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>And IE wasn't killed by features moving too fast, Microsoft made Edge browser and still does.

No, they don't. Edge nowadays is just a Blink shell.
Does that also include the anti-cheat crap that is required for any online play these days?
tiktok good though. I like the community "clusters" the algorithm creates. Leads to a whole vareity of interesting content and stuff to watch explore
ULA's rocket, Vulcan, is supposed to launch next year. The initial version will not be reusable though a concept for a future version is to detach the engines and have them parachute to be recovered.

Blue Origin's rocket, New Glenn, will use the same engine, be bigger than Vulcan and be reusable by landing like Falcon 9. It is supposed to launch in 2022.
>a self driving car that knows when it can't drive is perfectly acceptable

I don't agree, because of the grey area between the car knowing it can't drive and believing it can, but in practice doing so poorly.
In the US, that's actually the way it works. HIPAA laws are very strict.

When I change doctors, I have to go around to all my prior physicians, and get hand-signed releases delivered (if I'm lucky, they will accept a fax). Sometimes, the records are physical papers.

I still have all my old MRI and CAT pics (long story).
> Speaking generally, can nanotechnology be applied to superfund site cleanups? As it currently stands, our tools for cleaning up these chemicals are extremely crude.

> Why can't we develop a nanobot that is able to detect the chemical in the soil or ocean and then break down or decompose that molecule?

We could, in theory, but a faster approach (that is already being used) is harnessing existing organisms.

Bioremediation is an approach being actively researched, and recent advances in genetic engineering (eg. CRISPR) ought to help a lot.

A search for "DDT bioremediation" will show you the research on this that is being done (not a huge amount, but progress is being made). There are probably some opportunities for B2G startups in this area.
Even if the self-driving can be implemented only partially it can be a big gain.

E.g. suppose the car can only drive itself on highways in daytime in good weather. It still a great convenience feature to have if you don't have to drive for 80-90% of your commute (with the above conditions) and you only have to take over in the city.
> Run a hypervisor on bare metal

This is how Qubes OS works: https://qubes-os.org. Yes, video passthrough should be possible: https://qubes-os.discourse.group/t/list-of-programs-that-wor....
At least in the US where I am, there is a strong stigma attached, and if people know you have mental issues you are assumed to be dangerous. Not surprising, I suppose, in a society that guarantees access to weapons of mass murder. But people won't let you near their kids, and you probably would have trouble finding a job.
To everyone trying to try this, before clicking on dropbox button you have to click on settings and set an emoji and a 3 letter identifier. then click dropbox and sign in
I’d be more surprised if they weren’t ready for the time when Google stops paying to be the default search engine. Can't wait to see a "choose your search engine" screen on setup of new phones.
Well youtube-dl doesn't do that but there is invidious (currently also unmaintained afaik, it's hard being a scraper in 2020). I guess it would be really easy to add an extractor for invidious in youtube-dl.
There are a few more PRs now. The bigger problem I can see is that in a month's time there are going to be 1000 PRs that haven't been able to build on each other, and 20,000 merge conflicts to resolve.
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There are two rockets in the works that plan to use this engine on their booster.

1) One is New Glenn by Blue Origin, which plans to land the booster (incl. the BE-4 engine) from the get go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=532ay25-kmU&ab_channel=Video...

2) The other rocket is ULAs Vulcan, which plans to land the engines without the booster using a parachute and helicopter. However, that plan is on paper only and it won't be implemented yet when Vulcan goes into service. As OPs article states, there isn't even an official timeline. Presumably ULA is waiting for government money to develop the capability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lftGq6QVFFI&ab_channel=Unite...
Yes, but that was killed because Chrome moves too fast, and maintaining EdgeHTML wasn't easy for MS.

Parent said: IE wasn't killed because the web moves too fast -- and used the presence of Edge (or EdgeHTML) as the argument.

But both IE and EdgeHTML were killed because Chrome moved too fast for MS to be worth it to maintain its own engine...
Ask HN: Do you plan “non-technical” work in sprints?
Title says it. If an engineering team has to do a lot of otherwise invisible tasks (backend, research, hiring, planning), should those be included in sprint planning and estimations?

