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> parenthetical note, sometimes I wonder if a vacuum toilet would become available for home use, it's so effective

I've heard it said that plumbing issues dramatically increase with modern, water-efficient toilets. It's not hard to imagine why. Sewer usage and maintenance are at a far lower rate, so stool will settle and clog when ever smaller amounts of water are introduced.

I'm not sure this problem can be solved, assuming regular sewage as the method of disposal.
Oh, that was not my intention. Sometimes I wonder how much traffic HN generates. FWIW the article has been cached by Google (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:I15LV50...).
Can't fault people for wishful thinking
> anti-diversity blogs

You keep using this phrase and I think it's disingenuous at best. Sure, there are probably people here who genuinely don't want to be around people who don't look like themselves. But I'd be willing to bet that the overwhelming majority of people who you would describe as "anti-diversity" are really just sick of stuff like this, from the article.

> To work at the CBC now is to accept the idea that race is the most significant thing about a person, and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than others. It is, in my newsroom, to fill out racial profile forms for every guest you book; to actively book more people of some races and less of others.

Even if you dismiss that as hyperbole (which it is), a lot of people are wondering why so many of our politicians/institutions focus so much on dividing up the populace by race.
Over the holidays I learned a friend of a friend who has been playing with AI-generated art earned ~$400k selling some of this stuff as NFTs.

I'm wondering what are the odds my friend's friend just needed to launder some illicit crypto gains, and NFTs are a perfect zero-cost substrate...
The DVD service had pretty much everything as far as I can recall. So streaming + DVD was a pretty complete offering with balanced convenience and catalog.
Also support a small business owner and his or her family.
It seems they are following the McRib model. Taking it off the menu for awhile probably generates more views overall than simply leaving it on all the time. Plus you can license it out to another streaming service while it's off yours.
Based on the number of flagged posts I've seen on here... I think it's not preemptively deleted, but it is very self-censoring.
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Isn't that what google Programmable Search is?

https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=dc408db269da4e769 (try searching for something you want a review of)

Make a search, whitelist the domains. Every time you run into a good review site, add it to the searchable list.
I dont understand. You do the thing we have been doing a hundred years. "They"
Assuming it is true that discussions on "free speech" always lead to "That Topic", maybe it is because a clique of political activists that claim for themselves the exclusive right to speak on any matter pertaining to "That Topic" are among the most censorious and intolerant that most people are likely to ever encounter?
In the 90's, my father had a Ford Pampa. We lived in Rondônia, close the extreme west of the Amazon rainforest. One day, while raining and riding through difficult terrain, the car stopped just by the top of a slope. My father quickly diagnosed the fuel hose had ruptured. By luck and opportunity, he was a physicist, the trunk was full of material from experiments and research he was running at the time. He got a hose from one of his experiments on the trunk, connected it directly to the engine fuel inlet, the other point of the hose came directly to the cabin inside a bottle we filled with alcohol from the fuel tank.

That was it, the bottle was now our fuel tank. Dangerous, but worked perfectly. We had to stop at every gas station we found and refill without stopping the engine to prevent air entering the hose.

It was a fun day.
Solutions similar to the one mentioned in the article never worked for me. No matter how hard/inconvenient I make it to be (put phone outside of bedroom, delete app, etc.), when the addiction hits I will try my absolute best to circumvent the inconveniences. It's not even funny.

I think the best is to fully recognize and understand the addiction, and then try to eradicate the root cause.
For the vast majority of things I buy that use chips (obviously not consoles, phones and computers) they could easily be using chips from 2010 and the only difference might be a slightly higher electricity draw.
I see Facebook as the one most likely to struggle because, at least in the UK, Facebook the site is disliked by tons of people and is now mostly used day to day by older people. I don’t know anyone that is my age that actively posts on it anymore. Most people only keep it to keep in touch with older family who don’t use anything else. On the other hand, Instagram is very popular and so is WhatsApp.
this is simply not true
> "Hi, Sam Shepard will be on the call with you today, and will be joined by Alex VanBeckran and Kegan Marton" -- are these folks hoping to be addressed as men, or women, or non-binary? There's no way to tell, and it's kind of disrespectful to be wrong.

