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Interesting write-up. I was a big fan of KDE 3 but never used KDE 4 or 5 in earnest because every time I gave it a serious try, it would start crashing randomly or some critical piece just wouldn't work the way it was supposed to. And that was _after_ disabling a bunch of the "fluff." But a few weeks ago, I decided to give it another try (via the packages in Ubuntu 20.10) and it's been _wonderful_. I can tweak all the knobs I want to tweak, and it has been very solid so far.

I really appreciate software projects that place a higher priority on evolution rather than rm'ing huge swaths of working functionality, designing a worse replacement, and then calling it innovation. KDE did this with 4 and then took a decade to get back to something stable. Let's hope the cycle doesn't start over again anytime soon.
So far, I'm sold on Soft/Spreadable cheeses from Miyokos. I don't remember having had any real winners on the hard cheese side yet but I will keep trying different ones until someone cracks it. I'm actually most excited for the CRISPR'd yeast approach to cheese (food more broadly) approach because I feel like we will be able to get a culinarily equivalent product (eventually...) but perhaps remove some of the less healthy components (saturated fats and others) for a superior product with a lower carbon footprint.
DOM Element Screenshot API
An API to take a screenshot of HTML elements
> There is no real difference between paying $10.62 to a contractor who has to pay $0.62 more in social security tax and paying $10 to an employee and $0.62 to the social security administration. And the employee would (all else equal) choose a job paying $10 as an employee over a job paying <$10.62 as a contractor, so the contractors have to pay more or offer some other countervailing benefit to be competitive.

Except the ads posted in your local bulletin board / signposts are "Want a job for $10/hr?!??"

So what happens in practice, is that the gig-worker is paid $10 (costing the company $10), vs the employee who'd be paid $10 (costing the company $10.62 + other bits, like health care and various insurances)
Downfall of Software Testing
But if consumers understand that coconut milk doesn't come from a cow, surely they can understand soy milk doesn't.

Milk is already used for non animal milks as coconut shows, so I don't see this doing anything pro-consumer.
I believe it is.

I have a side business selling an electronic gizmo. I sell a few per week at roughly 100 bucks a pop. I pretty much followed the mainstream advice on how to find a startup idea, such as finding a problem that you care about, and that other people experience as well. I didn't do anything brilliant. Of course this is not a "startup" by the contemporary definition, but a solid little lifestyle business that I enjoy.

I believe a difference is that it's easy to gain the domain knowledge needed to create a basic software project, assuming you've gotten over the "hump" of learning how to code. And at least for smaller projects, operations and distribution are pretty much solved problems. In other words, all of the reasons why software has eaten the world.

Hacking hardware necessarily involves moving and transforming physical material. I happen to have that domain knowledge in hardware thanks to my day job, but the starting point is to first get interested in it.
I have a few fantastic co-workers that I'd happily spend a day in the office with. Unfortunately, I have a few fantastically terrible co-workers that outweigh the benefits of being with the good ones. I've become incredibly office averse.
> That requires a lot of people to be using older versions, that is, it assumes there's an audience of people who are interested in using older Rusts. But we don't have that in Rust, even if it was that way with Node. Look at this chart from our survey last year: https://blog.rust-lang.org/images/2020-12-rust-survey-2020/r...

So I would cite the classic statistics example of adding armor to the parts of returning aircraft that weren't shot up: https://worldwarwings.com/the-statistics-that-kept-countless...

That survey (that I wasn't aware of despite using Rust) likely self-selects the most enthusiastic users of Rust. There could certainly be a large number of other users, or potential users, that would answer things differently.

> This is controversial, because in some sense you're not wrong, but this also creates a lot of churn, and churn that doesn't really have to happen. In a model where most folks target the latest stable, you're creating tons of work for most of your users, at the expense of making things slightly better for a very small number of users.

I don't agree that it's that much extra work? As a user running `cargo update` should be enough and the versions increase. If cargo refused to update to a version beyond the currently installed `rustc` version, then this should be completely safe on their end.

Then the library authors can either do what they currently do and not backport features/patches for earlier Rust implementations, or they can if they want to support those users (so no extra work is required), but now it's very clear to them (based on download stats on crates.io) how much demand for prior rust compilers there is, and they can decide if they want to provide a stronger backwards compatibility for their library, and the users can tell based on the semver releases for the library if that library supports older versions of `rustc` or no.

This is still personally one of my more minor complaints about the Rust ecosystem. It's still far better done than most other major languages, and the current state of Cargo/crates.io was a major factor in our picking Rust over C++ for the project we're using it for. So this is a critique because I do actually care about this and see how it could help both adoption (less worry about "what's the right version of Rust to use?" for newbies) and long-term maintenance (if you can't come to a project a few months later and install any security fixes because there are library changes that require you to upgrade your compiler and there's a cascading set of dependencies-of-dependencies that make that riskier to do, so application-level developers may not want to jump on such a "treadmill").
The government has no authority to demand a software bill of materials (SBOM) from everyone who publishes software.

