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This post human one got me:

>Sending spam to the moon in the meme language of old Earth. The alien life living in the oceans of Europa received many trillion petabytes of junk mail, and to this day, the native life forms are still revolting against the spam.
I'd sure visit the library more often.
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Honestly, I don't think it matters - the data is out, there's no putting it back in the box.
Look at their methodology. They don't take into account the role of money in politics. Bribery of govt officials and politicians is legal in the US (they call it lobbying) so only the rich get to control politicians and their policies. Further, massive media conglomerates controlled by billionaires have an outsized influence on govt policy.

As such, while the US has the veneer of being democratic, it really isn't.

And I haven't even gotten into gerrymandering, which makes a complete mockery of democracy.
Why is this subject coming back?

A while ago they conducted this experiment in Earth's orbit and found that the drive basically pushes itself away from Earth's electromagnetic field. Sadly it's useless in deep space.
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Have 'reverse car races' ever been a thing outside of NL?

https://youtu.be/a59KyXhk74w?t=177
> I don't think that's the case. Systemd was introduced with a SysV init backwards compatibility mode, so it was trivial to port services over to using it. Porting a systemd-only service over to SysV init is much harder, though.

(I meant before systemd/upstart existed).

Is it harder because systemd supports more features than sysv? What's stopping someone writing a new init / service manager that's systemd-compatible? Or improving sysv so that it supports those features?

> Software freedom is not a binary matter (excuse the pun)...

Of course there's nuance, and you're right to point out that different corners of the open source world have different values and disagree on things (BSD/GNU etc). But the point is that the users are in control and that the power lies with the users. If systemd was bad, or actively useless, people would stop using redhat, Debian, etc. As proof that the overall model works, there are distributions out there that shun or provide non-systemd options. People can use and contribute to those!

I also don't agree that anything is a "one way process". Everything is temporary. We'll use systemd until something better comes along, just like we did with perl, apache, Hadoop, or any technology that was the de facto canonical way of doing things right up until the point that there were better options.

I remember the history too - systemd would have gotten zero traction anywhere if it wasn't actually solving real problems. Sure, there were some pretty major bugs, and I wish Debian had done it right, but that doesn't take away from the recognition that there was a problem to solve and this was our best stab at solving it.

I guess I just don't understand the energy poured into hyperbole like "world domination" and "stranglehold". If you want to convince me that something I find useful every single day is bad, then build something better.
What is the likelihood that I win the lottery every week for a year straight?
It’s also awful because it’s unnecessary when we can just define e.g. Option<T> at the library level.
This post complains about the cover art being too small on iOS, but my complaint is that on macOS iTunes by-album view ditched the art size slider a few years ago, and picked a fixed size that is so big that you can only see about a dozen albums at a time on a 13" laptop screen. This change was so obnoxious I actually looked in to ditching iTunes entirely, but there just wasn't a decent alternative that made editing metadata as easy and would sync with my iPod.

Speaking of which...
I think about 30% is consumed simply by billing.
> I love playing table tennis and having lunch with my colleagues.

I don't know how others feel, but I am not outgoing enough to use the foosball and pingpong tables that are common in development studios, I feel so judged; so those are (for me) not perks at all.
I believe the user should not have to choose between not geting firmware updates and not signing away their personal information.

Let me explain: on the first run the app demands access to lots of personal data including contacts and location data while at the same time stating they may share this data with partners and third parties. If you don't agree to _all_ these the app will not start (but continue to nag you)

If Samsung wants to make the app a requirement, they should remove analytics and also let the user choose if he wants to give the app all these permissions.
> When transferring data (i.e. read sector or write sector), the floppy controller wants every byte transferred within 13ms (standard density) or 26ms (high density).

Should that not be the other way around?
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https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/

Absolute dynamo of a medium.
After building my site in multiple stacks, I’ve come back to WordPress because my portfolio site is also my self marketing site and WordPress is the best for marketing IMO. You get blog post, pages, menus and contact forms. Add advanced custom fields and custom post types and WPGraphQL and some Next.js and you got yourself a JAMStack with complete “no-code” backend.
The article doesn't really clarify the difference between trailer parks where the residents own the lot and home, just the home, or the landlord owns everything. The latter is just renting. The middle one here is not really affordable. Owning the land is ideal, but in most of the country you can't do this in a mobile home park, you need to buy a relatively large lot. At that point you have a lot of the same issues with single family homes in developing area, the infrastructure/future maintenance is more expensive than people expect and eventually that will need to be dealt with.
I got that email and immediately went to onion [dot] dog just to check out the site... was pretty clear it was some weird onion gateway so I decided not to go to the link.
Just the Internet, or all forms of network or digital communication? If the Internet is gone, I'll probably start browsing dial-up BBS sites. Do you know that the SDF Public Access UNIX system still supports dial-up? Dialing into a NetBSD machine from the other side of the world via an international phone call is a cool way of doing retrocomputing in 2020 (just beware of your phone bills, there are no Blue Boxes anymore)...

