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> As we move forward, eventually, there will be nothing left to propose for the Open Web Platform. We will reach feature-parity with our local Operating Systems.

But operating systems continue to innovate/improve/change at roughly the same rate as browsers these days, no?

So it seems like a total logical fallacy that the browser would ever be complete. People always come up with new ideas and better solutions for things users need, new hardware arises that needs software support and input, etc.
Writing a Fast HTTP Parser [pdf]
Off-topic:

> ... made available under a CC-BY-ND 4.0 International license.

I'm quite pleased to see more and more academic and scientific papers being licensed as such in recent times!
But that is the exact point. Having a human interlock explicitly shifts the dependency. Knowing that you should launch nukes is no longer enough and being able to bring yourself to physically kill someone is the additional requirement that we are _deliberately_ adding to this process despite there not being an obvious logical link between the two actions before.
Excel. Users are often already using it, but have absolutely no idea what they could do with advanced formulas or super minimal vb script. There are still people sanitizing 300k line spreadsheets (hunting spaces etc) by hand.
Trump campaign website hacked in 'cryptocurrency scam'
>new Charlie Brown space series, which my kids also have loved.

I mean, couldn't a quality series be created without previously popular IP? Is the only reason your kids watched it is because of their parents appeal to nostalgia? Is anyone else sick of endless sequels?
Could be the other way around though.

What happens if the Justice Department finds Google has a monopoly, and somehow decides that Apple can't use Google's Search Engine anymore? I mean, it's a bit of a long shot and a weird idea, but it's not outside of the realm of possibility. Google could get themselves into all kinds of trouble in this investigation.

If you're Apple, investing a few tens of millions now so that you have a half-decent search engine ready in case Google goes away is a smart investment. And if nothing happens, you quietly shelve the project.
I started college in the fall of 1993. I went to a science and math boarding school for high school where we had Internet access. We used Archie to find FTP sites to find stuff.

I think it was Christmas break 1993 when a high school friend came to visit (he went to a different college) and started up Mosaic. I asked him what it was and then he laughed that I was still using Archie and FTP to find stuff.

I think it was xmosaic version 0.9 or something like that.
An equally large challenge is that solving a problem with software (and sometimes hardware) tends to lead to new problems that are experienced as part of the original problem.

Another equally large challenge is that the person/people with the problem to be solved doesn't actually understand the problem and is incapable of describing it in a way that makes it a priori understandable.
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I've been wondering the same thing recently. If anyone's interested in learning more about how previous cultures remembered vast amounts of information I would recommend the book I'm currently reading:

Frances Yates - The Art of Memory,

and the one I'm planning to read next:

Mary Carruthers - The Book of Memory.

One of the most interesting aspects for me is how the concept of memory in the middle ages was much more closely associated (sometimes conflated) with imagination than it is now. Most people I know now would consider memory and imagination as two quite distinct mental faculties.
It's probably the unfortunate consequence of a typical software vendor's perspective.

There's a deep conflict between the interests of users and software vendors, a conflict for control over presentation. It's blindingly visible on the web, and half the reason it's in such shitty state it is, but it also applies to desktop software. The problem is that for a vendor, application's UI and UX are marketing space, and they want total control over "user's journey". For the user, UI/UX are things that stand between them and the work they want to get done, so they want it to be effort- and bullshit-free. For non-tech-savvy users this implies "consistent with all other software they use"; for power users, this means "able to be altered or removed" - but both of those viewpoints require vendor to not have the final say about presentation.

In context of dark mode, an OS-level control over UI styling is a user-friendly feature. Unfortunately, it got defeated by vendors who want the UI to be their branding space, and now they have to begrudgingly add dark mode themselves.

EDIT: see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24918296 upthread, it seems to be a quite accurate description of what will happen if we let the vendor side win.
Sorry that statement was when iMac Pro was their only contemporary machine which is when I built my current PC system which still outperforms the current iMac Pro by a large margin.

Most of my work is in OctaneRender

If I were to do a build today:

I'd buy Threadripper 24 core = £1245

For Apple this would be 24 Core Xeon from Apple = £6000, just for the processor on top of the base price of £5000

I'd buy RTX 3090 (OctaneBench score 670) £1399

For Apple Radeon Pro Vega II Duo (OctaneBench score 412) £5200, I could buy 3 3090's for that price...

It's just no contest, £3500 machine outperforming something over £16,000
There are people who cannot use an abstraction unless they understand every line of code behind it. Abstractions are blockers, rather than aids. This lowers the value of abstraction for those individuals.

Others find it tiresome to read every line of code and develop intuition around abstractions instead. The "find_definition" function will be all that is parsed.

