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What about the contrast reduction issues that this design change incurs. Did you think about those of us who have poorer vision? What are you going to do to make GitHub more readable for those with disabilities again?
Heart disease and cancer kill more people per day than COVID even now.

Edit: and it's not just the gym obviously, we've removed any incidental exercise one might get from work or leisure activities that were locked down too
No, I know that. The issue is that the actual app extension itself (which is written in Swift and useful for things like picking elements from the page, etc.) will pretend like it cannot function without the Electron app running. Some more details: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardForSafari/issues/84#is...
> I'm not sure why they're making a big deal about this

Don’t they need to communicate to developers and users what software will (and will not) run on their upcoming computers?
Robot dog Spot herds sheep on NZ farm
So what? It is his property and he has any right to do so.
Cardiac arrest is a significant "side effect" of COVID-19, leading to death. Hospitals are better equipped for that.

Kidney problems are popping up in some folks post-infection; that's also better dealt with in a hospital.
> If it hasn't passed CI and status checks, it shouldn't be in your default branch.

Broken master is inevitable in a large enough project. Really what you want is to be able quickly fix a broken master.

By all means keep a perfect master if you have a toy project but once things have several developers hacking on a project with multiple artifacts and hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of code then you need to accept a broken master.
Journalists are ethically obligated to keep sources anonymous once they have promised anonymity.

They are not obligated to offer anonymity to every source.
This shows the power of an authoritarian system. Unfortunately we’ve seen other examples of authoritarian systems killing millions more than this disease ever would.
New domain extensions like .online and .store see surge in registrations
Yes, I'm certainly not suggesting that we need to wait for this to become law. Just for something with more signal in it.
I wonder what chain of reasoning it takes to consider such a tweet as racist.

If we thought blacks were reasonable people with agency, it is reasonable to conclude that this would help their cause: it would be one additional data point for the black community to decide on how to organize and communicate their demands, and consider it relevant or not on its merits.
Anarchy means "no ruler"; it's the opposite of mob rule.
I agree that pen names are inappropriate if the reading public does not know that it is a false name. But there is a long tradition in American history of unpopular opinions being presented under "Anonymous". Unfortunately, in our increasingly polarized society, there will be more and more need for anonymous authorship.
webp was around since 2010 and has google's backing. Microsoft tried their own thing (Jpeg XR; 2009) and the actual JPEG committee announced their work Jpeg XL (with google backing) a while ago, while Apple switched to HEIC/HEIF as of 2017 (HEIC is like webp just based on HEVC aka H.265 instead of vp8 i-frames; and it's a patent mess of course).

There is simply no reason why people in 2016 or now would be interested in a format from 2000 that was a patent minefield until at least 2016.
I loved DSL! I can’t remember the specs, but I had an ancient machine lying around in about 2004, that would have been otherwise worthless, and put DSL on it just to check it out. I remember being so impressed with how productive I could be and how zippy that old machine could be with such a lightweight OS. Fond memories :)
The only one I listen to regularly is the 1Password podcast Random but Memorable. I work for 1Password but have no influence on or responsibility to the podcast, I just genuinely enjoy it.

I also have in my library:

* Rework by Basecamp
* The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
* CoRecursive with Adam Gordon Bell
* Hope in Source (unique because it’s all about Faith and open source)
> live and let live does not seem to be a value that has been retained by secular moralism

"Live and let live" is cool until someone gives you the pointy end of the stick.

At that point, you want a way to fight back.
Well yes, it's quite noticeably sluggish and bloated on the whole, with even UIs seemingly getting worse over time. Probably doesn't help that everything these days wants to push and pull from multiple networked sources instead of being more self-contained.
>I'd hypothesize that this comes out of the fact that this is rooted in the idea that "the personal is political".

A lot of these concepts are derived from the French historian Michel Foucault (he was not a philosopher or a "critical theorist", he was the chair of history at a major French university) and bear out the interpretations that won out in American humanities departments and trickled down to street level as a generation of grad students hit the streets after 2008 as humanities depts shuttered left and right.

Occupy Wall Street wouldn't happen today because it was the last vestige of '68 style old school European Left politics. In 2008, good ol' class consciousness was the last thing critical theory and Humanities depts were discussing. 'Identity politics', itself the evolution of 80/90s Critical Race Theory, had already started to dominate academic circles in the late 90s/early 00s, to the point that the popular, heralded Slovenian Marxist Slavoj Zizek dedicated a whole book to the topic, arguing on behalf of good ol' universality as pivot point for politics against popular writers like Judith Butler (gender/sexuality) and Wendy Brown (race).

Coming to software as I did from continental European philosophy study it's been quite fascinating watch a species of Foucault interpretation become the mainstream Left ideology in America (and one that differs in my reading by quite a bit).
Personal geographic mobility has been declining for a long time in the us: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2017/...

