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> Basically, I believe the aphorism: you can’t be it if you can’t see it.

That sentiment is so limiting. I teach my daughters that the whole human experience is theirs to draw heroes and role models and inspiration from.

Any human, no matter sex or gender or race or ethnicity can serve as inspiration to them.

It’s time to end the artificial divisions. We are humans and we can all inspire each other.

I want my daughters to think they can be Bill Gates or Louis Pasteur or Marie Curie or Albert Einstein or anybody else without any artificial limitations.
I try to be the most efficient with the time that I do have while making sure that I still finish all my work at Google. Somehow there just ends up being enough time for everything.
Client templates happen, but they aren't the norm. I pointed that example out as one egregious waste of time, but simply conforming Excel charts / tables to the company's format is very time consuming on a day-to-day basis.

A lot of people just don't have an intuitive sense for design or plain don't care, so you're left with a high variance in the quality of the work that is produced. Speaking from my banking experience, the result is senior bankers have to spend time marking up documents on things like formatting, and junior bankers feel frustrated because they waste their productive hours on non-productive work. And it's generally a frustrating experience indeed as the tools we use aren't built for this purpose.

But formatting is just part of it. "Code" reusability (more like financial model reusability) is basically zero, auditing is a pain and people use many different approaches to do the same things, but again with varying levels of efficiency and accuracy. I can tell you 10 ways to calculate Total Shareholder Returns for a public company using the FactSet add-in in Excel. Also several ways to pull Revenue and EBITDA figures, and these aren't even the more esoteric metrics like Free Cash Flow or Funds from Operations.

These decks that we prepare should work like recipes. Input the ingredients and out comes the prepared dish, but everything is so god damn manual

Not to mention issues with Excel itself, like how Excel's (non-cascading) styles and defined names (similar to variables) propagate to other workbooks if you copy-paste content from one to another, which in the long-term creates files full of garbage that crash and corrupt frequently

The whole paradigm is a shit show. One day it will be different, I am certain. But nobody has taken a holistic, multi-disciplinary view at the problem because bankers / consultants don't know what is possible with today's technology and the ones trying to address these usability issues are only looking at a couple pieces of the puzzle at once
If it's 2FA and not an account recovery short cut it doesn't deserve a cross mark because it's not _worse_ than nothing - nobody is finding it _easier_ to get in by hijacking your phone number as an extra step.

If your argument is that phone based 2FA is no good because it's vulnerable that'd count for TOTP as well, which is vulnerable to live phishing attacks that are now relatively widespread. In both cases they're a lot better than nothing.
I'm pretty sure 90% of my friends and peers in the 21 - 25 cohort receive financial help from their parents. This is due to the fact that they're either still in school, which is increasingly expensive, or that they can't find full-time jobs in their chosen fields, or that they've chosen to live at home to save money.
im wondering if a detergent and wire brush on a drill could subtitute for the spray cans, so you are not vandalizing the street, you are "cleaning" the pavement with select prejudice to particular spots.
But...but...he read the right book.
TIL, but that’s my point. If after many years of doing this and leading the development on one of the top utilities on homebrew I don’t immediately know the answer to these things, how could anyone.

UX is FAR more important in the CLI than even on the web. Users don’t just have to be able to learn what they want to do, for these common tools they have to memorize it or they won’t use it. Minor things like the order of the flags and bits like having to escape the semicolon don’t just make it challenging. I would argue for 99% of users they make it impossible.

In other words, I think 99% of users don’t know how to use this level of find and will never learn. That’s a problem and no amount of education is going to fix it. The tool itself is broken.
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I know but though I have pretty big hands I can't do fn + F11 with one hand, so it's a no-go.
> The economists want something they can measure. They are using dollar losses as a proxy for the gravity of the situation and as a proxy for relative value that people place on things.

This is a poor proxy, as it over-values areas with high, uneven distributions of capital accumulation. If the Netherlands were to succumb to the impending boiling sea-waters, that would necessarily have a higher "economist cost" than a similar tragedy befalling Nigeria, despite Nigeria having over 10x the population of the Netherlands.

Rather than viewing the very real human impact, the "economist cost" rides the coat-tails of chauvinist mythology by saying that, yes, in fact a Dutchman is worth 11x a Nigerian.

> there's a reason that economists are more likely to get invited to a climate summit than psychologists.

I can guarantee you it's not the reason you think it is.
Firefox tried decentralised identity via the Persona protocol. It failed to gain market traction and Mozilla canned the project.

Email is already the decentralised identity protocol.
I use it to sync the pictures and videos from my phone, which is then synced to my desktop at home, and then deleted from dropbox and thus also the phone. Automatically. If my phone gets stolen (or data deleted by some overzealous border patrol goon) it doesn't matter as much as it would have otherwise.
Replaced my roof this year. Small roof where roofs last for about 1/2 their typical rating. $5000 for 20 year asphalt shingles.

