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I'm confused about what this means when for example I want the video to play via javascript external to the embedded player.

For example, when user clicks text link on page that opens a lightbox (such as fancybox) containing an embedded video. I (and the user) would want the video to begin playing immediately upon opening the lightbox. But it sounds ilke the user will now need to additionally press play on the embedded video? Anyone know?

I really hope this is not the case. I'm hoping the clicking of the initial text link that opens lightbox is enough to authorize video playback with sound on all devices.
Yes, different definitions, but most people in usage don’t start from a definition and proceed to usage; they start from usage. In this case, I am explicitly rejecting the notion that there is a definition that matches usage (both mine and others).

My experience, anecdotally, is that given the rule of thumb above and similar thought experiments, there is not a lot of variation in the practical usage of the word sandwich.

Opposition mainly comes from people who attempt to apply an arbitrary rule and are not willing to revise that rule to match their own usage for the sake of the argument. In other words, overthinking. Or a pathological case of Occam’s razor.
This classification is incomplete without including food with only 1 side, such as the rarely seen "Mobius Bacon".
Firstly, wow! This is fantastic. And highly addictive.

But... hrmmm... the small town of Nowogródek Pomorski in north-western Poland (population 450) appears to have the tallest spikes in all of Europe. I wonder what that's about.

Actually, the anomalies (or "noise" as the article calls them) seem some of the most interesting parts of the map—it certainly makes it very easy to readily identify patterns in the GHSL in terms of consistent/predictable -vs- possibly unreliable data.
This is great! I'm so excited for the wave of geo-spacial data demos using Mapbox's amazing API and their turf.js computation library that accompanies it.
Very cool. I've been working on a tab builder as a pet project. I've gotten frustrated finding tabs that are 95% correct, copying and pasting and then manually editing them. I know there are some tab builders out there, but ultimate guitar annoys the hell out of me so I figured it would be a good exercise to try out some new languages/frameworks that I haven't used. I wanted to be able to import a text tab, convert it to some kind of data structure that I could then manipulate easily.I might finish polishing it up some day, but it works for me as a bedroom guitarist

Here's a short screen recording I made. As of now it's still riddled with bugs, which I'm sure you'll spot a few in the video like the alignment bar hanging around when it's not supposed to.

https://uploadfiles.io/mk54d
There is no ultimate solution. Just continual efforts to make things better, gain deeper understanding, remove unnecessary complications, and improve overly simplistic solutions.

If you were simply making a joke, forgive me =)
It's suddenly obvious that not only could this be baked in space, it absolutely will be. This will be a thing when space tourism comes online. I only hope they still call it a Dyson pizza.
The UK and India, at least.
The voluntary ones implode within a year or two as the participants get fed up and leave.
MRI. Isn’t that the only way?
>As someone that identified a bug in a Drobo firmware once and was offered a job on the spot

Just curious how you did that. Did you disassemble their firmware?
What if, as seems quite certain, much of the electricity is supplied from off the grid by solar energy at homes, work places, shopping malls, and so on?

It seems the me the article was designed to make the problem look more difficult than it really is, as a way of undermining the adoption of EV's.
I'm a foreigner in the US and am thankful for the public infrastructure (even the old ones) and more than happy to pay taxes. I find a lot of Americans complain about taxes (even those who are on welfare, forgetting that taxes paid by others is what helping them in the first place). I went to my local library to become a member. The old lady there asked me if I live in the area and launched a lecture (even after I showed address proof) about how she is paying her taxes and she wants to make sure her "tax dollars" are used only by those in the area etc. The whole thing was bizarre.

What is interesting is that taxes in US are actually lower than many European countries. Sure, the federal gov isn't the most efficient one, but hating taxes THIS much just feels weird and wrong to me. Without taxes, civilization as we know will collapse
The same thing that would happen if everyone tried to pay your taxes with turnips, of if "What if they started a war, but nobody came?"

The government would, quickly, and decisively increase punishments for non-compliance, print or borrow a wagon-full of money to make payroll, and send the police, and army in.
> where there any encrypted predecessors before the ssh family?

None that were mainstream/widely used.
PayPay $100m campaign
I hate proof-of-work cryptocurrencies because they're literally killing the great barrier reef to run an extremely slow database.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0321-8

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/18/602995137...

As far as I'm concerned, the vitriol is more than justified. If I had my way, PoW cryptocurrencies would be illegal.
>Block by default, and not ask by default? That seems unfortunate to me, and will definitely break one of my services for Firefox users.

Hold on -- do you want a popup every time you visit a new page? It's a nightmare. And break what for whom? You want something to play, you click the Play icon on the video. It doesn't BLOCK video by default, it blocks the autoplaying of the same.

