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Your response is little more than, "no, you're wrong, and I'm right." I tend to agree with parent that the general Linux UI/UX experience (even the flagship Linux OS, Ubuntu) is subpar compared to commercial operating systems.

You only make a serious argument in the last bullet:

> First of all, it is perfectly practical, especially given the fact that you can find step-by-step instruction to do just about anything in a matter of seconds. Second, you rarely have to do these things and graphical overlays are often available and/or come pre-installed on distros such as Ubuntu. Third, you sometimes have to do similar things on Windows, whether it be editing the hosts file or changing obscure registry settings - the difference is that the Linux versions of these things have much better documentation, and much more info and community support online.

The vast majority of Windows and macOS users are not technical people, and that is fine. The vast majority of Windows users do not need to edit registry settings, just as the vast majority of macOS users don't need to edit `defaults write com.apple.[star]`. More importantly, they don't want to.

My grandma is deathly afraid that any wrong action she takes will brick her PC. You're telling me that she'll be fine running sudo in a terminal, even if there's step by step directions?
IIRC, there was a big stink because ARM and POWER historically implemented consume/release semantics, which is very slightly more relaxed than the now de-facto standard acquire/release semantics.

ARM and POWERPC CPU devs worked very hard to get consume/release into C++11, but no compiler writer actually implemented that part of the standard. As such, consume/release can be safely forgotten into the annals of computer history (much like DEC Alpha's fully relaxed semantics)

Then in ARM8, ARM simply added LDAR (Load-acquire) and STLR (Store-release) instructions. https://developer.arm.com/docs/100941/0100/barriers . So the ARM CPU how fully supports the acquire/release model. Apparently IBM's POWER instruction set was similarly strengthened to acquire/release (either POWER8 or POWER9).

ARM / POWER "normal" loads and stores are still consume/release semantics. But compilers can simply emit LDAR (load-acquire) for the stronger guarantee.

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I remember at least one talk that showed that consume/release is ideal for things like Linux's RCU or something like that (that acquire/release is actually "too strong" for RCU, and therefore suboptimal). But because compiler-writers found consume/release too hard to reason about in practice, we're stuck with acquire/release.

It seems like the C++ standard continues to evolve to push for memory_order_consume (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p075...), but all the details are still up for discussion.
The claim was that false statements are controlling our political process. The antivaxx movement has exactly zero impact on politics.
Exactly what I thought while reading that article. I can't imagine anyway you would be able to run a study and get meaningful results around this accounting for a tonne of external variables.

I expect wealthier people tend to live in nicer neighbourhoods that just tend to have more planting, those people are more likely to have better lives than poor people who happen to live in neighborhoods that can't afford to plant a lot of trees.

In saying that, I'm still all for planting as many trees in cities as we can. This just seems like a flawed study
lol yeah. I thought the games catalogue was included. Now this is just retarded.
PlaidML?

(Disclaimer -- I'm one of the devs. Even though we were bought by Intel a year or so ago, we've been pretty good about keeping the AMD / OpenCL support intact.)
I'm curious as to whether or not the mall will be able to keep up. A student is quoted as saying "this place is outdated, the roads are dirty, the hygiene is poor, and in the summer it’s unbearably hot." I can see this being a side effect of the vendors focusing solely on a better selection at a lower price, because those are concrete metrics that they compete with others on. At the end of the day, it's all that really matters; if a place doesn't have the book I want at a price I can afford, any other conveniences mean nothing.

If I need the books, the uncomfortable location with a huge inventory that don't need to pad prices to deal with rent seems like the obvious first stop.
Except if you stepped out of the hn bubble you'll know MS has had something similar in works for a long time so no, Google can't win here
I agree that it can be harsh. At the same time, I enjoy having the different seasons. Although this year it didn't feel like we had Fall.
I've never seen a consistent product vision from Google. What I see is a company that lets engineers spend a lot of time pursuing their interests, subsidized by the company's ad revenue.

Sometimes that results in products, but sometimes it results in multiple teams working on chat apps that never see the light of day, or Android being shipped with multiple SMS messaging applications at the same time, or that weird split between Gmail and Inbox. The money wasted must be tremendous.
Snow Leopard was marketed as a stability release, but what they didn't tell us was that the stability would come at the end of the dev cycle, not at launch. :-)

In the end, Snow Leopard did end up very stable. I'm stilling running it today on an old Mac Mini hooked up to some old peripherals I want to keep around. But it definitely did not start that way.
I really like the “we finally fixed text editing” thing.

Try editing something in a text area with more text than fits in it without scrolling to see how “fixed” it is.
I sounded exagerating but you know that they were under attack in many fields.

They failed on the phone market. The tablet market. (although it may be coming back now). Office got pressure from Google Docs. The desktop market has shrunk.. Even their server side was not strong.
True. Typically property taxes are to fund things at a local level though, and not sent back to the federal government for massive programs.

