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Ask HN:  (For Fun) What if `sudo rm -rf /` doesn't work?
In what particular order should I kill my system files?

I wouldn't want my system to die before all my files are "deleted".

If I've managed to Nerd Snipe you, Here's some prompts:

1) Fewest bash lines to remove everything

2) Fewest Characters to remove everything

3) Delete the most files WITHOUT killing the machine

4) etc.
Yes. The toggle in Privacy will make the app not initialize Firebase. The library will still be in memory, but I don't believe it does anything. I also do not want Google to receive anything, which is why it's going to be removed once we have a replacement.
day-after update: 12T in the octave, based on the following harmonics:

(in pitch/frequency order) 1st, 17th, 9th, 19th, 5th, 21st, 11th, 3rd, 13th, 27th, 7th, 15th

In harmonic order: 1,3,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,27

So, sure, fair question why these harmonics and not any of the others?

Well, powers of 2 are out because they are just higher octaves. Then we have a whole series of harmonics that are equivalent ratios to the fundamental when folded down into the octave range (3 (3:2),6 (6:4), 12 (12:8)), (5 (5:4), 10 (10:8)), (7,14,28), (13,26) and so on.

You'll notice the pattern: the harmonics the define the intervals in a 12T system are those that introduce new ratios into the list of intervals, so they lean toward being prime or only having factors not already introduced.

By the time you go through the list, it's easy to see that going up to the 31st harmonic really only leaves out a couple of possibilities from a 12T system: 25, 29, 31 and as far as I am aware this is because introducing them into the pitch class produces results extremely close to already existing members.

And sure, you could go higher, but the pattern will repeat: harmonics whose ratio folded into the octave range are identical, or which give rise to pitches extremely close to pitches defined already.

It's not a post-hoc rationalization at all.
This headline is unfairly editorialized. What the Firefox dev said was that the automatic encoding detecter confusing some ISO/IEC 8859 encodings for each other is an intractable problem, and fixing one Latin text encoding being auto-detected for a different Latin text encoding is a very low-priority use of time. Also, removing the encoding override is completely separate from that, since it's (apparently) a very complicated feature to keep around that 1) breaks webpages (e.g. etrade) and 2) keeps confusing users and leading them think Firefox is worse at text encoding then Chrome.

Regardless of your opinion of the change in question, these two statements are completely different from what the headline implies.
I use reddit spordically - [this](https://www.reddit.com/user/FirstToday1/) is my account. I got my job from something I posted on reddit so I still feel a little indebted to the site. Reading the default subreddits will probably cost you about 3-5 IQ points p.a. I don't know where the family hatred comes from either. It's really common on the advice subreddits. Reddit has always had the punk/atheist type stuff but now that more ordinary people use Reddit what they say can have an actual effect on society now. The increasing popularity of memes and videos over text probably isn't helping the site either. Such a shame.
There seems to be a lot of people addressing the flagging of posts. I think most of the post I've seen flagged are flagged because they're either off topic, or they seem to contain false information or spam.

I don't see many addressing the comments being flagged. Maybe because it happens less often or is less visible than for posts? At least it seems that way to me. I've seen things mostly down voted instead (posts don't have that option, so maybe that's why flagging is used more there).

The main thing I have seen as comments being flagged are for nonsense/spam replies, or some sort of vulgar name calling. However, I have seen comments (including my own) that don't seem to be breaking the rules get flagged. Usually in this case it's all the comments I have posted in that thread. They later become unflagged. I assume these would be a case of someone abusing the system because they don't like my opinion.

On the other side of this, I see some comments that break the rules when things get heated, and typically they aren't flagged. I usually don't flag them either since the offense is generally de minimus in my view.
link looks broken (goes to main msn page)
Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (Nerva)
> extended weekend around Moon in cattle class for say $100K/person.

But how long does this actually last? The amount of people that can afford to pay that is minimal, I dont see space tourism driving any serious markets for an extremely long time (if ever).

And there is a reason point to point transfer isnt being mentioned anymore. The logistics and regulatory hurdles are going to be massive, and I seriously doubt we see that outside of maybe military tests for cargo transport.
I have all notifications off all the time. I check slack when I have a moment, like if I'm waiting for CI or a long compile. Actual highlights will turn the tray icon red, so I will notice soon, but replying even to highlights immediately is madness.
The title, by HN guidelines, is "Replace the Text Encoding menu with a single override item Repair Text Encoding"
You do know that you can set yourself as away and nobody will be able to see your online status?
“So the most important thing a community site can do is attract the kind of people it wants. A site trying to be as big as possible wants to attract everyone. But a site aiming at a particular subset of users has to attract just those—and just as importantly, repel everyone else. I've made a conscious effort to do this on HN. The graphic design is as plain as possible, and the site rules discourage dramatic link titles. The goal is that the only thing to interest someone arriving at HN for the first time should be the ideas expressed there”

