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>I don't know why AmericanChopper keeps getting modded down

They're getting modded down because the argument is: people don't complain to me about open offices, therefore everyone is happy with open office layouts except people with autism.

> There aren't many places left that don't have open offices of some kind

Depends on what you mean by open office. Not many places have dedicated private offices for each developer, but cubicles, small team rooms, temporary private spaces etc... are very common.

>I have not met many people who complained about them. Usually, I'm the biggest complainer. I would take surveys with a grain of salt; of course complainers like me are going to be happy to voice their opinions in surveys like this, while other people probably don't bother taking the survey.

So take surveys with a grain of salt, but not anecdotal evidence? It's much more likely that you're suffering from selection and confirmation bias than it is that every survey I can find online is. We're not talking about online polls open to anyone, but randomized samples. Here's one where they hired an independent research agency that randomly sampled over 4k adults in the US. 66% of the office workers want a closed office layout. That's a huge margin--big enough to overcome any minor issues with the survey. And definitely stronger evidence than 2 people on hacker news saying that people don't complain to them.

https://files.getroom.com/ROOM-2018-Open-Office-Woes-Report....

> In my view, Americans are just loud and extroverted in general, and this extends to the current workers in this field.

You are definitely suffering from confirmation bias here.

Also basically every study that has been done on open office layouts shows that it's detrimental to business and moral.
That last paragraph screams of societal failure to me. Gig economy workers who live with family out of necessity, the only work they can get being lowest common denominator "go here, get thing, take here" work, paid peanuts with no rights.

There's a reason the individual is the primary unit in western societies - we saw and can still see societies structured to put the group, the commons or the country first. They committed atrocities against masses of individuals in the name of the group. No thanks.
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Scroll down and watch the video the bus driver made. Its hilarious!
This whole thread is based on whataboutism! It’s supposed to be about Chinese influence, and then someone derailed it into talking about American influence, and now the whole thread is 90% comments about America and 10% comments about China.

Note: this also happens in pretty much every other thread about a country that isn’t America. God forbid anyone ever discuss anything else, Americans want to relitigate the same old tired “why my country sucks” debates!

And for what? Is any useful information being conveyed? No, it’s mostly just some kind of social status signalling — Americans of certain insecure social class feel the need to complain about America at every opportunity to distinguish themselves from people of a lower social class because patriotism is coded as a low-class activity.

Yes you’re all very sophisticated and I’m sure you like high speed trains and such. Can we please stop talking about the same thing all the time?

Love,

A non American
Although I'm all in favor of cars, taking just one baby on public transit isn't much different from going by yourself on public transit. The trick is a sling. Don't even buy a stroller. There are several types of slings for babies. You can use one with a padded pocket and strap, one with fancy parts, a big long strip of cloth, or even just a folded bed sheet with a knot behind your shoulder.
You are being downvoted because you are talking nonsense.

> Reddit is overrun with pro-PRC shills and trolls

I challenge you to link one example in any popular post. My experience is that if you dare to say anything remotely pro-China, you will get downvoted to oblivion.
This is the same line of thinking that people use to want to regulate music, video, video games, and everything else. They are entertainment and nothing more. They're basically the same as ballads and stories told round the campfire. Alan More is off his rocker.
I have not seen any information that light from these satellites could scatter and brighten the night sky a significant amount. This article just shows their paths are visible on a sensitive image, but the paths themselves amount to tiny fraction of the image. There is no claim they added significantly to the overall exposure. With their being bright planets and stars already present in the sky, I don't expect they could.
He doesn't understand how, he's indoctrinated into it as well as his behaviour - he has personal work to do to open up his mind and heart before he'll develop the necessary empathy to see the holistic for what it is.
What he did was perfectly in line with what he's always said he would do. The only reason people are upset is that they wish he wouldn't publish embarrassing things about politicians they support. If Assange had instead published Trump's dirty laundry, the very same people would be praising him. But as Assange said, it's hard to imagine what he could have published about Trump that would be worse than what was already publicly known.
Ah, thanks for the correction!
Additionally (for Mozilla, not sure about chrome) there are a couple of checks to allow system administrators to force Firefox to fall back to the system DNS if desired. Either they can return NXDOMAIN (or some other options) to queries for use-application-dns.net, or they can use the usual group policy/active directory/policies.json methods to configure users' Firefox to not use DoH or use their internal DNS server with DoH if supported.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/canary-domain-use-appli...

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/READ...
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Buying land does in fact give me the right to forbid everyone else from building up and altering the face of my property. If enough like-minded individuals do this you get this you get a neighborhood.

