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When iOS 14 came out with the new widget stuff I released my app Widgeridoo where you can create your own widgets by combining blocks. Now I released a major version with a new feature called Schedules. You can try the app and also this feature for free, I would love to hear your ideas/opinions on how you could use this. (e.g. widget shows calendar in the morning, todo list during day, shopping list on saturdays etc). Thanks a lot
You are not explaining your architecture. The parent (and me as it happens) assume that when you paste the URL and change params then that URL is sent from your browser to a server. The server runs the simulatíon based on the params in the URL it received and returns the results to the browser. With that architecture you would need a lot of resources for the server but not for the browser. What architecture are you thinking of?
Whatever AI is or will be it won't be written by us. Architectures designed by deep learning methods are often better and simpler than designed by humans. We just lack the tools to run the search.

I think that AI is a function. Give the person 2 similar inputs and the output will be often similar. I have situations when I am presented with the same problem one month apart and my answer is exactly the same.
Enlighten us, then. Cause it sure seems that way to me.
From the lkml post, it's neither from a real-world case nor from an especially constructed futex benchmark, but from an existing kernel benchmark where it was thought it would be interesting to see how it performed with the new call.
I've been using this RSS site to get notified of replies:

https://hnrss.github.io/

I did write a simple rss2email application, which I run as a daemon to trigger the notifications, but there are plenty of other rss2email applications out there:

https://github.com/skx/rss2email/
Rare pink supermoon lights up the night skies
> This "without evidence" shit is rather silly when it comes to top-secret sources and methods.

"We lie, we cheat, we steal". Literally from the mouth of the guy who ran it to your ears.

I'm not sure how you find these source legitimate sans evidence, other than possibly they are you team.

PS. Doesn't make the other jerks legitimate either.
Next.js is a hybrid React framework. It aims to improve the developer experience on building web apps by having solid defaults, extensible configurations, and performance optimizations included in the framework.

You can user server-rendering on a per-page basis, as you see fit. Same with removing all JavaScript if so inclined.

More info here! https://nextjs.org/learn
I heard threw the grapevine Xfinity (comcast) has given up on trying to compete with streaming services.

Their strategy is just charge more for everything, and make ordering services compliced.

Going on their website to just get basic cable, and low speed internet is very hard.

They push packages--hoping you will never realize when the deal ends.

They rely on senior citizens who just pay the bill, and are not technical enough to even shop around--if they have a choice? Most households don't.

Comcast should be required to have have simple billing, and simple ording of service

That could be taken care of the next time your local government ok's their next franchise agreement. It's not a franchise. It's some agreement government has with them.

Be careful calling Xfinity (comcast) for anything. The calls are routed overseas, and those employees main function is pushing package deals. Don't fall for it. They try to get the customer to agree on voice, so they have evidence.

1. I'm ok with their internet service, except for the price, and lack of competition.

2. The cable tv service is subpar. I have had checkering for ever. I gave up on getting it corrected. After three visits from third party vendors it's still not right. (This third party vendor was working 6 days a week, and was required to lease his service truck for $250/week.).

3. If you do have a lousy connection, it might be partially related to a filter Comcast put on years ago, but never took off. (The new filters are fine, but a certain brand of an older one is bad. I just threw it out so I can't give the part number. If you have voice remote, make sure it's on the right three splitter. I vagly remember it on the outlet with the lowest resistance?

4. I believe Comcast knows they are pushing too much through that coaxial. I believe they preparing for a class action lawsuit, but might not care?

5. I only put up with Comcast because there's no real competition where I reside. Xfinity's agreements with local municipalities needs to be nixed.

6. Comcast promised to not cut off service during the pandemic, but lied.

7. Comcast offers Hotspots. Your router could be the hotspot, and they don't have to tell you. (I don't believe their is any danger to this practice though.)

I would love it that infrastructure bill did away with Xfinity. They provide very few good paying jobs. I would like to see free internet provided to every American, even the wealthy.
Paywall bypass: https://archive.is/9IOgm
Another interesting question is whether or not water was a core component of early planetary material, or delivered later by comet (as assumed because it was too hot in the inner solar system for volatile compounds to condense during formation). There's recent evidence that both Earth [1] and Mars [2] have a really large amount of water locked up underground.

