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Reminds me of the Cerner/Patterson email: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/...

(Cerner is in the KC area.)
HTTP originally didn't have credentials. If your site had a WWW server installed, you just put a file in your ~/public_html/ directory, and there it was on the WWW. Like, you could literally put HTML on the web by typing two lines of text into your shell:

mkdir ~/public_html/
echo 'My Samoyed is <b>really</b> hairy.' > ~/public_html/index.html

There were no headers and thus nowhere to put credentials in an HTTP request. We trusted the network because we didn't give root to people we didn't trust.

If the people steering the dominant browser projects think that allowing everyone to author and distribute creative work is important, they'll keep supporting HTTP, and they might also direct effort to supporting dat, zeronet, ipfs, onion sites, and so on. If they don't think that's important, they probably won't do any of those things, even though, yes, the tradeoffs are a little different.

Since most of them are at Apple and Google, I think the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store probably represent the future of the web. I think that sucks but I don't know how to stop it.

As for adobe, it's pretty labor-intensive and slow as a way of doing your own house, and it doesn't work that well in very damp climates like Seattle. But there's no difficulty at all in scaling it up to 10 billion people, and indeed with compressed-earth brick presses, it might work better with modern industrial machinery than with the traditional North African craft processes that we now use all over the New World. There's plenty of suitable dirt and hay out there.
Is this new?

No. It's only new to the headline writer who apparently isn't a gardener, and wants to use the word "secret" to drive clicks.
It's funny you should mention that. A new guy (who has since left) who was super into the Let's Encrypt thing before running up against the org policy of only using a certain certificate vendor, got excited about the "problem," used NGINX, and then had to take it down for reasons I wasn't privy to. I didn't look into the reasons why.
Software engineering skills alone are definitely not enough.

There are a ton of these heaps of bills, sure, but they aren't lying around on the floor so much as on hilltops and mountains, to abuse an analogy.

It may help to think of these opportunities as a form of technology arbitrage. In order to take advantage, one or more people have to a) understand the technology, b) understand the problem domain c) understand the workflows and d) identify and communicate effectively to the people who can actually make the decisions.

How many people do you know who are both competent and interested in all of these aspects? It's not that any of these skills are particularly rare, but they are rare in the same person and there aren't natural communities, for the most part, of people who can do all aspects.

Another issue is sometimes (often, really) the technology aspect is the smallest and least interesting part of the problem.
The “better” devs work on creating the things that will provide business value in the future and that require more skill/expertise to create.
If politicians decide to make it illegal to charge rent, or to evict people who don’t pay their rent, they should be anticipating the short and long term effects, and they should be expected to compensate property owners.

In this case it’s fair to note as TFA does that the burden will be disproportionately borne by individual landlords holding low income housing. The more units someone holds the more diversified and the less likely this new government policy will wipe them out. Perhaps it is the law of unintended consequences that a policy like this will cause long-term harm to renters by centralizing the market and reducing competition.

Also worth noting that the end result of a foreclosure is not just the renter losing their home, but maybe the landlord as well.

I don’t understand your quip about renting air. I can understand somewhat being angered over turning a residential home into a short-term AirBnB. But buying a property and renting it is making housing more accessible not less, and a market of individual landlords each buying one house and renting it is extremely competitive.

If we were debating whether the government should pay landlords monthly for their vacant units we could agree that bailouts are not appropriate. But forcing someone to rent their personal property for free is not generally ethical or legal.

Real Estate taxes are an interesting debate. It’s worth mentioning that whatever the tax rate, the cost of taxes is largely borne by the renter. In fact taxes are a major component of rent cost.

Assuming you bundle no services at all (landscaping, utilities, etc.), a property generally cannot rent for less than their taxes, interest, upkeep/depreciation, and a risk adjusted return. There are a massive number of options for investors, they won’t choose to invest in a vehicle which doesn’t cover those four basic things.

There are some very narrow circumstances where an investor might depend on equity appreciation to make up for an operating loss. This is more akin to speculating than investing and is significantly more risky.
Surprisingly, this is actually true.
I think it came out on a demo disk at some point. You got to move the dino about and maybe the light source? It's been a long time!
It does get hot, and I'll admit I don't generally use it for sustained workloads, but I've never noticed the fans getting loud. This is just anecdotal but it seems like most of the heat is generated near the screen, above the keyboard, where you don't have as much contact with the machine.
No, Unity only has the C# part on GitHub, but it also has a huge proprietary C++ code base.
Is Forth Lisp? Given that you can control the reader, everything is possible syntactically, and semantics is entirely what you make it.
Healthy people have healthy levels of Vitamin D. Sick people that ingest VitD will still get sick, vitamin D is a signal of healthiness, not something you can ingest to get healthier. Lose weight, eat meat, sunbath.
The VS Code Java plugin's use the Eclipse Lanaguage Server under the covers, so probably more than people think.
That's why we like to use it everywhere: to protect the people who didn't know they needed protection.
But we're specifically talking about someone who already has a job at Gitlab here and how the CoL adjustment affects them and the weird situation it creates, so the competitiveness doesn't really matter, they've already got the job.
>Let's just say that there's no such thing as privacy anymore.

