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Heat storage: Scientists develop material that is stable, efficient, ecological
Imagine paying top dollar for a premium Apple product, only to get a soup of ugly ads in the native applications of your device.

As far as I know, this is the case for low end models from vendors like Xiaomi. And even there you can turn it off. I never dreamed of Apple doing something so detrimental to its famed User Experience that feels so cheap and disrespectful.
What I find particularly egregious is that when Apple requests to track users, they use the text "Allow Apple to personalize your experience?", while for 3rd parties they use the much scarier "allow this app to track you?" prompt
If you are sending cash numerous times in the mail I would say this is a problem and technical solutions that aim to improve on this are beneficial. That said, you and the receiving party may be living in more fortunate conditions. Many people in the world live in apartments, with mail rooms that are not well secured and are frequent targets of package theft.

Domestic wires are slow in many countries, in the order of days, and costly[1]. My ETH transactions are done in 30sec, fees are usually less than a dollar, and they are pseudonymous - primarily only known to my CEX and government. The transaction is traceable while in transit and proof of payment easily found.

To me, it sounds like you are writing off ETH transfers without having actually used them.

[1] https://smartasset.com/checking-account/how-long-does-a-wire...
If you are an American SWE or have a corresponding salary, you pretty much only have to work for 10 or so years before retiring, assuming you learn how personal finance works and learn to live without a fancy car or any status-related possessions.

Heck you could do it in 5 years if you are a FAANG employee.
Highway ads are a public safety risk and should be banned, IMO
Interesting story. I can easily see how the responsibilities of being in charge of a decent-sized company can wear you down..however I do not personally believe there would be so much fatigue though.

I am curious to hear stories from HN folks here who have been through similar trajectories
> I just find it kind of worrisome that he finds meaning in work that other people are exploited for for a lack of better options.

I think viewing every warehouse worker as a member of a lower labor caste who is merely being exploited is not a warranted view. The fact that people can easily find meaning in this labor is further indication it is incorrect.

You're also presuming a rather tyrannical existence for these people.. wherein their path through life must be dictated to them by their "best options." People make suboptimal choices for all kinds of reasons, and they don't view their circumstances as being "exploited." Probably because the companies they work for didn't _create_ the suboptimal choices for them in the first place, their employer is a matter of circumstance, not conspiracy.

> Why would a financially independent person choose to help enrich a large corporation over, say, voluntary work to help underprivileged people, animals or whatever else you can think of?

Again.. people make suboptimal choices intentionally. The explanation here is "this is a very low risk option that can be exited immediately if such a whim arises." And in all likelihood, exiting in this way wouldn't prevent you from being hired back later if your fortunes or whims reverse.

Forgive me, but you seem to be a little too comfortable looking down your nose at these people.
Linux laptops are lovely at this point. Linux phones are for the more adventurous and tolerant hackers, and I love them for working out the issues. Android without any Google is the best handset option for most people. Degoogling can be accomplished in many ways such as using the universal android debloater found on github, or installing an Android fork such as Graphene, Calyx, or Lineage. Nextcloud is the most comprehensive replacement to many of the services and synchronization such as contacts, calendar, photos, files, bookmarks, passwords, phone location, news/RSS, podcasts, music, tasks, and notes. It can also host E2E chats and video calls.
Could you be more explicit, perhaps with an example? Do you simply mean you prefer function/constructor parameters over DI?
> for the “fetch”-aware audience, the title reads, “Raft Is *Irrelevant* [...]”

No, they're claiming that "fetch" is interchangeable with "irrelevant" according to the movie.
This is the kind of stuff I obsess over for hours - after vaping too much Delta 9 triggers a long bout of paranoia.
This would be a great "natural selector criteria" that whittles down whatever's left of crypto scammers.

Another possible benefit is the cost of doing business (by taking valid precautions) for those scammers going up.
I have a better idea: let's just stay with the facts.
You just described what a weekend home project is like, not a real blue-collar job.
This is literally me! Why are we like this??
He learned what a grueling job was for a few weeks. He did not learn what it means when that grueling job is your past, present, and/or future. The part about the takeout food seals that impression
This is literally me! Why are like this??
> Does that account for the far higher proportion of people living in rural areas in the US?

