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This is the bit that people keep skirting around. No one is intentionally making items hard to repair (at least I have never seen any evidence to suggest it); they're making them easy and cheap to manufacture. And cheap to manufacture often means hard to repair as a side effect.

To anyone working with complex industrial devices this isn't a surprise. A good manufacturer will involve their Service people in Manufacturability reviews because what makes things easy for the Manufacturing guys and what makes the device cheap and so makes Sales & Marketing's jobs easier, often makes the Service people's job harder. For a product that costs $5,000 and that is expected to have a few repair cycles, getting input from Service is important. In that case, adding $1,000 to the selling price can be worth it to the customer if it means it can be repaired easily.

But when the product costs $500 and and has a predicted lifetime of less than 5 years and it isn't expected to be repaired by any but a tiny fraction of customers, it makes sense to ignore the repairability issues in favor of lower cost. Making that $500 device more repairable might add $100 to the selling cost, and that can be the difference between a hit that flies off the shelves and a total dud.
Check out the DeskMini series. It doesn’t have the battery thing you mentioned but it’s what I wish the Mac Mini was. You can fit 4 hard drives in it! 2 PCIe and 2 2.5”.
this, but sincerely and without sarcasm
> Is unused code something that your team is concerned about?

Not really, unused code is rarely a problem that businesses care about its unfortunately a user's problem.

I think businesses would care a lot more about code duplication. I can imagine a tool which uses fuzzy matching to find different levels of duplication in a codebase. It might even be an easier problem to solve.
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Can you explain why you're asking this question? It almost seems like a rherotical retort to the GP who is criticizing UI/UX designers while also introspecting their own misgivings and hypocritical aspects in software engineering. I thought it was well put.
>> Things like stopping fossil fuel subsidies

This would suffice. Let capitalism take care of the rest. It is simple insane that we are rolling with 1.3M year old technologies (burning shit) when new technologies already available because government intervention. Renewables, nuclear energy and few more alternatives already exist yet we are paying big money to oil companies to mine oil, do fracking (good bye clean water later) and burn coal. Absolutely insane, cave man level, literally.
(coauthor here) We used an adversarial loss in addition to a perceptual loss and MSE. None of these work super-well when the others are not used.

The adversarial loss "learns" what is a compressed image and tries to make the decoder go away from such outputs.

The perceptual (LPIPS) is not so sensitive to pure noise and allows for it, but is sensitive to texture details.

MSE tries to get the rough shape right.

We also asked users in a study to tell us which images they preferred when having access to the original. Most prefer the added details even if they're not exactly right.
I’m not really into it, but the problem they seemed to have with the fairphone was that it wasn’t getting new android versions for some reason. I guess you could argue wether or not developers should support old android versions but the reality is that they don’t.
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To be clear: citing one episode in Seattle against the dozens and dozens of "less justified" killings isn't really making the case the "vast majority of police killings are justified".

FWIW: I'm in the region, follow these things, and don't remember that episode. I'd be curious to follow a link to that video if you have it.

Edit: I found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8lebkOR_M4

You are deliberately misrepresenting that video! The shots are fired at 1:06, and the guy was, MAYBE in the process of stopping and turning toward the police. He was not facing them, at all. There is absolutely no "lunging" happening. His arms are tight to his sides, the knife isn't even visible, much less extended. And the shots are fired from WELL out of arms range, maybe 8-9 feet away. Hell, if you told me he was trying to surrender I'd half believe it. I'm looking at this and thinking... sorry, that killing was needless. He wasn't a threat. Or wasn't enough of a threat to make it worth killing him over.
Indeed. Reminds me of that infamous study about chloroquine ran by scientists of the university of Marseille in March. Despite all the criticism regarding the very small sample and a bunch of huge methodological failures, one of the authors started a campaign claiming that hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin could cure covid-19. That has been used by many politicians in USA and Brazil as a underlying reason for their claims that social distancing measures were unnecessary.

The losses in terms of time, money and, worst, lives because of this disinformation campaign are immeasurable and I feel really bad when I think that probably none of those who intentionally spread such false claims will be ever punished.
You can do this on Spotify if you start a radio station from a playlist.

