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It is really hard to read through all that marketing nonsense. Not sure if I should cry or burst out in tears from laughing.

In any case I can't stand all that false statements. Let's take this one for example:

> Subscription demands constant improvement of our product and enables us to make $Product better for you — faster.

In fact, the opposite is the case! Just look at Adobe. Or maybe CAD/BIM products, like Revit from Autodesk. The only thing that was new in this years version was slanted walls (!). Something competitors have for ~20 years already.

So for me subscription basically is equivalent with the opposite. As soon companies decided to switch from the possibility to let me buy their software, as in "I own this thing and I can use it indefinitely." to "rent" their software, progress came to a grinding halt most times.

The reason why this doesn't work like in the PR statement above is the way things work in real life.
First you lock them customers in: all their files are now in your proprietary format. The presumption from above is, that you won't renew you subscription when you don't like the new yearly version – but then you can no longer access your files you need, since you do business! So cancelling of subscriptions basically never happens, turning your company into a gold mine.

Yearly realases are bad btw and nobody likes them. Except shareholdes maybe.
Not remotely. eBay goes to great lengths to emphasize tiny listing fees and hide their enormous final value / transaction fees.

Source: I've since sold tens of thousands of dollars of goods on ebay, but I still remember my first time.
Confused by the last sentence :) Isn't a phone number local somewhere? I had an out of state number for years. Just got cold calls from the other state.
fuckin linux is free where the entire business lives serving trillions of dollars. $10/mo for a web browser? guess its time for another FOSS on browsers this time.
I sell 10-20 things a week. 95% are great and hassle free. The other 5% are eventually fine as well although it takes a bit of work. Run it like a store. Back your stuff, accept it if people want to return.

It's about getting rid of junk, not about making money. You'll come out ahead, not by a lot, but ahead.

Some tips:

Amazon boxes are lighter than "normal" cardboard boxes.

Buy padded envelopes in bulk.

Obo is usually a waste of time. "It's marked as "let buyers make offers" --- you get mostly lowballing hacks looking for over 50% off the market rate

Given that, counter-intuitively, pricing things too cheap can scare people away. Raising prices can sometimes lead to faster sales

"Buy it now" usually has better customers than auctions. I can't explain the psychology but I've sold a couple hundred of each, it's clear.

Don't worry about the limits if you're putting on high quality stuff, they are to prevent someone from posting for example, 10,000 nearly identical phone case variations and flooding the site with crap. You'll get constant "promotions" if you push enough volume

Sometimes your pictures work better, sometimes the white background professional ones you just lift from Google images does. I can't explain this one yet but some things sit idle for weeks and then I switch out the image (going either way) and they sell out in a few hours. It's weird.

Usps is pretty lenient within a margin of error. If you accidentally send, say, a $7.87 package as a Regional Box A that costs $7.49, they seem to not care. A 12.1 oz package sent as a 12oz? They also don't care. I've caught a few mistakes I made and waited and watched the package, everything went smoothly. Also, FedEx can be cheaper for larger items, don't forget to check that tab. They're open pretty late and it's pretty easy

For calculations roughly take .87 * sale - shipping cost - $.50 for packaging.

You may find out you only make $5 from that PCI ATA controller you had in that box but now it's finally gone, going to a good home, and hey, look at that, you just got $5.

Is it a waste of time? Well that's entirely up to you to decide. I looked at it as a hobby like gardening or crafts. As far as hobbies go, profitable ones are rare. Also I really have too much stuff.

Also, if you ever wanted to try marketing and sales, the business side of tech, this is a nice soft introduction, a very low cost, low risk way to gain an intuition on pricing, place, product, pitch, etc.

Ebay: A++++ highly recommended, would sell again.
Nope. For example, any issue of the New Yorker is replete with uses of diaresis (see eg https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...), and the OED does list fiancé; née and naïve are also pretty common; I was taught to spell words that had ligatures (eg hæmatology, œsophagus) at school...though I'm ancient. Wikipedia has more examples of this kind of orthography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_terms_with_diacritical... ... (yes I know this is 'just' wikipedia, but it links to more references on the topic)
Same here. I’ve had no problems using my Apple USB-C charging hardware with my headphones.
>My understanding is that YouTube uses at least some High Profile

Oh yes. I just double checked. I stand corrected. I was under the impression they only use high profile with MutiView Videos.
The average developer spends most of her time reading other peoples code, so avoiding having to understand == is a luxury most will not have.
This is similar to when Pinterest did this back in 2012 and very quickly made large amounts of money but were crushed by public opinion and quickly shut the practice down. It’ll be interesting to see how Brave responds.

