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>The fault lies in the assumed importance of the list.

The "importance" of the mailing list I'm trying to emphasize is the Schelling Point. This is the social discovery aspect you're not addressing.

Let's dissect your following example:

>When I send a kernel patch, I send it to the maintainer, then CC anyone I myself think should be involved, and finally CC the relevant lists (plural). The list acts as feed for lurkers, and as an archive.

The list also acts as a Schelling Point to coordinate and consolidate public discussions.

And consider the seemingly trivial action of "I send it to the maintainer". We have to unpack some hidden steps in that. How does a new contributor -- or a new non-contributing non-programmer enduser who just wants to file a bug request -- get a list of maintainers' email addresses ex nihilo[1]? A mailing list also has a Schelling Point aspect where people can discover email addresses of maintainers.

Right now, the yt-dl.org About[2] webpage is broken and therefore doesn't show the maintainers. I don't know the email address of the current youtube-dl maintainer and Google search results[3] don't quickly reveal it.

- "github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl" acted as a Schelling Point

- "yt-dl.org" also acted as Schelling Point

How would new people easily discover the maintainers' email addresses without any Schelling Points?

>It's a minor inconvenience at best, and mostly to those that were not part of the development flow

I disagree. Today, if I notice a bug where youtube-dl is broken, I don't have a canonical place to report the issue. Somebody said the official maintainer moved the repo to Gitlab -- but when I search Google for "youtube-dl gitlab" and click the top link[4], the repo owner says "I'll wait to see what happens with the GitHub repository and the current maintainer before I do anything with this clone."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_nihilo

[2] https://yt-dl.org/about.html

[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube-dl+maintainer+email+...

[4] https://gitlab.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
You can't take something out of the context in which it was created and strip it of it's original meaning and have the same thing.

The guitar Elvis used has the same spirit imbued into it, that his music possessed and his fans enjoyed. Any other guitar, is just a guitar. There are cars, boats, houses, ect that have this same effect of carrying a higher meaning.

Buildings have a connection to the landscape around them. Something aesthetically pleasing in architecture works in harmony with the nature/city surrounding it. Many buildings are an eyesore because they do not fit into their surroundings. Many of the british Edwardian masterpieces didn't work when recreated in australia. Parthenon works on it's original landscape.

The techniques that go into building them have a relevance to the society around them. A cathedral can be a 300yr construction cycle as a testament to entirely new building techniques like a domed roof. The first building to carry that maintains the meaning of a step forward for humanity. Subsequent buildings don't carry that meaning. Building a cathedral now with a domed roof takes like a year and is cheap, commonplace and uninteresting. The Parthenon's warped foundation to trick you into thinking it's a straight building is not an necessary technique any more, though amazing for that time period.

Museums in britian that contain all the dead art to ever be considered worth preserving tried to charge an entry fee (gold coin donation, 2015ish) instead of being free to the public and admission dropped by 25%. The value of preservation is quite low.

Texas is not the birthplace of democracy, and it is not interesting spamming out parthenons with modern tooling. The excess of modern perfection completely minimizes the original achievement, all you are preserving is the recipe-book for building that particular pattern of concrete. The only spirit a faux-parthenon in texas carries is crass commercial reproduction of long-passed european greats. Like a plastic Disney castle vaguely imitates european castles, a parthenon in Texas is a pointless attempt at claiming something the state didn't earn and can't own by definition.

Make something that is unique and special that could only be made in Texas. There are unique set of materials, landscape, people, social culture and attitudes, desires of what needs to be expressed in the culture. We only have one Texas, it needs to be Texan and not faux-greece. Any given patch of land yearns for it's own self-expression. I can't see any other way of building, nor the virtue in dropping foreign works from a great height into an empty landscape.
I wish there was a better alternative to Zoom. Both for work and for spending time with friends.

Not just video and audio, but a virtual space and the ability to have multiple conversations at once. A mix of Mozilla Hubs and Roblox's infrastructure.
> Escooter/ebike is rarely a replacement for a car.

That's a strange response to an article that's literally saying the opposite. Evidently the scheme is popular.
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How do you do failover if a server fails or if connectivity to one of those datacenters is lost? With AWS I could just set up a multi-availability-zone RDS deployment for the database and an auto-scaling group for the web tier and be confident that AWS will recover the system from most failures. To me, that is the major selling point of any of the hyperscale cloud providers.
That's what I was referring to when I referenced hurting third-world economies badly.

My understanding is that a lot of developing regions are using their carbon stores to improve quality of life and lifespan for their inhabitants - bad as coal may be for your lungs, it's not as bad as having no reliable energy for things like sewers.

