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Each user will have their own gripes. Personally, for me, unity 7 was peak desktop. Since both unity and X are abandoned, it is increasingly difficult to get fixes for bugs. So, we need to switch to wayland, which fixes some issues like screen tearing, but things like multi-monitor setup are still quite flaky. And finally, GNOME is just not to my liking. So I would have to wait for KDE or XFCE to sufficiently catch up with wayland. The packaging situation has also become worse. There isn't a single LTS distro doing a good job of packaging chromium.
Because not everyone needs to support a family?
The part I don't understand is what benefit NFTs actually have in the either the real or virtual world, outside of bragging rights.
What is "babboing 4 furni"? Search seems to find only this very comment for these terms.
As a mobile dev (and former Second Life player), I am skeptical about the metaverse due to limitations of current mobile hardware. Using the metaverse is going to require the screen to always be on and will consume the CPU which leads to a huge battery suck. We already saw this play out with Pokemon Go leading to lots of players to carry around external battery packs.

Unless mobile technology has some major revolution with battery life or Facebook/Meta can find a way to use the metaverse without a screen or sucking battery life, I think mobile tech will severely hinder users from using the metaverse.

Now to bring things back to the original quesion, when Second Life was a thing, mobile tech was mostly flip phones and Blackberries so mobile wasn't an option. Users could only use the desktop and were fine with it because it is all we knew at the time. Being a desktop only application was never an issue for the users. The current demand to support multiple platforms when many of those platforms are not capable of supporting the metaverse is what makes the current metaverse different than Second Life.
And yet…

You corrected kahunas to cojones, and cleaned up the copy around nouning overwhelm so that it read like the article you found. Your original usage was clunky, and we were trying to give you valid feedback. You are sticking to your guns in the thread while making ninja edits in the copy.

Feedback hurts, but at the end of the day, we’re trying to help you. You keep saying it’s not about correctness, but about sales. What we’re telling you is that your incorrect grammar is losing you sales.
Well he said the words, 'I'm arresting you on suspicion...'. He later 'de-arrested' me. He also told me that details of my arrest would remain in the Police database... which is nice
Damn Move on with your lonely ass By, Evon Latrail
Rail is amazing for the environment. A Marseille to Paris on the TGV emits less than 2kg of CO2 per passenger. That’s 80 times less than a plane, and 20 times less than a car!

And how is this CO2 miracle achieved? Public spending on core infrastructure, namely nuclear power plants and high speed rail

We will need to tax CO2 to oblivion, but before we do so we need to make sure that people can still move around, that’s key to a healthy economy. Public transport is the only viable option for cheap mass low-CO2 transport
Ask HN: What Is the “HN” of “Web3”, Crypto, DeFi, NFT, etc
These technologies have mindshare and will be part of our world’s future. As an engineer, where can I read about these technologies discussed regularly, so I can learn & understand through exposure? Is HN that venue? (If not, why not? What are the boundaries of our bubble here). I’m interested in the tech/practical applications, as opposed to the hype/emotion.
> Calling people idiots isn't going to help the discussion.

Ironically, when we are at the point that the alternative is for subtle manipulation of the information that is being given around (which is my complain), I'd personally prefer the former, and I guess many people would, too. I'm not sure if it is really going to "help" anything but, given the doubt, I think brutal honesty is the more humane option.

In any case, I only put that disclaimer to avoid attracting the usual trolls (plus downvotes from the other side), but I see it attracted the usual trolls anyway. I hope a mod deletes it.
From what I've heard, hi res displays, and other features that work perfectly on macs such as suspend/hibernate on closing the laptop, can still be problematic just like 10 years ago when I last had a linux laptop. Is that fair?
This has been pretty interesting to watch, because the dichotomy between Luke and Linus is what really interests me. Linus' cynicism is what lead him to reject oft-requested distros like Fedora (which he wrote off as a "meme"), and with nearly every problem he has it seems to be exacerbated into a total disaster. I've seen this kind of behavior before though, where heavy Windows/MacOS users unknowingly engage in self-sabotage when they try out a new OS. Nothing new, but I was surprised that Linus from Linus Tech Tips was the one uninstalling his own desktop environment.

Even more surprising was how calmly Luke handled everything. Contrary to Linus' disposition, Luke meets every problem with a thoughtful solution and a willingness to learn, which leaves me rather unsurprised that his Linux experience has gone a lot smoother. On the latest WAN show, Linus flies off on a six-minute tangent where he tries to argue that CLI tools shouldn't exist, only to have the chat dogpile him and remind him that piping between CLI programs is an essential component of Linux. Luke caught onto this pretty quickly, and played devil's advocate, while Linus continued spinning his wheels with the 'muh accessability' bit.

