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> The people who get rich are simply playing by the rules the system allows.

The rich also tend to have the power to write the rules themselves, for their own benefit.

> Rich or poor, we all do the same thing, we all try to maximize our income, reduce our taxes, use any crack in the system we find.

This is not true at all. Individual businesspeople vary vastly in their ethics. I don't actually try to maximize my income, by any means necessary. I have personal standards that can't be measured in dollars, and I try to avoid actions that could profit me if they would screw over other people or harm society.

> I struggle to understand why anyone would think this.

It's unfortunate that you appear to have such a limited imagination, an inability to comprehend the possibility of other people rationally disagreeing with your beliefs.

> So you think hard work is inversely correlated with making more money?

Why do you present a false dichotomy? There could be little or no correlation, as opposed to an inverse correlation. In any case, I still don't know what the heck you mean by "hard work". You've already rejected the notion that manual labor is hard work, yet you refuse to explain exactly what it does mean, apparently because you fear that explaining would be some kind of "gotcha".

> I cannot comprehend how someone would be unimpressed with companies at the forefront of technological progress. The only way in which I can explain your view is that you are not able to separate Musk's personality from his ventures.

Again, there's an unfortunate failure of imagination here. Have you considered, for example, that I don't necessarily view them as "progress"? The irony is that I've already given some indication, mentioned more than once: "I think there are too many rocket launches polluting the atmosphere and too many satellites being put in orbit."

Anyway, since you're having such trouble comprehending, have you considered, you know, asking me, instead of putting ideas in my head?

On the other hand, you seem to believe that I'm obligated to admire Hitler, so given that starting point, I'm not sure there's anything I could say to explain my views to you in a way you'd understand.

> Yes, I am impressed by what Hitler 'accomplished'. I am also impressed by what Bin Laden 'accomplished', for example.

You're welcome to your views, but I think you'll find, if you state them explicitly to many people, that I won't be the only one who feels differently, and you're not necessarily even in the majority.

> Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Why not both?

> Also, if Musk wanted to actually just make money, I'm sure there are better avenues than doing the hard work of creating disruptive technologies.

Musk is already the wealthiest person in the world. To say "I'm sure there are better avenues" to making money just seems ridiculous to me.
Oils Unix Shell v0.19.0
...zoom or another meeting system would require the other side to accept the connection. Using...what? OTOH, low-level remote access usually lacks any UI (such as the mentioned KDE Connect's Remote input, which mimics another input device).

But again, this requires some planning beforehand. Even "ssh in, install a remote viewer and use that" would require SSH to be there and reachable from outside (as NAT is likely). In the end, this is no different from "just grab the wired mouse and plug it in. Which one? Well the one you prepared beforehand."
Not necessarily... "niceness" has a lot of contributing factors. If we're cherry-picking, Singapore is pretty "nice" at street level.
I'm just saying that you should look up and compare the alternatives yourself if you don't like ueli, no need to cry about it.
I use this setup. My notes folder is a git repo, I have a private repo on GitHub as backup. Then two moving parts.

a backup.sh script, which boils down to: `cd ${obfolder}; git add .; git commit -m "auto backup $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)"; git push`. Give it a `chmod +x` and it's ready.

a crontab entry: `1 17 * * * ${obfolder}/backup.sh`, which is "at 5:01pm every day, run the backup script.

${obfolder} is the actual path of the vault directory and I haven't had to think about it in years.
> But Apple has not been crippling the web

Well, they definitely drag their feet on keeping Safari up to date, not unlike what Microsoft did with Internet Explorer 20 years ago.

IIRC, there are also some limitations in what web apps launched from the home screen can actually do, which are not in regular Safari - but I've not looked at this in a long time so I could be wrong.

What I do remember very clearly is that the common consensus, as reflected in data from app developers, is that people just don't know (or don't want to use) the "pin to home screen" feature. One could argue that Apple should, maybe, sprinkle on that feature a bit of the effort they lavishly pour on emojis, so that more people could be enticed to use PWAs. That would go some way towards reassuring developers that they are not slaves to the AppStore.
I think they want to make the distinction that SwiftUI is not necessarily to replace Storyboards, although it will replace them.

