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Each generation has its own problems. Today's problems may seem scary to us, but world has seen worse days.

From Billy Joel:

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on and on and on and on
The only problem with this (and it is infuriating) is that while Chrome and Firefox render box positive box-shadow values identically, they differ substantially with negative values. As a result, to get matching shadows you will need to use browser-specific shadows.
Teach kids Python by building an interactive game
I've seen coworkers manually cranking the heat up to 25C in the middle of winter, people just don't give a shit.

I live in berlin, you literally don't need heating if your building has any kind of insulation, you can just wear a sweater and be ok. But no, they even heat the damn stair cases no one uses because we have elevators.
Aha! You’re presuming people have a choice between “dirty» and “clean». It’s a lot more muddied than that and people will weigh their priorities accordingly and cast their votes.
I have no hard data (and I don't think anyone has, at this point), but eradication is IMO going to be tricky even if we have a very potent vaccine, at least looking at how much it took for chicken pox.
Oof, I clicked and remembered WSJ is paywalled...what's the trick to get around that again?
Found this post
https://stjepang.github.io/2019/03/02/new-channels.html

with a link to a comment on GitHub: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/42397#issuecomment-31...
> This is perspective from purely human view, ignoring just about everything else that makes reality, which is way more complex.

I agree. (And, in particular, I agree that ecological diversity is very important.) I consider it to be something of a foundational model -- kind of like how in introductory physics you assume that things like air resistance don't exist.
It seems like a lot, but under the circumstances that shouldn't be surprising.
The cost of rent has increased as a percentage of income.

People aren't choosing to not have kids just so they can eat avocado toast.
I'm curious, how does one go about obtaining IPv4 address space these days? I thought it had become quite a pain, and usually expensive enough to need serious cash?
Twain toured Europe, giving talks, so not unlikely he is (was) know in many English-speaking places there.
I.E. Millions of people won't have to do backbreaking labor for pennies, that sounds good to me. Maybe the jobs shouldn't exist.
Its ridiculous that a brand new 10600K only has at best 33% better single-thread performance than my seven year old 4670K.
I would imagine that this is what Jim Keller is working day and night at Intel to avoid. I’m really looking forward to what comes out of his work at Intel. Competition is good.
Mmm, the phosphorus reserves are doing better than a lot of other ressources. Its trues that _US_ reserves have peaked and will be exhausted soon, but currently China and Australia (from memory) are exporting currently half the world consumption and still have not peaked, while the place with the most reserves should be Morocco [0].

Anyway e is growing and will always be (unless our universe is not isolated) and we will all die even if we manage to: save our planet/move out of our planet/move out of our solar system/move out of our galaxy.

I realise that i argued against your point even though i'm quite agreeing with it. Oh well, precision do not hurt anyone.

[0]https://www.statista.com/statistics/681747/phosphate-rock-re...
> Even if that hole is fixed ...

Last I checked (> 1 year ago) it was WONTFIX because of some very idiotic (IMO) reasoning. I keep it permanently disabled and have never missed it (media.peerconnection.enabled in Firefox btw).
Depends how much the Chocolate Factory Oompa-Loompas are willing to actually offer a C and C++ development environment comparable to other GNU/Linux variants.

Better ask Willy Wonka if it is ok to do so, and by Android 20 we might eventually get it, if it takes as much as sorting out header files, build tools, native dependencies, gcc and clang support and finally listening to game developers as presented at GDC 2020.
Native applications have orders of magnitude more access to your system than a website has.
Some resources are by definition are not sustainable. Fossil fuels are the best example, since they represent compressed biomass that takes millions of years to produce.
The most worrying resource that isn't usually thought of are ecosystem services. The ocean produces an abundance of wild caught food, but also various cycles provide oxygen, consume co2, and coral reefs buffer shorelines against erosion. We degrade those systems with abandon, but they represent trillions in services that likely can't just be replaced with technology.
Why is ASM insane? Are you talking about WASM? That’s got the same security model as JavaScript.
> I suspect there are a bunch of sites that can't run a function or reach a JS resource and then just go into spin loops eating through resources

Google Maps.
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/ma...
wait around for someone to post an archive.org link
John Deere alone has 100 million acres under automated tillage, worldwide.
“Former members of the CDC we hold in high esteem“
I would love to see a version of this for GCP an other cloud platforms (DO, Heroku, especially), would you be open to a collaboration there assuming I can code in your lingua franca?
False. People take into consideration future people/events all of the time. It’s called planning.
The CDC guidelines regarding masks have no science behind them. They are not established to protect anyone from Coronaviruses, any yet the effect of their mask guideline is we have millions of people driving their cars and walking _outdoors_ breathing significantly elevated CO2 levels and significantly lowering their blood oxygen content.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23206415
This. Think of this kind of connectivity during world war II. Media would juice it to the maximum. We live in some of the best times ever. Pity most people don't see it.
societies after all are groups of people and sadly people can be easily manipulated : no need to go into "finite systems", please
The dawning realization that there are very little to no checks or balances on the executive branch has not led to calls for reform, it has not led to calls to ratchet back power in the executive branch at all.

