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I made my last webpage in 1999 using HTML tables and cut-up "design" jpgs so I am a bit out of date in this area.

I see all these preprocessors and crap for "web apps" and I wonder why nobody just writes HTML/CSS/Javascript instead of all of these other "languages" and abstractions or is the base web language now so bad that nobody touches it manually?
Yes, majority of the engineers are in the state you are in. We have on our roadmap a feature similar to what you are describing.
He also wrote an article called the "Death of the Proof" that was widely rejected by mathematicians and was also mostly hog wash.

He seems like a guy who likes to make edgy but wrong statements.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-horgan-...
My feeling about european cloud providers (OVH, Hetzner, Scaleway, Irideos) is that their main fault is not approaching their business like AWS does.

In the sense of being customer centric, offering thorough services, standardizing and operating on thin margins in order to reinvest most of their profits into the company itself.

A lot of small players in the cloud fields either offer an incomplete set of services, or adopt hardly-scalable models of operations.

If you want to at least have a chance of winning european customers concerned with data privacy and stuff from AWS you should try to replicate their pros -- offer a compelling alternative.
Is it possible to drag and drop the staves?
..or some features are actually bugs, now your a bug farmer.
If you care about your user experience, you want as much data as you can get about what exactly your users are doing. This generalizes across all companies in all industries, and I would call it "data collection". Saying "we satisfied the requirements so it succeeded" is pretty universally recognized as a cop-out, which you resort to when you don't really care or have no other choice.

There exist strategies that step over the line to spying (you shouldn't, like, put tracking devices on your users), but the article doesn't suggest that you should do those.
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We don't have to be totally alone, we just have to be rare enough that there's no detectable civilization in range at this time. If you multiply the probabilities of complex, intelligent life evolving that happened to be broadcasting signals into space a few decades to centuries ago (depending on how many light years away they are), then it's a reasonable conclusion that what we're looking for is rare.

If the closest ETs are 20,000 light years away, would we ever find out about them? Space is vast and time is deep. We could have missed the most recent civilization in range of detection by a million years.
The App Store explicitly forbids LGPL code.
I'm quite familiar with the characteristics of the STM32.

The STM32F405 is a standard microcontroller. Its security features are generally comparable to those which are present on other STM32 microcontrollers, as well as most microcontrollers in general. The PCROP (proprietary code readout protection) features which you appear to be referencing here don't help, as your application code is already open-source, and the key data that you're trying to protect must be readable to be used. Moreover, PCROP functionality is absent on the STM32F405.

STM32 readout protection is not particularly robust. There are a number of known attacks which can be used to bypass it on certain families without decapping the chip. I'm not sure if there are any attacks currently known against the F4 series, but I wouldn't doubt that they exist.

Most STM32 parts actually have a tamper detection feature which can be used to clear the contents of a battery-backed RAM when triggered. This sort of configuration still doesn't make a HSM, but it would be a step in the right direction.
I didn't downvote you – in fact, I upvoted you. But I should also make the point that worker threads do not support importing native Node modules that were built directly on the V8 API. For example, most popular sqlite libraries (better-sqlite3, sqlite3) are not usable with worker threads.

I'm mulling contributing N-API support to the libraries... but I haven't even done any research or planning work yet.
Make a library for the protocol for your favourite programming language, if one doesn't already exist. (For instance, Rust needs one. There are efforts towards that already, but they're not brilliant.)

If there are existing projects, pick the one you think is nicest. If you don't think any are nice enough, make your own. Expect lots of complaining and criticism; that means you've helped enough people that they've started taking your work for granted.
Exactly! Our goal is to cater to the user's\developer's perspective.
I'm also a generalist, and I've been wondering if it might be a good idea, for my next job, to only market myself using one of my skills.

My role at the moment involves doing several different things, some of which I'm not very good at, which tends to make my work quite difficult.

I find myself being envious of other members of the team who only need to do one thing, and don't even need to do it that quickly (they probably get paid the same, too). If I had their lives, I think to myself, I wouldn't find work so exhausting.
I think i love most things product manager except for probably the most important thing, managing people. Yeah, that is not my cup of tea.
If these numbers are true, it would be nice to have more documentation and tutorials. This would help the javascript community a lot.

I built a gaming computer to work with javascript codebases, true story.
Whether individuals shouldn't be worth billions is orthogonal to whether governments or companies should spend money on opening new technological and territorial frontiers.

