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The old PC accounted for more than 50% of that household's power bill? Even considerably more? I say they should learn to cook.
This is what people should really be angry about, not the 'peeing in bottles' working conditions.

This directly results in wasted labour, wasted resources, wasted money, and extra environmental damage. And all because amazon doesn't have any serious competition to force them not to waste those resources.
Frame relay? I’ll do you one better: remember when the Bellheads thought we’d be using ATM with virtual circuits for everything?

I still re-read this every few years: https://www.wired.com/1996/10/atm-3/
Another suggestion: Move the "create function" to the bottom.
Nice intro video. Programmer here but complete novice in the audio space. never even considered playing around with audio as I always thought I had to buy some expensive audio software and start DJing around.

This seems accessible. looks like i've found my next play around project! thanks
Fshasm is good idea and available on nuget (https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=Fshasm). We lost the author's wordplay though. I opened an issue on GitHub to talk about the name. Come join us :) https://github.com/d-edge/fasm/issues/5
As a home owner, I'm really hoping that the government gets involved in helping with first time buyer down payments. Each $1,000 of government assistance will be a ~$15,000 higher sale price. Would also benefit those renting out units as well as the overall market would surge upwards
Then I'd say you that while it's nice that you seem to care deeply and are empathetic, your highlighting only the problems is not constructive in aiding the very people you care about. I'd say that you need to educate yourself about how economics works and how societies have historically escaped poverty. That while consumers in rich nations should most definitely try more to minimize the problems you describe, that overall (and long term) international trade is probably the best way humanity has found thus far for helping the poor around the world. And that it has thus far helped to raise literally billions out of abject poverty.
What's stopping them from doing a lot auction (a la storage wars). Is it brand damage to whatever products are in it?

I mean, the naive idealist in me just want stuff that has already been produced to at least get used for a bit, even if it ends up being sold on ebay or craigslist.
I only know through friends, but dating in your 30s seems like an absolute nightmare - they all hate it and find it completely joyless and deeply cynical. Trying to fit someone new into an already fully-formed life at that point seems very hard.

Also 35 is the point where medicine considers a pregnancy to be 'geriatric'. And some people are going through menopause by 40! You don't have an infinite amount of time in life no matter how positive your outlook!
Throwaway account to remain anonymous because these aren't nice words.

I worked with Chris Roberts for a period of time. Making things up to scare companies into dumping cash on him is kind of his 'thing'. I never once actually saw him perform any real exploits or produce anything of value except scary/funny looking powerpoints and lots of trash talk. In this case he just stepped a little bit too far with his made up scenario & nothing ever came of it.
Maybe he's really into CSS ?
I have been thinking very much this for over a decade now. Down to even using the times and the division signs the same way (or + and - given they are more easily typed).

An interesting thing is that 2 is very special musically, but not mathematically, because it makes all notes musically the same (establishes pitch classes).

A very funky thing (kinda annoying really) is as follows:

Given a note, any note, as a tonal center or starting point (I call it O for origin) you 'make' a new note from this one by multiplying by 3 (O+3) [note 1]. Similarly we can make O+5.

O+5 is in traditional western music closest to the major third

AND O+3 corresponds to a 12-tet perfect fifth (flat 2 cents).

In short +3 is the fifth and +5 is the third...weirdly annoying.

note 1: Here's were 2 (which defines octaves) comes into play because it allows to say that O+3 defines a pitch-class no matter the octave.
I miss genuine differences in hardware. Happy hour discussions about alpha vs sparc vs intel etc. I'm hopeful that diversity will come back around as a thing.

THIS. Right now there are three mainstream choices: Win, Linux, Mac And I'm sorry- no matter how diverse your Linux distro is or even what hardware you're running it on (x86 vs ARM etc), it's still just Linux. And again, sorry- Linux just isn't interesting anymore. Extremely useful for its purpose, but it's commonplace enough to be ho-hum.

