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What is a public transit system? What a quaint idea.

Seriously though, public transit is such a joke in most parts of the USA (especially the rural areas) that this is basically a non-starter.

I live in a part of the country that does have a pretty good public transit system, I just checked on taking public transit from my neighborhood to my son's high school and discovered that it's not possible. There is no public transit (bus, light rail, tram, trolley - all of which we have) within 2 miles of the high school.
How Netflix microservices tackle dataset pub-sub
Same reason Scots deep fry Snickers bars, because it seemed like a great idea to some drunk and then they woke up and remembered it was delicious.
Pet rabbits’ lives blighted by illness and loneliness due to Instagramability
According to Google Maps it's only 30 minutes longer to go through Maastricht, so it's not that far of a stretch to imagine that some people use it.
There are things that just aren't worth thinking about and people don't appreciate reminders.
Correction: So the PEP said it'll be in 3.8, but apparently it's been postponed to 3.9.
If remote workers are more productive, why aren't most office jobs remote?
I interpreted that as:

"Since we began work on the next version of Microsoft Edge based on Chromium, we’ve been investigating ways to leave Chromium as it is, as much as possible, without re-implementing its features to resemble IE/Edge as it was."
Manufactured consent can be similar to fabrication. But, it cuts both ways. People think of this manufacture as big gov or big biz pushing their agenda trough their lapdog media. But the same process happens with social causes. Let’s say vegetarianism or the anti-fur movement (very few people would disagree with the latter), but this took manufactured consent to achieve. The same with environmental and social causes. People don’t just wake up and change their minds. These opinions are filtered down to them.
>I'm not talking about a deep understanding of computers, just basic literacy that would obviate the excuse for tight, walled gardens and locked down devices.

I disagree on this. I have a friend who has "basic computer literacy" as in knows how to use MS Excel, KeePass, etc. And yet, she inadvertently got a virus on her laptop. It was puzzling how she could have gotten it. She doesn't visit the usual suspects of porn/gaming/gambling/etc websites. Just normal stuff like CNN, WSJ, etc. The only reason we found out about it was her email account got locked out by the ISP. Apparently, the malware found her MS Outlook email account and used a hidden background service to send a bunch of spam messages using her email profile. Understandably, the ISP monitors SMTP traffic sent from residential addresses and when it hits an unusual threshold, they lock out the account. To clean up the malware, I reformatted her laptop and got the email reset with a new password.

On the other hand, with her Apple iPhone and the locked-down walled garden, I really don't have to worry about malware to the same degree. Yes, the Apple app review process is not infallible and theoretically, she could get infected by downloading a fake bank app that steals all her money. However, the possibilities for that nightmare scenario are drastically reduced in the closed Apple ecosystem.

Even programmers, who we'd classify has uber-computer-literate compared to the general population can unwittingly get bit by malware:

Javascript programmers vulnerable to NPM package repository malware:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/12/npm_eslint/

Microsoft's uber geek expert Mark Russinovich got infected by Sony's rootkit: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/2005/10/...

What's the solution for those programmers? Educate them on how to use computers? But they're already educated.

Yes, I get the hacker ethos of not having locked-down devices but we also overestimate the ability for the general population to maintain safe computing devices. Heck, I'm a techie that programs in Xcode and I'm not confident I'm really literate on all the vulnerabilities of the iPhone. Thus, it seems unreasonable I would expect non-programmers to "just be educated" to make the App Store's curation unnecessary.
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Just this weekend ABC tried to pass off edited US gun range footage as an attack on Kurdish civilians. This could be attributed to negligence - perhaps the video was used as a placeholder - except that the video was cropped and had hand-held motion effects added.

When news outlets consider themselves entertainment but present themselves as journalists how can the people trust reporting from any side? The press has been given a significant amount of power in an attempt to inform citizens who have the ultimate power, but that is being abused to reflect the views of a few unelected corporations that control media distribution.

And on the flip side, if you are a witness with a factual account of events and want to inform others, any attempt will be met with skepticism and, as you mention, “the eyes of tribalism”.

It’s unclear to me how we, as a society, move on from here. Should freedom of the press require explicit disclaimers about bias and require purely factual accounts under penalty of law? At least then, even with selective editing, accounts from multiple sources could be combined to reflect an accurate story, maybe.

