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I absolutely agree with you that Apple abuses their market position, we need right to repair, and that our consumption as humans needs to drop dramatically. I do the best that I reasonably can to lower my footprint (I’m vegan, car-free, Amazon-free, I don’t fly in planes, etc). We live in an economic system that thrives from overconsumption and we both know from living in this plant that people largely don’t care or can’t be bothered enough to lower their consumption in meaningful ways.

Apple’s products have a lifespan and support cycle longer than their competition. Linux is the only software I know of with longer support, but even still it can be hard to get by on old hardware because of the unnecessary bulk of essential websites.

I understand critiquing Apple and it would be nice if I didn’t have such rosy glasses towards them, but I think they have better values and are better for the end consumer more than any company close in size.

Apple charges $200 for a battery replacement on a MacBook Pro for labor on a $50 part. That’s less gouging than an auto repair shop. I know I’m not citing sources, but claiming a 2400% margin on repair is disingenuous.

What meaningful changes can Apple make without engineering changes?

Im not trying to make excuses for Apple execs, I just don’t understand all the hatred towards Apple when companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google are much worse for the end-user and how they influence our consumption.

https://support.apple.com/mac/repair/service
GraphQL can be seen as a programming language to write API endpoints, which you can expose as HTTP endpoints in a RESTful way if you want (or use a single POST endpoint, or use WebSockets).

In a traditional REST system you implement each API endpoint in a traditional programming language.

With GraphQL you first create a single GraphQL model and then write each API endpoint as a GraphQL query/mutation; often the code is in the source of the client apps and is extracted by the build system to generate the endpoints on the server.

It is also possible to let the client send arbitrary GraphQL at runtime to the server, although that's not recommended for security, performance and efficiency reasons.

In practice this means that if you change the client frontend to include different details in views (e.g. you decide to change a GraphQL-enabled HN so that the bio of the comment author is shown below every comment) then you only need to change the frontend and the GraphQL query (to include the extra data you need) and not the server backend code.
Hah! More like the inability to perform maintenance, due to management continually demanding new features etc on tight deadlines... and once the burnout sets in, efficiency drops and you can't even think about sneaking some maintenance in... until something catches fire! Then you have a huge backlog and people screaming from multiple directions and nobody wants their deadlines to slip...
what a scam! if you regenerate without changing anyhting it does not rezz anything but a blurry nothing...
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> Of course people can choose not having spouse or kids. What do you mean there is zero alternative?

You're doing that thing where you claim there's freedom of choice because you're ignoring the punishment inflicted on one choice.

The choice not to commit to a long-term relationship has had severe financial implications for centuries, especially if you are female. Until the invention of effective birth control, the choice to not have children meant giving up much of heterosexual sex.

While there are still problems, the ability to have healthy heterosexual sexual relationships without children is largely solved by modern birth control. But I would argue that the choice to not marry is still financially punished pretty severely, though perhaps not as much as in centuries past.

> There are people born rich enough to not have to work, but do they live a happy life by not working all the way?

You're asking this as if it's a rhetorical question, but it's not.

Being a rock climber, I've met plenty of Trustafarians who haven't done a lick of work in their lives, and are quite happy being skiing, surfing, or rock climbing bums.

The flipside, is when I've met people who tried not working and said they didn't like it, that has always been coupled with a profound lack of imagination or self-awareness. I distinctly remember a post on HN where someone took a week off and just played World of Warcraft for the entire week, and when he found this unfulfilling he concluded that not working wasn't for him. It should be no surprise that a lifestyle with no physical activity or direct human interaction is dissatisfying--this isn't proof that work is a necessary part of human happiness, it's just proof that giving up work without replacing it with something better doesn't succeed.
Do you really think it's appropriate to compare maintenance of one's engineering work with intrusive changes to one's artistic output?

This doesn't invalidate the conclusion, strictly speaking, but the basis for it is flawed in my opinion.
We don't use TensorRT at the moment, but it is something that we are exploring.
No Participation. It's a way to prevent brigades.
in space != Orbit.

While an accomplishment no doubt, the utility and difficulty of achieving orbital speeds is not even in the same ballpark as simply flying above the Karman line.

I used to think differently also but then I learned from KSP how incredibly more difficult achieving orbital velocity(and surviving deceleration from such) is than simply going up and back down.

New Shepard looks like an orbit rocket but is not even close in cabability. SpaceShipTwo would burn up on re-entry if it ever reached orbital speeds.

Years ago when they took the X-prize it was explained as something groundbreaking how they folded the wings for re-entry. I, along with probably the vast majority of the public, equated this re-entry to the same re-entry that the Space Shuttle experiences and felt this was some monumental achievement and advancement of the art.

