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No, if one cared one could spend the couple dollars to buy carbon credits to offset your flight. That would do a lot more than a shaving a fraction of a percent of fuel. I notice some airlines have a checkbox for this at checkout, it makes it quite easy to do. I wonder if it really offsets the carbon from the flight though, it seems so cheap. Like any one of the dozen taxes you pay for the flight is more than that. If it's the case one could mandate a tax to cover it and all flights in the country could be carbon neutral instantly and nobody would notice the difference.
That's a good question ! But I can't give you a accurate answer.

In my post I didn't elaborate on thermal dissipation issues because I think there are already enough problems with geometry and routing.

But heat dissipation is already a concern today, even before increasing the number of transistor layers.

If in a modern chip all the transistors were active simultaneously at high frequency, then the chip would probably be destroyed instantly due to overheating.

This is called the "Power Wall", which limits the frequency and (active) transistor density.

In a modern circuit it is common for one part of the circuit not to be active simultaneously with an adjacent one in order to avoid overheating.
It is also common to place blocks based on whether or not they are likely to be active at the same time.
It's common to have logic only used for factory testing. (design for testability (DFT) and design for manufacturing (DFM))
It is also common to add logic cells connected to nothing which can be repurposed in case a bug is found in the hardware and we need to fix it without replacing all the manufacturing masks, which would cost millions of dollars. (which is called spare cell insertion)

All this constitutes what is called the darksilicon.

In the case of a 2D circuit, all the transistors are exposed to heat dissipation in approximately the same way.
Now imagine the same problems, but in 3D, and adding the idea that some cells, in the center, can dissipate less heat than those near the surface. It must be a nightmare.

However, there is a potential solution to this problem: nanofluidics cooling.
> because what's the point anyway?

Same point as soccer: some people like it.
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GitHub is a Microsoft product now isn't it? But it still should be noted if its promoted and not related to its actual usage.
> Is it ignorant of me to wonder if the majority of the issues raised in this piece are either portrayed/worded poorly or just not very compelling?

I think you’re just missing the overarching point that googles position becomes stronger in a nonlinear way when you plug persistently updated pollable health data into what they already have.

without resorting to name calling your argument seems to be: “we’re going to hell anyway so why shouldn’t we let google take us there as fast as possible?”

my naive response would be that we should slow our descent into hell by any of the few means possible, while we wait for more humans to understand the danger to them that google, amazon, microsoft, apple ... are.
Yes, sadly the original discussion here on hn was widely seen and 600 comments, and this here will have only a dozen.
Apple decides things will never happen until they make them available (e.g. the iPhone 1 didn't support third party apps).

You are describing how the broken way iOS handles icons works. Great. That was not my point. It's broken in the first place.

Do you know how many operating system developed in the past forty years don't allow users to position icons where they want?

There's just one: iOS.

I just don't understand the motivation behind this decision. It makes no sense.
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Broadly, it's incorrect to claim the issues at hand here are irrelevant to the business of the (or any) company.
> You just believe that 'politics' is outside the scope of the company. Other's believe that it is not.

I believe this is a strawman. The issue at hand is political issues that are explicitly irrelevant to the mission of the company.

Issues that are relevant to the company should be discussed and potentially acted upon, if that furthers the agenda of the company (and not just some irrelevant political agenda that you might be passionate about).
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Exactly! I started from there, then these commands evolved into functions and the functions evolved into bash scripts which then evolved into a python program in order to have something more readable/structured and cross platform.

But of course no software is an excuse to not learn the good old UNIX core tools.
kb is not better than these tools, it just packs them up in order to have a slightly nicer output and be able to associate metadata to the notes in a clean way.
I don't think the BLM movement is "in power". That seems woefully misinformed.

Moreover, BLM and such movements aim to overcome white privilege to enable the equal treatment of colored people. I can see why this may feel aggressive to a white person, and your argument about sides confirms that.
The discussion just pointlessly spun out of control.

The key to finding those 3626 people willing to shell out $28 was the exposure, with MKBHD being the biggest contributor.

Whatever was the key to getting that exposure in the first place is irrelevant to my point.
That would be an admission that my musical ability is non-existent. But it's definitely something that crossed my mind.
Atm there is no delete button but I'll add that to the backlog. Thanks for sharing!!

The text-to-speech uses Speech synthesis from the Web Speech API and I wish it worked seamlessly on all browsers but it doesn't. Are you using it on mobile? If yes and your device is a Samsung one please check that you are using Google's TTS engine and not Samsung's.

