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I've long found Apple machines and devices to be difficult and unintuitive to use (and it seems getting more so as time goes on). It's a "death by a thousand cuts" sort of thing rather than a big showstopper. This article provides a very plausible explanation as to why.

Really, 80% of my problem with Apple devices is that their user interfaces lack discoverability by hiding things so if you don't already know they're there, too bad for you. Windows seems to be following the same path, starting around Win 8, I think.
Not just when you’re at work, unless you tear down your desk and store it out of sight every single day!
The rooms where you can have secure conversations will have a bank of tiny lockers outside the door for phones/keys.
It really depends on the battery technology. Lithium-Titanate batteries are starting to be used in hybrid vehicle powertrains.

It is much lower energy density than typical BEV batteries. It is also rated at 20x the cycles and can be charged and discharged very quickly with minimal issues.

The technology has come a long way from the NiMH cells that die after a decade.
It can be factually correct and clickbait at the same time.
Hm. I perfectly understand cynicism, because I'm very good at it myself. (At least I think so.)

However, in this case I'm of a different opinion. Let's put aside the sluggishness of going totally green/eco/sustainable/whatever for a moment and think about what would happen if we managed to do it in an instant, like now.

Then this would still be a usable and sensible thing to do, because right now it looks like we are very, very late to the game, and every little thing counts.

In my opinion this would even make sense if produced as sort of artificial zeolites produced by atmospheric carbon capture by whichever industrial process, even nuclear powered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeolite

edit: thinking about it, though slightly off-topic in this context is another path to carbon sequestration I remember:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Vesta via spreading this stuff on beaches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivine

Green Beaches!

For your amusement:
The Fifth Element-Green 1m4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFeLDc2CzOs

Word Up? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjAantupsA 4m39s
On a swim safety note, if you're going to be swimming in open water, I highly recommend getting yourself a swim buoy for visibility. You can also use it to stash your phone, keys, etc if you've got a dry bag. https://outdoorswimmer.com/product-reviews/tow-floats-and-dr...
Risk management can (and often does) include simply accepting risks and their consequences.

A strong risk management doesn't necessarily mean strong protection of employees, just that lots of risks have been considered, documented and weighed in some form.
Well, I learned a lot today!

Thanks for the free education :)
Even then I would add. Lets say you have the code to something. Just figuring out what goes where and what does what takes time. Then each dev/compiler has its own 'style'. It is a process that takes time. Sometimes you can get lucky and pull on a thread and the whole sweater comes apart. But finding that one thread to tug on... Then on top of that if they turned on optimizations the code may look 'odd' as it has been optimized and that part of many compilers can do some very strange things.

I am trying to RE a 16bit windows game. Ghidra gets lost a lot on the exe to system dll paths for me. For 32bit it seems fine though.
My understanding is the beard tax was in part a dig at the authority of the Orthodox Church.

Jews in Russian Empire at that time would mostly be in Pale Of Settlement area, not Petersburg.
I think the Reason piece gives the incorrect context for that quote.

After confirming the state's "unique interest in remedying its own discrimination against LGBT", the majority continue:

> As compelling as Colorado’s interest in protecting the dignitary rights of LGBT people may be, Colorado may not enforce that interest by limiting offensive speech. Indeed, the First Amendment protects a wide range of arguably greater offenses to the dignitary interests of LGBT people. ...

> The Accommodation Clause is, however, narrowly tailored to Colorado’s interest in ensuring “equal access to publicly available goods and services.” ...

My interpretation is that, yes, an website designer offering comparable LGBT-only services would be found in violation of CADA as that would not "equal access to publicly available goods and services" for people, based on their sexual orientation.
HN is filled with bat-shit crazy liberals from San Francisco, so they can post all the political propaganda they want but if you post conservative political pieces expect it to get flagged.

Of note - all politics is off-topic on HN. I really really wish HN would follow the rules already established and ban all politics.
A random person doing it for the lulz is already likely to get away with it, at least for a while. No need to do that much prep.
What ISP are you using?

I have Google Fiber, and I can't say I get a ton of captchas (other than sites that have them for everyone, e.g. unauthenticated contact forms). The only downside to v6 was I had to get a new router because my old one couldn't route v6 at gigabit speeds (could easily do gigabit symmetric on v4 only, but topped out at 400/400 Mbps on dual-stack).

Back when I had Spectrum (which was Charter in my area pre-merger), their v6 worked fine as well.
Thank you for sharing this experience.
Perhaps Socrates was not in fact wise….But perhaps he would have told you that.
> Some people might consider that a clickbait title

I meant your other submission. Something with "baby killer goes to women's prison" or so.

