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Facebook parent Meta lays off 60 workers ‘at random’ using algorithm: report
Solar power is renewable but solar panels are not.

Wind power is renewable but wind turbines are not.

Batteries sound good but modern ones are very toxic and hard to recycle.

>> As of 2019, the recycling of Li-Ion batteries in most cases does not extract lithium since lithium-ion battery technology continuously changes and processes to recycle these batteries can thus be outdated in a couple of years.[21] Extraction of lithium from old batteries is five times more expensive than mined lithium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_recycling

So nuclear and fossil fuel/gas seems to be the best way to go until fusion is here.

Building large solar or windmill warms will only take up tons of resources and they require maintaince which requires even more resources: all of this resource waste for something that gives sub-par power output and is unreliable.
It used to be for a good reason, indeed, but not any longer.
The borrow checker makes a doublily linked list difficult, from my understanding.

They're almost always a bad data structure to pick though, as the speed difference between being able to iterate a contiguous list, and even completely rebuild it, vs having to follow arbitrary pointers mean that the 'complexity' improvements of a linked list often become irrelevant.

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I have this intuition that the borrow checker might enforce a way of working that fundamentally stops you from doing things that aren't _really_ compatible with the way a CPU actually works on the lowest level.

Is there any credence to that, and if so, is it happenstance, or is there some more fundamental reason?
Well as a second order effect one should consider its positive impact on birthrates. ;)
Jesus was the leader of a somewhat obscure regional Jewish sect.

Things had to be... modified to get the Roman elite on board and for Christianity to become the state religion.
Cause old batteries are why the devices were randomly turning off.

Nevertheless, the "slowdown" is in fact faster than the alternative, because if your device turns off the task never completes.
You obviously haven't seen the FSD upgrade that was released yesterday.
Telling a recruiter things you'd like usually leads to them telling you to fuck off, so this advice is very good for getting zero jobs. If you get through a whole interview process (i.e. you like them) and the fact that they don't want to sit in your (virtual) office for five days a week is still a complete deal breaker you have a poor process. If you feel like that realisation wastes your time, I think you have some growth to do as a team lead.
What the Metaverse Will Mean
The most interesting part is how all this awfulness seems to stem purely from apathy.
Unregulated banking tend to have a bit more ponzi schemes, pump and dump, and money laundering than regulated banking.

Unregulated auto tend to have a bit more lemon markets than regulated auto.

Unregulated healthcare tend to have a bit more snake oil, blood letting and cocaine than regulated healthcare.

Unregulated food sector tend to have a bit more Listeria and Salmonella then regulated food sector.

No regulation are not know for being that nice either, which is to say that some regulation is good and some regulation is too much, but one can't dismiss regulation as just being bad.
They supposedly got it by using an octagon to approximate a circle. Maybe that was a simpler approximation used in education, who knows.
Even if I also have a hunch that your attribution of inflation to handouts is true, I do not believe that it has been established.

What is clear however, that increased prices for labor, wheat and energy, combined with post-covid logistics issues, have very clearly increased consumer pricing.
I didn't say that.

According to the First Amendment, you have a conceptually unlimited right to write petitions (complaints). Practically, it is limited by the absence of violence during assembly.

There's surprisingly few rulings on the right to petition.
> Oh, get off it. He's not "pretending to disagree", merely providing further context for the anti-utility of the PoW algorithm. The point is that the colloquial understanding of "solving a problem" implies more utility than what is actually happening, which is equivalent to guessing a random number. The mere statement that a problem is being solved at all implies that useful work is being done, which is not the case and the parent comment is right to point that out.

You're either trying to confuse others intentionally, or if I'm interpreting charitably, you are merely confused yourself. In neither case is this attitude warranted. You just re-explained that the crux of the issue is useful work vs non-useful work. This is exactly the same point that Josde explained. This point was contested by lottin. I don't understand why they would contest it, as they very clearly agree with that point (based on reading other messages they wrote in this thread). According to you, lottin is not "pretending to disagree", they are "merely providing further context". This is very obviously not true. Either you are lying on purpose or you are confused, maybe you didn't read their message properly. Here it is again for you to read:

> It's worse than that, they're aren't solving anything at all. They're taking part in a lottery, in which participants have to guess a number, and the winner gets to update the ledger. Nobody is solving complex mathematical problems.

Does that sound to you like "yes, I agree, and here is some further context"? Obviously not. That message is expressing strong disagreement, not further agreement.

Please stop spreading misinformation.
I didn't know it was going to be literal. She obviously knew I was no threat and was just on a power trip.
> How much energy and resources that gets us do we have?

Millions of years worth..... Like really of course you get blank stares it's not an issue that exists.
Except no hobbyist seems to worry about such things.

