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>There was a promise of a marketplace of ideas, making the world a better place, that being interconnected would make the world smarter and democratize knowledge

Did anyone really believe this other than middle aged libertarian hackers from the 90s who kept repeating this in prayer like fashion?

The internet is, as the name suggests, a network. Google also is a sort of network, one that is semantically searchable. But Google Search is not a fact checker. It doesn't have an editorial room for every piece of content it exposes, it doesn't have deep knowledge about everything it throws back at us, and it could not have those things at the scale it operates.

That's not Google's fault either. It's not a search engine's job to correct wrong reporting. It's the job of journalists and news outlets to fact-check information, it's the job of citizens to be critical of the information they consume, and it's the job of governments to facilitate that this happens.

It's our fault that our civic institutions have degraded, and not the fault of Google that it spits our own stupidity back at us. It's not Google's fault that we don't like what we see when we look in the mirror and techno utopianism isn't going to save us either.
Yahoo was a registry back in the day.
Covid-19: Lamborghini is producing surgical masks and medical shields
It works in direct sunlight.
How the coronavirus is affecting the world's biggest physics experiments
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(The author.) I had originally written a version of this in Python for my own use, and recently thought of rewriting it in Rust as a learning experience.

What I found is that writing a CLI in Rust is a absolute breeze, in part due to excellent documentation and the tooling, and also thanks to various well-maintained crates, such as StructOpt [1] to parse command line arguments of any complexity, or indicatif [2] to show animated progress.

[1] https://github.com/akeru-inc/xcnotary/blob/11649e49892d81754...

[2] https://github.com/akeru-inc/xcnotary/blob/11649e49892d81754...
You forgot to add
with more restrictions, decreased customer satisfaction, upsetting early supporters, and an incomplete storefront that barely has enough online features to state it was built in the last 2 decades.

That is in the case of Epic not the OP.
article is from 2013
You've done a lot of programming for hardware switches and such then?

I do some. And the last device we built, we still fight with a simple rotary switch. You have to do things like debounce inputs that seem like obvious binary switches. Getting the debounce windowing right can be just as "guessy". And guess what the highest point of failure on said device is. That selector switch. Had similar experience with buttons. I think the software part is just two forms of the Law of Conservation of Ugly.

I do like tactile better, but more for affordance/discoverability (e.g. ergonomic) issues than what you're driving at above.
I don't think this is the first ever non-invasive bci. I recall decades ago there was a BCI where you could control between left and right literally by activating the appropriate hemisphere and triggering a relative potentiometer.

Extremely crude, but it worked. IIRC the instructions were "to go left, think 'go left'"; "to go right, relax". After some number of sessions (I think I remember it being "a lot") the user's brain would automatically do the correct thing.
Lexus also has a touchpad, and an interesting "tactile joystick" type of solution. Takes some getting used to but the tactile feedback goes a long way to reducing the need to look at the screen.
> This makes it to the front page?

Yes. Any particular reason you think it shouldn't?

I prefer to see people's personal fun hacking projects on HN to news I can read elsewhere.

> Is everyone else waiting for the April job threads too?

An early one went up last week
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22665398
Not affiliated in any way besides as a happy user - Krisp.ai is a godsend with respect to cleaning up crappy microphones and background noise. YC should consider offering that to the upcoming batch that will be held remotely
> There was a promise of a marketplace of ideas, making the world a better place, that being interconnected would make the world smarter and democratize knowledge.

I vividly remember the promise, and believing in that promise, but there was never a time that the Internet was this. In retrospect I don't see why we should have believed in it in the first place.
id love to interview with you
Here you go, Lean Bread from Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day, a fantastic book I heartily recommend:

http://dpaste.com/1JH41V3

Recipe modifications and tips:

- I use a cast iron bread pan -- it really makes a difference

- I prefer to use a good quality bread flour, like King Arthur. Haven't had luck with all-purpose flour.

- I do everything in a single bowl, up to the point that the dough is transferred to the bread pan

- I keep the oven at 450 degrees F throughout, and only start it 15 minutes before baking.. works well enough for me

- I use the "3/4 of original" ingredients in the recipe to make one single loaf of bread, which fits perfectly in my bread pan

- I tend to apply coconut oil to the top of the bread half-way through baking, rather than before baking. It's a lot easier to apply coconut oil when it's melted, which it'll readily do atop hot bread, so this is the easiest way to do it for me. But I still oil the inside of the bread pan beforehand as usual.

- I like to use instant yeast, so I can mix it directly in to the flour without needing the extra step of activation. It's worked great for me.

- Before adding the yeast, I mix the salt thoroughly in to the flour. Yeast should not be dumped directly on a pile of salt as that could kill it. Also, don't let the water you add get too hot, as that can also kill the yeast. I make the water luke-warm to slightly warm and that's resulted in a big rise in the dough for me.
I'm hoping to get an EV or hybrid for my next car - probably a sedan. My biggest apprehension with most of the ones I've seen is the excessive dependency on software/touchscreen based controls.

