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Corsair is good, I have been using them for high end desktops and low end servers for quite some time.

Only one out of ~ 10 I bought ever failed on me, and that was after 2 years of no usage.
may be not, if one accounts for all the food and methane emissions. ;-)

if the electricity is supplied by solar power, it might be closest to the "greenest" form of transportation.
Analyze historical data using temporal tables
Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage come to mind.
These are arguments about things other than safety. In discussions about whether things are "standardized" or "federated" or how their "ecosystems" look, the safety of actual people is an externality. That's especially so because the overwhelming majority of technologists with strong opinions about secure messaging never send a message that needs real cryptographic protection against a motivated adversary; the entire concept of safety is an externality to those people. But the real, life-or-death cases are not rare. It is malpractice to suggest that people entrust their lives (or their life's savings) to shoddy encryption so that other technologists can have a federated ecosystem of standards.

If this were and engineering discussion about tie rods holding elevated walkways in a downtown hotel, we'd have no trouble setting aside all the other arguments and recognize the core, overwhelming priority. But because our discipline is not an engineering discipline, despite pretending otherwise, we're forced to humor these frankly unethical debates.
>Is it not also the responsibility of employees to ask for that benefit?

I've been on both sides of this equation and yes employees have a responsibility to speak up, but given the dynamic of the relationship it's easy to see why they wouldn't. If managers aren't interested in listening then speaking up can just get you on their bad side.
I'm not super comfortable with information about my emotional state being hosted on a third-party's servers. I suppose this might be a moot point (with email, text, and so on). I hesitate to try this out specifically because of that fact.

Is there another way/path/tech stack to the core fucntionality?
I thought so too, but it turned out for me that having a 'break' in the middle of the week interrupted my work momentum, and I also never got the luxurious feeling of a 3-day weekend. 4+/3- worked a lot better for me (both work-wise and emotionally) than 2+/1-/2+/2-.
What motherboard make/model?
This doesn't sound like it would be more energy-dense than a chemical reaction. How much power can you extract - electrically - from two alpha particles?
Just re spectral methods on graphs: There are a number of really interesting interpretations of spectral methods including energy stabilization of spring networks and discrete analogues to heat diffusion over grids. The area is really fascinating.

One general interpretation is that the eigenvalues of the adjacency & other matrices that capture the connectivity of the graph are solutions to optimization problems [0]. Usually, these optimization problems and their solutions correspond to relaxations of interesting combinatorial features or operations on graphs - e.g. different ways of cutting graphs to yield binary partitions on the nodes (spectral clustering [1]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min-max_theorem

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_clustering
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Anecdote: my high school buddy, who was always looking into supplements and health boosters, said this exact thing and started taking pure nicotine. We all had a good laugh when it made him vomit repeatedly while we were all playing video games over skype - seemed like poetic justice for ignoring everyone's parents' advice to avoid nicotine. He eventually just started smoking cigarettes and is still addicted to them today.
I'd recommend reading the article. It cites this study:

https://files.meetup.com/1468133/LCAwhitepaper.pdf

One can take issue with the study, but this comment doesn't seem to even grapple with it.
Ha thanks. I kind of made it before I knew Hacker News was more or less a serious place. And snowden was in the news at the time.
Going down to a 32-hour workweek would be lovely, but I'm simply not interested in doing 4×10. I'd rather get home at a decent hour than have an extra day off.
9/80 schedules are common in my industry. We are paid based on 80 hours/2 weeks. Week 1 is 36 hours (4 days x 9 hrs/day) and the Friday is off. Week 2 is 44 hours (4 days x 9 hrs/day, 1 8 hr Friday). There's flexibility around this with management approval.

I think most people like this arrangement, especially those with long commutes. A full free day for appointments, errands, or just relaxing can be a big help.
The big difference between us and Segment is we automatically instrument your entire site. As soon as you install Freshpaint, we are automatically capturing every click, pageview, etc, performed on your site. You can create a new event six months after installing Freshpaint, and you'll have access to every instance of that event since you installed Freshpaint. This means you:

1) Don't have to delay launches so you have time to setup event tracking.

2) Don't have to worry about forgetting to setup tracking. A common problem is a company will ship a new feature and realize two weeks down the road that they forgot to track a key event. They then have to setup tracking for that event and wait another two weeks for data to come up. That jus doesn't happen with Freshpaint. Freshpaint collects every action out of the box and gives you access to that data whenever you want it.
It’s somewhat a very sobering thought that there is no intelligent life in all of solar system. The neighbouring stars are too far away for us to visit in our lifetimes.

