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Can we stop the name calling, it's really not productive to the conversation. How many *IMBY's did you just throw out there?!

There's a couple really good books that delve into this complex issue [1], [2]. The TLDR is that early 20th century American cities were quick to level entire neighborhoods to bring in modern infrastructure. It was swift and brutal, wiping out 50 to 100 years of history without much thought. All replaced with boring concrete roads and bland architecture.

So in the 60s and 70s, activists changed city laws to empower local residents with the ability to delay or out-right block housing projects.

What you're seeing now is the result of 40-50 years of cities stuck going through very tedious processes to get anything moved forward.

The problem with empowering any local resident is that you see only the people who want to stop something at the hearings and all it really takes are a hand-full. The rest of the residents are impartial or just too busy to care.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Neighborhood-Defenders-Participatory-...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Gates-Fighting-Housing-America...
time for a community maintained Programmable Search https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/

When I find a review site I like, I add it to mine. (https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=dc408db269da4e769) Then I have a bookmark bar button that searches just my whitelisted review sites.
If companies don't send him review units then he just buys them retail. He has already done this for many products.
> A4 used a standard and pedestrian Cortex-A8 there.

My understanding was that the A4 Cortex-A8 was a modified version by Intrinsity which apple bought out, but, you’re right. Apple didn’t start actually designing their own cores until the A6 [1].

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/amp/article/4293287-setting-record-...
Brilliant use of Peertube, looking forward to these enhancement efforts that other cultural preservation efforts will be able to leverage.
It is much more difficult (perhaps impossible on a properly-implemented site?) to interact with a site on behalf of a user in harmful ways through an img tag -- Like, say, getting their checking account number, or transfering money from their checking account to yours, or resetting their password or email address. It's difficult/impossible to do that kind of attack only through an <img> tag, because Javascript can't see the body response of the URL in an <img> tag even if you point it at a non-image, and additionally an img tag can only be used for GET requests.

I didn't say that XmlHttpRequests "broke any assumptions that were valid before", I don't know exactly what that means.

If an XmlHttpRequest were allowed to do arbitrary cross-site requests, Javascrpt could use them do some of the kind of attacks mentioned above. Which is why XmlHttpRequests can't do cross-site requests. CORS exists to let XmlHttpRequests do cross-site requests only in an opt-in way, so a site can opt-in to it in ways that it knows/believes are secure from attacks like above.

I'm not saying the overall web security story is perfect (nobody would ever say that!), but that's where CORS comes from, and why it's different than img tag.

The common misconception is that CORS exists as some kind of general access control to your website. It only exists to keep the user of a well-behaved browser safe (in certain ways) from malicious Javascript on a site they are visiting. CORS has nothing at all to do with any scenarios involving malicious browsers, which are of course free to ignore CORS.
It’s not dumb, I had the same question. Would’ve been great if the value proposition explained how it was different than using the reflog.

In my experience there’s a lot of Git tools out there that basically exist because people don’t want to read the manual. But seems like Dura is not one of those.
> I don't know much about this guy, other than my conspiracy-laden mother citing him as reason enough to not take a vaccine.

A broken clock is correct twice a day. Don't disregard a perspective based on the channel.
I definitely think that Solaris is a bit of an underrated gem. It's a very long movie that I can't watch all the time, but occasionally when I'm in the mood for a slow, cerebral movie I pop that one on.

If you want a more "abridged" version of it, "Memories" by Satoshi Kon is also pretty great. It's unique enough to be its own thing, so I'm not accusing it of being a "rip off" or anything, but it has similar themes about how memories can influence our perception of people, and it's shorter.

EDIT: Sorry, Memories is the name of the anthology movie. Magnetic Rose is Kon's segment.
FWIW, I asked about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778358

There’s a link in the comments to this 2005 verion of the net.abuse FAQ, which references “Do not feed the trolls”: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq/troll-faq/
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Just how big in media does Apple want to be?
Well, it's funny because the Apple stuff works like this, but not Xcode.