Occasionally I get messages asking me about the license, and I usually reply to them asking what they want to do/build and then I give them permission for whatever it is they want to make (for free).
Have you tried add-ons?
Crikey Takes on Lachlan Murdoch
Today Crikey is publishing a series of lengthy legal demands by Lachlan Murdoch's lawyers. Here's why.
Since Python 3.7 preservering insertion-order is part of the language specification.

"the insertion-order preservation nature of dict objects has been declared to be an official part of the Python language spec."

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.7.html
Eryniopsis Lampyridarum
Implementing pdf.js is a lot of work. $199 for a decent implementation would be a steal.
This has been completely debunked numerous times in the last week. It's a total smear campaign by a competitor.
Warning for that Medium link, that background color burned my eyes...
I write English documentation about German bureaucracy. I must use German terms because it’s what people will encounter in the wild. Using one specific term consistently affords us precision and unambiguity. It’s unavoidable.

I also can’t repeat the basics on every page. It would distract from the main topic of the page. I can’t teach you everything again on every page, for brevity’s sake.

I borrowed a solution from Wikipedia: popup word definitions. Click a word and get an explanation of what it is. You can keep reading if you know the concept, or click a word to know more.

I also borrowed “read more” links from the NHS. They link to a completely separate but related set of instructions. Wikipedia also does this when a subsection expands into its own entry.

Inclusiveness is achievable with a bit of design. Good documentation is as much about structure as it is about text.
You find them by applying to non-tech companies that are large :)
I suspect this is referring to the lossy version of JBIG2 (which is essentially the same as DjVU encoding).
Stub axles?
Ironically I think this attitude is what encourages the bait-and-switch scenario. If someone tells you before interviews they want to work 4 days, 100% chance they'll be rejected. But if a perfect candidate gets to the final stage and then tells you they will only work 4 days the odds are much better and the leverage is on their side.

Also there isn't really part time / full time with salaried work. I doubt you're paying overtime if someone stays in the office for over 40 hours. Hiring for presence over productivity doesn't seem like a good metric.
iOS fails in providing basic security feature viz. VPN. https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/VPNs.on.iOS.are.scam.php
that's something i keep wondering about as well. i think it depends on the reputation of the company/project. some of them probably do attach it to the option that is actually most popular, but i'd guess that most of them do not.

for example, if a thing has three pricing options (free, paid, and enterprise), it is always the second option (paid, but not enterprise) that has the "most popular" badge. which seems suspicious to me in cases where the free version is sufficient for most users and as a result there isn't really much of an incentive to switch to a paid plan.
Ridiculous vulnerability disclosure process with CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor
>Having an account suspended because of a billing issue is not exclusive to Google.

I'm sorry but :

>Despite reassurances "your account will not be suspended" while communicating with billing support, all the projects were suspended at 1am on Saturday.

If he contacted someone at customer support, after making sure the mistake was corrected (on whatever side it was) and they assure him that the account will not be suspended - what the fuck is he supposed to do about it beyond that ?

Imagine having your business/job fucked up over an incompetent customer support system.
He might have the common "mounted the TV over the fireplace" affliction which means it's so far away you can't tell the difference.
mine would take inspiration from HN post 3 years ago where a Google Manager got a hold on a poster size e-ink screen and use it to display front pages of newspaper every morning. I would expanded it to a color display and use it to show the poster of the movie being displayed in my media server, but paying 3000+ for a panel of that size makes it a VERY hard sell for me
Why are you running a business without any Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery? In this case, Google might have screwed up but what about if the account had been hacked, or Google had some big technical problem that killed off the production system for another reason?

We all know it is infuriating and frustrating but that is why you need BC/DR in the first-place.
Taking a higher course load was to enable me to actually learn things I wanted to. It was not about jumping hoops - didn't even finish my degree, because I had better things to do (a startup). I did finish it up years later, and that was about jumping hoops because the job market in the aftermath of the dot com crash in the UK where I moved to in 2000 meant having a degree was a lot more important.

It was also not about enjoying acing courses, but about needing to take courses that were compulsory for the programme and that you could not test out of. As I said, the option to skip most lectures felt like a reasonable middle group - if I'd run into problems with the group sessions, I could have easily gone back to the lectures at any time.
CIA/MI6 coup in Iran in 1953
While making a documentary about the CIA/MI6 coup in Iran in 1953, Iranian director Taghi Amirani and editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The English Patient) discover never seen before archive material hidden for decades. The 16mm footage and documents not only allow the filmmakers to tell the story of the overthrow of the Iranian government in unprecedented detail but also leads to explosive revelations about dark secrets buried for 67 years. Working with Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Schindler’s List, The English Patient) to help bring the lost material to life, what begins as a historical documentary about four days in August 1953 turns into a live investigation, taking the filmmakers into uncharted cinematic waters. The roots of Iran's volatile relationship with America and Britain has never been so forensically and dramatically exposed.
No human working at Google will do an account suspension on a Saturday.

