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This debate is really about what people want and how they envision the Web.

> Who's to say digital text has to stick to a 80s concept of casual academic publishing?

Hypertext is a valid business case as it was back then and it still is today.

What changed is how the Web evolved from a small group of academics and engineers 30 years ago into the billions that it connects today. It's not just hypertext. It's hypertext and every other conceivable business case which is being shoehorned into the browser.

The Web originally wasn't conceived to provide affordances that allow for "rich media experiences". Foundational technologies - HTTP, HTML, CSS, JS,... - weren't originally designed to build complex user interfaces and applications. Yet, as more and more and more people got connected: that's exactly what they wanted.

Remember Flash? Or Java applets? Or Silverlight? Those were hailed as additional technologies that would merge complex user interfaces into the Web. Macromedia coined the term "Rich Web Applications" back in 2002. All of them failed for various reasons.

Ever since the Web Standards moving of the mid-00's, communities of designers have taken CSS and HTML and tried to bend and use them in any way possible to bring visually stunning experiences on the Web. This is where you will find the direct roots of many ideas and dynamics that are currently in vogue. It's their influence, as well as other dynamics - e.g. the introduction of the smartphone, the rise of big tech - that has defined how browser technology has evolved.

Over the past decade, browser vendors have tacked on additional browser API's on top of the original, decade old foundations, while communities of frontend developers have spawned ever intricate constellations of interlocking JavaScript libraries and frameworks that specifically try to break out of how the Web originally was intended to work.

Some things have become easier as specifications evolved a bit (e.g. CSS3). But at the end of the day, your browser still needs to download HTML, JS and CSS, parse all of that, execute and render it onto a canvas.

Even so, it's safe to say that this approach is miles removed from what native applications offer in terms of performance and maintainability. Markets being what they are, web applications are in vogue because they earn big money if done well. (Slack just became the latest poster child for that, right?) I don't see that changing anytime soon either, lest someone is willing to go back to the original drawing board and design a totally new paradigm that integrates the promise of Rich Web Applications in the browser properly.

And so, I think it's hyperbole when someone states that "HTML, CSS and JS are broken". One may also consider the history of Web technology over the past decade as a great example of how the popularity of a set of technologies turned them into Maslow's Golden Hammer. Used to solve any and all problems under the sun, but still not any closer to what native applications aspired to achieve back in the 80's, 90's and 00's.
You can't rent them for less than 24 hours.
And, for the point, this markup is less than on a server. When evaluating AWS and other clouds versus direct ownership and the salary to devOp the servers - one month of AWS purchases the entire server stack, hardware firewall, more than enough storage, and has more than enough left over for salaries for a half dozen devOp techs. The cloud is a ripoff.
Is that still policy? I've not heard anything like that coming out of Taiwan in a long time.
Yeah that's what I thought this was about too - submit code that crashes the compiler and gives RCE.

But he actually is talking about online compilers that execute the code - he just runs `system("ls")`. What a waste of everyone's time.
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I forget the nuance but yes, so long as there were 2 kings of a color they were treated like other pieces until 1 remained I think.

The promotion of an opponents piece could end in a game where you promote your pawn to their knight which becomes a checkmate as the pieces were organized in a way that blocked the king.
> That's a deliberately bad headline. The vast majority of these will launch, build an iOS binary, save and quit within an hour. The other 5% will be people testing an app.

Headline is spot-on. Minimum rent is a day per Apple's terms of use.

Discussion of this can be found from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25262303
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Automated telemetry, noticed by the marketing department, scooped up an analysed is how I usually picture it.
> Why should it be legal to make billions of dollars in profit off of the failure of something?

The money they made was not in any way extracted from anybody connected to the malls.

Imagine sitting on earth with a friend, observing the Death Star through a radiotelescope. You bet the friend $1000 that the Death Star will vaporize Alderaan.

You have made $1000 off the event, even though nobody in the Empire or on Alderaan even knew you and your Friend existed, or had any economic involvement in your transaction (and, in fact, given the distance, the event happened before the transaction even took place).

> How does that make economic sense?

In a larger sense, any transaction where you can bet on the success or failure of particular economic endeavours allows an individual investor to fine tune their portfolio to their dreams or concerns (e.g. if you own a skyscraper in a coastal city and are worried about Kaiju, being able to buy Kaiju insurance helps you sleep soundly at night).

Collectively for the economy, such transactions are beneficial, because in their aggregate, they can be a more efficient resource allocation mechanism than a central planning mechanism.

