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Slow reader here - I’ve picked up reading much more in recent years after always wanting to build a habit as well!

Some ideas that have helped build that habit:

- The Pragmatic Programmer (great book) recommends reading one technical book per quarter to invest in yourself. If you read one book per year, you’re still doing better than most . With that, I try to read a “professional” book every morning (I’ve gotten a ton of recommendations from https://leadership-library.dev). I’ve also found that when it comes to topics like leadership, I get a lot more depth through books than blog posts online.

- At night, I like clearing my mind before going to bed. Podcasts with a sleep timer used to do the trick, but became prohibitive after moving in with my partner. I’ve found books have the same effect - I’ll usually read something lighter (fiction or non fiction).

- Regarding audio books - I used to be pretty against audio books - the whole adage “Oh can you even call that reading?”. But I’ve come to learn, yes! I think you have to be pretty engaged to get the most out of them (I.e you can’t be browsing the internet while listening). Audio books on long runs have been a really great way to pass the time! What keeps me coming back is the idea that some reading is better than no reading at all!

- Use the library! Before last year I would buy Kindle books - super expensive and difficult to try new books. This made me force myself to read books even if I didn’t really like them - not great! Instead, check out Libby to check out books from your local library. You can register for a library card without leaving your home! https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby?

- Continuing on my previous point, if you’re not enjoying a book, just drop it and move on. It can take time to find the right book, but you will find one that you enjoy (take it from someone who has at times felt helpless in this area)! I’ve found a couple through - https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2020

All in all, books are great and you should read them! Just be sure to find the time(s) that work best for you (don’t feel pressure to replace TV with books), and find the books that interest you in the moment!
I think there are two (or more) segments of Peloton riders. The data geeks who want to track all of their workouts and metrics, and the casual rider who just wants a convenient way to get some solid exercise without leaving the house. I fall into the casual segment - I ride my Peloton 1-2 times per day, and I don't care about any of my stats, but I love the workout and I love the Peloton instructors. Unless another platform somehow convinces my favorite instructors to leave Peloton then I'm sticking around.

*edit: I also own an Apple watch, but I only use it for tracking # of minutes while running outside. And for telling the time.
I find the keyboard fine, with UK ISO.

But the touchscreen is awful. I haven't yet put Linux on this one but under Windows even though I disabled it in the BIOS the touchscreen randomly enabled itself so if I touch the corner to close the lid I actually close whatever app I'm in.

Frustrating and an awful design. 4k is completely wasted and is broken in about half the stuff I use so I ended up changing the resolution to 1440p rather than using Windows scaling.
Recently, Ubisoft has announced they'd be shutting down a couple of servers for older games.

https://www.pcinvasion.com/ubisoft-is-shutting-down-servers-...

https://forums.ubisoft.com/showthread.php/1241617-Online-Ser...

This danger isn't imaginary. I hope they push out a firmware update that makes it possible to ignore this kill switch should they ever decide to shut the servers down.
It makes the loss of the Amazon rain forest actually tangible instead of some vague conception of 10% gone.

This is outstanding.
> on the economy

a 2% "tax", on retail sales, at best.

b2b, c2c, and large dollar b2c generally don't go through visa.

calling it a "tax" is nauseating. you get something from visa, and you can choose not use them, if you'd like. it's the rare place that won't take at least a few other alternative payments, including cash.

it's a rarer tax yet that you can choose not to pay.
Who decides where the line is drawn between scum and not scum? Alas, that is why this is human nature. It is all encompassing, you cannot pick and choose.

None of us are perfect.
Very well done, I can't spot the seam.
“People haven’t been transacting in crypto basically at all”

Exactly. When I did a deep dive on crypto currency a few years ago I wondered, what can the transaction rate be for
proof of work schemes. Turned out it was less than a dozen per second across an entire network. I don’t think this has changed (https://bitcoinvisuals.com/chain-tx-day). How many transactions does Visa alone do?
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In India returns are almost always picked up from your home. No need to print labels or package it.

On the other hand, In the US, more often than not, you have to pack up your item and drop it off to a store to return it.
Apple only wants to use India to sell its stuff, particularly old model goods. It has avoided for longest time to provide Apple service through its own stores. It uses reseller network that is not the same as having own stores and service. Now this is amazing that Apple won't accept returns in India when Apple goods bought via Amazon can be returned in India!
I had to do similar things while in Canada. Trying to get HBO was impossible for someone living in a dorm.
I consider Google Earth something like a modern digital world wonder. These things are absolutely amazing, especially in VR.
I don't know anything about proof-of-stake but Chia by the inventor of bittorrent (Bram Cohen) uses Proof of Space/Time by using extra commodity hard drive space instead of special-purpose CPU cycles: https://www.chia.net/

Their mainnet has been out for a month and people are able to mine ("farm") using low-energy hardware. There are people that are farming petabytes of storage with a single Raspberry Pi. I myself am using an old crappy laptop with some unused hard drives I had around the house.
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> Physical mute button with red LED mute status is a killer feature.

