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> One final point: I expect none of you to really get what I’m talking about here, because this principle also applies to itself.

This is a bit discontenting... as the author himself notes:

> without some kind of direct experience to use as a touchstone, people don’t have the context that gives them a place in their minds to put the things you are telling then.

Generalizing from mine and friends’ experience, all who have ever tried explaining anything in depth have been exposed to this, thereby we–I expect the HN crowd have all been there–should understand this, we should “get it”.

As an ending note, both OPs post and my comment are grossly simplified; for example, even with “a touchstone” people won’t understand with mere exposure confronted with anything of slight complexity, they probably won’t get it until knowing the stone inside out; I remember after half a year with programming in high school, many people that genuinely tried to learn, still didn’t get why they should bother with getting the syntax exact...
Pages containing x86 code are never actually being marked executable in the (ARM) pagetables, because that would be nonsensical: The CPU itself does not know how to run x86 code. mmap/mprotect from x86 with the exec bit therefore does something else than native code.
I don't know how to answer that in general but there are people arguing the other side in these threads. You need to do it without turning it into a nationalistic/racial conflict. "Pushed out of your own country's industry by foreign nationals" is just over the line.
crun is actually a project that competes with runc. runc (run container) is implemented in go, and crun is a mostly drop-in reimplementation of it in C that is more faster and simpler, it's currently gaining traction in rhel/centos/fedora and suse linux as it was first to implement newer features such as cgroup v2.
Focusing their product line like this is a great move. I hope that they do more to hone in on overall usability for the average user, and continue to expand beyond gamers as their core persona. Focusing on standalone VR, hand tracking, and hopefully more social and productivity apps like Facebook Horizon will be the best way to grow.
Is there a 'best' educational path to become an extractor or to understand processes like this? It's not just Organic Chemistry right?
It was a sub-heading in the Code section. See, e.g., https://web.archive.org/web/20200320205539/https://github.co...
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Templating Lua here is probably borderline really.
He should have least mentioned the Carmilla story, which was the origin of the Vampire story. From an porphyria autopsy report from Graz, Austria about a dead noble girl from Eastern Styria, which a horror writer in England caught up by a popular press report from Vienna, and then wrote the erotic/gothic Carmilla novel, about lesbian night creatures longing for blood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla (Btw Wikipedia doesn't know the real background story for this)

Which Stoker mixed with the Romanian Vlad Dracul story, who was not blood obsessed, but obsessed with anal torture. But he beat the Turks and therefore he was quite famous.
Natural herd immunity is a non-starter anyway. If we reach herd immunity before a vaccine arrives, the economic damage would be far worse than any shutdown. If the R0 is 5.7, you need 82.5% (4.7/5.7) of the population either immune or quarantined/locked-down. If everyone stops the lockdown, that means 82.5% of the population infected. No matter how much we want to argue down the IFR, that's catastrophic.

Semi-related note, I think we haven't properly socialized the basic numbers behind the disease. I hear that Covid-19 is more contagious than first thought, with a "natural" R0 of 5.7. I also hear that it has a doubling time of around three days, originally thought to be more like 5-6. I also hear that the contagion period is 8-10 days. These three numbers do not make sense together. The R0 number needs to be reached during the contagion period. The average contagion period is likely far longer, or, it's way more contagious than 5.7 (which would mean the herd immunity threshold goes higher).

Also, if the illness is more contagious than we first thought, it means that the lockdown was even more effective than we first thought.

Here's a fun mental exercise for whoever's reading this. Say that you have a bubble of 100 people, and released a disease that infected 50 people and killed all of them; 100% fatality. Then say you discovered that it actually infected all 100 people, but only 50% of them died. Is the disease less dangerous than you first thought?
Characteristics of H-1B specialty occupation workers [pdf]
There doesn't even need to be great effort. Sometimes the experts are just so good at making every idea look like shit that they don't even try.
Good article, reading the news the past few months makes it seem like the apocalypse had landed in the US and we are faring worse off than any other nation on the planet wrt covid-19. The reality is quite different, this article from the economist states such[1]*stats taken from May 27th:

"But seven EU countries (including Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain) currently rank above America in their mortality rate. So does Britain, where the official rate is a shocking 559 per million"

[1] - https://beta.trimread.com/articles/22723.
I'm guessing when your parent said "cpu architecture" they meant precisely that and not "instruction set architecture". The ISA is ARM, sure, but the CPU architecture is Apple.
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That accounts for significantly less than half the whole market, and half the mobile and desktop markets if you split it out. If it's also supported by other OS's and headsets and browsers that bring it significantly closer to 100%, then maybe we have something meaningful.
> the single worst change is that you can't see the latest commit status from the repo screen. Instead, you get the commit hash, and have to click a tiny ellipsis button to get the commit message and the status indicator.

