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iPhones do not offer different colors.

In fact, no proprietary OS offers different colors other than some accent colors.

Which Gnome developers have already said they will bring in future releases.

Heck, they aren’t even against theming. They are taking a wait and see approach to see if they can include more theme customizations without causing remarkably more work for app developers.

In fact, they are absolutely fine with developers who want to provide additional themes doing so. To the point that Gnome developers have themselves added additional theming options to default apps that will be released in Gnome42.
Based on my calculations, Facebook has more DC space/power than Google/Amazon/Microsoft. They have around 40 million sq ft of DC space, and likely ~5GW of power. They have 48 buildings in 18 locations, with 47 more under construction.

AWS Data centers are fairly small, ~180,000 sq ft or so generally, us-east-2 is about 900,000 sq ft. us-east-1 perhaps 8 million sq ft.

Google likely has more network capacity, but FB is catching up.
> People often discuss the standard trendy topics (some recent ones I've observed at multiple parties are how to build a competitor to Google search and how to solve the problem of high transit construction costs) and explain why people working in the field today are doing it wrong and then explain how they would do it instead.

This is exactly why I moved away from SF. Can't stand these alpha nerds trying to one-up each other at parties.
Iron was huge for me. I’m a blood donor. Last time I went I couldn’t sleep for a week until I started cramming chicken and spinach down my maw like there was no tomorrow. Got rid of all the issues I was having.

B vitamins are another big one, especially if you drink sometimes.
Get a blood test. I was like this in my early twenties, turns out I'd had two strains of glandular fever.
10s of thousands of games is a drop in the bucket compared to the total gaming market. There are an estimated THREE BILLION people playing video games around the world.
Facebook is all ads, and Apple is much less dependent on the iPhone than it was before, and is continuing in the right direction.
And you know what? All I want out of the first fifteen years of self-driving is a really good highway autopilot.

As in one I can hopefully sleep at the wheel on a late night trip between midwestern US cities.

John Henryism can navigate the suburbs, stroads, and drivethrus. If they achieve a backup safety system that monitors the humans, well, ok great.

But right now, I want long distance automation, and I can handle the messy last mile. Highways are much easier to get uniform infrastructure convergence: some sensors, PSA warnings, better signs + markings + construction notices, etc.

I think Uber making as big a splash at it did sidetracked this low hanging fruit. IMO that was where the bootstrap bucks were, because you would have gotten freight/shipping to pay the cost of the next gen software, and would have provided the impetus for the convergent infrastructure.

Alas, they are obsessed with robotaxis.
No, Android. I dislike notches or holes in screens, so I don't have much choice (I don't have much choice even with Android, but there are a few high-spec phones without those).
Yes; poor comments tend to get downvoted.
I find that a) the bulkiness of the headset (and the added wires and external sensors of the Valve Index) and b) the fact that I don't always feel like waving my arms around or reaching stuff after sitting in front of the PC all day, made it wear off for me.

I was into Pokerstars VR for a while but interacting with people through the microphone made me realize I don't really enjoy talking to strangers from around the country while playing poker.
I did sleep studies, medicines (including modafinil which worked but had scary sides), natural supplements (which helped but tended to result in lesser quality sleep).

In the end I needed to make sleep my number one priority and I focused on it for several months.

I slowly built up what worked for me, but likely won't work for you. A lot of being in bed at 10 staring at a dark ceiling for 3+ hours. Getting into meditation (in the am, not evening), exercising but never after noon and not eating after 6. Alcohol in any amount won't prevent my sleep but will vastly deteriorate the quality.

It took tons of trial and error to do what medical professionals couldn't help with. My conclusion is sleep is complicated and highly individual. You need to identify the things that wreck your sleep and pick them off with serious attention to them.
I have next to no faith this team has the technical chops to create the PortsHub.

> The wireless charger features a wide variety of ports including USB-C, USB-A, thunderbolt, an SD card slot and a headphone jack.

