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They need a browser extension or app version of this...

Downloading and installing software is more than regular Joe is happy to do in 2019
Hot take: but yes, it is. They sold the software and they are preventing anyone else from patching XP. I think that by doing so they have responsibility. If they don't want it then that's okay: just allow other people to patch XP.

The situation where I'm not able (or even legally allowed!) to patch my own computer system is pretty ridiculous. I'm not massively in to "Free Software" or the "four essential freedoms", but I do think people should have the freedom to fix software they bought ("right to repair").

I know how it works, I don't "buy" Windows, I buy a license to allow using it. I think is legal shenanigans and doesn't (or rather, shouldn't) really matter.

The entire thing is just a colossal waste of resources. Many organisations would be perfectly happy with XP, because a basic stable OS without too much fancy stuff is all they need, and XP offers that. It's not an "upgrade", it's just "replacing a working system with another working system".
"It is my perception that, at least in America and I suspect in many other places, competition pressure centered around places with strong "second place" (Job) opportunities combined with decades of civic mal-planning and treating symptoms (for some) rather than root causes (for all) have combined with a regressive tax/compensation structures to destroy the middle class and upward mobility.
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i literally cannot parse this sentence. i tried - i am a native english speaker but it's just confusing to me what the proposition being made here is. i tried reading it a few times.

it is late but if someone could clarify it would be much appreciated.
I successfully ran from an armed robber in SF at around ~7PM. I spotted his gun from ~15 feet and pulled my friend into traffic to run away. Others have been shot and killed on the same block. My co-worker was robbed with a gun inside the Caltrain station in the early evening.

Lived all over Los Angeles for over a decade and never even witnessed an armed robbery, let alone experienced one. Never had my car or house broken into either.

SF is overrun with dangerous heroin needles, human shit on the streets, burglary, and armed robbery. It's just pathetic and the amount of denial about it is enough to make you think some of the residents are insane.
Promising free money for everyone keeps us far from the ideal of universalism
It may not be their responsibility, so to speak, but if they choose to do it to help maintain their “we’re the best solution for enterprise customers, look we still release security patches years after EOL, that’s how much we care about reliability, blah blah blah” stance, who’s to say they shouldn’t do it?
TIL Ken Silverman was 18 freaking years old when he started working on Build.
Google doc allows you to upload images from your computer. Why not just do that? With proper steganography no one will bat an eye on a few docs with some multi-megabyte pictures.
I like the I Ching too but could you please stop posting these and then deleting them? It's an abuse of the site.
This is a great comment - I'll just make one minor but important correction. Reserve requirements are fairly uniform across states (see [0] for a list of differences), so they likely wouldn't be a major driver of health insurers' decisions about where to incorporate.

The reality would be worse than you describe - rather than being driven by reserve requirements, the race to the bottom would be based on differences in the level of coverage that insurers are required to provide. Healthy people would buy coverage from states with lax requirements to reduce their premiums, while less healthy people would buy coverage from states with more stringent requirements to ensure their treatment would be covered. Premiums in states with stringent coverage requirements would increase, pushing more and more healthy people to cheaper alternatives, and eventually making coverage in those states unaffordable for the people who need it.

[0] (PDF) https://www.naic.org/prod_serv/SPD-OPS-19.pdf
The low end compute must be a substantial amount of revenue.
importlib.resources is an excellent replacement for pkg_resources.

with importlib.resources.open_binary('my.package', 'foo.png') as f:
...

Avoids the overhead of importing pkg_resources, and hassle of having to call cleanup_resources before the interpreter shuts down. Backports are available for Python <= 3.6 too!
Worked at a similar company. The answer is licensing. It would require a complicated, multi-party legal re-negotiation, and I suspect Hulu doesn't see the upside.
This just feels like another example of Python slowly creeping more esoteric syntax into the language, making it harder for beginners to approach the language.
Define “normal”, considering your nation’s average salary.
Just because a computer is involved in health care means it has access to your "health info".

And look, of course it would be better if they upgraded. But "facts on the ground" can make it hard. It's easy to comment on HN, but not everyone involved is a complete idiot. I suspect that it's probably one of those 90/10% things: 90% has already been upgraded year ago, but getting the last 10% upgraded to something newer is 90% of the effort.
> Git isn't really designed for cryptographic security, is it?

Well, the git documentation says it is:
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Signing-Your-Work

It is certainly not helpful that Linus at the same time says conflicting things publicly. It would be nice to have some clearly documented expected security properties of the git structure.