Considering how bitcoin works, was that all that likely anyhow with Bitcoin?
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This is a horrible article, it's just several people who have no studies nor credentials to backup their guesses. It has zero training as to why, it's literally an appeal to authority, but the authority here has zero credibility.
Why would living in a rent-controlled dwelling incentivize a tenant to constrain supply? If a new building goes up next door to me it's not going to make my rent go up.
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Like other metals gold has intrinsic value and can be used in actual, physical things beyond just being shiny or representing an arbitrary unit of exchange.

For example, gold is non-corrosive and a good conductor.
If they won't let you have a union then the ubi they give you won't put you on a stronger footing. Ubi could help create a minimum standard of living, that's what that tool is for, but that's separate from getting negotiating power for workers. For that, they need to negotiate together.
Sick people lack vitamin D. Most people grow sick when they get old. Sickness and autoimmune diseases exposes to Covid-19.
The cop-out snide answer is “anybody who lives outside the US and doesn’t use dollars as their main currency”.

The answer that actually addresses the central question, however, would follow the lines of “if a scrip does not have institutions that use it natively across the board to address all functions of a currency, but rather depends on gateway institutions, then it isn’t a currency”. (A ‘scrip’ is a kind of quasi-money token system such as “Disney Dollars” at Disney’s amusement parks, vouchers used in company towns, and so forth.)
Good news for BTC, although not altogether surprising given the current state of affairs. Interesting that people opt for BTC over real estate.

Overall nice study, would like to see the same conducted on a state by state basis in the US only.
Probably because SAP is a huge political force in Germany more than anything.
Absolutely. I've always been impressed with software that lets me get the magic moment first. E.g., online visual design programs that just let me try the tool in a sandbox. Or the way Github lets you examine and download software without ever signing in. I'm much more likely to give somebody something valuable (e.g., my contact details) if they've given me something valuable first.
Self signed just means you have to create and distribute a CA cert, and your platform has to support adding CA certs. AFAIK Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge, and mobile browsers on Android and iOS can do this.

You generate a CA cert using a utility like xca and then create client certs signed by it. You can use signing requests if you don't want to know the password that protects the certs (in my scenario, I was fine with that).

You then export your client certs, with your CA cert included, and coordinate with people who need access to install the cert on their browser or OS.

Your users will get prompted to trust a new CA (as they should).

Combine with a webserver that supports routing requests based on certificate status, like nginx, and it's pretty neat. You can allow access to only those who have a cert signed by your CA.

I did this for the longest time before letsencrypt was a thing, and if letsencrypt goes away, I'll go back to it.
1) How do you make money from this?

How do you make money from anything on computers? With Ads, with Paid Memberships, Paid Access to content.

2) Who would buy it? Why would anyone use it?

Isn't that kind of like asking "who would buy the internet? Why would anyone use the internet?"

Remember when Chromebooks were announced and everyone laughed because it's "just a browser?!"

Well, imagine if you were browsing, except it looked like Unreal engine when you got to 3D content. Rather than looking like crappy WebGL content.

3) Is there a point beyond "this is a cool thing", which is pretty well captured by Roblox and Second Life and VRChat

Do you think Roblox, Second Life, and VRChat look as good as Unreal Engine 5?

Would you enjoy playing content in Unreal Engine 5 without having to install an entire game first?
I often wonder how managers like this manage employees with kids. Kids are little chaotic machines. It's not uncommon for a parent to need to interfere with their kids activities for 10 minutes here and there.

So the bossman is saying they should be at their desk working on their thing and let 3 year old Johnny ride his bicycle down the stairs?
On the plus side, it's one-space vs two-space (after sentence ending) compatible.
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The single tax, LVT, and Georgism are synonymous.

> Georgism proposes to tax the value derived from land

Incorrect, it's almost completely the opposite. The Georgist proposal is rather to tax the economic rent on land, not the value derived from it. Recall the classic example of the landlord leaving his lot in downtown Manhattan undeveloped. No value is derived from the land, the upside for the owner is purely in speculation (benefitting only from improvements to neighboring land).
“So the 'less good' developers provide the business value whilst the 'better' devs get promotions and more money?“

That’s true in a lot of companies. Reliable people are kept in their positions to keep things going. Others get to do the new stuff and if that works out they look like superstars.
Unions only protect you in one job. A UBI protects you in all jobs.
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It’s a spectrum, but yes most companies do a terrible job at prioritizing the development and well being of their employees.