UIKit works okay in code. But unless you have experienced people actively laying groundwork, it's IMO more likely to be a mess than SwiftUI. Even the explicitly declarative part, Autolayout, will only be understood by like 10% of the team and the rest are kinda winging it. Using Autolayout outside of Storyboards makes it less declarative, so it is then more conducive to programmer error (like non-idempotent updates).
You can paste images now as of the latest version; it was driving me crazy as well. Even in older versions you can drag an image in but that was an extra step.
Ask HN: What local machines are people using to train LLMs?
How are people building local rigs to train LLMs?
Dupe. Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39013931
"How would it be more efficient than a traditional checkout? There's no way the average person can match the speed of a cashier who does that every day, and at least the supermarkets I've visited don't have enough self checkout machines to balance that out."

Where I live, the speed of a cashier is not the bottleneck. The bottleneck is waiting in the line after 3-4 people, especially if one of them has some issue "eh, I didn't want Foo, I wanted bar, let me run for it real quick".

Self-checkout parallizes the process, and if a single "Exception" is thrown, the other threads still run just fine.
There's no budget, it got cut so multimillionaires could get tax breaks.
You can sync just fine without a subscription. As you already mentioned iCloud, just put your vault there and get syncing for free.
But today the artist that can also create a robust version of photoshop on their own doesn’t really exist. Maybe some can write code to that level but certainly not a majority and it’s certainly not the same as sanding wood to make a paintbrush.
nothing about that screams "not viable" to me.
There are a lot of things people can potentially teach others, but typically it's a good idea to show some curiosity and learn about the use-cases of others before making sweeping statements :)
I wish this were true but frankly, at least on most social media sites, people will happily move forward with any kind of mob justice irrespective of the truth or one’s writing style.

I do think that precision in writing is useful for defending one’s prior claims (and for other reasons!) but I think that’s orthogonal to defending one’s self from mass action on today’s internet.
You underestimate how much frustration is boiling at the amount of ad breaks on YouTube videos.

It only takes one political opportunist to channel it...
And he is also smart! I bet he wouldn't be able to achieve it without those qualities! /s
As someone who basically flys exclusively JetBlue when I have the choice, I am disappointed by this.

JetBlue's biggest problem remains their access to airports, if they were able to get more access to that they would likely be a serious threat to the bigger airlines.

I don't understand how this is bad for competition when we desperately need more competition that can actually compete.
And as somebody who drives an EV, occasionally in cold weather, I would also assert based on my personal experience that losing range is "bullshit" but I also realize that others have different experiences.
Hearing and Doing
No, becasue the plugins are just JavaScript running against markdown that generally produce more markdown.
You might get a plugin that produces an image and that would "stop working"; but it hard for the JS to be locked down/etc.
Yes, fiddling with the $PATH works, until it doesn't.

In this case the app was installed via RBENV, so it works but only if I decide that all of the RBENV stuff must be after anything else, which breaks some other hacks/tricks. So it would work, until I forget about it and years later need some rbenv-installed tool to have precedence over something that was globally installed. After which that alias I forgot about now suddenly breaks.

I hate it when I'm working on A and get distracted because somehow now B fails and some rabbit hole is luring me in. I just want to check my TODO's for today: not fiddle around with $PATHS and aliases.

Aliasing somewhat helps, but is clumsy too:

alias b=t
alias t=todotxt
alias bl=b list --all

Sure, better organization solves this. But everything would be so much easier if the person writing "t" had stopped and rather just taken 'timetrack', 'ttrack', trac or whatever instead of "t". Somehow we probably won't like it if such a tool suddenly takes over "tr" or "time" either. I feel the same about "t".
This is based on personal experience and user reports where those whose beepers installed displayed errors continued to work, whereas beeper installs configured to refresh registration codes automatically were much more likely to be banned.

