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I disagree.

Taking the religion example. If you look around the world, most people follow their parents faith.

It seems likely that many have been exposed to other faiths. Do we think that those other faiths seem less credible and so people are seeing through them on some logical basis? Or has their parents/local community's faith simply spent a lot longer on convincing them it's true.

Similarly, the ideas that the author seems to consider dangerous didn't grow in vaccum. I dont think a russian agent could bet his colleagues that he'd get Americans to believe anything they named, like George Washington invented the grilled cheese sandwich.

Buy they don't need to convince people of anything specific, just amplify existing messages like:

Scientists are lying to you about covid.

Which feeds off extensive prep work from "scientists are lying to you about climate change" which is probably the best funded disinformation campaign in history.

And is further reinforced by authority positions in their communities, repeating the disinformation.

The GOP in it's current incarnation can't exist without disinformation, and so they'll fight any attempt to educate their base, and if they fail they'll just disenfranchise the ones that wise up.
Forcing people to have children is never a good idea. It will result in millions in unwanted (and thus poorly raised) children.
All information will become public on a long enough timeline.
How could you possibly know this.
Umm... There's already a language called Q for array processing.
Really? can you give an example on how to do it?
Why not just mandate that the content must be accessible to the blind/deaf/etc and let the implementors figure out how best to make that true? For example some municipalities might just choose to provide alternate formats in addition to PDF and that might be fine for them.
I think they're a bit to aggressive in naming tropical storms as it is.

Currently any tropical storm that reaches 39mph/63kph gets a name, which to me is pretty low threshold. Maybe if every two-bit storm didn't get a name people would pay a bit more attention.
I think to be fair it probably depends on which country you're in. In the UK I've found their support to be downright poor, even when compared to other device manufacturers, but I'm told in the US they're better.
> I can't imagine destroying a car just because of failed engine

They didn't: they wrote the car off because it was flooded. That can ruin electrical systems, motors, pumps, engines, the body, and everything else the water touches.

In the US, when you contact your insurance company and say "I damaged my car driving it through water" and their appraisers agree, they're going to contact the state DMV and let them know. The DMV will mark your vehicle as flood damaged/impaired/salvaged. It's now worth the cost of scrap until you rebuild it to the satisfaction of your state laws to get a clean title.
Are you suggesting that in Christianity they don't have sex? Sex is important in all religions, or their populations would die.
Nice, this looks extremely useful.

Years ago, I spent a couple of months building a simple EverNote clone in Clojure. The weakest part of my “for my own use only” project was a FireFox extension I wrote to capture selected web page data and send it to the backend of my system.

This Web Clipper project would have really helped me. I hope the author of this gets the satisfaction of wide adoption in many cool projects.
Have we seen much true tech innovation from China that is not just building on existing US, Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean, European technology and products?
As someone with genetic illness, please do what you can to eliminate genetic diseases.
Big corporations like Amazon are part of the dominating class. Me (and probably you, since you need to ask the question -- no offense intended) are part of the dominated class. Two different sets of rules apply here, it's not a matter of the products themselves being different.
I could bet that this is wrong. Network taking almost equal energy as CPU does not seem correct. Any sources?
sell them at cost
You can deactivate pretty much all the Google apps you're not using. I use VLC, Firefox and K-9 Mail instead of the default Google apps and have been doing it for ages. Pretty much doesn't break anything, other than some banking apps that immediately assume you must have Gmail installed, so they direct you to that instead of your default email client. That's not a big deal, you can just open your email client by hand. A small price to pay for giving less space to Google on your phone.
At Google at least there's some reasonable support for EV charging at work. The Mountain View office support for this is better than my own (Waterloo) where we have only 4 chargers for the entire office -- located indoors underground right in the office building making them competitive spaces that people use even though they don't need it.

But the infrastructure in California is actually quite impressive, and they were early to the game on that.

But better than making driving less CO2 intensive is to have people not drive at all.
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I’ve also recently had some issues with Apple chat and phone support. Seems like some of them are poorly trained.
Yes. I was looking to embed it in a tool, but decided against it after looking at its implementation. It parses the expression with a stack and executes it directly, and its JSON parsing is much the same. I doubt the parsing would be close to competitive with RapidJSON, let alone simd-json. The conditionals and pointer chasing of such an implementation are stumbling blocks to performance.