Can anyone recommend something quite a bit different that a guy could toy with? Or is this why everyone is having so much fun with 8 bit retrocomputers?
If they're not eligible for UBI, but still pay full taxes, their pay would be meager for those poor paying jobs. If not negative. If someone is well educated and working in a well-paid sector, it may be not worth it to come to UBI country. Unless one lives in a complete shithole without stable government. Of course, then someone is not likely to be well educated...

In most theories I saw, UBI would supplement low wages and become negative only for well off people. So you'd have to pay a nice sum of money for someone to have same take-home pay as UBI jobless. This means UBI countries would need high import tariffs to compete with cheap import from non-UBI.

Now what would be nice is to work illegally in an UBI country.

Path to ubi sounds like a massive Ponzi scheme TBH. Come work for 10 years for an easy retirement. Especially if you can move back to your homecountry and keep earning UBI.
Crimean Tatars, Goths, Greeks, Italians, Turks, Ukrainians are not ethnic Russian. Crimean Russians are not exists.
This is a strange argument. The larger companies have plenty of people to work on all the things you mentioned plus bandwidth optimizations. Also, they’re rarely the same people.
The heavyweight host (which is the normal state of affairs) is problematic attack surface; moving the workload into a hardened VMM on that improves security regardless.
Not OP, but sounds about right.
Did you forget the part where we went to war for 20 years and tore the entire region to shreds? Do Iraq, Afghanistan, or Sudan remotely resemble functional sovereign states after US intervention? What about the thousands of drone strikes and hundreds of thousands dead?

I would not describe our intervention in the Middle East as "some strong statements and some court cases."
It reminds me of Google charging 12.99 a month for the ability to darken the screen in YouTube.
Additionally, the situation is constantly changing. A vaccine effective today might be considered insufficient tomorrow, e.g. due to mutations, new studies etc.
Using “green” pass does contradict with EU resolution 2361/2021 which states:

“ 7.5.2 use vaccination certificates only for their designated purpose of monitoring vaccine efficacy, potential side effects and adverse events;”

Allowing people to visit pubs or other social places is the right — whether someone concerned of getting sick it is up to them to get a vaccine; those who are not in for the experiment (most of covid vaccines are in experimental state up to year 2023) shall not suffer the artificial social limitation barriers.
It's mandatory in the sense that company law provides the means of forming party units. If you have to associate that with 'political pressure' mandation then I guess it's more of a view point difference. For me the real influence doesn't have to rely on such mechanism, hence it might be a bit biased in my opinion.
Ah yes, it was actually ATM that I was thinking of. Thanks. I have never been a network nerd, but I remember the buzz about ATM.
>and aren't living in some rural area (or san francisco lol)

That was a good laugh. I think in retrospect spending my 20s in San Francisco had a lot to do with now being single in my 30s.
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I am confused. I almost bought the Peloton treadmill months ago and it was pretty clear that the $40 subscription was needed and was on top.
To me, the $40 subscription for treadmill is not new news
I went to work in tech right after high school; I've never worked a food service job.
> Now the app have all sorts of cool colour effects when you tilt your phone.

Any video for that?
There is also kaitai struct that has an a very complete online IDE that I use for this kind of things: https://ide.kaitai.io/

It works with ELF as well as many many other formats, and the online IDE is only a very small part of what you can do with it.
I don‘t seem to get the point of this comment, but the reason for this is that the EU Commission has assigned this project to Deutsche Telekom and SAP, two German companies (as is explained in the README).
God I wished I worked there. Even without Covid this past year would have been tremendously hard on me. When I've talked to my manager about what I've been going through and explaining how it's impacted my performance I get the "Yea it's been a rough year for everyone" bit.

Finally we reach a point where both the pandemic and everything else has settled down and I'm too burnt out and depressed to enjoy it.
There's also https://binvis.io
Awesome project, well done!!!
I don't think he is making that argument -- which is why he prefaced it with "This is not ideal" -- just setting context,
Similar story here, though I think we had the desire to move away from darcs too - because we were hitting the exponential-time problem with patch-replays.

