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Global semiconductor sales continue to drop
Usually you have to first build the thing you want and then you can build the thing that will build what you want. You can’t go straight to the second. You need the experience of having built the thing.
Why didn’t they say they were sorry when it turned out they’d messed up?
a few million years bc - one dinosaur grunts to another
The puzzles needed for the low-effort ending are all like that, but some of the puzzles required for the 100%-completion ending are literally outside the box, requiring you to use tools from multiple discrete puzzle zones together, or to liberate tools from their zones to use in a portion of the level outside the puzzle fences.

Additionally, there are multiple Easter eggs peppering the game that take some amount of subversive reasoning to see or touch.

There's a "solve the puzzle as presented" level of reasoning, and there's a "break the puzzle" level of reasoning. Some puzzles have a "get the tetromino" solution, a "get the star" solution, and a "get somewhere I shouldn't be able to reach" solution.

For instance, have you found the Space Core, from Portal 2, in The Talos Principle?
I wrote a little Go tool a few years back that can use your Digital Ocean account as a Dynamic DNS provider. It has been running on my EdgeRouter ever since with a cron job.

https://github.com/2bytes/dodns
I had this question too. My interpretation of the post was that human centered design is supposed to make experiences seamless to the user and reduce any friction. That accustoms users to expect a certain level of convenience with every product or service they use. That expectation of convenience and resistance of anything slightly inconvenient is what is causing mass consumerism, mistreatment of others, neglect for the bigger picture as a whole.

I tentatively agree with the sentiment. Negative consequences stemming from aversion to discomfort is a theme I've been noticing a lot in my personal life.
There are no proper L4 performance comparisons.

A few benchmark L4Linux, where L4 is not used as a microkernel but a hypervisor which consequently proves nothing about the micokernel paradigm.
I'm not an expert in this area, but I think the general line of thinking is that it's concentration of poverty that causes these kinds of problems in the first place. Now that the problems exist, spreading the poverty around as you point out won't make the problems go away.

I'm sure there has been research done on this, I will try to find some references.
If only it were that easy.
It would be wild if they pull this IPO. I consider the WeWork leadership team to be entirely unethical and wouldn't want to invest in them myself, so I'll admit to feeling a bit of schadenfreude.
I feel like this is something that a good pharmacist could have helped call out. Still, they're kind of the last resort in these things, and you won't always hear the "real" side effects unless you ask them (and they may know better than the doctor. Glad to hear you're getting closer to okay.
Germany is not in the five eyes. Its a Commonwealth thing.
The US is doing mainly industrial espionage in Germany and drag net mass surveillance...
That's a good start
Looking at an ambitious, high-concept, money-burning endeavor like The We Company[a] from the outside, one would assume "there must be at least some adults in the room, in control of the situation; no one would have signed up on this otherwise... right?"

Apparently, no.

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[a] I'm not sure it can be called a "business." Judging by the financial details in the S-1, if the We Co. doesn't raise gobs of capital soon, via the IPO or otherwise, it will quickly run out of cash: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1533523/000119312519...
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Yes and that's a tall order considering even we humans do not even have general intelligence. Our minds are just a federation of special intelligences.
The implications of 'irreversible' are that it's going to become much more difficult to reverse in the "short term" (less than hundreds of years) as after the various tipping points reversing would involve not only to cancel/compensate for our emissions, but also to overcome the much larger positive feedback loops e.g. methane released by melting permafrost, increased solar absorbtion/heating after the reflective icecaps melt, etc.

It's not technically irreversible, however, the point is that however expensive and difficult prevention might seem, reversing it after the temperature increase is going to be much, much more expensive and difficult. And our capacity to do stuff is going to decrease as we suffer from the consequences - e.g. population reduction, conflicts, etc.
Thanks for writing this. Do you have any good starting points for someone interested in developing applications on GNUnet?
Lack of cell coverage is out of their control, but that doesn't excuse them from designing around the problem.

It appears they're aware of the problem, but certain known issues prevent access (cellular unit draining car battery seems to be the common one and sounds like something that should be fixable).
The Skype of today is crap compared to the first Skype I used and loved. It is completely unclear what it tries to be now and the interface is horrible.

I have an unlimited-Europe plan with it and a phone number attached to it, but I'd rather use something else some day. I haven't found any cheaper alternatives though. Maybe someone here can point one out to me.
"understanding the basics of the operating system internals and how your code interacts with them" is far, far from the lowest level.

It is also an essential understanding for writing quality, performant code in any context--web development included, even frontend.
> Scientists and engineers put us on the moon, but it was government that directed and enabled them to do so.

