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> I don't know what happened with Apple's QA

For years I’ve been convinced that they let go majority of the QA and have outsourced QA to the customers/public.
> My water heater is not a storage device for electricy.

Criminy. Of course it isn't. It's a storage device for HOT WATER.

I have an experiment you can try. Unplug your hot water heater. See how long the hot water lasts. (For me, it remains hot enough to shower for TWO DAYS.) That suggests, to ignorant me, that one does not need to heat the water in it at a moment's notice, but it can be deferred to the cheaper times of the day.

Furthermore, water doesn't have to be heated to a precise temperature. The temp of your shower is controlled by mixing it with cold water. Hence, one can heat the water to a much higher temp when electricity is cheap, further extending the "battery" effect of storing hot water.
Sure, but the higher up you can go the more wind there generally is. It's one of the big potential advantages of kite windpower over fixed blade systems.
Signal was available on iOS in China until the Chinese government banned Signal.

Apple maintains a curated App Store, which puts them in gatekeeper mode for Chinese laws, in China.

I respect, appreciate, and value a curated App Store. The combination of circumstances above does conflict with my preference for the freedom of Chinese citizens.

But my disagreement is with the Chinese government, and their lack of accountability to the Chinese people. It's ethnocentric of me to assume that the Chinese people want Western-style freedoms -- and some evidence of unknown quality says they generally do not -- but I still believe that there are intrinsic rights of all humans which should not be oppressed by their governments.

I also believe that allowing alternative App Stores, or sideloading, on iOS would be destructive. By being the only game in town, Apple is able to enforce standards that are onerous sometimes (as an iOS developer) and unfairly applied sometimes (because that's a universal truth of the world), but on net add great value to iOS.

You obviously disagree, and that's cool. I'm very glad you are able to choose a product that suits your needs, and I am able to choose a product that suits mine.

Re: macOS App Store. It's different because I treat my phone as an appliance that should not surprise me nor require maintenance. It should always work. All apps should perform a function, and they should be available without extra hassles.

However, I don't hate the idea of additional OS protections on macOS. I like SIP and the ChromeOS RO boot partition model. I would like application segmentation. I use jails on FreeBSD and zones on Solaris.

This is easy for me to appreciate because I have other machines that are tuned to suit other sets of needs. I recognize that people with a single device (phone) or two devices (phone + laptop) who have needs that would conflict with OS restrictions will struggle more than I.
I agree. We have lacked, still lack, will continue to lack, the ability to work cohesively at a planet scale to address climate change. That's the brutal, fundamental truth. Short of a tremendous shift in power structure, our future is to mitigate some damage with renewables, but ultimately only stop using fossil fuels when it becomes completely uneconomical to do so for every use case.

We will probably geoengineer local solutions so that the human race is not in any real danger of extinction but it won't be the nice high-flyin good times we have now.
I'm always surprised at how often dislike is used on YouTube. I don't think I've ever clicked it. I probably should more for clickbait videos, but it just doesn't seem like a big problem otherwise. Like, why do people click dislike on a Justin Bieber video. I'm confident that 95% of those are people that just hate Justin -- but why then even go to the video to watch it? Just to voice your displeasure?
Oh, c'mon, now it is on the BBC site, it can be said that it was always like that, and that nobody ever said anything else.
Didn’t know that exists .youtube domain.
Thanks. Yea. We hear you and dropped the requirement.
Keep you feedback coming.
Oh the comparison with audible sounds is brilliant, thank you.
That's why some games have uncompressed audio files which made the game size ballooned up. If the game have so much audio on, it would be best to use uncompressed audio as CPU don't have to spend extra resources to decode bunch of audio files at the same time when the games is asking for it.
I mean... have you tried another video player?
This is really unfortunate. Since pretty much any youtube video will have likes, seeing the corresponding number of dislikes is really the only thing that provides any meaningful information.
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I entertained the idea of selling my '16 Mazda6 during all this madness so I filled out the online appraisal forms for Carvana, CarMax and Vroom. CarMax's offer was the highest - more than I paid for the car in 2018. Carvana and Vroom's offers were a bit lower. If you get serious about selling, you should obviously get multiple offers.
In the US, unfortunately.
might have been Biden... Do a Biden search and look at the like/dislike ratios if you don't believe me (I can still see the dislikes on Youtube, not sure when it starts)...
> People across the world are devoting a full third of their waking lives to create wealth for those

I don’t know where you are living, but it is trivially obvious that the vast majority of my taxes are NOT going to some elite. They couldn’t hide one tenth of your figure without it being obvious - what they do skim is publically known.

In New Zealand the vast majority of taxes gets spent on people working for the government and welfare payments to individuals (eg unemployment & pension).