In other words, to nobodies surprise, Linus lets his ego stand in the way of correct technical solutions.
> Animals don't even have the empathy to outright kill a prey before eating it and will have it dismembered, bleeding out and alive no problem.

Not every animal is like this. Most spider never kill animals they can't eat if they're not a threat to them. If one such creature falls into their web, they just release it.

>Spiders liquefy their preys, melting them from the inside out

How else are they gonna eat? They don't have teeth with which to chew their food like we do.

>Cats play with their food.

Many cats can be sadistic selfish assholes, but somehow many humans love them to death because they're cute and fluffy.
Most databases offer some sort of optimization tooling, not all of it automatic. You just gotta know it's there.
This is such an incredible story! It also made me emotional. Thanks for sharing it.
I mean, there’s lots of green hydrogen production in California right now. Clean electric synthesis of hydrocarbons is most certainly possible but a lot more expensive, complex, and inefficient, and I’m not aware of any place you can just buy it, unlike green hydrogen in places like California. Hydrogen electrolysis used to be the dominant method of making ammonia hydrogen. Hydrogen electrolysis is simple enough there’s a Kiwi Co tutorial on how to do it with household items: https://www.kiwico.com/diy/stem/quick-easy-experiments/split...

Hydrogen allows you to skip steps in the typical ammonia plant. Synthesized gasoline is just a huge cost increase, almost an order of magnitude larger than that for clean ammonia.
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Even the 7-Elevens near me are no longer open 24/7. The closest one to me closes around 12 and doesn't open until sometime between 5 and 7 am when someone happens to show up. I was surprised the first time I got there at 4 am (couldn't sleep, needed something to eat) and there was a piece of paper on the door saying they were closed because of short staffing.
> The Data Science team didn’t go to the lengths necessary to support their models. That was their failing. However, the business is ultimately responsible for betting the farm without demanding a real world track record to support those models.

"Well, sure, them folks were (wrong | lying), but its really your fault for listening to them! It's not like making that call was their actual job or anything, ... oh."

I'd say the lesson here is that horseshit is still horseshit even after it has been extensively processed by the finest machines and learning we can buy.

Just imagine being the poor sod there who got a model to say "Bail the fak OUT of this market" 3 months ago: think anyone would have listened?
Hmm now that you mentioned it i used to have Maestro branded debit cards. They magically turned into Mastercards upon renewal indeed.
The author appears to be a purist. While I respect the position, I'm a pragmatist and respectfully disagree. Also the title seems misleading. It should probably be "Stop making students use IDE".

Schools' job should be to teach how to learn in my opinion. Back when I was in university, I was taught a lot of things too and some of it were fundamentals thus necessary. Others could have been cut out for more discovery based learning.

I "learned" Java after many other languages (C, C++, Perl, C#, Python, JS, etc). I've used Eclipse and NetBeans but I feel IntelliJ is special. It has a great feedback mechanism that teaches the language too as a side effect. Dealing with the command line to compile code does teach a few things but after a short while it's just busy work imo. Learning imports? Sure, but again, not having to spend much time in mechanics means one can spend more time on more exciting aspects like refactoring.

It all depends on what the teaching focuses on after allowing or disallowing the use of IDE.
Do not worry. You will be assimilated.
As many others have already said, there is a huge difference between the original Hewlett-Packard company and the companies that still have today a "HP" in their name.

I am an electronics engineer. I have learned much more electronics from the manuals of some Hewlett-Packard products than from most University courses.

Besides their excellent product manuals, which explained everything needed to understand how their products operated and how they can be repaired or modified, the company also published "HP Journal", which explained in great detail why and how their more important products were designed.

The kind of documentation that HP produced was invaluable training for generations of engineers.

Looking at the garbage documentation generated now by almost everybody for their products, it seems almost unbelievable that such companies like the old HP ever existed.
The behaviour described in the article makes me think of a goal-oriented AI. It does not require a lot of complexity and can exhibit very advanced and quite surprising behaviour.
Nucleic acids compose DNA and RNA. If a membrane containing these, and a certain amount of other cellular mechanisms, can reach the surface intact, then it becomes possible that the Earth was passively seeded by extra-terrestrial life, and that life need not have originated here.
forbes publishes one of these articles every week (I know because Google News on Google Chrome shows me the article suggesting).
I noticed the same thing. Due to shaky imap/pop3 integration with a lot of CRMs, I ended up writing my own Greasemonkey script that would push both outbound and inbound e-mails to my own personal crm.
Yeah, how about no?

Mutating methods should return void, period.
I didn't realize it had been so long ago. I went looking for a follow up. The boy died just over a year ago:

https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/03/bertrand-might-matt-migh...
I do have a heated bed. A cabinet would be nice as protection for the printer as well. One day!
State Street bank staff must get special approval to hire white men
80% plus obesity for those badly affected. Its not a coincidence. When the herd is weak, it only takes a nudge to have severe die offs.

