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What goes up must come down, in the glyph.

Chr(t), the birthsign of the Sun, Mars, and AMD

Charity, IT is why, that's ... information technology.

Wake up.
How Apple is known as an environmentally conscious company

while [[ 1 == 1 ]]; do
1. Make products near impossible to repair.
2. Do not allow parts to be available for purchase for repair.
3. Brick product if repaired.
4. Advertise like hexx that Apple is a environmentally conscious company.
done
Note that the author isn't an engineer; he's the ex-CEO of a hotel company.

One believes the situations to be somewhat different.
Yeah, why does anyone need something to run some functions in order for them? I can do that, thanks. If it ran them on some... say 'big data' platform, that would be something. As is, this does not deserve to be front page. This is vaporware.
ARM, still kicking! This is pretty neat. As M-J-Fox said, most developers end up having to write documentation to get around the code not being machine readable. I had to do this as well for school projects.

Good for them.
That's a great point we should never forget with agriculture and livestock. Many of these things are a watered-down form of what's found in nature.
Nassim Taleb must not have met many librarians...we debate the physicality and other differences very regularly!

Joking aside, the "print or ebook" debate is a false dichotomy...both are here to stay. Both also have significant shortcomings. Thankfully, it's okay for feelings about books to be irrational.
pandas does a lot. This does nothing. That's the difference.
and it transfers around 70-80Mb if you let the background montage play through
Kind of off topic, but: I've been trying to shred iphones and macbooks for a while now for my art. (Much like in "will it blend") I intend to work with the shredded metal/dust as a pigment. Does anyone have any pointers how to actually shred these devices?
There is, however, a rather large difference between "bothersome" and "a bunch of idiots voting for things that are going to kill people, possibly even me... and winning".
And, more research in there is needed.
The docs say nothing about this. If you've implemented pmap, maybe that is useful. But the framework itself doesn't seem to do anything.
Cap'n Proto has a high-quality Rust implementation: https://github.com/dwrensha/capnproto-rust
It's called "commoditizing your complements"

Google open sourced Android to get advertising revenue.

IBM supports open source and made money from server sells and still makes money from services.

Apple open sourced WebKit (more than they had to) to gain industry support and later to kill off Flash.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
> I often see computers with the user interface in English, while the user's native language is Portuguese.

I'm curious why. Do users not know how to change the user interface language? Or did they learn how to use the computer from, say, an English reference and are now just accustomed to an English user interface?
Hang on, in some places the plastic fragments are more numerous than food.

The plastic also tends to gather up other pollutants - PCBs for example - and for smaller creatures that's a problem. And these concentrate through the food chain.
In my experience:

1. "Why" is the most important question you can ask, and understand the answer to.

2. If someone is defensive to being asked why, it's because they can't answer it well.

3. If you can't answer it well, you haven't thought it through enough.
http://www.climeworks.com

Cool company, and a serious looking machine, thanks for sharing!

I also like what they're up to at OakBio: http://www.oakbio.com

tito@impossiblelabs.io
Well, demand is only there if they can differentiate from the cheaper options.
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For $28k they want you can get a hunting shack with stove and toilet. I am continually amazed by the tiny house economics.
You answered yourself - slavery is not taxation, full stop. Fiddling about with numbers after a false premise is not going to lead you to truth.
This is largely outmoded advice in the wake of in re seagate. Simply having looked at a patent is not enough to create willful infringement.
On they other hand, you do get to laugh at the younger folks for making the same mistakes you did.
I have always liked, "We have to believe in free will -- we have no other choice."
Seems dangerous..
Yes because Apple in general and Steve Jobs in particular is a company that goes out of it way to be accommodating to the masses....
What... Even is this ?
Spot on.

Print is better, in many ways.

So are ebooks, but just in different ways. It's a good thing we have the technology to make both.
Hot reload means something different than refreshing the page, automatically or manually.

If the state of art of your development cycle is refreshing the browser, check out hot reload.
Good points.

I may have misunderstood the article, but I'm a little surprised the author didn't write about Russell's inability to accept Gödel's Incompleteness proof. This made mathematics not fit in the "[it] is such that it can be perfectly described by an appropriate set of precise philosophical concepts". So I guess, if he held that philosophical opinion about reality, it would be hard to accept it about math.
The issue is that most people on social media aren't looking for enlightenment, they're looking for validation. If they don't find it from one source they'll likely seek out a more suitable one. The only one who can change a person's mind is that person, all the rest of us can do is encourage.
Equity in Education in the New Age
I believe it's mostly efficiency measures. Americans are collectively driving more now than in 2007:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M12MTVUSM227NFWA

