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> Cars kill 65% as many people as skin cancer in Australia.

Which would become closer to 18% if the number of individuals exposed to prolonged sun time doubled (e.g. by promoting Cycling). We literally run public awareness TV campaigns telling people to stay out of direct sunlight as much as possible regardless of what protection they're wearing.

I don't think you realise it but you're proving the point.

Bikes are fine when the weather is favourable, but a lot of the people commenting here just don't grasp the fact that in some parts of the world, unfavourable weather doesn't mean you might sweat a bit, it means that the weather will make you sick and kill you in short order. The same people that dismiss warnings when visiting countries like AU and then leave with their skin peeling off.
You could try Strattic (I'm the CEO) - it's a static site generator for WordPress. It's not a plugin, but rather a platform where we host the WP site and also generate the static output, which we then serve up via CDN. https://www.strattic.com.
I still remember at WWDC a few years back, I went with some older radars to the labs, only to get turned down with a „You already have a workaround - why do you care?“

...that made me mostly stop filing radars for older issues.
It wasn't just an aesthetics things - it was a crazy never before done design to have an iconic look + + + regulation.
Nowadays, I spend zero time on marketing. I have a whole bunch of well-written articles on my subject. They still rank okay on Google and are evergreen. Marketing these days is word of mouth + SEO.

But for someone starting out: Write articles that teach people something (in a niche). Articles get read for many years. Social media posts go down after minutes.
Deciding What You Believe, the Easy Way
I've used Windows on and off since 3.11, and have used 98, xp, 7 and 10 a lot.

As much fun as it is to hate on Windows, if I'm honest with myself 10 has been the most stable experience I've had with Windows, with the possible exception of 3.11 (though that was a long time ago).
I've been running Instapainting.com as a 1-person business since 2014. I started out with a single page with a Stripe checkout button on it. I've been living off of the income since inception, even though the first few years were poverty levels of income ;). Many have tried, but I'd say most just gave up when they realized they could make more money just getting a job.
T2 diabetes is mostly a lifestyle disease.
You are writing this based on gut feeling, big companies simply can't go over every bug report- it's not scalable.

I used to work on a product at a big company, we took users input very seriously, not only from bug reports but also by analyzing telemetrics data and simple users "star" feedback.

At the end of the day it's simply impossible to both fix everything and still go forward when the product is big and complex. To this day the product has terrible reputation as buggy and unfriendly.

Even the simple task of finding what the problem is, fixing it and then closing related problem reports is very complex since many bugs manifest themselves in different ways.
Sounds like that’s something that would be really hard to prove :/.
> There are free alternatives to Google's Play Store and yet developers still choose to pay Google's cut to have access to it. This tells me whatever benefits the "official" app store provides on each platform outweigh the disadvantages (costs) even when free alternatives are available.

That's only because it's pretty hard for the casual user to install third-party apps on Android and even with those artificial barriers, some popular apps are available outside of it, I could mention Fortnite.
I don't think screen space is the problem because a store can easily randomize the offerings, so each visitor sees different apps.
You couldn't make a call and browse the Internet at the same time on an iPhone.

You couldn't copy and paste text on an iPhone.

The camera was worse than any contemporary mid range camera phone.
We're a data science R&D company founded in 2017 with 4 core team members: 2 co-founders, technical (CTO) and non-technical (CEO), a data scientist and software engineer, focused on large-scale NLP projects development with state-of-the-art models. We are located in Kyiv, Ukraine, with sales representatives in Canada (Toronto), United states (New York) and UAE (Dubai).

We also have proprietary product - bio-medical question-answering system, and received grant from the US for the further R&D.

Last year the income of the company reached $150k, and we're planning to make 5x in 2020.

We're looking for:

- Technical or non-technical co-founder (equity sharing) who has connections and will be able to represent us to Fortune 1000 companies.

- Technical or non-technical co-founder (equity sharing) or business-partners who has connections with investors in Palo Alto / San Francisco and will be able to represent us.

- Business partners, who interested to sell our products or services

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All I'm saying is if I wanted to look up a bunch of support charts, I may as well try my luck with regular HTML, because it's no longer speeding up development trying to remember which component is supported where. And the way it's presented in the link above is awful.
Thank you so much for linking park.io, you might have just given me a miracle.
Zuckerberg Rebuffs Calls for Tighter Controls
Sorry for the broken link, Google URLs on mobile are a mess. Here's the link : https://www.ipcc.ch/apps/njlite/srex/njlite_download.php?id=...
It would not work to fix the light pollution problem.

* Wild animals, don't have these glasses, so they will keep being strongly affected.

* The light get scattered on the atmosphere, buildings, clouds, etc, so a weird range of time shifts would occur.

* This wouldn't work if you are trying to do photos !
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Achieving Quantum Supremacy
The Norwegian mobile phone market: moving from gut feelings to facts
> If you serve a niche, people talk.

