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My experience confirms these flaws in Android.

For example, I once wasted two days getting an app startup logo to show with the proper size and aspect ratio on versions of Android used on phones sold 4 years ago, through the latest version. You define the logo in the manifest file. The interpretation of the logo settings changed three times over those API versions, with features added and removed. So a config that works in Android API 18 doesn't work in 20-21, but may work on 23. Support for SVG was dropped and added again. And none of this is documented. The logical way to implement API changes is to version the API file and use a compatibility library that can interpret all supported versions and make them work on the phone. But Android is not built logically. It is built for Google's engineer promo process.

Nobody at Google gets promoted for making the thing easy to use, learn, or maintain. That's why Google puts out so many shiny dev tools that quickly rot. Unfortunately, we are required to work with Android.
Definitely. Using credibility, or any other metric, to determine what to review is fine. Using credibility as part of the review itself is not something I agree with.

With respect to publishing, there is a significant volume of work, and we should be able to keep up with it long as people review as much as they publish.
I'm not sure how UBI wouldn't just trigger massive inflation and knock a lot of wind out of the sails of people who receive the income.

Wouldn't a less punitive system of welfare properly distribute the wealth with none of the requirement to be universal?
>roughly a quarter length

Is that not resonance?
Something that surprised me is that companies are under no obligation to disclose loss of cargo unless it contains dangerous or hazardous goods. [1] I'm sure the fact that they estimate 64 to be Dangerous Goods, and the general magnitude of the number of containers lost has led to this website being setup. Apparently ~1/100,000 containers are lost at sea, which is higher than I might have guessed.

Also, I found the short podcast series Containers [2] to be an interesting introduction to shipments by sea.

[1] https://www.eurosender.com/blog/en/lost-sea-shipping-contain...

[2] https://www.stitcher.com/show/containers
> Billionaires are overwhelming pro-Democratic party politics, and most of them are even in favor of genuine "big government".

The data on political contributions by billionaires isn't really consistent with that.

https://americansfortaxfairness.org/billionaire-politics/
I came across a pretty gross corner of this Google/IAC interplay a while ago. I was looking into the sources of our worst-quality paid traffic by various performance metrics, and found lots if of it coming through ads served on Google “search partners”, aka other search engines that can serve keyword-based Google ads on their own results pages and get a cut of the revenue. Many of these search engines are total garbage, like the ones that malware/malicious browser extensions will set as your default homepage. You and I might consider the traffic from such “search engines” as much less valuable, but Google enables the checkbox for advertisers to use these search partners by default, and even adds a message underneath saying, in effect, “most users choose to take advantage of our search partner network”, if you uncheck it.

It gets especially shady with IAC in particular, as they run a bunch of these “search engines” (not actually a search engine anyone has ever intended to use without being tricked into it) purely as a venue for PPC arbitrage: they run ads on Google for generic search terms, which link to their own search results pages, which display “search partner” Google ads. These results pages are highly optimized to trick people into clicking the ads, which they then get a cut of revenue on.

The traffic source that originally lead me to this rabbit hole was an IAC-owned Google search partner property, and our ads were running on their results pages. The ads had their full title linked and colored blue, and the “results” only had a tiny arrow link at the very end of the description, the titles were not clickable. Clearly this was sufficient to meet Google’s standards as a search partner.

This system is terrible for both regular internet users and for unsophisticated advertisers. It’s clearly and intentionally manipulative to both parties. I don’t know why I was surprised to learn that Google was not just enabling but actually encouraging this kind of stuff, but it still gives me heartburn. They are very clearly making tons of money from it, and have every incentive to keep the cash flowing.
Do an image search for 'Shipping container floor'. They have horizontal steel bracing which a wooden floor gets mounted on. Definitely far from water tight.

The only way they are going to float for any period of time is if teh contents are watertight and low density
This is the winning comment.
True, but Netguard provides many more features such as alert on new app, access logs, whitelist/blacklist capabilities etc.
How big of a problem is 1800+ containers lost in what I assume is a major shipping route?

The first thing that came to mind is the movie All Is Lost (2013)[1].

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017038/
> surely residents wouldn't have rejected the installation of an adequate sprinkler system

Possibly their idea was that if they allowed the sprinkler system they would have to give up on preventing the cladding.
Same here, I was thinking "load" as in "payload".
Best way to do that is a strong investment in people, infrastructure, research, development, and an improved social policy. Yes, that means making more money, but that is also how a sovereign funds labor to pay down debts without putting it's people through generational austerity, if that is even an option, and for us it really isn't one.

Literally, there is nothing stopping the USA from laboring itself right out of debt, except the politics.

