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I'm an old man now so I can't speak for cool kids, but the sheer amount of old people who love and rock Apple gear would be more than enough to make them seem powerfully uncool to a teenage me.

Apples got a bad case of the Facebook mom's group, basically. (No offence to the mom groups, you've given me so much help over the years)
Consciousness itself is not an illusion. This is the hard problem of consciousness.

However, your interpretation of reality is an illusion caused by hundreds of millions of years of evolution.
Oh, it's not good advice financially.

In retrospect, the best thing I could have done with my money would have been to buy the most expensive house in the best neighborhood I could possibly manage. Put it all on the table.

But I didn't want to play that game, and neither did my partner (We have bad memories of the 2009 recession and both hate the idea of debt). So I suppose I traded the future riches for present flexibility.
The last data centre I worked in certainly had water sprinklers too.

The gaseous system was one-shot. If the fire continues or restarted, or another fire occurred before the system was recharged, water sprinklers would save the building.

Redundant systems. Of course, some data centres probably have redundant gaseous suppression too.
> California has every right, legally and morally, to change the current arrangement.

I am not knowledgeable enough to discuss the legal angle, so I’ll set that aside. I disagree on the right claimed from a moral standpoint. It’s dystopian to think that the rights exercised by individuals or individual cities are only delegated to them by higher powers. At best, a situation where local powers are overridden by others at the state level amounts to a tyranny of the majority. In my opinion, locality of power and decision making is important. Palo Alto is not the only city on this continent. People, and companies, can go elsewhere - including into the interior of the country outside of California.

> Palo Alto enormously benefits from economic growth caused, not primarily by its residents and policies, but by the residents and policies of other portions of the state of California.

Another way to look at it, is that residents of Palo Alto made a smart investment, or a lucky one - but that’s okay, and they’re allowed the spoils of that choice. Or maybe they don’t care about those economic benefits and economic change just happened to take place, around them.

> it doesn't feel any responsibility to aid in housing the many thousands of new workers that increased commerce requires.

Why do the residents have a responsibility to aid new workers? If those new workers don’t have a great situation with respect to cost of living in the Bay, they shouldn’t take those jobs. There are many open jobs across the country, in many different locations. If those other jobs don’t provide the same pay or other conditions - well, that’s just life. No one can be entitled to only have a specific job in a specific city.

> This is not a tenable situation long-term. Small municipalities in the Bay Area cannot internalize the benefits of economic growth while externalizing the costs indefinitely.

High prices discourage continued population growth. Companies looking to hire and expand can set up in communities that have room or that welcome growth. Workers will go there, home prices in the Bay will change, the economy will be more distributed, and things will rebalance accordingly.
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imagine have issues with 10 apps you bought on your iphone. having to go through 10 developer's refund process is a nightmare. I would rather just go through apple.
I know puns are not well regarded on HN but it is really appropriate that this article was posted on "semiaccurate".

P and E cores make sense (in laptop and desktop) because power consumption can be reduced for tasks that are simply "beneath" real performance core, it's not stupid.

Now Intel was optimistic with regard to support, time will tell if this does not just introduce weird edge cases but right now various software are breaking because of a lack of awareness. This will get better eventually.
> People have no problems getting people killed for shooting movies

They did indeed have problems with people getting killed. That's why the stunt was to be done with models until it was shown it could be done safely.
Hah! I guess I meant generally desirable. I personally find this place desirable.
Ask HN: How Practical Is the “One Sun, One World, One Grid” Initiative?
At the COP26, the International Solar Alliance launched the "Green Grids Initiative - One Sun One World One Grid"[0].

How practical is this ambition? And what will be the challenges?

[0] https://ukcop26.org/one-sun-declaration-green-grids-initiative-one-sun-one-world-one-grid
A bit later you see [fruits.physical]

Even XML doesn't make you repeat the higher level keys!
It's much less of a concern if there's good transit to work.
Can we agree that losing millions of years of human lives is a bad thing though?
> Depressed people often say it involves a fundamental shift, like entering a different ‘world’ – a world detached from ordinary reality and other people. Depression seems to be a more totalising kind of experience than some others. Perhaps it is even a distinct state of consciousness, and can, in turn, reveal something about the nature of consciousness itself.

