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Do you really need something like SELinux if the “only thing running” is a network service that doesn’t have access to a file system? Even if that service was compromised, what else could be gained? Especially if the unikernel doesn’t spawn other processes.

Am I missing something obvious?
> Usability for non tech people. Not everyone in chat has technical prowess, I know IRC seems simple but its too intimidating for some.

I communicated via IRC with a lot of non-technical people in the '90s and 2000s. Most people just used mIRC and connected to the default IRC server and went from there.
I write a lot of CL, and it’s reasonably easy to write standard-conforming code that just works across multiple implementations and, if you need something not standardized like sockets, TLS, or threads, there are fairly high-quality and “standard” portability libraries that make it easy to avoid reader conditionals most of the time.
I think if you play the game of finding the lowest bidder to do the job you'll definitely run into folks who aren't good on both sides of the pond.

If you pay the buck you can hire excellent engineers in India, China, Eastern Europe & other parts of the world. No wonder Amazon/Google/Microsoft have a large developer presence in these markets.
If, and only if you can protect that paper from the elements. If someone devotes effort to protect those paper copies.

Frankly, any event which can destroy all digital copies of a book can just as easily destroy physical copies. And the same amount of money and effort put into the preservation of a physical book, when applied to a digital book, will be just as effective (digital books can in an extreme case, be printed out on “acid free” paper as the raw HTML and CSS, and redigitized later with no loss of fidelity).
Text editors on 144 FPS gsync monitor are noticeably better than vsync 60 FPS in a way in which a BMW door is noticeably better at closing than entry level cars. Technically both work the same and yet you can tell they’re very different.
I agree with you about IT careers. Back in the late 80s when I was starting college, it was exactly the way you describe. It is really interesting how things changed in the late 90's regarding this. I remember it falling back for a while after the dot com boom, only to pick back up in late 2000. A lot of people really don't realize that the prestige that comes from IT is only a recent thing, I think because having grown up around it, it's all that they know.
I find it hard to believe this project requires modern hardware features beyond what existing OpenGL versions support.

It would probably be perfectly fine with even OpenGL 2.1, which would then work on every Raspberry Pi out there.

I'm not objecting to supporting hardware acceleration, modern display resolutions somewhat demand it. Just the unnecessary choice of bleeding-edge acceleration API.
What’s a better company to buy from? Samsung is the only company getting brand recognition in your post.
I don't agree with your premise, but for the sake of argument let's say that you're right and armed civilians have no chance of winning against an organized state military.

Don't people have the right to die trying to win their freedom?
Someone recently recommended the book, “The Value of Everything.” I’m part of the way through, and it’s super relevant to this conversation. What this comes down to is, what is value, and how do we measure it? The author of this post throws their hands up and says, “we don’t know why wages are high for programmers.” That, however, doesn’t mean a reason doesn’t exist. But the point is an important one: if you don’t understand what your value is, you’re in the dark as to whether you’re over or underpaid, and unprepared for structural changes that could affect your lifestyle — because you’re unaware of what affects your value in the first place.
By being willing to take significantly more casualties, usually because the fighters are ideologically motivated. If you want to be a martyr, keep your guns. How much do you want to bet you'll still be around to see that bright future you take up arms for? Or that once you win, the leaders of your rebellion won't toss you out onto the streets? If you want to stay alive, being a refugee is a much better bet.
Correct, it wasn’t carrying HDMI signal, rather leveraging a much higher quality cable and terminals, correctly twisted pairs for long distance, high quality shielding (or double), etc.

For any faults, HDMI is a typically good cable.
Conversely, in Nova Scotia, I can go to my closest dispensary, wait about 5 minutes in line (inside a surprisingly posh store), pay with a simple tap, and I'm on my way. The biggest issue here is the waste from packaging.
"...Hillbillies with guns and IDEs..."

ROFL. You most likely meant IEDs.
I think unionizing works in a market where the workers are more easily replaceable. Not so in the case of software engineering.

I'd rather negotiate with my employer/find another employer that would pay the same/more than unionize.
> reading a book in one format or another in the last 12 months

That study is a binary "read at least one book at all or read 0", doesn't indicate how many books the people who made it through one book finished. I would not call someone who reads one book a year an avid reader.
Studies that challenged medical dogma in 2019
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You can create front facing software that only interfaces with blockchain(s). To create a wallet you create a pub + private key pair. You can then sign tx's with that. A DApp can enable transfer of assets between addresses, calling smart contract functions in deployed smart contracts, and the frontend keeps you updated on the tx statuses. Essentially they are created for privacy and security reasons, and to execute scripting code from a mobile app, which is stored at a deployed smart contract address. I'm not sure what Apple's motivation is here, compliance or legal issues would probably be their biggest complaint? Or is this their attempt to squash an app store within their App Store?
In my experience, people with this argument are often trying to rationalize exceptionally unaffordable hobbies, like leasing a top end Audi or Tesla every 3 years.
But it's sandboxed.

