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> US has spent trillions of dollars since 1945 intervening in border conflicts that weren’t in America’s interest

I agree. Which is where Europe being different comes into play. Europe has a history of multilateral border agreements with external guarantors, from the Treaty of Westphalia (the actual one, concerning the Holy Roman Empire, not the meme) and Congress of Vienna to the Paris Peace Treaties and Maastricht/Lisbon. It’s also a clear American economic and security interest.

I’m not arguing for or against any specific action here. Just that if there is a group with a precedent of checking imperial dictators in Europe, it’s the Allies.
The CCP isn't known for being trustworthy...
Everyone also conveniently forgets that in many cases, Apple is only charging 15%, not 30 (small business, long-term subscriptions, etc...)
wow, 4death4 is the least clinically insane redditor
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> “I’m not building subsea data centers anywhere in the world.” She later added, “My team worked on it, and it worked. We learned a lot about operations below sea level and vibration and impacts on the server. So, we’ll apply those learning to other cases.”

It doesn't sound like they really discontinued the project. It sounds like it got moved to another team.
If they are not beholden to the political incumbent, they will be beholden to a shadow org of conflicting interests. And this shadow org away from public spotlight is the problem
So pirate it
Sure. But every institution is elected one way or another.
Yes, you don’t?
Sure, they are less likely to fail in the stable environment, but you can't get to it until you pull up the entire vessel. On land 5.9% of servers required a technician to walk over there and replace components. At sea 0.7% of servers failed irrecoverably.

On the other hand 0.7% dead hardware sounds like a marginal cost. What likely killed it was the cost to deploy and recover them, plus all the hassle with sea cables for data and power. Building glorified warehouses with redundant power and AC is likely a lot cheaper than deploying these metal tanks in the ocean.
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Less noise and dust down there - I think the air is purged with nitrogen as well so no oxidization. They could do the same thing cheaper on land and recycle the waste heat. Edit: just read the article - they also state temperature stability as a factor.

Having the servers more easy to access and repair also makes them more likely to fail. Also spaces that humans can enter require a bunch of regulation that takes up space and adds to the expense. So the math could easily work out in favor of a sealed box of computers that no-one is allowed to access and any broken servers just get switched off.
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How lax they are is more a function of closeness to the powerful factions of the CCP than the scale of malfeasance.
It is being delusional, that is how relevant it happens to be.
I think youve missed the parents point.

They are saying the middleman gatekeepers are dangerous becasue if you push them too hard they can take away your access to everything.
Whereas if your agreements are with the individual companies and developers then the worst they can do is take away that one app.
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There's some of these that I think are overkill, sure, but I like the simplicity of some of them - sidenotes, progress bar, etc. Just little things that give you that much more information about what's going on. Gwern's page, to me, is too much.

My personal favorite mixture of style and implementation of these features is jefftk.com - simple, fast, but gives a ton of information in an unobtrusive way.
So it has the problems of a chatbot, but we're all supposed to get extra mad because this time it's Chinese? I hate generative AI entirely, I do not care if it's pushing CCP propaganda, or Silicon Valley HR Department propaganda, or even the truth. I'm already as mad as I can get and this lame attempt to make me care more because it's China doing it actually makes me just mad at The Guardian.
Because it's been made intentionally difficult, with significant risk of further damaging the product you're trying to repair. And there's no official supply of replacements.

A battery change shouldn't require heat guns, special suction/clamp tools, or adhesive-dissolving chemicals.

It also shouldn't require being without your device for an unknown period of time to send it in for service.
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The internet is one of my favorite inventions of all time. When nobody was watching, it emerged as a global network without borders, but now the governments are returning the physical borders.
Windows market share and MSFT stock are laughing at your comment
You should just be prompted to install it whenever you try and run a command (like Git or Clang) that's installed by it. `xcode-select --install` triggers the installation as well. macOS just downloads and installs it through the same underlying mechanism that macOS updates are installed by, no account required.

(Homebrew also just installs it automatically now, without needing any user intervention.)

EDIT: Maybe you were put off by the insane time estimate that it presents for some reason? It quotes a multi-day installation time that ends up only taking a few minutes. Maybe Apple will fix that someday.
> I have a [local only, no cloud] doorbell with a camera that does person detection.

