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> I believe it's that powerful experience for novices that we're missing

I think we have more "powerful experiences" for novices than ever before, which is part of the whole attention problem. In the early 2000, we didn't have YouTube, Netflix, WhatsApp, TikTok, etc. where tons of teens spend many, many, many hours in nowadays. Those who got access to Flash found a sink for their free time and after just a few hours will have figured out the basic elements. Try to get kids to focus for just these initial few hours on their own, without them getting distracted on some other platform or immediately trying to find a YouTube tutorial, instead of just trying things and actually learning the tool, rather than copying whatever someone else is doing in a video.
This is incredibly serious, as this kind of fraud might have lured billions in advertising money to go to facebook instead of other platforms. It's a pity it was settled and we ll not know the extent of the fraud.
Investment means more jobs, more work opportunities for those who don't have any.

The point I was making is that having lots of small investors usually leads to more job creation than one big one because small investors tend to invest in smaller, less efficient companies. That inefficiency is actually good if you want more jobs.

Also, a billionaire buying a $100m yacht from a Korean shipbuilder is great for creating jobs in Korea, but it doesn't help much at home. Having a bigger middle class means more of the money goes in to the local economy. Another reason against individuals hoarding huge amounts of money.
Are single and childless people a myth to you? A lot of people are part of households that have substantially fewer than four members.

Also, frozen bread is an indignity that no one should have to suffer. Unless you are very very poor just pay the extra dollar and eat fresh bread.
Short discussion from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8341074

Even shorter from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15859854

Related though frivolous from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438970
Do you have orthotics? If not, you should look into it.
Ideally you want to correlate the metric with the dollar ROI. I have yet to see extensive reports on that about google & FB. It's crazy to think the amount of money being thrown at them willy-nilly
I'm not sure what you mean by the word "selfishness", but you don't seem to be using it in the usual way. "Selfishness" usually refers to self-interested action that is or attempts to be rational, not irrational action motivated by identity. Perhaps you mean something like "egotism"?
This has always been the engineer's problem with sales people. You have sales teams visit you from 4 vendors and they all claim that their product will best solve your problem. This means that at least 3 of them are not being truthful.
Maybe it was a common way of thinking about atmosphere back then.

I remember while reading up on the history of climate science, that Fourier found that the planet should be markedly colder than it is, purely from physics. Then calling atmosphere a blanket that keeps it warm. That must have been in the early 1800s.

So thought was moving in the right direction long ago.
I think I go through 3 eggs every 2 dozen weeks.
Whenever I get that error on my iPhone, I can just press the browsers reload button, and it works. (The reload button displayed on the page does not work)
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I don't doubt your expertise, and no doubt I still have a lot to learn, but I have to admit I find it off-putting that you immediately assumed a position of talking down to me.

It's not at all clear to me what part of my comment you are correcting.
It might be the result of a clever trick by Amazon, but it makes Amazon directly responsible for selling fakes. Even without this, Amazon should be taking more responsibility to fight counterfeit products, but with this, they're making themselves directly responsible, and I don't see how they're not criminally liable now.

Instead of hoping for Amazon to make this slightly less bad, I think legal action is called for at this point.
I loved this game on the SNES. And it was just some random game that was in the discount box in the shop.
> Self-promotion rules are relaxed because as an industry we're creators

That's a good point. I think there are somewhat many people who develop software or designs, and would post mostly their own things to a place like Reddit or Webwide — and get upvoted and appreciated by the community.
Strengthening every significant postural muscle all at once is probably the kicker with deadlifts.
The letter wouldn't necessarily be published, and it would likely still be edited. By having his own place to publish, we do know exactly what his words are.
Settlement is a joke.

It's definitely worth it for Facebook to cheat and break laws when the fine you'll get is just peanuts.
> One person hoarding massive amounts of wealth generates a much smaller number of jobs and opportunities than many people having a moderate amount of wealth.

Wealthy people do not store money in Scrooge McDuck cash vaults. It's all invested, which creates jobs and opportunities.
> The Steve Jobs market manipulation

It wasn't "Steve Jobs", it was most/all of the tech giants colluding.
I've worked on a number of renewable energy projects and these hold true for any scale. We can make turbines rated > 10 MW now, and solar panel production at scale is a solved problem. We're looking at logistics issues now, not at manufacturing, reliability or basic physics issues.

As for why wind does not need batteries: Wind power fluctuates on short time scales, these are not a good match for batteries. There are some interesting solutions to these problems that involve superconducting material (in actual production, not lab level stuff).

For solar with a 24 hour cycle batteries are much more important.
The selfish gene is a great book. I read it when it was about 15 and it really resonated with me.

