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No(po)lyfill: shrink `node_modules` by replacing obsolete polyfills
NTFS, if I remember correctly.
>Firefox just offers nothing substantial over Chrome

Hah! Let's see you try to use vertical tabs in Chrome. If you ever have more than 8 tabs open at once, Horizontal tabs are clearly inferior.
The article does not mention the mechanism for CO2 capture. Google can probably find it. I suspect interest in this results from its dependence on fossil fuels. ISTR sequestration is by injecting deep into the ground where it will form stable carbonates.

And from the article:

> ... the two projects are expected to be able to sequester 2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide each year

> ... the DOE estimates that reaching the Biden administration's goal of a net-zero US by 2050 will require at least 400 million tonnes to be sequestered annually, and perhaps as many as 1.8 billion.

so we would need 200x these projects (or much more.) I wonder what the carbon footprint of that will be. I'd like to see a cost/benefit analysis of carbon sequestered vs. carbon produced to do so. And the $$$ estimate to do so. I wonder if this is really a cost effect way to reduce green house gases.
Have you actually read the financial statements? None of what you just wrote is remotely true.
I think this is a pretty common construction in (especially older) british english. I think it is also the back reference the parent commenter notes, but I don't think it would have been unclear without that reference, especially at the time he wrote it.
Reminds me of the old Vistaprint model of “Free business cards, just pay shipping.”

It was so cheap to print the cards (and relatively cheap to ship slowly) that Vistaprint still made money on the “free” cards.
> The only people complaining are the ones who want to disregard road laws because they don't care about the danger they pose to others, and like that there's barely any enforcement.

It takes away my discretion.
If I drive 60 in dense traffic and weave between lanes this system would mark me as legal but I would be putting other people in incredible danger.
If I drive 75 on empty roads I would be marked as illegal and dangerous.

Sure people are irresponsible but these black and white automated solutions are scary and not smart enough to be throwing out $500+ fines. Plus with the insurance adjustment going 75 on an empty road could end up costing you $2000+ over a few years.
I could already see the scenario there. The startup gets very successful and entrenches itself as this middleman. Eventually someone figures out that this cheque system is dumb and everything should be digital by default. The startup then starts lobbying and further locks in the archaic cheque system.
Compiled languages boil down to assembly, but I wouldn't like to write them as assembly files with a few higher-level constructs sprinkled through the files.

You may disagree that html and css are that bad. But I think it was always a mess, specially when you go beyond linked documents and add any kind of interactivity and forms. There's also inherent limitations like "select" dropdowns offering very little functionality and mostly ending up as custom components in all projects I have worked in.
I've seen a lot of cars after accidents (bad ones) in various junk yards when hunting for parts, including ones where it was hard to figure out what brand the car was. In most of the cases, even with the wheel pushed all the way into the well they still held pressure so that's - in my view - very poor engineering. VW had a perfect storm of its own creation (the dieselgate, asleep at the switch when the energy transition started happening) that caused it to push their e-cars out on an accelerated schedule to avoid even further loss of market share, I expect that to eventually lead to some recalls. But to see it extend to something as basic as the wheels is very far out for their normal level of performance, that should have never ever happened. Would it be ok if I alerted someone in the org to your case?
Sure - define rational as people who agree with you, and rational as people who disagree with you.

I'm tired of people thinking the people who disagree with them must be morons and incapable of rationality, and that the people who agree with them are smart and rational.

People have different interests.
Ball milling exposes surfaces to fresh reactive radicals introduced through tribo-electric effects.

Ultrasonics just vibrates and could be combined with ball milling to improve mixing rates, but without physical friction, it probably won’t be as effected.
Yes, they are going to continue the restructuring of the hotel (it is not a new building, it is the historical Palazzo della Rovere/Palazzo dei Penitenzieri), the remains were found in a courtyard, some 5 m under ground level, it wasn't (even before the discovery) intended to make new buildings in that area.

