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They sound like RC cars.

I do agree about liking my electric cars silent. I recently saw some electric cars advertising “performance sounds”, which I thought was dumb as hell. There’s even a startup to add these sounds to your electric car [0].

I find this even dumber than the Jaguar roadster I test drove that had what as effectively a “louder” button. It shot fuel directly into the exhaust to make the engine louder while simultaneously increasing your emissions and decreasing your fuel economy. Somehow this was a selling point, I guess for people with severe self esteem issues.

[0] https://www.thedrive.com/news/42734/this-startup-will-give-y...
Odd, I would expect a steady beat to mimic your heart to be a big part of mimicking sounds of the womb. Along with a colored noise. Though, I would suspect pink is better than white.
Yes I agree, maybe I wasnt clear. What I mean is that I don't generally hold it against a platform (or whatever) for allowing views or content that I find offensive. If somebody does, that's their right. But what I can't abide is (obviously) not having anything that interests me, because in that case why would I pay them.
I had this reorganizing problem too, but still wanted to write on a notebook. I finally discovered Kokuyo campus smart binder. It's an A5 or B5 sized loose leaf binder that has these small plasic rings and can hold about 30 pages. Reorganizing is simply opening the binder and rearranging the pages and that worked really well for me.
> HN according to the wikipedia page has been created as a place to preserve the eternal september

Sorry, could you point out the bit where the wiki page says anything like that?
This kind of stuff is pretty widespread. One of the major dating sites published a stat showing woman ranked 80% of men as below average attractiveness while men ranked 50% of woman as bellow average. They had to pull the post because it was explosive. I assume no tech company will ever post stats on the data they have showing some kind of meaningful social observation again.
So, is that why CNN+ shut down then?
> Assume that [C]=400 ppm. The mean free path becomes 2.646m so that N=3024. The probability of returning to the Earth becomes p(1)=0.9997. A photon with frequency or wavenumber near the centre of the absorption band is virtually certain to make the return to Earth. If the CO2 concentration is doubled, the probability doesn’t change much; it becomes p(1)=0.9998. Any CO2 increase has minor effect on the photons in the center of the absorption band. This part of the band is ‘saturated’.

Ok, so as I'm thinking about this, and forgetting about the edges of the absorption bands -- in steady state, all the heat of the sun must be radiated out into space, otherwise the earth would be hot enough to have killed off all life millions of years ago.

When you think about it, an IR photon that returns to earth is not really done, it doesn't get "stuck" to the earth. The surface of the earth either reflects it back up, or absorbs it and its energy, and then re-emits it some time later. Even with 0.9997 probability of returning to earth, if you try enough times, you'll eventually escape, and photons get a lot of tries, really fast. That 0.0003 probability matters, and if you change it to 0.0002, it seems to me like it's a really, really big deal.

To take it the other way -- if any given IR photon had, say, a 50% chance of escaping the earth, my intuition says that it would let the earths temperature drop extremely drastically at night, like the moon or mercury. The sheer speed at which photons get "tries" to escape means that the greenhouse gas blanket has to absorb and send back almost all photons in order for the earth not to become icy every night.
It doesn’t appear to be related to GNU Linux or other FSF related efforts. It just uses the license and the name.
Scaleway isn't really non-cloud. Their services are very similar to EC2, S3, Glacier etc. I would compare them more with Digital Ocean. They're just cheaper and you can actually chat with them on slack without going to all the 'raise a ticket' rigmarole that all the big players do. At work I deal with Microsoft's double-outsourced "premium" support which is awful. If the question is not in the docs (in which case I would have found it myself) tickets keep ping-ponging for months without solution, going through the same useless troubleshooting over and over because they keep handing over to different agents.

I use scaleway privately only but very happy with them. I wish I had their kind of support from the vendors at work. You can often try out upcoming services for free, too.

