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> They are a de facto monopoly on online advertisement networks worldwide.

that's not true, there are plenty of competition, meta, tiktok, reddit, display exchanges, amazon, apple. If they will deliver better ROI from ads, advertisers will be happy to switch budgets from google.
That's fine, I guess, but I think plenty of people would get rid of their car if public transit was more ubiquitous, reliable, and convenient. Even people (like myself) who would choose to still have a car in that scenario, we might use the car less often, which would reduce wear and tear on it (thus increasing the length of its useful life). That would also serve to reduce demand for new vehicles.
Sridhar Vembu, the founder, is famously responsible for training kids in rural India in software development and associated skills, hiring them post-training, and being responsible for long lasting careers of many youth who couldn't otherwise dream of a career in software development.

He established Zoho Schools (https://www.zohoschools.com/) that trains these kids and provides a stipend for them. The company has offices in Tenkasi, a small Tamilnadu town. His twitter handle (https://twitter.com/svembu) is worth a read for his thoughts on small towns, education, infrastructure, and social entrepreneurship in general.
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I’ve had the same thought. I think the tough bit is getting a clean image of all the pieces. Without controlling the background and lighting it would be quite tough
I'd settle for subsidized ebikes and safer bike lanes. Not for everyone obviously, but in my world that would get a lot more people out of their cars.
Good public transit would be great too though.
It's true that the rise in position of the 3rd party sellers puts a dent in the argument, but there was quite a long period without them that we can examine as recent history.
I hear this claim a lot, especially by Apple brand enthusiasts, but is there really any data supporting this?

From my memory Apple is just often late to the party. Especially for 4G and LTE.
I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted - sounds like good advice to me.
No, Fargate has its own mechanism for this as far as I know. However, if this is a usecase for you please open an issue and we'll look into writing a backend for Fargate.

One of the plans after the current release is creating a pluggable backend system. This is currently not possible and backends are, unfortunately, fairly hard to write.
> ultimately it's going to be done almost exclusively in buildings that are mortgage free.

Not at all. Your commercial mortgage lender will always help you increase the productivity of your asset. Phone call. Excel docs. Talk terms. Lawyers. Done.

If you don't know this, nobody loaned you $#,#00M and you'll never need this advice
Surprised I don't see Miles (https://www.linkedin.com/in/miles-detrixhe-32a979122/) on here - I remember the initial prototypes for this were his.
Cool. There’s a startup working on something very similar, and they also have a fast audio inference engine and raspberry pi implementation: https://waveshaper.ai
> In the long term, this could severely impact the perception of Google for prospective employees, which in turn could hinder their ability to hire talent.

it could be opposite, talents usually interested in challenging work with appropriate rewards, while current message is about cutting mediocre employees.
> pre-Y2K teenage boy

I'm not sure what you mean by that. It's been 22 years since the year 2000, so it sounds like you're describing a temporal impossibility.
I'd rather have a private jet, too, but I don't think my personal desires are the only salient factor here.
Google employs ~30k software engineers, each making a ridiculously high salary, yet 80% of their revenue comes from ads (a field which they have a monopoly over).

The products people use every day (Gmail, maps, search, chrome) are nearly 15-20 years old at this point.

Google makes themselves out to be an innovative company that hires the best engineers in the world, but I'm struggling to think of anything notable they've created over the past decade.
I have an app that scans my paper and tells me what to draw. It's pretty great.
Well it’s quite clearly integrated into the iCloud system. Why would you think that it works for local photos without iCloud?

A known CSAM photo gets added to photos on an iPhone with iCloud disabled – what happens next? What do you think is the mechanism for that getting reported?
what does having high amounts of leave matter if you can't afford to do much with it?
I hate to be the guy bringing up crypto, but case in point: look at the design trends happening there. Curve finance was cool partly because it looks like Windows 3.1
I watched a documentary that featured a hereditary lord who rented out his lands to hunting, events, tenents and takes about how his family had done this for hundreds of years.

I think it’s not just the literal king, but also all the other remaining royalty.

Perhaps privatization is a better path than nationalization. It just seems quite unjust to have literal hereditary land that cannot be transferred.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll remove it from the drive then.
I doubt they'd be a suitable replacement for Li-Ion, since their energy density is so much lower. They could be a great replacement for lead-acid batteries (batteries present in ICE cars), and probably some other applications, like when you want a rechargeable battery, but you don't care quite so much about the space required or weight. Unfortunately, when it comes to a phone, laptop, or EV, you really do care a lot about the space and weight.
And it's running on a redbean [0] server!

[0]: https://redbean.dev
yes we were
> what's the point of humans having a replacement rate when a smaller population can be a lot richer and better off?

It's arguable whether a smaller population can be a lot richer and better off. More people = More specialization and more minds solving problems = faster advancement = better living for everyone.

