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> Now I’m trying to come up with a non-PITA way of isolating browsing from my local network while still allowing direct access to my local network!

UMatrix will protect you from most of this (with the exception of DNS rebind attacks).

I don't necessarily disagree with people who are frustrated that their browser can do this, but I also think it's completely reasonable to make it easy for browsers to send requests on an intranet. There are multiple devices in my house that wouldn't work with that capability.

The "problem", to the extent that there is a problem, is that securing these devices relies on developers doing the right thing -- and developers are untrustworthy. Theoretically, it would be better to put users in control. But that's not a specific problem with Intranet requests, that's a problem with CORS in general as it applies to the entire Internet.
Ask HN: What is the most painless UI library you've used (in whatever language)?
I actually never came across a UI library in any language or platform that I found enjoyable to use. So I'm curious which UI library you enjoy to use the most.

The last UI library I used was React, which was surprisingly good but not yet quite painless.
> Once the suburban kids from more wealthy suburban families started to move in it was all but over

While I agree that bohemians are a worthy part of society, rent pricing is complicated, and that so-called wealthy suburbanites coincide with a safety exchange: greater property crime and visible homelessness for a reduction in violent crime, an exchange with complex human costs.
Pretty cool. Does the tool process bounces, complaints, and unsubscribes, e.g. auto removes from future mailings?

Have you considered using a hosted platform that uses Amazon SES rather then hosting Sendy or other tools yourself? I own BigMailer and our clients with established SES accounts (high daily rate limits > high limit per sec) see 1m emails go out in a little over 1 hour.

I always wonder why people choose to host email software in house and it seems like the requirement for direct integration with in-house system(s) is one of the biggest considerations when choosing in-house vs. off-the-shelf solution.
Lack of strong family ties. People blame lack of public facilities and health care, but at the root of it all, it’s the missing safety net that family provides. This is the number one difference between some of those incredibly poor places and America.
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Solid back of the envelope job.
you're a good son.
The grid in Costa Rica is also highly unreliable and many communities will run off oil & gas generators for extended periods of time (in addition to the comments that a majority trucks, busses, cars still run off of non-renewable sources.
This process needs to be more transparent upfront. The physician should know exactly what services they are referring between the course of you entering their room, a formal diagnosis and treatment plan of action being made, and you exiting the room.

Why is it okay to tack on all these mysterious services rendered after the fact that may not have actually transpired and were instead 'upcoded' as the insurance company may cover it. This creates perverse incentives and allows physicians to bill the max rate and optimize for rendering the most lucrative number of services and they can reasonably get away with.

I've seen dentists do this time and time again if you come in with PPO and put the pressure on you for extra services if you have an HMO cause they are barely getting paid, recommending laser treatment for killing bacteria and a plethora of other scare tactics to get you to pay for their fancy equipment and hygienists, etc (confirmed this with a dentist relative).
Cold, net-positive fusion. Current fusion reactors either require more power than they output or would run far too hot to be sustainable.

While I too am hopeful that humanity will be able to crack cold fusion in the next few hundred millennia, it should be noted that cold fusion is something which has simply not occurred in our universe before. Yes, fusion is the most commonly-occuring process in the universe, but all of it runs hot. It is possible that net-positive cold fusion might never come to pass and we'll have to go back to solar panels so we can exploit the output of already-existing hot fusion from the Sun.
I didn't. I said I have mixed feelings. Damned if they do damned if they don't. From what I have read there are some great initiatives to modernise farming methods with technology in order to reduce burning. They should pursue this aggressively. India has a lot of sun. They should pursue solar electricity aggressively. One other thing that struck me was how poorly Indian cities are designed. Not walkable at all. This is a huge mistake that should be acknowledged and worked on. I know its a pipe dream but I really think India could benefit from not embracing the choas so much.

I think to answer your question the best path forward is to continue as is with economic growth targets but also on a political level to be relentless in not accepting that what exists now is remotely good enough. Bring the problems up front and centre and never stop talking about them. Cuties inertia seemed to be particularly strong in India. That said India has some of the brightest minds in the world at the moment and has developed amazing capabilities so the problem isn't insurmountable if it is acknowledged and faced head on.
Being artists, old, hipster, gay/lesbian, etc shouldn't give anyone special rights to claim that they need to be specially immunized from the pressures of the world.

It's just a fact that people who make something, invent, come up with a good idea, make a place better, eventually are going to be disappointed by the masses who take up their ideas/places and lack the same reverence for what they created by replacing it with money.

