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The most frustrating thing to ever happen to the concepts in plan9 is the funhouse mirror distortions of them that have landed in the linux world. They look just enough like plan9 that people think they represent those ideas, and so they have no idea how powerful those ideas can actually be and don't even know that they don't know it.

We'll never have any of the things it really promised until we give up on POSIX, tbh.
Perhaps some family photos would include sexy time memories? Ideally those are password protected though or not included with general family photo storage..
I don't think the parent was saying they were the same.

Just that Halo was the closest IP in terms of prestige.
"Deploying the robot allowed a human worker to do different work, increasing output"

Sounded like this was win/win here.
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Yes, it's a bad thing.

Because you can't choose what's acceptable, they do.

You won't decide the topic, format, quantity, density, duration, nature or interruption type. Which is different for you, me, or your children.

What's more, ads are not made for your benefit, ever, but to the benefit of the advertiser which may (but statistically more likely may not) align with yours.

And also because:

- the incentive gets twisted, which means you can't trust ublock on the long run.

- unkown unknowns means down the road, some ads will manage to track you or serve malicious content despite ublock filtering.

- ads paid content is a terrible business model which take a price people are not wired to assess nor realize they pay for something they disguise as free yet has an impact on the entire society. Not a great thing to encourage.

And I say all that as someone who gets revenue from ads.
This is true, because the purposes of diagnosis by clinicians is to help the patient.

However, when it comes to research, its because delineating the various causes of X is very very very hard and long research process.
I want to agree but find even this is too complicated some times.

Where the HDD approach usually falls apart is merge conflicts. And by that I don’t mean only in the git world. This is an inherently difficult problem.

Someone extracts a subset of the hdd collection onto their laptop to do some editing. Then forget to store back the result on the hdd for the next 6 months. Next time when doing backup, mix up the hard drives, only saving the photos on the second one. And so on. Even basic stuff like deduplicating photos or filtering out only the good photos can leave a lot of confusion. Quick resolutions like “just keep everything” completely reverts such a cleanup (1). A strict master-slave scheme helps but requires access to the master hdd for any writes.

Cloud doesn’t solve this entirely but shortens the window of conflicts by convenient and always in sync access to both read and write.

Someone really need to invent a git for photos, for humans. That can deal with the longer partitions which loose hard drives usually lead to.

(1) on the topic of cleaning up photos. Doing this before backing up is strongly recommended. The smaller your data the easier it is to manage. You also will enjoy your old photos a lot more. Nobody wants to click through the 100 angles you shot of some food from a local cafe 5 years ago. Keep only what is truly relevant.
Reminds me of the old "Sam Spade."
I agree, imo unless something drastic changes, there's little chance Tim Sweeney sells control of epic. But I believe Tencent bought nearly half of it all the way back in 2012 I think? I think they raised money from some PE groups a few years ago, the internet seems to agree that Tencent still has 40%? But, it being a private company, I wouldn't stake too much on the accuracy of that.

Point is I agree it's not for sale, for the reason you describe, but also that one of the leviathans already has nearly the entire minority interest.
Only reason I can think of is it is a real world example of distributed coherency/information problem and if you squint hard could give insights into things like paxos (and why it does what it does), why certain types of keying/sharding/distributed computing are done the way they are done.

But directly talking about those topics is probably handy.
> People enjoy being outraged

Very certainly not. Some people are probably perverts as you indicate. Others are just outraged legitimately, making it a statement and acting accordingly.

So, no, some people will not accept being part of it.

> People ... yet they will and do continue to buy

You are fighting a strawman if you focus on those few or many that pollute the market. And you seem to be supporting both a polluted market and its supporters.
The rampant sexual harrasment is more in line with Microsoft's alleged culture.
wow they can just do this for free?
imagine if the government did something useful with our tax dollars instead
- PhotoSync on all family devices uploads pictures to local ubuntu server

- Local server processes items and provides UI for family members

- Pics and videos get backed up to Wasabi (S3-compatible) storage using restic (incremental backups, no need to upload hundreds of GBs every night)

- Once in a while I back everything up to external HDD and store it in a drawer at work
Or you can just accept that reductive materialism is not an adequate description of the world.
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> I think ADHD and it's subtypes is probably a description of something like 8 different actual neurological causes, which all show up as 'ADHD'.

This is the case with I believe probably the majority of psychological illnesses that have not yet been nailed to a clear biological cause.

Schizophrenia definitely has a bunch of sub-types. As does anxiety. As does whatever is sociopathy/psychopathy. ADHD included.