Ask your boss to take a week long course that will make you significantly more productive, paid for by the company. What is their answer? 9/10 employers (maybe even 99/100) would say no.

I mean, one of the top posts right this moment on HN is about how employers are recording every single keystroke of their WFH employees.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23165579

Sorry, my shoes are clean.
I expected this kind of lazy analysis to appear on Reddit but not on Hacker News.

> If you are a median person (which most likely, we all are), then your expected value will be about the same, at most a bit lower cash wise than in the US.

In my experience wage offers were significantly lower in Europe when I was potentially looking about a year ago. levels.fyi seems to be pretty in line with my pay experience in the US and that’s not anywhere close to the pay I was offered or researched in the EU.

> Europe we don't treat active shooters as a matter of normal life

People in the US certainly do not treat active shooters as a matter of normal life. Have you ever considered that it makes the new explicitly because it’s a rare thing
that people do not expect?

> the cities are made for humans not cars and employee rights are a thing.

I think you would find that most technology companies are in cities with walkability/public transit in the US. I think you would also find that software engineers are not treated poorly as well.

> And looking at the worst case, Europe wins: a medical emergency will not bankrupt you

Medical insurance at tech companies I’ve worked for in the US are very good. For example, I pay $20/mo and the theoretical maximum I would pay for insurance in any given year is $3000.

> if you call the cops they won't shoot you

Again, I think you’re treating news as proof that this is a common occurrence. It gets reported explicitly because it is not

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I’m not saying the US is perfect because it certainly isn’t. No place is perfect. But, I think that you would find that the US is a very nice place to live for the upper half of the middle class and above and software engineering would definitely put you in that category in the US.
It's not just management... it's all white collar middle class workers in America. Why aren't they inhaling dust in a coal mine or dying of a preventable disease? None of us really have any idea.
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Sure but the crucial thing might be Europe. For instance, I might tell a partner I'm going to the supermarket - not that I'm going to the Safeway Aisles 3/7/8 in the Safeway at the top of Diamond Heights in San Francisco. That's the magic of communication, knowing when to use the specific and when the general. I think they did well here.
Isn't that kind of like saying that "we can all just keep using Postscript files. There's no need for this HTTP / HTML thing. Why would I want to stay in the 'browser'? I just use FTP to fetch content, and use my favorite Postscript renderer to view content."
The responses I see to lisp seem to vary on a huge range from idolatry to dismissiveness. It's interesting that Gerald Sussman's own point of view on lisp seems to be very much more moderate - that different programming styles and philosophies suit different domains, and ultimately, you should choose the right tool for the right job. Lisp is flexible in that it does not bind you to any philosophy, and is good as a general tool insofar there isn't a specialized tool that would fit the problem better.
Also reminds me of Joris Dorman's cyclic dungeon work for the game Unexplored: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wvkTT-6P3Q
I agree, and I have to restrain myself not to use YYYY-MM-DD when signing official U.S. government forms. That said, I understand why year-first dates are cumbersome from an everyday perspective, especially in contexts where only day/month is needed.
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I'd view it as more tautological than that. "If you don't understand security then you don't understand security" isn't really controversial.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: by Douglas Hofstadter.

Surely expanded my brain. But then again I was 16 and stuck on a train for 3 days and it was my only entertainment.
Only if the probability of failure makes the extra effort worth it. Since this is a pretty rare event, a sensible person could well wait until they see actual impact before putting in the work. Hypothetical problems always vastly outnumber actually experienced ones.
No I haven't. Is it good?
> If you are a heart surgeon or Lebron James you can understand why you are making so much money — you have exceptional skill at something in high demand.

No need to reach for an analogy here, you could just say “if you are an engineer.”

In my experience what you’re saying is rarely true at the top tech companies, the managers there generally either come from a tech background themselves or they show an unexpectedly strong understanding of technical aspects of the product anyway, and typically have strong organizational and people skills that clearly stand on their own as rare and valuable.

What you’re saying is almost always the case at small- to mid-size tech companies (which is most of them), and I think it’s because they’re perpetually unable to attract and retain top tech talent... so anybody that can code is de facto placed and kept in a role where they’re coding, and ideally only coding.

A side effect of that is the pool of candidates for promotions and managerial positions is reduced to “only people who can’t code.”