If depression wasn't seen with a negative valence then its prevalence in contemporary society would be much more obvious. Most people, at least the ones that can't afford to live close to green spaces, are far removed from nature and surrounded by mostly artificial constructions. There is research that indicates this is generally not good for mental health and is probably a causal factor for the rise in mental illnesses and associated over-medication in dealing with low moods and anxiety. [1]

The other issue is the following:

> Seeing depression along with other altered global states of consciousness is a theoretical rather than a clinical shift – but it could make a difference to how we treat depression further along the line. In particular, the idea can shed light on the success of psychedelic psychiatry, a recent and growing research field, which looks to treat various mental disorders with psychedelics such as ketamine, mescaline and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms).

It's great we can give people drugs to reduce their suffering but this doesn't address the systemic and environmental issues that force people to seek the medication in the first place. There is a clear signal that even though the human built environment has reduced much physical suffering it has nonetheless also had several unintended consequences like increased incidence of various psychopathologies.

1: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145305/green-space-...
Sure, I guess you could say that a 500-digit number has 500 unclassified components. It makes sense that each of the digits have been written somewhere publicly.

But where would the x or y have ever been written publicly?
True but they cost almost nothing. 5 bucks for a decent pair of Sonys. Though I have to say the Bluetooth ones are also really cheap now. I got a Xiaomi true wireless pair for 15 bucks and they work amazingly well.
In the 99pi episode they talk about how Kodak released better film in the 70s/80s that could take good pictures of dark people and marketed it as “Able to photograph the details of a dark horse in low light”. Widely considered a coded phrase for black people.
I think he is saying because Unity is expensive, he expected them at minimum to use the best technology available in the stack (IOCP), since the implementation time is fairly minimal (i.e. a developer and a few weeks) compared to the performance gained for all the games using the engine.

In the same way you don't buy Unreal Engine and then expect to see GLFW being used underneath instead of the native platform APIs or something like that. You expect any big game engine to be thoroughly natively integrated, and so-be-it if they need to maintain multiple native backends. That's their value sell for an engine.

And I think there would be plenty of 32-odd player games using P2P sockets.
They create incentives to transition away from carbon emission.

It would have to be global. It would be deeply unpopular to the targeted countries which may start trade wars. It would still realign incentives.
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The NIMBY's are striking back though. They are working on a ballot proposition to revoke this law for the November 2022 election. Might even pass:

https://localcontrolca.com/
For those who are into this kind of thing, here's a 25 minute mini-documentary of the US electrical system's history and problems. It's more focused on wiring, but has a lot to say on plugs: https://youtu.be/K_q-xnYRugQ
This might be true in the USA where you can get a fixed rate mortgage. It might not be true elsewhere. I recommend doing your own research.
Ultimate form factor? Smartphones are annoying as hell.

The wristphone will replace the pocketphone as surely as the wristwatch replaced the pocketwatch, and for the same reasons.
>You must get an education, but you also should do well in school

This is a great point. It applies to the current software engineering world. One should learn engineering, but also should learn to do well in interviews.

From my experience, people often mix these two. And it often leads to frustration resulting in either not getting education due to frustration of not doing well.

Of course, we should strive to reduce the gap between those two. But we should acknowledge that reduction of that gap is a slow process with good number of external dependencies.
Related https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0909_xerox_money He acts with integrity and just wants the problem solved. He takes no money but he does accept non-monetary assistance from a number people interested in or affected by the bug.
If you read the article then you might think maybe it is just people who are smart and need other people to reinforce this self-impression by joining societies like MENSA
Oil is a hydrocarbon, a family of chemicals consisting of C and H in various configurations. With modern chemistry (I'm not a chemist) I expect it can be fully synthesized with the application of energy to C and H.

It's just cheaper to pump it out of the ground.

The only element that is non-recoverable is Helium.
Not an expert, but the central bank can set the interbank loan rate (rate at which banks loan money to each other overnight).

But for things like mortgages, personal loans, corporate bonds, those are not control by the fed and rates are set through auctions.

Of course, the fed controls the money supply so can signal whether they will increase or decrease it, so the rates set at auctions are influenced by what people think the feds will do.
Basically a transaction receipt is all the app gets. It’s up to the app developer to associate this purchase transaction with any app related user identity information.

RevenueCat had a decent explanation for this considering this is their main product:

https://www.revenuecat.com/blog/managing-cross-platform-subs...

Disclaimer: not at all associated with revenuecat, just in the process of evaluating their product myself.
Whatever motivated that negligence, my point is that a simple request that seems reasonable - “put in a hood” - is, when considered in context, factual evidence of gross negligence on the part of city inspectors. The city risks being held financially liable for bringing the restaurant up to its own code standards if it fails to enforce those standards over time, no matter the cause of the negligence. I hope that someone someday pursues this to discovery against San Francisco, so that we may better understand the cause.
You can't read the ToS?
well if you want to dine in a fancy restaurant and shop and hang around in a plush suburb, how can you expect the blue collar workers keeping everything running to have to commute 2 hours for your convenience?
Eventual outcome is the same though. Firms lose confidence in the currency and stop accepting it, and then its value falls to zero.

