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Occams Razor for the Planet
None, but that’s the point/ feature of classic confinement snaps : they have access to the entire filesystem at the expense of having access to the entire filesystem :)

By comparison, a strictly confined snap only has access to its own data directory and possibly to some configuration files or the users home directory, depending on which permissions it’s been granted.

A text editor which is most useful if it can edit arbitrary files in the filesystem could be classically confined.

A music player might be strictly confined with access only to external devices (and maybe users home directory).

A fishy untrustworthy crypto miner could be strictly confined with no additional permissions so it can only see/touch its own data.
Surely I'm not the only one who needs some context for this meme: "Pink Wojak" https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pink-wojak and "Wojak" in general: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wojak

"used to represent those who invested heavily in bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies that some believe will be facing an imminent crash in value"
Nvidia confirms it accidentally unlocked RTX 3060 Ethereum mining
>You're forgetting many people live in apartments in dense urban areas

How much sunlight do they get in parking garages?
COVID isn't the only health threat around, and the response is absolutely not proportional anymore.

FWIW, the LCD of most relevant studies show that maybe banning large gatherings is useful, whereas all other measures we've invented in the meantime have dubious efficacy at best - and extremely high costs.

There are plenty of places in the world that didn't implement the "fight COVID at any cost" policies and they're doing just fine. Trust me on that, I live in one of them.
On the contrary, I'm just repeating the published data and opinions of experts and indeed health agencies from the WHO to the EMA (European Medical Agency).

I think it is therefore those who are calling for who have suspended this vaccine to explain the reasons because they seem to baffle everyone.

Bearing in mind the previous 'doubts' some in the EU had about the vaccine's effectiveness for people above 65 I am not convinced that this 'cautionary approach' is all in good faith... And the head of Italy's medicine authority has just said that this was politically motivated...
You'll note from one of my other posts that FORTRAN-IV was my intro into programming. However, that was toward the end of the decade not the beginning. By then, many universities were running the WATFOR FORTRAN-IV compiler from U. Waterloo.

At the time it was anything but ancient. We students felt both cocky and privileged in that we knew that we were some of the very few people in the country who had access to a state-of-the-art IBM mainframe.

BTW, the mainframe, a System/360, had just 44kB memory and ran 7 concurrent operations at once. It was a red-letter day when the '360 got upgraded to 77kB memory. The university's rag had the fact as large headlines on its front page.
> Owning a car still gives you a lot of freedom and flexibility to do what you want, when you want it. Which is not covered by car sharing at all.

I live in a big city (London). Owning a car for me would be frankly insane. Where would I put it? If I was communing again, could not possibly take it in to work, there would be nowhere to put it at that end either, when I finally got through the traffic.

It is both much more practical and cheaper to use bicycle or bus and metro rail for commuting; taxi, minicab, or uber for other urban journeys; and car rental for weekends away.

I get that cases may vary. it's different further out from the city. But the idea that car = freedom, always, is very silly. I owned car here once, and it was liberating to get rid of it.

It seems that you have problems with your shared transport in your area, it sucks but maybe the better solution is better shared transport, not more private cars?
In South Australia the public transport certainly does go out to nature. Kids use the train to bring their mountain bikes to the top of the trails and you can visit many national parks by bus. And for hauling things, its cheaper to get them delivered or rent a small truck.

People seem to think that just because things don't work where they live, that they must be impossible.
Why COBOL Isn't the Problem
Sorry, I wasn't clear. What I meant was that since HN is dynamic its dynamic content is not usually cached. I mentioned specifically "dynamic" sites on my parent comment because as of this month Cloudflare can host static pages.
>The holy grail here though I think is a cheeseburger or a pizza or a pasta bowl, which are so ubiquitous due to their immense popularity.

Totally logical, but it doesn't play out in the US market. Pizza vending machines are already a thing, but they're not prevalent. Take and bake pizzas are common though. Hell, there are some chain stores where they act like a pizza shop, but they don't bake the pizza, you still have to at home. We're just not that into the concept as consumers right now. If it's going to be automated/mass manufactured, then the convenience needs to be right at my hand/freezer/fridge. I'll wait for human made food. The closer to grandma level cooking, the more I'm willing to wait. I don't value the experience of waiting for a soulless robot.

Next part too, if you're into healthy eating, chances are high that you figured out cooking it yourself if far cheaper, no matter what, and you control the ingredients. For about $15 you can easily make 10+ portions of a veggie rice dish one day, meal prep it for lunches or what have you, maybe freeze for later. Add another $5 to that total for chicken or pork. It's $2-3 a portion with one night's 45min to an hour of cooking for half a weeks worth of food. I do this about once a month.

