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what spicylemon pointed out, and I find many 'mainstream' news shows to be radical and not fringe.

Sometimes it's little slants added by hosts around facts.. sometimes it's hosts adding in little details to what interviewees have said - once you start to see it, it becomes sadly obvious that it's radical bias, and yet looking at the polls or seeing other people's fbook feeds, and such - it's not fringe.

Sometimes it's fact being left out, sometimes it's only reported what can be shown as bad.. or good - and avoiding showing other details. I must say 'mainstream' news both right and left has been radical in their support or resistance of certain narratives.
I would add
thesignalpath
and
mikeselectricstuff
to the list. Much more advanced, but very good to learn professional PCB design
I have kids.
Again it is about setting boundaries and respect.

Most people make mistake they start compromising very early for no reason, and when things get tough, they just get buried.
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I think you can have both time to focus (work time) and time to interact with others (break time). I think using "focus" as an excuse to not interact with others may not be the most healthy way to live life.
The words Paul Davis used are defined in the constitution, it’s a legal document. Everything has a legal definition. Legal texts are interpreted by the judicial branch which sets the limits of nuance and thought. As Paul Davis showed, however, not everyone reads legal texts as a hobby.. so one should really delegate that work to someone who does (just like I won’t ask my plumber to create some ML models for me)
The problem has not been solved mainly by the store though.

It has been solved by sandboxing.
I've heard about this too. It may be why people are developing so many food sensitivities. Still though, most gluten sensitive people still can't tolerate the "organic" bread made from modern wheat.
"Focus is the new IQ" is the best expression I've seen of this.

I'm lucky to have the gift of focus, and to know other people who also have it.

I know I'm on the right track when I'm asked:

* "You did that yourself?"

* "How did you do that?"

* "How is that possible?"

One person with deep focus can change everything. Nikolai Tesla is the ultimate example of this - he made the modern world.

My secrets? My only social media is HN, and I use a stick phone.
It is 2019, you do not need a relationship to have a sex.
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Many other people "know" about the GIL, to the extent of believing there's no point using threads in python "because of the GIL".

I had a funny such experience lately in a job interview. I told the interviewer his misconception could be falsified with ~10 LOC summing a list with 2 threads.
True, and a reason to applaud the changelog: it lists a potential breakage just because the is, well, a potential for breakage.

Yes, in reality, I'd be amazed to find code that actually breaks.
Thats one goal we're aiming for.
I also agree that #2 is greatly overlooked. I know, personally, I would have purchased many games in the past, if I had an option to resell it for even half the price I paid for it. Instead, I end up waiting 12+ months until that game comes down in price commensurate with the value I believe it to be worth.

This applies a lot to single player games that will take 10-20 hours to complete like the newest Tomb Raider series or Deus Ex series, where I'm sure I will enjoy them, but not enough to spend $70+ on them.
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Game resale has been a staple ever since video games exists. Gaming stores chain have built their business' margins around it. And game would easily go through several people's hands, not just one sale.

The only thing that may seem different is the amount of potential customers you can reach at once by your sale, but it's not either: game resale on ebay or amazon allow the same thing, as well as whatever local personal ads site is popular (eg leboncoin in france).

Also, people like to own things, which is why no you didn't go and sell all your books/vhs/dvd/... after watching them when you bought those.

Don't let the "it's digital" be used as an excuse to allow companies to strip you of your rights, and especially don't think it's a good thing.
> promotes nihilistic anti-community based on materialism and conformity

The GP never suggested anything of the sort. For saying negative things about fast food? This makes zero sense.

There are objectively negative things about fast food chains and their targeting of poor communities.

When did HN devolve into a complete lack of intellectual honesty?
Most of everything is optimization indeed on top of our basic human capabilities, thus not strictly necessary.

But there is intrinsic value in fast long range audiovisual communication itself. The easier they are to use and more available, the higher this value, because now people can use them.

It's exactly as if you're arguing that advanced farming tools have no intrinsic value. But without them starvation is the only outcome.
The value of them is conditional, but not extrinsic.

Mind you, communication is not as critical. We have instant local communication built in, speech and body language. And it is very easy to write or paint. Harder to distribute it for sure.

Transportation is communication too, just higher latency but much more useful. We have that built in as well, it's walking, and can go quite some range of hundreds of kilometers. It's just slow and low carrying weight.

Whether modern comms allow us to do something useful and otherwise impossible remains to be seen. Transport and farming already have done it.
Oh its alright, I didn't feel attacked.