The funny thing is people shift between the two as the scope of the project increases.
It would provide Tesla an option to exit the automobile market and become an upstream parts supplier. My guess is the profits for that are substantially lower, though.
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As far as I know SOA is a concept and DCOM and CORBA are implementations of this concept. Microservices are a more lightweight variant of SOA, but basically the same idea.
Decent point. If my recollection is accurate, a number of browsers or other implementations must already implement something before it can become standard.
International Insurance for B2B SaaS (Delaware C Corp)
I was wondering if I could find some advice on Insurance for a B2B SaaS, incorporated as a US (Delaware) C-Corp and selling worldwide. For now most clients are European Enterprises. Thanks in advance.
> Doing side effects from functions that are assumed to be pure.

That completely goes away as soon as your language has purity declared at the type system.

It's just not available for Javascript development, like most nice FP features.
Google actually pays Zurich engineers more than Bay Area, something like +15% IIRC. I was close to moving out there at one point and know a few people who did.
Send me your resume (contact info in my profile)?

I am aggressively hiring EMs, and will definitely consider first time managers.
Of course without the word "flying" the headline loses some of its impact.

The European Aviation Safety Agency is still examining the company’s request to have the vehicles certified to fly.
As I understand it, the idea is that even without a BIOS password nor a disk encryption password, your OS can boot and only then request a session password. So effectively you only have to enter one password, rather than 2 or 3. Even if the laptop is stolen, TPM included, you still have to guess the login password. This is how Bitlocker et all operate and to be honest makes a lot of sense for a regular user (and practically everyone unless your enemy is a government-like entity than can decap/sniff TPM chips...).

Secure Boot actually does not help much here... since the idea is that thief wouldn't be able to change the disk contents.
Wasn’t there a Greek philosopher who lamented how the youngs are losing their ability to remember because this newfangled invention called “writing” is making them lazy?
> I'm not going to explain...

Then why do you read and post on hacker news? Maybe reddit front page is a better place for you?
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You're right. Ack.
I recommend the raw rendering, followed by the browser’s reader mode.

But I agree in principle.
"the US had not too long ago fought for independence against the Britain monarchy"

Yet somehow we fought on the British side in 1917.
Uhm, that seems a tad convoluted. Are you saying people that socially distance themselves are more likely to contract Covid-19 because the ones that don't are so often outside that they will contract it less probably?

And further, that's not the definition of social distancing. This would obviously include indoors. I won't sit at my kitchen table with the postman for a coffee while I am avoiding public gatherings.

I am sorry, my sarcasm-radar is quite broken. Are you joking?
My google team didn't even _have_ a PM for most of my tenure there.
> It's not that

It IS that, money wise, in all the places where even the best employed developer does not even make close to 100k, e.g. all of Europe. Which is why a lot of managers in IT suck. They are previous developers that reached the developer salary ceiling. Then you can only become architect or some kind of manager.
It's just someone's prediction. Could be true, could be false. Maybe the singularity will happen in 10 years, maybe in 10000 years, or maybe it's actually impossible for us humans to accomplish.
In the past couple months I've often had problems with Gmail and/or Calendar disconnecting or not loading (using Chrome). For instance Gmail times out. GCalendar is unresponsive when I try to create a new entry. Anyone having the same issue? I used to love both services, but this issue makes me want to switch.
BA's work on business software which is typically written to help support processes and workflows that lean toward structure, definition, repeatability and so forth.

There's lots of software in the world (all creative software, for example) that doesn't share these attributes, and all the skills of a BA are useless.

The scope of software is larger than webdev and larger than business.
Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google.

When asked during an interview for CNBC's recent "Inside the Mind of Google" special about whether users should be sharing information with Google as if it were a "trusted friend," Schmidt responded, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free
My Dad dealt in coins for decades. Crazy thin margins.

So many times people came in with a “20,000” collection they assembled. Basically client spent years of buying 3x over actual value as an “investment”

They were always disappointed with the actual value.

At some point I calculated his hourly earnings at around a dollar an hour.

But kept him happy.
Yes... probably ... what was the question again?

// This loss of ability to remember is real and personal. To combat it, once a year, I undertake a two to three week digital detox. No devices, no media, only long form traditional books. Takes a week to overcome agitation from not being able to “consume” digital micro-info-bursts on demand. Following that, my brain begins to restore its ability to build and maintain concepts, built up like Jenga towers or houses of cards while reading. That ability remains until I get lazy, quit taking notes by hand and go back to digital.
Why is it written in third person?
not having something as powerful as what is generally considered the best is not the same as not having something.
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> this is a loss for Amazon

How is this a loss for Amazon? Did Amazon previously stream it for free? It seems mostly a loss for broadcast tv.
I guess you're coming at this from a fundamentally different perspective; you seem to believe that enough of a problem justifies state intervention. You're arguing that it harms too many people, but I really don't care; it could have harmed ten thousand times the number of people and that wouldn't matter.

