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As an Indian, it's one thing to curse a political leader in the comfort of your home. Totally a different thing to take to political activism on the streets.

In any country, barring dire situations, most people just want to wake up every morning and go do their jobs to put food on the table.

In India, most tech people don't even vote, let alone indulge in active political causes. Most of those people will do fine anywhere.
This is a great question to ask. Thank you for this
Yes, and it would be a big help for new parents, responsible for the care of a new small human who did not come home with such a useful manual.
Interesting thought about SUVs:
The first few cars were actually quite tall, so were carriages for many years.

If you consider that, low sedans that make it harder to easily get in and out of the car for many people, are the abnormality, and the classical adult man high shape will keep increasing in popularity as cost and gas becomes less of an issue for more people.
Can you elaborate on "nothing environmentally friendly about that vehicle"?

I thought hybrid is the only sane approach as you can cover 90% of your trips electric with a small battery. Or is the fuel motor always on in this car?
Totally know what you mean! When I was researching the rankings, I found so many lists that are clearly made by people who are literally just googling other lists and copy/pasting them.

The results so far are pretty cool and, in my opinion, should be a signal that it is TOTALLY possible for individuals writing great technical content to stand out for a specific technology.
And by jitter you mean JIT-er (Just-In-Time Compiler), not jitter as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitter

Got really confused at first.
The three MPs who signed the letter are Conservative, Labour and SNP.

And those three hardly ever agree on anything, so this clearly cuts across party lines.
I think Hacker News needs to do more to highlight Show HNs. Lots of them just disappear without trace and with no-one commenting on them. So I like what you have done. It brings some much-needed attention to Show HN.
I'm shocked, but somewhat unsurprised, the researchers had access to a non-anonymized database. This whole government is a circus.
This is the correct answer. only the real bad guys will be working on actually getting """backups""" to run.

I think it was a genius move by Microsoft.
It's worth pointing out that it's an Alexa 300k site already (prior to this HN post's effect), which is some objective evidence that author is skilled at building a site and/or community.
Tablets --- and not just Apple's --- suffer from numerous arbitrarily-imposed limitations, as well as hardware standardisation issues, which cripple funtionality far beyond any fundamental hardware limitations. I've seen this for years on Android (this comment, as with most of mine, is being pecked out slowly on an Android device's highly error-prone soft keyboard, the folio-style bluetooth keyboard having long-since failed and no replacement being available).

Tablets are a win for battery life, form factor, and the ability to seamlessly reorient (portrait, landscape, inverted of either). They're far superior to laptops for reading textual matter --- laptops largely don't transition from landscape to portrait, or do so cumbersomely or with fragile mechanisms. In portrait mode, displays (especially 16:9 high-gloss) ar too short, to low-resolution, and to reflective, to be attractive reading devices.

But OS, available applications, arbitrary app crashing or closing, total available storage (Apple's recent offerings an exception), storage access limitations, finicky inputs, and application sandboxing (understandable from a security perspective, but an absolute pain in the ass from a usaability perspective) are everpresent pain points.

The few tools which actually are generative are poor stepchildren, poorly supported, barely tolerated, anemic compared with their full-fleged bretheren, crippled by storage and permissions models, and under constant attack by the platfform owners. They still shine above all else on these devices. Termux is the only thing on Android which does not precisely suck. Ish on iPad seems a weaker cousin, but with vague promise. Both are needlessly crippled or outright blocked by Google and Apple.

But even a modest set of shell tools, scripting languages, editors, remote-accesss tools (ssh, tmux), and package manageers (pip, cpan, npm, gem/rvm) convert a BDSM consumption-only device into stunningly useful generative kit.

One place Apple have made progress is in standardising enough device physical specs to enable a viable hardware accessory market for keyboards, though most of those keyboards remain crippled by missing critical keys and nonstandard layouts. One begins to suspect deliberate sabotage.

I have neither time not budget to evaluate and trial disappointment after disappointment. I am watching the introduction of full-grade Linux devices from Pine, Purism, and Remarkable with interest. (Remarkable, sadly, seems to be going down the same crippled-onboard-storage-capacity route.)

I don't expect Google, Android, or their equally oppressive hardware partners (Samsung are utterly worthless) to serve this niche. It may be small, but it directly feeds the talent and mindshare pools on which they depend.

Long-standing gripes:

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/lqgtwy_rhsfbdh5cdxb1rq
Several things make this potentially interesting. The lasers that hit the droplets of tin in ASML's EUV machines come from the US. On the other hand, just who is going to be buying EUV machines in the future? Global Foundries has dropped out of the game of cutting edge logic, and Intel shows every sign of never being able to move past their 14 nm node. Their 10 nm node is all 193 nm UV, they're only adopting EUV for their 7 nm node, which is now also failing to deliver the goods.

