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I think they just want to put more electronics onto the device.

Rear illuminated sensors were getting more, and more "smart" over they years.
For those interested, here is Arthur Ashkin giving what would have been his 2018 Nobel Lecture in Aspen, Colorado, in early 2019. He was unable to travel to Stockholm at the time. The talk is quite accessible if you want to understand how tweezers work.

https://youtu.be/vb58pd2ycKQ
Good example because lead acid automotive battery manufacturing is close to being closed loop as 98% of battery material is recycled. Even the spent acid is converted to washing powder. The plastic and lead go right back into making new batteries.

This is certainly needed for lithium and other rechargeable battery tech going forward.
Health insurance is 30% cheaper in LA than SF (context: in the same state)
I run an alternative data website, and I recently decided to examine different companies’ environmental impact. This data comes from the EPA’s ECHO database, which tracks greenhouse gas emissions from facilities around the US.

Looking to expand on this dashboard over the next few weeks, please let me know if you have any suggestions on other data sources or visualizations to consider adding.
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I'm curious how well data centers are protected from such a coordinated attack that involves an insider? Can a determined, educated group of terrorists disable multiple data centers (e.g. of Amazon) at once? What data center redundancy do the cloud providers have - can they withstand losing 2 data centers at once? How about 5?

I'm sure they have good protection against technical accidents. But in the times when everybody moves their apps and systems into the cloud I'm not equally confident the cloud providers are equally well protected against a sophisticated, coordinated attack.
It's extremely poor communication and writing and worth a down vote.
I felt like a monkey in a spaceship driving the Highlander for the first time. The 3d view of your surroundings, rear camera you mentioned, cruise with following distances and adjustable speed, blind spot sensors, automated throttle to improve fuel economy, etc. I know a lot of people reading this will think "Yeah but your 'spaceship' has nothing on a tesla and sounds like any car I've been driving for years", but... Like I said, I was limping cars along. My last two vehicles were a '98 and an '03.

I was such a "point a to point b, what else could you need?" person, haha. Unknown unknowns and all that, I guess.

You're right though, I probably won't be wowed by a new car for another 10 or 15 years. I'm perfectly alright with that!
Cheapest and most stable to mass produce. A lot of semis don't need CPU level form factor
Here is a fantastic, though somewhat outdated overview [1]. Section 5 is most relevant to your question. The network topology today is a little different. Think of Level3 as an NSP, which is now called a "Tier 1 network" [2]. The diagram should show links among the Tier 1 networks ("peering"), but does not.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/class/msande91si/www-spr04/readings...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network
When counterfeit batteries can explode and cause serious injury or death, I consider any measures to have the device reject counterfeit batteries consumer-friendly.
My opinion is that this, like many issues were seeing today, is largely an issue with ongoing consolidation trends. The less diversity of systems/solutions we have for a given problem or set if problems, the less chance we're protected from unknown unknowns that creep up. The more diversity you have in systems, the more likely you have some option that is hardened against unknown unknowns when they arrive and the quicker we can work around them.

Modern society is all about consolidating systems into a few efficient solutions typically dictated by market forces which I argue, don't concern themselves much with these sorts of problems. As a result, when we run into problems, we're left with fewer options to resort to and instead have to identify problems and develop new solutions on-the-fly. Consolidation leads to complacency and stagnation.

Sometimes this is reasonable (and even desirable) for certain non-critical systems, it just doesn't make financial sense to pour resources into system diversity for certain systems we could do without--find the one that works best/most efficiently and use it. If it breaks, it's not critical and the work around can wait.

On the other hand, if a system is critical, then I think it behooves us to continue looking at improvements of existing systems and alloting resources to investigating new approaches.
Has potential, but is little bit rigid by design. It doesnt give the flexibility to add notes using markdown and links together. Also it is completely online, that is kind of a deal breaker for most people. Today with issue of privacy, people want data to be in their own control, offline accessible.

Like Trilium Notes does. I am not the author, but it is a really KB system.
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In Canada we have a recycling fee for computer stuff and tires for example. In some cases (tire "recycle" centre) it was found they were just dumping them. (Please somebody correct me if I remember this wrong).

Gentle reminder "recycle" is the last thing to do in the "reduce, reuse, recycle".
Was down from Latvia too, up now.
Hello, I have found one android browser based on Chrome that have extension (addon) support : "Kiwi Browser". https://kiwibrowser.com/ note: Its extension store is the Google Chrome Store.
IME, this works pretty well.

1. Step by step instructions to get the development environment setup. If they run into an issue, update the guide.

2. Deep dive into the product, how the business works, where product is going + why, and how their work impacts all that.

