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I hope coal burning goes away; but that will have a pretty outsized impact on my country (Australia), and the fact that we don’t tax the mining companies enough means our government could end up lacking the means to invest in things to help us transition away from being a mining focused country. It worries me.
Are "100%" drained crabs are effective bait?
I don't understand how does this particular thing prevent people from making more Qt and GTK themes though.
Looks like I'm too late for the 42 joke...
"Hey Sergey" is more catchy
Call me childish but I think "OK <profane insult>" would take a long time to wear thin.
I know AWS has certain bare metal instances that are expensive as all get out, that support virtualization.
I mostly agree with you, HTML is stuck in the mindset of the era it was created in, to represent static documents that are created once and are not supposed to ever change.

This is why I feel projects like htmx (https://htmx.org/docs/#introduction) can really be what HTML should be in the 21st century: a container for dynamic data fully driven by the server. It's all made possible with javascript of course, but the idea is to not write a single line of it of course.

There are so many things that would make the web a better platform, instead of every single website reimplementing: proper authentication and account management, proper payment for a better monetization, proper separation of application and data, ... instead it's gone deep down into the valley of extreme graphical customization to the point it's now impossible to create a browser from scratch that can respect all the specs
Wow!!! Really good explanation. Thank you so much
I’ve only been flagged once (that I recall) and I definitely wished I had some explanation. But I don’t feel suppressed by not having it. Just baffled. But then I’m baffled by a lot of what gets me downvoted too, and it’s... well, a heterogeneous community where I have some outlier opinions so I just carry on.
I used to do the same. Told my mom to buy that ticket, and explained to her she was wrong. And that made her sad to realize.

She buys the tickets because she enjoys the pleasure of forward predictions: what will she do with the money. Go to the bahamas, buy a villa. Relax.

That forward projection means dopamine and norephedrine release -- similar to taking a drug. She enjoys that pleasure that's why she buys it.
What a ridiculous comparison. Being blocked and banned from what is essentially a public forum, despite having something of value to add to the discussion, is absolutely in opposition to the concept of freedom of speech.
A good cash crop unfortunately...

To complete the picture, here is how you can drill the well in the first place:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn7twImE2ug
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The thing is that cryptocurrencies in their current form are generally good for the US and the dollar. The US is already a fairly open jurisdiction in that you can move money in and out of the country without too much hassle, that isnt the case for a place like China.

So stablecoins, which are vastly dominated by dollar denominated coins, actually increase the dominance of the dollar and allow people to get around chinese currency controls in ways I am not sure they like.

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3098981/c...
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> I don't know of any society that has had a social contract or laws to this effect, unless a person is maliciously, intentionally, spreading a disease.

It isn't much of a leap, honestly. Few societies permit me to drive drunk for instance, even if I genuinely intend to kill no one. And I assure I don't want to kill anyone ever. I'm a lover not a killer.
What’s that plan look like?
> 1) I'm sure the people in Victoria did a lot more things than wear masks. If you throw everything and the kitchen sink at a problem, it's very hard to figure out which of the things you did actually worked.

We were. But this was the only significant change during this period until stage 4 of lockdown started which reduced the reproductive rate further.

We clearly see the reproduction rate drop just after mandatory masks were introduced, in the absence of a better or even half plausible explanation it certainly looks like masks were the cause.

> The mask mandate went into effect on April 16th, and there's just zero correlation between that and the case curve.

As I said, they aren't magic, they won't stop the virus by themselves. You can't just wear masks and go about life as normal, but that does not mean that masks don't work at all.
> I don't know of any society that has had a social contract or laws to this effect, unless a person is maliciously, intentionally, spreading a disease.

Intentionally and maliciously is one thing, but there is a level below that, which is well-established: reckless endangerment, manslaughter, etc.

Not wearing a mask in the middle of a pandemic is somewhere within the ballpark of this, and it’s reasonable to enforce and punish it, as we do with other reckless behaviors.
Phil Muller had been storing all funds in his personal bank account. The community desired more control over how the funds were used so OpenCollective and CommunityBridge were elected for fund collection - although Phil still holds more in his account then is stored in both CO and CB combined.

Jonathon Fernyhough, a well known member of the Manjaro community, was placed in charge of managing the funds.

Phil wanted to use $2k to purchase a laptop for one of the developers and wanted to bypass the process. This resulted in a debate between the two and ultimately Phil fired him and made himself treasurer. The community took to the forums to inquire into what Phil was doing, and he began locking/deleting threads and banning moderators.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ManjaroLinux/comments/hwo33h/change...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23940824

https://linuxreviews.org/Manjaro_Linux_Lead_Developer_In_Hot...