It’s reasonable to believe that an overall declining mobility rate means that people aren’t moving for jobs.

One interesting note in that data- it appears intracounty moves declined much more quickly than inter-county moves. I suspect that the increasing ubiquity of personal automobile ownership helped drive that decreasing mover rate, as it enabled more work opportunities to be within reasonable distance of peoples existing accommodation (and moving sucks).
Awesome work - it must have been super interesting to dive into so many difference companies! The current state work that you describe is super fascinating.

Be wary of survivorship bias when you're using today's landscape to draw historical conclusions. If you're only looking at companies/tools that exist today, taking their founding date, and using that as a sign of what existed circa 2012, then you're going to miss the plethora of companies/tools that failed prior to today. Similarly, much of the recent explosion may only be because they haven't existed long enough to have failed.
Add https://theintercept.com to the list.
> pedal assist

I can’t wait for pedal assist ebikes to become more affordable. It opens up biking as an option for a lot more journeys, not just for lower-fitness people, but in regions where it’s hilly.

For where I live in Los Angeles, the places I bike to are a couple of miles away (or close enough that walking makes more sense), but uphill all the way. Having pedal assist would mean that I don’t arrive sweaty with tired legs. I don’t need to go 25mph, just 10mph with less effort.
To follow on, many of us felt this was rushed through and that our feedback was not heard. You can sense the frustration in the parent to this comment.

You destroyed much of the trust I had. Will you roll this back and reconsider after talking more of your user base?
> keep in mind that 99% of journalists are just hired guns who's sights are specified ahead of time.

That's a pretty specific claim you're making. Got a source?
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How can I use this code snippet? Apologies if it's obvious to everyone.
Yes you’re correct about the chains. For examples, look at Stuxnet or some of the more expensive Chrome bug bounties over the past few years.
Trials with Oxford Covid-19 vaccine start in Brazil
Elon Musk and the Value of Localism-What We Should Do Instead of Going to Mars
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In a lazy-by-default language (Haskell) you absolutely have to use those kind of approaches, because you can't write code where effects are important any other way. You have no control over evaluation order (other than dirty hacks), so you can't rely on that to control effect sequencing.

Of course in a strict language with a decent type system like Scala you eventually find you want to use that style anyway. But you can come to it in your own time and see the benefits for yourself rather than having it forced on you.
Revisiting LTO tape.
I have the same complaints, I do agree that the new redesign looks great in my external monitor, except I do my browsing on my 14" display and the repo information looks kind of squished into the left.
I’m very greatful for what Segway did for the “micro-mobility” industry.

But personally I think electric scooters are the future rather than e-bikes. They are simpler to maintain and cheaper to produce. I think eventually (in the next 5 years) they will get significantly cheaper as well, owing to improvements in competition, volume, and battery tech - imagine if the current M365 cost only $100 new. They’re fast enough for the bike lane or streets, and they’re small enough that it’s less scary encountering them on a sidewalk. And you can bring them on public transportation more easily.

Even now you can get that M365 for less than $400 (think I paid 350), amortized over a year that’s about $1/day and all you need to do is keep the tires pumped/replaced and charge it. It’s perfect for me for “last mile” to and form public transportation
The real Star Trek transporter beam will probably get less hype than the Segway.
Isn't this just a reiteration of the thing where more black people interact with the police and so there are disproportionately many shootings and people assume racism?

It's not that surprising that the same would apply to police officers, e.g. off-duty black officers live in black neighborhoods and black neighborhoods have a larger police presence or higher crime rates, so there are disproportionately many police shootings and black officers are no less affected than anyone else there.

The article seems to imply this:

> Of the 26 fatal shootings, 5, including Officer Ridley’s case, involved an off-duty officer who came across a crime in progress and moved to help other officers or a civilian, the report found. In five other cases, including the Edwards shooting, an off-duty officer was a crime victim and then tried to make an arrest or to take police action, the report found.

> In all but 2 of the 26 fatal shootings of officers that were examined, the victim was holding a gun and had it “displayed” when he or she was shot, the report found.

Sounds a lot like off-duty white officers may just be less likely to encounter situations in which they draw their weapons.
There's also the practical matter of network speed. In many common scenarios a 300kb webm can be fully downloaded and playing while a roughly equivalent 5mb gif is paused a few frames in, buffering.
Fastmail nets around $50/year (if you pay annually) for mail + your own domain, and if you don't need the domain, it's less.

Another $50/year really isn't that big of a stretch for some people, but I can see how saving up to 70% on email would be a pretty easy choice for those who don't really care that much about email and might even use gmail if it weren't for needing a custom domain.
Why do you call him Georgia tech guy?
If you know attorneys who are conducting themselves in this manner you should report them to the bar because they shouldn’t have a license to practice law. This conduct was far outside the bounds of their ethical obligations and is not at all what happens in a normal civil suit.
I think the Segway is a dangerous accident waiting to happen. You try to step off holding the handle, it either jumps around like a startled horse, or tries to run away. You can't just put it down - it'll do violent things and endanger those around you.