The C code is clean enough as C code goes, but fairly monolithic. And it’s C, so it’s not noticeably slow until you start processing GB. But it would probably take a rewrite to improve its performance significantly.
Also, there is nothing wrong in advertising as a concept. Advertising has existed as long as products have existed. The problem is tracking and data collection/exploitation about some very granular aspects of users.

Also, even if you take away advertising, the problem remains of addictive apps and 'persuasive' design which will still remain. To tackle that is a whole different discussion altogether.
Somebody please tell the YouTube app that.
> Because so few people are interested in offsets right now, there's a huge amount of "low-hanging fruit" options for cheap things humanity can do to offset carbon emissions.

Yeah, that the trick. To put it boldly: What they offer is not sustainable. This means that these green initiatives hide the real price of CO2 or at least give a very wrong impression.
I'm tired of every few months we all have to rediscover how our complicated obsession with social media and the resulting data collection based advertising is leading to a total loss of individuality and privacy.

We (society) need to know these things and act according.
The bigger question is more, what use is a homegrown chip market if no countries in the world are buying your chips?
I think that advertising is the main problem. Most issues caused by social media ultimately originate from this way to generate money out of wasting people's time. Cut that source of revenue and suddenly there is no longer any incentive to get people addicted, encourage outrage, promote misinformation/clickbait, etc.

Related: http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html (I totally agree with all of it)
There is research saying that such unknown phosphine generation is not a simple explanation at all.

e.g. http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/phosphine-biosignature-gas...

>The scientists found that phosphine has no significant false positives, meaning any detection of phosphine is a sure sign of life.
Doubtful.

On Venus, we have detected "unknown absorbers" that absorb portion of UV and visible light, these absorbers are seen in the form of clouds for 100 or so years. It's possible this detection is connected with those unknown absorbers and if so, it predates any human spacecraft.

Not only that, but it is doubtful that any kind of life would survive spaceflight and entry into an environment so vastly different than earth. If there is life on Venus, it is probably more extreme than extremophiles on Earth. Venera probes were not coated in phosphine producing extremophile bacteria.
So couples will just... not marry?
A teacher friend's district claimed to be investing in training their teachers, but all it boiled down to was a high level overview of google docs, with no guidance on adapting a curriculum.
For these rasons I use two phones. Apple for banking and communications involving personal data and Android for Gmail, music and ebooks.
I'm sure they will argue that they are protecting consumers by preventing potentially untrustworthy repair shops from buying authentic replacement parts.

This is what an anti-competitive monopoly looks like. You cannot even choose where to get your laptop repaired, so there is no possibility for anyone else to offer, for example, a cheaper price for the labor. And the consumer pays the forcibly higher price. Those shops that attempted to offer cheaper repairs were retaliated against by Apple...
Youtube, too; e.g I could take a walk in the neigh-borough or watch a car racing video (where Google pays for the gas by sharing ad revenues).
Super helpful tip. Wishing I knew about this years ago!
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It’s not a troll comment. It’s a circlejerk comment. If the only thing you know about Oracle is “oracle bad” and “oracle do IP lawsuits”, that doesn’t give you an insight into why they might be making any particular decision. It’s a super low effort comment, it doesn’t hold any relevance to this situation, and the only reason people upvote it is because we all know that “oracle bad” is just an indisputable fact.
Settings > Music > turn off “show Apple Music”

Should fix the stupid interstitial
clean water -> less mortality -> less population (as people stop having extra children) -> roughly the same amount of carbon.
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> that would have to be decided in court

Apparently not. A lot of stuff doesn't need to be decided in court when you're in an airport - it's a legal grey area (or so I've heard).

Border protection can pretty much do whatever they want in the name of national security and get away with it.
Understanding the Apache Kafka Connect
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While we are at it, can we change some vocabulary used for sensitising climate change from 'For the planet' to 'Your children will die soon, your grandchildren sooner'?
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Ask HN: How do I return to the industry after a two-year sabbatical?
I took off two years to travel around the world. I learned so much from visiting every continent and meeting people from all walks of life.

I truly am a different person now, and I think I learned so much about life to help me be a better person.

However, I didn't do much coding or software work in that time.

I couldn't pass a leet coding interview if my life depended on it. I'm very out of practice and out of the loop.

What should I put on my resume? What should I try to learn or do to get back to work? Now seems like it is the worst time ever to go back. Is my career in big trouble?

I mostly did frontend work (angular) with some node or python backend work.
How, though? I agree that jq's syntax isn't exactly the most straightforward, and it gets raised as a point of criticism anytime jq is mentioned, but its scripting language seems like a pretty good compromise between compactness and rich features.

