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You got it all wrong. You can wear a rain poncho when it rains. But you can't carry an A/C to cycle through the Greek summer (33C+).

Plus, rainy weather can be predicted pretty accurately with some investment. NL/BE have realtime notifications for incoming rainfall. And at least in NL the weather is extremely volatile (no mountains). Countries with more stable weather can surely do the same.
You don’t need RAID. It’s easy to miss in the answer, but ZFS can be instructed to simply save data up to three times. This is in addition to metadata redundancy.
Can it do sha3 hashing in a web browser on the gpu?
Ask HN: Which BoD or E-book publisher would you recommend
I have currently about 15 titles published with Lulu Press, but I am looking for alternatives. Here are my most important requirements:

Copyright remains with me. The publisher gets NON-exclusive distribution rights

PDF and EPUB formats supported and preferably published as delivered by me (not somehow "improved").

Royalty payment via bank transfer or order check possible.

No recurring payments to the publisher. Moderate one-time set-up fees are acceptable.

So which publisher would you recommend?
Ignoring format issues, LibreOffice just feels extremly slugish for me. I get little freezes all the time, the UI is laggy and startup time is pretty bad too. I came to dislike it so much that i prefer to edit things in Google Docs over LibreOffice .
Yes. The distinction is that there are two ways to implement map/filter/reduce: either as additional built-in functions or in std. Only the second way requires language-level generics support.
Consolidation, together with buyouts and bankruptcy made a part of the computing world much more boring.

In the '90s and early 2000s there were lots of CPUs, computer systems, operating systems.
Just take Ubuntu Server and throw a light window manager on top. Ubuntu Server is pretty lightweight as is and there are still some very nice lightweight window managers out there.

Something like WM2 is ultra low [1], but watch out if you're running a laptop as you won't get battery monitoring!

[1] http://www.xwinman.org/
I've enjoyed Xubuntu 18.04 for the light-ness. I pull the taskbar down to the bottom of the screen, swap out the "Whisker menu" for the more classical "Applications Menu" and I'm happy.

It has been pointed out to me that this produces effectively a reskinned Windows98 experience, I'm not unhappy about that.

NB: Have not tried any 20.04 versions yet.
Tell me about it df -m was like myles long. And it [meaning snap] had separate auto-update procedures and janitorial daemons, which I had a hell of a time removing and disabling etc. I guess the best thing about snap is that you can uninstall all of them, I hope, and find the alternatives of the same features either in the main repositories or through every-lovable ppa. I loved 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, even, but, this is too much. I had to leave man. Had to be there to know it.
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Yet another proof that proprietary drivers are hindering innovation and holding back Linux desktops, not helping them.
Everyone understands the paradigm of double clicking an icon to launch the program or an installer. Many aren't going to understand the exact command they need to type into a terminal to get it to do what they want. This is almost always the answer for why people don't want to resort to using a terminal, discoverability. You can look it up, of course, but there's no good reason imo to not include GDebi for users unfamiliar with that workflow. Other distributions have it by default, but Cannonical is favoring their own tech here over the needs of the users. One more useless roadblock.
... and a new elementaryOS release will be coming at some point!
New York was not a particularly early hotspot, it was much later than Italy.
As far as I remember, Rasmus worked on that for PHP 7 and the conclusion was: excellent for benchmarks but no improvement for real world web applications.

I understand your argument "It opens the door for PHP to be used as a very performant language outside of the web." but I'm really not sure it's worth it.
Just set font scaling to 1.3x or whatever it is you need and everything works great. I've been doing that for many years for 1440p in a laptop.

Ubuntu actually regressed there since switching back to GNOME from Unity. In Unity font scaling was neatly exposed in the same slider as integer scaling and all apps used that setting. Now I have to set one thing for GNOME and another for Firefox to get the same effect. "Proper" fractional scaling is a waste of resources in most situations. It's only really worth it if you want really consistent sizing of things when you have several screens with very different DPIs.
I'm afraid not, it's not been a fruitful area of research so we've not written anything down about the limitations.
In my experience, simply double clicking on the file never actually worked for installing debs. The UI would pop up, give me a nice pleasant "Install" button, but clicking it would either no-op, crash the UI, show a progress bar that stalled out, or act like everything worked perfectly but not actually install it. Command line install works flawlessly every time.
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This almost never actually worked in my experience. It was more of an annoyance than not even pretending to work, because I'd take time trying to get things to install in the UI and they wouldn't work before I eventually needed to revert to CLI.
Quite the contrary: as silicon processes shrink, electronics become more vulnerable.
Because God forbid you actually have to use the card you paid for, oh no, we can't have that. No one should work with machine learning, edit video or play games, Intel HD should be enough for everybody /s
I don't think people commuting to Paris for work use public parking space, the cost is much too high for everyday 9-to-5 usage. Either they use public transports, or have a private parking space at work. In both case they're not impacted by reducing public park space.
> is that if a country has no or a low rate of excess deaths, that country is doing "ok".

