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I have to say this terminal surprised me. Feels really fast (faster than kitty) and have some features I was missing.

I will give it a fair trial
If you squint at the git repository, you might see that its being worked on.
CEO has special knack for recognizing great ideas and ruining them
About 20 years ago my Sun Solaris servers got hacked.

I learned a valuable lesson, no matter how “secure” you think your servers are, at some point all the data on them will be compromised.

So...

* Backup - often in many places

* secure it as much as you can

* Encrypt we much as you can

* Airgap sensitive stuff

And even with all of that you will still be compromised. Eventually.

Protect your data so you can spin up on a new server if you need to.

Sigh.
Show HN: xattrdb the extended file attribute powered 'database'
Lower the age for Medicare to zero.
I feel your loss about Christian, I just realized I have used his software a ton of times. At least you got to meet him!
Day made. Good chuckle that.
Amigans find a nice little easter egg in the first video :)
Back when I was super in to keeping a lossless FLAC music stockpile instead of just using Spotify, I remember all the music nerds using things like id3 namer hooked in to musicbrainz to organise music and things like foobar2000 to play it. Which lets you arrange the ui layout exactly how you want.

Might be worth suggesting he upgrade his tooling to more hobbiest level stuff.
Testing the Nvidia RTX 4090
Zoomable lens without any moving parts
Indian Man Drives Car Backwards On Busy Highways:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aox_4-JNed8

=> so it may be faster indeed... :-)
I can speak for their Ukrainian offices starting pay is around 1.2K/month USD and it quickly goes up mid level (3+ years) would be 2.5K+ and senior 4k-6.5K/month. Tech leads architects can make over 8K. Keep in mind that given a tax regime in place of like 5% and cost of living being low you are in very solid shape.
> Supporting browser development instead of Mozilla Foundation.

But is it going towards Browser development though? https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

Or is it going towards executive salaries?
> I really wonder what the eventual end state is of many problems in the US that really seem so glaringly apparent

We just had a pandemic with 500k lives lost, which almost all experts agree could have largely been avoided with a strong response. Yet, millions of Americans still voted for the person most directly responsible.

So what happens to the country is quite clear. Morons get elected and run the country into even more crises until it gets so bad that the fundamental structures of social arrangements collapse. We've seen this happen in many civilizations; society seems incredibly stable, people can't imagine a world different from what they're used to and then one day some crucial piece of the very delicate threads that hold society together are broken, and then it rapidly unravels.
But why would that be beneficial? Having the terminal multiplexer "in th shell" seems so much more convenient. I use Alacritty and tmux but I always open tmux anyway.
Why? Breast cancer is cancer of the breast tissue. It’s a different disease to prostate cancer, which is again a different disease to colon cancer and leukaemia.

That’s why there probably won’t be a universal “cure for cancer”.

Breast or prostate cancer are the most common cancers in women and men respectively. No matter what you identify as, if you have either breast or prostate tissue, there’s a real risk to most people. That’s why we hear about it more. We don’t hear as much about mesothelioma because it’s rarer.

I don’t think it has anything to do with identity politics and everything to do with the medicine.
If you want to get some idea of recent SID creations, this song came last night and blew my mind:

https://csdb.dk/release/?id=202283

Preferably play it on a 12v SID full blast on speakers!
This article features a list of songs about lives without the Internet, I'll add another one for the Hacker News audience.

The Day The Routers Died, written and performed live at the 55th RIPE Meeting by Gary Feldman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0

> a long long time ago

> i can still remember

> when my laptop could connect elsewhere

>

> and i tell you all there was a day

> the network card i threw away

> had a purpose - and it worked for you and me...

>

> but 18 years completely wasted

> with each address we've aggregated

> the tables overflowing

> the traffic just stopped flowing...

>

> and now we're bearing all the scars

> and all my traceroutes showing stars...

> the packets would travel faster in cars...

> the day... the routers died...

https://catonmat.net/ftp/gary_feldman-the_day_the_routers_di...
> From their standpoint, it just works as expected.

This is also quite important when you happen to work on larger projects with many dozens or hundreds of modules and you need to build a specific part weeks after you have been looking at them. To have to look up every time how to build something is more than a nuisance.
Dear data scientists, please start experimenting with production pipelines
I freelanced on a project valued at 6 digits for a multinational company. The team worked day and night to get it done by the deadline.

