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I developed eye floaters about a year ago that are annoyingly noticeable against any page with a white background. The Dark Reader extension (https://darkreader.org/) has been a life saver for me, and I've found my eyes to be less tired overall when using it, too.

My only wish now is for a way to invert PDF colors on Mac - I haven't found a good way to do that short of inverting all screen colors, which messes up all the other apps that do have a dark/night mode.
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Servers are free to do any transformation on the account names they accept, and shouldn't apply any on the ones they relay.

It's expected that they would do many kinds of transformations, like case normalization. Unicode normalization should be one of those but none of the email RFCs intend to enumerate them all.
IMHO, part of a successful microservices program is treating your "private" APIs like your public ones, with SLAs, deprecation protocols, etc. Otherwise, you end up with tight coupling to the point that you should just go with a monolith.
Government websites are required to be accessible for employees in many scenarios. Depending on what Chris’s temperament is, he could grieve or sue for some reasonable accommodation, and win.
As someone with limited knowledge into airplane engineering/certifications, on the surface that seems wrong.

I understand (I think) that they made changes to make it essentially handle and act like the 737 therefore it can apply to the same certificate, but surely there should be some kind of time restriction on a certificate applying to new models - even ones that are "similar".

Can someone illuminate me as to why this does or does not make sense?
looking far is important. i recently switched to a large monitor and a small office and it has been disastrous for my eyes.
That's a horrific story. The historical nature of the photograph might soften the impact a bit but there is plenty of nastiness going on today, even if a sign like that today would be unthinkable.
OK, in order to get some satisfaction out of it, and to continue for an extended period of time, possibly a lifetime, you'll need to invest in some education:

1. [Optional] take an Art appreciation class. The problem here is that they are all crap. Best to visit the closest Enciclopedic museum near you, and take as many of the free tours. Sure you'll have your preferences (you mentioned impressionists) but it's good to have a well rounded worldview

2. Buy the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" and do the self-paced course. Yes you need drawing skills in order to paint, not so much that painting is filling the drawings with color, but painting is drawing with paint. Also the book will teach you about negative space, proportion and more.

3. [Optional] after #2 above, take this free course https://drawabox.com/

4. Take a color theory class, preferably offline, or online, or read a couple of books. You'll be painting as well, which is good

5. Take a composition class, you can take it before or after #4 above. Preferably offline, or online, or read a couple of books. You'll be painting as well, which is good

6. Take a painting class, FINALLY! I know. Preferably offline, or online. Start with acrylic, then - if you want - go to oils. Of if you're into watercolors do watercolors. Best if you explore all three mediums. Blick Art is your friend for supplies.
Right click cut/paste works for me, but that might be from SidebarEnhancements.
>> I have seen absolutely no evidence that “Captain Marvel” is a feminist film or that there are any more or less moral lessons in this Marvel movie than others.

Well I was referring to the article "Before the film’s release, Ms. Larson told “Entertainment Tonight” that she had spoken with Marvel about making the film “a big feminist movie.” "

>> The controversy has nothing to do with the actual content of the film.

That's a reasonable point. I agree that it's presumptuous to review a movie before you see it.

That said, I think that's distinct from the larger point. I imagine most of those people complaining would still have the same complaint after they saw it (just like they may have about Ghost Busters 2 or Black Panther).

And if they did see it, and then hate it afterwards, I think that's an entirely valid personal experience. Or if they refuse to see it (and indicate they aren't excited to see it), because they felt burned by past movie experiences, that's a valid choice too.
It sounds like what you really need are flawless automated systems because humans will not always be able to compensate if the system errors are serious enough. And in this case they tacked on a kludgey flight control subsystem without adequate testing to see how it impacted the overall flight control, and did not bother telling the pilots. The executives probably did this to save money even though engineering told them it was unethical.
>>Google, Microsoft, etc are paying researchers top dollar to figure out how to prevent massive outages through novel techniques

Curious what makes you think this. Are there specific job postings in either company that are focused on this?
We recently gave a name to that One-Binary-Many-Services approach - Roles.

https://github.com/7mind/slides/raw/master/02-roles/target/r...
havnt tested on a mac but I use zathura on linux and its reverse colors (cntrl+r) is a lifesaver for me.

this seems promising: https://github.com/zegervdv/homebrew-zathura
I have no inside knowledge of this one, but broadly speaking, these sorts of failures can be caused by a change thought innocent at the time to the core software that is then widely deployed using automated systems. If the core's tests didn't catch a real issue in production (and for whatever reason, the rollout happens faster than the regular small-release verification process can catch the error), things can go sour in a way that's expensive to un-sour.

