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> Small electric 'cars' will emerge when regulations allow it

Right on the money. The most popular EV in China is a tiny car with 100 mile range that costs $4500.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/adv...
I happily pay for equipment by myself as long as I don’t need to sit in open space office all day and waste time commuting.
Personally, I'm the opposite. I have considered quitting as my company has been talking about remote work, but none of my team seem interested, so I'm sticking around for now. If a few people in my team went remote (or mostly remote), I'd probably quit.
When an emergency comes up, you are right by your desk and it’s hard to not sit down to address it right away, even if it’s 11 PM. When you have a deadline it’s so easy to log back in after dinner and burn your night away working. As the work life divide begins to erode, burn out is a real risk. I see my computer and if I’m stressed about work I get stressed at times I’d have normally left it behind and not thought about it. I feel guilty if I’m not working late on something I think I’m behind on.

Keep in mind I have kids, a social life, etc. I’ve built my time around work/life balance and keeping the two distinct. It’s healthy for me in ways that having the two conflated never was. May not be an issue for everyone.
I switched to dual booting Linux mint and Windows 10 on my home desktop. Work laptop has been linux only for years. I've only used windows a couple of times, because these days I'm mostly just using a browser.

By the time you've "reclaimed" Windows 10, there'll be an update that undoes your work, so it doesn't seem worth the effort.
> but for me "old internet" was when people ran their own email servers and their own domains.

For me 'old internet' was shitty ISP provided mailboxes that you lost once you moved away from your local dialup service.

GMail is still a substantial improvement over that.
Amazon and MGM: Time Is a Flat Circle
> lower wages, massive outsourcing and the obsolescence of cities

I don't really know why #3 is said like a bad thing, but I wonder about the other two. If this is clearly and advantage that is sure to happen, why hasn't it? There's still time zone issues and cultural bridges to gap, so I don't know how far one can really go before it becomes a lot of effort to be productive. And speaking as a Canadian who makes what appears to be a university grad-level wage in the states, I wouldn't mind it at all if that forced the more local wage to be a little higher to compete.
Thought y’all might find this interesting. This the 4th time someone with a new distribution tech has bought MGM to fill their channel.
> ... they'll be anywhere near abuse-proof, but at least I would expect to see an attempt.

All police-like institutions will likely have full access right from the beginning, because of child pornography, terror or other "serious crimes".

That will be softened and weakened by the time until someone finds out this system was misused for stalking some VIP or because police wanted to catch a guy who had 10 grams of weed.

It's all happened before, it will happen again.
Somewhat similar stories. We partnered with a customer to form a company that would serve their market and we formed a JV to sell it to other companies in their space. They were the investor. We brought strong domain expertise and technical skills.

We provided a budget and timeline. They gave us half the budget we requested (amounting to half the people) and still had us stick to the original timeline. We invested our money to hire others because we believed in the product and potential. They subsequently cut our budget by almost half again and we painfully managed to maintain our team.

When we were ready to start selling the product, they effectively used the hostile contract we had agreed to. By threatening to dissolve the company, they pulled the business away from us while trying to coax us into being employees instead of owners. We didn't come to an agreement and after a long and difficult process, the whole thing ended, we laid our team off, the software never saw the light of day, and our collective time and money was wasted.

Lessons:
- Listen to your gut.
- A hostile contract lays out how someone can screw you over. Ignore it at your own peril.
- Don't optimize prematurely.
It’s capitalism’s fault that public transit isn’t popular? What?

Car companies may have dismantled some streetcar systems years ago, yes. However, we continue to build car focused communities largely because people want to live in big lots in suburbia. Density that can support transit is just not popular in the US.
TikTok is an onboarding platform as well. It is being used as a place for people to advertise other wares and services they offer.

And that algorithm is very effective. It's like Google in the 2000's: nobody really knows how it works, and so they can't duplicate it.
Fake News: 6 False claims about Web Components
>UFOs are more inpressive (advanced flight tech, little green men) but fictional.

The only people who believe this haven't studied the data, or dug any deeper than surface level. If we disqualify all single-witness events and only select for highly credible individuals the evidence is still overwhelming.
You're going to have to ask moderate.py
A/B testing without a back end
Pretty cool project. Well done, will definitely use it.
I saw some historian last year say, "there will be a world before covid and a world after covid", and I thought that was hyperbolic. But now I see the truth in the matter - it will not be some obvious, monumental, instantaneous change, but rather the slow, creeping change where a few years from now, we'll look back and see that society is just different. In the US, we'll see some people wear masks all the time when out in public, and others will wear them when sick or during cold/flu season. Others will remain gravely offended by masks. Masks will be a thing.

