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The argument here is that the climate crisis is bigger than a few endangered species. The other side of it, though, is that if you're destroying important chunks of the environment, how much of it are you really saving? There are other ways to do green power generation than this one hydro project. Maybe it's really not worth smashing though all these endangered species' habitats.
What does costing over $1000 have to do with anything?

No one owes you anything. Furthermore all applicable warranties are communicated at time of purchase.

Bottom line, if the risk adjusted return is not worth it, then don't buy it. You may not be an early adopter
a) Makes no difference to the argument. I'm not criticizing the student for writing to Feynman. I'm just saying that Feynman was absolutely right in his criticism, considering how elementary the subject matter is.

b) Also doesn't make any difference. I'm familiar enough with W&M to know that (i) it has a full-fledged graduate program and (ii) professors there collaborate extensively with JLab in both theory and experiment, though I admit that I don't know if that was the case when this student wrote the letter.
Well, it was to distinguish them from the old power-hungry, thicker (and often buzzing) CCFL backlights.
> because Delta infection did not confer immunity to Omicron, where vaccination did

Do you have a source for that?
Right but did it say mimic a DVD screensaver? I really think she should show the goods if she wants to make light of the situation. BTW I'm kind of on her side, but don't make us take her word for it.
Buying an iPad hardly makes you a beta tester for brand new shit. They've been around for a while.
My $1500 Vizio TV just died 13 months into a 12 month warranty. They don't sell parts for TVs anymore, Vizio support just told me to trash it and buy a new one. Never again Vizio.
Yes you certainly can, with an appropriately designed hinge.
You don't find the lack of brightness to be an issue? Both of these monitors only hit 280 nits.

I do find that the intersection of size, resolution, and brightness is nearly empty. I have a pair of U2720Qs, but would love something more in the 500-600 nits range or even 1000 that isn't the Apple XDR. LG has promised a new 40wp95c for over a year now (and amusingly reannounced it at CES this year, since they didn't ship at all in 2021) which maybe works but at $2000 for a monitor, it's not for everyone (and it came in at a much lower brightness than people expected).
> The device costs over a thousand fucking euros!

Well yeah. Buying something early is the most expensive time to buy it. The inefficiencies haven't been worked out of the manufacturing process yet, and there's not an established wide customer base to spread the R&D over yet.

Radios in the 1920s cost over 100 hours of wages for a lot of people. TVs in the 50s were stupid expensive. Computers in the early 60s were literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. And all of these things were pretty garbage compared to what you think of today. Hell, the computer from the early 60s could probably lose a math race to a seasoned abacus veteran.

In exchange for the high risk and high payment, you get to play with something that might be cool, and you get bragging rights (depending on your personality type, one of these might excite you more than the other).

> Any decent company would fix it, full stop.

Well, probably. I'm not going to defend samsung here. They're acting pretty garbage.

But the point about new tech being risky, is entirely fair. If something's still exciting, it's probably a good idea for the risk-averse to avoid it.
It is not about the QR code itself. It's about recommending something like that in a priced ad spot with an intent to go create virality. That is what the ad agency was suggesting and what coinbase was able to achieve. Right idea, in the right context.
It makes sense.

How many creative and truly innovative thinking people do you know that will spend hours studying for and partaking in such a ridiculous interview process? It’s easily one of the top turn offs for me when it comes to FAANG companies. Not because it’s difficult, but because it’s utterly boring, and useless.

It seems these companies are far more interested in hiring very intelligent and analytical type people, but those who have no sense of outside the box thinking. Which in theory makes sense at scale, but in tech your head start will eventually fade, and those same people you’ve hired likely can’t bring you back.
> We don’t have to be best friends, but yes, showing up is part of the “teammate” package. You don’t get to withdraw that part and still demand all the same things from me.

… but they arn't.

The person who has meaningful and deep relationships outside work isn't demanding all the same things from you.

