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> POSIX is the standard, Linux is the implementation (not completely accurate, but close enough)

POSIX is more of a post-hoc thing, it doesn't really matter except for compliance - and then Linux isn't compliant. In practice you still need an abstraction layer.

If you want to use actual Linux features, you have to use Linux-specific interfaces. Of course a lot of applications don't do that, but that's besides the point.

The same is true for other UNIX (and non-UNIX) operating systems. They're not implementing new standards, they're implementing features to differentiate themselves.

> I will be controversial and say that Linux's utter dominance in the post-UNIX space may have been detrimental to the development of the ecosystem as a whole, limiting radical experimentation and preventing a much-needed reimagining of core computing paradigms.

Perhaps, but standards wouldn't help here - to the contrary.
Isn't there a much more practical vulnerability? Just forcing people to vote in front of you in the last 15 minutes or something?
I bet they have plans to make a different VM for Kotlin and move away from JVM, should be coming in the next couple of years.
As I understand it, Flutter/Dart is compiled to native code but not using any of the native UI widgets.

To get native code plus native UI widgets plus some cross platform reuse you'd have to go with something like Xamarin.
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The primary problem is quite obviously the carbon lobby/climate change deniers, without which serious effort to rein in unchecked carbon emission would have started 30 years ago.

Trying to blame some private individuals for the system failure we have lived through is pretty weird.
> Do the police and politicians not see the danger themselves in the rear view mirror when they drive on the road?

They don't realize there's a problem, or they've just spent a lot of money "upgrading" their vehicle fleets and don't want to consider that they've been ripped off.

The vehicles of my local police departments and state highway patrol have had all their safe incandescents replaced with blinding LEDs. Flashing blue LEDs on the roof of the cars, flashing blue-white LEDs mixed in with the flashing red and blue LEDs, and blinding amber LEDs to warn of road hazards. The vehicles have blue-white spot lights, and sometimes they have blue-white light bars on to blind everyone within a quarter mile of the scene.

I think the police officers think their new lights are cool.

OSHA [0] should intervene, but I don't know that I can make a complaint on the police officers' behalf...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_Safety_and_Health...
I agree, valuation is forward looking.

But I just wanted to point out how risky Lyft is compared to Uber. In some sense, Lyft is selling $1.67 for $1. But Uber is selling $1.18 for $1, which seems way easier to recoup and become profitable quite quickly.

I excluded R&D because I just wanted to focus on "selling $1.67 for $1". I excluded the other expenses because that's just financial structure which isn't relevant to this picture either.
That's exactly how I implemented a web chat around 2002. IIRC, Internet Explorer didn't update the iframe with the chat messages reliably, so I had to fall back to reloading. The whole thing was rather inefficient, simply polling a database for new messages every second, but it worked fine for about 10-20 users.
"utility room" - hello from a fellow Brit :)
It's "Grammar"
If you're a tmux expert, it'd work something like this:

1) You don't have the default config/bindings.

2) You use some plugins.

3) You use multiple _panes.

4) You use multiple _windows_ (Do not confuse these 2).

5) You save sessions which persist between tmux sessions/reboots.

6) You run your terminal full screen or at least maximized.

Example:

I make a pane with ctrl+a (I don't use ctrl+b as tmux hotkey) plus - or plus |.

I make a window with ctrl+a + c.

I can switch between panes with ctrl+a + hjkl (or pointer).

I can switch between windows with ctrl+a + 1234567890 (or pointer).

So what matters is that running multiple terminal windows side by side is akin to using Tmux panes, and using multiple terminal tabs is akin to using Tmux windows.

It requires some practice to get used to it because basically Tmux becomes more and more your window manager...

(You can even run Firefox in a terminal btw, with Browsh.)
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> Did you ever wonder why you can’t use local environments like my-site.dev via HTTP with your browser anymore? This internal record is the reason – .dev domains are automatically included in this list since it became a real top-level domain in February 2019.

.dev hasn't been working locally for me for more than a year.
>I tried flutter. The available plugins cannot compete with the cordova or react native plugin system.

The "available plugins" are not the right way to compare old frameworks and new ones. Of course a new framework like Flutter will have fewer.

But also not everybody needs to use "available plugins", you can do a hell of a lot with just the SDK.
I think this is a well thought out proposal. Thank you for going in that direction. Privacy and security should come first.

I would even go so far to substitute "should" with "must". But it is a first step.
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> I think it's unethical to tax anyone's income

Curious how you fund police in this dreamworld...

