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> I mean sure, physics advancements are good and important, but I would say what's holding us back as a species is climate change and human suffering and inequality.

It's unfortunate that most of the general public does not understand how important it is that fundamental physics continues to advance. Advancing fundamental physics is the most important thing humans can do. It is not difficult to argue that the basis for our civilisation, that is, technology, would be impossible without the advances in fundamental physics. Some products of physics:

- Electricity (our ability to generate, store, and transmit it)

- Lasers

- Electron microscope (arguably, the great leap forward in medical research)

- Nuclear energy (arguably the cleanest energy available)

- WiFi

- GPS

- The internet (developed by Berners-Lee while at CERN)

- The semiconductor (the camera on your phone would not exist without fundamental physics)

- X-ray and Magnetic Resonance imaging.

- Radiotherapy to treat cancers

There are many others that we take for granted every day.[0] Even our understanding of DNA, the most significant discovery in biology, would have been impossible without fundamental physics in the form of X-ray crystallography. (and Francis Crick was a physicist!)

(It can also be argued that climate change, human suffering, and inequality can be directly solved if significant advances in fundamental physics are made: new powerful sources of energy like fusion or something else yet unimagined could transform our economic landscape entirely by driving the cost and harms of energy production and use down by large percentages. The Standard Model has revealed the structure of the atom, yet the benefits of this knowledge have yet to be broadly realised and applied to control matter at the sub-atomic level. There might be no practical limit to our ability to control matter! It might be possible to make wars (economic and physical) over resources irrelevant.)

[0]: Physics for an advanced world: A look at the vital contribution that physics research has made to a number of major technological developments https://www.iop.org/publications/iop/2009/file_38209.pdf
I find the Windows Terminal much inferior to ConEmu.

Anyway, text editors specifically written for DOS environments integrate rather well with the „classic Windows console“.
What a white hat hacker does in many (not all, maybe not even a majority) of instances is the equivalent of trying new lock picks in the door, watching them swing open, and then reporting dutifully on it. "Not going inside" and "not stealing" aren't sufficient defenses in the eyes of the law for this behavior any more than attempted burglary.
Damn, what the hell is Livejournal doing now? This page kept on reloading, reloading, reloading, reloading.
Seems nice but a bit fiddly and lacking backlinks, after trying numerous clones of Roam Research this finally convinced me to just commit to Roam and stop trying these things out, maybe one of these solutions will eventually be just frictionless enough to work for me but not at the moment.

I'm glad Roam offers decent exporting though.
You're only looking at it from your own perspective.

It's a revenue source for the content creators.
“Two incompatible sacred values in American universities” Jon Haidt (2016)
For an exploration of the perception of self by a digital copy I can recommend The Old Axolotl by Jacek Dukaj.
I don't see how to subscribe to a Youtube video with antennapod. Have you done it?
You're using ambiguous language, and you didn't at all refute the parent's argument.

If sars-cov-2 actually turns out to have overall IFR of around a quarter of a percent, then it most certainly is comparable to seasonal flu. I personally think that's unlikely, as most reputable estimates have continued to converge on the 0.5-1% range. But even that is "comparable" in the true sense of the word, in that reasonable and fruitful comparisons can be made between the two. Which is exactly what epidemiologists do for a living.

I rather think it's your comparison that's delusional. Two-thirds of of the people killed by malaria are children. Millions more children are afflicted with symptoms severe enough to lead to long-term health problems. Malaria literally robs countries of their future. And malaria's transmission is a much harder problem to solve, because we're fighting a resilient, ubiquitous, nearly invisible vector that can spread the disease miles from the nearest infected person.

To be sure sars-cov-2 is worser and scarier than seasonal flu in every way, but the hysteria isn't helpful.

You didn't even bother to try to refute the parent's assertion that more limited but better targeted restriction might work just as well with less economic damage. This is an area of active, legitimate debate.
I disagree respectfully. I feel that if one is going to be documenting or discussing "the very first" of something, then it should actually be documented as the very first. I prefer the term "first known" or "first documented" when it comes to something with as spotty a recorded history as video gaming.

For years, people thought Warren Robinett had made the first video game easter egg in Adventure for the 2600. Turns out there have been three other contenders for that title. The first contender was Video Whizball on the Fairchild Channel F, from 1978. [1]

In 2017, Ed Fries learned of the existence of an egg in the 1977 Atari arcade game Starship 1, and did the legwork to determine a more accurate release date, as well as the egg's trigger method. He dated it to August 13, 1977 (release date, so egg would have existed prior to that date while in development and production). [2]

Guinness even currently recognizes the Starship 1 egg as the first known video game easter egg [3]. While this is currently the first known arcade game easter egg (therefore Ed Fries' claim is accurate), there was an even earlier egg found in Spitfire on the Channel F. Someone even found a newspaper ad claiming Spitfire was available for purchase on April 16, 1977, making it the earliest known video game easter egg. [4]

And with that I have spent way too much time putting together an HN comment lol

[1] http://www.digitpress.com/eastereggs/cfvideowhizball.htm

[2] https://edfries.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/chasing-the-first-a...

