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I bought a second computer with windows about 5 years back.

I think I've booted it about 20 times in 5 years.

If I really need windows (eg to connect itunes to my phone, or for testing websites in IE), I use a virtualbox VM.
Sufficient is a lot, but it’s nowhere near as extreme as that example makes it sound.

That’s a half marathon for a 150 lbs fit person, running efficiently. A 250 lbs person who is a little out of shape will burn that in a 2.5 hour walk.

Obviously 1300 calories a day above maintenance is extreme for most people, but energy expended scales non linearly with weight. There are also a lot quicker ways to burn calories than marathon running.
There is nothing to "pay for". Government work is like this, already, everywhere. It has been for thousands of years. Canada, US, India. It has another name, bureaucracy.

It is to the public good, that there are checks and bounds on power, forms to fill out, procedures to be followed.

Yet this is counter to creativity, to moving fast, to embracing the new.

But if governments at least paid market rates for tech labour, not 1/4 of it, they would at least overcome one hurdle.
> For example, job seekers who can prove that an AI system for screening résumés discriminated against them can ask a court to force the AI company to grant them access to information about the system so they can identify those responsible and find out what went wrong. Armed with this information, they can sue <

I wonder whether legislation like this might have the downstream effect of finally making resumes obsolete, by essentially making them unusable. A resume is a proxy for capability, and all the information contained within only be used in a way which can be argued to be discriminatory

i.e

- company hiring for smart people
- education level as a proxy for intelligence
- train algorithm to screen out non-Ivy League applicants
- unsuccessful candidate sues for proven harms, provider loses / goes bust
Inefficient for the company maybe, but if you are not going to be paid more for extra work or diligence, and the work you are doing is not particularly meaningful or helpful to others (could be wrong as I don't know what we're talking about) why would you work hard unless you are larping?
Sounds to me like they wanted to standardise something they didn't even have a working implementation of! There is a difference between invention and standardisation, and it is usually not done by the same kind of people.
ZFS still gives benefits with one disk. Ignoring the data integrity stuff (which is better with ZFS even if you have no ECC), you also get snapshotting, potentially boot environments, you can backup your data to another machine using zfs-send, you get native encryption (including encrypted backups for free), highly performant compression, and (depending on your system) a nice memory cache algorithm.
They don't need to differentiate, this is an extension of current national liability rules which handles instances where software could cause harm but had a blind spot for AI-type applications.

Until now companies could shield themselves from that liability by converting that set of if-else:s to a neural net. With this proposal the loophole should be closed.
I think the reason for this is as follows, if you'll allow:

Let's pretend that wine is good for cardiovascular health (there were some conflicting studies so it's truthy enough I think for this point).

We're having a discussion and we have a mutual friend who is a raging alcoholic. They drink and drive every night, they get blacked out completely, they can't hold a job. Myself and a few others are like hey friend, you need to go to AA, you need to get help, you need to see a doctor. We find them at bars and take their keys. We tell bartenders to stop serving them. They go to liquor stores and just cannot stop.

And you're like, well ya know wine does have some cardiovascular benefits. And it's a great social lubricant.

Now of course you aren't really dismissing the problem here, which is that our mutual friend is a raging alcoholic. We all can see that undeniably. But you're also not really helping because you're espousing these health benefits but we're trying to keep someone from killing themselves or others. We're working on a gigantic problem with this person and these health benefits just do not enter into the picture at this point.

This maps back to suburban America (and elsewhere) where yea there are well taken care of lawns and sure a few people can have them. But our suburban friend here is a raging alcoholic and no amount of lawn is really good for them regardless of the benefits it may have.
"submersion of the world in water". What is seldom put in words, it might be frozen water: the mighty glacial sheet, the real cleanser and fertilizer.
You're getting downvoted for a decidedly un-hn opinion, but that is my perception as well. You throw 30 prompts at gpt3 until you get what you know you wanted. Then you post saying "look! gpt3 has domain knowledge". Please...
.. and his work of testing of quantum mechanics goes on from far to weird:

Cosmic Bell Test using Random Measurement Settings from High-Redshift Quasars (2018) https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
> .. This experiment pushes back to at least ∼7.8 Gyr ago the most recent time by which any local-realist influences could have exploited the “freedom-of-choice” loophole to engineer the observed Bell violation, excluding any such mechanism from 96% of the space-time volume of the past light cone of our experiment, extending from the big bang to today.

Challenging local realism with human choices
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0085-3

>Bell himself noted this weakness in using physical setting choices and argued that human ‘free will’ could be used rigorously to ensure unpredictability in Bell tests8. Here we report a set of local-realism tests using human choices, which avoids assumptions about predictability in physics. We recruited about 100,000 human participants to play an online video game that incentivizes fast, sustained input of unpredictable selections and illustrates Bell-test methodology

>... Project outcomes include closing the ‘freedom-of-choice loophole’ (the possibility that the setting choices are influenced by ‘hidden variables’ to correlate with the particle properties
re: "Wasn't this posted 3 days ago?" as someone just asked in a now deleted comment.

