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That isn't what's being discussed here. This is the case of artificial amplification of opinion.

One person : one opinion seems a fair goal.

Posting all day about something as yourself is very different than running a network of accounts.
Without AMD I could be enjoying Itanium nowadays.
I recently purchased an adjustable height workbench from Home Depot. I'm in the process of designing a subblememtal top so I can use it as an adjustable height desk (standing desk / regular desk).

I opted for with drawers but that might have been a mistake. I'll know soon.

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That's not what this article is about, at all.
Right now in the UK, the basic testing infrastructure is more-or-less world class as far as I can tell, with a level of testing that's basically unprecedented outside of the US (though some other European countries are catching up over the last few weeks) - it's still having trouble coping right now, but that seems to be the case throughout Europe and elsewhere too. That is very much not the impression you'd get from the media. They keep pushing stupid narratives like the UK needing South Korea-style mass testing when in reality the UK is testing about an order of magnitude more people for Covid, and South Korea charges most people with symptoms for testing in order to discourage them from getting tested and using up the limited capacity whilst the UK tests for free.

Also, the government also seems to be working on the testing infrastructure - from what I can tell, the problem is that as it turns out that things like expanding testing capacity has a lot of lead time, and the capacity expansion is a couple of weeks later than it ideally should have been.
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I see. Well, we cannot say whether life or intelligent life is rare. There could be millions of worlds with civilizations like ours and it wouldn't be that strange we missed it.

However, it does seem that the Milky Way is not collonised (not even the other galaxies as far as we can tell), and if that's truly the case, then it would suggest that there is some kind of filter barring all civilizations from ever doing it.

I consider interstellar travel not ever being viable a legitimate filter.

Of course there is a plethora of other solutions as well.
RISC architecture is gonna change everything!
Chelsea Manning still needed Wikileaks to help bring out the truth, the rape allegations were just that, a total smear it seems, and not rooted in fact.

Regardless of his political leanings, he's an important journalist who ought to be celebrated for revealing some very uncomfortable facts.
Why would you say that?

On macOS, I can easily upgrade my nginx homebrew package, (same with httpd) each of them have like 2 dependencies and I don't think I ever had a conflict when doing so. Granted, not easy on windows, but see my comment about terminal ;-)
My sympathy definitely disappeared for the same reasons, but lately I have realized that it's still important to make sure he gets a just trial and is not prosecuted for publishing leaks.
No less than any paper funded by any organisations in China, which are rabidly anti-anything-that-could-reflect-badly-on-the-government.
I've certainly felt that he has been unfairly attacked, maligned and smeared over time and thus I've become a lot more sympathetic to his case.
I do think there's a strong case that committing an administrative crime of leaking information in order to expose a far more serious crime is a moral act. In general.
In every conversation like this I always bring up Cathy O'Neil's excellent Weapons of Math Destruction (https://www.bookdepository.com/Weapons-of-Math-Destruction-C...). I think it's an ethical must read for anyone in tech.
Usually remote means US only for US based remote companies.
I sometimes, for debugging purposes, need to type some long, obscure hex string in one editor from another machine (don't ask). Using a keystroke to switch windows causes me to lose my place. A two-screen solution would be helpful in this case.

Also, sometimes I like to play music videos on youtube while doing other stuff and it would be nice not to have to context switch away from the concert. Really, there are quite a few handy applications for a separate physical display.

I use my phone in a cradle as a second screen but it's not ideal.
What do you think of reading biased texts or texts with a slant; do you need to be aware of it and compensate, is it fine to read it and just reflect over what the text says (without a priori guessing which way the story is leaning)?
I think you're just conflating two quite different approaches. The US, for example has ordered 150m tests in it's latest deal - or enough to test half the US population. The UK is announcing a project to do 10m tests per day - or about the whole UK population in a week. The NYT currently has this infographic [1] about whether states are testing enough and whilst it varies depending on how the states are doing, but no one is close to suggesting that they need 15,000 tests per capita per day - it's in the hundreds per capita per day.

Also, there's just an obvious messaging side to this - the plan is being deliberately amplified in the UK with "leaked" documents claiming the plan is incredibly difficult and using technology that needs to be invented, but let's use their analogy - the moonshot. The moonshot required genuine new technology to be invented, it took the best part of a decade. Suggesting that you're going to invent new technology for a problem you're also claiming to solve within 3 months is just not credible.

