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They're a "me too!" company that pretends they are the leader in all the projects that others are doing, and merely offer a service/product to tick a box next to their competitors.

The only case where this isn't true is Search (but getting worse), AdWords, and YouTube. But everything else is not uniquely Google (eg. Drive, GMail, phones, Android, Chromebooks).

Then they may or may not abandon the project based on the uptake, leaving the adopters high and dry. I personally would not risk buying anything from them based on their proven approach to product launches.
RAID that knows about which blocks are occupied and which are not will take a shorter time to rebuild because it'll need to read and write fewer blocks. For `mdadm` to do that, it'd need to know a lot about the internals of the filesystems that are mapped to the block device.

Filesystems like BtrFS and ZFS know what is being used and what is not and won't waste time reading or writing to blocks that don't hold any currently used data.
Is it completely in memory? Seems like that from the readme
That was announced about 2 years ago.
Can we all agree that the "now playing" screen is objectively worse. I had to google how to set repeat and shuffle. (You have to "scroll up" from the bottom. Not swipe, but a scroll like motion.

I studied Human Computer Interaction and interfaces in college . It's hidden and unintuitive for no good reason.
Good points. It may be worth allowing power users to choose which one of those archetypes they are via some advanced option somewhere, and that option controls which flavour of UI you get.
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Are you referring to the standalone $25/year iTunes Match subscription?

As an alternate data point, I've subscribed to that service for years now (no Apple Music streaming) and have not had any major problems. Lots of custom music tracks as well, which Match has always respected and synced properly across my iDevices.

The only problem I had when first signing up years back was that one of my songs was replaced with the wrong song--but that bad match has since been fixed.
I would imagine you’d need to draw a correlation between advertisements and quality of care and successful treatment rate; awareness and involvement aren’t positive or negative per se.

Secondly, I see too many damn branded pens in my doctor’s office to be under the illusion that the marketing is only directed at the patients. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been prescribed medication just to have it swapped out at the pharmacy for a generic variety. Doctors are just as susceptible to advertising than the rest of us, except exclusively at harm to the patient.

The demonstrated “value” being provided seems to be mostly in the form of cash in the pockets of providers and pharmaceuticals, not in material benefit to the patients.
> Thus, he concluded, “(the) penalties imposed by the marketplace on sellers of ineffective drugs prior to 1962 seem to have been enough of a deterrent to have left little room for improvement by a regulatory agency”

Amount of homeotherapy currently on the shelves bring "penalties imposed by the marketplace on sellers of ineffective drugs" into a sharp contrast... People will take pure water if you tell them it works.

EDIT:
But I suppose a complex measure of: removing efficacy requirements AND banning advertising to both consumers and doctors AND mandating pre-regisration of trials might lead to more drugs on the market with companies using efficacy trials to compete with each other and doctors selecting best drugs based on cost/benefit/harm analysis.

I'm sure there are loopholes that would be promptly exploited in this scheme given enough incentive though.
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> You might phrase it like that, but every single day in every single country that provides a generous safety net someone dies whose life could have been extended by some amount of time if only the country had spent more money on doing so.

This is a nonsensical argument. Said safety net is often the reason why people don't die, because as a whole it's cheaper to prevent people from getting to the point of destitution than it is to pull them out of it.

And your first argument is nonsensical too. Because a lot of the time it's simply a roll of the dice whether or not our health nosedives. By your argument if you get in an accident, you would be an asshole to expect other people to help you out in a time of crisis.

That's not having no empathy, that's having a nihilistic worldview and expecting everyone to subscribe to your 'every person for themselves' mentality.
Are you talking about using Target disk mode to boot your imac off the drive in a mac mini or MBP? because that will still use your imac's processor & ram, etc.
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I keep putting off learning React Native, largely because I don't really do a lot with JS anymore.

I know that there exists ClojureScript bindings to React-Native...does anyone here have any experience working with them?
The sites I build at work have proper push notifications. This problem has already been solved.
I don't know, I get to use uBlock when I use web apps and I have some control over the client even on my phone. Native apps can basically do whatever they want and users are waking up to this.

I would like all of my applications to be sandboxed by a browser I have control over.
Protonmail threads on HN are always highly censored.
1. We don't need to replace all fossil fuels to just do better than we're doing now. It'd be a big help to just replace all fossil-fuel power plants, which is what the OP was talking about.

2. Cars and trucks can be powered by electricity in the near-term. Airplanes cannot; we'd need much better battery tech for that to happen. Heating can't be replaced by heat pumps entirely; heat pumps don't work in subfreezing conditions. They have to resort to "auxiliary heat" (electric resistance heating) when it gets too cold. Of course, doing that and just having more nuclear plants is still better than burning hydrocarbons, but it does mean we need more electricity generation.
My comment above was the most I've ever written about how it works, except for one very long comment in my database migration code, which I had to write to remember how it's supposed to work.