Just the opposite, it seems like both Democrats and Republicans top priority seems to be seizing and expanding their own power. Nothing else matters, they just want this newfound freedom to operate in the margins for themselves. All the messaging is about how the other side is evil and THIS election is the most important of our lifetimes, you absolutely have to vote for our team and not the truly evil other team.

The first competent authoritarian demagogue is going to do much more damage than this administration. Nobody seems to care at all about the side effects, they just want their team to stay in power or get back in power.
My prediction is that COVID-19 may have killed any chance of serious action on climate change.

I saw an estimate a few weeks ago that said that we'd need to be in the equivalent of a COVID-19 lockdown for 7-8 full years to get the temp increase to a manageable level.

It's one thing to discuss action in the abstract. But now we've all had a taste of what is needed, I can't see any electorate voluntarily agreeing to that. I could be wrong but I doubt it.

Also, if by inequality you mean economic inequality, the global situation is a lot better than it was 10 years ago and vastly better than it was 50 years ago. This is primarily due to China and SE Asia generally catching up.
The SARS-1 outbreak lasted about two years.

But if it _does_ vanish in a few months (sadly, this doesn't seem plausible), it would probably make sense to produce and stockpile a vaccine, if a viable one is found, but not actually vaccinate unless it reappears.
I was wondering why WSJ was down, then I remembered I sent it to localhost in frustration last time I clicked a link there. :P
I've stopped being surprised, and I don't have the capacity to continue being upset every time something like this comes up. This administration is a farce. It's just a fact of life. Expecting otherwise at this point is like expecting an infant not to throw their food all over the table. It's just a waste of energy.
I am not worried about the PSU, I'm worried about the VRM's (and cooling of them).

Maybe I'm also a little worried about PSU fans spinning more, as my current PSU doesn't spin it's fan unless it's over 45% load.
I suspect you’re counting VAT as part of the price, which makes the claim inaccurate. It’s a $40k car with a TCO equivalent to a $26k car, which in your part of the world has taxes and fees that bring your out of pocket cost up. That doesn’t make it a $100k car. It makes it a $40k car that has heavy tariffs where you are.
I guess you got to give the skylake architecture some credit. Their 5 year old uarch is still pretty competitive. This is is almost like Pentium 4 vs amd64 days. Wonder if intel will pull out a core2duo.
This article quoted Musk as saying the falcon heavy cost "over $500 million" and that it had been awarded contracts worth $500-750 million that recouped its investment. So let's pin it at $600 mil for this comparison.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-o...

NASA's 2020 budget of $22.6 billion from here:
https://www.planetary.org/get-involved/be-a-space-advocate/b...

22.6 billion * (10/365) = $712 million
One way is to just plug the URL into archive.is. Here's the article: http://archive.is/z90TL
Any clue on why that $1700 CPU is performing so poorly relative to the rest in the chart?
To want to kick e down the road seems to be in line with my species' desire to keep kicking the can :) Appreciate the link regardless.
After GHz stopped mattering (and maybe to some extent it never did)... I lost track of all things CPU and what matters.

Anytime I looked into it I felt like I got a lot of truisms and mixed advice, and the PC enthusiast crowd seems equivalent to the 'pixel peeper' crowd of photography, obsessed with misc stats that I'm not sure will matter to me, or anyone.
It's really the height of hubris to lecture strangers on whether or not they should make the very personal and life long commitment to having children.
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I’m very curious what “process” means in this case:

- Read a line from a file?

- Insert a transaction into a database?

- Call an API using the transaction data?

- Fully process the transaction (a combination of the above and then some)?

Yes, mainframes are very fast, especially for some specific tasks. But they’re still just computers.
How to Teach Artificial Intelligence Some Common Sense (2018)
Terrence McKenna believed stress relief is the reason that so many shamanic rituals include singing and steady drum beats. The anxiety surrounding communication with the dead or the gods is released through the music. He also pointed out rightly that singing requires deep, slow breathing, which prevents hyperventilation and its attendant stress. More practically, his recommendation for bad drug trips is to sing or hum a low and slow tune. I can unfortunately attest to the effectiveness of this technique.
You're probably thinking of poor people in developed countries. They're already surrounded by opportunities and don't take them, so giving them money probably won't change that. But in poor countries, there must be a lot more people who are poor because there are no opportunities. For them, giving them access to those opportunities seems to work well.
Maybe not. Its about the market. My son is a line engineer in a film-coating plant. They need operators chronically. The average operator lasts 2 weeks.

