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That's what I thought people would feel, and why I said I thought it would be downvoted. But thanks for letting me that's what you think anyway!

I don't like to admit it because of how silly and weak I think it looks, but, yep I did feel it was unfair and I was showing a little bitterness there--correctly identified, ginko!--I felt sad about it, like "why no upvotes for me?"--but also posted it with a goodnatured thing too, like "I scooped you! But you got the votes!" which can always be a dynamic with news scoops. It was both, you know. And I don't really think it's unfair, because it's basically random how a post gets up. Plus, Haaretz has a paywall, maybe that contributes too...But you always wonder, you know...heh :) Thanks for adding to my shame there, ginko :<...

edit: Oh, I see you got downvoted. Poor you. That's very meta.

edit 2: Ooh, I see the original post has been flagged. I definitely think we should stop talking about it now, heh! OMG let's stop please! :)
Google doesn't care about indexing the internet, that's easy. Every other product they have built since search has been about indexing you.
They pretty much nailed it in the last paragraph...

> Writing in the New York Times Adrian Chen noted as far back as 2013 that Bitcoin is built on a weird mix of speculative greed bolstered by a utopian cyberlibertarian ideology and likened it to a digital gold rush. Indeed, hyperbole continues to characterise all aspects of the crypto world. Crypto messaging does not appear to be directed at the rational or sensible.

Adrian Chen's article... https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/opinion/much-ado-about-bi...

Dan Olson's now epic "Line Goes Up" https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g ... a masterful takedown of crypotcurrency and NFT's, it also demonstrates what a shit-show this has all become. Much MUCH worse than in Chen's 2013 article.
Perl code that is syntactically correct only on Fridays
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Yeah there was this odd change over. I'm not exactly sure when but probably around the dotcom boom.

I remember that if you said you mentioned computers people in general would just parrot that back to you in this "nerd" voice as if it was a joke.

It was rare to even read about what was happening in the world of computers in a mainstream newspaper.

To me, a kid at the time, I felt like I was seeing the gateway to a new kind future unrolling but there was just no way to discuss that with "normal" people at the time.

I guess any adult working in that industry would be keen to share that with anyone interested regardless of age because it was all changing so fast and was so damn exciting.
U.S. clears way for automakers to install smart headlights
> Our Mercedes-Benz advertising is positioned to fit nonconformists who scoff at "status symbols" and reject flimflam appeals to snobbery.

I guess it depends on the market, but driving a Mercedes to me screams status symbol and snobbery.
it does not, it just prints them out in the console
The IP shackles are worse, for sure, but as a single datapoint, I started a job at G a few months ago and I've very sincerely never been happier. I wouldn't say the work is profoundly more interesting than the work I was doing at other startups, but as an iOS developer, time in Xcode is time in Xcode, and thus far I don't see myself getting bored.
You’ll probably find transacting using goods instead of money is already regulated.
She's a hero to me, I use "bc" at least a couple of times per week.

Thank you to Lorinda and everyone else working on UNIX operatingsystems and their tools, you make my life better.
If you are installing a Google OS, you probably already have Chrome. You're already past the "I'm not using Google products" stage.

Is having to install some USB flash tool also wonky? Why can't you just drag it onto the drive? Yes, I know, but to a general user, having to install another app to "just put something onto a USB stick" would seem weird.
The character 囍 means "double happiness" literally, and is often used in wedding ceremonies among other places here in China. It is also included in the Xinhua dictionary, the semi-official dictionary in mainland China.
Handlebars extends on Mustache which considers itself "logic-less" templating language. I think `{{#if (and foo bar)` goes against that principle, so introducing ie `shouldShowX` property on component which then depends on foo && bar and just using `{{#if shouldShowX` really helps.
San Francisco recalls 3 members of city’s school board
Hey everyone! I made an online multiplayer game inspired by GeoGuessr.
You’ll probably like it if:
- You loved hide and seek as a kid but now you’re an adult and it’d be kinda weird to play it with your buddies now
- You want to see the world but you can’t travel because of COVID or any other reason
- You enjoy playing GeoGuessr but you want something new and exciting

Here are the technical details:
- React + Next.js + Typescript frontend
- Google Cloud serverless functions + Typescript backend

Let me know if you have any questions, I’d be very happy to answer them!
> ... easy access to the money printer, Bitcoin solves this.

