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This person is giving way too much credit to QA. At least in enterprise software, which I was working on for 20 years, QA were mostly useless. In SAAS, having developers own their entire code including unit tests all through to deployment in my experience has yielded the best code quality that I've seen. Also, I don't consider security to be QA, that is a specialty in my opinion, similar to the article.

The normal development cycle in enterprise shrinkwrap software is that you would take a 12-18 month release cycle, and then plan out X features. QA would come back and say "We can only test 6 of those features", so the feature list gets cut. Then as you develop the features and finish them, you don't hear back from QA because their cycles are different from developers, except maybe a few weeks before the end of the release cycle, and then you get hit with a flurry of bugs, because that's when the QA is testing most of the code. Then more features get cut because of the high bug count, and then even more features get cut and you end up with 2 out of 10 features. This is how most development occurred all the way up until I left enterprise software about 10 years ago.

The best way is to cut QA entirely out and kill it as a career path. Give developers the entire burden of coding and testing, including end-to-end. I personally dislike TDD and would never join a company that developed using TDD but that's just my opinion. Obviously a SAAS vs shinkwrapped software is different, but overall, the best code quality I've seen is at my latest company where the developers owned everything. The buck stopped with you, and it behooves you to write good quality unit tests and integration tests. Cutting out QA forces developers to own their code and doesn't have a wall where developers would code, write some small tests, and then throw it over to the QA and not look at their feature for weeks or months.
I know a lot of homeschoolers. Some had great experiences. Some had truly terrible experiences. But regardless, they turned into functional, developed adults at about the same rate as publicly schooled kids.

I think it's important for parents to realize that a lot of these choices are mostly about enjoyment and convenience, and they don't need to beat themselves up if they feel like they are failing because they can't put a square peg through a round hole.

Although, that said, I think one trend I do see is that successful people had the ability to move on when they were ready. I for one was lucky enough to get to go to college early (I hated high school). I can't think of how many kids had to be stuck in the system because they were forced into a timetable.
Fintech Startup That Raised $100M Is Abruptly Shutting Down
How successful has it been to switch to Bitcoin? I hear mixed things about it and wonder how many actually use this currency.
I don't think that people will be leaving their houses much in 50 years, assuming we still have "people" and "houses". The singularity is on the horizon and we are running full-speed toward it.
I think defining "for the better" is the contention, not the existence or visibility of the data. There are people who say that a workforce must be exactly proportionate to the racial makeup of the population. There are people that say no, we need more minorities to be hired to make up for injustice. There are people that say no, it should be purely meritocratic. Resolving this tension is key IMO.
A key dynamic shift that might offset this is that "old people" would suddenly have to plan for thousands of years. Many of the problems that generations currently solve are due to short-term thinking.
> I have owned two of their micro 4/3 DSLR cameras

I thought all of their 4/3 cameras were DSLRs and all of their micro 4/3 cameras were mirrorless?
> A longer lifespan than that doesn't advance our reproductive fitness, and so we're not designed to live any longer than that. So even if we could tweak our bodies to live longer, it is not a foregone conclusion that this would be healthy for our minds and souls.

It's also not a foregone conclusion that this wouldn't be healthy for our minds and souls. The problem with death is that it's irreversible. At any point, you can decide you're too bored or too miserable, and end your existence. But once that decision is made - usually for you - it cannot be reversed. So it's better to err on the side of more options, i.e. more years to live.
When I was in high school, my school district had a homeschool program where you'd meet up with a teacher once a week and they'd give you the same tests (and general course plan) that you'd do if you were in a regular school. It was awesome! The best part was I could take the tests any time to finish a class sooner. So I did a lot of my 2 semester classes in one, and then took community college classes.

It's too bad there aren't more things like that.
- Each company has unique glass.
- Each company has unique physical control schemes and software UX.
- Color profiles allow you to apply the color science to RAW files. Some apps will automatically apply the color profile you select while shooting when you are processing later.
> Secondly, it's not beneficial to the UK in the mid and long term because this money flows into assets like London real-estate without providing any actual jobs or innovation, thus not providing any value to ordinary British citizens while pricing them out of the city.

So, it will increase rents for the landlords. Good for the UK overall? No. Good for people on the real-estate business (a lot of them very well connected politically)? You bet)
Technically I believe the argument for it is even more fucked up ironically social mobility. Without pederasty the relationship to the mentor would be more encouraged along social clan lines and could lead to a rise of effective caste doms. The recognized costs of the shame and protectiveness towards one offspring means the lowest would be more likely to take such "opportunities" as fucked up as it sounds pimping out your sons is the best way to give them a better life.

