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> real life experience of me, my wife and plenty of our friends consistently says what it says...

Real-life experience fairly consistently shows vaccines cause autism, angels are real, and my cousin's brother's sister-in-law went to school with a kid named "Shithead" but pronounced "shu-theed".

It's a whole thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

Again, experts in the field are demonstrably unable to consistently evalutate and rate wines if blind to the cost, vintage, etc.

> We are not yet in time where I trust internet or anonymous commenters more than my/our own taste buds.

I mean, same, but for internet/anonymous commenters like yourself versus actual studies.
I think you have to be an avid Money Stuff reader to have “everything is securities fraud” drilled into your brain.
That's what my third paragraph was for.
There are enough stories of taxi/uber drivers who basically only charge at superchargers getting 200,000+ miles out of their Tesla battery that slowing down charge speed to optimize battery life is a minor optimization at best.

What would be really nice is a better way of sharing a charger after you're done charging. My experience is that a Tesla supercharger is often too fast. On a road trip charging stops usually coincide with meals, but a charge takes less time than a nice meal does. The charge is done and idle fees start accumulating when you're halfway through the meal. It's rude to others waiting for the charger to leave it there plugged in. It'd be awesome if there was a way to have two plugs per charger, and a big green light to indicate that the first car is done charging so that anybody pulling into the second stall would get a full speed charge.
> Even if it was a credible idea, how exactly do you think that Firefox - the browser that the minute anything changes, the internet blows up over - would significantly alter their product in a way to differentiate themselves from Chrome?

You're presenting it as though any change would be met with hostility, but the alternative is that they're only met with hostility because they keep making changes that hurt the users. A little while ago they announced that they were working on properly supporting vertical tabs and tab groups; that wasn't met with any hostility. Of course, in the same announcement they said they were planning to dumb down the rest of the interface even more, which was. But the point stands; they can get a positive reaction by making changes their users actually like, they just don't do that as often as they do the other thing.
Can I ask about the reason it's not hosted on telegram itself as a bot?
Macbooks also wake from sleep while closed and yet it doesn't destroy the computer. How is the computer supposed to do background checks / send its location etc if it can't wake up for a short while?
Take a week long vacation to somewhere with minimal allergens. Like an island or a cruise.

Allergens can absolutely cause the symptoms you’re describing, and so if you don’t feel better away from continental allergens, you can at least rule them out.
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> When Firefox started is was not a copy of existing browsers.

IIRC, when Firefox started, it was very similar to the full Mozilla Suite with some features removed (which is not surprising, since it started as a Mozilla Suite derivative and they shared a lot of code). It has a long lineage going back to the old-school Netscape Navigator.
C++ already passed that line with C++17 and newer iterations. Not only it evolves way faster starting with C++17, the modern code looks sufficiently different that it needs relearning some parts of C++ from start.

I've written my biggest project with C++11, and C++14 was just out back then. Now, I plan to reimplement that project (and improve it), again with C++, but I need to look at so-called "modern C++" to do it correctly and in a more future-proof way.

...and I'm glad I have to do that, because while I love (old school) C++, seeing it evolve makes me happy. Because systems evolve, software scale evolve, and most importantly hardware and ways to get maximum performance from it evolve.

There's no need to write old-school C++ anymore. All these features are developed for a reason, they shall be used.
On a more general note, it's often challenging to sell anything to the software developer community, regardless of the licensing terms you choose. I believe you'll gain commercial traction only if your product is closer to the real market. In this sense, using the MIT license may expose your project to the risks you mentioned.

As for community feedback, it doesn't necessarily have to be negative. Recently, I published my project under a non-standard license and received generally positive feedback[1], despite my project being in a very niche field.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40747845
I would like to echo this sentiment. I like Rust, but I can't see a Rust monoculture.

From my experience, Rust is an absolute improvement in developer experience around so many corners. I'm looking forward to the future where Rust is well established and boring, and all its round edges have been solved, even if that means adopting another new and exciting language :)
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The bane of all engineers having to do unit conversions and asking clarifying questions around what type of ton/tonne.
> I feel a lot of this async criticism has more to do with how async is used than with Rust itself. Maybe it would be good to have more crates that don't used async or even depend on tokio, but in the end this is on us as a community.

