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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65%
on Monday July 24, 2023 @04:03PM (#36853457)
I found it quite well-written. Why so?
SATAn Turns Hard Drive Cable into Antenna to Defeat Air-Gapped Security
Re:Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick con...
on Saturday June 11, 2022 @01:30PM (#31706279)
Which is?
Re:We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA
on Friday March 11, 2022 @01:46AM (#30637053)
> Attention spans on mobile are atrocious (notably, the fulcrum is screen size having a neurological impact on ability to pay attention - this is a biological fact) – very little real reading takes place.
If you have any further reading on this please share.
n=1 with exception for scientific papers I do essentially all my reading on my phone and I do not experience any attention difference. I also have my phone on perpetual DnD so notifications and other distractions are not a thing.
Re:BP quits Russia in up to $25B hit after Ukraine invasion
on Sunday February 27, 2022 @03:57PM (#30492437)
I don’t get why’re being downvoted. Without doubt a series of governments were looped in on this decision - naively assuming one or several did not initiate it in the first place - to ensure alignment on current matters and there is no chance BP did not take the opportunity to ensure alignment on future matters.
Re:My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
on Sunday December 26, 2021 @03:41PM (#29696110)
No, I’ve had stock options too but they’ve turned out worthless.
I don’t know what your seniority is and what you’ve seen but I can assure you it exists, and it’s not unique exceptions. Maybe a good opportunity to interview if you’re feels it’s unattainable where you are now. Plenty of US companies hiring remotely too…
Re:My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
on Sunday December 26, 2021 @10:15AM (#29692964)
Absolute majority through RSUs, which is why I’m objecting the GP’s claims. The vested stock I’ve reinvested through an ISK in a somewhat broader portfolio over time.
Re:My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
on Sunday December 26, 2021 @09:28AM (#29692606)
> There are no stories like this one where I live (in Sweden). Absolutely none.
Swedish tax rates on income makes this two to three times as difficult (approaches 60% plus 30% social paid by the employer this includes RSUs as well, plus 25% VAT) but it’s nonsense to claim this doesn’t happen. I am Swedish and have made significantly more in tech than the author. So has many of my friends.
With that said, the only reason I’m still in Sweden is family. The public sentiment about the future is uncomfortably racist and increasingly hostile about fortune making. If you have the mobility my advice is to move. Good luck.
Nvidia DLSS Coming to Linux via Proton
Re:Coinbase Digital Asset Policy Proposal
on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:48PM (#28868310)
Probably, but for Coinbase to even manage to steer the conversation in this direction it’s a victory. They are the best positioned in the industry to even attempt it and if they’re rejected they are first in line to provide the infrastructure.
Re:Honda prepping AI robots electric air travel and lunar technology f...
on Saturday October 02, 2021 @05:19PM (#28732181)
They’ve produced an uncanny cgi to illustrate the eVTOL vision[1]. While intrigued by some aspects of it (self driving cars, seemingly clever AI assistants and seamless identification across devices - it’s inevitable) I can’t help thinking it’s a dated perspective of the future of work.
Re:Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow
on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @11:53PM (#28069686)
It's quite easy to extrapolate this and in a few steps end up in a boring dystopia.
First it's iPhone photos, then it's all iCloud files, that spills into Macs using iCloud, then it's client side reporting of local Mac files, and somewhere along all other Apple hardware I've filled my home with have received equivalent updates and are phoning home to verify that I don't have files or whatever data they can see or hear that some unknown authority has decided should be reported.
What is the utopian perspective of this which counterbalances the risks for this to be a path worth taking?
Sweden refuses to classify e-sports as a sport
Fixing rendering bugs in Dead Rising PC
Re:Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces
on Thursday June 03, 2021 @10:33AM (#27381977)
Who did he upset for this to blow up _now_, 14 years after the fact and almost 3 years in his role at Google?
Re:Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google shows me ads f...
on Sunday April 18, 2021 @10:05AM (#26852574)
To reinforce the notion that you’ve made the right choice and keep you as a long term loyal customer. This is an expressed part of car ad strategies.
For medicinal products I’d be keen to see research on whether a treatment group being re-targeted would report better efficiency of a treatment than a non-retargeted control.
The Limited Future of Deepfakes
Re:Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store
on Thursday February 25, 2021 @07:25AM (#26262100)
Don’t try to equate Shopify’s app distribution to Apple’s. They’re not the same.
Apple charges commission for your paid application regardless of distribution form because there is only one and you have to use it, the AppStore. Shopify has an optional distribution platform for apps which they charge a fee for. You can distribute your app on your own and avoid the fee.
Re:Zuckerberg wants to 'inflict pain' on Apple for privacy changes
on Saturday February 13, 2021 @11:59AM (#26124727)
What could Facebook possibly do that would harm Apple more than it would harm Facebook?
Biohacker makes DIY Covid-19 vaccine
Xiaomi remote wireless charging
Ask HN: What fast software would you recommend?
I recently read Fabian Sanglard’s blogpost “These are called opportunities”[1] where he writes about how the startup time of Chrome made him switch and never look back. There’s also a related discussion[2] on the front page right now about input latency degradation from 1977 to 2017.Don’t get me wrong. I truly enjoy and would argue I get a sense of satisfaction of using fast and responsive...
Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings
on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:57PM (#24935770)
Yes, and that’s what they’re doing through education with Chromebooks.
Re:MS treatment a step closer after drug shown to repair nerve coating
on Friday September 25, 2020 @09:55AM (#24589697)
To me, following modern MS research progress is as exciting of an inward journey as space exploration is an outwards one. In fact to the point where I have considered leaving the tech field within the next 5-10 years to partake in it so it's fun to see this here on HN.
Just 20 years ago the first disease modification treatments were introduced. These were recurring injections of interferon-beta (1b/1a) for a 18-38% reduction in relapses and annual relapse rate (ARR) of 0.256[1]. Today there are about 20 different options, with Rituximab and humanized variants indicating an annual relapse rate of 0.044 for RRMS patients with a well understood safety profile[2]. On such medications an MS patient can expect a relapse every 22 years vs every 2.5 years unmedicated.
My pet theory is that MS research will ultimately lead to significant breakthroughs in longevity research. This is based on the morbid view that the disease is serious enough for risks to be taken in understanding auto-immune responses, crossing the blood brain barrier and remyelination.
Re:Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis
on Friday July 31, 2020 @07:37AM (#24007689)
Interesting but why would it not apply the same shifting within the green light spectrum which seems to be quite stabile?
https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2020/07/Plants...
Re:Show HN: A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location
on Saturday July 25, 2020 @09:10AM (#23948921)
Neat project! The example photos in Drive are a bit wonky on mobile and only one of the files is accessible. Consider adding a few example photos in the readme. What’s the licensing and usage rights of the produced images?
Unlike Windows and MacOS
Linux gives you options
I’d rather say Linux gives you choices. Choices that you have to make, rather than options with (sensible) defaults. This is a big reason for why I’ve been unable to switch from macos to Linux as a daily driver every time I’ve tried in the past ten years.
Ironically, it’s simply too costly. Macos has been degrading over the past 6-7 years, but it’s still pretty good at standing out the way.
I’m gladly proven wrong if you can point at a path I’ve missed.