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> When you have more than one - it is entrily possible they will end up going to different schools and after the school one of them had to go to the music shool and the other one to his hockey team or something etc etc. You simply can't do this without a car.

In a city designed for walking and bicyling, you can do that by bike. And once they're old enough, they can do it on their own bike.

Of course the city needs to be designed for that. In a city designed only for cars, you're going to need a car for everything. The big issue here is: how do we want to design our cities?

> now imaging you have two of them going to two different schools, each 40 minutes walking distance from home, different directions and your office in somewhere else too.

If they're going to two different schools, most likely one of them is going to secondary school and can ride their own bike, or one of them is going to a special needs school and gets picked up. At least, that's how it works around here.

In any case, I don't consider 40 minutes a suitable distance for walking: take a bike. It's only a few minutes that way.

That said, my wife did insist I get a driver's license when we had kids, and I did. I rarely use it, and certainly for moving kids around the city, a light cargo bike is more practical in Amsterdam.
I can imagine some skepticism, so thought I'd share some of the theory behind why we released this free tool.

Hopefully we all know by now that high-performing teams depend on psychological safety: people need to feel safe to take risks in order to do their best work. What we talk about less is how to cultivate psychological safety.

Psychological safety depends on a foundation of trust and belonging, but unfortunately these aren't static. They need to be constantly renewed.

It has been shown that starting group activities with an activity that encourages vulnerability will renew these "belonging cues" and will change the dynamics of the meeting. People will be more likely to speak up and discussions will be less win/lose. This will allow you to get the most out of the rest of the time together.
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It's a chicken/egg problem. No one is going to develop mass-market services that require users to have a gbit internet hookup if there are hardly any potential customers. Which leads people to think they don't need gbit internet because there is nothing that requires that kind of speed.

Just like there was no need for most people to have >10Mbit internet without the likes of Netflix or Youtube existing, and no way for those sites to survive if everyone is using a 56k modem.
"Very elderly" != "older" (folks).

People of all ages vary in their IT abilities, and IT abilities are obviously what matters in dealing with issues like backup.

There's just no reason to bring up age at all.
Yes! Takes me back to the mid-90s when my then 12-year-old daughter would point out things on my computer screen BY TOUCHING THEM drove me NUTS!
I have the same experience with running adwords. All I get is signups with fake email addresses that never log in. They are obviously bots or mechanical turks. I've tried tuning the keywords and regions, but eventually gave up on it. I have spend hundreds of euros on adwords, it created good traffic but almost no conversions.
It's not like the current system allocated wealth well. Every system redistributes wealth (including the current one).
Big companies have many blind spots. There is nothing new here.
Is Pizza Hut still considered fine dining these days?
Some of the best experiences I've had playing Minecraft have been with a bunch of friends in the same room, getting drunk, and just building whatever we felt like building.

But in general, imo, almost every game is improved with split-screen/local co-op.
Blows my mind that non-compete clauses in these trivial instances are legal and actually enforced. Let's not forget that humans created these laws, and humans can change them.
Most likely nothing will happen with respect to these large companies because generally speaking prosecution only happens when the company's status as a monopoly negatively affects the consumer (allegedly). The criteria is usually price of goods/services. It's possible this might include things like privacy violations or data mishandling in the future, but I doubt it.

There's a DoJ memo, or something similar, that spurred this recent-ish change in policy but i can't seem to find it.
Hey, I wrote the blog on that (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/) so I appreciate the desire ;-)

ETA...sooner than you may think, but not Today!
> ... that does not mean you can castigate the motives of anyone who disagrees with your policy recommendations ...

You are literally midway through castigating her opinions based on an assumed motive. That isn't quite hypocrisy, but it certainly isn't a shining example of how to live your own advice. I hope I'm speaking for more people than just myself when I say you should aim for a higher standard than "not quite hypocrisy" when you disagree with someone.

> Reading more of your comments in this thread, and in our interaction prior; I've determined you're an extremely bitter person.

If you want to promote healthy conversations this lead in is not the way to do it. Your comment mixes a rather arbitrary character attack in with a reasonable point on moral language; and the mix is unpleasant.

