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> WSJ News still has a great deal of credibility and integrity, though maybe center-right pro-business. The Opinion section, however, has long been divorced from reality; the joke is that it’s simply wishful thinking salve to corporate executives.

I'm soon to be a non-subscriber, but I might have kept my subscription longer if the WSJ app had a setting to suppress the opinion section. It's not even interesting, and I'm far from a doctrinaire left-liberal.
My personal interest in such a thing would be health related, a la "Let your food be your medicine." Talking about medicinal uses of food tends to be highly controversial, and never mind the endless studies into health effects of various foods and the constant interest in diet and health.

I don't readily see what kinds of "facts" about food they specifically desire or will accept. They may want to address that before someone comes along and starts adding facts that other people would object to for various reasons.
> Because reading from a script for five minutes is likely to require multiple takes for someone who isn't a practiced voice actor

This depends on how much you can tolerate speech errors. Most listeners will gloss over them, preferring the human voice to the speech synthesizer while not even really noticing the errors.
That's ok. The goal is to "puts me into zone". For most people who are used to being in the office, the shoes actually help do that.
Please do! Would love to learn more about how you built it :)
Anyone can host a Sia node, but only GitHub can manage GitHub: https://support.sia.tech/category/0OpBuOHIVD-hosting
I think Bottas is in a comfortable spot but has to give up his dreams of a title as long as Hamilton is around. Some drivers are ok with that, some aren’t. Ricciardo probably could also have stayed with Red Bull as a very good number two driver but he didn’t want to give up the title dream. Unfortunately he seems to have bet on the wrong team...
And here it is, just a few hours after I wrote this and here's yet another story about malware on the Google app store:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/found...
CubeMX is the best config manager I've ever used, the clocking interface alone should be mandatory for all embedded companies.

I have still yet to really need an RTOS, even for BLE.
Does this affect Cordova apps? They use WebKit and may store stuff like api tokens in local storage
To me, even just-in-time vs stockpiling isn't even as big as allowing almost the entire production of many sectors of goods (such as medication) to be produced overseas...

How does the FDA not require dual sourcing and at least 50% domestic production as requirements is beyond me.
The difference with those four countries is that they expect fighting a war on their own soil to be a future possibility. When's the last time Americans actually saw what war on their doorstep looks like? The civil war? America's real defense is the Pacific and Atlantic. The US military is a raiding force that's free to attack anywhere in the world without fear of retaliation because they know the American continent is geographically unassailable.
You should read up on what Chiang's strategy. He knew that Japan can no way take China quickly enough and that Japan was still too weak to defeat a major Western power. He realized where Japan had won in China in the past was because China kept trying to make peace after initial defeats so Japan was able to take China bit by bit. Based on this assumptions, his plan was to retreat into the interior, last as long as possible, and wait for aid from the Western nations.

A lot of history mocked Chiang but in the past two decades after China opened up the archives in Nanjing, Chiang has started to look much less of a fool but a strategist playing with a weak deck of cards. Counting on the Western powers was always part of his plan. He sent one son to Germany and another to the USSR as sort of "hostages". Stalin was a major supplier of arms to China for a while because Stalin needed China to occupy Japan's attention. Germany also ended up helping China by sending advisers to train the Chinese army (a big part of the reason why China lasted as long as it did and why the Battle of Shanghai stunned Japan.) At the same time Chiang sent his US educated wife to court the Americans. She actually got to testify in front of Congress to appeal for aid and her Southern accent was actually quite charming to some.

Not all wars are won on the battlefield (i.e. Vietnam War, etc.)
That's not what I meant by context. "In context" doesn't mean "the literal meaning" and it's easy to see that "straight man" wasn't taken literally by the person who took offense, either. Metaphors must be used in context, they just aren't meant to be taken literally; a metaphor about comedy/theater is always in context when watching (or acting) in one. You don't have to explain it.

Likewise, if I talk about a "foil" while cooking in the kitchen, I'm likely to be interpreted one way; if I talk about the same while discussing comedy, it's likely to be taken differently.

Context matters.
It’s reasonable if there is a logistical curve on the same diagram.
You mean, like SPDY/HTTP2 ?
Ah, I miss the amber glow of C-64 :)
Does anyone know if qemu and OVMF can be made to work in plain text mode? I just tried but qemu wants GTK by default, and when I pass -curses I get a message that the screen is in 640 x 480 graphics mode.
Is UEFI really that complex that it doesnt allow for plain console access?
>At a time like this take all your privacy concerns and throw them out the window.

No.