Most work are in dense cities and cities are inherently expensive. For the commute to be meaningful, everyone in your team has to be within a short distance of these dense cities.

The “teammate” package you propose is pretty expensive all things considered. You might not realize nor care about the expense but the teammates might.

In the end, the company cares about productive output. Mercenary or not, companies that have the most productive output that makes the customers happy are going to win.

My money are on companies that go remote, keep costs down and pass on those savings internally (employees) and externally (customers).

My money is not on companies that are forced to hire people within driving distance of some arbitrary office.
Doesn't Apple pull the exact same scam, except that instead of scratches and paint chips, they say "water damage" is why they're denying your warranty claim?
The way YouTubers can take a single issue and flip it into hours and hours of video and escalated drama is amazing.

IMO, Newegg made a mistake by continuing to engage and let them film it. Gamers Nexus seems to put out good, in-depth reviews, but they can't help but pick fights with everyone and anyone and then beat the horse to death for weeks and weeks. I guess there's an audience for it, but it's not a great look.
> In high density cities, the idea of covering the unsightly parking and keep the people and greenery out into the sun is a no brainer.

I get the impression that this style of development is common even in somewhat lower density areas. People in Germany just don't like the seas of asphalt so common in the states.
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At least you have a house. I think less people should buy their own house and stay with family unless they can buy cash. Mortgage/debt culture is partly to blame. I think all western countries should ban buying a home for investment reasons. Not unless they have 0 homeless rate for people that don't have mental illness keeping them homeless.
My problem with Samsung devices: They sell slow Exynos in India, Overheating, bloatware and no stock android
Do I need to have a somewhat decent knowledge of Java to plunge into Clojure right away?
This article is not about solutions to climate collapse, it is about infrastructure I. General and how there are so many many many roadblocks to any new infrastructure, which the author show as important by using a climate related infra project as its subject. EIR as nimby-weapon is nothing new…
Interested to hear what brand you're switching to, and why you expect the situation to be different once you switch.
It's a worthwhile topic for discussion, and you got the point across succinctly, I feel like you'd be doing the author a solid if you did some copyediting
I'm considering a "rugged phone" as my next one. They seem great. A bit chunky, sure, but more battery, better value & more durable. I don't need a paper-thin or foldable-screen phone. I'm a bit surprised how little attention this category of phones gets.
Again this isn’t Java’s fault. This is the Android Runtime’s fault. The Android Runtime is not Java or OpenJdk.
> slowly becoming reliable

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
> If that’s the way things are shaping up I need to go be a farmer or something.

Is this something you entertain as an actual possibility or shudder to think about?
I wouldn't go that far. Samsung portable external SSDs are pretty flash. Of the few I have had, they've been fast and dependable.
The real problem I see here is that they are legally required to warranty the device but aren't doing it
> There are marketplaces that operate efficiently on word of mouth alone.

Which ones? Please enlighten me.
No, 3rd gen for bendable screens is still preview stage. I would consider 5th gen pre-production. It really won't be mainstream until 8+.
I think you just summed up the point of the experiment and what it tests.

There are multiple strategies people can take to willpower and life. Some work better than others in different situations.

There are people who don't mind waiting patiently for that 2nd marshmallow. I'm sure there are situations in life where that mindset is beneficial.

Move fast and break things is good for some goals, slow and steady is good for other goals.
> Uh, we do know what Mars is like. Humans have been sending probes to Mars for decades. It’s cold, toxic, showered with radiation, and devoid of most things needed to support life, at least life as we know it on this planet.

I assumed OP's question was: what would motivate you to move to a habitable Mars?

Instead, it seems you interpreted it as: what would motivate you to commit the most expensive suicide in history by traveling to an uninhabitable Mars?

More seriously: for the question to make any sense at all, there has to be a degree of habitability when reaching Mars.

It's not today's habitability (which is "not at all") so it must be some time in a fictional future.