As another commenter pointed out, in a professional setting you would ideally address these people by their proper nouns (names) and not by their pronouns. And if you're addressing more than one person, it's the gender-neutral we/they/them anyways.

I'm actually struggling to think of a business scenario where using the proper pronoun would be more professional or polite than just using someone's given name.
Initially voted Google based on a hunch: Google Search is the most likely flagship product of a FAANG to get displaced by a competitor. Unlike, say, Amazon as a hub for products or Facebook as a social network, Google Search is not a natural monopoly -- there's no inherent reason a search engine should maintain dominance if it loses its competitive advantage. The complaints from tech friends ("you can't find anything anymore") that I've heard for years now are starting to come from tech-agnostic family instead. Alternatives are still worse, but it's easy to imagine a breakthrough.

However, this doesn't mean Google/Alphabet itself, with its diverse product suite and huge amount of advertising data, will decline in any meaningful sense; that will happen on a much slower scale.
The trolley problem analogy breaks down when you consider that Covid is an infectious disease. Getting vaccinated doesn't just protect you; it protects everyone else you might have spread the disease to.
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I tried to, but I didn’t find a list of projects that went open source, so I had to go by my memory. Which may have some kind of survivorship bias, as I maybe forgot those projects which went open source, but failed.
Agreed. It is a human quality, not a Left or Right quality.
As a Jew, I will tell you that the Nazis didn’t care about our IQ. Many Jews proudly used their brains to help Germany in WWI (Fritz Haber comes to mind) and yet arguably Germany lost because of the brain drain which led directly to our atomic bomb, among other things, that might have helped them.

They didn’t care about whether we could run a mile or win at athletics. It was ancient ethnic hatred only many centuries earlier based on religion.

Saying that different populations have different IQs could surely be a post how justification for that kind of hatred, but it could also be justification for amelioration of the non-genetic effects through social programs.
I was curious how does session notification from system service works -- what if there is no one logged in? What if there are multiple users? How about ssh connections?

The answer is as following:

- user's dbus session is used for notifications. On systemd systems, user's dbus socket is in fixed, predictable location, and only depends on username. The script hardcodes this location.

- The normal install procedure records the username of the user who called "install" command and uses their session for notification [0]. So if user "alice" run the install command, and user "john" is logged in, no notifications will be delivered.

- If installer user is not available, an arbitrary user is chosen [1] (!) and program just expect them to be logged in. This happens when installing a .deb file for example.

- If the user is not logged in, or has logged out, the notifications are enqueued and would be shown once user is logged back in.

Overall, this is a bit simplistic and will fail in some multi-user situations... but it still covers most common cases (a single user on the system) and in the spirit of "lightweight" tool.

[0] https://github.com/elesiuta/picosnitch/blob/master/picosnitc...

[1] https://github.com/elesiuta/picosnitch/blob/master/picosnitc...
I have a premium subscription but end up forgetting to watch Netflix because they won't integrate with Up Next. I pick something from my queue - I mean you usually watch TV when your brain is fried and it's not going to remember everything. Don't know why they're so adamant about this.
You're showing your age. There was a time when you could ask Netflix for any number of DVDs for almost any movie and have it sent to you.
Google seems like the obvious choice. They rely on people continuing to use search in its current form. I don't see how that survives the next ten years. It's too obviously ripe for replacement. It's not at all a stretch to say search is for the most part a waste of time if you're going to type a phrase into a text entry box and read the results.
Most people I know just share accounts, nobody is paying for all of these subscriptions, just one or two.
Yes, I think the second release just amped that effect up and added it to more scenes.
Thanks for your response. However, this type of moral high ground argument makes very little sense to me.

My job(s) aren't the source of my happiness and self satisfaction. I have a family and hobbies outside of work. My work simply funds my real life. I don't feel a need to be good at my job.

