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> All indicators seem to suggest the economy is strong

It's doing great if you ignore budget deficit, multiple debt balloons (national/municipal/auto/student), and looming trillions of unfunded liabilities. What could possibly go wrong?
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is probably the best example of a "community driven" open-source game.

https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
At this point its helping companies buy their own stock by having cheap loans to use instead of cash. It's not really doing much for the economy such as spurring more investment or hiring.
Highlighting Ring makes sense as it represents a new dimension in terms of data collection and data risk. Highlighting Google and Facebook makes sense as they are the major data collectors who take great liberties in using the data to help undermining democracy and manipulate individuals through hyper targeted advertisements.
From what I've seen, Docker usually gets used when someone has a difficult-to-run app, usually due to many dependencies or a cryptic barely-documented jump-through-hoops-of-fire setup. So they dockerize it. Instead of trying to improve the app, they've essentially thrown up their hands in defeat and dockerized it. Which is a legitimate strategy in many cases, but too often it's the lazy way out.
I'm not sure what good Win7 would be, now that it is EOL. But, I'd like to see them take the relevant parts to bolster ReactOS.
They probably have their own abstarction layer that implements the subset of DX9 they are using on top of opengl. This is very common on linux ports as it is hard to justify the cost of a full rewrite of the graphic engine.
Honest question here, who actually thinks the political structures in place today can provide the change needed in the timeframe we have? I'm honestly putting those odds at < 1%. I mean, it looks like the only actual option is geohacking, but that's not talked about much yet. The distraction is this obsession with trying to make a broken system solve a problem it can't solve.
If they do, I hope they make sure that it has to be labelled on the food.

They do that with a lot of things, and then it’s really easy not to buy it.
If a highly concurrent service gets a query'o'death, it's hard to tell which threads were working on it and which were merely within the blast radius. Frameworks tend to roll their own notion of "request context" without it being strongly typed or pervasive across the language and libraries.
None that I know of. Almost all Linux games also support Windows.

Steam heavily supports Linux and in their numbers are 0.67% Linux users: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

It is rumored that Steam uses Linux for leverage in negotiations with Microsoft. Therefore it may have a big strategic value for them even though the numbers are still so low.
That trust comes from education and experience. Just like an experienced computer user could launch an email attachment safely if they know what they are doing.

My point is telling new users to blindly copy/paste/autorun ALL scripts just to get $thing to work only hurts US (FOSS proponents) and the end user.
Jason Polan, who wanted to sketch everyone in New York, is dead at 37
Oak Savanna and regenerative farming, in general, are great things. If we committed to only farming animals in these types of regenerative systems, it would _greatly_ reduce the supply. As a vegetarian, I’m all for that. As someone who really wants us to address climate change, I’m all for that.

The fact is, our current system not only ignores the negative externalities of (animal intensive) agriculture — we subsidize it. That’s why I think a carbon tax is a good idea. It would mean meat would become more expensive. This angers a lot of people. But if we get serious about measuring the actual environmental effects of agriculture, it needs to be reflected in the cost. To me, if we solve this problem the world would eat a lot more plants, and the meat that is consumed would be produced by carbon negative, regenerative practices.
The point of dropping support for those platforms is that the market isn't there. There is no gap to fill. There are maybe a few thousand people who will lose the game (unless they use bootcamp or wine).

Games cost money to make. If a game doesn't have a chance at breaking even, it needs external funding or free labour to get it made. This is the economic reality of how games get made.
SuperTux and Gnome Mines!
They wrote the game targeting DX9, and then wrote a custom shim to translate from DX9 to OpenGL calls. Now they are transitioning to DX11 to get some newer features, and have evaluated the amount of work that it would take to either update that shim layer for DX11 -> OpenGL/Vulcan for Linux, or DX11 -> Metal for MacOS (remember, Apple is depreciating OpenGL on their platforms).

If linux and MacOS combine account for less than 0.3 percent of their revenues... then even as a MacOS guy I have to see their logic... there is little chance of recouping the heavy lift that they would have.
I understand the sexism concern; in situations where the generic person is being portrayed in a possibly-negative light, I use "he" as the generic pronoun. (I'm male, incidentally; my late mother and MIL were, and my wife, daughter, sisters, and SILs are: (A) educated professionals, and (B) quite capable of ... how shall I put this ... taking umbrage if I say something sexist <g>.)
This is one extra thing I don't like about Epic store - Valve has a Linux client & hosts many Linux native games, is active in many open source projects including GPU drivers and even actively works on improving Wine/Proton to get Windows games run seamlessly on Linux.

