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> There is no way to have that without the inevitable accompanying problems.

What are these problems and why are they inevitable?

Mass education in the USA is public education, and if the USA had a good national curriculum and accompanying system of teaching why would it necessarily produce indoctrination?

If you're conflating the necessary standardisation of mass education with indoctrination well that's just wrong. Having a shared epistemic foundation is the basis for a free democratic society not the undermining of it. The English language is itself a shared epistemic foundation and yet mass literacy campaigns are obviously not a tool of indoctrination. They are tools of freedom and empowerment.
But they don't give up, they fall back to SSE. Which ALSO might have exactly the same issues as AVX2 instructions.
I once forked a C library, porting some parts to C++ in the process: https://github.com/Const-me/nanovg/ I’ve retained original C API, only used C++ in the implementation.

Then I’ve got an e-mail from a developer who asked a few things how to back port my changes to C. I answered their questions, but I was curious why. They replied it’s because Objective C and iOS. Personally, I haven’t been developing for iOS for several years, but I don’t think people would do such things for lulz.
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Yes, if anything it gives him even less credibility to speak about education. Wikipedia mentions that he is an "anarcho-capitalism", so he's basically trying to sell his main ideological framework without any regard to real consequence on people lives or society.
I agree that you can't reliably reveal things as false, contradictory, or misleading without knowledge of the domain - but I think you absolutely can 'question', doubt, and maintain a healthy scepticism.

To use the economics example, you can think things like 'well hang on, how did they measure that'; 'is that really related to or indicative of that'; 'this author has a lot of similar things to say on this topic, some other motive perhaps'.

Answering those questions may require more reading, acquiring some domain knowledge, but you don't need already to have domain knowledge on every subject that you want to read about thoughtfully.
I think the author is not familiar with modern gaming. He takes a single example (a modern sandbox fps game) and ignores sandbox games in general - which would have yielded way more interesting observations. The only other titles there are either way older or totally different in genre. I know this type of argument-building is traditional in academic writing (elaborate analysis of a single barilla pasta ad from the 50s comes to my mind) but it always struck me as a low effort.
Templates are duck typing at C++ compile time (which is their runtime). Yes, concepts should help.

'Modules via copy-and-paste' (= #include) is what I would hurl at C++ these days. Though they are working on that as well, I heard. Though https://vector-of-bool.github.io/2019/01/27/modules-doa.html doesn't sound hopeful.
What the f Michigan... I'm assuming it's different in other states?

Usually yeah the government forces you to sell your property and pay the debt, but any extra from the sale is the property owner's... Which makes way more sense.

How can you even call this ownership if your house is sold and you get nothing if you don't pay your property tax...
there was a study that showed that people who have friends live longer.

finding a partner in such trying times can be a life-anchor, and it can increase your strength and will to live.

for some it can mean the difference of a few months or years, for some it could even mean the strength to beat the illness outright.
I've been hearing that technology is going to transform healthcare in the developing world for the past two decades. While all of those things you mention help, they aren't the big problems - logistics, finances, corruption, stigma around being diagnosed with diseases, low density of clinics, low education. These technologies will only help if you have trained healthcare workers, equipped with the medicine they need and a population that is willing and able to come into clinics.
Ask HN: Does Gigster have monthly recurring revenue?
If yes, how is it possible? They are doing project-based work right?

If No, then how they raised VC funding? VCs always need recurring revenue, right?
You'd still have to do the releases in a separate schedule from the main gcc releases, something that the gccgo compiler doesn't do.
Two scenarios:

1.

I’m forced to use Windows on the customer’s site but I’m permitted to use WSL, which I heavily rely upon.

Even though there’s some interoperability between Windows and WSL, I can’t really use any Windows-based editor or IDE because they reset every file’s owner/group to `root:root` and its permissions to 777.

I soon found myself using Vim all the time. I feel less efficient but I accept it for not having to clean up behind Windows’s shenanigans.

2.

Server administration.

I don’t really know nano or emacs; I try to use rmate whenever I’m on a Mac client but if it’s Windows or Linux PC, what else would I use except Vim?
This has nothing to do with overpopulation, I'm not sure where you are getting that bizarre connection. If you read the article you can see that it is predatory foreclosure and tax policies that give too much room for the county treasurer to do whatever they want.
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I'd first like to see what Zen 3 CPUs are like though.
This part of the description really hit home:

"Never again waste time hunting for applications in poorly organized menus."

The Windows Start menu is terrible, and it's the most iconic part of MS Windows, or it has been to me since the "Start me up" campaign for W95 (one of the best tech ad campaigns not made by Apple in my opinion). And now it is a place where I struggle to activate (?!) the scrollbar. It's an alphabetized list, but I can't tap a keyboard letter to jump down the list, which kills me a little every time I do it and nothing happens. I use the Start menu primarily for locating items to drag to my Taskbar, so I never have to unwillingly scroll past Candy Crush Slot Machine Simular Redux or You Didn't Install This! Saga.
Nobody really knows, or they would be rich.