Does anyone have experience with Honda EV or hybrids? Would you recommend?
@mardifoufs: I realize that your point is that the Chapel webpage didn't answer this question clearly / concisely for you and agree that we could and should improve that. The observations in this thread have definitely helped given me insights about how we could position ourselves better for the non-HPC audience (and I already have a longstanding intention to make the code sample on the page more compelling using Asciinema that I need to find the time for).

But to answer your specific question here: I'd say that most mainstream languages (e.g., C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Rust, Swift, ...) don't aspire to scalability in the same sense as Chapel and High Performance Computing want it, in the sense of being able to run efficiently on tens of thousands of processors with distributed memory where inter-processor communication and coordination is required. And even when they do aspire to it, it's rarely through the language itself, but through communication libraries, pragmas, and extensions. The result (in my opinion) is rarely as productive, general-purpose, and performant Chapel achieves.
I’m not getting into ALL the details but the “repeatedly calling” back and forth between two numbers quite honestly kept me out of jail overseas due to an embarrassing miscommunication and unintended breaking of a local law (backpacking in college, drinks were had, a friend made an ass out of himself if you must know)

I called a local friend, he didn’t answer. I called his wife she didn’t either. Both follow the “don’t answer unknown numbers” rule. As do I.

It wasn’t until I called friend a second time that he answered the phone. His response? “When my wife got a call from the same number back to back is when I started thinking this must be worth my attention.”
Overrepresentation of the population. Do I really need to explain how 23% compares to 50%?

And I'm offended because it's wildly offensive. You've repeatedly insisted racial slurs aren't so bad, and diverse hiring practices are somehow worse. And seem to think some amount of explanation on your part will make it seem like it's a reasonable stance instead of a deeply and reprehensibly racist one. Instead it just makes you look like a verbose clan leader.
Journalists are like locusts. They move on to the next juicy victim, but time to time return to ravage those few cash cow targets.
There are many historical examples of generals and frontline troops continuing conflict after the fact for multiple reasons.

Some as innocuous as communication issues.
Some as numbing as military bureaucratics.
Some as terrible as hatred.

My point was never to attribute all such instances to hate or a desire to kill. But I see that all demonstrate well why war should be avoided at all costs.
In the numbers game they are okay with false negatives.
It just works. Never used Jitsi, but the experience is far superior to Skype and Webex.
What was their response after you said "I think we're done here?"
Even as a Gmail user, my results align with yours.

If I type it into the browser search bar however it is the first result. This is not Google's fault, as I'm on Firefox, which is smartly trying to look for sites I frequently visit.
Having worked with unions, it is because they introduce and entirely new and superfluous bureaucratic hierarchy to a company.

I have had situations where it was not allowed to move a computer monitor from one cube to another - that had to be done by a union employee. Literally taking a unused spare monitor from one desk, and putting it on another employees desk where it was need. ...and there was a formal requisition process to get that done which took two weeks to get through approvals, assignment, and finally have it done.

I have had union workers walk off the job during a major system outage because their facility managers forced them to take their break time. The whole company was down - it was all-hands-on-deck outage due to Hurricane Sandy. The actual union workers wanted to help us get the systems back online for the company, but the union rep wouldn't let them work.

I have had great workers quit or refuse jobs with our company because they knew and loathed the union - not the company, but the UNION.

I don't have any problem with unions at companies that protect the SAFETY of workers, as they are needed in various industrial jobs. ...but at a TECH companies where workers are making six figures, have matched 401k plans, and safe and comfortable desk jobs? ...it just screams "ridiculous" to me.
I learned on film as a kid, and sometimes I miss the idea of it a little, too. Then I think about how, today, I can take a hundred macro shots of a busily hunting wasp at zero incremental cost, then very quickly and easily "develop" the half dozen already excellent keepers to really bring out the same vivid colors and sharp contrast my mind's eye saw in the viewfinder image, and then make large-format, gallery-quality prints for $5 each in materials on a printer that cost me a hundred bucks brand new. And I don't miss the idea of film at all.
OP here. If you are sick of COVID-19 stuff, I'm sorry. I found this useful for calculating the chances that zero/one/two of my partner and I are hospitalized, admitted to the ICU, or dies.

Given our underlying conditions, my rough calculations show a 6/1000 chance one of us is hospitalized, 0/1000 chance (rounded down) that both are hospitalized. Good news since we have kids.

Furthermore, a 1/1000 chance one of us is admitted to the ICU, and 0/1000 (rounded down) one or both of us dies.

