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As an experienced back end developer that has done a bit of ASP/JSP/PHP in the past but really tried to avoid JS. What is the best place to start now? I figure react is #1 but vue looks simpler. Any moocs or books worth reading first? Or dive in and build something?
Exactly. Like in the 30s the government should step in and hire people. Companies can't do that in a recession/depression. However, the other side of Keynesian economics that's not as often cited is that during the good times the government saves up for the inevitable bad times - we haven't done that for a long time.
OMG. you just solved a problem I've had for years and couldn't figure out wtf was happening, or even how to google for it. THANK YOU!
In all the best wavelengths first dawn/dusk observations.
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It’s not quite as good, but for me it falls into the “good enough/pretty good” category. I write quickly so for me latency is very important; the latency on version one is pretty good, and so if they’ve improved that on version two, even better.
That sounds awful - glad I've never encountered it. FYI, you can use a lot of the built-in window management functions via keyboard shortcuts - Windows key + Shift + [Left|Right] arrow key moves a window between monitors.
Are there any real examples of where the money is going for counter terrorism? In the entire article there's only one example, copied below. And it's of $14 million out of billions.

>A review of FEMA grant requests made by the latter state for 2019 through 2020 shows that a large chunk of the nearly $14 million has been sought for law enforcement communication, SWAT training, and bomb detection.

I'm also not sure what more FEMA money would do. As mentioned in the article, they're not worried about running out of money during the initial response to any disaster. If it's serious enough (like Katrina was), I don't doubt more money will be made available. FEMA primarily responds to disasters, and while some money goes to preventive measures, they are not in charge of preventing hurricane damage along the entire coast.
A Case Against Platform Teams
As someone in a similar description as you - i find my lifetime understanding... moderate. Complex lifetime usage still can tweak my brain - notably how i can design it. But simple lifetime usage is intuitive.

A simple example i often run into is wanting to do something with a string, without taking owned parts of the string. Very intuitive how the str matches the lifetime of the owned value.

On the otherhand, the other day i was trying to write a piece of software where:

1. I wanted to deserialize a large tree of JSON nodes. I had the potential to deserialize these nodes without owning the data - since Serde supports lifetimes, i could deserialize strings as strs and hypothetically not allocate a lot of strings.

2. In doing that, because a tree could be infinitely large i couldn't keep all of the nodes together. Nodes could be kept as references, but eventually would need to be GC'd to prevent infinite memory.

3. To do this, i _think_ lifetimes would have to be separate between GC'd instances. Within a GC'd instance, you could keep all the read bytes, and deserialize with refs to those bytes. When a GC took place, you'd convert the remainder partial nodes to owned values (some allocation) to consume the lifetime and restart the process with the owned node as the start of the next GC lifetime. ... or so my plan was.

I have, i think, just enough understanding of lifetimes to _almost_ make that work. I _think_ some allocations would be required due to the GC behavior, but it would still reduce ~90% of allocations in the algorithm.

Unfortunately, i got tired of designing this complex API and just wrote a simple allocation version.

Conceptualizing allocations and the lifetimes to make it work are.. interesting. Especially when there is some data within the lifetime that you want to "break out of" the lifetime, as in my example (where i had a partial node, and i made it owned).

I still think i understand enough to do it - it'll just take a fair bit of thinking and working through the problem.
SMTP is designed to not lose mail in the event a mail server goes down. It's generally days before an email is abandoned (bounced) if the dest server is down for that long. Every other hypothetical you list applies to all services involved.
So it's the Oura ring plus body fat detection and analyzing your voice. Are these two extra things worth paying a monthly subscription? I will probably get it anyway, at least for the first six months, just to play with it and see how much extra value it gives me on top of the Oura.
The data brokers have accumulated towering piles of toxic data, creating a situation where spillage — and the resulting terrible harm to the innocent — becomes statistically inevitable.
Ask HN: Free service for scheduling SMS alerts?
Is there a service out there that will send you texts with custom content and designated times? I know strictly speaking this isn't "free" on the backend, but it's low cost enough I thought there might be a free service that covers the cost in another way. My quick Google search turned up only paid options, surprisingly.

For example, send a text every Wednesday at 7pm to remind me to take the trash out.
Reminds me a bit of [Convos](https://convos.chat/), a nice Perl based client.
I'm far from being an expert, but does your interpretation allow for quantum computation to work? Sounds neat if it does.
I have the Kindle DX, the original(ish) large eReader and it's slow enough to be pretty useless at reading tech docs - which is why I bought it. I'd love to be able to walk into a shop and try the Remarkable or similar out.

