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One message is "One of our most important products will become scarce, what can we do to deal with it?" Another message is "One of our most important products will become scarce, prepare for the end of everything good!"

One of those is constructive, and will get people to try to help you. The other one is destructive, and the best reaction people can have for it is to ostracize the message (and the messenger if he only has this to say).

And about the outcome, well, the destructive one is lying, because the outcome is not certain.
You can take out federally backed student loans at Oberlin...
Why would a business support a union? It's inherently going to be an adversarial relationship.

I completely get why unions are necessary. But it would be like me hiring a divorce attorney for my own wife.

A business is almost never going to want a union. And it seems weird to expect them to.
I'd go for the green button if I had $5 million to my name. Another $1 million isn't going to make a huge difference in my life, $50 million would.

Somewhere around $3 million is probably where I'd switch buttons.
What’s the record amount of scrubs?

I guess we have to ask TLC…
Firefox as a snap (the default in 22.04) was so awfully slow starting up. Removed it and am using a .deb again made everything better. I'm really not sure why they pushed when there were clearly so many issues with it.

Instructions to install a .deb and prevent the snap from installing:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-d...
And before snap and systemd were introduced, it would never reach mainstream because it was bad and difficult to use.
I was watching Shameless the other day, and it's a drama-comedy about a dysfunctional poor family in the Chicago South Side. The family is white, and most of the main characters are white. This is really weird, if you've ever been to the South Side. But pretty much everyone quickly gets over that and ends up immersed in it.

The issue with the Rings of Power and similar things isn't the anachronistic racial composition of the cast. It's just that they're badly written and badly acted shows. And, more perniciously, the show's media team likes to draw all attention to the criticisms based on race to make it seem like the main criticisms are all about race to deflect attention from actual, fundamental flaws.
Certainly you meant USB4 10x10 gen 6
I most of this thesis can be summarized with a few points: (1) A perfect ROC (100% AUC) on fraud detection is impossible, (2) false positives have costs in both lost revenue and customer insults, and (3) the operating point with 100% fraud capture has an unacceptable false positive cost.
Maybe you should try EnterpriseNews then ;)
A related thought.

Hydrogen fueling 1 spaceship (at a restricted access, highly maintained area) at a specific time regularly presents problems, but Toyota (and others) bet on gas stations operated by consumers across the world maintaining a hydrogen refueling economy for cars.

Gas stations regularly can't maintain windshield squeegees, paper towels, or trash cans, but they were going to replace seals and keep them clean regularly.
It does mention it.

"If you don’t have a dime to your name you should take the guaranteed million dollars all day, every day.
But what if you have some money? What if you’re already a millionaire? At that level of wealth taking the 50/50 shot at $50 million might be far more tempting."
I was open to the snap stuff when I first heard about it. It sounds like a decent idea. But at this point I try to install everything I care about in a non-snap way, as I've had so many bad experiences, so many small things not working.

Do other people have the same reaction after trying to live with it?
How would you get opioids if you actually wanted to? Weed you can ask around on the street and eventually you'll find someone. Are you gonna break your arm to get a script? Doctors don't prescribe that so liberally anymore, they haven't for years. I don't think it's accurate that it's easier to get opiates than Marijuana, except in really certain cases like after you undergo a procedure
Couldn’t they just write the title as “businesses shouldn’t try to completely eliminate fraud” instead of trying to inflate their argument with this pseudo-academic bullshit? Seriously, “non-zero”? Is the “optimal” amount of fraud sometimes negative?
Stories like this are a big reason I'm fleeing to Debian.
Yes and that’s why he is a professor.

“Its hard to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it”
Ask HN: Why don't you have contact information on your profile
Some of the most politically incorrect, insightful, unpopular yet interesting comments that I see are made by individuals who have no contact information on their profile.

What would your motivation be, to put an unpopular opinion if there are no means for similar minded people to get in touch with you?

I fully understand that one cannot reveal your real name, or other contact information that is normally used for everyday life, because there can be a backlash that can have a negative impact your life.
It spreads money, jobs, and expertise around the country. The goal of the program is not to be the most nimble, reusable, most cost-effective way to space.

This page illustrates that it is very successful at the true goal: https://www.nasa.gov/content/artemis-partners
> I don't know why so many people think forgetting fundamental is normal.

Because it is normal.

The notion that you recall everything from a random class you took some semester years ago, and that it won't ever leave your memory, is not realistic nor grounded on reality.

Furthermore, "fundamentals" don't mean the same for all people. Most developers will go through their entire career without implementing a single data structure or write a single pet OS or put together a single parser. They will however have to handle OO programming and software architecture and concurrent programming.

