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Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Passenger’ is a strange ride into darkness
Thanks! So the top light is on some big new 'eyestalk' above the handlebars?

(I'm baffled how the Rice PR team could put this out without any diagram/photo/rendering of the full proposed six-light-configuration, which could give the story 10x more interest & viral-forwarding legs, as well as improve the chances of its eventual life-saving adoption.)
The initial barrier of getting grandma on an iphone is over and the need to dumb down devices to the lowest iq to gain marketshare should be over. It is time to raise the collect iq and at least offer a way to drop the training wheels
> Seems to be trending the other way.

Their order never made any sense anyway. Manual laborers are doing the most complicated, varied, movements optimized over time. Every new movement for a robot requires more mechanical creativity and introduces more fragility. Knowledge and creative workers click on things and type stuff.

Manual workers are expected to maintain themselves, generally don't get any health insurance, and if they get damaged are expected to repair themselves or be replaced. Complicated machines break down and require specialized maintenance and repair from highly skilled professionals. You can also pay knowledge and creative workers trash, but their output is very slow compared to the machines that will replace them.

Manual workers can be abused and ignored, and if they roll their eyes about it, fired without cause. If you have a robot, that is now the center of your business, and if the robot isn't happy, no one is happy. Knowledge and creative workers are more likely to kick up a stink when abused.

Manual workers and robots complement each other, raising productivity. As knowledge workers and creatives start working with ML tools instead of Creative Suite and MS Office, it will gradually become harder and harder to justify why the robots need the artist's help; you can be a good photographer by taking a good photograph, or you can be a good photographer by traveling to interesting places, taking 1000 photographs, and choosing the one you like best. ML gives us the analog of the latter case for free.

It really comes down to the fact that maintaining complicated machinery (to replace a manual worker) is a lot more expensive than maintaining a bunch of commodity servers (to replace a knowledge worker.)
> They're quite able to wind down business in Europe if the alternative is being forced to build their devices in a way they don't want

This assumes Apple's management has the stomach for the resulting negative revenue growth and the subsequent reaction from Wall Street.

Also, a huge chunk of their cash offshoring / tax minimization strategy is based in Europe: they'd revert to USB-A charging ports if the choice was between that and shutting down the Irish office.
I said the opposite ("cloud providers can't keep charging 5-10¢/GB egress") a few years ago, but I guess I was wrong. I still think their pricing is absolutely insane in a world where even the smallest companies can colo a server and get wholesale transit that works out to <$0.005/GB.

But I guess nobody's really pushing traffic so nobody cares about $/GB.
Noita is the best game I have played in recent memory — cannot recommend it enough.
Made the jump and couldn't be happier. One thing I noticed to keep in mind: Debian doesn't seem to be as proactive nor expansive as ununtu when it comes to security updates. I'm subscribed to both dsa and usn mailing lists and the updates conancal puts out are far more numerous and timely.

Also, debians unattended upgrades packages leaves a lot of packages unupdated by default.

Lastely, ubuntu releases have a well-defined and known life span. You know exacly what date support will end. Not so with Debian.

If you're like me and willing to deal with these shortcomings, then I highly recommend switching to Debian!
Right but both of us know the context of this conversation. I clearly specified we’re not talking about minimum wage jobs. Software engineering jobs in China do tend to pay quite a bit.
I don't think that either of these are examples of progressive politics in San Francisco. The city is not being beautified, it is being kept the same and not allowed to be beautified. All comparisons with the rest of the US would place San Francisco as more conservative on beautification than progressive.

Similarly, it's not the community that's involved in these decisions, it's a veto system where only those with abundant time and resources can be heard and have influence in the system, further cementing economic privilege rather than making it more equitable or democratic. For recent academic investigations of this, check out the book Neighborhood Defenders by Katherine Einstein et al:

https://www.politicsofhousing.com/neighborhood_defenders/
GPUs are doing the same thing. Every generation does bring more efficiency, but also includes an increase of power consumption. I'd like to see a line that aims to reduce power consumption by a meager amount (1-5%) each generation, while continuing to push performance higher and just be an "Energy Efficient" model. Like here's our baseline.. 6 core, 12 threads @ 5.2GHz, let's see how power efficient we can get those specs over the next 5 generations, and how much performance increase we can also squeeze without drawing more power or making it bigger.
And also, you do not need administrative privilege to install Flatpak apps. Snap mandates administrative privilege. The only downside is accessing utilities from frameworks using command line is difficult and tricky in Flatpak.
Texas and Idaho have much more housing and build much more, for better or worse. And are much cheaper.
> We are stuck with oil dependence for now.

