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> Our leaders are to blame for going on with this imbalance of leverage for so long and not taking measures or backups despite the US warning us

Power of european leaders comes from european citizens, not from US (at least on paper).

Blame the european citizens, that they wanted to have good relations with Russia... no this does not work either.

Many people did not believe Putin would invade, or did not want to preempt him.

Now that we have the proof of treachery, working with/appeasing Russia became dangerous and only now we have a incontrovertible reason to disconnect from it. But before the invasion, it was not so clear that being on good terms with Russia was bad.
> In countries where you just get told what your taxes are, many people don't really even know how to get deductions made

I've got some bad news. It's not just those exotic countries. There are people inside the USA that don't understand deductions either. I've lived here my whole life here and I'm in my forties now. I always just use the standard or default. I'm not exactly sure why someone would or would not want a deduction. Are my taxes optimal? Probably not. This is ok. I'd like to at least have the option of having a simpler process.
You warm up a piece of metal and pour water on it. The water keeps it cool and makes steam.
I doubt it. Pushing water out of the way is never very efficient. A sailboat appears to be efficient because it is harvesting wind power and not counting that.
The question is, why would some countries have 30 yr fixed and wouldn't other countries have them?
S. Korea's technology sophistication is so inspiring
Yeah, all the examples you give rub me up the wrong way. I don't like use of + for concatenate, even though it is present in Rust which I like very much on the whole.

Here's what Rust tells programmers in core::ops (the sub-library whose safe Traits result in operator "overloading" for Rust). I put "overloading" in quotes because these operators just don't exist at all for your type if you don't implement the appropriate Trait.

> Implementations of operator traits should be unsurprising in their respective contexts, keeping in mind their usual meanings and operator precedence. For example, when implementing Mul, the operation should have some resemblance to multiplication (and share expected properties like associativity).
Firefox for Android used to implement scroll coasting in a way that felt very different from Chrome and native Android apps. I just gave it a try now and it seems like they've fixed it, scrolling feels native now.
When motor vehicles do that, it’s called Talladega.
Show HN: Shardcake, a Scala open-source library for entity/actor sharding
Yesterday (coincidentally, a few hours before the Akka announcement), we open-sourced Shardcake, a Scala library that makes it easy to distribute entities across multiple servers and interact with those entities using their ID without knowing their actual location (aka location transparency).
It's not just the software but how all of it comes together and leadership priorities.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90748492/apple-airpods-pro-creat...
The diff example is clearer with red and green.

Not so clear with the new colors.

Maybe the author shouldn't think in bad and good but red = negative = minus and green = positive = plus.

I wonder in which color scheme he grasps the information faster.
There's a ton of just plain bad writing. The focus of the Web on the Now and Immediate tends to emphasize this.

My own (somewhat aspirational) preferences / guidelines as to reading priorities: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32669503>
What does it mean to know the risk embedded in your DNA?
I remember a friend having a 64MB computer and struggling to play Diablo II. It would always lag. I upgraded him to 512MB using some old RAM sticks. The game never lagged again.
I don't agree, but even if someone thinks they don't care they actually do since the custom silicon is no small part of why the multi-device stuff works so well. Not to mention the noise cancellation, transparency mode, etc. Sure, you buy because of the characteristics, but the characteristics are due to the custom silicon.
Definitely feels like Toronto made the right choice by not making themselves into a Google-ified IOT city.
That’s not been my experience. I mean the code is no harder to refactor than anything else, the code follows the style I prefer (and my linters enforce), if it doesn’t I change it as needed.

If I were to switch from Vuex to Pinia it would be the same amount of work with/without copilot. I don’t let copilot generate code without me reading/reviewing it and sometimes making tweaks. CoPilot literally (and I mean that) generates exactly what I was planning to write, if it doesn’t I start typing it my preferred way and often CoPilot then offers a completion in that style.

Without CoPilot the code would be virtually the same, so refactoring isn’t impacted one way or the other.
> The problem is that you speak for others when they hold the opposing view - our medical industry is evidence of the free market working at its best, and providing care for dollars with no hidden or extraneous fees.

Who are these unicorns which are not paid by this system?

Are they friends with Yeti, Bigfoot, and the mythical hot single living in my area?
It gets you from A to A in 0 seconds
Code is read more than it's written, so clarity is important. The fewer ways there are to do things, the closer everyone is to a common understanding of a given block of code, which makes understanding another programmer's intent easier. In turn, this makes onboarding to a project much more effective, and lets devs reach a minimum level of competency more quickly.

