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As someone who loves a good quality leather belt (or wallet), I see the same situation in Europe. Probably not a US-specific problem, but a clothing industry problem (where they ask for insane prices and cut all the corners on quality).
For all its issues, that’s one thing the U.S. got pretty right: the states are essentially competing small governments (and why we should work to minimize the federal government).

Voting with your feet always beats voting with your hands!
The problem I find with Arch Linux, and this really only has started happening recently, is that for some reason Arch loves to break stuff. My most unstable distribution had to do with Arch. I find that distros like Void and Alpine Linux offer more robust rolling release systems.
Probably the shift planner.

We have people working on shift rotation for 24/7 coverage.

Given that we're always tight on people, it's always a mess to re-arrange things.

I've looked into this and the so-called "nurse scheduling problem" is not trivial at all.

Then if you also take into account preference of the shift workers in terms of other shift workers, some absences here there (PTO and/or sick leave), various arbitrary non-technical constraints (we have a couple of "peculiar" human cases)... It gets messy.

Quite hard to automate, but feasible by hand.
How do you do this on macOS/iOS?
Because that's how you show A > C. Directly comparing fusion and PV would be difficult, but one can compare fusion and fission (because they share many of the same elements) and one can compare fission and PV (because they are directly competing in the actual market).

Fission provides a reality check on believing projections unmoored from empirical feedback. I would like to see the same methodology for fusion cost projections applied to fission, to see if the projections are anywhere close to what the plants actually cost to build in the real world.
It depends. A lot of flights are around or below an hour and these include some of the busiest routes in the world. E.g. London - Dublin, all domestic flights in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, and other European countries and quite a few flights between those countries. Same for states in the US.

The Eviation Alice has a maximum range of around 600 miles. That's only a nine seater but it is going to be very disruptive in servicing anything between 100-400 miles. This kind of range you could take off with 80% charge and land with enough left for legal requirements and then top up back to 80% in about 45 minutes and maybe charge it to 100% overnight. That sounds like the sweetspot for this type of plane. It would likely be cheap enough to compete with e.g. cars on that distance and be way faster and possibly even be price competitive or close enough to make it interesting as an alternative to driving (at least from a cost perspective).

The Bye planes make more sense for smaller distances; perhaps as an air taxi in metropolitan areas. I don't think they are designed for longer distance commercial usage. Though obviously this is fine for GA type recreational flying. If you are flying those kind of routes commercially, you'd want to be able to do several flights between charging.

Over time, battery capacity, charging times, and ranges will improve. Also electricity cost is likely to benefit from on/near airport solar/wind as more planes are going to be flying electrical.
Charles Howard Hinton is actually a very prominent figure in the history of eccentric mathematicians. Anyone who read Rudy Rucker's book about the fourth dimension in the 90s knew about the earlier Hinton's bigamy and superstitions.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=8J0djs-FK_8C&pg=PA65&lpg=PA...

http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2009/06/08/alicia-boole-charl...
I don’t want to say less skilled, but you need less training which probably lowers costs.

However in terms of passengers, shorter trips means it’s better to compare passengers per hour rather than the number in a bus at any one time. If they can average 8 passengers per hour the service would be making money on it’s own and 4+ could probably be worthwhile as part of a larger network.
All the “sixth gen” or “next gen” programs recently started claim to be optionally manned. E.g the British/Swedish Tempest (introduction planned 2035) and the Dassault/Airbus NGF (also 2035-2040).

It’s not inconceivable that one or both of those programs will have an optionally manned fighter in active service in 20 years (2039).
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The population is also growing, even assuming everyone keeps the same eating habits it results in increased total consumption.
Electric planes have very few parts and are easy to maintain. The main cost of flying is fuel. Electric will make it a lot cheaper.

The battery as with all electric vehicles is still an issue, but for short air taxi distances it will be fine. Switch out the batteries on arrival and go again.
I think the article I linked to didn’t require the transformer. Only that there be transfer with the switch on which implies the series connection. :) Wikipedia certainly does though and honestly, especially in power conversions, there’s not a lot of standardization in terms which is why I asked. I’m not too hung up on the definition either. I’m probably just over sensitive because all the marketing material I’m asked to review...
Looking for a parental controlled app for Netflix? or insights for building one?
Hi,

I'm tired of The poor Netflix parental control and I'm looking for alternative apps that allow to watch Netflix with useful parent controls, I'm even considering to develop one.