It’s important to note that an error in the former config could be ignored for like a month without any actual service disruption; it was 100% aesthetic in some cases.

A week ago I updated my beeper client and it set itself to automatically refresh registration tokens and got banned. I disabled iMessage on all my devices after that.
HR is not the place to ask for a raise. Your manager is. The manager will then make the case to upper management. HR is the place you go to ask questions about your benefits package, not career path.
Then wouldn't dispensing with other rules of grammar be even more "freeing"? This is both a genuine and rhetorical question.

I guess it's like user interface design, where a cardinal rule is to be conservative, and not break user expectations unduly.

Of course UI patterns and language evolves, but the evolution of changes should probably be gradual, and done for a justifiable purpose. In this case, I'm not sure the stylistic choice actually adds anything to the clarity or beauty of the writing.
Honestly homeownership is overrated.. constant repairs or you don’t take any pride and shit the house on to the next guy. the only thing worse is renting.. new homes are stacked next to each other and everyone drives a big truck. I’m surprised more kids haven’t been killed. So yes America is great but it is also awful.

And you can’t go anywhere or survive without a car and honestly it’s getting too crowded to have a car as ironic as that sounds.
> But you also gain something. You gain something almost unique in the world, which is the ability of the majority of the population (especially outside high CoL areas) to own their own house, a real house, earth to sky, with four walls to the winds.

Uh, no. Only boomers and the rich can afford houses now.
Usually more than a few years, the Switch was a perfect storm in that it was fully jailbroken very early thanks to the Tegra bootrom exploit, used commodity hardware which was already reasonably well documented, and was slow enough relative to modern hardware for the emulation overhead to be manageable. By contrast Playstation 4 emulation is barely at the proof-of-concept stage a decade after launch, and years into the lifecycle of its successor.
Waitrose are in the process of updating the self-checkouts to full trolley-style machines. My local store is not that large but has 12 of these now in place of the previous 4 old-style machines.

Despite many claims that people don't like them it is surprising how they are almost always in full use.
Currently? Nowhere.
Besides social media. Create a huge audience around being a great developer and you will get an infinite stream of gigs. Going the normal route? Not working anymore, maybe it won't ever again.
> Be careful with Xiaomi MIUI Android phones removing security manager related apks (that run apparently as root/system) can break the phone and you need to reset via fastboot or so - Learned it the hard way.

Good point. I specifically avoided removing anything that I didn't understand its function or wasn't sure if it could be deleted. Perhaps I should include your point as a warning in the essay as well.

> However the gallery app still uploads to Xiaomi servers without consent for some filters - overall it's my last Xiaomi. Lineage might work fine but I wanted to avoid all the complications of unlocking bootloader.

This is prolly my last Xiaomi as well. Are there any phones you're considering switching to next?
I'd like to know some timelines on that, cursory googling get's me Portugal decriminalized in 2001, Oregon only did that in 2020. Systems don't change on a dime, how long was the transition period for Portugal?
Yeah some supermarkets in the Netherlands even let you do this with your phone (camera). Haven't used it for a while but even some years ago it worked quite good.
I think Exposure Matching is a regional thing.

I had mine disabled since day 1. Its a good idea if it saves lives, but I don't trust Google and Apple to not abuse it
Depends on the car. My Bolt battery takes a LONG time to get warm just from driving, even with the battery heater running. You can speed it up a bit with yoyo driving (speed up to use power, then regen brake to dump power back into the battery, repeat as necessary) for about a half hour.
What a crappy article. One can't complain NYT is too pro-EV.

This problem is a combination of growing pains, uneducated EV drivers, old EVs with crappy batteries, some bad infrastructure, and EV manufacturers that don't put enough diagnostics.

1. Ask anyone who has lived in these kinds of cold temperatures. Cold starts in ICEs are always a problem. in upstate NY, you always need a pair of jumper cables ready. you might get to where you're going, and then can't make it back.