If you're curious, here's another GWAS open-access paper on sleep: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08917-4. Its self reporting, but its tricky to do EEG or some other technique on half a million people. Also this associated portal is cool: http://sleepdisordergenetics.org/home/portalHome
I know, right? Why, it's almost as if things can be both good and bad at the same time, instead of being purely one or the other.
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You can find a lot of articles about the most successful startups / companies in 2019 but these lack information of one-man companies, unless you started as a one person and now you have dozens of employees.

My candidate is my friend. He built mobile app that generates revenue around 30 - 50k $ per year.
Set a schedule and follow it. Always start at the same time, take your breaks and day's end at the same time. It's easy to lose control of your day and have a situation where you mix work and your life and there are no boundaries. Also get out of the house for lunch and breaks.
Don't think of this as "File System Images for downloading and testing your code with".

Think of this as a non-canonical index to fit-on-1.44Mb-floppy ultra-small and probably now defunct OS'es (with a few larger ones stuck in) that still might be interesting to OS purists and people interested in Operating Systems / OS Research, etc.

(But, sure, if you really want to, you could also think of this as "File System Images for downloading and testing your code with" <g>)

(But to me, that's sort of a distant second... <g>)
Tell that to the go enthusiasts. They're all claiming it to be peak performance surpassing everything else.

though even java is faster in most benchmarks
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You argument applies to any secondary market. The creator has already made money from the first sale. Why should they continue to get a piece of every subsequent sale?
If it's stupid and works, it ain't stupid.
I deeply resonate with this - there are just too many things to do, and too little time. This is a boon and a curse. One cannot realize all things we can do in our lifetime, but if we can fixate on one particular thing, we can compound our efforts. What a great article! A reminder that stop dicking around on multiple things in the shallow waters, instead take a deep dive into depths that no one in the world has explored. You're at the forefront of combining pieces of past knowledge, adding your own intellect into an amalgamation that is truly unique. Build it with all you've got, take as much oxygen as you can with you and stay calm as you dive deep. There is a new world out there.

I feel like I need to print this article out and stick it across from my desk to be reminded of this every day.
Bought a $4000 NZD 24ft yacht in February. The first "maintenance" is going be early next year to reapply anti-fouling (approx $500 NZD). What used most of the money tho:

- Outboard $1200 NZD

- Insurance (for marina) $300

- $140 NZD VHF

- $240 NZD life jackets

- $1560 NZD marina

So the boat itself is only half the coast itself... I still think we've got off quite cheaply and provided us with tons of fun.
Given that the EU court has confirmed it was legal to resale your own digital Oracle license AND Oracle had to allow the new buyer the same downloads/update/support as the original one (and given that it's Oracle), I'm not sure the ruling would be different with purely digital games.

https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/3/3134867/eu-court-of-justic...
> It feels like we (as Matrix) should do a formal response

please do!
The key word here is "DRM".
A simple test for people is to get used to working 3 hours straight without any distractions. Give it a try. You can get a whole day's work done this way.
> Gaming stores chain have built their business' margins around it.

But modern game studios have not; quite the opposite. The indie game industry exists almost solely because of digital distribution, and resale would cripple them.
I don't use THC but I've been in the local dispensary (Boston, MA) https://netacare.org/locations/neta-brookline/

Gorgeous location, knowledgable staff, fair prices
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Can you please edit the name-calling out of your comments to HN, and generally not do flamewars here? From "This is a silly, childish conspiracy theory" and "Suuuuure" to "Have you been living under a rock", your comments stand out in this thread as particularly breaking the site guidelines.

If you have better information or know more of the truth than other commenters, it's important to present that in a form which readers can respect and learn from. Otherwise you end up discrediting the very truth you're advocating for, leaving us all worse off.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Or maybe the vulnerabilities should be handled at the OS level with confirmation of privileged access at the user level. If I download a notepad app and it asks me record then that is something that I can respond with.

The OS vulnerabilities being exploited should be fixed. The solution of a white list solution managed by unaccountable tech oligarchs should be laughed at and then resisted at all costs.
It's the concurrency model. The industry has decided threads just don't scale and it's doing away with the two most popular languages that rely on multithreading (Java and C#) and favoring NodeJs (event loop), Go (goroutines) and I guess Elixir (I'm not sure what really is the concurrency model, I guess the actor model somehow).
Valve's defense in this case was puzzling. It appears that they tried to argue that Steam is a subscription service (which are exempt from secondary sales), which was just obviously bullshit. From a bit of reading, it seems like there would have been at least two much stronger defenses available. First, the way the 2012 CJEU decision was actually interpreted in practice by other lower courts incredibly strictly[0], requiring outrageous levels of proof that the secondary seller no longer had access to the sold software.

And then separate from that, the core of the 2012 court decision was the 2009 "legal protection of computer programs" directive. But in 2014 (in the Nintendo vs. PC Box case) the CJEU basically ended up ruling that games did not fall under that directive due to how heavy they are on non-software (audio-visual) content[1].

