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I don't understand how any developer can willingly use a Mac these days. When you buy a Mac, you don't own it.

I have a similar idea about services like Amazon Lambda; why would developers build apps tightly integrated with a product that they don't own.

Most millennials these days own nothing because they keep perpetually accepting their position as 'renters' through every decision they make.
Hahahahahaha good luck
They are plainly not capable of it (anymore).
You are wrong, there's nothing indicating that PUFAs are as problematic as sugar or even problematic at all, on the contrary the evidence we have show they are beneficial.

It concerns me that your comment is the top voted, as it can lead to dangerous dietary extremism, say avoiding all PUFAs which are among other things implicated in helping the immune system "Paracrine interactions between adipose and lymphoid tissues are enhanced by diets rich in n-6 fatty acids and attentuated by fish oils. The latter improve immune function and body conformation in animals and people. The partitioning of adipose tissue in many depots, some specialised for local, paracrine interactions with other tissues, is a fundamental feature of mammals."https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15946832/

1. You shouldn't just throw in links to "support" your claims - to me this shows you don't understand what you're talking about, you should cite the relevant text otherwise it's just hand waiving.

The studies you cite are about radicals generated from PUFAs that are naturally a part of cell membranes, not from diet, and even goes against your claim by saying that PUFAs from diet help generate antioxidants that eliminate such radicals.

"Any change in the cell membrane structure activates lipoxygenases (LOX). LOX transform polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) to lipidhydroperoxide molecules (LOOHs)." i.e. cell membranes naturally have PUFAs."..."In order to remove LOO* radicals, plants and algae transform PUFAs to furan fatty acids, which are incorporated after consumption of vegetables into mammalian tissues where they act as excellent scavengers of LOO* and LO* radicals." - hey eating PUFAs help cells make radical scavengers. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17914157/

2. Omega-3 is a polyunsaturated fats - yes they are less stable than SFAs, but that probably does not matter at all unless you're eating rancid oils. Polyunsaturated fats are not "extremely" reactive either whatever you mean by that.

Then we know that diets rich in PUFAs and MUFAs have positive effect on cholesterol ratios "We conclude that a mixed diet rich in monounsaturated fat was as effective as a diet rich in (n-6)polyunsaturated fat in lowering LDL cholesterol. "
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2761578/
I think the parent comment implies that generally you cannot avoid human interaction to survive, therefore you cannot separate the beautiful scenery from the hatefulness people bring into the picture.
The Pedestrian Observations blog[0] has a lot of thoughts on this. The content is too long to go into here in depth.

However, the TLDR is that the US (and, to an extent, the rest of the neoliberal world) botches transit and rail transport projects because government agencies lack the in-house capacity for effective management and rely too much on outside consultants whose interests are poorly aligned with those of taxpayers.

Bringing in outside firms to do turnkey rail solutions does not have a good history, generally because non-local prime contractors want to do things the way they do in their home countries, which often isn't economical, or even possible, elsewhere. Bring in a Japanese, Chinese, or European high-speed rail prime contractor and they'll want to build a system using parts that aren't widely available in the US (think metric vs. imperial fasteners and go way up from there), which will make construction and maintenance very expensive.

[0] https://pedestrianobservations.com
(this is not my blog)
Thanks a lot for the reference!

We are an animal species literally growing on fossil fuels.
You know that you could install on mac anything you wanted before appstore, and they were similarly malware free as now with appstore
> This is basically a slippery slope fallacy. Today they're making it marginally hard, what might they do tomorrow?!?

They've been making it marginally harder for years and years and have consistantly announced features that tend towards making it more like iOS.

It is a fallacy when you're signaling the world a roadmap to slide down the slope ?
Outdoor advertising can deepen inequality
It hasn't been worth it to develop for Mac for a good while now.
What's your beef with Azure DevOps? Personally, I love it, and find it far superior to anything else I've tried.
The other consideration is why the government doesn’t just build bridges with government workers.

Nobody gets rich when government workers do something, it’s outsourcing which enables significant wealth transfer from government to private individuals. That creates huge incentives and means it’s those same companies try very hard to influence the rules.
Should be displayed next to this piece that shows the exact place of the sun at any given moment: https://nitzan-ron.com/Pointer
Alcoholism is epidemic proportions among the poor in India - especially among the men, and this does lead to severe poverty.

How Alcohol and Tobacco Cause Poverty
https://thewire.in/health/how-alcohol-and-tobacco-cause-pove...

