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But arbitrary programs are... arbitrary. Especially ones run by software engineers, and especially ones run by software engineers as part of a POSIX-alike “utility bag” ecosystem.

Who’s to say that the user’s intent by running the program they just downloaded, isn’t to—say—overwrite a system folder? (Oh, wait, that’s exactly what Homebrew does, with the user’s full intent behind it!)

There are tons of attempts to do what you’re talking about. Canonical’s “snaps” are a good example. As well, every OS sandboxes legacy apps by default (because they’re already virtualizing them, and sandboxing something in a virtualization layer is easy.)

But none of those solutions really work for the “neat FOSS hack script someone wrote” workflow we’re talking about here, where you build programs from source and run them for their intentional side-effects on your system.

You might suggest that there could be a shared sandbox for all the POSIX-like utilities to interoperate in. But what if you’re attempting to use those utilities against your real documents? (For example, a bulk metadata auto-tagging and auto-renaming utility, to get TV episodes from torrents loaded into Plex correctly.) How do you draw the line of what such a program can operate on? AFAICT, you just... can’t. Its whole purpose is to silently automate some task. If it requires constant security prompting, the task isn’t automated.
Largely agree, but it's hardly OP's fault. In my opinion this is one of the things we get by using 30 year old Operating System and there having been almost no innovation in that field for so long.
About time.

If this president has no problem openly screwing his own people and lie about it right in your face, I don't think he makes the greatest trade partner anyway.
The Electors never traveled. The state Electors deliberated amongst themselves in their own state, and submitted the result of their deliberation to the Congress.
Google and Apple fight over privacy and utility in web standards?
I'd say changing one's phone number to be of a state they don't reside is not practical for most.
Even if electric vehicles do not substantially reduce greenhouse gases, they do pollute the air far less assuming you have cleaner electricity generation.

Moreover, ending the reliance on unsustainable fossil fuels is an end in itself. It would reshape global geopolitics and of course there’s a ton of destruction that happens from oil spills and oil extraction. Going full electric has many benefits beyond just reducing greenhouse gases.
Publishing of what? Public funding of publishing isn't a complete non-starter, and can work very well in narrow cases, but there are serious problems involved in the state spinning up an infrastructure where it decides what speech in general is worthy of state funding. It's disheartening to see how common it is to see people throw out a vague "make the gov't do it" without acknowledging or grappling with the deep fundamental questions about how this would be implemented.
The agricultural trade is the root cause of the Amazon deforestation, so this is good.
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Every solar system model is wrong
Public transit doesnt have to be publicly run. I mean it can be, but services like cruise in SF are not and are better than individual cars as is uber pool. Both let many people in san Francisco live without cars.

Also in san francisco, many of the ferry lines are or were run by private companies. I dont understand how one can oppose the idea of available transit.

In reality what is needed is for governments to deregulate transportation. It is actually ridiculous that the city originally demanded uber drivers have medallions to pick people up. That should be a basic right so that transit companies can start to provide cheap and reliable transit options for city dwellers. If I recall correctly, Cancun has a mostly privatized bus system that works very well.

Finally, roads are also currently publicly funded and governments already have a huge say in transit that individual citizens cant really affect. Having multiple private transit options would mean larger organizations able to stand up to the authorities.
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> Well, one also has to be completely ignorant of staggering amounts of history, culture, and social understanding, to think that historical cultural concerns where anywhere close to what we have today in terms of consumer goods and buying more stuff..

Uh, sure? This is a complete non sequitur, as nobody is making the claim you're describing. If you actually read my full comment, I address this directly by saying that it's a much more reasonable argument that utility from all goods isn't equally distributed and the important ones haven't gotten easier to get at the same rate as the unimportant ones.

That doesn't mean that it's not incredibly factually inaccurate to think that access to consumer goods hasn't become mind-bogglingly higher
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This would also require killing a lot of chickens, which feels less pleasant.
How about we do our jobs instead? Yes please!
I'd say it's a regulatory problem. Any kind of innovation that can be applied to massive scale, like pesticides, mobile phones, cars, computers etc. should be tested for decades if not more before it is allowed to disturb the society.

No one does any risk analysis and the short-term upside makes the long-term downside invisible.

No one knew how problematic pesticides can get. We are just now discovering the effects.
What happens to the first particle once its state has been transferred? Is it a swap? Or does it go to some other unique state C?
Where is lobster population increasing due to warming?
How does a consumer ever know their someone they've hired isn't cutting corners? When you pay for asbestos remediation how do you know they actually did it right? When you pay an accountant how do you know they're not half-assing it?