With Tesla I would add:
$20,000 for panels and powerwall.
seL4 looks quite interesting. What use cases have you used it in?
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If the phone number is acting as the identity (like email for a lot of sites today) then no, that's not vulnerable to anything, though over the longer term it can cause confusion as "your" phone number turns out to have previously belonged to somebody else who isn't using the phone number any more but does use lots of accounts with that number...
While California Fires Rage, the Rich Hire Private Firefighters
I understand QM intuitively. I just don't wanna explain it to you is all.
A simple and tiny scrapy clustering solution, a drop-in replacement for scrapyd
I've tried a few times to get jails working but always stumbled over something. Last time it was inbound connections for a server. After several hours I gave up. There's iocage now, but this was well before that. And iocage still has issues.

Docker I could get up an running in less than an hour and it just worked.
There are often multiple goals. My guess is the reason why something like this is picked over something carbon negative is because of the economy. You can downvote it but it's $462 billion into car companies and all their subsidiaries, which is something that tends to have broad public support.
They get the benefits of cross platform code, but now use something that developers are more familiar with, and the can get rid of a lot of code. Big win, I think.
Ask HN: Is it better to build your idea as a startup, or in your current Corp?
financially speaking.

EDIT: Idea below refers to something a bit more tangible than described. Something with solid basis on its own (maybe a new algo/app/etc).

You are enabled within your large place of employment (corporation) to present and build ideas. You're unsure about rewards beyond what is written into your employment agreement (standard bonus(es), RSUs).

Do you give up the rights to your idea, but doing so because you have solid backing of a corporation?

Or do you receive funding for the idea and try to build a startup?
To be fair to Wolff, it's not uncommon for deb and rpm packages of complex daemons (e.g. postgres) to include shell scripts - postinst, preinst, etc - that makes changes to the system, and which do have to be coded in such a way to handle re-execution after partial failure. Taking my /var/cache/apt/ directory as a (poor) sample, about 1/3 of packages had such scripts.
Oh yes, I'm sure your daughter needs a double dose of feminism, because feminism, is, like, something that our current society totally lacks.

Because if some cure isn't working (or even having the opposite effect) of course the problem is that you're not applying it enough, you need to double or triple the dose!

(Sarcasm, if you're the kind of person who needs the hint.)
>I've found that animated WebP can produce files around 10% the size of GIFs.

For nicely optimized GIFs like these https://iwdrm.tumblr.com/ then WebP really struggles. Try to convert some of them to WebP and you'll see the result is often bigger than the original GIF.
I was going to suggest the IETF and RFCs as a trove of standards-setting activity. There should be a few other similar ones.

There's an interesting transition as those groups moved from small (able to fit into a VW Bug, bus, or small bar) to large (auditorium, or multi-campus groups), and the relative frictions in new developments.

Past a certain scale, the easiest way to change a standard is to move forward, either abandoning or ignoring backwards compatibility.

Both software languages and various social networking protocols (there are ... many) are interesting cases in point. Mastodon is in many ways IRC v. 2.0 (and there are any number of competing contenders). There actually was (and/or is, depending on your judging criteria) a Usenet II, though it's seen limited popularity.

Another good source on much of this would be the late Pieter Hintjins. See for example:

https://mixitconf.org/en/blog/messaging---social-architectur...
This is an excellent article. That said, holy shit those are going to be loud. The Wing drone hovers at 24 feet while it lowers its payload? The others descend entirely to the ground? They're typically going to hover just a few hundred feet above the ground? If these are roughly as loud as the quietest DJI drones (and I suspect they will be louder as they are heavier and have larger payloads), they are going to be incessantly annoying.
The past 30 years have been marked by the Great Recession, rising inequality and stagnant wages. What a surprise that the current young adult generation needs more financial help than their forebears!
I know there is a big Google office in London so I would assume that there is also a big demand for engineers at other FAANG across Europe.

I think there is a big myth that FAANG engineers are somehow different than anyone else. Anyone who is willing to invest the time to properly prepare for the interview process has a a great shot at getting the job. Most people don't know HOW to best prepare which I find is what holds most people back.

I wouldn't say that candidates are socially inept. However, I've interviewed candidates where communication issues turn a possible hire into a no-hire. Communication is as important as technical skills because you need both to pass.
I agree; minority report and other fiction works aren't talking about some future where people are judged on potential futures. They are talking about now.
I also have this sneaking suspicion that new generations are re-inventing the wheel in a lot of ways.