Replacing that with, say, traditional command line flags would make it a lot less useful for me, I'd probably have to build much longer pipe-chains to do things that are relatively simple and readable jq snippets (if one knows the syntax.)

Using an established scripting language in its place would make it pretty much just python -c/ruby -e or whatever with some pre-loaded functions, but what's the point? You can always just write a quick python/ruby/whatever script, jq to me is an alternative for cases where a script feels unnecessary. It would also mean everything gets more verbose, so less of my jq transformations can be inlined without loss of readability.

Aligning it to more established languages would probably cause confusion as well in those cases where it doesn't match the reference language 1:1. Looks like javascript, writes like javascript, but only for a tiny subset of the language, etc.

Doing this only for a few function names or syntax constructs still results in a pretty unique and unusual language that will require people to reference the docs a lot, just now lots of existing scripts break.
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The linked instructions cover PDF/A-1b (have plain text version of contents), but Tagged PDF is more than that -- it's about encoding the structure of the document.

There is a POC package for producing Tagged PDF here https://github.com/AndyClifton/accessibility but it's not a complete solution yet.

Here is an excellent review article that talks about all the other options for producing Tagged PDFs from LaTeX (spoiler — there is no solution currently): https://umij.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/the-sad-state-of-pdf-a... via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444427
You want evidence that Trump

1) didn't try to win the popular vote i.e. specifically did not court the votes of certain people

2) In order to run as a populist i.e. shore up votes from his base

3) because the Electoral College system supports just such a strategy, such that winning 51% of a few states while only getting 45% of the vote

Well, other than his entire campaign, the clearest evidence I can give is this in the face of actual polling numbers indicating that #1 and #2 had come to pass in the summer of 2016, the campaign's advertising dollars focused almost exclusively on the Obama states he ended up flipping.
Phosphine was detected in Saturn's atmosphere at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (right next to the JCMT) decades ago (http://www.ericweisstein.com/research/papers/dps93/). I don't recall anyone screaming "Life on Saturn" back then. I think this is being overhyped.
Guess I am missing out ignoring and blocking all ads I see. I do think there're better ways to conduct business than basing entire business model on ads.
I will never understand how parents can be okay with ads that target children. It's like giving their children's minds to a stranger with candy.
It's pretty well established that lower mortality leads to less reproduction and lower overall population. When mortar is high, proof reliability over correct with extra "cushion" children.

Wealth is a far larger source of pollution than life.
The CBP is very hard to deal with. I once bought about 100 electronic items that come with AC adapters to power them.

Unknown to me, the AC adapters had fake UL marks on them. So, the CBP seized the shipment. I asked if they could just seize the adapters, and explained that I hadn't even asked for UL listed adapters. No dice. The adapters represented less than 10% of the value of the shipment. Argh.

And, of course, the Chinese supplier wasn't willing to reimburse me. Now I have the adapters go in a separate shipment in case something unexpected is shipped.
Or more traditionally known as owning class and working class. Most folks here are probably in that quasi-state of working class but make plenty of money so it's a moot point.
Disclaimer: I don't write on their behalf.

They don't neglect sovereignty, which is quite present in their communication (sample: https://adullact.org/21-espace-presse , https://adullact.org/65-actualite/agenda/854-colloque-sur-la... ).

My personal experience lets me suppose that the main challenge for the audience of this association is budget-related, and if so it is of paramount importance for it to (right off the bat) announce that free software reduces the TCO.

I'm more and more unconvinced by the present instance of the "Europe" thingie, and in any case an opensource project does not need gigantic bureaucratico-jacobinists organizations, in fact such ordeal will IMHO quickly derail it.
I imagine some employee needed to show they were doing something so they got the idea of making a twitter account for their department. Or it benefits them if they can add a bullet point on their resume such as “managed social media acccount”.

Even better if they can increase their budget and headcount and hire someone to post things. But then they need work to do, so you tell the person to make posts bragging about busts a government agency is making.
> it's borderline acceptable to indirectly forcing them to sell

It really is not. One of the biggest horrors of the Trump years is the extent to which this kind of capricious executive action has been normalized. A ban is a ban. If you genuinely think an app poses a security risk, then you use one of the executive tools available to shut it down.

There was no "ban" enacted here. It was a bargaining chip used to muck with the markets in an outrageously explicit way. We don't do that in this country. Or we never did before.