Omitting the commit message is a net improvement to me; I've found that the commit message of the random commit that happens to be at top of tree is completely unhelpful for someone browsing the repository, and especially someone new to the project.

However, showing the status indicator inline does indeed seem like a good idea.

That said...

> You cannot see if your default branch has passed CI/status checks now.

If it hasn't passed CI and status checks, it shouldn't be in your default branch.

(There are cases where periodic status checks may get re-run after merging, such as checking if your default branch builds with more recent versions of software than it was originally tested with. But the normal CI and status checks should run before merging.)
Sorry for the frustration guys, this was not meant to be "something to lock people in". The rationale for doing this was to prevent macOS users from going back when scrolling the grid horizontally. I submitted a PR to remove this for now, in the future, we will implement a better solution that does not mess with the History API.
Okay, is just me or does anybody else reduce the screen magnification by 10-20% when companies "refresh" their UIs?
Turns out there's some truth to the story. The native Irish are genetically related to the Basques and people from the Galicia region in Spain.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/genetic-studies-show-our-clo...

The story itself is mostly derived from the Book of Invasions (Lebor Gabála Érenn) and arrival of the Milesians who were Gaelic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn
Populous U.S. Cities, Every Decade Since 1790
Who would I get to round up trick-or-treaters rather than the cops? no one
I met someone our first week of college who chose a CS degree because of Digital Fortress.

It was awkward and I don't think I saw him again past that first week.
Ah yes, a member of the Zoom/Slack WFH class who is not impacted economically whatsoever by a 12-18 month lockdown.
This feels like a huge step back. One of the first very obvious bits has been pointed out numerous times in this thread already: The main panel is shrunk down while various navigation is off in no-man's land.
The number one thing I do on github is read README files and adding a right column just makes the area I use to do that smaller.

The header thing must be a bug, I can't imagine that won't get fixed.
I think it is very probable that there is some amount of racial bias when it comes to police shootings, but police-on-police shootings is not very good evidence in favor of that. Not enough data (26 cases in 30 years), the data is from 40 years ago up until today, and it is a completely different situation that police on civilian.
There was no police violence against Trayvon Martin.
I was prepared to argue with Mr Ireland but he's right.

Just be careful how you word it -- and I'm not sure "relative increase" adds any clarity.

"It's 9.5 times bigger than it used to be."
You're never going to achieve containment with just contact tracing, testing, and politely requesting that people stay at home. People won't comply. Containment requires mandating compliance:

* Forcibly testing people regularly

* Forcibly quarantining people who test positive

* Mandating contact tracing regardless of personal preference

* Imposing travel restrictions on hot spots with actual blockades

* Restricting any gatherings that aren't essential, with "essential" actually meaning essential (grocery stores, pharmacies, hospitals, etc) rather than politically necessary.

* Mandating correct wearing of masks

* Closing borders or requiring quarantine upon entry

In effect, we need to do what China did. We absolutely lack the political will to do that in the US for a variety of reasons, and so we will not be able to approach containment until we get a vaccine.
> The visuals of Mac are vastly superior to any flavor of Linux I've tried.

This is subjective. I think the MacOS UI looks and acts like a toy. My Linux machine has a solarised theme (I can toggle light/dark) with minimal window borders (i3, polybar). I think it's much more tasteful than MacOS. GNOME looks better too and it's themeable, unlike MacOS.
But this is all of course just my opinion.
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines? We've asked you before and you've continued to do it repeatedly (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23496667). This is not cool and will end with us having to ban you. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
I own a Quest and Rift CV1. It's hard to go back to the Rift, even with the extra computing power. It's just a pain to clear enough space, whereas I can be more flexible with where I use the Quest. Plus, the cameras are an eyesore, think I might just take them down.

The resolution on the Quest is better too, and when I really need my gaming PC for some VR title I can always use link with it.

The Quest has a lot of cool titles on it, though I'd be lying if I didn't admit that most of the time it's a Beat Saber machine for me. Beat Saber is fantastic.
Ask HN: How can you completely switch to terminal/console
In the modern era we are we much as focused on GUIs but back in the day everything was done using terminals/console. In the modern era how can we completely switch to terminal and perform our day to day tasks on terminal
>> I don't wish to struggle with technical limitations caused by politics and marketing decisions

So much this. When I depend on proprietary stuff, the care and feeding of licenses and serial numbers and all that stuff never seems to end, and it's shackled to one computer or host name or MAC address or something like that, which changes faster than calvinball.

It's not even about money. Who has time for all that busywork?