> and if people can escape it I'm happy for them.

Yep, nothing like running off with a pile of cash and doing nothing to support the system from which you extracted it, leaving everyone else to fend for themselves.
A complex system designed from scratch never works [Gall's Law]
When will Google stop updating Chromecast Audio? As we've seen with recent Chromebook mass-end of supporting, Google is happy to leave devices bought 18+ months ago in a vulnerable, insecure state even when it'd be easy to keep life support on (like delivering a secure browser to these perfectly fine laptops, or providing minimal security patches to embedded devices).

It seems like Google really can't handle long term support of anything that isn't wildly successful (200+ million users), and even for those things that hit said benchmark, long term support is bumpy, inconsistent and unpredictable.
Thanks! That’s super helpful. I might try it! Do you know if there’s a way to disable or auto hide all the scroll bars, tab bars etc so it’s basically like windowless? That and vertical bars are the main things keeping me on Firefox.
The correctness of cryptographic voting systems is determined by their publicly observable behavior, not by their internal implementation. It's the protocol that's secure, not the specific hardware or software implementation. So the attack you're describing doesn't really apply.
Safari's Intelligent Tracking Prevention effectively blocks third-party cookies, at least for resources that are used in a third-party context on multiple sites. This google Chrome proposal also does it, but provides a dead simple workaround for trackers by sending SameSite=None and Secure with the cookie.
When led bulbs appeared on the scene I thought "well, that's gonna be the end of the oligopoly of incandescent bulbs". It made sense to me that those big old companies would totally fall behind.

But reality was that you had the choice between dozens and dozens of brands you never heard of before, and chances were high the one you picked just sucked. Amazon reviews were worthless because most people wrote them weeks after buying, very few people would come back if they failed after a year or two, and often by that time the company might have rebranded everything so you wouldn't know anyways. Not to mention how many people apparently are unable to recognize that atrocious 100hz flicker if the company cheaped out completely.

Long story short, all my led bulbs since 2015 are osram or Philips and I haven't been disappointed since.
+1. Calibre is the best alternative
It is in terms of UI customization, beneath it's still Blink. I'm using it since Firefox destroyed my profile on the day they rolled Quantum - I'm most of the time satisfied but there were periods when UI was broken (tray for extension icons for example).
Lack of ecosystem. You'll find yourself having to write ports/bindings/however these are called on your own.
Can you explain what you mean about React Native? If I understand, you're saying more companies have tried and then abandoned React Native than Xamarin? Can you provide evidence of this please?
Good, more people leaving PayPal for a more seller friendly payment processor is great for everyone.

They’ve been nickel and diming sellers forever, and it seems it’s finally catching up to them.
Search is increasingly worthless for certain terms. They are things I can't find anymore even with refining the search query.

Basically it's good for anything geo or <your language> related but everything else is getting worse.
There's a lot of fingerprintable info in HTTP headers other than User-Agent and in parts of the User-Agent string other than the browser/OS versions.
Perhaps because some people would just "pretend not to see" when they discover something like this?

Just look at the history between Snowden and the NSA. Snowden was not the first guy to know about what was going on, but the first one to come out with it.
I'm one of the co-founders of Scoops. Been shipping products for awhile, and the problem is, most of the time nobody wants them. That's time & money down the drain. Scoops was built to be an affordable way to validate some key assumptions about your market early and fast.

You can use this research to see if people actually have the problem you're trying to solve, or if your value proposition resonates with anyone at all.

1. For $12, ask 100 people a question
2. Then, once they answer, find out whether there are demographic trends in how people answered.
3. Armed with that data, follow up with additional questions & even interview them to really get to the bottom of your market assumptions.

To address the most commonly asked question: Right now when you ask a question it goes to people of various genders, occupations, ages, and countries (predominantly US) - we're working on audience targeting but aren't there yet. However, most of the time people who want to target are biasing their data - it's better to cast your net wide and see what fish swim in. You can read more here. https://blog.scoops.io/broad-is-good-d701b485cdd8

Thanks in advance for any feedback/thoughts!
In a libertarian system money is directly power. Of course, above a certain threshold of power consolidation power buys money.
Ask HN: How would we go about “curing” cancer?
I’m a graduate student study Computational biology, and I understand cancer is a catch all term for a variety of diseases that occur in different tissues as the result of different oncogene interactions and other mechanisms.