Warren Buffet seems to hold cash in expectation for the next crash, but the last crash proved he can get access to much better deals than you and I can, so it doesn't mean you should hold cash because he does.

Real estate seems overpriced, but who really knows?

Gold?

Bitcoin? Yeah right.

Perhaps index funds? It would seem unwise now that stock markets are at all times high, but perhaps "time in the market is better than timing the market".
The carbon released from the limestone. If your concrete kiln, say, burns huge amounts of fossil fuels to convert your limestone to line, that doesn't get reabsorbed.
Now that I think of it, it's probably not a co-incidence. The author 'zainamro' who posted the parent post, probably read my post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21730116) and then did a google search to come up with the video that he then posted.
I tend to use wicd[1] they have gtk/curses/cli versions , I've had problems with nm before.

(1) https://launchpad.net/wicd
I'm kinda surprised at the lack of graffiti
my adhd was still undiagnosed back in my school days, and i guess i'm kind of traumatised by that time because i regularly have nightmares about it, and am 100% certain i'd ball my eyes out if i ever met that one teacher again. that was almost 30 years ago.

edit: and all in all it was a pretty decent school
Agreed. The football club was named after this building.
Maybe he's talking about density in relation to administrative areas? If you have a small administrative area then it's more likely that an individual's complaints will be heard. Eg a problem a person has in Iceland is more likely to be rectified than if the person were from the France.
> This is true, but

Oh so you'd retract saying "pseudo-intellectual hack" then?

Your couple of comments here have made me very wary of taking you seriously, but as a big fan of Chomsky I'd like to not dismiss your vitriol and instead ask for some alternative books and talks to look at.

Who do you recommend in the areas of education, politics, and civics?
Run both processes in a virtual environment then. Hell, that's where a lot of machines are running anyway. At least in server environments.
Then don't test it. It is perfectly ok (and even expected) for Intel to not test on AMD. Just don't intentionally cripple it.
I know from personal experience, being from a small country created by the war in the early 1990s, that the international community is very slow in this kind of thing. And if you're not making a lot of concessions in the state-making process,
you simply remain unrecognized. Even if you have no natural resources, the situation is worse.
The thing is, most of these exploits also affect Tor browser, because it's built upon Firefox.

Other than using a VM or a live distro like Tails , is there any other way for OR users to be safer when running the regular Tor browser bundle, such as by utilising third-party sandbox software?
Re: [CVE-2019-14899] Inferring and hijacking VPN-tunneled TCP connections
What do you do instead of pipenv?
> Sony supported linux in public, people bought their hardware for it, and then, without warning, sony janked the rug from under them. Of course people tried to take back their hardware, for which they paid. The blame here is 100% on Sony.

I hadn't bought any Sony hardware at that moment so IIRC I just decided right there and then that there was no reason to send money Sonys way or feel sorry for them.

First Sony console I bought was a used PS3 sometime after PS4 was released. And I was enthusiastic about PS when they first released the console with Linux support.

I guess I'm not the only one.
What makes you think recurring revenue is a must for VCs? Many companies have been funded without even a working prototype.
This is a vague comment. What about Far Cry 2 made it especially "immersing", to you? What was the part that made it feel like "reality"?

For me i found Far Cry 2 spectacular, probably the best first-person shooter of all time, because it constantly makes you feel like shit about the fact you are playing a mass-murderer. That felt confronting and "real" to me. Another game that does this is Spec Ops: The Line, although that is a much more tightly-plotted "interactive movie" type game where you are funneled along certain paths to advance the story.

Another very bleak and depressing shooter is Metro 2033. It is horrendously difficult. You will never have enough ammo. Your gas mask will always break. I never finished it because it made me feel too miserable every time i played. Unlike Far Cry 2 you are forced down corridors, so there is no respite. You can't just go out in the jungle and watch the sunset for a while.

If you are looking more for "open world" games where you can wander around on a big map and do your own thing, there are dozens of those. Personally i am not a fan so i can't give a specific recommendation, but you could check out any of the other Far Cry games, the Assassin's Creed games, Grand Theft Auto 3 and later, Fallout 3 and later, Red Dead Redemption, Stalker series, Metal Gear Solid 5 and probably the other ones too, etc.

If you are more interested by the sickness and vulnerability aspect, there is a whole class of games called "survival games" that don't give you a storyline, they just set up random environments that you have to walk around and survive in. I imagine the better ones are similar to those times in Far Cry 2 where you crawl on your belly through the mud and the elephant grass desperately trying to make your way to the doctor who will refill your meds before you die of malaria.