OP didn't specify what future they were imagining, so the question is nonsense and up for wild interpretation.
Is there a current display technology that doesn't doesn't implement variable brightness using pulse width modulation?
Anecdotes don't cancel each other out. They are all true at the same time.

So yes they do say a lot, maybe not what you believe but they still do say things.
On one hand, this seems like a minefield of potential issues. If you build processes to measure "happiness" and make retain/fire decisions based on it, you're going to get a lot of fake happiness as soon as the employees figure it out. A lot.

However, in the past I've made the mistake of trying to retain angry, unhappy, or otherwise disgruntled employees too long. Some people are just irreversibly angry in life and will find a way to be upset about everything. Leaving them in the company will start to bring everyone down. If someone is clearly miserable at your company and you've made efforts to address their problems with no improvement, it's time to remove them.
Here’s what’s funny, amazon and Microsoft are less about leetcode. Google has very hard questions but they are somewhat novel. Facebook has very tough questions but they are basically straight from the book, people getting hired there just need to memorize.

Smaller growth stock companies like coinbase or DoorDash tend towards the Facebook style of interviews.

If you look at stock prices, there’s a near direct correlation between difficulty of leetcode and stock price.

But that maybe because smaller growth oriented companies just need fast memorized results on the job, or it’s just discriminatory
> the appeal of plain text files is understandable. But that era is pretty much gone with the emergence of backends as a service. Services and tools like Fauna, Firestore, Hasura, Prisma, PlanetScale, and Sanity’s Content Lake, invest heavily in developer experience.

Am I the only one who has never heard of any of these?
Thanks for your comment. I amended my second paragraph to try to make my point clearer.

I am in no way advocating for in-person code review. I’m saying that it’s much harder to do code review with someone you haven’t shared lunch with, chatted with in the pub, or had a non-work related phone call with for 9 months.

Your point about public GitHub is pretty much on point. Some of the least productive and most barbed back-and-forth you see on code reviews is the public FOSS ones where people don’t really know or trust each other that much.

Some of the best are where the reviewers clearly want to work together on something and not be confrontational.

(By the way: I don’t see this behaviour as openly confrontational in terms of deliberate aggression — more commonly it’s a reviewer subconsciously expressing their self-perceived lack of standing by criticising other’s work.)
> This is our industry now.

No, this is human nature. There have always been liars, cheats, and a conman ready to take advantage of others. What gives hope is that this kind of deception can now be found out quicker and made known to all almost instantaneously. What gives dismay is that the same speed applies to disinformation as well.
Former owner of a stolen Bored Ape files million-dollar lawsuit against OpenSea
Neither. It came out in 2014, with some revisions since. 8 years later, there's just not much else out there in 5K-land.

The products basically don't exist.

I can get some rather fantastic 1440p displays -- HDR, 165Hz, DCI-P3 color gamut, and excellent color reproduction (especially when calibrated) for as cheap as $260 on sale. Best thing imaginable? No, but amazing for the price, and objectively better in every measure than the 1440p displays that were $1000+ in 2010.

I'd pay $2000 -- perhaps even $2500 -- each (and I'd buy THREE), for a 5K display that met my requirements.

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Hardware Unboxed recently made a video complaining that the display market is too heavily driven by gamers wanting a specific, narrow feature set for a rock bottom price.

Display makers have delivered that. However they don't really make much of anything else as a result.

It's a nasty, difficult, low-margin business where almost no one is making money, hence why it's huge volumes of largely the same thing with no major shifts forward.
I used to developed SSD firmware in the past and our team always used to make sure it would write the data and check the write status. We also used to used to analyze competitor products using bus analyzers and could determine some wouldn't do that. Also in the past many OS filesystems would ignore many errors we returned anyway.

