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Having non-polarized sockets forces devices to be polarization agnostic, which could be safer... Not that I actually know anything about electric safety engineering. And of course there is the ergonomic aspect that allows you to insert the plug in any orientation, compare to usb-c
That's a fair point, but it does seem like a solvable problem. There are multiple companies offering gaming services where the game is running on a remote system. I haven't tried any of these services, but from what I hear they are very useable for casual games, but still have some work to do for FPS type games where milliseconds count. That would indicate to me that getting a web UI to work with this type of setup should be very possible with geographically distributed servers.
It's much safer to just send the public key over whatever medium and then use an authenticated channel to verify the authenticity of said public key.
Why the IQ of software system is important today
Goes where?
This shouldn't be news. Most computer vision NNs are CNNs where the convolutions are basically translating the image into small "textures". "AI sees textures" yeah because that's how we present data to it!
My favorite bit here is not the content policy, it’s the MFFAM bit, which is clever and amusing.

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#BecauseFuckNazisT...
There's a good TED talk on procrastination which might interest you: https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_mas...
Haswell was a pretty major change though, even if it wasn't from scratch. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Although with Meltdown and L1TF and ZombieLoad clearly, it is kind of broken...
First, you have the choice to be arrogant or not arrogant. I would suggest that you’ll be more successful if you choose the latter.

Second, not all team norms and guidelines can practically be discussed in advance. It is much better for a reviewer to give a sincere and detailed review than to leave out useful feedback.
I think it’s quite telling about the bias of hacker news users that this posting is alive and well on top of the first page, whereas a posting about US having the longest economic expansion in history, that was on the front page a few hours ago, was flagged and now gone within minutes of reaching top 10
That's barely a restatement of the question "how do I stop procrastinating", not an answer.

Advice like "find a way to start, and finishing will come later" is at least a substantial step forward. (But still incomplete, as it doesn't solve the problems of distraction, meandering, prioritization, time management, perfectionism)
That wasn't the "whole" point of the Senate:

"The other was intended to represent the states to such extent as they retained their sovereignty except for the powers expressly delegated to the national government. The Senate was thus not designed to serve the people of the United States equally." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate
There's a dichotomy in software development between the developers who represent single points of failure in an organization and the increasing number of "replaceable" developers i.e. developers versed only in popular frameworks or who hold introductory/recent-grad levels of domain knowledge with no desire to go further.

I think right now were in a "golden age" where the latter group still holds power and can command decent salary. I'm convinced this will start to change in 2-3 years and a lot of people who came in for that golden age are going to face a shocking reality that they aren't as privileged as they thought they were.

With the fall of the second group software companies will have much more leverage across the board and we'll see darker and darker patterns prosper.
It's a limitation of Github Pages, which we use for securely hosting a static-content-only website.
Or, you treat people who are abusing the system with the treatment they really need: mental heath support.

If there aren't enough nurses for the sick people, we need more nurses. We can't control the number of sick people by excluding the poor.
I have never written a single line of Erlang, but I run my own ejabberd. However, looking at the package build scripts and build instruction, I have the impression that compiling a project like ejabberd can be complicated.

Does someone know if this is an inherent Erlang problem or just due to some weird project setup in this case?
Hello,

I actually live in Alaska. I'm quite concerned about how the NY Times portrayed this.

While I don't agree with all of the cuts to the University or the budget as a whole, the way this is being portrayed is interesting.

If veto holds, and the cuts to the University take effect, Alaska will still spend 3 times as much per student than the average state. Yes, you heard that correct, Alaska will still contribute 3 times as much in state funding, per student, to their college students than the average state in the lower 48. Going to college for in state residents is one of the lowest tuition rates in the nation for a state school.

Secondly, it didn't get mentioned that Alaska has one University system. There are an amazing amount of redundancies in the system that could eliminated for greater efficiencies and savings.

Lastly, it rarely gets mentioned that the UA system has a huge amount of administrative overhead costs. I attended the UA system and there always seems to be quadruple the administrative staff to actually teaching/research going on.

The last thing I would say is that the State legislatures did a very poor job of overspending while oil prices were good and then when the price of oil dropped, boom!, we had a deficit.

Better fiscal restraint and spending prior to the price of oil dropping would have saved a lot of his heartache.

Not to mention that Alaska is dependent on oil for its current existence and once fossil fuel use is eliminated, this state will lose 75% of its residents.

Just my two cents.
Hessla – The Ethical Software License
You're right.

But, wages haven't improved in the last 40 years for the average person, especially if you compare it to a basket of goods containing the essentials: housing, transportation, medical insurance and education.
> I mean, the core issue is that IMAP was never really intended to be used in the way that encrypted email works right?

