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> Bluntly, HTTPS certs are the least of the reasons that your device has no business being on the internet.

What a silly statement. Any device any user chooses to has business being on the internet. That's what the world wide web is.
In translation AI has replaced mainly use cases where a human translator would never have made financial sense. It replaced crappy automated translation.
Web3 outs grifters like no other thing before, so there's that.
Red meat converts about an order of magnitude less energy than plant based farming.
There are no legitimate uses for this technology. Its only purpose is to scam and deceive. It should be regulated in the same way that nukes and guns are regulated. Contrary to what a lot of the HN crowd thinks, regulation of technology is certainly nothing new. Up until now personal computing has been largely free of regulation, but that doesn’t mean we couldn’t start.
VALL-E sounds uncanny, and totally tubular!
I just started House of the Dragon a few days ago. I was a huge ASOIAF fan and followed GoT pretty obsessively, so I was kind of surprised that I had basically no interest in House of the Dragon when it first came out.

I was talking to my wife about the show and had the (somewhat obvious in retrospect) realization that I was hesitant to watch HotD because of how horrible GoT mangled the story. The best seasons of Thrones were the seasons which closely followed the books - around season 5 the series really started to go off the rails. It was still fun to watch, but lost some of the initial magic as soon as it didn't have the books to use as a plot template. And by the time it made its way to the final two seasons, it was pretty clear that there was going to be no righting of the ship in the amount of time they had left.

Even with that being the case, it was absolutely impressive how badly they managed to flop the landing of the series. The last season was wildly disappointing to me. And in fact, I think the TV series poisoned my love of the books to some degree. I'm pretty skeptical that GRRM will ever finish and some of the plot points of the end of the TV series seem so wrongheaded to me that I'm not sure how George could ever land the books more successfully.

HotD has been entertaining enough so far, although a bit slow for my taste. We'll have to see how things shake out over the next few years, but at least now my expectations are pretty level.
I didn't forget, and yes of course it's already filled with junk. No reason to be excited about doubling-down because in the end it's humans being the impetus.
'Terminator' 1 and 2 Save Their Reveals for the Right Time
Nature: Support for authors from over 70 countries to publish open access
IKEA KALLAX storage bins.

Each loose "group" of tech detritus goes in the same bin. For example, I have an "electronics" bin, a "cables frequently used" bin, "cables infrequently used", "motorcycle gadgets" etc.

If a single item with lots of parts or adapters exists, it goes in a ziplock bag, in the storage bin. If it doesn't already have its own carry case, or whatever.

The last thing I need is another system to maintain. Storage bins require no maintenence.
> but what they miss is how amazing these things are despite these limitations

The author of this Twitter thread is François Chollet, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, creator of Keras and major contributor to TensorFlow, and author of Deep Learning in Python, considered by many a seminal book in introductory DL...

I'd say he understands how amazing these things are despite the limitations, and he specifically says in the thread that it's an amazing time to be building DL apps.
So you should have bought a different house? Or what?
What you’re missing here is how many new productive activities today like exercise or a multi hour commute basically didn’t exist back then. Doing laundry is nominally the push of a button, except you also need to buy laundry detergent and pay the electric bill etc.

The number of hours the average American spends working, traveling to or from productive locations, shopping, exercise, medical care, cleaning, doing bills/taxes/DMV etc and you quickly get 100+ hour weeks for the people working a nominal 40 hour week but often far more year round. We even sacrificed the traditional breaks by eating in our cars to be more efficient.

Meanwhile a peasant may be working long days in the summer subtracting ~4 hours of food, break, nap but they also cut back when days became shorter. Meanwhile today people just turn on the lights and keep working even chronically sacrificing sleep to work more.

PS: People are better off today in so many ways, but don’t forget not everyone was a peasant back then.
Surely you can see how induction would become much, much cheaper with mass production and adoption after this ban comes into place.

Cheap to retrofit, no emissions, no fossil fuel use. Induction is pretty much better in all conceivable ways.
For me a big part of it is due the slow pace. Today's slow movies are filmed in a way that make them feel more fast paced than action movies from the 80s/90s

Watch Jurassic park and Jurassic world back to back, or The mummy vs the remake with Tom Cruise, too many cameras, too many view points, too many cuts
Who's this "we" you're referring to that will enact these changes? Is it the shareholders of the companies? That's a no go - they won't go much beyond making token sacrifices for the sake of PR.

Is it the government? The regulators and the executives of the companies they regulate are frequently the same people - they do their time in private enterprise and then they become policymakers for the industry they were working in. The justification for this is that an industry needs to be regulated by people who understand that industry in depth (if you're a programmer - do things go well when all the rules around your work are made by non-programmers?).

