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When I look at a downtown with tall buildings I always think about what the fuck people are doing in those buildings. I get the sense that more and more people are hired to simply report on a team. That report goes up one level and its part of another team report (just representing more people). Then that report goes up... and it continues for as many levels of bureaucracy that the company decided was necessary.

Most of this falls directly in the category of "not my problem" that is eating everyone's soul. Because more and more people subscribing to "not my problem" we are creating perfect systems that need bureaucracy. The opposite structure is more people doing the hands-on-work (that is reported on) and more of those people being involved directly in decisions and are stakeholders on firing. Everyone has a sense of how much work is being done and who the slackers are so there is no more a need for upward reporting and downward decisions.

Now the argument being made is that AI is replacing jobs so you could say - well this upward reporting job is all that we have left! So I say boo-fuck to that. We don't have spaceships going into space on a daily basis, we don't recycle 100% of what can be recycled, we don't have clean freeways, we don't have technology that perfects our pollution, we don't have AI.... so there are A FUCK TON amount of work to be done, but no one wants to do it because of our "not my problem" attitude.

Heck if what we're facing is a training problem, then heck, I see a hell of a lot of jobs right there!
I am still rocking the original OnePlus one, too. I appreciate the lack of a biometric sensor, and camera is actually better than a lot of newer phone cameras - the only cameras that outshine it are iPhones, top of the line Samsung's and OP5T. So pretty decent for a 4 year old phone?
Exactly. One AI programmed with bad intentions will have bad intentions. One with good will do good as programmed. Which one outwits the other will simply result in a part of the code that has a programmed advantage over the other.
Maybe not directly an opposing opinion, but I'll point out that Apple makes more money than any ad, email, or social media company, so I think it's hard to argue that Apple has somehow screwed up as a business.

In other words, to me it seems reasonable to think that they affirmatively chose a strategy that has worked out for them--not that their strategy was forced upon them by their shortcomings.

I would also quibble with your characterization that there is some difference between the ad, email, or a social network worlds. Google and Facebook are ad companies--look at their revenue. Apple is not.

I will say that I don't think Steve Jobs set out 18 years ago to turn Apple into a privacy company. I think it's reasonable to say that Apple concentrated on products and services, and discovered privacy as a differentiating strategy along the way.

But it's just as true to say that Google and Facebook discovered data-driven advertising along the way too. Both projects started out without a business model at all.
Our office has those installed as a regular feature in all meeting rooms. Main takeaway lesson: never fit more people in a room than was designed for. Air quality is a balance of inflow (equals outflow) and usage. Fit 9 in a room for 6? PPM way above 1000.
Not sure what I can do with this information. I live in a crowded city and this is the only place I can get a workout.
This sounds pretty interesting, can you recommend any books on Japan about this particular period/topic?
There are certainly legal reasons to not directly lie about the privacy practices of your company. I’m sure it has happened before, but are we really worried about, for example, Facebook lying about WhatsApp messages being end-to-end encrypted? Surely researchers would expose that lie pretty quickly.

And CEOs and leadership teams come and go. If the only thing making a company respect your privacy is the principles of the CEO, and especially if that respect for privacy is bad for the company’s bottom line, then you can bet that CEO is going to have a change of heart after a board meeting or is going to get fired as soon as there’s a bad quarter.
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Changes for emissions are not really worth anything to shipping companies in general. However changes in efficiencies can add up quick. Fuel is a significant cost, and so if you can take it down by a few percent that change adds up.
>Only Apple, which makes exclusively high-end devices for style-conscious, less-price-sensitive consumers,

This is a very tired cliche, and untrue to anyone who's ever seen any of the hundreds of ads where new iPhones are available for $0 from most carriers.
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>( an IP address alone doesn't qualify )

You are wrong. You need to brush up on GDPR.

An IP address, metadata, cookie ID, "online identifiers", etc are considered personal data by GDPR, all data that is collected by virtually every single website, service, or app in the world at some level, either directly through an analytics platform, web font, external library, social engagement, ads, affiliate, input form, third party login services, or even the server itself. That is in addition to names, addresses, phone, email addresses, location, social media, health data, etc.
In some developing countries, there's an unofficial social contract that the wealthy should employ as many people as possible, even if they need to make pointless jobs. A company I worked for had a remote office in India that employed people to hand out paper towels in the bathrooms.
You've got a point. If it's just about showing things on a map, OSM will do. When it comes to routing or geocoding, you need quality, consistency and accuracy. And that is only offered by map makers like Here or TomTom. Both run their own Maps API platforms.
That has to be a typo where "%s" was meant.
Huh. I still don't like that it doesn't require hands on the wheel (I fell like a creative person could trick the eye tracking). But unlike the Tesla, it does have LIDAR.
Geez! That was scary.
Too expensive and complex. Even global navies don't use except in unusual circumstances that absolutely require it, like subs, aircraft carriers, and a handful of polar icebreakers.
Mind boggling that one or two people (the perp and the cop) and their separate strains of attention to details + curiosity could impacts so many.

