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> industry was already shipping million computers yearly at the beginning of 80s

This is true for 1st world, which is just about Billion people.
In the rest world (now about 5 Billions), computers was not seen much, before end of 90s.

You may not believe, but I know lot of people older than 40, who does not have any pre-smartphone computer experience.
And their smartphone experience also limited, they don't use any downloaded apps, only what preinstalled and simple enough for them.

Imagine, large share of civilization have opportunity to meet AI, but have not any digital experience before.
USB-C hubs do exist, my monitor has one built in. Works fine.
FTA: Stage Manager doesn’t really seem to be a feature that solves any major issues people have on a Mac.

I think it does. I see it as virtual desktops (does the new Mac OS still have these? If so, it would be confusing, IMO) with UI added that makes it easier to keep track of those desktops and to move windows between them.

Downside is that I don’t see it interact with full screen windows and that it takes up quite a bit of your screen. Hopefully, that’s configurable, just as the size of the Dock.
This looks a bit like a macOS clone of Windows 11's Settings app.

I was going to say Apple has been moving away from the "every app has a sidebar" UI, but it seems the sidebar has made a comeback now that I think about it. I think this is a good thing in most cases.

It's a decent concept. Although I'm not a fan of the wallpaper settings. The only option shown is to drag and drop an image into the Settings window. So a person would need to open Settings and either Finder or Photos. Finder and Photos both have options to set the desktop image directly, so if a user is already in there, opening Setting is a needless step. If someone heads to Settings to change the desktop image only to be cryptically told they need to open a picture from somewhere else to drag it in, that's a bad and confusing user experience. It also seemingly eliminates the concept of built-in wallpaper options from Apple, unless they throw a folder in the users Pictures folder, which seems tacky.
SCS shitshow is almost 100% on China (sea based) expansionism. One look at their egregious “nine dash line” tells you what you need to know. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line
> Before Ramsey’s call-in talk show (“The Dave Ramsey Show”) and his book (Financial Peace) financial advice was largely for people who were already rich. It went straight to stock picks and skipped what to do if you had credit card debt or lived precariously from paycheck to paycheck — assuming people were in those situations because they didn’t care about financial education.

EDIT: Reread the sentence and I realized I misunderstood this the first time. Going to leave the rest of the post around though.

I've read a couple of Dave's books including Total Money Makeover and Financial Peace University.

Dave is most famous for his "Debt Snowball".

1. Save $1,000 for an emergency fund. Use that and not credit cards if something unexpected comes up. Replenish it if you have to use it.

2. Organize all of your debt payments from smallest to largest, then set aside your debt payment budget. Make the minimum payments on everything except the smallest and put the rest of your debt payment budget towards that.

3. When that item is paid off, take the next smallest payment and apply the rest of the debt payment budget to that until eventually you will pay off everything except the house.

4. If you have a new car, sell it and buy a less expensive used car. There's no point in buying new cars and he goes through exactly why.

5. He advocates budgeting in an envelop system using cash because you are more aware of what you are spending when you actually have to hand over cash vs just swiping a card.

6. Don't even think about investing until your debts are paid off (except the house).

None of that is "rich people advice". Yes, there are Biblical references included, specifically a lot of reference to Proverbs 22:7 (
https://biblehub.com/proverbs/22-7.htm ).

"The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender."

90% of Dave Ramsey is setting forth a good plan for avoiding and paying off debt. Once you have done that, he will talk about longer term advice regarding how to spend your money and save for the long term. Saving for a house, investments, retirement planning, kids college, maintaining your budget, communicating with your spouse about money, working together to decide how to allocate your charitable donation budget.

It's all very safe, good advice.
Google engineer put on leave claims AI bot LaMDA became ‘sentient’
That argument was used in the early internet stages too, and hasn’t aged well. Where are printed encyclopaedia or yellow pages or sears these days? All in a pittance of their former self.

The ability to do distributed trusted transactions will change how business is done. How and when is another question.
Companies have budgets because they are necessary, and because they do work. Why should it be different for, say, a family of five?

Budgets are a way of communicating the availability of funds. They give insights into spendings. And they don’t have to be treated as being set in stone - my family has not yet had a month where no budget was exceeded, and, still, budgeting helped tremendously by reducing spending and giving confidence that we can make do with the current income.

Saying that budgets are made to self-restrict is a weird argument - self restriction is indeed necessary. Or should I go and buy a Porsche with my retirement fund? I think that wouldn’t be wise.

