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There will not be a GNOME 4, but there will be very soon a GNOME 40. (Yes, literally.)
Thanks for the great laugh. The picture at night with the flames and fire shooting out of a beetle is just amazing. Registration up to date.
This is the best case scenario here.
A fair trial is those people trying to take your freedom. Not you getting a service from them.
Bipp Launches Free Beta Version of BI Platform and Data Modeling Language
> others put expensive air purifiers next to the measuring stations.

well ain't that some shit. How is that crap legal??
I have a PhD in math but I often dream about how nice it would be to get paid to write simulations for big shot mathematicians. Usually this work goes to undergrad/grad students. Maybe it’s just not worth paying for professional code.
Feedbin (https://feedbin.com) also has this feature.
By design, any changes to update the Bitcoin protocol need to be accepted by the miners with the majority of computing power - a.k.a. a hard fork.

For many reasons, such as stealing electricity and having access to chip manufacturers, there are a handful of miners in China who have the majority of the computing power for Bitcoin. They can mine bitcoins at a cost that is less than for everyone else.

This creates problems because there are updates to Bitcoin that are needed, such as allowing the Bitcoin network to process more than 7 transactions a second (for reference, Visa does 40,000 a second). Unfortunately, this small block size rate means people have to pay extra fees to prioritize their bitcoin transactions to happen in the next 20 minutes.

The miners get to keep these additional fees, so they are incentivized to keep the network slow and people paying more. This is why the Chinese miners have rejected any updates to improve Bitcoin transaction rate, meaning bitcoin is slower and more expensive for everyone but the miners extract more money from the network. It's tragedy of the commons.
I think there should be an opt-IN model. Opting out can be made confusing and difficult and time-consuming.

I've gone to websites that list over 300 3rd parties that they share data with. Opting out means going to every one of those 3rd parties one at a time and hunting for their opt-out link. And those come with a warning:

If you clear your cookies, you'll have to do this again. And the opt-out only applies on this browser on this device.

Suddenly, the consumer has a part-time job that they didn't ask for.
The Rust and Webassembly folks:

1. Were a very tiny part of the overall Mozilla budget

2. Were also employees of Moco, not Mofo, and so donations could not go towards them either.

> nobody needs (sorry Rustees)

Industry adoption says otherwise, see for example, the CTO of Amazon's comments during re:Invent yesterday.

(That being said, you could absolutely suggest that it's not Mozilla's job to help the industry in this way. That's a much better argument than "nobody needs Rust.")

Also, the main executive pay people complain about is paid by the Corporation, not the Foundation, so, suggesting your donations would go towards that is also incorrect.
The major (unpopular) reasons for VR plateau:

- Fresnel lenses!

- No haptic feedback?

- Closed hardware/software.

Unfortunately in the future electricity prices will mostly limit VR to non-realistic graphics, f.ex. Cyberpunk 2077 can't render (full blast) at 60 FPS on a 350W 3090, so to get 90FPS on both eyes you would need (if it was possible, it's not) more than 3x 3090 at a whopping 1000W!

And this is at peak everything: memory speed and litography; with cheap- energy, hardware, (food, rent too) etc.

The final medium is not VR, it is regular 3D MMO action potentially with server-side neural-network brained mobs/npcs! How is that progressing Mr Carmack?
Study reveals disparities in coverage and accuracy among symptom apps
Yes the idea was that you'd have files that you wanted to use on different computers (e.g. at work office and at home). At the end of the work day you'd sync the files to floppy, take the floppy home, and sync it to your home machine.

Remember at the time many people did not have laptops. They often didn't have home internet either. Maybe they had AOL, or maybe nothing. They also didn't have a work VPN or any way to access files on their work computer.
I absolutely buy the step-wise argument, especially for housing, but I do not buy it for cars. Americans buy way more large SUVs and trucks than the rest of the world, even those with fewer than three kids (or no kids). The idea that car size is a meaningful barrier to the number of children one has, especially compared to housing and education costs, simply does not pass the sniff test to me.

