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Sony in particular does this. For the first X years of its life, Playstation is sold as a loss.

They generate revenue through game sales and then a decade later as hardware components become cheaper and scale increases they start to make money on the consoles as well.

If they can't generate revenue through game sales the entire console model would be upended and hardware prices would rapidly increase. No company can take the risk to lose billions without a guarantee of future revenue.
You're the exception. They naturally do A/B testing and are data-driven to optimize for said objectives.
some faiths are worse than death
As far as I can tell, specialization is increasingly popular. Within the past few years I've dealt personally with vets who specialized entirely in ophthalmology, oncology, and obstetrics. At the same practice as my oncologist there are specialists in cardiology and internal medicine as well.

I've also had to seek out specialists in rabbit care, which are surprisingly hard to find (though no vet I'm aware of treats solely rabbits -- usually they're exotic vets often with a "real" specialty in birds).
> Coming from a country with a huge alcoholism problem, I welcome any trend that shows decrease in alcohol consumption.

Indeed, this seems like a healthy progression of things. The dangers of alcohol abuse are now well known and it's disappointing that so many activities still revolve around the use of the substance.

What's at issue here, though, is that there's nothing obvious to replace these types of places for social gathering in common spaces.
My father used to work at Link (Singer at the time, technically) and later CAE-Link. His office had a 'Blue Box' trainer in the lobby. It was supposed to be a museum piece, but his management was known to look the other way when employees brought their kids in after hours or on the weekend to sit in the trainer. Kid 'ride alongs' in the motion base simulators on site weren't officially condoned, but happened a lot too.

Didn't realize how lucky I was to have such experiences until much later in life.
Stock Asus motherboards with on-board (Realtek, IIRC) audio (I tried aftermarket cards, though mostly after giving up on PulseAudio).

Separately the company I worked for ditched it as well due to the issues, to be fair though in tnat case since they only needed a single - reliable - audio output so there was no case of PA anyway.
I know of some high altitude balloon and satellite experiments as well. I guess size and weight are a limiting factor to what one can detect with those.
Haha "through pirating" might be the answer then ;-)
I'll stick with my own lived experiences and first-hand observations
thank you.
I had two job interview cycles derail when I used Fastmail because they didn't receive my event RSVPs and in one case lost the meeting details. I like Fastmail's customizability, but it's been incredibly harmful to me and now I think it's as dangerous as Tesla autopilot and the Juul.
Last time we tried, they divided us back-seaters in tribes and fighting each other, window seater vs isle seaters, unpair against even rows, all tackling each other rather than trying to make it through the champagne sipping front rows and the wheel.
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Snow at one of world’s highest observatories melting earlier than ever before
The bit where he points out that Anthony Blunt knew who he was despite them not having been introduced prior to an interrogation is pretty good, regardless.
Still plenty of rats left - Dorries, Patel, Gove, Rees-Mogg, Truss are all apparently staying put.

And BoJo is not going without being physically tossed out the door of number 10. No amount of crumbling government or scandal will shame him, he’s obviously unable to have that emotion.
it's in US ones too, it's an industry wide issue in the aviation sector, don't hack the airport, people will come for you and if you are lucky they will be carrying badges
Many factors but a few off the top of my head:
1) Oil is not the same as the refined product we use for vehicles. Assuming you are in the U.S., there is just less refining capacity here for certain types of fuel (e.g., the oil you get from Saudi is different than the oil you get from Russia and needs to be processed in different types of facilities and/or for different purposes)
2) Gas stations are independent operators and might not be lowering prices to make more money now (potentially because they had lost money before when prices spiked or because they think they can)

This transcript of a WSJ podcast gave a great overview: https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/your-money-matters/why-gas-pric....
I think you misunderstood the previous commenter a bit. They were not saying look at the painting example from the standpoint of the CEO, they were saying "Put the excuses" in the mouths of some painters. Also, there's quite a bit of depth and generalization in painting. There are many different types of paint that are better for certain tasks, eg eggshell vs satin finish. Painting walls is different then painting ceilings, then you add in moving furniture, some walls have edging, some walls will be multiple colors, plaster vs drywall vs wood, etc. That's just painting, lets say the company they work for has a CEO/manager that is demanding more jobs completed, now they have to deal with someone telling them "Do it in one day" and all the compromises that must be made to do so. Almost all fields have a lot of depth and generalizations.