Darcs was a nice system, but with the unfixed(?) massive slowdown it just wasn't workable. We toyed with mercurial, but settled on git within a year or so.
For my wife, it was partly a social thing- her friends did it, and she is in sales and this actually became a popular thing to take clients to. She had expensed over $10K in classes her peak year. She became friends with some of the people that worked at her favored studio, and even some of the instructors (which appears to have been not unique to my wife but cultivated by corporate culture: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22195549/soulcycle-decline-reo... It was a Thing, and in NYC once something is a Thing, it becomes unstoppable and takes on a life of its own.

Its not even a full hour, the standard class is 45 minutes IIRC.
If inflation hits 4% and your mortgage is 3.5% you would be making 0.5% a year off the mortgage interest + the tax deduction you get from it. If inflation picks up to 70s levels, current homeowners will have a great time assuming they do not have a variable rate
I think you can see that the shots in the server room were done on the tarmac
Is it a different industry? Any customer-focused retail that readily accepts returns will inevitably have returned items that are difficult to resell.
PCR tests in slovenia are in a ~100eur range.

Time limited is how long? I'm guessing 48 hours? So, even if free, you need to take an hour or two out of your life, every two days to be able to go to the cinema/footbal match/concert?

In slovenia, there are cases of people getting intentionally infected with covid, just to get "the papers", and to avoid the AstraZeneca vaccine (with, quoting the leader of our "expert team": "blood clot issues in a few per 100k people" - which is way more than the covid death rate in those age group).

Add to this the famous saying, that "there is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution".
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No, the biggest part is collision and comprehensive. Liability is comparatively small. You save tons by self-insuring.

Since my used truck was only worth $10k to start with I've saved much more than that in the decade that I haven't bothered carrying collision or comprehensive (probably 3 or 4 times over that).

But I don't bother fixing dents and dings in it, so it looks like a used truck and I won't be turning any heads cruising down by the beach.
Ok, I can understand that this is how capitalism and consumerism work, it's a lot cheaper just to trash the item and manufacture a new one instead of to check returns, but why don't they donate them to schools, communities, churches (or even better gift them to low paying amazon warehouse workers)??? Out of ~130k items per week they only donated ~30k items.
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The same thing that prevents them from stabbing you and taking your money. It's illegal and wrong.
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An Nimitz class aircraft carrier has around 6,000 crew members on board. Sinking an aircraft carrier would be an attack worse than 9/11 and elicit a similar response. Maybe some crew members would escape or get rescued, but a bomb large enough to blow up an aircraft carrier is also going to be large enough to kill everyone on or below the deck.

The space race was a dick waving contest and nobody was intentionally killed for that. Bombing naval vessels is not a dick waving contest.
Which category are tomatoes in?
> It sucks up so much data straight to the Chinese government

Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts are copies of TikTok, because Facebook and Google are much safer places to have our data sucked up.
Just a nitpick but Django is definitely not convention over configuration, you might be thinking of Rails.

> At the same time things such as realtime/WebSockets feel so unnecessarily complex in Django and so much easier to work with in Node, Elx, Go, literally anything else.

So this is where Elixir shines. If you need highly scalable real-time applications, then it's no contest. If it's a pretty straightforward crud app then it's really going to come down to preference.

> Or even, better, what are the concrete examples in which one is a better choice--from your own experience?

I personally chose Phoenix because of liveview. It removed the need for me to maintain what feels like two separate apps when you have a back-end and then a front-end in React/Vue/whatever.
I opened XP on my old 900 mhz pentium 3, and it was just as snappy as you describe yours.
Not really.... almost all web servers with 443 will have port 80 open to function. Current browsers all still hit 80 first.
It’s always framed like there is no cost to eliminating coal.
For techies, no. For rural folk, big time. Techies lack empathy but naturally buy into the “save/change the world” narrative.

