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> Second, a bigger point that is often missed is that the Amazon consumes about as much oxygen as it produces."

Does this mean that if the Amazon rainforest fell off of the map tomorrow, life as we know it would pretty much stay the same/be ok?
As a developer and hobbyist photographer and maker, I'm between two worlds. Linux is perfect for development but nothing Adobe or Autodesk runs on it, which is extremely frustrating. I don't even have to reboot to game, but I do need to reboot to edit a photo.
The problem isn't remotely related to automation system.
While it's true most politicians lie or bend facts or report them wrongly, you can not create a false equivalence between them all. Trump lies egregiously and far more than basically any non dictatorial politician. Your stance reminds me of those who said both 2016 candidates were bad, so they didn't vote or voted for the two clown third party candidates.
You must not have read past the title:

- The linked page covers why they needed to do it

- A chromium bug report on that issue was linked (i.e. they tried to get the limit removed properly)

- "* Encode the rules as data rather than generated code" was the idea of a chromium developer in that bug report
Is 'understanding' it is root not an efficient compression of knowledge.

We have understanding of gravity, as Newton's laws explain the behaviour of everything that falls to anything else. That's compression: You don't need a long list of measurements of falling things, you just need a much shorter list of starting conditions. Newtons laws will then decompress the long list of measurements from it.

So what does it mean for protein folding? We need more compression so the knowledge is understandable on the human scale? Or AI needs less compression, so it is reasoning in a better way for this problem. Isn't that just a more abstract way for saying AI is smarter than we are.
Swiping feels awful in Linux though. Linux still doesn't have proper animation mapping to swiping, so moving workspaces happens after the swipe gesture, not during. Scrolling in Linux using a trackpad feels terrible too. I almost switched away from Linux just because scrolling in Firefox felt so bad.
Apple's market share is tiny. They don't have any significant influence on generic computers. I don't really see other vendors following Apple's model. I still can build PC from different parts, like 20 years ago and it just works. While I did not closely followed non-Apple laptops, I believe that they are the same, just ordinary computers with ordinary parts which can run Linux just fine, if drivers are implemented. Glued batteries and welded SSDs are cancer, yeah, but that's more about overall quality of the product, rather than restricting Linux to run. There are enough "Enterprise" laptops which you can disassemble with screwdriver and they are not going anywhere because enough people understand their value.
I recently switched from using a Mac professionally for 8 years to Ubuntu and used iTerm on the Mac, and I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. iTerm was good, but I miss nothing about it. The default terminal with Ubuntu 18 is just as good. Well, better, because it has Ubuntu underneath it all ;)
Can I ask VPN users here what you use it for? I've personally never found a good use case...
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From the article:

...all the players in the field of LiDAR now understand that autonomous vehicles will take more time to become mainstream than was originally thought, Wellingstein said. “Currently, the architecture of the autonomous vehicle is simply not converging, so a venture-backed company will not be able to justify the investment that will still be needed," Wellingstein explained.
Well, to write a high performance payroll system with lots of concurrent users it helps a lot to know how the database you’re using works internally.
The compose key on Linux (often the right alt key) enables very similar keybindings: I think ß is Compose s s or something.
There's a guy at the office who has to tinker and customise everything. He can't use anything that touts itself as opinionated because he has his own opinions.

Kind of reminds me of this article. You say you're more productive but honestly: how much time have you spent working on and customising your OS and is it a continuous project? Can you really say you're more productive than the people who open their lid and just work?
This is an honest question, but how can they charge for something they do not own? I mean, wouldn't you be able to use those letter forms just like they are?
I want to use Instagram as you describe but only if I could remove the like button. Its existence makes it feel like I’m pandering for likes about anything I post so I just uninstall the app. I want to share things with people with nothing expected in return.
Workers are also used for basic CORS headers, and stripping some other unnecessary headers. They're definitely not required, but I don't believe you can do URL rewriting with page rules; redirects, sure, but not rewriting.
I was lead developer for a company ten years ago who developed tools for industrial companies. We had a steel rack manufacturer approach us with a panic inducing spreadsheet of the calculations they needed. It was 8 very full worksheets and included everything you could think of, including seismic data by zip code.

To build this proper was going to take our small team at least a couple months. The sales people didn’t like this. I had an idea however to extend a SpreadsheetML parser I’d written a few years prior with a formula evaluator. I had a prototype working within a couple days, I reimplemented a large number of Excel functions warts and all, and since Excel saved all the last computed values along side the formulas it was easy to automatically test. It was the first project that really taught me the value of unit testing.

