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> Science skepticism has always been a thing; its only in recent years though that internet has allowed the rapid spread of disinformation. Glossy content created for misinforming Americans inspires copycats in other countries. It’s really depressing.

It may be depressing, but it's not helpful to associate it with "science skepticism".

The vaccine "hesitant" you refer to are not skeptical of science. They freely use the language and processes of science as their argument. You or I may think they misuse the language, make unconvincing assumptions, etc, but there's nothing to it that's skeptical of science.

Where vaccine hesitancy is rooted in science skepticism, you see the hesitant relying on alternative means of knowing why vaccines aren't right for them. You can think of the classic faith healing communities l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶C̶h̶r̶i̶s̶t̶i̶a̶n̶ ̶S̶c̶i̶e̶n̶t̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶J̶e̶h̶o̶v̶a̶h̶'̶s̶ ̶W̶i̶t̶n̶e̶s̶s̶e̶s̶ as an example of that.

The contagious skepticism that you're talking about is of institutions and authority. They don't trust Fauci or the CDC or the WHO or Pfizer or whomever to to communicate honestly, objectively, and in their own interests. They believe that these institutions can not be trusted to communicate scientific knowledge free of political bias.

And when you look at it that way, of course America is the exporter of that. While responsible for founding some impressive modern institutions, the founding myth of the nation is all about skepticism of institution and authority. The country is constitutionally designed to live in perpetual tension with itself, and that's what's getting exported now.
The trouble is, the economics only worked out that way because natural gas was cheap - it's not anymore, and countries have been rolling back their coal shutdowns as a result. There's a good chance it never will be again. The same people who were campaigning for that managed to convince pretty much all developed nations other than the US to end new natural gas investment and extraction, and without the supply there prices won't go down and it won't be feasible to use as a coal replacement. This will probably also cut into the switch to renewables because all of the alternatives to natural gas, like coal, play much less well with them.
Hey, I'm the Pablo mentioned in the blog post.

I already told my KDE story here [1;2;3]. Switching to Kate was one of the last steps to use almost exclusively KDE software (apart from Firefox and Thunderbird, and only taking GUI applications into account of course), but it was a bit difficult coming from Emacs. A few weeks ago I found a small and easy to fix bug in Kate. I reported it on the IRC channel, and was greeted with "why don't you fix that yourself?" as an answer… I replied that I do not have time for that, and was told that yes, nobody has the time… along with a link to Kate "Build it" page [4], which is basically a tutorial for KDE's very cool kdesrc-build script.

I had no prior experience with KDE frameworks, nor with Qt. I only did a little bit of C++ before but only in toy or class projects. But KDE code is quite clean, not that hard to understand, and the community is really helping with useful feedback on merge requests. A few hours later my first merge request was accepted, fixing that bug.

This gave me the opportunity to dig into Kate source code and become somewhat familiar with it, so it would have been dumb to stop there while at the same time there were features from Emacs that I did miss daily in Kate (sometimes I saved my document, opened it in Emacs, did the necessary editing in a few commands, and then came back to Kate…).

Well, now here we are, a few weeks later =).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25032680

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28096509

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32336338

[4] https://kate-editor.org/build-it/
That's really silly - the natural numbers also famously start at either 0 or 1, depending on the country, the discipline, and the individual.
While this comment is snarky and maybe off-topic, it reminds me of a fun story from my time in a Texas private school.

In one class we were told that God made fossils and made them only look millions of years old in order to test our faith. In another class, we were told Satan placed them there to deceive us. :) Some quality education.
Okay, but why aren't you giving my comment the most charitable interpretation and instead assuming the worst? You say to take the most charitable interpretation but don't do so yourself. Your words don't match your actions. You're being a hypocrite.

I fully believe you care and are trying. I also understand there will always be subjective ambiguity and that's fine. In the past we have disagreed and I have later come to acknowledge I was wrong. But if you keep pointing towards rules you don't live by yourself you're undermining the quality of this forum. And I acknowledge mistakes happen and that's fine. But it really feels different lately.

So if you truly care about the quality of HN, do yourself a favor and be more introspective with your moderation. Especially when you are the only person who believes I am being unruly here (as far as I can tell). I'm not saying this to attack you. I'm saying this as someone who has loved this forum for years but is worried about it getting worse.

Cheers.
agreeing generally with that sentiment, as a WEIRD though (western-educated-industrialized-rich). Many social systems on Earth today do not have nearly the individual autonomy that is normal to some readers here. Those social systems are stable in some way. Big sailing ships and steam-powered railroad engines aside, there is no absolute truth here.
You're just 1/4 of the age of everyone else born the same year. You have the same number of laps around the sun as those people, but you've definitely had fewer birthdays. It's a common joke for leap year babies.
WinForms is fine but there are issues with support for things like high DPI. Maybe that’s fixed now. I wouldn’t use it except for a very small utility, but nowadays I just use python scripts for small utilities.

