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> Technically ‘they’ do ‘have the power to switch off’, even switch off the whole of human civilization

No, economics researchers do not.
Remember: at it's core, capitalism uses the threat of deprivation and want to coerce cooperation with it, and it always likes an oversupply of labor. Don't want to chose to work at my sweatshop (or the sweatshop of one of my peers) for miserable wages while I get rich off your labor? Fine, go starve. And don't go trespassing on my estate to try to grow food, if you try the men with guns will come for you.

What's so clever about it is the threat is indirect and systemic (instead of direct and personal), which is all some people seem to need to deny it's there.

It also brings to mind the ancient Roman fire brigades, which were more of an extortion racket than anything else.
As a daily biker in Paris (and for years), I think it is hard to grasp the changes Paris has seen in the last years.

You now even get to see some congestion on bike lanes (Bd Sebastopol for instance), because they are too many cyclist on an older (and thus too narrow) bike lane.

This change, the new subway lanes, and the reduction of car usage in the city make the city much more enjoyable on a day to day basis, especially for pedestrians as cyclists are less annoying than drivers.
> What about going to a restaurant or business meeting or a museum or an appointment with a professional?

I also like to find my bicycle where I left it. Which is not an option in many cities.

> I honestly don’t know but there are so many cities where people bike everywhere so there must be a solution

People have less and less money to spend on a car and fuel/electricity. Many are using bicycles not by choice but because they're broke. And it shows when you see the kind of bicycle they ride.

My car is an extension of my house and although I'll take public transports once in a while (public transports are free in my country), there's no way I'll bicycle everywhere.

Add to that that I do actually bicycle with a MTB, from point A to point A, with a 5-digit $$$ bicycle and there's no way I could possibly enjoy riding a shittier bike. And due to the insecurity (thieving scums), there's no way I can leave my bicycle anywhere in the city (gone in 60 seconds would be an understatement).

Same for my neighbor: he'll do 50 kilometers+ a day on his bicycle, but from point A to point A, with a roadbike.

Don't get me started as to when I was living in a rural area, with the closest highway being a 45 minutes (car) drive: I'd rant about how practical bicycles are there.

I just don't get it and I don't think I can get along with people who wants to put us all on bicycles and I don't think people who want to get us all on bicycles could get along with me. And I'm fine with that.
A large part of that is cycling on roads with automobile traffic.

Dodging cars, taking gaps, sprinting at lights, constantly looking around... are all things that make you sweaty. Plus cars kick up a load of road grime and water (when it rains).

Comparing cycling on pleasant infrastructure to cycling on roads is a bit like comparing walking and running. They're similar activities, but the level of exertion is quite different!

In NL, they cycle with umbrellas. In Tokyo, rain ponchos are a common choice.

There's also this mentality in the anglo-sphere of commuting on a racing bike with a backpack. This choice is somewhat driven by the infrastructure, since you need to be fast and agile around traffic. However, in countries with developed cycle infrastructure, people tend to use upright bikes with baskets, racks and fenders. This makes one much less sweaty when riding!
On the flip side, I thrived during lockdown. Productivity & happiness went way up, I finally felt like I was getting enough "alone time," I still interacted frequently over Teams throughout the day and felt no craving for more "people time."

It's almost like people are different and there's no one size fits all approach, and we should stop being stupid and let the people who want to work remote do so, while providing meeting space for people who want to be in person. It feels like the world is dictated by Type-A, "I can only be productive & wrap my head around things if I'm face to face" people, when they're only 1 type of worker.
Again, from the perspective of users, the experience got worse post-regulation.

> The experience you describe is the fault of websites which chose to make things that way.

I don't disagree. But they were less annoying before. So make them go back to being less annoying.
I find the all uppercase version to be more or less readable when zoomed in -- although I don't think the Declaration of Independence was really referring to "Nature's DOD" (the D and G are nearly identical) but I find the lower case version to be completely unreadable.
> Why bother? I don't think it's actually "maintenance" if it doesn't maintain the car in any meaningful way.

As usual, it varies. Some outdoor environments can cause pollen/pinetar/birdpoop to accumulate and form a layer of weather-resistant plaque which slowly degrades the paint. Some indoor storage environments are open-air, which can lead to a stubborn buildup of oil/pollution/dust with a similarly negative impact.

Of course, there's also the general idea that, if you baby something, it'll last longer. Inspecting how the car looks on a semi-regular basis might lead one to noticing any number of issues -- a soft tire, a fluid leak, a faulty tail-light, etc. It's not a bad ritual to have if you rely on the good working function of such things.

