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For about 5 years, any tv you found in an electronic store was 3D, and I have yet to find a single person who claims to like them.

Today, every tv is a Smart TV, and yet again, I haven’t found anyone who thought they weren’t awful

In cars theres the same issue with GPS systems: even luxury cars have awful interfaces. Presumably tesla’s is decent (never tried), but otherwise the only interface I’ve encountered yet that met the minimum requirement of a sensible response time (let alone everything else) is a luxury jeep. Mercedes, priuses, bmws, etc are all horrendous.

In phones, the aux ports and phablets

On the web, heavy js

In games, complex 3D graphics (this is very slowly changing, as indie devs begin to realize games existed between 1980 and 2000)

This type of event, where the producers collectively decide what the consumers want, and only produce it, and miss the mark by a mile, definetely exist (these are just things I’m irrated by recently), though I assume incompetence and babdwaggoning over any kind of real thinking going into this. (They didn’t try to force a trend, they just all thought it was the trend, due to whatever terrible research they all do; hell, I’d bet there was one or two marketing firms that were the root cause of most of these messes)
He also seemed very concerned about the cost of an RTC module at ~$15 but they're readily available for less than $1.
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Sftp is natively supported by Linux. I'm surprised this is a thing.
Thanks for the links, those are really helpful!

Why didn't libc include a printf function that expands a format specifier with a pointer to a byte array (and/or possibly an array of c strings)? That way there would at least be a standard way of handling arbitrary input and erroring out with less risk of buffer overflows and stuff.
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Because we exist.

Quantum field theory (QFT) does a great job describing the electromagnetic, strong and weak nuclear force, and has done a spectacular job describing reality in ways too numerous to count. But it has two principal failings.

The first is that every time someone tries to incorporate a quantum field theory of gravity, the inevitable conclusion is "the first time a graviton interacts with a particle, the entire thing collapses into a black hole". Because we haven't collapsed into a black hole, we know our theory is incomplete.

The second is the vacuum catastrophe. QFT predicts a value of the zero point vacuum energy (very closely related to dark energy, aka the cosmological constant) of roughly 10^112 ergs per cubic centimeter. With a bit of a hack, we can get this to cancel out to precisely 0. However, the observed value of the zero point vacuum energy is roughly 10^-8 ergs per cubic centimeter. Which isn't even close to 10^112, but more importantly, it is also not zero, so our hack to cancel it out doesn't work.
People have to understand that the Node.js ecosystem is different than in other programming languages/platforms. Modules are composed from smaller modules with a granularity so small that it is almost unique. When you're publicly publishing something low-level to npm you really should understand that the community may build on top of it to the point where it is used by many modules and as a result used by many end-users. You are not obligated to maintain it, but it's not really fair to be totally careless either. The community is like society, if you're in it, try to be a good citizen or the community will move against you to preserve it's ideals.
> Lieutenants gain authority based on the merit of their contributions

Meritocracy is an outdated discriminatory practice.

https://postmeritocracy.org/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/20/merito...
Consider me interested as well - email in profile.
Cool project, but is it a failure for one of the requirements being that it costed under $50 and title says it costed $100?
And the facts, as stated in this article, are that the Starship design has changed, which you seem to conflate with marketing. So which is it.
Someone post a list of every public package that depend on that one https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116#issue...

A lot of very common packages...
I think the success of pure EV vehicles is making PHEVs increasingly irrelevant—especially for sedans, where obtaining a 200+ mile range is becoming more and more economical.
It's because they've been making some great decisions lately.

I've been using Typescript in an Electron project I've been working on (https://getpolarized.io/) which is a doc manager for PDF and web content.

Typescript is awesome. It's basically Java 8/9 in terms of language design. Supports interfaces, generics, etc.

If you add VS code and their github acquisition they're going to be in front of a lot of developers in the next 2-5 years.
This is incredibly irresponsible.

If you don't have the care to maintain it or do any sort of vetting, you shouldn't have the care to do anything at all. Literally, leaving this unmaintained would have been a better solution.
So you’re claiming there is no lock out chip even though there was a Supreme Court case - Atari vs Nintendo where Atari circumvented it and this article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIC_(Nintendo)
Chinese scientist claims world's first gene-edited babies
> No in the U.S. a handful out of a million cops are bad apples

“One bad apple spoils the whole bunch”.

It may be a small number are directly-acting abusers of minorities.