[1]:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-test...
in the mid-00's I felt like this aged very poorly.. but now?
A tiling window manager.
It's a pretty bad syntax.

A demonstration of a declaration statement where the asterisk operator binds to an identifier rather than to a type:

int my_int, *my_ptr, my_other_int;

A demonstration of a different declaration where the asterisk operator does not bind to an identifier, as an identifier isn't even needed:

extern void my_function(int*, char*);

So the real answer is that it depends on what you're doing. Terribly clunky.

Interestingly the D programming language mostly keeps C's syntax, but handles multiple declarations differently. https://dlang.org/spec/declaration.html#declaration_syntax
The rape allegations have never seen a court and should not be dismissed as a smear. Given how these things usually pan out, Cosby and Weinstein passim, I believe they are more likely true than not.
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It’s not just a problem with unsafe GET requests, it’s a problem for anyone who’s unfortunate enough to work in a company who logs web traffic (which was common practice back in the 90s / early 00s) and who happened to stumble on a site that might have hyperlinks to warez or porn (which, basically, could be any site with user generated content).

I remember hearing several stories about employees getting reprimanded for accessing sites they never intended to visit.

I also know of a similar tail when a national football team had their DNS hijacked and visitors were served porn instead of sports news (also happened around 2000 sort of time)
The soundtrack still holds up.
Time for a reboot then!
If your hard drive has bad blocks it really needs to be replaced, it cannot be trusted. You should never have to deal with this.

I don't understand the mentality of dealing with bad blocks in the first place.

Storing data is easy. Storing data reliably is a whole other thing.
... or you could just use TeamViewer or any other screensharing software without all the hassle if you really think that using a RDP is a "second monitor".
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Sketchy evidence? Tell me more. I look forward to your thoroughly-cited refutation of the paper’s main claims.
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Our computer room had emergency breathing masks on the wall , asked why it was there I was informed about the halon gas fire suppression system.

Needless to say whenever I was there I kept having flashbacks to the first Resident Evil movie.
> they literally control all communication in the country behind a tightly controlled firewall.

I think you have a bit of an idealized perception of the Great Firewall if you think it allows controlling all communication. That's certainly the goal, but in practice, the implementation is far from achieving it.

Well-known historical events like the Tiananmen Square protests can be censored because they're so well known, so the censors know what kind of content to block. (But people who want to talk about them anyway also know which keywords to avoid to evade censorship. It's a cat-and-mouse game.)

New scandals become known all the time and cannot be censored until the news has spread far enough to reach the censors. For example, when Li Wenliang warned his friends about SARS infections in his hospital, the censors didn't know they had to censor screenshots of that conversation or his name until it was too late. When Ai Fen gave an interview to Renwu, the censors didn't know they had to censor it until it was too late.

In the end, the Chinese government had to honor Li Wenliang as a martyr and Ai Fen as a hero to somewhat calm the waves of public opinion. It's extremely unlikely that they'd be able to successfully suppress the information if the virus was lab-made and someone blew the whistle on that.
there is a hope:

"Lenovo working on dual-purpose Android tablet and external monitor, ‘Yoga X’"

https://9to5google.com/2020/07/10/lenovo-yoga-x-android-tabl...
I spent about 10 minutes trying to work out why `netlify dev` was hanging on my local machine, thinking I'd accidentally nerfed something in npm, before I tried to check the docs and discovered they were down. I forgot that `netlify dev` even needed an internet connection.

Not sure how I feel about this "connected local development" concept at the moment...
AI needs a new developer stack
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Good point. I always get AppleCare, and, unfortunately, have needed to use it, quite often.

In one case, I had a laptop that developed a few, simultaneous problems. It had the notorious "stickyyyy keyyyyyyboard" issue, as well as a loose Thunderbolt port, and issues with the EFI system.

They basically replaced the entire computer. The only thing that didn't change was the screen.

Since it was under warranty, it didn't cost me a dime, but the report said it was about two grand's worth of repairs.
I'm extremely curious: after you woke up from the coma, did the frequency/"intensity" of the dreams change at all?
I think this has nothing to do with MD vs ZFS.

