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- Rather than rewriting a C++ library in Rust (difficult and will introduce bugs), wrap it in a Rust interface.

This seems like the cleanest way to move a codebase forward without too much regression work. It reminds me of how TensorFlow 2.0 still contains tf.compat.v1 APIs so devs can write forward-facing code while maintaining existing modules.
Bollocks. As Matt Taibbi correctly noted, a CIA whistleblower would only be a whistleblower if he were to expose malfeasance within CIA activities.
I've been kicking around an idea of creating a site dedicated to in-depth writeups of the workflows that professionals use these days to stay organized - I've always had the problem of having too big of a toolbox (note-taking app, todo app, documentation app) but no cohesive way to combine all of them into something resembling organization. Would love to hear the details of how others do it.
I have been using plain text documents since 2001.

I just make a new file with a YYYY-MM format and dump everything in there, and on the next month I start a new file. I keep them all in 1 folder.

It's really simple to use and very searchable with grep. I like it because it's all offline and doesn't get in the way.

It becomes a brain dump of interesting links, notes about certain things I'm doing or whatever else I feel is worth jotting down at the time.
I think that answers both my issue and AstralStorm's. It's also the alleged status quo. I think I agree with AstralStorm that the current situation, if not full crony capitalism, at least has more crony capitalism in it than we generally think.
> The latter doesn't follow the former. In fact, consolidation of wealth is a hindrance to volume of activity outside the bounds of the owner of that wealth's interests. Case-in-point: Wal-Mart has done gangbuster business over the last half century. They've grown our economy. Almost every community its touched has been devastated by this, from the destruction of other businesses within its purview; to the flooding of the market with cheap goods that - in many cases - do nothing for society in their cheapness, and which actually create issues of overconsumption and waste; to the negative effects their influence has had on the shape of welfare. It's not about what Wal-Mart does; its very existence at its size is destructive. The only positive thing it did was grow the overall economy, which is like celebrating a tumor growing your overall lean mass.

I would highly disagree there. The ills you describe aren't caused by Wal-Mart being big, they're from the business model itself. 100 independent companies spread across the country would be similar.

> The over-aggregation of wealth is the problem. A wealth tax is the direct solution (it does not have to be permanent or perennial). Wealth flight is a fantasy, and for anyone who tries, the federal government has access to the resources necessary to make sure everyone pays their fair share.

Because I certainly trust the US government not to come back to the money spigot after using a wealth tax the first time. Not.

As for wealth flight - dafqu you mean it's a fantasy? Does "facebook exec renounces citizenship to avoid capital gains tax" not ring any bells?
Cycling is often the fastest choice in cities. This spring, Uber revealed that even walking is as fast or faster than ride-sharing in many urban centres: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/05/22/uber-dat...
Not a particularly active topic.

Combining your two sources suggests that making helmets mandatory would have a large negative effect on public health. (the downtick in injuries would be overshadowed by the reduction in biking)
I would imagine competition... he already described his leads so ...
> * Wireguard VPN (not running in a container, obviously).

I plan to use Wireguard too, so I shouldn't run on containers? Can you elaborate on that?
In the real world, security is not an absolute. Nothing is perfectly secure. What is important is the resources required to break the security - what that bar needs to be depends on your product and your business goals.

In the video he specifically talks about an economic threshold - it must cost more than 10 games ($600) to mod a console. Above that price it's not worth it, so direct chip beam attacks aren't relevant to their threat model. That is the direct 'resource requirement' as a result of their business goal - prevent piracy.
More like vintage cars. (My wife and I both drive old cars because it's nearly impossible to find a new car that doesn't spy on you or allow itself to be remotely disabled.)
Seven years ago I solo-started an automatic time tracker for programmers called WakaTime [1] and launched here on HN [2]. Partly from listening to developers too much, I waited way too long (almost a year) before adding a paid plan, but now it generates more MRR than an SF developer salary not including stock options. Technically I make more from RSUs and stock from past startups as a regular employee, but if I wasn't lucky with those then it would be my highest income stream.

1: https://wakatime.com/about

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6046227

For anyone thinking it's egregiously difficult to start a solo-project: You're right, but if you stick with it your persistence will pay off. For solo-products, I think grit is the deciding factor between success and failure.
He wasn't for a long time, as he explains in the actual podcast.
This looks interesting, but it's very early days. No mention of reliability, variation, interconnect (modern CMOS processes have 8-10 layers of interconnect). Certainly not taking on CMOS anytime soon.
It's certainly a delicate dance, isn't it?
There are no US states that require adults to wear bike helmets, though there are a dozen or so local laws that do[1]. So 'casual' cycling without a helmet should be an option for nearly anyone in the US.

