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This new Pixel 5 phone (featured in the article) doesn't have WiFi 6 or BT 5.
I'm extremely disappointed and I think that's going to be the reason I decide not to upgrade to it from my iPhone.

My place has some of the new fancy metal insulation in the walls, and AC WiFi struggles to pull 50Mbit through the walls on my Macbook, but my desktop with WiFi 6 works perfectly in that situation well over 100Mbit.
I would say the main issue is that they billed tenants for utilities, yet did not pass the money on to the utility company. Imagine your electricity being turned off after you paid for it, due to a money-burning VC-funded middleman eating up your payments.
I regularly read the first 30-40 replies to the top comment then collapse the thread as they tend to splinter off into unrelated discussions.
The result isn't really doom. It's just you have shitty taxi services and everyone is sad. Nobody remembers the reason is bad regulation. Uber started in the first place because taxis in San Francisco were and are so bad that they were basically unusable.
In the problem space of “reading data from tables in a manner that can be easily integrated and scaled within a broader semantic processing system”... I would assume that “reading data from tables” isn’t the hard part.
I'm torn on the various tools that start to show up like election visualization, prediction via ML or vote-now initiatives. Example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24640214 They're technical but hard to keep the disucssion focused on the tech side of things. The very first comment on my example is already "Why would I vote for the blue candidate?"
I think what you’re saying here pretty much agrees with what I’m saying. By owning the platform where video is watched, Google will have more market power in the video streaming business. In the long run, that means getting a cut of revenues earned by video services on the platform, or preventing Apple from charging them that cut if they own the platform. It’s a much more integrated version of what happens now when you search for a movie on Google.com.
Exactly. In fact some callcenter systems have a feature called something like 'expectation management'. It can make you wait even if there are people available, just so you don't get used to the quick response and be less happy at busier times. Or to dissuade people from calling for minor issues I guess. It's often used on cheaper support tiers also to make paid support more interesting.

I'm not joking, this is an actual feature. I used to build callcenters and it surprised me when I saw it in the documentation. None of our customers ever implemented this but I can imagine some would otherwise it wouldn't have been in there.
They aren't mutually exclusive, of course. You seem to be reaching to find a contradiction, but why?
Vertica was very powerful for us but the separation of compute from storage was a critical feature of SF that motivated us to switch. We evaluated EON mode but SF was too easy. But from performance were also running nightly batch processing on a 22 node Vertica cluster that was taking 6 hours per night to run on highly optimized projections. We threw the same query at SF and 8XL cluster and it finished in about 30 minutes. The biggest difference however is cost where we are spending more on SF than we otherwise would have on Vertica.
> I do not understand why people care so much about mid-quality t-shirts...

Most likely a mix of "it's free", "it's easy", and "it looks nice on a CV". Perfect storm for a lot of students and juniors to spend an hour of their time on, without bothering to spend the extra two to actually make the contributions useful.
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> Think of Modern Money Theory as this crazy theory that challenges our intuition but actually makes sense if you really understand it.

How does one get to the point of understanding it?
25 million is nothing. Apple sells close to 200 million phones a year. 25 million over a lifetime is minuscule.

Besides that, Apple talked about how hard it is to be “HDMI 1”. Especially now that all of the TVs have “smarts” and most people still have cable. Not to mention that an Apple TV is $149-$200. I have two ATV4Ks that were both free when AT&T was doing their deal. We don’t even use it on one of our TVs that have Roku built in.

Besides that, sales before 2015 are almost irrelevant. That was before it had an App Store. A lot of the new streaming services don’t even support it. Roku wasn’t being integrated into low end TVs left and right.

There is no better experience for most people than a TV with Roku built in. One remote controls everything.
Probably because it's now marginally less likely that MS will pursue any hobbyist attempt to work with the codebase, considering all those versions are long dead.
> the desires and realities of Google are so different that even what they say is untrustworthy because no one there knows whats actually going on anymore.

I can absolutely see this happening due to their sheer size losing control as everything is probably silo'd and confusing.

Due to a tax issue last year, I urgently needed a specific from a former GIANT company I worked for per my accountant.

It took over 6 days of calling, emailing and getting transferred around the bureaucracy because they had recently outsourced that HR function to another company and moved all the data and the Director of HR for that entire 1000 person department couldn't even get me the form and didn't know what to do! She and I had to put in a ticket together to the help desk and eventually someone at the outsourced help desk escalated it enough that we found out the physical forms were actually in transit to the east bay offsite location and had not been digitized yet which is why they were not able to provide the form until a 14-business day turnaround.

