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> With that being said, the current policy doesn't seem to be to scrap them entirely, but to remove their charity status.

It does not make sense to scrap their charity status.

As you said, people who send their children to private schools are not necessarily wealthy. But in any case they do pay their taxes yet they do not use state schools' resources, which actually means more money per state school pupil. Why would these people have to pay extra taxes for not using state facilities that they already finance? (Because that's exactly what this would mean)

Private schools help the system. Hitting them would hurt everyone.

That being said, at this year party conference they did vote to scrap private schools altogether, to seize their assets, and tho redistribute these assets "democratically".

> they're doing so to push the class divide

It is an ideological class war. This is communist.
I don't speak from experience but changing spouse may come with a change in priorities.
What jobs don't have drawbacks though? I have been thinking a bit about this:

1. Doctor: In many cases, throw away your life and work 60+ hours and also you need to specialize and study long and hard.

2. Laywer: I don't know enough about the profession. The job doesn't transfer well to other countries.

3. Consultant: 60+ hour days are the norm, interviews tend to be based on quick thinking in the high school arena. To pass the interview, you need to have excellent and super quick high school level knowledge of: math, logic, social and political skills. This sound denigrating but I found it tough to do this quick.

4. Investment banker: 100 hours

5. Construction worker: your body will thank you later (/sarcasm).

Programmers have a certain set of advantages and disadvantages (I agree with your disadvantages), but how is it worse than other white collar jobs?
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For comparison, here are a few of the highest rates per 100k in the US:

98.7 - Kusilvak Census Area, AK;
75.1 - Nome Census Area, AK;
64.2 - Sioux County, ND;
58.9 - Buffalo County, SD;
49.3 - Carbon County, UT

https://vizhub.healthdata.org/subnational/usa

Extend the list and you see lots of high latitudes, low incomes, remote rural settings, and indigenous American populations (e.g. Yupik and Inupiaq in Alaska, Sioux in the Dakotas).

Alcoholism is often common in these places, although survey data do not show it affecting the groups in northern Alaska so heavily. Deaths due to chronic liver disease are not particularly high for them, either. There's a distinct history in Nunavut, though, so the story might be different.
World governments can also just generally have you arrested or killed without a ton of fuss if you are a big problem.

The problem with the NSA revelations wasn't that the NSA spies on people - that's their job.

It was about mass warrant-less surveillance of the american public, not individual targeted surveillance.
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I think you've misread that.

Nuclear is 6% of primary power consumption, not electricity consumption.

The reduction in both nuclear and renewables is presumably because the other sources are burnt, losing a great deal of energy as heat during conversion to electricity. (Nuclear also loses heat but I don't think anyone keeps track of the initial heat output as it's not a very useful number).
This isn’t HN. There’s nothing to discuss and it doesn’t meet the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

“ Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.”

We should probably include climate change specifically.

In other news, there’s evidence that climate activism could be swaying public opinion in the US:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21059853
The C99 designated initialization (where you give member names in the initialization) AFAIK only works in clang when compiled in C++ mode, gcc and MSVC doesn't appear to support it.

C++20 will get a fairly limited subset of the C99's designated init though.
As I was reading through your comment, I was preparing to write a response explaining how you're completely misunderstanding what the law means and how it works. Then I read your last sentence and figured out that there is no point in trying to explain anything.
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A 12 lead is actually 10 wires (the "leads" are then comprised of various combinations of those wires).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einthoven%27s_triangle
It's fascinating, because whatever thing was silently deprecated, there will be hoards of defenders in comments insisting that the thing never existed, and it was just your imagination. Even on sites like Stackoverflow!

Part of this is because release notes no longer most things removed (they are just covered under "other interface enhancements").

I did track down the home screen rotation change but it was very obscure. In one thread a user had to post actual video of two different Nexus One devices and prove that the update removed landscape homescreen mode. This is the world we live in, where this is a massive cloud of uncertainty over what our devices are even capable of doing!
My gripe with react-admin and to a lesser extent Semantic UI is their idea of also writing a full REST api layer. Just give me a good front end tool and let me handle my data layer!
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This has been in place on other channels for some years in the UK (and other countries, though Sky is definitely a market leader in actual widespread implementation).

It is worth noting that the US and UK aren't really equivalent here, as the UK broadly broadcasts the same channels nationwide all day with already existing slight differences for geographically relevant advertising, not just during primetime. In some cases this is handled on a satellite platform like Sky by broadcasting 20+ regional variations of a channel, and that is literally nuts. A solution like this saves an awful lot of bandwidth.
OK, there are a few things that were done in VLC for reasons that could be puzzling or had unintended excellent consequences. Those are not really mistakes, per se.

