skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, in inflation-adjusted (real) terms, energy costs have generally decreased.

https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/showtext.php?t=p... and https://www.in2013dollars.com/Electricity/price-inflation

Since electricity hasn't been around for that long (relatively), another way to look at it is the cost of light. We take it for granted but being able to do anything at night was really a luxury for the rich for much of human history:
https://www.vox.com/2015/6/9/8749751/historic-cost-of-lighti...
I think "stems from" is complicated in this instance by how much changed and how fast. Systems can take only so much change in a set period of time, and we've had a hell of a lot of change in under 2 years.

Populations movements (COVID), combined with personal spending habit changes (things over experiences), combined with who spends money (office -> work from home contributed to the toilet paper shortages), combined with labour market changes, combined with immigration changes (hospitality in Sydney is weird without foreign students and backpackers), combined with a lack of slack in the system (JIT etc), combined with probably hundreds of small law changes played a part in what is happening. That all these happened at once only makes it all the worse.
I really miss customizing Mac OS X with full blown custom themes back in the day. Making my machine feel like my own.

These days it seems like most people don't even customize their wallpaper. It feels so strange to me.

There used to be whole vibrant OS customization communities and they just disappeared overnight with some decisions made by Cupertino and Redmond.
Starlink is a telecommunication satellite constellation.

If you are talking about EO satellites, China is already launching them.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.economictimes.com/news/intern...
> Apple still has ultimate control of its operating system

This is by far the most under-appreciated point in all the dialog around third-party app stores (and intentionally downplayed by Apple itself). Apple doesn't have to control the store to control the platform. The degree to which independently-distributed binaries can still be locked down remains entirely within Apple's control, and if they really do somehow fail to stop this legislation (realistically, I see both Apple and Google tying it up in the courts for years) expect a new level of hardening in iOS and Android from top to bottom.

Ironically, this will probably be better for security in the long run.
I'd imagine Twiggy doesn't need the money and it establishing that precedent and will not settle.
So they don't even have a reason to release after all.
So it prevents code smells and code rot?
They can cheat, lie and steal but as long as they ask for forgiveness they believe they are more pure than an honest pot smoker. I look forward to the day where most religions are classified as a mental illness. The fact that psychology has kind of made this exception makes me think the whole industry is pretty messed up.
Thank you. Having seen it -- if this is the "worst" example that can be found -- then I think the parents are either overreacting, or, more likely, are looking for a pretext.

There were examples of books that the conservatives banned because they really were sexually explicit. This doesn't seem to be one of them.
> Are we truly clean to judge?

What kind of weird deflection is this?

The US having done some horrible stuff in the past (or present) doesn't somehow excuse China doing horrible things too.
Nature bless you for that.

I've been thinking about Slackware a lot lately. Slackware manuals and the philosophy of the distro taught me how *nix, networking, and computers in general work. Back in the late '90s, that was a great contrast to the voodoo of RedHat, and frankly a humanitarian boon.

In my older enervated state, seeking something that "just works", I keep thinking of Slackware -- the only thing that "just worked" was understanding what was happening from a fairly close approximation to first principles and a software stack that did what it said on the tin. I can't think of a better distro to use in an institution of higher learning.

The irony of Slackware's affinity to the Church of the Subgenious didn't hurt either; Bob Dobbs wants to sell you a bill of goods, but once you see through all of that and achieve a state of Slack, true understanding has begun.
On the other hand, it is extremely configurable, whatever else you might think about it.
yes indeed, that a bronze-age book elicits anything other than pure ridicule is quite a... testament.
> This is to prevent the following:
> ...
> anonymous online defamation
> ...

The only people with privacy will be criminals, all the people without privacy will be the law abiding citizens.

Seems dystopian. Is there another way to do this than taking people's privacy?
You read about horrible things that happened in the 1800s and your takeaway is... we should allow such things to happen again today? Can you elaborate a little bit?
> I forgot to mention that I REQUIRE tls for incoming smtp connection

This would cut quite a number of legitimate emails for me. Surprised it works for you.
I can't click on a link in an image so I wouldn't know If malware installed I would expect google to detect and disable that ad.

She clicked an ad. Removing ads from search results should be the goal. She made a mistake. Google blended ads with results. She did not realize she was clicking an ad.
Even weirder is the implication that everyone reading this is going to be from the US, which is simply not true.
The end of the Blackhawk War was the battle of Bad Axe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bad_Axe
Global assessment of oil and gas methane ultra-emitters
Is this perhaps related or written in reaction to yesterday's post "Settings are not a design failure? [0]" It seems quite similar to comments written on that HN thread.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30181291
Do we also have experience seeding forums with comments like yours after mistakes are made? Just kidding…sort of.
13. Watch videos in a video-overlay on mobile, without a membership, using Firefox on Android.