It was the most absurd and frustrating experience and definitely made me happy I'd moved to a more midsized org. We might not be an industry Titan but at least are small enough to be functional and not get entirely lost in bureaucracy.
Are all people either children or the elderly?
It sounds like the system was already failing these kids, that they were teetering on the brink of being left behind already. That's the actual tragedy here.
I wonder when they would start shipping Google TV software on smart TVs.

Every high-end TV today comes with some sort of OS pre-installed. So a set-top box in 2020 is not a very popular device. Even Apple figured it out and released Apple TV app on most smart TV platforms.
For an idea of the magnitude of this problem, just do a search for recently-created pull requests with the text "improve docs": https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+%22improve+docs%22

By my count, the rate of these PRs has increased from about 20/hour (averaged over the past month) to about 200/hour (in the last 12 hours), with the vast majority of the recent ones being worthless spam.
> PS: I've also been part of Hacktoberfest launch events where some people literally created their first PR.

If a reasonable (heh!) percentage of those people continue on to create meaningful further PR's, then it's probably a success for that piece of things. ;)
The advantage isn't latency but connectivity. Connectivity requires both user and base station to connect to the same satellite, and that happens more often the closer they are to each other.

This becomes less of a problem as you gain more satellites, but right now with the limited rollout I'm pretty sure it is significant.

Base stations that have identical radios to user antennas (which have a general fcc license) probably don't require further licensing. They would be limited bandwidth but that's a lot better than nothing, especially during a disaster.
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Mostly it's driven by the teacher's unions. If we wanted to we could find ways to open the schools. It's just the people who feel the effects of the policy making are not the ones with a voice.
You are mistaken. KiTTY project started in 2003[1] while the first commit in kitty-term was in 2016.

SO question from 2012 asking about KiTTY: https://superuser.com/questions/410398/any-simple-way-to-add...

[1]: http://www.9bis.net/kitty/#!pages/0.71.md
I always saw WCs as the leaves to the root that CSS frameworks already offer.

You can drop in Bootstrap and the whole page looks nice, but the moment you want to use the GUI elements that consist of multiple HTML tags, things get ugly.

WC would offer a way to merge these into one element.

Then you could drop your JS framework of choice in the middle and be done with it.

React isn't cool anymore? Well, at least you can take Bootstrap and its WCs with you. I had the impression CSS frameworks had a longer half-life than their JS counterparts anyway.

I don't really care about all that HTML module stuff or JS requirements. Sure would be cool if things were different, but from a practical POV it doesn't seem THAT important to me.
Or they could just play Lenny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWrkDOt_IfM&ab_channel=Toao....
For reference, this kind of problem is avoided on QubesOS (another, Xen-based, hypervisor system) by routing all traffic through another VM that entirely owns the network hardware. I run my Wireguard on that VM.

The host OS image, dom0, also routes its network traffic through that VM, to get updates. (It doesn't trust the updates it gets that way; it checks their signatures.)

QubesOS provides another VM as a dedicated firewall just to route untrusted guests' traffic through, first. With enough cores, it all runs fast.

For many users, all guest VMs are untrusted. Dodgy programs like browsers get their own VMs, spun up as needed and discarded. That does take a fair bit of RAM; my maxed-out 16GB laptop notices the strain. But memory is cheap these days, if you have the sockets to put it in.

As an aside, dom0 also mediates access to the UI hardware, including display RAM. Each guest can run X, but its pixels are copied to the real display by dom0. Guest VMs can't see one another's pixels or input traffic. dom0 also mediates access to audio and video streams, and can route them to selected VMs as needed. (In a future release they plan to manage the display in its own VM, because display drivers are a big attack surface of their own.)

It all works astonishingly well.

Incidentally, this model of a hypervisor with all the user-level OSes as VMs, including the host, originated at IBM in the 1960s. That worked in a megabyte or two, which seemed like a lot at the time.
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Reminds me of the band Fugazi who used to charge $5 admission to their shows, and if you were causing problems and asked to leave, you would be escorted out and handed an envelope with $5 in it. In other words, anyone not "comfortable with the mission" (i.e. there to cause a ruckus and not for the music) was "offered a separation opportunity" but still treated fairly and with dignity.
I switched to Neovim as a daily driver last week. The latency, at least on mac, was annoying. Changed terminal emulators to Kitty and now everything is snappy.
Wait, are you seriously complaining that they don't define an arbitrary max-width, or, even worse, an outright width, in their CSS?!
Really? I'd say it would be more diverse since people wouldn't feel like their opinions were verboten or that they had to "play along" in order to get along.
Glad I could help!