I’m really trying to understand whether how researchers and clinicians tackle specific cancers, and what a cure would or could even look like. Do we tackle some upstream system that prevents mechanisms that result in the slew of potentially cancerous outcomes for a given cell type? Are there common bottlenecks to tackle?
This is good for not just bees but also other pollinating insects which are in decline across the board.
US visa laws are barbaric. Giving only 60 days to find a new job when one has been laid off without prior notice. How is that supposed to be fair? H1B visa have the effect of creating indentured slaves by placing all of the power on the employers and prevent employees from having any negotiation power since they are always under the threat of losing their visa...

While the US is still seen in a way as a dreamland to live and work in by people in poorer areas, it seems to me anecdotally that more and more people in developed countries no longer have any interest in moving there due to the many issues surrounding visas, work conditions, living conditions, fun things like CBP and overzealous immigration officers, etc... This is not a good thing for a country that has long been successful in attracting the best and the brightest.
Contracts expire and can be not renewed.
Realistically is there any lawsuit that can make any dent in Google's profits?
Second to that. Calibre is the best e-book manager out there.
There's another comment at the same level as yours that you might be interested in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19855812
How does Dart compare to Kotlin? I was planning on learning Kotlin, hoping to use it for server side development as well. But somehow now I have a feeling that developing mobile flutter apps might be more pleasant (pure feelings not based on any real data).

Does Dart offer good performance, asynchronous IO and all those things?
Cool, thanks for correcting me there
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/co...

Yeah, I guess it was more a reference-source for him. Foggy memory I have.
For regular STM32F103C8T6 blue pills, of course there are lots of sellers on AliExpress that go lower. The lowest right now [1] is listing them for $1.53.

That said, it's really confusing how much flash memory are on these. The community seems to find that they list as 64 KB, but in reality ST has been shipping the part with 128 KB without saying. I have two black pills (slightly different board, same MCU) but the one I tested only has 64 KB. :(

1: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32839140960.html?productId=3...
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I wrote a firmware that lets me turn any attiny into a gpio-to-i2c and supports in-place-upgrade also over i2c.

Now I have up to 20 extra gpio for 0.5$ or so. This is not very hard.
They did increase Google Map Apis prices a lot almost overnight though.
> He said he had a lead on a job with another automaker [...] But the industry is suffering a slowdown,

I wonder how much of the slowdown is caused by more and more aggressive emission regulations. Cars used to be definitely more responsive, and they get more sluggish and more expensive to maintain with every new Euro standard published.

Edit: I'm addig this to reply to some commenters. I'm not stating that car comfort is more important than public health. It's just a fact that emission regulations have pushed much fun away from the driving experience. And I honestly wonder how this impacted the car making industry.
Huh? Here in Germany you get 6 months for any type of bulb. Everything else is voluntary.
I don't think they should be rewritten in Kotlin. That would force everyone to use Kotlin with minimal benefits for Kotlin users.
On the other hand, EOLing an IoT pacemaker with short notice might bring some light to this issue.
Recently I have been more invested in the Jetbrains ecosystem then ever before. Intellij has become a tool that is so full fledged it can replace almost all my other development tools. It can run and compile all things JVM. It is able to compile, refactor, and typecheck TypeScript. It can run my test suites. I can use it to browse any database tables, and the list goes on. At the same time I also see the popularity of Kotlin picking up, which will help Jetbrains push their IDE products in the future.
> Cancer treatment for example in Europe is mostly mostly free. In Cuba is totally free. In India can be cheap. In US is very expensive.

Healthcare is a debate unto itself, but the short version is that all else equal a given amount in cash to buy health treatment/insurance should be no worse than the same cost in tax dollars worth of government health coverage, and better because it gives the individual the choice between how high of a deductible they want vs. how much of the premiums they get to keep in their pocket etc.

> Scholarships are for the 1% of the population. I am not sure we should take them into account. Plus scholarships are based on scores. A kid growing up in a troubled family has much smaller chance of getting one compared to his peers.

Every individual thing is for 1% of the population. The point is there are a hundred different things. One person gets a scholarship, another needs food money more than housing money because their aunt lives near the school, another has a brother in the same major and can share books etc.

> I'm not sure we're on the same page here, what problem do you think that BI is trying to solve???

Among other things, it's trying to solve the problem that the only way to get ahead with low resources is to make efficient use of what you have, but assistance that is required to be spent in bureaucratically-specified ways is a de facto prohibition on that.
> OT is very simple to implement, but needs a server (...)