Would you maybe share with us how you built it/which parts you used?
> https://www.imore.com/apple/apple-removes-scam-bitcoin-walle...

Wow thats really worrying, and all these people in here saying they love using Apple products becasue it keeps them safe.
Internet is how you get from the client side to the server side. Maybe not internet but some-kind-of-net, and that has latency, failures etc.

Maybe that's not clear: the turnstile needs to connect to a server to check the QR. Need to only have one server, so some turnstiles will be relatively far from it. Latency.
A bit disappointing, having to add a 5V charger (and find a wall socket to plug it into) when the doorbell circuit already provides 24V.
A sport watch is not a dress watch, not a dive watch and not a field watch. It’s typically water-resistant, but not hugely water-resistant (swimming, rather than diving). It typically has a metal bracelet or a tropical rubber strap.

A dress watch is thin, almost always with polished rather than brushed surfaces, rarely with a date complication, rarely with lume, sometimes without a second hand, with a leather strap. It’s meant to slide underneath a shirt cuff and be both elegant & discrete. It is probably not water-resistant. It may not have a minute track.

A dive watch is meant for scuba diving. It will have one-way bezel marked with minutes for tracking dive time. It will be heavily lumed. It will typically have a metal bracelet.

A field watch is based off of a WWI officer’s watch. It should be reasonably water-resistant (weirdly, many are not!). It will always have three hands, and must be hacking (means that the second hand will stop when you set the time, so that it can be set to the exact second). It probably has 13–24 in an inner circle. It definitely has a minute track.

A Garmin or Apple Watch is … not really a watch, but is a wearable computer.
With the increasing efforts from Asus, MSI, Lenovo, and the potential XBox Handheld that keeps being hyped about, let's see how long SteamDeck keeps its relevance.
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I'm not sure that people see it as moral, so much as boring.

We're not expecting to hear "Exclusive: The cocaine-fuelled prostitution orgy where Bernanke and Greenspan agreed to remove dress shirts from the basket of goods used to measure inflation, replacing them with streaming video services and triggering a rise in the base rate from 5.25% to 5.5%"
Just a regular Samsung (S10e because it has a headphone jack; bought second hand to reduce e-waste), running Debian in userspace on the stock kernel because I didn't want to give up things like the camera 960fps slow motion feature. I like open source but I also like practical usability ^^'

The Debian "app" gives me access to apt and anything that has an ARM build, which is nearly everything. Sometimes I write code on it, like a PoC to brute force a numeric parking lot voucher was the most recent instance, but most commonly I use qalc (best calculator ever, also use it on desktop) and sshd to remotely access photos/Screenshots. It used to be more featureful and you could run things like wavemon and aircrack, but selinux restrictions have made that a thing of the past. Surely it's possible to adjust, but I haven't invested the time in finding out how yet
A marginal improvement in image quality isn't necessarily enough to offset a much higher panel price, in a way that creates a market for these panels.

Compare, for example, Intel's "Optane" phase change memory. It was qualitatively superior to NAND flash, but also significantly more expensive, which kept interest low and ultimately led to phase change memory being abandoned.
I think GP wants to have the notifications, and have the option to "skip and don't bother me again with this version", instead of having the same OS upgrade notification popping up every once a while.

It seems like a valid use case (except it goes against Apple's policy of encouraging people to upgrade), but awfully awkward in the context of disputing "(Mac) doesn't bother me for anything and lets me do what I want".
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I'm also a big fan!

One small caveat: As much as I appreciate his writing, I'd take some of the technical explanations with a grain of salt – the approach is definitely more that of an (extremely knowledgeable and experienced!) outsider looking at the system and coming up with hypotheses for its workings than that of an authoritative source with hands-on experience working on the system. It's sometimes not that easy to figure out what's hypothesis and what's "confirmed" knowledge as a result.

That said, much of what I've learned about Japanese transit payment systems (without ever having visited) was via that blog. It's amazing!

Somebody from the tiny intersection of people apparently having hands-on experience with Felica and writing about it in English is this pseudonymous Reddit user (often also quoted on the blog): https://www.reddit.com/user/FelicaDude/
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> Humans generally try to be right,

I think this assumption is wrong, and it's making it difficult for people to tackle this problem, because people do not, in general, produce writing with the goal of producing truthful statements. They try to score rhetorical points, they try to _appear smart_, they sometimes intentionally lie because it benefits them for so many reasons, etc. Almost all human writing is full of a range of falsehooods ranging from unintentional misstatements of fact to out-and-out deceptions. Like forget the politically-fraught topic of journalism and just look at the writing produced in the course of doing business -- everything from PR statements down to jira tickets is full of bullshit.