I pretty much never save anything with Page/Numbers/TextEdit. I just quit

Not only do I not lose changes, I don't lose editions. I can go back to older versions. And that's not including Time Machine. It's simply "built in".

From a user experience, it's really wonderful and no stress. I don't even think about it. At the same time, I have no idea where these extra versions are stored but, honestly, I don't care.

I do wish other applications worked similarly. Source code is tricky, but it probably wouldn't be awful to have a similar experience.
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I find that claim surprising considering how many more people there are simply using the internet at all.

Fewer unique blog domains due to “blogging” sites that aggregate users? Sounds plausible. Fewer people blogging overall? I’m not convinced yet.
$6000 into Roth IRA into VTSAX or FZROX.

Then General investment into VTSAX or FZROX.
...why? If we like his movies then what is the harm of analyzing the hell out of them?
I'm not sure these sorts of articles provide much value on HN.

By "these sorts of articles", I mean the ones that have claimed that "diversity efforts have gone too far this time." Regardless of your support or opposition to diversity, I think one would agree that these rapidly turn into unproductive, highly divisive comment sections that are out of place with the rest of HN.
Automatic commits is generally not a good idea. Commits are supposed to be meaningful chunks of work, and meaning requires manual effort.

Automatic pushing is also probably not great. If it's just a backup mirror of some kind maybe, but otherwise you should be doing something like intentionally pushing what you're trying to share.

I don't really think that backups should be tied to git. There's already good backup software, wiring it into git doesn't seem to add anything.
I never fill out the preferred pronoun section that have suddenly made their way into forms.
Some kind of browser or extension that re-ranks and filters search results on the web.
> It was swift and brutal, wiping out 50 to 100 years of history without much thought.

“Without much thought” is whitewashing. There was usually very careful thought about who was targeted for harm, and who for gains (race, ethnicity, and class were central focuses of this thought.)
There you can queue the 'workflow' xkcd https://xkcd.com/1172 and while the joke is funny I wish everyone would stop breaking my workflow.

Maybe I'm getting old, or maybe I find the permanent useless change tiring. I'm looking at GNOME, Android, Windows in particular.
This is incredibly tedious. I can't fathom how this has anything to do with "Hacker News" but I guess it's appeal to a certain subset of the audience here overrides that.
I think the deal breaker is "without retooling".

For one thing there's a lot of steps involved in photomask -> repeat. If your masks are all built for a smaller wafer size, or a different focal length setup or physical process diameter, then they literally won't fit in the die, or won't focus correctly.

You'll run into similar issues all up and down the chain. If your doping and prep all assumes a smaller wafer or different geometry, you're out of luck either physically because things don't fit, or because your chemistry needs to be redone. Your various deposition, bake and cure steps will necessarily also assume a process geometry, because some of the processes diffuse out from the center, or at different angles relative to some source that's bombarding them.

It's sort of akin to saying "well if we can build a vw bug they can build a model-T". Generations of equipment changes make things incompatible.
WTF Is Web3?
Proof-of-work is not the only workable consensus mechanism, as Ethereum moves from a PoW to a PoS model Soon(*) that should improve.

(*) {currentDate} + 18 months*
There are shelters for every homeless person already. The homeless prefer the street.
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I didn't personally enjoy AI dungeon too much because of how loose it felt - nothing was defined and anything goes - but I hear people describe it like you did, and it sounds similar to how I heard lucid dreaming described - you're simultaneously driving but also part of the experience.
>Eventually search will become a decentralized activity (No, not a web3/crypto/coin type decentralization, I am talking about the useful type).

People care about UX not about technology remember that unless people are willing to sacrifice good UX in order to have greater security and privacy. These things are tricky and there is no right formula.
I'm not sure about Twitter and the details there. It seems he is unclear as to why as well.