Impact of alcohol use on poor families: a study from North India
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1465989031000109...
Is aviation actually an example of what you’re describing? Airlines do have legal liability in the event of crashes and it’s the NTSB that investigates.
Is there an OCaml-based stack that a Python/Flask/Postgres guy might enjoy trying out? If not OCaml, what other ML-derived language and what stack?
In a co-op or partnership structure, the workers provide capital and superintendence/control in addition to labor. That's why the workers can get all the profits. And it's also why "pure" co-ops or partnerships are generally restricted to low-capital-intensity businesses - by definition, it's going to be quite hard to raise external capital. You could do it by issuing bonds, but the risk profile is unattractive for all involved.
> Oh come now, there are millions and millions of professionals using macOS to do work every single day.

Wait, have you seen them ? Can you link the source for this claim ?

> seamlessness of owning an Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, AirPods, and a macOS device.

Why do you need this seamlessness ? Is your attention span so short that you forget what you were doing after the first error pops up ?
My recollection: LA to SF is the long term goal.

I'm guessing it's easier to start in that area and it's not "nowhere."

Merced is north of Fresno which is a larger city than many states have at all. It has a half a million people and an international airport.

Bakersfield is also a fairly large city. They are only small by California standards. In most states, either of them would be the biggest or one of the biggest cities in the state.
> I also can't imagine $100 is easy to come up with in countries below level 4[1].

Apple has as low as 0% penetration in those countries. The market has solved this problem. They still use technology; there are alternative platforms. Android, Windows, ChromeOS, KaiOS, and desktop Linux (which has as high as 5% market share in India) are cheap to use and develop for. It was always going to end up this way. There's the brand for the haves and the brand for the have-nots. Although even people on welfare in the United States have iPhones, consider that they're still the elite in global terms.
Google cloud SQL does not prevent you from changing wait_timeout (https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/flags)

However, it seems like innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit is not supported indeed.
Didn't they have a disastrous opening day for Terminal 5 because of mistakes that looked like poor project management?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7322453.stm
I worked for a British taxi company that was developing that kind of app, I developed it. One problem for the company was that their drivers worked for Uber at the same time as them. They were freelancers, not employed by either firm. They had two phones one for receiving jobs from the taxi firm and the Uber one. We had to trust that they weren't doing both at the same time. I think they used Uber to give them work during periods when it was quiet for my firm.

Does this double working happen in the USA?
Thanks for sharing.

It's unclear from reading the site : does it offer anything more than `dd` would allow, or is the added value primarily to be a ready to use interface for those less used to unix tools?
Thank you.

One of the possibilities of teleoperation, labor arbitrage to low-cost countries, and a response by regulators, to protect the local labor force and only allow them to run remotely operated jobs.

Does it still makes ecojomic sense to use teleoperation extensively in this case ? Are there any new efficiencies besides in-country wage differences ?
Could this really become a big job category in the future ?
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> What's point of having UBI if you have less money than you started out with.

It'd only be less money for some, not for all. Since UBI is largely a redistribution scheme, you'll have to test what happens to those who are supposed to fund it as well. Are they happy? Will they move out of your jurisdiction? Do they stop working as much and rely on UBI instead?

These are important questions we need answered before we roll out UBI at large. If it turns out that everybody who's not profiting from UBI says their good byes and leaves for other countries, you'll have nothing to fund the UBI, and likely nobody to produce any goods either.
In retrospect I regret my phrasing, but I cannot change it now.

Still, I have a point. The comment I was replying to contains lots of disconnected insinuations dropped casually. Including apparently that he has had people try to kill him.

You cannot casually mention these things in a rambling monologue without sounding crazy. And discussions with crazy people on the internet are hardly ever fruitful.

So working on improving how you communicate to ensure people don’t completely dismiss what you say is a valuable exercise.
If only we had an operating system that we could install on our computers freely, right?

It is a shame that people are forced to buy a computer and not reformat the disk to install their OS of choice. It is a shame that we can not take the money that we could be saving and investing in open alternatives...
How do they account for this?

a 0.0000001% chance of destroying 99.99% of current species for example?

How do we measure how much we don't know about the environment?

It seems to me we play pretty fast and loose when it comes to such things, often just because we want to spread new things as far and wide as fast as possible.

I don't really understand how anything other than very careful and very slow introduction of such things can possibly be considered in any way safe. e.g. find a place you can try your new pesticide or whatever that you think will minimise the interaction with wider ecosystem. model the whole thing. run this for at least 50-100 years, if at any point it doesn't match your model, slam on the breaks til you can explain it (including it spreading more or less than you thought it would to other species and locations).

