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I thought that as internet speed and quality increased, we would see more office work being dispersed across the country. More people would be able to work remotely or in small satellite offices using the internet to effectively coordinate. The role of the (London) headquarters of larger companies would be diminished.

Instead it feels to me like companies have become more centralised. Regional offices are gutted (much of their work can be done over the internet from headquarters), more firms are crammed into London, all competing for the same people and this competition drives up wages (and house prices) and this encourages more people to want to work there which makes it one of the few places for companies to find talent and so on.

Maybe my impression of the state and change of things is just wrong. But my theory of the change in office work due to the internet is that it let things become more centralised and that this change is the reason for various other political changes (eg rising house prices -> weird policies to help people buy houses without decreasing the sale price; pushes towards better transport infrastructure in and to London; weakening of the rural and regional economy; trains in high demand which everyone hates; ...)
Yes, after the 737-MAX I absolutely want more computers, AI, blockchain, cloud, microservices, HTTP/3 and big data in the planes I'm boarding.
There is one in industrial protocols for functional safety. It is called Ethercat Safety.
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Well, you also end up with longer rows - and so potentially more middle of row seats which are less desirable.
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I know it's not protocol to talk down Show HN submissions. But this is just a shell script loading a core component of TBS [0] during login without password prompts: by saving your password in a plain text file.

I can agree that password prompts at login are not the best user experience but security is there for a reason.

Maybe TBS should implement this using the privileged helper pattern [1] which allow a small daemon with root permissions to perform actions for a userland application through a secure RPC channel.

[0] https://github.com/rugarciap/Turbo-Boost-Switcher

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Se...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/servicemanagement/...
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This is a generic comment you could put under any opinion piece as a quick and cheap slur.

More valuable would be an actual critique of one or more of the points the author made as it might stimulate discussion.
You find one that aligns with your own personal goals and ethics. I found one, and working with other people there feels like a multiplier on the change I want to see in the world.

Generally they'll be quite small and niche but they do exist.
It does work well though. As a user, I can't remember significant Wikipedia or Wikidata outages.

And I'm really not sure if whatever blockchain solution that person on twitter wants Wikimedia to use is even able to get to that scale, yet alone perform better an it than what Wikimedia currently has.
Allow the script to run under sudo without a password.
How exactly can it do that, while also allowing those same all-powerful entities to unilaterally remove things like illegal content?
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Those technologies are already used heavily by the airline industry which is extemely dependant on software and it probably will continue to build on that dependency.
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They are trying to kill URL, with AMP and hiding parts of address in Chrome bar. The perfect google customer never types any URL and uses search engine instead.
Long equations break out of the content box. E.g., view/5e33c093981ec41bc6b279b7
You're making me think that the even absurder method is to use mail drafts as your files. Everything is synced between all your devices, you have built-in modification date, a full editor in the web version or applications for a more integrated experience, high portability and backup (transferring from IMAP account to IMAP account is easy), labels and/or folders depending on your provider, efficient search, attachments...

Actually in the past I used my email account as my RSS reader. It had integrated read/non read status, mass "mark as read" as needed, was synced on all platforms I cared about without anything to install. I didn't really changed my subscriptions a lot so configuration was not complicated.

Sometimes a webmail is just a good enough UI for text-related things.
Because you are at capacity now. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see a smaller divide between N and S, but if you start investing heavily in the N now before it actually has a meaningful impact on people's internal economic migration/commuting patterns it's going to be at least a decade (convince companies to move there, start hiring, create a salary inflation cycle from competition, etc...)

Right now, London salaries are easily 2x to 3x Manchester's for Software devs (yeah I know the average data is only 30% higher but you need to compare the top vs the top, not the aggregated data). As a Junior dev moving from Hertfordshire (which is 30mins from London....) to London meant my salary instantly doubled, while living cost only maybe increased 50% if we are conservative. That's going to take a long time to offset.
This is not at all meant to be a criticism, but more a question: is taking a 20% performance hit, as the author writes, really worth it for a theoretical improvement in the lifespan of some integrated circuits? Are ICs actually how modern laptops break?

What do you think the odds are in him realising this benefit? Assuming he bins the laptop after, say, 5 years? (he's rich enough to buy a £1.3k minimum laptop, assuming it wasn't second hand)

It relies on several assumptions:
1) His laptop dies before he bins it in 5 years' time
2) It died becuase of an integrated circuit (the reason he cites) - in my experience old computers tend to die of things like exploded motherboard capacitors rather than ICs. Maybe the death of these are accelerated by turbo boost, too?
3) The integrated circuit's death was hastened by a meaningful amount (several months at least; a dodgy thing dying a couple of days/weeks later doesn't save you from buying a new laptop).

