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> If only we were hellbent on building communities where you don't need to get in a car every time you leave your house.

Not everyone lives in dense cities, nor does everyone want to.

>There's a better way to design cities and towns.

What makes them better? I love Tokyo, for example, but would hate to live there - as it's too crowded for my sanity. But I'm not going to hate on others for wanting that. I'd rather the government focus on fostering choice and options, rather than picking what they deem is "best" for everyone.

>...every NIMBY fighting tooth and nail against allowing people to live close to jobs, amenities, public transport, and bike infra is responsible for accelerating our present crisis.

I think you're misreading the argument from many NIMBY's: they aren't fighting against those things, but rather fighting against growth in population _in general._ YIMBY's take population growth and density in an area as a given assumption, and then solve from there. NIMBY's on the other hand would argue that there's plenty of space to spread out elsewhere.
I used to use a colorway I liked. But every new Firefox installation I added to my Sync profile would erase the color scheme, and once Firefox removed their "limited-time colorway" I couldn't even install or sync the same theme to my newly setup computers. So I gave up on installing colorways on any of my computers.
Many of the "hoa-style" complaints can be dealt with by careful inspection of the local laws before buying. You can find communities that ban roosters (the one I'm in does, and charges $25 a year "hen fee" for up to three hens lol).

Living with other people is annoying, but you can work to mitigate the biggest issues, and sometimes the right answer might be a HOA. Investigate the HOA before buying and talk to your potential neighbors. Many people will gladly go out to dinner/drinks if you ask and bitch about any problems there may be.

And there will always be problems; the key is determining if they'll be annoying enough for you to bypass it.

One friend years ago pointed out that he could buy a much nicer house if he spent the HOA payment on mortgage instead; and so went that way.
Make sure your alerts aren’t muted. I’m on an iPad and I had to check the widget in Control Center to get sound, but then it worked fine.
Chugging that kool-aid I see...
No, they aren't. There's not a single point in time when I have ever scanned my own groceries faster than the guy who does it 8 hours a day.

They scream at me when they think I'm stealing (Any human being doing that would instantly be reprimanded by a manager), they have tiny platforms where I can't even fit my groceries and heaven forbid if I do something the machine doesn't like, an attendant needs to come unfuck it for me.

The best thing about them is that I can do some work for the store for free as part of my shopping. I can't wait for the next grocery innovation of having the customers stock the shelves from the backroom before they can fill a sack with onions.
Or you just prefer the form factor overall to a similarly-priced MacBook. I much prefer my 12.9" iPad Pro (I have a 2nd generation one, from way back in 2017) over a comparable MacBook Air. This new iPad Pro is a tempting upgrade for me, although my 2017 device is still working fine which does make the expense difficult to justify.
Seeking does not mean "will get." Banks lose money from forbearance agreements - especially when there is a reasonable out like converting to residential.
This is such a great example, wish I could upvote this to the top. I think most people are imagining converting high-rises like Salesforce tower.

Most commercial office space in SOMA is a converted warehouse. Live/work apartments and lofts have already been converted from the same buildings. Let's do more of these!
I Work IT in a institution with 290 employees and have had 5 switch to iPad Pro's to "replace" their laptop. I am now 5 for 5 with all asking for their laptop back.

iPadOS is nothing more than iPhoneOS renamed and the device is still too heavily crippled for desktop/laptop replacement.

In my mini test case scenario I never said a word..simply the employee asked for iPad Pro.. I just handed it to them... waited... then about 2 weeks later they asked for laptop back.

Not sure what Apple's plan here is but they continue to market this to schools and workplaces as a laptop replacement but refuse to add functionality to the OS and keep it overly crippled/restricted.
In most countries teachers aren't required to study teaching per se... Just have a university degree and some training. Some countries require only that you graduated high school/secondary.

You're overstating most teachers' competency, not to mention, most of grade school is pretty damn basic... Most commentators on this site are more educated than the typical teacher.

Not to mention, the difference between teaching a class of 30 versus only 1-3 children.
Apple will not make a case with Pencil storage, but Apple sells multiple third-party cases which do (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HPKU2ZM/A/stm-dux-plus-fo...), and you can find hundreds of vendors which will sell you one.
If you click through to the article, you will find that the governor is against the proposal.

Take from that what you will, and not denying the existence of corruption in this one-party state government political machine, but the editorialized title in this hacker news post is really misleading.
Lol, good catch. I was waiting for the upgrade specifically for the upgraded pencil support.
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>short term should be number of people working in semi in the US

it's not a jobs program and majority of the layoffs are targeting non-technical areas. Raw number of engineers isn't a great metric for government programs either, could be easily gamed. Focus should be on building up the ground level infrastructure needed so actual innovation can happen, not just giving money to Intel and other established players to further strengthen their monopoly
> I think it will be part of a future solution.

