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That’s the risk you take on with promoting right to repair.

It’s be better if we had stronger consumer legislation globally that forces manufacturer responsibility rather than demand we can do the job ourselves.

Imagine if you bought a laptop and the battery died after 2 years and the state mandated option was for the manufacturer to buy it back at 60% of the original value because it didn’t last the prescribed 6 year life span. Removable batteries would appear overnight in everything.

Imagine that at the end of the useful life the manufacturer had to buy it back for 20% of the value to recycle it. Global trash heaps would disappear overnight.
I worked for Ubisoft, curious why you think we’re worse than EA.
I read that Microsoft never did any lobbying before the anti-trust suit. Once you're big enough to be a target, you have to spend money on lobbying, and contribute to campaigns.
NASA doesn’t need to test SLS anymore, but the Senate mandates it anyway
tl;dr: sort first

Better: recursive bucket accumulators using the exponent
If we actually wanted to improve education in our schools, we would just finish desegregating them.
> A low inheritance tax can't possibly be worse for building intergenerational wealth than a high one.

It absolutely can for the people who wouldn't, in either scenario, pay inheritance tax in the first place, since for them a low inheritance tax means only less wealth distributed out from those who already have enormous generational wealth from which they might build intergenerational wealth, but not any advantage in passing the wealth they do acquire.
The Rise of Elevated Stupidity
This blog post is the perfect example for "I think I have a deep understanding but I really don't."
So if I buy a keysight scope that thing will die quickly?
I'm not talking about Wholefoods, that's overpriced here as well. I'm talking about a slightly grubby supermarket in an unfashionable part of Brooklyn about 5 years ago. Maybe food prices vary a lot across the US, they don't really in the UK as the big 4 supermarkets all advertise their offers nationally. Smaller supermarkets can be more expensive, but an extra 20% not 300%.
Why shouldn't a chair be provided by the employer? Chairs are ergonomically important and leaving it up to employees could lead to work injuries if they choose cheap chairs.
Good reporting! Congress is made of people, the process of lawmaking is just group text editing, and they answer their phones. If you think any of these ideas are good ones and would make good law; call your Congresspipples and tell them so.

Otherwise the only people they hear from are the sleazy lobbyists speaking paid words, and the silly beltway denizens who wouldn't know the real world if it shat on their desk.
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Yes. Similarly, if you design something with total disregard to optimization, it will likely need optimization.

YAGNI is a prediction, not a rule. Just like premature optimization, alternatives to floating point - or using longer floating point types - have real costs, which must be balanced against the needed precision.
Can you really rescind an offer after it has been signed? Wouldn't they have to have terminated the contract instead? (Not that it makes a difference in practice unless there's a mandatory termination period)
Yes, and that’s a good thing. But we have not historically extended that courtesy to everyone.
This is the idealized spherical cow theory of medicine. Doctors have more knowledge but it’s not any more reasonable to expect them to follow the scientific literature for hundreds of different topics than it is to expect the average HN reader to follow the standards and development process for every technology they use. This is especially true given the amount of money at stake: a company has enormous windfalls if they can convince doctors to prescribe it and there’s plenty of evidence showing that they’ll try everything to do that. The amount of money going into sales to doctors & advertising is similar to their R&D spend and there’s no reason to expect the steady stream of ethical complaints would go down with less regulatory oversight.
Serious? Can you link and/or summarize?
The database has a hot standby and two warm standby instances, redundant hardware, network infrastructure, all of that.
As I’ve speculated elsewhere on this discussion, it’s write-only journals that exist to appease accreditation audits.
How does the infrastructure not exist given geothermal currently provides a quarter of their electricity?
I'm tired of my closet of broken devices, too. But I'm also tired of my closet of perfectly working devices, which the manufacturer just up and decided to no longer ship software updates for. Hardware that's totally functional as the first day I bought it, except 1. with software that no longer does what it's supposed to because backends have been turned off, and 2. the device will be 0wned instantly if I ever connect to the Internet.

We need mandatory bootloader unlocking for products that the manufacture finds unprofitable to ship software updates for.
What is the second group of experts you're talking about?
I don't believe that using a <div> as a button is good practice for building accessible websites.
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Economics is not in the humanities, political science is not in the humanities, and law is not typically considered in the humanities.

It kinda sounds like you don't know what the humanities are.
It’s not a very strong argument. Whether the fall of Mt. Gox or China’s latest pronouncement was “good” for Bitcoin is fundamentally unknowable. Perhaps Bitcoin price and adoption would be even higher now if not for these events, we just don’t know. But we can’t just claim they were all good for Bitcoin just because none of them killed Bitcoin.
I have a problem like this in my 2018 Dodge! The bluetooth takes a wildly variable amount of time to connect when starting the car, and the bluetooth doesn't have an input gain option, like aux input does.

