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Nice work. Quick feedback. Instead of (or in addition to) using Google to authenticate could you use LinkedIn? That way the site could pull my information from LinkedIn instead of making me enter it again.
You can get DRAM modules with blinky lights at retail, but not with the 9th chip for ECC.
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A fun brainstorm method I do is the ABC game. I ask a question, then force myself to come up with an answer for each of letter of the alphabet within an hour. Absolutely no other tasks/distractions for that hour.

I think a lot about spreadsheets. If a person made a spreadsheet to get something done, it might mean there’s no solution/accessible options available.

Finally, I think about stuff that sucks. A lot of things seem like they could be fixed by some automation, and it seems to be the low hanging fruit of business ideas. Invention, manufacturing, etc. I think benefit from an entire explicit process for idea generation.
Energy "waste" is in the eye of the beholder. The energy is doing useful work by making the system more secure (at a rough rate of 50%, which is actually rather efficient as energy consumption goes). Of course, having some better solution that doesn't need energy as its source of trust would be great, and perhaps proof-of-stake will one day work. But the fact of the matter is that there is no better alternative today, and the traditional governmental currencies don't count.
Indeed. I accidentally installed some kind of an utility suite for my motherboard and it instantly started 13 processes. I guess they had different teams working on different parts of the app and everyone just wrote another process? There were even multiple updaters for stuff made by one company.

The worst part was the new drivers being loaded. Searching driver names led me to multiple exploit POCs allowing all kinds of nastiness. Some of them were patched but overall I got the feeling that RGB etc driver quality is awful.

I wish HW manufactures would at least use static colours as a default choice.
I believe the App Store policies are also incompatible with GPL, which further hinders open-source contributions from the Apple community.
Yeah, for something like sleeping on a plane, I'll usually put something like new age-y instrumentals on. I just can't really ignore something even as uninteresting as The Weather Channel. It's like fingernails on a blackboard to me.
The article cited makes a strong argument for why you should not write from scratch, even with immense technical debt - and offers alternatives. For example:

> Even fairly major architectural changes can be done without throwing away the code. On the Juno project we spent several months rearchitecting at one point: just moving things around, cleaning them up, creating base classes that made sense, and creating sharp interfaces between the modules. But we did it carefully, with our existing code base, and we didn’t introduce new bugs or throw away working code.

> A second reason programmers think that their code is a mess is that it is inefficient. The rendering code in Netscape was rumored to be slow. But this only affects a small part of the project, which you can optimize or even rewrite. You don’t have to rewrite the whole thing. When optimizing for speed, 1% of the work gets you 99% of the bang.

Quite frankly, Netscape was very good for its time. Firefox today is also drastically different than Firefox 1.0 ("It’s difficult to imagine Firefox having the success it had if it was based on the Firefox 1.0 source code").
Another cool usage is to light up specific keys based on the current application. This is quite useful in things like games or editors. You can have green for movement, white for actions, etc.
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But transmission can only happen from an address which has positive balance. And after receiving the money, destination balance becomes positive, and you are bound to use that destination address as a source to transfer assets further.
No they aren't. NHS occupancy in 2020 was lower than in 2019. We are currently 50% below our peak ventilator usage in April and the 7 day trend is very flat.

This is just not true. Go look at the data instead of parroting headlines.

EDIT Lol again downvotes but no replies. Does anyone want to bother educating me on this topic and showing me where hospitals are filling up? I would love to see it, because the NHS figures certainly don't show it.
It isn't any form of "endorsement" if you can add them without confirmation from the person you're tagging.
> Even if the US government is at fault, that still doesn't mean Wikileaks can't also be at fault. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Between the two wrongs, am going to focus on the one where the most powerful military on Earth guns down civilians & journalists. Especially given Julian has already paid dearly for exposing what we should have known. The war criminals themselves haven't spent a day behind bars.

> Names of people in other countries with oppressive regimes, who passed on information on the understanding that their names would be kept confidential, no.

WikiLeaks asked for these names so they can redact them. The Pentagon refused. This is on them, as are the war crimes themselves.
To put it simply, the UK government is continuing a decade of placing their and their friends' financial interests ahead of the interests of the country. Many own properties that are at risk when nobody's going to work, or are indebted to party donors who do. The idea is to put up with people dying (after all, austerity caused the deaths of over 100,000 people in the UK, and that was apparently acceptable) as long as the economy keeps going. Of course this will fail in the long term, and the result will be a collapsed economy and a lot of dead people, but long term thinking has never been a requirement to be a Conservative government.
Freud's penis envy would be best reason. The idea that if you claim family member sexually abused you, then you likely basically have crunch on him.

