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That's exactly why I love my ten year old BMW 1 series as someone who works with computers all day. It's not that old that it's terribly unreliable, ugly and drives bad. It's just a modern car with no extras and awesome driving performance. No screens besides two, small, orange LCDs, analogue gauges, a stick shift, a big not too powerful engine for such a small car and the best steering I ever experienced.

My mountain bike is even better. Nothing electronic at all and only mechanical things I can fix myself. I love working on it more than on code sometimes.
Respectfully, I disagree with you, it's mainly because of social media. Academic degradation definitely contributes (it give conspiracy theorists ammo) but if you've been exposed to the echo chambers that drive anti-science conspiracies I think you'll realise how toxic the movement and social media. Mainstream social media is the gateway and it surfaces these influencers to the curious with less harmful theories like Invermectin then to antivax and homeopathy and mistrust in doctors and traditional drugs.

A lot of these influencers have been deplatformed and flocked to alternatives like centralised telegram groups, social media. Non-conspiracy people treat conspiracy people like outcasts, no one likes arguing with no conclusion when the answers is 'I don't believe your source' so they retreat to these echo chambers for social acceptance. I've seen this happen to people I know, they just doom scroll, share anti-tech, -media, -pharma, -government memes. They become rabid in their beliefs and there is no pulling them out. I've seen this firsthand infect people who are "smart" university educated, career success. It's a shame, part of decent people I know are gone. There is a simmering undercurrent of I'm smart and you're an idiot and its probably felt both ways. I'm not from the US, but I've read accounts of what Fox News does to people and it feels similar.
Having been stuck using Azure due to client's poor decision making, I can honestly say Microsoft need major changes before it comes close to gain support from developers at large.

Number 1 should be documentation that accurately reflects the state of Azure services and tools. I should not be expected to translate names of things, or figure where things have moved since the documentation was last updated. Nor should I have to figure out the "microsoft way" of doing things. They should be simple, not needlessly obfuscated.

Resource groups is amazing though.
Not op, but I think that the post that you replied to has a valid point.

Sure, the quote in itself is great, but the post that you replied to is pointing out that the person who made that quote is himself doing the same thing as those journalists that he is criticizing.
> Conflating things like rbST or rBGH in milk with novel genes in corn is nothing but scientific illiteracy.

Yeah, so what? Nobody said anything else. It's still "a trust issue not a 'science' one", because most people are scientifically illiterate and probably always will be. To make a majority trust science (again [?]) in stead of distrusting it will have to be done by some other means than educating everyone into scientists.
VPNs exists and are trivial to use. As is the TOR browser. Yes it's probably compromised already, but the FBI is not going to show their hand chasing a random libel case.
1 hour long walk and 3 hours of other stuff is already plenty I think. It's not like you're bed-ridden and can develop bed sores or other conditions. Even if working in the office, most of the office time is spent sitting in-front of the computer anyways.

At least in my office, one can't just walk around freely since that will disturb other people unlike in a home office where-in one can walk around or stand-up briefly when one feels like it.
So that's a different problem - it sounds like when you were in the office, you were able to make time for those things, but now you don't. Maybe you would need to take a bit more control over your schedule and block out time for exercise and breaks.

If you're not able to do that, there are a few options, such as taking calls on a headset while you're out walking, or using an exercise bike during a meeting.

If every single meeting you have requires your full, undivided attention and contribution, that's a red flag for me that you're likely overstretched, and there's a big 'bus factor' risk. How are those meetings handled when you're on leave?
Screen Scraping as a Cybersecurity Risk Can Lead to Virtual Chernobyl
As someone who managed to live without knowing who is Naomi Wu (though I might have seen her once or twice in YouTube suggestions), I think it's more important what is the basis for demonetization than the personality. HN title says nothing about it, and it is useless for anyone who is not already following N.W. directly or indirectly.

I do not suggest to shorten her name though, that's me being lazy typing on the phone. And my suggested title even with the name written in full is not longer than some other approved titles on HN.
IANAL, but it could mean that we're going to see an Abmahnwelle in Germany, ie. where law firms systematically scan websites hosted in DE for violations and demand cash at the threat of sueing. The habit of Abmahnen is a staple in German civil law and is seen as part of Rechtspflege (upholding the law by putting economical interest behind), but its application has been limited in recent years by a high court AFAIK, and I don't know how it could work in this particular case where visitors have individual claims. Which I think is the dangerous thing ie. continuing using Google Fonts and other CDNs without consent could set you up for quite a lot of claims.

FWIW, yesterday I rushed to change my sites to serve all assets locally.
State machine of the form

awk '/start/{f=1} f; /end/{f=0}'

is commonly used to work with text bounded by unique markers. You can also use `awk '/start/,/end/'` but the state machine format can be easily adapted for more variations (like excluding either/both of the markers)

Here's a chapter from my GNU awk one-liners book with more such examples: https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnuawk/processing-mul...
> Hugo is usually around 6 times faster than Jekyll and is even faster compared to Next.js or other framework-based SSGs.