The idea is now to document everything, take all statues, columns and smaller manufacts to either one of the various museums in Rome or a new museum in the same palace (which is a very large building, only a part of which is actually the future hotel) and then re-bury the whole thing, keeping at least part of it accessible to visitors.

The discovery is recent (july 2023 if I recall correctly) so it will take a few months to have more details about the project.
Credit card delinquencies jump past pre-pandemic levels
Were they really? I got mine at a sharp discount online and kept it for over a decade before finally tossing it. I grew up in a small town, and Kozmo epitomized for me both big cities and the Internet. It's a large reason why I'm working in the space now.
The serotonin model of antidepressants just doesn’t pass a sniff test. Something else is going on there. How they say they should work would mean they work in the first dose and possibly that don’t require tapering off. But that’s not what happens in the real world.

If we understood what’s really happening we could target pathways better.
Back in the day, I used to take photos CONSTANTLY with my 3DS. I got some really cool shots with it, I should go find it in my closet and see if I can yank them off of it.
how can anyone say that Linux is ready for the desktop when one a
single person maintaining these projects can simply be reassigned by their employer, leaving those projects abandoned?

I see this everywhere, in varying degrees. I'm sure people will come up to fix bugs in these Gnome projects, I just wonder how it got to this point when the community still seems like they are generally pointing in the same 180° arc when you say "where is the Linux desktop?"

at work we have crucial, production systems whose teams have disbanded and moved onto other things. this is so unthinkable to me; if it's important, and the business halts if it fails, keep people on it FFS.
I've gotten really into commuter biking, and I have a nice frame sitting there. I can solder, build power and BLDC motor controllers, and do light machining. but somehow the idea of learning wheel building is just too involved for me :-)

do you have some references? I would love a little hub motor for the hills.
Well, exactly. I used to work for Lotus when every new release of Windows or Dos broke something in 1-2-3.
1% is an interesting number [0]

Instinctively it feels small, but in practice increasing your CVR on your registration page by 1% is usually a big deal. What kind of other costs in ads or marketing would you pay to get a 1% increase to your user base ?

For most company I worked for, a bug affecting 1% of the users would be a critical show stopper.

[0] Setting aside if you really have 1% in firefox vs more % in Brave or Vivaldi,
tl;dr: The hours spent are probably not proportional to the monetary gain, so consider it a hobby.

Conversely, I’ve read other HN stories where big players will react to small claims court.
> use of a saxophone in modern pop music

Ahh, the halcyon days of damn near every 80's Top 40 hit.
If you think you have a better notation idea for 128-bit numbers, build your own address converter and try it?

The obvious other notations for numbers that large to compare to are the various notations people use for UUIDs/GUIDs.

I personally find IPv6's designed notations one of the easier ones to use, especially because of that :: fill with zeroes shortcut to focus on the easier separation of prefix versus suffix. (For a network you control you likely only need to remember the prefix, and then suffix is whatever numbering scheme you want to implement so it may be algorithmic and simply ordered ::1, ::2, ::3, etc. Also, the regular pattern of a colon every four hex digits versus say the strange group order of UUIDs is nice. Trying to write the notation of a UUID without software help is much more painful than IPv6 address notation, I think.) But also, I have a bit of dyscalculia (my brain catches all the individual digits in a number but not always their correct order) and hex works much better for me at remembering or visualizing long numbers.
Your comment here is helping to prove my point. You are equating the music industry with music as an art form. Studio equipment being cheaper and there being no "major releases" or "shared listening experience" does not mean music today is worse. It just means the mainstream has broadened to a degree that it barely exists. Complaining about that is effectively old man yelling at clouds behavior. But if you are truly craving the mainstream shared experience, Taylor Swift is currently in the middle of the most culturally relevant concert tour in decades.
There is nothing really wrong with that as a recreational reading IMHO.

