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I still use a ThinkPad T420 running Linux for some projects. It's a tank, practically everything is replaceable (unlike in my MBP, which has already had one Butterfly Keyboard failure...) and Sandy Bridge CPUs are honestly still modern enough that I'd honestly say most complaints about modernity are artificial consumerist nonsense.

We're at the point where computers, cars and phones are good enough and commoditized to the point where they should be lasting 10+ years. Instead, we're moving toward a 4-year maximum with everything sealed up and soldered, so you can throw it on the e-waste pile and replace it to keep "infinite" growth chugging. The iMac is particularly offensive.

What Foundation is doing should be the norm, by law.
I did not mean to imply one shouldn't be efficient at all ages - just that those doing their PhDs in their 20s do not value it as much as those in their 50s.

Also, those in their 20s often haven't lived long enough to know how to gauge their efficiency. The person who has spent decades working 40 hour/week jobs knows better the value of less free time.
I do wonder if they are merely substituting outright facial recognition with some other technology where they are able to identify a person in a particular piece of content. It could be text associated with content or the geographical proximity of people at the time content was captured or published.
My knowledge with people in a midwestern 'urban' city tells me it's the NIMBYs who want the trend away from nuclear.
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They took a slightly different approach to getting potholes fixed here in the UK:

Middlesbrough Council fills potholes after penis graffiti protest

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-48068866
It seems this is likely a result of the 2019 FTC Consent Order on Facebook [1]. Facebook has had to implement privacy processes which are monitored by a 3rd party who reports to a judge and facial recognition was one of the issues sparking the order.

The consent agreement [2] has whole sections and rules specifically for facial recognition data.

Likely a review program and criteria (approved by the monitor) were set up based on these rules, and when the tagging feature was pushed through this review it failed. Rather than risk the judge sanctioning them for failing to meet the order, they decided shut down the feature.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/07/ftc-i...

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/c4365facebo...
Recent and related:

I don’t know how to count that low - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988281 - Oct 2021 (259 comments)

especially this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29032656
An awesome book but can you imagine what it would get turned into these days?!
Some mines use molten salt batteries. [0] I'm surprised they've never been recommended for power grids but I'm probably missing something.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_battery
If they didn't want people running their own stuff on it, they would have locked it down like an iPad. The fact that they didn't means they wanted it to be possible.
True, however, arrogant assholes remain arrogant assholes, in general, much longer than friendly incompetent people remain incompetent.
Though something to keep in mind is that offset mortgages are not an option in all locales. The US for example doesn't have them.
Like the steps to do all of this are automated, but we can't read your mind. All of this is basically boils down to submit a PR against some repo that says "there shall be two instances in these regions, there shall be a database in this cluster, there shall be a bucket with this name, etc etc" that the SRE team reviews and merges, which triggers an infra deploy.
> Company creates a super successful product that is very user friendly
> Said product skyrockets and makes the company more money than they ever should have reasonably expected
> SV mindset of perpetual growth kicks in and corporate greed figures out ways to extract money even though they already fucking made it
> Product quality degrades over time

It's like clockwork. Yeah I'm sure that it costs a ton of money to maintain their product to scale. But you've gotta be kidding me that they didn't already make the money they should have needed to support this growth if you look at their net worth vs pre-pandemic and post-pandemic.
And Notion is a better clone of Quip.
> wouldn't it be better to go after the demand for energy from fossil fuels, instead of supply? I wonder if there has ever been a large scale attempt at this

There has been, it's called the "global pandemic". The world will never find a better way to attack demand for energy consumption in such a short period. And you did not even notice. Your post would have fit perfectly well in HN circa 2019.

> What unprecedented measures could be taken to stop climate change?

Easy. Stop talking about it. Unthinkable I know. But I guarantee you life would go on and we'd all find other things to overreact to. Just like the "pandemic".
Oh that's awesome, thanks for sharing this to me!

I see, I personally haven't played around with PWA much, but that sounds like something we should look into, thank you!
Dropbox is adding folders that will automatically organize for you
This from May, which is before Delta.
This is all just PR. Doesn’t really affect revenue.
> aging without scratching the surface of life...

Speak for yourself friend.
> really they're just trying to find someone they like. It's what "culture fit" really means. And people like people like themselves. This is part of what can lead to unlawful discrimination.