When we do these things, general appetite for risk will improve, there will be a lot more money in the hands of people who spend it, and the returns, both in terms of how much the nation is worth as well as from the result of the projects will pay down past financial folly nicely. Tons of opportunity will be a part of an effort like this too. Opportunity for everyone from self employed mom n pop through to the major firms. Think Interstate Highway Project, and all that brought to the table.

We need that kind of thing right now. Covid has only amplified that need.

Difficult as it seems, we aren't going to cut our way out of that debt, and it is very unlikely we could secure resources and treasure for it either. (Military action, and the costs and risks associated with all that are unwise, in my view)

We have a ton of labor potential out there, and that is how new wealth is created, so... let us get to creating!

Sadly, reluctance on stuff like this appears to be bipartisan. Sure wish it wasn't.
I'm reminded of the whole Facebook "pivot to video" scandal, where they were telling media producers that people were watching video ads at massively inflated rates compared to reality, and there was no way to check Facebook's reported numbers, since they controlled the infrastructure. An entire industry moved from text to video based on lies. I'm sure some sales folks did well for themselves as hundreds of writers lost their jobs.
Random thoughts:

- I'm somewhat astonished that a ship of this size can hit a storm this size and limp back to port despite losing 1,800 containers.

- 1,800 containers floating around in the ocean is going to be a major shipping hazard until they sink, which may take a while if the goods packed within are buoyant (eg. anything packed in styrofoam).

- A friend used to work in the transshipping biz, and she said this kind of thing is why you buy insurance: odds are 99.99%+ your container will come through entirely unscathed, but if you hit the negative jackpot, everything will be completely gone. In 2013, the sinking of the MOL Comfort also meant the loss of 4,300 containers. https://gcaptain.com/mol-comfort-incident-photos/
Peertube is getting live streaming capability.... actually you can check it right now on
https://live.canard.tube/videos/watch/5e7b916e-c5b5-4996-a97...

The p2p part of it is the real nice deal and these guys are actually making something good here.
Murder in Mexico: journalists caught in the crosshairs
We wrote our own, but that's because of the nature of our business and our program. YMMV.

If you're trying to get professional affiliates to market your business, sure, use third party software. Most the affiliates know the systems already and have some level of trust in it. Plus the software will provide analytics, payouts to various countries, tax guidance, etc.

Our program is primarily a referral program for existing customers. There's no separate affiliate account and credits automatically offset the fees we charge. Plus I like Stripe and don't want a bunch of third-party PHP crapware invading our already complex billing system. DIY was really the only option.

The things that make our customers want to refer others are not necessarily what will work for anyone else. Our current referral system would never fly with the porn affiliates, but also an impersonal "make $ fast!" affiliate system would never resonate with our customers.

A basic referral tracking system is super easy. Give users links they can share; clicking on the link puts a value in local storage; pass that value along with signups. Offer something meaningful to new customers who come in through a referral (for us, it's a discounted first month). If you're just trying to increase word of mouth spread, that's enough to get started.
I run an adblocker but I'm sympathetic to Twitch's plight here.

Or at least I was until they started interrupting streams in the middle of the action with no human input to show ads.

When the broadcaster clicks the ad button, it's a good time to run ads. They're probably taking a break anyway, there's nothing critical or even interesting happening, so watching some ads is fine.

But randomly interrupting in the middle of a conversation or right as the good part hits to show an ad shows that the Twitch management no longer understands or gives a shit about their platform.
Remote work requires building a strong Secure Access Service Edge foundation
I was speaking on the article itself. My apologies.
>why would this new internet end up any different?

I think the main advantage we have today is the hindsight of the past 25+ years.

>What would be different this time around if we started from scratch?

I think instead of one big Internet we'd build a bunch of smaller, trusted intranets, and provide controlled access via something like a web-of-trust system.

>You can't expect every person to be skilled enough (and with the time and desire) to be their own network administrator

It's up to your tribe/family/community to have its own networking person, and you can compensate any way that's agreeable to you.

Just like it's smart to have your own doctor and mechanic in the family, you should also have your own networking and computers person you can trust.

Many people complain about family coming to them for computer help and suggest that they should go to a "professional". I think this is an insensitve and unempathetic point of view. Where else would they go? Who else can be trusted to help them except you?

No, it's up to us to take care of all whom we care about, because no one else out there will do it for us. And if you shy away from this responsibility, your punishment will be watching family members get taken advantage of.
The same thing would happen with an ideal resistor whose leads formed a dipole of the right length, so no.
It's a small class in good coding 101. Concise, well commented/documented, good variables names vs verbose in explanation , terse in code.
My problem is that whenever I've picked up a music theory textbook, the author opens with "put your hands on the keyboard... doesn't playing <foo> <bar> and <baz> feel natural?"

