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Right, this, and the lack of typing in XML, are the fundamental differences and the sources of many of the differences in performance, complexity, etc. The question to ask is, what’s the right format for your software’s needs? More often than not, programmatic data structures map more directly to JSON/YAML’s simple and typed fundamentals. That easy mapping plus far better performance are the reasons why people avoid XML these days.

The author of this piece gets it fundamentally wrong in saying that “Enterprise” stink was the reason people abandoned XML. For enterprises that need those features, XML is still a fine format to use. But for most purposes, those features aren’t necessary, and the massive overhead that comes along with them makes it a bad tradeoff.
Does the first one work when a French person pronounces it?
I have a 1080p Vizio from about 2013 or so. It's "smart", but doesn't phone home or anything. I use a Roku to get more modern apps for it (I block Roku's phoning home in my pihole).

I've considered upgrading to 4K many times. But I take comfort in knowing the TV I have now is not screwing me over. The thought of having to thoroughly research the TVs of today is enough for me to stick with it. Heck, my eyes probably can't see the 4K improvements from across the room anyway.
In my view, there's been a strong push towards eliminating skilled labor in a lot of settings such as factories. We'd rather get rid of both apprentice and the master.

At the factory attached to my place of employment, I'm not sure what jobs are actually left that are related to any of the skilled trades. Most of our workers are assemblers. We do hire people with 2 year trade school degrees, or equivalent military service training. When our welder retires, we will probably outsource the welding.

Now we get pieces from shops that have skilled trades such as machinists, but I don't think those shops require a 4 year degree. I don't think carpenters, roofers, or plumbers have bachelors degrees. Many of the businesses that hire those people are family owned, and hard to break into if you're not connected.

As for health care trades, well, employers might be willing to bear the cost of the training, if there was only one employer: The government.
And your comments all over this thread are good examples of this. So, thanks for proving my point.
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1Password's guest mode is quite convenient and definitely provides a measure of confidence for the client. I use this with a number of clients and it works well for users of most technical levels.

Once they transfer a secret to us, I just move it out of the guest vault into another one. When I transfer a secret to them, I ask them to confirm that they have it and then I remove it from the shared vault.
that just says the government agencies raided the offices of AII, it doesn't prove any wrongdoing. Exactly the kind of harassment AII is talking about in the article linked above, only if you had read it in the first place before making his comment.
What about Ecosia
It's interesting to me that most people in this thread view colleges as jobs programs. In other words, many of us seem to view universities as machines that take in undergraduates at one socioeconomic level and graduate them at a higher socioeconomic level.

If this is how we come to view "higher education," we should be careful because that's not the ideal that gave birth to the university in the form that we recognize it. And so it's not clear to me whether universities as we recognize them will continue to exist if we continue to view them as a jobs programs.
My personal observation is rather: blue collar jobs (including office) are protected by unions and the company “then takes it out on university graduates that are not covered”. I am mainly talking “larger industrial companies” - that is where I grew up.

It is just so freakin easy to get an apprenticeship in comparison to getting a job with a university degree. And I am talking business/IT apprenticeship versus university counterparts.
It’s not as much “those business hobos will all get unemployed and they deserve it” - it’s rather: “if you just sign up early and promise not to strive for ambition you are better off financially in a lot of cases”.
I so agree with this. I have been complainging in different companies that using REST is not practical between application (at least use JSON-API then). REST is usefull for frontend <-> backend communication. SOAP was horrible simetimes but it worked. If you change the contract the clients simply do not compile. This is not the case when you change a service using REST (yeah there are some fixes for that but they are not common and widely used).
I love my Samsung TV, I just don't let it connect to the Internet
Apple's argument is that they provide a guarantee to iPhone that all the apps in the App Store are safe and secure. They can't make that guarantee if developers add secret features the reviewers don't know about.
Yea force it to go through a proxy with your own ca and filter from there.
https://www.android.com/choicescreen-winners/

I'm kind of very curious about some of the small names on it. Like how do they have more money than DDG. PirvacyWall seems to be using the Bing API like DDG, so I just don't see how they'd be about to outspend DDG so easily.
You only add "in mice" for things that work. This was a human study, showing it didn't help more than the control group, after mice studies showed that it might.
> Smartphone/tablet OSs are logical successors to the laptop/desktop OSs we have not game consoles. They are general purpose computing platforms.

Game consoles are general computing platforms as much as anything. Like Apple's devices they are artificially restricted with a walled garden model.

"I own this device, therefore I should be able to run anything I want" is an argument I can understand. "Company X invented this platform and therefore can choose what to allow to run on it" is also an argument I can understand (though I disagree). What I can't understand is this argument that Apple specifically shouldn't be allowed to restrict software but game consoles should.
Look at it this way: Other people tell us what they think we should do with our lives. What we should find interesting, or fulfilling, or is good for our career.

