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>As far as I can tell, Adafruit doesn't price gouge.

They charge ridiculous prices for LED strips, the same strips you can get anywhere.

Here's one example:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/1461

Black LED strip. 60 LEDs/meter.

1 Meter = $24.95

4 Meters = $99.80

And they advertise 4 meters as a "full reel" when everywhere else 5 meters is considered a full reel. What jerks!

Same exact thing, except 5 Meters, $22.99:

https://www.amazon.com/LOAMLIN-WS2812B-Individually-Addressa...

So, let's calculate this price gouge.

Adafruit price per meter at 4 meters/roll = $24.95

LOAMLIN price per meter at 5 meters/roll = $4.60

Adafruit is charging 5.42 times the price.

And if I want to wait a few days more to get it delivered, Aliexpress has the same thing for $11.26 per 5 meter roll!

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2255800689099192.html

Every LED Adafruit sells comes from China, they do not make their own LEDs. They just mark up the price to a ridiculous extent and they prey on well meaning but clueless electronics hobbyists. There are many other examples, but I think I've spent enough time on this topic.
[a pedant appears]

Betteridge's Law!

[exit pedant, swinging on a vine]
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Also: your children.
I completely agree! It’s absolutely amazing. No data caps, amazing speed up to 8gbps. The best experience I’ve had with internet.

Also a huge benefit of just living in a city that has Google Fiber is that all the other internet companies treat you much better and mysteriously also don’t have data caps. It’s amazing how a little competition makes the lives of customers better.
Which ones? Could you share specific quotes or links?
EVs charge at different rates. The inexpensive ones, like the Chevy Bolt, only fast charge at 55 kW/h, whereas Teslas can do 250kW/h.
One way or the other, people will be doing their part. Might as well get used to consuming less now before contraction forces the issue.
In fairness, Mozilla can't make a law.
Had to look this up, very interesting: https://www.thedailybeast.com/weve-been-accidentally-geoengi...
'Left high and dry': Confessions of a laid-off gaming industry worker
Does this cover spam-enablers like Zoominfo?
The 200° advertised is a "diagonal" FOV:

https://pimax.com/pimax-headsets-fov/

The horizontal FOV is only 159°:

https://vr-compare.com/headset/pimaxvision8kx

And it's only 103° FOV vertically. (For comparison, the Quest 2 is 93° vertical.)

But I'm very happy to know 159° horizontal is possible. From more research online, it seems that the wider the FOV, the more distortion you get, so there's a tradeoff?

Also it seems very clear that Apple prioritized resolution (sharpness) over FOV. For a given display panel, the more you spread it out, the blurrier it gets.
I even deleted Facebook. Yet Meta is growing.
The next evolution of serverless is stateful
> It will progress in a similar fashion to coding.

I kind of agree with this, but this is why I am confused that I only ever see people (at least on HN) talk about AI up-ending the legal profession and putting droves of lawyers out of work--I never see the same talk about the coding industry being transformed in this way.
At which point charging will take longer because of the lines involved. Hope they're building out. I hear and see no chargers being built. And they totally could be.
I hired and worked with many PhDs in big tech. The need for them is somewhat cyclic. More precisely, they are in demand when a new technology becomes important that few outside of academia know. That’s AI now, distributed computing before that, alternative (NoSQL) databases before that. After awhile (if it isn’t a fad), these niche areas become mainstream and you can find people who are AI programmers, or distributed systems engineers, who learned as undergraduates or on the job and the PhD jobs go back to being more research.
I do feel a PhD does not automatically make you overqualified as much as it did in the 80s or 90s. Programs also seem to produce more PhDs with practical skills now. I also note that many of the very top professionals—CEOs and CTOs and Tech Fellows—do have PhDs now.
I do think it is hard to go back to school later. If you are only two years away from finishing, I would suggest you continue (unless it is really awful financially or otherwise.) It may not seem like it now, but when you’re 60, looking back over your career, two years will seem like nothing, whereas you may feel regret for not getting your degree.
The book “Range: How Generalists Thrive in a World Full of Specialists” is the best book I know for thinking about your entire career path. Even if you are a specialist, “Range” talks about how you will go through many jobs and have to learn many skills in your life, and that these “big” decisions early in career are actually not as irrecoverable as they seem at the time. I wish I had read it when I was 29. I would have been more patient in some choices but also taken more risk
They have lost most of their advertisers and serious users, because content has been driven into extreme corners. The platform is now full of bots, scammers and problematic opinions on the political spectrum. Latest I heard, they value of the company has gone down to less than half of what Elon bought it originally.