Once "a time like this" is over, you're not getting your privacy back.
This is so amazing! Thanks for putting it together and sharing it
Even in "those days" that posture was already inexcusable. The man who edited Le Petit Vingtième was a literal fascist. Quoting from wikipedia:

>Beginning a series of newspaper supplements in late 1928, Wallez founded a supplement for children, Le Petit Vingtième (The Little Twentieth), which subsequently appeared in Le Vingtième Siècle every Thursday. Carrying strong Catholic and fascist messages, many of its passages were explicitly anti-semitic.

To my mind what forgives this is not the fact that it was done long ago, but simply the fact that he so drastically changed his worldview, and repudiated his earlier work. It takes particular strength of character to admit one was wrong in one's core beliefs, and effect real change which reflects true regret.
I'm a cofounder at Kintaba (https://kintaba.com) where we spend a lot of time with companies that are implementing postmortems as part of their larger incident management process and it has been fascinating to see how varied the adoption of the practice is even in SV despite the value being well accepted for over a decade in tech (longer in other research circles).

I often recommend anyone who is interested in the topic to check out Sidney Dekker's Field Guide to Understanding Human Error [1].

It's a very approachable read and goes into great detail about the underlying theories of safety research that support the value of blame-free cultures and postmortems and addresses common counter-arguments, particularly around the idea that lack of blame = lack of accountability.

Also worth checking out the (free) google SRE Book chapters on Incident Management [2] and Postmortem Culture [3].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error...

[2] https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/managing-in...

[3] https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/postmortem-...
Why not? Lots of crappy products have been improved tremendously by third-party plug-ins.
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Being a landlord is his business. If the bookstore and restaurant lose business and can't pay their rent, he is losing business and potentially can't pay his mortgage on the building.

Being "in it together" means he's giving them time to repay the back rent instead of evicting them if they can't pay, as he legally could. Commercial lease tenants have far fewer rights than residential ones do.

It's easy to spout "rent forgiveness" but where is that money coming from?
This is a situation where the often nebulous "good of society" is straight up in conflict with personal freedom.

I'm in favor of opt-in for something like using location data (info the government doesn't normally have because it is private companies with the info, at least in the US), but it won't work at all for limiting pandemic response, because someone that doesn't opt-in can spread the virus.

So even if everyone else opts-in and allows location usage (perhaps time-limited or whatever) to fight this pandemic, it just takes one infected person to opt-out and destroy containment efforts. Just like South Korea's patient 31.

I can't think of a general solution for this, for a case where full cooperation is needed. If it is crossing a very big red line to interfere with freedom of assembly in the midst of a pandemic, then one tool I can think of is to charge/prosecute people that take risks that cause harm to others. Not just a fine, rich people could effectively ignore restrictions. I mean serious charges, attempted murder or assault for every other person they infect.

You want to unlimited freedom, then take unlimited personal responsibility for the harm you cause.

The other solutions are to split hairs somewhat. The 1st Amendment only prohibits Congress, so delegate to the States to forbid assembly in pandemics. But, not being an attorney, I don't know if that legal strategy flies.

Another is language lawyering, the 1st Amendment specifically mentions "the right of the people peaceably to assemble". Obvious workaround is to consider an infected person not peaceful, they are after all, attacking everybody around them with trillions of microscopic invaders. You can gather only if you can prove you aren't infected.
Going way back to the original iPhone Web Apps session at WWDC in 2007, they specifically cautioned about the problem of sniffing UA strings.

Of course, the reality of the web meant they had to do a bunch of compatibility hacks to get pages to display well.

(Gecko appeared in the original Safari on iPhone UA, IIRC)
I don't know.

If I'm connecting to a site with Lynx, I sure as heck don't want them to try to serve me some skeleton HTML that will be filled in with JS. Because my browser doesn't support JS, or only supports a subset of it.

User Agent being a completely free form field is the real mistake IMO. Having something more structured, like Perl's "use" directive, might have been better.
This is cool, but is anyone aware of a system that is like GitHub/GitLab, but PR/MRs and commits are actually voted on by the community rather than a handful of maintainers? Something like the way DAOs are supposed to work, but applied to code?
And devaluing purchase power of current money.
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Of course, I read the original comment as relying on the entire Arduino Uno board, which is both expensive and restrictive to your supply chain. Individual components, such as MCUs could more easily be selected to avoid those two issues.
On that note, would it kill the OpenBSD guys to get on the getrandom(2) train? I get it, they're dying on the “arc4random is better” hill (and, yes, I agree), but they're literally the last people in the way of making getrandom(2) the new default across not only the usual BSDs and illumos, but also glibc/Linux.
I’ve started seeing alphabet employees use this as an excuse: “oh that happened on team x there’s nothing I could’ve done”. On small technical issues the excuse is fine - on large moral issues it does not work.
I’m doing research on mobility, and the pandemic is screwing up my data.
i've been using restic daily to a local store (with compression and encryption turned on), and then once restic has finished its daily run then i rclone to backblaze. i keep one snapshot per day for a week, 1 weekly snapshot for a month, and 6 monthly snapshots. i pay about £1 per month for about 250GB of data (prior to compression / encryption).