Epic does nothing like that and even actively pushes games to be exclusive this Windows only, using their Windows only client.
Facebook asks 2B users to check their privacy settings
I think an important warning should be, that it can maybe to some extent tell "what's [for sure] in it", but I suspect it definitely shouldn't be used to verify "what's NOT in it", as in any kind of "security verification". Meaning, if you want to hide some code/malware snippet from it on purpose, I assume you'll definitely find a way to do that. And even if not on purpose, it may still happen accidentally.
Boy, are you in for a fun StackExchange read: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454 .
CEOs are deleting their social media accounts to protect against hackers
Not really, if you read carefully they are saying that their OpenGL renderer is very similar to the DirectX 9 one (probably because feature parity between these two APIs), but they have difficulty matching DirectX 11 features with OpenGL.

Like a database ORM which can have Postgres/MySQL as the backend, but then you want to replace Postgres with BigTable. It will be very hard to keep the MySQL support.
Why are people still just blatantly wrong about the Epic store? It is NOT Windows only.
> Perdue on Monday defended [...] the technique to disinfect poultry [...], arguing that U.S. farmers now use a chemical called peracetic acid rather than chlorine: "Peracetic acid ... is a great pathogen reduction treatment. You know what it is? It's vinegar, essentially. To say that's unsafe or not to be used, we don't think there's a basis for that in sound science."

I always thought the EU doesn't want this procedure because it effectively allows farmers to take a short cut and cover up bad practices used earlier in the chain. Under this premise, this quote just argues against a straw man for an otherwise meaningless counterargument.
This is all baloney. First of all, the Media Lab isn’t Nicholas. Yes he had a huge impact on it.... except he hasn’t lead it in 20 years. And he was a visionary — he could see the tremendous diversities of roles computers would play in ordinary lives back when few were convinced they’d ever need a computer at all.

I’m not surprised Nicholas had a hard time defining media, as that was the active question in the 70s that is still driving the lab now in 2020. What is media? What does it touch and encompass? What are the forms of it still unexplored? There are plenty of important books on many aspects of media, so to expect an easy definition from an academic is silly, particularly when it seemingly must fit your film-oriented framework.

He’s seemingly forgetting that the lab has several hundred more people at any one time... all of which are doing their own vision to try and invent the future in their own way. The Media Lab just provides a space for like minds to explore. To focus on the fundraising is to miss the point of the lab, which is who is there and what they attempt to do during their tenure. When your goal is to invent the future that’s 10-20 years out, you’ll get a heavy mix of output... some silly, some tedious, and some genius.

Mixing in a rant about the definition of interfaces and that you should have replaced Raskin is both disrespectful to Raskin and his genius, and has all the hallmarks of a “get off my lawn” style argument. There’s no teeth to it, not all of computing can or should be like film (what’s film like about satellites, networking, or data mining?), and it just takes away from the rest of the argument.

I’d also like to note that in my experience working at Apple, no one has ever advocated to make things more complicated so you’ll need a nearby expert (or for any other reason). This smells of conjecture that’s so far removed from the internal realities that I’m disappointing it’s made it to the front page of HN.
One objection is that it allows the initial chicken production to be dirtier as you can then just disinfect later even. In the EU, the entire processing needs to be clean.
Is facebook just for auth?
"I don't know what you are trying to say here."

You pic a time frame, were China was indeed ahead. But I mentioned this time frame myself and it was the only time.

>> The reason why Europe explored more during that time says more about China than Europe.
> No. It says more about Europe than China.

Yes. It basically tells us, that while China was ahead, the culture had big weaknesses. So big, that they left the world for Europe. What happened to Zheng He?

"Yes. China has superior products that europe desired and ran a deficit..."

You are right with the deficit. They did not have superior products, they had unique products (silk, tea, porcelain) and only wanted to export but never buy anything. Not so different from today. They always said, in the arrogance "we don't need anything!". After the military trouble with the west, they realized there was something they should have bought. Technology.
My "favorite" thing about the case was how the feds found him buying a fake id in a "random" customs check. I'll bet you there was some parallel construction going on.

FWIW I have a hard time having sympathy for a drug kingpin hacker doing hard time. Mess with the best, die like the rest.
An excellent question. If anyone can link to some authoritative information on this, I'd be interested in reading it, too.

All I got from a Google search is yoga mom blogs. I'd like to see what a .gov health agency has to say about it.
Hey, good business idea: backup storage in vans! :)
It feels like everyone is talking about national security when this seems more like a fight over who gets lucrative contracts to supply millions of pounds worth of equipment.

What’s the capital investment of 5G — how much money are we talking about here?

The article doesn’t mention one, but is there a major US supplier of telecoms equipment that is vying for these contracts, being propped up by the state department?

Edit: The following report says £2.5b capex, £1.7b opex over the next decade

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
A snapshot doesn't show the shared memory changes that may have caused the panic. There needs to be a synchronous log of all changes to shared memory to debug an issue.

