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> I'm mad with a chip stop working for unknown reasons because it was designed to.

I understand that you're angry about your HP printer not working, I also agree that the 'protection' measures in printers are ridiculous, especially on ink cartridges. I also agree that planned obsolescence is terrible for the environment, as are business models like those for inkjet printers, where the device is given away for nothing just so they can sell you overpriced ink refills.

I was just pointing out that sometimes it makes sense for replacement parts to be really expensive, even more than the original product, and that enforcing a law that would prohibit such practices would be counterproductive, not to mention that it would be very hard to implement in practice.

For one, how do you even calculate the real value? If you'd have a device that is intended to last a long time (as we would all like), say 20 years you can't just take the amount of dollars you paid originally. You'd have to take into account inflation, changing plant and labour costs etc. This would quickly get messy, and, IMO, would not produce much final benefit.

Having said that, I think we're on the same page, I would also love to criminalise making products that are designed to fail after a certain amount of time.

But this is also super hard to legislate. For example, how do you tell malicious intent from bad design? If my car becomes uneconomical to repair after 100,000 miles because the chassis starts to rust, how do you know whether the manufacturer designed it that way to sell me a new one quicker, or because they made a mistake?

It's easy to tell when they specifically program a microcontroller to stop working after a certain date, and I think that such obviously bad practices should be outlawed. But as a design engineer, I can tell you that it's super easy to design things to fail in much subtler ways, so that it looks like it's a simple mistake. Especially since making your design last longer usually involves adding features like strain relievers on cords etc. This costs money, and you can easily pretend that you're "saving costs for the end consumer".

I think that, after the most basic right to repair legislation is in place, "soft" practices, like encouraging people to buy stuff from companies that have real warranty programs, and which advertise their "built to last" business models would be much more effective than trying to legislate away every aspect of repair.

I love how some outdoor equipment companies (Osprey, MSR, Cumulus) handle this. They sell really expensive stuff, but with excellent after-sales support, and openly encourage people to send products in for repair. Of course this would be very hard to implement in a "tech" environment, where the USP is usually "newer, faster, better". Although, as Bunnie Huang said, with the slow-down of Moore's law, we may slowly be reaching the point of a "heirloom" laptop. I'd love to see that one day.
Not a huge yard by any means.

Heck, now that I’m looking, it is overpriced.....
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NUMA isn't a feature, it's a design compromise. Ideally every line of memory takes the same amount of time to access. But in large complex designs, you can increase performance for some memory at the price of lower performance for other memory, aka Non Uniform Memory Access.

(These chips do exhibit NUMA)
By that logic cars shouldn't have to abide by crash safety regulations. If you want a safe car, buy a Volvo. Everyone else can drive deathtraps that burst into flames if they're so much as dented.
Not disagreeing, but aren't classified and brokers and apps like apartments.com already a liquid 2-sided market? If what you are saying is that they create a liquid market for short term rentals where that didn't exist before, then I agree but again I think that is a lot less liquid when regulation gets applied.
It mitigates the simplest forms of phishing. If someone is running a proxy server[0] and passing everything along to the real website, token (or SMS) based 2fa can't do anything.

[0]https://breakdev.org/evilginx-2-next-generation-of-phishing-...
Yes. That's a "private equity" thing.[1] Blackrock can borrow at lower rates than homeowners. So they can buy up houses and rent them out at a profit. Plus they can keep raising the rent. And they outsource maintenance.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/singl...
>People blame C= for the downfall of the Amiga

>but Motorola abandoning the 68k line was a much bigger factor

The engineers had plans going forward. C= just didn't allow it to happen. They scrapped everything.
> Also, a house is a great inflation hedge. Rent goes up with the market. The mortgage stays the same. Property taxes and insurance can go up.

It's actually even better than that: if inflation goes up, you pay back the mortgage with cheaper dollars than you bought it with. If you're expecting higher inflation in the future (and it hasn't yet been priced into interest rates) a house is a great purchase.

The flip side is that if you get deflation (say, an economic recession hits and a lot of people in your area lose theirs jobs, possibly including you), a house is a leveraged asset, and you can quickly lose everything. As many homeowners found out in 2009.
Interestingly, I've come to the opposite conclusion. More regulation is the only answer to many of these problems.

It would help if there wasn't a party trying to self-destruct our country every time they get power.
Reliability.

Whether one cares about that is one's own tradeoff.
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It's another example of the high cost of being poor. The rent on my town home is several thousand more per year than what a mortgage (5% down), taxes, HOA fee, PMI, and home insurance would be.
It can only be a personal attack by its very nature, no matter how politely you approach the topic.

