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But humans thousands of years ago made decisions that make our lives today possible. Aren’t you glad that you had the chance to exist and enjoy your own life?

I highly recommend Ian McCaskill‘s recent book “ what we owe the future.” He makes a compelling rational argument that it makes no less sense to discount future generations than it does to discount physically distant people who are suffering today.
uhhhh no? i don't think most countries levy extra random taxes on the super-rich until their military budgets are met. also i get really fed up with people pretending that military spending is anywhere close to entitlement spending these days. yeah it's too high but please don't both-sides it.

it's unfortunate but usually when there's a downturn, revenues drop. yes including from the super-rich, whose net worths are usually more not less volatile. so now what?
> To force everyone to fully commit to their current strategy.

I agree the destruction of the pipeline does have this effect, but Russia seemingly wants NATO support for Ukraine to falter, not persist. Russia seems to want NATO to deviate from their current strategy.
and for >3A special cables that signal that they can handle 5A are required.
Why is everyone assuming you'd be there when they pop?

You could lay explosives months in advance and remotely trigger them or have them on a timer.
Yes - our users run queries across hundreds of AWS accounts and regions. TBH, we never expected it to scale that far when we started, but it has. Steampipe parallelizes the API calls out and performs appropriate backoff in throttling to gather the results.

Steampipe does the API calls needed for the column data requested [1]. So "select instance_id from aws_ec2_instance" is much faster than "select id, tags from aws_ec2_instance" (which does a tags API call per row). But, it will still work better than you expect, and Steampipe caches results in memory to make subsequent queries instant.

1 - https://steampipe.io/blog/selective-select
> Utility companies, e.g. electricity suppliers, don’t check whether you’re using the utility for illegal purposes.

This is not exactly true.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/26/ice-pri...
Thanks for the feedback. This is helpful.
That'll show him the next time he opens HN!
hah, i didn't say it was a simple problem to solve :)
A less sensational take is also provided by https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o2303
I'm mad at myself for getting dragged into this, but. Leaving aside the fact that array indexes are not continuous in the way ruler measurements are, what does it say that you just called it the 1st inch, not the 0th?
rich people are still very much net contributors. cutting the top tax rate will still leave them paying a high tax rate on a large income. if the choice is some super-rich people money and no super-rich people money it seems smart to choose "some".
because people have different risk tolerances? derivatives let you pick a "middle way" instead of having to pick the best of a few options. you can customize your risk/reward tradeoff to whatever you want and that's generally a good thing.
...borrowing more money and minting new bonds, and committing to do that indefinitely in the future, while your central bank is literally trying to QT at the same time, is not "financial tightening". they've had to go back to QE temporarily to stop a liquidity crunch because the midwit running fiscal policy decided to run literally the opposite direction. and worse, he didn't just do it for a year, he committed indefinitely into the future to keep doing it and keep printing more bonds. so yeah the gilt got hella whipsawed but there's a reason it happened in england when all the other countries are tightening as well.
Assuming he played since the launch of RDR2 on Stadia then it's about 6 hours a day, and considering we are talking about a YouTuber it could be work.
That's a good point, but if one were thinking with the mindset you describe then one probably wouldn't be susceptible to the entreaties from their handler in the first place. I think you're not giving credit to how that relationship actually works and the personalities involved, especially the flipped resource.
Prior to Microsoft changing things with Vista, drivers were free to rummage about and break systems. Blue screens were a common thing back then because drivers weren't careful. It's why Vista had such a bad rap for breaking systems; It exposed the driver authors who didn't care about safety.

Also, why does every kernel-safety measure have to be seen as anti-user or DRM? You're free to disable it[0] if you wish, just like Apple's SIP. It's there to keep users who don't know anything safe. Would you like it if an innocent looking piece of software was able to hide itself from the user (read: you) and the OS?[1] Preventing such attacks doesn't sound anti-user to me.

[0]: https://windowsloop.com/disable-enable-device-guard-windows-...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
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>Variable length instruction coding for instance, which means a surprising amount of power is dedicated to circuitry which is just to find where the instruction boundaries are for speculative execution.

This does apply to x86 and m68k, as "variable" there means 1-16 byte, and dealing with that means bruteforcing decode at every possible starting point. Intel and AMD have both thus found 4-wide decode to be a practical limit.

It does not apply to RISC-V, where you get either 32bit or 2x 16bit. The added complexity of using the C extension is negligible, to the point where if a chip has any cache or rom in it, using C becomes a net benefit in area and power.

Therefore, ARMv8 AArch64 made a critical mistake in adopting a fixed 32bit opcode size. A mistake we can see in practice when looking at the L1 cache size that Apple M1 needed to compensate for poor code density.