Edit: Used a Monte Carlo simulation (n=10000) with a simple probability chain. Caveats and assumptions abound and YMMV, of course.
I actually block all calls unless they are scheduled in advance, with the exception of SO/family
So I exclusively use Dark Sky on my iPhone and watch. They could also be looking at the data and noticing that most people use Dark Sky as opposed to the default weather app.
But closed off and only accessible if you buy Apple devices. So this is yet another example of a private corporation taking a useful, accessible resource that people rely on, and gating it behind their own services so they can extract rent. God I love capitalism!
Wasn't it BROOMholio on B & B program ?
Whilst its great for governments to support their local businesses, this will not help null the longstanding rumours surrounding the true ownership of the company.
Just open up the Internet Yellow Pages book. :) https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Yellow-Pages-6th-ed/dp/15620...

My family actually had a book like and I learned about a bunch of the net culture sites through it.
Unless they are willing to do it for free, I don't think their sister who already does volunteer work can consider it.
Assume this is true. Why is it a good thing? If the looser spec handling on Windows fixes the bug without introducing other problems, then from the user perspective, Windows is doing the correct thing and OSX is failing.
Maybe I'm missing something but if authentication is allowed, it will allow the client or carrier to block calls based on authenticated ID accurately. RN that's effectively impossible.
That is very similar to early-2000s Volkswagens (mk4) except for the addition of a radio and seat heater dials, and cruise control on the left stalk (or the steering wheel):

https://justdrivethere.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/dscf1441....

The only (IMO) necessary features these cars lack compared to modern cars are audio Bluetooth/line in, and navigation. But both are easily added: audio bluetooth/line in with a module that plugs into the CD changer port on the back of the OEM radio, and navigation using a separate GPS unit (such as the ones Garmin make). Maybe a backup camera too, but you can buy a wireless one that works with a Garmin GPS screen.
Curious to see how this plays out long term. I just submitted my voice for their data.

Also, anyone have a guess where to contact the authors to let them know their link to telling.ai is relative and not absolute? Goes to a 404 right now.
You can't really blame the companies. CMU has a great track record why wouldn't they go there.
Well, of course, that's tautologically true. The difference is that the most popular comments are more often to be insightful, and the people with the most karma have it because they post insightful things, rather than the type of comment I mentioned above. (Believe me, I would know if people were spamming those; there are only a handful of people that accumulate karma faster than I do, and they all do it "fairly".)
IMHO the physical controls invoke muscle memory and haptic feedback which enables driver to keep attention on the road. Touchscreen does not give this to same/any degree. I should not have to take eyes, or attention, off the road for longer than it takes my hand to find the right control. Physical controls current significant advantage over digital is "no interpretation required" - feel or microsecond glance tells you the state. Digital, other than big dials and flashing colors, needs you to think. Those thoughts take focus away from the act of driving.

Im summary i think Honda is right - digital controls for things with no time and attention pressure (like music channel), and physical for those that need near immediate action (like defogging a window or wipers).

FTR been driving cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles for nearly 50 years - 2 accidents, no hospital trips, and that includes plenty of 'hooning about' well into danger-zone for conditions/environment (wont say more or might get a visit from authorities :-p )
Anyway the parent item seems to be something about a specific, named release of Apple's proprietary MacOS operating system. It seems we are being warned that if we upgrade to it, something will not work anymore. Those of us not inclined to install Catalina may sigh in relief; our instances of SSH have not been broken.
Oh, I can actually weigh in here. In the past ten years, I've spent significant amounts of time in the US, France and the UK.

In the UK, I get the occasional spam call ("I'm calling with regards to the recent accident that wasn't your fault..."). At its peak, I got about one such call per week. It's been months since I've had a spam call.

In France, I got zero. In the 7 years I lived there, I got exactly zero.

Every time I go to the US, I get 2-5 per day ("last chance to renew the extended warranty on your car").

As is often the case, things are bigger in the US.
Every UK MP has his or her address listed publicly. In fact, this is a requirement to stand at election even at the town council level.
From the initial 3Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle, people have opted for recycling because it's the only one that does not actually require you to do much.

But the 3Rs are hierarchical, with the first one being the most important: reduce your waste output. Then: buy used instead of new, avoid single-use items.

You can start with a reusable shopping bag, mug, water bottle, bowl, utensils, cloth napkin.
People are usually not looking for the things I talk about. Gig work is vilified. People mostly aren't talking about how to design gig platforms well to benefit the workers. They think that's an oxymoron and insist that gig work is intentionally exploitative.

People mostly aren't talking about how to help the lower classes access remote work. People generally assume that it's out of reach for the underprivileged.

People aren't looking at homelessness the way I look at it. They routinely claim housing issues aren't relevant and it's just a bunch of junkies.

Etc.
But can they raise the expected product lifespan from 4 years to 12?
I really hope so. I stopped answering calls from unknown numbers until a year ago when I got a call from the same number twice and it was a paramedic calling to let me know my wife was in a car accident. She was awake enough to remember my number but her phone was lost.

