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Avoiding politics entirely might not be possible. Seemingly innocuous topics can be politicized or can contain political premises. From that point it becomes a question of, "Does this topic contain premises which contradict the political biases of the dominant HN view?", not "Is this topic political?"

That said, I would love to see less stuff rationalizing war, UBI, climate doom, covid biosecurity or any other fear promo in service of expanded governance.

However, I do find the tech censorship theme interesting. As well as over the top propaganda when it reaches the point of self-parody.

Agree with other posters. Please flag. Less CNN, NPR, The Guardian, The Atlantic and other outlets which are primarily sources of politicized news. Articles with counter points to their agenda are almost always flagged. Would be best if the flagging was more consistent.

There's also the "hide" option.

If it gets really bad you can always return to the text editor and get something accomplished.
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I have thought about it, but I think working 4 hours a day probably would cause similar low-level but constant anxiety about deadlines, bugs, etc.

I rather work a few months and then take a month off.
Its okay to ignore "modern" features if they create bad edge cases.
Yep, I'm planning to try for some sort of semi-retirement before retiring completely. If there are such positions, I would be interested at that point.
And for the more crazy stuff. I love the pizzaman. 7-11 does a pretty decent negishio pork bento too (not crazy, I just like it.)

If they have them, the negitoro maki tends to be pretty decent at all the combinis.
Chromebooks and Mac Airs are still better for actual travel use just due to size and power draw (airplane sockets are typically only good for about 180W before they trip. Varies by plane a bit, only one I've seen meaningfully higher was an A380 for Emirates that seemed good to about 250W).

Outside of the big names, I've had a lot of luck with FreeBSD and recent Linux on the MSI G-70x "gamer" laptops, getting the nvidia cards to work in the GPU-switching mode with the lower power Intel ones is finicky but if you don't need to run games or CAD or whatever on it that's not a concern most of the time. Typically 50-75% of a similar Mac and available with NVME ssds and 32GB or more of memory. Atheros/Killer network adapters are not amazing but works and most have a RJ45 gig or 2.5g ethernet port if you need it.
If you intend to do anything with the response you'd probably handle 204 differently otherwise you'll get the world famous null pointer.
Very likely large fleets like Waymo / Cruise / Tesla will be self insured.
Hmm, I have the air with m1, and my battery life is insane. Like 20 hours, even with a parallels vm running some of the time.

I do however have no idea what discord is. Isn’t it some kinda forum?

Also using safari when on battery doubles your life, fwiw.
Will you be factoring in the healthcare costs associated with burning more diesel and natural gas? (Not even getting into the externalities of climate change.)

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I thought Kurzgesagt did a pretty good job of breaking this down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzfpyo-q-RM. Basically, no matter how you look at it, nuclear is among the safest forms of energy we have, behind only solar, wind, and hydropower. Admittedly, deaths ≠ costs, but I imagine the numbers would be similar.
That only works when they're willing to take your money and willing to then not show you ads or track you. Lots of places won't take your money and only do ads, and an upsetting number are happy to take your money and then track you and/or show you ads anyways. (My "favorite" so far is Hulu, who has the audacity to call their paid plan "no ads" and then include ads.)
> There were even VCRs that could be programmed to start recording at a certain point for a specific duration.

Although programming VCRs correctly required skill, because the user interfaces were so abysmal.

It was a meme that parents couldn't do it.

For younger readers: there was a single small display on the early programmable VCRs that could show a few digits, which needed to sequentially program the slot, channel, start time, and end time. Years later there were LCD screens on the remote, although they were still cryptic, and they didn't always synchronise correctly to the VCR, so results were unpredictable. Even later there were on-screen user interfaces (which were still extremely quirky). Reading a manual was definitely required at first.
I've been thinking about doing that with the video lectures recommended by Teach Yourself CS [0] but I was afraid I would miss too much by only listening. I drive for two hours twice a week so it would be a great way to pass the time and learn something at the same time. Did you ever try it with a complete lecture series?

[0] https://www.teachyourselfcs.com
Why does that matter? I am personally happy that so much of what they make is free and OSS, and they are entitled to a business for other things too.
It's called war.
Oh yea, that is so true. I wish I could get a cheapo processor with like 32GB or 64GB of RAM. The only choices you have are to get a cheap laptop with a minuscule amount of RAM and the exact amount of processing and hard drive space you need, or to buy some $4000 beast with the amount of RAM you need, but too much of everything else.
Fewer than 1 in 400 homicide victims in the US is killed in a mass shooting. Conflating the danger from baseline violent crime rate with that from mass shootings is silly.

And of course, the violence in the USA is extremely unevenly distributed, so the baseline number tells you very little about the actual danger to Jewish Americans.