If all forms of network or digital communication are gone, I'll probably keep programming just as before (if not for profit, then for fun), but have to rely on public libraries and local user groups for exchanging information.
It is sarcasm. The tell is the quoted word "secure", and the hyper-emphasized word _ALL_.
> Deflationary currencies aren't surging in value. Fiat currencies are dropping in value.

My comment has nothing to do with fiat currencies. Look at the gold/BTC or silver/BTC exchange rates. Or the exchange rates between BTC and the overwhelmingly vast majority of goods and services. Bitcoin's buying power has grown much quicker - by several orders of magnitude - than fiat's has decreased.
> They could’ve rigged it so that, instead of actually displaying the number of dislikes on the WH videos, they instead displayed the logarithm. How would you know?

a few people getting together and disliking something and not seeing the dislike grow at all would turn that into an embarrassment.

> They are hiding that number on the entire website, because they are trying to solve a perceived problem that affects the entire website.

I agree. Negativity, dissent and open conflict don't sell ads to corporations well. Since that's Youtube's primary (only?) goal, it makes sense to switch video likes/dislikes to the same mode that comment likes/dislikes went. You can only express agreement in public, disagreement or quality issues can only be stated privately.
Have you considered the possibility that executives in charge of tens of thousands of developers might have some data you don't regarding its impacts on productivity in aggregate?
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I could never understand why on Earth anyone would want to render two separate symbols as a single glyph in the source code, one of very few types of written material where every individual symbol actually matters.
Make a new internet.
I have regularly had 2-3h (each way) commutes. It's not because I couldn't change, but because I actively enjoyed the travel each day. Dedicated, no interruption thinking space, and a clear buffer between the stress of work and my home life.
> This is a person that is typically against the idea of free speech and for censorship/deplatforming/cancel culture as a progressive activist, so there’s a bit of irony/hypocrisy here.

It is only ironic if what you say here is actually true about this particular person. There is no need to stereotype.
One of my astro profs from undergrad (John Wise) got married at Arecibo. I saw a pic online of him in a suit standing next to his wife in a wedding gown with the dish behind them... It's hard to articulate what that telescope really meant to people.
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The problem actually existed before Unicode appeared. Terminals which supported Chinese, Japanese, or Korean characters have had to deal with 2 cell wide glyphs, even for text encodings which use 1 byte per glyph.

If you see the term "full width" character in old terminal related specs and documents, they are talking about 2 cell CJK glyphs/characters.
Scott Manly did an overview of potential ways of propulsion in space including some very wacky setups. The most promising ones seem to be using nuclear or fusion reactions to accelerate tiny amounts of mass to very high speeds. The engineering issues are substantial of course. But definitely goes a bit beyond the limitations of chemical processes (i.e. burning fuels). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEZv_OXA_NI
> [..] the reason church organs don't sound like chiptunes is primarily because of the acoustics of the church."

Another reason is that arpeggiated chords are a big part of what makes a chiptune sound. Can't do that on a real church organ, air has inertia, latency and attack time are significant. Also fingers hurt after while. Not so with a SID and a small broadband speaker.
Every once in a while a patrol car will show up parked near the signs, ticketing sign scofflaws (where I am at least). Been caught up by one of these a couple of times. So really it is in some sense a numbers game
Sounds a great idea, in theory, but the problems begin when you add people; some of whom will not share your ideals or have respect for their neighbours.

Soon enough your ideal housing solution will become yet another place where decent people don't want to live.
> the "air flow" argument is the key to this.

I would point out that cars have gears, but then someone would say that in the US they do not, and I would have to explain that that is not the case, actually, and it would all get very tiring very quickly.

> Who are the experts on emDrive tech, and what principle does the emDrive violate?

A physicist would point out that momentum is conserved, so nothing can start moving without something else moving in the opposite direction, but then someone would point out that cars seem to be able to do just that, and then I would point out this big round thing underneath a car, and it would all get very tiring very quickly.
Well you can disable/enable everything like you want it.
Another one that has occurred to me: other companies that follow them in are riding their coattails in.