Except the last chapter about f$%#ing memes. Hated it. It was like taking the core idea of the book and providing a cumbersome over-extended metaphor about ideas. So the colloquial meme is just as bad because it constantly reminds me of the original shit-house idea.

Climbing Mount Improbable was good, but I can't rate Dawkins' later work. The Extended Phenotype I found impenetrable, and I've tried reading it a few times. The God stuff ... omg, just please stop shouting about your Daddy issues.
No it wasn't. The US has a perfect place for nuclear waste that we discovered a while ago but politics made it be Yucca Mountain and that is not a good place. And then even worse becuase of politics the technical targets have been moved to absurd demands that make it utterly impossible to move forward.

The US has the right location and the money already stored, there is still the Yuca Mountain inpass as it currently required to be the selected site.

I think finding such a site in the first place is nonsense as in 50-100 years we should be consume that fuel anyway.
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Interview about the issue in german: https://netzpolitik.org/2019/interview-zur-finfisher-abmahnu...
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> That inefficiency is actually good if you want more jobs.

Inefficiency does not create jobs. It means you can't compete and you spent the money and went out of business.

> a billionaire buying a $100m yacht from a Korean shipbuilder is great for creating jobs in Korea, but it doesn't help much at home

Because of the way trade works, equal value flows both ways.
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Actually, I did the same (without having a MacBook on advance). The X1 can easily have a similar price tag (I paid 2400€ for 1TB,16GB,i7,X1 yoga). And the hardware is of similar quality.
Interestingly (or perhaps annoyingly) enough, the placement of the 0 was different in different countries. At least in Sweden the first digit was 0, and not 1 as in this implementation. This was reflected in the emergency number which was 90000 at the time, which is easy to dial without mistakes even in a stressful situation.

Is there a need for localization?
I never claimed it was a formal specification. The question was, is the meaning of (a b . c) defined, and the answer is, yes, because (b . c) is a list.
I took the parent posts to mean that step involved checking the project license, not its dependencies.

For the latter though, Fossology, Scancode etc. can help.
I can do every step on your list with any CI platform. I do something extremely similar to build apps for ios (macos), android (linux), and web (linux). I think it's so important that it's one of the first things I do on any project.

I wanted to give you an example, but it all seems so easy, I'm not sure where you're getting stuck.
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I think building modern reactors just stretches our industrial capability too far. Doesn't help that in the US due to de-industrialization there isn't enough skilled managers, engineers or skilled workers either.
I'm really careful with such judgments. Humans generally love their children. If it doesn't look like that, there are other factors involved, usually alcoholism, other substance abuse and mental illness.

Meaning: They would care more for their children if they had the energy and power to do so. And some of those will also rationalize their inability to spend the energy as not wanting to do it.
Yes, i agree that they were not invented for that purpose. I think most likely they were invented to make covertly funding U.S. spies abroad, without any paper trail, completely circumventing banking system, easier. It's just what they are mainly used now.
I moved to Mars! My family immigrated to North America soon after and I studied and worked in tech ever since.
Could one if your authors file a copyright claim against them? I assume you don’t want to yourself for strategic reasons, but you could help as third party do so. Or would the expense far outweigh the benefit?

Love your books. FWIW, I almost entirely stopped buying from Amazon 2 years ago in part because of issues like this. Canceling prime was scary and then liberating.
Are we doing enough to establish ethical AI?
Huh? Freedom of speech is for everyone regardless of their label.
1. Authors ignore how long it takes to bring a new nuclear plant online (>7 years).

Nuclear has been shown to be able to build fast and with massive scale. Faster then renewable by far.

The waste problem is really no an issue once you understand it.

Modern nuclear power plants and future nuclear plants can actually load follow quite well.

Efficiency does not lead to less consumtion, but rather more consumtion. That is a basic and well known fact.

Civilian Nuclear has a steller safty record and nuclear has the strictest observation of any industry.
Amazon should known which seller sent in the inventory. That they intentionally choose not to know that, is their own intentional mistake, and their abdication of responsibility that really should be theirs. They intentionally create a confusing situation that enables counterfeiters. They are absolutely, totally responsible for this mess and should have hurried to fix this a long time ago. That they haven't, means they knowingly enable and profit from counterfeiting.
Additionally Windows 10 has also introduced this option in Display Settings -> nightlight
The trick is letting it warm up to room temperature slowly to let the moisture it lost from freezing return. I mostly just toast my bread and I honestly can't tell a difference between thawed and fresh bread.
My business partner and I did our best to avoid getting caught up in this race to the bottom with our product. He was convinced we needed more followers on FB and Insta and wanted to target our effort there. We did. We tried and the figures just do not support it.