Yeah, but I think that this is beside the point since the encyclopedia isn't colloquially literature, either.
Unitree is one of the leading developers of quadrupeds. It has taken the leg mechanics and drive systems it developed for its quadrupeds to now focus on developing the H1 humanoid.
Because (even if we put aside concerns like charging spots, batteries, and increased road damage due to EV weight) there is a finite level of funding available on all levels of government.

If private companies want to fund a conversion to EVs, great. But that's not exactly what's happening. There are huge federal and state subsidies happening to incentivize the transition, and those subsidies could instead be used to repair and public transit systems, which at least in my city are literally crumbing, and improve safety for cyclists and pedestrias.
I find it amazing how people forget that being a monopolistic power doesn't help if your product sucks: Google has, time and time again, failed to gain traction in the messaging app market on Android, the market being entirely occupied by competitors like WhatsApp.

Chrome won partly because of the marketing and being preinstalled, sure, but also by being a good product.
If nagging people to install Chrome was all it took to win, then why is Edge in such a precarious position on Windows with all the nagging Windows 10 and 11 brought? Microsoft failed to succeed time and time again.

People on HN have weird preconceptions about how suggestion and marketing works.
I am reminded by this story of the Canadian health care billing system.
The government would pay doctors an additional 1% of the bill if it was submitted one month late. One billing software vendor had a flag to specify that bill should be sent late - and I think that it defaulted to "yes".
Jetson is basically like Apple. Theoretically its good, but the models with enough RAM are too expensive.

Smartphones aside, little Ryzen 6000 boxes would be OK.

Used DDR5 laptops with a little discrete GPU would be even better. I have one with a broken screen that may be dedicated to this very task.
We need a new word for this.

We say OpenTF is (or will be) a fork, and forks are bad, nuclear option, etc, but really, Hashicorp are the ones who made a breaking change, and the "fork" merely maintains that which already was, but for reasons, are not allowed to continue using their own name.

We need for the shortest sound-bite 3-word sentence to the non-technical to somehow use terminology that says that the entity that caused the problem is the one who did some action.

OpenTF did not (or is not prepareing to) fork this project, Hashicorp did.

If it was me and I wasn't legally prevented by something actually binding in writing with signatures, I'd even keep using the original name and duke that out.
Most published papers are of such poor quality that they have a net negative value, serving only to degrade the signal-to-noise ratio of the scientific literature. These papers are not being published for the positive-sum reason of expanding human knowledge, but for the zero-sum reason of competing for academic prestige and a finite supply of grants and tenured positions.

Viewed through this lens, the apparently irrational state of academic publishing becomes entirely rational.
> more people may feel comfortable going 8-10 mph over the limit.

Is that more or less than the current status quo? I'm not in California but it sounds like everyone feels comfortable doing that anyways.

Also you can still enforce 1-10 mph over the old fashioned way.

> Those who can afford the $50 fine (which, knowing CA, is a big part of the population) without any other consequences will end up ignoring it and just paying the fee or using their significant wealth to fight the fees.

Doing this every time you speed would add up very quickly. Also if you're talking about middle class people $50 is not amount that feels like nothing to them.

> The rest of the people just won't pay it because they cannot afford it.

Like you said, this is a very small number of people that we probably don't need to be punished any more by society.
His worst work IMHO. And I'm a huge fan of his writing in general.
Thanks, I had already filed with the AG (to no avail, at least so far) but didn't think of the CFPB, I will do that now.
> Nvidia Orin will use significantly less energy though.

Not really.

A Ryzen 7 7840U has a GPU with 768 FP32 ALUs @ 2.7 GHz and a NPU that can do 10 TOPS and it has a default TDP of 28 W.

The top Jetson AGX Orin models consume up to 60 W or 75 W, but they are so expensive that it does not make sense to compare them with a computer with 7840U and 32 GB of LPDDR5x-7500 that costs 3 times less.