When you make your living doing a thing it's far more lucrative to do things right than to do them wrong. There's a bunch of incentives business owners who provide services operate within and they generally align to doing things the right way.
Er, what's your point? That, because it comes from Fight Club it must be only in an ironic sense?
I have said it before but all of this is pretty classic fascist behavior where loyalty to the corporate state is demanded without question. This is for all serving purposes a monster that the West created. I just worry about what this looks like going forward, where we have this huge massive superpower which acts this way and can't be questioned.
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gitk is a bit ugly, though.
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An important aspect to compare is docking. Any application that can span on multiple monitors, soon or later requires proper docking (window in window, etc.). Even if it's a single window, it's still a challenge.

Qt is almost there, but not as good as say Visual Studio (whatever docking framework they are using).

To be more blunt, any content creation tool (3D model/animation/etc editor) needs to support it. Take any Autodesk product for example (most of them use Qt).

Dear IMGUI in this respect added recently pretty good docking system, and it's not in this list - someone else also mentioned that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20776848

Thanks!
That way if you get ripped off it will be on you credit card instead of another account?

The logic here is bewildering to me... Why aren't they instead addressing how banks aren't covering debit card fraud properly, and how the cards and transaction system is flawed?

They're all cards, consumers pay for the services. It's companies that are at fault for not creating better protections.
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John's "Castro monopoly money" comment.
Okay, but you have to define large, don't you? What is the population size you have in mind?
How do we fix this?

The core conundrum is the two party adversarial system.

More durable are three way food fights (trilemmas), like the USA's Constitution balance of powers (leg vs exec vs court).

Not perfect. Just better.

IMHO.
There has to be a finding of gross negligence. Shit is going to happen even if a company does it's best and follows all of the best practices. Under your rules and OS zero day, which the company has zero control over, could ruin them. A single employee fooled by an email could do the same. It's far too simplistic and heavy handed. Also, not all data is equal. For example, if someone gets my HN creds I really don't care. My bank on the other hand...
Slack maybe beautiful, but due to electron, you can't resize even simple things - like the bar on the side with channel/names.
> Which is why regulation should be model transparency in sensitive areas: full stop.

It's not the model that makes the bias. It's the data. Garbage in, garbage out.

The tricky situation is that's the magic sauce to most ML algos (as really GPT2 demonstrates). I don't care about what model they use (CNN, transformer, whatever) or their architecture (layers and how things are connected). What I'm concerned about is the implicit bias in the data. This is the hardest things to figure out and so the issue is how do you build trust of that data? Handing out that data makes you lose your competitive edge in a marketplace. Not only that, in many cases that data contains sensitive information that people wouldn't want public. So it's hard to say what to do. 3rd party auditors? But how do you prevent them from becoming corrupt and complicit like the credit agencies.

I think it sounds like there's easy answers, but honestly this seems really difficult to me.
Did you remove the old stuff first? Or do you just layer over it?
> but there won't be but a few cartographers in 20 years

Yeah, processing LiDAR, GPS-tracks and other sort of GeoData using GIS in our days is very handy and mostly decreased needs in "old-school" cartographers.

But, in the future "old-school" cartography would be some sort of art, such as B&W film photography now.

Also, painting using pencil & paper still popular by artists and now old technique mostly combined with draw in image editors, but last not fully replace pencil & paper. So, I'm not sure that now there are only 20 artist who use pencil & paper around the world.

Number of such professional artist really decreased in last 20 years, but PC and mobile image editors give chance to draw art for many users, that not paint before or lack experience with pencil & paper.
This is next up on my todo list.

Any particular advice/pain points for re-insulating an attic with cellulose?
WinRT released in 2012, so UWP is 7 years old. Yes, the UWP name/brand is younger than that, but the tech stack has been continuous, with strong backward compatibility.

Microsoft may be encouraging Win32 apps in the store, but is clearly saying that Win32 is undead and they'll continue to support the zombie and stop trying to kill it. They hope people will move on and they are providing more tools than ever to help migrate from Win32 to UWP. It's now a much more nuanced migration rather than a forced all-or-nothing conversion.

Wikipedia pages refer to everything in the past tense. That's the encyclopedia tone they require.

The closest thing to a "new UI kit" announced at the last BUILD was the ground up rewrite of the Windows version of React Native to make it "extra-Native". That change is from UWP/C#/XAML to UWP/C++/XAML. It's still JS controlling UWP controls, it's just using C++ to glue together the controls rather than C#/.NET.

The next closest announcement to a "new UI kit" was that way more of the UWP UI stack (almost all of it) is being "lifted and shifted" out of being directly inside the Windows codebase and deeply coupled to Windows releases and being moved in the WinUI library. WinUI has always been the parts of the UWP UI shipped outside of Windows Releases. UWP is moving to a model where they want to have as much as possible inside WinUI rather than inside Windows to make it easier to ship UI controls updates to application developers without so much of the rigmarole of "this control will only be in Windows 10 19H2 and later" making it easier for developers to use the controls "now" rather than waiting for a future Windows feature update and less headaches between what is in a current LTS feature update versus most current feature update.