Maybe luck is real after all ;)

Great story.
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They don't give them away free, they build the cost into your contract. If there's sufficient competition in your local market you'll be able to buy a sim-only deal that costs less and returns that money to you and let's you upgrade on your own schedule to a phone of your own choosing.
I'm not an expert in quartz, but I'd assume there are physical "mechanical" oscillations with a hopefully-small distribution of frequencies around a given frequency, which is known to some particular degree of accuracy.

The "ticking" in our system is a periodically flipping nuclear-spin magnetization (rather than mechanical oscillations) whose period is definitely centered at twice the input drive period.
besides everything else mentioned before, i feel like this is a double-sword situation. centralizing every aspect of your life into 1 company gives them a much more refined picture about yourself than if your info were scattared around with other companies.
No obligatory mention of cellphones/Facebook?
It seems we are going to follow the Superfund model here though. Only after the industry has polluted some places (lost control of huge amounts of PII for whole groups of individuals) will we make it illegal for somebody else to do the same thing. And the public will be stuck with the cleanup.
Indeed.

Working up to a deadlift max doesn't take a lot of time, or a ton of sets. Like, 4-6 sets of 3-4 reps.

Longevity and injury-prevention is key to long-term gym vitality... but people don't usually appreciate this until they injure themselves somehow.

<40-something lifter, out...>
> ...but certainly in my middle class life in the 1970's there was no money for buying teenagers a bedroom full of electronics.

While I'll agree with all the other responses that electronics have gotten a lot cheaper, I think there's another compounding factor. Back in the day, I think far more adults were dismissive of this sort of technology (or were personally unfamiliar to the point that they didn't see the value). So for kids, not having much money of their own, it was always an uphill struggle to justify the expense of any of it.

Today's adults were the kids from back then, and so are not as dismissive. So they do see the value, and are likely far more willing to spend the money.
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> So: When receiving a filename that is not UTF-8, one could just emit a warning and ignore the file.

The problem with invalid filenames is that doing anything at all with them might be impossible (without escaping of fixing). Your output (gui or terminal) most likely uses utf8, you can't pass invalid filename to it, so you can't even display it. Also in most situation you can't just ignore something. Imagine a text editor where user tries to open invalid file, how do you "ignore" that?

Many (if not most) application that process filenames do rely on those being valid text at least in some codepaths and they simply cannot work otherwise.
The proper solution is to fail and let the user fix the problem.
Staggeringly ignorant.

It's a mostly free system. Why is someone paying someone to do these "pointless" jobs".

Hint: the answer is this that is bullshit. Surprisingly, companies like nothing more than accumulating money. Paying people to do nothing gets in the way of this goal and so generally it doesn't happen.

This doesn't mean everyone personally feels their job has value and it doesn't mean there aren't pointless jobs in a large corporate environment but as a systemic thing, valueless jobs aren't exactly our most pressing concern.

Not every value providing task in the world induces the person doing it to instantaneosly reach nirvana because it is so wonderfully fulfilling. Many jobs are mundane. It doesn't mean they are valueless. Why would someone be paying them to do it otherwise?
Everything has to make sense financially. Currently, we have huge investments in transit going out to huge surface parking lots in the middle of single-family detached housing. Expanding this model of development is economic suicide.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/4/30/transits-chick...
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Have you checked out TomTom and Here too?
What does it feel like as it starts getting higher?
Keynes said that the government paying people to dig holes and fill them up was sufficient to escape a liquidity trap. He didn't actually advocate nonproductive work.
Yes. Every system call that can block should take an event queue argument. If you want the system call to block then the C library's stub should wait for it for you.
Is it available as open source?
An "inverse ad hominem" is called an appeal to authority[0]. I don't think gp was insinuating that the author's points were true because they are an academic, though. Only suggesting that they not be dismissed out of hand, and lobbying for more insightful commentary on hn.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
I can concur to your experience. I was knocked out for two weeks-to-month by overdoing strength, interval training and cold showers (~1 year), in combination with start up life; paradoxically sauna regime helped a lot (rigorous super hot 10-15 minutes + immersed super cold 2 minutes phases). Still, I was catching flu regardless. I also tried 3 days of salt-water fasting to reboot immune system; not sure how much that one did. Cold/coughing after a massive exercise was usually more bronchospasm/exercise induced asthma when I was not used to it. Lack of sleep was always a killer, I had 50% chance I catch some sickness symptoms when sleeping <5 hours within two days, especially when weather was bad.
We could do what every other country does and build a really good public transport infrastructure so they can take trains and buses everywhere. That will also greatly reduce drunk driving and help people who are very poor whose lives can literally fall apart if something on their car breaks and they can't afford to fix it right away (and then can't get to work, and then lose their job -- or they fix it and forego insurance, and then get in a wreck and then own more money and legal fees).

