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Western living standards (especially American) are stupidly high. Just talk to average people.

Just today, I heard one person say they keep the AC on 18C all day because they don't like sweating, one person bought a bigger car to give more space for their dog, one person said she keeps the hot water on in the sink to reduce the hot water flow and regulate the shower temperature more easily.

People in the West need to reconnect with reality, and people in developing countries need to look up to more meaningful ways of life.
You raise a good reminder about the decline of butterfly populations around the world.

I do feel that it should be possible to use new technologies to share/capture what a butterfly looks like and then for others to view that. The actual killing and mounting shouldn't have to be a pre-requisite for being a lepidopterist, I feel.
That is the least charitable interpretation of my comment. The sycophants and iconoclasts driving the modern left are a destructive force, it’s not about this particular “issue”.
They just didn't decrase as fast as they could have, given falling prouction cost. But then again, the market was heavily distorted by German and Chinese subsidys anyways, so it is hard to know what the subsidy-free "real" market prices would have been.
Apparently he didn’t shut down his computer before he died.
Sometimes I get frustrated with the button combinations that I have to press over and over again.

I don't do it every day, but creating a macro can help a lot in that situation.

I have a lot of Razer gear and also a few pieces of Cooler Master gear.

The real frustrations I have though involve disabling or changing buttons in deeper ways. For instance, I love the alacritty terminal, but it uses ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+v to cut-and-paste. One of those buttons opens the dev tools on my browser, which I could tolerate if it didn't also scroll the browser to the top, losing my place. So disabling keys or remapping them in applications helps.

Another pet peeve is that I fat finger the "insert" button on a laptop keyboard about once per minute so it is a candidate for disabling. Tools from the likes of Razer and Cooler Master only work with their gear, even Alienware's tools only work on the extra buttons and not on your existing buttons. So you need something like

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

As for the mouse the value of remapping buttons is more limited IMHO since the act of pressing a button will usually cause a little bit of motion and screw up the alignment of what you were doing.
It says inactivity, not input. Generally doing thinks like watching video is considered an activity.
This was quite an interesting event that happened recently in Scotland:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Basically the train lost the ability to brake and effectively rolled backwards and forwards over a 4.7 mile section of track, with gradients on either end, until it came to a stop in the lowest section of the line see page 11).
Useless fact about Russian names surnames - if you'll try to read how it is written in an ID (e. g. a password) you'll likely mispronounce it, but if you'll read how people write their name in less formal situations e. g. in email, you have more chances to get it right.

There are multiple common ways to transliterate Russian to Latin alphabet [1]. For some reason for passports Russian authorities chose the scheme which is more confusing to English speakers than other popular schemes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian
That’s still an exaggeration. Non-wage labour costs are about 21% of the gross salary with most of them capped around 80k EUR of gross salary (meaning the employer pays 21% of 80k even if you make 200k). FWIW this includes health insurance.

Now you do you have to count with some other potential expenses, like covering up to 6 weeks paid sick leave. I’m spire there’s some rule of thumb how to average that over a workforce but I’m not aware of it.
By doing like anyone else on Android does, by making use of JNI and NDK APIs, the actual Android ABIs.

In regards to C, Android NDK supports ISO C11 and ISO C++17 as of today.

Android is not Linux, just borrowed the kernel as implementation detail.

Naturally some folks don't get it, thus keep trying the broken road to use POSIX in Android, and that road ends in failure.
Reading the comments first I suspected this was an HN over-reaction to the list. However upon reading it myself I must totally agree.

There is nothing actionable about this list. A lot of it is meant to sound wise, without any specifics.

Definition of heuristics:

> A heuristic, or a heuristic technique, is any approach to problem-solving that uses a practical method or various shortcuts in order to produce solutions that may not be optimal but are sufficient given a limited timeframe or deadline.

A small sample of the heuristics from the "evolving list":

> Our only measure of progress is delivering into our customers hands things they find valuable.

> Outcomes matter more than output. A focus on output yields sub-par outcomes.

None of this is practical or a shortcut of any kind. It just "sounds" nice as an abstract idea.
What problem? What could they have avoid if they had asked experts? I have been following the process in a lot of detail, as I speak German. I have no idea what you are referring to.
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You have had an incredible streak of bad luck there. That is to be expected with alternative operating systems though: very few have vendors contributing drivers (e.g. Windows, Linux) and very few have enough developers to support the incredibly wide range of hardware available (e.g. Linux). At best, most alternative operating systems can be classified as hobby projects. Nothing more and nothing less. In order to use them, you need to be willing to contribute time (e.g. help with development) or money (e.g. buy supported hardware). If you're not willing to do so, that's fine. It simply means these operating systems are not for you.

