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There's only one criterion for success- blind taste test with my current rig. At this point I need mathematical proof or someone to risk something (money) for me to try again. No offense, but other people's ears have always let me down.
Ah thanks! Must have been a cache issue, since it wasn't there before.
Mexico is poised to become the biggest legal marijuana market in the world
I hate the ending of GOT, but I will also admit that had it been a normal show then ending would have been below average, but not terrible. With the budget GOT had (or could get) it was inexcusably bad, but if you go in knowing that it won't live up to the rest of the series it is not terrible.
Also a great example of the "endlessly rehashed story lines" type of series mentioned elsewhere in this thread :-)
Binged Schitt’s Creek over the last few weeks and David shouting “Alexis!” triggered all of my Sonos speakers. Every. Single. Time.
No matter how good a service is, it does not give them the right to hold you hostage.
This is amazing. Too bad you seemingly can't zoom out to view the entire map all at once.
I'm not exactly being Gettier over here; if y'all have reasons why my counterexamples are wrong, then speak up. Otherwise maybe sit back and consider exactly why it's interesting that a professor of philosophy rattles off all of these biology facts in an attempt to back up the hilariously-bullshit utterances:

> The fact that no species has evolved more than two biological sexes is also a puzzle. It would be quite straightforward to engineer a species that has three, but none has evolved naturally.

This is straight-up wrong, and he attempts to use the nomenclature of "mating types" to dismiss the obvious counterexamples. He's attempting to be some sort of deep thinker about genetics, but he's reaffirming the idea that somehow there's only ever two sexes, which is literally binary gender theory and has already been debunked.
But wait, there's more!

It also costs an extra! It's MAGIC! Aren't you excited?
Not just more revenue per customer, but also the more issues they solve for you the more you'll be able to pay. If Spotify fixes your problem you won't go "now I'll use you more and pay 2x". For Amazon that's a real opportunity.
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Demand at night is quite a bit lower than during the day and I suspect that's when most EVs will be charging - so that might help.
TFA takes as its hypothesis that Netfix don't know what their doing, that is they are somehow missing out on growing or retaining their audience by cancelling shows after one or two seasons.

Obviously Netflix isn't going to act against their own interest, so they must believe the marginal cost of producing new seasons must be greater than the marginal revenue attributable to these new seasons.

What makes Netflix (and all streamers) different than the traditional networks is that their viewership data is orders of magnitude better. They know who watches, how quickly, where, when, which series are abandoned by viewers, which episodes are abandoned by viewers, how series X performed with people who binged series Y.

I imagine they aren't just saying that series X didn't have a big enough audience, they are figuring based on their machine learning models, series X could not build a large enough audience to justify the production costs.

That the art suffers for the bottom line, while tragic, is nothing new.
Your info on capacity is a bit sketchy, the capacity of turbines being installed now is 8-10MW, with 15MW turbines on the roadmap. 3.6MW turbines were being installed 7-10yrs ago (exception being Rampion on south coast of UK being installed 2016/17)

Further offshore you go, and the bigger the turbine, generally speaking the better capacity factor you get.
Such a weird take on the situation.

Why do you think it's ok for company to offer unlimited services knowing that it's not really unlimited?

Shouldn't you be advocating for companies to be more truthful in their marketing?
In 2015, the valuation of the company was $4 billion below the valuation of the Alibaba stock it held. A popular interpretation of this is that the main Yahoo! operations were considered to have negative value by investors—though the reality was a bit more complex than that.
Even setting aside the fact that the article is only really applicable if you live in a metropolitan environment where any asset-as-a-service is available on short notice, there's still this one problem: what price do you put on convenience?

If you don't own that 95%-unused asset, then either you'll always end up paying the highest price for the equivalent service because you need it now, and this quickly becomes un-economical, or you have to plan everything ahead, at all times. The difference is just the convenience of a readily available asset.
Have you looked at Mopidy?
Technical reason: Microsoft's moderating is kinda garbage. I don't trust them to keep malware out of the store effectively.

Edit: I trust my capability to moderate the sites I download from more than I trust Microsoft to prevent malware on the store.

"Ideological BS": I don't think wanting to stop account proliferation is "ideological BS" I have a certain number of accounts, I want less. I see no reason to make more.

Ideological BS: I don't trust Microsoft to not do more tracking than I find ethical.
You can do interesting things by replacing malloc, like this compacting allocator:

https://github.com/plasma-umass/Mesh
That's interesting. I have a different experience.

I bought my last macbook in 2012. I got a new one for the price of a battery swap in 2017, so I'm set until at least 2022, as long as their stupid keyboard lasts. My 2012 would still do the job just fine in 2020.

I don't think I've ever kept a Windows laptop this long, except for my ThinkPad-turned-homeserver, which runs Linux.