It really depends what you are looking for from a computer game. Personally, i get Far Cry 2 feelings mostly from games that don't follow shooter mechanics - walking sims, art games and adventures... but those genres are frequently likened to "interactive movies", so i think it depends a lot on your taste.
Autohotkey is pretty cool. Aside from "hotkey" functionality, it also has a scripting language, and a way to make small GUI apps. https://www.autohotkey.com/
TFA is pretty light on information and implies that most of these scripts were forgeries. I think one damning detail that supports this is the fact that all of these supposedly pre-historic scripts have square aspect ratios and just happen to be written top-down right-to-left in the same way that modern Japanese was written in at the time of their "discovery". A lot of them are also surprisingly neat and geometric for scripts that would predate paper/typography.
>you don't take illegitimate and illegal actions against them.

What sony did is illegal.
Perhaps not coincidentally, almost all of the increased land rent that comes with increased density is captured by the Singaporean state, since it is the ultimate landowner ("privately owned" land is actually leased from the state on a 99 year basis).

This means that as an area becomes more desirable, more people move there, land rent goes up, and the state earns more and more capital to build/maintain infrastructure and bureaucracy that is proportional to its population.

Contrast with the Bay Area (only used as an exemplar of basically all of America/the western world), which is full of extraordinarily wealthy people paying enormous rents to live under a dysfunctional government with a budgetary shortfall of $6.3B.

It appears that high Singaporean rents go back into paying for a society worth living in, while high San Franciscan rents go into the pockets of a handful of landlords (who of course contributed nothing to San Francisco's explosion of productivity over the last few decades).
The Fed and bank bailouts are transferring wealth to the wealthy from everyone else. Fiat makes it all possible. It's not hard money. We must get back in a hard money system. Read or listen to "The Bitcoin Standard." Can also find author and podcasts on YouTube.
In Germany there is the Schoeffengericht aka jury trial for intermediate crime. Schoeffen are also called Laienrichter, layman judges, there just aren't that many of them and procedures are different.

The decision of facts (as opposed to legal decisions) is a majority vote of professional and layman judges...

edit: major —> intermediate
That's the current state but LLVM is adding new targets (like the newly added AVR target), while the AVR target in GCC is under threat of removal: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/84630749-avr-convert-the...
No, this isn't what happens nor why it was practiced.

The eucalyptus were there long before Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders burned anything or arrived on the continent. So were wildfires. Their burning didn't make Eucalyptus flourish so much, nor was this the intention. Fire does help open a Eucalyptus tree's seed pods, but fires would've happened without people there.

Ceremonial burning is used for many reasons, one of the main reasons is because Indigenous people learned that reducing the scrub covering the ground through what is known as "cool fire" (fire which doesn't get too hot due to reduced fuel load), the sun can more effectively penetrate to the forrest floor and allow more new scrubs to grow and made the Forrest floor more accessible to larger, grazing animals. Esentially, the fires increase the local carrying capacity of the Forrest wildlife and make hunting more easy.

These "cool fires" also reduce the amount of dead wood or "dry fuel" significantly. What this meant is that large loads of highly flammable fuel would not longer be hanging around to catch fire easily. The bark of a Eucalyptus is naturally somewhat fireproof. So without a very large fuel load the odds of fires spreading and burning out of control were rather low.

One of the issues is, since Europeans came, most of this practice was no longer commonly practiced due to the original occupants of the land being victims of genocide or the practice being outlawed in most parts of Australia (not all, and these places rarely have major wild fires). Sadly this has led to many parts of the Australian wilderness poorly managed and allowed a huge amount of fuel load to build up. When this fuel catches fire, the Eucalyptus trees get so hot internally, they combust like a petrol bomb, this wasn't previously very common.

All this combined with the super drought being experienced due to climate change has made this situation really unavoidable.

I know that Indigenous Australians know when the right time to burn is. They're careful about it for obvious reasons but I don't know if climate change will make it harder to re-introduce the practice due to the forrests being drier than ever before; However after these fires would be the right time to start as the fuel load is low.

To gain more insights on this checkout this excellent video on how the practice is being re-introduced in more areas to stop events like this happening in such devastating ways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM72NtXxyLs

Bascially, the Australian wildlife needs these trees, many animals including Koalas have been facing extinction due to the loss of Eucalyptus.

In my view, we need more trees, and better management of land, less trees has it's own catastrophic side effects, including less carbon sequestration and the extinction of native species.
From the article :
>"Every member of Parliament in Mogadishu gets a salary paid mostly by U.S. and EU funds," one Somaliland official told us. "And every one of them is a killer. If you kill enough people, you are called a warlord and you get invited to conferences. Meanwhile, I was elected by thousands of votes in a free election, but the international community does not consider us a country. They should be rewarding democracy, not killing."

