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This conversation has completely gone down its own slippery slope and I shouldn’t be piling on, but: if the choice is between taxing income (which is literally people contributing to society in the most direct way) and something like meat or, hell, unhealthy amounts of computer use (whatever that is) then yes please.

Don’t forget we’re currently taxing income at obscene levels, in absolute terms. It means we disincentivise people from working, which is absolutely wild, considering. If you could start with a clean slate and tax anything, what would you choose? Sin taxes or income taxes?

Government revenue is fungible, and the more income from other sources, the less is needed from income. Until we have income tax (at least lowest bracket) down to 0%, I say tax the hell out of everything actually unwanted.

(Signed: a meat eater who would gladly pay meat tax)
ah yes, the famous "intrinsic simplicity" of writing, compiling, and deploying an app to an embedded device...

...perhaps you mean the countless drag-and-drop code-free frameworks that enable people to create apps without writing code? Or that a basic Swift tutorial to do just that takes about 15 minutes, including downloading Xcode? I just can't understand this confused nostalgia.
> only if we forget that we talk about a stuff that will remain lethal for thousands years,

But rapidly becomes less lethal, with the vast majority of the risk removed in tens of years. Vs. many kinds of chemical waste which are potent effectively forever.
Ok so the SEC order really has teeth because they can use it to pressure Apple and google to remove telegram from their app stores? That’s a significantly less impressive penalty than what Internet lawyers have been telling me.
Welcome to the SDAM club friend. It was very difficult for me after I found that I have that, hope it won't be like that for you, or better, that you don't actually have it.
Typhoon, Cyclone or Hurricane? Different Names for the Same Storms
Fortnite defintely doesn't AFAIK, and their nature as a multiplayer game invites competition, and therefore, cheating making it important for the developer to actually de incentivize modding. I am very disappointed that modding of famous games is going down honestly.
This happens because Amazon allows inventory commingling. For example Amazon has their own, legitimate inventory in a West Coast warehouse, and a third party seller has the same inventory with the original UPC manufacturer bar code on it, sitting in an East Coast warehouse. Amazon considers this 1:1 inventory. Amazon will debit their inventory on the West Coast, and credit the inventory that belongs to the third party seller on the East Coast but they will send the inventory from the East Coast to the customer since it's closer to them.

Now in theory this seems like a reasonable approach to deliver products to customers faster, the catch 22 is that third party vendors have clearly taken advantage of Amazon's complete lack of quality control. Third party sellers can sign up for a Seller Central account, and send in counterfeit products with fake bar codes because Amazon doesn't check at all.

I could sit here and talk for hours about mess that is Seller Central. I've dabbled with Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA), and I would never recommend any company use AMZN for third party logistics.
EV Charging Stations Are Still Few and Far Between
Just make this 3x a week.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/11376-no-knead-bread

Once you get it down, you can make it more fancy by adding other things.

Yeah, store bought breads are terrible with all the weird crap.

Fantastic, delicious, nutritious, satisfying, world-class bread is incredibly simple and easy to make. If your book's recipe is complex and hard to follow, throw it out. They are a poser.

Good bread doesn't last long though and has no shelf duration. But it doesn't have to because it will all be eaten quickly. Store bread is entirely about long term storage of something never intended to be stored more than a day. Given those constraints it is what it is.
Adobe Animate is the successor to Flash's animation toolset. Animators use a number of different tools today, many that implement tweening, depending on studio needs.

Also, low or no-cost applications that are accessible to newcomers include Blender and the upcoming Procreate 5.
A layoff isn’t about you! The company said they don’t want anyone working in that position anymore, not just you. It doesn’t reflect on you at all! :)
Modern nuclear plants can do this with control rods, but the fixed and sunk costs makes it prohibiting expensive. It is simply more economically to keep them running, even when wind/solar is producing. Changes in fuel costs could incentivize a more economical use, through that would only work if nuclear were made economical competitive compared to natural gas in the first place.

If we look at a map like https://www.electricitymap.org and imagine the carbon intensity to be a real economical costs then it would be a relative simple matter to determine how high those costs would need to be to make nuclear competitive against burning fossil fuels.
This is exactly right. Most of the problems in cities aren't due to technology, they're due to bad governance. Our solutions need to be political, not just technological.
I was surprised Budapest had a nicer Metro than Boston/NYC. The Orange Line in Boston is probably older than any of the lines in Budapest.
Why are you rewriting history? Apple didn't just decide not to embrace Flash, they actively decided to kill it. Apple banned flash based apps in their review guidelines and Adobe didn't see a way forward since Job's had decided everything but native apps were to be purged from the app store. Html 5 isn't a replacement for what flash offered, it wasn't then and it isn't now.