1: https://helmets.org/mandator.htm
I used to be a big fan of Fleksy app before the creators went to pinterest and sold their app to some company.
They new devs probably didn’t know how to fix their previous bugs or work on the code itself. So they started adding new “features” , which was a toolbar for a keyboard app. Kept contacting them on fixing their error, but they just said we know it’s there. Until i switched back to Gboard.

I would say, it’s probably because they added something to that toolbar.

It’s always like that for most apps, especially keyboard apps. A company abandon their app, then another company buy it from them and not know how to deal with the app. The app ends up with bloatware that no one asked for and then the app gets abandoned
He doesn't mention IBM System R at all.
A lot of car overhead goes into safety: they have to be big and heavy to counteract other cars that are big and heavy. But if the they are given their own routes and are controlled by the same software, a lot of that girth could easily go away.
This has been in my mind recently.
I am head of development at a startup and have something like 30 direct reports. I don't want to be doing this job for a long time, and am maneuvering the team structure to make myself redundant with the following actions:
- I am trying to convince the execs and HR to increase pay transparency and to reward people who want to progress in their careers as engineers more than those who want to become managers.
- I have promoted one person with more leadership skills (and less technical ability) to be a dev lead; essentially a mentor, gathering feedback from the team and helping them solve process and communication issues, and keeping track of OKR metrics.
- I hired a department assistant, to do resource allocation, manage Jira permissions, tidy up boards, etc.
- We have 1 project manager who is responsible for our three internal development projects, controls our budget and fights with other PMs for resources.
- All others are Developers and QA. Some are more senior, so they have architecture roles. Everyone gets to give their voice, but one of them has an official role of architecture lead, who has the final say, but that's mostly cerimonial.

My role is to help them focus when they start to drift, shield them from politics, and most importantly give a cerimonial ratification on their ideas, if they match the values of the company.

So all 4 non developers are essentially assistants. I hope to soon be able to step out and leave the team working happily with a 10 to 1 ratio of dev to non-dev.
Unsecured database exposes 179GB of US Army and government personnel data
Hmm, at least it's easy for someone else (you) to help her fix it?

This is a bit of a tangent, but as tech support workers soon learn, it's unrealistic to expect everyone in a large pool of users to be independent of tech support. We have a myth of competent independence that works for some but it's not reality.

This goes double when your business includes retirees. As people age, many businesses have to figure out how to handle cognitive decline and death of their customers gracefully. (I'm thinking financial institutions in particular.)

Browsers try to make the open web safe for everyone, but it seems to be based on the median user and many users are well below average.
Game developers can leverage the hidden potential of their data
The main concern though is keeping the user as the final arbiter of his own data. He wants to delete it? Bam! It should be gone. She wants to allow someone else to see it, that other entity should be allowed to see it. But that other entity should not be allowed to delete her data. Nor should it be allowed to let anyone else see that data.

The user being in control of access to his/her own data is not a concept that should frighten any legitimate business people. But businesses being in charge of access to a user's data is absolutely a concept that should frighten users. The power of determining access has to be shifted back to the user where it belongs. If some businesses that specialize in "data brokering" are harmed because users are suddenly able to choose to disallow them access, so be it.

Again, allowing businesses to influence and determine who gets to access a user's data is literally the reason we're in this predicament in the first place. Solve that stuff separately if you want, but under no circumstances can end runs around the user's ownership of their data be allowed.
"John Martinis explicitly confirmed for me that once the qubits are calibrated, you can run any circuit on them that you want."

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4372
Gboard doesn't have in app purchases, the other one does. The rules are different because the apps are different.
Well, Microsoft used to offer its cloud services under license via German Telekom in Germany. They've sunsetted that offering though while announcing a Microsoft-owned GDPR-compliant server infrastructure in Europe.

They've yet to deliver on that announcement but that seems more like the usual delays than willful obstruction.
A lot of people get really dogmatic about safety gear in very specific ways.

I'm willing to bet that a lot of the same people who think that not wearing a bike helmet (and especially allowing a child not to wear one) should be a criminal offense would think the idea of having to wear a helmet driving is just silly.

The attitudes around helmets for downhill skiing have gone through a similar shift. It used to be that essentially no one except racers (and then snowboarders) wore helmets. Now, at least some people will chastise you if you don't.

And it's not just a US thing. Copenhagen and Amsterdam are both big bicycling cities but a fair number of people in Copenhagen do wear helmets and you don't see nearly as many of the bare headed young kids perched on top of the handlebars that you see in Amsterdam.
I love micromobility. I think it's the future of human transportation, in combination with better, more efficient, more convenient, mass-transit.