A comparison that makes more sense is with a Jetson Orin NX 16GB (still significantly more expensive), which has a GPU with 1024 FP32 ALUs @ 0.918 GHz and it has a default TDP of 25 W.

For graphics tasks, Jetson Orin NX would be several times slower than an AMD Phoenix, due to its low GPU clock frequency and much slower CPU cores. The same is true for any programs executed on the CPU cores.

On the other hand, for AI inference, Jetson Orin has very fast tensor cores, so it can be many times faster than an AMD GPU or an ARM GPU, i.e. Jetson Orin NX 16 GB is claimed to be able to do 100 TOPS, so if this is the main intended application it can be worthwhile. Nevertheless, the usefulness of the Jetson Orin models for AI inference is diminished by the fact that their price increases very steeply when more memory is desired.
>Firefox just offers nothing substantial over Chrome

Hah! Let's see you try to use vertical tabs in Chrome. If you ever have more than 8 tabs open at once, Horizontal tabs are clearly inferior.

Brave and Edge can do vertical tabs natively, but chrome doesn't. The extensions I have tried in Chrome are as unusable as Safari's native vertical tabs implementation.
Why do developers need to be paid?
> It's not the method you shouldn't believe in, it's the teachers that are malicious.

That seems like leaping to a conclusion. Could it also be that this is not exactly an exact science and it's very easy to get it wrong?
Are they even able to unilaterally relicense third party providers?
A conspiracy theory involves a secret group, and in the usual context it's trying to affect a lot of people.

> People who do engage with some wilder ideas do in fact take some actions that are harmful. It’s not the ideas that are harmful, but the actions taken without more complete knowledge that is.

If indirect consequences like that don't count then it's not "“harmful” to the current paradigm of power" either, so I thought we were including those.
Meteor Showers from Space
>"Regardless of Orwell's fuming about freedom of the press, pro-Soviet English intellectual fashions, and such - for the WWII-era British government, not "rocking the boat" with Stalin, when "his" USSR was still critical to winning the war with a less-horrific British body count, would be a "d'oh, obviously" policy."

On the other hand, we shouldn't forget that Stalin's USSR was also critical to starting the war as well.
> why is proprietary control good for one side and not the other?

It isn’t for either, this is a “least worst” scenario. Both sides have the capability to push proprietary APIs but largely fail at doing so because they don’t have a monopoly over the market. They are forced to compromise on a middle ground (supporting the open web), which is better than one side being able to entirely dominate the market and do whatever they want.

> Is the goal here preserving open systems and interoperability or is it just to Beat Google?

In this specific scenario they are one and the same but the aim is the former. Google controls the desktop browser market already, one of the only reasons they haven’t done the same on mobile is because Apple won’t allow it. The argument is not that Apple should control everything, it’s that stalemate is the best we’ve got.
Performance one is interesting. This was news to me as I had always thought one of the driving factors for people to adopt React was performance.

So I naturally assumed that Angular was slower than React, but turns out it is not the case any more: https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/2023/table.... (click on the "Which Frameworks" dropdown to filter on Angular + React)

I use Angular a lot in my day job. The learning curve is steep due to RxJS, but otherwise feels fairly sane as everything is included.
I've often thought that code should tell a story about what the system is supposed to do and if the story is not clear, that will probably be reflected in a system that does not work well.
I don’t know the original source, but it is the intro to one of the tracks on The Prodigy’s 1998 mixtape ‘the dirtchamber sessions’

“Do you remember the days,

When Kool Herc played,

With a following of bands?

If you don’t, well then you won’t

(That’s right!)

Real hip hop, my man”
> Or did you mean failing to resolve some internal service's hostname?

Yeah, something more like that where the internal service is somehow 'sharded' due to some overly complicated distributed database nonsense, and there's a DNS lookup that is failing. Of course that'd mean the DNS lookup wasn't cached, so you're taking that normal latency on every single hit, which would be terrible architecture. The curl-vs-wget performance isn't explained by that though (although that's a bit weird in and of itself, and might suggest that they had to allow that for some internal tool that they didn't want to punish).

