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:) I think many people could just start with Julius Caesar and Richard III, in regard to the mis/disinformation, and its technique and effect.

> ignorance is something that can be fought with education and patient, sincere messaging.

Indeed. Hopelessness is our only obstacle, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. I sincerely believe that.
By using machine learning on data from wearable biosensors, researchers can predict imminent aggressive behavior in autistic children and teenagers in psychiatric inpatient settings.
I wonder what level of additional waste is now caused by these reusable bags that we will continue to see forever.
FreshDirect will provide 2 heavy reusable bags each delivery I receive each week. They claimed to offer to pick these up but that has been suspended for years. They now suggest to “donate” the bags. Obviously these end up in the trash.

The strange part of whatever law led them to this idea is that because these bags aren't rigid enough, products tend to be damaged and arrive organized like a trash pile where at least one thing spills all over everything else. Oh, and they still put frozen goods in thin plastic bags.

I recall the best quality delivery for my use-case being products in standard takeout delivery paper bags wrapped in plastic to avoid leakage. I’m certain far less plastic was used in those cases, and the bags themselves could be easily used to store trash for the compactor avoiding the need for the thicker trash bags.
Is it also valid to draw a comparison to Gravity's Rainbow, or parts 2 and 3 of The Divine Comedy? I ask, because those were on a tier of their own for being impenetrable (to me); I'm worried this will go the same way, but am otherwise intrigued.

Unrelated: Does anyone know of how to get an epub etc of this? Unavailable through Amazon etc.
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Technology is just a delivery mechanism which can be used for good or bad interactions. The problem is some technology is optimised for delivering the bad interactions because it benefits the technology vendor. Use technology that you control and decide when to interact with.

What I see is a lot of people saying on the one hand “I want my privacy and to be left alone” then hiring a vendor that is motivated to take your data and bug the shit out of you because it’s cheaper and subsidised by this poor behaviour. On top of that they then install apps which damage multiply that.

Incidentally on notifications all my kit is set on do not disturb all the time apart from alarms when I need to get up.
Couldn't really make it through GEB. I like literary or maximalist fiction like Pynchon despite not being smart enough to understand most of it, so it wasn't the style, and I like out there scientific speculation like The Bicameral Mind so it wasn't that either.

Most of GEB just has this weird vibe of Hofstadter trying to come off as smart and trying way too hard. It's not that the ideas in the book are bad but they're also not really that interesting or deep or at least weird enough to justify all the flourish around it. It's very similar to Infinite Jest which to me also felt like the "young, overeducated man namedrops everything he knows without saying much" kind of thing.
All you need is Nielsen, Norman, and Tufte.
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UNIX philosophy has nothing to do with dynamic linking, in fact during the first decade of its existence only static linking was available.
"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
It's only around 1% of errors, it's not very good.
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Ask HN: How do I start building useful stuff?
CS student here. In a couple of weeks, I am going to the next 6 months more or less free, and I want to spend the time building (or at least trying to) build something that would be useful to at least someone. Probably something I would learn a lot from and would be proud to have on GitHub. I have heard that the best way to build something useful is to scratch your own itch, but I can't think of anything that hasn't yet solved my problems. Do you have any suggestions as to how I could find a problem or have any interesting ones you are not planning on solving? I would appreciate any advice on the topic.

Cheers!
How Many DBAs should a company hire？
I'm talking about a land based system to defend military bases from drone attack, not sea borne vessels.
I believe they were looking for the word "suppress".
That is about the strongest anti-recommendation you could have possibly made for me.
It's utterly unlike TAOCP. One is a comprehensive algorithms reference full of (hard) technical problems. The other is an extended personal essay. (Neither one is worth "bragging" about reading in my opinion.)

"Reading" all of TAOCP would take literally years of intense effort even if you set aside all other activity. There are a lot of great problems inside, and plenty of dry humor, and I would recommend people try to at least skim sections of TAOCP which seem interesting or relevant to their work, but very few people are going to even nominally work through the whole thing, and the people who might are professional scholars of the topic.