As for my experiences, I have always had Haiku boot but have never been satisfied with hardware support (e.g. limited to certain VESA modes for video, unsupported network card). I accept that's part for the course given what Haiku is and can still appreciate the work that has been put into it.
On the computers (i.e. mac mini, macbook, iMac) Apple ships an unlocked bootloader and we can just install our own bare metal code very early on using their official tools.

On the iPad Pro that bootloader is locked down and running Linux on there is unfortunately very unlikely to ever be possible.
I belive San Diego could also be translated back to Saint James or any of those other variants but there's some other odd step or two in between that I can't remember right now.

Ah it turns out that may not be true, though widely believed for the last couple of centuries:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Diego#Spanish

The one that shocked me the most was the number of different names that I associated with different countries that all turned out just to be variations on John.

Ivan, Ian, Euan, Hans, Sean, Jens, Juan, Yiannis, Giovanni, Evan, Ifan, Janko, Ivanko and many more

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_(given_name)#In_other_l...
When I started[0] at my current job there was a production service running on a mac mini that was dangling by its ethernet cable from the ceiling

[0] https://imgur.com/gallery/wHH3sow
Rasterio wheels ship with GDAL binaries. No C compiler needed.
cf Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent_(film))
It won’t happen. There’s reservoirs in the animal population already. Even if every human was cleared of virus eventually there would be outbreaks again.
> Just buy preinstalled Linux, like I did.

That's why linux is inferior. For windows I don't need to buy preinstalled. I can buy whatever I want.

>It's impossible to have good support for every available software.

Except windows pretty much does this. Yeah there's shady business tactics involved but at the end of the day users just want something that works. Linux fails at doing this. So I don't know why you're advising me to buy preinstalled. I can do that, but it just means Linux is FORCING me to do that because it is an inferior OS from a usability standpoint.

Buying preinstalled solves my problem but it only invalidates your point while validating my point.
With other delivery services like UPS, FedEx, etc ... the drivers often also have the keypad codes to gated communities, apartment buildings although the information transfer from residents is less formalized than this Amazon giftcard incentive.
> And seeing the case of Tesla factory, it's not so easy and fast.

Its not actually delayed much. The incredibly optimistic plan was to be ready in September, but that was Elon Time.

So far the bureaucracy has not really held them back that much.

If you compare progress in China, Texas and Berlin so far its not clear that Berlin is meaningfully slower.
see also: https://www.thedrive.com/news/41617/6x6-ram-trx-with-37-inch...
No, he broke the espionage law by releasing the info. It is ludicrously broad.

It's the same reason Snowden refuses to come home. He's repeatedly promised to come home if they tighten the definition of the espionage to include, y'know, just espionage. Congress refuses.
It is awesome. I like it better.

It only deduplicates though. Does not compress.
But culture is heading the other direction in America. Cars get larger every year. Culture won't get us decent public transportation.
Looks like countries are the intuitive units to capture deviations at this level of scale. From NASA's web page about the mirrors in the James Webb telescope [0]:

"That means if the continental United States was polished smooth to the same tolerances, the entire country – from Maine to California – would not vary in thickness by just over two inches!"

Given the US is roughly 27 times the area of Germany, looks like semiconductor manufacturing requires roughly double the accuracy of space telescopes (1 mm * 27 is slightly more than 1 inch)

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/webb-craft.h...
It's neutrons with kinetic energy that's similar to the other particles in the environment, so they're at thermal equilibrium.

Read it as "low energy neutrons".
So does UPS, FedEx and the USPS though.

Fire codes require that apartment buildings that have locked gates or access points must provide access to police and fire departments. This same code or key is usually provided to delivery services.
I know right. That's why I'm not doing C anymore, for 10+ years now.
> if your name is “ Friedrich” you should accept that it’s unpronounceable for an Italian and that “fredrik”

I think that the only unpronounceable things in "Freidrich" for an Italian speaker are the guttural Rs and the /ç/ sound at the end. Most Italians are acquainted to the fact that 'ei' is /ai/ in German thank to South Tyrol and names such as "Einstein" being common knowledge - nobody would ever pronounce it /'einstein/. Thus an Italian would probably not mind pronouncing it as /fraidrik/, with a rolled R (which isn't technically incorrect in German, AFAIK) and a /k/ sound in place of /ç/.
Yeah it's not so obvious or evident.

What you're mentioning do happen. But there's a bit of a cultural theme to "play it low" and "be humble"
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I have no problem learning foreign languages, but when I saw how Chinese phonetics works I ran away screaming.
I know a Xue, and her pronounciation didn't sound like shoe.

More like kshoe but the end was something in between an "u" and a German "ü".