The only who are doing well on Twitter are crypto-scams, Nazis and trolls. But it seems Elon is now in those bubbles active, so maybe that was the intention all along?
You might find https://github.com/electric-sql/electric pretty cool.
I agree that, overall, short-form social media is leaving the mainstream with Twitter's decline. However, I still really enjoy short-form media.

I can't speak for BlueSky, but I've been enjoying Mastodon a lot. Following people I like has given me a high enough signal to noise ratio that I often find myself saying "Hey! Check out this thing I found on Mastodon!". My friend just joined because of this, and they've been enjoying it too, specifically for programming, infosec, and queer memes (caveat N=2).

Idk. I hope there's a future for it.
I expect this to iterate quick...
I got s'more + smoke detector = captain hook
Yes! Go demo it! It is indeed the future of computing.
It is possible that some viruses have appeared in this way, though not very likely.

A large part of the viruses (if not all) appears to have an ancestor that was significantly further in the past than the common ancestor of all present cellular life forms, so they are much more distantly related to us than any bacteria.

While a part of the viral genomes has this distinct origin, many viruses have combined with various pieces of nucleic acids extracted from their hosts, so these can be considered hybrids that include fragments of DNA or RNA of various origins, possibly even human DNA for some.
> Or rather, does suggest that the earth can accommodate climate change and that attempts to control it are futile at best?

Those are opposite things. In any case, we have proven we can control it. We are just doing it incompetently.
I heard interesting tidbit on Sabine's YouTube channel.

That climate scientist have actually 'toned' down the doom outlooks. Because it turns people off to much. Like there will be no action if people knew how bad it was.

So they take 'averages', that kind of show warming, but 'not that bad'.

When really, it is 'really bad'.

So the 'right' is saying all the climate scientist are 'doomer's and causing sensational hype to promote their theories to sell books.

When really, they are toning it down. To be as reasonable as possible.
To be 'as sure' as possible.
How is it similar? I get deprecation warnings if I update the library. I can pin the version of the library. A library is something I work with, unlike a terminal program which might be written and forgotten.

Then those terminal programs get upgraded on the next system update because hey, you’re supposed to the get latest version right?

Terminal programs can do the same (`-v1`) in principle. Few do.
High base effect. If you measure growth from erronously high starting point and then base your estimates on that mistakenly low growth rate - you'll significantly underestimate the future values.
I'm not optimistic honestly. We have politicians throughout the world whose political platform revolves around denying that the global warming(climate change) even exists. With this level of irrationality it's hard to see the world collaborating towards a solution for something that in the best scenario is going to change the world as we know it and in the worst scenario represents an existential threat.

We thought that with the internet and the acessibility of scientific content we would have a global society of conscious people with a high degree of scientific literacy and instead of that what we got is the ressurgence of the flat earth theory, fakenews about vaccination and a growing general hostility to science.

I think at some point in the future we will get "used" to progressively catastrophic climatic events, and the people who created this state of things will either be dead or will just adapt their discourse as "it's sad but it was a necessary step to avoid a global green dictatorship".
on the other hand you could have 'dry-run <command>' that via .so interposition tricks could intercept and list all destructive changes done by an arbitrary <command>, as a form of sandboxing.
We need more rapid cooling and SO2 right now — https://makesunsets.com is leading the way but we need as many companies in the rapid cooling space as possible. We need to address the heatstroke in an emergency-room-medicine style before going into the proverbial ICU of carbon sequestration and nuclear power buildout.
How about some reputable references for your position?
I've done this many times and can confirm it's been helpful
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Do you mean to imply something in such a small concentration can’t have any adverse effect - because in that case, would you breathe the same concentration of hydrogen cyanide in air?

