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Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20191226092003/https://blog.data...

Websites that make pure HTTP GET requests harder then just issuing a request make me sad. I do a fair bit of scraping for hobby projects (generally, archival stuff), and "protection" bullshit is just a giant pain in the ass.

I understand protections for things like posting content, commenting, etc.., but if you need to "protect" just viewing things, you are actively doing the internet wrong.
Anecdote: I'm a college student, and around half the people I see on campus (including me) wear these around while talking to their friends. It's kind of cool but also kind of a problem.
On AWS you would be paying for many other things besides elastic CPU power. CPU and bandwidth is infamously expensive there. (But I don't think AWS was mentioned anywhere in this thread...)
NorthFace has become a lifestyle brand, so they don’t have a lot of incentive to make things technically good anymore.

If you want good technical clothes you need to pick brands that average people don’t recognize, because they have an incentive.
I really wish that Snappy would die, and that Canonical would spend their resources developing and integrating with Flatpak instead. I use Ubuntu as my primary OS, and as the primary OS for workstations and servers at my work, but I don't think Canonical is a good owner of software projects. Mir was a huge waste of resources that was destined to die since Wayland had so much support. I don't see Snappy doing much better in the long run.
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Any Bluetooth earphones will pair easy enough. Once you’ve paired reconnecting is automatic and you only need to pair the once for the entire lifetime of any particular Bluetooth device.

I run a 3rd party Bluetooth earphones (not headphones) and honestly I find them nicer to use than AirPods because they’re comfier, stay in the ear better, have equivalent battery life and I prefer the sound “colour” too - though that’s in part because they fit better so the sound is better channeled down the ear canal.

My point being that there are a lot of great earphones (and headphones) on the market. In fact it was already quite a saturated market even before Apple entered into it. So people shouldn’t be so quick to assume that Apple are the best in class nor even the only high end audio manufacturer worth looking at.
Depends on geography. I see them quite a bit when out and about in the Bay (although the max wearer age I've seen is like 30).
Merry Christmas!

HN is the place where I first discovered tons of people who seemed so similar to me..! I only wish to one day work surrounded by some of you :)
What's not obvious is if git status does a git fetch under the hood before presenting that message, so that the message can be trusted. A good tool wouldn't print such a message without fetching first and since i assume git is a good tool i assume it presents me useful and trustworthy information.

I know it doesn't, but the message IS misleading for the inexperienced. If i need to read a user manual first to understand it they might as well replace the message with some status-code written in hex.
We have been actively talking about Climate change since the 1970s and have known about it theoretically since the 19th Century. We had a major world event forming the Kyoto Protocol in 1992 that set many of the countries in the world on the path of limiting the damage of climate change. A few key countries didn't sign up which included the USA.

All of this happened before the internet. The lack of action on climate change is about other things not just dumb people arguing on the internet and the political capital that gives deniers and corporations that make money from exploiting the environment.
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My parents' generation came to the west and ran restaurants. Several of my aunts and uncles have been doing this for years. I grew up in these sorts of shops. You can't do it anymore.

The 1980s don't seem that long ago, but back then there was not nearly the variety of foreign cuisines that there are now in the west. At the time you could still conceivably go to a Chinese restaurant for an "experience meal" where you would either enjoy some slightly different cooking, or bring a date or business connection. It even felt right that the owner's kids were running around, and there were kitsch pictures from China on the walls.

Back then the entry cost was very very low. You had either only family or other recent immigrant staff. You'd spend nearly nothing on the interior.

Nowadays that style of restaurant serves a very small segment of the market. Basically, it's the people in the area - not the town centre - that don't want to cook that night and didn't have Chinese the night before. They don't care about the decor, many of them do takeaway. They don't care about authenticity either. And they are well aware that this style of food is unhealthy in large quantities.

If you're going to open a restaurant these days, it needs a degree of slickness. People expect it, heck even I expect it. You can't have a bunch of spelling mistakes on your self-printed menus. You can't be showing tourist quality photos of the food, with plastic place mats and different cobbled together chairs. Plus people now care not only about general healthiness but also specific things like allergies and intolerances that your foreign chef might find hard to communicate about.

The competitive landscape is also changed completely. You're not competing with just other mom and pop stores. There's not only McDonald's, which was always a thing, but actual Chinese food chains that do what you do, better.

Finally, I don't know anyone who actively desired for their kids to take over. If the family business was a global shipping company, sure. But not the bottom-of-the-pile restaurant, surely. Having said that, one of my cousins did build and sell a restaurant, having made the observations I've written about here.
> They will be swept aside as soon as decent AR wearable pop onto the scene. Be that in 3 or 15 years.