Another thing probably is, that a subscription price of a niche product can be considerably higher than of a mainstream one?

For a single person, it must be much easier to support 1,000 users paying something like $25 / month than 5,000 users paying $5 / month.
Operating system should stop trying to do everything and just focus on giving basic functionalities in almost perfect way.

Let third party developer use those building blocks and add this magic!
Mexico’s fight against organized crime takes a dark turn after warfare in city
Could you elaborate why?
Your example really amuses me and reminded me of the famous and real Zankou Chicken Murders: https://www.lamag.com/longform/the-zankou-chicken-murders/
It's a mish-mash. A bunch of VMs running on ProxMox, Wireguard is the link from the outside world, QNAP NAS for document storage and running SyncThing server for phone photos and videos backup, a couple of Windows VM's we RDP into for banking and centralised documents and spreadsheets. Also PiHole running on a VM so my 'roaming' browsing is nice and clean. Also, although off-topic-ish, ZoneMinder and LMS (lightweight music server - which the author linked to in comments a week ago or so: https://github.com/epoupon/lms) VMs accessible via the VPN.

Nothing particularly "integrated" like Sandstorm or NextCloud, but I haven't had the existential need for that level of accessibility.

The QNAP NAS (like Synology) has personal cloud apps, but I don't tend to like doing things the easy way. Going down that path also locks services into a particular hardware dependency. VMs are easily backed up and restorable to ProxMox running on new / different hardware if necessary.
The communists won't confiscate your phone or laptop, that's personal property. They would take your factory away, yes.
I use WhatsApp for 99% of my messaging. I’d be happy with the new share sheet row if it could be configured to show me my common WhatsApp contacts. But because it’s Messages only, it only shows people I very very rarely want to contact.
I don't think the ESP8266 supports any kind of Bluetooth at all
This is great! I assume most of your customers will be businesses, so why not offer a bulk "@domain" subscription for $999 (lifetime) so that anyone in the business can use it without restriction. Restrict the other packages to personal use and you should be able to drive up your income.
Even with a paid Windows 10 Pro you get ads for games right in the Start menu. It's insane.
> there will be just one or two languages in the whole world

In fifty years? Lots of people currently breathing will be alive in fifty years. Even if, starting tomorrow, every single baby was brought up speaking English or Chinese, there will still be lots of old people speaking other languages fifty ears from now.
I heard levels.io (twitter.com/levelsio) makes like $50,000 per month off of Nomad List, and I'm pretty sure it's a one-person thing.
> I like his ideas about tighter vertical integration between the OS and desktop apps, and a browser that is a smart document reader, as opposed to a VM for web apps.

Other actively developed OSes that fit this level of OS + desktop apps integration are:

ReactOS: https://reactos.org/

Haiku: https://www.haiku-os.org/

Redox: https://www.redox-os.org/

> Bonus points for non-POSIX plays or language choices beyond C/C++/Rust :)

Then you will pretty much like Fuchsia, a new OS by Google that is actively developed in the open and uses its own kernel called Zircon which is a microkernel optimised for modern processor architectures and multi-core machines.

Several drivers are actively written in Rust and its networking stack is written in Golang. Everything else including the kernel is written mostly in C++11.

https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/the-book
Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video]
Isn't it also possible for analytical computers to outperform digital computers by orders of magnitude? How sure are they that Google's computer got its performance advantage through quantum effects?
Rather than allowing you to continue to create your own narrative, the actual post is archived and the link is visible in this thread.

So, we do know.
I use Zim Wiki and have done for a few years now. Simple formatting, files in plain text, easy interlinking, decent search, and I've written some external scripts to work on the plain text files to be able to extract collated documents.

Backed up as part of my usual backup procedures, but only (easily) accessible with the GUI on my laptop. It would be trivial to sync it between devices and use it from multiple locations, but I don't need to.
Your last point first: Am I arguing that "we shouldn't use such [explicitly never agile] protocols"? I don't see that.

I'm arguing that the case for them is weaker than is often put, but that's not the same as nobody should use them. If a flag day is fine for your use case there's very little reason not to choose this design approach, it is simpler and simpler is good. But you'll notice that the example cited (including by you) for why agility is bad is almost invariably TLS and clearly a flag day isn't practical for TLS because it's far too broadly used.

TLS illustrates my other main thrust of concern on "agility is bad". You describe RC4 as "known bad" and the downgrade attacks as "catastrophic" and this sort of apocalyptic thinking is very popular in the "agility is bad" crowd, but it doesn't truly reflect the ground reality for actual users which is that things went from "It's definitely fine" to "It's probably fine but to be sure we should upgrade". Grey areas are a real thing.

