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Ask HN: Reading issues, forgetting previous paragraph, does it happen to you?
I am struggling with reading any material, it feels like while reading sentence N, I already forgot sentences N-2, N-3,....

Does it happen to you as well? How do you deal with it?
AirTags are pretty much active devices, they transmit data all the time. If some iPhone happens to receive that data, iPhone relays it to Apple servers and adds coordinates where it received data.
Huh. In the last few weeks I've travelled with AA, Southwest, Ryanair, Aer Lingus and Lufthansa, and never got any baggage updates in their apps.
Maybe all the billionaires should go.
"(Recent events in Ukraine should make this sound familiar.)"

With the sweet, sweet detail that the grunts weren't told that they are actually going to war, so some of them sold vital fuel to Belarussian/Russian civilians. And when the war got underway, some vehicles were short on fuel. Quite a critical mistake to make.
Linear Project Management
We are not even talking to Russia. What happened to trying to talk them out of it? The only thing I see is that we are trying to remove Russia by force (maybe the correct solution but we should try all avenues even if they don't lead anywhere). Where is the pressure from India and China? Why aren't we heavily working for example with India to provide more pressure?
That argument boils down to "if there's something you dislike about society, feel free to live a hermit life in the woods instead". That's not an argument, that's an ultimatum.

In order to receive my salary, pay taxes, fulfill children's schooling, and a myriad of other things there are plenty of proprietary software involved that requries a full hardware attestation to prove that the no part of the software stack is under user control.

It is completely unfounded to call this FUD. It is a fact of modern life. I do condone it because there are many obvious economic and political problems with it already, and could easily see how it could get much worse before it gets better. So far I have been able to isolate these "0wned" devices from the rest of my digital life, but that rest is getting increasinly marginalized.
In DC as well, Verizon strung the tunnels with base stations. I get better cellular data on the subway than I do at home.
I did wish Apple had released a Mac in the original form factor with an 15" screen (9" width by 12" height). It would have been fun to have a machine that could show a whole page.
Brandolini's law: the bullshit asymmetry principle
Yes, we all remember how Russia rolled into Tblisi a few years after the 2008 war in Georgia, occupying the entire country.

Except that didn't happen: the 2008 war was over a de facto independent oblast in Georgia that Georgia tried to recapture, and that's pretty much what the war remained limited to.
I would say Nakamoto was probably Hal Finley and guy is dead so we probably never know the truth.
Aware they agree, pretty obvious in my opinion if you’ve actually worked with 1000s of startups.

As it relates to mentoring, in my opinion, really just three core parts:

- Accountability
- Problem Solving
- Networking/Intros

All of these are addressable using software & system, classroom training for mentors, and auditable using voice to text systems similar to how Gong.io does it for sales teams.

YC is a software company, they know it too. If they don’t change they won’t last next 10 years.
This was reported to be caused by severed cables in two different places. And I read some speculation/claims that this cut the primary and the backup systems simultaneously, which would explain why this lead to a complete outage in a system that should have quite some redundancy.

Of course we don't really have enough reliable information right now, but it looks a bit like this would require quite a bit of detailed internal knowledge to know which two cables you need to cut to shut this down entirely. Which would suggest more sophisticated actors might be responsible for this.
he was being ironic...
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
As an aside no matter what your intent or is, the "just asking questions!" angle is now a pretty huge red flag for many people as it's a well-known tactic to slowly introduce extreme beliefs into the mainstream. I know the HN guidelines say "Assume good faith", but by now you cannot be surprised if people react strongly when you do this.
The problem wasn't that the study was done on mice, it was that this piece of information out was left out of the title. I agree with the OC that its deliberatively deceptive, unless of course this article was in 'The Journal of Mice' in which case it would be ok.
See also “crypto” and “text”.
What you describe is Ukraine losing. Ukraine winning is the quickest way to end this conflict, and the only humane one.
Your other comment says you take insult to being called a Russia apologist. What is it you're doing here if not that?

