skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The author, in addition to being generously funded by the AFL-CIO, astutely granted an exception to professions that had the means to sue the state (doctors, lawyers, realty agents)

The lawmakers who wrote and voted for AB5 all had strong union connections.

I support private-sector unions. But don’t forget: unions are high-margin and effective get-out-the-vote operations.

The exempted professions have one thing in common: they aren’t union. The covered professions are either already unionised or a target market for conglomerate unions like the AFL-CIO.
Discovered Qwant through iodéOS, a pretty good privacy oriented mobile OS. I used to use ddgo but qwant is not so bad
Thanks for describing your use case, this is helpful! The problem with gas is, of course, that it emits CO2 when burned or leaks methane in distribution pipelines when not burned at a consumption point. For electrical use, you absolutely do not have to revamp the grid. Before heat pump hot water heaters, and even today, there are mechanisms where hot water heaters were/are turned on when there is cheap or excess power on the grid [1]. We would do the same today: the hot water in an insulated tank is the battery. We can keep hot liquids hot relatively affordably.

For the vast majority of use cases, heat pump hot water heaters are a reasonable solution [2] (unless you've got enormous demand within a short window of time, our heat pump hot water heater holds ~80 gallons at 120F). There is of course still work to be done for use cases where boilers are superior (high rises), but that doesn't mean it isn't solvable. I'm aware of a lot of folks in row homes in Australia who are successfully using heat pump hot water heaters!

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=load+shifting+water+heaters

[2] https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/water-heating/heat-pump-w...
Was it actually half the country? Is that by area? Or area of wooded land? A lot of Australia is desert.

Or half of the cities? Or is this just a hyperbole? Fake news?
If you're spending a lot of time reading, I'd suggest getting something work an e-ink display. It's much easier on the eyes
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-D, at least in FF.

The mentioned addon works pretty reliably for me, watching 1080p in FF on Linux, at least for Netflix original content.
I really think it was a CDN cache issue the macOS one. If you look at the installer download you’d see it is served by Akamai
Yeah, telling your customers that they should modernize is a great way to let someone else sell to them.
I had expected that the conclusion of what I wrote would be obvious and omitted it: the printer might not be able to produce the correct shade of black without the color cartridges and therefore refuses to work if one of them is empty.

The expectation that it could work without ink or toner of a color is understandable but not necessarily correct.
What version are you using? I haven't had any of these issues for a long time with Windows 10. I also have some weird configs going between an external monitor upstairs and a KVM-based setup in my basement office.
No there are not good alternatives.

Linux only makes sense as a desktop operating system if your top priority is telling people online that you use Linux as your desktop operating system.
Does this mean recording music on a Tascam cassette recorder is better for me than doing the same on Ableton?

Not trying to be snotty here, just wondering if it makes sense to categorize different kinds of screen time.
Or, ya know, people just disagree with you.

Being in the minority doesn't mean the other side cheated.
The problem with software is that it's a pedantic genie: it gives us exactly what we ask for. That means that every little internal or external conflict or uncertainty gets reified and becomes extremely visible.

We see this in "enterprise" software where the warts are incoherencies of process or refusal of departments to communicate.

And we see this in the "gig economy"; Coase's Theory of the firm posited that companies form because the transaction and coordination costs of doing everything as atomised workers purchasing services would be too high, but what if there was an app for that? Boom! The firm disintegrates, leaving us with the taxi company with no taxis and the hotel company with no hotels.

Software asks us a terrifying, disconcerting question: what exactly do you want?
I'm probably stating the obvious, but I think it's always worth keeping in mind that these software verification systems, both on Windows and now MacOS, are not for us.

Ten years ago, I was constantly getting laptops dropped off at my house from friends and family who'd picked up some virus and needed a clean install. That doesn't happen anymore, and it's not because they're no longer using laptops - they are.

It's thanks to these security systems. And yes, there are privacy implications. But for most people, you'd have to compare those to the privacy implications of having some virus sweeping your hard drive.

If you're the sort of person who reads Hacker News you can probably spot a fake program or dodgy link in e-mail a mile off. But if you're not interested enough to care enough to know the difference, there's no free lunch on the privacy issue.
Macbooks from 2019 have 4 thunderbolts 3 ports and 1 mini jack. And that's all.