Reading GEB can be done leisurely over the course of a few days or maybe weeks, depending on how much time someone spends reading every day. It's not quite as easy a read as a pulp novel or comic book, but it also doesn't take any inordinate amount of work to make basic sense of, or require any special skills or background understanding to start on. It's a fun book to hand to a ~13–16 year old.
For me the value isn't the maintainer but the ability to not get locked out. At my work we deal with older files a LOT. We have a bunch of vms running scary old versions of stuff because they're out of date and insecure. At least with open source we could patch or maintain them.
What's the most inspiring and mind-blowing book you've ever read?
X11 on Linux at least is perfectly happy to let you have multiple pointer. Last time I tried, most programs handled it reasonably, a few (*cough* Chrome *cough*) went nuts.
If you go and develop for android (the pancake house) how can they possibly be hostile toward you? Sure if your want to develop for both then it's not ideal, and I agree it sucks to have to learn two languages, but that's not apples problem.
For many it's not uncomfortable, and neither is loud any kind of a downside.

Sports is unique as a form of drama in which the outcome isn't known (to anyone) in advance. (Conspiracy accusations aside.) There's a type of suspense possible with sports that doesn't exist in any other kind of entertainment.

And it's not just the outcome that's unpredictable, there's random feats, drama, narratives, entertainment that can come out nowhere that no one would have ever written. A pitcher hitting a bird in mid air. A baseball bouncing off a wall, hitting the ground, then a player's thigh, then going over the wall. In the late innings of a close playoff game. The game has to be stopped while it's figured out what that means because it hasn't happened in decades, if ever. A football player running into the butt of his teammate with his face, falling down and fumbling.

Many games are mundane but the exciting or funny moments arise from the vast hours and repetition, there's a lot of opportunities for the unexpected. Again, other forms of drama are more predictable not just in their outcomes but in where and when the beats will happen.

That itself isn't enough on its own, you also need to care about the outcome in order for that suspense to be enjoyable. Like religion, it helps to have been indoctrinated by family or geography when you were young. I don't think I'd have been able to start caring as an adult.

It's also dependable in a way your favorite shows, books, movies, musicians aren't. It's reliably been there for every year of my life, for over 35 years. That's meaningful.

(Though there's the occasional strike, and some people are unlucky enough for their team to leave their city.)

It's not reliably exciting, any one game can be boring, any one year (or decade) can be fruitless. But it amounts to something much more than the sum of its parts.

Some fans are more drawn to the strategy and mechanics of the game, but for me it's more about the history and mythology of the team and the sport in my own life.

And I haven't even touched on the social aspect, or the off-field drama that can be its own kind of meta entertainment.
Reusable bags aren't an option for you? We have several of them and just put them in the trunk. If I forget to bring one (which happens 1-4 times a year) I buy a new one for 2€, replacing an almost broken one.
Downtown, on a rainy day, I've witnessed the occasional disaster with someone taking home their fashion purchase in a paper bag only to have it disintegrate while crossing the road.
I was lucky to have learned this lesson from day one. My Atari 400 had no storage since it was beyond my budget and I wanted to save for the diskette drive rather than cassette. So I'd spend days making and playing with a single program creation, never turning it off. Eventually I'd want to do something else so click, playing Asteroids, and repeat.
> you might want to learn to communicate with people who are happy, that they manage to turn their computer on. Because they are not dumb, they just have other priorities.

Easier said than done. I think many, including myself, would argue that there's more than enough time and energy for it all. People who "have priorities" are simply not curious enough and often stubborn. That's a whole different topic, but definitely worth thinking about.

Your typical "nerd" can balance a diverse set of interests well enough. That's precisely why they're not considered "dumb".
Condensing GPs wall of text, I think the overall point is that Aspies are bad at ascribing motivation and mental states to neurotypicals, but much better than neurotypicals at ascribing them to other Aspies.

It's more a case of speaking different "emotional languages" than a strict deficit.
Naively, yes, diversity avoids systemic risks. However, from working in auto insurance it was my experience that insurers reason about risk in considerably more sophisticated ways.

For one thing, in the US auto insurance is entirely a state-by-state market. This means that geographic diversity is inherently severely limited. Any auto insurance operation in California is going to be exposed to a lot of wildfire risk without the ability to geographically diversify. This is priced in.

For another, there some groups of people - remember auto insurance is really mostly about insuring people - who are statistically more expensive risks than other groups. Young men are measurably less safe drivers than middle-aged women, to pick an anodyne example. Individual premiums reflect this as well. I have no idea what kind of systemic risk would uniquely affect all middle-aged women across an entire state, but presumably you can think of one.

