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The web is, at it's heart, a distributed document system with a layer of hacks on top for building applications.

You can create pure documents for the web without any code. Documents are, by nature, easily expressed declaratively; and it's not impossible to build an intuitive interface to express declarative data visually (or hide the data aspect completely in the case of a WYSIWYG interface).

Modern web pages are, in my mind, a sort of document/application hybrid (with few exceptions as of 2020). We have yet to find a better way to express an application than through textual code.

Procedural code is branching and time sequenced; how do you express that in a meaningful way visually? For some reason our imaginations find it easy to understand that the side effects of every line before this one are still around, and we're pretty good at picking up the concept of branching and jumping around the instructions; but I believe that's because the code is essentially a sequenced list of commands (and our brains are good with sequenced lists).

The attempts I've seen at visual programming remove common programming capabilities to fit more neatly within their visual medium; as long as that is the case, I don't see visual programming breaking out of being used strictly in DSLs (domain specific languages), which are often inherently limited.

I don't think a no code future is likely, as long as custom software is in demand; however I can see a future where fewer technician type roles require code. Of course that would require someone to spend a lot of money building a standard visual vocabulary of related tasks, excellent ergonomic interfaces, and extensible GUI systems; the type of things the FOSS world hasn't built much of a community for as far as I am aware.
100% yes. With non-ECC you will always have bad RAM bits eventually. With ZFS this is especially bad because it can corrupt your checksums or your ZFS metadata, which means either silently corrupting your data, or corrupting ZFS itself and losing your entire zpool (akin to losing a RAID array).
Video is gone can't be verified.
> your email address, it is never sold, shared, or used to invade your privacy.

This is ambiguous. "..to invade your privacy". They should have stopped at "sold, shared. The "to invade your privacy" is a bit doublespeak. One can say "we do not invade privacy, we merely inform of new products and services (aka marketing).

I know I am being pedantic, but hey.. it doesn't write "never" it writes "never for A".. we never wrote "never for B", so B is allowed by our T&C (which I haven't read so I may stand corrected).
Based on this (actually enlightening, thanks) I have a new idea of what it meant had it been written in a more Germam way:

(religious whitenation-alism)[0]

That's kind of unfortunate because I read it as just the opposite of:

non-religious colored globalists

In hindsight it is possible to see, but right there and then it seemed obvious, and I guess we should come up with a better term.

Also, for what it is worth: I might have been able to catch that if "religious" hadn't been thrown in there.

> “White nationalism” is a word. It has a different meaning than Nazism in my experience, so calling for substitution would be wrong.

Good point.

We could need some clear words and definitions for this as I'm fairly convinced I'm not the only one to misunderstand the wording, kind of like a DSL for discussing bad ideas.

A positive side effect of this whole thing is that I am fairly certain I actually got to feel in my body what it feels like to be triggered :-D

If I should ask certain other people here to learn something from this thing it would be to be precise, and to not alienate people for no good reason, because I am fairly certain a number of people here would say I was dog-whisteling or something to that effect while I was legitimately confused.

[0]: Although when white-nation-alism (to be very clear) becomes religious about itself I think it is some form of nazism.
The experience of receiving credit card payments for a SaaS subscription sucks badly, even if you disregard the inflated payment processing fee. Banks can allow the charge to happen the first five months, then on the sixth charge, randomly turn on a penny and reject the charge with a completely opaque do_not_honor code, which probably translates to 'our fraud detection algorithm felt extra paranoid today'. There's a whole industry of companies who help other companies "poke" their customers when their payments randomly fail, to prevent churn. This seems ripe for disruption. My dream tool for receiving payments:

- Isn't tied to a piece of plastic that expires

- Front loads the fraud prevention by requiring 2FA to make sure up front that the buyer actually wants to pay for this.

- Opt-in, per-transaction chargeback/escrow service (intended for shipment of physical goods) that you don't pay for if you don't activate. Transactions are clearly marked whether they include this during checkout. Otherwise transactions are final

- For subscriptions, allows you to specify the conditions under which future charges should also be accepted, and when they should be held and you get contacted to approve them instead.

- Basically anywhere the current system can fail/reverse a charge, the improved system would verify this up ahead, so the payment processor can be sure the buyer really wants to pay, and the merchant can be sure charges don't fail unless the buyer runs out of money in their account or actively cancels the subscription.

