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This is why stop and frisk is rarer when you don't need to stop people to see their ID's. Cops can just pull up their screen and know each of those guys standing on the corner. We all get frisked many times a day and don't even know it.
I just wish people would stop calling it a damn equation, because it clearly isn't. It's the Drake Estimate.

But that ship has clearly sailed.
https://inhabitat.com/mit-team-unveils-airplane-that-uses-70...

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20100042401/downloads/20...
> - Put flossing material in front of you

This is no joke. After i put a bowl of floss picks (those u shaped things that are pre-strung) on my desk my dental hygenist made a surprised comment at the level of improvement in gum health.
I think the money is well spent. Like, I wouldn't buy a color monitor just to get syntax highlighting, but there are no non-color monitors, so sure, I'll use syntax highlighting. (I use Emacs over an SSH session. Got italic text working a few months ago and I love it!) The rest of the things people have seem important to me; bad input devices will make your hands unusable, and you probably can't do your job after that happens, so if you sink $400 on a keyboard to be able to do your job in 10 years, that's not really a waste. Spending money on microphones and cameras means less or no money spent on commuting, because people can actually get work done over Zoom. A desk is mandatory for overcoming the force of gravity as it applies to your keyboard or laptop.

I will say, a laptop is the least important computing device I own. I have one to test builds on arm64; it's on a shelf somewhere and I SSH to it. If I'm "out and about", not at my desk, then I don't want to do any computing. Meanwhile, desktops are cheaper and more upgradeable. Need more RAM? Pop a stick in. ML training too slow? Pop another GPU in. I don't know why anyone would do it any differently. (I also have 3 monitors, 2 of which are for IMs because there are so many IM apps these days. I miss the days of having IRC inside Emacs. But bought some hardware to compensate for my friends and coworkers desire to use Discord and Slack. So it goes.)
> Surely nobody can work like that for a long time without getting injured.

Not at all surely. Some people need that stuff and some don't. Just the luck of the draw.

I have a macbook plugged into a monitor, wireless kbd, trackpad. I use that setup about 30% of the time. The rest of the time I just use my laptop on whatever surface is near: my lap (shocker!), train or plane table, lying on the couch with the laptop on my thighs. On a plane if I have the window seat I often jam myself in at an angle and use it while twisted.

My gf thinks that is crazy: she needs an ergo mouse, special pillow on her chair, monitor at the right height etc. Her hight is a factor, also she's a parent so her carpal tunnels (and some other tendon guides) have narrowed. But she needs a neck pillow for the car as well, which I don't.

In general the physical environment is designed for people around 180 cm +/- a few. Car seats, star risers, chairs and tables... Fair or not that's how it seems to be. And luckily, I'm just a smidgen over 180.
You think its improbable that an organization would set an unmeetable KPI to have an excuse for lowering pay?
You can get boilers that generate steam for radiators and hot water for tap water.
This is much more well-put than I'd have managed to write. Had a couple years of startup experience and I feel like the instability and "wrong lessons" were too much for me personally. IMO a lot of people conflate working in a startup with the experience of being a more senior engineer becoming a founder or early employee with similar levels of autonomy. I worked in roles during my first ~5 years where I was the 4th or 5th engineer and was basically given narrowly-defined tasks to complete, with no great guidance on accomplishing them, and with my coworkers too busy to document or explain how to do basic things like run parts of the codebase locally, connect to the db, etc.

You can get a lot better mentorship in those more "boring" traditional jobs at larger companies. You can get that in a startup environment too, but depending on the startup the degree to which that's actually something people prioritize and have capacity for varies wildly. I guess I'd recommend trying smaller startup environments if you happen to already know everything about their tech stack and/or have a decent amount of experience as a SWE already. Both are probably useful but I've personally gotten a lot better ROI growth-wise when working on an established team with stable goals, time to mentor, document, write tests, etc.
Thank you for this, I always knew that if I had to restart civilization from scratch I would have to go without anything digital because I understand the way thing work abstractly, but I could never make it happen. At least now I can think back on this video and wonder what magical tricks he did during those moments when the scene fast forwarded and magically progress was made.
For some blissful seconds I thought this post would be related to reforestation efforts.
It's always been trivially easy to replace lead in car gas if you don't care about cost. There are a thousand chemicals that will increase octane levels and prevent knocking, and some of them can be bought at your local hardware store.

But none of them were as cheap as tetraethyl lead in the early 20th century, so TEL won.

