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My PS4 Pro is quieter than the PC gaming systems I've had, but not as quiet as the NUC (for obvious reasons). Quieter as in, I can play a movie and not hear the console above the dialog/soundtrack.

My Switch is essentially 100% silent, as in, not detectable that it is on from any noise that it makes.

I don't know about Xboxes.

As far as anecdotes, I have a friend whose gaming PC is loud enough to be distracting while watching movies. Heck it's audible above the A/C.

Now that I'm more into consoles, I'm more sensitive to PC noise... before I'd just accept and tune out a certain amount, but now it is grating because I've seen the alternatives and am constantly unintentionally comparing.

Having built various gaming PC's over the years, yes you can have a fairly quiet gaming PC. But you also need to invest some time/effort/money to get liquid cooling, quiet case fans, quiet power supply, quiet CPU fans, etc and you need to take that into account.

Yes, I've read PS4's can be pretty loud. It's a common complaint on /r/PS4. I can't say I've tracked actual numbers, but my feeling is that 80% of those situations are the same root cause: dust/pet hair clogging up the fan, and after cleaning, the system is much quieter.

My current gaming PC is a PowerSpec G706. You know, for those handful of games I still need Windows for. ;) And I got lazy just buying a system instead of building individual components because... I'm just not into that anymore. Anyway, I would rate this system as pretty quiet compared to other ones I've had, but I always know that it is on. Even not playing a game, the ambient noise under zero load is there. Meanwhile, I can't always tell my PS4 is on. And I can't tell if the Switch is on without looking at it.

So, YMMV but in my experience, for off the shelf purchases, consoles are quieter than PC's on average. Also, the people that have "silent" PC's, like myself in a former gaming life, bought specialized components to get there.

If you have any links to computer systems, pre-assembled (since the average person isn't going to build them component by component) that are also price competitive with consoles (around $275 for a ps4 slim or xbox one s, around $350 for a ps4 pro or xbox one x) that are ALSO silent, I'd like to see them. I have a feeling that a PC in that price range is nowhere near as quiet as a console, but I'd love to hear otherwise.

I'll also state without proof that there is zero chance of a gaming PC, price competitive with a switch, that is quieter. That's equivalent to a gaming PC quieter than a cell phone. I don't believe it exists at that price point ($200 to $300 depending on whether you get a switch lite or regular switch).
On the continuum from preground coffee to cafe quality pour over, a $60 wilfa burr griner will get you 80% in my opinion. You'll have days when the brew comes out very well, some days it's disappointing. The biggest advantage when going from no grinder to cheap grinder is that you can buy quality beans rather than supermarket coffee and that time from grinding to brewing is minimized, so you lose less flavour. For me, that's 80% of the value for 20% of the effort/money.
They make them better, because had those obstacles not been there in first place, the game design decisions to be creative in spite of them would have not been taken.

For example, the shadow character in Prince of Persia.

Also, I am talking out of experience here, started coding in 1986 and was into portuguese demoscene PC/Amiga.
That doesn't take away from the point that there probably exists a non-zero number of people who could convert $500B into something of the scale of Google.
Maybe it is just correlation between old age and hypertension, but I find it interesting how ACE2 which the coronavirus uses as its entry point into cells is also part of regulating blood pressure.
I was a mentor for a scrappy, underfunded robotics team of about 12 9th-11th grade students until the season was cancelled. One of my favourite parts of the experience was pointing out the "theory" behind the "practical". "What you're dealing with is called X and this is why it's important" was an increasingly common reply I'd give.

One of _many_ examples was when the software lead came to me excitedly and said he got basic autonomy working, but the robot wouldn't drive the same distance every time. We talked about open vs. closed loop systems, their wheel encoders, and PID loops. I'm convinced that when he goes to study any of those things in university, because of this real-world exposure to them, they will be far easier to grok.
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Smartphone addiction changes the shape of your brain
In terms of development effort, maintaining a browser fork that merely disables these features seems pretty easy. If you think users would prefer that, why not make one?

I personally don't think it would take off, because I think most user attitudes range from "want these features" to "ambivalence". But if you're so certain, why not try?
I created some open source libs that at least some crazy people use. Some mods for games with quite intrinsic scripting I must say. Painted some pictures and dabbled a bit with are partially legal version of Logic. I created animations and models with blender/max. And after all that I got a job.
for people who haven’t gone to a top-tier college/university for computer science—especially self-taught developers—I would say that the corollary advice is also true:

Don’t just build stuff—study stuff!
Which is why the first rule of distributed systems is "don't distribute your system"
This paper was written by another author and includes a quote from Tim Berners-Lee.

The title is slightly misleading.