Rather: the government was arguably the only institution that could spend a sufficient amount of money for this mission. If there had existed another insitution with similar financial backing that was willing to finance such a mission: I doubt that the government would have been necessary.
Or kilogram per liter for sane people. ;-)
Road show going that well?

WeWork highlights why I am still skeptical of pure index investing. This company seems rotten, and I would not deliberately buy their stock. But there's a big pool of index fund money that will be thrown at this company's stock no matter how poor their governance is or how much self-dealing they do... just because it's public.
PEPSI had a navy
They could just invest early into a low-margin yet large piece of the pie that will grow into a multiple of itself.

PS: not too fond of WeWork myself, but that's how I could see it.
You seem quote excited about ~300 dollars of services. I wonder if $300 is a lot of money in your area.
> Just because Finland introduced boxes and other countries didn't does not mean that the Finland's contribution to the overall decrease to infant mortality was not due to boxes.

You're arguing against a straw man. The article implies that the boxes are driving the decrease in infant mortality. The OP points out that this is ignoring the global decrease in infant mortality. The OP did not assert that the boxes made no contribution to the decrease in infant mortality.

> Also, for gp comment -- nanny is a odd way to spell welfare.

I genuinely don't understand your point. "Nanny state" and "welfare state" are synonymous, at least in the U.S.
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> needlessly to say someone who gives facebook their phone number for verification purposes does likely not expect that the data is leaked or sold without their permission.

Sadly, this isn't the case anymore. People absolutely expect companies to sell or leak every last bit of PII data they have on all their customers now.
BTW this looks like the tool that could have created the output format from the twitter screenshot: https://github.com/DominicBreuker/stego-toolkit/blob/master/.... That repo has a Dockerfile so you can build the Docker image to see if you can recreate their results.
I think they meant government-directed (mega-)engineering projects will solve this, not individual efforts. When the US wanted to get to the moon, its government created and funded a huge engineering program (Apollo) but the most individuals could do was pay their taxes and support the program—no amount of individual-scale collective action would ever put astronauts on the moon.
In the Netherlands they've closed all but one regular check out line, and instead of paying cashiers they pay people to tell you to go to the automatic one. The reliability of the self check out (how often it craps itself and waits for assistance) really depends on the supermarket chain you're at though. At some it never breaks, at some it breaks almost every time (so hardly anyone uses it there).
I'm inclined to agree.

* Commenters have to beg to get link to screenshot. OP tweets that he doesn't have Internet.

* No upload of supposed output.

* No reproduction instructions

* program doesn't actually emit the output in the screenshot if run over supposed input

* Banner present in screenshot that doesn't appear in this
program's output (edit: ah, someone found a wrapper that does.[1])

* Confusion between output size in bytes of an encoded GPG key with all its metadata, and a cryptographic key's length in bits

* Outdated version of an ancient bespoke program that can barely build itself

Don't get your news or politics from Twitter.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20886905
> Two decades ago we could have solved the problem if economic growth in the rest of the world stopped.

So stop the economic growth in the rest of the world to save the climate.
The article also mentions the folks who are made wealthy by working for those few thousand families.

> A class of enablers has arisen to help Moneylanders perform parts two and three of what Bullough describes as their eternal cycle: “steal-hide-spend”. London overflows with lawyers, bankers, accountants, estate agents, public relations advisers, luxury-goods sellers, restaurateurs and art dealers who make their living servicing criminals. They see themselves as neutral, highly skilled professionals who (mostly, anyway) work within the law.
> It could not have been dragged off by a storm

I'd have thought that until other evidence comes to light, this is the most likely answer actually.
I don't see how replacing dozens of people with one robot and a human 'minder' is at all, juicing the workforce. Its just more automation.
Really that easy huh. Why don't you ask Meng Hongwei if it's that easy, or may Fan Bing Bing if it's that easy.

When your government is willing to torture and kill you in order to get their way, and they are willing to do it on foreign soil, it doesn't seem so easy, or safe.
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They bay is partly prohibited to be visited because it is used by the military.

It is also believed that a lot of ammunition was disposed there after WW2, which perhaps could offer some starting points for an explanation, even if unlikely.