Based on the .NET Rocks podcast, it sounds like Blazor is the new WinForms.

Given the situation with Windows, I don’t see it being a great choice for a monoplatform app (unless that app is a game) - chrome books and Mac are getting more popular, and web works everywhere.
>Plenty of others have pirated games and then paid for them.

I doubt a meaningful amount of people did this, but I’d love to see evidence to the contrary.

>and plenty of people (myself included) have refused to buy or play games until a crack is available.

Well, yeah, but it’s HN and we have all kinds of crazy people here who aren’t very representative of the overall market.
You'd think if they had to go below 0 they could just prefix with a letter, like B (Below? Basement?) B1, B2, etc.
Exactly! “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.” (probably apocryphal) Sir Ernest Shackleton
> TRUNCATE clearly states your intention to delete everything, but DELETE by default also deletes everything.

btw. they are completly different.

TRUNCATE basically ignores all transaction semantices for the sake of performance (which can be really really bad) in mysql it can't be rolled back, in postgres it's not mvcc safe.
TRUNCATE most often uses either an exclusive lock or some other mechanism.

if you know what you are doing truncate can be helpful, but delete has its benefits as well and truncate should be avoided by beginners.
Musk has problems with impulse control. That's why he publicly called a literal hero of dying children a "pedophile". If he didn't have money he would likely not be able to keep friendships functional, because he doesn't know how to interact with other people in a healthy way.

I don't understand how you can look at his public behavior and think anything else. The only alternative is that he thought doing shitty things was a rational way to improve his situation, and I personally think that's a worse option
Wtf are you getting at? Yes mRNA vaccines are under development for many many other diseases. It’s a new technology. Would you expect the invention of a new technology to have a single application and then be put on a shelf somewhere, perhaps in that secret government warehouse where they store the Ark, and maybe the Lindbergh baby?

FYI mRNA vaccines were first developed 5-10 years prior to the events of the past few years, and deployed in veterinary medicine. Having a global pandemic led to the urgency to adapt them to human conditions where they have saved millions of lives
It’s unlikely that “healthy chunk” will be that large - the usual pattern is someone crunching their health & relationships away only to end up with a fraction of what the insiders get - but the bigger issue is what it says about managerial competence and ability to run a project. People working under strain that long are less productive than in a more humane environment and more likely to make mistakes, and given how this sounds like them trying to avoid hiring an appropriate number or people it seems likely that they will make other bad strategic calls as well. Even if you’re a sociopath, I’d think twice about making my business depend on something which is one burnt-out person away from stalling.
> Aggressive policing and punishment wasn't tried yet in Western countries when it comes to theft.

What is the basis for your certainty? We've done research on the subject, we know that certainty of punishment is a lot more effective than severity.

Noone thinks 'ow yeah, I am gonna do a year in jail', everyone thinks they will get away. I am not against setting decoy bikes that are actually traps, but thievs will learn to tell them apart. US police uses sting operations against hookers and drug dealers all the time, and there is no shortage of either.

https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/deterrence-in...

> ignoring long term cost and damage to social structure

You could try that, but you cant just have a special calculation for one crime. Then we must equally apply it to corporate misbehaviour, like illegally selling customer data or manipulating the market.
I am scared of upgrading from my i7-6700 system because it is so rock solid - it never crashes and just runs for days without weirdness or Windows 10 imploding on itself.
I don't think I have enough aggregate online disk bandwidth at home to store things are that speed, much less do I have it networked to do so. Wow.
Thanks. I like how an anecdote like that has its own wiki page. I don't exactly know what a "second-order phase transition" is, but it's clear to me that there's some kind of internal economy that reorients itself.
"But what if _the_ machine goes down ? What if it goes down _during quarter earnings legally requested reporting consolidation period_ ? We need _redundancy_ !!"

Also, philosophically, I guess, a "distributed" systems starts at "two machines". (And you actually get most of the "fun" of distributed systems with "two processes on the same machine".)

We're taught how to deal with "N=1" in school, and "N=all fans of Taylor Swift in the same seconds" in FAANGS.

Yet I suspect most people will be working on "N=12, 5 hours a day during office hours, except twice a year." And I'm not sure what's the reference techniques for that.
After the mountain is built, the mountain must be considered a sunk cost. The mountain now exists, and you must move forward from there, independently of who built it and why. And then your business is a simple tour guide business.
smtp sucks hard though. Pretty much the only major protocol that never got upgraded (along DNS until DNS over https). Dysfunctional encryption (as in optional, easily downgradable), no assurance on the identity of the sender, bad interoperability (the likes of gmail sending directly to spam folder half of the domains).
> I'm not sure what the record player equivalent to this would even be. A very heavy stylus could damage the disc and carve into it, but there's no way you could have a disc permanently change the tracking weight of that stylus.

