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> That aside the lessons I see it imparting on kids are hard to find in team-based sports. Self-reliance, learning how to mute the fear and self-doubt in your inner monologue, persistence...these are hard lessons to get in one sitting, but they’re ever-present in skating.

Well said, agree 100%.
The ports are too fragile and the different cable standards are incomprehensible. I was quite pleased when I heard about USB C but it started badly with the dodgy cables and had just got worse.

I’m hoping Apple stick with lightning.
Worth noting that I actually feel quite bad about this, I really wanted to try one out, and vote with my wallet in favour of more open hardware, an alternative architecture and to support a smaller company like Raptor. I eagerly followed all the news around Raptor (both here on HN, lobste.rs and elsewhere) and read all the guy "ClassicHasClass"'s blogs @ talospace.com - but in the end I unfortunately can't justify to myself the expense (when I spec out a modest Blackbird system it consumes the better part of a month's salary, I've recently bought my first flat and I sense a recession around the corner...). That actually makes me feel a bit hypocritical and part of the "problem", but maybe I'm not actually the target market.
Will automation wipe out the role of the DBA?
It depends a lot on individual departments. Most astro groups I've been in have had very competent sysadmins who aggressively lobby for fault tolerance and assume that the university proper is incompetent (the very best kind of angry greybeards). So all the server rooms have enough UPS capacity to gracefully kill servers, data is properly backed up and so on.

At some places like MSSL we even had an onsite diesel generator becuase there were flight critical experiments going on all the time.

Many other faculties don't need that level of resilience so they don't bother. I'm not sure what the situation is for wider engineering or bio/chem. I imagine there are serious health and safety concerns for things like fume hoods that must be able to evacuate gases in the event of a power failure.
It's amazing that they were able to call this thing 'Peacekeeper' eith a straight face.
What I hated even more about 8 am lectures is I lived an hour and a half away from the university, so from the time I left the house to the time I got home again took like 13 hours every day. And the real knife in my guts is I was paying for the privilege of this.

Now I work from home, and saunter in to work at 8 in my pajamas with a bowl of fruit loops. I put in my 8 hours of work, and then I walk 3 feet to my left and flop down on my couch and start playing video games. And they pay me for this!

Universities are so damn dysfunctional.
Maybe I'm too cynical, but I wonder why people are so surprised that Google would prioritise Internet deregulation higher than climate protection? More Internet regulation would directly impact Google's shareholders, climate change not (or not in the immediate future). So... Ok, there was this "don't be evil" thing, but it's been a looong time since anyone at Google has mentioned that...
Pixel Watch news could be what many Google fans have been waiting for
In the end I think this isn't going to just apply to speech but many facets of modern life that are increasingly controlled by companies instead of governments.

For example within 10 days of Wikileaks publishing 'cablegate' back in 2010, Bank of America, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, and Western Union all blocked donations to the site. [1] This effectively destroyed nearly all of their funding. As we've reached an era where a variety of absolutely critical industries are completely or near completely monopolized, it means that things like the first amendment are much less meaningful. If the government wanted to ban some form of speech, all they need to do is to make a call to a handful of companies and, like that, they've banned > 90% of discussion of it. And from the company's perspectives, they can agree to cooperate and expect rich rewards and favorable treatment from the government in the future, or they can refuse to no real gain and end up facing the full fury of an incredibly far-reaching government.

Perhaps one of the many reasons that the founding fathers were so obsessed with keeping governments small and relatively weak. This power of coercion is in some ways even more dangerous than any law that might be passed since it can often effect the exact same end while keeping most of the public generally uninformed.

[1] - https://wikileaks.org/Banking-Blockade.html
You might be ascribing quite a bit more leverage to System76 than they actually have here. No one is going to get Intel or AMD to allow open PSP/ME firmware -- AIUI even Google, with the truckloads of chips they buy, isn't able to influence that decision at either x86 vendor. Plus, System76 isn't the ODM -- that's Clevo from what I understand, so their influence on the two x86 CPU vendor(s) will be so far removed as to be quite insignificant IME.

Now, offering something else (ARM, RISC-V, POWER, anything but x86) as a truly open source alternative, then seeing if there was any reaction, might start to apply some small degree of leverage. Definitely there would be more potential opportunities to meaningfully discuss design goals with silicon vendors other than Intel and AMD. Who knows, maybe this could still happen...it'd be pretty easy / cheap to get some POWER desktop offerings lined up based on existing mainboards, and Clevo might be persuaded to do an ARM laptop design based on one of the Chromebook SoCs... ;)

With our baseline blob-free systems, we picked parts that were firmware-free, had open firmware, or could have open firmware written in the future. This is why we don't have onboard 100Gbe, Thunderbolt, or other interfaces that would require relinquishing control of the system to an external vendor. However, the resulting products are quite functional as both PCs and servers, with no real complaints or concerns over the I/O given the multiple PCIe Gen 4 slots available. My understanding is that very few ODMs do this, as they don't want to make that tradeoff, but this is how you apply leverage to silicon vendors long term. And you know what? It's working (outside the GPU sphere at least) -- Raptor isn't the only one pushing hard on these topics from the OpenPOWER side, and so far we've been able to get the silicon we need for our current product lines.
> You can also curve mirrors for a wider angle, see it on trucks all the time.