L1 is never free. It is always *very* costly: Its size dictates area the cache takes, clocks the cache itself can achieve (which in turns caps the speed of the CPU), and power the cache draws.
Pretty obvious sabotage. Neither a whale, nor a trawl can do it. Who benefits is a different question.

Russia is economically damaged but once deciding that selling gas to Europe is not more an option, Putin has now a plausible excuse to not fulfill the gas contracts anymore, without being economically penalized for breaking those contracts, because... not my fault.

It is desperate also to spark the flames of war in their population. So can use also the issue as leverage to force apathetic Russian people that for some strange reason don't like to die to accept the new situation.

If Russian people keep refusing to fight in the war, the war is over. And if Russia lose this war, Putin is politically dead and will be removed from the power by any means necessary. And removed means, probably killed by its own people. He needs to put their citizens in a much worse situation, so can justify a full call to arms.

European Union does not have nothing to gain with this.

USA could benefit as gas seller and to force Putin to not use nuclear arms in Ukraine near the remaining pipes. Putin went to Belarus only few days ago.

Other could benefit for undisclosed reasons. (Edited the China could benefit part, it was clearly a stupid idea)
I think the reason is that the indexing paragraph comes across as quite misinformed. The age of the baby would be 1 year even in 0 based indexing (age is a duration, not an index). And pointers are only one of many places where 0 based indexing is more natural.
I keep my important info on paper.
I think they calculated that the Nord Stream projects are pretty much dead in the current circumstances. It was a political project to start with.

Also, I think it is a statement to EU: your underwater infrastructure is not safe.
6 gauge usb type a connector would be cruel. Get it wrong the first time? enjoy your workout.
The website UI is broken on mobile.

https://postimg.cc/gn3X2K1W
The problem is NATO keeps delivering crippling responses, but Russia has not backed down yet.
I wonder what is the appropriate response to a tactical nuke. Hopefully not another one.
Transnistria will welcome Russians with open arms and Moldavians have no army basically
Stadia launched in November 2019, so not even 3 years ago.
Better information should in theory help with problems caused by lack of information. How it's implemented makes all the difference, of course. I have no idea what if anything this law will actually do.
Some other noteworthy texts.

Musk: I interface way better with engineers who are able to do hardcore programming than with program manager / MBA types of people

Agrawal: In our next convo- treat me like an engineer instead of CEO and lets see where we get to.

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Musk: I basically following your advice!

Dorsey: I know and I appreciate you. This is the right and only path. I’ll continue to do whatever it takes to make it work.

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Marc Benioff: Happy to talk about it if this is interesting: Twitter conversational OS- the townsquare for your digital life

Musk: Well I down own it yet

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Satya Nadella: Thx for the chat. Will stay in touch. And will for sure follow-up on Teams feedback!

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Musk: Please send me anyone who actually writes good software

Steve Jurvetson: Ok, no management good coders, got it.
Cable fires are caused by the current flowing through a wire exceeding its current rating

Voltage is largely irrelevant

Have a look at the gauge of mains wires (~14-22 AWG) compared to what you'd put on a serious 12V-48V battery (2-8 AWG)
Yes, but recreating the PS2 is an order of magnitude more complicated than a PS1, which is still a massive undertaking for an individual. Even supposing we had a cheap enough FPGA, who would write the HDL to simulate a PS2?
I have a Home Pod mini in my kitchen which is powered via USB-C. Right now Its just using Apple's 18 w power brick. One of these days I mean to to install on of those mains outlets with built in USB-C ports:

https://www.leviton.com/en/products/residential/usb-wall-out...

It will eliminate a bulky adapter and let me use the plug for things that actually need AC, like my toaster or kettle.

One wonders if it will start becoming common to have all plugs in newer/refab houses have these and they will be okay enough for most people.

This is a little different then what your talking about, but both could be the norm. I imagine the form of what your talking about would be that power strips with a bunch of type - c ports on them (and maybe some AC) replace the power strips we use now.
This just doesn't make sense. The pipeline's current and future value was worth more than any breach of contract. It's really just basic math and grade school logic.

Somebody didn't want Germany making a deal with Russia after the reality of winter sets in.
uh, Bloomberg's original business was selling computer systems.

" Bloomberg developed and built his own computerized system to provide real-time market data, financial calculations and other financial analytics to Wall Street firms. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_L.P.