This means I need to turn the volume up a ways to hear anything over bluetooth. This also means that between starting the car and bluetooth connecting I'm getting blasted by some random radio station at increased volume.
> What makes Amazon different in this regard?

Safeway/Kroger/Costco do not have direct third-party merchants, do they? They are just resellers. This is fundamentally different from what Amazon is doing.
Wow this is so real. Thank you to share your anecdata! Internet jerks asks: "Who don't you just move to Santa Monica!!??" Zero trolling: Do you have a romantic partner who is tied to Pasadena area or is there a better(!) reason why you suffer this awful commute? I could understand well if you are caring for an elderly or sick person in Pasadena, but worked long term for a firm in Santa Monica. (Real life is tough.)
That's understandable. The value of stability seems to be doctrinal in orthodox economics (it is the orthodoxy, after all)

Like any other metric, stability comes at a cost (and it also comes with baked-in assumptions). I wish there were more rigorous discussion of what the social cost of stability is (is it worth it to have stability if that means siphoning money from the poor?), who benefits from 'stability', what values our metrics for stability encode, and to what extent the Federal Reserve system is a victim of Goodheart's law in all of the goals it seeks, to include 'stability'.
Escitalopram has worked well for me. I don't really experience any side effects, but it did take a few months to adjust and feel totally normal. Some sleepiness and a feeling like I could not concentrate fully during that break in period, but both of those subsided.
You cut out the part in About where they hint at it being important here even. "But we go a step further, merging incredible on-the-ground support with app-based services for a seamless experience for all our guests"

It sounds like across multiple timezones, with a tech stack that backs the business in a specific way, that downtime could be a problem and that it would reduce their offering, "seamless" and reliability for moving.

If twitter goes down and you can't tweet, only really Twitter loses money and you can try again later. But if you're moving into an apartment you don't want to be standing outside trying to get the keys but the system is down. Edit: And you also don't want the service to tell you that you can't move in from 11am-1pm because of 'maintenance'
> Ivermectin

Off-topic: Touting worm medicine (I've only heard of it used for heartworm in dogs, but apparently it's also for human worms) as a Covid cure has to be the work of some troll that got out of hand. I might be out of the loop but it seems like this came out of nowhere.
The chair and desk seem like the employer should handle that for environmental health and safety.
The other day I heard someone use the word "żuk" referring to a bug, and I think it fits amazingly well.
> the "incentive" would be "not getting kicked out of trading blocks and having punitive tariffs"

I mean, you do realize that you're championing the American Imperialism you left wing nutjobs otherwise oppose so vehemently? It's just a different flavor now.
Is it common to have an actual contract? Every gig I've ever had is at will.
That song is older than money itself.

The moment one of those millionaires/big corp/lobbyist "accepts" a tax like that, we can be 100% sure they discovered a loophole or carved/paid a way to be exempt.
I am very glad that the US passed big spending bills for COVID, if that's what you are concerned about. Fiat currency has the feature of being able to borrow against the future.
> “About half of prime age men who are not in the labor force may have a serious health condition that is a barrier to working,”

Not sure why what Alan Krueger thinks may or may not be the case it is relevant to this discussion. I may be sure I may be able to find many economist that may think many different things may be the case. But unfortunately for Alan Krueger here, opinions about what the data may or may not be is not the same as the actual data about what is, regardless of who's opinion it is. I would have hoped someone taught them that in highschool or university but I guess they must have not had time in their busy schedule of critical race theory.

> pain, high medication costs

Check and check, every moment I sit at a chair is just slightly less pain than every moment of standing, still manage to put in a day's work somehow.

> potentially crippling drug abuse problem?

Had it, kicked it.
If you are in AWS, or have connectivity available, AWS Database Migration Service makes this relatively trivial.

DMS for Postgres is based on Postgres Logical Replication, which is built-in to Postgres, and the same thing Bucardo is using behind the scenes. But AWS DMS is very nearly point-and-click to do this sort of migration.
The link seems to be dead, this was the most recent copy I could find: https://web.archive.org/web/20210529012746/https://github.co...
It absolutely is, BGP with geographically diverse paths, databases, app servers, etc, are all redundant. It's hosted in-house, so there is a cold standby database in AWS which would only be used if, say, an aircraft crashed into our server rooms.
This is a very pessimistic and distorted take on things.

1. From what I have seen most people want a job that pays for their lifestyle and isn't soul destroying. Sure people fantasize about becoming a successful entrepreneur, but certainly not most and not enough to give up on work in general.