If mac platform was freely redistributable and Linux was proprietary, I would switch to mac in a heartbeat even if I hated using it, just to protect my time from doing all that IT stuff :p
I really can't look at a list of items without separating lines, i think it's a basic need.
That also has to change.
I‘m not saying you‘re wrong, but the media wealth statistic are heavily distorted by two facts

1. our retirement systems is based on a generational contract, not capital
2. home ownership is very low

If you control for both the results would look very different. Now #2 obviously causes a huge issue in terms of generational wealth.
We will find a way to fix this and have grid scroll without problems at the same time. This is not a dedicated website. This is exactly the same web console that is packages with our free product. It wasn't meant to run on the internet and confuse people. Sorry
Facebook Gaming is an afterthought that no one takes seriously (kind of like YouTube Gaming) -- for example, you couldn't even stream in 1080p (streams were limited to 720p) until mid 2019! Discord and Zoom have nothing to do with video game streaming and are, at best, tangentially related to the likes of Twitch. It seems like the streaming market is very much saturated because Microsoft took Mixer pretty seriously and it was quite feature-rich.
To me (as a layman) it seems like if you take drastic measures early and get procedures and infrastructure for testing and contact tracing and isolate the sick and those who have been in contact with the sick it’s possible to get it under control so that you can start opening up schools and loosening social distancing rules/guidelines.

Look for example at Norway and Sweden. Norway took drastic measures early and were able to stop the spread to such a degree that schools opened up again after Easter and everything is almost back to normal now. Sweden did not take very drastic measures early and have had massive spread and 20 times more fatalities than Norway and now they have in many regards stricter social distancing rules than than Norway.

After a certain point it seems like you have to either shut down society for a long period of time (Italy) or just let it run its course through society somewhat controlled.
It took me quite some time to get through, but I DID call the New York Times to cancel my membership and share the following note: https://www.mcherm.com/journalistic-ethics.html

Interestingly, the person I reached was initially engaging with me but when I began to describe the reason for cancelling my account he sighed and said, "Oh, That." Clearly I was far from the first person to raise the issue today.
It's not so clear cut. Most places I've worked, we don't build artifacts (docker images, whatever) until there's a merge to master or a tag has been pushed. This automatically means that even though your tests remain green, you still want the status check for the stuff that isn't relevant inside a PR.

For us, if the status is red in master, it doesn't mean the code is wrong, it means something went wrong in the deploy pipeline.
new ux sucks, on a wide screen content is no longer properly centered, horrible left float, right float on different elements of ux vs center box previously on core content elements. ie, it`s a bug not a feature.
My understanding is that that line only refers to VM applications written and compiled for x86, and doesn't stop a VirtualBox (or any other VM provider) from compiling an ARM binary that doesn't require Rosetta.

I don't think this is a policy restriction so much as there not being support for Intel virtualisation technologies that that might rely on.
Paste encrypted bits (mapped to the CJK range he uses) in the "decompress" box and you've got format-transforming encryption.
Yes, 3DOF was a gimmick and lead to the perception that VR was another 3DTV waiting to happen. Turns out "VR" is, 3DOF devices and phone holder VR of the mid-2010s had a similar adoption and failure curve as 3DTV. I didn't really get excited about VR until I tried Vive, as tracked controllers are important also.
Then you have a signed key but you still have to implement the crypto algorithms.
Welcome to tech journalism. This is how it almost always is.
I knew there was a reason I prefer skinny column text! I presume the reason is because it's a smaller leap from end-of-line to beginning-of-next, much less likely for your brain to miss.
Yeah this is the dumbest part of using a Quest right now. No profiles means no separate save data, so I can't differentiate my high scores in Beat Saber from my wife's, which is really annoying.

And then of course in some games with a story mode, if they didn't build in multiple save files into the game then you're just kind of screwed.
Jam tomorrow, but never jam today?

With Intel, I've gotten to the point where I'll only believe their marketing spiel after the hardware ships and the claims are confirmed by third party testing.

However, they did indeed market Ice Lake as a huge GPU improvement.
One thing I've noticed is the better an engineer gets, the better they are at shooting down every idea they see.

This was two jobs ago. Razor sharp developer, could come up with any feature you asked him to. Which was the problem, if ideas didn't originate from him, good freaking luck getting him to work on it. He cost us to miss a few critical deadlines because of his refusal to let other people do their jobs unless it satisfied his demands, company refused to fire him because he had been around so long and carried institutional knowledge about the application but also refused to de-silo himself-thereby making the entire engineering effort dependent on his knowledge.

Guy went from a severely annoying veteran on the team to being given management duties over the team once our old boss retired due to health concerns (irrelevant to the job itself-he just drew a very unlucky health card). I and several other developers were out the door soon after because none of us wanted to report to him.