Yes, but with a wide-angle lens camera you can convert to a less distorted view in software. Or stitch together with other views.
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> because the whole campaign is purely based on emotions

Err hang on a minute. Every campaign, advert, promotion, or politician and political party election broadcast, and marketing of everything is based on emotion, and frequently fear and hysteria.

The ad homimen is "spot on", but you make no mention of any of the rest?

What an unusual world view.
Doesn't it scare you when somebody urges you to make radical changes, but at the same time tries to shut down any discussion about it?
>no pressure to find a better solution because there is no competition. //

No-one wants a job, or to keep their current job?
It seems to me that the Persians were just as good at record-keeping as any relatively sophisticated ancient civilization.

The Persepolis Fortification Archives, for example, contain about 20,000 records that deal with the movement of several commodities (e.g. cereals, fruit, livestock, etc.) in the region around Persepolis, and dates to exactly this period (c. 510-490 BC): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis_Administrative_Arch...
If you read other insiders’ comments here you can notice that this is not the case at all. Under Jobs the Mac OS team was more open and collaborative, so probably this happened “by chance” and the death of Jobs was probably a force toward closeness.
For me, it took about a year before I was surprised to discover I was looking forward to a run rather than dreading it.

35 years later, it's now a pleasant part of my day. (I don't run particularly far, fast or to exhaustion.) It has some consequences, like my feet are a bit deformed now (!) giving me problems with shoes, but it's an ok tradeoff. One day I'll be forced to quit, not looking forward to that.
Mistrust of nearby tribes was exploited over and over again by Europeans. The Aztecs were conquered because they managed to make enough coastal bands angry that they were totally willing to side with the new people with iron stuff. The French and Indian War had natives fighting each other on behalf of the English and (mostly) French. The Modoc War happened because they were living on a reservation with the Klamath -- who treated them so badly they decided to try and live on some lava beds instead.

Seriously, outside of efforts by Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa, and the way-too-late Ghost Dance movement, intertribal unity efforts weren't really there. They won many, many battles against Europeans, but could not strategize to win a long war. Thus, disorganized and sporadic resistance.

Sure, disease made the conquest possible. And it's not a values judgement. It's just the old tale, divide and conquer.
>Apple caved under pressure from China. The explanation Cook gave is not just an embarrassment, it calls into question the veracity of all of his other statements.

What veracity? He is a businessman in a trillion dollar company. He says what pleases the market -- the domestic and the foreign one, not his personal beliefs...

The first priority is always profits or growth.

If one sincerely cared for the environment for example, would stop tons things that Apple is doing, not just one. The CEO of a multinational churning consumer gadgets by the shit-loads only cares for the environment to the degree that said caring doesn't impact the bottom line.

>Why should users believe that (closed source) iMessage encryption is free from backdoors when we know that Cook will dance around sensitive truths?

Well, that's an easier thing to answer, because there would be leaks from Apple employees (NSA had leaks, for Apple it would be many times easier) if that was the case. Tons of engineers would know.

>And why should the US government be satisfied with a fully encrypted iMessage given that Apple will cave to demands given enough pressure?

Because Apple will also cave to their demands.

Besides it's another thing to please some foreign customer by caving in to remove an app (especially if said foreign customer is a sovereign state and the app is anti-policy -- companies are not in some obligation from the US or otherwise to side with protesters), and another thing to e.g. cave in to China and give them a backdoor to iMessage as you seem to imply as a potentiality. In fact the latter would be treason (or close) for a US-based company and have much more serious repercussions...
Meh, the first thing about the browser games is the load time. It's not like downloading a native game and reliably storing it.

The second thing were the CPU/memory problems because all the code was in js.
JSON is also sent back by clients to server and the principle there is "don't trust the client", so any way to mechanically validate at least the syntax would be helpful.
Can you give an example of a boycott effecting a change in company policy?
Keep in mind that the Atari of today is Infogrames, which had a reputation of being a scummy, cynical publisher...and this is after coming out of a bankruptcy turnaround as well.

Hasbro Interactive and MicroProse were super cool companies though. :/ Consolidation is the shame of this industry.
iPhones, iPads and the whole mobile device segment is useless if a company can decide the content. It will never be your device.