OP's profile shows submitted 3 days ago. Front page shows submitted 9 hours ago. Both link back to the same story.

HN does sometimes boost stories that didn't get attention they felt they deserved. It looks like that may have happened here because the story ID is consistent with having been posted 3 days ago.

Edit: And if you mouse over "9 hours ago" it shows the date 2022-10-01.
1. Insurability. In insurance, the typical fraud is to overinsure something and then destroy it. You can do that because you are destroying your property. Nobody is trying to insure against the loss of the neighbor's house, and then go an burn it, because they commit both insurance fraud and a crime against the neighbor, the latter being punished much more severely.

Similarly, I could try to buy CDS to protect against Tesla default, and then go and dynamite one Gigafactory and hope that Tesla does default, and I make a lot of money. But the law enforcement deterrence against that is huge. And if you are the type of criminal willing to break the law to such an extent, then there are simpler ways to make money. You could for example short the Tesla stock, or buy puts. Or you can just go and kidnap Musk, your sentence when you are caught will probably be lower.

2. Speculation. That's a loaded word. If you buy a bond issued by General Motors, is that speculation? You collect the coupon from GM, and you implicitly are placing a bet that GM will not default. Your action is helping GM invest in their newest assembly line. If you buy their stock, are you speculating? You are placing a similar bet, that GM will do quite well, and the stock will go up. Your action does not directly help GM (the money goes to the seller of the stock which is generally not GM), but it helps indirectly, by lowering GM's cost of funding.

When you sell insurance against GM's default, you are placing a similar bet that GM will do well. This too reduces GM's cost of funding (because it reduces their credit spread, which makes it easier for bond holders to hedge their exposure, and so to buy more bonds). I would say (and everyone else would say too) that selling CDS insurance is the opposite of speculation.

And by the way, in most cases it's hedge fund that sell this protection, not banks. Banks are just middlemen, they like to be "flat" risk. They buy about as much protection as they sell.

3. Buying CDS on margin. CDS is a swap, you buy on margin by definition. Both buyers and sellers of protection post collateral. Variation Margin is posted by only one (the party that is "out of the money"), and Initial Margin is posted by both.
This is not it, but the plot is somewhat similar to Makoto Shinkai's movie "Your Name."
Not really.

The model doesn't store or reproduce anyone's art, maybe except with some intentional img2img prompting. And styles aren't copyrightable.

There's some really impressive stuff being created out there, and it's still very early days. People take sets of personal images, train a mini model on that and use that model to prompt Stable Diffusion to create something that it wasn't even trained on. There are interesting short animations, etc. It's a brave new world to explore.
No, temperatures higher than about 70C cause excessive wear on NAND cells during writes.
Streaming ZFS snapshots to a file and storing that in a remote of your choice is not the usual way of backing up ZFS data at all (it’s actually recommended against).

The usual way is ZFS send and receive to another ZFS server. But almost no cloud storage provider supports that, other than rsync.net (and zfs.rent), which starts with $60/month. So you have to set up and manage another ZFS server with secure remote access, PIA if you ask me.
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> First, market forces already standardized on two main standards.

So, one standard too many. Especially when one of those standards is held hostage by one corporation.

> Is USB-C really the end-game of charging connectors?

It's close enough, we can already see that improvements have been incredibly incremental already. Hell, it would have been fine to stick to micro-B or even mini-B.

> What about mag-safe-style connectors?

You already have people building those as third-party dongles. Clearly it doesn't have to be part of the spec.

> Does a phone necessarily need a charging connector at all

Yes. Wireless charging is inherently far less efficient than wired charging.

> and might there not be advantages to not having one?

No. To steal a quote from yourself: this is unambiguously a bad idea.
Why not enforcing split sales? Charger apart from phone?

Pretty much like they should have done with computers and OSes in 2009.

Mind you, split sale = two items at checkout and the oppotunity to buy separately.
In this case, I think it’s driven* by Uber’s surge pricing.

Most Lyft drivers are also Uber drivers. If Uber is on 2.5x surge from the airport, why would drivers accept Lyft rides? They should logically decline every Lyft ride offered until an hour after the last flight lands.

I think that’s what’s happening. Uber is quoting me $60-75 (normally $25-30) and Lyft is saying $28. Being frugal, I pick Lyft. Being sensible, Lyft drivers turn down the ride. Lyft tells me I have a ride coming, but eventually times out until I give up on them, conclude they are full of it, and refresh the Uber quote until I get one in the $35-45 range.

