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The heating system is on all day, is it not? Why does the clock make a difference? I guess if you have no pets you might turn it down while you're not home but it still has to stay on some to keep the pipes from freezing.
You can enable localization on DDG, but by default it's off. Personally, I think that not tracking location is a saner default, but it is an option that you can enable.
From the standpoint of Google this is passing the 'grandma test'. They are catering to billions of users, of whom only tiny minority care about the full URL displayed; for most it's unnecessary information. The results look cleaner this way. It also slightly compresses the results so they can probably fit one more above the fold.

The Google way is to reduce complexity for the user as much as possible. This may be in contrast to what most HN users expect from a search engine (transparency and control). Google has been ignoring this segment as most use adblocker anyway so the cost/benefit appears bad, for now.
That means the company holding that credit becomes subject to financial regulation, which is complex and expensive. Plus merchants now have to integrate with yet another middleman.

The simpler solution is: no fees for small debit transactions, once the baking system is modernized the cost of a transaction is in fact close to zero. This is already the case in Western Europe.
Absolutely right I think. Getting feedback from users is surprisingly hard and it's important to show gratitude for it even when it's bad.

I've found it quite hard to get feedback even when I push out beta releases of an application specifically for gathering it. I think people feel that if it isn't working, that's just "because it's a beta" and they'll wait and see what the release is like before worrying about it.
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The bright side could be that it is a good side for democracy.

That thing we were protesting happened in the worst way, maybe you will pay attention now?
It's not. We currently do it in Canada for much of our oil and we spill it with so much frequency that it makes much more sense from an environmental perspective to use a pipeline. I'm still anti-oil, but if the oil has to come out of the ground then pipelines are better. Ideally though more investment in batteries, green tech, and nuclear would be favoured by policymakers than our current situation.
That's what happens when non-tech companies make products with fixed firmware, and don't back it with a commitment to upgrade and maintain it - almost SaaS like.

It's hard to go back to a regular (non-upgrading) car after driving a Tesla, for example. If some camera maker realises that software is just as important as hardware, and continuously upgrades one model for 5 years, including tight integration with apps, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Most of the US population lives in the suburbs, not cities: http://www.newgeography.com/files/cox-uza-3.png. It can take days for local suburban roads to be cleared after a snow storm. Rain is also a significant impediment to self driving.

“Most people” (the criterion specified by OP, above) will not buy a car they cannot drive during a snow storm or rain storm. Peoples’ driving might mostly be boring highway miles, but for example here in the southeast you still need to get to work during the regular summer downpours where you can’t see the lines on the road.
You might be more interested in how Quake's unlock keys worked - http://rmolina.co/p/qcrack.html
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And what effect does that have on energy prices?
The UNIX way.
Yes. This is the kind of company that helps create anti-vaxers and other problems. Snowing people into believing in astrology is arguably a force for bad in the world.
As far as I remember, GitLab supports rendering PlantUML diagrams.

On GitHub, you can use a trick to render the diagrams using the public PlantUML server, which works only is your diagrams can be public.

I have a script that renders the diagrams on a project which I run occasionally and it has worked ok for me.
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When I get the opportunity I have done exactly that. Despite being a natural night owl with dislike of mornings, I'd get in very early - 6:30-7:30 to get an early finish.

When I'm stuck with "traditional" business hours there's essentially no daylight outside of work hours, for a month or so either side of the equinox.
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> if the sun sets later

The sun sets when it sets. We are choosing what clock label to put on that moment.

Getting up an hour earlier and thinking of the same clock position as "later in the day" is exactly the same as using DST— except clock noon and solar noon won't be permanently misaligned.
Solar noon isn't really relevant to anything and it's rarely perfectly accurate anyway. Businesses etc. are never all going to agree to stop working on the time schedules they're used to. So, the most pragmatic option seems to be just "tricking" them and moving the clock so that we get more daylight time in the afternoon.
What about GMT year round? Shouldn't that be the healthy choice? Why should we keep up with dozens of different timezones? Just keep up with the time for sunrise, sunset and lunch in your locality.
> Note the comment that one way to check it is "by turning one's head briefly (risking rear-end collisions)".

If you rear end somebody while looking over your shoulder then you're going too fast and/or are too close to the vehicle in front. You should only be performing such maneuvers when it is safe to do so.
> I don't really buy using legislation. Alternatives exist and people don't seem to care to use them.

Google is engaged in using its market dominance in one segment to gain or maintain dominance in others, while suppressing the competition. This is illegal behavior for which Google has been fined several times over the past few years.