I couldn't give a stuff about writing (though it's a nice secondary feature) - I do however want to be able to throw a tech manual at my e-Reader (say, an O'Reilly programming manual) and be able to flip through it back and forth easily like you can on a tablet.

The Remarkable looks beautiful in the link, but gives absolutely no indication as to whether that long-standing core flaw in e-readers has been solved here, which is very, very unreassuring.
Okay, maybe running XP natively on a 4K display was a bit silly. But here's XP in 1080p: https://ibb.co/BB5rsHg

UI elements are still far smaller than comparable ones in Windows 10 or macOS, when those are running at 1080p unscaled. On XP, IE and Explorer both manage to fit four toolbars (rather, a title bar + three toolbars) in 105px of vertical space. On my own macOS Catalina install, Chrome manages to fit only two toolbars in 86 device-independent pixels of vertical space.

Likewise, just consider the fact that people weren't generally looking at PDFs back in the XP era, but rather plaintext, which—as rendered on this image—was exactly 8px tall. A lot of 8px-tall text fits on a 1080p display, no matter how many toolbars you have; and a lot of 8px-tall text will even fit on a 640x480 display, if you make efficient use of the vertical space. But because PDFs use vector fonts, not bitmap fonts, they will look unreadably muddy if you attempt to scale one down such that the text only uses 8px of vertical height. You need more vertical space to look at PDFs.

So, in combination, when you throw a Windows 10, running Google Chrome, displaying a PDF, on a 768p display, it's just an ugly constrained problem.
Caste Statistics in India
I didn’t say it was easy, just easier.
It would work if you can sing out the phrase ;). Basically a real life version of a musical.
There is precedence- or perhaps postcendence- of Walmart making this sort of purchase:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTxjdh2hI1o
That fucks with me all the time. I hate it so much... But I figured out how to deal with it.

Shake the window again, and they will all come back.
>The hard thing is that I don't want Yelp, Google, etc tracking my movements in a 10-meter radius forever, but I want location from a contextual perspective. I don't think you can do that without meaningful policy controls outside of your local computer.

Isn't this just a separate location permission for coarse location (which both OS), and allowing the user to choose between the two (not on either OS, but in iOS 14 beta)?
You'd need a New Deal [1] effort to do so, but both political parties in the US have no appetite [2] for that sort of legislative effort. It might happen if the quantity of suffering increases, but we're not there yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal

[2] https://www.vox.com/2020/8/19/21375039/dnc-2020-democrats-pl...
Goes back to that story of Targets algorithm figuring out a woman was pregnant before she even knew.

I get it, it’s smart and maybe useful? But creepy as hell.
You're onto something with SQL here. It definitely should be a big part of this, especially for the querying data aspect. Of course, we wouldn't query over raw, database data, but over sanitized, secure views.

SQL isn't everything, though. Be aware that such APIs, for security reasons, wouldn't allow you to modify some of the data in arbitrary ways, but require you to use special functions instead. Think of being able to query the number of upvotes, call an upvote function, without being able to just change the upvote count.

Maybe a mix of wasm (as an imperative platform) combined with a structured query API? Maybe a programming language with something like Elixir's Ecto or C#'s LINQ? Not plain SQL, but an imperative language with the power of relational queries?
I trust this about as much as I trust my horoscope. There is a reason economists are scolded left and right, and it's because of ludicrous claims like this.
It could be for someone who doesn't know what k8s is.
by "that aircraft" do you mean the Celera 500L?
I found this link on Wikipedia, and it was a surprisingly good read. A great overview on the algorithms, costs, and overall market of 3d rendering movies back in ~2012.

Hopefully someone else finds an interest in this!
Several of those situations you could use existing "meeting detection": full screen apps signal to most of these detection systems that you are busy. If you are watching a presentation or even programming in the zone, if you have it full screen you should get automatic signalling that you are busy.

(VS and VS Code have nice fullscreen views that are great because they also cut down on other distractions even inside of themselves. VS Code also has Zen Mode which pairs really nicely with fullscreen and cuts down on distractions about as much as possible.)
>Like in the 30s the government should step in and hire people

What does the government usually hire people to do in this situation?
For my day to day noodling around I use a track-pad. But for dev work I use a mouse. The click drag bits are wildly better with a mouse. For example text highlighting and moving things around in the GUI.
For the history of this feature request, see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/29608 as a starting point.
But L/2 should be the sampling interval, which is fixed at 1 pixel. For example, a signal with a wavelength of 1 pixel (or 1/2 pixel) would be identical to a constant signal.
Yes. This is not something the private sector can or should do.
Apple is fixing this in iOS 14. It allows you to give an app access to only approximate location.

