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Second-chance queue.

I've had several submissions re-upped. I nominate others (via email) on occaision. '2nd chance nom', plus submission link.

Do NOT ask me to do this --- I base my recommendations on what strikes me as 1) credible content 2) that seems underappreciated. The submission queue ("new" link in top menue) is quite busy.
Postgres views and functions that contain info you might want to know about a Postgres instance

You can click on them and it will tell you more.
No one was hating on Musk's public speaking skills before that. People were saying he is hard to follow but that's different.

Besides that, yes not having planned speeches and speaking your mind unfiltered are traits that I would absolutely expect to see in the same person. They are different expressions of the same thinking process. I'm sure a lot of us have read that Thailand is were pedos go etc. But most people would have the restrain to not call someone attacking them a pedo.
Ah I hate those buggers. I made the mistake of ordering just enough of them once and I'd lost three before I got the first one on the board :(
Catch em all:

> wget -m -p -E -k -K -np https://iis-people.ee.ethz.ch/\~gmichi/
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> let's be honest if there was a good alternative we would already be using it

No one's using the SMR's that are proposed here either. They're hoping to get the first one online in 10 years. A lot of nuclear fans get excited about unproven future tech when it comes to nuclear and then dismiss non-nuclear alternatives for being unproven future tech.
The integrated GPU isn't the problem. The MBP only uses the dGPU for external monitors. The problem is that the dGPU driver/firmware/whatever is broken so it runs at a minimum of 8W even when there's no work to do, overloading the thermals.

The 2019 16" MPB made this problem far worse, raising the minimum dGPU to 18W, making external displays almost completely unusable for more than 1hr at a time unless you put the laptop aside in an external cooling solution (stand and fans) where you can't ergonomically use the integrated keyboard.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cruel-an...
and degrating Personal Computer into machine under control of someone else, attacking rights of the person and stripping people from privacy completely is not a wasteful thing to do? I mean, it's a garbage by defintion and sure, it takes time for people to understand this, but this machine is useless by design for freedom respecting society, it's not a waste? it's a huge waste of resources I would say. Returning product doesn't add to this too much of waste, it simply tells what it is.
Interesting read. Thanks!

However, isn't this also what Inversion principle all about?
> Fascinating video that answered my question about why bother replicating 30 year old hardware. I had no idea that vintage hardware was going for such high prices.

I guess it depends on exactly which hardware. Looks like a SB16 can be had for $20 on ebay, or $40 'new' in shrink wrapped box.
Not that it's a good thing (it's not), but this is the reality we live in thanks to millions of years of evolution. Culture can distort and twist our genetic imperatives, but can never actually roll them back.
> Functions, Web Apps, Storage, Application Insights

What are the issue with these? What's missing/could be better?
From the end of the article:

> Despite these benefits, you should be very cautious about using CQRS. Many information systems fit well with the notion of an information base that is updated in the same way that it's read, adding CQRS to such a system can add significant complexity. I've certainly seen cases where it's made a significant drag on productivity, adding an unwarranted amount of risk to the project, even in the hands of a capable team. So while CQRS is a pattern that's good to have in the toolbox, beware that it is difficult to use well and you can easily chop off important bits if you mishandle it.
neat! i have my own version of this i use to run my life. it doesn't show it as a grid, but it lists them out in those four quadrants.

also, i use "importance" over "impact". why did you choose impact over importance? high impact doesn't necessarily mean high importance.
Can the key exchange even be both automatic and secure?
That is the problem. In _2015_ I bought a tablet PC (!) which had 16GB of RAM. I've been having 16GB of RAM as standard/minimum for at least 5 years already. And it was on the same pricing that these 2020 machines which have 16GB of RAM _as a maximum_.

I am not willing the entertain the idea "more RAM is no longer possible nor necessary", either. Software keeps creeping up as usual (MS Teams _by itself_ uses >2GB, and I have already complained dearly -- Teams is basically a glorified IRC client!).
And next year if not this year already it's highly likely my phone will have 16GB of RAM. My phone! On my pocket!

It's just ridiculous that a $1200 laptop has 8 GB, and it is just unbelievable it maxes out at 16GB. Looks designed to be thrown away next year.
> NixOS, my friend. NixOS.

Is there an option that doesn't require everyone who uses it to learn an entirely new language?
And here [1] is a simple script to audit your daemons for canaries. It says unmaintained, but it still works fine. I've seen newer forks, but they add cruft that requires people to install things. This script only requires bash.

[1] - https://www.trapkit.de/tools/checksec.html
The memory limit was the dealbreaker for me, but I've seen people mention several others for their uses cases - no eGPUs, weak multi-monitor support out-of-the-box, etc.

Apple obviously knows that a lot of people rely on those power-user features, so I'm sure at some point you'll be able to buy an ARM Mac with 128GB RAM that you can hook 6 monitors up to.

