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‪Good ideas here. Better writing would be less distracting. Light does not have eyes with which to peek, but it can leak through a crack And peek is spelled with 2 Es, as in “to peek through a crack in a wall” not peak, as in the top of a mountain.‬

“There seem to be cracks in the Great Stagnation and light is peaking through on the other end.”
I switched to a safety razor myself, several months ago, after years of using plastic disposables. I'd like to say it was because of concern about the amount of plastic I was wasting. But, in reality, it was more a thought that there must be something that worked better than those crappy disposables, which don't even shave very well and seem to clog with every stroke. So that I spend more time tapping it on the edge of the sink vainly trying to unclog it, than actually shaving.

I've got to say, the safety razor has been a revelation. I almost enjoy shaving now. There's no more hacking. It cuts through beard hair with ease, even the tough bits round the moustache and point of chin area. A quick shake in the water every few strokes is enough to stop it clogging. And, after several months of use, I've just broken into my second packet of 10 out of the box of 200 blades I bought. So, once the cost of the razor itself is set aside, the ongoing cost is negligible.

I fancy trying a cut-throat eventually. Just for the fact it looks so cool and hard-core

[Im fair haired and usually have a bit of stubble. So I only shave once a week. Other people's blade usage mileage may vary]
Here I'm sitting here thinking could I draw it from memory?
Big Sur doesn't even support kernel extensions, so this sounds unlikely.
Heh, once you want even tighter feedback than just reloading the extension itself, try out developing a extension with ClojureScript ;)

https://github.com/binaryage/chromex is a good starting point if you're curious.
do you charge a monthly retainer?
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Acoustic Survey of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame Before and After the Fire of 2019
it doesn't really make sense to scale up a form of power that's 2-4x the cost (more if you include research costs for newer designs) just because it can act as baseload. Over producing, demand shaping and storage will be cheaper.

Nuclear is only financially viable because the government subsidizes it - usually to maintain weapons technology.
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If it turns out PoS is actually a good idea, I think you will have a very good point. Until it's been running and is used right (and doesn't get exploited hard and early) I think it is premature to say this.
Apple should really converge the ipad and macbook. Having something like a surface book where there's a laptop/desktop experience with a thin, light, detachable touchscreen and full desktop software would be really nice.
You are quite right about stardust and good habits. It seems to me, though, that many people use "god" (and especially "God") to refer to something quite different from "some higher axiomatic meaning".

If that's all we're talking about then there are barely any true atheists.
A ToS is always unnecessarily oppressive. A lot of the things you quote are not allowed even without a ToS. As far as the culture of suing for everything goes, that can easily be solved by not incorporating in or touching the US.
Nice. It looks like a subset of internal tool. Even my favorite shortcut is working (l r - reference to current line in current commit)

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/master:i...
Yeah that’s understandable. This article is from a software developers perspective. Even though it’s not specifically acknowledged.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/under-o...

From:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_U.S._...

"However during that period, the Obama Administration did count all military-age males in strike zones as combatants unless explicit intelligence exonerated them posthumously."

Obama's policy: kill them first, find out if they were enemy combatants - or not - afterwards.
This was posted in 2016, but their process hasn't changed. I'm not sure if it's actually caused any real damage yet (usually you'd add your domain fairly quickly), but it seems crazy that in between declaring DO as your DNS provider and importing the domain on DO, it can be stolen.
>The problem with this materialist view when taken to it's full extent, is that it completely denies the most important reality to us - that we are 'life'. What we care about is the expression of life, we don't write laws to protect 'random bags of talking jelly' - our entire cultural foundation surrounds this notion of our being alive. And FYI - most common definitions of life exhibit this 'consciousness' problem, in that they may use biological terms, reproduction, all of that, but it's ultimately mechanical and materialist.

Valuing life is a purely emotional and cultural thing. We care more about the lives of our relatives and friends than random strangers but we also care more about random strangers because they are the same species as us than we care about the lives of other species.

Sometimes humans (by that I mean the Nazis) think other humans (e.g. Jews) are "inhuman" and deserve death as a punishment. (e.g. Holocaust)

There is obviously no scientific basis in valuing life. It's a choice everyone makes for themselves.

The HN submission about male chicks being shredded or even gassed is basically the same thing as the Holocaust but for chicken. Industrial killing of life, yet we don't care as long as we get our eggs.

Thousands of years ago the world used to be lawless even for humans. Tribes were constantly engaging in violent conflicts. They didn't care one bit about the life of someone or something they deemed unimportant.