Right click -> Go to playlist radio
You're a grifter's dream mark. It doesn't matter how ineffective government has proven itself to be when it comes to social welfare programs. You're only willing to support social welfare if you know the government is using force to coerce others into supporting it.
I think it's definitely related. At least it is my impression the Microsoft stores exist primarily for the Surface lineup. I also don't expect them to end the Surface lineup immediately, but it signals that they are at the very least slowing investment in that area.
Rural lifestyles are significantly impacted by increased fires, drought, heat, flooding - in particular farming is directly impacted by reduced yields and increased disasters.
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That wouldn't explain the flat rates in NYC [0] or Minneapolis and St. Paul (Hennepin/Ramsey County) [1]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/new-york-coronav...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/minnesota-corona...

edit: Also, Texas had a Phase 3 reopening on June 3, which is around the time of peak protest: https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-ph...
The difference is simply non-realtime corner cases. Most of driving is relatively straightforward processing for the human brain. But every once in a while, something weird happens: humans controlling traffic in an unexpected way, something weird happens to the road and a new emergent order arises from communication with the driver, a cop comes to the window and tells you some detail about the way the road is closed.

I don't drive much, but I still hit cases like this periodically, especially when driving through the canyons. From the user's perspective it's effectively the equivalent of taking transit, with very occasional non-realtime takeovers. By contrast, L4 can do all the things that don't require a human in the car at all, like cargo or getting to their next pickup.
WiFi could also interfere with other frequencies if a non-linear device is nearby. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodulation#Passive_interm...
The article does not consider this, but it works with light as well as RF.
meh. Truth can be found anywhere, and it's foolish to close your mind based on who is speaking.

FWIW reading Moldbug's analysis of left versus right is what made me return to self-identifying as liberal.
I recently met someone who claimed the symptoms of their SARS-CoV-2 infection started on December 7, 2019, soon after her friends returned from a trip to China. She said the doctors didn't know what to make of her ("lots of bloody mucus", iirc). By February her doctors realized they should test for SARS-CoV-2, and that she tested positive. Her symptoms mostly resolved by March 2020.

The conventional narrative tells us that SARS-CoV-2 started in Wuhan in December 2019 and reached the United States in January 2020 [1]. I think it perfectly reasonable to think this particular weakling virus spread rapidly in China starting in fall 2019, became more virulent as the sun went away and people's vitamin D levels went down. I think the virus blew up in Wuhan, China and northern Italy because of the air pollution [0].

When the medical industry came up with a test and decided to treat the most obvious symptoms of the virus (oxygen saturation levels) instead of the factors that made people vulnerable to the virus, casualties got out of control [2]. Now we've realized that the virus on its own, in a season with adequate sunlight, is basically equivalent to the flue: good at killing old people, not so good for justifying the massive disruptions hoisted upon us all.

Casualties have gone down now that doctors aren't ventilating so aggressively. Imagine what would happen if they realized Vitamin D and zinc deficiency and chronic inflammation and concurrent bacterial infections (TB, etc) are treatable conditions that make people vulnerable to the virus.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23085633

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0121-novel-coronavi...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22993264
Maybe you don't care if you had less money, but it'd sure make you happy if others did.

> The way to make that happen is sweeping government action, and nothing less.

But the US CO2 emissions no longer matter. You actually want a sweeping global government action, right?

Should we still have free elections? Nothing will change if this crazy situation continues!
Much of this data comes from a company called https://www.airsage.com/

The anonymization is a joke, they had fixed IDs over I think a 30 day window.

Airsage should be shut down and C-levels to the board should be jailed for wire tapping.
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Kinda like saying there is real Chinese baby formula out there however there are also fakes (which are responsible for metric tons of formula being shipped from AU to CN to this day).

People mistrust Chinese products because of the deadly history behind many of their products. That a reshipper is buying and repacking the cheapest products he can find isn't a condemnation of Chinese masks but its like black tar heroin, you don't exactly expect to see it in the best of places.

I still have vivid memories of that paper thin Chinese PPE disintegrating upon a nurse trying to take it out the package and wear it. The stuff isn't worth the bunker fuel used to ship it over. Much of this is due to people on both sides of the seas agreeing to buy and sell low spec garbage to each other, and it drags the entire Chinese 'name' down.
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All true. The comments so far are quite entertaining in explaining how it's not in fact the case; one even says that people should be able to avoid taxes while hoping to pay more taxes in a distant future.

But climate change advocates are not the only ones to blame. Absolutely nobody wants to change their behavior: no individual, no company, no country.

And so climate change is simply unavoidable. Trying to mitigate it is a waste of time IMHO; finding ways to live with it may be more fruitful.
Apple is easing its customers into AR, where 3D design will truly be seen in 3D form and won't just be an illusion.
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Same thing happened with Python for data science in 2023-2015. ie reinvent SQL using Python DSL.
I'd add that there are a fair number of corporate jobs that involve writing to greater or lesser degrees. Leaving aside tech writers in documentation, there is also content marketing such as company blogs and a fair number of people who have additional responsibilities of various sorts but who write quite a bit (including even full books) as a formal or informal part of their job.

