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I wish they aren't true.

Ironically in the open letter "Thoughts on Flash" Steve Jobs said he would not allow Flash on Apple devices because

- to to avoid a third party layer of software coming between the platform and the developer. Exactly what Apple is doing right now.

- by almost any definition, Flash is a closed system. Exactly like Apple store.

There must be a reason why the open letter is not available anymore on Apple webiste.

"he who controls the past controls the future"

The main reason to kill Flash was that HTML 5 allowed playing videos and interactive content without the need for a third party plugin.

Steve Jobs claimed that (and was right) pure HTML 5 could replace Flash in almost every aspect.

Fast forward to WWDC 2020

> Apple has announced that the following Web APIs will not be supported by Safari.

Web Bluetooth
Web MIDI API
Magnetometer API
Web NFC API
Device Memory API
Network Information API
Battery Status API
Web Bluetooth Scanning
Ambient Light Sensor
HDCP Policy Check extension for EME
Proximity Sensor
WebHID
Serial API
Web USB
Geolocation Sensor (background geolocation)
User Idle Detection

Isn't it even more ironic?

They also ruled that after 7 days of non use cookies and the content stored in Indexed DB, LocalStorage, Media keys, SessionStorage and Service Worker registrations will be deleted.

Ok, they said this last won't affect apps saved on home screen, but given Apple history do you really trust them?
a million? really?
The former, because in order to formulate a physics engine in Lagrangian mechanics you need analytic differentiation (or you can just precalculate the partial derivatives with your own hands, but then it will be precisely the same as coding it in F=ma.)
Haredim only make half the salary of others in hi-tech industry
Some of us don't have much power. I denounced it online several times, that's all I can do.

People like Lebron James, who thinks of himself like a freedom fighter, when he criticized China he ended up saying he was misinformed and he wasn't educated about the issue.

He loves the money coming from China more than anything else. I want him to be reminded by this. He put his millions before human lives, just like some nazi collaborators did.
> Quarantine is where you lock up sick people

Due to the long asymptomatic infectious period for this disease, lacking a quick and accurate testing solution, we don't know who the sick people are. That's one of the major challenges of this particular outbreak.

History's memory is longer than 50 years. The word quarantine derives from the practice of requiring that ships entering harbor from infected ports stay at anchor off the coast for 40 days. Unfortunately, in the era of modern air travel, and given the long incubation period for this illness, it passed the ports and got into cities and countrysides before it could be contained.

You also continue to conflate quarantine with the simple public health practice of wearing a cloth to catch droplets in case you are sick. The two are not the same thing. nobody in the United States, at least, is going around welding people's doors shut to keep them at home (though it is, perhaps, worth noting that the countries that did that have already gotten back to life as normal ;) ).
would be curious what Jupyter notebooks things are better with Pluto.jl, can you name some concrete points?
It's a shameless and transparent marketing play.

People will click on a GitHub link.

This is manufactured hn clickbait. I've never flagged before but this one deserves it

I wish them well and the technology may be great, but trying to play hn like that is not welcome.
And? It's not illegal for a company to calibrate its business model to improve the bottom line. On the contrary in many cases they are legally forced to. Obviously while respecting other laws.
> I assume the standalone PTBs shrank then closed because people were browsing more than buying

Should’ve charged a modest fee for the periodic hits of serendipity.
Without any tunnelling like VPN or TOR, the safest option would be to have several unrelated services share one certificate, when only looking at MITM vulnerability.

This would in theory ensure that any attacker could only assume the client is accessing at least one service on the target machine.

Setting aside the obvious risk that one of the services could claim to be one of the others, this obviously comes with some other technical limitations.

Again, it's not like the site is doing anything wrong, it just shouldn't be blaming the user for something that's obviously just a technical limitation of the technology being used.
I really don't understand how Word remains so popular. It was created at a time when few people had internet access, and was designed to produce printed documents. It was the perfect tool to write newsletters, flyers, articles, academic papers and manuscripts. The world has moved on though, and I fail to see Word's relevance today, other than the sheer number of people that are familiar with it.

Word is expensive, proprietary and the XML it generates is unfathomable. There are so many better FOSS tools and systems that we could be using. If you're collaborating on a document then markdown or LaTeX has you covered. You get version control though git and multiple people can contribute. If you're writing a book or article, then the graphic designers and typesetters are going to make the design decisions, not the author, so why bother messing around with fonts and colours and the infuriating placement of images and tables.

I authored a kid's book on coding, and the process was a nightmare. I authored in markdown, used pandoc to convert and then further edited in libreoffice, to be able to send stuff through in docx format. Then revisions were sent back in docx and I had to reverse the whole process, so I could maintain my plain-text version of the book. Then the proofs were sent through as PDFs, which I then had to markup for corrections. Many of the mistakes were due to the crappy way Word places images. In the end I just bought a copy of Word, and submitted to the way my publisher wanted me to work, which disrupted the authorial process.

