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Tech banned in my house:

- amazon alexa anything

- any smart speaker that uses persistent voice recognition (ok google etc)

- things like thermostats, security systems/cameras (ring doorbells, etc) that require a functioning WAN connection and cloud based services. anything you would find here: https://twitter.com/internetofshit?lang=en

- smart lightbulbs and other "internet of things" devices that require a connection to a cloud based service, anything of this category that I can't completely admin and control on my LAN.

- internet of things consumer devices that require the use of a manufacturer-proprietary android or ios app to set up and configure on the home wifi.

- consumer electronics devices that for some unknown reason require a proprietary shaped connector/charging cable. if it doesn't charge from microusb or usb-c I'm very unlikely to buy it. in an era when even my road bicycle front and rear lights charge from standard microusb this should be obvious.

- things that are obviously designed to be throwaway with no way to ever economically replace the battery. such as apple airpods. anything that's given a 1/10 or 2/10 repairability score by ifixit, such as the microsoft surface notebook/tablet that is entirely glued together. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPods+2+Teardown/121471

- cloud managed wifi APs and routers

- wifi mesh extenders and other things that create a CSMA half duplex RF hell, for network reliability and performance reasons. If I need an additional AP somewhere I can give it a 1000BaseT 802.3af/at wired connection back to the home core switch.

- Any ISP-provided all-in-one cablemodem/router/wifi device that I can't fully control. I have a DOCSIS3 modem that is a dumb layer 2 bridge with no routing or wifi functions, and my own router that I control.

- any of the microsoft cloud-managed login accounts for windows 10 PCs

- any consumer electronics/appliance device that has embedded android in it unlikely to receive operating system/updates after 2 or 3 years. For example fridges with a giant android tablet built into their door. Not going to spend $2000 on a fridge that might have a 10-15 year service lifespan but the operating system on the tablet will be woefully out of date and risky to put on the Internet after 5 years. This also means no "internet of things" washing machines or similar. Just a couple of weeks ago I saw fridges for sale with Android 7 on them.

- apple icloud

- zoom, due to its many prior egregious security vulnerabilities and the location of 80%+ of its developers

- anything else that is legally obligated to be backdoored by the ministry of state security (wechat, alipay, tiktok, etc)
no, because not the game nor the app is ready, haha. sorry to disappoint

I was thinking something about Yahoo used to do: a chat room with several types of games and you and your friend could play one of those games while trash talk to each other on video
> keep our current level of society

That's the problem. The current level of hyperconsumerism is completely unsustainable.

Cheaper electricity would only encourage more industrial production and pollution due to discarded goods.
I hate to think what the meat equivalent of Cushing, Oklahoma[1] might look and smell like.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushing,_Oklahoma#Transhipment...
I know that targeted advertising is more effective and I am not disputing that. I did not dispute it in my comment.

I am disputing your random assertion that, if advertising became less effective (say by removing targeting), the quantity of advertising that people see would go up significantly.

The amount of adverts that people see currently is not based solely on their economic value - it is based on their value relative to how much people are willing to put up with being advertised to. If advertising becomes less valuable, that doesn't mean people will suddenly put up with more of it.

Indeed, if the value of adverts went down, I would expect to see fewer advertisements, not more, since the value of showing them to people is now less relative to their willingness to put up with them.
In a word, no.

When people compare QM theories they often do so on basis of the original experiments that were used to develop them. But as a discipline physics has moved well past those. Superposition has been proven and tested to exist, and we have long since moved past that phase and started building things, like quantum computers, on top of it. At this point, pretty much the only way superposition doesn't exist is that every time a physicist does something that superposition needs to work, a devil figures out what kind of result is needed to fake it and does that.

Trying to challenge superposition would kind of get same kind of results from physicists as trying to challenge the existence of electrons would get from people who build circuits. Like, if you have some interesting new theory, I am intrigued, but do understand that to get people to follow it you will need to explain how it replicates the results of what superposition would do in so many different cases that you won't be able to enumerate them in a week.
It feels to me like QR codes for public use have completely died. They exploded about 5 years ago while people would just scan marketing posters for the gimmick of scanning a qr code but I doubt anyone does that anymore.
Some types, yes, although the service is at such a high level that they are usually accommodating far beyond what you'd expect.

