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Is cooking with gas really that bad compared to using coal or gas to fuel a power plant that then supplies electricity to your stove? With the losses in efficiency converting heat to electricity, then the losses transmitting it to your house I'm not sure.

Yes we have renewables to generate electricity but sadly they don't cover demand during the peak time when most cook.
It’s easy to flag submissions by accident and I’ve definitely done that and had to unflag them. I flag submissions on purpose fairly often when I feel they are really poor quality, spam, or way off-topic for HN. I also flag submissions where the discussion has gone off the rails.

Flagging a comment takes extra work because you have to click through to the comment. I’ve never done that by accident and tried to only do it for comments that violate guidelines. Sometimes I subjectively feel a comment is trolling and will flag it. That’s not strictly against the guidelines and is a judgement call.

(The worst is when I accidentally hide a story. That’s way too easy to do and too hard to undo.)
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According to Wikipedia, the majority of Czechs are atheists. Only 10% are Catholics (1) and there is a reason for that:

"Ever since the 1620 Battle of White Mountain, the Czech people have been historically characterised as "tolerant and even indifferent towards religion"."

"Pew Research Center found in 2015 that 72% of the population of Czech Republic declared to be irreligious"

Also (2):

"With the fall of the Habsburgs in 1918, more than a million Czechs (including 300 priests) left the Roman Catholic Church. Most chose not to affiliate with another church."

Why such a reaction? In (1) we read how the Catholic Church and the rulers behaved before, under the Habsburgs control:

"the whole population was forcibly converted to Roman Catholicism—even the Utraquist Hussites. All kinds of Protestant communities including the various branches of Hussites, Lutherans and Reformed were either expelled, killed, or converted to Roman Catholicism."

Also (3)

"Royal decrees pertaining to religion granted Protestant lords, knights, and burghers the right to choose either conversion or emigration. Only about one-quarter of the noble families living in Bohemia and Moravia prior to 1620 remained"

"The emigrations devastated Bohemia and Moravia, which may have lost as much as one-half of their population."

Then in 1781 Joseph II "abolished restrictions on the personal freedom (serfdom) of the peasants, and he granted religious toleration."

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_Czech_Republic

2) https://fee.org/articles/how-state-religion-made-the-czechs-...

3) https://www.britannica.com/topic/Czechoslovak-history/The-Co...
I can see a situation in which physical violence among boys, instead of being productively diffused (boys being explained this sort of behaviour is unacceptable, looking into environmental clues as to why that boy has that violent behaviour, while being given tools such as counselling, sports, martial arts, to deal with this violent energy and channel it into constructive focus), is treated as a "0 tolerance policy" type thing where the boy is removed from his class/school, moved to a different environment, socially ostracised, and starts believing that he's simply a violent person as a matter of fact, and that there's nothing he can do about it. Potentially being also put together with other kids in similar situations, which eventually reinforce each other, maybe fall into a rabbit hole of petty crimes, state/police interactions, early institutionalisation, and basically put in a never ending spiral which lead to a maladjusted adult in the best scenario, and a criminal in the worse one.
Mods changing titles and links has always seemed sort of arbitrary to me. Most of the time I don't see the use (I understand it can be useful, but the times I've seen it done it usually hasn't).
If I was Microsoft I'd offer some kind of Windows in the cloud for Mac users.
Writing a naive PNG parser is easy, but handling all the corner cases is harder than it should be, e.g. text chunk fields can be variable- and even zero-length:

1. https://github.com/randy408/libspng/blob/3439bf5c173421b1af4...

2. https://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-PNG-20031110/#11iTXt
16gb is 500 times as much as 32mb. Cache memory is not 500 times as large as normal memory.

If 32mb would be too hard they could have easily went for 1mb.

But they didn’t and that’s a pretty good indicator it doesn’t make a lot of difference.
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It does appear Intel has become rather complacent in recent years, more competition can only be a good thing.
>That's more recent, to be honest. When I started reading HN, it was very very libertarian (but mostly non-political).

Interesting. I came here a bit late.
There is also going to be a crossplatform (including mobile) UI library for .Net 6: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-multi-...
Just curious, but how come you want to work for free?
I'll check out Pleroma. But so far, they don't seem to have succeeded in getting people to switch over in significant numbers?
https://xroom.app/

p2p tech that uses e2e and only uses servers to establish a key handshake
As someone who grew up in the 80's as a nerd mostly playing video games and never took part in these stupid "boy things", I welcome this new world. I can't understand a world where it is normal to have a bar fights.
>No, the definition of industry terms is the way they would be understood by other people in the industry. Seeding is understood to be critical data such as area code lists and timezone information.