Hetzner wants a copy of your ID which I was not willing to provide so I couldn't try them. Germans are normally really privacy-conscious so this surprised me. This was > 10 years ago though so perhaps they stopped this practice.
But that's still a fucked-up thing to say - as if being taller is some kind of better thing and his courage makes him taller?
Read more about 'Ghost of Kyiv' on Wikipedia.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_of_Kyiv
> USPS and Amtrak NEED to be run more like a business

What does "more like a business" even mean here? Historically Amtrak and the USPS budgets have been subject to political push-pull, so here I agree, both institutions need stable budgets. Other than that though, Amtrak can never make a profit because its competition, automobiles and highways, are subsidized by the government (very few toll roads exist in the US, it's mostly combination State and Federal funding which builds highways.) The USPS might be able to turn a profit but it would be really difficult given the long (probably unprofitable) routes it's required to carry and its inability to control its own rolling stock and employ certain workers means it would probably be a lost cause.

If you mean an eye to efficiency and a buffer from the changing of governments, that I agree with.
I started a new job during Covid I got through my boss. I've never met anyone else at the company in person. We are both shorter than average. Makes you kind of wonder.
What’s the median among non-obese women?
Seems to be a particular American thing, especially in conjunction with online dating and US customary units.
"Our system uses FIDO2 hardware tokens to authenticate with a certificate authority."

So there's still a trusted central organization.
This is just demanding to know where research will lead us, as though it's the tech tree in a 4X game.

You'd be equally opposed to Sabine's alternative since what use is knowing anything about dark matter? For that matter who cares where the universe came from. What have telescopes helped us with lately?
This is pretty fundamental to the Hindley-Milner system of parametric polymorphism (which I believe was the first such system?). The 'a is treated as a universally quantified type variable that can be unified with concrete types [1]. 'a=int and 'a=bool are two possible ways to unify the type variable, yielding int->int and bool->bool as signatures that unify with 'a->'a. Similarly 'a list -> 'a means a function that takes a list of some type, and returns an element of the same type (the built-in List.hd function is an example), while 'a list -> 'b is a looser type signature meaning "takes a list of some type, and returns some value, not necessarily of the same type", so int list -> int and int list -> bool would both fit the 2nd schema.

This is all sound if the language is pure, which ML originally was.

There's also a relevant discussion at Stackoverflow. [2]

[1] This is a fairly concise summary of the quantification rules: https://jgbm.github.io/eecs662f17/Notes-on-HM.html

[2] "Does Scala have a value restriction like ML, if not then why?" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48594769/does-scala-have...
> I didn't say they have held it for decades, I'm saying they own the exclusive rights for the next couple decades (I think it was a 25 year exclusivity period, which they are now ~7 years into).

I appear to have misunderstood. Sorry about that.

> There's nothing stopping an unaffiliated race series from starting up, but good luck attracting any top tier drivers.

I pretty much agree with that.
I’m 5’8”, Asian, married to an American, and have a family, and I got all this after social networks and tinder, et al came along.
> I'd love to, but I can't restart a 32-year quicken file, so they got me.

GnuCash is open source and this is hacker news…

They don’t have some sort of exportable file format that both quicken and gnucash can understand?

Which, of course, doesn’t help with the UI issues.
Great read. The benefits of writing by hand are significant. Personally I find notebooks limiting. They result in knowledge silos. I've been teaching the analog Zettelkasten method for a while now. The Zettelkasten system, imo, has been miscommunicated due to the digital knockoffs (of linking notes). For anyone interested, here's how to create an interconnected knowledge system out of notecards: https://youtu.be/YfMNwusO6fk

The benefits of this method over notebooks/commonplace books centers in infinite internal branch and evolution of ideas.
It's silly at this point for anyone to stay this path that Google is leading. If it's going into Chromium, we are past due for a fork to become the dominant implementation.
The “brilliance” is not having four nulls - that honestly more of a step down the road to use specific null values.