[1] https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/was-earth-once-a-water-world

[2] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6537/56

(We wrote about this in Orbital Index a few weeks back - https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2021-04-07-Issue-111/ - if you're into this sort of thing, you might enjoy the newsletter.)
Yes, that is a good point. It's also hard to know what this is. But for me, the end game of computing is just computing everywhere, reading the world and writing to our screens and our touches programming everything around us. Ultimately this is going to be an ecosystem, not a company. Maybe some better standards emerge that can tie everything together. But as far as devices go it seems to processors, network, storage, sensors everywhere. It's going to be hard to build a new computing company on top of those things with the current investments in cloud and consumer devices, without just being acquired.
There have been occasional grumblings for a couple of years now that the humour of the XKCD webcomic has declined, Munroe just doesn’t seem to have his mind on the job now that he is doing these other projects. However, the what-if and pop-science explanatory stuff is generally of very good quality, so on balance one can’t really complain.
It depends on what you are using the email address for. Some things you might want to use it for:

* knowing this is a real person
* marketing communication
* security/data breach communication
* forgot password flows
* step up authentication (send a code to an email)
* user lookup if one user wants to share something with another
* putting users on teams/allowing special access based on domains

In most of these cases, you want to verify not just that someone knows an email address, but that they have access to and/or control the inbox. This is what verification proves.

If you are just looking for a globally unique identifier and aren't doing any of the other stuff, you could skip verification. But in most cases you'll want to do this.

Incidentally I hope you are using a drop in auth service or a library--there's a lot out there and no need to roll your own.
>There is a reason why virtually 100% of Congress are lawyers.

Yeah, I mean - there's a reason people that write software are mostly engineers.
It's because of Elon's hubris and the ways that hubris is baked into the entire institutional culture. I think far fewer people would delight in their failures if they showed an ounce of humility from any of their mistakes. Instead, they continue to make wild eyed proclamations and promises of impossible goals, but it's Elon so people continue to believe him for some reason.
This is a little OT since the article is about the US, but I'd really like to see how feasible it would be to build a community ISP for the town I live in in the UK (Scotland).

FTTC has only recently reached my town, and availability is still patchy. Knowing BT, it will be another decade before the whole town has the option.

And upload speeds are still rubbish, and it's expensive too - the fastest deal BT will provide is 900/100 (although they only guarantee 450 down), and it's £60/m (~$83), and you have to take a 2 year contract, and the price rises by 3.9% a year during the contract!

There have been smaller, full-fibre ISPs popping up all over England, offering much better packages than BT as half the price.

Anyone have any information about getting started with something like this? If it makes a difference, it's for a small, rural town, population 10-15k.
You could argue that the average suicide bomber expects a personal reward in the afterlife.
Also in the blogpost is the great news: "We're excited to announce Tobias Koppers, the author of webpack, has joined the Next.js team". Thanks for hiring him to ensure webpacks continued support and development!
> They would have captured 100% of the messaging market.

Isn't that against their DNA? Apple doesn't like to capture market share - they instead go for high profit share regardless of marketshare.

High profit share but median market share helps to avoid antitrust regulatory action.
The word "hide" implies they intentionally concealed it, beyond just an "omission". To me, this is like games running at lower resolutions on older iPhones. Would that, too, require a disclosure?
And if you are allowing a fake email address, why not allow plain old anonymous access? That would be simpler and wouldn't clog up your database.
Mobile games company extort players over abused “bug”
Right, but seeing as how I lack a Twitter account, chances are I won't know about that outrage machine, and therefore probably won't care, unless (and only unless) I'm made aware of it through some other channel (like HN, or reddit, or someone texting me about it, or what have you).
I'll say two things I know after 11 years consulting on embedded and smart grid projects at a company acquired by a company that was acquired by Accenture:

- Not all of Accenture is fluff. They have capable folks that do real work and add value.

- Services companies don't scale. They are dependent on how many bodies they can rent out. I laugh when I see the valuations of companies like Accenture and Palantir. They will never be the next Google. They'll survive and turn a profit, but there is no growth story.
Is it possible to buy one of these from you?
Maybe it’s modern nonsense.
If the interpretations are accurate and complete, they'll presumably have the same impact as what is being interpreted. If the interpretations are inaccurate, then your reliance on them will not be a defense. For example, suppose TOU;dr got the arbitration requirements wrong. You could not sue ycombinator then argue that you had relied on TOU;dr, thus you were not bound by the arbitration agreement in the ycombinator TOU.
And yet, if you do this and then give 100 million of those tokens to your friend, your friend now owes the IRS $40 million USD.

Go figure
They can certainly change it, thus changing what they can do, in the future, but they can't make exceptions. A policy, written down, becomes a contract as far as the law's concerned. Contract changes are fine (provided all parties involved are then allowed to cancel the contract), but contract violation is not.
Here is one source[1] this science is not new. The no dig farming movement takes this further because they don’t till the land the soil retains more co2.
[1]https://www.soilassociation.org/media/4954/policy_soil_carbo...
I'm so envious of other cities in our county with fast municipal broad band.
> What makes your statement so wrong is that it takes decades for the consequences to show up, if they are measurable at all, in non experimental studies.