No, this is a language design issue. In Lua or Zig the easy way to write a library that speaks websockets produces a library that works with synchronous or asynchronous i/o and with the user's choice of read and write primitives. In Rust, after many years of unnecessary suffering, we finally have the ability to ship one library that can use either kind of i/o.... unless the user wants to use both in the same workspace, in which case they are screwed. You may enjoy this tale of a user trying to get Rust to do what Lua and Zig do by default, for a single library: https://nullderef.com/blog/rust-async-sync/
Indeed. It'll be interesting to watch the charging ecosystem evolve. I have no idea where we'll end up. Turn gas stations into... little EV charging stations with mini-attractions? Dunno!
Hello, I really appreciate your comment. I am the author of the project. I would find it interesting if you could open an issue about your comment. It seems to me to be a functionality that would add value to the tool. Thanks for your time in suggesting it!
0% of donations go towards financing the Firefox project. Donations to Mozilla are explicitly not used for Firefox, they say so in the donation page.
You can also compare and contrast how VOR/DME and TACAN works, to see two different solutions to one problem (polar coordinate measurement in 3D space.)

The mechanical differences are quite obvious when you look at a VOR, a TACAN, and a VORTAC, but the engineering behind them is interesting.
Do you really need a $600 device for this?
> Why do they [advertisers] stick around?

I work with clients and marketing agencies to host web infrastructure that includes their main site, which is often their only marketing website. (Some clients have multiple marketing sites.)

What I see from that is that with respect to small businesses in particular, Facebook and Google advertising platforms are in effect the only games in town metaphorically and somewhat literally.

Metaphorically because these two players dominate the online advertising space. “Somewhat literally” because of two things: i) the issue called out here which is that for many people Facebook has become more or less interchangeable with the concept of the Internet; and ii) because when people aren’t using Google, they’re using Facebook, and the “local” nature of Facebook gets laundered into some amount of perceived credibility.

In the words of a salesperson I was recently talking to about online advertising: “if you’re not advertising on Facebook, you’re not advertising.”

Meta has a perverse incentive here. Everything that drives interactions with and traffic to their platforms creates that much more they can offer in aggregate to advertisers. They’re incentivized to foster interaction (authentic or not) to keep advertisers interested. Advertisers don’t really have much in the way of alternatives because no one else can offer the kind of targeting, analytics, and just plain eyes-on-ads impressions that Meta can provide.

Advertisers aren’t interested in creating a competing option because, well, why would they want to do that?
I've been exclusively using linux on my tablets since 2007 with the thinkpad x61t and i've never had any of these problems. Although i use a completely different setup compared to the dude in the article. I would even say that on tablets gnu/linux actually provides a better experience.
someone's here to give their opinion without reading the post. Classic internet
The UK is about 300 miles across and about 600 miles long, so there's not that much scope for long trips. Mind you, I've done the 400 miles of Edinburgh to south coast quite a few times myself.

(Currently thinking of getting a Peugeot E208, if anyone has any experience with those?)
Yeah I've always wondered what happened to Japan. They seem to have really fallen behind in consumer technology where they used to lead. Now the top consumer tech brands are Apple and Samsung, which are American and Korean brands. I think the move to "smart" technology was too different for the existing Japanese brands which pioneered single-purpose devices. Also Japan's economy suffered over the last 3 decades in which technology rapidly advanced.

It's sad because consumer technology today almost universally looks like shit as everyone tries to copy Apple's boring and uninspired designs
Do you just spend your time in HN to spread lies, propaganda and misinformation about LN, lol?

Lightening Labs, or whatever company owns, Lightning Network, should be able to pay for better quality shills I would think. Shame on a CEO like Elizabeth Stark for using poor innocent flobs like you to do their dirty work.
That's the same as saying someone who's poor and low risk can't snowboard, because their premiums have gone up due to a richer high-risk snowboarder you're forced to sell subsidized insurance to.
I think that is true, but not the whole truth (staying on theme). It is an interrogation, but it isn’t meant, or likely, to catch a trained, hardened spy or someone that can stand up to interrogations. It is to attempt to find if there is information that would make someone a bad candidate for a clearance, the same as the general background check is doing. If you are in massive debt, you are at much higher risk of being bribed. If you are cheating on your wife, and attempt to hide it during your polygraph, you are at much higher risk of being blackmailed.

It isn’t going to “catch” everyone but it is another way to reveal people with vulnerabilities that could be exploited. I think the real issue is people that “fail” the polygraph, since it isn’t actually a lie detector in any sense. It would be better if they just considered it a polygraph assisted interrogation.
As someone who has a 1930's house... the walls are probably plaster and wood lathe. Stud finders don't work very well if at all (https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/simple-hack-to-locate...) and cutting into the wall is like chiseling morter... because that basically what you are doing.

I love my plaster walls but dealing with pipes/electrcial is a huge pain.

