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My main problem with non-entertainment, prerecorded video is how little control you have on how you consume it, when compared to text. Consuming video is too linear and opaque.

When you open a book, article or even forum thread you have immediate access to all the content, can quickly skim through the index, chapters, headings, posts and make a mind map of what's happening. You can adjust your reading speed on a sentence basis. Jump back and fro, Reread a difficult passage 10 times effortlessly.

Video on the Web is basically no better in that area than VHS was. You get a clickable timeline, timestamps and that's that?

Transcripts are a starting point, but a bit useless without a proper TOC. Now, if you get that part right but the video is just someone talking, the video itself becomes redundant (for me anyway, I know people are different.)

Visuals-wise, some platforms have a quasi-instant lowres preview when you move the timeline cursor. A nice upgrade on that would be to show the transcript and possibly section (drawing from the TOC idea above).

I can't think on how to greatly improve this, but you did ask what we disliked.
That seems inaccurate. GPUs are used for stuff like real-time games, video, and ML inference: the hardware is explicitly built for heavy streaming.

I would agree that productive GPU data frameworks in streaming modes are nascent, e.g., https://medium.com/rapids-ai/gpu-accelerated-stream-processi... .
I'm a manager who has to speak directly to paying customers about how long they have to wait to get what they paid for and even I will never give a deadline or date. Most customers are actually pretty reasonable and know you can't predict everything. Most are thoroughly aware of how terrible they are at giving clear direction. It's important as a leader to exactly why things take time or why timing is unclear. Risks, uncertainty, quality takes time. There's also plenty of things you can do as a manager to de-risk a delivery and avoid being bottlenecked by risky tasks. It's also much easier (not easy, but easier) to estimate larger buckets of tasks than individual ones knowing that some will be harder than expected and some will be faster.
Not disagreeing, just offering a reason but not a justification for their reluctance to fully encrypt iCloud backups.
In many places, the other options are the only legal ones.

In NYC, any bicyclist over 12 years old or with wheels over 26" is required to ride in the street.
Just to be clear, what do you mean with AJAX?
Looking for Full-Stack Engineer
I'm Ahmed Isse co-founder of Paywise. Paywise is an online payment processing startup. We focus on helping merchants in the Middle East & North Africa accept payments from their customers anywhere in the world from multiple channels

We at Paywise are building payment infrastructure for the Mena region. We believed that adding payments should be fast and simple.

Our vision is to be the invisible engine of commerce that will enable the Middle East and North Africa merchants to easily join the internet economy and grow fast into large and successful businesses.

Full-Stack Engineer Role

We're hiring a full-stack engineer to help us build Paywise. You'll be working alongside founders to make Paywise more valuable to its customers, and grow faster

At our early stage, this is an opportunity to truly influence and contribute meaningfully to the product.

What you'll be doing

Designing and implementing well-tested, highly optimized libraries

Collaborating with our teams to continuously expand, and improve our offering

Taking ownership of key technology decisions, building for scale and reach

Developing deep payments expertise, always looking to improve upon the Checkout experience and simplify integration for developers

Creating detailed documentation for both our customers and for teams internally

Qualifications

You've built best-in-class products people fall in love with

You've built rock-solid, scalable infrastructure from the ground up

Ideally, you've worked in startups, even better if at a B2B/SaaS startup

Experience working in a remote team, and in a fast-paced environment

Technologies

Front-end: React, Redux, Webpack, Sass, ES6
Back-end: Node, Mongo (mongoose), Isomorphic React
Hosting: AWS

Send your Resume/CV to careers@paywise.io
I totally understand the frustration here, however this is what the (admittedly ridiculous) "survey" is talking about. Cars cut me off very often so they don't have to wait... what, 5 extra seconds through a turn?

Many times these cars cut me, then have to stop anyway for a pedestrian.