We care about life because we are selfish and if someone takes a life away that we care about we want to satisfy our selfishness and engage in revenge against the killer.
As gods obviously don't actually exist[0], this is just a reframing of the idea that humans give meaning to their own existance.

[0] Don't want to start a flamewar here, but there are so many contradicting ideas of god out there that at least most of them must be wrong. So regardless of some conception of god being true, the purpose is still felt by all the faithful.
> If you believe in theories and falsifiliability

I don't know why you would phrase it that way. What does "believe in" mean?

That they are a tool that can be used for some purposes? Yes sure.

That they are the only tool that has any meaning, the only one that matters, or even the one that produces most truth? In that case - no, not even close.

I wrote that your original statement is more of an opinion/spiritual statement than a falsifiable scientific statement. Then by extension and simple logic, of course the exact opposite of your statement (does care vs does not care) is also obviously an opinion/spiritual statement. As such, it of course doesn't neither have falsifiable indications. How could it be any other way?

It just didn't sound like you realize that what you wrote is an opinion, and not some hard-cut proved and obvious statement, so I was wondering whether you realize it? Or do you have an illusion that you have provable grounds for it?
What are the tools used in the most cash-strapped companies facing fierce competition yet prevailing?
Usually that problem is dealt with combination of:

* Automation.

* Ability to change other people's code safely, possibly gated by code review approval. Cultural and technical (e.g. unit tests must exist and be maintained) barriers may apply.

* Making incremental changes that are backward compatible (at least until you migrated all clients so you can cleanup later)

I recommend this talk https://youtu.be/tISy7EJQPzI (even if the scope is broader than your question)

(ex-googler)
Ah, and so the poop slinging begins. Moderna and Pfizer are under massive financial pressure to try and discredit the AZ results are much as they can, otherwise they're against a competing product with far easier storage and distribution logistics being sold at cost.
Nope! You're definitely not the only one. For a page about writing well, this is a stupendously annoying thing to read.
Oh man. Now I want to go play winterbells again.
I boomeranged google after working at few other large techs. Google tooling was miles better 5 years back. Now the OSS tools have caught up. They are much more stable, have better UX and are transferable skill.
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What was it you missed exactly? I'm assuming i would find the exact same, but i can't put my finger on exactly why.
Congratulations on the launch!

I recommend you to post this with "Show HN" tag. This guidelines should help you. Thanks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Completely agree, except I'd say physical electronic instruments have a lifetime of about 20-30 years now. Several synths I own are now non- or half-working because of fading displays, broken floppy drives, power supplies and even chips going bad.
The relentless churn of music computer software and hardware setups has also existed since the 80s. I guess it is probably worse for photo & video production.
Same reason stuff gets deprecated. Just maintaining the code against the dependency tree is work. Trying to make it functional in the real world that doesn't have the 50 billion libraries it relied on that are also internal only (or entire systems) is work ^ work.

Unless its low level infrastructure or based on a research paper, its not an easy task.
How one developer is sneaking emulators through a hole in the Xbox Store
I presume the main reason for the controversy is the prevailing dogma "Drugs are evil".

This dogma has been used to enact countless bills of legislation in most rich countries, which in turn have encumbered the justice and police system, which in turn have put thousands upon thousands of people into to the
correctional system for years.

After all that busywork, lives destroyed and taxpayer money wasted, it is really hard to suddenly jump ship and say "Nah, you know what... after all these lives destroyed and billions of tax money spent ... you know, we were wrong, let's rethink this".

Drug abuse should be handled as a public health issue, not a criminal issue. And it takes time and effort to rebalance the current status quo to a more humane and sane approach.

This vox article discsusses the political history of war on drugs:

https://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11325750/nixon-war-on-drugs
Just did the math from the numbers on their site and on average a "worker" doing captchas for them gets paid 0.2$/hour.

Adjusting based on average monthly salary in Bangladesh (157$) [1] and the US (4056$) [2] that would be similar to an American making 5.2$/hour which is surprisingly close to the current minimum wage in the US (7.25$/hour) [3]

So I guess this must be a fairly decent way to earn money if you're young/poor in Bangladesh...

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/bangladesh/wages#:~:text=Wages%....
[2] https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/average-income-in...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_Sta...
Just a note, if you are installing NewPipe, install it from the github repo. The FDroid apk hasn't been updated yet.
What you are describing is not dropshipping. When dropshipping the goods come from the manufacturer or some wholesaler (but explicitly not from you).
Wiktionary gives a definition of "To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place"[1], which seems to be the sense it was used in here. That said, Merriam-Webster and the OED do not include that definition, so perhaps it is non-standard.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/peek
> the successful development of several vaccines to the novel coronavirus are a sign that America (with some help from Germany) is still capable of achieving Big Things when we are pushed to it.