I had a headset with that feature, and sure enough, it failed me on a sales call. I groaned at something our salesperson said, and despite the button having been pressed and the light being on, everyone heard me.
Maybe they wanted to flex on social media? People do weird things for "clout".
Weird question: What if a user actually wants to opt-in but the site has opted-out? Should user opt-in override site opt-out?
Bolt's 23 mph includes acceleration from a standing start. His top speed during a race is more like 28 mph.
Great!

1. What would be the point of a deepfake prohibition? The tech is here and it can be useful. Prohibition only leads to further issues legislating against actual bad actors.

2. People like images/videos, people mostly trust images/videos, but for that same reason they're commonly the best tools to deceive and deceit. Here's to hoping that deepfakes will increase their scrutiny and awareness.
Are you sure? It has only been a few days since the IPO.
I attended a conference last August where almost all audio was terrible fidelity. It made the conference like 3x worse than usual.

I think one of the main issues here is it's hard for people to realize what they sound like on the other end. I've been playing a lot of online trivia tournaments in the past year. During these tournaments, people read questions aloud. It's really important to be able to hear all words clearly. It's astounding how many people think that they're coming through clearly when using a microphone built into the laptop--even after repeated messaging before the tournament that this audio quality sucks.
Bitcoin.com has the Satoshi Archive (https://www.bitcoin.com/satoshi-archive/) with all his emails and forum posts. Satoshi wanted big blocks, and so BTC largely ignores him or says "We are all satoshi", but there is a ton of wisdom if you go back and read. This was put together by Derek Magill, who is also a good person to follow on Twitter.
Available in English-speaking countries only.

I'm from Lithuania, none of Apple services are localised to Lithuanian (they are all in English), but I'm sure we'll have to wait until service is localised to 10+ languages before we can access it, unlocalised, in Lithuania.
But if the metric is "need in most cases," then that's fine. You don't need an embedded database in most cases.
You should talk to Tavis Rudd, maybe. https://youtu.be/8SkdfdXWYaI
Maybe it's a status symbol thing. Rent a designer electronic for an important meeting or a date or something to look good. Return it afterwards and get your money back.
* "Apple" since apple is a common word describing a type of fruit.
Professionals don't gamble with their own money. They gamble with other people's money, and keep a percentage if they win.

"Common people" are entering the game without the most important piece of equipment they need, namely a pile of money that doesn't come out of their own pocket if they lose.
The biggest 'social' part is that my friends and I end up doing the same rides, and even though it's at different times we end up competing and chasing each other. I had some goals I thought were going to take months, but I've already blown threw them b/c I could chase my friends ghost on his ride. If I do a ride first, I text it out to everyone basically throwing the down gauntlet.

There's also a talent component. I've done everything from spin, to weight classes, to powerlifting for many years when I was younger, and the Peloton trainers are very good. They are good motivators, and they have taught me quite a few warmup techniques I'm carrying to other areas as life gets back to normal. YMMV.
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The problem is that economy and technology shifts. Not so great when you are a cold fusion developer today as an example. So it is required to hedge against that isn't it. You need to ensure you have a future by saving for retirement. I've been saying "it will eventually collapse" for what seems like forever now. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent - to borrow a cliché.
Here are some of the social features Peloton are building:

https://blog.onepeloton.com/peloton-community-features/

Leaderboard: Compete with friends/others.

Tags: Like groups/circles, you can be invited/invite on the basis or compete with people in that tag.

High Fives: A "Like"

Following Friends: Essentially their fitness "stream" showing what they've done/are doing.

Video Chatting: Chat with friends while you workout together.

Plus you'll get alerted when a friend is in a class, encouraging you to join them.

https://blog.onepeloton.com/peloton-sessions/

Schedule workouts with friends, compare each other on the leaderboard.
There are some neat things you can do with the Watch specifically - there's NFC stuff you can do to automatically start a specific workout type when the user taps their watch on a piece of equipment, for instance.
I can't wait until competent leadership who actually understand business, who are actual entrepreneurs, get into positions of power - like Andrew Yang with his policies.

I keep saying this: I believe piracy is a valid counterweight mechanism to the capitalistic for-profit system that would milk society dry/fleece us year round until we die from the elements: charging us more than is reasonable so we'll so FU and pirate, or due to there being so much amazing content that you're competing for our time for entertainment because there's so much amazing entertainment to choose from?