If you want to power the device, you do it through a thunderbold. If you want to connect a USB that is not USB C, you have to use adapter and/or USB HUB. So you would have to connect to your USB through adapter/hub, and if for some reason whatever installer wouldn't support this you would be screwed (but I guess most of the time it would be doable, just inconvenient).
The last IceCat update is over a year ago. Might as well leave my front door open.
You should know that Windows includes a similar feature (to call home and report file hashes and the user's IP for example) called SmartScreen, and with default settings it also triggers on every single application launch in the OS.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SmartScreen#Windows

(also I should know, I worked on a tiny part of this feature in IE9 and Windows 8)
I agree, especially the biggest problems I had with Uber hasn't changed for years: drivers either cancelling on me because they don't like where I go and Uber shows it to them only after they finished the last ride, or waiting for me to cancel because they have time and want me to pay cancellation fee.

I don't know what Uber software engineers are doing, but it doesn't seem to me that they really care about user experience (not UI, which I don't care about, as that doesn't make me late for a hospital appointment).
Look, iCloud Backup is the weak link here. I don't actually know if your messages will still be in other peoples' backups even if you turn off iCloud Backup, but I also don't know enough about the security model one way or another to be able to say, and I haven't seen evidence provided. I'm willing to believe that they are, just for the sake of argument.

What I was trying to say is that Apple is trying to make it as easy as possible for people to recover their messages, because this covers most peoples' threat models, which do not include protecting data from subpoena. Signal is great technology but the fact is it doesn't sync messages between devices because they haven't figured out how to do that in a way that's fully secure. This is a feature that tons of iPhone users want and are not willing to sacrifice for higher security. What am I missing?
I decided the other day [the abstract recent past other day, not yesterday like you] that what I really want is about ten years.

What I really want is for my computing devices not to change for about ten years at a time. I don't want to have to upgrade the hardware, I want it to be repairable with replacement parts available, I don't want to have to upgrade the OS to a new major version that moves all of my widgets around for about ten years. I don't want to use beta software that slowly mutates until it mostly works or is abruptly discontinued, I want to install a suite of finished software that continues to work the same way with only imperceptible security fixes for ten years, so that I don't constantly have to be adjusting my workflow as individual portions are obliviated.

And then, when that ten years is up and I need to upgrade, I want the changes to be actual upgrades stemming from fixing design mistakes and removing pain points and doing things that not only weren't possible ten years ago, but which are also desirable and not merely novel.
> Normal users don't give a dime or don't even know about different processors (and these are the vast majority).

Intel's marketing in the 90s is a case study in how to make 'normal users' care, not necessarily about different processors, but about one manufacturer's in particular.

"Intel Inside" was hugely successful at turning 'normal users' sentiment away from any competitors.
Assuming sustained US population growth rates at the current 0.6% per year (big assumption), we expect the population to grow by ~23% over the course of a 35 year academic career. So to sustain the current relative size of academia the replacement rate is not too off from 1 student per advisor lifetime.

What the exponent should be is a whole other matter.
No it's not that incredible. Workers have rights. That's been true for over 100 years. The fact that Uber is trying to skirt it, and they've been getting away with it is incredible.
Sure but I'm not really interested in the negatives. I want to hire good engineers, and those engineers want to use React.
Yeah but when they say “material” it means the problem is definitely not about pennies
Ok, looks like this is how the new Signed System Volume feature works. Wasn't successful in searching for anything with "com.apple.os.update". Deets here: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=3xpv8r2m#:~:text=Signed....
Can't help but think of this article[0], which summarizes the food delivery market pretty nicely.

"You have insanely large pools of capital creating an incredibly inefficient money-losing business model. It's used to subsidize an untenable customer expectation. You leverage a broken workforce to minimize your genuine labor expenses. The companies unload their capital cannons on customer acquisition, while this week’s Uber-Grubhub news reminds us, the only viable endgame is a promise of monopoly concentration and increased prices. But is that even viable?"

[0] https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitra...
This is neat, especially being able to see a nice visual representation. I've been the guy who gets too much into classifying genres at times, but I don't keep up with electronic music much. One time, I ended up in an argument with someone over a genre and it turned we were both right and wrong at the same time. I argued that sub-subgenre is derived from hardcore [punk] and they were saying that it was completely unrelated to hardcore [electronic].
>But no one is entitled to anything.

This statement is derived from a particular understanding of the individual, society, and the state, and is by no means universally taken as true among all political philosophers. In fact, even many economists aren't sold on this idea. As it turns out, if I subscribe to a philosophy in which people are entitled to various things, as a matter of distributive justice, then you can be sure I'll vote for it.
I really like this definition because it is understandable. However we do not know long term where the stock market will be. There are countries that have been wiped out and their stock markets decimated (e.g. country that had a revolution). The US stock market is an exception in that distribution.

