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Despite the HN bubble, there are a lot bigger markets for pro users than developers. I would venture to say that from a profit motive, it makes little sense to bring development to the iPad. There is no money in development tools.

For places that must have bespoke internal apps, a lot of them are moving toward dumb clients and some type of Citrix solution.

In terms of “sheer numbers”, the desktop market is minuscule, the laptop market could easily go to ARM if MS could ever figure out a good transition strategy, and the server market runs Linux where power is big as important as overall power consumption.

Don’t you think that Intel would rather be in ARMs position than what it is now? I don’t have numbers on the server market, but outside of that Apple ships more chips than Intel.

Edit: this was just submitted to HN showing the performance of Intel chips to Amazon’s custom designed ARM chips.

https://blog.min.io/intel_vs_gravitron/
Not only that, but the government has also removed data from several sources about Brazil's public health system (SUS). It's not possible, right now, to analyze the underreporting of COVID deaths since the data regarding deaths in the country [1] was zeroed.

[1] https://opendatasus.saude.gov.br/group/dados-do-coronavirus
Few people think the disease has magically disappeared, but many are beginning to accept the current situation as the status quo, and are increasingly unwilling to accept extreme social costs to make it better. (Which isn't to say people won't accept any costs; I think most people are smart enough to realize that their area isn't immune from a disastrous spike.)
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I typed about 3 paragraphs trying to explain it a bit but honestly I had to delete it because I don't think here is a safe arena and I am pretty sure would I would get downvoted heavily as I think a good chunk of the HN crowd sometimes lean too much towards denialism about the coronavirus. My gmail address is my username in case anyone is curious about my take on how things are going in Brazil. All I can say now is that winter is approaching and southern Brazil usually has dry flu seasons, so any "pretty good" report is to be taken with a gigantic grain of salt.
Brazilian living in Brazil here.

This news is not surprising at all.

I'm going to avoid adjectives so that my comment doesn't get downvoted into oblivion by government fanboys, but let's just say that it is safe to assume that the Brazilian federal government does not believe science should be the main weapon in the fight against Covid.

Brazil is one of the few countries that denies the pandemic[1]. The others are Turkmenistan, Belarus and Nicaragua. Fun fact: neither of those are really democracies (whether Brazil still is a democracy, it is increasingly debatable).

The Brazilian president has scoffed covid as "a little flu"[2].

He is also against social distancing/lockdown measures, claiming they don't work[3]. Needless to say, he doesn't provide any scientific evidence of that -- he knows full well his supporters need nothing more than his word to believe in anything.

State governors are basically on their own since the beginning of the pandemic -- a lot of states implemented lockdowns/social distancing, but with limited effect since Bolsonaro routinely goes on national TV to downplay those measures and basically call them a hoax.

The situation now is that people are fed up with the long, ineffective (because they were always superficial, half-baked) social distancing and lockdowns, and the state governments are beginning to reopen right when the death toll is accelerating.

So basically we're screwed. Deaths will accelerate like crazy now that a lot of places are reopening and the federal government will do anything it can to hold onto its alternate reality where everything is fine.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/974dc9d2-77c1-4381-adcd-2f755333a...

[2] https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/06/a-little-flu-brazil-s-bo...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/04/while-bra...
> a) Almost every startup I know of that failed, failed because of business reasons, not tech. Even when it was tech, the reasons were delays in feature delivery and production issues, not code maintainability or tech debt. Some companies paid dearly later on to fix tech debt, but if they hadn't moved fast in the first place, they wouldn't have had customers to lose.

Delays in feature delivery and production issues are usually symptoms of poor code maintainability and high tech debt. It's a really difficult balance to strike, but it's worth tackling low-hanging fruit as you work on the code, and introduce good practices for new features as you keep going if it doesn't impair development too much.
>As an artist and idea generator, he is virtually peerless. As a product creator and businessman, his performance isn't impressive

You do realize that the above distinctions did not exist in Leonardo's lifetime?
I was kind of impressed by Spritz[0] speed reader a few years ago when I tried it. Fun to see their entire(?) business which raised over $4 million[1] in VC replaced by a JavaScript booklet.

