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Battery-operated household items. I have a cordless dewalt drill that I can use all day on my jobsite, but every single appliance in my kitchen needs a cord. Hand mixer? Immersion blender? Regular blender? Stand mixer? Everything has a cord. Why isn't there a kitchen battery system yet?

Similarly: I'd love to have a little reading sconce on my wall next to my bed, but running a circuit through the existing walls without tearing them up is impossible. Why isn't there any attractive battery-powered home lighting? Sure, maybe overhead lights for lighting a room need more draw, but there's no reason to plug in a desk lamp, wall sconce, or coffee table light every day. Especially for renters who aren't about to hire an electrician—why no battery-powered lights designed for the home? Periodic recharging is annoying, but it's better than literally not being able to have a light where I want it.

There's a market here and it's not new technology. It's just repackaging existing technology with a splash of industrial design. Hell, the battery requirements for my drill are much greater than the battery requirements for my immersion blender. It shouldn't even be expensive!
I accept that, in a literal sense.

I was attempting only to answer the question and explain the source of confusion.

In native English speech, it would usually be expected that a business-case purchasor would speak of a more general case, perhaps by using "we".
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Yeah, definitely! I think it'd be a tricky thing to balance an appropriate rate for most publishers. I suppose you'd start by figuring out how many articles per-day the average reader lays eyes on. You'd also start to have to forecast revenue that's correlated directly to readership, which would probably lead to fewer articles about city council, and more listicles or salacious coverage.
Offtopic but may I ask you for some game/OpenGL-related questions?

I’m attending a computer graphics course and have to write a minecraft clone - and I don’t yet “feel” the performance of the CPU vs the GPU and sometimes I have trouble deciding which one to push.

Like, am I allowed to call glDraw* multiple times per different objects when the data is already on the gpu, or should I try to push somewhat dissimilar objects into the same buffer and write more complicated shaders differentiating them (without ifs if possible?) or are gpus so performant nowadays that unless I do something stupid I should not worry about it?
> Again: the government is completely free to control any assets it wants to control (as long as they are denominated in local currency). The constraints would be 'politics and inflation'.

Yes. This is what a financialized economy does, and is why the British were so focused on creating a financialized economy in their colonies.

> I would say 'this is just Socialism'

I think where you're confused is that you're thinking of MMT as a policy prescription for how the economy should be managed (socialism!). It's not. It's a description of how fiat currency works in practice without the fig-leaf of gold reserves or the like. Trying to look at it as some kind of socialist propaganda is particularly weird because this theory is much more relevant to describing capitalism than to communism.
Motorcycles are certainly worse than drones in terms of noise pollution! I've never had a drone audible from 2 streets over with my double glazed windows shut, but I hear motorcycles daily (and nightly).
It’s an “as-A-Service” offering. The hardware is abstracted and you get you use MacOS and its services on demand. It’d be the same as asking Dropbox what happens when their underlying hard drives reaches end of life from the manufacturers. It’s not our problem.
I'd argue that Apple of today is closer to Nextstep than Apple of the same time frame. Like, it was literally Steve Jobs making that decision at the time to violate the GPL. The joke for the longest time was that Nextstep bought Apple for negative dollars because of how much senior leadership was carried over from nextstep.

It's not like it was some random startup they acquihired for a couple engineers.
I use InkDrop exclusively. It's a paid app, but it's a fancy Markdown editor that has plugin support and various organization systems (tags, notebooks, statuses like "in progress," "completed," etc). I use the Mermaid plugin which allows me to write out some fairly complex charts, but there's some other charting ones as well.
Well, you've got quite a skewed since of reality, because it's well documented within the majority of high income votes left haha.
It IS being worked on, but things move quite slow - and there doesn't seem to have been much progress for decades, but:

Cure for hair-loss.

Some might say it's just vanity, but if someone could come up with a cure, and sell it affordably, that would be a multi-billion, maybe even trillion dollar industry.

Going from quite balding (NW4-NW7 in balding terminology) to a full head of hair makes most guys look a solid 10-20 years younger.

The hair-loss industry has been in a permanent state of "in 5 years..." for 30 years now.

And yes, I know there are more pressing issues in the world of medicine, but it's a real problem for tens of millions of people.
vRoomba for at home vid conferencing. With multiple independant cam, mic, light sensors etc. On-board AI for optimal presentation. Individual preference control via app.. and so on.
Well they don't really make these things for laptops unfortunately but they also don't cost $25k+ like they used to. It's still more than the average consumer is willing to spend but they are affordable enough now to be a viable option for professionals and small businesses.
Most (if not all?), like the SafeAir line from ParaZero [0] physically power off the drone before deployment to eliminate both factors as risks. This also allows them to handle flyaway situations effectively, making them useful even when you're not flying over a crowd.