Meanwhile, I feel like I'm an adult and can make my own decisions. I don't care if what I like is not "cool" or "hip" or some "up and coming technology". I don't have to be in research or the cutting edge of something to make interesting personal discoveries.

In my career I've accidentally stumbled upon multidimensional OLAP cubes (in the form of SQL Server Analysis Services) and discovered that they're quite fun to work with, actually. The reputation of business analytics as something "dry and boring" is undeserved. It's a wonderful mix of human problems like "manufacturing calendars" and quirky sales bonus calculations on top of fancy optimisation tricks to make calculations over terabytes of data nearly instant.

I've also had the incredibly gratifying experience of making a bog-standard web app with only a few mildly tricky technical bits for a department of education. It helped about a million kids read more than they would have otherwise. That's something. In fact, I'm certain that my one library app made kids read more books they wouldn't have otherwise than a dozen English teachers.

My parents were educators, and I outperformed them a hundred fold without ever stepping foot in a classroom as a teacher.
This isn’t necessarily true. There’s been a lot of money injected into the economy in the last 10 years and it hasn’t caused mass price increases.
>> This is the first lesson of economics.

Ya. Lesson #1, not the final lesson but the ABC lesson taught to people who are just starting to learn. Later lessons will cover price concepts that make lesson #1 less relevant, such as that in realworld economics people are not all treated identically. Application of identical rules to all earners generally does not end well. That's why progressive taxation is a thing. A simple extension of progressive taxation is progressive handout/benefit schemes, money for the poor but not also to the rich. But that is probably lesson #10 or #12 and we are still on #1.
Ah, I missed that line.

I had read it as all of the libraries/characters(?) being different parts of the same whole project, with the whole project being to achieve that goal.

Thanks!
Two issues, one is cost – TV's are expensive as is, so consumers don't want to spend extra to purchase a standalone set-top box right after spending a large amount.

Second issue is that the average consumer wants smart TV's – they like that everything is integrated in the TV. Less remotes, less cabling etc.

As someone who doesn't really use the "smarts" on my smart TV, I'd quite like a well engineered (hardware + software), privacy preserving, smart TV. I see the appeal of an all-integrated solution. But none exists; most of the time the software is either garbage, or runs as if it was meant to run on hardware a few generations in the future. And as for privacy... sadly, few on both sides of the market prioritise it :(
I have trouble with both email and/or slack or MS Teams. All are full of notifications, requests, and unintentional spam. But none has a way of identifying which is which. So I'm stuck trying to sort all that out. I can tag them, but that puts a lot of work on me.
> Something might be a long standing practice and still be against the law.

That's extremely unlikely -- it would have been prosecuted previously otherwise.

A better term for "long standing practice" is precedent. Laws often don't account for certain edge cases or unseen developments, so judges in common law countries do very much look at what other judges have permitted or not in the past, in order to maintain continuity.

Otherwise you'd be at the whim of each and every judge interpreting law totally differently, which would be a nightmare for anyone trying to figure out what is permitted or not.
This homepage doesn't do a great job at communicating this.
A niece of mine is a pharmacy technician at a Walmart in Indiana. She compounds drugs all day long. It's still extremely common.

She had to take a bunch of classes at the local branch of the state university system and then pass a certification.
Well there is SamyGO which let's you root and patch your Samsung TV, for SSH and other access, at least in older models. Not a firmware replacement but a step in the right direction ;)
Hi. I'm the author.

I've been working on this for over a year, and I've finally plucked up the courage to post it on HNs.

GitJournal stores your notes in standard Markdown Files. It uses standard SSH, and should be compatible with any SSH Server. I started this as while there are lots of Note Taking apps on the desktop, the mobile space was deeply lacking.

This is my attempt at building a sustainable Open Source Project - The entire code base is Open Source (no Open Core), when publishing it on the App Stores - certain features require purchasing the Pro Version. The model is similar to "Sketch" and "Working Copy" where you can purchase all the current features and new features developed in the next 12 months. I feel this aligns very well with both the creator and users, as the creator has a big incentive to listen to the users and build features that they want. (The purchase is not auto-renewing)

All the development is tracked on GitHub, so please feel free to make feature requests and vote on existing features.
Possibly a dumb question but why has RAM plateaued in high-end laptops? Very expensive laptops these days seem to have either 8 or 16GB of memory, and it seems to me as though this has been the case for about 8 years. Is there some reason that you don't see a benefit beyond that? Is it to do with using SSDs?
Android 12 Will Allow Downloading Apps from Samsung and Apple App Store
The old saying is
XML is a markup language, JSON is an object notation.
Maybe it will be time for the world to massively move towards online education. Khan academy and other MOOCs are already doing a fine job. If universities finally move towards online certificates that can be recognized like or more than degrees, we might finally be able to drop the costs for education and enable more people worldwide to get a good education.