The brilliance is the nil messaging semantic, it allows you to write concise code with a single error check at the end of appropriate, e.g:

[[[foo bar:wibble] thing:1, thing: 2].wat again]

Without having to have error check after error check after error check.

These worked together, that return nil had so little cost on the API, you were able to have more error checks that return nil instead of trying to create some kind of fake value. Because you have so many error returns you have to check a lot if you didn’t have nil messaging.

Our belief of what makes things good language design have changed a tiny bit in the intervening years :)
I'd happily pay for more SC2 non-competitive in-game items like skins, announcers, etc, if only they'd make more. Even the ones that exist, I missed the window/requirements so can't even pay for them.

StarCraft/Brood War was the most fun I had playing 1v1 and FFA. It's hard to go back to the janky unit routing, small control groups, etc after being spoiled with SC2. The Remastered graphics update is nice but somehow loses some of the charm. It's more pleasant to watch now than the VGA graphics would be though. Was there ever a Brood War units/maps done in the SC2 engine?
Yes exactly, thank you for putting it more clearly than I did
I very much doubt Caesar was sensitive about his hair or worried what low rent individuals think of him.
> "realistic"

I guess you mean skeuomorphic, with heightened 3D presence caused by heavy use of light and shadow - roughly, the sort of effect you would get from a static rendering of a cheap 3D model in a Unity mobile game.

I agree with you, although I will say that the current version of the Noto Color Emoji font is (IMO) the best up-to-date color emoji, because it mostly eschews this fake realism that feels uncomfortable and disconcerting in other emoji fonts. I'd prefer hyper-stylized "blobs", but I think they deserve some credit for avoiding the worst of skeuomorphic design.

See for example the "realistic" 3D rendering of the hand on the Apple emoji for "thinking face", it's firmly in uncanny valley for me. [1] The Noto emojis remain fairly stylized without being hideous like the Microsoft emojis.

Google also deserves from credit for drastically improving the rendering of many of these emojis over time. This has happened quietly enough that I doubt most people have noticed. They brought back the more blob-like turtle [2], which really deserves to be compared to the horrible, awkward plastic children's toy that is the Apple rendering. Or take a look at how awful the gradients are on the Android 8-10 emoji [3] and compare to more recent versions. [4]

I think we will look back at awkward 3D renderings in many emoji styles as a mistake. They remind me quite a bit of the terrible DreamWorks animation style [5] of the early '00s.

[1] https://emojipedia.org/thinking-face/

[2] https://emojipedia.org/turtle/

[3] https://emojipedia.org/google/android-10.0/

[4] https://emojipedia.org/google/android-11.0/

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_Tale
> keep in mind that he is literally the only one who talks about the company that way from everyone whose ever worked there (many, many have left for various reasons since).

That's not true.

There's been lots of criticism coming at Valve's management style over the years: There are many people who _hate_ it, but also many people who love it. It really depends on the type of person you are. If you really really dislike bureaucracy Valve's a great place to be, but also don't expect them to enact any quality-of-life systems: If your coworker wants you dead, then that's something you yourself have to deal with.

This is also why you see a lot of different opinions when looking through e.g. glassdoor: Some people that do the murdering love it there and thrive, but that system only works if people are there that can be murdered. Some people I know have described the atmosphere as "prison yard style": You trade rigid bureaucracy against a "you have to know who you have to know" bureaucracy. Richard Geldreich's account lines up pretty well to what I have heard about valve's emergent self-organization system.