I guess that the definition of "fundamentals" is tied to what you need to do to perform on your every day life, and that's why absurd things like interviewing candidates based on data structures and ask stuff like what's placement new in C++ is a complete waste of time and effort to assess how a candidate will perform.
I made friends with a woman who does something called integration therapy. She deals mostly with people who have gone and dosed themselves in the hope of finding themselves or whatever and just end up needing professional help because that's a very hard thing to do to yourself if you're already messed up.

The way I've always seen it is this - Learning your lesson with these things is kind of like learning your lesson because you just got your ass handed to you in a fist fight, except with psychedelics it's like getting cosmically beaten into a pulp by having your consciousness put into a cannon and fired across the universe and back. Some people are really attuned to this kind of thing and can just shake it off while laughing the entire time. Others, who have no idea what they're getting into, with stuff like pre-existing anxiety conditions? If anyone really thinks them going solo on these kind of journeys is going to make them better then they might as well send them down some rapids with no boating or swimming experience for a 'therapeutic' prank show.

The key thing this article and the researchers touch on is that it's the integration part of the therapy that works, the drug is something like a catalyst, and any hype around treatments which work without that component is likely to turn out to be a dangerous disappointment. I don't disagree with this at all.
The forced Snap-ification of Firefox pushed me from Ubuntu into another distro (Pop OS). A decade ago, Ubuntu offered real usability improvements (working Wifi, what?!) compared to the competition. Now, the various Linux flavors all work approximately the same. If Ubuntu is looking for positive differentiation, Snap is not it.
This is similar to the argument that you shouldn't set a service-level objective of 100% availability. It's not achievable and people who claim that's the goal don't act as if it is - so it's better to talk about what amount of downtime is acceptable given the cost.
> European history should be portrayed accurately, be it fantasy or reality. It seems that those that shout loudest about cultural appropriation are the first to glorify cultural appropriation when it suites their world view.

This so much. Mixed skin color withing the same race in a fantasy world makes little to no sense to me. Also the fact that dumb characters (say the hobbit girls for example) are always depicted as white to avoid cheap woke backlash is so much of a clear sign of woke appeasement. At least give African mythology a chance and bring it to our screens, that'd make a lot of sense and would also bring a breath of fresh air to the fantasy world. Wokewashing a LoTR series adaptation gives me vibes of forced and lazy inclusivity.
both `libssl` and Firefox are in snapd containers, with mysterious voodoo cant-turn-it-off remote management settings too. First move ? remove each container one at time, starting with the complex ones and the base last, then `snapd` completely, then the caches; complete by installing stock distro `libssl` and your browser of choice (or two).

here's hoping that, similar to the desktop snafu, Ubuntu/MSFT realize that forced (user-hostile) defaults are not the only possible way forward here.
Reviving the Language That Brought Us the Jak and Daxter Series
Because most Linux users use ssh for remote work.
Not mature enough.

We're mature enough to know that if someone's argument is "you can't handle the truth" they should be taken about as seriously as the film I'm quoting.
> Afterward, participants received aftercare, known as “integration,” in which they process everything that happened during the trip.

Integration is definitely the key step. Without integration, the trip is no different than recreational use for fun. Integration requires sustained effort and guidance. If you don't have professional help, then meditation is the best DIY method. It usually leads to Spirituality. Pyschedlics tend to go very well with Buddhist and Vedantic spiritual practices. I think it best complements with Neo-Advaita. If Advaita is the theory, then psychedelics are the practicals.
Did you just answer your own question?
Europe made a strategic mistake in having an expansionary dictatorship as their primary energy supplier. The current sanctions and supply threats were always inevitable, the only question was timing (and perhaps whether it would be a NATO country under attack by the time Europe was forced to respond.)
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That matches my experience. In all honesty, as a programmer working on enterprise software development, I feel more like a mechanic than an engineer who designs machines. To stretch an analogy, I spent time learning all of the ins-and-outs of how a transmission works and how to make one from scratch. But in the real world the transmission was already made by someone decades ago and my job is to maintain it and swap out some parts when necessary.

I suppose this would be an issue if I were working at a startup or doing some greenfield development, but I suspect the majority of software developers/engineers are working on a codebase that is already established. And, the need for those from-scratch fundamentals is low to non-existent and naturally that knowledge atrophies.
There are things I don't want, and things I prioritise to get rid of. The fact that for amazon getting rid of unions is a priority, suggests that unions are effective
> European history should be portrayed accurately, be it fantasy or reality

Hard disagree. Fantasy and SciFi can be fun because they don't look like the real world. So many works are based on alternate histories that it's mind boggling to read this statement. Should the enitre genre of historical fantasy not exist?

