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No, it is not a thing except in the mind of a confused ill-informed customer. There is only so much Apple or anyone else can do to protect their users. If somebody sends you instructions on how to convert your life savings to Bitcoin and put it in their wallet, owning an Apple device won't protect you.

Advocating that buying expensive Apple products saves you from vampires is also a scam.
I bought my mom an ipad and a flip phone because of this. She much prefers the bigger text on the ipad anyway.
Marketing made guns a fundamental element of contemporary boyhood
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Even verbal abuse (I refuse to say bullying or violence), despite being incomparable to actual violence (IMO it’s inconsiderate to even make that comparison!) is much easier to deal with in adulthood.

You can literally just remove yourself from the situation! No such option for vast majority of school-age children (because schooling is compulsory).
1) That's not at all the point. If it was, NAEP and its ilk would be measuring the exceptions, which they are not. It is not even mentioned, let alone measured.

2) Also, "equal access to education" does not mean sticking kids in classrooms and instructing them according to a pre-set plan and pace. Education has never been more equally accessible, mostly thanks to the internet. What you're talking about is "equal access to a human instructor who acts as a cattleprod to force you to learn math" by gatekeeping diplomas, complaining to the parents, or generally using/abusing the obedient nature of kids in the presence of adults. Nobody exceptional has come from external force like that. Exceptions are exceptional due to intrinsic motivation, which Khan Academy et al is plenty enough to help discover.

3) There is enormous iatrogenic harm in education against the exceptional. They are forced to share classrooms with students uninterested in math, they can rarely find their peers, they are at the whim of ever dwindling gifted/accelerating programs, often artificially slowed down and bored to death, their time wasted and their spirit broken.
I am in the process of writing a paper about retention in relation to employee satisfaction with their leadership. One thing I learned is that for Switzerland which is the country for which I am writing my study the net rotation quota (how many people changed their job in the last 12 months) is around 25% for people under 24 years, and still around 20% for people under 39. I, personally, felt like I was changing jobs a lot, but what my research made me realize is that I am not changing jobs a lot. I am changing at an average rate. Long story short, even if you change jobs yearly or bi-annually, you are not changing jobs at an abnormal rate statistically.
> Just the expectation that I might get interrupted prevents it from even starting on anything.

I feel this so much. I realized this about myself a few years ago, and even with that knowledge it's been really hard to fight.
The typical student:teacher ration is what, 25:1? 1:1 is a lot better (around 25x, probably) but this is all just on a spectrum.

I'd wager that 25 parents banding together to hire a tutor might outperform a typical classroom, if it was a biased sample towards people who care. I'd trust my parents and a group of like-minded parents to pick out a good educator better than the typical teacher, teachers aren't the sort of people I would recommend to teach children how to think.
> the last place on the internet where real people post long-form content that is not a single-issue niche forum

youtube is the biggest counter-example to this. yes there’s a lot of short-form content, but there’s also a huge amount of long-form, not that the algorithm will tell you that
It's because people assume that these things are benevolent because they were made by people. Gen X on down are natural skeptics so we don't end up with as much garbage on our phones, it's still possible to accidentally click a pop up when you were getting ready to hit a link.
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You're assuming this is entirely genetic.

I believe desire to procreate is just as much caused by environmental factors.

In particular, living in cities vs living in the country. If the organism sees "resources and space and hard to come by" (like, say, living in NYC), it will put the fertility program "on hold" until it finds sees "there is an abundance of space and resources" (for example, living in a bucolic countryside with ample food around).

The drop in birth rate since the industrial era has nothing to do with genes, and everything to do with urbanization, at least from where I'm standing. :)
In Europe, it's the football hooligans. They're quite large groups (thousands of people in every major city) that spend time together and fight together (against police and other hooligan groups). It's like US gangs, but without making money aspect and luckily mostly without guns.
Haha! I was working IT support for the local municipality back then. One time I had to go into the office of the local orchestra to fix their computer which was "slow". When I turned it on there was a cat or a dog walking around on the screen, IE had at least 5 toolbars, including two porn tool bars and the bookmark menu was full of porn links. A hot mess to say the least. Cleaned it up and removed all junk, malware, spyware, toolbars and "fun" applets. Pretty sure it was back to the same mess a couple of weeks later ...
> RAW image processor from the original manufacturer

I'm active in a few photography spaces online and I don't think I've talked to a single person who actively uses one of those. Most people use Lightroom or Capture One, which are also not available on Linux.

I'm curious as to what value you get from OEM RAW processors.
Counter argument, the market is getting exactly what they want.

It’s just not aligned with what you want them to want. They want fast fashion that lasts a couple weeks, because that’s how long fashion trends last, and they want foods that taste good over is healthy. The market is just giving them what they want.