Yes vulnerabilities are found -- nothing in this world is 100% perfect -- but in practice, running JavaScript in your browser is orders of magnitude safer than running binaries with access to your filesystem, hardware, and more.
I've had migraines for 40 years, and suffered much before being prescribed Sumatriptan. It relieves the migraine completely in about 30min. Doesn't work for my wife who also has migraines but an alternate formulation, Rizatriptan, does. My migraines have also evolved over the years from intense day long affairs to duller 3-day ones. Sometimes I need a subcutaneous triptan shot which relieves it in, I kid you not, 1 minute.

I tried preventative medications but the cure seemed worse than the disease. One, Topiramate, made me forget things and lose my train of thought. No thank you.

I also tried keto for a while and noticed that I hardly had any migraines while on it.

There are a lot of options available now. If you suffer from migraines, go talk to a neurologist with current knowledge, not something they learned 30 years ago.
When you post your project that you've spent hours of hard work on to HN, expect a lot of criticism, with very little of it actually related to the purpose of your work, and even less of it to be actually constructive criticism.
I believe Apple forbids running third-party code it hasn’t approved, with some exceptions for educational apps.
As the scale of data infrastructure rapidly grows, the carbon footprint of that infrastructure grows as well. It is already non-trivial. Consequently, the widespread use of excessively wasteful software implementations that require several-fold the hardware infrastructure of a more efficient design are becoming material contributors to total carbon emissions, more so than many things we focus on for the sake of climate change.

Unlike some other methods for reducing carbon emissions, which require subsidies to be competitive, massively reducing server infrastructure footprint often improves the absolute economics through radical reductions in OpEx/CapEx for data intensive businesses.
Similar, ad-free app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nextspacef...
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Google’s Monopoly Is Stifling Free Software
There are a bunch of static analysis companies in crypto-contracts. Infosec could be a good pivot if the bubble pops.
I see, it's like when developers build automatic deployment into their apps to avoid app review.
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Yeah but these apps are just html and JavaScript which is normally allowed.
I think restoring copyright to sane periods is a better solution, resale of digital goods requires online DRM systems to continue functioning indefinitely and we’ve seen the issues that causes.

I would be less annoyed by essentially consumable digital goods if I knew sometime down the road they would enter the public domain in a reasonable timeframe, and not well after the eventual death of the current generation of children.
dApp is kind of a flexible word, but the typical unifying feature is that the user has custody of a private key they use for signing transactions on a distributed ledger.

Most dApps (at least the ones you access through a dApp browser) have UIs built using regular web technology, and served over http.

As for why Google/Apple are doing this, I can only imagine that it threatens their walled garden by giving web users more access to payments that they'd rather monetize.
You should've been here when Fidel Castro died, all of HN was mourning.
There's more nuance to this. Take the UK, for example (if only because it's what I'm familiar with). The government, in recent times, attempted to create new laws and got shot down. New laws denied. It may be the case that government makes laws, but (in many places) they still need permission to do so.

Laws also survive governments; subsequent governments have at times tried to remove existing laws, and been shot down in the attempt. While there's a clear link twixt government and law, they're not (in many places) the same thing; they are separate.
You can get code signing certificates much cheaper than that - I paid $234 for a 4 year certificate from K Software (IIRC, they are a Comodo reseller).

Yes, it's still money that cash-strapped OSS devs might not have, or indeed might not want to pay on principle. And yes, the validation process is a total farce and a PITA.

But I don't think it helps the argument to use the most expensive certificate they could find as an example.

Also, having a cert does not mean your software won't be marked as "uncommon" - presumably Google (and Microsoft) use a certificate as a signal, but it seems only the number of downloads really counts. And I do agree with the thrust of the article, that this harms OSS and indeed small businesses.
Given that the "Platform" document was written with anarchists in mind as the target group, maybe the authors just took it for granted? It seems to be more about strategy and tactics than about ideological basics. Which makes sense, as it is an attempt to address and explain the anarchist movement's failures during the Russian revolution outside Ukraine.
There’s a middle ground which is to spend intentionally so that you’re not wasting money. You can set aside a percentage for purely fun stuff. But a lot of us waste money — we spend on stuff we don’t need, things with diminishing marginal utility. How many dinners out a month are really necessary to improve happiness — and at what point does it cease to move the needle? That’s subjective, and will vary from person to person.

