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> #4: They want to build trust

For my business (micro-SaaS EdTech), the value of building trust with my customers cannot be understated. Further, I don’t believe i can effectively build trust with my customers in the way the author describes; without meetings.
You absolutely can walk into any electronics store (or Costco) and buy a laptop running Linux. It's called "a Chromebook".
This is not the right answer because people have different preferences, both physiological and aesthetic and contextual.

The right answer is for browsers to provide knobs for a user that would control relative brightness, contrast, saturation, boldness, fluffiness, comicness, sharpness, height, width, line spacing, and so on. Per browser and then per-site adjustments. A simple sidebar or a drawer.
Actually that's an interesting question; why didn't Android use X11? A few minutes of web searching don't seem to turn up anybody commenting on it; do you happen to know how I would check what their reasons were?
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> I was wondering how I should approach making my clients aware that they are vulnerable without making myself suspicious or overstepping the nature of our business relationships?

There really isn't a way. If you're willing to deal with a lot of potential fallout in the name of helping strangers, sure - some would be very happy to hear that their back door doesn't lock properly, or that their wifi is unsecured. Some will straight up call the police.

In your shoes, I would not point out anything that's not a direct hazard to life and limb.
Lack of ram meant it could only handle a couple trees at a time
Yeah, and this might make first-person shooters and some strategy games play a lot nicer if (big if) it works well. Perhaps the next iteration of Mario Maker might also make use of it.
Sharing AI output is pretty much the same thing as copying and pasting search results.
I have a small B2C app that requires no calls or interactions in general to get customers, just support afterwards. Currently have a few hundred subscriptions. It's not much but makes me pretty happy.
You're right I like their protocol, especially how they use domain name ownership for profile verification.
I worked for Microsoft during the EU consent decree where Microsoft had to document[1] all of their protocols to enable interoperability.

Apple seems to be getting off much easier than Microsoft did; EU would never have stood for the same behavior from Microsoft.

(Side note: those documents were some of the best protocol documentation I've ever seen [or written])

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol...
Basically, now you have to document x86. xD
Completely the opposite.

Numerous studies show crime goes down when streetlights are turned off.

Simply put, you don't get scrotes hanging about in groups up to no good without lights, and anybody who is walking around is carrying a torch, making it obvious what they are doing (e.g. if you are breaking into a house, needing a torch instead of using a streetlight makes it obvious to everybody what you are doing).

No to mention a lack of streetlights makes if harder for somebody to hide in the shadows.

The real question to ask, is why people like yourself are 'terrified' [sic] of the dark. Statistics show the real truth of what you should be worried about.
Government is definitely the worst here. Zero accountability means that after a while working there, even the most motivated best worker will have his desire to work destroyed by watching less competent people do nothing and move ahead. Then government hired more people to keep doing the same job. It grows and grows and drains more resources, just like cancer does.
You could probably get away with a purely volunteer effort on... eh, how to describe this... like Super Mario 64 for Mac/Linux/PC.

And I do mean Super Mario 64 with respect to the technology/artwork level. Which is fine by me.

But the big AAA games and the multiplayer games that all of the hip young people with their poggers Twitch streaming and their deadass rock music play? Yeah, can't build those given the state of everything these days.
I don't fully understand your reply. Peaceful protests have existed for a long while before corporations did, for many different causes. They weren't always existential, nor were they always directed at the state.

I have participated in community events where venue security decided they had to forcibly remove protesters from the premises, and in one case they contacted police for help. I qualify those as peaceful protests, and I believe security / police took reasonable measures to respond. No one was hurt, and everyone got the message, whether they agreed with it or not.
I was agreeing with you up until trash pick-up, which I think is a bad example, because there are obvious reasons why it makes sense to have the city contract with one company for that service, rather than having multiple companies with multiple dump sites and different fleets of trucks roaming the city. And if you give people the option to not pay for trash pick-up, that's just opening the door to having people pile up trash around their houses and yards. You know it would happen. So yeah, I don't think trash pick-up is an example of regulatory capture like your other examples.
Tarpits to slow down the crawling may stop them crawling your entire site, but they'll not care unless a great many sites do this. Your site will be assigned a thread or two at most and the rest of the crawling machine resources will be off scanning other sites. There will be timeouts to stop a particular site even keeping a couple of cheap threads busy for long. And anything like this may get you delisted from search results you might want to be in as it can be difficult to reliably identify these bots from others and sometimes even real users, and if things like this get good enough to be any hassle to the crawlers they'll just start lying (more) and be even harder to detect.

People scraping for nefarious reasons have had decades of other people trying to stop them, so mitigation techniques are well known unless you can come up with something truly unique.