This is personally verifiable: I interact with teachers, nurses, retirees, welfare recipients. I see how much money gets spent on large projects, and I see many of the recipients of those funds. I charge government departments for my software. I can estimate the total tax base and I can estimate the total costs.

I can read the government accounts, and I can do my own audit analysis estimates of parts of it. I can meet my members of parliament or local politicians.

Furthermore: talking about time like that is a fallacy. You belong to an economy and taxes are more like an accounting entry. A teacher might have 100% of their working hours working for the government, while a Facebook employee works zero hours for the government.

If you are from the US, your income comes from your economy, not your work as an individual. The government takes a cut, and most people in the world would love to pay the taxes so that they could earn the average US wage. Fuck all people can move between countries and “earn” the same amount - their income depends on the economy they belong to. If you are from the US, then you are the corrupt elite recipient of the taxes of the world poor. Your earnings come indirectly from Google, from unfair patent and copyright systems, from blowing up Afghanis. I am being facetious, but there is some underlying truth to why US citizens have a median income far higher than most others in the world.
Some Covid-19 Vaccine Recipients Now Eligible for Booster Shots
Corporate press release titles tend to intentionally dampen the meaning of what's being announced (when it's negative or controversial), so by HN's title rule ("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait"), it's fair to rewrite them [1]. When doing that, the rule is to find an accurate and neutral phrase using representative language from the article [2]. I've done that on that one now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Scan all paper documents using a ScanSnap; it produces searchable PDF.

Throw those as well as any digital documents into my google drive.

If I need a document, it's just a search away. Literally zero time organizing or filing; I just count on the fact that google drive search is pretty good.
Intel reduced their R&D spending on semiconductors, predictably fell behind, and now the government should make it up?

I'm not opposed to spending cash to make sure we have competitive semiconductor factories, but until very recently, Intel wasn't even that! They only produced their own chips, another massive 20-year industry shift that their executives somehow missed?

Where are the consequences for those long gone utter failures of leadership?
I don't think this is a good idea. To me one of the biggest problems with social media that propagates disinformation to large unquestioning audiences is that there are easy ways to reinforce the message and to see how much it resonates, but it is hard to gauge when an idea is controversial or if there are many people who disagree. It is worth way more to see dislike counts and ratios on dangerous content than to protect creators from the internet being mean at all costs.
I bought my car, a 2015 Toyota Rav4, in 2017 for 18.5k It is now has a resale value of 20.6k.
Its not explicitly said but Long range is from China, and Performance is from USA.
Saved the bookmark for reading, thanks!
Awesome, love it, can I go back to 2018?
Probably easier to just move all the people somewhere else
I mostly agree but... I don't think anyone has taken geoengineering seriously yet so maybe some of that?
Current US minus the left and right could be a pretty nice place.

How does purple keep red and blue from meddling in their politics? By being larger/stronger than either red or blue. If it's smaller and weaker, the meddling is probably inevitable.
Not strictly true; states that have nuclear weapons are capable of destroying other states, but not necessarily invading, repurposing, and ruling them to the point that their own legal and governmental system is subsumed by the other.
It seems to me like the disconnect is between your baseless imaginary model of how youtube users behave and the objective analysis of the only party holding enough data to make a sound conclusion.
Tesla will be propped up by the American taxpayers, as American automakers always have been.
I have an M1 machine for a few months and use it daily. Not even a single crash in my case. I guess this is the experience of the large majority of users. But there might be faulty units that have this problem, you should contact Apple.
That's not a feature we need. We need to know like/dislike ratio BEFORE clicking on a video so that we can avoid clicking on it. I end up clicking on so many spam videos cause Youtube doesn't tell you that simple number. For example, looking for sports highlights right after a game usually ends up with tens of spammy results with fake titles trying to take advantage of trendy topics.
The most useful NFT I've seen so far is Decentraland's LAND token, which behaves much like a deed to a plot of virtual land. Its something you could theoretically download free gratis, but as LAND is linked to a finite space in a living virtual world, you'll never own it in its entirety by just screenshoting it because your copy is desyncronised from the original.

A photograph, or even a 3D scan of the Eiffel tower does not mean you own it or infringe on the owner's or designer's perceived rights, and likewise a copy of the land isolated from the Decentraland grid does not mean you own the LAND.

Tl;dr, I think NFTs need to focus on being a record or something - anything! Rather than being the new way to buy art, sell the technology as the new way to do deeds, licences, certificates, etc.
Statistically speaking there are much more small creators than large ones, so "we heard directly from smaller creators" can be used in every situation!
So now I need to watch complete tutorial videos on obscure issues on YouTube to figure out if they're terrible or not?

Tutorial videos, especially, benefited from the like-dislike ratio, because if 200 people saw a video on setting up some software and 7 people liked it, but 30 people disliked it, it's pretty easy to know that that 10 minute tutorial video isn't worth watching, as it's pacing is slow, or inaccurate or missing major steps or whatever.