And hear me out, if people are going to be throwing clothes out every couple weeks regardless of quality, it's better that they're made as cheaply as possible.
There is no rare case at the opposite end of the spectrum.

Significant contributions aren’t a settled thing after six months. There always are loose ends to tie, things to reflect upon or unforeseen evolution forcing you to come back.

The issue with people leaving after six months is not that they might not have made a significant contribution in these six months. It’s that they never had to live through the consequences of what they did. It’s not a deal breaker but it’s career limiting because I very much want to hire people who know how to deal with things not going to plan and able to own their work. That’s why experienced people are paid more after all.

I’m equally suspicious of people with ten years of experience who can’t explain to me when something they were working on went wrong and what they did to fix it. It’s nearly impossible to work ten years on major projects and not having something blowing up on you at some point.
> My grandma can't differentiate between an Ad like that and a serious System update notification.

Whenever I use a new platform with a new UI paradigm, I’m a little like that too.

Even first time on fresh iOS I installed a “lite” app with ads that was definitely not what I thought it was.
Sort of. CO2 wise it's worse burning. But free floating plastic creates problems from toxic addivites causing hormonal problems, and from the microplastics (which all plastic degrades to in the ocean eventually) clogging the stomachs of krill etc.

Burning the plastic in a properly fitted plant largely "cleans" the toxic additives by burning them too.

Plastic in nature will eventually turn into CO2, just slower and with a lot of bad side-effects.

"Recycling" the plastic has been shown to instead be sold to whatever-place-du-jour which ignores laws. Often it's burned in open pits, creating both immediate CO2 release, as well as new toxins created in the imperfect burning, and leaching of the old toxins, as well as large chunks of unburnt plastic floating in the wind.

And burning plastic is a waste, but a lesser waste, because it's turned into some electricity.

Upholding recycling structures for plastic also creates a false sense of "this is fine". Instead, it should be treated as low-level-dangerous refuse which should be burnt and only used for applications where this trade-off is acceptable.
> In the 1950s in the Midwest there had already been farmland all over for 50+ years. Same with Ireland (for hundreds). The insect populations have only noticeably declined in the last few decades. Unfortunately, we don’t have enough historical data to confirm what it is exactly. Even in the 1970s you’d have solid layers of bugs on windshields driving between cornfields. Now, nothing.

This assumes that farming methods have remained identical since the 1950s or 70s, but they haven't. I don't know if the parent poster is correct, but I don't think is a good argument unless you also account for changes in agricultural practices in the last 50+ years.
> A responsive answer would be along the lines of "well, a content farm might fabricate too because _____."

That is precisely what the original commenter did:

> (…) exploring how this ghost writing works, and why it produces the kind of nonsense writing that looks like GPT-3 but is actually (…)
"It's not your fault. You didn't do anything wrong. You're completely capable of making sense of this machine. It's just that some asshole got a bonus for trying to confuse you so a little graph would go up."

Great quote
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Not to mention the municipalities mowing nice patches of grass/plants/flowers where insects thrive.

That lacks an important nuance: in most circumstances (regarding soil type/nitrogen deposition), not mowing at all would lead to those patches being overgrown by fast growers leading to less plant diversity. Can happen in as little as a year or 2. So the mowing itself is not the problem, it's the amount, how and when.
I wonder what would be your take on my stints (non-tech Ops guy here, based out of Asia/Europe for reference). I have changed jobs 5 times in 6 years:

# Company 1: First stint after university at a Bank. Management development program. Left after 4 months to join a startup backed by renowned European VC/accelerator. 4 months

#Company 2: Technically an internship here which was supposed to be full-time after 6 months. 3 months in, co-founder who was also my hiring manager died - startup was on the verge of sinking. 5 months.

#Company 3: Ops role with plenty of ownership at Food-delivery company (think Doordash for Europe). Left after 1 year due to personal reasons (had to move back to Asia due to medical reasons in my family) Good impact here though.

#Company 4: Asian unicorn. Impactful role, scaled a new business vertical to $xM ARR fwiw. Left after 3 years to change industry.

#Company 5: Booming startup that ultimately did not succeed. Very short time but still made some strides. 3 months. Laid off along with 75% of the company.

Now, what's your take if you were to look at my resume?

As you can see, I had just 1 long stint so far (3 years). My only saving grace is that my projects were at least somewhat notable.
Especially in the current climate where entire teams can be laid off and many orgs are downsizing, I feel insecure that another short stint < 1-2 years would be a red flag to recruiters and Hiring Manager - circumstances notwithstanding.
Apple isn't for everyone, but it's a lot more consumer focused than Android is.

It's one reason why Apple phones still do really well on the secondhand market.

My parents both had Android tablets (Samsung iirc), but they didn't use them for very long, switched to iPads, and used them at the dinner table for years afterwards - just checking news, playing games, that kind of thing.