That mixed with the deals he was cutting, proprietary software, as well as the SSL craziness (twice), really turned me off to them and I lost faith in the distro.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/31yayt/manjaro_forgo...
Showdead is a killer feature IMHO. I love it.
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> I value my personal liberty over all else, even if science says it increases my risk of contracting a serious virus.

As much as I find Objectivism distasteful, even they agreed the right to throw a punch ends at someone else's face.

It's not about you contracting a serious virus; the problem is you're going to spread it around unknowingly for days.
> but I'd still want to be asked. "By default, iCloud automatically keeps your Health app data, including health records, up to date across your devices." This is different from your interpretation (opt-in versus opt-out).

You are right. This is a meaningful distinction.
Oh so Gumroad is back to being more than a one-person show? (https://marker.medium.com/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build-... "the skeleton crew fizzled from five to one") That's pretty cool that it's back on the up and up.
"Why Masks Work BETTER Than You'd Think"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y47t9qLc9I4

"The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAdanPfQdCA

Masks were not recommended in the early stages of the pandemic in most countries because that would have cut into the limited supply of N95 masks that were prioritised for medical staff.

Then there wasn't much good evidence to show if COVID specifically could be stopped by masks, or if so, what kind of masks help and how much. Thankfully, many research groups took to the challenge and published paper after paper in rapid succession to show that, yes, masks help a lot, even if they're made at home from a t-shirt. E.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNeYfUTA11s

With the pandemic running rampant across the United States, the advice was updated.
Can you elaborate on the failed node project?
I also still keep my own collection of music. But streaming is good for discovering new things, yet I'm not subscribed to any streaming service. Reason being that the software they provide is universally terrible.

What I'd really like to see is streaming services offer an API for 3rd party clients to use, so that you could for example have a plugin for a competently architected music player like foobar2000, instead of having to use the unholy abomination that is itunes, for example.
You don't see how the economics works out because you are not factoring the client with the deepest pocket: the military.

Putting tin hat

The low orbit large non-stationary constellation of Starlink makes harder for other countries to deny service by attacking the satellites.

Also, the sensor fusion from modern jets need a point to point (to avoid possible compromised infrastructure), high bandwidth low latency communication. Starlink seems a great fit.

This is only based on what we know the system is capable of. Going on the realm of speculation, it is not difficult to imagine how a system, at low altitude, that cover the whole planet, can be used to eavesdrop communication from other countries.

Also, the satellites are made to have a right turnover, they can be always updated with the latest technology.

Lets not forget that the Arecibo Observatory (that collapsed this week) was made to listen for russian radio waves reflected from the moon. Maybe Starlink is the Arecibo 2.0

In summary, I think the Starlink is a military project subsided with paying customer. I wasn't made to make profit, it was made to make SpaceX a viable company in the long run.
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Idk if a monarchy where citizens are a small minority can be thought of this way.

It's like saying a company has lots of money saved. Doesn't matter much if the operation aren't profitable.

Economic activity ceasing is still what it is.

...in any case, gulf oil will likely be the last well abandoned. It's so cheap to produce that production can continue at very low oil prices. The last half of any adoption curve is long, and people will still consume some oil and gas for several more decades.
What about carbonated beverages? Those react with a lot of stuff
I know, but what difference does it make?

Around 1865 we reached the conclusion that it is the duty of the Government to protect some people from having their freedom taken away by some other people. Since then the Constitution started imposing restraints not only on the ability of the Government to curtail your freedom, but also the ability of your fellow citizens to do so. And this is a good thing.

But lately we started regressing. I'm talking about the cancel culture.

Do you think that if one day a person were to be physically tarred and feathered by a crowd of puritans because of some perceived transgression, that is ok? But then if the tarring and feathering is in the digital world, and much more permanent (nothing is forgotten on the internet), is that ok?

The end result is that people learn there are some things you can say, some things you can't, and some things you must say.
I appreciate the challenge they face, and this attempt at a solution. If their retail arm does succeed better than anticipated, that would be a welcome bonus and richly deserved success that could augment the FOSS investment.

In a sense this is a messaging problem leading to mismatched expectations, even when they have clear disclaimers on their product page. I wonder what alternative solutions might look like. Maybe advertise “community discount codes” prominently among Linux community forums and websites, so that only those who’re familiar with the online support community and asking for help will be likely to use those codes (rather than some naive consumer seeking to score a bargain). They could even mention on the product page that prominent Linux community forums should be a source for the relevant discount code (which might help introduce and “on board” newbies to Linux/FOSS communities).
Let's not create an either-or strawman for either side on this issue. The fact of the matter is - there has always been and always will be a convenience/liberty <---> safety tradeoff. This is a spectrum. We can all disagree with each other on where the right place is to draw the line on the spectrum - but it is ridiculous to imply that reasonable people can't have drawn their line (for good reasons) in a different place than you.
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I don’t see where the comment you replied to said that it was cheap. You’re putting words in their mouth.
I agree with your first sentence. But you lost me after that.