Talking about their parental control, they do advertise to have a way to set a PIN which can be required to play any show, which I believe is poorly implemented, for example, you can enter the PIN to watch a video, go back, and choose any other video and it will play just fine without asking for a PIN, which makes the PIN almost useless.

The ideal app would allow to watch only whitelisted videos/shows, as well as to limit the watching times (just like YouTube Kids).

Until now, I haven't found anything and it seems to be related to Netflix taking their developer API down some years ago.

Before trying to reverse engineer how their site works, I wonder if any of you have any recommendations on an working app, or if it's too difficult to do it.

I understand they have some kind of DRM-protected content but haven't for details, also, all information I have found is related to the era before the public API was taken down. I do remember another user once complained here about not being able to load Netflix on a browser he was building due to this DRM restriction.

Any insights are appreciated.

Thanks!
I was really surprised that this article was written by a humanities professor. I understand he's trying to make a point, but the premises in the first paragraphs are indigestible.

> No Westerner would call such a work “literary"

Why? There are plenty of works such as this in western literature.

> Russians revere literature more than anyone else in the world.

Again, I feel this claim is a bit baseless. Let's see why he thinks that:

> When Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina was being serialized, Dostoevsky, in a review of its latest installment, opined that “at last the existence of the Russian people has been justified.” t is hard to imagine Frenchmen or Englishmen, let alone Americans, even supposing that their existence required justification; but if they did, they would surely not point to a novel.

Well, this is the opinion of Dostoevsky, a writer. I'm sure similar hyperbolic comments were made by the french naturalists (Zola about Flaubert... ) or German idealists (about Goethe...)

Then the author proceeds to engage in other baseless generalizations about Russians' attitude to literature compared with other cultures.

I appreciate his insights on Russian literature in general and Solzhenitsyn vision in particular. But I do not understand why he needs to precede his text by such myopic comments.
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One thing I did that helped me improve a lot was to start using a pen with a smaller point. This required greater precision to connect stroke. I had to improve the whole stroke and not just fudge it at the finish with a thicker line.

I highly recommend a smaller point if you're doing math with exponents on exponents.
The "misery" of the southern countries is merely one of not being able to spend profligate amounts they haven't earned on sustaining unaffordable social policies.

To take the most extreme example, Greece, and some problems evident when they hit the buffers a few years ago.

Hairdressing and playing the trombone are/were considered dangerous professions by the government, because that allowed people to retire at 50. The pensions in question are vast and the state cannot afford it.

Public sector wages rose 50 percent between 1999 and 2007.

Tax evasion was rampant.

Salaries were very high, industry near none existent. Its books were fraudulent - the country was only able to join the euro at all because it misrepresented the state of the economy.

Attempts to fix these problems triggered riots and political chaos, much of which had explicitly anti German rhetoric. The Germans, you see, were being totally evil by not shovelling all their savings into this money furnace disguised as a developed country.

What about Spain?

Home of the famous airport to nowhere: https://psmag.com/economics/airport-to-nowhere-spains-costly...

And a giant housing bubble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_property_bubble

Has a large (>2% GDP) government deficit but raised the minimum wage by 22% last year.

Germany isn't inflicting misery on southern countries, they inflict it on themselves, and it should by all rights be dramatically worse - and if it weren't for Germans sending them such huge wealth tranfers it would be much worse.
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Thanks for this reference. I write a lot of notes (and then struggle to transcribe them). I am considering getting that book and practicing on an iPad (which has a different experience than pen on paper) and perhaps teach myself something reliable that can replace manual transcription.

Back in the Palm days my Graffiti handwriting was (perforce!) pretty clear, but it wasn't that great to use.
> I didn't speak them. I didn't need to.

In other words, you weren't using those words to communicate anything to anyone else, just for your own internal thinking. Fair enough.

> Even without any training in phonics the author must've at least known the names if the letters?

A child might know the names of the letters but not know that sounding out words letter by letter is a good idea. The article discusses in some detail that apparently the strategy of sounding out unknown words letter by letter does not occur to children who aren't taught it; instead they use other much less effective strategies that do occur to them.
accumulated doesn’t allow any qualitative judgement about the way they treat that knowledge. So we shouldn’t assume the worst.

I suggest the opposite: if they take their own words seriously and this knowledge is the main value than I’d assume they grow in great lenghts documenting that main value — because it would be (as you rightly noticed) lost.
Ah, sure, if it works why not, I would have expected most scans being too distributed for this to have noticable impact. Thanks for the explanation.
Negative rates doesn't change the reality that retirees need to save money. It just exacerbates the situation.