Microsoft's original thing was NOT philanthropy.
Bing won't index one of my online programming books (original content, no ads, no SEO, all ages, free) for unspecified TOS violations that I can't determine. Their algorithm is broken. It makes me wonder what other legitimate content they don't index.
Yeah but isn't that a single player game ? Even if it had 100+ hours of gameplay, you'd have to repeat that so many times to get to 6000 hours

Very different from someone that plays video games a few hours every day
Or who doesn't get harmed by it? Sometimes you might have some relatively unrelated country flexing to keep things in shambles.
Ship of Theseus coming to port with different livery every time...
Unless you have tiny monkeypaws for hands, ⌘-V is a painful gesture and doesn't make sense on any human hand. This is one of apple's major human interface messups. And I'll die on that hill.

Ctrl on the far left of the keyboard (where FN is on apple keyboards) is far more ergonomically laid out, doesn't require a radical twist of the fingers, and also allows your fingers to remain in home-row with thumb on space.

Personally I think ALL modifier keys should be on the far left/right of a keyboard where they can all be accessed by a pinky finger. It is faster, doesn't require bone crossing, and allows you to remain in a typing position. Combinations of multiple modifiers should be very rare, if it isn't someone needs to go back to UI/UX school. (I blame Emacs for that!)
> It is extremely obvious that the other guy was merely giving his opinion, whereas you were presenting your opinion as a fact.

What's the difference?

Isn't everyone presenting their opinion as a fact? They certainly aren't presenting their opinion as falsehood.

There seems to be a double standard applied to the OP and me. Also "It is extremely obvious that" is presenting your opinion as a fact, is it not?
What do you mean? We are talking about user oriented features, not devs
It's certainly not healthy but I don't see the system changing until most of our lifetimes have already passed, making the question academic. Or perhaps we are not bold enough or ready for sacrifice in our commitment to finding alternatives.
People assume that since Poland can't into space, Poland certainly can't into deep water.
But BioShock is a great decision game. What are you talking about?
Just want to mention that the URL you posted is missing some parts in it, here is the working one:

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252523200/Google-results...
Not true. First off, any number of miners could exist and the difficulty adjustment keeps the blockchain growing at a steady rate.

Independent, easy & decentralized nodes are almost all that matter.
Then those people never supported free speech, they were just annoyed they weren't the ones deciding what to censor.
>or move to a new major version (usb 4.0)

They're already at USB4 version 2.0
Your fantasy of how engineering is supposed to work does not correspond to the reality of the term “software engineer”, at least in the US.
...love me some papi-jump!
It really depends on the voltage. Ohm's law says that current is proportional to voltage divided by resistance.

I = V/R

This means that as voltage increases with a given fixed amount of power, current decreases. Indeed, a watt is a measurement of power calculated by multiplying current in amps by potential in volts.

Joule's equation of heating says that the power (P) lost to heat in a circuit is equal to current (I) squared, multiplied by resistance (R).

P = I^2R

Thus, increasing voltage reduces heat generated over a given conductor.
We already have standardized voltages, they're a defining feature of each chemistry. What Makita markets as 18V batteries and DeWalt calls 20V are actually the same battery with the same voltage range.

And regarding combining a 12V 1Ah pack and 80Ah pack together to create a 24V pack, you would end up with a 24V 1Ah pack, as by that time the first pack will have been emptied and you need to recharge it, while the other pack still has 79Ah remaining.
Wasn't the issue with FireWire licensing costs?
It's not that far fetched. A lot of people rely on third party services to host and manage their source code.
> It only took us a few hundred years to go from agricultural society to spacefaring

Exactly as long trash the ecosphere - not coincidental.

> This will be a non-issue

I despair.
Will we get a much stronger Albedo effect considering all the ice that's melting?
Take a look around and tell me you can be certain of anything.
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> Answering to investors ultimately means answering to a group of individuals or who are more or less interested in the long-term outlook of a company.

Said no-one ever about public exchange investors. Why do you think Michael Dell had to take Dell private to restructure it? Jobs had more latitude since Apple was "90 days from bankrupcy" when he returned.

Michael Dell has the won the battle for control of the computer company that he created, after shareholders backed his $24.8bn (£15.7bn) offer to take Dell private and revive the struggling business away from the incessant pressure of Wall Street.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/12/michael-d...
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Same principle applies. I oppose this and think I should be in control of that sharing.

Even if that’s happening, that doesn’t mean I think “oh well screw it, I’m so unhappy it’s being shared with one party that I conclude it should just be shared with everyone then…”
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> Pipelines transiting Belarus and Ukraine remain operational and AFAIK in-service.

The Yamal pipeline (to Poland via Belarus) has been shut down since May. The other pipelines through Belarus and Ukraine (Northern Lights, Soyuz, Brotherhood) all appear to still be operational.
Which is neither here nor there.