Some of these jobs are unlikely to be at SWE level but they are mostly reasonable corporate salaries.
Nix may not be straightforward to learn, but Docker isn't straightforward to use. Container orchestration is a pain to deal with, for instance.
I had been paranoid about this for some time, thanks for confirming.

It is so trivially easy to decipher a person's life from their location data, especially with some simple ML.

The fact that it's so easy ensures in my mind that it's only a matter of time before this data falls into the hands of a true authoritarian administration.
Another thing I found interesting is that he earns $800 / month from a total of about 3 million listens. I wonder how this compares to the royalties from a radio play from a popular local radio station?

Comparatively, my dad has a moderately successful youtube channel, his most popular video has 18m views, and the next 3m. He has 66k subscribers. In an average month he'd earn ~£300 or so. Though usually quite a lot more around Christmas.
Especially blocking modals (which both stop your code and the user) are a damned easy way to interact with the user in most programming languages. Nothing is easier then to write alert("foo") or if(confirm("are you sure?")) do_sth();
Doesn't explain New York where Covid is just a little over 100 new cases/day. And there were, and still are, plenty of protests.
The task of a CEO in a pre-product research company is pretty different, I'd imagine. The fact that he was replaced is weak Bayesian evidence in that direction.
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> which is very different from the direct sum you suggest in your comment

I don't see how. I suspect that we are interpreting ordinary language words differently and talking past each other.

> a mode (something that has a creation operator)

And a corresponding annihilation operator. Yes, that's basically the definition I've been using.

> from its Hilbert space

But, as I said before, all of these states you describe are obtained by applying the creation operator for the mode to the vacuum state some number of times (and then, in some cases, forming linear combinations of states so obtained). But this process for all modes starts with the same vacuum state. There are not different vacuum states for different modes. So ultimately, all of these states belong to the same Hilbert space, since they're all obtained starting from the same vacuum state; and this Hilbert space will also contain states that have more than one "mode" in them--states obtained by applying creation operators for different modes to the vacuum state, or linear combinations of states so obtained.
I don’t see the problem there, and the hypothecated problem is consistent with many others in America. It would help if taxation was simpler and more transparent, but currently it sounds like states aren’t allowed to help their citizens file because of lobbying from the software companies providing this service.

Another solution is to take some of the extra money gathered and spend it on better educating children and adults about tax.
Most countries managed to get the pandemic mostly under control. If we managed to do the same for climate change, we'd be pretty far along.
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It gives what percentage of the protestors were black in each city, 18% in Atlanta, 3% in Los Angeles, 11% in Minneapolis, and 14% in New York City.

In all of those cities that's lower than the percentage of black people in the general population, so black people were underrepresented. But they were much more underrepresented in Los Angeles and Atlanta than in Minneapolis or New York.

Here's a table. First column is percent among protestors. Second is percent among general population. Third is first column as a percent of second column.

18 52 35 Atlanta
3 11 27 Los Angeles
11 19 58 Minneapolis
14 24 58 New York City

I.e., in New York and Minneapolis you had close to 60% as many black people as you would have expected if you just went by city demographics. In Atlanta it was only 35% and only 27% in Los Angeles.

I wonder if there is some factor, especially in Los Angeles and Atlanta, that discouraged black people from wanting to attend or some hardship to attending that disproportionately fell on black people?
Good points. PTSD stressors can come from minor traffic stops too, since while it may be rare, they can turn into a lethal situation in a blink of an eye.
A lot of these policing issues seems to come from progressive localities so I'm not sure it's even due to government unwillingness to solve the issues.

Most organizations are really extremely bad at dealing with internal abuses which is why external watchdogs could work very well.

Mandatory body cams make a lot of sense but if you need to deal with the opposition of 1000s local police unions it's not going to happen very quickly.
Of course it won't be stopped as long as people continue to think this is a personal responsibility issue, and ignore that the military is the #1 greenhouse gas producer on the planet. After that we have extremely high producers of carbon operating at global scale in transportation, manufacturing and agriculture. This is not a personal responsibility issue, it is a cause for legal regulation to force the military and corporate operations to go green.
The test from March 2019 wasn't even consistent for a positive result.

It found only two of five proteins searched for. Clearly a false positive.
As user dragonwriter points out there are a number of reasons this likely won't help very much.