The economics to prepared/restaurant healthy eating isn't as good as junk food. Fresh foods spoil. Most of these places see a lot of waste because of it. The consumer pays for that indirectly.
I wish TypeScript did not treat JavaScript native classes as interfaces
I recently moved to a new team after using Kotlin for a few years (serverside) and transition back to Java is realy annoying, so much boiler plate and rituals and needless code.

Instead of concentrating on solving problems it feels like my job now is to do the elaborate java dance. Alot of muttering and cringing from me.

I think Jetbrains should have called Kotlin Java++ instead (yes i know theres alot more to Kotlin than JVM) as it would have made it an easier sell in enterprise world to management who dont realise how much overlap and interop with Java there is when using Kotlin, nor the possible productivity gains from not having to create as much code, having better type system and nullability/immutability features and about dozen other features which make Kotlin such a nice language to work in day to day.

Anyways yeh, hopefully can steer team back to Kotlin, they should like it, just like previous team came to love it.
Show HN: PHP Compiler to .NET 5.0
Ask HN: How to work on real business data from companies
Hey HN,
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If you are interested or you know anyone who might be, leave a comment here or signup on this form: https://forms.gle/TB4wBnAp46YMjQYf6

I am willing to exchange about one-man month of work for attribution and endorsement.

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Clearly you've never tried it, because it's certainly not 5 minutes, it's optimized for selling you bullshit Apple services and it's buggy as hell, with no feedback to the user why everything is broken and why you're having to re-authenticate five times in a row.

And good luck if you're setting up a family account for several devices with different iOS versions. You're gonna really need it.
Copyright existed before that, and copying was way harder. Now we have instant perfect digital copies.

Free software is great, but most software is not Free, and most companies/organisations that use Free software don't contribute to its development.
If someone is only doing 60 miles a week what’s the point of them spending 30 to 40 grand on a new car?
Also how long is it going to take to save the carbon used in construction of the new car versus keeping the old one?
I think it would have been much better to design an alternative with the same feature set (i.e. code generation through substitution), but better overall design in terms of hygiene and scoping, as opposed to what C++ has been trying to do by making ad-hoc replacements for some of the tasks you would want to use the preprocessor for, and then admonishing anyone who uses it because of limitations in the replacements. Macros are fundamentaly extremely useful, and the CPP is bad because it's a bad implementation of the concept (as well as leant on far too hard for importing interface definitions), not because the concept itself is bad.
By the time they will hit the road or shortly thereafter, electric powertrain will be a better alternative to ICE (Internal Combustion Engine). Poor planning.
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Come on. Two typos in the first few pages; p.2 "servicees", p.6 "lanuage". I know you are smarter than me, but if seven people decided that an editor would be useless, or spellcheck was unnecessary, then you should be prepared for unwarranted, biased criticisms of your conclusions. You're better than this.
> A better microphone would fix that

The Model M sitting on my desk would laugh in that better microphone's general direction.
Dr. Mica Endsley created a model of Situational Awareness that expands on the OODA loop [1]. There are critics, but I've found her model and papers to be outstanding when I've worked on Intelligent Software Agent projects.

Another related topic is the adaption of the OODA loop to military command decisions, what the US military calls the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP) [2][3]. I would recommend reading about the MDMP to anyone running a business, or being a technical lead. I'd also recommend the the better known books The Art of War [4] by Sun Tzu and The Book of Five Rings [5] by Miyamoto Musashi.

I've had some chuckle at the idea of a book ostensibly on sword fighting being useful in business, until I mention the 9 basic principles Musashi lays out in the first section:

* "Do not think dishonestly."

* "The Way is in training."

* "Become acquainted with every art."

* "Know the Ways of all professions"

* "Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters."

* "Develop an intuitive judgement and understanding for everything."

* "Perceive those things which cannot be seen."

* "Pay attention even to trifles."

* "Do nothing which is of no use."

The analogy to business is also in the MDMP, as seen from the the 7 top level steps of the MDMP, from Wikipedia:

* Receipt of Mission

* Mission Analysis

* Course of action (COA) Development

* COA Analysis (aka Wargaming)

* COA Comparison

* COA Approval

* Orders Production, Dissemination, and Transition

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/210198492_Endsley_M...

[2] https://militarydecisiongr.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/a-gui...

[3] https://rdl.train.army.mil/catalog-ws/view/100.ATSC/E4166A5D...

[4] https://suntzusaid.com/

[5] http://books.ebooklibrary.org/members/worldebooklibrary/five...
"The blockchain for bowl-style meals" would have been better.
Because the benefits of antibiotics vastly outweigh the risks. You're better off taking antibiotics than getting a serious infection.