I agree completely. Along with solar, wind, hydro (+storage appropriate to each) and probably even natural gas peaker plants.

> But building new right now isn't cheap and will just take to long.

Yep, definitely - but it should be done. If you're interested I'd suggest listening to the most recent Odd Lots with Jigar Shah, who's in charge of the DoE loan program (~300B in capital). He talks about how building reactors right now is like building airports - each one a custom specimen for the given landscape and conditions - whereas he believes we should move to a model of building airplanes, mass-producing reactors that fit only where conditions permit out of reusable components.

> I'm looking forward to see how new reactor designs and modular solutions will fare in the next few years.

Me too!
Too bad that Apple works so hard to strangle 3rd-party software in the cradle.

A device like this would be fantastic with a full desktop environment. Many desktop apps have solid touchscreen support now, ChromeOS has demonstrated that mobile apps can be run seamlessly in a desktop window manager, and you could easily dock it to use with bluetooth mouse/keyboard.

Alas, we've got to put up with a hi-res smartphone OS because that is Apple's vision for this product line.
Really, cars are not even close being the main culprit in terms of carbon emissions globally speaking.
And at this time we should think if it wouldn't be cheaper and more realistic to invest in mitigation for a slightly warmer climate.
You could construct such a mind in a simulation but I doubt one would arise naturally in the physical constraints of our universe. Approximate discretization is everywhere.
It seems like we've come full circle then.

Maybe we can expect text emoticons (the ones with a hyphen for a nose) making a comeback soon.
I see a lot of people using an iPad for music alongside a proper computer with a full featured DAW. You don't need a mouse or keyboard shortcuts for idea generation, sketching out rough concepts from inspiration on the go or playing with some of the pretty unique synths & other tools available on iPad. For modular synth simulation I've found iPad with Pencil to be a much much better UI for me than using a mouse.
Their economist incentives are crazy backwards, and they're going to continue to bleed residents and industry.
If the film industry decides to relocate, they may never recover.
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I would be OK with it if the Wi Fi only non cellular version came with GPS but once again GPS is limited to cellular only.

Is there any reason to do this besides price discrimination?
Have you seen the browsing containers^1, including the self-destructing ones? I'm 100% not trying to lobby you out of private browsing, just wondering if you were using the mode that best fit your needs

Also, be aware that (unless something has radically changed) all private windows share state with one another, which to the very best of my knowledge isn't true for the browser containers

1: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-conta... and https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers#readme
TikTok shadowbanning videos from Nikita Bier's new Gas App
I believe he linked to the tweet because the article is Medium members only right now instead of public.
In the early days of Linux, there was a tool that saved file info to a floppy. Then you would write protect the floppy and leave it in a drive, and the tool would periodically compare OS files with that to detect alteration. I can't for the life of me remember the name, though. It was great for hardened systems.
Could the same deaths have been prevented by deploying better policies? Remember that millions of people we forcibly locked in their homes. They faced food shortages. They have their lives ruined because they couldn’t make a living. All of this because the CCP wants zero Covid rather than a rational policy of limiting the most at risk to the disease and allowing the population to get natural immunity from getting sick.
Does Vercel still count? It's been a few years, but next to Cloudflare, they are one of the few tech companies really pushing the Web forward, and I'm deeply appreciative of their magic.

I'm really hoping they take over as the premier web host and normalize the use of these services vs raw AWS or GCP. It makes devops soooo much lighter and stabler. It's a night and day difference between this and the in house pipelines I've used.

As a dev, I love that I can just deploy UI and business logic and know that it will work, instead of fighting some esoteric build pipeline every step of the way.
I (non-artist) use my iPad + magic keyboard as my primary non-work computer. The battery life is great, it's instant on, has a touch screen, you can play games on it, and it's more portable than a laptop being 11 inches. In general it makes for a great every day device. The only things I don't try to do on my iPad is anything programming related.
I rethought my reaction to Google IO conference: I found it boring because they showed things which do not have an impact on me.

Like 'taking better pictures when you a person of non white color's but that's the wrong attitude. They solve great issues like this and I'm probably more underwhelmed that we even had to fix something like this because it wasn't really solved before.

