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One instinct I've learned from software engineering and the internet is that professionals are often wrong. The symptoms of a bad doctor are very similar to that of bad developers. Same with bad cooks, bad contractors, and so on.

The main symptom is contempt. You ask them a few questions or mention a second opinion, and their face turns into a scowl. Some are outright insulting, saying that X is a moron, without having enough information to make that judgement. Whenever I meet a doctor like this, I look for a second opinion, and very often it contradicts.

The next is buzzword. My child had a fever for a very long time and was hospitalized. A good pediatrician said "It could be Kawasaki disease... but it doesn't meet any of the other symptoms". A not very good one said "It's definitely Kawasaki disease, can't be anything else."

The third is well, passion. I know everyone hates the word, but I find a correlation. The worst doctors I've met are often trying to do anything except their job - they pitch unnecessary supplements, overcharge, talk about their stock investments. The great ones try to make you healthy; they end up undercharging, recommend cheap alternatives to their pills, volunteer for charity organizations, waive their consulting fees, and so on.

I realize this is a very subjective and biased way of looking at it, but it's worked well for me.
No, but I feel it could, I don't think any corporation ever could
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click "new vps" at your hoster (60sec), ssh to your new vps, git clone your tmux+nvim config from github (3s), you're ready to go
According to some friends, most new equipment (and not so new) provides it as a switch - but the original form was slapping bars in place of fuses.
They have trademarked "Startup" and "Work at a startup"?
Surprised there’s no mention about PIC. To be able to do some of these requires all code and precompiled libraries to have been built PIC. This gets even trickier with bootloaders that are expecting a fixed boot address (+ they would need to support PIC since there’s a little bit of fix up that needs to happen before you execute PIC code).
does adding extra data at the bottom of the image count as steganography

"steganography" is simply the act of hiding messages, so I don't see why this wouldn't count.

What term for hiding information outside of the bounds of the image would you propose instead?
I hate the framebuffer console on most of the systems I have.

In some cases, the font is way too small. Changing the font size is confusing, because it isn't clear what size of text you will end up with.

And on some of the systems I have, the framebuffer scrolls so slow!!!!! Drives me up a wall. If it takes more than a tiny fraction of a second to display an entire screen of text, that is too slow!!!! Hate it, hate it, hate it.
Vultr also has support for OpenBSD
I would love to see a decent search engine.

Google search has gone down the toilet. Most Google search results are ads or SEO optimized junk. It was funny once when I was searching for a medical term, all articles on first page were clearly SEO optimized and all articles were very similar from word usage, sentence construction, verbiage, like written by same person. I am surprised that Google doesn't filter out the results using some sort of similarity analysis to offer variety in results. I don't want to see all links giving exactly the same info.
How interesting! Always curious to hear about the "modding" (really forking) culture in open source games. It's so attractive to edit games to be like you want. One of the first ones I ever modified was the game XEvil and I suspect the dopamine hit from being able to edit and recompile to see a difference has kept me going a few decades into this field.

I like the idea of morally ugly things in games, but often they minmax away or are forced on you by great difficulty. For instance, in Bioshock it's optimal to be nice to the little girls. The bad option is minmaxed away. And in Frostpunk it's kind of forced on you since the tech tree is all authoritarianism.

I wonder what it would be like if in the same game I could end up either the North or the South and still put up a good fight.
Probably for the API access to Zendaya's Insta and Twitter accounts
I assume they left Chernobyl out because it was due to out of date technology that is no longer in use today and essentially cannot happen with the way nuclear power plants work today.
So when there are public spats between law and Apple about unlocking Apple devices, and talk of universal rule changes on how big tech must add backdoors in the U.S. political arena, and Apple vocally saying 'Never', it's all (bare faced lies) theatre - because there already is virtually, or as I'm reading here, easy, access to any Apple service when requested by U.S. law?
My wife does this too (she's of engineering background). It's surprising how well this works even with a quick search. Many times even the doctors have asked her whether she's actually a doctor.

It's also useful for having proper discussions. The doctors will discuss the details they're unsure about, which also helps you in discussing with the next doctor. If one doctor is very sure about one thing, and another isn't, that's a yellow flag.
This is in regards to an emergency response system, so an attacker would have to wait for an emergency to attack and well, you may as well just see how it pans out naturally rather than risk jail time to try and coerce an accident that might already be happening.
Yeah, I agree. At AppShare we take our server side databases and let them run in the browser. We even copy the data so that you can take a server side Sqlite database as save the Sqlite engine and all the data as a HTML file
What are the specs? How much memory, CPU, disk space?

Of course it's in beta so nothing's final, but it would be good to get a sense of order-of-magnitude.