Just 6 times? That sounds not much for a rewrite from Ruby to Go. Is this one of those things that's mostly IO-bound?
If you have a Roku TV, I would urge you to set up a pi hole to see how many queries it sends out. Mine blocks upwards of 10 per minute.
There is also an issue with "standardization" of commands.

I have been driving since a lot of time, what happened to me lately a couple of times was that renting a car it takes me some time (I mean 10-15 minutes) to get a minimal confidence with commands and features of the UI, besides the most basic ones that thankfully remain the same, there are lots of them that are, in different make/models, completely different, and I am always scared that I can by mistake enable or disable this or that "smart" thing.
The PMs were beholden to execs. At one point I interviewed for a PM role there, and realized they couldn't afford me to suffer that level of chaos.

DA leadership was either bunkered in R&D projects, or glibly shifting gears every other week. It was mostly torpor-inducing, but occasionally totally exasperating. I imagine it was infinitely worse for the paid staff.
Yeah, Oppo and Huawei phones are great fit for CalyxOS. Have you seen the list of supported devices for Calyx? It's basically Pixel-only :).
I've owned the note series since they came out, so while I say "best phones, ever" I have nothing to compare them to, but they've been soo good, every time, that I've never even wanted to try an alternative. They've been SOLID, and when they've broken, it's been well within reason (on account of me being an idiot combined with hard tile on concrete being.. well, just that).

I'm currently on the note 9, and it's just been so good that I've not had a reason to upgrade, it's still snappier than most phones I see around.

They've also been very performant, the hardware and software always outliving the expected lifetime, the older ones are in service as various aux devices (even with their shattered screens and dead batteries).
> 0.75 Bathrooms

How does that work?
> What's the basis to believe that this is worse now than other times in history, or on average?

We produce more science now than ever before. If you have 10 scientists and 9 of them produce rubbish it won't take you long to read a paper from the one who doesn't.

If you have 10,000,000 and 9,000,000 produce rubbish you can spend a thousands lifetimes reading nothing but rubbish.
I am just looking for a low tech TV for my grandmum as those boxes we need to run older TVs with modern TV signal always break.

The reality is, simple is only available in the luxury segment.

I am prolly going with a 'OK' brand one. Even thought I hated their ugly OS it is the only I've found so far that somewhat acts as a 'classic' TV.
> in Rust you need to implement (de)serializing logic

Hmm. Well that sucks. It might be slower than reading into a struct directly (does more IO calls, there is more code to execute, probably uses more memory). My focus is on embedded applications, so "the less, the better".

> no need for unsafe

Can you point out an example on reading a bunch of structs from a file? Without std? Now I'm really curious.

> you have this weird assumption

You are probably right. I intended to use Rust in embedded as I said before so I thought a system language like Rust could fit. But you are right and the more I read (docs and comments like yours) I realize it's not C, and Rust may require extra steps and resources to achieve the same things I can do in C. With consequential hit on performance/code size/whatever, that it's a thing to consider seriously in constrained environments.
I don't think completely preventing memory leaks at the language level is possible. With reference counting, it's indeed possible to have two objects referring to each other without being referred to from the outside, but even in a garbage collection language like Java, where such objects would eventually be cleaned up, it's still possible to accidentally continue referring to data that you never intend to use again.

There's a lot that languages can do to help manage memory, but the last step will always have to come from the programmer.
The thing is, phages require a lot more effort than antibiotics at all stages from production over stockkeeping and selection (unlike antibiotics, phages are highly specific to bacterial strains) to administration.

In the West, we simply used antibiotics which were good enough until a decade or two ago, so we didn't need to invest in phages.
> The manufacturer changing the UI of a car after you bought it should be illegal or at least highly restricted.

Why? Just don't buy a Tesla or other cars that do this.

You don't have to outlaw everything you don't like, you can just choose not to patronize the people who do this. Vote with your wallet!
It's hard to tell, but I think there may be a big difference between "51% of a salary that would be decent but not great" and "literally paying people five times less than a decent salary", which is what the article described. Like, maybe a factor of two. And in Europe you get something extra for those taxes, while generally in South America public services and infrastructure are worse than in the US, not better.
To be fair, I have a graduate degree in engineering and working on a different PhD and there were many things in that these I didn't understand.
It's really incredible to me how quickly everything just became category theory in literature - like overnight.

And stuff that used to be simple algebra is now explained as something like 'Abelian group linear transformations'.