You had me going right up to the punch line.
Thanks for the archive link, there own link does not work for whatever reason. Which is sad as it's an interesting post.
It’s an outlier among outliers. Saying students at CalTech are motivated to study and go to class is like saying grass is green. It has little to do with the study habits of the other 99.99% of college kids.
Merry Christmas HN community!
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One of the thoughts in India is that all these regulations can be read to favor just one gigantic entity - the Reliance Jio group..who is going to reap the benefits of this protectionism. But no other startup probably is (because all startup fundraises originate in the US)
You can use the Error trait [1] from the stdlib, implement it for your error types and then just use the trait in your Result. That way you don't need the types to match and you can convert between then as needed while adding the previous errors to the chain.

1. https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/error/trait.Error.html
You may want to read a bit about what the GDPR mandates.
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I never said they suck. What I failed to get across is that they are compromise.

Technically they are amazing. I mean look at how small they are.

But they are not a platform. They are not superior headphones, they excel because they are small. not because they do anything better than any other headphone. I've not mentioned sound quality because that's full of mysticism. Airpods to me sound fine, in a low noise environment.

I have bluetooth headphones, they work, they are sound isolating. They look like shite, and so do I when I wear them. I use them commuting, in the office (sometimes) and when I'm cleaning or doing DIY (30db is attenuation means I can listen without going deaf.) I bought them because they are noise isolating.

However I curse when they run out of battery. I curse when I go through congested 2.4gig areas.

As for value, fashion is a value. People buying them because they look sleek is a value judgement. Loads of people think they are valuable, otherwise this article wouldn't have been written.
Merry Christmas!

During my first job, my boss introduced me to HN. I doubt I would've found it so soon otherwise, as the only other person that knew about it before I mentioned it is someone I only met this year.

My first boss was a great guy to work with and I'm grateful he told me about it. Even though I learned a lot from him professionally, the impact of that one-time five-minute conversation about the site might have added up to more over the years.
Adrenaline also quickly increases and can totally mask pain. Even if one feels relatively calm.
Sim Racing is a great way to get a lot of experience in that direction without the same level of cost, games like Assetto Corsa (iRacing if it tickles your interest for the competitive side against players more than just casually) and a couple of hundred in wheel and pedals will get you started.

You can also race karts fairly cheaply (compared to cars and especially racing cars).
It seems to be less of an issue in Germany. But it is bad enough that for certain products I insist on sold and shipped by Amazon. Do, my impression is that over here it is more like a marketplace problem, for now. Also, customer service for marketplace orders is just crap.
TL;DR: Not open-source, but the author promises to open-source it if the company fails. Parts are already open-source: https://github.com/photostructure. Also, the app is free while it’s in beta, but will eventually cost money.
You need to hang out with other people more often....
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This is very common. For example I was recently shopping for a popular brand of silverware and it was crystal clear from reviews that lots of people were getting fakes - some terrible, some subtle, like rusting after a couple washes.
I like to print longer documents, and PDFs are pretty much the best format for that purpose (in practice; in theory other formats could be better).

I wish browsers would implement CSS pagination properly.
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Or remove bits knowing perfectly well how important they are but because it sits their agenda.
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Thankfully all proprietary shading languages have moved on from GLSL.

Indeed, I really appreciate MSL being a C++ dialect.
I won’t have any truck with the “Apple stuff is just about fashion, it’s the only reason people buy them”. BS, that just clearly not the case.

But it also seems incontrovertible to me that Apple gear is a status symbol. Some people really do buy them for the fashion angle, including the phones. One being true doesn’t preclude the other.
While technically correct most people will have one or two jackets that they wear in a range of weather conditions. Owning the perfect jacket for every condition and carrying them all with you to change is not very feasible for most people.
https://radicalmycology.com/

This guy was on a podcast i listen to.Really worth checking out hia site.
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There are slides from older conferences, but the author points out that he goes through the patterns as fast as he can in the videos.

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/fppatterns/
It kind of has, if Khronos never provides anything better, as it has been proven before, hardly anyone will step up to improve it, until the standard starts being put aside in preference to proprietary middleware or competing APIs.
Assuming you collected those yourself and events happening close to upload. If you have such a high amount of breakages, it means an average user is experiencing several breakages per day. Comparing with my own anecdotal experience I'm not surprised but seeing it all in one place just makes one depressed.
Brands like Norrøna and Bergans use Gore-Tex, and it seems like everyone is sold on it being "the best". I guess Gore-Tex is an alright fit for the climate in Scandinavia, as it can be rather humid during autumn and spring. And people are staunch protectors of their national brands, so I wouldn't be surprised that nobody outside of Norway has heard of them. They are household names in Norway.