Imposing this requirement on their own agencies is enforceable because there's software that can generate an SBOM, at least from container images.

Then the agencies will have to choose software that meets compliance requirements, so they're the ones putting pressure on their chosen vendors. It follows logically that a vendor who wants a better chance of being chosen for more government contracts will make it easy to obtain SBOMs for their software.
> I wouldn't eat imitation animal products anymore than I'd drink non-alcoholic beer.

And nor shall I drink anything with corn syrup as that's simply an imitation sugar product, nor do I eat chipotle burritos since they're a pale imitation of actual burritos. I eschew Cavendish bananas entirely since, just like a boca-burger tries to mimic a real burger, the Cavendish banana tries to mimic the real banana. You can taste the difference.

My point here is that "imitation" is very poorly defined. Is a boca burger an imitation? Is a black bean burger? What if the black bean burger uses spices similar to what you use on meat patties?

I think that taking inspiration from another food and trying to mimic it (as chipotle does with real burritos) is a valid way to make a new food, and that food should be judged on its own merits. I don't like "imitation meats" that are just pure saitan for the most part, but I'm fine with other imitation meats. It's not the imitation bit that matters, it's the quality of the thing itself, taken standalone.
The first paragraph is just things you’ll hear on NutritionFacts.org with some research papers you can review for yourself. Which was weird to hear in a culture where meat and even dairy are heralded for their supposed nutritional (like protein) superiority. I think his “Evidence Based Weight Loss” video touches on these points all in one place if you are interested. There might be an accompanying article with simpler links to the papers he cites, but too lazy to check on mobile.
Addressing your first point, web push notifications works persistently on Firefox and Chromium on Android.

And I'm not sure what you're referring to by "control", but Firefox on Android allows you to install addons and use about:config (Chromium can't do the former and doesn't have an equivalent for the latter, even on desktop).
Microsoft buys Linux distribution maker Kinvolk to boost Azure cloud services
That’s a bingo.

(Sometimes it is just bribery or money laundering, transferring worthless hard-to-value art for millions is ideal not just for tax fraud.)
> And the more you avoid working in the wet, the more you have to deal with dust and grit.

Incidentally, part of my evolution toward gardening in the rain is realizing I'd rather be wet than sneezing, coughing, or getting dust in my eyes. Rain is also more pleasant than sweating like a pig. Luckily I'm not dealing with clay so I can bend some rules about digging in wet soil.
With Australia being effectively Covid free we've already started to see much stronger cases of the flu.

Local doctors in my City (Canberra) told multiple people I've talked with that the extra protective steps taken last year meant our bodies weren't as well positioned to handle the standard flu when we caught it.
I think we didn't understand each other.

I know that today America has choice. But it leads to the highest healthcare costs in the Western World (to allow for middlemen healthcare companies to be some of the largest privatecompanies in the country), with the worst quality for the poorest people.

So the question is, how do you solve the problem of universal access while giving people the "choice".

> The issue is that better coverage requires private insurance, mostly offered through corporations

Not in the rest of the western world. We just simply don't have these companies. They don't need to exist. They are a form of corporate socialism transferring wealth from taxpayers to mediate something that can be handled directly.

Health insurance companies is a moral failure. I'm going to double down on my metaphor. Fire engines don't check your insurance to decide if they should put your fire out. That used to be how things worked 100 years ago.
This is what I'm more interested in: Don't try to replace animal foods directly, create great plant based foods. I'm not vegan or even vegetarian, but I am interested in reducing my animal consumption.
Are you saying it's beyond rescue because it's controlled by China?
I built 4 mini products in 3 days
What do you even mean? I just don't want my employer involved in government retirement programs or my health insurance. "Benefits" from employers are just nicely constructed traps to make it hard to retire or switch jobs.
It depends some on how lockdowns are implemented. Where I live, for instance, they outlaw indoor dining but still allow outdoor dining, which seems to me to be exactly what they should do.
I often find that flight prices can be influenced by what you have looked at previously (other competitor, clear cache and cookies etc). It's quite a shady practice.
> There's pretty convincing evidence that even human brains tend to make decisions first then rationalize them after.

The problem with that is we can't simulate human brains to test the integrity of that rationalization. Assuming the algorithm is repeatable, the data from the rationalization can be used to generate adversarial input from the original that tests the conclusion is actually responding to those factors. At the very least, this would give courts an avenue to validate the algorithms in practice.
Totally get that. My point is that "Even your grandmother can use it" is still a common saying, combining both sexism and agism, and we should stop promoting that notion.

