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> No, like work you want to do.

It doesn't work like that for most people.

> Imagine everyone around you is allowed the opportunity to choose their career. You however are the son of a plumber, and have no choice but to be a plumber.

Many people end up doing something similar to their parents. Maybe you won't be a plumber if your dads is one, but it's far more likely you'd be a blue-collar tradesman than a doctor. It's also far more likely that a doctor's one will become a doctor or a lawyer than an electrician.

Also, IMHO, this idea that the path to satisfaction by pursuing some kind of dream profession is a fairy tale.
Privatization as its finest.
Actually a deal is currently being negotiated to determine exactly how much they can tell us what to do, in return for avoiding the total destruction of our economy.
Every time I say this I get told I don't know what I'm talking about.

You shouldn't be able to say "we followed all regulations" when people die and leave it at that. They should stop playing games and just design an aircraft.
Also, some people call "aubergines" "eggplants", they can't both be right!
Right, which IMO makes it less likely that someone is cheating. If you are going to cheat, why share?
Dear Google/Alexa/Cortana/Siri product managers in the streaming audio space, here is what we actually want:

* "never play that song ever again"
* "add <artist> to my blocked list"
* "set the plays limit for Baby Shark to once per day"
* a feature that prevents interpretation of any phrase leading to the same result, if the response to that result led to a "stop!" or "for fuck's sake!" within the next ten seconds. i.e. stop doing the same incorrect thing over and over again if it's clear that it's not the desired outcome.
* "play that song I said I liked a few days ago"
* "shuffle my favourite songs"

We don't want to block explicit lyrics, some of our favourite songs have swear words in them. We want to block entire artists who are simply awful.

We don't want you to get the song wrong and be forced to yell "stop!" until you shut up. We want to make it clear that not only was that the wrong song, we also never want you to ever think it could possibly be the right song.

We want the magic of our kids being able to play their music on demand, but without the headaches that come from kids being total assholes most of the time.

We want you - our voice assistant - to assist us, not provoke us to rage.

You've made a useful tool. You've made a fun gimmick. But now it's time to make it a pleasant experience, because right now it just plain isn't.
I don't think I want any crawler ever hitting my API endpoints for customer lookups, scheduling, inventory management, etc - all that stuff that is the 'Application' part of 'SPA'.

Why people use js/spa/etc stuff as the basis for a content/marketing site... I don't know. I mean... yeah, I know why - mostly to expand their skill set. But there's usually no functional benefit, and usually some drawbacks, as you're pointing out.
Unagi should be the freshwater eel but yes tell me more about the fatty meat goodness that’s so delicious.
The idea of Google exploiting its programmers is an insult to actual exploited labor. These aren't coal miners. There's no factories.

The programmers where I work have too much power. We're exploiting the company. If I don't feel like writing code, I just do github stuff and answer questions. In fact that's what I did yesterday and the day before. No one notices or cares because, among other things, they couldn't replace me because there aren't thousands of hyper-educated new college grads after my job. I think many of the Google employees who are unhappy at Google due to "exploitation" would be happier working at a smaller, less famous company. Of course there's a pay cut and you lose that special feeling when everyone instantly recognizes you employer and assumes you're a genius.
Does this apply to just having Slack on your phone?
>Boeing planes are super safe from millions of flighthours and the learnings and failures from before.

Which you use to build off of.
That's awesome, thanks for fixing denormalization :)
Right, but here you don't want it to fall to $2. That's your mechanism of a subsidy to the generating side. It is intentionally non-competitive.
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You can do photo-lithography at home. Applied Science has a few videos on the subject.
That’s quite reminiscent of the user experience Google’s customers go through with the TOS
How to Make Artificial Intelligence Less Biased
If you're a visual learner, check out Ben Eater's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/eaterbc

He has a really great video series where he builds a small computer from scratch on breadboards. Also some other highlights:

Reliable data transmission, more educational: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq5YpKHXJDM
DIY VGA "video card": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqY3FMuMuRo

Super educational, but if you want to get into more embedded hardware hacking, I would say that building a homemade computer like he does is probably not a super exciting place to start. I'd recommend picking up some Teensy 4.0 microcontrollers and build some small hardware projects with the microcontroller before diving into lower-level circuitry.
There is no reasonable and economic way to store Terawatthours of electricity.

Even huge hydrostorage plants have only a few GWh.
I'm not sure what Brexit has to do with this. The European Medicines Agency's criticism is entirely legitimate; they're criticising the emergency approval procedure to rush a vaccine into widespread application rather than not rush it.

Given Johnson and his government's inconsistent, perhaps even lackadaisical, response to the severity of the Covid-19 pandemic, it's not unusual that this emergency rushing be treated with skepticism — is it a good faith move to help immunise Britain or a way to save face for failing to properly implement lockdown quickly and early?