I never asked for benefit to every single person perfectly equally.

For society, having the quite significant proportion of people who are renters and apartment dwellers getting more than an insignificant benefit from our own government should be a thing.

I am not asking for handouts. But for the handouts to those people wealthy enough (not rich per se but wealthy enough) to own their own standalone home to stop. And for that money to benefit all via society wide infrastructure such as a powerstation/energy storage/grid costs and upgrades.

It'd benefit the standalone homeowners still. But everyone else too.
> I take this to mean that Materialize cannot efficiently maintain a view with lateral joins [...]

Well, no this isn't a correct take. Lateral joins introduce what is essentially a correlated subquery, and that can be surprisingly expensive, or it can be fine. If you aren't sure that it will be fine, check out the plan with the EXPLAIN statement.

Here's some more to read about lateral joins in Materialize:

https://materialize.com/lateral-joins-and-demand-driven-quer...
Oh man, I was hooked the moment I played SpaceChem. I think that game and Kerbal Space Program are responsible for reigniting my interest in math and computers.
This post misses a couple of key points about illegality. Do not break this law if it's passed. Here's why.

Once your government determines that participation in crypto networks without using a registered intermediary is illegal, they have reasonable grounds to subpoena network providers for participation in such networks.

Once your government can reasonably determine that your IP address has accessed a crypto network without using an intermediary, then they have probable cause for search and seizure of your digital and physical property.

If you are caught by any means to be using VPNs or TOR to dodge network-layer inspection, this will result in more strict sentencing decisions, as doing so can be interpreted as knowingly breaking the law.

Additionally, as a bonus risk to everyone who knowingly participates in crypto, consider the malware problem:

If you're infected by malware that is doing so without your knowledge or consent, you may regardless be found liable, depending on how poorly the law is written and how poorly the authorities choose to treat you, if you are found to be knowingly participating in crypto in any respect whatsoever.

(I am not your lawyer, this is not legal advice, seek legal counsel, etc.)

EDIT: Or any law like it passed it any non-US country, either!
Yes, but I'm not sure why it inverted. If you open the accident report (https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...) and ctrl-F "rudder", you get 2,112 matches. So "reading for hours" is a distinct possibility in this case...

(Oh, by the way, I didn't mean to imply you were mistaken, or anything like that. I was just so shocked that a plane's controls could invert themselves in any conceivable circumstance. Currently digging through the accident report to try to figure out what happened.)

"the probable cause of
the USAir flight 427 accident was a loss of control of the airplane resulting from the
movement of the rudder surface to its blowdown limit. The rudder surface most likely
deflected in a direction opposite to that commanded by the pilots as a result of a jam of the
main rudder power control unit servo valve secondary slide to the servo valve housing
offset from its neutral position and overtravel of the primary slide"

Unfortunately I don't know what most of these terms mean. It sounds like it might be saying "they moved the rudder to its limit, and then it jammed at the limit; so when they tried to command the rudder to go the other way, the rudder was pointed in the opposite direction of the control inputs." But I'm really not sure.
Also think how great it'd be if politicians were interested in things that'd help us instead of our landlords.
> Most puzzle games like this work this way

As far as Zachtronics games go, you've been able to save multiple solutions since IIRC Infinifactory, and those games all have two or three optimisation goals.

I think Silicon Zeroes only remembers one solution per puzzle, however in most of its levels its goals are quite closely related.

OCTOPTICOM also only saves one solution per level, but only has one optimisation goal, I believe.

I don't believe your assertion is true; at the least, it is not true in my experience.
Nope, this is my only account (assuming you can trust anything I say). I signed up a while back when I was founding a startup company (because of course every founder needs to be on HN), but then stopped coming here after the startup disintegrated. I've started coming back after I got bored going to r/programming during long compiles.
The US wants its tax $. If Cryptocurrencies stop them getting their revenue, then they will fight it. Tracked, KYC-type wallets mitigate the thread.
Don’t care. Show me real movement on the corporate mindset.

The plane is a STEM engineer fixable issue. The corporate mess that pushed this across flying clearance is not.

I’ll aim to fly airbus until Boeing understands that difference and fixes the root cause.
It seems the mkcert tool supports chrome and I believe Google has its own certs internally, so there's gotta be a way to do this - although it may be tied up with gsuite.
This makes perfect sense - logical or not, human nature would lead society as a whole to mistrust a lottery commission where this happened. The only reasonable option here is to investigate the incident and hope to sway enough people back to trusting the lottery again.