Neat.
Dart (2011), TypeScript (2012) and CoffeeScript (2009) and arguably Haxe (2005) all competed in the same space. Google made a optics mistake embedding Dart into Chrome - people feared antitrust, but it is a significantly better language to use than JavaScript.. it's disappointing how that played out. Usability wise, Dart is similar to TypeScript, in many ways better (real type safety, null safety, not being hamstrung by down compiling to JS). Dart feels closer to C# in syntax, style and language features.. TypeScript is also trying to travel that way, but syntax is different, and it's still hamstrung by JS.
> * Kids will resent any attempt to limit their access, and

> * Kids are NSA-level hackers who will circumvent any attempt at limiting their access.

There's plenty of people in their mid-20s now on HN who have been the kids, either working around their parents restrictions or their friends parents restrictions. I had an internet enabled phone as a 12 year old in 2004, so it's not a post-iPhone kid experience only.

And yes, parental control software has got smarter to not just be a matter of changing your DNS or using an alternative browser, but tunneling over SSH still defeats much of it, and yes the audience here is more tech savvy, but there's a hundred new web based proxies that open up every day that your chosen solution may not be up to date on blocking - whitelists avoid that but it's something a lot of people here are opposed to on moral grounds once kids reach a certain age. Certainly if you let them go out unsupervised that's not enforcable, and honestly you should be able to let a 12 year old go out unsupervised.
That's not a feature we need. We need to know like/dislike ratio BEFORE clicking on a video so that we can avoid clicking on it. I end up clicking on so many spam videos cause Youtube doesn't tell you that simple number. For example, looking for sports highlights right after a game usually ends up with tens of spammy results with fake titles trying to take advantage of trendy topics.

I'm sure Youtube tries to down rank such videos but in practice it's still a big problem. I understand they are trying to protect creators from bad actors but negative feedback is usually more important than positive feedback.
I wonder how correlated the like/view ratio is with the like/dislike ratio. If that correlation is very high we might not be losing much info. It'd just take an annoying extra second to calc the ratio.
> I think these things will get sorted, though.

I had been saying this for nearly the past decade. I'm done saying it.

macOS is still much better than the alternatives, but the golden age of it being in another universe entirely is over.
Acknowledged.

When and if you decide to do a no-device, no-news, no-people retreat I'll love to hear what you and not your environment have to say though.

Call me up then +9 72 58 666 1024

I am real, and I will listen.
Here is their updated post
https://econbrowser.com/archives/2021/11/october-cpi-inflati...

PCE went up too (as nowcast)
Entirely different product though. Apple is providing a MDM solution for SMEs in addition to the storage.

The value of a VPN that doesn't allow you access to a corporate network is... dubious to a company.
And hide the White House's like to dislike ratio. Check out some videos-- the ratio is horrible: https://www.youtube.com/c/WhiteHouse/videos
not necessarily:

https://www.champagne.fr/en/comite-champagne/bureaus/bureaus...
The hilarity illustrates an important point. We never just make a thing. A recipe or blueprint is a convenient fiction. Rather we participate in a dynamic evolving process which itself evolved through many cycles of copying, repetition and debugging. Even the first version wasn't strictly original because the idea was borrowed from elsewhere. 'Oh you work at the olive press. How would you like a job with this new-fangled printing machine?' And so on back to the initial and highly controversial creation of the Universe.
I think they were considered a moonshot project? That’s probably one way you can justify a massive funding.
"Most religions emphasize humility" for real? You read the same history books as I have? I think you're conflating theology with religion. Religion is a blood soaked tool to control the masses.
You’re confused I think. She is talking about saving auto jobs by fixing a chip shortage, and that does nothing to address the parent posters question of ‘if they just want cash to fix the chip shortage, what are they going to do with it that would actually fix this problem, since it is going to take a year+ To actually bring more capacity online - and they already have sufficient cash’
It isn’t that simple. The blog presents what the author thinks everyone’s problem is. The problem they present is one facet of a much larger topic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29169239
When I see LIGO graphs they always appear linear - the change in frequency is linear with time.

But with time dilation as black holes near each other, shouldn't the frequency change be exponential? Or does it cancel out - the frequency goes up as they get closer, and then time dilation lowers it back as it dilates into infinity?
my not that old intel macbook air crashes randomly :( not fun

my macbook pro did the same before it.
There is probably a grain of truth in there but if a lot of people think a thing (ex. writing) is hard and someone is saying, "Actually it's easy if you do this one thing", I feel pretty confident they're selling something.
For the last time, not everything that's not everything that's a bad financial proposition == ponzi scheme. At what point have new drivers ever paid the wages of old drivers?

