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> Would it be beneficial to be able to see your colleague sitting across from you, or would it be distracting?

It wouldn't. But I'd love to see some management types at publicly traded companies use this in public places. Film it, mirror it, do stuff with your trading account.
> Artist tracing through it? Make a transparent pen tablet, not the screen.

Or just use some camera to make a picture, then trace in the painting app?
I certainly keep using my computer during updates but it's not advisable and you should be prepared to random and more or less subtle breakages. Maybe less on non rolling distros. On openSUSE Tumbleweed, it's usual that Network Manager stops being usable from the KDE GUI after big updates.
>However, when all is said and done, our financial concerns and even our personal well-being don't matter as much in the grand scheme of things.

That might be true, but most people care very much about their own "financial concerns" and "well-being".
The full quote is "we should make X illegal for countries to (...)".

What kind of democratic process do you expect to follow to make something illegal for countries to do anything when they didn't voted for it?
If this can be believed, cut by the Houthis.

That kind of makes sense. They're trying to DOS that region physically, might as well do it on telecom as well.
One possible problem this solves is in movies, where you can now see the hacker and the screen they are looking at, both at the same time.
But....why?
HN as a general crowd is pretty poorly informed. It does attract the odd subject matter expert on some topics but I feel like half the comments I read on any subject are really off the mark, which I am sure mine are too
Aha, yea ok. That's gotta be it. My bad. I do have paid account, since I have apps in the store and you have to pay that fee every year to keep that up (which is annoying for my free hobby apps!)
Shit manager, great leader. Another comment above elaborated on this in detail.

I'm currently seeing this dynamic at my own company with my cofounder. I can manage things, projects and people, make them feel good about working at our firm, but I can't for the life of me inspire people to go above and beyond their job description. Meanwhile, my cofounder could rally the troops to cross the Somme in the midst of machine gunfire if needed.
Interesting Bay Area trivia: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the book Blade Runner was adapted from, takes place in San Francisco. The Mission police station being a central place.
Much like there wasn't one "Caesar", since it's a title (still kicking in Proto-West Germanic derivatives branching off "kaisar"), but many "normal" people (not history nerds) would still use only the title to refer to Gaius Julius Caesar.

Also fun fact -- if you're a history nerd -- "Julius Caesar" is almost equally nonsensical to just "Caesar" since "Julius" is not his name, but refers to his family ("gens"). The first Caesar from that family, that we know of at least, was Sextus Julius Caesar in around 200 BC, 300 years before Gaius Julius Caesar was born.
Whatwg-compliant and fast URL parser written in modern C++
ZLUDA has its own baggage for now. Still lacking many support, but that changing fast, maybe in a month or so.
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If you tried to understand as hard as you're trying to argue, you wouldn't be having this argument.
> I think this is the point of disagreement

I appreciate you trying to steel-man their argument, but you’ve gone far enough that it doesn’t reflect what they were actually saying. The thing I’m disagreeing with is:

> Apple's no longer a hardware company

There’s no way to spin that into anything resembling reality. If they had said what you are saying, I wouldn’t have objected.

> my favourite was destroying the business model of their competitors using ATT and then refusing to declare their own ad business ATT compliant

It doesn’t really make sense to do so. Apple aren’t an unseen third-party; the user has explicitly chosen to use their products and services. Why would ATT apply here?
This is the R&D part of the value chain. Yes, a startup should be farther up the value chain to find product and market fit, but a mature company needs to operate in such a manner.
> For the sake of brevity, read "countries" as "ministries of energy in countries" or "relevant public or privatized equivalents of ministries of energy in countries" - there's many modes of governance when it comes to this. A good example of "illegal for countries" in this sense would be if the EU made their member countries adopt jurisprudence in this matter through implementation via their own respective national laws.

What do you do if some countries don't want to play ball, and they turn out to be the biggest emitters?
"We have all the technology available now to decarbonise the economy (well, mostly; we're still a bit limited in a few areas; but we can get a lot of the way there)."

Then why can't we?

The answer is that it would take some Government mandates, and we are back to the original post, that if the Government mandates anything, it will hurt some sector, and then there is popular uprising. At least in US, 50% of country is ready to go to war anytime someone sneezes and merely forgets to say 'bless you'.