It was a fun project and took around a month in the end, which was still over the amount of time sales had given us. The client actually sent us a fair number of revisions to the spreadsheet such that had we built it out any other way would have been a major project, but was as easy as swapping the spreadsheet the tool read. I left the company a few months later but I was sad to hear from coworkers they never did anything else with the tool. I thought it was a really neat hack.
And compresses them heavily.
Maxed out X250 had been reported to last 26h hours online, with plain debian install, no tricks like Macs' "oh, you look outside, I'll go to sleep now"
I implemented a React component with a subset of Excel features and additional customisation features: https://github.com/iddan/react-spreadsheet
I was blown away the last time I tried Darktable as a Lightroom replacement. I can see why you might not like GIMP instead of Photoshop (and using Blender as a video editor has a pretty big learning curve), but most of the functionality you’d need is actually there.

If the proprietary media apps are a must, having a Windows VM works good (with GPU pass through if you need it), as does dual-booting with Windows or a Hackintosh system (which is actually pretty easy these days).
How is it not patronising?! The person is telling me that they disagree with my viewpoint - and rather than then explaining why they disagree, they decide to explain to me that I can edit Wikipedia! To me, that is patronising.

While their language is mild and friendly, their message is utterly patronising.
I did not know what a ha-ha wall was until a few months ago when we happened to pass by Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! while driving from New Brunswick to Montreal. It's right on the Transcanadian Highway route so hard to miss. To be sure a few laughs were had when we saw the town's name.
Ask HN: What are some resources on Distributed Systems for a beginner?
I'm looking to learn more about distributed systems. I found some resources in the form of tech podcasts or articles, but they usually assume that the listener/reader already knows the basics.
Any resources for a beginner?
> I get fed up with 2 hours of battery life

As I'm typing this, I got 14hours and 33minutes of battery left and it's only charged to 83%. In hardcore scenarios out of the grid for a few days (where I go sailing) I got a few spare batteries. (the laptop is the Lenovo X270)

> In this case, I'm measuring my productivity by the time it takes to mess around with the OS to get the desired result, and the fact that the stability baseline just never seems to get there.

The time investment goes down significantly over time. After a decade using linux on as a daily driver, I don't remember the last time I've tweak anything.

> fed up ... and go back to macOS.

Same thing but the other way around. I stay away from my Mac except for:

- making sure my applications look good enough on a Mac and are usable

- making music as I'm not patient enough to relearn everything on a different platform but that's just laziness from my end
Avoid the legal problems that come with torrenting.

Spoof my location.

Avoid giving trackers my IP address.

Avoid ISP throttling.

Hopefully my VPN doesn't log. At least my ISP can't log. I'm not concerned about state-level actors, just commercial ones.
Banana Equivalent Dose
I don't mean syllables as in precise definition (they are kind of fuzzy as your expeirience shows) or especially not counting them or learning which you should put the accent on.

I'm talking about the fact that if you know how
fi-(i)re sounds, you can guess how hi-(i)re sounds or even ty-(y)re or de-si-(i)re.
I do believe it changes by state, but they do get payouts for doing a large portion of the project. However, the way it worked in the past, they pay a monthly lease to the city for using the land. For example, cell towers can cost 2k-10k a month. Depending on the land owner. Thia can also be private property, like farmers.

However, like in Florida, telecom lobbied the fuck out of the state to cap the lease rate to $150 a box and a lot less out of pocket for the telecom. I'm a capitalist and a Republican. But that shit right there, can kiss my hairy butthole.

I guess what also angers me is the unicorn dreams and wishes people think 5g is. It's a business. Telecom gives zero shits about innovation or making the world a better place. They want their pound of flesh and will take the blood too. 4g payouts have slowed for them. That's why they want to suck more blood using 5g.
>The blogger is completely wrong on this point as well.

Classic HackerNews, right here.

His CV is public...and extensive.

>Scientifically inaccurate content

I'm sure Dr. Malhi'd be more than happy to debate you on the subject. Go post your arguments on his blog.
It's weird how, as popular as VPNs are, competing on UX - and not just some cute mascotts and assets - is still not a huge priority.

There's always trade-offs to be made for now it seems. And Mullvad doesn't have mobile support yet.

Makes you wonder what's gonna happen when Cloudflare's Warp is out of closed beta.
I'm always reminded of Zoz's awesome talk "Don't Fuck It Up!"[0]. There's a ton of sketchy shit you can unfortunately (or fortunately depending on who you are) do online but not getting caught is still a non-trivial task. Successfully hiding is dependent upon the people who you're trying to hide from and your sophistication in hiding.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1q4Ir2J8P8
It's amazing how much of a revelation this can be! I remember it was shocking for me at first. The implications of being even a little less rigid in self-perception open up this entire giant conversation with yourself about how your world shapes you. And being able to talk about it is the first step to being able to do anything about it.