It's time we ditched Word, in the same way we ditched VHS and DVD. It's an outdated technology that remains dominant just because everyone uses it at school, and then refuses to move on. If schools insisted that all homework was submitted in something like markdown, we'd see a dramatic change in a very short period of time. (BTW when I was teaching CS, my kids authored in markdown and submitted on GitHub)

Right, rant over - but I've been talking about this for years -http://coding2learn.org/blog/2014/04/14/please-stop-sending-...
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You just can't falsify a medical diagnosis and would you rather have a Prime Minister leading the country despite deteriorating health? Japan's COVID-19 situation is still way better than most countries. Whether it will hold is anyone's guess but he's not fit enough to make big decisions and at some point Japan might need another lock down.

I will say that I don't trust the LDP to rise above their internal bickering and backroom politics to choose someone capable of handling this pandemic but that is neither here nor there. We will find out soon.

There really isn't any stand out for LDP leadership post Abe and that's something that deeply concerns me.
> The in-browser link is hidden till you click the button to launch the zoom client app. Then, the link appears.

As someone who doesn't use Zoom, this gobsmacked me.
Cancel culture never had any attention of pushing forward any reasonable change. It was mostly a tool for people to pretend that they somehow had an lasting positive impact on the world in the most convenient way. Boycotting goods made in China and substituting them with those made elsewhere is not as convenient. So cancel culture people and pretty much everyone else will pretend and argue such a measure will have no impact on the political situation. Maybe we should point out that apartheid in South Africa wasnt solved by good intentioned dialogue but through economic embargoes. But that argument will be ignored because its so inconvenient to not use goods made in China. You know its so easy to donate a paltry sum of money while looking at the photo of a poor African/Indian/Bangladeshi/Mexican kid and then feel great about ones magnanimity than to take the hard steps to curb an actual menace and human rights violation.
Potentially this could be used to remove some content (or make it appear removed) without it being highlighted. I doubt this is an issue in practice, considering there's a full audit trail and collaborators are usually trusted, but this is good feedback and we'll see if we can improve this.
> Water is by far safer in comparison to stuff that corrodes, and eventually eats through pretty much anything.

Problem with water is that for temperatures sufficient to run turbines at any decent efficiency, you need very high pressure, meaning expensive and bulky equipment. Hence it's not really usable as a heat storage medium.

Hot water or steam is actually surprisingly corrosive, though we have a lot of experience how to handle it properly.

> for sodium, you have no other option than putting in sacrificial material even if you use toughest nickel alloys, and there only is so much of it you can use.

Sodium is actually very compatible with normal structural stainless steels. E.g. when the steam generators for EBR2 were dismantled after 30 years of operation the sodium side were as if brand new.
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>Would people buy oven gloves that had to be treated as hazardous waste?

You kind of answered your own question with the reference to e-waste. If the product confers some benefit and isn't hazardous in the form in which the users will use it then people will have no problem buying it.

>Where would you see this being used?

Things that very cost sensitive and aren't gonna see much human contact and will almost certainly enter a recycling stream before the paint wears off. 55gal drums come to mind.
You may have small intestinal bacterial overgrowth [1].

If you can't digest certain types of food, the bacteria which feed on this food grow out of proportion to their place in the microbiome.
You'd often notice symptoms an hour or more after eating the food in question, which would give time for the food to hit the small intestine almost entirely undigested.

Taking antibiotics would kill off the overgrowth, but it would grow back over time unless you cut out the food or took supplementary digestive enzymes along with the food.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_intestinal_bacterial_o...
It's not uncommon for a company that could have been profitable to instead choose to invest in getting even bigger reach, and potentially getting an even bigger profit down the road - and VCs tend to press hard for this course. For some (many even) it's unsustainable and kills off what would otherwise have been a nice million dollar company in an attempt to turn it into a billion dollar company. But for some it works out, and the investments do really pay off - and they do so massively. So long story short, it's quite possible for a company to run at a loss for years, but be able to turn a profit at any time, if they just ease their foot off the pedal. Others really are burning through more money than they'll ever know how to recoup. But you really need to dig into the details to tell the difference.
Probably correct estimate considering all the American wars in the middle east.

Still annoying comparison and whataboutism.
I can't believe this isn't something people are rallying for. Nor can I believe the mainstream media is hardly talking about it. The lessons from WWII aren't stories that we should memorise as fun trivia facts.
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I can no longer configure "my machine" to use DNS a specific way; I have to configure my system plus a number of specific applications to use DNS the way I want. Splitting this configuration into multiple places is bad.