It has obvious terrible effects involved with it and the very fact it is being considered is a sign that things are deeply wrong but bizzarely winds up a lesser evil in some ways. Which arguably just makes it more insidious which is a whole other moral topic.
When a core piece of their security model isn't backed up by the third party audit that they literally are presenting as "don't trust us, we have a audit covering this" (and the auditors did look at how google protects against malicious firmware updates, hence their attestation comments), _and_ when that would leave them being unable to update these modules without wiping everyone's backups, _and_ the auditors found security bugs that required a firmware update, _and_ literally the same chips are updated without wiping when against a threat model that has a better argument for wipes on update, I'm sorry I just don't believe the blog post.

Bringing this back to the original point though, just using an HSM doesn't automatically mean that the manufacturer of the HSM can't access the keys.
After homeschooling, I also have a hunger for learning. It is the hunger of someone that did not always get enough to eat as a child and isn't going to let calories go by uneaten. The hunger of someone who suspects others know how malnourished they were as a kid and is afraid to look skinny. A hunger that keeps them up at night, telling them to eat and eat until sleep seizes them, then wakes them up early in the morning, so they can eat again.
Exactly—one anecdote about homeschooling doesn’t apply generally. In the US, the average homeschooled kid is likely to be raised in a very religious family with little to no science education.
It is entirely possible for one group (or incentive) within Comcast's organization to work towards that goal, and another group or incentive within Comcast to work against it.

Some things that make me trust this claim:

- That privacy policy

- That contract

- Association with trustworthy brands like Mozilla

- Work on encrypted DNS

- Consumer trust could theoretically be financially valuable to them

- Basic morals of Comcast employees

Some things that make me distrust it:

- Cultivated an infamous litany of consumer abuses

- Lobbied for regulations to harm consumers

- Engaged in regulatory capture with the FTC/FCC

- Have continually profited from their abusive business practices, and continue to profit in spite of atrocious levels of consumer trust

I believe that Comcast only wants to respect user privacy insofar as it helps them maintain a facade of trustworthiness and retain customers. If they ever get the opportunity to back out of that privacy-conscious posturing and turn it into money, I think history has proven that the winner of those two internal groups is clearly going to be the money side not the moral side.
We use too many damn modals (2018)
Musical notation disguised as the oldest programming language
Can be the musical notation considered as a first form of "programming" language?
In the and it is like a DSL, it has a symbolic notation, it allows the reproduction of "actions" on a device (musical instrument)...
Show HN: Build your own university on the Internet
I used an Xperia X with Sailfish until end of 2019 but then I finally dropped it - it mostly worked but got too much annoyed by small bugs that never got fixed 100% (but in the meanwhile the UI got a lot of changes => that would definitely not be my way of prioritizing work). It's a pity but personally I think Sailfish will die.
I don’t understand what a ‘packer’ is - is it a linker?
Huh, the G9 has IBIS? I’ve never even stopped to look. My cameras (except the G7 when on vacation) live on tripods. But thanks!
I would like to add a third recommendation to the list of two, and recommend "Style: Towards Clarity and Grace". (Alternatively, use any similar book by Joseph M. Williams featuring the words Style, Clarity, and Grace in the title).

This book discusses the information architecture of clear and coherent phrases, sentences and paragraphs in the English language, and a few passes through its contents will leave you able to reason about the way you lay out ideas and information in your writing.
> This is about hardware specific registers that control the underlying hardware and can be used for things like controlling oem functionality (brightness, backlight, etc)

That sort of functionality is typically handled by the platform controller by sending commands over LPC or I2C busses. CPU MSRs are generally restricted to controlling the behavior of the CPU itself.

> changing CPU frequency and voltage, etc.

These are often controlled by MSRs, but should be under the direct control of the kernel, not userspace software.
It's not the 8-space I'm aghast about, but that every function body is indented by it.
The missing X% without high speed internet available to them are primarily rural. Space's Starlink is poised to offer high speed internet to those exact people on a timeline faster than whatever this project dreams it can achieve, at zero (additional) cost to the government.

The other chunk of society without access to high speed internet are the low income. So why not just spend $50B on welfare reform (or even Basic Income) to provide the financial means needed to access the existing high speed internet. They can buy internet, or something they need more. You'd save $50B.

All together, this just seems like a new way to funnel $100B of tax money into the pockets of corporations who make the right political donations.
I own one of these as my daily driver. Its... fine.

Pros

- dead simple to upgrade the hardware. I was able to get 32GB of RAM and 3 1TB hard drives installed with no hassle or voiding of warranty.

- its a beast of a machine when you spec it out capable of any workload you throw at it.

- linux support is 1st class (obvs)

- all aluminum chassis

- the display is nice even tho its only 1080p

- the keyboard key action is nice. I have a thinkpad for work and they are similar feel.

- PopOS is amazing.

- the backlit keyboard is cool

Cons

- you cant use external monitors without the NVIDIA card enabled which requires a reboot. This is the single largest failing IMO and is more annoying than you'd think it is.