14. Listen to audio with the screen off, without a membership, using Firefox on Android.
Take a look at

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/dvbwr0/wifi_ssid_w...
> Masks? Those aren’t even close.

They're to reduce transmission to others. You can call them not good enough but it's a respiratory disease, it's what we've got. The alternative is lockdowns.

> Besides why does the government get to decide if a vaccinated person has to wear a mask?

Why do they get to decide if an unvaccinated person has to wear a mask? You're simultaneously arguing that vaccines are effective and so masks are pointless but also that vaccines are ineffective. Which is it?

> Don’t force me to. I’m boosted. I could care less about Covid.

It's not about you. If the only risk was only to yourself then nobody would care.

> If I still have to wear a mask post shot, why the hell did I even bother?

Because if you get covid you'll have a mild flu instead of being hospitalized or die? You can say it's low chance but 3,000 corpses today I guess were unlucky.
To be fair to non-Javas, the java version is using Java code because Java sucks at calling out to faster languages.
When those kids get older they will probably need attention from a therapist having lived in the woods alone with their parents. I hope their schools are good.
A new generation would likely also include thrust vectoring like on the F-22.
> This comment is saying that vaccinated people are more likely to die than the unvaccinated.

That's definitely not what I was saying. I'm curious which part have you that impression?
This kind of forced assimilation can’t be sustainable.
> Vim. Linux. Blender.

All of which are famous for having user interfaces/experiences that aren't very intuitive for the newbie. Which is okay, but perhaps different segments of the population have different needs and therefore are best served by different software.
By default, ZFS does need scrubs to be performed manually. Ask Linus Sebastian about that one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npu7jkJk5nM

TL;DW: Data in their massive 1PB server was suffering from bitrot because there was no scheduled scrub to repair the bad data. And they couldn't tell how bad the situation was because without any scrubs happening, the stats on data integrity were inaccurate.
OMG I didn't even realise, I was looking at the graphs getting so confused.
Likewise from Iowa.

Heaven forbid!
Can anyone point to a change or sacrifice they have made because they disagree with Chinas treatment of anyone?
In 2020 we didn't know exactly what things would look like if we didn't do lockdowns. The situation looked dire, and we reacted the way we did to give ourselves time to protect people while we assessed the situation, and made proper protections available.

The lockdowns weren't permanent (or even that long, to be honest). The protective measures we have in place aren't very stringent (in most of the world). If we hadn't done what we had done, the loss of life would have been considerably worse, and even with the choices we made, it was still quite bad.

I understand that you're unhappy with having a couple years of your life inconvenienced, but you're very much not showing empathy with those who've lost considerably more than you, and aren't really putting much consideration into how much more could have been lost without your inconvenience.
I'm glad to hear that throwaway22032. throwaway194523 seemed to have more of a problem with it, which I sometimes share but I'm overcoming it. Yes, I have your character flaw too, but there's only so much time in the day!
The walls are concrete, there's probably no sound transference at all.
Show HN: Printable Chess Set
There are ways around it: You can put the RJ45 inside a water-tight screw-together housing, or at least use a standard plug design -- the best option being a waterproof variant of an IEC metric screw sized connector like M12:

https://www.mcmaster.com/networking-equipment/micro-m12-scre...
Maybe someone just doesn’t feel like getting the vaccine. That’s 100% reason enough, it’s not your decision to make.
Well, that's hopefully coming soon. Nothing wrong with being supportive... I never claimed it was production-ready

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Bcachefs...
Not for multiple days it wasn't.
I don't think people should reject it out of hand like that. It's one of the most influential texts of our society. It's worth knowing what actually is in it. Read the Quran too.
Nobody is clean. Everybody must judge.

Not only is it possible for an American to condemn abuse of children, they have a moral duty to do so. It is also a requirement that China hold America to account for what America and Americans have done, in the past and today.

But any news outlet has not only a right but a duty to denounce human rights abuses everywhere.
Instead of asking me what I want, they decide what I want.

I'm not sure if authoritarianism is the right name for this trend, but I think it's also related to companies no longer wanting users to think of themselves as owning the products they bought, and the shift to subscription-based services. They want to turn users into dumb, docile, obedient cows to be milked for $$$, and what better than to start them down that path by slowly taking away control and convincing them to "embrace the changes" forced upon them.
This is a good idea, but it would never survive in California, because people would complain that it's regressive. Rich households use more electricity than poor households, but the infrastructure maintenance cost for each is approximately equal, so with your proposal, poor households wouldn't get subsidized by rich ones anymore.
That link doesn’t indicate “accumulating evidence that they have no effect”, and the link explicitly states “it would be imprudent to recommend the removal of facemasks from surgery”.