Labeling people, even with positive labels, based on flimsy evidence is no path to dialog.
Steins Gate is probably the closest answer to this (in which the time travel mechanism can only send back information) and is my favorite time travel mechanics system. Timelines diverge into their infinite possibilities but in self consistent ways. That is, some timelines can only exist as a result of information received from other timeline’s future; meaning the past is dependent on the future of a different timeline which won’t play out, but has added a sort of immutable constant to the first timeline.
What are these settings he's referring to? Genuinely asking - I used to run into this issue _all the time_ and even if it's not a default I'd love to toggle some flags and get a responsive system even under low-memory situations
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I have $FIRSTNAME@$LASTNAME.me. Not only do I get people being like "...dot me ...dot com?" when I speak it aloud, I've actually encountered one municipal government whose email address validation _actually rejects it_. Thank goodness I also have $NICKNAME$LASTNAME.com, although that has its own problems ($LASTNAME[0] == "Y" and $NICKNAME has a common hypocoristic form ending in "y", so people sometimes misread it as ${NICKNAME}y$LASTNAME.com).
Ooh, how about this?

1. Point a camera at a surface (be it a piece of paper or whatever).

2. Write/print a word on that paper and use CV/OCR to parse it.

3. Detect when a person has pressed on that word and exec the command specified by the text.

Instant macro pad?
The people OP is talking about are ones who are not computer literate. Those people can be of any age. There's just no reason at all to related it to age.
This was quite interesting on the economics https://voxeu.org/article/britain-s-eu-membership-new-insigh...
That screen will first delete all the items. It just issues the api calls for you. The amazon web interface is built on the API. It can’t do anything that you can’t do via the API.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_the_shorter_term
... Wealth redistribution is essentially theft, no matter how much you like it

Start Blaming America's Poverty for the size of its government.
Ah but if he hadn't done that we wouldn't have gotten the classic "I'll take a chip.... AND I'LL EAT IT!" line which really couldn't be more critical to Death Note.

On a more serious note I don't think this is trying to say the show is wrong for having these mistakes just that the character could have done better and thinking about how is fun and allows you to examine just how much information leaks from seemingly benign sources.
Reality is indeed more complicated than you and I can fathom, which makes it ironic that there is always a knee-jerk reaction to tragedies, usually by politically opportunist leftists who want to take away guns and free speech. The reality is that these were individuals who allowed themselves to be taken over by demons. They willingly forfeited their own sovereignty. To what degree society is culpable is unknown, and large-scale attempts to curtail the devil, performed with an impetuous lack of prudence, serve only to make him stronger.
I believe they call it the tick-tock-tock-tock-tock-tock cycle; shrink, microarchitecture, optimization, optimization, rebranding, rebranding.
This is a project share, not a YC pitch
Well known video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ
This seems purely driven by profit. Retrofitting cell towers has a ROI that is inverse to density of customers willing to pay (broadcast distance is limited). Whereas if fiber has already been run and good Ethernet cables already laid, increasing total bandwidth for wired connections has a cost ~proportional to paying customers.
Yes, they figured out a way to get something similar for 1% of the price.
There have also been cases where families were threatened with/by CPS for letting their children outside without supervision. It's good to know that attitude is not universal, but it does occur.
How well do you think this concept will scale to bigger code bases and bigger production tools like photoshop?

The next step up has been pushing ML/DL/AI to do more sophisticated tasks and that means more sophisticated tools.
The United States has bilateral copyright agreements with a number of nations. So... probably most of the whole world, but the actual reality is complicated. So complicated, in fact, that the number in "a number of nations" is not currently determined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilateral_copyright_agreements...
Then you need a physical keyboard with which to make noise.
Webcams don't have memory, so they can't have latency. It's all in the software. In fact, I've done some apps on Linux that just did readout of the frame from the camera sensor to ram, and displayed the buffer on the next framebuffer flip with zero copies. There was no perceived latency.

It just takes some work.
Depends what you’re emulating.

Instead of emulating the OS, you could emulate app by simulating the I/O network traffic.

PayTV pirates did this with smart cards: just replaced the entire thing with a chip that knew what to respond for each challenge/demand.
Really? They can't join a Barclaycard with a checking account because the former was opened through the internet and not from the store (Their words.) Plus they don't allow installing the Barclay's mobile app if you are running Lineage OS and openGapps despite passing safetyNet. Last but not least the web log in process for Barclaycard is security theatre. Split into 2+ steps but all knowledge based, ie still only 1 factor but annoying to use.
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Even then the browser would still need to know to which websites the user could share. The user would first need to select websites and services they want to use.

