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I don't understand why they can't have a status page "without google" (or something like S3 or anything behind cloudflare). Can someone explain?
The content of the article does not really make a technical argument. It just says "XUL can not be fast, because I said so". The code of Firefox has always been a historical grown mess with a lot of loose ends that need to be entangled. I'm convinced that a XUL version can be made fast as well if you spend the appropriate amount of engineering hours on it.
Nice list! But I'm curious how you plan to improve the comparability? Static analysis covers a wide range, and I'd dare to say a beautifier is a little bit different than a rule checker, which is again a little bit different than an absence-of-error prover.

Disclaimer: I work in the field and am probably a bit biased ;)
I agree it's hardly a yearly event, but this is definitely the even he is referring to. Theoretically yearly would be a better term.
This reminds me of the hacking community of the Amazon Kindle. The firmware developers said they could have blocked it out harder but didn't because they didn't want to cripple the device for hackers. Apparently the Kindles run awesome windows manager.

I used to be into eink displays but the contrast ratio is too low and it looks too blurry for me so I went back to screens. Eye strain was the first reason they said eink was good for eye strain. Turns out it's the DPI or PPI, so essentially an iPad with retina is less eye strain. I use AMOLED to read since I read that the wavelengths of blue light also are bad.
Same here. MUDs got my unix / network / C programming up to par (and to this day, decades later, I still work in the field). Incidentally, "my" MUD still runs (some 25 years after its start), although it's not thriving by any means. More like 2-3 concurrent players at a peak (we used to be small anyways, our max concurrent players peaked at some 40 in the late 90s and early 00s). There's still new people picking it up and raving about the depth of content in it though, so at least that makes me happy :)
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Our experience is that add-on developers didn't like that. Only the few add-on developers that actually made money from their add-ons could afford to rewrite their code every 6 weeks.

Clarifying the article.
Somewhat relevant: apparently DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes had serious security flaws in its early days after release. [0] Can anyone comment on this and whether it should colour our impressions here?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22490390
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There is RSS-Bridge which is doing exactly that: A plugin per website, common libraries.

A pragmatic approach. Trying to build a generalized framework handling each and every edge case promises endless complexity.

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
No, I'm saying you can pay as much as you want, you cannot know which person will generate the best returns. What's your process for picking the person?
If mass of universe remains the same, so should any form of energy within it (since they are interchangeable according to my layman's high school knowledge of Einstein's stuff). Or you meant something else?
How many Linux eink tablets or tablets with Linux are out there? I'm not being sarcastic I don't know of any other ones unless you count Android as linux and I don't even know if there are any aside from the pine tablet and I dont think it's out yet either.
An open source video game about the confinement (in the context of Switzerland)
But you should also account for up to 100-200ms network latency (especially with mobile networks) plus some rendering time. A 200ms server response time can already lead to a perceived 500ms loading time.
Uhhh... last time I checked, Assange colluded with Russia to give us Trump. Whoever nominated him, probably himself, is a deranged motherfucker. They actually think his actions resulted in peace?!?

We are wildly less safe worldwide in every possible way. Climate change was neglected. All environmental standards became toilet paper. Iran now has nukes. North Korea has nukes. Russia is seizing neighboring countries with the blessing of Trump. China has gone rogue. And the US is locking up children in cages. Which part of that sounds like resounding peace?

If Assange were American, I’d nominate him for treason.
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So it looks like the root namespace providers output a totally reasonable amount of traffic. Divided between the hundreds of points of presence globally, this is tens of megabits per physical host.

This FAQ is illuminating: https://www.verisign.com/en_US/domain-names/internet-resolut...

The servers themselves are ordinary 1 RU physical rack mount servers with 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps Ethernet. Nothing special. I'm guessing that most of the load isn't from the root, e.g.: "j.root-servers.net", but from hosting the authoritative DNS servers for .com and .net (b.gtld-servers.net) on the same box. That would surely have more traffic and much more data.
There used to be a cooking school in New Orleans that taught it. But this was before the hurricane so I don't know if it's still there. It was aimed at amateur cooks rather than professionals.

Here's a list of current cooking schools in New Orleans:

https://gonola.com/food-drink-in-new-orleans/new-orleans-coo...

Might be a great idea for a Masterclass series online.
That's pure theory. How do you know who is marginally better?
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> was why would I use this when slack video and live share has been fine

To be able to share your code with people not using VSC. We are also optimizing a lot the video quality and we are going to add more integrations soon to the video chat. As we are focused only on developers we can do a lot of things that Slack video can't.
HTAs were not cross-platform; Electron is. Furthermore HTML5 and JS are much more capable now than they were prior to Windows Vista.