[3] https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/117435-fi...

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20200524234421/https://selectbut...
It’s a glaring security hole, IMHO. I create such devices and the only way I know is self-signed certs, but the browsers complain a lot about that. Ideally there’d be a way to sign .local domains with browsers handling it while letting people know to verify the identity of their local devices/services and that the identity isn’t verified by https like most sites.

The issue lies between the browsers and https system. SSH can do encryption without requiring identity verification. It handles it by asking "Do you want to trust this new server?". Then if it changes informs you of that. Browsers could easily implement that for .local with self-signed certs.

Of course browser developers assume everyone has internet all the time and you only access servers with signed domains. I’ve wondered what it’d take to get an ITEF/W3C RFQ published for .local self-signed behavior.

(Edit: RFQ, not my autocomplete’s RTF)
For me, it was the VR game Beat Saber. I built my first desktop and got a VR headset just to be able to play it. I took 3 weeks off work December last year and lost ~10lbs (155lbs -> 145lbs) playing 2-3 hours every day. It's been great for me since I've been sitting in front of my computer all day for years and never really enjoyed exercising.
The opposite is true; it is much easier today to engage with computer security legally than it was in the 1990s. And the consequences for crossing the line are generally smaller.

It's easier for lots of reasons, many of them banal, like the fact that you can get a modern Unix system on your laptop in minutes for free, and tear it down and bring it back up on demand with virtualization, or the fact that everyone has Internet access and nobody has to bounce through an X.25 Internet gateway or an outdial to get to IRC.

It's also easier because huge amounts of vulnerability research have been published since the 1990s. The cutting edge of vulnerability research in the 1990s is almost unbelievably primitive compared to what's available in open school curricula now, let alone refereed vulnerability research venues. In the 1990s, basic details about things like stack overflows or even temp file races were permanently embargoed and made available only to large-company system operators. Most of what's disclosed today by vendors would have been decried as unethical by the security community in 1995.

People that want to do active vulnerability research today can participate in thousands of bug bounty programs, none of which existed in the 1990s. And, despite what the prevailing sentiment on HN would indicate, I think it's actually a bit rarer for people to be prosecuted for undirected, non-monetized hacking than it was in the '90s.
100% agreed. I always cringe when I see some hot new startup going all out on AWS or other cloud services when a $60/mo dedicated box would have more than covered their needs. No point spending that money until they actually need to worry about scaling, and even then, the value of dedicated servers / colo is so much better if you have the staff to support it. I manage a top 2k site off of some OVH boxes and our bandwidth alone at any of the major cloud providers would be many multiples of our monthly bill.
I think it's likely that the author's analysis of why 5 is the optimal cache size heavily depends on the fact that they only tried fib(10). For example, it's clear that cache 20 and cache 30 are identical if your universe of possible inputs is only [0 .. 10], haha.

Because of the way the recursion goes down the tree depth-first, I think 5 basically cuts down the computation to fib(10-5) = fib(5) which is pretty manageable, so the author couldn't really see any further measurable performance gains by increasing the cache further. I think for fib(35) it'd be clear that cache size 35 would help compared to cache size 5. (I picked 35 instead of, say, 300, because I think 300 would just not finish with cache size 5, it'd take forever haha.)
What if I visit your roof repair guy's site and content is injected, informing me that they now take payments online? Or that I can download their special Roof Repair App to manage my bookings? Or it contains an exploit payload?

It is extremely uncommon for me to actually visit an HTTP website - I even have HTTPSEverywhere block them by default, so I'd know if I were. That means that I am relatively protected to such avenues until I visit your roof repair guy's website.
Try asking some POC friends or colleagues! Get their perspective.

Another user mentioned that it feels like kneeling on the ground and using "baby talk." That's not what's being said here. It's simply taking a moment to observe yourself and other colleagues potentially engaging in unconscious (or even conscious - you may have an avowed racist hiding it very well on the team!) bias.

This is being an ally. It's not patronizing. The reality is that systemic racism against POC in America is real. Ignoring that only aids the status quo.
Agree, with the exception of the last paragraph. SOX didn't kill NASDAQ or the Dow. And if an entrepreneur is only successful because regulations are lax, not enforced and his business is ignoring corporate governance, that business doesn't seem to have any justification to exist in the first place.
Thank you for expanding on this -- I agree with all of these points. There is a real and tangible, albeit in this case indirect, value to have highly skilled people try to push that boundaries of what is possible technologically. It is easy to forget that the world-wide-web itself had its inception in at CERN -- an institution whose focus is particle physics.