[0] https://spritz.com/

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/spritz#section-overv...
One thing 5G should allow is getting a lot of data point to point wirelessly - specifically for things like oscilloscopes and such, I remember a guy from keysight saying their big push now is make everything work together on the network (which they can now do with things like 5G)
You can drag "Bookmarks Toolbar Items" next to the address bar see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-firefox-contr...

And then you can put bookmarklets into that.
There is a real opportunity for you to learn here though. Don't compromise your quality of life out of some sort of misplaced feeling of loyalty to people who lend you money. It is a commercial contract and you should try to honour it, but you are allowed to live a full life even if you owe someone else money.
Tell HN: Twitter tag PublishingPaidMe on uneven book advances
Links: twitter hashtag [0], discussion on /r/Fantasy/ [1]

[0] https://twitter.com/hashtag/publishingpaidme

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/gy1dlw/publishingpaidme_is_an_eyeopening_discussion/
Most countries realize they have the hard task of balancing the right to protest, constitutionally protected, versus the need to protect public health.
I bought 1blocker like a week before 1blocker X came out and I’m still mad about it. I guess I should just bite the bullet and pay for the new one, 1blocker legacy has worked pretty well but it’s stopped blocking most ads.
I live in one of the hard-hit areas (northeast). It's not good, but also not nearly as bad as portrayed by TV/media. Poorer people are having the toughest time. Once in a while I get in my car and drive around, and things seem pretty normal. Most days look like a saturday in terms of traffic, people outside, etc.

My parent live in one of the capitals in the south and one of them is working directly on the "frontlines". They had one covid-related death in the past 30 days and most of the reserved hospital beds are empty. Their city took stronger measures much earlier and their poverty rate is the lowest in the country. Other than school and some other business, life there is normal.

(throwaway for I try to to avoid identifying information associated with my username/handle)
Can you please share the name of the book?
Impressed by the intro video. It does a great job communicating what they do in just a few seconds.
Came here to post this.

Google’s Safebrowsing feature alone (that is used in Firefox, too) is a privacy nightmare. They literally have all cookies and all user secrets of all websites that seem “untrustworthy”, which is basically all domains that are not cert pinned in chromium or firefox.

I know this because I initially wanted to implement safebrowsing support for my own browser stealth, but decided against it.

Also, the google PREF (due to safebrowsing background service) cookie isn’t deleteable without physically removing the firefox profile or at least the sqlite databases, just as a hint on whether you are trackable or not.
For years I took notes both with pen/paper and digitally, and either cross-referenced things or scanned pages into a master digital document like you describe. For me, the game-changer has been getting a RocketBook. It’s handwriting recognition is about 98% accurate for me, so it only takes a few minutes for me to scan some pages, drag the emailed text file into VS Code, join lines into paragraphs, and check for typos. Gives me a chance to review what I wrote too. Then it goes from there into a plain text file (or more recently, WorkFlowy) which is my preferred system. I started with the free PDFs that RocketBook makes available, but finally bought one mostly because I wanted to pay for their server resources. :-)
> A cost of sloppy code and move-fast practices & attitudes that's not well-accounted for most places, I think, is that it makes it harder to add people to the project and get them contributing effectively. New hires, contractors, agencies. All will be less effective, longer. This factor gets much worse the longer you operate in that mode, and the more sloppy code goes to prod.

Yes definitely! I have seen VERY FEW startups that feel at ease with getting new people onboard the codebase. But as soon as your business model is validated, that's what will most likely happen so you better be ready for it.

> I suspect the "tech choices don't kill companies" wisdom is actually BS and it does happen often enough to worry about, it just doesn't often look like that's what killed them.

I don't know about that. Not that I don't agree, I really just don't know. In that specific case though it seems (though the exact opposite) related. They essentially had rebuilt everything. Their own SOAP layer, their own XML parser, UI framework.... And that was OK when the company was created, because there was no alternatives. But they never made the move to start using mainstream solutions when they appeared. Wait a few years, and what takes you a day of work takes 30 minutes with the current state of OSS in other startups.
I use the reddit enhancement suite, which only seems to work with the old site. Without res, I'm never on it.
Code quality enables fast iteration.

There not at odds.
Antifa Rioters Are the Tech Economy’s College Discards
"Edgium" is not open source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

So, no.
> against recommendations from his own health ministry,

Not anymore, now that Bolsonaro has fired two (!) health ministers and put a worthless yes-man in charge.