I can speak about 3 of them:

1) the one mentioned in the interview, where, when VLC was ported to Windows and Mac OS X, instead of using the system codecs, they used the linux-way and bundled the dependencies. It was supposed to be temporary, and we would use the system codecs. This means that we control better our decoders and demuxers than other traditional players, and we did not require codec-pack. That became very popular for VLC.

2) The cone was a temporary icon (and a student joke), and it is sooooo weird for a player, that this became a huge brand because it is so recognizable.

3) The code was split in a lot of modules, to help speed up the compilation time, of the project. That made the code way easier to extend or port to other platforms. Indeed, for example, a lot of modules don't need a lot of maintenance, because they just work. And you can add features or new OS, without understanding the core.

There are 2 other technical reasons that helped VLC getting popular, but those were planned.

The interview is too short to explain all this.
They said much more tractable. That's a qualifier. And, they were saying it was much more tractable in comparison to racism. This says nothing specific about the degree to which it is tractable, nor that it is completely tractable.

It is misrepresenting them to claim, as you're continuing to do ("even if you say achieve 100% equality of..."), that what they said is somehow an absolute statement, or that it was some statement just about juries.
>but sadly Google Search and YouTube still don't have good enough alternatives yet.

I thought that, too, but then I held my breath and just switched to DuckDuckGo as my main search engine and... there's no difference, really. Maybe some niche cases where google spits out more specific results and handles exact quotes better. But for 99% of "type a word, get results" kind of uses, it works great. I did not expect that, maybe still burnt from when Google was so far ahead of the competition in search it wasn't even a question.

Youtube is a different story but I don't really miss anything not logging in, so there's that.
.NET has a much simpler kind of JIT than the JVM - it doesn't do any dynamic optimisations or auto-vectorisation.
Semi-off-topic: There's a really strange shaking effect when scrolling down one notch with the header bar just in view.
Yes, it seems like it is ripped and then mangled. Some of it looks good, but overall I do not like it. It looks awkward to me - but perhaps it's just me.
Yeah, that line went straight into my internet quotes collection
If I know anything about trending, there's going to be a few new Youtube channels now dedicated to wasabi ingestion, hopefully complete with medical personnel available if something should go wrong.
Great to hear that, thanks for the comment.
The article describes mostly new materials and manufacturing techniques. I don’t think I.T. should be capitalized.
110 USD is extremely expensive. In Europe, at Amazon, the price is 60 EUR, including sale taxes, for a 6 TB tape from IBM, Quantum, HP or Fuji.

Looking at Amazon USA (just search LTO-7), I see prices between USD 63 and USD 69, or even just $60 per cartridge if you buy a 10-pack. That is still more expensive than where I buy, but it is nevertheless far closer to 3 times less than HDDs than to 2 times less than HDDs.
Estimates are hard because you are literally making something that has never been made before. Yes, you have experience with sub parts and similar patterns but not the situation of this timeline, this team, this technical debt, etc.

Too often the request is along the lines of "How long does it take to build a house?" not "How long will it take to build the house in these blueprints with these systems on top of a mountain that is also impervious to mudslides?". People can generally estimate the former but the latter is all about the unknown details.
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> Today, anything and everything is online and follows people around like an unshakeable shadow. So of course these folks have the "right to be forgotten" -- it's bringing balance back to the equation.

Right; but that would be a reason for Google to remove the information, not the newspaper. I mean, 20 years ago, it would have been possible to find such an article on microfiche in your local library if you knew where to look. It should still be possible to find it on the appropriate newspaper's website if you have the right link / look at the right date in history.
As FabHK[0] says[1], the rule of thumb is that you are 50% likely to get a collision with about sqrt(N) selections from N objects.

We are, of course, more interested in much smaller probabilities of collision, and that's why I wrote about this[2] some time ago, giving the derivation, and the actual formula for those who just want the answer.

It's been submitted and discussed before[3][4], with some interesting comments.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=FabHK

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21069837

[2] https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TheBirthdayParadox.html?si25h...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19296265

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4753014
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Well, "slows down" is relative terminology, but that says a little more about the terminology than the physics.

The more interesting thing is that "high gravity" is essentially acceleration (and interchangeable with acceleration in most relativity contexts+). This is why the classic "twins on a spaceship" scenario makes the twin on the spaceship the younger one, instead of them being totally interchangeable: the young one is the twin that experiences the acceleration. And you can tell all by yourself that you're undergoing acceleration; you don't need an external reference.