We produce more oil domestically than we consume.
While ancient Rome almost surely influenced germanic and scandinavian culture. People from those areas served in the Roman military in some cases. In some cases they brought home money and culture after surviving such a life.

Norse mythology and for example week day names show clear similarities with the ancient roman and greek corresponding concepts, which is not a coincidence, and so on.
I have no idea what you're trying to say here. T-mobile wanting to know how many cores my cpu has is equivalent to my bank telling me how much money I have?
In google, you’ll never get the expected perfect results. Every time they show us the paid result, they also follows government rules and everywhere promote the things which benefits them. In the first age, google has given us good service, but after becoming popular and showing themselves as a BRAND now they just use our information and interests and sell them to the gov. and other companies. After all we all using google because of it’s popularity and easy system.
Show HN: Recent – list most recent files
A Unix-style program for printing the most recent file in a directory. I wrote this as a simple tool for use in pipes and shell scripts.
It's all about understanding your risks and mitigating them.

Someone in Iran could probably couldn't care less if the British are monitoring them, and perhaps vice versa.

Those who are really worried about something will fight against that worry, or use Tor, no matter how painful it may be.
How do we make them understand? Practically speaking.
The Pillaging of Detroit
Snorri was also a Christian writing about his culture's former pagan beliefs to a Christian audience. Recontextualizing other religions and their practices into a culturally acceptable form (ie other gods were really just powerful sorcerors or demons leading people astray) was standard practice at the time.
Elon Musk pumps Tesla stock with $4T target. Is a dump coming next?
Another piece of advice I received from an OpenBSD contributor is to lurk on the mailing lists and see what the OpenBSD developers (esp. those that hack on networking code) actually use themselves and get that if you care about stability and performance.
Genomic studies are very new, yes. Modern understanding of genetics is around 184 years old (Mendel's enumeration), but trait inheritance has been understood non-scientifically by farmers for as long as livestock. However, scientific and pseudo-scientific approaches to "race" and "race mixing" has been around in the Americas since the 1600s (the first "miscegenation" laws).

I will also state outright that genomic studies will not solve the nature vs nurture debate, because of epigenetic factors (itself a newer concept). Children whose mothers are stressed in the first two years of their life get different genetic expressions during maturation because of the exposure to more stress hormones than others. Children who do not receive a "normal" amount of attention do not themselves learn to pay attention to others as much. (This last is a fairly plausible hypothesis for the development of ADHD proffered by Gabor Maté.)
Recently converted to their hardware after a rather long line of Macbooks. Completely happy - everything. just. works. First Linux laptop I've had where I didn't need to fiddle with anything, way less than macOS.

Regarding their business model, they do design the laptops (even if they don't produce them themselves), but I get their impression their competitive edge are two different things:

1. Branding/marketing (to non-mainstream users, but we're talking about them right now, so I guess it's working)

2. Software: Ensuring everything works smoothly. It's not just firmware and drivers - having their own distribution seems quite key, otherwise it's trickier to cater to _their_ users needs. Keeping it close to the most popular distributions seems smart to me.

Pop OS clearly is a big deal for (2), but I think it even contributes to (1). Since they make money (apparently sustainably so) from selling hardware, and given that it appears Pop OS is an important driver of that business, I'd wager it's not going anywhere as long as they have a working hardware business.
The place I am working at has an online booking system for all the desks available the entire office building (~14 floors) and while there are no private one person rooms, the offices are 4-8 seats and there is enough vacancies to find a quiet spot. Plus you get to know people from different departments by sitting in different areas of the building.

Works pretty well. On top, my team could decide to only have a presence day every two weeks and we have that as a meetings day where there is no expectation to write code or do focused work but socialize.

I found that this I am in favor of a hybrid setup like this. For the reasons stated in the post, I really do like coming together in person and at the same time I am a parent that appreciates the time saved when working remote from home most days.
Yup. However not just because of insider trading...

Governments around the world mandated that (mostly) small businesses have to close and that blue collar work had to halt (due to relying on in-person interaction), all while pumping up the value of equities and real estate through monetary expansion. Then of course the smart money jumps out leaving the middle class holding the bag.
So why not just remove the Contacts API entirely then? If it exists, "shady operators" can misuse it. Oh and, camera apps made by "shady operators" could be sending your pictures to questionable places so why not remove the Camera API as well? And we can't forget that "shady operators" could be snooping through your files so let's remove the filesystem API too.