In an enterprise/commercial setting, there are valid reasons for filtering employees' use of DNS (legal compliance, e.g.).

I can no longer install e.g. PiHole to filter out ad servers globally for all devices on my network.

These are some of the issues caused by DoH, I'm sure there are others.
> Setting aside the obvious risk that one of the services could claim to be one of the others

Not much additional risk there when both site's TLS connections are already handled by the same process.
Karl Marx on religion
“Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.“

A popular song:
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too

The CCP is simply following a core tenant of communism. From the perspective of the ideology, they are freeing people from religion.

A much more important quote, a warning about accepting new ideas that too few heed today as always:
“Let us keep our minds open, by all means, as long as that means keeping our sense of perspective and seeking an understanding of the forces which mould the world. But don’t keep your minds so open that your brains fall out! There are still things in this world which are true and things which are false; acts which are right and acts which are wrong, even if there are statesmen who hide their designs under the cloak of high-sounding phrases.”. — Walter Kotschnig November 8, 1939
I am not an expert in this area, but my understanding was that while the Iliad is not "Greek drama" per se, the job of the Greek rhapsode was considerably ritualized - i.e. theatrical - while Beowulf's origins are a little more mysterious, but comparable e.g. Icelandic sagas were definitely not so.

The opening invocations - to the muses vs. compatriots - point at very different contexts the stories pretend to be told in, even if that too was part of the fiction, now or then.
Eyballing detects outliers as well. It can do density estimation.
FCC proposes new fees for amateur radio licenses – KB6NU's Ham Radio Blog
The issue is that the lungs doesn't always manage to clean the asbestos fibers at all, so some may be stuck in the lungs forever. One stuck fiber might lead to a cancer. It's very unlikely of course, but it could happen. A thousand stuck fibers are a thousand times more likely to cause cancer, but just one could still be enough to do it.

With cigarettes for example it's different, since the self-cleaning process will clean and remove the remains of the cigarettes from the lungs fairly quickly unless the smoking is repeated over a long period of time and the system gets over-saturated and gradually breaks down.
Most languages of East Asia have a Surname First Name order (even with limits to how many syllables the family name can have). So Mr. Shinzo’s first name is Abe, written as Shinzo Abe.
Same with Korean’s Kim, whose first names are Jong Un or let’s say Vietnamese’s Ho Chi Min, whose surname was Ho. Sun Yat-sen (last name Sun), Taiwan’s Tsai Ing-wen (surname Tsai), Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew (Lee family) etc etc. You get the idea.
Most DNS resolution libraries will read the libc resolver configuration (/ets/nsswitch.conf) and attempt to parse it into something they understand, and potentially fall back to it (for example, if you're doing non-DNS resolution like mDNS).

If you'd like to standardise a way to require DNS-over-HTTPS in supporting software, and convince operating system distributors to generally ship it, I'm fairly sure Firefox would be up for using that rather than its current mechanism, similar to how it uses system proxy settings. As it is there is no such standard.
We all have power though very little but we do. Unfortunately it is scattered. The more people care about the issue the more visible it will become
The parent comment was talking about nuclear being subsidized in France and your example is in the UK. My point was about France if it was not obvious.
Amazon chose to invest money in growing its business - presumably with a lot of new products and infrastructure to support them.

Government and defence IT is a service business - where do you invest the money?

Note: I'm not saying they don't invest the money, just curious where it goes.
>In previous decades, there weren't as many tourists from China.

This. Billion+ people country with a growing middle class that's almost within day-trip distance is gonna result in a hell of a lot more tourists.
I don't know enough about the UK nuclear program, so I might be wrong, but it seems wrong to compare a guaranteed price to an ongoing price.

Could you even get someone else to guarantee you an inflation pegged price of electricity for the next 35 years? And in that case, how much would it cost?
Apple can and will reject your app if you use that as your excuse.
Just to address the comment above (it has been flagged and I can no longer reply directly). This is not a debate of America vs China. This is a debate of morality. We should not reserve judgement only for "bad guys". The reason China gets a free pass on this is because they are economically valuable to other countries. Chaining up pregnant women is bad, by all nations at all times.
If the lower the GMRS fees maybe another person will get a GMRS license and they have a conversation.
Why did the OpenFaaS community build arkade and what's in it for you?
Seems really smooth. I would like to see how does this scale with larger chunks of codes. Is there any benchmark comparisons?
What I really like about VSCode is the remote-ssh plugin. This puts (at least some) of the VSCode software on the server and things like Git and the runtime you choose for your code (like the Python install) are on the server. Especially my code needs to run on a batch processing cluster, so it needs to be there and not local if I immediately want to use/test the code. So where I used to work via Samba shares or ssh/Vim/Nano, I now open VSCode and add the remote server to remote-ssh and boom, I can browse the filesystem and use Git from the same interface, I can even have a terminal open to the remote machine at the bottom of my VSCode window (if I want to do more fancy git stuff or start programs). VSCode is now more like a client and plugins remain on the server, the actual dev (local) machine becomes less relevant. Is there anything similar out there?