Similar to having a snapshot of network traffic vs a recording of network traffic.
See https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInspector/wiki/6.-Un... that answers questions on choice of icons and https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInspector/wiki/2.1-F... that talks about language support.
It's backwards compatible for 99.4% of their users. Maybe there is future feature work they want to do, but are limited by DirectX9. Maybe they got tired of working with a 20 year graphics library and it's cheaper in the long term for them to update to the latest.
Zoom fixes security flaw that could have let hackers join video conference calls
AFAIK: The way DX9 works for Windows software running under Wine, is that wine has a layer that intercepts all DX9 calls and retranslates them into OpenGL. There is no equivalent for DX11.
Example #4,990,275 of an effective treatment denied to Americans, because we bizarrely allow a police agency (DEA) to set national medical policy.
If hypothetically this analogy was even close to accurate, it would be entirely different because the remote is usually an order of magnitude less expensive than the TV.
The article first said it was dissolving, then later it said it was affecting the shell's build up in the first place. Those may both be affected by alkalinity, but which is it technically?
And I work a full-time job as well as running a startup on the side which amounts to another near full-time job and a ton of stress, what do I deserve?

Truth is is that I deserve precisely nothing. I get what I get and not because the heavens above postulated thus but because my work had value to someone who was willing to give me money for it.
My intuition then is that bidding wars among the capital holders for labor should be more common, but wages are stagnant. Is the value of labor decreasing faster than the value of money for capital holders?
I went to two poster sessions at CSAIL last year and was blown away with the hacker ethic on display. Mens et manus on display by every grad student.

I wish I'd gone there - but I would have drowned, so perhaps it's more accurate to say "I wish I was the kind of person who would benefit from going to MIT"
They are not separate things. It is not a coincidence. However, you are not taking into account the very real difference in the composition of the balance sheet. Buying a short-term risk free instrument (and thereby expanding the balance sheet) in order to increase liquidity in that market is very different from what was happening during QE.
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It's not that threads are necessarily a bad idea (though they can be for performance reasons), but that programming with most synchronization primitives is a bad idea. If you program with message passing, then it's not much different from the "events" model except that in the event-driven model you're trying to hide the underlying abstraction more (you still have concurrency, it's just baked into the I/O library).

I honestly think this presentation is confused. "Concurrency is fundamentally hard; avoid whenever possible" seems to go against their own argument. Event-driven models (which rely on message passing) are still doing concurrency, except instead of using locks and semaphores to synchronize things, you're using mailboxes and channels.

Even CPU interrupts are a form of concurrency that is similar to event-driven models. Just because you're not spawning a thread and acquiring a lock, doesn't mean you're not doing concurrency.
Well, it's a poverty food

I'm not sure what this means. Are you trying to say that poor people shouldn't be allowed to eat?
Rocket League is made with Unreal Engine 3 so if they wanted to port the game to using Vulkan they would also have to upgrade the game to Unreal Engine 4.
No, from the article, they are probably services that most mobile apps use (Mixpanel, Crashlytics, etc).
Worth noting that "crash reporting" is very much worth reporting on and paying attention to, as transmitting a lot of sensitive data in crash reports could be beneficial to fixing bugs (but obviously not beneficial to the indiviual's rights).
Does anybody know of an application I can use as both a PDF/ePub reader and a manually sortable reading list? It seems so simple, but I haven't found any program that does both.
This seems more like a long Nike ad than an explanation of any controversy.

Also, having worked in a machine shop, I freaked out watching the guy operate the band saw.
By tying themselves to a single proprietary platform owned by a potential competitor, Epic is giving up control over their own product. This will certainly save them some money in the short term. In the long term, this may not turn out to be such a wise decision. But by then, the executives at Epic will probably have moved on, so not their problem.
I believe it's intent that matters here. It's possible to have a life-changing experience on mushrooms alone, but I've had better luck reprogramming unwanted neural pathways by explicitly going into the experience with strong intent towards a goal.
I dont think so. I purchased keys and those were not refunded.
banker bad, armchair (amateur) realist good

As a paranoid rag goes, ZH's faults are many and varied, but come on - the critique that the Federal Reserve doesn't know what the hell it's doing is 100% valid.

The observation that the FRB consistently bats 0.000 in economic outlook and interest rate forecasts (e.g. Bernanke calling housing subprime defaults "contained", or Yellen constantly stretching out the timeline of getting off zero, or Powell cutting rates three times in 2019 after predicting four hikes less than a year prior, or claiming repo operations would be unwound completely by 15 Jan) is absolutely correct, and an absolutely appropriate critique to make, even by armchair quarterbacks.

Just look at the history of FRB dot plots to get a view for how absurd your implied position is that bankers/economists are any better at their jobs than a drunk with darts and an interest rate chart would be.
I'm afraid you're assuming way too much
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Last time I went in the ocean I noticed my skin was getting burned a bit. My wife thinks it might be that same ocean acidification. Swim while you can I guess.
MSFT is up 300% in 5 years.