That's why Electron is popular and HTA wasn't. But Electron is still the worst possible example of the resource inefficiency of static linking.
This is an incredible deep dive. I’ve had the fortune of seeing some of the people from pentest partners at a talk at my university, and it was one of the most interesting talks of my degree. I wish more people outside the security community played with all levels of the stack a bit more. It’s incredible to see what people can come up with.
Caltrain runs once an hour for half of the day. You're screwed if you don't know exactly when you'll get to the station and find a parking spot.
For many years now I've been a proponent of "never update unless you absolutely need to". I just updated my old Macbook Pro to Catalina and now it gets ridiculously hot watching even simple YT videos.
I guess the lesson is, when an advisor rejects your thesis idea, get them to put their reasons in writing.
Should Google Project Zero also switch to 7 days?
Your experience is very similar to mine. I got most of my early programming chops doing C programming on a MUD. I also had the experience of a very religious mother throwing away all of my DnD / fantasy related games, because of the craze about satanic symbols that swept through the US in the late 80s/90s. I wish my kids would play DnD together - I can't imagine a more wholesome activity to be honest. Haha.

I also much more enjoyed MUDs than WoW and the various mmorpgs. There was less polish, more "secrets" that only a few people knew about, lots to explore and discover and things always being added. The games felt organic and interesting interactions developed simply because the logic was not locked down (including bugs that lead to interesting behavior). I enjoyed WoW, especially with friends, but it felt a lot more like a skinner box with nice graphics. Nothing in it ever compared to some of the epic experiences I had on MUDs.

I would concur with others here that the sandbox environment of Roblox is pretty awesome. My son especially gets up to all kinds of crazy creativite stuff - like making a TIE fighter recreation and various Boeing models in Build a Boat for Treasure. Like MUDs of yore, there are plenty of bugs and lack of polish that make things even more interesting.
Unions only seem to benefit the union leaders. Union membership have long dropped precipitously for decades for over 50 years at least. Programmer are in no danger of being stuck like McDonald's workers. They're free to work elsewhere and the NDA are as good as toilet paper.
It was some very short-lived MUD just recently started by a few people, and it quickly shut down.

As a player I was active in BatMud, but fortunately lost all my in-game money in the in-game casino one time, which gave me enough motivation to quit playing it. It was fun, but also grindy, and a huge timesuck.

I wonder how many hours I spent typing "cast magic missile at monster".
From article:

> Users on such networks might be shown the “did you mean” infobar on every single-term search. To work around this, Chromium needs to know if it can trust the network to provide non-intercepted DNS responses.

Don't know if this is the sole reason.
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Do you and/or your investors have preferred stock/liquidation preferences? If so, that dramatically reduces the value of employees' stock and creates a misalignment of incentives, and my impression is that that misalignment has been the biggest source of horror stories of employees getting screwed.

If a $250M exit will make you rich, your investors happy, and your employees nothing, and you and your investors are the ones who get to decide whether to take that exit, your employees are right to value their equity grants at approximately $0. (That's not a knock on you specifically, of course - it's a claim about the importance of incentives.) Or maybe less than $0 - if you work at an established company with all cash comp you don't have to deal with watching your boss become a multimillionaire based on your hard work.
>No need to pay Apple anything for any storage.

Except the storage on the mac I back up to of course. Which I have no desire to buy.
> Eye strain was the first reason they said eink was good for eye strain

This is tautological. Do you mean 'front lighting'?
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I'm tempted to do just this, but I don't really need the extra capacity just yet. I might wait for a few people to perfect the technique. I hope there's going to be a write-up of the different attempts on the remarkable wiki [1]

Since the remarkable has a micro USB port, does anyone know if it supports OTG devices?

It's such an awesome device. 90% of its awesomeness comes from the fact that they respect the GPLv3 license and give you root access to it trough ssh out-of-the-box (random password and requires activating it).

If I get enough time on my hands, I'm probably going to port postmarketOS on it.