Remember: Russia could just leave. They're invaders in a foreign country fighting for its homeland. Do you think Ukraine is happy about blowing up what would be incredibly useful peace-time infrastructure?

I have very close relatives in both Ukraine and Russia. I don't want to see Russia burn, but this is a fire of their own doing.

You don't want to be called a Russia apologist, stop repeating Russian propaganda and excuses.
What is the difference between a camera and a telescope? Is it just how it looks, or there is some deeper difference?
Consider what is happening in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem. In this particular case the FSF is on-point on topics about freedom....

"When I see people arguing over open-source vs non-opensource in 2022, I feel like people are completely missing the bigger and more pressing issues at hand, like how the Visual Studio Code ecosystem has been designed..."

https://ghuntley.com/fracture
> make us less dependent on fossil fuels

Sounds good on paper except that it's a complete and absolute pipe dream in reality. Even without the war that transition would've taken at least half a decade if not a decade. Believing that this can now somehow be magically achieved even faster than originally planned despite what's going on is basically the definition of wishful thinking.

Also, I have no idea how you live, but I wouldn't be surprised if you have but yourself to feed, live in a small apartment and happen to be among the few with a good income. That's unfortunately not very representative of your average family household.
Reputable reviewers were the target for the invention of affiliate links. It's hard to remember that there is any use except spam.
I would be surprised if the machines are remotely similar in price these days. The Classic II isn't a cost reduced version of an older model, it has also been crippled.

For a lot of people, that's not going to matter. People seem to have the notion that old computers were only good for word processing and games. That is, more-or-less, what the Classic II was designed for. That is not what the SE/30 was designed for.

The reality is that machines like the SE/30 were targeted at organizations and professionals with deep pockets. Throw in a display adapter and a two page display, and it was used for desktop publishing. Throw in a network card, and it was used as a server. If the standard System Software wasn't good enough, there was even a option to run A/UX. Even something as simple as RAM demonstrates how fundamentally different these machines were. The Classic II was capped at 10 MB of RAM. The SE/30 was certified for 32 MB of RAM, but the hardware design accommodated 128 MB of RAM.

A Classic II can run almost any software that an SE/30 can, a bit more slowly and perhaps with an eye on the available memory. It would also be out of character for that machine. While basement tinkerers are not going to care about something being in character, collectors are going to care and collectors have a huge impact upon prices.
Poland and the Baltic states are members of NATO, and Russia will not be directly attacking NATO given the results of this proxy war.
> the source code does not contain all the files needed to generate a binary.

This strikes me as the action of a self-conscious individual, that also needs the validation of an external group because he is working alone.
Peripherals requiring firmware from the host are not new. In the consumer PC market, software modems (or "winmodems") appeared in the early-to-mid 1990's.

A device with only RAM that gets proprietary software loaded into it from a storage device on startup is the description of any computer booting a proprietary operating system.

The GNU Public License contains an exception allowing GPLed programs to link to the libraries of an existing installation of a proprietary system.

The situation that is different with firmware blobs is that you have to redistribute them. Even if you get rid of the proprietary OS from the host machine, your free OS has to supply those blobs.

Indeed, weird situation as you note.
The article also states that once electronics “saturate” an industry (i.e., they are adopted everywhere they can be), their affect on productivity is zero. Not true. Their affect on productivity GROWTH may be zero, but take away the electrics, and productive would decline (according to the assumption of the article that electronics improve productivity).

So it seems like the term productivity is jargon for “productivity growth” in this discipline. Still, this seems a bit sloppy and lazy. How hard is it to s/productivity/productivity growth/g?

Another problem with the article seems to be that they are assuming causation and simply using a regression to prove it. There is probably a kernel of truth to the story they are telling, but their argument seems to be begging the question.
> And the start of a major inflationary move in the middle of an inflationary crisis.

