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Dear Mr. Fed Chair Powell Sir, Rents Are Blowing Out and People Are Hurting
Sure. From Kepler's third law, assuming that the Moon's mass is negligible (it is actually ~1.2% of Earth's mass), the semi-major axis of the moon's orbit is given by (mu T^2 / 4 pi^2)^{1/3} [1]. Substituting T = 27.32 days and mu = G M_Earth = 3.986004418×10^14 m^3/s^2 [2], gives a distance of 3.83 x 10^8 m. Estimating the Moon's apparent angle at 31 arcminutes, its diameter is estimated to be 2 * (distance) * ArcSin[31/2 arcminutes], or 3.46 x 10^3 km. According to Google, the right answer is about 3.47 * 10^3 km.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_period#Small_body_orbi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_gravitational_paramet...

[3] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28%28%5C%5BMu%5D+T%5E2...
My Mac Setup for Web Development in 2022
> to track video feeds of moving trains containing graffiti.

What was the purpose of that ?
> I don’t understand this comment

Feel free to think about it more.

> they already have a different update schedule.

irrelevant.
Uh, no. If network performance is an issue then you configure some labels (slow, medium, mega-fast). You then launch your services on “hardware with network:slow” labels, and new instances will be brought up based on the labels it needs.

Even better: you define a “bandwidth” resource and each service requests a slice of that. Kubernetes takes care of the box packing. If you care so much about it you can then enforce that in a number of different, flexible ways depending on your infrastructure or requirements. At the end of the day it’s no different to CPU, memory or GPU requests.
In my case the Google Drive folder that was shared with me has about half a TB in it, so going via the API seemed like a better option!
I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH’d data on power loss
> I understand that there are a lot of cracked versions of the creative suite out there

I haven't looked, but it's my understanding that you need an ADOBE login that you use to interact with Creative Suite, so by 'cloud based' I mean the software is all Internet facing now. There are probably workarounds for that in the warez scene however.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
"Kubernetes for AI stacks" I guess.
Is that really true? I have memories from the age of about 3-3.5 onwards.
After reading more about this on the attached repo, I think we're going to see some AliExpress clones popping up pretty quick. AirTags appear to be pretty minimal tech - much less complex than I had thought if you exclude the high-precision location finder.
I actually really don't mind Java-the-language all that much, in fact I'd say I think it's pretty great. My problem with Java is that the ecosystem and culture of Java tend to leaning heavily on annotations for everything. It's not just Spring (though this is probably the worst offender) but everything from Configurations and Command-Line Parsing to DB access and connections, testing, serialization, it seems like overwhelmingly the community leans towards annotations for everything which to me makes working with the tools really difficult to discover and even more difficult to control or modify. There are some exceptions like Vertx.io for instance which are plain-code baed but I find working in a "Java shop" you are usually pushing against the grain if you're trying to avoid Spring/Hibernate/Jackson/etc.
Computers have always been fast enough, software has almost always been too slow, recently more and more
The half-life of less than two years is a chicken and egg problem. People buy new phones because their old ones doesn't get updates, and phone manufacturers doesn't update old phones because too few people use them.

I don't understand how it could take a full time engineer one year to produce a software update for an already fully functional phone. Even if that was the case, $500k/year for ten million devices is 5 cents per phone. If companies can't be bothered to spend 5 cents to keep a fully functional phone from becoming e-waste for another year I think regulation is in order.

For reference four of Google's execs recently got huge bonuses ($2M) for contributions to "Google’s performance against social and environmental goals for 2022."

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/4/22867419/google-execs-mill...
The thing with democracies is, their rot and death is often not visible from within the democracy. As a sad spectator outside the North America, I can confidently predict the end of democracy in this continent is continuing at a rapid pace.

Due to the nature of resentment, you can never extinguish it by more ruthless measures. Small periodic eruptions is what keeps a volcano from having a bigger bang. When you close every vent, you just create a lot more pressure inside. My prediction would be civil war in both countries in coming decades if the current schism between the left and right doesn't get filled soon. Media and politicians started this fire for their own gains and its raging in every heart without anyone in control.
You do not need accurate time measurements for this method; the question to be answered by each observer is "was the given star occulted on the night in question?", and the ancients could track time to the precision of a day (as we are concerned with at most a hemisphere, there's no problems with date lines.)

