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> Why is one of the largest core open source repositories centralized and private? Why are we so dependent on AWS, Google and others for large chunks of Internet services to be accessible?

Just speculating but I think distributed systems are just inherently more complex. Serving multiple mirrors is easy, hosting across a set of providers and keeping things in sync gets harder.

It's a problem, and besides building completely open source systems that are designed to have distributed instances, I think its a pretty hard thing to fix.
Allow all speech. But how to do that without getting overrun with spam or false accounts? Verify accounts with positive ID, preventing anonymity. Problem solved.
Imagine if you just read about the negatives of Ivy-League schools - the insane admissions process, the cost, the pressures, the depression, the sleep deprivation, the drug abuse, the suicides, etc. You'd think people must be crazy to go there, yet when you weight it against the benefits, it turns out that basically anyone that can go there, should go there.

I think parenting, like school, is also a very high-effort, high-reward activity. Maybe while the negatives are easy to understand, the rewards are not so easily understood. "Give life to your offspring" just doesn't have the same ring as "make a ton of money" or "become the ruling class".
>> This wasn’t a hate post. It was a legitimate question.

Seen through a different lens, it's actually a compliment.

The poster sees the utility in the tool, even though it's not built on one of the poster's preferred platforms.

But the great thing is that the OP shared the source code on Github, so it can be ported to other platforms... if one is motivated enough to do so.
Money is a proxy for power. That power comes from the ability to trust the government issuing the money and the people the government represents (i.e. the country). You can claim the right to clean water all you want, but unless you fund infrastructure development, and have access to aquifers or fresh water lakes, it doesn't matter how much money a government issues. Similarly, if a country isn't producing enough children to support the elderly, it doesn't quite matter if they've been promised nursing homes.

See Zimbabwe and Venezuela.
Y'all need to liven up a bit, try to be a bit more positive.

WoW is a landmark in the gaming world and we now have the chance to replay it. Maybe try a RP server. I for one am excited to play it, even though I don't have that much time to dedicate to this.

For the horde!
Yeah, but it's kind of a shame. ;)
Because 2019
A Chunk of Trinitite Reminds Us of the Power of the Atomic Bomb
The link has been voted for - so there is at least a minimal amount of interest.
Public armed with personal arms would change nothing when tanks roll in.

Power of public is in numbers. Revolutions happen when everybody including soldiers become the protesters.

Unfortunately in this media age thats going to be harder and harder.
I am waiting Apple to redesign iOS instead of keeping with the outdated iOS 7 style. Things like organizing the icons on the screen to our will like we do in Android aren't present as features must be because of patents. Aside from that, Apple needs to wash up the entire OS. Android keep updating Material Design every single year.
Work on one project for 6-12 months? Sounds wonderful. Try context switching between 7 different application's codebases with different technology stacks / system architecture in a single iteration (well, sometimes just 3 or 4). Our department was eviscerated and software that had dedicated people on them all got put in my lap to maintain and support. I have to reboot in my head how each application works a couple times a week at least.
I’m not saying that promiscuous women always have issues, and I apologize if I hurt anyone by implying that, but I am saying that there’s just too much chance I will hurt a woman’s feelings if I had a sexual encounter with them without being open to having a relationship with them.

The fact that women by and large prefer long term relationships is well known in the evolutionary psychology community. See, for example, David M. Buss The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating (ISBN 978-0465097760), which discusses this in great detail. Or, just go to https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/key_statistics/n.htm where we can see women have, on average, fewer sexual partners than men.

The study which has been used to argue that women secretly cheat on their man, the one where women supposedly wanted to be unfaithful when they were ovulating, had a lot of methodological problems and was debunked when they tried to replicate its results. Read https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/ovulation-research-wome... for a lay summary of the actual science behind this.

Another data point: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/science/extra-marital-pat... which shows cuckoldry is quite rare (and it’s amazing the number of people who don’t want to accept this science in the comments for the article).

In my own personal experience, I have talked to a lot of women who have struggled with promiscuity (i.e. they do not want to be promiscuous any more). The very consistently have had poor or non-existent relationships with their fathers and have issues with alcohol and/or drug abuse.

There are exceptions, of course, but the science on the matter indicates they are outliers.
Modern WoW changed a lot of things. Some of changes are not welcome by some people. They tried to cater to 90%, but 10% left behind. Simple example: hunter used arrows or bullets to shoot. And had to periodically feed his pet to keep him happy. Simple mundane thing. But it's that RPG flavour. They removed it, you don't need to think about it anymore. And that flavour is lost. Most of players don't care, but some do.

