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"dune -- the battle for arrakis" what a trip down the memory lane! it had one of the best game soundtracks ever made. command and conquer, starcraft and warcraft all came a few years later and copied everything they did right. but dune was way too iconic.

okay... perhaps command and conquer came close enough. i still remember siding with the global defense initiative because the name sounded way too cool.

someone ought to put these real-time strategy gems in a classic package!
The Tleilaxu are the Fremen now?
The goal is to encourage people _not_ to throw away perfectly safe food.
If you've got actual evidence the policy has changed, let's see it. This article has none, no one else has any, but if you've got new information, now is the time to come forward with it.
I use hn.algolia.com and it’s fantastic.

With HN as is, I think plenty can be done to make it light weight and make it even more performant.

E.g HN isn’t a progressive web app. So you’re loading the same things over and over again. With a service worker HN could teach even more people around the world with a spotty connection.

May be I should prototype and build it.
Packaging isn't a concern. To put something back on the shelf, they should not only make sure the contents are complete and not physically damaged, but actually working.

Anecdotally speaking, I had a high rate of those items not working and had to return them myself. So while all the parts were typically there and the devices powered on, the product often times didn't work. I finally concluded that they likely didn't differentiate returns that were caused by the customer changing their mind vs. customers claiming the stuff didn't work... or that the only check they made for "not working" product was a simple power on type test; given the quality of staff and costs of doing any thing more probably made it difficult to do better (maybe they didn't have good vendor return terms, good vendor allowances, etc. ... who knows) Again, my experience, but I felt like I was playing for slot machine odds when I bought those products... your mileage may have varied.

I stopped shopping there years ago because the quality of the experience and that I didn't trust the open box product and wasn't sure I could reliably get unopened product... the trip to the store just wasn't worth the aggravation. I think that must have been before the restock fees as I don't recall ever having that issue myself (those the returns process was not exactly fun). I did like the store theming, particularly in the Southern CA stores (which is where I shopped them the most).
At what point does green become blue?
Grafana has an ES connector
If you search YouTube for "blind coder" you'll find a number of people who have worked out different solutions.

It actually gets interesting because there are blind and visually impaired coders all over the world represented in the first bunch of links that show up.

I have chronic Central Serus Retinopathy in my dominant eye that seems to get worse year by year and leaves me night blind on one side. It's not as bad as what you're dealing with, but I do very much sympathize with you.
I have no idea what the GP thread wrote, but it seems it was probably off base. In general: Nowadays, I believe there is a subtle and misguided conflation between a rare few, loud, victim-hierarchy-obsessive crybullies trying to impose collective outcomes with selective, collective punishment of "perpetrator groups" (possibly referred to as SJWs) with greater numbers of people who have legitimate, historical persecutions and casual, recurring bias harm (those who needed and try to maintain actual social justice without bothering people beyond what's essential).
100% agreed. You can write C-style code in JavaScript, but it won't be idiomatic C and it won't be idiomatic js.

Syntax is a very minor piece of the programming language pie. If Python, Haskell, and Rust all shared the same syntax an expert Python programmer would still have a hell of a time getting anything done in either of the other two languages.
Here's a 2019 APA study that suggests that technology, and digital media use, and sleep disturbance may play in mood disorder.

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/abn-abn0000410.pd...
This is largely false.

Some mainstream treatment approaches can be somewhat effective for some people. Maybe they can be completely effective for some people. I'm not going to argue the toss on that.

But there's a significant cohort of people for whom these conditions do not respond well to conventional treatment, at least to the extent of full recovery.

I'm one of those people.

We're talking about at least 19 years of dealing with anxiety, and plenty of depression along the way. Some medications have been moderately effective at abating some of the symptoms, but not at bringing about anything approximating complete recovery and a "normal" life.

What has been effective for me is a long-term program involving a combination of subconscious emotional healing techniques, as well as various physiological healing methods, including:

- detoxification of heavy metals (including lead, mercury, aluminium),

- increasing/balancing levels of critical nutrients (particularly minerals - calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, iron and zinc, as well as iodine, which is critically low in many people with complex health problems, due to its crucial role in thyroid function, and which is insufficient in may people's diets, particularly in western countries),

- addressing chronic infections (e.g., Epstein Barr, Cytomegalovirus, fungal, bacterial and parasitic infections),

- adopting an anti-inflammatory diet, and

- regularly engaging in the right kinds of exercise (stretching and core strength exercises like yoga/pilates), and moderate (definitely not strenuous) cardio exercise like brisk walking.

After about 8 years of that I'm almost fully recovered, I think and desperately hope.

But you won't get recommendations for any of these approaches from a conventional psychologist or psychiatrist, and if you were to ask one about them you'd get laughed out of the clinic.