You can say a dollar is worth whatever you want, but unless people believe you, it doesn't matter.
I don't think this is entirely right. The cost of building a home has shot up too, to the point you must take out a very sizeable loan to do so.
There aren't. My fear with the current infrastructure bill is it's a really lousy time for it when there's already a shortage for construction workers. It's what should have been passed in 2010 when construction workers were out of work.
Apple attempts to maintain a position from the perspective of marketing toward customer acquisition and purchasing.

Back when Netflix was available with IAP, they were an excellent example of this. If you have a separate Netflix account already, Apple is not providing Netflix with any revenue value (with respect to customer acquisition) and makes nothing. If the user signs up through Apple, then that was a customer Netflix may have not gotten without Apple's store, and apple takes an ongoing commission.

The subscription pricing aligned with this, with a much higher percentage for the first year going to apple for the acquisition.

Things like the anti-steering provisions (you can't link to purchasing from within the app) are a double-edged sword:

- Developers who don't think they owe Apple 30% want to cut them out of the equation, both in terms of revenue and being an intermediary to their customer
- Apple, who considers themselves owed 30% by contract, is more concerned keeping a clear line of which customers are acquired where

So if Apple sees their revenue at risk, they will start to change their rules. With the line smudged by regulation, they may change their rule to one of attribution and auditing.

For example, "if a customer signs up for an account or makes a purchase within two weeks of downloading the app, Apple is contractually obligated an X% cut of that revenue, and a developer may be periodically audited for compliance". One might imagine how the iOS 14+ Attribution API gets repurposed for this.

Or, they might just decide a lot of that is money from dark patterns anyway - they restrict certain payment patterns and we see a lot of slot machine games disappear overnight.

I look forward to the future lawsuit that causes the current executive email chains to be released to the public.
So SFH in HOA neighborhoods in the Bay will get way more expensive.
This particular article doesn't contain a 'white supremacy' hot take, though.
Green space is good for mental health
In tech, we call this "opinionated".
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being a person in the most vulnerable category for developing myocarditis from the vaccine (and in general), i felt like i should add some of my experience with researching this topic.

SARS-CoV-2 has been shown to make a person 18 times more likely to develop myocarditis than if they never got sick [0]. other sources suggest that number is much higher:

"Across all ages, the risk of myocarditis was almost 16 times higher for people with COVID-19 compared to those who aren’t infected. The myocarditis risk is 37 times higher for infected children under 16 years and seven times higher for infected people ages 16-39 compared to their uninfected peers." [1]

okay, so let's take a step back. the global prevalence of myocarditis has previously been found to be ≈ 22 of 100 000 patients (annually) [2]. i haven't found any statistics of annual ratio's for young men developing myocarditis in general, but all reports read that those numbers are higher. the recent israeli study found that male vaccine recipients between the ages of 16 and 19 were found to have developed myocarditis in 13.73 cases per 100,000 people. so what does this tell me? for me, it shows that the risks of developing myocarditis are in general, scary -> post-vaccination, similarly spooky -> post-covid, terrifying.

still though, some arguments for younger people (closer to the age group parent comment may be referring to) suggest that "the risk of developing myocarditis might be increased more by the vaccine than by the disease, particularly because children rarely develop severe COVID-19" [3]. this is merely conjecture, but i'm assuming that the source would define developing myocarditis as a severe COVID-19 case. otherwise, it would not be very relevant.

most of the research i've done for myself reach a similar conclusion for children (under the age of 18): the risks of getting vaccinated outweigh the risks associated with COVID-19 if a person has at least one COVID-19 comorbidity.

for me, i decided to get my third-dose because i felt that although the chances of developing myocarditis seem to increase with the number of vaccinations you get, the benefits still seem to outweigh the risks. and finally, this is not a new phenomena and from what i understand, it is a natural reaction post-vaccination. the increase in the possibility of developing myocarditis has been a spook (albeit, a real risk for some people) associated with vaccination for a long time now. [2] [4] [5]

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22328081/

[1] https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/16388?autologinche...

[2] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.115.30657...

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02740-y#ref-CR4

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6437672/

[5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4751718/
You are correct that there are a record number of jobs.