It’s 64bn worth of exports.
Could be wrong but I think there's a lot of equipment for things like radios, radar, sensors, etc. that makes it look like there are more servers than there actually are.
To be fair, if you have the basic stats/code knowledge, you can totally pick up modern ML pretty quickly. You already know the difficult parts, the easy parts are pretty easy.

This may not apply if you want to create new ML algorithms, but those jobs are rare in any case.
Ignore the Kingman at your own peril
Thank you. What country?
Kudos to the title writer.
No Amazon definitely destroys most returns. I was informed that anything you can take to a Kohl’s is destroyed after return. That’s why sometimes it’s not available as an option.
Is there a compiler for Remora (the language discussed in the paper) to try out? I see remorac https://github.com/NVIDIA/remorac , an archived project from NVIDIA.
since when do you need a "monopolistic position" to be a good investment?
Stuff like this is so cool.

I have this desire to create a (maybe domain-specific / not Turing) programming language. I have some use cases involving constraint satisfaction but basically it's a rock'n roll dream kind of thing for me.
Would your users be ok with something like this? Python syntax, rust concepts and transpiles to rust (and 6 other languages)

https://twitter.com/arundsharma/status/1407229297392115713
>once the system starts operating at full steam again the costs will come down.

I doubt it will go back to the days before pandemic, where containers and shipping are operating at literally negative profit margin. Read Hanjin Shipping.

But it should hopefully ensure more healthy shipping industry.
It's important to have the article properly framed, though. If you didn't organize and get rid of (sell or toss) unused things at your place, you're eventually going to end up under piles of garbage nobody wants unless you somehow anticipated all your own needs perfectly.

At some point you buy something you thought you'd need that you didn't. The same goes with businesses trying to sell. The difference from cleaning up your software project is that getting rid of physical product is not just deleting a few lines of code. It has to go somewhere.
I was 9 in ‘97 but by late middle school I was writing simple websites in Notepad and referencing my dad’s Macromedia Dreamweaver book.

It really felt like the Internet was a fantastical place, a destination for unlimited possibilities.
Am i missing something, if a treadmill has a subscription, the kid can still run on it right?, is it some kind of fingerprint or face authentication that would stop a kid from running.
I spent a good chunk of my early 20s commuting across the Atlantic. Before 9/11, all you had to do was ask a flight attendant and they'd go check with the pilots and bring you up a short while later. I used to do it most flights overnight from New York, it broke up the journey which was otherwise pretty miserable in coach. I remember the pilots being delighted to have me up there, really for them it's as boring as it is for us in the back I was someone new to talk to for a bit. I remember one time some Virgin Atlantic pilots were more excited about my colorful socks than I was about their new glass cockpit 747-400.

I was never turned down and always felt very welcome. At most I had to wait a bit until some turbulence passed.

It's sad that has gone and won't ever come back. I have kids now and they'd get a _huge_ kick out of an experience like that.

EDIT: you can however still pay for some hours in an airline training simulator. It's astonishingly close to the real thing and might scratch that itch for you. Some airlines offer it, other training companies do.
Coinbase verified users projected to grow by 30% in 2021 to hit over 70M
According to data analyzed by Finbold, Coinbase verified users are projected to hit 72.8 million by the end of 2021.
For one thing, GDPR. It's illegal.

Apps can also be configured to prohibit (or at least make it harder make) screenshots/screen-recordings. It can of course be circumvented, but still. It's illegal.

I would consider it as safe as showing my ID to a bartender/bouncer. Safer, even, as they don't get as much data.
The gold lease rate is not nothing. Gold is valuable as collateral. Bitcoin is literally bits ready to be piped into /dev/null but gold is not that.
And in that situation the retailer is just throwing away the product for the consumer who returned it; otherwise the consumer would probably have just thrown it away.
And let's not forget jewellery - some people still like wearing gold rings or bracelets.
Because in an OS like Linux or Windows, the kernel is sharing out access to the machine by managing the hardware's lowest levels of controls, which applications do not have access to.