I ended up teaching myself to do a passable job with repairing plaster and being content with how it is.
Ask HN: Anyway to appeal for replacement of MacBook Pro display?
The screen of my barely a year old MacBook Pro 16 M2 suddenly malfunctioned and died while I was browsing YouTube. The problem started with a black band flickering on the right side of the display. A reboot greeted me with colored bands across the screen. Another reboot from Safe Mode greeted me with black screen with a lone white line running across the display.

I submitted the machine at the nearest Apple Authorized Service Center as suggested by Apple Support. They are now quoting me a price to get the display replacement under Accidental Damage Protection (due to stress as per their diagnostics).

This machine was not subjected to stress, fire or liquids. It used to stay on the very top of everything in the drawer. Sometimes, I used to put the MagSafe charger on it but surely, that can't be the cause of accidental damage.

I'm wondering if there's any way to appeal to Apple to cover this under manufacturing defect rather than Accidental Damage. Has someone been under similar circumstances? Would appreciate any advice.
I knew a professional polygraph examiner who told me the exact same thing.

It means that the polygraph works as well, and in the same way, as the ancient Roman(?) method of having a tent sealed off from light, with a donkey in it. The examinee is told that he is to hold the tail of the donkey and if the donkey brays while he says the thing he's being tested for, then they know for a fact that he's lying.

The actual test, though, was that the donkey's tail was covered in soot. If the examinee comes out of the tent with clean hands, they know that he didn't hold the tail and so is deemed to be untruthful.
I feel that the topic has been touched on quite a bit but certainly as a developer I found it interesting to be able to make a tool that integrates directly with WordPress. Thanks for your comment .
The author of the Medium article is running out of imagination!
Maybe it wouldn't be reasonable to say this about people who dislike programming in Malbolge, and maybe there are aspects of Rust that are more like programming in Malbolge and less like the field advancing.
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Oh I see it's already done! Is it possible to update it to the latest and greatest version? I have to say, the chat responses are quite impressive so far. The linking to relevant sections of code or documentation not so much. I guess that's a pretty hard problem.
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Oh hello, thanks for the clarification! Having enjoyed writing some embedded Rust, I'm familiar with the core/alloc/std split. IIUC you're saying that the user-space Linux malloc API itself does not provide a reliable way for the application to think about hard memory limits? Which would fuel my pet theory about "infinite virtual memory" being a significant factor in the ever growing software bloat.
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I'd rather my CPU to be idle and not consome much power
> I think we need to differentiate

My read of this post (especially the title) is the author does differentiate normally but chose to blur the lines here for a narrative hook & a little bit of fun.
Animats wrote a great comment on the topic here [1] as well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400619
why not just type that exact quote into google? it's the first link
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It is not like strong models are at a point where you can 100% trust their output. It is always necessary to review LLM generated text before using it.

I'd rather have a weaker model which I can always rely on being available than a strong model which is hosted by a third party service that can be shut down at any time.
> https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...

If you have some background knowledge of Google's architecture, this explains exactly why the AGPL is banned there: all code is built from one monorepo where everything is linked together.

> https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/24/Reading-AGPL

This completely agrees with what I said. At it's core, the A part of the AGPL only kicks in if:

> “you modify the Program” and
> “your [modified] version supports such interaction [remotely through a computer network]”

Yes he calls out various potential problems and a potential loophole, but those same problems are also present in the regular GPL!
Seem fairly similar, although the UK is denser than all of Europe except Belgium, Netherlands and the microstates. Is that good or bad for EV adoption? Is it skewed by Londoners often not having cars at all?
What a transparent attempt to promote a broken and dying project for your own benefit:(
Personally (in the UK) I don't have an EV because I only drive about 2000 miles a year. Even with our high petrol prices, it's still not worth paying the EV premium versus a "cheap run-around" ICE car.

While I do drive below the UK norm, the the mode miles per car is only get about 3500 miles per year and the median about 7000. Last time I looked into it (which admittedly was during COVID crazy car price era), when comparing cars lb for lb, it only really made sense to get an EV if you plan to drive it more than 10k miles per year. High electric prices don't help.

That being said, I'd imagine for most people the decision as to which sort of car to buy is more about emotion and presentation than it is about cold hard logic.
Septic systems are more interesting than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septic_drain_field

A straight tank would fill up in no time.
It seems you've exhausted ideas within software. Try hardware but not on its own, first get a hobby. For instance mine since covid lockdowns has been to practice playing music and learn basic theory with synthesizers. It's been a long path of learning both about music but also about how to connect and control gear. There's a shortage of 'connector accessories', or the ones that do what you want cost way more than they should. Watch some maker youtube videos in an area that you might want to dabble.
I assume it does not come with a touch screen or pen support?