Over time, individual types of each of these mental illnesses will be carved out from the general type and tied to specific biological causes, thus making the vague categories even smaller.
Wow, a fake grass roots campaign. That’s original.
Multiple reasons:

1) Someone can use those to train DeepFake models and scam your family

2) There could be private photos and videos there that you aren't aware of

3) Why not?
There's no such thing as "PWA". There's half a dozen to a dozen disparate APIs, and every PWA proponent has their own list of what they consider PWA support.

However, Safari has had support for basically everything you need for a PWA except, thank god, notifications.
Except that a wifi card costs $20.
I agree. GP comment brings to mind the infamous reply to Dropbox Show HN which compared it to something users could trivially implement using basic Unix commands.
You’re an outlier in your belief systems. People don’t want messy, they want convenience and assurances.
> We want exactly the functionality that is already present in other systems, pitfalls and all. That's just an excuse to do nothing

Are you offering to help with the maintenance or development associated with it? Or are you just demanding features while calling the people that do help with that stuff liars?

Maybe they do know better? Or maybe they know about other hassles that will come with it that you can't fathom. They've been developing and maintaining one of the best open source projects on the planet for nearly 3 decades. Maybe with all that experience, its not their opinion that is BS?
I really hate how we are moving more and more towards "managed experiences" in products. Used to, you would buy a product and use it how you see fit. But these days it seems that's not what the company wants you to do. You buy the product and enjoy a "managed" experience from the company.

We see it everywhere with printers, coffee makers, phones, laptops, treadmills and even cars now. Everyone knows why this is being done, simply making money on a $99 coffeemaker is not good enough anymore, we have to make that $99 plus we have to make money in perpetuity because the customer now has to subscribe to our "managed experience".

Now I understand this on some level with cheaper stuff like printers, that printer doesn't cost $20, it costs that because the company assumes you will buy the pods from them. But with a treadmill that goes for thousands it's a completely different ball game.

Were going to get to the point where one day you will hop in your car and start driving into the countryside. At a certain point your car will just shut off because "Ford has decided that this route in unsafe for your vehicle, for the best experience, please drive back to the city, on your way back, consider enabling cup holders for an improved coffee drinking experience".

The glimmer of hope on the horizon are companies like Framework and Pinephone. These companies realize that consumers are not happy with this shit and market themselves as the antithesis of these practices. I really hope these types of companies take off in the future.
How does the economics look for that? It would seem many would be disincentivized to work, which would raise wages in order to attract work, which would make the basic income worth less.
I honestly don't understand which market segment that device is targeted to.
> I looked around for a while, a d I can't actually find a list of any mergers that antitrust regulations actually prevented.

Just today, the DOJ and FTC announced plans to toughen up on mergers and acquisitions.

>The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Antitrust Division kicked off a process to rewrite merger guidelines for businesses on Tuesday, signaling a tougher stance toward large deals.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/18/ftc-doj-seek-to-rewrite-merg...
If only they hadn't sabotaged the Universal Basic Income that Richard Nixon proposed back in the 1970s, this would be pretty much good news, instead of more to worry about.
Or the candidates ability/willingness to bullshit in order to not look ignorant or unskilled in something.

Which is actually useful to know, even if this method would be a dickish way to do it.
Old article, but still relevant in that it should be seen as a reminder of the sorts of political and corporate Internet "fuckery" that we should all always be on the lookout for.

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A couple of things to look at here. Full disclosure, I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, just some things to think about as you search for a lawyer.

1. Lawyers are not typically required to make a workers comp claim. Filing the claim should be enough if everyone involved is acting in good faith. All U.S. employers are required to carry worker's compensation insurance - and even if they don't, a lot of states have funds set up for a situation in which the employer did not purchase a policy. For injuries sustained on the job, both the medical costs and lost wages are typically covered by Workers Compensation insurance. Whether or not to get a lawyer is a judgement call based on the specifics of your situation and whether or not you think you are being treated fairly.

2. Whether or not you get a lawyer, you want to report the claim to your employers workers comp insurance company, the sooner the better. If you let a lot of time go by, it can be hard to show what conditions are due to the work injury vs. other parts of your life. If you don't know who your employer's workers comp provider is, ask HR. Most worker's comp policies require you to obtain treatment from medical professionals in their network.

3. If you ultimately decide that you need a lawyer, then you need to look for a lawyer who does Worker's compensation Claims in the state in which the injury occurred. Workers comp legal work is its own specialty in the U.S. and laws vary greatly by state.

If you work for a large company, you probably have something called an "Employee Assistance Program" (EAP). If so, you can call the number for that (again, ask HR) and a very common service is legal referrals. Usually with an EAP, you get a small amount of legal services free and/or discounted.

