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OK, I get you. I think we're coming from different angles. You're concerned about getting into a network, I'm concerned on not identifying identification.

Thanks for the reply.
Waymo has been spending about a billion dollars a year, with zero revenue.

Over 15 years ago, I had an entry in the DARPA Grand Challenge. I never dreamed that 15 year later, after all parties had spent about $18 billion, the self-driving industry would be at zero revenue.
My impression is that I’m about the same way, except I could really do without about half the commute time. I do like being able to (mostly) not work when I’m at home (on call rotation being the main reason I open the work laptop outside the office). Overall, I think I’m less productive on a WFH day than when I’m in the office. I’m not sure if doing more WFH would improve the situation due to more practice or not.
WFH is great, it's where I'm personally the most productive from, but unless an entire household can stay at home I think it has little effect on avoiding Covid-19.

You can be the most paranoid person, washing your hands 50 times a day, not touching anything, wearing a gas mask and what not, but when your kid comes home after touching everything at school and outside and then rubbing his/her eyes and they happen to contract the virus then everyone in the same household will eventually contract the virus. Same for your partner, flat mates, etc.

If one person gets it, everyone in a household will get it (eventually). They will cough in the house, they will touch food in the kitchen, they will decongest in the bathroom and spread germs everywhere, they will touch the remote control with their hands where they just coughed in, a keyboard, your phone, etc. etc.

I'm sure WFH will slow down the spread, which itself is good, but don't think you're immune all of a sudden because you avoid public transport to work when there's still so many avenues for the virus to enter your home.
> I don’t want to argue about magazines (or newspapers) in general, since it seems you have quite a cynical view there. I’d advise that you research common standards of journalism, including the concept of the editorial/advertising wall.

My cynicism comes not from being ignorant of traditional newspapers but from having been very close to them. My experience is that people (in any industry really) may be decent, noble, and above any such influence on any conscious level, and yet they will nevertheless show an almost magical tendency to act in alignment with their economic interests, even when they seem to have reached their position on wholly unrelated grounds.
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10x this - Not everyone is motivated and deciplined to work a full day without distractions, loss of motivation and productivity.

Employees, young or old, that lack initiative and drive - they will make poor remote workers. Don't let the cool thing of 2020's, i.e. going remote, fool you. The hype these days is digital nomads and all-remote companies (such as Gitlab) but there are disadvantages, you like it or not, it is a fact.

Human bonds get stronger when we're physically present with each other, team dynamics improves and morale improves. I personally cannot do remote-only work and I am an introvert in every sense of the word. No amount of video/VR chat will replace that.
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Our distributed, real-time system handles tons of (very sensitive) data, and we keep on innovating it, giving our software engineers plenty wonderful challenges to work on.
But the main reason they love working at Adyen is our culture, which is built on autonomy, direct communication, and making ethical decisions.

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This is a really useful post and explains the two-pass render paradigm really well for me. Will be implementing in my work for sure.
right, but as an Italian I tend to disagree :D
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It's not so much an alternative as it's the original inspiration. That is explained here:

https://github.com/dalibo/pev2/#disclaimer

> The pev project was initialy written in early 2016 but seems to be abandonned since then. There was no activity at all for more than 3 years and counting though there are several issues open and relevant pull requests pending.
This may already happen on Safari and Mac without support for Wide Gamut Color. In that case, the P3 color is converted to sRGB, which typically means clamping to sRGB.
Seems like you need something like a DNS server for repo's.
Yeah, which is probably why it's in C, portable AND callable :)
Thanks for confirming that. Looks like I'll need to look elsewhere for the next chemfp fingerprint file format.
Bad DDG results are a myth at this point. It was true a couple of years ago. But they’ve improved a lot and last few months I rarely use google as a fallback.
Really? My experience is the exact opposite - large orgs choose a tech stack and invest heavily, staying on it for years, if not decades. A client is still on .Net 4.
After I got royally screwed by Apple discontinuing Aperture (I mean, come on, it's not like they're google or something), I decided to a) package Aperture in a VMware virtual machine so that I don't lose access to my libraries and b) start working on my own software for long-term photo archives.

The project you are describing sounds close to my goals, with the possible exception of long-term storage: I've been planning to develop everything so that data is easily retrievable even if the software doesn't work. Metadata in text files, for example, image storage in well-known formats, folder structure that is understandable to humans, etc. This is for family archives: I'm scanning photos that are a hundred years old and I feel like an idiot when cataloging them using software that some company will obsolete in a couple of years.

Incidentally, there is another niche which is largely unaddressed: easy organizing of photos into sets with various access tags and sharing these with friends and family in a secure and easy way. It's kind-of doable today if you don't care about privacy, security, and longevity, but it's still annoyingly difficult to use, especially for less computer-literate family members. It seems that all designers of photo software only keep photos from their latest vacation, wipe their entire collection with each device upgrade, and want sharing links to be valid for at most a month or so.

