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Honestly it doesn't even rank on the list of things I worry about. Where I am there's a housing crisis, crime is getting worse, taxes are getting higher, and rapid population growth is destroying everything I loved.

Also, I haven't done the research to determine - to my own satisfaction - whether this is man made or not. Sorry but my institutional trust is near rock bottom, and considering I'm not an atmospheric physicist I'm unlikely to ever have a clear picture.
James Somers is one of my favorite science/tech writers. Thank you, James for enriching my mind over the years. I have a bunch of your New Yorker articles to read but throughly enjoyed your 'The Coming Software Apocalypse' story. Guys check it out here https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/savin...

And he has all his articles listed on his site- https://jsomers.net/
Elon was tired of CA's meddling and incoherent bureaucracy. This elected Assembly member's tweet was the last straw.[0]

[0]https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259638112688304129?ref_...
>Cutting back on CO2 emissions would clearly work, but it’s expensive and painful.

This is so painfully backwards. "Saving the Planet" doesn't mean spending tons of money and doing tons of work, quite the opposite. The absolute best thing for the Planet would be for every human being to do nothing at all. Stop driving, stop working, stop eating entirely, and then things will quickly recover. Obviously that's a bit extreme, but it's to illustrate that less activity, not more, is what's best for the Planet.

It's so odd that all our frantic doing is what's thrown the Planet out of balance, and for some reason we think we're going to fix things by doing even more. The less active and industrious human beings are, the less they obsess over money and work, the less taxing we are on the Planet.
This pets.com was bullshit but selling pet supplies at online definitely is not.
I’m still haunted by nightmares of fake FTDI chips
I don't think I've ever seen so many wrong sentences in a single HN comment.

I would love to go through and debunk them all, but I don't have the time or the crayons, nor would I think it would be effective in changing your beliefs. You're too far gone.
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Mass extinctions due to things like insecticides.
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It sounds like you and parent are talking about two different things. I read they're saying it's weird to look for sexual hookups at work, not that it's weird to find an actual life partner through work.
> Travel is legitimately a positive force for exposing people to new cultures, ideas, and wealth sharing

I live in Berlin, I see the people coming here, it's not about sharing and culture, it's about consuming, same in virtually every other tourism hotspot I can think of in Europe. Globalisation took care of levelling off everything and making every city some kind of disneyland for lost souls. I'll give you that travel isn't inherently bad, tourism and especially the kind of mass tourism we mostly see these days is though

> I don't think it's fair to blame people for moving for better economic opportunities

Yeah I guess I should blame the game and not the players.
i used to work for a Dell contracted repair/shipping center. Corporate screw up happen all the time. there is one incident, before winter shopping holidays, Dell ordered thousands of 27" all in one pc for retail sales from a China OEM.

the problem is the all in one is not all in one. the back of all in one is missing a PC! the all in one is now a 27" monitor with a empty lump where the PC supposed to be. Dell screw up. Dell end up selling these all in one PC monitors to Corporation for cheap.
Reminds me a bit of the satirical “The State of LinkedIn” Twitter account: https://twitter.com/StateOfLinkedIn
Excuse me? What fantasy world are you living in where this isn't affecting you?

https://nypost.com/2021/12/10/prices-spike-6-8-percent-most-...

>The average hourly wage for production and non-supervisory workers is up 5.8 percent over the last year. It’s up 10.3 percent if we want to go back two years.

Hmmm...

https://www.axios.com/wages-inflation-economic-data-c912afdb...

"For all the hype that wage growth has received this year, pay isn’t keeping up with price growth. Real earnings, or wage growth less inflation, turned sharply negative the last two months, after eeking out gains over the summer, consumer price data out Friday show."

The article you linked reeks of gaslighting by the administration to try and portray this in a positive light. They literally came out and said they were going to do this-

https://nypost.com/2021/12/08/white-house-working-with-media...
Yeah, it's so silly. It's not like there aren't studies and doctors willing to investigate cheap, effective treatments for covid with existing drugs.

We know that steroids work because they were studied, they definitely work, they're cheap and now they're the standard of care. Why didn't the anti-ivermectin conspiracy come for dexamethasone? It's left unexplained...
This is a superb metaphor.
It could just as easily be Mental illness -> Homelessness
Windows tools often vendor in SSH implementations, which can get super annoying if you're trying to just shell out to one and find you're in some other tool's version that they added to the path... which further encourages bundling your own SSH, if you're distributing software to Windows.

