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Amen brother. It just baffles me that most people here in HN enjoy working with JavaScript and its derivatives. I feel bad for them, like when you see a 14 year old kid smoking and drinking
OP here. thanks! No plans to sell this as a KIT or DIY instructions. However, I have taught a word clock fabricating workshop at AS220.org a number of times in the past. I donated a simplified wordclock design to AS220 Labs. In that workshop, I demonstrated the fabrication of different parts on their laser cutter and shopbot CNC. Then guide the students though soldering and assembling the unit. there is some documentation on the AS220 website for that design. It uses the same lexicon as this unit but is built from acrylic, MDF, and Arduino Unos.
I teach underpriviledged kids programming for the last 5 years and this rings very true to me. It's more important to teach them self efficacy and to believe in them than to teach them C++.

I think this is also true more generally than just for students. I've given a keynote presentation about it at a conference this year if anyone finds that interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lckris5U5iw
> installable from software center that are guaranteed virus free

This is not true. Repos can, and have, been hijacked. Packages can and have had malicious code inserted. Hell, projects can and have accidentally accepted stealth backdoors in the guise of bug fixes or feature commits.

The repo system is not a panacea for security.
I've heard good things about the XPS line, but I'm surprised you'd move to a Macbook over throttling. My understanding is Macbooks are notorious for throttling, the last MB Pro bug being the worst in recent memory. If anything I'd blame Intel.
Radar is very useful but doesn't replace a lidar. Radars give very accurate readings of an objects distance and relative velocity but very poor angular resolution. For that reason they aren't much use for avoiding stationary objects since those are hard to distinguish from the ground, signposts, etc. At least until they get so close that the radar field of view lets you rule out those things.

They are really great at figuring out whether cars are braking, though, since cars are moving with respect to the ground you can just filter the ground out and with radar you can sense the change in speed directly rather than having to figure out the speed by comparing distance over time.

EDIT: Actually, I think automotive radars don't give any directional information at all since they don't use big dishes. I'm used to working with aerospace radars but even with those I wouldn't rely on one for car navigation.
"Server attacks client" is pretty common with web browsers. Probably more common than the other way around. Much less common with Database clients of course.
I've also had the situation where the trailer would be for a tv show for older kids and it scared the crap out of my daughter (likely we don't let her watch on her own so we could shut it off). We are trying to limit her exposure screen in general, but commercials in particular, which is why we thought netflix was a good option...
Steam stats are available publicly https://store.steampowered.com/stats/

The few top games do have an order of magnitude more players than the next.

Current player - Game
981,175 - PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
792,842 - Dota 2
638,022 - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
119,344 - Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
90,968 - Grand Theft Auto V
https://www.subscribestar.com/naomi-wu

Here’s another, better alternative, that actually works, right now.
:-)

> By this metric, most of humanity probably feels it worthless, isn't it?

Everyone can produce something outstanding. We often confuse that with the recognition that comes from that something becoming noticed by others.

Do something you love, for the love of doing it. Of course, keep the family happy, fed, and housed, but never forget we are more than work and money and that our worth is not derived from how others see us.

We HN'ers like to do a lot and we often get recognition from that, but really makes us who we are is what we love doing. The rest are side-effects not goals.
Love borg, can't rate it enough. There's also a pretty great service that supports it, you might have heard of it? ;) https://rsync.net/products/attic.html
I believe we've found our next phone! Replaceable battery, headphone jack, Linux support. Hello, indeeed.
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The difference here is that it's the client filesystem, not the server filesystem.
Depends on what market they're trying to get into. For consumers they might be away to get it. But for industry, there is an expectation of inventory which is why it's tough sometimes to have a hardware startup. Even then, it usually makes sense to make them in batches of 1000+ rather then made to order due to economy of scale.
OP here. Yes, different prices for different levels of quality and design. That is true of nearly all products. For example, take a look at traditional watches.

but I'm interested in selling a limited edition art piece. Not a mass market product.
Also, bring back the audio jack ... buying $180 airpods is ridiculous as previously i could buy $10 wired headset and listen privately.

