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I don't think your post is off-topic at all.

We have very few signals in this medium that can tell us if someone is acting in bad faith, or just simply made a mistake. The scary thing about this code of conduct change is that it's mandating required behavior, which is a little unusual: most items in a code of conduct remind people of things they should not do, but speak in general only about behaviors that promote inclusiveness. This new bit is very specific, and lays out rules for how to use language. English itself is not a particularly consistent language even within English-majority countries like the US or UK; differences are huge between countries, especially when English isn't the primary language, due both to cultural convention and personal skill with the language.

I do think we should refer to people using their preferred pronouns when known. But we need to make allowances for mistakes; sadly I expect that the norm will be an assumption of bad faith when simple mistakes are likely to be the most common case.
Show HN: Just a simple idea to help with climate change
First of all, I have to ask you sorry because English is not my mother tongue, and I'm not very good at it.

This is a very simple idea, or just a silly fantasy. But I wanted to share it here, maybe it is not so silly, and maybe it is a possible thing.

The idea is this. One takes water from the ocean, and puts it into some container that can trap the sunlight. This container, made of some plastic or cristal, must let the sunlight in, but no out, so the sunlight will heat the water. As the water heats, it becomes steam, and with that steam you can maybe move a turbine for generating electricity.

But that's not all. The idea is to trap the steam in another container, cool it, and so convert it in water again. But it will be water without salts; the satls are eliminated from the water when it evaporates. So, you collect the steam and convert it to water again, and then make drinkable water from this. So, using sunlight and ocean water, you get electricity and drinkable water.
> I found these two guys who ran this little company called Unipress, it was literally two guys in a garage, and I said, "Look, this needs to be free for universities and not ridiculous for everybody else."

Gosling sold them Gosling emacs. Before that he apparently "distributed it freely with no copyright notice."

Although Gosling wrote Gosling Emacs, it was based on the plans he and Richard Stallman had developed for a new, widely portable Emacs.

> And, you know, I realize I'm a radical. I like to actually have a bed to sleep in and food and I will occasionally sleep in my office, but not as a regular thing.

Gosling made millions at Sun Microsystems. That's a little more than needing "food on the table" and "a roof over one's head". Stallman also could have made similar money, but didn't because he thought other things were more important. That's everyone's choice to make, but putting down others because they approached something differently is just bad form.

(edit: spelling name)
I don't agree, coworkers and I use Sublime as our daily drivers. I think it depends very heavily on the tech stack and the work being done.

I also disagree that you can even compare Sublime to VS Code because one is a text editor and one is an IDE. I don't know a single person that switched just because Sublime wasn't being updated, they switched because VS Code has some really deep integrations and features that are easy to become dependent on.

Alfred has another better option than subscriptions IMO where they release new major versions you have to pay for every couple of years, but you own the previous version in perpetuity.
Seconded. Graphics drivers work OOTB and the Open ATI/AMD drivers are actually pretty good. Steam (with Proton) work well for most games save for the newest AAA titles, and WINE is pretty solid. Base install Fedora isn't too bad, and Linux Mint pretty good as well.
It might be unique among professional pilots, though.
Love it:

Line 7:

P I,C,K=24,M,E

Line 46:

O,b,f,u,s,c,a,t,e,d,_,p,r,o,g,R,A,m
facepalm Yeah, yeah, that's fair. I should have caught that in editing. Thanks, I'll fix that up.

Now if you don't know or love Ecto, that's another matter. Can't help you there ;)
I wonder how conscious the decision is at a management level to tie up engineers with expertise in a particular domain just to keep them away from competitors.

I've seen a lot of vanity projects over the years, and often it feels like this, or a form of in-house retirement. That guy has done so much for us that now we just let him do whatever as long as HR is okay with it.
What you're describing is the early cycle of a Drug before R&D is recouped. We're talking late stage after all the initial VCs have recovered their investment 10x and divested themselves.

We're not talking about Uber after successfully running Taxis out of business jacking up prices. We're talking about 25-30 years later after Uber has been the de-facto transportation provider suddenly decides to do a 1000x price increase.
I am not an expert but I think they officially offer very basic services and anything extra is at the dancer's discretion. but since nothing extra is officially offered, it's hard to make claims about it
I tried test/test. Clicking to log in and nothing happens.
Wouldn’t economics dictate the lower supply of dancers be paid more money?

Sounds like the clubs will need to raise those wages a bit.

Also, the dancer can now unionize which means they can bargain for fairer pay.