One thing which could prevent me from using your software is lack of control: I got burned several times already and I'm considering my options carefully. It might be better to roll my own rather than start depending on something again.
It's hard to be excited about anything FB do, when we know how poisonous it is.
"Relevant" isn't the issue. "Gratifies intellectual curiosity" or something similarly worded is. Check the guidelines for HN.

Otherwise, racism, climate change, healthy diet, etc. would have to be guaranteed constant front page placement.

Important issues can be boring, they can also lead to discussions that only re-hash well-known positions.

Assange stories are a good example of that effect.
Question: why has the US not attempted to land on Venus?

I'm glad the USA didn't. That left them more $$$ to spend on Mars and other projects.

For the most part the "space race" was over when the USA landed on the moon. So wouldn't it make more economic sense if the various space-faring nations did different things? E.g. it was the ESA that sent Rosetta to Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
There are examples of cancer becoming a completely separate organism. Such as:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa
The only language that I have worked with that realizes that in the real world simple is _always_ a lie, is common lisp. It is the only language that has actually embraced the fact that its designers/committee were not geniuses and provided the tools for dealing with the complexity of the system. When unix tools fail, hope that you are on a system where it is possible to get the symbols and/or the source code, and even then good luck fixing things in situ. Most existing systems do not empower the consumer of code to do anything if it breaks. CL remains almost completely alone in this, because the debugger is part of the standard. Most of my code is written in python, and I can tell you for a fact that when python code really fails, e.g. in a context with threading, you might as well burn the whole thing to the ground, it will take days to resolve the issue, roll back the code and start over. The fact that people accept this as a matter of course is pure insanity, or a sign that most programmers are in an abusive relationship with their runtime environment.
What are some of your favourite board games?
I've made a bunch of things twice as fast people forget almost immediately.
Right, I once drove to Heathrow at 99 MPH when late for a flight, and at that moment noticed most drivers in the inner lane were going 99. Nobody goes faster than 100, because if you do get caught above 100, you would loose your license.
"Who wants to hack around the command line? Mac OS, it just works!"
Java executors exist and are useful to me today in all platforms where a Java compiler is available, C++ executors are yet to be delivered, it remains to be seen what C++23 will actually look like and what will be dropped at very last minute like contracts were.

Also other programming languages also don't stand still.
Puerto Rico is probably still my favorite.

I love Through the Ages, but recommend the PC, Android or iOS version, because it does all the calculation and mechanics in the background.
Humane Guide to Debugging Web Apps
Kilauea Eruption and Leilani Lava Flow of Hawai'I 2018
Chess, Catan, Sequence
You can learn a lot about a topic you care by reading the Talk page and its archives; most relevant information that people wants to add has been discussed at length there, evaluating all pros and cons of the proposed text, and the biases and analysis of the quality of sources. Some small amount of talk is "oversighted" (hidden from view to all but administrators), but that's typically only for scandals who affect living persons. Also you'll have to wade through inflamed battles with unbridled passions, but the main issues of conflict become clear.

That said, there are two kinds of articles: hot topics which get the above treatment for any suggested change (either for political or fanboyism reasons); and abandoned gardens where no one cares and weeds grow, marked with warning signs. These were created either by copying a public domain old encyclopedia, or by a passionate editor in the earlies , and have seen few since then.

Either way, the most valuable resource of Wikipedia has always been the References section. You can skim the definition and safely ignore the rest of the article, and still use it as the starting point for learning about an unknown topic by searching the most promising sources of a well-curated collection of relevant links, that would be hard to find anywhere else using a search engine.
404 Side Denmark's Radio
He just has to convince the big ones first, most just follow.
But look a bit further, it gets better ...

> For any cross-platform logic, we used an operating extension built in native C code, which is highly portable, efficient, and fast. We use this extension for anything OS-like that’s globally suboptimal, or anything that’s not covered by the OS. For example, all the Facebook-specific networking is done in C on our extension.

C was the universal donor 30 years ago, and it's the universal donor today!

If you look further down the article, it describes their extensive use of sqlite, and a layer around it for managing synchronization with FB servers, also written in C.

I write a lot of Python and a lot of Go, and I love C. So I enjoy imagining the subgroup of HN commenters who wail that Go is ignorant of the last 30 years of CS technology, or that no one should be allowed to write C these days, reading this.
By taking a bigger % of the work put in than the person doing the work == exploiting.
Yes, you get even more money for the plastic and aluminum, but this is recyling only; they don't reuse the bottles because they are bottled out of country and don't use standard bottles.
Let's Encrypt revokes 3M certificates due to CAA checking bug
Silly, but I thought it was a pretty nice 404 page. Also is in Danish so the little stories are probably not that interesting without translating.
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It's because it eats into their profits.
None of that justifies 1.7 million LoC.
In contrast with online media you can be certain that it depends on DRM services. So it is less that it disappeared and more that it is now extremely widespread.

