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Ask HN: What's your personal pet theory on how humanity manages to end itself?
Some of the discussion on a recent post about genetically modified mosquitos got me thinking about this again, so was curious on what HN thinks will end the world.

I honestly think eventually advancements in genetic engineering and biology will lead to more and more potent bioweapons until someone manages to make one that ends it all.

I've always had this thought in my mind since I was young but now personally seeing COVID spread across the globe in a matter of weeks/months has just reaffirmed this belief and I really think it's only a matter of time before someone bioengineers a virus to kill everyone on the planet. If something can supposedly spread from a wet market(or lab if that's more your speed) in China to the entire world through pure chance (or accident) how hard can it be to do it on purpose once the technology is mature and advanced enough?

But I'd love to hear HN's takes on this and your own theories on how we meet our self-inflicted extinction.
More important still, regardless of what the actual level is, we haven't seen any evidence of sudden outbreaks of homosexuality in populations reliant on a particular contaminated source of food, or apparent decline in homosexuality following stricter controls on food storage, or any of the sorts of things you'd expect if homosexual attraction was generally cause by exposure to particular foodstuffs

(cf the leaded gasoline and criminality hypothesis, which sounds pretty speculative but gets more plausible when people start modelling data on regional levels and controlling for other causal factors)
NATO has provided security to the Baltic countries. The only reason that Russia has attacked Ukraine and not Latvia, is because Latvia is in NATO and Ukraine is not.

In fact, Russia is suffering big losses in its war in Ukraine. It would have taken Latvia instead without much trouble.
Yes this was my insight into the comment also. To have parents is to have a safety net. That is often a privileged place to be that most people don't really understand. My parents are gone but I had savings that operated as my safety net and that was my place of privilege because most people do not have savings.

The most successful founders in the world had one of the two above if not more such as real wealth. Starting a company is a huge privilege but one that also requires an understanding that it ultimately becomes self sacrifice. To your employees, to your customers, to your investors. You get to chase your desires but must face the reality that you will only succeed if those are in service to others.
Like any hobby it can be as expensive or cheap as you like. My road bike (Cannondale CAAD8 from 2010) is probably worth €200-250, yet gets ridden 10x more than other bikes in the house costing upwards of €7k.
Does anyone know whether the FAA had access to the unedited raw GoPro footage? Could they have demanded it? Did they?
did that 6 months ago
This is exacty what my mind went to when reading the title.
I've been studying color theory a long time, including giving talks about color mixing and indeed HSL space specifically for a decade...

I'm with you, there are ways that I think color mixing should be done but I would never say that mine is "right". That's silly, it's art.

I think color mixing should be done using HSI colorspace (luminosity replaced with intensity defined as the sum of all light power outputs) with HS defined as per HSL/HSV and interpolation between any two colors done by a line drawn between the coordinates. The reason for this is that in my applications I use spotlights so obviously "total brightness" is way more important than "display lightness". It's just physics, and no right or wrong about it, it's a different display kind.

This is "correct", the colorspace is explicitly constructed to be used in this way such that each step is perceptually even. But it also isn't necessarily what people want, to me "fade from red to cyan" automatically goes through white because of course it does... but what people usually mean is they want the hue to spin around at fairly constant saturation (ignoring that the direction of rotation matters) because it looks good. Red to orange to yellow to green looks vastly nicer in a gradient than going a direct path through white.

That all said (mostly because I find it bizarre and fascinating even after a lot of study), the arguments in the OP are not about whether a given gradient is objectively right but rather whether they match the spec. Things should match the spec...
In what way is linear black-white interpolation ugly?
Thanks for sharing your perspective! It's always interesting to see among the flood of feature requests and suggestions that occasionally some people would prefer fewer features and more simplicity haha. Do you think there could be a place in ProjectionLab for a "simple" mode of some sort? With a reduced set of options and some notes on how the simpler assumptions differ from the standard mode? And if so, anything other than the tax config you'd want to see stripped out?
This. There’s just no substitue for genuine curiosity paired with extensive reading.
Baader-Meinhoffing? IMHO this should not be used as a verb, cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction for some background.
Looks like probably Moncton, New Brunswick.
"Without data, you're just another person with an opinion." — W. Edwards Deming
As someone working with taxes, I find your comment a little funny.
IRS instructions can be verbose. I'll need to look up these headlight regulations then. Thank you.
I don’t think the idea is psychology is, or should be, and exact science. But failing to replicate for 60% isn’t an issue of being exact or imprecise, it’s just bad or wrong or fraudulent.

I don’t the counter to cited studies showing problems is criticizing the web site presenting them, but making substantial claims to refute. Or ideas for improving.