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

I mean, you only have to read literally any thread on HN's design and features, or any of the nigh-weekly threads complaining about the modern web and its complexity, how commodification and capitalism have ruined its creativity and quirkiness, or how javascript exists, to see those sensibilities are alive and well and strongly culturally correlated to the layout of this site and the perception (somewhat inaccurate) that it exists frozen in amber.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-17/-zero-cli...
I use and self-host the opensource tool – huginn. [1]

I have an agent that watches the RSS feed for replies to my username.[2] Then the huginn agent sends me an email when new replies come in. The beautiful thing is, I can quickly change one setting and throttle down the emails. Only getting an email with a summary of all replies, every X hours, if I want.

[1] https://github.com/huginn/huginn

[2] https://hnrss.github.io/
Or you could use Zulip, where everything is organized into first-class topics for exactly the reasons described.
That matches my experience. I spent a wonderful time talking to a docent who diagnosed some of the failures on the Skylab booster. (Which came very close to not making it.)
It's a cute idea, but I see two obvious issues. First, spending priorities tend to be pretty similar among politicians, with each differing only in small details, so approximately all of the pie charts would look more or less like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#/...

(Only about a quarter of the pie is even discretionary! The rest is on budgetary auto-pilot.)

Second, how many people are well-informed enough to have an opinion on how much of the budget should be spent on AI research? How many have even thought about the question? There are a kajillion such questions, and it would be unreasonable for most citizens to put in the time to consider even a small fraction of them, considering how little a single person's vote affects them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ignorance
Thanks, fixed!

The "Arpanet" episode of The Americans featured a classic scene with an academic computer science professor dude bullshitting about the ARPANET -- I'm sure we both know somebody exactly like that from that period, who made eloquent hand-waving metaphors about Virtual Spaces and Post Offices and God and Disembodied Brains, trying to explain to skeptical people how vast and important the ARPANET was (with its 8 enormous bits of address space). But he kinda had a point, calling the PDP-10 "The Beast".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVth6T3gMa0

But the thing The Americans "Arpanet" episode got wrong is that you didn't actually have to slap on a Frank Zappa Soul Patch and a Beatnik Wig, dress up like a janitor, and brutally murder an unlucky grad student to get on the ARPANET, you just had to ask the right people nicely! (But it's still one of the best episodes, with the scene about passing a lie detector test by clenching your anus.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpanet_(The_Americans)
Huh, I’m surprised they’re being successful. Wouldn’t glowing be a significant disadvantage for evolutionary fitness in the wild?
s/old/experienced/

It took a realization myself that my 20 year accumulated knowledge, insights, skills, mental models is not something most college grads can grasp (there are very, very few exceptions). And telling them verbally doesn’t help either.

Ex: due to that experience, I can pick up any language & ecosystem and be productive in 3 days max (from js to c++ to haskell). I can’t expect that from a bootcamper or new grad.
> This headline is unfairly editorialized.

I'm not sure why it doesn't follow HN guidelines to use the page title:

"Replace the Text Encoding menu with a single override item Repair Text Encoding"
Very nice. I wish I had come across that sooner.
In Korea genetically modified plants have been discovered near roadways and logistic centers, despite the cultivation of transgenic plants being illegal. IIRC they were imported as bulk foods and some fell off the truck(s).
> you'd still want to borrow money.

For sure, but you'd be met with market rates that tame your desire for money now. Buying a car on credit is a lot less tempting at 20% interest than 4%. Right now used car prices are going up and it's easy to get low interest financing.

Used cars are not supposed to go up in value. It's madness.

> But once they do normalize, why do you expect asset price inflation to continue?

I expect asset prices to continue to inflate as long as we continue with our current monetary policies.

I expect us to continue with our current monetary polices because the US would be unable to service its debts in about decade otherwise.
> This is generally (but not always) false. SpaceX has been negotiating a lot of their commercial contracts in a vehicle agnostic fashion.

Here's another way of putting that: SpaceX has designed it so F9 and Starship payloads will be interchangeable. That's not quite the same thing. You can't just take an F9 payload and bolt it on top of an Ariane rocket.

> Starship is being designed with the intent that it will cannibalize all Falcon 9 launches eventually.

Sure but that's just going to take a long time, particularly if F9 is, say, sub-$15m per launch. There's a lot that still has to be done for Starship (eg the landing system, the crew component).
To be fair, I am really excited for generics. However I do think the lack of the is the major reason go is such a readable language. Not being able to hide complexity behind types of types of types really ends up making code easier to follow.

I'm excited and anxious about generics in go.
The data in the article agrees with your sources. It says there was a surplus in 2020, and that use and production have been pretty balanced since then.
They already have plans for this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE-ultsWt0
Disclosure: I work for AWS, but they don't pay me to share my personal opinions on FOSS licenses here on HN. I'm speaking for myself.