- Charge a much more reasonable processing fee, due to not needing to wade into disputes and fraud recovery all the time.
I'm Dutch, and my dad had both an American Express and a Diner's Club card from his work. I never really understood why those would be better than other credit cards.
I was glad that finally someone provided some sort of reference, but the article's title turned out to be "China Now Well Positioned to Bully Neighbors in South China Sea". I don't doubt what you're saying, but it hardly supports the bully accusation. It was an interesting read, I had no idea that the host countries of US bases had to help pay for them.

Speaking of state victims, here's a fun fact - India rounded up all of its ethnic Chinese residents (including Indian citizens) and put them into an internment camp for 5 years with no apology or compensation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Chinese-Indians
Hmm? I’ve used my Surface Book in tablet mode from time to time and see no particular problems with it. Every window becomes full-screen, swipes from the screen edges do meaningful things that are similar in effect to what Windows 8/8.1 had. I wouldn’t describe it as in any way nasty by comparison. Do you have something particular in mind? (Or were you perhaps unaware of tablet mode?)
What they said is that if it's gummy, it will induce you to chew during the night. They claimed that the only approved one was hard, but I didn't verify that.

I have less pain. But I won't risk sleeping without it
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ECC ram is more expensive than regular DDR 4 ram
Now where do 5 demands state independence?

Flags of other countries (mostly dominant countries like US and UK) were raised due to US and UK had huge stake in HK from the international treaty of the 1984 joint declaration. Since China has broken the promise of 1 country 2 system, UK has the absolute right to hold China accountable for its action because it was an international treaty signed by China and UK. US also gives HK special economic treatment, so US has the power to withdraw the treatment if HK is no longer autonomous.

It doesn't make sense to compare HK and US/UK. Over 2 million marched in HK and the government barely listened to its people. Also, HK has no universal suffrage so obviously the government don't have to worry about people's vote. (Except the "committee" that votes the chief exec)
The comment "The SPLC is a hate group" is not racist. Even if the person who said it is otherwise racist, it's entirely possible for racists to say things that aren't racist.

Whatever "racist-adjacent" means, clearly it must mean "not actually racist" because if it was racist, I'm sure you would call that.
You are do not live in developing world, like I do. Hosptal costs to treat a single patient here is below $3000. So Remdesevir here is completely unaffordable.
Not thousands but a few and most of them are measured anyway, like slope with a gyro or battery drain.
No need to over complicate it just measure the amount of regen the more you get the more the car weighs.
OP said:

> "Shrink" is of course accounted for in the economics, but not worker and customer safety, which is externalized as
violence and loss in the communities.

So they're saying that the business does pay the cost of stolen items ("shrink") but not the cost of the violence, which is borne by its victims.
> India to the list with the recent tiktok ban.

LOL.You must be having some good weed down there.
> Such protections should either be scrapped or extended to cover all methods.

You are free to invent a payment method and provide all these protections to your customers. Why would you want to remove protections that CC companies are providing to their users?
The stolen items are costs. The violence to staff and customers are externalities.
I recently learned some about the Chinese vision: China aspires to long-term stability first.

China had in its past times where the country's internal organization broke down, resulting in famine, ... Lots of people died.

As a result, Confucianism has risen: A vision where individual freedom is seen as a danger to that internal organization. Hence, it should be tempered by strict loyalty to the family, with the whole China being a sort of extended family. The elders and superiors should be obeyed, not necessarily because they are better people, but because this represents stability. In turn, these elders and superiors should be better people, with traits as benevolence,integrity and righteousness.

I am happy I live in Europe, not China, but looking at the state of most western democracy's today, I can have some understanding for this vision.
I've also been thinking about this lately ( eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23595921 ), and there's no longer much doubt in my mind that we need something different than what the net and web currently are.

My current favorite idea is that we create different protocols that coexist with what we use already. The internet, as it exists today, would live on as a "wild west" likely used primarily by young adults and a few weirdos. Most people, either out of maturity, or because they are younger children whose parents force them, would instead use the new "Safe Web." They would opt to so because the new web would be an order of magnitude safer, more accountable, and more legible. The "Safe Web" would also offer some control (not that much is possible) over reach of content.

The "old internet" would actually play a vital role, though, because CSS and Javascript, which the new web wouldn't support, allow for innovations. So, in effect, the "old web" becomes a sandbox from which the "new web" can steal features.

The internet, as it is today, offers unfettered free speech without accountability and without verifiability. The resultant dumpster fire can live on, but it doesn't work for rational adults (makes them angry or dis/misinforms them), and isn't appropriate for children and younger teens (since they're gullible).