"You can pick which one by going to the Settings app, then Controls->Language and input->Text-to-speech options. Select the gear icon next to Google Text-to-speech Engine, then under Language you can update the exact locale you want to use. If you select "Install voice data" you can even select from a sample of different voices for some locales. You need to restart the device after changing this setting for it to take effect."

Yes, please shoot me an email at admin @ talkabl.com and let's pick it up from there :) Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
So the greedy myopic attitude that you acknowledge has destroyed the web is now good because blockchain? Is there anything it cannot do?
You are confusing high frequency trading with electronic trading.
how did it even know you'd broken up? that sounds more worrying
We've had solid-state thermoelectric generators for a while that convert heat flux directly to electricity, they're just really inefficient (only 5-8% efficent). [0] I can't find anything suggesting a fundamental limit to the efficiency, but it would take a lot to catch up to steam-powered generators at 33%-48% efficiency [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_generator#Effic...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam-electric_power_station#E...
Yes, the older and more popular a compiler is, the less likely it is to have bugs.

The buggiest compiler I ever used was a C compiler that ran on a PC and generated code for the 68000 processor. We seemed to trip over something about once a month.
But the left talks about identity politics far more than the right. It's not even acceptable anymore to say that you are blind to race and sex.
Bicycles, sailboats, windmills ...
An interesting part to this is Coinbase's mission is, if it actually works out, absurdly counter-culture and near revolutionary.

Yeah, it's an exchange, trade w/o mainstream adoption will likely go on for a while, and there are a lot of caveats I'm not mentioning.

A mainstream Coinbase with mainstream cryptocurrencies, which will include Bitcoin (assuming a multi-currency future, not just BTC dominance), implies some serious changes to bedrock financial and geopolitical practices currently in place.

In the same way that wearing a mass-produced cotton shirt vs. a homespun one in 1890 implies the industrial revolution which implies Manchester mill-towns which implies...., so does a successful Coinbase if it reaches the end goals of its mission.

It's interesting that in exchange for not taking a stance on one set of issues, their very aggressive stance in another extremely societally profound area is getting overlooked. Like literally, interesting. Probably a nature of how Coinbase vs. other crypto cos chose to market itself.
> Structural equality is unavoidably the concern of every person and group in a society.

Inspiring but simply false
Maybe that's what Google has been trying to do here with diversifying their revenue sources, similar to what they are attempting to do with GCP. Look at the amount of control they have been adding on Pixel phones on what apps and services can access, even Google's.
This is entirely appropriate. Why do you think it isn't?
If you're in the UK, Tesco's recipe site is really convenient because you can add all the ingredients to your shopping basket and then get it delivered or click and collect them:
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I was thinking the same thing. How does this overpriced niche speaker make it to the top of hn so quickly?
A relevant message but way too wordy. For example:

"Make a re-evaluation (not to say a "reset") of the organizational capacities to respond swiftly to the need to develop functionalities to exponentiate the quantity, quality and depth of digital services. ."

could be

"Evaluate the capability of your organization to quickly expand its digital services..."

You could put 150% more smak and 300% more pow in your writing and look like you can "get things done."
I know several teachers who use MicroBlocks. They praise its simplicity, the ease with which kids get started coding, and the high level of student engagement they see. One teacher I know uses it with students as young as grade 3.
Isn't this what Palantir does? I just assumed their business model was to take any morally objectionable tech contract?
I see you have been down voted. It would be nice if you (or the down voters) could provide some evidence either way.
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Sentiment analysis isn't exactly hard.

In fact it could be as simple as knowing her ethnicity and then seeing we used to message each other a lot, and then suddenly stopped sending messages to each other.
This. I remember my parents using this excuse all the time when I was a kid and it felt like such a cop-out. There is an answer for everything, even if it is "I don't know" or "nobody knows". I despise "because I said so" now and my wife and I don't use that phrase with our 5 year old, we always try to find the best answer to his endless list of questions.
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Kudos to his original and inventive work. Thanks for the link.
I believe that coal releases more radioactivity into the environment than nuclear energy.
>If you can predict when cars will cross intersections, then you can prevent them from crashing even if they never stop; you just kind of decrease their speed. They almost never crashed in my simulation, and of course it was much more efficient

That's exactly right, the brake is the enemy of efficient driving and a system that can shirk this (by say, not accelerating to let other cars pass far ahead) would decrease fuel exhaustion by a helpful coefficient.
When Monty opens doors he uses 2 pieces of information: the door you picked and the correct door.