But this "let's dream big about bikes" is like saying "we should feed the planet". Well that's a great notion, and we can totally do that. But who the fuck is going to pay for it?

The car lobby had lots of money, and was able to seize on an abundance of necessity and want: the military needed to be able to move things, cities needed to be able to expand housing out to suburbs, the country needed work, and politicians needed an answer to these problems and a big win. Interstates were a godsend to all these various issues, and the car lobby's funding made that an easy argument to make.

What the hell does the bike lobby have? Chump change. A lack of necessity. Hopes and dreams. Nobody's going to build a Futurama world based on that. You need more than dreams; you need a cause. And you need to be able to provide real value for everyone, not just people who like to bike. That means businesses, politicians, etc
Great point and it makes me think of software that hasn’t changed because it does exactly what it’s supposed to and no more. Like right now I am learning awk and sed using a book that was published in the late 80s and every single command and program listed in that book still run today. Other than old Unix command line tools I can’t think of any other programs that fit your description
The recent meta-analysis got to the same conclusions as before (the link between meat and cancer), it's just that the interpretation of the authors was different.

They said that although a link exists, its not worth it for people to change their diet, which has triggered outrage on the scientific community.

One of the authors of the studies meta-analysed complained that he never saw such as misrepresentation of the data.

The author of the meta-analysis is someone with strong financial links to the meat industry, so thay study is suspect, to say the least.

When you open someone up after a heart attack, what do you find clogging their veins? It's cholesterol. What happens when you eat cholesterol? Your cholesterol serum goes up.

If Joe could have found a serious cardiologist that would claim that cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease, he would have long invited him to the show.

But the best he could come up with is Kris Kresser, which kind of says it all.
> Road damage is proportional to the 4th power of the weight of the vehicle

Right, which is why I also wrote this:

>> Even if the bikes don't tear the roads up much, elements and natural wear make up a fair part of that.

Roads degrade on their own, and the people who use them should still pay for them. I also specified that this need not be dollar-for-dollar, but it is not costless.

> I don't think you need that much density to encourage biking. Even a city with a lot of townhouses, 3-4 story apartment buildings (for the yuppies), and no parking minimums for businesses ought to be dense enough.

Would you please provide a citation for this? I'm guessing your source is only accounting for being able to pack required amenities into a hypothetical biking range. This wouldn't take into account that many people work across town , have to go there to see people and do things, etc. Without a source, however, I can't accurately respond to this.

I saw another commenter raise the point that if you want comparable convenience, you often end up with EVs. What is the objection to those? Assuming carbon-neutral electricity, that is. I'd hazard a guess that producing the energy required to move people via nuclear electricity is more efficient than producing it via consuming food.

I'm also curious if you'd be open to biking in, say, Texas where summer temps are easily above 100 degrees and above 110 in some places. I have trouble seeing how you could convince people to do this; most hesitate to step outside unless necessary in such weather. How would you mitigate this?
Twenty 20[0] started as InstaCanvas providing licensing for instagram photos. It shifted towards a general stock photo catalog to increase inventory.

[0]: https://www.twenty20.com
Economists on the Run
No. An interpretation is just that. No matter what interpretation you use, the experimental measurement results are the same.

If they don't give the same results, it won't be interpretations: you'd have two competing theories and one of them will be wrong since it can be ruled out experimentally.

This is also why majority of physicists don't care much about such philosophical aspects. You can argue that they should, are there are a few people working on foundations of quantum mechanics, but most physicists (including me) see it as semantics and choose to spend their time on practical physics. At least that's what my field (condensed matter physics) is about, which also encompasses the realization of these quantum computers. You can't change the conductivity of a material, or the measured charge state of a transmon qubit by using a different interpretation.
Ignore the misspellings like "salleries",

"it is not provide to provide free updates forever" doesn't make sense in any language.

The TL;DR is the first thing you see on the page. They author didn't proofread the first paragraph.

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TL;DR

each manual update review by Apple causes delay and drama

AppStore does not support paid upgrades, only new App, in-App purchase or subscriptions

Apple takes 30% and that is not sustainable to run a company and pay salleries

it is not provide to provide free updates forever

if you purchased our application this year we provide a direct license, if you had it

significantly longer, we think a paid upgrade is fair for continuously developing, improvements, and support
So much for the 4th amendment. It seems that most of america only cares about the second.
Flip side-- just keep adding features until your userbase is large enough to justify a security team that a) assumes the API is a giant dumpster fire and b) redesigns the system so that it continues to work even when lots of things are burning.
Yes, thank you for telling me. I agree the wiki doesn't look good on every screen or suit most people. Sorry. It works well for me, and I'm the one who uses my personal knowledge base the most (by far).
Ask HN: Why isn't the Hacker News site accessible?
It receives 38 on google's lighthouse audit. A #828282 Foreground with a #F6F6EF background is nearly impossible to read. Please fix it!