The restaurant might have a 7 course tasting menu with fixed items on it for example, but if you say you're allergic to shellfish, they'll often not just remove the shellfish from your dishes, but re-engineer or fully replace the dishes that contain shellfish so that what you're getting isn't any _less_ than what someone eating shellfish would be having.
No it's not -- it's not my fault people are misusing the memes! They definitely are heavily used to dismiss in the manner I've described as well as being used in their correct original context. You might not like that people aren't deploying the internet memes the way you think they should be deployed, but it's definitely not disingenuous to point out that's what's happening. It's dismissive and mocking (for good reason!) but it's also something that's blown up, and when that happens the original intent and subtleties get rounded off or lost, so in many cases it's now used in any context, not just the ones where it was originally totally applicable.
CoinJoins exist exactly to fix the problem of fungibility.
I don't think you're going to save on healthcare with visas like this. You're still required to be fully covered with your own health insurance as one of the visa conditions.

This removes the possibility of you being a burden on their public health system, which is common amongst not just these new 'nomad' visas but also the working holiday visas that have been around for decades.
Google uses Street View photo data for photogrammetry.
Ugh Not Again
*received (not revived)
Similar to how we "know" how many people a low-level nuclear release killed: You know how much of a high dose of some carcinogen it takes for a certain cancer or death risk. You scale this down linearly to low doses. Then you estimate population doses from the release and a few multiplications later you arrive at a "death toll".

You will note the amount of estimates necessary, and the pessimistic assumptions like linear-no-threshold for carcinogen exposure. Most probably, death-tolls estimated this way are upper bounds.

Only for smog events, there is a possible calibration of such estimates through excess mortality, and even that is in some doubt, because smog hits the old-infirm-dying-anyways harder.
"If I'm on a page for a bit of sports equipment, I'm probably interested in sports equipment, or at the very least sports. Didn't need a complex data collection and analysis pipeline there."

Unfortunately, this simply isn't true.

The value of a vistor to a 'sports site' may be considerably more for some other product or service.

The fact is - most content is placed on sites for which there is no obvious context: Facebook, Twitter, news - none of it provides much information.

"I do in fact pay for apps" - it doesn't matter what you or I do - it matters what people do. The fact is, people are considerably more likely to opt for ad-based products than pay-based products, and for some kinds of products, it has a strategic consideration (i.e. those with network effects).

Ads are not going away.

"I'd suggest that the more efficiently we are able to let people find what they need, the better."

People never knew they needed a smartphone, did they? Nobody was thinking 'hey I really want a 'big screen phone'.

So I agree 'search for stuff' should be better, but advertising is not going away.

The 'ill effects' of privacy are negligible.

Nobody is harmed because of what FB is able to discern 'out of network' vs. what it already knows from what you do 'on network'.

There are definitely considerations, but in reality, no harm.

Can you think of examples where you, or someone you know has been harmed by FB out of network data collection?

Ads are not going away, better ads are better for everyone, we need to figure out how to deal with privacy.
Eh I sometimes wish parents weren't basically given ownership rights over their kids.
Sorry but I like amp. I don’t want sites like the guardian to drain my phone battery and load in 10 seconds. I understand if it’s bad for publishers but as a consumer I love it.

To suggest that an end user would go about disabling JavaScript and other reasons just shows how HN is in a bubble and don’t really understand that 99% of the users don’t care.
> New pipe can only play background videos on picture in picture which is very annoying.

This is not the experience I have. Are you sure you're on the latest version?
How would one go about implementing case-insensitive path lookup against a SMB share containing a few million files from userspace?

It must be in the kernel. Else implementations of stuff with human-derived semantics should move out of the kernel, but moving SMB into userspace would of course be ridiculous

So it complicates any mapping of filenames to data structures in the kernel (all 3 of them?), big deal. Every popular desktop operating system supports it, and basically the only reason Linux does not is a mixture of FUD and fear that we may need to update the code at some point due to changes in human culture, the horror!

Meanwhile, typing "cd music" in a terminal need not print "Command not found" when there is clearly a folder named "Music", like the $3k worth of gear in front of me had the complexity of some 1950s b-movie scifi robot
This is a false premise. It looks at it from the perspective of what you would loose now. But if other things had happened in your life, that would be the you that is. There would be no comparison because the you who is now wouldn't be and never would have been to consider not being.
6) no consoles

I have a hundred times more confidence that microsoft and sony will keep the xbox one and PS4 operating systems up to date, patched and reasonably secure than I do that random cloud-based internet-of-shit consumer electronics vendors will maintain product security.
Google Earth quality is pretty consistent. And pretty good if you don't have implausible expectations.
Chrome is the opposite of IE. IE was dragging the rest of the web behind with its glacial update pace and lack of automatic updates. Chrome moves at light speed meaning no one else can actually keep up with all the new features getting added. Chrome has resulted in browsers being more complex than an OS.
That's not quite why rigorous regulations were put in place.

