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>I'm willing to bet that it'll take way less time for life to develop the ability to break down plastics.

A double-edge sword if it does occur. While it could reduce or eliminate microplastics from the environment, it would also unleash a massive amount of currently-sequestered carbon to the atmosphere.

Only way around that I can see is if we re-sequester all that plastic deep underground before it happens.

Sorry, a bit of a tangent I know, but it's been on my mind lately.
Being fairly active on social media; especially GIF or video heavy websites will see you churn through 1-2gb a day easily.
You definitely have some valid points. On the other hand, I just did a project at my company that had dynamic PDF generation from web-app data as a requirement. Being a shop that in no way has the experience, time, or budget to build a dependency-free in-house tool to do this, I instead was able to find the jspdf library, pull it in from node, and implement the functionality in an afternoon.

Believe me, as someone who cares about code, I far prefer a world where I know how every line of code in a system I'm building works. In fact, in my free time, I do just that. But my job as an in-house software dev for a non-tech company is to solve business problems with technology, and as with every business problem, there is an acceptable level of risk that you need to be OK taking. In our case in this post-COVID world, people's jobs are literally depending on us iterating quickly.
I’m glad I live in taiwan now. Back in the states my internet sucked, both mobile and home.

Now I use my phone as a mobile hotspot and do my work on it. I use about 30 or 40 gigs a month when I’m not at home.
Hahhaha wtf is this post?

Are you seriously comparing staring at a screen to BREATHING??
Is there anything similar for Unreal Engine?
Is it just me or have attitudes shifted dramatically on this? When I was a college student, I remember professor’s scaring us with stories of intellectual property disputes between companies and their workers over side project. Not to mention liability issues. But now every company wants to hear about your side project during interviews?
To the person, somewhere near Paris: Congratulations! :-)
Real Rebels Pay Their Taxes
That's good to know. On a late night road trip up to Mt Hood I got chewed out by the attendant for touching the machine. I imagine a to. Of Californians make that mistake.
Recommended video to see how CRT works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BJU2drrtCM
Those numbers are from electricityMap for South Australia: 201g right now, and 502g 15 hours ago.

During the demand peak, it was 301g.

Speaks for itself.

About the money pit, Germany spent 500 billion euros on wind and solar. And what does it have to show for it? Right now it’s 10x the CO2/kWh of France at twice the price.
I thought it was well known that MVNOs are on lower QoS/prioritisation than the carrier's own main brand(s)?

A mate works for Optus and had for a while a bunch of different iPhones of the same generation for testing.

Each had the same OS version/etc.

One on Optus Business, one on Retail Postpaid and one on a reseller (iirc Virgin).

Speed tests side by side were pretty interesting. You could quite clearly see the business service was getting prioritisation over all the others. Retail was generally better than the Reseller by quite a margin. Some locations (like shopping centres) would restrict the reseller from working at all, and retail would be clamped down on bandwidth.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Your intuition is right: they're afraid of the content leaking.

For cloud providers, this results in ... amusingly long documents. Here's GCP's at 110 pages [1], while the AWS folks were clever and used landscape mode for theirs [2] so that it's only 59 pages :).

[1] https://cloud.google.com/files/gcp-mpaa-compliancemapping.pd...

[2] https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/compliance/AWS_Alignmen...
I don’t think people complain about too much screen time at work, so much as they complain about too much screen time in general. It’s just that most of it happens at work.
I absolutely loved this film, but I wasn’t sure how much was because of its quality or how much was because of how it struck a chord with me personally.

I didn’t have an octopus teacher, but the ocean brought so much light to my life in such unexpected ways. It physically and metaphorically swallowed me up.

To hear and see another person describe that, the feelings, the visuals of the forests of kelp. In a way I feel as though the ocean saved some part of me, but that almost seemed silly. Then suddenly no, someone to share that with. It somehow made my love and incredible experiences even more real.

Free diving is one of the most peaceful and fulfilling things I’ve ever experienced. It has changed so many things about myself and the way I live.

Someone else mentioned it was an indulgent documentary, and I agree I guess. I also think that’s kind of inevitable - the experience of immersing yourself in such an engaging, in a sense isolating, peaceful place is quite indulgent on its own. The story is largely focused on a single person doing this thing. But it’s beautiful nonetheless. I really loved it and felt it was a story well worth telling.