Where are you getting figure for all cause mortality for Sweden please?

> should English authorities be terrified that they've gotten their assumptions wrong?

There is wide-spread condemnation about the UK approach - too little, too late.
Looking over that subreddit, it doesn't look like a battle for DE domination. It looks like people showing off their creativity.
Peer-to-peer WebRTC camera streaming for OBS
Or even worst/better, thousand of SELECT with joins returning one result and then sort in app.
> The Chromium sandbox on Windows has stood the test of time. It’s considered one of the better sandboxing mechanisms deployed at scale without requiring elevated privileges to function.

For anyone who is interested in the history, this type of Restricted Token & Job Object sandbox was, as far as I know, first used in MOICE (Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment). This was created by Microsoft's Office Trustworthy Computing group to isolate the conversion of `.doc` to `.docx`. David LeBlanc blogged about it in 2007, with his "Practical Windows Sandboxing" series[0][1][2]. Of course a third party may have independently discovered the same techniques but kept it to themselves.

The state of the art has improved since then but the general principles are the same.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/david_leblanc...

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/david_leblanc...

[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/david_leblanc...
office 360 seems to work ok.

The bank I used to work for moved to cloud exchange already.
I wonder if we'll ever get /usr/bin/python back. Or is it going to be like browser user-agent strings where we call it "python3" forever and forget why we can't just call it python?
Ironically:

> the British government is asking that five more public authorities be added to the list of bodies that can access data scooped up under the nation's mass-surveillance laws: [including] the UK National Authority for Counter Eavesdropping (UKNACE)
I'm on Fedora where the equivalent is called Flathub/Flatpaks. There are definitely some rough edges still, but the possible upsides are amazing for me.

It makes it way easier for a developer to release for different Linux-flavors. The applications get sandboxed and there is much less risk to mess up your system. Stuff like permission, similar to Android/iOS becomes possible.

There for sure is problems to: it makes it way easier for a lazy developer to ship ancient libraries without security fixes, the "packages", now images, are much larger and the quality check of the packager gets sidestepped. And, as always when you try something new, it gets worse before it gets better.

But I think the idea is good and I hope for the best.
It amazes me the complexity of solutions these days, when 20 years ago almost everything ran in relational databases and query tuning was usually the solution to performance problems.
Judging by your other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22954061) you were using Software Center for the installing. Gdebi was working fine back before Software Center.
I haven't tried it but some people say 'OnlyOffice' is a better branch than libreoffice, it seems to support MS-Office standards better, but, as I said I've never tried it. Only trouble these people had was with certain fonts, but I guess the remedy would be to choose embed all fonts upon saving and sharing, if that helps, then perhaps OnlyOffice, desktop version, is an option, for some. I plan to try it, although I use my old office-versions, in a vm, for now.
I'm surprised they got paid at all, let alone anything more than minimum wage.
iPhone SE 2020 launching at about 42,500 Indian rupees. OnePlus 8 is launching at 41,999 INR.

iPhone SE is by no means a "budget" phone in our country
From the link, I had to run

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

to get mine to upgrade.
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Isn't the most interesting point about this the assumption that people are going to abandon public transport in favour of cars when the lockdowns end?

That seems to suggest we'll have more crowded roads with reduced capacity (due to the added cycleways); maybe I'm being too pessimistic though, and we'll see a big switch to WFH.
I use Ubuntu via WSL2 when WFH (i.e. always, at the moment). I've ran into lots of issues trying to use snaps (e.g. for ccls) in WSL, because of the lack of systemd as PID 1.

Does anyone know a robust way to get snapd running properly in WSL2? I would prefer to use whatever package there is than compiling everything that isn't packaged as .deb myself. In the case of ccls it's particularly annoying because I had to install the whole clang toolchain just to build it (which isn't typically on my dev machines, because the work I do is GCC-based).
That page says they're only hoping for availability soon.
> Does anyone care to suggest an ubuntu-like distribution for someone like me who wants their OS light?

What about Debian?
You staying on 14.04 for so long surely means that the slightly slower moving Debian stable is not an issue for you. It supports lots of window managers. I'm using i3 with a simple xinitrc here, but also XFCE or LXDE are available.