I often run lights if they are right before a hill. This is specifically to keep the cars behind me from getting mad and doing unsafe things. I'd rather just get out of the way.
To signal to creators where the spenders are.
I am one of the creators of MyRocks at FB. We have a few common MySQL features/operations we don't use at FB. Notably:

1) Schema Changes by DDL (e.g. ALTER TABLE, CREATE INDEX)

2) Recovering primary instances without failover

We use our own open source tool OnlineSchemaChange to do schema changes (details: https://github.com/facebook/mysql-5.6/wiki/Schema-Changes), which is heavily optimized for MyRocks use cases like utilizing bulk loading for both primary and secondary keys. ALTER TABLE / CREATE INDEX support in MyRocks is limited and suboptimal -- it does not support Online/Instant DDL (so blocking writes to the same table during ALTER), and enters non bulk loading path and trying to load the entire table in one transaction -- which may hit row lock count limit or out of memory. We have plans to improve regular DDL paths in MyRocks in MySQL 8.0, including supporting atomic, online and instant schema changes.

I am also realizing that a lot of external MySQL users still don't have auto failover and try to recover primary instances if they go down. This means single instance availability and recoverability is much more important for them. We set rocksdb_wal_recovery_mode=1 (kAbsoluteConsistency) by default in MyRocks, which actually degraded recoverability (higher chances to refuse to start even if it can be recovered from binlog). We're changing defaults to 2 (kPointInTimeRecovery) so that it can be more robust without relying on replicas for recovery.

It would have been a really bad experience when hitting OOM by 1) then failing to restart because of 2). We have relations with MariaDB and Percona, and will make default behavior better for users.
mandatory clip: https://youtu.be/8xRqXYsksFg?t=9
So what is the opinion of the other side?
I would check out Regolith[0]. It's i3 on top of gnome, so you get the best of both worlds. It's available as a distro or an Ubuntu PPA.

[0] https://regolith-linux.org/
Two Russians Charged in $17M Cryptocurrency Phishing Spree
If you're hanging onto it, like me, because it's small and not because it's cheap, there are rumours that the launch of the iPhone 12 in October will include a 5.4" model. It would be the smallest they've released since the original SE, and will have flat edges too.
I almost agree; but in my experience, JetBrains IDEs are worth every cent. I am more productive on them than in Visual Studio Code, even for "simple" tasks, like raw HTML/CSS/JS editing.
iCloud Bypass Pro – iCloud Lock Removal and iPhone Unlocking 2020
I'm curious about this. Could you do iOS app development this way? Or at least native Mac development using cocoa like you could in xcode?
> It is often by trading future productivity - engineers burning out or at least having drop after deadline.

Future productivity? If engineers are burning out in an attempt to meet otherwise impossible deadlines, it means they're being placed under enough stress that it's threatening their mental and possibly physical health. Is employee health really something that can be traded away?
Not exactly what you're after but I asked HN about memory-management in Ada recently, and got a response from one of the AdaCore guys.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24361992
One iOS 14 feature I’m really looking forward to is the use of banners instead of full screen notifications for incoming phone calls.
And what happens when your manager’s response is “you’re the expert, I expect you to decide these things?”

This industry is like any (every?) other: a minefield of incompetence and laziness interwoven with an unhealthy dose of unjustifiable arrogance.
The site seems to work fine for me on Firefox 80, both Mac and Windows - what problem do you see?
Sounds like you need to reevaluate your following distance and responsibilities as a driver. Much of your complaints here are why two wheeled operators assume cars are trying to kill them. Most of this is your responsibility to avoid.

Stopping behind a car and following are not comparable. The speed differential is the key here, and the crumple zones. In your car it is the hood and fenders, on my bike it is my body. A 25mph collision is easily fatal.

> Being in front of a car without a differential, for example, means a much slower transit in turns

Differential between what? The one rear wheel?

> It's a scientific phenomenon, there is no right or wrong, but if you know it you can anticipate for it

Huh? The rules of the road completely account for these differences. There is absolutely a right and wrong.