Really the biggest problem is they aren't cheap, costing more than the drone themselves.

0: https://parazero.com/products/safeair-for-dji-mavic/
7‑Hydroxymitragynine a Mitragynine Metabolite, Mediates Analgesic Effects
They “failed” in poisoning him first. Then they let Navalny “flee” to Germany. And then they “confessed” to said failed poisoning attempt.

The Russians have become either:
a) an incompetent joke given their historical track record of assassinations and coverups (too many to list)

b) Navalny is seeking to be in the limelight and faking all or part of this for some manufactured consent

This would not have been a subplot in a Le Carre novel.

This is the perfect monkey wrench “plot” to dismantle the Nord Stream pipeline:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream

For those who would want to watch a dark comedy on Soviet political machinations I highly recommend “The Death of Stalin.”

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/
Scaling Exact Inference for Discrete Probabilistic Programs
Why?

Rust is a nice modern language that's both imperative and functional with great tooling and libraries.

What makes Haskell better in this area in your opinion?
SSD and flash storage can have their own issues. For long term unpowered storage there might be issues with data retention. Not so much with magnetic media. And with bad drivers there is risk of ruining parts of disk by writing too many times...
People have been moaning about the decline of discussion on the internet since 1993.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
It's possible the parent only had one month left on their lease.
> A lot of people actually are working for (close to) minimum wage.

2.1% of workers work for minimum wage.

> Companies seem to have no responsibility to train people at all,

They don't. Neither do people owe them fealty.

> that's smth you have to do on your own time for free.

Consider a company that decides to train you for 4 years while paying you. Then, you decide to leave and take a better offer elsewhere. A company cannot make you stay. Taking that on would be very risky and very expensive for any company.

"Companies" that do this tend to force you to work for them so many years afterwards, like the military.
Only at 0:00. That's a separate feature, showing 0:01 at a minimum for a paused timer (presumably to make it very clear that you aren't looking at an expired timer, even though the UI disappears for an expired timer.)
Ah, yes...not SPARC like. VLIW, so maybe, vaguely Itanium like.
Call me crazy but I'm struggling to think of a research area with irrational investment.
Ah. I see that my Apple app does do that, but it's not my preference.

I would much prefer "0 seconds remaining" to mean 0 to 0.5 seconds remaining, than any other possible case. I would find it much easier to parse.

(Alternatively, please show more accuracy for this case, where it's likely relevant)
It seems to me we that need an app on our devices that we trust that is divorced from the device's OS (and it's vendor's cloud) that will help us in transitioning from hard-coded voice interfaces driven by dictionaries of known commands and interfaces that simply fail to understand you to something that is truly useful to us and that gets better and more useful over time. Until we have a voice assistant or voice driven OS, can we please have some of us working on a voice-driven work-flow?

My eye sight is getting worse by the day and my finger joints are getting sore. I need a voice driven work-flow, soon.
Strongly agreed. Ever since I bought a 2-in-1 device with a pen, I lament at the dearth of applications that make good use of pens/styluses. It's a really powerful mode of input, but you can't treat it as just a funny mouse.

Also strongly seconding the graph point. Over the past few years, I've learned to see directed graphs everywhere (particularly in task/project management, something I rant on every now and then). It's a truly powerful mental model, it's a natural model for representing quite a lot of things, and yet it's also terribly underutilized on the UI/UX side.

Currently, I'm thinking about writing my own todo app ( :) ) with a strong graph twist. I've already switched from org-mode and all the Trellos/planners to Microsoft Project, of all things, precisely because it understands that tasks form a graph and not a shallow tree. But MS Project's UX is quite clunky if you want to use it as a day-to-day task management tool. I think there's a lot of space for improvement here.

(A nice side effect for using MS Project to break down my own work is that when my PM asks me about my progress during our 1:1s, I just show her the GANTT chart, which cleanly communicates my plan, the order of things, their interdependencies, and estimated delivery date. I've learned to appreciate GANTT charts myself, too.)
Is this the fencepost problem but with time :P?
Talk to an attorney, like your deferred ones. The price investors paid isn't the same as the common stock value of the company. Given there are implications for the co-founder, the company and the investor, make sure it gets done correctly, with no surprises.
I think the key to fully autonomous vehicles is a three part solution: Smart cars, smart roads, and car to car communication. The current view is to build all the intelligence into the cars, but as we've seen from Tesla, this effort is hard and there are an unlimited number of variables the vehicle needs to adapt to.

However, if the cars were able to communicate and get information from the road itself (speed limit, turns, traffic control etc) then the car doesn't need to be able to figure this out. Yes, it'd take awhile to retrofit roads.

Car to Car communication could be used to let vehicles know how the traffic is flowing without needing to use radar/lidar to determine when traffic is slowing ahead.