If anything, it sounds like tying your happiness to being "objectively good" at your job is a potentially dangerous mindset. If my superiors/reviewers think I'm "subjectively good" at my work and reward me for it, what does it matter if I'm not "objectively good". (Also, "objectively good" is subjective)
It makes sense to put it after to me, but also, that's how it's done in French.
My water bill page is the most over designed thing I've ever seen :( . It takes over 30 seconds to load with all these obviously widget based sections of the page to load. All I want is to log in and see my bill. I don't need to see the community water usage, or my usage for the last 6 months, or the weather for the next three days. I just want to see my bill and pay it. Have a button I can click for further details and load the rest of their stuff if something seems off. I don't need a "single page web app" to do that stuff.
I think it's the other way round: code like you write (or like you ought to be writing, anyway).
Everyone here loves to hate on Facebook, but they're not going anywhere. They have successfully metastasized out into the web in a way that irreversible. Instagram is still the hottest thing around, and will be for the foreseeable future.

Of this list, Netflix is the only obvious one that will see serious user loss. They had a great thing going for about 10 years until the pandemic knocked every Hollywood exec upside the head to realize that streaming is no longer optional. Netflix has been reduced almost entirely to their own content at this point as every other producer is running their own service now. And Netflix original content is... spotty at best.
If that map is even remotely accurate, he was only about 10-20 miles away from Tan-Tan: https://goo.gl/maps/fzJmUz3b2PddDSp17

Seems like a fairly easy walk to me. Uncomfortable and a bit long (roughly one day), certainly, but less-so than a dozen days in the desert.
I think she's joining Glenn Greenwald over at substack.com.
> You, as a neighbor, get nothing. Meanwhile, you have to deal with additional traffic in the neighborhood; cars parked on the street; more people (quite possibly of a different socioeconomic strata) coming and going; construction noise; higher property taxes; usually uglier buildings; blocked views; more crowded schools; and more load on public infrastructure.

there was a time in this scenario when those schools and public infrastructure didn't exist. presumably, the thing which justified their build-out was an earlier increase in density. one would therefore expect further increases in density to justify more forms of (or larger scale) public infrastructure. what scenarios would lead one to value the existing public infrastructure but not value the future public infrastructure? is it just a problem of time horizons/discounting (i.e. that the negative externalities of upscaling are immediate while the positives accrue over a longer time period)? that would seem to align with the anecdote about seniors, at least. but then i'm curious how the original community ever overcame these tradeoffs in order to achieve enough density and construct the earlier forms of public infrastructure.
This is a strawman argument. That some claims aren’t proven or that some similar logic was used to do another bad thing doesn’t mean OP is wrong. What OP is referring to is largely documented and is not some small claim from a random article.
I think the most important data point you should compare in this case is the rate of myopericarditis in young men who get COVID.

It's somewhat irrelevant what the rate is in past vaccines.

Two things seem pretty clear from the data. The first is that myocarditis rates are much higher in unvaccinated young men who get COVID than those who get the vaccine. And the second is that you almost certainly will get COVID eventually.

One hypothesis is that the spike protein in the vaccine is what causes the myocarditis. If you are scared of that, then you should be really scared of how much more spike protein you are going to have in your body if you get COVID unvaccinated. The spike protein in the vaccine does not replicate. In COVID, it obviously does. If I had to guess, I would say that anyone who gets myocarditis from the vaccine probably would have had a very bad time with COVID.
“ Because you do have a right to view your medical records, there is a fallback option which essentially means going to the healthcare provider and asking for paper records. This is behavioural nudging taken to the extreme.”

I think this just illustrates how much easier smart phones make things. If we didn’t have smart phones for example, all your interactions with the government would be as cumbersome and inconvenient as this fall back option.
Space and Hondas: I took some skin off my right hand and fingers the last time I replaced a headlight on one--I had to get in behind the gravel shield.
Yup. Apple TV for most things and Just Watch for obscure stuff or if there's a chance it could be on Netflix. Just Watch has some major blindspots. I have had multiple searches that return wrong titles.
>* Netflix has some of the worlds brightest minds in data science

Which of Google, Facebook, Microsoft doesn't?
Mass Formation Psychosis explains so much about the toxicity of social network sites now, and especially going against the narrative here on HN.
I worked at Facebook last year and Google this year. I don't have an insider view of the other companies but some of my closest friends work at all of them except Netflix.