A much larger number, however, are active defenders of that small number against any accountability.
That's not true, putting a product I've already ordered on my recommended list instead of something i actually want to buy is costing them money in lost sales.
I don't buy it, wrt recommending something already purchased. If the one thing you know about someone is a specific book (or other purchase people tend to only make one of) they bought, it's a decent assumption that they are more likely to buy literally anything else from you.
> However, that research is Big Science

Some of the progress in recent years is from the development of ideas that can be tried at much smaller scales, like the ST40:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjzok6h2-xA

This is something that spherical tokamak research has been hammering away at for years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_tokamak
I’m planning to avoid self-help and business books and try to read much more fiction instead.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18530413.
There's a significant difference between caring about security and one's reputation and jumping to conclusions as antocv has here. Dominic clearly handled this poorly, but there isn't a need to exaggerate for what he "could" have done as a means of impinging his reputation further than what's been done here and now.
> that doesn't have a strong measurable reason

I think that's the key here - organization/hierarchy is important as a project scales up, but he didn't want to stifle a new contribution without good reason.
Apps like `nanostream` allow you to forward the drone's live stream to any RTMP server, so this should work for Parrot drones too
I tend to use Confluence with the Draw.io plugin. I have a custom template for specification and requirements along with a business process. Changes are captured in the history and highlighted as part of the business process.

It is a much better system for my team compared to getting changes by email or phone.

It does take some discipline to execute, but it is worth the effort in my opinion.
That's a solved problem. Precious metals are what you are looking for.
Yes, I suspect the dropping of the Volt is more about no longer having a platform to build that specific model on.

I haven't dug into the news, but I'd be surprised if we've seen the end of the Voltec hybrid powertrain - we'll probably just see it in cute-utes.
I don't think many expect perfection. But instead think of the NSA and CIA as VERY far from perfection.
Hope you don’t start your project with the compromised version — and then lock it in.
> Every layer understands the command it was run in the Dockerfile to create itself

How reliable is this? Can it be modified after creation by a malicious party?

That is, if I get a wild docker image, can I trust the results of `docker history`?
“Open access journals have demonstrated the ability to have effective peer review journals without the middlemen.”

Open access journals are basically the same as traditional journals, they just charge authors up front, rather than readers later. I don’t understand what you mean by your sentence above - they haven’t demonstrated anything close to what you claim.
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Yes, I was inspired by Jazzband, but Jazzband has two things that led me to develop Code Shelter: It's pretty specific to Django, whereas I wanted something general, and people have to move their projects to the Jazzband org, which many people don't like doing (because they understandably want to keep their attribution).

With Code Shelter you don't have to move the project anywhere, you just give repo admin access to the app and the app can add/remove maintainers as required.

There's obviously a corrective component as well, where maintainers who don't do a good job are removed, but this hasn't happened yet so it's not clear how it will be handled.
When I was running my Web Agency, we gave the client two options, one was an hourly rate, the other a monthly subscription.

A majority of our larger clients took the subscription since it came with a few more benefits in service and response time. The smaller clients wanted to have us doing ala carte work which was also fine.

The best part about our sub clients was it built a closer relationship with us. Communication was easier and more streamlined and it was easier to show a real value to the work we were doing on a month to month basis. Our hourly clients didn't care about analytics, they just wanted a part-time content manager or someone to upgrade their design every now and then.

It was easy for us to continue to have the incoming revenue and plan a budget based on those numbers. Our smaller hourly clients were just frosting on the cake. We never would have gotten so many smaller companies on board if we only offered sub services to them. The hourly rate was perfect for them to keep the work manageable and on-demand and still within a reasonable budget.

My other friends who did the same thing would simply charge a bulk rate for the design and development and then once the site was released, they had to find another client willing to dole out %5-$10K for their services. We built long term relationships with our clients and were able to tailor future services to their needs - which totally blew my friends mind. They were so opposed to a sub based service, all they wanted was the money up front which was a total red flag to me.
> You honestly think that the author of software released as open source is going to be liable for vulnerabilities in that software

Where the type of harm that results is reasonably foreseeable and could have been prevented by reasonable care by the developer (or maintainer; different though often co-occurring roles), I don't see how the general law of negligence doesn't fit. AFAIK, negligence has no open source software escape hatch.
It's bizarre to think amazon knows ONE thing about me when I exclusively shop using amazon. They know EVERYTHING about me, yet they still recommend things I purchased before.
This doesn't make sense because Elm is client-side only, and all code that ships is client-side executable.