Yeah, those are most popular easy things to point at, but the level of science at the time was "few patients and tons of imagination". We are further away now.
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Blaming it on Conservative government and “nasty” right wing press might make you feel better, but there is no reason to believe you’d get better outcomes if someone else was pulling the strings. Sure, UK government’s response to covid has been stupid, inconsistent and making things up as they went along, but the same is true about government response to covid almost everywhere else.
http://archive.is/jk7Wf
> And sure, most speech surrounding the bullying isn't direct.

Having been in two unions in a prior life, I'd say the only reason this is true is due to lack of in-person communication. Anything documentable will be kept to semi-acceptable levels. The true (daily) abuse comes when they return to the classroom. These folks need to prepare for some bullying.

Most teachers defying the union on this will not make it more than another year in that district once classrooms return would be my uninformed bet. It will be a mission of every other union member at each school to make their everyday existence a living hell.

Yes, I have very poor taste in my mouth when it comes to my experiences with unions. I certainly recognize what they've accomplished and could still accomplish; but until they stop existing as corrupt rackets to protect the lowest common denominator employee they are going to be a hard sell to much of the US who has dealt with such creatures.
This reads like those overpaid counter-terrorism people after 9/11 for about 1.5 decades who had 'answers'. And they never seem to 'stop' it. All we get are some idiots arrested in some random obviously forced FBI sting operation, where the idiot wouldn't have the resources or motivation otherwise to go through with it.
Raising sheep and bees, brewing mead, making Manchego, and writing software/building hardware to automate some aspects of the homestead.

I'd probably still sell my wool, mead, and cheese, even if I didn't need the money - at or near cost. No reason to not contribute to broader society.
Considering the vast number of excess deaths of old but healthy people and the human cost of the people who continue to show symptoms months after initial infection, I would say your calculations are just wrong.
That’s probably because the moment someone looks at it objectively someone posts a headline along the lines of ”8 year old dies of covid” or ”Tory MP says N is an acceptable death count”. Both are useless headlines as quoted but the entire political system is a shit media popularity contest and literally the only objective is to come out looking less bad than thy neighbour.

So the hard questions are never asked for which we sacrifice a good chunk of our population to dwindling cancer care, mental health issues and economic decline. Those scandals can be written off statistically by the next lot.

And yes I’ve had it. And yes I’ve lost three relatives to it. And quite frankly they were all circling the drain already.
I think your point is that life and health are being traded is not the case - since these measures are to keep people alive and healthy. I agree there is some cost but let's not get hyperbolic.
You can measure it [0]. It has been measured. Contact tracing, where it has been done reliably has shown that a large amount of community transmission takes place at house parties where people have been drinking. You wouldn’t know that in the UK unfortunately because you’re never given any information beyond assurances that grit and determination will get together through.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overloo...
Uncountable seeds of friendship and love never take root, due to meeting people being banned. Untold numbers of ideas and plans never made between entrepreneurs. All due to people with power over government arms or mass media being caught up in a mass hysteria. Governments will print money Weimar-style to fund their debts and liabilities in the 2020s, as they kill commerce and free life.

In my country we were spared from lockdowns or restrictions until recently - and compared to how friends in Germany, Hungary, Denmark, etc live it’s such a relief. Still no more people have died here last year than on average - 90k deaths/year as usual [0] [1]

[0] http://www.scb.se/om-scb/nyheter-och-pressmeddelanden/overdo...

[1] http://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/sverige-i-siffror/mannisko...
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You should really give more whole albums a try. A lot of great artists put a lot of time into making there whole albums cohesive experiences.
So, your statement of "it has higher volatility" is based on observing the colors of the graph (i.e. not a calculation of the underlying data)?

Jeesh...I don't know where to start...

I know this is against HN guidelines to say this, but your top level comment needs to get downvoted into oblivion. This is not grounded in any evidence worth of value.
Your optimism is appreciated but the situation seems so bleak I cannot believe it could be that easy
> but my background is so god awful

I suggest you to read (or rather solve) this masterpiece

https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/
I should've worded that differently - we obviously do not expect accusations to be proven before a trial.

What I meant was rather: has there been made any credible/sensible accusation for him being involved in hacking? Because while the drivel made it through the grand jury, it's still a vague answer without any allegations of follow-up. Could I help you crack a password hash? Sure, maybe I could. Am I now conspiring to hack into a military network? I rather think not. And that's even though you have my offer in writing.
YES! And Freud's early works are so interesting, particularly his model of the psyche in Studies on Hysteria (which I assume he elaborates more fully in "Project for a Scientific Psychology").