Thus, many people continue to suffer, even after years of treatment from mainstream practitioners.
Dune II was developed by Westwood Studios before C&C. Also, they made a remake of the game with C&C engine, Dune 2000. I really like it because of the different kind of grounds and the sandworms that both add tactical depths in comparison to C&C and RA.
I can often get the text of the article in Emacs, so I generally do that. My TTS integration is better in Emacs than Firefox anyway, so I actually prefer it for longer reading.

But regardless of our personal work-arounds or workflows, those websites shouldn't be like that. The general public is still subjected to the default experience and that bothers me.
My last Fry's trip, coincidentally at the Palo Alto store, I was searching for an 2-3ft HDMI extender, female to male. I figured since this was for connecting to a Raspi, I should start there. Plenty of small HDMI cables, but no dice.

I happened upon another isle with 100m cables, by the ethernet cables, but a bit of searching saw they were not there.

Lets check out the computer area, I see tonnes of options, search through them all, can't find it. break down and ask a guy, after much confusion he hauls be back to the raspi section. i told him I've already looked there.

I walk back and see the tv/video section, of course, lots of high-end cables but no extender cable. Ask a guy, do you even have these? He shrugs, asked me if I looked through the computer section, I said yes, and I already looked in components. He started arguing with me that they didn't have ANY HDMI-anything there. "Why would you think they were there?!?!"

Finally as I'm walking away, I spot some random sub-section of the tv isle. And around 8 cables there, I look over, there's one that's 5m long, weighs what seems to be 10lbs and cost $30. And I got my 10k steps in.
I’ve run into this too. Earlier this summer I dropped $500 on a new LG air conditioner on Amazon. Out of the box it was covered in a layer of oil, probably from the compressor. Needless to say, it didn’t work. Despite that, Amazon refused to accept it as a return and LG is yet to agree to refund me the purchase price. Amazing how little these companies are willing to stand behind their own products.
Rudyard Kipling: American Imperialist
This looks analogous to the terms you sign when engaging an employment recruiting agency to find you employees. Those terms have existed for ages and there's settled law behind them. Why is finding a person to walk your dog any different?

Disclaimer : I don't have a dog in this fight though we do have a couple of cats and a small gecko.
I found it funny that random decisions from 60s, 70s, 80s still have repercussions on how we use computers today, because backwards compatibility beats cleanliness every time.

Be right back, solving some Windows backslash and CRLF issues.
This is absolutely beautiful.

Wow! Thank you for the post.
Think of sound waves reflecting off a wall. As soon as the first wavefront hits, it is sent back.

With this thing, you would send soundwaves at the wall, and it would store the energy in the sound for a short period before sending it back.

It looks like it compresses the time interval for energy release as well. So you'd play a little Mozart at normal volume at the wall, and then after (say) 1 second it would send a cacaphony of noise back at you.

It also looks like they can control what direction the wall sends sound back in. And it looks like the period in which they can store energy is very limited.

As for "can control when the energy is released" - they control it by controlling when the incoming signal stops. They have to do a lot of control on the incoming signals for this to work.

They mention future work to build such a device with photons. I'd hazard a guess that then you could use this to build a fancy phased array radar analogue.
>Latest news about "superfoods" or nutrition. I heard about someone who waited 5 years to act on food trends. None lasted that long before more latest nutrition news superseded it.

The Atkins diet bore all the sociological hallmarks of every other diet fad when it became popular in the first decade of the millennium, however, its basic advice (reducing carb intake) seems to have been valid from today's perspective.
Jafar Panahi: arrested, banned and defying Iran with his new film (2012)
Am I the only one who didn't understand what it does from the README?
But then if you are using Stablecoin as your currency, what's the benefit over the dollar?
Is Firefox able to identify misbehaving extensions at runtime? And alert the user?
From my experience, JS is relatively portable, at least if you stay away from some corners. CSS (and some aspects of HTML) are a much more likely reason for strange differences between browsers. Another common culprit for browser-specific bugs is simply using browser-specific CSS extensions, because sometimes it is simpler than fiddling with standard CSS until it looks right.
Been a sysadmin for 25 years myself.
Not only are there Islamic themes, there are also Jewish themes. The name "Kwisatz Haderach" is based on Hebrew. (This is mentioned in the list.)
I’m sick of Chrome eating all my RAM
If you buy a brand new server and use it for your PC, does that make it repurposed? To most people, it's a brand new computer.
This was quite unintentional as the main point is how amazingly bizarre it looks.

BTW I already had a publication on HN about MANOOL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20599209
In Praise of 'Scruffy Hospitality'
Or you can always buy a $40 wood case for your Apple Card
I think in Switzerland it's about 25 years until your plot gets recycled
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Burial is something that humanity should be able to let go as a whole. It pollutes. It wastes resources and space. We need to find other ways to mourn, remember and symbolize. Ways that will let us treat the body as compost would be ideal, but hard to sell to the general population.
The standard should be “beyond a reasonable doubt” as in criminal trials. The legal definition of home should probably match the legal definition of residency used for other purposes.
1. I'm not really sure what you are asking. If this helps, what I want (and what I call a free market) is a situation where people are free to make their own decisions because the use of non-preventative force is barred. The government uses preventative force to prevent other people from using force. This is a "domestic" issue. It doesn't really have anything to do with international relations.

