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Does Economic Growth Meaningfully Improve Well-Being?
> least from my superficial impression, libre forks of mapbox legacy code seem to be far more alive in the subset related to the web than in the subset related to native.

Just based on my superficial impression I think normal apps on the play store pay mapbox if they don't have a big budget and consider maplibre (the fork of mapbox's most recent approach) if they're big enough.

My surface impression is maplibre is used by companies like Facebook who can afford to hire low level graphics devs and fork mapbox's work rather than pay the new license.

For every feature, including offline, I think paying mapbox is the cheapest option with decent quality up to that scale.

Of course, there are projects like mine that aren't motivated by profit. (I'm using mapnik, an independent oss project that got significant mapbox investment years back but which they now consider legacy).
Are you talking about the All Tools pack? I don't really get who that is targeted at, to be honest, and I wonder about who is paying for it.

I admit I don't use any of the .Net/MS tech specific tools they offer so thats possibly a reason - but if you're paying just to get access to the other various language-specific IDEs (webstorm, pycharm, ruby mine, phpstorm, etc) - they're all just IDEA with a pre-installed language plugin, and disabled support for the other language plugins.

If you just use those non-.NET apps, it's far simpler IMO (and cheaper) to just buy IDEA Ultimate and install the language packs you need.
Capturing inefficiencies in processes is a good thing and one of the biggest benefits of capitalism, unless you are proposing we stop growing tomatoes or making ketchup?
I use arch and I don’t like fiddling with my system, I just wanted something light. After the painful initial install a few years ago it’s been really stable on the laptop I used to run xubuntu on. I switched because I was having problems with ubuntu running stuff I didn’t care about in the background and eating up CPU time.
I believe that you didn't mean to label me as a hypocrite, but if you think that my expression of virtue is designed to signal that I'm a good person rather than being a sincere expression of what I believe -- you're saying I'm a hypocrite. If you don't want to do that, don't accuse me of virtue signaling.
> Eventually, he acquired the tweets in question, and we were both stunned about why these benign tweets, which were clearly not about the company's financials, were being flagged. Then, he finally confided in me that the person who reported this to him was the SVP I had been working with previously, Rick.
Same. I bought a Vive, set it up, had a lot of fun, but then I moved and I'm just not motivated enough to set it up again.

The cables are really the killer for me. I can deal with the lighthouses, but my PC is in my office and the nearest space large enough to play in is ~30 ft away. I don't really want to have a whole bundle of cables just running through the hallway, or dealing with coiling 30 ft of cable every time I want to play.

It'll get there eventually, I think.
That is a terrifying way to live your whole life.
Dunno exactly, but there's gotta be some original camera feeds from on the ground that don't have those. The ads we saw years ago were overlayed at the top of the screen, taking up around 20% of the vertical space. And... every time you started a stream, there were 1-2 minutes of the same stupid commercials (trucks, etc).
Great suggestions, to which I would add Marty Hicks.
JetBrains/IDEA/IntelliJ/whatever is the name now has quite a good plugin support.

I have looked into source codes of some and were horrified, but well, some people actually like Java and like that sort of stuff. Maybe I looked into wrong ones.

VSCode plugins seems to be easier to write, but maybe that’s because I know JavaScript already.

What made me switch to VSCode is that it’s generally snappier, IDEA has the “Indexing” mode that always takes forever
This doesn't stop apps using things like DNS over HTTPS etc. PiHole works pretty great today, but developers are getting sneakier and sneakier about how to obtain outbound DNS. It's not just unencrypted port 53 all the time anymore. Eventually devices will get the IP for the DNS record they want just fine, if they really want to.

PiHole arguably is getting less effective with each passing year as alternate DNS resolution methods like DNS over HTTPS etc gain traction, and defeating DNS over HTTPS is s a whack-a-mole game today, all you can really do is try to blacklist known DNS over HTTPS server IPs, which is a running battle.

My assumption is all ad driven applications who depend on resolving advert domains correctly to serve the ad content will one day all utilise methods like DNS over HTTPS to stop products like PiHole reducing revenue.
Young me would have vastly preferred that to the Sinclair’s BASIC ROM. It would’ve been different from the stuff we were learning at school, but might’ve made that little machine actually useful.
This happens in a released version? Without tests catching it?
The thing is you usually WANT Carbon in your Iron, so if you use Hydrogen DRI you have to further process the Iron to add the Carbon back in. There's a lot of potential for using mixtures of Hydrogen and Natural Gas to produce Iron with the exact desired Carbon content.
"giving a point estimate and an associated quantification of its uncertainty is one of the most basic statistical tasks". My argument is that this is only true in a frequentist framing. A bayesian framing would ask, "why do you need a point estimate when you have the posterior?" In the cookie-jar case, what do you actually need to do in the real world that a confidence interval of jars helps you with? Do you win a prize if you guess the jar right? Do you win a prize if you guess the next cookie right? Do you need to select a strategy up front which gives at least a 70% chance of being right about the jar over iterations where the jar is fixed but the data varies? In the last case, a Bayesian directly computes a confidence interval. But in other cases, a confidence interval is just throwing away data for no reason.

