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Germany. Southern Germany specifically. Lots of people even have Bavarian or German flag stickers on their cars.

Lot’s of flags in Italy including regional flags like Siena which has 17 different flags corresponding to the parts of the city. Lots Italian and Vatican flags in Rome.

I’ve met a Costa Rican tourist in Europe who had a flag hat, shirt, backpack, and a small flag in hand.
A good reason no doubt and if that comes to bear sure. But at least code in a monorepo and split to microservices in your pipeline. Cake and eat.
Just because Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft are doing the same bad thing Apple is doing doesn't mean it's not a bad thing. Personally, I think game consoles should fall under the same type of scrutiny, but that's a different situation because, historically, game consoles have not been seen as general purpose computing devices. See for example the stupid DMCA jailbreaking rules that allow customers to jailbreak their phones, but not their game consoles. Why? Idk, I'm not a lawyer, but it probably has to do with lobbying.

Android's 85% market share is global, and a lot of those are low budget garbage which makes them less important for a lot of industries (particularly gaming). In the US, Android's market share is more like 50%, and while I obviously can't speak for every developer, I at least consider the US market to be my primary focus. Doing significant business in another country is more complicated than just localizing strings and clicking a checkbox on the developer console (unless your business is relatively simple, like a utility or a game)

And while Android does allow third-party stores to exist, they're at a significant disadvantage competitively. It is practically impossible for any store to compete against Google play with the current systems and barriers Google put in place (as proven by companies that have attempted it over the years). That is also clear "anti-competitive behavior". From the point-of-view of users, the situation is better. But from the perspective of developers, it's the same bullshit. You are not going to escape Google on Android and hope to have a successful business, unless maybe you can manufacture and sell your own hardware.

And regarding Steam, I too think that 30% is too much (especially because Valve are not entirely innocent of anti-competitive practices themselves). However, it's not the same situation because there currently are many realistic alternatives to Steam, both for gamers and for developers. The same can't be said about Android or iOS.
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Unfortunately the law is more draconian. The FAQ of the law provided by a comment below says

1. only minor repairs are explicitly allowed
2. only using tools found in a typical household.
3. it lists specific examples of what is allowed (brakes, oil, tire changes) and says all repairs must be like that
4. Must be in an enclosed space if the repair takes more than 24 hours (so no restoring an old beauty on your private driveway).

Pretty much only trivial fixes are allowed.

https://code-enforcement.saccounty.net/Programs/pages/autore...

https://code-enforcement.saccounty.net/Programs/pages/autore...
But the alternative (a normal EV) still requires all the same cables and charging network.

Or the other alternative, the shipping of petroleum on huge trucks to millions of locations.

But yeah, I'd draw the line at solar panels on car roof tops too... the excess is too much.
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Ask HN: What is the present moment?
When reading, I often encounter the “present moment”, and a recommendation to live in/for it. To not dwell on past or future, but on this moment alone.

When I actively try to do this, it’s hard to define exactly what it is. I can only comprehend that which has happened (albeit very recently), and so it is really the near-past in which I’m focusing. What is the bounds of the present moment where the human experience is concerned?

And theoretically, if there were a super intelligence who could easily capture and process all information in the present, would their present moment start expanding into the future and the past? Does the present moment have a bandwidth of some kind depending on the subject? What is it exactly?
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We came across this problem when we operated a gig company with 1000+ workers and ran into major compliance problems that forced us to classify everyone as W2 employees. There was no product on the market that allowed us to seamlessly (and programmatically) run W2 payroll at scale.

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We're building a product we wish we had.

Why do companies want to build payroll in the first place?

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Yes, and we use them to make annoying buzzers in all modern electronics [0]! The article mentions some attempts at using the effect practically.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectricity
The other strange thing about a design like the Minila is that there's enough "bezel" at the top of the case for them to have put half-size function keys, which would have made it much more useful without having to increase the overall size.
Your argument supposes you know something that the experts in the field don't know, since there is no consensus supporting such a diet.

The increased animal suffering alone is a good reason to not try such a diet, nevermind the small support in the scientific community.
Carbon tax, carbon tax, carbon tax.

