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Allow me to add one of my own: Journalists' jobs aren't to share their "concerns", it's to report the facts. So much of the media's pathology is a result of the problem that news doesn't even try to be impartial anymore.

If you want to "share your concerns", the place to do that is an op-ed, or a blog post, or twitter, or something. But it isn't journalism anymore.
Being that this is Hacker News, and thinking completely off the top of my head...

I fixed my sleep apnea by sleeping with an oxymeter on. When breathing was obstructed, my blood oxygen dropped. The oxymeter beeped and woke me up. I changed positions, and went back to sleep, ultimately changing sleep habits to the point that I can get through most nights without awakening. I was able to avoid using a CPAP that way.

Perhaps a muscle tension sensing device, such as https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13723
could serve a similar function. Place the sensors on your jaw muscles while you sleep (may only need to be one of them) and if you clench, it beeps or buzzes and wakes you up. May take some inventiveness to integrate it with power and alert, and then to get it comfortable enough to sleep in. And you'd want to avoid any cords that could wrap around you.

It may not lead to a cure, but might give you an idea of what's going on when you clench at night.
You can still inhale and swallow it, internally it is more harmful than beta or gamma.
I know what you mean. One of the first things I looked into when trying out Unreal was Version Control. The amount of hoops I had to jump through just to get things on git made me reach the exact same conclusion you did.
Just read that the payday loan default rate is 6% same as credit cards? Which is extraordinary.

Wonder why a company wouldn’t offer to advance paychecks to workers, take a say 3% fee to pay 2 weeks early and pocket that fee.
I can develop a software for free, the costs are decreasing from my pov.
No-one’s saying it worked, as such (what would this even mean?) But it arguably didn’t cause the sort of rapid chaos (breakdown of supply chains swiftly followed by social order) that conventional wisdom says this sort of thing should.

At least in places where COVID has been largely suppressed now, the second time round shouldn’t be as economically shocking as the first; there’ll be way more focus on the test-and-trace approach that we just weren’t set up for in February. I would be somewhat worried about places where it was never really suppressed when it spikes again, though.
I looked into the differences between the 8086 and 8088 because the 8086 was selected for most designs when the 8088 was already available.

Turns out the 8088 has less compute power. I think all Intel chips since than have higher numbers if they are more powerful, not if they are more recent.
> Because when the cost is essentially zero it's okay to be a little overzealous with our prevention efforts.

We can impose all sort of inconveniences on society in the name of saving lives. Why not just wear masks 24/7/365 since it's "free"? Think of all the public health issues that would solve.

I for one am sick of having foggy glasses any time I'm inside a store.
I recently got a mouthguard that sits on my bottom set of teeth and prevents me from closing my jaw entirely, which I wear while sleeping. It helps a lot. I wake up with my jaw muscles feeling loose rather than tight and tender.
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Before you upgrade to Mint 20 ----

If you are running mysql 5.7 in Mint 19, update your databases to be compatible with mysql 8.0 before you change to Mint 20.

That mainly means changing your engine to InnoDB instead of MyISAM, and the character set to utf8mb4 from latin1.

Oh, and I prefer MATE. But I just installed Cinnamon and then installed MATE using Synaptic. All working well.
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Viruses tend to get less deadly over time. There are scientific reasons for this (ie the people most in danger die off earlier, or social adaptations favour spread by more benign strains over the killers). I expect the second wave to be more widespread but result in fewer deaths. The economic impact is more dependent on how we handle the crisis. If we handle it badly, ie how we are now, it will be worse than if we take the more mature approach.
Any financing scheme that charges interest is a scam. We've known this for thousands of years, but people don't learn.
Is it possible to make fonts smaller to resemble old.reddit.com? My perception field is vastly larger than the amount of text displayed (i.e. my brain can search for keywords without actually consciously focusing on them).
Not really. The yellow press has been creating violent controversies ever since the printing press was invented.

That they have moved on from urging the burning of heretics and infidels alive to making sure racists and bigots can't afford food and shelter is progress of a sort, but not one I would have chosen.

Still I might be speaking too soon. I wouldn't put it past them to reinvent the 30 Years War over which race is more virtuous for more clicks.
One of the core foundations of our entire civilization is a cliche to you?

And it is handcuffs. Literally. It's a judicial order.
I"ve lived in all 3 of those countries (although have never worked for the police). My experience is just as your friend describes.

The cops in Oz are truly awful! There was a recent scandal where cops were strip-searching teenage girls just for fun. Cops there will also spend more time fining people on bicycles that don't have a bell, than they would in any important crimes.