This can't be stated enough
Google: The Sunk Cost Fallacy
I'm stunned that techcrunch doesn't mention Notion instead of wave.
What would be really nice to see is some of the nearly vacant small rural towns see a resurgence of some kind. Grant programs by the government to spark a movement to these areas would be interesting.
"I'd say the friend effect is able to elevate people who have 'mediocre' skills on paper to be efficient enough and start learning at a rate that sees them performing well above their qualifications."

Any sources for this? Should we assume the '96 Bulls were "best buddies"? Are Amazon and Apple the "most tightly knit companies on Earth", thus reaching $1T valuation? This sounds like an "I assume this to be true by' common sense', therefore it's persuasive" type of claim.

The problem is, competence is important. Nice people who design airplanes that are "mostly right, but fall out of the sky slightly more than average" have real costs versus a team that's "a little cold to each other, but meshes well to create a high quality product."

Which matters more probably ultimately depends on the "mission criticality" / ramifications of failure of the product. But assuming that two Advanced Beginners will elevate each other to competence also ignores that they can create a "blind leading the blind" style of effect.
> it is rare that a non-malicious scraper application isn't talked about and shared (amongst people who have a similar itch that the thing is scratching)

That's exactly my case though. I have a few scraper scripts that I've never published. So what if it's rare? Do I deserve to be treated like a botnet just because it's inconvenient for some webmaster or company to do otherwise? That's not fair at all.
My AMD Turion 2 based laptop has a "new" SSD and it rocks.
Okay, what percentage of the budget would they be if we were fixing them fast enough that we didn't have a constantly growing backlog of repairs?
It's great that this is being experimented with, and this doesn't look like a solution that is ready to be deployed at scale.

What is the carbon emissions per kwh, cost per kwh, etc. I'm not saying that the company building this needs to give those answers.

But if this is part of the solution for climate change, those things will need to be known and reasonable.
Raspbian can run on a PC : https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/raspberry-pi-desktop/
Ask HN: Linux users, which Steam game would you recommend and why?
I'm looking for a single player game that runs natively on Steam Linux without any extra packages needed. I don't want to have to install or configure anything extra.

FWIW, I have a relatively high spec machine (Nvidia 2070, lots of RAM, etc.), so I'm not too concerned about system requirements.

When I go to explore Linux games on Steam, the list is quite long. I inevitably go down deep rabbit holes of reading player reviews trying to find the right game, until I run out of steam.

I'd appreciate your suggestions (despite my terrible pun above), and if you don't mind, please also share your reasons.

Thanks!
Working in the trades the guys that yelled and blew their fuses constantly were always clearly in over their heads and were failing to cope with the stress. I'm fond of the term "Mantrum" to describe the behavior.

Children scream and throw tantrums. Adults channel those emotions into productive means or recreational outlets. Adults understand that their colleagues also experience the same frustrations and emotions, and it's unfair to be a messy bitch and pollute the work environment with that garbage.

I really can't imagine thinking someone losing their cool and composure at their job is a sign of competency, of all things...
Yes, people completely misunderstand what the golden rectangle is about and why it's important. Its importance lies in the fact that it's canonical, a rectangle motivated intrinsically, independent of anyone's preferences (conscious or unconscious) or any experiment: the same golden rectangle would naturally be discovered by aliens on the other side of the universe, or even in alternate universes with totally different laws of physics. People looking for golden ratios in seashells and things like that haven't just missed the point, they've missed it by 180°, fired their arrows away from the target.

(Of course, there's an even simpler canonical rectangle: the square. But that one's too trivial to be interesting.)
I’d end a friendship if they were posting Proud Boys/GOP/QAnon memes, or otherwise racist content. I may even end a friendship if they promote abolishing the IRS because that wouldn’t do anything and is thus pretty stupid (it’s not like the government would stop taxing). But the rest is pretty tame and reasonable people can disagree.
I have been using SPARC for a decade, in 1998-2007.

In all this time all the SPARC servers and workstations that we had were ridiculously slow in comparison with Intel/AMD CPUs.

Nevertheless they were used because there were a lot of EDA/CAD tools that were available only for Solaris.