Other changes I can't see yet, but they will become apparent later. Definitely work will somehow change. Maybe the "everyone back to the office" crowd will realize that is less competitive. Or the opposite, and there will be a snap back to office work. (My money is on the former). The white collar world has been through Zoom School this past year, and, as a remote worker, that benefits me tremendously, as people now understand how it works and the etiquette around it. Plus Zoom is waaay better now than it was - latency is much less, quality is way up.

In the US, maybe some of the outdoor dining, the closing off of streets, will remain. Many marginal restaurants closed, some of which I'll miss greatly, but that gives a chance for new ones to open.

mRNA vaccines are amazing, and I'm betting they'll impact our lives in profound ways from here on out.

Lastly, I have this sense that there are a number of changes happening and that have happened that I can't quite make out, but will become obvious in retrospect and I'm curious what they are.
"Loud pipes save lives" was a popular slogan on bumper stickers on obnoxiously loud cars for a good while. It completely ignores the fact that loud pipes wake people up, which shortens lives, or that it increases stress in people and animals alike.
I don't think anyone has the time to audit every line to ensure there's nothing malicious in there.

On a side note, this also made me realize my desktop barely has any non-mainstream "low-trust" applications anymore. Back in the early 2000s, I remember my computer is filled with random win32 apps. The most fringe app I have now is "Bulk Rename Utility".
> Constant talk and interruption are not conducive to the work of a software engineer.

During the times you are coding, yes. But a software engineer is more than a coder, so there are times when collaboration is very useful.
I am curious what you are using instead? A fork that hardcodes that choice?
"Laws don't apply to us."

- Mark Facebook
Congratulations on having friends!
> Why does the UI change with every single Firefox release?

It doesn't. Maybe small parts of it get tweaks here and there. But your argument about having to re-adjust every update is just dishonest.
It does depend on the type of commute. If you walk or ride a bicycle to work that is at least somewhat personal time, and I personally enjoy the structure. If you use a train or bus or something similar and don’t have too much rigmarole around transferring etc, that also can be personal or work time or a combination. The only real lost time is driving, and even then some people enjoy podcasts etc.
In light of this it's fairly suprising that there aren't more laws forcing data to remain inside of the country or guaranteeing continuity of service.

It would make for a pretty big hammer, but countries could theoretically force local corporations to perform arbitrary actions on data hosted in country e.g. Shut FB down for a country, block access to hosted photos, cease providing cloud monitoring/actions for a refinery.

While historically the majority of global tech firms were headquartered in the US and the US had friendly treaty deals with most of the world. Neither of those statements seem like a sure bet in the 2030s.
I parsed that quote differently.. the way I think they meant the phrase is– The factor of time itself is huge (no matter how you end up using it)
The web moves from cookies to browser-tracking
From the thread, this appears to only apply to EU egress IP addressess, and you can pass in the session cookie of an account which has completed age verification.
I don't see a mention of yt-dlp in the yt-dl issue tracker, so why is this? Does dlp autocorrect videos to the youtube-nocookie.com embed (as stated https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27354423) ?
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It seems they've plugged the workaround. I tried it again and it no longer works.
Yeah, not only did the old tab design have an indicator what tab was playing audio, it actually was more helpful since the audio indicator did not take over the favicon. I could clearly see that it was YouTube's favicon next to the speaker icon - now I only see the speaker icon.
> I don't want to work with sociopaths who can't be kind to a voice on the phone.

Sociopaths are an outliers and rare.
But most people empathize less with people they have not met in person (prof: the internet, even before social media).

Add deadlines and stress to that, and you have otherwise normal people behaving worse than they would otherwise. Source: me, working with remote teams for past 20 years.

Like the person above said, you (or someone) have to
be actively on the lookout for such issues, or things can get get bad really fast (I am talking days and weeks not months).
…definite MAX/MSP or PureData vibe!
Indeed,

And VM == bye bye JTAG debugging, which makes it DOA for most developers past the Arduino level.
Really happy to hear that this exists, because when I told the sleep doctor that I'd rather learn to sleep on my side he LAUGHED at me and said it wasn't possible. Jerk.
> The ink hardened as it dried, but its final physical properties depended on how much iron and phosphate were added to the mix. The more that was added, the more nanoparticles formed, and the stiffer and harder the final material became. By tweaking the recipe in this way, the researchers could create objects that were as flexible and rubbery as a squid or as stiff and hard as bone.

> “It should be possible to mix the ink at a ratio that you can change immediately prior to printing,” Dr. Joester said. “And that would allow you to to change the composition, the amount of nanoparticles, and therefore the strength of the material on the fly. Meaning that you can print materials where the strength changes very dramatically over relatively short distances.”

> The technique might be useful in the burgeoning field of soft robotics, allowing engineers to create machines that are hard and stiff in some places and soft and pliable in others, Dr. Joester said: “I think it would be amazing if you could print all of these gradients into the structure.”
>they can’t afford to house people for free or shoulder the country’s massive rental arrears, which could be as high as $70 billion.