Let's see if/when we get a more stable timeframe back. With COVID and the Russians it's shitty and climate change might already be a regular constant.
I use my iPad for making music, the latency on AirPods or any other BT headphones makes them a non-starter. It makes me actually angry that they removed the jack from the iPad "pro", killing one of the very few actual pro uses for an iPad.
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They've also saved themselves some of the long-term cost of long COVID, which is a fun mystery we've signed up for in the US. Also weren't they working with a less effective vaccine?
On Firefox Nightly, I randomly get tabs that break and show an interactive version of the previously switched-to tab until you restart the browser, dragging a text handle to the left of a Hacker News comment crashes the entire browser, etc.
Great, but don't use laws to forbid people building what GP and I like.
Yeah, even just a hot water heater and a furnace would set me back $100/mo.

People are very bad at working out total cost of ownership, but it could work if the prices were very low and much of the labor was done by the owner.
Is your argument that we should stop giving welfare to people, because not 100% of the people use it in the way you determine it to be useful?
MBS isn't making claims on his neighbors territory for his own.
Note that the typically given P/E ratio is a backwards looking number, not forwards.

Intel trades at 5.5x PE for the last 12 months but 12.1x PE for the next 12 months (estimated, obviously). Intel specifically is also not at an "all time low" - they IPO'd in 1971 and have grown significantly since then.

I agree there are some bargains to be had in semi stocks, but keep in mind things may very well get worse before they get better.
Work from home is bad for my mental health and growth.
Do creative types use Ipad Pros? The IPadOS file system is less than optimal. Adobe apps are the real thing and missing features.

My company has a full video team, and photo team. No one has asked for an IPad Pro. They do have proXDR screens and some beefy macs. Only execs have them for a high end zoom boxes especially if they have a windows laptop that have poor mics and cameras. Center stage feature is really nice.
But is it actually needed or is it a way they can make sure the phone doesn’t lock if they confiscate it?
I think the "OS" that abstracts everything away is the web. Foremost these Javascript Applications.

With Microsoft 365 they took the Idea of Google Suit and integrated it in their OS.

Google tried it the other way and failed. But ultimately they are talking about the Chrome Book.

Well even beyond that. It shouldn't matter which hardware you use and this is brilliant; it's just not Microsofts Idea.
lol - they're all basically the exact same thing with a different display
> I'm not aware of any open source bot prevention system that works against determined attackers.

It works just fine if you're willing to move to an invite only system and ban not just the bot, but the person that invited them. Possibly even another level up.

The problem with this system is that it leads to much less inflated numbers about active users, etc. So very few companies do it.
Endangering billions of people because virologists prefer to be urbanite yuppies. Research so important that such a risk is accepted, but not so important that it would make sense to simply pay virologists 5x more to live somewhere remote.

This is madness.
You can have suburbanism with walkable towns. This is how suburbs were built before 1945.
> Collaborating effectively in a team that is split between the two is very difficult.

I'm on a split team, it's the same as remote except you can send DMs and create groups chats with some of the team IRL and you have multiplayer rooms join video calls.
California legislators keep "finding money" that wasn't account for and somehow are allowed to spend it without repercussions. It's very disgusting.
Incredible stuff as always from Bartosz.
I “like” how Apple makes a better keyboard/trackpad case for the cheap iPad than for the Pro.

The new Magic Keyboard Folio:

- has a trackpad
- has media keys
- can lie flat on a table without having to remove the case

The Magic Keyboard (the floaty one):

- has a trackpad
- does not have media keys
- cannot lie flat

The Smart Keyboard Folio:

- does not have a trackpad
- does not have media keys
- can lie flat

So if you have a Pro you have to pick between being able to easily write on the thing and having a trackpad available.
Former Mozilla engineer here.

> I observed the change in tone in Mozilla blog posts, from experts talking about their craft to marketspeak.

I think I can explain what you're seeing here. The original blog.mozilla.org was run very much like the old "MSDN blogs" from Microsoft (think Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing.)

When I started at Mozilla a decade ago, my manager told me to file a request for my own space on blogs.mozilla.org -- which was denied. I was told that this was because blog.mozilla.org was being refocused as the "official" Mozilla blog.

People who already had accounts on there were grandfathered in, which is why some people (Nick Nethercote's blog come to mind) still had blogs on there. Obviously as those developers moved on, those employee blogs have gradually died off.

These days, if you want technical content, you'll need to look at hacks.mozilla.org for "officially sanctioned" pieces, or look at the blogs that publish to planet.mozilla.org for developer blogs (though much like blogging in general, there is much less traffic on there compared to a decade ago).

TL;DR: The focus of blog.mozilla.org is primarily corporate and marketing at this point.
Also, this study focused on Italian schools, and the authors readily admit that while Europe more generally also sees the same grading bias, the reasons for that in other countries may be different.

