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>Then the batteries should be replaceable -- who pioneered non replaceable phone batteries?

You missed the point because you have a narrative you want to fit this situation into. The big picture is that there are valid reasons for sending devices to a landfill.

Every device that is currently made will end up in a landfill. Having the manufacturer and consumer responsible for these externalities is not a terrible policy, but this is not how you do it.

>Bingo. Profits before planet.

You're just a one-trick pony, aren't you? That you are writing this insightful commentary on a computing device that will end up in a landfill within the next 2 to 5 years, I'm sure, is lost on you.
Fair enough, there do need to be limits on this- though I suppose the native peoples of the Amazon Rain Forest should be enough reason to stop logging, but we've seen how well that's gone throughout history...
just so it's clear I'm not saying that women cannot do whatever a man can in the workplace. I'm saying women can do something that a man cannot "outside" the workplace -- that is gestate, and to some extent bond with and grow, a child.

And I know it seems like "Can't the contribute more at the workplace? Imagine a woman with IQ >= 120 What about research etc?" Well to the extent that desirable traits are heritable is to the extent we want/need these women to be mothers. And iirc the research indicates children grow optimally w/ their biological parents, both of them, and plenty of bonding time. This is in direct contradiction to the mother making deep commitments outside the home. Sadly it becomes a binary choice between being a fantastic mother or a fantastic contributor to a cause/research/business. I dont say this to denigrate anyone, but to recognize the real human limits of everyone involved.

IMO kind of like clean air/water or stable food supply we under estimate the importance of the task because of it being commonplace.

Remove the ability (or actuality) of having kids and much of our society would collapse in ~20 yrs time. All the people involved with making goods for, teaching, training, sports etc around children would be unemployed. Housing market would have a massive shift because who needs extra bedrooms? Politicians + news anchors would just Say "Women" insted of "Women and children" etc. It would completely disrupt society.
sure, and that's the rub. the systemic risk in this case is for a relatively small/local system compared to the state. if the systemic risk were distributed across the state, the easy answer is socializing the cost at the state level. but here, it's more localized than that (even as the boundaries might be long, since the risks tend to be on the edges). how much should be apportioned to the individuals/companies, insurance, and the government?

it's similar to the discussion around flood maps in relation to assessors/appraisers, risk adjusters, fema, and insurance. those maps are at least in part designed to apportion risk and responsibility.
Not by default, but you can easily install unbound and configure the pi-hole to use it as a recursive DNS resolver.
Donkeycar might give you some ideas... it logs still images with a RaspberryPi camera module. The frames can be stitched into video afterward (though maybe lower frame rate/resolution than what you want). If it crashes, logged frames are on disk.
>My outlook is that things just exist in some higher dimension but because we perceive things in 3D we wrongfully assume there needs to be a start/end.

This is a thought I've often had as well. Like we exist on an X-Y coordinate plane, but there's a Z axis we just can't access. Particles popping into and out of existence? Just moving along the Z axis (our entire existence is on a single scalar value on that axis). GR and the "warping of spacetime"? Well, the bowling ball on a trampoline analogy obviously requires an extra dimension beyond the 2D trampoline surface to warp into. EPR and Bell's Theorem, viz no local hidden variables? Well, there's the non-locality. I'm not a physicist and this is all obviously a vast oversimplification, but it just seems that so many fundamental questions are confounding because they all seem to point to a missing degree of freedom.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24678138.
In my experience in an American school, most of the professors are only interested in their research and not the teaching. The ones that were only teaching because they liked it and not doing any research were much better at it.
Building new stuff while never taking into account maintenance costs happens in computer programming, too. At least in some places I've worked, they have more to maintain than people or time to maintain it, but there's always someone with a budget and an idea.
The company is ironic because they say they want to be a new, humane kind of tech company, don't explain what they do, and have a site and vibe that epitomize modern sv tech, almost to the level of the "tables" pied piper commercial on silicon valley. If they want to be different they could explain what they do and not talk vaguely about changing how we interact with tech while showing smiling people walking through fields.
Really well done and a fair license too.

Thanks for sharing!
All of those stackoverflow comments are wrong. It is because Chuck Norris is mad that you made an error in your HTML code, causing the color to be red, because he is going to kick our asses.
Reconstructions of stations of the Prague metro tend to take between 6 and 12 months, rarely longer.