Uber drivers have always done ok in the short term, new or old, it's Uber that loses money on every ride. And if the drivers are not coming out ahead long term due to maintenance costs, that's not affecting newer drivers any more than older drivers.
You can be profitable and also wildly overvalued. If I invest $50 million for a 50% stake in my neighbour's kids' lemonade stand it's very unlikely to be a reasonable valuation regardless of their gross margin.
For me that's the silver lining of this change.
I've got mixed feelings on this.

On the one hand, writing dross is actually quite good practice.

On the other hand, having standards (at least before publishing) is something that should be encouraged.
It’s also likely that this was something they wrote to themselves and then shared it with a wider audience. It says more about their internal monologue than it does about them admonishing the reader. For me the art in this article is about their grappling with a universal struggle and how they have tried to come to terms with a solution.
In a summer tech program for pre-college high school tech-interested//inclined students, my group of three created four different VRML world-spaces. We each made our own, and I made the "gateway" world-space where you would enter a Parthenon-like structure with three hyperlink objects inside which you could click on to travel to each of the other places.

Each place had a similar hyperlink object to get back to the Parthenon.

I enjoyed it. I probably still have the VRML 2.0 book around somewhere.
Who exactly, and how much accountable would you hold? At pinterest.
Similar VS Code issue here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22900

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13940014
No, VMS and Unix were robust by the late '70s. Mainframes earlier. 386BSD debuted in '92.
perhaps this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28735441
No worries!

Communication is hard. We misunderstand each other, even if we talk face to face. Text is even harder to parse and it's way easier to make mistakes, both when sending as well as receiving.

Thanks for your kindness and understanding!
So I can see how you can debug BASIC when you're doing the magazine thing and it doesn't run. But what about hex...how did people even find where they made had typos?
I think none of what you said is necessarily true. Safari certainly delegates as much as possible, but other browsers have a lot of baggage that OSes don't necessarily support. PIP is just a floating window, they have existed without explicit OS support for decades.
Froogle was better.

I think if Google cares about product search quality then it would be good. Now it’s just a paid product rather than trying to organize and present info.
More to the point, raising wages (caused by union contracts that pegged wages to inflation) was the root cause of 70s stagflation. OP is horribly confused about basically everything, and to the extent that he's correct about some conclusions it's entirely by accident.
Ethiopia messed up its mobile money ambitions
Nice try but Amy Schumer still sucks
Well, but surely the posts are fully emotional, right? The point is not that the facts behind the emotion are meaningless, it's the orientation of the discussion.

Of course one can reach a destination by heading in the opposite direction, because earth is round; but it would be awfully wasteful.

One can also influence people and make things happen by being super emotional/ideological, in other words, being with super little rationality (not that they are incapable, they just orient in that direction naturally). But that would be awfully ineffective.
I love this article with all my heart. Does it apply to 100% of writer's block? Of course not. The kind of writing that is so careful to qualify every claim to the point that it's a chore to read is exactly what the author is railing against.

I believe strongly that they are right that avoidance is one of the key reasons people who want to write don't. One of the challenges I've experienced is that that sensation of avoidance can from two opposing sources:

1. If I'm not saying what I really feel, I get a vague sense of guilt and unease. I feel insincere and it makes me shy away from writing. It starts to feel less like I'm sharing and more like I'm a guilty defendent on the witness stand trying to assemble a convincing alibi. My conscience keeps telling me I'm going down the wrong path.

2. When I am saying what I really feel, I get a different discomfort. I feel this blushing cringe, like I accidentally posted private poetry meant for a lover to my Facebook feed. I am being vulnerable and exposing myself to attack. My sense of self-protection tells me I'm taking a risk.

The hard part is that these two sensations can feel quite similar but the way to take action on them is directly opposed. If it's my conscious making me squirm, I need to change course. But when it's my vulnerability, it usually means I'm on the right path.

It's taken me years and a lot of introspection to learn to tease these apart. On good days, I'm able to lean into the discomfort of the latter and avoid the former so that I can say something I truly believe is worth saying.
The autonomous control of the kite is one of the big issues. It was basically not possible when the idea was first presented in the 80s - there weren't computers small enough with enough computing power needed for the task. Also there were materials problems. Now we've made a lot of progress on both fronts, but still, the control software is a huge issue. We were planning on using reinforcement learning to learn a controller for our kite (when I was in the biz), but getting enough data to learn on was an issue - the kite design was an iterative process - the kite design would change and that meant we needed to recollect data to enable us to model the new kite changes, wash, rinse, repeat.
Thanks so much for your feedback.
Those are some great suggestions that we will take to heart and work on.

Yes, content quality is the main goal.
Is there a rule of thumb for the true efficiency of that calculation? I.e if I drink one can of coke, how far can I climb a ladder on the energy I metabolized from it?