3. Set 30/60/90 day goals.

4. Give them tasks (maybe explicitly make some of them pairing tasks if that is part of your eng culture).

5. Regular check ins (this varies based upon their progress and how much they're reaching out for help on their own, but at least weekly).

6. Have them schedule 30 minute informal chats with everyone they'll be working with on a regular basis.

The idea behind these steps is to give them the tools, context, and support they'll need to be effective then getting out of the way so learning through doing can start as quickly as possible.
No. Just. No.

I suck at crypto. Others are much better than I, and there's a huge plethora of really good implementations out there that get hammered by blackhats and red teams all the time.

There's too much at stake for me to add a naive implementation.
There is a bug in the last level. This css works (the path collision detection allows it):

.tower-group-1 {display: flex;}
.tower-1-1 {}
.tower-1-2 {}
.tower-1-3 {align-self: center;}
.tower-1-4 {order: -1;}
.tower-1-5 {order: -1;}
That’s roughly what I did, and I retired after 12 years.
You're right - I guess in that case it would be wise to ask your previous employer to provide proof that you're no longer able to access anything, and no longer liable. Many wouldn't offer that, but I'm not sure how else you could navigate that.
Cloudflare status page:
Update - Major transit providers are taking action to work around the network that is experiencing issues and affecting global traffic.

We are applying corrective action in our data centers as the situation changes in order to improve reachability
Aug 30, 14:26 UTC

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com
At which point I answer a captcha and move on with my life? Seems like an OK trade
My main criticism about Alexa at least boils down to bad usability. To me, it feels like learning a bunch of magic spells by heart. It feels so awkward. I am used to exact commands as a long-time CLI user. However, when it comes to speech, I somehow don't want to accept having to remember the other end of a pattern matcher. All the skills I have tried so far had a similar feel to it. I feel overwhelmed when I realize I have to remember how to launch the skill. I should probably give GA a try one day. But for now, I give the voice assistant thing 5 more years, hopefully it will be something I want to use then.
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When I go camping my body almost immediately reverts to a more primitive cycle of waking up immediately at dawn and going to sleep at sunset. Takes about 3-4 days.

It's just so much better psychologically and physiologically but it's also amazingly practical. I don't need a flashlight and the BEST time to hike and be active is dawn and dusk when it's cooler.

I'll even start taking naps in the middle of the day the same way other large animals do (bears, deer, etc).
Same here :) Couple of companies started complaining. Told them it's a worldwide issue. It seems going better at the moment.
And Opel Corsa, and W EGolf and VW EUP
jonplackett was asking about 28nm because chips were being mass produced at that size in 2013 already. Nowadays people are used to reading news about 5nm as a new process size.

> You did.. read the article right?

Please don't be snarky like this. Asking whether someone read the article is specifically against HN guidelines. [1]

--

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ah, thank you! It looks like Agenda[0] does use that model. Here's a blog post with details[1] in which they mention that Sketch[2] also uses the same business model (with some minor variations).

tl;dr: you buy the app and 1 year of updates. You keep what you pay for.

I wonder if it would be viable for an app like photoshop to have a feature marketplace. You start with a very basic version of the app and you buy the features you want piecemeal. You then have a separate service contract for ongoing support (ie: bug fixes).

[0]: https://agenda.com/
[1]: https://medium.com/@drewmccormack/a-cash-cow-is-on-the-agend...
[2]: https://www.sketch.com/
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I have used emacs with make for this purpose. It works, but the main issue is white space. Any language that has significant white space is liable to break in org mode, and a ton of devops tools are python based, or python like.

I've been using guile and noweb, with a tangle I wrote myself, for literate devops on top of Guix and it works better than anything else I've tried.
Thanks. Finally I have evidence to backup the fact that my hometown's time zone (Rio de Janeiro) actually makes a lot of sense relative to nearly anywhere else I've ever traveled to, including my current city, New York
The blog post was inspired by The Recursive Universe by William Poundstone. I read this book years ago and found it amazing. I recently read another book by him, Fortune’s Formula, which features the Kelly Criterion, Claude Shannon beating roulette, card counting in blackjack, and the surprising origins of Warner Bros. Recommended for sure. Thanks to the HN poster who suggested it.
That's new to me! because I never ride a bike more than 10 minutes at a time haha.

Everything you describe is what I experience. I have good time sitting on my old wooden chair, and yes, the butt is free of pain (but my back hurt instead, because its backrest is in upright 90 degree angle) also there is not armrest whatsoever so I can't work for long....

well, maybe that's the point, I need to move more.
I don’t agree with the author definition on what is original:

Copying Standard Oil solution (different industry) when it was faced with an equivalent problem, was an innovation in meat transportation. It’s an original idea In it’s own right, nobody did that before, it wasn’t tested, there were no guarantees that “oil solution” would work also in meat.
> My current theory: The current Internet with the crappy BGP security model is the way it is because it was built by network admins turned amateur software developers. We need raise the level of software quality in the core parts of the net.