My dad bought a laptop the other day to play games and watch F1 with - at least the pre-installed shit wasn't too bad. Still had to talk him out of getting both AVG and some other virus scanner though, that would've bogged his system down and make him lose trust, because virus scanners these days are scareware - that is, if they don't pop up every once in a while pretending to be useful, people will get rid of them.
This is a great write-up. Personal impressions like this are as good as, if not better then, numbers and benchmarks for comparing languages, especially when covering things like how easy the docs or tooling are to use. That's the side of a language that most affects devs day-to-day.

Looking forward to the reports for plain Java and Nim.
A few sets of pushups or a jog on break time is usually enough
For seniors, you might check out the Jitterbug smartphones. It's Android with a custom launcher, and from memory, piggybacking on the Verizon network.
There are countries in which, if you let in a contractor crew to your house to do any kind of work, you have to watch them like a hawk because they're likely to steal from you if you're not looking. Businesses will routinely take advantage of you not being careful and cheat you. etc. US and western Countries in general have little to no of that, and that enables a lot of trust. In Germany, it's even common for Internet shops to send goods to custmers before receiving payment (the customer can pay up to two weeks after getting e.g. their new iPhone or laptop). Think of how much scams that would generate in many third world countries.
I agree: "It's the "opinion" of pretty much everyone in the geopolitical community."

I disagree: "Hardly propaganda."

A loneley voice in the geopolitical community (August Hanning):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33066745
> no rational reason for the West to destroy the pipelines, outside of strained conspiracy theories that the US wanted to stop Germany from buying gas from Russia and buy it from the US

What makes it strained? Even if Germany didn't buy gas, and wasn't planning to buy gas, that could change any time. Now it cannot.

The gas shortage in Europe has only just begun. We will suffer from it over the next several years, Germany more than most.

Saying there was never any chance of a change of policy in Germany is not serious.
AFAICT, the rationale for the single use plastics ban is mainly to keep them out of the oceans and the environment, not to reduce the production of plastic. Heavier plastics do not get transported by the wind as easily as lighter ones.
Outlawing it is asking for a huge backlash. Like, the next government may eat babies for all it’s worth, once they promise to make plastic cheap again, they have won the elections.
Countries like Singapore, Taiwan, New Zealand, and South Korea suggest that with sufficient planning and political will, there were alternative outcomes available compared to what happened in the US and Europe.
And this is why people buy macbooks. Apple products have a minimum guaranteed level of quality.

There isn’t another computing hardware company which doesn’t have a “hot garbage” tier of products.
My guess is that they are using what would otherwise be a marketing budget. If that is the case, then I'd say it is worth it and working. I'd bet more people have heard of POP_OS then System76, which would increase exposure of their hardware.
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This is exactly the sort of drudgery from which computers were supposed to liberate us.
People who think they know better are more likely to comment than those who will simply say "huh, interesting!" You will often get a somewhat biased set of comments.
I don’t even think the real issue here is the crapware. Sure, the laptop would be a lot better without it, but if it subsidises cost, then you could make a case for it.

I think the bigger issue is the lack of quality control. If you want to put crapware on a device and sell it to people, at least make sure it is moderately efficient and test that the final product is usable. If the final product is not fit for function, it should not be sold (or alternatively no one should buy it).

In this specific case, it’s really impressive how they’ve made surveillance software (which shouldn’t need to do THAT much) so resource hungry.

I don’t think selling utter shit that’s not fit for purpose is a software/hardware industry thing though.
Now if it were drop-in capable and still more efficient, that would be impressive and I would count the days until Elastic buys you out.
Feel free (you or others) to let me know if you find anything that works :-)

Pomodoro used to work somewhat when I was alone, but when you risk getting interrupted multiple times during 25 minutes it doesn't feel worth it even if most of the times (i.e. over 50%, not 99%) I can do a full 25min.

Somehow it feels so "painful" to be pulled out of focus I rather just wait until they leave and stop working when they get home 4-6 h later.
Maybe just max out the RAM? Computers becoming unusable is in my experience usually related to hard drive swapping.
Your answer is nuanced, but the original comment said something along the lines of "authorities have been always lying" which is a blanket statement that reminded me of some conspiracy theorists I talked with so I had to ask a couple of questions that could reveal that. You offered "most politicians are liars", it is a better description but still not quite useful-- I'd go as far as to say "all humans are liars" is true as well because there's probably not a single human that hadn't lied at some point; the key is what the lies are and what's the intent. "Many politicians act in bad faith" could be a more useful statement.

