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Sure, it is a genuine concern. But I find the context for the comment here bit funny considering how much the world runs on top of gdocs etc, the risk of losing the source of personal blog is drop in a ocean.

And while there of course are no guarantees, I at least would expect fair warning before stuff like docs is killed.
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No. Who implied that?!

Starlink will be a network of very near earth communication satellites. This black hole, if it exists, is far far further out than Pluto.

The probes wouldn’t be even remotely reminiscent of Starlink satellites either.
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It varies... My family is extremely detached and impersonal but we do really love each other. I occasionally speak to my parents or siblings. Gifts between family are usually small amounts of money. We are not big on parties, gifts, or celebrations. We will eat dinner with each other occasionally but we try to avoid talking too much about our lives. Yet I know if one of us needed something we are there for each other. That's never been a concern.

Even amongst my other American friends they think we're pretty far towards the extreme end of detached. I suspect most people have much more personal relationships with their family than mine but just providing an anecdotal data point.
Have some compassion for the poor guy. People with regular parents literally cannot imagine what growing up with abusive parents is like. When you try to explain you just draw a total blank, it's like taking a blind man to an exhibition of paintings.

The fellow is blind, there is nothing that can be done about his blindness. Let him continue to be blind.
By coincidence I asked a few questions on the mailing list about io_uring this morning: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/20200510080034.GI3888@redha...
The dome doesn't appear to be particularly special, but the trellis is interesting - a soil filled, rotating column that sorta simulates a tree.

It'll be interesting to see if he can get the plants to reliably flower and pollinate. Best of luck on that front!
This is the meta game part of playing games, getting the best options to work. This peaked during the late DOS era with I think one of the Wing Commander games which would run best if you had like 700+k of conventional memory, which you had to use non microsoft dos for (or something). Sometimes, once you got the game to run, you didn't even need to play it.

This concept was reimagined in modern times with Crysis; but I don't find throwing hardware at things as satisfying as getting a game to run well on whatever hardware you have. Bonus points if it's underspeced hardware, but graphics cards from years after release are interesting too.
The Switch is a direct successor in a line of Nvidia tablets that were regularly priced at $200-$250. That being said, I'm not sure about its profit margin.

But I know for a fact that since launch the Xbone and PS4 were profitable. They were never sold as a loss leader.

Especially now, after all 3 have been out for years, none are losing money. They are all profitable when sold and then infinite money machines by acting as a tax on developers and consumers.
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Maybe humans are some of the only animals smart enough to put other things above survival.

Is spending eternity in the cramped room of Paleolithic life satisfying? (And by "eternity" I guess I mean the remaining lifetime of the Sun or biosphere[0].)

To me, it's not. I'd rather sacrifice my basic survival and that of the whole species for something greater. (Especially since "survival" is a zero-sum, doomed goal in the long-run anyway.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbbwrfp9toE&feature=youtu.be... unironically. xD

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If the games work without servers, most likely in the future you'll just be able to run an Android emulator and install the APKs downloaded from the Internet Archive.

Or reverse-engineer jobs would be done for the biggest games to create servers that will allow the client to work.
eh it's not so much content than it is intention: showing you are still prioritizing the other, that you're thinking about the other, etc. sort of how like some people like giving and receiving lots of small gifts i guess.
This quote from Jeffrey Sachs might offer some context:

“Look, I meet a lot of those people on Wall Street on a regular basis right now... I know them. These are the people I have lunch with. And I am going to put it very bluntly: I regard the moral environment as pathological. [these people] have no responsibility to pay taxes; they have no responsibility to their clients; they have no responsibility to counter parties in transactions. They are tough, greedy, aggressive, and feel absolutely out of control in a quite literal sense, and they have gamed the system to a remarkable extent. They genuinely believe they have a God-given right to take as much money as they possibly can in any way that they can get it, legal or otherwise.

If you look at campaign contributions, which I happened to do yesterday, the financial markets are the number one campaign contributors in the US system right now. We have a corrupt politics to the core.. both parties are up to their necks in this.

But what it’s lead to is this a sense of impunity that is really stunning, and you feel it on the individual level right now. And it’s very, very unhealthy, I have waited four years, five years now to see one figure on Wall Street speak in a moral language. And I’ve not seen it once.”
I'm more curious if snap/flakpak-based installations will benefit Ubuntu Studio more than servers and other desktops.
Akin to how “bless your heart” can (operative word: can) take on two VERY different meanings depending on what part of the US it’s being uttered in.
Personally I consider the KDE the only DE that feels like it can compete with an OS like Windows or OSX.