After he opens 999,998 doors he has given you quite a bit of information. There is a 1/1000000 chance though that he has given you no information (you picked the correct door)

But you're right that thinking about it in partitions also makes sense. You try to pick a partition size 1 that contains the prize, while Monty picks the partition size 999,999, if you agree with his partition and it has the prize you get it
Palantir helped the government detect people breaking the law?? For shame!
A lot of people need to lie to themselves and others that they’re not complete sell outs who forfeited their morals for a high salary. Being loud at work and social media is one way of doing that. It ends up with no real traction in reality though because the companies they work for don’t prioritize it over profits.
Fairness is overrated. 8TB drives are currently around $150, which prices 10GB of storage under 19 cents. Bandwidth costs would dominate if one peer had to upload the same material thousands of times, but in a P2P system the average peer uploads each thing once, and then we're back to pennies. It's an amount of money smaller than its own collection cost. Do I really care if I'm paying for $0.75/year in local computing resources and only using $0.03/year myself? It's not even worth negotiating over and would generally have still existed and just been idle in the alternative.

Moreover, even if everybody is a scrooge who can't just eat a negligible annual cost without worrying about it, you don't need everybody. You just need a few extra nodes to provide redundancy for you. Which could be your sister and your best friend and your father in law rather than some strangers you have to pay in a way that requires you to file weird tax paperwork.
Yes, take Sweden for example: no minimum wage. Let's take Norway... no minimum wage. They both do just fine.
As a serial fintech entrepreneur speaking from direct experience it should come as no surprise that major technology organizations are moving to control all payments as this is one function that all need to make money. All large brands own and operate their own payments systems as this is a direct factor of controlling expenses and therefore increasing revenue not to mention customer service which is growing increasing more important in this virtual faceless world. Many companies large, medium and small are now actively looking to bring payments in house as a factor of increasing asset value while simultaneously reducing expenses. If your payments volume and expenses justifies owning the process you too should consider owning it otherwise you will be at the mercy of the layers of middle men who will continue the nickel-and-diming activity.
FYI, piques.
That's a very disingenuous assessment of the situation at hand. Epic knowingly violated their developer agreement. There was no retaliation. There was the consequences that were written into the developer agreement that Epic agreed to.
> "The West Coast and its inhabitants live in a bit of a unique bubble and assume that the rest of the world see things in the very progressive manner they do."

That's tarring with rather a broad brush. There are a lot of old school liberals on the west coast who strongly disapprove of the progressives and their behavior, including myself. The progressives' "You are either with us or against us" rhetoric is diametrically opposed to the liberal "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." philosophy.
Sounds right to me :) oh and congrats on your results!
Wouldn't my business make more money for my shareholders if most of the labor was framed as meant for low skilled teenagers working random short shifts?
> Otherwise people with supports having their living subsidized will outcompete people without those supports.

And this sounds like some form of UBI.

If everyone had some income floor as a starting point, the government could be far less involved in micromanaging employment relationships, and low income people would be in a better position to turn down jobs offering very low wages.
Well gee.

Jony Ive is openly inspired by Dieter Rams, the designer behind many of Braun's products.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8555503/Dieter-...
This might come as a shock to you, but a large majority dislike political correctness no matter what group they belong to. They just go through the motions because they are attacked if they don't.

> While 83 percent of respondents who make less than $50,000 dislike political correctness, just 70 percent of those who make more than $100,000 are skeptical about it. And while 87 percent who have never attended college think that political correctness has grown to be a problem, only 66 percent of those with a postgraduate degree share that sentiment.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majo...
The idea of open source software is not anywhere near the public consciousness.
Get an influencer and you can sell even an icon pack at $28 to thousands of people.
I get it, we can all be tracked in ways when we are online unless we take extreme precautions like using TOR browser etc.

That is something else.

See my needs, what i want, is a portable encrypted Tails instance. I can do things that minimize my cookies/footprint inside, like using TOR, like using a virtualbox inside, using Matrix extensions etc etc....

But my primary need is an encrypted persistence with Tails and that is something they just don't provide. I can't use it as a day-day driver as I always need to setup everything from scratch.

I might as well just burn a linux distro to a usb and use that in its place.

What would set Tails apart is providing more flexibility.
This is a blog about the company's direction, not about whether it will perfectly conform to the ideals laid out. The CEO is not claiming that they are apolitical, but that that is their goal.

>Politics is ultimately about how we engage and collaborate with each other as a society,

An organization can be apolitical in which clients it takes, how it applies its agreements and rules, and its involvement in the campaign process.

>How can they truly be neutral on all of these issues that are directly relevant to the business they do?