A couple of years ago there was a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41XgkLKYuic that summarized the working environment.
The analog Zettelkasten is where it's at imo. Digital Zettelkasten misses the magic of the system. Luhmann was productive because his Zettelkasten was Analog, Numeric-alpha addressed, Tree structure, Index. (Antinet Zettelkasten)

Here's a channel that shows how to create an analog Zettelkasten system:
https://youtu.be/YfMNwusO6fk
I agree with her, I've been seeing the same problems with the physics community for decades. Everything kind of stopped after Einstein, and in particular I think nuclear weapons scared the heck out of everyone. I have long suspected that physics research since that time has been intentionally limited to "safe" areas like semiconductors, cosmology, and string theory. The old guard essentially decided that having physicists come up with death rays, superbombs, gravity warpers, and space travel was too risky. In the last several years the younger crowd of physicists have been re-examining some of the old physics and finding interesting gaps, so there may soon be much more progress. SpaceX may have found it relatively easy to be inventive in the space transportation arena because governments had final approval on any space projects for decades, leading to the stagnation of rocket development. I think there was a great desire to slow things down and keep technology from progressing faster than society could cope with it. You can argue whether that was good or bad.
Nah.

A buyer can easily outbid an all cash offer.

In fact, if you offer 100% over asking price you’re almost guaranteed to win ;)
>Dynamically typed languages (at least, JavaScript and Python) have been gradually learning this lesson.

Modern JS avoids this issue entirely with destructuring, optional chaining, and default params. You can actually write completely safe Javascript now without using any awkward safety checks.
I think the main reason one would do such a thing is if they cannot find an existing solution which suits their needs.
This is a dumb take. By using "reserves" to buy bonds, it means cash that WOULD have purchased those bonds (like a pension fund or your vanguard fund) is now going... somewhere else. Like stocks. If that money goes to stocks instead, then the price will rise. So while it may not be DIRECTLY inflationary, its only like 1 level removed.
> Why does he want to fix climate change? Is it because of all the harm it's causing (and will cause) for poor people in the Global South? Is it because of the injustice and inequality made worse by the climate crisis? Apparently not: It's because Musk doesn't want to risk a "runaway" climate change scenario that could snuff out human life before we've had a chance to colonize Mars

So instead of caring about everyone suffering and humanity being wiped out, he should only care about the suffering of "poor people in the Global South"? And we're meant to believe that this author's moral compass is better calibrated than Elon's?
Design your own? Interesting! What do you mean? what did you change about them?
Eh, you can make good friends any time if you put yourself out there.
The cost and size of hydrogen storage would very likely preclude its use except if its out-of-town and then the great cost of piping it around would negate that usefulness.

Huge solid (stone, concrete) insulated heat-banks electrically heated by solar-power might be usable. But they'd pretty much have to be stored underground. The cost of doing so would be enormous. And it would very likely be impossible to retrofit existing buildings.
I never really believe what women tell me.

-Steven Wright

Though I believe what is said is (most usually) more important than who said what, I think even they will tell you, regarding statements like these, to consider the source. Also, rock stars, actors and fighter pilots always had insane game, and the tall ones are an anomaly (though, last 20 years or so, there has been a notable increase in average height due to a handful of extremely tall actors getting roles).
Would you prefer "shared" server cost? It's negligible relatively.
Why single? Why mixed race? We could accept it as a mother and child or a woman and child.
> Now I tend to view fashionable office supplies as productivity fetish items. It's easy to geek out on that stuff, but does a better notebook make me more productive? Seems to make me less productive, if history is an indicator.

I agree with you 95%. This comment is really just wanting to explain that 5%.

I have found that a little extra money goes a long way, and that a lot of money doesn't ever go far enough.

My bullet journal "daily caries" are:

* Apica CD 5mm grid notebook - $14.00 (one per year)

* Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen - $17.00 (one time purchase)

* Disposable black refills for the fountain pen - $5.00 per 20 (maybe twice a year)

In the realm of fancy pens/notebooks these are pretty cheap, but I really enjoy them. I feel like they are at a very nice sweet spot where they're cheap enough that I could lose them, but not "too good to use".