As soon as Cadence, Mentor etc. have ported their programs to Linux, SPARC was dead.

Towards the end of that decade, the difference became extreme, my laptop with a 64-bit AMD Turion CPU could run a SPICE simulation much faster than a very large and very expensive multiprocessor SPARC server.

Despite their slowness, the Sun or Fujitsu computers had many nice features before they became also available on Intel/AMD computers.

For example, in 1998 I was impressed that the Sun workstation we had could be powered on and off from its keyboard, because this happened before this became normal also for Intel/AMD computers. At that time we still had PCs with PC/AT power supplies, not with ATX power supplies, so power on and off had to be done from traditional switches.
You could call it an "E-I Script" for Efficiency Interest Script. Over time your costs are gradually lowered as each step is automated - like accruing interest in a savings account.
It matters because you're not using crypto to pay, you're paying US dollars (over ACH). Same with VISA, Apple Pay, and personal checks.
Oh, I think I understand now. You mean when you use the debugger in Visual Studio Code the target browser dropdown only shows Edge or Chrome and not Brave?

That is weird and I wonder if it has something to do that brave hasn't got the CDP methods turned on that allows other software to remotely control it.

In essence, the debugger spawns a new instance of the browser and controls it remotely from VS Code, much like automated test tools do. It would be interesting to hear from Brave if there is interest in showing up there, too.
It's very good visually, but mediocre plot-wise. The last few episodes look relatively low budget, so my guess is that they're preparing to end the season with more fistfights, a elaborate space war and the Invictus exploding like a Death Star.

If they had forgo the Foundation name and made their own universe, the fanbase would be more or less the same.
> Or you could just tell them you don't remember. It's rarely rude. It's better to be human. We all forget stuff all the time.

I've decided that I must be atypical around name recall for some reason or another. I often do ask, because as you said it is human to forget, but I find myself forgetting like 3 times in the course of a conversation sometimes, I could really use a machine of this sort.
Note the ironic reflection of one of the article’s points: A cringey us-versus-them mentality in the clearly condescending quote “Sad to watch, frankly.”
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OneNote-ish...
Really, really beautiful work. It's an entire course on 2-D and 3-D modelling that takes you all the way from polygons to subdivision surfaces.
Honestly, I bet there are people who would pay the $20,000 premium if it just let you swap in a goddamn M.2 drive at leisure.
》The primary argument against soldering the SSD, or really any other part, down like this tends to be that "Oh, now you can't just save money by upgrading it yourself|replacing it when it breaks

Are you trolling? The primary argument is data recovery. Anything on laptop can die: charging port, motherboard... With soldered ssd your data are gone! You need to resolder SSD into exact same machine type, it may take 5 weeks if you are lucky!

It takes 5 minutes to swap normal SSD into new machine and reboot! Maybe 1 hour if you have to go into shop!
Being able to swap disks is a meaningful advantage. After all, it's the part most likely to fail first, and often first limitation people hit on a machine.

Storage tech is still advancing at a decent clip. In 5 years, there will probably be 4-6TB drives on the market with 2-4x the throughput for the same price as 1TB drives today.
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> You do get worse latency though, right? Which I believe to be important for conversation quality, even when users don’t actively realize that latency is to blame.

Latency in voice communication is super important, yes.

P2P latency can be better or worse than P2S2P latency. It depends on the networks the peers and server are on, where all parties are located, and how they're interconnected.

If the peers are on the same ISP, P2P is probably better, if they're not, it can vary widely. Sometimes those ISP will exchange packets directly, but far away, whereas they both may have more direct routes to a nearby server. If the peers are far away, the server network may have better long distance transit than the peer ISPs. Of course, sometimes the server is far away from both the peers. For some participants, p2p brings problems because it exposes each peer's IP to the other peers.

A well designed system will measure and adjust the routing for the best results, including during the call (and carefully adjust the buffering to avoid large jitter) as conditions can change.
still hilarious
Maybe "<name>.playbook.sh" could give it a better look?
Banks aren't institutions of the rich?? The rich will be perfectly insulated if the financial system crashes??
Unless I'm completely mistaken, even a basic tool like quantization is dependent on the time signature. Time signatures crop up in all kinds of other things, too. More advanced arpeggiators, sequencers, delays etc. understand tempo and time signatures and MIDI timing works on this basis, too.
It seems like on the most pressing matters, we are always a generation behind.

