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In Kim Stanley Robinsons Ministry for the Future carbon coins seem to act in this way kinda sorta without depending on a complete decentralization of society or anything particularly revolutionary. They become popular as an investment opportunity because they act like 100 year high yield bonds and then they make tax avoision more difficult because of the record of the blockchain. Anyway its all dependent on the support of national banks in the book but it comes to mind reading this in any case. I just finished the book finally so Im still figuring out what I think of the whole thing...
Am I the only one who has never paid any attention to likes/dislikes?
Win95 had very strict and consistent UI style. Office2k and Win2k were peak of this consistency. After that came WinXP and mismatch of inconsistent UI styles.
It would be more complex, but you'd have a lot more flexibility. Your ISP might not be able to deflect DDoS attacks as efficiently as a remote proxy, you can set up your own caching with a high-speed connection, and you can secure your home network a bit better by only allowing the remote proxy access to your home server.

You'd also save costs moving some of the hosting to the cloud while you're at it, be use you don't don't need to pay a separate electricity bill for a cloud VPS. Plus, VPS storage is usually more reliable than a custom RAID config, as is the power grid around data centers and the internet connection itself.

If you're going for efficency or simplicity then you're totally right, but if you're trying to get value for money I think a cheap VPS would be better.
This is obviously going to be region-dependent, but I don't think upgrading the grid is avoidable, even if we kept using ICE cars. Energy usage _is_ going to continue increasing as population grows and HVAC requirements increase.

Also, I'd like to add some perspective with actual numbers: My whole house consumed 109.49 kWh yesterday, of which only about 12kWh was my car charging (I have a PHEV). That number wouldn't change significantly if I had an EV, as my driving habits would probably stay roughly the same.

So car charging accounts for ~10% of my electricity consumption these days. Yes, that's not insignificant, but it's also not 50-75%. It's probably less impact on the grid than adding a central heat pump to a house, and I don't see people spreading FUD about heat pumps.

For the grid itself, time-of-use is _the_ important factor, as the size of wires, equipment, etc. is what determines the peak load the grid can handle. If the actual demand exceeds that for even only one minute in the year, it means we need to upgrade the grid. Operators are very interested in flattening that peak, so will offer incentives to move electricity consumption to off-peak times. Here in Québec, the evening / night is peak time in winter, as we all have electric heating, and night-time is colder. If vehicle charging is a significant burden, they'll offer incentives to move that to daytime.
What is needed is an extension that provides a separate upvote/downvote system and its own comment system with better forum like tools than YouTube provides.

Rather than just begging to see YouTube's historical dislikes use it as a start to completely replace YouTube's manipulated and untrustworthy under video section.

You could have it in a window beside the YouTube video or in its own box below and just move on from YouTube comments and dislike control. In the long run it sounds like something better that could pressure YouTube to improve their own meagre and useless comment system.
I can see dislikes on one of my PC's but not the other. It might be cookie related.
I used to be much more of a curmudgeon about wanting to clean up existing code on sight but a few bits of reality seeped in over time, such as:

0. Existing code is probably working fine, and making changes (for any reason) risks adding a bug. Worse, reviewing code with a bunch of reformatting is tedious and the reviewer may assume you’ve only done reformatting and not notice the accidentally-changed behavior either.

1. You have to merge, a lot. And “fixes” that do little except reformat or redo are a pain to deal with when all you really care about is getting functionality in. This multiplies across branches and team members, and might require multiple manual merges.

2. There is a decent chance the code you’re not pleased with will be ripped out entirely as part of some bigger change, at which point all effort to fix unclean parts is moot.

3. Far more people than you are familiar with how it used to be, warts and all. The “cleaned” version now looks alien to everyone else and might slow them down.

That said, there is a time to clean things up; it just has to be at a well-defined point in the project. It involves a combination of things from the article (e.g. talk to the team) and the above (e.g. do it when many features are merged in and there are few branches to deal with).
Reminds me of this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/386/
So following a divorce there are a number of factors that affect people's long term happiness: possibility of remarrying, quality of time spent to kids, amount of income lost due to childcare and amount of income paid to ex-spouse, and so on.

We can assume overall these tend to impact men and women differently, with for example women tending to get more access to kids but losing income as they spend time on childcare, and men tending to pay more to their ex-wives and losing time with the kids.

You argue that women gain more from divorce than men overall as women are the ones who file for divorce in the majority of cases.

Let's accept for the sake of argument that women do relatively better out of divorces all things considered. The explanation for this could be good post-divorce outcomes for women, which are the factors above such as ease of remarrying or custody. This is what I see as the core of your argument.