Its hot/cold (depending on the season), humid, very noisy, vibration. Almost every American would rather work anywhere else.
This sadly describes my "workflow" perfectly. Think of names for idea, search for one that's available, buy name, project done...
A satire story on cybercrime in Kenya was mistaken to be real
The Prescott era chip used to get complaints about the amount of heat it produced. "PresHot", "Toaster" etc were slung about. A quick bit of searching dug up that it used to have a TDP of 115... and now we're talking about chips that more than double that. Yikes.
Repeat steps 2 and 3: in addition to the now combined group of two million people, assume that you have an additional group of two million people living difficult lives. Now repeat step 3, and so on, until you've doubled the population many times.
Americans do not do this, when was the last time you saw Potus?
What's that a quote from? There is more than one major platform.
Scientists recreated ancient Earth’s ocean hell to figure out how life began
ah, i see what you mean now: anyway, most resources aren't really finite, as many of them are renewable, especially when you have the need and ability of more people
Has there ever been an attempt to develop a vaccine against SARS or MERS? If so, what happened? Did it fail or was is just not needed anymore?
yep. agreed here. i would be more likely to want/have kids if i actually lived in a place that was built for kids (tons of space, nature, and a house). instead i'm stuck in the city with jobs that need your ass in a chair and the stress of subway commutes, tons of people, noise, no space. no wonder nobody wants kids. cities simply suck for raising them.
From the article:

“With Deep Blue we had a program that would make a superhuman chess move—while the room was on fire,” Etzioni jokes. “Right? Completely lacking context. Fast-forward 20 years, we’ve got a computer that can make a superhuman Go move—while the room is on fire.” Humans, of course, do not have this limitation. His team plays weekly games of bughouse chess, and if a fire broke out the humans would pull the alarm and run for the doors.

Humans, in other words, possess a base of knowledge about the world (fire burns things) mixed with the ability to reason about it (you should try to move away from an out-of-control fire). For AI to truly think like people, we need to teach it the stuff that everyone knows, like physics (balls tossed in the air will fall) or the relative sizes of things (an elephant can’t fit in a bathtub). Until AI possesses these basic concepts, Etzioni figures, it won’t be able to reason.
I use uMatrix, and only thanks to that I realized my bank is doing this too a long time ago.
If a useful treatment shows up, that would certainly be an option, though vaccination would be preferable if feasible.
Firefox is open-source, so you could add that. I would really appreciate being able to turn WebUSB WebBluetooth and WebRTC off entirely as those expose a lot of devices that I need not to be exposed to the Internet.
I have only set a reg lock pin. I never set any other pin. Then I uninstalled the app. Now when I installed it again today it is asking me for a PIN and the only PIN on Signal I have set was a reg lock pin which is not being accepted.

I remember the PIN and it's also stored in BitWarden and KeePass. Now I am locked out.
In America there's at least one more major example that just "generally need more money" doesn't help—medical costs/debt [0,1,2]

[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-019-05002-w

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/10/americans-are-drowning-in-me...

[2] https://www.nber.org/papers/w22288
In what benchmark?
Yes, oddly enough. It can be used by a website you visit to gain information about your local network which turns out to be incredibly effective for fingerprinting.
I'm also interested on where to buy tags for pennies even if they only have Bluetooth.
A thought/theory: US baby-boomers (born around/after WWII) grew up in a time where nationalism and scandalous mass surveillance happened (J. Edgar Hoover, communism, lists of people, etc.) Many people in authoritative positions in government and large corporations today are baby-boomers.

There is a phrase of history repeating itself right. I wonder if that happens in the cycle when our elders (not elderly) remember "how things used to be" and because they are in now positions of power, behave in ways that bring back the past?

I'm not stating all baby boomers are like this, just suggesting that maybe there is something about people in power and their behaviors reflecting their beliefs from their upbringing in various ways.
you have it in sprints because you have a deadline so you can see how well you are progressing towards your goal by seeing how many issues are fixed in their sprint, going over to next sprint etc. It's not a lot of extra work to divide it into sprints, especially as you have people whose tasks are to divide things into sprints and keep track of things.
If you absolutely must use subclassing, remember that whatever code is operating on your base class, would need to be able to operate all your subclasses in identical fashion without introducing accidental surprises and unanticipated side-effects. If this seems restrictive, please consider that changes to one unit of code should ideally be unrelated to other separate units of code, and how to better accomplish this. Later usage of subclassing can at any time introduce similar leakages of encapsulation and temptations around that theme.
> Firefox also seemingly blocks access to 192.168/24 and 10/8.