It like we have inherited an app that runs our entire way of life that has billions of lines of code with no documentation but some are happy with applying patches without UAT, parallel run or backout procedure.
> For example, if I can click and drag, I do not need `transient-mark-mode`, a tricky modality in our "non-modal" editor

transient-mark-mode just allows you to see what you're selecting. If you don't have it you don't see what's being selected until you release the mouse. You need that more with a mouse than a keyboard.
> whether is a part of their official job duties I don’t know

Certainly. From what I've read here on HN you basically can't publish a line of code (or even star things on Github) ob your own, presumably for secrecy reasons.
Jesus. All HN covid threads read like teenage internet trolls have taken over. No sources for claims and full of outrageus anecdotes. In my country its usually people living off the state that comment like this.
Given that the circumference of the Earth for a given latitude is easily approximate to cos(latitude) * 40000 km you can fly around 60 degrees north or south and be comfortably on the cruising speed of a 787 (~800 km/h).
Even if I ignore the clickbaity wording of the link, I can’t read the text on the website properly as its left margin is clipped on mobile.
So they're shipping a proprietary version of bash?
> confidence building

Being picked last for every team ever wasn't great for that. It was humiliating, time after time. But worse was then being bullied in the compulsory showers every time for supposedly wanting to have anal sex with everyone, I guess because I was into music and science, not sport. Although, outside school, I was in weekly soccer, basketball and sailing competitions, and did a lot of kayaking, windsurfing, table tennis, roller skating, swimming, bike riding, tennis, handball etc etc. I can hardly believe how sporty I was compared to now, yet still was considered super-unsporty!

Ah this is another dismissive comment I guess. Maybe people like me are over-represented here! (And who this "HN crowd" I read about? Everyone but you?) I reacted to your language, I think - you presented yourself as just pointing out a fact, when you got dismissive comments from a tough crowd without your level of knowledge and understanding.
Let's just use RTGs instead! A gram of Polonium-210 produces 140W of heat. It's also an almost entirely alpha emitter, which means that little shielding is required. At about a 10% efficiency of an RTG you could effectively get 14W out of a single gram of it. A 737-300 seems to require about 7-10 MW of energy at level flight. Put 1 ton of Pu-238 onto a 737-300 and you can run the aircraft (probably) for 6-7 months without refueling. Okay, you probably need a smaller aircraft, because takeoff takes more energy, but still!

While Polonium-210 is incredibly toxic, it does have a half-life of 138 days. If you do have a crash then in <8 years you'd only have about a gram of it left.

The main tricky part is that we produce about 100 grams of it a year. But what's a little scaling up for a startup anyway?

(I'm sure I made a calculation error here somewhere.)
Waw really amazing work! Love it!
42 (YC W14) Is Hiring Software Engineers (Remote) – JavaScript/Python
This is excellent, I wonder how to reach such a level of understanding.
This is an interesting take on things.

Decompressing using a different algorithm like .bz2 or .xz is noticeably slower, so sticking with gz and shuffling the files might split the difference.
One thing I learnt from my 'competition' was that code quality really does not matter to end users, whether the code is clean and perfect or a spaghetti mess, so long as it works end users don't know or care.
You know, I grew up in USSR.
There were no western made cars, only soviet ones: Ladas (based on 40 years old FIAT), Volgas, the dreaded Moskvich or Zaporozhets. Volgas were for the elite and not really accessible for the ordinary citizens, so Lada was it. And it seemed to be a fine car—because you did not know any better. Yes you had to reassemble it yourself after you bought one to make sure it does not fall apart on the road, but otherwise the seemed fine.
That's till the USSR collapsed and western old cars markets got accessible. Almost all soviet cars were replaced by the old, mostly German, ones. Why? Because poeple saw the differenece. And the saw that even 15-20 years old Audi, BMW or Opel were still waaay better than brand new soviet crap.
So yeah, there are thing that may seem fine till you hava a chance to compare them to the truly fine.
The socialist solution is actually centralized planning over multiple industry sectors. The workers would be paid profits from a huge, diversified conglomerate, mot merely the one industry sector that they happened to be working in. Of course, this leads to all the known drawbacks of central planning.
Yes, exactly right and well put.

It's always difficult to jump into online discussions about economics because you need to give the entire econ 101 micro course in single comment just to make sure everyone is talking about the same thing.
Well this happens if you rely only on 3rd party providers. My email server is still running without any issues and without any indecent for last 3 years (system reinstall).

Surely no one can send me emails now that gmail is down as most of world is relying on single point of failure, but this is another story.

