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ThePreacherMan 6 hours ago [dead] [–]

Defund. Defund. Defund.

mtgx 9 hours ago [dead] [–]

Just when marijuana is about to be legalized at the federal level. This can't be a coincidence. They will no longer be able to arrest people for marijuana, but now they can arrest them for dozens or hundreds of other drugs. Seems like a net "win" for the DEA.
The key is NOT the phone itself, but the APPS and the Use of the phone.

Author seems to be struggling with the connected-kid culture around apps like Instagram and TikTok - which are transforming the school-based culture to something where to be popular, you have to be connected and posting. This is what needs to be controlled IMHO.

As many mention, there are MANY positive uses where the phone is a 100% better medium to teach or learn than old school books or otherwise.

With my kids, I focus on installing and limiting the games and videos to ones that I find productive and educational.
End result of this being if I want to produce milk with dairy cows I can't?
There is some work being done on shooting down artilery and mortar projectiles & Iron Dome deployed in Israel regularly shoots down small unguided missiles.
That's true for young kids, but not preteens. By that age they're old enough to stay home alone for a couple of hours after school. Hence the term 'latchkey kid'.
> The one thing I feel is inexcusable was the removal of the SD card reader.

I suspect the number of USB ports and removal of SD has a lot to do with the capability of the M1 CPU which was designed around the lower end of Apple's lineup.

With a limit on how many channels they have for USB devices, having an additional USB port is more flexible than having an SD reader.
Seriously!! I’m sure we all have something to say about this. But, this isn’t the type of content that we normally discuss here. I hate to point out something is off-topic, and I know even that is against guideline. But, sometimes I feel that HN must add a checkmark to the submit form to confirm what you are posting is relevant as a reminder.
> I like the idea, and I think it's worthwhile

I can't think of any reasonable person who will accept 4 weeks of unpaid work and be treated as a trial product on top of that.
I agree to disagree.

It is not comparable from a negotiation power point - negotiation is all about what you can and can’t trade.

Therefore whether something is a choice or not is absolutely critical to any negotiation.

Religion is a good example to consider. Can you change it? Clearly some people do. What is the cost of changing religion? Obviously very different from person to person, very different from even the concept of changing sex, and very different from changing location.
I was interested in Linus' take on the various software echo system Nvidia is building around GeForce that AMD doesn't have. In their video review today they specifically call out the quality (in a non-scientific way) of the hardware encoder. https://youtu.be/oUzCn-ITJ_o?t=561
Hmm that's a good point!

The thing I worry about is that the whole appeal of the Mac Pro is upgradeability — you can replace components over time. So integrated RAM would be problematic since that's a component people definitely like to upgrade.

But with your idea... I dunno, if they could pull that off that would be super cool!
Cool stuff! What was the reason for you to make this?
That could only do so because someone learned how to program in assembly even if not being payed for it.
A good example of how making money not always equate to making value.
There would be no Mark Zuckerberg without Rasmus Lerdorf. And if both were in the same room with me, it would be with Rasmus that i would like to talk to, because it doesnt matter that his net worth is peanuts compared to Zuckerberg, because from my perspective at least he created more value to society doing harder things than Zuckerberg.

With Tiktok, Youtube and the like, the comparison gets even worse when you compare the abyss of money making vs. value produced..
It’d be a lot easier to believe if the change didn’t coincide with an incoming administration who has already signaled they’d be looking at anti-competitive practices. Those aligning incentives have an exquisite sense of timing, as it happened exactly as those talked of enforcements started becoming real.
> This image shows clearly: http://web.archive.org/web/20201118042108/https://egpu.io/wp...

It's like a much smaller, more advanced version of how the adjacent cache RAM was soldered onto the same circuit board on a Slot 1, Pentium 2 CPU.

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-a1x7hg2jgk/images/stencil/12...

The RAM is not actually part of the CPU die.

It looks to me like the separate green PCB that contains both the CPU and the RAM has a ball grid array on its underside, and is then attached to the motherboard.
> having an anxious day makes you want to drink to "calm down", which in turn makes the anxiety worse the next day, on and on

That's pretty much what I was trying to say. Thanks for spelling it out, and with details.

I've come to suspect that most persistent problems have a feedback loop in them. The curse of the loop is that it sustains itself, the blessing is that weakening the loop will in turn weaken it some more.
As a practical matter, for developing, a rooted Android device is going to be better for developing as everything's standard and easy to work with.

As for GPL compliance, that really only means anything for the kernel. For the rest of the software, they can easily be closed sourced and not provided. Not that they necessarily wouldn't be, but I'd still rather have an Android device with an unlocked bootloader and no kernel sources.
Kyrie eleison
It's illegal in NY, at least. I don't know about other states.
This is how these things always go isn't it? We invent this incredible technology that augments what we do, what we can be, what we can learn, and what we can believe...

and then we turn it into an almost-exclusively advertising tool designed to convert a human being into a money making machine.