So now I can't help but answer calls from unknown numbers even though I know 999 out of 1000 of them will be spam. It's abusive and an incredible waste of everyone's time and energy, not to mention in my case I wasted 10 minutes of critical time I should have been with her at the hospital.
I think that only works in Norway where they have radar data from all the weather stations, or however that works.
Thank you for pulling up the numbers. It seemed very suspicious when the comment above selected the smallest EU states.
This is correct. Try filtering Google news by date.

It doesn't work.
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> I find it difficult to blame people for wanting money

This is not a universal constant, but it is something that unfettered capitalism idealizes.
I am using Wobbly Windows right now in KDE. Desktop Cube works too but I don't like it (I use 16 desktops instead of 4 :).

When I have to use Windows every once in a while I am viscerally disgusted by the lack of wobbly windows. Moving windows just feels wrong - very, very wrong. Takes a second to realize they're not wobbling. To me it makes the computer seem less robotic and more natural in a way, I guess. Like haptic feedback on smartphones when you tap stuff.
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I think the merged-with-less-developed countries is a red-herring. Run the calculation against the Eurozone and it doesn't change much.

There's no single apples-to-apples measurement we can make; the US has more natural resources than the EU, suffered far less harm from all the major conflicts up through WW2, &c.

I don't know whether or not liberalizing the economy of the EU would raise per-capita GDP or not, but the post I was replying to was claiming that a very specific and easy-to-check fact was wrong, so I checked it.
From my understanding, spoofed calls won’t get onto your carrier’a network under this model, let alone ring your phone. All this assumes that sorting out spoofing resolves the problem, which isn’t guaranteed.
Description change history just landed as a paid feature.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/10103#note_152...

Repository push mirroring is available in CE, but pull mirroring is a paid feature.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/19095#note_272...
This is terrible news. I built a weather app with DarkSky API nearly 8 years ago and have been using it ever since.

I really hope I’ll manage to find some alternative.
Unless you count Numbers.

I heard it was because Apple’s C-levels weren’t happy with any of the concepts for a calculator UX that fills the screen of an iPad - and they’re right, even the best iPad calculator there is (PCalc) feels weird to use just to do some quick sums because it fills up my 13-inch iPad Pro’s screen.

I remember some early fan-made concepts for the iPad had it running iPhone apps in floating windows - I think if Apple baked that functionality into the iPad OS from the beginning it would have meant a whole slew of small utility apps like the calculator, clocks and alarms, compass, etc wouldn’t need to be remade - but I’m sure they killed that idea because it wouldn’t motivate developers into making first-class iPad apps - and by “punishing” users with the terrible full-screen iPhone app mode it incentivises developers to put effort into making good native iPad apps - while at the same time making small utility apps an impossibility for iPad OS (though this doesn’t seem to have convinced Instagram...)

To be fair, they could exist now as a Today Screen widget, but then you can’t use it while you have another app open. It’s only with iOS 12+ multitasking support for slide-over and side-bar apps that a calculator app could now work - but it would still need to support full-screen mode - but we’re so close now! And given that, I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple did allow iPad apps to run only in sidebar or floating mode - but only if an app really won’t work as a full-screen app - and when/if they do, they’ll definitely launch their own calculator app.

Y’know the Apple Watch didn’t get a first-party calculator until 2019?
> STIR/SHAKEN enables phone companies to verify that the caller ID information transmitted with a call matches the caller’s phone number.

Seems to target spoofing. If they can eliminate spoofing it should make tracking down bad actors easier which should ultimately put many of them out of business.
GM is in the news because of its respirator production and the search results are dynamic. I've seen Gmail rank #2 or #3 for that search.
I loved compiz-fusion for productivity -- especially being able to draw on the screen was super useful for meetings and presentations. Being able to zoom the screen was also useful.

It's a pity it's no longer maintained.
Being carded for buying liquor. 2ndary auth for CC charge (rare now). Proof of status (veteran/senior). Voting (where required).
From my understanding, it basically means all telecoms will be required to do what T-Mobile already does in the U.S. If I get a call and the reported Caller ID doesn't match the transmitted one, it reads on my phone as "Scam Likely".

Pixels also have their own solution to this: If that condition occurs, the Google Assistant will answer the call and auto-decline if it is actually a robocall.
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Many non "diverse" hires are also given two attempts.
It might have to do with AccuWeather trying to make weather data harder to access, especially NOAA data.
Dark Sky was one of the best API's for weather data too, and now Apple does not have to follow anyone else's rules. Tim Cook's big push for environmental responsibility can also be a reason for the acquisition as well. Having access to this type of data allows them to open the door to more environmental productions/applications.
You have a source on that?

Who is this 4chan anyway?
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