Languages are hard. I just have to think about "Ш" and "Щ" which both sound a bit like "sh", but with subtle differences for English speakers.
Seems like an opportunistic scam, and a great way to get caught if the would-be scammers do not previously put in place a serious money trail obfuscation system. The investigator has, as the first piece of evidence, basically a direct link to the criminals' bank/ccard acct, for which the bank is legally required to have owners' ID. The casual scammers get caught, the professionals/serious gangs easily obfuscate the trail, and trust in the systems declines further.
Even credible news sources are bound to have an implicit bias, to a certain degree. There is, however, quite a few other types of media sources ranging from media bias, to fake news, misinformation, disinformation etc. I recommend reading the Cornell university library guides to learn about how to distinguish one from the other.
I too was under the impression trains could not move without the brakes connected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_air_brake describes a "fail-safe" system which has been "nearly universally adopted" which might give you some details.

The diagrams are very complicated - you'd think it would just be a spring-applied brake with air disengaging it, but it seems to be a much more complex system.
What could be more modern than a top-down, homogenous education campaign?
Maybe. Maybe only on the big-tech "major" platforms. There will likely be a pushback, specially from the "blockchain/crypto" world on pseudonymity [0]

[0]: https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1249372482412273668
> It’s the individual’s choice

to choose to not get vaccinated when it's not medically necessary for you to avoid it means you are endangering those who can't get vaccinated for medical reasons.

Freedom of choice can only extend to actions that have no effect on others.
It's from the lack of heavy metals - lead is necessary for transporting glucose to the axon, and its deficiency leads to massive synapse loss and resulting mental illness.

The data that supposedly prove heavy metal toxicity are extremely suspect, sometimes outright bizarre.
1. They are elements, so no major changes could possibly occur. Thry appear in all recent geological history.
2. Their toxicity somehow went unnoticed until recently. There are no records of cadmium being considered toxic before 1970. Somehow nobody noticed the toxicity of the most toxic known metal. Thallium was noticed to be toxic soon after its discovery. Lead was only known to cause poisonings in very large amounts and mostly limited to breathing exposure, and was used in things like make up and even sweeteners. Presumably any noticeable toxicity would prevent it from being used in such cases.
3. The purpoted mechanism is absurd. The body picks the metals to be incorporated proteins with great accuracy, and pick the heavy metal, which poisons the protein and activates it when it should be inactive. It just sounds completely absurd to me.
4. Heavy metals only accumulate until certain concentrations are reached, then they start getting excreted. This effect is widely noted.
This doesn't surprise me at all. Vendor tools, like the ASUS utilities, or Dells update application, and many others are commonly outsourced from different companies and seem to import a string of security flaws. Providing the program, not providing a secure program tends to be the metric for delivery on these applications.
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It showed us that most people are unwilling to accept even the slightest inconvenience to save lives and help an unpleasant situation pass faster.

Yes, the scientific community has done the impossible, but us laymen have failed to do even the possible, even when it was easy.

We can solve problems, no doubts, but perhaps we aren't so good at collective, sustained efforts. Climate change will not come to pass like the pandemic. It will last generations if we're lucky.
> the typographic scale for desktops will be major-third, while for the smaller mobile phones, it will have to be minor-third

I tried to google major-third and minor-third with various keywords but couldn't find anything relevant. Could you expand on this and explain what it means?

Edit: Never mind, I found some. Here:

- https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/exploring-responsive-t...

- https://spec.fm/specifics/type-scale

- https://designcode.io/typographic-scales

- https://type-scale.com/
There are easy ways around this (for now). Youtube-dl, Newpipe (on Android).
Sorry, but just because they were in your Master's degree class does not necessarily make them top talent.
USA brand tax cattle state property objects owe their life to the Government, not each other.
That missing patch is the iommu driver which is currently under review and will hopefully make its way to mainline soon.

Once that one is merged there's already another series to enable PCIe (which needs the iommu driver) which gives us more USB ports, ethernet and with another small patch WiFi. There's also a WIP series for NVMe.

What's missing are then a few smaller things (i2c, spi, keyboard on the macbooks etc.).

And then there are a few bigger tasks left, e.g. thunderbolt support, usb super speed support, support for the secure enclave, and ofc the largest one being the display controller and the GPU.

And once that's all done there's the long tail of making this all work nicely (e.g. power management, making the installation as easy as possible, etc.)
> there is far, far more likely to be a bug in the version you write on your own

In general I agree with this, but there is another relevant aspect to consider: something that I've written on my own for a particular project is also likely to be more purpose-built, and therefore simpler.
All actions have effects on others -- you conclude that we cannot have freedom of choice, i.e., freedom?
Good points.

Yeah; it's possibly ironic that a lot of efforts/values in this direction have a strong indirect effect of enforcing the status quo and the cultural norms of the prevailing power. ("It's always ok to wear jeans" is my shorthand).