It is a literature review that didn’t find strong evidence for surgical mask effectiveness more because it hasn’t been researched deeply. And it notes that the absence of evidence does not indicate ineffectiveness of surgical masks, and rather a more significant research trial would have to be performed (and there were caveats to the feasibility of doing that as well).

Specific quotes from that article:

“What literature that is available on the subject tends to be dated with poorly explained methodology. There is also uncertainty over whether the results of such studies can be extrapolated to current surgical practice given the advent of new antiseptic techniques since they were completed.”

“It is clear that more studies are required before any absolute conclusions can be drawn regarding the effectiveness or, indeed, ineffectiveness of surgical masks. The published literature does suggest that it may be reasonable to further examine the need for masks in contemporary surgical practice given the interests of comfort, budget constraints and potential ease of communication, although any such study would undoubtedly have to be large and well controlled to prove causality given the low event frequency of surgical site infections.”

“It is important not to construe an absence of evidence for effectiveness with evidence for the absence of effectiveness. While there is a lack of evidence supporting the effectiveness of facemasks, there is similarly a lack of evidence supporting their ineffectiveness. With the information currently available, it would be imprudent to recommend the removal of facemasks from surgery. Instead, in the medical field where common practice can so easily become dogma, it is necessary to recognise the constant need to maintain a healthy scepticism towards established beliefs and to periodically re-evaluate and critically assess their scientific merit.”
It has about a 999% better chance of going upstream than ZFS does, so there's that
Data Anonymization with Postgres
The above mentioned deflection is weird, but this implication isn’t there. The article is from NPR.
The article notes that at least in California, infra costs are roughly 75% of real costs so the sounds about right.
>...why should...

Sure, right after you show me where I mentioned a second company, and that they should be able to access Apple's network without compensation.

Hell, I'll accept you showing where I mentioned a first company by name.

You can do better than low effort trolling.
My kid's school uses software called Wilma to communicate with us parents. It suffers from the problems that all enterprise software suffers, but has no ads or tracking and is at least ostensibly secure.

Its android app has a rating of 1.9, but jeez, at least it's not Facebook.

https://www.visma.fi/wilma/en/
I stopped eating Chinese food. That'll show 'em!

No but seriously -- whether someone pops in with a serious change, or absolutely zero changes, what does that tell us about Uyghur oppression? What are you getting at?
For me, enough to pay the bills for the rest of our lives, and afford a new toy, or take a road trip every once in a while.

At current rates, somewhere around 25 bitcoin would do it.
I didn’t realize it was that bad but kind of makes sense that they are not going to pay you “retail” prices. Another way of looking at it is there is a huge incentive to size your installation for 100%, not just plan to offset some cost of use because you pay a big premium for their power.
Not watching the Olympics, deleted TikTok off everyone’s phones in the house, buying more locally made things, etc.
The California requirements can be met with off-site solar, though this is currently being litigated.
Why not?

I mean, it's immoral, but looking at history, forced assimilation has succeeded many times - it's just that it takes a lot of time (century+, certainly more than any individual's lifetime) and when it does, we now think of the assimilated people as an inherent part of the assimilating nation. The currently visible examples are just exceptions, either the ones where it has failed as the "assimilating empire" became weak and assimilation stopped/reversed, or the cases where it's recent and ongoing and won't succeed until after I'm dead (but that doesn't mean it won't succeed).
Can we possibly see ourselves as objective judges when our collective history is essentially, from this historic perspective, butchery?

What blessed this generation with a wisdom not seen before?

What, precisely?
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OP is asking if we're actually willing to personally sacrifice in order to pressure China into not violating human rights. Or if we're all talk and no bite. And it's a fair question. Has anyone here even written to their senator?

The only way the leadership of our country (I'm assuming most of us are in the US) is going to impose real sanctions and penalties on China is if we, as a people, vehemently demand it.

Personally, I am attempting to persuade those within my company that we restrict our business with China. This does not typically go over well, because 1) there's a lot of money in China, and 2) there are many Chinese nationals in our employ who very much do not like people pointing out the human rights violations of their country.
> "The 'older sisters' pulled my hair and beat me. All my hair fell out when I was at school," says Aysu, now 10.

> "If we cried, the 'older brother' made us stand still facing the wall or hit us," says Lütfullah, now 8.

> When children didn't follow orders or learn quickly enough, their teacher would put them into a stress position they call "the motorcycle," the children say. Aysu and Lütfullah demonstrate: two arms stretched out front, knees bent in a half-squat, which they held for several minutes.