It's only just now, 100 years later, that we're starting to develop the neuroscience to ground these theories more definitively (thanks to Karl Friston), and what Friston's seeing is quite close to what Freud posited back then. See research like: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27471478/
Maybe in a year or so... There was another HN discussion on production capabilities, tldr: distribution and production takes a long time. Until then, there’s no way other than lockdown. I doubt contact tracing is going to get better, at least here in the EU.
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While cynical and snarky towards US government, the comment is substantive if you're familiar with the term:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
You've chosen to ignore any of the cases of actually modern reform-based prison systems and instead bring up the late 18th century? Odd choice.
> Democratic Decision Making
I'd question whether it's wanting "democratic" decision making or if the group wants a great role in decision making, perhaps beyond that which it's numbers justify. I say this as I work at a place where topics for all-hands could be submitted and voted on. This seemed to work well until a topic was submitted and the downvote to upvote ratio was "disappointing" to the person/group that submitted. After this meeting, only upvotes were allowed on submissions.
True, but there is a reason it's been called "exorbitant privilege" - while nothing here is clear cut there lots of reasonable people would argue that there is a net benefit to US.
I’d like to know what exactly I’m “flamewar-style” comments on?

Parent commented on the “liberal GA candidates” one of whom is a known anti-Semite and literally beat/assaulted women, and that they “would be well liked”.

Other comments posts I’ve made have questioned the extreme views commonly held by those in this site, where events like CHOP/CHAZ in Seattle became well favored and liked. Yet obviously, no one then comments on the 2 or 3 black underage teens killed or the women raped/sexually attacked.

Better yet, most people here would still agree with Seattle’s mayor’s comment “it’s the summer of love”.

Perhaps we should fight against those comments and posts?
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Kill me. More bloat, more things pushed on me that I need to respond to.
I'm super curious about HN metrics like number of visitors, RPS at peak hours, details about the db, is it still flat files?
> it is also lindy

You keep using that word. I do not think we know what it means like you think we do.
Investment follows returns, or at least the speculative possibility of returns. Unfortunately, semiconductors, automation and manufacturing tech doesn't have the same upside capability. If you want 10-100X returns, you look elsewhere.
Very true. It would be great if these brights were working on important stuff like how to deal with plastics recycling and separation. Instead it’s about extracting as much as possible from existing tech.

It reminds me a little of the situation with journalism and news. We have less and less reporters collecting information but more and more websites and blogs that dissect and debate the same information.
It makes sense. It implies the mealworms can use it for energy, but not for growth. It's basically a carbohydrate, they would need some protein, fat, and trace elements for proper growth.
Sadly the timescales are looking more like 1-2 _years_. That's before we get to anti-vaxers and there'll be a lot (there will also be plenty of side-effect cases - due to the sheer number of people being vaccinated at once, not because it's not safe!)
I was under the impression that the shutting off of the gas lines in reaction to the event was what caused the outage. They were using natural gas generators at the time for some unrelated reason.
It's psychological anchoring and a mixture of greed combined with a technical innovation which isn't terrible per se, but which does not in fact solve the problem it was originally designed to do. Made artificially inefficient to compute to stop the evil governments and organizations which were apparently making life impossible before the existence of cryptocurrencies. Now it has become inevitability because its price is going up and therefore by induction it has become more valuable and necessary for the whole society.

With all the free money that is currently floating around bitcoin is again slowly moving towards its saturation point where the pool of potential buyers is exhausted and the prices have become unsustainably high. The psychology of the market will reverse causing a "run on the bank" (which apparently is a good thing by some gold standard advocates in this thread) and it will again sink like a stone without anything to stop its fall. A good thing to remember is that bitcoin has yet to face a real depression akin to dotcom bubble. If and when it falls to levels so unfathomably low that it would incur losses so heavy that would shake the whole industry to its core, then it might forever lose its status as a digital store of value which price increases forever to infinity.

One thing I must say and what most people forget is that bitcoin is also a form of gambling and which actually explains some of its success. It has the characteristics of a sport which is fun to discuss, interesting to research and easy to bet on with a lot of volatility that can be as addicting as gambling in a casino (which again shares a lot of similarities to traditional stock investing or the collection of art pieces). Can we explain why gambling or sports are so addicting or necessary to the whole society? We humans are emotional creatures that believe in the most silliest of things that defy normal logic yet which we can not unravel like the people living in a cave in Plato's allegory. What in the end is real? God is dead said Nietzsche and therefore we are constantly seeking something "valuable" to cling onto.
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I was responding to a particular comment that was talking about the mechanics of these entertainment unions with respect to actors specifically:

> First, the film unions provide useful benefits (like reasonably-priced health insurance), so most professional actors want to be part of the union. Second, union members are prohibited from working on non-union productions. Additionally, most well-known actors are union members. This gives a strong incentive for a production to be a union production. Third, union productions are prohibited from hiring more than a token number of non-union actors (unless they pay a fine to the union). This gives a strong incentive for productions to only use union talent (which also gives actors another reason to want to be a union member).

Note that by observing important differences between the film and software industries, I'm not arguing that unions couldn't work for the software industry. I suspect this is why I've been downvoted.
Consider the age group(s) for most of the world's politicians.