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I understand your sentiment but it also feels like it comes from a position of sheltered privilege. As an extreme example, I'm reminded of most of Europe's general detachment during the rise of Nazism.
Are they? The i5-10600K sells for $262. Its closest competitor is ryzen 3600/3600x, which currently sell for $172/$200 respectively. For $62 (33%) more, is it really 33% faster than AMD? There are lower tier skus (eg. i5-10500) that match AMD's pricepoint, but I doubt they match 3600/3600x's performance. At the high end, the i9-10900K ($488) is competing against the ryzen 3900x, which currently sells for $400 and has 20% more cores.
I'm not sure about home dir but a thing I've needed is a standard place to store app stuff. On Windows it's a mess. There's AppData/Local, AppData/LocalLow, AppData/Remote and many apps store a ton of stuff in their app folder in c:\programs etc... On Mac I guess it's Library/Application Data but there's a bunch of other folders under Library. On Linux I read somewhere it's .config but there was no .config on my Linux installs and it seems strange to me that apps should be required to make this folder vs the OS and that the OS doesn't tell me where it is it's just convention. But in any case, I think I wish some standard library handled this.
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> these are only low-level chumps

The operation sounds like it would have been unsuccessful without their help. Given they were arrested boarding a commercial flight in Boston, it seems they felt above reproach.

This arrest makes it less likely (though not impossible) such expertise will be able to be procured for such purposes in the future.
I would imagine that most people don't know what NASA stands for. At this point it's just a word.
They obviously didn't? They were trying to fly from Boston to Beirut, Lebanon, where they would have been safe.
Because then it wouldn't be "cool".

So many of the projects I see mentioned here are neat hacks, but that's really about it.

People writing a complete operating system for an 8 bit micro made of discrete chips? That's neat, but not really useful, and most people won't ever take the time to boot it once.

An FPGA that runs web assembly code? That's nifty, but if we want high performance we probably won't use web assembly to do it.

You invented a completely new language that has all the features of C but none of the things that are annoying? We'll add it to the list of C-like-but-not-annoying languages.

Found a great new way to estimate how much capital you should try to get when creating a start-up to sell your all-natural soap products in California? That's great for you... a little bit niche for the rest of us.

You re-implemented emacs in python? That's a really impressive technical achievement. No one will ever surpass you in either emacs implementation or python hacks. Also, no one will ever use it.

Same thing with Hackaday... lots and lots of "cool" projects where neither the creator nor the site mods seem to realize something is just a nifty project, and not the salvation of the world.
I don't think they are saying it was, unless I'm misreading. They're talking about standard ECS deploys. Yo add my anecdata, I do lots of ECS deploys via terraform into production and it works pretty seamlessly.
Sure, they just don't want my currency.
One apparently minor change in Kotlin coming from Java is that classes are final by default, and can be made inheritable from by qualifying them with `open`, instead of being open by default and requiring

This seems small, but is a major shift in mentality: Classes shouldn't be inherited from unless they were designed to be inheritable from, and this usually comes with non-trivial invariants you need to document and respect (one aspect of this being the LSP). Therefore, inheritability should be opt-in rather than opt-out.
> I recently got bitten by trying to do exactly this, concat strings with sum, and spent a while trying to find out if I was being stupid (

Perhaps not stupid, but ignorant, and not just of the special casing in sum which exist because of a footgun.

sum is basically a readability alternative for functools.reduce for adding numbers, and it's special cased for strings because though it would superficially work for strings otherwise, the performance of repeated string concatenations is pathological in python (as in many garbage-collected languages where it forces many allocations), so a special cases was added which points people to the method to produce exactly the same result without the pathological performance issue.

If you are doing something more complex than numbers with heterogenous data that includes strings in a reduction by the addition operator so that the join you'd use with homogeneous collections of strings isn't what you want (I'm not sure that hypothetical is ever going to happen), use functools.reduce, which for readability you probably should be using in preference to sum() if you aren't doing a mathematical sum anyway.
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Sure but such servers would always implement authentication when deployed to the web but a lot of such services could run locally unauthenticated to serve local apps. For example services to power electron apps. This tells me data from such services can be stolen very easily.
It is interesting to me that people who definitely want to have children think somehow they are being less selfish than those of us who don't. We're both doing what we want to do to bring and sustain joy in our lives.

Are these individuals the people that actually didn't want to have children but did so out of selfless commitment to their spouses or desire of their parents to become grandparents? I don't typically get that sense.

