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> This is one of the reasons we need to be expanding the space for collective resources - it's not likely we can sustain a world where everyone on earth lives in a single family detached home in the suburbs with a car, private heated pool, private air conditioning etc that the author advocates for.

I'd rather push for population control. I don't want to live in a world where humans have to live like insects, crammed into giant hive cities.

> However, if we're a little more clever with how we allocate and share our resources, we can scale up standards of living in a sustainable way - urban transit and a fleet of automated electric taxis, community pools, zero energy building techniques and mixed developments, and so on. This just requires that we head back in the direction of sharing things (social democracy) and away from economic individualism (neoliberalism).

I'd rather use cleverness to sustain our quality of life with smaller populations. If we had your sci fi utopia, we could have a population of 1 million total humans, each living like a king. I don't understand why you want to use sci fi magic just to have everyone live like an ant in a box
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> going into isolation

Japan didn't go into isolation. It's one of the many myths we invented to hide our horrible history. Japan kicked out europeans because they were enslaving japanese and taking them away. The easiest way to debunk the myth of japanese isolation is that japan didn't isolate itself from korea, china and rest of its neighbors. Only the slave trading europeans.

It's funny how we portray japan kicking out barbaric european slavers as isolationism.
My friend sent me this and I’ve nearing 200 sessions on it. It’s like a pomodoro timer but with a person to quickly talk to before and after. I hadn't used productivity tools before this one, I like it.

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Not related to tech.
It's not like President Musk would have the authority to murder anyone. His murder powers would largely be limited to the Middle East and loosely defined enemies of the United States.

Musk has never shown a desire to murder random people and he has never shown particular hatred for those in the Middle East. Why would he want the power to murder people who are basically unrelated to him?
He's still a person. Don't publicly track the whereabouts of people, it's creepy, intimidating and threatening.
This is an example of "whatabout-ism." There's going to be a counter-example of someone for which EVs make little sense, but that doesn't mean that EVs make little sense for a large group of drivers or maybe even the majority of cases for which ICE vehicles are currently used. Can EVs 100% replace every single ICE vehicle in every single application? No - and they don't need to in order to be highly useful and provide aggregate benefits.
> if an app's UI is so unintuitive that it takes days worth of dedicated learning to figure out how to use it, it's never going to get adopted by the mainstream

There may be some rough edges, and it would definitely benefit from a quickstart help screen IMO, but days? If it takes you "days worth of dedicated learning" just to use the app, the app isn't the problem.

And to more gently push back on the general point: FOSS UX isn't always the best, but in my experience it's rarely notably worse than anything else. Typically, it's ugly but perfectly functional, and taking 5 minutes to poke around is enough to figure out how everything works (for Android apps, at least).
Here is where TAM starts to be a consideration. A company building 3D printed rocket engines can claim that the market is whatever size they want as they are not beholden to prove it for 5+ years. A company making a mobile blood tester isn't expected to have a working demonstration for 5+ years.

Compare this to a company with 600k in revenue, if they are in a competitive/small market - then this may mean a company which ultimately produces 100 million in revenue with 10-20 million in profit. Whereas the above two companies can pitch that they will eventually produce $BigNumber revenue with $HighProfit margins.

This scheme really only works when there is effectively infinite money floating around, and the opportunity cost of parking the money in a bad idea is low. I wouldn't expect a MagicLeap or Theranos to occur in any other environment.
In the UK you typically go to college (university in our terminology) before you join the Army, rather than after, but we do have bursaries to support some technical specialities if they commit to joining after they graduate. You can also do in-service degrees, up to PhD I believe.
Maybe it’s a numbers game. I’ve met maybe two people in my life who rise late who actually seem to get stuff done, compared to at least a dozen or more examples of early risers who are successful. I am not a morning person but I’ve trained myself to wake up around 6am and found it helps me get a lot done. Used to wake up around 9am and stumble into everything. I think most of the humans around wake up early so having to adjust to the majority schedule is probably the issue.
> Hurricanes that used to be the feat of a decade are now an over-yearly occurrence.

I couldn't find any data that proves this. Maybe you could share?
When drilling for oil some Methane gas leaks out. Methane gas is an 80x more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2.

To prevent this leaking oil company’s “flare” the gas. That mens they put it on fire. Why not bottle up and sell the gas? or put it in a pipeline and sell far away? Because it is not economically feasible to do so.

So they flare or burn it. Problem is, flaring only burns about 85% of all methane. The other 15% still leaks into the atmosphere. This is a huge factor in global heating.

