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The oil and gas industry might well go bankrupt in the next decade as investors start to anticipate the huge cost of running declining businesses (with declining yields), and account for the trillions of stranded assets. Also, government will ask these companies to pay for the health and environmental cost of all their emissions. The insurance industry will also refuse to support them at some point. Why expect such a failing industry to provide these services?
The posted article is by 3blue1brown (Grant Sanderson) himself. Where the article says "Early in 2019, I published a set of three videos about Galperin’s result..." the link is to the playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMalCO_AXOC... of which the video you posted is the second video. IMO, it's best to watch all three (or at least the first two) together :-)
Relying on private organizations to act with integrity isn't going to be easy, I think. For public options, I'm skeptical as well, they are very mixed in my perception, some are doing good work, others are little more than very expensive mouth pieces for the government. Subsidies for private companies might be a way, but that will undoubtedly get gamed and you end up needing a large bureaucracy to counteract that.
Tangential question: do trains produce fine particulates where their wheels meet the rail? I.e. is it bad to live near a train (or subway!) line?
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Honestly this is such a weird growing expectation. I don't think it's what people want anymore (they did previously) but companies are riling this up, they are making people expect more and care about trivial things to justify their existence and increased pricing. There's simply no single day I don't get by without seeing, care about the experience, it's all about the experience, it's all about how your literal USB cable makes someone feel about themself, etc in startup eco chambers.

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The German Wikipedia says that the idea it was being used to humiliate musicians is a later one:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schandfl%C3%B6te

Translated by DeepL:

A pranger flute was a medieval and early modern pillory instrument for the execution of honorary sentences.

The despicable flute bears its name because of its external resemblance to a flute. The metal ring, usually hinged, at the upper end of the wooden or metal flutes was placed around the delinquent's neck and his fingers were then clamped in the metal clamp on the body of the "flute". This gave the delinquent, who was writhing in pain, the impression of a playing musician, which particularly exposed him to the ridicule of the audience. In recent times the "Schandflöte" is often presented as a punishment for bad musicians, but like the neck violin, which also resembles a musical instrument, it served to punish various minor violations of the legal system.
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Honestly, I had always suspected a long term game like this was the actual intent. The EFF wants to say "SEE? They can't claim ignorance, they know people's intent and they're depraved in their indifference!". No one earnestly believed this would directly enhance privacy.

But frankly, all of this is just trying to negotiate with black hats. Any company actually acquiescing to rules for privacy will find themselves out-bid by companies who can claim they have better data by operating outside the law. These protocols are using the general public's privacy as sacrificial fuel to accomplish their impossible aims. It's a whole lot of wasted effort.

I wish the EFF would figure this out, It's impossible to law away a technological reality.
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You have probably heard about it and will recognize it around after this HN post =)
I love SQLite, but people approach it from a classic RDBMS angle which confuses them.

Here's the deal: SQLite is a file format with a nice API that uses SQL as the paradigm for reading/writing to the file.

That's it. Stop overthinking it.

Can you write a microservice that stores its data in a big JSON file that you've built some code around to read/write to? Yes. It's just a file, but you have to build all the read/write methods. SQLite is not really any different, except the read/write work is already done, and you use SQL to format the data values and encode the read/write logic instead of the language you are working in.

The file format has some cool extensions like text indexing, geospatial, etc. But it's no more a RDBMS than reading and writing a JSON file is.

"But there's indexes!" Yes, just liked you might build an index on your JSON file and read that before reading the JSON file to know where things are faster -- and then you have to write all the code to do that. SQLite is just a file format, where you can also build indexes and all the code for that is already done for you.

It's just a file format with an API that's similar to the ones you'd use for any regular old RDBMS and uses SQL as the domain language to read/write data.

It's just a file format. Anything you can do/can't do with a file format you do with SQLite.

It's just a file format. A nice convenient one that you are probably better off using than most other things for most purposes.

It's just a file format.

edit

I'm glad this comment is getting such a response. I'm not trying to be mean, just help clarify thinking.

Here's two thought experiments:

1) If SQLite didn't require you to use SQL as the read/write logic and was called "datalite", and instead just forced you to use C function calls, exactly like you would if you were working with literally any other file format on the planet, would you still be confused as to what it is?

2) Do you consider reading and writing to any other file format anywhere in the hierarchy of RDBMSs? Consider Python's csv module. Is that an RDBMS? Let's move away from tabular data, how about python-docx?
Penny wise pound foolish. I had a president waste two to three hours a day instead of using a 40 dollar service to take care of the incredibly simple and repetitive task. Eventually when I was planning to leave anyways I asked him what his time was with per hour. I guess it was less than minimum wage at the time. (5.25 an hour)

I'm probably going to have nightmares filled with screens of the access database corruption dialogs
First paragraph is perfectly reasonable.