3. This is frankly ridiculous and such a blatantly false view of what women want that it borders on incel philosophy. It appears entirely based on the extremely exaggerated and polarized views seen on social media rather than the far more moderate and balanced views the average person you come across will have. Most women do not demand millionaires. This is readily apparent if you talk to real women instead of only watching TikTok and Instagram models.
I used to do this (now I use less guessable keys) and recall having many similar conversations. Occasionally I would run into someone who refused to believe the address was "real" but then when I gave them some other arbitrary string at the same domain they suddenly accepted it. I've also encountered websites which refused to let me sign up with their company's name anywhere in the email string and one particularly hilarious example where the site accidentally gave me access to things I wasn't supposed to have access to just because I'd used site.com@mydomain.com to sign up.
>> Lets remember that the law obligates the government to instruct all citizens on the use of the technology and to provide the means if necessary. This means that the government now has to provide connectivity to all citizens and teach them. Nayib has shown that he’s up to the task. For example, El Salvador is providing every child in the public school system with a laptop and free internet connectivity.

That could have been done with just like a public bank instead of bitcoin though.
> "Customers of the data track have stateless applications, because they have outsourced all their state management to the various products and services of the data track."

I have no idea what this is even supposed to mean. It's like somebody combined some buzzwords thought up by a fresh business school marketing graduate working in the 'cloud' industry with an attempt at actual x86-64 hardware systems engineering.

The whole premise of the first half of the article seems to be 'you don't need to design a lot of redundancy and fault tolerance', the second part then goes into a weird explanation of NVME targets on CentOS. I hope this person isn't actually responsible for building storage systems at the bare metal level supporting some production business application.
I understand a trajectory for animal motion, but how can there be trajectory for websites? The state vector is virtual. The space is not meaningfully physical (0). One can move from any IP address to any IP address in microseconds or less. The distance between these movements is virtually identical. How can one confidently predict anything in that space using an animal model?

(0) put to the absolute extreme, there are limits on how fast a computer can move the numbers from one memory cell to another, but that's a different universe from self-powered locomotion such as a rabbit, monkey or human moving in meatspace.
> There is the valid argument, of sealing it in, for water protection.

There is an argument, perhaps, I don't know about a "valid" one.

The difference between "the battery can be swapped with a screw driver" and "the battery can be swapped by a repair shop in 15 minutes" isn't really that large, so if it can make devices more compact, sure, why not?

Batteries that outright can't be replaced are something else entirely. Maybe some consumers are willing to make the trade, but it's environmentally irresponsible. The Airpods in particular really piss me off given all of Apple's environmental messaging.
> I believe the military academies are all on similar honor systems, and I remember a few times of mass-cheating scandals, which have pretty heavy penalties, including expulsion in those environments.

According to some faculty, the U.S. military academies (or some of them) have rampant cheating (and other corruption) and little penalty. Look up The Cost of Loyalty by Tim Bakken, for example.

The best way to corrupt an institution is to idealize it.
Yes but there are tradeoffs everywhere. I'd look at the big picture instead. Are we better off than, say, 100 years ago?
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We shouldn't tie approval to effectiveness, it should only be about harm. Effectiveness claims can be verified through other approaches.
Architecture diagrams as code (pip install diagrams)
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Glacier is about $1USD/TB/month just for storing data. If you need to retrieve it ends up being about $90USD/TB, most of that is bandwidth charges.
Submitted an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/chrxh/alien/issues/21.
Yes, that's my point. Read the parent comment again.
It'd only technically be a strawman if I were arguing that working from home was bad. It's probably a non sequitur, if anything, but the specific person I'm replying to had made comments elsewhere in the thread that create additional context.

Honestly, I think my mistake was replying to you at all, since you don't have all of the context.
This argument pops out in many societal issues, not only cheating on exams.

Most people don't cheat and act in good faith but we make them suffer anyway because we will be damned if even one person cheats their way through the system, not on my watch! Make sure it's bad for everyone just because if someone exploits the system it will be bad for everyone.

In the end there is a healthy balance and those who cheat the system will either fail later from the lack of skill/knowledge or, if they don't, it means it was sort of unnecessary anyway
Correct, though that's a very long-term experiment with a low sample size. I was going to suggest the bar scene.
Somehow there are an endless number of men who are above average? Isn't that a self defeating point and mathematically impossible?

You realize many women feel this exact same way about being ignored because men just want models out of their league?
I think the bigger risk with this model is single companies acting as SSO proxies (to simplify the management of all this) and shifting risk from Google/Facebook holding credentials to $insertEntityHere.
You can't write a byte, or a word, either.

The "fact" that you can do it in your program without disturbing bytes around it is a convenient fiction that the hardware fabricates for you.
I'm the first author of this, happy to answer any questions. It's great to see this on HN.