Now, instead of burning or flaring off this gas, it is put into an expensive turbine that burns ~100% of the methane.

How can the company afford this costly turbine? The electricity is used in bitcoin mining, which pays back this investment and then some.

Bitcoin to the rescue of the climate. Who could’ve thought.
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It wouldn't be the first time we've collectively thought the button was a placebo.

We also don't know what "human review" constitutes. It may well constitute a human simply reading the incorrect transcription and agreeing that it violates policy, without any reference to the audio track. The details of how these tech companies are overdependent on AI are not publicly known, we merely observe the consequences that can only be explained with reference to it. So I can't tell you if there was never even a human involved in the appeal, or a bad human, or one who didn't care, or whatever. We can only infer the possibility space from the outcome, not nail down the exact details.
GP has a very valid point. We've all seen college students too drunk. Too much alcohol could easily be consumed at, say, a party, leading to someone sexually assaulting the drunk individual. Yes, GHB will "knock out" someone in a way different from alcohol, but considering how ubiquitous alcohol is and how hard it can be for many people to cut themselves off before getting too drunk, I too would personally be more afraid of a college student getting too drunk over getting administered GHB or similar. Not to downplay date-rape drugs, but I just don't think they're nearly as common as alcohol.
It's so that you can keep privileged access even after the way you got it in the first place stops working.
Thanks for the feedback! Glad to see the community is finding this tool useful.
We are looking at integrating PacketStreamer with many more tools i.e. Redis, ES - Arkime/Moloch is definitely something we will be looking at as well.
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I guess that can be somewhat calibrated based on the rest of the image, but it seems to be basically impossible to know what color a "clean" cocktail should be.
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The "whataboutism" defense has basically become codeword for "how dare you point out our hypocrisy!" Especially for people in South America or the Middle East, why should they care about war crimes in Europe when Europeans/Americans have been committing war crimes or supporting people who do in their regions?
i keep thinking of AMD buying ultra-dense hyper-converged SeaMicro them seemingly doing nothing eith the company. i'd had such hopes AMD was going to take it & roll with it, was hoping they'd disrupt the blade market with better convergence capabilities... feels like AWS keeps pulling ahead, iterating in Nitro, & the market is standing still. even though AMD acquired the capabilities about a decade ago.

it seems hard to leverage acquisitions well.
> Anyone who thinks Twitter is an accurate representation of the general population is building houses on a sand beach.

E.g. So called "cancel culture" works because companies routinely assume that Twitter outrage translates to real world outrage. Would be nice if companies could recalibrate their response.
I don't see how that would help in a typical busy, noisy club - the thief is simply going to grab the phone and disappear into the crowd. Plus, they can just turn the phone off.
Windows 2000 was peak Windows UI. Explorer was a hot mess, often crashing within the first hour of a clean install, but yeah, Win2k was a fine version.
> Personally, I would like to optimize for a roadway that's more /safe for me/.

Exactly. This is exactly why you should care about speeding, and not about motorcycles, cops, or slow left lane drivers. You & others speeding is a bigger risk to your safety than all those other things combined, by many multiples.

> The speed of me and the other driver only comes into a factor in this calculation after the accident has happened.

I don’t understand what you mean, can you elaborate? Speed is safe until after you crash? Are you suggesting it’s not a cause?

Everyone believes they’re an above average driver, you’re demonstrating one of the most common biases on the road.

Btw in light of the fact that most accidents happen at lower speed you may also be demonstrating a correlation-causation accident by asserting that speeding is safer. Driving faster does not reduce your risks, generally speaking.
Have not personally used them (yet), but https://www.paddle.com/ looks interesting, maybe something to add to your list.
Not sure if I'm missing something, but this just looks like a text editor (with an extremely confusing UI). Why do you have to use the search input to add anything?

It also seems way to large for the functionality (2.6MB compressed)
>The 11/10ths cynical and optimistic take is that the sooner we make things so bad that the people who don't wanna be involved get involve the sooner the people who think these sorts of "turn people on each other" things are good will, um, return their carbon to the environment.

It never really plays out into violence. France implemented speed trap cams all over their highways and I'm sure they are all 100% calibrated and only ever give out legitimate tickets...

So what happens? People stop driving on the highways. They hit the backroads where those speedtraps dont exist. Then those backroads get WRECKED. They havent had the investment or design for this sudden change in usage.