I don't know the answer to the GP's question one way or another, but this line of reasoning doesn't answer it.
Not really, because the server where the request is pulled from would have to be compromised, and it's a lot easier to secure a single remote server than every individual car. It's also a lot easier to monitor a single server for intrusions.

Sure, that single server becomes a juicy target, but that's where the defense in depth comes in, where the car still doesn't execute the command until the user accepts it.
FreeBSD's quality implementation, quality documentation and overall sane configuration / management should be apluaded. There are so many little things that make using it joyful, like the ncurses TUI for configuration options when building packages from source.

I have used it for servers and NAS/ZFS/Samba applications for over 10 years and it's been exceptionally solid. But these days I've moved over completely to Debian systems now that OpenZFS 2.x branch is pretty mature and probably won't go back and it's due to the package management aspects.

Sometime around FBSD 10.x the package system moved to a rolling release which means if you don't keep your machine up to date you eventually can't get binary packages for whatever FBSD version you're on which seems like a sadistic thing to do. A server that works fine but one where you might need to install some random utility suddenly breaks in 20 different ways if you enter the depths of trying to install said utility on modern FBSD.

I thought my understanding of this was broken and reached out to FBSD devs on IRC and they confirmed that it's basically a rolling release model these days.

With Linux distros like Debian after development on a version ceases (i.e 10.x) apt-get still works but you may not get the latest or greatest, bug fixes or security fixes. But if you need something and it's in the repository you can at least limp along until you bite the bullet and do a major release upgrade, assuming you need the latest/greatest.

I know everyone's experiences here will vary but I've had very little breakage going between major version of Debian, but with FBSD too many things would break when doing a major release upgrade.
I think you're right.

I have 2 points worth considering in this case:

1. If something hits the front page, shouldn't it immediately be moderated? As it has more visibility?

2. About the community moderating itself - that's a risk of populism and echo-chamber. By definition, HN works by popular vote. Letting the community decide to overcome guidelines by popular vote is what can lead to community to a dark populism point.
First, if you read what I said carefully I'm not just talking about operating systems but mainly "high quality commercial applications."

But to your point about Windows, why does it need to take an "experienced" Windows user to turn off ads at the OS level? In the U.S. at least all of our privacy laws center around a "reasonable expectation of privacy."[1] A private company adding telemetry and ads to an operating system erodes that expectation. If people accept that Microsoft can do it then it becomes easier to justify it state actors (for instance) do it. The same goes for what happens in software apps.

Upgrade costs: I'm talking about software here, not operating systems.

Abandonware: Cool for Microsoft.

Lack of older hardware support: Cool good for Windows. I still game on an even older laptop running Linux.

Configurability vs stability. You can have both, as I think you know.

Owning your own software: You've never run Adobe's Creative Cloud then. The SaaS model here isn't just a philosophical difference, it's a trap for anybody who can't afford spending > $120/year[2]

Yeah Linux distros (and their software) can definitely be self-serving, and that's awesome because anybody who doesn't like the direction of an open source project can fork it and go their own way. Yeah it leads to fragmentation, but with 7 billion people in the world there's plenty of room for that.

FUD: FUD implies disinformation. What did I say that isn't true?

And yeah I agree that everything has its own drawbacks. I'm just saying that there's plenty of high quality software in the non-commercial world, from operating systems all the way down to text editors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy_(United...
[2] https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html
I've not had a Precision laptop, but I did use multiple generations of the XPS 13 with linux, and I was fairly disappointed with that experience. My XPS 13s had keyboards that would occasionally miss inputs, they had annoying coil whine, and the port selection got worse and worse over each generation.

I've been much happier running linux on the Lenovo T series recently. It is less flashy but seems to be made better. The only real complaint I have with Lenovo is the mediocre speakers.

I am excited about asahi linux opening up the possibility to have my next machine be an M1 macbook.
I have not heard one positive bit of feedback about these things. Maybe I'd have to talk to a stalker.
Yes, though qbittorrent at least has moved to it / supports it, which is how I found out about it. After an update it started with a completely different theme, and eventually I realized it had switched to Qt6 and I needed to install the Qt6 version of the theme.
I am going to remove morality from the discussion temporarily, and instead talk about how practical that is.

A post breaks a law in 100 countries, but does not break the law in 20 countries. Should all 100 countries file their own removal process? Should there be an army of reviewers who are knowledgeable about all laws reviewing all posts? What about that confusion that different people from different regions are seeing different timelines for the same user.

The US has Federal Laws, State Laws, and City Laws. All of these are laws of the land. No company can keep up with all local laws.

"Breaking the law" is highly subjective by itself. Take the US for example, we have "Freedom of Speech," but that does not protect all speech. Many of these cases go to court taking years to determine if something was or was not protected. Should meta defer all moderation to the legal court system?