This is changing (improving) with recent Windows versions, but you can still totally end up with competing installations by doing fairly normal things.
I am on my 4th macbook in 7 years, I have not had to install any program twice and all my settings so far have carried over between devices, with the sole exception of security settings. Maybe I got absurdly lucky but I have never had this little issues with switching devices thanks to migration assistant.
This is really annoying on architectures like ARM32 where size_t is closely related to unsigned int but uint32_t is long unsigned int and gets flagged as a different type. It becomes a real problem when using a stripped down printf like the one in newlib that doesn't support %zu.
> Are you trolling or do you really think that "every winter you'll be wearing a state mandated mask"?

At this point, in the states that have mandates? I'm honestly not sure. There sure seems to be no rush to remove them despite having low "cases" and hospitalizations not being an issue. And given none of these states have given a single hint as to when they will go away... who knows?

States that continue this are absolutely normalizing mandated masks. Vaccines were sold as the end of masks (and they morally should have been regardless of what politicians say). Vaccines are the best we can do. Mandated masks in a post-vaccine world makes absolutely no sense at all. What other target could a government reasonably set after a vaccine? "Cases"? "Hospitalizations"? Well... those will always be there. So do we just keep doing this forever?

And if you say "hospital capacity" shouldn't these governments have fixed that already? We gave them two years and it was an emergency so where is the hospital capacity we put our lives on hold for? I mean, its still an emergency right? Shouldn't people be super pissed that government hasn't dealt with the actual problem they keep saying we have?
So, that's a good argument for why you shouldn't dismiss a show or a thing in general based only on negative secondhand impressions. The lesson to takeaway is that you should judge a thing by its own quality, not by your negative impression of the fanbase.

But from that, there is no way you should conclude that cynicism is wrong in general. You should not overreact to too much cynicism by discarding criticism entirely! You should react by seeking better information.
Show HN: Translating anything on-screen on macOS Monterey using Shortcuts
Some artists have aphantasia. So it isn't just a function of drawing.
Maybe it's improved since, but last time I used IDA free the cloud decompiler was buggy and weird and it was overall a mediocre experience. I don't see why anyone would choose to use it instead of Ghidra unless they were explicitly trying to learn IDA because it's the industry standard, and I don't see it holding that position long-term unless they improve their free/cheap offerings.
I find myself doing unit queries like 4 all the time. "80 bytes / second * 1 year" results in ~2.5 GB. Etc etc. It's very convenient for making sure that you're handling units correctly.

It's also really good for random facts. For example, "75 kWh at California electricity price". Or if you know something takes 20W to run continuously and you want to know how much it costs... "20 W * 1 year at california electricity price".
No, it won because it was better. You ignore every question I ask about how memory safety is useful or relevant for those uses.
>> capitol police were completely overwhelmed

The protestors left the capitol building at some point.

Any idea why?
This is the best thing I will find in the Internets this week and it's only tuesday. Does it have RSS/Atom feed?
Just copy writing you think is good, and keep a daily journal where you write exclusively in that style. It'll be slow going at first, but it works. Takes about a year before it's totally natural.
What I can't quite tell is whether the mental alarm bells of people with ostensibly responsible mainstream views legitimately aren't going off at all, or they too know what this whole thing is, and they just think their complicity will spare them.
That's not how words work. You propose a term, and either it catches on or it doesn't, and this one has caught on.

I don't know what committee of developers "that don't own/trade cryptocurrencies" you imagine exists that has some authority on what marketing terms you can use on twitter, or why a group explicitly disinterested in a topic should be consulted in the creation of those terms...
storing scarce jpegs is bullshit but decentralize storage definitely is not
Of course there's a political advantage. It's something that forces everybody to visibly declare an affiliation with a side at all times in public. That will always be used for political advantage.
> I'm guessing a big part of the cost is figuring out how to actually invent stuff needed for the project.

We're talking about marginal costs, not development costs. So the cost to invent a component is already out of the equation. The high production cost of something like Hubble comes from testing and validation more than materials or fabrication.

The failure modes for something big in space can be extremely dangerous. Even a tiny "cheap" cubesat requires a lot of relatively expensive testing so there's a reasonable assurance it won't fail in some catastrophic fashion and destroy the entire rocket.

Testing space hardware is additionally difficult because you can only just approximate the hardware's operating environment on the ground. Space hardware also can't be easily repaired or repaired at all once launched. So you've got to test actual flight hardware and if it fails possibly rebuild it from scratch testing and validating the entire way.

Developing space hardware and high precision science instruments is expensive and difficult. But it's just a small portion of the overall mission cost for something like Hubble or JWST.
Bootstrapping two products with a full time job and two infants – AMA
> there are specific process steps that would have caught those mistakes above

Overestimating the risks can bury a project just as quickly as underestimating them. If you test for every possible failure mode you may never get off the ground. There's always a test or check that can catch something before the risk is realized. Every nut and bolt can be X-rayed, every line of code and possible combination can be tested, it's just a balancing act. Sometimes the risk doesn't justify all the tests, sometimes a test is accidentally omitted, or poorly defined because someone made a mistake or misunderstood the explanations behind it, or someone misread the result, or the risk was considered avoided because the code was tried and tested tech on Ariane 4.