So it must have been automation. And there is a very good chance that automation simply hadn't been blocked by the support agent which had been giving reassurances.
Interesting - the platform I work on pays far more than any other role I've had before, and far more than the majority of other non-executive tech roles in my country. So it's uphill in terms of fulfillment and money from my point of view.
I've mentioned to recruiters recently that the job satisfaction is easily worth another $30K or more to me. It would take a lot to move me from my current role. But I recognise that I have gotten extremely lucky.
I guess that will help pay for all the liability lawsuits.
Seeing all these tools & explanations is amazing.

Wonder if someone could make a fun firefighter video game about breaking into various properties using this PDF. The game would focus on gaining forcible access (so the first responder could save the day).
Peace can lead to amazing things.
Eat properly, exercise enough to prevent atrophy and maintain satisfying strength/endurance

Develop your talents

protect yourself from a world that wants to eat and shit you out, with a smile

For the first decade of my adult life I was a machine. Self taught, self determined, purposeful. Almost neomonistic at times.

For the last decade, fluid and doing whatever I like, yet somehow adapting to consistent patterns.

Tbh, the greatest advantage I have developed comes by learning to live lean (even amid prosperity). Do not need things, or people for that matter, yet treat them well and value them when they are available.

I have studied the past 6,000 years of human history.

I have studied enough modernity to recognize the modern trend of “science based thinking“ is a sham (most great insights come from citizen scientists who are not caught up in what is established.)

It is easier to develop a taste for humanity by studying our PAST than finding good examples in the present (of which we have digressed in many ways.)

The only right path is figuring out these things for yourself, though that includes trying things which inspire you.
Speaking from experience, no.
> TL;DR the famous book "Limits to Growth" was very prescient and it mostly hit the mark.

Didn't he get pretty much everything wrong? Like embarrassing wrong even messing up, or intentionally misunderstanding, basic economic theories?
Only fools believe their wisdoms will last forever!
I would rather render PDF with a native app either as provided by the computer or device or the built in one in Chrome or similar.

The reason for that is that we tried pdf.js earlier this year and it is very CPU/mem hungry once you go past simple PDF's it becomes noticable.

Also rendering 5-6 single page PDF's in the same web page made Safari bog down.
empathy for customers not paying ? lol
Palantir Post Mortem
My Atom Z3745 really does not like that link.
not really, in that case you have two separate positions, one long and one short.
They may not be cops but they’ve created an enabling technology. They’re also the only ones who could access the data and recognize its potential for abuse. It’s not an easy situation.

But clearly if they’re referring out to law enforcement, they need to close the loop on that and take responsibility when they get it wrong.
Isn’t 6.5’ six and a half feet, i.e. 6’6”?
Google has the worst support, bar none, of any infrastructure company I've dealt with in my 13 years in the industry.

IF you can get ahold of someone...
and IF they comprehend your issue...
and IF they know how to solve it...
and IF they can communicate with other departments involved...
and IF they remember to respond to you...
and IF their internal documentation is up to date...
then you MIGHT stand a chance of getting your problem solved.

It's at the point where you will get better support for Google's own services from companies that resell them, because they have on-call internal contacts at Google and actually care about their customers.
Also seems to suggest that minimizing wealth gaps may not be the best objective function
(by itself) relative to other possibilities. Curious.
> Well TFA ignored that few to none of the phones on this list that are better than the Pixel 6a include a 3.5mm headphone jack.

Current 4a owner, always had Google phones, and this is precisely the reason why the next one is going to be a 1+ for me.
I don't want to sacrifice all the 3.5mm devices I have for a fad like this ,and Bluetooth audio is horrible anyway.
Cruise control with lane keeping and a feature where it stays on but swerves into pedestrians and inanimate objects at intersections and you are fully liable when it tries to kill people at a significantly higher rate than humans make mistakes.

Not to be confused with 'autopilot' which is cruise control with lane keeping.
"Please be an easier mark for me."
Statistically the US is also the best country to end up destitute, homeless and harassed by the police regularly. Plus - what are "socialist-type EU countries"?
Looks like this does not read the MFT. So I’d expect it to take minutes instead of seconds to scan a typical 2TB SSD.
Unimportant sidenote: I don't like the naming of these "falsehoods programmers believe about X" lists. Surely programmers are more likely to be conscious of these not being true than non-programmers.
Can you please help me understand "get started and pay later" for individual users?