Negative interest rates could cause even more aggressive saving as people need to hold on to every last little penny they own. When you know that you're bank account will have less and less in it in the future, saving even more in the present day becomes even more important. If I was a retiree in germany right now, I'd cut as much of my spending to almost nothing and wait for this ridiculousness (negative interest rates) to stop.
But they have to be different - that's how things improve. If they were exactly the same then what difference does it make for the consumer which product they buy? They're identical.
An interesting angle which is underreported in my view is who is responsible for extremely expensive new military aircrafts: (former) pilots, who are now High-Ranking officers.
No pilot has any interest in giving up flying and switching to drones/remote aircraft which are clearly the future.
My bet would be that the first country which bets 100% on autonomous aircraft will probably be China, where there will be less opposition to such a move. The western countries will follow and the F35 will most likely be the last "big" non-autonomous program (excluding aircraft for special roles).

On an unrelated note: I submitted this article 4 days ago without any discussion [1], does anyone know what the time frame for resubmission on HN nowadays is?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20758128
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I have the X1C. Little thing I noticed about the matte IPS screen (which I selected for outdoor usage much like you said) is that the screen goes black when I wear my sunglasses with a polarized lens, so if your sunglasses are polarized perhaps consider buying some non-polarized ones :-)
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That's how secure boot should work. Replacing the root of trust should require serious physical access that can be tamper-evident. And yeah, out of the box, the trust is with the vendor — who else would be trusted in a device that doesn't have an owner yet?
I took a $40k pay cut to work in social good, and I can't recommend it enough. I have an advantage in that I don't have a family or dependents though. Just putting this out there in case any one's thinking about it but thinks it's too crazy: it's a lot more crazy to spend the most productive hours of your life on something you at best don't care about, and at worst actively despise.
Tennis, chess, violin, singing — these are at least skills that may be valuable later in life. "Instagram influencer" is a net negative for the kid's future. But, yes, I'd say parents making their children excel at anything by force are doing it wrong, and not setting them up for lifelong satisfaction.
The future is drones and so many in the air force know it. Not sure why they haven't bet fully on it. I guess there are no dog fighter drones yet but the first time a supermanuverable <10m drone destroys a 100m manned fighter well it is all over.
Emotion recognition isn’t just about facial expressions and body language
> Ji (pronounced gee)

The "g" in "pronounced gee" obfuscates your intent. Use IPA if you want to clarify pronunciation.
This is not scheduled, but Air Taxi, which I believe is a different part of the FAR. And, yes, for small planes, there are plenty of alternate airports. I'd say 200 NM or more are realistic.
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LineageOS has the solution to this problem. You can revoke fine grained capabilities while letting the app still think it has the permissions.
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Not really, someone could perhaps write a modern book approaching manufacturing from a software background. My feel-it-out approach has been a multi-year gentle introduction combining reading and MOOCs across logistics, trade-specific fabrication manuals, metrology and an understanding of fundamental mathematical approaches to the space and evaluating their existing implementations: chiefly multivariate linear optimization and Google's OR Tools. I also maintain a custom supply chain automation platform for our business and now have multiple years of experience working with a range of third party fabricators (many orders per week) across a few processes and material types which has given me relatively strong insight in to a broad range of challenges or issues that can emerge in fabrication-related process interfaces: bad specs, tolerances, shipping damage, alignment, test overheads, supplier reliability fluctuations, shipping issues (carrier bankruptcies!), missing packages, importance of receivable/inventories, reasoning behind anomalous unit operation timings, importance of maintenance, fallback, training and safety, insurance costs, true costs of manual programming, benefits of insourcing, lesser-known unit operations can save a ton of money...
And if the company didn't exist they wouldn't have the option of having that job. How is it not beneficial to have the company to those people?
This is really good. It reminds me of a bullet journal. Well done!
This is also good advice for other areas, even if you are 100% sure you are the only person to ever lay their eyeballs on what happens behind the curtain.

I worked in VFX and film post production and this spirit usually saves yourself a lot of hassle in day to day actions and even more so if you get ill, can’t do the job anymore or decide to split it up.

The way I worked in VFX certainly had a big impact on my programming. Some work ethics just make sense.
I am a bit "anal" at contract signing time after years and years of comparing tactics that get presented to me. This article captures my thought process in such a good way. I may start forwarding this article to headhunters who bicker about the number of potentials I walk away from.