Also - and perhaps this was some bug or some setting I had - but when I updated to 'that' Firefox some months back, I'm pretty sure I had autoplay playING things. I had previously used about:config to have autoplay off, and then they changed it (as per the 0 1 2 and property name change). Possibly I hit enter too fast, possibly I didn't notice and just got annoyed at the popups asking me, whatever it was, I wanted it just "off" and I had to Google around until I found comment in some forum someplace which has this option. The point is, instead of being an "about:config" option, it should be an obvious setting in the Menu -> Options section.

I'm amazed that someone thinks not forcing things is somehow "breaking" things. If it's the type of breaking you mean (breaking ad-tech), then yes, let's continue the smashathon. Autoplay video, whether on a news site or some yapping garbage on the side as an ad, is a terrible trend for us who don't like such distractions.
That's less than 30k in 1980 dollars. Yeah, that's next to nothing.
Thank you! If you ever get the itch to work on it again, shoot me an email bliss@rnpixel.com
WSL is an implementation of the Linux kernel ABI on top of the NT kernel.

Typical Linux user space does depend on the kernel ABI – most significantly via glibc, systemd and friends, but also to various degrees up through the stack.
Can confirm former Intel SSD in longmont 95k -- shit RSUs.
Hardware hacks are easy for anyone who works in that industry. What's hard is making software that runs on that hardware do anything useful -- it would need to communicate with external command&control and know how to read interesting data or send interesting effectful commands to the mainboard.

Making the main board fail arbitrarily would be easy, but controlling the board or exfiltrating data is hard.
Just read his news, horrible. Only Apple and Mozilla left to try to keep a counterbalance. If this trend keeps up, soon the web will require a Blink/Chromium OS to run. Google already has way too much influence on the web.

EDIT: Considering the relatively slow speed of Safari development, I would not be surprised if they also would switch their base to Blink.
Open source contributions could ease development cost a bit, but cost isn't the main concern. The concern is compatibility, security, and performance which almost no amount of resources could get Edge up to par.

However, a radically new browser engine like Mozilla's Servo has a chance at performing so well, and reducing security vulnerabilities, that it seems like the only viable hail mary left for surpassing Chromium.

Also, these options aren't mutually exclusive. They could've decided to open source Edge but also switch to Chromium.

It would be interesting to have the code for Edge.
Microsoft is becoming the defacto leader in open source.
HN community definitely is an echo chamber when it comes to cryptocurrencies and its a shame. My question to my fellow HNers is do we see no merit in a censorship resistant framework which builds a trustless execution environment. I dont think any legitimate crypto dev pushes a narrative to move all cloud services to ETH

As internet served as a conduit to open and accessible knowledge to the world, crypto has the potential to open value exchange globally without the need for trusted entities.

Granted there are fast and established solutions available today for money transfer, however, they all rely on a trusted entity that under the right political pressure will compromise a user and thus is not censorship resistant.
Which government would you rather give your tax money to?
Sure, Verizon blew $4.6B on AOL and Yahoo, but at least it isn’t AT&T
I fail to find any pride in being forced to pay the price I have no influence over for goods I have no say in either production or distribution. Yes, I know that that's what I signed for when moving into the US to live as a non-citizen alien (not that becoming a citizen would change anything - voting in California, esp. SV part, is next to useless, the outcomes are predetermined anyway), and it's probably a better deal than most of other countries would offer me (that's why I took it), but it doesn't make me bubbling with joy.

I recognize that there's probably no realistic way to avoid it, but as it is for a person having to take drugs due to chronic illness, recognizing the necessity of having to do something does not mean being happy or proud about it. It's just a part of harsh reality. Especially if you take interest in particular details of how the massive trillion-size budgets are spent and how much money is wasted or stolen (illegally or legally) from it. No, platitudes of "society has a cost" do not do much for me. Food has a cost too, but if I'm offered a McDonald's sandwich for $100, I may pay for it and eat it, if all other food around is worse and more expensive, but I won't be proud or happy about it. And would take any legal effort available to me to keep my money out of the taxman's reach. When I feel the need to contribute to some cause, I just open my favorite charities list (unfortunately, much longer than my budget - after taxes - affords me to support adequately) and donate there.
Quick, someone tell Elon Musk.
How are they relevant?

They are investigated for intentional business practices, not for secret hacks by unknown entities.
Even at that pedestrian level, if you pack them tightly enough I could imagine fitting a few billion years at least into the volume of an average-sized handful!
Thanks! That might be it.

For future notice though, the answer in the first link is wrong; you want "places.history.expiration.current_max_pages", not "places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages". Apparently the max "pages" are automatically calculated by default- mine was around 160k, so my history only went back about 2.5 years. I've set it to the maximum value for a 32 bit integer, which I guess should fix the problem for the next 20 or so years.