To illustrate this, if it was this guy's uncle who was techno-challenged and he named it "Unclegram", probably most people would be scratching their heads. But we see Yayagram and it "makes sense"... because of course grandmothers struggle with technology! See the problem?
This is a falsehood that people have been promoting since last summer

From the WSJ on July 16th, 2020, someone trying to promote the idea that it was only a Blue state problem:

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“Here are some real numbers to put things into context, and it's obvious the problem is certain incompetent blue state governors.

As of today:

Florida (population 23M) COVID deaths: 4,782

Texas (population 30M) COVID deaths: 3,561

New York (population 19M) Covid deaths: 25,014

New Jersey (population 9M) COVID deaths: 15,665”

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I recently compared these numbers in early March I believe

Florida: 31,523 for 26,741 additional deaths

New Jersey: 23,521 for 7856 additional deaths

New York: 48,410 for 23,396 additional deaths

Texas: 45,274 for 41,713 additional deaths

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NY: 48,410/25,014 = 1.9 times more death

FL: 31,523/4,782 = 6.5 times more death

Florida and Texas lead in deaths after the first wave

March 6, 2021

Florida: 31,523 for 26,741 additional deaths

New Jersey: 23,521 for 7856 additional deaths

New York: 48,410 for 23,396 additional deaths

Texas: 45,274 for 41,713 additional deaths
I couldn't agree more. Cheeseless pizza is also a lot more fresh in my opinion. It's more like a flat focaccia with more toppings, in my case hiding under a mountain of arugula.
The Wikipedia article[0], has some interesting speculation about this. Main ideas behind the cause seems to be either some directed energy pulse or potentially a ultrasound weapon. These kind of invisible weapons are utterly terrifying to me and I feel that they'll just become more prevalent in the coming decades.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome
I thought ticket prices were also correlated to petrol prices. And that since airline companies buy petrol in advance, in order to predict prices you'd have to factor in petrol prices X days (months?) prior to flight date.
I don't think I follow. These designs do come from first principles. In fact the reason we've had so much academic thought put into it is because 100 years ago we designed systems empirically and a few smart people went back to first principles to find the fundamental constraints on filter networks.
Let's say for a moment that is true. ( and we can ignore under payment of benefits, like the social security tax cap being at a hundred some thousand dollars.)

How does that impact the discussion? Do we think we need another problem by not actually paying those benefits?

Secondly, back to the first question, so?

What's our priority?

Right now that priority is not healthy people, able to show up for work, existing reasonably.

Does that make the best sense? I don't think so.
I built out a simple "technology access" solution for my late grandma about five years ago. It was just some simple scripts running on a raspberry pi. The scripts would fetch emails from a gmail account, extract the attachments, and display them on loop. The subject line of the email, sender and the date were overlayed on the image.

The advantage over those IoT picture frame products was that I could use any display I wanted. A cheap 32" TV was perfect. This was key as her vision degraded. The approach also allowed anyone in the family with email to send her photos, no proprietary apps or accounts required.

She passed away mid-Covid and I didn't get to see her in her final 6 months, but she always bragged of her "picture machine." I think she was the envy of many of her fellow nursing home residents!
I am not that aware of the various file managers and their specific features these days. I guess it's about use case. I always want primarily something "which doesn't annoy", since the file manager is mostly there "just in case" for me. I live in the terminal, even for most file operations.

Back when I tested them out (years ago, so not relevant today, still): Considering dependencies (if not running KDE), but even then Dolphin always seemed to do something quite not intuitively for me. Can't name examples anymore.

Different people, different tools.
Sure. But it’s frustrating when management says that they want me to help improve processes and produce “new and different” only for me to deliver what they say they want and realize they really didn’t want that.

In my case, it’s not so much “do what your boss says” so much as it’s “try to figure out if your boss really wants you to do what he/she says or if they just like the idea of change and really just want you to leave everything alone”.
A regular camera has one function - to take photos of what it's pointing at. Phone cameras are often hidden in the screen of a device that does a huge number of different things.
I'm not a hyper-optimizer but pre-pandemic I was traveling a good third of the time.

Basically. Pick an airline and travel with them whenever you can. Enroll in all the hotel loyalty programs but they're mostly not worth over-optimizing around. If you travel a lot, premium credit cards may make sense.

It doesn't matter much until you're travelling what most people would consider a lot. But then it can start to become significant in terms of money and/or comfort.
Has Filecoin not grown because of this?
Checklist Usage Survey (new product research)
Are the most recycled consumer goods, I seem to remember 97% are recycled.
> It is good practice to always use the SameSite directive with cookies as this provides protection against CSRF attacks.

Be careful with assuming SameSite fully protects from CSRF attacks. I thought it does, but then I read what "site" actually refers to in the context of same site (eTLD+1).