Node, a general purpose language, has a scope that's much, much larger.
Most projects are already bundling and minifying code themselves. Any cookiecutter type tool will say that up.
I'm been looking for an attractive affordable electric SUV for a while, and while the upcoming Kona Electric looks promising, it still has some glaring issues, like being an only front-wheel drive SUV. It's been reported that Ford is going to make an electric Escape, so I guess we'll see if they can match the range of Hyundai.
Exploring possible threat vectors is not "jumping to conclusions". Again, security is important to many people.
Do I need to provide data breakdown to prove that an anecdote is just an anecdote?

I'm trying to figure out if you're trying a full fledged 'On the spot fallacy' or just a basic 'shifting the burden of proof'.
That is a shame. When my old car died I wanted to buy one but I was living in an apartment without a garage. I went with a Prius instead. I don't drive much and not very far, so I'd likely be in their ideal use case of someone who mostly uses the battery with the occasional need for the generator to charge it back up. I always thought it was a superior system to both short range EVs like the Leaf, and conventional hybrids like the Prius.
No -- downstream devs are responsible for the safety of their own apps, users, and org.
Precious metals already solved this problem, and already have widespread acceptance.
At what point will GPUs befall a similar fate?
Because there's a decent chance that it will be the next generation of HTTP.

If it doesn't pan out they'll just move on. Remember IPv5?
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Why the snark? I too would like to know if there's a probable reason that's more specific - you're saying nobody knows, but then you're saying there is a probable reason, but then you're apparently mocking that probable reason. But you haven't provided any substance on the probable reason or why you're mocking it.
Right but to be able to absorb facts you first need to be excited. Like all the efforts for more kids/blacks/women in STEM/programming don't start with "this is a variable, the program will crash if you add a boolean to a string" but instead start with flashy things like games or robots or large salaries to get them excited and interested first.
I'm sure he'll tweet something that appears reasonably compassionate, half-suggest a solution, enjoy the resulting media speculation, and then move on to the next thing.
Have you ever seen a muscle car in the snow? A big engine in a car is practical for nothing except having fun.

That’s why my car has 300hp and my next will as well. But I don’t pretend I’m saving the environment or that it’s practical.
Better to be a contractor at large companies and move around. Then you get the depth, plus you can change role when you stop learning.
No, there is no alternative. You are responsible for what you ship. Even if you pay for the software, you should vet it as best you can as you're responsible.
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Is it a garlic clove to ward off American hyperpartisanship?

I think so, yes. I find myself doing it. You can't critique anyone or anything these days without whoever you're talking to automatically assuming you're a diehard fan of the other side.
Ford has a plant in Oakville.
kinda of obvious after it was prooved on cpus.
I wonder if one were to clean up the code, removing all bloat, keeping only the relevant pieces, how would that human turn out?
good, that will teach them not to remove HDMI from macbooks and adding stupid notches, dj touchbars and other crap.

edit: not to mention 30% app store fee for developers.
I hear that SpaceX has some excellent simulations for their rocket design process. These constant changes preceding actual production are probably their engineers refining designs in simulation before putting anything on the pad. Usually you don't see this process at other companies (they do it behind closed doors.)

SpaceX does really seem to enjoy hyping up their fans so we get to see a lot of their early iterations. Here's hoping there isn't some huge limitation that is slowing down the "Spaceship" showing up in simulations.
GM is reinventing itself. It's cutting 15% of its salaried workers and shutting
What if the maintainer had also given away the key used to sign the previous releases?

I know, it doesn't make much sense why would anyone do that, but then again, I think "why would you that?!" feeling is part of what is triggering the negative reactions here. We just don't expect people to do things we wouldn't.
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> And why doesn't zoom change it?

It's using `vw` font measurements (instead of `px`/`rem`).

https://css-tricks.com/viewport-sized-typography/
Hmmmm, protectionism much? Apple recently issued forecast warnings due to weakened demand. Meanwhile HuaWei is killing it [1]

This nonsense has been going on for a while. It's also happening in banking [huge fines for foreign banks], in car manufacturing [diesel scandal, airbag recall] etc. etc.

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/01/technology/huawei-apple-iph...
Everyone is fired.

If you insist on pushing out hundreds of packages on npm, then drop support for them and hand over rights to random strangers, you are acting completely irresponsibly. You shouldn't be given a pass because you're doing it all voluntarily. Your professional reputation should suffer for it.
Unless the user uses the same password for other things, which is extremely common.
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I had a look through the article, but is there any evidence this indictment came from the current administration? Could it not date to pre-2016?
> Not sure what else there is to discuss.