> But they say the worst punishment was being sent to the school's basement. Lütfullah says the teachers told him ghosts lived there, and children including him were locked there in the dark, alone, for hours at a time.

Hopefully someday the Chinese government atones for their crimes. Anyone with children knows how heartbreaking this is.
"The government argues in opposition that this argument fails because it never claimed that the excerpted portion of the email reflected the defendant’s personal thoughts. Rather, regardless of whether the email reflected the defendant’s own thoughts or were notes from a lecture, it intended to demonstrate that the defendant had an interest in promoting China’s scientific and economic development, which went to his motive for committing the charged offenses. As between the two, the government has the better argument here. Even assuming the excerpted portion of the email reflected nothing more than notes from a lecture the defendant attended, it was included in the publicly filed complaint and thus could be disclosed, the government noted for what it was worth that the defendant wrote and sent the notes to himself, and the email did at some level reflect the defendant’s interest in Chinese scientific and economic development."
> The current model also disincentives battery installations.

Isn't this actually a good thing, at least right now? Wouldn't replacing more ICE vehicles with EVs help the environment more than installing more Powerwalls would, and don't EVs and Powerwalls both share the same currently-constrained battery supply?
Pardon me for assuming HN readers are capable of basic keyword searches:

https://virological.org/t/omicron-is-a-multiply-recombinant-...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2787944

Would you like me to wipe your ass next as well?
> In quiet, polite voices, Aysu and Lütfullah Kuçar describe the nearly 20 months they spent in state boarding schools in China's western region of Xinjiang, forcibly separated from their family.

> Under the watchful gaze of their father, the two ethnically Uyghur children say that their heads were shaved and that class monitors and teachers frequently hit them, locked them in dark rooms and forced them to hold stress positions as punishment for perceived transgressions.

> By the time they were able to return home to Turkey in December 2019, they had become malnourished and traumatized. They had also forgotten how to speak their mother tongues, Uyghur and Turkish. (The children were being raised in Turkey but got forcibly sent to boarding school during a family visit to China.)

Holy shit, that's horrifying. Literally the state just kidnapping kids and brainwashing and abusing them. It's like China's government is going out of their way to maximize evil.
Product and service information is transmitted along with price, and insufficient information drives demand for methods to price more granularity without increasing transaction costs. Or to decrease transaction costs to allow research into purchases more difficult to understand.
futura.black
Trying to buy as many things that are not made in China as possible, even if I have to spend more since in most cases that means buying a better product, and in others buying fewer products.

I was recently pleasantly surprised to see that the M1 iMac was made in Thailand.
Comparing a government mandate for international truckers to get a free, safe vaccine during a pandemic to anything nazis did is deeply offensive.
Change.
Goddamn, are you serious standing there saying "it's cool, rape and torture them. Our country used to do it a few generations ago."
Privileged asshole.
This sounds like 50 cent army stuff for what it is worth:

https://www.voanews.com/a/who-is-that-chinese-troll/3540663....
Serious question, does not watching the Olympics hurt them other than signaling? Currently debating getting Peacock for the month but have held out to boycott as well. To me, it seems it is only hurting NBC and, in a strange way, the US.
> They all claim it's for heritage reasons

But you know mindread better than what everyone else is thinking.

I know plenty of people, plenty of music, plenty of shows (general lee), plenty of culture that involves the confederate flag without racism.
Have you considered writing your own string matcher for the simple cases like fixed patterns?

I got some pretty solid wins just by guarding some regex executions with simple strings.indexof calls.
A Fight over the Right to Repair Cars Turns Ugly
It's a form of protest to NBC and our leadership. Protest is a form of signaling, but it's one that the US takes seriously when enough people do it.
I no longer take certain corporate leaders and athletes seriously when they lecture about how horrible the USA is, when they reap huge sums from a criminal nightmare. The hypocrisy is not lost on many people, and over time such hypocrisy erodes trust and support.
divined
ensconced
We'll see right?

But regardless, I would say the protest has been "firey, but mostly peaceful".
I'd worry more about flexing if that backpack curves to your back at all.

Your best bet is to buy a backup machine and mirror to it often. Then you're covered should something break, or get stolen. (You do have a password on it, right?)
Spending way too much time finding alternatives that are not from china. But my oh my is it difficult not end up at a reseller or something. Often I find myself postponing it for a long time or in the end giving in and still buying something made in Chiba or partially.
Also I’m hosting a small Olympics boycot party which is not very popular admittedly but it’s something. And Corona doesn’t help with that either.
So the fact that this happens to be a US outlet reporting on it means you can just assume people commenting here are from the states? What?

If someone posts an English article from Deutsche Welle, should we assume everyone commenting on it is German?