Hence my comment saying "...if you're bootstrapping with carbon you can go DIAF."
Yeah, LA has a lot of work to do to catch up.
So that you can hand it off to a non-technical person.

Have you tried to teach anyone SQL before? A spreadsheet UI is accessible to a wider set of people.
This is a brilliant way to stand out from all the internet noise.
Music industry died when distribution changed, just die already
Show HN: Gridbox – A web-based spreadsheet read-write API service
Paula here,

Gridbox is a remote API service for reading and writing spreadsheets. It can write a spreadsheet from CSV (unformatted) or JSON (formatted) data. It can read a spreadsheet and output in CSV or JSON. If your application requires parsing data from a spreadsheet or generate spreadsheets (for invoices, itemized lists, etc.) in an automated way, please give it a try.
[https://app.gridbox.in/]

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I have seen many organizations have options for their user base to download tabular information in the form of CSVs or TXTs which doesn't allow much formatting options. Out of curiosity I asked a few of my friends and found that although there are libraries for different tech stacks, most of them are not full-blown and are not maintained over a longer period of time. Apache POI is a bright exception but it's Java-specific and a big library many hesitate to include as a dependency. I thought there might be a use-case of a technology-agnostic spreadsheet app. It took me nearly a year to build it.

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I think it copies the macbook layout, like so many other mini keyboards:

https://keyshorts.com/blogs/blog/37615873-how-to-identify-ma...
I suspect that, for the most part, this is advertising. Sure, advertising creates culture, but you're mostly communicating the result of what you're told by the media you consume.

That culture doesn't somehow make it sustainable or healthy to drive so much.
Press Ctrl-D to mute/unmute.

Doesn't excuse the UI, but at least this lets you avoid using it!
Separate your gmail, photos, youtube, play and adscense account.

For me, I use a dedicated account for photo backups, and no interactions with any other google service. One gmail for interweb, one for IRL activities, one youtube acount for raging and one for my android with G Play.

I don't have an adscense account yet but I've read many articles how linked adscense violations destroys your personal gmails.
I love it. I would buy one instantly if it supported USB-C monitors. It has been years since I owned a HDMI monitor.

Several years ago, as I was leaving a consulting gig in Singapore to return home, the team there gave me a Raspberry Pi as a gift. As an experiment, I used it as my only driver for three of four days (I still owned a HDMI monitor back then).
A long time ago I had a Commodore VIC-20 which was a gift from my cousin. The IBM-compatible PCs were firmly entrenched by this time, so the VIC-20 was obsolete but still functioned.

I spent many hours playing with it. Once I discovered the User I/O port, I realized its true power. It wasn't a powerful computer on its own, but the fact that it could easily interface with the real world gave it abilities that the PC clones of the era didn't have.

This Raspberry Pi PC reminds me of that VIC-20. Like the VIC-20, it's got a User I/O port and encourages tinkering. Unlike the VIC-20 I had, this is a modern computer that can be used for everything that we expect a modern computer to do.

I hope this encourages a new generation of tinkerers!
I doubt we will get used to people taking their vehicles inside. I agree about the law being a bit silly though. Getting run over by a train can happen regardless of your vehicle of transportation.
So you're saying he was smart enough to grow this revenue to 2000/month, but, in the meantime forgetting something that basic - and the system caught up with him? If so where was the system before?
This doesn't seem to offer insight.

It's:

1. Talk to them, for hours if you can.

2. Figure out where they're getting their information and see if it's already been debunked.

3. Don't be a jerk.

That's not very much 'how', unfortunately.
In many countries, healthcare workers are exposed (to varying degrees) on a daily basis.
The linked code example doesn't seem to do fd passing, but I guess the use case of fd passing in shared memory context would be the other way around: passing fd's that point to shared memory. The shared memory could then be mmap'ed using the passed fd as the handle.
As you noted, a vaccine allows us to target immunity, typically by risk profile, as we currently do with common cold viruses.

Herd immunity does not.

So while less virus circulating due to greater population immunity (and therefore lower individual risk of infection) is good, it doesn't help when SARS-CoV-2 does chance into a nursing home.
StackOverflow is famous for running on-prem on bare metal Dell hardware: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-ha...

Last time I checked, GitHub was also mostly on bare metal and cloud-free.
I'm failing to see the connection between "looking like magic" and "being a conspiracy theory", but I'd argue that the mechanism doesn't really matter. From a certain perspective, your advertising might take away some part of their free will, and _that's_ the part that makes them uncomfortable.
It is now Google Workspace (formerly G Suite).