5-7 years remind me of the Sofia metro (Bulgaria) during the Soviet Bloc era. It was officially under construction for like 20 years but in practice, the budget just wasn't there so the works went forward veeeeeery slowly, in some years literally nothing was done.
In UK. We definitely spent a lot of time solving DEs of various classes, and very little on "modelling" part. But I remember that numerical methods were covered pretty well too.
You should try doing some profiling on each part of your system and find where the bottlenecks are.

anecdotally, I built a telemetry system for an electric boat with very similar architecture (RPi, python script for telemetry collection, 433Mhz telemetry radio) and were pretty easily able to push on the scale of ~100 data points at 100hz. Part of that was efficiently (and manually) packing each data point into the minimum space required, pretty much just the raw data and a checksum. But from what you’re describing I definitely think you can push your system further without rewriting significantly.
As stupid as it sounds, my first introduction to programming and "hacker" culture was AOL chat rooms, people used "scrollers" which would paste ascii art into AOL chat rooms at the press of a button and I wanted to know how that was done so I learned some Visual Basic with the functions AppActivate and SendKeys. I was 12 and in 6th grade at the time.

After being kicked off of AOL for that and other DoS related crap related to these silly "progs" I was making, I had to get a different local dialup ISP and find a new way to chat (IRC).

People used to send the IRC CTCP "VERSION" command to see what IRC client you were using, and the folks in the leet haxor chats such as #2600 would make fun of you for being a newb if you were on mIRC (and thus Windows) and not Linux or *BSD.

So I had to figure out Linux so I could be cool, which was kindof a pain in the ass in 1997 still. Hardware support for things like ethernet and video cards often required recompilation of the linux kernel just to get it working etc. I learned a lot from that and often stayed up until 6 in the morning much to my parents concern and dismay.

But luckily for me, who did poorly at school for lack of interest and didn't go to college, the computer/coding thing turned out OK for me. I'm 36 and work at one of the big companies and make a pretty good living as an SRE. Somewhat ironically, I work at Microsoft now.
I once had a similar issue with a hotspot, that required email confirmation but didn't let me access my email.

It's possible to work around when you have a phone connection with limited bandwidth and a low monthly cap, but meh.
It's actually worse for selective enforcement. That allows essentially prosecution for nothing against anyone currently out of favor with the powers that be. It obscures this deliberate corruption by hiding it behind a veneer of legalism, and allows apologists to claim "if they didn't want to be arrested, they shouldn't have done X". It erodes the idea of laws being backed by justice, and makes them simply another tool of the powerful against the powerless.
So it's like a play but not live? Interesting. Does it cost less than attending a full production?
I’m not saying that running a NAS is hard. I’m saying that most of Sonos customers don’t run a NAS, they use something like Spotify.

The number of Sonos customers that are really interested is a local only setup in the music streaming age is vanishingly small.

I run a NAS, Plex, and even had a local music collection. But I’ve ditched it for Spotify. I simply can’t be bothered to deal with the faff. When I want music, I want it to work first time every time, not a 1% chance that something brakes that require 30mins of my time to fix.
Really helpful! Thank you! Would you happen to have your source code available anywhere for me to take a look?
I’ve read similar stories. I wish they were chronicled in medical journals.
A part of the hypothesis about the RNA world is correct, but all of it seems very unlikely. It is almost certain that DNA appeared later than RNA, probably in some kind of virus.

Also, it is a logical necessity that the transcription of RNA into proteins, including the ribosomes and the transfer RNAs appeared only later than the replication of RNA.

The part of the RNA world hypothesis that seems unlikely because it has very few supporting data is that the original biocatalysts a.k.a. enzymes were RNA molecules unlike anything that exists today.

In my opinion, it is far more likely that the first enzymes were non-ribosomal peptides, somewhat resembling to parts of the proteins that constitute the enzymes of recent life forms.

ATP and other nucleotides must have existed before RNA as a means to perform condensation (i.e. dehydration) reactions and the copolymerization of the nucleotides must have appeared as some undesirable side reaction, which somehow at some point generated some sort of self-replicating RNA, which was in fact the first virus, because its synthesis could not have any beneficial effects for the hosting life form.

Only after the appearance of the transcription of RNA to proteins, the RNA could evolve into a source of components for the hosting life form so that RNA could change from a parasitic entity to an essential part.

Life forms with RNA (and later with DNA) are analog with microprogrammable processors, because the nucleic acid molecules are memories which direct the synthesis of other components, so you can change the components by writing a different information in the memories, without changing the synthesis machinery. This kind of flexibility was certainly necessary for further evolution.

Life forms before RNA are analog to hard-coded processors. Supposing that they were made with non-ribosomal peptides, there must have been a mechanism by which a complete life form was replicated, by a cycle of reactions were some kinds of peptides were assembled by other kinds of peptides.

Non-ribosomal peptides exist even today in all living beings and they are assembled in the correct sequence from amino-acids without depending directly on the information stored in nucleic acids, like the proteins.

Memories, like nucleic acids, are certainly not necessary for designing an ensemble of molecules able of self-replication, exactly like a memory is not necessary for implementing the control automaton of a processor.

Nevertheless, it is likely that the further evolution of such a primordial life form was almost impossible, because all accidental changes in the structure of the component molecules would have resulted in a replication failure.