Likewise I believe a UBI lever, where $xxx is allocated/earmarked monthly towards different types of creative/content work (to be defined/determined) will be how you fund the industry and artists (once they reach a level of competency commanding whatever level of pay); they can live off of their general UBI, developing their talents, their health/self-improvement/knowledge and skill development, or raise a family - in the meantime. And then we'll also have content produced that better mirrors the likes/needs/desires of society; Andrew Yang's Democracy Dollars voucher policy, every eligible getting $100/year to contribute to the political candidate of their choice falls is a similar/same mechanism but for different system - to break apart the duopoly - along with Ranked Choice Voting would compound powerfully; he wants to do this for journalism - "Journalism Dollars" - essentially to combat the duopoly (to create more than 2 core narratives that gets pumped out) but also the mainstream media/media industrial complex in general.

Re: "Dunno. As much as I hate copyright, and as much as I love free culture, it's hard for me to get too interested or worried about stuff like this nowadays, from a legal realism standpoint."

Jordan Peterson's Rule 1 of his latest book - "Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life" - goes into this necessary balance in very good detail - I'd recommend reading it; "DO NOT CARELESSLY DENIGRATE SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS OR CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT"
Most striking to me is that Google registered a custom TLD (.gle) just to use as a URL shortener. Impressive use of funds.
there is no cool data in the blockchain, cryptos are pointless tech for pointless people
I disagree with categorizing this as abuse. The company was offering a refund policy. The customers were using it.

My friend Kevin used to test out different GPUs when he was writing a game engine. He'd buy one, install it on his computer, run the engine, then return it a few days later. They often had a 10% restocking fee. Was he abusing policy?

It's the same sort of logic banks use to justify "identity theft." Ah yes, it's the fault of the customer, not the banks' poor verification methods.

That said, it's true that when large amounts of people do a thing, you'll have to adjust policy. But it's not their fault for taking advantage of policies they're legally allowed to use, and that the company freely offers.
Tron funkin' Blow (https://youtu.be/XARhrIRF85A)
On the other hand, if we were not doing Bitcoin, we could use that nuclear power for something else, like replacing coal plants...
Are there headsets other than HTC Vive and Oculus Rift that work with it?
I totally believe this. Here in the states Costco's refund policy is like magic. If you buy something that is horrible, you can return it hassle free. I buy almost exclusively from costco just because of this policy. Zero stress.

But something like this would not work in Bolivia (where I'm from), people would abuse the shit out of it. within a week the policy would be gone, no doubt.
Ray Dalio at no point in his life ever believed he should be keeping his wealth in "cash". It has been basic economic knowledge that cash is a terrible place to keep large idle piles of wealth, and that it has to be invested to not depreciate.

This is not new information, this is literally by design as a product of the Fed's 2% inflation target.

US treasuries have always been a last resort investment, because the return sucks but they're as close to risk free as anything ever gets - what's happened recently is demand for them has been so incredibly high (because better investments are so rare) that the US has at various points been able to issue them with negative interest rates - taking a loss has been less of a loss then just holding currency and no better options existed.

Crypto has a narrative being pushed to increase the value of crypto, but "the end if nigh" doomsayers definitely don't act like they think it's actually coming - otherwise they'd be diversified into Swedish gold depositories and basically planning to move country. Because come whatever "collapse" they think is going to happen...the power company is still going to want to be paid in USD.
Someone once described Amazon as essentially a charity since they didn't take profits for shareholders in the first 20 years of their existence even though they could have. Even now they still reinvest most profits into capex.
Still waiting for my 20 points.
WxWidgets[0] and Ultimate++[1] are the two. Poco[2] libs are available as well. And for Web frontend there is Wt[3]

[0] https://www.wxwidgets.org

[1] https://www.ultimatepp.org

[2] https://pocoproject.org

[3] https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt
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nothing to do with consumer protection, everything to do with culture. the majority of people simply don't abuse it.
I had a Macbook Pro bought in SF repaired in an Asian country (not India) through an authorized reseller because I had Apple Care. I didn't even have to pay for shipping. The only downside was I had to wait 2 weeks, but I was shocked at how simple and straight forward the process was. 10/10 would buy Apple Care again.
Can any British people comment on libel laws in the United Kingdom? Libel is much easier to prove in UK compared to US. Do politicians try to use it to silence critics or media? Is it ever successful? Or do they show restraint?

Further: If anyone else can comment about libel in their own country (that is not UK/Singapura), please kindly comment. We are curious to learn more!

To be clear: I am not making a judgement about libel laws. It is a complex matter for each society to decide.
I worked at a chain pizza place growing up that advertised its money back offer if you didn't like your pizza. When they advertised it I just assumed a lot of people would take advantage of it.

Our store was one of the busiest in the US for a single store. One guy ... just one guy abused it regularly. Beyond him almost nobody ever took advantage of the offer at all... Easy enough for the store manager to tell that guy to knock it off and there ya go.

What I assumed was a crazy / unwise policy, effectively cost them nothing, hardly was ever used, didn't require any new processes at all, and amounted to just a advertising slogan.