The phrase breaking new ground may also be useful.
How many times has the UC system been breached now?

There were three breaches in 2014-15: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3039116/uc-berkeley-mak...

There was a massive one back in 2009: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2254411/160-000-student...

There was a 2006 breach involving the DoE labs managed by UC: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2292688/university-hit-...

And that’s just what I dug up on UC Berkeley in a few minutes. At what point do we start saying “no” to anyone requesting personal information? If a university known for its computer science programs can’t keep this info secure, how can we trust our doctors, insurance companies, landlords, and so on to get security right?
Here's hoping
Feels, and reads, like obfuscation and redirection.

HN is part of the battlefield.
That might not be the exact mechanism, but the issue of medical bankruptcy in the US is very real. I have seen figures which suggest it accounts for up to 60% of all bankruptcies in the US.

For context, before we got public health system in australia, the no.1 cause of bankruptcy was medical. Now medical bankruptcy is almost non existent.
most of the votes (up and down) don't come from real people and do not represent real users' opinions and are casted for the most stupid reasons, like in DIY video example I am friend with the author or am friend of a competitor.

there is nothing more hostile to users than the fake information YouTube is providing

I would go as far as to remove the votes completely and sort the videos randomly

It's the same old story of HN downvotes

They happen randomly, sometimes users are targeted by bots that downvote everything they write and, most of all, if there is no way to know who downvoted you, the only way to survive it is to make a new account, because "moderators" don't care, their job is not to protect users, but to protect their employer.

Same goes for YouTube they are an ads company disguised as a UGC platform.

Advertisers and Premium subscribers are the real users.

Wanna really be user-friendly?

Show voters' ids!

We all know it will never happen.
1. I didn't know that eyeballs have taste buds. This gives me some new restaurant ideas.

2. Usually the idea is that you make it taste bad so that people ain't tempted to ingest it (or quickly learn not to). Same reason why compressed air cans have bittering agents: so that people don't huff 'em.
If "usable as iTerm2" means the terminal actually aims to have features, then you can try my project Extraterm ( https://extraterm.org/ ). It supports ligatures and more.
What's the correct response to people that discourage people from using tools that don't restrict a person's freedom?
Your application will be perfect if you manage to calculate the bias effect of the name. In other words if your name is Peter, Giovanni or Ahmed it does play a role if you get to rent the place or not. My name is José by the way.
This is exactly my biggest problem with some other tools: That they try to automate everything with lots of "magic". And this does not lead to clearly understandable, well-defined systems which are maintainable in the long run. If one is debugging hard problems, for example in multi-threaded code with deadlocks, what happens is that one needs to get a very clear understanding of what a certain piece of code does. The same is the case for debugging build systems. In the end, the build system needs to deliver an efficient, clearly understandable, unambiguous definition of how the software is constructed from the different pieces.

Some systems seem to try to absolutely minimize the amount of configuration code which is required for simple things, using "automatic configuration". If this is for clearly defined things like configuring a library to be static, this is fine. But when it becomes unclear and ambiguous what actually happens, or, worse, when you can't say what versions of dependencies are actually used, this is too much magic. And also when one needs twenty minutes or more to figure out how to switch on address sanitizer, or use a specific language standard. And this becomes worse when the configuration becomes more automagical with each iteration of the build software and the constructs and semantics start to depend on which version of the tool one is using.

autotools has the advantage that these things are quite explicit, and the configuration interface is very stable, and this helps to understand and maintain a system.
Literally in the first paragraph on Wikipedia:

It is purported to generate thrust by reflecting microwaves internally in the device, in violation of the law of conservation of momentum and other laws of physics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive

Extraordinary evidence is required for extraordinary claims. Any hint of evidence at all is required for idiot claims before waisting people's time.
My question would be what were the motivations to move into a stack written in Rust, if the much of the bugs are in the closed source FW running in the peripheral?

What would happen if consistency is lost outside the Rust domain but still in the BT stack?
I always wanted to have an RPi, but since I accidentally ate a few SD cards I was too afraid to use it. This floppy interface is a game changer.
"IP" is a much more private datapoint than "Credit card number" and "First name, Last Name".

I'm not afraid of governments knowing who/what I do. I'm afraid of private companies holding private data about me.
I happen to be one of the people who didn't like it until I got used to it. The reason is simple - if you'd been dependent on an unreliable car in the past, starting the engine is associated with all sorts of uncertainties. Starters in particular seem to be the part that fails the most often in pre-stop-start cars. With each start there's a chance something will go wrong. This then translates to a bit of anxiety every time you hear the engine start even in situations where the probability of failure is insignificant.
I'm not convinced by your powerful suggestion that simply caling it inconvenient is doing us justice...
>In January, the Threat Analysis Group documented a hacking campaign, which we were able to attribute to a North Korean government-backed entity, targeting security researchers.