Thunderbolt? Please. This feels like the tell, that this is fantasy only. Anything up to this I would have given the benefit of a doubt to, said maybe this could be done for real. Saying "Thunderbolt" demolished my suspension of disbelief.

That said, I absolutely think this is generally a fairly possible idea, & a good one at that. I agreed with @kube-sys when they discussed the idea of a connectorless device 3 days ago[1]:

> We’re already well on our way to removing connectors and using Qi/WiFi/Bluetooth. I bet we’ll see phones without connectors soon.

Long term, I would love for wigig[2] to finally happen. Thunderbolt might even be possible over it. Alas, adoption has been godforsakenly bad for this great 60GHz ultra-wide-band tech, and seemingly getting worse. If you do want to have wireless thunderbolt, wigig is probably how it happens. There's not many parts available to work with, but there are some. A new generation, 802.11ay, was released July 2021, the first major update since 2010, so maybe we'll see a return of interest/products. Perhaps. (Has anyone seen the new pre-draft Qualcomm 802.11ay chipset from 2018[3]?) I feel like they'll price themselves out of the market, most likely, again.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30133745

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiGig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ay

[3] https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/16/qualcomm-offers-first-802...
5 seconds (or the 2 seconds that pilots require) is a lot more time than you’re afforded to take action while driving a Tesla in autopilot. And when driving the Tesla you often won’t get a clear warning signaling that you have to take over and do something - it can fail silently and swerve straight into an obstacle.
I've used books on tape (audible) with a 30 minute sleep timer. I've been falling asleep within minutes. After a week or two of listening to the same 30 seconds to a minute, I switch books, because I start to literally dread starting these things up. Perhaps the books are just too boring.
I've tried working in VR and it's... ok. If you're ok with working on a single monitor at < 1440p you'll be fine.

At 1440p and above resolution isn't there yet and pushing multiple monitors through to the headset is still (to my knowledge) not practical. The remote desktop-like apps I've tried only do a single monitor.

I like the bet that Quest 2 made with making the headset do all the processing, but it fails for tasks like this.

I think eventually we'll get a headset where working in VR becomes practical and affordable, but we're not there yet. Maybe apple pulls off a Gear-VR-like setup where you plonk your phone in front of some lenses on your face. But AFAIK anything better than the Quest 2 is substantially more expensive.

My wild guess is that practical work VR is 2-3 years away. Meta's next headset iteration might do it + price drops.
How would it's usable energy density compare to, say, a Lithium Ion battery (or some other thing I'd be familiar with)?
I'm a light sleeper, so noise is a critical concern for me in getting good sleep. My partner is a heavy snorer, and sometimes our son wakes me up to get water (because I'm a light sleeper and get up quicker). I remedied this by sleeping in a separate bed and that helped get some solid sleep. My partner was unhappy with this less affectionate arrangement, but solid sleep is precious!

To top it off, our neighbors have loud cars they like to rev at odd hours in the night. It can be seriously bothersome, and earplugs are needed. We've complained, but they are apathetic.

All this prep to get some solid sleep!
Art gets made by people who have the free time and/or people getting paid to do it. People do a pretty decent job at self-selecting for who gets to make art
Y Combinator is a venture capital company that focuses on tech. This board has a sizable investment focused community.
> folks that really have no business investing in extremely speculative things

You decide this based on what? If people can waste money on lotteries, this is no different.
This is yet another “non-Lisp programmers are not as smart as Lisp programmers” comment. Seriously? I know Lisp well and have implemented my own variations for fun. But I prefer other languages. Lisp has been over hyped for 50+ years and have still very little to show for it. The world runs 99.999% on non-Lisp code. So perhaps consider that there might be a reason why? Unless you actually want to suggest that 99.999% of developers out there are less intelligent than Lisp programmers? Really?
The ambitious Android tablet option Google tossed away
Yea that’s why I don’t understand the big fuss surrounding sports gambling/online poker etc. There’s currently something called the options market, much larger than both those things combined, where people are betting one way or the other on minute differences in a company’s quarterly earnings reports. You want to ban online gambling? Ok fine, I can easily go bet my entire life savings on whether Facebook earnings will be 30 billion or 31 billion next quarter.
The core point about people systemically underestimating the complexity of any field outside their own is well taken. Joseph Conrad writes: "Men earning their bread in any very specialized occupation will talk shop, not only because it is the most vital interest of their lives but also because they have not much knowledge of other subjects. They have never had the time to get acquainted with them."

