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> Would these first gen ARM chips not be obsolete by a few years before wearing out the SSD?

Obsolete, who defines that?

I'm typing this on a MBP 2015. Still works perfectly fine (I did have screen replaced under warranty). Battery is replaceable on this machine, its sitting at ~85% capacity with 500 cycles. Apple hardware tends to have good resale value, too.

Performance-wise, hardware tends to last longer and longer. Repairability-wise, yeah, that's a can of worms of a discussion.
Apple to push ahead with controversial privacy feature opposed by Facebook
Like inciting crowds to chant "Lock her up!"?
The Sparrow is an excellent but distributing book.
Slowing down of the earth is caused by wind turbines, just as extracting energy from the tides causes the moon to fall towards the earth. When the earth will have completely stopped rotating, and the moon be dangerous close to the earth, that will be yet another shitshow. And they call this "renewable energy"?

P.S.: not serious
You are not only conflating megabytes (MB) with megabits (mb) but you are also conflating latency (a site loading) with throughput (a buffered video playing).
Some of that did actually happen with AMD64, so dropping 32bit support would be a step in that direction.

Almost no one else is in Apple’s position of vertical integration though, except perhaps for the console makers.
I just updated the landing page to lazy load. Thanks for the suggestion.
I'm surprised House of Leaves isn't mentioned, a terrific book about a house bigger on the inside full of labyrinths.
Yes. Separation between church and state (and wealth and mass media and journalism and politics)

Civil marriage and some wills should be replaced with a property and next of kin registered document. This way, any number and type of people can formally-declare what they want to do with property and health, financial, and total power of attorney. Insurance companies and other service products can then determine who is eligible to share benefits based on if someone is listed as a partner or beneficiary, or not. No more titles, relations, or mandates about who is what or how into two boxes: just beneficiaries and partners.

A couple have a kid? No problem.

Two women want to get hitched? Easy.

Three dudes want to live polyamorously and be "married?" Cool. (Obviously, can't let 30 people in a commune share the benefits of one worker.)

A dude and a trans girl? Fine.

The same document solves some problems of inheritance too when it can obviate the need for executors in simple estates.

Telling people who they can love, share their lives with, and depend on goes against individual freedoms.
It would be great if YouTube let creators pay for hosting directly (just like other web hosts) if they wanted to maintain the ad-free experience for their viewers.

(YouTube monetizes directly with its viewers too: https://www.youtube.com/premium )
Bandwidth is the easy part for most cases. The software/operations requirements and the network effects are huge and crushing.
I've long thought this was an interesting model, and I've known that Amazon follows it, or at least did at one time.

I wouldn't overstate it though -- the ability to tolerate a week of something does not necessarily extrapolate to a month or a year.

A week in the rainforest is an adventure. A life in the rainforest is difficult and short.

But I don't intend any criticism of Bezos. He has done the math on warehouse employee satisfaction as a contributor to corporate goals, and made his decision.

The scrappy days of packing his own shipments are long past, and that experience gives him not-much insight into the working conditions for the people in his warehouses.

That's fine, but it's not a basis for deification.
I'm sure it increases conversion rate for the seller, especially for expensive purchases.
I have no clue, I live in a different country so nothing for me to consider.

However, Facebook's product has declined a lot since 10 years ago. Many educated users have left the platform, low quality content and even conspiracy theories and hate speech seem to flourish. I worked myself with a product that was nice engineering but questionable in its customer benefits for a couple of years. Not very satisfying in longer term.
I'm currently working myself into rust, and yes, it is certainly a mighty inconvenience. Probably of my setup, I can't tell yet.

In java with a good IDE, you can ^Space yourself through a lot of problems without knowing the libraries too much. And even if you don't just pick the first thing sounding right, scrolling through the documentation of the auto suggested methods is very convenient.