After the separation of functions between a memory (nucleic acid) and a generic synthesis machine, evolution by changing the memory content became much more likely to be successful.
The whole thing is disappointing to see, but this bit was eye opening for me:

> One young woman in Florida said the same man would call on Saturday nights to say: “I can hear your typing. I really like the way you type.” Another longtime agent said she couldn’t believe how many “perverted calls” she had to field on Sunday mornings. “They’d say: ‘What are you wearing? Are you naked? Can I do things to you?’ I figured they got a thrill from skipping church.”

What the actual fuck, people? It is extremely creepy to call to sexually harass a customer service rep period, but to do it repeatedly is not only creepy, but it has to be extremely alarming to the customer service rep and I would hope violates some form of stalking laws.

The customer service reps are effectively powerless, doing degrading things to keep a minimum wage job. Then the employer mandates that they cannot hang up on a caller. The employer either refuses to remove harassing customers from the platform, or the customer service reps are too afraid that they'll be fired for reporting harassing customers to actually report them. And then along come the sexually harassing creeps, who derive sexual gratification from abusing the power imbalance created by the worker structure.

I'm sure it's a terrible idea with far-reaching and unpredictable consequences, but these companies presumably have account information on these people. It would make me extremely happy if Arise or the people that contract them would take a hard line and start releasing the names of people who sexually harass customer service agents, along with the "quality assurance" recording of the call.

It's always shitty when someone uses a power differential to abuse someone else, but I had always assumed that most of those occurrences in customer service were in the form of verbal abuse because the customer is frustrated by things that are out of the representative's control (e.g. Comcast sucks terribly, but your customer service rep can't fix that). It's shitty, and people shouldn't do it, but I can understand losing your patience when trying to navigate the quagmire that is Comcast policies. I never envisioned that someone would _go out of their way_ to harass customer service reps, especially in a sexual sense.

The world might be a better place if the "quality assurance recording" cut both ways, and the rep could flag you as an asshole or a creep to everyone the same way you can flag a rep to their employer.
>In the end any reasons Apple might have to want them destroyed are just because they don't have to face many of the externalities of dealing with their residues because they ship them to thirld world countries, and they also don't pay many of the externalities of producing new hardware because they produce it in a country with poor regulations.

You can create a policy to price the externalities of recycling the electronic device (and that may be a necessary policy), but to be clear, it will be shared between Apple and the consumer through higher-prices - which will impact the poor disproportionally. Maybe that's a good thing, but I always find it interesting that people just point the finger at the manufacturer and not the consumer that ultimately buys the products and tosses it (usually without properly recycling it). It's the same kind of garbage as trying to blame Exxon for extracting petroleum and ignoring the SUV in your driveway.

>In any sustainable system Apple should either be the first interested in repairing those devices or forced to do it.

You don't even know what's wrong with these devices.
It might just be that DNA has a better sweet-spot in terms of mutation probability, useful for evolution, and robustness, important for survival and transmission of useful genetic information.
Installing Crysis on a RTX 3090
Ah, tag soup. How much of that stuff is still sloshing around the web?
Maybe on an evolutionary meta-level striving for more is the equivalent of sitting on rocks and trying to stay warm - and we're stuck in this hyperactive local minimum one step from collective suicide because we're not smart enough to work that out.
There already is precedence for this. Cloudflare provides a huge chunk of F-root servers.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/f-root/
That's your interpretation, but the same text has been considered perfectly compatible with chattle slavery for more than a hundred years, starting immediately as it was written. So I don't think it's as clear cut as the text might make you think.
I'm still somewhat annoyed that didn't lead to a complete blackballing of Swarm. A <$1M fine for a VC-funded space start-up actually doesn't seem that large, and I bet they probably saved a bunch of money by not following the proper procedures anyway, which lowers the actual impact of that fine anyway. It sets a bad precedent for other New Space companies that might be looking for a shortcut.
Sonos speakers are DLNA sinks. Once they are set up you can stream music using something like https://github.com/masmu/pulseaudio-dlna, without using the Sonos app on your phone or computer.
The effects of microdosing begin on consumption and end on discontinuation. They do not build up and fade slowly. Tolerance and breaks are frequently discussed.

So, it's not about the effect of a prolonged presence.
HTML5 Mobile Web Apps
I have always found bash syntax super confusing. I always enjoy Julia's take on different topics, but I have to confess I was hoping for a little more here than "[[ is bash syntax. it’s more powerful than ["
You can't say "state prison population" and not specify which state, unless I'm misunderstanding?
Tales from the science fiction bar-room
This criticism and comparison is ridiculous, there is no such thing as 'violent restructuring of private enterprise' because companies don't have armies, governments do.