(This argument doesn't apply to avgas, where TEL did/does more than just prevent knocking.)
Since there's several car manufacturing comparisons of American manufacturing adapting to East Asian manufacturing culture, I feel like there's consensus that Japanese built cars still have tighter QC than ones built in North America. Better fit etc, the kind of details in semi and would compound when moving from millimeters to nanometers. My understanding is the commitment for semi technicians / equipment engineers are also much more rigorous, people being practically married to their stations. Hard to say if high-end chip manufacturing processes refined under East Asian sweatshop work culture that's still better than the alternative can be adapated to west.

Which is not to say American's can't make chips, perhaps with less efficiency. Which ultimately doesn't matter because semi is being elevated to critical strategic industry and the governemnt's money printer is going to keep US fabs open regardless of how competitive US fabs are.
Quotes are because you are comparing damage from sitting in a chair that can be mitigated by walking around, standing, and working out, to inevitable damage from inhaling fumes and particles, lifting objects, and repeatedly contorting one’s body and putting pressure on joints that have a far higher probability of irreversible damage.
I don't know enough about the politics of that, I'm European. I guess the nuclear part of Canada is pretty close to a lot of the North Eastern Cities so technically I think so.
If you’re not familiar with this channel, you’re in for a treat!

Turn on closed captions to get an explanation of what’s going on.
>I know that the HN "founders" crowd is going to hate me for saying that, but I think that we should really stop glamorizing revenue.

Understand your perspective but what's happening is that many programmers -- including non-founders -- on HN are drawn to factoids of devs making money without "working for the man".

Many examples of this that repeatedly resonates with the HN audience: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

So instead of characterizing it as "glamorizing revenue" ... think of it more like... "if that programmer found a way to make money outside of a corporate job, maybe I can too."

So Ivan Kutskir being able to get significant revenue while just being a 1-man operation will naturally be an interesting case study for programmers who dream of a little financial freedom.
Wait till you hear about baseband software.
getting stuff that fast is very stupid 98% of the time. people may like it and want it and sing its praises, but its mostly stupid. and i think stupid things generally tend to die out. that is all to say that maybe that edge that amazon has is not that important.
Part of the challenge we face as a society is that the hypothetical "war of ideas" picture, in which adults think critically and are swayed by logic, fact, and reasoning, as a function of their experience and values,

is not just a fantasy, it's become a weapon used by exactly those who work more successfully to sway opinion and in effect public behavior through mechanisms that entirely bypass or undermine exactly this scenario.

The premise that it is the responsibility, indeed the "appropriate" role, of "critically thinking adults" to individually defend themselves in an information sphere almost totally controlled by entities whose resources and expertise in manipulating individuals,

is outright dangerous.

The entire peril we are in as a society is that weaponized speech is like other weapons of war: something that individuals cannot defend against and are helpless before.

QED what we need is a societal response, and society-level defense.

That starts with awareness of how f---d we already are.
in the US, W2 wage income tax withholding is more or less invisible to the employee to the extent that most people view their tax refund as a bonus rather than the tip of the iceberg of taxes they've been paying. When you work consulting with a 1099 you suddenly realize how much money you need to fork over to feed the beast. (I suspect changing this aspect of the law would really swell the size of anti-tax political parties.) I point this out to say it's not so simple as to say "who pays" what tax.

US retirement social security and unemployment insurance and employer health plans may map onto european social security costs paid by employers, but if the cost to employers is variable wrt number of employees it would be fair to call it "paying taxes for employees" (and especially when you consider that in some continental language families "for" and "per" are the same word ;) because it has a very similar price elasticity effect on the labor market
> You can also do it later on.

In Germany it is tricky to do it later and is a taxable event.
Is that not just what train stations look like in September? Has there been any analysis of how ridership changed based on this free travel plan?
There's 107 primary sources at the bottom of the linked Wikipedia page alone if you wanted to do the research towards a "full understanding".
French government website allows you to select text and listen to it
Thanks. Clickbait title + cnn domain I didn’t want to dignify it them with an impression metric. HN comments were worth a peek though
There's something else going on in Estonia, or arbitrage would be happening (importing cheaper stuff from the eurozone).
I understand that but not until WW1 was it really in-acted at any kind of scale.
its not what works, its whats good enough, or not bad enough to cause an obvious problem. well maybe thats what you mean by "works" i dunno
I don't even know why I got an email from them to my work email. AFAIK I've never used a samsung device at work and I have dedicated work devices.
I have friends in China. At Douyin (China) there's a general resentment towards Tiktok (overseas, esp US), at the same level the folks at home are paid much less.