0 - https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/15/media/abc-news-error-video/in...
It's already forbidden for Apple /iOS...

https://9to5mac.com/2019/09/06/apple-extends-deadline-for-ne...
Argentina May Be the Hottest Renewable Energy Market You Haven’t Heard Of
Oruxmaps even had a donate version that went through proper Google channels when the free version was forcibly removed either for a donation link in the app that was incompletely removed from the Play store build variant or because of a donation link on the product website. It never came back, now the paid version on Play is effectively a billboard "you could save those dollars by going over to F-Droid where we are payment optional".
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UK ‘porn block’: Government drops plan
I’m fine with that being difficult. My grandmother, bless her wonderful heart, clicks on everything no matter what you tell her or do. I like being able to give her a lockeddown android device and I know that she has no reasonable way to escape the android market (which is what she wants) but I can still drill into the menus and do as i will
You can practice mindfulness and meditate daily and still be depressed about the state of the world you live in. You can recognize negative experiences, embrace them, and still feel empty afterwards. You can see yourself as a bristle on the brushstroke of the universe and still feel insignificant. You can see that life is just a game and not want to play.

In a world with 7 billion people all playing their own game, there's bound to be some people who don't want to play. Calling their game "delusional" is hilarious because reality is an abstraction. Saying you can "control" your thoughts is also ridiculous. You can't control your thoughts, Buddhism, Taoism, etc will tell you that. Your thoughts are you. You can only change how you react to them. No matter how many Alan Watts books people read, acid trips they take, hours they spend meditating, etc some people aren't going to think the game is worth playing. That's okay. No amount of telling them to go to the gym, eat better, and meditate is ever going to change their game.
Who's calming that it is a cure-all? This is one more tool people might be able to use in their struggle to quit.

It might be expensive but so is smoking. Between the cost of cigarettes, healthcare, and lost productivity, I'm sure smoking is more expensive.
> If the were factually based and told both sides I guess I'd be OK with it.

Do you have an example of a message that you'd be okay with?
Google Groups isn't available in all markets (e.g., China).

There are some other alternatives like groups.io. This is nice for some open source projects that want to have people all over the globe use it.
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I don't think the broader implication is that it's a cure-all, but there's significant research being done that points to it being far more effective than you may be giving it credit for. I'm at work and can't pull up sources but there's a group at John's Hopkins as well as a number of others - Tim Ferriss has a ton of links I believe, if you feel like looking into it. Speaking anecdotally, I have a number of friends who make very compelling arguments as to how remarkably transformative a single session (with the right intention set and setting) can be to your broader outlook with regard to addiction issues and depression. I wouldn't dismiss it outright or trivialize it just yet.
that's not how ooo cpu work in practice. Jumps are resolved at the fetch stage, always by consulting the predictor; at this stage there is no opportunity to actually execute the jmpne instruction and check if the sign flag is set or not. When the jumpne is executed later in the pipeline, its only effect it to either commit or rollback the speculation.

This is not specific of OoO cpus. In order cpus work the same way, assuming they have a predictor of course.

edit: to be more precise, jumps are not not resolved at the fetch stage, but in one of the early stages, in fact there is often a bubble for taken branches as the fetcher will fetch the next instruction in the stream by default.
It’s Time to Get over That Stored Procedure Aversion You Have
Typically but not necessarily. F-Droid can distribute apps with original signatures from developers if the app builds reproducibly. See: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Reproducible_Builds/
Reddit is comparatively (revenues, staff) tiny.

Large firms are behaving in more risk-averse ways, it seems.

At least some are.
>In physics, there is even the metaphor of the spherical cow[1] to make fun of the need to simplify things in order to understand them.

It's a joke to remind us of a sobering fact: that unreal assumptions lead to unreal results.

>Just because a model is simple doesn't mean that it is bad or worse than a model with more complex assumptions.

But if a model with more complex assumptions is a better approximation to reality than a model with simpler assumptions, would you not adopt the former?

What has happened in economics is that people have clung on to, say, Newtonian mechanics, instead of embracing Einstein's relativity.

Even this does not quite adequately express the enormity of the inertia that you see in economics, because at least Newtonian mechanics is right most of the time, whereas neoclassical economics is wrong most of the time. The SMD theorem guarantees, for example, that most market demand curves will NEVER satisfy the fundamental neoclassical "law" of demand.

Let me also point out that your comment is rehashing Friedman's positivism.[0] Even in quantum mechanics, which has for decades been dominated by the positivism of the Copenhagen interpretation, people are now transcending that positivism because they've come to the realisation that quantum mechanics can't be advanced without overcoming the crutch of positivism. And Friedman's assertions about assumptions are unsound anyway.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essays_in_Positive_Economics

[1] For a critique of Friedman's argument about assumptions in models, see https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-6435....
Aardvark and Repokid revoke privileges based on AWS Access Advisor, which tells you when certain services have not been used within X amount of days/months. But it only does this for services, not for actions. So the resulting API calls are not very granular.
I think it’s clear that there is a push for magic mushrooms to follow the same path as Cannabis has.