Does anyone else have issues?
But have you tried DMT, bro?
In a moment of accidental candor on Maddow's show, Senator Schumer lets you know who he thinks really runs DC...

"Let me tell you: You take on the intellegence community and they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QbADuhhu7w
That's a stretch. We're talking about a translation plugin here. If FF doesn't have a mechanism to keep passwords safe from that, then that is the problem, not the lack of native translation.
> Do you think there is an opportunity to allow sharing outside of Instagram?

Absolutely. Although I think there is some power, at least initially, in focusing just on an Instagram specific license. But in the future 100% we'd love to add more license options for more traditional use cases
Uhm, which downtowns? Seattle has a few grocery stores downtown, they even have a target. Downtown Bellevue has a Safeway, QFC, and an H-mart. LA, SF....have thriving downtowns with grocery stores. They aren’t huge, but they aren’t invisible either.

Even red-state St. Louis had a grocery store downtown, though it took a bit to find one near the hotel I was staying at.
How Do You Like We Now
https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-id...

Also, when I said doesn't work, I only meant that it's not an acceptable alternative to VPNs.
Show HN: Badgerton, the proactive reminder app for people with ADHD
The crazy thing with Android and iOS software is that not only can Google and Apple reject your software now. They can kill it any time in the future. Forever.

It seems nobody talks about that.

As a software developer I would find it way too uncomfortable to build on a platform like that.
Facebook will abandon Libra if regulators disapprove, says Zuckerberg
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Top of the morning, HN.

I was having a bit of trouble trying to figure out how to introduce Badgerton here, but then procrastinating and reading reddit for a few minutes magically resolved that problem.

Specifically, I just saw a thread on the /r/ADHD subreddit titled "ADHD is being prepared for the unusual and not prepared for the daily.”

And I don’t think I could put it more concisely myself.

We’ve just launched Badgerton in its first iteration to help people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, like myself, manage all the non-critical things in life that just can’t be scheduled with precise deadlines ahead of time.

Because those of us with ADHD are walking paradoxes. We excel in adversity, when we need to hyperfocus and achieve the impossible, yet we’re overwhelmed by everything else in everyday life that other people manage through a functional working memory and proper sense of time.

And while I’m sure there must be a considerable number of people with ADHD brains on HN, Badgerton isn’t strictly limited to us. It’s designed to help reduce cognitive friction and minimize decision-making energy expense — both challenges that entrepreneurs, consultants, digital nomads, and other folks with flexible, self-defined schedules tackle all the time.

So try it out, or don’t. I’m a HN poster, not a cop. But any and all feedback is welcome.
>> Under the bill the companies would be required to maintain an interface to facilitate interoperability.

This would be easily achieved with ActivityPub [0].

>> The bill would require communications platforms with more than 100 million monthly active members [...] to allow its users to easily move, or port, their data to another network...

That's the idea behind Berners-Lee's Solid [1].

I wish legislators were more in touch with open-source technology innovators. I feel the FOSS movement's philosophy and the idea of having collective technologies promoted and funded by the government go hand in hand.

[0] https://activitypub.rocks/

[1] https://solid.inrupt.com/
Contracts are designed in such a way that they remain in place if any parts of them are voided by law but they don't take precedence over the law even if the law changes after the contract was signed.

If slavery were legal today and abolished tomorrow, you couldn't keep your slaves just because they were signed into indentured servitude before the law came into effect.
It's subtle. The second phrasing ("how not to x") is idiomatic, and means, roughly, "some things that you should not do when you do x", or "an example of how you should not go about doing x."

So, an article titled, say, "how not to paint your house" would be expected to outline things to avoid when painting your house, and "how to not paint your house" could just be "go for a bike ride instead."
You have to somewhat assume a hostile actor here. Have you worked with fb's API before? They _technically_ have one, but frequently make breaking changes. They could easily justify this for such a legally-demanded API, as they do the same thing internally and already have that practice . What would prevent them from making it very difficult to maintain such a service?
Forcing here is entirely via verbal induction of cognitive dissonance.
One of the reasons that open banking works well is that every bank has essentially the same offerings and therefore the same type of data. It's perhaps possible that social networks may be marginally less uniform.
I have a pretty good experience using SwiftKey for the past few years.
I almost got in to this space a few years ago, but didn't for some reason. there are a lot of fun things to work on in that problem space.
Good point! I've definitely had that feeling as an individual contributor.