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What if there are identical "intangibles" at the place offering you a 10% raise?
This. Good luck getting your hands on a Miser right now.
> Mighty is a better Chrome

yes, it's better in the sense that the privacy issues are even better; well, worse in the viewpoint of the user, but since when VCs cared about it?
This is how all social media apps eventually work.

Apps know you get an endorphin rush every time a notification comes. Even if the notification doesn't show anything relevant, it MIGHT be important so you hurry to open it.

I had to quit these apps over this, maybe some people are able to handle constant meaningless stimulation, but I can't.
Not to mention the site will need to continually rebuild the sarcophagus around it until half-lifing makes the sarcophagus unneeded.

The current one is only designed to last 100 years.
Mighty isn't "better chrome"! It's a whole thin client proxy-service privacy-nightmare. It's more and more centralising of everything under corporate control with the payoff to users of marginal gains in speed. Kill it with fire.
Maybe we could call it a “small attack” or even a “micro-attack”... hey how about.... a micro-aggression.

I kid but obviously a downvote is a negative response to something I wrote, but without the responsibility of actually backing up why they’re having that negative response. I’m kinda lost as to why we’re even having this discussion, you appear upset that I wanted to hear why people were downvoting me. Why does that upset you?
Try watching videos of old people with Alzheimer's, and try imagining what people will be doing when you are dead to gauge how much your life is worth, and if small risk of dying in a car accident not caused by yourself is acceptable. For me in similar situation answers were not important and acceptable. But if you find that your life is precious to you it still would be better to channel the natural fear of death to more productive venues like https://www.towardzerodeaths.org or much more importantly to donations to https://www.sens.org because we are very close to solving the problem of death for good https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY
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Software isn't fundamentally adversarial in the same way that criminal law is, but that's a fair point.
> That's absurd. People need groceries.

Thus: if groceries used to be free, but suddenly cost money, people would riot.

Arguably: why would people riot about not-free Youtube?
>Starting at "But the biggest issue I see people raising is the privacy impact of targeted ads..."

Yes, that's literally all you have to say on the subject.

The very next paragraph is about how this helps keep ads relevant...
Being uncertain is in the middle. It's a position that too few humans are willing to take on any issue, treating it as if it were madness. If you are uncertain your options are to either ignore the issue or explore all the options.
Hello HN,

I maintain a library that generates a sensitive files and unfortunately people were committing these sensitive files to public github repos.

To solve this problem, I built ignore-check which I can add as an install script to my library to make sure the sensitive file pattern is present in the .gitignore file, if it isn't there then this CLI will add it.

The positive benefit of shipping this as a npx cli command is that I don't need to add another dependency/dev dependency to my package.json

Big shoutout to this project which was the inspiration for ignore-check: https://github.com/seek-oss/ensure-gitignore
i have been lamenting the 100 year old house down the street being gutted of its original wood (in good shape still, as far as i could see) and replaced with the cheap stuff of today, for no obvious benefit. a literal replacement, likely to keep the tax basis. the facade, roof, plumbing, and wiring (plus insulation) are likely upgrades but not the framing timber. such a waste.

i’ve done some (small) reclamation projects with similar old wood, and it’s so much better than today’s lumber.
Exactly. Read a real book before bed. No blue light there.
"Clubhouse saw about 922,000 downloads globally in April, a 66% dip from 2.7 million installs in March and a surge of 9.6 million in February, a Sensor Tower spokesperson shared with Insider."

A graph would have been handy, but I would say a 2/3 reduction in new installs qualifies as a cliff. They note however that retention is ostensibly strong, so this cliff might not be as scary as it sounds, at least in the short term.
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On macOS you as the user already have complete and unrestricted access to your computer. You don't jailbreak your mac because it already comes with root and an unlocked bootloader. Mac apps also have much more access to the underlying system than iOS apps do, and this helps with better sandboxing, I presume.
Depends on which country US Contract Rates are derisory when compared to the UK
For some reason this reminds me of the website kuro5hin and how trolling was perfected into a sort of discussion-malware there. With Holocaust denial, it's discussion-malware with a highly targeted purpose: recreating the societal situation where another Holocaust can occur.
A random tweet about a concept not being "fundamentally ridiculous" is an awfully low bar to discredit intelligence. Have a look at his blog[0] and let me know if that reinforces your belief.

Besides, if you read the whole thread you'd know he's acknowledging that if we could simulate QC classically, then we'd be able to have more efficient classical search algorithms. It's an if that's likely impossible at scale but not, by definition, impossible.

[0] https://vitalik.ca/
It’s the first I’d heard of this axiom. Can you give an example of that in a real architecture?