From a pure financial standpoint, I'd look more to the cost of education, healthcare, and housing. All of which have been growing much more rapidly than the cost of cars or gasoline.
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Still on the same old tired track with this. Stores can't keep Quest2s in stock and have you tried to actually buy an HP Reverb2 lately? Developers are making decent amounts of money out of VR titles. Users who have the headsets love them, and the various reddit VR groups are extremely active. Still, nothing to see, and it's not getting adoption. Pls ..
Niue has a population of ~1600. That's a lot of tlds per capita. It's not obvious to me why dns should be a way of transferring money from populous countries to sparsely populated countries.
> I've always been hesitant of using other countries' TLDs like .nu, .tv, .ly, since I don't know what will happen with them in three years or where the money goes.

On that note, .co and .io are so widely used now, I can't even imagine what would happen if their governance changed...
They're using man-made global warming as story to justify their unjust inflationary policies which are in fact all about control and centralization of wealth and power. Global warming could just be rhetoric to convince those people who can see the injustice of what's happening to justify why it needs to happen in this unjust way.

It's a way to justify why we should all be playing the game of musical chairs instead of the game of 'make more chairs' or even 'make more chairs, but each person should only have one chair'.

It all stinks like corruption. If you really wanted to solve global warming, the best solution would be to limit population growth, you could just give people tax incentives to have fewer children. Could be implemented as UBI: You get less basic income if you have more children. That is a much simpler and fairer solution and doesn't require deceiving billions of people with an epic global monetary ponzi scheme. Also we could get rid of useless bureaucratic jobs which are making the lives of billions of people miserable.
Have you tried adjusting the IPD? Unfortunately, there are only 3 fixed positions.
I ran the conversion long ago with Red Hat 4, and there were no problems. I've heard one report elsewhere of a smooth CentOS 8 conversion.

Oracle Linux 6 includes two kernels - the RHCK (Red Hat Compatible Kernel), and the UEK (Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel). Which one were you using?

I think Oracle only commits to userland compatibility with RHEL, but perhaps not kernel drivers under either distribution kernel.
> Mr Gevers had told officers he had substantially more evidence of the "hack".

It is very possible that this is just an article with limited info and not much has been released publicly because of privacy/security concerns.
Please don't copy-paste comments on HN. These threads are repetitive enough without literal repetition.

If you want to refer to what you wrote before, a link is the way to do it. And of course you're welcome to add information that's specific to what's new in this article. There should be something different somewhere...
I do not have first hand experience with distributing GTK apps on non-Linux systems, but I do know that:

* Inkscape has a macOS version that looks, feels, and functions fairly nicely

* Documentation for how to ship a GTK app for macOS is severely lacking (not sure about Windows)

* Many cross platform apps choose Qt over GTK
Researchers develop a Covid-19 rapid test based on DVD technologies
Universitat Politècnica de València researchers develop a rapid test, based on DVD technologies, that allows detecting COVID-19 for two euros in half an hour.
https://www.ara.cat/en/the-Polytechnic-University-Valencia-d...
I can't tell if this is a question posed in earnest, because I wouldn't expect a reaction like that to "corporations are designing and feeding Congress a liability shield so that they don't have to spend money protecting their workers."

The "aid" is a red herring if you are setting up those same people for dangerous situations with zero accountability from the people who are forcing them to put themselves in hazard's way.

It is myopic to think that a smaller stimulus bill (that would barely cover 1 month's expenses for the average American -- recall that it's been 8 months since the first stimulus) would be proposed for anything except to stave off the fervor of mass civil unrest for a short while longer.
I didn't say I found the combat to be difficult; I said it wasn't very good. I understand how RPG progression works, and my criticism was about the mechanics of the combat (stealth, gunplay, hacking, etc).