As a property owner, I don't care what you feel is just. I worked hard, saved money and invested wisely. We've been in a bull market for over 10 years now, if you want change then put some money down and start doing something about. All the internet points in the world won't win you a high rise apartment
What backdoor? The flaw described uses a user-installed malicious application to exploit a bug in the permission system (which also must be user approved). I dont see any claim or evidence of a manufacturer backdoor.
HN is a marketing channel for startups who might want to pitch ycombinator, then market the startups they pick, then find employees for those startups, then repeat.

The value isn't in selling ads.

I see this whole line of reasoning that thousands of people isn't enough to be newsworthy a symptom of valleythink where all that is valued is growth.

There are other factors that indicate success and the community for the most part has lost sight of those for the tunnel vision of "must get funding!"
The most salient issue is insurance providers being able to proclaim arbitrary hospitals as "in-network" and "out-of-network". My significant other claims that hospitals are now hiring contractors, who are always by definition "out-of-network". This hurts the career prospects of the contractor and lowers the level of care received.

And for nothing! Insurance should not be certifying which doctors you can and cannot see. That's for the medical boards to decide.
> I would say the next 20 years will be interesting, because more and more young people will be in charge and apply more modern ways to do things than their predecessors.

This is always the way, surely, by definition?
'The system that permits them' is far too passive a voice, because the rich have aggressively gamed the system and rigged it to their advantage. The IRS is badly outgunned by armies of accountants and lawyers playing shell games and at best exploiting quasi-legal loopholes, or committing outright fraud.
Ignore the click-bait URL, this gives me a temporary improvement: https://lifehacker.com/this-weird-trick-might-give-you-brief...
Surely they would have been strongly selected against given many thousands of generations in a harsh environment?
Show HN: StreetComplete, an OpenStreetMap Editor for Humans
StreetComplete is an OpenStreetMap[0] editor directed at people who want to contribute and want to do this using their smartphone, without learning how to edit things[1]. It is available as an Android application.

It is intended to be used as one walks, with quests appearing as markers on the map. Selecting a marker allows one to answer a simple question. The answer will be added to the OpenStreetMap database, with app handling selecting objects for editing, transforming answer into OSM tags and making edits.

OpenStreetMap account is needed to apply edits, but it is possible to start without it, make some edits and login/register later.

Note: I am not the main author, but I am one of the active contributors. Github page is at https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete

I checked with the main author and HN admins, they are OK with posting this.

[0]OpenStreetMap is a Wikipedia of maps, available on the open licence. This dataset is already used for many interesting or useful projects. And new mappers are always welcomed!

[1] JOSM, Vespucci I use them heavily but describing them as newbie friendly would be a blatant lie. iD is more newbie friendly but still is quite complex to use and unusable on mobile. Most of difference is caused that all of them are general purpose editors, for example it is quite hard to make iD even easier to use.
Thanks for recommending and reminding me of it. I've seen the first two or three episodes and then stopped because life interfered; I'll revisit it!
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar, especially not off-topic rants about astroturfing for which there is no externally verifiable evidence.

I've spent countless hours looking at this problem in HN data, which admittedly may not be representative of the internet at large, but is the most relevant here. By far the overwhelming finding is that users are massively prone to leap to "astroturfing" (or "shill", "troll", "bot", or "spy") based solely on hearing something they dislike on a charged topic. This is plainly a psychological bias—probably one we all share—and it dominates all discussion on the topic by at least 99% if not 99.9. The phenomenon is so universal, and conforms so closely to what I see on other platforms even though I can't study their data, that I have to believe it's the same everywhere.

The parsimonious explanation for comments expressing strongly opposing points of view is that humans are the same on both sides of any divisive topic: emotionally charged and primed for reflexive, predictable responses. That's why these arguments are all the same (in the case of China v. US: "but imperialism", "but totalitarianism", etc.) and also why they are off topic on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

This was the top subthread before I marked it off topic. That's mostly because of upvoters, but the reason we ask people not to post this sort of flamebait is that upvoters simply can't resist it. When it comes to indignation, upvotes are a statistical cloud of fruit flies showing up near a decaying banana.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Looks awesome Chris... what do you think your moat/defensible advantage is though? Can't Amazon or Shopify just replicate what you do with their network of retailers/sellers?
There's probably something to that.
"When your mind becomes obsessed with anything, you will filter everything else out and find that thing everywhere."

I'd be willing to believe that there is fossilized life on Mars, maybe even complex arthopod-type life, but saying that there is still life flying around on Mars is a pretty extraordinary claim. Is there a paper or any more information around here? Outside of the two pictures in the articles I can't find anything.
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My post was based on recollection of this article.