Any agency from around the world, not just in the EU, might hold the same skepticism and provide such criticism. It's only due to Brexit and modern Britain's tenuous relationship with the EU that such a knee-jerk rejection of such criticism might occur — but, given the actual topic of discussion should not be world politics but world health, it does seem inappropriately off-topic.
That suggestion has a "yikes" vibe about it.

Africa, for example, has a very high birthrate which has and continues to be invaluable in supplementing and diversifying populations in Europe, North America, Oceania, etc with similarly low birthrates. It would be a disaster for multiculturalism and population growth if Europeans started having families again.

Is there any reason why Japan would not similarly benefit from such migration patterns?
I think I can sum up your point as: happiness and satisfaction are two different things. Satisfaction is fleeting, and happiness can be had anytime except when someone actively opposes us - moves us when we want to stand still or stops us when we want to go.

We're happy as long as we're going vaguely where we know we should be able to, to get what gives us satisfaction
The first question you'll need to answer is if you want to build a computer from discrete gates, or if you'd rather glue large existing IP blocks together.

In the former approach, you won't get anything in a mobile form factor, as your computer would simply be too big. But you might learn more than in the latter approach.
I work for Red Hat but opinions are my own.

We're still remarkably separate from IBM, just as was promised. I do find myself collaborating from time to time with IBMers but most of the time we're pretty separate.
Their culture is very different than ours so it can be interesting when we team up. I think Red Hat is having a big impact on IBM honestly. They seem to be really embracing Red Hat tech and culture. I was really worried when the acquisition happened, but I no longer am worried about it. In fact, for the first time in a long time I'm optimistic about IBM. I'm looking forward to see what they do.
Recommended the exact same thing -- I'm glad I'm not the only one who immediately thought of his channel.
This sort of thing might appeal to some people, but a lot of people would not be at all keen on having their life pre-determined by what their ancestors did.
All true, but I think they're missing the real issue here. Renewables (esp. solar and wind) are, yes, dropping in cost exponentially, and this means they are currently zooming past fossil fuels in terms of affordability. There's an issue in regards to batteries, but that also seems to be on a learning curve that makes it better every year, so that won't buy fossil fuels much more time.

Now, instead of rooting for that change, we can think about the actual consequences. It's inevitable; fossil fuels are on the way out. What does that mean, besides lower carbon?

It means that countries which rely on fossil fuels for their economy, are going to see the same kind of crushing economic decline that, say, the UK coal industry has.

What do you suppose happens when, for example, Saudi Arabia can no longer feed itself? It just peacefully and gently starves to death?

To be clear, I'm not saying we should somehow try to prevent fossil fuels exiting the scene. The change in energy sources to lower-carbon ones is an old one, and there's no way to stop it, nor should we try. Wood gave way to coal and then oil and then natural gas, and the process will continue with zero-carbon sources like photovoltaics. That's a bullet that's already been fired, and there's no way to stuff it back inside the barrel of the gun.

But, do we really have a plan for the consequences, not only in Saudi Arabia but also every other nation that's dependent on oil? Hint: we do not.
That Wikipedia article's decision to label 转注 as "derivative cognates" is entirely speculative.

转注 is closer to "mutually defined" i.e. mutually recursive definitions (or potentially sounds, it's not really clear as I explain later). There is no reason to think this referred to any notion of derivative cognates.

Indeed if it were derivative cognates there would be way way more characters in that category than are put there (e.g. 手 and 又).

Basically nobody really knows what the intended purpose or meaning of 转注 was. This is because, although the Wikipedia article mentions 考 and 老, it fails to mention that this pair is the only commonly agreed upon instance of 转注 in the entire Shuowen Jiezi.

Xu Shen (the author of the Shuowen Jiezi) writes, "转注 consists of those characters forming a single category with the same radical. The same meaning is mutually given among them. 考 and 老 are examples." (转注者建类一首同意相受考老是也）。Indeed if you go to the entries of 考 and 老 they simply refer you to the other.

That is the entirety of what we know about 转注 (barring later interpretations by other scholars trying to make sense of that). No other character is listed as 转注 in the Shuowen Jiezi's 10516 catalogued characters (to be clear not every character is necessarily categorized by Xu Shen among them, many are categorized by later commentaries).

As a result scholars mostly ignore 转注.
The poignant thing that I remember (possibly mis-remembering exact numbers) is that in 20 or 30 years Jiro had only taken one day off from work, to attend his father's funeral.
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>Construction projects in China cut every corner possible.