There’s something about the life in the ocean being so foreign and strange, yet so vital, familiar, and oddly comfortable to be in and around. Some dives I wish I could just stay forever - like that’s where I belong. Nothing can describe the deep realization that the earth is absolutely covered in stunning beauty, so much of it unseen. The story of this octopus to me is like a shining sliver of that. Just a brief but stunning glimpse of something incredible that you’d otherwise never have considered.
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I'm reading this now, I think it's from a book he's working on now: https://graymirror.substack.com/p/4-principles-of-any-next-r...

Compared to what passes for intellectualism nowadays (especially from those running the show, or at least advertised as doing so), this guy seems like he's not just on a different level, but from a completely different dimension. I don't agree with the final conclusions he draws, or at least my take on what they are, but he sure understands how the current system works.

Putting these ideas into a form the average Joe could understand (and be persuaded by) might be a tall order though, I imagine he's considered that but I'll have to hunt around to see if he's ever written anything on it.
Random websites have loose relationships with readers now because the big algorithmic aggregators have driven small sites out of existence. Back before Reddit and Facebook, small sites were common and you were expected to return regularly to see what’s new.
> I have a lot of authors in my social circle.

I'm curious, how does one accumulate a social circle with a lot of authors?

> Most of the authors I know end up envying the more visual artists, who can display their talents more easily.

From the rest of your post, I think your point is that it's much easier for a visual artist to show somebody "here is what I do" in a few minutes. But the trade-off is that the relationships people form with their favorite authors seem to be much deeper. For example, outside of maybe photography, it's hard for me to think of visual artists whose work is ascribed moral qualities by people who aren't critics.
It doesn't happen every time, it asks again maybe once a month, or maybe after OS updates or something. That setting is definitely off.
The user cannot edit the message on twitter, but the database admin can. By extension, an attacker can do that as well.

The bitcoin BlockChain on the other hand is much harder to modify.

ps. I guess twitter can be trusted for some use cases, but for others (e.g. legal) I wouldn't trust a Twitter account.
I never exceeded 1GB of mobile data, personal and work combined, literally ever. But I can totally understand how one reaches these figures without doing anything weird: video call meetings, video streaming while commuting or traveling, music streaming throughout the day, maybe also work via tethering when not in the office or at home... it's just that one can choose to not do these things.

On the one hand, I feel like I'm preaching and practicing abstinence by doing things like downloading videos that I want to watch in the bus ahead of time over WiFi. On the other, long-range mobile data only works because we're not all using it at the same time, that's why we we meter it per month: it's a poor man's way of limiting concurrent usage while allowing bursty traffic and keeping the limits understandable to consumers. If you use a lot of data or need a lot of bandwidth reliably (e.g. IT company), running a local network yourself is the obvious way to go today. But with small cells coming to a bus stop near you, and seeing just how easy mobile data is compared to WiFi that can be out of range more easily (or you may be connected to a faraway access point), can be down and nobody is on call to fix it (in a company, someone might be on call for WiFi, but at home?), etc., it seems clear that for 98-99% of people and 90-95% of companies, using mobile data exclusively is the medium-term future (let's say around 2040).

And if it is the future, and since I use anywhere between 50GB and 2TB per month in data on my home internet connection (not counting others in the house), mobile data will need to handle such figures per person as well. More, even, because it will be in the future.

Someone having a 20GB+ mobile data plan is not exactly weird to me, even if with a little bit of foresight you can limit your usage to 1-2GB a month (and that still allows for quite a bit of video calling and occasional videos on the go) and save a bunch of money in 2020 (something on the order of subscribing to both netflix and spotify premium).
I use a similar technique. Both VMware and New Relic have sold/lost email lists to spammers in the past couple years.
I mean, if you're catching the train or bus, is it that unusual to want to watch a few YT videos or a 25-60 minute episode on a streaming service? I suspect most people who avoid it are doing it for data reasons.
The "custom kernel drivers" are the problem. Whatever they are, they should be upstreamed too. Trying to keep a stable ABI just causes problems.
> Do we ask lawyers what free cases they take over the weekend?

Lawyers have both continuing education and pro bono work expectations, both of which are frequently also bar membership requirements (with some common
exemptions, IIRC, for the pro bono requirement in jurisdictions where it generally applies.)

Of course, because they are binding requirements and because lawyers as a norm (and, when not working as regular employees of their direct client, usually a legal requirement) work for other lawyers, this is usually accommodated within working arrangements. But software developers don't have industrial guilds or self-regulation, so they don't have the same kind of power to get accommodation for the need for doing things outside of their current narrow job duties accommodated within most working arrangements. But that doesn't lessen the need for it.

> Doctors about the diagnoses they make for fun on Saturdays?

Doctors are much like lawyers, including both the binding nature of continuing professional education requirements and, and least broadly, the reasons why it gets accommodated in their working arrangements.