I think the eviction moratorium wasn't thought out very well. You can't just stop evictions while not compensating landlords, and not developing clear plans for what happens when the moratorium ends. No one is going to catch up on their rent of their behind. What I suspect will largely happen is many landlords will forgo a formal eviction as long as the tenants decide to leave voluntarily. Then those tenants will effectively swap houses with someone else who's behind, wiping the rental debt clean. You only understand this if you've gone through an eviction, but the vast majority of the time the landlord just want you to leave. If you vacate before you actually get to court you can often avoid having the eviction on your record.
I found the UI changes on windows, while being fairly minor, being much nicer than what was before. It's added a lot of polish without affecting my workflow in any ways.
> Aliens could be actively trying not to be detected.

You're not the first to suggest that, but it just doesn't pass a smell test. I mean, why and how? And with such consistently liminal results? Always on that edge.

It's an exceedingly "extraordinary claim".

They _could_ but it's pretty ridiculous.
idk. I kind of trust that the firefox team has competent designers that know what they are doing. Perhaps they found some issues in usability studies, tested a redesigned that fixed those, and sent the patch in the current release.
A few days ago, I clicked an age restricted video on Youtube and usually I just state that I am above 18 but now they ask for a credit card number or an identity card to prove it.

I am not going to send this just to watch some random video clip that users have declared not appropriate to a young audience because it features a zombie. Seriously!
Yes, exactly. It was done that way to isolate common attributes of encounters which did not have circulated in the media or the general UFO lore yet.

J. Allen Hynek, the lead of project Blue Book, encountered the contamination issue very early in his works, and a huge amount of his research is to this day unpublished to prevent that from happening. As you might notice, this is the complete opposite of how scientific inquiry works. As Vallée concluded, this is an intelligence problem before a scientific one.

From that standing, we can understand an UFO encounter as a cybernetic system, not just a physical event. Which leads to consider the UFO phenomenon as informational phenomenon with informational effects on cultures, thoughts and ideas. A lot of Vallée's work is exploring this, which is really fascinating.
Update to GCC copyright assignment policy
Well yeah, it is. The point I wanted to make is that these isomorphism are "exceptional"[1] and only hold for the lower dimensional groups. The general Spin group and quaterions are very different objects.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceptional_isomorphism
Exactly my experience too

pre-Covid, people would say "hey do you mind if I double-dip this food into the sauce?" going out of their way not to inadvertently share spit

now seemingly everyone is like "lol... spit!? really? you think anybody is worried about that?"
Hover to hypersonic was a visual trick of the system losing lock.

Also the people who said it was hovering:

1. Were at what like 20,000 feet? Until one of them flew down toward it and it disappeared… almost like his sonic boom caused it to disintegrate and melt into thin air, hmm. I mean what does that… could it be… ice?

2. Had zero experience seeing anything like this. Zero.

3. Also said it was moving with no discernible trajectory.

4. Said it looked like when you dropped your cell phone in the kitchen and it bounces around while falling. (Sounds more and more to me like this white, cold object was a falling slab of ice from an icy object that fell from space. Tumbling and flitting as it fell.)

5. Did not have the presence of mind… I mean, come on… to turn on their helmet cameras. Sure there may have been adrenaline in the picture but you don’t get to say the high level of training gives them credibility while also seeing that their training did not adequately kick in here.

6. (one of them) described himself as “the class clown.”

7. (the class clown) was best buddies (quote: he was at my wedding) with one of the people who work on the FLIR software which means that their buddy could be in a position to have some fun.

8. Stated that it seemed from the spot of whitecaps below them that there might be some object just under the water… almost as though some other ice slabs had, just prior, landed in the water after descending from outer space on a ballistic trajectory that was seen on radar.

And a slab of falling ice is 1) not hot and 2) does not fall in a straight line.

So I like the falling slab of ice theory.

The conclusion that it was hypersonic came from pilots with no experience with this sort of thing and from a video of a system losing lock on an object that it was tracking. When that happens, the object can rapidly flit off screen making it appear, to the prepared mind (meaning a mind that wants to see UFOs) that is is suddenly going fast.

>the navy is perfectly capable

Bless their hearts, but these are people who apparently are:

- incapable of releasing the raw radar data as actual data

- incapable of using cell phone cameras while on board a ship, even at the highest levels where rules against cell phones could be overridden, and

- incapable of mounting so much as a single working dashcam on their ship in the year 2020.
Is there much advancement in that space? I would love to get a panel van in the nearer future but I won't buy a combustion car nor do I have 50.000 € to to spend on a new eletric one.

It would be great to be able to get an older MB Sprinter with a motor defect and to retrofit it with some standardized solution. The last time I looked up on that, the only option was to get a very custom solution which wouldn't be feasible due to the high cost for planning and certification.
> The fact that they can enforce their vision of the neighborhood is exactly why people like them.