The key issue is that I think it's crazy to tinker around with 'bad blocks' in the first place.

A hard drive with bad blocks that it cannot conceal from the end-user is broken and not to be trusted. Replace it.
The studies on song birds have for the most part been very poorly conceived and based on a simple misunderstanding. (The fact that a grammar can be defined using recursive rules doesn't entail that its string language can't be recognized by non-recursive procedures.) For example, the common A^nB^n string language (which can be defined using a recursive CFG) can obviously also be recognized by counting.
I uploaded the opening NYC flyover to YouTube in its original aspect ratio (where the city grid morphs into a circuit board): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn8VtOAHIpk

The main character's mother wishes him a happy birthday at the end of the opening. He was 18 then, which would make him 43 today.

About a year ago, someone posed the question on Twitter: what would Dade Murphy be up to today? My guess was making a living off of million dollar bug bounties in Apple / Google / Amazon security exploits. He was probably deep into the iOS jailbreaking scene 10 years ago, and regularly gives talks at Defcon
Part of it is certainly an issue of volume, but in the consumer space low-cost (or "free" subsidized-by-plan) 3G/LTE mobile hotspots have long been available. Those models are basically the modems and radios of a mid- to high-end smartphone in a cheap plastic enclosure with a battery.

If you want metal enclosures (i.e. actual thermal design for prolonged operation), multiple ethernet ports, better routing support, no limits on number of connected devices, wide input voltages, automotive-grade components, etc, that's a much smaller market.
> It’s an old idea that keeps resurfacing and frankly I think it misses the real problem of modern websites: they’re too bloated with code that the user is expected to run and yet isn’t there to serve the user.

I agree that the latter is a problem with many modern websites. That, however, does not mean that this approach does not have a place; many people (especially people among the HN and HN-adjacent crowd, who tend towards simple layouts and static site generators) optimise their sites as much as is reasonably possible, and specifically, don't pessimise their sites with megabytes of tracker & ad scripts. For those people, instant.page might well be a worthwhile optimisation.
My favorite “hacker” movie is “Sneakers”.
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Do you consider journalists (that publish info that related to political decisions) as political actors?
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Capital One does, to my knowledge.
Biodiversity is not about enjoying nature. It is key to the stability of how humanity currently lives on Earth.

The term to research for why biodiversity is useful in a utilitarian anthropocentric way is "Ecosystem Services".

The only way we know how to keep what we have is with biodiversity.
Hmm, "app editor", maybe, but definitely not "text editor".
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i think the connection's for getting the environment vars from netlify
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Yes! Not to mention, Sneakers is slightly(ha!) more realistic than "Hackers." And also Swordfish while I'm thinking about it.

Now I need to watch it again.
> I don't understand the need for more than one monitor. Just setup your desktop so you can switch virtual workspaces with a key combination. It's faster than turning your head.

Virtual workspaces and multiple monitors are unrelated. The former provides multiple working layers, the latter extends the size of those working layers. Both can be great.
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It’s slow, with NSA hunting at exit nodes.
It's a device to save data in DNA.

> Right now though the biggest barriers to mass adoption are size (Shannon is the size of a family kitchen), price (unknown at the time of writing but likely to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars) and writing speed (a pedestrian 10Mbps).

Size may be reduced, prize may be reduced, but how are they planing to increase the writing and reading speed?
>How is the Berne convention relevant to the case, specifically?

Your claim that "France doesn’t have copyright." Droits d’auteurs (authors rights) is copyright. Here in Finland copyright is also called authors right (tekijänoikeus), but its just different term for the exactly same thing.

France, US, EU all are parts of Berne convention, Two UCC's, WTO and TRIPS. French copyright court treats all these agreements superior to domestic legislation.
This is why whistle blowers need protection.