> glibc defaults to 5 sec,

The timeout being close to 5 seconds is what made me wonder about it. Its just off though.
Look, your risk analysis of privacy harms does not become accurate just because you say it is. Saying that this is "one single negative outcome" a bunch of times doesn't make it true.

Pretty much the entirety of recorded human history backs up the idea that privacy matters, including the present where state governments are currently campaigning hospitals and social platforms to identify transgender people and to prosecute abortions.

Your risk analysis is wrong. That's what people are pointing out to you. We're not privacy absolutists, obviously we are not privacy absolutists. We are not suddenly having a realization about incongruity, it's honestly just really silly to suggest that this entire disagreement boils down to me seeing one trans person die and suddenly thinking "never again, no cost is too great." Take a step back out of the weeds and think about whether it's actually likely that anyone believes that :) That is not and has never been the argument, I haven't seen anyone in this entire thread even in sibling comments make that argument.

What we've all been pointing out is that the eventual arc of justice in the universe is unhelpful to people who are suffering right now, and that your risk analysis about the likelihood of people being put into that position is wrong. But go on, tell me again that this is actually a deep philosophical disagreement and I haven't internalized that safety measures involve tradeoffs.
What was your experience with Orion and why do you think it does not have a chance of convincing Chrome users to migrate?
Learn as you search (and browse) using generative AI
Sounds like you would love China.
Both this comment and the comment it's responding to are indicative of people living in their own bubbles. It's entirely reasonable that plenty of people just don't expose themselves to contexts where they would have had any opportunity to hear any given musical genre. This is easier than it's ever been since the invention of radio, thanks to the fracturing of culture via recommendation algorithms and the long tail that the internet facilitates.
Well, starting a lawsuit on behalf of children is the mechanism we have to prevent oppression of children. It’s not about giving them a soapbox and certainly not about giving them the final say. The legal system will not decide that five year olds deserve unlimited Game Boy access just because they claim to want that. It will (one would hope) decide that they deserve a future with a habitable planet because that’s been shown to be in their best interest after the arguments on all sides are weighed, whether the child understands it or not.

(As for edits, maybe you’re responding to someone other than me, but my comment was not edited in any way.)
they're an endangered species, so to say...

you should learn about systems software... they may be 'vanishingly small' but they're there in the foundations of the entire computing stack. done once, a long time ago, and used by all ever since.

just the most basics: but there are (sadly were) more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glibc
I worked at a financial institution that heavily utilized terraform. Their business is banking and they do not offer automation, orchestration or IaC as a service. They're fine.

This seems to affect only those places that attempt to build a business off terraform.

I am not saying those businesses can't be mad at the rug getting pulled out from under them, but it's important to be accurate that this doesn't affect end users of TF directly.
Employers are turning to counteroffers to retain key staff
rlwrap is especially useful when sshing into a high latency remote box.
If you can use mosh, it's even better.
I never said it wasn't important, but it is misinformation. Case and point: to answer your question, no, those aren't limitations on DOM-manipulation ad removal; those are limitations on the new declarativeNetRequest API, and they ONLY apply to blocked web requests.

Also, even that part isn't as catastrophic as you'd think; ad blocking, like most things on the internet, roughly follows the 90-10 rule: 90% of the ads are blocked by 10% of the rules. So even with a tenfold reduction, you should still see the vast majority of the ads blocked by even the intentionally-gimped declarativeNetRequest API.

Yes, it's going to make ad blockers slightly less effective and make your page loads slightly slower. But that doesn't get as many clicks as "Chrome is banning adblockers!!1". And it's important to note the difference because when v3 rolls around, all those users that were lied to are going to see that their ad blockers still mostly work, and lose even more trust in whistle blowing.
I am very curious about what pre-1970 hardware and software you posted this from.