Here is the Jobs quote from when this happened: "He takes a while to get there, but eventually he puts the notion into a nutshell. "Flash is a cross platform development tool," he says. "It is not Adobe’s goal to help developers write the best iPhone, iPod and iPad apps. It is their goal to help developers write cross platform apps.""

""Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs"
> I haven't needed to,

Erm, you need to have an email to register for any kind of service out there, so "know how to use email" is pretty much a requirement even for everyone. And this is not going away, unless you want a future where everyone has to be reached thru uncompatible walled gardens.
There's also the alternative view that maybe we've gotten better at things, and the safety record of nuclear going forward might be better than what we've experienced so far.

Calling our history of accidents so far the "best-case" scenario may be misleading.
> the apps you need

People don't really need most installable apps. Just about every tool I use has a mobile website/PWA.
> IC to mean integrated circuits is a very common acronym, and right in the center of the HN focus.

Wrong. IC is for hardware. The center of Hacker News is software, NOT hardware. Commonly the audience here works with software for hours a day but goes for weeks without ever seeing an IC or hardly even thinking about one.

You are just trying to pick a fight with me.

Again, once again, over again, yet again,

Homemade IC

is more likely to mean ice cream than integrated circuit.

So, to pick a fight, you pick IC out of the context to say that generally IC means integrated circuit more than ice cream -- true but trivial, beside the point. Again, the title was

Homemade IC

and THERE no telling what the heck IC meant, and even ice cream, even at Hacker News is more likely.

My point about the worst bottleneck in computing is rock solid and very important for computing and the Hacker News audience and fully appropriate. Your "rant" is insulting and provocative.

Your point that

Homemade IC

clearly meant integrated circuit is absurd, just deliberately insulting. You are just trying to pick a fight.

Resist all you want: It remains, computing has a severe bottleneck -- bad technical writing with undefined jargon and acronyms. And Hacker News titles make WAY too heavy use of acronyms. Disagree, fight, resist, object, all you want -- you are still wrong.

Here you are doing the usual for an angry person with weak arguments -- you are attacking the person instead of the ideas. That

Homemade IC

is obscure jargon is true beyond any question. So, you accuse me of a "rant": My original response was short. Then I got attacked.
$ to support non-JS users > $ revenue from non-JS users
All that might be possible. Maybe, but it will take more time.

> What's stopping them from leaving a car just off the island and using public transit on it?

You end up with the expenses of a car commute with the reliability, cost, and flexibility of a train commute. It probably has the costs of both commutes put together.

Actually having dependable bus routes in outer burroughs would help. My vote would be for chartering private bus routes, but I'm not sure how politically viable that would be.
Naw I mean you could burn a Flash project to a CD ROM and it would auto-play when your grandma stuck it in the "coffee holder."
I've owned a Nokia 6 Plus for the last year and I've been pleasantly surprised to receive the monthly security patches within a week of them being released. If I buy another Android device it will probably be a Nokia for this reason. My previous Samsung and OnePlus devices seemed to receive updates fairly sporadically for the first year, and then nothing after that.
Why do you think they are so keen to list in US?
Very doubtful, even with the "hidden opt out" that seems to be sufficiently poorly "hidden" that lots of people here have indeed opted out.

Safe Browsing uses very little data (pretty much the least they could get away with to make it work) and you'd have to establish either that Tencent is lying about how it uses that data AND that Apple knew or reasonably should have known that it was misused.

URLs never leave your browser, so "Apple is sending URLs" is wrong. The Update API is used, so the URLs stay on your browser but under some circumstances hash prefixes of some URLs are sent to Google/ TenCent.

If you choose to assume that Google / TenCent are bad actors then they can probably manipulate this data to target a few URLs and discover who (IP addresses) browsed those URLs. In less well designed browsers like Safari they might be able to tie that to a Google Account independent of the IP address because those browsers don't isolate Safe Browsing API calls from normal web browsing activity (this won't work in e.g. Firefox). If a bad actor did this, it would make performance worse for all users, and the accuracy of the trick would be sabotage unless the set of target URLs tracked is fairly small, if you were looking for a single PDF filename on a single web site it's definitely possible, if you want to track six thousand different articles about Xi's resemblance to Pooh Bear across tens of thousands of sites that's going to cause a lot of false positives you have to weed out somehow.
Lisps exist on all the runtimes. LFE (liso flavored Erlang) is a good example.
Ultimakers are absolutely plug and play. You get what you pay for.
Is there any way that the numbers could work out? Let’s say SoftBank is able to trim the company to the bare bones; Does the We Company still make money at high gross margins? I wonder if it makes more sense to cut losses, as opposed to pumping more money in? I guess that’s why they pay SoftBank the big bucks…
I have a similar experience- I've been working for nearly 30 years and have not been laid off directly. But many people in my group were laid off over the years
I'd need to see some performance metrics to come to that conclusion. "Bloated Flash site loading with a progress indicator for a few seconds" was pretty common and a huge complaint about Flash and its use on the web.
Are you intending to reply to me? I agree with you to a certain extent regarding NPM madness.
But this is indeed about money. Why tie up a crypto token with a messenger otherwise. No US, no money. That's how it is. I wish SEC had fined EOS more though
I have comment on this post that might answer your question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21243525