Morals and ethics.
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that's not how debt works on a national level.... it's not like personal debt at all
Ask HN: Are there any open-source alternatives for Tumblr?
Hello

I'm looking for an open-source project that would match the feature set provided by Tumblr (custom user profiles, posting media, sharing posts from other people). I've heard about Diaspora and Mastodon, but I'm wondering if there is something more closer to how Tumblr works.
It's still strictly better than just letting people not bother to handle them, which is never proper.
Then let me ask you, how long should have dominic let right9ctrl contribute to the project before trusting him and giving him publish capabilities? With hindsight, we know that right9ctrl is going to publish a backdoor the second he gets rights. How long do you make right9ctrl wait? And does that accomplish what you want?

If you think that ownership transfer should exist at all, then the attack vector still exists no matter how long you wait to trust right9ctrl.
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There isn't infrastructure in the Go compiler for mapping a given sugar to a particular interface. The point isn't traits vs interfaces, but rather that the infrastructure exists in Rust and it doesn't exist in Go (and adding it to Go solely to alleviate a tiny bit of boilerplate is a bad idea).
Nice to see a C++ Builder reference here on HN. If you're looking to build a native Windows GUI, give it a try.
https://twitter.com/girlfromblupo/status/982156453396996096?...

"Dear Amazon, I bought a toilet seat because I needed one. Necessity, not desire. I do not collect them. I am not a toilet seat addict. No matter how temptingly you email me, I'm not going to think, oh go on then, just one more toilet seat, I'll treat myself."
This is similar to what I've seen from numerous Non-Govt orgs that try to help in other countries.

A very specific example. In the US, there was a research team building a (post earthquake) hut that could be built with only plywood and also was built to be "tightened down" to resist earthquakes and hurricane force winds. It had anchors and was a really cool technology. I went to Haiti and the people there would rather live in tents temporarily and move into a concrete house because that's how you build a house. Compare this to Paul Farmer, who was on the ground and built a network of medical facilities by including the people he wanted to help. He's been (by my standards) wildly successful.

It's easy to see a change that seems obvious from the outside, but if you don't get in and work on the ground floor to disrupt with people and change culture you're making your job way harder. Get in and talk to people, figure out why, and remember that people are just that people. Politics / Culture are unavoidable. Sometimes the easy part is the technology and that a'int easy.
While I wish that would drive Apple to rethink some of the decisions with MBPs, it is because of iPhone as mentioned in the article.
My first freshman physics class consisted of random symbols scribbled onto a random blackboard. I was not from a physics background though.

The learning new stuff you're not familiar with is why it's noteworthy.
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My point was about:

> personally if I heard 'cover' outside of the context of this article I would not have made that connection at all.

Names don't need to be literal or obvious.
Most CS professionals are going to do work that has a potential global impact. It's at best negligent, and and worst destructive to do work without understanding the impact of the work you're doing. (See Facebook, Twitter, et al.) On top of the ethical factor, there's also the fact that understanding and empathizing with more diverse perspectives makes one a better developer of user facing software.
Ah this would've been so useful 18 months ago. I had to spend MONTHS to convince a vendor (government) to use S3 to upload (keybase-encrypted) files instead of SFTP.

And they finally budged. This would've been so much easier.
> We promote a work-life balance which means we allow people to use work resources for personal use.

Personally I think that is foolish and naive. Not just from privacy perspective but also liability and tax reasons.

Postmen don't get to use the vans for personal errands, factory workers aren't permitted to run the machines to make t-shirts for themselves. Why are IT resources considered differently?

If you want to permit WLB then tell employees that they are fee to use their personal smartphones and 4G plans.
exactly, transferring a package to an unknown person is not only giving them access to the code but also to all the people who already trust that code
I want this comment as a poster.
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Which means there is a finite list to check, unless the package is something internal and not on npm.
Mount a power resistor close to and below the existing thermostat. The thermostat can then be controlled by varying the current in the resistor. Only a few Watts of power should be necessary. Maybe there’s a potential busyness fabricating som form of “cup” with build in heating resistor fitting over various types of thermostat.
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Boring but growing industries?
What are some growing industries that are "boring"?

The sexy industries (AI, VR, etc.) are obviously growing, but what is the "email marketing" of 2019?
No,

I’ll give you an simple advice:
When 5.0 comes out, wait with updating till at least the first bugfix is released, then install Classic Editor plugin and move on. In three years time check the status of Gutenberg (I’m sure it’ll be much better) and then decide whether you get on board or whether you look for another CMS. It’s that simple.

And now go read a book or play with children and stop reading about Gutenberg. You’ll be better off. Trust me.
that assumes you know that the maintainer changed
very interested, email in profile.

I miss the good old days when manufactured spend was as easy as ordering 10k in sacajawea coins from the treasury.