Microsoft tried the same crap with their store, which was fortunately rejected to a large degree. The future of software shouldn't look so backwards. I can understand users being drawn in by accessibility, which is hard to realize for more open systems. But I don't really understand developers choosing Apple aside from monetary opportunities.

Macs try to go in a similar direction, so these comments saying I shouldn't care about app notarization are nothing but short sighted in my opinion. Because the security benefit is minuscule and new dangers like this pretty impalpable but nevertheless very real and the degree of enforcement of these mechanism will certainly increase as soon as Apple sees the opportunity.

Overall a crappy platform to develop against.
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Here is a picture of German author Arno Schmidt with his "Note box":

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/heprodimagesfotos88120140...

Btw: He is regarded as an important author who is famously not read, as his magnus opus is even difficult to hold with a weight of 13 pounds:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-seasons-biggest-novel-has-1...

And Niklas Luhmann himself explaining his Zettelkasten (the archive with 50000 notes beside his desk):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCFP5i_0ibE

What he is explaining is not important, what I want to show is that it looks like utter (creative?) chaos for someone not Niklas Luhmann.
> increase in the money supply

There is scientific evidence for this, yes.

> scientific evidence for product shrinkage

No. The term "product shrinkage" itself is undefined, or poorly defined. You're saying the digitization of services has rendered unnecessary a lot of material needs. Counterpoint: it has enabled commercial transactions on an unbelievable scale, enabling smaller industries to reach wider audiences.

Just because you mix in a fact with an anecdote doesn't make the whole argument better :)
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There is a famous book by Arno Schmidt, ZETTEL'S TRAUM (sic!) with only 2000 copies published because it has such a complicated layout. The gargantuan novel was published in folio format with 1,334 pages. The story is told mostly in three shifting columns, presenting the text in the form of notes, collages, and typewritten pages.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettel’s_Traum
The problem with these models is that you have to be careful that your are not modeling something that incorporates a trend.

And if you have any kind of seasonality you a dataset with a large enough timeframe. (At least more than a year.)

Nonetheless, LightGBM and xgboost are also commonly used in the insurance sector.

They are still somewhat problematic for conversion rates in a highly dynamic market though.
>This is not true. Under the DeBroglie-Bohm interpretation of QM an object exists at a single place at a time, what is fuzzy is our knowledge of where it is. And this interpretation holds up to all of the double slit and interference behaviors we expect from QM.

Under the DeBroglie-Bohm, yes. But the above description (which is also what I criticized in the prior comment):

(a) an object exists at a single place at a time,

(b) what is fuzzy is our knowledge of where it is

Are not enough to get to DeBroglie-Bohm interpretation though -- it misses it's critical element: the pilot wave / guide.
I tend to neglect maintenance because it seems like I am always playing "catch up". If something is working fine, then it's not on my radar.

Even if problems abound, if the thing will likely get me through my current project, I'll drive that thing into the ground.

I drove my last car for over a year with one cylinder not working until someone ran a red light and hit me.

Should I have fixed it? Probably, but in hindsight it didn't matter.

I have so much coming at me from every direction that maintenance is often a luxury I don't have time for.
The music thing is definitely a real phenomenon. It’s well researched and covered in some detail in “Why We Sleep” by Matt Walker (which is mentioned in tfa, and is a fantastic book.)

The fiction thing is interesting.
This seems perfectly reasonable, and this is for me also part of the reason I'm using linux.

I do however still sympatise with devs and users that simply aren't comfortable making the switch because of these "excuses". I think their position of staying with proprietary software is also perfectly valid- although as you point out, this doesn't help the greater good.
What rest?
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It is your duty as human being to get enough sleep because if you are well rested you treat yourself better, you treat people around you better and you generally spread positive energy around. - this is how my spiritual teacher explained why getting enough sleep is first step to growth.
The whole family living with you and helping you out,just rest when the baby is with someone else. Oh you live in the 21th century? Sorry :(

At least the kid won't die from starvation and diseases. So that's good. But you have to go to work 40-60 hour every week away from your beloveds to a place where sleep is forbidden. So that's bad.
And we pay extremely high prices for electricity.. near $.30 per kWh
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>still wearing yesterday's clothes.

How abhorrent.
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Also thinking about the Golem. Similar ideas.
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It was aimed at Soviet missile silos - you don't need that kind of accuracy to hit "countervalue" targets (i.e. cities) - so there was perhaps some logic to it.
> That may be. However, I was using Linux on bog-standard computers before System76 was even founded -- preinstalling Linux on a computer isn't exactly revolutionary

System76 is making free software computing more attractive and available. You might think of what they do as easier than what you do, and you might disagree with the way they prioritize security over other factors in their products, but I still think it's pretty bad of you to imply that what they're doing is not valuable to this community.
>In case you feel sleep is a waste of time, it could actually be surprisingly productive to sleep.