> These guys walk off with a huge bag of cash, a bunch of investors that were trying to invest positively get screwed, the mall dies

None of which was the hedge fund's doing, see above.

> and all that money and economic opportunity vanishes.

Analyses like yours often fail to consider what happens with the "huge bag of cash" you mention above: It has just been transferred from the pockets of one investor group to the pockets of another investor group who have arguably demonstrated that they better understand how money is productively spent. So the money is not only going back into the economy, but may well be employed more efficiently.
Slack client is horrible like most Electron apps. There is no free lunch.
I thought the EC2 pricing model is, even when the instance is shut down, you continue paying, since it is still reserved.
There's also a lot of people like me who would rather avoid those expensive areas. Even if I had that sort of money, I'd rather spend it buying 100 acres or so of land and building an average or slightly above average sized house on it. I'd even have money left over.
Gravitational (YC S15) is now Teleport
As someone who is just beginning to learn Flutter, I am interested to know why you think it's a mess. I've been a full stack engineer with a focus on backend for a while now and was just getting my feet wet with app development with Flutter. Is there something else better than Flutter I can give a shot? Thanks (in advance) for your advice.
The thing is that ultimately notation isn't that important, what matters are the formal concepts at play (and to develop an intuition on how to manipulate them, if you're learning).

If this can help students "see the light", then sure, but I'm not entirely sold on the idea that the notation is actually the hardest part.

This is similar (with a different twist) to the various ideas going around that we should stop using base 10 and think in hexadecimal. It might be better in some absolute sense, but it's not something it's worth spending any energy into.

I'm just not sure I see much from this, but obviously I'm not the "intended target", so please take this with a pinch of salt.
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> Google Fiber

Haven't they paused the rollout of this?

Google do not have the commitment, focus, or skillset to compete in ASICs. Certainly not to compete with TSMC themselves. Apple have the design experience now to deliver the M1 - 12 years after acquiring PA Semi. And it's manufactured by .. TSMC.

This has every hallmark of a VP who wants to play with semiconductors, not a serious attempt to deliver something specific.
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Thank you
This looks amazing!
1) If it is dangerous in his situation is not up to you to decide. Saying he shouldn't get a TV is like saying to someone to not get internet. Please...

2) Being OPT-in would not stop you from using it.

I'm very curious why you feel so strongly that SmartTV's should be allowed to send data without anyone's knowledge?
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Again, as I said in my other comment - the bottom of the ocean is increadibly challenging in itself. The need to build habitats that could permanently withstand tonnes of pressure is not that far off from habitats needing to survive the harshness of space. We could learn how to build those, how to live in them, how to grow food and obviously conduct science. Those findings would be valuable outside of our planet too.

And importantly, when people say that they want to go to Mars in order to secure the future of our species - the bottom of the ocean is protected form nearly every natural or human made catastrophe imaginable. Even if the surface of the earth was vaporised in nuclear fire, 10km under the surface of water nothing would touch such a colony.

But of course, please don't misunderstand me - of course a Moon colony would be far more preferable.
Connecting it to ground would be better.

If the aluminium foil is only around the antenna and/or connected to the antenna this might not be enough or might even improve the antenna.
This is a major issue when turning batch data into individual files, especially with dynamic prefixes. You can and will find this edge pretty quick using EMR or Glue which tries to run as fast as possible. The only answer is....slow down your writes or just try again, a bit frustrating.
Fine, but we generally don't average out values nationally to price homes.

We don't take home values from the Detroit market, Beverly Hills market and San Antonio market to price a house in New York.

Real estate is deflationary because each asset is unique - like fine art or a 1 in millions baseball card misprint.
This is great, thanks for sharing.
It makes me think that as engineers eager to fix problems or building stuff we sometimes go for the solution we are most used to from past experiences (eg. use a huge saw to cut through) instead of thinking of the simplest & most cost-effective (eg. use a chain instead).
Honestly, they can charge quite a bit more than the amortized cost. You can't hire 10% more admins if you only have one. And there's substantial training and cognitive cost to manage a more heterogeneous network if your staff only work with Linux or Windows but you have one or two Macs for a particular pipeline, which is a common use case given the price of Apple servers.
I’ve had the same problem in Australia: luckily it turns out Kogan sells a 55” 4K “HDR10” (yeah not really in practice) dumb TV. $600 AUD, it’s been pretty good. Excellent for the price.
Police in Jackson, Mississippi, want access to live home security video
Berlin has become a centre for European venture capital
LibFirm: An optimizing compiler back-end
I've done "white elephants" at a former job (though i think they called it a "yankee swap"), and that was so much fun! It literally was the highlight of the office holiday party...not so much for coolness of any of the gifts but the fun of all the good-natured scheming! Fun times!
The Molten Salt Reactor designs I have seen have lower volumetric power density than PWRs. The MSRE reactor had a volumetric power density of 2 MW/m^3, a factor of 10 lower than a commercial PWR (counting the volume of the entire primary reactor vessel; the power density in the core of a PWR is a factor of 5 higher than that.) Of course that was an experiment, but look at something like Moltex's design and the power density is still lower than a PWR, last I looked.