With all of this being said, I don't exactly practice what I preach... Driving bores me and I'd rather pay someone else to do the associated maintenance even though I've been thoroughly taught how to do it myself. I very much belong to the "carwashes for thee and not for me" school of thought
"directly" does the heavy lifting here. Users (on average) still end up paying for the services in the end.
I designed my first website in Adobe dreamweaver.

I was taught programming using an obscure language called LOGO that allowed moving a cursor(aka turtle) to draw shapes algorithmically.

128MB of ram was considered decent and if you could afford to plug in another 128MB of ram, you'd be able to use Windows XP for an hour or so before it freezes your computer.
In a recent blood test my Vitamin D was low, that is the second time it happened. First time were during the pandemic, where my doctor at the time told me several people were experiencing this due to lack of sunlight (everyone was locked at home). Anyways, I'm now taking 7000ui vitamin d supplement for 6 weeks; Thanks for the article
spreading has occurred for hundreds of million of years. At the fresh resurgence of new floor we have magma, hydrothermal solutions from the deep crust with all the gasses/water/metals and compounds are forced up from the magma(which holds them under HUGE pressure as dissolved species) as pressure drops, they become discrete fluid streams as the varying pressure/temperature/solubility product reveal. These are the 'black smokers' - they form the nodules etc., we have read about. All manner of oxidation states, many reduction/oxidation pathways and a number of organisms employ these to live on - bacteria/worms/crabs - a whole strange ecosystem.
As the spreading widens, the fluid ceases, the bacteria die, the ecology migrates and collapses, with new colonization at the active zone. Much of earth mineral came this way, some via volcanos and several by meteors(Sudbury Nickel).
The important aspect is:- far from the active zone there are dead zones, some a 1000KM wide, all packed with the same minerals - but covered by sediments of varying thickness.
Deep ocean mining should go in this dead zone = kills nothing. All they need to do is rake up the nodules and use a filter to grab the loosened sediment, compress to bricks and drop to the floor, minimizing drifting sediments.
So we can have cake and eat it - just the right rules are needed.
> I honestly don’t know but there are so many cities where people bike everywhere so there must be a solution.

It depends how tolerant you are, personally I consider a little sweat to be a fairly small thing in regard to the other hardships life will throw at you, and a very small price to pay to save thousands of euros of a lot of stress.

There is no magic bullet but make sure you eat clean and stay hydrated it helps with sweat smell, dress for the ride and not for the destination, a well ventilated outfit does wonder. I personally don't sweat much so it's ok, my gf gets more sweaty and it can definitely be annoying
I don't know if I'd call the output of modern de-compilers "very good", not for native code anyway. They're just a little better than raw disassembly. Even state of the art de-compilers struggle to reconstruct control flow, distinguish data from code, identify the presence of a variable, let alone its type, and they fundamentally lack context. If a LLM could be used even just to reliably reconstruct symbol information it would be game-changing.
So this is a real problem especially in hot climates like the US can be. My advice would be slow down your cycling speed to your appointment. I found myself having to keep reminding myself to slow down because my natural cycling speed generates a sheen of sweat. Of course you can open up on the way home.

This strategy along with suitable clothes will help for moderate climates. If you are heading out into 95 and up weather there will be sweat though.

I’ve also had the benefit of a shower at work which really changed the game, but that is a luxury.
Even though it's not open source, just free(for very small projects), I have been really liking kitemaker.co

I'm curious what other people think of their approach, and whether that should be a model for open source kanban boards to follow. It's not Trello, which is way to flexible turning work items into a mess, but it's not Jira either. For me it seems to nicely fit the sweet spot of structure and ease of use.
I wouldn’t necessarily say there is a bias, or at least not a bias which favors Israel directly, as submissions which favors Israel’s narrative gets flagged as quickly (probably even quicker). However I think the bias here is over sensitivity (as in signal theory) or an over abundance of caution. This is not good when the subject matter is an ongoing genocide and targeting of our comrades in tech.

As tech workers it is heart breaking to see our community staying silent when some of us are being targeted and martyred in a genocide. HN needs to do better.
1 Android update

3 years of security updates (every other month)

That's Motorola's new and improved software policy
If you tweak bios settings you can easily do one core at those speeds, or two cores 100Mhz lower, indefinitely without thermal worries.
If they're related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustelidae , probably just about any catchable animals?
Totally agreed. I also liked some of the anecdotes in this article, but I always have to do an eye roll when I read an article that claims that "primitive" cultures don't suffer from disease X, and look they do thing Y that modern cultures don't, so of course thing Y must be the the reason for the difference! Conveniently ignoring the 6387 other stark differences in culture, behaviors and diets between the cultures.

