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>services that cannot handle ED25519 (including AWS -- yes, still, even in 2020.)

I assume this is about provisioning VMs, and even then only about setting the initial ssh key at provisioning time? I can't imagine why AWS would care what kind of ssh keys a VM uses after it's been provisioned.

If so, you can just create a temporary RSA key used to provision the VM, immediately replace it with an ed25519 one and throw away the RSA one. That's what I do with Azure VMs since Azure has the same RSA-only requirement silliness for what amounts to writing a blob of user-provided text to a file.
You get over it if you use it enough. For me its now the opposite. For a while
I keep accidentally trying to do Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V, but now I find myself trying to
go into Visual mode or Normal mode in programs that dont support that.

I started off with a bunch of mappings, then you can remove them as you get
comfortable. Now I only really have mapped "nmap H :nohlsearch<CR>" and "xmap S
:sort<CR>".

Whats really tricky is using Vim without the Arrow keys. Normally I am on a
desktop so it doesnt matter, but when I use a laptop it makes more sense to use
HJKL. Again its just something that you need to force yourself to do or you wont
get comfortable with it.
I agree with the upgrade hate on this page but ...

There are lots exceptions. Instagram is a hosted image service not an app. There is an app, that app is just a front end for the service. Being a service it's no different than any other service. You go into a restaurant, you like the ambiance. You go back and they've remodeled and you no longer like it. You go to the bakery and enjoy the friendly person behind the counter. They quit and you don't like their replacement. etc...
This makes me so happy. As someone who works in the advertising sector, I'm happy to hear the bells tolling for the creepy tracking companies.
It’s interesting he mentioned media such as ROMs because I often wish I could force the system to pretend that certain things really are in ROM: “I don’t want you to touch them, even if you otherwise would”.

Of course, ridiculous bundling of software features makes any partitioning difficult.

A recent macOS update is a good example of ridiculous bundling: half the release notes (and the first notes listed) for this “OS update” were for “Apple News+”, and the other actual OS update notes — that looked infinitely more important — were left to scroll out of view. To hell with Apple News+!! Features of an application (that I do not even subscribe to) should never have become part of the OS, much less updated through first-class bundling with fixes to the OS itself!
I was just out watching the meteor shower myself and it was quite dark skies (milky way visible) and didn't experience anything like that.
It's per state. For example, Texas has zero taxes due until you exceed approximately $1.1M in gross receipts, and then it maxes out at 1%, and no annual fees of any kind (unless you forget to file your usually one-page tax return and information reports, in which case it's $50 each.) Combined with an S-Corp and relatively low U.S. federal taxes, your combined tax bite can be very low indeed.
Purer Scents
No you got it the wrong way around. The power is in the hands of the user.

> That will never happen as long as shareholders are the only people that companies are legally beholden to

The user has a choice not to use products that are made by companies that don't respect them.

> That will never happen as long as developers insist that their happiness is more immportant than that of their users

The user can simply stop using the software if the developer doesn't respect their time (happiness is a completely subjective property dependant on the individual).

So I say this will never happen while people won't actively move for alternatives and put up with crappy products.

I made the effort to stop using products from large companies that don't respect my privacy and don't respect freedom of speech of their users. So whenever possible I don't use any products from the large tech companies.

If people can't be bothered and choose to be ignorant, they deserve what they get.
Calling it now:

After Epic's claim to "secure our freedom", Apple replies that they are "freeing our security" by only allowing verified payment methods.
Two more quick things. One, you probably know this, but a business must make money a certain number of years in a period (I think it’s 2 out of 5, but I haven’t checked that in a while), or else you lose the business presumption. You only have to make $1 in those years, so it’s an easy enough test to meet. Two, if your major business is buying and selling things, even if you treat it as a hobby, you could deduct the cost of goods sold against your revenue. You can always deduct the basis cost of something you sell, people do it all the time for cars, houses, art, horses, etc etc. If COGS is the major cost of your business, then you should always be able to deduct that even if you can’t deduct incidental costs like internet service and accountant’s fees. If your accountant doesn’t agree, time to get a new accountant.
These law weren’t enacted to keep people with less wealth out, but because people with less wealth were fraudulently victimized in mass.

The masses now are most certainly just as, if not more, susceptible to fraud now then they ever were. Then people were literally selling stock certificates on the street, now people line up like sheep to be lead to the slaughter and fight their way to the front.

This may be celebrated like a much needed deregulation, but this was pushed by some deep pocketed special interests that can’t wait to give the unemployed masses the ability to day trade right from their phones.
Show HN: One-Shot Recognition of Manufacturing Defects in Steel Surfaces
Real Estate Exterior Photography Tips and Tricks
I am looking forward to LEO satellite networks that are connected to the Internet. Won't be easy to suppres yoir people then.
Facebook and Google may use it but it serves, more or less, as a front-end to something else. Especially at Google, where it is optional to use Mercurial at all.
> Heptapod is a community driven effort to bring Mercurial SCM support to GitLab™, started by Octobus, a company providing professional services around Mercurial.