Personally, I am a fan of AGPLv3. But I am uncomfortable with advice to apply APLv3 code in an expectation that BigCorps will not touch it. There are many very large companies, including multinational companies based in China, that have no fear of AGPLv3, and are also prepared to meet the obligations of the license.

Many times I have read (including in comments down thread) that "big companies fear AGPLv3." That may be true in some cases, but not all. And the state of adoption or rejection of community licenses changes over time. 25 years ago, many companies "feared" GPLv2.

That changed, and now GPLv2 is widely accepted. The same could happen for AGPLv3, and personally I think that the movements that advocate for Software Freedom will be closer to achieving their goals if that happened.
Less gasoline, insurance, wear-and-tear, etc.

These drivers also take on significant personal risk: lifetime odds of dying in a car accident are about 1:100 — and that’s for people who aren’t typically driving all day. Odds of being permanently disabled? About 1:20… again, for people who typically don’t drive all day.

IMO they are not adequately compensated for the risk and costs.
Yep, I get the same stressed out feeling even thinking about Teams. I 100% would not work for another company that uses anything more than Outlook from the Microsoft suite. Life is just too short.
Are you imaginging a JWST or similar telescope that isn't a government program?
Bring back the panda, I say!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda
Sorry, I don't see how this has any similarity to the posted project, apart from being also related to fusion?
I 100% agree with what you're saying.

Assume a 1:10 insulin to carb ratio (though I don't think insulin dosages have a strictly linear effect) and a meal of 100 carbs. If the meal, in reality, has 80 carbs, you've injected two extra units of insulin. We might expect a unit of insulin to reduce blood glucose by 30-50 mg/dl, so we've reduced our expected blood glucose by 60-80 mg/dl. If you target a blood glucose of 80 mg/dl, this would mean your expected future glucose is 0-20 mg/dl. In that case, you would die.

Now, the problem with this example is that I would 100% take action to avoid dying, so my actual risk of death is still minute despite having a lethal dose of insulin in my body at the time I inject myself. However, it's still a bit strange to know that, conditional on me taking no independent action, I'm hours away from death in certain situations.
I would spend more of it on healthcare and education. Maybe we should take a vote?
Decide which features in an existing product require technical design reviews?
Wanted to know how do teams/organizations decide if a new feature requires a technical design review?

Do you have a questionnaire for teams to fill based on the impact and determine if a technical review is required based on the score?

Any other suggestions?
I have exactly the same problem. Glad to hear this is not typical of all ZWave networks.

It's funny because I have exactly three types of devices:

- Several Inovelli Red dimmers
- A few Zooz Zen34 remote switches
- An HUSBZB-1 USB stick attached to the machine running Home Assistant

And I've never heard of anyone else having the same sort of trouble with any of the above. Definitely an exercise in frustration.
Jonathan Creek is always worth watching. 'Jack in the Box' and 'The Grinning Man' come to mind.
Producing more oil than you consume does not, as the article claims, make you truly energy independent. The US will always have to import oil from other countries to meet its needs, because not all oil is the same, and the type of oil that the US produces is not the type that it needs.

For a better understanding: https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/blog/2018/06/14/w...
He straight-up said that it’s not as much of an issue because it’s still legible because not all of the letters are borked. I don’t see how this is a misrepresentation of what he said.

> Also, removing the encoding override is completely separate from that,

It is not separate at all. If the detector cannot do it, and the ability for the user to do it is removed, these issues are intrinsically linked. Sure, there are the other issues you mentioned around keeping it around, but you can’t act like these issues can be considered separately.
Illegal mass surveillance in South Africa revealed
"Blueprint for Murder"

https://columbophile.com/2016/08/14/episode-review-columbo-b...
Good catch. Yeah, the bees were not GM. I think I must have confused that with the GM bee experiments in Germany.

But this bent grass was what I was talking about for the other part.

https://cen.acs.org/articles/82/i39/GENE-FLOW-TRANSGENIC-GRA...
In many TV shows it ends up being the person that first gets into the room (supposedly after the person is already dead, but not in reality) that does the killing. I.e. police, family member, medical staff, etc.
It would be a great move, so many researchers can't apply ideas for lack of resources. We need something like CERN.
> hope and change

Thanks for so eloquently making my point that they had no plan.

> clueless… who were not on the ground

Best of luck with projection and raging about conspiracies on the internets.
The only solace in using Teams is being able to bond with other people who have experienced the same pain.
Pinterest is one of those sites that I would block forever, if I could customise my search experience.
Boy, how I wish the MS product team would read this thread. I use MS Teams every day at work (consulting), and it’s a steaming pile of hot mess.