Basically some whole wheat flour is heavily processed and reconstituted.
MS Excel also lets you put any kind of code anywhere. IMO, nNot forcing any organization lowers the barrier to entry.
Amazon's inaction is just welcoming and awaiting for a government-led crackdown
It is a great handbook! Thanks a lot.
Surely that’s nice and easy to use and receive punitive damages?
Everything young people do now outside of schooling and dedicated hobbies seems to be mobile-based, so Tiktok is probably the equivalent to Newgrounds these days.

This "novices" thing seems to me to be overblown though; Alan Kay has been beating the "programming for novices" drum for decades with Smalltalk and basically nothing happened. I would rather have professional-quality tools with decent Youtube tutorials, like Blender, Unity, Python, etc. have been developing.
I'd almost ignore the traditional news industry. You're trying to do something new and many won't understand it or have useful tips in 2019. Just make sure you have easy to find and share deep-dive topic pages and you'll soon discover whether people are interested or not in this style of presentation.
I too was at Realtime Worlds, I seem to remember having to pay £20 to cash the £130 cheque because I had moved country.

Stayed in the games industry for a bit after that, but got totally burned out (edit: and suffered another studio imploding) and decided I just didn't have the passion for making games required to either excel or handle the low pay and high risk involved.
Did not know this existed. Very cool
You are right that they could conceptually have been operating entirely outside the US, which would shield them from any SEC actions... but of cause they aren't operating entirely outside of the US, and as such are not in any meaningful way shielded from SEC actions.
TypeScript is so syntax heavy. But my perspective is that there are costs incurred at time of development and maintenance in return for stability at runtime. And I think the latter is far more important if you're writing production code.

When it comes to experimentation, I love Javascript and Python because of how fast they are to write when you're not thinking hard about types.

Then it's just discipline to know how to promote experiments to production code. TypeScript is beautiful because you can just turn it on and add them in. Same with Python type hints.
Full disclosure: was making CAD 70k/year at RIM and my next full time job started around Nov 2013 for GBP 41k/year (and by March 2014 visa stuff was settled and I’d moved to London).
DRM does exactly what it was meant to do: remove rights from the folks who play by the rules.

The public premise that DRM is about stopping "piracy" was always a lie. Obviously, it can't do that. In fact, DRM encourages piracy by reducing the value of non-pirated versions of things.

DRM exists to control and manipulate regular, honest customers, such as making them watch ads or to pay over and over for different copies of the same thing even when they actually have the legal right to make copies for their own use.
Sure there's a parallel. The bits are still there, in the same place and same order, just there's no longer an index to find and use them, so they're not "alive".

And they remain in the same place until the file space they occupy is reclaimed by the OS and rewritten with new content.
I think it makes sense to keep operating reactors that are currently active. We’re already on the hook for storing that waste and managing those decommissioned sites.

Similarly, I’m okay with a phased decommissioning of other dirty fuels. I just think it’s insane to set a long-term goal of growing dirty power jobs/industry.

I’d advocate for an immediate stop to any anti-renewable efforts. We should be doing everything we can to help achieve renewables.

Last, if we really think it’s a problem, we need to reduce energy consumption.
Just get a CO detector chip, along with an organic vapors detector, etc, with I2C protocols, from aliexpress, and jango it into your preexisting DIY R-Pi or etc smart home system, like all hackers do.
What if the user doesn't?
> the famous "intrinsic simplicity" of writing, compiling, and deploying an app to an embedded device.

90% of apps can be replicated as web pages, which are far, far easier to program and deploy. Frameworks do add a lot needless of complexity for little benefit. The reason is not a "test of worthiness" though - the purpose is developer lock-in and make it as much difficult as possible to switch to the competing platform. The only way to win this game is not to play
This has been happening to No Starch for quite some time, with no action by Amazon. Shameful.
I think (hope?) that's what this decision did. LinkedIn must allow scraping publicly available data, but not private data that a third party wouldn't have access to normally.
Sorry, but you seem much more like the one trying to pick a fight at all cost here with your ridiculous insistence on ice cream and doubling down with these giant replies.