Is it the people? Depends on the country you're in frankly. In the US popular opinion doesn't really support heavy-handed corporate regulation. There are some high impact issues like anti-trust where the public is fairly sympathetic to reigning in the biggest bad guys and I think those are good places to put your resources. Again, the best use of those resources is putting them into an organization dedicated to working on that issue. And the more capital you acquire from your business, the more impact you'll have.

My point of view isn't that we should have no corporate governance. But I have the hard-nosed realist view that the wishful thinking of "we" is ineffective. It has a poor track record. I'm saying a better approach is to go make money and then use it to alter the fabric of reality directly. Maybe network with other people who've made their money and convince them to do the same. This is easier than most people realize, I mean it takes a lot of work and time, but it's the type of work that will prepare you to vet organizations and make smart decisions about who can do the most with your contributions anyway.
any points serious enough to merit a reply?
> I stopped reading non-fiction books. Most of them have about a blog post worth of ideas

I feel like this is very true for topics that are extremely shallow, like programming language frameworks.

Otherwise, I find that a good non-fiction book has no equal when it comes to transferring a nuanced mindset or base understanding from the author to the audience.

A tutorial is nice for what it is, a way to quickly become a beginner. Books at their best can give you so much context around they how and why that is very difficult to build by scouring the web for short form content.

I do agree, though, that bad books are insidious time wasters. I've had to find ways to quickly identify if I'm reading one of those, and I apply that process any time I start a big book (I also tend to search out opinions on good books from others before I ever have the book in my hands).
I don't get the hate for the ending. I think a lot of the criticisms missed the point. Everyone wanted a person who was consistently going mad over the course of the story to take the throne.
Certainly that's the impression I had from the comment - it's a politician being dishonest, and an undemocratic system which gives non-proportional power.
The Democrats have to bring race-based politics and IdPol in to everything.

But I think the bigger issue is whether current users even want to make the switch, since gas is often cheaper than electricity.

This slowed down adoption of induction cookers a lot in the UK for example.
What a coincidence that this is being considered only after a war broke out with gas being at the forefront... Not that I mind honestly, it needs to be supplanted asap, but still...
Sure you can name things, but there is no agreed upon definition of what scrum or agile means, so don't talk about them. They are useless, unscientific terms.
Why drag Vasquez into this?
> Our policies require that users be up-front with their audience when using our API and creative tools

Which is worth nothing. The people who’ll follow that policy are the ones who didn’t need it spelled out in the first place, it has zero effect on a student using ChatGPT to cheat.

And why does the article take a sharp turn to mention Apple using AI to narrate audiobooks? I don’t see a connection between that and the rest.
:wq is still :q, just saving before exiting. The flavors are just different ways to deal with changes, with ZZ (:x) and ZQ (:q!) being aliases to the most useful ones.

This is not unique to vim, other editors handle it with prompts and buttons.
I don't think so.

The role of 'travel agent' as it existed back in the 1980's is almost entirely obsolete in 2022, replaced by online travel agencies. There were 124,000 'travel agent' jobs in the USA in 2000 which halved to 64,000 by 2012. Now look inside a modern 'travel agency' and you won't find many 'travel agents' - you will find more programmers, finance teams, customer service clerks... Travel agencies no longer have many travel agents.

The role of 'bank assistant' as it existed back in the 1980's is going obsolete, replaced by ATM's and online banking. Although the concept of 'banking assistance' still exists online, it's mostly self-service and developing this is hardly the same role. Banking assistance no longer requires banking assistants.

The role of 'photographer' as it exists in the 2022's may be almost entirely obsolete in 2050, replaced by ???. Will 'professional-level' photography still need photographers?
Raised prices are an expected result of these changes. You're paying for the emissions and it becomes part of the cost of production, so in effect raises the price.

That's a good thing and helps "green" products compete.
I think the operative word is “cumulative” — there are probably communities where there are other sources of pollution and gas stoves are a layer on top of already bad air quality.

With that said, electric alternatives can be a fire hazard in their own right if the home’s electrical is sub-par.

I’m guessing any law just tries to phase them out over time but existing ones are grandfathered in (which means low income families will be at the tail end of the adoption curve)

Overall a good idea but it’s going to be like de-leading gasoline it’s not going to be some immediate triumph of environmental justice.
My experience is completely opposite.

There's a lot of incentive to bump up the number of pages, so most of the time when I pick up a non-fiction book I end up regretting it and shouting into the void this could've been a blog post. Even in decently edited books I always feel like they could've been cut by at least 50 pages without losing any of the substance, but I guess nobody wants to publish a book under 200 pages.

Good articles are not easy to come by, but I never run out of them. The best ones are usually in the range of 30 min - 1 hour to consume, all of which could have easily been padded with fluff into a ~250 pages book, but they weren't and I appreciate that.