That's not even including the fact that processors are actually processor simulators these days.

Thus, "bare metal" is actually "resource division among managed processes on a simulated processor" which sure sounds a lot like a VM to me. Modern OSs are in fact a form of virtual machine, and we found it useful to have yet another.

Arguably docker type of simulation introduces yet another level so a react app in a docker shell in a VM cluster is really a interpreted application on a simulated operating system, on a resource sharing virtual machine, on a virtualized hardware environment, on a multitasking virtual machine, running on a simulated processor that's implemented on a _real processor_.
That’s just a tax. Wouldn’t progressive taxation already take care of that? Do we need another tax just to make UBI work?
I thought this when picking majors to graduate college in 2010, but I was able to switch in time. People look at me crazy when I say that!
Wow, his graphics card's idle power (83W) takes up as much power as my 2018 15" MBP's maximum usage (the power supply is rated at 87W)!
I'm not sure if this is missed or brushed aside on purpose in the article. There is a crucial difference between destroying something and burning it to the ground vs removing something from circulation in a product chain and reusing any raw materials left by third party services.

This isn't much different than a product being rejected during manufacturing due to something like failed quality control, etc. If you're going to be outraged by this please apply that outrage consistently starting by studying how manufacturing works and then boycotting basically all factories that make anything.
Grocery stores in the UK have shrinkage rates of 2% or so.

That includes theft, damaged items, and expired/unsellable food.

2% really doesn't sound bad, and I would guess is substantially lower than Amazon sees - especially considering estimates I could find suggest that the vast majority of that 2% is theft.
Short version: people who made circuit-switch telephone networks had a radically different view of the future Internet than the packet-switching young rebels. For a while it wasn’t clear what path we were going to take. Every now and then I revisit this article to remember what it was like when we didn’t know.

At one point lots of people were convinced that we'd build everything on top of ATM with its 53 byte payloads. The unknown future was weird.
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Exactly, I would argue that gold having some meaningful value to anchor the price is what allows it to function as a means of exchange.

Ideally though, we should use something else so that gold can be cheaper for electronics.

Bitcoin is an entirely different creature with absolutely zero intrinsic value, and only successful due to the momentum of being the first mover.

Of all the major cryptos in distribution, Bitcoin is one of the least advanced and most limited in functionality.
Ever go to a cannabis shop in California? Your driver's license is scanned. I don't know about the facial recognition part, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Do they charge $12.99 a month for this feature? I can’t find it
> If inflation hits 4% and your mortgage is 3.5% you would be making 0.5% a year off the mortgage interest

This ignores the rates-price and inflation-rates nexuses. When inflation goes up, ceteris paribus, rates rise. When rates rise, all else held equal, the price of leveraged assets like real estate falls.

TL; DR this trade is an arbitrage only if you've perfectly hedged the price of your underlying asset, the house.
It isn't about "someone has more than you". There used to be a belief that the rising tide of technology would lift all boats. What we have seen over the last few decades is that most (although not all) value of the productivity bonuses that technology provides has largely been captured by the people who own the capital. Instead of seeing middle class wage increases, shorter work weeks, more vacation time, or any real improvements to the working life of much of the population, we get smartphones and everything else goes to billionaires.

Even the 4 day work week which I have seen popping up on HN recently is often discussed in terms of how it improves productivity. It is less whether it is good for society and instead whether it is good for the bosses.
The article said there will be some support staff remaining who will then take their week off at a later time.
> The parent is displaying typical American thinking

The parent has lived in a country house than decades in multiple apartments. The joy of having neighbors next wall, ceiling or floor. The lack of air conditioning if you're in a country where it's not usual and you have to fight to get the authorization to install it. The sound of cars, bars etc.