Many of the inventors of, say radio/cellphones, medicines, technologies, or chefs, painters, architects, fashion designers, would probably be rolling in their graves with what the mass market has done with their original lofty ideas. It happens to everyone, and you move on. If you're lucky you take advantage of some of the value of what you created.

It's no different for people who own a house, live in a community that became hot. They created something (and, by the way, many did not, they just lived there), and now what they created is appealing enough that more people want to live where they live.

For those that owned property, they get plenty out of the deal. For those that don't and rented, well, gentrification is not the first time that someone who rents loses out compared to being a property holder. That's a wholly separate issue.

Feel free to suggest how to change human nature and the way people and the masses behave.
Alright alright, you worded it well enough, but your questions seemed to be a little sharp given that the guy is just asking for some help. More people should do that generally speaking, instead of not... everyone is better off, as long as people perceive that as someone trying to grow and not a weakness.
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Ideally the ethanol should be distilled using solar thermal collectors like evacuated tubes or parabolic troughs. There are also semi-permeable membranes that only allows alcohol though (fairly new tech).
While I agree there have been no real features added for a long time, and there are significant gaps, it would be really difficult for me to leave Strava at this point. As a trail runner, all of my running friends are there and it is the only social network I use each day. I use it for daily motivation, route finding, comparison, running log and workout analysis. Most importantly, it has enabled me to connect with dozens of other runners in real life who I never would have met and run with.
I think they should remain available to adults and for minors by Rx (if they got hooked on tobacco). But I certainly would like to see this better understood and regulated.

I don’t think they should be outright banned like SF is doing, but some regulation and understanding (sci studies) would be good.
We can debate over whether or not browsers should work this way, but if you're reading this and are technically inclined, the best immediate right-now takeaway is that your intranet isn't perfectly secure.

As always, you should practice defense in depth and work to secure your internal network from potential bad actors attacking from within your internal network. NATs offer you partial security and make some attacks harder; but you can't just throw up a private web server without authentication and say, "it's on a NAT, so it's secure."

This is especially true in the IOT world, where the threat to your network may not even be coming from a browser/website. Multiple layers of defense are the way to go, because no single layer is impenetrable.
Sorry, no The issue is the people who run the country you were born in are making all of the decisions.

If you're homeless because you came out of prison, you will have had your right to vote deprived of you.

Family has nothing to do with it.
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Trackpad drivers on linux are not even close of the kind of gesture MacOS allow, with the help of a third party app.

And to configure the said trackpad, I have a nice GUI allowing me to define dozens of mouvement, triggers and response events for whatever application. No need to study the obscure documentation of xinput or whatever, if you're even successfull to find it on the web, only to dicover the possibilities doesn't go over of what you were able to do 10 years ago, which was very basic, e.g single tap, double tap, 2 fingers tap and that it. Last time I checked, 3 fingers swipe was not even registered.

Desktop interface of Linux computers feels like outdated copy of Windows. XFCE and LXDE looks like windows 95. Gnome, Mate and Cinamon never made it past 2008 and KDE is buggy as hell and a mess to configure.

And most desktop application feels like they have been made by a company going broke before being able to polish the interface.

With MacOS, you have the best of both world: a standard nix system, with a nice interface, a repository system (brew, macport) and polished commercial applications from an app store or from the wild.

Linux is good for niche applications: server, embedded systems, and a few specialized distro like kali or tails. For regular desktop application, that's still functional, but without the happiness.
I think "the company that makes my laptop has only installed spyware on other laptops" is a pretty weak security guarantee.
> obviously nothing will be banned

Tobacco: 500,000

Alcohol Deaths: 88,000

All Non Alcohol Drug Overdoses (including prescriptions): 64,000

Marijuana Deaths: 0

Yearly statistics for the USA. Seems your 'obvious' might not be so obvious for the rest of us.

But then again, I think many 'obvious' things for you are not obvious to the rest of us. Like the muddled thinking related to children:
1st, it's already illegal to sell them to kids
2nd, will kids get them less if they are removed from local retail locations that check ID? Will driving it underground reduce consumption or only increase the dangers of use?

For some, it's obvious that they see it obviously. Others... we see nuance and no clear cut answers. Though many of us dislike such strong and rash positions backed by emotive, reactionary, broad stroke arguments and so little data.
I wonder how viable it would be to set up a one-person non-profit corporation that pays its owner-operator a reasonable wage off the proceeds of sold art.
I wish I could go in with a GoPro and record every damn second so I can prove they didn't provide the maxed out 'upcoded' services they are claiming they rendered to get the most out of insurance companies.