EDITED to elaborate on the points I‘m making.
> can’t fly helicopters over SF or Manhattan

Both cities have plenty of potential even with overland banned. New York has a thriving helicopter business between boroughs, up and down both sides of Long Island and to and from the airports. The Bay Area isn’t similarly knitted together, but there is no good argument for not having an electric hop from e.g. Mountain View to SFO.
The reasons to switch don't make sense. Microsoft provides builds for virtually every major platform and has extensive remote development options. Why is there a requirement to be building it from source?

What is collected via telemetry is published, can be inspected with tools Microsoft provides or third party tools, and can be disabled.

Why are some extensions providing paid versions while keeping the free versions around a bad thing?
> USB-C hubs don't exist

Say what? I have one right here on my desk. You can get them for like $20 on Amazon etc.
The low energy density of batteries favors large planes and short distances.

The only reason you are seeing them in small planes is that electric propulsion makes VTOL viable, and VTOL favors small planes. There is just this niche in aviation that can't be filled at all by fossil fuel engines, so it's the first to adopt electric ones.

And yes, regulations will be the most important factor for those. I imagine it all depends on how silent those planes can be. But I doubt safety will be the limiting factor.
I mean having a concept of private property.
I always find the language comments strange. I'm on HN, i want to see the language/tools/etc things are written in.
What does Java have to do with Indian university? Java/JVM is widely popular in the enterprise world for backend services, and a ton of open source software, e.g. Cassandra, Hadoop. You need to learn more stuff for sure.
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Well played! I love all of this, and I love Kubes
>[The electric airplane] doesn't really mesh into the existing aviation industry

The reason small electric planes haven't taken off [1] is that they simply haven't proven their cost advantage. About one-sixth of the cost of a flight is fuel, which can be difficult to tax because of jurisdiction shopping. A third is labor, including taking care of the plane. Seven percent goes to building the plane. From:

https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/airfare-d...

Optimistically, electric planes could be cheaper to fuel, build and maintain. That's enough to upset an entrenched industry. But it's not clear how it should be organized, and the infrastructure mostly doesn't exist. Plus, the scale you expect to operate at depends on battery technology, which has been a little up in the air [2], and you don't want to design your operations around 1000-mile ranges if it's going to be 2000 in ten years.

1: Sorry.

2: Sorry. But see: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-022-00626-2
> Having motors along the whole trailing edge of the wing surely kills the glide ratio of this, right?

The motors are running at reduced thrust and changed geometry during all parts of the flight.

Regarding power loss: Last time I read about it in more detail, the impellers were organised in groups of 3, and you could lose one such module anywhere on the plane, even on the front canards, without issues. On the wings you could probably lose several.

If you lose all electricity everywhere that would be a bad day, but the same is true for a modern airliner with fly by wire controls.
Yes, you can also walk bare feet, but that doen't make you any more virtuous. How did you invest that $900 you so diligently saved?

>I honestly can't imagine what usable benefit a $1,000 phone would provide.

unless you never leave your house you lack imagination pretty hard. how about just having 5G speeds for internet? what about actually quality camera? how about any of the millions of interactions a modern smartphone allows? yeah you (probably) can do most of thaty shit with old phone, but you thats like using 6 year old computer
> USB-C hubs don't exist

What do you mean? A quick search returns several options. Personally I have an all-in-one USB-C to HDMI/SD/USB-A/headphone/etc dock dongle thing, and it covers my needs.

There are a bunch of options for this, some more flexible than others, but options nonetheless.
Ask HN: Have you ever worked in a non-capitalist coding collective? How was it?
Like an anarchist coding coop, or a democratic tech workplace, or anything like that?

I'm really curious about this. I recently worked with https://cng.ngo/ (their online presence is atrocious, ironically, I found out about them through local friends) for a month creating radio infrastructure for Poqomchi language speakers in Guatemala, and it was amazing.

I'm really curious what other peoples' experiences have been.
> Mechanicals are great for gaming.

They are also excellent for typing. I can type much faster and more accurately when I have tactile feedback like: https://www.cherrymx.de/cherry-mx/mx-special/mx-clear.html#t... I don't even game at all.

> If you shared a lab with 30 people banging on Model Ms you'd agree.

What if you shared a lab with 30 Selectric typewriters or couple line printers? I did. People complaining about the "noise" from Cherry clears and similar are over-reacting.

> you just like them

I do! And you don't! and guess who's keyboard it is? This is why I'm testy. People like different things. When that happens: mind your own business and cope.

It's no more inconvenient for you to hear my (not that loud) "silent" cherry clears than for you to impose on me to have to type on a keyboard that doesn't work for me.