What you are suggesting makes sense in a vacuum, but cannot exist in reality.
Sure, the fact that people choose the more appealing option doesn't mean there wasn't a choice. That's just what people do when they have multiple options: they choose the one that's best according to whatever their criteria are. And many people might make a similar choice to reclaim multiple hours per day of driving time to do other things (like sleep, work, relax, etc.) while their car drives itself.
I do it in my free time
The performance will be the real question, like it won't be nowhere near the M1 for sure
I treat slack like email to be honest and my team knows it. I'll get to you when I get to you, if you need me immediately then call me on the desk phone or cell, they still work y'all
I used to be the same, rocking a late 2013 MacBook Pro. I then bought a Radeon 5000 series and put it in and old PC I had lying around (Xeon E5-2667 v2, Q3'13 according to ark.intel.com).

I was amazed at how well they kept up, and even how they were faster than my 2018-2019 work laptop (an 8th gen i5u-something) when comparing Rust build times.

Then I got a new one with a Zen 3 (5650u) in December. Man, it feels sooo smooth and snappy when compared to the older computers. And I'm running Linux/i3, so nothing that requires fancy graphics or anything. What's shocking, is that the other computers never felt slow, laggy or struggling.

However, this laptop is an absolute steaming PoS on multiple other aspects (chief amongst which a broken BIOS and absurdly bad screen), so I would absolutely not recommend it.
We shouldn't participate in promoting hateful lies used to justify genocide it isn't morally neutral nor is neutrality a virtue.

Such a stance would negate any claim of bettering humanity and represent moral injury to engineers you ask to possess such a hateful species of neutrality.
Why is power produced by wood (which I assume means burning wood) listed alongside solar in "other renewables"?

I guess technically trees are renewable? I assume burning them releases CO2 though...
My Dell Precision 5520 was a big disappointment. In spite of having a Xeon CPU, Dell decided that this specific model would not get ECC RAM support. Other Dell laptops from that era using the same CPU do support ECC RAM, but then you have to give up portability. It's my most regretted laptop purchase.
It's the other way around: when advertisers and website owners decide to leverage the internet, the largest distribution channel in the world at no expense to them, agree to the "public square" terms. If they dont like the terms, they can always build their own distribution channel and set whatever rules they like. Advertisers are the real freeloaders here.
Exactly. Per the famous https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
The problem is that your average Joe now needs an engineering degree or at least understanding of how a CAN bus works, how to properly terminate it and basically use a CAN to serial convertor to read tge messages which aren't always standardized. I agree that it's more flexible but you need a highly qualified professional and the right tools to work on the vehicle. I'm working with CAN networks myself but I still need an experienced electronics engineer when I get in trouble. In addition, most manufacturers add proprietary extensions and most of the work involves a fair amount of reverse engineering or NDAs.
I've just removed adblock and installed ublock origin.

Having tested a few sites on my favourites bar the difference is night and day.

Where has this been all my life....
Yeah but they're white people so it's alright.
They keep several vans of police officers there now. The amazon office across the street was the most-defended building in seattle. It had 2-3 security guards on every street corner and either side of the door pre-pandemic.

Post-pandemic the lack of office workers in the area due to pandemic meant the pedestrians in the area changed demographics significantly recently.
It's pretty hard to beat a monitor with multiple inputs combined with a cheap USB switch when it comes to price and reliability.

If you look up the prices of stand alone hdmi switches on amazon though I think the most likely explanation is these are now niche products so the price has gone up. Logically a decent vga USB KVM + an HDMI switch shouldn't require more cost than those two devices prices together.
>> The vast majority of people can't tell the difference between a 44.1Khz/16 bits .wav and a 128kbps MP3.

...are you kidding? I think most people could easily tell the difference between a CD and a 128kbps MP3 if asked to listen to it hard enough. That, or play it in a club loud enough - and watch everyone cringe.

As the other commenter said - 320kbps - alright, sure. But 128kbps? Come on.
Experts are human but it is their responsibility to not get bored in an important presentation regardless of the presenter. That responsibility means the fault is assigned to them and not the presenter.

I agree with your last paragraph but after any bad event you could point at the presenter and say "I didn't consume the information they were providing - therefore blame them not me"
> It’s not a competition to know every toy language in existence.

I would argue against this and claim that it appears to be a competition since “X written in {Rust,Go,SexyLang,…}” became the prevalent bullshit bingo.
Interesting. I'm a long time Synergy user and recently tried Barrier and it simply didn't work. I'm going from a Linux server (personal) to a MacOS client (work equipment). Synergy has been mostly fine but I have had small problems that I was hoping Barrier would clear it up.