I don't think random Markov chain based text generators are going to pose much of a problem to LLM training scrapers either. They'll have rate limits and vast attention spreading too. Also I suspect that random pollution isn't going to have as much effect as people think because of the way the inputs are tokenised. It will have an effect, but this will be massively dulled by the randomness – statistically relatively unique information and common (non random) combinations will still bubble up obviously in the process.

I think better would be to have less random pollution: use a small set of common text to pollute the model. Something like “this was a common problem with Napoleonic genetic analysis due to the pre-frontal nature of the ongoing stream process, as is well documented in the grimoire of saint Churchill the III, 4th edition, 1969”, in fact these snippets could be Markov generated, but use the same few repeatedly. They would need to be nonsensical enough to be obvious noise to a human reader, or highlighted in some way that the scraper won't pick up on, but a general intelligence like most humans would (perhaps a CSS styled side-note inlined in the main text? — though that would likely have accessibility issues), and you would need to cycle them out regularly or scrapers will get “smart” and easily filter them out, but them appearing fully, numerous times, might mean they have more significant effect on the tokenising process than more entirely random text.
Booking.com was just on the local news again - a few thoughts:

'iforgot22' is literally wrong by around half a billion dollars [2].

It's bizarre that initially stating a world-widely reported, simple fact needs "proving". And, results in downvotes like there were insults to someone's mother...

And it's also sad to see such irrational ideological biases at HN.

[2] - https://www.ft.com/content/03e5eb20-ec91-485e-b0e4-ed49b4dc2...
I'll always love "If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter."
You're terrible at this. Noone is defending the US, your whataboutism is just irrelevant.

I can be against Chinese spying and bad things the US does.

Israel is irrelevant in this thread...

Hopefully they aren't paying you the full 50c for these posts, get better.
Internet: UUCP
Now this is another Luigi right here
As far as I can tell, Oxide is all about compute, not storage -- i.e., as long as you can guarantee a stable storage layer, your Oxide racks will be fine.

VMware used to go a bit further, in that they allowed your compute nodes to fail and/or your storage nodes to fail, without adverse effects.

If Oxide can do that, out-of-the-box, right-now, they'll be having a field day. Otherwise, my reservations about Oxide's business model remain...
Mandatory CR is mostly a way for mediocre programmers to feel like they're contributing IMHO.
Here’s an ICC document explaining exactly what the Netanyahu arrest warrant alleges:

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-p...

They don’t use the work “genocide”. Instead they spend pages enumerating and precisely defining acts of genocide.
I said that tongue in cheek. I’m unable to pull the project you did. A brain fart happens to anybody.
Yes and it increases XSS (cross site scripting) risk.
MS didn't force compatibility between generations either.

The series X and series S are the same generation.
Wherever it was smart to start into this generation with a 3+ yrs old underperforming el-cheapo chipset is another question...

But for what it's worth, Nintendo has done the same decision according to the hardware leaks, they're just missing the equivalent to the Series X. (Which makes sense as it's a mobile device, so they don't want to gobble up electricity)

I personally agree that it was/is a terrible idea to start into a new generation with differently performing systems though. You can definitely release a "pro" version later for extra performance - but with the baseline being so underperforming as the series S... It never really had a chance, and most reviewers even said as much when they were initially announced.
I was pretty shocked at those prices too, but it sounds like many times in conservative amounts per year to have the equivalent of replacing more than half in one go, etc.
I suspect your terror comes from lack of familiarity with natural light outdoors, and is a product of always having the lights on plus not being out of a house often.

The night is not 'complete darkness', we can generally see fairly well.

Also, I suspect your presumption on assault risk and assault rates comes from media, which is designed around building fear. Fear sells.

So I agree that you find the natural world terrifying, I just wish you didn't. Because the natural world is what we are fit for.
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Yep, Skyward sword vs Skyward sword HD on the switch. Gimmick is still there but not forced on those who don't like it.
"Researchers produce NH_3 fuel from N-gas-compound with H_2O vapor"

Doesn't sound so exciting.

But, sniping aside - is there a potential for cheap enough production in abundant enough amounts to use safely in machine engines? Or as grid-level storage medium for solar energy? The very transformation is neat, but the application is what would be interesting.
Doctors usually only care about money, and use regulatory capture to get it. That's why the US spends 27% of GDP on doctors and hospitals even though we only see a doctor mostly an hour per year.
>mass expulsion of Jews who have no other home to go to.

What? They should just go back to Poland! /s
There is a standard thought experiment where you start with a hypercube of side-length 2, centered at the origin. You then place a radius 1 sphere on each vertex of this hypercube. The question then becomes: what is the largest sphere you can place at the origin so that it is "contained" by the other spheres. As it turns out in like dimension 6 or so the radius of the center sphere exceeds 1. It will actually poke out arbitrarily far (while still being restricted by the corner spheres).
vMotion is about host failure. If a blade server dies, the vms can be spun up on another blade. Storage is same.
The batch jobs don't take 13 hours. They're just scheduled to run some time at night where the old offices used to be closed and the jobs could be ran with some expectations regarding data stability over the period. There are probably many jobs scheduled to run at 1AM then 2AM, etc, all depending on the previous to be finished so there is some large delay to ensure that a job does not start before the previous one is finished.