It's actually quite fun to think explicitly about what else you could become (and why), I think.
So should pilot and aerospace engineers. It's hard for the product people to make some decent product when engineers and pilots and programmers and chefs are out there agitating to make planes that are fast and flyable, food that's tasty, and programs that do things we haven't done before.
it looks really nice. but I would like to see a video of how it is used on the landing page, instead of a single screenshot.

also your app is downloaded via your website, instead of app store. this means people needs to find your website first to find the app, did you do enough marketing?
> There was a shop that said to influencers they could get a discount only after 30 people used their specific influencer promo code. None of them did (or could do) it.

I'm not convinced that's a fair measure. Instagram, YouTube, and maybe a couple of things are some of the few advertisements that actually reach me. I run an adblocker and don't watch TV commercials. The ads are generally about things I like, I find them non-offensive, and I have actually made purchases as a result.

> It’s highly ineffective and for the most part it’s just some entitled person with an inflated ego demanding freebies.

I have an "insta-famous" dog more as a hobby than anything, and businesses often offer us things for free or deeply discounted in exchange for fair review and a post with our dog; we never offer/ask. We also have had (major brand) businesses who wanted us to shoot pictures of our dog with their product for their website for free, with no attribution, and with no discount or free products. So, from my perspective, the businesses aren't exactly being taken advantage of here.
PIA doesn't work with Google search on some nodes anymore.
Docker is the way. Darwin is a mess for development, but it doesn't matter. Start with a 137 MB bare-bones Debian image, add just what you need, Docker is the way.
FIRE doesn't necessarily mean retirement, as you touch on later it can be a valuable position to be in even if you continue working. Independence is the single greatest luxury that money can buy so labeling the FIRE movement as harmful, especially based on a few anectodal data points, is very strange.
> It’s highly ineffective

Other than a click through and sale, it's hard for any advertising to prove effectiveness. Yet, there are still ads on TV and the radio. For many brands, small influencers are a cheap way (some free product and maybe some money) to keep product in front of people when thought of in aggregate.
Canada is essentially having this same problem. CannTrust is an example of a legal pot company that got caught growing and storing illegal pot.

The same problem applies: the taxes, and basing all the prices on the gram street value instead of allowing for scale, like with street Ounce pricing. Lots of people pay $10 for a dime bag, but nobody pays $280 for an ounce on the street unless it is truly spectacular...

Likewise, since legal weed isn't sold in dime bags, the prices shouldn't be based on dime bags... especially if you are buying a large amount. Even beer pricing works that way (the difference in price between a single can or bottle, and the per unit price of a 24 case is significant.)
That's good for you. It's great that you found interesting people in Instagram, but that doesn't change the fact that for 95% of users Instagram is as the GP described: a cesspool of shallowness, materialism, false appearances, and a great harm to the mental health of our youth (and not only youth).
I'm really curious, what is your dev environment/setup like?
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It doesn't really matter if the accident was staged or not. Profiting from a real accident is worse than staging a fake one. More broadly, it simply isn't possible to publicly document events like this (even if they're happy events) without cheapening them. This is the fundamental problem with instagram (and other social media) and my sense is that people are becoming increasingly aware of it. By publicizing yourself (and your life), you are lying. The only way to truly reveal yourself to other people is through action (words and deeds).

So I agree with the article that we're in the midst of a backlash against the whole "influencer" thing. As usual with these things, that backlash has already occurred in the weird, unclean corners of the internet and now it's spreading into the mainstream. I don't know where things will end up, but it will be interesting to see.

I suspect that there are healthy ways to use social media but they will require a self-awareness that the first generations of social media users lacked.
>I can’t see it being suicidally bad if this the most common outcome

Other opportunities do exist but mostly it means being dependent on your parents (to get more education) and they are not going to be very nice and always going to call you out how you have failed them. Sometimes, you might even have PhD from lowly ranked institution and you don't get job. There are simply so many institutes offering degrees where you pay per semester $5000 (obvious way to find it through loans from family and friends or bank loan) and might end up with a degree getting you either no job or stuck for years in $400 job.

If you are well off, you may become part of your Dad's business in which case it's not a big deal or your dad may use his contacts to install you in some company.

But if you've no connections, no money and you bid everything on this education, you might be left win nothing at the end.

Internal demand is very less in India so even if you try to do something else, like small time manufacturing or owning a shop (it's bloody battle). Often the ones who have actual shops are sort of mafia types who won't bat an eye to burn your shop or murder you outright this comes after you manage to convince anyone about giving you money for bootstrapping (which is also very rare)

If you are small time business owner in India, either you've very good connections or you use muscle force to stay in business and demand for whatever you produce or sell might simply not be there.

These are my observation as a foreigner in India.