Note that small doesn't imply lacking features. For example, something like a std::transform is often "smaller" than iterating through an array with a for-loop, but it's also clearer and less error prone. It's a result of the language itself providing more powerful data structures, and interfaces that make manipulation of those structures easier, which is what I'd argue "small" is actually shorthand for. I don't want to be using a language that only has if-statements and goto, which would be "small" in one sense of the word; I want to use a language that has the minimum necessary number of keywords, decorators, or meta-languages, and instead provides clear, ergonomic ways to express my intent to the machine.
> usershare is at risk

My impression from way back in the uMatrix days was that marketshare is not a concern for gorhill and that the u* family are a labor of love to improve the internet for everyone.
Second this, although I have only observed very casually, never bought one first hand.

My impression is that the standard box store offering is some windows-s-mode steaming pile of crap loaded up with every conceivable form of bloatware, spyware, and adware out of the box, and anyone not formatting it immediately has basically just brought an obnoxious billboard into their home that can only run things from the "windows store"
I assume this is sarcasm. If not, there is much to learn about making consumers happy.
Windows and Bluetooth headphones just don’t work well together, regardless of manufacturer. And good luck of the headphones also have a mic and support the headset profile.

I recently went through this with a new Windows laptop. It was quite a shock after being in the Mac world for years how bad an experience Windows and headphones is.
They also mentioned being able to use it with gloves on. You'll need bigger controls for that. Plus reading and interacting with it underwater probably is better with a bigger screen as well.
Until you get moon dust in the gears!
> did he really understand the theory well enough or were most of his "experiments" let's toss this stuff together and see what's happens

At least, you can show some respect to him and read a bit to understand his inventions. He developed the alternating-current power system that provides electricity for homes and buildings, so without you may not have typed your comment.
"your subscription to emergency services has ended, have a nice day.". We are going to have to make laws to wrangle this kind of rent seeking that preys upon people. Apple should not be creating this network, it should be public infrastructure, same as GPS.
It's also possible that their Bluetooth stack for the AirPods is likely sharing a lot of code with their battle-tested iOS stack which puts even Android's to shame (I worked at both places and even Googler's acknowledged Android has some serious problems and Apple kicked there ass here).

A sibling noted the H1 chip and whatnot. I don't know how much the specific chip matters for that piece (certainly key for battery life & having both buds appear as a single device). After all, their Bluetooth stack was better than the competition even back when they were using off the shelf chips. Still, it's possible off the shelf chips for acting as the master are somehow simpler than the chips for acting as a slave (or maybe you notice it more).
It's too nitpick. If I think too deep, your body needs more energy if you don't use electric tools, so you need more foods to feed energy but perhaps every foods aren't carbon neutral for farming tools, fertilizer, and transportation.
What do you mean by biological organisms? Don’t humans fall under that category?

Saying bureaucracies are inefficient is just stating stating very common knowledge. Yes, large systems are difficult to control. Especially so when we’re talking about creatures like us with emotions, desires, a need to socialize with others, etc.

I’d love to hear what better structure/design you have in mind that would scale better and be less inefficient.

Fundamentally, groups of people need to have a leader in order to cooperate towards achieving some goal that each individual by themselves cannot achieve. And groups of leaders need a higher leader. The optimum group size is up for debate but not this fundamental requirement for this general structure.

How do you make sure you don’t have bad leaders? Sorry you can’t. That’s an inevitable byproduct of being humans and not machines you can precisely measure and score.
Yeah, for the curious go to Settings -> Safari (perfectly natural place) and then scroll down to "TABS". "Single Tab" has the address bar at the top.
We should bring back the entire industry of leech breeders and sellers for bloodletting, too.
I had always heard that the regular Apple Watch was one of the smaller (smallest?) smart watches out there. Is that not the case?
What was your signal that it was bumped by mods?
In your initial post, you said: "As for "voluntary" euthanasia: don't even start. There is no such thing."

That means that you're wrong to say anecdotes aren't data. An anecdote is a single data point, but a single data point is all you need to disprove an absolute (like the one you just gave). One person's anecdote that they would voluntarily choose euthanasia is sufficient data to prove you wrong.
It sounds like you're talking about robotic process automation (rpa) rather than ML, unless you mean something specific like receipt scanning (which expensive has). There are many companies in the rpa space. What's an example of a task you would want to see automated.
Ok it’s raining or snowing or very hot outside - I’m not throwing 3 kids into a wheelbarrow fitted to a bike and doing that. What an awful way to live.

Why does it matter how many parents? One could be away or working and the other has to go 5 miles to Costco or whatever. Your little bike things don’t work. Also there are lots of single parents with 3+ kids.