The rate seems about the same as France and Canada?

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.RUR.TOTL.ZS?contextu...
This was the first thing that came to mind as well. Here's the clip link: https://youtu.be/RwGc7Btg-Cs
As a junior, I worked with a senior who was considered "10x" and working with him was a pain: he decided the rules didn't apply to him, and management tolerated his repeated violations of conventions instituted to make our dynamic-language codebase manageable.

Anytime he "improved" a module, no one else could maintain it as that would entail additional rule-breaking, which was verboten for mortals, so only he could maintain code he touched. Combined with the fact that he didn't add any tests: the net result was he was slowly and surely subverting the codebase into his personal, brittle domain that no one else could change. He was slowing everyone else done, but all management was looking at was his velocity at closing bugs or rolling out new features while creating tech-debt. His boastful personality was just the icing on the cake.
Brave Browser's BAT infrastructure is good for this; even if you don't want to manually tip people, you can set up auto-contribute amounts that deduct from the amount of BAT you earn from seeing ads monthly.

I think the habit of doing so (manually or automatically) sadly isn't there yet, because most conversations I see about Brave/BAT are "how much money can this make ME by earning BAT."
If I ever see the author of this post in an interview, I would immediately strongly recommend to not hire the person. This post reeks of arrogance and toxic work culture. The best thing the author should do is delete it.
You can also write a very similar rant about how sedentary desk jobs are not sustainable with all the obesity related life shortening conditions it leads to :)
What color is your markup?
> crazy to me how long these just sat without any real work

You must not be very familiar with the speed of government work.
I'm afraid I don't understand how any of what you said has anything to do with attributing events in my life to my decisions. It just sounds like strategies to make decisions for future things, which isn't relevant. Could you explain?
Having things “in a VPC” doesn’t help unless you are just using AWS as a glorified Colo. Once you start using AWS native services - many of which aren’t in a VPC, VPC isolation doesn’t help.

Each AWS account also has its own service limits and quotas. One out of control Lambda in the dev “environment” can impact production.

And you don’t have to open support tickets manually. There are APIs to request service limits and you can monitor the progress programmatically.
It matters at the point when an individual is accountable for having seen the ad. There are countless situations where you cannot possibly perform any normal function of life (shy of sitting in the house and having someone else do all interaction with the outside world):

- Billboards. You cannot possibly keep these out of your peripheral (or center of) vision while driving without endangering everyone else on the road.
- Mailed advertisements. You have to check your mail, for example, for legal summons, that you are required by law to respond to.
- Public transit (lest I be auto-shamed). You cannot, where I am, even look toward where a train arrives, without seeing ads.

To remediate just these three advertising venues, you have to drive and board public transit with your eyes closed and not check your mail. These aren’t even activities I’d consider voluntary - people need to get to work to support themselves, and check their mail for legal purposes. Unless your argument is that we all make choices to participate in our sovereign nation’s legal structure and to have jobs that require leaving the home (not everyone can work in a cushy remote role).
No, the article just mentions it started as C#.
it is, the following comment on the twitter thread takes you to https://wololo.net/2022/10/03/released-ps5-kernel-exploit-we... which at the end has the github linked here in this thread
> IA decided to abandon CDL and loan out many more copies of books than it owned.

They had the full support of other physical libraries, which could not loan out their collections at the time because of COVID. The overall amount of copies was never exceeded as you seem to be implying here. For all intents and purposes, the basic principles of CDL remained in effect.
You highlighted an important point: ads only frame one side of the story.

If you want the full story, look elsewhere.
How interesting -- and then after COVID resolved your memory gradually improved? I've heard anecdotal evidence about this. How frustrating! And sorry you had to experience it!
Thank you! I'll check it out
Honestly just chose one at random and ended up building trust with them because they were professional and academic. I kept going back because it was interesting to me to talk about my experience and have them weigh in with what the DSM says, what academics are saying, etc.
As a Mac and iPhone user I am annoyed as this means I'll have to start migrating away from Apple over the next few years, paying for premium product only for the os and native apps to start getting adverts is atrocious and cannot be rewarded with my continued support.