Sure, it is convenient until your software/hardware is no longer supported (same HDCP problems, codecs, DRM schemes), 4k is only available on... , the monthly rent increases, it is now bundled with Amazon Prime Plus Ultra, the company pulls an Adobe in Venezuela, the company gets bought by Comcast, the company goes bankrupt, ... .

For movies you unfortunately don't have much choice, but for games, ebooks and music you can find DRM free stores.
When I first heard about 'water above' I was chuckling. It's just more than 2000 years old explanation why the sky dome is blue. What's blue? Water. Sky blue? There must be water above it. Why it doesn't fall? God keeps it up.

No concept of Rayleigh scattering, atmosphere or outer space. Just: Blue? Water!

And yet I heard it read to the crowd of people in a communal building and they listened to it as if it made sense more than 2000 years later, in the age of science, when we already learned how to properly know things.
> Currently, there have not been any COVID-19 cases in Pennsylvania

No boundaries to stupidity. Such arguments makes no sense at all, better check how many people have been tested in PA. While everyone cancelling large scale events there are few mohicans going forward seeing no risk.
Reminds me in the late 1940's the USAF was losing pilots and jets to 'human factors'. They thought to solve it by hiring a statistician to measure their pilots and determine the average pilot. The better the design cockpits and controls around. That guy found there wasn't an average pilot. You have more combinations of foot/hand size, arm/leg length, torso's etc than you have pilots.

With culture ultimately everyone's some sort of deviant.
You can filter article history by user [1] to check whether their contributions are still in the current version, or use Wikiblame creatively to find who wrote some specific part of a live article [2].

[1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/usersearch.py

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiBlame

http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php
PSA: JQuery is bad for the security of your project
You can make bratwurst with Irish pork ️
I try to never touch my face while in public but what if your nose itches to pain and your eyes start to tear until you scratch it, then it's difficult
Not Only a Virus That Spreads but Viral News: Coronavirus
Are there new people in charge? You guys locked up a bunch of wallets and screwed over your old users pretty hard.
Tesco sends security warning to 600k Clubcard holders
The latest CSS Color spec includes support for Lab colors in linear space. It covers all possible colors. The syntax supports decimal numbers, so you can have as much precision as you want (depending how much the browser supports internally): lab(75.12321% 30.4124 -12.32434353)

In addition to supporting all colors, it also supports HDR (very bright pixels) by allowing the lightness to go above 100%. So, this is very bright red: lab(400% 80 70).

Most design software (Photoshop, Affinity Designer..) can display colors as Lab values and those can be used in CSS. Since lab colors are not intuitive for humans, CSS also supports Lch (lightness, chroma, hue), which is more human friendly.

Browser vendors are currently adding Lab support to their browsers.

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/#lab-colors
Sounds like he also got a bit of clarity of what he really wants.
> For android you have to ship basically ffmpeg for correct mp4 encoding

hopefully they aren't counting ffmpeg in their LOC count, right ? else they may as well count the lines of code of the C and C++ standard library, V8, etc - this would be a very useless metric
Money itself isn't the issue; copying from another website, NASA's budget for 2020 is $22 billion which represents 0.48% of all U.S. government spending (compare that to $705 billion for military spending combined).
Thank you. Good work
Also sky looks like it's all made of water and some water often falls from it. Dry land therefore must be exception made by gods for us.
I can echo your concern. German wikipedia has the same troubles. That's why it's not uncommon amongst anyone I've aksed or observed to habitually fact-check a German wiki-page with a quick hop into the English version (If there is any ideological classification involved).

There at least, Wikipedia's promise, that the heterogenity of writers creates informational breadth and balancedness, seems to be more kept.

In contrast to the German version, the English articles often have dedicated "criticism"-chapters, that also leave the criticism uncommented. The German versions often start with a political classification right away. If the classification is contested, then it stays there and just gets slighty changed into reported speech. If any counter-arguments to that classification make it into an article, then they are almost always commented, often with a counter-argument to the counter-argument from groups that created that classification in the first place, litteraly giving them the last word.
Have since learned they were not tigers and called cats these days. Source: La Brea tarpits museum
I think for a lot of use cases, the safety and security and whatnots you get from Rust just aren't required and people already have a large time investment in Python/Go/Java/etc.

Certainly I can do pretty much everything I need to with C/Python/Go because I accept the tradeoffs and know enough to work around the safety/security issues.

(But Rust is on my list of things to get around to in 2020.)
> It will also likely have a severe impact on the market.

Not just the market - the real economy.