I don’t want your terrible solution or way of life. I like having a large home with a large lawn and a large SUV to drive my family where we want when we want. I take trains and walk too and use strollers of course. But that’s like 20% of the time. Your comment reads like a person who doesn’t have kids.
The tone of the article and the headline are heartening. 20 years ago, it would have been "GWC partners with government contractor" and it would not have been news at all.
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Saying "train wrecks" to disprove the point is like saying "A glance through history shows the aftermath of countless modern medicine train crashes."

I don't know about you, but despite the "train wrecks" in modern medicine, I'm still a believer.
> chant death to America

While literally true, Marg bar Amrika is used to mean something closer to "Down with America". Just like saying damn isn't wishing eternal suffering upon someone. It's an expression.

> Nothing we did truly changed their path

A literal coup didn't truly change their path?
Reading your comment, my final thought was that essentially if you want to maintain another computer, similar to your desktop, buy an Android phone. Research and install your ROM of choice, route it and install the programs you want, and you are responsible to make sure it all works.

If you don’t want yet another computer to maintain consuming hours of your time, buy an iPhone.

I do use Android for my streaming set top boxes, because of that flexibility. Devices like the Fire TV are flexible, like having an energy efficient and much more affordable version of a PC. But for my phone, for such an essential device that just has to work, it’s too much to ask out of me.
Why? We don't have an SQLite offering; we do Postgres.
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The word you're looking for is "Gamification" and I honestly, I fucking hate it. The problem with Gamification in this context is that apps like Duolingo that uses Gamification to award you good boy points (daily streak) in the form of streak building mainly to build up "good habits". Unfortunately, the reality is that there is only so much what one app can do before it starts holding you back and become detrimental, but because of the gamification aspects of an app and how some people really really want their good boy points they don't want to abandon it and deep down, they probably don't want to. Now some people just end up thinking that one app is the one and be all solution and end up being "expert beginners" while in reality, they had to abandon it and do something deeper (like reading an actual book in another language) or else they'll never learn to being competent.

You can even take this further with reading books. Sure, you can get a star by reading a book for like an hour a day...if you're using Apple's iBook or whatever. That just means you're locked out of other books not on that platform or books you have in other unsupported formats or gasp physical books.
Still getting this same error for past 10-12 hours. Tried in different times.

{
"code": 500,
"message": "internal server error"
}

Does anyone have luck? Any workaround to fix it?
Well, it's better, for one.

Instead of the money potentially being used by the government, where on paper everyone is a shareholder.

Now you pass that money to a company, where the beneficiaries are a restricted set of shareholders and top executives.

Much better!
Classifying humans into hire or no-hire is literally the point of every recruiting process. I’ve heard that random selection is as good as various interviewing techniques, but I have to admit I’m skeptical. Though I do agree that doing better than drawing lots should definitely be table stakes for any hiring or promotion process.
Amazon’s CEO still isn’t accepting the historic Staten Island union victory
Not even older folks. The technologically exhausted, too. I write code for a living and hack on hardware as a hobby. When I go on a walk or just want to chill out, I absolutely love when this kind of stuff just works. I will (and do) pay a massive premium for that. Major respect to the developers, it's obviously a feat. The haters can go recompile gentoo :)
The comments on that bug are depressing as well. I generally am involved in much more niche development communities - is this kind of disrespectful back and forth the standard these days?
Money Can’t Buy Class. Or Can It?
They are able to swoop in and lock up supply better than any company and turn the screws on them to produce exactly what Apple needs.
> fully open source and you're free to verify

How did that work out for Log4j? Is trust but verify really trust at all?
I'd suggest ... not, for the most part.

Though there's the option of planting little long-focus concentration seeds by dropping references to both longer-form high-quality works and the mindset that it takes to absorb them within more accessible materials. Books have pretty much always had an accessibility problem --- they're hard to publicise and attract readers to, and there's a considerable infrastructure that's been set up in all manner of contexts to make this easier, including lectures (academic, public, business), interviews, serial and excerpt publications, etc. The fields of education and pedagogy (amongst others) are consumed with this challenge --- minds are not simply buckets into which torrents of content should be jetted.

It seems somewhat similar to me to autopsy and dissection --- the goal is to open up the body and reveal the interesting bits inside, ultimately with the hope that some might find a way to appreciate the integrated (and still functioning) whole. Books, unlike humans, typically survive such treatments.

I see the two approaches as bringing deep content to the distracted (what you're proposing) vs. calming the distracted and bringing them to deep content and teaching the process of attending. Ultimately I think we're going to need the latter. Though some morsal-isation may be of use. Keep in mind that there's been a long history of this throughout the history of media technologies (cuneiform, papayrus, codices, books, photography, phonography, video, computer games, ...), most of high excpectations and exceedingly limited success.
But somehow Saudi Arabia, which is worse in every way is fine.
> It is time to standardize a multi voltage DC connector so I can connect all my electronic devices directly to mains without the need of any converter.