There have been thousands of tanker oil spills, 3,000,000 gallons of oil spilled from US pipelines each year, hundreds of coal-ash spills...

In that context, Nuclear wasn't over-regulated, other power sources are severely, dangerously under-regulated. The excellent safety record of Nuclear points towards the regulations being rather effective.

I will grant that those regulations are out-dated. Reactors designs are different now, and probably need to be streamlined. But rigorous regulations regarding multiple redundancies, safety checks, emergency drills, meticulous documentation of all practices & procedures performed... these things shouldn't go away.
Ask HN: Combine slack, discord and gitter in one tool?
Does anyone know of any such tool to do this task, I have searched a bit and didn't find anything. If you know please reply here.
Everything is simple when you're starting out. Over time, you'd see that users can have wildly different load patterns, which will affect how you scale and shard your database over time. It's a huge pain to manage and grow.
What percentage of these technologies were available when you were a kid? Chances are addictive nature of these engagement driven websites would have sucked up our curiosity and autodidactism to an extent that there wouldn’t be much time left for actually doing hands on experimentation, self-directing our research, coming to our own conclusions and experience inventiveness that come from boredom. I think this downside is more important in comparison to the information they make available.
I made this! It's not perfect but it's most of the way there in terms of Vim motions and operators, and works in any text field. It uses the Accessibility API when available, and then falls back to raw keypresses (like alt + right arrow to simulate `w`, etc).

In the fallback mode, not all motions are available, because we can't read cursor position or text field value without accessibility support.

https://github.com/dbalatero/VimMode.spoon
If you're into that sort of thing, OpenStreetMap supports 3D mapping as well. I haven't looked into it but while from my understanding it's fairly basic, at least you're sure that your data will be around in ten years and openly available for people to use and display.
Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first?

I was 11, my dad used FORTRAN at work to build economic simulations, and walked me through some basic programming. This was during the ~5 years that I was taking amphetamine or methylphenidate daily for ADHD, which I mention because I'm pretty confident that it's a big part of the explanation for why I spent then next 4 years completely obsessed with programming. When I was 15 or so I stopped taking the drugs and switched from actually programming to mostly reading about the craft. At first I focused on full stack web development, and gradually acquired an interest in systems programming and Linux sysadmin stuff.

What are you doing at your job? Is it everything you dreamed of and more?

Work for FAANG developing and operating backend microservices which do little more than shuttle data around. This is my first job out of college, been doing it for a year, don't like it much at all. Looking to transition to a role which involves developing more interesting applications and has less operational burden. I'm cautious about switching roles amid this pandemic though.

How did you break that first-job barrier?

I got a math BA in college, though that wasn't my primary academic focus. That degree is enough to get employers who require a relevant degree to not immediately discard your resume. Beyond that, luck. Sent my resume to a FAANG new grad hiring pipeline, and got an offer. I got some relevant work experience in college, first working quarter-time for a startup writing node js libraries, then working for my university's CS department as a sysadmin. These jobs were not hard to get, probably because of how woefully uncompetitive they were on compensation, which I was OK with while I was a student.

What were you doing before this?

College, studying math and philosophy. My parents didn't believe that I could get a good SWE job without a degree and were willing to pay for my education, so I accepted their generosity, and I'm glad I did despite the opportunity cost. I'm regularly tempted to pursue a career in academic philosophy despite the myriad drawbacks.

Any tips for the rest of us?

If you're free of financial obligations and self taught, you have the option of jumping straight into your professional career and getting a head-start on building wealth, which might well be the right option for you. But you're also in a position where you have skills that you can rely on as a backup while you experiment with other options for your future. Working on other people's projects is not nearly as fun as working on your own, and if you managed to acquire SWE skills on your own, you can probably learn other skills as well and broaden your horizons.
Rules for my kids:

If you're over 10 years of age you should know what your limits are. I'm always going to be here for advice and help to get yourself back up from an accident or something that went wrong. I won't block content. I won't demand access to their phones. I won't shame them in any way.

I'm also planning on being sex and body positive. Nudity isn't inherently sexual and shame is a social construct. Nothing should be forced on my kids and unless they actually agree with me on plans I won't force them to do anything.
The bloom filter wouldn't stop you from confirming folks gathered around any specific page that has content, and would have a fixed probability of leaking data even if there was no data there.