Rockets are so complex that there are millions of situations where a mistake can be made and later amplified.
right. but when we use dollars we use 'this company made X dollars by making these kinds of goods more available in this area and providing technical support' as 'hah, I tricked this person into buying an NFT of a scribble'. if the NFT was sold for the yearly revenue of the distributor, do we really think they created the same amount of 'value', or are you saying 'yes, by defintion'.

if its the latter its somewhat disingenuous to use that word with its broader connotation instead of just 'sale amount'
Have you used an Air Fryer? I find that it saves a ton of time and energy considering start up times and the space of an oven. Clean up is extremely easy as well.
These “dumb SoCs” are one of the biggest security holes in a lot of high end equipment.

It would not be the first time someone finds exploitable firmware bugs and vulnerable BMCs through Shodan.
In times when many (if not most) human deeds are far from being carbon neutral and humanity is in dire need to reduce its footprint, maybe a recession (or more positively coined "degrowth") wouldn't be such a bad thing.
Wait until you hear about IMAP, a protocol used by Nigerian scammers to deceive and bankrupt innocent Americans.
Elegantly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZoSYsNADtY

or heroically:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3lcGnMhvsA
> Bitcoin is already mature and it's the most democratic type of currency/money/property in the world, how can you argue against that?

Am I able to use Bitcoin or Ethereum to pay for my groceries yet? Or do I have to continue to wait 10+ mins for a single transaction to settle whilst overpaying for the fees to make it go faster?

If that is 'web3', then you might as well use Apple / Google Pay then.
Interesting. I find that I can relatively easily picture an imaginary beach, and recall mental images from my past of being on a beach. I tried imagining a few different fruits like another commenter mentioned, and I don't have any trouble with it. I can imagine a detailed banana with some brown specs, not just a cartoon yellow shape.

But what you said about meeting a person you haven't seen often resonates with me. For people I know well, I can conjure up a number of detailed images of them from my past and I feel like it refreshes my memory. But I feel like every now and then, for someone I haven't seen much (or recently), I'll just "forget" what someone looks like completely and only have vague ideas like hair colour, age, height. Once I see them though, I usually have a "speak of recognition" as you mentioned.

I am especially curious about how anyone is able to give a decent description of a criminal or something like that (since it seems like people often do). I feel like I might struggle to recognize someone after they interviewed me for an hour, at least days later.
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Yeah, I'd never date at work, but it really is a problem that nearly 100% of the typical American's time is now spent in environments where sexual advances are inappropriate. The beneficiary of this situation is Tinder et al, but what they have created is a wasteland.
Heating up food to disinfect and make it easily digestible, guns, wheels, writing.
It sounds cool and all but that's sci fi for now... What we need is solution for now, not some hypothetical magical solution that's "just around the corner" and will save us all. What people thinking like that want is to not give a personal shit and let others figure out how to fix the issue they're part of long after they died. That's the "face responsibilities" part I was talking about.
> It’s weird that people look for romantic partners at work.

My sister met both her current and former partner at work. It's more common than it might seem.
What scenario gave rise to that distribution?!
It's a type alias, introduced for generics. By the way, Go 1.18 Beta 1 is released (with generics): https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/eAjK4Oezs_A
And I'm wondering if these are all making the front page because of this Show HN from earlier.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29551947
XXH: Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH
When I first heard Web 3, I thought the semantic web had a resurgence (the semantic web was called Web 3). Unfortunately not though.
> Bitcoin is already mature and it's the most democratic type of currency/money/property in the world, how can you argue against that?

I wish you bitcoiners could decide if bitcoin is a currency or not.
When a technology is as destructive as many crypto projects, it makes a lot of sense to spend your energy building a negative perception.
What value do you find in inventing a caste system for engineers? Psychology already suffers from a replication crisis and pseudoscientific quackery; corporate psychology is even less broadly applicable to humans.

People are not static; they're not just their genes, and they're not just a grade. You said you're an A player, why don't we compare your hiring to a random selection of hiring managers with similar experience in your field?

My degree was in Integrative Neuroscience and I'd caution people against these "just so!" explanations. A good narrative is often more convincing than the correct one.
hackaday for physical goods, here for software/hardware, product hunt is a bit of work and they've gotten hit by spam pretty hard recently
Splitting out my other thoughts into a new comment:

I also have an awful short term memory, but can usually remember concepts from many years ago in great detail. Also text based content is way easier for me to remember than hearing it-- if someone tells me their name multiple times then I'll have trouble remembering it. But if I see someone's picture and their name written down, usually it sticks with me. Words are even worse, especially if I don't know what they mean. (I hate acronyms if I don't know what they stand for) If someone tries to give me a list of numbers or dates out loud, it barely makes any sense to me, I simply can't keep that all in my head at once, I need to process one at a time. But if I can see them written down, usually having to make a diagram of some sort, it's easy and I'll remember it for a while.