What about 172.16.0.0/12?
The interesting thing about this puzzle is that it is in some ways easier than many regular sudokus, in that at any given time, you're working with a very narrow space of immediate next actions (and it's rather obvious what they are).
I could as well suggest the same about Nasa :) For all HNers that the distinction will be incredibly obvious, to Joe Schmo from Idaho, perhaps less so.
This is definitely not my experience.
Off my 100 games on steam, gog and egs, 2 doesn't work straight out of the box.
- rocksmith 2014 that can work by switching to alsa audio but the audio lag make the experience subpar
- bit trip beat that i know can work by changing something but didn't try
Oh absolutely. Eradicating this thing via vaccination any time in the next 24 months will take a completely unprecedented feat of worldwide collaboration.

But I'm optimistic, the current situation has everyone focused on the issue. Except Trump trying to get some special deals for early access or whatever the fuck it is that he's doing.
Cinebench. The Geekbench results are even closer.
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Being terrified that if I have a child I'm going to subject myself and it to financial ruin? I still feel like I'm barely surviving. Because I graduated when the 08 recession happened it necessitated a life course correction, and took me until my 30's until I got my career started. Having lived my twenties paycheck to paycheck, I'm just starting to realize I have money in the bank and the next thousand dollar expense isn't going to empty me out. I can't imagine retiring, nor ever really feeling good about where I am in life. When does the hedonism start?
No one yet. I’m just pointing out the criterion can be changed at any time a platform wants without providing any basis.
> If theoretically everyone who believed in climate change agreed that anti-natalism was the solution, by definition within a generation the largest voting block would be the children of climate deniers. Which would actually make climate change much worse.

As an anti-natalist (more precise would be anatalist, I am not opposing that other people have kids, I just wish they chose not to), let me address that. The point is not everybody to not have kids, but just enough to stabilize or slightly decrease the population.

First, you're assuming that climate denial is genetic and not cultural. Which is a big assumption, and I am in general in favor of nurture argument. (As a side note, by waiting longer to have kids, humans might actually be selecting for kids that are learning more and longer, which favors nurture even more.)

However, even if I take that assumption. If I chose not to have kids, that very much means I do not care about biology and what my genetics want. I am making the decision as a person free of the evolutionary pressure (well, somewhat, because I still care about survival of human race). Therefore, I am not sure why I should be bothered by the evolutionary pressure on other individuals. The truth is, it is going to be their battle. I can only lend them a helping hand (and perhaps an example), and do (what I believe is) a morally correct thing. If they mess up and still act wrong, it's not my moral responsibility.

It is a similar question as to whether or not vote strategically. If everybody votes strategically, you can get a result that no one wants. Therefore, somebody has to sacrifice and decidedly vote not strategically.
It's responsible to pay for good journalism.
To be clear, MERS-CoV has not had sustained human-to-human transmission as of yet, rather repeated, smaller transmission pockets. Also, dromedary camels carry it and repeatedly introduce it into the human population.
Yes, exactly. It's about bending the population curve down to meet up with the technology advancement curve.
> Solar energy is even stronger while not at night, obviously.

Something to keep in mind is that lunar nights last something like 13 earth days (a full lunar day is 27 days, 7 hours, and change.) So there's a big power storage issue to contend with. Perhaps nuclear power on the moon is the way to go. It wouldn't be the first time a fission reactor has been put into space.
> speculation on top of anonymous rumors isn't worth much attention.

I've been called out twice on HN for this [1], but I wholeheartedly disagree. I hadn't heard this rumor before now, and now I have new information.

I can use my own reasoning to qualify the weight I give the claim. I know this is a rumor. I'd rather have some known possibly incorrect data than none at all. It helps me understand the possibility landscape better.

This one even has a WaPo article.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21989165
I did say it gets abstract, and into some stuff that's highly debatable.

Interestingly, economists (also sociologists, historians, etc.) disagree agree on what money is.

For the purposes of this topic though... I think it's sufficient that marketable securities sit under "current assets" on a balance sheet, alongside "cash & equivalents."

Say an investor buys a new share in uber for $35. Her balance sheet isn't meaningfully changed. Uber's bank account has grown by $35. I'm not saying that the accounting doesn't work out. The $35 isn't counted as revenue, and doesn't impact earnings.

Still... $35 has now appeared in one account without disappearing from another.

Again, I'm not saying the accounting is dodgy. Theoretically, when you buy a $2 ice cream then you have a $2 ice cream and 2 fewer dollars. Your "balance sheet" nets the same amount. Same thing when a woodshop buys timber. But for most practical purposes in the modern economy, a company's "total assets" don't matter much. "Current assets" do.

Whether or not you want that money (or even currency) creation is interesting, but it works the same as money in practice. Gold, sovereign notes, bank bonds... Same result as shares.
Global birth rates are racing toward < 2. Almost every nation. We'll get there in a decade or two.
Ah, so it's the soundstage, not the mic that's the problem?
I think you are making my point for me?

It's literally people's choices causing this. Not some inherent carrying capacity.