And 2008 has killed plenty of people, by rendering them homeless, hungy, and unable to afford healthcare.
EU looks to curb powers of Big Tech with new Digital Services Act
Mathematica has a function called NDsolve which attempts to reduce/simplify/solve fully symbolically and then falls back on numeric methods. Never actually used it for anything real, but could have potentially avoided this situation.
5-7 mg. 10mg verges on a perceptual dose for me.
Yeah taking the Uber route on regulation compliance does not work for space travel.
How is tor extremely identifiable? How does the dark net manage to stay up if it’s identifiable?
Most governments manage to pass a budget every year. The American government's exceptional incompetence should not be treated as a foregone conclusion -- and their inability to pass laws speak more to the innate unfairness of unaffirmed laws than anything else! Imagine if they would simply have to defend every law like the Assault Weapons Ban. We'd have fewer laws. Fewer by FAR.
Is that an antiviral defense or something else?
> These aren't types of query, they are types of server

Actually, they're both a type of server and a type of query.

> viovich123 was talking about content DNS servers

DNS has nothing to do with content, it's name to address resolution.
How does this strong towns crap keep finding its way to the top of HN? This site is just nonsense unsourced propaganda.
I think the main thrust of the argument is that we were created, not necessarily the peculiar details found in Genesis. It's odd to focus on specifics of a religious text written millennia ago.
Farewell, Python 3.5
It's important to remember that our planet had ocean-sized flasks and hundreds of millions of years to evolve life. The organizational leaps required could involve extremely low-probability events that are nearly impossible to replicate in a lab. However, these events only needed to happen once.
I find that daily exercise and keeping a steady schedule of 8~9 hours of sleep is critical to maintaining stability. Sleep is the one thing I can't skimp on. Exercise can slip for a day or two. Food is less critical as long as I'm getting proper nutrition and don't skip meals.

Due to my severity, insomnia (primary), and psychosis, I will likely always need medication but taking care of my body allows me to keep the dosages low enough that I still feel like myself.
I presume no-one has gotten around to fix it yet. Maybe they didn't have any screenshot that was a good representation when they put up the mobile warning. It's not going to happen magically by itself so feel free to send a PR:
https://github.com/tobspr/shapez.io/blob/5a3807883e44640bb8a...

My point is that this is an open source effort. It's not like someone intentionally omitted a screenshot to annoy people. It needs a contributor who cares about changing the mobile prompt for it to be fixed.

I have a similar useless prompt in one of my open source games and it's just a boring issue to fix and I rather focus on the game itself.
There are many places online that will ship spores where it is legal to have spores. Many places discussing it, too.
So do the obvious - tax the sulfur content of the fuels, too.

The problem with banning is its inflexibility. For example, let's say you have a bunker-fueled emergency generator for a hospital that you use only when the power goes out. The pollution it emits is negligible. But by banning bunker fuel, you'll have to replace the emergency generator, at considerable expense and environmental cost.

With taxes instead, you:

1. bunker fuel will only be used when there's high value for it, and you won't have to add a plethora of exemptions into the regulation

2. have a revenue center for the government instead of a cost center - revenue that can be used to subsidize green initiatives
Scores on any test can be improved with practice and training. The SATs are a notable example, but similar test preparation techniques will work for any other aptitude test and IQ tests are aptitude tests.

I'd go so far as to say that the rising prevalence of test preparation is critically reducing the signal these tests provide. When one cohort routinely prepares for the aptitude test and another one doesn't, the latter is going to appear disadvantaged, but what's being measured is no longer what the test was designed to measure.

Top tier American universities have long been aware of this effect, which is why they negatively weight certain groups' test scores to balance out the bonus they are getting from test preparation. It's gotten so bad that the UC system is abandoning standardized testing altogether.
If you go back far enough, you get this:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/new-study-o...
> And would it be so bad for Google/Chrome to simply let the NXDOMAIN hijacking slide?

Yes, it would. It's a workaround to a problem created by shitty ISPs, go after the ISPs if you want to solve the problem.
I’ve been reading strongtowns off and on for a few years. You’re correct that they try to have a left-leaning approach (densification) based on right-leaning principles (fiscal responsibility). But I haven’t seen them “asking for a big pile of federal dollars.” They seem so be saying that the pile of federal dollars that the towns and cities are already getting should be spent more responsibly, ie on projects that can be sustained by the tax value they create.
And yet, the following have been considered compatible with the rights of all people: slavery, torture of non-citizens, assassination of non-citizens on suspicions of a crime, assassination of citizens on external territory on suspicions of a crime.
No, content and proxy are types of server. There's no such thing as a "content query" nor a "proxy query".

And DNS very much is content. The content is a whole bunch of resource record sets. Published by content servers, much as in HTTP. And it isn't all name to address stuff.
Yes, people deserve privacy and education and many other things. The point is that food security and shelter are even more important by a very large margin.