mritun

Exactly. UK is a democracy with a pretty good justice system that follows the law, so I was very surprised to read so negative comments about the outcome of the case.

Do I feel sorry for the person - yes, but breaking any injunction from court has extremely predictable outcome! I'm thinking it could have gone way worse than the 8 months in prison for him, especially if he were in any other country (including USA).

Sad to see this unfold, but extremely predictable outcome of breaking a court injection... courts take very dim view of it!

Manufacturer’s classification. 10W or 11W - it’s not a high bar really. If a computer can’t manage to stay below that, it’s ancient.

All that the rules say (yes, I read them) is that a workstation with 32G RAM (formula is 10 + 0.03 * RAM_GiB) must not exceed ~ 11W in sleep mode and a desktop with 32G RAM must not exceed 6W in sleep mode (5 + 0.03 * RAM_GiB).

Basically, these desktops probably have very ancient/buggy motherboards with broken ACPI. Good riddance.

Fun fact: Desktops/workstations shipped without an operating system at purchasers request are exempt from the rule. So technically, if they don’t insist on shipping with OEM Windows, then the PC can be shipped just fine.

In any case, hopefully this rule will nudge them to use half-decent motherboards that maybe better supported under non-Windows operating systems.

You have an idea you can’t explain to investors. How likely is it that you can explain it to your employees then?

Here is an idea. Take debt on CC or a line of mortgage. Pay a contractor or two for a while to develop the product a bit and see how it goes.

Successful founders are great communicators. If you aren’t one, it’s unlikely you will make it to a senior position - whether it’s your own venture or not.

Signal you are looking to sell your house is on when investors tell you - “I understand what you’re building. It’s great. You even have customers MOUs signed and maybe even have paying customers, but I can’t fund you because market size is too small. Good luck.”

Better than the `alternative` ?... which is drive the car like everyone else?

Why do Tesla drivers get the privilege to beta-test their cars on public road with everyone else around and potentially in their kill-zone?

General public is affected. A Tesla can cause accident on a public road with other drivers on the road, or cause a cascade or a pile-on - innocent bystanders can die or be injured.

Question: Would it be awesome if FDA allowed Pharma to conduct drug-tests like this? Put a "beta-2.9" on the vial and let people try it out...

Some may die, be disabled or may linger in vegetative state life-long, but it was their choice afterall and the it can argued that medicinal side-effects are very small cause of mortality and hence long-term the "public beta tests" will make drugs more effective and save more lives!

Yes. I was in the same boat. Tried many things. Eventually,

I started exercising (very very infrequently) and trained myself to use the Mouse with the left hand.

It has been 15 years since then. I suck at a counterstrike now but avoided giving up on a career with computers.

You mean the screenshot that shows a browser window just about 400px wide in which page content is forced behind the notification window?

Yeah. I saw that too.

Disclosure: I work for Amazon but not anywhere close to the browser plugin team(s).

I find it confusing because of all companies employing warehouse employees Amazon pays the highest $15/hr minimum wage and provides health benefits on top.

Amazon is asking for $15/hr to be made national minimum wage, but getting no support right now. Tell me again why isn’t $15/hr minimum wage getting any support?

I work in a large company.

The problem is not the first time setup. The problem is essentially what “uptime” you can provide. Once you setup an infrastructure many people come to depend on it.

Lets say two teams lose half a day when that CI/CD mac mini goes down then paying for a cloud provider to manage many instances and “sharing them ondemand” makes a lot of monetary sense.

Of course, paying a cloud provider may or may not make sense for hobbyists. Personally, I pay for cloud storage - thats super hard to get right.

Anecdote: I upgrade my late-2013 15” MBP to Big Sur without any issues. Feels a little bit snappier than Catalina for what’s it’s worth.

“Everyone has right to privacy ... except for ... protection of economic interest, keeping of morals, preventing disorder ...”

That sounds more like declaration of “human rights” by China than by EU

shakes head

+1 - Canon MFP are really good. Mine is a joy to use (ha!)

Wait what? The GP said they were not mobile-first, they were mobile-only and that’s true.

And No, what you say is not how any of the video services work. Pandemic or not, the largest selection of videos are 16:9.

Quibi bet the house on a mobile-only portrait videos In 10 minute chapters. You claim there was a market for that - but give no evidence.

There isn’t a broad market for that niche offering!