It’s very hard to fight the war on drugs (from a personal liberty standpoint) one drug at a time. From my political position it’s personally insulting that institutions such as the DEA and FDA tell me what I can and cannot put into my body. I’m an adult, I can either make those decisions for myself or hire experts for consultation to help me make the decision.
Not unless they are sold through a wireless carrier that aggressively locks down bootloaders on even the Pixel phones
Too bad you need a rooted phone with F-Droid Privileged Extension installed in order to have the same functionality as Gplay.
Exactly and if you're going to be on the ring of Antwerp, or god forbid, the ring of Brussel during rush hour... you are rushing nowhere for at least an hour.
Is there any value left in Yahoo!'s services at this point? This is a genuine question.
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Posts are down to their lowest levels since the 90s (if I'm reading this graph right).[1] Also, someone at Y! probably figured out how much it cost to run the infrastructure and maintain the code.

[1] https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=File:Yahoo_group...
please don’t just go around picking stuff if you don’t absolutely know what you’re doing. it sounds simple but mistakes are extremely costly
A better analogy might be a hood locked with a separate key only Apple has. Your wife wants to visit an experienced local car shop? Pound sand.
G6 CIO Dishes on Company's Build or Buy Strategy
I still use the Yahoo! mail address that I registered in the year 2000. Around 2008, back when it was still a decent mail experience, I actually paid something like $25 for a pro account for a year, just to support them somehow. The payment hid the ads in the sidebar.

Oath went all in on mining the data and showing me useless promos. I have a gmail account that I use for all my personal correspondence now, but my yahoo account is registered with 20 years worth of signups and accounts. I have been counting the days where I have to figure out how to migrate all those accounts to a different email. When I need to do that, it will probably be under a domain that I own so that I never have to go through with it again.
The meme is sorta true thanks to the Internet Archive. For me, it even has a snapshot of a personal site from 18 years ago in it.
Pumping oxygen into warming lakes to save fish species
So what is stopping all apps from being “free with a donation”?
In the fall/winter when we were doing drama productions here (Indiana) in high school, I never saw the sun except via windows in classrooms that had windows. On the bus before the sun was up, at school before the sun was up, leave school after the sun had set. In junior high even in the spring we'd get to school (by walking) as the sun was coming up a couple times a week for FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes, at a public school in the cafeteria before school).

For that matter, that's basically work for me as an adult that time of year. Sun comes up after I get to work and sets within an hour or so of me leaving work late fall through early to mid winter.

Personally though I've never minded it. I've pretty much woken up between 5:45 and 6:45 my entire life, if I'm lucky I'll sleep in til 7-7:15 on the weekends. Getting up to get on the road for hunting or fishing as a kid meant getting up as early as 3:30 sometimes.
When the fact checkers have the same bias as the original authors, what point is there? Without penalty of perjury or some other penalty the loudest voices will control the “facts”.
According to this article the therapy isn't a one-time deal. Being able to grab a few shrooms while on vacation wouldn't do the trick.
I found the media director opining about not being allowed to do objective journalism and the CEO driving the narrative irregardless of evidence to be quite shocking.
>No one ever got fired for using Oracle.

Yet.
Detectron2: A PyTorch-based modular object detection library
I've tried to educate many people on a personal level and failed miserably almost every time, being perceived and dismissed as an evangelist for some weird ideology they don't care about (and I took it very slow and tried really, really hard not to sound as one). Maybe they are right, after all? Who am I to dictate or even influence what they should care about, especially if they don't experience that clearly. People never become tech literate until it bites them in the ass. They have to face the consequences, that's how it works.

Meanwhile in 2019, most people still find "nothing to hide" attitude perfectly reasonable.
Do you have any references for most startup founders being rich? Qualitatively this does not align with my experiences at all with almost any founder of a company I’ve ever met. Almost all of them risked everything.
Err yeah of course it's the right move. The article says that the other alternative to pure open source is proprietary. Well obviously proprietary is bad for society, so if there is a way to construct a license that's at least partially open that's way better than completely proprietary. It's sad but I feel that AWS in 2019 has completely killed a business model.
I look forward for the US to decriminalize all drugs. I’m Mexican and I live near the border, I’ve seen every day for the last 10 years how cartels gain power with all the money sent from US consumers. That money and power has corrupted not only police and politicians, but also some sectors of the population, drugs and narcos used to be anathema to most people, now they are part of our pop culture, thanks to news, TV series, movies and music.
The colour swatch honestly seems much more functional in the old version, with the ability to store custom colours, specify hue, saturation and luminosity etc. The new swatch is frankly neutered down. Apart from that the other changes seem okay.
Lost one at a Metro ca. 1986, had it returned.

Dropped a credit card at TSA checkin a year ago, had it pointed out by the person behind me.