Yes I get you can make your own progression that goes negative. The point is not that more people = better. It's that less people = better is not a fact, it's an opinion or conjecture
Totally agree. All though in modern times they’ll just watch ten YouTube / Netflix / paramount+ videos where some dude builds Lego shit. Look at all the Minecraft videos out there.

I kinda wonder if it’s us who needs to catch up. I mean I watch city skylines videos, FPV videos, and gun videos. All those are inspiration for my hobbies. What’s the difference between that and a Lego or “LOL surprise” video my kid watches?

Dunno dude. Kinda think we are the old geezers in this one.
TBH this reads more like a Piedmont Lithium (USofA) problem than it does a Global Resources (world) problem.

Over half of the worlds known lithium reserves (ie roughly measured) are undeveloped in places like Bolivia (with 21 million tonnes out of the known 89 million tonnes) and other not-USofA locations.

I stress known as that is distinct from "all" as it is restricted to those deposits that have been sufficiently exploration drilled to form an estimate.

> Projects get permitted [in Australia] in under a year,” Phillips explained. “Here, it's two, four, six, seven, eight years, which is a problem, especially in a business that's booming so fast.”

is, in my opinion, the crux of this article and interview. Phillips wants to mine more and faster within the US.

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> Google employs ~30k software engineers, each making a ridiculously high salary

I think current google salary can even be below market average.

> yet 80% of their revenue comes from ads (a field which they have a monopoly over).

ads is just way of monetization, actual product portfolio is very diverse.

> The products people use every day (Gmail, maps, search, chrome) are nearly 15-20 years old at this point.

My understanding is that they switched from idea of building tons of lower quality products some of which survived to full focus on fewer areas. Current focus is AI and cloud, where there is enough space for innovation.
Every other day I see some new machine learning post here about how you can make a computer generate all sorts of content. A few days ago I saw an article about AI generated art winning first prize in some contest, people lost their minds when it was revealed the art was generated by AI.

I don't think holodeck style content generation technology is too far off. Maybe one day they'll generate computer code too.
Accurate though.

I think Trump has been a wonderful diversion for particular sectors of society. All they have to do is accuse their critics of being Trump supporters and immediately they become the good guys. No matter their self-interested behaviour or transparent attempts at deflection.
It sounds like the ambiguity should be resolved the other way around, as "person who was a teenage boy before Y2K", rather than "person from before Y2K who is a teenage boy".
I'm about to move to a bikable area and I am planning to do an ebike conversion. I am suuuper excited to finally have an electric vehicle, and the actual energy usage is super low! A 0.9 kWh pack will take you 60 miles and costs ten cents to fill up.

People talk about electric cars versus trains but subsidized ebikes are something we can do now and would make a huge difference! Just the idea that I can ebike to the BART station, hop on the train and end up all over the bay, ebike where I need to go and get back all for a few dollars is exciting.
I would also mention "The Linux Programming Interface"
Book by Michael Kerrisk, for being a comprehensive single volume reference for most of Linux userspace API. If you have it by your side, it will save you lots of googling.
Plumbing for both fresh and black water in many office buildings are limited to specific areas for high capacity restrooms, so you might have a large supply to one spot. That's not practical for housing, in which each unit needs its own plumbing.

Retrofitting all that additional plumbing is expensive.
Not everyone's first language is English.

I understood exactly what they meant.

It's cool, I do this myself sometimes thinking people are talking about the US just because I live here.

Just try and be a bit more open minded?
I took approach #3 for 5 blocks. Surprisingly, that's good enough to get on the leaderboard, at least till someone keeps a simple script running longer than me.

I do wonder what an IPv6 version of this would look like, but how it'd work, and how active it'd be.
EV (currently) demands lithium and ICE uses lead. Why are we not running out of lead?
1.Lead batteries my be old tech, but it means we've had time to have a recycling process that recovers almost all of the lead one the battery.
2. There is a lot more battery in an EV. My pickup has 2 large batteries, but they don't even come close to the size, weight or volume of the battery in a small EV.
I found it incredibly entertaining. I'd definitely recommend anyone watch at least through the second scene, at which point you'll probably know whether you'll enjoy the rest of the 3+ hour movie or not.
Rats, I have a large pile of 10 to 60lb stones in my yard and was slightly excited by the headline.
What does it mean to be "VP of xxx" in the Zig community?
I find it hard to take seriously an article that suggests we'll still be using the same battery chemistry some 28 years from now.

The number of compounding innovations likely to take place between now and then is certainly a lot based on historical precedent, and I think it's bonkers to not factor that in.

If scarcity is really that much of an issue, even a less efficient chemistry could supplant lithium. But a more likely outcome is we'll use something novel that we can't foresee from this moment in time. And the future science journalists will write about how we don't have enough of that either.
> more liberal minded folks that are more compassionate on those issues.