It’s about being intentional.
You're right about musketeers. https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Musketeers_(Civ2)

I was thinking of Partisans which spawn when a city is captured, https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Partisans_(Civ2); I think of militia when I think of Partisans.

However, the weakest unit in Civ 2 is definitely the Warrior: https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Warriors_(Civ2)
Yes, and the consequence is that there is a shortage of pilots and prices are rising back up.
They did Chinese subtitles for some of the 35C3 talks, so I guess that one will get subtitles, too.

If you do know Mandarin, you can help out if you want to.
You should only have to convince it that you're an EU national.
You can hire someone to do that though--along with cover design etc. And publishers often don't do an awful lot of heavy editing in my experience.

(I'd argue that if you're doing a book by yourself without a co-author, you pretty much have to hire at least a copy editor but that's pretty inexpensive.)
Maybe start by not conflating privacy with concerns about censorship.

Then, it'd be great if privacy-focussed platforms would show a commitment to find privacy- and freedom-preserving ways to tackle the very real problem of these platforms overflowing with actual, self-marking Nazis.

As an analogy: if the cryptocurrency community can find ways to curb problems such as scams or the waste of energy with technology, it can avoid the regulation to that effect it so much fears. But every time some cryptobro opines that people really deserve to be scammed if they did not go through each single line of source code their bitcoin wallet depended on, the idea that these communities are sticking up for some larger values and not feeling quite ok with scammers and Nazis loses a bit more of its legitimacy.
You also have to think about the people who use Youtube to listen to musics. I assume music tastes don't differ that much.

But honestly, the moment they decide to make arbitrary decisions about what videos should be played next they are going to make some miscalculations. Some times they just made worst calculations than average.
True, but ads dont just sell products, they also sell ways of thinking by frame.
The brand name is actually Sceptre, for those who are searching for it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RTa0rnMdk8VSPpK7qgkl...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20606718

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19273955

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6996052

As you can see they are much loved with the HN crowd ;-D

Some of the highest ranked top-level comments start like

"Man, I hate Elsevier with a passion. As well as being shady, dishonest, shifty, moneygrubbing toerags, they also [...]"

"Elsevier is really, really bad. At this point, I think they are already seeing the end and investors are trying to [...]"

"Elsevier employees should just quit and work somewhere else. It's just [...]"
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If you want "most" of your money to go to the author, you'll need to look outside traditional book publishing - even Amazon ebook publishing will take a 70% cut. Your best bet is supporting your preferred authors on Patreon, Kickstarter or other crowdfunding platforms, and asking them to refrain from adopting DRM. The crowd-funding model works very well for this, because you aren't restricted to paying per-copy in the first place.
A code signing cert only removes the warning during actual installation, after you've already downloaded it. For new software, Microsoft still flags it as "uncommon", even if a code signing cert was used.

Not sure if an EV cert makes a difference as you say, but they are certainly prohibitively expensive.
I'm using org mode (in particular, org capture) on my desktop and Orgzly on Android for active logging.

For passive logging, I've got Orger, set of scripts that are pulling data from different APIs and render it as org-mode [1].
Having it as org-mode allows me for quick search and recall in the logs.

There is also Memacs that uses similar approach [2].

1. https://beepb00p.xyz/orger.html

2. https://github.com/novoid/Memacs
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On the desktop, especially if the Email is even slightly suspicious? Always.
On mobile, it's somehow a lot more difficult and user unfriendly.
What a poorly written blog post. This is proto-apocalyptic in the same way that Zerohedge is. The author may not understand why the software industry has high compensation, but Wall Street does. High margins, low op-ex, data moats, often winner take all dynamics, broad applicability, capability of cannibalizing incumbent industries, ease of deploying investment capital...even accounting for the dot com bubble, technology is the product and acceleration of industrialization, which in and of itself produced some of the highest concentrations of wealth in history.

The industry is not immune to bubble effects nor to catastrophic meltdowns (WeWork was obviously a huge, recent cautionary tale and very likely not the last), but to pretend not to understand where the compensation comes from is either lazy, wilfully ignorant, or both.
Without the appropriate laws to go with them, technological solutions won't work. The state will just make strong encryption illegal, or force people to give up their passwords. Or simply start a propaganda campaign to limit adoption (anybody that uses encryption anyway is automatically suspicious, that makes the secret police's job much easier).
Does anyone know why it was removed? It was removed from Youtube too.
Pieter Levels (creator of remoteok) is one of the inspirations for building the site.