You can install it very very lightweight and as Ubuntu bases of Debian it should be similar enough.
When registering for a doctor or something, you generally just tell them where you live and your name. You might also need your national insurance number. If they want more, its usually a utility bill proving that, or if they want photo ID, a Driving Licence or Passport, if you have one.

For things like voting, you don't need any ID at all on the mainland.
It’s also the format of the backtrack - I think that’s covered by the TCK.
Yeah definitely! Fashion is itself a framing mechanism and a way to convey meaning, and part of any good product launch is having people understand your product the way you want it to be understood.

If one of the properties you want your product to have is being fashionable and communicate something about you, you have to both invest effort in making a product that reflects that need (through the design decisions of form & function), and gets people to understanding it through that lens (framing it through product marketing). It's a push and pull to create something fashion-forward, the product adapts to the market's needs, and the market shifts what's fashionable to include the product.
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> Amish commonly believe that commercial insurance plans undermine the religious duty of community accountability

As an atheist I find the Amish's religious view quite attractive. Ignoring god, it becomes plain humanitarianism and about helping each other.

Aside: I suppose one could well argue that non-commercial insurance plans would be just a formalisation of community accountability. Edit: and that's pretty much exactly what's described in the article, only without calling it insurance.
I don’t and definitely never understand “modern art“.

Am I blind? Is there something wrong with me?
This is an incredibly blinkered view. Even if you think the US is saturated, which I doubt, there's a literal entire world out of there, many parts of which are still taking their first baby steps onto the Internet. Places like Indonesia and Vietnam are growing their "internet economy" (money spent online) at 50+% CAGR, and COVID is accelerating many (not all) companies in spaces like e-commerce or online collaboration.

https://www.temasek.com.sg/en/news-and-views/stories/future/...
Oh right, I forgot all the cool things I had enabled on Compiz: live zoom, wobbly windows, the burn effect. Transparent windows! Those were great. The cube, of course. The shift switcher. Expose.
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If you're in the UK, then Octopus Agile tariff gives you a variable price and an API with IFTTT integration so that you can switch devices on and off depending upon the current price: https://octopus.energy/agile/
> What is vastly better on the X-series devices, though, is switching between your two or three most recent apps.

On devices with 3D Touch switching between 2 recent apps became easier once you learned this shortcut: just hard press the left edge of the screen, and depending on how far you drag it to the right, you can either go to the previous app or open the switcher (faster than double tapping the home button).
UK employee of a US company, its happening in both, contractors are gone everywhere and the US side has been particularly brutal with pay cuts - 7-10% here and 20% cuts in the US (50-100% for VPs and stuff).
I have no clue what is interesting about Banksy and know people who buy his crap who have no idea either. It's become a social status thing.

If disappearing and being elusive is the criterion I pick Bill Waterson.
Does the Nvidia chip drive the display directly?
I think you also have an Intel GPU that drives the display, the Nvidia GPU will only be used to offload rendering.

I don't know how it is implemented, but from my understanding, as long as the Intel chiip does the scaling you should be fine.
I presume you quoted a part of the end-to-end fees. A random link[1] suggests about 3% effective rate for USA. I think in EU fees are legislatively capped at 2% or so.

> In general, merchant processors will likely offer you an effective rate somewhere between 2.9% to 3.3%. You can try to negotiate that down, especially if you have high sales volume.

[1] https://fitsmallbusiness.com/credit-card-processing-fees-2/
"Do you want the best medical care?"

"Of course" says everyone because it seems like an easy answer.

"Then you're sprained ancle will need a team of 20 super MDs, an MRI, CAT scan, sterile isolation ward and a helicopter to get you there. That will be 100 million dollars please!" says the greedy fuck maximising profit, and he's giving you what you said you wanted...

This is basically the US system in a nutshell. Other nations have an approach with more focus on affordability, but the US system (from hospitals, to doctors themselves, to insurers, to drug makers, to the courts) is entirely focused on maximum quality. That's what makes it unaffordable. That's also why you don't have teired treatment like you say: an MD is 0.5% better than a trained nurse at setting a bone. They cost 100 times more. But you decide purely based on the 0.5%
In addition to sibling comments about UI, if you work with Asian/Complex Script Language, Libre/OpenOffice is terrible choice.

I use WPS Office (not open source) on Ubuntu mainly because it supports Asian/Complex script much, much better (as in, almost identical to MS Office).
Regolith [1] is the perfect i3+Ubuntu combo for me.