* - pun not originally intended, but left in place.
It's only a matter of months before someone comes up with a half-text / half-image prompting method for these models.

As in: you'll be able to draw a bunch of circles and arrows with labels in them like "astronaut" / "horse" => "sunset" and some environmental info like "in the style of van gogh" and bang you get a proper image.
All depends on your threat model. A company openly collecting your data by your say so seems significantly less threatening (to me, to many others) than all the actors who are doing it without your knowledge or consent.
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I've found the Arch wiki to be a great documentation source when it comes to most Linux tooling. It's detailed, and formatted in a way that is easy to read. I typically recommend the wiki for people when they want more information about a certain tool of Linux, because of its detail.
To be fair WoW is a completely different beast from Ultima. They might as well be different genres.
I noticed you get the thousands of results when you search logged out, incognito moode, and just a few hundred results when searching logged in with a google account.

Maybe they are saving storage on the amount of results as they serve and track you on the web :-)
Legal or illegal, there's a big ethical debate to be had. Swallowing up the work of others and using that to generate derivative/new work that _a lot_ of people (I've seen half a dozen stock photo AI sites this week alone) are then trying to use to replace the original creators doesn't feel right.
O.D.G! Well at least you held your hand up to not reading the FAQ
I can only say what worked for me. For as long as I can remember I was obsessed with video games. It’s all I thought about. I would play any genre, any platform, didn’t matter. However, I grew up in a very tech-fearing culture. Working on video games, let alone software engineering, was unknown and looked down upon.

I eventually made it into the software industry, but things never felt right. I would force myself to focus, changed jobs many times, and generally found it unrewarding.

I finally realized I should be doing what I already knew I was interested in and started making games. The hard part was peeling away the cultural brainwashing that prevented me from doing it in the first place.

Now I can’t believe I ever needed focus hacks. I can enter a flow state the moment I sit in front of the computer because it _matters_ (to me). There are still times when my inner dialogue starts to pester me with negativity, but I remind myself that in my heart of hearts I love what I do.

Do you have something deep down you know you want but avoid because it’s not “the proper thing”?
Wonder how many people get assassinated this way nowadays
Absolutely not the case, as others have mentioned
Anker has a power bank with integrated charger[0], or charger with built in power bank. Don't think it's made to be used as a UPS, but maybe it can be.

> Inline USB ultracapacitor banks seem like a reasonable product too though.

I actually saw just that in a GreatScott Youtube video about Aliexpress gadgets just the other day[1]. Not sold as a UPS, but rather a power filter or buffer.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085CFD3Z9/

[1] https://youtu.be/fUdlfc1nJcY?t=117
It really doesn’t matter in practice. It’s all priced in. The actual cost of serving an ad is absolutely tiny, fractions of a penny. Fraud eats into margins, but really not by much. Advertisers are paying for performance and it’s fully expected that a tiny fraction of ads lead to the desired outcome, but that’s why ads are cheap on a per impression basis.
That idea has always fascinated me as well — imagining each of us tracing out some kind of space-time path on a map. And with other's paths crossing ours. I want to be able to rewind time and watch the paths of ex-girlfriends I have lost touch with to see if we crossed paths again, perhaps in an airport, unaware of each other.

Perhaps it would all be more depressing than that though, exposing the small, repetitive worlds we live in. For my part, I have tried to road-trip, travel more often than others in my family have done, tried too to expose my kids to travel when growing up so they can experience a slightly bigger loop across the face of this small planet.
There's also gopher
If that change affect something that only occurs once a day, you have no choice but to wait no?
The author mentioned that UML peaked in 2000. I started a job in the IBM software group three years later, just a couple of months after IBM acquired Rational. I don't recall anyone using UML during my time at IBM, even though we had free access to the entire Rational suite. We did eventually use Eclipse Modeling Framework for modeling and code-gen, but not through visual UML diagramming. It's fascinating that UML lost relevance so quickly.

Maybe the fact that it was mostly an offline part of the developer workflow, i.e. people didn't commonly check UML diagrams into source control and use them as part of code-gen at build time, meant that it was easy to stop using it.
you're good at what you like to insist on making it work (be it writing, going to the gym, developing a software/app, etc.), even if there's a 1% chance of success, something inside of you along with your belief system will make you go forward.
It's not like the Beatles and George Martin socialized all that much, to the extent of "come over to my place and listen to records". They both had insanely busy schedules for years, and were at their creative heights. I doubt Martin even remembered much about that particular song, given how many he'd worked on, even by the mid 60s.
IP(v4) addresses are very expensive so that's unlikely to happen.

Sharing/rotating from a pool of IPs: sure.