An alternative explanation might be that in a bad marriage, women are in a particularly vulnerable position relative to men. In that case even with worse outcomes from divorce for women, it might still make sense for women to file for divorce more often.

I think it would be hard to find convincing evidence either way. But it's plausible the tension may just be apparent and there is another explanation.
It points towards black-market activity being legalized so what is effectively a despicable crime against the allmende can happen in broad daylight. This lack of "black markets" is more a indicator of systemic rot.
I stand corrected. Yet ty ti used you. Is it just keyboard gibberish?
Truly shows the massive amount of inefficiency of an ICE engine. My EV uses ~1MJ/mi (~3mi/kWh) while my ICE uses ~6MJ/mi (20mpg). The ICE 6x the energy cost to move a vehicle about the same mass, 4,400lbs (EV) to 4,200lbs (ICE)
Sadly it's a lot more than old IE versions, there are a lot of mobile devices with surprisingly old/buggy browsers around.
Of course this is highly dependent on the target audience but at my last job we did some runtime feature detection (basic stuff like arrow functions, let/const...) and shipped a modern build or a legacy build. And something like 10% of users got the legacy build, most of them on mobile browsers.
I think that's a big downside of the internet compared to traditional media.

It's so easy to just remove anything after the fact without any accountability. Don't worry, it's just WaPo rewriting history instead of issuing corrections and retractions officially with justification and reasonings.

Nope, just remove it to save face.

So disgusting.
translation: your family is now on the hook for holding a larger bag
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It's ambiguous really. Clean architecture refers to architecture that is structured in such a way (mostly by relying on tests) that one can "clean" out crufty portions of the code and not feel anxiety because one's tests should give one peace of mind. Whether or not the author was referring to the clean code as part of a larger clean architecture or just that the code wasn't crufty in general isn't clear. I would have preferred that the author used a different term (or that Uncle Bob had chosen something less common himself).
Lower operational burden - if you're using a serverless db maintaining servers is one less thing to think about. Same with any infrastructure - you don't have to worry about orchestration, load balancing, authentication, etc.
But not fundamentally different from the one we had 20 years ago! Maybe that's my issue here. So many of these Web3 clowns are promising slightly worse versions of the web we already had a while ago (which, fair, might be necessary) -- but while pretending it's something new and, perhaps this is the worst part, apparently aggressively ignoring the extent to which "Information wants to be free"/ GNU Manifesto/etc" type ideas are at least PARTLY true.
>From that day forward and for years and years and years… I never open a port to a back-end system again.

nice. not just that you changed behavior but that you did it in a 'zero trust' manner (not the marketing definition of zero trust), e.g. not creating other problems of bastions, vpns, key management, etc.
Yeah, that's what I was referring to. Facebook calls the token an access token, FWIW.

Are passwords entered in to a Matrix form sent to servers other than the one specified? If so that's crazy.
The OP mixes together different tools used for different causes.

* setuptools/pip/poetry is package managers
* egg/wheel/? are package formats
* venv/conda are environment to isolate from the OS

another degree of complexity is added by the OS: their package managers and ability to install as root vs under user. But in any layer, there's not much to get confused.

Over 12 years with Python the only serious change I saw was setuptools (was it named like that?) => pip in 2011. The only serious issue I saw was when I installed with several managers (OS, setup.py, pip) and/or as root/user. That got solved in 15-30 minutes after checking the imported package __path__, and cleaning things up.

Teaching people at courses, I saw people who struggled the most never checked anything: doesn't work? They'd try installing harder, or just re-ran things. But they never checked where the packages were installed, and where from they were imported.

Otherwise, I came to following simple rules:

1) python & ipython are installed via an OS package

2) packages that have to be executed like jupyter may be installed as root, or user; just never install both.

3) all other packages are installed as user. Computers are personal, and I almost never execute things as root, nor have other users.

Maybe being able to examine sources of errors was why I didn't feel it was so hard? I'm not a sysadmin, nor a hardcore programmer. It's just I got used to check paths and read error messages attentively.

This does not mean it's easy, I wish things were simpler, there were less ways to do things, but the OP exaggerates things as if there's a thousand of tools.
Saving things to our disk is also an ordeal because they are pushing OneDrive.

Christ don't remind me. The galaxy-brains at my work decided every file on every PC needs to go into OneDrive on a constant-update basis. Between the fact we're still stuck using HDDs instead of SSDs and our network hitting 16 megabits per second on a good day, most people have managed to get an impressive amount of reading done while waiting for their PCs to do anything at all.
Damn, I got excited for a second.

I've some modules I built just because it looks cool to have npm modules with N downloads on your CV. I don't really need that now.

No idea who the hell use them but I very rarely receive a PR or issues. They're basically unmaintained.