It does depend on accurate surveying over distances exceeding the diameter of the moon, and a good deal of communication, which I suspect is enough of a problem to answer the author's question of why it was not done, as far as we know. The method is not, however, begging the question.
Once you've got a reliable portable clock, you can synchronise lots of them in the same place and then move them. Harrison had done this by 1750 (with clocks that supposedly drifted by only a few seconds per day, even after sea travel).
Define greedy. I always come at this from "getting my cut." When the family business did well our pay always went up.
> Notably the Occupy movement, despite being equally frustrating for the local and national government as well as the civilian population, was allowed to go on for close to 2 years.

Politically this is probably true, but ows never as far as I recall blocked main roads, and certainly not for extended periods. Whatever you think the legitimacy of that tactic is, it's not the same.

And fwiw the ottowa police claimed that they didn't have the resources: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/16/ottawa-protest..., though I too question that claim.
The only example I can think of is a recent one: Wordle.
And you know what tends to happen?

Something comes along, that makes it feasible. It might be something surprising. And then, all of the sudden, there's no way to respond - because Oracle the company is so entrenched in the business model of profiting from locked-in customers, that they can't develop a novel response to a novel threat.
Airbnb gives their data away.
http://insideairbnb.com/get-the-data.html
Which is very sad, because those two things should just be a given in a prosperous society.

(I'm guessing you are in the USA.)
I have a 2015 Macbook Pro for myself and a 2021 Macbook Pro for work, and I still don't notice much difference between the two. 2021 is a bit snappier, but 2015 is still quick for everything I use it for too (writing, coding, browsing the internet). Coding a React app on it right now, actually.

I have a separate gaming desktop for gaming and game development.
"It's not the 30% but Apple's attitude of controlling their turf like the mafia under pretended moral superiority."

Do you feel the same way with all large consumer corporations or just Apple? Another words, how is Apple different from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Netflix, or Adobe?
I'm sure you think the person you're responding to is just an apologist for toxic behavior, and you might be right, but it's true that different behaviors are insulting in different cultural contexts. What is toxic is feeling that you are being treated as less than, with less respect than other people, and that is communicated through behavior in the context of norms. "Shouting" is a word that seems safely toxic, but that's because it's a pretty elastic word that adjusts to the norms of the people using it. I personally came from an extremely quiet household, and I am often asked to speak louder (by my wife, my therapist, by my friends when we're at a noisy bar) while my parents often used to complain in restaurants that they had to "shout" to make themselves heard. When they came to visit me, I had to choose restaurants carefully. Eating in even a moderately noisy restaurant could be unpleasant for them, because speaking loudly enough to be heard in that environment had unpleasant emotional connotations for them. Growing up in a family like mine no doubt contributed to my social anxiety as a young adult because I constantly felt that everyone around me was shouting in an alarming way, but I learned to look around and see that there was no panic, no hard feelings, nothing except people speaking at the volume that was normal for them.

Echoing and turn-taking can also vary dramatically by culture. My family were very strict turn-takers and did virtually no echoing at all. I have to go out of my way to echo back what people are saying, in a way that feels unnatural to me, so that they don't think I'm silently disagreeing and looking down on them. I also had to learn that people talking over the ends of my sentences is sometimes a calculated insult (as it would be in the household where I grew up) and sometimes just a cultural norm for them.

Business is ruthlessly doing away with all forms of difference, of course, and I will venture a guess that you, like me, belong to a group with a lot of power to drive this erasure under the banner of progress, power that we avoid acknowledging whenever we can. Shared norms can help prevent misunderstandings, but it is the sameness that helps, not the superiority of one particular norm about (e.g.) speaking volume, and the people who are helped most by shared norms are the most powerful, who have no adjustment to make because their own norms become the ones that other people conform to.

Chris Lattner is a smart and experienced person, and I have no doubt he judged his situation accurately. I just wanted to push back against your assertion that a behavior that someone might sincerely perceive as "shouting" is objectively toxic.
> Thing is, marxist-communist-socialist countries don't even stay non-dehumanizing-regimes.

There are no Marxist regimes; all “Communist” regimes are (or are derived from) Leninism which introduces vanguardism and other changes to avoid the prerequisite of developing proletarian class consciousness through mature capitalism in Marxism, and feature a (theoretically) transitional initial phase to replace development through private capitalism, which none have ever escaped from to anything that was supposed to be beyond it (though China rewrote the plan to include authoritarian quasi-private capitalism.)

There's a wide array of arguably socialist non-“Communist” regimes, but all of them are democratic/market socialism that explicitly accepts plural democracy and regulated (not “free”) markets as important elements.

> Nazi (national-socialist) Germany was totally socialist.

