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Interesting Things #1 (Newsletter)
Yes that might be a good idea but I am very happy that so many people are interested in building one and that we can increase the awareness on air quality so I am happy to do the work ;)
> Is there a fundamental reason why the subway must be like that?

1) Dust from brakes, as noted by other comments.

2) Tunnels, and stations in underground spaces, therefor hard to ventilate.

> I assume it's not as bad in say Hong Kong?

No idea, but air quality in the London underground is very bad indeed. I mean you can sometimes see a visible brown haze looking down the length of the platform.

https://airqualitynews.com/2019/11/29/air-pollution-on-londo...
Yeah, this is an interesting enough problem to me that I recently started researching how to build an arduino version of what this person is offering - in my head, I basically reinvented the product they're offering, without all of the nasty bits of actually having any idea how it works. I would definitely pay a reasonable amount of money for a set of sensors that Just Worked that would collect data in my house.
AMP faced far less of an onslaught and never really caught on the way they hoped it would. Time will tell how this turns out for them.
Yes, true. Picking winners is a hard game though... so I have sympathy for that part.

The part that bothers me is crapping on other fields for things we would tolerate, even respect in our own. If a tech company was messing with 3d printing experimentally, released some esoteric and impractical new database alternative or somesuch... We might criticise, but this reaction to experimental architecture is extreme.

I think a lot of it is the artsy language used by architects. It triggers HNers. Meanwhile, we appreciate abstract takes by pg, Stallman, or whatnot.

Consider: "Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community" - Stallman. This is OK to us, even though it probably sounds like meaningless ideological rambling to the uninitiated.

Meanwhile: "The aesthetics of this house are the result of a technical and material effort, it was not an aesthetic approach only. It is an honest form, a sincere form.” is intolerable to many the HN community. The base assumption is that the emperor has no clothes and regicide is the only solution.
You can just power it with the USB cable from a power bank.
Meetings deserve an Inbox, not a Calendar
I guess the $10B question is whether if someone could set up a competing app store that was available on all Android phones and could present some form of assurance that it wasn't full of malware, would Google lose the entire market or do they have special access to Android OS to prevent this happening?
Once the archive is generated it isn't hard to download it I don't think... Click the link in the email and it starts downloading... They even have an option to split into multiple files for ease of download if you have slow or unreliable internet, and their download links do support "download managers" which can resume failed downloads.

Giving you 7 days to download it seems fine... Remember they are effectively giving you double storage capacity for those 7 days, and hundreds of gigabytes of network egress (which would cost $8 or so if I paid GCP network costs each time I takeout my account).
We can often determine if a program halts or not. The halting problem is discussing solving it in the general case.

For example, you can easily prove that your hello world program will halt. In fact, any program which does not have any flow control can be proven to halt. Even if the program has flow control, you can still prove that it halts by proving that iteration is bounded by some number that is strictly decreasing.

So yes, for each program given some specific input, the program either halts or it doesn't halt. And there is always a way in which you can determine if that is the case: You simply run it until either the program halts or it goes back to an earlier state. The halting program says that there is no general solution that allows you to look at a program to determine this property.
Apple fined $12M by Russian regulator over App Store monopoly abuse
Ionic Floating Tab Bar
Hasn't this always been the case? 1000 copies sold is seen as pretty ok for a first time author. It's kind of the same as with musical artists.
That is called the long tail, right?
Yes, sometimes some components are not available for all countries. Just search for the same sensor on aliexpress. There are many vendors for the same sensor. Some will ship to the US.
> First, Google employees are amongst the best paid in the entire world.

How is that relevant? Just because they get relatively big salaries, it doesn't mean what they get is just.

> one of the (many) reason Google is making so much money is because they can (because of the business they're in) and have automated a huge fraction of their day-to-day operations. So ... if the work is done by robots, what is this "deserve" thing you speak of?

There is a lot to unpack here, but I'll just say that this is not relevant, as revenue per employee figure clearly indicates that people are heavily underpaid.
I don't think that any decent figure would make Google stop using it. Floc is their try on locking more and more vendors in their ad ecosystem, it makes Google the superior ad provider because they now have an even bigger (and more unfair) advantage over other providers.
My hypothesis: if you are blocking floc, you are not really dependent on Google's ad system, neither as a website hosting ads, nor being found through ads. Unfortunately, Google owns too much of the ad market and too many vendors are already dependent on Google.
> Pages sites using a custom domain will not be impacted.

Not sure what % of Github Pages use custom domains but this appears to leave no mechanism for custom domains to optionally enable this header either.