You know you do have other choices when it comes to headphones besides AirPods? Including the lightning headphones that come with it, any BT headphones, or a $10 adapter that came with the phone until last year.
Both novels are set in the same world, with The Diamond Age being some time after Snowcrash. They even share characters, though it's not immediately obvious.
I'm curious to see how it feels running the basic software I need (mainly Firefox), I don't play a lot of 3D games of my phone.
When my daughter says that to me after watching TV or sleeping on top of me (when I watch TV or sleep on the couch), I find it the best compliment I can get.
>No one actually wants this. If you want "one-size fits all" use MacOS or Windows and see how that fits you

looks at user counts for each OS

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This is a little misleading. The last “flagship” 4 inch iPhone was released in 2013 (iPhone 5), so it makes sense that 3 years later that they would only account for a minority of devices sold.
The intended usage is that the client tells the server, "I want to load data from a file /path/to/data.txt on my local filesystem" in a SQL command. As part of the protocol for executing the query the server sends a message to the client to request the contents of /path/to/data.txt. Unfortunately client's don't validate the file request and will send any file (ex: /path/to/secrets.txt) even if there was no legit data request in their command.

This has been an issue with MySQL client drivers for years. I found and fixed the same issue in MariaDB Connector/J (JDBC driver (wire compatible with MySQL databases) in 2015. It rejects LOCAL DATA requests from the server unless the client app preregistered an InputStream (Java interface for generic stream of bytes) as data for the command being executing.

This is one of the many many reasons I love open source database drivers. I was able to find and fix this issue only because I could see the source code. Similar "features" in proprietary databases could go unnoticed for years and even when discovered may not have feature flags to disable them.
Great suggestion! I’ll add those formats later today.
> "The cost of actually delivering the video was so tiny it didn't matter..."

I don't want to get off topic but isn't this the ISP argument __against__ net neutrality? That is, they (and their collective) customers are bearing the cost of delivery, not (e.g.) Netflix.
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Nice readme! It's so common for projects to forget to include an introductory blurb, it's great to see one that does not forget.

Small bug in the example code? I think this:

return even % 2 == 0

Should be this:

return number % 2 == 0
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OP here, thanks for your comment! I may consider trying to develop a new design that uses a larger lexicon like some of my earlier pieces. I discuss some of the lexicon here https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=18953116
> But the Moon’s dimensions show the designers used the metric system

How does looking at dimensions affirm that metric system was used?

> They live in respectable houses, and host meals with respectable friends. They eat well. They travel for holidays, by plane, all over the Earth.

The OP tells as if this is a good thing. However this is the scariest parts of all. Because who knows these people can as well be the next presidents.

> As a Flat-Earther, having your theory rejected only re-confirms the Illuminati’s brainwashing campaign.

A good point, which even most of the political strategists DO NOT implement. "Pushing extreme ideas does not swing votes."

Conclusion: OP seems like he has given up on trying to come up with good ideas to deal with fallacies of his parents. This might seem cute at first, but there isn't a sense of realization that this might be very harmful to the society as a whole.
Seems like that is the server shell, right?

> When PROGRAM is specified, the server executes the given command and reads from the standard output of the program, or writes to the standard input of the program. The command must be specified from the viewpoint of the server, and be executable by the PostgreSQL user.

Although the STDIN/STDOUT options seem a bit more ambiguous:

> When STDIN or STDOUT is specified, data is transmitted via the connection between the client and the server.
I could see it being the future. I think expanse has it correct. In the future, mobile devices will essentially be commoditised. If you need one you get one. Once you’re done, you recycle it. They’re essentially shards of plastic with a connection to the internet. Who even cares who made them.
> We worried about those folks because they were [...] the least likely to tell others about the service.

Are there still people who don't know Netflix? ;)
Indeed we need more research.

For example a lot of coral is dying and most researchers suggest this is due to rising temperatures. But now some new research suggests that coral can handle the change in temperature but they die because they eat to much plastic particles.

Both can be true but the fact is we should be more carefull about our world because we just know too little about how all systems work together.
globally what has xchaotic done?
That’s stupid. Boutique musical gear is expensive because somebody spent a lot of time designing it and needs to make a living. As far as sound quality, there are a lot of fm sounds that are not possible to produce on a computer since it lacks the resolution.
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I think, many teachers either lack important knowledge or they simply don't know that what they know is important to understand the bigger picture. Others include unnecessary information.

I teach different courses (database architectures, programming and cloud computing) at universities and the most challenging part is to figure out what questions students might have and how they think differently about contents. I update my course materials and exams every semester based on their feedbacks and based on solutions provided.

And you are right, that is not something that one just can do, it's a skill to be learned and needs constant practice.
I'm reading it as well, and where you see "spouting the first shit they made up", I see interesting thoughts and theories. I don't see irony, and I don't understand where your angry, superior point of view is coming from.
And that would still be over 35 million phones -or 10 times more phones than Google sells in a year.
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I don't want to spoil your enthusiasm, but how do you know that?

"and knowing nobody gets my data if it's not me giving it to them"

As far as I know, the hardware is not open source, nor is the firmware.