The Kardashev Scale is just a scale, like the Richter Scale. It's not sci-fi, though there being aliens at higher levels on that scale is.
Would it be right to say that the only situation his solution would be justified is if every single person on the planet is at the risk of being infected? It has to be air borne or in the atmosphere.
I beliece the issue the article is attempting to convey is that a preponderance of these ‘symptoms’ indicates a lack of optimization, and a failure or refusal to measure the impact.
All read from Careers pages. We will have a About Us page up this week, will explain how we get the positions.
Indeed. Tax payer money should be used carefully.
Elsewhere within the company.
Also to make it clearer, let's add that this is a job for plastic surgery.
GTK 3.98 – GTK Development Blog
Here is diversity data from Google, one of the biggest tech companies in the US / bay area: https://diversity.google/annual-report/#!#_this-years-data

Relevant numbers from "Intersectional workforce representation" section for overall Google workforce: 38.8% White men, 26.4% Asian+ men, 15.7% White women, 13.3% Asian+ women, 9.9% everyone else.

For Google workforce in tech: 41.3% White men, 31.9% Asian+ men, 13.2% Asian+ women, 9.9% White women, 7.3% everyone else.
In any case, I have a strong suspicion that, aside from compensation, working for FAANG is hugely overrated. And that's not just sour grapes talk - mountains of red tape, processes upon processes, overwork and burnout, and best of all, you get to spend your best years infecting society with the cancer that is adtech.

It’s a little weird to say “other than comp”, given that almost no one would work for their employer, whether startup or FAANG, if they weren’t getting paid for it. And the difference isn’t small. Multiple startups in NYC offered me comp of around $200k, while the public tech companies were all in the $400k to $500k+ range.

Additionally, I think overwork and burnout are much worse at startups vs big tech. The offer I took pays more than twice as much as the startups and the people on my team are in the office for 40 hours at best, work from home as needed, no emails or slack on evenings or weekends, and take 4-5 weeks of vacation. It’s definitely not the grind that startups are.

Your complaints about bureaucracy and ad tech are fair, which is why I went with Square over G or FB. I like their business model and they’re a fraction of the size of the bigger tech companies, but still pay much better than most startups.
OpenSSH 8.2 Released
Thank you for making it!
If I'm reading this right it looks like 3 yr survival was 30-50% in high risk melanoma patients in the late 1960s to early 1970s:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1344342/

That is pretty much the same as in your paper. Not sure how comparable those patients are though.
The key being “local network”, so if you are connected to a wifi access point you can see everyone using that access point. You can’t “see” packets beyond the router that connects your local network to the next one. The local network is a shared domain.
At best, it’s going to be Ubuntu in Windows world. Irrelevant.
Web apps, basically. You couldn’t make Google Sheets that way, for example.
They cover this on the what's next section:

> Like any machine learning algorithm, AutoFlip can benefit from an improved ability to detect objects relevant to the intent of the video, such as speaker detection for interviews
This Pradeep guy spams his blog posts here a lot. The majority are low skill tutorials. Even this, which sounds like it would be an interesting post, isn't.
I guess no one on my dead end street will be getting a self driving car then. There's a low spot near the main road that causes a large puddle all the way across the street whenever it rains.

There's a few other places in town that often flood, including one on a main road that doesn't really have any alternative route. There's also a section of the road along the coast where high surf sometimes hits the sea wall and splashes up and over it on to the street. It's quite a sight, but I wonder what a self driving car would make of _that_.
I think the reason why I was confused is that it seems there's a very fine line between a feature factory and Google/Twitter/Facebook/Amazon/...

At a lot of these high-functioning places, they seem to have "feature factory" moments with some tweaks (e.g. actually building metrics, refactoring, etc. so that the SW won't implode in 6 months down the line).
I don't feel like "action trumping thought" is a universal rule for early founders, but it could be true in some contexts. I visited your company's website (okaq.com) and I see a static placeholder image of a digipet. I'm curious, what's the "nano games at peta scale" vision? I think that would help contextualize what you wrote here. Whatever it is it seems like a lot of work, so kudos on that.
I hope some of the good stuff finds its way into html.
Bell pepper pricing is just bizarre.

Plenty other forms of produce are dirt cheap. You can eat fruits and salad every day and do it cheaper than any other country I've been to, as long as you don't insist on outliers like multi-colored bell peppers in your food.

As for restaurants, technically fast food counts as restaurants. So I'd be surprised if the US wasn't one of the cheapest in the developed world there too. Hard to compare if you want to factor in quality though.
Magnet Is an Essential macOS App
This is far from the first time, so let me state this more explicitly: John Horgan is a provocateur with no knowledge of any field, whose only claim to fame is that he is so breathtakingly and publicly wrong that he gets people with real expertise to engage with him. Then he disingenuously frames the result as a real intellectual controversy with him at its center.