This confusion is all a bit unfortunate. While the attack scenarios are obscure, with a secure hash function Git would have some really nice properties to use it in other areas, it would effectively be a secure append-only log. (Some people call this something with the B word which I'll avoid, but that's effectively what it is.)
What Could Save App Stores from PWAs
Thanks to this post I went from clicking around the site to watching Tamas Kocsis' Ted Talk streaming within zeronet, within about 2 minutes.

What I find most impressive about this, is that the start up experience is so solid. It just works and its fast as hell. I honestly don't even know what you lot are complaining about, did you try it?
Debunked, unfortunately, as it seemed a story 'too good to be true' even at the time: https://www.snopes.com/ap/2018/08/07/police-2-men-escape-car...

"Itzehoe police spokesman Peter Berndt said Tuesday the two men were actually 58 and 59 and left a home for people with mental health issues to party Friday night in the town of Wacken, near the eponymous festival.

Festival-goers called police after finding the two “helpless, disoriented and intoxicated” waiting for a bus home at a main street stop after the buses had stopped running at 3 a.m. Saturday.

Police brought them to a first-aid station and then later in the morning sent them home in a taxi arranged by the care home about 30 kilometers (20 miles away)."
Cool. You've implemented your own form of the pomodoro technique, the 2-minute rule and most important tasks (MIT's) to get yourself organized. I think this is one way I've managed with a lot of the issues the author mentions... I'm just now hesitant to seek help for some reason, even though I know there might be something more besides methodology that can help me.
History would appear to prove you wrong[1]. Yes, Intel's stock price rebounded that doesn't change that their stock price changed when the vulnerability became public.

[1]: https://qz.com/1171391/the-intel-intc-meltdown-bug-is-hittin...
They're not? What zeronet are you on?
Conservation of status quo is a presidential republic's normal modus operandi. Do you want change back and forth like in Turkey?
Does this ever happen in civic planning? Do city planners ever talk to the public, to design experts, to community leaders? I honestly don't know, but I suspect the answer is NO.

They absolutely do, but the problem is that the "user base" is huge and there is never anything even close to a consensus about the 'right' thing to do among those groups.
It seems to be the premises of client-side prediction. I submitted a link on HN yesterday that may interest some of you guys: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19908875
I used shoebox as a great alternative to Google photos. The problem is they just shut down.
What they mean is that it's loading from local storage much of the time - not from the server.
Thanks for reminding me to check out the Kindle sample I downloaded in 2017.
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Carmack is probably the most self-consistent opinionated creator out there, given that so many years on he still sticks to one of his original quotes:

> "Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better."

He'll even do Samsung's work for them to fulfill the purpose of that quote.
Japan has also got some interesting fox lore that's probably partly inherited from the chinese [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsune
Thanks for the sharing!

> cloudera taught me a lot about how not to build a team and a company. ...

It would be interesting if you are willing to share more about this. Are managers from Oracle play the reason? Did they bring you unnecessary disciplines against engineers? Any examples why you describe cloudera then "horribly political"?
If pea protein is the main ingredient shouldn't it be "meat alternative" rather than "alternative meat".
I agree. And that's exactly the status quo for insurance in the US: every policy is subject to the regulatory requirements of the state in which it's sold. "Allowing" policies to be sold across state lines - which, as others have pointed out, is equivalent to preventing states from regulating policies sold within their borders - would reverse this.
When you aim someone and click you want to hit what you see. This is a big problem with lag compo, you are in the present but you see other players in the past. In order to avoid this behavior, a common practice is to send what you see, your target, when you shoot.
You can get ad free mobile browsers like Ghostery browser.
This has been the case for decades. These days Transformers just has more lens flare.
I hope the UI for this feature says "This app requires an update to work. Update or Uninstall?"

If developers see even a small fraction of users choose uninstall, they won't force updates anymore. Nearly half of android users at any point in time have run out of space and can't install updates anyway.
Just use Unicode for the optimal highest possible base 1,114,112!
That's a personal attack and also breaks this guideline: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site more to heart? This comment and the two or three previous ones you posted have been breaking it.
I really hope this statement gets people to think about the crypto realm in a different way. What you described is exactly why I see this as a tool for revolutionary progress.

Not so long ago, you would have had little to no option and would have been a victim of oppressive systems. This technology allowed you to overcome something people have been helplessly outmatched by for a hundred years.

I am glad you shared this and sincerely hope you the best.

Its worth noting that many "western" cultures are becoming more hostile to their citizens, removing privacy and many things our parents and grandparents took for granted. We should be embracing things that gives us privacy.

We already have banks and payment systems playing alongside thought police. Saying something that is dissent has gotten people to lose their bank accounts [0]. I am not condoning these actions by this example but I am saying its becoming more normal. There are also issues with patreon dropping people over online political affiliation.