Man I feel so alone.
But the outline of PRISM described there seems to confirm (1) and (2), no? They didn't need a subpoena for each user, had access to a search term firehose, and the legal method for (2) was the secret FISA court.

The access isn't as complete as full arbitrary data, but it's also a long way from only responding to known legal warrants and subpoenas.
> "Do we also allow people to seek [...] ineffective medications,"

Not that I think we should, but we do. Grocery stores like Whole Foods have entire aisles dedicated to snake-oil.
Then remove the word “tax” from my point and rephrase it as “only capturing (less than) 37% of the wage”, and every relevant point still applies. If you still don’t see the significance, I can only blame underpractice at the skill of abstraction.

(I mean, if you don’t like the framing, fine, but you specifically said you have a “hard time following” the argument.)
How about a compromise? 4x9 hours.
https://archive.md/mDQdM
Ask HN: What else should I look into?
I had an okay run as a developer and then got a pentesting certificate.

I think I've permanently fucked up my ability to get jobs as either of those though.

So if someone can't hack it in CS/Dev/Netsec, where would you recommend them to go?
Most preparations of chewing tobacco are smoke or fire cured. The process still introduces many of the byproducts that are created during the combustion of dried organic material.

The most prominent example of chewing tobacco that isn't smoke cured would be Scandinavian-style snus. There's pretty compelling evidence that snus is not associated with oral cancer[1], or at the very least the risk is substantially lower than traditional chewing tobacco.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1360-0443...
Anecdata storytime:

I used to smoke a pack a day, and when I switched to vaping I personally felt much better. I was able to do things a bit better than when I was smoking cancer sticks.

Looking back I was lying to myself thinking it was just as good as quitting. I didn't feel the heavy tar on my lungs like cigarettes. I still noticed when pushing myself on work outs or hiking or biking or anything requiring aerobic activity that I would get sick to my stomach and almost puke like when you run long distance and are not used to it. I could go further than when I smoked but I would always hit this "wall" where I would get sick.

Quit 100% 3 months ago and took up XC Skiing. I could only do 2 miles when I first started. Just last week I did 10 miles and I have been going once on the weekend every week so in 12 sessions I was able to 5x my aerobic ability.

Starting at 0%, switching to vaping I would say made me feel/perform overall 15-20% better compared to cigarettes.

Quitting vaping filled in that other 80% and the difference is like night and day and so obvious I was lying to myself to keep the habit alive longer than I needed to.

Smoking timeline:

Smoked 18-30, transitioned to vaping.

30-31 vaped 12mg juice.

31-32 vaped 6mg juice.

32-33 vaped 3mg juice.

33-34 vaped 0 mg juice.

Quit Vaping 100% last Thanksgiving cold turkey (really was just mental habit at this point smoking 0 mg juice) 3 months vape free!
> Suggests that the probe is popular with the constituents who elected them.

Could you please clarify if you mean the donors, the voters, or both?
We've banned this account, the same way we've banned dozens of your previous accounts, for doing astroturfing for Google for many years now.

We've got nothing against Google [1] but we've sure got something against abuse of HN—it boils our blood. Since your comment was the top post on the top thread, I think it's fair to leave this up so everyone can see what you've been doing.

It feels like I spend half my life telling HN users not to make insinuations about astroturfing and shilling without evidence [2]. The other side is that we have a contract with the community: when we do find evidence, we crack down hard.

[1] In case anyone is worried about bias, here's an example of moderation going the opposite way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20890092. And here's one that involved a different company: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11905831.

The Googlers who participate on HN are overwhelmingly honest and are some of the best community members that HN has. They're 100% welcome here, and if I were them I'd feel even madder about this than we do.

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
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Regarding what you mention about Discord nosing around - is there any easy way of launching an app in a sandboxed environment on Windows to stop this sort of thing?

For software that works under wine, I guess it wouldn't be too hard to simply set a wineprefix and do it like that, but that is a bit of a hack, and wouldn't work with a lot of software.
I have an issue with his having it. I don't believe billionaires should be allowed to exist in any healthy society.

It's not really relevant to the argument. I have an issue with what Steyer was doing as well, but at least he followed the rules.

Bloomberg got the rules changed to suit him, by spending money with the DNC. He's been blanketing the airwaves and buying endorsements.

It's plutocracy.
This is still friction.
If it need to be explained, than you UX is not that good.
Google cracks down on location-tracking Android apps
Best Practices for Secondary Indexes with DynamoDB
Just from a consistency perspective the fact that you can prevent the Group Policy Client from overriding your hacked hive is disturbing to me.