Rust asm syntax looks nice, but the syntax is just the tip of the iceberg. asm() is almost a misnomer. Its true power is the constraints system that lets us control GCC/Clang internal algorithms. You may have noticed that the defer() macro uses asm() with an empty string!

It's such a general tool that's become so prevalent as a practice (since Stallman invented it in the early 90's) that I would surely hope it's on the radar of language committees by now. If these definitions and mnemonics can be formalized or at least clarified by standards bodies, then they should be.
> "Well, in fairness, if someone's religion had reliable, study backed evidence that the world was going to face a catastrophic climate based future, I'd probably be fine with them proselytizing in the workplace."

While I agree on the need to address climate change urgently itself, I must point out that progressives would be infuriated if the same level of evidence were demanded for the scientific validity of beliefs regarding various identity groups they support. Again, a very clear double standard.

> "Indeed I'm a little surprised more Asians in tech aren't concerned at the president's rhetoric about the "China virus"."

You shouldn't be. News stories like the Harvard Asian-American admissions lawsuit and California's Proposition 209 repeal and many, many others have made it amply clear that progressives are no friends of Asians either, but at a much deeper level.
The whole point of not allowing you to cancel the account is twofold:

1. To make it difficult and frustrating to cancel by wasting the user's time.
2. To allow the company the opportunity to haggle the price of the subscription down, convince you not to cancel, or worse, upsell you on other services.

I can totally foresee some kind of Google Duplex detection in the future intended specifically to ensure that they're wasting the time of a human, not a pile of linear algebra in a Google datacenter. Or perhaps they play legal games with two-party consent states to try and find a way to sue Google into not offering the service.
Yes. I'm not a stickler for 70—80 characters; IMHO the ~200 character lines on HN are excessive, but I can cope. You know, Postel's law: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

I took the aforementioned screenshot on a huge display to illustrate the issue more clearly, but on a garden-variety 1920×1080 monitor — stock Firefox, no extensions that would affect rendering — Fossil wiki's text formatting is still objectively bad.
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Haha, same here.

HN title is improperly capitalized - the actual title of the blog post is "Say goodbye to hold music" - so I thought it's a Google product called "Hold Music" that's getting axed.
What a disgusting and patently racist thing to say.
Even if you took proper classes as a kid, classes as an adult are incredibly useful because they can talk about technique in a different way. Like, I knew not to let my legs drop, but I wasn't mindful of it. Or about the motion of taking a breath. An emphasis on these details as an adult trying to become a more competent swimmer (among many other details) left me capable of fitness swimming, where before I'd be lucky to not exhaust myself after a few laps (while being able to run a 25 minute 5k and still feel ready to go do something else).
>who revel in complex APIs, overengineered build processes and dependency graphs that look like the roots of a banyan tree.

I keep thinking I'm just being old and cranky whenever I go through "modern" projects and my eyes cross at the overengineering and complexly. Does this mean other people are starting to see this aswell?
Other key takeaways are they've been taking the renter's money, but not using that to pay the bills and they've already spent everyone's security deposits. Sounds like pretty rough situations all around.
That's a good point. Wonder if they're be open to adding something like that...?

Maybe suggest that in an issue on that stats tracking repo?
You've only looked at this superficially.

First commit of Kovid Goyal kitty in October 2016:

* https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/tree/de072b3b423ad114cc4...

Hacker News post about the KiTTY fork of PuTTY in September 2011:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2979382

And that's not the earliest for the latter.
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> Certificates need to be patched into the hosts file every 30 days

Sounds like a job for letsencrypt...

> The server must run on Windows 7 x64.

It's Python code, might just need some love to go crossplatform (?)
Judging by Eureka Math, 10% of a 6-8 Common Core math curriculum (by hours) is rudimentary probability/statistics.
I’ve found that the built-in smart TVs, including Roku, have a laggy and frustrating experience compared to Apple TV. Also, most smart TV software stops working entirely after a while.
I think it's gender neutral. All sexes are fallible to get caught up in the 24/7 "crushing it" "work hard, play hard" hype!
Really? How do you know what is "wrong" way for me? In any case, Russian excess death is 3x of the official COVID numbers; it is a relatively well known fact, you can google Alexey Raksha, a demograph from the RosStat; he has a great explanation how Russian and the other ex-USSR numbers are made. You actually do not even need to listen to someone else, go and check RossStat numbers by yourself, they almost certainly are in open access.
And "your call may be recorded for training and quality purposes" and "your call is important to us". The former is s legal requirement but I really wonder why they often include the latter. I'd my call is that important, just answer me instead of telling me so!!!
It was doomed because it was delegated to each country and there was registries and registrars appointed in each country and almost all failed to get the point across.

