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I agree ebook technology could be used for this in totalitarian states. But is that the argument of TFA? I don't think that's the case he's making, I don't see malicious intent in what he describes.

I think my Kindle notifies me when there's an update of a novel. This could of course be subverted. But are we ready to claim this is what happens to the majority of e-novels? I don't think it is. I'm also willing to bet that so far no novel in my Kindle has been edited with changes specifically tailored for me by an algorithm (meaningful text changes, I mean. I don't mean the book cover or DRM or whatever, and neither does the author of the TFA. That's why he talks about the elegance of words, which has nothing to do with DRM!).

This could change and I absolutely see a dystopian future where this can happen. But my understanding is that the author is describing the situation now, and I just don't see it.
Match is known for buying out their competition.

So does anyone know if there is a startup accelerator specializing in making dating apps for selling to Match?

Something like: "Here's a list of features that users love, and here's a bunch of marketing techniques for making your userbase grow fast. Don't worry about monetization, Match is going to buy you out anyways. We're just going to keep on repeating doing this until Match runs out of money or everyone we know is rich."
I don't think it's gymnastics. The last part about being "genuine" is a stretch, but the fundamental point they're making is reasonable or at least worth discussing. It's relevant to the discussions of gambling and the lottery, for example. I don't appreciate Apple and their lock-in (especially the "we're protecting you" marketing) but the case for "the lesser evil" of advertising is worth discussing. I actually want Apple to start pushing ads, not because of the reason given by GP but because it will almost definitely kill Apple. I think they know that and will go only as far as they know they can without giving up their brand which is ultimately their most valuable asset.
This is timely! I recently found out we are pregnant with our first child, and I spent a good amount of time looking up prenatal care in the USA.

The statistics are staggering. USA has the worst infant mortality in the rich world.

We spent 1/5th of our GDP on health industries, and we're getting nothing for it. Just a handful of really rich people.
> Do we really want to become that poor?

Well, that depends. Are we talking about your child or my child?
> The popularity of farming simulators points to people’s enduring engagement with farming as a way to understand our relationship with the natural world, not just a system of food production. Farming has been fundamental [...]

This is really overthinking the subject.

Simulation games often have really tight, addicting game play loops. The player starts with nothing and has to do everything in a grueling, manual fashion. But each iteration of the game loop, the player gets a minor upgrade that makes them slightly more effective and/or adds an additional challenge to consider. After a few hundred iterations, the player has built a gargantuan automata that handles the core gameplay loop, freeing them up to focus on ancillary projects like decorating or collecting.

This is exactly the kind of situation that hammers on the dopamine receptors of a lot of people. Do something challenging, get a reward, then invest that reward to get a better one the next time. It's basically gambling.

Farming happens to be a subject that carries a lot of preconceptions, allowing players to pickup the game concepts a lot more quickly without as many tutorials. But there are plenty of simulation games out there with different subjects but similar game play loops.

I spent like 40 hours playing a game about salvaging space ships. I don't have any particular desire to be in space not do I like space ships or anything. It just happens to be a game that follows this formula, so it's fun.
That link is almost entirely about package theft, not ordinary letters. Even if I accept the figure of 3%, that's equivalent to a $3 insurance premium on sending $100 cash, not too bad. I'd put it at way under 1%. Lots of us still pay our rent and bills every month by mailing checks, same with annual tax returns etc., and losses in the mail are rare even though those sorts of mailings are identifiable as being likely to contain payments. A hand addressed envelope to a random person is less likely a priori.

Domestic wire transfers are almost instant, while international ones can take overnight.

Doing anonymous and untracked payments of significant amounts at scale is sure to tick off regulators. If your ETH transactions are non-anonymous and tracked, it's hard to see any superiority over ACH or wires. It's a solution looking for a problem.

I don't regularly send cash in the mail but I've done it a number of times, with no losses that I know of. A typical reason is that I don't feel like going to the hassle of getting a money order. I feel like sending a personal check is riskier than sending cash, since a stolen check reveals my account number, leading to possibly unbounded loss. I generally do use money orders if I might need proof of payment afterwards, or if the amount is high enough to worry about. I've sent $100 cash on a couple of occasions but more typically it's $10 or $20. Even that is an occasional rather than a frequent thing.
I definitely agree with you there, but even a healthy lawn is still a lawn, which is still a bit of a problem. Outside of insects in the ground not much can live there. You need a variety of bushes, trees, herbs, flowers, and other types of plants to create a healthy ecosystem there. A lawn simply can't provide that.
>First is that we report maternal mortality even when not directly associated with birth -- "Among pregnancy-related deaths with information on timing, 53% occurred 7–365 days postpartum."