Samsung and TSMC can expand only so fast. Are their other types of chips which are using EUV, or are anticipated to use it in the future, like memory?
I'm not as convinced as you. There does appear to be something going on with the experiments I've looked at, but I doubt it can be commercialized. For one thing, it's very unreliable and hard to reproduce, so if it is a real phenomenon it probably relies on some unknown conditions that we don't know how to bring about. For another, even in the experiments that demonstrate it, the amount of energy produced is not very much so unless someone can find a way to make it happen reliably and scale it up it seems more like a neat physical oddity than a useful power source.
> It was hard to Google testing for web extensions instead of web extensions used for testing.

Off-topic: didn't Google recently announce they were using transformers for almost all English language queries?

I tried "testing for web extensions" in Google and got:

FAIL - 8 Best Chrome Extensions for QA Testing (featured result)

OK - Testing your web extension with integration tests

OK - How to test web extensions?

So the featured result was bad but results one and two were good.
If the forex broker is acting as a dealing desk, then the broker: https://www.babypips.com/learn/forex/different-types-of-brok... (Most retail forex brokers are DD)
The state of software engineering these days resemble that of civil engineering of late 19th century: some masterpieces, some failures and lots of experiments.

Do we put the cockpit in front of the boiler or behind?

Do we make a walking steam engine? How about using gears instead of wheels?

Which gauge to pick for the rails?

We'll get there in software engineering at well. It will be very reliable and equally boring.
Modern storage is plenty fast, but the APIs are bad
Fake news.

Electrified are counted as pure electric, plug-in hybrids, full hybrids and mild hybrids. "Mild hybrids" is just a petrol car with bigger starter motor.
Macs keep dropping off our domain, so there's no real way to maintain their provisioned state.
Hi, author here. You might enjoy this other article I wrote on this subject: http://invisibleup.com/articles/31/

It discusses how most people's preferred social spaces recently have moved online into centralized silos, and the effects that has.
I agree! Exactly the reason why I developed this tool; Show HN is my favorite HN section ;)
AFAIK what you want is for the body of the animal not to crash through the passenger compartment.

Taller cars are better in this regard.
Partially joking; this was used in wars to stop bleeding before a doctor could arrive - it saved quite a few lives. There are friendlier glues now though.
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See also the splash page: https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php
It is just the nature of all technology sector. Once the capital cost of entry and catch up to market far exceed any company could risk to be involved, they will consolidate to a single entity.

The same could be said with Operating System in the 90s from Microsoft. Or not just technology but the cost to be involved and Unit Cost Economics.
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I have a Moto e and Google LLC comes up. I have signed out of every account. Need help getting these lovely people out of my phone. Before I kick all three of there asses.
I can definitely see why people like them and thanks for being transparent about it rather than try to justify it with secondary reasons.

My only suggestion is irrespective of the environmental aspect is, do check the performance of your next SUV with regards to "Pedestrian Safety" crash tests (Also standardized by Euro NCAP).

Specially when you mentioned city center, and The Netherlands. The difference between a regular sedan and an SUV could be the difference between a kid with fractured legs or the weight of forever taking someone's life.
Was the new onsight strong and long term ? I'm often curious how a rewiring can last over time.
What about the time spent on the way to the machine, the sound, the smell?

Perhaps we can rationalize that they “don’t know what is going on” but it seems unlikely that they are having a good time.

In general baby warm blooded animals want to be near their mothers.

Better to cull pre hatch.

Better still to just eat lentils.
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> The economic foundations in Australia, Canada, the UK, the US, and the EU are different enough that there is no obvious single structural fault common to all of them.

There is one though: changing demographics - the median age of the population is going up and the percentage of the working population is going down.
Same reason as why Google offers anti-semitic messages. Ultimately those voice assistants just act as a search engine for most queries, so they are going to respond in a similar way to a search engine. As long as they properly attribute the source of the response (I know Google Home does this, not sure about Alexa), I don't see a big issue.

It would be nice if for major topics (ex. COVID) there was some authoritative source that the voice assistants used, but that wouldn't solve the entire problem since there are pretty much infinite search queries that will return some kind of conspiracy as the top result.
I would happily pay 15¢ or so per site to bypass captchas if it were done in a way that would preserve my privacy. Has something like this ever been offered?
Starsiege: Tribes is even closer to line rider in spirit. It came out just before Quake 3. It has massive (many km^2) outdoor maps with rolling hills and jetpacks. Early in the alpha the devs and the users figured out that by spamming jump while going down a hill you could "ski" and pick up speed the jet up the next hill to maintain. This bug, skiing, became the central element of the game. And because Tribes allowed client side scripting in a c++ like language you could just use a "jump script" to efficiently ski.