It's a bit like having 200+ projects on GitHub and a lot of green squares, people are just going to look at the whole thing without digging much further.

I got some work leads just from people telling me "Yo, I've seen your GitHub, wanna work?"
OpenCL was created by Apple, then Apple abandoned it. AMD picked it up, but at the time AMD didn't have competitive hardware and therefore didn't have the resources to make it good, and Intel wasn't in the GPU game then. Now AMD has money and Intel has even more money and they could certainly produce a competitive solution together if they tried.
I don't think so, because some videos have high numbers of views with low numbers of likes and dislikes.
>but you are paying for dedicated machines and their sizes

I see this as provision & managing as well, but yes I see your point. Ultimately it's about the user only caring about its data and nothing else (to the extent possible).
Some kind of low-effort walled garden with 'coins' and 'nft' pasted on.
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I wonder what the average family YouTube bill would be if Google charged AWS egress fees...
I appreciate the sentiment, but as I alluded to in my comment the reason I gave up wasn’t really the invite system, at least not primarily. Observing some of the discussions that were held on IRC I just didn’t like the vibe. I wish I could be more specific but unfortunately too much time has passed for me to have any concrete examples.
I love Palatino, Garamond, and other timeless fonts. I just don’t think Calibri is timeless at all.

Calibri actually wasn’t preceded by Arial; it was a replacement for Times New Roman, which was the previous default font in Microsoft Word. (They made the switch from Serif to Sans Serif.) Arial - apart from being the default font in Notepad and WordPad - was never really part of the Windows aesthetic. The new Windows font is Segoe UI (which I think has only improved with age) replaced MS Sans Serif, which was an altered version of Tahoma (introduced with Windows 95).

If you use HN on Windows and are into fonts, I did a write up on two iconic fonts that are actually just one: https://neosmart.net/blog/2017/tahoma-vs-verdana/

For my personal ”brand”, I was using Publico Text for a very long time, but now it seems to be everywhere so that’s a bit of a bummer :)
"The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that infants be exclusively breastfed for about the first 6 months with continued breastfeeding along with introducing appropriate complementary foods for 1 year or longer." https://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/faq/index.htm

Pumping is challenging, if not downright degrading. Ask a working mother. It also doesn't work as well as you might think, both the baby and the mother need breastfeeding 2-3 hours apart, or else the lactation may stop. Formula is suboptimal, according to AAP and common sense.

This is exactly how the singleminded focus on one metric (equal wages or bust) goes awry. Both mothers and infants suffer the pressure on mothers to compete on equal footing with males at all times. Is it really that hard to give mothers the space (and financial support) to chose the well being of their infants and of themselves, and accept that course of action will inevitably lead to a small decrease in lifetime wages?

Even the ancients were well aware of the dangers of attempting to equalize everyone to the exact same standard. See the story of the Procrustes bed, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes
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Yeah good point about higher range reducing the pressure on fast charging.
Thats an off by one error which naturally is included in all CS laws.
Essentially after 2016 you should treat New York Times, Washington Post and other mainstream press as partisan actors. If they publish something negative about Biden, it's probably true. If it's something negative about Trump, republicans or anyone right of center, it's most likely partisan attack. The difference between op-ed and news is also blurry and frankly should be mostly ignored - selective reporting is a thing.

It's a sad state of thing but here we are.
Does this mean I can import npm packages?
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I had a very similar thought! Much of the discourse around the removal of visible dislikes revolves around lost utility. Finding another way to provide similar utility value feels like a highly palatable solution to me.

I'm not exactly a Google-tier product designer, so I have to imagine such a proposal has already been seriously considered... Perhaps they're waiting for the dust to settle before trying other approaches?

In any case, the idea is not necessarily novel in the social media space. I recently learned that Twitter has a similar strategy for discerning content quality: the ratio[1]. It's not something that's explicitly exposed to users as a statistic, but it's basically just one step away.

[1]: https://eclincher.com/your-tweet-got-ratioed-what-next/
It's classic A/B testing in action. A lot of controversial anti/feature roll-outs on YouTube either take months or years to be applied to my account or never happen, and I have a hunch it's because they know I'm the type to openly bad-mouth those changes or reduce my usage of YT.
We don't need git hosting at all. Git can be served off any computer with SSH access. You serve git off a raspberry pi.