I never played original WoW, I joined in TBC but I really want to try Classic and I expect that I will love it. Nostalgia has nothing to do with that, obviously. Also, if we're talking about nostalgia, it's WotLK for me. And I'm not going to play it again :) Been there, done that.
And a lot of players tried to remake classic WoW on pirate servers and they did amazing job, actually. Hundreds of thousands of players played on private servers for years. So demand is there.
You and me both! I thought this thread would have a bit more praise for Jeff's work after all of these years, but it's just a bunch of Debbie Downers taking a collective dump on it just because they don't like the look.

While the style may not be modern, the gameplay and stories tend to be quite good. I would also argue that a game that looks great doesn't necessarily imply that the game is any good. Battlefront 2 is a great looking game that is ultimately a soulless, lootbox filled shitshow with painfully bland gameplay.

Anyone saying that he needs to hire an art director have completely missed the point of his article: his business can only support his family. He has also been able to maintain this business for 20 years, which is a lot more than can be said about any other indies.

Ultimately, this is a style that Jeff likes, and it makes him money. If people don't like it, then they can go play something else. He still has his fan base that keeps him afloat.

EDIT: grammar
Maggie Boden pitched this idea in "Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man" in about 1980. It was pretty influential, odd to see it unmentioned in the article or in this discussion.
Will social media follow the banks or the railroads?
I stopped my teenager being recruited online
That depends on demand/supply. Tech companies in cities with high demand for engineers have no problem hiring people who will leave as soon as something better shows up.
In many countries every member of the parliament push the button decided by their party[1] - so one representative per party would be sufficient:

it would be much cheaper salary wise - also they could gather in a small meeting room somewhere ;) And those countries would stay as much "democratic" as now, just without the Potemkin village of the parliament...

[1] edit: by "party" I mean not the representatives, or all the party as a whole, but the leader of the party / or a smallish leading group
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That kinds depends on market conditions, who is buying and what is driving the market. In cities like SF, Boston, and New York, the overall vacancy rate is very low but the luxury market is actually somewhat overbuilt, because that's what developers have the most incentive to build. In the Great Bubble, there was a higher vacancy rate and bigger disconnect between buying and renting, because there was so much construction that was driven by speculation.
The only game that made me play all day long and only do casual toilet stops.
Not in single stream recycling. The problem? Glass gets crushed and ruins other recyclable materials.

Also glass is very heavy when compared to a similar strength container made of plastic. That is why plastic took over the market.
I have to admit it's not obvious to me at first. Especially for the second ad, you need to have good knowledge of Chinese literature to know the story behind the poem.

But once I read the explanation it became quite clear since there isn't really other ways to interpret it.
The same sensibilities apply in Haskell. These sort of longer, more structured problems are exactly when do notation comes out

do a <- [1 .. 29]
b <- [a+1 .. 29]
guard $ gcd a b == 1
c <- [b+1 .. 29]
guard $ gcd a c == 1
guard $ gcd b c == 1
let z = a ** 3 + b ** 3 + c ** 3
let d = z ** (1/3) + 0.5
guard $ z == d ** 3
return (a, b, c)

Translation of this into HOFs is straightforward (the method guard uses helps tremendously), but it's not worth it most of the time. In Python where HOFs are so restricted it would be even worse.
Ask HN: Is there any archive of user stories for students
I am trying to teach programming for a friend, and found myself searching for some sort of database of complete set of user stories for students, and got nothing.
I mean, something from the basics "Hello World" and FizzBuzz, to the ubiquitous "Polish Calculator", up to simple games like tic-tac-toe functional requirements written as stories. Does anybody knows about some repository like that ?...

The ones my googling skills got, are empty:

- https://github.com/solid/user-stories
- https://github.com/UniversalViewer/user-stories

tks !
Interesting idea. It would also need to be the case that the content has no moved either so a 302 is not appropriate.

I don't necessarily agree that you should be certain not to reuse the URI. Why do you think that should be the case?
It's blindingly obvious that it's deliberate. Whether it's the graphic designer or LKS that actually formulated it, that is debatable. I wouldn't bet on the former though.

Keep in mind that Li fell out with Beijing and have cashed out most of his assets in the Mainland over the last several years.

There is no way that the following phrase, formed by the the end characters of each phrase in the ad, could be a coincidence.

因果由國 容港治己 義憤民誠

The only slightly questionable word choice is 由, but as the phrases are supposed to be read as stanzas in a poem, I think liberties can be taken in composition.
I can think of two unofficial reasons:

1. Keep their skills up.
2. Avoid waste of available resources.
I'm not saying he's not successful. He's implying you either have shoddy graphics, or spend big money on AAA graphics. But they're not the only two choices, and that's proven - there are successful games without AAA graphics that also don't look bad. If he's feeding his family on his games, changing his attitude to their appearance could expand his audience significantly for relatively minor effort.
That being said, being dependent on Google is not unique to my country, and almost everyone should relate to that, at this point in history. And the scale of dependence only shows when it's truly completely shut down.
Can you find a longer chain of related artists? High score is 7
> Only the top earners have prospered

This is actually a relative truth, absolute falsehood cannot exist. It's not absolute truth though.
This is a nice metaphor.