The simplistic AI behavior makes stealth unengaging, the hacking feels really disappointing (why don't cameras or turrets get harder to hack?), the cover system is worse than Mass Effect, and gunplay is middling at best—better than Fallout: NV, but worse than Fallout 4 or Destiny.

Notice how I only compared it with other action/shooter RPGs? Clearly RPG progression isn't my issue with it.
Do you have a link for real estate prices going down? From what I saw it was mainly the rents that decreased.
What a ridiculous name for an AWS services /s
I assumed that RH hired those people because CentOS might be a threat if owned by someone else, whereas if RH owned it, CentOS would be a moat.

Ie. CentOS takes those users who won't pay, RH takes those who will, RH controls both and there's no niche for anyone else.

Evidently I was wrong.
The way the US is structured makes this very difficult. We're not a country of countries like the United Kingdom, but the US is a country of States. Despite our federal solidification over the past century, states still have a lot of autonomy. Passing marijuana laws that contradict Federal law, is probably the most prevalent example of this.

The Federal government tried to create PPP programs, but look at what happened. Multi-million dollar franchises pulled in huge chunks while small restaurants got nothing. It's the 2008 bank bailouts all over again. It's like PS5/nvidia graphics cards scalping for businesses.

The corruption flows through every system, and the blame can be focuses on businesses with the means and people and legal staff to take advantage of the situation at the expense of every possible competitor.
It was a great product until Google soft-killed it.
That feels like the React community in a nutshell.
Some rebuttal:

1) There wasn't a rollback of the blockchain - the method to fix this was an irregular state change (I.e - at block z, change balance at address x to address y). This was only possible because the nature of the attack left all of the compromised funds locked in place for 30 days. Arguably, if it required a rollback of the blockchain, people probably wouldn't have gone along with it. (Though node operators and miners may still have as evidenced by the bitcoin supply bug and rollback in 2010)

2) The funds in the DAO at the time were roughly 14% of the total supply at the time. This is ~1.5x the amount of ether currently custodied by the largest ether custodians today.

3) The common argument of this event being a slippery slope and that it would lead to frequent recovery of hacked funds has turned out to be false.

4) Since the state change was introduced as a software upgrade, node operators (mining pools & infrastructure providers) all had to opt into the change - which a large majority did. This would indicate that most organizations and individuals were either in favor of this solution or were apathetic to the solution
A blockchain is a lot more than just a data structure, it's an entire governance system that needs a community around it and active maintenance, continually running nodes, etc.

It is more like a discord server than it is like a data structure.
I store .emacs and other dotfiles in Dropbox, I’ve seen other people have been happy with Github as well. This way you get synchronization across all devices and backup; and your entire configuration process is pointing to the location of the file.
King county Washington[1].

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I wasn't involved in Ethereum that early. But in retrospect I find it allowable/acceptable.

The reasoning is Ethereum is an early project, its design is highly centralized like a startup because very few people have the convictions and breadth of knowledge that Vitalik and co. possess. It's aspirations are not the same as Bitcoin: Bitcoin wants to provide value by being irrefutable property. Ethereum wants to be the world computer.

Ethereum's technical complexity makes Bitcoin look like a Ford Model T, while Ethereum is trying to be a space ship with warp speed capability. Obviously it is not the within the spirit of blockchains to conduct a rollback to save people's funds from hackers. But at that early stage, it might hurt adoption more than help if people get burned so badly. If we look at the tradeoffs, I think its worth it. If people prefer absolute immutability, they can use Ethereum Classic.
Given a virus that requires hospitalization at a certain rate, there is a certain point where the hospitals end up overrun for all other activities.

In an effort to stave off that danger, local governments enacted lockdowns with the intent of reducing the spread of the virus.

The virus, in the United States, has an established death rate of around 1.5% and a hospitalization rate higher than that.

It also experiences exponential growth.