Then why are buying ventilators and asking doctors to put their lives at risk? We never bought ventilators for flu and never had so much focus on vaccines.

Maybe your point is to just go on and accept that few more millions will die of this new cause.

Higher wages in US is just cost of doing business - most top tier people won’t work in US at lower salaries because of extreme uncertainty and zero safety net.

Salaries in Canada are lower but the safety net makes up for it.

If you’re only able to reproduce the problem on your laptop, check heat, throttling and power saving.

Yes. Coal industry said that.

Guess what- the coal industry is going out of business anyway. Those dinosaurs will die anyway - the problem is with “jobs will be lost” argument they are also dragging the future of rest of the humanity with them.

All who were not killed by covid are not happily jumping around.

You see the death stats and calculate a %. Once a medicine is invented the stats of injuries (both physical and financial) would trickle in. Several survivors have lost legs, lung and kidney function.

SARS and swine flu were the wake up calls. This is real deal. And yes, if we don’t learn next will be worse.

If you’re saying why we don’t have multiple app stores run by multiple people and even self hosted apps then I can help add an answer.

It was exactly like this before Android and iPhone. I had a Nokia E71 and before that a Sony Walkman phone. They could run J2ME apps and games and you could download from a site called getjar.com and others. Nokia Symbian could run more powerful native apps - I wrote one myself.

They all sucked. Most of the apps were full of malware and you never knew which one would lock up your phone, infect your phone, or upload all your data to somewhere.

AppStore and Playstore exist for the same reason that CA certificates exist - most people are good but some are terrible and they damage the ecosystem. For CA we have LetsEncrypt now. But phones are way more complex than that. Most of the phone stack is thankless but highly specialized work - you won’t get that for free in volume anytime soon.

It’s more complicated because people expect the latest phones. Older generation mobile technology is worthless right now. Cutting edge technology needs investment and has substantial market. This market is also winner takes all. There is maybe place for 3 players but not anymore in an efficient, commodity market that’s also capex heavy.

Most people here on HackerNews are smart, educated, intelligent (probably in the upper IQ percentile) and perfectly able to decide for themselves what is good and bad.

HackerNews moderations and moderators are this suppressing speech of these people and imho this is anti free speech.

Can we start a petition for banning moderation on this website please.

East is corrupt and west is not. Right!

Does it ever occur to you that other agencies might have better relationships and trust with other countries? That people might just not respond very well to bullying money or not ?

You and your friends can totally agree to do a knife fight. However as soon as someone dies you can’t get out of the jail free saying you all agreed.

You and others can’t make a pact to get infected with a deadly virus. If you do and someone dies others should be ready to go to prison!

As long as you understand that, it’s cool. Mostly people expect heath care workers to take deadly risk of getting infected themselves and working without PPE that’s no lockdown is basically a ruse from entitled people who want others to risk their life and liberty for them.

Fear is the right response to pneumonia.

If you haven’t had it you won’t understand. I can’t swim but if you’re a swimmer you might understand a parallel - it’s like not being able to swim - your head bobbing on water surface, sometimes you can breathe other times you are just gasping. If you’re in water the people will see you’re drowning and a life guard will pull you out.

Pneumonia is this “almost drowning” for weeks!and then bring barely able to breathe for months.

Again: fear is exactly the right response to pneumonia!

So they said in January, for all cases.

Naah, they merely looked at Apple Watch graphs and skipped more noninvasive diagnostics directly to invasive diagnostic procedure - aka catheterization aka angiography. Angiography is the real test that can find the blockage but is invasive, so not done unless there is solid suspicion.

Summary of the paper: Apple Watch was right. They found the blockage and fixed it.

You are forgetting that the government already has your data.

You already use you most confidential data to pay taxes and divulge all income sources. So you want to give that data to private entities as well?

God.

Why do these people pretend that law enforcement excess, homelessness, government overreach, racism poverty and power abuse is just limited to certain countries ???

I live in America and I have donated to homeless causes here over the years.

So every time someone brings poverty in India as a trope - I ask them to politely look in the mirror.

Poverty is everywhere - just the color of skin is different!

There is no evidence that getting infected with covid19 gives anyone immunity. There are already documented cases of People have been infected twice.

Herd immunity would be nice - but so far none of the known coronavirus infections grant immunity. Herd immunity cries will only kill innocent people.

Herd immunity is more a myth than a fact right now.