> Teachers about their open source lesson plans?

No, but, teachers also have mandatory continuing education requirements as licensing conditions outside of what they are immediately teaching. And they tend to have strong unions and legal requirements to point to to get these accommodated in their working arrangements.

Software developers have, as a whole, implicitly opted for immediate pay over other advantageous working conditions, including accommodations for continuing education, but it is no less relevant to their ability to develop and perform. Possibly moreso than the other fields; tooling and practices in software development evolving more rapidly than many other intellectual professions.
Justices Look for Reassurance That the Sky Won’t Fall in Google vs. Oracle
The left side of the chart is a surprising cohort, hardly the usual suspects when it comes to being behind the curve. There’s the US, sure, but it’s actually slightly ahead of Norway, and significantly ahead of both Canada and Japan!

You have two Scandinavian countries on opposite ends of the spectrum, two east Asian countries on opposite ends, and even two countries with significantly large landmass (look at Russia only two spots short of Korea). What gives?
The situation is AIPAC is undoubtably complicated.

The IRGC was pretending to be American news organizations, which is entirely different in kind from AIPAC.
I did all these things right up until I married and had a son. Now when I have a few hours to myself I just play a game, or get some extra hours of sleep.

Ain’t nobody got no time to do that any more.
Shouldn't a GPU driver have a significant representation in the Linux Kernel? It represents a lot of the computation.
A lot of really really good engineers I knew at AWS had no side projects. They were absolute masters at their job. May be AWS is a small sample size, and sure engineers with side-projects were better than average, but to say others were not as good...nope, doesn't go with my observation at all.
> Seeing the homelessness issues in SF and LA makes me wonder if they tipped the balance of those cities being uninhabitable by such a large percentage of their inhabitants that the are going to need to majorly restructured to make it back to a stable equilibrium.

This. I moved out of SF last October after being constantly harassed by homeless at my apartment building. I moved to the Peninsula, but now looking at moving out of the Bay Area entirely now that I can WFH permanently. Why live here? Cost of living is outrageously high, dangerous homeless all over, and now with COVID you can’t even really do anything... You’re better off in the suburbs with a backyard. Rental markets are already super tight in all the other cities that Bay Area residents normally move to.
LED strips stuck to the monitor itself, pointed at the wall. Powered from a USB port on the monitor if it has one.
New Zealand reporting in here, the cheapest plan for unlimited mobile data is around 20 USD/month, but you need 4 people committed together to get such rate. A true independent unlimited mobile connection will set you back $45 USD or so with first 40GB at full speed.

Realistically speaking the 20USD/month is already quite reasonable, if world as it was pre-COVID I might coerce some friends and family to join the plan with me.

But I really would prefer 25 USD no strings attached.
This is true. To think of it, some lawyers probably work for free in the weekends for the poor; some doctors probably read about medical breakthroughs (and inevitable solve family cases) at home, and teachers too. I don't see anything wrong with either approach to coding, be it treating it strictly as work or as a hobby. But if someone expects good code, best practices, 100% test coverage, etc. in a side project - that's going too far.
Gospel in brief is in words of tolstoi himself his most important work , anyone wanting to understand tolstoi as philosopher should read it since it has the tolstoi beliefs in it

Basically tolstoi resume the teachings of Jesus from the original greek works, and remove any sobrenatural aspect of it, miracles etc

I recommend it to anyone how wants to learn about jesus teachings and real christianity a not the current ones Versions we have
That's not a sustainable business model. Even Mozilla realizes that, which is why they're constantly trying to diversify into other revenue streams.

Come to think of it, a break-up would probably just result in Microsoft "owning" Chrome, since they, through Edge, would quickly become the primary contributor to the project in the absence of available funds to keep the Chrome core team running at its current capacity.
Ask HN: Where can I find experienced and quality game devs to hire fulltime?
Hi folks,

After running a successful SaaS business, my two co-founders and I are looking to start an indie game dev studio, pursuing our ultimate dream of creating and publishing indie games.

We have mapped out an initial title that is relatively simple, and created a Game Design Document to boot. We've also been able to confirm an ample amount of funding to get things off the ground.

We're now hoping to talk to experienced game developers for feedback on our GDD, and ultimately to bring a dev onboard full time so that we can move forward with the project.

So far I've posted across a few relevant sub-reddits and other indie communities I'm in, but I'm sure I'm missing some low hanging fruit.

My other ideas to explore tonight:

* ~~Post in game dev subreddits~~ Done

* Research and post on game dev forums

* Direct outreach to indie game devs with solid releases

* Attend a local game development meetup

Where should I be looking for quality game dev talent?