Kind of annoying that Firefox's default is to delete things when you told it not to delete things.
Was this (cash-settled futures introductions coincident with market crashes) due to the fact that powerful players recognized the market was saturated/oversold and then introduced a further way to milk the market thereby squeezing the last drop?
For a more realistic comparison, you could look at the relationship between structural engineering and architecture. A lot of engineering goes into structures that are built a certain way just for looks, even though it's more expensive and often less functional.

This even affects bridges. The new eastern span of the bay bridge didn't have to have a tower at all. They chose the more expensive option because it looks better.
> What if instead of cream cheese it is a slice of lettuce, some cheese, and some mayo, for a veggie sandwich?

I’ll go ahead and stop you here; no, what you have is not a sandwich. By which I guess I mean that it is not an unqualified sandwich in the same sense that an open-faced sandwich is not a sandwich. If I directly ordered either nobody would think me odd, or if the waiter asked me “is a veggie sandwich okay” I wouldn’t think him crazy. Oddly enough, a grilled cheese would be fine as an unqualified sandwich.

I’ll turn this around and ask you to do the thought experiment. If you were the waiter at a lunch counter and someone ordered a sandwich and said they didn’t care what kind, would you give them a veggie sandwich, playing the odds? Would you as a customer feel okay getting that response? Or another similar thought experiment of your own devising where you would feel comfortable with that usage?
In Europe regulation forced the hands of the banks to API-ify the data and make it accessible. In the US, as with many things, it is left to industry to sort out.

Plaid's implementation was aggressive (screen scraping, etc) but many banks are blocking that now and some, like JPMorgan Chase, have created APIs based on OFX (the industry consortium for secure data exchange) to allow controlled data access.

You, the customer, should always be able to choose which targets get to receive your data. Via OAuth mechanisms you grant them access without sharing your login/pw, and you can revoke at will.
These are great points and I wanted to add a couple more I've found over the years.

Software development often has an almost infinite number of ways to accomplish the same task.

Maintainability is as much, if not more, about correctly predicting the future uses and requirements of the software as it is about the initial coding practices and design patterns.

Working on older systems that are being used in ways that they were not originally intended is often uncomfortable for a developer. All but the most junior developers tend to have some painful memories of battling legacy software.

These add up to a situation where it is incredibly difficult and vague to determine the correct path. Both because there are so many ways to accomplish the task and because there are so many unknown future contingencies that ultimately determine how maintainable the software will be. Combine that with the painful memories most developers have from nightmare projects and you have yourself a recipe for emotional disagreements all around.

The grand irony is that, very often, once a developer becomes fully aware of this concept, they lose that internal fire and vigilance required to constantly seek out better ways to solve problems and their skills wane.
I think it's more a compatibility thing than an original desire for more CLI. All that deployment tooling built on top of scp, protocols like git over ssh. Without ssh, Microsoft would forever be out of that game. Those things are definitely not "not CLI", but the CLI question is not in focus.
As we’re layering on praise, I’d like to pile on.

I’m a partner in a company in Puerto Rico. Last year immediately after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, I wrote all of our off-island service providers asking for any help they could provide. DO was one of the most generous responses. They donated 3 months of services based on our average billing.

We greatly appreciated it, and the nice note they sent me showed they’re not only great at providing a good product, but they’re eminently human as well.

Congrats on the launch to them.
Nopie
A New Connection Between the Gut and Brain
That's not the criticism from HN.

The technology itself is perhaps sound.

It's the greed, 'high-horse' thinking that is of primary concern...
I can't if it's the typefaces, the interlining, the space between paragraphs or a combination of those, but that page was so unpleasant to read that I had to use Firefox's "reader view" to do it. I have no opinion whatsoever on the the text, but the presentation was so hideous that I thought it was worth mentioning.
>One example that comes to mind is the improvements in the efficiency of gasoline powered vehicles while electric vehicle production is ramping up.

But the Trump administration is reducing the fuel economy standards, not increasing them. Were you really not aware of that?
This happened in the 1920s as well.

And then something else happened immediately thereafter.
If the sources are willing to step forward now, why wouldn't they before?

Sometimes the reason for reporting evidence you have is to motivate other people to display evidence they have but don't know was interesting or useful until they saw your story.
That's why so often a single public allegation leads to an avalanche of similar allegations.
More like “Democratic”. She played the “see, I can be a Conservative too!” game to try to get the “small government” voters, and it didn’t even work anyway. Might as well quote Rand Paul because the whole “IRS is mean to Republicans” was definitely not a bipartisan belief except for red state Democrats.
It would have been scientific in name only. I don't think there is any open scientific question of any great consequence where people are saying "if we could only set off a nuke on the moon, we would know for sure."

What sets my eyes rolling is the midcentury enthusiasm for setting off nukes wherever we could possibly put them. I bet there were people thinking about nukes under the antarctic ice cap, in a volcano, a major fault, a hurricane's eye...
I don't take pride at all. It is burdensome, worrying, and hostile for the following reasons.