Frequentists are fundamentally unable to answer "Given that I drew a cookie with 2 chips on the first draw, what is the chance I draw a cookie with 0 chips on my second draw?". That question requires a prior; any solution frequentists find is just implicitly assigning a prior to the distribution of jars.
maybe 'perception' was the wrong word, moreso attacking them on imagined grounds of legislating trivialities of message color instead of commenting on the actual (highly publicized) sweeping changes they are already making to attempt to address the problem.
What the link is "conveniently forgetting" to mention is that most industrial hydrogen production emits CO₂ (steam reforming: CH₄ + 2H₂O → 2H₂ + CO₂). And there's a good reason for that: electrolysis consumes a lot of electricity. I won't do the maths here but, if the electricity was generated through fossil fuels, I wouldn't be surprised if the process actually increased CO₂ emissions instead of reducing them.

But let's say that the hydrogen is from fossil-free electricity. You could be plugging that fossil-free electricity elsewhere instead. The press and media link does not mention that.

>Hydrogen-reduced carbon-free DRI is highly metallized

That can mean two things:

1. They're able to retrieve more iron from the oxide. Good, but it isn't enough to replace the current processes; at most to add hydrogen as the "chef's kiss" to the iron produced through another method.

2. Less cementite aka iron carbide aka the stuff that actually makes steel "steel" instead of plain iron. That's great or awful depending on application.

>has superior mechanical [...] properties

Again, it depends on application. I expect their iron to be rather soft and malleable, but lacking tensile strength.

>This new knowledge is a direct result of close value chain cooperation, determined innovative thinking and bold efforts in piloting new technology – a recipe to copy for other industrial sectors,”

>Hybrit Development AB has filed patent applications describing the included inventions to the European Patent Office.

"Guys, we made something to copy for other industrial sectors, except that we're smearing patents on it so you can't copy the process~".

There's another detail that the press and media link doesn't mention: hydrogen makes steel brittle.

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Take this link with a grain of salt.
If they're on Windows, the built-in Quick Assist tool (Ctrl + Windows Key + Q) is a simple way to connect without having them install any other remote access tool.
Most of those are without commitment, why not round-robin between them every month ?
Agree - you would never see a man turning down a woman because she had a different phone.
Doesn’t everyone run a git init even if you never push it anywhere? My local projects usually get git with in an hour of me working on them.
Even when they do release physical media, they often don’t have the best version of a show available. For example, Disney 4k UHD physical discs offer HDR10 but Dolby Vision is limited to Disney+ for the same films as are the IMAX enhanced cuts (expanded aspect ratios).

A small exception to this is the newly announced Criterion edition of Wall-E, which includes Dolby Vision.
I'm with GP on this one. You say "width of a pixel". That width is a dimension. If that dimension exists, along with X and Y, then it should 3D.

And that's when talking about video-games or computer graphics. In the Flatland example, there are no pixels. The characters shouldn't be able to see each other or the structures on their 2D plane at all.
Someone out there might feel the same way about us. (2d vision)
According to the FBI, there were 22,900 homicides in 2021 and 14,249 in 2014. If a ~60% increase isn't the right figure, what do you think it is, and how did you arrive at your conclusion?
Disney has never had a history of really being any good at physical media releases, but at this point it's starting to become a bit of a joke.

Even their 'higher end' 4k UHD media releases are missing features that Disney+ has, like Dolby Vision. https://www.flatpanelshd.com/focus.php?subaction=showfull&id...
This is great! Love the showcase page – lots of familiar logos: https://mintlify.com/showcase
Is it true or false that Wikipedia re-donates money while claiming to be in danger of shutting down? If the claim is true the source doesn't matter.
But by your logic you would believe everything everybody else said - which is the EXACT behavior that put the guy in the article in the position he was in, by his own account. Assuming everything he says is true, he wouldn’t been “bullied out” if people had been skeptical of what his boss said.
> the problem is that every instance of hostile sexism is also benevolent sexism

It's not a problem. It's an essential part of the definition:

"Hostile sexism reflects overtly negative evaluations and stereotypes about a gender (e.g., the ideas that women are incompetent and inferior to men). Benevolent sexism represents evaluations of gender that may appear subjectively positive (subjective to the person who is evaluating), but are actually damaging to people and gender equality more broadly"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambivalent_sexism
The Russia collusion fiasco cost the FBI so much credibility. The moment I saw them raiding Trump's Florida residence, even if justified, I just rolled my eyes.
Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
I should also add for clarification that if going the Squid SSL Bump route, the VPS VM should only be hosting HAProxy using a Layer 4 TCP VIP and nothing else. HAproxy should be routing the Squid Intercept to a private home in the region of the VPS provider and outside of Iran. Using Squid from a VPS directly nearly guarantees one will experience non-stop Captchas.