This is true to about the same extent as “the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is totally a democratic republic” is true.
Wasn't Treble supposed to decouple Android version updates from hardware drivers? It seems as if Google (and other manufacturers, but it's Google's OS) just like to point fingers and blame others to save some money.
I believe it is referencing "The Replication Crisis" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Fair critique, I don't mean anything personal. I was just so peeved about Apple's friendliness to China's communism that I haven't cooled down yet. I am far outside the field of discussion and am only looking in. My question actual question is earnest: I don't understand the "rules" that Apple decides to follow in the context of China.
How do I know I'm getting tired? "I know 'dang', but I didn't know we had a mod called 'doing'..."
> For me that means I want a career where you can reduce to a 24 hour or less work per week. Now I work more to save and invest money to give my future self more options in how to balance children, work, friendships, sleep and hobbies without having to worry much about finances.

Blink. Blink.

Yes, being rich is, famously, a great way to free up time and mental energy for other things, sure.
Flamewar (such as nationalistic flamewar) is not ok here, and neither is crossing into personal attack. We ban accounts that post like this, because it destroys what the site is supposed to be for.

Since we already asked you more than once to stop posting flamewar comments, I've banned the account.

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Nokia is never an option, because they do not open the bootloader on any phone. Worse, in the beginning they lied they would, to get people to buy their crap.
Also, don't be blinded by their brand, that brand is actually chinese HMD now, with the chinese attitude to running random closed binaries on your phone. So if you go down that route, better get a properly supported phone, like from OnePlus.
This guy is really weird. I wanted to take the article seriously and read it, but halfway through I laughed and hung up.
Given that Pagerank was literally invented and named after Larry Page, I would think that Google had a head start.

That being said, Page Rank is a more a stellar example of adapting an academic idea into practice, than a statistical idea in and of itself.

Afterall, it is 'merely' the stationary distribution for a random walk over an undirected graph. I say 'merely' with a lot of respect, because the best ideas often feel simple in hindsight. But, it is that simplicity that makes them even more impressive.
I still love Objective-C. And to me—I'm so amazed that Apple added "Property Syntax" and "Properties". It's pretty easy to do much of this with Macros (which could have been baked into the system) and the language stays very simple.

You would have 2 lines of code per property but one fewer concept—and I think that is a much more important factor. To me—this was not the right way to add sugar.
> One idiot or provocateur in a sea of tens of thousands does not override the 99%.

When the blockade is significantly funded from outside the country the policies are supposed to be about [0], when effective mechanics of the protest aren't merely speech but crippling trade, when the stated substance is basically claiming the privilege of unrestrained motion across international borders without regard to vaccination status, even if it were true that "one idiot or provocateur in a sea of tens of thousands" were engaging in fundamentally unacceptable (e.g. nazi) performance, there's still be plenty of reasons for sensible and restrained government authorities to intervene.

> This precedent being set is a dictator's dream

Which precedent? That authorities might use authority to stop trade disruption?

Seizure of property from people involved in that disruption? Bigger and far more routine problems in terms of civil forfeiture.

Needing to be vaccinated to cross a border? You may want to look at precedents established over the last century or two and ask yourself why the totalitarian catastrophe you seem to be imagining has only crossed some kind of threshold now, almost as if it isn't coming.

[0] https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/where-things-stand-majo...
Also worth mentioning is the Mind-body problem i.e. Cartesian dualism and related concepts

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind–body_dualism
Ah, I read "dynamic" as implying something at runtime. I agree that these are extremely useful.
This is really cool!

We (Prisma) would love to support this project in any way we can. You can find my email in bio if you are interested in a call :-)
Cameras are cheap and readily available, can detect most objects that humans are interested in and don't depend on having access to modify the objects you want to track.
I neither expect Rust to go off the rails, but the Core developer team drama lately and Mozilla stepping away makes it that I will neither be surprised in the even that it does.
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Richard Feynman died in 1988.
My experience is that Pihole has been getting less effective over time as more and more ads are being run through the same domain that legitimate content is. When I first installed it it killed ads on my Roku, that doesn’t happen anymore.
I totally agree. I've been writing varying levels of Swift code since the 1.0 days and I truly can't think of a time I've felt constrained by not having the actor keyword. The threading and DispatchQueue APIs are so rich and flexible already, I just don't really see the use case. Maybe someone who's worked more with them can chime in?
Performance Matters by Emery Berger
My only pet peeve with these "laws" is the endless amount of people eager to come up with their own in hopes to be quoted in articles like these. Most of them don’t even make sense and read more like a meme, like “Atwood’s Law”: "Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.”
Huskies aren't the cause of the ever-growing sled - it'd need permanent shelter and sleeping accommodation (at least 2m long) because conditions might preclude erecting a tent every night-fall. Then add space needed for storage of potable (drinking & cooking) water, food, cooking equipment, toilet disposal facilities (human & huskies), ropes, winches, and tools for getting out of trouble and making repairs (so also spares for harnesses, sled, etc.) ...

