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I don't read it that way at all.

I think most people understand there are many places to buy stuff.

Shopping malls are 'one kind of place' and they have special rules.

I haven't set foot in a Mall in a few years literally, they can't be that important.
Wow. That is a great line.
Totally agree. The comic is straight catastrophizing.
> the derivative (tangent) of the minimum (lowest point) of any curve is zero (horizontal).
> holding their pencil up to it at the lowest point and laying it along, and discovering that, sure enough, the tangent is horizontal.

Any gifs showing that? just really curious and can't picture that in my head.
I point a camera at the sun for long periods to take multiple exposures (goal is to watch a sunspot moving across the sun). People also use solar trackers to keep solar panels aligned with the sun.

I thought PETG has a higher elastic modulus than PLA, but I haven't really tried it. I generally size my pieces to not flex, since that introduces error in the tracker.
Winning a negative-sum game is a pyrrhic victory [1]. Charitably I'd call Larry Ellison very competitive but the uncharitable description is cut-throat (i.e. Machiavellian). Enterprise software sales is a naturally zero-sum game and Ellison is a salesman as much as he is a technical/business strategist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory
I think the key thing is that there's a wide range in the amount of effort someone will put into looking for bugs/exploits, guided by a number of factors, like how fun the bug is to work on, the monetary reward, and any prestige from being the one to find it.

If an obvious vuln appears, obviously report it. But, these reports require a lot of work. It'd also be perfectly ok if the researcher reported whatever obscure behaviour they found initially, and went to go look at other targets with better bounties, played with their dog, etc.
> 110 ms is not faster than human perception.

OK yes, it a literal sense you can see things that happen in less than 100ms. What I mean is that you can't tell whether the nominal amount of flicker on page load is from the time it takes to paint the DOM or from the network request. Unless you were asking a professional front end developer, I don't think most people would even have any intuition about what was happening.
Given that today most people do:

- Use smartphones as a primary (or major) clock

- Have clocks at home which automatically sync the clock.

I wonder if we can just split the one large change of 1h to 6 smaller changes of each 10 minutes spaced apart by a week or two.

I guess people with traditional wristband clocks or similar would be really annoyed by it.

But then if you forget you are only 10min late/early ;)
(which yes might be fatal if you miss a train or so).

Anyway research shows that permanent summer time would have bad biological consequences especially for people with a social jet lack, i.e. people which need to stand up before their inner clock likes it.

Ironically this tend to also be the people which often favor permanent summer time as it allows them to better use the reduced sunlight time in winter. Except that this has a very good chance of making their social yet lack worse. Which can have all kind of negative health effect from reduced mental capacity over mode swings to overweight (or at least correlates with such negative effect, and I know correlation is not causation).
>> how do you think people get into crime to begin with?

lack of opportunity, lack of skills and lack of work ethic. As in it's easy to do, no barrier to entry and always availble.

Most crimes don't actually pay very well and have poor return if you've got any sort of marketable skills. Armed robbery of a bank will get you on average $1200 and 15-20 years.
>Game design 101 starts with learning to program or do graphics.

No it doesn't, any more than architecture 101 starts with bricklaying, or novel writing 101 starts with learning typesetting and printing.
This is probably the root of the disagreement. I'm pretty confident 9-5 is easier to change than the existence of DST.
>" I've read countless design suggestions to reduce contrast and avoid using pure black"

>"I've read countless design suggestions to reduce contrast"
I would say that modern design suggestion often the opposite of usability/ergonomics. On many sites you now often see undecipherable light grey text on white background. It sure is soothing. It also sure is useless as many people who do not have perfect vision are unable to actually read it without blowing text size out of proportion.
This really resonates with where I feel a lot of these systems are headed first. Having a system that aids the reader/user or augments their own abilities are far more palatable to a system with tons of regulation. Imagine a chest xray scanner that highlights places that are typically missed by radiologists, or enhances the opacities in that area. If I'm not mistaken, philips or siemens have a program that does just that.
Did they measures vitamin c levels in other people? How do they know their test wasn't broken?
i just dont get why this deserves mentioning? espefially in a clearly negative way
Sure, well written software has no vulnerabilities.
I know that this is a genre of American millennial/Gen X mid-life crisis clickbait, but it reminds me a lot of journal entries I wrote when I was not very invested in the present moment. I'd either look forward into the future or backwards into the past. But eventually I got tired of doing that, of measuring accomplishments, of basically robbing myself of the joy of experiencing life. Some of this can be attributed to time and life experience. Some of it maybe can be attributed to me not handling American cities so well.