Cars should be an optional luxury, unless you intentionally chose to live in a suburban area.
My major source for all this was Marius Jansen's The Making of Modern Japan. It's a sweeping book - 600 pages, I think, and covers everything from 1300 to 2000 - but one of its main focuses is the end of the Sengoku period and the rise of the Tokugawa.
Wouldn't independent thought be more useful than proppping up some idea based on the credentials of the person who holds it?
Same with me during my peak running period last year; even when I was feeling ill or off, a run, albeit grueling at the time, always seemed to aid in my recovery (if only for the placebo of getting myself out of bed).

I really need to start doing it on the regular again...
I used NewPipe for a while and then switched to SkyTube - anecdotally I found it had fewer issues with higher-res formats and audio than NewPipe did. It uses the Youtube APIs though, so isn't as Google-free as NewPipe.

Anyway, worth a look if you just want to ditch the Youtube app.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/free.rm.skytube.oss/
I'm Canadian. It sounds like the GDPR affects business globally though.
Naval reactors have some design choices that don't make sense for shipping. Things like they can shutdown and restart the reactor quickly. A Submarine sometimes needs to get into max quiet mode as quickly as possible and then when the threat is gone get back up to full speed. This is obviously required for a war vessel, but for a commercial ship can use a cheaper reactor that can't be abused like that.
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This chain has made me curious; has there been any study of the negative health consequences of people's behavior with shoes within their living space? I'm not aware of any health concerns (major or minor) over such a thing.

For example, if such things were a worry then I'd be more concerned over my dog's bare paws while outside and his nonchalant attitude of not wiping them as he comes inside.
Product with more volume (especially routine like groceries) usually have less margin due to lower risk than those with low volume and higher risk (of not selling in the necessary time period).
I checked the link expressly to see if it had indeed come from the Enlightenment Project. If you want an easy way to try it again, I recommend Bodhi Linux, which packages Ubuntu fundamentals with a modified Enlightenment Desktop. It amazes me every time I use it. So gorgeous, and resource intensive (remember when Enlightenment was considered "heavy"? All the major DEs are far heavier now).
for me it wakes me the f up. It's strong like having drunk coffee or something. Results may vary of course, but works wonders for me and my focus during the day.

I know of an old woman who's beed ice-cold bucketing for years and looks great and hasn't been sick in a long time. Does this with -20C outside too. Yet I find I may get sick easier if it's too cold outside and I go all out freezing shower.
noblesse oblige - which can mean many things - but it often includes this.
Exactly my point. This market has winner take all type dynamics.

Consider the textiles industry. There are brands selling expensive t-shirts for nice profit margins. And there are a ton of t-shirt exporters that can probably barely string a few dimes together.

It's exactly the same in the smartphone market. There are ~50+ Chinese smartphone manufacturers that are barely profitable. They wholesale $20-$40 phones in the Indian market to stay afloat.
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You can also check out this routing service https://developer.tomtom.com/online-routing

It's affordable and uses live and predictive traffic
If the kernel (and SMB, and...) imposes these constraints, it's fine for the filesystem to not also impose the same constraints on file naming.
Oh, this is just OTP to log into my 1Password account. I was talking about merging something like Authy into 1Password.
> you'd use something higher-level than a filesystem (e.g. a database); those exist and offer sane semantics

In many cases they offer the exact same semantics (damn you, mysql). Also they store data in files, and those files have to be named, so... back to square one.
Yes, in German it’s more closely resembling as scheisse

It’s also present in “Schism”
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> DMCA is trivial to comply with compared to GDPR.

No it's not. Especially when you run a 'social' website like a forum, reddit, 4chan, Twitter, giphy, imgur, etc.
EFL are Enlightenment Fundamental Libraries - the underpinnings of the Enlightenment Desktop Environment. And the author is writing on the Enlightenment website: it's clearly intended for current developers/users of Enlightenment, who would probably know what EFL stands for. So it doesn't say anything about the author, who is writing for a known audience.
Irrelevant sidetrack: The word "literature" is also applied to music without lyrics. Try googling for "keyboard literature" or "violin literature", for example. In English, at least. Don't know about Swedish!
And I was sure they would give it to Archimboldi this time!
The following contains simplifications.