China detains relatives of U.S. reporters in apparent punishment for Xinjiang coverage.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/china-detains-relatives...

While the specific context of this was related to journalists, I would certainly take pause with respect my actions at an employer likely to bump heads and attract the attention of that government. There is an escalation of tensions, with the US and China taking hard stances on vistor visas. It's not unreasonable to be concerned about other sanctions.
Yup. How else can you stop Chinese colonialism?
Does that one stop shop have reasonable VAT minimums yet?
And the response is simple and straightforward: civil disobedience doesn't result in an immunity to consequences.
> And if I need to transfer something to my phone, I will have to scp to my mac first, then airdrop.

Aren't there scp/rsync clients for iPhone?
What is legitimacy?

A government's job is to serve as many of its people as much as possible for as long as possible, so playing devil's advocate, why isn't the legitimacy of a government judged by how good it's doing its job vs. how it came into power?

Historically speaking there have been plenty of prosperous societies that was ruled by "illegitimate" governments (and I'm not even saying China is one), and plenty of government that was put into power by the people (actually the original, populist CCP government is one example) that ended up being disastrous.

Even if we want to always put democracy on a pedestal, how do we qualify it? Does only direct democracy count? What about representative democracy? How "representative" can it be before it's no longer democratic, i,e electoral college? Do any of those actually matter?
Pathways into Darkness (1993), Marathon (1994), Marathon 2: Durandal (1995), and Marathon Infinity (1996) all precede Half-Life (1998).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathways_into_Darkness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_Trilogy

The stories of these games have been the subject of discussions for many years.

http://pid.bungie.org

http://marathon.bungie.org/story/

You may know Bungie as the studio behind Halo: Combat Evolved (2001) and subsequent games.
Not entirely. Legs have independently evolved multiple times on Earth, as have heads (or things that are similar to heads). It pays to have a lot of sensory organs on an appendage that can articulate – said sensory organs being close to the brain is also an advantage, assuming you have one single central brain. And 'legs' are good way to achieve locomotion over uneven terrain. Even on Earth that was done using different mechanisms: we use muscles attached to tendons, spiders use hydraulics.

Even though an alien lifeform could conceivably have a 'head' and have 'legs', they would probably look nothing like what we have here.

For a good story about how some alien lifeform would look like, I would recomend reading Blindsight: https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

The author uses some of his marine biology background to design the lifeforms. I think he does a pretty good job at trying to identify mechanisms which would hold true anywhere, but also making the result completely alien.
Couldn't you self-host something that checks all those boxes for far less than a few hundred a year?
have you seen the recent DS9 documentary "what we left behind"?

https://ds9documentary.com/
Between Mac and Linux, I use "python -m http.server". Specifically, I go to the source folder, run the python simple HTTP server. Then in the destination computer or iPhone, I browse the source folder.

If you want to get extra fancy, you can use an alias in .bashrc to shorten the "python -m http.server" to something you prefer.

I use the Mac apps to transfer from iphone to Mac.
I would hope so! If they don't I think it really would expose a lot of hypocrisy and favoritism, but I don't think we can say that for sure yet.
Good point. Yeah, to be honest, I have never used the files in /etc/ansible in 5 years of using Ansible.
> To my mind, there's little true creativity to movies anymore.

Ehh, when I see people who say this (or say they don't make good music anymore), I just assume they don't actually listen/watch anything new anymore.

There are obviously issues in the movie industry between viewer expectations, publisher resource allocation, and competition with streaming services, it's kind of one big crap shoot. But there are plenty of amazing movies coming out every year from both big and small productions. Scorsese himself listed plenty of good examples in his piece (Ari Aster being a personal favorite of mine), but there is plenty of other directors out there doing great work. As a big fan of horror films, I honestly think there has never been a better time for horror movies. Outside of horror, there is plenty of other great stuff too. If you are really looking for creative films, I am a big fan of basically any A24 published movie - they really do a good job of finding and supporting creative teams.
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This article reads like PR. No content about the power plant, just praise for making it a fake ski slope.

> what is possibly the greenest power plant in the world

That's a bold claim with no evidence. They're burning trash. How could that possibly be the greenest power plant in the world?
They do. It would have been more interesting in the Captain Marvel move if the Kree and Skrull both had legitimate claims while also being at fault, instead of just one side being the bad guys, so that Carol could easily pivot to the good side once she bacame aware. And then put Earth in the middle of a morally complex predicament, giving the hero a truly difficult decision to make.