These are very basic thoughts on the subjects.
Yeah! Somehow my brain started to channel Shakespeare and say "Why, so can I, and so can any man, be the tape but long enough!"

(Then I had to look it up. Henry IV Part I, Act III, Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep; Hotspur: Why so can I, and so can any man, but will they come when you do call them?)
I made the DNA tricorder from front page HN. AMA
I didn't realize until today that my paper on iGenomics was on the front page of Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25331164) and there were many points people brought up that I wished I could have responded to but HN no longer allowed comments.

Here's our paper in GigaScience: https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/9/12/giaa138/6025149
And the article from the front page HN post: https://phys.org/news/2020-12-world-dna-tricorder-pocket.html

Ask me anything!
I think the official missions, like the one that took the picture, are much more likely sources than secret conspiracy missions.
Homeschooling laws vary by state in the US, from easy to bureaucratic hassle. Education is compulsory in the US, even for homeschoolers. Generally homeschoolers have to comply with various state standards, with enforcement ranging from lax to strict.

Regardless of the history or how schools got the way they are, they do follow an industrial model that teaches conformity, obedience to authority, and that individual ideas and interests don’t matter much. Not every teacher or every school is a terrible environment, but too many of them are more like prison than a place to learn and grow.

My three kids chose homeschooling, actually unschooling, for all or part of their childhood and teen years. When they chose to attend public school it was because their friends did. I think they got very little “education” in that environment. They were always free to choose, which is not an option for most children forced to attend the nearest school.
Battery powered devices like this do better with brushless motors to save battery. Corded devices which can use a brushed motor since they can sacrifice some electrical efficiency. Good brushless isn't cheap. Fixed appliances this aren't really going to go from kitchen to kitchen like your drill either. Probably pulling it out from the counter and using it and then putting it away. Why deal with batteries?
16x bluray is 72MB/s (576Mb/s).
Personally I met a lot of extractive people on LinkedIn and that led me to delete my account.
By "forced out" you mean you could

1) sell, reaping a huge windfall.
2) use a HELOC or reverse mortgage to pay for the higher property taxes.

But of course you'd prefer both to keep the windfall and not move, a privilege afforded to you by prop 13. That is only natural.

Meanwhile, homelessness in the state continues to rise as high land values make housing production and anti-growth activists on planning committees exacerbate our housing shortage.
GCC and Clang both generally match ICC’s performance, and in my experience beat it more often than they lose to it. ICC’s only real advantage is MKL and other bundled libraries, which are generally better than what free software has to offer.
This was a really amazing and illustrative article. As a programmer, it definitely gave me a better understanding of the vaccine (or at least I believe so).

I was curious about a part that I haven't found a lot of writing on so far - namely, what happens with the artificial spike protein after the cell assembled it.

Does it, like, keep floating around inside the cell? Does it attach to the cell membrane like it would to the viroid? Does it leave the cell and enter the bloodstream or does it something altogether different?

I figure it can't really stay inside the cell as it has to interact with the immune system at some point.

However, if it attaches to the cell wall, wouldn't this cause risk that the immune system considers the whole cell a pathogen and attacks it? After all, teaching the immune system to destroy anything the spike is attached to is sort of the whole point of the exercise.

Finally, if the spike enters the bloodstream, could it wreak havoc with ACE2 receptors?
Please do not suggest that the public health effects of lockdowns are limited to mental health and economic effects.

There are remarkably fewer people diagnosed with early stages of cancer, for example. The question is then, if suddently the incidence went down or will people die unnecessarily from worse screening programs and non emergency care?

Things like kids missing out on school is a clear factor in lower life expectancy, one of the few things which hold true independent of country and age group studied.
Android shows rounded up. You never see zero. That also seems reasonable to me.
They kind of fall in with the rules published by the FAA here, and previously were more or less a requirement to get a waiver before said rules. The whole worry about flight over people is two-fold:

1. Props still spinning waiting to cut people up in event of flyaways or loss of power from one or more props

2. In the event of total loss of power, what is the total kinetic energy that would be imparted on an individual should the falling drone strike them

Parachute systems effectively deal with both. A proper setup will power off the drone, making sure the props aren't spinning, and lower the rate of descent so minimal kinetic energy will be transferred in the event of a collision with a human being.

The new rules firmly codify what requirements must be met to operate over people safely, and parachutes along with prop guards should easily meet them.
Do you complain this much when a AAA video game is released?
Well, nowadays digital documents, such as videos and photos, are much more important and widespread and mundane than they were a couple of decades ago.

During the 80s there was no digital consumer camera market. Nowadays every person can easily generate hundreds of megabytes of photos and videos per day. Each hour of a 4K video can be close to 7GB, and we're already seeing cellphones which are able to record 4K video at 60fps and 1080p videos at 240fps.
Shucks - It was too early for its time. Did they even have RAM in MB's during the 80's? :)
Even worse, they can pretend they have evidence that they don't, pretend they believe the evidence, and pretend it's enough to convict you by itself.