Note that if your location history (precise every five minute location stored to your account) is off, Google won't even suggest a locally-stored list of previous locations you used with Maps. Which is an absolutist position that is usability-wise incredibly frustrating.
I'm a little surprised they're excluding all developers from the US/Canada - I would have figured they'd still try to build up alternative economic connections in those places so they have more firepower/support from the local business communities to fight against future bans and actions from the US and Canadian governments.
It's interesting that even the Chinese contest region has prizes denominated in US dollars: https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/cn/activity/detail/007...
Shamefully, everything is from Wikipedia, so the citations are there.
Does anybody have this data about letters? We need a canary letter mailing service for analytics.
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This looks so nice, and I've been desperate for years for a great, fast-refreshing e-ink device and/or monitor, but the closed ecosystem is so disappointing. Their 'avoid distractions' marketing is fine and good, but locking down the device makes it a non-starter for me. At the very least I'd need a feed reader I can use (without some workaround where I send stuff through the "remarkable cloud").

Am I reading things correctly that the only external interface to the device is through their cloud tool?
Are we actually in a recession right now?
GP does not mention money, wealth, or differences in populations due to either. I don’t understand how you landed on “just be less poor” as the thrust of his argument?
Thanks for the response! Do you do any preparation research on your own about the specific field challenges or current state-of-the-art in the field? For example, with agricultural robotics, what kind of reading would you do to get an idea about occlusion or the environment?
PDFs work fine. I converted many Kindle books to PDF and sent them to the remarkable via their cloud API. I don't do it much but writing
notes on PDF pages works fine.
What percentage of the night sky will be obscured if Starlink goes to 30,000 satellites?

Let me guess, if the visual radius of a one meter satellite 550,000 meters away is (1/X)^2. Thirty thousand would be 1/one trillion, or far less?
Wow this makes way more sense now. Was so puzzled to see Walmart jumping in on this, now it seems obvious.
Or. Or you can go with poorly-named "many worlds" by applying the Occam's razor to the ridiculous concepts of "classical observer" and "wave-function collapse".

There is no such special thing as a "classic observer": all instruments and people are in the end made out of quanta, and are themselves huge quantum systems.

There is no such special thing as a "wave function collapse from observation": what happens is that the observer (a quantum system) becomes entangled with the observed system. That's it. Initial state of "[ignorant observer] * ([cat is dead] + [cat is alive]) / sqrt(2)" which is equal to "([ignorant observer, cat is dead] + [ignorant observer, cat is alive]) / sqrt(2)" evolves into "([observer thinking of a dead cat, cat is dead] + [observer thinking of a living cat, cat is alive]) / sqrt(2)" without breaking the unitarity.

Yes, for "the" observer, her being part of this state, it looks like "the collapse has happened". That's how you get "many worlds": the state of the universe is a huge sum of independent states that continue to evolve independently, each of them evolving further into a sum of independent states.
Reminded me of a quote from another one of Drew's blog posts: "The web and web browsers have become Lovecraftian horrors of an unprecedented scale. They’ve long since left “scope creep” territory and entered “oh my god please just stop” territory, and are trucking on through to hitherto unexplored degrees of obscene scope." [1]. I sometimes feel like many standards and software (incl open source) are designed to make it impossible for an individual or small team to implement or manage.

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/13/Web-browsers-need-to-stop...
There seems to be a lot of griping about the $100/year price here. The folks behind Muse have made what seems to be a solid product and want to charge for it to build a sustainable business. I don't understand what the issue is.

On the one hand, people complain about having to pay for things (especially subscriptions). On the other, they complain about startups that try to grow fast, subsidize the cost of the product with venture money, and get acquired and shut down. I don't have a problem with either approach; I think they both have their place.

But how can software developers trying to build great products (and businesses) escape this lose-lose scenario?

You may not feel that this specific product is worth $100/year to you. That's fine; not everything is for everyone. But how do we, as a tech community, better support people and teams trying to create value in a sustainable way?
These people are completely worthless. The whole field of economics is mostly a scam.
Good point I have a kobo forma which at 7.8 is a bigger than normal ereader that is good for technical books. Outside I use the kobo (and I use less often than I expected), but inside I have a cheap windows tablet which is faster, easier to read and does other stuff too.
Congrats on the launch, it's great to see the space develop as well as more applications being designed for specific uses, I can see Muse fitting in with my other iPad habits (such as Fresco for wire design), and targeting a specific user for their niche.

The price tag certainly has HN crawling, clearly without downloading and seeing how simple it is to use with only an email. Most prosumer companies play down the cost, and highlight the free trial. Given the "power user" nature of getting up to speed with Muse (video + 9 "tasks" to complete) it's worth trying to remove all friction from installs since you'll get churn from a subset even before prompting them about the price, due to the commitment someone needs to make with new habit forming and learning.

