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> The devilish details come in decisions about who should bear those costs. But even if they fell wholly on the purchaser, consumers would, I suspect, be willing to pay a few dollars more for a gadget if that meant reliable access to software for it—indefinitely.

I think the author has a hard time realizing the cost of what they are asking for.

Infinite support is not going to cost just a few dollar more, it will cost, well infinite money. But even if we take "forever" to mean something like 30 years, it's a crazy amount of work that only goes up every year, as finding/retaining someone that knows how the system works becomes harder, and just keeping track with the technological advancement also becomes harder.
Sounds like initial plans are to not take a fee for Bitcoin payments. Which is awesome but a bit surprising.

I wonder whether they'll be able to keep this fee-less over the longer term. If/when they start facilitating billions of dollars moving per year, I'd imagine intense pressure from shareholders to take a cut.
With two Logitech multi-bluetooth keyboards (1-2-3 selector) talking to two or three computers, multiple use-cases would be covered.
Another stat I saw, I believe in the FT, is that China is building more than double the homes of the EU and US combined.
Op here, I totally agree we need to re-think keyboard ergonomics! Millions of people have pain from the design of these things. I am so happy the article sparked a little conversation.
Symbian Toys apps now are open-source
Your example is a bad one. People still need to schedule around other people's schedules, like other meetings, lunch breaks, or whatever. But generally you know that people are in the office approximately between 9 and 5. Individual results may vary but that's really really obvious.

The idea that UTC is superior and just looking up everyone's offsets is ridiculous especially when dealing with multiple timezones. Regular time gives CONTEXT about things like daylight, which are appropriate business hours, when do people go to sleep, when do people wake up, when is approximately dinner time, when kids approximately get off school, etc. I can ask Siri for Moscow's current time and Tokyo's current time and get all that context instantly. You don't with UTC at all. Everyone knows it's 5:55pm UTC but I have no context as to what that means for them. You can't just share offsets because you won't know the context.
The healthy aspect is in not overeating meat, which is well proven by modern science to be a significant public health risk in various developed countries.
the CDC says the vaccine is effective at preventing infection

the article’s point seems to be: “ To spread the coronavirus, you have to have the coronavirus. And vaccinated people are far less likely to have the coronavirus—period. “

so i’d be interested to know of a source that says vaccinated people are equally likely to become infected.
It appears that the underlying question is over whether fuel economy fines should be inflation-adjusted. From https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-autos-emissions-idUSK...:

The decision - announced eight days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office - follows a U.S. appeals court ruling in August that overturned the Trump administration’s 2019 decision to suspend a regulation that more than doubled penalties for automakers failing to meet fuel efficiency requirements.

Congress in 2015 ordered federal agencies to adjust civil penalties to account for inflation. In response, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued rules to raise fines to $14 from $5.50 for every 0.1 mile per gallon new cars and trucks consume in excess of required standards.

Automakers protested that 2016 hike, saying it could increase industry compliance costs by $1 billion annually.

That's $1B out of Tesla's pocket, since they are a major recipient of fuel economy credits (the other side of the fuel economy penalties).

You can see the status of all current penalties and credits here:
https://one.nhtsa.gov/cafe_pic/cafe_pic_home.htm
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It would be also nice if they made a repairable car, and not fill the landfills...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-tVM9lz4h4
The Diablo 3 real-money auction house was better implemented than most NFT schemes. At least that involved an actual transfer of virtual goods.
I have given up hoping he will ever finish the "zones" series. It's been ten years since _Children of the Sky_.

Better almost that he never wrote CotS and left us hanging. :(
I'm sure this includes minimums for miles/kwh for electrics, right?
The author dismisses clicky keyboards as "too loud for screen shares", but I'm not sure that's a problem with a good mic. You get truly impressive noise reduction. https://www.benkuhn.net/vc/. My own experience is that with even a decent mic, I never used mute, and could do things like calls while my son watched TV in the next room (not separated by a door, but by a wide open entryway). My coworkers testimony made me clear that while it was distracting for me, they weren't hearing the noise.
my mobos all have all the LED standards. no leds connect tho :)

I'm waiting for the consumerist crowd to port decent linux control so i can use the LEDs to show system load/status etc.

Ironically, the "gammer" cases lack even a HDD light
So what is the solution?
Google (and others) are clearly not competent to implement a good algorithm, so why the hell not give the unfortunate users a simple way to demand a human to check that your image or words are not criminal?