Again, not to belittle the accomplishment, as it is definitely in an elite realm, but not even close to what is accomplished by Boeing, Lockheed, NASA, SpaceX, and all the other entities actually achieving orbit.
Yep, just got back from visiting family in Alberta and I couldn't believe how terrible Roger's coverage was out there. Inside Edmonton, fine, but almost nothing at my parents place west of there and awful inside Jasper... which is like, a major tourist zone. And I don't mean up mountains or anything. Like, in the town site or just outside of it.

Canadians are being fleeced.
See also: https://reddit.com/r/HostileArchitecture/
I will give you the benefit of the doubt here, and give an answer to what appears to be rhetoric. Choice of vaccine is a single binary choice that essentially creates a step function. Food, on the other hand is a continuous function with a daily effort required to decide what to eat. While choosing to be unvaccinated may be it’s own daily struggle, it’s not the same order of magnitude as the struggle not to eat.

Now as to the body positive trend. I don’t quite agree with it, but there is a current belief that body shaming tends to backfire with individual weight loss, and that being pro body helps lead to better general health.

Personally I think much of the obesity epidemic is more a mental health epidemic. There are a lot of people who use food as a short term mood enhancer, and I’m reminded of experiments with rats showing that rates of drug addiction go way down when the rats are provided with an environment that better suites their needs.

That said, the current over abundance of highly processed food is probably the hardest thing to overcome in terms of obesity. Processed foods tend to act in the body quicker than our feedback mechinisms can handle, short term feelings of full happen too late, and long term satiation is harder to maintain. I’m not sure that fat shaming isn’t in the same category as victim shaming, the real vitriol should probably be pointed at much of the food industry instead.
The following is just an idea, but it would be prudent to consider all possible solutions to this problem before making widespread changes to labor law in this country [USA]…

Why do we want to strive for an equal amount of parental leave so much? Seems like an obsession borne out of a political ideology rather than an increase in productivity.

Could it be that the reality is that women have a lot more stress under pregnancy and childbirth cuz they are actually the ones giving birth?

This would lead to a lot more time out of the workforce and probably reduced productivity whilst caring for an infant the first couple years.

What if we just removed all employment protections/protected groups/parental leave and replaced it with a universal basic income? This would solve our leave-inequality problem as you get the same UBI payment everywhere and the FAANG can’t use parental leave as a selling point anymore.
If that was a consideration, wouldn't they have hosted it themselves?

Even super small businesses that rely on training videos as paid income don't host things on YouTube because they want more control over the content.
NVIM v0.5.0
At the moment, no, only the random hash gives some kind of security by obfuscation. More advanced security controls are coming soon.
WandaVision was brilliant and innovative and unique.

So I don't think they are at the point yet of just cranking out derivative shows and movies based on the same template.
This 110% ^^^
Covid discussion has become equivalent to politics. Most people have strong opinions on the matter, these opinions usually correlate strongly to their favorite political party's stance, and few people have the experience or knowledge to evaluate scientific information rationally. It's a recipe for uninformed debate.

On top of that, in the US, the previous president was so politically polarizing that literally any statement he made was aggressively opposed by many people. A lot of SARS-CoV2 response got caught up in this dynamic.

Wide segments of the population are simply misinformed of basic scientific facts, and slick charlatans (like the author of this article) twist information in subtle ways to scare people. Terrified people are naturally going to be more volatile, and this has been exploited throughout the last year and half.
When I went to Oxford University in 1985 I learned that, at the time, theses in the mathematics department were required to be written with T^3. I did not advertise my background--I did not want to be tech support. I actually went back to TCI for a while after finishing my degrees there.
So I think the most useful analysis is to "first principles" this from a Microsoft point of view, and it's not too hard to see the likely endgame.

It's something like:

Having been unable to defeat free/open software through the courts and copyright, lets try it this way -- let's see if we can, without too many people noticing, gain control of free/open source through its biggest repository with "Copilot." We'll let just enough people who are not us use it in ways that we see fit, but also probably later on will fight against "scraping our data" to retain control (like we tried to do with LinkedIn.)
The Pros and Cons of Electric Cars
I see this statement a lot and would like to see it better illustrated or quantified.

I worked at a place that used doubles and there was no fallout. Also when dealing with very small quantities, fixed point might not work so well either.
No but you may want to try rclone. Not exactly lightweight but it’s very easy to use and configure with a variety of storage services.
Thinking About Glue
You're right. That's pretty practical. I guess I try too hard to avoid writing to disk when I can.
Antivirals. We've very few effective ones on the market.
If everyone is using a bot, sort of seems like it might be important...
Update: Reddit employees are denying that Reddit sent any such notice. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ojccls/reddit_o...
It is for "no participation"

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoParticipation/wiki/intro
Or people were less inclined to learn new technologies during the pandemic
I think major reasons in general are personal understanding of one's religion, distrust in pharma companies, distrust in media and health institutions, and reported adverse effects of vaccines (clots, heart inflammation, long-COVID like symptoms, even deaths).