My biggest issue with a wealth tax on the super-wealthy is that it would quickly morph into a wealth tax on everyone above lower-middle class.

Old article but the numbers have scaled proportionately...

"If the IRS grabbed 100 percent of income over $1 million, the take would be just $616 billion. That’s only a third of this year’s deficit. Our national debt would continue to explode." [0]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/danbigman/2012/04/03/john-stoss...
I don't think the people who agree with what china is doing have any fear of speaking up.
Meanwhile the US just shut down its two largest coal plants in the past month, and has shed 50 just since Trump has been in office; but people keep touting China as a "climate leader." Pretending a non-binding Paris Agreement the US backed out of meant anything at all. It was non-binding.
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass
After all the bad PR I decided to sit down, put aside emotions, and honestly evaluate with myself how I felt about Stadia as a video gamer.

I realized that I actually would really like video game streaming. It would be really neat to pop open whatever game I'm playing on a tv in another room, or on a chromebook or some other non-gaming device.

The problem is Stadia also wants to control the game library and the hardware. I'm not okay with either of those. Really, I just want to stream from the ps4 in one room to the TV in the other room. And, I bet there's a way to do that already (going to look more into it later). Either way, it's not a multibillion dollar venture, so I think that's why google wants to be streaming, renting a computer, and owning your game library, all in one. I don't care about the other two services. I have hardware and I have game libraries.
I suppose buying a $130 box that no longer works AT ALL because the cloud backing it and providing all of the functionality is gone isn't a reason to want longevity? It would be like buying a mobile phone locked to one network that fails. If Google were giving this away for free and charging monthly I'd agree. Welp service down, no more $10 a month from me, moving along.
> Look toward Microsoft or Sony instead

"Playstation Now" came out years ago. You can stream games, or you can cache the executable locally if you have a dodgy connection or want to go offline. And if I'm reading this correctly, you don't need to pay for the individual games, either - just the service.
Not yet, hence the challenge ;-) I probably am going to try to rewrite the static blog generator I wrote in Haskell early next year.

[0] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
I wouldn’t consider Cato “Right
Report- Management and the State of 1:1s
Logically equivalent: fewer trees increase premature deaths in cities.

I prefer this way. It treats having trees as normal instead of something extra.
See also: "A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes."
They already did it five years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Now
> What makes SQL Server so much better than, say, PostgreSQL or MariaDB?

Tooling and speed. I can vouch for the quality of SQL Server's tooling – SSMS is very nicely integrated with SQL Server.

If you watch the CMU DB Group's lectures on YouTube, they mention that the commercial RDBMSs have put a lot more time+research into query optimization than the open source ones (and apparently SQL Server has the best optimizer).
Honestly I'm surprised there are 2400 employees who have stuck around this long, waiting for the other shoe to drop. How could they not see the obvious implosion coming? The proverbial tidal wave of ugly news has been steady for months now.
> Zuckerberg, Trump and Peter Thiel

Welcome to the Dark Enlightenment
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We need to operate with the assumption that all vulnerabilities that can be exploited for profit, will be. People will be people. The only answer is mechanisms that make it less profitable.
> To name one: You realize after finishing your code block that the first two lines of it actually shouldn't have been part of the code block, but should have been normal text above.

* move the cursor to 0,0
* hold shift and hit down-arrow twice to highlight the first two lines
* continue holding shift and hit left-arrow once to deselect the EOL on the second line
* use the keyboard shortcut for toggling code blocks (cmd-alt-shift-c)

awkward, but it works. :shrug:

EDIT: formatting
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Except you have to pay for the games too, not just the subscription. Probably when they shut it down you got your money back, maybe not. Time will tell.
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The macro system is stupidly powerful but I agree this isn't a decent example. C preprocessor macros are very cumbersome not only to read and write, but to use.

I alluded to this is another comment but Rust macros can call arbitrary Rust code. Including file i/o at compile time, such as loading a config file in your syntax of choice, deserializing it to a struct, and then using it to synthesize tokens. Rust's macros become an extremely powerful tool for code generation using Rust itself.
I hadn't heard of OnLive until there were comparisons to Stadia. On the other hand, Google is able to do some great first party advertising on YouTube.
its initial purchase price is only slightly less than a full console, the games cost more, the visual quality is worse, it is way way more subject to packet loss, the input lag is orders of magnitude worse and it (along with my purchases) have a high probability of disappearing in 3 years time

where do I sign up?
You can eliminate all addiction and spending on illegal drugs, but you still might have social decay because people's needs are going unmet in a given social structure.