The military currently uses it for torpedo tests and perhaps someone is currently really starting to sweat after reading this article.
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I'd say bitcoin usecase is being decrapified gold.
I think this is what you're referring to[0]; it only happened because Visa, MC, and Paypal can dangle their source of revenue over their heads any time they want something changed or a creator removed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17432801
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If the DRM stopped it working then it was not a CD (aka "a defective CD), as a CD - as per the Red Book standard - does not support DRM. You should get your money back.
Crowdcube breaks record as fintech Curve reaches £6M target in five hours
Yes, and they are repeatedly wrong in their predictions. We can't accurately forecast the weather a few days out. All our great hurricane model forecasts are off and that's typically a day or two out in the future. There are just far too many variables at play that we don't even know about for us to accurately forecast anything climate related that far into the future.
You would have to dive to cut the cable. Easier, if your boat is powerful enough, to pull until the cable breaks. Ignoring malicious activity, could be something as simple as an anchor got caught and they pulled the station with it?
this is super old, 2013, why is it on the front page?
MSN Messenger with Pidgin as the client is the best IM experience I've ever had, at least for one to one conversations. There's also something to be said for identifying contacts by their email addresses, since even when the IM inevitably dies, you have a way to reach these people.
I’ve been uncivil on HN from time to time and have never felt harassed by dang. If you’re being followed around, I suspect it’s because of a repeated and consistent pattern of unproductive soap boxing.
Seem to have high search engine rankings and is relatively recent. Trying to relearn C has been a pain because a lot of material was either too basic (i.e. teaches programming basics more than it does C) or not very detailed, but that site has helped me with a few concepts.
Same with Extreme Risk Protection Orders, a.k.a. red flag laws.

EDIT: looks like red flag laws were already listed by the parent comment. Somehow I must have read right past it.
This almost feels like a Marxist critique of human centered design: while we all talk about the virtues of this design process, the real power lies only in the underlying economics. Virtue itself is a distraction that keeps us from engaging with the dispassionate mechanisms of profit that truly drive what does and does not exist.

That's a little over the top, and maybe the entire article is a little over the top, but it's also a useful perspective. Like many virtue-centered value systems, people try to bring these into business and then are frustrated when everyone says they care and yet nothing happens. On a personal level people DO care (even top executives!), but institutions have structures to insulate themselves from individual interests. Things like KPIs are there to keep individuals from accidentally projecting their own desires and sense of virtue onto the company.

If, despite all of this, you still wish to project your own desires onto the company, then it may be best to do so with a degree of cynicism. The article demonstrates such cynicism. It might additionally be useful to frame your own desires as subversive, to acknowledge that they are not prime motivators. Maybe they can be subordinate to the prime motivators of the company... but maybe not even that. Making the argument might itself be a form of subversive behavior.
> Their City sets don’t include guns and guns are the exception, not the rule, otherwise.

That line got me thinking. I think you are right and I've never seen a police minifig with a weapon.
> These three things won't be sufficient, but are required to even approach zero emissions. Does it seem plausible to suceed in somehow forcing everyone worldwide to implement such policies within a decade?

So governments should better finance mitigations for the consequences of climate change.
There are still areas where you're very much "coding tight inner loops and wizardly algorithms", namely shader programming. But it's true this is only one component within the high speed rail network.
Maracaibo – once the Venezuelan equivalent of El Dorado – hits rock bottom
I think this is their strategy, and I think what's more they will want to solve these things vertically 'on top of' slack as plugins and apps. They started filling the pipeline for this a while ago by literally funding startups building such things. Acquiring some of the more popular ones is surely one of the goals, should this work out.
UBiome files for bankruptcy, months after FBI kicks off investigation
Actually, that analogy would only make sense if "you" refused to order anything but tuna salad and expected them to send the truck out without fail when they were out. And they had to comply with your request for some reason.

In that case, yeah, they should ban "you".
I just got an email from Segment reporting something very similar. I think you are right
You just unironically argued that chat applications are not about communication, while Slack is. This makes no sense, as chatting is communication.
well Softbank can come up with some profit of the shorts angle.
> integrating with new Microsoft product Y, single sign on working and easy deploys to all office machines, support from Microsoft

Those sound more like great features than "workplace bureaucracy".
The way XNU converged from its microkernel nature to a more monolithic one has led to all kinds of funkiness. You still have more syscall overhead (and VM but message passing isn't probably the culprit idk) but can't really trust Mach to separate kernel's internal systems like one would in a typical microkernel.

For presumably optimization reasons arbitrary pointers (rather than checked messages) are passed around different parts of the kernel. And that exposes some quite bad security issues from time to time.
I do as well and I see them all the time in my area.
I wish I had an air conditioner in my head right now.
Hangouts chat as well, GSuite integration: https://gsuite.google.com/products/chat/

It's one of the few products that's forced Google to create a desktop app (even if it still is CEF based).
There's a path dependence to everything. Had we started earlier, we would have shaped the curve of possibilities: renewables would be cheaper, storage solutions would have come online earlier, etc. We would have shaped international dialogue and culture around this issue too, with other nations following the US's lead as far as policies and technologies adopted.