1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...
Webstorm typescript feel better for me
You're joking, right? On tech topics, every third comment is somebody pointing to their company. Sometimes they mention it and sometimes not but it's still advertisement.
Not even talking about people spamming their site.
This is absolutely amazing, I had no idea this would come so soon. I wonder how much the vp% series of codecs played a part, or netflix/amazon/youtube controlling both ends of the channel?

The next device to get converted to the web is the smart tv, there is no reason it literally has be anything different then a webpage, same goes for Roku.
Well, many footages show police using excessive force on peaceful protestors: rubber bullets, pepper sprays, shoving people to ground. As you said, I have a feeling that these officers know exactly what they're doing.
There is https://txti.es/ .
Additionally, GitHub Gists will render markdown.
Zoom Alternatives
Good luck figuring out who follows the rules.
By the mid 2000s, they just started adding more cores. Machines kept getting more memory, albeit slower. SSDs have been a game changer, and they really only got big in the last 10 years.

We never went past 64 bits because it's enough bits to address memory for the foreseeable future, and applications needing more are rare. It's mostly cryptography.
How is the android scene for Chromium based browsers that either have extension support or adblockers?

I am aware only of Yandex & Kiwi as Chromium browsers that support extensions that allow you to install an adblocker. So perhaps Brave is trying to integrate itself there somehow by having it built in.

Anybody know a better breakdown than this for mobile browser market share? https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/world... It says Chromium is 61% and Yandex is 0.1% but it would be nice to see if Brave was included or not.
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Thunderbolt cables are super thick. And short too.

With my laptop I had a USB-C dock and then upgraded to a TB dock to get 4k video out. The USB-C cable was decently thick and about 1.5 meters. The TB cable was about 0.5 meters long and super thick. Apparently the length is based on physical constraints with transmitting data at very high rates. And obviously the more individual wires you have in the cable, the thicker it is. And you need extra layers of shielding etc.
I agree you with on this .. its not about making money at all and would accept a return within reason. It seems that eventually I'd have to, and I wonder what the laptop would look like when its back
> I've heard the "additional hashing weakens the credentials" line since I started programming, but no one ever bothers to link a citation

The main issue is that security analysis is non-trivial due to the interaction of their security guarantees. The end-result is effectively a new hashing algorithm. Figuring out the properties of this new algorithm requires a new cryptoanalysis (which is more than just avalanche tests).

> It also flies in the face of common in-practice schemes (pre-bcrypt) like doing n rounds of sha256. There should be no real problem with doing the first round on the client.

Old practices are deprecated for good reason, primarily due to flaws. Looking at what we used to do it not that useful.

The main problem is that it's not just "n rounds". The hash on the client must be salted, and it must be salted uniquely for that credential set, and must use a different salt from the backend hash. Plenty of ways to mess this up, and that's before we're even consider the implementation details of salting.

Then comes the interactions between likely different hashes. All in all, it's pretty complicated.

> I agree with you on the general pointlessness of client hashing, though, and oh what a world if we had pub-priv keys for authentication instead of passwords...

Especially with the only sensible procedure being password managers, it's silly we don't have asymmetric authentication. :(
Google Docs isn't a great example. In WordPerfect's case, WordPerfect was the product and there was an incentive to make it great.

Google Docs isn't the product. It's free. You're the product. And it only needs to be good enough to keep competitors from creating something so great that it removes their first-mover advantage. It's clear that Google has given up developing new features for it.
I support businesses that don't support bigotry toward me- their lead dev @jonathansampson is a vocal supporter of Trump. Nah I’m good.
The first I heard of snaps was while I was upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04 (I only do LTS for work servers).
What drove _me_ away personally, was I had no idea what snap is and it was all over the place all of a sudden. After studying up I was like “no I don’t want that, I want to have full control over my system”.

I switched to Fedora Server. The packages are much fresher, the kernel is fresher. It is a “staging” area for Red Hat, which for me is a plus.

Goodbye Ubuntu. I’ve been using you as my primary Linux distro since version 6.06!
Oh, let me count the ways... or let me just refer you to waterfox's website: https://www.waterfox.net/
I used to do sales for an enterprise "open source" software product, so I get it, but the truth is as soon as someone stops paying people to keep the project going it will die.
With Chrome taking the lion's share of the browser user market, you end up with a lot of sites that work well in Chrome but not so well with other browsers.

So even if you use Firefox as your main driver, you'll still want to have a Chromium-based browser as a backup.

Now the problem for Android users is that, in light of this news, there's now one less (seemingly) viable option if you're using Google Play services.

If you're using F-droid, however, you have Bromite and ungoogled-Chromium as prime candidates.
Two possibilities:

(1) CEO tells CTO to do something nefarious. CTO does what he's told. CEO gets caught out. Publicly, CEO spins it as an innocent mistake.