I created the GUI in Qt. It's not beautiful, but gets the job done. I decided to finally open-source my WIP and put a screenshot in the README: https://github.com/Yorwba/alphabet-soup

The comment on database migration is here: https://github.com/Yorwba/alphabet-soup/blob/4f68057ed5d7dbf...

If you don't care about all the Japanese-specific stuff, you could try running make data/tatoeba_sentences_XXX.csv where XXX is the ISO 639 three-letter code of the language you're interested in. That collects all the sentences in that language contributed to Tatoeba by native speakers and puts them into a TSV file.
Does Tesla make solar glass roof tile in its Buffalo, NY factory? Or in China?
> You think they are built in series?

They need a ramp up. Which is much easier for renewable.

> The Chinese plants under construction will bring nuclear from 2% of the current grid to 20% by 2030

Renewable is there already.

See here for nuclear:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China

---
As of March 2019, China has 46 nuclear reactors in operation with a capacity of 42.8 GW and 11 under construction with a capacity of 10.8 GW.[4][5] Additional reactors are planned for an additional 36 GW. China was planning to have 58 GW of capacity by 2020.[3] However, few plants have commenced construction since 2015, and it is now unlikely that this target will be met.---

Nuclear will be far from providing 20% in 2030. Probably not even 10%:

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...

---By 2030 nuclear capacity will be 120 to 150 GWe, and nuclear will provide 8% to 10% of electricity.---
Nice FUD there.

> icon-less organisation with a cryptic name

Oh my god what if they're foreign? Isn't it terrifying to think about foreigners? Better take that fear into the voting booth with you.
Better than not having a standard at all...
From the article, the LinkedIn decision was that scraping data does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Violating that act was considered to be criminal activity. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act)
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> Operative word here is 'can'. The reality is that this is not happening for the most part and there is no standard solution in sight.

The reality is that the vast majority of solar panels are still in operation, not junked, so they are being reused rather than recycled, which is even better.

> Unlike with nuclear waste, this is not actually regulated or managed

Well, not any more than things like concrete. You can still get fined for littering if you dump broken solar panels. But there's no reason it should be regulated or managed; broken solar panels are less toxic than things like concrete, chicken bones, fluorescent light tubes, and brass pot scrubbers, and enormously less toxic than things like used cars and CRT TVs. (Even the tiny fraction of solar cells that are the CdTe thin-film type contain only a tiny amount of cadmium or tellurium.)

Spent fuel from nuclear reactors, by contrast, is extremely dangerous, and it makes sense to treat it specially.

> most of solar cell waste is simple general electronics waste

No, that is not true. The usual kind of solar cells are not circuit boards; they are silicon chips, although much larger than the usual kind, and mostly polycrystalline rather than monocrystalline. They are covered by a sheet of glass which is many times heavier than the cells themselves.

I am curious where you picked up such remarkable misconceptions about electronics recycling.
Unless the costs exceed their current operational costs. Don't forget the time spent redeveloping on the new API, which includes validating everything is there, testing and cleaning up and removing the old (working) code.
Because the UX suffers from UI design that is driven by marketing. UI design should be driven by a passion to create the best UX, but that's almost impossible in this $$$ world..
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I wonder if Shopify did their homework and looked at Flutter. Flutter seems to meet their objectives more than React Native does.

And as an added bonus, Flutter is easier to reason about, has edit and continue, and is more performant.

Perhaps the use of Dart instead of Javascript was a deal killer though?
I am considering this to (on a ER4) but since they're are no dedicated ASICs I wonder what the cpu overhead it is for the router.
My favorite Chinese cyber espionage story is the one that was just randomly found when a team was conducting a routine pen-test.

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Exactly what does the accountability process look like? Angry newspaper articles? We've got plenty of those. Boycotting their products? You realise we're talking about insulin, right?
I wouldn't call it rewriting history. ZFS had plans to eventually develop the more complicated code to handle reshaping pools, but that never happened and the described system is the one still in place.
free speech doesn't mean you need to be telling the truth... do you really expect facebook to arbitrate all truth claims?
My positions are hedged
It depends pretty much on what the app is all about.

CRUD mobile apps can be made pretty fast when not doing an SPA bigger than Quake just for displaying text.

SSR, pure CSS3, caching, server workers, mobile first, can go a long way.