On the other hand, my dev-laptop currently has about 20 different rust-doc pages open at the moment to keep track of ... the methods Iter<T> has, the methods IterTools has, Vec has, Slices have, what package FromStr was in again, what methods a str::fmt::Formatter has to implement Display to implement Error (that needs to be imported), where HashMap is, what methods those have...

I've been there multiple times over the last decade or two with multiple languages and rust is compelling enough to work through that.

But if you compare the ergonomics of modern java, go or python IDEs with my current vscode+rust-analyze state, rust isn't winning on IDE ergonomics. At least in my setup.

And that's very much a part of language choice.
Most file types are not supported in browsers. Only a few are. A "download file" dialog is not a bad experience. Treating .swf like a normal file type would both be easier and better in all ways.
An exploit demo? An incriminating email? Testimony from Chavez's ghost? Hell, I'd take a suspicious correlation between firmware version and vote count, even. I'm not picky.

But that's the problem, isn't it? You want the standard of evidence for reporting an allegation (e.g. "the election was stolen") to place the burden of proof on the listener ("Well, you can't prove the election was NOT stolen, can you?").

And that's pretty much the definition of "fake news". It's a lie. And they tell the lie because they know you'll believe it. And that's the problem. Not "information overload".
I have been interviewed twice for articles in Wired and once for Chemical & Engineering News. The resulting articles fairly represented what I said in the interviews and also treated the overarching article subject well.

I generally don't put much stock in anecdotes, but if others are sharing "the press always gets it wrong" anecdotes I might as well share my more positive ones.
You mean just like how the context will disambiguate the meaning of "master"?
This is an honest question so I hope it doesn't come off in the wrong light. If you don't like it here? Why do you continue to visit and interact?
It's ok I have fixed the graph ! Thanks again :)
Is anyone still excited about differentiable programming? At least in NLP it seems like a lot of the energy has shifted to large scale overparameterized models like BERT, e.g. you don't need arbitrary control flow in your model, all you need is attention.
It's ok I have fixed the graph now ! Thanks for your feedback !! :)
This is why I created my own on Discord: The DevOps Lounge (https://discord.gg/MTzBvSS). I've been on IRC a long, long time and frankly it's a garbage heap these days. Forums are slow and chunky with the exception of the Stack Exchange (and even this has its limits.)

I'm not saying real-time, Discord based chat is better, but what I will say is I run a tight ship: there's no room for politics, religion, elitism or NSFW. Everyone is welcome and no one is above anyone else, including me and my mods.
I think you’re analysis is basically correct. The only creators attracted to YouTube alternatives are those that have been forced off YouTube. You see the same thing with 8chan, Gab, and now Parler.

Now niche doesn’t necessarily mean “cesspool of hate”, but that is a niche. For a while Vimeo seemed to be the place where I found embeds of art videos, so I attributed that niche to it, but I can’t remember the last time I saw a Vimeo embed. YouTube has sucked all the air out of the room. To underline this point, I hadn’t even heard of Bitchute until now.
How does that at all rebut what the person you're responding to has said? I've read your quote multiple times trying to see how it at all presents a "credible proposal to only allow the government approved version of truth."
Is it possible to have a liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen airplane?

Essentially a rocket on wings. The fuel (hydrogen and oxygen) can be produced electrically from renewable sources.
I think here's a good suggestion from the article:

"... make it more difficult to create and share low-quality information. This could involve adding friction by forcing people to pay to share or receive information. Payment could be in the form of time"

This could mean a simple rule such as: "You can only post once a day (for free)"
Some of the moderators are even there for 10 years. Reddit should have an obsolescence plan
You can email dang (the admin) and let him know you promise to behave in the future and he'll lift your ban. I've seen him make the offer dozens of times in threads.

Then maybe freshen up on the rules or whatever.

I do not think many people are shadowbanned. Most people comment in a way that doesn't violate the commenting guidelines.
It's pretty hilarious that you picked the Trump Tower meeting as one of the most incriminating parts of the Mueller report:

> The centerpiece of the Trump/Russia conspiracy – the Trump Tower meeting – was such a dud that Jared Kushner, halfway through the meeting, texted Manafort to declare the meeting “a waste of time,” and then instructed his assistant to call him so that he could concoct a reason to leave.

https://theintercept.com/2019/04/18/robert-mueller-did-not-m...
1MB seems to be a bit much...