MS Codespaces starts at 4 GB RAM, 2 cores, 64 GB storage.
As the delayed driver, the audience, I know absolutely how I would feel. This is the perception.
Many/most flats in those cute old European cities have windows directly over a street. You can have cars making noise and pollution literally within 5-10 meters of your window. This is bad for physical and mental health.

Soviet-style housing planning is a good middle ground. There, most flats can enjoy silence (you only hear cars that belong to your neighbors and no passer-bys) and still the districts are planned for walkability and public transport.
>lol, just ssh into a $3 vps as dev machine, real Ubuntu, real tmux/(n)vim, no setup, no hassle

Infamous Dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Well yeah RetDec, Hopper, Binary Ninja HLIL, Snowman, Ghidra... none of these “direct” decompilers are going to match the input token for token or AST node for node, even without symbol names. To do so you’d need a lot of heuristics about the specific compiler, many of which are probably accidental parameters (branch layout, register picking, order of operations, vectorization, inlining). The sort of task that’s perfect for a neural network (lots of hidden parameters to learn about each compiler version) and hard for a hand written program.

Now that I’ve said it out loud I bet accuracy goes way down if you train or evaluate against a wide spectrum of compiler versions, as these hidden parameters will change.

...but those parameters also don’t entirely matter. So I think they probably need a better evaluation method.
Mozilla has to try hard to keep losing market share.

They are demonstrating they have a knack for it.

I‘m a Firefox user on desktop but I see their poor choices around extensions haven’t ended. They’ve borked the extensions on desktop before as well.
The incentive to go into all these wild possibilities is pretty strong -- companies must list everything that might ever conceivably happen so that nobody can point a finger at them later and say that they forgot to include something so now they're gonna be sued for millions.

This is the same reason corporate PR statements sound the way they do, and it's the same reason politicians speak the way they do. People say they want openness and honesty, but then they punish businesses and politicians for even the slightest offense. Because of those mixed and contradictory incentives, this is the kind of communication we end up with.
The problem is the whitelisted-only approach:

> Will add-ons not part of the Recommended Extensions program ever be supported on the new Firefox for Android?

> We would like to expand our support to other add-ons on the release channel. We’re currently evaluating how we can enable general add-on support in a secure way without creating compatibility issues.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/02/11/faq-for-extension...

So, why relax exactly?! Even the extension that would work now are disabled.
I mean, without Linux the arguably superior BSDs would rule the roost, not commercial unices.
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”Even if we are discussing a pair of points on adjacent polygons?”

Yes. Consider a pointy triangular wedge of two 1 by 100 rectangles and a third one that’s 1 by 1, and pick points on the two large rectangles that are close to the edge they share with the small one. The shortest path will visit all three rectangles.

Also: I was only refuting the claim that such a line is the shortest line between the two points. I happened to know an (IMO) interesting counterexample, so I mentioned it. I think the conclusion that such a line is a geodesic is valid, but not because of the argument given.
For the spanish speakers on this thread, the name "TablaM" reminds me of this: [1] :-p

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ktYyme_sUw
I don't know his show, but these are probably the episodes that are most interesting. Controversial stuff is often the most interesting...
This is interesting, and is reflected in some other comments, but I have always gone under the assumption that you will only learn things once so it is best to learn them the correct way. This mostly holds true in an academic situation though in my experience, and I have applied it as such.
> vs code

check coc.vim, uses vsc's native LSP, 99% of LSP's features

> delaying keystrokes

I have 16ms latency as my 60hz screen does and def less latency than a local vscode

just use a vps close to where you are
Recaptcha it and wait them out. He can't do it forever. Then unrecaptcha. Just do a month. You'll lose some sign-ups and then you can go back to the old thing.
Deviant packaging breaks/removes this.
AWS launches its Bottlerocket container operating system
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So it's "no setup" if you've already done all the work to make a portable setup that enables you to do work over ssh, but actually a ton of setup it you haven't.
Hey America, get yourself some healthcare infrastructure.
it IS trivial to port forward though, lol
There were no big words or any form of exotic vocabulary.

> No it's not

Causality states that the order of effects must match the order of events. The Wikipedia articles states that almost verbatim. The mention of a light cone binds the general use of the word to its application of physics without changing the definition. No where does the article extend that definition to anything vaguely measurable.

> You can say I attacked a straw man, but the original comment was edited.

It was most likely edited hours before your reply. When I completed the edit there were no replies. I am living on the otherside of the world from the US in a far away timezone.
And add googly eyes, makes many things better.
Yeah but in contrast the idea isn't new, Cloud9 did this ages ago. Github has the advantage that they own a huge dev focused platform. My point is if you deal a bit with code, even as a founder who writes strategy papers all day long, getting into tmux/vim isn't harder than a vscode-like interface, it pays off in the long run
> Firefox, the only truly independent browser not backed by an OS/platform vendor

is it?