LOL.

Tether has entered the chat....
All yall going on about her programming and that’s great but she was a rallycross racer for 21 years!!!
I cofounded a startup a few years ago that ended in an acquihire. If I could redo it, I realize we didn’t front load a killer feature.

We spent too much time on table stakes so we’d look like competitors, there wasn’t much that set us apart to endear us to the alpha user base. We only developed some really novel things after like nine months. Looking back (and for next time), I’d have greatly descoped what we needed to imitate and gotten on those killer features asap.
Yes! Hyperion was excellent
Here's an explainer of the saying (in Dutch) and some possible English alternatives, like : "That’s like grading your own exam”. And literally a "conflict of interest".

https://hoezegjeinhetengels.nl/slager-keurt-zijn-eigen-vlees...
The author was talking about romantic love.

And indeed, they are right. Love is biological bribery. Science has proven that love is a mix of chemistry and emotions. (Or emotions caused by chemistry) that waxes and wanes and goes away over time. And the main reason for it is the perpetuation of the species by a mechanism that is outside of our consciousness and reason.

When love is gone, what is generally left is (sometimes hopefully) a caring, appreciation, and high regard for the object of "love".

And this is exactly why modern divorce rates are so high.

Because marriages were always meant to be a coming together for reasons of survival, children, sharing of responsibilities and a series of common missions.

Instead we have ruined the institution by making the main reason for it to be "love".

So when the love inevitably wanes -- as it naturally does, if the couple has nothing else left (children, shared goals, common missions), why stay together?

And yes, some people might say they have been in love for decades. Which is great! But it rarely happens. Generally love waxes and wanes. Rises and falls. Comes and goes. And those same couples that have been in love for decades will tell you all of the downswings and upswings over the years.

I wish more people knew and understood this. A lot of heartache could be saved. Then again, the world would not be so interesting. Sigh.
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Note taking apps are popular on HN and OneNote is rarely given any credit.

I take notes at work mostly where we use confluence for all the documentation.
Confluence was slow so I tried local plain-text apps including Typora, Obsidian etc. and abandoned them quickly because I couldn't easily link to confluence documents. And if I am trying to write a new document, its not easy to dump thoughts in these tools.

Tried confluence again and while it allows copy pasting images etc. its hard to format code, its very slow to modify something and again its hard to dump your thoughts in a confluence document in a hope to refactor into final document in multiple iterations.

OneNote is what I have settled on finally. New OneNote design silly like all new Microsoft software https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/how-to-move-onenote-sections-back-to-top-of/4db9afb6-e8fb-49aa-b374-d357bd9b75f1
Every page is like a free-form white board on which you can write or draw or paste images anywhere. Also, the text in screenshots becomes searchable. I was on a complicated task recently for past few months and OneNote was a huge help. I made a section dedicated to my task. Then made pages freely as I needed in there e.g. a page for architecture I was trying to figure out, another page for things i tried to test memory usage, a page for configurations etc etc.
Least resistance to put the idea down is very important and I couldn't have managed all this information without OneNote this easily.

You cannot write the final document in OneNote though. It's not built for that I think. But its a great assistant to jot your ideas down somewhere. I don't think there is anything else as flexible and as resistance free to dump information while still keeping it manageable. Give this a try if you can.
I'm sure there's a relevant XKCD somewhere.
> tests failing are indicated by the _absence_ of "OK" being printed

I guess they are counting OKs then bisect their test suite until they find the "not ok" test.
The only thing I know about Bryan Cantrill is that 'have you ever kissed a girl?' post he made to a Linux dev in the late 90s.