(2) CEO tells CTO to do something more innocent. CTO decides to do something more nefarious instead (maybe entirely intentionally, maybe simply by misunderstanding the ask.) Either way, the doing something more nefarious wasn't intentional by the CEO.

Which of the above two possibilities is true? I don't know. But I don't think you know either.
No, they're just maintaining two separate interfaces for everything.
I try it regularly but it just doesn't work for me. Here are just a few of the reasons why:

1. Chromium based browsers give me control over extensions that require access to everything. https://imgur.com/a/ENZkQyc

2. Firefox doesn't support media keys.

Edit: Turns out it does if you enable them in about:config. See bad_user's comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442732

3. There are still some areas in which Firefox's performance isn't competitive. Try using it with something like Rainway and it will completely fall over.

#3 isn't that big of a deal to me. #2 I could probably adapt to. #1 makes Firefox a non starter for me.
> Brave have said from the beginning that this is how their business model works.

This sounded like a pretty surprising claim. I looked at the terms of use (https://brave.com/terms-of-use/) and the privacy policy for the browser (https://brave.com/privacy/) and I wasn't able to find any reference to the notion of automatically inserting affiliate or referral links. Do you have a more specific source on this? I'm really curious about when and how this has been communicated. I'm not trying to accuse you of anything, I just want to make sure I'm understanding the situation correctly.
True dat.

Personalization is super important (in any software), it's a shame that in general, it's not being the focus of most of them.
The fact that you can check their mod log makes me like them even more.

I have a feeling HN would never publicize that information themselves.
The 5G scare is to some extent part of an exploitative, manipulative health-concern industry. However, people are generally right to be afraid of the potential health effects of new technologies and substances that are released into their environments.

It is extremely unethical and dangerous in my opinion to attempt to shame and censor people or pathologize their "paranoia". In most cases, despite being cynically exploited, what we're talking about is a healthy and sensible self-protective instinct. I feel safer in my society when people are free to discuss these fears without shame

When talking to a skeptic, if you are certain that a particular fear is illegitimate, be specific as to why and don't use shame to seek compliance. In many cases you'll probably find that you yourself lack the ability to clearly explain why you think their skepticism is unfounded. We all know from countless examples, even in recent history, that there are many people and organizations willing to physically harm the public's health in various ways for profit.

What I wish we would all be concerned with is not the health effects, but instead the potential for dramatically increased surveillance and control that comes with access to so much more bandwidth. Carelessly normalizing and naturalizing progress for progress's sake undermines the credibility of science and technology as tools for the greater good. More and more people are turning against us.

Second, it's also my opinion we should be concerned that certain crucial decisions about our urban environments are exempt from even the pretense of local democratic control. I for one do not want to live in a city where critical infrastructure is governed by a large top-down international private corporate consensus, but it seems that's where we are headed.
'tis a good book.

Appel's compiler implementation in x (if you choose anything other than ML you don't deserve to live) is a good follow on
In truth, the real reason for the disparity in perception is... supernatural in origin.

You see... it's the Curse of Chappaquidick. The sound isn't just the breeze passing through turbines. It's the wailing of the immortal soul of Mary Jo Kopechne, her soul mercifully freed from the watery depths but bound to the wind.

Her soul, unable to find rest so long as the negligent and wealthy haunt her resting place, now eternally floats upon the wind... from Chappaquidick into the Vineyard Sound... across Penzance Point... into the Bay, and back out to sea.

But her spirit is not unkind or unfair. She has no discontent for teachers, scientists, artists, or sailors. They cannot hear her. They say... that only the truly wealthy can hear her cries.
> "It's clear that you ... aren't the best person to know about the issues"

That was directed at me specifically. Why are you answering for them?

> "discounting a person who hasn't felt the effects of racism"

That's the claim. How do they know someone hasn't felt the effects? Based on their race? So they're using nothing but race to define and determine who is what - which is quite literally racist.
If you have a hostile charger all bets are off the table, but the cheap USB-C chargers just do 5v/3A (or less current) and the USB-PD chargers all use one of a few controller chips.
That's unexpected but cool!
> The important thing to consider, in my mind, is whether your attention should be focused on a relatively small amount of property damage and looting, or the many, many examples of physical violence against people committed by police. Property damage is almost always a distraction, and is often intentionally used as one.

That's the very point people are speculating about.
Yeah, that’s the thing with trust: you shouldn’t.
What can we do, as a community, to limit the spread of fascism? It seems that it's quite a problem.
It's still very common in the embedded and IoT space. One such challenge is low-power/low-overhead encryption.
What Is Section 230 and Why Did President Trump Attack It?
Collecting sh*tcoins is a reason for a lot of the crypto people.
Also many many people put brave download ref links all other their web-presents to generate revenue. Even people who do not use it and openly admit that, still gladly collect the bucks form other downloading it. The whole ref thing is the classic ponzi and it always works for a while because people do whatever you want if the work/reward ratio is good.
A quick check shows 360p = Baseline, 720p = Main, 1080p = High.
sometimes I wonder if the cosplaytriot types are even aware that they're Googlebombing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_(funk_dance) has the semantics I had expected for the syntax.