What do search trends have to do with a community effort to bring fully featured open source version control tool support to dev-ops management software? Is your comment aimed at the sponsors?[0]

[0] https://heptapod.net/pages/sponsors.html#sponsors
The Piaggio II (https://www.aircraftcompare.com/aircraft/piaggio-p180-avanti...) is missing several modern aerodynamic and efficiency features like winglets and gets 15MPG and has a 1600 Mile range. Significantly beating it’s fuel efficiency at similar speeds seems reasonable just eyeballing the two designs. Getting the full 20MPG at 450MPH might be a stretch, but it’s not all that unreasonable.

Also, higher aerodynamic efficiency means lower HP requirements. Moving that weight savings to fuel can
boost range even further.

PS: Winglets are actually really old technology. It’s making the trade offs worth it including significantly increased weight at the wing tip that’s new.
Paul Whelan, Trevor Reed.
Emacs is the only major piece of software that I look forward to upgrading. With everything else it's a worry about what functionality will I lose this time.
Code for my recent paper. Feedback appreciated. Thank you. :)
I think that the website of the io language is one of the most expressive ones.

https://iolanguage.org/
On Mac, there is Karabiner-Elements.

https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24286955
Navionics had a variety of bathymetric charts in the app store that underwent a similar fate when they were bought by Garmin. It didn't matter that I'd paid $20-$30 (forget the exact value) for a lifetime license on a piece of software; they felt the need to shove a crippling update onto the version I'd paid for before releasing a new product line.

On the bright side, in the years since I bought their app a free, better competitor was released, but I still don't think that absolves them of their responsibility.
Coronavirus study in Spanish summer camps shows low transmission among children
NFS is a really slow churning wheel. I think you’ll probably first see an inefficient generic option to tunnel tcp over quic (on both ends) that someone will hack to support nfs before you see an NFSv5 with quic support.
Pour one out for Lake Charles, though. It's not a major city, but it's right in the blast zone of this monster storm.
Context matters. So 3d sculpting software or CAD do not deeply need automatic updates, although it can greatly reduce support requests (e.g. something in the OS changed, software is now crashing, need to install update).

The state of play in 2020 however is that operating systems and browsers 100% need automatic updates for security issues. The reason we have them is because of all the bad things that happened when we didn't.

There should then be a very small switch hidden somewhere deep in the system where people like you who know what they are doing can turn them off. For the people who are using the software to say, run the electrical grid and a) care more about stability than security and b) pay people to write scathing reports about all the patches they're not installing.

IMHO there is a sticky middle ground with respect to office suites and email clients where the software is widespread enough that bugs are wormable.

Updates as a whole are inter-twingled with the developer's support and release model, how they a/b test and general maturity in terms of managing change. I feel like we're often complaining about different aspects of this when we talk about "updates".
And they love to do so without much or any notice to developers.
This is optimized for really long distance flight, thousands of miles. That’s the whole point. Cruise height of 30,000ft, I think.

Why would you be shocked by flying at heights comparable to typical jet aircraft flying similar distances?
Learn Vim (the builtin way):

:help
Sure, I use VSCode and Intellij and all the beautiful modern IDEs. But I use them with Vim keybindings turned on. Because extremely common things that you do while programming are extremely quick for me to do with vim commands.

ci" == delete everything within these quotes, and put me in insert mode.
vi{:%s/old_var_name/new_var_name/g == rename a variable within a block
qaI"<ESC>A",<ESC>jq == make a new macro to quote a line of text and add a comma at the end. Great for taking a bunch of strings I've copied from a text file and putting them into a list in code. But the point here is not this specific macro; I can do all sorts of minor text processing macros for the dumb thing I have to do, and not manually process 100 lines of text to turn it into a piece of json.
Ask HN: Can we talk about subverting/stealing the election?
Is talking about if the Presidential election might be subverted or stolen OK on Hacker News? Does it meet the HN guidelines for an appropriate topic?
And we get back to the “problem”. Any app that wanted to do harm wouldn’t opt in to use UWP. If you are only going to use apps that can use UWP you might as well use an iPad and not deal with the bloat of Windows which is still a horrible experience on a tablet or convertible. Windows and Macs are “insecure by design”. They almost have to be to be more usable than the iPad. That’s not meant to be a criticism toward Windows. All either Apple or Microsoft can do is throw up dialogs and people just become accustomed to clicking on “Ok”.
They broke too much of the universe in the first season. The second and third books are largely unworkable after the changes they made. Like the envoys being revolutionaries in the show but being ultra competent UN soldiers who terrify planets due to their personalities and training in the books. Or Quellcrist Falconer being turned into his girlfriend as opposed to a historical figure. Or not having the retired envoys turned surf bum bank robbing gang.
Governments are supposed to intervene in markets to keep them stable, functional and ethical. Hand-balling all market regulation to ethical individual consumption isn't workable for many industries where companies can monopolize, capture regulation and sway public opinion with advertising campaigns.
Downgrading as a well-managed process is not a popular concept on any platform. Even fairly open ones will generally require you to fully remove the version you have, find an older download file, and install it. And unless you have backups, good luck downgrading your data files back to the older schema.