We actually have that connector already: it's the USB-C connector, together with the USB-PD protocol. And with its Programmable Power Supply mode, an arbitrary voltage can be requested.

> It is time to pressure power distributors to provide huge powerful converters just like they do with transformers, This way we could have quality cheap DC inside our homes without any of these numerous redundant dubious quality converters we need today.

You'd still need one per device, though. At the voltages and currents used by most electronic devices, the voltage drop between separate wall sockets would be enough to have one or more of them be outside the correct voltage range (to start with, you'd need a sense wire to each socket so that the power source knows how much to increase the source voltage to compensate for the power drop in the wiring; from which socket would the sense wire come if a single DC/DC converter is supplying more than one?). Not to mention that it would either waste a lot of power as heat (within your walls), or require thick (and more expensive) cables. And that's before considering that what some devices really want is constant current, not constant voltage (IIRC, LED lamps are one example of that).

It makes much more sense to distribute a higher voltage, and convert it to a lower voltage next to the device itself. It's more efficient, allows for thinner cabling, and since you're already converting voltages, you can use AC which has its own advantages.
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Property tax is regressive. Income tax is better.
meant fordpass, not the self driving
Pipenv is pretty nice, I still use it. Kenneth Reitz really has a knack for interfaces and making things easier for developers to use.

The fiasco was that he was not the best at maintaining projects, and used his popularity from tablib and requests to get pipenv recommended by the PyPA well before it was ready for general use. Then around the same time there was a few scandals I don't remember the details of, something about a developer being mad that Kenneth kept the money being donated to requests. It ended up with all of his popular projects being maintained by others.

I wish the response from the PyPA was to go full in on pipenv and just keep improving it at the same rate it was in the beginning. Instead it stagnated.
Poetry came out fragmenting the ecosystem even more. And quite a few developers gave up on virtual environments in favor of docker.

pipenv started having regular releases again and have kept it going for the past few years. I like it enough to not want to put any effort into switching, but in 2017/2018 it really felt like the next big thing. It makes me sad to think that we all lost out because of politics.
Barely.

In principle, railways would not be difficult to automate. But it hasn't happened at scale yet because industry regulations require that trains be manned, and railroad unions would strenuously object to any suggestion that this be changed (since it would likely put a lot of conductors out of their jobs).
Clubs tend to pick known routes as well.
This isn’t an AirPods specific issue, it’s a Windows issue. My laptop does the same thing with my galaxy buds where it shows two devices when I connect them. One of them uses the Bluetooth profile for headphones which sounds decent and the other uses the profile for headsets which sounds like garbage but that is needed in order to have the bandwidth to use the built in mic.
Spice rack full of med bottles surrounded by a clamp that activates on a lever allowing the cap to be twisted without second hand present
I think I intuitively agree with you, but I don't think it's as simple as "just do X and don't do Y".

It's akin to saying "Just choose to read a book. Drop heroin".

We'd like to think we have such control, but the fact is that these things are addictive and one can't simply "just stop" without a process and a culture that promotes these processes.
I think it’s supposed to be C without all the pain and misery. C++ without pain and misery is allegedly Rust :).

But we were thrown into C and UNIX when I was at university. I think I’ll have Bus Error and Segmentation Fault core dump messages etched on my gravestone and may be request that the flower vases be labeled gdb (I forget the native debugger that came with the UNIX flavor I was using).

Either way we did data structures and algorithms with Pascal. But I think c should be essential learning from a systems perspective. Maybe I’m too old though.
Apple doesn’t store your location on their servers in a way that can be used by law enforcement.
Walmart is a pretty shitty place to work. I worked for one summer at one right after the took away the ESOP that made many early employees wealthy. The managers are move around and are company lifers, it’s a weird culture.

McDonalds isn’t too bad if your need for shifts lined up with their demand peaks. The managers are the most exploited.
Correct, anything that can run iOS 13 can run 15.

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

C-f for "Supported OS release" and there's a chart showing which devices support which OS. 12 was "sticky" in that it was the last one supporting the 5S and 6. 15 will be similarly sticky given the range of devices (6S/SE(2016)/7) that will be stuck with it and will probably get several more years of security updates as a result.
See an audiologist and ask what they think about the volume limit.
Yeah, I used eSIM throughout Europe 2018-2020 without any issue, keeping my Verizon SIM in the physical slot.
Faraday bag or turned off in a freezer “stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
> No action is needed from you but stay alert for scams.... especially leading up to the Merge. Don’t send your ETH to anyone in an attempt to “upgrade to ETH2” as there is no ETH2 token. Once The Merge is complete, there will be no differentiation between ETH 1 and ETH 2, which have since been renamed the execution and consensus layer, respectively.