I'd be really curious why Valve's lawyers ignored these avenues and went for the ridiculous subscription option. (And equally, I'm curious about why France was going after Valve when PSN, Xbox Live, Apple App Store and Nintendo eShop appear to be softer targets).

[0] https://gameslaw.org/the-end-of-the-usedsoft-case-and-its-im...

[1] http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=146...
Can't they just charge a lot more? Like $10million per ad?

It's a surcharge to avoid political ads, but hey Mr. Bloomberg, if you need to get attention... we will collect your money.

What would they do with this extra money? Fund open source foundations?

...wait... is $10Million too low? Is there that much money in politics?
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Tipsy Elves built a $125m ugly Christmas sweater empire
Let's not forget their attempt at inventing yet another Asm syntax for x86, when there is already the horrible GNU/AT&T as well as the official syntax of the CPU documentation.
He's an MD everybody.
I should have said reading on regular tablets or phones sucks but dedicated e readers are decent. But the uncertainty of the devices longevity and the markets tolerance of standards makes them a poor long term investment.

I have books my father had when he was a kid. There are books from my great grandparents kicking around. They will never cease being legeable barring physical destruction. I'm sure your ereader is nice. But will your kids be able to power it on 50 years later and read the books contained on it? And who will curate your digital e books if they are fixed to an account? When you die, does your book collection die with you? It almost devalues the book itself as its no longer a tangible piece of information you can pass along. Its a digital thing trapped in a digital realm which can evaporate in one of a million ways.
Wrong Pinker book. Taleb took issue with Better Angels of Our Nature, which is Pinker's book about the decline of violence.

Enlightenment Now is different. Taleb might also have opposed that book (he likes to pick fights) but that's not what your link describes.
Says who ? Modern indie didn't thrive because there was no resale, they started thriving because the hard barrier to publishing got removed (first with xbox live arcade, then steam and psn, then every store).
Perhaps gp means that the i18n data was initialized as thread-local, so it was missing in other threads.
It's OK. Unnecessarily repeated submissions get marked as dupes. But if something like this was on HN previously, it's nice to have a link to previous discussions, for context.
You wouldn’t have your retirement 100% in equities though, you would be way more risk adverse. So in 2007-2009 you may have only took a 20% hit only to see that rebound by 120% within 2 years. In fact if you were paying attention in that time you likely would have loaded up on equities and rebounded a lot further. But you can see this is an edge case. Remove those years from the last 30 and you’ll see the 4% drawdown would have covered you perfectly through that time.

I think you are right $1m is becoming shallow these days, but that doesnt change the significance of my statement
If they are like Riot and have their own fiber, it is not unlikely. There are tons of boring optimizations open source software also won't bother with without significant sponsorship (some could be specific to a particular file format). If you look at most network (and also video) protocols, they are accumulations of decades of improvements rather than neural network style overnight breakthroughs.
They'd be right, too, if not necessarily for the right reasons.
Publishers don't need to kill e-books, they were never a good product to begin with, which is why they've mostly failed to replace paper books.

The author missed the most obvious reason e-books have hit a wall. Compared to hard-copy books, e-books offer a vastly worse user experience, with the only benefit being lower price and easier storage.

Paper books are incredibly durable, easy on the eyes even for very long periods of reading, affordable, and a nice break from staring at a screen all day. Even children prefer paper books to kindles and other e-readers, so it's not a matter of nostalgia or people refusing to change. Paper books are just a really great user experience as far as media goes.

The comparison to other media like music and video is also completely wrong. Records, tapes, video cassettes, etc. are all new technologies, less than 100 years old in most cases. So eight-tracks and CDs getting replaced with mp3s and streaming services is a case of a new technology being displaced by a slightly newer technology. Books on the other hand have had centuries, even millennia to develop and perfect the user experience, which they largely have (I can't take credit for this last argument, Nassim Taleb points this fact out in his Incerto series).
Not all devs, San Francisco/faang devs. Author works at google, its easy to do the math: google slurping a huge chunk of the advertising market and splitting it to a few thousand people. It s enormous pay, fueled by monopoly/gateway/cartel dynamics. No, developers dont offer the productivity boosts that they did in the 80s, lets not kid ourselves
Users typically don't have root on Android or iOS. How do we know that Google/Android (or maybe telco) aren't obtaining plaintext before encryption?

I'm not arguing that they're doing that. Just that the risk model depends on trusting them not to do it.

And if there is compelling evidence that they can't do it, I'd love some cites.