I haven't heard of "smash products on pointed spaces" for example, and idk why I would think them to be associative. Fun language though.
I would say that most of the customers that buy Tesla more or less expect the UI to change with time. That's why they bought the car in the first place.
- I know I do, love the fact that the car still feels alive and evolving after I bought it.

Then I think the new ui is worse than the older one - but my wife prefers the new one.
Desktop experience? This isn't the 2000s grandpa.
Atari Breakout: The Best Video Game of All Time?
Exactly, plus movement in more directions (up & down, didn't see a single car with manual adjustment that allowed this), very useful for us blessed with non-standard body dimensions (ie I am quite tall). It changes default-settings car where I touch roof with my head into one where there is more than 5cm/2" clearance.

Adjustable tightness of part of the seat above your hips which keeps you better in tight/fast curves. Heating for cold starts. Massage for luxury. My BMW has it all apart from massage and its makes longer drives much more pleasant.
Ok, what about airplane or bus and train seats?

They are fixed in place to a vehicle with a battery, still you don't have them powered.

Not that car ones (powered, heating, massaging, etc.) are not nice and comfortable, only that they remain a form of luxury.
They should be held accountable along with the decision makers if people die or are injured. The lack of consequences allows these decisions to be made without user testing and can harm people needlessly.
> I use shitton of MS products, but I cannot switch from Google's gmail, docs and drive to anything.

This is how other people feel about the Office suite FWIW.
As much as I hate using Azure, the integration of DA makes it so simple. The login screen just lets me select which account to use. That's it.
Problem: all kind of tools support different kind of databases. For a ledger I would, of course, use PostgreSQL - understandung your README.md right this is not supported, instead just MySQL and Sqlite.

C´mon, you do not like textfiles but you do NOT support PostgreSQL?
>I don't know which field you studied, but I think that in physics it's not quite that bad.

It's not that bad because it doesn't need to be. In theoretical physics I could have spend all day every day working on problems that have no physical evidence behind them at a top tier university. This is fraudulent because physics should have something to do with the real world. If you want maths for maths sake go into maths.
Right, I think it's more about being medieval than being Catholic.
Having never driven a Tesla, it baffles me why people are chill with just a giant screen in the first place.
In some sense, anything is "recyclable". What does that mean in reality? How much "recyclable" material is actually reused, how much resource transformation does it take to reuse or recycle? Which economic incentives exist, and are they working? "co2" is a single data point, and of course you can tune the process to minimize one, at the cost of something other. How about all the "rare materials" that are required, and all the other pollutants?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/20/electric...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56574779

https://undark.org/2021/01/21/electric-car-looming-recyclabi...

Cars are getting bigger and heavier, people buy more cars than ever, and transportation still becomes more and more individualized. The overall environmental damage continues to rise. All these are sad facts, and there is an abundance of "proof" to be found everywhere.
This plays right into the class warfare between low and middle class that the hides the real problem - tax avoidance by the ultra rich individuals and corporations.
I loved this short. I recommend watching it at night, with headphones on, for the best experience.
The primary difference is that you usually have a contract with cloudflare that they host and serve your data on your behalf. A DPA would usually be part of the contract. Cloudflare also doesn’t mine the IP addresses that they gather as part of their operations to build advertising profiles.

AFAIK google fonts does not require any contract. Google could certainly offer a contract, a DPA, etc., assert that they are subject to the GDPR and waive processing of the data they gather from operating google fonts as a service.
Yeah, sorry, I thought I was going a bit overboard with the ILP exposition there :)
Expensive 10 minutes
Is it really?

In general I feel spying is used to cut longtail feutures (most users are dependent on one of them) and justify changes without reason other than flawed interpretation of statistics.
This is what astounds me the most about the scientific world's response to COVID. We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the positive health applications of a ubiquitous novel virus that most of us are going to get eventually and repeatedly, over and over, year after year, for the rest of all of our lives, and here we are trying to stamp it out as if nothing was at stake. Future generations will look back at our efforts to destroy COVID and will mourn a lost opportunity.
> have been open and honest about their mistakes

They really haven't. They continued to double-down on ivermectin and other COVID era flim flam as it came to light more studies were dodgy or outright fraudulent. It's pretend science theatre from a former small university lecturer who managed a couple research papers in 20 years. For example, telling the audience with a straight face that it doesn't matter if the studies going into a metaanalysis are biased because the errors will cancel out.
I like to know how to repair things that I use. Phone, PC, washing machine... Same is for car.