Funnily enough another hero, Miguel de Icaza, popped up in that thread too.
The contrast is really stark when you compare it to for eg. India, where 64% of the respondents earn less than $50k. And this is likely with a skewed sample too - 343 respondents, of which I'd bet most are in FAANG and FAANG-adjacent companies (eg. Flipkart). The actual percentage that earn above 2 lakhs per month (= $50k p.a.) is likely less than 20%, even allowing for a strict definition of a "Javascript developer".
Which manufacturer? I've had good luck with EVGA and terrible luck with MSI, but that's pretty anecdotal.
People are obsessed with feeling special, feeling informed, feeling unique. How about giving me a product that's all those things? Give me what nobody else does. Give me a flagship phone with a headphone jack and a 16:9 screen, give me a laptop with mouse buttons, give me a 3:2 desktop monitor, give me a videogame with one price tag that's made to just be a good game.
You're not wrong, and it's unfortunate.
Add in a gauss blur as well.
Non-random samples get you to up to 10% fatality rate. I have the data for my region and in march-april 2020 the IFR was 10-15%. Of course, that was due because there weren't enough tests and only the ones that were really sick entered the statistics. But for the original strain, IFR was around 1% and that number was pretty consistent among a broad number of studies.

Also, take into account the amount of diseases that are getting late treatments due to healthcare saturation. I don't know of any formal studies but you only need to talk with any doctor to see that they're consistently seeing diseases in later stages and therefore harder to cure.
I'm planning to read a mixture of classic 20th century novels, sci-fi (which has some intersection with 20th century classics..) and historical non-fiction. So far I've read one from each of those categories: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, The Doomed City by the Strugatsky Brothers and October by China Mievelle.

I like to roughly alternate between fiction and non-fiction. It keeps things refreshing. I also find reading fiction after reading non-fiction makes it easier to glean the ideas the fiction book is trying to convey as you're still in the information processing mindset of reading a non-fiction book. This adds an extra layer of appreciation beyond enjoying the story.

In terms of choosing a book to read - just think of things you've always been interested in and then ask for recommendations for books (fiction or non-fiction) that discuss the topic, or use that topic as a major plot point. A good general rule of thumb I've found is not to bother with books with less than a rating of 4 on Goodreads unless it's a subject you really think is going to interest you, or an author you know you like already.
The sibling comments are good, but let me add my own version.

eV is a unit of energy, and eV/c^2 is a unit of mass. You can drop the c^2 if you are lazy, and if someone ask you can say that you using a system of units where c=1 and ħ=1. This is fine in the second half of a Physic degree, but you can get in trouble for forgetting the c^2 in the first half or during secondary school.

The technical definition is in a sibling comment, but an eV is similar to the energy that an electron gets or loose when it makes a jump inside a molecule or between two molecules. The exact number depends on the molecule and the jump, it may be x10 bigger or smaller.

For example if you connect a led to a battery, each electron gets like 1.5eV when it pass through the battery, and release that energy as a photon of light in the led. If you ignore a lot of technical details, the electron makes one or two jumps in the battery and a jump in the led, but this is a huge oversimplification.

Note that a led releases like 10^18 photons per second, so each photon with approximately 1eV has a tiny amount of energy.

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On the other hand, if you destroy an electron you get 511000eV of energy. You can't destroy a single electron, but you can make an electron colide with a positron that has the same mass and in total you gen 511000eV+511000eV of energy. So destroying an electron release much more energy than an electron that jumps inside a molecule.

In special relativity there is an equivalence between energy and mass, so if the energy you get while destroying an electron is 511000eV then the mass is 511000eV/c^2. You can also measure the mass directly without destroying the electron, and you get the same number (probably with a bigger uncertainly, I'm not sure how they measured so many digits).

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As an analogy, if you move around and climb some steps and make some jumps, each big movement absorbs or release approximately 1000J.