- you only get about an hour of battery life with the NVIDIA card enabled making it totally useless to keep on unless you plan on using this thing like a desktop all the time.

- its a rebranded Clevo laptop and kinda ugly. It feels cheap to me despite the aluminum chassis.

- the keyboard layout is weird. The number pad is unnecessary.

- the speakers suck. Seriously. Like my headphones lying on my desk sound better

- web cam is crappy

- the screen itself feels flimsy

- I dual boot into windows and its a second rate experience there.
Knowing how to tighten the screws on a text is essential for a lot of workplace communication, especially if you're trying to get something from your higher-ups. Don't think everyone is going to take their time to become a great copy editor, but it pays to learn the craft at least a little.
I think you’re being way optimistic. Longer lifespans means you can procrastinate and put things off even further.
Credit card numbers are a good example of the test 'do you need to do math or compare them?' If not, keep the numbers as strings.
You are completely right, I had Larry Ellison in my mind but Page came out instead. Unfortunately I cannot edit my comment.
I really don’t see how what you are saying helps in any way. There can be a conversation outside of our agency in the situation. Sure we can adjust our language to the ever more sensitive sensibilities of society but we can also question those sensibilities at the same time. Question their harm and their value.
Well, this is where things get very gray. We are the users of that tech too. The government is us too. "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union...", as the Constitution says, decide what our government does. It's time we tell our representatives what we want. No more military contracts? Then make sure that no representative that's for those contracts gets elected. It's a matter of getting involved. Like I said, we have the power. It's time we use it.
"In 2012, Assange communicated directly with a leader of the hacking group LulzSec (who by then was cooperating with the FBI), and provided a list of targets for LulzSec to hack. With respect to one target, Assange asked the LulzSec leader to look for (and provide to WikiLeaks) mail and documents, databases and pdfs. In another communication, Assange told the LulzSec leader that the most impactful release of hacked materials would be from the CIA, NSA, or the New York Times. WikiLeaks obtained and published emails from a data breach committed against an American intelligence consulting company by an “Anonymous” and LulzSec-affiliated hacker. According to that hacker, Assange indirectly asked him to spam that victim company again."

The language used by the justice department uses less harsh rhetoric to describe its own indictment than your summery. The difference between providing a list of targets in a communication with a group leader, and literally dispatching a group against a list of targets, is two different statements. The later is more colorful and implies relationships which is not found. Asking and dispatching also have a very different implied tone, one being a request and the later being an order.
It was a matter of time. They were focused on m4/3, which was a good system. But phone technology evolved quickly.

Most pros or prosumers go for the higher-end APSC or Full Frame lineups. In my experience, they don't take the m4/3 stuff seriously.

For regular folks, m4/3 is too expensive. For the same price, they can use their phones (or buy an APSC camera). The quality is negligible thanks to all the software enhancements the phones do.

Panasonic is at least focused on video. That helped their market a bit. But who knows how they'll do in a few years? They've entered the saturated full frame market. Pentax is probably in trouble too. They don't even have mirrorless offerings.
Goes to show I shouldn't trust something, just because it was taught to me in school...
Snowden is Complicit in the death of tens of thousands of people by stealing weapons of war and trading them to other countries to escape his crimes.

Extradite Snowden.
> The trick is to create channels with limited audiences

I truly feel that HN is a safe haven for such notations.
It's a provable, working example where first and foremost is to regard the other's words in a positive light, rather than assuming the worst. Anything deliberately otherwise gets moderated. I figure @dang sends a lot of personal emails struggling to adhere to this.

It's a system that can and should be replicated elsewhere imho.

Ironically, parent's comment here on HN has alerted me (& presumably others) about this diabolical practice (thanks @AHappyCamper), again proving HN as good, receptive platform.
Yeah, definitely meant Ellison. I can’t edit my comment but sorry about that.
I will be so sad if the same thing happens to Fujifilm. Hopefully they have carved out a sustainable niche by focusing on APS-C.
Solidworks users do for certain. But then again, they are running Windows.
Yes. First of because "walled garden" is just a metaphor for the type of system the App store represents and Second if you have "walls and fences" but with an open door where everyone can enter if they Pay 30% of their revenue then those walls are there for revenue generation and not for security.
Not really. Ansible is a complex DSL based on YAML. Fabric is really simple and uses real Python.
Ha ha, quite the discovery seeing as your other comments reveal you own and shoot with one :-)
https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform MNT Reform is a step in that direction (+ open hardware!) The CPU and RAM are on an easily replaced SO-DIMM, so you could have a variety of system configurations use the same laptop-peripheral-complex.
Actually this gives me an idea.

How about a series of weekly podcasts,videos or blog which does exactly that: take a 'real' situation (in this case meetbutter) and then simply go full throttle and pushing the reasoning to it's outer limits, until LOL occurs.