Our hospitals didn't have the capacity to handle all the _potential_ load; and, once they're approaching that capacity, it's already too late and they'll blow past it. That's the danger of exponential growth.

Let's imagine doublings:

1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128.

If total capacity is 100, the moment that capacity is less than 20% used up, we're 2-3 timesteps away from using over 100%. It is a very dangerous gamble, and controversial decisions are made or not made and the worst part is that, when you do the safe thing, you have no way of being certain or explaining that the bad thing would have or could have happened, because "it's only 20%" and that looks small.
> Wouldn't Google just stop paying for search placement, removing Mozilla's main source of income?

They would haggle a bit more but they would still pay. That's because Firefox's very existence is their insurance against accusations of monopolistic practices in a field where antitrust caselaw actually exists.
Oh I totally agree that my comment is a fairly tangential to the article, but the last few lines really gave me a feeling of disgust that I felt I had to express
> The mouse is such an excellent precision instrument, it's going to be a long time before we have a 6 degree-of-freedom input device that can match it for precision and ease of long term use.

From my experience don't most professional 3D modelers use some sort of pen tablet like a Wacom? Now I'm thinning I would love if Wacom pivoted to the VR/AR space and made a special 6 DOF pen you can use. I hope they don't go the way to Kodak and just get stuck being a pen tablet company while artists make the jump the VR (eventually?)
I think there is a plausible mechanism for causation here. It adds to the expensiveness of children -- many smaller vehicles are not even compatible with the big car seats required, or with having more than two car seats in use. There is kind of a calculation: if we would have even one kid we need a "family" car; getting to 3 or more kids basically requires a minivan.
hey inspect element tricks and developer tools have been put to great effect in the realm of scammers transferring excess refund funds into folks bank accounts.
I notice folks getting starry-eyed in the face of these big numbers.

But if you look at how that money is allocated, it won't be very good for anyone except those who are milking this crisis for all they can.

The bill needs to be much bigger to have any considerable impact.

Remember -- the economy only works if people are spending money, and people are only spending money when they have money in their pockets. Trickle-up economics is real and it works.
Clearly Ghost in The Shell was famously anti-establishment and Kusanagi a definitive low life... Not transhumanism, identity or sexuality.
I wonder how anyone at all expected this to turn out. So, businesses had to stop operating. GDP and income earned and spent, dropped. This by definition results in someone becoming poor - with or without bailout - the government does not have any of "its own" money - all money it can possibly distribute is taken from taxpayer's pockets.

Call me cynical, but people working in the service industry were the safest ones to let fail without causing domino effect - they are already poor so they don't have mortgages to default onto - they can't afford even in good times - and that avoids a major risk of repeating 2008.
The gist: governments have done just fine with endless rounds of increased debt and quantitative easing without causing inflation. Why not just print the money directly and do away with the fig leaf of paying it back?

Con: But that causes inflation.

Pro: You can control inflation with taxes. Instead of fake paying back the fake debt, you just evaporate the tax money, same as you printed it. You still control the money supply. But you get more flexibility in budgeting: tax the things you want less of, spend on what you want more of, and don't worry too much about the difference.

Con: But you know you won't balance it.

Pro: And you'll get a little inflation. Which is fine. That encourages people to spend and invest their money rather than sitting on it. For over a decade we've had more of a problem with deflation than inflation, despite money printer going brr. (Cf HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25430321)

Con: We used to have inflation, and it was really bad.

Pro: Historically inflation has been caused more by supply side than the fiscal side. American inflation in the 70s started with a massive increase in the price of a key input, oil. Hyperinflation always starts with a production collapse or mismanagement, and monetary policy is the result, not the cause.

Con: Still sounds fishy.

Pro: So does fractional reserve banking, where banks get to loan out more money than they have. If banks can print money, why not governments? Just cut out the middle man.

Con: But it's still just a theory. Nobody has tried it.

Pro: True. But the theory is sound. Besides, quantitative easing is kind of a natural experiment, and thus far it affirms the theory.