Further proving my point. Thanks and have a great day!
Well, it can't hit zero because you'd need equal numbers for that, and they're not coprime ;)

It can't be negative because you cheat and always put "larger - smaller". See your own example: you go:

13 - 7 = 6 -> 7 - 6 = 1
a - b = c -> b - c = d

But then then you do:

6 - 1 = 5 -> 5 - 1 = 4
a - b = c -> c - b = d

Which switches the order. What if you don't?
Appreciate the reference, cheers.
BGP has always had this issue. It depends on trustworthy information being available. Any trusted source who starts lying (or just screws up) is going to cause routing problems.
Thanks for your Service.

We desperately need a lot of skilled tech writers. The state of documentation, these days, fills me with despair.
Agreed. I went to Reddit r/networking and the mods were closing helpful threads in real-time :(
It's just a feedback loop. Nothing terrible.
You mention irregular sleep as a factor here, did you ever try taking a nap every day to see if that helps?

The only time I've had this sort of hyper-productivity feeling, I was working out consistently in the mornings, and always napping around noon, maybe thereby giving a boost in energy levels for "the next stretch" of the day.

I also wish I could reproduce this sensation. For me, I think having clear overarching long term goals, that every routine action built towards helped a lot. Summoning the energy to get started is a lot easier if I have an obvious reason for doing it, and once I get started I usually felt great about it anyways.
You're still talking past me. A standard form factor won't solve the trust problem.

Most people don't know how to choose a proper hard drive compatible with their M.2 adapter or cable for their USB device. Many people also buy counterfeit USB sticks and SSDs that don't have near the capacity they advertise. You and other tech-literate people aren't the only consumers manufacturers are selling to. Nor are people always sufficiently educated, or living among stores with sufficient reputation to source from a reputable aftermarket vendor for their replacements.
Root cause identified. Folks are turning things back on now.
You might enjoy the book Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport. It's helped me figure out how control the apps, instead of them controlling me.
But if you think about it, MOST people DO wear masks -- and to mitigate climate change, the strategy is not to convince everyone to voluntarily change their behavior, it's to price in the externalities, changing incentives, and let the behavior changes naturally flow from that. That just takes a small group of dedicated individuals, and a pretty decent majority of Americans already support climate legislation (our representatives are kinda lagging behind in that department).

Imagine if we had a way to magically make everything more expensive to people who don't wear masks :)

Also, even if everyone were willing to make the necessary changes voluntarily, I wouldn't have much confidence in our ability to accurately calculate which actions have the most impact on our climate footprint, without involving market mechanisms in some way. We'd probably focus on stuff that feels important over stuff that's mundane but actually has a much bigger impact. As an example, I'm kinda thinking of people who do that "zero-waste" thing (refers to landfill waste), which is fine, but you can live "zero waste" and still have a pretty substantial climate footprint, and vice-versa.
This doesn't have anything to do with IPv4 vs IPv6. It is a routing issue with BGP. To give an analogy,

if every website were a house,
and every house has a house number (IP address-- either IPv4 or IPv6),
and a group of houses form cities and towns that can be identified by a number (AS/ Atonomous System number),
the highways between cities are similar to BGP routes,
and if half of the world's internet traffic goes through the city of Centurylink (AS3356),

If the city of CenturyLink (AS3356) shut down traffic, either on purpose or on accident.

...then it doesn't matter if your house number / IP address is a 32bit number or a 128bit number because traffic needs to take a different route.

This is what everyone is worried about BGP routes, not IP addresses.
I guess that why HN was temporary unreachable from my home?
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Quick hack; split all your announcements in two, making the new announcement route around their old stale announcement by being more specific.
I couldn't reach HN on neither Altibox or 4g/telenor.
It's not a cop out, there is obvious and heavy bias, fact selection and omission, across all major news outlets
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Here's Torvalds' view on the matter: https://lwn.net/ml/linux-fsdevel/CAHk-=wg2JvjXfdZ8K5Tv3vm6+b...

I also side with this view, namely that this is something that would be better placed in the userspace rather than the kernel, which really doesn't need more complexity for things that add so little value (negative value to some).
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There's good reasons alright. But as with everything humans adopt, it's also abused to oblivion in many situation where it doesn't even remotely apply.
AFAIK, the usage of CIS became common when CMOS based sensors started replacing CCD (charge coupled device) sensors in scanners (and cameras?).
Half on-topic: Is there an API on Android that allows you to write your own assistant with your own keyword set without sending everything over the wire?