I think the hypothesis of how sleeping positions affect back pain would be worth studying, but that's all it is, a hypothesis.
1. get fit

2. get an ebike

3. don't live that far away from everything (I do everything by bike, but all daily things are max. 15 min away

4. don't live in Mexico

5. don't race / take your time. Average (non-sporty) cyclist goes 15 kph, i.e your do not get more exhausted as you would be when walking

6. for me: do not wear a backpack (i.e bike bag or basket)

7. have proper equipment (i.e I have a poncho. I get a little wet in the rain though because it does get warm underneath)
I use a very thin pillow when sleeping on my back. I find sleeping without pillow a bit uncomfortable. Although I am sure I could get used to my head being pushed back a bit, I still dislike the head just resting on the hard mattress and trying to naturally roll left/right. The pillow helps me keep my head looking straight ahead (almost vertically).

As to mattress, I prefer a mid-to-hard latex mattress with a cover.
> the regulation is not getting what it wants (no tracking or informed tracking)

That's an overstatement of the purpose of the regulation IMO. The purpose is to give the user control over the tracking of their data.
I don't get the American fixation of cars. Isn't public roads a mild form of communism?
Procrastination is mainly about regulating emotions
> It is not like Westerners have some special physiological feature that makes them do it, it's about lack of practice.

Lack of practice causes a "special physiological feature": ankle inflexibility. For some people it would take a significant amount of time stretching the ankles every day to recover enough ankle flexibility to squat, and that could perhaps still be insufficient, as joint mobility is established based on the range of motion used in childhood.
Based on their demos, HackerRank is doing this as part of their existing products. Which makes sense since prompt engineering will soon become a minimum requirement for devs of any experience level.
> cycling would involve quite a lot of excretion.

I think you meant "exertion". I did giggle like a child though (very sorry).
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I live in a place where there is very little sunlight during the winter, and take occasional vitamin D supplements. My supplement is 1000 IU. I took a look on amazon and of the first page of results, most were 1000IU and some were 2500 IU

It sounds like the upper end of the recommended range for Vitamin D blood levels is much higher than it should be, and that is the primary reason the person mentioned here had the problems she had, but it also just seems like common sense that you're taking 2-5 times the normal supplementation dose of something, daily, for 5 years you should have a very good reason to do so.

I'm curious if taking 1000 IU every few days could cause similar issues in people who aren't in the sun all day every day.
In the story, the women was taking 5000 units daily, which is extremely high. Most multi-vitamins have something between 400-800 units.
> If you can charge more, you will. Price should match value.

And big LLM providers will certainly try, but they have competition now, all 3 tied up at roughly the same level. And then there is competition from open models that can handle 50% of what big models do.

So they can only set a high price for very advanced/critical tasks, where usage will be much lower.
> Please name a competitor with better laptop hardware (I assume your workplace provided you with a laptop).

My workplace provides me with a MacBook yes.

I honestly prefer using my 5 year old Dell G5.

I absolutely hate MacBook screen. It's reflexive, whereas I very much favor the matte finish of basically every other manufacturer.

Fan noise for me is essentially irrelevant. Not that my Dell makes that much noise anyway. I am normally listening to music while I work, and when gaming there's in game sound.

Speaker quality is shit on either laptop. My cheap speaker/subwoofer set that is connected to the docking system is leagues better than the laptop speaker (that I never use anyway).

Touchpad is... as bad as any other touchpad? I use a mouse for a reason.

Battery life is the only thing a MacBook would have in its favor. Again, irrelevant. 99% of the time it is plugged into power.

MacBook comes with a major downside of being tied to OSX however. This cannot be understated.
Legally no, they can't store his data if he doesn't click yes.
There is a dramatic, almost chasm-like, difference between "stupid" and rational.

Tactically it is a stupid decision. Remote work is by-and-large one of the biggest boons to an employee who would otherwise be jockeying for a house to start a family in a place that is too expensive. Studies have shown time and time again that even under threat of pay reduction employees will STILL choose remote work. The "stupid" capitalist pays them just enough to rent locally but not enough to buy. Companies that remain remote-only will likely absorb a large chunk of the best talent in the next decade. All of the middling and new talent will be forced to bend the knee. The actual bet here is that 200 middling engineers will outperform 100 of the best. When you look at the macroeconomics the conclusion is obvious. Those 200 middling engineers will likely be 50 local engineers and 150 foreigners.