If existence is a harm in itself, then it immediately follows that giving birth is unethical, unless you reject any notion of free will.

If you do the latter, then antinatalism and pretty much any other school of philisophy becomes moot since there are no agents around that can make decisions or change their thoughts.
It's being worked on: https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/issues/716

The fundamental difference here is that HTML needs to know what class to instantiate when it sees a tag. Supplying that unlocks a lot of power, like custom elements in the main document, Markdown support for free, easy integration with existing CMSes.

We can and will solve the single namespace problem though.
U.S. Suicide Rates Are the Highest They've Been Since World War II
Which is fine; it's just in conflict with the application-hostile behavior of registering shared library functions with atexit.
Absolutely this. I love playing this game: When someone asks me about doing something, I like responding with, "What do I want to know?" or "What am I going to ask you?" It trains them to start anticipating your thoughts and needs, and eventually to your thought processes and decision making.
Laptops also often have a secure enclave now, so they could be a second device. Chrome on TouchBar MacBook Pros supports U2F this way.
AT&T lays off thousands after getting billions in tax breaks, regulatory favors
It depends on how toxic the rest of the organization is.

I've worked at places with a healthy culture (very little shielding was necessary) and I had awesome, close interactions with end users and the business side of things.

I've also worked somewhere where the culture of the executive team was bad and my manager (who was awesome at shielding things from the team) left.

This lead to close interaction with people who will insist that 7 different things can be the #1 priority for a single person. Or executives who repeatedly make people work nights & weekends to hit an internal deadline only to find out the internal deadline is weeks earlier than the client's actual deadline.

In the latter org the more time went on the more I missed my shielded ignorance of the rest of business's demands.
It’s clearly increasing the price over what it would be. Just because X is affordable does not make X + a little bit more affordable.

So, now you not only displace people from that location you want the displacement to casecade across the rental market forcing large numbers of people to have a worse commute and or pay more in rent. Perhaps some people could possibly have a major problem with that idea.

PS: You can actually just search locations on Airbnb it’s rather concentrated magnifying this impact.
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Trains: We just open sourced our platform to manage ML/DL models and experiments
I hate to sound so cynical and negative, but, God, this article is really just a case study in how stupid, materialistic, and short-sighted many Boomers are.

That generation was raised on the idea that happiness comes from owning as many things as possible. They've had decades to learn — like the generations after them did — that this is nonsense and that happiness comes from connection to family, friends, and community.

But, instead, some segment of them still build giant empty monoliths to consumerism out in the middle of nowhere and then get surprised when they discover that they are still old and approaching death and that they still don't feel good.
Why maintain it when you can pack it with junk.

(what I've seen way too often)
This does a a good job at showing the huge number of people protesting in Hong Kong: https://gfycat.com/relievedcornychrysomelid-timelapse
Silly question but, looking at

> the bees not having enough honey to survive

can you give bees honey they didn't make?
I'll talk to the team to see how they feel about LaTeX, it is well documented but some people have bad experiences with it ...
It does look like a good fit as a solution though.

thx for the info.
They left out one other opportunity: they purchased the 0-days from a broker or company like Zerodium. The cost might be worth it to them if there were high, perceived odds of getting in.
Because it causes massive unsustainable externalities when that business model is applied by many firms across the economy as a whole?

The only reason that manufacturers can get away with planned obsolescence is because they don't have to pay any disposal fees to recycle/remanufacture their equipment. If they took a hit to their bottom line every time a consumer threw out their product, I'm willing to be they'd design products to be a lot more durable and repairable.
Nobody cares. The OS use some part for the FAT table or whatever equivalent thing, the USB may came with some "free" program to have a fancy ico (why?!) and other stuff like that. So 64GB means more than 60GGB or something.
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> When people live and work in a city, and if they cannot or do not want to buy a property, they are looking for a rental agreement that typically guarantees them a place for a year, and is renewable.

I had to stop here.

1. It is not always the case but that person (fortunately) has the freedom to choose another location.

2. Guarantees don't really exist unless you are talking physics theory and even that sometimes surprises people.

> much more money is to be made with Airbnb, because people who are staying for 5 days pay rates that are was higher than the typical yearly rental fee for the same place.

You made my original point. This transaction is a win-win for both parties involved.

The rest of your argument centers around stifling this transaction to subsidize an artificial-non-sustainable market.

