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Can you imagine a local news piece on this?

At the end of the ten o’clock news in the U.K. we always had a funny / interesting little human interest story to finish with. The news anchor always kicked it off with “and finally”.

“And finally, a dog got more than it bargained for when it accidentally hitched a lift from London, to Scotland”

“And finally, a London toddler is being hailed a hero for calling emergency services, when his mother fell seriously ill”.

This would be a great local, or even national, tv news piece. “And finally, a local internet entrepreneur, more used to benefiting from web trends than falling victim to them, has been left embarrassed by a fast growing meme that threatens to make him a laughing stock. And he’s asking for your help to turn it around”.

Or it would be a great commercial radio dial in thing. They could tell your story and ask people to call in with things that haven’t aged well (that guy who got his wife Isis’ name tattooed on his arm) or whatever.

Or columnists are crying out for cute little stories like this to base something on.

The competition would be for people to rebrand / rename it for you and just adds a bit of fun to it
In looking for more screenshots I found this amusingly blunt article:

https://uxmag.com/articles/the-impossible-bloomberg-makeover

> Simplifying the interface of the terminal would not be accepted by most users because, as ethnographic studies show, they take pride on manipulating Bloomberg's current "complex" interface. The pain inflicted by blatant UI flaws such as black background color and yellow and orange text is strangely transformed into the rewarding experience of feeling and looking like a hard-core professional.
I only think about "Out of the Tar Pit".
An great counterpoint to this argument comes from Allen Holub in his talk “#NoEstimates”.

The system of making bets does not translate well when communicating that to business folks and managers — which is why it’s largely non-existent for story pointing in agile environments. People are overly optimistic; they hear 80% and think 100%. Doing percentages isn’t foolproof either.
ah, the guy responsible for a genocide or two.
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It appears the Fed will not let any asset class go under regardless of how many trillions they have to throw at it.
it's more similar to older composite armour, the t64 used something similar before they switched to the multilayer armour with glass reinforced plastic

https://m.imgur.com/NA8gcCE

It was abandoned not because ineffectiveness but because construction difficulties, uniformity of the embedded spheres was hard to maintain
Thanks for replying, and for the overview!

It sounds like the early environment had that developer/engineer-driven quality to it that makes building awesome tech rewarding, and that the operations were managed by competence that was able to sustain that virtuous cycle. Both incredibly rare finds (particularly nowadays....)

Wow, Googling Equinet returns 92 results (hehe probably 94 in a day or so ;) ). I thought I'd heard of them before. IRESS is very interesting, TIL about that.

I get the impression Mr Cameron knew what was happening with Jecnet, knew he could replace it, knew that the result would very successfully be bought/licensed, and went to down... very nice. (Just turned up https://www.afr.com/politics/replacement-for-troubled-jecnet..., possibly not directly relevant)

Regarding QDOS->MS-DOS, apologies for the unclarified obscurity: QDOS, or 86-DOS, was sold for $50k to Microsoft, which turned the product into MS-DOS and made the company. The Equinet situation sounded similar to the MS-DOS/Microsoft success. (Until two paragraphs ago I thought Equinet was still a still-extant major company; I think my brain might've been conflating "Equifax" and something else ending in "-net", or maybe my brain just filed the name away a very long time ago)

I do agree that not dropping characters from 16 users (plus a firehose) was pretty impressive on a... 25MHz? 33MHz? 486DX2. (Haha, how much RAM did it have...) I'm not too familiar with Modula-2 but poking around a couple of PDFs of different Modula-2 systems suggested they supported ISRs (interrupt service routines), so perhaps those were used for character buffering. (Or, likely, had to be used.) Now I'm idly curious: sure, the serial link was 9600 baud, but how fast did the feed run? 500b/s? 1KB/s? 100 lines/sec? (It would be interesting to know the average data rate of a major stock ticker in 1990!) Chances are this is a bit tricky to answer nowadays.

As an aside, it would be very neat if those early pre-Win3.x versions of Equinet for Windows were to ever fall off the back of a truck. They'd probably be as unusable as CompuServe clients, but still interesting from a historical standpoint, especially if they launch at all (there are people digging Win1.x/2.x-era apps off of floppy disks (and frequenting sites like winworldpc.com and vogons.org), and while I only poke around occasionally I've never seen any discussion of anything like this, ever, and I presume there is no knowledge it existed. Hence the historical interest perspective). Quite likely it's one of those "...uhhhhhh..." sorts of things though; and maybe others have been similarly curious before me as well.
No, it's trading with information that you shouldn't have had access to. Think of it as being about misappropriate of information, theft, not fairness. If I have private satellites that I use to photograph cropland, and I use that information to trade agriculture futures, this is not insider trading even if nobody else is privy to the information. Similarly, if I have investigative journalists working for me and I trade based on their unpublished investigations, that's also not insider trading unless the journalists got the information from an insider. It's not about whether the public does have the information, it's about whether the information was gotten from someone who had a legal responsibility to not share it.