Basically, it's not as dissimilar to orthodox theory as you might think. But it's different enough that it's still a minority view among economists.
As a late 20s gamer, some of my earliest gaming memories were formed during the flight/space flight sim boom of the 90s, so I absolutely adore my Vive for Elite Dangerous, Star Wars Squadrons, and No Man's Sky.

Put it this way, for simulation gamers it's a godsend compared to a 3 or 4 monitor setup with head tracking.
And on the other end of the spectrum, sometimes you just accept that isolation for a while because you get to fly an X-Wing. A Quest V1 with Oculus Link is far from an optimal PC VR setup, but even with that Star Wars: Squadrons is an experience I’ve been waiting for since I first saw A New Hope. It’s hard to convey how cool it is to be sitting in a spaceship cockpit, dodging through asteroids and chasing down TIE fighters with the pew pew pew of four KX9 laser cannons on your wingtips. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE90KIBlWyk

Would I play it in VR mode for hours on end every night and stop talking to real people? No. But not all my activities need to be social either. I can go for a four hour hike in the woods by myself and no one gives me a hard time for being too isolated. Or maybe they do, but I don’t care because sometimes that’s how I want to spend my time. To each their own.

One other feature of the Quest that I should mention - you can double-tap the side of the headset at any time to turn the game world off and immediately switch to "passthrough" mode where you see through the headset's tracking cameras. This obviously works best with single player games that can pause themselves until you tap back in, but in those games it makes it no big deal to drop out of the game for a moment to interact with people and things in the real world. A bit weird to talk to you while you have a big headset on your face, sure. But this was added in a software update well after launch, and it's way better for staying available to the real world than needing to take the headset on and off.
Was that guy also building self landing rockets by any chance?
If I had to guess, the maps stuff was rolled into the app for delivery drivers. This offering is probably a spin out of the backend for that, since it seems very focused on asset tracking and route optimization.
TLDR;

The killer was the 6PPD-quinone from the tires in the roadway runoff.
I am also looking at the same question. JavaFX remains a viable choice, and perhaps Xamarin could be another option as well.
The next project is a twin jet scooter. How appropriate :)
I'm a fairly average user, in reality. One personal email address. Few rules. No integrations.

I still find it to be a significant improvement, even if most of my interactions involve arrow keys and the backspace key (ironically the keys I can't use in their web interface).
First you need to get all the states to hand them over. Many seem unwilling.

As for analyzing, you don't necessarily know what you're looking for before examining them. For example - if there is a distinct pattern of markings suggesting ballot stuffing by the same person, you'd need to identify those first. Then you could train a program to identify all occurrences. But without ground truth (knowing for a fact you really spotted fraudulent ones) this wouldn't be strong proof. Absence of anomalies also wouldn't prove absence of fraud, might merely disqualify some forms of fraud.
I don't think I'll play a 2d rhythm game after beat saber
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> Notably, "software development" is not an endeavor for which such a charity can spend its funds. Donations don't go to Rust, or even Firefox, because they legally can't.

Not OP, but I think the comment was saying that donating to Mozilla will result in them using the funds on all sorts of stupid shit not FireFox related. Not to literally donate to FireFox as a stand-alone software dev endeavor. Mozilla could easily accept funds in a legally compliant way if they had some sort of “please direct my funds primarily on FireFox” if they wanted to do so. This is similar to how many charities take donations from donors (eg “Here’s some money, only use it to build a building with my name on it.”)
That's an interesting take. I have some contradictory anecdata, though, in that my friends and I love getting together and taking turns playing VR games. And I'm not talking about nerdy hard core gamer friends. Pre-COVID we used to get together every few months or so for a "VR Night" at my buddy's place because he owned an Oculus w/ a living room TV set-up. And we'd just spend a few hours taking turns cycling through the game library and playing all sorts of stuff, and everybody loved it.