Construction quality satisfies fast, cheap, good like everywhere else. As someone who worked adjacent to construction industry in both China and North America, the difference is China has the "fast" option available, whereas NA is mostly cheap + good, and frequently just cheap. It's less about being well managed, but having all the options and managing appropriately. Tons of capital projects in China and related prestige developments aging well. The latter surprisingly so considering how many retardley ambitious (almost unworkable) starchitect designs were built. Sure, lot's of uninhabited commodity projects falling into disrepair but abandoned bubble subdivisions don't fair much better. Difference is China builds more, so more catastrophic failures. Question is, it worth the cost? Deng wanted poor China to develop fast. So China ChaBuDuo's as deliberate development strategy and manages accordingly.

>When something fails catastrophically, they'll throw a low-level official under the bus. At every level, there is total abdication of responsibility. The whole system incentivizes this.

Chinese Aviation and HSR safety? Public accident -> regulate + execute those responsible = about safest aviation and HSR in the world. Surmise the same with food and vaccination safety, but effects of those scandal stake longer to determine. Regardless, incentives seem to align with state interests to me. On building stock specifically, there's no interest high quality commodity construction. Why would there be? Current 60% urbanization rate, goal 70%, realistically 80-90%. That's 140-420M people who needs apartments. Queue current 65M empty condos and ghost city memes.

Obviously it's not perfect, but it has more tools to address some serious problems that's stumping the west, especially beyond political cycle timescales. Curious if west would try deleveraging or could successfully regulate FAANG. Too many things west can't do, but should. Also too many things CCP can do and shouldn't.
I did that. I had a company laptop and phone. I usually left them at the office.

For extra privacy, I stopped my personal phone from connecting to the company WiFi. Then Google bought my home ISP (WebPass). Now I use a router-based VPN.
YouTube? Remember when there were no ads? Now they are flogging the platform to death like a tired racehorse, for every cent they can get.
I tried using overstock.com yesterday and after visiting four or five pages all subsequent requests returned a blank page with a 418 error. Even on a different computer. Same thing. Even when I tried a different internet source.

I assume it was some server session error because my friends weren't having the issue.

But the 418 was a useless error code to report.
Probably because the bloodless crabs start immediately decomposing
Is a quarter million dead so far from covid-19 the right solution in the long term?
If everyone took this approach, we'd all be working on family subsistence farms.

Though, actually, even agriculture was originally presumably a dangerous and tradition-breaking innovation. Possibly we'd all be doing family hunter-gathering.
No need for internet connected anything. But there is a need for a "smart grid".

We, in France, have a very primitive system based peak / off-peak hours used in many houses, and I expect other countries to have the same kind of system since it is so simple.

Basically, you have an extra wire coming out of the meter. If there is voltage, it is peak hours, if there is no voltage, if is off-peak. To that wire, you connect a relay which sits in the breaker panel. That relay can turn a circuit on or off, often the water heater, so that it only runs off-peak. You can force it on if you know you are going to use more hot water than usual.

Such a simple thing, but updated in real time can already go a long way. In a more advanced system, the meter could tell you the price of electricity via PLC and you could have a relay in your breaker box that turns on a circuit depending on price.

Even smarter devices could receive the signal from the meter directly and do more things, for example, many appliances have a "delayed start" function. A "start when electricity is cheap" function would be a great addition.

The problem is that would require standardization. A standard protocol shared by utilities and electric device manufacturers. As for communication, PLC sounds ideal, it doesn't have to be fast, and it could also be the same signal used by the utility to remotely check the meter for billing (something that is being deployed in France, BTW).
You're listing only the negatives, while ignoring the insanely great positives. The difference between sick people in placebo vs vaccinated groups is very significant.

Even if the vaccine effects are not long term, I'm willing to pay $100/year for the vaccinations. Infinitely better than humanity is stuck at home and elderly terrified.
That's how the infinite improbability drive works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIUIO1ImtJo
That doesn't pass the smell test. We keep animals in effectively torture-houses then kill them to eat them. I doubt that anyone would actually give a fuck if they just killed a bunch of horseshoe crabs. I mean, like, vegans would, but vegans' concerns are already ignored by everybody else.
Destruction as part of the salvage process to avoid just this situation has been done, though I'm not certain this is standard practice.