Even Thanos with his environmental message just ending up being treated as another villain to be defeated in Endgame.
Thank You. Life is good!
i mean do we need to sex everything up so much? i am down for this is we are going to put up some realistic sexy stuff but i am also fine with comic movies not focusing on it.
Office 97 actually gives me a little bit of nostalgia. It's the last version for me that actually felt pleasant to use (assuming you turn off Clippy, which isn't much of a barrier).
> I imagine the DPRK classifies all Americans and Europeans as simply "Western imperialist dogs", or something like that.

They classify them as people that will pay good money to be taken on a Disneyland tour through their Potemkin villages.
my point exactly!
> doesn't seem like enough to get critical mass on a social network.

I'm not sure it matters for this social network. It's positioning as a news-based platform doesn't require people you know personally to use the site in order for it to have value.

Perhaps conversely, too many people on a social network may be detrimental to these aims, as ever more narrow-minded echo chambers or factions can achieve critical mass.
But G+ users didn’t choose it (by and large) it just happened TO them.

In this case at least the users had agency and actually signed up.

Still a small number in the grand scheme, but G+ was a bit of a different beast due to how Google launched it.
The Chromecast has always been a locked-down device. I suppose it's frustrating if unsecured DNS was the one way that you could exert some control over a device that isn't truly yours, but that's just not a battle than can be won. Your beef should be with the Chromecast, not DoH.
I wonder if the ISPA (British telecom association) will nominate Microsoft for the 2020 Internet Villain Award.

https://www.ispa.org.uk/ispa-announces-finalists-for-2019-in...
>Presumably the same is not true of ground based telescopes.

There can be plenty of controversy for telescopes. Check out the protests against the 30m Telescope in Hawaii.
...becoming?
No solder needed, the front power switch plugs in to the motherboard using a typical DuPont 0.1" connector.
In my corporate environment, I've played a bit with Puppet. Ansible looks to cover much of the same ground. Are there any compelling reasons to use one over the other?
Always nice to see this posted. Previously discussed in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16238937
You really need to do some research on Scorsese if you think he is only interested in mafia movies. You completely undercut about 75% of the movies his makes, and the work he does outside of directing when it comes to supporting others in the film industry.
I uninstalled because I found it running in the background when it shouldn't be, but turning off notifications was easy for me.
> I don't foresee that happening to games in general

To be honest, I feel like this has already happened to computer games in general. Online and/or phone-home requirements pushed me out of large segments of the games market years ago.
To add: The music needs to be loud enough to drown out every other aural stimulus. You want to hear the music and only the music, not everyone's side conversations, not your clothes rustling around while you're dancing, not the sound of people's hard healed shoes on the dance floor.

Just. Music.
This is exactly why I'm one of the (probably many) silent switchers away from Fitbit now that this acquisition has happened. Whatever Google says now, in one or two or ten years, that could change, and my data will still be there.

> I'm sure there will be a number of "incidents" in which teams were given approval to use the data in unsavory ways.

This is my other concern, closely related to the first. Data companies (Google included) have a very different idea of what is "savory" w.r.t data usage. Not from a place of malice, necessarily, but innocence/privilege/not thinking about the consequences.

Let's say the engineers are building a data-using feature, such as one which takes Fitbit health data and links it to your medical record to recommend tests or interventions that might benefit you. Those engineers may only think about how many lives this will save - the benefits of sharing this data. Because there are some benefits, for some people, in that use case. The problem is when those engineers do not consider all the many ways that sharing could go wrong, and how many other people could be hurt. Discrimination, denial of insurance, stalking, etc.

Personally, I think it would be incredibly beneficial for most software engineers to spend time learning hacking and adversarial thinking. Teaching the people who build these features to think about how the features could, and will, be misused would likely help them build better, safer features. (/soapbox :) )
Those billing codes are CRAZY complex tho. One example: when you see a doctor you may generate multiple billing events. For instance they may draw blood, take an X-Ray, and perform a specific type of test.

In a sane world you would generate three billing codes, sum them, and you'd have your price. But that's not how it really works. Instead certain billing codes can be combined to form new billing codes which makes things stupid crazy hard to reason about.

Those rolled up billing codes can then even roll up to different billing codes when combined with other procedures or other grouped billing codes.

When billing is this complex the treatments do begin to look relatively bespoke.

Basically we're inefficient from basically every direction in the USA. Because every player in the system negotiates with basically everyone else individually you end up with a nightmare of complexity and all of the associated insanity. Hospitals love it because it means that they can take advantage of the complexity to bill for all sorts of things that they otherwise couldn't simply because no one can audit this stuff effectively.