Is taking a 20% performance hit on your laptop really worth this? I'm interested. I can't imagine it would be for the vast majority of people.
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Oh interesting, because i wanted to say “everything is a tensor” before i write the long post

So generics and mixed types is where it hits a wall with tables? Though those mixed structured can just be broken down to collections of tables and enumerated, no? Then call the table of tables a table again?

Also why is a matrix not a table? Because its a super type ?
This one is about music, here's recent discussion about podcasting and Spotify https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22285735
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I once ran a script on production to re-push some old data for a customer based on log entries. This script used the log timestamps to decide which data to re-push. Didn't realize that the timestamps in the log files were UTC, and I just ran it with the default timestamp provided by the library (which is the one the host system uses). Lucky for me, the system's default timezone was also UTC, but nonetheless, the moment I realized it and the 10 minutes it took me to read the documentation and to check the host system's timezone felt like hours.

You live and you learn, I'd say :)
It's a tag for tickers, also works with stock market tickers, e.g. $GE
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Well, it also loads a random kernel extension that is only there as a binary blob that the author didn't make.
I’m not an OSX expert, but it seems like you should be able to make a compiled binary to do this and then give it setuid permissions, avoiding the need for a password. At least that is how I would do it on other unixes.
The main problem is really the heat/battery life—my laptop has a 6-core processor inside it with seriously inadequate cooling performance (with it being so thin). I guess the lifespan argument is technically be true but isn't the main reason I disable TB.

The 20% is worth it for me because the computer seems to be fast enough anyway.
Oh, yes, that feeling when you mix up “init 5” and “init 6” on a machine 300 miles away. “Huh, it’s taking longer than usual to reboot...”. 20 years later and I still remember the name of the guy I had to call at two in the morning to go power it back on.
There was an interesting argument here https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/04/northern-pow...

> There are at least 100 stations across the north and Midlands that would benefit from released capacity, according to Network Rail, which owns and manages Britain’s railways.
It tells you something about how expensive it would be to have someone else save the CO2 you have emitted by flying a plane.

But you are right. The price going to purchase the CO2 offset is probably less than what I would be paying.
If they're trying to avoid people coming to work tired, presumably they also have a no-children policy for their staff?
Here in Turkey, we had Wikipedia banned for 4 years. Luckily, the ban has been lifted last month.

I'm not arguing blockchain would be a good mitigation for a future incident though.
It's not just about monetary resources. There are also engineering, research, PR and other kinds of resources spent on this.

Not to mention, there are people who seem to honestly believe that moving to Mars is a viable strategy for humanity in the same te scale as global warming (perhaps even Elon Musk among them? Hopefully not, but definitely GP among them). That is such a silly idea, but with such potential to be used in the concentrated campaign of convincing people to ignore global warming, that it must be spoken against any time it comes up.
fuel is a very small percentage of a ticket price. Depending on route, more than half goes to airport taxes and then crew services etc.
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And what are the alternatives? Seriously, you cannot name any company with over a hundred employees that has never done something you would disagree with. Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Cisco all have baggage... Not to mention the financial institutions... if you take away all the largest employers that would effectively flood the rest of the market and cut your pay in roughly half because of the competition.

The comment, and sentiment are imho very ignorant and childish. Beyond this, rarely can someone make effective change to a community you are not a part of, let alone disdain.
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Did that really happen in Dublin? I've lived in Dublin for years and taken the bus regularly, and every time there's been a strike the bus drivers just don't show up for work or join a picket line, rather than refusing to take fares. And I tell people how they do things differently in Sydney, where they actually have farebox strikes. [0]

[0] https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-01/free-buses-in-sydn...
.... which inevitably turns flying / vacationing far abroad back into something exclusively for upper class people, which is easy to advocate for when you work in the tech salary bubble.

If we're gonna slash subsidies and introduce carbon tax on flights, it needs to hit corporate and expensive tickets as hard as possible whilst sheltering cheaper tickets as much as possible.

There's so many things HN proposes should be taxed / excised extra: cars, flights, gas, soda, alcohol, meat, rare metals in devices, batteries, electricity consumption etc etc.

They aren't bad ideas (hell, I agree fully with the sentiment of most of said ideas) but it's so easy to be blind to the fact that you'd basically be turning daily life into a two caste system where only the rich are allowed vices.
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Exactly. MCAS had only one goal: making the Boeing Max feel like the old Boeings by fiddling with the trim so that expensive retraining could be avoided. A fly by wire solution would have resulted in more design changes in the cockpit thus requiring a new type rating for lots of pilots.

IMHO it is entirely fixable technically but of course the scrutiny of the FAA on this and the resulting steady flow of management fuckups, more potential issues being unveiled, and the apparent failure of the certification process is pretty much guaranteeing this to take quite long. Last year I was still optimistic it would fly again soon but given the recent trickle of more issues, I think this is going to be a pro-longed grounding.