As a fan of hard science fiction, having a believable history is important, but doesn't have to match today's history. Sounds like maybe you just don't like that genre? But to say it should always be portrayed accurately is not correct.
Just because you are in one sub field doesn’t mean you should lack a general understanding of the overall industry.
And you prove these outlandish statements with what, exactly?
The costs of extraction have nothing to do with it. It's just dysfunctional political systems that toggle back and forth between "let's ban fossil fuels", and "omg, the greedy gas companies are charging $6 a gallon!" The former caused the latter. Very little investment has been made in tapping new wells because of hamstringing by ESG virtue signaling. As a result, we're in a pickle.

The inflation we're experiencing has nothing to do with energy supply, it has everything to do with monetary, diplomatic, and fiscal policy.
The most important part of any foundational education like yours in computer science is to solve the problem of unknown unknowns. It isn't necessary to recall all the answers to questions, what is useful is to know what kinds of questions have already known answers (and by corollary, which ones don't), so that you can look them up when needed rather than trying to reinvent the world.
Smart cards were also breached before the US switched to them.

I'd object to paying for PCI DSS if I were them, to be honest. The idea that every merchant (or credit card reader) even has access to credentials is ludicrous.

The currentc was of email lists, not the payment flow. It's embarrassing, but still a better track record than the existing payment processors (which probably suffered 10,000s of payment flow breaches as I typed this.)
> The whole Snap thing is a great example of why Linux will never become mainstream.

A generalization too broad, as pretty much no other distro except Ubuntu uses it. If anything, it's more emblematic of Canonical's neverending desire to reinvent the world and the NIH syndrome.

> Semi related, why are all the Remote Desktop solutions on Linux so awful?

I've never had any issues with plain old X forwarding over SSH. As long as you have compression enabled, performance for most applications is fine.
Right? From some snap-installed app I'll save something to /tmp, not be able to find it, and then have to go on a safari trying to figure out where my file went.

It really gives me the impression that the effort is mainly about achieving some sort of theoretical or business goal, with user experience being secondary.
That’s how you get all those apps that are dog slow bc developers didn’t know better and implemented everything with squared or worse complexity where it wasn’t necessary
Your opening line:

> Europe made a *major tactical error*

Your follow-up:

> I'm not going to engage the question of whether or not it was morally or *tactically* correct.

I mean, you already have.
Regarding #2 - while I am all for reforming the US prison system, a direct comparison of US (prison) failure with Scandinavian (prison) success is unfair. It also risks creating misguided reforms, without properly understanding and addressing the social, economic, historical and geographical gaps between the two countries.
Anecdotally, this came about as I was trying Fedora 36 and I just moved my Linux desktop and laptop to it and never looked back.

I just don't like Snap (or Flatpak, but less so, since it actually seems to work without breaking desktop integration).

Whenever I do need to use an Ubuntu desktop, I now install MS Edge or Epiphany instead.
Notice that you can still use ubuntu with plain firefox and no snap at all on your system. First thing I do on a new ubuntu install is to remove snap and other clutter. It's still a plain debian totally under your control, after all.
It just means you've been doing jobs where CS is (apparently) unimportant. If you're ok with that type of job then by all means, continue, it pays the bills. The downside is that it might get mind-numbingly boring in the future. Pushing bits between API calls isn't exactly computer science.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32702211
Many U.S. companies have a distinct social hierarchy where people who matter are direct employees and everyone else is outsourced. That lets them keep their reputations cleaner while blaming abusive conditions, various forms of discrimination or harassment, etc. on the other company. This improves their stats for employee compensation, job satisfaction, workplace injuries, labor complaints, etc.

If that company unionizes, they drop the contract and avoid their name in the headlines.
So: necessary but not sufficient?
Sure, maybe someday.
The Delta Clipper flew and landed successfully already back in the 90ies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X
Exactly.

I’m also quite puzzled that nobody mentioned yet that if you were offered a chance like this in real life, it would likely be the only time in your life that you get a chance like that. Unless you get a repeat, or you are rich, it would be foolish to not press the red button.
Let's stop with the "Linux is not mainstream" please. The world's largest video game reseller's flagship device runs arch linux with a kde plasma desktop and sells like cupcakes - likely more than 1M units already. It doesn't get more "mainstream" than this.
Perfectly normal, in a very wide range of fields. A friend of mine was a career Civil Engineer (& Professional Engineer, etc.). He ditched all his old textbooks & such when he retired - because he had neither looked at them in 30+ years, nor ever needed to.
Earthworms are still not insects.
Don’t think he ever said, or even slightly implied, that the world “only” cares about rocket missions.