How do you fight climate change, even if technology is available, if 50% of the country literally believes in a real physical hell (not just a concept), and that the other side are demons here to steal the blood of their children. How does the committee organize rolling out a technology when half is praying and citing versus and that is the starting point for any technology roll out plan.
New leads can surface at some point though, no? Or do they commonly reopen investigation in this case?
One of my favourite books, the haunting and poetic dystopian Riddley Walker has a particularly interesting relationship with its real-life Kent locations, as the (American) author Russell Hoban played in his beautiful language twisting with their names:

Bollock Stoans - Bullockstone

Cambry - Canterbury

Do It Over - Dover

Horny Boy - Herne Bay

etc

http://www.errorbar.net/rw/Places

Sample passage imagining the post-apocalyptic development of rhymes and myths tied to the local area by the hero's folk:

It wer Ful of the Moon that nite. The rain littlt off the sky cleart and the moon come out. We put the boars head on the poal up on top of the gate house. His tusks glimmert and you cud see a dryd up trickl from the corners of his eyes like 1 las tear from each. Old Lorna Elswint our tel woman up there getting the tel of the head. Littl kids down be low playing Fools Circel 9wys. Singing:

Horny Boy rung Widders Bel

Stoal his Fathers Ham as wel

Bernt his Arse and Forkt a Stoan

Done It Over broak a boan

Out of Good Shoar vackt his wayt

Scratcht Sams Itch for No. 8

Gone to senter nex to see

Cambry coming 3 times 3

Sharna pax and get the poal

When the Ardship of Cambry comes out of the hoal
UV light therapy may be an option for that. It's even possible to self-administer with a 365nm UV flashlight, which I have done successfully. I'll stop short of recommending anyone else actually do that themselves, but I will definitely do it again if my symptoms return.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7497185/
Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance
I can't help but think that this is a very anticlimactic and obvious conclusion...
I guess the point is that it costs more for Russia and others this way. Which seems logical
As a fan of vi/vim keyboard navigation everywhere, I’m always intrigued to see how other people solve this. But if you’re looking for a more generalized approach, I can recommend a mix of vimium and w3m with vim key bindings.
I am fully capable of recognising situations
where the meds help and where they hinder.

How does this work for you in practice?

I take mine selectively as well, to an extent. But in practice I am limited by the fact that there's a certain physical dependency - if I'm accustomed to N mg daily, I can't take less than about 50% of that dose without feeling some withdrawal symptoms such as brainfog and physical lethargy.

(For whatever it's worth: I don't have much trouble cycling off completely. I can go from 100% to 0% in a few days if I taper the dosage.)
I think your take is giving much too much credit for "governments wanting to do the right thing" if it weren't only for those pesky populists.

Take your China example. The issue wasn't just that the government wanted to control Covid and the people pushed back. The issue was that their zero-Covid policy was extremely stupid. I kept thinking "Umm, what do they think is going to happen when they eventually open back up - of course Covid is going to ravage through the populace." And that's exactly what happened. The policy did extremely little to actually save lives in the end compared to much less restrictive policies elsewhere.

So I'm actually less pessimistic about the case for the energy transition. I do think it's particularly unfortunate that our tribal politics has led to people lining up behind "drill baby drill" even if there is no economic basis to do so. But I do think since we know the transition is possible without draconian cutbacks in standard of living that governments can help craft effective incentives to make the change more quickly.
For all of you who are genuinely interested in Meadows' system theory
here's the first two of a running cybershow series [0,1] talking about
levearage points in a modern context.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=21
[1] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=19
Some of the tech in newer cars is just downright impressive.

* Toyota's hybrids can achieve close to 40 miles per gallon on an SUV while achieving 200+ horse power and completely eliminates all timing belts and chains. No more digging into the engine bay to replace those. Just fluid replacements and inspections of the electrical connectors.

* Anti lock brakes are way better today then systems from the late 90's. A 1990's car I could brake more effectively then ABS could no problem. Mid 2010's cars and onwards? No contest, ABS just beats me consistently. The controller can release brake pressure from a single wheel loosing traction while the others maintain maximum braking force, something impossible to do with just the brake pedal. It's also what makes modern traction control so good; a 6 year old can correct a minor loss of traction in milliseconds, long before the driver even realizes there's a problem.

* Seatbelt pretensioners are now tied into the car's communication network, meaning in the event of a crash they can take up slack far more quickly and reduce whiplash injury.

* Assuming that the headlamps are properly sealed, LED lights should never need replacing.

* Reversing cameras with guidelines tied to the steering wheel angle is just pure cheating when parking in tight locations with a large car.

* Adaptive headlights

* Having a keyfob is super convenient. Not having to dig your keys out of your pocket to start the car is nice; not essential but I'd rather have it then not, even with the risks involved.

