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sovnade··on People Staring at Computers
Gray area. The vast majority of those shots were at a distance and not intimate with the person at all, and someone with a giant shoulder-mounted camera at least lets people know they're being filmed.
sovnade··on People Staring at Computers
I was referring to the privacy side of things, since that's the context of this story. Also would apply to trespassing - hence you can be removed from a private business if the owner/manager wants you gone.
sovnade··on People Staring at Computers
Taking pictures of people and posting them without their permission while they're at a private business is malicious in my opinion. And also illegal. There's a reason he had to hide it. Ethically it's no different to me than connecting to someone's webcam at home and uploading the photos.
sovnade··on People Staring at Computers
That was my first thought. Inside an Apple store is not a public place. A sidewalk is a public place - you can take photos there and post them with no consequences. Inside a private business might as well be inside someone's private residence as far as the law is concerned.

Just because a business is open to the public does not mean it is a public space. People confuse the two.

sovnade··on Etsy to buy fashion reseller Depop for $1.63B
I guess at a high level, nearly everything humanity does is bad for the world. If that's your starting point then it makes sense?
sovnade··on Writing HTML in HTML (2019)
Is it simple though? Copy & paste into a WYSIWYG editor is pretty error prone, and he's already talking about creating several shell scripts to keep things in sync. Seems a bit like re-inventing the wheel, no?
sovnade··on Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores
Most of the small indi-shop ipad POS devices do this already. If I swipe my card at one, I get an email automatically with my reciept. At some point in the last few years I must have put my email address in one and obviously it's shared.
sovnade··on Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker
Do you realize most people in NY have very limited storage space in their kitchens, no cars, and only buy what they can carry in 1-2 bags at a time because of that?
sovnade··on Dow Falls 2997 points worst drop since 1987 crash
There's not even any indication that this is seasonal. It's spreading pretty well in Australia/India which are extremely hot right now. It will probably continue to spread in Europe/NA all throughout summer.

Our state and many others have closed schools, made all restaurants take-out/delivery only, barred gatherings of > 10 people, etc. I don't know how the small businesses are going to survive more than a couple weeks of this.

sovnade··on Dow Falls 2997 points worst drop since 1987 crash
The community spread by this point has hit the entire US surely. They can't track every single confirmed person location-by-location because it's been far too long.
sovnade··on Launch HN: Savvy (YC W20) – Give employees tax-free cash for health insurance
Are you including the portion the big companies pay (DD line on W-2?)

$25-26k a year for a low deductible family plan seems about right. I have a HD plan through my company and it costs roughly that including my HSA contributions.

sovnade··on Nuclear energy is a vital part of solving the climate crisis
Don't forget LiIon batteries only get a few hundred recharge cycles. Is that calculated in this kw-h figure?
sovnade··on BrachioGraph – a cheap, simple pen plotter
It's a Pi Zero at least.
sovnade··on Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database
Depending on the size of your install, there are companies that are very good at converting over something like Oracle to Postgres for probably much less than you'd expect. With the price of oracle licensing, your break-even could be in a year or two.
sovnade··on Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts
Photoshop/Lightroom are $100/yr combined (sometimes less if you can get a deal on the subscription card). At that price, you're still looking at significantly less than if you used to upgrade your old software every 5 years.
sovnade··on macOS no longer allows changing wifi mac address
It won't help your chromecast, but the Roku streaming sticks work fine on Hotel wifi. You connect the roku to it, then connect your phone to the Roku's direct wifi and go through the portal on your phone. It's worked in every hotel I've been in perfectly.
sovnade··on Reporting on the State of the Climate in 2018
We're pretty much banking on technology that doesn't exist yet. Global-scale air scrubbers to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, etc.

Why didn't we give a shit? Politics and money, same as anything.

sovnade··on Rice University researchers propose a way to boost solar efficiency
For anyone curious: Carbon Nanotubes, so this will likely not see the outside of a lab any time soon.
sovnade··on Stripe's API was down
They're really helpful in preventing our own outages. Although it's ironic how many of them boil down to having things so well automated that one mistyped command can take down an entire environment with extreme efficiency.
sovnade··on Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way
It depends if you're including the carbon footprint of the entire solar panel build/shipment process (from raw materials to shipping/etc). I'm not sure of the numbers, but installation is a negligible part of the total solar impact to the environment.
sovnade··on Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way
I'd say one of the biggest roadblocks to nuclear power right now is public opinion. Nobody wants one in their backyard because there's a lot of false information (and shows like Chernobyl don't help). Even though we're well into the safe area, showing that we're making them even safer might help sway public opinion to build one where it otherwise wouldn't have been at all, regardless of the multi-billion dollar cost and decade+ timetable.
sovnade··on Switch from Chrome to Firefox
Headless mode maybe, but for regular users I don't think there's many issues.

I'm running firefox as my daily driver on Mojave with no issues whatsoever. Without seeing this thread, I didn't even know there were issues with the mac version.

sovnade··on A Tale of Query Optimization
Thanks - good investigation. We're replatforming a legacy app from Oracle to Postgres in the near future and I'm sure we'll see stuff just like this. Definitely saving so I can refer back.
sovnade··on Lyft’s revenues double, losses quintuple and prospects darken
And to top it off, this entire business model is temporary. The end game for all of these companies (and Tesla/etc as well) is to have autonomous fleets. They have to bleed cash to snap up as much of the market as possible before that happens so they're not starting from zero. At this point it feels like a game of who has enough funding to survive the interim to make it to a driverless service.
sovnade··on PostgreSQL 11.3 and 10.8
It's about $7000 per core for enterprise - and if you do something like license a whole blade and put VMs on top of it, you could fairly easily run 10-20+ SQL VMs on one decent sized blade for < 150k. And anything pre-prod is free. It's a small cost for most larger size companies of this scale. If you have one or two servers, then no, enterprise is probably out of reach.
sovnade··on Riot Games workers walk out to protest forced arbitration
"It says right here in the contract that I can sexually harass you and suffer essentially no consequences. You signed it."
sovnade··on The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper
That's shifting though with the rise in popularity of high deductible plans.

My plan is 5k deductible, 5k OOP Max, so I'm acutely aware of how much everything costs.

sovnade··on Gravity Payments: Seattle company with a minimum salary of $70K
Not sure how. If you're a software engineer making 140k, you're still happy. You shouldn't have to make 280k at this company to be as happy.
sovnade··on Apple Cancels AirPower Product
My problem is that every charging cable I get seems to fail eventually. Either the charging port in the phone gets loose, filled with lint, or the cable mysteriously stops working. Even expensive Ankers. Meanwhile my no-name QI charger that I bought for my LG G3 like 5 years ago is still working perfectly. No parts to loosen or clog.
sovnade··on Apple Cancels AirPower Product
Apple's plan was to let you place it anywhere on the mat, not on the very small charging sweet-spot.

Worth the huge premium it would've sold for? Probably not for a good deal of people, but it would've sold.

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