Bump a curb or a trash can, it goes wild trying to recover, circling violently or spinning a wheel.

Just google 'Segway fails' and enjoy hours of shocking screwups. Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GII7QZy2GHM

It's exhausting to ride, difficult to master, hazardous on sidewalks or city streets. As an insurer, I'd ban it.

So no, it never 'took off'. For good reason.
Ask HN: Best way to convert received email newsletters to RSS feed?
I get a lot of newsletters and I'd like to view them through RSS. Most of the approaches I see are all super dated and many referencing apps or features that don't exist anymore.

Are any of you doing this? How?
He didn’t threaten legal action. He would need a victim to represent if it was legal action.
I made a multi-user version of this idea a while ago, just to keep track of household tasks with my girlfriend, and I’ve been working on polishing it into something others can use: https://onit.today

It’s web only right now, with reminders over email, but I find it useful for exactly the sort of tasks you describe!
If you’re just wanting a safer and faster Python you probably want Go or Rust. I’m very biased towards Haskell and love it so I’m going to recommend you at least read about its pros/cons (don’t get bogged down with syntax or monads yet, just read about what problems it solves).
That is actually quite cool. If people had to pay for facebook they wouldn't. What do you think is missing for self-hosters, easy sign up ? I don't think it is easy create to DNS and private server for normal folks.
Also video decoding is cheaper because most GPU/SoCs supports hardware decoding.
and if either your next of kin or theirs feels raw about the outcome of that fight? live and let live is a vital principle or we all wind up on the pointy end of one stick or another.
I wish timewarrior [1]/taskwarrior[2] would have had more attention. They also have an Android application [3] which is open source too. And a rich system of plugins and extensions [4].

[1] https://timewarrior.net/

[2] https://taskwarrior.org/

[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kvj.taskw

[4] https://taskwarrior.org/tools/
You're moving the goalposts. You originally were talking about the risks of vaccinating kids and young adults, and saying that the vaccine had to be better than 1/100k. Now you're saying concerned about insufficiently tested vaccines. These are completely different issues, but you're trying to muddy the water.

Of course no one wants to take a vaccine that didn't undergo proper clinical trials. The argument was whether a vaccine that had typical side effect ratios would be ethical.
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Maybe Dropbox?
On Chrome, I use an extension called 'Stylebot'. Not sure about other platforms.
Ha, to me it is an improper max width. My biggest peeve with the GitHub web UI is the squished center pane.

I hate that it centers it with giant gutters wasting over half the width of a 4K monitor, should I choose to maximize a browser window. I'd much rather see everything shifted to the left. I'd even be OK with some soft margin still causing regular README text to wrap at a typical width.

But, if there are long code or raw text lines, or any embedded image or markdown table or other structure that is inherently wide, I want it to overflow and use that extra screen space, not get clipped into this ridiculously narrow bowling lane. That's my instinctual desire and the only reason I would expand the browser to full screen, and it is an utter disappointment to try that and be told, "no space for you."
My reproduced experiment:

https://imgur.com/a/Ppj57cP

Note that there's no reference to his real name.

The only reference to his real name in your screenshot is the first entry, which is purple and removable because it is coming from your browser's session identity history. If this was in fact in an incognito tab, it's likely you had one or more incognito windows simultaneously open somewhere else where you had searched for him, which carried over into your new tab.
Sorry to nitpick, but hpkp and expect-ct arent really relavent here (since browsers dropped support for hkpk, and expect-ct is now basically the default in chrome). HSTS is what is needed

However, you only need 1 http website to pull off the attack, so its not really a problem that hsts is great at addressing since its opt i per server. The easy way to do this attack is control the local wifi, and make the login landing page malicious.
Stupid because the forward facing standing stance is wrong for mobility. Standing sideways is better for a fixed stance on a moving platform (e.g. surfboards, skateboards, snowboards, sailboards, etc). If you're forward facing then you should have active independent movement between the two legs (as with walking, running, skiing, ice-skating, etc).
Shots fired - Apple will take Google’s money to be the default search engine but won’t let them track “their” users.
Eh, I've seen my baby sucking on its thumb, and then the baby jerks and the thumb goes away, baby cries, somehow the wild flailing gets the thumb back to the mouth. Baby happy again, sucking on its own thumb.

I agree that we are not born a blank slate, but at the same time, there's a lot of knowledge missing on a newborn baby.
>> Furthermore, in NYC, half of serious pedestrian injuries are caused by bike

I would be interested to see that citation.