And I don’t understand the point more broadly. Because the US did some unpopular things, it doesn’t matter if it also looks impotent trying and failing to launch a big rocket? I don’t see how that follows at all. It seems to me that the opposite perspective is just as plausible: the American space program is one of the most important things the US does to build and maintain its global credibility, so it really matters if it fails on a global stage.
It depends what you mean by "simplification". The fact that phonics is something that can be taught and can be helpful for learning to read indicates that English does have phonetic spelling rules, inconsistently applied as they may be. It would be possible for a spelling reform to preserve the existing spelling conventions of written English while simply making the rules more consistent. There aren't really that many outright ambiguities in written English. Sure, <a> can indicate a bunch of different sounds, but it's usually possible to tell what sound it is from the surrounding letters---e.g. it'll be "short" (as in <cat>) if it's in an orthographically closed syllable, and "long" (as in <name>) if it's in an orthographically open syllable. The trouble is that we have words like <give> and <many> which are straight-up exceptions to the usual rules about open vs. closed syllables (<many> also has an exceptional sound value for the <a>). Respelling these occasional exceptions (I'd go for <giv>, <menny>) might make English spelling considerably less confusing while still preserving its basic "look and feel".
A better way to improve performance would be to switch to Flatpak.

I used to be indifferent to the whole flatpak vs snap situation, since IMO either one is better than the traditional method of using the system package manager for everything. But now that I've had Firefox snap forced upon me by my distro, I've strongly switched over to the Flatpak camp. Snaps do literally everything worse than Flatpaks, offer a worse user experience, and they use a closed-source server for the backend.

I've been a loyal Ubuntu user for over a decade, but this Snap thing is making me seriously consider jumping ship to another distro.
You need to clear up the antecedent basis of "them." I think maybe you mean "unions" (although I could be wrong) but your sentence actually means "why you should support companies."
There's that Dr. Carl Hart story https://reason.com/video/2022/04/12/carl-hart-on-life-libert... that has popped up twice or more on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31145393
"the fact that businesses hate supplier cartels tells you all you need to know and why you should support them"

How does this make sense? Is your ethical framework simply loving everything businesses hate?
Indeed, I have an ongoing subscription with zero expectation of winning but I do sometimes enjoy thinking 'what if'.

Considering how much money I throw away on streaming subscriptions I barely use, books I never get beyond the first chapter of, food I buy that ends up in the trash, etc, it represents quite good value for money.
Probably because it requires less testing from Canonical. With snaps, Mozilla is wholly responsible for the entire distribution; they build a snap with specific library versions, test it, then ship it to users. With traditional packaging, Firefox uses system libraries, which means Canonical has to do additional testing to make sure Firefox still works with Ubuntu's library versions.

And yeah, you could probably fix that by shipping debs with a statically linked Firefox, but that's not how apt packaging is traditionally done.

At least that's my understanding of things.
Open the web inspector in the app and note the console log if you want to start on a very elaborate and long easter egg hunt.
So by your definition, fusion energy is also a bubble?
Their COVID response is mainly about control. for a time it was also about nationalism (look at how many people are dying in the west). At this point it’s control and a little bit of Xi not wanting to change the policy until after he has secured another term.
> I would never think of a movie were Kunta Kinte is Dutch and is portrait by Chris Hemsworth

Kunta Kinte was a slave in a story that heavily dealt with slavery, set in a time and setting where slavery was race-based, for an audience somewhat familiar with the history of that time and setting.

If you made him Dutch and portrayed by Chris Hemsworth you'd have to include in your movie all kinds of extra exposition and world building to set the background for the story.

Most of the race changes people have mentioned so far did not involve characters where their race was either important to the story or to reducing the amount of exposition and world building you need to convey the story's context to the audience.
Negative externalities like what? Abundant food, cheap travel, and reduction in global poverty enabled by global supply chains?

Certainly, it has been good for plant life: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...
I'll try it out, thank you!!!
The N900 had 32 GB of storage, which was absurdly huge at the moment. That phone could have seen sold at $300-400 with 2-4 GB of storage, which was more than enough at the time. My first Android phone, in 2010, had 0.5 GB of storage.
Start at page 11 (2010) and read backwards through the headlines, and maybe skim a bit. The message hasn't changed and the dire warnings don't match up to events years later. When things are down it looks right and when things are up it looks like hyperbole. I don't see what would appear to be actual insight and I suspect this is a shill for the oil industry. I'd like to see where she gets her money.
Agreed, this is a garbage article.
To be more specific, the article mimics the topic of a counter-intuitive "surprising" truth (like, for example the goat problem; or flaws in human cognition), while letting the reader down by making an obvious, easy to understand truth unnecessarily complicated.

"Clickbait light"
It was. Nuclear was off the table, CO2 needed to be dramatically reduced and that doesn't leave many options other than gas since Germany doesn't have a lot of hydro. Plus they use a lot of gas for heating and industrial processes so gas isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
I moved from Ubuntu to Mint mainly because of Snap. I couldn't take it anymore. Couldn't be happier.