It differs a bit by state. Apparently NSW and Vic have it worst, although QLD is right up there. Of course in the nation's capital, Canberra, they have the soft ones.
What is your threshold of acceptable mortality before you will accept nonzero inconvenience?
Another: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire
The problem with Reddit isn’t the technology. I mean, yes open source is good, and I want more of that. Even Android is a good thing even if only one company actively contributes to it. At least when you hit a bug or don’t understand how something works, you can go read the code. But the problem with Reddit is community management, and re-writing it won’t solve that.

Reddit has been a mostly free for all in terms of moderation, and it is explicitly set up to allow thought bubbles, which gives rise to communities that dox activists, that incite violence, that promote conspiracy theories, etc. I love Reddit’s good parts and really detest its bad parts. Problem is that you can only solve that with strong application of content guidelines, or by not even pretending to be a good place a la 4chan. There is no model as far as I’ve seen, not even an academic one, that allows for mostly moderation free or self-moderated content while also not prominently featuring at least one neo-Nazi group using it to communicate and coordinate.
Thank you. Yes, that was my point.
Well, don't know what we don't know. We DO know that 10M people have had it, and 500K have died. That's 5%. We're still guessing everything else.
Why would we (assuming you mean the US) have to pay for this with our taxes, who do we owe the money to? The US issues it’s own currency and we printed money to keep the economy afloat. We don’t owe that debt to anyone?

The only reason extra taxes would be needed is to curb inflation.
I had exactly what you describe, with similar root causes. A 360 degree x-ray showed uneven wear of the jaw bone at the condyles (where lower jaw meets upper jaw)

One set of botox injections into the masseter muscles completely solved this. About $250 (a cosmetic type procedure performed by doctor). It has never returned, it’s been about 3 years.
Well... Both of those causes are bought with lives. So by reducing the number of cases and deaths, we may also have reduced the amount that the virus has attenuated.
This is the reason I love Pico-8, and have never really been into other "fantasy consoles". Pico-8 embraces the spirit of the old 8-bit systems (not just the aesthetic) where there are "hardware" secrets that you can discover and abuse. The limitations mimic that of old systems: there are several ways to access memory, multiple ways to do the same things - with tradeoffs to each. If you want to do something crazy, you have to really know the machine and think outside the box.

It's all artificial constraints (though you can easily make good games with resorting to tricks) - but these kinds of old-school easter-eggs make Pico-8 just, joyful!
Thanks for the RWT link, I had missed that discussion back then. I normally assume that store-store reordering is not a huge deal as the store buffer hides any latency and blocking, but I failed to appreciate that the store buffer filling up is an issue.

But which architectures do not actually drain the buffer in order in practice? Even very relaxed RISCs (including ARM) normally respect causality (i.e. memory_order_consume) and it seems to me that if, say, an object pointer is made visible before the pointed object, that can violate this guarantee, right?

You say that Apple CPUs show near unlimited MLP, do you have any pointers?
> Email must die. No buts or ifs. It must die. You are a poor or ignorant engineer and architect if you build new things that depend on email in 2020.

You have three fingers pointing back at yourself
Yes. In this discussion and on Reddit, people still talk about binary vs textual as the source of the problem, but I've argued (based on empirical data) that the lexical details are not the reason for the performance problems.

Also, Swift is marketed as a fast language (also based on LLVM), yet in my measurements it's 20x to 50x slower than Rust for JSON processing. I found that surprising. Would you not?
The question was "The FPU instruction set is the same", to which the response my response is correct, the same architecture can have different ABIs on different systems.

For example on osx it is 80bit ieee, but on win64 it is a 64bit ieee.

That ABI difference means that having the same instruction set is not the only thing that matters.
The question is, was this a free lunch then, or will it be paid for via inflation?
I like the distributed nature of git, the ability to make local commits, jump airgaps with bare repos, submodules, shallow clones, all kinds of silly things I suppose. I won't lie, I don't have a ton of experience with subversion, but whenever I've used it, it felt incredibly limiting.
Yup, I've visited the site and walked up to the reactor face! I think the thing about Church Rock that struck me was the absolute negligence demonstrated throughout. There's certainly neglect at Hanford, but to my understanding none of that is due to the design of it when it was active.
Your response is flawed. Not wearing a mask is not an essential liberty.

And yes, if large numbers of Americans don't wear masks, that will kill more people than would die if we all wore our masks. It's not theater.
I know this is the line of argumentation for MMT but it's _very_ sneaky to do that without saying so :(
bit of a difference between educating people about nazism vs. giving actual neo-nazis a space to use for communication and recruitment.
Helm does not respond to input STOP
Have tried colorful language and strong drink STOP
Crew annoyed STOP
Abandoning ship STOP
It's not. The point is that antagonists of nuclear power need scary scenarios to make it effective, and "poisoning tons of people that you don't care about" isn't one of them.
> This could be the end of cruel factory farms and the resurgence of smaller, healthier and more humane farming.