I'd love to see all complaints of brutality and all deaths caused by police be investigated by a different organization (maybe a state level org) and if cops are found to be brutalizing/murdering people they are fired or arrested depending on the severity of their actions.
Didn't coronavirus prove that individual action wouldn't do much to curb climate change and that corporations and governments needed to do a lot more in order to truly have an effect? With maybe the exception of meat consumption basically all the individual actions that could have been taken were.

I agree there is a lot of hypocrisy in the modern environmental movement but status quo bias and corruption play a larger role in our situation than a lack of credibility from environmentalists
Make the officers buy it personally. Have cities pay officers 110% of the base rate, such that officers with clean records get a bonus based on it. Those whose rates go up will pay the difference or leave the force.

BTW, I hate that America has become so neoliberalized that I end up needing to consider how to build a profit motive into having cops not violate constitutional rights.
The march 2019 finding is almost certainly a false positive. This is the more interesting and potentially more robust finding from the paper:

"Unexpectedly, analysis of archival samples revealed the increasing occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 genomes in samples from January 15 to March 4, 2020 (Figure 1, panels D and E). Of note, SARS-CoV-2 was detected in sewage 41 days (January 15)
before the declaration of the first COVID-19 case (February 25), clearly evidencing the validity of wastewater surveillance to anticipate cases in the population."

This is unfortunately likely to be overshadowed by the march 2019 thing, and I'm surprised that the authors felt comfortable drawing an actual conclusion based off of the 2019 finding and presenting it as "indicating" that widespread circulation was occurring nearly a year before the pandemic hit worldwide circulation. It's not responsible science and might draw doubts on the validity of the other, more interesting conclusion with more evidence to back it up, and rightfully so.
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Removing the source of the recommendation from your history works a lot more reliably. Sometimes the "Not interested" button will allow you to say "I don't want recommendations based on <X> videos", but they're in denial about how that's the only thing their recommendation engine does, so the option isn't always there.
I personally don't like the reactive model especially with RxJava. You quickly end up in Observable hell.
>By only pointing a finger to the other side

You must have missed the very first thing I said in this comment chain: "I too dislike hyper aggressive militarized police who act above the law"

>nobody really cares about the cause, unless it helps with providing a solution to the problem. By only pointing to the cause, you imply that the solution to the problem lies there too, which, in this case, is both very questionable, and classic victim-blaming.

I'm startled to see so many people on a technical forum such as HN speaking as if they have no technical problem solving experience.

Imagine there was a critical bug in some software you are responsible for, causing massive distress for millions of users, even killing some. The first step in debugging an issue is to identify the cause(s), right? Imagine if your non technical boss had the gall to scold you for trying to identify the cause(s), saying "nobody really cares about the cause..by only pointing to the cause, you imply that the solution to the problem lies there too".
Perhaps the valuable takeaway to this is what we have is good but not enough? I don’t have any profound insight here, but I think it’s at least encouraging to know that there could still be some innovation in language design out there to be discovered yet, and we’re not just doing it wrong all the time because we’re absolutely daft. Rather, it’s a refreshing admonishment to hear there is no magic bullet and yes, sometimes code will have to be a little sticky.
"Aren't inputs usually on a queue" isn't really an easy question to answer because there's so many levels of it (and I'm not saying that to be difficult)

But generally if we're talking about Unity and stuff like GetButton, no. You're polling for input at a specific point in time.

Like I said, FixedUpdate can be called multiple times a frame, or not at all, so there'll be entire frames where Update is called (and you'd have gotten input), but FixedUpdate isn't (and you miss that input)

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And AI moving and actually running AI are two different things.

You want the AI's physics-based effects to be in FixedUpdate like any other physics, but you don't want your AI to be in FixedUpdate.

A lot of people don't seem to get, FixedUpdate isn't magical, it's trying to run at a target rate, but if your game can't do it's work at that rate, there's no way to "cheat" time

So it will try and run 2 times in a row for one frame if your frames are slow enough. And if your FixedUpdate is slow enough, it won't be able to run 2 times quickly enough, and then the next frame it needs 3 runs to "average out" to the correct number of calls per frame.

That creates a cascading effect that leaves it trying to run as many FixedUpdates as it can.

It also leads to a weird sort of "jitter" where FixedUpdate is called several times and your AI in turn updates several times before Update is called once. So it "sees" the same exact world view multiple times in a row and acts on it (unless all your game's logic is in FixedUpdate, which you definitely shouldn't do) then the next frame because the engine "caught up" on FixedUpdate calls, FixedUpdate isn't called at all, while Update is called, and your AI doesn't act on the new world view from Update's logic until the next frame.

Instead, if you want a repeatable task updating independent of frame-rate like AI, in Unity use a coroutine or "InvokeRepeating"