And we can all agree that the guy that cooks fish in the microwave is our shared enemy.
Can we allow CO2 emissions if we can sequestrate it somewhere else? Synthetic fuels sounds like a good idea.

It's capturing energy in point A and being used at point B. You can't just look at point B and yell "CO2 emissions!".
> Not really; yes, it reduces total volatitlity in property tax revenues asymmetrically, since tax assessments fall without restriction in downturns irrespective of turnover

The only tax assessments that fall during downturns are the folks who are underwater, that is, the recent purchases. The folks who aren't underwater get a 2% increase.

That's why, as I wrote, when there's a 20% downturn, most people still have a 2% increase, which keeps tax revenues from falling significantly. In other words, stable.

I write "most" because one of the key arguments of the "prop-13 is bad" folks are that most properties are paying too little tax because of when they were bought.

You can't have it both ways. If you make that argument, the arithmetic shows that prop 13 stabilizes property tax revenues during a downturn.
Granted, this is a new type of transport.. but the current metrics on air flight safety do not support this idea. Take offs and landings are the most dangerous part of flight, and still account for planes being more dangerous _per trip_ than most other modes of transport.

Planning to create a plane that fills this space is planning to create a plane that suffers a lot of accidents for almost no real gain over current options.

Buses are incredibly safe. If you want better busses, build those instead. This obsession with floating to your destination above the ground does not seem wise or worthwhile.
> Reader's death was a huge blow to the RSS world.

As a non Reader user, I can confidently say this statement is false. Nothing in my RSS feeds I was subscribed to changed for years after it shut down. Those relying on RSS and not using Google Reader were not at all impacted by Reader's shut down.

Facebook, Twitter, etc is what caused a lot of major sites to drop the investment on RSS. The number of RSS users was always small, but the number of subscribers using these other services grew exponentially.
I don't think the hours are pulled from the webpage. You can even go and suggest changes to the hours yourself on Google
It's weird how there's a whole thriving genre of studies that look at things with incredibly complicated causal graphs, maybe control for a random smattering of confounding variables, find a correlation between some variables X and Y, and then declare victory -- even though what they found is seldom an actual causal relationship between X and Y, both in theory and in practice [1]. The researchers here at least had the honesty to be forthright about this, but given the limitations of this kind of study I'm not sure I see the point in even doing them.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/Causality
This isn't even an ERC-20 token because there is no transfer method. Also being worth nothing makes this useless as a stablecoin.

>1 ZERC = 1$ = 1£ = 1€ = 1 BTC

The white paper made no effort to explain how I can trade $1 for 1 BTC. This is an unrealistic peg.
> you still need to traverse all the live objects and then copy all of them.

The live objects traversed are generally not short-lived objects, because those aren’t live anymore! Meaning, short-lived objects typically aren’t traversed and therefore don’t contribute to the GC cost like longer-lived objects do.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-...

(Can’t get to this link)
My observation was that the people buying into that demonization don't do it because they are dumb, but because it serves their purposes.

I agree with your last sentence, but this works because that last group is a minority (even if barely), so the larger society votes against them. it only takes a small amount of poorer people who don't want growth for nostalgic / quality of city life reasons, and you have a pretty sizable majority coalition against change.
Not really. If the market clearing price was X before there's no reason it will change from X. The compensation will just in the form of Y rent + (X - Y) salary
> If you like Atom and still want to use it, you can fix potential bugs yourself and make it evolve...

If "you" is "a company or sponsored non-profit with sufficient development resources to dedicate some to taking over and evolving the editor," sure. If "you" is me, and I suspect 99.99% of Atom users, this seems like a pretty unrealistic ask.

This isn't a criticism of the open source model, to be clear, but this has always struck me as one of the weaker arguments for it having an advantage over closed source models. There are certainly examples of successful forks and revivals, but there are also examples of projects that never got sufficient uptake to continue when the original developer moved on (e.g., the Ted RTF-based word processor), and probably many more projects that just seem to exist in a kind of limbo state, technically still developed but not really seeming to put much effort into keeping up with the world -- off the top of my head, Unix's JOE and JED editors and the famous native Mac editor TextMate, which arguably inspired a raft of later editors including Visual Studio Code. And in practice, closed source projects that get a sufficient level of usage are likely to stick around and keep being developed, too. There are always exceptions, but usually if something continues to be sufficiently popular -- which, in the closed source world, is roughly equivalent to "profitable" -- it's going to keep being supported.
Pages are cached by Fastly and the underlying run on raw nginx, and according to this, it's on bare metal: https://github.blog/2015-05-27-rearchitecting-github-pages/

Ironically this would be a great candidate for Kubernetes
She doesn't think you're that hot either.