(Just a hint - don’t do that)
Addiction is crazy. You see people doom scroll several feeds, in a loop. They’ll see the same status again and again and again, just hoping something changed.
> Even those are solvable problems,

Are they?

Historically, there have been a lot of people eager to erect barriers to make payments difficult for those who want to gamble, sell porn, buy porn, donate to controversial political causes, avoid taxes, sell drugs, buy drugs, etc etc

So a system that lets me send $40/month of untraceable cash to strangers on the internet might face a lot of opposition.
Facebook is really not doing fine. It's not about to fall off a cliff - but it's a slowly sinking ship, and I doubt FB can change that (and they don't really need to since they have enough diversity - Instagram - and can just buy something new).

Twitter is a sunk ship - one of the worst business purchases in history.

Pinterest is nowhere near as bad as Twitter. It's maybe "fine" depending on your definition.

TikTok was on a truly incredible growth trajectory. In many ways - it would be impressive for TikTok to make enough bad changes to not at least be "fine". But "fine" is subjective. That growth trajectory is nowhere near as impressive these days.
Absolutely man!! I've been trying to tell my neighbor this for ages. I keep taking shits on his lawn and he's getting all upset about it saying that it's ruining his lawn. I tell him I value questioning like a skeptic, something like a Socratic dialog. Kind of unfair to call me deluded just because he and many others have reached a conclusion long ago.
I love this idea. My high school our english program had us write letters to ourself 10 years in the future. Such a joyous surprise when that teacher actually sent the letters 10 years later.

I wonder though - How is this different than journaling? Doesn't a written record from the past you can refer back to in the future accomplish the same goal?
I work at Plaid and I think that pricing info is a bit off — assuming we’re talking about just the APIs for transactions data (which is what the budgeting apps typically use) and these prices are in USD, even customers who don’t qualify for any volume discounts are paying closer to 30-45 cents per month per connected account. (Volume discounts then can start to kick in starting at a total API spend of $300 / month -- the higher the monthly API spend, the greater the discount percentage.)
TikTok in early to mid 2020 was truly an amazing place. But as video length has gotten longer, and with the addition of photo slideshows, there's been a rapid falloff in the unique quirkiness that made it more interesting than, say, YouTube. Now it's more like a YouTube where the creators are much lazier about presentation and you have very little control over what you watch.
I didn't know this had a name! This was by far my favorite property of ChakraUI. Thanks!
CO2 is 0.04% of the earth's atmosphere, amazing!

79% Nitrogen

21% Oxygen

0.9% Argon

0.1% Other (includes CO2)
also see

"/" as "over" in k reference (see Chapter 5)

http://www.nsl.com/k/k2/k295/kreflite.pdf

and "over" in the Q reference:

https://code.kx.com/q/ref/over/
I mean the pop ups on every single site I visit now. I wish they’d just ban them rather than force the pop ups.

My point is just that the corporations just find loopholes. Like how Apple have technically allowed out of app AppStore’s but mad it so horrible that no company would ever do it.
Dell is terminating its distribution deal with VMware
A bit macro and optimistic view about sustainability (in general, not specific to Bluesky):

If everything goes according to the prediction of economists for 2024, a light crisis should decrease consumer confidence in the US.

One of the solution to re-energize the economy might be to lower interest rates.

Which means that if interest rates go down in 2024, companies are going to be able to borrow at extremely low cost.

In such environment, does the question of business model even matter ?

If your task is to raise debt, what you need is to sell a dream, not have a way to generate money.

==

Back to Bluesky:

The bigger danger for the company now is most likely its own users.