Moral of this story is - always own your mission critical infrastructure.
I disagree, you can automatically expose any unsafe function with a wrapper _safe function that does nothing more than call the former (possibly also wrapping fundamentally unsafe types in arguments and return values) which makes it appear safe but that doesn’t make it sane.

There would need to be domain understanding baked into each wrapper and some contract about what is happening on the other side of the ffi wall for it to qualify as both safe and sane, and I’m not sure their approach meets that high burden.
Azure DevOps, dotnet core, WSL/WSL2, SQL Server on Linux, Typescript, Powershell Core (OK, so I honestly don't like Powershell, but many do), Visual Studio (I prefer Rider, but VS is great great), Windows 10 (yes, I love it), Azure DevOps (yes, I love it, unless I have to work with one of the poorly documented services), Xbox One...
What does a dentist do for a root canal?
The dentist after figuring our the exact teeth which is infected, find out the exact condition of the teeth and tell you if you need root canal. The teeth is removed along with the nerve and pulp. The inside portion is sealed properly so that infection cannot grow or cause damage to more teeth. Visiting the dentist will help with a lot of things.
https://stoneybrook.dental/
Gmail accessible via IMAP at $undisclosed_location. SMTP send works, but sent messages reappear in the inbox rather than in sent mail.

Haven't tested the Gmail web interface. I don't use it.
> I'll switch to another platform

What makes me sad is there is nowhere to switch to seamlessly.

The writing has been on the wall since gatekeeper was introduced, but we stayed because there is just no better option. Some options are viable, but require sacrificing a decent chunk of the comfort we have now. It's the eternal waiting for the "year of desktop linux" except we moved the goalpost to laptop linux, battery performance, commercial third party support etc.

The funny thing being that people who didn't have these frictions already switched and will say "just do it, it's easy". But we won't have a choice anyway.
Someone living in a HCOL area who happens to have bought their house before the price inflation era, would have a high wealth figure but unable to do anything with said wealth. Australia has high house prices.
I’m sure it depends what you’re doing - our cluster is medium-largeish, I’d guess (wish there was more info on the clusters that are out there!). Several hundred big EC2 instances, all NVMe, billions of documents, indexes in the terabytes, high update rate in addition to inserts. It requires fairly active management and optimization. We might just be outside of the sweet spot for the AWS offering.
The Opposition at all levels is just crushed to suit the populist narrative. In a world powered by fake news, the populist and majoritarian belief and narrative becomes the truth, and this drives the nation and society further towards right-wing mindset, and any opposition/contrarian views just keep diminishing - out of fear, delegitimacy and ignorance as they now form just a real minute segment of the whole.
>> still worth doing

This is really the point I’m wrestling with.

For example, I’m persuaded by Taleb’s criticism of Value At Risk models, VAR.

Plenty of people still value the use of VAR although it’s common to concede Taleb’s point that VAR claims to do the impossible - characterise rare events. The justification is simply, well what else would we do? There is sufficiently advanced use of VAR that people are willing to ignore the broken foundation.

I just can’t accept that we should continue blindly because in many day to day cases the model seems sound, even though we’re aware it’s fundamentally broken and we can’t detect when it broke until after the event.
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What do they even do in that building? It's a cable - does it need to be manned? guarded?
Terminate busboy from reading more request with unpipe() and work queue
This article is based on assumptions of global and local ecosystem health. Quantifying ecosystem health is fascinating, important and very difficult. Etymologically, health is based on wholeness. In classical Greek philosophy, health is harmony, which can be defined as integrated diversity. Can we therefore measure the diversity and integrity of ecosystems? Bio-Diversity measures in ecosystems seem easy, but are actually quite complicated (two species of pine the same as pine and oak, or pine and rare moss?) — and measures of ecosystem integrity are even harder. But not hard as in impossible, hard as in more scientists should be working on it. Here's one recent paper.

Vieweger, A., & Döring, T. F. (2015). Assessing health in agriculture–towards a common research framework for soils, plants, animals, humans and ecosystems. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 95(3), 438-446.
I highly recommend Kubuntu. It looks ugly initially but you can customize it to look really good. There is even an OSX theme that you can download.
you didn't read the part in the abstract where it says " - qua computation - ". This author is trotting out the same old reflex that a computer (any computer, with any algorithm) can never "understand" something because it's "not conscious" because it's "not alive". It absolutely is philosophically equivalent to positing a spirit, because when you start drilling down into what's different between a brain and a (general) computer.. that's all you'll have left.