Actually a colleague of mine use a Jupyter-lab install on the remote cluster, he uses the Editor and Notebooks together to develop. This is also a nice way to develop locally with the code remote.
Ever heard of a country called Ireland? Last time I checked, it was in the EU. And they speak English.

Anyway, my point had nothing to do with the political grouping of the EU. It was a geographical & marketing one. The UK is still part of Europe [even if not for much longer part of the EU]. So, given Fairphone DO sell their phones in UK [and Ireland] but DO NOT sell them in the USA, why have they adopted the US version of English, rather than the version used by people in the market they actually sell into?

Is Fairphone's Spanish documentation & software written in Latin American Spanish? Is their Portuguese documentation & software written in Brasilian Portuguese? Is their French documentation & software written in Québécois?

...or is it only the European variants of English that are habitually eschewed in favour of their transatlantic counterparts?
Always nice to see ham radio on the front page!
>Licensed sets saved them from bankruptcy, //

Do you have a source on this?

Not doubting it, Lego is a good product with almost indefinite reuse, so it's not surprising if sales can't perpetually expand.

If we're to make it through the resource and energy crunch we're facing we need an economic system that allows entities to continue even when everything they make is made to last as long as possible - be repairable, reusable; heirloom grade.
Robotics newbie here - does this work with the ROS software stack?
My guess: it’s more user friendly wording than “we reserve the right to change the terms at any time”
This article is 9 years old. No nuclear plant would have been build in that time, no significant development in this technology happened but the development of renewable energy sources and batteries has progressed rapidly. We've witnessed Elon Musk's battery farm, ideas like floatovoltaics, Building-integrated photovoltaics, stuff around hydrogen storage, etc. There are also grids like in Europe where even when there is no sun shining and no wind blowing (never happens), there is always a dam in the Alps or Scandinavia.

If you have to depend on gas for the next decade and abolish coal for that, it's still a huge win and progress with an outcome that looks much brighter than this of building a single new nuclear plant or even drowning even more money into research of something that may or may not become realistic in many decades (like fusion).

@the market: if we've learned something in the recent decades than it is that "the market" can't do shit without rules and regulations. Literally. They'll mess up everything they get into their hands and bring out the worse of it.

PS. you are aware that there are already uses for Methane and that there is even P2G generation going on where you gather CO2 from the atmosphere to generate Methane which is than burned afterwards to generate energy.
What I mean is, wouldn't any transaction within a browser be "in-app"?
Sadly, we live in a world where our expecations are a bit screwed. We're used to so many things being free, ranging from music streaming to programming libraries to nearly every service. We've become acustom to the world where so many things are free to use that people get annoyed when products make the free things not as enjoyable as the paid service. Or sometimes even when someone provides a paid service.
> Good luck embedding Servo!

You know, it doesn't really seem that hard to embed Servo in a Rust application [0]. It's a pretty interesting read.

Anyone know how stable Servo is for this kind of thing? It's not uninteresting as a cross-platform GUI solution or as more lightweight alternative to CEF (assuming it is more lightweight, I haven't done the science on it or anything). Given that you have total control over everything it renders, it's not massively important if it's not 100% HTML compliant or whatever.

Interesting space to watch for the future. Hopefully the Mozilla layoffs don't doom Servo.

[0]: https://github.com/paulrouget/servo-embedding-example
Yes, also impoverished and displaced several million people.

Consider the impact of all the regime change operations undertaken under the patronage of the United States in countries like Iraq, Lybia, Syria and Yemen, as well as devastating effects of economic sanctions on Iran, Syria and other nations.
I think Japan shows that political leadership, of all factors, has minimal impact on COVID-19 outcome. The Japanese government did almost nothing and got away with it.
That's why I don't shut up.
In most US states they are also public - you can query traffic citations from many court houses and get full person details and drivers licenses, address, dob,and more. It's really quite wild how many public data sets are out there with your data.
You didn't quite get the point. As individual currencies governments exert a lot of power over their relative value to other currencies. As a whole, worlds fiat currencies hold no intrinsic value. No government can dictate that a kilogram of gold to only cost $1.
Do USA imprisonment do organ harvesting? Perhaps the current imprisonment really is just a front to solve organs shortage.
And it only gets worse from here.