These are very real reasons. You may not put much weight on those personally but many people do.
The author of the blog post followed up with a post-mortem of his FIRE experience several years later: https://livingafi.com/2021/03/17/the-2021-early-retirement-u...

The TL;DR is that it was great for the first few years. He started diving deep into his writing passion and notes that he was very happy. Later, his writing hobby slowed and his partner became increasingly dissatisfied with their retirement lifestyle. Sadly, he talks about slowly losing friendships, losing interest in his writing, and eventually losing his marriage over FIRE-related lifestyle choices. I'm sorry it didn't work out for him, but it's an interesting contrast to this prior post about how he imagined his FIRE lifestyle.
Ain't that the truth. I opted for the J&J almost solely because the media & government strongly suggested it would be the "primary" vaccine going forward; given it only required one dose, scale-up would be easier, easier to transport, more people would end up with it, and thus I figure it would receive the largest scientific scrutiny for positive and negative side-effects going forward.

Far from it. Those of us who got it now feel like the weird step-children of the COVID pandemic, constantly left out of headlines and media. Though, I guess at least, it can very rarely cause an extremely dangerous nerve condition, so we got that going for us which is nice.
For my phone? No, I haven't!
I think its because browsers started hiding links, and apps started replacing websites. You have a generation of people that grew up without links, and many many more late adopters that didn't willingly use the internet until the 2010s.

I had to help a friend send me a link to something a few days ago, he had no idea what I was talking about. He didn't know how to copy/paste on his iPhone, and didn't realize you could get the link from safari.

...in a bit of an ironic twist, the reason he needed to send me a link was because the restaurant we were at had a QR code menu, and my phone doesn't have a QR reader.
The FDA is ridiculously over conservative because of litigation, settlement, and insurance costs. They're not doing another thalidomide.

My premise is that the facts we choose for our opinions are for support of an underlying belief, and that this underlying belief is that the people running things are full of shit, if not deceptive. I can't change someones mind about that (and wouldn't try), but I'm addressing that concern directly vs. getting a shot.
> The problem is when you make art that's not really geared towards the masses

Well, apparently there’s also a lot of money to be made doing very specific commissions.

Not quite sure where I heard about that, but the concept of ‘whales’ exists there as well.
We have a team at Square that uses Elm and I've made a few commits. They've been working on their app for around 18 months now.

I find it slightly funny because I also write Svelte at work and that app is public facing so it gets public attention but the Elm app is internal facing so the public will never see it. Also helps that Svelte uses its own name in the code it generates. Which is why I try to promote Elm myself. To semi-quote @SvelteSociety "@Square, a >$100 billon company, uses @elmlang."
I've always been against manned space flight, I think it would be better to send up robots. However, if Branson and Bezos want to spend their money on this I feel its okay as long as they don't suck up too many subsidies.

The interesting turning point will be when one of these guys doesn't make it back, how will the public react? Surely not the same way we did back when Challenger exploded.
Fascinating to see somebody analyze their own life. Seeing what he's written I draw such different conclusions about the underlying causes of the events which passed over the last few years. In particular the way he analyzed his relationship and the fact he still feels somewhat responsible just blows my mind. He's far too hard on himself.
The gradient is derived from the SDF. This derived value needs to be of unit length. Normalising the value after deriving it does nothing.

We don't use this gradient for anything much. What we use is the knowledge that the gradient is of unit length.
> I’ve never met a person inspired by what we thought the Internet would be in the 90s who isn’t sad that it went the way it did.

waves hand

I got online in 1991. Spent faaarrrrr time much time on Usenet. Almost got in trouble at my university for figuring out how to post to alt.hackers. I ran a computer lab, cannibalized some old IIcis, installed FreeBSD, got httpd running to spin up one of the first servers on campus. I debated with friends if WWW was that different from gopher. (I wrongly maintained it wasn't.)

I'm absolutely blown away by what the Internet has become today. It's far more amazing than I think anything any of us imagined. Yes, it's far from perfect, but to me the pros far, far, far outweigh the cons.