The finance writer Matt Levine writes on this topic somewhat frequently, I scrounged up an example.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-13/you-ha...
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If designers tried to design Bloomberg Terminal today, it would be a bloated javascript app that takes way too fucking long, the information density would be 1/10th of what you can fit on a screen, giant fonts, unnecessary animations and stripe-like-polish, large buttons, scroll jacking and hiding most important controls unless you hover the mouse over a region (read: undiscoverable), and it would have gradients somewhere with a sticky top menu.

We've totally regressed. We've lost it. We've become enamored with aesthetics.

Btw, it would also be available as an electron app on Mac, Windows and Linux platforms. And it will automatically update behind the scenes, who gives a fuck about your ability to control updates for a $25k/year business critical software.
> Society didn't walk away from CloudFlare (eg. "vote with your feet/wallet") and Congress didn't choose to create any laws.

Neither of those things mean you did the right thing. It’s really easy to pick on a widely unpopular minority group and not get laws passed against you or lose a noticeable amount of customers.
I do not think we are particularly influenced by American culture, mostly breveté we belive that ours is truly extraordinary and should radiate on the whole world :)

We do watch US movies and series, but probably less the ones that decpit US everyday life and more the well known ones (say, Westworld - but not to start to live like them. Or Avengers).

One of the huge successes of the past was Dallas. Everyone was watching it but there was zero influence on normal life, it was a tale of aliens on another planet.

So no culture overload for us.
Sure, and I apologize for the confusion.

I have academic licensing at EUR 0 for the pre-built Python wheels packaged for "manylinux" and EUR 1000 for source code availability.

For companies have EUR $X for single geographical site, EUR $Y for multiple sites, and EUR $Z for MIT license.

$X < $Y < $Z. For purposes of this example, say that $X=EUR 5000, $Y=EUR 10000, and $Z=EUR 20000, and that license renewals are 20% of sale price. (These aren't the actual prices, but not unreasonably different.)

That means world-wide license renews for EUR 2 000 and MIT license renews for EUR 4 000.

I had several clients with MIT licensing who switched to my (IMO generous) proprietary license to save a few thousand euro. The primary difference is the lack of a redistribution right, which means their value on that right is less than EUR 2 000.

(I think the one company which continues to pay for MIT licensing does so because they see it as a way to provide extra funding to chemfp within their accounting structure, and not because they want the redistribution right.)

Does that clear things up?
I don't see how deepfake is less dangerous through it availability. Because everyone is now aware? That doesn't mean this tool has to be open. Also no one is making a proper fact-check nowadays and a deepfake attack can do a lot of harm anyway. Or maybe because you can retaliate with counter-deepfake? Well, that's just ridiculous.

What I see is that deepfake is used for a fake-porn videos with a known actresses or some ordinary people for harassing and blackmailing them.

I don't see how its availability saves lives.
the ceramic inside is alumina, so same material as both a cutoff wheel and a grinding wheel. They mention that it's not the best purity and hardness, but it's pretty good.
thanks, makes sense, but doing a cold-outreach on shoe-string and for a lost cause?
a bloomberg terminal isn't a physical terminal. it just runs on your PC
whom exactly to reach out, what should be pitched?
This is exactly why people call a lot of “news” fake news. That news outlet was not doing journalism but rather a smear piece for the purpose of views. The guy was 16. Everyone would be fired if they dug up everyone that was done in their teens years and accountable for it today.

This is news outlet abusively used their power without caring for the consequences of what it would to this man.

I’m getting really tired of this shaming. I oppose gay marriage, I oppose abortion, and while they’re are racists, I don’t believe their is institutional fascism taking place based upon the color of skin.

...but that is what makes our country great. We can have different view points. We can have discussions. When we take away those we begin to turn into a society similar to China where it’s not acceptable to have differing views and certainly not discussion.
> he declared that the Allies could not possibly have deciphered his Enigma messages

One should always assume deciphering.

I would have used one-time pads on top of the Enigma. There weren't that many U-boots, so it should have been workable.
The remarkable thing about the culture around Stripe is that they still get the credit for the things they did well in those early days, even though they are far from the same service now that they've scaled up.