If someone gets a surgery and then dies 8 days later due to complications from the surgery, you don't go around saying the death was "not directly associated" with the surgery. There are lots of things that affect the body during pregnancy that can lead to death in the year after. [1]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/maternal-deaths/index.html#:~....
This is a problem with private universities - student is a paying customer, thus student needs to pass the course. If student can't pass, then we have customer satisfaction problem and it needs to be resolved by firing the troublemaker who is making it hard for our customers. Who cares, that quality of our absolvents is poor?
10M+ pulls >:O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc
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I think I addressed this in the footnote:

> There are some other arguable benefits which mainly boil down to finding Rust to have a superior language design to C or to be more enjoyable to use. These are subjective and generally are not the most important traits a kernel hacker has to consider when choosing a language, so I’m leaving them aside for now.

I agree that these features are nice; I added many of them to my own language and take advantage of them in my kernel. But they are a secondary concern to the constraints of the kernel's problem space and the conservatism required of a project like Linux.
> But I am a mountain man when it comes to programming.

I'm not sure how to interpret this sentence. I suspect you mean that you are not a junior programmer, but you are a hermit programmer.
I think you're being overly cynical. Of course over time as science advances we will recognize more subtle distinctions between things which we used to perceive as the same. That's how science works. Just because two separate things are similar and sometimes found together doesn't mean they are identical.

Whether something is a "disorder" or not is somewhat subjective and opinionated, for sure. But as someone diagnosed with ADHD, I often find that the expectations of modern society can be debilitating. Whether the disorder lies in me or in an unaccommodating society is an interesting question, but it is a separate one.
> while Apple's tracking is "personalization" that is opt out.

For about a year this is no longer true.
>For a time, I was using the same desk for work during the day and then switching inputs on my screen to use my personal gaming PC in the evenings. I still shut off notifications, never had notifications on my phone, etc.

I mean yea I have this too but I don't actively look at notifications. I'm constantly "on" and nervous but Ive just been that most of my life.

And now I'm in office. I do not know if its gonna get better.
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This is disturbing on a deep level. A person taking on such a job for self-discovery as if it were tourism. Most workers in that warehouse need those jobs, including those 60 year olds the ex-CEO felt sorry for. It reads like a parody of tech culture.
They recently rebranded it to the super-catchy "AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS SSO)". Gotta love Seattle-based tech marketing people, presumably trained at Microsoft. :)

I guess it will soon be the default user management system, and 'proper' IAM will be the low-level one. I see this as a reaction towards GCP's IMHO superior UX/system design in this aspect. I don't think they can entirely catch up because of early and bad architectural decisions regarding projects/accounts.

Also a fan, so far.
Along the same lines: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm
yes, I believe the phrase that the young lady kept using was, "that is so fetch" with positive connotations.

Rachel McAdams finally snapped at her that the word was not going to catch on and that she should just stop. Tears were then shed.
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I'm afraid to show the world a tool which built to solve a billion dollar issue
Just completed building a tool which will solve a billion dollar issue with literally zero competitors, but I feel afraid to show it to the world.

I afraid how people will react and this makes anxious. What to do?
That ICE car had an 8 year guarantee or less when the first owner bought it too. The guarantee/warranty length isn't full lifetime. We don't know yet what the full lifetime will be in practice yet on some EVs.
Not sure where you ate getting that comparison. 2 mins on Google tells me [1] that ireland for example has a ppp per capita gdp of 79k vs USA average of 63k. Which would seem to imply that the first country in EU I compared with is significantly higher than at least some of us states? And that isn't a recent development.

The choice isn't about getting massively poorer, it's just whether you want to be able to look your fellow citizens in the face and know you aren't for supporting a system that sees their children die so you can save a few dollars more in tax.

[1] https://georank.org/economy/ireland/united-states
Except it doesn't seem to fill the photo of a room with CG furniture/art, more it renders a room that is almost but not entirely unlike the uploaded room and fills that room with furniture and art. Some of which doesn't seem to obey the laws of physics.

It's sort of neat, but it's basically just a Stable Diffusion img2img with a prompt like "living room full of furniture". Would be cooler if it actually put furniture into the room provided.
Drug use is a huge issue in the US, and people who struggle with addiction (and associated mental health) are also more likely to get into situations where unplanned pregnancies happen.