(+ if you accelerate forever, you can even make an acceleration event-horizon. light from beyond this horizon will never actually catch up with you, just like a black hole)
Boy do i appear to be wrong. This was not my underatanding at all.

As you and siblings pointed out, nuclear seems to have been frought with problems for a long time.

Wikipedia, if it is to be believed, paints an even more dire picture than you say:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_...

I find this so counterintuitive having safely operated naval nuclear reactors. More research is needed from me!
The paper seems to be Israeli, so presumably they mean the fake horseradish wasabi (which usually includes a tiny amount of real wasabi), as it's very rare to find real wasabi outside of Japan in meaningful quantities.
It's a "virtual lan" project like hamachi or (some configurations of) openvpn.

Sometimes you want two computers to be able to talk to one another, even
if they're behind a NAT or there's otherwise infrastructure between them that makes this difficult.

Zerotier makes that easier by

* Checking to see if the other device is directly reachable, if you're both already on the same LAN.

* Employing NAT hole punching to try to establish a path anyway

* Finally proxying the connection over a server reachable by both

In my experience it's the easiest way to make sure all my computers are reachable, even if one of those computers is a phone and another one is behind a NAT.
Losing files is definitely not a little thing.
I was skeptical about your comment at first since this layout is a pretty common dashboard style... but you are right. A lot of the elements are identical, which makes it a bit weird to be shared on HN. As a designer, I take inspiration from others work as well but I try to spin my own style into it, this just doesn't really feel genuine.
I had a friend biking on a remote highway in the early morning where there is very little traffic. He was clipped by a morning worker at the factory who dozed off puncturing his lung and throwing him in the ditch. If that worker hadn’t stopped to help, he would have died there. An Apple Watch would would have at least let 911 know where he was and that he was unresponsive. He has two kids and is a great professor, and his life hung on a split second decision of someone who was likely terrified of the consequences of what just happened, but luckily made the right choice (he got a ticket which my friend paid in thanks for stopping).

Edit just realized I know of several other instances where an Apple Watch would have saved someone or kept them for have a days torture with broken legs in their back yard while living alone. Surely this is morning common than you make out?
> because they didn't get some avocado?

If you drink a shot of liquid LSD thinking it was vodka you don't die because "you didn't get some vodka?". She died because of the effect of wasabi, not because of the lack of avocado.
First of all, merci pour tout ce que t'as fait.

I think people will understand, if they read the article, that VLC is not a one-person project. You make it pretty clear in the interview.

VLC is one of the biggest open source projects _ever_. For it to maintain its quality over 18 years(!), it needs a leader with a vision and integrity. If it wasn't for an interview like this, people wouldn't know about the collective work that's happening behind the scenes. It's kind of a "necessary evil" to have a single person exposed to the media. And I'm pretty sure that VLC would have either died, been sold, or turned into adware if it wasn't for you.

So I think it's a benefit overall to have you as the sole focus.
> ... — the agency spent $250 million per year on a program called the SIGINT Enabling Project. Its goal was, basically, to bypass our commercial encryption at any cost.

Now that things have actually started going dark for these overfunded and completely unaccountable entities this is where the biggest danger lies. They have become so desperate for continued access to endless funding that they are actually turning against the people they are sworn to serve. The most dangerous time will come when the governments of the world start the task of trimming down such entities to something proportionate to their worth. That process has not really even begun yet...
Yes, I truly believe so. With a tiny bit of exaggeration, of course, but the idea is here.
YC is a minority stake investor, not their boss or board member.

It seems that what you are looking at is a breach of contract where the company did not deliver what they agreed to deliver.

If the company ran out of money, they are probably a dead company/ bankrupt and have or will shut down. They are unlikely to be able to return the money or deliver, and you could end up either trying to sue a company that is dead and/or pierce the corporate veil alleging fraud.

Check with your lawyers.
Great link. This is the interactive graphic that should have appeared with the article. Instead of a single narrative, users can explore various scenarios as they read along. Looking at this strictly from a geographic standpoint, for instance, there's something weird going on in North Dakota between Carson County and Sioux County. It really stands out on the map. Alaska also looks quite odd.
I can also replicate this issue, Windows Chrome latest.
Almost universally the business model for significant deployments would be that you have maintenance contracts anyway. That's kind of how the tape business works, certainly if you have libraries as well. In that case you get those drives RMA'd.
Does alcoholism drive suicides, do suicides drive alcoholism, or do other things drive both suicide and alcoholism (or, perhaps more likely, all of the above)?
Uh oh, i guess i need to change the combination for the lock on my luggage! :-)
According to the article women, I guess, have it harder because:

1) Family tends to want to take care of women. Women get custody more often!
2) Women often are able to find a man willing to take care of them.
3) Peeing in bushes is hard.