The natural immunity we need to collectively prioritize is maximum health before we get tested by nature.
I tend to be like that, but on the other hand I'm easily pissed off when someone will ask a question I already answered, like coming to a meeting and asking what the topic is or where they can find the documentation I provided in the invitation...
Basically I put a lot of efforts in sharing information and people say they didn't had it only because they didn't care about, I have a hard time accepting it. Moreover because it's always the same persons.
So, while I'm working on not overreacting in those kind of situations, I'm also accepting the fact that I can't make people care if they don't want to. The one who cares are thankful for the information. Those who don't, well, they don't.
So people lose trust because of spin and "do their own research" and it's vaccine positive messaging (about the vaccines that are safe and work well) that is ultimately the problem?
Lol, no.

Calling out the OP for being wrong and them admitting they have no knowledge in the area is not an ad hominem attack.

The OPs theory was disproven on its merits alone.
But detecting “oh, this is voice” is easy. Recording the time where that happens is also easy. Knowing when people are chatting around the phone, and roughly what the fundamental frequency of their voice is, could make $0.001 per person. At Google's scale, that's worth it.

So long as they don't get caught, anyway, because that's all sorts of illegal. Especially at Google's scale. (I don't think Google does this… probably.)
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Geophysicist David Chapman once told me a story that has stuck with me for life…

There’s a boundary of what you know, and a boundary of what you think you don’t know. Not the limits of all knowledge, but a belief about where that limit is.

When you’re a kid, you already know you don’t know everything, but you see the radius for the rest of it as not that far off, maybe achievable some day.

As you grow and learn and go to college and keep studying, the radius of what you know increases proportionally, accumulating little by little. And the radius of what you start to realize that you don’t know increases faster and faster, not just multiplied by the population of the earth, but also by the dawning realization that we collectively know very little.

The take home message being that your relative size of knowledge, the more you learn, shrinks asymptotically to zero. In a strange way I find this more comforting than believing that graduate school research is at or even pushing the boundary of collective knowledge; the reality is that most advanced degrees aren’t broaching the boundary nor feeding into the collective.
My concern is how you batch things.

If you pass single operations between threads you will run slower, not faster because of the synchronization overhead.

Whenever I parallelize something I build batching in from the beginning. Most other people seem to think it is an optimization you can do later but the way I see if if your goal is to get any speed up at all batching is essential.
I may have not been as clear as I should have; I'm not necessarily arguging that typical, or expected scaling action should be slowed down. Ie, throttling scaling from X -> 1.5X doesn't really make sense.

A scaling change that would be considered anomalous, and introduces an order-of-magnitude change over historical usage could be scaled more slowly.

> Arguing in favor of slower scaling implies arguing in favor of downtime.

Sure, I guess that in a limited scope, that is what I am saying. I would much rather have a short-term "downtime that requires human intervention" problem, then a long term "Johnny deployed bad code and now the company is bankrupt" problem.

> The ability to scale on demand is sold (and bought) based on the expectation that services just meet the workload that's thrown at them without any impact on availability or performance. That's one of the main selling points of managed services, if not the primary selling point.

I tend to disagree with this. Managed services are often bought on the expectation that they do not require management, deep operational knowledge, and are reliable. There's also often the trade off of upfront costs (either human or capex costs).

Scalability of obviously part of the analysis, but "scability" and "the ability to scale from 1X -> 100X in a couple seconds" are not necessarily the same thing.
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I doubt there is any jurisdiction in which one could deduct losses on a collectible of any kind, let alone an NFT, let alone unrealized losses.

The real use is, you have $X dollars that you acquired by doing crimes. You want to buy a yacht with that money, but you don't want the authorities asking questions. So you sell an NFT to yourself, attribute your crime money to getting lucky in crypto, pay taxes on it, and poof! You're on a boat.
This post strikes me as empty bluster. It basically says "the data scientists didn't consider the possibility that the model might fail to predict the real world." Which is like looking at the Boeing 737 MAX debacle and saying "they didn't consider the possibility that the plane might not be stable". This is most likely both untrue and lacking insight. What almost certainly happened was they validated their model extensively, but overlooked the angle relevant to this use case. Or overexcited executives failed to heed the caveats of the nerds.

> When I advise Data Scientists to understand Topology and Differential Geometry, this is why.

Oh really? I've taken grad-level courses in those fields. It's nice general education but has nothing to do with this situation. Knowing about the Lucas critique from economics would be much more relevant.

My pet theory -- completely unvalidated but at least potentially insightful -- is that they failed to put in adequate margin for adverse selection: homeowners whose homes are worth less than they seem on paper were much more likely to take the Zillow offer. Adverse selection turns prediction variance, which you might naively expect to "average out" when using a well-calibrated model at scale, into a bias towards underperformance.