And purchasing a newer car typically means reduced chance of abuse from a previous owner. Is it really that surprising that there's people that don't want to put the kind of effort needed to dig into and repair an older car?
In the tech bubble maybe, but in the real world certainly not. In the golden age you had that as a fancy factory worker, now you have that if you're well paid in a well paid industry

Real wages completely flattened since the 70s, and even declined in some western countries, while working hours and retirement age both increased. No one in 2024 supports a family and buys a new home/car on a factory salary, I can't even afford any of that while being in the top 20% earners in Germany, given the average cost per sqm and the current mortgage settings, I could afford a 50sqm house with a 30 years mortgage...
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>greed is good

And yet the USA have had 2 economic recession due to greed and it was regulation who saved the day.

Capitalism doesn't even thrive under greed, as it incentives any means necessary to get more even if it's illegal.
Here in the northeastern US, the permitting process for adding new power plants to the grid is long and cumbersome in a way that is usually the long pole in adding new generation to the grid when the new generation is as quick to put up as solar. We have more solar power in the process of getting approval than we currently have installed.
Installing to the C drive! Luxury! We swapped those floppies back and forth out of the A and B drives because we had no hard drive and it kept prompting for the part of the compiler swapped out! And we enjoyed it! Kids these days don’t believe you when you rant about it!
Modern bandwidth charges is the most heinous modern scam against developers. Yes, great that Cloudflare has a free tier, but the cost of anything AWS shouldn't be the baseline, it's one of the more expensive options out there, especially their "premium" bandwidth.

I've had a dedicated server from Hetzner for 28 EUR/month, with no bandwidth costs and no metering. I currently host 20+ static websites + a bunch of other services from this host now, with no issues and performance is fantastic. So ends up being less then 1EUR/month per "thing" run on that server, and I don't contribute to making the web more "Cloudflare-only".
>why might a state view a foreign population, not a foreign state but a foreign population, as an enemy or a threat? What is it specific to that population that poses a threat to said state? Is it something that precludes the domestic population from being a similar threat? Why must the state view us as anything more than another colony?

The state might view a foreign population as an enemy because they support their government which is an enemy. If we support a foreign government, the state might also view us as an enemy. My original point was that the CIA wants us to support the US government.
Does that make it acceptable? Its like if a dev blames a library for a bug in their product that they are charging money for.
In Hollywood, homeless encampments fuel neighborhood frustration
It is typical in the health insurance billing world where the check is sent separately from the explanation of benefits which details how they are paying for everything. You may get a random check in the mail that is paying for claims described in a separate letter or fax you received weeks earlier.
I find it surprising that the 1896 answer of warming estimates closely match modern estimates.

Back then:

- They didn't have electronics, radio was barely being discovered

- They didn't have airplanes, they just discovered the upper atmosphere, with the very first weather balloons

- They knew about atoms, the periodic table was 30 years old, but nucleus wasn't discovered yet

Climate science is a notoriously difficult topic, with countless feedbacks, positive and negative. Nowadays, we run simulations on supercomputers based on satellite data, decades of precise historical data, geological data, etc... They didn't have that at the time.

Maybe he got the precise value by chance. Sometimes it happens. For example it is said that Eratosthenes (240 BC) calculated the Earth circumference with great accuracy (<1%) and no one managed to get a better estimate until modern times. In fact, many later estimates were off by more than 10%. The technology available at the time wasn't capable of such accuracy, but by chance, it turned out to be spot on (but they didn't know it was).
For privacy, is there a way the back of the screen could hide/obscure what's on the front of the screen? It's funny how these things look cool in sci-fi, but when it gets closer to reality the practical problems with using them leap out.
It does have the same feel but there's a big difference. Back then we knew crypto was all fiat. Dollar value was based on perception that could and was(is still) manipulated by whales.

AI, OTOH, can provide meaningful value in most industries. Lump them together at your own peril.
Looks like there’s two follow-up articles to this:

https://allvisibleobjects.substack.com/p/the-leg-dilemma-par...

https://allvisibleobjects.substack.com/p/extracts-ahabs-leg-...
FYI there's an LF AI Landscape which basically duplicates a bit of this work

https://landscape.lfai.foundation

Would love to collaborate with the author of this as I help run CNCF/LF landscape infrastructure.
Do you have a source for this? It seems like most of your comments mention the same things but nothing is substantiated.
You counter "it makes deployment difficult" by "lay people won't be deploying, it's too difficult". I can't understand what you're trying to say at all.

People are deploying Mastodon, it will keep being an actually-federated network, and Bluesky can be a centralized could-have-been federated network run by a couple of companies. But is that the goal as you see it?
Last time I worked the numbers on nuclear vs storage, I came up with… for the same amount of money and for the same amount of generation capacity, battery storage could provide about 4 hours of electricity before needing to recharge while nuclear could provide about 24 months without needing to shut down for a few days for a fuel change.