NFLX is up 400%, and AAPL is up 250%.
The second one doesn't seem that bad to me. The number can still be used to answer common questions like, "Assuming it takes 10 seconds to tickle a testicle, how long do I have to tickle testicles if I want to tickle every testicle in my apartment complex."

Sure, you have to know what the mean means, but it's still a useful number. Your first example is more indicative of the problem, IMO.
I love SuperTuxKart. It's the first game I install on any new computer, and I've beaten the story mode several times. I usually focus on the racing modes, but I've tried Soccer as well.

SuperTuxKart is not an alternative to Rocket League! If you go into it expecting anything Rocket League has -- polished realistic-looking graphics, physics that let you jump and tilt and drive up the walls of the stadium, a thriving online play community, a matchmaking system -- you're going to be disappointed.
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Went to Iran a few years ago and my esta got declined.

And I'm from Germany...

I don't think I would not get a visa at an embassy.
I agree the punishment is to harsh for drug smuggling, but if he did attempt to murder six people, then it's not. He should have his day in court for attempted murder.
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Good point. At a minimum it should clearly state that while the tool didn't "find" such a feature it should not be taken as a security reliable result. See https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInspector/wiki/6.-Un...
Oh, wow, I was not aware it is this bad! I kinda expected they just don't care but not they are actively sabotaging Linux compatibility...
People really want to believe in a "Female Steve Jobs." I think one key to a successful scam today is a female CEO.
I have an ipad mini 1 that I keep wanting to leave plugged into the stereo to use for music but its version of Music is too old to access the copies of my stuff in the cloud and trying to update the OS just spins forever. This post made me decide to look into it and discover this is because it was jailbroken, and that blocks Software Update from working, so I've plugged it into the computer and am updating it from there.

Dunno if it'll actually end up working, right now I'm doing a backup and iTunes is saying it's "over capacity by 634 MB" and pinwheeling, but at least it's an attempt.

edit, an hour later: IT WORKS YAY, thanks for giving me a reason to fool with it.
The concern is that Epic will add EAC and that Proton is going to cause you to get banned or they pull the game from Steam and move it to EGS which doesn't run on Linux, and likely never will. So the question becomes why should I put more effort into a game that's likely not going to be available to me in the very near future?
I use the Kindle App, Mobi files instead of EPUB and use Calibre. Apart from that, it's just PDFs all the way.
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There was also a prominent spy show[1] produced in the US that seemed to be intended as propaganda for normalizing torture. That morally bankrupt practice was portrayed as effective, expedient, cathartic, and the only solution to all the bad men that will come get us, because they hate our freedom.

If you're looking for ethical integrity, you should probably stop turning to spy shows for it. They are loud, dumb, and tend to be sickeningly nationalistic.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_(TV_series)
> Not to mention that DirectX uses a totally different shader language than Vulkan, so you have to get in there and translate all that code over.

Vulkan doesn't really have a shader language unless you want to write SPIR-V assembly. Thus you'd use either GLSL or HLSL.
Microsoft's own DirectX HLSL compiler[0] supports SPIR-V as a target in addition to DXIL.

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler
5 years ago I dreamed that IT teams would be empowered to offer us developers a heroku-like experience. (Or JVM application server for those of you who remember those). But it seems like Kubernetes, the "new shiny", has distracted them from that goal, so now they're off in Kubernetes land reconfiguring and reconfiguring, never increasing the productivity or security of what they deliver to the rest of the company. Basically, Kubernetes has nerdsniped IT.
If your identity doesn't exist, there is nobody to die. It's one of those things that mostly makes sense if you've experienced it. For the record I wouldn't recommend it. Premature annihilation of ego can lead to shunyatta poisoning, or emptiness poisoning. The ego causes issues for sure, but if you kill it before you cultivate a deep understanding of compassion you can easily become a genuine villain.
Also a way to make use of more than a tiny bit of silicon in that expensive CPU you just bought.
Curious what kind of work your were doing? I’ve always been fascinated by the golden days of SGI.
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Your comment about threading in win32 being lackluster is surprising. It was my understanding that while the OS doesn't support fork(), that it /does/ support pthreads, and that as soon as you go outside of the process itself, Windows has "better for developers" system calls. I'm speaking specifically about I/O Completion ports.

Working with epoll or select/poll is really nasty when dealing with "some data" that's coming on a socket, where as IOCP allows you to tell the kernel "as soon as you see some data destined for my thread, just populate it in the memory here, tell me when something is there and then tell me how much is there"; for high performance C++ programmers this is basically invaluable and as far as I understand there's no direct competitor in UNIX and unix-like land. (although; according to the C++ devs where I work, "kqueues are less braindead than epoll")