Naturally there are other kind of apps where native wins hands down, e.g. WebGL vs GL ES 3.2/Vulkan/Metal/DX.
because UK subsidizes it. But UK residents pay 33% of GDP in taxes vs US pays only 27%, according to this https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/global-revenue-statistic...

so it comes out of the higher taxes.
Yep I'd use ZFS for archival and tier-2 storage and use expensive SSD for I/O that needs to be fast and nimble.
I'm not sure I relate to Paul Graham's experience of finding being a "noob" unpleasant -- if anything, I find it's the opposite, because any time you're a "noob," there's so much low-hanging fruit to pick.

New city? There's a bunch of cool/fun things to do that you haven't tried yet. New hobby? Hop onto Youtube and there's hundreds of hours of "explainer" videos made by passionate hobbyists looking to share their favorite parts of that hobby with you. New to a particular field? Other people have probably already done the work of curating the 1% most interesting, important, and fascinating things to learn about. It's easy to feel like you're making progress when you're starting from zero.

I recently bought a guitar and started playing Rocksmith -- think Guitar Hero, but with a real guitar hooked up to your computer, with learning tools designed to help you learn how to play songs of your choosing, along with lessons covering everything from how to play power chords to the very basics of how to hold your guitar when sitting vs standing. I'm a total noob when it comes to playing guitar, but I've enjoyed every part of my time with Rocksmith, from the very first moment I plugged in my guitar and let the software step me through the process of tuning it.

I've found it incredibly edifying largely because the experience of picking up an instrument and learning how to play it has reminded me of what it's like to learn a completely new skill from scratch -- I think spending a week with Rocksmith has not only taught me guitar basics, but also given me a refresher course on how to learn a new skill.

In fact, I wonder if this can lead to its own problem -- someone who gets too much pleasure from the experience of being a noob and may turn into a dilettante, moving from hobby to hobby without ever taking the time to spend years cultivating a deep expertise. Which, I suppose, is fine on a certain level, but there are definitely times when I've procrastinated and hidden from the intimidating prospect of achieving mastery in a field where I already have a lot of experience, and instead spent that time venturing into new fields where there's still low-hanging fruit for me to pick.
> in which way is america exceptional except insofar as exactly that here business tries to extract as much as value as physically possible

Apparently, it's exceptionality comes from high levels of obesity, homicide, car accidents and drug abuse, of which only the last one has any link to businessy nature of healthcare.

https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2019/11/07/a-tale-of-two-...
You can't use nuclear waste heat for heating. No one wants to live next door to a nuclear power plant, so you can't feasibly transport the heat to someplace where it can be used. Nuclear plants are always located remotely for a reason.
I wouldn't say unbeatable by any stretch, considering that's pretty much the standard price for that.
ZFS is optimized first for data integrity, not speed.

It's like you're saying, why do we need ECC when there is fast DDR4 memory?

ZFS is a filesystem not just a layer like LVM. You have to compare it to LVM + some filesystem. Which filesystem would you suggest using with LVM to get ZFS-level integrity?

(Technically you can use ZFS on top of LVM but that would be a weird thing to do.)
>It would be awesome if people living far from traditional agricultural areas could access fresh greens without insane transportation costs (both financial and environmental)
That's what actually got me started. A head of lettuce on average 1200 miles (https://ucanr.edu/datastoreFiles/608-319.pdf) and it is so disconnected from the site of consumption.

My vision is to have distributed farms (as opposed to conventional wisdom, i have found that smaller indoor farms will be more profitable) every eight blocks or so.

Not really- It's quite manual (as of now). I had to change my country almost three times since I started; so I'm rather focussing more on data, and training algorithms part to figure out the right parameters (and the farm is a just a testbed). One example would be to have a $5 camera for measuring growth than buying a $100 3D what not camera.
Not sure about printed per se, but would definitely appreciate a modern concise Swift reference!
Funny thing about heat pumps.

Right now they primarily use refrigerants that have ~2000 times more GWP than CO2. They need to be refilled every 5-10 years.

My brother had one installed recently. They leaked the entire contents twice due to over tightened connectors. A back of the envelope calculation indicates that his heat pump will emit more GWP gas than if he has just burned natural gas by a wide margin.

Recently I recall reading an analysis that half of the heating since the 70s is attributable from refrigerants.

So while heat pumps are more efficient from am energy standpoint, with current refrigerants they are not helpful for climate change.
So someone cited my HN comment[1] about Tcl from yesterday on this page. That's fine. I recall one issue I had with Tcl was lack of support for monotonic clocks (on Linux anyhow.) So a sleep might take a long time to expire if the system time changed to the past. I wonder if that ever got addressed.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=22174228
This is the classical "tricke down economy" type of solution. Give companies, who are additionally acting unethically, a guaranteed and direct profit increase and _hope_ that it solves itself in the long-term.

Surely it depends on the barriers and how much of a cut those actually are in practice.