Well, why is Protonmail able to provide IMAP then? (although restricted to paying customers, using proprietary software)[0]

[0]: https://protonmail.com/bridge/
Well its a great design if your goal is to make sure agrarian slave-state get to keep their slaves. Less so in a country with ideologically coherent (as opposed to regional) parties that control all branches of govt.
One great way to use your tech skills
It is in quotes because I haven't seen unwarranted unfriendly behavior in months. I am not subjected to put up with people, I do it by choice.
They're also light on social interaction.

Compare:

- Sending a post about your holiday experience to Facebook, vs.
- Calling a friend, engaging in small-talk about your holiday experience and how they've been lately.

Sure, you won't be able to tell all your 1276 "friends" about your holidays, but the people you do talk to will actually be/become your friends. It's quantity vs quality. Personally I've decided that it's more important to me to have a few dozen really good friends in my life, instead of hundreds of people that passively take part in my life, thinking they know me, never really interacting with me in any meaningful way.
And staying at the same employer indefinitely is a sort of soul crushing purgatory in my mind. Software work is one of the few industries where you can completely change the business problem you're addressing by changing employers without your skill set being irrelevant. I love the fact that if I grow tired of the industry the company I'm working at is servicing, I can easily move to another employer with a totally different business problem.
Funny how there are a few domains where the same problem is solved over and over again. Probably an indication that a good solution is truly missing.

A long time ago I wrote a tiny audio synth. And yep, I wrote my own minimal GUI which had stuff like sliders, and most importantly knobs which general GUIs typically don't provide.

Now I'm working on a non-audio webapp, and I have a problem where a knob would be the ideal solution. Searched far and wide for a Vue knob, and what I found was not usable. It worked if you "rotated" it circularly, but it didn't work if you pulled it up/down like a slider. You might say "use a slider then if you want to pull it up/down". True, but a slider takes a lot of UI space which sometimes is very precious. More importantly, the slider resolution is limited to it's height, while a knob could for example use the whole screen height for a full turn.
You beat me to it :D
Electricity, sure. Land, no. The reclaimed land will be highly salinated and unusable on top of the climate being very hot and very dry meaning the salinity level will be unlikely to change in the near future.
> downvote within 15 seconds of posting ... you are speedy in your thoughtlessness

that's the public market of ideas at work for you
When Google doesn't and never has given a fuck about users privacy, it sets a clear standard and example for all the rest of bludgers doing the same...

Ironically, when you look at most of the obfuscated shite being peddled through javascrap, and all these damn ad and analytic networks.. they are all pretty much doing the same kind of user interest/mouse/click tracking etc... so gooble's dfp adplatform collects most of the same data... do they share it, with the rest of the 'ad partners' and save them from running the same sort of js crap via there own scripts.. nope... so end users end up loading pages in some cases more than 1mb worth of useless javascrap all doing the same shit.

And to hell with google ever providing adequate control over what in the javascrap api is allowed to be run on a users browser... I might be fine with some functionality of javascrap being able to run in order for websites to provide better functionality and design. But when you have to accept that just by allowing javascrap in order to get a functioning website you have to allow all of the rest of its possible bad behaviour of privacy and security abuse issues... do google care.. hell no, they've been finding ways to get lazy web developers hooked on making literately every site they come across into using and relying on third party scripts.. and it started off with recaptcha crap, site analytics, ad platform serving, to the ultimate point of insanity where entire websites (or crap apps) are rendered with overcomplicated shit like react and angular etc... you literately don't even get a semi functioning website with javascrap disabled now.. html/css specs have been left in stagnation while everyone has pursued abusing the hell out of javascrap into doing everything.

so to hell with the w3c, google, mozilla, microsoft etc.. they've all turned the internet into a pile of poo... now advertisement images come with more js shite behind it to run than the ad image itself... and I was fine with image baseed advertisements on a page... I'm not fine with the level of privacy invasion and shitty cookie popups prompts pretending to offer me choice on data collection etc.... these cunts and the EU all need to go take a hike into hell.
This weekend I was slogging through a book I had been meaning to read for ten years when I realized that twitter is actually more enjoyable than books.
Clearly this is the result, and I've heard this argument before, yet I haven't seen any solid references that this was an explicit design choice by the founders to balance interests of sparse/rural states against dense/urban states.