Rather than coming up with a billion restrictions for every new way people invent to waste resources, just charge people for resource usage.
I've seen options with OLED from HP, Lenovo, Dell, Asus and Razer (always on a few select models though).
Follow along with the Python tutorial.

https://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/

As you work along with the tutorial, be mindful that most of what you learn is similar to most other mainstream languages.

At some point you'll get a feel for what programming is, and what Python is. At that point, start exploring some of the other material in the beginners guide.

You'll also start to think about some small personal projects. By now you'll have a sense of how to find answers to questions and problems that occur. Now you're off to the races.
Because a phone is more than just parts and software. There's knowledge and training required to take it apart and put it back together correctly. And in something as simple as swapping out the cameras, you're taking the case apart, unplugging wires, undoing tape, maybe even some glue... and all of that is still under Apple Warranty.

Do you really want Apple Care to be more of a pain? I love that you can go in... even when you like drop the device... and be like, "Hey can you replace this?" They've got great support. If you force them to start covering all the stuff people home-repair too... oof. Guarantee that experience of having great care goes away as they have to cover their ass from people who broke their devices while trying to repair them.

Anyway, Apple is a bad example... Apple Care is great, and fairly cheap.

John Deere is a bad example... because of reliability and safety concerns from non-professionals doing repairs.

Give me a good example? A non-computerized vacuum? Most all of those systems are easy enough to repair without a law.

Some of the "right to repair" laws I've seen seem to imply you need to make it so the battery is easy to swap in and out without tools. Oof, like I don't want that phone that has a battery that comes out / isn't water proof / is an inch thick. I had those in the 90s / 00s. I don't want to go back to that.
Electric ground? Can you expand on this?
While that would be partially correct, 'for free' usually depends on some context. One could argue that sunlight is 'for free' but only in the context of a human understanding the concept of free vs. non-free, and you'd need to be living and thinking to be able to understand that, and living takes an effort, so nothing would really be 'free' ;-)

On the other hand, a more correct title could be: free for development for the Apple Platforms.
Just pay them 20% more of what they are currently making.
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I just tested an Amazon purchase with Firefox and uBlock Origin, and it works OK - "Proceed to checkout" takes me to the checkout page, as expected.
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It's also possible that the wood deforms more requiring the walker to expend more energy.

I think it's an interesting thought experiment. How would we measure it?
That's not really true anymore.

One of the big differences is RAM.. the A6000 has 48GB, a 3090 only 24 (And the 3080 12). Also, the RAM in the A6000 is ECC, and of course in the consumer cards it isn't.

The A6000 also has ~10% more CUDA and Tensor cores.

So, no, it isn't just a different firmware.
I did think that for the first few weeks of using Blender, but I find I don't use it any more. I think perhaps once I was using Blenders verb / constrain / snap model I stopped using the ortho views. So for example (G)rab / X / (10)units. (S)cale, Y, 1.5. (E)xtrude, Y, Snap.
Seriously, I am not trolling. Those are not an examples, you're just re-iterating why you think the quadrants are inappropriate. My question is what are some specific examples of "contexts" in which lib/auth left/right is NOT a meaningful distinction?

From where I sit, the quadrant is the least bad way to classify and categorize ideological views. It's certainly less lossy than categorizing on a single dimensional left/right spectrum.
As soon as I read this part I figured they’d end up selling to Google, because only PR people would include a defensive aside like this :)

“In the days before the auction, [Microsoft] complained that Google, its biggest rival and likeliest competitor in the auction, could eavesdrop on private messages and somehow game the bids. Hinton had raised the same possibility with his students, though he was less expressing a serious concern than making an arch comment on the vast and growing power of Google.”
I'm putting together a workstation for my research group and the only thing I'm missing is the GPU. Apparently supply is the worst it's ever been and I can't find anything even 1-2 generations old that isn't marked up 2x.
Right. But if they openly sold defective half-finished cards for mining they'd still be less popular products but people wouldn't feel insulted.
Nice. It's free in the sense that for your Apple-apps on Apple-platforms you no longer need a commercial icon set with a license etc. On top of that, it's known to work well, integrates with the UX, and because there is a good chance other applications in the same ecosystem use similar icons it'll be easier for the users to recognise them.
I wouldn't say nothing. A higher power profile will cause more wear, leading to more warranty claims. TANSTAAFL.
It might be a legality thing. I don't know about Ontario specifically, but I live in BC and there are a lot of roads that are closed to drivers without winter rated tires. Some places even require you to have chains in the vehicle.