Just consider that in past Android versions there was a hard-coded Google search bar on the default home screen that you could not remove. Google has been forced to ask users and offer a set of alternative search engines on devices with recent Android versions. Same goes for Chrome and competing browsers [1].

Right now Google Search detects the Firefox for Android user agent and serves a second-tier search experience for Firefox users on Android. They have been doing this for the past 6 years [2].

[1] https://mashable.com/article/google-browser-search-engine-ch...

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=975444
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Of course it does, but the state's control is limited to outward behavior in monitored settings. Nothing can forcibly change our internal and individual values.

Every ban invites testing no matter the consequences. Counter-intellectual cultural engineering can mitigate inquisitiveness in the short-term, at the cost of leaving the state blind and vulnerable to disruption.
I hope the author pops in to point out that their father knows kung fu and see what you have to say then!
It's been posted on here many times, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6909711 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16233644.
It's getting harder and harder in general to get the raw source document for everything. Look at image search. You search for an image, and the search results are [not the original] thumbnails. Then you click a thumbnail and it takes you to a larger scaled down [not the original] image. Then when you click that it takes you to some image sharing site slathered with ads and chrome all over the page and another scaled down [not the original] image. If you're lucky, you can use some incantation of right-click and/or View Page Source to get the actual high-resolution original image that you're looking for. Total madness!

When I'm looking for an image, I expect my search engine to return me a URL with .png or .jpg at the end of it.
Why not use the natural Standard Time (yes, it is natural because it derives from sun dials), but make it mandatory by law that people can choose to get to work one hour earlier.

This would also solve the rush hour problem.
This argument is weaker than you think. You are asking every business to coordinate when they shift their working hours. Across industries, even.

That is exactly what we have right now. With almost certainly less legal writing to coordinate. Definitely let for people to remember. "Is this the week that stores open later? All stores?"
My dad was recruited out of college to write code. Upon showing up for work, he was told they’d ordered the computer but it wouldn’t arrive for another six months. In the meantime, They’d arranged time on another computer (one of only two in the state) so he’d spend the day writing and then he and another guy would load up their punch cards and drive an hour each night to load the other computer and test the code. At one point they had an intern managing the hundreds of cards representing the software they were writing. They came in one morning and he joyously informed them he had decided it would be better to sort the thousand plus cards by color.
They can foresee it, the risks are probably built into their cost-benefit analysis. The cost is small so they just don't care.
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It's incorrect to assume that the existence of signature validation would kill this use-case.

Similar to how the existence of HTTPS does not kill the ability to transmit data over HTTP and visit sites with no certificate or a non-trusted certificate.

It could be as simple as a pop-up saying, "this QR code is not validated, continue anyway"?
There is nothing preventing someone from decoding this message. Sure it's a bit of a hassle to reverse-engineer the isomorphic function but there is nothing secure about this. The cheat codes are not encrypted, they are obfuscated.

Wikipedia defines encryption as "the process of encoding a message or information in such a way that only authorized parties can access it and those who are not authorized cannot."
It will just go onto trains and trucks which burn oil to move oil, and are much less safe. I'd much rather see the externalities priced into fossil fuels through carbon taxes, ramped up incrementally over ten years. Let the market work its magic once the real price is apparent.
The bay area city I live in is going through the initial process ["community input"] of replacing//updating some playground equipment at the park nearest to where I live. The proposed updated equipment is supposed to be "all inclusive" for kids in terms of age and ability. About a week ago there was an opportunity for neighbors to "choice rank" the top three across each the different types of equipment by example pictures: top three slides, top three climbers, spinners, noise makers, swings.

To me the current equipment seems fine but the city is claiming "end of life" and I have no objective reason to doubt.

What I did notice is that the current equipment is made of materials such as wood and rope with some plastic. The new equipment will be primarily plastic and metal. I wonder if splinters have become the Great Evil for Junior since I had cause to attend a swing set.
Cruise does just that (in SF).
”It has dual MMUs”

What are dual MMUs good for? One for kernel code and one for user-mode code? (Does that mean less cache flushing during context switches?)
Nice project!
Please correct me, but it looks sugarkube is mainly focused minikube or for cloud (e.g. kops/etc), right?
We chose Ansible as our primary focus is on prem, and setting up linux vms parameters, for all machines in a cluster, and Ansible sounds like a fit.
For on prem "consumable" clusters is what we also do (that's why the project accepts any size, from 1 vm cluster to thousands vms clusters).
We should look into sugarkube for AWS cluster activities - Thanks for sharing!
Analytics inside libraries is the sort of thing that if HN finds out about it you will get death threats.