From all the figures we had available (sample size of 1 here!) we worked out that for every 8 sales we needed 10,000 likes of our product.

10,000 likes to get approximately 8 sales.

Not sure what the ratio of views:likes is but I bet it's 100:1 or something.

It's a full time job to manage people on social media but it's a total con: it takes masses of "engagement" (or whatever their bullshit is called) in order to get a sale.

I suppose it's the myth of the long tail marketplace: There's not enough business from it to sustain me but when you scale up to 100 Million business like me (none of which make much money) it becomes profitable for the marketplace owner.
That was my first game, played it on a 286 or similar in what could still have been the USSR (or right after it was gone).

IIRC, it had a PC-speaker rendition of Popcorn by Hot Butter as a soundtrack.

Still one of my favorite tunes!
Exactly, its to efficent. Switerland for example has a couple of plants, and once you build them you don't need to build more for like 40-50 years.

And because nuclear is so country-by-country you don't get global economics of scale.
> "3 seconds might be more than you need to get your message on your audience's mind though. I am thinking of the catchy headline, the picture of the celebrity of the month (with that particular brand of headphones or handbag), the coke ad, etc. That 45second of vid. that isn't played ? The first still is the message."

This can be justified only circumstantially; not everybody structures their social media material to be digestible in three seconds, and as such the term 'read' is misleading. If the criteria for what constitutes a read is not transparent and exact, then how do I know what exactly I'm paying for? Can I adjust it so that I only pay for reads that are at least 30 seconds long?

If not, then this cannot be justified.
I doubt Microsoft wants to toy with all those licenses from all those 3rd party products.

Microsoft DART works perfectly fine actually.
Like Amazon is intentionally enabling counterfeiting, Twitter's website is now intentionally broken. Somehow Twitter forgot how to build a functional website.
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Inefficiency does not create jobs.

Of course it does, otherwise jobs would never be made redundant when companies merge.
Global warming is also a huge issue. But there is no direct line between 'global warming is a huge issue' to 'we should therefore ignore the issue of nuclear waste and go all in on nuclear'.

The nuclear lobby is seizing on climate change to push through an agenda that would not stand a chance otherwise, and I refuse to have the wool pulled over my eyes. If we go into this we need to readily acknowledge the problem and budget for it accordingly. This will - at present, barring new developments - price nuclear as it is today right out of the equation compared to the alternatives.

Solar and wind have become viable alternatives, tackling baseload using them is still tough but getting better every day with new developments in short term storage and transmission line technology.
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I came here expecting to read about how Apple is (mis)treating their macOS lately or how Microsoft has managed to fuck up their windows update process, but instead I find a few good tips while building and numbering software.
It's purely a cultural construct. Companies, societies, families, organizations, universities, etc. all have different internal cultures that dictate the social behavior of those in the group. When a culture of diverse opinion is encouraged and supported by official and implicit policy, it tends to thrive.
We don't have any nuclear capacity to deploy cost effectively anywhere near a planning table. The reality with nuclear is that it is already more expensive than anything else out there while clean energy solutions are on the other side of the spectrum and dropping in price fast. That makes investing in nuclear a spectacularly bad idea. So, from a price point of view, nuclear is completely pointless and there don't seem to be any plans that don't come with multi billion $ price tags. Hence the snail pace at which new reactors are coming online for the last few decades. Many countries bothering with this do this for military reasons rather than cost reasons.

Also, what storage problem? This argument seems to pop up in a lot of HN threads where somebody just pulls this out of the head "We must do nuclear because OMG storage". Storage is an super easy problem with plenty of low tech solutions. You are confusing lack of demand with a lack of possible solutions. As demand ramps up, there will be gazillions of companies making good money using all kinds of creative plans to store energy.

Nuclear waste storage on the other hand is something most nuclear proponents don't like to talk about because it involves a lot of waffling about the fact that we've just been dumping it in temporary sites all over the place. E.g. France and a few other countries used to dump it in the oceans until people figured out that was a pretty horrible idea. Some countries still consider this a plan they can get away with.