Conceptually, you could have a record made of "tar", which got scraped off onto the stylus and was then impossible to clean off.
Part of what makes it worse is that many of the pain points are such low hanging fruit.

Being stuck with Outlook due to corporate inertia, most days i run into simple silly things that have been inconvenient for years:

- non standard shortcuts (what modern windows app doesn't use Ctrl F for Find which you would think would let you search an open email for text except it does something else!

- fragmented unintuitive disttribution of functions over tabs

- remarkably unhelpful use of space in the inbox views, such that columns rarely show enough of what you need to see

- annoying assumptions (eg typing a user name into the inbox search defaults to using From: when i frequently need to search with it as To: when I've got folders of email where I'm a co-recipient and need to search who the mail was address to)
But interestingly, the number at the top is 12, not 1.
Speaking as an electrical engineer with a grid tied PV system for many years, this claim is just bonkers. It's exactly this sort of magical thinking that we don't need more of. Electric utility is a deadly serious business. The cost of getting a massive transition like this wrong is going to be measured not just economically, but in people's lives.
Still hoping for a tegra X1 level of fuckup in the bootrom.

Or a tegra X1 level of vulnerability to fault injection.

Not too eager to strap a piece of surveillance capitalism to my face without one of those.
They'll sell you just a "modern flat lithium battery" for one model but not another. It isn't about the hazardousness of the batteries.
Varied, mostly practitioners. High value on non-partisans, demonstrated by inclination to make and entertain counterargument, and an extensive history of demonstrated preference. By the way, I cannot help but notice that your “former NSA counsel” remains anonymous. Susan Hennessey, nor anyone affiliated with Lawfare or Brookings meet the minimum criteria.
What age are kids generally in “year 4”? I assume you didn’t mean kids of age 4?
yup its really cool
What you’re describing there sounds like general Linux sysadmin to me?
It might, if the code can be optimized. There are all sorts of reasons why it might not. For example, at one point in time, a switch statement with more than 128 cases could not be optimized.

https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Optimization-k...
That sounds actually great to avoid any ambiguity. At the cost of a bit of verbosity, though.
If there is not wind in Sidney, you may have to transport 10s of GW distances of about 4000km during peak hours. Even using HVDC, there is significant transfer loss and building and operating that kind of infra is not cheap either.

Also, who wants to pay for those interconnects when they expect battery prices to plummet, as you say?
Love PRQL :D
https://github.com/Arc-Compute/LibVF.IO

https://docs.linux-gvm.org/

For anybody else interested
The Climate Startup Playbook
ctrl+f hilbert

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I'm really trying to think, but I don't think I've encountered styrofoam in years. All the packaging for mid-sized consumer products that would have used it in the past (small blender, air purifier, dust buster, etc.) seem to use either formed cardboard or else folded cardboard with cutouts.

The last times I remember seeing it were when I bought a window AC unit and a portable digital piano. Both of which weigh 25+ pounds, where I think only styrofoam is the only economical material which exists that is both protective enough but also able to support all that weight. I'd guess heavy blenders would also still need it.

So not sure we need to ban it if manufacturers have already mostly stopped using where cardboard is a viable replacement? Unless there are categories of products still using it that I'm missing?

Same with styrofoam for to-go food containers -- everything I see is plastic or cardboard now, haven't seen styrofoam in years. Unless this is regional?
But you don’t think that will cause them to get more expensive?
I know you're being sarcastic, but yes!
Amusing but probably irrelevant: the sailing yacht racing handicapping calculations mentioned are almost certainly under the Performance Handicap Racing Fleet (PHRF) system[0]. This system is "zero based" in its own way. A sailboat's performance is assessed and handicapped against a standard yacht with a zero rating. Your time to complete the race course is adjusted by your handicap to determine your final standing. This lets you race slower and faster types of boats in a "fair" way.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_Handicap_Racing_Fl....
I don't really see the point - impressed that they offered it, but how many people truly need it?

I have 1G symmetric FTTH internet, the bottleneck is still the services I want to access at the other end - really makes no difference how much faster the pipe is, if the service you are using can't keep up.

Will some people benefit?? sure - a handful of power users doing massive uploads and downloads for commercial purposes... but the typical Netflix watcher or telecommuter really isn't going to benefit at all from from anything faster than about 100MBs up/down right now.

Like I said, I have 1G fiber connection, you know how long it takes me to watch a two hour Netflix movie at 1G speed? Two hours. You know how long that would take me on a 50Mbs connection? 2 hours. You know how long that would take me on a 25Gb connection? 2 hours.

That said, if I could buy a 25 Gb connection at a reasonable price I would.
I wonder how much electricity NAT is consuming globally?