You could have just asked for the title to be clarified to avoid a potentially unknown acronym.
I’ve specifically noticed it when using the embedded browsers in apps. If I “open in safari”, it will load.
With Minecraft, even just watching a Youtube video and copying their build-style to make something cool is enough for a kid to learn that they can be a creator.

They realize that there's no magic; all it takes to make something nice is a little knowledge, and a lot of work.

From what I've seen of Fortnite, it promotes a different kind of creativity, which is more like creative problem solving (boxing people in, riding rockets, etc.) But it does have a sandbox mode that I've seen some interesting creations from.
Help me understand. Saving yields a psd which indeed requires PS. Whether project lives "inside" app or not it's still bound to it by format, and separate from your source.

So you export the edited version, explicitly overwriting your original.
Consumer apps don't care when an "edit" means fresh destructive encoding and overwrite, tools like Photoshop do, but that seems a different discussion.
I suppose I'm getting hung up on not at all getting/agreeing with your examples.

For "regular" files where that project/"edit in progress" distinction doesn't apply (text/code for example), whether edit-in-place is accomplished through system file manager or back and forth across apps through piping and callbacks is just an implementation and workflow detail.

I rarely leave the terminal on my laptop, and prefer my stuff always backed up, so that probably what has me predisposed towards the "traditional" iOS cloud storage and x-callback-url approach to working with files and data across apps and gluing them together. It just mirrors nicely.

I get that others have different tastes. But what exactly are yours? Files is confusing because there's also camera roll and the difference between On my device and iCloud isn't clear or something?

Same for grandparent, just makes little sense in the context of like, iOS 8, close to none for 13.
Anybody have any other sites or books/resources that they would recommend?
I'm a sculptor who specializes in math and physics visualizations, I have two Prusa printers and they are invaluable tools for me. I 3D print a lot of sculpture parts and things like sculpture bases that would be difficult and time consuming to make on a milling machine (grids of tapered square holes, etc), in addition to lots and lots of tooling like jigs for setting the back stop on my model railroad chopper to precise lengths.

I love my two printers. They enable me to achieve the kind of computer precision my artwork requires in a way I don't know I'd be able to achieve otherwise, at least not in such a short amount of time.
Flutter 101
What makes it even more absurd is that storing in a salt mine was considered the "best option" back then, backed by a scientific consensus.

That consensus came out of an international conference in the 50s in, I believe, Beirut. Asse II was supposed to be one of the experimental sites to prove the theory, but over the decades ended up being run much more like a "general dump" with extremely lackluster documentation habits.
I think we both have been, for a while, simply because their games were not for us anymore. The post I responded to was asking what to do when we already don't buy, a boycott won't be felt.

Though anyone planning to boycott would best keep in mind not to forget about anything labelled Activision too.
Is it a good platform to make animated movies? Can output be distributed as a single shareable file, like .swf?
It's didn't go so well for the dog killer.
> 2010. ... homogeneous ... bland without rough edges, literally with rounded corners. Options were removed, defaults became simpler and dumber.

This is the result of web devs targeting smart phones. They've made the web suck bending over backwards for the limited abilities of phones to act as computers in both the UI and network sense.
This is probably old news to seasoned Seller Central users, but I was surprised how easy it was to "take over" product pages from already existing products.

Our sales figures definitely weren't high. I think it may have been related to how much stock we had for all the sizes of the product.

Soon the product images and descriptions we provided became the canonical version and overrode whatever was there before. Even previous customer reviews from other sellers would continue to be shown on was what now basically our product page.
This happened to me too for a $100 textbook. It took me weeks but I got my money back and emailed the details to the publisher.
> web as a whole has grown up and changed

eh, no it hasnt, and even if it did it would have nothing to do with flash. Flash was a great domain-specific tool for somthing that is significantly more cumbersome to write (and difficult to debug, and less wysiwyg) in canvas. Plus technology is supposed to move forward and 20 years is a geologic timespan in internet years. We expected to have much, much better tools by now, not a barely equivalent
I suspect Smalltalk style OOP has relatively few critics simply because Smalltalk has relatively few users.

Perhaps it has implicit critics, as so few people use it.
I think the place of animations might also been taken by video now. Back then, there were no ubiquitous video cameras and apps around them. Now, everyone can start making and sharing video clips with overlays/music/...
Erm, we just killed the food pyramid which was held up as a standard of health for 30 years. Are you sure you want to enact bans on what the government thinks is unhealthy?

There are a whole bunch of materials in the natural world that we just assume are safe because they've been around 'forever'. If you're going to use science as your standard for bans, there are billions of dollars of tests to do.

There's some dark math to be done on the benefit of a human life vs the cost of saving it. Maybe ten guys drinking infinite soda are keeping 100 at work in soda companies, providing for their families.