That's kind of the point. Ask three different people in the industry, get three slightly different definitions, unless they work in the same team.
"Caesar built a bridge" old saying, meaning others built one "for him".
I think it's more likely that "divine intervention" often was a cover for randomness, with extra benefit of granting some legitimacy to the process in religious societies.
I build my desktops with a lot of ram.

I have chrome, Firefox, photoshop, vs code, docker and a few other things running. As a kid I had to manage RAM. As an adult, I buy enough RAM to not need to think about it.

I was committed to buying an M1 on day one. I won’t buy a machine with only 16gb of RAM.
I don’t have children, but am curious - wouldn’t signing boys up to some kind of martial art solve it? It’s a well structured aggression, good exercise and there would be hardly any space for any kind of bullying there
Probably the biggest break Pfizer will get in the next decade. Why is this on hackernews? That shouldn't be surprising to anyone, but rather a pretty normal thing to do if you have stocks: selling high.
> Is AI sophistication the new "income inequality" since smaller companies that can't wield that power get out-competed by larger players, leading to extreme concentration in the hands of few as time goes on?

This year it's AI. 10 years ago it was user analytics (well, it still is), and before computers it was having marketing department.

Large retailers with money to spend have always had a massive advantage over small retailers, both online and offline. AI is just the next incremental step.

That's not to say I endorse AI marketing, or larger companies outcompeting small ones. I just don't think AI is anything new in that regard, and after AI there will be some new technology (pheromones, I bet) that large retailers will be using to extract wealth from us.
My advice, stay the f*ck away from Azure as far as you can. It’s the biggest clusterfuck I have ever had to deal with. Unless you are a Microsoft Gold Partner and you simply buy every shit which your Microsoft Account Manager tells you then you have no reason to use Azure. Unlike the Google Cloud or AWS, Azure has not a single service which is unique or good in any particular way. On the other side, they have many services which are uniquely so bad that they are unusable in Azure.

Example of unique services in the GCloud: Spanner, Firestore, BigQuery,...

AWS: Face recognition service and other neat things

Uniquely fucked up in Azure: Functions, Web Apps, Storage, Application Insights (FML!), ... many many more
I don't understand why they don't put the physical keys AND the touchbar in. There is so much space on the 16" model they could easily fit it in and shrink the obscenely large trackpad just a touch.
Only if you happen to follow Android team developers on Medium (it used to be G+) and Twitter.

The documentation has lots of outdated stuff that only gets updated across Medium, StackOverflow, bug tracking comments, twitter posts, /r/androiddev.
If he really wanted to profit in the stock market, he could have bought call options for the cruise lines, or put options on Zoom, both of which jumped more than Pfizer stock did. And if I understand correctly, that wouldn't have been insider trading, that would have been perfectly legal?

Also, the article mentions it was a 10b5-1 plan. Typically that means he is precommitted to sell stock on a predetermined schedule, and had no choice but to continue selling this stock on this day as planned.
There are games devoted to this, best known is probably Europa Universalis IV [1] and the corresponding reddit [2] often shows maps in alternate histories, aptly named "map porn".

There are challenging achievements in the game, such as:

- Become the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Spain.

- As Byzantium, restore the old borders (i.e., stop and reverse the Ottoman conquest in the 15th century)

- As France, own Vienna, Berlin and Moscow.

You can picture the maps that this produces. Also, it's a great way to learn about history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Universalis_IV

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/
My MBP from 2013 has 8gb RAM and I considered that an essential upgrade at the time!
Homebrew deprecates all FUSE formulae
The first color laser printer I bought was a brother, the drivers were all but impossible to adjust, it'd put way too much toner on (but only when printing from linux), and the printer would seize up, jam paper and just flat out refuse to work most of the time, it had a service agreement on it, and I had a technician come to our house 3 times and he never managed to solve the problem either, so while I had a lot of respect for brother, that incident made me change my mind.
If you read the article the suggestion is that grading for classes includes things like not misbehaving, following the rules, and paying attention to the parameters of the rules.

This all sounds like a cultural issue of how we socialize boys. Why is it just expected that boys can’t pay attention or not break out into fist fights constantly?

Reading that article it sounds like boys are graded fairly when you consider that it’s not just doing the work that counts, but doing the right work, the right way, at the right time, while not being an asshole. I don’t know why society bakes in the idea that boys should be jerks by default, but that’s probably a separate conversation.