Iranian HTTPS Client with cert installed -> HAProxy Layer 4 TCP listener on a VPS VM -> Squid SSL Bump running on a home router at someones house or business.

Also important is to not do any of this from a cell phone.
it is your key, it lives on your device (and is synced across devices using your cloud account if you so choose)
> Native code makes it much harder to design a runtime plugin system

That's not true, lua, lua-jit, quickjs, v8, c#, even java

Game engines already have the lead in that area and they proved that it's possible and can be made very efficient

The UI and host of the program should be native to maximize performance

Native code helps write fast code that runs fast with optimized memory layouts
Now you know how Tralfamadorians think about us
Distributed PostgreSQL Comes to Azure Cosmos DB
Interestingly, 20% of ocean plastics come from boats:

https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics

Most of those are fishing nets. That seems easy enough to fix: Ban plastic fish nets!

We're overfishing the ocean anyway, so lowering the efficiency of fishing seems fine. (In the same way fishing with dynamite is illegal in most places.)
The article says this is a Type II-P supernova; the wikipedia link says that's a core-collapse supernova, and results in a neutron star. It says the collapse of the core occurs in seconds. I suppose the production of heavy elements and radiation must continue for days or weeks.

If a big star's core collapses to a neutron star in seconds, and the outer parts of the star get blown away due to reaching escape velocity, how does this thing keep blazing for four years? Is it really not a core-collapse supernova?

The article also says:

> Since 1954, the star has exploded six times.

How does that work? The thing can't be a core-collapse supernova; there's only so many times your core can collapse to a neutron star (roughly once).

It sounds from the WP article that what is being seen isn't the supernova explosion (which can surely only occur once), but the impact of a shockwave on a previous shell of exploding stuff. Which makes me suppose it's some kind of type I supernova?
> twice as likely to be sentenced to jail

But this doesn't seem to account for all of that 10:1 ratio.
Hi Aaron, let me quote myself:

> Not that we actually defunded them, but we have sharply reduced the quantity of policing (not usually through official policy as much as pressure on police departments to sharply reduce discretionary, proactive policing) which is what 'defund the police' aimed to do
Perhaps to train robots?

I really don't know anymore whether I was snarky or half-serious.
Hiring people based on skin color is not equality of opportunity, it is equality of outcome.
No idea, but a "non security regression" almost always has to be performance with OpenSSL, I'd think.

Or it stopped building on some platform.
The “community” is not a good gauge as to which tech will succeed or fail. Go back to the early HN days and read the comments on the iPhone release posts.
Good thing both are non-issues if you’re sitting in an office chair and using AR video passthrough mode.
Sure, a classic motte-and-bailey. I'm familiar.

Feel free to provide an actual argument against any one of the following:

- Wikipedia is not short on cash

- The current ads are misleading and intrusive

- The ads of years past were successful despite not being this misleading or intrusive

- The point you're trying to raise, when you're not being mercurial about it (the point about "support of the hacker community" for causes "on the edge of pauper") is, even if we assume it to be true, has no place in this discussion, in light of the circumstances (i.e. what's true about the subject we're discussing—and what isn't true, either)
I suspect this will fail, because Apple is fundamentally against providing the level of data large ad buyers want.

We already saw this happen with iAd.
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

>Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people:

>First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.

>Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.

>The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
That's the kind of attitude I often see from people who have never spent time debugging a dependency resolution issue in startup actions. People who do not have significant experience in running large scale, reliable systems. People with a desktop focus, who know little about systems internals.

Engineering reliable systems often means reducing complexity. A major unaddressed complaint regarding systemd is that there actually isn't a need for dependency resolution during startup, at all. Dependency resolution is very complex and introducing it makes testing changes far more difficult. It is not a desirable feature for most server applications where reducing complexity and increasing operational visibility take precedence.

> The only people who have problem with systemd is “old-timers”

You may be confusing experience with age. The two are related but they are not the same.

> that just refuse to learn anything new, and just blindly believe that the old status quo was better.