In general owning a car in Canada is significantly more expensive than my experience in the states. Gas is currently $4.82USD. My insurance is close to double what it was in the US. And there is 12% sales tax on vehicles in BC.

The flip side is that in the cities, transit is much better. A lot of my Canadian friends (mostly Vancouver and Toronto) didn't get their first cars until their mid twenties because it is faster and cheaper to use transit for a lot of purposes.
Hinton has an incredible press agent, from articles like these you would think only his and a few other minds are actually working on AI. Nothing against Hinton, just wish others in the AI field got as much press, there are alot of incredible things happening in AI the past few years.

NYTimes is positively in love with him, are a few other articles - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/technology/artificial-int...
...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awa...
That's a very interesting topic
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> Do you honestly believe that the person can look around any code base and find significant speed increases?

In my experience, YES! It is often the new set of eyes (especially if they are on a a smart head with lots of time, energy and will available) that finds new solutions, optimizations and bugs we never thought about. And the people I work with are the smartest people I have ever met and that still is nowhere near enough to ensure that the large scale software projects we work on have had all the possible large optimizations done already.
Some humans have issue slaughtering horses en masse. But still, I don't follow your point. Horses WERE NOT slaughtered. They were just bred at a point lower than replacement.
Did anyone ever really try to pitch that RTX Voice actually needed 20 series hardware to work as opposed to being something Nvidia were gating to try to sell more cards? I thought it was pretty transparent myself but maybe I just assumed.
Shocking that an article with no references or citations might miss some important history!
YA fiction features young adults as the protagonist(s).

Of course, "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" fit that definition ... and so perhaps they are YA?

Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit Will Travel" — obvious YA.

I suppose if YA has a "reputation" it's probably because, like Romance novels, etc., it is churned out, is often shallow, "tropey"....
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My first 3DFX Voodoo card.

And maybe jumping from a 286-12 to a 486DX-33.
work= energy = force x distance (integrated if force is variable).

Stick a load cell on a linear slide, measure accordingly.
At least a couple of times in the article the author talks about software "that can think". Deep neural nets can't "think" at least not in the sense that humans can think. I don't think we have any software yet that's close to "thinking".
What's the tech stack you've used? Do you think it's better to build an App first or a Website? or both?
Drop a ball, slow-mo camera to measure bounce, mic to measure sound, infrared to measure heat....BUT the energy amounts were talking about are very small.
All kinds of businesses have seasonal hours already, and without any coordination or need to make everyone change their clocks.
> apt-get.

I saw a joke the other day that went something like:

"What, is your grandma so senile that she can't type ./configure; make; make install" ?

Installing software on linux truly sucked before package managers.
If we take this in the other direction, if I purchase a house on a lake, and you build a company that dumps toxic waste into that lake, should I not have some recourse?

The idea here being that there is an externality to your toxic waste dumping (both in terms of property values and the environmental/health consequences, potentially). You the dumper don't bear that cost, your neighbors do, even though the action is entirely your fault and, importantly, there's nothing your neighbors can do to prevent you from dumping the waste.
I'm certain that's the case. It is rather frustrating to see them even lay claim to such generic iconographs. But, if Disney can take public domain stories and lock them up for 100 years... who knows?
Why would Google pay for this when they already crawled and are crawling whole Wikipedia and have complete index of it?

Better way for Wikipedia to earn extra revenue are affiliate links. A lot of people when they read and learn about some topic go to Amazon and buy a book about that topic. Wikipedia could embed book affiliate links and earn commission from book sales.
> literature intended for adults?

But it is. It is, quite clearly, literature intended for adults. It may be more smut and less Moby Dick, but it's not by any means written for children.

And, funnily enough, it also represents the same kind of mindless entertainment people refer to when criticizing YA books.