Found an out-of-state drivers' license a couple of years ago while running, got in touch through LinkedIn, handed it off at a Starbucks the next day.

Found a wallet at a Starbucks within the last year, called the guy at the business card number, left it at the front desk of my building.

But then I have the advantage of you by eight years...
This looks promising, thanks. Still a bit on the heavy/large side. Is this using GaN tech already?
"machine learning" in large corporates, when in practice this is 90%+ just maths/algorithms
I'm a (depressed) realist, not a pessimist. I think the world CAN be better, though I realize that is incredibly unlikely unless enough people WANT to make it a better place and WORK to make it so.

I would much rather see the world more or less as it is than delude myself by ignoring the many real and growing problems in the world.
The other day someone was remarking how quickly one's luck can change (for the better). I don't disagree but for whatever reason my response was, "yah, life is full of ups and downs, the trick is to die on one of the upticks". I thought it was hilarious. They thought I was morbid and cynical. Go figure!
ICE has kept British family with their 3-month-old baby detained for days
Banning Neo-Nazis did work out pretty good in Germany.

It‘s not a perfect or complete solution but exactly the right approach.

Allowing them to only play in the kiddie pool by disallowing symbols and certain speech is also great and works towards making them look ridiculous.

So all in all I give this solution high marks. It obviously cannot alone remove fascism from a society were that was so widespread and deeply ingrained.

Reading all these comments here I can just advise HN people to be a bit more tolerant of imperfect, incomplete and messy solutions to problems. I know, programmers want to have it all neat and clean and complete and with precision but sometimes that’s not anything achievable.
Rooting the Pixel 2 (I haven't tried the other Pixels) is not trivial for the average user, it still involves downloading third-party software and doing stuff on the command line.

I had hoped that the pure-Google devices would have just had a switch: "I am now root," but alas it wasn't to be.
$5/month/user seems high when you're not providing any hosting. Also you need at least $10/month to actually do anything which again seems high.

This type of software should really be something like $30-$60/license and $10-$20 upgrade fee for latest version.
I do find it interesting that while he talks about frameworks from within media conveys the story they present, a property of the government they work and live under, he seems overly concerned with large corporations having too much power of influence.

Well, sorry, but the same has been true about governments for too long. For too long they controlled the message and some of them are doing their damn best to not lose that control. Whether but authoritarian methods as used in China to coercion of public opinion in Western countries that government needs to step in and protect people from the message they don't control and therefor is not true.

This is not to say that very large organizations like Facebook or Google are not a concern but to highlight the hypocrisy that does not call out the various governments who are worse regardless of what method they use to control speech and money
Glass was cracked, not smashed. There are no pieces to be seen in the video.
Europe. When I lived in the US I saw cars with bald tires, clearly damaged frames, spewing insane amount of smoke &c. on the road daily, I'm glad I don't have to deal with that over here.
Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 – 2019 [video]
> hipster name like "Data Badger"

hahaha! Thats a great name for a company :-)
That's actually a fair counterpoint. Take my advice once you're settled in for those times you do just want to be heads down and focus.
> As Perens puts it, "we have to draw a line between 'open source' and the right to make money with open source. The open source definition allows, but does not support, your right to make money. We're not going to change the rules because you can make money better that way."

This right here. When you open source something, you are basically volunteering to write code. By the very definition, volunteering to do something does not entitle you to anything. Imagine how weird it would sound if people started asking money to volunteer in soup kitchens.

If you think you are entitled to something for your work, don't volunteer. Make it a service and charge. If you think writing some code used by someone entitles you to some money, make it proprietary code and start charging like Microsoft does. No one is going to stop you.
NASA unveils spacesuits to be worn by first woman on the moon
It can be more helpful to the world around you even if it is less helpful for yourself to not dismiss these patterns of thinking.
What you missed was the simple fact that you are PRIMED. Even if you did not know about the "intruders", you have an opinion about CNN brand, which determined your approach towards the video.
A lot of these threads feel like complaining that McDonalds doesn't offer more sauces, or that they don't let you leave their store with the sauce. It's their store, it's their sauce. I don't think you can even claim monopoly, because nobody needs to use these devices. We can still use dumb phones for voice and texting, and regular computers for the internet.

You have to accept that these are commercial products for commercial gain. They are not a product of or for a community. Massive corporations use these systems to create products that drive their revenue. They will do whatever works for the majority; the fact that a minority wants certain kinds of changes does not impact their bottom line, so why should they consider it? They do not care about your outrage or opinions, they care about cash.
Ah, I'm a 5'10" male with average hands for that height and I can see that would make a big difference. Some way of moving the screen inside the phone's physical perimeter might be helpful, anyone got an app for that?
Any definition that would consider Gandhi a violent protester is quite suspect.