So, you're telling me the air quality is getting worse despite this trend not being observed, yet? There is a logical fallacy somewhere. Furthermore, the link between lung cancer and cigarette smoking was well observed already in the 50s but the tobacco industry naturally downplayed the risks.

BTW: It is an established fact that air quality in the cities of 19th century was way worse -- mainly due to the fact that people cooked and heated their places with open fires and coal. For some insight on the UK: https://theconversation.com/air-pollution-in-victorian-era-b...
They explicitly say they will continue to allow sexual content.
I was working in a large computer store in California when Bob came out. To my memory, I never sold a single copy. This is despite a large in-store promotion put on by Microsoft.
Those were compiled into a physical book. The online content stopped shortly after; pity.
The Murchison chondrite is older than Earth and the solar system!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26965241
Thanks for posting this link! Marginal land use, green water use, and inedible feed being standard really puts into perspective what stopping beer consumption would actually do. I found it a surprising perspective.
Your use of deserve makes no sense. No one deserves anything beyond what they're offered in the free market. If they think they can do better they're free to do so.
At least they don't have to put any effort into setting customer expectations :D.
> Yeah, I highly doubt there's any targeting there. The big tech Co.s are practically fronts for the US Gov.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket (1935).

History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme.

It seems to be the natural state that centres of power co-operate with each other lest they lose their power.

Churches with Kings, Corporations with Government.
PIGIN, TURTLEDOVE, SPARROW, SWAN, SPURFOWL, PELICAN, PARROT

not kidding
Do they comply with GDPR now?

Here's what HN admins were responding last yeat to requests to have your account deleted (article 17 of the GDPR):

>Our understanding based on the analysis done by YC's legal team is that Hacker News does not fall under the GDPR, so for the time being we're sticking with the approach of not deleting account histories wholesale but helping with privacy concerns in any other way we can. The problem with deleting entire histories is that it guts the threads the account had participated in, which is unfair to the other users who posted.
It's common to quantify value in units of dollars. It doesn't literally mean that money was printed.
Well, that’s not the full story. Skilled manufacturing expertise, culture [0], and speed of iteration matter too.

[0] apparently they once moved 12K workers from one line to another at midnight for a last minute design change
Who will copy paste it from another site..
I'm guessing being a US organization they don't care about GDPR just as they don't care about adhering to Chinese internet standard laws.
> "Send Clipboard" button

Where does that appear? Its not on the button bar that appears over a text selection.
RIP Michael Collins.
Jethro Tull has a song about Michael Collins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU7BYLmAiV8 "For Michael Collins, Jeffery and Me"

I'm with you L.E.M
Though it's a shame that it had to be you
The mother ship
Is just a blip from your trip made for two
I'm with you boys
So please employ just a little extra care
It's on my mind
I'm left behind when I should have been there
Walking with you
It sounds like the plot of a 1973 dystopian scifi movie. We have work to do to be better than our own worst imaginings.
Wow. That is a brilliant link. Thanks for sharing.

I don't know why terms can't be written that simply in the first place.
Government intervention is constantly needed to keep a free market in balance - there certainly is poor spirited legislation that's designed to assist in market capture but there is a lot more legislation out there that's protecting small markets.

Anarcho-libretarianism isn't the solution here and neither is rejecting balanced legislation out of a force of habit.
Pretty sure if you file the proper paperwork with google's legal department, you can get a copy of the exact text in question. The downside of business in the US: companies are by law required to make documents available on request, but they are in no way required to make that easy.
Yeah, there are some really interesting unexpected performance implications - for instance, it's actually a great idea to send updates to buffers in a way that implies new allocation, because most drivers will silently and automatically set up a multiple-buffering system that reuses resources efficiently and doesn't stall the pipeline. Sending partial updates looks better on the surface, but because it can stall while the driver waits for the resource you're updating to fall out of use, it can be worse unless you set up the triple buffering yourself!
The raspberry pi is a broadcom arm-based device and doesn't have it.

Perhaps if you listed a specific product segment, that might be more enlightening.
Is there a specific kind of lawyer that is best suited for this work?
Weird coming from a site where most members are paid a lot of money for using their brains.
I remember seeing something similar geared towards financial independence here: https://www.fireleap.com
Even if you're an experienced dev you rarely start coding from scratch. I almost always use Boostrap for simple projects because it does 99% of the work and looks great across many devices and UA.
Atlassian launches a Jira for every team
This is a really tough question to answer, because the answer depends on what you're using JWT for. JWT crams as much functionality into the format as possible, and most of that functionality isn't needed for most use cases. This means that offering an alternative requires knowing some context about what you need out of JWT in the first place.