If you don't understand that the child of a lawyer will be encouraged or pressured into going into law, and therefore staying in the socioeconomic group, you'll overrate genetic factors.
This is a risk of and why do you not pour your life into someone else's project. (without a commensurate return that you can own fully)

He chose (knowingly or unknowingly) to be meat for a giant machine. Now he wonders why he got ground up and spit out.

It's one thing to play a video game and end up grateful for having enjoyed and spent the time on a hobby, and walk away with good memories. It's another thing to end up begging/pleading to a soulless machine for their mercy and consideration.
Can’t agree. Things that people will pay for are by definition valuable, and that value makes them good. Now obviously we have to consider harm, if there’s more harm than value the goodness is wiped out, but I see very little harm in these videos. It’s a win win win for everyone involved.
No idea why you're being downvoted. This does sound like an anti-user feature. Stuff like this exists to protect third party software from our analysis and "tampering".
The whole point was to be decentralized, and now we
have Visa, Mastercard, Apple, Google, Amazon and Cloudflare

Visa and MC are by far the most powerful forces at work here. You can start an online business without the others, but you can't do it without getting paid.

Currently, for most of the world, that means you need to take credit cards.

It's also crucial for us to note that Visa and MC don't care about porn for puritanical reasons; they're not the root cause of this particular issue. They care only about money.

People buy adult content and frequently dispute the charges, which is a headache and eats profits.
> due to wasting a very significant part of his life in video games

He’s a streamer. He makes a living from playing that game. What’s your job? Let’s compare total value add.
No way this is "actively discussed" in Eastern Europe.
Maybe it comes up from time to time but it is no way a significant topic.
BTW, I'm aware you are from Ro, so am I.
I have one such cable. It's fairly thick, but it doesn't say anything on it.
The notion of work itself is strange. If you are autonomous in what you do, feel your mastery increasing as you go along, see your actions have an effect, and are well rewarded for it in terms of material wealth and social approval, few other things in life are going to compare. If you are missing most of these characteristics, it will daily torture.
Considering basically all of modern technology has been invented in the last 150 years, and just how far we have come in that time, i think it’s relatively safe to assume that in 100x that time (say 15000 years in the future) we will have either destroyed ourselves, colonized other portions of the solar system, or significantly terraformed earth and/or built megastructures in space in such a way as to be able to better control the environment.
This is being considered for Go 2: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19623

Personally I'm wary of it: it's not hard to think of adversarial scenarios where this could lead to OOM. On the other hand, adversarially overflowing an int can cause plenty of havoc too...
Can someone explain how you play rdr2 for 6k hours? what exactly is he losing in game when stadia shuts down? so if he had played rdr2 on his pc, then stadia shutdown wouldn't affect him at all right?
False flag bombing attack at some part of terminal would seem much more reasonable. And lot cheaper and simpler to sort out.
These aren’t rhetorical questions. I didn’t start looking into USB until two years ago when I got a work MacBook. Before then, it had been almost a decade and a half since I had a Mac.

- the USB C cable that came with the x86 Macs and most USB C charging cables are power only and don’t support data

- many USB C cables that do support data only support data at USB2 speeds and don’t support video over USB

- I think some cables can support video over USB C. But only support data at lower speeds than 10Gbps.
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> The US is a good candidate, but I don't see how it hurts Russia more than it hurts the rest of Europe. It'd be unusually Machiavellian for even us, if it was the US.

It doesn't matter if it hurts Europe, if it benefits the USA. The capital never cares about the colonies, and weakening own colonies and enemies, while at she same times strengthening themselves, is a valid strategy. Machiavellian or not, doesn't matter.

Long term, Europe is bound to be dependable on LNG gas imports from the USA. Many companies are shutting down in Europe and considering moving to the place with much cheaper energy.
Ask HN: HN people who write meaningful software, how did you learn to program?
The word 'meaningful' may be a bit ambiguous. It infact is. By 'meaningful' software I mean any software that has meaning to you or your customer. The thing is you deliver value in one way or the other.
E.g: You write and maintain an open-source package used by quite a few people. Or maybe you wrote and website as a hobby. Now, it is used by quite a few people so you maintain it and the revenue it generates is your primary source of income.

If the above description fits you, can you recall how you learned to program and build meaningful things? More importantly what drew you towards programming, and not another subject? And if possible, mention THE meaningful software you wrote.
How do you figure 450hrs is only 12 working days??? It’s already 18 actual days.

After a normal work day, after all my daily chores are done, gone to the gym and other things to take care of myself, I have maybe 2-3 hrs of free time. If we’re generous and say 3 hrs, that’s 150 days straight of spending your free time on a game and not your partner.
That's 1,064 days ago, so it's 5.5 hours a day instead of 4. That still sounds pretty reasonable to me.