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> those that install anything outside of the store don't have anyone to blame but themselves

If you have to worry about a moderator, it isn't sandboxed well enough. Platform moderators are a security failing - you bring them out when you haven't solved the underlying problem. A version of Android with acceptable sandboxing wouldn't need a Play Store. There'd be no downside to just running an APK.

I agree that both native and web applications have a point. But that is the point - both of them are filling in different gaps. In some cases, they're targeting mutually exclusive gaps -- people develop for native to get around browser restrictions. But getting rid of those restrictions makes it easier for native applications to phish and abuse users. And while efforts are being made to introduce sandboxes to native platforms, they are miles behind where they should be -- as evidenced by user's hesitance to venture outside of official sources for software, a problem that most users don't have on the web.

Because of those differing strengths and goals, it's very naive to say that Javascript on the web doesn't play an important, vital role in modern application development. No, it isn't a perfect sandbox. It's just way, way, better than everybody else's.

Maybe that will change in the future. But in the meantime, if you're a user, and you're paranoid about untrusted or proprietary code, you should be encouraging devs to develop web applications instead of native ones. If you're not worried about security, and instead your biggest thing is that you don't like the toolchain, or you don't think the app looks pretty because it doesn't use your GTK theme, then fine. Those are very different concerns. I don't think whether or not someone is fond of web components has anything to do with application security.
That really depends on your job, doesn't it? There are many jobs (eg, truck driver, airline pilot) where workers are forced to stop work in order to sleep.

I believe the goal is that you should not face negative consequences for deciding to work only 4 days per week.

I also believe that "force" is only indirect - you can work as much as you want to, so long as your employer pays you overtime. Your extra productivity may justify paying time-and-a-half, yes?

Of course, programmers in the US aren't really subject to overtime law in the first place, thanks to computer industry trade groups who pushed for that exemption back in 1991 - https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/28/business/computer-program... .
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This reminds me of the Yoga Bera quote, (paraphrasing) "that place is so busy, nobody goes there any more."

If manual was universal, then everybody used to know how to drive it. The situation you describe wouldn't have made sense 50 years ago. The only reason a generation of wives would know how to drive automatic but not manual is if automatic was already the mainstream choice.

So what you're saying might strengthen the feedback loop, but it can't be the cause of the trend to start with.
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Most battery announcements are bogus, but this one might be real. A123 Systems, the developer of lithium-iron-phosphate batteries, is involved. They put in $20 million as a Series A.[1] If you have a Crunchbase account, you can see more of the terms for this round.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/solid-power-series-...
Only in the sense that you generally have fewer options and substitutes for a particular TV than you do for a particular college, right?

"Hamburgers" and "TVs" are also very different products with different cost structures, different market channels, and different competitive landscapes. But we have no trouble reasoning about how the market deals with prices of both those goods. What makes college different? If you can't answer that, you're just begging the question.
If more complexity would bring in more power, nobody would be complaining. The problem is that those capabilities are not there. You get mostly the same experience, with more glitter, but much slower. This is a case for desktop software too, but it's especially pronounced on the web.
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> Do not stop to be thrifty

I think this might be a mistranslation. Maxim #118 has the same last two words in Greek, and is translated as "Do not abandon honor". So #122 is probably better translated as "Do not abandon thrift", or "Do not forget to be thrifty", or something like that.
You don't get increased capability just because of increased complexity. I worked (until a couple months ago) on a system that was about 10x larger (SLOC) than an earlier similar system. But it didn't offer 10x the value or capability.

Ignoring the costs of maintaining that complexity, it was at best a 2x increase in capability. Accounting for the costs, it was a net loss.

Finally: "same but faster" is a valid capability that people want. I want a compiler that is simply the same, but faster. Once I hit a certain threshhold of speed improvement, then I'll entertain an actual capability improvement (more compiler features like incorporating static analysis or whatever).
I'm curious if we will see similar improvements for full-text search. If PostgreSQL continues to improve at this rate, there will be little reason to use many of alternatives...

Personally, I already view PostgreSQL comparable (for many use cases) to paid options[1].

Interesting, for queries such as:

EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM sort1 ORDER BY 1) AS a LIMIT 5 ;

You'll see an order of magnitude speed improvement (page 47 of [2]).

[1] https://austingwalters.com/fast-full-text-search-in-postgres...

[2] https://h50146.www5.hpe.com/products/software/oe/linux/mains...
Why do we need a solution "right now"? Why can't we take the time to get it right - instead of applying just another band-aid that will need further fixing a few years down the road. Enough band-aids...