With other rich quotes like "women seem this and men seem that". At most it simply proves that women have it easier.
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TV has been doing this for ages, although with the capabilities that it has. So far, you could guess who was watching based on the time of the day, the time of the year, and some survey data here and there.

TVs are no different from computers nowadays, it seemed like untapped potential for targeted advertising.
That is certainly up for discussion and debate. But once you get into alcoholism, having a greater suicide rate than average is a given.
If duckduckgo doesn't do a good search you can always type
"g! <search>" and it will search using google. I usually search duckduckgo first and then fall back to Google. The thing that made me quit google was the "controversial twiddler"[1] and their delisting of non corporate health sites[2].

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20723327

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676755
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I meant more changes to people's behaviour and tools used and prevalence and awareness of encryption
So did all these Hollywood people change the "default configuration" or did the standard AVID installer disable it?
Thanks for making my computer KP?
Dr. Gabor Maté talks a lot about trauma and how it can get "preserved" over generations (he is himself a survivor of the Holocaust).
> Virtually nobody knows, for example, how the official SMB plugin works, and there's no documentation.

Totally BS. We have 4 SMB modules, which ones are you talking about? (Windows, samba, libdsm (v1) and libsmb2). We spent a lot of time lately to fix that and improve it.

Sure, with the move to SMBv2/3 we had some issues, but that is normal because it required a new architecture, and they are almost all fixed now.

The documentation of those modules is at the same place as usual.

> Since version 3, video playback suffered from one or more bugs on any of the 4+ machines I've tried it on.

Since version 3, we activated hardware decoding by default, and that means it is very dependent on your linux distribution and your drivers. I think most of those issues are fixed now though.
Look for an in-app chat SDK recommendation. I have to switch away from layer
I was using Layer (www.layer.com), but their monthly plans just went up drastically, and it would break the bank for me to stay with them.

Can anyone recommend any other Chat SDKs?
Not your code, but your time to work on VLC.
At work we also refer to LTO5 tapes as sandpaper tapes - glad we're not the only ones with the realization. If we have a significant restore involving archived lto5s, we immediately plan for additional wear and drive repairs. :(

That being said, this does apply within generation to a lesser extent as well.
I still enjoyed the response to finding good developers. Seems like a sane response :)

Also thanks for the work on VLC, it's one of those things that's always been installed on my PC since the early 2000s. :)
Agreed! The Macs are still a crazy mess. Not that much different from the old days with chains of Inits.
You could argue that people who end up trapped with alcoholism were probably having problems in the first place and used alcohol as a form of escapism. It's a generalization, but there are probably hidden factors behind alcoholism and suicide.
> 1990s C was decidedly synchronous

You know that Javascript is a C(++) program? That when you use TCP, the protocol is in C? The ethernet driver is written in C? The OS scheduler is written in C? That you're programming in a little sandbox, and all the concurrency around you in managed in C?

There has never been anything synchronous about C.
It's slide 27.
You should launch it and find out, could be as simple as the wizard behind the curtain where you take their data and pass it through existing tools out there
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If you, in your head, read "The MacBook doesn't need to be thinner" as "The MacBook doesn't need to be thinner for ME" you'll realize your entire comment makes no sense.
Where do you resell? Is this within a year or beyond 1yr?
“In this political climate, it is unlikely that another reactor will ever be commissioned”

That’s nonsense, the UK is right in the middle of commissioning 5-10 new nuclear reactors, if Areva/EDF could demonstrate an ability to build these plants on budget there’s a huge market opportunity.
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You sir are a God among men. Thank you for all your work.
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I could argue that all 3 are true statements.
Yeah, there's a severe danger here that only the stories that are worthy of media play are going to be discussed. Snowden has been proven to generate clicks, so we'll probably continue to see a lot of Snowden stories.

We're in a multi-party cyberwar. We have been for years. It involves both governments and NGOs. Most of the players are pushing as hard as they can, short of real warfare, to gain the advantage over the others.

That's a much tougher story to tell, since it doesn't have clear heroes and villains. Also it involves a lot of technical stuff Joe Layman doesn't want to process. Because of this, media outlets are always going to tell the simpler story. The overwhelming danger here is that nobody learns what is going on, which presumably is the point of having a media outlet in the first place.
we don't need thinner macbooks