> Likewise, while ITER is uber expensive like large PWRs, ARC is 10 times smaller, and a factor of 30 times or more cheaper.

The ARC design is smaller than ITER, but it's still very much lower (a factor of 40) in power density than a fission reactor.
You have to pay for 24 hours on every start up.
My anecdotal impression is that medium to large tech companies, especially those who may have a Silicon Valley presence but a modest one, don't seriously try to compete on comp with the SV companies who pay the most whether salary, RSUs, or other benefits. Of course they may be attractive for other reasons but, by and large, they're not going to get in a bidding war with Facebook.
Sometimes I'm worried my gf will get upset that I can't watch something on the projector and want to get a TV. I could absolutely see that happening if something weird happens with widevine.
Part of it is because I don’t believe in the 4% rule, I think it’s way too optimistic moving forward.

My assumption is just that my investments will keep up with inflation (0% real return). So, if I live til 100 (unlikely, considering family history I’ll drop dead at around 75 at best) the money I have will need to last me 65 years. That’s about 1.5% withdrawal rate. $4M gives me $60k a year inflation adjusted, which is what I am comfortable with. When you look at it using this math, you can see how $3M is not an obvious retirement number. It could be for some, I’m sure.

Another part is being surrounded by very successful Silicon Valley people: a lot of my friends have net worths around the $10M, so there is a bit of FOMO as well.

Also, I really don’t have a lot of productive personal projects, nor desire to spend my free time programming, I don’t like programming. I envision my retirement volunteering, reading tons of books, enjoying time with my partner and family, and eating street food in SE Asia.

Lastly, while my family is a modest middle class one, I grew up with extremely limited means: I never lacked food or shelter, but my parents never spent any discretionary money on their kids, so I always felt incredibly poor compared to my peer in school and college, who had toys, clothes, fun money for activities. Had to work on my own for even the smallest purchase, to the point where I would have to think very long and hard in my teens to buy a $1 snack. That had profound effects on me, still to this day.
To be honest, the decryption burden is fairly small compared to the layout burden. I don't think this is much of an excuse.
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Ranger - the dynamic geofencing platform for mobile apps
I don’t follow. Short sellers didn’t cause the pandemic did they? They worked to discover an information asymmetry and took a bet on it. The counter party was willing to accept their bet. As far as I see no one was coerced to do something they weren’t willing to do.

It would have been immoral if they had done something to influence the outcome in their favor. Like lobbying the government against bailing out the landlords/bond-holders/originators. From what I read nothing of that sort happened.

So why bring up morality? Is it a misplaced sense of jealousy? Or a case of sour grapes?
Ranger is a scalable API as a Service that provides geofencing to organizations and individuals that develop mobile apps. Ranger removes native iOS and Android geofencing limitations and streamlines the maintenance of cloud based geofences while integrating with existing solutions. Ranger increases end user engagement, allows organizations to focus on their core value propositions, and decreases time to market.
Though even the highest end TVs have these sorts of “features” built in, so it can’t be that simple
I don't understand... All these things are possible in systems where no such separation exists.

What happens in other systems is that you can ask the system for an accessibility tree (for instance) and get a DOM like tree (for example in Android) so stuff like screen-readers still works just fine.

Ditto for contrast - all these things are possible if the platform builds its building blocks with them in mind and the users don't have to deal with it.

All the things and use cases the post mentions are possible in flutter/dart, Android and iOS.

The thing preventing you from "sticking your app in Google Translate" isn't your app in iOS/Android/whatever or the technology - it's Google/Apple.
In Sweden they do not do that for messenger clients but they do it for video streaming sites. Data is so cheap here that a messenger would not be a good selling point.