Not everyone needs to attend University and get a shiny degree - we need to stop that narrative while we're at it. There's plenty of trades that pay well and are in high demand. There's nothing wrong with being a blue collar worker, and we need to, as a society, stop thumbing our nose at it.

I assert making college free for students has two effects:

1) Makes the experience less valuable for the individual.
2) Increases taxpayer burden for largely frivolous degree programs.

Number one is because without "skin in the game", it's difficult to appreciate what you have. How many of us look back and truly appreciate High School classes? They were free for most of us... but it was just something you had to do to get on with your life. You weren't there because you wanted to be. You weren't hungry to learn, and you certainly don't remember every detail from 11th grade literature class, nor are you applying those experiences to your work today. We risk turning University into the same experience, and in the process we devalue bachelor degree programs more-so than they already are. That's not to say University should spin you into massive debt - we need to fix that too, but I refer back to my original assertions about encouraging (or mandating) full-time employment while attending school.

Number two is because, imo, there's a large number of degree programs that should not capture taxpayer funding or offer loans. If you're going to major in psychology, you almost certainly should continue through to a master's program or higher - if you stop with a bachelors, your job prospects are extremely limited. If you're going to major in art history - we need to be realistic with expectations... you're probably not going to find a job in that field very easily if at all.

We do our students a disservice by brainwashing everyone into believing going to University and graduating in 4 years with a shiny bachelors degree is the only way to earn a decent living. Reality is all too often the opposite - people graduating after 5-7 years with degrees industry doesn't want and zero experience in what industry expects, only to find out students can't secure well-paying jobs several years after leaving University. It's no surprise really.
But what actually happens is that you have faster hardware but the user experience is exactly the same (or even slower) - but the developer experience is improved.
+1 for the Lilypond documentation. It's very informative.

I use Frescobaldi ( http://frescobaldi.org ) for my Lilypond editing and find it pretty good.
I just become unable to do math during interviews. You know how people hate public speaking, because they feel super nervous, sweat a lot, and have trouble saying what they want? That but with calculous you haven't touched in 12 years.

If they gave me a piece of paper and let me do it without interruption, I could do it, but generally interviewers will sit there and demand you explain what you're doing.
This is called price discrimination. It's similar to what airlines do (in their own way). Many businesses will try to charge customers who can afford it more than penny-pinchers.

It's part of what the article called "being entrepreneural". There are some companies that compete with lower prices for all, but it's not the most common strategy.
Images aren't as expensive as critical-path code as we (the browser) parse and raster them off-thread. Outlined some of the costs here: https://infrequently.org/2017/10/can-you-afford-it-real-worl...

Excited to see how much smaller a good linker can make this.
> In 2014 Barak [CEO of this Sov coin] founded Neema, a Y-Combinator company focused on easy, fast and secure money transfers for the unbanked.

Can anyone shed any light on Neema? It seems to be the forerunner to this. Very unusual for a YC company - it has almost no coverage on HN whatsoever - just two mentions that I can find in the search.
This appears to be a relevant patent:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20040028710A1/en

Many are asking how to liquefy dry water. It is stated that you can liquefy dry water upon embrocation at the time of use. I assume this means applying the dry water to your skin and applying pressure and rubbing it.
I don't think it's that easy. The product team may vet the performance impact and conclude that the added bloat is an acceptable tradeoff for them against "being able to move faster".

And yet, if everyone is doing that, it leads to a bloated web overall.
Your use of “included” instead of “limited to”...
How could the age of the novel affect the answer to that question?
They could trade their currency for dollars like every other country which doesn't use dollars locally?
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The Wirecutter (https://thewirecutter.com/) is often my go to when researching a home or home office product.

Consumer Reports (https://www.consumerreports.org/) has a large catalog of product reviews which are especially helpful for people with larger and considered purchases (cars, large home appliances, etc).

Outdoor Gear Lab (https://www.outdoorgearlab.com/) is a great place to go for reviews of outdoor gear.

Edit: And regarding monitors, a thread I saved from a while back with various recommendations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155095
I'd like to point out that the cause of this disparity is most likely the drop in oxygenation, and the toxic nature of what you're inhaling when lighting stuff on fire, that causes the lethargic and brain dead nature.

Vaporization for the win.
Thanks for the response! It's interesting to consider what drives the culture in these various domains (risk, incentives, leadership values, etc.) and how many of them can vary based on the environment.

For example, if making partner is no longer an incentive for the lawyers then that may alter culture automatically, whether or not they're working in tech; however, changing the environment may not have any bearing on legal risk, meaning the component of legal culture associated with risk is non-negotiable.
I'm a javascript developer, and I agree heavily with this article.

