Notice, this is long article. Around 12 000 words or 30 pages.
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You mean like Guantanamo?

Or the ones managed by CIA outside American borders to do it more cleanly?
What Does Freedom of Speech on the Internet Mean in a Mass-Shooter World?
> On many days I despair that I won't live long enough to build even a tiny fraction of the things I see in my mind. It's infuriating!

Glad I'm not the only one in that boat. If it matters I'm 38 now.
You serious, Clark? :)

Counteranecdata - Our new roundabout in suburban Houston is great.

But it meets your criteria so you have a good assessment of what's needed.
Yeah, the difference is the nightclub shooter killed about 50 million less people.
I highly recommend following and supporting the Hong Kong Free Press, an independently funded online paper:

https://www.hongkongfp.com/
This little gem has been exceeding expectations from the day it went into service: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-42190358
That is not what 'pretty' means, FYI (check the dictionary definition, which in the case of the OED gives "somewhat" as a synonym). It's sometimes used to convey a stronger proposition via understatement, but that doesn't come across in your original post. Nor does it jibe with the rest of what you said (e.g. that the Khoi San are "more or less" the same as the rest of humanity).

I'm glad we agree on the rest.
me too (~1976) they knew it was something that was not stupid or lazy, but had no clue what was going on. However, most teachers treated me like I was a retard -- Yes ,I am using that word on purpose as it was used for me.
Read the 1st part. Didn't understand a thing.

What is this article about, anyway?
A very valuable effort. Global mapping data should eventually enter the public domain.
You say that like it's written in the article but I don't see it.
And even if (!) the quality of the map were slightly below google maps, having it freely available would be a huge plus nevertheless.
in other words those associated with the automobile industry and/or are anti middle class don’t want people to build a pedestrian friendly city.
This story brings to mind a judge profiled in the third season of Serial, who liked to give unorthodox punishments that ended up shaming the defendants, were difficult to follow, and ended up trapping them in a cycle of parole and further punishments.

I try not to be cynical, but my perception is that for every one of these judges who can think up positive punishments, there's at least one who's creativity ends up in a more sinister place. And regardless of a judge's talent in this regard, they have the position and the incentives to make their outcomes seem better than they are.
It's endless and it doesn't get to the point.
There's algae in the tube feeding the ice machine in my company's break room, multiple wet ceiling tiles all year long, signs telling us to literally not wipe our feces on the walls in the bathroom, shared desks with other shifts, a constant smell of mold and I make 35k a year, no chance of promotion at all without taking on tens of thousands of dollars of debt to get a 4-year degree in literally anything, at a rabidly anti-union company, in a state where an employee can basically fire you for no reason at all.

Man, I wish I had the problems of these Goooglers.

Sure, sexism and racial discrimination is bad bad bad, but this happens at the vast majority of employers. If I and/or my co-workers tried to do one of these walkouts, security would be there when we came back to take our badges and tell us to leave or the police would be called.

I find it extremely difficult to feel any sympathy for these folks because they have it much better than I do, and extremely better than millions of people in the United States and billions of people worldwide.

A cursory Google search (ha, maybe I should have used Bing) on-site physicians, paid PATERNITY leave, death benefits, leave of absence to pursue education, having Google on your CV probably helps tremendously if you try and get a job somewhere else, Google allows employees to spend 20% of their time pursuing a project that they are passionate about, apparently Googlers can bring their pets to work, have access to all sorts of other benefits like shuttles/food/recreation that simply do not exist for the vast majority of people in the world.

The lifter in my work chair has been broken for years now, it has recently started tilting to the left as well, it is 12 years old. Our windows 10 upgrade removed a functional calculator, something I use every few minutes, requiring me to either buy a calculator or use Google for work-related maths. There are 3 microwaves and 2 small refrigerators for 100~ employees. In the winter the upper 60's are not uncommon in the office with the upper 70's and lower 80's not uncommon in the summer with business casual dress mandatory. Need to go to the doctor, be prepared to at least take a half day which you have to request well in advance most of the time with about a month and a half blacked out every year where no one can take time off. Need a personal day, well you better fake sick and call in and if you call in 2-3x in a 6 month period you're now on their radar and risking verbal warning territory.

I'm sorry, but I just can't feel sorry for them.
Chinese can be an adjective or a noun. Most will accept the adjective e.g "Chinese culture" but will not accept the noun e.g "Wong is a Chinese"
Do you truly believe that the NYT is post ideology?