They can tell you to just say you were there, and they'll go easy on you. You lie and say you were there, now they have evidence that can actually lock you up, even if you are a random person off the street.
Projected Herd Immunity is reached depending on how infectious the threat is. For measles it is estimated to be in the mid-90%. For some other threats it might be as low as 50%. Over time, we have come to better understand how infectious covid is and one would naturally expect that to impact many aspects of prediction including when we might reach herd immunity.

That said, we are not drug mules that need to have the reality of what is in front of us hidden so we can stomach one more baggie of bad news. People need to be told the truth and that kind of straight talk has been sorely lacking in American leadership.

Fauci is just a byproduct of the current American reality. If he thinks that the required rate is 85% he should have said so and not tried to sugar coat this as some leaders are want to do. I like him, but I don't want to be in a situation where I am ever second guessing if experts are deceiving the public even if they think it is for our own good. This just fuels the conspirator's fire.
The post you were replying to specifically didn't want to use "the cloud." But for single-digit TB, which covers consumers who don't either have a huge number of video files or is a serious data hoarder, the answer is the use local disks. And,if they are OK with cloud storage which they probably should be, something like Backblaze is probably a better choice.
Prefab won't be a solution for housing shortages in California because of trade union opposition. The fact that there is more than enough work to go around doesn't stop them from opposing efficiency improvements and extracting rents in the form of union labour requirements in housing bills.
That may be vulnerable to social engineering if the person on the other side accepts "I'm using a randomly generated string of letters" as an answer :). So if your password manager accepts user-provided passwords, I'd just string two or three random words together and use that as the maiden name.
Ask HN: How did you choose your online alias?
How did you choose the name that you use online? Do you try to use the same one on multiple services around the web? Did you try and register a personal domain name?
The mystery of Findora: The DeFi project suddenly disowned by its founders
Aw, c'mon chaps! Can we just admire the tech for a second?

> Data on the tape is stored at a record-breaking density of 317 gigabytes per square inch...

> When tape is being read it is streamed over the head at a speed of about 15 km/h and with our new servo technologies we are still able to position the tape head with an accuracy that is about 1.5 times the width of a DNA molecule.
Ow! Telling him would be a kindness.
Here's the 6-year-old issue about a shared runtime for Electron:

Idea of runtime mode - https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/673
That was the solution as well for my primetimer app, funny that I had the same findings
> I just don't like the idea of a flying high def camera in my face that I can't grab and smash against the wall. Because it's literally flying above me out of reach.

I mean, also because laws? When you're out in public folks can record you with the high def cameras on their smartphones today, and you're still not allowed grab them and smash them against the wall without consequences.
Ok you are right.
I think alot of this are symptoms of bad management or inexperienced management dealing with remote work.

I have had to rise to the occasion, and facilitate icebreakers with new hires of other teams (that work with my team).

Their managers thought nothing of directing the new hires to slack and email a handful of strangers.

The companies or individuals that had successfully implemented remote work prior to the pandemic, I think are dealing with it better.

The best tip I read was from the Zapier remote work ‘guide’, to use the Slack giphy add-on, because it is easier to convey emotions via an animated gif versus text.

Of course, it was a major setback when we had to ban it for inappropriate use.
Yes, I do use a mix of medium in case one medium fails.
The media spent years hyperventilation over the allegation that Russians were running troll farms of people who were paid to post content on the internet to push their agenda. It's interesting that the media completely ignored that according to wikileaks the Clinton campaign was running their own troll farms. There is/was a DNC super pac called Correct The Record paying people to manipulate public opinion through narrative control. Leaked emails showed Clinton was directly coordinating their activities despite doing so being illegal.

Is it better to be manipulated by a foreign government or your own?
First off, mad props for building out the service. That was an ambitious idea and I’m sorry it didn’t take off. Second, if you ever write a blog or article about it someday please mention it on hacker news.
Candy CORN: analyzing the CORONA concrete crosses myth
Out of curiosity, what is wrong with the solutions available today? I see Elon Musk before and after and his procedure appeared to have gone great. Is that just because he could afford a more expensive procedure?
Nah fam. It's clear what Apple want: soup-to-nuts control of the platform and ecosystem. Anything less would be putting the value of the #1 brand in the world in the hands of potentially unscrupulous third-party devs. So whether you can run anything on Apple Silicon, what you can run, what inputs you are allowed to run it on will be decisions made in Cupertino. If just anyone is allowed to emit Apple Silicon binaries that presents a problem to the whole chain of custody.

In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if future versions of Xcode did all their compilation in Apple's cloud, without an option for local compilation.