As someone who has had zero music training, but has considered generative music as a possible hobby, I'd like to at least start trying to understand the domain before committing to a physical instrument and working on developing muscle memory. I'd really love a rigorous music theory textbook that does not assume you already play an instrument.
I loved reading this very much. Well done.
Is it surprising?

There are 800 million containers shipped per year. 10k is is a literal drop in the bucket.

It's 99.99875% relability.
That doesn't seem awful compared to the number of containers.

> 1. There are currently over 17 million shipping containers in circulation globally with the number of active shipping containers at more then five million. In total, they make around 200 million trips a year, according to Billie Box.

https://www.porttechnology.org/news/10_unknown_facts_about_s...
“Wind and Water Tight” (WWT) is a specific condition/description of shipping container. I would agree they’re not air tight.

https://www.carucontainers.com/en-br/faq/what-does-wind-and-...
gCaptain says the ship's capacity is 14,000 TEU. Assuming those are all 40 ft containers (2 TEU each), that's 7000 containers, so 24%.

https://gcaptain.com/containership-one-apus-loses-significan...
> I'm not sure how UBI wouldn't just trigger massive inflation and knock a lot of wind out of the sails of people who receive the income.

It wouldn't by being calibrated (preferably by being indexed to a revenue source and not to inflation) to be at a level where that wouldn't occur, which is a factor of productivity and other factors.

> Wouldn't a less punitive system of welfare properly distribute the wealth with none of the requirement to be universal?

UBI is a less punitive welfare system; any retreat from universality is restoring the essence of the punitive factor which also is the driver of wasteful administrative overhead by duplicating functions already performed in the progressive income tax system.
Yeah, makes sense. It would be hard to gain initial traction and the business model can be tricky. But the merchants also of course get value from the affiliates, so once it catches on with affiliates, they could demand merchants to use this service for checkouts for trust and verification, if it is lightweight enough. Could just be javascript like google analytics or piwik.
Ask HN: Easiest way to setup a website for a non-techie
Hi,
My friend is a doctor. She has helped me out of a tight corner medically. I would like to return the favor. I hope to help her make a website to create a portfolio of her work. I also plan to optimize it for local search. Because it is a favor, I don't intend to charge.

I want to setup something very low maintenance (domain, blog etc) that she can manage herself. It is going to be low traffic.

For my blogs, I host wordpress on a digitalocean droplet. I am looking for something simpler for her.

Do you have any suggestions?
Google and Co Ejector (Awesome OSS List)
> When setting up your own server you need to buy a domain, deal with running the infrastructure, deal with and require others to setup new identifies.

No, you don’t. You can push even to a bare repo on disk. If you want to share over network, ssh access vis IP address is enough.

> Also GitHub is free - for you, for now. MS can change it at any point.

It‘s easy to move.

> It's also not accessible from a number of countries.

That’s not really GitHub‘s fault, though. Any business / person operating a seed would have to comply with the same laws as GitHub today.
Yeah that makes sense, but then my question is why did Hsieh stay as CEO for that long in what was basically a dead end company within Amazon? It doesn’t seem like that is something someone like Hsieh would ever want to do, and yet he stayed there for a decade post acquisition.
> How big of a problem is 1800+ containers lost in what I assume is a major shipping route?

It could be a big problem for someone. IIRC, when some people move overseas long term, they sometimes ship their personal possessions via container, which now might be at the bottom of the ocean.
They probably found that people streaming were not clicking the button often enough.
wonder how peertube is doing
So I had a bunch of books shipped from Japan to Europe by surface mail, so quite possibly in a container on a ship like this. The package is still in transit so news like this makes me a bit weary.

Luckily the ship in question had sailed from China to the USA, so it most likely does not have my package. Still, best of luck to others with package in transfer by seamail! :)
> > money earned without laboring for it

> Tell that to startup founders whose only income from all the work they put in on their startup is capital gains.

I think there really ought to be more of a distinction made between taxing the upside of sweat equity vs. literal capital gains (as in, the return on invested capital).

Also, startup founders should only be deferring their salary (or a portion of it), not forgoing it entirely.

For that matter, it's insane that VC fund managers only pay capital gains tax rates on carried interest and management fees. The fees are really just ordinary income plain and simple (which they get regardless of how the fund does), and while carried interest is technically a return on invested capital, it's entirely OPM and seems like a dodge that lets the manager participate in the upside of the fund with no actual skin in the game, so what's the point of taxing it at a preferential rate?
I am looking at two compatibility points regarding M1-macOS. First, will VMWare (and Parallels and virtualBox) run x86 Windows VMs on M1 and second, will Linux run natively on M1 (even though I don’t do much Linux). Until these two things are taken care of, M1-MacOS will just be (an important) niche system.
I feel like contrast enhancement or similar would be able to bring that back.
Small aluminum heatsinks are quite cheap. You'll spend more on shipping than on the heatsinks themselves at this volume. I'd sooner do that, unless you really need to pinch every dollar for some reason.
I can't help but feel this amounts to: the chinese state might be doing something to futher some sort of geopolitical end, but we don't know what that end is or what the something that they are doing is.