I imagine a well-managed downgrading system would discourage malicious use of auto updates, developers would need to woo users into continuing to move forward.
What industry do you work in, exactly? I think it would be a very odd thing if I were to ask my co-workers for their phone numbers. They'd probably ask why I needed it, and I'd say "so that I can call you if there's a problem". They'd say "why don't we just use Google Meet, like we do for everything else? Is there something wrong with your mic? I don't understand."
That is not a good metric of democracy. If your only metric of democracy is a poll of an information that actively suppresses information, China is by far the most "democratic" developed country with Western polls showing approval ratings of the CCP at 80+%.

So no, just being polled highly is not sufficient for something being democratically sanctioned. If you want to know if the People agree with what the CIA does let 100 people read the entire archives uncensored without any further justification and see what you get.
Anti-Facebook: Moskovitz's slow-burn second act Asana has its moment
That UI flow doesn't exist for SEPA transactions, which is exactly why these systems came to be. Some of these systems already existed before SEPA came to be in 2014, which necessarily made them national systems (before 2014, cross-border transactions used to be complicated and cost money, even if both countries used the euro).

IIRC, SOFORT used to just ask you for your banking credentials, and then it would just log in to your online banking and put a regular transfer through.

Amazon.de does a nice job by offering direct debit: you put in your IBAN and they automatically debit your account, which works across SEPA. But this seems very fraud-sensitive (you could put in anyone's IBAN), which is probably why it's not more common.
Your numbers don't directly answer the question at all. You're just quoting their government contract volume. That's well and good, but we're talking about the degree to which Palantir works exclusively with the government.

Let me just pull the relevant quote from the S-1 directly for you:

> In 2019, 53% of our revenue came from commercial customers and 47% came from government agencies.

It's on page 88, in case you didn't make it that far.
I love D3, have been using it on and off for years.

The biggest pain point I have coming back to it - esp after a release or two - are the scope of the changes!!

Many methods and properties have changed thus most of the examples, blog posts, and stackoverflow assistance are outdated so it generally takes much longer than I had hoped - but the results are always worth it.
Yeah I was about to say they got hit hard in Houston three years ago and seem to have recovered fine.
NYC is a very rich city. NYC can definitely afford a better subway.

People come to the voting stations and pick the candidate with the most important agenda for them. Obviously, the NYC subway does not seem to be the largest issue.

If you want to blame rich people for that, well, welcome to the USSR.
If it comes even close to the claimed efficiency it could look like a 1961 Skoda and nobody would care
> The DasKeyboard Brings Back the Feel of an IBM Selectric

No. Not even close. Das use Cherry MX switches of various kinds, none of which feel like a Selectric.
Gitea: Open-source(MIT) self-hosted Git service
On a different but similar note. If the exact movie Contagion, shot for shot, had come out next year everybody would hate it for basically being a slight exaggeration and following the news too closely with barely any originality.
How much of that is because of skill as an artist vs just venue and size. In other words what other things would be just as interesting if presented similarly.
They are Indo European, not Proto Indo European. Big difference.

Indo European is a language family.

Proto Indo European is the reconstructed hypothetical language that languages in that family descend from.

There are indeed a huge number of cognates between the descendant languages, but due to the linguistic changes and borrowings that have occurred in the millenia that have elapsed since their divergence, there are also a massive number of false cognates between them also, which likely accounts for the non flattering meanings the GGP was referring to.
> Ultimately, despite our best efforts, Apple’s updates may render Audience Network so ineffective on iOS 14 that it may not make sense to offer it on iOS 14.

Translation: The iOS changes are making the platform more like a printed newspaper. So please continue to spend your ad budget with Facebook because we have X monthly active users and we’re the top in social media.

> We expect less impact to our own advertising business, and we’re committed to supporting advertisers and publishers through these updates.

Translation: We will do everything in our power to track users and collect more information from our already invasive apps. While we’re happy to keep making money here, please continue to advertise with us on our platforms because we have X monthly active users and we’re the top in social media. Innovation is at the heart of what we do. Did you see our TikTok clone in Instagram lately?
Shippos USPS Time in Transit Data
Looks like a very promising alternative to things like Apache Airflow.
Adacats Mentorship Program: A growth journey
Hangouts is the worst in this regard. It hides in a bar off the bottom of the window that only stays visible if your mouse is in the exact correct position. It takes 5 seconds of chasing it to be able to catch it and click it. Why can't it just stay visible??
Very slowly, I assume. From their profile, they do research so maybe they do spend all their time thinking about code rather than writing it, which is great for them, but doesn’t reflect what the vast majority of devs do.
Show HN: Computer Music with Python
Look at temporal.io. Many of the companies use it to replace Airflow.