Another interesting coincidence is that he has levels.io and I have level.io (I registered it about 4 years prior to him).

To make things even stranger, he posted my exact birthday on a mock ID he created for his blog (Feb 20, 86): https://levels.io/remote-worker-visa/
Yeah I guess this is fine as long as you account for it. Starting with $800k, $40k expenses, 2% inflation and 5% return, retiring at 35 you end deplete your money at 67, but starting with $1M takes you to 83.
I'm in Boston, and more than half of the above were while working for a single company (Google)
My local library has a book sale every year. I don't give them trash like outdated software manuals but I take them some bags of books over the course of a year to at least offset any new books I bring in. I'm sure a lot of them end up getting pulped anyway but at least I've tried to give them new homes. No way I'm going to the trouble of trying to sell books (or anything else for a few dollars) at a sub-minimum wage value of my time.
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1. It is trivially the case that many have overthrown such systems sans guns. See, for example, the DDR, Poland, Hungary etc.

2. The HK protest movement is not about “communism”. The left in Hong Kong, apart from a very small section represented by newspapers such as Ta Kung Pao, is against the CCP and government. That is because the people you refer to as communist here don’t care very much for class struggle or Marxism. They care about power, and so they have sided with the oligarchs instead of the professional and working classes. That’s why they kept laissez-faire capitalism but not the limited progress towards democracy under the British that took place in the 1990s. For this reason there are large numbers of tycoons in the HK political establishment.

3. It is unhelpful to try to shoehorn one’s bugbears into everything without reference to the specificities of the particular situation into which one is trying to shoehorn something.
Ask HN: Why can't we program our operating system to behave in a specific way?
For example: I would like my windows 10 operating system to open vlc media player only when I do not have the windows media player already running. This is just a single example. Do you guys have similar issues? Thanks
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Agree 100%. Programmers that love 'clever' code should think twice about using it. Writing code that can be maintained over a long time is many times more important than saving a few bits here and there by using clever coding.
It's not any more or less selfish than the existence of 90+% of people just going through the motions to get through the day. The "value" most people create for society is a byproduct of that person needing an income. If they could get the same income without doing any work, most would choose that.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21904638

see my response to another persons post. By coincidence i address your issues as well.
I agree that is rather annoying. I'll add salary, when available, to the job search results page soon (probably today or tomorrow).

I'll also look into adding a filter to exclude those without salary listing but can't promise any timeline on that.
A few years ago I came to the conclusion that whenever I was struggling with an information task, the correct answer was org-mode. It's remarkable how I forget it over and over again.

I'm using an iphone, do you have any suggestions about how to sync up entries made on the move?
Many things happened all in a couple years then -- Bush election, .com bubble pop, 9/11, the Seattle WTO protests, the turn of the milennium.

To me it was kind of like the closing of a somewhat utopian-perspective era that started in the mid-90s.
Very cool. Does anybody know when this was added? I tried looking in the ruby doc but didn't see. That is one nice thing about javadocs in comparison. They usually say “since 1.6” or whatever.
The operational tactics and technological tools China develops by experimenting on HK are probably going to be packaged and sold to foreign governments. If HK is pacified successfully, a few years later there'll be Chinese consultants selling their services around the world, and exhibit A of their marketing decks will be HK. This could be a massive cash cow that'll give China a high tech product they could sell that Western democracies can't or won't develop. In fact, they might even be customers. Imagine being able to maintain a veneer of democracy while using data analysis and surveillance to select dangerous individuals to disappear. Or passing laws to restrict the liberties of citizens secure in the knowledge that the resulting protest intensities can be predicted and managed.
I started using DayOne about two years ago and I've really enjoyed it! I like that it does a lot of the work for us. I do want to dig into the privacy policy a lot more, because the "activity feed" feature seems like it would be really useful but obviously I'm concerned about the persistent location tracking.

I've been trying to come up with ways to automate entry of other data as entries in day one, because something that's really useful is that you can grab a copy of the sqlite database underneath it and do what you want with it.
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The site is for all types of jobs, not strictly software related ones.

"coder" isn't a great choice of search term. If that's what you searched for, that's what you'll get as the search results are based on the job description, as well as the technology tags.
> As proven by the ongoing CCC talks, if Docker was written in C, security patches will be coming up daily.

SQLite is written in ANSI C. What's your point?