I don't really understand the motivation here; if it was for the benefit of GH users, why wouldn't that apply to custom domain users? Is it purely to hamper Google (as Microsoft's competitor)?
The "patch" is to not use the physical extraction thingy on iPhones anymore: https://www.google.com/amp/s/9to5mac.com/2021/04/27/cellebri...
Please send me a message through the orange contact button on the webpage.
DRPC, a Replacement for gRPC
I think we're talking about different things. If a manufacturer wants to eavesdrop on my device then they need to push a patch to my device. They can only get information about what happens after they push this patch. They can do it at the start of the life of the device, but they'd have to do it then.

However, if important data is retained in logs, then the manufacturer could grab the data from the logs. They can get information from a time before they decided to look into you.

It's like a wiretap vs access to a diary. A wiretap only gives you information after the tap has been installed, whereas getting your hands on someone's diary would give you access to previous information too.
It's the same with actors, artists, painters, atheletes... you name it.
"I minted 4746440866 amulets" to find the ??? (10 eights) 763db5a46ea69a5d88888888880e33ba48eddc4a11d4597eaf2833aac4b5c667

This has been an interesting exercise in threading and optimisation.

My first version of this was Ruby, then moved to C, then optimised it, then added pthreads. It's now running on a 16-core server I had sitting idle.
Btw you can do this much shorter with the curl -I parameter which lists the return headers.
The original title is terrible, in which case it's sometimes changed to something more descriptive.
does -I not work? ;)
this page from the same site as the OP has links to more studies: https://dynomight.net/humidifiers/
“And thirdly, the code is more what you’d call guidelines than actual rules. Welcome to HN, Miss Turner!”
This just made me realize something: Once a pattern becomes a meme (or close), it becomes possible to notice a higher level meta pattern which itself becomes memetized ad infinitum(?).

I predict the parent observation will itself eventually become a meme to be "complained" about. Maybe this one too.
Shows how often I use curl.
> Why is the onus on the victim of discrimination to align with your bogus, outdated way of thinking?

Everyone seems to understand what standard American spoken English sound like. If not, we would not have a concept of accents at all.

Perhaps one day all accents will be treated equally, but it won’t be this century. You can rage against the machine, but it will only hurt yourself.

The world doesn’t change at the pace people seem to want it to.
I just dislike library software in general. I like files, I like keeping files neatly in folders and subfolders (and adding tags in filenames if necessary), so that I can easily use whatever software I like at the time on whatever platform to view or edit them, without ever being dependent on any. I organize all my movies, music, photos, documents, etc. this way, and I didn't want to hand over my ebooks to some software to keep it organized in its own way.

I don't even like it if a program scans my existing files to form a database without affecting them; but as long as it's not too in-my-face I guess I don't mind it so much; as I can get rid of the software and its database whenever I like, and I wouldn't notice anything was different. But Calibre decidedly takes the opposite approach, so, as the link says, I decided it's not for me. There are many parts of Calibre that I thought I might find useful, but it would be tiring to fight against a software that actively tries to work fundamentally differently than the way I like. (And I did try it, but using it felt almost as frustrating as using much of Apple software; it's an agony unless you use it exactly the way they want.) That's why I don't have Calibre installed on my computer even just for those useful parts; I just found other software to do things I like. Which is sad, because as an ebook user I really tried to like Calibre, and I really thought I would because I tend to love software that people criticize as "ugly/not modern" and "too cluttered/bloated". If only those things came with a package that didn't make it its "mission" to get me "to stop storing metadata in filenames and stop using the filesystem to find things".
Sorry for the pendantry: it sounds like you mean linear interpolation, rather than extrapolation. Extrapolation is where you project outside the range of previously collected data, and is particularly likely to result in false conclusions. Interpolation is where you estimate a value inside the range of collected data from points around it, and is usually a lot less dangerous. But I agree with your point that, in this case, it does seem pretty baseless.
Bitcoin is becoming the base layer of global finance faster than anyone could have imagined just a year ago.
is there a downside to just using an evaporative humidifier?
Also, in most parts of Europe, there is no "fruit of the poisonous tree". Meaning that law enforcement can use all the ill-gotten evidence they like, with extremely rare exceptions.
can vaccine be open sourced?
The internet is split roughly into 3. The top 100 websites get a third of the page views, the remaining top 10k get another third and millions of websites get the last third.

The top 100 have dedicated engineering and policy teams teams that will disable FLoC because they're either not interested in ads (Wikipedia) or have their own first party implementation that doesn't need FLoC (Facebook). They'll ditch FLoC.

The next 10k might have engineering teams that can make the change, but might be more interested in finding out about their audience so they can monetize more easily. They'll keep FLoC.

As for the remaining millions, only a tiny minority of them will even know this is a thing, let alone care enough to make the change or contact a developer who can do it. These are the folks who have hosted their wordpress site with GoDaddy because it was cheap and quick when they needed a site. They'll keep FLoC.