Once you analyse what is required to be truly self-sufficient and self-reliant, even for short periods of time, the amount of equipment needed is quite surprising.

In settled life many of those things are externalised costs or can be obtained on-demand.

I'd still love to give it a go at some point - but would need to move to Alaska to do it (Only rain and mud in the UK!)
> One idiot or provocateur in a sea of tens of thousands does not override the 99%. That's an absurd, lazy smear.

Do you feel the same about the BLM protests?
Sometimes it's a matter of hygiene and humane working conditions. You might be surprised at the amount of codebases that are just the equivalent of working in filth.

If your workspace has shit smeared on the walls, you don't ask if you can clean it up. You just do it.
Airtags are unique in that they use every iphone in the world as part of the network which tracks them and reports their locations.

So, unlike GPS trackers or competing Bluetooth trackers, AirTags can do two things:

* Last for a very long time on a small battery, no recharging required.

* Reliably report location anywhere in the world that an ordinary person is likely to be.
> Your instructor was right not to give you any points, for your answer was wrong, as he demonstrated using Gauss’ law. You should, in science, believe logic and arguments, carefully drawn, and not authorities. You also read the book correctly and understood it. I made a mistake, so the book is wrong. I probably was thinking of a grounded conducting sphere, or else of the fact that moving the charges around in different places inside does not affect things on the outside. I am not sure how I did it, but I goofed. And you goofed, too, for believing me.

I've heard of "non-apologies," which are sneaky ways of sounding like one is taking responsibility and apologizing without actually apologizing or taking responsibility.

But this is the opposite-- Fenyman takes zero responsibility for having led the student astray, and in fact chastises the reader for appealing to his own authority. At the same time, he gives evidence for why he should not be trusted as an authority-- he goofed and doesn't even know why!

It's like a variation of an old one-liner comedy insult, something like: "I got news for you, we could both do better!"

Anyhow, I like it.
Also worth mentioning is the Mind-body problem i.e. Cartesian dualism and related concepts

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind–body_dualism

Also interesting thought experiment is the philosophical zombie, lots to read by David Chalmers, etc.
It is a difficult technical problem for Apple to solve all of the corner-cases. The article shows the screenshot of seemingly 100 unique FindMy devices around this guy's personal residence... there may be some characterization work that can help solve that so an iPhone user would get the alert message. But Apple will continue to promote it and dismiss or downplay these security concerns.
It's a variation of Postel's law - "be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept". Those who were involved know without a doubt, and the rest of us really need not know details.

Especially since words once said/written can never be taken back.
You're not wrong, but the "couple percent of your lifetime" high stress period is still long enough to irreparably damage relationships.

Not everybody enjoys time with their kids, either. I'm truly glad you do, but that isn't universal.

There's such a huge spectrum of experiences for parents. Listening to the experience of others in our post natal groups was really interesting for that reason. Some people just get it so easy, and some people seem to be living nightmares. There's no real rhyme or reason to it.
I probably don't know more than you, but I am interested in learning more about it. The insulation most often used is EPS (expanded polystyrene), which many studies are trying to find ways to accelerate decomposition from an ecology perspective. Sheltered from UV and solvents, it should last more than 200 years, with some marketing materials giving it an indefinite lifespan. We need more history on ICF, since it is a relatively new building material/technique.
Ok, but you need to follow the site guidelines when posting here. This one, for example:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

and this one:

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

and this one:

"Don't be snarky."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If there's a substantive comment to be made about that historical parallel, it would look very different from what you posted. The more flame-prone a topic is, the more flame retardant you need to avoid the obvious, predictable trollish effects.
I don’t want an “authoring experience.” I want a simple, durable text format that will still be around and useful in 10 years.

I like that markdown is cheap, free, and independent of any platform or language or tool.

When coupled with git, the editorial experience is fantastic through diff and merges.

It’s not for everyone and author can use what ve likes. But the author proposes something that in no way is as useful as markdown.
The effect of daily caffeine use on cerebral blood flow (2009)
I feel for you. I can tell you issues like this seem to diminish with age, but that doesn't help your situation now. Your anxiety is so bad that it's having an incredibly negative effect on your life. Can you get professional help?
I enjoy Apple's Image Capture with my Epson scanner as well.