My iPhones were supported longer than my android devices, though they all tend to die from abuse or aging batteries, not from obsolescence.
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Is gp flagged because their points were all wrong or because they violated HN rules? I’d like to see their points which you refuted rather then downvote brigaded à la reddit. Not to say I think you’re wrong or anything positive towards fossil fuels, just in principle I’d rather let someone wrong have their say and get debunked.
> I think search will be quick. There isn't much stickiness there. It will be a disruptive S-curve, as soon as an upstart starts gaining traction.

It's unlikely that any other company will outcompete Google on search. What will happen is that something better than search will come along. That wouldn't be hard, given that today's search tends to return a combination of useless garbage and paid results. A better system will emerge - it has to, because what we have today is so bad.
Something that is connected to the Internet is, by definition, not airgapped.
> If you have a new series, all potential viewers are potential viewers. If you have a season 3, the only potential viewers are season 2 watchers.

This is only true for modern TV formats that favor season+ long story arcs so much that any individual episode often contains neither the start nor end of any particular plot and is entirely meaningless outside of its larger contextual role in the series.

In old-fashioned TV, each episode pretty much had to stand on its own as a story and stood a much better chance of hooking new viewers. The downside of that approach of course is that status-quo is God and almost nothing truly interesting ever happens because of it.

The best shows, in my opinion, manage to mix these in a way such that any individual episode can be interesting even to someone who has never seen the show before, while still creating a larger more interesting narrative over time. My personal gold standard for this is Stargate SG-1, which lasted 10 seasons and started with human beings walking through a wormhole to encounter the monster-of-the-week and ended with them zooming across the galaxy in starships and fighting ascended would-be-deities.
There is no monopoly on violence because the state is non monolithic, and because much of the violence is outsourced to subcontractors with limited oversight.

More importantly, monopoly on violence by the state is only good if the control of the state is distributed democratically to all affected by it, ie, if the control over violence is redistributed to all people equally. If violence is held in a monopoly by a small group of individuals for their personal benefit... then civil war is a better option.

And corporations are structurrd exactly like that sort of despotism.
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Today, working on a Windows 10 machine at the office, I've actually realized strict "one app = one icon" scheme, with every window of the same app hidden under one button, isn't actually convenient for me either.

It makes switching between different documents (with the mouse) too much hassle: click/hover on the button, wait for the documents list to pop up, click the one you want - that's too much.

Single-click can actually be handier in many cases.

But I still want the same button to launch and to represent a running app.

And an extra button to be added right after the main one when a second window of the same app gets opened.

This is can be achieve on Windows using an easy hack[1], despite there seemingly is no "official" way.

https://www.sevenforums.com/customization/22606-make-taskbar...

I hope this is going to be added to KDE as well.
The UK version only lasted 2 seasons for a total of 14 episodes. It's very good, but I would argue the first 14 episodes of the US office are just as good. It's the later seasons that devolve into feel-good ho-hum sitcommery.
> because there's essentially no difference in terms of what's inside the tube

At the risk of creating a tangent, but I disagree. I actually pay extra for Sensodyne Some-specific-subbrand-here because I like the taste the best: Barely minty, barely sweet. For me the most important part about toothpaste is the taste.
This is very far off from my millennial experience

1; I’m a 34yo millennial, 2; my siblings are ~40ish yo gen-xers, 3; my parents are 65yo boomers.

My genx siblings all bought massive houses around 2008 when I was starting my career which in 2008 meant being lucky to make $40k as a sysadmin. Obama subsidies all over the place if you had 5-10 years to put together a downpayment, though. I don’t think my paycheck became NOT hand-to-face until I was in my mid-late 20s and making well into 6 figures. And I’m not eating avocado toast or buying starbucks.

This is my 2nd recession since I started my career. In the first I was a “JR” and couldn’t get a job. Now I’m a SR and overqualified at most places. I barely know any millenial colleagues of mine that are home owners. And once again, I’m in my mid 30s.

And no, I don’t have children along with half of my mid-30s friends because we can’t afford them along with the 70k+ Of college debt and $600k starter houses.

The truly sad part though, millennials actually remember and know what life was like starting out around ~2008. We’re very open to mentoring and hiring gen-z. Social media wasn’t what it was back in 2008, of course, but I don’t remember any genxers going out of their way to get us millennials hired, go over our resumes, refer us, etc. I luckily landed my first engineering job from another millennial over IRC. This goes into the culture of the company, interviewing, everything. The people bitching about having to describe how to throw a rock or explain why manholes are round? They’re millennials who got those stupid questions when we were JRs because of a horrible job market that Boomers/Genx allowed to continue as the status quo. Not all, of course, but there’s a lot.

Instead of working to make things better for those coming up behind you, you’re acting like the victim. We can all come up with reasons that things suck. Let’s try to improve things.
I can remember watching one of the jackets for the Forties field being towed down the Moray Firth in '74.