Govt should abide by law, if not, blowing the whistle should be rewarded not punished.
If you don't have files, you don't need a file system

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They are riveted to the aluminium top case, that also contains the trackpad and a battery glued in on top of it. So... you're forced to buy all that for a keyboard - a part that is likely to fail in the lifespan of the machine.
I’m pretty sure that GP’s use of “write” was meant as doing things not the literal writing them down.
This actually allows you to use both screens and move windows from one to the other. Not at all the same as just screensharing.
Hollywood computer movies are the worst, between the tropes and the stereotypes they are just Weird Science without the road warriors and Bill Paxton. The original Wargames is probably the least campy and most watchable of the bunch. From there you take he express elevator straight down to absurd and fantastical stuff like Tron and Colossus: The Forbin Project. Anyone remember Disney’s The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes? Yes, computers are magic and touching one gives you all their super powers - like doing hard math and making perfect hoop shots.
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I was online and I was programming back then. Why am I not a billionaire?
Reposted 3 minutes later with a small fix in the title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24479903
Well, he was obviously right. UK _was_ holding him for an US extradition, and in all likelyhood this is what would have happened in Sweden as well.

There was a time when the official narrative was "he can leave at any time, we don't want him, he's just hiding because of potential rape charges". That at least is clearly falsified.
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Watching this with interest. I’m living in Tokyo and would like to undertake a similar project.
Luacheck certainly helps, as would an editor with some syntax highlighting.
Wasn't expecting such a long and detailed paper. Read the intro and a few more paragraphs of the first section, then skipped to pros/cons in the answers in the survey. Looks pretty similar to what I heard from friends.

WFH pros being less time on transport, saving money with eating out or car/parking. And cons of social contact, not being able to have a separation between work and personal life.

Wasn't expecting the third being poor ergonomics.

One thing that surprised me at work (NZ govt company) was that the feedback in my group was mixed from engineers with kids and without kids.

I was expecting the engineers with kids to struggle more, while the empty-nesters to take it easier. But it varied, either because some were able to get the kids to attend online classes, while others struggled to separate work/personal life while kids were at home.
For what it's worth I had no additional support outside of a standard warranty..
I understand it's nice to have easy CI/CD with a simple git push to your repo. But there is something to be said for roll your own hosting IMHO.
is this related with Level3/CenturyLink/Lumen outages two weeks ago
Interesting. Can you elaborate on that?
This is the only comment here that actually mentions the furin-cleavage site, IMO the greatest smoking gun. Thank you.
Thank you for those lists!
Not quite accurate. It's not "basically identical". The "moonshot" proposal is that you'd be able to walk up to, say, a cinema entrance and get a PCR test right there which would instantly tell you whether you're +ve for Covid. (Not antibody-positive, but infected/infective-positive.)

That's very different from what has been suggested for both the US and UK, which is to have widespread and easy access to PCR testing that could be turned round in, say, 24 hours so that you'd go to a testing station and then be contacted the next day to be told your status.

Given the biotech capacity of the UK and US, that sort of testing capacity should have been well within reach in about April. (However because the US decided not to go with the WHO recommendation on what RNA elements to test for, they ran into problems. I can't find out whether this is the same for the UK.) Germany was able to ramp up its testing capacity that quickly and thus didn't get the sort of criticism that the UK and US governments did.

The gap between the moonshot proposal and the suggested solution is gigantic. Speed, accuracy, availability - all of them come into it. Plus you also have to ask: why do it, when you have alternatives which could come on stream well before the moonshot tech is developed, in the form of multiple vaccine programs? And why suggest you're going to spend that amount? (£100bn sounds made up, if I'm honest. Why not 10? 50? Because 100 sounds big and round.)

So this isn't about media coverage somehow being "partisan horseshit". It really is about a proposal which, given the multiple missed targets and continual lying (about testing capacity, testing times, test facility availability and contact tracing success - all are worse than ministers admit in public statements, but are revealed in data from government departments) from the UK government, simply can't be taken seriously.
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It's very good when a source doesn't make any attempt to conceal its bias. Most sources pose as the voices of omniscient robot narrators while obviously also being mouthpieces for their owners.
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> Right now in the UK, the basic testing infrastructure is more-or-less world class as far as I can tell

If you believe the government's figures it is, but they have history in misrepresenting the data.

The leak a day or two ago suggests they are inflating the figures again (62k tests per day actually carried out v. claimed capacity for 375k a day).

See e.g. https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-covid-testing-program...

I appreciate the challenges are significant, but I'd have a lot more confidence in the system if they were just honest about the problems they were facing.