This is just silly. There are all sorts of wonderful features related to containerization, cgroups for job control, structured invocation for processes, etc.

The primary issue with systemd isn't that any of these features are bad. The issue is that they have been conflated in a mostly unspecified, monolithic system which discourages composition, inspection, and simplified operation.

It's a big ball of mud architecture. You can't use the service invocation components standalone. You can't use the RC components standalone. You can't use the init components standalone. All of these things should be possible, but aren't, and that is the core issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_ball_of_mud
> Its primary competitor is Adobe

This sounds very odd to me. Canva is miles away from being a competitor to Adobe. Its tools are not that great and have lots of limitation.

I use Canva because of their huge template library. I bet most people use them for the same reason. If Adobe/Figma/Others have them, I'd use them instead since their tools are so much better than Canva.

If Microsoft wants to get into this market, I think they have to compete on templates too.
That was the thing that got me to sign up for Apple TV+ and I was shocked by what a terrible film CODA turned out to be. Just complete schlock. I put it up there with "Crash" among films that won Best Picture purely due to lack of candidates that year.

I tried to watch some of the stuff they were heavily promoting, but couldn't get into them. Shining Girls is really bad. Tehran, a 3rd-party adaptation from Israel, is Netflix-grade trash that strains one's ability to suspend disbelief. Adding Glenn Close, an elderly American WASP, as a Mossad agent, did nothing to make this weird Israeli propaganda vehicle more believable.

Anyway these are all matters of taste but objectively I believe Apple TV+ has very few subs, which was my main point. It doesn't seem like a massive advertising opportunity.
+1 - Another pirate user here. I have a Prime & NetFlix account but I purposefully never use it and still prefer to download pirated copies of their show (mainly for better video quality, convenience of offline viewing in any device and most importantly protecting my privacy). I have no doubt that there is no stopping advertisement on streaming platform and it will equal the level on television once it becomes normalised, and will be even worse because it will BE accompanied with more datamining of our personal data and tracking. Many smart TVs are already using the built-in webcam and microphone to determine how you watch ads, and all this intrusive method of monitoring is only going to get worse.
You’re making so many wrong assumptions to arrive at your conclusion.

> Vets are great at selling you stuff and you seem to be a good customer.

They didn’t sell me anything. They don’t stock the food they prescribed, they named two brands that offer a diet consistent with the prescription and recommended ordering from Chewy. The only relationship they have with Chewy is to confirm the prescription so orders can be filled.

If anything, my vet has been exceedingly conscious of financial impact of vet care. They’ve not only detailed when certain tests or treatments are optional and a judgment call for me to make, but have recommended against certain options as unnecessary, only telling me of those options so I can make an informed decision.

> The alternative to not eating kibble is starvation? This is senseless.

The alternatives were either:

- ignore their medical advice and let her continue to be acutely ill with a high likelihood of chronic illness

- try the prescription diet, which the vet acknowledged may not be sufficient but said it was where we should start; it has been sufficient for nearly a year, the longest stretch of time without any illness in my pup’s three and half years

- try non-prescription options, including home cooked foods like chicken/rice/vegetables; in fact this was part of the diet transition and even chicken breast with all the visible fat trimmed off was too rich for her

- try to change her taste so she won’t eat the kibble, while watching her under-eat with no way of knowing whether or how long that will continue; even with the kibble she’s a very finicky eater and always has been, and I often have had to resort to hand feeding her so she’ll be comfortable enough to eat

> But, do feel judged if you choose to air your negligence and someone tells you, rightly, that you are in the wrong.

With the help of my vet’s care, have got my pup back to health, and kept her healthy. You’re sitting here calling me negligent because you believe I’ve been swindled by an unscrupulous vet and because you think you know better than they or I do what my pup should eat. You are in fact being a busy body. And quite ignorantly so.
What’s the actual difference between believing women are more X vs men are more !X? Presumably someone would believe one believes the other, and one of those is going to be a positive trait if the other is negative.
Isn’t the CIA pretty much self-funded? :)
> I don't see any reason why Apple Pay would use IP geolocation like that when it's running on a device that has GPS.

One reason is that GPS doesn't work well (or at all) indoors, through cell-tower geolocation should work well enough for that case.
Doesn't the time between events increase over time as there are fewer radioactive atoms left to decay? So E[T1] < E[T2] and you get slightly more 0 bits than 1s.

I'm sure the device is on a scale where this effect is tiny, but the description sounds like the creator is aiming for absolute theoretical correctness rather than "good enough" randomness which is not so hard to come by.
Nothing from a productivity standpoint, I just find the idea of Windows NT subsystems cool as hell.
<company> is quietly <action> has been a trend for some time, love it!