That isn't to say I don't read books, but about 90% of them are fiction noawadays. And I do mean read them, as I find that much more engaging than audiobooks (my mind drifts away, I lose the plot often). Good fictions are easy to find, much easier than say TV shows which take longer to consume, or worse get cancelled after a season or two without a satisfying end.
> The goal is to end suffering, so if a practice is making you suffer stop doing it.

That would run counter to what Zen practice is about. Suffering can be, among other things, an unconscious experience of pain. If the practice brings pain, whether physical or psychological, the way to deal with that is to continue with the practice and be unshaken by whatever comes, just staying with the practice (i.e. counting, or staying watchful) - while avoiding a desire to be in a better state or questioning the current state, just keeping on doing it under a firm belief that it will lead to an improvement in the long term (and not necessarily right now). Doing so leads to a development of an internal balance, sort of a way to operate beyond thoughts and emotions, which allows to blow away unnecessary mental clutter that contributes to suffering here and there on an ongoing basis, as well as having more mental strength to deal with unpleasant things in life with less suffering.
But books have the same problem. Ten pages of information spread onto 300 pages to sell the copy.
I think the gap between "minimizing" and (un)intentionally "obfuscating" is quite simple: "Sourcemaps". Usually available from all common tools, like Webpack, terser, ..., and the intermediate solution for preserving accuracy.
An odd pleasure of mine that I've subconsciously developed a way to sniff out is "self-help books that are a genuine effort from the author, regardless of whether they're precise or intelligent or verifiable."

You have to watch out for the ones who want to start a business or a cult, but it will be something like "Check out my new system of psycho-cyber-kinetics" and it's just "be kind to people." I imagine a lot of people wouldn't be into this but I love it.

If you've seen the show Severance, the for now imaginary "The You you are" would be a perfect example of this (and I'm hoping they really write it.)

It's not so much for the quality of the content, but for the...feel?

edit:

The more I think about it, I'm realizing I probably do this as an antidote to social media? Social media being "quick, not very thoughtful, hot takes, often unkind" and the above is the opposite?
As far as I can tell, data is stored in the cloud. The Android app does talk directly to the sensor devices.

I don't think there's a non-cloud option. They have a chat on their homepage though, if you wanted to find out more than I know :)
I imagine TikTok could get pretty far simply asking users for permission. A significant number of users would probably allow it. Fortunately watchdogs would probably get it into the news pretty quickly.
I have 3 IKEA plastic, transparent bins in different sizes.

- One is used for high voltage stuff (power extenders, power cables, electrical switches, etc. basically anything related to 240v).

- One for low power cables (usb cables, audio cables, hdmi cables, etc). Things there are, mainly, stored inside Ikea ziplock bags, categorized (I have a ziplock for USB a to USB a, one for USB a to USB b, etc).

- One for hardware (smart home sensors I dont currently use, modem, etc).

Those are for long term storage, infrequent use items. Near my desk, I keep a drawer where I store frequently used items such as external HDD, batteries, and one cable of each needed type (mainly USB C to USB C, USB A to USB micro A, and Apple crap cables). This is mainly so I won't have to go over the bins every time I want to connect an external HDD.

I try to go over my stuff once every month or two, and sell / donate / give away anything I don't use any more. I don't see a point to hoard items.
It comes and goes for me but in recent times I've found it harder and harder to read through a book. Similarly I don't watch movies, I find them very hard to sit through.

I've pondered this recently. On the book front I feel I've read a lot of styles and stories and I now need something a bit different to hold my attention. I've sought interesting and weird books. It's not that the books I'm rejecting are bad or worthless, they just feel like they're treading the same tropes. One thing I don't often find is humourful writing that gives an ordinary story some spark and wit.
Late 30's, level 12.

My guess is that level 11 makes sense to most people, because it's the same amount of numbers as a full phone number, so you can get a cadence going.

2-232-340-1010 is pretty easy to remember, because it already exists as a common cadence, even if it's not in the US format like I use.
That's usually how these things go. No one is going to everyone's house to remove their stoves, regardless of how accurate the claims of their dangers.

Instead, they abolish the sale of new gas stoves and, as the old ones stop working with age, eventually they disappear altogether.

I believe that's how there's still old buildings with an asbestos treatment or old water pipes made out of lead kind of all over the place. It was widespread at first, then the issues became known, then they were forbidden from being sold, and eventually the existing old ones are replaced as opportunity allows.
You can definitely get 120v induction cooktops. There's no need for 240v.
Last paragraph:

“Ventilation is really where this discussion should be, rather than banning one particular type of technology,” said Jill Notini, a vice president with the Washington-based trade group. “Banning one type of a cooking appliance is not going to address the concerns about overall indoor air quality. We may need some behavior change, we may need [people] to turn on their hoods when cooking.”
You (and many in this thread) are comparing the best movies of a period to the average movies of today.