Ability to get along with a team is crucial in modern workplaces just as it is in the classroom.
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Yes, it was bullying. To the school credit, they did not just ignored the issue. They did called in psychologists etc. The kids had some kind of program about relationships / how to deal with issues / listening to each other program. It slowly got better.

Interestingly, the skills and attitudes they were teaching whole class were pretty much opposite of internet "fck the feelings, git gut looser, something bothering you is weakness" ethos.
so true! i hate the touchbar. if i would have to change my laptop today, i'd buy air just because i hate the touchbar.
You've illustrated the point exactly.

When boys play hard to discover the limits of their strength, balance and risk, often that is compared to how girls behave and is called violent, or Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD.) That results in punishment or expulsion for acting like a normal boy would have behaved 30 years ago. That sets back their education, causing a cycle of development problems.

This is called the feminization of boys. An extreme example of this was recently when teensage boys in juvenile halls were injected with estrogen to "control" them:

https://witnessla.com/new-lawsuit-tells-of-16-yr-old-boy-all...

Boys and men are being accused of "toxic masculinity" by academic (Marxist) feminists, where they really mean "being born as men." If you're more than 10 years older than your gf, you're labelled "creepy." It's an attempt to further seize power from men by discrediting them. So it's not just boys that should be concerned, it's all men in the West.

If you're not aware of this, you really should find out more. It's a culture war against men that will not turn out well for Western society in the long run.
Think of it as a temporary Visa card. It's not under their control.
People who run Arch want this to happen.

It validates their hobby-like approach to their OS.
“The stock sale is perfectly legal through a predetermined plan called Rule 10b5-1”

Then why is this news.
Don't forget that if you bring any of this up most people will try to silence you. Your comment is already grey on HN.

In the past men formed brotherhoods to enable them to do great things. Women will never support men, it's simply not in their nature. Speak to any woman and they're not even aware of men below them in society and disgusted by more than half of men. This is where their feeling of inequality comes from. But men now are not looking after each other. We are more divided than ever. Expected to stop our manly activities and forced into a feminine world from the beginning. If you divide men then huge inequality is inevitable. All women are born with the ability to reproduce. Men are born with nothing.

Feminism is a return to the jungle where alpha males kill each other on their way to the top and rule over all other males, forcing them into a lonely existence. We have been seeing this for years already. Nobody benefits from this in the long run, but in the short run it's all benefitting that top 1% of men in society. Women are just along for the ride and no amount of feminism or "equality" will make them any more or less happy.
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Would online discourse be improved if we had better ways to express our erroroneous thinking within a thread? What are some good examples/techniques for doing this that others could adopt?
I agree that patching upstream sources is sometimes necessary. I think Debian is overly aggressive about it (hypocritically so in places: they will patch upstream to comply with the FHS, but won't change their own packaging to comply with the LSB). More to the point, I think patching security-critical packages needs to be treated as a special case and subject to appropriate review (as many other distributions do).
It's not difficult to "succeed" as a woman. Sure if you want a fancy career and so on, it is difficult. But you can always fall back to simply having children and letting somebody else take care of you. Even if you flunk all your exams and job interviews, you can still find somebody to get you pregnant.

Men, on the other hand, have to succeed. Nobody else will take care of them if they fail, and they won't have the option for children or a family as easily (some chaos monkeys exist, but still). Even if they succeed at having a career or family, both can be taken away from them at a whim, no matter what they do.

That's mostly a result of biology (and feminist laws), to the point that daughters are more likely to be born in times of crisis (nature playing it safe). I'm surprised the article even speculates about complicated reasons for why people might worry more about their sons than their daughters.
I have never seen the definition of the "real man", let alone an explanation what makes him "real" and the other men not real.
> Do you honestly believe the left has no agenda

Straw man, not what I said. "they all have agendas therefor they're as bad as each other" is dangerous, dismissive and wrong.

> subscribing to Glenn Greenwald’s substack. They’re two of the only left-of-center commentators who have not lost their integrity

Thanks, now I see where you're coming from and I know that I can safely ignore your opinions.

As to the idea that Greenwald is one "of the only left-of-center commentators who have not lost their integrity", https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-...

It really doesn't come across as a good-faith argument.
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You should reconsider the therapy option, it can be worth the money. I’m coming from a similar situation. Went to marriage therapy for 6 months then gave up on that since I thought it was going nowhere. To my surprise a few months after that ended, some deep issue which was real root cause was revealed and now we are finally addressing it and turning the corner on improving the situation.
This comment would have been clearly very controversial with genders reversed. It may be even now quite controversial.