Based on what evidence? The current inflation in the US was caused by both very high employment levels along with supply chain problems. Sending out unemployment checks went way down over the past few years.

People need things like UBI far more when the economy is not booming. The opposite of inflation. In a recession what you want is for people to spend money. You want to get back to normal levels of inflation.

> I’m not convinced

At the end of the day you don't need to be convinced. What matters is if all the top economists in favor of UBI are actually right or not. As machines automate more and more of the boring work we need done, there is no rational reason that people shouldn't have more leisure time and have to work far fewer hours.
The Rise of the Semantic Layer: Metrics On-the-Fly
School shooting drills.
> We have to get involved in politics.

Yeah but how can we even win in such a space? These monopolistic corporations are already involved, they spend loads of money on lobbyists in order to legitimize their abuse. How can we possibly beat that?
Exactly, that's the whole point I'm pushing here. We are just looking for legal loopholes to get this special baggage treatment.

I think legally you would have more success across the world with a long gun (rifle or shotgun). BUT that's a bigger item that's a PITA to pack. So the loophole here is you only need to transport the piece that has the serial number on it because that is legally the "gun" part. So for example the lower receiver of an AR with nothing attached to it is smaller than most pistols but that's the part that is considered a "rifle" to exercise this loophole.
Back in the day, i was naively hoping, that the internet had a similar effect on man.
Not a book. But this is a good notes/roadmap/etc. https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/classes/223/notes.html

K&R is a bit more intermediate. Come back to it when you're more experienced.
From the article:

> One is that efficacy for formation of CPDs, the main photo-induced DNA lesion which is closely associated with photocarcinogenesis, is highest at approximately 260 nm and decreases at shorter and longer wavelengths, and generation of CPDs at 222 nm is approximately 70% of that at 254 nm, as previously shown in the action spectrum for the formation of CPDs (29). The second is that the 222-nm UVC is too short to penetrate the stratum corneum to reach the basal cell layer, where cancer stem cells are considered to reside (30, 31).

That make sense, and looks like a good explanation. They used 9 mice in each group, but the difference was big enough, so it doesn't look like a problem caused by using a small number of mice. Definitively interesting, but I'd be careful with humans skin (my skin!) anyway until other groups reproduce the result.
Slightly off topic, but why is there no ability (as far as I can tell) to lock your Apple health records with a password/pin/faceid? Seems crazy that every other app containing pii (bank, airline, etc) is lockable but my health records are wide open to anyone who picks up my unlocked phone.
You think running on a CPU would save power? CPUs are the least power efficient because they are the most general. You should put some numbers on 'running slower' and 'less powerful'. GPUs for the same power are going to have about 20 times more single precision floating point operations.
Yes, correct. But why including such specific parts? This was my question after that phrase :)
> Perhaps there would be other poor decisions made by the Hillary judges that mitigates the Roe v Wade decision.

Sure. Bad stuff might happen no matter what choices you make. You've described cynicism in a nutshell. That adds nothing to this conversation.

Progressive leaning judges do not have a history of taking away basic human rights. The reason people lost a basic human right that was protected for decades is because of a shift in the makeup of the Supreme Court. That shift happened due to who was elected as president. Which proves that elections and who you vote for does matter.
Yeah. There's little point in overriding anything since these days everything requires remote attestation that software hasn't been "tampered with". What good is installing custom software if the applications we need refuse to run because we "tampered" with stuff?
If the profound positive impact on Amazon policy-making by Bezos after his trip is an indicator, then yes.
Advantages of Go
If genuinely interested and not being tongue in cheek, there are a number of drugs and pathways that can be targeted to (in theory) extend lifespan in mammals. So as others have said- it may be that future therapies include a concoction of drugs and interventions to effectively increase lifespan in humans. If you’re curious about the subject Dr. David Sinclair does a lot content around this. He’s a researcher in the longevity field. He’s a little out there in terms of his personal beliefs but he does provide a lot of inform and context around all the current hot topics in longevity research.
Why you can’t tickle yourself
Humans: It's so small... (sadness)

Billionaires: It's so small... Maybe I can own it?
U.S. tries to hobble China chip industry with new export rules
React re-renders guide: everything, all at once
The part about them shaking their tail has always stricken me as fishy. I wonder if this is the whole story.
Good or bad?
What if you happen to have a minority view that happens to be the correct one?.