There were protocols that didn't exhibit any cipher agility before by the way. Lots of them. What happened was that they broke, and so agility was added to them retrospectively in new versions that fixed the brokenness. The arguably new thing in the latest round of "no agility" protocols is a supposed determination never to do this. To see how that works out, as I said, you'll have to wait a decade or two.
I do remain skeptical.
If you’re going to network like a pro, it makes sense to go to the pros
I won’t lose sleep over f2p apps that profit by getting whales to spend money on in app consumables. I hope Apple Arcade cuts even more into those types of apps.

As far as subscriptions, the answer is simple - don’t allow subscriptions through the App Store. Netflix, Spotify, Linux Academy, AT&T Now, Sling, etc force you to pay for subscriptions outside of the App Store. You can subscribe to Hulu in the App Store but not Hulu Live.

As far as the 30%, all of the rumors are that none of the big players like Netflix (before they stopped allowing in app subscriptions), Hulu, or HBO ever paid more than 15%.
> I also really dislike the App Store. [...] I used to _love_ it, I would check weekly for new things

I used to do this too, and like you, I've now grown to really dislike it. My reason is different, though: the App Store app has _plummeted_ in quality. It's now so hard to use, I don't bother using it.

1. The UI is all over the place. Some UI controls cause pages to swipe up from the bottom. Some cause pages to swipe in from the right. Some cause modals. Whenever I click something, I have no idea what it's going to do. Here are some examples: https://grumpy.website/post/0RsaxCu3P

2. It's full of bugs. I have witnessed the App Store lose track of whether an app is bought or not, downloaded or not, or installing or not. Another example: https://grumpy.website/post/0SU9WNFXB

3. It makes the rest of my system worse. Every week or so, I get a message like "Fantastical cannot be updated because it is open". I didn't set it to update. I had no idea it was even updating. I just get an obnoxious dialog interrupting my work.

The App Store used to be like a shopping mall — I'd browse the shelves, see what was new, and maybe buy a small app I liked the look of once in a while. But now it's become so hard to browse, I don't bother paying. Everyone loses out.
I agree that it's a balancing act, but what are we balancing? What are we maximizing for? It's critical we ask the right questions.

For example, why has bike commuting declined recently in the United States? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/02/bike-w... It's not like cities like San Francisco and Seattle became bike hostile (if they have, I haven't heard it).

Bike commuting is only used by 1 percent of people in large metro areas in the United States. https://www.thetransportpolitic.com/databook/travel-mode-sha...

Public transportation use is also falling in the United States. https://www.govtech.com/fs/transportation/2018-Was-the-Year-...

I love bike commuting. My life is better when I ride my bike to work, but I can't always do it. It's critical that as we think about the future we think about how to improve personal mobility. That's the key.

I'm skeptical that the future is automobiles with single occupants or bikes or scooters. People will gravitate toward toward personalized transportation that gets to where they want to be comfortably, quickly, and within their budgets.
Growing up everyone had a Nokia phone. The Nokia 6600 specifically (which had a multitasking, internet enabled OS with IMO the best J2ME implementation and also allowed you to install arbitrary native programs either from a PC or download them from the Internet) was a very popular device.

To anyone who used this phone, smartphones were already a thing long before iPhone was introduced. Of course iPhone changed things a lot, though IMO many were for the worse (for example i really liked using the tiny joystick on my 6600 for playing games).
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If you also own encycolourpedia.com, you should probably set up a redirect. If it was someone else that grabbed it (registrar is different...), well that's unfortunate!

I have a domain I got for a future project where there's a UK/US difference, so I made sure I got both.
> At least it’s not suggesting messenger contacts from other apps that I contacted literally once ever 3 years ago.

Only because none of the messaging apps have implemented it yet. As someone who uses their phone for messaging 70% of the time, I actually missed it from Android and am happy to see it come to iOS.
Show HN: NowDoThis is down, so I made a simple little clone – dothis.today
It’s not Messages only, WhatsApp just hasn’t implemented it yet.
If we find Apple extracting rent from apps unacceptable, we look no further than a mirror for the cause. We the public don’t want to pay full freight for hardware.

Microsoft used to boast that they made more money from Apple systems than Apple did. Google does that to Android device makers today.

If platform makers don’t extract rent, or compete with the developers they court, they will look for other sources of revenue to stay profitable. I would be aghast if Apple hardware came loaded with the kind of Junkware I recall from the years I bought Windows hardware.
If you create new mathematics in order to properly describe a physics phenomena then you are doing science. Similarly if you create a laboratory in order to properly conduct physics experiments to verify your theories you are doing science. How the laboratory was built matters a lot for the experiment, the same as how the math language was built.