The most important change started when I began to travel. Just spending a bit of time in Europe showed this neurotic American with overachiever tendencies so much about how to relax and live a little. It was a complete shock to the system, and in a very good way. It forced me to address -- at that moment -- how would I live life and enjoy it if I didn't have my career and "accomplishments" and lived in a society where most people derive fulfillment outside of that? I began to realize that my life was full of many proverbial Michelin-star rated meals that I was wolfing down like a burger -- that's no way to go about things!

Being back stateside, I guess I appreciate that even more because I once again recognize how very much abnormal that is in much of the country. I have to catch myself because it's so easy to slip back into keeping up with Jones who live inside my head.
Testing a $1300 120,000lm water-cooled LED
Tesla's competition wanted to make sure that their margins don't decrease, as most of their stock holders are chasing dividends. Dividends made sense in the 20th century (and those companies had better performance), but since 1990-2000 companies that reinvested all their money into R&D and gave back 0 dividends had better returns even disregarding the tax advantages.
"my family in other countries are dependent on Whatsapp"

No, they're not. You should not get to restrict others' freedom because you are too lazy to convince your family too live your values.
> cemented their place in future business school classes as how not to go about a negotiation

it isn't a negotiation, it's an anti-trust lawsuit. Tim Sweeney made it clear that the only 'deal' he is willing to accept is 3rd party stores.
Except I never claimed it could be done in a weekend, only that it shouldn't take 1,600 employees two years to roll out a single feature while the main app has severe problems (zero error handling during downtime).

Then there's Slack's other "features", like the rich text editor nobody liked or wanted and that they initially refused to change.

Look at Teams' trajectory in the same timeframe.

Slack video calling is still bad. It's been years.
> "If the Spotify web store is more profitable than the Spotify iOS store, because Apple wants ITS CUSTOMERS to get the same deal"

I am surprised how this unprecedented practice is not widely discussed - I am not aware of any situation in real life where you rent a store and you are told you cannot charge what you want.

There are established limits on what a contract can enforce, an outrageous terms are not considered valid in court. For instance a phone operator could not have penalty of £10,000 for a going over your credit.

I believe this term should be considered outrageous - if apple wants to charge 100% tax, thats fine, but their customers will pay 100% more and then they might have questipms for Apple.
Yes, please do! Really highlights the impact. Great work Jack
I had exactly the same thought.
Why is it absurd when it’s run by the former Tesla CTO? I mean it couldn’t be less clear what the relationship between this company and Tesla is.

Did Tesla fund this company? Or Elon? What transactions have taken place between Tesla and this co?
Installing Arch from Scratch on Kimsufi
You can still make a device with easily replaceable batteries water resistant (or even water proof), but it's easier (read: less bulky) to do it with a non-replaceable battery.

Compactness is definitely a major tradeoff though.
Absolutely. I'm a native French speaker, but the comma separating the ticker symbol from the company name mislead me into understanding "one of the brains behind Tesla Inc [..] that refuse", and given the common pattern in articles in which either employees, shareholders, or investors join their forces against X, I bought it hook, line, and sinker. Thank you! I completely ignored the possibility.
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OP is presumably offering a characterisation, probably accurate, of the office management companies' thinking.
Yes, how does it come that I can see that link but not if I visit the comments section?

Edit: Oh, see edit in title.
Public transportation is awful. California keeps trying to implement it, but it's poorly maintained and no one wants to get rid of their cars. It's only preferable when no one wants or plans to go anywhere outside the preallocated / approved locations.

You don't seem to have addressed the needs of anyone who doesn't live in a dense city. How about suburbia? The midwest? Try walking a couple blocks in Phoenix, AZ in summer.

I really doubt that our government, state or national, is capable of maintaining a decent infrastructure. California is certainly a good example of the propensity towards failure. (Maybe if we try again, with some extra rules, they'll do better next time?)

> we do a very poor job making the alternatives attractive...until we can either make car ownership/use more expensive

I really hope that the solution to poor transportation infrastructure won't be making the part that works even worse.
It has links to something other than Wikipedia. That sets off a spam filter for many people right off the bat.
Ag yes, that paragon of ethical data use, Google.
Phenomenal work, this is really fun to play around with
Using Vim's Conceal Feature to Make Code More Readable (For You)
but did you put a radiation source next to your non-ecc ram?
Nreal Light MR smart glasses make their retail debut
Opiate dealers often stock narcan.
Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) solver on Julia
Lets face it, localstorage is just cookies with extra space for more chips. Controls around cookies need to apply to localstorage as well.

I'd really like to be able to edit cookie lifetimes on a site-by-site basis. Overlap where cookies are reused by multiple sites. Plenty of cookies should be discarded a minute after last use. Others should stay around because they're useful.
How so? Ethereum requires a computer, and it's far cheaper to compute on your computer than compute has on your computer.