Note that petroleum consumption by transportation is nonetheless lower now than circa 2005 (eyeballing the graph):

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=30652

Coal-to-gas switching in electrical generation (and increased renewables generation, to a smaller extent) also reduces the primary energy consumption for a given level of generation. You might need 3 megajoules of primary (thermal) energy to produce 1 megajoule of electricity using coal-fired generation. It's more like 2 megajoules of primary energy using gas-fired generation in a modern combined cycle plant. And it's just 1 megajoule of primary energy to deliver 1 megajoule of electricity with wind power or PV (they're not heat engines; the electricity is the whole of the energy). Someone can consume exactly the same amount of electricity now as in 2007 but the changing generation mix would still reduce the primary energy input required to generate that electricity.
> What a pointless method of study.

A pointless method of study that's responsible for building the world you see around you, including the computer you're using for this conversation.

In science the problem is not getting the answers, it's being sufficiently skeptical of those who think they already have the answers.

> ... since we can't yet describe that from quantum phenomena upwards?

But that's not true -- we can describe it, but we can't explain it. Literature describes, science explains. Good science resists premature explanation.
Never mind that HTTP can easily be man in the middled and tampered with and I have no way to ensure I am communicating to who I think I am.
Where do I apply?
> She insisted on showing off her stool after the process was complete. She said she could see the little "bugs" that had been in her system. Then we discovered that she had forgotten to put in the batteries.

There's so much wrong with this...

Reminds me of the audiophile that was very happy with his top of the line amplifier that he custom built. It was clearly much better than the previous one.

Turns out he had forgotten to turn it on and was using the old one.
Huh, I'd missed that point. Thanks.
> Does anyone have ideas on how a mid-career software developer can switch gears into the clean energy/climate change industry, to do something to help?

I'm in it right now. The best thing to do right now is to exert as much political pressure, because half the workplaces you're thinking of joining are in the current administration's crosshairs.
What really bugs me about this is the hypocrisy.

E.g. take Al Gore, self styled environmentalist, and author of books like An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It. He's on the Apple Board of Directors and has been on it for many many years. He's willing to take their money, but he's also willing to look the other way when it comes to actual environmentalism, rather than the appearance thereof.
No, not everyone who uses browsers will actually go through settings and deal with this. Plenty of folks run browsers without the default language changed (it's a nontrivial procedure!), and they'd likely not look for the language tweaking UI. The browser UI language isn't actually too important -- all the important buttons these days are icons. The language you see Google in is more important.

Some UX could certainly be designed around this. Google could default to Accept-Language and say "Did you want Google in Language X" (in the IP detected language) in a bubble, with a link that triggers the language-setting UI (somehow). Or it could default to IP detection with an API for the reverse. The current situation of far too many people sending flawed `Accept-Language "en-US,en;q=0.5"` headers will have to be worked around somehow.

Google already suggests English when it detects that you've changed the language you use (I'm not sure if it suggests english when you are logged out and switch locations, or if it perhaps suggests whatever your Accept-Language is)
> nginx and apache only do HTTP(S). Don't support TCP.

That's not entirely accurate. For nginx, for example, there's the ngx_stream_core_module[1]. It's not particularly well-documented though, so I don't know much about it.

[1]: https://nginx.org/en/docs/stream/ngx_stream_core_module.html
It won't matter because flat earthers don't have the basic knowledge to understand arguments.

It's like I usually say

> You can't fix crazy and you can't fix stupid.
A high tech incumbent with a monopoly doesn't scream opportunity to me. This startup is brave AF, but definitely 8/10 from the TPU team have the best shot of anybody.
Show HN: Python integration into SQL Server 2017
> an index

Fiction books never have indices.

> They're worse in just about every other way

An awful lot of books go in the trash simply because it is uneconomic to store them, ship them, or even sell them. If your interests run to more than a few hundred books, this becomes the crushing reality.
I believe one reason APFS is touted is because the HFS+ data structures have one big global lock, whereas APFS allows for multithreading which ought to improve performance on multi-core machines.
The truth is, no company wants the risk. All it takes is one of these recyclers to skimp out on basic drive formatting once and you get an article about how you can buy cheap macbooks and harvest them for data.

Look at what happened with printers (HP's bottom line took a hit there), where you could buy a printer that had like 500,000 pages printed out of it for pennies.
Chromium was a fairly recent fork of WebKit. Webkit was already being adopted by every browser vendor except MS and Mozilla.

As far as Golang, I doubt that it has the uptake ofClang (even used by MS), CUPS, or Bonjour.

Yes I realized that CUPS was open source before being acquired by Apple but the copyright was owned by Sweets and they could have closed all future enhancement over the last decade.
I could see something like this being a good home office one could install in their backyard. However, the price point makes it untenable. Not paying that kind of scratch for a fancy shed.