This whole piece comes off as a victim plea from the clubs’ owners who’ve been skimming dancers. Time to pony up fellas.
I don't get why it's been downvoted so much. I'd expect a much warmer reception from the HN crowd.
The reason discovery is down isn't because they're hard to find, it's because there's much more interesting "entertainment" on the web these days, such as Youtube, Netflix, Reddit, and other time sinks. Back in the days, Flash games and geocities were the only forms of entertainment, which is why they were so big. Nowadays, we've got amazing free content and games everywhere, which is why this kind of entertainment isn't as sought after anymore. It's not lack of discovery, it's lack of demand.
Farm working peasants had pedigree and experience (hell, the term pedigree is openly used for domesticated animals, which peasants were treated like). And yes they would bring in multiples of their cost each.
The max discount I've ever seen is $0.20 for Chevron, but tends to be $0.10. Chevron is much less rare than a Safeway-branded gas station.

Currently west coast gasoline is ~$4.00/g, so that's about 2.5-5.0% discount, which is in line with GP said.
It's pathetic how some end up taking all these decisions based on research and statistics... If you don't want a dog just don't take one instead of trying to find scientific reasons on why not to own one and then writing an article about it.
I don't believe a word of this story.
Distributed generation has its place, but generally capacity is more useful when it is fed into a HV national grid.

Also, I think the benefit of small reactors is ease of manufacture. You could probably just put several on a single site next to a HV substation. You get economy of scale that way.
How does that work in the language itself? In English people say "latin-ecks". In Spanish do people say "latin-equis"?
Yes... when they are already rich. Not before.
Inkdrop was announced more than 3 years ago on HackerNews. I am happy for the creator, and I am glad it is financially viable and going strong. But to be honest, as someone who often muses about entrepreneurship and lifestyle businesses, I find it a bit discouraging how long it takes to get to the point of financial viability.
Well, our corporatist system isn't exactly free trade. Most people who talk about Adam Smith haven't actually read him:

"The trade of a joint stock company is always managed by a court of directors. This court, indeed, is frequently subject, in many respects, to the control of a general court of proprietors. But the greater part of those proprietors seldom pretend to understand anything of the business of the company, and when the spirit of faction happens not to prevail among them, give themselves no trouble about it, but receive contentedly such half-yearly or yearly dividend as the directors think proper to make to them. This total exemption from trouble and from risk, beyond a limited sum, encourages many people to become adventurers in joint stock companies, who would, upon no account, hazard their fortunes in any private copartnery."
Adam Smith

Fortunes aren't only monetary, but reputation.
Indeed, shame we'll never get to see him teardown the Dyson EV!
Hey thanks for the tip on the Model A2119.
I have the Model A1621 and a third-party one which didn't do the job.
Anecdotal, but I have definitely seen people be hurt when it's not intentional... and honestly, I feel for them.

I can't truly relate but I can be empathetic. Folks bug me sometimes when they assume in conversation that I'm close to my family (because most people are). In reality I come from an abusive family and tend to not want to talk/think about them.

I understand that it's a completely different thing, but I'm using it to illustrate that _all_ of us should be good to each other, and realize that sometimes we can hurt someone's feelings without a single bit of intention to do so!
>I concluded I couldn't use it and had to replace it all

Which happened over time. He used it as a starting point, replaced some important parts first and gradually rewrote everything. This took some time. Meanwhile the partial rewrite was being distributed.

It's not a black-and-white story of theft versus clean rewrite. Also I don't recall Gosling Emacs having any license terms included with the code ... and I studied it at the time (before GNU Emacs.)

[edit] this emacs timeline is helpful: https://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html
"""“In the history of our nation, the House of Representatives has never attempted to launch an impeachment inquiry against the President without a majority of the House taking political accountability for that decision by voting to authorize such a dramatic constitutional step.”
— Pat A. Cipollone, White House counsel, in a letter on Tuesday to House Democratic leaders
"""

New York Times reports [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/us/politics/fact-check-im...] that statement is misleading; the Congressional Research Service [https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45769.pdf] has noted "In the past, House committees, under their general investigatory authority, have sometimes sought information and researched charges against officers prior to the adoption of a resolution to authorize an impeachment investigation."

It's not improper to pursue the facts that would underpin impeachment before bringing articles to bear. How would one draft the articles in an information vacuum?
Well first things first kids need legal protection and a system needs something in place to account for them.
We're talking about a drug that's going on 50 years on the market, not a startup. The drug has already been monetized and paid for itself 100x times over.
There has been a lot on RMS recently with his various resignations, but this seems to be an older issue that's been known for a while. I am against call-out culture in general (people should be evaluated on their whole and not be told to resign over singular events) -- and there is stuff we can debate about RMS's behavior over time and everything -- but I have a feeling this issue is independent.