Company later got acquired. I like to peep in on their "About Us" company roster page every now and then. He's still there. But I've seen 3 different people in three years in my former role reporting to him show up on the roster, and then disappear and then get replaced by a new face.

"People don't quit jobs, they quit bosses".
To add to your complaints, so many narratives designed for kids have such a clear delineation between the good side and the bad side. I'm not sure it's great for kids to be so steeped in the belief that the good and the bad are always and immediately obvious.

Another qualm I have, similar to yours, is the number of kids' shows that focus on "problem-solving" but then have the solution be some sort of magic item they very recently acquired, instead of needing to choose a solution from among several non-obvious solutions. Naturally, it's hard for very young children to follow anything very complicated, but it seems like at the very least, they could not opt for magic when it's entirely unnecessary (if they're trying to teach problem-solving).
Neat, and glad to know about it! I've actually been surprised (and a little frustrated) that there haven't been any alternatives to iCloud Keychain for genuine seamless, e2e encrypted, password management.

Does it actually work the same as Mobile Safari's interface on iOS? Automatically presenting options both for creating and autofilling passwords on webpages? (If it can do that in iOS Firefox, I might consider it...I've been using desktop Firefox for a while because of some bizarre idiosyncratic issues I have with Safari on my laptop, that I can't reproduce anywhere else, but are extremely irritating where they do happen...)
I guess never really analyzed it in depth and just had both. What does E&O miss that a single member LLC protects against (and vice versa)?
Totally agreed. Ninja already peaked in 2018 and is a depreciating asset. Shroud is still going steady but clearly failed to bring in his Twitch numbers to Mixer even with his clout.
Seems like a bug or probably an oversight. Don't think that was intended
If your browser can be hijacked by visiting a webpage, the threat vector is not substantially different whether the website is HTTPS or not. It changes the attack path from a MITM attack to a watering hole attack but that doesn't overly raise the difficulty level.

The real threat in this case was that sending the right string of data to a browser let a malicious actor execute a RCE and install malware. Either you trust the browser to be secure against such attacks or you can't trust much of anything.
Don't forget that you have to explicitly block every host name (including subdomains), if you are using the hosts file method.

For example:

127.0.0.1 reddit.com

127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com
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>> That isn't the cost of free speech. If it was, we wouldn't mind it if teachers taught kids kooky conspiracy theories in school.

> You're not responding to what iamstupidsimple said, you're responding to a straw man.

Yes I am. If we're "free speech extremists" who believe "freedom isn't free. We pay for freedom of speech in whatever tragedy comes from spreading of 'fake news' or whatever because society has generally agreed it's better than tyranny." Why should we tolerate the tyranny of restricting the free speech rights of a conspiracy theorist teacher? Shouldn't we rely on the students' critical thinking and willingly pay the price if it turns out to be inadequate?

> Can we agree there are difference between allowing someone to spread conspiracy theories in public, and paying them to spread conspiracy theories in our schools?

Yes we can, and I was indirectly alluding to that. Free speech means people are allowed to spread conspiracy theories in public, but that doesn't mean society can't recognize conspiracy theories are detrimental and take action to retard their spread (such as the government firing a conspiracy theorist teacher or taking antitrust action against social media platforms). Free speech doesn't mean a particular amplification mechanism has to exist and be tolerated.
Why aren't cell phone tower communications secured? Why aren't cell towers secured with certificates verified by the network? Why aren't stingray devices considered an attack on the cell network?

If stingray devices work by tricking your phone to connect with older protocols like 3G, why aren't those protocols deprecated just like we deprecate older encryption methods that are no longer secure?
And it wouldn't make sense to make any x86 process originating pages actually executable on a page table level anyway, as the CPU can never actually "execute" it, as machine code.
I would venture, insular communities and bad luck. Maybe also something to do with cultural mores around visiting family when sick, or insufficient "how to mask/distance/etc" materials in Spanish.

I think it's like Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (GRID, before it was AIDS). There's no inherent reason that it showed up predominantly in the gay male population, except a) the first superspreader was a gay airline steward (so he had lots of contacts with the gay community all over the country), and b) gay men were enjoying the fruits of their sexual revolution.

If you think about it, monogamy is basically an extreme form of "sexual distancing", and so a non-monogamous community is much more likely to have an outbreak of an STD. Other non-monogamous communities heavily promote wearing masks (condoms), but as this had been viewed primarily as a way to prevent pregnancy, the gay community did not think it was necessary.
Just as a thought experiment, it could be that lesser crimes are not reported because the police don't take them seriously, which leads to more criminals committing major crimes, which are mostly reported.

By lesser crimes I don't mean trivial things that provide an excuse to harass non-criminals and give "broken window" policing a bad name, but actual crimes which aren't major violent crimes.