for those unfamiliar to restic, you can mount a r/o snapshot via fuse for ease of access as well as the command line tool to programmatically access the repo.
Yes, it is very stupid. At least read the book's description, it's a bit more complicated than that, a bit surreal. Maybe he just snapped under stress.
My thought as well. The TTS is good enough that it won't take much of an accent before the accent is harder to understand than the TTS as well. I know my own accent is strong enough that I'd have to put in very conscious effort to be easier to understand than this video.
> They have released several products as Chrome-only, which then turned out to work fine in every other browser if they just pretended to be Chrome through the user agent.

This seems like a pretty good reason in itself why they might be interested in phasing out User-Agents.
Thank you for this... stated much better than I ever could as well. I also find the corporate protectionist policies and spending combined with a lack of requirements for domestic production and sourcing are a pretty big problem, especially in certain sectors (medical supplies, etc).
Users can enjoy these four freedoms when using our software. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

If you're asking what we benefit from doing this, not much. We could have released proprietary software, but as users of software ourselves, we enjoy having these freedoms, so we don't want to restrict users of the software we write.
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How do you "check out" one of these to a kindle? I see you can download a kindle file, but dunno how to get that to sync to my kindle devices.

My goal is to show my 5th grader how to checkout a book to his kindle eReader by himself..
>a metaphor about comedy/theater is always in context when watching (or acting) in one

Calling someone in theater a Straight Man isn't a metaphor, that would be an example of a literal usage. A metaphor is when you refer to a distant situation or thing to explain a present one. If you demand that metaphors only be deployed in their "context" you are saying you can only compare situations to themselves.
Now, “falsification” itself is a silly/naive cartoon-ish framework for how to do science. It has its uses, but we mustn’t cling to it too much. We certainly have many other useful approaches as well.

Like what? If a model generates testable predictions, surely it's still important to go ahead and test them?
The guy I was responding to, mikekchar, claimed that he was given advanced physics problems requiring diff eqs without having studied them before; this is absolutely not the case in any physics program I've ever heard of. By the time you get to Junior Year physics, you've had diff eqs, or at least an introduction to the ordinary diff eqs you get in late Calculus. You can probably learn them both in the same course; but only if the course is designed for this purpose (aka Boas based "math methods for physicists" or something).

I do remember some guys in grad school who had never seen a Greens function before (I was doing them in sophomore years; guess I was lucky) encountering JD Jackson, but that's about the only disconnect I've seen.
Amazing work here!
The effect seems to work because it appears to mimic the curvature of a cathode ray tube.
I run away from services that only allow social media logins.

1) I don't want social media to track me everywhere

2) If the people developing this app have taken this shortcut, what other bad, leaky implementations do they have on their site/app?

-> No thanks, exit this way
Thanks. I'd love to see some polyglot comparisons with TXR and other languages commonly used for data processing like Perl and Python.
Could also have speech problems. Could be lazy. Could want to save time. Could be useful at producing consistent CC information across mediums. Could allow people to choose arbitrary voice synthesis in the future which super futurists may like the idea of. Could have used a translator to produce the text (I haven't listened) and not know English atall.

Personally, I'll take the human voice unless you literally cannot speak (e.g. disability) or feel uncomfortable.
I had Build-A-Bear not work for me on Firefox at the checkout process. Had to switch to Chrome to make the purchase. But aside from that, I typically don't see any issues.
That's way too expensive for my needs. I use an 10x10 TB server from Hetzner for €200/month. Unlimited traffic is included if you use the standard 1 Gbps link.
Really? Come on. How does a comment like this do anything to move the discussion along?
Nice job! I love the concept !
These laws have been violated by DOOH companies for the past decade. Yet no one really talks about the private sector tracking people without consent.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22685912
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-home_advertising
dgit dev here: first, let me say git-ssb is a great project as well!

We see a few distinct advantages:

- Using dgit doesn't require running a "node" of any kind (aka an SSB peer). This is possible because of the unique architecture of the Tupelo DLT: https://github.com/quorumcontrol/tupelo.

- Because of ^, installing and adding a dgit remote to your existing workflow is super easy.