Suspicion fades away, and the older you get, the more often you see this happen.
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This is a great read. Thank you.
Early cancer detection is goal of transatlantic research alliance
Energy efficiency doesn't matter, there is enough sun available in remote areas. The problem is energy storage. Storing electricity is really expensive, and cumbersome. It can not be easily transported without a vast expensive infrastructure effort especially concerning remote areas.

We have loads of fluctuating energy generation from renewable sources and hugely fluctuating energy consumption. This means we need loads of storage. Nobody ever talks about the storage.

Also staying 20 min at a charger just to fill up my battery is absolutely impractical. Fast charging is already at its technical limits. Compare that with the 45 seconds I need to fill my gas tank and have enough energy to drive thousands of miles.
If you are out of the loop because you didn't work on a project for half a year or even are completely new to a project, this approach seems pretty impossible for myself. At least with the dynamics I had at the job described above (which included lots of project rotation among devs). I'm sure there are fitting settings where this approach might work, though.
It's not just that — SMS actually get delivered as part of the unused signalling capacity as far as the airwaves are concerned, hence the 160 7bit limitation, to fit into the existing protocols.

E.g., as far as the the costs go, I'd argue that airwaves would be most expensive in something like SMS, as it's a limited and finite resource that has to be shared by everyone within a given geographic area, yet they're basically used for free here due to the signalling already being mandatory even without SMS, so, any charge for SMS is basically pure profit by selling a resource that has to exists just for the signalling alone.

If someone knows more about how is managed between ME and the tower, please correct me if I'm wrong. There's also the cost to run SMSC (Short Message service center), but that part would be done in the cloud, and cloud is a pretty commodity resource nowadays, where these sorts of costs per message can hardly be justified, so, basically, it'll probably be the billing itself that contributes most of the cost to the cost of SMS.

P.S. Fun fact: I took a course at UWaterloo (in Canada) about the maths behind the computer networks, and during the time of the course, my professor has testified as a witness for US Government about the rising costs of SMS — https://www.c-span.org/person/?srinivasankeshav.
The reverse effect is correct, this is the classic game interaction design challenge of 3rd person vehicle cameras which aren't pegged facing the forward direction of the vehicle.

Our hand-eye coordination does not intuitively adapt to remap the arrow keys relative to the spatial position/orientation of the vehicle, and we keep thinking relative to the screen coordinates itself. After you play with it for about 5 minutes you will project to the car instead of the screen and it will feel intuitive again.
It's not a religion, because it is not based on faith. It consistently delivers results whether its practitioners believe in it or not.
Last year i have launched https://visalist.io which helps people find where they can travel with your passport tension free. Im currently making $2500 per month and it's going to cross $4000 hopefully. My revenue is from adsense, pro subscription, iVisa affiliate and Skyscanner affiliate. Most of traffic is organic. I stared visa list as i found contradicting, confusing and outdated information about visas. So i tried to solve my own problem and it turns out there more than 300k users with similar problem every month.
True, but as long as the user does realize this, and they still keep using the very same high quality password, it is better than that very password without 2FA over SMS.
But not untrue.
i think it isn't and that s why i think we need Persona, but without the email-account requirement. Plus mozilla canned the project too early and without ever really trying to push for it, as if they didnt want adoption.

I think such a system is needed, we need to teach people that they are in control of their identity and that it is independent of facebook. Kind of like how mobile apps do it with numbers.
In other news, old man shakes fist at cloud!
I'm finding this very hard to believe. I can't imagine Google being ok with you conducting mentoring session during the work day.

So it's just you then? One person correct? On the home page its states there's a team of software engineers.
"[letterboxing] works by adding white margins to a browser window so that the window is as close as possible to the desired size while users are still in a couple of screen size buckets that prevent singling them out with the help of screen dimensions."

These margins may be surprising (ie. look like a bug) if you don't know what they are.
My scanner can be set to 300, 400, or 600 dpi. I find the 400 scans are just easier on the eyes, and the 600 makes no difference (or perhaps that's just my monitor).
Also, they split their data to 9900 training and 100 validation simulations. They didn't do cross-validation which makes sense given the cost but ultimately their setup means that they tested their models on 100 examples out of 1000 they generated and out of who knows how many in nature. That's not very promising.