Edit: Thanks for updating!
If you enjoyed this, you might also like Reply All’s recent episode:

Reply All #158: The Case of the Missing Hit

https://overcast.fm/+TKZKtgdaw

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx/158-the-case-...
First aid is a list of risky hacks that are used only during emergencies.
In practice, of course they could unless Github specifically tracks that kind of thing.

I'm no expert on sanctions law, I mostly know what I do from having read all the compliance stuff at work.

There's a lot of law that's effectivey enforced by business. All the alcohol prohibition for minors, for instance, is enforced by your local bar checking ID.

And many laws aren't intended to have perfect enforcement.

Take taxes. Banks won't, for instance, send a 1099 to the IRS if you have a small balance, even if you earned some interest. And there's no one tracking your cash income, but if you had a large amount and got audited you could be in trouble.

Likewise, sanctions aren't meant to be perfect, the intent is to hamper the target nation's economy by restricting most trade.

So the law always has to be black and white as to whether a thing is illegal. It then deals with the "grey" part through how it enforces it. Here I'd observe it's not monitored by a deputized business, and the executive won't prioritize it.
No negative pressure ventilators are iron lung type devices. [0] What's in that video look like just oxygen hoods which surround the head in very high oxygen air.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung
Coronavirus: The Price of Luxury
this is highly anecdotal, but my family is from a small town in italy, population of ~1500, and the men are way less healthy from a lifestyle perspective - lots of drinking, smoking, hard manual labor without lung protection, etc etc, while the women mostly stay home handling home duties and socializing
Are you not concerned about smoking making covid19 symptoms more extreme?
I will offer that 'Where does money come from' By Josh Ryan-Collins, Tony Greenham, Richard Werner, Andrew Jackson. Its a fantastic short book on how money actually works in this system.

The follow up to this is Richard Werners study on central banking.

A lost century in economics: Three theories of banking and the conclusive evidence

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105752191...

This is one of the first empirical tests of theories of central banking and how money flows.

Anything by Richard Werner I think is lucid. He has lots of youtube videos that goes into the details in the book and this study.
We have a nearby state university with a so-so computer science program. 2-3 graduates every year go to FAANG, a handful go to the local fortune 1000 companies, and we (a < 500 employee company) get to pick through the rest.

They all list C, C++, .NET, HTML, CSS, and Java on their resumes but haven't done anything except a simple group project in any of them, half the time not even writing any code for the project. Which means a role in documentation, testing, etc.

They come with a chip on their shoulder, flaunt their degree, and demand a salary close to what they think they should be getting, according to their advisers or statistics or whatever.

To make it worse, they don't have any personal projects to show. I tell every single person that I interview to create something, even if it's a failure. At least you can come back and discuss your experience trying to create something, and you'll learn more about development working on that project than you did the whole semester you learned Java.
NTSB blames drivers, Tesla, lax regulations in Florida crash
> that is 1.25-3.75 million dead Californians

You are in error there. California has about 40 million people, 0.5 to 1.5% of 40 million is 200K to 600K.

Mind you, that is still a lot of dead people, and that is just California, and assuming the health care system isn't going to be overrun in which case the 1.5% might be conservative.
It is quite a big thing in northern europe. Goes as far as national holiday in Lithuania and Latvia. Nordic countries celebrate it as well, but not sure if it's marked as national holiday.
I like array programing, and I think that it is an extremely nice and convenient tool for the right task. The grandparent is right, “it's remarkable that even many experienced programmers know nothing about array languages”. I wish more people learned about them!

And that is precisely why I find statements like “I'm hoping array programming is going to break into the mainstream” very annoying - it is not 1970’s anymore, you don’t get to pretend your only options are APL or write matrix multiplication by hand, every time. There are entire university departments full of people who only know matlab. You cannot just pretend they don’t exist.

I wish there was an modern tutorial which compares K to something like numpy or matlab.
Italy has been seeing overflowing hospitals in recent previous years as well during peak influenza season. So that doesn't by itself imply something truly unusual.

I wish I could find the source for this (it was a medical paper) but I've read a lot of web pages lately and not bookmarked them all systematically.

Yesterday I pointed out that dramatic news of war-like conditions in hospitals, running out of beds, erecting tents to hold extra patients and warnings of imminent collapse have happened in the recent past in ... California:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22632440

If you look you can instantly find news stories that sound exactly like those coming out of Italy at the moment, but from recent years in flu season, for almost any country.

It's fair to say that hospitals running out of beds or putting people in corridors, tents, hastily converted rooms isn't unusual. Perhaps we should ask why there isn't enough peak capacity in western health systems to handle just a bad flu season, let alone something like this.
The risk factors they count are named in the PDF. They're not "all diseases known to man", they're "cancer in the past five years" etc.