1) My taxes are overly complicated. I have to hire lawyers and accountants to help. They have made mistakes but I am still liable.

2) My tax bracket pays a very high rate. With state taxes included I am near 50% on income. I don't think that's reasonable and the justification, in my opinion, is more based on a suspicion or dislike of people in my bracket than because I can afford to pay. The government spends far more than it's revenue anyways. If my bracket were moved to 100%, there would still be revenue deficits.

3) The IRS treats me as if I am hiding money. The higher your bracket it seems the more likely you are to be audited. My father has been audited multiple times. I have been audited once. It is not a pleasant experience and every letter the IRS sends causes more anxiety. Honest or trivial mistakes are treated as if done with criminal intent.

4) Nearly half the population does not pay taxes but can elect people who can choose what my rates are. I will never have a majority representation or much power to lower them. This doesn't seem fair to me.

5) The IRS can very well be incompetent or corrupt in the sense of being political but no one will admit that. The assumption is generally that tax cheats are a problem but not a biased IRS.

For me to be proud, I think lowering my rate, simplifying taxes, requiring more Americans to pay, even if it is just a few dollars, and putting something in place to report overzealous IRS agents or corruption there would go a long way.
Show HN: Bilingual Books, Programs, and NLP
www.glassbow.com

I made a website that offers bilingual books in paragraph-by-paragraph form (english paragraph, translated paragraph, english paragraph, etc.)

I started with public domain books and am currently negotiating contracts with new authors, and moving towards established authors quickly.

I want everyone in the world to speak every language, so I started here to have enough money to study NLP (Natural Language Processing) science professionally while also creating a fun/visibly practical and measurable way for others to practice languages quickly. NLP software is used in creating and 1st edit of the books, then the manuscripts are sent to contractors in the native countries for proofreading/suggestions. I'm also in the process in partnering with some language-based NGO's to have a % of sales donated to their cause.

Anyway, any feedback/criticism/ideas/anyone interested in helping long-term, please let me know here. Happy to help, and thankful for yours. The website is also running a sale this year until Christmas where you get 34+ bilingual books for $9.

www.glassbow.com
Remember, Trump believes that anthropogenic global climate change is a hoax.
Suppose you can use your critical thinking skills to convince 1 member of an anti-vaxxer group to consult experts and discover they don't know what they're talking about.

If the group consists of two members, then you just decreased its size by half. Great job!

Now suppose a influence campaign sponsored by a nation state helps an anti-vaccination group grow from 2 members to 20 members.

Now your critical thinking skills only decrease the group's size by 5%.

Your impact is an order of magnitude smaller without your skills having decreased.

So I don't think this is a matter of "critical thinking."
Stop believing everything that fraud Trump says.
Wow! Sounds like you're getting a ton of leverage here.

What kinds of measures do you have in place to prevent implicit bias against protected classes from creeping into your training sets?
> The US Dollar is also no longer a "claim on a productive asset"

I never really saw bitcoin as a "currency" as it was designed to appreciate and consequently become an asset.

USD also backed by fiat, so you don't have to trust it, just that the US Government will be solvent by the time you divest of the currency.
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kaibee 1 hour ago | parent | on: The Golden Age of Rich People Not Paying Their Tax...

> If you support violence, that's fine. Go ahead and say so, and make that arguement. Lots of people support the government's monopoly on violence. It is not a particularly controversial opinion to have.
If someone is squatting in your house, benefiting from money you spend on it, you are justified in evicting them

This argument is only valid if you believe that the 200 countries in the world own every single inch of land in the world.

> . Just in those times, you were subject to the authority of invaders.

Yes, and this would be described as violence.

And that's fine. If you believe in the authority of the monopoly on violence of governments, all you have to do is say so! That's it!

This is merely a descriptive claim I am making. That the act of owning every plot of land in the world, and preventing other people from owning it, and then kicking people off of 100% of the land, is violence.

If there was an ever expanding mirror world, where people could up and leave too, then this would not be violence.

Or in other words, owning 100% of something is violence, but owning 0.00001 % of something is not.

And all you have to do is say that you support the uncontroversial opinion of the government monopoly on violence, and we are good to go. Easy!
Your local library most likely is supported by local property taxes, not federal income taxes. Though there are federal grants available for specific library improvements sometimes.
Mov is Turing-complete
Yup, I use Mint, occasionally, but now I am rethinking it. I really thought it was integrated with the bank's api.
I've noticed the same thing, and suspect that it's related to the way that higher level software scales compared to embedded.

If a line of code is written to run in a customer's browser, then that line of code may be deployed to millions, maybe billions, of customers. But, if an equivalent line of code goes in to firmware for some widget, then you're doing pretty good to get that line in to a million widgets at all, and it's going to take a lot longer too.