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace/introducing...
It has more to do with the glycemic index of the food, that is now satient it is. 300kcal of rye bread (low GI) keeps your blood sugar much more even much longer than 300kcal candy bar (high GI). Both are "processed foods" but one is much more healthy than the other. Whole foods like fruits, vegetables etc. have almost always low GI: https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/glyce...
The anti-Q articles are out in full force the last few days...

Why is this on HN's front page again?
So in essence, you don't like citation needed comments because you believe (a priori) that anyone making one is acting in bad faith and their comments cannot be taken at face value? Or is it just that you believe attacking the veracity of a premise is not a valid counter argument?

Isn't one of the guidelines of this site "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."?
No ordinary, real-world software has ever been fully and affordably formally proven. There have been specialised 1MLOC programs checked with a model checker, but the techniques don't generalise. I would be interested in a source to your claim about the Space Shuttle software, because even though that's both high-cost and niche software, I think you might have the details wrong. Anyway, I encourage you to try to affordably write ordinary software in this way. This is certain to win you some high-profile award, as no one has been able to do it so far. Either you succeed or you fail, but there's really no point in insisting it can be done without pointing to anyone who has done it.
Valid question! On first thought, you would think the only reason to use it would be for media you don’t own (if you own it, you’d already have a copy). And you are probably correct. However there are valid reasons for doing so: many people have posted here that they use it for journalism (fair use) among other things.

I do remember years back, LinusTechTips admitted that their video archives were just on hard drives scattered around the building. So if they needed a clip from a previous video, they’d just download the video from YouTube and “crop” down to the clip they needed.[a]

[a]: They mentioned this in a video where there were building their “Vault” server that eventually turned into “Petabyte Project.”
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Actually, I'm a bit more optimistic about this.

One thing that worries me is that everything is becoming immutable, saved forever, and digitally signed. Hard to claim you didn't post something if your account is super secure. You can't go anywhere without cameras taking your picture. And if someone steals your bitcoin or your smart contract has a mistake, your money is gone. You can't argue with an algorithm. And the internet never forgets. (Well, unless it is inconvenient for you, then Murphy's law applies ;-))

There are many such phenomena but I'd say they are all related: They mean you have less wiggle room for mistakes, or social deviance. If you are in a situation where you have to break a law, or if you are just having an affair, chances are someone or something is going to see you. There is no anonymity in the crowd anymore, on the contrary.

But this deep fake technology, if it really evolves to be undetectable, can be liberating, if it erodes the trust in pictures. At least the social control mechanisms based on cameras are going to stop working.

We were living in a very specific phase of human history, where we learned how to produce pictures from real scenes, but haven't learned yet to easily fake them. I just think this is going to come to an end, and we'll have to adapt. (I hope we'll adapt socially, and not just by cramming DRM into our technology like we tend do to; but that is a different topic.)
They maybe don't even need to force them. There are plenty of certificate authorities. Just look at your browsers list of trusted CAs or even worse the big number included in Android.
You can assume that some of those are at least in bed with TLAs or can't withstand an attack for stealing the keys.
There are hundreds of those.
If only one is compromised an attacker could issue valid certificates for whatever website you visit. They maybe not going to risk a root CA but there are plenty of intermediate ones. Some are directly controlled by states, so no reason to compromise anyone.

https://ccadb-public.secure.force.com/mozilla/IncludedCACert...
https://ccadb-public.secure.force.com/mozilla/PublicAllInter...

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/2268/how-feasib...
It's happening now with smaller providers or by hosting your own server. Try to send an email to gmail from your server.

It hasn't kill gmail. How could it unless other providers refused to route gmail emails the way google refuses to route your personal server's email.
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That makes sense- I didn't realise they had tightened the rules after the Stint accident.
People have had the opportunity to impersonate anyone they'd like over the radio for over 100 years and yet, here we still stand.
The greats don't need flattery, their time is long passed. They earnt their praise. Earn yours.
I pay for Gsuite which is $6/mo and extra 100gb of storage, for $8 total. The part that drives me nuts about 0365 is that they don't allow custom email domains below Business 0365 which is $12 a month.
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Right but specifically a conspiracy theory involves malicious and powerful actors.

>A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that invokes a conspiracy by sinister and powerful groups, often political in motivation

So 5g mind control, moon landing is fake, earth is flat are all examples of conspiracy theories. No matter how much science you apply to demonstrating the theories are incorrect, the conspiracy theorist will simply provide more ways that the lizard people are tricking us. It's irrational by definition.