Sony did this to me, they blocked my son account for 2 months,no reason why or a way to appeal. The good part is that I now have a reason to not buy Sony products again, the bad part is that until it happens to you , you will think that there are millions of users and only few are affected by this so for sure it will not happen to you.
Just check my pihole there and curry 44.7% of the requests were blocked.

I've seen it as high as 73%.
I had the kinesis advantage 3 for a little over a week. I have to say by far the most comfortable keyboard I have every used. I returned it because I didn't have the spare time to "adjust" to the layout. Its funny its been months and I still miss the feeling lol.
It seems to be getting a lot worse lately. I've been browsing with no-script for years both on mobile and desktop but I think I have caught a case of no-script fatigue.

HN is one of my main news sources and due to its link submission nature I frequently visit sites I have never visited before. It seems like 90 percent of submissions need at least one round of whitelisting just to see the text content. And frequently a second or third round to get embedded code snippets or other relevant content to load.

It's tiring and I noticed that I frequently just give up and copy paste the url into an alternative browser without blockers.
With noted consequences like nano-scale warefare among the bots, and wasting diseases caused by chronic exposure to "toner".
You say you've been struggling even though you've tried Obsidian. It has support for code blocks. I don't know about a rest API, but if you want to use CLI tools, the files are already stored in markdown format on your hard drive. I use CLI tools on my Obsidian files all the time.
Devices similar to this were a major plot point in the second book of the 'Zones of Thought' sci-fi series by Vernor Vinge[1]. It is a really great series that is often recommended on HN. My favorite thing about the series (as it relates to this story) is the way Vinge writes about about the consequences of uncovering code/programs/hardware that was developed thousands or millions of years in the past. There are so many layers to these ancient programs that you never truly know what you are unleashing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Localize...
I would recommend the corne. It's cheap to build and once you get used to 40% split ortho you won't look back. As a software engineer it has been my daily driver for years.
This seems to good to be true. What’s the catch?
I don't even know how the carbon tax started, so could you explain how it ended?
Security token defeats all that.
NVIDIA is well hated by the industry. They tend to screw their partners. They're also very aggressive with litigation.

I am not surprised Apple hates their guts, too.
I guess it has something to do with render optimisations and Groningen being below sea level :)
I would argue the point is Amazon is doing this to fight Google's mining and neither company has your data/experience in mind.
Well, about pharma: I believe at least one person with veto power at FDA should try the pill personally. And the pharma company management should be able to take it. This would have helped with OxyContin, among others.
PHP lets you have a piece of server code that can see the local variables of the client code it's enclosed in? And it's all reactive?

That's amazing!
Congrats on finding and resolving your carpal tunnel problem. I switched to a basic wireless trackball[1] about 5 years into my career (10 years in industry) which has kept me mostly pain free since I can avoid moving my wrist.

Still might need to look for a better keyboard and a slightly better trackball, but for anyone reading this with minor pain: don't ignore it. Try new things early and try to reduce your pain, even minor twinges as much as possible early, since, well, I expect to be in this game for the long haul.

[1] Logitech M570
While it's worth pointing out the limits of our knowledge, I wonder why you appear to think it's just as likely that the photo will eliminate the racial bias? If studies have shown that a black-sounding name means fewer jobs, I would think the default hypothesis, until proven otherwise, would be that a black photo would result in the same ends.

Thinking that it might as well go the other way seems to imply that there's just something weird about names, and that people don't really have racial biases. But this charitable view of the world has been shown false time and again.

In any case, a version of the study with live people, instead of photos, has also been done, and, not surprisingly, shown the same result:

> Other studies have also examined race and employment. In a 2009 study, Devah Pager, Bruce Western and Bart Bonikowski, all now sociologists at Harvard, sent actual people to apply for low-wage jobs. They were given identical résumés and similar interview training. Their sobering finding was that African-American applicants with no criminal record were offered jobs at a rate as low as white applicants who had criminal records.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/upshot/the-measuring-stic...
I like this feeling in my forearm bones when I just strike and hang my axe in a swollen vain of a pure and juicy Gold-pressed latinum of the Internet.

Naw, no judgement here - it's just a _gut feeling_ of a high-resolution detection/detector of the decline of the civilization-type-of-situation.

again, namaste to us all \m/
Can't always trust what Elon says, but allegedly he has lobbied Trump and Biden to institute a carbon tax https://electrek.co/2021/02/11/elon-musk-asked-biden-adminis...
It's a spectrum of course. Some people thoroughly understand it and still think it's rather boring or dumb. Some people thoroughly understand it and, like yourself, think it's a revolutionary game changer. And most people don't understand it and either (a) think it's dumb and downvote it, or (b) think it's awesome and are fanatical about it.