> and true information doesn't necessarily spread faster than false information

It definitely doesn't. I believe there're studies that shown it to be demonstrably the case. What spreads well is a story, and a story is always a subjective and selective interpretation of facts, and as any good journalist will tell you two different interpretations of the same factual info can prompt two diametrically opposing opinions (even if they never technically lie, they can intentionally or not omit/deemphasize parts of the story, choose what to report and so on).
If the plastic is made from CO2 in the air, sure. But plastic is generally made from oil that's freshly pumped out of the ground.
If it was coming from the atmosphere and not underground, I could see the analogy. Currently it starts from oil that’s already”captured” in this sense.
Ever used fossil?
https://www2.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Of course. Just not in a compulsory school setting where you're forced to associate with toxic people whether you want to or not just because shoving lots of kids into one class is the most convenient mass education format.
> It has been an outrageously expensive endeavour, of course. McKinsey put the total invested at over $100bn since 2010. Last year alone, funding into autonomous vehicle companies exceeded $12bn, according to CB Insights.

I had no idea so little had been invested. No wonder it's going slowly.

(For something complicated like driving, something like five to ten percent of a year's world GDP - $5 trillion plus - would seem about right.)
Again, your 3 questions do not provide any information with regards to trustworthiness. You have just decided that the Wuhan Lab is an epicenter of evil and therefore anyone tangential is untrustworthy. There is no logical connection, you filled it in.

With regards to Cernobyl, other than Anatoly Dyatlov (who can directly be ascribed blame and served prison time), it is really hard to blame any of the people involved. Yet there were all kinds of known and unknown stresses and defects in the system that resulted in a tragedy. Does that mean we should ban nuclear energy?
"Let the market decide" doesn't work, that's the gist of it. It's only capitalist-idealists that still believe that.

I mean it CAN work, but only with government / legal oversight or self-regulation. Since websites didn't self-regulate when it came to tracking people, legislation came in to make them do so, making everything worse for everyone because then instead of removing the trackers, corporations decided to apply dark and annoyance patterns to make people just hit the easy accept button.

Even self-regulation doesn't work. A decade ago, MOST of the smartphone manufacturers self-regulated and settled on using micro-USB for charging. Apple refused to cooperate, so now legislation came in.
If I ever feel that I need to go by some rule of thumb like that, I'll just go back to working for a government institution. No stress, solid paycheck and impossible to get fired. For now, I'm still trying to enjoy what I'm doing and will switch when I'm not.
Sorry it was 25,000 - that includes research
Selfhosted subreddit [1] and its wiki [2] (which happens to be truer to a "getting started" concept, rather than the HN link), is all you'll ever need for the "self" approach.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/

[2] https://wiki.r-selfhosted.com/
Yeah, the failure is unlikely to be on the platform side.

I visited a police station in person to report a $3000 fraud with clear evidence and also document forgery. Police told me to get a lawyer, gave me the fraud report but told me I'm wasting my time if I fill it out.

I've also had a stolen laptop, tracked with Find my Mac, and again, police handed me the report form and told me to contact my insurance.
5%? 100,000 commercial flights a day, every day of the year contributes 2%. Actually, maybe that’s all of aviation, including all those private jets people complain about.

Then we have all this discussion of plastic in our food and water.

Genuine question: why are we even having this discussion?

In the third decade of the 21st century, common sense ain’t so common
Nah, it's not incompatible. I do as well want to work on my own projects on my own terms and I couldn't care less about my employers' product. At the same time I know how to play well as part of a team and get paid for it. It's just two different hats I wear at different times of the day (e.g., 9-5 hat is "team player, let's be nice", 5-8 hat is "let's do something that actually makes sense not like that stupid project at work")
While I generally agree, there are two problems with the scan example. First, a survey on twitter isn't exactly good data to base an opinion on. Second, even if the majority would scan the defaults, you still don't know the likelihood of someone doing a targeted attack and scanning the defaults. Such a survey is pretty impossible because you would need data of real attacks.
"Gaming" is aesthetics, really. As evidenced by all the "gaming" Chromebooks.
"When people had a choice in updates, too many would postpone them. This left our OS susceptible to attacks which made for some bad press for us. If we force updates, this won't happen."
- some exec, probably
They can threaten with legal action which is enough for some people to fold - regardless of whether it would succeed in court.

Defending yourself in court is an expensive affair, unfortunately.
It seems like every other commenter is missing this. People would rather pay for a $200 TV and complain about the ads on it than buy a properly priced TV.
About 2 weeks ago, I was searching for an alternative to Elastic for this exact use case. Funny how the world works, now I have my answer: "someone has built it".
I don't trust any youtube video that claims to be a source of information but hides comments or likes/dislikes, it's a strong signal that the video's ideas don't hold up to even the most surface level scrutiny.
I also find it rather interesting to see talks about insect decline while it's only one part of the larger issue, rated by some as important as the climate crisis: the biodiversity crisis. Dramatic decreases are happening for way more species than just insects.
There are already products doing just that, the Analogue Pocket comes to mind (https://www.analogue.co/pocket)