During winter you generally just need a wind tight shell, you'll have multiple (breathable) layers underneath. A good mesh webbing underneath a wool base layer under a wind-stopper is my preferred option, keeps you dry and warm in temperatures down to -25C, easily. When it's cold there's no humidity, so your worst enemy will be heat loss due to wind. The chilling factor of wind is a little scary. People that looks overdressed end up freezing because the wind goes straight through them.

You can never go wrong with wool. At least it doesn't lose all insulating capacity just because it gets wet. When it's raining sideways it usually doesn't matter what you're wearing. The humidity is going to be so high that nothing will be able to transfer humidity from your body. You're going to be wet either way. No fancy fabrics will keep you dry, but wool will at least keep you warm.

Good equipment comes with lots of ventilating pockets and zippers, not just under your arms but on the chest and side pockets as well. Inside and outside of your legs as well. Being able to adjust ventilation quickly means that it can be more wind and water resistant. When skiing I will open either the underarm or chest zippers and close them when taking the lift up again. This is usually enough to keep me from getting wet and cold, in temperatures down to -25C.
Many compilers/IDEs were commercial and too expensive for kids who just wanted to try out programming

This is true, but on the other hand, every installation of MS-DOS came with some version of BASIC, so there was really no friction, just type QBASIC and you're immediately in really quite a good IDE with excellent on-line help.
Watch Joe Rogan.
just wait til the charger becomes one...

bluetooth audio IS lo-fi, on purpose, but whatever floats your 64kbps Real Audio boat, I suppose...(I'm an OGG Vorbis person myself, lol)
Visit tiny museums.

I stumbled across this hobby a few years ago. Whenever I'm in some place new, I run a search on google maps for "museums" and try to find the smallest, most niche topic possible.

It's a pretty small time commitment - a small museum can often be explored in 30-60 minutes - and it's incredibly rewarding.

The smaller the museum is, the more likely you'll meet the person who set it up. And that's guaranteed to be a great conversation no matter what the subject of the museum is.

A couple of months ago I started a website to share details of the museums I've explored. So far I've managed to post a new one every day, and I've still got a backlog of about 50.

https://www.niche-museums.com/
I just want an e-reader device that's A4 sized, suitable for technical documentation and other non-fiction lit, supports open sourced software (and isn't locked up in some kind of walled garden), and doesn't cost like a thousand euros.
Doesn’t that make Amazon liable for commercial copyright infringement?

Cynical person might say that the copyright law is only applicable when people torrent or upload stuff to youtube.
The track record of industry GPU language development is very poor (arguably even disastrous).

I worry that we now just count on nice languages / compilers magically appearing deus ex machina, and we end up not having any. Big multiplatform frameworks like Unity will just put a SPIR-V backend on their existing tooling.

The rest of us will be stuck with POC-quality GLSL transpiler tools, without the browser devtools and other tooling support that we slowly got over the ~10 years of WebGL history.

(I'm not saying GLSL is that excellent, just that could be heading backwards from current almost-good-enough GLSL implementation quality in WebGL.)
I get it. I am from Poland and dont understand the rules. Your story explained it to me so i can understand it in a simple way. Thanks. Great day on HN. I have learned today more than i have expected to.
* Banning major search and social websites (Google, FB, Twitter)

* Mandatory censorship of information (Google before leaving, Bing)

* Foreign ownership limits (aka forced intellectual property transfers)

* Capital outflow restrictions

* Heavy subsidies allowing local firms to sell products at below cost (e.g. steel, bicycles)
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I still don't get how this commingled inventory happens. I know that Amazon has different inventory owners for FBA and AMZN stock. So technically they should be able to separate between different FBA owners, too. So at the very least AMZN and FBA inventory shouldn't be mixed.

Only explanation I can think of is returns, issues in the return reception could add FBA returns to AMZN stock. Which should trigger some kind of investigation. I don't like the fact that this stuff keeps happening as it points yo bad processes and, IMHO, some WMS issues as well.
I can't believe no one mentioned the optional subwoofer er "plug" yet...it's like a meme and stuff already...
Yeah, around 500 boilerplate lines of code to draw a triangle on Vulkan, plus having to going hunting for features that every graphics application requires and all other APIs provide on their SDKs.

With Khronos APIs, every newbie graphics developer learns to build their engine from day one.
I agree that there are more jobs in London, and they can certainly be more prestigious, like Facebook, Google, or Monzo.

However, Newcastle is much cheaper so you'd be able to afford a generally better lifestyle that might make you feel more comfortable and happy. For example, a nicer apartment that you don't have to share, more cash to save for a rainy day, etc.
"Learning to manage your focus, not your time"

I'm a follower of this priority aswell. I can't tame the onslaught, but I can ensure that my focus is spent in the right places.