The shipping sector is squeezed by regulations and fuel prices. If you burn a tonne per hour and it costs a thousand bucks, thats about 8 million bucks per year.
If oil price goes up, shipping gets more expensive. Those with newer more efficient or alternative fuel using ships get hit less.

If oil price goes down, it is the opposite.

Regulations need to be predictable. Ship building projects take a long time. If you can be sure that your fuel costs will be high in the future, an investment in better efficiency will pay itself back in a shorter time.
It's clear that the US is much stronger from the asset point of view.

If one looks at real economy, however, China can basically produce almost anything they need, except oil and some advanced electronics (which they are catching up fast and might become self-sufficient within 10 years). The US can do the same in the medium term but it will take time to reestablish its manufacturing industry to cover all needs.

Both are basically self-sufficient if need be. There is no severe weakness in the real economies of either country (except oil for both, over the medium term).

> 3.) US gdp to debt is only around 100%

You mean debt to GDP? Yes for public debt alone, but the same figure for China is around 66%. Check out my post above for comparisons of various measures and references.
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There are a whole lot of pointless jobs in government -- they only exist because of excessive authoritarian regulations.
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I don't understand why Tesla bet on Autopilot. They're a small car company that's just getting started, why not concentrate on selling electric cars? That in itself is unique enough, the Autopilot feature is mostly a gimmick which adds complexity and liability. Even if they think self driving cars are the future they could wait until it can be bought from suppliers, or at least develop it in house without releasing it to the public until it's done.

To a lesser extent I think the same about Falcon wing doors on the model X, although that isn't a safety issue and they seem to work ok now. But the car would have been done sooner and cheaper if they had released it with regular doors, and I doubt the customers would have minded.
Also apps do get updated, and when they do they sometimes grow by almost a 100 MB. Repeat that X times, and the RAM on the phone turns out to be insufficient for larger apps of the new now.
Of course. If you promise "exec", then you're allowed exec. This allows pledge to be in software that otherwise would be impossible, for example text editors, and other shells. It still reduces attack surface, as the shell itself can no longer open sockets, or random device ioctls. The alternative is no protection at all.

https://man.openbsd.org/pledge

See also execpromises, which addresses your issue.
The article makes clear it's a "practical" tutorial for the purposes of EFL on common architectures. EFL is a set of mostly low level libraries underlying Enlightenment. Things relating to things that are theoretically possible (like 64 bit shorts), is irrelevant if it doesn't occur on the platforms they plan on supporting, while a lot of basic stuff won't be relevant because it's not likely to be something you'd use as part of those libraries.

I think most of the things you point would be valid for a generic C tutorial intending to teach C, but less so for a tutorial intending to teach the bits of C the author thinks is most important to be able to understand and/or contribute to EFL.
That is the kind of thing we are working on understanding right now, and research proposals into this (so-called "quantum metrology") are underway. Is it definitely the case that radio-frequency pulse sequences (related to those used in our work) have been used for extending quantum coherence and making measurements, for instance in MRI. (In fact, that's the kind of work that got me into this!)
> iPhones are available for $0 from most carriers.

In the US maybe. This discussion is about China.
> For audio production and mixing 24/96 makes a lot of sense though, because of dynamic range.

Obviously only the bit-rate matters for dynamic range, and a 16 bit signal has 96 dB of dynamic range. That is more than enough for even the most dynamic of audio signals.

A larger bit rate is useful for lots of digital summing as I mention here [1] and I assume what you allude to, but for most home applications nobody needs 16bit+ for anything other than improving their noise floor (which is still borderline inaudible at 16bit).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16995020
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Your understanding is more in line with OP

You must get a twinge of dissonance whenever people mention Knuth.

If dictionaries were the arbiters of all knowledge we wouldn’t need encyclopaedias /s
Creativity helps a lot here
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Honest question: how much of our work is not absolutely necessary?

It's easy to write a piece of software once and share it with everybody.

The product you are working on - what unique value is giving to humanity?

(I mean beyond "it pays the bills" and "it uses $popular_thing_of_the_year")

I believe we reached a level of productivity where - in rich countries - we are all keeping each other busy with loads of unnecessary work.
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I work a very productive job with direct outputs. But my job still doesn't advance humanity forward. My company provides a solution for problems caused by other entities, but it isn't a solution to some fundamental problem. Some days I feel as if the job is pointless because, in the end, I'm just a duct taper, even if I'm duct taping for an entity that is outside of my organization.

If you take the concepts in this argument and expand it beyond just companies (which the author started to do when mentioning armed forces counted as goons), I think we would see a society that is already filled with useless jobs.
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