I don't know how many here follow the global economy but if you do, you will see the US economy is in a dangerous place. This commenter talks about the central bank taking his money and that can happen here with something call "bail-ins" [1] which takes money from account holders in the event of another "too big to fail" moment.

This may have been in Argentina but people should realize, that although you may not feel you need it today, you very well could need it I'm your country soon.

[0] https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/financial-tyranny-c...
[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets-economy/090716...
I think gaming netcode engineers would love to ditch CSP, but the problem is even though low-latency connections are mainstream, stable latency connections are not. It's always possible to have lag spikes or temporary slowdowns in your routing or connection.

Second, it's also possible to end up through matchmaking lobbies on a server halfway around the world from one or more of the players in a given match. At some level the limitations of physics still result in noticeable latency and CSP is still mandatory for any fast-paced real-time online multiplayer game.
42.zip?
The Yellow Peril is back!

I suggest people should look up American magazine covers and movies from the 50s and 60s... Shockingly and openly racist but we're not far off from going back to that time.
In almost all markets competition produces pressure towards consolidation and monopolization. You need strong regulation to keep things competitive
I don't think so. They probably could have been written better, they weren't written poorly, but it's really hard to write 200 unit tests for a feature that don't break when the feature is updated.
That's deeply uncharitable, and therefore you're still violating the site guidelines.

It's possible that someone has sincere intentions of developing a startup to help people make friends. Maybe that's naive, but that's no reason to flame them and make them out to be a sinister asshole. Could you please just take the spirit of this site more to heart?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I suspect that I started to misunderstand where you were coming from, but I think that I caught myself.

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I suspect that you're using the term "Everyman" in a different way than I'm used to it being used — as that every man is set apart from the rest. I'm used to it being used in the way that any man holds in common some/many characteristics, beliefs, and behaviors with all other men.

> The notion of an audience with shared values/cultural origins has dissolved and been replaced be a universal Everyman/Noman which in turn leads us toward the dissolution of community outside the realm of technical specialization.

Using my view of Everymanism, we would suspect that individualization would not necessarily move us away from shared values. We would need to distill out our similarities from our differences via discourse, and we would suspect that similarities would be found.
You have a choice between public and private insurance. And you can very well be publicly insured should you desire so (for a cost). It’s just that if you don’t have an employer you pay full medical insurance premium (not half). But should you get bankrupt you will get the public medical insurance benefits for free again.
I saw a few internet cafes but I don't think people need them anymore

Sadly, a few homeless have resorted to living in the se internet cafes to avoid living on the streets. That said, the number of these cafes have been dwindling.
Given that the population of Japan is <130M and is only going to go down from now on, what's the point? :)

14-digits?!?! Yikes. Not looking forward to using that!
Damn 4:3? That ain't too bad.
I would strongly emphatise 1) Get enough sleep! For motivation and general guidance on getting enough sleep please read the book "Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams" by Matthew Walker.
Why is there such a disparity in quality of life for tech workers in SV? It seems like the housing crisis there will eventually stifle productivity (no one can afford to move there for entry level roles without giving up a ton). Are there some special dynamics that cause these types of scenarios except for the fact that a lot of people got rich quickly in one place?
> scoop [...] g [...] oz

Argh! Don't mix your units, or you'll crash into the surface of Mars [1]. Let's convert that to SI-based values:

8 oz = 227 g
RDA of iron = varies; 8 mg for adult males,
18 mg for adult females before menopause
1 scoop = who knows, maybe 30 g?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
14-digit!? No one can possibly remember that easily... Why not alphanumeric and make the address space so big that people can chose one that would be possible for a stranger to remember immediately - like we have domain names, e.g.: cecelia_alberto OR charlotte1231
Better Solution: Hire more women (say 2 per man) and watch sexual harrasement complaints drop to zero.
Maybe you could elaborate on this?

CSP is still relevant as far as I can tell. Yes, connections in a lot of countries are now on average lower latency, and yes on average CSP might not be required.

However, it's not uncommon to have a couple of high latency connections on a game server (player in another country, roommate is running bit torrent, or just a poor connection). You can't always guarantee low latency, and sometimes connections are interrupted temporarily and packets get lost (assuming UDP).

Short of full sync more often, CSP helps make these unpredictabilities a little more tolerable and transparent for the player.
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This is basically the slippery slope argument, with a slap dash addition of "suppressing the conservatives" commentary at the end - noting that if your "conservative speech" is indistinguishable from hate speech, maybe you need to reconsider your life choices?