This isn't as much of a problem with maternal care as it is a problem with drug addiction, and this is simply the downstream consequence of that.
> The actual human connection features of Facebook turned out to be a novelty as humans discovered that they don't really do enough interesting things often; so keeping up with one's friends doesn't require a live feed, but rather a weekly or monthly note will do.

Oh gosh no. This is not what society has learned at all. See Instagram, Tik Tok. Not being interesting enough is not a barrier to posting incessantly.
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Those pipelines weren’t fully commissioned yet. Most of the oil and gas goes through pipelines via, er, Ukraine.
Twitter is just the tip of the iceberg.
I like the look and feel of gtk way more than qt and kind of try to avoid qt applications. But how is it with programming, is it easier to write something with gtk or qt? Does it even make a difference, and why does someone choose one or the other for their project?
License it under GPL and distribute it to as many people as possible. If you're lucky, it might turn into a 10 billion dollar tool.
Ask HN: How do I pay the bills as a life-long hobbyist dev turned student?
Hi HN,

I just quit my blue-collar job after they wouldn't accommodate my school despite promises made. I've been bouncing around aviation work, civil engineering, and logistic jobs until I got my mind together enough to go to college.

I tried to find part-time work in the types of jobs I've been doing before, but they all demand >60 hours and I'm not willing to put my education on pause any further.

I feel like I know enough about programming to be useful somewhere, but I don't know where to start. When I first started programming as a kid, knowing anything about a computer was enough to get a decent job. Not anymore, I guess.

I know webscraping, Python, Java, C, databases, and can learn quickly enough on the fly to get a job done. My hobby projects are all useless and have been untouched for years, mostly in game hacking and gaming utilities.

But these limited skills must be worth at least $1,200 a month to someone, right? That's all I need to happily cover rent and food if I get to study without being covered in jet fuel or concrete. How do I find a job like this?
There's little reason currently to think that fully autonomous vehicles are just around the corner, and even less reason to think that Tesla will be the company that gets there first, given the lack of LiDAR on Teslas. Musk's twitter gambit is focusing on the real engine of his wealth, public relations.
You don't need to overturn whole culture. See Ash experiments: conformism has a funny feature - it works only if there's no disagreement. One disagreement can be enough to instill doubt in assumptions.
Many go into service as Home Assistant servers (and Nabu Casa is even making their own product for this purpose, the Home Assistant Yellow: https://www.crowdsupply.com/nabu-casa/home-assistant-yellow).

There are also hundreds of boards that work with the CM4 to build different types of systems or integrate into automation, industrial gear, and commercial products—this is a tiny listing that doesn't even cover stuff that uses the Pi 4 or older Pi models: https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/boards_cm
Processing 40 TB of code from ~10M projects with a server and Go for $100 (2019)
Without any more context, I'm not sure how you expect to get serious answers to your question. "Billion dollar issue" is hopelessly vague.
That was only ever a minuscule fraction of offshore investment into the UK. It’s a great meme but that’s all.
> Being biased against "Black" names is also a problem, even if you can devise situations where the name is attached to a person who doesn't have Black skin. And both are racism, because they are directed at people based on the assumption that they are in a particular ethnic group, even if that assumption is wrong.

You assume a racist motive in your scenario, but what if the bias is actually towards all unfamiliar names, only some of which are black names?

The specter of racism is so great that people are expected to be free from every potential bias because it could be race-equity related somewhere.
You're probably more afraid of being wrong about your assessment of the situation. What's worse: people criticize your work, or nobody cares?

Show off your work. Advocate for yourself. If you worked hard on something, you damn well should be proud of it.
I think it must vary by institution. For a second data point. EE here from an ABET accredited US University. Controls & Discrete Controls was mandatory for EE. No other engineering major at the school, including MechE, had this requirement.
Second that opinion I think OEMs provide so much value to the Foundation that goes to the hobbyists in the end that I cannot be angry that I cannot buy a Pi just because I want.
Exactly. I see a lot of people on HN are often bashing European public universities, but advantage of those universities is that you are essentially judged by a third party which does not have any monetary reason to let you pass. You either know, or you are kicked from exams.
It's ok to not have structure, but if you feel that the way you are leading your life is not working, then perhaps it is time to change.

I found that, when I was feeling overwhelmed, it was because I was not making choices.

Or, in other words, I was not saying "No" to enough things, so that I had too much on my plate.

I found that choices were hard to make but, once I started simplifying my life by removing elements from it, I started to get a lot more focus.

That focus allowed me to find the motivation and direction that I had needed all my life, but which I never thought I was missing.