Relatedly: I feel very, very pessimistic about how our society is changing, and even worse about the environment. This is a large part of my reluctance to have children. Is that selfish too?
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So end users should read all the source code of every piece of software they intend to use before using it instead of using a proven jailing method?
Reminds me of stuff like "Advanced Windows 95 Programming" by Jeffrey Richter
Accepting that we know still very little about this pandemic and how it will play out is the only perspective that is not delusional.
Which cited study are you disagreeing with?

"In this study, researchers examined the blood oxygen levels in 53 surgeons using an oximeter. They measured blood oxygenation before surgery as well as at the end of surgeries.4 The researchers found that the mask reduced the blood oxygen levels (pa02) significantly. The longer the duration of wearing the mask, the greater the fall in blood oxygen levels." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18500410/
This helps, but can't you also do this sort of scanning without websockets?
> They were trying to fly from Boston

Which means they were, months after the incident, in Boston. That strikes me as remarkably stupid, or hubristic, or both.
Do you have experience with this? How high did you rise?
So what are you saying? Developers should just choose a major distro and target that, then get all the flack for issues their product has on every distro that isn't supported? Because that's basically what's already happening and developers hate it, which is why they often don't ship on Linux at all.

And many proprietary pieces of software license components from other proprietary pieces of software, so that even if they did want to open their code they'd have to strip pieces out of it anyway which doesn't really help the cause of distros integrating it. And even if it did, then the developers are reliant on the maintainers for their relationship to their customers. Have an issue with the product? Oh, it turns out that's because of this patch made by the maintainer of the package for that distro, who now has to be contacted and convinced to fix it, which they may decide not to for arbitrary reasons. Even open source developers have problems with this!
I don't think there's anything wrong with any of those things with a sane permissions system attached (strict opt in per site).

The web is now a no-install app delivery platform, it makes sense for these things to exist.
And then reappeared as Swine flu in 2009.
But that's a very different use case than having a website you visit portscan your computer (which I believe is what the user above you is referring to.

There's really no legitimate reason for eBay, or any other website, to portscan your computer. There's nothing there needed for browsing their website.
SARS had several canditate vaccines in human trials. These were all shelved once it was erradicated.

MERS vaccine development is ongoing, with promising canditates in human trials.
I never got to program for classic Mac OS, but I wonder what a similar program would look like, considering they didn't have memory protection or anything.
+1 for singings your way out of a bad trip. To paraphrase McKenna, If you find yourself in hell start singing. It will take you all the way to heaven.
I hoped so, but Google trends for things like "pregnancy test" should show an uptick then, and they do not. (Ignore the uptick in early april that happens every year because of april fools)
Given the ages and health conditions of the dead, what is the chance that a vaccine will do any good to them? Remember that the flu vaccine is of very dubious effectiveness on those aged 65+.

Of course, vaccinating the whole population might render those groups less likely to be infected (because of herd immunity) but still, it will involve vaccinating populations which have little risk from the disease with a vaccine that has been fast-tracked through the approval process.

This situation is a disaster.
I heard a rumor that Liskov learned of this principle from one of her students and then presented it as her own.
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Fighting with a compiler is a different feeling to be sure.

I'm primarily a C# dev, which normally has a pretty happy compiler.

But I've started playing with Websharper (Translates C#/F# code to JS.) One nice thing about the library is that once you understand the basics of composition, your JS -will- work as long as the compiler doesn't barf on what you did.

But, it has the drawback of seeing more errors from the compiler itself. While at first it was frustrating, I realized that the time I spent dealing with the compiler errors was still less time than I would have spent troubleshooting my own handwritten JS.
Sounds very similar to the "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" theory of why non-millionaires let millionaires do pretty much whatever, except in this case it would be "temporarily embarrassed party in power".
Not being able to execute in the current shell has been a bit of a pain...

Want to write a environment variable that lasts the lifetime of the current shell session? No way to do it.
IRC servers don't run in a browser. Instead they scan ports from the outside, which is not a problem. Anything they find is open to the entire internet anyway.
Arbitrary polygons are, after all, not that easy to click in general.
There have been some calls to break up the status quo over the years; such as with campaign finance reform, same day primaries, term limits, etc.