I stress about this. I encounter plandemic types far too often in texas. I've tried so many different strategies to convince them of the public health crisis, that if they would at least just wear a mask it would help. I never get anywhere. Is this the fatal flaw of the species? Our vulnerability to disinformation? Considering the creation of disinformation can be scaled cheaply to staggering heights, will this halt our progress?
What if there were Airbnb for servers, where you could rent your spare computing resources in a marketplace?

Many non-confidental processes could run on some other people's computers.
Looks good. Suggestions for some nice portable monitors to pair with this?
Painting with such a broad brush is not particularly meaningful. Africa is huge and it's challenges and triumphs equally myriad.

Patronage is hardly unique to African countries.
The plural of virus is viruses, not virii.

Reference: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3838/viruses-or-...
> Assuming that your opposition is decent, responds to generous gestures, and can be convinced of your position

But what if none of these are true? What if they don't respond to gestures (see the history of "bipartisanship")? What if, Nixon passim, they have no sense of decency? What if they can't be convinced of your position because their income depends on not being convinced of it?

People definitely like conflict as entertainment. Hence the clickbait industry. The problem is that this can be ramped up to the levels where it starts getting dangerous.
Thank you! I pay for Gsuite but somehow I didn't notice this change.
Someone on the Trump side rammed someone on the Biden side so I'd call that an attack
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well yeah my case is that Excel and word are the best option. They integrate nicely with onedrive and you can plugin the documents into sharepoint and several other platforms within microsoft ecosystem

i might be biased due the fact am an azure power user and have several other tools that work together
My point isn't that 'cardio and working out' are not how one gets fit, it's that achieving 'fitness' is more than 'cardio and working out'. The words are overloaded, and I think your very last sentence illustrates that well. I also tossed up between physiological and psychological, but reasoned for my purposes they were similar enough to get the point across - i.e. that despite the physical laws being simple, the actual process is not.
The text reads like "The wrong people are in power - put me in power!"
What happens once a project is on the list?
People didn't think it looked like reality. Back in that time, marketing used a lot of illustration to promote the game that had little connection to the in-game visualizations. So that cover is more saying, "This wasn't drawn by an artist".
Dark days ahead for Hollywood. How long until Silicon Valley eats that industry?

I can imagine lifelike movies that render characters to the users preference in real-time.

Talk about “representation”!

I can imagine as well dialects, language, etc being rendered in real time to adapt to what the user prefers. You and another person could watch the same film and talk about the same story but have totally different experiences on what the characters looked like, talked like, and even said within some parameters.

Making a movie with humans will be a prestige event like riding horses today or driving an ICE in the future. They don’t be able to compete with rendered film at a mass scale due to cost. Rendered films could be built and distributed cheaply and cost a fraction of a real movie to watch.
It helps the State and private organizations to comply with the law when computing income tax, payroll taxes, etc. There's a huge gap between the law and how it is applied in some situations https://twitter.com/DMerigoux/status/1304367420639973381
> How is this not regulated?

Cue the "businesses can choose who they do business with!" and "if you don't like it, build your own!" people.

We signed up for many of those things individually and they've connected them more and more. Now we have a single point of failure that can take down everything across all your sytems.

And it's not just those. Don't forget about Google Voice, Android, and every service where you used "sign in with Google"
My team does weekly Google Meet meetings along with WebEx. The biggest complaint I'd have is that Meet sacrifices functionality for cleanliness; everything useful is hidden behind some menu or popover, and you can only open one popover at a time (otherwise whatever you had open closes). This contrasts widely with WebEx, where most things (participants, controls, chat) can be shown at the same time, but also hidden if you don't want to see them. Meet seems complicated in comparison because views that are 0 clicks away on WebEx require 1-2 in Meet.
>can afford a modest markup.

I'm with you until that statement. AWS is nothing approaching "modest" in their markup. 20% minimum and typically much higher if you know how to negotiate when purchasing your on-prem gear. And if you happen to be a shop that sweats assets for 7+ years that number starts being measured in the hundreds of percentage points more expensive.
maybe they were familiar with React and not with Angular?
I mean we do not pay the USPS or FedEx or UPS, etc. to agree to send mail to our address. I was making a comparison between mail and email services. Hopefully this clarifies what I meant.
It’s funny how Google pours time into things like this but the last person I know who uses a Google chat product just stopped because it’s less reliable than Zoom. Losing 15 minutes with someone trying to get the sound working counts more than a gimmick many people never notice, not to mention now even normal people don’t want to yet install another app because they expect it to be cancelled soon.