Eventually people were building line-rider style FPS maps for skiing starting around 1999.
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xhyve[0] doesn't look entirely production ready, but emulates a number of devices including networking, block storage, and a framebuffer while being based on Hypervisor.framework.

[0] https://github.com/machyve/xhyve
> Why not also allow for, say, match anything except the following _two_ characters in a row?

That part could be useful, but not when the pattern matches a seemingly random number of characters in the process.

[^x] is more predictable. It matches a single character, or not at all.
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It also opens it up to get more developers in the platform which is good for everyone.
The great thing about Autobahns is freedom.

If I travel in Spain, the speed limit is 120km/h. Now they have removed the 20 kms/h extra you could do for overtaking other cars. It is ludicrous.

Everybody goes over the limit, and hence everybody goes against the law, and everybody could be fined with 300 euros, like my father 1 month ago.

In cities, they are putting limits under 30km/h.

Politicians love the fines because it is an extra tax of an extra billion euros nobody controls.
> After years of development, after some more collaboration with that Line Rider friend, and after connecting with the owners of Line Rider, it wound up becoming the official version on linerider.com. This version resolved many of the issues I had with the original version

This really caught me off guard. What an unexpected twist.

I have so much respect for people who take their projects this far and I love this mix of programming, art, and overall geekery!
It's no more "their" statistic than the sentence "Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon" belongs to Neil Armstrong.

If I sit at a busy intersection and count the cars going by in a 5 minute span, do I owe something to each of those drivers.

IANAL, but this is just ridiculous.
Guess we should all eat the most environmentally friendly food too. No one needs to ever eat meat or almonds or anything of the sort because it’s just not efficient.

While we’re at it, let’s get rid of heating past 60 F. You can always wear a sweater or a thicker blanket. It’s not like it’ll be a great inconvenience like not having any heating would be, you’ll still be able to do all the necessary tasks.

Your argument is “people don’t deserve to enjoy anything.”
I had a sign hanging from a column in one of my previous offices. It read "You must be this tall to use threads and shared mutable state -->". It was about 3 meters from the floor.

It's a bit harder to write some bugs in Java than it is in C or C++. I gather it'd be almost impossible to write them in Rust.
Thank you for the correction and the original link.

It's much appreciated!
When you call you are using telcos as 3rd parties asserting itself into your relationship with the restaurant.
"The existence of the twilight does not mean we cannot distinguish the day from the night."

> censoring these results will only serve as further reinforcement to the askers of these question that there is something they shouldn't know

Yes, but then the logical next step is they'll do an internet search and get a fuller picture, which is better than a one-line answer from Alexa. Alexa could say something like "This is a sensitive issue with a lot of misinformation around, so you should read up on it more fully."
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25219870
Thanks. I did find that and is great resource for the specifics. I was looking for something that ties it all together before I take a deeper dive in a specific topic.
Interesting. Viceroy can put way more pixels on the screen than grafana with the same cpu and memory usage, and panopticon is specifically written to send little traffic over the wire, so it’s useful to an oncall engineer over a poor mobile backhaul like GPRS. Grafana is a massive resource hog in all dimensions.
Apparently some of the deprecations will make this the most backward compatibility breaking version jump of PHP since V4 to V5. (Read a german interview here: https://www.heise.de/news/PHP-8-im-Experten-Check-Der-erwart...)

There's a long report on Wordpress and PHP 8 and it's not pretty: https://developer.yoast.com/blog/the-2020-wordpress-and-php-...
Just as you did here most people who submit a Show HN give a short description of what they did in a comment. I think it would be a good addition to include the posters top level comments in the detailed view.
Yeah, the main coherent point I take out of this is that it makes sense to provide capabilities rather than to check them, i.e. if you have access to a certain API then you're by construction allowed to use it. It seems this is something the author has been working on.

This is then somehow shoehorned into "Parse / Don't typecheck" but it doesn't make much sense honestly.
And misuse of our language, there should have been their
It wouldn't exactly be hard to run the web on anonymous and/or distributed hosting.

But content censorship is a social and political issue, not a technical one. And it has many problems, from organised political manipulation to dealing with bad actors of various kinds.

Absolute free speech is an interesting goal but solves none of those problems. (Everyone is for it until a radicalised kook firebombs their house.)
> they don't need a website anymore.

until they get kicked off
"If you have an unlimited amount of time and resources, the best solution for speed will be coded in FPGA"

With all that real estate on CPUs, I really would like an FPGA. If Oracle wanted to make money on Java, it could offer a commercial java that compiles bytecode to FPGA. Apple with Rosetta2 could have done an FPGA.