So it is a nice step in the right direction, but we are not there yet.
OP here. Thank you for your comment and support!

I think the audience on HN is unique in that many of them may have the ability to think about BOMs, have access to some CNCs and program a microcontroller. But they are not my target audience. I'm not trying to build a mass market product. I'm trying to sell my art. And, yes, if I want to sell my art, I need to afford to sell it. :)
It depends on student's self esteem IMHO. When you're new at a school, being subject to school wide bullying in a time where bullying is considered normal and just "children being children", addition of harsh teachers into one's already hard life, "great work ethics" doesn't help much. :)

"Fear being a positive effect" is also dependent on the student's character. For me, being intimidation and motivation by fear has completely negative effect. I always respond with "Come on, is this what best you can do? Using fear, because you can't use a more complicated technique or you can't be sincere with us? We are equal here. You're teaching something, and I'm trying my best to learn it. You don't have permission to harass me with this."

My comments in this thread are still valid for my work life. I still don't work with fear, and don't play along with people which are not sincere and show resistance to them. On the other hand, I'm the guy which others call me "extremely disciplined, and with great work ethics". If you want me to cooperate, just show me what you're aiming for. We can work together towards it, otherwise I'll indefinitely refuse to obey your "instructions" blindly.

Pushing a person for its best is separated with a very thin line from harassing that people. If that line's not well observed, one may burn out a lot of people while trying to motivate. These burn marks heal very slowly and hard, especially in the early ages.
You missed another important piece of the comment you quoted: "The videos were fixed cost licenses, not per view, so it didn't matter who watched it or for how long"

In other words this was about the marginal costs of delivering content to additional viewers, not fixed production costs.
Speaking of Modula-3 lineage, you can get Oberon from the Mac App Store.
this directly competes with Ionic 4, which is a nice thing.
I'd tend to agree, but I wonder if it's not really our priests getting better or smarter - but rather that this is the first time that the internet has brought issues to everybody's front door. For instance we all know about leaded fuel and can tell the stories of what happened, but I don't think anybody can imagine what it would have been like to really experience such a thing, let alone to actively interact with others on the topic. And stories are also always going to be told with hindsight bias, even when trying to avoid such things.

Whatever the outcome of things like global warming, I just hope that the internet leaves more of a living record that people can try to learn and understand what it was like to experience this while living through it. We need many more organizations like archive.org. They, in the long run, may be providing one of the most relevant services in our society today. Here [1] is an archive of this site from 12 years ago. Outside of historical record it's also just remarkably interesting browsing. Now imagine when that is from 100 years ago, or 1000.

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycomb...
That's a red flag, I suggest staying away from that company.
95% of paywalled posts are from a small number of domains (wsj, nyt, etc), and domains are shown. I'm not a fan of paywalled links on an open discussion forum, but HN has decided to allow them quite purposefully.

However, I think if the comment section could generate more abstracts, we'd all be better off.
So I got about two paragraphs in before saying “why did this weirdo write this” and turning it off
>> Multithreading has been on the agenda for years and will probably never come, much like improved crypto.

> The two points you mention are both known and on the agenda for this year

This is a rather strange response to the above...
Isn't having some people against you the very definition of controversy?
Hey that's cool, and I appreciate him acknowledging the other project. I would suggest being a little more direct with this and say, "Yes this project has the same goals as X, but I'm having fun and it scratches an itch I have, so I'm gonna keep going!"
Governments, universities, hospitals, banks, insurance companies, any big company where tech is just a utility, not a product (car manufacturers, factories etc).
The cost to an ISP of delivering a single bit is also trivial - the capability to deliver a bit very quickly is the cost - which is what their customers are paying for.

Net neutrality is about being able to charge both ways.
> For me, where this type of stuff come from is more interesting. Is it pure trolling at its core or is there another reason for spreading the idea that these are problems? Is it some kind of experiment to see where the masses are at psychologically?

Actually many conspiracists think
that its promoted by government agencies to
discredit other(more plausible) conspiracies
by association with Flat Earth(same people believe in X+ Flat Earth, so X is as implausible as Flat Earth).
I've come to the opinion that there isn't a hard like between trolling and actually believing in something, or actually expressing a genuine negative emotion. I think, in practice, "trolling" is much more than just a synonym for "kidding".
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That’s fair — and I appreciate the criticism. Thank you. I don’t think it’s an entirely fair characterization and believe I was being earnest, but I understand why you feel that way.
And of course today someone can write one (with some modern tools like parser generators and llvn) in a couple of weeks or so.
This is all true for any distribution system.