Airbus had it's fair share of incidents involving fly by wire in the eighties and nineties. However, more recent incidents seem to be not related to that anymore (terrorist attacks, bird strikes, bad weather/decision making, etc.). So, fly by wire is entirely safe if done properly these days and also not optional for flying most modern military planes. Airbus basically laid the foundation for their current success in the market right then.

IMHO pilots are increasingly becoming safety pilots (i.e. emergencies and unusual situations are the only times they fly manually) and we're not that long away from fully autonomous planes. Right now, aside from takeoff and landing, most passenger planes are controlled via the auto pilot only. The pilot doesn't touch the yoke and instead fiddles with buttons to direct the auto pilot. Cat III landings can be fully automated technically and certified pilots are required to fly a certain amount of fully automated touchdowns regularly. The military routinely flies remotely controlled drones and fully autonomous drones already.

So, a design like this could make sense. 20% reduction in drag is quite a lot of gain and fly by wire has been used for decades to make all sorts of otherwise unstable configurations flyable.
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>you wouldn't need GraphQL, and you could run a normal query.

You're making the assumption that there is something to run a normal query on. As soon as you write even a single line of server side code this assumption is broken. What if the GraphQL query doesn't actually use an SQL database and just reads something from a file or another service? What if the server is responsible for granting row level access under very complicated rules that cannot be implemented with just SQL and would be completely insecure if it was done on the client? What if you actually need to do things like implement business logic?

What you're talking about is downright nonsensical within that context.
For an more in-depth look at some of the capacity benefits of HS2, this article on the London end of HS2 by ianvisits.co.uk is definitely worth a read:

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2019/08/20/taking-a-look-at...

On the redevelopment of Euston station:

> Building not just more platforms for HS2, but critically, the extra tunnels for those trains to use shifts intercity services to the HS2 line, releasing lots of capacity in the old tunnels for suburban services. If that doesn’t sound too important, then where’s the UK’s most congested train... it’s the 17:46 out of Euston which carries more than twice the number of passengers that it’s designed for. When completed, HS2 is expected to more than double the number of seats out of Euston station during peak hours.

It seems building HS2 is only part of the cost. A lot of it is also paying down "infrastructure debt" that hasn't been touched for decades.
Much as I'm personally very pro-GPL, I think there are good reasons to avoid licensing fundamental parts of the SciPy stack under a copyleft license, since anything built on top would also need to be GPLed.

A scipy-copyleft for such GPLed components would be nice though.
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I use it (the turbo boost switcher by rugarciap) because of the increased battery life, decreased battery wear (frame gets less hot) and more silent fan. This is on a 2012 MBA which is still doing very fine as my daily driver (except for the display joint getting quite soft)
Can you describe in what way was it chaos?
Very cool. So what are your go-to tools for putting a front end on top of your models?
Yeah, sure. We’re talking about Elon Musk though... And whether it’s fine to say “you go do what Elon did.” It’s more realistic to say “you go do what the flappy bird guy did”. You fanboys are hilarious.
Be fascinated with it. The normal advice is "do what you love", but quite often you can hate a lot of things. You can still be fascinated with something you hate.

You can look up Pirsig's Brick - if a city is boring, look for a specific building, and write about the building, starting with the top left brick. Reality has a surprising amount of detail: http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...

Most of those little details are quite interesting. The big picture may be interesting too. It's the stuff in between that's boring. Try to narrow down your scope until you find an interesting thing to start with.

But besides boredom, it could be fear. We have a fight, flight, freeze response. The physiological response is exactly the same; it's the mental response that changes according to the situation. What this means is that we can just mentally swap out the flight response with fight.

If you find yourself procrastinating, fight for your goals! Make that goal important, to yourself, your society, your values. Stand your ground and move forward.
What I found interesting, though predictable, was that we saw the same wave of "Oh but it's just a set of bits, it's only illegal data if you go looking for the decoder to compile the pieces together". Which could be said about a lot of data formats.

I remember seeing these same justifications 15+ years ago when laws were being tightened up around possession and distribution of child abuse imagery, that it's just a stream of bits, you can't criminalise that... You can, and you should.

(The extent to which it can be pursued, and to which those who are simply running cryptocurrency nodes should have any culpability for propagating said data is very much open to legal argument, of course.)
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Who's gonna run the frontends to make the contents of the wikipedia blockchain accessible to billions of people on commodity web browsers? Does a blockchain make that free somehow? The cost of the database servers is the only thing you're potentially optimizing out here, except unless every frontend stores the entire wikipedia blockchain locally you will need database servers still anyway, they'll just be blockchain "frontends" instead of database frontends.
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I have on my desk a 2017 best paper award, for a paper printed in 2016, submitted 2015, being an extended version of a 2013 paper for a problem we solved in 2012. Academic publishing is like that.
>C++ has the additional problem that each iteration takes about three years

I don't see how the iteration of the C++ standard is relevant for the development of debug tooling.
>More passengers [...] experience larger vertical accelerations

Economy-minus section?