Side note: MUJI makes some of the best pens I've ever used.
Having hung out with Tom 7: Grad school didn't make him like this, he just has an absolutely insane level of drive to create cool things. I don't think he could stop if he tried. And like most things, the way you get good at "making cool and hilarious hacks / techno-art" is to do a lot of it. So start hacking! :-)
Uhm... A server side session Web apps is pretty basic stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_(computer_science)#Ser...

This existed since the Perl CGI times. "Bizarre practice", wow.
I guess you missed the whole lawsuit thing [0] that forced them to make (initially P2P) Facetime completely centralized at which point it was pointless to open it up.

PS: If you're gonna hate on Apple, at least find some valid points about them to hate instead of just spreading bullshit.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/report-after-pat...
Liebig's Law of the Minimum describes why you can't count on plant growth to save us.

Any given plant's growth is constrained by something. Might be sunlight, water, phosphorous, nitrogen, or potassium. The last 3 are of course the main ingredients in fertilizers.

If a plant needs phosphorous to speed its growth, adding nitrogen won't help. And vise versa. What ever the Liebig Minimum, that's what you have to add to increase the growth, and you have to add enough of it for another factor to become the Liebig minimum.

Very few plants out there are CO2-constrained.
They won't take encyclopedias. I've tried. (I have two sets.)
This happens a lot, especially in politics... People say they're passionate about something, and you want to believe them, but they don't actually give a shit. We could all use more skepticism, and we need to actually hold people/organizations to their claimed intents. So, props to Vice for reporting on it.
something more risky to the walled garden concept. I perhaps could have worded it better, but HN does seem to react to any questioning of Apple with a defensive posture.

What has any company open sourced that would cause them to loose their competitive advantage?
Would love to hear HN community feedback on the Python integration into SQL Server 2017 CTP 2.0.

More information at:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/advanced-analytics/pyth...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcoY795jTcc
The best minesweeper implementation is Simon Tatham's, because it guarantees a board that can be solved without guessing.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/mines...

That guarantee allows for playing with high mine counts, which would ordinarily be impossible way too often. The high mine count boards sometimes contain interesting deductions.
Ask HN: Finding the intersection of music preferences on Spotify with a friend?
I feel like I'd heard of some software or a plugin that did this, but I cannot find it.

It would be nice to be able to see, based on a group of people's spotify data, the intersection of music preferences to create the optimal group playlist
Climate predictions made in 1989 versus today:

https://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v7/n
3/full/nclimate3224.html?WT.feed_name=subjects_climate-sciences

Climate models are actually better than meteorological models, but they predict things decades out.
If you're implementing a CLR language and want flawless interop with everything then you just have the constraint that you need to support generics in the same way that other CLR languages do. I'm not seeing why this model is so much worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_(magazine)

It ran from December 1992 until February 2001, ceasing publication because all the contributors had died of AIDS-defining clinical conditions.
Perhaps the exception that proves the rule, but TextEdit is open source!

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/samplecode/TextE...
Huh, I had assumed this was dead for quite some time based on the lack of updates. Here's hoping someone will take this as an opportunity to revive the project.
I'm interested by your comment, but I can't figure out what you are intending to say. Why do you need to dilute CO2?
> I really don't care what other people think about my books and have most of them hidden away in the part of the house where guests are not invited.

My father eventually learned to move the books out of the living room and into the back hall.
Haha, the MS C# docs are just infuriating. There are things I absolutely don't want to see translated, and language docs are one of those.
As someone out of the loop with any of this (I've always just been content with using Debian as-is, and I haven't done much work with systemd), can someone explain why systemd is as bad as it seems to be? As in, why is it so bad that an entire major Linux distro was forked and created with the seemingly sole purpose of removing this program?
For $50K USD more, you get substantially more bang for your buck with this Minim House:
http://minimhomes.com/
Mostly intuition. I don't buy into hype as quickly as others because I've seen the scientific community in various diverse fields go through the hype cycle many times over many decades.

A new problem is discovered (i.e. the earth can't sustain the current birth rate forever). The problem is hyped up[1] in an effort to find a solution (abortions -> Zero Population Growth[2]). Many in the science community buy into the hype, crunch numbers, and make dire predictions. Public policies in the 70s change in response to this evidence. ZP deniers are shamed for having large families and rejecting scientific consensus. Decades pass and the predictions don't happen. People start examining the evidence with more scrutiny and with observed data in hand retroactively debunk a lot of the assumptions made. The hype dies and everyone forgets it ever happened. So I'm sorry if I don't instantly drop everything to make the hype of the day my top priority, but a lot of hyped problems don't last more than a few decades. If climate change is still being seriously discussed in 2036 (30 years after "An Inconvenient Truth" was published) maybe I'll take it a little more seriously.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_population_growth
The vast majority of users in any country don't know how to change those sorts of settings and won't figure it out unless they absolutely have to. In the US is just happens that everything we get comes correctly configured for us, so it's not an issue.
It is one of the rare organizations where the people responsible for the budget of the organization have long track records of trying to have them disrupted (or just eliminated).