Actually now that I think about it, any app could be malware, so let's just deal with the root of the problems and remove support for installing third party apps entirely. Everyone should just use apps made by google and nothing else, that way you know there aren't any spooky shady operators hiding under your bed.
I'd be curious to see a list of all of the classic cinema police cliche's that have no basis in evidence. So far there's the lie detector, blood spatter analysis, bite marks.. what else?
Superpac to direct donations to politicians found not to be engaging in this behavior? Because electorally there appear to be no repercussions at the ballot box, so speaking the only language they really understand, that of the almighty dollar?
If you have the knowledge that Congress does, the S&P 500 is the only instrument you need to do very well for yourself
The calculus of whether the premium of someone else's ops team is "worth it" changes drastically as dev salaries stagnate / drop.
If you're going short or long the entire index on non public information, is that really innocent?
Vote them out. It's the only way.
> They're not particularly motivated to close this loophole either, for reasons which should be obvious.

Agreed, but the ban on federal officials owning individual stocks is actually gaining momentum and I think has a good chance of passing, though what happens in November may change that.
The usual method is to vote them out. But, at least in the general election, the desire to vote the bum out is tempered by the need to keep them from gaining power.
Yep, once around then landing. I think they didn't want to hang around in orbit after doing something that sketchy. I think this sort of capability / mission profile spooked the Soviets; it seemed like a capability that would be useful to an orbital bomber.
Everything, most students I knew “bought” their textbooks at thepiratebay. The ones we couldn’t were of course available on Amazon.. without proof of enrollment.
> showing factual images

I think I see what you mean by images being "factual" but wholeheartedly disagree. Images are one of the least factual or neutral media out there. Let's be honest this is propaganda, not an article on math equations.
Sorry, but this sounds like nonsense to me. Why not throw out all the history classes at school then? I mean, no predictive power, so why not throw out all the lessons about Nazi Germany and all that? Why waste time? And we could throw out any teaching about how Taiwan and mainland China relate to each other as well. No need to understand their motives, no predictive power! Heck, delete everything regarding history from Wikipedia and other websites, since it is only using disk space. What a waste!

The generality of your statement "History is a good teacher about the past, but is powerless to predict the future." is highly questionable. Those who do not learn from history are bound to make the same mistakes, as is commonly said.

If anything, then the dictator is missing his history classes or did not learn properly. Otherwise he might not have acted the way he does. History could have told him a thing or two about the chances of his failing invasion or what he navigated himself into.

We are about to see another winter war, of which I can recall at least 3 failed attempts in history in similar settings: Napoleon, Nazi Germany and Soviet-Finnish War. Probably there are many more examples throughout history. Better to learn a lesson from that, than repeating things.

> [...] when there is no real reason to think that he would.

Are you serious? Like, watch a documentary or 2 about what happened in other nations, Georgia and Moldova for example, before Ukraine. Or read up on the dictator's self-declared goals and "Russian World". Compare to Nazi Germany a little and you will see the similarities. Saying, that there is no real reason to think he would not stop is ignoring so much history.
It's really hard when there isn't much feedback provided.

Tech interviewing sucks because it asks you to present linear in the interview to measure alignment but the work is anything but linear most of the time.

The phrase be so good no one can ignore you comes to mind for me, but that isn't the only or best way. There is a book by that name that might help you find things about you that you undervalue but are very unique and valuable compared to the rest.

I try to think about it in terms of "how many other candidates that you are speaking with have done x?"

While searching, spend as much time learning and building something not just with emerging tech but maybe some things you see int he job posts. Level up. Setup a Youtube channel with a daily video journal of what you're learning and keep it in line with a daily slide deck. Embed both in the resume as a link so any technical person seeing it can get to meet you and see how you communicate well before they start interviewing.

Ask for feedback on what you could add to your skillset or present differently on from each interview. Maintaining that kind of relationship will help them keep you in mind and hopefully you get some meaningful input.

Attend a lot of meetups and local groups for tech, software, or whatever in your area. You will meet employees and the more you can show and tell there as a beginner and as you get to know them they will naturally invite you to things you might be a good fit for without asking. The route of an invitation is much better than applying online.

Applicant tracking systems are pretty poor filters, and then HR also is a poor filter because they are illiterate in tech for the most part and play keyword
bingo. It's true you can get in front of someone technical and work through that process, but having a warm intro and learning about the company by dropping by to meet someone for lunch, and then learning about it can go a very long way when something becomes available, or a new initiative is in place.

If you do find any of the above helpful or useful, happy to chat as peers via email (anyone). Finding and securing your next opportunity to improve your life shouldn't be this hard.
What the UK really needs right now is a second Boris stint, this time with the bid to get the UK back into the EU.

