skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, this isn't true. The hardware necessary to run a competitive search engine increases over time on a massive scale because the size of the internet grows faster than the price of hardware can fall.

This is why search engines have consolidated into Google and Bing. It is not currently possible to create a search engine.

> The number of "megawatts" you need to serve a given number of ads is exponentially decreasing over time.

This is completely backwards. This is not theoretical, this is a fact. Please understand that I spent half a decade building bigger and bigger datacenters because the rate of infrastructure expansion to keep pace with growth is absolutely massive.

> You can't ignore the companies they bought out when you say the others went out of business.

They did not buy out their primary competitor. I have an insider view here and while I can't share the details I can say that you really have no idea what you're talking about.
Can't Sail Away from Cyber Attacks: 'Sea-Hacking' from Land
My HP inkjet will not print any color or black if the “photo black” cartridge is removed. I consider this a similar “greed move” by HP.
IMO Wikipedia is a bias source for anything politics related. Heck the Wikipedia page for its confounder even mentions this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger#:~:text=In%20a%20....

I have found this site to be much more reliable when looking for media bias.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-times/
Unhappy with prices, ranchers look to build own meat plants
They better bring some "pro" memory and IO along with it, they won't be replacing my Thinkpad unless I've got 64 gigs of ram in my backpack.
or because they're underserved by the fentanyl industry, anybody got a boat?

(this is multiple levels of facetiousness, like is every drug user in a developed nation escaping squalor? lol.)
Actually, they don't need to be opensource. Having free firmware or being a simple machine to obey is enough. There are good printers listed on h-node. People mock fsf ryf certification but I think it is very much valid.
You can also use the unifiedpush version (https://unifiedpush.org/users/distributors/gotify/) of gotify with your own server as a UP distributor for other apps.
Complementing this article, there's also a great post mortem article about Age of Empires:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/pc/the-game-developer-archives...

In the section "Things That Went Wrong Or We Could Have Done Better", it mentions as the final point an insight I often think about:

"8. We didn’t take enough advantage of automated testing. In the final weeks of development, we set up the game to automatically play up to eight computers against each other. Additionally, a second computer containing the development platform and debugger could monitor each computer that took part. These games, while randomly generated, were logged so that if anything happened, we could reproduce the exact game over and over until we isolated the problem. The games themselves were allowed to run at an accelerated speed and were left running overnight. This was a great success and helped us in isolating very hard to reproduce problems. Our failure was in not doing this earlier in development; it could have saved us a great deal of time and effort. All of our future production plans now include automated testing from Day One."
Sure, but it's not like there's an infinite amount of things it can be. Catalytic converters have a few ingredients, and it's possible that we know that the harm from all of those is imminent in miniscule quantities.

I'm not saying that's how it is, I'm just saying that it's plausible that they know it's harmful without knowing exactly what it is.

"I drank something from your poison collection, but I don't know what." "Oh no! You're in grave danger." "How do you know, if I don't know what it was?"
Do those run or are supported on fairphone? The only thing I found when googling "fairphone4 alternative OS" was mentions of /e/.
I've been watching a French show Bureau which has a lot of hacking/spying technobabble, but as far as those things go I think it has some interesting actually plausible things.

- Locate a phone using discovery data from nearby Bluetooth devices under adversary's control

- Track/access a turned-off phone via a secondary battery-powered GPS module (or similar, like in new iPhones)

- Localize nearby phones via IMSI catchers

The main implausible line of plot devices there are the ability to access any target device at will, just a matter of time/effort. This alludes to organizations having access to zero-day exploits but that's still very unlikely to work against a random phone.
Remember: E-mail is a todo list created by other people. Obviously do the most pertinent stuff first, but be cautious of 'cruft' email that slows you down.
I feel like I spend more time making MacOS like Linux than I do making Linux like MacOS. Certainly wastes plenty of company time, but my boss doesn't need to know that :)
100-200 is pretty low for a busy attorney. Your firm will have a DMS of some kind (likely iManage or NetDocuments—hopefully not Worldox or something similarly outdated). Most people let the emails accumulate through the day and file them first thing in the morning, at the end of the day, or while on conference calls.

My tips are to enable the CC-yourself option in Outlook to make sure you catch all of your sent emails, and to otherwise keep your sent emails in your sent mailbox until you record your time.