It could also cement their lead, as there's less signalling to be had when eating at home - so fewer reasons to buy "high-status" food - and easier to compare prices and see what that status costs you. The true believers will continue, but will it be easier or harder for that belief to spread?
Setting your heading seems to be one of the main points of the game, so it's not a bad way to make sure all players know how it works.
This is nonsense. There have been multiple studies where everyone in a place was tested to eliminate the dark figure.
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> Then at best you’ll inevitably have some users who lack the know-how or time to set up their own instance.

Yes, and those users will use managed services, something that the "principled" decentralized community (not your keys, not your money/not your identity/etc) is completely against and invariably leads to re-centralization of the system around market players that go to serve this market. Case in point: Github, Coinbase, MtGox, Signal, any of the big cloud providers...

> At worst, federated systems often link identity to home instance

Why? I can have a domain name and move email providers freely. Same for XMPP, Matrix, websites in general, etc. The identity part of the system can be separate from the service provider.

If anything, this idea is more of an argument against decentralized services. It is an all-or-nothing approach: do you want to run this service with your identity? Great, then you need to be responsible in managing the service and secure your identity.

> Or is running your own instance easy? So easy that anyone can do it?

There is no such thing. Nevermind the case for those simply can not control the hardware where they run their systems, UI/UX of decentralized systems is always an afterthought. Even something as "easy" as bittorrent requires so much of a learning curve that most people simply do not want to be bothered to learn.

Besides, it's not just "running". It's keeping it up. Paying for operational costs. Decentralized systems by definition need to be able to do everything by themselves. There is no way to achieve any kind of economies of scale.

Worst of all: it's not having any one to blame/be responsible for things when it breaks. Oh, you got scammed into downloading a keylogger: fuck you, you lost all of your keys. Oh, you "just" bought something with Bitcoin from a site that seemed legit, but they delivered a counterfeit product? "Consider it an lesson in how to look for things online"

What I am trying to say is that decentralization vs centralization should be considered as a continuous spectrum of choices and trade-offs that need to be made by users. Federated systems allow basically everyone to be whatever is best for them on this spectrum, while this "decentralize all the things!" and treating it as binary choice does little to non-technical users and basically guarantees they will be confined in the walled gardens.
Yeah, I accidentally left that out of my comment. I agree though, inflation is what we need to be careful of.

I don’t like the rhetoric that we will need to pay it back in taxes though because I find it misleading. The real is inflation, not some debt to be paid.
Inflation is too much demand chasing too little supply. If the money printing simply replaced missing demand, should we expect any inflation?
Judging by your post history, you should seek therapy instead.
We also have a society that requires clothing. And that doesn't even KILL people. Yet we handcuff -> jail nudists anyway. One major exception is pretty much 97% of the state of Oregon, where that is 100% legal.
> This could be the end of cruel factory farms and the resurgence of smaller, healthier and more humane farming.

Yes, well, you're going to have to show me the math. We eat incredibly well, with decent nutrition (could be better, yes), 365 days a year. On a modest expenditure. Modern agriculture is sufficiently productive that world hunger is a distribution problem, not a production problem. I would like to see improvements in soil management and reductions in chemical usage, certainly, but new production practices you suggest need to pencil out.

If you are going to argue for market forces driving us to smaller farm operations, you need to show me the math. Show me how we get there. And make a net improvement in nutrition for everyone. Without inconveniencing the city dwellers that have forgotten that the phrase "seasonal produce" used to exist.

Go grow some food. Keep good records, and share the results with us.
When it comes to disease, all progress is bought with lives. We learn by our mistakes, at least we should. Those mistakes do mean dead people. But we still have to act.
Is it just me, or is it a little silly to compare the 1919 world economy pre-mass production/consumerism with today?

The irony to most of this shutdown is that "essential" businesses are still open. What the Great Pause has exposed is the shallowness and fragility of mass production/consumerism. During the pandemic of 1919, 80-90% of household income was spent on food and essential needs.

Can you even imagine if we spent 80-90% of our income on essential needs? Well shit, we wouldn't hurt so much when non-essential business was put on pause, that's for sure.
I don’t need to have a discussion with a guy who beats his wife because he never got help for his PTSD to know it’s wrong. Giving it a platform treats it like a point of view and not a gross fucking crime.

I don’t need to talk to a Nazi to know that gassing Jews and gays is wrong.

People seem to think that there are some unexplored ideas here that merit further discussion. We have already established that this shit is not what we want. Those in doubt can read accounts of domestic violence victims or a couple of history books to educate themselves.
> The trade-off is that when you run your own instance you have to then attract users to it for it to be useful, which burdens others.

This really depends on the design. Email is "federated" but that doesn't require you to get anybody else to use your email server in order for you send or receive emails with them.