Nothing less will suffice.
Normally, the correct answer here would be "through votes", but what do you do when both sides are doing the exact same thing? Voter turn out is getting lower and lower.
I hope people don't make the assumption that anything that's not coming from Google is harmful and a potential adware/malware. People who support Apple's app store monopoly also use the same logic. Maybe the Indian government needs to push separate bills prohibiting manufactures from packaging crapware. But this is a step in the right direction IMO.
Wait - blood spatter must follow the rules of physics, so there is some kind of analysis that would be valid, surely?

Reading online I see its still respected lots of places and still taught in forensics. Don't know where that came from.
looks very interesting but I face the paywall
Indeed - similar to how narrower streets & traffic circles can reduce accidents by demanding more driver attention.

Perhaps, even next-generation lighting could be dynamic, brightening or otherwise modulating when on-vehicle sensors detect other vehicles nearing. (That could be either be nearer generally, or when sensors detect heightening risk.)
The thing is that "we the people" are busy fighting each other over every political issue under the sun. Good luck getting the American people to agree on literally anything.

This is by design of course. "You don't want the gays using your bathrooms!" while they pillage the country.
Yes, sorry :P
Possible I wasn’t clear, “Ask HN: (insert question)” is a format on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/ask
I uninstalled the snap version and installed the flatpak one. No more lying pop-ups (I close firefox but it never updates when I reopen it).

Bonus, I don't need to be root to update it!
oh yeah swiftkey did clone the feature more recently!
Firefox 106 seems to handle the font just fine. I also see the gradients, they claim to not work on Firefox yet. But yeah, that line at the bottom is a bit weird...

[1] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nabla
In this case, though, they were not buying & selling individual stocks. So we would need to ban them from owning any equities, even shares of S&P 500 index funds.
Certainly hope it passes! Though with a high enough security clearance I'd imagine you could make a killing just going long/short on index funds, so I don't know how effective this would be at curbing the behavior.

What we really need is all assets of elected officials held in blind trust, bar none, no exceptions, I think. Though I'm no hedge fund wizard and I'm sure there's a loophole to exploit there as well.
>Answer basic questions like why are you applying to that company? What do you gain from that role? People can smell desperation.

Question for you: When you get this sort of question, do you answer honestly, or "honestly"?

My current company has been in a pretty steep decline in terms of quality. I feel that they undervalue the work that I do, do not pay me appropriately for the work that I do, are skirting around fundamental things (like paying for job-related education/certs/etc.), and are just generally mismanaging the company.

I don't have a problem saying those things - I believe in honesty - however, I realize that me going into an interview as a complete stranger and telling them all of these problems would give that company a very negative perspective of myself. "This guy doesn't even know us, and if this is how he talks about his current employer, he'd probably talk about us the same way too. Pass."

Instead, I try to find related-truths, and avoid the direct issues. "I'm looking to see what else is out there, and find new technical challenges. I feel like I have done a lot of good work and that my current company is in a good position, but I don't want my technical skills to deteriorate, so I'm looking to keep my skills up-to-date by tackling new problems."

It seems to get a generally okay response, but I don't know if that reeks of some kind of "desperation" or not. What is your opinion on something like that be? I'm struggling to be both truthful, sincere, and give an actual answer, not just "corporate-speak" with buzzwords and non-statements.
> People thinking this attack was unprovoked, should check trusted sources(UN observers, non-profits)

FYI, UN observers released a report just 2 days ago.

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2022-10/A-77-533-A...

Sounds like you're saying that Ukrainians somehow provoked this:

- Russian armed forces have shot at civilians attempting to flee

- summary executions, unlawful confinement, torture, ill-treatment, rape and other sexual violence committed in areas occupied by Russian armed forces

- Children have become the victims of the full spectrum of violations investigated by the Commission, including indiscriminate attacks, torture, and rape, suffering the predictable psychological consequences

- Victims range from four to over 80 years old. Perpetrators raped the women and girls in their homes or took them and raped them in unoccupied dwellings. In most cases, these acts also amount to torture and cruel or inhumane treatment for the victims and for relatives who were forced to watch.

I would recommend everyone saying Ukraine should just concede to read this report. Would you give the same advice if this was happening to your country?
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That's why you get involved in grassroots politics and change the make up of the parties themselves.
Chicago is a much cleaner city. No comparison with New Haven, NYC (where I used to live), Philly (where I live now) or really anywhere else on the east coast. The culture of throwing trash on the ground is endemic on the east coast.

I was flying from NYC to Denver a few months ago and a Denverite and I struck up a conversation on this very topic after observing multiple people throwing trash on the floor in LGA. Speaking of which, Denver, another city that is much cleaner than anywhere on the east coast.