> If you don't, you risk to end up rear ended

It is 100% your responsibility as the following vehicle to not rear end someone. Bike riders just take evasive and defensive action because drivers can't be trusted.
> We won’t be releasing a new version of .NET Standard, but .NET 5 and all future versions will continue to support .NET Standard 2.1 and earlier. You should think of net5.0 (and future versions) as the foundation for sharing code moving forward.

That is totally confusing, if you take .NET Framework into consideration.
Making tuberculosis more susceptible to antibiotics
> Infants who are given a bottle and start sucking on it experience pleasure. But if the bottles are removed before the infants have finished feeding, they universally cry. And yet they would not have cried if the bottle had never been given.

This person sounds like they've never had to raise a fussy baby. I can't buy this.
RedisTimeSeries 1.4 GA was released
The Community of Inquiry (not dogma)
from the "Completed Projects" list on the sidebar, it looks like just a guy who enjoys making ridiculous keyboards.
Surely having a full time guard and ID checkpoints would make it more expensive for everyone involved. If they don’t like paying the additional taxes they can vote or move.
>Deadlines exist because software doesn't exist in a vacuum, but other people depend on it being delivered.

Exactly, even without external deliverables there are likely other internal initiatives that depend on the project or tie into it. Might even be something as simple as the QA team being booked on another project in a month that does have a hard deadline. So as long as something in the org has a hard external deadline there are going to be ripples that touch all projects in the org.

Also, my experience is that if you communicate early that features need to be cut to meet the deadlines most managers will be happy.
Irrelevant for whom exactly?

He's relevant enough to make HN's front page.

I've also been following his blog (and the Boing Boing website) for years (and the Boing Boing paper zine before that).

I've never read his fiction, but his writing on technology, privacy and surveillance capitalism is eloquent, interesting, and insightful and has always been worth my time.
The road up to mt umunhum used to be gated off, even though it was paid for with gov money. It was always a hot spot for bikers. Ask any local ones that rode up there in the past and they probably have a story of a shotgun getting pulled on them.
Main issue is that ongoing changes in the environment will eventually render whichever Sketch version you are using possibly unusable. I am on a version (that isn't too far out I think) that now can't save anymore on Mac (I suspect the file system/access changes they introduced). So where I previously had a version of Sketch I was totally happy with feature-wise, I now have one that I can't really use anymore. Would've been nice if there was a separation of "free fundamental" updates and paid-for feature updates.
True, but reasonable people that know about web notifications API are less than 1% of Apple customers...
I don't know whether it accounts for the entire "housing's more expensive everywhere" perception, but it sure seems like the only houses that exist near good schools and are cheap on a per-square-foot basis are giant, so still not cheap, thanks to a combination of zoning and developer incentives. It's not like we could live in a significantly smaller house if we wanted to.

Another change is that smaller houses have giant rooms. If you want a 4-bedroom in a decent school district (so, around here it'll be 80s construction at the very earliest, probably late-90s or later, or else in one of a couple very rich and expensive areas that have older houses) you're in for a giant house. A 1960s middle-class 4-bedroom probably has about the square footage of a modern 2-bedroom. Sqft./room is way up across the board. Further, floorplans that look nice in a walk-through or in photos but are incredibly wasteful of all that "cheap" square footage are the norm.
The Verge seems to like it:

https://www.theverge.com/21437674/oculus-quest-2-review-feat...
I don't think solvespace has any offset or minkowski sum operation, it's a staple of mechanical modelling.
Same. Depending on the intersection and traffic there are places in zone 1 where the traffic signals seem to be considered completely optional for cyclists. I have also found myself needing to use a death stare to get some cyclists to stop at a zebra crossing as well; this happens far more frequently with cyclists than I ever needed to for cars or HGVs.
Hell, depends on what you mean by "experienced" as well. I'm a mid-range Millennial, and was in college during the Great Recession - not even aware of it until after it was over. This year is the first recession I'm actually experiencing.
It's not. They are very prompt
> It forces attackers to use a active attack rather than a passive one.