Feeling unsatisfied with one's life can really be a great blessing ;-)
This is a stretch at best.

I get it, Fandom sucks. The rest of the points are completely accurate. But the amount of interlinking isn't their fault.
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Here's some real advice from a life-time fun-time dancer:

Isolate and duplicate.

Start with one arm. See what someone else is doing with that arm. Do that. Move on to other parts. Both arms, both legs, torso, hips, head and neck. Then get them to work together. Study fun looking small loop dances from the 70's and 80's and so on. You can floss, do the cabbage patch, the robot and on and on. Get one down and then another. Copy and paste one bit from one to another. Slap 'em around.

But most of all watch other people.

Then again, there's the chance that you have no rhythm and you're a hopeless left footer. Which is good, actually. It means you're free.
Apple was and is so bad at advertising that people think they didn't do it until recently.

Part of it just comes with the territory. Apple is a computer company that prides itself on not only having a sense of taste, but being able to impose that sense of taste on its business partners. This is contrary to the goals of advertisers - tastelessness kind of comes with the territory and advertising inherently messes with the user experience.
Any risk of inhaling those fibers becoming an issue in the lungs? Wouldn't want this sprayed on me and it found out to have the health effects that asbestos does.
Fun fact: the actual "dollar" sign is actually a P and an S superimposed, as it's actually a symbol for "peso".
What % of abortions are due to high risk pregnancy?
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Unless I'm not at my house, I keep my phone downstairs when I go to bed. The only electric/electronic device in my bedroom is an alarm clock. It's impossible to doomscroll at midnight with it.
> poor IAM policy and role modeling

This is a bad take. Making good IAM Roles and Policies is incredibly complicated if you have a complicated account. You WILL get it wrong. This becomes much more tractable if you have reasonable account boundaries between workloads.

If you insist on a single massive account you're fighting against the way that AWS designs the system, and you're gonna have a bad time.
Poor is relative. Free education including university for all kids you can possibly spawn, free good healthcare just to name 2 most of the most expensive pain points in existence as american citizen. Your taxes very often directly support killing poor civilians half around the globe, as it has been much of the last 2 decades, for less than 0 added value to anything positive to mankind. Supporting Ukraine is nice and thank you for that, but I am under no illusion US is not waging just another proxy war with its arch nemesis and benefiting greatly long term, no altruism there. If you get fired, how much support do you get from the state? Can you keep that mortgage till you find next job?

If you would travel to those places, you would find stark differences in real quality of life which can't be easily measured by simple aggregate numbers, people's happiness and life satisfaction.
Actually, not vague. So, there's a tool which 60% of companies use, and it has one major issue which has a fix but is very hard and is unlikely that they'll fix.

I just built a data layer to solve this.
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Is it the next AirBnB or a Google Analytics for EU?
Micro Center is hit or miss—each location gets little batches here or there. But every time I've heard there's stock at my local store, they're gone by the time I can go check on it.

The longest stock lasted was about 24 hours a couple months ago. I think people have scrapers even for their local Micro Center website so they can find when they're in stock and go snag one immediately.

The Micro Center near me usually has a large bag full of Pico and Pico W, though, as well as practically every HAT and official Pi accessory.
When does this happen? When you search something? When you type startpage.com in the address bar? Do you use their addon?
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That statement was made by General Michael Hayden[0], former National Security Agency director, former Central Intelligence Agency director[1].

[0] https://youtu.be/kV2HDM86XgI?t=1072

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hayden_(general)
No. But on one of my computers, StartPage will frequently block my search with some message about my IP address submitting too many requests and accusing me of being a bot. It only ever happens on that one machine. Never on any of the others. Also annoying.
Speaking of Apple, Apple Watch, and data collection, how long do you think it will be until an insurance company subpoenas Apple for it's health data? "You said you didn't have a preexisting condition on your application, but you knew you had an arithmia, because your watch told you so. Therefore, we have no choice but to deny your claim"
Not exactly true. I have an electrical engineering degree from the US and took Systems and Controls. So, this is definitely not only taught to ME's..
I really dislike newsletter popups which don't have X button to close (I'm aware there is hidden unintuitive text button), so I'm not gonna read this.
You're getting paid for the extra stress .... markets in everything.
Well, having the opportunity to make a fantastic amount of fame and money and live a bohemian lifestyle is part of what makes art so alluring to potential artists, many of whom would never pick up a paintbrush if they knew that this path led only to penury.

Art would be lesser if only wackos, hermits, trust-fund kids and ascetics were able to pursue it.