Which might not be an optimal selection of things to count. It's not obvious that a small cancer three years ago ought to be counted and a bigger one six years ago not? But it's what they counted.
> The world was shocked when they started to build the new hospitals that the numbers didn’t seem to justify.

Only those parts of the world who don't understand exponential growth.

You should brush up.
But at least the quote is indeed from himself ..
Ha, I posted that a minute after you. That episode is a fantastic musical story about finding a song that seemed to only exist in one persons mind. I don't know anything about that podcast in general, but this episode is delightful and has that same feeling as the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet!

(Also, an "if you liked that, you might also like...": Finding Drago (https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/finding-drago/) is a short but excellent podcast series about searching for the author of a mysterious book about Ivan Drago from the move Rocky IV!)
The console is still a must-have part of most Bethesda games. Was just playing Fallout 4 last night, no mods, and things bugged out bad enough to run to the console...
It looks like they have since fixed the errors you mentioned, yet they still misspell the author’s name as “Babock.”
If they are native Japanese words (ie not imported from China) then the kanji was likely chosen long after the words were in use.
Not an economist, but I think the challenge with that is the assumption that we can rationalize those decisions ex-ante whereas the beauty of capitalism (!) is it's emergent ability to rationalize capital allocation and production organically, which we can only observe ex-post. Which is not to say we can't nudge it here and there...
Maybe for someone with no bio background. But these are pretty standard techniques in molecular biology. The only tricky part is collecting the sample without exposing yourself to the virus.
Surely there must be a balance.
Show HN: RudderStack, open-source CDI (a.k.a. open-source Segment)
GitHub: https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/

===

Firstly, a big thanks to the HN community for showing us love and support in our previous HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21081756). At that point, we had just open-sourced the repo and were not fully prepared for a Show HN. We wanted to share updates since then and also do our official Show HN.

Updates since Sept 2019

1. Changed the name from Rudder to RudderStack :)

2. API compatibility with Segment

3. Open-source control plane so no dependency on the hosted control plane for open-source users. (https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/blob/config-gen/...)

4. Multiple hosting options: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Native.

5. ~30 integrations (https://rudderstack.com/) including cloud mode and device mode

6. Support all the popular data-warehouses & lakes - RedShift, Snowflake, BigQuery, S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage

7. Detailed documentation - https://docs.rudderstack.com/

8. Multiple production deployments including few really large ones (our largest deployment is sending a peak of ~40K events/sec, ~300M events/day)

9. Switched license from SSPL to AGPLv3 (after long discussions internally as well as on HN)

10. Built some interesting Analytics & ML use cases

11. Launched our “paid plans” (primarily around managed hosting)

Wishing everyone best wishes for staying safe from COVID-19
My company was retained by Uber to assist in the investigation and discovery during the Waymo lawsuit. While the case settled, there’s a great deal of public information from court filings, depositions, and testimony. One deposition that’s worth reading is the one by Google’s security staff. They log everything and it’s basically open and shut that he downloaded version control repos at the time of his resignation (after not having logged into his corporate computer for months). His personal guilt has never been in much doubt.
Bandcamp Waives Revenue Shares to Support Musicians During Covid-19 Outbreak
What is this? Economics for ants?

These acquarium models of economy are so inadequate to describe real world it hurts. If the only thing we as economic agents supposedly do is borrowing and transacting, the central banks keep lowering interest rates to spur demand for goods. Unbeknownst to them there is this thing called real estate market and when they lower interest rates people start parking their hard earned money into it for safety instead of spending it for goods like crazy. It's only indirect effect of people feeling safer with their money parked in houses that they start spending more for goods.

But somehow land and real estate and how it affects economics is never included in these textbook economics for ants that are used globally at schools and central banks.

Land and real estate is not just some detail to be left out. It is actually the thing which defines employment and unemployment. In the old days it was customary to set up your own farm and self subsistence if you could get hold of enough land for it. You asked yourself: why would I have to get a job with a shitty boss yelling at me when I can grow my own corn?

It's only after all land had been taken that you no longer have that option. Back then unemployment was a choice - there was always a 'job' of cultivating your own land.

Let's see if the world wakes up from blindness of their economic religions and discover other explanations of people interactions.

Ideas around universal basic income seem to gain traction in times of crisis. Perhaps this is the time Henry George's land economics start shining again after 100 years.
Yes, and after a few months the "were all in this together" mentality will have worn off and it will get worse.
I think that is some of the reasoning behind delaying some measures until they can have most effect.
You only need to rely on one application to make push notifications worthwhile.

I get browser push notifications from gmail and facebook. I block everything else, but I'd be pissed if I didn't get those notifications.
How would Rome’s Crassus pitch a data science product?
It makes a bit more (business-)sense thinking of those consoles as hardware-dongles to play certain exclusive games, the same way coffee-machines have become hardware dongles for certain types of coffee capsules, etc...