That's sadly the truth in some of our African states.
> I'm glad I got to experience it when it was still strange and mysterious

Yeah, there's something about a raw location that has a much better connection to the history. Bletchley Park today (still a good museum) is almost a theme park when compared to what it was 10 years ago. There are still a few pure historic sites around that haven't had the chance to visitor attraction treatment but almost by definition they're harder to find.
I live basically opposite it.

It's such a great, strange park. Lots of random abandoned follies. I've been mugged there twice but still it feels weirdly safe. It has such a great view at night and feels so desolate and strange especially with the antennas. Going there when there's a good level of fog is excellent.
Most likely not, because then the user is dependent on the sandboxing capabilities of the software. Having a VM-level sandbox, although still technically possible to escape, would be far more difficult for an adversary.
> There is a very weird movement right now underestimating the drastic power of ML/AI.

Generally consisting of people who know what they're talking about rather than marketers or science fiction fans.

Hong Kong's mask law has nothing to do with tracking people. It has to do with protesters committing violent acts while masked. All you need to do is track people is get them to carry a cell phone which can be tracked via its SSID, IMEI and ICCID.

Laughing at the idea of being afraid of BERT. Reminds me of Hofstadter thinking ATNs might soon achieve sentience.
This reminds me about disciplining your children -- if you allow for such arguments "now is not the right time" -- you will end up with spoiled children, because it is never the right time, discipline, be it financial discipline should be a constant first principle or there is no discipline whatsoever.

We did not discipline the people creating the 2008 subprime crisis because it was not the right time to do it, and now they are running the show and fucking up the whole world economy.
It supports the possibility of panspermia.
Back in 2003 I used Litestep. It was scriptable modular windows shell. It had integration with IMs (Miranda), mail, weather, voice control... Sometimes I feel like technology is evolving backwards.
Oh yea, that's the hardest part for me to understand. Sometimes I think VCs are stupid for throwing money into crappy things.

Do you think there is some secret behind VC investments? I mean, are there any other motive other than the intention of doubling or tripling their invested money?
Yes - Lego is definitely good to get basic understanding. I personally really liked Lego tech but I try to expand my option pool :-)
See this article, New Zealand's Glaciers have turned red from the fires: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/05/australia/australia-bushf...
That feels like an easy string to search for across open source projects. Are there any other low-hanging fruit in core libraries?
Oh wow I just read their about page and I stand corrected. I'm not sure if the fact that they're a (supposedly) hundred year old newspaper makes me feel any better about the quality of their articles though.
Robbery - plain and simple. Reminds me of when traffic lights were illegally manipulated to create more traffic offenders to raise funds.
From a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21464572
This is how you get killdozer.
Knex, it is similar like lego, right? I only got one basic / small knex toolkit in my childhood. What is your opinion: what differentiates it from e.g. Lego?
Thanks for the hint!
Tuition at the University of California (1970)
Agree, but past 3 that they started repeating themselves very much :)
The FED turned into a paper-clip maximizing machine by now.

If you only cared about nominal employment you could hand everybody shovels instead of excavators and you can employ 100 guys with shovels instead of a guy with an excavator.
How strange. I have tinkered with a couple of FOSS games of Windows and none of them required VS (not to mention another couple of other non-game projects). Maybe that's because they often are multi-platform projects so Make is the best choice at the global level for them?

> The lowest common denominator for build instructions that works everywhere is literally "set your include paths like so and compile these sources".

Yes, but that's quite inconvenient and error-prone ; a typo in a -D flag is very likely to not compile what you wanted.

Make is not a multi-megabyte program with a frack tonne of dependencies. Having your users to install it in order to build your project is far from being completely outrageous (unless for coughmicrosoftcough cults that consider the command-line is evil).
> I have not tried the very latest generation, but I have tried previous generations.

Just to clarify - you mean VR with 6DOF tracking of head and controllers? Vive, Rift, Quest, Windows MR etc.

Or something else? For me this is the minimum bar to being "truly interesting VR". Everything before that was just a novelty in my view.
The nuclear waste disposal problem is a can that is very kickable down the road. The "solution" in the US, and I think elsewhere, is (after ten years or so of cooling) just put the spent fuel in dry casks. This is simple and cheap and safe, and does not foreclose any future options for dealing with it.

One might criticize this for foisting the problem on future generations, but I suggest this is a truly minor problem compared to others we're foisting on them, and they'll be in a better position to deal with it that we are. It would be a poor solution compared to immediate reprocessing if we lived in a High Nuclear scenario where uranium was running low, but we don't live in that world.