Any system that is capable of finding "hallucinations" or "confabulations" in ai generated text in general should also be capable of finding them in human produced text, which is probably an insolvable problem.

I do think that since the models do have some internal representation of certitude about facts,that the smaller problem of finding potential incorrect statements in its own produced text based on what it knows about the world _is_ possible, though.
The use of "many" in such contexts by journalists (and human/AI entities who choose to write like journalists, as in this case) is a shim used to make personal opinion seem more objective.
If you can recall it, do you remember the math problem in question? And could you loosely explain how you transformed it?(just with general concepts or keywords for my own curiosity. I love math, and seeing how different problems can relate to each other in unexpected ways. For example, when the sum of two quadratic roots gives the width of a given rectangle. Like this problem: A rectangle has an area of 32ft² . Its width is 4ft less than its length. What is the width? A = l(w) and 32 = l(l - 4). I’ll spare you the work shown, but l = 8 and l = -4. … (8) + (-4) = 4 = w
Almost all of these are pretty nice. I disagree with the preview-on-hover though. That sends off a request to a possibly unknown (possibly unwanted) destination. I often hover a link to look at what the URL popup says in the bottom corner, before following it. It's just not a very privacy-conscious feature, even if convenient.
Few deny the utility of dynamic-style variables for certain kinds of programming. But it can be helpful to segregate that behavior more carefully than in a language where it is the default.
1000ms is a surprisingly long wait at a ticket barrier, though! Latency is everything in this use case...
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But the point is that it is passive and works all year long, which I suspect wouldn't be the case of a residential heating system.
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That was a great article and would probably appeal to some of the posters here:

> “My friends that spend a lot on authentics have either never worked a day in their life or they’ve married rich guys,” she says. “But if you’re working hard for your money, you don’t want to spend it on stupid stuff. In New York especially, wealthy people just have more interesting things to do with their money. They invest in crypto. They reinvest in their businesses. They invest in their children.”

> Still, most of Lisa’s rich friends ignore her suggestions to buy reps. “It’s just a snobbery thing,” she says. “They’ve literally told me, ‘I’m too good to buy reps.’” Instead, “they’re out here buying authentic Hermès, and they are stressing out every single day. ‘Will I get the bag?’ ‘What if it runs out?’ I’m just like, You literally don’t need this stress in your life; you can just be happy.”
It surprises me that microLED's are limited to only the big players.

At least from the outside, it appears the equipment to cut LED dies up, then place them on sheets of glass in an alternating R-G-B pattern, then sandwich another piece of glass on top, with both pieces of glass having row/column ITO conductors on, doesn't look really costly.

Sure - it's more than a hobbiest could do in a garage, but any reasonably funded university lab would have the equipment to do that.

Certainly less complex than OLED if you are starting from scratch.

Hence, I really don't see what is stopping there being a flurry of startups trying to get into the microLED screen business.

In fact, I forsee the hardest thing for a startup would be the row/column driver IC's, which I don't think the incumbent players will sell to you.
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Why do you think this will occur?
Universities aren't the real world and I was right about redhat.
The article alludes to the technique for dealing with failures inside a sealed underwater container: you never actually replace hardware but instead work around failures by reprovisioning services onto different nodes. Over time more and more nodes will fail until the container becomes exhausted and needs replacing.

That therefore begs the question: what are the narrowest points of failure in a system like this? For example it would be naive to have 140 fungible compute nodes if they all went through a single networking switch. Node workloads can be moved but a switch failure makes the entire container useless.

This works physically as well. Marine vessels have sealed bulkheads such that a hull breach in one end doesn’t cause flooding in the other end.

How do these vessels fan out all the other points of failure and what are the error rates in those components?
They're actively working on allowing you to just use your phone, iirc targeted for like 2026 or something. Basically, its' a work in progress and they delivered the update to the Chrono app as a stop-gap.
I’ve been seeing people moving back to CA after moving out post-Covid. It’d be interesting to see those numbers.
Debian handles all of these transitions by itself during upgrade process, and shows you a nice readme before starting all of them.