I do think starting at the low end makes sense for Apple though. These machines will sell mostly to everyday folks who just use a handful of common apps - I wouldn't be surprised if Safari is the #1 app used on these machines. That gives Apple a start to this transition, without the reputational hit that might have occurred if they sold a bunch of machines to power users right away. We'll whine a little bit that the machines weren't what we wanted, and then we'll just wait for the M1X machines. But that's better than if we all bought M1X MacBook Pros yesterday and then were disappointed when a couple of crucial apps didn't work yet. This "flattens the curve" of application incompatibility reports if you will.
Intel processors use Intel designed throttling solutions... which exist to keep their own processors from overheating because they have no control over the final implementation.

These new M1 laptops are the first laptops that have complete thermal solutions designed by a single company.

As an example, there is the potential to design a computer with no throttling at all if you are able to control the entire thermal design.
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I don’t believe the internet has told me everything. This planet, life and the universe has infinite interesting things to look at, learn etc.

I think the internet tells me things that are profitable to those telling me those things. And it is caught up in the loop of things like ad dollars, lifestyle biz etc.

That is why it is boring. If people created stuff based on passion instead of profit, it would become interesting again
This is intended. They should stop selling things that attack privacy and freedom of a person, or this concept is not your priority and you are ok to have computer controlled COMPLETELY by someone else, which means ZERO privacy?

PS: Well, this one is downvoted too. Looks like some lost even a sense of what PERSONAL computer means.

OK. Keep downvoting! it's a good strategy to silence someone when there are no valid arguments.
What PC are you thinking about that is both powerful and portable?
It's far worse on the new ones (18W vs 8W) and the problem occurs on almost all monitors, even 2560x1440.
This is a particularly nasty thing; if you are innocent and plead your innocence you will be penalized. If a plea bargain is just why should it be withheld ? The answer of course is that it is cheaper for the system to get people through without a serious trial; what value does a society like that truly put on liberty?
hahaha what a perfect comment. of course, someone built a 3d version of a todo app. omg that's hilarious and awesome at the same time.

i've been wondering about adding that axis to my EM for a long time and this is how i find it.
I think the original poster was communicating they were aware of the opportunity cost given they had such a job. I don't think the message was that it was a baseline normal thing, just their previous circumstance.
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I thought 16 GB never seemed saturated until I installed 64 GB. The OS will definitely use more if you have more. It seems like I use typically around 32 GB.
Zelle Has Turned Dollar-Starved Venezuela into a Cashless Test Lab
Nope. I like HN as simple as possible
I agree this will improve, but I think the previous commenter was referring to these particular models.

I was considering the 13 inch until i noticed only 2 Thunderbolt/USB 4 ports. There is a $100 discount from the equivalently configured Intel Pro. I guess that is for the external USB4 hub you'll need. The lack of a 32 GB option also gives me pause.

Looks like I am holding out for the 16 inch with the M1X...
A theory is the pinnacle of scientific achievement - a complete series of observations, equations, processes etc. that come together to describe a phenomenon.

There is nothing that we know with a higher degree of certainty then a scientific theory, such as the theory of evolution, the theory of general relativity, the theory of quantum mechanics, the theory of newtonian mechanics etc.
I thought this statement from the article had more than a hint of truth to it: "Figma in Electron may destroy your battery, but that destruction will take twice as long, if not more, with an A-series chip inside!"
Agree, this is definitely a use case where multi platform is a big plus since the whole idea is to share data.
No, you just don't pay it and that means you save.
What Is a Project Manager Anyway?
Not sure why you've been down-voted for this.
Deep-Sea Sounds
Does that means sharing between ios and android as well?
>Taxation of WFH people is like taxing vegetarians because the tax revenue from sugar tax is too low.

How is sugar consumption related to meat eating?
Dedicated/external GPUs are 10x as powerful as internal ones. Apple doesn't have a miracle technology that can make a fanless 2080 Ti. AMD and Nvidia arent stopping improving cards just because M1 exists
Many third party repair shops are pretty bad and Apple goes out of their way to make sure those shops stay bad. It's very hard to get good when you cannot access parts or schematics. Apple does everything they can to sabotage the repair community so they can keep up this excuse.
> just not portable

That's because the base model doesn't come with Apple Wheel. They're only 700$.
That's simply what they want you to think.

1) Half the stuff won't work if you solder them properly anyway.

2) Apple should not be worrying about the shoddy job repair shops might do. It's not their business. What they could do is ask for every 3rd party repair shop to declare that they are not Apple certified clearly in their website/storefront.
Might have been changed because foone doesn't like our threads. Glad it was posted again though because they always post good content.
If you don’t like where you live you can move somewhere else[1]

1. Economics[2]

2. You not having friends was a prepandemic and a you problem
Is this the same UK Govt that's currently throwing money at small businesses and guaranteeing 0% interest loans?