Will you be adding collaboration into the app? With remote teams increasing I can see this helping share ideas and promote collaboration outside of Google Docs/Notion/Figma etc.

Did you dog food the development? I imagine designing and building the app would have required a lot of deep thinking!
When it's a survey of many economists I tend to put stock in what comes out. In this case if 80% say there is a 25% chance of a second dip, thats a much more informed opinion than I could ever have on the subject. I now know it isn't likely so don't plan my life around waiting for the second dip, but also don't be too surprised if we do see a second dip.
It is in the ballpark. The point is that Einstein did not pull a rabbit out of his hat, others had thought similar weirdness, and Einstein was aware of it.
You can really have it remapped to anything, really. Mine is remapped to F18 via hidutil to serve as a "hyper" key.
Well, you could... take a look at article that you are commenting about.
Now I have to carry three devices around...
Sending newsletters as if they were for a friend
The only sane choice is to simply not use the technology that tracks us.
that was not my question.

and wearing a giant cross is not mandatory in christianity.
The effect operating on gliders is from thermals - warmer ground heats the air which then rises relative to the cooler air around it. When the glider is in the thermal, it is still gliding downward through that air, but the whole column is rising faster than the glider's sink rate.

Warmer air reduces density, thus reducing lift and slightly reducing the amount of oxygen reaching the engine's combustion area, thus some power loss as well. In order to take off in the same distance, it must be operating at reduced takeoff weight.
Recapping major improvements in Go 1.15 and bringing the Go community together
I also had a few such exchanges (mine would have been at the end of the 80s or early 90s, I think) -- by snail-mail in both directions. His replies came in envelopes addressed to me as "Dr. ..." or even once as "Prof. ...", which I found pleasantly amusing, as I hadn't actually graduated from anywhere, let alone reached such exalted heights.

(His usual form of reply, as I recall it, would be a note pencilled on a copy of my letter.)
I have this scale[1]. It's extremely flawed in their body fat calculation. It simply displays 10% of your weight as your body fat percentage :-)

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MBPF2HW
The https://www.conveythis.com/ website says "12 Years in Business". So... 2 or 12 ?
iOS devices were not nearly performant enough to allow that until recently ;)
$#17! It seems like I need to switch to Chromium. Le sigh.
I fear that people will actually use it. Once you ignore privacy implications ( and in US privacy is something companies pay lip service to and only weird people like me worry about ), I can absolutely see the appeal to an individual. Who would not want to track their progress?

And I am saying this having now been in several's people houses with Alexa running lights. Not young people, or tech enthusiasts either. Old people who should know better.
You're literally commenting in a thread where people are complaining against building regulation that stops people from building extra houses in their backyard as they please. Worse than that, you're intentionally ignoring half the posts made though out this thread where people complain about urban plans that limit occupation density.
Your argument is incomplete, I said that transport in space is a small part of the costs. You can't just move the existing telescopes in space. You need special space telescopes, with special mechanical and electronic system with high reliability. You could say maybe Elon can send 6000 shit telescope that will work for 6 months and will be an equivalent to an average ground telescope.,
Of course it's possible, just as it's possible for someone to be an abusive partner when their conduct at work with colleagues is normal.

But what do you do with that information? What is the action you want from this?

Because it seems like the only thing I can do is make it clear it's not tolerated, which seems a little... bizarre... given that it's not happening. Let's all be mindful, aware, and empathetic. But saying they are "on my team" is an unhelpful assertion with neither evidence nor utility in solving this social phenomenon.
I feel like GIMP and Inkscape have finally caught up to the Adobe offerings. It was my reason for not switching for so long. But over the past year I did and I just-- wow. GIMP in particular is just really good now.
If you don't use the Yubico based 2fa, you can completely disable it and prevent the string output. Nowadays, most sites are using Webauthn/U2F and that will continue to work if you disable Yubico's proprietary 2fa implementation.
That maybe but it differs from what is shown in the inspector (which shows the <head> and <body> tags). This could be confusing as the source html doesn't match how the browser interprets it.
I think the Dems would be open to a New Deal-like effort. They've got the Green New Deal proposal.
I second RFC, I've implemented plenty of them while scribbling over them on the RM1. Also great to quickly show a colleague something on a page.

But, the eBook (as in published books) experience is pretty bad compared to basically anything. What even the RM2 does is just load the epub/pdf into the editing buffer and other than somewhat faster navigation and a hidden menu, it's not good at all for consumption.
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Another example missing from the list: twitter.com. The navigation (when logged in) has an unnecessary vertical scrollbar.