So the The Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID vaccine is from the USA then? Wrong. It just isn't. (1)

Bad data in gives bad conclusion out.

Likewise, I would be more impressed by a competent rail rollout (both urban driverless; and long-distance high speed) using technologies proven for decades, than with promises of self-driving cars real soon.

1) https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-11-23-oxford-university-break...
Can't say much about Bazel. I understand it's used at Google for their increasingly polyglot builds. I just needed to isolate the incantations to get j2cl + closure-compiler (= their migration target for gwt apps) running together in a somewhat quality-assured way such that I don't run into problems related to non-aligned versions since closure-compiler, while very powerful, has always been something of a bitch to setup and run. Ended up analyzing Bazel logs to get at the needed command-line parameters, configs, etc. Would have preferred a doc about running j2cl/c-c outside Bazel rather than bundling it, since both of these programs are still just Java command-line apps. As I understood more of Bazel, I didn't find it half bad. That says a lot since my tolerance for over-reaching build tools is near zero - a couple months ago I even did the opposite of what you're suggesting and migrated my old Java builds from maven (and ant) to straight Makefiles, for a significant win in clearness, robustness, performance, scriptability, and network traffic.
"Move the iPad’s front-facing camera on the side beneath the Apple Pencil charger to better reflect how most people actually use their iPad Pros" - this! Face ID on iPad is really convenient, except the way I usually hold my iPad (landscape, with the pencil at the top) means that the front camera is more-often-than-not blocked when I want to unlock it. I rarely use it portrait so it seems a strange decision.

Interesting post, I too have been wondering how the Macbook and iPad (Pro, especially) will co-exist in future. It seems inevitable that touch will come to the Macbook in some form in the next few years, and with the M1 it sounds like Apple are able to make thin, light laptops that don't run hot or burn through battery, removing a few of the key differentiators between the iPad and laptops.

I do really like using the iPad for consumption and for some creation (music making, photo editing), but for any "serious" work I still find it frustrating at best (editing documents etc.), impossible at worst (development). The hardware is very capable, but the question is how they develop iPadOS to support these use cases without treading too much on the Macs toes - or will the two ultimately merge?
I disagree with the premise. Now that laptops have the same performance and battery life, iPad is freed from having to be the laptop and can continue to develop its productive capability in the areas where focused touch and stylus work either outperform or result in different creative expression.
Pushing the boundaries of human knowledge!
Download it straight from the repo. Don't use the FDroid one. FDroid hasn't updated its listing.
It does if you convince people to vote for you though
There are some great points in the comments here. Regardless of where mac and iPad end up, one thing is clear to me: Apple needs to add touchscreens to the macbook line if they want that line to live on with the next generation. I didn't always think this way, so hear me out.

One of my kids has an expensive macbook. They don't use it because they have a cheap chromebook provided by their school that is underpowered and has poor battery life -- but it has a touchscreen! That seems like a terrible trade off to me, but kids these days expect every screen to be a touchscreen and when it comes time for them to buy their own laptop, they will buy the one that has a touchscreen.
Well, there go my hopes.
It went through a re-design recently. I don't think I would call it a well-guarded secret though, if you look at Phabricator's Differential, it is very similar [0].

[0] https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/differential/
They’re two different worlds though. The world of precision input devices (keyboard/mouse) and relative openness (to running/developing software) and then the world of imprecise fat-finger touch input and the walled-garden landgrab.

So far not even Apple has figured out how to make genuinely complex/feature-rich UIs (think Photoshop, XCode, Maya) work on a touchscreen device. Their best solution so far seems to be adding a keyboard and pointing device in the form of the Pencil.
Discussion from 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12364297
James Farina has spent decades doing non-clinical research on long term effects of psychedelics. For what is worth, the effects seem to go the other direction.

Other than that, I think you are absolutely right tho, mushrooms can induce severe changes. I am not for legalization. And I believe your point is why most people under legal psychedelic treatment are terminal patients.
Hah, I do the same... well, I actually use a text editor to compose the new email. But, I like your idea to use a new email window better.
Thanks! This is the sort of interesting factoid I was hoping for :-)
Owning the keys for encrypting your data?
Hi all,

I'm doing some research and looking for any examples of SaaS products using end-to-end encryption and allowing the users to own the encryption keys. Eg, user has to store their own backup phrase, much like someone who has a cryptocurrency wallet.

Any help, much appreciated!