Maybe in South India it's different but i am in North India.
One big blocker for me the last time I tried Linux was that I couldn't get Serum's installer to run in Wine. Helm is the closest Linux-supporting synth to Serum in usability and quality, but the gap between them is too great.
You’re painting this as a fault with Linux, but it’s almost certainly the fault of a desktop environment. Were you using GNOME? You can adjust the way that trackpad scrolling works in Firefox and in GNOME Tweak Tool, IIRC.
You may want to give sway a shot. It's like i3wm, but without all off the xorg pain.
I feel this on some level but at the same time, I've personally never had an issue finding money to go along with meaningful work in our industry. Maybe I'm just lucky though! A few of my friends work in public sectors, love the work, and don't make much but they are definitely happy. Just can't see myself not making good money over something I'm passionate and reasonably good at. Especially for the level of effort and impact I'm making.
We build our own WireGuard VPN servers to SSH to other servers. Aside from that, I personally use it to avoid ISP throttling and spoof my location, as @RandomBacon said.
Please edit the title to "right - knowledge" rather than "right-knowledge". Maybe I'm still waking up, but I read "right-knowledge" as one word.
That post is propaganda, he is the CATO institutes resident nerd to refer to climate denial.
https://skepticalscience.com/skeptic_Patrick_Michaels.htm
Ok, everyone says this. But by how much? Half a second? I load a video on youtube now with maybe 3 out of 5 bars and it starts playing in one maybe two seconds. I need to buy a new phone for what now? I need to agree to higher taxes or cut community spending in my city for what now? So my video goes from a 1 second load to half a second?
Perhaps second or third to the vast reductions in maternal/infant death and from communicable diseases. Likewise, still work to be done.
Global Warming Fact or Fiction? Video with Willie Soon and Elliott Bloom
It is. But it's also more. If I give you a list of all unix commands and you don't understand them, you won't go far.
My daily routine looks something like this nowadays: spend mornings studying logic programming. Afternoons, I fire up my GPU cluster on AWS and try out some NLP experiments. Some days, I'll work on Haskell if I feel like it. Or possibly training a CNN to control the trains on my model train layout. Its fun :-)
It has an awkward pseudo-tiling “snapping” thing that’s useless compared to a real tiling WM or even Windows. Do macOS users manually drag their windows around and align them just right to fit everything on the display?
Font copyright is a weird thing[1]. In the U.S. at least, the letterforms themselves cannot be subject to copyright, but font files themselves as "software" may be. This may differ between jurisdictions (or even be entirely unclear and yet undecided by the courts in some places).

[1] See for a gentle overview in the U.S. e.g. https://practicaltypography.com/the-copyright-status-of-font...
In Secret Hideaway, Bill Gates Ponders Microsoft's Future (2005)
You can if the people who are just working do manual steps that I do in one step. I write TONS of bash functions that end up automating everything my peers do manually.
I definitely believe in knowing the most about your tools - regardless of profession. I’m less sure on where this line sits for OS choice. There are or at least were professionals who really needed Mac OS to get their work done properly along with the Adobe suite. Giving them Linux and OSS alternatives would almost certainly hinder them too greatly. But being able to hop onto just about any box and quickly get whatever done is itself a demonstration of broad knowledge.
It sounds like you do web design, at least in part.
Because of the better window management or something else?
The futures market ran fine before the massive high frequency trading vampires running around. Liquidity isn’t a moral good.
Ooh, I see darktable is finally available on Windows too! I'm still running an antiquated version of Lightroom I purchased something like 10 years ago - very keen to give darktable a try!
It's a good point, it can be true, if done well. You have to have an abstract/productive view on tinkering. Not just bike shedding.. otherwise yeah it's just constant costs.

ps: one talk that I find a pretty strong example is "the unix chainsaw" by Gary Bernhardt (of wat js fame). He shows how to using tools `against` themselves, as data, to help your work. It's not rocket science, but it's 1) something I rarely do truly 2) easy to fall back as tools as silos instead of .. `objects` collaborating.
Because of possible string buffer overflow?
Thank you for sharing this. It was such a good read.
Y Combinator Demo Day, Revenue-Based VC Funding, Pivotal, Dell, Tumblr, WeWork
I think it totally depends on who the someone is. But something for everyone...hmm how about: a diary. It also teaches you to write.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. - Oscar Wilde
According to the article the digital font was created before the recovery of the original letter forms, and seemed to take quite some time. So it's more than just "copy-pasting".

I'm not sure how a lawyer would interpret that, but considering the original font is 120 years old I think it was fine to use it as a basis for something they charge for.
From a practical standpoint it would cost me less to just buy it instead of manually recreating it for myself.
I looked at the blog, I think it's pretty good. I have paid for https://www.paintcodeapp.com/ , which is kinda similar.

maybe create a youtube/udemy course on how to use it to build app?
Yes, and interestingly, because even when used correctly they "complicate audits". This is an interesting use of preprocessor macros, I'm strongly debating introducing something like this at work.
Bash scripts are definitely needed. It’s not optimum to atrophy over time and have to rely on those scripts though. I have coworkers who want to turn seemingly any useful combination of posix commands into a script. I’m not sold on that being the best use of time.