Amazon once pushed a seemingly-innocuous change to their internal DNS that caused all the routers between and within datacenters to drop their IP tables on the floor. They had to re-establish the entire network by hand---datacenter heads calling each other up and reading IP address ranges over the phone to be hand-entered into lookup tables. Cost a fortune in lost sales for the time the whole site was inaccessible.
Thanks for the great and touching story! Posts like these is why I love HN so much.
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The one thing I am curious about is the idea of reputation establishment. Has there been any attempt to reduce impact of a sybil attack by introducing reputation metrics?

What if for example with SCP quorum slices form only between nodes of agreeable reputation where reputation could either be transaction confirmation history or transaction participation history or some combination of both.

I would argue,if some form f reputation metric was in play,a simple 51% majority (for unfederated) would not mean much,especially if each node gets to unilaterally decide reputation metrics it finds agreeable which will make it hard for a sybil attacker to know how many nodes of what reputation it needa to control to succeed.where a failed sybil attack could reduce or eliminate reputation of the nodes it used.

The whole idea is so simple I feel a bit cluelees even asking about it,but does anyone know if similar consensus systems have been explored?
One of my previous employers, millioniar (in euros), was too cheap to buy a license... Myself, 1/10000 of a millionaire bought several licenses, one for myself and a few for internet coding friends

Expensive is very much subjective
This should be much bigger than an SEC problem.

Spreading rumours Tripp is homicidal, or secretly surveilling texts & emails without his knowledge - both alone could be prosecuted as criminal charges. Instead the absolute worst that will happen to Musk or anyone involved is being thrown out of Tesla.

The sheriff "says he’s told his force not to bother investigating crimes at the Gigafactory unless Tesla starts cooperating."

Remember folks, if you wanna be a criminal, start a company first. That way, your crimes become the companies crimes and your jail time becomes a fine! Thats the American Way.
"correlation id" is probably the best thing to poke into Google for guidance on it.
Our respective positions have almost zero overlap, but I appreciate that you've articulated and shared yours.

I have and continue to spend a lot of time on healthcare. Despite 15 years of grinding, I feel like I barely understand what's going, and am continually surprised. For example, I totally didn't foresee hospital consolidation tipping the balance of power back to them (from insurers), begetting the scourge of surprise billing.

The best, and perhaps only, label for our current system is confusopoly (h/t Scott Adams).

In your travels, all that I ask, given your desire for bipartisan bonhomie, is while you read reform proposals (from policy wonks), please note who is participating in the conversation, and who isn't.
The FAA reviewed the 737 Max 8 following the Lion Air crash and decided to allow it to keep flying.

Now obviously they could have made the wrong decision there, but the idea that this plane is somehow skating by with no oversight via a technicality just does not pass the smell test.

Edit to add:
The 737 Max Wikipedia page details the testing that the Max variant underwent, and links to the 737 type certificate—which devotes 38 pages to the 737-8.

Also:

> Boeing announced on February 16, 2018 that the 737 MAX 9 has received an amended type certificate (ATC) from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), officially certifying the airplane for commercial service.

> This certification marks the culmination of a successful flight test program that began in March 2017 with two Boeing flight test airplanes. The FAA certification affirms that the airplane’s handling, systems and overall performance all comply with required aviation regulations.

https://worldairlinenews.com/2018/02/16/boeing-737-max-9-awa...
Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is a good laptop.
> when you're just one or two dev

Version control has nothing to do with the number of developers, it's a tool used to snapshot code, allowing easy tracking, reversal, and plain old "I'll finish this later". I couldn't imagine trying to develop without being able to make a branch, try something out, jump back and fourth between features, and then merging everything together later.

I can't stand the command line tool, but a nice GUI like Sourcetree or TortoiseSVN makes juggling very nice.
The short answer would be no, a good summary from the LAtimes:

"Only two countries permit DTC drug ads — the U.S. and New Zealand. Every other nation has concluded that its unwise and irresponsible to pitch potentially dangerous meds to people lacking the medical training to make smart decisions. Better to have patients discuss such things directly with their physicians."

However the last line brings up what is also a deeper issue in the current US healthcare system, all levels of health providers have this incredible pressure to spend less time with patients and this has been escalating for decades. The current profit-focused system (and this applies to most not-for-profit health systems as well because most are still driven by profit) makes it very difficult to spend appropriate time educating especially when that medication may very well not be appropriate.

The recent 'patient is always right' push by health systems, driven by Medicare reimbursement rates, also puts additional pressure on MD's to prescribe even when not appropriate for that patient. Advertising drugs on TV exacerbate this as well.