It even made it across the Iron Curtain: https://youtu.be/QSc3uk8Q5w4?t=4881

(1986, so a bit later than 1984's Electric Boogaloo, and a bit earlier than the 1989 end of the wall)
Ironically there’s only one browser with a sane business model and it’s Safari. You have to buy an Apple product to use it. Simple.

That’s probably why it’s the only mainstream browser, outside of obscure open source browsers like Falkon and Gnome Web, that doesn’t have any built-in ties to third party services.
No luck with Google Scholar? I'd search that and Library Genesis' scientific papers search with (various combinations of my) keywords.

https://libgen.is/

Then I'd look at the home pages/other papers of the authors of the best papers, also their co-authors.
Radio Recording
Quick record are offering their services totally free. They offer full radio recording of any radio station. Similar to dar and usaveit but more flexible and now free. Http://www.quickrecord.uk
There were only ever 4 sockets. Rectangular USB-A for host devices and the weird modified square/rectangle for client devices (printers, docks). Micro-USB for tiny client devices, which pretty much completely replaced mini-USB.

One of the factors in the USB-C switch was that what were traditionally client devices, like phones, could now also be hosts. So now USB-C devices need resistors connected to a CC line to identify as host (power source) or client (power sink).

Also, there were good reasons for having multiple sockets. USB-C might be rated for 10k or whatever insertions, but it is quite a bit weaker than USB-A. The ports wear out and are not as resistant to stress since they are smaller and shorter. I'm pretty sure the USB-C port on my laptop died from just plugging & unplugging a dock for 2 years. Even if it wasn't completely dead, it no longer makes a secure connection. Of course USB-A wears out too, but not as much.
A solid portion of Docs users are paid G Suite users.
It's good that those officers "get it", but the fact that we need people to act as social workers but train them to be warriors instead is a huge problem. Even the ones that manage to push past that and understand that a warrior's posture isn't always appropriate don't have the training to deal with actual social work.
Most mainstream statically typed languages use subtyping, that is why they permit equality comparisons of different (sub) types. But they should and do obey all the usual mathematical laws, associativity, transitivity etc.
So what’s stopping you from using Django?
I've been thinking for a while about what would happen if the slippery slope doesn't happen and big tech companies stick to censoring only the things that you can't say in nice costal elite company or can't say in China. I think I have finally worked out what the analogy would be for that. It is analogous to what some would call "systemic racism." Systemic racism is defined as a constant headwind against minorities that is composed not of organized pogroms against innocents, but as thousands of tiny cuts combined with a few isolated pogroms that can be denied as the work of radicals. Our violent criminals get a little less punishment than their violent criminals. Our political radicals are pushed away by the media a little less than their political radicals. We have a few instances of doing something clearly unfair to them, which are understood as exceptions and quickly forgotten, but whenever they do something clearly unfair to us, it's held up for years as an example of their moral inferiority.

That's the kind of constant headwind that can add up over time and distort a society beyond recognition. Why? Because the disadvantaged group will see their disadvantage get worse over time, because in the vast average of thousands of interactions, they slide slightly backwards. As the disadvantage gets worse, the bias gets worse along with it. This can play out in many situations, from the ones that seem totally indefensible ("What do you mean we're being unfair, he's a murderer!"), to the ones that seem ridiculously minor.
Why are you so adamant about not accepting the return?

Is it because eBay will charge you anyway? Well, in that case your problem here is not the buyer, but eBay.

I personally don't trust sellers that don't accept returns. More frequent that not, they bend the truth in their description. (I understand that's not what happened in your case)

Having said that, I never ever buy, or sell, anything that I cannot write off on eBay. Not worth the stress.
There's no shortage of reviews for products that confirm or deny spec compliance. If you can't find it easily, maybe it's worth waiting to purchase that product..
Except they don’t “maintain the entire browser,” rather, they “maintain” a trimmed-down build.
Well, some may say to promote ideas of anti-fascism... However, it would appear the people in the places that matter definitely don't want that happening and have no issue associating ideas of anti-fascism with terrorism.

So, I think that the correct answer to your question may be "nothing" - unfortunately, it's already too late.
Holy moly I can hear this from the Inner Richmond at night, WHILE IN MY BED. I thought my tinnitus was doing something new, but it's the freaking bridge!
I use my MacBook Pro charger with my xm3s regularly.

Charges super fast.
No, the actual colour of the text on text-only posts is super light. I read somewhere a while back that it was supposed to discourage people from using it too much.

Here's an example from the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438930