Bitcoin absolutely has legitimate uses, as I'm sure you know, but that's not really pertinent to the issue that the government doesn't get to tell free men what they may or may not do because someone else committed a crime. "Freedom creates opportunities for bad guys" is not an argument against freedom.
Not a helicopter - an autogyro. The rotor on the top is not driven (literally just spins freely on a bearing). Forward motion pushes air through it, which keeps it spinning and that keeps the aircraft up. In effect the rotor acts like a wing (forward motion results in lift), but without the ability to stall.

I'm learning to fly an autogyro in the UK. They're great fun to fly, and in theory safer than a plane because the short landing distance means that in event of engine failure you have a much greater selection of places to land (in practice modern safe autogyros have only been around 5-10 years so we don't have enough data to compare).
A lot of people, including myself, believe that adding completely unrelated items onto a billis completely unacceptable. Putting a high priority bill at risk for an unrelated pet topic is selfish and wrong.
Another Star Wars Holiday Special? Well I guess that's one more for 2020 Bingo.
> only Marko has this feature

not true, Elderjs from the Svelte ecosystem does exactly this
If you are interested, look at this site:

https://sourdo.com/

Ed Wood did more or less the same thing in the 90s, it was covered in Nat Geo in Jan 1995. He sells the sourdough culture he got in Egypt.
Not a helicopter at all, see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24918402
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Temperature sensors will help keep Covid-19 vaccines potent
It is really for people coming in 1-2 days a week. Very impractical to have 5x desk space for 5 people who all come in one day a week.
For anyone using Docker and thinking of trying out Fedora, here is a warning:

Fedora uses cgroupsv2 to push things forward, but no Docker release supports it yet, it's in master[0], but there are no release in sight as there is no ETA.

[0] https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/40174
Nothing sketchy here at all.

You seem to think that Amazon has reasonable processes for dealing with people? No, it's Kafka.

The complaints from a few people are easy: "I didn't like this, looks suspicious" is a very easy thing for a few customers to do.

Then the complaint and it's done.

These kinds of things can even happen in the regular court systems.

I don't know who's right and who's wrong but his claims are within reason.
I agree that it may be overkill for such a simple function, but the author (at least the original author, Brandon Rhodes) is drawing an analogy to more complex applications.

He uses such a simple example so that his idea that applies to much larger, more complex codebases can expressed in a presentation/article, not to argue that all such simple functions need this level of decoupling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#Steelmanning
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Thank you for your cultural service.
Quite, though in fairness one might add that Hitler declared war on the US.

However, at that point there had been something close to war going on between the US and German navies for a while.
Interesting - inflatable heat shield, parachute, mid air helicopter catch. A few moving parts - be interesting to watch these - they claim 90% first stage cost savings.

I remember blue orgin trying to block SpaceX from pad 39A. They even appealed NASA's decision to GAO I think. They were going to be launching orbital mission in 2018 I think with folks on board. Whatever happened to those launch plans? Elon had a pretty memorable quote I think.

"If they do somehow show up in the next 5 years with a vehicle qualified to NASA's human rating standards that can dock with the Space Station, which is what Pad 39A is meant to do, we will gladly accommodate their needs," Musk wrote. "Frankly, I think we are more likely to discover unicorns dancing in the flame duct."
No, not at all. They aren't really legal documents, anyone can send one, even to simply intimidate the recipient, or force them to spend time and resources (they may not have) addressing it. And even if the sender is acting in good faith, the courts could interpret the law differently from them.

Remember, one is presumed innocent/not liable until proven otherwise, not when you get a C&D (or get arrested, or get sued, for that matter).
(Copied from a sibling comment of mine): look at this site:

https://sourdo.com/

Ed Wood did more or less the same thing in the 90s, it was covered in Nat Geo in Jan 1995. He sells the sourdough culture he got in Egypt.
I really can't see this happening, and if its does, I can't see it working.
Considerable vagueness is to be expected in any field so far from an explanation, and the situation is even worse in the dualist camp: to the best of my knowledge, they have never been able to offer one definite, affirmative claim about how the alleged non-physical aspects of the mind work. All they do is weave tendentious arguments against there ever being a physical explanation of the mind.

Emergent phenomena are pervasive in complex systems, and this stands as an effective response to naive dualist misconceptions such as that materialism requires that a quale must be identical with a single physical thing.