That would be a good BS level graduate thesis paper for someone interested.
Can someone please explain why we are supposed to trust DDG? Isnt it just a random website that popped up out of nowhere claiming to be private yet no audit has ever been conducted which substantiated those claims?
Hopefully electricity will remain cheap enough to encourage charging.
raw material costs - the researchers calculate under $9 per kilowatt-hour (from the article). Cycles seem to be related to how fast you want to charge/discharge it.

> If the cell was discharged over two hours and charged in just six minutes, it still had a charge capacity per weight that was 25 percent higher than lithium-ion batteries and retained roughly 80 percent of that capacity after 500 cycles—well beyond what you'd see with most lithium chemistries.
sheesh lets hope there are no vulnerabilities in there
You can just put SELECT * FROM stuff and then edit your columns later.
It appears that a development branch for a new concurrent write mode has been launched.

These appear to be page-level locks, and row-level locks should not be expected for this effort.

https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/begin-concurrent/doc/begi...
True. My Asian friends would say to me "What do you mean patriarchy isn't the answer?"
With the energy industry making record profits [1], my naive self has extreme trouble believing that's the whole story.

https://energycommerce.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/pal...
github: https://github.com/cemu-project/Cemu

MPL licensed

written in C/C++

currently only for 64-bit Windows and Linux devices.
The majority of voters are good well-meaning people with very little business experience.

The majority of politicians have connections with people who are highly business-informed who know how to parlay corporate profits into well meaning sounding legislation. That creates a win-win in public perception while simultaneously fleecing the public coffers.

I do not expect this trend to end.
If someone would pay for it I'd write that book. There are lots of different methods for different scenarios. There are some books on it but they're either very dry and technical or have very few examples.

Here's the cliffs notes version for your situation:

1. Build a server. Make an image/snapshot of it.

2. Build a second server from the snapshot.

3. Use rsync to copy files your PHP app writes from one machine ('primary') to another ('secondary').

4. To make a "safe" change, change the secondary server, test it.

5. To "deploy" the change, snapshot the secondary, build a new third server, stop writes on the primary, sync over the files to the third server one last time, point the primary hostname at the third server IP, test this new primary server, destroy the old primary server.

6. If you ever need to "roll back" a change, you can do that while there's still three servers up (blue/green), or deploy a new server with the last working snapshot.

7. Set up PagerDuty to wake you up if the primary dies. When it does, change the hostname of the first box to point to the IP of the second box.

That's just one way that is very simple. It is a redundant active/passive distributed system with redundant storage and immutable blue/green deployments. It can be considered high-availability although that term is somewhat loaded; ideally you'd make as much of the system HA as possible, such as independent network connections to the backbone, independent power drops, UPC, etc (both for bare-metal and VMs).

You can get much more complicated but that's good enough for what they want (redundancy) and it buys you a lot of other benefits.
What's one of the biggest things AMD could go to help you turn this into a reality? Just... documentation? Source code examples?

Which... I'm assuming they'll never do?
Trump's presidency should have made it very very clear that relying on a tweet for anything at all is a monumentally stupid idea, and the only reason someone isn't currently taking advantage of that reliance is that they don't think it's worth it to attack you in that way.
Right, but I offered you a counter-example in the Gemini PDA, and an indication that there was generally no effort - or positive resistance - to deal with anything google related at all.
Low effort trolling as also against the rules
Except that we actually do use this system for years. Thus 1 BC (the first year BC) was followed by 1 AD (the first year AD). Also for centuries, as in 'the 20th century' being the years 1901 to 2000.
While talking about email, don't underestimate the need for calendar integration.

There are many projects that start solving "Inbox" before they get in to the abyss that is calendar management and fall flat.
I am well aware of the fact that HBO Max is the only way that you can pay for standalone HBO content. Again do you think that after 42 years that HBO will not allow you to pay for ad free content? Has there ever been a premium channel that was ad free that went ad only?

No basic cable was never ad free.
I do not think Amazon could have handled healthcare with the individuality, precision, and compassion that the field demands. This comes as a relief.
The only bug here is the changing of the search engine to a sketchy website without user input or consent.
If there were proper protections in place to protect privacy it doesn’t matter whether the violator is a government or commercial enterprise. Secondly, the courts have repeated ruled that the fourth amendment has nothing to do with privacy.
"Real coding" or "real coder" is a term I've only ever seen self-inflicted; people worried that what they are doing doesn't rate, isn't the real deal.

There's almost always good people on hand to dissuade them of their de-rating themselves. I see a lot of community support for defeating this particular "i'm not good enough" version of impostor syndrome.

If anything, it's hard to give the person space to admit, yeah, you do have a lot of things to learn still: this is the reciprocal to "always accept compliments" - the psychologist's "respect people's defenses". Which is a more complex line that we actually should be challenging, but with grace & permission & support.
Right. I try to refer to a[n] as 'element number n' rather than 'the nth element'.