"In March 2020 Mozilla and KaiOS Technologies announced a partnership to update KaiOS with a modern version of the Gecko browser engine and more closely aligned testing infrastructure."

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_water_wars : California water wars.

Relatedly on a more entertaining note: Chinatown..1974 movie by Roman Polanski https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(1974_film)

And Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Desert
A simple technique would be to use different block sizes.
That would cause unintentional trigger don’t you think? I.e. someone is just passing by.
That is a very badly chosen name. Codespaces was a company that went under because they were (or claimed to have been) hacked.

https://threatpost.com/hacker-puts-hosting-service-code-spac...

If you want to instill confidence this name is not the best start you could have picked.
Add e-mail verification and a introduce a random 30-60 min delay before sending the verification e-mails. Then you can cut on disposable e-mail domains and so on.
I lived in Dallas for a long time, at my last house a Whole Foods, a "neighborhood" Walmart and a Trader Joes popped up pretty much equidistant (7 minute walk) from my house. It is quite pleasant, actually, to walk to the grocery store and get groceries for that night's dinner. Since then I've always lived within a 10 minute walk and generally get one to two (paper) sacks of groceries two or three times a week, sometimes more often. Temptation to snack is drastically reduced as we only have 2 days of food in the house.
Of course to then complain that Apple and their ‘monopoly’ doesn’t get them the exposure they imagine their users are demanding
Hah! I've been doing too much load-time stuff, obviously. (-:

But if one is looking at PCI device IDs, then one is already at the level of the code having detailed knowledge of the specific hardware (even if only via some "miniport"-like system) and the point stands.
> I’ve been spending a lot of time getting Windows Subsystem for Linux working

I wouldn't spend a minute on it. Why bother with such an abomination when you can just use Linux the way it is intended to be used with less hassle and corporate superstructure that you most likely will never need.
shouldn't everyone who touched code on a server have some basic tmux/vim config, at least vim? it's no rocket science and doesn't have to be perfect
$50/mo for geolocation + ASN lookup?
> The Senate doesn’t represent the “people”. It represents the states.

Senators are elected by the people of those states.

> Each state regardless of population has 2 senators. Meaning that 46% of the Senators represent less than 25% of the population.

It's not a direct proportional representation. That's what congress is.

> The purpose of the legislation is to enact the will of the states.

Congress also makes legislation.

> A powerful government can do much more harm than a corporation. There isn’t a single corporation in America that has the coercive power if the government.

Thankfully.
Interesting idea, but perhaps BERT "strides" too narrowly to really detect predictability? Imprecise language is all I can muster.
Ornitographies
I do recall a population distribution map of the USSR vs. the US from a book I owned 30iah years ago and they were far more evenly distributed than the US.
I'd say communicating outside normal means would be "using a covert channel", and reserve "steganography" for such communication as has been whitened to resemble noise[1].

Obviously tastes may differ, so someone else might call the former "steganography" and distinguish the latter as "deniable steganography", or at least "near-noise steganography".

(with a little information theory, one can even communicate reliably via sub-noise steganography)

cryptography vs. steganography?

[1] compare Bacon (1605):
https://archive.org/details/advancementofl00baco/page/256/mo...

"... a method of expressing and signifying one's mind to any distance by objects that are either visible or audible — provided only the objects are but capable of two differences ..."
It would be better to first add evidence to the allegations you made.

First of all, Mozilla donations never get used to fund browser development. Instead the browser is in part funded by "frivolous" projects that actually generate an income. The other major source of income is from Google web search. Firefox's dependence on this isn't ideal and has been critcised by many, hence the search for other revenue streams.
Awesome tip, since I have only paper garbage, it will not fan out any smells like in case with biologic waste, thanks pal!
shouldn't everyone who touched code on a server have a basic tmux/vim config, at least vim?

No. Obviously not. There are millions of developers who don't work that way.
I think that would kill signup rates, mostly because it's so different from other solutions, but damn is it an interesting approach.

You may need to add something that prevents the same phone number from being used for multiple signups.
I guess If I were to develop an app (free but with ads) for the browser then I would be worried about ads blockers, that doesn't work if my app is a native app.
Newer airports almost as a rule get built far way not only to avoid homes . Homes get built near airport, then airport gets sued anyway. It is more that it very difficult and very very expensive to get the size of land a large airport needs close to the city. It is also the politics of everyone wanting a piece of development.
Yes, I think.

https://www.workatastartup.com/
My main reasons for using Apple Maps are:

1 - It actually runs smoothly on my iPhone 11. Google Maps stutters and yanks. Yes, Google cannot build a performing maps app for the fastest phone in the world.

2 - It is a map. Not a yellow pages of coffee places, not an Instagram with amateur photos of locations.
I think the OP referred to the pneumonia-like consequences (weakened immune system, issues with lungs that can last for months), effects common with certain strong viral infections (chronic fatigue) and other effects (circulatory problems, thrombosis).