However, the person you are responding is talking about the economic situation in the UK. I'm pretty sure those links to the Fed reports do not characterize the economic situation in the UK, because that's not their purview.

The housing and job situation in the UK is much more difficult than the US.
it's just a few weeks of leaders making soft promises to save the environment so they can tick off a box and not have to deal with it the next few years. i think everyone is over the charade.
One more bonus, for anyone who yet comes upon this.

I bought a monitor, once upon a time, a Dell UP2414Q, as I recall. It was a nice monitor, when it worked.

Unfortunately, there's a terrible secret in high-framerate high-resolution stream transport - for at least some protocols (hello DisplayPort), they do this by sending two video streams for halves of the screen and the monitor muxes them.

Unfortunately, on this monitor, it would go...wrong, sometimes. Sometimes, it would think that the picture on the "right" half should be stretched to fit the entire width, and then the left side displayed over that on the left (or vice-versa). Sometimes, it would just display nothing for one side. Most excitingly, sometimes it would just do what I would describe as "crash" - if the monitor was allowed to go to sleep, it would sometimes just...stop responding to any inputs on the physical buttons or commands from the computer, and require a hard power removal and reinsertion of the power cable before behaving again. So you got to leave this monitor non-asleep the entire time or endure suffering.

You can see a fun comparison of what a screenshot thinks is onscreen versus a photo of it in [1][2].

And all of those things could all happen any time the resolution shifted - switching to/from fullscreen in something, for example.

If you look, you can find references to a revision of the monitor which ships with a firmware that lacks these problems, but there exists no documented path to update from one to the other. I could not, when I looked, find someone who had the access and desire to try and extract the firmware from the board without any sort of provided tooling to do it, and I was not going to buy monitors with that model and hope I found one of the right rev. Dell support might have been willing to replace it under warranty, but I had bought it refurbished, so "ha ha".

Ultimately, I gave the monitor to someone as a gift when theirs was woefully insufficient (with complete disclosure of the flaws in it) before I tried flashing any exciting payloads. Probably the least satisfying story ending of these, but true.

[1] - https://i.imgur.com/NAG5hEU.jpg
[2] - https://i.imgur.com/9R7TWQE.jpg
I'm not a technical person, can someone explain to this layman what is Facebook doing that the other FAANG companies are not doing?
Population grows exponentially, housing grows quadratically (as circles around towns and cities). About 20 years ago the two curves had met and since then they've been rapidly diverging.
A few issues with this. (1) it can be both. Disadvantages of dark skin tones combined with apathy/lack of effort to address it. (2) It can be an effect of systemic racism without being an intentionally conscious effort at white supremacy. (3) People did tune the technology specifically to improve for their main subjects, who were white. Again that's not to say they intentionally made them worse for others, but that was still the outcome. (edit: 4) do you disagree with anything specific in the article?
Precisely. People really underestimate the costs of home ownership.

You need to include everything like: 1) mortgage interest, 2) property taxes, 3) insurance, 4) maintenance, 5) opportunity cost of down payment, 6) transaction costs buying and selling.

Clearly if you see major appreciation in the value of your house you'll clearly come out ahead of renting, but I've been in two situations (one while renting, one while owning) where I would have come out ahead renting. In one case the home values went up 20%, but the stock market went up 50% and adjusting for transaction costs, I made more money continuing to rent than buy.
OP is speaking about Americans, not the American military.
The price of a house is not fixed. Likewise, in your example, you would have to lower the price from $10 to sell your goods.
Narrator: it is not good proof.
> Poor people also deserve to make music. You can bet I'll keep supporting them.

Get a free software solution.
What is the startup about?

On the topic of funding, research "micro VCs".
it's not just upfront cost, but the practical costs of using coal is much lower than having to set up a solar infrastructure.
I forgot to mention “relationships”, the most important piece of data. I store an acquaintance’s contact info in one place. I store a personal business or organization in another place. Sometimes the acquaintance has a connection to the same business. This needs to be captured.
Eg. My neighbor and I are both members of the same HOA. He is the President, I am the treasurer. I sent him an annual report on date XYZ for meeting on date ABC.
This info is stored in Contacts, online documents (spreadsheets), Calendar events, and email. I need to keep keywords that are consistent in all of these locations. (And notes).
We do know the climate changed significantly.

Homo sapiens moving northward did coincide with the end of the last glacial period.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period

> When the glaciation event started, Homo sapiens was confined to lower latitudes and used tools comparable to those used by Neanderthals in western and central Eurasia and by Denisovans and Homo erectus in Asia. Near the end of the event, H. sapiens migrated into Eurasia and Australia.