After it was done, the founder purchased a café below the office (under the company budget) and delayed salaries because they had no money to pay staff. Most of the staff quit soon after.

It's sadly not an uncommon story. I've heard similar at least 3 times, but that was the worst version.
For reference, that same article mentions that streaming is a $4.8 billion market, so about 20x the size of the vinyl industry.
I mean, you could probably go to the onion link directly with a Tor browser.....but that's probably a bad idea too. I'd open it in a VMed machine maybe.
I always preferred text since irc days.
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> Methane is indeed a potent greenhouse gas, but it doesn't last nearly as long as CO2 before it breaks down

Obviously, methane breaks down to CO2 but there is no need to state this when referencing methane emissions. The Global Warming Potential can be used to relate the magnitude of damage over a given time horizon, for methane over 100 years it has 34 times more global warming potential. Obviously you can take exception to some of the methodologies used to calculate these but in general it's better than leaving the impression that CH4 emissions aren't important.
You push the "ship" with a laser from a satellite.
Sometimes I wish I could ask it for the opposite: Give me the fastest route even if it requires a lot of maneuvres such as small streets, U-turns, cutting through somebody's private driveway, illegal turns, armed robbery.
Yutong buses are now ubiquitous across Asia, and the engines seem just fine to me, even on pretty rough roads.
This already is taken into consideration in the normal US legal process. If you totally ignore it, the judge issues a warrant for asset seizure and/or arrest.

There's no indication in the article that anything like this happened here. But that's not surprising or interesting, because there's no real rule of law or due process in China. The government and anyone in their favor just completely annihilates anyone they deem undesirable.
I wanted to believe
Fixing broken satellites in space could save companies big money (2019)
Lol yes investors want to sell offices. They clearly need brain cells from you.
the story so far: terminal emulators come and go, tmux stays...
Stunningly unlikely they have. Classic developer hubris.
Wezterm, like Alacritty doesn't support RTL languages.
I’m not a physicist, but it seemed unlikely that one can overturn a century of physics research by microwaving a bucket. Unlikely that something so obvious yet groundbreaking wasn’t encountered in any other experiment ever made, in one form or another.
Awesome if you like crashes :-D
Starts at 35:10 min
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Be_a_Pilgrim is the first example that springs to mind.
> I'm leafing through the linked site and I can see SSNs, tax forms, enrollment forms - yikes!

Haven't you just admitted that you downloaded the files and browsed them? Isn't that illegal in the US?
I'd agree with that. If a build happens on a build server, it does hardly matter if it takes an extra minute. What matters for developing and debugging stuff are fast incremental builds. And for this, one just needs to type "make", as it is not needed to run configure again unless one changes to a different system.
For me it was exactly the other way 'round.

I came to the office very early (say 7ish), which gave me a couple hours to really focus on things, before my colleagues started meandering in.
Faster than Kitty takes some doing, definitely going to give it a try too.
Alacritty should support window decorations on wayland. What compositor are you using? Note that alacritty prefers server-side decoration, but some compositors don't implement it like GNOME's mutter[1], in that case it will draw its own decorations.

1: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217
Which is generally misleading as human attention focus's on a golfball size area of the screen at any moment, and codecs take advantage of this. So you might get a higher numeric score for a much poorer subjective experience.
Is it really the foam that makes soap effective? I understood that it's not the case.
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There is a good bunch of companies that got to Billion plus land much quicker than a decade. It is very feasible to do it in 5. You have to realize that most of them were bootstrapped
and to grow you need enough resources to have a decent sales office/HQ in US which is out of reach for a long time unless you start with a very solid financial backing.
What's the burned popcorn->migraine connection?
> Yet the stock market is at all time highs in a global pandemic. Could you imagine anything more backwards and bizzare?

I'm not sure if you're implying this but the stock market never was an indicator of the economic health of the country. Its an indicator of the economic health of the wealthy (tautologically, since its where most wealthy individuals park their wealth) , and for that its been pretty accurate.
This is why I like my bus ride. I lose valuable time when I work from home.
What a fun project.

The question is, will it read copy-protected floppies so you can run Lotus 1-2-3? :)

related, they make USB floppy disk drives, like https://amzn.com/B00RXEWOAA
React and frontend in general has a new starters problem. Its a lot of people's first interaction with tech. For better or worse I feel a lot of library maintainers and community aim to cater to the beginner.