He is one of the top reasons I don’t take anything from Scientific American seriously anymore, and a great example of how the incentive structures in science popularization ruin it. I find that I can tell how savvy an online community is by how much it likes his work.
My problems with WhatsApp desktop isn't that I can't use multiple phones, it's the various issues that don't affect Signal desktop. (Can only have one desktop/laptop, no iPadOS, messages randomly won't send/receive if phone is in too deep a sleep mode.)

None of those are problems affecting Signal.
Ask HN: Why can't we have a single Arm standard for os' and apps?
Fragmentation in Arm ecosystem is just overwhelming. First, not 2 hardware platform can share a single os install script. To each its own. Pi here, Rockchip there, Alwinner, whatever. Even within a single company, you need as many flavour as there are boards. Then, on the software side, not all arm app versions works everywhere. I'm well aware of the multiple obstacles in the way. I'm just asking: why not agree on fewer compatibility standards? That would help a lot in making arm more usable.
You make no direct connections with the article, open with an absolute statement "100% bullshit" which can almost never be justified, and shortly describe yourself cursing at the author.

The links you added do not amount any sort of representative sample or review of the cancer treatments concerned. Of relevance to your own small selection of improved treatments (some of them decades old) the Oncologist interviewed in the article states:

> Trials have yielded improved treatments for childhood cancers and specific cancers of the blood, bone-marrow and lymph systems, Raza notes. But these successes, which involve uncommon cancers, are exceptions among a “litany of failures.”

Your comment is an exceedingly emotional and basic attack towards the articles subject and none of its content.
If you know it is going to be a nightmare to support, it will consume tons of resources (cpu/storage), and nobody wants to pay for it (or not pay enough to cover its costs), it is not good.

As has been mentioned many times on this site, it is very easy to sell $2 for $1 all day long.
Its a side-effect of hearing stories of the other extreme of the dichotomy.
The best way to do that is to take sizable portions of secondary sales while raising capital at high valuations. You'll walk away with tens of millions regardless of whether the app realizes an exit in the end.
Ok, its a trade-off. The year of the Linux desktop is surely coming soon.
I must say I did not expect the scaling performance difference to be so large though.
> Internally the 8086 was a 16-bit CPU but its memory I/O was only 8 bits wide.

Did you mean 8088 here?
I really thought I'd read (summaries of) careful statistical analyses that say this is why the medical community thought "early detection saves lives".

100% willing to be corrected by the many more knowledgable commentators, but this is an important question, even if the parent phrased it as just speculation.
> Or more generally, are traits that are undesirable to subordinates, yet desirable to higher management, actually good for the company, and are traits that the subordinates value actually detrimental to the company?

This issue is not about traits, but outcome. If you delegate a task, you want that task to get done as you expect it to get done. The manager is your single point of contact wrt how that task is being executed, and thus the person who is held accountable for the outcome of that task. You hired someone to handle that task because you want it done but you can't spare your time doing it yourself. The manager keeps you in the loop and briefed about the major sticking points, and works with you to adjust your expectations. Obviously it's important that engineers approve their manager but the primary goal is obviously delivering projects that meet requirements and expectations, not pampering subordinates.
OpenShot 2.5.0: Video Editing and Hardware Acceleration
No, base HTML/CSS/JS are currently brilliant - however when you are building complex interfaces, web editors, React/Angular allow you to do it much easier
Did they also have that at launch time(s), back in the 60s/70s?
> Change jobs if you must

Or if a new job can offer you a better deal. If these jobs are all interchangeable, then you may as well interchange them for what benefits you most.
Wow, TIL that "36%" is most. Your own quote tells you that their measurements are only sites they scan and can determine the CMS used. As I said, WordPress is extremely popular in the SEO spam community and powers thousands of dead blogs, but it's a far cry from powering "most of the web".

None of that is material to the original point that thousands upon thousands of unpatched WordPress sites might work but also deliver tons of malware. WordPress' popularity is problematic because it has had a d will keep having serious security problems. WordPress exploits are entirely automated and performed constantly by zombie networks.
Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019)
So it would be impossible to write google sheets in pure html/javascript (except for the server bits that is)?
nobody properly deals with it yet. We are small enough for now that we can get away with moderation by hand / blocking bad instances.
As I perform more and more, I realize the hard part is getting out of my own way. I fumble and stutter playing something when I try to think about what I'm doing, trying too hard to make it good.

I'm at my best when my conscious mind doesn't really know what I'm doing, and I trust the musical muscle to do what I feel which produces more emotional, more compelling music
Correct. I can barely reach 120k usd in a fairly high salary eu country, while with the same expertise in USA could go easily above 300k
Chernobyl was controlled if the firefighters didn't sacrarice their lives most of Europe would have been irradiated and that was just caesium . Uranium would have been a nightmare
> Why would anyone build features without any thoughts about their benefit?