A few years ago I wrote a little blog software which is based completely on JS functionality (including i18n and page transition animations) and doesn't work without it. So much so that no search engine ever finds the posts (my mistake, if you would do it right, that should not be a problem nowadays).

And yet, loading a page is less than 1 MB. In fact, loading the HTML and JS only, the page would fit in 100kb. The Webfonts are responsible for most of the traffic.
Google is testing end-to-end encryption in Android Messages
Depends what sort of website really. If it’s best described as an app, Svelte seems good. Rather than having a big feature-filled runtime it does most of its work at compile time, so your bundle is almost always much smaller than something like React or Vue.

If it’s just a static or almost static content I’d lean more towards just plain HTML, maybe with a little server templating.
As I said in a comment around here somewhere (probably above, if you can see the irony in that) there is a sorting algorithm I like that potentially solves the problem you bring up that can be found here https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/docs/src/about_r... it is characterized by ranking votes on a logarithmic scale rather than a linear one.

One of the goals of all this is to automate moderation as effectively as possible without impacting the social dynamics of the community. At some point manual moderation does not scale.
This is great news. It offers a lot of what the author wants (except the speed of WSL2).

I would expect it to be less-complete than WSL1 (it looks like Linux, until you look it from up close) but faster, because it doesn't try as hard to be a Linux.
I m starting to see the uselessness of down/upvote. Apart from reporting spam, maybe it's better to do away with them

In HN, people tend to pile up on the topmost comment and create enormous trees of comments, just because the next top comment is way too far down
If you think that way, you likely are not part of the intended audience.
There should be a penalty for spreading lies. And further your reach, the bigger the number of followers you have, the bigger the penalty should be.
Show HN: Goaccess Ansible Role
Was that before or after this:

> My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in. There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name.

https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
What you are experiencing is called the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, named for the author who confirmed the phenomenon in a famous neurological study. There's a short story my Michael Crichton about it you can probably find on Google.
ah I like this one, thanks!
That’s a huge extrapolation from “many people aren’t wearing masks” to “complete denial that this is real”.

Beginning of August the deaths per capita in the 7 county Twin Cities area were four times the rate of the rest of the State. It has reduced to only 2.5 times now.

Basically for the first seven months, the COVID fatality rate in the rest of the State was comparable to the 17-18 flu season, perhaps a little better. Folks would reasonably ask why worry...

Given the Twin Cities have had over twice the COVID fatalities per capita is spite of an arguably superior health care system, the city folks themselves aren’t in much of a position to preach what works...
First of three roles I'm long-overdue publishing this weekend, be very grateful for any feedback! :-)
I can't do that across processes, though, can I? (to see whether two processes have file descriptors pointing to the same open file) edit -- it does look like it works cross-process!

I hadn't heard of CRIU. I'll check that out. (edit: CRIU looks super useful. I think the speed/overhead of snapshotting will decide whether I can use it for this project, but I can imagine it being handy in the future regardless. Thanks for the link.)
I am a high-school dropout myself and am mostly self-taught. I started a locksmith business in the Denver metro area when I was 21 and taught myself how to pick locks, open vehicles and service locks on homes, automobiles and businesses and a ton of other things as well. I did use books and videos to learn. I switched to software engineering when I was 30 and did the same thing.

I don't think learning specific material in school is really that important but more so the learning how to learn combined with "creativity". We have far too many people in this world who are good at following instructions but what we really need in my opinion is people who are creative and can solve tough problems, not follow instructions.

Learning things along the way is easy if there is a solid creative base and persistence.

I suppose there can be some highly specialized areas where you need to be in school the whole way and get certifications etc (e.g. surgeon, law).