So if had a horribly painted room that you just paid extremely well to have completed, and the painters came up to you and gave you a laundry list of reasons that they failed... Would you hold off on criticizing them until you had a complete understanding of what it takes to be a painter?
Let's be real, within the EU the main communication platform is WhatsApp. This is very much aimed there, as that is most definitely not a public API.
It's interesting UIUC recognized it early
Rust gives each closure a unique type (see the `Fn` trait: https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/ops/trait.Fn.html), allowing the compiler to always statically dispatch to the exact function body at compile-time. That said, this is a rather more explicit approach that won't necessarily fit everything.
Can you share your css? Those are my beefs with HN. Need bigger font and max widths as well as a bigger ‘collapse thread’ target.
10% of the internet is encrypted by lava lamps
Maybe I was lacking some humor that day
I don't understand cryptography enough to vet algorithms. I need to trust an authority to tell me which algorithms to use. I do not trust NIST as an authority. That's why it would be nice to have an actually trustworthy authority which does similar work to NIST.

EDIT: To more specifically address the process: If NIST wanted to get people to trust a shady algorithm, they could have some amazing cryptographers invent an algorithm which stands up to scrutiny, but which has some extremely hard to notice flaw which only they know about. They could then make those cryptographers submit the algorithm to NIST, and, in a seemingly fair way, pick the subtly broken algorithm as the winner. I can't know whether this happened of course, and it probably didn't, but we fundamentally have to trust that NIST wouldn't do something like that... and we do know that they would do, and indeed have done, something like that.

Maybe the process is such that this attack, and any other kind of attack, is impossible. If that's the case, please do cite something which goes into detail on that.
Never heard of them and they will probably have a lower status in 20 years.
I too remember that time and it left me terribly jaded about the utility of new languages.

This is the first I've seen in a while where I think the offering hits a spot on the tradeoff continuum that is distinctive and where I can picture many circumstances where I would want to use this language (the soundness aspect is a big part of that).
Something I read in another comment on HN: "Climate denialists have gone in one smooth move from 'we'll fix it' to 'it's too late to do anything about it anyway'". Which unfortunately rings very true.

The really, really big problem is that people seem to think that they personally are going to be exempt from this, that it will happen to others, but not to them. Waking up from that will be pretty harsh. But if COVID denialism is any indication of how well humanity deals with complex problems on a planetary scale I'm not too optimistic about climate change countermeasures, the problem is much more complex and would require cooperation on a far more massive scale than anything COVID related.
So you haven´t even tried without the "accept" box. It works the same, BTW.
Paywalled. I know that there's a hierarchy of UK papers, but I don't know where the Telegraph fits.
On almost every time, this is still a large gain. And on both cases, if you have complete coordination of the developers, you get the same result.

You will probably want a "what query uses this index?" feature, that is the other side of the coin of "what indexes make my queries faster?"
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> only gaslighting from you, telling me I experienced something I didn't.

Oh dear.. I'm not going to comment on that. I don't think it's productive.

> I never experienced any trouble with audio

I refer to stuff alsa drivers reporting wrong values[0] or cards being locked to a specific rate [1]

Before pulseaudio only one application could access the sound card. And alsa-mixer was broken half of the time. The list of defects goes on and on. Configuration relied on different settings of also that needed to be tuned for each driver separately. Getting sound to work on Linux was not a fun place to be.[2]

Pulseaudio exposed all these problems using a unified interface and forced "us" to fix these bugs.

[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/410887

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/1034325263.474.37.camel@diesel/T...

[2] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/configuring-linux-sound...
Phpbb's UI can be modified... People do it all the time like me on my own "blog" http://circuitbored.com/

You just have to be super careful when updating to not overwrite your style changes... hah.
I agree that the comments in this thread are uselessly snarky and uncivil, but Lennart Poettering is not just a single person who wrote software people don't like. PulseAudio has, deservedly or otherwise, been the face of audio issues in desktop Linux for coming on two decades now, and the tumultuous changeover to systemd as very nearly the mandatory init system for Linux left a sour taste for many long-time users.
4K and 120Hz are available on a number of games at least on PS5.

Most people don't have TVs that can go any higher.
Nope, but I'm not lean right now unfortunately.
The trick is to exercise after your last meal just before bed. That way you clear out your glycogen reserves and your body has no choice but to fuel itself on fat until breakfast (or lunch if you can manage a mild intermittent fasting and skip breakfast)
It would also be relatively easy to puncture. Gluing the linen creates a composite material which should greatly outperform either of the component materials (the primitive animal glue will be almost crumbly on it's own, and woven cloth is very weak against punctures since there is very force holding parallel fibers of material close together). As is stated elsewhere, this is why things like fiberglass and carbon fiber are ubiquitous in the modern world.
Wow that's bigger than Equifax
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> I submit the example of cryptocurrencies. Lots of freedom; very little regulation; many vulnerable people have lost their savings.

And yet the solution isn't for your bank to white-list what you're going to do with your money, is it? This would be the equivalent of the app store: your bank would have a "transaction store" of companies you're allowed to send and receive money from, to protect you from accidentally sending money to a scammer.