Most insurers have groups of customers they would prefer not to have. This is usually because the insurer cannot cover them at cost, never mind profitably. There's a series of ways they encourage those customers to find other carriers. This is where the idea of maximizing diversity breaks down most clearly - the overall risk pool is not improved by including these customers.
The British used radar guided artillery to knock down wave after wave of V1s, which flew at around 400mph. Surely we could do better today.
Insufficient disk space halted Toyota's production (2023)
I'm sure that no one is perfect, not even huge companies, but I wonder how Toyota got to the point of not monitoring disk space.
In my experience, they are more professional. I engage with a firm who offers "customs brokerage" and "agent" services. They take care of any local payments necessary. I get a proper invoice that I pay with a wire transfer.
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I pretty much loathe paper straws. Their texture is nails on chalkboard to me. I hate that they get soggy. I hate that they collapse in anything thick like a milkshake or smoothie. I will more likely go without than use a paper (even the modern paper) straws.

And I don’t like going without. I like straws. I like their utility. I like the way they work in the car. They let me rate limit the beverage flow rather than something else, such as the ice dam at edge of the cup.

I’m also a big fan of ice.

The closest solution I’ve found are lids with small openings. Starbucks coffee lids are good examples, but they’re also “strawless” cup lids with a small lid over a hole.

They’re not a replacement for straws, but they’re not awful like paper straws are. Some leak though. Puts them lower on the fun scale.

Not a big fan of the stainless steel ones either to be honest.
Within one panel, there are typically many cells in series (eg. a typical house might have 8 panels, each with 60 cells in series, giving an open circuit voltage of about 30 volts per panel).

This discussion is about cells within the panel, not panels within the system. So far, nobody has designed inverters that can work on the 0.5 volt output of an individual cell - although I agree that if such a thing existed, it would indeed help to boost efficiency when cells are mismatched or panels are part shaded.

The challenge with 0.5 volt inverters is that currents are large and voltages are small for a given amount of energy, meaning all the parts of the inverter need to be very low resistance, thick wires, and expensive (due to more copper).
I stopped wanting to write SwiftUI because the compiler there is the worst I’ve ever used. It uses some kinds of complicated inference for ViewBuilders, and the inference can get confused if you have a type error and deadlock checking a View. It’ll put an error squiggle on an entire function and say “sorry we timed out trying to typecheck this, can you figure it out?” I’ve never used any typed language compiler that gives up on 100 line or less functions.
Hey! Thank you very much for your feedback!

-> I agree that optimizing costs is different in case of no auto-scaling or PaaS underlay. It's great to hear that you have a fixed cost structure with VPS/dedicated servers.

-> Good to know, I agree either, but I think in the case of a huge backend (with a lot of microservices) it might have an important carbon impact. Indeed, the Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry (See: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological...).

-> Yes, we should be better at showing how we do and how it's a better alternative to in-house development.

If you have any more thoughts or questions, feel free to share!
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But when it comes to computer use and knowledge, there is a divide between techies and just about everyone else. It's not just about lack of knowledge but also lack of fucks to give. Techies just love to build and configure things to their liking. The rest of us have things to do, and would just rather buy the functionality they need in a ready-to-go and easy-to-use form. This is why when computers meet creative work, except maybe for programming, the best-of-breed professional tools are all proprietary. Nobody in those lines of work gives a shit about source availability. They will endure dark patterns techies find intolerable, just to have that functionality. Hello Adobe subscription model. It's not hard to find a Hackernews who will say "I'd rather pay that $23/month for Photoshop than have to endure GIMP."

Speaking of, the above goes for technical professionals too: sooner or later, many of them will put their college kid tinkering hobbies aside and just buy a Mac, freeing up time they would have spent tinkering with a Linux distro to cook dinner for their spouse or play with their kids.

I used to be like you and believed it was senseless and harmful to believe there was a divide between users and programmers. I was smoking that "any user could become a programmer" copium in my 20s. But there is a divide and it's a wide, wide gulf. One of the things that got me to put the programmer hopium/copium pipe down was getting married. She's very smart, but she buys 100% Apple kit and doesn't have to worry about maintaining or configuring anything after initial purchase.
Do you also harass people for wanting to discuss a movie they just watched?
Even when using a FlashFloppy on a real computer (Amiga), it still feels better. You know where your data are. You know how and when it's being accessed.

Also, it's interesting how an Amiga can boot off of a floppy faster than most modern computers can boot from an SSD. Floppies required people to be deliberate about loading files. It's a lesson I think most of us have forgotten now that a web browser can be a few hundred megabytes on disk.