My guess is that none of these will stop growing in the next few years, but Facebook is especially undervalued. They execute on new products faster and better than the others listed, so regardless of current sentiment they are probably not going to fail any time soon.

I chose Netflix because I have the least evidence to suggest they will remain stable, but would say the odds are <10% any of these have a lower market cap in 5 years than they do now.
I'll just throw out there that ever since I picked up Doom Emacs and the associated Magit, I have been doing the same thing and loving it, I'll commit every time I finish writing a logical scope of code, and then commit and push and know that everything is there in case anything happens, it also has made my commit comments much more descriptive as I know am actually able to describe exactly what the commit has done beyond "Added feature X, refactored function Y". Big fan of the continuous commit workflow.
I think logging in the US is probably much more dangerous than in other developed countries. At least that's the impression I have from watching a few television programmes and YouTube videos.

US loggers seem to take more risks and have less sophisticated equipment.

Is my impression correct?
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The "Why?" section on this site says things like 'it runs fast, can be customized to match branding, has a small filesize' etc.. But I'd like to know "Why?" as in "Why even add this supposed eye-candy to a web page in the first place?" I assume the answer is that it makes the page seem luxurious and opulent, which translates into the viewer believing that the page was probably time-consuming (and possibly expensive) to build, which translates into a sense of legitimacy and trustworthiness.

That explanation might have made more sense a decade ago before these types of effects were ubiquitous on the web. Now, it's easier than ever for anyone to drag and drop one of these preset visual effects onto their webpage. There's nothing to it anymore, people have seen them, the shine has worn off: There's no longer anything 'special' about these special effects.

Worse (as another commenter posted about always seeing these effects on 'crypto coin' sites) these effects are often used on sites engaging in confidence tricks - relying on dazzling the viewer with visual effects to convince them that their fraudulent scheme is legitimate. I associate stuff like this [0] with 'scam'

[0] https://img.freepik.com/free-photo/gradient-dark-blue-futuri...
>Netflix would be a nice addition to Peacock or Paramount+ and would give each a sense of legitimacy.

??

Netflix is worth more than both Universal and CBS combined.
You are absolutely correct that it does deserve to be critiqued, and it is important to do so.

What makes me feel weird about the style however is there aren't any example of this, so if a reader does not know the field well of the common tropes, it feels like the author is just throwing together opinions people could possess (let's say opinions on how to write an Article about Africa), and then promote anger over how such people could exist.
> a less friendly place

I draw a line connecting the prevalence and vigor of anti-diversity flame wars on HN and the lack of gender diversity on HN. The ecosystem tolerates a high baseline of hostility so long as you couch that hostility in ways which meet the letter of the guidelines.

I've often wished for an alternative to HN because of it. This place doesn't really match my punk-rock hacker ethos where the underdog and the excluded are celebrated.
Tivo has been doing this for years. I can search for a show, see if it's live, upcoming in the next couple of weeks to record or if it's available on Amazon/Hulu/Netflix/Vudu to stream or buy. Then just click it to go straight there.

Also has a nifty feature where you can list all available episodes of a show across all seasons and it will mix in your live recordings with streaming options. I honestly don't know why Tivo doesn't get a lot more love. Cable when you aren't paying per-TV fees for boxes is pretty great. Just a couple of bucks a month for a cable card in the Tivo and then you hook up Tivo Mini units on all of the other TVs in your house to access the main box.
> Absolutely no one will confuse my bearded, balding, fat self for a “she”.

I was confused once when a doctor gave me the direction "follow him" and there was no male around. A definitely female nurse had just walked out, and that's who I was supposed to follow.

Nothing strange was going on; this happened in China. Chinese doesn't have gender distinctions in pronouns (except in the spelling...), and Chinese speakers aren't able to make the distinction consistently in extemporaneous speech.

The default is 'he', though, so I guess you're still safe from being called 'she'.
Google (at least the search engine). As more and more content is created inside closed services, Google will become less valuable.
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That sounds like it could be a panic attack. Perhaps panic due to all the fear mongering about the vaccine?
I’m not sure if you’re being serious or not. If so, your comment is deeply ironic.