Objectively, today's Stripe is often a relatively expensive and unreliable way to collect money from your customers. The API and developer documentation are no longer as simple and effective as they once were, particularly if you need things like PSD2. Something fundamentally changed about Stripe's support a few years ago, and it seemed like almost overnight they went from routinely having knowledgeable people replying with helpful suggestions to having people who can't even be bothered to read your message before hitting whatever button sends boilerplate reply #74 with platitudes #27 and #53 at the start and end.

Much of this is understandable. Obviously you're not going to get senior people from an organisation the size of Stripe today personally responding to messages the way they used to. Some of the complexity due to PSD2 itself has been forced on them. Appealing to a wider range of merchants with more diverse needs is inevitably going to make some parts of the system more complicated.

However, the hero worship they still seem to enjoy in various forums, including this one, is remarkably cult-like now. Recommending the Stripe you remember from days gone by, particularly if you haven't recently used any of the other services now competing for the online payments market, might even be harmful to those starting small businesses today, who might be better served by one or more of the alternatives and should at least be considering the full range of options available to them.
Yeah, I fell bad about asking my customers to renew their support contract when they don't send me any support or feature requests during the year.

But they do, so I must be doing something right.
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I think you're giving Haskell too much credit... In my experience most abstractions need to be replaced because of performance requirements - achieving lower latency, higher throughput, etc. That's the reason to go with UDP instead of TCP. Not sure if this sort of leakiness falls under what Joel had in mind though.
I think we Haskellers have to be realistic and say that although it feels that many of our abstractions are non-leaking, they're only non-leaking in the sense that a modern, triply-glazed, thoroughly insulated house is non-leaking of heat compared to a draughty, cold house built 200 years ago. There are indeed leaks, but they are small and generally ignorable.
Corruption is relative. Something can be more corrupt than something else.
Saying whether something is corrupt isn't helpful because most things are corrupt to a certain extent.=
> It takes care of carry over values in division, i.e. consider 1 dollar divided by 3, it'll return 3 currency instances with 34, 33, 33 as the values instead of 33.3333.

I think the proper/common name for this is 'allocation', not 'division'.

For example, see https://frontstuff.io/how-to-handle-monetary-values-in-javas... and look for the subheading 'Pitfall #3: Percentage vs. allocation'.
If they'd committed whatever crime 'disturbing the peace' is then they would be charged with that, not released. The fact they were released without charge is evidence enough that they shouldn't have been arrested in the first place.

I don't think people are trying to stick it to Trump. People have been angry about police brutality and police killing black civilians for a long time. The LA riots were 30 years ago, and things haven't really changed that much since then - there are still cases of the police killing people with far too much regularity. This is a political issue, but it's one that crosses party boundaries. People are only really angry about Trump because he's in office at the moment; if it was a different president they'd be angry at him.
> Steveslist currently has a very simple and slightly fragile cron setup. We have a single “scheduled jobs server”. We use crontab on this server ... This setup isn’t scaling very well ... We’re considering setting up a new system using a modern tool like Kubernetes.

Do people use Kubernetes for running scheduled jobs like this? It seems like it'd be overkill but in saying that I'm not sure if I know of anything that can be used for running scheduled tasks in a reliable and observable way that's scalable. Maybe Jenkins?
If your metric is being "not as bad as China" regarding civil rights, you will loose many, many freedoms in the short to medium term. Because you can justify a lot of overreach, so exactly what was happening the last decade.
VSCode semantic highlighting is mentioned by the author, and it does support these type of use cases. It works by first doing normal syntax highlighting, then asynchronously getting the semantic info for semantic highlighting, since it's a much slower process.

The current language-specific implementations do use it to just augment the syntax highlighting, since that is what is what most people would expect. But out of the box it already supports some use cases the author mentioned, such as different highlighting for imports or constants. The full AST and type info can be used for this (depending on the language server), so pretty-much anything is possible.

What I personally find very useful (and had to hack experimental support for) is highlighting of TypeScript async/Promise values and functions. This is something that a language server can identify easier than humans, and can make a big difference in coding.
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This should also make us wonder if the news about China, Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia are smear pieces too.
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What podcasts do you recommend today to a HN audience?

Personally, I'm looking for podcasts in my niche: Rust, Ruby, OpenSource, Web and/or (Open)Data.
Ride something from the early 80s, before they went to neon colors.
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I've used the 1.x release, and the Mongo requirement was always a bit of a pin. I think v2 fixes that, but I haven't yet upgraded. Anyone has feedback on v1 vs v2?
Ah, so with the MIT license option they have the right to redistribute the source code, but you're asking them not to do that, as it would undercut your business? And most of your customers comply, as they have their own interest in holding their code close to the vest?

This seems like a highly unusual structure, I can't think of a single other example where "made available under MIT license" does not also imply "code published." But I think I can see where it makes sense for you.
> 1. Cops pull over people and arrest them all the time using unmarked cars - why is it an issue now?