"Open ecosystem"/"Freedom"/"Free-speech" users tend to be greedy and consider everything should be free, and at the same time are very active when it's about criticizing.

The "normies" of Twitter / Instagram, are likely higher spender because of the importance that vanity / self-promotion has in their life.

One key could be for Bluesky to focus more on content, than on technology.

Even on Telegram, people join groups and people, they don't really care if the source-code is here or not, or who controls what (because no matter how, this can change in the future).
I mean, we DO track flights publicly using sites like FlightRadar. Taylor Swift just happens to own a plane and what people track is the plane, not her. If the plan flies without her, the trackers don't know. Not unless they augment that information with spotters that have a clear view of the boarding activity of the plane.
> two cars of the same weight going the same speed , the one with the bigger engine will consume more fuel.

Generally. But that bigger engine might be producing more power at a lower RPM and there might be some cases where the difference isn't as noticable.
Sure there will be many moving parts to any successful recovery, but we should be careful. The cure for heat stroke isn't a freedive in arctic waters. Be wary of anyone who makes singular arguments.
> TikTok has been a very valuable tool for learning about Palestinians during Israel's attack on Gaza and the West Bank.

> Israel's attack on Gaza and the West Bank.

This is true in more ways than you think.
The consensus is there because every time anyone sticks a thermometer anywhere it reads higher than normal
FOSS doesn’t require side loading. The dev has to pay $99/year to be in the App Store. As long as they are willing to eat that relatively minor cost, and their app isn’t doing anything untoward, there is nothing stopping them.
For most of the world's history, life ran on one motto:

"If you don't work (or someone who loves you doesn't work for you), you don't eat."

The alternative is manifestly unjust: A prisoner who might have killed 20 people gets to just live life, and can't be ordered to even keep the cell doors clean.
I urge people not to downvote the parent's comment out of political disagreement with the Palestinian cause.

There has been an outrageous amount of censorship of the Palestinian story in most of the US media, and frankly also a lack of nuanced explanation of the dominant Israeli perspective (which is far more nuanced than the typical American perspective).

In general, I recommend the following rules for propaganda hygeine:

- If someone uses the word "terrorist" or "terrorism", subtract a point of credibility. The word is an emotionally charged label that removes clarity.

- If someone refers to the desire of preserving "stability", subtract a point of credibility. This phrasing is typically used to mislead/misdirect.

- If you discover that important information (such as the charges brought before the ICJ) is being suppressed, subtract a point of credibility. Fairly important international law developments that ought to focus the discussion on concrete issues and considerations.

- If someone does not accept the label of apartheid as having a common literal meaning and insists that the word only applies to S. Africa, subtract a point of credibility. Things like Apartheid, ethnic cleansing, etc., are part of many nations' histories. It does not do any good to pretend that these things are impossible today.

There are very credible arguments in favor of both sides in the conflict, but increasingly people seem to believe that suppressing information is the best way to make the world a better place.
It’s more about building your life to maximize self sufficiency with the understanding that you will still need to rely on society for some needs. Also living somewhere with low climate risk and high confidence of access to fresh water for the remainder of your life (and that of loved ones, if applicable).

When contraction occurs, if you’ve planned properly, it’ll be news you read about, not impact on your life.

TLDR Optimize for the expectation of persistent volatility.
They spent 50 million in cash, received 42.5 in tax credits, and made a donation of 75 million. So effectively, they made a 75 million donation for 7.5 million outlay. It's a very efficient way of making donations, but it doesn't make you better off in raw cash terms.

But being rich is not about having cash, it's about using cash to achieve your ends. Giving 75 million is really buying 75 million worth of philanthropy - 75 million worth of social status, or invites to exclusive parties, or favours from patrons, or support for projects valuable to them. And they bought it for only 7.5 million!
Historically, that's also been a huge vector of attack in iOS too. From the old and famous slide to jailbreak to more recent Pegasus.
You realize that it will only be replaced with something MORE addicting? People won't exactly start reading newspapers when Tik Tok dies..
Not just possible, inevitable. It's why we should demand more interoperability - so platforms have to compete with each other instead of milking a captive audience.
In my vision of the future I see one of my descendants 100 years from now cussing furiously that his AI avatar is borking up his request, and one of the local neckbeards walks up, does an obscure incantation that pops up a command window, types a few lines of text and fixes the problem right up. "Newbs...geeze" he says as he walks away.