Yes, this effects real people in real ways but they need to take _personal_ action and do what's best for them personally instead of effecting change on the rest of the area.
Good points. I'm the author of the simple book theme. For more book theme alternatives see the https://github.com/bookdesigns repo that includes a jekyll copy of the "famous" (old/classic) gitbook style (see http://bookdesigns.github.io/book-git ). Another project I started a while ago is called octobook that lets you - surprise, surprise - use jekyll for (online) books, see https://github.com/octobook and https://github.com/geraldb/talks/blob/master/octobook.md Anyways, you're right all book themes still a work-in-progress.
Ensuring accuracy of README code snippets
Interesting! Did you make sure there aren't any writes happening in the warm disk cache case, even for things like atime?
> Customer safety is always Apple's top priority, and we have voluntarily decided to replace affected batteries, free of charge.

Cool!

> Service may take 1-2 weeks.

Wait, what?
I remember when Youtube comments were tanks and stickmen.
> Flow supports the upcoming `?.` operator and overall they seem more open to introducing features that are in a development phase

It's funny because Typescript started out by trying to get ahead of a lot of features and "settling down" to trying to stick to (mostly) only TC39 Stage 3+ features has been a maturation that has been good for the language. It's interesting that Flow seems to be moving the other direction.

A benefit to making it easier to pipeline Typescript inside Babel is that it is no longer entirely on Typescript to transpile every possible wishlist language proposal. This is also why a lot of people preferred Flow because you could just slot Flow checking before or after certain transforms. Typescript is getting better about fitting into the middle of a Babel transform stack so that you might have some basic preprocessing steps of Stage 2 or earlier or non-standards track things that Babel supports before type checking.

(The Optional Chaining proposal for `?.` is currently in Stage 2 in TC39. Indications seem to be that at least some of the Typescript devs are ready to champion that feature in the very minute it hits Stage 3.)
What the article elaborates on is different types of prohibition. Sites blocked by the Great Firewall of China are, generally, not prohibited to visit. Otherwise this study conducted in China would have been illegal.
Here are memory-safe network services on Linux with smoltcp and an optional switch for running multiple userspace network stacks:

https://github.com/ANLAB-KAIST/usnet_sockets
→ Socket library for Rust using smoltcp as userspace network stack (provides types compatible with the standard library, tokio is unpublished WIP)

https://github.com/ANLAB-KAIST/usnetd
→ Memory-safe L4 Switch for Userspace Network Stacks (firewalls the kernel network stack, see Ideas section for alternatives, e.g., transparently piping the kernel network packets through smoltcp)
It's similar to how you'd conclude no one was using Uber from reading the equivalent threads.
Think about it: managers are only something other managers create.

Nobody wants a manager.

You could be such a swell person, but nobody wants to work under somebody unless it's an apprenticeship.

Therefore, the best manager is one you barely know exists.
Just speaking purely secularly without getting into religious issues: antinatalism seems like a position that leads to untenable ends if you just follow its logic. For example, if you're really strict about antinatalism, you should be in favor of intentional nuclear holocaust of all life on earth, because that would get rid of the problem of babies being born into life of suffering. Surely you don't hold such an extreme view, though? Neither would you advocate that everyone ought to promptly commit suicide personally. Would you advocate for forced global sterilization?
If you pay a ransomware ransom, you can't be assured that they're no longer present on the network. There's the possibility that they ransom the firm again or cause further damage. The firm would have to run a full set of incident response regardless of paying the ransom or not.

I'm not saying that Baltimore is handling the situation correctly but there would be costs well above the x hundred thousand dollars the ransomers would be asking for either way.
As a fan of office-based dry comedies (The Office, Dreamland, W1A, etc), I'm curious if anyone has watched the show? If so, would you recommend it?
Yeah, it looks like they switched over to desktop chips around 2017 (they still use laptop memory though -- except for imac pro).

An i9-9900K has a 95w TDP, but Anandtech puts the real load number at around 170w TDP. I've seen people undervolt these down to around 110-120w in the 4.7GHz range. I imagine Apple's dynamic undervolting and custom motherboard can shave 10% or so off that total while their dynamic undervolting can go much lower with fewer cores and lower frequencies. While even that isn't going to make their tiny cooler keep sustained loads from throttling, it could get much closer.
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A tangent, but a true "appeal to authority" would be using the fact that someone is an expert on a subject as the evidence for the assertions. I don't think merely mentioning that you or your source is an expert of a subject is necessarily an appeal to authority falacy.

In this case they provide their opinion and then provide the reasons and evidence for their reasoning.
> I also saw that this is a direct listing and not an IPO.

A direct listing is an IPO. Underwriter's are not a requirement, as Spotify profitably demonstrated.
So what you just claimed here is that adding more supply attracts more demand. With that logic by removing supply we reduce demand. So Airbnb would be reducing demand, especially on infrastructure since part time residents don't use the most expensive infrastructure ( schools ).