Thank you
There seems to be alot of people who "want to build something" but don't. What's that about - I don't really get it?

I work hard on my software ideas.

I can absolutely understand if you simply don't have time - work/kids/family/friends/health etc.

But if you do have time and instead procrastinate - that's a mystery to me. I'd like to say "just do the work" but I think that would be missing the point somehow.

I made a definite decision a while back I'd rather do something with my life than play endless hours of computer games or TV/Netflix watching. I absolutely do watch TV and play computer games but it's at the very end of the day when my brain won't do any more productive work.
> nothing to do with gov't policy

Not true. If they were allowed to fill their theaters up, they'd probably have reopened already. The business decision to not reopen is because they can't be profitable with the vastly reduced capacity that the government is currently mandating.
I just have other shit to do. I’d love to spend another couple hours a week doing random projects but there’s only so much time. Especially once you have kids.
The point is that it's ridiculous that the US government can stifle the speech of anyone, anywhere in the world with a .com

Hopefully China is soon in a position to counter US hegemony on the world wide web.
My comment was meant to convey conditionality. As in I would happily work those days if I had those hours.

Thanks for the interesting link. If I only worked 2 hours a day on a computer, I would likely spend my free time on hunter-gatherer-gardener-cook tasks. Perhaps art and science as well.
If you read some of the old HN threads when that happened, there were a few takes on Mozilla. One is that they lost the browser war, so they should cut their losses (like with Thunderbird) and move on. The other was that they underinvested in what their supporters care about (the browser) and were distracted by things like Pocket. Mozilla is also in a different situation than a spun-off Chrome; Chrome would be a market leader with licensing deals.
Cognitive load is a bitch when someone is staring down the barrel of burnout. Kids or not.
Just a decade ago, SMS messages in the US cost 10 to 25 cents per SMS. You also got charged for spam SMS. Prices were completely disjointed from the reality of underlying costs (zero for the telcos). My college CS professor gave senate testimony on this: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/keshav_testim...

(side rant: in the following ten years, the tech giants sweeped in, competed, provided a better service, with better cross-platform support, for zero dollar immediate cost to the end customer -- gained a massive following (think whatsapp), and are now vilified for their "monopoly" and the "harm" it has caused.)
So judging by that graph, the median Finn pays way less than 1 euro per month for cell service?
Please don't fuck with Show HN like that. The rules are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. Note the part that says "Off topic".

(I've taken "Show HN" out of the title now.)
I’m seriously worried about my own ability to do those things. I’d throw my smartphone away, but there’s so many things that currently expect you to have one that it’s frankly impossible.
A somewhat related idea is called "benign effects." The idea is that you write code with an immutable interface that uses mutation in its implementation.

So there are "effects" (non-functional state changes) that are encapsulated ("benign").

I learned this term in reference to Standard ML at CMU.

This is different from what you're asking because it isn't a compiler optimization and it isn't actually checked by the language at all, but it works pretty well in practice.

It's like unsafe in Rust: you write most of your code assuming a useful property that you then break in the small percentage of code that needs to break it.
I've heard this analogy many times and it doesn't hold - it's absolutely true that lots of professions - including some of those mentioned - need to work outside hours to be at the top of their field.

My brother is a surgeon. And before that, a doctor.

And yes he worked all the hours in the day and still does and always has.

He has never stopped studying - he has constantly studied his whole school and working life.

Being really good at something takes hard work.

And also it makes total sense that employers seek out those people for whom it's more than just a job - because those people tend to have a higher level of expertise. You might not like that but the logic is reasonable.
Callback – Aviation Safety Reporting System
BlurBusters argues even 1000Hz worth, interesting.

https://blurbusters.com/blur-busters-law-amazing-journey-to-...
I would like to second this.
Google Sheets-like open source spreadsheet – Luckysheet v2.0.1 released
38 hours a week at work practicing your profession isn't good enough for you.

I'm a welder by trade. Occasionally I do a spot of welding at home, but the 38 to 60 hours a week I've spent twenty years doing has made me a vastly better metal fabricator than the few side projects I've done.

But I can rant endlessly to you about my other interests, some of which tie in nicely to a wider-perspective-of-life than just metal fabrication, and it's those other interests that have proven to set me apart from the pack and advanced my career way more.

Could you just ask a person what fun or interesting or challenging things they've worked on, whether in their paid line of work or as a side-project, and leave aside your value judgements about what they do outside of work.

Core point: stop thinking your experience generalises to the whole population.