I remember being surprised at Hugh Laurie's blues recordings. He's the person I can think of off-hand that went all-out on accent while singing with his mother tongue.

OTOH if you go all out and sing in another language it's regarded as ok try to try render things more exactly (But most people make lots of mistakes that native speakers pick up on and so the audience may not enjoy the aesthetic outcome. It's super hard!)
Democracy's list of atrocities is still very small compared to any other form of governance.
My phone always asks me "do you want to open somewebsite.com in the browser?" when I scan a QR code.

At that point, it hasn't even made a request to that website, so I _will_ know beforehand what I'm opening.
Pharma CEOs got billions richer as folks in the developing world die. The pandemic is far from over while variants mutate against vaccinated people.

The first world response against the vaccine is selfish and short sighted in the same ways that make solving global warming incredibly difficult socially.

The vaccine recipes should be free, the raw materials should be coordinated so that vaccine production is maximized. Just like global warming, no one is safe until everyone is, we are from it yet have the capability to do so. Yet we do not, we finagle to ensure profit over life.

Our collective COVID response is exactly why the climate crisis is so hard.

Our problems are not technological.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/business/covid-vaccine-billio...
"A decent mostly free health system"

Where in Germany is that?

You either pay a lot for private insurance (especially when you get old) or you pay a lot for state-backed insurance (which is a lot if you earn above average as most techies do).
If you need Windows or GUI support there is Kopia https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27471945
I'd argue that most of Europe is much better at this than the US. Not only is there freedom of movement within the EU allowing people to work anywhere, but also many states are more progressive than the US and have slightly less of a race divide.

The US gets something right with innovation, but I don't think this is it.
Adding to that, is there any general reason for a German, besides money, to go to the US? So if the ones that go mostly do it for the money, they'll most likely stay gone.
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Big fan of all of those already. Fred Brooks in particular is seriously underrated.
idk. I'd be happy to run ammonia at home. When I looked years ago no one make small enough compressors though.
Weinberg was fortunate to die before grand unification of Science and State. When Science became the official religion of the military state, tyranny became the only law of physics.
During the day, can you see polaris? If you only have the sun as a reference you will need a 2nd reference to know where you are. Magnetic north would be easily available.

For celestial objects, The math is rather simple. It is the intersection of 2 circles. The refence between the two objects would resolve which intersection is the correct one.

For magnetic north and 1 celestial object, the math is much more complex. Magnetic declination changes depending on where you are. You have to know roughly where you are before you start using it.
So they put any instance of a phrase like "... it feels like ..." as emotional reasoning? Say, "it feels like it'll rain"? I question their data analysis.
Not really true, there are critics of mass vaccinations that have formal credentials. Among doctors it is surprisingly widely spread and they have decent reasoning.
In 2005 I was in a college dorm that provided the NYT in a common area. I picked up one and the first article I read was a column about Hurricane Katrina. The author interviewed a history professor who bewailed the failings of the president and the United States and how this was "worse than Antitem". In other words the esteemed Grey Lady interviewed an "expert" whose expertise has nothing to do with meteorology or disaster response to get a "Bush sucks, haha!" hot-take. Even as a know-nothing teenager (of strong anti-war sentiment at the time), I recognized that "area man says natural disaster proves Bush sucks" is just pablum. I put the paper down, and I have never picked up an NYT since.

Thanks to the hero who provided an archive link, so that I could skim this. This article appears to be NYT heroically defending a corporate sponsor against the vile slander of other content marketers. Still speaking truth to power, I see.
Society at large always has control over individuals if it deems it beneficial for the society as a whole.

See: restrictions on dangerous weapons, childhood vaccinations, taxes, mandatory evacuation orders, safety regulations, …
I wonder how much of that is a result of the largest misinformation peddlers not having to pay taxes on income.
To clarify:

The spikes and reactions were stress reactions measured by medical doctors from the monitoring of multiple signals (heart rate being one).

So they came to the experimental conclusion that (at least in this experiment) driving at the limit of what was possible in terms of speed the car could go and speed traffic would somehow allow was a factor of stress for the driver.

They also qualified the added amount of fuel necessary to drive the distance.

But they did not say one was better, one was worse. They just let the viewer decide on which variant they preferred.

And as I said: If the externalities were priced into taxes and cost of fuel - why not let people and the market decide if it was worth to them to arrive 20 minutes quicker on this distance.
Agreed. It is difficult to wade through the advertisements, biased news, vanity and negativity. It’s just not worth the effort and time.

HN is the only bright corner of the internet that hasn’t changed.
As a useful rule of thumb, the New York Times prints retractions.

If your news source never prints retractions, it's not to be trusted.
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