Also, the big TC numbers (for most ICs, not sure about high level execs) are mostly inflated illiquid RSUs.
Samsung stores demographic information because why not. I wonder how much information is that
Do you really think sitting in a chair is even comparable to move hundred or thousands of pounds of work materials at a time, being bent or twisted into access holes, being exposed to various construction dusts and materials, or even just working in often excessively hot or cold environments?
Reminds me of thetoasterproject.org
Remember, correlation <> causation [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...
Or, you can be truly lazy. Just sign up for a free Wordpress or Blogger account (and there must be a bazillion others), accept the defaults, and start typing.

The person even said that the hardest part is content, not writing. But how much of the content there about how to pick an editor, or a CI pipeline?

It's kind of like, "I want to program a game, and here's how I built a specialized language to make it".
Does anybody realize that neural nets ("AI") properly trained might enable swarms of extremely efficient killer drones without the need of being remotely controlled (aka useless EM jamming)? Near no human soldiers would need to be deployed in a war zone.
you can try something like Kinoite or Silverblue from fedora.

you can also manage tools with asdf if it makes it easier.

I personally run Fedora + Flatpaks + asdf and it covers everything, and is stable, up to date, and has a new release every 6 months. it feels midway between a rolling release and. apoint release
Absolutely. Grandparent commentor has some odd notions about what constitutes a legitimate versus illegitimate narrative device, and what constitutes “dramatic sense of danger.”

They mentioned it as an “aesthetic” choice on the part of the writer/director, but the linked video mentioned 4 people who had drowned in a flooded banjiha, and included an interview with a family who claimed to have narrowly escaped with their own lives.

Tragedy striking suddenly and seemingly irreversibly is a common feature of life in poverty; there is no art or artifice about it and (purely personally), it strikes me as naive interpreting it as a visual spectacle and not a visual representation of an underlying reality.
Ask HN: How do you read/look at screens?
I program a lot. After a few hours I can't easily read whats on the screen due to my eyes being uncomfortable. Sometimes I can look at my phone or read my kindle but even that can be a problem. I've gone on walks listening to books which I think is a partial solution but some days I only can do 4 hours of screen times while other days I do 9
Solar and Wind Power Now Deliver ‘More Than Double’ the Energy Produced by Oil
Blows my mind that anyone would buy a Samsung product given their data collection addiction.
They don't investigate every form. But there's still a chance. Especially since they're copying books wholesale these days.
I think you are joking about "USB4.1 2x2 Gen 1 V2", but I can't tell. USB naming is messed up.
I just started to experiment with EndeavourOS, a prepackaged version of Arch. Looks nice so far.

https://endeavouros.com/about-us/
Don't know about responsibility, but there are cases where I'd certainly take the credit. For example:

1. Finding the bug was difficult, while fixing the bug was trivial

2. My own proposed patches seem to sit for years, while emailing bug reports directly to the committer results in them committing fixes within days.
> Sounds just like what the author could expect from a discussion in a community which is not the same community they usually find themselves in ("a particular mac-centric community", whichever that refers to).

The author of the blog post did not submit the article to Hacker News.

Anyway, I wish that HN commenters would apply the same HN guidelines to article authors that they do to each other. It's all too easy to rip on someone who isn't here to explain or defend themselves. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is there a reason (other than design by committee) that USB is so complicated? You need to have the right kinds of connectors, cables, and device support. The speeds you get vary for any number of reasons. Why didn't someone just say "all the cables are fast and charge good and if you want slow or bad, use old USB"? It seems we've found the worst possible situation, where consumers don't understand what they need or can use or why, and instead of making it easier, we get the second version of the fourth version which has multiple versions that all do different things under different circumstances.
> Interestingly, we're seeing a similar dynamic play out in the venture-backed startup world of the past decade. What's old is new.

Related to the printing industry? (if so, I'd like to hear more)

Or do you mean in general?
The real question is: "why do you feel you need to do that with everything you use"? If there's something missing, or broken, just report it. Or in the ultimate freedom: think you can do better? Whip out that VS Code and start making your own open source Photoshop.

As for "the software is limited in its reach to those who can afford and have a possibility to pay for it", do you even use this app? Because it sounds like you don't, you're just commenting on it as a drive by HN reader. Everyone with internet access who wants to use this web-based "I can't believe it's not Photoshop" can do so for free.

It's free software. Just not open source.
If gouging worked, why wouldn't corporations have been doing it all along?