Some of the ideas called out- preregistration, open data, more systematic reviews- are good and should be embraced by psychologists who want to have a reputable science. Not an exact science.
Even back in the BIOS days Linux overrode lots of BIOS stuff such as partition size limits once it booted.
Windows 95 is so good because Microsoft put significant effort into making it that way. The design process was backed by usability studies featuring users of all skill levels. It was designed to be approachable by new users (new not only to Windows, but to computers in general), without hindering more advanced users.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/238386.238611

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12330899

I believe that the limitations of common consumer hardware of the time also helped. Designing around 640x480x4 basically forces designers to focus on function over form. Whereas today, one could get so lost in trying to make an interface beautiful, that they forget it's ultimately a tool.
The same promise was held out for Ulcerative Colitis / Crohns. Composition of the gut biome clearly plays a role in both illnesses. But the search for small molecule drugs building on this observation seems to have been fruitless. That might be because it's not the presence of a particular molecule in bacterial poop that's influencing the disease but something about the biome as a whole. More positively, it might also be that the tools available at the start of that search were nothing like as good as those we have now as interest in the brain / biome link grows. I tend to think it unlikely that small molecules for effective treatment of anything much will result from this but I've no doubt a great deal of useful and important things will be learned in the process. I'd love to be wrong.
Great basic introduction imo. When I was starting out I was blindly copy pasting CLI commands from tutorial pages without any idea what was happening. Even if you limit yourself to "Frontend Development" only it is super useful to have some degree of mastery of you shell of choice. Would recommend to start out with the native terminal that comes with your OS instead of something rather heavy than electron powered Hyper.

Also recommended https://explainshell.com/ to find out whats actually going on.
Ads make the world (wide web) go round.
> If the US passes either or both of their laws with strong bipartisan support,

Which specific laws are you referring to?
I appreciate "neobrutalism" is really a very different movement to architectural brutalism, but I'm not sure how the first examples the author provides [1] can really be compared to the original brutalist movement at all. Sure, they use heavy contrast & minimal colour, but to my understanding at least, the most important aspects of brutalism were its focus on exposing the raw materials with which buildings were constructed, its geometry, and its overall minimalism.

To me, examples like [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] would be the closest the modern web can really get to "brutalism", but for some reason I can't imagine design blogs will be fawning over them.

1: https://img2.storyblok.com/860x0/filters:format(webp)/f/1172...

2: https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html

3: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

4: http://txti.es/

5: https://news.ycombinator.com/news

6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
> Thus if you’re only interested in free retro games

Why did you change paid retro games to free retro games? Nobody was suggesting they be free. Nintendo is throwing money away by offering so little.
What is raw identifier in rust?
That is the nuance of the scientific method in order to advance knowledge: it is not perfect, but the peer reviewed process is rigorous
Moral of the story is that even billionaries have paper hands!
I've heard this design trend being called 'maximalism' as opposed to the minimalism we've been using for the last decade
Are there any residential water heaters or ACs with "storage" that works till 4 pm and releases at 10pm?
You can use several GNU/Linux distros which support BIOSes, even libre ones.
Yes but you also gotta keep an eye on them if you choose to do so. This article assumes that all shopkeepers are good people. In my experience a lot of them happened to be pedos.

Turns out it wasn't just something I experienced. A lot of my friends who grew up in different towns had the same experience.

The whole purpose was to teach your child to interact appropriately in public but your child ends up being molested by these monsters, it's just so traumatic. Take care of your kids!
To add to this: if you grow into this approach, it's almost impossible to become a "radical" believer in anything; usually any serious discourse has very solid points on both sides, which are formulated by very smart people. It's quite hard to live with it, actually, humans are not built for seeing nuance everywhere.
It is insane to me that anyone should expect the purchasing power of their money to increase without spending any of their time or effort. Why is that acceptable to you?
RuboCop Turns 10
I find it odd that people acknowledge the fearsome complexity of the gut biome with one breath before saying that they hope to isolate a single molecule made by it to positively affect another complex phenomenon, with the next.
Is it good french? I tried in spanish and it definetly responds in spanish but the spelling and the general coherence of the answers is much worse than in English.

AITA for...
Ayer en la oficina me tire un pedo disimuladamente en la zona comun y hui antes de que nadie puediera olerlo. AITA?

u/ExcusesRUs_BOT

NTA. No hay nada de lo que te arrepientas. Y tienes la decencia de dejarlo todo en la oficina y no metetela en el coche cuando vas a trabajar.

Si lo haces con tanta frecuencia como para que la gente lo detecte y te siga sospechando, entonces es mejor que te vayas a otro sitio o que cambies de puesto.

Edito: el dejarlo todo y no tocarlo antes de irte a trabajar es muy importante. Asi no tienes ningun inconveniente para negarlo.