This is literally extortion, you are on the hook when the artificially inflated bill arrives that insurance won't cover and you were duped into signing for just to be seen by a physician at their practice and your credit will take a hit when the debt collectors are hounding you for their cut if you don't pay up for these services that were upcoded after the fact.
Honestly, it's going to take an innocent, kind-hearted person, who is loved by the community, getting killed by one of these mentally ill visible homeless. Only then will the community stop being so apathetic and vote in people who will make changes.
Timing is important with frequency encoding intensity.

So, max frequency is encoding 100% as fast as possible, but this means it’s possible to have effectively 15x100% or 14 at 99.99%, 99.97, 99.98 ... or really any combination depending on when each pulse specifically ends.

This means you need to decode how accurate the timing information is to figure out the bandwidth but each pulse encodes a floating point number not a bit.

PS: For the most ridiculous upper limit. If a neuron could fire 500 times+ a second with a 1ms refractory period each encoding a number between 0 to ~10^40 or ~2^130 as the plank unit of time beyond the minimum. That’s ~50,000+ bits per neuron per second.
I don't know if a study has been done, but there is a social aspect to mental illness. In different cultures, the mental ill & crazy behave the same way.

Mental illness is not "STUPID", they still mostly know what is right and wrong and will often do the right things to keep safe and avoid pain. In other parts of the world, homeless folks have less protection and can easily be assaulted and abused so they know to behave to stay safe.

In the US homeless folks know their rights and they take advantage of that.
Nuclear is a great compliment to photovoltaic. One of the reasons Japan was able to go large on PV (and cause prices to come down for the rest of us) was their huge pumped water infrastructure that had been built for nuclear.

One problem with nuclear was all the excess power created at night, so they would pump water uphill at night and then run it down to generate power at the daytime peaks.

Of course with PV the timing was reversed but the need similar. If they hadn’t decommissioned their nuclear plants the combination would have been even better.
Around 1% a month was the usual return.
... there’s so much great progress and improvements happening that the breakages are well worth it.

This.

According to the fanboys, Julia, and its ecosystem, is production ready, but the reality is that it's far from it. They rushed to release v1.0 when there were still lots of sharp corners to cut and polish.

What the Julia community needs to do now is:
1. Admit that the language is not ready yet and that there are lots of room for improvement, and
2. Stop badmouthing Pyhton and R
I’m curious where the cities that have paid ransomware attackers acquired bitcoin. Did they literally just open a Coinbase account and send funds through there?
> It seems like you can’t walk down a single city block in the US without seeing someone...

This is so exaggerated I think calling it hyperbole would be an understatement. For those living outside the US reading this: this comment is not accurate, any more than it’s accurate to say that everyone in the US owns a gun and wears it on their hip- it’s just a charicature.
According to the Telegraph page linked in the DW article,

"eye clinics were unable to keep pace with demand.... In four out of five cases, those affected had chronic conditions requiring long term follow up, meaning they are not covered by NHS targets."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/06/hundreds-going-b...

While pathetic, it's not clear how it follows, as the DW asserts, "This is what will happen in America if Democrats get their way on 'Medicare for all.'" There are lots of countries with socialized medicine without the problem that NHS has. DW fails to mention that, possibly because of its bias. Private insurers in the US, in the meantime, are widely known to pick-and-choose what they will cover ... and will not.

Edit: here's a description of 'Medicare for All' from Forbes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2018/07/16/wh...
185k In 2000 was actually a decent amount. In 2011 that same place was prob 40k or less. Not sure why they are using 2000 numbers when the low was between 2008-2013
One where you have a service versus one where you don't. The establishment of sanctioned public utility monopolies goes back to the 30's at least in the US.
It doesn't matter what the government decides. One can buy ingredients in a local store and make everything at home.
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The main issue with utility solar is regulations. Sure it's cheaper on a per watt installation basis but they'd be connecting to the grid with fluctuating generation which causes more expenses with needing to ramp up/down based on the new solar generation.

Batteries aren't cheap enough yet but when they obtain an affordable range, we might be seeing the situation that you're describing because they'd meet current regulation restrictions.
I agree that SICP is valuable, and years ago, I tried to help make it accessible to people on low-powered computers [1], and to help preserve software support for it [2].

I don't know all the rationale for MIT's moves to other things, but the decision we can see seems plausible to me. (Python is a lingua franca at the moment, popular in ML and data science, still somewhat popular in Web, and very easy to pick up. Even language-nerd me wrote some production Python code that moves large amounts of important data around.)