It's just a lot of small things that add up to make it feel cohesive. Like how the file explorer has a built in terminal that follows the folder you're in.

A lot of people call that philosophy bloat. But honestly I've got a PC with 32 GB of RAM and a laptop with 16GB.

Like the Ubuntu Studio people have said 50MB more ram usage compared to XFCE isn't a bother at all.
I don't know if you have a duty or not, that's really not for me to say. What I will say is: don't think you should care for your father just because you get along well. Think about you growing up instead. Did he take care of you? Brought food to the table? Was a reasonably good father? Being your friend was not viewed as a father's role in many of past generation's fathers, and in many cultures in general. If I had nothing to talk about with my father, I'd still call him sometimes and thank him for having been a good one. After all, he could have just shunned all of it and said "Do I still have a duty to take care of my children, despite me not really wanting this burden?"
Of, course, I'm saying this to people who had a distant dad, but one who was at least there, and was at least decent and stuck through it. Your upbringing may have been different.
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For California, see SF Chronicles' COVID Tracker page: https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2020/coronavirus-map/.

It even has a checklist with the targets that must be met before a county can lift quarantine.
Some material to educate yourself about how things roll in the industry, instead of the usual rainbows and minibus speech.

https://www.gdcvault.com/

https://igda.org/

https://www.mcvuk.com/

https://www.gamesradar.com/edge/

https://rebootdevelop.com/

https://www.makinggames.biz/

https://dev.paxsite.com

https://igf.com/

https://www.assembly.org/

https://2020.revision-party.net

Now if you refuse to accept how things work fine, but then do something about it instead of cursing and trolling everyone that actually have experience in the industry.

I don't know, create an association, start a movement or something else.

If no one likes the garbage as you say, it won't be hard to get people to join your cause, after all it takes one person to change the world.
These a few tiny craft sent off into the depths of interstellar space. The chances of anybody ever picking one up are so ridiculously small, so utterly infinitesimal, it doesn’t even need to be thought about.

Not only that, but even if they were picked up, they’d only ever be picked up after coasting through space for millions, possibly tends of millions of years, and in turn it will take hundred of thousands of years for them to make their way here (assuming they have highly relativistic propulsion systems).

So... no.
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I had this exact idea after they squirt gunned the gun emoji. I am surprised regime’s haven’t pushed something like this to block words like Tiananmen.
As a longtime user of Ubuntu Studio on a very productive DAW, this is welcome news - XFCE has certainly been a great choice for the last few years, but KDE has a lot more to offer, especially now the resource usage is comparable.

I have a feeling it'll also sway MacOS DAW users to take a closer look at just what Linux has to offer pro audio users - amazing latency specs, even when compared to Mac, which has traditionally had better latency than Windows - as well as a full suite of excellent tools for Audio and Video production, out of the box. XFCE is functional but MacOS creatives get a bit snobby about it during the first OOBE - won't be so easily snubbed when KDE is on by default.
I look forward to giving this new version of Ubuntu Studio a tryout in my studio ..
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>Celebrity frenzy multiplied by pandemic rage is producing as wild a burn as we've seen on HN.

I think the problem is the audience that's been cultivated on here. Not the topics.

You have a topic that's has real world effects. Reality demands us to act contrary to a particular narrative, and this forum can't handle it.

Apathetic, intellectual sophistry only works when you don't have any actual problems to worry about. The celebrity and this forum have the same personality. And people don't want to admit they're wrong.

If all you have to say about what you're saying is that the government can't arrest you for it, maybe you should rethink what you're saying.
I had the same thought, but the opposite strategy of randomizing the break rewards is actually pretty interesting.
Science saved the humanity? The assumption that unlimited human dominance can save humans is wrong. That's not human progress. The human progress is in balanced evolution that fits well into the ecosystem. Science has failed to keep that as the main goal.
The problem of getting a lay audience to understand policy based off of specialized knowledge is non-trivial (as any engineer knows very well). "What can we say today so that people will be ready to hear what we need to say tomorrow?" sounds less like manipulation and more like acknowledging that getting buy-in isn't merely a process of dumping factual knowledge, something that seems pretty well borne out by the public conversation that's played out over the last 2-3 months.

Some people do seem to feel like accepting social authority of any kind is too parental, whether it's expertise or civil order. That may be more behaving like children than being treated like them, though.
This is really neat. Is any of your code that uses this open source?
From the previous discussions, it's pretty pointless to debate proper development practices with lock-in proponents. They don't get it or if they do, but they don't care, since they are after anti-user practices by design.
Going to break a little bit of a lance in defence of 'scienticism' in a mild sense given that a lot of the comments overwhelmingly agree with the piece.