1) Chats in three different locations. It’s so confusing and causes so much mental overload. Just simplify and out in one place.

2) Speed. It’s begrudgingly slow on my very beefy Lenovo X1 with 32 GB ram and i7 cpu.

3) Screen sharing is abysmal and hogs resources.

4) Intermittent crashes when enabling web cam, requiring me to reboot the entire machine. This happens especially when using the MS Whiteboard inside of a Teams call. Whiteboard is quite nice, but it causes Teams to crash often.

What I like: Files in one place, collaborative editing (#1 killer feature). Everything else is piss poor.
> In europe, all websites require you to accept cookies

It is always worth pointing out that the complex dark-pattern filled forms that many sites use are there choice and not impressed by the relevant legislation.

They could just make it all opt in/out with a single click, but they know that without the trickery very few users will do opt in to being stalked so instead they try make it as difficult as possible in the hope that you agree to everything either accidentally or just because you are such of it and want the form to go away. I just back away from sites like that and in particularly egregious cases I've blocked them at the network level with a DNS blacklist: the information I'm looking for has always also been available somewhere else less irritating.
Really…? You won’t work at a place because they use a certain chat application?
I think I heard on a podcast the other day that a 10ft x 10ft tank of heavy water would produce the same amount of energy the entire world consumes in a year (or some crazy stat like that).
And couldn't that data be stored in an actual database?

This is the "it's turtles all the way down" concept. A database is just going to store data in the file system, plus some extra overhead. Putting data in a database saves you nothing unless you actually need the extra functionality a database provides.

That overhead doesn't mean much if you have 10 users and 1gb of data. But it adds up in very large systems.
> how many people are well-informed enough to have an opinion on how much of the budget should be spent on AI research?

Unfortunately, there is no super-human, super-political authority who can give us answers. We each get to decide who we trust and to what degree. You are free to trust Eric Schmidt to whatever degree; I might vote otherwise. Certainly nobody gets to assert authority over others by simply claiming to be an expert.
I think there's only one documented instance of horizontal gene transfer in fish and it increased fitness dramatically - https://www.quantamagazine.org/dna-jumps-between-animal-spec...
Sounds a lot like the distribution of the Chinese "packing peanut" trees along the railroads here in the US (years ago).
ICYMI, Amazon Linux includes versions of Ghostscript that are licensed under AGPLv3 (the license changed at version 9.07). [1]

AGPLv3 licensed software is also permitted for use within the company in some circumstances.

[1] https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2021-1598.html
ITER plans to test breeding tritium from lithium. It should work in theory, but there is no practical experience yet. Current tritium used in fusion research is entirely produced from fission reactor moderated by heavy water, and there is only one production facility in the world at Canada.
Can you elaborate? Fusion reactors don't produce any fissionable material.
He is constantly engaged in stock manipulation, so now governments are bad because they are the only ones who can hold him accountable.

He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, so consequences are not in his dictionary. That's fitting, the world's richest person is a manchild. Tells you everything about the age we are living.
It's not about people not handling being wrong, but about introspecting on how we deliver feedback. If people cannot take feedback or accept flaws in their work, that certainly is a problem. But this article is just asking us to think about the human relationships in our work, and to hold back on knee-jerk feedback.
A proper transition to those systems includes talking to each team that will be using it, breaking down all their workflows, and making sure that said system works with practices in place (a new system that causes everything to take 20% more time is not okay). It also includes maintenance plans; every bit of information planning I do also includes 'this is how you maintain this system/this is the parts that will require effort to maintain/this is what will happen if you decide not to do any maintenance whatsoever, which I do not recommend'.

Documentation management and information architecture planning is work, and properly planned your maintenance will be minimal (NOT non-existent, but minimal) because the system will be designed to be as frictionless as possible.

But nobody wants to either pay for that or accept the time it takes.
(Just to share my experiences, maybe some of this helps a little, but I don't read many technical books for knowledge retention anymore; it's more like reading for knowledge gap-fills which don't require much in terms of retention. I love the books for that part though.)

My first stage is to start a file where I write my own guides/books as a reference. The subtopics here are things like a to-do list, questions list, project area, log, resources area. I try to get some pseudocode in the log or project area as soon as I can, for things like language learning. I find this is really fast for my own learning style, compared to starting with the books and particularly those using a linear teaching method.

Have you tried reclining or laying down with a laptop and possibly a laptop stand/desk? When I need to read books on the laptop I find this really comfortable. It took some experimentation to find my best setup though, like which lumbar support to use for which chair, when to use trackball vs. touchpad, etc.
The real problem is Slack's engagement tactics. Reducing time on Slack benefits everyone, except Slack itself.
Ex-Googlers resurrect Google Inbox interface as “Shortwave” email
This is where tritium will come from, but not where it does now.