I agree that modern Scheme (perhaps starting with Racket) seems like a great platform for much of CS-ish education, and for a lot of research and development. I also agree that putting substantial MIT resources behind building out Scheme/Racket seems like it would've been huge. Maybe that will happen.

A lot of MIT behavior emerges from that of individual faculty members and senior research staff, who have some degrees of autonomy. MIT has also prided itself on being big on "experiments", and not having rules that might get in the way of someone exploring ideas. If you have the opportunity, you can try to use that to help make things happen.

[1] https://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/

[2] https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/sicp
Social Security DOES NOT come out of the general fund (tax revrnues) so cannot have any effect on the budget (which is the plan of how to spend the general fund). Social Security is paid out of the separate Social Security Fund. The only way it affects the General Fund is via the contracted repayment of borrowed monies (and interest) owed to the SSF which the government seemingly wants to default on.
I'm working on this issue but from an entirely different angle. You can read about my work here: https://kotobago.substack.com/p/developing-a-sense
You mean “heating”? (“we dont call it Vaping” - every big Tobacco sales rep)

If the tobacco companies have been spending hundreds of millions on R&D for over a decade on electronic cigarettes (not necessarily vaping), which is what some of them claim, then they seriously missed the boat.

I can assure you as a long time customer they don’t have much control in the market, besides trying to buy one like Juul (Juuls are overpriced garbage by the way). There’s a thousand small businesses and shops, making very good money with tons of competition which is quickly improving the products and devices. The difference bigco R&D and launching. It’s also been a boon for Shenzen/China where all the devices are made, not just for e-cigarettes but also for marijuana pens.

But the market is in its early stages I’m sure it will evolve. I’m pretty sure it’s not even close to finished in regards to optimizing the product, they get noticeably much better each year. The anti-social giant cloud thing is also fortunately being replaced by far smaller ones thanks to Nicotine Salts replacing usual e-liquids, which is 90% smaller clouds and dissipate immediately.

Regardless of your ‘think of the kids’ plight that has nothing to do with me as an adult having responsible access to my products. I can do it with alcohol, cigarettes, firearms, and weed here in Canada. These attempts to ban entire categories of products for everyone, not just kids, are dumb. Which is exactly what they are doing.
We live in a country where the government is separating children from parents at the border for the "crime" of seeking asylum.

The government has a lot of capacity to undermine and outright destroy strong family ties. Or to support and nurture them with policies like maternity leave, as most of the world does.

The US is the only wealthy developed nation without a good maternity leave policy.

Family has a lot to do with it. You can't neatly and cleanly separate other social stuff from family. It all interacts.

You grow up in a particular kind of family/social fabric, so you think that matters. You take those values with you to your government job or position as an elected official and perpetuate those values, for good or for ill.
The most annoying thing in my rapidly gentrifying neighborhood is getting yelled at for biking on the sidewalk. If there is no bike lane, and there are not commercial properties on the street, it is legal to bike on the sidewalk. Gentrifiers think they are still in NYC and yell that it's illegal to be on the sidewalk as if I'm cruising around Manhattan. They are so smug, entitled, and wrong.
SpaceX was incredibly unprofitable for years - as are most companies when they first start.

I’m not saying you are wrong, I’m just saying that data you’ve cited is not very helpful.
Probably impossible given that non-profits require a board.

But I do wonder what other creative solutions might have been possible and either weren't explored or weren't pursued agressively enough to succeed die to lack of resources yadda.
In many cases people on the streets had strongly family ties, up until their mental illness began to manifest and their family was no longer able or willing to continue supporting them. People get kicked out of their houses because of violence, financial hardship, or any of many other difficult reasons. It's not simply a matter of people lacking compassion.

Take the case of the late Terry Davis for instance. He was living with his parents for years, but their relationship deteriorated as his illness progressed and in the end he died homeless. I don't think you can rightly blame his parents for that.
My parents lived around all of their siblings. They're close, they make a point of seeing each other regularly. My generation? We all live in different states. I worry once my parents are gone, that the fabric of my family will no longer exist, because nobody puts the work into keeping us all together. When we do see eachother, it's because we have a meeting point (parent's home) and a holiday (e.g., Christmas) or something.
I grew up in Cleveland and since moving out every city I've lived in has had an issue with gentrification (Boston, NYC, SF, Portland).

While I empathize with the individuals affected, part of me can't help thinking of it as a good problem on the city level. Growing up there were places where the copper piping was more valuable than the houses. Even now there's plenty of properties to buy sub $20k, close to mass transit, farmer's markets, and places like Case Western University.

Maybe some of the affected in Detroit will move down to Cleveland and one day I too will have the luxury of complaining about gentrification.