Hell, I used to live in a small city. Per capita speeding tickets issued was often listed as highest in north america. Year after year. So what did I do? I left. I dont even speed, but it's obvious why the city is in huge decline for decades. Why they objectively have one of the worst brain drain per capita issues in the world.
C is full of things that are different from one architecture to the next but don't have Undefined Behaviour. Instead they are: "Implementation Defined".
No, I am not mixing up anything. The broader idea of free speech is just an idea, it has no legal basis. The only legal basis is the first amendment. The only Justice that seems to think common carrier applies to twitter at all is Thomas and his neutrality appears to be very suspect at best. Twitter was never a common carrier, the Trumps Right wing simply wants to paint it as one. I think it appears you are misunderstanding what a common carrier is, if they are not a common carrier, they have no requirement to enforce free speech. Twitter is not and has never been one.
This is not about protecting the files you share, it's about spammers abusing the file sharing mechanism to send you notifications. THEY share a file with you in order to trigger a notification and there's no way to block this.
Yeah, I hadn't heard the term "flow typing" before but I thought the same thing, in other languages I've used you'd use a Result type and a switch to do what the author was doing.
He was related to CIA, so media told everyone it was outrage time.
Dart does this, or at least something very similar, and it is really nice. It's most useful for narrowing nullable types to their non-nullable counterparts after a null-check, but the subclass case works too.
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>> This narrative was and continues to be pushed by the same people

No, it's been replaced by Ivermectin (spelling?) which I have no idea why that became a thing. The HCQ was still shot down without trial when doctors were claiming it worked, and had a hypothesis as to why it might.
I can state categorically that bitrot on disk does exist, because that's one of the parts I worked on. It's pretty rare - unfortunately I don't think I can give you the numbers - but across enough exabytes it does happen enough to justify slow scans to detect it.
People are downvoting you since this is considered common knowledge on HN, and you come across as a bit combative.
Why should flickr invest time doing that when the IA didn't want the account?
It's a movie and a bit flippant but it's a good start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ONU_H0EjIg. If you don't want to watch the whole thing, start at 2:10.
It would have been even more catastrophic against a nuclear-capable country.
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This is something of a non sequitur. Yes, Europe would have been just as important as the US in this scenario. Your comment seems to assume that I am blaming the Americans solely; of course not—this is the West’s mistake.

> And yet, Euros don't seem to be willing to actually use soft power, at least not when they're paying.

Well we did pay—just not in Russia, which was a bit stupid of us. The Germans paid to reintegrate the DDR, and we paid generally to expand the EU to its present borders with substantial investment through Union institutions.

This doesn’t always work (e.g. in Hungary) but it’s been surprisingly successful.

> Of course, I probably got this wrong, which is to be expected because I'm an American.

It’s a bit ridiculous to comment so confidently on a topic on which you admit you are ignorant.

As for the question of what the ‘excuse’ is, I’m, again, not Major, Chirac, or Kohl; I feel no need to defend this European failure. We didn’t really need the Americans, although you have lots of money so that would hardly hurt. We should have done it ourselves.
> "I built a tool and it found this many bugs" doesn't feel like part of the social sciences, but these papers are regularly published in ICSE and FSE.

Those papers have lots of issues, especially cherry-picking and narration of the results' significance.

But the core claim -- "I found N bugs in the following codebases" -- is generally reproducible.
I've programmed in J professionally (admittedly not for all that long) as a data scientist and, coincidentally, have just completed a small analysis using J as part of an internal workshop about data analysis I am planning. I typically work in R and Python and I have to say that at this stage there is almost no reason I would pick up J to do any work. Unless code-golf level conciseness is your only goal, these other platforms offer superior performance, clarity, ease of use, access to libraries and are, as programming languages, substantially better designed.

I say this as a great lover of function-level programming and as a J enthusiast. I would say I am quite familiar with J's programming paradigm and conceptual widgets and doodads (I know the verbs, nouns, adverbs and conjunctions and can use them appropriately). I even remembered a pretty good portion of the Nuvoc. But doing even the simplest analysis in J was _excrutiatingly_ slow and inconvenient compared to using R and the tidyverse (in particular, I missed dplyr and ggplot). The tidyverse CSV readers are, for example, much faster and smarter and more convenient and informative than anything you'll get from the J universe.