The drug dealer is taking advantage of existing social decay but not necessarily creating it; but some do (opioid epidemic for example).
That's fantastic, but in terms of threat model, you're still trusting AWS/DO/GCE/Azure/whatever. My hope with a good VPN service is that they'll run their own servers in a data center, so they're slightly less subject to audit than something running on AWS.
Surprisingly, OnLive found lag was an even greater problem for applications with a cursor than for games.

Plus your suggestion can be implemented with cloud compute (a backend behind the UI) - it doesn't need to be cloud streaming.
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Part of the reason I enjoyed Uber rides was a feeling of casual quality. Some random Joe had water bottles and a spotless car ready to go and was nothing like the worn out office-in-a-car local cab service.

The more filming and recording that has started in Uber the more the divide between customer and driver becomes and we are on the road to the same old customer experience. I don't want to get into transport knowing that I am performing for the state/megacompany on camera. I like talking freely with average joes without the feeling of hawks watching every move.

Being under the eye of judgement changes people regardless of the 'nothing to hide' argument. It's unpleasant. Having always on phone tracking that Uber does and a star rating system was supposed to be good enough. Why am I bothering at this point? If someone's going to track everything I ever do it may as well be the local cab company that I could plausibly trust because it's local and regular. I could go to a physical premises and talk to employees from my culture that have been there for decades.

I don't get it anymore. The only advantage is rapidly becoming price because they're not regulated the same way.
I don’t disagree with your main point about losing games, but the fee is strictly for Stadia Pro, which permits 4K and 5.1 surround sound. Stadia Base is free and will launch in February, but only permits up to 1080p and stereo sound. You still obviously also need to buy the games though (except F2P). They’re using the “Founder’s Edition” almost like Early Access. If you have Stadia Pro and you stop paying, you lose access to the free games that are included with Pro, which right now are Destiny 2 and Samurai Showdown. This is the same as Xbox Live Gold and the Free Games with Gold. You don’t lose access to the games you purchased if you stop paying for Pro.
The OP is incorrect, but in the opposite direction than you are thinking. The monthly subscription is optional (it gets you 4k streaming, instead of 1080p, and discounts / free games similar to Playstation Plus or similar). You do have to buy the games.

So yeah, if they discontinue Stadia it is an open question what happens to the games you purchased on it. They have avoided questions on it, unsurprisingly.
It’s both true and relevant no matter how many times it has been mentioned before
>I don't care if I discuss say, my retirement plans or my intended stock trades with a cab driver listening in. I do care if a recording of those things is sent to a multi-national company who is motivated by profit.

That's weird, I'm exactly the opposite. The last thing I want to do is give any private financial information to some strange guy who drives a car for a living, which he or one of his contacts might use to rob me. I'm not too worried about a huge multinational company doing that; they'll just try to sell me something at worst.
Android is crap but if you stay away from “desktop environments” and a lot of the GUI software Linux OSes aren’t bad.
That depends a lot on the directionality of the transmission though right? We don't know much but the satellites are using a phased antenna array so the ground stations could be as well.
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Really good article on this topic: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/explaining-how-fighti...
I currently keep a wework hotdesk and they do have a sizable headcount at each location - 3 rotating front desk people, a location manager, and maybe 3/4 rotating maintenance staff. I think they might contract out the maintenance staff, but that's still 4x number_of_locations just for that.
Options in a startup are always a lottery ticket. I would argue that no rational person assigns any significant value to them, because even career investors aren't able to pick winners and instead earn money by betting on a lot of different startups.
Yes, but it's not necessary or informative depending on how many times it has been mentioned before
And a way for them to key/voice/button log lots of gamers to collect training data for AIs and stuff of that nature.
>Repackaging and returning can sometimes be a pain, so I’ll be reluctant to gamble sometimes. However, I’ve been more lazily repacking items and it hasn’t been an issue.

Recently they added a return option where you can drop off items at Kohls or a UPS store without repacking them. The store scans a QR code from an email and they handle packing and shipping the item back. Amazon then sends them off in bulk to a processing warehouse. According to my UPS store, most returns aren't even resold on Amazon. They just auction off lots blindly like a storage unit sale.
Don't charge your phone this way
I'm an immigrant and I am not white. I've only lived in big cities (NYC) and a handful of smaller, but progressive cities. I'd never be able to buy even a one bedroom apartment in a place like NYC - would love to move to a rural place, with less traffic/noise/pollution etc.

These kinds of comments scare me off...
I tend to only write reviews on yelp, but they are all either 5 or 1 stars. This is because I’m not motivated to review something unless I love or hate it.

My guess is you should factor the sheer volume of purchases here as well. She’s definitely not leaning on the middle of the bell curve either way, which should prompt investigation from Amazon.

However, I’m not sure Amazon has any motivation to clear these kinds of things up. Fake reviews at least for now don’t seem to be hurting their business model.
Well, we do have that today; trains can tilt and the cant (tilt) of the tracks can be raised as well. However speeds are now much higher and curve radius is higher as well; China uses 7km curve radii on a 350km/h railway.