Still there and working today!

https://www.energyvoice.com/opinion/92008/forties-at-40-the-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forties_Oil_Field
No, but organizing the environment into separate groups of windows and apps that are related, and being able to use different settings on each task is totally a power user feature and a differentiatior. I've seen nothing out there as powerful as KDE activities.
Yes, like a class, but which can be set through CSS and not needing an interactive JS or only be used statically.
Sure. I could go on at length as to why I liked GoT. It obviously isn't for everyone and it got less strong around the time it outpaced the books. But I would recommend it in general.
How do you deal with the (European) right to be forgotten?

On one hand it’s nice that we can see all this old data. On the other hand, as far as I remember in the 90s you typically subscribed to a newsgroup and only then got recent posts.
So the expectations was a limited life time of the post. Of course it would still be stored in thousands of readers.

Obviously the copyright of each post is with the author. You just assume that you have a right to redistribute.

I’m also happy if I get a pointer elsewhere if you have an url.
If you turned the system on without a game in and you held up, 1 and 2 all simultaneously, there was a secret game built in to the system. When my friend got his SMS he did that on accident the first time he turned it on, leading to much confusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail_Maze
I think one thing most of these comments overlook (at least in my eyes) is that there’s too much to choose from.

I have Netflix but rarely watch it. My SO is more into Netflix. But for someone like me who’s a bit older, I open Netflix and am overwhelmed with the amount of shows on the screen. It’s way too much for me to figure out what I should watch. Recommendations, trending, etc.. where do I begin watching a show?

I think what I’m getting at is Netflix is just putting original content on their platform to see what sticks, however I don’t know what they want me to watch? How do I decide what to watch because obviously there’s a lot to offer.

This is just how I see it. The app sits idle on my TV for me and I hardly use it.
Great announcement. Also great that the LED array in version 1 was empirically a success.

As frequently as Raspberry Pi devices are mentioned in comparison, there also mbed-style [1] inexpensive boards which support the "online compile and download to a virtual USB drive" model, and offer free RTOS support. (Perhaps these too -- or variants -- could hit a sweet spot in educational contexts which Raspberry Pi could miss.)

[1] https://os.mbed.com/platforms/

Edit: micro:bit is included there as an mbed-compatible device: https://os.mbed.com/platforms/Microbit/ . So presumably one can also practice RTOS for IoT on a micro:bit .
Isn't the homepod (mini?) issue pretty much Apple's lock-in?
Then advertise your service correctly and honestly. Please do not implicitly redefine perfectly fine dictionary words.
RIP season 2 of The Dark Crystal. Netflix axed it.

I thought it was a brilliant revamp and collaboration in between Netflix and the Henson group. It even won an Emmy.
It did. At the time, there was basically nothing like it on TV. It wasn't just the scifi stories themselves, it was the budget. Nothing like it had been seen. Star Trek: TOS reruns was a high budget show for the time. It's primary competition is Doctor Who reruns on PBS, and while it may have had good stories at times, it's a series whose idea of "high budget villian" is wrapping a guy in bubble wrap and spray-painting it green.

So at the time, the first season didn't seem so bad. It was probably on par with what most people of the time expected. In hindsight ST:TNG may seem like "a decent show with a bad start", but at the time it seemed like "a pretty decent show that just kept getting better". ST:TNG is part of what set the modern bar, and it's a lot of what set the modern bar if you kind of lump it in with Deep Space Nine.

By modern standards it is weak because the tech of the time didn't support season-long arcs because there was very little rewatchability, but if you try to delve into science fiction prior to ST:TNG, be prepared to... make concessions.
Do you actually have any idea what Marx said or any of the idelogy, or are you simply using a word you heard online because they sounds scary? Nothing under that section seems to indicate a marxist leaning.
According to [1] what I find interesting is:

> In contrast, in trained individuals, practicing the learned breathing techniques resulted in an immediate and profound decrease of pCO2 and bicarbonate, and an increase in pH (reaching up to 7.75 in individual subjects; Fig. 2 and Movie S2), indicating acute respiratory alkalosis.

I'm not a doctor, but since I was part of the study and asked them a lot of questions, I can sort of interpret what they found, which is that your CO2 levels drop (among other things).

With the WHM breathing technique that means you'll be getting into a territory of prolonged oxygen deprivation. In my case I'd be holding my breath for 3 minutes (while completely breathing out beforehand, without the WHM, I could only hold my breath for 20 seconds).

They measured that while doing the WHM your adrenaline level is on average higher than your peak adrenaline level while you're bungee jumping.

> Epinephrine levels in trained individuals were even higher than those reported in a recent study in which acute stress elicited by a bungee jump was found to suppress cytokine production by leukocytes ex vivo stimulated with LPS (13).

It might be in the article, but my suspicion is that this is because of prolonged oxygen deprivation. See also Fig 3A for how high the adrenaline levels got.