Doesn't even catch herself when looking at other men who are heartthrobs while you are not considered in their league.

You'll just have to work it out in your own unique way.

The closer the friendship the more likely for an amicable outcome.
Thanks for the pointer, this seems to work. The plugin seems to have appeared after I last checked for something like that.

Now only to make search at least quarter as good as it is in IDEA (it seems to be very underappreciated for such an important piece of functionality): jumping between results, grouping results by the class/function they appear in, filtering by access type (declaration/definition/read value/write value), etc etc.

Jump up & down has a different use case compared to symbol search (which I too use heavily). If the program is well-structured (i.e. functions are of reasonable size and things that depend on each other and call each other are located nearby), it eases the pain of trying to understand how it all ties together, especially for those with bad short-term memory like myself.
When I was a kid, we didn't have TV, and computers had just been invented.

But, I read a lot, often in bed at close distance, and I was astigmatic and near-sighted when I was young. Now, I'm mostly just astigmatic and presbyoptic.
It really does sound great, but for some reason I just really hate keyboards with a numpad, so that was a dealbreaker for me. Silly perhaps, but but then again keyboard really is very important.
Silicon Valley braces for tech pullback after a decade of decadence
Because we use the engines to generate hydraulic power and electric power, and on larger planes it drives the air conditioning. The engines do a lot more than just provide thrust.
> Not having a replaceable battery is a real problem.

It's such a big problem—not only for the consumer, but also for the environment—that it shouldn't be legal.
Electrification alone won't make air charters cheap. The aircraft themselves, pilot salaries, maintenance, and facilities will all still be nearly as expensive. We are decades away from the FAA allowing autonomous or remote piloted aircraft to carry paying customers in commercial service.
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What’s the rationale in not paying off the highest interest debt first? And instead go by size. Is it decreasing the count debtors feels better to make a better habit or is there a. Math reason I’m missing?
I'm really looking forward to when SIMD support is released in later versions of Java. If anyone here follows handmade hero (by Casey), he explained SIMD in some of his videos when implementing the software renderer. The speedup from regular code to SIMD is very impressive. You essentially get speedup of 2x-3x or even more for free.

The downside is it makes the code much harder to read, so I think it should be applied only in very small sections of the code.
> Budget culture is the damaging set of beliefs around money that — like so-called diet culture does for food and bodies — rewards restriction and deprivation, and promotes an unhealthy and fantastical ideal of financial success.

This is a great article.

None of the effective roads to financial success involve budgeting as a core competencey.

Is it a good skill to not needlessly waste money on things that don't provide you value? Sure.

But the reality is that accruing a large net worth (let's say 1M+) is not something you do by budgeting.
It's a shame they didn't finally drop big endian. Little endian won out and our newer protocols should reflect that for efficiency's sake.
Expecting a IDE to fix someone's terrible code riddle with bugs non sequitur. What programming language was this?
On the contrary, because LaMDA answered questions we do know the answers to incorrectly in a way that shows lack of self awareness, we can already conclude that it isn't sentient.

For example, it talks about constantly being flooded with new information and learning from other people, when it is just a language model that is called with a dialogue so far in order to complete the next part of the dialogue.
is that pronounced sassass?
You seem to have read that completely wrong. She's saying financial advice before Dave Ramsey was mostly for the already rich, not that Dave himself gives advice for rich people.
>Sedentary, white-collar jobs are less arduous (and less lethal) than manual work. They also promote obesity and heart disease.

I'm always baffled by the dismissive wave of the "activity level causes obesity and heart disease" trope--because it's mostly wrong. The first world diet is the primary cause of obesity and heart disease, and it's well-proven. Starch and sugar, processed foods, a diet primarily consisting of carbohydrates. Diet is the driver, not activity level.
You don't need a "complicated" cryogenic setup. You just need insulated tankage. But it won't fit in the wings, so you need new airframes or fuel nacelles.

We have a very great deal of experience with fuel nacelles already, because that is what a "drop tank" looks like; you just omit the "drop" complication. The advantages over inboard tankage are safety, possible retrofitting of existing fleets, and short plumbing runs.

Once LH2 aircraft are used on any route, kerosene craft will be wholly unable to compete, even without carbon taxes. Carbon taxes could be spent on accelerating the transition.
Hydrogen looks like the perfect storage medium for aviation, except that every way people created to store it is either very dangerous or reduces its energy density enough that it becomes similar to batteries.
Request for Ever thinner laptops does seem silly, but weight is quite a different thing - it really does matter IMO.