I love vector languages but at this point J can't compete with the major platforms for data analysis. Its less convenient, often _slower_, much more low level, strange, and its library situation is anemic at best. I recommend learning J because it will expand your mind, but I can't imagine picking it up for real work.
Going through airport security, on the other hand, sucks. When you fly on a private jet you just walk up and toss your bag to the pilot. If you're a billionaire, you likely don't even do that. No tickets, no security theater, no waiting to board, etc.
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Yeah, KDB is... Not super fun. I've been looking at TimeScaleDB recently, because it's just a PostgreSQL plug-in it seems nice and simple, but I haven't actually compared them directly yet.
Precisely because I noticed this, I wrote a small tool (open source) which can be used to organize pictures.

https://github.com/dataf3l/open-photo-organizer

the main idea is that you can assign keyboard bindings to folders, so one can efficiently:"watch a folder", "press a key" and automatically organize the pics, for example:

press x to delete
press f for family
press c for cat pictures

these bindings are configurable, so you can setup your own folders based on your own needs.

feel free to use it and I hope it can help you guys with your pictures :)

I humbly request feedback:
Thats devastating. I actually have the mentioned Biodiversity Heritage Library account bookmarked and visit it from time to time, I really hope it remains unaffected.
Anecdotally, and to reinforce your point, people in my family and a lot of my friends have been drinking since childhood and all of us have a normal relationship to alcohol.

That being said I'm pretty sure every teenager will get way too hammered at one point or another, it's a quintessential teenage experience.
They may be able to make more money this way. To me this is akin to explain why we should be strip mining or clear cutting more. It works from a scorched earth capitalism perspective, but doesn't leave is in a good place
The "Way to go HN. Typical civilized people living in the comfort bubbles in West." is also definitely not helping him.
Yes, it’s probably the same behavior: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#downloadin.... Step 7 is mostly where any improvements would go, I imagine.

I’m OK with “Save as” (“Download linked file”, etc.) behaving as it does: it is more or less intuitively clear that with it we sort of “cheat” and use browser’s semi-hidden feature to interact with a website in ways not necessarily intended by its engineers. With the download attribute, however, any confusing outcome falls squarely on me, the developer, so I’d rather stick with plain links and response headers as a mechanism I have more control over.

There may be some workarounds to make download behave adequately in case of an error, such as having your server behave in some way that causes browser’s fetch sequence to fail with a low-level error. Unless I’m missing something, it seems like proper network error is the only condition under which download can actually fail, and I don’t think a typical web framework setup is equipped to intentionally cause that to happen. I doubt it’s worth the bother—if you have control over the server then why not drop the attribute and just return the appropriate headers.
It’s not my impression that the media calls every foreign billionaire an oligarch. i’ve never heard george soros described that way for example. oligarch has a connotation of being highly connected to the government, but the US government often seems actively hostile to Tesla
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Montaigne could be a similar choice. Perhaps Thuanus also.
We're seeing a lot of these crypo-meets-energy stories lately and, while I'm all for stopping the horrible waste and gas flaring that goes on in our country (I'm in Texas), this is a really a PR spin story.

The fact of the matter is that natural gas and methane are available in hundreds of places which appear remotely and often spontaneously during drilling and production. The reason that Exxon and others have not captured and sold that gas is that they did not want to. There have never been any technical limitations on capturing or storing the volumes of combustible gas released every day in our energy industry. The limitation has been that it wasn't viewed as profitable enough.

Burning that gas on site and using it to power crypo mining is the low-hanging fruit of utilizing wasted gas. It could just as easily be converted to electricity using on-site fuel cells to create a charging station for electric cars, for example. It doesn't take a petroleum scientist (or a crypto engineer) to figure out that if burnable gas is coming out of the ground, that gas can be captured, stored, sold to someone, and later burned as electricity or heat. Most children can figure that out, so this is not a big "advance" for the petroleum business.

I say this as a supporter of our use of fossil fuels which are critical to maintaining the standard of life we've come to enjoy. I recommend The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels for background on that viewpoint. But there is much more the industry can do to stop throwing away combustible fuel. The war in Ukraine with energy at its centerpoint is the kind of issue that it will take for US energy companies to focus on maximizing the utilization of the resources we already have and can already exploit in the US. Like other entrenched industries (auto, media), oil companies are recalcitrant to consider or invest a future where the key means of production differ from the ones in which they've sunk costs.
It's not immediately obvious to me that Russian nukes are still in perfect working order. From what I understand, they require quite a bit of maintenance, and even the US had to relearn how to maintain their nuclear weapons at some point.

It's not a chance I would want to take, but I think it's entirely possible that much of the Russian nuclear stockpile might not work anymore.
fyi Java 16 did add pattern matching for instance of so you can avoid the cast.
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