If we let big tech/companies sorround us by things that we don't know how actually works or how to fix them, then we are screwed and completely dependent on their rules and trends. For example imagine that car will be manufactured without opening windows, like modern trains. Or they have implemented CO2 meters that collect data and limit traveling based on regulations made by gonverments.
I do hybrid canvas/DOM gamedev myself, and it's fine for overlaying a few pieces of UI and styled text and so on. But when you have 30,000 of something like in TFA, there is no world where it makes sense to draw them via the DOM.
Ask HN: How to maintain focus during tests?
Hi all, I’ve failed a test because despite knowing the answer I’ve given the wrong one, and this is something that happens to me from time to time in various situations. I suppose it’s a lack of focus, but don’t know if it’s the only problem. What are your ways to cope with this?
Right now I’m a full time worker getting a second degree in CS (first one was in Electrical Engineering).
Thank you!
[1] this is sad that those people had to work in environment like that, what if they had access to modern, actually funded labs?
The article focuses on freight but hey there's people too. In the old days there were interurbans, and an autonomous interurban is easier than an autonomous passenger bus.
I think Excel is the main moat on people/company keep using Office. Even the spreadsheet product on macOS is unmatched. I think it's the defacto tools in the salaryman-world for any backoffice work requiring some spreadsheet app.

I know an avid iOS fanboy that uses Excel on Windows for their main job, it's on a different level than its macOS counterpart.
Am I getting this right? You’re pro legalization, but you’re so upset with some people in Mexico(?) that you’re happy to see consumers around the world jailed in order to spite the Mexicans?

> It's actually a way to make the joint smoking kid more likely to be imprisoned because they paid for their drugs not with an envelope of cash nobody will ever be able to trace - but with an immutable, plaintext, public ledger.

People in more repressive countries usually source their cryptocurrencies anonymously, western markets all use anonymous monero. Hydra will probably move sooner than later too.

Anyway, in the real world people buying from “traditional” dealers are far more likely to go to jail than those buying dead drops off of hydra.

The truth is that enabling the cartels is extremely progressive. This will eventually force the governments to play ball and liberalize their policies.

> However, keep in mind that ad hominem attacks are against site rules.

In philosophy ad hominem reasoning is often considered an essential part of moral debates. Some opinions are vile and reflect poorly on you, that’s just how it is.
Just like everything done by Tesla: they have absolutely no experience in making cars, and it shows really badly. Terrible construction quality that I don't even experience on a 10k € Dacia, touch screens everywhere (it's already bad enough when it's just the radio or Android Auto, but a bunch of critical features are on the touch screen), the yoke having no physical feedback and clearly no thought other than "wow futuristic" behind it.

Smoke and mirrors is Tesla's way of operating. Look at the coverage they got out of the yoke. Out of FSD. It doesn't matter that they are terrible: there'll be 100 articles about it releasing and 2 about it being a bad idea.
When you say you are no longer highly 'pro science' would you say that you would rather people take advice from scientists or from people who have a background of "Ultimate Fighting Championship color commentator, comedian, actor, and former television presenter". Because that's the level we're at at the moment.

The current climate we're in means that consensus science from 50+ years of research and medical practice around the world is being questioned. Not some BS CS paper on a performance improvement in something that will be read and forgotten about, or that some new medication/fruit/treatment has some miracle cure that others can't duplicate.

We're in a world were people think that Bill Gates is inserting microchips into people and that Covid is a hoax by the world government and no one has died. Academia may be broken - but don't loose faith in science.
It's made of hydrogenated oil, which is bad for your vascular system.
The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
I imagine there have been tons of ice ages similar to last one which ended only... 10k years ago? Where I come from, the mountains were cut pretty deep even from this last one which was pretty insignificant on long-term scale. And of course all previous ones left their marks, but the deep scratches were mostly removed by later ones.

Maybe its about defining what a news-worthy ice age means. It for sure shouldn't be just snowball Earth type when most of the planet apart from a bit of equatorial places froze solid white.
Probably, I was being sarcastic, if you've been on HN for some time, you know that Ayn is not universally loved here. At times this is ironic because she matches quite well the opinions of people here wrt government involvement in the market, love, and now indeed state sponsored science.
How does it get installed? I'm imagining some spy stealing the phone and installing it.
The perennially controversial opinion is that rapid chess (the time control) should replace classical chess. But I don't play chess tournaments so it's not my place to decide.
Hundreds of megabytes per second is decidedly on the high side for such a device to begin with, but it only holds for big sequential writes. For random I/O, which is what this is, you’re more likely to average 0.5–5MB/s plus latency.

I was assuming it would be more CPU- than I/O-bound, because hopefully we’re all using SSDs these days, and because Hexo’s website uses similar time figures in its preposterous “blazing fast” description.

shakna’s gone too far the other way (a couple of seconds for a load like this (~80 file reads, processing, ~80 writes, all of the files under 64KB) is easily enough that if it’s measuring I/O latency there’s either something wrong with your machine or you have a slow HDD and wrote your I/O code the wrong way), but my 200ms certainly already reaches the point where CPU, disk and OS/antivirus solution all matter significantly.