What I'd kind of like to see is a system that separates hosting and accounts from moderation.

So you have a host, like email, and a username on the host. Then you have a forum, which has operators/moderators (who are users), but the forum is host-independent. Maybe it only actually runs on a specific host at a given time, but the operators can move it without anybody noticing and anybody can use it regardless of who their own host is.

It makes it so you can be a forum operator without having to be a host.
To do what without saying so?
I am loving this PinePhone concept and PostmarketOS it because it’s cheap, but because it’s right, safe, user owned and secure OS is what everyone who spends their money deserves.
So the complaint is that this loses half a bit of precision on average? Is that a lot?
We will also pay for it in cuts to social services, especially at the state and municipal levels, unless we raise taxes to pay for those too.
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Such a strong tarp!
Inflation caused by currency debasement is a flat tax, which is comparatively regressive. It raises the prices of all items faster than wages, and everyone has to buy food, buy electricity, etc.

Someone will have to pay.
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If you are making multiple copies of a private key in different places, why wouldn't you just keep a different private key in each of those places along with its corresponding public key though?

That way, you can remove trust from just one of them if you (e.g.) have your computer stolen.
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Wow, amazing propaganda.

$1 will actually feed you well even in a city in India. It's cheaper in other Asian and African cities.

While paltry in developed countries, getting to $1 a day was a big problem and developing countries in Asia are rapidly pioneering the change.
You're kidding, right? This "engineering" of the economy has put tens of millions of people out of work and destroyed many small and medium businesses, and that was only after a couple of months! Imagine how bad things would be if we locked down for an entire year.
Maybe at the federal level, but state and local governments cannot print money. They will need to raise taxes to cover thier costs.
It has mostly hit the internet mind-brain because of tacticool cops larping has gun toting heros.
Discussed at the time (ish): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2574275
Sorry, either you don't understand the concept of federation, or you are bullshitting me.

I can run a single-user Mastodon instance and follow people from any other instance. They can follow me as well. I can send emails from my personal server to anyone on gmail, and vice-versa.

Where do I need to "attract other users" to my instance? It's quite the opposite!
If demand stayed constant while supply decreased because fewer people were working, yes I would expect inflation.
doesn't id return the address of the pointee?
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There's a lot I agree with about this article in terms of the analysis itself, but I'm amused at the idea that this level of control is a dream of the "the radical left and radical right." The economy / world order we have requires significant amounts of regulation and control. We fear, for instance, China's disrespect of intellectual property law precisely because respect for intellectual property isn't an emergent artifact of a free market; it requires a complex and well-funded legal system with an equally well-funded enforcement arm. An economy where copyright and patent and trademark and trade secret law are effective may be a "living organism," but it's a manicured lawn with a trimmed hedge, not an old-growth redwood forest. You can prefer its shape and appreciate its beauty, of course, but be sure to ascribe agency appropriately.

And that's the real thing the centrists don't want the radicals to realize - that the center is where it is because of careful pruning and grafting, that in so many things from immigration and work visas to tax policy to trust funds to zoning to policing to military spending to labor law to (as the article mentions) how we deal with the homeless and the destitute, we're not taking a natural or default position in any meaningful sense, we're taking the current position, and working hard to keep things that way. The radicals aren't wrong simply because they are radicals and they demand change, so don't argue simply that their position is infeasible, or you may find that it's not as infeasible as you thought. Argue, if it's true, that their position is morally in the wrong. (And "Your proposals will certainly lead to economic collapse and suffering" is really an argument about feasibility.)

Another world is possible. For those who benefit from the current one, that's a scary thought. It's a thought that's driven countless restorationist or reactionary movements through history, from the Confederates to the Bourbons to Tokugawa to the well-funded fall of communism - but they fight so hard because they know that the other world can actually survive.
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Inflation is not a given, though. Governments issuing stimulus payments != inflation, at least not necessarily.
> It's kind of hypocritical ... ridicule the first rube

That's why I always ridicule the mars colonization and alien contact scifi fanbois on HN, who actually believe in that nonsense.

Here's a question for them. The History channel used to have documentaries, but now it has alien fiction videos. Is that your fault?
Like many liberals, I thought it was a fact that US wages had stagnated in the past 40 years. And rich were the only beneficiaries. But in fact the median income has steadily risen:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_Unite...

So I ask HN, why has this narrative become so widespread?
I work with the FDA as a part of my job and I disagree they are overly risk adverse. When we previewed our development plan with the FDA, they actually asked us "can't you move faster?". When a safety signal showed up, they were more than willing to work with us to develop a protocol to reduce the risk while still providing patients with drugs.

I don't disagree that the FDA is very concerned about safety, but in situations where there is a very strong need, the FDA is willing to move quickly and accept a level of risk.