They should be used rationally though. Ciprofloxacin and other antibiotics in the same class are stronger medications compared to penicilins for example. The ideal situation is to figure out what the bacteria is sensitive to with a culture and antibiogram and then choose the weakest, most specific antibiotic out of that list. Of course, this requires time and resources which may not be available. In some cases, it's been proven that waiting for test results leads to worse patient outcomes so doctors will prescribe antibiotics empirically and adjust treatment later.
This was in response to laverya’s comment above. I agree that 3D printed guns are still a fantasy problem, that’s the point I was making.
No, even if you make the half of car surface a solar panel, you would probably not even get a net benefit because of extra weight, and drag from suboptimal hull shape needed to place cells.
I think when you make crazy promises for return on investment something clicks on people’s brains. Thinking goes from ”how much I earn if I invest” to ”how much I loose if I don’t invest”.

In my theory this is why these only work with ridiculous promises. Loosing 10% profit does not feel bad, different thing when you might loose that 100% profit.
How COVID-19 turned us into biological “zombies”
Fair enough. Though not too surprising still, considering the original leadership of the company, one of whom (Joel Spolsky) is still on the board of directors. Having said that, the board's 5:4 VC-to-non-VC ratio looks pretty scary to me. But this is a different story ...
people keep fapping to this, but stackoverflow is served read only to most users, and probably heavy cached.
And magic wireless transmission of electricity from said roofs to cars parked in the street.
debateably, doctors still perform unscientific and unethic things to this day. See: electroshock therapy (basically our new form of lobotomy). Deliberately causing brain damage to "fix" mental illness, with almost certain loss of memory, and ability to form new memories.

Or the creeping use of of chiropractors for things other than back pain, despite evidence of it's potential for harm.

Or mandatory insertion of IUDs in china to control the birth rate. I am sure other therapies too, in time will be found to be extremely poor, especially in psychology and psychotherapy, where trials are extremely complicated , and common medicines have awful issues and <50% effecacy (see: antidepressants having permanent side effects even after cessation of treatment)
NASA has begun a study of the SLS rocket’s affordability [Updated]
I can create the "man weeping" effect without an app.

And usually do.
The parent is not being flippant - don't be so dismissive. The dose makes the poison. All medications have long lists of side-effects. Most will have a small minority of users who have severe side-effects. We don't go around calling them all poisons.
When I hear many reports of things flat-out not working in this way, I’m suspicious that it won’t work for me with my Samsung Galaxy J1 (2016) on Android 5.1, which Google has progressively broken by means of Google Play Services updates. As some typical examples of things that have been broken by Google Play Store updates: Fastmail notifications now only come through on wifi or (I found out last week) if Maps (by Google) is running in the foreground; and Hangouts is completely nonfunctional off wifi (can’t send or receive). It’s network-related things that are the least reliable.

I really wish I could root it or install a new OS on it, but the former has failed and even with an unlocked bootloader the latter takes much too much effort if a prebuilt image isn’t available for your specific device, which roughly means “if you don’t have a flagship phone”.
How did I miss this in 2019? It is so excellent!
Counter notice, wait 14 days, content goes back up. Not exactly banned, just delayed
Gerber files to the Atari 800XL PCB can be found here: https://github.com/marekl123/atari800xl
Why? Wires up and down building are nothing new. Your objection does not seem reasonable.
Can confirm, the average level of English in Spain is pretty bad. Even in Madrid, where I lived for a year. It's almost like they're proud of it - AFAIK they're very protective of their language, dubbing every movie (at least until recently), which in turn limits their exposure to English.

On the other hand, living in Spain and speaking fluent English can be almost like a superpower in some circumstances.
Apparently, a big piece of the decision by the FTC not to take Google to court was the recommendation of the two economists on the panel:

The pair suggested that advertisers had plenty of alternatives to doing business with Google: Display ads could take the place of search ads, or companies could move their advertising to offline sources like radio or television. For both those assertions, the economists cited a study by Google and two academic papers funded by grants from Google.

A big part of not pursuing this case appears to have been based on the idea that Google was not the only choice for advertising. Currently Google is facing stiff competition from Facebook and Amazon in online ads, even while it maintains its massive market share in search. So did the FTC make a mistake or did they just not make the decision many wanted? (genuinely curious what people think)
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Great sentence!!!

> I believe the discussion should rather focus on the role of the law in the public life

This is exactly my concern. This flies over most people’s head.

During the Barret confirmation process I became very interested in the Supreme Court and was surprised to find that I much preffered Justice Scalia’s approach to the the law. To the point where I came to respect a decision I previously thought abhorrent: Citizens United.

