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> Second, I want us all to make a Climate Code of Conduct.

Some thoughts:

1. Climate Code would be a second code for most conferences. Would it be the last, or should we anticipate conferences in 2022 needing 4 or 5 or 6 codes addressing various issues?

2. Will attendees be required to affirm & agree with the climate code (as they’re asked to follow the typical CoC)? If so, what do you do with people who disagree that conferences tracking their “food-miles” is of critical importance to averting climate catastrophe?

3. These codes of conduct will presumably dictate where resources and effort should be allocated to combat climate change. These resources are limited, meaning if you put resources towards tracking food-miles, you’re not putting them towards something else. Who will decide how to allocate these limited resources to achieve maximal ROI in terms of combatting climate change? Will it be a global team of PhD climate and political scientists, or a bunch of unqualified randos on a google doc? If the latter, how can anyone reasonably expect such a group to come up with a sensible plan? Assuming imminent climate catastrophe, it would seem the consequences of misallocation of resources would be dire.

I understand that people feel very passionately about this subject and see this as an end-of-the-world, holy crusade sort of subject. However, treating things as holy crusades will typically lead to bad results, such as virtue signalling taking the place of meaningful work & alienating people who don’t hold the same opinion. Let’s think carefully before we add another layer of moral bureaucracy to our professional community.
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People kept saying that apple had to remember the tech crowd. This looks like a good start.
Depends on how you define "the problem". Homelessness is a symptom of several other things widely considered to be problems.

If you limit the problem to "some people who want a house don't have enough money to afford living space qualifying as a house", then broadly speaking market solutions are possible because we can assume these people participate in the market via their "demand" and their ability to "supply" something in return. Obviously there's an active debate on many market issues here, whether around too much market regulation (eg NIMBY), or too little market regulation (eg minimum wage).

However, my understanding is that there is mounting evidence that the homeless population is composed of people who have either no demand for a house ("free spirits") or no ability to supply anything to the market (mentally disabled). Obviously in these cases the market is not very useful, and only functions insomuch as those outside of the homeless population include it in their "demand function".
Freedom of speech is certainly not universal today and depends on the laws of a country.
It says in the article: "A leafy green suburb of Helsinki"
And only $129 for the 4" wall mount.
No names? I’m not sure where to start.

With Microsoft there were clear injured parties: Netscape, Samba, WordPerfect, and those results created a chilling effect around Windows.
I'm hearing that the LG displays were running out of stock, possibly in anticipation of a new Apple display. Sure enough...wait a minute, FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS?! Oh, I understand it's a reference-quality, blah, blah, blah, but I just need something to replace an aging Cinema display that was originally $1000. The fucking stand for the new display costs that much (note the audience response when that price popped on the screen).

So if I can't buy an LG, what do I buy for less than a couple grand, Apple?
I would love to see a heat map of the chronically homeless. I'm very willing to bet that it is heavily clustered and this also goes into why people talking about homelessness often talk past each other; realizing that the problem is not "the homelessness problem" but rather geographically distinct subproblems would go a long way.
> being advertised to at every possible moment is the price we pay for our societies' current modern development

It's the opposite - advertising is a parasitic phenomenon, leeching talent and resources that could otherwise be spent more productively, and what we get in return is an information environment skewed to make us spend money, and a landscape marred by this visual cancer.

But ads are in no way a fact of life we have to get used to - they can be defeated, or at least kept at bay. Some cities have banned them: http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5338
Sure, right until they start applying it to people who are born and raised there and don't have the resources to travel and start lives somewhere else.
I mean, keep in mind this was 8 years ago.

Not sure why they had them printed out - could have been to review them, could have been for intimidation.

IIRC they asked her why she had changed her FB location to the American city she would stay in for the next 3 months, asked a bunch of questions about past posts in the US talking about helping build our home, buy decorations, etc (all as proof she was intent on overstaying her visa, which was vaguely ridiculous as we had applied for a fiance visa at that point, so she was pretty clearly intending on living here, but we were also pretty clearly intending on going through the legal visa process)

Also asked a bunch of questions about some posts she had made seeking design clients in the US as proof she was working here illegally (even though she owned her own design business and paid taxes on it in Europe, obviously are allowed to take on US clients, but they were sketched out that she was soliciting US clients while in the US)

They questioned her for about an hour with no access to phone/lawyer/etc and gave her the option of immediately voluntarily leaving the US. At the end of the process they told her that it would be the last time she could enter the US on an ESTA and next time it would have to be on the fiance visa, they also told her verbally she had to leave within 14 days, but they still stamped her for a 3 month entry as per regular ESTA guidelines.