It's one of the reasons I'm not enthusiastic about technology anymore. I see what we do with it. Every. Single. Time.

It makes me sad. All the lost potential.
That's no different than any other exclusivity agreement a company might make with a supplier.

I would potentially be on board with outlawing such agreements altogether, but it's not fair to restrict unions to be unable to make exclusivity agreements when every other type of organization can.
Already a lot of games people play regularly on their iPhones/iPads that will work out-of-the-box on a game console with an MX chip.

In the same way Nintendo isn't a super direct competitor to Xbox/PS, I would expect the same of Apple's offering.
One thing to note is that il-10 seems to be more immunostimulatory and less immunosuppressive in humans than in mice.
I don't think its cynical to believe this.
>same thing is with coding/vim/emacs/everything other courses on youtube from people that just started to learn them.

Spot on! I think we need a concise name for this phenomenon of low-effort rookie-level tutorials from people who barely have learnt the subject themselves.

How should we call it? Tutorial-spam? Tutorial farming? Amateutoring?
> I'm not fully understanding why the memory chips need to be on the M1 package if they're using the same package as all other memory

Some guesses:

Reduces the number of pins (lands these days) on the CPU package which in turn reduces cost and potentially improves thermal efficiency due to freeing up space previously used by pins to be used to conduct heat away from the die.

Improved performance due to shortened traces between CPU and memory die.

Ability to remove ESD protection circuitry from both CPU and memory pads, thus improving performance.

Reduced power consumption due to lower inductance in CPU <-> memory traces because they're shorter.

Arrangement anticipates a future SoC with DRAM on-die, without motherboard redesign.

Somewhat more secure due to difficulty probing CPU <-> memory traces.
> I'll be the first in the queue personally. Lets get back outside, even I'm bored of these walls now.

Excellent! That is exactly what I want. The more people who take it because they are either at high risk, or because avoiding exposure seriously harms their lifestyle, the more data there will be for me when I decide to take it.

As far as side effects go, the kind of things that take years to show up are usually things that you'd only see in a medicine that you have to take regularly.

The latest research suggests that we probably get long term COVID immunity. Those few cases of people getting it twice were probably people who got a small viral load the first time and didn't develop strong immunity.

All the COVID vaccines look like they will be take once (or take twice over a short period) and that's it, so we almost certainly won't see anything like people developing cancer from it 5 years later. Those things take times to build up, like say we had with Actos and bladder cancer, with each time you take it adding to the risk.

If there are long term bad effects from the COVID vaccines, the underlying damage will happen within a couple weeks or so of taking them, and then should start being detectable in the health statistics of people who took it versus people who did not within a year.

Thus, at the latest we should know about any long term effects by the time my Walmart+ subscription is up for renewal, which is perfect timing.
Good idea. What do you mean exactly by improv lessons?
I have to respectfully disagree with you. I think Apple controlling the App Store is one of the best decision that's ever been made for 95% of consumers.

My 82-year-old mom's desktop computer is riddled with spyware, browser toolbars, and other garbage. Her iPhone is pristine and works as well as it did the day she got it. That's because Apple refuses to allow that garbage to make it to the App Store.

Yes, there's some collateral damage for us nerds. And perhaps there should be an easier way to - for those who really care - install more low-level tools and apps. But it shouldn't be easy, and it shouldn't put the majority of users at risk.
First coronavirus case happened one year ago today, according to China
Then, it should be fair for a person with 4 kids living in Atlanta to be paid more than someone without any kids living in SF, right? You clearly missed the entire point of the article.
Their MS program is cheap because the lectures are recorded and can be replayed many times at almost no cost. Their only cost to run the class is for support staff to grade projects and write and grade exams.

One downside to this model is that for some courses, like those with rapidly changing content, the lecture videos can go out of date after a year or two. GT needs to address this somehow. (Their ML and computer vision courses especially suffer from this.)

But their degrees are still a great value and worth every penny.
No. The Korean military leadership was absolutely ready and willing to restart the war.

I have no idea how you could read what I wrote and conclude "see nobody was serious". Seems like the worst case of normalcy bias I've ever witnessed on HN.
Art Market Is Strong After Sotheby's Hong Kong Auction
Richart Ruddie provides an overview of the Sotheby's Hong Kong auction that showcased the resiliency of the art market and the ability to blue chip, up and coming, and Asian artists to thrive even during a pandemic. Ruddie bid on numerous pieces but the results showed that almost all pieces had a hammer price above and beyond their estimate.