However, if I were to decline to speculate on any matter on which I lacked an expert-level understanding, the number of subjects on which I could hold a conversation would dwindle to virtually nothing, and I'd be much more boring to talk to at these cocktail parties. So, I intend to continue to spitball blindly, just for fun.
I was like that into my 20s. Now in my 40s, I'm lucky to get nine hours. Enjoy it while it lasts and don't worry about it too much. (But set an alarm if it's impacting work.)
Well not just energy capacity [J/kg = m^2/s^2 = 1/3600 W hr/kg], but power capacity [W/kg = J/(kg s) = m^2/s^3] too.
Copilot is cool and all.

I didn't find reading largely correct but still often wrong code is a good experience for me, or it adds up any efficiency.

It does do a very good job in intelligently synthesize boilerplate for you, but be Copilot or this AlphaCode, they still don't understand the coding fundamentals, in the sense causatively, what would one instruction impact the space of states.

Still, those are exciting technology, but again, there is a big if whether such machine learning model would happen at all.
Sounds like SO needs to stop closing questions as duplicates when the accepted answer is seven years old.
There's no "disagreement" between Native Americans in the sense that some of them are imploring white people to capitalize on their spiritual paraphernalia, and others are telling white people not to do that, and oh jeez what do we do we can't make both sides happy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Instead, there are a sizable number of Native Americans who would prefer that white people don't capitalize on their spiritual practices. And then there are many who aren't all that invested in the matter, and simply don't care, but you're not going to disrespect or hurt or belittle them by respecting the others.

So there's a pretty clear course of action, for those who are willing to give half a shit about others, but that's definitely a choice that we all have to make on an individual basis.

You can choose not to care, or not care.

You can also tell yourself that you do care but they're being dumb. That one gets extra cool points.
"It seemed like they cut the project off at a strange point, before AlphaStar was clearly better than humans. I feel that if they had continued they could have gotten to that point"
What if that's why they cut it off..
this is just personal taste but i think that GNU Emacs blows any other software ever written out of every universe that ever existed :)
So if FB doesn't need the capacity, why do they have it? Retail obviously has a big push in the ramp up to the holidays, so there's a reason to have had more capacity than always required.

Does FB see spikes like that, or is it more consistent? I don't see FB having "spare" capacity to lease. Then again, I'm not a data center manager type, and just sit here in my comfy armchair playing QB.
Those seem like empty, general claims. Do you have anything specific to claim that can be proven or disproven?

It's what the people who want to shift the power from democracy like to say (including the empty, general nature). We don't live in perfect democracies, of course, but we will never live in perfect anything - these are human institutions, and it's humans all the way down.

But lots of powerful people and institutions invest enormous amounts of resources in persuading the public - the entire world of news opinion (including, first among peers, most of Murdoch's news operations), massive disinformation operations, all the corporate PR spin, etc. etc. etc. Those are enormous investments for something that doesn't matter.

No person I've ever admired, current or historical, ever advised despair and quitting. It's a sure way to lose, and hand over your power to someone else. Who are you handing it to?
You can provide the font along with your page. No need to compromise.

Me, I override all page fonts, serif, sans, what-have-you, with Linux Libertine, so your setting affects me not at all.
It sounds like an extremely mediocre video game and I'm going to go ahead and skip it
It seems like they sold a ton over the holidays this year. I and at least 4 of my friends got a quest 2 and all of us have already not used it since early Jan. VR has been looking for a killer app for 5 year and the most popular app so far is basically VR guitar hero but only for one player.
I think programmers are relatively "safe" from AI for the simple reason they are the ones who talk to AI.