A lot of attorneys hold off on filing emails entirely until they put their time in (i.e. record down their hours for billing purposes). But typically all you really need is what is in your sent email box, which can then be deleted. And keeping up on filing your other emails helps other attorneys and makes you look good.
It's not performance as there's the lack of intent to have others hear it and few will. You can play music for yourself in public even if others overhear.
Teen Girls Are Developing Tics. Doctors Say TikTok Could Be a Factor
I stood one of these up last year to play around with it. It works flawlessly but the Android app destroyed my battery life. If that has gotten better, it's probably a fantastic solution for DIY real-time push.
These articles are mostly a hollywoodization of the gaming industry. You can see that each of them could just as well have been written about movies and actors as about games. This seems to be extremely common among journalists in California, but I haven't seen it much elsewhere, I wonder if the problem is cross pollination between them and the movie industry there. Most people who play games doesn't care about games in this way, so to them these articles aren't substantive.
This reminds me so much of the Gene Wilder Willy Wonka Tunnel Scene
To me it is a reminder that all cornerstones of society are entangled in this battle for rights and freedoms, others include

Sideloading on iOS, alternative app stores etc

Farmers getting access to diagnostics for their tractors

Not having to buy subscription-ink (looking at HP here...)

Standardized charging systems (USB-C) over proprietary cables like Lightning.

Amazon fighting the definition of a library - they mostly stock books and have a weaker digital loaning system, Amazon has a vested interest here.

I'm not sure why - as a global species - there's not more effort to tighten up the rules in this regard. We know business are user-hostile when considering greater profits and we see this daily, yet only now does the EU consider, in another 3 years, that a single cable might be a good idea to reduce waste.

We really need more open access to the hardware and software of products on the market, and certain behaviors should not just be illegal, but require a maximum month-long turnaround to producing a commit that fixes the problem or face automatic daily fines until it is fixed and rolled out to all customers.

Seriously, I suspect this could be fixed by most people on this forum very quickly.
Given that California is in drought all the time, I don't see how this changes long term planning.

FYI, there is a fun wikipedia page that lists California droughts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_in_California

The first sentence is:

"Throughout history, California has experienced many droughts, such as 1841, 1864, 1924, 1928–1935, 1947–1950, 1959–1960, 1976–1977, 1986–1992, 1999-2004, 2006–2010, 2011–2017, 2018 and 2020-[1][2] 2021. "

So the idea that OMG, we didn't realize there might be a drought - doesn't sound very plausible to me.
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I dig this channel, but I found this particular explanation hard to follow. That's why I'm about to give the SciAm article a read.
Honestly I think this is good and inevitable part of living with renewable energy. Renewable really is different - there are times of the day and days of the year when electricity is scarce and expensive, other windy sunny days when its virtually free.

People will either pay more or save money by changing their lifestyle to match the weather and seasons. Variable pricing and demand management means people don't wash their clothes or charge their cars on cold nights, they charge during the day or when its windy. Maybe people have to pay more to use AC on the hottest days and people will choose to go to the beach/mall/office instead.
Facebook "doesn't sell your data" but I would argue they rent it out to the highest bidder.
This guy already discovered this:

https://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking...
Would you accept a serology test instead of proof of vaccination for these individuals?
If only reality would listen to reason.
This comment reminds of when Patrick Moore defended glyphosate and said you could drink a whole quart of it and it wouldn't hurt you - then when offered one by the reporter doing the interview danced around refusing to do it on the record. Good times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWM_PgnoAtA
Why continue to use weasel words (i.e., an equivocal word used to deprive a statement of its force or to evade a direct commitment) like 'climate change'? What does that mean? Aside from the truism that the climate is always changing (who can possibly disagree?) what specifically is denied and which values are accepted? Estimations of the warming due to carbon dioxide comprise a wide range of values not changed much in 20 years. Met Office UK states that the warming parameter (ECS) has a 'likely' range of 1.5 - 4.5°C and is extremely unlikely to be below 1°C and very unlikely greater than 6°C. The wide range accounts for all evidence.

Stating this is not denying anything. It's accepting the complexity of the issue rather than indulging in emotive cliches.
Based on the experience of ~500 email/day: I check emails every 1-2 hours and act on it in 5 minutes.