2. Different battery chemistries have different cold vs. warm characteristics. Surprise, surprise, the newer, better, more expensive battery packs don't suffer in the cold as much. The loss can be as low as 3% (Jaguar I-Pace) to 30% (Ford Mustang Mach-E, VW ID.4). See https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/how-temperature-affec...

3. EVs have two battery packs: a small 12V one, like a regular car battery, and the BIG one. If the 12V one dies, you can't start the car, even if the BIG one is good. (EV manufacturers should install better 12V batteries and provide better diagnostics for this kind of problem.)

4. EVs also have a "pre-conditioning" charge, where (massively simplified) battery warms itself to prevent damaging itself when it's too cold. This can drain the battery, but if the car is plugged in, it's not a problem, it'll just pull the charge from the plug (even if the battery doesn't need charging).

5. Sounds like a few chargers "froze" up. Just like gas pumps, but obviously it's a much bigger issue because there's always another gas station down the road, unlike EV chargers.

6. Most EV owners charge at home, and we just plug in all the time because it's easy, convenient, and we can pre-heat the car with a button on our remotes, saving on battery.

7. Some EVs use resistive heat instead of a heat pump for heat gen, which can eat a lot of juice, but it's not a big deal anymore because the battery packs are so big.

So, really, my takeaway is that Tesla and the other EV manufacturers need to:

- cold proof their charging stations (probably a simple "growing pain")

- educate their users a bit. (if the car won't make it overnight because it'll have to do a conditioning charge based on the weather forecast, WARN the driver!)

- use better batteries. this issue will fix itself as the better manufacturing techniques spread throughout the industry
Hard to say. I see cars deployed at great scale today in the US though certainly you run into trouble at high densities. High-density cities in the US are unaffordable to the extent that it's not so clear that the millionaires who can afford to live in them will want to if school teachers, barristas, police officers, sanitation engineers and such can't afford to live there.

High-density cities have received a huge amount of subsidization from the internet bezzle too such as half-price Uber rides and same day Amazon deliveries. I think a lot of this is about deceiving the chattering classes so they can deceive us. If my farm had 1-day Amazon shipping and Hollywood had the 5-day shipping I get you can be sure that you wouldn't hear glib talk about how fast Amazon shipping is and in fact slow AMZN shipping would be a running gag on sitcoms. It's no accident that Jim Cramer gets 1-day shipping or that my congressman gets 1-day shipping (otherwise Bezos buying The Washington Post would have been a waste.)

In 2024, NYC and San Francisco have more to answer for in the "sustainability" department than Austin, TX, Scranton, PA, or any "normal" city in the US which is affordable.
That can't be true anymore, at least not the carbon copy part: None of my US credit cards are even still embossed in the way necessary for them to work in these.

Merchants can just note down the card number and manually charge it, though. I've definitely had that happen in the past somewhere. The downside is that the merchant is fully on the hook for chargebacks for such payments.
Getting roms that you don't extract from your own console is actually relatively dangerous. Nintendo is second only to Disney in trademark and copyright enforcement. They monitor torrents through a few different services. Trying to pirate Nintendo stuff through the most obvious sites/protocols will get you a scary DMCA letter from your ISP. That's enough to dissuade most people. There are, of course, ways around that tracking, and sites which can't/aren't monitored. But, it does raise the bar of effort required which keeps most casual pirates safely on Nintendo's shores.

EDIT: To add, piracy is a service problem, not a price problem. Free doesn't mean ubiquitous.
Not saying that they don't exist, but my experience has been nothing but positive. It must be 8-9 years since we got one locally, and it's been smooth sailing for me.

You scan the products. Confirm that you've scanned everything. Want a shopping bag, yes/no? Pay.

That's it. The scanners work. Payment work. Getting a receipt works.