Entire lifetimes wasted before our eyes. Anyways, maybe we can solve free school lunch finally, seems like that’s what we’re up to.
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Does anyone laugh a bit at these types of comments?

Using these "stupid" and "unjustifiable" approaches, apple has delivered highly reliable / fast machines to lots of users. They come with applecare if you want, which gets you walk in fix/replace at their stores.

Note, they've already don't this on iphones - millions shipped.

They are going for as much reliability / speed out of this for the 90%+ of users who are not going in to manually swap out SSDs. They are also huge on part simplification, they probably got rid of the bios flash and are just using the SSD flash.

My own predication, as in many other areas others will COPY this "stupid" design - imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. My guess is others will also stop shipping another set of chargers with everything (again copying apple).

They now also sell indefinite applecare, by getting normal breakage down low enough you can keep apple care as long as you want if you keep paying.
But now everyone else knows, too. That's not such a great feature.
I was a heavy user of Wave for the brief period of time it existed. Although I struggle to think of how I will integrate this into my workflow today, I am excited to give it a try.
Like HTTP statuses then? I'd still rather have them than not. (And I'll still be annoyed by GraphQL saying 200 OK - here're your errors!)
Misinformation for one of them. Previous US elections, and now COVID, have highlighted how misinformation is both extremely potent/viral, and literally deadly.
> If I borrow a Bitcoin what makes you think that I can repay the Bitcoin after it grew 10x in value?

That would make Bitcoin a very good store of value. However, to benefit from the "store of value" property you have to, you know, actually store the bitcoin yourself, not sell it now and try to buy it back later…
This framing feels backwards to me - I thought the reason institutional investors see it as a valuable asset is because of NIMBYs constraining supply for them via local policy and obstruction. The institutional investors are a symptom of that policy, but the NIMBYs (and incentives that exist for existing owners like prop13) are the cause.

Real Estate scaling supply to meet demand is in direct conflict with old properties increasing in value forever. You can't really have both and we're stuck a valley of bad incentives that favor existing owners.

If we let people build housing to meet demand it would fix it, but existing owners are motivated to leverage enormous amounts of equity (and local political power) to stop any new building in order to keep property scarcity high. Their explanations beyond that are all just motivated reasoning rationalizations. Hopefully stuff like RHNA will force local municipalities to act.

I can empathize somewhat with someone who spent $3M on a crappy house being afraid of being under water from increased supply, but I have no empathy for someone who bought a $300k house 30yrs ago that's now worth millions acting to obstruct new construction.
This is amazing. I’m taking a class in computational geometry currently, and this single article better explains many of the concepts covered than the professor, textbook, or any resources I’ve found online. The explanation of B Spline Basis functions is particularly useful.
Yeah. I can’t understand the counterpoint to getting PhDs. Do you not want to find out how the world actually is? It’s a never ending quest too.
Can you give an example of a place that has reasonable laws regarding things like dog ownership restrictions that deal with the issues discussed in the article?
The lack of computing tech in a space empire does need explaining.
Seems like a pretty direct rip-off of Notion. It's almost as if it was deliberate.
If they won't take back the empties, what do they expect to be done with them? Where are they getting containers to fill in the first place? What is going on?!
You’re not allowing for leverage, inflation and incredibly low interest rates.

In real terms cash is losing significant money every year while assets are gaining money. Debt makes sense as long as you have a margin of safety and can multiply the impact with leverage.

IF you believe inflation will be significant over 30 years say, and can lock in a low rate, it is better to go with a longer term.
I think it was a very common perception among application-level SWEs and SREs that TI, platforms, and Borg did not themselves use the stack enough to perceive its flaws.
If I may ask, why not switch to another distro? Are those particular add-ons useful, or is it inertia?
I advocate joining a revolutionary political party instead. If you have a big enough constituency that can cause problems, they will eventually have to acquiesce to demands as opposed to simply controlling the choices or ignoring the results of a vote (which I would point out happens routinely, even in presidential elections such as the 2000 election theft or the attempted theft and coup of 2020).
even more ironic given that google+ came out four years later