Fluctuations in solar and wind happen (locally). But that's easily worked around by simply using cables to move power around. There's always wind somewhere and even with clouds, you still get some solar panel output. At 10x price differences you could just buy 10x more of them. 10x would be overkill. But just driving the point home that this is a complete non issue from both a cost and technical perspective. Storage is needed for short term fluctuations. The rest we can handle with overcapacity and interconnecting sites of production and some battery deployments.
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When the fine is that low it's not punishment, but the fee to get away with fraud
A lower right corner chat widget? There's Intercom and like 20 alternatives :- )

Or a discussion forum like Discourse or Flarum or Talkyard (I'm developing, see my profile).
Flying is boring when everything works well. I remember a story from a friend, a pilot of an airline that was going to sell all its aircraft of a model. 6 month before the sell, the preventive maintenance was reduced to only the legal minimum. In each flight during this 6 month, my friend has encountered technical issues (sometimes as severe as a broken reactor). IMHO, the role of a pilot is to keep a cool head to analyze faults with sometimes slight symptoms and find the right answers occasionally in opposition to the manual. That's also why I want the pilot to be in the same aircraft as me (no remote piloting).
Haha, strike commander. I legally purchased Strike Commander, but then pirated Quarterdeck QEMM386 because the game was not stable with the MS EMM386.

It was also either that game, or master of magic, that I had to use the Novell (purchased from Digital Research) nwcdex rather than the mscdex because the former used less conventional RAM, and getting the CDROM driver loaded while still having the over 600KB required conventional memory free was challenging.
For my feeling, per-passanger screens are relatively new. My first flight with such a plane was maybe 10yrs ago. If the screen space would become free for mounting own tablets, this would benefit most passengers.

By the way, the usual screens are very cheap. The retail price tag would be well below $300. This is a tiny fraction of the mentioned 10T$ per device.

I rather doubt that satellite internet can allow 300 people on a plane to stream their high definition videos from the internet -- technically, not even talking about the price tag. A solution (which is already adopted by some transportation services) is to offer access to some in-flight media server.
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It's going to be a real letdown if it's iPhone 8 size; we're so lacking in high-end (or even midrange) phones in a small form factor now. There's nothing on Android either - even Sony's Xperia Compact line is now much bigger than an SE.

You could fit a 5" screen on the SE form factor if it was edge-to-edge like the iPhone X, or you could keep the old SE 4" screen, make that edge-to-edge, and make the phone itself even smaller.

Illustrated: https://i.imgur.com/OKZiWrN.png
Hello HN,

Monitoro is a service I built to watch websites for changes, scrape data, and whenever the data changes send it to a webhook of your choice.

It started as a scratch-your-own-itch kind of situation where I wanted to monitor the prices for some stuff to buy, until I decided to make a product out of it to help others solve similar issues.

I am available to answer any questions you might have.
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Looks like on Amazon UK filtering for Prime (even if you're not in a Prime country) gets rid of the Global items, IME this is the only reasonable way to shop on Amazon anyway.

Amazon without the Prime filter is just Ebay with much worse prices and UX.
Yeah like browsers have had no security issues in the past 20 years...
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...which is what I strongly prefer (rule of law and all that). Of course, as others have said, on-device processing would be the best.
One of the tragedies of our failure to tackle GHG emissions is that now reasonable pathways to stay under 2C of warming require massive negative carbon sequestration after 2040, and at the moment the only way to do that is burning wood and capturing the CO2 emissions. The volume of wood which will have to be burnt each year is more than the volume of all international shipping. That is going to mean covering huge areas of land in industrial plantations which will probably damage wildlife further. Because we’ve delayed action, we’re entering into the teeth of a dilemma which will drive further mass extinctions whatever we do, either remove habitat for wood production for negative carbon, or accept high levels of warming.
Cool - better (I think).

Also, you have this:

> "It's easy to forget the occasional insightful post on Twitter ..."

That made me think your site somehow links with or takes content from Twitter. I'm starting to think that's not the case. If not, if you are in fact independent, you might want:

"On other social media sites it's easy to lose or forget the occasional insightful post, but on ..."

Also, you really should be using https. With LetsEncrypt it shouldn't cost anything except time, and learning how to set it up.
SVN revision numbers are the only thing I miss after switching to git.
Why aren’t they a well made match? Isn’t WASM “containerized”? Quotes are not sarcasm.
Isn't Steam full of games that would make Larry blush? I thought it was a mjor point of controversy. True they are not AAA titles, but it's not like the options aren't there.
+1 for Loom.

If you haven't played Loom, play it. It's a fairly short game, so not a huge time commitment, but very different and quite fun. Also, it is easily the best looking EGA game of all time, which is a technical achievement all in its own.
> But we'll never know, because our systems rely on popularity.

And on self-confidence!

I have worked hard my entire life, have written about 20 books, and have lived under the poverty threshold pretty my entire life. Why? Because I do not like to be at the center of attention. You do not even have to be charismatic (although that helps a lot). Just being able to be self-confident in the presence of people goes a long way.
I liked Json.org, another site by the author.