Maybe I've just been lucky, who knows.
Please open source it!! I've looked for a solution like this multiple times.
Well done!
> Honestly, I don't know how Nintendo survives as an independent console maker in the years to come

By doing the same thing they've been doing for the last 40 years. Keep innovating on cheaper, older tech rather than relying on pushing out the most FLOPS to sell the next generation of hardware, and keep producing a consistent supply of solid first party games.
> Which means that CS departments are populated by people with no particular interest in software.

This is bunk, from my experience at UC Berkeley (PhD) - the professors I knew/worked with loved to program. One explained to me that teaching+research+academic duties left no time for programming on campus, so he spent another 40 hours a week programming at home.
I've recently moved from vimwiki to Agenda (https://www.agenda.com) because I wanted a "proper" native app, and have been quite happy with it. Logseq and Obsidian always feel unnatural either on desktop or mobile (Obsidian, in particular, has a mobile UX that never seems to have full parity with the desktop one, and that is very painful to use on an iPad)
100% legal everywhere in the world, under all circumstances? That’s a very, very bold claim.
What does this gain them over hypothesizing that it can happen and working accordingly? Researchers always make this kind of claim but it’s bullshit. When we’re interested in making earthquake resistant structure we use shake tables, not full on earthquakes. When we want to make more fire resistant buildings we don’t go about making better fires. When we want to understand the harms of child sexual abuse we E: dom't go around raping children.

Everyone involved in this should be permanently barred from entering laboratories or working in the broader field at all. They can go become artesian lumberjacks or subsistence farmers.
> users frequently ask for Obsidian to be open source, but the fully transferrable file format is enough for me.

Completely agree. Not everything needs to be open-sourced. If I'm looking for a framework/library to build something upon, sure, I'll prioritize open-source. But -- and this may be a hot take -- for a consumer-oriented software, sometimes a great vision trumps community development.
I just did a long mile road trip in my 2023 Model Y LR, and it wasn't a lot of fun. Even in the 30Fs I would get around 200 miles of range. I tried to get to the next charger with at least 15-20% just in case.

One example leg was 156mi using 84% of battery in 30F weather. The stats said I lost 13.1% due to a 9.5mph wind, and 1.3% for low tire pressure. I topped the tires up after that one. When it was well below 0 I was doing less. I still got where I was going, but I spent so much time charging, and it's not cheap enough that the time cost made any sense.

Some of my legs really did need close to 100% to get to the next charger with any margin for error. That means sitting at a charger for 30-60 minutes at times. Several of the chargers were in locations that didn't feel safe, so I actually took a longer route back to hit different chargers.

Keep in mind that probably like most people, long road trips are infrequent. In daily use it's charged every morning (at cheap rates) and ready to go, no matter the temperature. Plus I warm it up without needing to open the garage! I will take another car for a long trip now, but I still like having an EV for daily driving.
If you have a git client for iOS like Working Copy, then it's pretty straightforward to set it up.
Nobody in the digital-marketplace business is a Good Guy. Unfortunately, sometimes we need two sets of scumbags to fight it out to find some decent compromise for society as a whole. See also: Miranda rights, VHS vs Betamax, etc.
For anyone who hasn't read Sam Kriss before and enjoyed this piece, I'd also highly recommend his essay 'the internet is already over': https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-internet-is-already-over
You can publish your iOS source code and let your end-users compile and load the app onto their own devices, and do so without paying any commissions to Apple.

If you were to compile it yourself such that the end-user device would need to be jailbroken because it lacks the necessary digital signatures, IANAL but I think this would be totally fine on your part, and the end-user would be protected by the jail-breaking exception to the DMCA;

> Jailbreaking and Unlocking Smartphones and Tablets

Since 2010, the DMCA has allowed users to jailbreak their smartphones in order to execute lawfully obtained applications unauthorized by the phone manufacturer. Last week’s announcement reaffirmed the rationale that using unapproved applications on smartphones is fair use and limiting users’ ability to execute such applications hinders choice and impairs innovation.

https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/latest-dmca-exemptions-r...
IKEA wants to render a lot of its product illustrations instead of having huge photo studios, that's probably why they are active in computer graphics.