Do you think that would be a good solution for banking? If not, why do you think it is a good solution for software distribution?

Instead of course, the right solution is legislate against the bad actors, and have law enforcement agencies that take malware seriously and pursue those who have created it. Additionally, educating the public, at least with mandatory courses in school for the new generations, about basic computer safety is another part of the fix for this.
I was trying to put the loss in perspective, namely that this loss, while bad, is still an amount that El Salvador will be able to reasonably recover from. Not that I sensed there was doom and gloom about the situation, but this isn't the kind of large loss that will financially bog down El Salvador for the next decade or more.
It didn’t occur to me that account creation is part of the experience, but if it is you win!
Show HN: Localization and translations should be code, not data
/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/memscroller
This. I'd be nice to have a list of strings to monitor (ex: half of the ssh private key) and warn when they are found somewhere, to detect data exfiltration.
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I think it was "value judgement" (dependent types allow dispatching over a value in the type system)
A lot of groups with large file problems seem to be converging on Git LFS at this point over Perforce/Subversion. Most of the major hosts (Github, Bitbucket, Gitlab) all have LFS hosting support, though it is not always cheap. (Arguably still cheaper than Perforce/Subversion, especially in accounting for those workflow impediments and the developer time they cost.)

LFS is a plugin to install, but that's maybe a strong indicator in favor of the git model that there are common plugins to solve some things like this. (And many distributions of git now also bundle LFS.)
>Apps will use near-field communication technology and other mechanisms to track us

Ok, well, the EU mandates opening up this tech to apps, some apps then violate GDPR in various ways leading to big fines for those apps.

Now someone is going to say fines with GDPR have not been big enough, but I think they are slowly increasing (because really that is typical gov. policy, don't go in with big fines, start small, and later when hitting big you can say but we have been very reasonable), and also, just maybe the fines for people moving into a new field with predatory tracking from the get-go will get the big fines and be shut down quick.
> I mean, you could probably make that causing a hit with some stemming if you wanted to

A simple String.contains() gets you there, and that is the behaviour of grep, and most tools behaved that way too in the past (and still do, if they don't use ES).

> The feature is there; it just needs to be enabled.

It's not enabled in Discord (afaik uses ES), Slack (afaik uses ES?) nor Kibana (ES). What use is a feature if it's never used?

I'm sure there's plenty good things you can do with elasticsearch, but the things I use daily that use it are absolutely infuriating.
The nice thing about this is they can use the sort of sand that's not useful for concrete.
But Playstation Store revenue would be decimated by piracy.

This isn't conjecture we know for a fact it will happen as we see on PCs.
When his employer uses politics to try to coerce others into using that "free & gratis" software it can leave a bit of a bitter taste in your mouth.

It's not that something like pulseaudio is bad so we can just ignore it, it's that pulseaudio is bad because because redhat funds a lot of gnome stuff gnome won't really work unless you use pulseaudio, and since you use gnome you now have to use systemd. If pulseaudio just existed in a vacuum I don't think anyone would have an issue with it. If it wasn't bundled into a giant ecosystem it wouldn't be so bad, and if the redhat contributors involved cared more about non-redhat stakeholders I don't think people would have nearly as much ire.

But honestly writing "free & gratis" software that kind of sucks, and that forces you to use other sucky software, well I'm honestly not sure it's better than nothing. If it didn't exist I think some other solution would eventually come into being, and it might very well be a better solution. Sure it might not happen as quickly, but personally I'm alright with that.

It's not charity, it's not nobility, it's just redhat building a moat around their core business.
I have read Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman, but long enough ago that I don't remember much of it - handstanding while drinking water to see if swallowing was gravity driven, misdirecting ants by moving their trails around, offering women drinks at bars only if they agreed to sleep with him up-front, learning 'consequentamente' in Portuguese because the Spanish classes were full, fixing radios by thinking (and then swapping valves around), eating chocolate cake for every cafe desert so he never had to think about it again, meeting a safecracker, et al. But no memory of sensory deprivation tanks or trying to go to war.

> "those thought controlling are a thousand miles away in the protected confines of solitude, not hiding behind a bush a dozen feet away."

Have you read Jon Ronson's book The Men Who Stare At Goats[1]? An account of the US army's paranormal investigations. It is non-fiction but reads like Catch-22.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats
Right now I'm doing 30-40+ miles of running a week. It's on concrete and asphalt with extremely high humidity and I'm still attempting to adapt. Will be starting a strength training program soon because I'm kind of destroying my body.

In the past I've done a mix of treadmill and outdoors. I would like to get back to using a treadmill but don't have access to one right now.
How do we even know that the universe has fundamental particles?
How is ejabberd or XMPP in general doing these days?