If the eTLD+1 (i.e. company.com) is not listed on the Public Suffix List, even SameSite=strict cookies for a.company.com will still be sent for requests initiated from b.company.com
Similar sized virus, respiratory and seasonal. Plenty of similarities.
> It would seem I should dive into category theory to see how far this rabbit hole goes.

And that was the last we ever heard from bob1029.
It was on a server that didn't have busybox installed. Also, can busybox vi work without access to termcap or terminfo?
Intelligent precomputation = low-cost, high-performance analytics
> and I gave you actual "almond milk"

What makes that the actual version? Almond milk as an animal milk substitute made from almonds dates back to the 1300s[0]. It's not new.

I hear where you're coming from, but I also question what does and doesn't count as an "authentic" name, and I suspect a lot of it comes down to people thinking that the names they used growing up or the names they ran into first are the "real" ones and everything else is a new fad.

When people are arguing about confusion I'm a little bit sympathetic (although I'm doubtful consumer confusion is actually the serious problem they make it out to be). But when people start to argue about needing to use proper words, I usually check out, because usually they have a very narrow view of what word origins count as proper. They're rarely tracing the etymology of the word, they're usually just saying that everyone should adopt the same definitions that their specific parents used.

So let me flip your question around on you: almond sherbet already traditionally contains milk. What would be wrong with calling almond sherbet... almond sherbet, or an almond milkshake if the balance of milk is increased. That would be helpful anyway, because you could make vegan almond sherbet using a vegan milk as a base, and then what are you going to call it under your system?

My take on this is that vegan cheese/milk is substitutable in nearly every single recipe I make. Many people dislike the taste of vegan cheese, which I understand and think is completely valid, but many people also dislike the taste of brie and I don't see a general campaign to classify brie as a non-cheese. So part of why I call those products vegan milk/cheese instead of "cheeze" is because I think if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and if I can use it in all of my duck recipes often without any additional thought or research, then for all practical purposes it's a duck.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond_milk
Let me introduce you to South Indian cuisine... yes, it's not actually 100% vegan, but it goes to show that you don't need to be a Marin County millionaire to eat healthy plant-based food most of your life.
Two interesting things about this project.

1. Just about 100% of the code already existed, it just needed to be stuck together in a classy box. That's pretty damn cool: there's no need to re-invent the wheel for some advanced components, and it means more sophisticated ideas can be built quickly.

2. This has been posted 11 times on HN and it finally went viral: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=yayagram
I can assure you that I am not luxuriating in the benefits and privileges of this fabled "In-group", and that I'm only trying to draw attention to the fact that the common expression "So simple even your grandmother will understand it" is demeaning to both women and old people. Clearly you don't care about that, so there's little for us to discuss.
They dole out the uber money a tiny bit each month and if you don't use it that month it doesn't roll over (obnoxious).

You don't get the airline credits by default you have to register with one through their shitty website. You also have to choose a specific airline, CSR lets you just use the credits on any travel by default.

I don't like paying $550/yr fee for something where I'm supposed to be the customer and then have every feature feel like something I have to read the fine print for so I don't get screwed.

I ended up just switching to the Apple Card. While the rewards are subpar, at least the software is best in class and they make GS agree to not sell your transactions to third parties.

The best Amex feature was the Delta lounge access (only when flying on Delta) - the Delta lounges are really nice, particularly the one at SFO. The Amex lounges are great too, but there aren't many of them and they're often in terminals that are inconvenient (or United - which I try to avoid at all costs).

I think there's probably an opening here for a startup with a credit card that's actually good.
Per your bio, you work at Google. You're divorced from the experience of struggling people.
> According to Wikipedia a candle can produce 77 watts of energy "combined." I guess that means 77 joules (1 watt = 1 J/s).

Watts is energy/time. 77 watts for a candle sounds about right. That means it is producing 77 joules per second. The amount of energy released by burning such a candle is therefore proportional to how long it burns, which is proportional to its mass. The thing you are looking for is the specific energy, listed as 45 MJ/kg upthread. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26973765 for the rest of the calculation.
To be clear: I'm not making a specific argument about masks vs. sanitizing vs. whatever here.

I'm just saying: responses like the OP immediately leap to the conclusion that influenza went away because of all the stuff we did. It's an error in logic, driven by the emotional desire to believe that the stuff we did must have had a serious impact, and that anything else is not worth serious discussion.

That's ideology, not science.
Sure tying Rust development cycle to Azure+VS code, AWS or GCP would be quite bad (run rust-analyzer on Azure for example). At least Facebook doesn't have this kind of infrastructure yet.
sed is also a friend in these situations.
Robinhood Promises Free Trades. Did Alex Kearns Pay with His Life?
Will the flu come back after covid ends? If covid ends?