Shouldn’t everyone have compassion for the poor and needy?
You can compete with Facebook by creating another social media site, as TikTok and Snapchat have demonstrated.

Google search has 92% market share. It is an ad monopoly in the areas it controls.
> I'm not willing to front that kind of cash on something that might be terrible.

I think there's a trial period, but yeah the pricing is steep ($45/yr). Probably worth it for enthusiasts, but much less appropriate for kids.
Are they leapfrogging their competition or just keeping pace with the first place going alternatively to Apple and Android chips every generation where simply the newest chip is the fastest?
FWIW, I've lived in a converted office building in Seattle. It was actually pretty nice, much nicer than most purpose-built apartment buildings. When they did the conversion, they re-engineered the interior pretty heavily and re-purposed some existing elevator shafts for other purposes that weren't required prior to the conversion.

Some office buildings will be more amenable to conversion than others, so part of this would likely be selecting buildings for conversion where the conversion is both straightforward and will produce nice apartments. You want buildings that have many floors but relatively small area per floor.
Apartments full of people sitting in some tiny room all day zooming into their meetings. Imagine allocating 25% of your expensive 1200sqft apartment for your work from home office. 25% allocated to the sole use of your employer. And it isn’t even tax deductible because you are a w2. It’s like Uber only instead of people using their own property to drive other people around they are using their own home to benefit your employer. Behold the brave new dystopian future.

This stuff is a fad. I don’t care what people say. Sitting on some tiny urban apartment working at home all day makes zero sense. Neither does paying for some co-working space to escape said tiny apartment. Might as well go to the office… oh wait… same thing in this brave “new normal”

All we are seeing is the rebirth of white flight to the suburbs branded as some kind of new revolution in tech work.

It’s a fad. Covid mitigations we’re temporary. Pendulum is gonna swing back. It’s just a matter of time.
Ask HN: Should Governments Set OKRs?
Anyone who has observed American politics for the last few decades would’ve noticed that the party out of power has been incentivized to block any policy change to prevent the party in power to have any sort of legislative wins. We’ve seen very little compromise as a result.

Countries do have pretty clear objectives: keep unemployment low, increase life expectancy, increase disposable income, reduce premature death, etc. Those things are relatively easy to track (we already do that). If we were to reward elected officials (and bureaucrats) for meeting or exceeding those objectives, then it would provide them the incentive to do the best job they can, regardless of who is President or in the majority.

I’d imagine the reward in this case would not just be cash. I’m thinking it should be some sort of security that pays a dividend, perhaps an annuity. The idea there is to not reward short-termism, nor does it try to tease out who did what. If you do a good job and have an impact, voters would keep you in office and you’d get more grants. And the rewards there should be substantial—hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars per year, or maybe even more.

Example: Each USSU (United States Stock Unit) pays out $10K for reaching 100% of the year’s KRs (key result). KRs are set for five years in advance (so 2027’s KR would be set this year). The KRs might be something like increase life expectancy by 4 years, keep average unemployment below 4.5%, increase disposable income for each income quintile by 8%, etc. Some independent committee would need to decide what those targets are and what formula is used to determine payouts and what the range of possible payouts would be (I know, easier said than done). So even if everything gets worse, they would still payout, unless life expectancy fell to zero (which is the worst possible outcome).
I wanted to respond to the cult of ignorance link separately, because I think a different point is being made here.

Since Asimov has written this I think life has changed somewhat, and yet not at all.

So much of his essay rings true, but today the slogans for the masses happen as much in the written as on the spoken word.

Social media shows that people can read. That they can write.
Indeed exposing your thoughts in a written tweet can have major implications for your future self.

The root of populism is not the failure to read, it is the desire to conform. You accept the limitations of your tribe, and toe the party line, because to do otherwise leaves you alone in the wind.

The politician who stands on principle against the tide is swiftly consumed by it.

If you dare to think for yourself then you are an Elitist, that worst of all badges.

If you dare to have a politically incorrect thought, if a past version of you is imperfect, if your contrition is not sincere enough, your penance incomplete, then the faceless mob awaits.

There is safety in a quiet life, keep your head down and chant with the rest.

Yes things have changed, but things are the same. Turns out the learning to read does not make us better people.
In Singapore. Cars are not convenient. MRT is far better than owning a car.
> how is it possible we can distract ourselves from contemplating it

That's nothing. We routinely ignore amazing things. It is required for us to go about our lives.