They do not need to take a stance on law circumvention or the right to privacy other than to uphold the law and maximize customer value.
28 is too high for icons. The conversion rate is very telling. Do a 70% sale and promote it and watch it rocket. Maybe that was the plan
I'm not sure I understand what the purpose of the raspberry pi OS is anymore. In the past it was a pretty custom kernel, with a user environment stripped down to work with a minimal RAM configuration. Everyone put up with nonstandard SSH daemons/window managers/missing packages/etc because due to the constrained environment and the fact that arm wasn't a first class citizen with the likes of ubuntu/redhat/etc.

These days, every single major distro has rpi instructions, and 8G of ram is more than some laptops come with. So, its a disservice that they don't just tell people, here are a list of disto's which have been qualified to run on the hardware, pick one, and oh BTW, you can run those OS's on your laptop too.
Yes: everyone in a society necessarily has political responsibility.
Many people here are discussing OP-1 and complaining its expensive price. There's a open source clone called OTTO[1], and it looks promising (although not finished).

[1]: https://github.com/OTTO-project/OTTO
Make it more accessible from your build system. That way, when your curiosity is piqued (or frustration has peaked...), its easy to pick it up and see for yourself.

With GCC, its as simple as adding `-save-temps=obj`. You get preprocessed source and assembly emitted alongside the object files.
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...do they?

I have a Chromecast and have never seen an ad.
Half a second is actually quite a big deal.

"A delay of less than 100 milliseconds feels instant to a user, but a delay between 100 and 300 milliseconds is perceptible. A delay between 300 and 1,000 milliseconds makes the user feel like a machine is working, but if the delay is above 1,000 milliseconds, your user will likely start to mentally context-switch."

http://designingforperformance.com/performance-is-ux/#design...
The replies to your comment exemplify Coinbase’s delicate position, or more specifically why you can’t be apolitical while physically located in a monoculture like the Bay Area.

Outside of the monoculture, it’s actually extremely easy to be apolitical at work and people seem to get along despite extremely different personal views of each other (for example, being non-Mormon in Salt Lake City).
Maybe there's something here. My 19 year old niece is on her first semester of international relations and she had a strong interest in literature and writing during her teen years.
>> We don't have cheerleaders in the UK, because what's the point anyway?

We do. Not usually at sports games but it's a decent sized sport in a lot of universities these days with national competitions etc.

I didn't know a lot about it until recently I watched a Netflix series on it (Cheer). Like any other team sport there are a variety of positions with different skillsets necessary. The athleticism required is pretty incredible.
It really makes you wonder how people lived before aviation took off ... they must have had horrible life conditions ....

When I was a kid we were too poor to afford vacations out of the country, we drove to the nearest seaside every 2 or 3 years, during summer, with no AC, and I still had loads of fun. You don't have to go to _exotic_destination_234_ to enjoy your vacations.

People won't be able to drive from Berlin to Barcelona for the weekend in 3 hours for $50 (round trip), nor book a cruise from London to NY in 6 hours for $400. It doesn't take much to imagine how the world would look like actually, since coronavirus made most touristic places either very inconvenient or impossible to visit most people stay local and discovered that their region is just as beautiful as others.

These "what will people do without all these cheap vacation destinations" comment reek of entitlement
Do drug smugglers "just want a better life"? Is it racist to deport them?

Is it racist for a country to have and enforce borders at all?
You don't care that you can't change out the SSD, but you will care when you take your dead laptop to the Genius Bar and they tell you it's going to be cheaper to buy a new one and that your data is already gone.
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Not sure what your point is. 1.5M doesn't say anything about generality.
This reads like an ad, as do many of the replies.

Please read the site guidelines my friends.

> Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Monopoly power is not a market force, it's an abuse of the market to the detriment of the consumers. If "the market forces that result in there being a large market for Apple’s devices" is Apple using its platform to, say, restrict competition and maximize app revenue, thus having more money to invest in their platform, thus forcing competitors to apply the same dubious tactics or fail, then this is not a pro-consumer model because it leads to an oligopoly at best or impenetrable monopoly at worst.

The consumers can buy any system with any chip they want. If it is employed by Apple to enhance security that's great, for example the Mac. If it's used to lockdown the device so that no competing software can be run, a la iPhone, for them to maintain the stranglehold on the app market, then I am against it on political grounds and my position is not falsifiable.

You are inworking an oligopoly situation and accuse me of wanting to turn it into a monopoly, but I want the exact opposite: all existing platforms to still exist, and additionally, all those prevented by anti-competitive behavior, which by my non-falsifiable definition includes any lockdown on the hardware that is sold in the marketplace, that can only be, and is only used to limit the options of the owner.

It is not like Apple devices would cease to be produced or be confiscated if we pass laws mandating software freedom on purchased hardware, from iPhones to tractors.