Even if you want to help not everyone wants you looking over their shoulder.
Look, if you want to hold up the mans work as an example of good art then at least make an effort to read what real experts thought. To make some strawman claim that his craftsmanship cannot be matched does no favors to you or pollock and it’s simply not true. Art is easy to forge and pollock is certainly easier than to mimic than Goya or Rembrandt.
Dunkin’ and Starbucks are in a race to make the fastest espresso
I’ve always found it funny when people who smoke, drink, overeat, etc. complain about how bad the time change is for their health.
Hookworm (like other parasites) can be a pretty serious public health problem. It’s great that hookworm is way down in the USA, and tragic that it still affects 400+ million people around the world, and makes many of them anemic, causes brain problems, etc., especially since (from my understanding) it is pretty easy to treat with medication.

I’m curious to what extent the decline of hookworm in the US South can be attributed to better sanitation and healthcare and increasing urbanization vs. footwear per se.

On the other hand, poor people in the US South now have a shocking rate of obesity (in some places >50%), because they now spend little time walking around outside, spend much of the day sitting, and eat an unhealthy diet (probably not an exhaustive list of contributing factors). From what I can tell the public health impact of pervasive obesity can be just as serious as parasites like hookworm.

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If someone plans to live in a tropical rural village somewhere that people habitually defecate outdoors, wearing shoes might be a reasonable precaution. For most people reading this website though, being barefoot isn’t going to harm their children.
Nice to see some diverging (from mine, granted a narrower pov) and informative opinions on Astricon.

The content of the development tracks was a bit lacking in the first day, save a couple - the spooky stories were great and one of the subjects was something I faced weeks ago. the second day improved a bit, but we expected some more in-depth usage and... less Kafka.

but Jesus those donut sandwiches. And the salmon. I hope to get chosen to drop by next year if my boss feels like it'd aggregate to our knowledge base. this year, it kinda didn't - except making us realize we were on the right track in some design decisions.
Ciao mahesh, I do not know many people who is interested in computer science or networking here in Milan. Would be a pleasure to have a chat :)
I think it's less about an arc of history and more of an extrapolation. We use technology to advance things that benefit us. Getting people addicted to things benefits the people who sell those things. Hence, they will use technology to advance addictiveness. Since technology advances exponentially, addictiveness will then also advance exponentially. We are hitting the fat part of the technology curve, so maybe the fat part of the addictiveness curve is right behind it.
Don’t forget expensive compute rack in the back. The retrofit probably costs multiples of actual car itself.
My read also. This is a parlor trick at best.
Google accelerated science, fiber before it was spun out into alphabet, the medical diagnostics part of Google Brain, the quantum computing group, Chromebooks, ATAP (the group that partnered with Levi's to make a jacket), ...

There are a lot. And there have been more that were cancelled. As I said: Google-the-search-and-advertising-company is one of the most successful companies of our time. It's astonishingly hard to replicate that success, which is probably why we don't see Google other units with equivalent revenue. But it's really not for lack of trying.
I suspect most serious photographers don't care about geotagging.

If by "serious" you mean "studio," then you're probably right.

But there are plenty of "serious" photographers that find geotagging very useful. Newspaper photographers, travel photographers, scientific photography, etc...
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Yep. But ultimately what's at stake isn't just a few extra bucks for the host with a spare room or ADU in their back yard, it's the whole AirBnB business model.
That's a little different. You often don't see the full URL on a phone because the text box isn't big enough, so it gets cut off. When the browser doesn't have space to show the whole thing, displaying the most security-relevant part (the domain name) makes more sense than blindly truncating the end off it, even though doing it the dumb way is how we're used to text fields working.

Designing for small screens is tricky. You can still get the whole URL easily.

You could send email but it's just going to come off as badly informed, unless you show that you understand what they're trying to do and still disagree.
Those are two genuinely useful things, without the hardware API issues of the others.
For those opposing pipelines, you're fighting the wrong battle. It will just go onto trains and trucks which burn oil to move oil, and are much less safe.

Some would argue we shouldn't be using oil in the first place now that we know the true cost. And those people are right. But when it comes to disincentivizing oil, I'd much rather see the externalities priced into fossil fuels through carbon taxes, ramped up incrementally over ten years. Let the market work its magic once the true cost is accounted for. People will switch so fast to greener alternatives it will make your head spin.
I have been using WebSequenceDiagrams [1] for years. Love it. It is declarative and simple, and works really well. The syntax seems similar but not the same as the OP article.