In the past, desktop browsers kind of tried to provide such features with the concept of the bookmarklet [1]. The idea was that users would drag&drop a link to their bookmark toolbar to add functionality to their browser. I think it is still used by some Read-It-Later style collection services, but mostly has been replaced with browser extensions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet
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Your description of your company sounds like it might be more of a transfer pricing issue than an antitrust issue. If the companies all have their own tax situations, then transactions between them need to be "arm's length" so that income isn't shifted from one company to another without the proper entity paying tax on it. That's generally the reason for companies under the same umbrella charging for things.

I think you're on to something about the competitive advantage that comes from those fees though. Matt Levine (who writes for Bloomberg) often mentions how odd it is that it's illegal for, say, two plumbers with their own companies to get together and agree to set their prices higher, but it's perfectly legal for those same plumbers to form a company together and then set their prices wherever they want. What's "anticompetitive" for two individuals is ok for a firm, unless the firm gets too big... It definitely makes you wonder if the definition of too big is actually set too high.
I concur with the sibling comments. I had 30Mbps and it was "good enough", but I know have gigabit at home and its reached the point where its actually quicker for me to work from home when dealing with large production database dumps and trial-and-error Docker pull and build than it is to work at the office.

Its simply a case of when you have it, you find ways to use it, but boy is it one of the small pleasures in life to do a dist-upgrade in about 15 minutes.
Looks like Yotako...https://www.yotako.io/

Whats the difference? Yotako seems to be in the deadpool though...havn't seen anything new in ages. Hard to scale this stuff.
Do it at night with a mask? Basically 0 chance they would catch you
So I was expecting one of those sensors that can turn a TV into a touchscreen with like an IR sensor or something so I checked this wondering how they were so cheap.

I was delighted to see this is so much better. Figuring out touch events from the reflection is really cool. Well done.
I did click tracking on major Canadian websites such as Sportsnet.ca on these buttons (and everything else); we found that they're very rarely clicked and removing them would mean a completely insignificant change in the number of shares.

People do of course share those articles, but they don't seem to look for or trust web page share buttons. Even I rather copy/paste the URL into Facebook myself while on a desktop/laptop, or use my browser's built-in sharing functionality on a mobile device. This is all anecdotal but also based on data from hundreds of millions of page views.
Is the need for immediate usefulness of a free product a form of proof? I mean there is a lot of free crap out there, so are you trying to make a quick judgement with that? Why not the same demand of a paid product?

I think I see where you're coming from, but not sure.
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Depending on the customer, that could still be helpful. I've worked with people where you can ask them very specific questions over and over and get nowhere - the only way they're capable of moving forward is if you give them something you know is wrong so they can look at it and say "No, it needs to X."

It's annoying to do, but if you can automate producing the initially wrong product for review it'd be easier.
Well, so far the US only designated China as a currency manipulator. No actual action followed about that designation.

My take is that is just a way to pressure China to accept other measures (like increased tariffs) for now.
Sorry, I missed that -- cheers!
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You'd still have to compress the nitrogen going one way to zoom, and pull the nitrogen against air pressure going the other way. Focus motors powerful enough to do that, plus including movable airtight seals to keep the nitrogen inside, would make the lens a serious chunk bigger, heavier and more expensive.

The dust that gets inside from breathing while zooming rarely affects image quality to any meaningful degree. Excessive humidity can lead to fungus growing on the glass though, which really can ruin your contrast. It's normally good enough to keep your lenses in a box with some silica desiccant during summer to prevent that.
This is an excellent point. People talk about the important network effects of SV, and that was definitely material before the Internet made distance less relevant. But however much information flows through copper wire, investment doesn't, because VCs expect people to come to them.
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This isn't quite true. Cheap drones may not have this capability, but controlled, safe landings of quadrotors with a single failed motor have been demonstrated, see this ETH Zurich video from 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek0FrCaogcs

Obviously there are still other single points of failure such as the battery or controller, but at this point there's no excuse for crash landing a commercial drone just because a single motor (or rotor) has failed.
> Memory allocation is special.

I think the Zig lang treats it as special, therefore making you write code that handles the case that a malloc fails explicitly.
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You don't believe that refactoring truly matters?
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Ask HN: Is anyone else disappointed with the new companies coming through YC?
Not trying to offend anyone, but I honestly feel that some of the new companies launching in the last few YC batches are really meh. I will be the first to admit that I am obviously biased towards tech companies, but does anyone else feel the same way?