However, in addition to e.g. hacking the actual developer/distributor, on Windows, you have to be wary of a rogue versions on e.g. download.com that rank higher than the genuine one, and of google ads for trojaned VLCs and stuff.

It is no panacea, but it is very significantly better than the Windows world (and the Mac world outside of the app store)

Furthermore, modern snaps have limited privileges and file system views, so a backdoor is much less effective; I assume appimages and flatpaks have similar mechanisms (and if not, they should).

Situation is far from perfect, but it is about a billion time better than Windows whichever way you measure it.
Ask HN: How do you give feedback?
It can be hard to give feedback. In my post[1] I share some principles for doing it well. What principles do you follow when giving feedback?

[1] https://www.andrewnater.com/posts/giving-feedback/
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OP here. I would be very pleased if everyone that wanted one of my clocks but didn't agree with my pricing developed and built their own. I like enabling people to unleash their creative side and have been involved at AS220.org for over 20 years (including teaching a workshop on how to build a wordclock).

I started at AS220 as an "engineer" teaching "artists" how to use tools to make their art. Overtime, I realized I was also an "artist" making art. Much of this realization came when people that I considered real artists in my community started calling my work art. It was a GREAT feeling. I'd love to have others experience that too!

And yes, I do value my time. I have 2 young kids, a spouse and a dog. Plus other family and hobbies. So if I'm going to produce art for sale (and most of my art isn't for sale), it needs to be worth my time. I've even considered if my pricing is too LOW given the value of things I could spend my time on. I'll aways be making art for myself and as gifts. Selling it to other is something I'm trying out for now.
>Fortran is still used in the sciences. Algol not so much.

That's only because almost everything mainstream today has 80%+ of Algol in disguise. C, Pascal, Python, Java, Kotlin, JS, Go...

http://wiki.c2.com/?AlgolFamily

Case in point (even if the author has second thoughts): http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/
Lots of faces cut of their own noses.

Have you worked with bureaucrats? They won't view it as stopping, but rules and paperwork need to be filed. If processes are followed stuff will flow, but there will be a flow stopping shockwave propagating backward at the rate of tps-1c.
Because system upgrades never break things in Windows 10, right? Seriously, if updates are problematic for you and you don't care about running the "latest and greatest", move to a stably-supported distribution like Ubuntu-LTS, Debian or even CentOS. They won't be "out of date" as long as they're in their support period. Updating every 6 months like vanilla Ubuntu does is just pointless churn, and don't get me started on what Arch does...
The project lists a few cities that are using it already, and some of them are fairly large -- e.g. Barcelona, Helsinki, and the Lille metropole. The only European countries I've lived in where I'd imagine local politicians would be less receptive are Malta, Czechia, and Hungary - but I could easily imagine their respective voters demanding it. Perhaps local politics are less cynical in Europe than elsewhere?
Uh. Ok. "I was able to find and fix this issue only because I could see the source code." This is how all security issues happen. If I was as terrible person, i would create scripts that pray upon people that didnt' patch.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 70% tax on the super-rich is more popular than Trump'
Traffic is already very DOS-able from a box of nails.
You still haven't answered or conceded my question: is the online API too much latency? You only need to check it when changing a password or registering a new account, not when validating a password.

The world has decided that making me go through a Google CAPTCHA when registering a new account - a process that takes me several seconds of active mental effort - is fine. If the check takes even 1 second of server time, is that noticeable?
The client does not parse the SQL prior to sending it to the server. The name of the file may actually be a computation result that depends on data in tables IIRC.
Can you expand on that? I think they are almost always grouped as opposites. Sharp and dull, Light and dark, Big and small, Love and hate. You could try for apathy as the opposite of love or of hate, but that is like saying gray is the opposite of white or black - it is just something in the middle.

I've tried to define love and hate in similar terms, minding what I think is their opposite nature. Self sacrifice to help another person is love, self sacrifice to hurt another person is hate. I think it works.
What's seriously making me consider canceling my subscription is that it's slowly but surely becoming a worse service over time.

It's clear that rising licensing fees are eating it alive, and its response, to create more original content, is mostly failing. Original Netflix series and movies are, by and large, fairly awful. The exceptions are notable but rare.

Next year, when the mass exodus of Disney content occurs, there will be a noticeable drop in the number of good movies on Netflix -- I'm predicting that I'll likely be one of many canceling Netflix in favor of Disney's streaming service, and that will be an inflection point in the beginning of Netflix's end.

Netflix original content is not enough to sustain it, and soon it won't have much else.
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Why do you think Troy Hunt is not doing those same optimizations on his end?
Am I missing something? Pagination would surely require a request, unless you’re loading the full data set into the client up front, which would be a bad idea in many use cases?