Well, OT in general does not need the server but server-less implementations are more complex (more transforming functions to write, except of "inclusion transformation" you also have to write "exclusion transformation" algorithms).

I also wouldn't say that "OT is very simple to implement" - it is in it's base form, for linear data, with the server in the network. But every enhancement brings a lot of complexity.
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> And make sure that each 1$ you earn reduces your benefits by less than 1$ (maybe 50 cents) so that you're never disincentivized from taking work.

This is more or less how Australian dole works, and when you hit the income band where your payments start decreasing you lose anywhere up to 70 or 80% of marginal increases in income to the government, if you include tax.

At that point a rational person could and does question whether working an extra 6 hour shift for $4/hr take home pay is worth it.
This is one example but IntelliJ is still the bees knees for Java development.
I tried vscode and after a day trying to install various plugins, I was still lacking in functionality that you take for granted in IntelliJ.

Maybe in a few more versions they will be comparable?
I see this criticism about Lyft and Uber all the time, but I don't understand how both companies could not at some point simply raise their prices to make the unit economics work. Sure, they'd lose some business… but given there is almost no fixed costs to running their business, they'd still have large profitable businesses. The only reason they don't is they're fighting for marketshare with each other while in growth mode. But once both companies have established their places in the world, saturated their markets, I don't see why they wouldn't simply raise their prices accordingly.

Revenue would drop, profit would rise. Eventually, the market reach an equilibrium.

Note they could also just raise the share they take for themselves and prices simultaneously. If prices go up 20% and they up their fee from 20% -> 33%, their income goes up 60% and their unit economics look a LOT better.
I use beorg

I like beorg

But I’m beginning to think the correct solution for emacs org mode on iOS is something where I have a server running emacs with all my configurations and customizations, while the app is just a dumb ui that sends the commands to the server for processing. Beorg, or any app that isn’t a full blown emacs implementation (which will never be allowed in the Apple app Store) will never be able to fit my customized workflow fully

Edit: just noticed there’s no mention of beorg in the article so my comment might seem a little schizophrenic :-p
There is probably a fair exchange rate between CEOs and workers (depending on the risk taken and so on), but naturally, when workers are not in a position to freely negotiate (due to lacking bargaining power, lacking other employment opportunities, lacking other means of keeping themselves healthy, fed and warm), that point is somewhere muuuch lower than the current share of profit going to them (and to capital, in general).
Don't buy electronic devices not supporting open standards or technologies.
> The focus is on minimizing how objectionable the winning candidate is over all voters.

This is precisly the problem with electronic voting. It is not about creating a process that is mathematically sound — it is about creating a process the average voting helper can transparently follow, verify and trust in. Every electronic system, no matter how transparent is always a black box to everbody who didn’t either design it, or has both the skill and time to take it apart.

A mathematically sound result that average people can doubt, because it is a blackbox to them, is useless for any meaningful vote.
Yes you can turn off tabs, address, status and sidebar - not sure about scrollbars. Instead of turning everything off consider playing with UI customization features
On another perspective, perhaps it will be good for India to have an influx of skilled and experienced people back. The West has long poached talent from everywhere else.
that's all good in theory, but italian 5 star movement showed how bad actually the reality can hit you
sorry, I thought I was clear in suggesting it as a law - although realistically in a lot of EU countries you could make the case and get it returned.

For example I'm in Denmark and we have a consumer ombudsmand were you can make complaints about violations of your rights as a consumer https://www.consumerombudsman.dk/about-us/ (it talks about marketing but I the Nest was marketed to have functionality it no longer has), in fact there may already be sort of an Ombudsmand ruling that pertains here https://www.consumerombudsman.dk/media/46530/2016-memorandum... which says you can return something after your normal right of return but you are liable for diminished value - so you would not get the full refund in this case but something.

Of course I think that an actual complaint on this subject would result in a memorandum that you can get your full refund.
These one way relationships through mass media are not social. They're parasocial. This kind of relationship is becoming universal when mass media is so accessible that everyone is bound to find a podcast/vlog/stream they personally connect with.

A good question is whether you think someone could be so charming that you would be their friend even if they never let you speak. Mass media is not new and my guess is that ever since the printing press readers would form personal connections with writers.

I don't think any of it is inherently good or bad, but it's a matter of what you want to pay attention to. Everyone around you will be less entertaining, charming, inspiring, or funny than the podcast, but they will listen to you. Which kind of relationship would you rather have?