The web experience has gotten worse these past few years. I don't want a stupid autoplaying video following me around on the damned page. I don't want Facebook to track me endlessly and mastermind what I see.

There are some really cool things the web has gained. WebRTC, ubiquitous web previews, and using mp4s to add cheap animation. I'm also glad Flash has finally been killed off.

We should be focusing on providing well crafted, clean and slim experiences that are thoughtful and not bloated. Get rid of the 10+ trackers, the kitchen sink approaches, and all the cruft that isn't directly useful. At the same time, let's maybe not have a single entity own this slimmed down platform (AMP), but have it be the normal experience.
That will be a long long time coming. Gasoline is about 46 MJ/KG or 34 MJ/L. The best lithium-metal batteries are about 2 MJ/KG or 5 MJ/L. The best lithium-ion batteries, about half that. Gasoline is extremely energy dense. For a comparison, TNT is only 5 MJ/KG and 7 MJ/L.
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In the context that I've seen them used, the interviewer usually provides information if asked (and says so up front). e.g. if you don't know the # of inhabitants of Italy it should be completely okay to ask.

In any case I don't think it is about the calculation or the final number. It's really the approach that you develop that's interesting.

I've seen this mostly used in (management)consulting though, where you actually are regularly expected to solve problems that you might not have deep understanding of. When I was interviewing developers I discussed how they would architect an application to solve a specific problem. It gives similar insight and is closer to the actual job.
I went to a military academy (and now I interview a lot at Google, too). Doing a lot of soul searching now...

But seriously, I agree with the top comment about interviewing at Google, and as far as the military academy "hazing" it's generally misunderstood. It's very, very rare for an upperclassman at my particular school to be cruel in the movie-sense, or what I think is the stereotypical fraternity-sense. More common is an institionalized set of standards for the freshmen that may seem overly tough or even arbitrary but serve several purposes: a) they give the freshman a crash course in being accountable for details, b) they give the upperclassman a crash course in enforcing accountability and holding others to high standards, and c) they create a sense of shared hardship and camaraderie. These are actually all very important lessons before a second lieutenant takes on responsibility for decisions that could mean life or death for his or her soldiers (which, in the case of my graduating class, was a reality for us as quickly as 4 months after graduation). You have to force the upperclassmen to come out of their shells and make the freshmen wear their uniform correctly, or make their bed correctly, etc. so that when they graduate they will have the courage to tell their soldiers that they really do need to inspect the vehicles, or maintain the weapons, or wear their safety gear. It takes practice to be accountable for standards on a team. It's not supposed to be about making people suffer for the fun of it, but of course there are jerks everywhere.
True, but not all bias is created equal. You have to consider the nature of the potential bias and how it might affect measured outcomes. It's much less clear how bias might unnaturally increase variance than reduce it or alter the mean. But my point was mainly to argue against the conclusion that a lack of observed variance differences in some countries demonstrated the hypothesis false. I agree that the observed variance differences in western countries doesn't prove it true either.
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Yes and no. I haven't read Tolstoy yet, and it's on my bucket list to do so. Ideally I'd like to go into that without any major spoilers.

But at the same time, if a book has stood the test of time of 120-years... the spoiler probably would only very slightly diminish my enjoyment of it. For example, even knowing the plot of the Sherlock Holmes stories and William Poe's mystery poems, I still get enjoyment from re-reading them, in a way that I don't from Dan Brown, for example.
Long term, yes, that's exactly the plan. Short-term, it's going to be CO2 captured from large emission sites - powerplants, chemical processing industry, cement and steel factories etc.

Just because the CO2 concentration is so much higher in exhaust/flue gas, 10-40% versus 0.04% in the atmosphere, it's much more cost effective in the next 50-ish years.
> This argument substitutes good intentions and developer value (“moving faster”, “less complexity”)

How can one even argue that as "less complexity"? Using a framework vastly increases the complexity of a site. (Though it may hide a lot of it under a rug, at least until the first bug occurs.)
Yes, I remember this. We hated that click and always turned it off.
An entrée is not supposed to be a main dish...
I doubt it unfortunately - the FTS operators are too heavyweight to be inlined (or benefit from inlining), so JIT isn't likely to help a ton.