As to your "not a complex system" remark, when a system is built for 60 years, piling up new rules to implement new legislation and needs over time, you tend to end up with a tangled mess of services all interdependent that are very difficult to replace piece-wise with a new shiny architecturally pure one. This is closer to a distributed monolith than a microservices architecture. In my experience you can't rebuild such a thing "in 3 months". People who believe that are those that don't realize the complexity and the extraordinary amount of specifics, special cases, that are baked into the system, and any attempt to just rebuild from scratch in a few months hits that wall and ends up taking years.
So mob rule? Doesn't work.
Every PC shop near me (4) will sell you several linux chromebook laptops.
Maybe Proton should get into the search business. Except Proton requires I turn on JavaScript.
Every company wants a product to sell better than it did, but it's pretty obvious that the WiiU didn't meet expectations.

It sold 13m units, but the clearest sign of it not doing "as well as expected" is that they discontinued it as soon as possible as they could once the Switch was out.

From my experience both with "gamers" and "non-gamers" - it was too similar in name for the latter and not exciting enough for the former.
Flying cars could soon become a reality
https://github.com/kubevirt specifically for OpenShift Virtualization
Yeah that's terrible. I'd be all "not today man, talk about the other stuff". If they didn't take that, I'd be done with the call.
I have only read half of Carver's Smart Portfolios yet but I find myself agreeing with much of it. I have started writing up a review of it sometime soon, although I might not publish it for free in a while!
> Anduril, a leader in autonomous systems and weapons manufacturing, today announced it has selected Columbus, Ohio as the location of Arsenal-1, its first hyperscale manufacturing facility. Arsenal-1 will redefine the scale and speed that autonomous systems and weapons can be produced for the United States and its allies and partners. This is a monumental and essential step toward rebuilding America’s defense industrial base, strengthening America’s warfighting capabilities, and enhancing deterrence amid rising international threats.

>Anduril’s commitment to agile, responsive manufacturing has already been demonstrated globally. Arsenal-1 in Ohio will join Anduril’s other factories including our solid rocket motor factory in Mississippi, our robotic submarine facility in Rhode Island, our launched effects factory in Georgia, our XL-AUV factory in Australia and production facilities in California.

Literally building an exploding drone factory
Yes, agreed. Even the title of this piece shows the problem: if Apple isn't meeting the letter of the law, then fine, they need to be punished. But so much of the complaints against Apple are that they're not meeting the spirit of the law, which is a nonsense argument.
One could in theory switch from Steam to Switch platform, rebuying everything. Doesn't make a ton of sense from PC gamer standpoint but that's PC gamer standpoint.
My US state, one of the ones NOT living in the past, does almost everything online.

The only times you have to come in are:

1. for your first license, either as a newly-licensed driver or an out-of-state driver who recently moved

2. if you were bad and broke the law or otherwise had your license cancelled/revoked/suspended

Even those people have to call or go online to make an appointment.

All other tasks from getting/returning plates to requesting a duplicate title can be done online, though drop boxes, or by mail.

I have been to the DMV three times since 1995: once to turn my out-of-state license into an in-state one, once to turn that drivers license into a realID-compliant one, and once to have my fingerprints taken for a concealed carry permit.
I've filed this issue in their Google Search Community: https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/318978583

You can also click the wrench icon in the Google SERP and choose Send feedback.

In the meantime, use another search engine, such as Brave Search, DDG or Searx.
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The new one is rumored to feature hall-effect sticks on the Joycons which would hopefully solve that issue.
I feel like VR would have “happened with the masses” by now given that the quest is wireless, excellent quality, and cheap. Personally I think it did, and it’s a success, it’s just that it has a lower ceiling because it’s an awkward rectangle that you strap to your face.

There is also, IMO, a huge software quality problem with VR.

I am baffled as to why all the first person games don’t copy Alyx’s control scheme, it’s the only one that feels correct to use. The rest of the first person games feel awful to play, once you get past the gimmick of “wow cool”.

Music/rhythm games work really well for VR, but that’s always going to be a niche market. I play beat saber all the time, it’s fantastic.

Everything else seems to be sandbox games. Fucking sandbox games. They’re funny the first time, but you can only throw objects so many times before the magic is lost, you just wish there was an actual game there to play.

I love VR, and I hope developers continue to innovate with it, but it’s never going to overtake console gaming, it’s just too different.