It creates this bizarre situation where the company is looking to its least talented people and least impressive outside candidates to fill the management positions, and actively trying not to promote or give any credit to its most impressive and productive people (because then they might realize their value and demand something the company can’t give them).

These are also the companies most likely to be running against deadlines and having people work evenings and weekends, because again, they can’t attract or retain enough talent to comfortably hit those deadlines. They’re always able to create those deadlines though, because as it turns out, it’s a lot easier to sell software than it is to make software.

Then at 5pm on Friday when all the engineers are looking forward to another 4 hours of coding, all the managers get to throw up their hands and go “I’m useless anyway, I guess I get to go home now!”

And they might as well.

(If you’re an engineer and this sounds familiar to you, go apply to 50 tech companies right now because you’re way more valuable than you realize)
I want it to be a conspiracy. No one is intended to see the inside of the box and thus the website unless the box is compromised. So when an unauthorized person sees it and goes to that website, they see it as a spammy forgotten domain, but it's actually trying to install surveillance software to see who you are and later why you've been poking around in a box they never intended you to poke around in. (This of course includes the fact that they never intended on an internet rando finding unsecured boxes and sharing it with the world on the internet.)
I never thought I'd see a Lisp without lists. Oh wait, I didn't because this isn't a Lisp.

I know naming is hard, but this is getting out of hand. Don't say you're a Lisp when you're clearly not. Say Lisp-inspired. Don't use the term 'modern Lisp', 9/10 it's signaling the wrong thing.
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> the point made was that you don't want to ingest anything other than what which is provided by the expected and hopefully trusted author

What you actually said went quite a bit further than that. You outlined a scenario that involved arbitrary code execution.

> Yours was a facetious point to make.

"Facile", maybe? Even with that correction, the point was not facile—after all, it forced to you walk back from the original picture you painted of an RCE to a place where someone may get told there's going to be a mid-summer blizzard.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey
How do you know you got that specific test? It looks like it's their second IgG antibody test and their fourth overall[1]. It also looks like the architect moniker just seems to be their testing platform? I assume their previous IgG antibody test was built on it.

I don't know much about this space, would just like to get the test done and would prefer one with high specificity and low false positive rate.

[1] https://www.medtechdive.com/news/latest-abbott-coronavirus-a...
Practical tools often achieve that practicality by avoiding dogma.
We could soon be growing steaks and pork loins in a lab
Yes, I distinctly remember rotating this model around on an original PS1 many (many) years ago.
My general experience, at least in start-ups, has been the exact opposite. In a good company with great culture and good compensation, strong talent was usually in for the long haul, and those who don't find their place leave after a year or so.

In bad companies that's not true of course, so perhaps this can be a good measure of company quality - if their top talent are indeed good and are there for a long period of time, it's a very positive signal.

One example I can think of is Redis Labs - the core group of engineers have been with the company for almost a decade, and these guys are some of the nicest, most humble and most talented engineers I've ever met (And of course there's antirez who's in a league of his own).
Why don't you just shut the laptop off unless you are actively working, ie 8-5?
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I made an 8x8 font that was inspired by Broadway [1] and it ended up in most of the company's video gaming machines back in the 80's.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_(typeface)
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This is the type of stuff Bitcoin followers have been waiting to see for years. It took a global pandemic to arrive, but finally, the time has come.
There is a popular strategy known as 'BRRRR' where the investor uses capital from a refinance to buy another unit, and so on. It's a fast way to pick up and rehab lots of units.

In my opinion if you were to do this, you should sell a few properties here or there to have 6-12 months of cash reserves on each property.
Anatomy of an Internet Shutdown
I only use Windows to play games. Can’t imagine how bad this could be for small businesses that rely on it.
The links and discussion or the cameras?
Why Old Operating Systems Never Go Away (2017)
April 14th update? Seems like old news.
This is kind of my point, I can do something a computer cannot do because I am conscious. I'm skeptical that a computer could transcend its programming into consciousness to solve a problem that mathematically it should not be able to solve.
Isn't the whole point of Lisp to make everything a library problem?
See jedberg. We have systematically destroyed the concept of growing with a company for it's duration in the US. Without the concept of mutual company-employee loyalty then something needs to protect inter-company transition/bargaining power.
Haha, it typically takes 6 months to get up to speed at a company as everyone has their own set of unique tools and infrastructure. Also at that cadence you are not vesting any stock(1 year cliff?) so that seems very strange. Having worked with high-vis engineers in the past, alot of them seem to be vanity hires, they really don't impact much change and probably stoke the egos of the upper managers/execs much like (prof. slughorn from harry potter), collecting "geniuses".
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Interesting. Is FutureLearn something analogous to Coursera and edX?