Perhaps you mean macro vs. micro as in economics. Even there micro is far more predictable than macro. Macro is almost voodoo when it comes to prediction of any sort on any timescale.
Migrating 38TB from one TSDB to another is easy
I wonder if it's cost effective to import the motor or equivalent electric motor and battery packs from China through something like AliExpress and build a DIY electric car for fun. I am thinking some donor car like an old E30 and not something new, as then I bet it can get quite complicated quick. Anyone on HN doing an EV conversion?
why are differential equations so difficult? it would seem even smart people struggle with understanding them. Is the problem is how they are taught or is the concept inherently hard/ It should not be that hard given that we're taking 'rates of change' broadly speaking, yet it is.
Paywalled article, except for a few lines of introduction.
Despite the communal nature of the pandemic, people are obsessed with an individualistic formulation of risk.
Interesting, I didn't know there was a camera that could do it directly. I always did want that for my Sony a6000. But for jpeg, not raw. After sitting in front of Lightroom for hours upon tedious hours adjusting vacation pics, I will never shoot in raw again.
> I then hire them directly.

Which can get them kicked off the app, and leave them with tens of thousands of dollars in car loans that they have no way of repaying. That's what makes them employees and not independent contractors, the fact that they aren't allowed to do this.
Normally I'm of a similar opinion to yours...but in this case I'm not.

What happens if you're trading securities, or if you have an imminent deadline? Apple sells a fail-closed security feature, without investing the resources necessary to keep it as near to 100% serviceable as possible, and never really discusses it with the user. When it hangs, most users don't even know why.

WTF!

Seems like they could partner with Akamai (or one of its competitors) to make the server-side component of this feature more robust.

If they are going to sell the MBP as a premium professional product, then they must recognize that it will sometimes serve as the linchpin of users' mission-critical activities.

Take a billion dollars out of the stock buyback, invest it in the product instead, and make this problem go away.
There is a fellow from here working on getting it right in Linux. Apparently they’ve looked into it and it seemed like the obstacles aren’t insurmountable, but the developers want to be paid.

https://bill.harding.blog/2020/04/26/linux-touchpad-like-a-m...
Also because by the time women reach their peak earning years they are physically unable to have children (even women who choose not to have kids don't reach their peak until after they are done with kids). While men are able to have children they are typically done as well.
We should reinvent the wheel, but not reimplement the wheel which is what most people mean when they say "reinvent the wheel".
Both-sidesism at its finest. For every environmental announcement, got to find somebody who disagrees with it, and the people paid to say the earth is flat are right there to provide you with the quote you need.

https://www.desmogblog.com/david-kreutzer : "According to a report Kreutzer co-wrote at The Heritage Foundation: “No consensus exists that man-made emissions are the primary driver of global warming or, more importantly, that global warming is accelerating and dangerous.” "
Sounds like he's asking for a new PaaS (Procurement as a Service).
If we model it after cars, then there's a large population of people like you (us). But there's also a large group who trades their car in every year or two for the 'new model'. And they revel in the widgets moving around and the color scheme changing.

So maybe we need a Studebaker for computers.
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> Its going to be the antibiotic winter, antibiotic resistant bacteria.... Bacteria will cause extinction.

They didn't cause humanity to go extinct before antibiotics were invented. If they all lost effectiveness, we'd just return to the status quo ante (not extinct, with more sickness).
In each universe, yes. But if you have m universes...
A word about Clementine, the desktop player: it's powerful, very complete and works well, however it's literally huge, consumes a lot of resources and has some serious memory leaks that if left on for days will either make it eat all system memory, or die without any errors.
This doesn't happen in normal use, it has to be left on for a few days, in fact I'm using it extensively, however it's still really too heavy. I'd be all for a lighter less demanding player.
Fantastic! A rigorous explanation (thank you). So you are saying that the mixtures of weather distributions are stable but the individual distributions can shift. I gotta think about that and dont know enough about weather distributions or probability to understand why climate (the mixtures) can be stable but individually weather cannot.
And it's a real balancing act but having caught COVID and almost died at the age of 33 I'm simply not going to take any chances when since we have no solid proof that my antibodies are going to ensure from now until I am next in line for the vaccine. Having worked in NYC in the immigration law system a ton of my ex-colleagues caught it and some of my supervisors passed away from it right away and as much as I'd like to think of myself as a rationale person who evaluates th evidence, personal experiences are powerful and scary and it's hard to convey how unexpectedly agonizing a "mild" case felt to me. This isn't the difference between mild and spicy wings, it's less-spicy and qhost-pepper wings.