If we ever have a new internet, that's where I'd spend 99% of my time. The subjects that internet free speech activists fight for today just don't interest me. I'd rather read up on Math or History, than watch videos of people falling into a rock crusher, or debate which "races" are inferior to others, or listen to paranoid theories about how Jews invented cancer, etc.
Some leftist communities worship Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot and others, whose actions led to murder of tens of millions of people. Why should we allow any of them to exist?
No private platform, even those that claimed to be a "bastion of free speech" [1] when they were first created has ever not banned for ideological stuff. Back in 2015 this same discussion came up [2]. 5 years later we're still worried about sliding down the slope. What is too far? Hating fat people? Hating trans people? Hating black people? Should a private platform allow it all even though people supporting those views actively harm people?

And we can even see what happens when platforms try to truly allow all speech. Voat [3 NSFW] is a good example, Gab is another example. The worst content takes over and your platform gets rejected by most of the world. Way before reddit banned the_donald they had to specifically delist it from the front page because awful content would end up being the first thing people saw. [4]

I also don't expect that Youtube or reddit or Twitter would end up banning all ideological content, religious videos will not get banned one day, discussing electoral politics will not get banned one day, we're not going to slide off the slope because the slope isn't there.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/02/reddit-c...
2. https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/15/8964995/reddit-free-speec...
3. NSFW: https://voat.co/
4: https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/30/13797712/reddit-trump-th...
Freedom of speech is not just to protect the speaker, it's to protect the rights of the citizens to hear it.

Foreign propaganda is explicitly legal and protected in the United States. I'm sorry that you think it should not be, but it is, and it always has been throughout the entire history of the country.

How exactly do you intend to distinguish the types of speech that the government is allowed to ban? Any foreign ownership of a media organization from a country deemed an enemy of the state? And you're wondering about what needs to be said out loud?

That's not to say the United States Government cannot take _diplomatic action_ to counter propaganda. It certainly can, and it does. And indeed, the Congress just passed the Countering Foreign Propaganda Act a few years ago, to do precisely that in response to Russian efforts in the 2016 election.

But you know what it doesn't do? Ban the protected speech. We don't ban RT, which is broadcast into most of the homes in the country, despite being directly controlled by and funded by the Russian State, because that would be unconstitutional, and the Congress does not have the power to do it.
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I guess you've missed the last few weeks in virtue signalling
It is nothing you can blame leadership for. Platforms on the net are currently banning 'hate' or dissent without justification. "The west" looks like a oppressive regime that has problems with racial tensions. HKers just don't get support for freedom or self expression or democracy in the current situation. The image the west paints is that platforms get sanitized in the interest of advertisers. The time to strike was now and they did.
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Cringley continues to be wrong in so many cases I dont even know where to start. And It is clear he has little to no understanding of how semiconductor industry works.

I am not sure what his motives are.

And worst of all, vast majority of the comments under the article agrees with him.

Every single day I am thinking, with or without Social Media, the Internet hasn't make more of the general public informed, which was one of its original intent and purposes, but the opposite. And in fact as I get older, it seems most of the world is very counterintuitive.
This isn't immediately clear on whether it's discussing biological neurons or artificial neurons. I suppose it's the latter.
This policy ("send a picture of your black skin") sounds like what they found they needed to do prevent black voices from being drowned out on a site so overwhelming white as reddit. If they'd found white people were capable of recognising that maybe bpt wasn't about them I doubt they'd need that policy.
You seem to be misinformed about Section 230. This article does a better job explaining than I can.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...

From that link, the important part of the law:

47 U.S. Code § 230 (c)(1):
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

Here are some additional resources: https://www.popehat.com/2019/08/29/make-no-law-deplatformed/
Removed from title is that it just passed and is going to be enforced going forth from July 1st. Less than 24 hours.

This is key because July 1st used to be the annual HK march since 1997, or the hand over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_1_July_marches
Cirque du Soleil files for bankruptcy and cuts 3,500 jobs
It’s common and defensible to do it once on startup, apparently tiktok was accessing to clipboard “every few keystrokes” (I read elsewhere it was every 8s). https://www.ilounge.com/news/tiktok-clipboard-data-collectio...
I have read the book when I was a child but seeing it everywhere on HN is starting to get on my nerves. There is a shorter way to get the idea across. "If you buy cheap you buy twice."
Putin is young by modern American Presidential standards, and I don’t see any of the spineless “contenders” running for President in the near term this election or the next doing anything to make Putin’s heart to so much as skip a beat.