Dedicated IP that no one has used: extremely unlikely and, if possible, very expensive.
Coincidentally, another HN story today (https://www.wired.com/story/i-uncovered-an-army-of-fake-men-...) featured a brief quote from a company spokesperson Justine S... who, I assume, was the person of that name who had her own 15 minutes of infamy a few years ago. So the good news is that stories like this can eventually fade away.
Northflank co-founder here.

You can delete your project navigating to the billing page inside a project. To delete your account you can send a support request and we can process your request (described in the privacy policy). We'd like to automate it more, however we'd like a formal opt-in via email of the account/team owner when deleting backups and stateful workloads right now.
Perhaps I'm reading the post the wrong way, but particularly in the case of junior v. senior, I see the deadline point to be more about what a designer can do, given their experience and seniority. A junior designer is going to be handed an assignment and told "we need this next Friday." A senior designer will likely be handed an assignment (or work with a client directly) and be asked "when can we expect some initial ideas?" It's less about what a designer of a certain experience should do, but rather what they can do.
Saying they’ll keep up doesn’t really make sense. The regulation will cause innovation to slow or stop in this area. So there won’t be a whole lot to keep up with.

After all, why invest money in improving your charging connector if you are going to be mandated to use USB-C anyway?
When I and my wife met for the first time we were both tourists, we both had never been to that country before (and none of us had ever been to a place the other had been), and we had exactly one day of overlap at this place and just happened to have decided to go to a particular spot at the same time in the early morning. And it's extremely likely that there would never have been another opportunity at any time later.
Is Differentiable Programming Necessary?
> What's the typical circuit found in a laptop or phone? They all have to deal with this stuff internally.

Most phones and laptops operate at the "micro-cycling" mode that the author describes, it's part of why portable devices regularly end up in the news for swelling batteries. There's no brand that didn't have complaints by people.

Additionally, the power quality of shoddy chargers [1] makes life even worse for circuit designers - voltage ripple or, worse, spikes that rise fast enough to hit the battery... the list of problems is quite endless.

[1] https://www.righto.com/2012/10/a-dozen-usb-chargers-in-lab-a...
I worked for Origin at the time as a UO Admin using the handle GM Snarf, we had a control console on our standard installs which allowed us to toggle "god mode", "smite", cast spell, create item, create gold, summon monster, etc. If you forgot to toggle god mode after logging into your avatar stupid things would happen and the players would screen shot it to spread the fun. I remember forgetting to toggle it before responding to a customer call and getting insta-killed by a dragon.
That is true, I am not sure how it is calculated but flagging and/or vouching rights end up being shadowbanned if overused or disagrees with $deity
Companies count on the "cheapskates" and the free plans to work as a "gateway drug" to corporate plans.

I sometimes feel this services "need" an affordable paid plan, so I don't "freeload" on their free plans, and I don't need the expensive big plan.

I.e.:

I monitor a bunch of my hobby sites with StatusCake. They're great and I use the free plan but I'd like to pay a little for very simple monitoring. But the first paid plan is around $200 a year. But I don't need the premium plan, I just need the free plan, but paying, so I feel like I'm contributing to the business.

AWS and the others... you've got a free plan, but once you begin to deploy... ;)

DnsMadeEasy. They don't have a free plan, but I'm using their "Small business 10 domain plan". That was $30 a year for years. Past year was $40. Then they got acquired by DigiCert and since last month they've posted their new prices: ~$200 a year for a 5 domain plan.

It happens in a lot of providers, so I guess is a regular VC tactic to acquire volume, clients, publicity or whatever.
Rainz was allegedly was banned from Ultima Online and all other OSI games for life.

Rainz had used a Fire Field scroll on Lord British without any real hope that his assassination attempt would be successful. When Lord British died Rainz admitted he was in complete shock and even burst out in laughter. Rainz faced immediate repercussions from Ultima Online programmers and was summarily banished from the game. The official reason for his banning was said to be because of the sheer number of complaints other players had filed against him due to his playstyle. He was also banned from all future OSI games, however Rainz refused to rule out that he might continue to play under another alias.

https://clanet.io/wiki/Ultima_Online/Beta_Pacific/Rainz
Well only governments can mandate standards, and if they don't it's just wishful thinking isn't it?
Can't agree more.

Many of my neighbors go to church and I'm very jealous at how much social capital it provides every single week for essentially free.

It's such a shame that something so good is wrapped in something so silly.
What happens if a constructor wants to push for full wireless charging?

I didn't read the texts, but wouldn't something like mandating companies to release a version of their products with USB-C better instead of only allowing USB-C? Say for example Apple wants to release iPhone 20 with Lightning, or full wireless, then force them to also release iPhone 20 with USB-C and leave the choice to consumers? Is this allowed by the texts?