PS. I'll be graduating this July with my masters.
I wonder how much easier software engineering would be if there were a period where things are simply not available.

What problems are currently very difficult would be made trivial if 6 hours of downtime every Sunday were acceptable? 10PM-4AM EST
Your link shows 51% - are we to believe the average Dutch person spends 30% of their income on road & fuel taxes?

Now, you can say you get fewer benefits and that’s valid but it’s a far cry from 80% or using the word slavery to describe one of the highest quality of life countries in the world.
Don't you need reference materials and so forth?
The thing is, let's say you spend 100M$ on mining equipment today, that equipment is worth a lot less in a year from now and is worth practically nothing in 5+ years, so you can't just sit on it, you have to keep spending. Likewise with electricity, it's not free, you have to source it and spend money on it.

So whatever Bitcoin reward you get barely covers your running cost + small profit margin. Imagine like you're running from a monster, you can't stop or you'll become irrelevant.

Whereas with ETH, I can buy 100M$ worth of it, I'll get say 5% back which means I'm making 5M$ every year, thing is I don't have any pressure to sell it whereas the poorer stakers will have to sell to cover their cost of living or other reasons, so over time the % of my stake in eth grows. Things get even worse when you include custodians into the mix, exchanges will have much larger wallets and get much larger rewards which they may not share with the actual holders or keep a small % for themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities#Law_and_politics

Just to be clear, you're both kind of right, but I take objection to your overly aggressive stance on this where you rebut and accuse without providing any sort of evidence.
A sticky race-culture relationship forms when society uses the phrase [Some Race] Culture to describe a given culture, such as Black Culture.

It's unfortunate when this happens, because it creates a gravitational pull toward racial prejudice: seeing a skin color and making immediate cultural assumptions. Or seeing one's own skin color, and feeling as though one ought to be acting a certain way, as Obama talked about experiencing as a young man.

I believe it's a happier thing when we choose the construct [Non-Race Culture], such as Silicon Valley Culture. Then anybody can join in, and we're not meanwhile eyeing one another's skin color.
Euh... HODL ? :)

I mean, it's literally the #1 meme for cryptocurrency.
pgbouncer has PAUSE comnand, which can be used for seamless restarts/failovers or similar
To me it's pretty obvious that the social "sciences" are science in name only. Operationally they are more akin to astrology or numerology than physics. They serve a social function of allowing people to believe that we know more about the world, that we have have more predictive power, than we do. They let our governments pretend that they are more powerful and effective than they really are. It's frightening to think that e.g. the Fed (Federal Reserve) doesn't know what they are doing ( https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/greenspan-admits-flaw-to-c... ) so we all pretend that that they do despite clear evidence that they do not. (Taleb's "Black Swan" effect: we immediately forget that we were so sure black swans don't exist, and carry on as if we had known all along.)

I have no idea what, if anything, to do about this.
The attack scenario is, that the mobile just listens to you via the microphone and saves it - and later when normaly turned on, sends away all the data.
All of this on a very low hardware layer, so no need for complex cpu operations or engage with the OS(in case of turned "off"). So very low power demand.

And it would also not show up, in anyone doing radiotraffic/wlan analysis.

So it would be indeed very hard to spot.
(don't have the sources, but I think on some defcon was a talk with proof of concept about this)

So if anyone thinks, he is a specific target of some powerful intelligence agency, (like someone strongly engaged with the opposition in Hong Kong) - I think they definitely should consider this scenario as a possible one (but I don't know how likely it actually is, probably not high, if your are not considered a leader).

But that this change for non-removable batteries in general was made, so that even the paranoid part of the population can be tracked non-stop by the global Illuminati ... is indeed very much tinfoil area.

But the part about your phone maybe spying on you, when you think it is off:

Well, Snowden actually said, they can do it.

https://www.androidauthority.com/watch-edward-snowden-phones...
But aggressive depreciation of hardware is in part a function of how much the electricity costs. If you're running off what is in effect "waste", then that would change the amortisation significantly.

May well be that it won't change the cost structure enough - I treat this as the president deciding an announcement like this, which amounts to little more than "I've asked them to look into it", as a way to get some publicity. It could very well end up being silently put aside if the costs don't stack up.
The problem with really high capacity tape these days is there's almost literally 1 vendor for drives and tapes, which is even worse than the 3 companies worldwide that manufacture hard drives. If you want relatively not so fast storage for a lot of terabytes, I bet I could clone a backblaze storage pod with some modifications and achieve a better $/TB ratio than an enterprise priced tape solution.
If the only argument is having to list a home address then a PO Box resolves the privacy issue.
No this is a technical review, there’re a lot of consumer reviews (example: https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/best-satellite-internet/ ) but the conclusions/latency/throughput are different from place to place.