- The storage in dgit is separated from the ownership of the repo. This means you can distribute the actual git objects across any storage system you would like, see my comment to cfstras below.

ssb is a few years ahead here - having a web ui and more robust suite of collaboration tools is great, but we're hoping to add those features down the road as well! Another unique advantage is the Tupelo js client (https://github.com/QuorumControl/tupelo-wasm-sdk) can run fully in the browser, meaning a fully decentralized UI is possible!
> But after explaining his actions and the expectations/assumptions behind them, he was reprimanded, ostracized in the office

sounds like a horrible place to work anyway, blameless postmortems aside.
If the meaning you (incorrectly) infer is offensive, you might have a hard time asking... Consider this: what if the person who took offense was gay, was recently harassed at a past workplace, was sensitive about the issue, maybe wasn't a native English speaker, and was told by an older coworker that he would play "the straight man" to his team pitch.

And even then, consider that the offended person replied "say what!?" and in turn the older coworker didn't understand the reaction.

Talking to people is hard. Maybe funny metaphors shouldn't be used unless you know the other person's sense of humor. By the way "playing the straight man" while listening to another person's technical plan for a feature doesn't really parse for me; it sounds like a clumsy use of a figure of speech. I'd be surprised too by this usage.
It feels like everyone here is treating it as an all or nothing thing. People are acting like if we allow the government to do this, then the next step surely can only be total state surveillance. Can't we come up with some reasonable balance where we can give up some privacy during extreme situations, but have strong safeguards in place to keep it emergency only?
Very nice way to add an extra layer of security - congrats!
> I don't really understand how this will result in any real difference in privacy or homogeneity of the web.

It does a little: sites don't passively receive this information all the time, instead they have to actively ask for it. And browsers can say no, much like they can with blocking third party cookies.

In any case I'm not sure privacy is the ultimate goal here: it's intended to replace the awful user agent sniffing people currently have to do with a sensible system where you query for what you actually want, rather than infer it from what's available.
Yeah, it's still early days, but that's part of the eventual plan for dgit. We're starting with decentralized git remotes, but we will eventually enable DAO like functionality like paying in to repos to support them, voting on things like feature/pull requests, and automatic payouts when an independent dev gets one of their pull requests merged.
Yeah the fact check is about steaming (which is totally unrelated and closer to autoclaving, which doesn't work)
Try '-nographic'. It can be a bit wonky IME, but good enough for the basics.
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The point that is valuable to the discussion is this: businesses don't worry about disaster preparedness, so the responsibility falls on government, and government run like a business won't prepare either.

Which party racists vote for doesn't improve a discussion about governments buying medical supplies.
Even before this change, data in IndexedDB was kind of volatile - if a device was low on space, browsers could delete stored data.

https://dexie.org/docs/StorageManager describes the StorageManager API which lets you prompt the user to allow your IndexedDB data to be stored more reliably. My first thought after reading this article was wondering if this would allow an exception to the 7 day rule... but then I remembered that Safari is the only "modern" browser which does not support the StorageManager API

lol, sucks for users of my client side JS video game!
you are mistaking a drama-mentary as reality
You can see Chrome devrels on Twitter expressing disappointment with Chrome-only web sites, saying that they raise the issue internally. Of course we have no visibility into what happens after that, but it's an indicator that you're right.
Many academics like the ability to "compile" latex, and probably want to "compile" their videos too, complete with autogenerated script. That way, when they make a small change to their source code, the new version will autogenerate a new video with an updated script.
I don't know if t.co is such a classified domain but if so, if the link contains query parameters or a fragment part, then yes.

I'm also not sure if "navigation" means through user action or if redirects count, although for the purpose of tracking prevention I don't see how the latter should not also count.

So, if all of this is true the way I understood it now, the restrictions could apply to when someone reaches your site via social media.
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Hi awb! I added a PR for a simple change making the inputs a bit more uniform. I really like this! Thanks for letting us all chip in.
Has anyone worked on a cannabis related idea?
I live in California where it is legal. A lot of people here seem to enjoy it, and honestly from what I've read it seems like it is probably not as bad for health as alcohol or smoking.

All that aside, I've been getting comments like "nobody is going to hire you in the future if you work on this" or "why would you want to build something for stoners" which is kind of surprising.

Has anyone worked on a cannabis related app, such as weedmaps or others? What was your experience like?
I'd love to see this data glued to an open source nutrition tracking app of some kind. Most nutrition tracking apps are designed for weight loss, use a limited proprietary database, and make questionable quality/design decisions.

MyFitnessPal is probably the most complete platform in this space, but their backend code seems to be declining in quality recently, and their app does annoying comical things like shaming you for eating the exactly the amount you specified in your goal macros. Actively tracking your calories without developing an eating disorder is challenging enough, but they all seem to be hell bent on keeping users actively engaged instead of actually helping them hit their goals.

I've halfway started on the project I want to exist, but it's one of those side projects I might touch every month or two, and I'm a long way from having any kind of viable product.