The job of programmers is to have machines do stuff so that humans don't have to, and of course, they do it for themselves too. Scripts, libraries, compilers, they are just tools to avoid flipping bits by hand. If something like copilot is not embraced by all programmers, it is that it is often less than helpful, and even then, some have adopted it. If we have super-advanced AI that can have a high level understanding of a problem and writes the app for you, then it is not much more than a super-compiler, and there will be programmers who will tell the super-compiler what to do, think of it as a new, super high level programming language. The job will evolve, but there will always be someone who tells the computer what to do.

And if there is no one needed to tell the computer what to do, that's what some people call "the singularity". Programming, or its evolution will probably be the last technical job. Social jobs may continue further, simply because humans like humans because they are human. Maybe the oldest profession will also be the last profession.
Not in 10,000 years when it is still blowing around..
But is he going to do that himself or expecting others to do it while he does fun stuff? Also who determines what the important things are?
I've had trouble with sleep since I was a kid.

- I'm a night owl. The rest of the world runs on mornings, and I hate it. (Working with west coast / remote has made this much easier. Seldom any 10 AM meetings.)

- Work / life balance is impossible if you're trying to do anything substantial outside of work. You have to find time to get it done, and losing sleep is the easiest thing to do.
Can you provide some resources? I’m genuinely interested and search results are unyielding.
I was waiting for this comment. I have no problem falling asleep and staying asleep, but if one kid keeps you up until 2 and the other wakes you up at 6:30 you can only sleep so long.
What did you implement? :)
But considering vacuum decay is not the same as allowing arbitrary things. And I didn't mean concluding which job offer to take which is hardly affected by the nature of the vacuum. If you, for example, seriously consider that physical laws might change any moment, this should probably influence your decisions. If you see it as some purely theoretical possibility with probability ten to ten to the ten to the... then you can ignore it for all practical purposes, if you think it happens with fifty percent probability in the next hour might be worth considering.
Quite likely, if you twist the implied meaning of "an ad" enough.

I'd take it for granted that zwkrt is not talking about reviews and glowing endorsements and sponsored videos or placement on store shelves or .. you get the idea. They're talking about ads! The crap that surrounds the real so-called content when you try to read an article without an adblocker. The nonsense that interrupts a movie on TV (or any video on YouTube) every three minutes. The trash results that gets a special place in front of all the other trash when you search on Google. All unsolicited, not sought for. I'd say if uBlock Origin doesn't block it, then it likely isn't an ad in the sense zwkrt means?

Buying something after seeking out reviews and seeing one that was biased and paid for could happen but it's not necessarily happening to everyone, and it's probably not what the fellow upstream meant when they said they find buying things based on an advertisement foreign.
Who's going to be the first to make a slingshot from this? :)
Yeah, I get stuck in that loop.

The trick that helps is to realize that I will get more done tomorrow if I go right the fuck to sleep tonight.
If you haven't done so, try removing dust mites or other potential allergens from your bedroom.
Amusingly most analysts had Facebook as a buy: https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1488997491693469697
>it's just as cool to be a Democrat as it is to be a Republican

Nobody is saying that. This is true of perhaps no location in the country. Also, wearing a MAGA hat is a behavioral subset of "being a Republican". Half the Republicans I know think MAGA hats are "gross". I think you're letting feelings of political hostility push you into rambly territory a bit. You keep loosening your phrasing to be more high level "Democrats vs Republicans".
I have kids. I am just going to be sleep deprived so my children don’t feel abandoned when they can’t sleep like I did. I’d rather have well adjusted kids than be well rested.
Well…duh, lack of sleep is bad. It’s not like I had 10 years of insomnia by choice. And I’d gather most people, besides the tiny-but-vocal crowd talking about sleep hacking† and grinding and growth hacking or whatever, are desperate for more sleep.