I think there's a lot of benefit to science as a methodology or process even in contexts where science might not seem readily applicable. The author takes as an example issues of justice. While it's true that there's something fallacious about trying to reason about oughts from scientific principles there is I think a lot of value in grounding these discussions in the scientific process. The reason for that is that scientific principles force people to avoid 'language games' or rationalisations and provide a common formalism to make 'progress'.

People often use 'scientism' as a pejorative for a sort of cold, broken calculator like mentality, but a scientific account of justice, grounded in biology, evidence about punishment and so forth would almost certainly be more humanistic, forgiving, and productive than say, religious debate or ad hoc moral justification, which has led to some of the more cruel treatments in our history.

The author also I think makes some basic mistakes about the nature of science, she says for example:

"But too often those elegant mathematical models turn out to be based on assumptions about “rational economic man” true of no real-world economic actors."

This is true, but not really a problem. As Milton Friedman put it: "Truly important and significant hypotheses will be found to have "assumptions" that are wildly inaccurate descriptive representations of reality, and, in general, the more significant the theory, the more unrealistic the assumptions (in this sense) Why? Because such hypotheses and descriptions extract only those crucial elements sufficient to yield relatively precise, valid predictions, omitting a welter of predictively irrelevant details. Of course, descriptive unrealism by itself does not ensure a "significant theory"

Believing in the 'rational man' is no mistake of scientism but like believing in a perfect sphere. Somewhat absurd and evidently not found in the real world but nonetheless useful as a tool to form theories.
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It’s all relative and decreases exponentially the further from the person you get.

Value ~= (sentimental value) + (entertainment value) + (financial value) + (time value)

time value being how much time you add to my life, so someone inventing a vaccine has high value to lots of people who aren’t friends.

It’s very fashionable to say everyone is priceless as you say, but this simply isn’t true.

A better way to phrase it might be “everyone is worth the access to goods that are cheap enough to make for everyone, but aren’t available to everyone because of profit motives”.

People typically only demand a right to something when someone else has it, or at least demand equal access. People are more or less ok with dying on a waitlist for a transplant when the rich are thought to die at the same rate.
You're onto something. I've been wanting this for years, regardless of current conditions.

A lot of people meal prep for the entire week. Restaurants could fill in for that.

Something like https://www.eatclub.com/ but for home, and delivered in bulk.
They've drastically changed the number of infected for now, during a continuing lockdown. Once planes start flying again, and people start travelling again, infections will continue.

I agree we want to change outcomes, and flattening the curve is part of that. Delaying infections until better treatments is part of that. But we can't commit to waiting for a vaccine, and we can't commit to waiting for a good treatment. We may never get either.
I like this comment very much. I don’t have such a person, but if you do, call that person. Embrace those whom treat you with respect, care, and compassion.
As someone who uses all 3 OSes to various degrees, the while "mess" thing just strikes me as something that's supposed to be said around Linux and mic drop, as if that in itself meant something.

Linux is often installed on shoddy hardware that Windows no longer runs acceptably on and then people complain why it runs shoddily compared to their new Macbook/DELL XPS that they just purchased.

This very topic shows that Windows is a mess too, there's now been multiple updates that deleted user data as well. Why is that not a mess? Or why is so much more attention paid to the Linux mess? macOS allowed users to log in without a password, leaked encrypted HDD secrets, borked curl & SSH, borked user machines with an update, throttled user machines etc. and that's just from the top of my head. And that's bearing in mind that Apple controls almost all the variables.
What's wrong with the data?

I mainly care about Google Docs and Sheets, they're exported as Word and Excel (and there are other options if you don't like this formats), and the random sample of docs I tried in the output worked fine in Word and Excel.
It's alluded to in the article, but I wish keyboard programmability got more attention than switches.

I spent a lot of time picking my switches, and I like them. But what I love about my mechanical keyboard (Massdrop CTRL) is the ability to program it.

It's surprisingly important to be able to customize keypresses before the OS sees them, especially on Windows. AutoHotKey is decent, but there are a ton of edge cases where your AHK customizations just stop working because some other utility is intercepting keypresses (the most recent one I found: the Win+G Game Bar). Karabiner is pretty good at keystroke customization on macOS because it uses a kernel extension, but even it has a few situations (login windows etc.) where it doesn't work reliably.