I think about a central server with multiple terminals on a network. There the node is the beefy boi and the terminals are just I/O devices. Kind of similar to what MightyApp is doing - except with fewer privacy concerns :)
I am still using Keybase. I really hope it continues to exist
This is good, and I wasn't aware GitHub had done that, too.

I'm still lamenting the state of Wordpress default themes.

Twenty Twenty One (which I'm using now) also uses the system font stack, but has made weird choices. Huge post titles (48px), titles are underlined, other things make for a suboptimal reading experience.

Twenty Twenty had this really weird font experiment with a variable font (Inter) that was unreadable on some devices (the font outline was… wiggly). Of course you needed a plugin to switch it off.

Twenty Sixteen (which I was using before) is really nice, but comes with a web font.

I'd love Twenty Sixteen with support for newer developments (like those block things), but without the need for plugins to switch off the font and a few other annoyances.
Pretty wild to think about how something we take for granted as never changing in daily life can actually change in human lifespans to things as fundamental as atoms and isotopes. Sure, there's radioactive decay but few interact with this.

It's really like a big mess of uncontrolled alchemy of matter shifting around at chernobyl. I know it's a actually a giant mess of nuclear chemistry going on with all sorts of unknown distributions and spatial proximities of various atoms but wild to think about.

Typically this stuff is well controlled and reactor configurations are well established as are the types of reactions and byproducts produced with fairly high certainty. Take those very detailed designs away and you have no idea what sort of materials are shifting states in these globs of materials. They have designs and can reason basic percentages of what may have ended up where but lots of guesswork and lots of those are not highly refined materials I'm sure, which means a bunch of impurities are incorporated in as well.
I see lots of people in the thread, including the author, that have avatars with glowing eyes. Can someone explain what this is about? Is this some sub cultural thing?
For about 15 years I've been trying to figure out how to articulate a `Tetris is life` essay. "Things are going good, you're given an S piece that doesnt fit anywhere. You have to decide where you'll put that blocking piece so that you can hopefully clear it later. This might be an unexpected car repair bill or a death that you aren't emotionally capable of addressing ... You're in control, you have a good job, a great partner, and yall are saving to buy a house -- basically waiting for an l piece to complete your `Tetris`..."

Anyway, this game of (ha)Tetris is a lot like a lot of people's lives, just roadblock after roadblock. While the normal version where you start from zero on level one is probably an upper middle class life. And Id say that the majority of people in the world start on level 6 with the board halfway filled with a bunch of gaps and the pieces move at a speed that is barely controllable (im thinking of the classic gameboy version when I imagine these boards)

Hatetris is cool. I couldn't get one line and I consider myself a damn good tetris player. It kept giving me S pieces and threw a Z in there and then an l
It’s an absolutely gross oversimplification of course, and my intention wasn’t to disparage it. Your description could of course be applied to any pvp game :p
It's apples to oranges because she was not speaking directly to a crowd that was being encouraged to make an election go her way, as Trump was.
I'm not asking for a refund. I'm just saying that I will preferentially purchase products from vendors that continue to invest in their product line.

Besides this looks like a product team that got fired or didn't get renewed or something. There are contemporary Alpha cameras that are still getting updates, but the NEX was just a flash in the pan.
> Other business loans are tax-deductible because we have a tax system based on net income.

I want to make a distinction between productive use of capital and rent-seeking. If you're getting a loan in order to buy an existing piece of property and rent it out - that is not productive, it is rent seeking (since you generate cash flow from just holding onto an asset and not doing anything with it).

If you're building a new house or renovating/repairing the existing house with that loan, then the part that goes towards building/renovation is productive and the interest on that part of the loan should be deductible.

The point is that people can make a lot of money by buying up real estate "portfolios" and simply sitting on them to generate cashflow, pricing others who want to buy a home out of the market. This would even out the balance a bit and make holding onto lots of investment assets more expensive but buying your first home [relatively] more affordable.
I don't think this would help, since there's already a lot of businesses offering significantly over minimum wage that are still having trouble finding employees.
There are many books, but only so many hours in the day. Conveniently there are also many HN readers who have also read the book (presumably, you included) who could tell me if I'm wrong and the book is worth reading. That being said the NYT review (https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/books/a-first-rate-madnes...) does not inspire confidence in me.
I don't understand how Jonathan Blow of all people, figurehead behind several great video games that would have been impossible to run on a supercomputer 25 years ago, could possible have this take.
Aren't effective ads good for society? Don't they make us prosperous? Jobs are created, people get cheaper goods, many small businesses emerge?
The Behind the Bastards series on this was great.
Radioactive spallation is a part of it, but it's not the process I was talking about.
All of the attention around these guys seems like an extension of celebrity culture. I know Europe (in particular the UK and France) have a somewhat large culture around celebrities and their opinions / comings-and-doings, but the US is on a different level.