I was surprised and impressed.
That's amazing twice over, apparently they also widened the ship.

"She also got 30 ft of width added"
Previously Apple India allowed one to buy extended Apple Care+ within 1 year of buying the device but they changed the duration to 60 days last year. Now I have a Macbook Pro 16" without extended warranty because I had already crossed the 60 day mark when they changed their policy and so they won't let me extend the warranty. This is going to cost me a lot!
It's a little unintuitive, but seems like you need to search in the search box in the timelapse side card panel thing, rather than the main search box
Is apple fitness+ still doing its bs of only letting you see the workout on your phone? (or ipad or apple tv if you happen to have those). They actually got me into a peloton membership, after apple's marketing made me think it's a cool product, but since i dont want to try to see it on my tiny phone I almost immediately turned to alternatives.
I'm using my retired Samsung A5 Android phone's rear facing camera connected via USB to my PC using DroidCam (costs a few bucks). DroidCam also does wifi, but I find USB to be better.

The quality is pretty good from the A5, but if I need even better, I use my current phone's rear camera outputting to HDMI to an El Gato CamLink using Filmic (which outputs clean HDMI on Android or IOS, but isn't cheap as DroidCam). Filmic is definitely a step up from DroidCam, but fussier in terms of getting set up.
This is harmful racial stereotyping. Most of the hardest workers I know are Indian.
Not at all. It’s like finding out Waterfox didn’t support HTTP3 well on release. Chrome and Firefox are still fine.
Chia (by bittorrent inventor Bram Cohen) uses Proof of Space/Time and is specifically billed as a scalable, energy-efficient alternative with the same Nakamoto guarantees as Bitcoin. Their mainnet has been out for a month and the network is growing like 35% week over week.

https://chia.net/
I have enough space on my desk to be able to fit a second wireless keyboard when I need to type and talk at the same time during meetings. This keyboard is much quieter than my mechanical keyboard.

One thing I need to get around to doing is to configure somewhat to let me mute with a keyboard shortcut when Zoom/Teams/etc. is not the active window. Why there isn't a built-in universal shortcut is very confusing to me.
MacBooks have global warranty, iPhones don't. I think this is partly to avoid price arbitrage such as going to buy an iPhone in a cheaper country. I'm not sure why this is not a concern for laptops. Maybe those are more targeted towards businesses, which are not so price sensitive.
Ask HN: How to reconcile individualistic thinking with sociality?
I feel like there is a constant tug of war in my mind between the creative, intellectual, and individualistic thought I use when programming, and fitting into social norms by thinking in terms of everyday conversation.

I feel as though I've isolated myself in the past by thinking too technically or intellectually, but then again that's what's necessary to generate novel, non-obvious solutions. I never used to feel pressure to conform socially, but I've gotten so lonely that continuing to think and live in a highly individualistic manner seems unsustainable.

Can anyone relate or offer advice?
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so stop buying apple. that'll light a match in the right place.
I looked it up (well, kinda). It's from the Crawfurd collection. Some were looted by the British, but most were bought or acquired by normal means. https://www.academia.edu/43066387/The_Origins_of_the_John_Cr...

Also, turns out Crawfurd was a political "radical" of the time, calling for universal suffrage, secret ballots, and public education.
You're omitting numerous alternative compensation mechanisms. Ads and subscriptions aren't the only options. Nor are micropayments or patronage the only novel notions (neither ultimately are effective).
wow this is really awesome. Actually was look at creating a novelty device for myself. Steam controllers touchpads, logitech MX's scroll wheel. ps5 haptics. Buttons with a great tactile feeling.

If anyone knows community that like building things like this, I couldn't find anything. (mainly because i have no idea if it has a name)
This is correct. I got rid of the original one (I bought that day 1 of M1 launch so I thought it was some initial batch). But this one is only a day old (and more recently imported) and I have spent the last day doing all kinds of troubleshooting. I am in the process of getting a replacement (which they approve) but I don't expect that one to be problem free either (seems like a more serious problem like 2016 displays failing after a while). Nonetheless if they can accept a replacement they should have some policy towards a refund but there is none. I am waiting for their call tomorrow from some senior but I am not hopeful.
I have been working professionally with Linux since 22 years, and I have tried the same with a NAS - and found out that it has just so many annoying quirks and shortcoming that I am definitively far better off, and waste far less time if I am just using standard Debian on standard hardware. No need to work around the shortcomings of a prehistoric NFS implementation or things like that... no need to set up things from scratch because some hardware breaks or there are no updates for the system it runs.
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I think you'll find that European consumer rights laws leave the US in the dust. It's much easier to refund/return stuff over here because almost everything has a better warranty than the USA.
Adding to this, it's also not idiomatic to use an infinitive for a purpose clause in Latin. ire cacare ought to be i ut caces ('Go so you might shit').
Title should say "European Union not prohibiting deepfakes"