I am not saying it should or shouldn't be controversial. Just an observation.
Advertising-dependent, though. News is not going to work right until the readers pay a significant chunk of the revenue. Purely because the incentives are all wrong for the advertising model - optimising the revenue means doing journalism badly (clickbait, articles designed to inspire emotional reactions instead of inform, partisanship, tribalism, etc).
Or yes, I am one of the People using a non-standard mouse speed. Using someone else’s mouse feels like your arm and hand are suddenly being forced to slow down.
Why is this harder with mail ballots? My state (Washington) uses a double envelope system. My name is on the outer envelope so I can't cast two ballots and the inner envelope protects the secrecy of my vote.

Or do you mean you have to verify that the ballot is actually submitted after the name is crossed off?
Real as in not the government. A real person who can hug you and stroke your hair.
This is pretty much the reason why I'll never will buy apple devices again. Recently I bought iphone 11 for my girlfriend as a present and the price difference between 64GB model (which honestly might as well be a dead brick in this data age) and 256GB model was around 30% in my country which is beyond absurd.

You can call me bitter but this sort of manipulation is making me extremely salty to the point where I'll be having seething hate for the company for the rest of my life.
If you install a GUI on Ubuntu Server it simply becomes Ubuntu Desktop.

There's no difference between the two, except for the presence of the GUI software.

Simply go apt install ubuntu-desktop on any server and you got yourself a desktop install.
Seems like Numenta is out of ideas about how the brain works. What happened to them?

In this work they simply took a standard neural network, sparsified weights and activations, trained it with standard gradient descent and backpropagation, and called it a day.

This would have been unthinkable 10 years ago when they were after biological plausibility of their algorithms.
Seriously considering getting a Pi for Christmas (8gb) as my current laptop is slowly dying, and just do python on it and return to a simpler life.
This is a very good comment. See this thread how Riot basically dictates what people are allowed to run or install on their system just to run a stupid game. https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/g3yqxd/psa_riot_v...

Leave moderation to players, it's way more effective than any sort of client side cheat detection.
Feasibility of Antimatter Energy Plants
I was under the impression that Cilium was one of the more common choices for Kubernetes CNI but judging by the other comments... maybe not?

We’re currently moving to Kubernetes for our infrastructure at the Berkeley OCF (https://ocf.berkeley.edu/), and picked Cilium for all the networking things.

It’s good to see that there’s a company backing it now!
True - perfect example of buy the rumour, sell the news.
You are holding it wrong, you aren't supposed to use a laptop on your lap :)
Apple is in the business of making money not pushing the industry towards benefiting users.
Many anti-cheat rootkits detect VM and blocks you.
You're completely ignoring that flying the 737 MAX without MCAS is not an automatic death sentence. Meanwhile a malfunctioning MCAS is actually an automatic death sentence.

The big flaws are in the software, not in the hardware. So stop focusing on that.
If the camera of the MacBook Pro 13 is as shitty as it is today, it's not worth it.
> I always felt that Polish words were just too long

You might like the movie about Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKZclMWS1U
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I listen to NPR a lot while driving. For several years now, I have been keeping a sort of mental rally of the topics discussed, after noticing a trend. At least 9 out of 10 segments (other than news or programs like Wait Wait Don't Tell Me) are about women, black, or homosexual success/suffering. For a straight white male there is only education of others; there is no real sense of sympathy, only empathy. I wonder what effects this may have in the long term.
i was just about to have another kid recently. to be honest, my thoughts were: please let it be a girl. like some other people mentioned - i also grew up around bar fights, drugs, football fans, etc.

as a parent, i can only influence the kid to a certain degree. i believe most of the work is done by the environment, school, society. i just feel there's a higher chance for a boy to become an aggressive/pathological individual and hurt other people, because girls are not exposed to as much bullshit and toxicity.
Unfortunately we are still quite far from the safe computing platforms they were using at Xerox (Interlisp-D, Smalltalk, Mesa and Mesa/Cedar).

The best we have gotten so far are the hybrids .NET/Windows, JME, Android Java/Linux, Chrome/Linux, Swift/iOS/macOS.
as someone with 3 sisters I also welcome reality. Just enroll your kids to judo or some other sports if competition is what they need.

only point I find sane is that we need more male teachers but its more like a market problem assuming man can do this job well in case of high demand (good salary)
Ignoring your political reason as completely unrelated to the article.

On the practical side, do you know any language that uses Cyrillic alphabet? If no, then you are not used to it and this is why it looks awkward, blocky, etc. and cursive is not a nightmare and is very readable, much so like cursive text written in English.

If you do know any language that uses Cyrillic, can you provide examples to support your characterizations?