I would also note that very very few people have ever been killed by a bicycle, which cannot be said for cars.

8 over the past 15 years, vs 2300 killed by cars: https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nycdot-pedestria...
You are correct that there is a utilitarian argument that vaccinations will save lives. You and the parent post disagree about the new vaccine risk level.
Do you think that they should be compelled to vaccinate their child with the unproven vaccine. What if the risks outweigh the benefit for the child, but are positive for society at large?
fastlane?
Its like they are just daring regulators to go after them at this point...
I am a fairly committed practitioner of git flow on multiple projects.

The problem of not easily linking feature branch names to issues is real, though I have been solving this using:

`[issue id]/feature-or-issue-title-abbreviated`

And while you don’t get nice hyperlinking from the branch references on GitHub—-and it’s possible for the issue title to be out of sync with the feature branch name at times, it isn’t too bad and I don’t often need to go back and look at a feature branch.

Perhaps projects with bigger teams this is more important and the linking / strong issue attribution to the branches is more meaningful.

I’m less clear on the removal `develop`. It makes more sense to me to use master as this serious “released” state. And for develop to be a bit more loose.

More importantly, I typically will run `develop` on a staging instance. So it’s pretty important to me.

I still do testing on ‘develop’ and feature branches before they are merged. I also don’t feel like the start / finish release process is all that onerous.

From a commercial standpoint, I’m not a huge fan of tossing GitLab into the concept name. It’s a little brand-y on something that just doesn’t need it.
Just like the Gawker case.. To decide to pursue a story that may not be all that newsworthy, or to unmask someone and say it's just presenting the facts, must have some emotion driving that. Because if there is no emotion driving those decisions, then it's a really rotten way to run a newspaper.
Both of those things would help substantially, but it's not the entire problem. One of the core problems is that police have essentially been militarized. Their purpose isn't to serve the public trust, it's to engage in the control of an occupied population. Their purpose to ensure the most likely segment of the populace to take to the streets doesn't.

That's why all this crying over law and order in response to the protests is kind of hilarious. Their heavy handed tactics have backfired hard, and I have no sympathy for any of them. I feel for the police the same way I'd feel for an occupying army facing resistance.
> autonomous vehicles

...oh that makes so much more sense! -.-
I see people riding them frequently in SF. They seem to ride pretty normally and most people use bike lanes (sounds silly but they go fast enough). I have heard that the biggest problem is the automatic braking/throttling to limit top speed kicking in on downhills, triggering face plants. As long as you are good at maintaining balance on a board and stick to flattish bike lanes they seem pretty safe
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Rust doesn't even have higher-kinded types, yet alone kind polymorphism. That means no proper do notation, so look at the complete mess of macro-based syntaxes you have for things like error propagation, async or transactions. Things like recursion-schemes are impossible, and the borrow checker is kind of ad-hoc, meaning the control flow keywords are special cases and you often can't do what should be a very simple substitution when you want to add an effect (e.g. if -> ifM is not possible because if is not an expression and the borrow checker wouldn't be able to handle it if it was).

Rust may be the language that has finally dragged mainstream programming kicking and screaming into the 1970s (it's more or less the equal of Standard ML). It still has a ways to go to catch up with Haskell.
The African-American slave statement was recently made on one of the open discussion threads of SSC blog in question. I was fairly shocked by it (I didn’t know it was a common topic), first trying to see if it was meant ironically (no, it seemed to be meant seriously), then expecting the regular “rationalists” to tear the arguments apart. But none did, and the statement stood unchallenged—to be fair, the recent open threads had thousands of comments and so it may have gone unnoticed. I was actually going to see if that thread had any replies when I found the blog was deleted, and I honestly wondered if that wasn’t the reason.

The discussions on SSC were often intellectual and rationality-based, but a lot of the super-commenters were right-leaning. Left-leaning commenters were more scarce, and even benefitted from some affirmative-action less-strict moderation to encourage them to sick around. In fact, after the recent BLM protests, a new user showed up to argue and explain the social justice position, and did so respectfully and was well-received.

But I think a lot of the regulars had their blind spots. So many arguments were essentially: since A is true, B and C are the logical conclusions, but often nobody questioned A, let alone tested it—the rationality was often superficial. A popular format on the open threads (thus I’m characterizing the blog readers and commentariat, not the blog author) was impossible hypotheticals leading to un-provable speculation. Questions like what would’ve happened if Germany in WW2 had such-or-such a weapon. The format was even codified in the format of friendly aliens offering some weird bargain (take a pill to sleep 12hrs a day—or never need sleep but always be tired), then asking people what they would do or how that would change things. Fun thought problems, but so disconnected from reality or practical thought—essentially nerd-sniping (to use an admittedly uncharitable term).

Tl;DR: SSC was a mixed bag, but mostly civil and well-intentioned.
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