Lastly, most states provide a website with detailed information about workers compensation claims. So if, for example, you live in Oregon, you'd google: "State of Oregon Workers Compensation".
Because that’s not a problem you can solve with software and algorithms. That a chemical and lithographic problem that requires a knowledge that rarely overlaps with software.

However GPS can be solved with some high school maths, and applying solutions found on the software engineering domain E.g. computing distance from latency, communicating with a remote resource over a comms link, broadcast vs unicast etc

It’s not like the interviewer is going to ask them to design the satellites and rockets themselves.
its marketing and expectations.

I soak my clothes soak with soap in a 5gal bucket, rinse in the same bucket by pouring the water out in the tub, and spin them nearly dry in a motor+drum and hand and dry over the tub. I can easily throw in a little soda or peroxide, and I rinse it until the water is clear.

its sounds terribly manual and regressive but really its very little work, just filling up a bucket and dumping it out. the clothes come out cleaner (no extra soap and lint), and it doesn't really take any more time. the only hardware, the spinner, is cheap and fantastically straightforward.

I think people have been deceived over generations to consider what goes on inside a washing machine as some kind of arduous and complicated magic.
> autism is because it frequently co-occurs with ADHD

Fun-fact: Until very recently, psychiatric handbooks proscribed comorbid diagnoses of ASD and ADHD - which is outrageous. Especially in the 1990s.
Just taking a minute here to say that Eyeo went on a copyright offensive to all ad blockers with "ad block" in the name saying it infringed on their brand.

Very bad actors in this space, and their motivation here in this suit is to continue their AdBlock racket of allowing ads to their users for those advertisers that pay.
Does the scope of the study include gathering data to support analysis of the causes of autism? e.g. parental genetics or environmental factors?
I wonder if this is due to MS hosting their content at fewer datacenters and thus needing to balance the data flow to each user better.

Valve has boxes hosted at many ISPs around the world and so each location could have lower usage numbers, thus less need to throttle.

Pure speculation though.
>Corporations are unwilling to let non-executive wages become a larger percentage of their costs.

Because they are competing with other companies.

>They are perfectly willing to spend on other things.

No companies generally try to lower costs anywhere it makes sense, in order to compete with other companies that will also do so to compete.

If companies could simply pay magic wages, out of the tens of thousands in the US, don't you think one would buck the trend and suddenly pay awesome wages and attract the best talent and win all the markets?

Either all 10,000 companies are in cahoots, or there are market forces causing a lot of the wages to be similar. Which is more likely? That Apple and Walmart and Rural King are agreeing on wages? Or that each competes against similar companies for workers and sales?
Do you have experience interviewing or seeing interview questions in those fields?
A PC as file server and an Olimex A20 SBC Backupserver with 2 rotating ( one offsite) external encrypted sata harddiscs, rsnapshot and anacron that automatically backups all our servers, laptops and phones in the lan or known public ip.
Is there any computer-based clustering/analysis you did of the individuals? Sometimes this can reveal a typology of the underlying root causes. Maybe you could see which cluster of symptoms predict others, thus suggesting root causes....
This is a couple of months old now, posted a few times.. not much discussion:

[0] 8pts/1 comment
[1] 15pts/1 comment
[2] 5pts/0 comments

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29288525
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29292826
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29296501
Socrates is known from multiple sources, the most famous which aside from Plato is probably Xenophon.
not going to get into the latter part of your comment, but in response to the former part, I haven't found a way to disprove the hypothesis that organisms' behaviors are all described by the attempt at maximizing the single variable of "number of possible future states" ala https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_wissner_gross_a_new_equation_...
It is the core approach to cooking. I would contrast it with Latin (French, Spanish, Italian) cooking.

The idea with Latin cooking, is to get the highest quality ingredients that go together really well. It is about a small set of ingredients that play-off-of each other to highlight the strengths of each. The musical analogy, would be a 3 piece band, where you can hear every instrument.

Indian cooking is about a feeling of oneness, derived from the combination of many. 30 different ingredients come together to become 1 flavor that is its own thing. The individual disappears in favor of the creation of a new whole. The musical analogy here, would be a big orchestral composition. You never pick out the individual instruments. Yet, it evokes a single emotion and a singular atmosphere. Indian & similar cooking starts with incredibly complex base ingredients. My family's chilli powder recipe contains 8 different types of chillies and a total of 37 ingredients. This powder goes on to become 1 of a dozen spices that form the flavor base of the final dish. The whole doesn't taste of the ingredients, by design. Xiaoxing wine or Sambal Olek are similar complex base ingredients in the other cultures I mention.