> In practice you never know how a feature is going to work out

Those two sentences are somewhat contradictory. If you think through the features you should know exactly how they further your initial goal. When you add things based on what some people might like, that's when you are guessing and you can't know.

This all boils down to having or not having a vision.

Some leaders have a vision and you can see the long-term goals, others (like Google) throw things at the wall to see what sticks then shuts them down. If you're not a monopoly, that strategy will not work.
Here’s a simple compromise that most people I know support:

Eliminate prop 13 for all but one property, both for individuals and for businesses. This would eliminate the current tax loophole for investment properties, and demand that tech companies that have scaled to more than one campus pay their fair share to the communities they are located in.

Also, have prop 13 valuations reset whenever the property changes hands (including inheritance, and, for commercial real estate, this would get rid of the “sell via a holding company” loophole).
If not it's a loophole that would allow a large data farm to split itself into myriad "small businesses" that all share with each other.
But the London average is what's low.
Very cool project, do you know how this compares with Hugo's javascript minifier / bundler?
No one got laid off. Mobility within the company is very good, they just need to find a new role.

That's not always trivial, and I'm sure some will leave the company, but none have to if they don't want to.
If by "new age" they mean 1871...
Pleroma has built in support for connection to an xmpp server, to share account data.

We are also working on a proper ActivityPub chat, but this was put on ice for a while because it require Group support for many cases, and that's another complicated topic in a federated world.

Overall, the speed of federation is very good, but we will be releasing a new federation transport over websockets in the next few weeks which should make it realtime in nearly all situations.
No. I don't work for Google but that earlier unfortunate piece from the inaptly named "The Information" represents a complete misinterpretation of management-speak and a fundamental misunderstanding of cloud market dynamics.

Google will be in the "cloud" business until the heat death of the universe, but what "cloud" means and where the respective monsters go looking for their next meal and how much capital they put into what kind of hunting is going to continue to change and evolve.

For many businesses that are eg large market-like B2B plays I would be more worried about greedy AWS looking up at me and deciding they would like my position and a larger share of my sweet, sweet revenue stream. Those mofos are apex predators and understand there is no problem that cannot be solved with another API.

These are interesting times, but for commodity cloud consumers there is no future in which Google suddenly decides that with the hundreds of billions of capitalized data center investment it makes sense to "shutdown" its cloud business. This is not Reader.
I don't know how you can have peace of mind giving your regular phone to a border guard in any case. If you travel on any regular basis, a dedicated phone for travelling that gets wiped before crossing borders is well worth the purchase, IMO.

Disappearing messages do help with your friend who doesn't have a sanitized device.
Additional downside: may never take off and leave you financially ruined.
> It's much more efficient to find the few people who actually have that skill and let them do it for the group

And human nature being what it is, why won't those few people negotiate better deals for themselves while keeping peanuts for the rest? (see: class action layers, bosses of Unions etc).
I knew I kinda knew that name! Good reference, thank you!
Not only is it a phone only application but it literally requires a phone number which is your ID for the service.
You made some very good arguments with solid information here. So much so that I flagged this article. Doesn’t seem what HN should spend its time refuting.
True, but payment channels can solve that. They work and are implemented in some clients and servers, but haven't become too popular yet, except in the (not working very well) lightning network.
Not sure if I've seen any before, but this one looks low effort, even though it's an interesting topic to explore there's no value provided.
There was no confusion of correlation and causation in my post. It is a clearly stated correlation.

Broad spectrum sunblock may be less than perfect, but until recently all sunblock was transparent to UVA. It blocked UVB which prevented the natural sunburn/tan/thickening response without preventing the DNA damage.

Given the huge growth in skin cancers since people started wearing sunblock it seems likely that it was actively harmful for this reason.
I think my points are highly relevant. Questioning their intent and motive is an important part of what I was getting at. Highly suspect in every sense of the word.
Not so much a role as the team I think a lot of people with wide reaching skill sets enjoy. The platform team. Basically responsible for cross cutting concerns between teams. Lots of infrastructure. Lots of defining best practices. Lots of jumping into projects to save them. Team kind of ends up being the roving jack of all trades team that dives into really hard projects that no one feature team has the skill set or time to focus on.
> Mathematicians named a mathematical object after me. It’s called the Horgan surface, or, alternatively, Horgan non-surface. The term was intended as an insult, but I’m honored anyway.

Neatly summarizes this guy’s motivation for writing provocative bullshit. To him, infamous == famous.
groups are a very complicated topic, everybody wants them but nobody can agree on what exactly they are. Either way, we are working on them for Pleroma, they are necessary for a lot of other nice features that we want to have in the future. See https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma-meta/issues/14