Second paragraph, though: I've never been around a brake pad fire, but I'd rather breathe vulcanized rubber than "metal shavings of copper, steel, graphite, and brass bonded with resin":

https://www.yourmechanic.com/article/what-are-brake-pads-mad...
We as in people who want to live in a reasonable climate in 50 years, when I will likely still be alive.
Everyone knew that was going away the moment they sold the app that had 1 billion users for 19 billion dollars.

The founders were being disingenuous when they said the data wouldn't be used for ads.
I can't reply there, but the phrase was coined by Stuart Kauffman, not Steven Johnson.
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some apps aren't optimize for it
> "According to industry analyst Michael DeGusta, Pharrell would likely have earned approximately $25,000 from the 43 million plays," Wile says.

2500000 / 43000000 = 0.0581395348837209 cents/play, or 1$ per 1720 plays

Unfortunately these articles never estimate the effective income per play for these services. Also the 1720 figure doesn't account for other people's cut outside of Pandora
I drive a 23-year-old car design and have zero qualms about it.

Commercial aviation is one of the safest modes of transportation there is. That’s due to the safety procedures practiced by the operators, not faster FEA modeling. It’s far safer than even the latest cars, when driven by amateurs on public roads.

Is there some specific “safety critical design decision“ you think was lacking in the 777 era?
And we sold ball bearings to Germany and laundered confiscated gold.
That was a typo and has now been corrected.
> Regarding the specific songs he mentions in his letter, Pandora paid all rights holders more than $150,000 in just three months, substantially more than the $6,100 he suggests.

> The issue is not whether Pandora pays enough in royalties. The real issue is the financial dispute between labels and publishers about how to divide Pandora's industry-leading royalties.
>This isn't a study in how many people you know.

I know what the study says, but thanks for your brilliant analysis.

It's why I said "That said" (meaning, despite what this says, my experience is different) and then wrote an anecdote from said experience.
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Yes. Most promoters also have mailing lists.
I'm assuming you meant "horizontal blanking interval" instead of "vertical blanking interval". But I don't think that's entirely correct either. Some games will change the registers while the beam is actively drawing so that, e.g., the left half of the line will be drawn with one set of settings and the right half drawn with another.
https://lobste.rs/about#invitations

> Invitations are used as a mechanism for spam-control, to slow registrations to a pace we can acculturate and to encourage users to be nice, not to make the Lobsters userbase an elite club.
In addition to being printed on posters and similar public media it were also printed on letter paper, suitcases and envelopes.
According to the German Wikipedia article at least, that headline is plain wrong [1][2].
The Article states explicitly that this was not used to punish bad musicians, but for infractions against the law which were not deemed serious enough to warrant harsher punishments.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schandfl%C3%B6te (Original)

[2] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3... (Google translated)
TFA does not focus purely on income taxes, but rather the overall tax burden.

NC is ranked 26th in terms of overall tax burden. [1]

Rich people aren’t paying regular income tax rates as their primary tax burden. They pay property, capital gains, and corporate tax rates.

I think NC is considered very good for corporate rates, and middle of the road for personal, property, and capital gains rates. [2]

[1] - https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-bur...

[2] - https://taxfoundation.org/publications/state-business-tax-cl...
What is your preferred format for digesting content like this?
"Serverless" is a garbage marketing term in general. It sounds sexy to nontechnical management folks who are used to hearing a bunch of expensive costs and the word "server" associated with them in some fashion. From that view, anything that gets rid of those pesky "servers" sounds like a win.
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Article is from 2014, and the year should be included in the title.
The title is a little misleading. Most of the poster's problems come from the small dot size.

If he had a 48'' 4k display, each pixel would be the same size as on a 24'' 1080p display. Zero font size problems, no need to scale anything.

I use a curved tv of this size (at a low brightness setting ;)) and notice only one problem from the ones the poster mentioned: sometimes the amount of windows on the screen can be a little distracting. However it is easily offset by the productivity gain from having all necessary windows constantly visible. Also, if you need to concentrate on just one window temporarily, just move it to another virtual desktop. Takes no effort.
The company is named after the river, not the Eurasian tribe.
> I'm not an expert, but some people are are panicking and buying surgical masks (borderline useless)

I'm currently in Singapore. Many people wear masks here, especially at the airport (large majority of people wore mask today). My friends blame me for not wearing one. I checked the WHO recommendations [1] and wearing a mask for general public isn't recommended (EDIT: unless you're sick).