And we thought it was bad enough when he fired the first health minister to put a yes-man in his place. It turned out that the first yes-man wasn't spineless enough for Bolsonaro so he also got fired.
The director, Gary Hustwit, made his films (Helvetica, Objectified, Urbanized, Workplace, Rams, and others) available for free during the first weeks of the lockdown -- each one for a week. It was nice to see them again.

https://www.ohyouprettythings.com/free
That's called grad school.
You always test before you write any code. That's the only way to make sure the code does what it is supposed to do.

And that's exactly what good startups do, they do business tests before they write any code. Don't write code at all unless it's providing value to the customers or helping you learn something you need to know to provide value to the customers.

Now that this is taken care of, we come to the problem of the code itself. Each bit of structure you add, whether it's a line of code or a database field on a table, is a bit of infrastructure you may have to maintain, possibly forever.

Some folks want to take their eye off the business tests and move directly to system tests, testing and then coding to make sure everybody can easily understand and maintain any code that's written.

Most startups fail because they never ever got the business tests working right. They either never got around to creating them and making them pass or they came up with something that worked but were unable to flywheel it or lost the plot somewhere. Some startups have almost-perfect code that nobody wants; that's actually one of the most common way of failing.

So the natural state of affairs is to always be experiencing some kind of stress between value discovery and code quality. Personally I believe you solve a lot of this by changing the way you code and the way you look at coding, but there's too much to go into here. The key thing for most programmers to remember is that if you're dying of thirst in a desert, you're not going to care very much if the guy selling glasses of water has glasses that leak or water that's muddy. The value proposition always comes before anything else.
“ It’s so commonly said that Leonardo was “ahead of his time” but that’s only because he didn’t let the world catch up to his mind. Leonardo never built the future, but we still exaggerate as if he did. Sure, his ideas had significant influence over future inventors, but there’s much more to innovation than sketches on paper.”

It seems a provocative piece looking for attention. We are talking about it because it’s extreme position, not for its insights.

I hope the author reviews his article and does a second take with a more informed and critical opinion.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_inventions_of_Leon...
Not really. A buyback makes your shares inherently worth more on a per share basis. If you compare it to a reinvestment of the dividends (DRIP), then it's really equivalent, except that one is a taxable event but not the other. You're always free to sell shares in any scenario if you need the capital since the stock market is generally pretty liquid.
Perhaps public health officials don't like protesting leftists very much. Certainly if they believe the virus is as dangerous as they were saying two or three weeks ago, they mustn't.
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I don't think I can agree with that argument. There is definitely a moral responsibility of the people to hold their governments accountable. I definitely see a responsibility of the German during the 3rd Reich to have a moral responsibility to what happened and the generation which did live during that time were justifiably challenged by their children about what they did or didn't do.
I once worked a php developer for a small e-commerce company situated in India. The codes written by earlier engineers were so poor that it took me 3 weeks to get how the whole site works.

The variable names were random bollywood movie names, there was no class, functions all was hand coded in core PHP and it was too complex to add new codes.
Same as him. Our state is doing quite OK. Early quarantine and 1st world measures to stop spreading. Other states, not so much. Brazil is big and different, it's not all the same melting pot.

edit: The president is an ass, though. F* fascist idiot.
Or to put it more strongly: The multi-core comparison makes no sense. If the goal is to compare performance per core, as a way to evaluate CPU efficiency in the abstract, then they should be comparing equal numbers of physical cores, not logical cores.

Such a comparison does miss some practical benefits of the ARM instances. The ARM instances seemingly have more physical cores available on a single AWS instance – but “performance on a single instance” would be a different comparison, one where the Intel instances shouldn’t be limited to 64 threads. And the ARM instances may have a cost advantage (I haven’t checked), but performance for equal cost would again be a different comparison.
The S3 protocol needs MD5 hashes, which these benchmarks don't cover. A Xeon core can do that with a couple of hundred MB/s. As it's a continuous hash of the whole object, this limits S3 performance.

I guess AWS does not care that much about single stream S3 performance but will optimize for costs.
Biggest internet thing of the past decade is the smartphone and anything related.
Electronics are incredibly cheap and an electronic version would be smaller, lighter and more reliable.