It is easy to show progress when tasks are lots of little "shallow" things like HTML/CSS, configuration etc., but sometimes I feel it is hard to not feel guilty for working on the "hard" and "important" stuff, even if it cannot be expressed as a PR, or sometimes even foreseen at all.
As the husband of a Marriage and Family Therapist operating in NYC and upstate, I can tell you that most client notes are still done on paper, and locked away. My wife's notes are either locked in a "safe" at her office (heavy time-locked door to a room, with locking file cabinets) in the city, or in a small locking fire-proof file safe at home.

Really the only things that get computerized are the things required by insurance (diagnosis and treatment plans).

But notes are highly personal to the therapist, and can include any number of on-topic or off-topic , and it is rare even under subpoena to release your personal notes. Her office has a lawyer on retainer who's only job is to quash subpoenas. She's never had one served to her, and I dont know if any of the other clinicians have.

But back on topic - though, I'm 90% sure the clinicians at the psychotherapy clinic in GP's comment probably had the same thing. They would take paper notes, and only digitized what they needed to digitize, and most of those digitized records are non-transferable anyway, because they would be diagnosis and treatments for that patient/client provided by that clinic, and if a clinician left, and was allowed to take clients/patients to their new practice (sometimes allowed, but often times not), the clinician would take their personal notes with them.
The federal reserve won't collapse, they have the ability to create money.

The currency the federal reserve multiplies? That could collapse.

Since 2020, the dollar menu is gone, home and stock prices skyrocketed. In a year I've seen ~30% inflation. There's no reason for the inflation to stop there.

(Note, I have lots of investment, inflation may help me)
> Apple just didn't sell a machine the level of performance I need for 3D/Video work, even if money were no object.

What level of performance do you need and how does the latest Mac Pro with AfterBurner and whatnot fall short of it?
I think there are definitely some tremors in this space. I feel like we could see some action further on? what do others think?
I drive an electric car. I was giving a friend a ride one day and offered him a USB port to charge his phone, since he was low on battery, but he was reluctant because he didn't want to waste my car's battery.

We did some quick mental math and figured that charging his phone from empty to full would take about as much energy as driving the car a few inches. He plugged the phone in.
> The ultimate no-code tool is Excel.

What? How can you sum the numbers in a row without writing a line of code? I've seen lots of people using Excel for simple and complex tasks, and every single one of them wrote code to accomplish their task.
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Racism, Christianity and Trauma
While in a pandemic, our country is continuing to wrestle with race issues. How are issues of racism and injustices affecting African Americans and the larger society? How do trauma, epigenetics, and a life of oppression affect our brains and how we live? What does it all have to do with faith?
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Honestly, I designed it when I was a student because there was nothing usable at the low-end of the market.

While I could possibly charge a little bit more for it, I don't think the specs justify a $50+ price point (as-is), and for a lot of people that extra $20 makes a big difference.

There were some thoughts a while back of making a higher-end product to fill the $50-$80 gap, and possibly even a stripped down Labrador to sell around the $20 mark. Looking at the Amazon charts, a lot of people are buying knockoff DSO138s to save literally $5-$10 and are left with a really poor quality product.
Change is hard but you're right, need to degoogle, degoogle, and degoogle.
I really wish people would stop using ridiculous hyperbole like "hoarding" when describing "a middle-class person saving for a future emergency or retirement".

For starters, in the modern economy, the notion of "hoarding" is mostly antiquated - people aren't storing their wealth by keeping a silo full of grain (which might overall benefit society by being distributed to the hungry now) but instead by owning shares of the business that provide the goods, services and employment that keep society working and allow everyone to live a modern life instead of being hunter-gatherers.

The worker who is maxing out their 401k is not your enemy.
>When self driving cars will be consistently more reliable than 99% of human drivers

How could you even calculate this? By running massive experiments and seeing if fewer people die over a given period of time driving versus self-driving? Do you really think we can run such an experiment?
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You see the early versions of this effort every time you use the safari address bar. “Siri” will suggest a matching Wikipedia article or other direct link instead of you heading to google.

Leveraged properly all the OS level use from iOS could provide a lot of signal on which to build a search product.

If only Apple’s was able to do so for speech recognition.
oh yes!
Well it looks like it didn't rise properly, maybe needs a better starter...
i would rather like to see apple buying DDG (duck duck go) instead of diving straight in.
The flip side is DDG becoming next Siri :(
> Ah yes, the notorious bitcoin that stole this data and extorted people. Curse this troublesome software that has gained sentience wreaks havoc on the world.