It is probably illegal (on the paper we have net neutrality, the telcos just blatantly break the law) to do so in Sweden which why some telcos are in a legal battle with our regulatory authority.
I call BS on anyone who claims a TV is using HDMI over Ethernet or some hidden LTE connection.

When I bought my Sony TV I had no idea it was an Android TV until afterwards. I’ve never connected it to my WiFi and it’s never connected up updated itself. I can easily monitor everyone connected to my network.

Consumer Reports has a great article if anyone is interested.

https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smar...
In the US, you'd need closer to $2M depending on age. If you retire before reaching Medicare age (65ish) you could be looking at $15k per year in medical bills, probably more if you're married or have bigger issues.
It sounds about right to me. A quarter of Twitter, and Twitter is well known in the mainstream zeitgeist.
You are painting a scenario that could theoretically become an issue if vaccination somehow got stuck at some point close to or far beyond the 50% mark for some reason. E.g. to deliberately exclude some part of the population, or in some "the vaccine is actually a carrier for something else" movie plot. But if the limits of vaccination are just the confines of ramp-up and particularly if priority is given to the elderly, it's just a phantom fear. Not allowed to go to work unless you are older than 75? Right...

At first glance forgery seems like a very real threat considering how hard it is to tell vaccine from sodium chloride (entire testing procedures are based on this), but the same difficulty is also working against a black market: why pay if the seller can't give event the slightest indication that it's not a fake and the fake has no intrinsic value at all? You'd have to fake the distribution structures and not the product and an elaborate fake structure isn't something that suddenly pops up from some dark market investment, it could only evolve from simpler black market schemes. But those won't happen, at least not in time (except maybe in places with a truly corrupt regular distribution system, where it would start with "redistributed" real vaccine and then slowly shift over to fakes)
Can confirm this didn't just happen to thedonald subreddit, several default subreddits (i.e. country-specific subreddits, apolicital subreddits, etc) became extremely left leaning, banning different opinions, forcing people to leave, essencially.
I think there is a slim chance that nuclear could remain relevant. The key would be greatly reducing the cost of the non-nuclear side of the power plant. Perhaps the best approach would be replacing large steam turbines with far more compact supercritical CO2 turbines. This would require temperatures somewhat higher than from PWRs. And this (not thorium, not waste destruction, nor really even safety) is perhaps the best argument for molten salt reactors.
>Best thing to do is to never even start connecting it to a WiFi network

That won't stop the issue mentioned here about it connecting by itself (not that I personally believe it will).
Experimental drug in mice.

In humans you grow a third ear and whiskers.
Related to what you are looking for is https://github.com/rust-secure-code/cargo-geiger which analyzes the dependency tree for unsafe but afaik it doesn't actually show each individual block.

The readme is quite good.
I've had it corrupt disk images. I know there's a complex system of tradeoffs you can choose from.

But I only discovered that while trying to restore a system I had improperly exited and completely hosed.

I wish the possibility (mouse like probability) of total destruction with the simple defaults was more I dunno, loud and obnoxious somehow.

These great technical achievements seem to share the usability patterns of handing you a knife when you were expecting a qtip
The vomit method: how to start writing (2018)
They probably let port 53 through.
China spacecraft collects moon samples to take back to Earth
Hey community, this is my first-ever launch!

This project is a beautiful one and a really simple one too, like, it roughly took me 10 hours to make. But still, so many thoughts are running in my mind.

Put simply, I had notes of my favorite quotes that stick with me throughout the day or push me back to the track when I'm down. Now, I have the same notes on this website and sharing that with you.

And the timing felt just right. A start of a new month aka the last month of the year that made a killing with us. You guys could use some of my notes to stay motivated.

I do plan to shuffle the top appearing ones and update it as I come across good ones. You can bookmark and check again if you need some external motivation.

That's it for me for now. Let's end with a quote.

The real motivation is you and you alone.
— Dinakar
TenDRA: An architecture-neutral compiler framework with C and C++ front ends
Really fascinating! And I can only imagine the infernal noise this process produces, with a gigantic "chainsaw" and a whole ship as a resonance chamber...
As far as I know, there's a minimum tenancy period of 24 hours, but after that it's like "standard" EC2 where you're billed per second.
I'm not sure what you mean by blast radius, but if you were to think about the amount of people learning these concepts - as explained in the SE post here - the order would obviously be the reverse of what you suggest (exponents most important).