> She adds that although other European countries also grade girls more generously than boys, the reasons for this could differ from place to place and won't necessarily mirror those in Italy.
What makes you think the government could run them better...?
How large is this kitchen? I had new quartz countertops put in for $4500 a few months ago, after labor. Kitchen is decently sized too.
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That's the problem, is that I have no idea how much they're going to try to charge me. I might be willing to pay $1000 for a domain I really want but definitely not $20,000.

All it says is "Contact us" - but I feel like they use that to try to sniff out how much they think they can get for it. Idk. I'm wondering if there's a way to "know" what the rough range is before contacting a seller if that makes sense.
> Pretty much everyone here knocking the iPad Pros for being consumption-only passive entertainment devices.

Yeah, this criticism has never made sense to me. I think it could only come from people for whom the only purpose of computers is to make software, not to get out and... you know, do things with the software, in the actual world. I-devices excel at that. They are excellent computers as tools for doing things that aren't focused on locally testing docker containers or whatever we all do in our day jobs that require less-portable and kinda-dumber (their "view of the world", if you will, is much more limited) desktops and laptops.
Two points:

Well, if you're talking to the governor, as it relates to the topic of the article, the article starts with how he's in TV advertisements against this proposition, so not sure what your point is.

This article, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-10/californ..., provides a much fairer overview in my opinion of "where the money went" than just "where are the new mental hospitals".
shrug I was just trying to help someone develop an intuitive understanding of orbital dynamics. As far as I know, all cows are indeed spherical.
Reading Global Hunger Index and Indian Govt’s Response
I've long wondered why there wasn't a command-line option to open an URL in a new, private window. Hope this comes with this new desktop button.
>they can now hold a USD pegged asset non custodially

Nope, this is wrong. Any stablecoin is necessarily centralized in order to maintain the peg, in the case of DAI it has a "custodian" in the form of MakerDAO. Look it up, this is how they all work. When they say the words "non-custodial" it's a blatant lie. Everything in crypto has a custodian, some projects are just aggressive about trying to conceal them.

>Without a USD bank account, and transfer any amount to other individuals.

But this isn't a reason to hold them nor is it an innovation. You could also just do that with moneygram or a similar service, no blockchains required. The only thing you can meaningfully do with this that you can't do with another cash-only service or a bank is to trade other cryptos with it, but that also isn't even for any technical reason. If the banks decided to start exchanging cryptos directly, they could. And that would totally remove the reason for any stablecoins to exist.

This is coming back to the same problem with any of these questions like "but what about the web3 tech?" There isn't any new tech here. You just described an existing thing you can do (send money) but with some buzzwords attached. If you dig into it there's never any actual explanation as to why the "web3 tech" makes it better, because it doesn't. So please just don't ask those types of questions, find some better ones.

>Smart contracts can be made immutable and locked.

Well that isn't how ENS works. And that's a universally bad idea anyway because that means it can never get any upgrades or bug fixes ever again. It's like saying your data center is "decentralized" and therefore better because you encased it in a block of concrete so one can get in to upgrade the servers ever again. Well no, it's not, it's still centralized, you just made it worse for no reason.

>if the ENS team went rogue and against the community’s wishes, the protocol could be forked

This is exactly how DNS works as well. There is no practical difference, and yet no one forks the DNS root because doing so would be extremely expensive and pointless. Because it's not just about forking the protocol, you also need to fork the whole network and overcome network effects, and that's the actual hard part. ENS offers absolutely nothing to fix this compared to DNS. It's the same thing. I should also point you to this sentence in the FAQ:

>The root node is presently owned by a multisig contract, with keys held by trustworthy individuals in the Ethereum community

Which is a random, centralized group of people hand picked by the ENS founder, acting similarly to a corporate board of directors. There's absolutely nothing "decentralized" about it in any way. I'm completely serious when I say this whole thing is a blatant scam built on lies. If you find yourself trying to look for positives in this system, you're doing something wrong. It's literally all bad.
I agree with you, and it’s frustrating seeing people in the replies who don’t seem to understand what good urban design can provide.
I disagree. We've already passed the tipping point for tech, and investment will continue to accelerate. This is true for various form of artificial intelligence, and the rest of tech.

Businesses in general started to see the appeal around the time that the Google Assistant, Cortana, Alexa and Siri started to become actually useful and desired by the general public. Because of that, there will continue to be a push to extend and enhance those capabilities.

The current systems can turn a normally worded question into a web search, and present the results in a pleasing manner. The next step is to extend the ability of the systems to actually understand wider and wider ranges of questions. We are still a ways away from having free-flowing conversations with our computers, but there are many steps along the way that are useful of themselves. Advancing this technology is a competitive advantage, and becomes key to drawing in and keeping people in one of the various tech ecosystems (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple).

In the wider business world, people are finding new and better ways to apply this technology.