[1] https://www.who.int/ith/2020-24-01-outbreak-of-Pneumonia-cau...
https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...
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It’s the WSJ, so you always have to price that into anything they say, particularly in the post-Murdoch era.

There are definitely more jobs in the south driving young people migration. Taxes get attention because republicans love talking about them, but it’s mostly bunk. I know when my parents were considering moving to SC, the property taxes were an initial draw, but when you factor HOA and food sales tax, the savings weren’t as big as initially thought.

The secret to the growth is all about business taxes and regulations. As a business owner, you just won’t get away with things in “high tax” states that you will in the others.
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a tiger is not an animal i associate with quietness.

a swedish fox would make more sense.
> Not everyone here is a democrat

In the mind of a democrat there's no such thing, it's either you're democrat or you're misinformed/stupid and need to be "reeducated".
I would guess that the place where the Studio Ghibli film was showing, and/or the organization showing it, have mailing lists.
1. No state in the US has politically powerful unions, public or private. They're mostly in the employers' pockets and keep making concession after concession. Not to mention being in the pocket of the democratic party, for years already; and failing to participate in solidarity struggles by one union for another; and essentially shutting down their own strikes despite the members' sentiments, etc. etc.

2. Very few data points, no trends over time, no examination of other causes of population flows etc.

My conclusion: This is a pro-corporate propaganda piece: They want low/no taxes and an even more maleable and precarious workforce.

Sounds like standard pro-corporate propaganda.
I often drive a Renault Zoe which also isn't a sports car. I frequently leave sports cars behind at the traffic light. From 0-30 kph even the small/cheap electric cars are sport cars. And it is terribly tempting to develop a pedal-to-the-metal habit. So I assume tire dust will increase significantly in the cities.
Yes, I mentioned the price feeds. That's why I called it "largely decentralized" rather than decentralized full stop. But the price feeds aren't run by any one organization, but by about a dozen different ones.
Interstate highways are included in the category of “highways”, and are often just a road running through the middle of green space like forest. It wouldn’t really make sense to claim that “living near highways” does X unless it was still true even for living near such a forested interstate highway.
Taxes don't make sense in a fiat system where the government could just print as much money as it needs anyway.
Income tax hurts income earners, not asset holders.

The system should not incentivize people to own more assets, it should incentivize them to produce more value.

With the right regulatory framework and good separation of institutions, it would be much more efficient for the government to just print the money it needs directly.

I don't buy the argument that this would cause capital flight. The government has many tools at their disposal to prevent that. It doesn't matter in the long term if rich people dump all their stocks all at once and move overseas; that would create significant opportunities for smaller local investors to replace them because most of the value-producing companies are on the ground; the infrastructure and the workers cannot be moved easily and that's where the real value is.
The author didn't specify which Mac and external monitor he used but it sounds like he had specific issues that most people probably don't.

1. macOS has bugs related to font aliasing from misconfigured setups that makes using external screens harder to use, such as font-aliasing settings that were removed in the latest macOS updates. Some folks had to do a clean macOS install that fixed the problem with Catalina.

2. I wouldn't recommend using HDMI > TB port, DisplayPort is recommended for any 4K setups IMO. He may be using a 30hz screen via HDMI where most older Macs can't do 4k@60hz at all, in this case, even 4k @ 30hz is very uncomfortable to use.

3. If he never had retina screen before, it is possible by moving to a larger screen, he is focusing his eyes more often and causing blurriness. This could be a sign of an eye condition; such as not taking enough breaks and/or vision has degraded. I had this issue and my astigmatism actually got worse, once I got better glasses, no issues.

4. He may need to readjust his desk setup or get a monitor arm that places the monitor correctly to his eye vision. A lot of people used monitor with its stand and they are looking at them facing down, causing more pain than need be.
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The scaling is done by macOS and the output signal regardless of the virtual resolution is 4k.
After years using Ubuntu 16 I upgraded to 19 as I heard it was really good and fast. It wasn't either... lots of things just didn't work anymore, like function keys (switching languages takes like 5 seconds and it's a known issue they just won't fix) and shortcuts changing or just not working anymore in several applications I use.

So I decided to install KDE Plasma, and I couldn't be happier! Everything works exactly as I expected. And it's a beautiful desktop environment, especially after I installed a dark theme. I also use a Mac, and now I honestly don't know which desktop experience is better! Which is a huge compliment to Plasma, as MacOS is actually quite polished.