2 and 3. If you go back to my example, customers don't want Shitcoin in the first place, so realistically, they would never seek to obtain it. So it isn't really the case that customers are trying to get merchants to take their Shitcoin. There just isn't any point in using it at all. The reason "bad money drives out the good" in Gresham's law is because the government puts the bad money into the economy. Absent something like that, bad money just isn't wanted and nobody keeps it. If they get it they immediately convert it to a good currency, so if it pops into existence somehow, it immediately goes out of existence. Visa and Paypal and whatnot are not different currencies. They are different payment mechanisms. I agree with you that customers and merchants would likely want to use multiple of these, and that merchants would be driven to accept all the common payment mechanisms.

This has been a worthwhile discussion and I'm sure we could keep going, but I really have to take a break from hacker news for a while. So let's call it a day. If you want to read about free markets, check out the book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand if you haven't already.
I'd also like to thank HN.

It still works on my Blackberry 8700 under Opera Mini, and is the only site that I commonly use that I can say that about.

So HN performs fine using GPRS/EDGE!
Then you won’t have anywhere to store ~/.ssh/rc, and the version you’d put in /etc would still unfortunately apply to all users.
How do you expect anyone to be able to answer that question? I doubt even people employeed by Google would be able to answer it unless they are very high up in the food chain.
CR and the BBB are cancer. They're worse than irrelevant - they are products of the bygone age of post-war high-trust production. The field is very very ripe for disruption, but bias and conflicting interests are a tough nut to crack.
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All of the verification is done on the kernel side of the boundary, all entrance points to the kernel via syscalls are marked using static code analysis so that the kernel never trusts a pointer provided from user-mode, so even if you sysenter yourself, you can't do anything Special
Directly monetizing programming tools is quite difficult.

And, as other have said, Rust has already paid off for them with the vastly improved performance of FF Quantum.

I think a better avenue for Mozilla would be offering an equivalent to Chrome Enterprise and GSuite. A paid set of services and managed functionality for Firefox.

Last I heard, the performance issues for GMail and GSuite was due to them using an outdated draft version of an internet standard that Chrome implemented, but no one else did. Offering a paid 'Mozilla Mail' may bring some needed competition.
Rather than just repeatedly submitting this, you should email the mods (hn@ycombinator.com) to get their advice on how to get a successful response.

If they think it's a good submission they'll put it in the second-chance queue to give it a better chance of getting seen.
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Since I have been down-voted: Master degrees are valued differently in different countries. In Germany there would be more cases where they would be helpful than in America.
I'm not. Kevin J Anderson is basically the sci-fi equivalent of a grave robber, in my view.
This is super cool! Does anyone have any insight into whether this sort of muscle-movement based vocalization has been done in the past?
That's a really good point. Companies being required to buy back their products when they die should align the incentives to solve the problem, which is essentially one of unhandled economic externalities.

Has anything changed in Europe since these kinds of laws have been put in place?

In Canada, we have a fixed environmental disposal fee slapped on certain classes of electronic products. I wonder if that fee actually makes the problem worse because it makes high-durability manufacturers subsidize their planned-obsolescence competition!
"free" in this case meaning uncompensated, not worthless.
That's per year per watt, though. A fridge made prior to 1990 probably uses 1000-1500 kWh/year, and one made more recently probably uses 300-500 kWh/year. There's $70+ per year.
Well, since education puts people deeply into debt in the USA, I am actually not very surprised.
SAST vs SCA It’s Like Comparing Apples to Oranges
Sometimes you dont need new features to improve you website. Reorganization of the content is what is needed. Many choose to redesign the layout to better facilitate the new structure of the content.
This isn't a complete answer to you're question, but one note. They aren't building an interpreter in wasm. They are compiling elixir to native wasm. Elixir code wouldn't be shipped to the client.
The actual like is pretty small, about half a KB. Just a light graphql query that responds with updated counts for different reactions (happy/sad/etc). They definitely batch it with some other stuff though. Batching is really important for browser performance.
Not if you run out of electricity
curiously looks like it could be in the trough of a milankovich cycle.
Jake Paul is mature, FOR a 5 year old.
Let’s do both.
Urban insurgency tactics? These people aren’t armed in any meaningful way nor is there any way for them to become armed.
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Ha! I wouldn’t be surprised if you found it altogether too condescending...