Ethereum is an unstoppable world chat room (ledger), maybe.
Another likely outcome is that folks aren't going to look at all, or only at a surface level. This leaves low hanging bugs for those with malicious intent to find easily.
This essay expresses the futility of ambition against distraction as well as the unproductive cycle of comparing yourself to others as a means of understanding your potential. I have certainly felt this way, and I imagine many do.

I take comfort in the idea that the world (and our lives) are constantly rocked by random circumstance and opportunity, and while there is a lot one can do to maximize our realized potential, we can't be completely responsible for our fulfillment.
Funny piece. It can be so easy to waste time when we have the internet. I think the most dangerous distractions are the ones that feel productive but don’t actually work toward your goals. For example, browsing hacker news. Such an activity is useful every now and then, but at least for myself I often scroll around only to realize later that it was a massive waste of time I could’ve spent working on something I care about. I think the brain justifies it since hey, at least I’m “learning” something (not really).

Even something like an addictive videogame is designed to make you feel productive by giving you levels to progress through etc—fundamentally I think we all have a desire to produce, it’s just easy to spend time putting that energy into the wrong forms of productive activity, since these are usually easier and less isolating than actually producing crafts or products.
Alternately: When you have a wife and kids and job you like, a lot of your most important needs are well met -- if you can keep juggling everything.

Someone with hours and hours to do nothing likely isn't getting laid, isn't making much money, isn't intellectually gratified, etc. So you play games to occupy yourself to keep from going bonkers.
Nightly is totally unstable. Features get added, and might get removed if the team decides they're not a good idea. So programs that want to use such an experimental feature might only work for a certain few versions of Nightly, because Nightly only guarantees the stability of features that have been released to Stable.

That's why it's strongly recommended not to use Nightly to write your programs: they'll almost certainly break, and since Nightly gets released every 24 hours they might break daily. If you don't have the time to fix things every day, you shouldn't be using the unstable features!
I think I need to write a blog post to do a retrospective on what I learned writing iod, silicon, lithium (and vpp, a small image processing lib). There is so much to tell.

Just to be short, here is my phylosophy:

- don't think too much when you write it the first time, just do it quick. Do all the mistakes and ugly code first and then rething/rewrite things when it can actually simplify the codebase. Big refactors are much more productive and successful than big premature design thinking.
- Only expose the complexity that the user need. Simple things should stay simple even if we can do more complex stuff. Look for simplicity everywhere.
- Profile before optimizing, the bottleneck is never where you think it is.

For you question about metaprogramming, it is used yes. The core of the framework is build around a compile time key/value map that unroll json and get/post parameter de/serialization at compile time [1] so no dynamic dictionary involving costly malloc is needed.

[1] https://github.com/matt-42/lithium/tree/master/libraries/met...
One entity doesn’t own all the buildings though. Google, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, etc all have their own malls and properties you can go to to get your Fortnite. It’s up to the customer which they go to.

If iOS was a monopoly, how is it possible to get Fortnite on all these other platforms? That just doesn’t make any sense. The only monopoly Apple has is on selling and licensing their own products.
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If you read this book it will make sense https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
Well you got published in the New Yorker, so there’s that.
I'm in my 50's and I read less now, it's because writers are now younger than me and they tell stories I've already lived. I suspect all older folk might feel the same? Writing is for the young? Being published is for the young?
How is it remotely similar? If you want to argue their fee is predatory or too high that might make more sense but the concept of charging a fee to use a distribution channel is present in every single aspect of selling a product. Epic wants to make more money, fine. It’s not a noble endeavor with our best interest at heart. It is a calculated business move to allow them to cut down the distribution fee or remove it entirely. What is a reasonable fee for Apple to impose on the imaginary third party stores? None?
I've been thinking a lot lately about a line from the movie Master and Commander, a euology (though perhaps not much 'eu' about it) for a dead character.

"The simple truth is, not all of us become the men we once hoped we might be"

Spoken by a character who very much has. I don't really have much comment beyond that.
I wonder if a better starting point would be consulting a well-regarded oncologist or gastroenterologist.

That might be your best resource for assessing your personal risk profile, and developing an early-detection strategy. That also might be the fastest way to persuade a gastroenterologist to perform the exam, if appropriate.
Yes, how embarrassing.

Due to some non-hackernews related reasons the More button was basically non visible to me.
This hits me in the feels. 36.
It's a little more nuanced than that.

In Russia, they got rid of the DST a few years ago, but then the folks in Moscow (+0300/+0400) were really upset during the winter still living in DST's +0400 from the summer -- they'd never see the sunlight the whole day -- go to work in the dark, come back home in the dark as well. Moscow being quite North (with less sun in the winter) helped exaggerate the issue.

So, after a few years, they've had to change the time in Russia once again -- now to permanent Winter (standard time), with +0300 in Moscow.