Also there are cities where housing prices have stayed in check, and generally they have done it by building more supply. Here is a ink to a graph that show the difference between Dallas and Atlanta and San Francisco ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=oe8E ). For reference Atlata had over twice as many new units constructed per year as San Francisco with half the population. This is why I say denying the supply side fix is dishonest. There is no reasonable measure where what you claim about supply attracting demand is true.
Google+ implementation was also particularly bad. With plenty of bugs in the frontend. Like it was a pain to use and wasn't pleasant to look at. And no one understood what a circle is.
Agree. However the fact that E2E with perfect forwarding secrecy is not guaranteed is going to be an issue.
Armenian has large Hurro-Urartian influence, so many armenian words are not related to the Proto-Indo-European, and there have been ancient migrations from Anatolia to Britain through Iberia https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47938188. Of course there doesn't seem to be enough evidence that the languages are related, but the hypothesis is not trivial to prove false either.
The enforcing entity here is the central bank they both have accounts with. If a customer of Monzo sends £10 to a customer of RBS, then that money never leaves the central bank, and both records are just updated. But the total amount in the central bank must still add up to the accounts of both Monzo and RBS, otherwise there is a discrepancy.

The settlement process through a central bank is a way of ensuring that banks dont need to literally send truckloads of cash to each other at the end of the day.

Monzo says to the central bank, "today I sent RBS £1,500,000", and RBS says to the central bank, "today I sent Monzo £1,200,000". So the central bank just debits Monzo's account with them by £300,000, and credits RBS's account with them by £300,000. The total amount in the central bank remains the same.

So, sure, a bank could claim they sent less money to another bank than they did, but eventually the numbers wouldn't add up, and it would trigger a bucketload of auditing, likely resulting in revocation of banking licenses, and legal issues for both the bank and people involved.
Those cases tend to have full-size GPU support. You can find smaller cases for APU usages, like this one: https://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/Mini-ITX/101/SC1...

But you can also find Mini-STX boards like this one: https://www.sapphiretech.com/en/commercial/amd-fs-fp5v which should then fit in something like this: https://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=708&area=en

You can also find some very small Mini-ITX cases on things like aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32994653418.html?spm=2114.se...
If this is indicative of the depth of your knowledge about government atrocities, I suggest you stop. Worse would be to talk about reeducation camps, or organ harvesting. It's meme-like at this point and has no bearing on reality.

Things that actually happened: rural protests, corruption, razing houses by eminent domain, medical malpractice, even some obscure musician being blacklisted, things that can happen everywhere but happen with "Chinese characteristics" in a more volatile way because of the lack of rule of law and due process, often ending with violence or curtailment of basic rights. But these are not as trendy and nobody really gives a shit about how Chinese people live, people just want to feel morally superior.
Manually? Interesting. Out of curiosity, why not just make it a static, no-js webpage then?
a lot of the comments on HN are anti Chinese government and sometimes anti Chinese.

It's not just an HN problem. I think there's a real danger of anti-Chinese Communist Party sentiment fanning anti-Han Chinese people sentiment.
To people think public transit negates taxis - public transit in stops around 12am/1am until about 6am.

If you're trying to get home in those hours taxis are your only options. Many people that go out at night just sleep on the streets, its pretty crazy!
It's important to let your employer feel that pain

Unless you're hourly.
Maybe the + doesn't mean what we thought it meant.

Google + Evil
atexit is really just for small programs; it should really be called only from the same source file where main is located. The code smell increases with increasing distance from main. If it's in an adjacent source file which is an inalienable part of that program, it's still okay.
It's one thing to get annoyed by waste and consumerism, but "actively maintaining a beehive" seems like a high bar for caring.
> Time Warner employees with the nursing flaps in their shirts.

I had to look that one up: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15ij62 (3min)
I know that too (I know when Reagan was prz for a start), but Trudeau was not there in the same capacity as before - ie Prime Minister.
I can paint the walls in my apartment and we have several free BBQs as well as ample event and leisure space. I also live within walking distance of all the shops and restaurants I could want. And I have easy access to public transportation.

Leaving my boots out isn’t worth half a million dollars and my spare time. I’m not muddy often enough to even consider where I leave my footwear. I worked in agriculture during college. It was literally never an issue.

My bicycle is in a secure storage room near my car and motorcycle. A security guard checks on them regularly, even when I am out of the country.

I have hobbies that I pursue outside my apartment. I even rent a garage with a friend for one of those hobbies.

Why does home ownership have to be made easy for most people? From where I’m sitting home ownership and “the American Dream” appear to be incredibly wasteful and not particularly appealing.

There’s a long list of things I would rather do than home improvements, regardless of how easy those improvements are.

Can’t we all just make the decisions that are best for ourselves?