Citizens United was the right decision in light of how the legislature wrote the law. The law should have approached that topic in a constitutional manner.

The people really need to get their act together and actually see what Congress is doing. Don’t let the media do the “work” for you. Its not that the news is fake—its that they dont give you the news. To the point of not publishing the texts produced by the governement. The texts are public and can be understood. Unfortunately they are obfuscated by the media which wont list it as a source.
To be fair, when digital copies arrived at essentially zero cost, it was a huge paradigm shift.
Can you explain what is false about it?
They would surely compare the number to the one they have registered, right ?
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I think the point is that he failed to bust the door open because the makeshift gun was not powerful enough.
This time it looks like it will be Global Warming that kill the dinosaurs.
Show HN: _hyperscript – an async-transparent scripting langauge for the web
Yes, Texas in the realm of power distribution is probably a paradise by comparison with South Africa, but compared to its peers (other US states), Texas has a very non-resilient, or fragile, power distribution system that we know will "crash" when faced with a cold snap. Given that they have known this since at least 1989, I think it's not unfair to use the word "inept".

The giant power bills are just icing on the cake of bad policy-making.
Hi Folks,

We have been working on an experimental front
end programming langauge, hypescript, as a companion project for htmx. Its
syntax is based loosely on HyperTalk, the scripting language for HyperCard.

It has some feature that the HN crowd might find interesting:

Async-transparency - as much as possible, the runtime tries to hide the
distinction between synchronous and asynchronous code

https://hyperscript.org/docs/#promises

https://hyperscript.org/docs/#async

Event driven - events are treated as first class citizens, including
event-based control flow

https://dev.hyperscript.org/docs/#event-control-flow

CSS Literals - you can refer to elements in the DOM directly with syntax like
#foo, .bar and <button/>

on click add .highlight to <button:not([disabled])/>

Extendable language - the parser is pretty open and flexible, allowing you
to add new "commands" (statements) to the language

https://dev.hyperscript.org/docs/#extending

Integrated Debugger - the language has a (very alpha) integrated debugger

https://dev.hyperscript.org/docs/#debugging

Inline Web Workers - the ability to define a web worker directly in your page

https://dev.hyperscript.org/docs/#workers

There's a fair bit of other stuff too, SSE and Websocket support, a slew of
useful commands for working with the DOM, etc.

This is very early, 0.0.6, so please be gentle, but it is being used in a few
places in production. I used it to make the / key jump to the search box
on htmx.org, for example.
Zuckerberg wasn't a mediocre programmer. He was an accomplished programmer who had shipped industry-level code by the time he was in high school. Adam D'Angelo was a USACO gold medalist.

https://xkcd.com/386/
My understanding is that it may have finished them off quite decidedly, at least those that were not on their way to becoming birds & others, but evidence suggests many of the large species were already in significant decline due to other pressures (there are various theories about what the main cause(s) of that was, including changes in atmosphere balance, changes in temperature, changes in food supply due to evolution elsewhere in the chain, etc.)
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Solar panels nowadays don't necessarily weigh that much. Also improved efficiency means that you can get away with following the exisiting body-shape, even if that means decreased power generation.

Also you might get away with having less/smaller/lighter batteries if you're able to generate more power yourself.
If that's your view, then that means that capitalist oriented structures running those operations cannot justify their profit share. Since capital depending - doing more with less - is the only reason they are allowed to take a profit in the first place.

We can, of course, move all those operations to the Job Guarantee if that is your view of capitalism.

Personally I'm more optimistic about improved methods and machinery.
The Marginal Revolution NFT
No money for generating solar power? I get 20p/kwh
No it's not better, it's worse. Because with SMS 2FA, you can most times reset the password and then everything is lost. With just a password and no SMS 2FA you can't just reset the password so easy.
I've read some of your replies and it sounds like you're determined to set your goals so narrowly that you cannot win. You may accept there are still other opportunities in tech, but you only specifically want jobs that will recruit you for what you're (reportedly) bad at.

If you have something else lined up and just want everyone to wave you goodbye then so be it. But people obviously want to help you and it sounds like you're looking for some.

I'll just say it's better to be mediocre at something than to do nothing. A non-FAANG job/tech endeavor will still expose you to a lot of opportunities. You may not immediately be making what you want to make, but over 10 years there's a non-zero chance you'll luck into something bigger. A 20% chance of getting what you want is still better than a 0% chance. In the process you may find something you are actually exceptionally good at. It's much harder to find these things if you're not actively working on something.
Aluminium is the 3rd most abundant element in the earth's crust after oxygen and silicon. One of the main constraints on turning that to metal is the electrical power input which is part of the plan here.