I wonder if the love/hate opinion on HOAs boils down to that, i.e. some like forcing others to their way of thinking, and others are very opposed to such things.
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You believe an appreciable number of people will stop using Youtube over this?
For sure. One of humanity's greatest changes in recent decades is the rise of cheap video recording. Security cameras are everywhere. 3 billion people have smartphones. I could go to YouTube and spend all day watch rare, improbable events that have been caught on camera.

But during that time a number of liminal phenomena have stayed liminal. Bigfoot. Ghosts. UFOs. Angel and demons. Clairvoyance. Haunted houses. Telepathy. Dowsing. Many more, I'm sure.

There are two ways to explain that. One is that all of those things have gotten way better at avoiding evidenced encounters. The other is that they are like the scary animals/monsters kids imagine lurk just outside the firelight when you take them camping: things humans imagine to fill the gaps when sensory data is ambiguous.
There are times when collaboration is useful.

But nothing distinguishes a junior and a senior more than the ability to work independently.
Eventually it is different tastes in expressions, different hobbies as customs and different political actions.
Laundry? I regularly take a 20-minute bath in the middle of my workday. With salt, bubbles, scent candles and a book.

Why would I ever go back to the office?
The 47 GW peak which would provide more than enough power for 30 million cars was this year. I gave the all-time peak as an example of how high it has been in the past - as a means of demonstrating that not only is charging cars within the scope of our current grid, but our current grid isn't even as heavily utilised as it was in the past - so it's unlikely to be burdensome to expand it back to those levels.

I don't know to what extent the infrastructure itself has changed - but given National Grid themselves don't think it'll be a big issue, the grid itself is probably still capable of that 62GW (even if generating capacity is less).

I haven't mentioned CO2 in my comments because that was not part of the original discussion. "Its not even clear how we are supposed to produce the necessary amounts of electricity" is patently false in the case of the UK. Maybe overall CO2 production would be less, maybe more - that's a different (though important) discussion. At least with electric vehicles there's a clear technological roadmap to 0 emissions - there's no credible roadmap for 0 emissions with internal combustion engines.

Vans aren't likely to be vastly different from cars - eg the Ducato Electric claims 235 km on a 47 kWh battery - vs a Model 3's claimed 265 km on a 50 kWh battery. HGVs are much heavier vehicles though - the path for electrification for those is likely to be slower.
Intel's been showing off a lot of 3D stacking tech & mixed dies on packages recently, too. This isn't really a kockdown punch. It'll depend on who can ship what and when, not just who can show off demos. They both have shown off demos.

See Intel's Foveros https://www.anandtech.com/tag/foveros or Ponte Vecchio that they've been talking about for 2 years now ( https://www.anandtech.com/show/16453/intel-teases-ponte-vecc... )
My read of that was "preserve a useful reserve of resources (most especially RAM) without my having to consciously manage it, but guard and respect my state at all costs."

Virtually all current compute contexts violate at least one if not both these principles. Memory management is left to the user (effecting such powerful and expressive mechanisms as the Spinning Beach Ball of Doom), whilst at any moment the operating system and/or hardware may elect to preempt any user-designated tasks or workflows with its own (system updates, virus scans, etc., etc.)

Android, I've recently learned, at least makes a stab at the first. It apparently utilises AI to allocate system resources. In my experience, it does so by shitting out any user state without recourse.

This is not an especially encouraging direction of progress.
Politico just had a decent piece on some of the smaller societal changes…

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/31/covid-rules-liquor-...

…though arguably expanded telemedicine isn’t “small”.
“3 hours is the norm” can both be true for people in a certain area while false for the country as a whole.
> Your exaggeration and dismissal is perfect evidence of your inability to empathize with the struggles of people you haven't met in real life.

Calm down, you're overreacting. A single sentence is hardly "perfect evidence of inability to empathize" with others. Talk about "exaggeration"...

I somewhat agree with lupire: If someone only has empathy with their coworkers – who they're interacting with daily – if they can physically see them, then that's saying something.
Eventually apps will be nothing but padding!
1. Why? I can live 2 hours from my office and still have a total weekly commute that is less than my pre-pandemic commute. If I can somehow fix an overnight in the city it's even less.

2. This is true, although you get 'reimbursed' for that by not commuting. And since you don't commute you can live somewhere cheaper, or get a bigger house for the same price.

3. My company paid for all that, so no issue here.
Since you've already mentioned it - I hear that Firefox has non-native context menus all the time, but for the life of me couldn't tell any difference between "native" and "non-native" context menus. Anybody has any proof/example of this?
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Not sure if it’s the cause but Chia is a new-ish cryptocurrency which uses Proof-of-Space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_(cryptocurrency)?wprov=sf...

Might be related