I agree that Kickstart program does advantage bigger firms but are not these the firms who are more likely to provide worthwhile training and experience to youngsters rather than, to use your example, just to provide a bit free labour to app developers?
When configured properly, xsecurelock does fix this type of bug. The key is to use the -l option of xss-lock, which passes a lock file descriptor to xsecurelock and waits for it to be closed before allowing the suspend.

https://github.com/google/xsecurelock#automatic-locking
I maintain a folder with bookmarks of particular users' comments pages.
You literally earn 6 times my salary, and I bought my first house, paid cash, no loans after saving a bit a few years.

How do you even manage to burn so much money?
> Apple does have relatively good live collaboration in its iWork apps

Does it? As much as i like the iWork apps, my experience (and impression of the general sentiment) has shown that Google Docs et al continues to blow the pants off iWork in that regard
Implemented CQRS+ES design pattern recently in F# and postgres. The query side kept changing due to business needs, while the command side remained the same.

In our case, queries state aka projection were asynchronous which made it very flexible and fast to work with. Projection could live anywhere, within the web server, redis or just database.
SMRs are used in Nuclear Subs are they not? What we are talking about here is using them for civilian power.

The unproven bit is the use of factories to make Lego-like peices for the construction.
Not at the company I work for.
how do you know people want this?
How long ago was the dominant libertarian scene? I've been reading for about 7 years and it's definitely been heavy liberal with the occasional libertarian belief even back then. Since 2016 it's been full throated liberalism though.
You don’t need magic. You have tons of cheaper ways to reduce your fossil fuel use. Efficiency in building upgrades is almost always the cheapest way to reduce heating emissions. Geothermal is next.

I also strongly agree with the other reply’s point - reducing the amount of money made in raising a cow or increasing the cost of building a nuclear submarine has an attritive impact on both. Those strategies work, potentially better than any other strategy!
Ask HN: How to Take Good Notes?
Having never gone to college and coasting my way through high school I never really learned good study habits, but I'm trying to change that now. I'm currently reading Design Data Intensive Applications and forcing myself to take notes. I have noticed that it helps me retain information much better than just reading, but I feel like I'm extremely inefficient. I am almost rewriting the whole book sentence by sentence as I got through the chapters.

How do you figure out what's "important"? How do you take notes on those important things in a concise manner?
because printing is not unique functionality of this command. Most of the commands do that.
Because Zen 3 has been out for a week
Why an IDE?
Covid-19 Beta
> there's polling on it

Ironic, right? How do we trust any political based polling that got things so very wrong the past two elections?
That is very plausible, and it might even be the case that once free oxygen started building up in the atmosphere (from about 2.5 bn years ago, accelerating after 1 bn ya), the environment had become chemically unsuitable.

Another consequence of free oxygen is the formation of an ozone layer, reducing the UV flux at the surface. I guess the significance of that depends on whether UV helped or hindered the process.
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Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity in Words of Four Letters or Less
I'd say it depends on the lecturer and how the lecture is held. Some read it specifically for the notes to be taken. And it is assumed that students would learn from these notes afterwards, which are much more concise compared to textbooks.
Well, neither I, nor anybody at the startup I work at apparently (it would seem) has been able to figure it out.

Out of curiosity, how many hours do you think it would take to get the compile time down? I wonder if we could find somebody to help us with that.
There is definitely an overlap.
I like how GraphQL essentially popularized the advantages of a CQRS (without Event Sourcing!) approach for your public API by explicitly giving you different DTOs for queries and mutations. It's a pretty neat way of enforcing this while not being a super heavy handed framework like for instance Axon + Spring Boot tends to be.
To each his own, I'm close to saturating 2013 32G iMac almost every day. To me personally, anything less than 64-128G these days is a joke, especially given how cheap the ram is (non-integrated, of course).
Its difficult to think different if you're the world's largest company and dominate the phone market. In laptops it looks like they are differentiating themselves very well.
That's a 100 year old rule based on the traditional permanence of paper. Not because it's accessible. Old people largely don't have the eyesight to read the newspaper effectively. They aren't combing the classifieds for legal notices.
Yesiree. We scientists know better. Take, for example, the atomic bomb.
It almost feels like they've intentionally limited this batch to 16G so that next year they can say "We've Quadrupled the RAM!"
I think that yes it would be nice but I also fear that the downside is that it may create a fealty effects where followers tend to upvote and back up their "leaders". Twitter already exists, we don't want a another one. I even suspect that it has been thought of and rejected for that very reason. Anyway there are workarounds if you really want that but let's not make it too easy either.
pgmetrics [1] is an open source tool that can collect information from most of the views/functions described here. Can emit that information in text or JSON formats.