(edit: spelling)
As opposed to actually spending their time building useful practical things?
Per dictionary.com, the first definition of "advertisement" is "a paid announcement, as of goods for sale, in newspapers or magazines, on radio or television, or on the internet". So, their own website is not an advertisement by that definition.

Their second definition: "a public notice, especially in print". So, yes, by that definition.

The second definition is second for a reason, though: The first usage is more common. When people say "Tesla doesn't advertise", they mean the first definition. Trying to conflate it with the second definition does not take the discussion anywhere useful.
This is, for better or for worse, a directly regressive tax in a way that is politically toxic.
anybody have a clue as to the reason?

Seems extreme, most states are going back to normal
When I support game developers by buying their games/DLCs, I do want to maximize the amount that actually goes to the developer instead of being captured by rent seekers.
Are you certain your benchmarks are correct? The GoAccess FAQ states that it parses over 100,000 lines/second [1]. While this figure depends on the hardware used, this still is massively faster than the figure quoted in the README. Benchmarking is quite technical if you want consistent results, so some more information on the benchmarking methodology used here would be much appreciated.

[1] https://goaccess.io/faq#performance
For anyone else who'd never heard of carbon credits:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkobayashisolomon/2020/03/13...

So, if these carbon credits exist, is it possible to coinify them and boost their value? Because it would seem the more valuable they are, the more financial incentive there would be to reduce carbon emissions.
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That seems like it would be an extremely regressive tax and disproportionately affect lower income Americans, no?
If they got away with murder before the tax, how is changing the punishment going to make them not get away with it?
I've been using a Moonlander exclusively on my desktop since November 2020 while having no trouble continuing to use a Macbook Air or my old Acer laptop.

The differently placed modifier keys on the laptops screw me up infinitely more than going from an ortholinear split to a laptop and back.
I would like to know your motivation. We shouldn't all change our clocks so that the sun is overhead at 1:00 unless there's a good reason. I suggest that if you like the sun to be up for more of your waking day, that the best solution is for you to wake up an hour earlier, and go to bed an hour earlier. It is exactly equivalent, except for the numbers that show up on your watch...which you could just set forward on your own if the numbers are the thing you're looking for.
I don't know if you meant it this way, but your statement comes across very negatively. Just a reminder that the carbon credits are doing exactly what they're supposed to do: give a leg up to green companies.
How would they take a cut?
"Nanobots Used to Track Air Quality Ironically Make Air Quality Much Worse"

Sounds like an Onion headline honestly.
I think the followup question in these cases is whether consumers can get the data _off_ of the main websites.

I do see a decent argument for companies being a little bit more conservative about what information they put in emails when this kind of information collection is largely invisible to the general public. It's just important to balance that against data silo worries by making it easy for customers to export their data and hook purchase confirmations up to other services that users might actually want to have access.

I'm not convinced Amazon makes these kinds of decisions out of a concern for user privacy (especially since Amazon isn't actually consistent about hiding this information in their emails as far as I can tell), but I'm sure some retailers are.
true, less people able to afford a Tesla on the roads, maybe we can build a nice walking lane with the proceeds so the good folks doing the gardening at the presidio can make it to work.
I read that as just more information not any sort of justification. I reacted more negatively to your response than to the parent.
I have a handy clip demonstrating the problem as it exists today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZFKOzqptgE
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Arstechnica banning people for questioning vaccine data
Why has the scientific process and communication of the results of that data been completely destroyed with Covid and turned political? If you do not state unequivocally that the vaccines are our savior you are labelled an anti-vaxxer and banned from even technical sites like Arstechnica.

Mentioning testimony from the 8hr FDA conference call on Sep 17 questions why we don't actually have data proving the vaccine is safe for those under 65? (see https://youtu.be/WFph7-6t34M?t=15576). Providing this info labels you an anti-vaxxer and banished even when it comes directly from the FDA advisors.

Why does the US require people that are already immune to get a vaccine even though studies prove you are as good or better protected than those that got the vaccine? See British Medical Journal: https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2101. Even though this is basic immunology knowledge this also gets you labelled as an anti-vaxxer.

Why do people always try to prove the covid vaccines are beneficial by saying your anti-body levels are higher after getting a covid vaccine or booster when this is NOT how you actually measure long term resistance? Anyone with basic human immunology knowledge knows that anti-bodies always drop over time. They are produced when they are needed to fight off an invader when they are detected. If anti-bodies never dropped from all the invaders we are exposed to all the time our blood would be as thick as molasses.