The MITM or eavesdrop can happen on a bridge. If the client doesn't check the certificate and accepts any, its about as good as plaintext. It could be worse, even, due to the false sense of security.

> Which is the only security most IRC can have anyway, since the attacker could just join the channel and listen in that way, since most IRC networks are public.

IRC network private or public is irrelevant.

There were, for sure, private channels back in the days (90s). Back then you could set a channel secret (hidden) and set a password on it, effectively making it a private channel (would not show up in /whois or /list). Bots could kick people who are unknown based on filters. For example, without an auth to an Eggdrop, you could get insta kickbanned even _with_ the correct password.

Then there's PMs which are one on one (except for server(s)).

If one of the IRC servers is compromised though (or tapped, or whatever), that makes sniffing a channel or PMs child play.

There's also the problem of data integrity. If you are asking for (or giving) help in #linux and someone can change the data on the fly, [...]

FWIW, UnrealIRCd, even back then, innovated (or invented) a lot of new features on top of IRC. Some of these added security, though I don't know examples out of my head.
You’re only fooling yourself if you look at the raw values rather than quality of life and relative cost of living.
One thing that works for me (palabra.io co-founder here) for them to 'open up' is to upfront let them know that everything they can share is useful and then something like 'I really have no idea about this space, it would be great if you could share your experience and your thoughts'. I think that people usually share more when they feel they are being useful. I wouldn't say something like that on a sales call but it's great when doing customer interviews.

In terms of getting the leads in the first place, I would say connections/people you know. But would love to hear what others are doing.
One week is usually enough to iron out final GM issues and push a build through review. I don't think I've heard anyone complain about this.
Building tiny living spaces means that people will be forced to live in tiny spaces.

That simply isn’t a good thing.

It’s not going to somehow drive improvement in other kinds of housing.
Will the Oculus account continue to work? Otherwise they are forcing Facebook on me.
Around me, there are a couple of intersections which have detectors to change the signal light, so if there's no car around you're not getting a green light.

Things are getting better I guess... in NY, "complete streets" was signed in 2011. I consider that pretty recent though. Even post 2011, there were projects near me that were already underway and getting completed that completely ignored cycling. -.-
I have an old IBM F122. A 122-key keyboard is pretty much peak keyboard when it comes to easily purchased commercial offerings. The smaller less sturdy sibling of the F122, the M122 (yes, M as in model M) can still be purchased relatively easy, but then you lose about a kilo of weight, nicer switches and N-key rollover. The prices for model F keyboards are bonkers today though.

Your option when it comes to a lot of keys (as the one posted here) is either to build it yourself or try to find some very specific offerings, maybe aimed at video production.
Well put and fully agreed. I don’t think engineers are in any way a special case here. In fact it can be much worse for people whose skillset is easier to replace.
Managers don't operate like this at well-run companies.

Any remotely healthy team will perform estimation and scoping as a discussion with the developers involved. The author of this post sounds like he has worked at an extremely dysfunctional company, not a company that understands how to develop software.

This idea that managers are universally incompetent just isn't true. The best thing you can do is refuse to support incompetent managers. Change teams or change jobs if you must. There are many, many great managers out there who won't try to pull nonsense like this.
The "rabbit hole" being discussed is just "understanding a step in an argument", not, providing a foundation for logic.

It's not impossible to gain understanding of a step in someone else's argument.
Nova feels like an editor for 10, 15 years ago when they were making Coda. It feels like its for when you have a bunch of simple static HTML files and maybe a sass watcher.

These days, web development got both more mature, complicated, and simpler, all in ways that makes it hard for Nova to make sense.
I live with my wife's parents. Well, really, they live with us. And I think it is glorious. Always someone around to chat with, play a game with. We get last minute childcare help and sit cooking, cleaning and upkeep. For them, well they get super cheap rent in the place they want to live and tons of grandkid time.