What I did do, as with many similar cases, is go watch long form interviews rather than just taking the narrative as is. His recent JRE interview was timely and I learned quite a bit about the molecular biology behind covid.

What I can say is that the characterization of Dr Malone is awful and malicious. How you call someone who develops vaccines and took the vaccine an anti-vaxer is beyond me.

This seems to be the case with many cancelled for questioning the covid narrative. You can simply attack and label and the narrative engine that is our sick society kicks in.
Google does stack results. The(my) issue is when entities select what is displayed or even hosted. Defining the line isn't easy because things like ranking are involved. While ranking can be a benefit to the users, it is also used as a shield by entities that want to keep their 230 protections.

I don't care that defamatory or inflammatory items are in given lists, I care that I'm being given the full list. If the list is intentionally being curated beyond what the user requested, safe search and such, then 230 protection is gone.
I use Time Machine on an external drive. I learned this lesson the hard way… Obviously it’s not perfect, but you aren’t going to lose an entire days work.
I'm a strict egalitarian and have been doing exactly this, and always encourage others to do exactly this. I refuse to state my gender, race, class, health status, sexuality, or any other qualifier that could categorize me into being discriminated against or in favor of. Let my actions speak to the quality of my character.

edit: Not sure why this thread has gone deep into a discussion about pronouns. I don't identify as any gender and welcome any pronouns to refer to me. My humanity is the only classifier I accept. Think of my pronouns as a `void *`
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>The problem with fixing housing is that it requires change, and the tolerance for economic change for your typical liberal voter is very limited.

This applies to most voters, not just liberals ones. But I agree, as someone living in the SF Bay Area, the NIMBYism is hypocritical and very annoying to see.
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It's not mostly marketing woo. Diminishing returns, yes. Marketing woo, no.

When I make a song, I spend a lot of time listening for specific, subtle changes. Like I might be adjusting the EQ of a rhythm guitar in a mix by a couple dB, and trying to balance it with the hi hats. Making those kinds of decisions in a full mix, you'll notice lots of deficiencies in headphones that are supposedly high-quality reference headphones.

If you look at measured frequency response for headphones, even high end headphones, you'll see that the frequency response curves can really be all over the place. That's not even considering transient response (where you'd want to look at a waterfall graph).

IMO, headphone amps and DACs are where the real marketing woo is.
I'm Canadian. I don't know anyone in any age group who watches CBC or even TV for that matter. Not saying there aren't, but that's for my circle.
I wonder where she will go after publishing her book. Postmedia? Bell media? Staying independent? The news landscape in Canada is rather limited and still consolidating. Think what you may about the CBC and its biases, its nothing compared to the National Post where the owner, Conrad Black, airs his crappy opinions.
"Do your own research" has become so cliche among antivaxers that it seems to mean "I think what I want and no amount of evidence will convince me otherwise", which is, sadly, the opposite of research.
Expanded Ethereum Name Service (ENS) Integration for legacy domains now online
Also, I recommend reading _On Freedom: Four songs of care and constraint_ by Maggie Nelson.
Maybe it's safer than hydraulic power steering. With electronics, there could be all kinds of self tests, for example that one of the H-bridge MOSFETs is shorted or open, akin to a valve being stuck.
Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the years ahead?
It's not like you can't disable these network interfaces one way or another. And of course it'll still work without this connectivity.
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Except at political groups to which I belong, I am almost always the left-most person in the room. The Lefts greatest weakness is an enthusiasm for splintering over small matters of doctrine. Identity politics, tribalism over principle, virtue signaling, whatever fad this is, it's deeply hurting progress.
I love Toyota for their reliability and design and drive one every day, that said, their software is unbelievably bad. I'm speaking about their entertainment systems circa 2016. It seems modern cars are becoming more and more software platforms, so strategically this makes sense but I hope they've hired the talent they need to execute. Seeing them fall further and further behind on electric and software is disappointing.
Wait why are we not allowed to complain about trans people. Are they special in a way that makes them immune from being complained about?