I think it's similar in many ways to the complaints one overhears about roadworks. "Why do they take so long!? It's just 5 people stood around watching another dig a hole!". Software is a lot like that, you can't have everyone run off and work on all parts of the stack and domain at once, there's only a certain amount of parallelizable work.
True, but this is not a link to a post-mortem, it's just the status page.
I have three, they live with me every other week, since I have had kids for 13 years now it is hard to imagine how it was without them, how it was with only one or two of them. My oldest two helps taking care of my younger one sometimes. I also tend to let the younger one do more stuff earlier on than I let the other two do. On top of that, it is more or less impossible to fill 5 days with 8 hours work the weeks the kids are at my place, but age solves that, they can stay a bit longer at daycare, when they get to 8-9 they can walk home by themselves etc. Life is complex at times, but most of the time it is quite awesome. Weeks when I don't have the kids tend to be work and trying to get enough sleep to have the energy needed for a 100% week with my kids. Even if I dont do 8 hours every day the weeks I have the kids, I'd say it is more or less 100% responsibility from 6:30 AM to 11 PM.
Locked Tesla stolen in 30 seconds in London with fob relay trick
What happened on the 9th November?

As the song goes: "Remember remember the fith of November", but I don't remember the 9th.

...supposedly universal cultural references are hard :-)
I love the bottles that have the recycling symbol, but the number is so small an ill defined you can't actually read it.
Note that they said "React + Redux". And that combo indeed takes a lot more time to get set up and understand the first time.

I used this lib to get it to work: https://www.npmjs.com/package/typesafe-actions
I wouldn't even know how to get it to work with just the regular react & redux types.
Another case for universal adoption of 2FA.
"Because desserts aren't inclusive."
I hide mine in a Barnes & Noble
The screens alone are responsible for a lot of size increases (framebuffers in RAM, high res media) but also, unlike in Windows 3.11, modern Word allows you to mix English, Japanese and Arabic in a document, allows use of a screen reader, and has a thousand features that you personally don't need but everyone has some set of features that they use, and taking away any of them would offend someone.
> Pre-induistrial workers worked less, on the average, because they were surviving

> They were working when they needed money and not working (AKA doing some other job for the house or the family, like farming or breeding cows and pigs) when they had enough to go on for maybe a week or so.

Especially they worked depending on the season. During planting or harvest they were on the fields from dawn till dusk. In winter they took care of the animals and stayed by the fire place inside.

Manufacturing work had similar cycles.

Only industrialisation brought working cycles independent from season and daylight.
> according to the Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem, the sampling rate must be at least twice the duration of the shortest burst in order to accurately reflect the intensity of a burst.

This statement is a bit sloppy. I think what the author is trying to say is the sampling rate must be such that it samples the shortest burst at least twice. Equivalently you could say that the sampling period should be no longer than half the length of the shortest burst.

This would accurately reflect the fundamental frequency of the burst, but if the burst is not sinusoidal you'll get aliasing. The effect of which will be to falsely indicate lower-frequency bursts that aren't actually present.
Executives live in a global economy. The rest of us might "operate" in one but we don't get to take advantage of that privilege the way the wealthy do. You are right, world wide poverty is on the decline. But given the choice between:

- better for 1 billion people

- worse for 2 billion people

- really outstandingly fantastic for 200 people

and

- really good for 5 billion people

- worse for 200 people

I know which way I'd lean in that spectrum.
Dwarf Fortress having mod packs is a pretty good idea. It has the text interface by default then people can make their own sprites. Then again most places don’t have the sort of community support Dwarf Fortress has.
Humans Are Wired for Goodness
Thanks for pointing this out.

It's simply a matter of time of phasing into preferable setup, consider the current setup is 'not yet broken'.
Quantum Gravity's Tangled Time
Is the creation of the United States laughable? What was used in order to gain that freedom from Britain? Firearms maybe?
Khan Academy’s new engineering principles
The thing is, you still need 32-bit or 64-bit values for pointers, loop counters, etc. You're also going to want your CPU to interact and convert between richer data types. What you probably want is to have a 64-bit CPU and control unit, with some SIMD ALUs that operate on multiple 8-bit values at once.

