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You know, it never occurred to me to ask why Rust's popular serialization package was named https://serde.rs but now I can't un-see it. :)
> The author makes a good case against open source businesses, but he indulges himself in a false dichotomy between a traditional proprietary model and open source.

More generally people seem to get tunnel vision about open source models. The big distinction in business software is not open vs. proprietary but SaaS vs. non-SaaS, with SaaS increasingly dominant. OSS companies therefore need to have a SaaS strategy. You build your own on community OSS projects, supply other SaaS businesses, or use OSS as an on-ramp to your SaaS product.
You're already there - https://scattered-thoughts.net

Also past HN conversation - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=scattered-thoughts.ne...
> We may use, provide access to, or disclose this network location data without your approval to provide and support our Services

That is the important part, everything else are just suggestions. If they view selling user data as one of their services then selling your data to someone else is a part of things the contract covers.
USB is a host-orchestrated bidirectional protocol. I don’t see how you could possibly replace it with a wireless link that didn’t understand anything about the USB protocol.
The human capability for pattern recognition is still beautiful and amazing to me — and hey, you can still find interesting models that have some value from them, even if you won’t elucidate the root cause.
Pastor, Dr
And Norwich, NY was once place to a thriving, innovative pharmaceutical company.
"Like" and subscribe to this Content? Michael Scott.
> The point is not that the driver magically didn't feel inertia (he did, and you can clearly see it in the video)

He clearly didn't experience 50g deceleration, he would have been sent flying through the windshield.

What's more likely is that the car actually did take a lot more than 16cm to slow down to 0 m/s or that it wasn't going at 45km/h. I would bet on the second, the car looks like it's going at maybe 20km/h in the video.

> The kinetic energy given up by the stopping car went into the flywheel rather than into violent deformation of the physical structure of the car.

That's an interesting idea but if it ends up being less effective at protecting the humans inside I don't think most people will choose it over normal crumple zones.
I'm not finished with the platform I'm developing, but it does solve all the issues mentioned in this article.

https://quanta.wiki/n/screencast
That's a very unique take that I agree with. It would also explain why I just couldn't get into management games (I played them to death when I was a kid), Zachtronics games (reminds me of my day job) etc. What games would you suggest playing aside from FPS? I don't usually have a lot of time to sink in front of a PC anymore and have just been playing mobile games during my commute. I essentially went from hardcore gamer to a casual one as I got older.
> there are very few alternatives

QNX, WxWorks, Windows Embedded, Windows CE (RIP), NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, OS/2 Warp, Plan 9, Inferno, RiscOS, ReactOS...

It's a shame what happened to BeOS - I wonder what would have happened if BeOS was open-sourced when the expected Apple buyout fizzled and the company went-under instead of it simply disappearing - that would have put a huge damper on, say, Ubuntu and other Linux desktop projects because the whole selling-point of them being "the only usable desktop alternative to Windows on non-Apple hardware!" wouldn't be true.
Can confirm, worked with a silly-expensive consultancy for a company with a little process-deviation-reporting-workflow-management tool (with BPMN workflow modeling, because they needed to make my life interesting); it was in New Jersey because allllll their customers were in the area.
Auto OEM's have strict rules regarding procurement. Therefore it's impossible to make business with them as a unknown startup. Tier 1 suppliers can introduce un certified sub vendors and such.
StrangeLoop Conference to be held Sep 30 – Oct 2 if Covid contingency permits
I didn't really read JSON as the core issue to begin with. In practice, JSON serialization libraries are used to map between domain objects and a JSON representation. The author notes that this really breaks into two problems, one of which is specific to JSON and the other of which is truly dependent on what exactly your domain model looks like.

The whole point is that no single library can solve a problem of unbounded (domain-dependent) complexity, and yet we rely on libraries like GSON to do that for us anyway. This leads to some problems, which the author calls out.

> This is actually a very trivial problem indeed!

I'm not sure I agree. The author specifically mentions the problem of coupling field names to names in the representation, such that an otherwise safe refactoring ends up breaking format compatibility.

The more general problem is a strict coupling between the structure of your domain objects and the structure of your representation. For instance, if your domain models cyclically-related objects, you have to decouple these structures somehow -- JSON cannot directly represent cycles. Sometimes you can tell whatever domain mapping library you're using to cut cycles in certain ways, but the author rightly calls this a Faustian bargain.

Retaining full control over these representational issues obviates a lot of the problems you'd otherwise face when adapting a library to your domain.
Which operating systems are not “handmade”?
Why the lock in and not just a rack or even a Sinatra endpoint?

Also, the post is huge for the amount of information given
Tic 168789840: A Sextuply-Eclipsing Sextuple Star System
How to protect yourself from social network scams
I've tried wozi few weeks ago and what it does to natural food (such as fruits) is so good that you should try it at least once.