For example, Debian has finished two big transitions recently. Merging /usr and 64 bit time support. Both are done on testing, and even on testing nothing has broken.

Another big change (which also made HN front page via LWN) was /tmp behavior change. It's handled differently. If your system is already installed, it doesn't change the behavior, but new systems will behave differently.

All of these changes are again communicated via "NEWS" mechanism. If Debian changes a config file, it's replaced. If you modified this file, apt will ask what you prefer, and you can diff the file in place.

In the past, many similar changes are made, and all were transparent. If you're not using any external repositories which change tons of system packages with their own versions, nothing changes during upgrades for you.

While there's an extensive release note provided with every release like [0], the upgrades are pretty straightforward.

As a result, having a few or many Debian systems which are older than a decade is a norm, not an exception.

[0]: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/
I think it’s more akin to telling someone at the party that it’d be stupid to chug that whole bottle of liquor on a dare.
One of HN's biggest intellectual blind spots is mistaking explanation with justification. Looks like your comment was caught up in that.
I'll ask here since I'm sure theres experience in the audience: it looks like theres no good answers for roblox on non-windows [1]? How about Minecraft Bedrock? Roblox and minecraft are the only things I really need to support in order to remove the windows install from my network.

[1] - https://vinegarhq.org/Home/rol_faq.html#what-alternatives-do...
The amount of people doing this was so vast that windows 10 ltsc stopped receiving updates when windows 11 was first announced and by happy coincidence is just ever so slightly too old now for the benefits versus just using linux with proton on steam.
> Multi threading is still the domain of gnarly bugs, and specialists writing specialist software.

1) In the cloud there are always more requests to serve. Each request can still be serial.
2) Stuff like reactive streams allow for parallelisation. The independent threads acquiring locks will forever be difficult, but there are other models that are easier and getting adopted.
Reading the screenshots, it sounds like they showed up with the fire dept., which was going to do some sort of unrelated inspection. Apple wasn’t informed that they were going to be there, the author even highlights “EPA’s participation in the inspection was unannounced”. I’d assume the EH&S team was there for the (expected) fire department inspection
True but not entirely.

There are big quality differences and often luxury brands do use material and labor that makes a bag cost hundreds of dollars or euros to produce.

But not all do and sometimes they flounder or cheat on certain products.

The margin between that production cost (Tanner always gives an estimate) and the actual price is definitely a function mainly of the prestige associated with the brand.

I.e. other factors such as shipping, display (think flagship stores), advertising & sales labor costs play much less of a role in the luxury segment.
This is a genius move. Nuclear is the lynchpin of sustainable, clean, cheap future. Retarded take to say the investment is too expensive.

Australia should rehab from its addiction to building real estate instead of infrastructure.
I've been using Microsoft accounts on Windows desktops for the last 5 years or so. The Minecraft change was probably the main push, now I know why they spent a billion dollars on that.

When you've got a bunch of desktops and no Windows domain controller it's a good feature. Makes login and synching work pretty well. There hasn't been a visible downside compared to local logins, though not enough upsides for Microsoft to push it so hard.

I use the "Microsoft Family Safety" features for limiting application usage and daily login times. This is the only real benefit I've gotten, but it's a good one. Don't have an Xbox but I hear some nice features for that were messed up recently.
Ah, I see.

Still, it seems like it would be a useful idea to have an IP bit for "minimize buffering and drop instead, packet is time-sensitive", and that seems safe since the user is requesting fewer resources, not more.
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The problem is not even a land grab per se (even though it does cause problems). The problem is that the grabbing party, having succeeded, does not stop, and develops an approach to international affairs that ends up being problematic in the long term. Germany in 1939 did not limit itself to acquiring Alsace and Lorraine, and even to grabbing most of Poland (along with its then-ally USSR), and even to grabbing most of France. Same for any historical empire. (The US in this regard is slightly different, e.g. it did not directly grab Texas, and bought large parts of California. Having grabbed the entire width of the continent, there remained little desire to grab the inhospitable south or north.)

Your logic may work with e.g. Taiwan: I don't think China would go on an expansionist rampage once it grabs Taiwan (or "returns", some would say). Should the US be just okay with that?