(The next closest announcement after that, was that the Fluent Design team was merging the design efforts of what they've been doing for UWP/WinUI and what the Office team has been doing for the Web in the Fabric libraries, moving Fabric to being much more "Fluent Web". It should not be a surprise that the web is important to Microsoft's UIs.)
You can easily download the code and host your own instance.
Which us city lacks public transit in the city center?

Not trying to be thick but in all american cities ive lived in, there was sufficient transit in the urban core. I understand arguments that it doesnt extend satisfactorily to the suburbs but your claim is much more specific
Very interesting response. The thing that keeps me from entirely agreeing (with an admission that I don't have a background in the science you mentioned[1], so I can't really understand it) is that the number is pi - the 55 decimals is just an approximation that can be expressed as a ratio of two integers. The number isn't the rational that can be made arbitrarily close to a limit, the number is the limit. That number is pi. pi is every bit as much a number as 1, 2, 3. So is sqrt(2). So is e.

My understanding is that almost all numbers are real, but not rational. They can be expressed as the limit of a sequence that can be made arbitrarily close to the limit. But the number is not the sequence, the number is the limit of the sequence.

[1] = I had to look up what a Planck is. Should have taken more physics along with the math.
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The widespread usage of Telegram in a situation as sensitive as the Hong Kong protests is a failure on behalf of the security industry in educating the public.

Even WhatsApp is miles better, but in reality it should be a no-brainer for the relevant people to use Signal or perhaps Threema/Wire. What a shame that charlatans have successfully marketed themselves to the top of this segment with a distinctly inferior product.
The funny thing about solar panels is that just having panels above your ceiling cool your house a ton.

It makes me wonder if people in hot climates that can't afford solar shouldn't just put white glossy panels a foot above their roof.

There are a lot of other obvious, non-exotic things we can do, like require a certain amount of tree coverage and reduce the spread of concrete surfaces. We could also use shade sails a ton more than we do (which are nice because they can be removed in the winter).
I wish there was more of a preview to see how BeatSync works.

How will BeatSync be different from Soundcloud? And what's the revenue plan? Hopefully different from Soundcloud's.
The "awareness" is for a tiny fraction of people. Except in HN & some other super paranoid groups, most people doesn't really mind.
My grandma is not worried about 20 trackers and leaked db as long as she can post her recipe article. :) My irl friends are more interested about "exposure" because it is "age of (social media) influencers/celebrities". The concept of tracker, adblock are alien to most folks. Those who knows a bit gave up because they reason that it is now integrated into the system and there is no escape, so why even try? :/
He makes some unity tutorials as well
great site, been using it for years
No, where did you get that idea? Google sheets and docs simplified, cloudified, and collaboratified their predecessors. No more emailing around and renaming multiple copies of different versions of the same spreadsheet or document.
But on the other hand, the whole class made less than 100 flights, which makes it more than a thousand times more deadly than the 737 MAX even with two thirds surviving. So the bad reputation is not just the outcome of exceptional media coverage (I do wonder how the failure rate compares to it's fixed wing contemporaries though, they surely were quite terrible by today's standards as well)
Attic fans are great anytime the air temperature difference between the attic and the outside is great. In the hotter regions (such as the southeast US) they're great for venting hot air out rather than pulling cool air in. Attics will often get 20 degrees hotter than the outside air, so forcing that out helps to insulate the cooler indoor spaces.

Of course in older, not-well-sealed housing the venting poses the risk of drawing cooler air from the house to the attic, negating much (or all) of the benefit. So their efficacy is very situational.
I live in the southwestern USA, and have no air conditioning. I do have a solid brick house that is an awesome insulator. So we open up all windows and doors at night, and close the house up tight when the sun rises, putting heavy curtains over the windows. It still gets warm - up to 85 degrees inside on a 100+ degree day, but you get used to it.

It wouldn't work on all the suburban homes around us. The walls aren't insulated enough, there are so many windows that you'd never get them all covered.
People use Signal in the first place because they want something more secure and privacy focused than the alternatives. It's not reasonable to mock them for having higher expectations of privacy and security than you do. Its the whole point of the product.
Perhaps. But you're comparing a 26 year old standard for a 47 year old language, to a language that's been stable for 4 years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 seems relevant here.
Wow, a cup per serving? That must have been a very different type of caviar? With modern caviar commonly sold today, I feel like the salt content alone would make that impossible, beyond just the taste. Tody it would be like eating a cup of canned and salted anchovies instead of just a couple in your caesar salad... it just doesn't make sense no matter what your personal preferences are. Or like eating an entire jar of capers.