One of the pieces is currently in transit from Hong Kong to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
So if a skilled telegraph operator handed you a message including the word "naloopen" you would know what that means? There was not just one but several forms of telegraphese developed. A conversation held entirely in brief dots and dashes has a substantially different flow to it than say typing out a message on an internet forum, which in turn is nothing like how one would communicate with a 5 second fleeting video recording. A telegraph is a very simple machine to operate, I'm sure you could learn quickly, but you would certainly still lack the social skills necessary to keep up with a professional telegraph operator from a century ago.

Likewise, your parents certainly don't have any problem conceptually understanding keyboards, letters, or addresses - they were perfectly comfortable with typewriters, letterheads, and postal codes. Dealing with nigerian princes and chain mail might involve the use of technology, but these are very much social skills.

As someone who only uses social media platforms that are mildly reskinned versions of 80s/90s message forums, I don't really know what the "BCC vs CC" of tiktok is, nor do I care. I have an excellent understanding of how tiktok works technologically, but I lack the particular social skills tiktok requires. Since my peers do not get it either, this has never been a problem for me, but I'm sure in a few years when my kids expect me to just know how to snapple into the televoid with them that I'll look like an idiot as I search for a reply button somehwere.
That's a valid view, but some alcohol in moderation certainly helps grease the wheels of social interaction.

This is probably why alcohol was known since ancient times.
I'll cite:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_alcoholic_drinks]
[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/02/alcohol-...]
Hardly. Unless you have irreplaceable skills (protip: almost no-one does), they'll just get the other candidate to deliver $8m in value for $200k/p.a.
These are the top emerging technologies of 2020 – World Economic Forum
They will not be happy. That is not in their nature.
The redirect gets sent by the server. foobar.com and www.foobar.com are technically different domains, even if conventionally one should always redirect to the other.
It is not controversial, there is a study by NASA IIRC that concluded exactly this.

(edit: add lines below)

They even have guidelines for designing with luminance contrast: https://colorusage.arc.nasa.gov/design_lum_0.php
I came here to say negotiation. I recently did a two-day workshop on negotiation as well, and it was invigorating and really got me jazzed up about my job. I'm a manager, so I spend a lot of time negotiating with other teams and with external vendors, and negotiating with my employees vs my peers vs my superiors is also a skill I needed to hone. The workshop itself really let me see what was happening under the hood.

It was a really great thing and I highly recommend it to everyone.
I consider the wildly mixed UIs not a symptom of compatibility but a symptom of the succession of hopeless attempts to be more than that. The incomplete new GUI generations are surely not caused by compatibility burdens affecting the kernel team.
> It's a legitimate life skill.

...this month, maybe this year, until the next fad hits the 'net and all those influency types need to adapt or exit.
> hope that they have a plan for more memory.

I can't imagine them not doing it. If they were satisfied that 16GB was sufficient, I would've expected them to also refresh the 16" MBP with M1. I think the fact that they didn't is a good indicator that something about M1 isn't ready for the big boy league, and my guess is RAM will factor into that.

My guess is that the second generation (M2?) will improve performance with little efficiency gain and will include up to 32GB "Unified Memory". And then binning will be used to produce the 16GB and 8GB variants.

> I wonder if they are going to do dual (or more) socket configurations.

Whoa, that's something I hadn't thought of! I wonder if M1 is amenable to that kind of configuration. That would be pretty neat!
The intent of Lambda School (and how they make their money) is to train engineers for tech jobs.

If the quality of students from Lambda is low relative to the industry, that's a problem for both the student and the school.
ABMs should be much cheaper than ICBMs, so if you get another ICBM, I can just buy more to match. This is because the command and control associated with an ABM is much simpler. I don't need to worry so much about operating after nuclear weapons have already gone off. I don't have to worry about making sure that the fire order comes from the president. See target, be sure it is a target, shoot the target.

This doesn't get into virtual attrition. You may have previously targeted 1-2 nukes at different places. But now you don't know which ones will actually get intercepted. So you have to send enough warheads to make sure one gets through, or give up on the target.
It’s not ego driven but there was anger on my side. I hate it when we blame technology first, which seems to be the point of this article. Kids can absolutely be addicted to phones that’s true. But it’s the job of the parent to set limits, this person admits in the article that her daughter wore her down and flaunted the limits and there were no consequences. So yeah she may be addicted now, which we can’t really diagnose, but that’s still the parents fault for setting limits and bending to the will of their kid.
Are these changes ever contributed back to the Gutenberg library as updates? I’d like to assume so, but I can’t find anything indicating that’s done.
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Send the file to your kindle address if you have one and read using kindle cloud reader?
> Increased counterparty desire to build more ICBMs

I'm assuming a cap on ICBMs. If nations aren't going to obey these caps then why should they obey a cap on interceptors?