Some examples:

https://getbinks.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19320608 (The Juggernaut)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20615760 (Compound)

https://www.hellorevel.com/

Again, this is totally subjective, but these feel like really different companies compared to older batches in times of Paul Graham.
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Roblox is like the internet in its flexibility and its lawlessness. My 3 sons have ipads and play together but in a restricted time setting. My oldest (10) started playing with lua scripting and all 3 like to create on roblox studio. There will always be weirdos on that but it's part of life and you must parent and educate them that people are sometimes evil morons but its something they all love to do together and in some sense its making them more prepared for the online world.
You might be able to do something like this automatically on Linux at least. You can have a job that asks the X server what the title of the focus window is, which in the case of a browser will include the name of the active tab. In the case of a terminal, your prompt_command can set the tab or window title which would also get caught. Emacs can set its own frame title if you want that too. Etc. etc.

I suspect Hammerspoon on OSX could so something similar.

Pretty sure something like this exists for X11. If not, it would only be a few lines of shell code calling out to xlsclients, xwininfo, etc.
Netflix probably didn't change. Even if you pay extra for their Ultra HD mode that will fit down 30Mbps without trouble. If you have kids this upgrade should mean now your family can watch 3-4 videos at once even in Ultra HD.
There are non-convex shapes that don't have undercuts. I think convexity implies that you don't have undercuts, though.
For native apps blacklist default emulator MSIN and similar attributes (and let the cat and mouse game begin).

For mobile web various fingerprinting techniques are available. As a fun (and quite irrelevant) example, you can immediately tell chrome, safari, firefox and node apart just with:

atob('Ψ')
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How is that different from new shooters? In Fortnite, PUBG, Call of Duty etc you also start from 0 in each match. Leveling up gives you cosmetics only.
okay but like which generally happens in countries with are level of development? definitely the paramilitary reality, not the "rise up" against government reality.
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One of the most rewarding things I've learned in the past few years has been how much better work can be when you really get to know your co-workers. Our team uses a team-question like this to start every day and it's helped us tremendously.

A startup is a rollercoaster. I totally feel it: the ups and downs. The healthiest way to cope with that volatility is to build a bedrock of trust between the founders and the rest of the team.

It might seem silly, but doing the work of asking and answering questions like these are the best way I know to develop trust.
Those books would have been in the public domain even before 2000.

One of the good things about the 1976 copyright reform is that the copyright was simplified so that figuring out the copyright status merely requires you to know the death date of the author instead of trying to track down if various procedures were formally followed (I'd have preferred that it be a fixed term to make it even simpler, but it's still a simplification). To give you an idea of how complicated the older status can be, the copyright flowcharts that you see are basically a manifestation of "was this work copyrighted as of the copyright act taking effect?" (e.g., https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain). Eventually, when the copyright clock ticks down on the intermediate period (and assuming no other copyright acts get passed to retroactively lengthen those periods), the determination will boil down to "death of author plus 70 years, or 95 years from publishing, or 120 years from creation."
That's the crux of the whole problem. The government passed unpopular policies and tried to morally "correct" its people from the top down. It seems most people gradually caught on and normalized those changes, but it isn't surprising to me at all that some/many didn't. I'm wholly on the side of civil rights, but lately I wonder about whether the experiment of using the federal government to try to bring together a big landmass full of people who too often really despise each other along ideological and/or ethnic lines is failing.

Here we are talking about curtailing free speech because the majority can sometimes be wrong and evil, which sounds fair, but that raises the question for me of whether constantly doing things that most people don't want in the name of social progress will create a stable society. I wish I was wrong, but I think not.
> Forums like 8chan and 4chan effectively incubate hate speech by providing a safe space

The simplest view is that these safe spaces mostly exist because some larger platforms have been turned into safe spaces. However, even on larger platforms, these types form insular groups that are effectively walled gardens within a larger ecosystem (see T_D). The mode of operation appears to be to rally behind safe spaces, then brigade larger platforms when something catches their attention. No real discussion, just bombarding text.

It's exceedingly difficult to have honest discussion with those of opposing views because people reward themselves with safe spaces and tend to expect them. Ideally, we could rely on rational discourse to assuage the extremism issue and inoculate. If we shout them down in a given arena, they'll scurry away but never disappear.

As I see it, it's a problem of scale. On smaller vbulletin forums you'll more likely see heated, but honest, debate there without any brigades nor bans (depending on modship). A rainbow of opinions. With platforms as large as reddit, censorship is holding all out shit shows at bay.
Even if some of the yeast is from ancient strains, I wonder if it's really feasible to get a mix that's representative of what was in those containers 4,500 years ago. Shouldn't the population be changed by the selective pressure of being starved and dormant for that long (i.e. the ones that can be revived might be a small minority)? Or for yeast, is chilling for millennia no big deal?