Can anyone point to any particular references in founders' documents or authoritative historians showing how this was designed as a specific feature and not a side-effect, e.g., of simply trying to treat states equally at a time when they may not have been as dissimilar (e.g., seems that having fewer people in the entire state of WY than in a single borough of NYC is far more imbalanced than the 1780s)?
Modern unions that only represent one type of skill or workers in one company (or both!) are far less effective than historical unions that aimed to unionize as many workers as possible under the same umbrella. Being able to represent your members even if they switch companies gives you a lot more opportunities.

Unions are (at least supposed to be) democratically run, so if tech workers don't want to sit in the same position for 45 years until they can collect a pension, their union doesn't need to negotiate for that. They can use that leverage for something else.

Putting that together, your modernized union might be an industry-wide organization that acts both for collective bargaining and as a placement agency. They could bargain for making switching companies easier - maybe employers need to support specific benefits providers so workers don't need to switch. And they could use their network to improve bargaining - a big part of strike preparation is making sure everyone is taken care of ahead of time; the union could secure job offers for workers who can't afford to go on strike.
I agree. This is a central question.

Is the ideal model of employment the "job-for-life," or not. If not, how many of a "traditional" union's norms still make sense?

Personally, im not really sure where I stand on tech unions. I suspect that certain things would be better if unions were more present. Work-life balance, unpaid overtime and always-available-on-email problems would probably be better. I suspect on-the job training would be better too. This is an area where our industry is insane. How is it even possible that tech companies do less training than wharehouses?

I was trained to drive a forklift for a part time summer job. 6 days paid training out of a total<60. 13 years in tech, and at best I've been offered "do a MOOC or something in your spare time."

OTOH, I don't think most of us want unions deciding who gets hired/fired/promoted, want seniority systems or a lot of traditional union stuff like that.
Pretty good English equivalent for that saying: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ymmv
Google Truth 1.0, a simpler AssertJ: assertThat(text).contains(“test gmail.com”)
Check out datascript then as the datalog query experience should be the same.
If I'm not happy with my company, I leave the company. It's not that hard. And I don't pay any dues to a union for that right.

Non-competes are unenforceable in California.

Do you actually think that writing software is going to be come an unskilled job some day?
Your comments contain truth but no wisdom. "Works as originally designed" is not the same as achieving either the desired goals (either for the past or for today).

But you know that. You have a history of being an intellectually dishonest little troll. So just fuck off.
I'm a little confused by the assertion of "artificial intelligence's preference for texture over shape". The article makes it sound like an intrinsic issue with AI, when to my understanding it's just an outcome of popular image classification algorithms. Couldn't one create classifiers that depend more heavily on object shapes?
I'm super-excited to see this come together. I've been working on an aarch64-based product with a Mali GPU, and it's been so frustrating to be stuck on the ancient vendor kernel for no reason other than "it's the one that the Mali blobs are compiled against". I can't wait for this to be a non-issue for us. Thank you to the developers working on this, and to the companies sponsoring it!
I feel like this irony is at the core of the modern Republican party (witness the fact that more ideologically consistent libertarian types have basically found themselves ignored in the post-Trump era).

The cynical way of looking at this (and IMO supported by the popularity of Trump's rhetoric) is that most on-the-ground Republicans aren't actually opposed to government handouts, they're just worried that government handouts are mostly going to the wrong people - groups outside of their circle of empathy. Unfortunately, this often seems to be largely defined by race...
> P.S. This doesn't mean that everything offensive must be posted -- there is stuff that should be illegal to post because of the harm it can cause.

What stuff? Using this logic, why should anything be off-limits to the "public market of ideas"? e.g. libel should be perfectly acceptable speech — that way it can be exposed and refuted!

This is a particularly insidious point of view because it frames its own line between acceptable and unacceptable speech as some sort of natural law, when really it's just as arbitrary as any other line.
Is SourceHut the new GitLab (which was the new GitHub)?

This random HN commenter says yes!
Why do a majority of electronic devices has only 2 prong?
Cutting the budget by 41% just isn't responsible, no matter how you slice it.

The governor is explicitly making this cut in order to increase the oil revenue dividend for residents to $3K per year.
My question is how do we then deal with the situation where a group of cats is making up the shape of an elephant?

a good AI will eventually need to be able to identify this subtle difference, it is an elephant, made of cats, not a cat and not an elephant.
If you could find another Altair somewhere, you could take measurements of the cover for the purposes of having one manufactured as a one-off.
Because after 2-3 years you can move for (on the very low end) a $10-20 grand pay increase without much pain at all. A raise you'd be unlikely to get at your original job. I am unsure of how a union could address that problem. It's a sellers market for software developers.
> It sure beats the credit card networks and paypal.