You have to approach each style from a completely different mental state. Having started cooking only once I moved to the US, I became a pretty good western cook, but I could never figure out how to cook Indian food. It is only after about 4 years, that I realized that you can't approach Indian cooking from a western perspective. I now understand why my mom used vague instructions and cues instead of a rigid recipe. I am still a much better western cook than an Indian one, but that's fine cuz I just get my Indian friends here to cook their mom's recipes for me.
I was pondering this while walking the dog: family-run businesses, small business, etc.

In some businesses, having been around for a long time, being part of the community, and knowing your customers is worth WAY more than a few points of profit. In fact, those businesses are everywhere. Look and see who buys the ads for the high school sports teams.

Tractor repair ought to be like that. Not the monopoly of John Deere.

(I don't know anything about who owns fruit-labelling, and it might even be some giant conglomerate.)

But let's say someone owns such a loyalty business, everything is great, and then they die or retire. Then what?

It's the source of a million dramas, like Yellowstone or King Lear. Maybe a son or daughter takes over. Then they're incompetent. Or not. Maybe the kids fight over it. The possibilities are endless.

Or maybe the giant conglomerate DOES buy it. Promising "nothing will change" of course.
I donno, we already have automation doing a lot of things today. Lack of work is only due to lack of imagination and tools like this make us more capable than ever.

The universe is infinitely complex and large, there is plenty for people to do.
> The robot arm performs a simple, repetitive job: lifting a piece of metal into a press, which then bends the metal into a new shape. And like a person, the robot worker gets paid for the hours it works.

So they hired Bender Bending Rodriguez. Fair enough.

More seriously, seems like the job market is in a perfect storm for more robots to be hired in workers’ steads. They’re not subject to “vaccine or testing mandates”, in fact they won’t even get COVID, they’re not going to unionize, and they’re not going to quit on you.
Robot managers are the future. Low value work isn’t worth using robots for
Possibly, but doubtful if we view the full effect. It says that it eliminates the need to hire new workers. What is the next generation to do if the jobs don't exist?
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They can still make updates for safety obtain consent from the device owner before being installed. I should be able to opt out of measures for my own safety.
The points are

-- that they are mandating your machine to be online, and

-- that the working state of the product will depend on infrastructure outside your power

and possibly more.
If you have to twist people’s arms to get them to use something it means they don’t fucking want it. I am surprised that Microsoft hasn’t stooped down to sending out junk mail on paper begging people to use Edge.
Realistically that ship has sailed. It's like "GNU/Linux".
At the very very least you need to be increasing prices inline with inflation. Otherwise you're getting cheaper every year...
honestly since 20.04 ubuntu or so, nvidia works pretty well on linux (other than battery life on laptops which is still not good).
Makes me wonder: If Dell sold a Linux laptop for cheaper, what would happen? Would a lot of people return it? Call up customer support confused?
Ask HN: Will a 4-day work-week lead to better work-life balance or more stress?
I see more and more countries and companies experimenting with a four-day work-week. What are your thoughts or experiences?
Critics warn of more stress from squeezing more work into fewer hours.
Replacing the Killer WiFi card with an $40 Intel one is the first thing I do to every Dell laptop I get.
> if you genuinely believe the notion that we have free will is nonsense (and I do)

Then you need to genuinely accept that you're not right, you're not making a cogent argument, you're just a fly buzzing around a giant turd.

Or rather you don't, cause you can't.
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The article also quotes them as saying they’re not going to lay people off but also probably not going to hire more employees given this option so future workers are left out. And I imagine that position won’t age well as they may not backfill people who leave if not actively lay people off sooner than later.
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> Does not compute. Please phrase your standup response in the form of "Yesterday I _____. Today I will _____. I have ____ blockers."
you working hard or hardly working buddy?
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It's possible to be diagnosed for bipolar type II together with a plethora of other things in the DSM that I'm not qualified to list. But in my anecdotal experience dealing with diagnoses, there's at least like five or six major diagnoses that sometimes co-occur with bipolar type II.

If you think you fit the autism umbrella I would recommend you seek a specialist that is willing to work with you on treating those symptoms. The whole deal about this diagnoses is helping the people who get them, it's not just a very convoluted personality test or something. You have to go follow the path that actually helps you and others, and the mental health professionals job is navigating that with you.
What a boon for small businesses. Standing at a punch press is not only tedious but can be dangerous work. That person who did that could spend their time inspecting the stamped parts, loading the material and supervising the robot instead of wearing themselves out doing a repetitive task. Automation doesn't have to replace the complete manufacturing process, just the easy parts.
This is surprising to me because it wasn't that long ago (~3-4 years) that I bought an XPS developer edition and it was $100 cheaper than the windows version. At the time, I assumed that was just the cost of the windows license.
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