[1] https://remarkablewiki.com/tips/start
Do you know which book?
I agree and also think it's stupid to think you'll get better leaders by paying huge salaries. Would you rather see Ken Lay manage this fund?
I wouldn't apply this policy to road warriors even if they spend most of the time in a location you have under control.
May I suggest "The Art of Computer Programming" by Donald E. Knuth then ? This is considered as the Graal of computer science (I didn't study it but it's on my to-do list though ).
It's here. https://docs.rsshub.app/en/

By the way, I've been using this for a while and it is superb.
There are more than just antibodies involved in the immune response. (It wasn't my intention to timestamp the video, I just grabbed what was in the url bar).
When I take mine to meetings I feel like a hipster, luckily I mostly work from home. It's great, but flawed in some annoying ways - sofware updates have fixed some of the issues but they've been slow in coming and I'm not confident they won't dry up now the focus is shifting to the Mk2 device. Use it all the time, but find it hard to recommend!
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I think modern business websites should actually look & feel similar for expectation management and user experience reasons.

Whats your favorite business website example on content, structure and layout for this, per category:

A) product website
B) multi-product website
C) Platform/Marketplace
D) B2B ecommerce
E) Government
F) Service Company / Agency
Reasonable quantity of traffic, but they have to be very reliable.
I know research is good, but you really don't need research to figure that out. You don't want to feel screwed over
Yet we handle influenza that way every year. Covid is a worse virus, but not orders of magnitude worse.
Seamless is a weird word to use in the context of the posted article.
Every year I buy a 1 year license off amazon for the photography plan (which includes both lightrooms and Photoshop). It works out cheaper (£89 for the year instead of £10 x 12)

Each year I revaluate the alternatives, but so far they always come up short.
It easier to blame the tool then the culture and human nature.

Those tools just exposed many people subjective/inner feelings/views to the surface. It is up to leader to learn how to deal with the exposure.

I agree that these need to better managed and leaders need to step up, but the older culture of repressing and hiding info is gone in this age, and leader need to learn how to lead in today's world effectively.
For casual readers,
`dip` pops the top of the stack, executes a quotation, then pushes the top of the stack back on.

So this pops the max value off the stack, applies the quoted `max` word to the x and min stack values, then pops the max value back on the stack and applies the `min` word to the result and the max.
Prick testing works pretty well right, I mean you can see if your immune system reacts to the different things. Where did you read it was a scam?
More recently, see the development of reverse factoring, where the customer initiates financing for its purchases from its suppliers. It's dangerous, as you can imagine; if the customer can't pay for its invoices, instead of being indebted to a supplier, they are in default to their creditor. See Greensill, a $1.5bn-from-Softbank startup that is involved in several recent crises among its creditors in the UK (see https://www.ft.com/content/d5a5951f-bab8-4ea8-b0d7-2b70455c9..., and for a more indepth explanation of what reverse factoring is (with jokes also), see https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-iyz8z-e06e88)
No real data, only someone extrapolating
Capture One is the main professional rival for an integrated asset management, raw processor, and non destructive retoucher. Darktable is the most popular open source alternative.
> Negative results are important. Null results are of very limited interest.

Correct. There is a highly cited paper in CS where the author showed that a mathematical model that was widely used in research didn't actually work (anymore) in reality. That paper was the starting point of a lot of new research in that field.
Or get rid of that pesky user leon
Google's anti-competitiveness is easily the biggest reason Firefox doesn't have a majority market share. I would argue, however, that several of those things are the reasons Firefox can't hold onto a minority share either. Sure XUL, themes, tabs on bottom, etc were never going to keep Firefox on top but they might have been enough to hold onto 10%.

Google is evil so I still use Firefox, but it just feels like Chrome without Google. The evangelizing passion I had for it ever since version 1.5 is dead and Mozilla killed it.
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Would it be possible for you to upload the paper to researchgate.net ?
It is an improvement over the current situation but the question remains what these journals are good for besides gobbling up money that should go to research instead. There are preprint servers. If they can create a comment system where scientists can leave comments what are journals good for anymore?
Apologies, SQL for almost everything, and sed for the text files that didn't get updated.

It appeared to work a few times (or at least my wife/her customers didn't complain).
At least in your analogy no one comes to your garage and replaces your car with a bike....
Metadata is a valuable place for finding information like load times, rows inserted / updated. Currently we just rely on read-access and raw SQL. A common way users are doing this now (and we are internally for our analytics data) is using, for example, the Fivetran logs table to monitor ingestion times and inserted rows, rather than querying the raw tables.

For CICD, absolutely we want to support this as well as stopping/conditional execution in DAGs (e.g. airflow). We’re launching webhooks very soon
Because it's inconsistent. If you allow drivers to work without protections you should allow everyone to work without protections.