I hope I’m wrong about that, but I don’t have faith.
This comment represents the value of HackerNews comments very well :) Thank you.
> Bulletproof glass, remedial classes, and dollar stores reflect societal problems, so outside observers, in their great wisdom and compassion, decide they must be the cause of the problems.

This is related to the phenomenon wherein someone warns about an obvious failure coming up in the future, nobody believes in it, it happens, and all the blame "logically" falls on the person who sounded the warning. Why did they want the failure to occur in the first place?
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Hook up ZRaid SSDs on a low powered machine (like raspberry pi). Set up regular ZFS scrubbing, and connect that to a monitoring service.

You're not going to prevent silent bitrot no matter what modern technology you use, so take a proactive approach instead to prevent data loss.
Why forget Google? Who says anti-trust should be applied in a mutual-exclusive way?

I hate headlines like these.
Do you have a number for “a lot of people”? I am very
skeptical of this data point.

This email address is used for a lot of communication with Apple, e.g. receipts from App Store.
Mobile number login is common for apps from China as large number of Internet user there only have a mobile phone, no desktop and no email. Its the only way to verify account.
In Australia, there are two environments, the Visa/MC networks, and EFTPOS. EFTPOS is owned by the AU banks and is AU only.

A Visa or MC credit or debit card txn go via the Visa or MC networks.

An EFTPOS txn goes via the EFTPOS network, it's much cheaper.

In AU, the fees are regulated and must be disclosed to the user as an extra charge. Most businesses much prefer the EFTPOS network because it's much cheaper.

Until recently, the contactless environment didn't support EFTPOS, so it always used the Visa or MC networks. Same applies to Google and Apple Pay.
Not to mention the nurse inventorising the clamps and pads that the surgeon is stuffing inside your belly. Heck, even the cleaner carefully mopping every crevice in the surgery room to kill all those pesky MRSA bacteria before they spoil your day.

Surgery is a team effort
It's customised, so you cannot just give it back. Something must have broken.
What is based in reality is that the law isn't applied to everyone equally. That has to do with opportunistic politics and self presentation.
>Either you're user-centered, or you're not.

It really depends on the audience for the product, targeting regular users does require more thought on the UX, etc which almost invariably means more funding.
I live in Berlin and recommendations to pay by card can be seen in many places with preference for contactless payment. In fact, share of non-cash payments visibly increased here and surveys show that German attitude is already changing.
As you say, not understanding the difference between sexuality and sex is exactly the problem.

Where we disagree is I do not believe this is any kind of moral judgement biased against LGBT content. It's just that content explicitly designed to be LGBT is going to trip stupid automated moderating systems, just like content explicitly designed to be about BDSM or any other kind of sex related topic, whether it is LGBT or not.

Images are a different kind of problem entirely. Again, computers don't understand context. Recognizing a boob or a penis is hard, but still relatively easy compared to understanding that images can be highly sexual without any overt images of sex.

Yes, these sites don't understand the context you want them to understand. But no, I don't think it's a politically conservative motivated judgement (in all likelihood of course, I can't say for certain... and likely neither can you).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_96 says “873–950 kg (1,925–2,094 lb)”. Middle of that range is 911½ kg (2,009½ lb).

Reading the comments here, that probably is more accurate than this hack. It isn’t as educational or entertaining, though.
In NL, your local pizza takeaway, kiosk or bar doesn't take anything but the local system ("Maestro", but a different Maestro than anywhere else in the world) anyway.
I am definitely a "moody diva", I think because daily standup in particular forces me to admit more failures than I would have to otherwise (you need to fail before you succeed). And it's ultimately pointless and more stressing for everyone, because lot of these failures get resolved the next day.

In some sense, standup is a nocebo, a mood killer for me. I am there, in the morning, ready for work, my mind firing up, geared towards working the problem, but no, I have talk and listen about something unrelated. It's like going to a movie and having to suffer the trailers for other movies first.

(There was also this funny psychological research that showed that when you tell someone you will do something, you're less likely (less motivated) to do it. Not sure if true, but if it is then standups alone have caused billions of loses in productivity.)

In any case, I think the discussion about individual productivity is somewhat sidetracking the core issues. What I wrote applies to the whole team as well. In my experience, the best design decisions come from individuals working alone, understanding the problem, and then these design decisions are vetted (and possibly changed) by everyone in an open discussion. This cycle can happen on almost any timescale, depending on the nature of the problem. So one doesn't need to be in an ivory tower for this to work.

Timeboxing as such is not a bad idea. But I think conflating it with "being done" is just wrong.