Multi generational housing is the the norm in so many societies. For the US to constantly bemoan it speaks mostly to our fucked up family culture and little else. I couldn't be happier living with extended family and hope to do so for a long time.
I had both type of experiences, lucid dreaming and something like what's described in the article. While a theory of the subconscious may explain both, they feel completely different. It's like skiing is technically like kicking a can because you use your legs for both, but no one analyses them both from the same framework and gets interesting conclusions or predictions.
This write-up indicates a serious problem in the org:

- the tasks are not scoped and thus arbitrary dates are given

- the tasks are not scoped and thus no trade-off discussions are had

Every time I had to work crazy hrs it was for a good reason in decent companies. Examples being: We literally don't have the money to operate if xyz doesn't get delivered by a specific date. Cut what you can, but not what is critical.

With good managers / execs you always debate between what they want build, and what can be built given current realities.

If your company just throws arbitrary dates and wants the perfect product expecting you to work like mad... there is a problem in that company.
FYI, here's what Trump meant by "inject disinfectant into the body": https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2020-04-20/aytu-bio.... These folks inject UV light source into the body via the breathing tube. He never said "bleach" - that was made up by reporters.
> Reading between the lines here, this sounds like an engineer who wants to satisfy requirements that the project doesn't actually have.

In my experience, this is one of the least understood aspects of the engineer's job, often by engineers themselves. An engineer's job is not to create the absolute highest quality solution every time. The engineer's job is to match solutions with requirements. Often that means not implementing something that, from a purely technical perspective, would be an improvement, because it's not needed to meet the actual requirement, and would take time and effort from something that is needed.
Can't remember, it seems like it's "Man in the Machine", and the friend was also Jobs' former girlfriend and mother of his first daughter: https://mashable.com/2015/03/15/steve-jobs-man-machine/
I had quite a few issues 2-3 builds ago but it seems to be really stable now.
How does it work in practice in other societies?

How do you have a grown up, likely physical, relationship with your partner... when your parents are sharing the same rooms? Do you just hide in your bedroom the whole time?

How do you develop your own relationships and life and way of doing things and way of raising your children, inside someone else's house? I can't understand that but I'm open to hearing about how.
there are a lot of good options here: https://headlesscms.org/

i personally use Netlify CMS for my website. it's not as feature rich as some other options, but for a personal blog, it gets the job done, and it's open source
They work okay, but I recommend looking on Etsy and finding some magnetic lens adapters for about $25 dollars. They click into the headset and then you take the lenses out of of a specific $10 pair of Zenni Optical lenses and stay attached to the headset itself.
> Why do they need to bring it on board if they aren't going to use it?

No checked luggage? To use at the other side? To deliver to someone else?

Air travel is horrible enough already with the BS restrictions (eg water bottles). Let’s not encourage making it even worse. Airlines are already screwed enough right now without putting off the few people that are still travelling with even more restrictions and surcharges.
Thanks for letting us know. I'm in Toronto, so I appreciate it.
In some ways, that might be a good situation -- it means they are leaving all the trade-off decisions to you. If they are only specifying time and resources, you can trade scope, quality, debt.

If they are freezing time and resources and scope, and you dont have much room to move except with quality and debt. But those catch up. If that is the consistent trade-off, i'd go with my original recommendations: trade this stupidity for more salary or find a new employer with better management. Or seek the managerial position yourself and do a better job at it.
I’m truly sick of seeing this quote every time we have a Dropbox post on HN.
I have one son who took 4 years to score a job. In between applying to every local job listing, he also walked door-to-door trying to find an unadvertised position (which didn't work out).

He had state food prep certifications. The ALF who eventually hired him got a worker who's on time every day, easy to get on with & does his job with consistency and competence.
"Of course, they’ll have to be built without railings, because there’s a strict no railings rule enforced by Phil, who’s not an engineer. Nobody’s sure what Phil does, but it’s definitely full of synergy"