Mazda in 2008:

It all started about two years ago, when a ship carrying 4,703 shiny new Mazdas nearly sank in the Pacific.... The mishap created a dilemma: What to do with the cars? They had remained safely strapped down throughout the ordeal -- but no one knew for sure what damage, if any, might be caused by dangling cars at such a steep angle for so long.... The Japanese car maker, controlled by Ford Motor Corp. , easily could have found takers for the vehicles ... [but] Mazda turned everyone away. It worried about getting sued someday if, say, an air-bag failed to fire properly due to overexposure to salty sea air.... So it decided to destroy approximately $100 million worth of factory-new automobiles.

https://archive.fo/5Peq8 (WSJ)
Thanks for laying this out!
Didn’t the 2009 Recovery Act that Obama spearheaded also have a heavily invest in renewables? [1] Over 10 years it averaged to about 9 billion per year. I seem to recall that this investment push was twofold: investment in American renewable tech and rebates to spur demand. China heavily cut solar prices to undercut those solar investments (leading to Solyndra’s bankruptcy) but that had the effect of lowering prices further spurring demand worldwide.

I don’t have a sense of Germany’s impact in this space as I haven’t kept abreast of their investment nor about the specifics of renewable investments more broadly.

[1] https://grist.org/energy/obamas-recovery-act-breathed-life-i...
Yep. "That sounds like a clap from the next room" versus "that sounds like a quiet clap in this room" is not an impossible distinction to make (humans could do it most of the time), but not trivial either.
This is ARM Windows, no emulator in the loop. 2x perf with no caveats is consistent with other benchmarks of the two CPUs in question.
I’m sure they would. Bulk enterprise plans are on the order of $8-$10/month. That’s not even a rounding error compared to an employees compensation.
This one isn't the worst I've seen, but I do get tired of supposed journalists who feel their job is to just spread the advertising/press releases of powerful people. Real journalism should be helping the reader by adding context. Has something like this happened before? How many people has this impacted? Do they have a history of making these kinds of apologies and then sneaking in the problematic feature bit by bit over time? Maybe point out the persuasion technique being used by MSFT PR in the language they chose to talk about this issue.
This PBS SpaceTime episode has a good catchup of this and ways to measure this over longer scales:

https://youtu.be/YJzoelANL_Y
all else being equal, your competitor using google's index will have business perform better than yours. Thus, you will be out-competed.

The benefits of _not_ using google's index does not make up for it. So unless there some other benefit from doing so, not using google's index merely makes your business less competitive.
Fun fact: a collection of jugglers is called a neverthriving.
Not everybody. And yes, PHP ecosystem, and more specifically, Laravel's ecosystem, is incredibly rich and vibrant.
Isn't that a valid way of thinking? I think most Chinese citizens are in many ways more free than American ones. Obviously in other ways not so much, but it isn't obvious that it's all for the worse. For instance, they don't have to pay attention to politics nearly as much as Western citizens do. Look at the state of our politicized society, how much stress it generates, and how much better your life would be if you didn't have to deal with politics invading every aspect of society.
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Testing now, the page is finally loading. Page load time of ~2 days... that's different. ;)
Is the US Banning Crypto Wallets?
I'm Irish and I've always found the controversy a bit ridiculous; it's a classic example of Irish people's distaste for all things English being taken to a nonsensical extreme. You never hear Brits complaining about the Irish Sea being called such.
I disagree with the premise of your question. I don't think "HN hates humor" is true. But I think it is true that humor is only appreciated here on a very limited basis, and if it's done in a specific way. Most really obvious puns, gags, meme references, etc. are devoid of value and don't go over well here. But sometimes one does find a way to say something that's meaningful and funny at the same time, and I've seen those posts get upvoted.
Sounds like Harvard
I gave it a go a couple of years ago, and couldn't figure out a single thing. Like, not only did I not achieve "hello world", I never managed to figure out if "hello world" is a meaningful thing you can even attempt.

Maybe it's different now, but I cannot fathom a programming novice making any kind of sense out of urbit.
You totally missed the joke
Hmmm... then I don't know. Should have clarified that it was more of a guess than a solid answer.
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There are foreign populations with very high birthrates which have and continue to be invaluable in supplementing and diversifying populations in Europe, North America, Oceania, etc with similarly low birthrates. It would be a disaster for multiculturalism and population growth if Europeans, for example, started having families again so nobody is advocating that.

Is there any reason why Japan would not similarly benefit from such migration patterns?
Google isn't as selective as it's made out to be.
Fake emission figures, an embattled carmaker and a sock puppet PR company
The original parcels of Urbit address space went for a lot more than $20.
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Here's an article worth your time on this topic:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/05/climate-geopolitics-pet...
You want to go to the project page, not just the release notes for this version.

eg. https://vector.dev/

The diagram and succinct summary give you a very high level view, but the Docs link at the top takes you this:

https://vector.dev/docs/about/what-is-vector/
But it's not an error. It really is a teapot.
How much savings/profit do these actually generate to you? I guess some quite significant numbers, if you decided to actually expand capacity.
Having "lefty" in your name with such a poor understanding of labor exploitation is funny.
@dang, this post deserves a second chance.