I definitely appreciate the effort and am very interested in similar approaches, but for commercial use, electronics based systems are very cost effective, especially if engineered for a specific project and optimized.
Cool, that looks like a reasonable workaround. :)
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Hard to take this article serious, they compare Brazil to other countries in number of deaths like all countries had the same number of people, they talk about the number of infections being not reliable like it's not a widespread problem in almost every nation, etc.

Discussions about COVID are already politicized, and discussions of politics and COVID are obviously even more, so readers have nowhere to run, they have only extremely polarized views and need to try to "average" them out.
Is there a good client for android for this system to sync with?
AMP luckily isn't a criteria any longer on how Google ranks websites.
What kind of things does it do to make you feel like that? What got you hooked?
The EM spectrums are already nearly full - is that not proof in itself?

On top of that the military uses absolutely enormous energies in their RADARs and there's still little if any evidence of risk even including powers where you might as well have you head in a microwave oven
Start Safari and Chrome on a mac, open several tabs and observe:

- Memory usage

- Energy usage

Then open https://browserbench.org and do the benchmarks.

Webkit will dominate Blink (and for that matter Gecko) in all categories.
looks fun, r/redneckengineering/ is another I forgot to mention
That can definitively work for some applications!

My goal with this post and demo was to outline a general strategy that could be employed in both small and large applications. For some cases, you could implement the server-side dispatching of actions as listening on GET-requests, but you would potentially be polluting the browser history more than necessary, and be capped to ~2k characters (varies in browsers) for actions (which for many cases should suffice).

I imagine that keeping all _state_ in the URL, while it can work for some small applications, might not scale sufficiently to be a general approach to the problem, nor have the kind of persistence usually found in eg. applications with login, where a user might expect to be able to authenticate and continue where they left off.
I think Rust need another decade to be a contender to C++.
VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing
Wifi has been around a long time now. Why can't the hospital devices just use that like everyone else? (Oh except wireless microphones in churches, which are also some special snowflake exceptions for some reason...)
> Is that a failure of business or tech?

See my point (b).
That's what they were doing a month ago. Government leaders said something along the lines of "you know, you have a right to protest, but protests have severe public health implications so please try to stay home". This week they've been endorsing and often joining the protests; they don't seem to believe public health is a relevant factor anymore.
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Great film. Wish there was something similar about other typefaces that had significance, e.g. Bauhaus/Universa, Futura, Times, or Comic Sans ;)
My wife is Brazilian, and we were in both Manaus (Amazonas) and Minas Gerais in March as lockdowns were being rolled out.

Manaus: the consensus in the general population seemed to be that the city was (1) too remote for COVID to arrive (2) heat and sun would stifle it and (3) their endemic diseases (malaria, dengue etc) were worse anyways so who cares? People seemed to mostly ignore the first lockdown measures.

Now, maybe ~30% of the people we know personally in the city have had COVID. Overall, it seems like there is a lot of death but we stopped following closely because it was too painful.

Minas Gerais: impressive lockdown in March. Small cities in the interior quarantined immediately, screening checkpoints with nurses everywhere. I have no idea how things turned out there but my guess is pretty well.

Return to USA: we bailed out of Brazil as soon as we could due to the lockdowns. The only sign in the Houston airport that COVID existed at that point was a small sign warning travelers from Wuhan to self-quarantine. Embarrassing.
I do. They basically stopped updating the database. We were getting 1000+ deaths/day. They say they're going to "recount" because they don't trust the numbers are right. Everyone here knows it's just a political move.
My comment was flagged, probably as racist even though nothing racist or offensive in it and I am not even a white person, it's as you pathetic tyrants proving my point. Your are offended by the even slightest different point of view. If you try to even speak out a centrist point of view publicly, your career and probably your entire life will be devastated forever.

It's a matter of time until you eat each other out. As for the big tech companies which promoted and started this SJW nonsense for more than a decade now as a marketing, PR and diversion strategy, they are already feeling how it backfired onto them. They are outbidding each other on who can be the biggest virtue signaling person in according to the peaceful religion of political correctness, they started and sooner or later they will fall victim to the beast they created.
I went looking for these options after ready your message. I'm now wonder why in the world is "Allow animated images and emoji" in the Accessibility section of the preferences and separated from the other options for images and media? Seems oddly located to me
We need more research into it I guess also see:
https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/greek-researchers-determ...

Here they report improved ABS properties on recycling
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