Thankfully the PC as a gaming platform has survived despite being declared dead for the last 20 years, and more and more console games are making the jump and are also available on PC (there's also exclusivity deals on PC, see the Epic Store, but those are usually limited to a few months).

The whole situation sucks for users, but unfortunately it's the business model everybody is following today.
500M users info leaked onto the dark web
Is the undergrad CS curriculum at a top-tier university really that different from that at a regular university?
>I doubt the lack of test availability is directly increasing mortality.

Directly being the key word and kind of a weasel word. The real question should be if it is indirectly impacting mortality. For example by making cases look less numerous than they are which may result in a change in individual behavior and making it harder to track who has it so the people who might be able to go into far stricter isolation currently don't because their cost benefit analysis is saying it isn't yet at the threshold to do so.

For example, I have a brother living with our parents who is still having to go to his job. Because of the current reported spread in our state, his job hasn't closed and it he doesn't think it reasonable to take quarantined leave. Further testing would give him better information to make the choice to skip out on his job for the sake of protecting our parents or may otherwise lead to his job temporarily closing.

There is also the factor of if someone tests positive and is going to work they will be facing far more symptoms than if they can write it off as just being a cold or allergies. If someone shows up to work and has a positive test, the other workers are at a much better position to just walk on of the job until the manager sends the sick worker home than if the initial worker shows up with and claims it is a cold.

None of these are direct, but all of these are indirect ways of reducing spread and mortality.
> But can you do what CSS Zen Garden does only by changing HTML?

Yes of course you can, if you can change the HTML you can build an entirely different website, and you don't have to change the CSS at all because with something like Tailwind it's a "universal stylesheet".
this is a good initiative. I am curious about the adoption rate!
I was thinking as I read the article that there was a next step innovation in the wings to vary the treatment by patient.
As were many US sci-fi classics.

A Canticle for Libowitz was published as three short stories. Lots of Asimov was the same.
Coronavirus (Covid-19) Cases – Covid-19 Data Resource Hub
Good initiative. What about the adoption rate!
That would be excellent news.
Spain’s coronavirus outbreak got so bad so fast
Sort of. But drop bastardised add-ons by Christianity and return to celebrating the nature. And stick to sun calendar.

I couldn't care less about christianity, but both solstices are a big thing for me. I hope christmas eve dinner won't die and won't move to "new year" as christianity slowly dies.
The Finnish coffee break sounds like it was directed by Aki Kaurismäki.

Life imitates art.
The biggest reason I have to concern myself with deployments nowadays is to quickly spin up local projects. So far, nothing has offered me the speed of docker-compose to achieve that.

Sure, I can take a look at these microvms, but if they're not as convenient to run multiple projects simultaneously—I'm a freelancer and have my own hobby projects—then I see no reason to switch.

After all, I used to use vagrant, but spinning out containers is so much faster.
There's no sports, no events, huge numbers working from home, pubs and restaurants very quiet. Picadilly Circus currently has only a few people walking about. I think more extreme measures would be counterproductive, because clearly there's been a massive decrease in social interaction already, and people are already panicing.
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This was addressed in the article:

> It doesn't seem like we'll run out of copper in the near future, according to the World Copper Factbook from 2019. Copper is one of the most recycled of all metals—nearly all copper can be recycled and not lose any of its properties.

and

> Even when factoring in how much the copper cost initially, you'd make that money back in savings within two months, Schmidt said. And considering that the copper never loses its microbial killing abilities—hospitals would quickly be saving money (and lives).
This is a great discovery, and I’m eagerly awaiting more research and analysis on this.
Really? That test is meaningless. It screws up the numbers, and you might as well do a complete quarantine anyway, since you need to not just quarantine but isolate anyone who’s positive.

Let’s say there’s 100,000 people in the US with covid right now (like 10x the measured number)

FPR =0.5
TPR = 1

Disease rate = 1e5/3.3e8 = 3e-4

P(you have covid| test is positive) = 3e-4/(0.5(1-3e-4) + 3e-4) = 0.06%!!

This is less than useless. Now instead of tracking the disease you are completely overwhelmed with false positives and the result is exactly the same — everyone stay home.
To illustrate why this lockdown really needs to stay as short as possible and why Trump and Boris are aggressively pushing for a test and anti-viral alternative, economists are forecasting jobless claims in the US to be in the 2-3m region next week vs 150-200k a normal month.
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Decision Making in Uncertain Times
> given Microsoft's benign nature of late

The only reason their are being benign to open source is because it allows them to hedge their bets and leverage their good hardware support to gain share among people who wouldn't consider Windows a viable option.

WSL's primary purpose is to prevent market loss to Linux and macOS. And yes, BSD (but we all know how likely that is to happen).