Besides, if inflation is 10%, profits would have to rise 10% just to stay even.
"it's a legitimate reason to understand them properly and use them appropriately"

FIFY.
Sadly like most similar nuclear powered energy sources this is very low density, and provides very little power, despite lasting a long time. Think microwatts.

Only really viable in deployments that need very little power, where no other energy harvesting method is available, and periodically changing out batteries is not an option.
slowing down 5% adds 10 minutes flying time to a 3 hour flight. Drag varies with square of speed except when you get close to Mach 1 where it gets much worse.

Its also possible to fly 20% (36kft vs 30k) higher where drag for the same speed will be lower. Drag varies linearly with density.

An aircraft purposely designed for low fuel consumption could save 50% or more jet fuel without being significantly slower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_D8

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/future_airp...
California passes law requiring companies to post salary ranges on job listings
Backup catcher released after tricking runner by throwing spud into outfield
Does anything else use PAM3? PAM4 is all over the place (PCIe 6.0 from this winter, 25/100/200 Gbe, GDDR6X, I forget who else but more), but PAM3... apparently once was used for 100BASE-T4[1]. That's 100 mbit, not Gbit, not 1000Mbit, 100 mbit.

Just so excellent that the USB4 nee-Thunderbolt tunneled/packet-switched architecture means that, if we do get a speed bump, that boost is a win for displays, storage, egpus connected via displayport, thunderbolt, what-have-you. (Not necessarily for those devices, but the % of throughput they consume diminishes respectively). The leap to USB4 is a huge shift, but tunneling/packet-switching has so many downstream benefits.

I'm sure to be downvoted, but- grasping the third rail here: does anyone else tire of every time USB being mentioned, the thread turning into a mudslinging festival? I find repetitive, almost never constructive, usually incredibly poorly defined (my dock didn't work-- ok, how? at all? doubtful) complaints repeated ad-nauseam, and there's such limited energy to refute the waves of negativity from the sore & aggrieved. I want there to be room for these voices, but the mere mention of USB is a magnet for misery. I can & apparently should write some blog posts on why things are they way they are, how incremental evolution happens, and how progress isn't always smooth. But to the larger phenomenon of muck raking being the popular activity at every mention: it's definitely not just USB, in online communities this vocal persistent complaint about topics is a social condition that, so far, has no remedy, no redress. Systemd had to deal with this, Kubernetes, react, rails; so many have had their time on the planet of being targetted subjects. It just happens again and again and again, and the world doesn't deserve to have only the negative so amplified. It'd be so nice to redirect these energies to more focused gathering places, and to let the actual news & events be discussed in peace.

To add a usb naming joke, and to build constructively & consistently on the past, this would obviously be USB4 2x12. Two channels of of 60 Gbps (5Gbps * 12). The previous USB4 2.0 would be 2x8. There, I fixed it for you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-amplitude_modulation
I only have a dumb phone and I also often leave it at home. I don't get smart phones.. Why carry an addictive computer on yourself ?
The author doesn't owe the general public a FOSS product. The source is already freely available, which is better than nothing.

For a relevant example, consider Adobe- they are actively hostile to sharing source code. Complete capitalist jackasses, yet Adobe doesn't generally get a hard time about it on HN or elsewhere.
It also doesn't have anything to do with Haskell or it looking somewhat like Haskell. I'm very comfortable in Haskell, and Nix looks awful to me. It's not that it's functional or it's declarative, it's that it's badly designed and not intuitive, making it hard to remember and therefore awkward to code in.
Interesting. It claims "95% combined heat and electrical efficiency". I'm assuming this number is comparing immediately after the electrical generation occurs (i.e. - this doesn't have any transmission losses, while the electrical grid does).

Does anyone have any comments on the comparison in overall gas -> electrical output efficiency between large grid-scale natural gas plants and small natural gas generators like this one?
I had a 1981 Tercel that "only" got about 160,000 miles before I traded it in. It still ran fine. Now I have an Infiniti and that's also rock-solid.

Conversely, I've had three German cars (one VW and two BMWs) and they all sucked. On the last BMW I had to replace all four window regulators, at $900 each.

Manufacturing is hard.
I interpreted that as not being serious, but I can see why that part rubbed people the wrong way.
Yes, and 'without the users permission' might as well be Apple's company motto.
> Why didn't someone just say "all the cables are fast and charge good and if you want slow or bad, use old USB"?

Part of the problem is that making fast cables is expensive, and manufacturers will skimp on that expense to save money.