The first sentence says they themselves were able to attribute it to a North Korean-sponsored entity. One of the very first and obvious parts of the attribution process is considering and attempting to rule out false flags. False flag assessment could potentially be the majority of such an attribution effort, even.

They're specifically and explicitly staking their credibility on the claim that the attribution is ultimately North Korea and not merely some entity possibly masquerading as North Korea.

They certainly could be wrong, but these sorts of comments remind me of Feynman's remarks about non-physicists frequently suggesting the experts didn't consider [X] when the experts have in fact spent much of the past few decades concertedly considering and trying to understand [X] every day. If something is obvious to you, it's probably very obvious to the people who dedicate their lives to that field; at least if it's a technical field.
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There have been some really interesting articles around this on here in the past, particularly around medical doctors dying. If you Google “How doctors die Hacker News” you get a lot of good threads. Here are two I found interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21852625

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5104430
They are in fact not great IDs and the Social Security Administration asked very nicely for the rest of the country to not use them as a form of identification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus

A few reasons why SSNs are bad as IDs:

1. There are a number of situations where people will not have a SSN.

2. SSNs are "secrets" that need to be broadly shared to participate in many parts of business and government in the US.

3. SSNs lack many security and authentication mechanisms most forms of ID have (e.g. photo ID)

There are folks in the US who rally against the idea of a national ID, but I've always thought it was a silly argument considering how pervasive and problematic SSNs are as a form of identification.
Same; with a lot of the routes Maps considers faster, it doesn't seem to take the extra effort and more acceleration / deceleration into consideration. It really should optimize for the /intended/ route, because city and road planners know what they're doing. Only exception being if the intended route is blocked, but in those cases the certainty that the alternative route goes down a lot because lots of people will be taking the side roads.
> So maybe there is no conflict, but it is hardly functional.

You do realize this is a pretty condescending and closed-minded statement to make no?

It's been said that any developing country going through accelerated economic improvement will have their birth rates reduced by quite a bit. That doesn't make it their society any less functional than say the NRA vs mass shootings, or political gridlocks between parties.

And last I heard Japan was opening up to foreign sources of labour. They are slowly changing their minds and adapting.
Japan is hardly the first country that comes to mind as "functional". They've been stagnant for several decades.
Yes, I actually do want to have some hands on experience with Next.js. I saw it listed in several frontend dev job postings.
Only because Google bought them a few years back, they were independent before that and probably still have autonomy when it comes to their route calculation. Google was mainly after their data and maybe some of their staff.
I get what you're saying, but a project as big as Chrome OS isn't really suited for a lot of outside cooperation and communication. More often than not, you want to ship a feature as quickly as possible, ship it to canary, then dev, beta and stable at some point. Community run projects require a lot more back and forth and you give up some control over your schedule if you involve them, if you want your stuff to get merged.

Firecracker however is based on Chrome OS' container solution and lives on as an OSS project run by AWS.
A small number of very noisy folks.
How we approach moderation decisions
I've wanted to buy Sublime Text for a long time, but I couldn't justify it due to:

> A license is valid for Sublime Text 3 [...]. Future major versions, such as Sublime Text 4, will be a paid upgrade.

> [...] an upgrade fee will be required for Sublime Text 4.

I'd feel pretty bad if I bought ST3 and the next day you'd decide to release ST4 and now I'd have to pay for an upgrade. Why not just stick to the terms on the buy page:

> Personal licenses are a once off purchase, and come with 3 years of updates. After 3 years, an upgrade will be required to receive further updates.

Why not:

> [...] come with 3 years of updates *regardless of version*.

Then I wouldn't have to worry about a new release being right around the corner.

As it's now I can only feel comfortable buying ST when a new major version comes out, which sucks. I could have bought it years ago.

I understand that providing release dates of future major versions can be hard but could you at least show the cost of the upgrade?

Sublime is great btw, I'll definitely make a purchase once ST4 comes out <3
For Amazon it might make more sense as they are a retailer that ships goods.
Just to add, Guix configuration does not only look declarative - it uses a mostly functional language in a side-effect style to define the builds, in the same way as NixOS, just with a language which is established, well-supported, minimal, and elegant.

One of the advantages is that this functional package definitions define very clearly what is provided by a package. It also works well for other languages like Rust or Clojure.
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