In reality there's as good or better movies now and a ton of crap from back then, too.
> pass a law that says if you "tamper" with the device, all warranties expressed or implied are null and void

This is a terrible idea. There is a very good reason "warranty void if removed" stickers are unenforceable in the US due to the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act
Not a real statistic, but everyone I know in South Korea use their phones for personal banking. Especially people who aren't tech-savvy.

At first it might have been because mobile apps were easier to use than the crap they had to go through on a PC. Nowadays, though, there is no need to compare because mobile is the default choice anyway. Younger people don't even bother trying it on a PC. Older people, on the other hand, skipped the PC era altogether and went straight to smartphones. I don't think my mother has ever done any banking on a PC, but she has a bank app on her phone.
Not really. gzip doesn't know that it can eliminate enormous swaths of unused code paths. I've seen enormous code bases drop from multi-megabyte downloads (even using gzip compression) into mere kilobytes from minification strategies.

It's because minification is far more intelligent than it's made out to be: Your code may pull in a dependency like lodash for a single function in a number of places. gzip would be able to notice that and reduce the total amount of data sent over the wire by de-duplicating and compressing lodash but minification would notice that you're only using a single function and only that function would end up being included in the minified source (and similarly de-duplicated).
Unfortunately new houses with A++ certification are not allowed to use extractors that pipe it outside - you need to use filter one…
I read more online, both blogs and books. For what read, a lot of books are available for free online, and much easier to look up words, names, the odd bit of Latin or French etc… I can read much faster when not moving my eyes and flipping pages. The biggest factor is comfort. Books tend to hurt my neck. They’re often heavy to hold. I have to constantly shift around to turn pages. When reading off a large monitor the text is big, and I don’t have to look down, so no neck strain, and I can scroll with my mouse. I still love and buy books but read more online.
You can have right of repair in 1 day the free market way - no copyright protection, patents or damages awarded for chip firmware or repair manuals.

This is the great fraud of our time - Right to Repair is portrayed as government intervention in the free market and excersise in socialism

When actually it is the Government that grants John Deer artifical monopoly on bits and bites and doesn't just fine, but imprisons anyone who doesnt agree.

Copyright, itself a fraudulent name, is a privilidge, awarded to advance sciences and arts. Where it does not advance anything, it should not apply.
I have the same dynamic at my job. It’s a classic case of they can’t do what I can do and I can’t do what they can so let’s work together. It’s painful but necessary. I feel like it’s a perfectly valid excuse though. They have training in some other concepts that make them valuable, we can’t expect people to know what they know and learn what we know too. It’s why we work in teams. Although the people who are highly skilled in the analytical and engineering disciplines are worth their weight in gold.
>It might be a good idea to not talk on phones anymore unless you already know the contact.

As a millennial, I'm way ahead of you on that one. The government and telecom companies just need to crack down on number spoofing. Any day now..
I don't believe for a second that this has anything to do with safety. There is an imprudent war on fossil fuels going on in this country, that is well intentioned but poorly thought out.

And to frame this as a DEI issue is just icing on the cake.
It seems other redditors are presenting some evidence for it potentially being AI-generated:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/107eent/the...

Reading further, it's probably not AI art, but the sketches at least did lift some artwork from somewhere else:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/107eent/the...
Induction has major issues with hot spots, if you are boiling water you don't care, otherwise you might.
This looks like it (found via Google Scholar):

https://www.atpweb.org/jtparchive/trps-16-84-01-063.pdf
I thought large-scale plasma astrophysics was considered a crackpot theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_cosmology Interesting that it's now getting some more mainstream attention.
> Photoshop and minor video manipulation is enough to trick people into believing fake news

If the news confirms what they think is the truth, it doesn't need manipulation, just a fake heading

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/climate-protest-ukraine-bo...

for example (and in that case it even had the true caption on the video, just not in English)
What's annoying is that I have seen not one realistic idea come out of this. This is not some kind of alien technology, it is a concrete algorithm. You cannot just say 'this will revolutionize everything' and then refuse to elaborate. It is hard to integrate this into an existing project, and it does not solve the agency issue that we already had, which is that AI can talk, but it cannot make decisions for you. So more emasculated chat bots that nobody wants to talk to. And how big a market is copy editing really? To publish something based on chatgpd you still need to put in a ton of work, because it does not check its sources and makes stuff up. So how is AI really better than 5 years ago other than that it's a better writer with a better style? That wasn't the problem 5 years ago, and it is not today.
Of course some places are better, but overall it's clearly blind to own faults.
"Allow"

It's not theirs to allow or disallow. The farmers own their equipment.
i do have a single burner induction unit, but to have 5 or 6 burners you need more watts from 240
Very impressive - whoever did the visual design has great taste!