A skill tree map like in Path of Exile for education would be a major step forward, but small steps first...
Nobel Prize :-)
Author here. As others already stated, this is not a legitimate use in my opinion. As of WCAG, there is only one legitimate use of text which may not pass the contrast ratio levels: disabled state (e.g. disabled buttons).

I am aware that this is only applied to downvoted comments. But using an insufficient contrast ratio excludes the _readers_, not the posters. There are accessible ways to deemphasize unwanted comments.

BTW, HN currently has 237 occurrences of insufficient contrast ratio on the front page. While my example was an extreme one, even regular content is not sufficient on HN, unfortunately.
That’s some BS argument people came up with in the beginning g because they saw thst 30% was similar to the credit card processing fees you’d find.

Apple isn’t paying 30c + 2.9% i.e. 33c that someone with no experience ever can get on opening a Shopify store.
I want Linux from a trusted source. So one of the big distros. Preferably Debian. As far as I know, those do not support the Surface.
The $149 is for work done or it is website fees?
People still pursue their own interests, but usually it's outside of a university setting. Mixing these things with job training and then siloing them into an expensive and overly bureaucratic[1] system called "college" is of questionable value.

[1]Compare signing up for a college foreign language course with signing up for a foreign language course outside of college.
This is exactly the reason why I keep my smart tv dumb. Never connected it to the internet, all playback is being done with a chromecast or mediaplayer.
Furthermore the Xbox at least does let you install arbitrary unsigned software.
I believe it's the Intel chipset constraints
I've developed muscle memory for `g! <query>` even on mobile.
I started using DuckDuckGo in an attempt to unGoogle my life, but I'm starting to realise that DDG won't do as a google replacement. It displays annoying ads with no clear way to disable them and the quality of search results is significantly worse.
You can take off the back plastic with a screw driver and disconnect the light if you want. Modern TVs are actually pretty modular. You can unhook the roku board, the t-con board, the speakers and multiple other things pretty easily. They are just wires with plastic clip connectors, a lot like a PC.

This is not a rationalization for garbage design, but at least it isn't as much of a black box as people might think.
However marine plastic can get buried, due to seaweed decomposing into soil. Here's[1] a recent story about some students finding 20% of the soil being plastic on a nearby island. On the surface it looks all nice and clean, but the plastic is embedded beneath the surface.

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/trondelag/forskere-fant-opptil-20-prosent...
Google removes 17 Android apps caught engaging in WAP billing fraud
I'm just happy to see WAP go back to it's original meaning, even if just for a minute.
Counter example: Got offer from two companies, the second a few weeks later.

Preferred the second but their offer was slightly lower. They could match easily (big company) but they didn't want to. I got calls by HR and by the manager to convince me to take the job but they wouldn't bulge on the offer.

Well. Went to work for the first company. I still got a call from HR after I started working at the company, to try to get me. I was upfront, I like your company and your project more, I want to work for you, all you have to do is to match £XYZ salary and I can start working for you on the XYth (notice period). They still refused to match the offer.
I bought a used projector some time ago. Couldn't be happier. I usually watch something after it's dark and I also have very good blinds. It probably warms up in similar, or better, time that many TVs boot up nowadays. I just have a Chromecast connected to a soundbar connected to the projector. VLC handles Chromecast, although somewhat buggy, so I can watch things from my computer in another room.

Also Netflix experience with Chromecast is mostly superior to smart TVs, because it will not play anything while you just try to find something worth watching.

Connecting Chromecast to the soundbar also gives ability to listen to music from Youtube, without running display. It wastes bandwith however.

EDIT: I wrote "beamer" instead of "projector" at first
No. The judge is asking a valid question based on precedence. It’s up to the plaintiff’s legal team to show the judge either why their case is different, or that the precedent setters are in the wrong as well.
Subramanya Swamy is 81 yrs old. A person who has remnants and values of old-school of casteist thought.

I don't expect him to be post-modernists egalitarian.

However at the same it doesn't mean he can't say his casteist comments openly. ;)

After all, its better if people say it openly so that they can be criticized for their casteist comment. The likes of him is politically insignificant as he is NOT competing in elections.
This highlights the importance of implementation: this is not a problem in Python because the language prevents those subtle inconsistencies whereas YAML tries too hard to accept anything and has a lot of magic syntax which makes it hard for tools to determine intent.
Sounds good. Which keyboard do you use? And which Linux distro?
No they were normal off the shelf cards, but they were soldered directly on to the PCB and everything was vacuum potted.
There are plenty of nice 32GB laptops out there on the market. I was issued one for work as early as 2017.
This is true, but sadly, organizations that value and promote human rights are always going to be targeted right-wing extremists, as they are fundamentally opposed to this ideal.