In terms of practical applications I don't see what's the point of training a network on simulations produced by deterministic systems. But I guess they didn't really mean their technique as a replacement for deterministic systems because they say they envision it as a sort of crutch were Brutus falters.
As the parent of a four-year-old, I'm especially aware of what's happening among parents and children. And as a 50-year old, I've seen several generations grow up. What this situation involves is: pay now, or pay later. Doing everything you can and giving your child 100% when they're young and growing and learning is the time to teach them to be independent and confident. Not when they're 20+ years old. It's too late; you missed the train. And what parents say they do vs. what they do in reality is quite different. I watch it at playgrounds, kids' events, and each time I go with my daughter to a place with a lot of kids and their parents. The parents likely are looking at their phones or talking to one another, taking a "break" from parenting. I see parents bring their little kids to playgrounds, and they'll stay in their cars, and let the kids go run around with the playground and want me to push them in the swings and play with them, because their parents are in the car on their phone, smoking weed, listening to music, or just "taking a break." I see it all the time. And if that's the encouragement and attention they're giving them in public, it's likely even less back at home. But when they grow up to be helpless and have no coping skills and all the rest of the many characteristics that need to be instilled into a human to be a successfull adult, they scratch their heads and ask "what went wrong?" And usually try ot find fault with society, government, or some external factor that's responsible. They blew it.
There's JavaFX with FXML.
Another day, another major company exposing a huge trove of user data. Will GDPR be at play here since the data was exposed?
It'll add some padding around the sides of the window to reduce the window size the website sees to common sizes. This reduces finger printing based on display resolution.
Not only that but China is notorious for its brutal laws. A Canadian was executed on rumors of drug trafficking. You often see people accused of financial crimes executed. China's court system has something like a 99.9% conviction rate.
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Isn’t that just for “crime of passion” type offenses?

Surely the penalty for murder would mean something if your business is murder, just like taxpayer bailouts affect your appetite for risk at an investment bank.
> (Unrelated - that kinda blew my mind - no you can't do that in the 2,000 USD VS enterprise...you need to use the free one)

I’m guessing this is because Microsoft wants it to be more accessible—they probably realize that there isn’t much money to be made in $2,000 developer tools. Visual Studio was never a Python IDE; VS Code is much more language-agnostic.
> Comparitech conducts security research that entails scanning the web for exposed databases. When we uncover a database that hasn’t been properly secured and allows unauthorized access, we immediately notify the owner.

Germany, the government, does this. They routinely scan systems in Germany and alert the owners to security issues.

I wonder if this is something all governments should do. I'm not convinced yet, but heavily leaning toward that it is something governments should do.

Exposed servers are a national security risk. They are a risk to public safety. Governments are there to protect their citizens.
Guide to Not Getting Screwed by Developers [pdf]
That has been solved, it was drug related.
To say property is theft is an oxymoron. Theft requires ownership.

Folks who say this assume they have a right to someone else's labor aka slavery

Completely nonsense in a modern society.
No they are not. You can share information without patents.
>Some excerpts from many years ago did defend the alleged liberty of children to have sex – even with adults – “if the child accepted it”. For example, in 2003 Stallman wrote

>>"I think that everyone age 14 or above ought to take part in sex, though not indiscriminately. (Some people are ready earlier.)"

>In 2006 he was skeptical of the claim that “voluntary” pedophilia harmed children. He wrote something similar in January 2013, but within limits.

>This author opposes such an opinion! However, Stallman later changed his mind and, on 14 September 2019, (belatedly) retracted it.

YIKES. I hadn't even heard that part. Convenient timing to suddenly change his views on the subject.
This man is also creating awesome tools:
https://github.com/BurntSushi
Qualified Immunity needs to go, it was supposed to be a moat, it is now the whole field.
They did that, and it wasn't successful.
I experienced this in a different way! For some reason I had duplicate user names or something tied to my old email address that I could no longer receive emails at (or wasn't receiving, on requesting a reset link). I opened a chat (I recall?) with the customer service, and after explaining, the person typed, "ok I have reset your account email address to xyz@hotmail.com" (which I provided).

What!? Without any verification or corroborating proof of me being the account holder? This is really shady.
> see Jack Dorsey having his Twitter hijacked

His account was hijacked because his phone number was a single factor.
Gamified Nuance. What a brilliant idea.

I don't know if this particular design will work but I expect to see a lot more attempts now that the idea has entered the public consciousness.

Current social networks are gamified for virality which implicitly rewards the lack of nuance. So statements that are as short, simple, and wrong as possible will spread faster within the supporters while encouraging flaming from the opposition. This is such an inherent property of every social network in existence that I didn't even realize fixing it was an option.
Not sure if reading the problem text and understanding what it is asking is part of the problem or not. If it is, well, good luck collecting data for it.
Ask HN: Tools for Cooperation
Do you know any good tools for allowing cooperation between people?
This post discusses 'terminological precision' and tries to clarify 'mischaracterisations', which is fair enough, but fails its own litmus test by using terms like 'hate fest' and 'witch hunt'.
If it is a personal issue, it's because it's a bad solution to the problem. It doesn't provide the information I need when I need it, and provides irrelevant information most of the time.

I'm the customer. If your customer has a personal issue with your product, that's your problem, not theirs.

I'm not holding the phone wrong!