Or maybe there are other types I'm not aware of? When I'm talking about the strong taste, I'm talking about these types for example:

https://www.petrossian.com/blog/caviar-info/understanding-ca...
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what's the amazon without piranhas
I had great success using SQLite as the backing store for fast sharing and reindexing of a domain specific search engine component my company licensed. Before we developed our own algorithms and moved to Elasticsearch I was playing with augmenting the licensed component with the full text search capabilities of SQLite. The whole thing ended up being shuffled around via Gluster so I was able to offload the responsibility for sharing shards to it.

My experience pretty much matched what you describe and it was such a great opportunity to really lean on a fabulous piece of software. Given this was many years ago, before ES was stable and SOLR wasn't working well for us, I think it was the right choice. These days, ES is good enough that if I had to do it all over I'd go straight to it. None the less, I don't think SQLite should be ignored as an option when you have high levels of control over data access patterns.
To add a little bit to the idea of notation and how, as one example, it enables the recognition of patterns, here's one of the most famous APL libraries.

They are called "idioms" precisely because these expressions can be like words once you internalize them (something that happens naturally to a professional user of the language). It's interesting to explore the library and maybe try a few of the idioms on something like NARS2000.

Finn APL Idiom Library:

https://aplwiki.com/FinnAplIdiomLibrary
For these localhost-only servers, a simple check on Host is fine. E.g. if you're on 127.0.0.1:3000, checking that Host is strictly 127.0.0.1:3000 or localhost:3000 is good enough.
Just layer it on top. The rule of thumb is: the more you have, the better, regardless of which material you use.
I grew up in Honduras and got a third-degree sunburn during Holy Week (Semana Santa, when everyone goes to the beach). It became intolerable the night before Easter and my mother took me to the ER.

Most of the lights were off, and there was a single receptionist at the desk. My mother explained the situation, and…

Receptionist: Oh, well if you want to borrow the desk phone you're free to do so

Mother: ???

Receptionist: You know, to call your doctor

Mother: ????

Receptionist: We're happy to let you use a room and our supplies, but all of our doctors are on vacation. It's Semana Santa.
Lifelong english speaker, American. Never heard this one in software until today.
Agreed. I get cheap Stanley tools at Walmart that have a no questions asked lifetime replacement. Walmart is still cheap, but becoming more like Sears once was in quality (on some items).

As for Amazon, I like them too. I know they have a lot of cheap Asian stuff. But sometimes, that is exactly what I want (cheap but good DC stick welders).

I guess the issue is with the knock-offs and dangerous items on Amazon. That's fraud. No question about it. Walmart does not have this issue at all. Amazon should do something about it.
Unfortunately, not yet.
The sparse bits are by definition sparsely populated. And the size of the country is for most trips irrelevant. You don't drive across half your country just because. You drive to work, and the shops and you only have the same 24 hours in a day the same as everyone else, so its the same upper bound. This[1] suggests the US has fairly short commutes, so it would seem country size is irrelevant for that at least.

[1] https://transportgeography.org/?page_id=5219
Doesn’t seem that onerous. That’s 40£ of wood plank, 4 bags of cement, and some steel bands you can find at nearly any metalworks shop. I think the bigger worry is a corps that isn’t properly weighed down can turn into a very expensive police investigation. They won’t know if it’s a sea burial, drowning, or a crime.
I think his point is that the consequences of climate change are still down the road and just how bad it will be is yet to be seen. Harder to get people around on big changes due to climate change since we're a couple years off from big consequences. The impact from deforestation of the Amazon can be seen right now.
I block all Javascript, cookies and third party sites by default. I still get news and weather. Even nytimes.com works.
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what will happen if I stop writing? will something happen? Oh it is possible to have capital letters! That's neat. I like how it presents itself, almost no distraction, you are typing on an empty page, the cursor being red is a nice touch too.

Very nice idea. Now I get it. As soon as I stop writing the text starts to get blurry! Very nice! Well, I like it, because I am using a similar technique when I am very stressed and need to get some air off my chest. I have this VIM mode that will put the font color the same as the background color, which means that you cannot see what you type. This will force you to type the same way as you speak, because it is impossible to correct words, to go back, delete. So you have to type the way you speak. Which is in a way just like talking, but without having the need to talk with someone else. At the same time it allows you to write everything in a public place, where other people can see your screen. They will probably think that you are crazy, or that they got some problem with their vision, because they cannot see anything. But you do not care and continue typing. And after some time you realize that typing blindly as well helps you to formulate your sentence before you type it.

Well, now the 5 minutes are over, it was a nice experience, but I like my VIM s0u7-mode better