Real world example of path dependence: Supreme Court stops recount in FL --> GWB elected --> Pulling out of Kyoto protocols, starting wars --> [...] Trump elected, partially due to government mistrust seeded in GWB era--> even worse climate change policies
They're a cloud-based software company. Where is this "heavy investment in growth" going to? It's not like if they needed huge capex expenditure to grow.
> a process and management methodology

After being a manager, I'd say that is not a wrong goal. If your team's success depends on individual heroes, then it is a fragile setup. People can be absent for a lot of reasons - changing jobs, parental leaves, disabilities, ... A good manager should put in place appropriate processes such that even if someone leaves the team, the show goes on smoothly for everyone else.
Attackers Ask $5.3M in Ransom, New Bedford Makes Offer for $400k
The term "connect the dots" implies that they've discovered an existing pattern, while the article itself suggests that China is manufacturing their own "dots" about US involvement in order to connect them.
How does a guy making a prediction make a fool of Christianity? That's like saying if I read a science textbook and then incorrectly predict flying cars by 2020, that I have made a fool of science.

Jesus Himself said: "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. ... Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come. But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into." (Matthew 24:36-43)
Except there haven't been severe storms in the area since 21 August.
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Right, I mean, I agree, but my point was: It looked like a CD, I bought it from a physical shop selling CDs, it was a modern release from a top 10 pop star at the time. So if you want to listen to music, the algorithm "just buy [what looks like] a CD from a shop, then you won't have to deal with DRM" was not true, at least in my case.
> And our capacity to do stuff is going to decrease as we suffer from the consequences - e.g. population reduction, conflicts, etc.

If the population reduces, the emission of greenhouse gases decrease which helps to reverse the effect of climate change.
Well yeah, businesses that are failing/flailing will obviously want to spin the ‘investing in growth’ narrative rather than tell the truth. My point is just that you need to look deeper than revenue and losses to determine which is which.
As someone that uses both slack and webex teams at work, I cannot emphasize enough how much better slack is. Maybe it's because webex teams is beyond awful, but I've used skype and hipchat before as well, so I feel like I can make a somewhat fair assessment.
It's my interpretation that by deciding the bits of each word, they included subtext/classification that would differentiate 'walk' and 'stroll'.
This is accurate, but the sense I get is that there's a deliberate effort to move from licensed IP to Lego-created brands.

E.g. there are vastly more "Friends" kits, the Lego house brand targeted at girls, than Disney princesses.

Ninjago has become a perennial answer to the sword fighting action that Star Wars only delivers intermittently.

Lego's new "Hidden Side" brand seems clearly targeted at being a Lego-owned alternative to Harry Potter with alternative schools, trains, buses, etc.

I also get the sense that the 3rd party licenses are actually more focused towards the "Adult Fan of Lego/AFOL" community, e.g. the $200 Stranger Things kit, the $399 Disney Castle, and the $799 Millenium Falcon seem priced well above even what generous parents will spend on birthday/holiday gifts.

It would be interesting to see the sales breakdown between in-house and licensed brands and how it's shifting over time.
The headline was "When I Took My Zipcar Into the Wilderness." It's a pretty underwhelming headline and I have no idea why anybody would possibly object to it.

How is that clickbait? Even the subheadline is a pretty fair description of events: "In an area without cellphone reception, I was unable to open the car."
Sales and marketing.
While I think slack is much more useful that any of the ones you mentioned due to 'unique' implementation but it's not hard to replicate. Plenty of communities already use free alternatives like Discord (despite it's focus on 'gaming' communities). I expect open source solutions (Matrix mostly), both self hosted and ran by low cost hosting providers, to start taking Slacks market share once they reach feature parity & a level of polish.
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To be honest, compared to all of those with the exception of maybe Rocketchat, it has way more features and integrations. I don't think it's a fair assessment to compare to to WhatsApp, MS Messenger, FB Messenger because those have no place in an enterprise environment.
This line of reasoning concludes that the existence of a federal or state law implies its constitutionality.

Given that the system requires a law to be passed before a challenge in court, this reasoning is inherently fallacious, since if it were true, no law could be ruled unconstitutional.
So they might not ease insomnia and anxiety?
I think the Bay (Eckernförde) is so small and shallow that any US Submarine would have been spotted immediately.
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Slack is different from those companies of yore. Back then, if you created a chat program and went to an investment bank, they'd laugh you out of the office, or advise that you take whatever acquisition offer you can get, because a chat program with tons of competitors isn't enough to build a profitable business on.
If they need to spend more on sales an marketing than it brings in they are even more doomed than I thought...
Okay, it's interesting, but a few questions:

How do you manage the "forever" part with a cloud service that could go away?

How is this not just "dropbox, but only for photos"?