Even in airplanes, behavioral traits such as stability emerge from the interaction of several physical features.
Ok make a prediction about the "currency collapsing" and we will see. An actual prediction of the value of the currency not just a remark about prices seeming unusually high to you personally.
Ask HN: Is there a place where I can practice identifying cognitive biases?
Hi HN,

I've started learning about cognitive/psychological biases and was wondering if there was a place where I could practice identifying them and get feedback.

Thanks
That's incredibly competitive to be fair to you, the unlimited end users point is a great point of differentiation too.
I thought of this, too, but believed the solution to be even simpler than rural areas. Dense areas are taken care of even more (snow is plowed, etc.). There's also, much more data being constantly captured.

For example, Google Maps can already hyper-accurately predict traffic down to individual road sections simply by observing the position and speed of Android phones on the road.
For this reason, when mocks are involved (that is, just about any external API), I think Listing 2 is the ideal - extract a small function designed around the desired interface, a facade that's easily mockable and won't change with the library implementation.
To be fair, it doesn't actually wreck the company, it just front-runs other vultures by selling a bullshit turnaround narrative to obtain management status and get first pickings.

It's the white collar equivalent of walking out the door of a dying company with the chairs and coffee machine -- so, naturally, a thousand times more destructive and a thousand times less illegal.
Just be sure to submit it with a comment "improve docs" and nothing more...
The Aerojet Rocketdyne AR1?
It's not written by David Walsh, but by Todd Gardner. This isn't immediately noticeable so I felt quite confused as well.
Isn't it obvious? adjusts tinfoil cap The ruskies have figured out a way to attack anyone who has breathed in our freedom air. They pumped their censored/locked air with specific anti-freedom(terror loving) characters which causes immediate discomfort to our free minds. Freedom.
Bitcoin is pretty much digital cash, with all the same advantages and disadvantages. Cash just can't be sent digitally.
There is no engine connected to the blades, it is an autogyro. They are not so uncommon here in Europe, most of them I have seen has been home-build.

Off-topic: some UAV prototypes developed in Europe during the 80s and the beginning of 90s was of the type autogyro, because of its simplicity and short take-off and landing distances.
Once a year is not going to help much, I don’t think.

It’s something you have to exercise with some consistency to keep from atrophying.
I find it a bit weird that people are treating all this as a new thing. There have been no-code/visual programming tools for ages, especially in creative industries, e.g MAX & Reaktor (music DSP), Grasshopper (architecture), visual shader editors (most 3d software + game engines), visual game logic scripting (e.g. Unreal), etc...

IMHO in these fields people care about getting results without all the software dev ceremony (which probably would add very little in this context).

Obviously there's a ton of code machinery behind the scenes to make it work, but the same is true Javascript so that's neither here nor there.
Ask HN: How can I request data for suspended YouTube account?
My youtube account was suspended, I doubt I will be able to make youtube change its mind. I have no idea what happened, but I was really using youtube just to host my videos, not as a career.

I want to get my videos back.

If I go to google takeout, the download section doesn't show youtube. On internet it says you need to go to youtube to download all youtube data. Which can't happen because if I go to youtube page it redirects to your account was suspended page.

I know my data is there, in Google account it shows how many videos ive there, I know GDPR says I should be able to request my data.

But I'm not sure how do I do that?
It's not, but because rail is much stricter and the safety protocols semi-automated to fully automated, the self driving is much easier, and unexpected conditions much easier to detect because expected conditions are very uniform.

Self driving supervised trains can drive on non-ETS (not fully automated tracking and safety) rails too with additional precautions. Lines where trains are driven by humans, and where some safeties are manually operated, as long as the presence of those safeties and cars is programmed. These behave then more like driver assist and automated safety.
I have a bog-standard WordPress, on a shared host, and it doesn't suffer from the HN "hug of death". I don't use CloudFlare or any other CDN.

The secret? I have a lightweight theme with minimal dynamic content, and I use LiteSpeed cache on the server. That's it. Easily handled 20-40 thousand pageviews over a couple of hours.
Since you want to make it political. It's how every country ever became an economic superpower. Then many decided to clean up their acts since they could divert resources to it at little relative cost. The countries that tried to do the right thing from the beginning didn't get into that club. Most of them then were destroyed by the superpowers in one conflict or another. Moral of that story is to be pragmatic until you're at the top since otherwise it won't much matter.
It is possible, but hard, to calculate human performance, it was done very scientific in aviation since ~ 1950.

It is easier to do it if you consider 1% worst drivers, either older people with long reaction times, distracted drivers, drunk drivers etc. If you have a car that is obeying all traffic rules, it never goes above the speed limit and it has sensors that makes it brake before rear-ending other cars you are already better than the 1% limit. It is a simplistic approach, just giving an example of how 99% is not that hard to reach.