To wit, a NYT reporter wrote an article about how it was "impossible" to live without the Internet. The tone was clearly to condemn the Internet, but I found it applauded it. She essentially lamented how difficult life was without it. One example was the challenges of finding a place without Google Maps. It wasn't impossible -- it was basically what all of us had to do in the 90s -- but her standard had risen so much, what we considered "normal" she now considered impossible.
MongoDB Delivers MongoDB 5.0 and Serverless Atlas
Haven't looked into these, but what is the proposed advantage over just picking an image (with a much smaller model maybe?) from the database?
If they asked me to do this survey, their mail would end up in my spam box. I’m not burned out.
This Backblaze product doesn’t sync between computers. Their B2 storage can, but you need a client for it that can automatically work with S3-compatible storage. I use Arq but free options exist.
I, for one, am happy to pay a bit more to keep supporting Backblaze. More than worth the $7/mo to sleep better at night, and the service has worked flawlessly for me.
It seems like the only thing is 'graph what's actually interesting'? A 'cumulative graph' of dy/dx is just a y/x graph; i.e. whether what you're looking at it is 'cumulative' or not is just a matter of perspective of what the 'real' underlying thing is.

To use your COVID vaccinations example - is 'percentage vaccinated' that goes up and right cumulative? It is if we think of it as percentage that were being vaccinated at each unit x; but not if we think of it as being percentage that had been vaccinated at each x.

It'd be like saying Acceleration is 'a derivative', so show velocity instead. Everything's a derivative if you stand on the right side of it; everything's an accumulation/integral on the other.
For a little while? It's been sold out like this since at least the free trade agreement was signed in 84. If not before.

In reality even our hallowed resource industries have never even been domestically managed or owned. Survey the companies in the towers in downtown Calgary, and they're mostly American operations.

We're guests on our "own" land.
I have a hard time recalling two jobs that were worth doing for society the way they were done. The natural order of closed-door companies creates a distortion where almost nothing is done properly to ensure high efficiency and happiness [0].

It's always a blend of:

- bad or absent hierarchy: bosses that never come down, that have no idea what's going on or the way things are done, that mostly only talk to you to send back more stats (on paper, with stick marks, no one will setup a shared spreadsheet to at least avoid pencil accounting every week)

- absurd lack of material support (you need a table god damn wood tablet extension for your desk... hell no, it's 2020, come back when alien technology landed on earth) no-one hired to fix stuff, even in large offices, absurd stuff breaks, people only complain

- incredibly bad division of labour: no training (people struggle with every tool interaction), no notion of efficiency (let's rewrite everything on another post it or file, with new doc IDs), desk/office structure is obsolete to the bone, the amount of paper flying between rooms is astonishing. imagine doing databases by moving db rows to another computer and waiting to reintegrate it back when (if) it comes back. For that reason only I do more to avoid justice problems because I don't want my life hanging in the hands of a bored-out secretary that forgot who took my file to where.

- causing as bad human interactions: people don't understand shit, they walk on eggs, nothing has value to them, everyone is slightly adversary and will reject blame at the slighest possibility of an issue. Of course one can end up in a good-minded team where people are chill and communicate nicely and work together .. but it seems a low prob event.

coming from computing, I cannot help but to see things as processing steps.. and the amount of work in most jobs is minuscule now that everything is digital. Computers / clusters are mostly waiting for sad humans to press the button. I kinda ballparked that my last company (retail store) entire operation could fit on a single machine (granted people stopped duplicating excel files with bad content causing them to all be over 3MB for instance) and a few programs (in terms of computation there was nothing going on, a few figures updated here and there, gameboy level arithmetics.

when the world is gonna shift to humanless operations it's gonna be a cold day

[0] not talking about ping pong tables and cloud shape cushions, more like having good ergonomics, good interactions with coworkers, and more importantly good understanding of the process and value of what you're doing.

ps: I said "two jobs" because, at least for minds like mine, food production (or similar very linear, production-chain like ops) felt like a job. You had to prep 100 tunafish sandwhich, someone showed you the right way to perform, it was clean and fast, then you sell, then you clean. It's almost lubricated.. you sweat but there's no drag, no confusion, no hidden state.. very zen in a way.
> increasingly lack stable income/house/food

This is a good soundbyte, but misses that the world overall is getting richer and safer every year. The UK is not getting poorer. The US is not either. There's always going to be someone, somewhere who falls through the cracks. That doesn't mean we need to stop humans from exploring the solar system until everyone, everywhere is covered.

If you really care about solving homelessness and income inequality everywhere, why not take it from the truly "useless" industries like entertainment, cosmetics, toys, or luxury cars? Rather than the one industry trying to build a long-term future for humanity.

The US spends $50B a year on pet food or whatever. Get rid of the pets and take that money if you want. I don't see why you are offended that a couple billion is being spent on something that actually matters.
PROS

- Electric cars are easier and cheaper to maintain

- Environment Friendly

- Safer driving

CONS

- Limited range and few charging stations

- Extended charging time of Electric cars

- High Upfront Costs
When I heard Richard Branson being referred to as a mission specialist evaluating customer experience I rolled my eyes so hard I almost fell over.

Is there a regulatory reason that everybody on board had to be some kind of specialist?