There are some tricky concerns with the product (many of which already mentioned in the thread) but I'm sure it's something the founder will iterate and find the answer on.

I'm excited to see how the product will evolve and get better from here!
I have developed a solution that solves all problems described in the OP:

https://quanta.wiki/n/screencast
Not for newsletters: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Newsletters aren't a great fit for HN in general, either, the same way that a magazine or a newspaper or a blog home page in general don't make great submissions. There's rarely anything interesting to say about them at that level, so it's much better to link to a specific article from the newsletter or magazine or blog, etc. Lists in general don't make great HN submissions for the same reason: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

I hope it's clear that I'm not criticizing this newsletter at all, and that interesting specific articles from it are fine to submit. (Though I've noticed with the new wave of newsletters that it's sometimes technically hard to link to specific content from them. Not sure what's up with that.)
Last I checked the Samsung browser was slower and had a lot of Flexbox issues Chrome did not. Hopefully those are all fixed now..
This looks like a lot of progress compared to Redox OS, an OS built in Rust which has about 5 years now. And this one has been around for much less time.
i guess it looks like a sphere but it's hyperbolic space and the opposite "direction" of curving compared to a sphere. But I dig what you're saying, like.. maybe allow us to drag our center of projection around so we can get a sense for the space.
There is a fetish for growth measured aggregate statistics. Population decline threatens that mindset.
I disagree completely, at least in this context. If the model doesn't explain the variance, maybe it isn't a good model to use. If you're making art or some other creative endeavor, then yeah, fantastic. If you're trying to show us how the world works, nope.
You're not wrong, but my point is that folks who are interested in knowing every little detail; who have the time, energy, and funds to invest into tracking these statistics; will provide a very biased dataset. That isn't necessarily a good baseline for everybody else.
You can send people KN95s
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aJgiyR2emas
> What gripes do you have specifically?

I'm going to assume you ask this question because you're honestly curious about GP's discontent with Discord's interface, so this is NOT directed at you, but ...

One of the things I've often noticed is that people like to shame me for being discontent with e.g. WeChat's interface or Facebook's interface. "What's wrong with it? I think it's great! [... and you're weird]" and that mentality of casting away hacker types who want to invent their own UIs is extremely toxic to creativity and innovation, but it's a pattern I've seen happen very frequently with all of these walled-garden apps. (Again this is not directed at you)
Yes, you’re right if you get _paid_ $6.5K per month.
> The DIA "currently provides funding to another agency that purchases commercially available geolocation metadata aggregated from smartphones,"

> The Supreme Court held in its 2018 Carpenter v. United States ruling that the government needs an actual search warrant to collect an individual's cell-site location data.

These appear on the surface to be 2 separate things. If they’re not buying “an individual's cell-site location data” then they are not circumventing the warrant process.

If a judge rules that aggregate metadata also requires a warrant (which I’d be ok with) then we have a path to object here.
Dang tells me that calling a company "morally bankrupt" is not allowed on HN. I got flagged for doing so.
Redox had to rebuild a lot of things from scratch. People have been writing OSs in C++ since forever.
> At the end, they speak English, practice Anglo-Saxon religions, practice Anglo-Saxon traditions, eat Anglo-Saxon food, have Anglo-Saxon sensibilities on gender relationships, social hierarchies, criminal justice, parent–child relationships, personal privacy, nudity, and all the other quintessential Anglo-Saxon sensibilities and cultural norms that make it unique in the world.

Hard disagree. African-Americans speak a very distinct English language, and while they follow "Anglo-Saxon" religion, many still retain roots to African elements in their rites (ever been to a black funeral in some parts of the South?). Their cultural food is also heavily distinct, although it is partly influenced by Anglo-Saxon food. They don't have the same sensibilities as Anglo-Saxons because of their culture, but more because of religion, just like many Southerners. "Anglo-Saxon sensibilities and cultural norms on.... " is also something that's very distinct across the US and the world - there's a lot of difficulty in breaking down the barriers of race and sexual orientation in the US, while all other Anglo-Saxon countries broke them down way back. Latin countries such as France or Spain have broken down many strict rules many years ago, while they still continue in most of Latin America.

Honestly you sound like someone who has had very little interaction with the African American community, while doing a lot of grandstanding for them from your plantation home. There are just so many things you'll find different right in upon interaction. As a simple question, why are African American names so unique and not Anglo-Saxon names or African names?
What difference could that make? There are lots of languages shipped in various distributions that are no longer 'living' languages in the sense that they have little mindshare and little new development is done in them. Perl wasn't one of those languages and now it is. If you want to comment on that or perhaps dispute it, sure. But the 'delete perl and see what happens' thing is beside-the-point nitpickery.
That’s a good observation. That was an academy school.
Maybe the source for burrito.c still exists?
This makes me want to do ours (Ireland). We had a big referendum on an amendment a while ago, and I actually read it at last. There's some pretty dated stuff in there (the special place of the woman in the home stands out in my memory).
> including

The word that connects the first part to the list of reasons is ‘including’. Not ‘limited to’, not ‘strictly’, just ‘including.
Yeah, I hear ya.