If we're talking about people taking things they weren't licensed for, it can get into the hairy mess of the old SCO/Linux/RHEL days. Just because certain companies might be defunct or other copyrights abandoned doesn't mean other issues could crop up later.
No love for Ruby again, the folklore of Ruby hatred within Google and Amazon is quite real.
Are you just now learning how to read and want me to confirm your eyeballs work? Or are you capable of more complex thought, and are intentionally ignoring the point I was making?

Like, I'm honestly curious, in what way did you expect me to respond to this question? You literally just asked me if I said what I said.
Nice analysis!

But if it’s really just too loud, isn’t there some way to muffle the sound? I suspect it would be expensive but certainly not ridiculously so.
Except no one plays Farmville anymore, and as Candycrush implied, most flash games were replaced by mobile games. My point was that people are finding their entertainment elsewhere (mobile, youtube, reddit), which is the real cause of Flash's demise (and similar content).
The problem is the not so rich don't want to play or can't afford to play. I bet I do better than most traders out there and have been calling the market correctly for a significant period of time but I can't get enough money to move into the billion dollar range. Others who have the money aren't willing to risk it because they have made it using other methods are more likely to continue reinvesting in that, i.e. real estate.
The towers can usefully overlap, in a way that pipes and cables don’t, so I disagree with you about it counting as a monopoly.

And that’s without roaming, which I don’t understand, as it means I have cheaper mobile minutes/texts/data in the USA and Germany than most locals.
Ruby is used super widely throughout Amazon; any hatred is likely well deserved.
I've asked a well-placed internal person that very question, myself. I think it's clear that once you break the thing, you get to keep both pieces, no questions asked. But internal senior management groupthink is that there's enough weakness against such litigation that we're willing to further burden an already-straining engineering design & build process with this new requirement. Make of that what you will. I have not studied actual case law on the topic, because no one cares to hear a contrary opinion on this. Maybe that would be a good question to put to the CEO at one of the "town halls" he's so fond of holding...
The idea that this is frequent or as arduous as it has been in the past really is an outdated trope.

For the most part it just works. More so than windows in my recent experience.
No, after a sleepless month, you might as well turn in your balls.

LOL, of course levels recover with some longitudinally decaying residual.
I disagree - if some group made an illegal referendum about my own region seceding, of course I wouldn't vote in it - it would be giving it legitimacy it doesn't deserve.
Generally it's patents on drug delivery systems, like fast dissolve gelcaps on the name brand vs pressed pills in the generic
This reads like every forum post where someone has asked "how's X distro work on Y laptop", and then people respond with something like the following:

"Runs great! No issues. Suspend/resume are wonky but I'm able to get by. Bluetooth doesn't work reliably but who needs that? Wifi is slower than in Windows."

This is also my experience, recently, with investigating laptops to switch to from my MBP2015. The average person does not give a single shit about this stuff. They expect it to either work, or they'll go where it does. Pop!_OS is certainly a step in the right direction, but it is in no way a true competitor to the ecosystems found on Windows/macOS.

I've run Linux/FreeBSD on and off since 2002ish, too, so I don't feel off in saying this.

There is almost no laptop out there that "just works" with Linux. You might get lucky, and the stars align when you do an install/buy a pre-set Linux laptop from System76/Dell, and then it works, but this isn't always the case for people.

On a Mac? Keyboard issues aside, things "just work" most of the time. I can run a Mac and ship actual products to people, or I can run some open source cobbled together setup and spend my time trying to make it work instead.

You only live once, so you should only do the latter for ideological reasons.
One small wrinkle: what if there's an old existing compound that seems to work well for an different indication than it was originally approved for? It would be good to run the phase 3 trial (possibly phase 2 as well) but that's gonna cost a ton of money. Maybe the government does it, or maybe we let people extend a patent for a new indication, freeing up government research money for the much trickier problem of understanding fundamental disease mechanisms.

There are of course good arguments against, but there's at least some good arguments to allow limited patent extensions.
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The visible outrage is not from people "complaining about people being upset about being misgendered", it is from people complaining about an actual policy change introducing compelled speech. If people complaining about being misgendered is as rare as you suggest then why does stack exchange feel the need to push through such a controversial policy change?
I don't have a specific suggestion, but maybe find a good book about Mars? Seems like a logical follow-up to reading The Martian.
Three years is typically just the tip of the iceberg ;) There's probably at least a decade's worth of failures that lead up to finally having a successful product.
Some of My Failures
Dependabot is really nice. I activated it on my repo and it create a PR with the updated dependency, showing the "crowd sourced" chance it could be integrated safely.
Semmle(LGTM) could be useful on a big codebase but for a simple webapp it didn't provide anything interesting.
> most people don't realize their contribution is close to zero and most of what they do doesn't make any difference.