It's also just so nice to have my customizations work on any machine without any software installs.
texting isn't ideal because you might get a response in an hour, or two days, or the next minute.

there's a lot of value in being fully present for a social interaction: when you're on the phone and paying attention, it's typically a lot more engaging than the other person watching a video, texting 4 other people at the same time, or whatever else people do in between texts.
This article reads so similar to the Intelligent Investor by Ben Graham.

I have never been able to wrap a good definition around my intuition of behavior once understood is no longer effective. "Anti-inductive" is very interesting crystallization of this concept. Thank you for sharing this.
I think it's a part of a broader challenge. In writing circles, there's always advice not to use some specific list of words. The list varies. An example list from a quick googling:

- really, very

- just

- totally, completely, absolutely

- thing

- some

- rather, quite, somewhat, somehow

- ...

Like all style advice, it's not really a "rule" to follow, but it's surprisingly difficult to avoid some of these words. I struggle with "really" and "just." It makes you work, but your language is better for it.

I think many swear words fall into this category of words that are really easy to use. These lists always heavily feature strengthening modifiers, and swear words are often strengthening modifiers. Especially "fucking" which is just a really fucking versatile thing to use.

I wouldn't say relying on these crutch words is a lack of knowledge or fluency, but maybe it's a lack of versatility and easy varied expressiveness. Relying on these crutch words makes it harder to be specific.
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I wish KDE had the same level of resources behind it as GNOME does.

I keep occasionally trying new versions of GNOME but it feels like a DE optimized to look good in screenshots and always falls short when actually using it.

KDE on the other hand looks relatively good and is infinitely more usable to me. It's got some rougher edges and a weaker application ecosystem but still comes out ahead for me.

I also vastly prefer using apps written in QT to those written in GTK and despise CSD...
Which is why I wish people would stop recommending Ubuntu as "the" Linux distro.
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of course the number one reply on HN is this, you guys are a caricature of yourselves
Github with github pages and content in mdx using https://v2.docusaurus.io/

For non technical users you can setup a github action to build and push on every change.
comments a few months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22102656
Discovering a mini black-hole at the boundaries of our solar system would also mean discovering a lovely power source just waiting to be tapped, right ?
been writing Go since 2011, have written many http servers, have never really worried about net/http performance.

the bottleneck is usually the storage layer.

let's say you have no storage, your bottleneck is probably serialization.

let's say you don't have serialization problems (except for net/http, optimizing which you could argue is a deserialization problem), what is the problem-domain that's being tackled where you have cpu-bound http performance problems where you shouldn't just use udp instead?

let's say you have no storage or serialization problems, you have a lot of http traffic. if the whole thing is stateless, you add nodes behind a load balancer and call it a day.

ok, none of those things apply: you're dealing with a CPU-bound, stateful http server with all of its state in memory, and it's not fast enough. you are, presumably, at scale and have customers or users; if you weren't at scale, you probably wouldn't be facing this sort of performance problem. so you use something like fasthttp to help you ... scale one node to a very large size? um, I guess you could do that, but now you have a lot of traffic and you've scaled a single point of failure. I just don't get it. I don't get what actual real-world problem this solves that isn't imaginary.
This looks like cellular-automata and other reactive a-life -- while I suppose you could stretch the def'n of multi-agent systems to cover these, it's certainly not the first thing that you'll find in the literature. Cool though.

Smalltalk had some groundbreaking ideas -- but "an app. is an image of the whole, monkey-patched class hierarchy shipped with the entire system" certainly wasn't it's greatest contribution.
One of the things that really grinds my gears is when Marxists claim that Marxism is "scientific". I see them doing numbers 1, 2, and 5, and maybe 4 and 6.
My kid has an X-Plane rig and there's a lot of cool plugins, aircraft, and addons available right now to use. I don't know if or what the 3rd party market for FSX20 will be or when it will be available so it's all a matter of your timeframe.

If you're lazy or won't use anything more powerful than a phone, you might as well play with toy simulators and/or Infinite Flight.

https://infiniteflight.com/
Why? You don't have in space anything which you didn't bring there from a surface. On a planet you have resources at least. Also you have radiation shielding and no necessity to tie all small things from floating away.

In order to make anything in a space station, you have to bring something from outside. Not so on a planet.
The only part I could get to before a big banner blocking me was about toilets. Which, still seems overly frightening.

That all said, thanks to all for summarizing and giving links! Still not sure why the page wouldn't load, and happy/weirded out to get challenged on some of these.