Pumped hydro storage was better, if you have the water resources and elevation change nearby. Lots of places don’t.
The 14 pains of crossing the street and why you want to pay me to read my book.

Many people think it is a good idea to close your eyes and just start walking, resulting in untimely injuries or even death.

1. Countries and even cities have different rules for crossing the street.
2. You may not know this yet but you need to look both ways.
3. Many people do not realize they are color blind, resulting in death and injuries because they cannot tell red from green.
4. You may look both ways, but do you look up as well? In cities people can drop things from windows, in the country birds may fly over head. More and more space junk is falling to earth.
5. Thing may come at you from multiple directions.
6. etc.

Not saying this article is that bad, but I would appreciate an article framed as a how to. I am much more likely to read articles that are not framed negatively.
FYI there's an LF AI Landscape which basically duplicates a bit of this work

https://landscape.lfai.foundation

They have graduated levels like CNCF :)
Is PHP dying?
To start with,for many conversions you might need changes to the exterior walls to be able to pack in enough flats with required access to windows, depending on your local regulations, so it's not a given even the exterior walls would be untouched.

It certainly can be done - given many have been done, but it's not at all a given it'll be cheaper for all properties vs. tearing it down (which would still keep the utilities to the property, of course) and starting over.
Bug in Seaborn Library Led to False Scientific Conclusion
As this brilliant cartoon points out, we've had 128 years of warnings about human-induced climate change, and over all those years, humanity did not change course.

That's because warnings and exhortations rarely accomplish anything.

Things tend to change only after there's no other choice, i.e., when there's a crisis.

There's an insightful quote from Milton Friedman on this:

"Only a crisis -- actual or perceived -- produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable."[a]

I disagree with Friedman on many things, but on this, I think he was right.

It is only now, when we find outselves in the early stages of crisis (unprecedented heat waves, perpetual giant fires, etc.), that the work of all those scientists and engineers who have been documenting, predicting, and warning about climate change for the past 128 years is finally being put to good practical use.

Hopefully it's not too late.

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[a] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/110844-only-a-crisis---actu...
It's a matter of both and that's where nuance gets into play...

Is McDonald's the only place people can eat a burger because they purchased a McDonald's product and are now tied to their ecosystem? No.

Is Apple's App Store the only place people can purchase apps for their products that they also purchased from Apple? That smells a bit fishier.

Context, nuance, etc. are important, that's where analogies fail because almost every analogy is broken at some level, it's an abstraction and not reality.
Fair enough. Regarding (3): The alternative to Electron-Cordova-Wrapper-JS apps is not "native app" but "no app at all". Most people think about flashy apps that probably should be native. You mentioned Slack. But many apps are just stuff that don't have to be an app in the first place, like apps for specific hotels, bus tickets in a local city, app for the local library etc.

These (web) apps as PWAs would offer a better interface and more capabilities than a pure in-browser web app, but they lack the resources to provide a truly native app.

Banning PWAs doesn't encourage native apps, but even shittier web apps. I'd bet 90% of web apps wrapped in Cordova are there only because they need a) local storage and b) push notifications.
But I don't think they're typically the sort of thing that would ever be finished, unless maybe the entire industry becomes obsolete.
Right, they open the mail and give the check to the accountant, who deposited it.

And we still want to know why.
I want PWAs in instances where the alternative is no app or no feature at all. For instance I use Firefox in iOS but it’s massively crippled (no extension support) thanks to Apple being shitheads. If the only option to have extension support is with PWA then I 100% want PWA
but man take those all the time and you will be pretty
damn irritable and mentally tired after awhile.

No argument there.

It's natural for "ADHD" people to work in waves. Long
sprints and rest in between. I know it's popular to
advocate drugging yourself, but people reach for that too quickly.

This is easy to say, but there are a variety of reasons why not everybody (and in fact, most people) can't precisely tailor their lives to meet the whims of the ADHD brain. Even entrepreneurship has lots of "boring" stuff that you have to simply plow through to get to the interesting stuff.
No, that's too modern and thus cheating! The artist must sketch directly in the environment they are depicting, using traditional tools like pen and transparent laptop/pen tablet! /s
Gemini, Should the government ban Washington Post?
With curl you'll likely need to give the '-L' flag to follow a redirect automatically.

Yup. The link gives a 301 redirect to the HTTPS site. With wget it follows redirects automatically.
But that makes it easier for the restaurant!

You have the ingredients on a package to check. The head chef can do it while constructing the recipe. And you can explicitly order gluten free substitutes that stay in the freezer until needed.
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