And so them (and postmates, and instacart, and shipt, and local booze deliveries) have been extremely important because it reducecs the attack vector. Call me paranoid, but I can at least hae some control over the groceries sent to me, and for example. It's simply a tradeoff I'm willing to make. At once point, I couldn't even even properly update my will even though I'm a lawyer because I wanted to be prepared but not even my friends from school who are in the field were willing to come to my house, with the quarantine complicating things. since it was felt tha the 14 day window was arbitrary and I didn't get full blown symptoms until day 8-9.Under these cirucmstances every precaution, in my personal view, as long as it's a precaution that isn't conjured out of thin air and backed by some level of indication of efficacy that skews towards minimizing potential vectors of re-infection. It's not failsafe - my then-girlfriend, was asympomatic, gave mteh rvirus, and there wasn't any way in those days to even know or sure what do to, but as Don Draper said in Mad Men: "Limit your exposure".
This is a great resource. The notes should be printed up and used for textbooks instead of those huge, overpriced books
Multiple existing self-hosted Git hosting solutions have expressed their interest in supporting this: https://forgefed.peers.community/
A cop out. :)
> I don’t know. What I can say for certain is that I’m not yet ready to abandon the possibility of America—not just for the sake of future generations of Americans but for all of humankind.

A point made in The Road to Unfreedom by Snyder is that one reason Russia is going after America is for domestic political reasons:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Unfreedom

Specifically if the Russian public can be shown that America, the supposed shining City on the Hill, is no better than Russia, then the Kremlin will not have to bother improving life for its citizens, and the oligarchs can continue on doing whatever they want to.
That's a crazy ask and defeats at least some of the purpose of using these apps
Isn’t it pretty obvious not all screen time is the same? If it was then you could do these studies with people staring at simple glowing white rectangles and get identical results.
I think you misunderstood what I said. I understand that NASA thought it needed the vehicle. However I'm saying it did not in fact need it for any missions. (The idea for docking in earth orbit at the start of a mission is not new.)

Very different thing, and you actually demonstrate those points.

Everything starts with the misplaced thought that it needs to be so big. Not actually required.

Probably correct thought that it needs to be NASA-made since it wouldn't make sense commercially, but this is a consequence of misplaced thought 1.

Expensive to spend pork. Again, not needed for the mission, if something more sensible was chosen in the first place.

There could have been a capsule flying on Atlas V for many years already. The ESAS study just had all kind of really bad assumptions that made Ares happen instead.
> The promise of a computer is to reveal truth, through a seamless flow of information.

Funny. I thought that the promise of a computer was to do a bunch of stuff that computers are good at but that humans are not. I thought that the promise of a computer was to help make certain tasks easier and/or faster.

No idea what any of that had to do with truth.
could you elaborate why?
i mainly use deliveroo and tip with the app -- they also seek to minimise contact so usually i just get to pick up the food from my doorstep, cash tipping seems a bit suboptimal
>In the background there is a war going on, but it isn't what you think. It is a war between malware creators and OS creators.

No, this is _exactly_ the war we think. It is a war between Apple and malware over control of _my_ personal(!) computer.

At this point both malware and Apple leak personal data from _my_ personal computer. So from the perspective of controlling MY personal computer they are both malware and differences are neglectable if I do not even have a choice to install my own OS.

Secure boot is secure if I(!) can secure it, not Apple or any other external authority.

>For me, Apple products really are designed to protect my personal information.

Apple products designed to get _control_ of your personal information from you and thus to control you and your behavior.

Computer is no longer a "Personal Computer" with all of these developments. It's simply a termianal of some big machine where your 'personal' space isn't even really your personal.

Probably it is a good idea to recall what "Personal Computer" meant and what it should mean.

For me it is My control over My computer and My data if I wish to, and this a minimum for My privacy.

And privacy is a minimum for society respecting freedom and rights of a person.

All of this is really like R. Stallman predicted.
As I wrote elsewhere in this thread [1], the data in the article shows desktop computing down significantly in Q3 2020. That came as a surprise to me. I would have expected it to be up since so many are stuck at home and desktop computing remains the premium home computing experience. If you've got a good work desk, desktop computing will push the value of each dollar spent on hardware further. Apparently most people still prefer to pick up a computer and move from room to room during their lockdown. That's not compelling for me, but it presumably is for others.

I have a 3900X desktop workstation and a 4900HS laptop, an Asus G14. You are right that the performance delta for most tasks is not as large as it was 15 years ago. In fact, for routine work, they seem about the same. The advantages to a desktop are things that I personally find valuable: ease of connecting many large displays (I use three 30 inch 16:10 monitors), ease of equipping large amounts of memory (32GB is a piece of cake, 64+GB is also easy on a desktop), tidier connectivity (everything is routed to a box hidden away behind the desk), no thermal throttling (always the same performance regardless of workload), quiet (larger and more powerful cooling), etc.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25083580