But in practicality, I want to have creative children who grow up to be multi-talented and have confidence that they can learn whatever they need to learn to solve problems of the modern world. This is why we send them to a Waldorf school.
Looks like it's been there since (at least) 2000: https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/bf566b202ec879d5...
They have identified four types of smoke plume. But they only reconstruct three types of material in the warehouse: fireworks, tires and ammonium nitrate. Aren't they missing something?
Elixir was extremely helpful to me! It didn't always help me understand _why_ code was written the way it was (hence my incorrect use of rcu_read_lock), but it was very helpful to see some examples.
@dang: I think we have another user with some reasonable looking comments who's been incorrectly shadowbanned: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Technically
In my experience: Julia, Java, C++. Lack of libraries in a pain; OTOH the quality of most libraries (in general) tends to be poor.

Examples of library issues: there is C++ support in tensor flow, but not for training.
I think you're on to something very important here. Bad indexing hurts UX. Many reddit users complain of seeing the same question asked daily. Usually this is attributed to laziness on the part of the asker, but more often than not I feel it is a failure of UX design, specifically indexing.
True, but it has some of the features the author mentions he would like from WSL1 (such as the bi-directional visibility), and, being open-source, if they really want it, they can always add it.
It does not try to tame the existing firehose, but instead gives a new stream that is limited to only to trustworthy journalists who are bound by our editorial policy (https://www.forthapp.com/docs/policy.html), and with substantive updates.

We know people go to Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/etc to read news because of the convenience, even if it can be riddled with misinformation or just low quality information (i.e. "7 celebrities without makeup!"). We're taking that convenience and backing it up with journalistic integrity.
>The subset of people that (a) had Apple laptops, (b) run Linux on them, ... Yes, what a big lucrative market: relatives of people who run Linux on their Macs t...

Technical people moving away from using Apple's new properietary hardware that literally can't boot any OS but Mac OS will mean they can't help their friends and family as easily due to lack of familiarity.
I feel like it'd be more productive to reduce the CO2 per MB (e.g. using a 100% renewable-energy-powered hosting provider, pressuring ISPs to use renewables, pressuring power companies to use renewables, etc.) than to reduce the MB in this case.
Forecasting Election Results: Interactive Tutorial demonstrating Martingale
How does their search and spam filter compare to gmail?
This is exactly what motivated the split between r/bicycling and r/cycling on reddit. Though there are other subs where even text posts seem to be clustered around beginner posts.
I apologize if I'm missing something here, but if casual users don't care about performance, what's the overhead here?
There are so many things on feature parity, but the button layout and general jist of np++ is just perfect.

If I could run a swiftUI style np++ with the buttons in exactly the same places & exact feature parity it'd be a dream.
That's a good point. I'm hoping that this never gets hit, and if that line ever appears in the logs, then things are already broken. However, it's probably better to improve the failure mode where possible :)

[edit] and yes, since we break and don't follow the `next` pointer in the linked list, that also shouldn't cause any problems.

[edit 2] a sibling comment by cesarb pointed out that printk actually does not block, since it's important for it to be usable in critical sections to debug when the kernel gets into trouble
> wasn't 100% GNU compatible

But, but... GNU's Not UNIX!
I think it's between a test written inside a comment (where smart IDE features don't apply) versus `#[test]` in normal code, where you have a rich editing environment and instant feedback (including `cargo build` failing immediately on errors).

Perhaps it's just my perception, but doctests (in comments) seem slower to run.
Ironically, the accredited investor income and net worth criteria haven’t been updated since 1983. If the criteria has been indexed to inflation, you’d need a salary of $530k or a net worth of $2.6M.
Hard-Mode Eye Chart
ODBL license has a clear requirement

> notice associated with the Produced Work reasonably calculated to make any Person that uses, views, accesses, interacts with, or is otherwise exposed to the Produced Work aware that Content was obtained from the Database

Hiding "attribution" in places where typical user will never visit (for example in menus hidden inside barely visible "i" symbol) clearly violates it.
There's an enormous cache of historic SWFs hosted here [1] and it would be awesome if the Internet Archive could archive them, so they won't get lost. However, there are far too many to individually add.