Not everyone is totally drunk on power since Romney crossed over to convict and Democrats have critized Obama.
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I mean I'd love to build a new computer, but there's just no point. The only genuinely difficult thing I want my CPU to do is game console emulation, and for that single-thread performance is king and I can't justify the expense for a 1/3 performance increase regardless of how long it's been.
It will be interesting to follow if they have enough money to fight the extradition in court. The international press loves to make Japanese criminal courts sound like a 12th century madhouse at every opportunity.
> I would hope that you understand that depending on the circumstances, that joy and help may _not_ outweigh the responsibility and hardships.

It's not really my problem, as I am an anatalist. :-) But I do find the prospect of dying childless somewhat scary. (I have only one brother who is not going to have children either.) If it wasn't for the global warming (and general ecological destruction), I would very much want to have kids.
Most people who contract the virus are asymptomatic, and they spread the virus without even realizing that they have it. It seems quite obvious that if we encourage everyone to wear masks (including the asymptomatic carriers), we can greatly reduce the number of transmissions. We know the virus transmits through airborne droplets, and science is pretty clear that masks reduce the spread of those droplets.
It's really rich having the CDC make that accusation when only 10% of its budget is spent on infectious diseases and a sizable portion of the other 90% is spent on more politicized "diseases".

Not saying the White House is not wrong here (they certainly are), but the CDC should also get its own house in order and return to 100% focus on infectious diseases, which was its original mission statement before rampant political scope creep.
yes, and they they are acquired by microsoft (or other giant) or microsoft simply makes a clone, just like what's happening here, or with teams, or todos or any other recent MS app.
MSFT is just too big.
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The reasons people _give_ for/against having kids are just stories they tell themselves. We want to seem rational and we feel the need to have a rational reason for our choices.

"Economy is bad right now" and everything like this: historically the conditions to have children have been a lot worse. History meaning more than 50 years.

Above is only one example of how you can open your choice to being countered when this decision is just a personal thing that should not be up for debate imho.

I explained poorly, the intention was just to help mostly young people have a more solid stand especially against peer/family pressure.
"If the market doesn't value it, it has no value"

This is a sick way of thinking about the world.

A parent doesn't get paid for the work they do raising their child. Better flip burgers.

The lady who wants to teach under privileged youth art. Has no market value, better to flip burgers.

The next JK Rowling wants to write, but her writing produces no immediate market value. Best to just flip burgers.

The man who wants to help the homeless. Darn, next to no market value, better flip burgers.

I'm sick of forcing everyone to live as a slave to the market. The market is not perfect. The market does not solve every human problem. The market cannot accomplish everything we want to do as a species. The market is a tool, let's treat it as one and stop worshiping it.
Why cant you add a million happy people instead? or both? I understand this is a philosophical thought experiment, but of course if you keep diluting substance X with more and more of substance Y, you'll eventually get mostly substance Y...right? Is it impossible for a society to add 1 happy person for every unhappy person?
NSO is also offering software to governments to do contact tracing.

Product is called "Fleming" — though appear they took down the page for it.
I read everything I could about what the project aims to accomplish, and none of it sounds like the things I find frustrating. Making it "more like a Mac" will not solve a single one of my issues. Palm touch ranked super low and pointer precision wasn't even mentioned. So, no.
What examples do you have in mind?
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I downloaded Brave for the first time today after reading this.
You know what future events I'm taking into consideration? Devastating climate change and what seems to be the decline of society more generally. I have real concerns about choosing to bring a child into a world that I feel so pessimistic about. That strikes me as thoughtful, not selfish. Though I have many selfish reasons for wanting to not have children, just as everyone who wants children has just as many selfish reasons themselves. I view neither of those things as "bad".

Moreover, if I'm going to start considering the impact I have on future generations and people by procreating, where does it stop? Should we have 10 children? Does my duty stop at two when we're replacing ourselves?

And given my level of commitment to local and national causes (financial and volunteer hours), does that offset ostensible selfishness of not having children? I'm passionate about helping this world despite having concerns about bringing anyone new into it.
>Unless the system is highly unmeritocratic this does not happen.

This may be the most Hacker News sentence ever written.
How does mutating eradicate the non-mutated individuals?
Stack Sets are a killer feature, and so much easier than trying to do the same thing in Terraform.

CloudFormation Drift Detection is very limited currently: it only supports a small subset of resources that you can create with CloudFormation. If your needs are covered by it, great, but it doesn't take much to go beyond its bounds. Also, it detects drift, but won't correct it.

Terraform both detects and corrects drift on almost every resource, on every application. Sometimes there are limitations. This does result in extra work, as you can't just ignore drift without capturing that in code (via ignore_changes), but to me this is absolutely a desirable thing.

We use CloudFormation to actually create the state resources to store Terraform state.