- stuff I can immediately delete

- stuff I can respond with one liner on the spot

- stuff I need to do some work on, I leave it separate for later that day or I forward it to myself for later

This is based on urgency and importance, that is easy to assess. Reading an email takes from a few seconds to a minute, 200 emails should not take more than 30 minutes to check. If you leave it to pile up, it is harder to manage (at least for me).

One more thing I do is I ask my team no avoid sending me emails I don't need to act on and I don't need to be informed about. I also tell them to put me in CC if I don't need to act. It reduces the number of emails I receive and it makes it easier to evaluate. On average I have less than 50 emails per day that I really need to read and less than 25 are important.
In general multi-function printers tend to be a bit crap even without these sort of shenanigans. Most people would be better off buying the appropriate device for each function.
This happens quite often with accidental explosions I've noticed. Explosions are not as lethal as you might expect, unless someone deliberately ensured that it caused a lot of damage.
That’s a good idea. I love it.

However, if you are client facing it probably isn’t viable because external clients don’t follow the sort of internal logic that Hanselman can assume as an employee of Microsoft.

M&A clients will use email without regard to the internal hierarchy of the law firm. They will send it to the partner and copy a bunch of other people who are the ones who must act.

And the law partner and the clients won’t take “I wasn’t on the TO line” as an excuse more than once and maybe not at all.
Sorry, 2k is a typo. I want to ask about the difference between 2880x1080 and 4k resolution (as I'm using a 2880x1080 display and I know the crispness is indeed a lot better than 1920x1200). I thought a 2880x1080 is already very good and further increase in resolution would be barely noticeable.
I had a very low spec and cheap 11" Chromebook and found it was quickly my favorite because it was very portable.
Because automatic content detection suck really bad, and a kid in that position might be detected as child porn by a bot

I've had multiple pics flagged by discord as "graphic" even though none were graphic, the last one was a close up picture of a coin held between my fingers
The article says that the substances in the powder are known to cause cancer. And that there are shorter-term lung and circulatory issues being seen in the users already, just as you would imagine with all the heavy metal content.

And no, "poor people" being out of it, sometimes even not eating, for days on end, isn't exactly good for them, even if chosen voluntarily. Maybe especially if chosen voluntarily.
...which is so obviously not a problem Apple faces?

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/10/22428899/apple-suppliers-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-u...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/29/lens-te...
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Anecdotal counterpoint, but as someone who had to use a MBP for work, OSX has given me way more random problems. Installing a system update on an MBP still gives me anxiety and I would avoid it for as long as possible, since I never managed to do one without _something_ inexplicably breaking.
> hoisted up a distress flag (likely an inverted Union Jack)

This really feels like a needlessly invented detail. There are accepted signals for distress, and you'd assume a lighthouse would be equipped for nautical signalling. Flying the union jack upside down is not one of them - it makes a very poor signal as it's easy to do accidentally and difficult to spot from a distance (or even up close, for all but the mostly keenly-eyed).

Just say a distress flag. It's a ball and square for those that know, and it's perfectly descriptive of its function for those that don't. Inventing further detail is jarring for anyone who can mentally picture what the union jack would look like inverted.
Great comment.

> but the effects kept going away without more stimulation, so even though he was supposed to be "cured" after a few months and require no further treatment

This describes most mental health treatments, especially the drugs.

> internal family systems therapy

I'm a huge fan of this, too. Did wonders for my relationships.

> that story of the Navy SEAL

This is fascinating. Given what you read about these guys these days, needing serious professional help doesn't exactly surprise me.
Actually, on windows apps that implement the DPI awareness API's aren't scaled by the OS at all, and if they implement them properly they even rescale when dragged between monitors of different DPI. So, that is arguably better than the way macOS does it, but only for apps that do the right thing, which isn't all of them. And when they don't implement it correctly, the outcome of OS-level scaling is often worse than on macOS.
Reason working its will on reality is the definition of progress.
Ah okay, that makes sense. I thought it was somehow offensive to a human and was wondering why.
> A colonel of the National Police who prefers to remain anonymous points to an initial chemical analysis from a laboratory in Kinshasa. It has found that bombé includes a mixture of different substances like tramadol, dolarene, nitrile, ampicillin and, in some cases, traces of heroin.