That being said, for most purposes, you can do worse than using either mutual TLS or Macaroons [0]. As always with cryptography though, the devil is in the details, so for a more thorough discussion, check out @tptacek's "A Child's Garden of Inter-Service Authentication Schemes" [1]. It's one of my favourite treatments of the topic, and discusses the tradeoffs of a few different techniques for different use-cases.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroons_(computer_science)

[1] https://latacora.micro.blog/a-childs-garden/
Seems reasonable to assume that a government saying "it wasn't us" or "it was them" is a heavily politically-motivated statement, not a strictly technical one. Regardless of it being accurate or not - there are reasons to keep quiet even if there's conclusive proof.

This is a case of a third party saying "we think it was probably X". You can't rule out other motivations here either, but there's a fair bit more room for it to be less politically motivated.
Sometimes just shutting up and let the other side beat itself out is the smart play - they'll move onto something else in short order.

There is a reason that a lot of PR is saying literally nothing in the blandest ways possible.
There's no binary package for Windows apparently
Pigeon meet chessboard.
What We Learned from the Best Marketing Campaigns of 2020
Walmart greeters are to deter theft. An old lady may not actually stop anyone from stealing, but neither does your average door lock. Both keep honest people honest.
You are correct. England has an established church, as does Scotland (but not the same one as England, interestingly). Wales used to have an established church, but it was "disestablished" in 1920. Other European countries have established churches as well.

Often this means that not only are they the official church, but that tax money is actually used to support them -- even tax money from people who don't belong to that church.

The Founders did not like paying taxes to churches they didn't belong to, and who can blame them for that?

Also interestingly, at the time the Constitution was enacted, some of the states did have established churches. The Constitution didn't do anything about that, as it only affected the Federal government.

The First Amendment has since been "incorporated" (by means of the Fourteenth Amendment) in such a way that states are also prohibited from establishing churches nowadays.
“Nevertheless, the free will problem is really depressing if you take it seriously. It hasn’t made me happy, and in retrospect, if I were at graduate school again, maybe a different topic would have been preferable.”

Well, he couldn’t....
Sorry but not sure how I can make my point more clear.
You created an hypothetical situation like "If Apple devices were not locked then for sure all the developers will remove their apps from the store and offer them from their own webpage to get around the big tax" my argument is that Android exist and this does not happen, so you should stop inventing hypotheticals and look at the reality,

Then you invented other hypothetical, something about developers will lower the bar of quality because the only reason all those popular apps in the store are of quality is because Apples high standards. This is also something that you imagine, most rejections I read about were about Apples greed and other such stupidity.

Maybe you are not spreading FUD because you are really scared, then it means the FUD worked on you, I am sorry , hopefully the reality I shown will calm you down a bit, my family are running Android phones and they did no sideload any application, there is an exception of a Huawei phone I got where they were forced not to put Google Play on it, I had some issues getting Youtube to work but except that app it works OK for my son.
To be fair, the pure scientific impact of the robotic missions is probably much higher than human ones (besides advances in medical/bioscience). But, placing people on the moon probably brings more funding for NASA than robots.

Edit: Both are still extremely cool though
I don't think it is obvious hyperbole, most of the people I know seem to think Amazon is in control of most of retail. Even the US gov seems to think so too. I hate that my local book stores are dying. But they were way more expensive, it's only recently here in the UK that super markets could start discounting books (I think I read that right a few years back). Most of what Amazon gets accused of, is being anti competitive. I don't think they lack competition at all, I think their competitors just want protection from real competition and hence they lobby government.
Yep. It didn't look right, but autocorrect didn't complain.

Works either way, though. :-)
I once forgot to extinguish a candle before going to bed, it burned down, and produced a massive amount of soot. Their was a stripe of black suit on the wall where the candle was standing, a black spot on the ceiling, and my upper lip and nostrils were black from soot.

I'm not sure what effect on my health a one time event like this has, but if I can avoid it I will.

I can't do anything about the pollution outside.
Yes, it was a classic "pump and dump" scam which would be illegal in any regulated securities market.
Nope, waste of time.

In the true spirit of Lean, eliminate waste - the wasteful time of estimating things and the overhead of that. When using kanban flow instead of sprints it really doesn't matter what any estimate is.

This smells like someone above is asking when they can have something done so people in the middle have to come up with something.

Maybe the team lead/mgr can test doing the estimating themselves and letting the team just do the work. If you've committed to a feature or fixing a bug and it takes longer or shorter does it matter?
How to teach things badly
>"context switch to and from the kernel"

This is a common misconception, a "context" switch is a lot more expensive than a "mode" switch that goes from user mode to the kernel mode (and back).

Of course, if the futex has to wait, it'd be a context switch for real.