Public faith is far more valuable than any cost that could be incurred by an otherwise useless investigation into math.
I saw a pretty powerful "joke" tweet the other day where "Galileo" tweets about thinking maybe the sun is the center of the solar system instead of the earth, and it gets slapped with a "learn more about how experts agree on the geocentric model." Pretty funny, but also eerily relevant.

https://twitter.com/marcorandazza/status/1327263962799480832...
Rocky's Boots is a cool childs game but the one to try is the sequel Robot Odyssey (1984) which is conveniently available online now.

https://www.robotodyssey.online/

wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Odyssey
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I agree, but a statement like "I value my personal liberty over all else" is not about finding a reasonable tradeoff.

Furthermore, following that up with "even if science says it increases my risk of contracting a serious virus" means it's not about valuing the health and safety of others, just yourself.
I live in India where equation is similar. Power is cheap.

But when I factor in power outage which happens a lot, the solar is much better deal.

I've had 24/7 power sine we moved to solar.
I hate FB as much as any other HNer but honestly how could DOJ go after them for predatory acquisitions like WhatsApp when the price they paid was (at the time) one of the largest startup acquisition prices of all time?
Can I get a sciencey source on that or did I fail to detect sarcasm?
> You can't say with such certainty that masks caused that reduction - in the simplested terms there are too many uncontrolled variables.

There really aren't. This was the only major change in that period for 6 million people.

> As one example - was the rate of testing over that time the same?

More or less (https://covidlive.com.au/report/daily-tests/vic). The positivity rate was also quite high during that period, likely obscuring the full effect that masks have.

> That's hardly scientific though.

It's better. What happens in a petri dish doesn't always translate to what happens in the real world.
The first couple weeks, I was all "let's stay inside" and "those people are wreckless!" and "ok, those partygoers were egregious, fine them!"

After a few weeks I realized it was mostly to reduce hospital load.

It's been 9+ months now, and it wont end anytime next year. If a government leader thinks they can put pandora back in the box at this point, by taking more liberties away, they're a fool
Why do these articles say so little about how Boeing fixed the problem? People are more likely to fly on these if they know what's different from the ones that crashed.
Yes. This took a long time to work out with initial finger pointing between Boeing and the Pilot unions.

"Testing revealed that under certain circumstances, the Power Control Unit (PCU)'s dual servo valve could jam and deflect the rudder in the opposite direction of the pilots' input. Thermal shock testing revealed that the uncommanded rudder movement could be replicated by injecting a cold PCU with hot hydraulic fluid. Thermal shock resulted in the servo's secondary slide becoming jammed against the servo housing, and that when the secondary slide was jammed the primary slide could move to a position that resulted in rudder movement opposite of the pilot's commands"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues
This already exist in some places (for example Amber and Powerclub in Australia).

The issue is it's more effort than most people are happy to exert. They are used to flicking a switch having the appliance on whenever they want it. To change that will either involve much higher prices, a substantial shift in the way we think about energy, or an improvement in technology to allow the load shifting to happen in the background without the user noticing.

We turn to batteries instead because it's easier to build something than it is to change behaviour.
That's my plan too! I'm still working on the Coursera course and I just started working on the ALU.

Can you suggest any resources for FPGAs? What kind of hardware do you intend to implement the Hack CPU on?
Price of acquisition is not relevant to anti-trust. It is not like a monopoly is OK as long as you paid enough for a monopoly.
Nomad 1.0 is the bomb. I've ran Nomad since 0.7 and it was usable but pretty rough in those days. 1.0 is such a good, smooth thing. Super awesome even if you don't want to use Docker at all, you can just execute random stuff through exec/raw_exec, or straight Java. Heck, run it in a BSD homelab and use one of the jailshell executors.

It's not Kubernetes but it doesn't try to be at all.
> ...his son will ride a camel

I wonder if in the future, camels will be owned and/or ridden only by very wealthy individuals.

(like many horses nowadays)
There's a $20 product called TiltBrush.

There was Poly.

Titlbrush could export / import to Poly. That was added after the launch of TiltBrush, yes?

Sure, if you bought TiltBrush after Poly integration was added, I could see how that's taking away a feature you used, and that's a bummer.
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Neverminding the ethics, it would perhaps be ecologically better if we could farm horseshoe crabs, and fine-tune the bleeding regimen to manage the externalities as one does with lumber and forestry.
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Well, my home is in SF and I'm just about to go out to get some dinner in Hollywood so you know where I am on this issue but I do understand the need to ensure that personal liberty doesn't ruin society through externalities.
Then why did they take such steps to surpess wages, to save a few bucks for a quarter?