I'm just here for the free pizza. :P
I wonder how important the R&D part actually is. The most benefit for society seems in a steady supply of many pharmaceuticals we already have.

Of course R&D into research for cancer, Alzheimer's, new antibiotics etc would be critically important - but one would need to know if pharma companies actually prioritize that at all.
Er, the Romans spoke Latin, as well as read it and wrote it. It was their vulgar language (from "vulgus", Latin for "common people"). The first Latin Bible was called The Vulgate because it was written in then common tongue of Latin instead of Greek or Hebrew. Latin was the language of commerce and conquest for the Roman Empire, as English was for the British Empire. Lastly, every language is invented, no?
It's not suggesting that western culture is unique in glorifying specific types of violence. It's distinct in how it presents it and normalizes it to children.
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I think the answer is mostly there in the fact they start the season at 88%. However, I'm sure there are cumulative effects on athletes who play for multiple seasons
Consider this next time you have a good idea and everyone in the room very loudly questions you.
The “right” info is the challenge. A company with >500 engineers will also have at keast that many sales, marketing, bizdev, legal, facilities, HR all put together. At least 1,500 people. And esch executive needs to handle communications laterally and from above. So “right” info is challenging to define from all the possible info. Good lower management will be able to prioritize necessary and useful information. Bad lower management will too, just with different ends in mind.

I don’t think I’ve seen good examples, except in stating that there’s a culture of transparency and inclusion and then not shooting the messenger that points out things that need improvement. Just describing that it’s not easy and likely not possible to get all of the right info, only some of it.
It seems that Stallman genuinely believes he was given permission to do so, although I the evidence doesn't support that.

Not that I liked the way it happened, as a daily Emacs user it's hard to resent the results.
What does TOMP stand for?
>> It's just a cultural artifact of the west's love and expectation of violent solutions

> I don't think this really has anything to do with the west.

I grew up (in the West) watching HK action films and samurai movies, so I hear you.

It's exasperating to have to continually point out that fantasy and reality are different things when others stubbornly refuse to accept that. Exemplified by Tarantino losing it after probably the millionth time he was grilled about violence in media:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7k4GQSGvx8
The biggest thing they do is file multiple patents for different parts of a drug. So they can have a 100 or so patents on a single drug and have the patents staggered over time. (Humira is a good example of this)

If that doesn't work they slightly alter stuff like dosage per pill and re-patent that.
> So why hasn't the house actually started impeachment procedings?

They have.

> The procedure they're using is irregular

Impeachment of a President is irregular, but committees of the House conducting inquiries within their established field of competence and forwarding findings that bear on impeachment to the Judiciary Committee is not. It is unprecedent to have remotely supported claims bearing on serious Presidential crimes and abuses of power within the jurisdiction of many different House Committees simultaneously, but you go into impeachment inquiries with the President you have, not the President you wish you had (otherwise, there'd never be any impeachment inquiries.)

> and doesn't match the rules they passed for themselves.

While the Trump camp is claiming that, there are no actual rules they can point to to support that claim, because it's completely false.

> Least they could do when accusing the President of a host of irregularities is follow their own procedures regularly.

They aren't accusing the President of mere “irregularities”, though that's the kind of minimizing spin that defenders of the President who can't manage a direct defense with a straight face seem to be resorting to.
I haven't figured out how to do the TV. If I want to watch TV at night, I use my computer which run flu.x. Maybe if you have a spare old computer lying around you can hook it up to the TV and then install something on that to yellow-shift everything and then watch with that?
Based on what's described here [0] and above, I get the impression that RMS deliberately left the copyright for the parts of gosmacs he had retained in the interim - that he had the impression that he was permitted to use those parts and wasn't even trying to hide it.

I find it hard to believe that RMS was simply removing copyright from other listings. In his description found in [0], he was replacing a lot of it while using the display portion. Presumably that's all replaced after the lawsuit.

The history of EMACS and TECO predate Gosmacs, this all seems rather silly.

"EMACS is available for distribution to sites running the DEC Twenex operating system. It is distributed on a basis of communal sharing, which means that all improvements must be given back to me to be incorporated and distributed." [1]

[0] https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.en.html

[1] http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5736/AIM-519A....