If someone makes a antimatter clone of you, and you both colide, your mass will be released as energy and they will get like 10^18J+10^18J = 1000000000000000000J+1000000000000000000J.

Changing the units, your mass is like 510^37eV/c^2 and if you colide with your antimatter evil clone, you both will release 510^37eV+5*10^37eV of energy.
Do they say Ember is bad, or that they just haven't used it and have no interest in trying it?
Just because your city isn’t equipped to deal with an unusually high amount of deaths in a pretty way does not mean that the lockdowns saved more quality adjusted life years than they cost.

A year of life is worth far more when you’re 20 than when you’re 80. If the people saved by lockdowns were primarily old people with a few years left to live it would be pretty clear that the lockdowns were a net negative.
> Finally opened up the case and there was no memory, no video card and no motherboard and no drives at all

In the 90's a fairly popular scam was to buy a computer from a traditional retail store, like JC Penny or Sears, and then remove the hard drive and RAM, exchange the computer saying it didn't work, and then you end up with a computer that has double the storage and RAM for the same price.

It wouldn't at Best Buy or Circuit City because they would open up the computer and test it out. But when some warehouse worker just throws the computer on a dolly and brings you out another, and you pay cash, it's easy to get away with.
> whats next? Government collapse and anarchy? Like what's the gameplan?

I like how the two options are pay insane taxes and inflation or anarchy.

Feel like I’m being held hostage.
Surely love has functional meaning, just like all sensations and feelings.
Love is one of the most powerful feelings that can bring joy or so much sorrow for some.

Do the biochemical aspects of love matter that much?
When it is no longer functional, sure.

Besides, all pleasurable feelings/sensations are "bribes".

Really funny how we make separations about male vs female dating strategy, and they are right to a great degree, but both men and women share a lot of DNA, I don't know if there are many male specific genes.

Sure, all animals are the same and just a few different hormones make a huge difference (male vs female gorilla?) but not to that extent in humans.

Men can be manipulated too when they fall inlove, I wish the article talked about that.
Same on Firefox on Linux
I recently got into the "Revelation Space" series having missed it earlier. I was always a big fan of "the culture" novels by Iain M Banks, and this to me feels very similar (though darker).
Egyptologists would disagree re your first there: it is D53 in the Gardiner sign list, used to spell words including 'urinate', 'poison', 'husband' and 'in the presence of' !
What is the likelihood that a Greek article about electronics would use the Ohm sign when the Omega is right there on the keyboard?
And you’re unwilling to name the library?

I’d love to investigate this further.
Dystopian robot dog is the latest in history of US-Mexico border surveillance
This hasn't been my experience at all. People are building increasingly complicated apps like Figma in the browser and are happy to hire senior developers and pay them well. If anything I see the number of back end roles diminishing as people increasingly delegate that stuff to various cloud services.
Ah, thanks for the correction, that's better yes
At the start of this, I saw a claim that New York failed to repeal their no-face-coverings requirement when making the new masks-are-mandatory requirement.

(No idea if this was accurate or a colossal misunderstanding of how things work, but the claim was made).
In the US we don’t think of pollution as that bad specifically because we dealt with so much of it. In an unregulated country you get events like the Great Smog of 1952 in London which killed 4,000+ people and made another 100,000 sick, and then boom Clean Air Act 1956.

There are finite number of countries and they eventually focus on pollution after people build a lot of factories in the country. Even China is starting to focus on air pollution because they don’t have a choice.
It it fraud or just laziness?

10 years ago I stopped buying open-box items from NewEgg. They never, ever worked.

I had a theory that it was cheaper for them to ship it to another customer, and then if it got returned a second time, mark it as defective, vs doing actually DOA checks etc on their side.
Love is energy which compells forward motion in the universe.

We know that the law of attraction manifests collaboration & cooperation from the smallest parts like our models of the atom, to a single cell, to a human's body, to the mind & the global subconscious.