My personal favorites would be the Demented Cartoon Movie [2], Weebl and Bob's transdimensional portal [3] (which is located under the stairs) and of course The End of the World [4]. They all load perfectly in Ruffle [5].

[1] https://locker.phinugamma.org/swf/

[2] SWF: https://locker.phinugamma.org/swf/albinoblacksheep/demented%... | Video: https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/demented

[3] http://www.venue.nu/infusions/the_kroax/uploads/movies/Weebl...

[4] SWF: https://locker.phinugamma.org/swf/albinoblacksheep/end%28www... | Video: https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end

[5] https://ruffle.rs/demo/
Instead of being an absolute number it should be a ratio of useful information/size, or a signal to noise ratio. It's quite hard to calculate in general, but it could probably be done by rendering the page something like Firefox's reader mode and taking that as the signal and the rest as the noise.
Ford actively preventing you from converting your car into a boat has nothing to do with them supporting such an option.
There's no @ notification on HN. If you want to contact staff, there's an email at the bottom of the page.
I'm too sad today to engage with this, but you're simply wrong about Arecibo "having done all the useful things it could do ages ago, and not finding anything new".

Here, for example, is Arecibo on the cover of Nature, in 2018: [1].
And you might want to look into NANOGrav [2]: you'll be hearing a lot more about it (I promise) in one or two years, depending on publication timelines.

[1] https://twitter.com/nature/status/951423495107481602
[2] http://nanograv.org/
It's borderline negligent to omit all mention of Gérard Fauré. The guy is hilarious. In which he claims coke made Johnny Hallyday gay, followed up shortly by "c'est quoi, le LGBT?": https://youtu.be/6LBSw79rI8g?t=1705
Using the phrase "cancerous growth" is really poor form. Do you really think a 300ms page load resembles someone fighting for their life?
Irrelevant. If developers abandon a platform (no matter how small a percentage they are) then the platform dies. Especially one like macOS where the only true environment to develop native compatibility is one of their machines itself.
Vodka is a Lisp, but instead of parentheses, it uses boxes. The yellow boxes around the words you typed before? Those are the equivalent of parentheses in Lisp.

It's a lisp environment! But I agree there should probably be a demo or some kind of interactive example.
There were so many of these - the original POSIX subsystem, MKS, Interix, a bunch I'm surely forgetting, Cygwin, etc.

None of them quite lived up to the design promise of a frictionless 'personality' OS layer on top of the existing OS. If anything, I'm curious how Microsoft, organizationally and
technically, decided to give this yet another go with WSL1 - perhaps 'fail fast' and switching to virtualization was something they'd considered as a plausible escape hatch from the start.
I'm not stating it was incriminating, I'm stating it's evidence of the campaign's involvement with Russia.

Clearly it wasn't incriminating, no charges were brought, but that's a strawman because the comment I'm replying to was about whether the campaign was involved with Russia, not whether anyone in the campaign was convicted of anything based on their involvement.
Exactly -- theyre trying to get whatever they can out of the website. We're hoping to create a more sustainable business model that doesnt turn off visitors.
> This is my biggest problem with the site, and the reason I don't use it. Each community is at the mercy of a small number of moderators who are free to shape the conversation in any way they wish.

Isn't this also the way with forums, especially niche ones?
Yes, that's very silly. It's entirely a question of scale, which is handwaved. You can also buy a gloplug fossil-fueled model airplane which can also accelerate vertically at ridiculous speeds.
OMG Internet Archive take my money now, well done, and thank you.

(https://archive.org/donate/ in case anyone else is feeling generous)
>Is it possible to have a liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen airplane?

Yeah, you just usually don't carry oxygen with you when you can get it free from the atmosphere, since it subtracts directly from your payload capacity.