On one hand it makes things accessible and lets people get their start in the way I could mess around with CSS on MySpace or other people could copy code out of computer magazines.

On the other hand, it leads to what we might call the PHP problem. Lots of low skill, low experience developers influencing what solutions and approaches become conventional.

I've found people in the community that share my general outlook and I follow what they're doing. I also act as my own compass, letting my experience and the lessons I've learned from other ecosystems like Clojure and OCaml guide my approach. I'm at a stage in my career where I'm leading projects and can lay out the full vision. The developers I work with seem to appreciate the value in my approach and the problems I'm solving so its working out for now.

I'm also gently trying to advocate on here and on Reddit and write blog posts to show how this stuff can be done. I don't think it will change the direction of the community but it at least clarifies what I think and why I think it.
Any idea if they used any type of nonlinearities in the optics? It's hard to see this being powerful without nonlinearities.
Well, sure that is generally what is the case. But of course the designer can design it as he likes depending on the situation.

Generally, of course this is more true when the stages are empty. If the tanks are pressurized, as they are during the whole flight, they actually become very stable in both directions.

Starship is specifically designed to survive a reentry (heating) into the atmosphere at an angle, just like the Spaceshuttle.
Well, also there is basically only one "highway" outside Havana. It is called the autopista and is comparable to an unmaintained back country road that is riddled with potholes.

I somehow managed to get a rental when I was there and drove across - it was great. Broke down once in some village, out of nowhere almost immediately people came with a jack and fixed it for free.

Interesting way to meet people.
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Wouldn't you push your satellite in the opposite direction? Not saying that it isn't a good idea. The satellite might be in orbit, so it could use gravity to negate that.
So, what would you say what these tools have learned and taken from autotools, and what are the core ideas with which they were improving? I was looking around for a description of what the core ideas of CMake are and could not find much, except automating for platforms which are not Unix-y or POSIX.
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So Argentina has problems that crypto-"currencies" serve as a workaround for? But do they help actually solve them? If not, then they are harmful as workarounds reduce the incentive to actually fix problems.
For Google, this doesn't surprise me at all. A big part of how they get people to work more is to keep them on campus as long as possible, and on-site incentives like meals, laundry, massage, etc. all serve that goal.

The fact that Google's offices are often referred to as "campuses" rather than "offices" drives that point home as well.
Time to forget youtube. Most of it is drivel anyway.
I wonder why that is (no 1080@30fps or 2160@30fps) - is it back end bandwidth? For Teams at least I guess that everything is aggregated in the MS Datacentre..
This is a voice of reason, not harshness.

One of the projects I currently work on, the configuration system/model/table is a monster.. I wish it was just strings. It basically contains boolean flags, strings, numbers etc but the most insidious one is, it can contain groups of related configs - meaning people started dumping stuff into that should be a normal table (ex, ShippingType:, Road, Rail, Air), so we get no foreign key constraints for reference data. This caused them to implement soft-deletes for it, so now you have some config values that float around forever because they were referenced somewhere (aka pseudo-foreignkey). It's so utterly dumb I want delete the whole thing but everyone thinks it works great (non-tech people).
I'm a developer, not a system-admin, but this is too much. Doesn't help that 5 different people has added 'features' to it over the years. The same can be accomplished with something waaaay simpler/cleaner. We also keep having config-related issues where people blame the system/servers/devops etc... every single time it is due to misconfig the project, so the system admins cannot do anything about it anyways (meaning we keep wasting their time, thinking the problem was with the servers). Let me pause here, need to take a blood pressure pill.
and that's a good reason to hide downvotes then

if the spin becomes "Biden wants it" without any proof, Biden videos will keep being downvoted only because those who oppose to him think he is censoring YouTube

But that's not what downvotes on YouTube should be used for

I am sure Biden as the President of the USA has the power to ask YouTube to reset the counters and call it a mistake, there would be no need to change the entire platform for everybody else
What about Medicaid for unemployed or under poverty level? I was on it briefly when I was out of work and everything was free from tests to meds. It was simply amazing not getting surprise bills or worrying.

I wonder if living in the US with Medicaid Is what it feels like to live in a different country with universal healthcare, does anyone know?
Any third party code in our system can just read whatever's in the environment and POST it to some remote server.
Goes for your comment, too.
April fools :)
So in the end the solution is to go to a fake office.
Only a subset of security professionals are researchers, and only a subset of those are vulnerability researchers / exploit developers, and only a subset of those have arms dealer-like roles where they hoard and/or sell and/or privately deploy zero-days they discover.