An app with microphone permissions would obviously work-ish, but is it possible to listen in the background like the assistants do?
There is no such thing as an accident. If your chair breaks in a restaurant you can sue them. I bet the restaurant owners never thought of this when setting up. Injuries can also be quite serious, it depends on the circumstance and the individual.

Your argument is the same for airbags, seatbelts and wearing hard hats. We live in a Health and Safety world where liability exists. Except for chairs.
And raising local prices. I saw this happen over the years in some areas of Canada when they became more popular destinations for the US tourists. The result is not good for the majority of local folks.
This shouldn't just be for the remotely employed. We need to do more decouple freedom of movement from employment by a company.

Perhaps there should be something like this: An International Creative or Digital Visa that countries can sign onto.

This proposal is a good start for what it should be: http://artsvisa.org/ireland/

Have something to contribute. Be able to support yourself. Don't compete for an in country job and any country should welcome your residence/citizenship.

There's no reason something like this doesn't exist in a global digital age.
So your point is, that org mode is just inside one tool and therefore one cannot expect everyone else on the team to learn it?
I think we can make the same argument for every single tool out there, like one specific IDE or whatever you have. It's just a question of how many people already use Emacs on the team, to make a democratic decision.
Or is there some criteria, by which I can sort tools into 2 camps, "OK to force upon coworkers" and "not OK to force upon other coworkers"?
https://mobile.twitter.com/Gustawsson/status/130008521478233...
That's how you get Uber for X
I can only speak for my personal experience, but we started with the J std but that may be just because the nature of the work was almost exclusively spaceflight.

As far as “minimum requirements” I completely agree. As with all specs, they define the lowest level of acceptable characteristics. Especially if done by contractors this will be the aim since they rarely make additional money going above and beyond minimum standards, but can often lose money doing so
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Many countries have a minimum salary limit which qualifies you (and potentially your family) to live there. For example, last I looked into it several years ago, Spain's minimum salary for a remote working visa was USD $36,000.
I was answering to this statement:

> Developer velocity matters way more than the framework as long as the framework allows for horizontal scaling

I disagree with that. Both because developer velocity is not unrelated to framework performance, and because horizontal scaling is not a silver bullet that will magically solve the performance issues related to framework code.
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I believe you will not find this with classic VCs. I would attempt to look for funding with sources that support NGOs and other social enterprises.

Short notice? well...good luck
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Reno, NV (39.530895, -119.814972) is west of San Diego, CA (32.71533, -117.15726). It isn't Nevada picking the wrong time zone.

If we're going to make a big change why not US Standard Time? China runs a single national time zone China Standard Time.
For me adding calendar events is faster through speech than using the GUI.

GUI: find Google Calendar icon, scroll the months to find the date, open date, scroll to find the time, open it, type the title.

Speech: "OK Google, add event on October 28 at 12pm, lunch with Grace".

Setting alarms is also very convenient.
So much of our neural infrastructure is geared towards understanding what other things are doing, and copying them. The fidelity error in the do-it-myself is what we call novel/original behavior. It is the tiny tip of the iceberg residing on top of an enormous copy-paste machine.
Does this have noweb with the same amount of functionality as Org-babel? What about multi language support out of the box?
I assume you are the famous simone of youtube robot fame. I just speak as outsider looking in. I like robots. It would emancipate society to a new level of existence. I have trouble believing they are real - and have dark ideas about what robots really mean in our society - that they might be a symbol of something like a political belief in a sort of utopia in much the same way the Soviet and Fascist investments in science were not value neutral.

I remember looking at some original robots developed around midcentury in England. They were inexpensive and very bad but did function basic functions.

I look at the Boston Dynamics robots and see these are very expensive robots performing more natural movements.

Let us suppose the BD and similar teams are at the half way point.

To get human level performance at this rate of change means trillions of dollars. This robot would impress us - just as the original English robots and BD robots do. The French Empire invented expensive and difficult to create toys and no robot revolution started. I don't see anything continuous between the idea of a robot and the idea of machine automation - I think that is too much generosity. I know people want to give it because the field is very difficult - but this is not being honest.

The ideal of the robot - people have different ideas about this - but the ideal for me is that there is an economical and effective alternative to human level physical articulation. I'm sure you have more advanced definitions - this is just the basic benchmark. It should be plausible for a robot to sew a thread or squeegee a window with grace.

It is not just human level articulation - it's also generalist application.

General purpose machine articulation looks like a high bar to the point it is difficult to imagine what the world would look like were we to be successful.
There always has been, what's different these days is the lack of homogeneity in all those factors across major news outlets.
California law prohibits Berkeley from applying discriminatory racial preferences. It's my understanding that, with a handful of exceptions, almost all elite schools which are allowed to discriminate do so.