Especially true in India now that they have their own Hindu Hitler.
I actually did take a couple of years off and try to make a living on my own selling music software with a lot of handwritten DSP code in it. I learned a lot and it was a lot of fun but I also realized that to a certain extent programming is programming no matter what the domain is. Things that seem exotic and sexy on the surface actually involve a lot of the same considerations and problem solving that building a website does.

So yeah there's no shame in working in more mundane & utilitarian areas. And, like you said, you might reach more people with your work that way.
Does it have to know the information for all frames, or just the key frames? If it’s the later, then you could encode so the initial table, has X key frames spread out over a few hours, then force a frame to exist in those locations when encoding the live stream.
> What I can't understand is this argument that Apple specifically shouldn't be allowed to restrict software but game consoles should.

If it was upto me, I would even argue for fairer rules there. Right now, it is Apple and they are sitting on a much more important computing platform for developers in terms of value, so I am fine if companies concentrate their efforts on iOS. If a precedent comes from this that can be applied in other places, I am all for it.
I've listened to that song so many times and I still didn't get the joke!
Yes, and my 2019 model recently started showing this:

>Support for the Ambient mode Headlines Service is scheduled to end on September 30, 2020. We thank you for using the service and we look forward to providing an improved alternative in the near future

I'm not going to buy a new TV every year. "Smart" features that are discontinued after ~1 year are worse than worthless, it's just clutter in the menus at this point.

Also crazy are hardcoded "Netflix", "Rakuten" and "Amazon" buttons on the Samsung remote, you just know that they will stop working at some point.
The photo of your palms out doesn't include an image of your veins because it wasn't taken with an infrared camera.
You can always hook up a computer and use the TV as a monitor.
This is great to know about. But on qutebrowser (QT webengine) it doesn't update. When I tried it on Google Chrome, it worked as expected. So maybe not as universal as the author believes.
If you have an iPhone, you should get a prompt to enter text on your phone when you’re in an Apple TV search field.
Except SCS is all about "fearing the other".

Ex. A: China's singular party has implemented a surveilance dragnet and social tattling ideology with vast repercussions on freedoms and censorship. Features include forced assimilation until it is "voluntary" (re-education), measures that encourage ratting out dissidents, a leader with near mythical status, and a technical panopticon.

Ex. B: HN commentor warning about just such a system.

I get your point, but GP is hardly "spreading fear about the other" when saying "hey we need to pay attention to this if we care about liberty"
Chrome supports fully customizable bangs (and I assume Firefox does too) so why should Google search bother with them?
> For me, I cannot put a value to the transaction. I have done enough searches that can embarrass me, label me, or hurt me. Maybe some were illegal; I probably am on a lot of lists. Political searches are enough to alienate a lot of people. How do you estimate how my searches affect my income for the coming years?

Probably zero, because absent a search warrant they aren't ever revealed to anyone but you.
I mean, at the end of the day the one thing that Epic has convinced me of with all of this is that my next phone will not be an iPhone even though I am very happy with my current iPhone6s.
I didn't like Pythons whitespace when I first started using it after years of Perl and Java. Then after maybe 6 months I went back to writing some Perl code. I moved some blocks of code around, then got the dreaded missing brace problem where they didn't match up and I couldn't which brace wasn't matching up. I realized that I never encountered that problem in Python. That was enough to convince me of the benefits.
> that's not the ideal that gave birth to the university in the form that we recognize it

True but originally it was just a small subset of people that went to university.
I've been involved in XML standards making for about seven years, and one of the things I'm most proud of is encouraging the standards body to publish a JSON standard.

XML is extremely flexible, and delivered on being extensible. That is why it has fallen out of favor. XML is pretty unforgiving in terms of what is valid (this is all for good reason) and the extensibility brings with it a lot of complexity. XML is:

- Complex and requires tools with more functionality than, say JSON. Yes other formats do less. That is why formats like JSON are supported completely in most languages and XML and it's dependent standards. For example SOAP is not fully supported by Python.

- Brittle. It is easy to introduce errors in XML that cause most XML parsers to fail. Bad characters, bad or missing escapes, unbalanced tags all introduce points of failure.

- XML is the foundation of even more brittle and complex standards like SOAP and XHTML. Yes, SOAP is really cool. WSDLs when supported are magic. But... when something isn't right, it's very difficult to fix or get working. Meanwhile, a mediocre developer can integrate with a web api that delivers JSON in an hour or two.

While XML can do the job, JSON, YAML and TOML all are a lot smaller in terms of tooling and cognitive overhead, and most importantly, writing a library to handle them is much less daunting than supporting XML and all of it's child standards.

All that said, for more complex data interchange cases, and internal file formats, XML still is hard to beat. So much work is done for you.