Terraform can share outputs between different states using the terraform_remote_state data source, though there isn't any restriction on what can be done there (no requirement to update other stacks/states).

Despite being an AWS-only shop, we've found the multi-provider support in Terraform to be really useful. For example, as part of our environment configuration, we store resources in Consul, create Pingdom checks, etc all from the same set of Terraform code.
In case you can manage to keep the same savings-rate, living in an expensive place, you can move to an inexpensive place for retirement and retire earlier. The absolute values count. It is not only about cost of living/salary.
I only mentioned the third party to show it can be done with the project that is behind. I do agree with you on the reluctance to depend on third parties for things like that.

Weboob relies entirely on web scraping: like I said, it's a form of browsing the site, just not with the usual browser. I do agree that services should provide APIs, but webood is targeted at websites won't/don't want to do it.
Why not direct your rebellious contrarian energy somewhere it might actually count, rather than raging against common sense?
> The recovery project has been vociferously opposed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, whose representatives argued in court that the Titanic, sunk about 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, should be respected as a grave rather than mined as a museum supply.

Frankly I agree. This isn't a scientific mission, or any sort of fact-finding mission; it's just looting. The plan to make a "wonderful exhibit" sounds like a cynical business ploy to get the public into museums with sensational exhibitions. Perhaps getting the public into museums is not such a bad thing, but is it such a good thing that it justifies this sort of looting? I don't really see how.

Edit: I should say that I'm not categorically opposed to retrieving items from shipwrecks, if it's being done respectfully. But this plan with the Titanic doesn't seem very respectful to me. An example of what I'd consider reasonably respectful was the retrieval of the bell from the SS Edmund Fitzgerald:

> The ship's bell was recovered from the wreck on July 4, 1995. A replica engraved with the names of the 29 sailors who lost their lives replaced the original on the wreck.[190] A legal document signed by 46 relatives of the deceased, officials of the Mariners' Church of Detroit and the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historic Society (GLSHS) "donated the custodian and conservatorship" of the bell to the GLSHS "to be incorporated in a permanent memorial at Whitefish Point, Michigan, to honor the memory of the 29 men of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald."[191] The terms of the legal agreement made the GLSHS responsible for maintaining the bell, and forbade it from selling or moving the bell or using it for commercial purposes. It provided for transferring the bell to the Mariners' Church of Detroit if the terms were violated.[191]

Even this though caused some controversy.
Hey that's a very interesting response, thanks for taking the time to write that! Sorry I'm late :)
Interesting, port scanning is illegal in some countries as it's classified as security testing, it can be only performed with permission.

How would you feel is someone was walking on busy car parking and checking if doors of the cars are open? It' what port scanning is, checking if the car has open door.
Good work!

I use both the iPad and iPhone so ideally I’m looking for a native client that caters to both these platforms and that would allow me to log in with my account to comment. There’s many Hacker News clients out there but few that meet these two requirements.

I’m currently using MiniHack... not an ideal solution but one that covers both my primary needs.

Keep up the good work!
Downloading Brave Browser right now...
Yeah, screw load leveling at my house. I want to see a bunch of Teslas doing buddy refueling (like this: https://world-defense.com/threads/buddy-to-buddy-refueling.4...) and breaking every transcontinental driving record.
The person in question ran the National Reconnaissance Office before NASA human space flight, so he is defiantly not “green”.
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> I can easily imagine that the resources being spent on DoH are many orders of magnitude more than was spent on actually fixing or updating the DNS protocol.

You're absolutely right. It's obvious that a better way forward is to fix and update DNS.

Is it possible that you are so right that everyone concerned agrees with you, and has for years? There have been efforts to improve, fix, and upgrade DNS for decades now. They've consistently run afoul of intractable political problems in getting improvements into actual use. Long story short, there's a vast number of parties involved, most of whom have no reason to want to upgrade.

You're right. This is sad. It's also the way forward that people have been able to find after literal decades of trying to improve DNS.
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I'm not against the idea of DoH but I do want to exert control about how it is being used.

So if you want to use DoH within your network and have Pi-hole, I'd probably put a DoH endpoint on the same server as the Pi-hole and configure my browser to point to that instead.

It'd look something like

Laptop/desktop --(DoH)--> DoH server --> Pi-hole --> Upstream DNS --(DoH?)--> Public DNS

Not ideal but until someone creates a system that acts as DoH server, adblocker, upstream DoH resolver, this is probably the best that one can do for now.