Another way to put it: asymmetric information. Be very careful betting against homeowners who probably know much more than you do.

Or read this comment, which puts it better than I did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29140104
There is a Russian (Eastern European? Slavic?) superstition against kill spiders. You can kill insects all day, but you don’t kill spiders. You just leave them be.
> As a working professional the IDE is a huge time saver. From quick refactoring to debugging, to step through, to step into, to watch memory, to renaming, to jumping to definition, to method or variable exploring, to function definition, to writing common patterns, to running unit tests, everything sits at one keyboard shortcut away. And the IDE is smart enough to correct my mistake as I am typing, so by the time I hit build, the software builds without errors.

I'm glad someone mentioned this. When I was learning programming for the first time, the Eclipse debugger help me to understand for/while loops, because I could see exactly how the computer behaves, as it runs through my code line by line.
>>>Again this demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the origin, meaning and reality of "apartheid".

The etymology of the world is separateness or "apart-hood". We can debate whether the concept requires immutable physical/racial characteristics, but in most Western minds the word "apartheid" is more common to communicate concepts of enforced second-class-citizen status than others, such as in India's caste system, or burakumin here in Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burakumin

>>>No one is being held down and forcibly vaccinated.

They are simply being forced into unemployment, and whether they eventually starve due to their lack of income, well, that's not YOUR fault, right? It's the most cowardly, passive-aggressive way to eliminate undesirables.

This is like Israel saying they aren't actively murdering Palestinians, so what's the problem? Meanwhile they maintain a blockade that prevents import of basic stuff that has at times included wheelchairs, tin cans, livestock, and construction materials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip#Lim...

>>>Side note: military service members already have to comply with all sorts of medical requirements including shots. Why Covid is being singled out now is the only interesting part to this.

Because the tons of other shots that we get (including that stupid, painful anthrax booster) don't have anywhere near the rate/risk of side effects that come with COVID vaccination!

And when we're exposed to stuff that DOES negatively impact our health, it has often led to the government getting sued for compensation afterwards. Examples: Agent Orange, Iraq "burn pits", USS Ronald Reagan and Fukushima radiation, etc...

Upon further research, you can get VA Benefits for side-effects linked to older, bad batches of anthrax shots: https://ptsdlawyers.com/anthrax-vaccine-presents-long-term-e... So the government recognizes that it screwed up giving us dangerous vaccinations in the 90s and is compensating veterans, and that's for something with a LOWER risk profile than COVID vaccination. But for COVID, the entire adult population of the country is being told to either comply or join the breadlines.

>>>That's a choice.

Yes, and sooner or later, as people feel increasingly suppressed by the government, they will simply stop debating and "make the choice" to resort to violence. En masse. And I don't think the bulk of the people who are oh-so-smug-and-confident about the need/importance for this current trend of government authoritarianism fully appreciate what that means.
> A shadow of the old internet still exists, spread across fragmented digital ghettos here and there.

Yes. When I talk about the real web, this is what I'm talking about. It's not dead yet, but it's certainly on life support. It's a real shame.

The new, corporate, web is basically television in web form.
Could this have been a good cop / bad cop routine? Officer 2 was encouraging you to break the law. It is an offence to manufacture, import or sell a realistic imitation firearm, or to modify an imitation firearm so that it becomes a realistic imitation firearm.
There's no requirement that to get someone out of poverty we must stick them in front of a McDonald's frier even if it costs us more than letting it run itself.

I think both actions should happen now, wages of the low paid workers should rise and we should still try to optimize the jobs as the market changes (via automation or other means). If somehow we end up with no jobs that make sense to pay humans for in my lifetime then we're on to a different economic model, UBI perhaps. My guess is we won't hit that in my lifetime but at least we won't be paying premium to force people to work shitty jobs instead.
A command line debugger is not as discoverable for a learner who doesn't know how to make it work.
I think it’s long been known that if the market actors don’t want to heed results of analysis then they simply won’t.
There’s no line. Programming a a strict subset of, and is much smaller than, software engineering. Communication, technical writing, customer and stakeholder management, system design, technology awareness and many, many more are what make a software engineer in addition to programming.
>I'm in the UK, should have said

No. Fight the American default!
Hey so quick question is there such a thing as a "modular" CRM. I am thinking of using Retool for it.
I totally agree with you. When I have to use a Windows desktop, I feel like being thrown into a mess with inconsistencies, advertisements and software generally working for somebody else than the user.
MacOs feels better but way too limited. I love my Gnome desktop.
> it could also be the interests aren't 6(1)(f) legitimate. Which, agreed, they're usually not.

That was the point. Then to force your users to consent adds insult to injury and is in contravention to the GDPR.