I fear for our future now that it is common to simply banish anyone who doesn't go along with the status quo.
Using CodeQL to detect client-side vulnerabilities in web applications
https://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
The problem with this type of system in my experience is that it’s great until you hit a bug, and then you realize you have no idea what’s going on under all the automagical stuff and you go crazy
Lightning network theoretically makes micropayments possible, and that should be celebrated for enabling new ways of online monetization that the tech world writ large can explore.

Imagine if you could buy access to a paywalled news article for $0.02 (on an article-by-article basis) instead of having to purchase a monthly subscription. Or imagine being able to pay $0.10 to watch a particular episode of a show without needing to subscribe to the streaming service. How many people would prefer doing that instead of using current SaaS subscription models (which exist largely because it's a huge hassle to implement credit card-based micropayments)?

Subscription businesses should be on guard: micropayments open up advertising-independent ways for creators to monetize content. With all the well-deserved criticism of ad-based businesses in recent years (particularly social media), it's possible that micropayments enable business models that don't rely on ads the way many online businesses have up to this point. That's huge, and kudos to Twitter for taking the leap.
Having client installed malware detection would be the step after blocking ads. Whitelisting JS would make 90% of the contemporary Internet, including essentials like Gmail and Office365, unusable.
Wireless charging doesn't mean that there's no cable. It just means that the cable terminates in a coil instead of a plug.
How about breathing one in?
>If the money supply is diluted, that means inflation

Depends. This is like saying pissing in a lake is going to cause flooding.

The appetite for most major currencies is virtually unlimited. Evidenced by QE for the last 20 years in US and in Japan for like 40 years.

Also country debt is overblown. most of the time its internal and is just negative of people's savings.

Money should technically come back to government. if not its considered as debt but in really its in people's savings.
My first thought was about A Deepness in the Sky.

Like, the implications of these things are fascinating and scary.
It absolutely would, and they've been pushing for that for ages. New taxes just aren't tenable in government right now, even if it means avoiding the worst of Climate Change which impacts everyone
I for one welcome our new nanobot overlords.
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Because you actually use the letters C h i n and a in your post and his replies do not.
When I broke my clavicle, I rigged up a second keyboard that I could use with my arm in a sling: https://live-fts.flickr.com/photos/lancefisher/4293591069/in...

It worked really well! The biggest downside was that I had to use modifier keys on the same keyboard as the key I was modifying. e.g. right shift and l to get a capital L.
Part of me wishes they would say what the reason is in the email. That might make Google think twice about this kind of thing.
Upvote just for even thinking about using local storage and a universal file format.
> the symbol of Communism

Haha, I laughed pretty hard at the idea that someone thinks an idea has some sort of official symbol. What's the symbol for capitalism in your mind, the USD sign?
>It seems to me the ad providers would have a huge incentive to counter this narrative and to make damned sure ads are safe. I have no idea why that's not happening.

In the current model they have last second auctions with the ad going to the highest bidder. It's hard to reliably screen them in that kind of situation. I find it quite scary to have someone not very tech smart download software without an ad blocker - you get one proper download link and about 10 ads saying download here linking to malware.
Another instance of Musk not believing in the free market.

The other instances is when the companies take government money and contracts.

It appears he only wants to keep governments out when it suits him, like exploiting employees.
I think it's comparable to a marketing brochure.
There is a really easy solution to that - tax carbon, and put 100% of the revenue into a single bucket, divide that by the number of citizens, and give each citizen that amount.

This means that it is a net positive for anyone who uses less than the average amount of carbon, and incentivizes everyone to use less. Poor people use way less than the average amount of carbon, so it will be a net positive for them.
Lithium ion battery toxicity is…

Why is this a thing? I shouldn’t need to worry about swallowing gnat-sized batteries! But it’s Not Good, yes.
I hope they will do it. I see Rob McGinnis (their CEO) has a PhD. Did he publish some papers on this topic before?
Same for me, hence years ago I started using two mice.

It took a few weeks to operate the mouse well with left hand, but now I'm fairly ok with left handed usage. Still using right hand mouse for high precision gestures and when I need left hand on keyboard (when using Tab). Unfortunately the choice for left handed mice is very low and they're expensive;I use a symmetrical Kensington trackball with the left hand.
You actually hit the nail on the head. Touch devices do not make up the majority of existing Windows devices. My 43" monitor is never going to be touch.

It is like if Apple decided that a third of all interactions on the next iPad OS would require you to plug in a mouse.