For the fun of it, not long ago I loaded all the DMF (1680K) floppy images for Windows 98 onto a USB stick for a FlashFloppy, booted the boot disk in PC-Task on an Amiga 3000 (with original m68030), then proceeded to install Windows 98. It's amazing that a modern device can emulate a floppy drive, that the Amiga could read the emulated floppy whatever the data rate (Amigas can't do HD floppy data rates, so Amigas cheated by using drives that could run at half the RPM), and could even support the 21 sectors per track that Windows 98 DMF disks use. Of course, it can be done with real floppy disks, too.

Floppies are cool :)
So it is wrong to warn kids about strangers with vans offering candy or entertainment?
Four day work weeks are popular in the same way it is both popular that taxes should be lower and public spending are both popular. Degrowth/anti-capitalism are popular to many but even among this subset of people they are very upset (as we have seen) when prices of things go up slightly.

I understand the arguments for the four day work week as it relates to reforms (such as the hours threshold for receiving healthcare could be lower) but that does not seem to be what this author is talking about here.
What app are you starting?

For me it feels instant. Like opening sublime text.
Faster than opening VS Code..
What are you supposed to do? Carry around bags with you all day in case you happen to go to the store?

If it is a planned visit sure, but if you are just out and about you don't want to be carrying around spare bags in your jeans pocket just in case.
You don't even have to compile it though ... just set up rust-analyzer to run in your IDE and it will tell you about type errors and ownership fuckups every time you edit the file.
Fantastic resource. I wonder if we’ll see more of this for other parts of the web?
Some people already have Apple hardware, or like the build quality or aesthetics it, or want the current fast CPU, or are single and think the Apple logo will let them pass as non-nerds in cafes.

I suspect most people would be happier with more-open hardware, even an ordinary consumer laptop intended for MS Windows. But if the barrier is that someone wants to use an Apple laptop, we can work with that.
Please don't ban my private jet. You can all work from home and move to a three day work week...
I have to second this. No one I know complained when it was introduced, and I saw no complaints aired in the media of any noticeable degree. We still have too much unnecessary plastic in packaging.

My wife is Irish, and they started the removal of plastic bags over 20 years ago. It was carefully phased in over time. It led to a 90% reduction in plastic bag use [0]. They also weigh your trash (in Dublin, anyway) as a means of cost pressure to reduce waste and encourage recycling. It is stated to have reduced waste by 50% [1].

[0] https://www.irishenvironment.com/iepedia/plastic-bag-levy/
[1] https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/why-it-pays-to-c...
>paper bags actually take up more space at the landfill

and are biodegradable

>a LOT more energy to manufacture

which could be done with renewables

But again, the point of all this is to get people to reuse bags in the long run. If you just assume that people will mindlessly always need bags at every store they visit, you're missing the point. It's a simple cultural change, and it has to start somewhere, and it will always be imperfect, and older generations will always be uncomfortable with it.
It’s nice to shower for a while.

But speaking of this specific line from the text, “frequency” would be “daily”, and the amount of time probably “duration” so this could perhaps be more exactly expressed as:

> Frequency and duration: 30-70 minutes a day

(Yes. Opposite order so not quite perfect either, heh.)
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While I agree with your opinion, my own stance is that my needs supersede the tools. I have a few HomePods, but only because my music sources are my MBA and my iPhone. While I've wished that they have bluetooth and line in. And they will be replaced if I ever switch to something that does not support Airplay. I have the Apple TV, but that's because Infuse exists. I'm prepared to switch from anything that does not allow me to do what I want to do.
I think the problem with gas stoves is the nitrogen dioxide they produce. Do you have a meter for that?
"We are at a point in society where we can't simply keep doing what those before us did."

Sure we can. And we will. The choices of most of the world's population surely disagrees with this.

"Yes, life is about to get less convenient and we have to give up some luxuries."

I don't think that's the case, but we will see.

For the record, ideologically, I'm on your side. Realistically, I just don't see a world where the majority of people change.

The stop using the plastic straw argument applies to people who don't like straws. Tell the same anti-straw folks to stop traveling, stop having pets, no more children. You see where this goes - It just doesn't work.
Newton was a mathematician and arguably the most important scientist in history. I recommend his biography - it's amazing reading.
The best response is to actually know things about Godel, Escher and Bach
Yes, but:

> Copybara doesn't have a release process yet, so you need to compile from HEAD.

Looks like there's an Arch Linux build maintained by... somebody, but if you're not on Arch then you're going to be building Copybara with Bazel. That this works for them suggests to me that their community has a significant amount of overlap with the Bazel community, so it's not good evidence of Starlark being used outside of the Bazel world.