In my opinion, another important reason to support of keeping these large accelerators alive is there is a very real chance that the expertise to build these kind of devices could atrophy or be lost entirely given the long timescales involved. Even if one is opposed to building this specific collider, I think the prospect of losing this kind of institutional knowledge is concerning (though if one finds these things useless, you might care less if we lost that capability).
You have already answered why no one in their right mind would embed a shared certificate across all devices. I don't think you are being realistic with yourself when you believe people use self-signed certificates; they don't.

You are missing what happens instead. There is just simply no web management interface on the device anymore. You need to download the vendors app to configure and use the device. Maybe, if the vendor cares, they use their own CA to secure a local connection to the device. Much more likely, the app and device exclusively talk to their cloud and use that as a middleman to exchange information.
This sounds kind of like "all workers matter", which ignores the current and historical challenges gender/race minorities have experienced in certain fields of work. If you are the majority it can be very easy to be blind to the plight of the minority. "I see a black man or a woman got hired, so things must be fine."

I don't think there is harm in making extra effort to ensure inclusion of minorities within the group, at least for the time being while we try to find better balance, and we see fewer reports of minorities being overlooked, outcasts or underpayed.
Your list is missing quite a few major providers in the "low end" VPS space, such as BuyVM, Ramnode, Virmach, HostHatch, and probably others I'm forgetting.
I think this is the only practical answer, unfortunately. Everything else might possibly be made to work for a personal project, but definitely isn't an option at scale.
I think making this clustering about race is too simplistic. Its about language, religion, food, values, culture.

People like to be in familiar environments. Especially after moving to another country. Because of that its natural to end up with clusters of people sharing something in common even when there was no outside pressure.

I’m now lived in three countries for a longer period of time and its interesting to feel this connection with people from back home even though you never met them before.
For the longest time I felt like I didn't notice race: yeah, if I looked it was there, and the town I grew up in and live in is pretty multicultural, so it wasn't a novel thing to see people of different colours. Sadly, as I've become more aware of the bitter division of race present in some people, I feel that I've not only become acutely aware of the races around me as if its something strange and unexpected, but I actually feel like I've become somewhat more prejudiced because of it.

As a real life example from the pandemic, everyone is "social distancing" or whatever your local term is. So, went out shopping, needed to get something off a shelf that someone was stood by, asked them to move and they barely scoot back at all. If this was a white guy I'd say "its two metres, not two inches, please move back more" but because this guy was a different shade of brown to me my mind goes "I can't challenge that person because if I do they'll erupt in a cloud of 'that's racist' and I don't want to make a scene" so I just have to bend around them to get the thing off of the shelf and put us both at risk of catching an indiscriminate virus off of each other all because I'm going against everything I thought was right and treating another person differently because of the colour of their skin.

It feels bad because as someone that wants to treat everyone nicely, I feel like I'm walking on eggshells so as to not accidentally oppress someone. Why can't I just ask someone to observe social distancing and it not be a racist thing? Am I going crazy or does anyone else feel this way? Am I alone in this feeling? Am I becoming racist purely because I try so damn hard to not be racist?
Edge isn’t great. Why not look at de googled chromium or brave instead?

I have maybe one website that I like to use brave for and the rest all work with Firefox 100%
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Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978
Do I have to have the same understanding of a road as you do to intentionally cross it? Maybe my understanding is only “the thing that makes me feet hot when I walk on it.” I can still make a conscious decision whether I want to get my feet hot in order to accomplish something on the other side.
Maybe she has a point, but for the wrong reasons. There's something to be said about "throwing more money" believing that it will end up in better science. It's politically easy to pass a bigger, huger accelerator: tons of jobs, recognizability of the effort by taxpayers , but scientifically it's a rather predictable bet. It's similar to rich people throwing megatons of money on startups believing that they are creating something useful. LHC size projects are not that exciting projects. They are mostly a welfare package for the hordes of decomissioned physicists who are left behind after the wild century of Physics. It's probably more fruitul to seek innovative accelerator designs or other kinds of stuff. Or, that money would probably better be spent if they just paid the scientists to work and compete on whatever they like. Perhaps physics needs more patent clerks who spent a lot of time thinking rather than submitting grants, catching flights to perpetual meetings and publishing 500-author papers.
Ask HN: GitHub alternatives? (except for Gitlab and Bitbucket)
I was thinking about Gitea and GitKraken. Any other alternatives you've used that you can recommend?
My card says Wirecard, and the last email from Pockit was on the 20th ("Summer of cashback"). Strange.