At this point the main thing limiting smaller curve radii is passenger comfort, because travelers don’t want to be subject to the vomit-inducing forces of a roller coaster. It’s why I am extremely skeptical whenever new land-based technologies promise higher top speeds and lower costs; most costs with these types of projects are land acquisition, and curves necessitate buying more property due to both the intersection of more property and the need to buy out some oddly shaped slivers that may result from a curved rail line splitting a property in two.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21595052
If so, maybe that was clear and I missed it. Or maybe it very much wasn't, and they should know me better than to expect different behaviour in that case.
Feedly's quite good, and they have a business model that isn't driven by abuse of their users.
Nobody cares about maintenance at most places.
MSFT has more than a plan. https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-streaming/project-xclou...

Both platforms are at similar levels of maturity, actually, with similarly limited support for platforms, controllers, and games. Microsoft just hasn't had the audacity to charge for their beta test.
A lot of people switched to macs when Snow Leopard and Lion were current, so they got their first laptops with them preinstalled -- and obviously, they worked swimmingly (fresh installs, on the configurations Apple devs likely targeted during development).

Nowadays, thanks to Apple effectively deserting Macs for long stretches, less and less new people move into the ecosystem, which means the bulk of users are now upgraders -- who are bound to have more issues.
The reception to stadia has been very critical, it seems like it was rushed out and half-assed. It's bizarre to see such poor execution and polish on a major launch like this from Google, that was the one thing they used to nail consistently.
Hey HN! sharing a side project I've been working on.

I loved google Finance (RIP) and when they shut down, decided to build something to scratch the same itch.

Would love thoughts, ideas, bugs, etc!
To be honest i never worked in such a backwards office where people still use ms office
Show HN: Git Notes – Personal notes sync'ed through Git (alpha version)
Hello HN,

I've recently finished the first version of Git Notes and been using it for a week now. So, I'd like to share it with you.

Git Notes is a golang app that monitors a directory and keep pushing changes to a remote git repo.

There are 3 advantages:

1. The permanence of your notes feels much higher. It's on Github, Gitlab, or your own Git host. Over the years, I've used many note taking apps (e.g. Evernote, SimpleNote, Joplin), and they don't feel "forever". When something is stored on Github, for me, it feels more "forever".

2. Conflicts are handled in a familiar way for programmers. Git Notes simply merges and commits without resolving conflicts. You'll see the Git-style conflict text showing up in your notes.

3. You can use your own editor. I like writing on Sublime, so I want to use Sublime editor. I'm sure you have your own fav editor as well.

The app is still in an early stage. Test coverage is great. But I'd love to get early users who are willing to install Git Notes (using systemd and launchd) and help me battle-test the app.

See: https://github.com/tanin47/git-notes

Any feedback and comment is welcome. Thank you!
I think anything like that is going to appear retroactively very hypocritical to any developing nation that finds itself under such carbon tariffs.

A sort of reparation or settlement for western carbon output in the 20th century, which the same impact on the climate only differing in happening earlier, would help developing nations get on board. This arrangement could take the form of investment in a developing nations clean energy infrastructure or compensation in other forms.

Otherwise, developing nations besides China will probably continue buying legacy, retired coal fire equipment from China, which has been happening for some time now.
Mootchi, 'cos, cute.
Good journalism cannot survive if bad SEO practices become dominant. They are opposed: bad SEO practices are fundamentally about lying, while good journalism if fundamentally about telling hard truths.
This must be one of the purest apples to pears comparison I've seen: comparing two similar looking things intended to do completely different things and declaring one superior to the other without any hesitation, surely this is the very ur-form of the expression?
Why break? They’re leveraging PSD2, not breaking it
Modern trains can tilt if designed for it, and the track is banked as well.

The main issue with curve radii today is that passengers would like a railway where they have a cup of tea or coffee on a table without it spilling. They definitely do not want to be strapped into a vomit-inducing roller coaster.
> Google tried to force this into a viral success on day 1 and that's not going to happen.

What do you mean by this? What is the difference between a big marketing campaign from a large company and a campaign "forced to go viral on day 1"?

I've not seen any of the advertising for Stadia so I'm probably out of the loop here.
Sortition would actually be an improvement even if there was no manipulator. Right now local government seems to be a selection by most-recognizable-name. In Florida a Joe Smith will always get the nod over a Prayut Chan-o-cha if there's no local press covering the election or publishing any candidate bios.
This is why I desperately want Apple to build a VPN service. They are already committed to privacy, and they've got a lot more to lose than some fly-by-night VPN service.
Does anyone have the list of banks supported? On their website they only link to their WS to fetch them instead of a simple list