I would subscribe to that. Let me know if that becomes a thing.

I also love Monty Python, so this is just the type of humor I truly enjoy!
Trivial in the individual case is not trivial at scale.
Nowhere did I mention "with us or against us". The status quo is a multi-dimensional set of normative values.

Being "apolitical" is still a political stance, you're signaling that the current set of norms is acceptable.
Let's try the one that hasn't eagerly and willingly (that we know of) gone against their users.
> This sort of leaves out the reality that decomposing bodies are a critical part of the ecosystem

Buy fertilizer. Of all the possible attempts at arguments that could possibly be raised in support of letting people continue to die, the last one I'd expect is "those human lives are more valuable as rotting corpses to fertilize plants".

> If/when you have reasonable solutions for overpopulation, massive resource consumption by advanced societies, and pollution, then we can talk about longevity.

1) There are documented studies that people have less children and do so less quickly when they feel safer. And in any case, it's a very big universe and this is not a reason to let 150000 people die every day.

2) We can and have built more efficient ways to make use of resources, and we will continue to do so. Killing off humans is not a reasonable way to solve resource consumption problems. The primary problem of excessive resource consumption is that it threatens human lives, which makes it utterly self-defeating to argue that humans should die so we use less resources.

3) Pollution is a serious problem. We've only got the one planet (for now), and we need to take care of it and make sure it continues to support life and help life flourish. So by all means let's solve that problem. Fortunately, we've got billions of people, and we're capable of working on multiple massive problems at once. (You might also recognize that one of the biggest problems with pollution is people not acknowledging it as a problem; there's a parallel here.)

4) People will continue to talk about longevity, and more importantly actually work towards fixing the problem. Once people understand that we can actually do something about it, consciously choosing to not do something about it is a choice measured in lives lost, and inaction becomes far less excusable. Trying to stop other people from doing something about it is tantamount to murder, in much the same way as trying to stop a doctor from treating a patient.
Even archive.today has given up on that crusade; I noticed a few days ago that they don't block me anymore (I use Cloudflare DNS) so they have to have stopped within the past couple weeks.

So now AFAIK the number of sites that block DNS resolvers which do not forward edns-client-subnet is zero. As it should be.
I think “the idea that we can have everything we want all the time” has been normalized for Peter Thiel (et al), so he’s working on the “forever” aspect.
As the joke goes, "an author is someone who wasn't good enough at writing to become an editor."
Extending Hyperledger Fabric 2 Test Network
Imagining a decentralised future for the digital publishing industry
Personal opinion: Too stories on the screen at once. Is there an option to adjust the number of columns?
I rarely go below the 50mm focal length so the 12-32 has been ok for those rare occasions so far.
>because of a virus that is statistically quite similar yet slightly worse than the seasonal FLU

I'm sorry but you must be a troll. The numbers couldn't be more obvious, last year there were 39M - 56M flu cases in the US with 24K-62K deaths. We are at 2.3M confirmed Covid-19 cases and 120K deaths in roughly 3-4 Months. So a fraction of the cases and already 2-6 TIMES as many deaths and we aren't near finished. How do you see those numbers and say this is basically the flu?? Next I suppose you'll say states are falsifying their numbers to hurt Trump? Truly deluded.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e...

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/case...
Low effort/low risk ideas are the lowest hanging fruit and we're way past that phase in mobile apps, SaaS, indie games, etc.

I'm not saying it's impossible to launch a successful product by investing a couple of weeks, but it sounds as probable as winning the lottery.
Despite the circlejerk - It’s all theatre and nothing more and it will never happen, at least not in any way that most people here are concerned about.
Is it though?

I feel like this is a strong case of "what is best for society is not best for each and every individual".

If allowing homeschooling will help 100 kids to learn faster and be happier, while at the same time causing another 1000 kids become socially isolated by giving their parents the authority to more easily cut them off from the rest of society and indoctrinate them, then is that trade-off really worth it?
Yes, almost any time I type a number. It's much more comfortable, less of a stretch for my hands. Also a lot faster.
Electoral politics has failed the people time and time again. The only way to prevent these technologies is to organize and strike.
Isolating kids is bad, but modern schools are a very weird, artificial (and often unpleasant) social environment. Many of the social skills you learn in them are useless or even harmful:

http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

Also, homeschooling doesn't mean you can only learn from your parents. You can use any other resource that's available to you.
Italian study funds 73.9% asymptomatic rate for those under 60
That heavily depends on who those parties are. E.g. a european might trust their local ISP (subject to GDPR) more than an american CDN (subject to the cloud act and NSLs).
Sounds a lot like the "Design Thinking" process.
Theranos didn't try to kill the Avengers though.
If anybody at Google even attempted to do this, that employee would be fired.