Edit: I just checked the stocks app on my MacBook M1 Max and there are unrelated adverts alongside finance news items.

I am appalled and regretting my my m1 max (64gb ram, 4tb ssd) purchase for the first time. Up till now its has been one my of best tech purchases in my life. Not anymore.

This is a sign of pure greed. The most profitable company wants even more profits and will damage its brand to do so.
> their complier often runs code inside if(false) blocks (in certain positions)

Do you have an example? Sounds like a catastrophic edge case.
Please don't do it.
Many of the great hackers and security experts Google hired due to the compromise in 2010 have left over the past 7 years.

I wonder who's left standing over there in the Sec and Privacy departments.
I'm surprised you would consider all cancer deaths not preventable. You wouldn't consider a smoker's lung cancer death preventable death?
Incidentally, conspiracy theorists have used this behavior as evidence of the "Dead Internet" theory.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/xt8jzj/complete...

For those who are behind the times on the "Dead Internet" theory:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/dead-...
Apple might be, but iOS is not.

I can assure you 50% of America doesn’t have a Porsche or Mercedes lol

iPhone is just that much better than its nearest competitors.
Does he drink?
That doesn't scale if you're doing a design that needs lots of vias. Particularly so when stitching together ground puddles on 2-layer boards. Soldering jumpers into hundreds of holes isn't practical.
> The principle is simple. If the IA or any online library owns a physical copy of a book, then CDL says it can be lent out either physically or digitally, but only as much at a time as there are physical copies owned.

As far as I know, even "wear" of physical copies is simulated in this model: After 30-ish lendings, the digital copy "breaks", requiring the library to "buy" (really: license) a "fresh" one. (And for physical copies, reinforcing a book's binding seems to be prohibited as well, all to keep the number of acceptable lendings per copy predictably low!)

I get that it's effectively the only compromise many publishers and libraries have been able to achieve, but after taking a step back, it should hopefully become apparent that it's completely ridiculous.

Not even digital video streaming works that way – I find it scary to believe that publishers are being more complicated than the movie/TV industry! Count how many people are lending a given book and pay the authors accordingly, crunch some numbers about physical library lending and extrapolate from there, etc. There has to be a better way to still pay authors, but to isolate library patrons from this absurdity.

Here's hoping that this tacky skeuomorphism will age about as well as brushed metal.
That's straight up shady / bad faith
Yea, just watch them disable the JIT and bye bye potential updated vector :D
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I tried Joplin but it has a weird way of actually encoding the notes and obfuscates them a little bit in terms of their naming.

Logseq I didn't enjoy it all because it really forces you to represent everything in terms of hierarchical list which was too opinionated for my taste.

I ultimately settled on Obsidian because it doesn't make any modifications and you can just throw it at a huge folder of markdown notes. The ability to add CSS snippets and js plug-ins is an extra bonus.
This level of hatred and vitriol is curious. Why are you so angry at people you simply don't agree with?
If you work in a FAANG (presumably as some sort of knowledge worker) you have a unique opportunity to never have to work again within just a few years of saving.
I use Joplin every day. It's UI is very clunky. Sorting is weird, their multiple views are weird. The entire folder and file and todo structure is weird.

If anyone has any suggestions I can switch into that can let me import my existing Joplin .md files, please let me know.
A personal example: if the conversation ever turns to children, or why we don't have any, the real answer is that we (my wife and I) strongly believe that any children we might have had would have a (much) worse experience growing up than we did. They would almost certainly not be able to dream about affording housing, they will be dealing with fallout from the ubiquity of PFAS/PFOS/pthalates/microplastics/..., probably getting dragged into war(s), dealing with a polarised society and lack of civil discourse, they will have every move they make from birth tracked by companies that will be telling them what to buy and when, their ability to hold a political opinion that is their own will be severely compromised by social media and advertisers, they will be dealing with the fallout of climate change/ increased atmospheric pollutants, the list goes on. It seems that on so many measures the world is getting objectively worse, and much harder to navigate. So I censor myself when taking to friends, particularly friends with kids, because it's not fair on them to cause them to start worrying like I do.
where is freakish memory evident? (and i did read it)
Mr Doodle doodled his Entire House
I solve that by using folders. But when you have many of anything it will become hard to reason with.