Then it is really an apple to orange comparison.
Trump is so obviously going to win, due largely to the Democrats self inflicted fuckups. So if he is going to win anyway, why not support him and try to shift his policies in a favorable way?
> Simple things like returning a const reference to a slot in an immutable array are easily 10x the amount of source code in Rust when compared to C.

I’m very interested in what you mean here. Isn’t the syntax identical in both cases?

&array[index]
"Convincing" and "censorship-by-spamming" are different.

Humans can already recognize GPT text slop as non-human, ignoring it before it can make any point or do any convincing.
This! Especially climate tech. One idea I've been noodling around with is a package of components for low income housing. Specifically, a low-cost easily repairable inductive stove to replace gas stoves. A window mount heat pump to replace steam or standalone gas heaters and, balcony solar plus battery. Note the battery would probably be built into the induction stove to handle the extra current induction stoves need one running full tilt.

I've spoken with a few municipal managers of low-income housing, and they love the idea. Then they say, we could probably get it approved in 2 to 3 years.

jfcoar...

I know this is practical because New York State had a design competition and has two window mount heat pumps that run off of 110. They are expensive ($2000), but I expect that price will drop with volume and when Chinese manufacturers say, "Oh that's a wonderful idea, let's steal it"

Induction hot plates are available today for $50-$70 retail. I think they are fairly primitive as cook temperature is controlled by pulsing the induction magnet. I have one in my kitchen, and when I'm making a one-pot meal, I use it in preference to my gas stove, especially in summertime heat.

Balcony Solar exists, and there are approved inverters with safety cut off if the line goes dark. These inverters let you plug your system directly into your wall outlet without any worries about giving a lineman a nasty surprise.

The pieces are there,
Distributed rendering farms have existed for a while.
The Chorleywood Experiment (2023)
I don't think anymore, but in the last century there were several cases of therapists using hypnosis to unlock "repressed memories" of alien abductions. They usually wrote up books about it for profit.
Source? You could be referring to Trump or Biden. It is a pity how so many non-white think that Trump and team would ever have their best interests in mind
Quick primer:

Radical right: “Almost nothing great has ever been done in the world except by the genius and firmness of a single man combating the prejudices of the multitude.”

Far-right: “I know there are some who become sick when they see black uniforms… but those who come to fear us at any time must have a guilty conscience before the nation.”

Right: “This means that every Canadian will see their income taxes go down. This means more money to pay the bills, to save up for your kids' education or maybe even finally afford a family vacation.”

Centre: “There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other.”

Left: “To put it bluntly, no one should be faced with a choice that says, in effect, “your money or your life”. “

far left: “ The role of the police and the military is growing, and the links between these enforcers of ruling class power and far-right and fascist parties and movements, are becoming more visible.”

Radical left: “ They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.”
As non-American, it's a strange feeling to see all these discussions about racism. It took me a while to understand that the whole perception of the issue is just completely different.
Much appreciated. I bought all 3.
As others said, level 1 charging is more than enough for a lot of people. There are also compromises in between level 1 and level 2. The car will likely take pretty much anything you throw at it. So for example if you have 2 circuits to the garage you can gang them to get 240V/15A for double the speed of level 1. Of it might be a 20A capable connection -- 120V/20A (16A continuous) is noticeably faster than 120V/15A (12A continuous).
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WSL still has a ton of issues, slow IO and CPU usage, just to name two of them. Search "WSL vmmem" and you'll see what I mean. It is nowhere near ready for serious use if you are spending 90% of time doing development in a Linux environment.
The key to using stud finders is never trusting them and using multiple methods as a sanity check. For example, if it says a stud is as position x I'll sanity check by checking x-16" and x+16" because there should also be studs there. If nothing, maybe I'll try x-15, x-14, etc with the key being looking for some repeating pattern. Test moving vertically as well.

Combine with some knocking to feel/listen for a stud right against the wall vs an erroneously detected pipe 1/4" away.

I'll also use a neodymium magnet in certain situations to look for drywall nails/screws in conjunction with the other methods.

I don't fully trust any of these methods, but together they'll get you as confident as you can be short of having a couple hundred dollar detector or taking the wall apart.
I’d love to make my own scrolling maps.

Can anyone think of a good algorithm for “unrolling” or nearly “straightening” a wiggly route line so that it could fit in one long narrow straight strip?

It still needs to retain illustrative turns and kinks to help with wayfinding.