If the report said "everything you did here will be wiped out the next time gpc syncs with the domain controller", I'd be inclined to laugh it off as well.
> This is about "elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy" It reflects the anti democratic perspective of the Eurogroup

It just reflects the general european position on separation of powers. That central bank and its monetary policy should be independent of executive branch of government in a similar manner like supreme court or whole judiciary branch.

It is a position of authoritarian leaders who promote that everything should be under the control of the people (i.e. under their control as people representatives).
Motivations and pitfalls for new “open-source” licenses (2019)
It's as if killing the golden goose is a tale as old as time...
> I know not everyone is as sapped for energy as I am after work, but I leave work and sit in an hour of traffic. My energy is just sapped from me by the time I make it home. I have enough energy to feed myself and sometimes work out to maintain my health..

I know that some people just dont have the privilege of living close to their jobs, but after spending one internship getting up at 5;45am to drive with my dad to work to beat the traffic for 1hr, and then spending 1.5-2 hours driving back in heavy traffic in NYC, I vowed to never ever live in a place where I have to drive that far to get to work. 2 months of that and I was already losing my will to live. My dad did it for 15 years and I can see why towards the last leg of that job, he was bitter and angry on a daily basis. That is not a way to live.
Mature places have this with a global workforce.

Not so mature places put 9-5ers on call with a tiny bump in pay.
I remember when I interned at Lockheed Martin forever ago, they had a system where you normally work 9-hour days (8 on Fridays), and as a result had every other Friday off. It equated to a 80 hours for every two weeks, and it was really nice if you ever had to go to the bank or DMV (which are typically only open during weekdays).

I always wondered why this wasn't more popular.
On paper, this sounds absolutely awesome and a huge game changer.

I'm super concerned about the military applications tho. Giving functionally endless, mostly free power to warmonger countries with the ability to field drones is something extremely concerning for me.
This is how I do it as well. I usually find inspiration that makes my code much better. My secret sauce is telling others I am debugging it instead of making a new draft. This keeps someone from insisting that my first draft is "good enough."

In addition, I design my programs such that I can confidently rewrite important sections. This is OOP encapsulation's main purpose. In practice, everyone writes getters and setters until every object is an ugly struct.
Hostnames are not encrypted in HTTPS requests. They are sent in plain text via SNI (Server Name Indication). There is a new way of handling this called ESNI that does encrypt it, but I'm not sure how widely that is supported.

Edit: Cloudflare has a page to check if ESNI is supported by your browser. I tested it in the latest version of Firefox, Chrome, and Safari and it failed the test in all three.

https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/
I feel exactly the same when it comes to energy, even though I live ~10 mins from work...

As far as work schedule goes, my company/team is fairly flexible when it comes to WFH. However, I still operate in "work mode" while at home, which makes it difficult to take of chores, etc.
> I mean they are laws after all,

You may want to do a little reading about what scientists mean by the words "law" versus "theory". It's more of a historical accident / the way scientists used to talk about things than a statement that we believe some things "a lot" and some things "may be wrong".

> I don't think science is ever settled

I mean, do you believe it's settled science that the world is round? Or that germs cause some diseases? Or that gravity exists and is the cause of the planet's orbits around the sun? Or that the sun is powered by nuclear fusion? "Science is never settled" is kind of a strong statement...

On this meta-point that science is never "more or less settled", scientists might disagree with you. What rule elevates your opinion over theirs, such that you're allowed to say it but they aren't? Other than, you believe they're wrong, which surely isn't the right rule?
For those confused by the "Xanadu transclusions" part, it's basically quoting documents through hyperlinks (somewhat like OLE embedding on Windows).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion
Sugar is addictive.

"Using brain-scanning technology, scientists at the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse were among the first to show that sugar causes changes in peoples' brains similar to those in people addicted to drugs such as cocaine and alcohol.6,7 These changes are linked to a heightened craving for more sugar.8 This important evidence has set off a flood of research on the potentially addictive properties of sugar.9" https://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/the-growing-concern-of-overcon...

Obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, etc. all cause society a massive loss in lost length and quality of life, lost productivity and increased health costs.
> So where do you draw the line?

It's flippant, but here's a simple test.

> has managed a large organization

If that's your justification for why you should be president, then you aren't actually qualified to be president. There is no business on earth that would adequately prepare someone to be president.

> Obama

Obama was a US senator for 4 years and a state senator 7 more.

> Trump

Is a disaster. Bloomberg would also be a disaster.
I agree Prime95 is overkill, but a processor should be able to handle it.

This is like the cooling argument all over again - "your cooling system is good enough for normal workloads". No, it must be good enough for permanent full load! Like a CPU under Prime95. If your heatsink lets it overheat, it's defective. You saved a few pennies on the copper and now it's a defective product.