However, it is a rational decision. These rich capitalists, in your words, are deeply invested in real estate. If they aren't, whoever invested in them is. Follow that chain long enough and you'll almost surely find Blackrock and Vanguard who, in my pet theory, is driving this movement. We aren't talking about Google/Facebook/Apple who have amazing self-owned beautiful campuses. We are talking about mandates from 100 person just-barely-not-a-startup companies.

All this movement did is show what kind of fraud the SV startup scene has been committing for the last two decades. Naturally, when outed, the fraudster panics.
What do you call an actual ride sharing service then?
On margin I can't believe Lyft would loose money by continuing to support Minneapolis, passing on this per mile/per minute floor to the consumer & taking over Uber's market share there.

It "not being worth supporting" has everything to do with signalling to other municipalities not to regulate (which I think makes much more sense for Uber to do than Lyft)
It does happen that smaller car makers will use parts from other makers in their cars because it is too expensive to design and produce all of the parts themselves. Switches, tail lights, etc are often done this way.

It is not uncommon for parts that are made by third parties will be used in cars by different makers. Aisin makes transmissions used in many brands. This can backfire when the third party maker has a production problem which affects a wide range of cars in multiple makers. The Takata air bags were used in many brands of cars until they were found to blast shrapnel into the faces of occupants. Takata has been struggling for years to produce enough replacement parts to fulfill all of the recalls.
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I will be trying more of these suggested positions. Coincidentally, I had a 5 degree wedge under my mattress to lift my head up slightly to reduce snoring. This resulted in increased lower back pain. Removing it reduced this lower back pain substantially.

In some sense, the vertical use of our vertebrae is a design anti-pattern. We evolved from animals that walked on all fours, and vertebrae are much better suited for this horizontal position. This is why we suffer from slipped discs and other ailments that are not common in other animals.
I have recently gotten much more invested in my health, and that has lead to me cutting basically every supplement I was taking short of a few that are really excellent and well studied.

On the back of some vitamin D bottles, you'll see warnings about taking it if you have high calcium levels because it could lead to cardio vascular issues.

While most people considered the risk of supplementation to be low, there appears to be cases where that isn't the case. Be careful.
> this notion of Keynesian vs. Austrian and what have you is proof

This is like taking the existence of Darwinian and Lamarkian evolution as proof that biology is not a science. You're quoting caricatures of old ideas.
My sense is that the thing that makes the other sites laggy on my computer is UI stuff. Maybe not though.
The only joke here is people white-knighting for a manufacturer of luxury toys.

How dare someone doesn't like a MBP?
It's an interesting point. The concept of "dressing for the job you want" might have evolved. With more accessible fashion and changing workplace norms, dressing sharply doesn't necessarily equate to competence or value like it might have in the past.

Authenticity and skills often weigh more than appearance in many sectors.
At the risk of exposing my pom-poms, it's not the writing of the code or the design of the systems that I find the current batch of AI useful for.

Probably the biggest thing that GPT does for me these days is to replace google (which probably wouldn't be necessary if google hadn't become such hot garbage). As I say this, I'm made aware of the incoming rug-pull when the LLMs start spitting SEO trash in my face as well, but right now they don't which is just the best.

A close second is having a rubber duck that can actually have a cogent thought once in a while. It's a lot easier to talk through a problem when you have something that will never get tired of listening - try starting with a prompt like "I don't want advice or recommendations, but instead ask me questions to elaborate on things that aren't completely clear". The results (sometimes) can be really, really good.
Well... Googlebot does pay attention to robots.txt - I don't think (original) OpenAI-bot did.
Owning a passport and electricity bill is hardly “paperwork,” lol. If an artist can’t manage to set up a crypto account—or a bank account, which requires the exact same documents—they are probably not in a position to run their own art business.

> You're conflating collectibles

No—I am talking broadly about artists selling their work through crypto, and some of it does include $5 comics, like Sloth Zine:

https://x.com/slothzine/status/1763674161333834057?s=20
No doubt, and it seems the Kia EV6 has worse paint quality compared to prior cars I've owned. It's definitely in need of a paint correction. For now though, my water quality at home is terrible, so it's a lesser of two evils for me (due to health reasons, I really don't have the stamina to wash it the right way) The hard water not only makes it hard to wash without spots, but it's a double whammy when my sprinkler system hits my car and spots it up.
I won't pursue that assertion as it's tangential. I shouldn't have brought it up. The main point is that clean UX is not the purpose of the EU's data laws.
Is that an example of using this tool?
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