What I would like is to be able to summon the amazement at will without it losing its sharpness over repeated contemplation.
A longer-term re-think might have us using e-bikes or e-scooters for the last-mile, and using buses / commuter rail to get to nearby waypoints.
Sure. Good public transportation is always desirable. I just don't want it to be an argument against electric cars which would be a huge improvement.
OP here, I've added server timing headers to https://content-parser.com/, the total fetch+parse is taking me around 0.6-1.2s. The local parsing as a separated step is sync, so I expected it to be negligible but it actually takes a good chunk, often 500-700ms! A lot more than I thought/expected here, I haven't seen any backend error yet but at some point might have to move this to a different thread or similar.
Project Fugu DevRel here (https://twitter.com/tomayac)! The way to approach this is with progressive enhancement wherever possible. See https://web.dev/svgcode/ for an example where I try to make this concrete. Well noting that if your app depends on hardware APIs like WebHID, this approach obviously won’t work. What you can always do, though, is let other browser vendors know how and why you want them to support Fugu APIs.
What are tier 2 and 3 cities refer to? I've never heard of cities referred to in this manner
They must have been inspired by this PyCon presentation, where David Beazley live codes a fully working webassembly interpreter, in under one hour. https://youtu.be/VUT386_GKI8
The pricing is high, but I'd pay nearly that much just for that counts my bricks, even better if he points them out in the picture
I don't see life as a way to be remembered. I see life as a way to enjoy yourself and help others enjoy themselves. Following that train of thought, doing something that betters more people's lives is an arguably positive thing and many of the ways of helping others better their lives require lots of work. Who cares if no one is around after the heat death of the universe. People are alive now.

Many people's lives are pretty nice now, especially compared to say 150+ years ago where people had little time for leisure because they had to farm all day or clean clothing all day and cook.

I can certainly imagine we'll get the post scarcity world where even more people will have all their basic needs met. I'd like to be small part of helping to get us there whether or not anyone remembers me. And, I'd go even further, it's better than a life of "not giving a fuck because nothing matters".

"not giving a fuck because nothing matters" to me means you can murder people because nothing matters. It's all just space dust so who cares if you rearrange that pile of space dust from a thinking feeling person into a pile a goo. I don't buy into that.
The expansion of space is entirely consistent with special relativity (the source of the "cosmic speed limit"). What relativity says is that the speed of light is consistent in all reference frames, which leads to all the phenomena you've heard about, such as time dilation, redshifting, and the upper bound on velocity. However, you have to understand that space and time are the same substance called "spacetime", and adding new space changes the basis of your velocity measurement (v = dx/dt). It's entirely possible that adding space between two regions can cause those regions to separate at a velocity faster than light in either reference frame, because space is the `dx` in the formula.

Another apparent violation of the speed limit occurs beyond the event horizon of a black hole. Space itself is drawn to the singularity faster than light.
> Google search has 92% market share.

its generic search, when you go to vertical searches, say Amazon may beat google for shopping searches. Reddit can build good search one day, and many people including me will switch to searching inside reddit, instead of adding "reddit" to google search query.

You are right, google is currently generic search monopoly, but we were talking about ads, and there are plenty of other ads verticals.
Breakthrough in understanding of cancer is caused
If possible, can you please link the comments? I really like to read anything on Bellard
the old icon made me realize i yearn for something. it took me back to the first few versions of mac os x. i didn't realize how much i missed from those days, and now i both realize it and have a word for what's missing: personality.

it's kind of blowing my mind.
Which I think is the correct way to handle a CSS file, but it's not render blocking if you dynamically load it in with JS. That is what Critical path CSS is combatting against, the "FUIC" or flash of unstyled content, which of course is because people are loading in CSS asynchronously. A problem we created for ourselves.

A lot of new approaches atomically separate the CSS and JS into dozens of smaller files that load in as the parts of the website that need them load in. Critial CSS is likely also a response to the issues that this approach creates.

As the article alludes to, they're ideas that makes total sense clinically, but falls short really quickly in practice.
If desires aren't a factor, they should be. I'm willing to spend money on a car that I can charge at home like a smartphone. It would reduce my fuel costs to zero because I have a lot of solar panels. I'll even install more solar panels if necessary.

The so called free market needs to make it happen. If there's a lithium shortage, then mine more.
Because most office buildings have plumbing run up a narrow corridor, rather than branching out on each floor, as you would need to serve plumbing to separate units.
The link says who will be in charge, not that there was a true emergency requiring switching the perfectly working fresh water source to disgusting water. The state governor took over most operations due to the "emergency" and poisoned thousands of people who will be poisoned for life, and got away with it. I credit that to criminal negligence, or to be nice, incompetence, but hardly an actual budget issue. https://apnews.com/article/health-crime-michigan-indictments...
A lot of these seem like positive things. Photofilters are all the rage bith for novelty photos and "candid" pictures. Apparently displaying imperfections, injuries, and illnesses wasn't the apect of photography's realism that drew people in.