So to me it's clear that the WHM gives you a lot of adrenaline. What does adrenaline do? Well, it makes you numb, it acts as a painkiller in the sense that it makes you feel less (again not a doctor, but based on my limited knowledge this is a fact). So that's one reason why it's easier to jump into really cold water.

Moreover, it yields some evidence to some "mind over body" claims. It isn't really mind over body, it's adrenaline that can be conjured consciously at will. I'm speaking also from personal experience [1].

[1] I've done this at many Dutch dance festivals (e.g. Liquicity, Mysteryland). Instead of taking drugs, I'd do the WHM to spike my adrenaline levels as high as possible and had a great time.
> If you learn that anywhere, I think you're talking to antisemites

I'm sure I've spoken to anti-semites in my life, but your accusation is merely begging the question. I learned the history largely from a book titled "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethnic_Cleansing_of_Pale...

You need not support the actions political party of the Zionists to support Israel or the Jewish people the same that you need not support the actions of any other political party, say the far-right of the United States, in order to support the country or its people. And you needn't publicly enumerate your disgust for all atrocities by all peoples in order to denounce the single action of a single people.

Anyway, I think you're right about feeling suspicion over "see, they did it, too." I won't defend anti-semites for being anti-semitic, and I won't condemn all anti-zionists as anti-semites. I think this is where our differences on the matter arises.
The power of an accusation of racism is being diluted like the warnings of the boy who cried wolf. Once I was reflexively appalled. Now I'm reflexively sympathetic to the accused until there is evidence. If that makes me a designated racist it's a label I'm much less horrified by than I once was. Almost as an acknowledgement of that dilution a new label has been popularized: white supremacist. So now the same is happening to that label. I wonder what's next.
> I think there's a lot I can learn personally from a fast and loose 28 year old male perception against my own perception.

Sure, if you want to be an insufferable net-negative for humanity. I'll grant that there's individual profit in it though.

When you succeed, let us all remember that it was Zack SHAPIRO who inspired you to break free from the ordeal of civility.
A couple of questions:

1. How likely is it that a collision like this (two large satellites, high enough for the fragments to have a long orbital lifetime) occurs in any given year?

2. This announcement popped up on HN a couple of days before the event. Are we not able to project potential collisions farther ahead? I would think objects of this size are well tracked.

I'm wondering how difficult it would be to detect these far enough in advance to send something up to nudge one of the dead satellites out of the way.
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Consider using bandcamp.com if you want to "vote with your wallet".
That’s not accurate.

Gatekeeper only warns about unsigned software. It has nothing to do with whether it is in the App Store or not.
So, I like to think of myself as not overly protective, but fairly early on in the pandemic, during the actual shelter-in-place part, my teenage daughter said, "It's not like anything has really changed for me all that much". Ouch. She watched more TV, and via Zoom got to see what everybody else's living rooms looked like, but in the U.S. most professional class kids don't get a lot of free-roaming time anyway, so the only difference is you're trading school time (never their favorite part) for house time. So I'm not sure this means quarantine isn't so bad, more like we have kids in quarantine all the time nowadays compared to a generation ago so it wasn't much of a change.
Not the worst idea in the world. BUT, we're going to need to think carefully about taking million year processes and trying to speed them up to reverse climate change.
Not sure... Has anyone ever seem them in the same place at the same time?
Scientists record last moments of star devoured by black hole
Growing an online presence is not optional anymore in the coming decades
While there are parallels to Weimar Germany, again I don't think this is actually a useful comparison and it's mostly used as a fascist boogeyman. Major factors in Weimar that don't exist in America/the West today:

- Immediately after a massively destructive war that affected all levels of society

- Populace of young men with PTSD and military experience

- Little/no social safety nets

- No history of democracy - remember that prior to Weimar, Germany was governed by Prussia and basically had no democratic traditions

IMO the real actual historical comparison to use in 2020 is the Printing Press and Protestant Reformation; i.e. established power structure (the Catholic Church) dealing with new information-propagation technologies and factions. I'd bet that 2050 is going to look a lot like 1550.
> You can't subscribe to Spotify without part of that money going to Rogan.

Can't you? Rogan's compensation isn't based on Spotify's total profits, and if you don't listen to him, you won't be contributing to his audience size either, and Spotify will be able to see that in their metrics. If tomorrow Spotify gains 100 million new users, that then never listen to a single Rogan episode, how would that increase Rogan's compensation?
Larry McEnerney's video opens by asserting how academics (and others) write not to persuade, but as an integral part of their personal thinking/explaining process. Instead, for grant applications and other works, they need to be persuading. The remainder of the talk is focused on tools for writing persuasively, such as understanding the audience, complying with the reader's expectations, and creating enough controversy/difference that the work is seen as new and building upon prior art.