> Increased belief in a successful first strike / acceptable response casualties

It doesn't follow that (num_interceptors > num_counterparty_ICBMs) will lead to a successful first strike (notably it doesn't follow that the counterparty doesn't have interceptors of their own).
Christe eleison
Having spent a lot of time listening to FB employees rant about the lack of documentation and the amount of information sitting in random employees heads, I'm not sure they would.

For instance, all the ads leads who understand the core C++ code leave - how do they fix bugs?
Clothes always had a social signalling component. The signalling dynamic shifted, becoming both increasingly accessible, capable of defining increasingly finer social groups, esspecially those not associated with high-powwer or high-status groups (nobility, royalty, clergy, miltitary, artisans, merchants).

Fads-as-signalling shows up in many places if you look for it: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/62uroa/clothin...

Information is ... somewhat trickier. Clothing is manifest and overt. Information ... mostly isn't. (Memes, logos, jingles, musical hooks, and slogans being prime exceptions.) Possession of specific information becomes a credible (expensive to obtain, hard to falsify) indicator of strong group identity --- whether you're talking about membership within a religious sect, programming subspecialty, profession, banking cabal, political party, or neihbourhood gang. Various fandoms seem to be a reasonably benign (for now) expression of this.

Denis Didrot despaired at the overwhelming abundance of information facing him and his fellow Encyclopédists, in 1775.
https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=2877

The total number of titles in Europe at the time was about one million. Today, one millon titles are published per year. (http://www.bowker.com/tools-resources/Bowker-Data.html) On average, that's one book per 330 Americans. Who read fewer than one book per year, on average.

What does it mean to publish if what's recorded is never read? The old WORN drive joke (write once, read never) has fangs.

Or if different cultures (religious, geographic, professional, political,...) share no common literary or informational references?
How do you pay for bandwidth if your main objective is letting people link to .jpg/.pngs directly? Either you force people to make accounts and pay once their images exceed some threshold (photobucket/imageshack) or try to force them into ad-included html pages (imgur).. I don't see any other way around it.
The US Navy has some of the best missile defense systems in the world right now. An Arleigh Burke Flight IIA destroyer has a 96-cell vertical launch system for missiles. Each cell could hold an SM-2ER surface-to-air missile with a ~100 mile range, an SM-6 with a ~150 mile range, an SM-3 with ~600 mile range for ballistic missiles, or 4 ESSM missiles with a ~30 mile range. On top of that you have a Phalanx Close-in Weapon System (CIWS) which is a 20-mm autocannon designed to shoot down incoming missiles up to 1 mile away. On top of that, the US Navy has a networking system that allows targeting missiles using remote sensors. So a E-2D Hawkeye early warning aircraft could detect a low-flying cruise missile traveling below the radar horizon of the destroyer, and then even though the destroyer radar can't pick it up it could launch a missile and have the Hawkeye's radar guide it to the target.

The exact numbers would depend a lot on the type of missile attacking, the angles they are coming in at, whether there are external sensors in the area, weather, etc. But a destroyer escort is more than capable of intercepting an incoming missile. In perfect conditions, where you detect and are tracking the missiles at extreme range, a single destroyer could likely take out dozens of cruise missiles. Scoring a hit on a carrier would require some combination of: advanced missiles (fast, stealthy, maneuverable, etc), multiple missiles, element of surprise, attacking from multiple directions at once, and jamming or otherwise degrading sensors.
Sorry, just to be clear: I like the idea of pairing new devs with experienced devs in an apprenticeship-like role, especially since the software industry tends to lean pretty heavily toward the weird "You need experience for this entry-level job" thing (especially for stable jobs with larger organizations).

I'm not so convinced of a 4 week internship trial thing when it's structured like this though.
You're right. I was being overly cynical and dismissive towards Pfizer's role after seeing many headlines crediting ONLY Pfizer.
The real question is: How did we get here?

The problem is, as I see it, and have been clamoring about for over a decade plus now, is a matter of supply and demand.

The price of tuition is skyrocketing because the source of tuition is just a few clicks away online, in the form of a loan, generally always backed by the government.

If there's no incentive to "shop around" because you can "just get a loan" then the same can be said about a college and how they decide to price themselves. More supply of money (loans) means prices will always go UP. This is common economic sense.

To correct this imbalance, the higher education market needs more competition and that only happens if prices go DOWN, which only happens if LESS money is loaned to students from the government. This would cause tuition to go down because there would be less applicants who have a loan for tuition.

Lastly, I'd also add that it doesn't help there are many, many, many generations of young people who think that they need to go to college to be "successful". That couldn't be farther from the truth and it's shameful that society continues to push this idea.
Unions are good to protect employees that don't have negotiating power (e.g. factory workers), otherwise companies would take too much advantage of them.

I am not sure this necessarily applies to knowledge workers, especially if their work can be done remotely to some extent.

These two paragraphs contradict each other.