Edit: Here is an old paper on the subject of OS filesystem error handling.

https://research.cs.wisc.edu/wind/Publications/iron-sosp05.p...
I also have a Pixel 2, which is still running fine except for battery life. I really like the dedicated fingerprint sensor on the back. It's been such a great feature that I'm shocked it's been dropped or replaced with in-display sensors in the newer models. IMHO, it beats Face ID which requires you to look at the device from the right angle.
It’s for factory workers that assemble laptops. Despite the label, it’s perfectly ok to touch it. There’s a flex PCB behind the label that drives the backlight and converts the eDP signal to pixels. It’s normally protected by the laptop bezel so it’s somewhat fragile. If you bend it, you’ll break traces on the PCB or pop components off.
Samsung can not just opt out of German warranty law by printing stuff on the box. They are required to prove the customer is at fault if a fault occurs within the fist six months after purchase, but I see no proof of wrong usage by the customer here.
So many of todays’ issues like the housing crisis are directly caused by prevailing NIMBY attitudes e.g multi-family housing zoning laws. Unfortunately, the cruel irony is people who want real change often through their own cognitive dissonance vote or act against their best interests when the “M” in NIMBY turns out to be themselves.
Intelligence is likely when you're knowledgeable but it is not a given.
Switched to an LG OLED TV. My brother has had the same one for 3+ years so hopefully it'll last me a while.

I've honestly never had a TV just randomly die on me before, which is why I never buy the extended warranties. But Vizio not selling parts for expensive TVs just doesn't sit well with me, hence the "never again".
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It seems like I've seen recent articles touting linoleic acid as being a good thing. For example: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2014/11/05/diet...
E-Mails are unencrypted and can be intercepted.

When speaking of E-Mail as a user authentication method, it's just as unsecure as SMS.

I'd heavily disrecommend the author's method of sending 2FA codes unencrypted through the internet.

While it is an unlikely attack surface for private hackers, it is a very likely attack scenario of state level actors.

Also: gpg as encryption isn't worth anything when everybody has your public key and/or sent it before via an unencrypted transport layer.
> If it's the latter, it might mean that the entire AirTag product line is dead in the water.

The average consumer, or even 99.9% of consumers, don't care at all.

They want to find their things. AirTags help them find their things. They don't care how it works. End of story.

It's not a popular opinion on HN where everyone wants to understand every technical detail of how every product works, but in the real world it doesn't matter. Consumers buy products to solve problems. That's all.
There was a recent thread about this but I think we can consider it just below the dupe threshold:

The Price of Nails Since 1695: A Window into Economic Change - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29838157 - Jan 2022 (26 comments)
Counterpoint: I've spent less on my 4 phones over the last ten years than a single new iPhone would cost today, including replacing a couple screens and batteries myself. I'm coming up on time for a new phone, but the iPhone prices have been keeping pace with my cumulative device total price so far.

Multiple hours' drive to the nearest apple store, so they offer no timeline advantage for me
We aren't trying to prevent climate change to save the environment, we're doing it to save the buildings and infrastructure we've built along coastlines, to prevent dangerous impacts to global agricultural output, and to stop tropical diseases from spreading further from the tropics.

Plenty of wildlife will also benefit if we limit/stop anthropogenic climate change, but that's just an added bonus. The threat they face isn't what makes climate change a crisis.
Sounds like something that ought to be litigated in the courts. Maybe you can write to OP and suggest he file a lawsuit
Factors influencing how we network
Ask HN: Is there any way to detect websites that are SEO-optimized on Google?
Let's say I'm searching for "the best pillow cushion for tailbone pain". If I come across a website that starts by talking about what tailbone pain is, whether cushion pillows help with that or not, what the benefits are for the coccyx, etc., I'm pretty sure that website is crap and is doing all this to improve their SEO and their recommended products are likely paid-ads.

On the other hand, if I see a website (or a blog) that goes straight to the point and tells me what the best pillow cushions are, I'm more likely to trust that recommendation.

Is there any way that we can decrease the score of SEO-improved websites so that only the ones that aren't SEO-optimized can be shown at the top? Any extension or search engine that does that would do us all a huge favor.
> The hardest thing about remote work is code review.

code review was done async. and in all practical sense "remote" at all the dozen places I ever worked in an office.