Note that the first two categories are not exclusive to this virus at all: treatable diseases like "regular" pneumonia can cause them.

The actual incidence of these effects, which can range from small to very severe, is unknown (given that a lot of cases are still missed). I've never heard about the 9% before, though.
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I played original Colonizayiom a lot, and do play it once in a while. The game has some very old school charm (and very annoying units limit, once you get close to 256 colonists, it becomes almost unplayable, and wagon train routes are a
mess - for some reason they just refuse to unload cargo sometimes).

I have tried freecol a few times and never could muster myself to do more than a few moves. It's something about the graphical style, I guess.
I only just finished playing the original Colonization last month (I play it about once a year). I love the civilisation series but for some reason I probably enjoy Colonization better, I guess it is the town management and production/trade aspect.

Anyway, I hadn't heard about FreeCol before and it looks to be a very good effort. I'll definitely take a look at it, but, I find nostalgia usually gets the best of me and none of these remakes ever seem to scratch the itch like the originals.
> The purpose of the legislation is to enact the will of the states.

States are fictions; there is only people. The Senate represents the people, just rather unequally and, in the original form, indirectly (as the President still does.)

And the Senate can't legislate on its own, only together with the House and/or President (recognizing that treaties that have the force of law are a kind of legislation.)
HTML button hover effects, that you should try in your website
I think it's "Startup news", which if I'm not wrong was the initial purpose of hn.
Or use Mosh, which eliminates the keystroke lag.
But does it play despacito?

Pacito pacito basu basurito
It's not about medical software but about how big the lock-in is (which is always higher with B2B). The higher the lock-in the worse the overall UX.
What do you make of IndexedDB?
Would most hospital doors/windows be using actual glass, or probably plexiglass/polycarbonate?

Interesting that they said the intensity was reduced by half, but the beam energy was increased.

By the way, I know dental x-rays (bite wing?) are now often done with USB-connected CCDs in plastic encapsulation, so the dentist can see the image immediately. Are full body / large x-rays still film? I would guess the digital sensor still can't get that big.
vim once you get into it is as powerful as vscode, and runs just fine in machine without GUI installed.

Funny enough, your description is exactly how I work, except the java part, but then vscode doesn't have an edge with java either.
Yes, but in a reasonable world "lies and omissions" ought to result in disbarment.
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Regarding the so called long term effects: is there any research that tells us how prevalent they are?

A lot of people mention cases like these, I'd like to see some figures, also taking into account that pulmonary problems and fatigue, for one, are common to other diseases (even treatable ones).

To be clear: I have no interest in downplaying severe effects of this infection. But I want to look at the whole picture.
Ask HN: Does licensing your product under AGPL prevent you from success?
Hi HN,

Sole bootstrapping founder here, my product is a complex enterprise-ish software. I OSSed majority of it under AGPL, but sometimes I get feedback that the AGPL is "toxic" and prevents the product from increased adoption. Last time this feedback came from a potentially interested VC/Angel.

I have seen projects grow and fail because they did not have any clear monetization strategy in place.

So my AGPL was primarily meant as an insurance to at least secure some potential stream of revenue while not giving keys to the kingdom away for free - and also to ensure that somebody with big team and big founding wouldn't take my work and run with it.

Am I wrong? Is AGPL really too toxic?

Is it a better alternative to (say) MIT the core functionality and close source some of the extra functionality?

Interested to hear especially from founders who struggled with this. How did you decide in the end? Why? How did it turn out?
Do you disagree with "Painting the most favourable picture for his client goes with that"

Semi-related but very valuable advice, if well-known - when I was off sick the council brought a complaint against me. They actually lied and implied criminal behaviour (fraud) on my part (also not turning over all the evidence to the tribunal that followed). So here's the important bit:

DO IT IN WRITING AND KEEP COPIES OF EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING YOU WRITE, EVERYTHING THEY SEND YOU. INSIST ON IT BEING ON PAPER (NOT TELEPHONE), AND PRINT EMAILS OUT.

I could rebut almost everything bad they said about me. The tribunal threw out their case before I even turned up.

(I know this is obvious and everyone says get it in writing, but things would be smoother if people actually did).
Checking the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Ed.), they have accessor only as a form of accessory (as a noun). So yeah, the programming use is "new".

fwiw, they have "default", in the computing sense of the preselected option, from 1966, while "by default" (in a legal context) has an example from 1764, "Where a defendant makes default, judgement shall be had against him by default."
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I think in today's world, typing faster is a life-skill. I learned typing on an actual Remington type-writer during my summer holidays eons ago because my dad forced me to go to typing classes (he hoped with that I'll atleast be able to secure a typist's job, if nothing else). That skill of touch typing has paid for itself many times over since then.