I think it's totally fair to critique the arms dealers (and that's indeed undeniably exactly what they are), but only a small percentage fall into that bucket.
Rtfm again
There are countries in Africa that pay more than that for unskilled manual labor. Even the cheapest software developer should be able to get $1k before tax per month. Of course I am assuming that these people actually became software developers, if those 7 juniors are merely trainees who haven't written a single line of code in their life then that salary may be justified.
Shopify has also gone full remote: https://www.shopify.com/careers/work-anywhere.

Disclaimer: I work there.
Ask HN: Software developers, what is your side income?
I'm a software developer with nine years of experience. I'm forced to look for extra money because one of my family members requires expensive surgery.

I tried soccer betting in desperation, but I lost a few hundred bucks and decided to close my account.

I started working on creating a programming course that I will post to udemy when I finish.

Could you share tips on how to make a side income as a software developer?
I notice from your comment history that you are the business of defending the CCP at every turn. I’m not sure that we could take your work for everything being a-okay with minorities in China.
March 2021 whitepaper: https://www.goodhealthpass.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GH...

Feb 2021 launch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49XvVxLMTLw

Linux Foundation working groups: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=73...

> The Trust over IP Foundation is defining a complete architecture for Internet-scale digital trust that combines both cryptographic trust at the machine layer and human trust at the business, legal, and social layers. https://trustoverip.org/
The thing is we know how to harvest solar energy while in space. Harvesting matter has been proposed with ram scoops but contrary to solar cells, these are just theoretical propositions.

Being able to use energy directly instead of propulsion mass would make a lot of travels more sustainable and with potentially lighter vehicles.
I have observed that in family games of the board game "Acquire", I would typically play solidly and take very few risks while my father and brother would play solidly and take a lot of risks. (There was also my little sister who was a little too young to understand the game, she just didn't play very well at all) This led to me always getting second place and my father/brother trading first and third places among them.

I never thought about it as maximizing max payoff vs maximizing min payoff but it makes a lot of sense. I also observe this behavior in other areas of our lives.
The war without end: Mac vs. PC
I bet within this time frame someone will try to capture it and place it in orbit around the Earth/Moon system, changing the odds.
that's some shady shit right there.
Cool project!

Has this extension hat already been tested with other (non-broadcom) SOCs, that have a compatible pin-header? Any reason why it shouldn't work on a OrangePi, RockPi, xPi?
Which is possibly representative of the will of the society.

Another one-party democracy that worked well, at least for a few decades, is Singapore.
I was fully expecting this to be about a micronation founded by the crews of the stranded freighters last week. Wouldn't have been the strangest thing to happen recently.
We don't have a cure for breast cancer, but we do have a cure for cervical cancer, especially now that we know that's caused by a virus (hpv).

And, we have generics to prevent HIV infection, and we have promising new mRNA therapies, that were in development (with woefully little funding!) at U Penn, when this bet was being placed!

Perhaps this is unwarranted optimism in the specific case, but as a broader expression of hope in future scientific progress, the long bet wins.
Ask HN: April Fools' Day 2021
In this thread submit jokes you encounter on the Internet on this day. So far I only checked out 4chan so far, cause I know they do it regulary. This year there is a counter on each board indicating how many Canadians are browsing on it and each post has a rake icon next to it which you can use to "report" a Canadian.
> From what I have seen the folks itching to get back to the office are the ones that don't have many outlets outside of work.

Not just that, many of those normal outlets have been heavily restricted or even not allowed for the past year. I expect if that wasn't the case, people wouldn't put so much of their unhappiness on the work part of being at home all the time.
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If you don't have qualified staff then that should be part of your business model and you should be honest about it to your customers. Of course what happens is that managers ride on the reputation for some short term money.
Any place to complain about an attack?
I run an open ssh server on the web. WE are seeing a lot of attacks trying to guess the password on ssh logs. Is this normal? We will switch it off but is there a place to complain?
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>How much energy do you lose?

Not entirely the right question. Usually in spaceflight you are overwhelmingly concerned with efficiency, since you have to carry your fuel with you. But with laser-boosted light sails, you leave your engines at home. At reasonable distances, (100+ AU) most of the beam is wasted, but the spacecraft doesn't care about that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail#Interstellar_flight