My potentially unpopular opinion: if you have long-term sleep issues that aren’t resolved by lifestyle changes and sleep hygiene, go to a doctor. I had years and years of poor sleep, and I finally found help that way.

†modafinil is great, though.
This afternoon I tried to clone a git repo which, in the morning, was highlighted as containing a useful example to start from in the work I had targeted next.

The clone failed with a mysterious error. After some minutes I checked the accompanying web site. The web site failed too, but, on refresh, this time I got a holding page explaining that the service was down. So I check the overall ticket system, and I find a change ticket, for the git system, saying there is planned maintenance, at 8am for one hour. Unadvertised because hey, it's 8am, most people aren't at work at 8am and this is a regular (Wednesday 8am) maintenance slot.

And I scroll down and I find that nobody remembered to actually do the task. They wrote it up, submitted, got it OK'd and then, eh, never did it. By the time the people who were supposed to do it were reminded it was 9am already. So, astoundingly, the service owner OK'd just doing it after lunch instead.

That failed 8am change was actually a re-run, of a re-run, of a re-run, of an upgrade that keeps failing and definitely takes over an hour to complete.

So instead of "It's fine to do this when nobody is at work and it's low risk" suddenly "It's fine to do this for 2 hours in the middle of the working day, though it'll probably fail and we have no roll back plan".

That's pretty shoddy. Glad to know an "Enterprise" cloud offering is hardly better.
Obviously the article goes into a lot more depth, though in my opinion things could be a bit clearer if they first established if Autopilot performs any differently on freeways or not and then try to see if controlling for any of the other possible confounds has any effect. I'm also not overly fond of their reweighting method, if not done carefully you'll just be amplifying a lot of noise.
> Design is manipulating people into doing what you want

I completely disagree. What I want is irrelevant. What matters is what I think the user wants. I present them with information and choices, they tell me what to do. There is never a step where I hold any opinion over what the user should do. Only steps where I help them understand the consequences of their available actions.
Ehrhardt [1] is a personal favorite of mine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrhardt_(typeface)
As far as I can tell there is no analysis of what happens to the waste from this. In this day and age we have to consider the complete life cycle of a new material.

I am really hoping there are acceptable answers, it would be cool to have a new polymer like this
Congress won't do it unless people push them to. If these people quit, they won't. Again, who gains from that? Who are the quitters serving, knowingly or not?
The money going in is the difference in price between buy and sell. If you buy for $5 and sell for $100 that is $95 of inflow. If you take your $100 and the buy another $100 worth, that was previously only worth $5. That's another $95 of inflow, but if you bought your original or it's value equivalent back for $100 it is not a new inflow. With traditional assets this is easy to determine, with crypto it's nearly impossible.
Is this true now? I hope so. When I started my career 20 years ago, it was common for people to take pride in how little they slept. Sleeping 8 hours/day was treated as a weakness. I don't hear such silliness so much now, but it was unclear whether that's because times have changed or because I now spend my time with wiser people.
Goes to show the relative power of titles over content in getting stuff to the front page. And makes one wonder how much awesome stuff is buried because the title wasn't shiny enough.
I don't know a single person under 30 that still uses Facebook for real. They mostly are still there to talk to grandma or parents. If Facebook hadn't bought whatsapp they would be toast. The writing is on the wall, the beginning of the MySpace curve happening before our very eyes.
From the same place that also overinflated the stock market: The Fed's money printer.
>So if the reds start parachuting down over your community you should just sit pretty lest you interfere with your military’s operations?

I imagine you would be told to evacuate if possible but I'm sure the military would prefer you just don't get involved. Civilians should stay out of warfare.
XRT has been highly shorted for well over a decade because pretty much all of the stocks in it are failing brick and mortars, including gamestop. What does that have to do with GameStop’s short position?