Sidenote: I think that ML people are more interested in 16-bit floats than 8-bit integer values. Though none of that is mainstream yet, most ML code still uses 32-bit floating point numbers at the moment.
The French Scrabble champion who doesn't speak French (2015)
Ask the Vietnamese.
Deep Learning Illustrated: Building Natural Language Processing Models
From ShB onwards, you can now use the Trust system to solo dungeons and MSQ events. I'd be willing to bet they will port this to older dungeons once New Game+ comes out, although I am not sure if they'll ever do this with roulettes.
World of Warcraft 2: The Search for More Money
I would prefer that corporations do what they do best - make profits - and leave the ancillary baggage we’ve put on them to the government or individuals. Companies should not be providing health insurance and retirement benefits, nor should they be intertwined with the government as always happens in highly regulated “private” industries.

If we want to force corporations to be extensions of the government and provide various non-essential services, then yes, they should care more about non-profit motives. However this is a mistake and it makes a company do things it shouldn’t do. I wish companies could only focus on maximizing shareholder value.
I don't see this point often enough. People just want to do whatever tweak to the system will get them their short term boost and damn the consequences and long-term thinking.
That’s smart. No one will ever find it.
> https://www.resetera.com/threads/animation-excellence-a-eulo...

> >Current technology isn't even close to being enough to replicate this with real-time physics.

The claim on that page, that those detailed cloth animations were superior and somehow lost in the transition to 3D games, is bunk though. Modern games are very detailed, e.g. https://youtu.be/ot_sYoqe_2w?t=2355
Something I've wondered about but never been able to find a clear answer: what is the cost of putting a non recyclable item in the recycling?

I'm sure there's a lot of "it depends" in this answer, just as there is for most parts of this article. Still, even a ballpark answer would really help with the applied question of how much confidence in an item's recyclability one should have before putting it in the bin.

If I'm 95% sure then I'll do it. If I think the odds are 10% I won't. But where is the line? This depends on the cost of being wrong in terms of processing effort/energy, potential to ruin surrounding goods items, etc
We shouldn't be aiming for complexity. We should be aiming for simplicity.
it's time to switch to SourceForge.
I heard on a recent podcast from a Dutch recycler that recycling glas only saves ~10% of energy creating new glass. Melting the glass requires heat, and the raw material is not much more expensive than collecting used glass.
Rust is used a lot for embedded development, and the memory available on an IoT device is nowhere near that of a smartphone.
You probably won't want a GUI running on an IoT sensor, but you might need a network stack, maybe some data processing...
Ah yes, Tim Worstall. Every time I read one of his articles I end up thinking, "He touched on this important related aspect of his topic but then failed to actually detail how it impacts his claim, both for and against." I this article, he mentions "total compensation" includes benefits and suggests that those benefits somehow make up the missing wages. From a pure numbers perspective, the increase in benefits is an increase in total compensation. But it doesn't call out that most of those "missing wages" have been absorbed into handle rising healthcare costs. The people who are receiving these "increased benefits" haven't received anything other than the same healthcare but now they pay more for it.
>why do you need to implement a template system when the language you are implementing that template system can also function as a template system itself?

Because PHP, natively, doesn't provide the features that a modern template system needs to be safe, scalable or productive. PHP doesn't recognize HTML or XML as a type, or a "template" as a thing, automatically escape user supplied data (correctly, based on context) or correctly deduce content-type headers or route requests or any number of things one expects of a modern framework or templates. As a PHP application grows in complexity, you will, inevitably, find yourself reinventing frameworks. So might as well just use one that's already been proven in the wild and optimized.

All PHP has is string concatenation. It's "templating system" is blind string concatenation - that's it.
Seriously though this summer has been unusually bad ceteris paribus right? We need a State of the SaaS address.
https://www.cinema5d.com/whats-inside-a-red-mini-mag-the-con...

This is new to me, I didn't think it was that simple. They harped on in the old days about how revolutionary the minimags were.
No way. Most people don't know the sizes of their apks.

> discussing user monetization

Monetization must be a much bigger reason. A lot more users would angrily uninstall an app that showed them a giant full screen ad.
Texas shale towns grapple with growth as oil-bust fears fade
I'll be honest, I'm not a material scientist. Do we make plastics and packaging and medical devices out of natural gas? Are we talking about petroleum at all in this discussion? Does this whattaboutist thing actually address the point I'm making at all?
Yes, but I consider children fulfillment of instinctual needs. As I've seen my grandparents age and see how my extended family works, I just can't see myself childless.

If you don't want children, don't worry about it. Population increases exponentially.
as article stated - there is a difference between opening that link with and without trailing slash.

without it - it serves exactly the same page with 200 OK (and redirects you to slash url but with javascript, not with Location header)

So i guess there is just a little server misconfiguration mixed with javascript application taking the opposite way of thinking about urls than the server
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