LA Times Source: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-drugadvertisi...
I don't think it's actually been advertised anywhere - welcome to a very small group of cool kids ;)
The fact that it's called "Air Facts Journal" is suspicious.
There's nothing new here - it's rehashing the same "these are similar so may be the same cause" as every other article on the topic.
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Google duktape, not duct tape.
I bought https://gnu.gl/ with the intention of turning it into a URL shortener site. Might get around to it some day.
This is not really the use case of git. It's not a simple copy. You can look at old changes, reverse old changes, branch and merge new features at a later time.

It's does everything you would need to do manually do with copy paste (diff, merge, find old changes, comment changes, etc) but with much less effort (assuming you use a GUI).
Flickr is unrelated to Google and Facebook. Flicker is owned by SmugMug, previously by Yahoo, previously by Ludicorp.
> We also have our microservices in a hierarchy, all depending on a common parent microservice.

Can you explain this a bit more? I thought the point was to have each service be as atomic as possible, so that a change to one service does not significantly impact other services in terms of rollbacks/etc.

If I'm wrong here let me know, our company is still early days of figuring out how to get out of the problems presented by monolith (or in our case, mega-monolith).
Boils down to money. A brand new type certificate for a big passenger jet is in the hundreds of millions of dollars in time and money. Therefore you can justify spending quite a lot on lobbying (actual and metaphorical) to get away with reusing one.

Edit: And the airlines will lobby on your behalf too. They don't want to have to certify pilots on a new type, or have yet another split of who can fly what.
While I'm not normally one to espouse buying gear to fix problems, when it comes to problems with the body, I think it could be worth it.

If you are unfortunate enough to need glasses, consider getting a pair that has blue-light filtering (in addition to the regular AR coating).

I also use a monitor that comes with blue light reduction built-in (The Lenovo p24h, if anyone's wondering), and there's a definite difference when I work in the office (with the monitor) and at home (without).

Before I got my glasses, I was getting headaches after a couple hours in front of the computer as well. Not anymore, but taking breaks (as others suggest) is important too!!
As Donald Norman would say, it's all about the affordances. While supporting almost any inexplicably bad workflow imaginable (git-flow and kin), doing the reasonable thing for a two person crew has way too much cognitive burden.
Then you simply haven’t talked to many older pilots. Yoke, control wheel, wheel for short, they’re all the same fucking thing. This seems like a dumb way to shill, no?.

Look at the cockpit of a DC-3 or pretty much anything pre-war design that doesn’t use a stick.. it will educate you.

Also, Boeing is a multi billion dollar company.. if they’re going to shill I’m sure they’d have no trouble finding an actual pilot to do it for them. We’re not that rare.
AFAICS, the "new satellite data" is just the usual ADS-B data that led everyone else to the same conclusion, but picked up by a global network of satellites[1]. (Sites like FlightAware24 are instead based on data contributed by a global network of volunteers listening to ADS-B broadcasts in their local area.)

1. https://aireon.com/resources/overview-materials/its-just-ads...
Alarm fatigue is quickly becoming an issue in warnings shown within browsers. Cookie warnings especially.
Yes but my point is that people don’t avoid the 767. Look upthread please, this whole sub thread is about whether these incidents will cause consumers to avoid 737 Max planes in the future.

My (apparently very controversial) opinion is that we don’t know enough to predict that now, because we don’t know what caused the Ethiopian Air crash yet.
Because they were valuable at one time and then they faded into un-profitability. See Sears, Roebuck & Co.

Companies, industries, and jobs all have lives just like organisms. We don't look at a dead person and claim their life was bullshit, because they died, do we?
Apple makes the rules; and they're mostly concerned about digital marketplaces that _could_ operate purely via IAP
By using secure networks? PPP is older than SSL and have been in widespread use for longer time.

SSL is largely irrelevant to banking security anyway. Actual security is built upon charge-back system. The underlying security model was designed when everyone trusted written checks.
I’m always amazed to see work like this from the ’70s. (I know I shouldn’t be, but some blind spots die hard…) My father was taking undergraduate computer science classes at that time, and his stories, many of them involving punch-card mishaps, left me with a different idea of what was possible before my generation. In one of his courses—it may even have been in the same year that this paper was published—his final project was to design a program to apply right-hand justification to text. It was a real challenge for him and the other students in his group. My understanding is that they were able to get as far as calculating how many words could fit in a given line, and how many extra spaces should be added to bring it flush with the right margin. But all of those spaces would be dumped after the first word in the line, not distributed evenly. They still got a passing grade.

Anyway, sorry to ramble. It’s cool to look at actual work from that period.
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Browsers are not "memory bloated". Go look at about:memory and see what the memory actually goes to. It's mostly the JS heap, images, media, etc. You need those things to be in memory because pages demand that those things be in memory.