I suppose you're also against NPT? Or do nukes gain sentience in your world?
No, I'm pointing that "if you want to avoid X, any Y that gives X is a real danger" is a BS argument, because not all X are considered dangerous...

So using an argument of the kind to prove some Y is dangerous is either bad reasoning or disengenuous...
It's also a nonsensical expression which some English speakers (rather good-naturedly) find bothersome, as comedian David Mitchell explains:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
It was never hard to run Linux. It was always hard to make Linux perform at the same expectations as Windows.

Messing around with chromium versions and netflix's plugin was not fun when you just wanted to watch a show.

It's not polished, any distro.

But Linux server is GOAT.
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DDG Has a heavy professional focus (stackoverflow integrations, etc.)

Apple is a consumer focused company.
Yup, it's super depressing but you don't at all need to go into the "dark web" to do any of the bad thinks and you still have good chances to get away with it.

I mean one time a few years ago I did use youporn (private browsing, no account) and ran into obvious child pornography :-(. (I'm really happy that it became visible what's going on before any action showed but dam that where little kids on a supposedly serious porn website)

And while there maybe not the best example you can find endless ~studies~ stories (edit: auto correct messup) about criminals using Facebook and similar as a platform to connect to, pressure and blackmail children.
Does anyone else have their system time messed up by dual boot?
> An Apple search engine would almost certainly have one massive selling point: increased user privacy.

More likely the search engine would give Apple a reason to collect more user data. It isn't like a significant number of people pick Apple because of privacy and they know it. The main reason they don't collect anything now is because it isn't worth it, but with a search engine it would be.
Well, when the overwhelming majority of experts in the field agree, I think it’s best to not waste brain space on crackpot contrarian positions, especially if they are incredibly well funded from obviously motivated actors.

Seems pretty simple to me.
It works fine today!
The problem is that it's never how those solutions are sold, and rarely how they are bought.

No-code solutions are ok for quick prototyping of automating processes that are not the core of the business. When you start using them you have to define the step where you will switch to a more maintainable solution.

This is the same as deciding when to use a shell script and when to decide to rewrite the script in a stronger programming language.
> It is also easier to move down to IC

I don't know about that. Once you are at "non-technical" position, people assume you are non-technical when looking at CV and such. We had technical position open and this was super visible in one applicant. It might have played role that she was woman, but I think it would just milder with guy - but still present.
> Calling it now, the Native Mac OS App this blog post champions won't exist in 10 years.

People have been predicting doom for Apple from various angles since the 1980s and they always end up having to eat their shoes:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=500

If anything, Apple Silicon Macs will usher in a new era of Apple exclusivity, and you'll move on to predicting doom for their Next Big Thing. :)
That should apply in orbit and on the Moon as well. I want Earth governments and their laws to have as little influence in space as possible. There is at least a chance that we can escape statism and live with less coercion and more voluntary cooperation in space.
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That 2007 passage really brought me to a grinding hault. Toddlers are using the web these days from the moment they can swipe a screen. I have a hard time believing anybody on GitHub over the age of 20 only began using the internet in 2007.
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I would love to see Apple build a search engine just as a feature for their products rather than something to stuff to the gills with advertising and make money from. That would completely change the incentive structure. Apple would be much better positioned to make search better for users instead of the conflict of interest Google has (redirecting users toward ads).

I would love to see search get back to what it’s meant to be: information retrieval. Help users find what they’re looking for, not what Google wants them to find.
> more reliable than a human driver that's not drunk or sleep deprived.

No thank you. Almost all the humans I share the road with are neither drunk nor sleep deprived. Putting robotic drivers on the road that make daylight driving as dangerous as 1am driving is not my idea of progress. It'd be a bloodbath.
“Good Enough” will mean that an autonomous car will be effectively useless between 6 and 8 months of the year in the north.

Most of the roads may be clear, but “all” of them never are. Shaded areas are the worst, and can remain iced over for months at a time. Ice, especially intermittent ice, is bad. Slush, deep snow, and packed snow can be miles worse.

Winter driving, as any Californian who has migrated north will tell you, is a dramatically different skill than driving on the roads of California or Arizona. It’s non-deterministic - turning the wheel doesn’t always turn the car. The car will move sideways on the road with no steering input. The speed of the wheels is completely divorced from the speed of the car.
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> my app is using a cross-platform C++ framework ... Windows and surprisingly Linux pay for development of new features

Which app is that?
Well, web browsers once meant hypertext and browsing, that is reading and navigating hypertext. That was complete (or close) 10-15 years ago, in the sense that it could do render most things print magazines could do with good enough html/css APIs.