Same for Prime95, the CPU must be able to run it for days at end and last ~5 years. Doesn't seem like too much to ask for, imo. Intel says their chips will run at 98 degrees for years, so why would a full load like Prime95 kill them in days?

One other thing, overclocking these days is actually undervolting combined with raising clocks. The old school "just raise the voltage" is a bad way to do it on any Intel chips post-Sandy Bridge...
My understanding is that it wasn’t the delays as much as the incentives to lie. Tech doesn’t fix what are essentially people problems.
For-profit firm seeking to run .org names makes concessions
and why would a bank site hotlink to an asset owned by someone else?

All the security concerns I've seen for this seem quite contrived to me. And I say that as someone who assiduously avoids google products*

(*alas, except at work, because I can't really choose that)
Don't miss the man page on the last page of the paper. It's a hilarious little "trap" for anyone who happened to be browsing the manual!
Reddit: Bull Attack
Or perhaps "ISPs say selling browser histories without consent is free speech".

The difference is small, but it eliminates the tangles of who is doing what in the verbs "forcing" and "violates".
I really liked working 4x10 when I was working a blue-collar industrial job over college breaks. It was not union, but it had a similar attitude towards the sacrosanctity of break times, which broke the day up nicely. Clock in at 6:30, spend the first 15-30 minutes going over the plan for the day. Work until 9, then everybody downed tools and took a coffee break. Go back and work until 12:00, clock out for half hour lunch. Go back and work until 3 for another coffee break. Then you'd usually just wind down and pick up until you clocked out at 5.

In a lot of ways, working an 8 hour day as a software developer is more stressful, because it's so disordered and interrupt-driven. Meetings are strewn around all over the calendar, wherever they can best fit the constraints of people in disparate locations. Emails or pings come in with problems you've got to handle right away - and it seems to be easier for people to rationalize making you switch tasks rather than finish what you're doing when you have a piece of software in pieces in your IDE than when you have a bulldozer in pieces with the tracks off...
And the 'problem' is not a problem at all.
To create a new category, name a new game
Absolutely agreed, although technically a project group could democratically decide they are willing to accept discord's censorship standards. I don't think this decision should be made lightly, but it's okay if the group decides it.
Yeah, I was thinking I may have been a bit aggro there. It's just a coincidence that I only recently embraced IDE life (finally!), and it's in no small part because of this extension. Cheers.
I think it's fair to say that everyone on Hacker News is a power user of their computer. Power users do not really know what it's like to be a regular user who is confused by multi-button mice, context menus, and all the rest. Try getting an older person to use a modern computer. They're completely baffled by all of the complexity. They don't know (and don't care) why they should be left-clicking in some cases and right-clicking in others. They prefer an iPad and generally don't use the multitouch gestures, besides pinch/spread for zoom. Simple taps and drags are highly intuitive for them.

I would argue that context menus are inferior to keyboard shortcuts anyway. I certainly don't use them once I learn the keyboard shortcuts. I believe we have truly lost something special, since the classic Mac OS is no longer with us. We don't even organize our computers spatially anymore [1], we just rely on search all the time. That's a terrible shame, as spatial memory is the fastest. When you walk into a room in your home, you don't even need to look at the light switch, you just flick it on because you remember exactly where it is.

Modern computers with all of their context sensitivity, browser windows, etc. are like a house where the light switches keep moving around to try to guess where you'll be next.

[1] https://archive.arstechnica.com/reviews/4q00/macosx-pb1/maco...
I'm from Germany and none of my friends works 40h anymore.

They're all down to 50-80%

This is even regulated by the law, your employer has to allow you to reduce your work time, only in some extreme cases they can deny it.

Works like a charm.
in Einstein's time the zionists mentioned were pure terrorists, hence the antagonism of the Arabs.
Yeah, so was slavery.

We're supposed to leave some things behind. America was founded as a white supremacist and extremely classist nation. We should be trying to fight those tendencies, not embrace them.
Designing chips that can be safely run at redline 24/7 will inevitably involve a significant reduction in voltage (and thus clocks) for the 99.99999% of users who aren't running them at redline 24/7.

Would you buy a GPU that you could safely run Furmark on 24/7 if it was limited to, half or 3/4 of the clocks? That's basically what you're proposing. I seriously doubt that you would actually lay money down for that shit. The market as a whole certainly wouldn't, they would buy the card that's faster under actual real-world workloads and/or didn't require manual overclocking to achieve its potential in real-world workloads.

The good news is that you can have it both ways. Modern power management is smart enough to figure out when you're running a power virus and it will downclock to those safe levels, while us normies can get competitive clocks when running our real-world code. It works pretty well most of the time.