Math is a tool, yes, but it is a tool that is very useful to do science in and the act of creating and distributing a tool you use to do science is a large part of science. A shower on the other hand has no direct relationship to science, you don't need to be a physicist to make a shower, it is just a commodity. Calculus however needed to be discovered by a physicist as the math was too strange for mathematicians to find but simple enough that two different physicists found it in parallel.
> Where the future is also sandboxed

Judging from Windows Store/UWP/etc acceptance, it doesn't really seem much of a future.

> they would need to rewrite the applications from scratch

Nah, this is never going to happen with Windows. The worst you can expect is to not get any new features, but even with base Win32 you have enough functionality to build on top of it anything you want (and/or use 3rd party libraries that bring that functionality).
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I don’t recall the NEC saying that. My recollection is that code is two ground rods, spaced 6+ feet apart, is sufficient for code without measuring resistance at all.

Alternatively, if you can prove that a single ground rod has less than 25 ohms to earth, then a single rod suffices.

If I have time later, I’ll try to look up the actual reference, but I remember reading and thinking “that makes no engineering sense!” so it stuck in my head.
I agree with this and I have done this for years. However, having to take a shower is an extra source of friction that makes biking a bit more challenging in hot climates.
I'm running Debian 10 with KDE and use microphone through mostly unplugged USB interface (it's plugged in Wintendo by default), headphones and two displays. Nothing of that was configured within command line.
Separate faucets for cold and hot water is one of those inexplicable British things for an immigrant like me.
Thanks for asking this, because it is a thing that many many people have in their mind: "Will support requests crush me?" And this was actually my biggest fear when I turned my hobby project into a commercial one many years ago. The reality is this:

I have over 10,000 paying customers. I receive maybe 5 emails per day. There was never a time when I received much more than 10. I have three explanations for this:

1. I have a really good FAQ that answers almost any question. On my contact form, I urge people to read the damn FAQ. If they still send me an email, I usually reply with a specific link to the FAQ item. If a question comes up a couple times, I add it to the FAQ.

2. Since my product isn't free (and not cheap compared to a 0.99 one-time-fee app), there's a lot of self-selection. I don't have to support freeloaders with their stupid questions. If people pay for something, it seems to help to reduce the support burden.

3. I wonder if this is a mentality thing and Germans are more likely to help themselves through reading FAQ than others who rather send an email like "yo, shit is broken, fix asap". Most emails I receive read a lot more like a letter and not this one-line blurp bullshit some have to deal with.

In essence: Build a product with a somewhat sophisticated target group. They are more likely to pay, more likely to help themselves by reading FAQ and more likely to send no stupid emails.
The article is about the Mac App Store. You can have third party app stores on the Mac.
Honestly didn't think I said anything weird. I imagine throughput is high because lots of us can do this. I'm not a hater, I actually have an SUV. I just also ride electric downtown.
You're right, GDP growth does not outweigh deaths. However I don't think the primary issues caused by climate disruption will be human deaths, but instead the loss of assets in compromised areas. Humans will relocate, and lose a lot of wealth, but why would they die en mass?

> fleeing their then uninhabitable countries ... which will lead to millions of death

I'm not sure if this is true, actually. What is true is that millions of people every year die due to air pollution, but this isn't climate change, it's just our present pollution.

There's like ~50 million deaths per year if I recall correctly, and I'd be very surprised if more than 0.1% of that is caused by climate change. At least 5% of it is due to pollution, though, and I think probably more like 10%+
Show HN: Witness – A Web Application Using IPFS and Ethereum
What’s up HackerNews! The last couple of months (as a coding project), we have been working on this web application that leverages Ethereum and IPFS to allow users to create permanent links to files. We wanted to provide an entry level dashboard, where people could really use Ethereum as well as IPFS, so that they could see that it doesn’t have to be so difficult to do something useful with it.

How it works: the short version (https://witnessdb.com/about for the long version)

So on the webpage, you can upload a file together with your Ethereum address. We will then be storing that file, either until correct payment is made to our Ethereum address or until the expiry date, which is one hour later. When either of the 2 is triggered, the file and all corresponding metadata is deleted, except for the logs we keep for a week, to resolve any errors.

If payment is made, our IPFS node adds the file to IPFS, gets the CID of that file, sends that back to our Ethereum node and the node signs a transaction, with the CID as input data, to send it back to you. This creates a permanent link, and, since we use multiple pinning services beside our own server, almost permanent uptime. If, for example, one of the IPFS nodes falls away, there will be others. And if they all fall away, all one has to do is upload and host the same file on IPFS again, and, since the files are content addressed, the same link, that was included in the Ethereum blockchain, will work again.

If you have any questions, advice, or anything else, feel free to comment or to contact us at witnessdb@protonmail.com.

We hope you like it.
diagrams invariably show only 2 dimensions, so you can't reasonably show anything that has complexity in more than three dimensions, which means any problem with three independent variables is out. Animation can add the missing dimension; well color can, too.