Emulation of lots of systems that will be abandoned by their commercial companies has always relied on the mhz and node shrink "free ride", and that's over. FPGAs could handle a lot of legitimate emulation.
I’m assuming there’s more to this article. On mobile safari it’s just showing the headline and promoted comments.
> You'll find google a useful tool for locating software engineering programs, but okay

Not the question asked, but the quality of the answer is about what I expected (based on what I suspected). Glad not to have made an upfront overinvestment taking the discussion too seriously.
> If quantum-computing sees broad application, middle-schoolers will be speaking the language of bras and kets within a decade.

If quantum-computing sees broad application, middle-schoolers will be speaking the language of bras and kets within a couple of centuries, if the concept of middle school as we imagine/experience it today is even around and hasn't been relegated in part by being able to evoke a certain distribution of mass/energy in what we call our brains that could encode such knowledge from birth…
Docker For Mac is based on "Hyperkit" which is based on xhyve.
So xhyve has a fair bit of mileage on it.
According to Matthew Arnold, the last hanging of witches in the United Kingdom occurred in 1716. As for slavery, it was a much smaller economic interest to the European colonies. Also, "much longer" is an exaggeration: twenty-seven years longer than the English colonies, seventeen than the French colonies count for only so much over a history that began 300-odd years before that.
> Not a new point either, but you'd be surprised how many people don't know their own feelings. My psych professor told countless anecdotes of patients who didn't know that the disquieting feelings they experienced when e.g. being inside an elevator were actually a panic attack.

That doesn’t surprise me at all. Why would anyone instinctively know the terms a psychologist would use to categorize their feelings?

That’s like saying you’d be surprised at how many people don’t know the key of their favorite song.
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This. And now begins the decline of x86 and Intel.
I phrased that poorly, I should have said The 737 Max issues that caused the crashes were not with the software implementation. They were at the level of requirements and high-level design, and were not specific to the discipline of software engineering. We're not talking about a missing break statement here.

> The MCAS software was modified to read from both angle of attack sensors and to be less aggressive in pushing the nose of the plane down.

That strikes me as a design issue in the domain of aeronautical engineering, rather than in software engineering. Software engineers aren't the ones with the domain expertise to determine the right aggression parameters.

> The software that controlled the indicator light that illuminated when the two angle of attack sensors disagreed was also fixed.

I thought the issue was that the sensor-disagree warning light was not included as standard, it was sold as an optional extra. [0]

> While reviewing the software systems, a number of other software issues were found.

Interesting, I wasn't aware of that. If I understand correctly these issues aren't thought to have a direct bearing on the crashes.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/05/business/boeing-737-max-w...
https://tuleap.org

Very good agile support (Scrum, kanban, hybrid) as well as development tools (git, pr, ci).
That's an interesting perspective, but wouldn't your theory imply your kids would also be turned off by sanitized fairy tales? Or do they like those?

I'm comparing with my own experience. I loved (modern) fairy tales as a kid, and the world wasn't that different when I grew up.
From the submission guidelines: "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize"
People aren't machines. We don't take an input and process it completely the first time. Human functions are not idempotent because we are stateful to the extreme, and when we hear the same message, we process it a different way the second time.

Repetition is a tool. Repeating yourself is useful. When I was younger, I thought it was good to be brief, succinct, and concise (and for some purposes, it is). But with most audiences, repeating yourself several times, as I have done here, is your best chance at getting your message to actually hit home. People need to understand and process your idea from different angles and perspectives, and if you aren't able or willing to take efforts to make yourself understood, they will justifiably not make the effort to understand you either.

Or, as I could have said more succinctly, there is value in repeating an important message in different but overlapping ways.
I remember hearing that Apple interally explicity will not go out of their way to avoid one product canabolizing another. If that happens, so be it.
I suspect that one of the reasons is the experience with medical marijuana in some states, in particular California. There getting a marijuana prescription was so easy that dispensaries became a large distribution channel for recreational users.

This process provided arguments to opponents of medical marijuana, who claimed that it is just a “pretext for stoners”. As a supporter of both medical use of marijuana and derived substances, and of legalization of recreational use, I think that a clearer separation between the two would benefit all users and provide a better legal environment.
Reminders like this send a shiver down my spine. Reality works on such a grander timescale than humans that it’s easy for us to convince ourselves that something is working when in reality it’s only worked so far. My family relies on the trucks to keep rolling. As much as I love post apocalyptically stories like zombies and what not, I firmly understand that I can’t feed my family and would likely be forced to watch them starve if the current world order broke down. Here’s to hoping that great leap into the future wasn’t into a really deep hole with a long fall before we hit solid ground.