Another thing to consider: several domains are auto-flagged. Maybe bariweiss.substack.com is one of them?
Even worse, some ideas are both good and popular, and politicians still don't get behind them.
The lesson is that it’s incredibly torturous and hard to not actually serve Google Ads or Google Analytics, and that’s sad.
As someone who spends their time maintaining every aspect of my cars (oil, brakes, bearings, everything), Toyotas were by far the easiest, simplest, cheapest, most reliable and longest lasting. What a weak point to make about Tesla over Toyota.
Is it because many researchers put their ego first over the science?
It's so many times that they ridicule ideas, that often amounts to bullying and then they rarely even say sorry when it turns out they were wrong.
Why won't academia flush out these types of people?
The toxic atmosphere with no way of getting rid of bad apples is what put me off from studying.
"There is no evidence that..." is my recent favorite.
I believe that was a reference to restrictions on funding coming from GNOME
The media doesn't feel threatened by ISPs, so we don't get negative articles about ISPs. But big tech _is_ a huge threat to traditional media.
> Should an artist be compelled to create artwork depicting religious scenes? Imagine a pastor asks an artist for a graphic recreation of Jesus' crucifixion - should they be compelled to create it?

This is, I think, the better comparison that should be drawn, not so much your other points. The KKK isn't a protected category, but religion is.

An argument that someone might be compelled to make a website for a hate group is a theoretical argument about what could happen in the future. Regardless of how likely it is to happen or how reasonable the argument might be (and I do think it has some merit as an argument), it's still currently the case that a hate group doesn't fall under the same protected status behind anti-discrimination laws.

However, religion does. It's not theoretical, it's a protected category today. Want to preface that I'm not a lawyer, but from what I understand about current anti-discrimination laws, a ruling that speech for protected categories could be compelled would imply that a secular website designer could be compelled today to make a website for a religious wedding featuring religious iconography or messaging that they found offensive or traumatic. I don't know that for sure though, I'd want a 1st Amendment lawyer to chime in one way or another.

Regardless, I kind of suspect this would get overturned anyway if put to the test. I don't have the qualifications to argue confidently about it, but I suspect that the current Supreme Court would not agree with this ruling.
Or, relatedly, you ask someone a question while juggling several conversations or projects, and they reply by initiating an unprompted call, throwing away all the value of the asynchronous-communications platform you’re trying to leverage.

(Even worse is the ones who reply to a chat by sneaking up behind your desk and tapping your shoulder while you’re wearing headphones.)
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See what I mean - that comment just got flagged.

Liberals are raging pyschos.
Holy shit, 5 minutes soaked? That's intense
I also feel like that, but I'm pretty sure it's just because we get a fresh one every time we visit a different stackexchange subdomain.
Toyota should pull an Intel, and become the TSMC of automobiles. I've waggishly said I'd buy a Tesla made by Toyota. Surely there are other EV efforts that would benefit from Toyota's manufacturing prowess and capacity.

--

Solid hydrogen fuels will be the next wave. Specifically non-gaseous, before anyone has a spaz attack. We know! Storage, transportation, distribution of H2 is not practical.

Plasma Kinetics' has a light activated fuel cell. https://plasmakinetics.com There are many other nanomaterial research efforts. Like consumable silicas and reusable graphenes. Am less than noob, so can't guess which notions have most potential.

Pay attention to the technology maturation lifecycle. Solid hydrogen today is maybe comparable to Li-ion in 2005.

Imagine we hit "peak" Li-ion around 2030, producing 75 tWh annually. (Amazing, right?)

That'd buy us some time to develop solid hydrogen, which will hopefully be shipping in actual products by then. And hopefully address use cases and applications poorly served by Li-ion. Like trucking, rail, maritime, whatever.

Remove any remaining excuses for the die-hard fossil fuel hold outs.

--

Toyota just got the timing wrong. And maybe they were too optimistic about H2.

Trying to hold back EV is a dick move. Pisses me off.

Not having a portfolio of technology platforms, something to span the gap from hybrids to hydrogen, was just incompetent.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's intentional. There's an explicit hesitance on the part of mail providers to accept v6 mail, since they use IP addresses as a reputation mechanism. IPs that originate spam mail get summarily executed, and getting new IPs that have a high antispam reputation is actually quite expensive.

In other words, it's a Sybil-resistance mechanism, called Proof-of-IPv4. It works specifically because v4 addresses are scarce. v6 addresses are not nearly as such. Everything that makes IPv6 great for the Internet at large makes it terrible for mail providers. For example, because the original v6 design wanted to eat lower link layers, it reserves half the v6 address for an embedded MAC64. This never really panned out, but it's terrible for security, so every v6-capable OS nowadays will rotate addresses every few hours. The average machine will have hundreds of addresses. How do you assign a usable notion of per-IP reputation to that?