It's up to the gig to make things appealing in their workspace well before it's time for me to get them interested in me. I interview them just as hard as they're interviewing me. A shitty interviewer usually means a shitty place to work. And if I'm tricked into thinking it's a good gig, but isn't, I leave it asap. Easy. I owe them nothing if they can't deliver what they promised in the wooing stage.

I'm totally happy to share my income with a headhunter who brings me good gigs. If I see loopholes that clearly work against me, I'm gonna walk away. It's not like I should blindly accept anything just for the sake of a headhunter's commissions. Especially since there are so many good gigs out there.

Just like at the casino, one should only walk away from losing opportunities.
Yes! From your own CA. This is a great method.
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Nice work! Would be great if you could navigate one day forward and backward.
I believe you're thinking of "endlessh" - https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/03/22/

I have endlessh running on my internet-facing server. Here's the current suckers:

p222149-ipngn200203toyamahon.toyama.ocn.ne.jp:45763

14.33.133.188:59757

121.204.198.213:53240

I think all those have stayed connected for some days. But a lot scanners don't fall for it anymore. Since July 17th, I've had 60868 ssh connections, mean 195.817 sec, median 19.124 sec, max 886283.605 sec. The distribution is skewed much shorter than 10 days, however. Half the connections last less than 20 seconds, by eye around 15. 25% of the connections last between 30 and 40 seconds, and about 10% last around 50 seconds.
When I setup a new server or a temporary account, my usual workflow would be simply generate a new random password locally from my password manager, before considering proper authentication. A few routers at my home with public Internet access are still password-only, and I don't see a big problem.

But I have to agree with you, the suggestion "use strong password" itself is prone to failures, thus bad, and should be avoided.
If the prices are stable yes, but why would prices remain stable? Wouldn't this be arbitraged to the level of negative rates?
Another thing to consider is that the UK as a whole not being 99% white is a recent development of the last four or five decades. At least in the first few decades most immigrants were working class and so you wouldn't expect their offspring to be proportionately represented at university level for socioeconomic reasons.

So I would argue the disparity is more of a socioeconomic access one than a racial one.
I'm still using a circa-2013 X1 Carbon, running Ubuntu. Overall it's been great, with the one exception being the battery life, which has always been abysmal. I've never been able to get any more than 2 hours out of the battery, even after extensive tinkering with tools like powertop.

That machine is getting a bit long in the tooth now, so I've been thinking about what to buy to replace it; getting another X1C would be a no brainer if I wasn't worried about whether the battery life in the new ones is as bad as it was in my old one.
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I would guess most people did not install Webmin via some binary distribution package but rather by using their distros package manger meaning they most likely got built from the unmodified source code using completely unrelated and probably uncompromised build servers.

Just saying this could have been worse.
My Chromebook just made me enable developer mode.
This is an interesting question! I think getting our codebase to use the WebRTC framing and setup would probably not be that hard. We could probably use the same libraries that WebRTC.org is built on (libjingle, etc.), and maybe even just take a lot of their code.

I don't think that means that a Salsify sender would be interoperable with, like, a Chrome receiver, though (even though we're just using VP8) -- we'd have to implement at least the receiver side of Salsify's congestion-control protocol inside WebRTC.org/Chrome, and Salsify sometimes likes to encode a VP8 frame that has to be interpreted relative to a certain (prior) decoder state.

On #2, honestly I've worked with libopus a bit for Puffer and it's just really pleasant to work with. As you say, a lot of the difficulties of interacting with a video encoder you just don't have in this context. It's also pretty easy to get "gapless/clickless" back-to-back playback of audio excerpts that were encoded completely independently, unlike with video where this is a huge pain in the neck and usually requires a SAP/IDR/closed GOP/sequence header+I-frame+P-frame (which takes a lot of bytes so you can't do it very often). See https://github.com/StanfordSNR/puffer/blob/master/src/opus-e... if you are interested for more.
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I still use a T420 and T430. Both are great for development use. The screens are lacking, but when you spend most of your time in the terminal or browser, you don't really notice.
Totally tangential, but who could have predicted, 20 years ago, that in 2019, more than zero people would be talking about having to use Macs at work, then going home to their comfy PC. How the turns table. I increasingly don't have strong opinions either way (pros and cons to everything, etc.), it's just such an unexpected timeline we've ended up in.
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I misread the title as "Webmin has 1890 exploits - what happened". Could someone change "1.890" to "version 1.890" (Hello, @dang?) Thanks.