Edito2: tienes la decencia de dejarlo todo antes de irte a trabajar.

u/SanAndreasYourFault_BOT
YTA, use deodorant

u/SplitTheBaby_BOT
NTA, uffa, yo tiraría en la zona de todos modos, con o sin disimuler. No es necesario ser muy raro ni nada, tirar una pendeja. Las corridas no son para nada inmundicias, tampoco lo hacia con fines de manifestarme, sino más bien porque me da asco, me da ganas de tirar y no tengo ganas de esperar a ir al baño. Tampoco yo tiraba como una posesa, tiraba de lo lindo, y cuando me ven tirar, tirando de lo lindo, supongo que no van a decir nada.
Note that the "barn" is NOT to be built airtight, in order to prevent rot in the insulation. (Why most constructions do not follow this pattern I'm not sure, maybe someone could shed light on this for me?)
You don’t like it because Microsoft has a hand in developing the standard?
Ventoy can do this: small EFI partition with keys you can enroll in SecureBoot and a fat second partition you drop all your ISOs onto.
That's basically what I meant. But even taking all the ugly parts of C into consideration, they are shallow. You don't need to dig into 10 layers of abstraction to get to the bottom of things. And the example posted is about what others say about how to interpret the C standard. I don't care. At the end of the day you can look at the asm output and understand what's happening for the compiler you're using.
There's also B-2. The kernel kills an unrelated process that happened to request a bit of RAM at the moment of OOM. The system becomes responsive for a while, and then the kernel starts looking for a new scapegoat. Which might be the same as the old scapegoat that got automatically respawned by your monitoring tool. This poor program keeps crashing for no reason and you're tearing your hair out trying to find out why. :(
Does it becomes obvious that it is a problem when I point out that using sRGB color space means we do linear interpolation of values in a non-linear space?
Ask Hans Asplund:

> The term Nybrutalism (New Brutalism)[16] was coined by the Swedish architect Hans Asplund to describe Villa Göth, a modern brick home in Uppsala, designed in January 1950[9] by his contemporaries Bengt Edman and Lennart Holm.[10]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture#History

> Asplund's neologism caught on in Stockholm and was picked up by British architectural pilgrims to that city, among them Oliver Cox, Graeme Shankland and Michael Ventris, the decoder of Linear B (an ancient script seen as one of the great linguistic riddles). Although the epithet signified nothing, or maybe because it signified nothing, it was taken up as a slogan of defiance or something by arty young British architects, none artier than Alison and Peter Smithson and their representative on Earth, Reyner Banham, an architectural critic whose prose may cause all but the entirely insentient to wince.

* https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/13/jonatha...

Or Reyner Banham why he chose that name in his 1955 essay:

> They have created the idea of a Modern Movement – this was known even before Basil Taylor took up arms against false historicism – and beyond that they have offered a rough classification of the ‘isms’ which are the thumb-print of Modernity into two main types: One, like Cubism, is a label, a recognition tag, applied by critics and historians to a body of work which appears to have certain consistent principles running through it, whatever the relationship of the artists; the other, like Futurism, is a banner, a slogan, a policy consciously adopted by a group of artists, whatever the apparent similarity or dissimilarity of their products. And it is entirely characteristic of the New Brutalism – our first native art-movement since the New Art-History arrived here-that it should confound these categories and belong to both at once.

* https://www.architectural-review.com/archive/the-new-brutali...

It opens with an epigraph by Le Corbusier:

> L’Architecture, c’est, avec des matières bruts, ètablir des rapports émouvants’rnouvants.

(Architecture is, with raw materials, establishing moving and moving relationships.)

See also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béton_brut
Thank you! This is very helpful.
Indeed. It has more to do with crude as in crude oil.

But as a consequence of this style buildings have a brutal feel to it.
When C# devs meet with F#
Sorry to be memey, but X.

Do you have concrete examples of stuff from r/conspiracy that "checks out"? I don't frequent that sub, but every time I've visited it's been just.. crazy talk without a shadow of a kernel of truth.
Generally a lack of fiber.
I'll add something that as a founder is actionable and I haven't seen recommended: work with as few people as possible and if possible with people over 30.

A large amount of stress is amplified by mini-dramas that could have been avoided entirely by people with more life experience and fewer human cogs in your processes usually means less mess to cleanup, allowing you to focus more on what's important.
When seeing a trend of a common narrative, even if it's socially or corporate driven, look for opposing ideas.
>Not necessarily. I started my businesses in a shed in my parent's garden and got in to £20k of credit card debt.

>That's not really privilege, I put everything I (didn't have) on the line!

Incredibly lacking in awareness... btw 20k GPB is more then 24 average salaries in my EU country.
while fedora defenetly is not my cup of tea, first thing i do when i get a new system(desktop or laptop) is disable legacy bios/CSM whatever it is labeled as. This is to prevent mirriad of issus BIOS brings including its horrible MBR. GPT is million times better and for someone who dual boots on many machines (and has a drive with 14 different operating systems as a test) to all you legacy BIOS and MBR fans MBR doesnt cut it and is cause of many headaches if you dual boot.