Overall I wonder if I would have led a very different life if I lived in an age before common literacy, or perhaps even without ubiquitous computers. I've been successful in my career with software, but if my job required me to keep track of a bunch of things without having the chance to write them down, I think I'd be screwed. Hell, I have to really focus when counting scoops of coffee or something simple like that. Going through a large list of data is difficult unless I can annotate it. I could see myself making stupid mistakes a lot if I had to do a job with real time consequences. But luckily for software (and school assignments, way back) I've been successful when I've had time to write stuff down and think it through, and edit my work/answer.

Sorry this kind of got off topic, but I can definitely relate to getting stressed about meeting someone in a restaurant. And as far as I know, I don't have aphantasia at all, at least based on everyone's descriptions of it.
These really well built "web3 is dumb" sites seem like peak Streisand Effect, I'm baffled so many people are spending so much time yelling about something they think has "no use-case" and is already doomed to fail...
Which Chromebooks?
Just want to thank the developers behind this and joined as GitHub sponsor. Happy to see this also enters the Qt framework.
Okay let’s have it then. I can sleep in the woods without fear again.
JavaScript and Typescript, although I hope way more Typescript in 20 years.
They said romantic partners, which could be both.
The defining feature of Web3 is the absence of any central single-point-of-failure, moderation, or coercion in the technical stack - including individuals and businesses. Federated and/or P2P.

Scrolling a bit, I see from the top: NFTs shilled on Twitter, centralized cryptocurrency exchanges getting hacked, things hosted on AWS, Peter Molyneux doing his thing...

I don’t see a single example of Web3. Or even projects or technologies calling themselves such, legitimately or otherwise.

Cryptocurrency and blockchain can play a part in Web3, they don’t constitute or define it. If you coordinate and communicate on Twitter and Discord, host the core platform functionality on AWS and Cloudflare, and send out newsletters via Mailchimp, there’s nothing decentralized or “web3” about what you’re doing.

The OP is like criticizing Web2 because celebrity nudes were leaked via Gmail and this made someone get phished for their credit card believing they could stream more.
I tried this a couple of months ago. At the time it didn't really work as intended but I'll give it another shot.
It's not. It's the same thing, now with a headset and better graphics!
Instead of quibbling in the comments, lets hear it from the expert who dedicated his entire life (literally) to SCIENTIFICALLY studying the problem -

https://youtu.be/HXzTbCEqCJc
Why is this the first time i'm hearing about this? When did this start?

I think there's an underlying reason why people are hesitant to donate money to a cause because if even a software foundation predicated on open source and transparency can't get money into the hands of open source projects then publicly funded donations are a really bad bet for making the world a better place.
Measles is making a strong comeback. It's a bit early to declare victory.
As far as I understand, the goal is focused towards structural pattern matching rather than alternative conditional syntax.

It seems neat, I'm a real big fan of it in Scala and Elixir
Although it would be much (much) more elaborate, a counterfeit BMC could have hidden ROMs or bootloaders capable of opening backdoors into running machines.
You want `qalc`. :)
> Dismayed by the lack of an environmental plan, I created a plan that would bring SpaceX to full carbon neutrality by 2030. It contained a framework for a diverse and functional society that would learn from our colonial past and incorporate indigenous expertise. I brought this plan directly to Elon Musk, who dismissed it with an email that said: “We have wind and solar energy.”

Is it possible to make a rocket carbon neutral? I guess if you use hydrogen instead of RP1/methane?
Follow up, how does a carbon neutrality plan fit together with a framework for a diverse and functional society that would learn from our colonial past and incorporate indigenous expertise?

> But the new buildings on the campus run on gas generators, and company funding is not being dedicated to reducing carbon emissions. While there are solar panels on campus, any attempts to make new buildings and infrastructure sustainable (LEED) are deprioritized in favor of expanding the factory as fast as possible.

Hard to tell what the real story is here -- you probably want high reliability power sources next to your rocket construction building. Attempting to shift some load over to solar panels, but assuring that you have the ability to go all gas power seems like a reasonable choice.
Love this take.

It's kind of how I feel about crypto – cautiously observing, investing money I can afford to lose, toying with ideas on how and which real problems it could solve, and doing my best to ignore the parts that smell like pure hype, MLMs, and land grabs.

There is something here and I don't know what yet. I doubt NFTs are it. And we already know it doesn't quite work as a currency.