What happened in Saratov, which would normally have had +0400/+0500 if sunset/sunrise alone were to determine the timezone? Because having Moscow Time is very convenient, it always used to follow Moscow Time, because there was only a 1h difference from the natural sunlight-based timezone. However, now the difference would be as high as 2h during the summer (+0300 from Moscow instead of +0500 from DST from +0400). So, after a few years of living with permanent +0300 from Moscow, they've finally had enough, and decided to finally abandon Moscow time, and switch to the permanent standard time more appropriate for the geography -- year-round +0400.

There's been similar issues elsewhere in Russia, which, basically, had quite a bit of the timezone map completely re-drawn during all these switchovers of the 2010s when the summer/winter time change has been abandoned.

tl;dr: in the US, we can't simply abandon DST but keep the timezones the same otherwise; we'd probably have to re-draw some parts of the whole map so that each place gets the option to align the permanent time either with the Winter or the Summer. It'll be a bit of a mess. The law in the US only lets the local folk to decide whether or not they want DST (e.g., Arizona has permanent winter time); you cannot decide to keep DST permanently (which is what the parent poster wants, or which is what the folks in Nevada want), or switch to a different timezone easily. I do hope we end up abolishing the time change; but it won't be easy; especially if we simply assume that everyone wants permanent non-DST or DST of their existing timezone.

another tl;dr: basically, in Nevada, a 1h difference from their proper sunset/sunrise timezone is fine to align themselves better with California, but if we abandon DST, then their time will be 2h off in the summer from sunset/sunrise; so, they should be allowed to keep PDT permanently, or, in other words, switch from PST/PDT to a permanent MST like Arizona, which requires US DOT approval.

Of course, because so many steps are involved, it becomes complicated to even say what you actually want.
No! The danger in forcing programmers to pick a timeout is that they will pick the wrong value, most often a too short timeout, because they have been testing their software on a super-fast internal network and haven't considered the poor users in the real world.

Case in point: Google's Waze. If I have a slow mobile connection (e.g. edge or even 3g), Waze will repeatedly fail to load a driving route. It will think for a few seconds at most, then timeout and tell me there was a problem. If it only would wait a few more seconds to load, then the app would be useful. Instead, due to their crappy choice of timeouts, the app becomes useless.
What about when someone creates a loan in your name or steals your tax refund or your real estate down payment?
Thats Parkinson's law phrased very nicely.
Funny and all too familiar, especially during Covid. For a 700+ page take on this theme, check out The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. If you finish it, you'll at least feel like you accomplished something worthwhile.
Not All English Majors.

I had a friend in college who had a way with words and was an activist. But her dream was as a fiction writer, and last I checked in on her she has gotten nowhere with that.

The things she could have accomplished writing nonfiction...

You know how we sometimes don’t talk to childhood friends because they saw a better or more hopeful version of us and it’s too painful to think what the person we were would think of the person we’ve become? Turns out that goes both ways sometimes, and the reason you haven’t heard from them might be that they don’t want to remind you either. It would be cruel, maybe even dishonor the time we had together.
Oh!

Ok, that’s new to me. Thanks.
Looking to have easy control of monitor brightness?

For Mac users, look at https://lunar.fyi/. There are a bunch of other options as well.

For Windows, look at https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian
What I've learned is that HN has its share of racist trolls, such as yourself.
Yeah, my Galaxy Xcover is IP68 (dust/water resistant) and the battery is trivial to replace. I think the situation is the same for CAT and other rugged phones.
I think that this bias of "revolutionary over incremental" might be holding science back in a variety of other areas as well. It's kind of like how I've heard that Google's promotion structure incentivizes new services and initiatives over improving old ones, leading to deprecations and extreme redesigns for little tangible benefit.
easy mistake to make :) I'd be curious how many people aren't even aware that threads can span multiple pages - dang even sometimes pins a comment to remind people at the top.
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> They will live in dense areas if they can.

The immense popularity of the quiet suburb seems to disprove this statement.
Why do they have a right to be on the platform?
From Taleb's "Antifragile":

"Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.If tired after an intercontinental flight, go to the gym for some exertion instead of resting. Also, it is a well known trick that if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office. Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated - the busier they get, the more active they are at other tasks."
> Apple Macintosh?

PC as in Personal Computer, which includes Macs, but even if one were to take the strict interpretation of "IBM Compatible PC", that also includes the current x86 Macs, at least until the first Apple Silicon models appear.

I'm pretty sure you know this all :)
I see - so the protection one could gain from being a miner that the article alluded to would come not just from being a miner, but from successfully mining blocks.

That distinction is needed since, no matter how slow and painfully inefficient I am, if I am running the miner I am, indeed, a miner on the network ...