In a readme's or wiki page for an epic/story I often usually use a copy of the diagram image, with a link to edit the text/markup, or the text just in a collapsed wiki element. Though there are now also plugins for Confluence and more I believe.

[1] https://www.websequencediagrams.com/
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The consumers of Google are advertisers and they have other choices.

Users also can easily go to another search engine. Why sue Google because users decide not to go anywhere else?
DDG should seriously drop the infinite scrolling on their results page. It's so annoying, even Google tried it once and gave up on it.
Because Keystone is in the name, and the keystone XL pipeline has been on Canadians, and Americans minds for about a decade now, that's the only reason this is getting attention right now. the proponents for pipelines will see this as a reason to finish Keystone because they believe that it will be safer. Others will argue that a larger, newer one will only increase the risks of a larger spill. It's been a big talking point in Canada more recently with the Trans mountain pipeline as well.
Is the contributing back part actually happening? To me it seems a lot of the cloud stuff takes open source code and puts a proprietary wrapper around it.
On Google for me, the link is missing. Google also does this fun thing where when you click on the link it invisibly changes in the background to a Google-wrapped URL.[0] If you right-click on the link and select "copy link location", you won't get the result you want, you'll get gibberish.

So it proves that you can use DuckDuckGo to immediately get the link with no fuss, and that Google Search is increasingly not designed to facilitate that kind of interaction.

[0]:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
There's some expansion that can be done on that third option. Even if I'm not very invested in a project, I'd be happy to mention a bug if it were easy to do. But my experience has been that, if I report the bug, I'm going to start getting asked for details about my system, and asked to try a bunch of things to try and sort out the reproduction steps, and possibly even have maintainers getting frustrated with me if I don't want to fix the problem myself.

Consequently, my unofficial policy is that, for an open source project, I'm generally not going to bother to report a bug unless I'm also planning to fix it myself.

The author is right, though, being super up-front about welcoming issues might help break the ice a little.
But you get that hour in the evening. In the morning you're home and then you go to work or at work (at least for most people), so you don't really even use that hour of sunlight. If you're at work like most people you might not even see it.

In the evening you can enjoy that hour and be less depressed.
How is Google stopping users from using another search engine?
SVG doesn't have an intrinsic resolution; that's determined by the rendering device. The SVG could be incorrect, but I don't think you can blame plantuml for your device rendering at inadequate resolution.
Advantage in terms of security vulnerabilities - evidence seems to indicate that having the source code available isn't a big factor in reducing zero days. In addition, signal isn't any more protected against a rooted device.

Nothing seems to indicate a back door here.
Thx. I will take a look at those.

What I would like is way to specify start and end row and column number of nodes. That way it would be more predictable and changing the relations of two nodes does not cause everything to change.
I've only read the beginning of that Tweetstorm, but it looks like a transposition cipher (which is considered a form of encryption). Even ROT13 is encryption, despite being trivial to break; a diary lock which can be picked with a paperclip is still a lock, it's just a bad one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposition_cipher
Last year I got a chance to ride in an autonomous vehicle by a Waymo competitor in San Francisco, in and around Market Street.

It handled every situation as well as or better than a human would, including trash bags in the road, a truck driving the wrong way down a one way street, and numerous unpredictable pedestrians.

It was that day that I was convinced that we would have driverless tech by 2020, and the only thing that would stop it would be laws and regulations.
So basically after a few decades of using the Internet, we're now at a place where we are willing to stop using some of the most famous services we're accustomed to. Strangely, those are mostly owned by Google and Facebook.
So instagram gets attacked for spying on its users and they get attacked for not spying on its user?

This is the problem with those who rant against social media's invasion of privacy. They also demand these social media companies spy on users more.

You can't have it both ways.
It sounds a bit like the opposite side of the customer acquisition cost versus lifetime value.

Traditionally if you have a high user lifetime value you can spend more money on getting more customers by increasing your marketing spend so your CAC (customer acquisition cost)/LTV (lifetime value) stays at a good level. So you can keep a good growth curve.

In this case when your ltv is negative for each issue because of low quality, or simply too many of them then you make it harder for new issues to come in, which should ideally result in fewer but higher quality reports?

I have a question mark in there because I did not spend a lot of time considering this, but I like the thought.
Thanks! Solid answer/source too, I appreciate it.
But I couldn't help but think that Google really doesn't want me even going to the actual URL.

I've stated this before, but it bears repeating:

Google does not make money from you finding what you're looking for.

Google only makes money from you hunting for what you're looking for.
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This project sounds freaking cool; wish you were hiring Philadelphia or remote devs.