Probably the most productive thing one can do.

Idea: Full sleep is useless. I'll sleep 5 hours or less and gain more productive time / life lived.

Reality: Without full sleep (7-8.30 hours/day) you'll be less performant, less intelligent, less healthy, less productive, and on top of the less performance through your life, your life itself will be shorter.
Note that it doesn't even work on Chromium.
It would be interesting to see the legal release this patient had to sign to get this done in the US.
To me it's very interesting to see how many applications completely forgot that you might want to use a scroll wheel during a drag and drop. I don't think that even works half the time...
In that case using them for playground and similar projects sounds like a brilliant solution.
Seems like an exemplary case for "Chesterton's fence":

https://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/

Often the most important comments in a codebase are signs on such fences, preserving hard-won knowledge of pitfalls in software and human processes.
What if the code is written in Delphi, committed in SVN and you have to figure out how to build it? True story..
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> If the alternatives are so great, why aren’t they being adopted?

It's ridiculously easy to create an alternative (30mins: [0]). Having an alternative adopted takes a considerable amount of friction.

We don't always end up with the most superior in the real world anyway. (Bash, & C are hated on, but are still commonly used everywhere. MIME is a truly awful format, but runs the world of email.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21222267
2% of the US adult population is locked up. That's at most a land of the 98% free.
I actually was just at a small meetup for people in the SF Bay Area who are building memex's. The Zettelkasten was a common theme in several of the projects people were working on. Here are my notes from the event for anyone interested: http://ceasarbautista.com/posts/memex_meetup_2.html

There are a couple projects that came up that were loosely based on the Zettelkasten:

- IdeaFlow by Jacob Cole
- Roam Research by Conor White-Sullivan
- "Cards" by Joel Solymosi

IdeaFlow and Roam are both basically WorkFlowly except that you can link bullets together, plus additional unique features. The ability to link bullets together basically makes it a Zettelkasten, and enables many cool features. As Conor puts it "You shouldn’t have to know the structure of your thought as you’re typing".

Cards was more faithful to the Zettelkasten in that the metaphor was index cards instead of bullets. The unique thing about Joel's approach is that you can transclude them into documents (sequences of cards), which was a feature inspired by Project Xanadu. That enables Joel to reuse cards across many documents, and had the benefit of letting him effectively update multiple documents at once by editing a single card.

I've been writing an encyclopedia for the last six years. When I heard the Zettelkasten idea it made me wish I had heard of it earlier. It seems like a potentially better way to organize information since the links are between paragraphs rather than pages.
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Yes that's true, but poorer people are more likely to prioritise working over attending class.
Yeah, that part doesn't really add up. Maybe they meant to say that the same port on a laptop can be used to put power in or take power out, but that's not really that big of a deal.

What's new is that you can now use a laptop charger to charge a phone.
No problem with that. I presume gp focused on a court order since that's the way it works in his local culture. The important part is Apple not acting as their own arbitrator.

If the order came from the HK gov, citizens know who is responsible for it and can act accordingly. And I'd expect this to be the reason Apple received pressure to remove it "by themselves".
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>it would be popular in military circles

It is popular in military circles ...
I won't dismiss that a lot of things can happen during sleep that will help you do better in the morning, but a lot of the time I think this kind of thing boils down to performance falling off as you get tired, to the point of eventually negating improvements you make. It doesn't help if you've figured out how to do something if you're tired to execute on it.
Part of Apple's image that earned it loyal customers is that they care more about their customers than most other companies. Apple doesn't sell your data, it protects your privacy, will fight government agencies asking for user's data, etc.
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indeed, but well, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21201413 did get more love it seems :)
We had discussed this here before, killer whales are a complex of species, comprising maybe four or five different species. Some species eat fish and other eat mammals.

Killer whale species that eat fish are smaller and either ignore people or will shown curiosity about people. They spy, play, snoop or even steal fish from people. They live in the coast.

Killer whale species that eat mammals are bigger, they hunt dolphins, seals, sea lions and fin whales. They can attack, and most probably they will attack people if they have the slighest opportunity. They gladly hunt polar bears that are bigger than any human and have much stronger fangs and claws

They are pelagic or live in arctic regions so if you fall to the water you are dead yet in any case.
I found the shift a pain on my MacBook Pro - mostly because of the confusion over power output and external display resolution/refresh rates. But, I've managed it. I have a single cable powering my MacBook with USB ethernet, ultrawide monitor and keyboard and mouse. Docking is very simple now.