No amount of wiki editors can protect you from “mob” changes on their platform.
Could be something like:

1. hardwired for creating visual models of 3d / 2d space

2. hardwired for fine-grained hand motor movements.

So the learning is just combining those two skills into the ability to make the brush strokes needed to output the model onto paper.
And Bezos wept, for there was only one small Earth to conquer.
Was this before or after the Reykjavík summit ? That one scared the hell out of hawks on both sides.
> So first off, GPUs are MIMD, in that each compute-unit / symmetric multiprocessor is independent of one another.

This paper was from a SuperComputer 09, pretty sure the researchers are aware.

Your comment would have great without the first line.
Great question. I can't say this was intentional or not. To people interested, it was only one line of code missing: he ""forgot"" to include the first transaction to the mapTransactions.
We should send Putin, too.
>The Vietnam war is probably a better comparison, young men who knew it wasn't a good war streamed across the Canadian border

30,000 American draft dodgers went to Canada during the Vietnam War, but 30,000 Canadians joined the US military to fight in the Vietnam War. <https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6o1b3f/til_t...>
I’ve had no issues with Amazon returns/refunds in multiple countries without their own Amazon store.
It's a bad article. As one example:

> The transaction in the first block is a coinbase transaction ― consisting of an input and an output. We recognize that it is a coinbase transaction (i.e. coin creation) from one key element: The number of inputs is equal to 1 (this condition is explicit in Satoshi’s code).

That's not what's characteristic for a coinbase transaction, many transactions might have only one input. What's characteristic is that the input comes out of no-where, so to speak, and has no predecessor. In other words, it's the second part of the condition below, not the first one, that characterises CoinBase:

bool IsCoinBase() const
{
return (vin.size() == 1 && vin[0].prevout.IsNull());
}
Commitment Bias: What Mafia, CabbagePatchKids and Amplitude Have in Common?
This camera is going to be mounted onto a telescope. You can think of the telescope (specifically, the three large mirrors that guide the light to the camera) as the lens of your DSLR, and this thing as the CCD behind the lens.

The one complication is that this camera itself has a few lenses, which are the final elements in the optical system.

There's more information about the optical system for Vera Rubin / LSST here: https://www.lsst.org/about/tel-site/optical_design
Anything that gets infected with “marketplace” drops in quality substantially and quickly. It’s annoying.
When I was younger I got into speed reading and some of the literature on that would claim that reading faster could actually increase recall as reading slowly could lead to the previous sentence being "purged" from short-time memory as you're reading the next one. Not sure if there's any scientific evidence for that, but maybe try increasing your reading speed a bit?
Most of those I simply make new accounts after 90 days, or I don’t use those services.

For some things I have a Google Voice number, the Google account for which uses Advanced Protection (hardware 2fa only).
A long time back I had a go at this too, but reimplementing ttrss's api instead of writing my own frontend: https://github.com/nvtrss/nvtrss

I learnt a lot. My goal was getting something working that the ttrss android app would connect to and I reasonably succeeded there, running it for a few years.

I went back to hosting the full ttrss application at some point.
That's true, I didn't express it clearly, but someone was proposing/suggesting libtorrent for the webtorrent part in a github issue.
Cybersicherheitsrats Association members.

Not that this lobbyist association gets confused with the real Cybersicherheitsrat
Sorry to ask but...what is an "account" in AWS? From what I read in the comments and the article, it seems to be everything but what I naively consider to be an "account".