I'd love to hear more about this topic as I often have issues communicating what I mean by that, as many other people in my environment want to see get things done "one after the other".
This is just another mean and snide ‘I hate that people like a product that I don’t understand’ HN rant.

The error you’re making is a very common one here - reducing the product to its base functionality description rather than looking at how well they have been implemented. You think they’re bettered by better specs on paper like custom moulding, but paper ideas don’t always achieve a better user experience in the end.

I think AirPods are a revolutionary achievement in user experience. I haven’t used wired since. The form factor and the pairing are peerless.
What does this SMS autofill API do? I've never heard of it and wonder if it's needed.
I just have to ask -- does A/UX use any type of software packaging format? Is it SVR4 pkgadd(1M) / pkgrm(1M) / installf(1M) / removef(1M) / pkginfo(4), or something else? Is there any documentation on how to make OS packages for it, and if so, where is it?

Is there a way to perform a completely automated, unattended installation of A/UX over the network, like Solaris' JumpStart(TM), redhat's Kickstart, SuSE's AutoYaST, or SGI's roboinst?
There are a lot of open positions in the Netherlands, you can speak English in Amsterdam etc.
Musing similarly... Or just replace PostgreSQL's transaction log with Kafka, given all the Kafka's advantages. Seems to me that traditional RDBMSs cram too many seemingly independent subsystems into a single system, each one of which if separate and behind a well defined interface could be made substantially better. I think there's more room for software that is akin to SQLite - a library replacing RDBMS functionality within an application and thus allowing for composability on language-linking level as opposed to process-linking level (done with an orchestrator).
I remember reading about Birkenstock having the same issue at a much larger scale.
Stuff like the North Face is genuinely considered a pretty poor quality brand here in Denmark

Superdry ruined the outdoor jacket market in the UK. They make stuff that looks technical but just isn’t, for posers who live in cities to ermm pose in. But now the (formerly) genuine brands have realised there is money to be made from people who will never actually need proper outdoor clothing but like the look, so they have cut quality and increased price to match.

Here in Wales we chuckle at the English setting off for a days hiking all wearing Superdry and so on. When the weather turns they will be miserable.
Wow, that takes me back. I ran it on a Quadra too (although I forget which model), and it was a great way to both talk to the VACxen and DECstations on campus and run/script a few things locally.
That may or may not be, but it stands to reason that Bluetooth will never be as reliable as wired, and that if you compare wired vs Bluetooth you will get better sound quality for wired at every price point.

I already have amazing sounding wired Shure in-ears and Beyerdynamic headphones. I’m not spending $500+ to have them replaced with inferior-sounding wireless options.

I was even given some $400 Bose BC700 (supposedly the “absolutely best wireless headphones you can get”) for free.

I returned them because they sound like shit. It’s like the music has lost all signs of life and all its action by the time it makes it to my ear. Not to mention the obvious phase-distortion caused by the ANC. Too much DSP, not enough hifi. What a joke.

And I will certainly not be considering Apple AirPods which IME has the worst sound I’ve ever heard on any so called “premium” head-sets. They’re basically a joke in the audiophile environment.
and? there are no laws that forbid grandstanding and loving money. Moreover those are his actions, the contradiction, or better yet hypocrisy, is on him. of course a description of the events would and should contain more of the same, since he's all barks but no bites to his feeding hand.
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Ah, man - I also recently dug up the disks for the first non-trivial game I wrote, aged 11 or so - but they were all sadly damaged by decades of sitting in a damp barn. It started as a galaga style evade-the-enemy ships side-scroller, then turned into a lunar lander type affair, which then metamorphosed into a wizball style pickup/power up romp across an alien planet, where you had to get your astronauts to the base before you ran out of air. I vaguely recall it had something to do with “Only You Can Save Mankind”.

Deluxe Paint III, AMOS, three floppies, scored it myself, went mad with AMOS speech synthesis, and when I was finally done with my masterwork, watching my kid sister enthusiastically play it for hours on end was awesome.

Then my parents sold my Amiga at a yard sale, and the disks just gathered mould and rust from then on.

You know, I don’t know if I’ve put that much passion into anything since.
Does A/UX use any kind of packaging format and is there a way to install it automatically over the network?
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You already see this with Vulkan, where many studios opt for middleware engines instead of having to deal with all boilerplate themselves.

You see this on Android and Switch, where most Vulkan related stuff, is based on Unreal and Unity tutorials.
I went to a Santa experience with my Son. 3 out of 10 kids there wanted AirPods for Christmas. They definitely have taken off.
Lindy Hop. 15 years in and I still enjoy it.