So the upshot is that github.com, instagram.com and amazon.com might opt out, but the vast majority of the web will not. Me prediction is that at least half of all web pages loaded by users won't have this header.
And of course we must consider the meta comments complaining about the meta comments. These all contribute to the je ne sais quoi of HN.
I had the impression that M1 would outperform others because it didn't had variable length instructions.

Why do you think they have good conequences?
The title says -$70 instead of ~$70. Did title autocorrector change it?
You're point is completely valid but companies rush their products to the market they dont necessarily do it for the experience they provide but to capture the market.

For example until this month Notion was extremely slow and everyone complained. They fixed it recently and no one's complaining but the important thing here is that no one left the product for being slow. May be there is a way to reduce bloat on the web and to ship desktop apps while keeping pace with modern app dev experience but surely there isn't any right now. Maybe webassembly will help? Lets see
So are they are very bad at picking winners? What about the Top 5% of publishers, what's their hit rate I wonder?
Yep. Lavabit. Centralized is never raid/DDoS-proof.

Okay boys, take all these servers because evidence is hiding on them and these lefty pinkos aren't helping us find it. Let's get them back to the lab to find out what that evidence is.
This was interesting.

One question: what is the DALY cost of my wife's aerosolized "essential oil" concoctions?
Do you have a working prototype? (There is no link in the post.)
The book industry (much like many content industries) has always been hit driven. The issue this article is bringing up is the way they diversified that a little and found new hits was via old fashioned on the ground bookstores.

We now have pretty empirical proof that the algorithm driven sales via online and big retail sales channels make the industry more hit driven and less diverse.

The question now is can brick and mortar stores comeback? After a 20 year decline the stores had stabilized in recent years but the pandemic wrecked them. Too soon to tell but I’m pessimistic for their future, which makes me worry about publishing long term.
They are going to have to figure out how to spend all that cryptocoins as well, which I think will be the more difficult part.
No, historically most of these books would simply not be published; the publisher would make a run only if they believe they can sell a larger quantity - and they had more means (more control over distribution and marketing) to ensure that they sell most of what they printed even if it turned out to be not so popular.
The power draw at the humidifier will be larger, but the net power cost is about the same assuming a constant indoor air temperature. I always use filtered water for the US humidifier, but I'm reconsidering it now.
Can't remember what article it was, but I remember that Facebook didn't even care about "top companies with top ads". The long tail trumped anything.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same in Google's case. A dozen big-name websites drop FLOC? Who cares, there's a billion more.
I thought everyone knew this already?

The problem is not really Linux distros, it is the open source/community concept and ecosystem that not only allows but promotes reinventing the wheel and subsequent incompatibility.

The only reason the kernel doesn't have the same problem --- a consensus has developed around making Linus "benevolent dictator for life".

In other words, Linus provides leadership and control on a global level in the kernel space that is missing from "distro" projects. There is only one kernel but there are many distros --- and this is a very real problem if you care about widespread marketplace impact.

I'll bet if you could talk privately and confidentially with Linus, he would tell you that he lives in fear of what will happen to the kernel once he is gone.

One of the main reasons why corporations like Microsoft exist is to alleviate the risk of any one individual becoming indispensable. Once Linus is gone, look for corporations to compete for developmental control over the kernel --- with Microsoft as the odds on favorite.
Wow, that seems really obfuscatory. It's implausible that they only have a vulnerability to iPhone devices, but I guess that's the line of argumentation they'd use to limit the fallout. Sucks to be cellebrite.
> According to this logic, anyone who works in the subway should be dying, what, 10 years earlier? Which is obviously not happening.

On the contrary, that sounds extremely credible.

If you divide life expectancy stats just by gender and race, you already see more than 10 years difference.
> Who is "we"?

TC184/SC4/{WG11,WG12} - a mix of people who have been developing STEP since the start and some new blood.

I'm one of the older ones, I wrote ISO 10303-45 and maintain an EXPRESS compiler used in the document production process.
Rupert Murdoch owns 21st Century Fox, which brought the magazine in 2015 for $725M.
I’d really like to run FullWrite again! So sick of Word
The defendant (Google) was asked to defend their actions, on multiple occasions, and could not.

That amounts to a default judgement against then in our eyes, is all.

It'd be pretty silly to withhold judgement until the defendant admits to wrongdoing, which would explain why few other people in this thread are doing that.
Well, it all comes down to companies being starkly hierarchical organizations where the leadership has absolute power. You know, the thing we usually detest when we talk about states and societies.

It doesn’t matter how much the company dresses itself up as having flat hierarchies, in the end it’s clear where the absolute power rests.

So, I don’t know what to even say. Maybe abolish capitalism?
I'm completely not a car mechanic, so the following is essentially a question phrased as a statement. But I'm a bit skeptical about this idea.