But I'm not using it much, it's just a card for safe online purchases. Saved me twice, it's a good thing to have.
I love this idea. There are enough influential tech people who read HN, can we make this happen please?
I've just resigned myself to accepting the fact that I am not the browser vendor's target market anymore and I'll have to keep an older copy of FF around for the sole purpose of accessing devices I own that will never see an update to modern crypto/certificate standards.
I agree with you that the current physics output from the high energy experiments are far removed from practical usages today, and that this has immense value in itself. However I feel that you downplay the value of the developed hardware and (especially) software required to perform these experiments.

As an analogy, I currently work on developing a medical imaging system where we track the trajectories of protons and heavy ions after they traverse a patient - in order to infer their energy loss and also the patient's "stopping power" map. With better knowledge of the stopping power we will be able to improve cancer radiation treatment with protons and heavy ions.

We would be nowhere without recent work in particle physics on large scale pixel sensors, Monte Carlo simulation software, readout systems, experimental cross sectional data (although not directly from the high energy experiments), particle tracking algorithms, electronics design for very thin sensors and radiation hard equipment ++.
Over the past few weeks I've been using both, Brave is a little more polished and the built in blockers are great.

However, they've been caught a couple of times doing naughty things:

https://decrypt.co/31522/crypto-brave-browser-redirect

Combine that with a CEO who had a my way or die reputation for not admitting something's wrong and you've got a browser I removed from my system. Trust is huge and makes me wonder what else is happening in the background nobody has caught.

Vivaldi's got all kinds of tweaks exposed you'd need to dig into flags for. I like that. I think my biggest gripe is dragging and dropping links out doesn't work. Pretty small potatoes.

Daily driver is still Firefox + uMatrix + uBlock Origin and hoping for Mozilla email + calendaring at some point soon (take my money!).
American Affairs Journal is a relatively recent publication that’s been somewhat pro-Trump, at least pro-Trumpism. James McElroy also often writes in American Conservative.

I don’t believe this belongs on Hacker News.
I think projects are dying because most projects are products in disguise and with products you need the entire team, not just a business analyst or pm, to be able to talk to the end users. Ask yourself why most projects end up with adoption issues even the the internal ones? Because it’s another instance of “if you build they will come”. The same reason you don’t build a full fledged product in a startup - you need lots of iteration and end user feedback to succeed. Agile and project management wants to skip the whole product phase because it assumes whoever is running the show knows what’s needed - it doesn’t usually work this way.
I'd really prefer a bank i don't have to check and complain about. And maybe not just my bank.
Telling people to "validate all data" is like telling them "not to have security bugs". It's not helpful advice. Validate for what? Length? SQL metacharacters? Javascript notation? HTML? Authentication? Concurrent submission? The list of things to consider is essentially a list of practically all vulnerabilities.
That might be an android thing.
Not good for much else humans care about. The ecosystems in those spots might feels differently.
Calling out normal people for terrible choices they make is just bragging your own ethics seen from your own standpoint
A bigger problem with calorie counting even if you get past the mechanical difficulties of keeping track of everything is that it doesn't do anything to adjust what your body "thinks" your needs are.

If you are overweight but your body thinks that you are underweight cutting calories to lower your weight can be seen by your body as the onset of starvation and it can make adjustments to prioritize short term staying alive over long term health.

Even if you are careful to not lower your calories so much as trigger that and do eventually get down to your target weight, as long as your body still thinks it is underweight its going to be trying to get gain it back. Any day you eat a little extra or your activity level is off a little your body is going to try to snatch onto that to put on some weight and hold on to at as it tries to claw back to what it thinks is your proper weight.

A couple months ago there was very good episode of Nova on PBS about fat [1] that covers this (and much more--it's well worth watching). Unfortunately I don't think it is freely available at the moment. (The pattern with much PBS stuff is that after it is broadcast it is available for free streaming on the web and in their apps for a few weeks, then it becomes available only to people who donate at least $60/year to their local PBS stations. Looking at past seasons, some stuff is only for donors and some can be streamed free. I'm not sure what is going on there--whether a given one occasionally flips between donors-only and free, so there are just some that stay free and some that stay donor-only).

[1] https://www.pbssocal.org/programs/nova/truth-about-fat-previ...
Couldn't agree more. Obsession with fundamental physics as "the only way forward as a species" is absurd. Do any of our discoveries in CRISPR or check point inhibitors rely on the knowledge of the Higgs Boson or the fundamental theory? No.

Stop the obsession with quixotic physics quests. Spend the same (or more!) resources on apied science focused on climate change, pandemics, longevity, clean energy, etc. Far more rewards in that direction.
Ignore threat modeling and CISSP, both of which are industry kabuki dances. The rest of the advice in this comment is fine.
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