Im fine with trans people. I am asking literally are we not allowed to complain about them.
This is infuriating

The same people who complain about homelessness and pretend to care about the poor are the ones to call the building of new housing """gentrification"""

Endless committees to decide if someone can build new housing is just absurd. (Hello California)

This is why the building of new homes should _not_ be a matter of vote. Just like deciding your career or in which companies to invest. The overall public should _not_ get a say in what private contractors build, unless in absolutely extreme cases such as when pollution is involved (noise/air..). Just like McDonald's does not get a say in whether a new Burger King should open, homeowners should not get a say in whether new housing should be built. No matter how much they pretend ""it'll push poor out of cities!!!1!""
> I happened to run strace -tt against my solution (which provides microsecond-accurate timing information for syscalls)

Weirdly I always found the timing results of strace at under one millisecond generally unreliable, it just seemed to add too much overhead itself.

Also making system calls from your own code varies between prohibited and badly supported on most OSes. Some see calls that didn't pass through the system libc as a security issue and will intercept them, while Linux may just silently corrupt your process memory if you try something fancy as the Go team had to find out.
I used BTOS for about 5 years in the mid 80's. I loved it, we used a 4GL programming language from Progress Software.
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The title + substack domain are a good indication that this is going to be yet another culture war article.
I'm curious about this, any links handy?
I have a coworker who assigned “Lord” as his personal pronoun.
> "what the heck happened in Germany in the 20s and 30s"

In context this clearly refers to Nazi Germany, I don't believe he used the word. That was added by the far-right tabloid publishing this article.
"Today, the data shows a looming mismatch between the world’s strengthened climate ambitions and the availability of critical minerals that are essential to realising those ambitions." [1]

There is a lot of lithium out there, but other minerals/metals will likely be limiting factors and the metals used in batteries will be determined by price availability. For example, nickel is better than cobalt from an energy density and weight perspective, but there needs to be a 19X increase in nickel mining to have enough for EV+stainless steel use and most of the easy nickel has already been mined. There are plenty of rare earth minerals out there, but they are extremely dirty to produce, and so very few places produce them.

Even with mining though, EVs are more efficient for the one time mining of the metals, vs the constant life time use of "mining" of fossil fuels to power ICE engines. Also, the recycling aspect is pretty positive too. Once enough metals are mined for all cars to transitions, we should be able to survive mostly off of recycling, with smaller amounts freshly mined.

That is why Elon is out there asking mining companies to "please mine more nickel," because he knows about the looming shortages. That is why they are using iron cathodes in Model 3 and stationary storage. See the article, "All the mines Tesla needs to build 20 million cars a year" [2].

An example of recycling is with aluminum, where b/c of prolific recycling, we only have to mine 10% or so each year's needs to keep up with demand. We need to figure out how to sustainably extract the needed quantities of these important minerals this century, which can then power humanity's needs almost indefinitely. This is one of the great challenges of this century.

[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in...
[2] https://www.mining.com/all-the-mines-tesla-needs-to-build-20...
He also retweeted claims that the Covid vaccines killed twice as many people as they saved.

Being critical of the vaccine is one thing, but that crosses into an extraordinary and borderline mathematically-infeasible claim that defies virtually all the published data and observations provided by the rest of the scientific and medical community, and requires strong evidence to support it.
But pointing the wrong direction? I guess it's unlikely any of these satellite constellations will be put to use as telescopes since there isn't much business case for astronomy...
From looking at their stuff I think their value comes not from the the way they promise to write tests that exercises more code paths than human generated testing can. This is different from the Go fuzz testing approach, which requires you to write a specialized kind of test by hand. I can even imagine a future evolution of Symflower's product that writes fuzz tests for you.
Oh, Proceedings of SPIE. I wasted more time in college rifling through those glorious yellow tomes in the solace of the engineering library than I did getting drunk.