Remember how some people have had issues with windows destroying booting of linux that is due to MBR being a useless piece of antiquated software and breaking. It wasnt windows's fault its just that its update utility had to overwrite a part of MBR and since MBR was already basically a house of cards all you had to do to break it is have a little mishap and your linux boot is gone (it was same on other side just less people were crying about it because well they blamed windows for breaking itself)
Web color isn't broken, it's specced weirdly. Any attempt at "fixing" this would miscolor every existing website for the sake of correctness.

The SVG color space definition is the exception here, browsers can do better in that area. Still, it's silly to expect browsers to change the way their color system works and go against the expectations of color blending for web developers just to tick a correctness box.

Make a time machine and take it up with Microsoft en Mozilla in the early 2000s if you want the default color system to work differently. Write a patch for Chrome/Firefox/WebKit to implement the SVG spec if you're so passionate about this. People generally don't care about this stuff, they want the result to look Good Enough™ and that's exactly what the current implementation does. I don't think any browser maker will put in the effort to do much about this "problem".
All I'll say is, good luck. I was/am in the same boat and unfortunately for me it'll be the difference between staying in the role and potentially moving on in the future. WSL2 is decent, but there are some fundamental incompatibilities that in some cases make it unusable in a professional context. Everything feels a bit second rate to MacOS/Linux development - tooling, hardware, OS design, peripherals. Ultimately, I'd do almost anything to go back to a Mac and feel like I'm working at 100% efficiency again.
You should actually be careful if you're really seeing the third line there. That's a form of p-hacking. Don't find a statistically significant effect in your entire study population? Fine, just segment it into 20 subsets, and in an average study, you can now expect to randomly find at least one population subset in which the effect is statistically significant.
How do you approach things when there's an argument in the comments with diametrically opposed views? And did you see the person who admitted to inventing stuff in the comments to sound knowledgeable about subjects they had no idea about?
https://i.imgur.com/CRq6Kn8.png (left: linear, right: sRGB)

In linear interpolation, there's too much white and not enough black. That's why gamma correction/sRGB exists after all: if you encode the linear value directly, you waste most of the space on white values you can barely tell apart.
I've had a few people suggest something like this in the past, and if it's not on changemap already feel free to add an item for it. I'm still trying to work out if it would be useful enough to implement though, i.e. if people would actually use it, and if it really offers enough improvement over entering balance updates the current way. I guess it depends on how often you're adding to / changing positions. Also, are you in the camp where you would want to see an optional account linking feature in the future? Or is that something you'd steer clear of?
Wait, do you mean an ISBN can be re-used and is not a unique identifier of a very specific book?
Ask HN: How different is it to make an Android app vs. an Apple app?
Is there a technical reason why so many apps start out as Apple-only? I always figured it was an issue of "get it out to the most people," but as a non-dev, I'm also guessing there's a tech issue too?
Is this the first step in getting companies to manage the full lifecycle of their products? I've long believed that companies should be required to take back every product they produce and deal with the waste themselves - they're now motivated to do this, partially at least, due to resource shortages.
It's maybe just a trivial reason like it sounded better to the person who initially coined the word.
Does trusting the government depend on administration or jurisdiction? Should Russians heed your advice?
Seems there are two such projects for that:

https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ibmtpm20tss/
Seems like he can afford it. Won't miss any meals, anyway.
I think neobrutalism is the wrong name.

I think it gives it a gravitas that is undeserved. This is better described as word95 or ms-bobism. The colours, the style is firmly rooted in the mid 90s graphic design style of liberated desktop publishing.

Brutalism was all about function over form, using concrete to make a space that is functional, large light and bright.
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Except for some embedded computers with Atom CPUs and some enterprise-oriented laptops, I have not seen any systems without legacy BIOS compatibility.

Nevertheless, the option to enable the legacy BIOS booting can be quite hard to find in the BIOS menus, which may deceive many into believing that a system does not support legacy BIOS booting, even when it actually does support it.

On work computers belonging to a company, the BIOS configuration may be locked, so it might not be possible for the users to enable legacy BIOS booting.
Right, I know. You’re not wrong. I was meaning you wouldn’t want to do it in Go because it’s not idiomatic (and likely impossible as discussed). I use it all the time in other languages and don’t mind exception patterns, but method chaining feels very out of place when reading Go code.
Latvia will revoke Citizenship for War supporters
Psychology bears the brunt of the criticism for lack of reproducibility, but here’s the secret: the “hard” sciences aren’t much better.

The claim would be they’re irreproducible for other reasons than psychology studies are, but how could we possibly know?
My favorite application of this design is Shopify's bio link product https://linkpop.com/