Disclaimer: I'm tech lead of the project.
"Alano" (Great Dane) in the
English-Italian page is not the best suggestion for a name, careful when adding suffixes at random unless you hate your kid
[previous discussions]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17006503

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17245246

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13451783

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13296717

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21537454
No.

I suggest to read Franklin Zimring's 2017 book, When Police Kill.

We are focused on problem cops but not problem departments.

Not 1 person mentions the failure of local chain of command for setting bad/no policy to deal with police encounters.

Immunity should be removed also from chain of command AND deparments for not producing directives that troops can follow.

Why is it not codified to not shoot when a suspect is running? The ruelbook on proper rules of engagement is surprisingly weak at precinct level and above. Then we go about blaming cops for not having clear limitations on what they can or cannot do.

Leadership loves the lack of accountability. They prefer to sacrificial troop lambs rather than themselves to roast.

And we are happy to oblige them
"Human suffering" seems difficult to assess, and all Industrial Revolution effects will only be known during post-industrial history (maybe after some thermonuclear/bacteriologic war).

Many/most Genghis Khan "victims" are highly debatable: "most of them were victims of plague, floods and famine long after the war in northern China was over in 1234 and were not killed by Mongols" ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan#In_China](Source)).

Even the most certain Genghis Khan victims, resulting from systematic slaughter in non-obedient zones, are postmarks in history because they were very unusual (and probably exaggerated). There are few other pre-industrial similar events, however there are many post-industrial similar ones (extermination camps, genocides, battles of Stalingrad/Verdun ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_by_casualties]..., ...).

IMHO "mostly by accident" invalidates your point.
I find it more intuitive than git. I think it's especially easier to move, split or combine repos, but others will disagree. We used to use it at my company, but at a certain point, it had to be a forced effort to use as opposed to git, which is the default for most tools and incoming engineers.

Now that bitbucket support is gone, I agree it's not worth the effort unless it's already deeply integrated into your tools.
Great Improvements You Can Make to Your Kitchen
Harvey was a much smaller slower hurricane that destroyed tens of thousands of homes due to flooding and was one of the most expensive hurricanes EVER. Houston would be in big trouble with a fast direct hit from a cat 5, largely due to lax building codes.
I know that. The problem was it would switch when the phone switched orientations.
Keeping Dally on the payroll doesn't negate that he initially showed no regard for Dally's nor his own safety, which is a sociopathic trait. It does not make up for Edison's ruthless practices, nor his unbridled ambition and greed. Edison had no respect for Tesla, even cruelly mocking him, behavior you'll find in sociopaths. Edison had a disregard for right and wrong, was consistently dishonest, a compulsive liar, even taking credit for the Fluoroscope which killed Dally, though Tesla had been working on it before Edison irresponsibly began messing around with it. Dishonesty is a sociopathic trait. Edison stiffed Tesla a significant amount of money he owed him for fixing his DC motor, and in fact, Edison would not share any of his wealth. Edison relished being the center of attention, another sociopathic trait. I could compromise with you and say we can't know for certain that he was a sociopath. He may have merely been a narcissist, as there are a number of overlapping symptoms.
Just for clarity on marginal rates ($250k income, single filer, no deductions).

Yes, I just arbitrarily picked $250k. No I ignored SSI+OAIS (US) because it phases out at $137,000.

CA: 35% (fed) + 9.3% (state) + 1.45% (Medicare) = 45.75%

BC: 33% (fed) + 20.5% (province) = 53.5%
The Value of Growth Hacking
> Shareholders can sue if they do not think their interests are being properly represented/manifested.

In general, shareholder recourse is limited to electing a new board that will do what those shareholders want. The exceptions are cases where the actions of the corporation or board are discriminatory to some shareholders, or where there is fraud or self-dealing by insiders (e.g., shareholder derivative suits).

> They can also arbitrarily shuffle senior management as they see fit

Not directly. Shareholders elect the board, which then chooses the managers (CEO, etc.) who actually run the company. Shareholders usually only elect board members once per year at the annual meeting. So it’s not arbitrary.

> Neither customers nor employees can do that

This is true. Customers and employees don’t direct the corporation the same ways that the owners (shareholders) do. However, customers can boycott and employees can strike. Those can be effective ways to influence the direction of a corporation. Also, customers can sue for other things (e.g., fraud or malpractice), as can employees (e.g., employment discrimination). And any injured third party can sue the corporation.