Maybe the proles will one day be permanently denied the CLI, but even if only as a lowest common denominator administration tool of last resort, I predict there will be a CLI somewhere.
a lot of budget of some research projects are consumed by sequencing costs. now, maybe it will become crazy low?
> And if you've ever worked with someone incompetent, you look for the exit doors as fast as possible -- or a way to push them out.

As long as they're not your immediate boss, there's a third option: route around the damage and freeze them out.
Weird!

Here in UK, using microG, banking apps for Nationwide, Starling, Revolut, HSBC all work with no issues.

Generally, I face no issue using any app.

Location services and notification both work reliably.
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Von Neumann probes don’t just send information back, they reproduce themselves. Anything that can manufacture a copy of itself from materials scavenged in unexplored territory can probably build anything else you want as well. A Kardashev II civilization would build a Dyson swarm around it’s own star (or one near by if they are cautious) and use a fraction of its power to send self–replicating Von Neumann probes to a few hundred or thousand nearby stars and galaxies. Those probes would build not just copies of themselves but new Dyson swarms to launch them with. Once the Dyson swarm is built there is plenty of energy available to do all kinds of things, like moving planets around, terraforming them, and seeding them with life.
Personally, I haven't really seen any "Nazis" on Twitter that I keep hearing about (though that probably depends on the definition), I'm just excited about Bluesky because it has an open API that's not controlled by one dumb guy who can shut down whole businesses like Tapbots with a flip of a switch or decide that $100 per month is a fair price for "hobbyists" to use it... but I guess I'm probably an outlier.
I looked at Pi-hole recently but went with AdGuard Home. Nicer UI and nicer everything by all appearances. There's also a surprising amount of customization for something this slick, like being able to defer to my internal DNS for local private domain queries, etc.

I'm not entirely sure why AdGuard is giving this away, and maybe I should look into that, but seemed like a relatively low-risk decision to go with this for now. And I can't say enough about how much more pleasant using things like the NYTimes app has been without the obnoxious ads.
Doesn’t POSIX comment more on what programs did vs what they should do? More a manual of backwards compatibility.

Like, why does tar get to be so special that it takes command line flags with or without leading dashes?
That's pretty much how it works here in norcal. HOA owns the land under the community, the common places etc. Only thing a "homeowner" has control over is from "everything inside from color of the walls onwards".
Maybe ask Swappa to open a section on their site? I think it's one of the best marketplace platforms these days.
Now you suddenly shifting your arguments into 'its not regulated enough'. And now you yourself using level 0 argument that we implemented regulations in the past.

Look, if you just want to win this discussion then please imagine that I agree with you, that my comment is "oh, Im so wrong and you so right" and go fight in comments with someone else.
> but they aren't exactly making money

Banning 'freespeech' here... allowing it there...

It was not bought to directly make money. It is still useful tool for people that invested in it.
Show HN: A simple, private, no-account-required, collaborative image gallery
A few months ago I was surprised to find that there was still no easy way to share a collection of images with someone in a way that was 0-friction, editable, and private. So I made the software that I wanted to use.

https://mood.site/

It's a SPA that generates a new gallery each time you visit the page. Galleries can be shared by sending the generated URL. If you want someone to have edit access, keep the edit key in the URL. Otherwise, remove it.

Here's some sample boards:
https://mood.site/Prp_-CPS

https://mood.site/v1D7mbwJ

https://mood.site/uTa0dBxy
I've mostly been able to curate my Twitter feed to not include that stuff. Similarly for Mastodon. The problem is BlueSky tries to add algorithmic feeds while not doing it well enough to learn that I don't want to see it.