It comes with sensible default for a good i3 experience but you keep the Ubuntu "universality".

[1]: https://regolith-linux.org/
What's your point because if it will start mutate too fast at this point you need to produce vaccine for every mutation that is deadly. For example flu vaccine is produced twice a year and not for every strain only for those that are most dangerous. Maybe there is need to develop new protection techniques instead of injecting dead virus into human body. Over the years it might become true that only way for human to survive on this planet is gene editing like CRISPR.
There are already first trials to edit genes of adult human that you can read about here:
https://ir.editasmedicine.com/news-releases/news-release-det...
We have universal healthcare in most parts of Europe, either founded from taxes, either partly funded by mandatory low cost state owned medical insurance and partly by taxes.

I think Spain has one of the world's best health care systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Spain

I guess US can apply the same principles. Some things might be more important than making money.
Right, this difference of scale is enormous. Back when hospitals couldn't do that much, and were not far from being hotels with better hygiene & worse food, then how to pay for them wasn't such a hard problem. But now US healthcare is 17% of GDP (if I recall correctly) and this proportion rises with GPD, unsurprisingly, as more other needs are already met. It isn't going to go down.

Pensions are in a way similar. When steelworkers retiring at 65 could expect on average a few golden years, then deciding how to pay for that wasn't such a huge deal. When they can expect a third of their lifetime to be in retirement, then it's very different.
Unity still exists, it got renamed to Lomiri - you should still be able to install that.
So maybe that feature still works.
They spent millions making one in Nottingham on an already low-traffic road that is regularly bisected by junctions.

Cars, of course, pull up to wait in the cycleway, without looking.

So not only is it pointless because it's not a busy road, it's also extremely dangerous.
also we've thankfully left behind the age of caste systems, where you just were poor, because well, peasants be peasants. Today I don't see any rich people engaging in that kind of (really screw up, if you think about it) "philantrophy" anymore... Especially in America (with Amazon and Walmart-slavery) the attitude is more like: you're poor, because you are not putting enough effort in.
To underline this statement, take a look at this "Spotify for AR" concept: https://mixed.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/spotify_magic_le...

Did someone at Magic Leap seriously think, people will buy an expensive AR device and wear it just to see virtual album covers placed on their table?
You usually want 1.5x for 13.3" laptop with 1080p which is not uncommon at all and is kinda hard to avoid.
I was using whatever popped up in a default Ubuntu VM when I double clicked a .deb file. If they've chosen to make that not the best software for installing .deb's... lets just say I can see why people say Linux distributions tend to be user-unfreindly.
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> Some things might be more important than making money.

Not to the people that run the US it isn't. They are pushing to fix the pandemic problem by just letting a couple of percent of the population die.
You are correct. Phoenix is better, but the community code is not there yet. Having said that... instead of using a big upload library we just do upload + signing for Azure in two very small modules. Sometimes you realize that you might need to write something yourself, true, but also that you don't need to make a full-featured Active/Action library out of it.
Here in grenoble they opened a bunch of new lanes last year, and one stretch in a very busy road is actually in the middle between the two car lanes, on slightly raised ground, like 10cm, enough to make a bump if you cross over with a car, but that's all.
At first I hated the idea but once I was on there for the first time it immediately became clear to me that whoever had planned this had thought more about it than I ever did in my last five years of bike-commuting.
Being in the middle means that bicycles of both directions share space (which feels much more generous than sharing with cars) and you're never next to parking cars, at risk of being doored.

So yeah, there's a lot of improvement to be made with simple changes like this. I hope they seize the opportunity.
oxy? gimme some oxy, I've paaain, soo much pain.
This is why Rust is going to eventually eat Javascript's lunch on the browser. I'm willing to longbets that by 2025 we see a Rust framework as the top browser toolkit. I'd even be willing to bet that there are popular frameworks in use by major websites that discard the DOM altogether for something simpler and faster.

There's a reason why this has to happen, too.

My sincere hope is that Mozilla and the Rust/Browser luminaries will develop cross-platform APIs for full device hardware abstraction. If we can get Rust/WASM to be able to access the same system calls, hardware resources, payment APIs, native windowing routines, etc. as the iOS and Android SDKs, then we can potentially build a cross-platform native web that is just as snappy as the two shitty walled gardens we have today.

I really hope the performant web slays the app store. That's the dumbest trap we ever fell for. I'd love to visit a website and be playing native Minecraft in seconds. Sans Google Play or the App Store, with no bullshit monopoly tax.

That would address one of the major problems in our industry.
The train can carry batteries that could also be charged through regenerative braking.