--

It was mostly a bunch of silliness about work/residency/intent to work without a work permit/intent to stay in the US without a visa even though all things were aboveboard. The most concerning to me remains that her facebook at the time was not in any legal name, certainly not the name the passenger manifest, but she was still obviously tracked down
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What else can you get for $3k per year?

I was seriously thinking about revisiting the days of my old G5 cheesegrater, but once I saw the price... I just can't justify it.

EDIT - I just thought about it some more. Apple is saying this is modular. If they support this thing for 5-10 years, allowing for upgrading the CPU, etc. Maybe it can pencil out. I want to know what socket that Xeon is, and if Intel will keep producing chips for a long time on that socket. If Moore's law is dead...
As I commented on their own comments section:

The only graphic in this article is "city shrinkage", which is then conflated with water age, which is then related to water problems. But I suspect these things may not be as linearly connected as the authors imply, specifically because of factors like the chemistry of incoming water, as exemplified by the Flint situation.

Also, water systems can have vastly different flow rates, pipe sizes, and other parameters that influence water age, not just population change.

So, is there better data? Can we actually show a relation between city shrinkage, water age, and water problems? If this data exists, why wasn't it presented? If this data doesn't exist, why is a relationship suggested?
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They could have just charged an extra $1000 for it, but if you want to use a VESA mount you shouldn't have to absorb the cost of the stand.
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Seems like the missing discussion is what GPUs Apple will suggest people pop in all those PCIe slots. Without working with Nvidia, their potential will be somewhat limited... I am still using a dusty old 2010 Pro, but I can't upgrade to Mojave without getting rid of my Nvidia card, which so far hasn't seemed worth it.
$200 for the Vesa mount. Oof.
You could hear the crowd gasp when they listed $999 for the stand.
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Not saying you are incorrect, but I got the impression from your comment that 377A had something to do with the initial UN action in the Korean War, so context for anyone else that got that impression:

The UN involvement in the Korean War was authorized by Resolution 83[1] and Resolution 84[2] and the votes were held while the Soviet Union vetoed the security council because China's seat was held by the ROC, not PRC. 377A was a way to prevent vetoes from blocking future action in that and coming conflicts.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci...
The one guy better not sleep.
If I have to get off the bike at most of my intersections and turns, I might as well take a bus, because I'll get there faster.

It might make seem to be reasonable to have these protected lanes for slower? cyclists in addition to allowing vehicular cycling, but there are two problems with this: a) it encourages car drivers to assume bicycles should not be in the lanes; b) it discourages cyclists from joining the flow when they're ready

As a cyclist, I'll gladly use separated infrastructure if it's fit for the purpose -- limited use trails that go where I want to go are great; separated bike lanes on big climbs are great.

Separated lanes that don't allow me to turn where I need to are unusable. Separated lanes that throw me into the flow of traffic from the right of parked cars with maybe 10-20 feet until the intersection where drivers are going to stop on green to turn right onto a crowded street are a death trap.
Definitely lots of truth to that. The goal to riches is just finding a niche thats big enough to create a software company for, but small enough that someone like salesforce won't show up and crush you.
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It really looks like some people does not have the minimum idea about the magnitude of the concerted misinformation campaigns. Tang is the first one that offers effective ways to counter attack these efforts. This is the best article that I read about the subject. There is a great menace to the democratic world. Everyone should take it seriously.
The 4k LG display was updated/rereleased: https://9to5mac.com/2019/05/24/lg-ultrafine-display-review-2...

The 5k LG display is still MIA and there isn't a competitor. (and as someone who bought a 5K LG display on release, I'm surprised that's still the case)
Why? Apple doesn’t vet apps for privacy or security. The API surface is what affects these.
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Is it really that hard to imagine? There are a significant number of computer users out there who want to do things like use Facebook, check their email, order stuff from amazon, do a bit of web browsing, watch a bit of Netflix, read a book… a tablet covers those use cases in a form factor that’s a bit more convenient and portable than a laptop, and with a bigger canvas than a smartphone.

I get that they might not fill a niche for everybody, but it’s not hard to see the use-cases, right?
What happened with Honeycomb?
Does this apply to g suite paid products too?
Some would say the major asymmetry is that the United States is a developed economy, while China is a developing economy. China has been able to develop by attracting foreign investment, based on its low wages and good infrastructure. However, China doesn't want to get stuck in this low stage of development, and wants to actually develop domestic companies that can compete internationally. Completely opening up the internal market is not necessarily a good way to achieve that goal. Most developed countries got to where they are now with the aid of protectionist policies. Toyota wouldn't exist if Japan had completely opened its market. GM, Ford and Chrysler would have strangled Toyota in the bathtub.
Problem is, today I agree, 10 years ago it would've been a tossup, and 5 years from now, who knows? These "trusted central broker" privacy models are nicer than giving your info to dozens of individual actors (when you trust that central broker more than anyone else), but they also become a single point of attack/failure.
Riding a marathon course after the roads are closed, and parked cars are moved, but well before the start of the race, is an absolutely amazing experience.
You could hear a gasp in the crowd when they listed $999 for the stand alone.