I think ENUM had huge potential but the execution was horrible. It was also victim to proprietary system trend - Skype, FaceTime, WhatsApp audio

What we’re proposing (which is public in DNS) doesn’t replace ENUM - we still need a way to covert phone numbers into SIP to connect VOIP calls using an open standard.

What we’re proposing helps connect the proprietary systems to those phone numbers. As well as caller ID and other really useful stuff - like alternative ways to connect on social media etc.
I don't know about any other country. but as an argentinian, at any point in my life I could read one of his cartoons and it feels like it was drawn yesterday.
You missed the rates for receiving toll free calls, which are generally higher than both incoming and outgoing regular calls. For example, Flowroute is $0.00975/min.
I take issue with the idea that "Children want to please their parents".

Especially around age 13 or 14, pissing off parents is a sport.
You're not going to be exempt in an airport. If a knife is a weapon, if a can of mace is a weapon, a pre-1898 black powder pistol is not going to pass.
I meant "int can be as narrow as char".
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22673768
It's an abstraction to facilitate writing do blocks. Mostly tongue in cheek.
Not to mention that one of the biggest bottlenecks in drug development is the preclinical (e.g. mice) to clinical (humans) transition.
Wow, that's pretty racist!

IMO internet connectivity for education of underserved rural children is a great use case for Starlink. This population (particularly in the Four Corners region of the US) is VERY remote and expensive for existing internet service. I hope it gets there sometime soon.
Maybe the feature should switch the phone to loudspeaker mode when the call is answered, so you'd immediately hear them speak and could also immediately reply before picking the phone up.
The real pity is that your local public school is likely spending a similar amount per student as the private schools![1]

Our public school system spends a ton and seems to not get a good value for that spending.

You can believe in government funded education without believing in government run education. After all, we have a food stamp program but few would argue for a government grocery store chain instead of food stamps.

Why is it that the cities in America have such great restaurants but such poor schools?

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2020/comm/scho...
There's nothing about this statement that's incompatible with right libertarianism. Right libertarians themselves do believe that their ideas would improve the world over time, as do adherents of most political ideologies in general.

With cryptocurrencies specifically, the premise is that most poor people are poor because of government over-regulation (which is also deemed responsible for monopolies) and over-taxation, and so providing the ability to circumvent both is beneficial. It's definitely a libertarian stance, although it could be either left or right libertarian by itself. But given that most cryptocurrency adepts also have a problem with fiat money, and generally try to implement an intrinsically limited money supply, it ends up aligning more with right libertarian economic prescriptions.
To put it more plainly: Americans love tech and trust it, and not so oddly, in reverse order of how _tech people_ appreciate the companies.

Look at these ratings, theyre in direct contradiction with your guess of what they are as well as your thesis: Amazon and Google both have above 90% trust, Apple has 81%.

I've meditated on them a lot, and came to the conclusion there's a lot of class issues in tech spaces, and a borderline condescending paternal instinct towards users. Over 90% of people know their information isn't being 'sold'

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/2/21144680/verge-tech-survey...
In Québec as of midnight today it will be illegal to engage in any social activity outside of work, with the sole of two people living alone visiting one another in their residence, for a period of 28 days, in the regions marked as "zone rouge"

This includes outside gathering.

The end result is that I am not allowed to engage in any in person social activity for the next 28 days, at all. The only context in which I will be able to see people outside of my dwelling will be going to work (sadly/luckily I work remote), and getting groceries.

So basically, I'm banned from socializing for the next 28 days at minimum, and so are most people in Québec.
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This reply confirms my suspicion that you are mistaken about the meaning of "externalize". What you describe does not constitute an externality, although I do appreciate the explanation. This holds even though I tend to agree that what happened was a bad thing, though for different reasons.

However, it is important to remember that words mean something, and anyone who tells you different is trying to sell you something (usually something involving the deaths of millions, but I digress...).
Apparently it's racist to expect people to live with their decisions now. If their parents want to be their own separate thing they should have to live with the consequences of that decision and they should be the ones who have to explain why it was a good idea to their children.
The minimum wage is an example of "consideration for the value of a citizen". If you remove the minimum wage, what do you expect will happen? Nothing? Wages will go up? Then why do we have it?

No, wages go down: https://usafacts.org/articles/minimum-wage-america-how-many-...

Pure unchecked free market capitalism is nothing if not efficient. Where a company can't win by innovation (most companies), they'll gladly win by extracting and selling the wellbeing of their workers. Eventually the worker dies, and they get another. And the whole time they say "don't tell these people what's dehumanizing, let them make that decision for themselves!"