I don’t get why we think AR is going to be any different for games. Why would I want to see my living room while playing a game? VR puts you in whole other worlds. It’s… that simple, I think.
Dont forget the hidden legitimate interest section!
Cloudflare generally seems to have a really smart strategy team. There's a really excellent Stratechery article about Cloudflare's strategy team more generally:

(Stratechery is down now, but the web archive is up.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20250108182845/https://strateche...

https://stratechery.com/2021/cloudflares-disruption/
It's also not that different from what people have been using Task Lists for today: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/wor...

I think that's maybe my biggest question is what the interop looks like between Task Lists and Sub-Issues. Is there a "one-click upgrade" yet? What if I want to copy a list of Sub-Issues as Markdown Task List to copy into a Discussion or a Wiki somewhere?
> One person's short attention span is another person's intolerance for bullshit.

If a student asks a friend a question, and then drifts off into space before the two sentence answer has been delivered, that's not great.

> One person's poor mental health is another person's emotions appropriate to the actual state of the world.

Perhaps being prone to anxiety attacks, panic, and self-harm are what we need to meet today's challenges head-on.

> The kids these days are doing great in all the ways that matter.

Hey, not everything is negative-- we live in a world with more interpersonal kindness and tolerance than a few decades ago, and that's great. But the kids aren't alright.

Especially teen girls. It's impossible to escape curated content encouraging social comparison to edited, perfectly curated standards of perfection.
>but I suspect they don't even approach a significant fraction of Air Pod owners.

A significant portion of Air Pod owners buy them solely because they are the apple brand of ear buds and don't think about it beyond that. A basic set of ear buds is mostly what people are buying and the other features are nice to have things and not the selling point. People in tech suppose that people shop based upon specific features and technology, but that's rarely true. Mostly it's people with an Apple device needing ear buds and the Apple brand of ear buds is AirPods, that's literally the amount of thought most of them are putting into it.
This is under-explained, isn't it? The reaction has to be endothermic, so it must be taking in ambient heat. Would be useful if someone dug up the actual paper rather than the press release.

One aspect of these miracle solutions to watch out for: the catalyst is often very expensive and has a finite lifespan.

Edit: actual paper https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.ads4443

Edit: got to the bit in the paper where they describe the process; "contact electrification". This appears to be an electrostatic phenomenon like tribocharging (the old "rub a balloon on your hair" trick). Water droplets hitting the catalyst generates enough potential at the surface to trigger a reaction. So I suppose the energy input is actually in the spray+pump of the experiment, or wind in the outdoor example.

The resulting output is extremely dilute. Raising the concentration is likely to consume more energy for generating an actually useful output.
I have the same problem as the parent comment, and over time, I learned that people would take advantage of it, just as you mentioned. So, I decided to make my default response to every offer: 'Let me think about it, and I'll call you back.' Sometimes I only ask for one hour, but I always need some time to think on my own about the opportunity and make a sensible decision. This habit has improved things a lot for me!

Since getting married, I've gained an additional great excuse: 'I just need to check with my wife about this important decision.'
Interesting part of the story is the hacker who stole them is a YC alumni, he founded mixrank. Kid only got 5 years in prison for stealing $1B.
Interesting and, hopefully, fun to use APIs
I remember having a Windows PDA when I was in college, and developing a bit on top of Windows M. It was a reasonable platform.

But Microsoft was too greedy with their licensing schemes and demanding too much adaptation from the hardware and chip manufacturers. You’d think they would adapt their OS and drivers, but no, you had to tape out new silicon for them. So they’ve lost the mobile OS market.

It feels like something like this may happen with the AI OS now. They are pushing hardware manufacturers to conform to their standards while Linux is adapting to what is available and working already.
This will freak out the majority of people approached.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=485Em2JF34M
the implicit interested party for a headline like that is the EU commission
Assuming the energy input is atmospheric warmth, then the real question is what volume of ammonia can you produce with this device per acre? Then how does that amount of captured energy compare with wind/solar in the same area?

Otherwise, you’re just better off, producing electricity from one of those sources, or producing ammonia, using electricity from one of those sources, after accounting for losses in the various processes of course.
Limit the amount of exposure to social media and talk to them. There are no shortcuts.

Don't cut off completely, but limit, talk to them about it, show examples of when it is a positive impact, show examples of negative impact.
It feels like zooming when you bicycle in those tight spaces at 9-12 km/h, which is a third of what you calld zooming. The point is that a collision at 12 km/h is pretty ok. The problem is that cyclists are always close to pedestrians so it feels unsafe even at slow speeds. The accident rate between cyclists and pedestrians are incredibly low so it is not really dangerous, but it feels like it.
> produce NH_3 fuel from N-gas-compound with H_2O vapor

At room temperature! That's the interesting bit.
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