But that's not what people (including companies making SaaS, which are also stakeholders here), want from the web.

They want an app delivery mechanism mediated through a web browser.

So web browsers will be complete the same time when OS-level frameworks, UIs, and libs are complete, so when computing is "complete".

That is, never.
That would be a real shame. Having independent players in the space is important.
Has anyone here run this as a completely on-prem self hosted solution? What was your experience with it?
as far as I understand, if the brain doesnt't get enough oxigen it will be damaged and loose some functions
I am imagining the whole fleet of self-driving cars stopping on the side of the road at the same time every time a little rainstorm blows through, kinda like what happens now for a snowstorm. Except rain is a heck of a lot more common. I guess we won't be seeing self-driving cars in the PNW ;)
That was an apparently-unsuccessful reference to this: https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25

In any case, descriptive though it is I would argue that there can be a problem associated with Poe's law. Not in the same sense as prescriptions (e.g. Postel's maxim, "be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send"), where you could argue whether or not it's a good principle in general or in specific cases. But from my standpoint as someone using sarcasm to point out the absurdity of something, someone taking me at face value is a problem.
They must already have some sort of index to power siri web search. I hope they find some space for disruption and create enough differenciation because I’m not sure at all that people value privacy enough to switch
Rather the new POSIX perhaps.
I think what further compounds this is that normally responsibility for accidents is 'distributed' across the population. whereas with autonomous driving it's going to be a single/a few companies shouldering it all. Being even responsible even just for 10% of total road fatalities (~4000 deaths per year) would be absolutely ruinous if they're held liable for them.
Done! https://framagit.org/framasoft/mobilizon/-/issues/420
It's actually very interesting .. humans/lifeforms are wired to deal with critical irreversible errors.
Oof, I remember when the Mac Pro was the dream of every professional...
>I really wish Elon’s boring company were further along

It's unfathomable to me that people believe car tunnels are the future of anything.

Right now The Boring Company is trying to recreate an underground train in Las Vegas, and is already behind schedule and running into issues people predicted before this started:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/16/21519692/elon-musk-borin...
I really can't see how you have come to that conclusion. They could make good amount of money by simple advertising, the way google started out.

The main reason the don't collect anything now is because they are a Hardware Platform company. They make much more than google, without any data collection.

If they wanted to do data collection, they wouldn't harp about not collecting data so long. They would have kept mum.
You just described more or less every country in Europe (if not the entire world) at the time. Zionism came out of a desire for Jews to have a country where they could feel comfortable that demagogues wouldn't fire up the mob against them.
This might surprise you, but companies don’t really care that their employees have to deal with shitty customers. It’s not necessarily that they don’t care about their employees, they might even have strategies and support staff to help with the stress, but they don’t care in a way that outsourcing it because of shitty customers ever plays in to the equation.

At enterprise size you automate your support to save money. Even outsourced a call Center is expensive, and Amazon’s shitty algorithmic support isn’t.

I know, because we do this in every enterprise sector, including the public sector. The “advantage” amazon have is that it doesn’t really cost them anything because they have a monopoly. In areas where they see actual competition, like in selling cloud to enterprise customers, they have excellent support. They didn’t always have this mind you, they used the same automated systems for years, until they realised just how many billions they were losing to Microsoft because Microsoft sells enterprise customers of a certain size a direct 24/7 phone line to Seattle if an issue is of high enough priority. Now, Amazon offers something similar.
That “when” is nowhere on the horizon, is what this article and other commenters are saying.
Correlation ≠ Causation
Has anyone talked with Ubuntu about tweaking its install process to make this easy? I imagine many people have a machine they want to run Windows on & don't want to pay for (or lug) an extra drive. It's probably a relatively small change to the installer, and a big win for ease-of-use.
I was going to post that video. but got distracted with work. I absolutely love David Mitchell.
Ending single-search domination is good. Lets see if they can actually come up with a good search engine. I love DDG but I have to search Google usually when I'm looking for obscure technical issues. Bing and Yahoo (DDG) havn't made a dent, lets see what happens.
Sure, nuclear weapons and crypto currency are the exact same thing and pose identical risks to the world.

Governments voluntarily agreeing to reduce their weapons is also the same as forcibly forbidding people from using a useful technology. Top notch analysis.