[1] https://pgmetrics.io
While I appreciate that Rolls Royce isn’t going to pivot to insulating old houses anytime soon, there are far cheaper ways to solve energy supply/demand problems.

Given that a large portion of this almost always ends up funded by a government, though, I wish the UK government would spend efficiently instead of on megaprojects. Emissions could be so much lower right now.
Or just oxidized by all this pesky oxygen the damn photosynthesis keeps leaking all over the place.
This reminds me when I figured out how to get into a desktop from a locked Windows machine (can't remember which one, maybe 95). It was my "party trick" for a while and friends thought I am a hacker. Then I learned this was commonly known and later nobody believed me I found it on my own.
I don't want to be too pessimistic but, this will fail.
It won't scale. Look at medium, I read it when it was free then I stopped once the paywall hit.

I think news needs public help. and public funding
One model I've heard about, is to get news into the not-for-profit category, give it full tax exception and make the conditions of that status such that it has to meet standards and not have an editorial line.

News has always been owned by wealthy people who did it in the public good and to use it as a tool of control. I think we need to be very eyes open to the distortion and conflict corporate owners eventually have with their news outlets.

Happy to be wrong btw.
Would love to experience a VR version of this
Pure mathematics I believe it's a field on its own: for one, you have salaries but no huge costs with equipment/material.

The work is also more independent and not connected to anything outside of mathematics in principle (though the work might evolve to something interesting to huge backers, think Number Theory or Control Theory/Finance/etc)
Yep. These projects continue to be military-industrial at worst, and corporate handouts at best.
Given 'pwd -P' may very well print out a different but equally usable path then it brings to my mind the need for two separate commands:
rwd "relative working directory" (no sym link resolution)
awd "absolute working directory" (sym link resolution)

Also, "pwd -A" where A means ABSOLUTE is easier to remember than "-P" for physical. I never hear anyone talk about physical directories. When people are talking about resolving sym links they talk about absolute versus relative paths. Seems like a good historical research topic to understand why the canonical usage is "physical" that no one uses versus relative/absolute paths that are actually used.
My view is that they solved voice communication first - that was their original use case. Reliable multi-party voice is a harder problem than text chat and means that you can't/don't just rely on Electron for everything. Their product is a way to 'sell' some good non-trivial (but not groundbreaking) engineering.

Whereas Slack is successful because it understood it's usecase well (including how to sell to enterprises).
There are contributors and committers in the Arrow project working to resolve this. We recently removed specialization from the core Arrow crate and we plan on doing the same for the Parquet crate.
Arguably, local papers failed because local businesses in smaller cities and towns got hollowed out by big box stores and there was no ad revenue coming from corporate HQ to support the papers. It's not the newspapers that were broken, it's the regional economies of towns that are bedroom communities with fewer locally owned businesses. It's globalization, basically.

A news organization is fundamentally just a political actor that needs patronage to keep convincing people to maintain patronage, where a media business that uses news requires a local advertising market that is a function of the local-ness of the economy. Maybe the real future of news is a kind of secular community church supported by donations and tithes or wealthy patrons, which people use for topical moral lessons and sermons, and as a community hub. Substack, The Intercept, NPR, and to some extent Quillette, are like that. Towns will have "news pastors," and media companies will install people in remote outposts to instill their culture in the populace.

The conceit of journalists who think they are a 5th estate of society and somehow necessary is completely divorced from the economics of what made their trade viable. Journalism is advertising to sell advertising. It's the carnival barker or pamphleteer who brings in rubes to clip coupons and view ads. Just because very-serious news is the fancy freakshow doesn't change its economics. The media business is about hiring people to make spectacles of themselves and selling advertising on it. (hence social media dominated) Without relevant regional advertisers, there is no business.

Paid/subscription content (like Substack) is an oddly unique business model in that it's a super premium direct product that is not subsidized by advertising. It's not actually a media business but we think it is because it hawks writing, but it's really more like an art/spiritual patronage broker than a media business.
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Why is that a problem? I would rather have a doge from a good family, who has been exposed to international trade and great power politics from birth, than one who was sweeping out the stables three days ago.

The non-elite are not inherently purer than the elite, and they are generally less well-educated. I am not certain how 'elite' has become a bad thing: shouldn't we all aspire to be among the elite?

I thought that there was some real genius to the English system, which at one time provided voices for both the great families and the citizenry, roughly balanced under the Crown. So too the U.S. system of senatorial selection prior to the passage of the 17th Amendment.
No. This is not twitter. This would only make HN worse, as another user just noticed - you'd get the Twitter-like issue of followers upvoting their leaders and downvoting everyone who has ever disagreed with them. If you find someone interesting, just read through their comments history periodically. No subscription needed.