Furthermore, private corps aren't the only way drugs can be invented.
They talk about looking at flutter in the article.
And they aren't said to contribute? Odd terminology.
Exactly.
You can use CASH back for any further credit card purchase, including a Spotify subscription for that matter. Wouldn't call Spotify "free" though.
CDOs could be more vulnerable to corrupt practices than other systems. The US banking system could be too corrupt to safely employ CDOs in the long-term.

This is difficult to put into theory because corruption is difficult to measure, but I think we've all seen one example already. It wouldn't be the first thing that's great in theory but not in practice.
That probably plays into it.

There's also a psychological boost and momentum to overcoming a challenge first thing in the morning, which makes subsequent challenges easier. Plus a cold shower and/or exercise gets the blood flowing.
I would not dare :)

But the title would actually overrun the limit by 4 characters. But I still thought it would be interesting to share. I love the colorful description in the name. Also I like That German is not the only language with loooong names :)
Actually Symbian Web Runtime and WebOS were ahead of their time.
This sounds like a corollary to the Dunning Kruger Effect!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
That's not something similar, and has nothing whatsoever to do with what you replied to.

And there's nothing wrong with switching from brand name to generic, and most patients don't need to see their doctor every 30 days, and if they do, they can still make an appointment.

The length of the drug prescription does not control the appointment - and anyway you can just call and they'll extend the prescription on the phone.
You can put solar panels on rooftops. If you go to Europe, you'll see them on rooftops everywhere, even on barns.
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> feeling all giddy when you get a "reward" later means you've been gamed.

It doesn't really feel that way as you're flying to Hawaii for free.
> Drug development is high tech work. If the government could do it well, while squeezing out the profit margins, there would be no reason for the government not to run Google or Netflix.

I agree we don't need a state-run version of Google or Netflix, but how does their being "high-tech" in any way preclude that? NASA seems like a great counter-example.
> If LinkedIn wanted to force users to sign in to view profile info

Do they not already do this? Every link I've ever seen for LinkedIn has redirected me to sign up page rather than showing me the content.
I was reading through the privacy forms at a local medical office before signing them, and I found they were unfinished. Many parts were blanks with instructions to "Enter contact for head of privacy here."
Before you disable it, the site warns you that "This will also prevent you from logging into apps and websites with Facebook because your activity will be disconnected from your account." This annoys me, because Facebook login is actually quite convenient, and they've gone and bundled it with lots of random third-party tracking. Nothing technically required them to do this -- they could surely offer it as a separate feature.
ssd's still can become corrupt (bitrot) and can still die.

File systems like zfs and btrfs checksum every block to ensure that if they do become corrupt, they can get repaired. (otherwise, if you had a mirror of disks, and one disk says the value is 0010 and the other says its 0001, wich one is right?)

Additionally, the 'raid' concept is not just about speed. Its also about capacity, and how many disks can fail. I might have 48 drives in a single server. I certainly don't want an LVM stripe across all drives and lose data. I also don't want raid1, losing the capacity of 24 of the drives. I want it so that any 3 drives can fail in that system, and I can still recover the data.
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One place the information age has failed us so far is with trivia/quiz questions. There are surprisingly few open repositories of quality questions.

There is the Open Trivia DB, which isn't really open but exposes a free API. It's also a bit heavy on video/computer game questions for my tastes and doesn't support multiple categories per API request. It's either all categories or one.

I like to play trivia games on my phone on transit, etc. All I could find was crap, often full of ads. So I made one, a couple years ago. It's kinda crap too, so now I'm making another.

The back end uses the open trivia DB, but supports multiple categories per game. I'm currently caching the questions in to a DB. When I have them all, I will be able to improve the initial load times, which is currently 1-2 seconds per category selected at the beginning of each game. It won't scale well until then. I should be posting a Show HN in the near future.

Anybody know of any other trivia DB's out there? I found a dead github repo. There is a fair bit but it is really rough. There should be some from IRC trivia bots from back in the day, but I haven't found them. Commercial ones are out, as there will be no ads, tracking or monetization of any kind. Just a simple & light trivia mobile-friendly web app.
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So memorable. My greatest triumph being “Extra special”. (Spoiler: I count myself in the vanishing small Only Connect segment that both shops at ASDA and buys the premium range)
What surprises me most about your post is that someone actually worked on Google Play Music for multiple years. Doing what?

From what I could see, it shipped, then immediately turned into abandoned-ware which it still is today (in spite of being "replaced" by YouTube Music which is also abandoned-ware almost from its release).

I actually still pay for GPM (for Ad-Free YouTube) but also pay for Amazon's Unlimited because Amazon's Music offering actually consistently works well and makes music discovery pleasant. Or to phase another way, I actually pay money to avoid using GPM or YT Music which I could use for "free." They're that terrible.