Parallelism can help however, depending on what your bottleneck is (if the query produces a bitmap indexscan the heap access part can be parallelized).
I don't know for sure, but I think two important factors are:

1) The lack of proper/popular communication channels between medical communities (apart from the academic ones)

2) The fact that these improvisations are often deemed as undesirable or inadequate (even shameful) without the due scientifical scrutiny, only because they are cheap or simple
Sounds a lot like the argument over gun control, but with javascript it's about footgun control
> They really actually are cheaper and have much increased energy density relative to 10 and 20 years ago.

But have they implemented any of these 'breakthrough' technologies?
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It's clearly a huge risk. Anyone with half a brain can see that.
Not following your logic, Obama gave ISIS fertile soil to grow by removing American troops from Iraq, which seems the opposite of a Pax America policy.

I also don't understand how fighting ISIS made it worse.
> Can you really blame the whole world for misusing a tool, without taking a critical look at the tool itself?

I’m reminded of all the folks who — in 2018! — try to claim that C is a perfectly good tool for writing large, secure systems. Never mind that it loads a gun, puts it in your hand, cocks the hammer, points it at your foot, puts your finger on the trigger, and pulls back just to the release: the fault is really only yours if you shoot your foot — or so these folks say.
>"The real heroes are the passengers on Flight 93 who were willing to sacrifice themselves," Penney says.

What?!

The aircraft crashed into the ground because terrorists crashed it into the ground rather than be overcome by the passengers who were breaching the cockpit. I am sure the passengers would not have crashed into the ground if they had control of the aircraft, and they died fighting for their lives.

To attribute a sense of noble sacrifice to the passengers is despicably disrespctful.
I'm only speaking to why it's vanishing, how even the last vestiges of the gearheads have arrived at automatics.
In the past years all articles were talking about breakthrough research. Now they also add the manufacturing term. I think that's a step ahead!
JavaScript JIT compilers also don't compile everything on one go.

I can easily imagine asynchronous compilation of Web Assembly modules in background threads as its use increases.
>But the actual problem was that those loans were being rated AAA when repackaged into a CDO.

I was under the impression that the CDO as a whole was being rated well - and the junk loans still maintained their rating when they were packaged. In other words, both parties were aware that the highly rated CDO contained bad loans. Is this not the case?
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Physicist chiming in. I just want to point out that "quantum light" has a specific meaning in the optics community, and much more restrictive than what you are pointing at. All light is quantum in the sense that it is made of discrete photons, but the "quantumness of a light beam" is a quantification of whether you need quantum theory or classical theory to describe the behavior of that beam of that light. Beams for which you need quantum theory, such as single photons, are called "quantum light". Other beams, like the one coming from the sun, are called "classical light".

As such I am fine with the usage of "quantum light" in the title. The usage in the text is a bit odd, but technically correct.
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I have completely the opposite view. To me, all the "engagement" type arguments just feel like someone telling me that they still insist on using only rotary telephones, because it makes them feel more "engaged" with the telephone, "closer to the machine", etc.

So I don't find anything magical or special about having to manually manage the gears when a computer could do it more efficiently and relieve me of the need to worry about it. When I'm driving I want to be focused on the road and traffic around me, not micromanaging the way the engine is transmitting power.

Or maybe to go with a car analogy: what if we took away your accelerator pedal and replaced it with a crank attached to a fuel pump, so you had to constantly turn the crank to get fuel, and turn it faster or slower to manage the throttle and the amount of fuel going to the engine? You'd be much more deeply "connected" to your car that way, but would you rhapsodize about what a wonderful experience it was? Or would you see it for what it is: a task that can be done with more efficiency and less distraction by a different approach?
Here in the Bay area, the price differential between grocery store and restaurants is even greater, due to rapidly rising labor costs and local inflation increasing more rapidly than national inflation. As usual, it all comes back to housing. Restaurants can't hire workers because workers can't afford to live there due to housing problems. As a result, when you go out, dinner for 2 people costs an arm and leg. We just don't go out anymore. But, even the Cafe is getting really expensive. Pearl Milk tea now costs 5.50$ minimum, even here in the east bay. 10 years ago, I remember getting those same bubbly drinks for 3$
> A doctor or pharmacist will likely lose their license - even if they don't, most places won't employ them.

Yep, in my state, a simple Dept of Health Provider Credential Search (whether by public or prospective employer) will give you Enforcement Action: YES in nice big bold red type as soon as any such thing happens.
Seriously if PG gets better text search to put it on par with Lucene (Rum indexes, BM25 and TF*IDF) I don't see much reason to use anything else either.
I doubt it prevents it, but I think it might lessen it. I remember at one point in my teens seeing someone driving a manual Miata in traffic while putting on makeup, texting and drinking a soda, all in a car famous for not having cup holders. It was pretty impressive...
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