I generally find myself being a little more brutal with people who sound/read like me 18-20 years ago, partly because I think that being hit over the head can actually do some good. It certainly helped me, and I’d have done better to listen more quickly rather than having the echoes of those much wiser than me take decades to sink in.

I strongly favor raw learning ability over knowledge when hiring for most positions. It’s incredibly valuable to be able to transition from one space to another over the span of 3-12 months (depending on the domain). Some badges are harder to earn (e.g. mathematics, physics, hardware, distributed design), but I generally feel okay taking someone who is an expert in one space and pointing them at another space that relies on the same fundamentals if they seem like they can learn.

I do, however, prioritize two things above learning proficiency when hiring:

1. Accurate self-assessment. If you can’t understand where you are, you’re going to be a constant headache.
2. Not an asshole. An asshole can destroy a team, even if they’re brilliant.

I want someone to be able to learn deeply quickly, though. Generally, if they have that ability, they’ll have real depth in areas of prior learning. For candidates at the Senior Engineer levels and above, I’ll spend at least an hour or two before the interview reading their publications or digging in on their areas of stated expertise so I can ask questions probing to their edge (or mine). Sadly, I hit the candidate edge first for roughly 80% of candidates, and it strongly correlates to no-hires.
Guess what, they did it in Beijing and it worked out for them. This isn’t a fucking democracy we’re talking about.
Interestingly, some distros have undone/are undoing the usr split, fedora around 2012 and Debian still ongoing, see https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge and its associated links
> E.g HN isn’t a progressive web app. So you’re loading the same things over and over again. With a service worker HN could teach even more people around the world with a spotty connection.

Hacker News uses standard HTTP headers to cache all its CSS, JavaScript, and images. The only thing that gets re-downloaded when you click a link is the actual text content on the page -- usually about ten kilobytes. And isn't that almost always what you want, to make sure you see the latest posts, comments, and vote counts?

Because it's standard HTML, Hacker News also works with existing features like Chrome for Android's "download page when back online" button.
IPA: Invariant-preserving applications for weakly consistent replicated DB’s
FYI - our dishwasher died and we called a local appliance repairman, unaffiliated with any manufacturer. He told us it couldn't be fixed and suggested we buy a Whirlpool to replace it. So that particular brand seems to command at least some respect.
Did you skip over the section where they say to use the C++17 version that doesn't have this issue?

I looked in the paper to find the explanation for why the preprocessor version is non-portable; there wasn't anything clearly written but it seems to be related to how it assigns unique ID's to log statements.
Actually, we already quoted them in an earlier blog:
https://nextcloud.com/blog/a-wave-of-cities-all-over-europe-...

;-)
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Coincidental that I read this exactly 5 min after I broke glasses of my wristwatch, which was gifted to me by someone close.

Wondering how to fix my watch now.
So, each of these cases would need to go to trial?
“This article is not meant to be a literary nor an exhaustive topical critique of the novels, which I am cannot fully do, because simply, I did not read the original novels. ”

Why is this highly rated on HN then?!
Your points about logging with care saving more cycles that logging efficiently is very right.

That said, here's how I've handled efficient logging in realtime threads since the old days of 100MHz processors: postpone the formatting to a non-realtime thread. Assume your log_printf() will have no more than 10 int-sized args. Grab and save the 10 "ints". When doing the format in the non-realtime thread, pass in the 10 ints. Obviously this won't work with every CPU arch, but it does work fine for all the most common ones. Now every time you do a log_printf(), 1 pointer and 10 ints are copied to a buffer, which is very quick.

The catch is that your format string must be not be changed (e.g. use a string literal). Also any strings you want to print must also be const.
I'm sick of Chrome eating all my RAM
"Best by" labels have no inherent accuracy. However, you know fairly certainly that for two instances X, Y of exactly the same product, if bestby(X) > bestby(Y), then X is the fresher one.

Furthermore, you know that the less fresh one is at least |bestby(X) - bestby(Y)| days old.

If the difference in "best by" between two instances is three months, one of them is at least three months old already: it's three months plus the age of the newer one.

That's really the only accurate use of these labels: to leave the old stock on the shelf for someone who doesn't care. Once you bring it home they have little value.
The post that I responded to said "Turing's machines," I assume this didn't mean "Turing machines" because that's an abstract concept so what would it even mean for it to be "used directly?"

All I meant to say is that machines designed/built by Turing were in fact very, very useful in their time. I was too lazy about it though and should have looked up the name in the beginning.
If 200 MW of generation trips instantly, which is typical when electrical equipment fails, you need 200 MW to replace it in the next few seconds, and then additional generation to bring the frequency back to Nominal.

So far the largest battery is 40 MW? So not really going to help more than 40 MW can, even if it comes online instantly, when 200 MW trips off.
Just a short remark: this reminds me of Cobol.
Hm, so maybe all I need is an extension to rewrite twitter links to the mobile version. Will look into, thanks!