I can't recommend Plasma enough to anyone who wants Linux on desktop/laptop.
It’s done by macOS and shouldn’t be something the application notices, can you give some examples of applications which don’t work well with scaling enabled?
Yeah! BTW let's not forget the (probably) best filesystem browsing experience (Dolphin), the Event Calendar add-on, and: KDE Connect!
For me, serverless is not just "easy" scaling or a managed service, but completely automatic and elastic scaling with metered billing. If you can go from 1 to millions of requests without touching your infrastructure or dropping requests, then that's serverless. If you have to provision larger instances or even wait 10 minutes for your autoscaling policy to spin up new VMs so you can serve those requests, then it's not.

Some services labelled serverless really do reach very close to this ideal (S3, for instance), while others fall short in various ways. "Serverless" Aurora, for example, can't scale writes beyond a single instance, so while it can take you quite far (a 96 core db instance can handle a lot of writes), past a certain point it's no longer really serverless anymore since you'll have to figure out some kind of sharding strategy to keep scaling writes. With S3 or DynamoDB, this doesn't happen. While even those services do have some sanity check limitations, they can scale seamlessly up to the point where you start to approach the scale of AWS itself.
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The fact that the title is click bait has nothing to do with your claim that the survey sample is biased. If it's true, prove it.

>results a single survey

Says the guy who uses "Ask HN" for help...

How many surveys should they do?
This is moving the goalposts quite a bit. The GP was asserting, in essence, that it was naive and fear-mongering to
say that mass-produced designs may have major flaws that need recall.

Now we get the argument that yes, that will happen but it will still be profitable to do so.

All of this contradicts 70 years of nuclear industry experience. It is an unsupported assertion, not a truth, that modular manufacturing will experience a beneficial industrial learning curve that will bend costs toward being competitive with alternatives.
I'd like more dems in congress, but if it means the kind of dems Californians send to DC, I'll pass.
I don't disagree. I think the title was supposed to help people who haven't been think that libraries were good to visit (which they are).

In my opinion, libraries are the single greatest tool an individual has to advance their station in life. I wish more people would take advantage of that opportunity.
What everyone suggests isn’t something the apps opt in or out of. It happens at a lower level and everything is told that you are running at a different resolution.
On the iOS side, I regret not knowing how horrible Xcode is and how horrible Apple's documentation is. On the Android side, I regret not realizing that no matter what kind of slick new well documented APIs Google releases we will all be writing code for Android 4.4 for the rest of our lives. Also, I wish I knew mobile developers are some of the lowest paid developers other than game industry peons.
I wonder if they controlled for... why people choose to live where they live. I.e., this wasn’t an RCT; they could just assign people to live near highways or not. So the people who are living near highways are there for a reason.

Are residences near highways, perhaps farther from certain other things, like city centres? Such that a certain type of person (people with pre-existing [perhaps subclinical] mental issues of the type that might make them want to avoid people) would be drawn to live in these residences more than others?

To me, “living near a highway” sounds a lot like a euphemism for “living in the middle of nowhere”, since by definition all arterial roads connecting “somewhere” to “somewhere” through “nowhere” are highways. If you live somewhere isolated that’s accessible at all by road, and you don’t have the budget to build your own long stretch of lane out from the highway, then presumably you live on a highway.
A few experts in the field have tweeted this speculation.
On top of that movie theaters attendance (in number of tickets sold and also their value as far as I can remember) has been going down for several years, so there's a lot to say about the progressive decline of movie-going (in relative terms) than libraries as a whole...
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Is this really unique to Twitter, though?

I've had very little difficulty contacting, i.e. academics whose papers I've read, or programmers who have written blog posts.

You do miss some randos interjecting into the conversation, but these interjections detract from the conversation more often than they contribute. When I'm conversing with Joe Armstrong I'm not interested in the interjections of some rando who did an Erlang tutorial once and feels that qualifies him to have opinions.
There's a vicious cycle here: Disorganized employees -> easy to artificially fire people and hire newer, less experienced ones, for shorter periods -> more difficult to organize. If the cycle is broken, then the other difficulties might subside somewhat as well.

But of course, it is not at all easy (speaking from the experience both of starting a union and of being fired for speaking up).
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“Just really smart apes” basically describes us, too!

There’s that 40k-year-old bracelet that was made with a “relatively high speed” drill, something we didn’t think the denisovans could do: http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0100-st...

I’m also reminded how in the past 15 years or so, using LIDAR, we are learning that there are way more Mayan or Aztec ruins than previously thought; they were just covered up by the jungle.

There’s a lot of mystery still buried in the earth.
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Less power to the State, more power to the people.

The State destroys wealth. Private sector creates it.
Respectfully, you’re projecting your own view of the situation onto Brazil. Violent conflict isn’t an unknown thing in the region and Brazil is solidly on the anti-Maduro side.
Indeed, if there’s such an exodus, why isn’t real estate in California cheap?