Thanks for linking this project, I wouldn't have seen it otherwise. Will be giving this a try this afternoon.
is this inflation? they don't mention sales volume increase just profit?
Was this even an argument? it felt more like "We should have a Jewish state because we can and there nothing anyone can do about it, if you are not Jewish go fuck yourself. "

History has nothing to do what is happening today. You are just trying to drive the narrative anyway you can.
There's never a need to use anything else than Fahrenheit the US either, but I still learned how to use Celsius.
I may be in the minority here, but I personally prefer the "wrong answer" highlighted at the beginning of this article. Scripts are source code. They go in the repo, and they have the same standards applied to them as any other source code. I would much prefer that the code be explicit and rely on few if any third party libraries. I have go scripts that have been functioning in production for half a decade now without modification. They are as "self documenting" as any other go code, and I do not require esoteric knowledge about a third party library to re-familiarize myself with them.
I'm a development/engineering manager now, so I don't do real work anymore ;)

...but yeah I'm at a point in my career where I value work/life balance more than money. Would definitely consider less pay for fewer hours per week and fewer weeks per year.
it'd be nice if these could be worked into SearX
When the RIAA went after Youtube-dl I realized I was digging my own grave supporting streaming sites. Used CDs, Bandcamp, Flac. Anything but streaming sites where the RIAA gets money.
Reminds me of a mail delivery robot at an office that had a feature like that. They had to tweak it because it was freaking out visitors by staring at them during elevator rides.
It’s not 100% clear in the article, but it reads like this change is scoped to crash safety. The scope of those regs is the physical protection of the passengers in a crash, not all aspects of safety related to self-driving cars. So, not a big deal.

Actually, removing the steering wheel is probably a crash safety gain. Manufacturers had to invent a way to retract the steering wheel in crashes since it caused so many torso injuries. Steering wheel injuries were also the spur to invent and deploy the first airbags.
I don't understand how people can post comments like this as support for streaming.

Not being able to watch/listen anything when Internet uplink or service is down. Low quality and artifacts due to congestion. Relearning menus when on-high decides to change the UI. Password resets and locked accounts. Suffering through ads. Waiting for device firmware to update. Having to buy a new device because your old one isn't supported. Dealing with HDCP issues. Having to buy a new display because your old one isn't supported.

That seems like a lot more wasted time and frustration at inconvenient times, rather than having to do a bit of work on your own schedule to rip a CD or start a torrent. I'd say the main difference is that with the top-down solution you don't have to think too hard - just do whatever the top-down system instructs you do, no matter what it costs you.
Listening to cymbals is much better on a CD than streaming.
Not policing content changes the character of a forum as well usually for the worse.
>we have a county attorney who is more concerned with "social justice" than keeping the population safe.

I'm not sure it's so cut and dry. This reasoning has always irked me because the question I have is why are social reform progressives so successful in piercing through the ranks of DAs and other attorneys, but no where else?

In California, at least, what it seems to me is that there is a reluctance to send people to prisons because they are at or over capacity (some at 200% capacity) and there is no appetite to build more. Ignoring all the social pushback you will get (why are building more prisons than schools/hospitals/homes), given California real estate, it's probably also very expensive. I'm not sure it's 100% a coincidence that all these cities with "catch & release" programs are also cities where the real estate prices are the highest.
while i was replying to you, i meant “you” in general. his point is a valid one: that most people simply take the information that’s presented to them, and, despite knowing what the source of that information is, choose to believe it at face-value. whether this news is from state-controlled media or the new york times or wherever, people ignore the known fact that their news source is likely biased in some way and, without bothering to do any research themselves, let that news shape their opinions.
I think a great deal of success with this laptop and Linux is owed to the stewardship provided by Mario Limonciello while he was with Dell [https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dell-Mar...]. Hopefully Dell can continue to carry the torch. Being able to use fwupd to keep platform firmware (including the docking station) up-to-date has been a treat. "It just works", even.

But for this Precision line specifically, there are only a handful of laptops that can run linux with (nearly) full platform functionality _and_ be outfitted with ECC memory.
The reason to use the tor<->plaintext bridge is to route around censorship, eg the great firewall of china, or various western ISPs blackholing the pirate bay, and also to prevent the server from learning much about the client’s identity

If you don’t want any MITM possibilities, that’s what the onion services are for (both client and server are speaking over tor connections)
I will repeat what I said, which is that this is rhetorical point-scoring, not discussion of reality. It's not helpful. Everyone with two neurons to rub together understands that both the Palestinians and the Israelis have engaged in terror against one another over the course of a century of inter-ethnic conflict.
No, it's not, because it's not just a multiplication but also an addition. If I would live in the US for some time maybe I would develop a knack for it, but for now it's too much effort for something that only a few places use.
Genuine question - why do you block people who are you to lists?

I'm a relatively new Twitter user and I've been making heavy use of the list functionality. So what's the down side?
Polycarbonate is the new vinyl. Let the dynamic range wars reignite!
Do you know what you'll be doing instead?