It would be good to provide full transparency on pricing.
Backups to another provider are very costly for most users due to egress bandwidth pricing.

Most backup systems can't do efficient incremental diffs either - so you end up sending your companies entire database every 12/24 hours, burning through a lot of bandwidth.
I did not argue that regulation is unnecessary or bad. The argument is that regulation of Big Industries does not bring you better support nor makes the companies more focused in treating customers as individuals.
That may be true but uMatrix' UX is unmatched - the matrix UI allows for granular control while achieving the same in uBO is significantly harder.
> Never use GCP for production.

Never use any google product if there is any alternative even a significantly worse one. This will keep happening and much worse until we say no to the abuse.
> do you believe man goes to heaven through faith alone, or by faith and works that prove their faith?

To clarify, Protestants believe Sola Fide (justification by faith alone), but they also believe faith implies good works. The difference is that Catholics consider faith and works more independent entities. They believe works are another requirement to be saved, in addition to faith.

From Protestants' point of view, faith in Jesus Christ is the only requirement to be saved. At the same time, works are a great way to display someone's faith, as Jesus says:

> By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. — John 13:35 (NIV)

You might say "So, we can just believe in God and do any despicable things we want, then?" Not really. You couldn't say you love your spouse and at the same time keep hurting them, could you? Your actions would contradict your words, and no one would believe your words that you love your spouse.

Similarly, Christians who realized how great the love and sacrifice that God gave to pay their sins are will (or at least try to) live accordingly. They do good things, not to be saved, but because they have already been saved and they want to show their gratitude through their works and glorify God. Jesus says:

> In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. — Matthew 5:16 (NIV)

This is the unique distinction between Christianity and other religions. If human beings could by their own effort save themselves from the wages of sins, Jesus wouldn't have needed to come into this world and die to pay for our sins.

"Can God just simply forgive humans?" If God did so, He was neither just nor consistent with his words. The penalty of humans' sins must be paid if humans are to be saved. Note that humans don't need to be saved—God could just leave humans condemned and He is still just. Only because God so loved us that He himself paid for our sins.
A used plasma TV is still the best value gaming display in terms of motion clarity you can get. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZblNi5i8Lc

An LG C1 with HLG or other service-menu tricks is the only thing to surpass it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19EI9UjRwRs but they cost way more than an old plasma on the used marketplace.
Ethiopian Airlines Pilots Miss Landing After Reportedly Falling Asleep
It's not just being free from being a pawn of nature is a silly idea, you don't go far enough. Anything that's not built on nature is temporary and is going to fall apart at some point. The people who blind themselves to that fact, are going to have a bad time. Whether you quote the bible or physics to support the fact, the outcome is the same.
Some apps should be made to work offline.

one shining example is GPS guidance system.
> Dutch

> mostly normal to work 32 hour

It is absolutely not if you work in the tech sector. The expectation is full-time and this is 40 hours at most companies.
They are. Wet lumber is still sadly the norm in Russia for construction work, and 2x4 are still 2x4 there (or rather, 50x100).
This round of attention is what got me to finally visit KF to see what the actual deal is. Didn't sign up of course.

General impression is "yuck, won't go there again". I didn't see any dox but I did see reminders for readers to not pull KF into whatever mess they make in RL.
What's the benefit of invoiced billing?
I'm a fan of regulating big tech, but in this case reputation will also make a big difference. I know lots of people who actively avoid google's cloud products because they don't trust google not to pull stunts like this.

There have been too many stories on HN and twitter over the years of business critical google accounts being suspended for no reason or google cloud products massively increasing their price overnight.

I don't trust google as a provider for business-critical infrastructure. I'm far from alone.
Murfie died because of Google cloud costs.

It's a bit of a long story, but from what I was able to piece together, a Google cloud service provider recommended some changes to the way the storage was done to save money. Mostly, because of those changes they got hit by a surprise $30,000 bill for data egress. It was basically the last straw for a company that wasn't profitable due mostly to cloud costs. It killed the company. That's why I had to step in to try to save them.
4 days/32hrs, working at current job for over 2 years now. It's not a common arrangement over here, sadly. I just decided that that is how i want to do things and simply asked for it, when looking for jobs, until i got a good offer that accepted this. I did take 20% off from my salary, were i working 40hrs, but still ended up with more than i was making at my previous job.
I like it, the weekday/weekend balance seems just right.
It's similar to the ones that say:

Solid state batteries will let the companies that aren't doing EVs yet catch up, and fix all the terrible, terrible problems current EVs have so don't buy an EV right now, please, don't buy our competitors products that are available now.