How else do you scale code review on a team of more than 2 people. Get all 5+ people in a room to do code review for a 5 liner?
Honestly why does a foldable display seem like a good idea? It’s not. It’s crap. If you have any understanding of hardware whatsoever you’ll be able to devine why a foldable screen is going to fail in about 5 seconds and therefore is a bad idea.

On the face of it, foldable screens seem awesome. Like the future. Only problem is that they are still the future.
The list of trackers is 10 times longer than the article if you expand the cookie consent popup.
It's not just Samsung though, you can run into problems with anybody. When we built our house my wife's company was doing a cross promotion with GE, so we were able to get a good discount on GE appliances and we loaded up. The dishwasher, microwave, washer, dryer, garbage disposal, and water softener are long gone. The stove has been a constant source of frustration, and the refrigerator has parts that haven't worked in years. I can assure you we will never own another GE appliance.
Mostly for understanding any stack traces you might see while running the code, I'd say. Other than that, you can use the bulk of the core language without needing a deep level of Java knowledge. Those bits of Java you may touch can be used as 'incantations' until you learn more.
I sort of agree with this sentiment but I must say that the implementation of said features has been pretty sane so far, especially if you compare with C++.
Eyes are complicated! Lots goes wrong with them! I had a problem with my right eye that got worse for about 4 months, until it got to the point where it actively interfered with my work and I went to the doctor. Turned out: dry eye.

Seriously, it's bananas how much silly stuff can mess with your eyes. You can have bad-quality tears! You have, for instance, an array of little glands that secrete an oil that needs to be in your tears for them to work right. And they malfunction all the time! (That was my diagnosis but wasn't ultimately what the real problem was, which was much dumber).

Go see a doctor but also don't freak out about it. You're not going to die next week.
Not when you buy the latest model without doing comparisons of complaints with the last three models.

Funny how nobody has time for that, but plenty of time to

1) be without a device

2) complain

etc
I was using Nexus 6 from 2014 in 2019. And honestly I would continue using it if its battery wasn't in abysmal state leading to throttling. Considered buying new old stock or trying to replace a battery in this one. N6 is a 32-bit only device, that's the primary (the only?) reason I switched to something else, it would limit software choice going forward.
Not the point of the article but being a stock or nothing guy and saying there's no innovation is not very smart.

Eg. Samsung's brand of Android has floating multi windows. Split-screen app pairings. There's also Samsung Dex.

Pixel and Nexus are probably the most basic Androids you can get.
Credential stuffers will have a feast on this one.
I'm using it through Yunohost [1] on the lowest end DigitalOcean box. Works beautifully. I'm pondering bringing it in house on a RPi, just for shits and giggles and so I can truly own all my stuff...

[1] https://yunohost.org/
Yes. I drove a hydrogen car a few times some years ago. The hydrogen infrastructure wasn’t very developed and is gone today. The electric grid is developed and I have fast chargers everywhere. For sure I need to plug the car a bit longer but it’s not really an issue. I’m not driving hours and taking only a 3 minutes break.

I think hydrogen is an okay solution when high density energy storage is required. But for passengers cars it’s just not great.
Here's something I noticed: the fans of Apple hardware know they can do this, because they... have to do this. I've had 9 or so different laptops in my life over the last 2 decades, from bargain bin models to latest high-spec Lenovo. The only times I've had to fix a laptop was twice in the last 3 years on work-assigned MBP (once the motherboard failed, another time the keyboard fell apart), then had to replace a failing HDMI adapter, then the charger for it.

Maybe I'm lucky and have a terribly weird experience with hardware. But every person I personally know who uses Apple hardware has been to their store to fix/replace it at some point. Apple is definitely doing a good job with servicing, because those people are also happy this is a possibility, but... having to do it at all feels weird to me. (anecdata of course)