You could use v6 subnets for reputation, but there's still 64 subnet bits - enough to stick an entire IPv4 subnetwork inside of each IPv4 address. Some ISPs actually will assign a /64 per customer (because Comcast needs something to sell to Business customers), while others assign /56s or /48s. So there isn't even one granularity of subnetting that you can use for reputation tracking on v6.

Meanwhile, v4 pricing is getting worse and worse, which is great for mail providers. They don't necessarily need to turn a profit on incoming mail, but they do need to make it expensive for people who want to send lots of spam.
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2. Under the relief from royalty method, valuators forecast the revenue that the asset is expected to generate, then apply a comparable industry royalty rate and subtract taxes.

3. Under the cost method, valuators determine the cost to develop the asset (i.e. labour and materials), plus a reasonable return on that investment. This method is often used for early-stage companies where forecasts are difficult to prepare or in instances where information doesn’t exist to use the first two methods.

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[0] https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2019/01/11/a-renaiss...

[1] https://www.bdc.ca/en/articles-tools/change-ownership/sell-b...

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Maybe it would degrade after some time, or be cleaned up by the body. At worst it should stop the disease progression.
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Thanks for the correction, apparently I was mistaken.
>> biometrics are recommended.

Maybe by the NSA. Any defense attorney will tell you otherwise. If your fingerprint unlocks your phone then the cops will hold your finger to the phone. If you face unlocks your phone then they will do that too. A pin/password means you retain at least some control.

If this was an Archer episode, I'd point out that while dead people cannot divulge pins/passwords their fingerprints still work.
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m... 501 apparently
Salesforce's pricing model is quite clearly aimed at large organizations. People still consider it to be primarily a CRM that can be customized to build web apps.
Work for a Startup or Create a Startup?
Yes, and it doesn't make sense in this context.
No. He bought it for $17k and sold it for $19k IIRC.
The 'Radium Girls' cases!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls

"It is safe"...
I worked at scaleway.

This whole post is basically bullshit, "secure" transporation meant taking a random electric car (renault zoe) at the company headquarters or at DC5 and throwing hardware in the trunk.

No security in place whatsoever, servers laying in datacenter hallways fully loaded with disks, accessible to anyone.

Most of the company had access to the back office where they could just access customers' data without any kind of logging. (Internally this was called sudo mode on the online console, we had basically to click on a button to log as any customer).

The "funniest" was the corporate vpn network being shared by the internal datacenter network which meant any employee had, for instance, full access to all the home made switches management interfaces which had no access control whatsoever, it happened that employees stumbled accross this and wondering what it was (LOL), there was even a button to upload and flash (!) a firmware.

The upper-management was terribly incompetent and would discard any kind of issue that was not affecting sales in the immediate term as not important (security or otherwise).
Appreciate the fact check and correction :)
It's prohibited to bring phones into places where you will have these kind of conversations
It's different than Android, and different from itself pre-iOS13. It is a new behavior that cannot be toggled.
> Meta: it used to be that any society used to have fairly consistent cultural references that could be rely upon for analogies and such

Yeah, and it was mostly limited to the Bible, some classical mythology, and Shakespeare.
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This always leaves the regular issue we have when it comes to Ajit Pai; was this incompetence of corruption? Always a close run thing with that dude.

Edit: surprising number of Ajit Pai defenders here. Didn’t see that coming.
Not that this matters much, as the chance to get an IP address delisted is pretty slim anyway.

I've completely given up to try to get my personal mail server delisted, as I can't even get Microsoft to tell me why they blacklisted it in the first place.

Instead I'm nowadays just rejecting all incoming emails originating from Microsoft with a message telling the sender to use another non-Microsoft email account.

It's just stupid. I never had problems with any other mail provider, but trouble with Microsoft as long as I can think of.
Don't forget memes. Not the current pop-culture meaning of the term, but the original Dawkins version, which stretches to cover things like mass-hysteria.
Fuck Fauci.

He deserves to be executed in times square.

He funded the CCP to create bio-weapons. It is all fact. Seriously, the guy needs to hang.
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What, you don't want a one-time donation of 2 dollars worth of bitcoin?
It's beautiful! Thank you!
You can torrent things just fine if you're not torrenting illegal/pirated stuff.
TSMC 2nm chip plans announced
They've got some weird obsession with hydrogen.. even recently I've seen a lot of online advertising for their hydrogen vehicle the Mirai which is wildly impractical in the US and probably anywhere else.
Sounds like a great case for MVPs and startups. Perfect for basic CRUD web apps I imagine. Also the extensibility with plugins means you can still "code" in things you need, which helps with edge cases.
only if the engine doesn't need lead for lubrication of the valves/anything else
This is an absurd hit piece. I promise you that Ajit Pai did not personally review each census block to determine if it needed service or not. That happens at the staff level.