The credit card networks and paypal are part of the Libra alliance. My guess is, Libra will have the same problems as the current solutions but it will make onboarding easier for unbanked people in other countries who just need a whatsapp account to start using Libra. But for countries where most people already have a Visa/Mastercard, it's kind of redundant. Kind of like bitcoin in fact without the censorship but with price stability.
The U6 figure is tremendous right now. 7.1 in May, 7.2% in June. It's nearly as low as it was at the peak of the end of the economic boom in September 2000. The best we have seen in two decades.

> If you look at where all the jobs are, it seems to be they're all in low cost, low skill areas: waiting tables, dishwasher,

Well of course that's a big part of it. Those are the jobs that get the most wiped out in recessions. People with four year degrees or better see far fewer layoffs and far lower unemployment rates through weaker economic times.

There are ~7.4 million job openings, an immense figure compared to those seeking jobs (compared to what has been normal in the past). Those are not mostly in waiting tables and washing dishes. Manufacturing for one example added 300,000 jobs over the prior 16 months or so.
This feels like a goalpost move to me
> it never stops where you think it should.

Friendly reminder that "slippery slope" is a fallacy.

100% censorship is obviously bad. It remains to be shown that 0.1% censorship inevitably leads to it.
"if you do this, it will be easier for others to maintain in the future."
Can be pretty subjective. And unless it's a very specific comment like "This is less maintainable because if someone calls these methods out of order you end up with a bug, so we should make these methods private and expose one public method that calls these methods in the specified order" then I think if the convention isn't worth writing down it's not worth arguing about in a code review.
Adafruit in my case https://www.adafruit.com/product/4195
LiveView was always going to have this limitation. Its design makes it suitable for low latency links - such as local network.

It’s not going to fail to ‘work’ because of this. It just has a niche and isn’t a general purpose web framework.

I’m looking forward to building some admin tools with it, reducing the complexity required when having to deal with server and client separately.
What does that tell us? That HN trends pessimistic? That the HN audience is under-employed? Or something else?
Interesting! How do you deal with devices during that time?
If you think that any of the labour laws, health benefits, vacation days, special leave (bereavement for example) or any of the other things you take for granted as part of your normal work day didn't come from unions continually pushing the envelope of worker's rights then I good luck with that.

The remuneration package offered by a business is typically dictated by the business sector (competitors) so saying "I've worked non union jobs and I'm pretty sure the benefits I get are not directly due to a union." is faulty logic. If half the shops are union shops or competition for staff is fierce then pay/benefits will reflects.

Unions gave us 40 weeks (as opposed to 60+), no child labour, work place health & safety (maybe not such a big deal in tech but in other industry it's critical), etc... yes, government legislation made them law but unions applied pressure to get it done. While many aspects of unions have, or appear to have, outlived their usefulness they are still a very important tool in the employer-employee relationship.

Look at it this way, if unions were really just about the money then employers wouldn't care so much and attempt to keep unions out of their businesses (sometimes illegally). An employer could just say to the union "this is how much I have to spend on labour, how would you like it budgeted" and call it a day cause at that point it's just deciding on how big your slice of pie is.

I guess I sound like a union fanboy, which I'm not, but we shouldn't discount the very real impact and ongoing influence unions have.
There is a lot of fat to cut. The US spends almost twice as much per student on tertiary education per student, and about 2.6% of GDP in tertiary education, compared to the OECD average of 1.5%.

Not to mention that tertiary education funding is regressive. It tends to help those who are already relatively well off.
What's to consider? Palm never had the mass market engine behind it that Apple had coming from Mac; Blackberry got lazy and sat on irs laurels; Apple was the first big company with a big budget to launch a full screen high-resolution capacitive touchscreen in USA.
>I want the amateur bands to be a free-for-all. And also free, for all.

Then they aren't the amateur bands any more - they're ISM bands with really high power limits. Interference is a thing. Modern technology doesn't magic away the problem of interference, it just gives us some tools for mitigating it in some circumstances. The amateur bands give you the right to use high power levels on big blocks of spectrum, but those rights come with responsibilities. You might prefer anarchy, but the FCC doesn't and neither do the majority of spectrum users.
We already have standard 240 volt plugs: https://www.stayonline.com/product-resources/nema-straight-b...

Assuming you read the article, the difference is that they have two hot prongs instead of a single hot pong. The 4-prong outlets, like a standard dryer outlet, allow a device to use both 120v and 240v. Sometimes appliances take advantage of this by using a 240v heating coil and a 120v motor.

Adopting EU-style plugs is more problematic. There's the two hot prong problem, instead of one hot and one neutral. The other problem is frequency, as we use 60hz instead of 50hz.