I remember Nintendo adopted it for their push platform [1] but it was old news. Are there any interesting development and/or adoption stories in recent years?

[1] https://www.process-one.net/blog/ejabberd-nintendo-switch-np...
A movie can make back its budget just by being a hit in China.

This is how we get movies like Skyscraper(2018)[0]. $120M budget. $70M from US/Canada. $300 from "worldwide" and most of that was from China. Just the Chinese opening weekend alone was $48M.

Transformers: Age of Extinction. $210M budget. China alone provided $300M of profit.

All you need to do is hire Chinese actors for side characters, set a bit of your movie in China and not talk about Taiwan. Easy money =)

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5758778/
The consensus in Chinese community is while this is likely how the token got leaked, this alone isn't enough. To visit private Alibaba Cloud instance you can't just use some random IP. It's isolated from the Internet in certain way.
What if those trustworthy organizations were to tell you: "We trust this NIST competition result, and so should you"?
There wasn't really any single resource I read. Frustratingly, I find it quite difficult to read research papers (I'm told it's a skill acquired with practice, but it's something I've never gotten into). Most of the implementation is the product of several rewrites and false-starts, along with the occasional hint I've read about here or there on the web.
It’s complicated. AFAIK there is no official ban.

It’s not so much that time travel itself is banned, it’s that the Chinese government has a bunch of rules that make time travel movies impossible to execute.

For example, the Chinese government wishes to protect the dignity and honor of historical culture. And that means, any movie made of those time periods must fundamentally be serious.

Also, it’s possible that whoever is running the movie review board personally thinks time travel is “too silly”.
> “Long before we go over the cliff, we’ll have figured out how to put wings on this bus.”

Sounds like something a PM would say in a roundabout fashion
Probably cause you're not normal meaning you look young or old for your age? I think that actually makes a lot of sense.

I'm pretty basic and it guess my age exactly. lol
I don't think anyone would care (probably most of us here wouldn't even know his name) if these projects had been written and integrated such that it was trivial to avoid them in favor of alternatives. No-one who hated Upstart, say, is pissed off at the people who made it. Between Red Hat's maneuvering and Poettering's choices, though, it's not trivial to avoid them.
I believe you are referring to this? <https://fastmail.blog/legal-policy/access-and-assistance-bil...>

Basically any company is going to turn over any data they are legally required to do so. The US is not that much different. Plus the US has a law that says any data older that 6 months does not need a warrant! I see a law was introduced to prevent that, but I could not tell if it passed the Senate and was signed.
I settled on alsa and dmix as the ultimate solutuon.
Kyber is lead by Crypto Jedi: https://cryptojedi.org/peter/ :)
Who do you trust as an authority?
>How can grown ass adults be so pathetically mean to a single person because he wrote (free & gratis!) software they don't like. Seriously, it's mystifying.

Because he and his orbiters were extraordinarily arrogant and condescending about their software. And let's not forget that while it's pretty good now, in the early days systemd was not very good at all. Because things like GNOME 3 decided to make systemd a hard dependency, pretty soon it became nearly impossible to avoid using the entire systemd stack even though it was nominally modular.

It's not just that he wrote $thing that someone didn't like. It's that $thing got shoved down everyone's throats at a time when $thing didn't work very well, and then when people rightfully objected, they were belittled by Poettering and his fan base.
>There is not a consensus that the baby was alive when she delivered it

What does this mean? There was a consensus on the Jury that sentenced her, but perhaps not on the internet forming opinions about it.

Even on the appeal where her charge was vacated, the consensus of the court was that the baby was alive when delivered. Just not that the law applied
i literally have never chosen an iphone for that reason and no know one who has.
Why is it hard to automatically suggest what index to create?
It does, though are some restrictions in regards on which versions it can run on, unless you want to enable features that are not officially supported: https://oracle-base.com/articles/19c/automatic-indexing-19c

My issue is that you cannot (easily) delete the automatically generated indices, should you want to do that for whatever reason. Of course, Oracle will try to only enable the indices that will lead to actual performance gains, but when it comes to removing the automatically created ones altogether, the best that you can do is:

DBMS_AUTO_INDEX.CONFIGURE ('AUTO_INDEX_RETENTION_FOR_AUTO', '1');

Consider that you have a few different environments, all of the same database schema with a few hundred tables in it. You might want to take one of those environments (a development environment) and enable the feature there, have a bunch of indices be automatically created, take the DDL for those and turn them into migrations that can be run against other environments (any number of testing environments, eventually production) either manually or through some automated SQL migration solution.

The problem is that you can't easily get rid of all the automatically generated ones so that you could test this migration against the same environment (basically create those same indices through your own SQL).
Firestore not only recommends, but requires you to have the index or the query will fail.