Plus, the assertion in the headline that Pai "mismanaged $9 billion fund" is bloviation -- the FCC is simply asking some grant recipients to return a small portion of the money (6%) based on revised maps. Honestly, do we need to politicize everything?
>Curiously, just mentioning the existence of Windows LTSC / Windows LTSB used to get me four to five downvotes as an expected behavior

Just to be clear, you expect to get downvotes when mentioning LTSB? This does not match my experience, and I also made several LTSB mentions.
Far too expansive a question to be answered in an HN comment.

Alan Cohen's Prototype to Product is the most comprehensive guide I've found.
My ISP may treat me like crap but my ISP doesn't stop me from using the internet how I wish (aside from criminal activity, of course).
Specific facts don't really matter in this case. What matters is that Toyota is engaging in behavior (lobbying against EV adoption mandates) that its prime customer demographics (in the West at least) consider icky.

Because of how media works these days writing about that is worth money. There's a lot of rage clicks and eyeball hours to be gleaned by pointing out to these people that yes, Toyota, a brand you people have been putting on a pedestal for a decade will sociopathically act in its own interest including influencing legislators, just like every other bigCo.
> I've got no problem being wrong, but when I spend a significant amount of time trying to respond to something in good faith and then someone comes along with their four accounts and downvotes every comment I got

It doesn't even need to be 4 accounts. Just a single lazy downvote can be infuriating due to the asymmetry in effort and influence.

The root cause is downvotes having been made into a combination of multiple things; yes it is a shortcut for expressing disagreement, but it is also a metric used for decreasing the salience of a point (e.g. in HN). Imagine how much of history of science, religion, philosophy would be lost if disagreeability of a point alone was a good heuristic for its attention-worthiness.

Additionally, since downvotes are an expression of disagreement, they are just opinions that have privileged representations in the UI, but they can't be disagreed with like other opinions. It does not build dialectic, it kills it by not allowing responses.

Ultimately we are trying to dynamically build a model of at least attention and content value based on collective intelligence that can articulate on 2 dimensions.

My humble proposal would be double the size of dimensions; have up-down votes for dis-agreement, which require justification, which can be responded to, and back-fore votes for salience dynamics, i.e. foreground if "I think more people should read this" and background if "I think people shouldn't waste time on this idea".
Making drivers feel safer requires less focus on the “driving task” which IMO is a huge win.

Accidents happen frequently from driver fatigue and distraction
Same, playing a lot of this game once gave me a sort of dizzy feeling while looking up at the blue sky, like I was looking forward/out rather than up. Only happened once, but I will never forget it.
I've been told that these fonts are actually doing italics "right", as in that originally meant having a "handwritten" look, not just being slanted.

But a quick internet search doesn't produce any obvious result proving or disproving that statement. Maybe someone here knows?
I haven’t visited /. for years so maybe out of date, but IIRC this was largely helped by separating voting from type - so even if a comment gets a lot of upvotes for being funny, my personal settings of “ignore funny comments” means I still get a decently high-quality signal, which is something I’ve not seen anywhere else
> Shifting goal posts from “you can’t” to “you can’t without X” once someone points out the first was factually incorrect is considered disingenuous by many too.

First off, you're making a huge assumption here.

Second, the only goalpost shifting here is your attempt to pass off complex and temporary workarounds intended for developers as resulting in a device that is somehow the same as jailbroken devices. This is incorrect for the obvious reasons pointed out already.

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with jailbreak and didn't know apps installed via jailbreak don't need to be constantly renewed and resigned? Installing apps long term is still something you can't do, as I originally said.

Attempting to pass off a lesser solution that doesn't come close to matching what I originally mentioned and pretending it is the same is dishonest and disingenuous.
Also the BT is often turned on after an update. I know this because I’ve never ever used it, therefore never had it on purposely.
How much of Toyota's very good outcomes are a matter of Toyota manufacturing versus Toyota design (to including continual improvement based on experience in the field)?

Many of Tesla's teething pains are self-inflicted at the design stage rather than being solely a manufacturing problem.
8 gallons of 100LL contains about 4 grams of lead, enough to measurably lower the IQ of over 100000 children.
> but you are biting off learning a complexity you may not be ready for.

I really think people forget how complex it is to manage VMs in any sort of reliable, reproducible fashion. In my opinion, there's a lot more complexity in configuring your process management, SSH, key management, host metrics, log exfiltration, reverse proxy, etc than there is in using a managed Kubernetes offering like EKS or GKE. You end up reinventing a lot of things with VMs to get to a state that these managed Kubernetes services give you out of the box.

This doesn't diminish the complexity of using Kubernetes, but the "simpler alternative" is something like Heroku, not EC2 (to be clear, you didn't advocate for EC2, I'm rebutting the predictable, popular argument).