It's not Hemingway or Twain, but wait, didn't we read them in High School too?
Hyperloop itself creates the political and marketing problem. Is a fantasy created by the billionaire owner of a car company that is a distraction from the actual totally viable solution of contemporary high speed rail.
Prioritisation
Well, that's the point. If they're getting their goods from a robot, their needs are being met. If they're not, they could trade with person B.
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4K laptops can have reasonable battery life. See almost every>= 4K Ice Lake and Tiger Lake laptop for example.
It's a GPU. It does GPU stuff, about as well as can be expected.

If you had very specific numbers in mind, you must have been looking at benchmarks, and all the benchmarks were equally locked and mining benchmarks certainly would have mentioned it.
I had sort of the same problem when jumping into Cranelift work -- this stuff is really not well-documented outside of the code itself. Happy to hear you found the posts useful!
1) fuck Twitter and that entire social interaction method, I hate it with my entire being

2) "Positive buzz all but died off, as community members began confronting The Black Witch’s supporters, demanding to know why they insisted on reading a racist book. "

Reminds me how in Soviet Russia you couldn't read certain books or risk prosecution, but were of course required to condemn them, in public if possible. Which led to entire groups of politicians, artists, authors, condemning books which they weren't even legally allowed to read. Absolute fucking insanity.
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I'm experiencing the same issue. I disabled Pi-hole and any content blockers on my device and the network. Still seeing the issue on mobile and desktop. For me it's while ordering through Amazon's Whole Food 2-hour delivery service. Haven't tried Amazon.com checkout.
> end up like those out-of-work horses

As long as this is like a retired horse given support to last out its years in a nice pasture (i.e. UBI) and not the dog food route, we'll be ok. If the change comes too fast leaving too many without too much while too few have it all, then we'll have problems.
Great, just a shame it isn't more 'tradititionally' transparent & democratised IMO. Claims no custom contracts, but is enterprise sales team contact us anyway, for example.

.proto on GitHub is nice, but no pricing, no public docs? This is probably great for Wikimedia coffers, but at the headline I hoped for new/improved Wikidata; instead it's.. different bordering on 'don't care'.
Is the overhead of calling a library function actually significantly higher than the serialization overhead that RDTSC already incurs? It's paying that price anyway, and if that shadows the cycles spent on the call and its overhead, it would be preferable to just call a library function...
> Consider the availability of schematics for MacBooks, for example. They are not available officially. But it is possible to get them via shady channels. The operation of such channels is risky because it is often illegal. But it is nevertheless being done because there is a large demand for it.

If you buy a BMW, you drive all around town and get told by auto places, "Hey I don't work on BMWs." You end up taking it to a dealer, or an approved repair place. I don't see why a phone or tractor or anything else should be different.

If you want something that's got modular parts / open schematics... make that a consideration when buying. It comes off as, "We want a premium product, but we don't want to pay a premium repair price or use approved parts... rather just sort of have it be an Apple case with Bubba's MacBook Repair & Tackle Shop approved parts... and Bubba can warranty the labor." Oof.

Apple is pretty up front with their products, if you buy an Apple product odds are if it ever needs to be serviced you'll have to take it to an Apple Store. AND... the kicker... they have great service.

A schematic isn't enough. Like you'd have to provide order of operations for disassembly (at least some training), odds are tolerances for glue / tape removal, etc. Doesn't seem unreasonable for Apple to say, "Hey we make a premium product, and we're the only ones with expertise in the care of that product. If you don't want an Apple laptop, you're free to buy Bubba's DIY Laptop built with 100% Organic Duct Tape!" And plenty of PCs went that route in the 90s / 00s. Open architecture was a selling point.
Do I really work harder as a software engineer than the garbagemen who bust their asses doing a dangerous smelly job? Or teachers wrangling a room full of kids?

I don't think so.

And yet I am paid 5-10X what they are.
Thank you. That's an interesting result.
But doing it is what drives innovation... Battery tech is improving at crazy pace because everyone is using batteries for everything now.

You don't think the same would happen if wide spread adoption of solar started happening?

Arguing: "Technology isn't good enough yet, so we shouldn't try"... how do you expect to make it good enough?
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Top comment on ars: How is the company worth 1.4 billion when it is only two years old and has no products? Honest question, do they have IP or is it more for the people?
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