Apple is certainly pushing themselves up-market with this one.
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Interesting, innit. Is there any downloadable info on HN voting patterns over time, per article or per comment?

It would make an interesting project to have such an aggregate over time.

When I see certain types of comments I check the poster's previous posts. Not so uncommon to get a long trail of obvious bias, often in the form of crude criticism of the US. Some members on slashdot, they could hardly be more obvious.
Yeah, it doesn't break anything. It just reveals that it was already broken.
I live in Salt Lake City and we were doing a pretty good job with this approach. Unfortunately, a change in the police chain of command and in the local government led to scaling back of the housing program and a switch to a more traditional model (arrest, choice between jail or rehab, various support programs, housing at the end if you make it through all that).

This new system (which is really the old system come full circle) is much less effective as is clear to anyone who walks around the city. We have a beautiful public library downtown, which is completely unpleasant to visit because it has turned into the place where the homeless stay during the day. About half the times I go I see someone either being arrested or in active withdrawal.

Like most social problems, the solutions are simple, but politically hard to sell, and even harder to maintain once they've been put in place.
> If the App Store is forced open, say goodbye to privacy and security on iOS

There are shades of grey between "Apple takes 30%, gets to reject apps for any or no reason, and gets to auto-install Apple Music in competition with Spotify" and flipping the App Store to the Android model.
I usually don't like libertarian solutions but this is not a bad idea given the United States' inability to solve the issue with their current tools. Right now we're very inefficiently running a couple of slightly better but very constrained in throughput homeless shelters instead.
I still don't understand the already-existent gestures on iPad.
iPads still don't have a calculator app? I find that baffling.
They probably didn't involve a huge amount of VC investment though.
Exactly the question I had!
It is non sense that Apple hasn’t added calculator app to iPad after all these years.

Just avoiding the confusion and disappointment of customers should be enough for them to do it but they haven’t done it after all these years.
What personal attack? I expressed doubt and a willingness to be corrected. If you can name another “vandal” party who you’ve spoken out against, or even another party you are aware of then I will stand corrected.
There is definitely a phenomenon of checking for prohibited email domains. However, absent extra-functional motivations like user data collection, smart developers don't bother with heuristics for email addresses much beyond the presence of an '@' character.

If you want to know if a purported email address is deliverable, try to deliver email to it.
Eizos are outstanding. You can find pretty good deals on used ones with good color space coverage.
The find My tracking, and activation is very worrying.
Cellebrite makes devices for forensics, and they make devices for cellphone stores. This is the latter. Definitely not interesting.

It's like saying "I found a Diebold fountain pen, can I learn about ATMs from it?". No. It's not the same thing.
No information on whether the iPad Pro keyboard is fully compliant in terms of arrow keys, etc. This really gets in the way of things like Cloud 9, hosted VS Code, etc.
The live stream I'm following jokingly mentioned the stand is $1000 extra (is that true?).

Yup, it was on the screen and the presenter spoke the number without even cracking a smile. Must have practiced in the bathroom mirror for hours to pull that off.
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The number of people traveling to conferences is tiny compared to the number of people who travel for lesser reasons, like vacations or soccer matches.

Hence, it makes no difference. I love going to conferences and don't feel guilty about anything.
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You should do a separate thread of "Show HN".
These LED grids are bright, often animated, and distracting to other drivers and cyclists. Cities and DMVs should regulate their use.
As other comments have noted, it gives rise to the new problem of the proliferation of stale, incomplete, or otherwise incorrect data.

Google Sheets, on the other hand, is truly compelling, and a lt of the work I've been doing lately has been using Sheets and Apps Script to build really powerful "apps" on the super-cheap. This is the stuff we used to do with VB years ago, and it would take weeks. Now I can get at least a PoC of a fully multi-user system in front of a client in a day, and they don't pay anything to host it.
The company that did not deliberately remove the phrase "Don't be evil" from their values.
The person describing the stand said it generates lots of heat so they need to put a (fancy looking) heat sink on the back. If you take their advice and chain 6 of these to one Mac Pro, what sort of heat output do you get?