The closest equivalent to this in terms of effect would have been the trust busting of the early 20th century. And that involved all three branches of government working over years. This happened because One Guy decided he didn't like TikTok.
I’ve tried and backed off the same idea. Funny enough, I also recently read that Cal Newport strictly advises people not to use time blocking for their after work schedules for similar reasons.
"Energy" is the wrong unit.

In astronautics you would measure the difficulty of the mission with Δv, not energy. If you only had to deal with energy conservation, space travel would be easy. You have to deal with momentum conversation too, carry your own reaction mass, etc.
I had this issue. I found people with the same problem up and down the web, across tons of MacBook models (examples: [1] [2]). Most people blamed it on bad drivers, GPU issues, bad graphics ports, firmware issues, and so on.

What actually did the trick - opening the case up, flushing the dust from both fans using compressed air, and replacing the thermal paste on the CPU & GPU. My MacBook is totally silent now.

I'm sure there is more than one possible root cause, but I feel this solution is not nearly as well known as it should be. Laptops generally run hot, and MacBooks have great fans, but they do trap dust. So there are a ton of people running around with old MacBooks which are being absolutely crippled by throttling. I ran some rough benchmarks and performance has approximately doubled. It's super noticeable.

IMO Apple is incentivised to do a poor job in highlighting this (and say, setting up a service program), because when your laptop starts to feel slow after a few years, people tend to feel like maybe it's time to buy a new laptop...

[1] https://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/1322323-macb...

[2] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2017-15-mbp-fans-run-w-...
This is like rich countries moving factories to third-world countries where industry emits more CO2. They pretend to be responsible for less and less greenhouse gases even though they consume more physical goods, with larger carbon footprint. Worst, they feel fine flying and buying SUV because their not that dirty compared to people in undeveloped countries whose carbon footprint keeps increasing.
Are we going to officially name every tornado? Every earthquake? The article leads with “we need more drama...” - I think we have enough, thank you.

We need to consider the psychological affects of these things. We already stir people into collective panics for so many things. Do we need to add another? People need less anxiety in their lives.
But you can't disable play store and framework(s) without losing a ton of integrated facilities. Probably also why the integrate most ad and tracking stuff in there.
> First off, the trend line on that graph is clearly upwards. You can’t cherry pick one outlier data point as the starting point and then say that anything below that point doesn’t matter.

And where did I claim that?

Both RSS and UAH show this same peak. This is a well known fact to anybody who's following satellite temperature measurements.

The graph starts in 79 because UAH didn't exist before that time.

> A graph including the whole earth and all data available does not show the same strong peak.

You may mean giss which is a different measurement method based on ground measurement stations, not the "whole earth". It shows a less pronounced peak, yes.
You contribute funds to a company that works on safety initiatives, then claim you prevented an accident that offsets the one you had.
The hole in the CD is used to secure it.

FWIW, many CDs are also very good mirrors. I've also used commercial pressings without extensive paint to look at eclipses.
If we were at a board meeting deciding how to spend my time, no. If it is done? Why not
I agree with you — one thing that is different with hurricanes is that every one is a different distinct event and when talking about a hurricane it’s important to distinguish between specific storms.

Even snowstorms are pretty much cut and dry. If it snows a lot, it sucks for a couple of days. The biggest variable is the competence of whomever is plowing.

With heat, forget it. “Heatwave Harry” vs “Coldsnap Sally” are exactly the same — there is no variance in hazard. Bad things happen at specific known extreme temperatures.
Tying this to my non-existent facebook account means I won't even think about buying it. A headset that doesn't constantly feed my data to big tech would be fantastic.

Quest 1 is still going strong though (until our 2 year facebook-less amnesty runs up). Great piece of hardware. The biggest problem I see is that there's not been much adoption in terms of creating software from major software companies. I don't think the hardware is a limitation for the current gen. We could do so much more with vr than what we are doing right now.
I can and it is lightly disturbing. https://imgur.com/a/yAOF31g ^_^
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Back when the feature was originally introduced (I guess in the iPhone OS 3 era?), surveillance capitalism and spyware wasn't as widespread and it then took them a while to catch up (I guess there are backwards-compatibility concerns?).
I was not aware of the takedown notices but I watched a couple of the “response” videos and they came across as extremely malicious/toxic. I can see why The Verge would want to do everything in their power to counter that. There are better ways to criticize something.
If so, and for anybody else having this wish, check out jql[0], I've created it exactly for this reason, to have the most common jq operations available in a more uniform and easier to use interface.

[0]: https://github.com/cube2222/jql