Could someone come with some analogy please?
Petraeus said it this week, probably with the blessing of ex-colleagues still in government. Yes the appropriate response is to respond with overwhelming conventional force, being careful not to threaten strategic assets that might be misinterpreted as a decapitation/pre-emptive strategic strike that requires a hair-trigger response.
> Limit "External Links" to only websites found in Google Scholar.

Do we really want Google to have even more authority of what is considered accepted truths in society?
Dear god, get a grip. Somebody asked Lufthansa specifically about AirTags and this is their response about AirTags based on current regulations. I'm sure if you asked about lithium-based whatever else, you'd get the same answer because the same regulations apply.
It's 2022, why are we still using phone number?
My airtag in my luggage saved my ass last week. Was able to efficiently explain the issue to Delta & got my bag within 4 hours delivered straight to my hotel. I will not be travelling without one
When there is a mismatch like that you can only send it back for refund, sadly. They can’t understand the issue.

I ordered one of something and got a ten pack and it took me about an hour on the chat to get them to understand I wanted to send nine back. It was pretty expensive stuff so I’d’ve felt bad keeping the other nine but man it was getting tempting.
Can I ask for adding country/region information to such titles? I'm not from the US and I need to assume tribal knowledge that this is about US.
What impact? Did I miss something?
And this means Georgia has an outstanding claim on territory not under its control, which conveniently makes it a non-candidate for NATO. Which was probably the Russians' intent.
Just cut, not stolen?

Has Germany been spared from overhead line theft?
It's been a regular thing in Sweden for a decade or so.

https://www.thelocal.se/20120404/40090/

https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2021-08-11-copper-thefts-c...

They're also now stealing copper sheets from graveyard buildings and church doors, plus grave adornments.
Well, don't use someone else's instance then. Boom, solved.
Again, those are two different things.
> You’ll know you have successfully ruined your standups when they’re taking thirty or more minutes, and your whole team hates them to the point they won’t do it if you’re not present.

(Involuntarily shudders due to flashbacks.)
I like him, he seems to be a thoughtful person. I once listened to his album (which has a great cover of the song "Common People", that jokes about how rich people see the world [1]), in which he reflects on the death of his previous wife, who drowned in their pool, I found that quite touching as well

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0
The bandwidth required for the initial handshake is very, very, very low. I'm not surprised that in areas with strong enough networks (especially considering there's no visual obstruction towards the skies) that a portion of the connection process would succeed, but it wouldn't be sufficient for anything else (thus the welcome SMSs only arriving far later).
Target, Best Buy, McMaster Carr, Home Depot. All have free or cheap shipping.

Walmart somewhat if you search store or shipped and sold by Walmart.
I'm claiming the reverse - the human ones are the normal people who just want to use email without it berating them every time they log in.

Then your grandparents are technical users. Curiously, so are mine. Sorry to tell you that you're wrong though and you have not met the non-technical users.

I've had to try to help my aunt and uncle recover old Apple and Google accounts with complete failure because they've changed cell phone providers and didn't care that their phone numbers changed. At no point are they adequately warned this is the case, and recovery codes are a confusing additional layer that they don't understand.

So they basically lose everything and nobody is willing to help them. You are making a grand assumption about accessibility - not everyone has the capability to grok such a convoluted login process. The non-technical users often aren't morons - they are just differently abled. Maybe they are immigrants who didn't grow up with computers much because they were poor, or have a mental condition.

2FA fails spectacularly on accessibility.

Your reply is an example of the problem - completely oblivious to the users that are horribly underserved by 2FA as it exists.
That is RISC-V Evangelism Strikeforce at work.
Metformin doesn't look so hot either: https://www.science.org/content/article/rare-genital-defects...
For a single match? This feels like comparing apple to oranges.
Imagine if Bezos had shut up long enough to let him articulate the kernel of this live after the return.
Why Conservatism Failed