And you're right, the chinese state probably has various plans to take advantage of whatever advantages they think will be good for their interests (just like every other country). But if we have no information or even plausible theories, what good is this baseless speculation? Its not exactly news that China is a rising super power and probably has schemes within schemes. Maybe this one is the obvious one, that a working quantum computer would be very prestigious and economically valuable to the first country to get there. Or maybe not. But if it isn't the obvious one, guessing at utter random without even reading up on the underlying paper almost certainly will not come up with whatever the scheme is.
Here's the dynamic: When you don't take all your allotted vacation, and someone else does, there's no possible claim that you were a harder or more dedicated worker than they were. They did exactly what they were permitted to. And, therefore, I'm guessing that if you wanted to take your vacation, you wouldn't have too much trouble finding time to take it, and nobody would complain that you did.

If there's unlimited vacation, and someone takes two weeks of vacation when the whole company tends to take one, and they were on vacation during a critical project, once time comes for performance reviews, people will say "I'm not sure how committed they are to the company" / "They don't have a great work ethic" / etc. etc. Because it was their choice to decide that two weeks was reasonable, it's easier to hold them responsible for the consequences of that choice.

So, everyone feels like they need to take at most as much vacation as average, possibly less.
Container ships (and standardized containers) are a major reason for the standard of living in our modern society. The volumes are so huge, that the cost per package to ship halfway around the world is relatively small.

The downside is, accidents can be of startling proportions.
I’d add that casual alcohol use being normalized is not necessary or positive.

Alcohol use among high school seniors in the US is on the decline, so is use of any “illicit” drug. [1]

I’m no square, but this should be encouraged.

Young people already deal with stress of fitting in at a high-velocity workplace.

Modeling conspicuous substance consumption at work seems pretty backward to me.

Perhaps the most irresponsible illustration of this is Elon Musk who has made his substance use so overt I think it wrongly and perhaps dangerously couples using to entrepreneurial success.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/26/the-concern...
Countdown to Biden
I would consider Epic's action the corporate equivalent of civil disobedience, which is a form of protest. Fighting back seems an apt description for such a protest.
Indian classical music can be understood (admittedly in very broad terms) as being based on melodic elaboration of what in Western music would be the bass line (aka basso continuo or thoroughbass). The way this elaboration works is very similar to what one finds in the Western musical tradition (as clarified e.g. by Schenker), it's just applied in a very different way in terms of structure (indeed there's no equivalent to the 'lead' melody, to which diminution would be applied in Western music!), and obviously with a strong focus on a single monophonic 'line'.
All I saw was the drastic reduction of American hegemony by pulling out of bases and countries, losing the entire Asian pacific region to Chinese hegemony (partially due to the killing of TPP), losing Eastern European/middle eastern allies to Putin/Erdogan and denigrating moral standards that enabled authoritarians and dictators both at the government and lower levels. Picking a fight with China was probably the only good thing to come out of his presidency.
That's probably being addressed with the "Are we meta yet?" Project that is listed.
It's not glass wool. It's essentially the same stuff duvets are made from. Very comfortable actually! But maybe has some special fire retarding additive or something - I don't know.

Just looking up the product now, the brochure says "Please consult a fire engineer when specifying GreenStuf insulation ". That certainly didn't happen. Oops. But as another replyer said, it doesn't really matter for a normal house. It might burn down but you'd have escaped because of smoke alarms and just walking out the door.

The polystyrene is exposed to the outside with no covering.

You probably don't live in the same country as me so the rules are different.
SRE was particularly notorious for this.
Unfortunately, much like "prototype" code, notebooks often live and work far beyond their original purpose.
> ssh access vis IP address is enough

In that case you lose discovery, since your IP is likely to change and with SSH you still need to deal with identities. And you still need to operate that host. That's worst of both worlds.

> It‘s easy to move.

If use a separate social presence - it's easy-ish. If all your links point to GitHub repo - there's work involved, depending on the scale of the project. And that's assuming you did not buy into any of the value-add projects on GitHub.

> Any business / person operating a seed would have to comply with the same laws as GitHub today.

Apart from seeds in those countries which you can choose whether you want to talk to or not. So even if it doesn't matter to you, it does solve people's problems.