I assume you mean the engine break in a manual tranmission car (AKA stick shift in the US). But that relies on your clutch, which is still a friction based mechanism. Admittedly if you're breaking you're probably going to change gear either way, but the amount of friction depends on the difference in revs between the two parts coming into contact, which is presumably going to be larger if you're using it to engine break. So it seems to me that you're reducing wear on your brake pad but just switching that to increase wear on your clutch - with similar effects on air quality.
My dream is to see Werner Herzog do a film about this.
You're showing the stashing part, but disregarding what happens when you get back to the original work. You now have to either git reset or git ammend or git squash later and so on. Oh, and if you want to edit the commit PRIOR to the WIP one, you need to do several of these, simce only the latest commit can be eaisly edited.

And the alternative in something like P4?

cd ../other-branch
# do some work
cd ../first-branch

Vs the git solution:

git commit -a -m WIP
git checkout other_branch
# hopefully you didn't have any untracked files that you meant to add on both branches
#do some work
git checkout first_branch
git reset -s first_branch~1

Sure, it's not THAT hard, but it's still much harder than it needs to be, it's harder to learn, easier to mess up and takes far more time (git checkout is not an instantaneous operation, unlike cd). Not to mention, there are at least 4 ways to do this, with slightly different trade-offs, further increasing the mental load.

Edit: oh, and let's not forget that sometimes you want to actually compile and run and debug two different versionsof your product, and then the git model completely breaks down.
Correlation does not imply causation.

Being rich gives you an extra 14.6 years: more money usually correlates to better food, better environment, better healthcare, etc.
Owning a Tesla Model Y, indirect marker of wealth would be good for you otherwise.
I signed up with a username of 3 characters and then when I went to sign in I was told my username needed a minimum of 5 chars
Disney bought 21st Century Fox from Murdoch two years later.

His ownership was very brief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_21st_Century_Fo...

No need to cancel a subscription over old news.
Whine much? The system we have now may not be the best, but at least we aren't socialist
Long tail: if you want a nice intro of the topic, "fooled by randomness" is a fun read.
There’s a facetious saying in legal circles about the ease with which prosecutors can secure indictments in grand jury cases: You can get a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich.”

The legal aphorism has long been attributed to Sol Wachtler, former chief judge of New York’s Court of Appeals, based on a piece that appeared in the New York Daily News in January 1985. Mr. Wachtler told the paper that the state should scrap the grand jury system for bringing criminal indictments. The piece summarized his view, with brief quotes: “district attorneys now have so much influence on grand juries that ‘by and large’ they could get them to ‘indict a ham sandwich.’”

Mr. Wachtler became even more firmly linked to the saying two years later, when Tom Wolfe, a classmate of the judge at Washington and Lee University, credited him with the “ham sandwich” line in “The Bonfire of the Vanities.”

From https://www.wsj.com/articles/indict-a-ham-sandwich-remains-o....

I remember hearing it on Law and Order!
What age are your parents? I find it hard to believe that you can live past 80 years with a high quality of life, barring having 1 in 100 age-related genetics
Symbolic AI is a well known topic.

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

As the article notes

> Symbolic AI was the dominant paradigm of AI research from the mid-1950s until the late 1980s.

And, yes, Deep Blue was just "a bit of symbolic manipulation you can do in Lisp" at a very large hardware scale. It simply brute force calculated the value of as many position trees as it could up to ply 8, and the "value calculator" was a set of rules based on human expert inputs.

Creating Deep Blue's hardware in 1997 was the most impressive achievement.

Anyway, symbolic AI still potentially may be the path to AGI, but obviously ML/DL techniques utilizing very large datasets snd very large architectures bore a lot of useful fruit.
Show HN: Notea – Self-hosted note-taking app stored on S3
Apple/Google has too much power over these app stores. They need to be decentralized.
Is hn crowd trying to manipulate M$...
IMHO it's far more unbalanced than "The top 100 websites get a third of the traffic, the remaining top 10k get another third and millions of websites get the last third." Purely from data traffic, youtube and netflix already get a third of the traffic (and that's just 2, not 100); and purely from pageview perspective, the top social media sites plus major media sites (again, a subset of the top100) get more than half IIRC.

I wouldn't be surprised if the top 100 websites get 80% of the traffic, the remaining top 10k get 10% and all the millions of other sites get the last 10%.
> So, unless Apple simultaneously was trying to honor pro users while also laying plans to abandon them...

You say that like Apple doesn’t do stuff like that all the time.
Frivolous response.

Diesel vehicles are extremely hazardous causing great harm to millions but go under regulated because of money. ICEs should die.

Alcoholic drinks don't directly harm anyone else in their consumption and the QALY/micromorts involved are small.

Do you have any other rude, unscientific arguments?