Well, the entire context. The first is that they are barely marked, you mention this in point #2, but a badge that just says "police" with no further identification or badge number is basically anonymity. How do you report abuse in this situation?

In addition to this, you have a historical precedent where right wing groups have gone on patrols through the streets of Portland to beat up non-binary folks and where they've stopped to beat up people for flicking them off when they drive through with a trump flag. I gotta ask, who is stupid enough to not entertain the thought this is just another escalation? Especially in the moment.

Thirdly they're actively telling people that, if they're followed, they'll shoot them. That's pretty low in the accountability standards.

> 3. These people are being arrested and released - doesn't sound like kidnapping to me. Sounds like law enforcement doing their job.

Kidnapping doesn't entail being kept indefinitely, it means being whisked off the street at the threat of violence into a stranger's vehicle.

Every other time in history, this has been bad, but this is the one outlier, right? That's pretty convenient.
There is also Dolphin Smalltalk[0] which is an open source Smalltalk with native Win32 UI support.

[0] https://github.com/dolphinsmalltalk
this is a pretty common use-case for ci/cd tools.

azure devops, jenkins, concourse, drone, gitlab, ...

also a lot of etl tooling has this stuff (airflow comes to mind immediately)

there's also nomad which is easy to run and can schedule a lot of jobs pretty quickly, with decent observability.

there's... a surprising amount of tooling in this exact space!
Does this also apply for users outside the US? Because that could hopefully become very expensive. Not that I don't feel for US users, but any lever against these practice should be used to the fullest extend.
Curious if you have a source on the x64 part I can read up more about?

Mainly wondering if I buy an ARM Windows device today, is it just a matter of upgrading Windows somewhere down the line for x64 support? Or will I have to shell out for brand new hardware?
Think it runs a cloud hosted browser in your browser similar to browserling.com
off topic: I like the simplistic design of this website. Can someone please help me understand if this is hosted on WordPress or something like that?
Doesn't mean they're not submitting articles around to grow awareness of the platform/their brand.
The Soviet Union was not a multi-party democracy so I agree with you but it’s not relevant to the point I was making. With respect to the US, my guess is what‘s happened is both parties have drifted in the same direction, so the position of the “centre” (in the absence of mandatory voting defined as the median between the two parties rather than the median of the population) has moved too. Of course, I only have remote observer status - I’m not living it like most of those present in this discussion are.
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Stripe is the most popular option out of not many options. So, when you ask a developer what's their favorite payments API, chances are they are going to say Stripe. Which isn't surprising at all.

It's just yet another post on how Stripe are customer centric.
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My first business that used Stripe was with them from their early days in the UK, and my recollection is very different to yours. They were potentially a bit more expensive in terms of fees than getting a separate merchant account and payment gateway set up, but not hugely so and at least they were consistent and transparent about those fees.

Moreover, they were vastly different in terms of the ease of integration. To take card payments via the traditional big banks and other established services, you didn't just have to put up with awful APIs and worse documentation, you also had to put up with onerous application processes that could take days to collect the required information to apply, then weeks to approve (or not), and even then often imposed severe restrictions for businesses with no trading history up to and including piercing agreements for company officers, large and long-lasting reserves being withheld, etc. The only other game in town for setting up online card payments reasonably quickly and easily at that time was PayPal, which had a reputation somewhere between Satan and the devil even then.

Of course none of this is unique today, and there are now many other services available for taking payments via card or many other methods. But in those days, it truly was a game-changer. As much as I criticise Stripe for its more recent failures, I also give credit where it's due: many small businesses, including at least one of my own, would not have gotten off the ground as early as they did without Stripe.
I cannot reproduce, unfortunately. But I half-conciously agreed to some modal/popup telling me I got some award and wether I wanted to show it. At least, that is what I remember, but it might have been a modal telling me they were going to show it, rather than asking.
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"worse" perhaps based on whatever scale you're using.

Starting illegal wars and overthrowing governments to put in puppets tends to be quite atrocious, but I guess if you benefit from it, no problems then.
It doesn't happen for entire families, but black people in the US are also detained in large numbers for minor charges and sent to prison where they become forced laborers. It's not as openly targeted, and it's happening to lots of non-black people as well, but it's not nothing. It is an important part of US manufacturing at this point.
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for those looking for another open source task tracker, taskwarrior[1] is a good cli option. You can use VIT[2], curses-based front-end to taskwarrior. I don't use VIT, but taskwarrior integrates nicely with vimwiki using taskwiki[3].

[1] https://taskwarrior.org/
[2] https://github.com/scottkosty/vit
[3] https://github.com/tools-life/taskwiki