Not sure I agree with the counter claim - FB should be required to reproduce all content and allow any person to join irrespective of their comments and/or behaviour - essentially it slippery slopes its way to "should the NYT be required to run an OpEd by [insert serial killer, or whatever here]"?

On the other hand: it seems that requiring them not to censor would require saying that a corporation is not a person under the constitution, which would mean corporations would lose the ability to enforce their religious beliefs on their employees?
Another little easter egg: typing "why" will return a randomly generated answer.
I've never lived in a place where going without a car was remotely feasible - at least not in the US. I've lived in Norway for some years, and do not drive.

First and foremost, lets be clear: I lived in small to medium-sized towns in the midwest. Two towns had taxi service, and one had a limited bus service. The town with taxis only... well, those taxis weren't reliable. You couldn't pre-order a taxi to go to work and the waiting time could be anywhere from 15 minutes to 2 hours. They weren't cheap: Taking a taxi to a minimum wage job would usually cost an hour of work.

Living outside of the small towns was no picnic without a car: You couldn't ride a bike on the shortest route, and it took more time. Biking was often unsafe: You were expected to use the road much like a car. Except lesser.

All of the places had a lack of continuous sidewalks to walk on and drivers that rarely slowed down for you. Pedestrians have the right of way in name only.

Not to mention... distance. In the small town, I tried walking everywhere for a while. I could not buy clothes outside of dollar general. Lots of things weren't possible to find in town. I was lucky enough to have a grocery store: Good thing, too, because there was a 20 minute drive to the towns with larger ones.

IN the larger cities, most residential areas were kept away from the areas with commerce. Wal-mart did not have sidewalks leading to it in one town.

IF you do it despite all of this, you still have to have the right job. Retail is going to expect you to be clean and dry when you get to work. SO will a restaurant. Some of these places have little to zero break room and no safe place to keep a bicycle or your helmet.

Oh, yeah: In almost all of these places, you were expected to only walk during "normal" hours. IF you walked to a 24-hour store at 2am or home after getting off work at 3am, you drew police suspicion, doubly so if you are young, look poor, a minority.

Some jobs won't hire you if you don't have a car or steady transportation. Walking and cycling did not count.

And sure, all this is still technically a choice, but not much of one. You have to reach a level of privilege before you can do this stuff safely and reasonably - at least in the states.
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Beginners don't have to know or touch any of this though. They can keep using normal strings until at some point they learn about f strings and see a need for them. You don't need to stop adding features to a language just because a beginner won't be able to learn everything. They don't need to.
SF first city to ban facial recognition software use by police
As a former Cisco employee, I can tell you why companies never want to open source their security-sensitive products:

Pros of open sourcing a product:

- fewer total number of vulnerabilities

Cons of open sourcing a product:

- more publicly-known vulnerabilities

- less effort required to find new vulnerabilities

The product might be more objectively secure, with more bug reports and more fixes.

But it will be less practically secure. There will be more known vulnerabilities, and many customers can't upgrade, leaving more total vulnerable customers. And worse, now anyone on the internet can try and find new vulnerabilities for $0, while before they'd need to buy a $1,000+ piece of hardware to even get a shot at the compiled code.

The real defense against this problem is security auditing. Security engineers try to hack the device while asking a bunch of questions about SSH connections and private keys. This is the technique most companies employ, often combined with bug bounties.
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Well, until it hits water surface boundary limits aka fully covered lake.
OpenLaw Works with Latham, Tells More About RocketLawyer Partnership
I see everyone in this thread reference CSP [0] and I keep thinking they’re all talking about the foundations of core.async or Golang.

[0] https://www.reaktor.com/blog/why-csp-matters-i-keeping-thing...
But why is it called prediction? It's not predicting the future, it's simply simulating the present! Is it because the client is "predicting" where the server thinks the player should be?
All the Scandinavian languages can be read by speakers of the other Scandinavian languages, somewhat accuately, in written form, given enough time, cursing and crying is invested into doing it. Icelandic and Faraoese are quite different from the others, but they're not THAT hard to understand when written down.

Speakers of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish can usually talk to eachother without major issues although the kids seem to be preferring to speak English nowadays.

Spoken Icelandic or Faraoese on the other hand? I usually manage to get a single word or phrase. The rest is gibberish.
f-strings are not the same way to do things but a different way. You can't explode a dictionary into an f-string to fill in the fields, for example, but you can in .format().
Does anybody actually remember phone numbers these days ?

Edit : I do remember the half a dozen I use or might really need, and already feel like an outlier. ( And as pointed in another comment, they're already 11 digits each. Not that much of a difference. )
I’m not sure how new this is. I mean, people have been using yellow split peas in daals etc for, I assume, basically forever. They’re not exactly an innovative source of protein.