Congress has often tried to undermine the ability of the EPA, IRS, NIH, NOAA... to do their job which then makes it seem they are ripe for disruption.
It's interesting to have local politics geared towards attracting talented people, but there's precious little that can be done if talent is fractionalized at a national level through the concentration of urban bubbles to immigration policies that stem inflows of talented people...

Talent is distributed unevenly, but I don't think a series of competing local lobbies will change that. I've always thought that all of the local ecosystems for which talent flows unevenly should think seriously about banding together and working on policies that 1) increase overall talent availability 2) distribute its spread more evenly -- 1 would involve working to get Congress to create incentives for entrepreneurs/high-skilled workers of all kinds to come to America in the first place, for example, while 2 might be a combination of infrastructure/tax policies.
> I have done a 180 on so many positions

Care to give any examples and the reasons for your first position and subsequent change?
Not making a judgement on whether their claims are accurate, but they are arguing Tesla intentionally made false and misleading advertisements.

Companies should not be allowed to false advertise with impunity. A mere refund is not sufficient to stop the behavior.
> That same power to connect can lead people down a dark or dangerous path. Approach the internet with an uncritical mind and you could emerge as a flat-earther, anti-vaccer, or worse.

Maybe. Or, perhaps it's the tendency of irrationality to beg more irrationality today, when a large number of vectors exists in which the irrationality can spread. If someone said something irrational and blaming 30 years ago, a few people might hear it and think, "huh, that's a weird thought". Most would probably not repeat the thought to anyone later because most people don't want to be viewed as irrational or weird by others. Maybe a few people might, because they were already irrational, but the chances were low that enough would repeat it to where it could spread.

30 years later, two things have happened to increase the likelihood of a "viral irrationality" to root and grow at increasing rates: 1. lots of people on the Internet and 2. lots of irrational things being said on the Internet. I would classify most of the irrationality on the Internet as others speaking for others thoughts or feelings. Check out Alex Jones just pulling shit out of his ass for example, under the guise of "news", but really just being a performance artist. He's "entertaining" people by pretending to be trustworthy, and keeping it going by making anyone listen to him question the "real" news (of which is he is not a member) to keep the schtick going.

I look at it more like a weird NP problem, where increasing amounts of time are needed to unravel the logic being presented as it spreads further into the aggregate, given it's self-referential in nature to answer leading questions with more irrationality. The blame game people play might be likened to two traveling salesmen trying to solve each other's problems of shortest path while also traveling paths that avoid or overlap each other. Given certain paths, the salesman may find themselves in a loop, blaming each other for being stuck, but unable to stop doing the calculations to get themselves out of the pickle.

Check out the concept of a double bind. It's relevant to this discussion.
Check out https://getaway.house/ if you're in NYC or Boston and interested in renting a tiny house for the weekend.
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For what it's worth, I've had luck moving some people's anti-science opinions by meeting them at their level of understanding, and offering some compassion. Might help that they are relatives and not total strangers though.
I was surprised by "stop flying" so I ran a calculator [0], not the most authoritative-looking thing in the world but it's trying to sell me offset credits, so if anything it's an overestimate.

Using 160kwh/month from PG&E for my 600sqft apartment, driving 12 miles/weekday on a mix of compact hatchback and small-displacement motorcycle, and flying round-trip across the country roughly once a year, I apparently have a carbon footprint of 1.59 metric tons.

That's less than 8% the US average, and below the long-term worldwide target of 2 metric tons.

That single trip home for Christmas has more carbon impact (0.63 metric tons) than an entire year of motorcycle commuting (0.49 metric tons)!

I'm also making no deliberate sacrifices or trying at all to live a low-carbon-emissions lifestyle, it just kind of happens by default when you're living in the Bay Area (small dwellings, low HVAC requirements, short drives because the freeway is even worse than public transit for long distances, etc). So... put "live in or near a big city" on that list?

[0] http://calculator.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx?tab=8
I would not ignore the header, but treat it as one piece of bayesian evidence about what language the user probably wants. When I did some work on language detection for a search startup (many years ago) that was the plan, but we started with the user's actual search queries. The project was interrupted before I got to find out how much signal this would have added.