Maybe I'm lying to myself, but I feel like I journal more often because of how much I like them. It's just nice to use nice things.
Yeah, the metal deforms. They are single use devices. Imagine a spherical metal tank, with a thin metal hemisphere welded inside. The hemisphere would invert as the propellant is expelled. Hard engineering and manufacturing problems here. I think there have been piston tanks (which would be reusable with sliding elastomer seals. Not many elastomers play well with hypergolics), but they would be very weight inefficient.
Blimey. If that isn't Stockholm syndrome, I don't know what is.

Wouldn't surprise me if the Moleskine paper is less than 70 gsm - I've got some notebooks that claim to be 70 gsm, and the paper has a bit more heft to it than the very thin, soft paper in the Moleskines. I do quite like how nice the Moleskine paper is to flick through, but the amount of bleed is a bit much, so while I do buy a Moleskine monthly diary each year - useful layout, cover feels nice, price not ridiculous, the per-month notes pages (that I typically don't use) act as an ink bleed buffer - I'd be a bit less confident that their notebooks would work as well.

For notes, I buy whatever cheap ringbound A4/A5 squared 70+ gsm paper notebooks I can find on Amazon.
Microsoft 365, Lock your data when user leaves even if copied
Implementing soft deletes is a lessons every developer learns early in their career. The fact that Atlassian did not implement that in their cloud, is mind boggling.

Great case study of a monumental fuck up!
The NES, released the year after the Spectrum, is probably the paragon of this: four colors per tile including the background (instead of the Spectrum's two) with hardware sprite compositing like the C64 (also with three non-background colors per sprite on both the C64 and the NES). Kids still play NES games today; only retrocomputing enthusiasts play Spectrum games, despite the first-class gameplay in many of them, and I think the shitty color is a major reason for this. An overview of the NES's deeply funky capabilities is in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System#... details are in https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/PPU_programmer_reference.

Hardware sprite compositing has three huge advantages in this context: sprite colors don't pollute the background as they do on the Spectrum, you don't tie up the CPU and RAM moving sprites around, and you can get hardware collision detection, which is a huge advantage for 2-D games.

All of this was already known at the time. James Hague describes the experience of writing games on the Atari 800 (01979) in https://prog21.dadgum.com/173.html. Even the Atari 2600 (01977) did sprite compositing and collision detection in hardware, despite lacking the budget for a framebuffer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_Interface_Adaptor. I guess Sinclair just thought the Spectrum could get by without it, just like the ZX81 got by without graphics hardware at all. And plenty of Spectrum games do achieve truly astounding visuals despite its limitations. But color clash is a huge problem.
Specific because I know the height of my friends.

He's the shorter one and he had the most success of all of us.
>Men would do well to build the rest of their personalities to stand themselves out rather than complain about something they have no control over.

Are you saying that he's missing out on lots of opportunities for self-improvement in the two minutes or less it took to write that comment? It's not wrong for people to complain about things that negatively affect them, and it's not mutually exclusive with trying to fix the problem. There is really no justification for the insistence that short men must not complain at all.
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Edit: fix url
Well yeah, that's the thing about a proxy - ~every HTTP/HTTPS user agent supports them, and neither you nor your users need to mess around with Chrome-specific debugging stuff. Just set a proxy up in whatever browser, and all the traffic you want to archive goes through it with no extra effort.

Fair warning, HTTPS proxying with packet inspection can be complicated since the proxy needs to terminate TLS in order to see the content; it's exactly like a MITM attack, but in this case performed among friends. This can be problematic in an environment where certificate pinning also exists, but that can be overcome for browsers at least if the root of the proxy's MITM cert is trusted in the system's or browser's certificate store. This is trivial as far as I know on all desktop OSes and on Android; I think you can only do it at the system level in iOS via an MDM profile, and I'm not sure how complicated those are to generate but iirc Boxen and similar OSS Mac config management tools do it, so may serve as a useful reference on the mechanics.
> But I'm not convinced punching upward in this manner to the obscenely rich and powerful should be considered universally wrong.

What if you used racial slurs, but exclusively on brown multimillionaires?