Also, Signal accounts are tied to telephone numbers. And it's well known that phones by default accurately know their locations. So any app with adequate permissions knows the device's location. And location privacy depends entirely on software settings.
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Hello HN,
This year i am planning to over commit to side projects and learning ML without any entertainment (no netflix or any tech or political news sites) for a year. Has anyone tried it. Thoughts and advice.
If they had a PPA, it would solve the issue.

The problem is they don't.
I agree with starting to learn. But whether or not Flutter is the right choice may depend the app.

Flutter allegedly consumes about twice as much memory as a native app. So I guess it matters who the target audience is and what kind of device specification can be expected.

Disclaimer: I have never written a Flutter app and I'm not sure if the information I have found is still up-to-date.
i have a pet theory that matchmaking in team games, and the destruction of “placefulness“ in-game, has contributed to the widespread experience of increased toxicity in these communities. it’s magnified the online disinhibition effect, as the consequences are now even more diffuse. probably the same percentage of jerks, but you can’t get your friend who runs the server to ban them.

discord servers seem to have filled the niche, to some extent, as each server can develop its own norms. i’m hoping that OW2 takes the opportunity to address this design problem in-game, via guilds, clans, or tournaments, something along those lines.
Perhaps this if it still works
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12879179

Personally, I'd go with Flutter, but it's still a lot to learn...
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You may be underestimating the value of easy storage. I’m a city dweller, and I’ve been outright barred by my spouse from purchasing any more books - we just don’t have the room.
There are other wan accelerators out there - like Riverbed.

But, I think Aspera uses some specialized compression for genomics data, and genomics compression is not easy.

My suggestion would be to talk to the telco that provides your wan. If you are using a direct internet connection my suggestion would be : don't.
Wireless emissions are not the problem. No one really cares about you enough (no offense), to spy on your proximity. It's the devices in your home with outside connection. Through your ethernet.
For me, ebooks are life changing. I read around 100 to 150 books a year and i can carry an infinity of books in my pocket no matter where i am at in the world! And, 99% of the time ebooks are cheaper when i compare....

I put ebooks right after electricity and i dearly hope my print books disappear.
> I use a stick phone.

What is a stick phone? I presume you're not referring to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlestick_telephone
Do you know of any resources where I can learn more about these boring optimizations?
> The clear payoff is: as far as we've seen, life only exists on one place in the universe, so it makes sense to spread it out.

Sure, if the short term concerns don’t do us in first. You’re talking about an extremely long tail concern in terms of likelihood of human destruction compared to the threats that will come with developing the technology we need for material independence from earth. If history is any guide, colonization does not lead to spontaneous harmony or collectivized thinking.

I think the idea is “why are we playing with technology we aren’t responsible enough to use yet when the benefits aren’t clear”. Take the story recently about SpaceX launching satellites that are so reflective they obscure the sky: for a company with supposedly with noble intent, they clearly have their own interests which they will advance above our own. In the BEST case, they admit their own blasé ignorance as to the collectivized effects of their actions, and it’s not like they make any secret about serving militaries.

If there is a model for “space” research in the public interest, the US and comparable nations have barely invested a tiny drop in the bucket of military investments. I have no faith we’re going to start any time soon.
Have a look at SwiftUI:

https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui/
It does, yes, but with Braille I suppose the effect could become similar eventually. Actually, I find myself ignoring certain speech patterns in a similar way. For example the word "blank" which is what my screen reader says whenever encountering a blank line. I have long since stopped thinking of the word blank in those situations. It's just a sound that means that there is an empty line. I guess I would eventually stop thinking of brackets as brackets but rather just signals for grouping certain expressions, and the scope and context of those expressions would sort of come automatically much like blocks in other programming languages.
Tell me more. How is this achieved? Do you mean sex workers? Or pornography? Or a real doll? Or what?

Because if I've learned one thing in my life it is that there is no sex without a relationship. Everything else is a sliding scale of masturbation.

The desire to pretend otherwise is a cause of significant misery for many people.
Sometimes it is very hard to do. I am now responsible of a platform that has over a thousand, unique configuration, servers and hundreds of database servers. Putting this together is so easy, it was done by a few guys with no CS degree (not that the degree matters) with a few months of on the job training. It is a mess, it will take about one year to clean up the mess and get it right (for example, just paying the licenses we need on the servers we need will save ~ 60% of the licensing costs). Try leaving a terabyte database on the capable hands of a 3-month boot camp graduate and see how long it will work and how.
Could you expand on this please?
I haven't read the book, but I've listened to Jonathan Haidt talk on this subject, and I had the exact same response as you.

For me, I just flat cannot understand this current generation, from safe spaces, to being mentally broken over the smallest things. I've always viewed it as a dishonest way to try and get power over people.

Until Jonathan Haidt. He helped convince me that these young people are legitimately fearful of the world around them.