This was not the 0x5F3759DF of rocket science.

My friends and I are simply rooting for a fellow South African.

Everything SpaceX do is special SpaceX magic to us. And those live-streaming youtubers from the NASA channel are a fun bunch.

Their commentary during the static fire tests the other day kept us company whilst we were working - good fun.

I guess I'm just easy to please.
There are definitely schools in both suburbs and rural areas. In the area I grew up in, each suburban village/town had its own school district and at least one building each for elementary, middle, and high school, and we were right on the edge of rural (the house I grew up in, within one of the aforementioned suburban school districts, was literally a 150-year-old farmhouse, surrounded by farm fields).

It's entirely possible—though quite unusual—that the specific suburbs you moved to had no schools to call their own, but it's absolutely untrue that "there's no schools in the suburbs".
"Symptoms range from persistent headaches, dizziness and fatigue to anxiety, insomnia and loss of concentration and memory"

These are the symptoms one would experience after anything happened to them that involved their brain, be it a little lost sleep or getting knocked out by a 300 lbs linebacker.

Given this, the headline seems a little exaggerative and reductive to the point of being meaningless. I mean, spinning around in an office chair a dozen times will cause a few of these symptoms, but that's not anywhere near the level of harm caused by getting concussed.
One thing to keep in mind is that there are way more people alive today than ever before. According to Google, there have been about 108 billion humans alive, and 7.7 of those are alive today. So, your chances of living during the "most exciting period" is better than 7%! In any case, much more likely than any other period in human history.
Yea, I saw that. It seems the key thing is the ratio of surface area to mass. It seems reasonable for a smaller satellite to have higher surface area to mass, and thus deorbit faster, but I don't have a handy link to that data.
Yes, this is a common talking point from the Murdoch media and mining industry about why we cannot make any changes to Australia's climate policy. It's not true, but it's a common talking point.

Taxation has been far higher in our past than now, and has been far higher internationally than it has ever been in Australia, and often coincides with economic booms and record low inequality.

edit:
Also a big LOL to the thought that the Australian government raises more tax in a year than would cost the Australian economy per year to enact policies to ensure the ongoing survival of Sydney.
This sounds more about using openapi/protobuf/etc and language object mapping to some data format.
South Korea has tremendous structural and social challenges regarding having children. Regardless of what those are it's resulted in the lowest female participation rate in the OECD and among the highest child rearing costs. On top of it, being a child in South Korea is no picnic, with absolutely crushing educational requirements that would probably be illegal in the U.S.

My prediction is that as the population shrinks, the existing physical educational infrastructure, especially in the larger cities, will help somewhat as the competition for educational resources won't be as intense.

But there's still lots of cultural challenges in terms of the approach to education and in particular college admissions (as well as college acceptance in the workforce).
It would be nice to be able to subscribe and get a weekly e-mail. Sure, I check out HN but I might miss your posts anyway and it's a good funnel for your private newsletter!
I find it ironic that this piece is written from the perspective of the so-called "Educated Gentry", basically the same kind of performative babble of mid-tier cluelessness.
I just read both this and the Michael Church article it links to. I think they are arguing the opposite in many ways. Eg Alex Danck calls the gentry ladder clueless, while Michael Church says they will lead us to the future. It’s hard to see how they are both right.
Knock down the interstates, they're polluted.
Former prime minister Abe Shinzo is famous right-wing politician but interestingly, he introduced limited term immigrants(?) program in weird way due to shortage of lower salary worker.
I find it laughable for anyone to suggest the US couldn't have done much better with the time and resources available.

We had a President who denied its very existence/threat. We have mega-churches and weddings of thousands of people. We have governors and other local leaders who STILL refuse to wear masks in public. We have states allowing large public sporting events. We have representatives and entertainment news networks pushing laughable conspiracy theories at an alarming volume - all of which empower and support the anti-mask movement. We have grown adults throwing temper tantrums in private businesses for having to wear a mask.

That masks and covid prevention measures became politicized at all will be one of the greatest shames of our generation.
I could not agree more. I keep banging on about what I call a MOOP - Massive open online psychology. These phones we all carry can listen to / video our every interaction, watch our spending habits and our exercise and body functions.