This law is love. Love is not always right but it's the fuel, it's what drives this whole mad universe and it's you and it's me and we are excellent! Can you imagine, your heart beating for you each and everyday, the bacteria in your gut digesting food for your cells to uptake and absorb. Everything in perfect balance and homeostasis!

Sure we may fall ill, but our bodies repair even without our focus. In fact it's often better to sleep when feeling sick and turn down the conscious ego altogether and slip into lala land: to the place of archetypes, the shadow, the subconscious, and unconscious. Our bodies rescue us, we do nothing (wu wei) and only need to wait through the uncomfortable now. A new day will rise and after a short time we feel whole again. We have all experienced this. We know this because this is love. Our bodies love us and if we treat others inside the universal system with love, I don't see why peaceful Freedom United with Love cannot find a natural balance, especially if love were inherently part of the technological constraints and engineering decisions.

You know what true love is, you might have forgotten, but you know it.

Love must be grown voluntary.
> A direct ban via legislation ought to work in practice.
> A ban doesn't have to work perfectly, it just has to dissuade enough users.

That much it can probably accomplish, especially given the current level of censorship of the Internet.
> I'm not sure I understand why there'd ever need to be an instant result (sans network latency) in a turn-based game. If the player has a visual indication that the server is waiting for their command, then any jumpy movement on the part of other players is strictly down to their own bad connection as long as the server is running well.

Although the Worms games are turn-based, gameplay typically involves performing a lot of actions within one turn. Walking, jumping, using utilities (which don't end your turn), and finally firing a weapon. Many of these actions can trigger an event with a random outcome, which should ideally be unpredictable and un-manipulatable, such as which weapon will be found in a weapon crate, or how long the fuse of a mine with a random fuse will be.

In a peer-to-peer game, the server is just another player, and should not be considered intrinsically more trustworthy. Ignoring latency, it's possible to implement a scheme of securely generating random data, in which everyone produces a verifiable hash (commitment) of a random number, and after everyone announced their hash everyone announces their random number, which is then XORed together to produce the outcome (see e.g. Keybase's "Cryptographic coin flipping"). The problem with this approach is that the latency to obtain the result becomes the roundtrip to the player with the slowest connection and back.
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So you want crypto currencies in order to remove control over money supply from states and banks and replace it with a fixed or at least predetermined money supply? Everything else in the current system is fine or do you have additional reasons?
I use OneNote pretty regularly and it's very useful. I like the search ability and the ability to instantly recall notes from meetings or conversations months previous can make you look like a genius.
Something about not having to save as you go is pretty powerful too. It's not perfect but I do like OneNote for what it can offer.
There was some research that indicated stem cells can be made from skin cells. Is there a chance this field will eventually catch up by the time stem cell therapies become more widely accesssible?
As a desktop user, it makes me physically ill everytime I have to do that. I'd honestly pay for someone to make auto-executing the default on most common Linux distros. Like, in 20+ years of using computers, I don't remember one time where I downloaded something and did not want to run it afterwards.
You are just wrong. Musicians can absolutely tell the difference between 432Hz and 440Hz. Audience typically can too, although they might not be able to put into words what is different.

Personally, I prefer a brighter concert-A, 444 or higher.
> claims of non-traceability of cryptocurrencies

Uh, who's claiming that? Cryptocurrency transactions are _super_ traceable.
yes I know

but I also know that some of them know how to code and actually read my resume, so I'm really wondering if I'm overselling myself
Join an open source consultancy like Igalia, Collabora or RedHat. There is basically infinite work in open source.

PS: some resources: https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
I am not aware of a powerful tty renderer. Groff looks like it's aimed at paper outputs first. Also eqn can be called with `groff -e` (other preprocessors also have their flag) and inf (instead of infinity) produces a correct infinity glyph.
Then all of the greatest scientists in human history were arrogant (by your judgement). So what?

Progress and truth are much, much more important than fitting in and pleasing others’ sense of propriety.