It’s not worse than your filesystem, in theory, but speaking for myself: my filesystem is a mess, so…
The answer is always no. The last time I checked with a lawyer, she said I can be a non-executive director of a company for investment purposes. If you do want to do your own startup, then I highly recommend finding out universities that has Entrepreneur in residence programs. The university can apply for your H1B visa and you can then work on your startup and advice other startups in the university.
Oh no, what happened? I use Joplin and it's sync has been weird, no corruption yet tho.
>I think Gamefaqs is a relic of its time and today doesn't have a lot of relevance for a large portion of today's popular games.

Part of this is because there's monetary incentives to produce walkthroughs (SEO farms, or even just random peoples' YouTube channels). The altruism of writing a .txt guide is gone.
Like the others have said, Google wants you to refine your search (e.g. "Joe Biden foreign policy" instead of "Joe Biden"), rather than dumping low quality results on you. You don't have to agree with Google's rule by switching to other search engines, but if you do use Google, abide to that.
No. By "x" I mean some predicate. For instance, x is "men".
So it requires the nginx Lua module which is then used to load the wasm blobs? what a weird module. So somehow this thing is going through at least 2 or 3 different VMs (LuaJIT + WASI) so that you can eventually run your Python script in nginx...
why most it be postgres and not sqlite? just curious on what you were looking for out of it
Similar story with me. Except I ended up in AWS!

Worked in different big tech for 7y, and took a sabbatical because I could, and so why not?

Well after a year of travelling and working on my own ideas and a bit of contract work, I entered a complete pit of depression. I mean contemplating ending it all to stop the pain. Instead big daddy Bezos was handing out tech jobs like candy so I took one begrudgingly just to have someone else to be accountable to, because I found it completely impossible to live with only my own expectations.

It helped. I'm halfway good again (or perhaps just a different, darker normal), with a different outlook on what and why I do things. But goodness.. I will never retire again. Not without kids to raise, or something/someone else to be accountable to.
I think everybody noticed
I also strongly disagree with his take on dependency pinning:

> Solutions to this problem are running SCA combined with automatic updates at every build and hot patching in production. What is not a solution to this is dependency pinning, a technique getting widespread adoption but very dangerous for security in the real world

Not pinning versions is a small benefit — automatically downloading the latest compatible version of a dependency — at the risk of enabling a whole new layer of supply chain attacks. I don't want npm to automatically download a dependency that was published 3 minutes ago and hasn't been vetted or tested by anyone.
they are notoriously bad to deal with if you a large, small, medium, government or anything....

Which is why i soooo excited they bought VMWare.
Best Kept Secret in Radio (2017)
OP here. Decided to share this on HN because it seemed relevant given the earlier article on seeking structure. A lot of folks responded to my comment about Philip sharing that they too have experienced a yearning for physical labor.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33070986

Life takes all of us in different directions, I thought HN readers would find this path instructive.
The takeaway is more that one of the contributing reasons the world is so dystopian is that people at the top literally have no awareness or understanding or what life is like at the bottom.
Stephen Grider made a cool website[0] that allows people to make and use databases using PostgreSQL statements for his udemy course[1] about SQL. It's great for learning and testing and has been around a while so I feel like he should get some attention/credit too

[0] pg-sql.com/

[1] https://www.udemy.com/course/sql-and-postgresql/
It's the easiest way to distribute software in a way that is controlled by the author of the software and where the author can reasonably control all of the dependencies installed.

This way you are providing a one-stop shop that can easily be run. I have all kinds of tools that are docker containers because its simpler to not have to worry about all kinds of library mismatches or locations of shared libraries, and instead ship a minimal docker container instead.
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What happened to it? Looks like you can still sign up and participate.
I didn't know Rob Pike was so old. He's a boomer, born in '56.
fetch().catch()?