Github, gitlab, etc is just an overgrowth.
Apple's view provides a photo library icon and shows as a half-screen popover unless the user starts scrolling, keeping context.
Congrats Metaplane and welcome to the market. Like you, Bigeye also works for small (but mighty) data teams.
(music) time in the market beats market timing (music)

'cept when it doesn't, of course!
Both parties have figured out that printing money is more popular and way politically easier in the short term than any responsible policy
Are you trying to claim that e.g. the AMD open source drivers can't be usefully improved by the community?
Great piece of software. Used it a couple months ago when I wanted to keep eyes on an app, but didn't want to keep looking down at my phone. Worked flawlessly.
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YouTube staff seems to be running out of ideas on how to improve their service. That's when you start trying things that most people would consider stupid.
I don't get how it works. If YouTube removed dislike display and API, how exactly does it get the data?

(The source code isn't helpful since it just pulls the number from author's server.)
Must be me, but I missed the part of socialism that includes an impossible debt burden to private banks and a massive housing market bubble.
Warning: One misconfiguration of your database and you will get hammered by billing.

One guy forgot to put foreign keys and got a $20,000 bill.
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And they never will the third. Never. Once again, this is thinking you can make humans act like robot computer code. You can't. So-called "smart contracts" (which are neither) will never helpfully substitute for humans doing dispute resolution by talking to each other.
Classic mode was easy to turn on.
> When I write stuff in Word, Word seems very opinionated and messes up formatting all the time

This has been an issue with Word from its inception. This is because Word is broken at its core. The formatting is neither style based nor paragraph based. It's a weird mix. You can apply a style and then override it ad hoc creating a mess of a structure under the covers no doubt. I also heard horror stories about the native Word file format (at least in the days of Word6/Word97).

The Office won out purely on the sheer marketing muscle of Microsoft and their ceaseless effort to make competing software feel inferior on their operating systems. Without that I doubt they'd be where they are now in terms of market penetration.
Honestly, anything simple. It could be as brain-dead simple as passing a password on the command-line, and then requiring the password as a header.
Yep. Sadly people are more prone to correct somebody who said something wrong, than to answer an honest question.
Is GNOME a data-driven, for-profit company?
Works really well in the UK. Using my Monzo (current account) app, I have added my building society account & credit card accounts & can view the balances and transactions of the various accounts all in the same app.
One only has to look at who and what owns these massive media conglomerates to realize these companies don't have our best interests at heart. They're all owned by massive, money-making individuals/corporations who just exist to make more money and to keep your eyeballs engaged. They have no "duty" to serve only the facts.

Why would we serve just the facts and spend time doing investigative journalism, when we could just run with "anonymous sources" and treat _those_ sources as fact!

If only the ones screaming "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences" were to slightly change their mantra to "freedom of the press doesn't mean freedom from consequences!"
> It's not like there's an intrinsic reason TCP packets are the way they are now

What are you talking about? It was a three year argument based extremely heavily on prior knowledge

Why does everyone think that just because they don't know what craft went into something, there wasn't any?
You go from 1 household to 3. In densely populated areas, single family houses shouldn't really exist because its a huge waste of space, especially in places next to public transit.
The fill rate of regular gas stations in the US is up to 10 gallons a minute. They're not going around and slapping fines if your pump is only pumping at 9 gallons per minute. I'm pretty certain most pumps around me aren't going exactly 10 gallons per minute, I'm often waiting 2+ minutes for 16 gallons of gas, but not every time.
I accept your criticism but I still find your comment to be unconvincing, if you have reason to believe some statistics (such as 5% users) are faked, then it would be helpful to show:

1. Evidence of that

2. Other more accurate statistics that do show it affects more than 5% of users

3. An explanation as to why 5% is a meaningful threshold. Why shouldn't it be lower? Higher?

4. Suggestions on how to reduce workload if it's too much work or it's too hard

Or any other data that you think could back up the conclusion. I understand that this is not easy to do. But if it's not done, then it will continue to be a battle of egos as you describe, and that's not helpful. You don't have to stop complaining but in my experience it pays off to always improve your complaints and make sure they're done in a fully convincing manner. It also helps to avoid insults and personal comments about others, those just distract from the issue. It pays to make sure your complaints are as fact-based as possible. In a big project the original person who made the decision may not even be there anymore, so it's really everyone else that you need to convince.

Edit: And please don't just show them to me, show them to the stakeholders who matter and can get things done. I may think some of your info is interesting but that's about as much as I can do, I am not the person you need to be convincing and neither are other random commenters on social media. I get that it's fun to rant on social media but the real hard work doesn't happen there.
The problem is that management is done by human beings who, by their nature, find it difficult to think rationally, and even if they do, their manager doesn't.

I ran a one man side project for 10 years. I made money from it, but after 2 years I came to realise my brilliant innovations weren't going to make any difference except to give me support headaches. I stopped making any change which wasn't necessary, and got on with my life.
> Parent wasn’t taking away from the intention of design

Yes they were, very literally, and incorrectly to boot