Epidemiology ought to be able to easily tease out ideal "life best practises" - actual good advice given to you by your phone - backed by the mistakes of a million others in just your situation.

if keeping a daily diary helps people make better life decisions imagine what that would do?
A comparison of secured messaging apps

https://www.securemessagingapps.com/
> There are only a few places on earth where all of this is availible at reasonable cost

Whats the issue in transporting them? The more expensive, the less it should matter?
What viable SaaS strategy can you have if Amazon can come at any moment and do the same?
The above is all I’ve got for this post, sorry.
Ask HN: Developers, what percentage of your time do you spend building features?
I've been a software developer for about four years, at three different companies, and I've found it surprisingly difficult to find a job where I spend most of my time actually going through tickets, building features and fixing bugs. My day-to-day tends to get bogged down in meetings, navigating tech debt, researching stuff we're not ready for yet but planning on doing sometime in the future, and talking about business goals and career moves. I just want to spend most of my time (I repeat, MOST, no job is perfect) writing chunks of Node/React code, testing them, and watching them work. Was I naive in hoping for this idealized version of software development? Can anyone recommend an organization that lives up to this ideal?
People do care, just not as much. Governments have murdered, kidnapped, tortured, and oppressed several magnitude more people than private enterprise.
Thank you for that. I’m 61 myself.

I’m thinking that I will slowly transition away from writing software and build up a small meditation / retreat center on my property.
I have three Apple IIe's and they all needed the mains RFI caps to be replaced. However none of the other caps have failed.

As an electronic serviceman I'm certain that the Capacitor plague story is a myth. Yes, there was a batch of bad caps produced for a short time, but the effect was limited.

The myth is largely peddled by ebay sellers who sell kits of replacement capacitors. My experience is that more devices have been destroyed by inexperienced enthusiasts waving a soldering iron around, than those which actually had faulty capacitors.
> I wish there was a nice wrapper dedicated to abstracting hardware support

There is NopSys, about 3500 lines of C and 600 lines of assembler for booting, accessing device registers, and responding to interrupts. So you can write the rest of the
OS on top of that. CogNOS is a Smalltalk system written on top of NopSys.

https://github.com/nopsys/nopsys

https://github.com/nopsys/CogNOS

https://charig.github.io/assets/papers/SCDE-DLS.pdf
I cannot push back against the idea that ordinary people consent to collection when they use free services enough. This is an utterly transparent myth that data collectors, aggregators, and consumers tell themselves and others to justify their actions.

People do not understand what is being collected. I and probably everyone here has heard speculation that phones are constantly monitoring for keywords which are used in ads. It's an incredibly common idea that (afaik) isn't true, but shows just how little people understand how data collection works and again, what is actually being collected.

People do not understand how this data is used. The best example I can think of is with pregnant women. Every ad on every platform suddenly revolving around pregnancy and caring for a newborn is not the expected outcome of just googling for some mayoclinic articles. And of course if they're trying to conceal their pregnancy or worse, have a miscarriage, this has resulted in real world harm.

Finally, people cannot possibly consent to how this data will be used in the future. This should be pretty self explanatory.

Those who work for organizations that sell data or information gained from data such as Google or Facebook have to convince themselves the above is not true. In which case, it makes complete sense to insist that the US military needs to have a warrant in order to collect, since obviously a warrant is needed if the target for collection doesn't consent.
There are many ways GDP is being "padded" (by excluding certain liabilities for example), things like unemployment numbers as well. The "true" economy has been stagnating or in a downward trend for at least a decade already.

And the actual cost (EROI) of extracting fossil fuels isn't necessarily (directly) tied to consumer prices.
That's pretty accurate actually. But maybe it's just my personal preference that you can find your large country ranch just a few miles from the suburbia and the city. That city might be the most Texan culturally - that and I can't stand the shit planning in Houston. Most property that I spoke of is pretty cheap too, with all the creature comforts and benefits of living in a major US/global city.

Edit:- bdcravens summed it up nice. The DFW area is like 5 cities joined together, each having their own unique city centre and sprawl.

Austin might be capturing most of the cultural import and export in all of Texas, but I like the way Dallas has evolved, without changing its innate Texan characteristics as much as Austin. SV people might find it distasteful, but I think it's a matter of personal preferences, and maybe I like it because I find it very distinct compared to what I'm used to (Central or Zone 2 London homes with a tiny garden).

That being said, I like Austin way more than the Bay area.
Good point about corporate-speak as elite-to-middle babytalk.

I would hazard a guess that the closest thing to straight talk is at the possible inception of a union. Not after the union is formed and established - I don't think there's a lot of straight talk between UAW and GM nowadays - but if someone like Musk is afraid the gigafactory workers are banding together, he might be forced to talk to them directly. Unfortunately, I don't think this "real talk" is ever recorded or broadcast.

The most stark example I can think of is when Emperor Hirohito informed the Japanese citizens of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki[1], but funny enough that is mostly known for how confusing it was for the average Japanses citizen to understand what was going on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Voice_Broadcast
Yea, I misread "issues" as "uses". Sorry.