Thanks
This is just one person who wants a touch screen Mac.

Edit: a person with no specified gender
I've been using webextension-toolbox[1] for a few years now to develop cross-platform extensions and it's worked really well. I always got the feeling other browsers other than Firefox were Second-class citizens with web-ext (if supported at all) whereas with webextension-toolbox they all appeared to work out of the box.

The first time I tested my extension on Firefox after developing it one Chrome for months it worked the first time. I was so shocked how seamless it was I actually thought something must be really wrong, it wasn't.

[1] https://github.com/webextension-toolbox/webextension-toolbox
To be charitable for and against:

Don't worry winter_blue. Your soul is not your brain! Life begins for us when we don't have brains after all. God also exists outside our brains and bodies. God has given our souls tools (brain, body) which work in marvellous ways. What motivates you and gives you meaning isn't something that is conjured up by your brain to just to budget energy in the body.

For those who don't believe in souls: Your heart is not your brain. Love is not your brain. What you feel deep down to be right, good and true is our heart. What motivates you and gives you meaning isn't something that is conjured up by your brain just to budget energy in the body.

To those who don't believe in (one or more of:) heart, soul, love, meaning, motivation, or anything higher: Assuming your thoughts are that humans are a bio-robot, the system itself creates meaning and motivation. The system, as if in a simulation, creates these sub-systems which for all intents and purposes are designed to be as if they are real. These sub systems are present in nature also to a lesser (or at least more opaque) extent. If you believe that X is not real because your body, brain and the robot you are in, simulates X, then X is at the very least functionally real if not fundamentally. Thus, similar to the question about what we should do if we were in a simulation, it's probably going to be best to go along with the ride.
But why, is it anything hardware related, or isn't it, like the article described, a problem of the software infrastructure?
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I don’t know, I have met plenty of people that revolve their lives around their favorite drug and talk about them like a kind of religion. Most of them are rather low grade, but as i take it, it is a characteristic of hallucinogenic drugs not just a passed fad.
This reminds me of a similar solution I saw on PH last year, I think it's a great alternative for smaller websites that are less likely to be targets for spams/bots

But say, there's a website and it's a likely target, you implement IP protection, fine, the user uses residential proxies. Now your best bet is to go off fingerprinting, but there are marketplaces which sell those too in bulk.

Maybe I'm wrong, but wouldn't the best approach be to stick to human interaction puzzles, which are hard and don't have a set way to solve by a machine(for now)?
You are right. XMPP and IRC then.
Governments and regulations. They've even created poster designs to make it visually evil.

https://mashable.com/2016/04/18/anti-weed-film-posters/
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Slightly off-topic, but I've not seen the kind of commenting system shown at the bottom of the article before. You are invited to write up a response elsewhere on the web including a link to the article, and then post your URL in. It's a bit like a manual-pingback. It seems a good idea in principle, but would anyone actually bother?
Buried them behind drywall and ceilings, not in dirt.

Look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knob-and-tube_wiring that is in some cases operational even after a century.
The reason is class conflict, or more precisely its absence.

> They turned GE into a financial institution. They sold Bell Labs off in pieces. Boeing can't safely update 1990s vintage air frames to accommodate modern engines. And yet, the market is on a tear. This is not sustainable.

You very well see what's wrong going here. The US economy, and government institutes seem to be overran by a class of self proclaimed "value adders:" heavy hitter "pro-managers," financial "engineers," and, of course, everybody's favourite — lawyers.

It's very natural to conclude that an engineering company like GE shouldn't have been given to bankers, to be turned into a... bank, and Boeing shouldn't have been entrusted to outsourcing managers, to be turned into an outsourcing management company, and dozens electronics companies shouldn't have been given to lawyers, to be turned into patent litigation services companies, and so on, and so on.

Yet, US — one of few countries affording such high level of employee control of their companies, and quite militant unions ends up with workplaces whisked away from under the nose of their employees.

I see a simple explanation: Americans completely prematurely decided to bury the axe of class warfare, and traded peace for progress.

No conflict — no progress.

I am not advocating for violent revolution right away, certainly not that. You do not kill people over the ownership of green paper, that's morally wrong to do so. But you do not let such people simply live comfy life without opposition.

Take a look at other countries, even though they may well lag behind US on worker rights, and don't have a culture of union militancy, and overall worse off compensation even for high skill work, yet you don't see factories turning into banks, or if they do, they quickly see workers voting with their feet.

From my experience, I'd say even in China you do see factory workers changing workplaces when they feel "malaise in the air" in the company, and don't wait for company's malaise turn into (their) financial trouble.