And that ignores the problem that you're not going to be able to sync the bloom filter in real time, so now you're going to need to have a very merge-friendly design for these annotations.

No, I'm not being pessimistic. This is just a candid analysis of the difficulties of doing this competently. If you'd like to do it incompetently, feel free.
The Boeing 777 [1] and 787 [2] have an integrated Electronic Checklist screen. Any decent simulation of these aircraft will have that; I know PMDG's 777 [3] does.

[1] https://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2006/april/pho...
[2] https://i.pinimg.com/736x/64/54/bb/6454bb2b0f28a0c77dc287f14...
[3] https://pmdg.com/pmdg-777-200lr-f-base-package-for-fsx/#prod...
I wonder if the Cheesecake Factory and Applebees use A/B testing with their menus the same way Netflix uses A/B testing? There is probably a huge demand for data driven decision making for restaurants rather than these spares studies mentioned in the article which most likely are anecdotal. Simply have four different menus with the same items and look at the analytics provided by point of sale system. That is a fun start - up idea.

Most of your favorite restaurants in places like San Francisco, Portland, and New York City engineer their menu by removing least popular menu items once a month or once a season and replace them with what they think their customers currently demand at a price to insure that the restaurant is running at the point of highest efficiency. There are other considerations such a cost of product but most restaurants increase overall demand by using analytics from the point of sale system and the most profitable dishes are not always the most popular. Engineering a kitchen -- and dining room for that matter -- to be efficient without cooks tripping over each other is another whole discussion nonetheless even this ties into what can be added to the menu.

The two biggest mistakes an independent restaurant can make is hard coding a menu and putting the word in Bistro or Basserie in the restaurant name -- the restaurant can't evolve after that. Have any of you been to La Folie on Polk and Green in Russian Hill? That restaurant first opened as a casual French Bistro but the demand was for their caviar by the ounce and Tournedos Rossini which oddly enough was not only their most popular menu item but also not on the menu. So in the mid nineties the average customer was spending $150 - $300 instead of $40 per person.
The lack of transparency and the concentration of power is one of the biggest points against the nuclear energy sector. It affects their safety investments, oversight, subsidies, insurance contracts, responsibilities, and so on.
It's not a bad idea. I mean, you still see these long lines at In'n Out, and it's funny because they're all buying the exact same item. We'll there's maybe 2 possible main courses, but by and large it's people buying different toppings of a cheeseburger and fries.

That business model probably did well for McDonalds when they first opened their doors. All of these restaurants have that identity too.

Wendy's - Square Burgers

Carl's Jr. Double Western Bacon

IHop - Stack of cakes

I mean it's very reasonable for most restaurants to take this time to go back to identity restaurants instead of catering to the picky people, which, let's be honest, are the ones that stopped eating out when Covid hit.
Solar drops hours before daily air conditioning demand, but wind might do it. I always thought wind depended heavily on the solar cycle, but apparently Europe found it dips 20% or less at night.
The part which will i think likely be found anti competitive will be not allowing app publishers to advertise or provide alternative payment mechanisms for in-app good & services being provided by them while being the only way to distribute apps for the iPhone.

This very easily can and will be be argued as using dominance in one market (distribution of apps) to extract value out othet (in-app services, books, gaming, movies, sheet music...). There's easily demonstrable consumer harm because buying the exactly same sheet music on a iPad is a few dollars more expensive than buying it on the same app on web and using it in the iPad.

Of course Apple can and probably will make the argument of "movie theater concession stand" (ie. your "in our garden" comment) and will probably make the "safety and security" argument just like concession stand owners will.

However, that analogy is very weak legally i think because iPhones are not really Apple's property (unlike concession stands on theatre property) since they're clearly sold as hardware and is off their books (EULAs not-withstanding - they're not enforceable).

So I think what will happen is Apple will lose this case and will be forced to stop preventing advertising and offering of alternative payment mechanisms by Apps - maybe with some terms and conditions for safety certification by neutral third parties.

I don't really think the remedies will stretch beyond that - but payments is what this fight is about.
Why is the founder effect not a part of natural selection? If one population lives and becomes specialized in a way of life is it not natural selection? All mammals come from a common ancestor and genetic drift occured or the founder effect over a long period of time. There are cave fish that are blind but bred with non blind types gives their offspring eyes back. What is the difference between founder effect, and natural selection? Are they not part of the same force?