So do we know that the elements from the car exhaust filter are.. the active ingredients? Or just there for a certain je ne sais quoi?
the across-the-board, badge-wearing pay raise was specifically enacted by US Pres. Bush the Younger. I was irritated to find out that a state policeman here with a 2-year community college degree, started pay at more money than I had made after years of high-skill small companies. It was from Texas, and the rumor at the time was that the Bush family admired the military security in Saudi Arabia and sought to be more like that.
This is apparently the trend right now, and these utilities are already there. What's still hard to do is the "glue" that connects the infrastructure/scaling side with the building blocks: that's "still" developers/devops work.
Maybe a vertical approach will likely work in practice: like having a platform that allows idea to app in 1 week or less with minimal human intervention (authentication/signup, authorization/permissions/credentials, marketing automation and analytics, billing, email collect, static pages templates, CRM, media storage and delivery, infrastructure and scaling) in a specific domain, let's say for example in the edtech space.
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Depending if your mail is internal or not, route all external messages or messages not from certain domains to an external filter. Check that less often.

When you meet with people who email you a lot, sort your inbox by person, and with the list in front of you take a moment to ask them “is there anything you’ve sent me that we need to talk about?”

Set up alerts /notifications for VIPs.
The Inflation Debate, Continued
I never compared the quest to a device released 4 years before it, so I guess the question is why you think that's a reply or why being better than a device released 4 years before is an endorsement.

The pixel 4 is better than the original pixel. This shouldn't surprise anyone. Extrapolate.
The republicans passed a resolution asserting that the climate does indeed change.
standalone VR is pretty bad. On top of that, oculus is bad.
Not sure what the OP means, but perhaps it has something to do with a higher incidence of war and such during the reigns of queens than kings.

But I would be careful calling monarchy despotic as if it were synonymous. Democracies can be far worse. The mob is dangerous and easily shaped through propaganda (as we are witnessing). You can hide from Nero, but the mob is everywhere. Besides, feudal dynastic monarchies aren't Enlightenment despots. Feudal lords, the nobility, the Church, and having to consider the consequences of your actions for yourself during a long reign (vs. 4 year term) as well as the reign of your heir all put limits on the actual power a king has.
For what its worth, threaded conversations with multi-media experience existed long before any of the current and popular chat platforms. Usenet by design was threaded, allowed binary uploads, is highly distributed, fast and resilient. Clients are very light weight. The downside of them today being spam. Surely that could be solved with signed messages or something else. A big upside to usenet in my opinion is the lack of censorship.
> This isn't weed, or LSD, or a "fun" drug. This is the kind of thing that puts you into a stupor so you don't think.

More like heroin, perhaps.

I would caution about taking everything this article says at entirely face value - you as a reporter could probably get a similar quote about marijuana in Africa as well.
> The word of the Bible that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom declares that the internal liberation of human beings to live the responsible life before God is the only genuine way to overcome stupidity.

Do you agree?
Inbox zero is a way of managing it, not a strict target at all times. I keep it on zero even when I am in vacation, it is less stress for me when I return to the office.
Its the same for people with home solar panels. They dont pay for most of their electricity so they aren't contributing much for the grid or generators, but then they expect to be able to use power on a cold dark night and the infrastructure to just be there for them.
That website also says the WSJ has a right lean:

"Overall, we rate the Wall Street Journal Right-Center biased due to low biased news reporting combined with a strong right biased editorial stance."

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/wall-street-journal/
Stella Moris on her secret family with Julian Assange
> You can adjust the scaling if you're really bothered by fractional scaling.

Yes you can, but if you change it from the default then the fonts are either too big or too small.
Wsj loves to point out dysfunctional gov. But not so much dysfunctional dysfunctional business and will stoke off free market
I tend to agree, I can't see how we can get to a zero carbon world without some discomfort. Politicians who tell you we can achieve it without changing our lifestyle are lying.
> really hate the placement of the Ctrl key

Macs used to be really customiseable, and they haven't got around to ripping all of that out yet.

System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys

You can control how the various keys behave.
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California has had rolling blackouts now for a few years, and it gets hot enough that the height of summer is absolutely risky for the infirm and elderly. I don't imagine making the problem worse is going to help those who depend on medical devices either.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/us/california-power-outag...