Browsers have probably gotten more effort put into memory usage than any other type of desktop or mobile app. Certainly it's far more effort than any of those apps in the 90s received.
I've been using DDG for the past few years and I think I've lost my Google-fu. I used to be able to get the result I was after in a couple of searches with a few carefully chosen keywords. Now when I strike out on DDG and search Google, I get a bunch of popular stuff with similar words in it, rather than what I'm looking for. Whether that's my fault or Google's, I dunno.
True, but very different. That’s not the highly-targeted, audience-segmented approach to advertising that parent commenter (and most people on the internet) is referring to by saying “ads”.
"The oscillation of roughly 15 to 20 seconds is a telltale sign that suggests the M.C.A.S. system may have been involved, said R. John Hansman Jr., a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"Planes like the Boeing 737 oscillate naturally, he said, because of turbulence and and other effects. But those swings have different time spans: either between five and eight seconds, or a minute or longer. The variations in the intermediate range of 15 or so seconds have no other obvious explanation, he said."

Both planes porpoised with periods of~20 seconds during their flight.
I have the same issue as above. Right before bed is typically suggested for bruxism, etc. Magnesium has also been shown in a study to improve sleep quality, though I don't remember the exact mechanism.

I might have an absorption issue though. Magnesium salt topical spray (less costly than pills) helps intantly unclench my neck/shoulders, and theres extant literature on that being an effective method of administration.
I do believe there will come a point where we have a “replicator” or printer-like machine or robot that will provide for everything we might want. I don’t believe Mr. Yang will be alive when that time comes about, which is an issue for his campaign timing.
Congratulations to you and team on this launch!

I'm writing in to report an issue, please have it looked into - the Facebook signup is not working. It returned an "unknown error" to me. And you guys have placed it right up top. I then signed up with Google, and that worked fine. :)

Good luck
Ask HN: How to find current software/cloud spend for prospective customers?
Hi,

I'm an early stage B2B SaaS startup founder in the data analytics space. I'm looking to understand software spend budgets of prospective customers.

Are there any reliable market intelligence data sources out there that can be used to estimate software spend by businesses - how much they spend on infrastructure (e.g: AWS), databases/data warehouses and other cloud services?

My target market is other pre-IPO software companies in US. Would be great to get this broken down by funding stage of the company.

I understand this might widely vary, but rough estimates are still super helpful.

Thanks!
one could argue that if serialization/deserialization is the majority of what your api is spending time on then you’ve got distributed monoliths and shouldn’t be making the call in the first place. also ensuring you have the fastest json parser before having a real problem is premature optimization
The 737
I don’t believe this author understands the issue here. His description of the force feedback on the wheel is not correct. The automatic trim adjustment from the MCAS would not be detected if the pilot is trimmed in and at neutral stick. They may detect the pitch change and pull up/retrim for level flight, which disables the MCAS temporarily and gives the impression that trim is under control.
Well if accessibility a right then you don't have a choice - which is why accessibility isn't a right.

Accessibility as a right requires actions on the part of others - which means it comes at the expense of another's rights. Real Rights require inaction from others not action.
FWIW, I just upgraded my Thinkpad for a newer one at work (Google, running GLinux/Debian). Seems great so far.
I do these: Keep all device brightness levels at their lowest. Use "night mode" if available. Prefer natural lighting if available. At nights, keep indoor lighting dim. Sit under the sky at night and focus eyes on stars. Eye exercises (rotate eyes inside closed sockets CW and CCW).
> I look forward to roads that only support Fords, water pipes that only support Nestlé water, and stairs that only support Nike shoes.

Thankfully, America is not (yet) stupid enough to let private companies build our critical infrastructure, and thankfully "voice controlled speaker" is as critical as chewing gum.
If you mean a colony in that it is a self-sustaining outpost then definitely not. If you mean a base that is constantly occupied like the international space station then it is unlikely but possible. If you mean will a person get to Mars then I would say that is very likely.
Thanks. That was helpful.

Curious though that it’s only US and NZ that allow this. Healthcare must be vastly different than the American system. I wonder what their rationale is..
It doesn't look particularly professional to me. Anyone with a paintbrush, some black paint, and fairly decent handwriting could make it.
>YIMBY types are for the most part opposed to as well to make more room for them

I'd like to say, that's an extremely uncharitable and untrue view of YIMBY positions. When you have intense housing pressure, landlords will abuse the law if they think they can get away with it.

This is instead of legislating locking people into place (for example, having to commute 10 miles across sf like one of my friends does due to rent control "lock" in).

I would rather rents be dropped by matching demand. It's working in Seattle, it's working in Portland. Building housing to match the influx of people moving into all cities (there are more people today than when they were built), in combination with moderate rent control and strict tenant protection is the only way out of this mess.
Thanks for answering those - Sounds like a great program!
Probably cheaper to invoke the lambda functions from Cloudflare workers.