There are some issues though; for one the state ends up subsidising workers who don't have good unemployment and health insurance.

The best solution would be UBI - give people enough money to live on while removing worker protections like minimum wage and mandatory insurances.
As a non-academic: this journal will presumably end up with a low impact factor, right? So it might help with the problem of negative results not getting published at all, but it doesn't address the 'academic penalty' for getting negative results, right?

Seems to me that preregistration [0] is the real answer here. If all journals went with preregistration, there'd be no need for a journal like this, right?

[0] https://plos.org/open-science/preregistration/
We discussed a lot about this and we were very close to have Webstorm today. We decided to launch anyway because we already previously postponed it and we didn't want to be finding excuses to not launch.

Btw you can signup and select Webstorm and will tell you as soon as we have it.
I am not blaming tech - I doubt dating has become harder when everyone got mobile phones -, I am blaming the adtech industry which is well-known for shady practices, dark patterns, and other UX/algorithmic shenanigans designed to maximize engagement on their apps, regardless of whether the app users derive personal happiness from it. It's not controversial, even on HN where half the demographics is on adtech jobs, to remind people that the goal of dating apps is to keep you on them, and if you find a fulfilling relationship, you won't stay on the apps, so they are incentivized to make sure you don't find a fulfilling relationship. Hence the headline: dating has become harder.

As for Houellebecq, his books are mostly about how gen X dudes feel empty inside - the crude prose and extremely plain writing style make for an interesting couple of books but there's very little beyond it. He also somehow makes the argument that men would be somehow less frustrated in places where people have less agency in their dating choices, which is an interesting, if unproved assertion - it would be nice if any citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, or Algeria, or Pakistan on HN could chime in and say if they agree with it.
Lobster needs invite for registration, does it not? That has prevented me from signing up there in the past. I do not want to beg for an invite.
And anyone who tries to build your software on another distribution will feel the pain.
A few dishes or shallow bowels with water around the garden, refilled frequently, will attract a great number of insect, birds and other animals as well. We frequently see squirrels drinking from a bowl placed on the garden wall for example. Make sure to put some pebbles or branchlets into them, it will help insects get out if they fall in.

Also: stone piles can host a lot of animals as well.
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> 100%, not the 70%

Are these real numbers on the markup of e-delivery companies or just examples?
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I feel like this has happened to an entire category of games, broadly defined as "Games you can pay for and play".

Those don't exist anymore. The only games that get released now are "Free games that you pay to make less annoying, repeatedly".

There was a point around iOS8 where studios started scrambling to modify their games from the first category into the 2nd. So previously complete and balanced games like Civilization Revolution started getting new wonders and leaders that you could pay for (that the AI gets for free). Fortunately in that case, they released a completely separate Civ Rev 2 that was built with that crap from the ground up so they didn't need to finish ruining the first one.

But they certainly aren't about to release compatibility updates for those old games, so I keep an old iPad Air with a cracked screen around and carefully navigate the upgrade nag screen every single day to keep it safely on iOS8 so that the last handful of good mobile games remain playable.

One dead battery or mis-tap on the upgrade screen, and they'll be gone forever.
Unions are democratic entities. They do what their members want them to do.
Quow's mush client Discworld plugins package has made it very easy to jump back on to the disc.
I made a simple clamp function based on this
const clamp = (num, min=0,max=100) => Math.min(Math.max(num, min), max)
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In the real world, you can't spend an infinite amount of money on a car. There is a limit. The margin will come up at some point unless the driver is completely irrational.
> I have not yet determined what melts this glue, or how to “properly” take the back off.

One trick is to heat the device to 60-70°C. You can use heated bed of a 3D printer.
Thank you for sharing these details, however what you've described seems to fall under "visa abuse" in eyes of developed countries who offer startup visas... mocking up something one weekend in order to go live in the country certainly goes against the spirit of these visas.
I'm 32 and even I felt old reading that. :D
Employee equity is so tiny, only a handful of companies have been able to retire rank-and-file employees, even after big exits. Founders, on the other hand, do quite well in exits usually.
Sorry English isn't my mother tongue, so I didn't see a way to make it short and not condescending hence the warning.

May I interest you in one of my earlier comment to show you how dysfunctional a company can be (to put things in perspective : my boss was a software engineer before becoming the boss, our company has something like 25 millions € per year and the certificate should cost a few hundred euros) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24220464

Dysfunctional indeed.