These founder-cults seem like the cults around the Kardashians (or whoever), but for guys who couldn't care less about movies but really want to be rich.
Mighty's problem is different than the others though, in that it is a thin client for a thin client. If web apps are too big to the point people need to stream Chrome in a container to get them to run well, why wouldn't you just stream them a full operating system where developers didn't have to target the web with all of its oddities and instead could just target Windows (or Linux)? The entire point of web applications was that they didn't require an install and were lighter than their desktop counterparts, and now that isn't true, so can't we ditch them?
Another issue is rail capacity for transporting lumber from sawmills. Even if the sawmills were able to ramp up and massively increase their supply, we could run into a bottleneck with transport. The mills typically sign contracts with rail companies ahead of time (based on projected demand) and it's not likely they could all of the sudden get double the number of trains if supply went up.
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By "Muslim ban" you mean the travel restrictions of on citizens of the seven countries that Barak Obama also had restrictions on? It wasn't a muslim ban as nowhere in the language or practice did it ban muslims form entering the US. It restricted entry from people from seven countries that were listed by the Obama administration as having high rates of terrorist links. Hillary Clinton would likely have taken the same step if she had become president.
3.8 is a fairly low unemployment rate overall though
its in progress. there surely are a lot of dependencies to work through. That said - I don't think Oracle would be legally allowed to or capable of damaging Salesforce by witholding licenses or whatever. And the fact that they are on Oracle currently has no effect on the developer, admin, or user facing APIs. like any cloud provider all of that is abstracted away.
Haha, it gives you an S (Z), except when you are about to fill up a line. (place SSSSS together, filling the bottom space). Then it gives you a I. At some point it gave me an L and a J. The darn thing is really mischievous!
There's an ongoing tension here between software getting complex enough to be slow and people wanting to move computation to servers.

The problem with that, of course, is that the clients inevitably gets faster, and cheaper, and software gets pushed to the leaves again.

We're carrying around what used to be super computers.

This is also why I would be very cautious about investing in something that bets on offloading computation from clients: If you time it right, it could be huge for a while, but you're betting against advances in the speed and cost of computation. The same advances you'll rely on to scale and drive down costs.

As such it feels to me like they're playing a game of musical chairs.
Open-ended homework for those who are interested: solve the same problem, but with actual Tetris rules.

I've seen a bunch of those "adversarial tetris" variants, and they all operate under the assumption that any of the seven pieces can appear at any time, and with only one preview.

Modern Tetris has 3 previews + hold, and pieces are drawn randomly "from a bag", without replacement (more formally, if P[i] is the sequence of pieces, each aligned subsequence of 7 pieces must be a permutation of the tetrominos).

This would be more interesting to make/play. Note that under such rules there exists a strategy that allows infinite play if the well is at least 17 tiles high.
I think FOMO fuels a desire to stay attached to screens (or fuels a rejection of mind-calming activities), which in turn increases FOMO when 90% of social media is about productivity life hacks, boasting about doing fun things, impressive personal projects, and side hustles making money. People expect a public health solution to this problem but I suspect there is none besides increasing access to tools like therapy or digital sabbaticals.
some slightly different things than i'm seeing in most of the other comments:

* respect during the interview process. i've had interviewers repeatedly fail to answer/make calls for initial phone interviews, send emails about rescheduling a 9AM interview at 6AM, demand i sign NDAs during the interview, lie about what the interview process will consist of.

* comparable coworkers. if you're going to hire me as an X level engineer, every other X level engineer i meet had better come across as being on my level. don't call everyone a senior engineer when some folks are unqualified to operate a text editor. it shows that management doesn't know who is competent and who isn't, which has bad implications for raises and work assignment.
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This might be the best blog post I've seen in a few years.

I have been doing modelling on the "moon" vs "asteroid" routes to space industrialization and he wrote down a lot of what is my head under the power problem of the "moon" route including the "large tower solar collectors" for a polar base and microwave power beaming. (it may make more sense than it does for Earth)

The one bit of earthwormishness is that he doesn't take solar concentrators seriously.

For instance on an asteroid you will find elemental carbon which is not so chemically reactive so you will probably make oxygen from metal ores and stones, burn the carbon, use the carbon monoxide to do chemistry with, and wind up with carbon dioxide as a waste product.

Now carbon dioxide is more chemically reactive than carbon but short of feeding it to plants if you want to make plastics you will probably use something like this

https://dimensionalenergy.com/

to bust CO2 into CO+O with sunlight that will not operate 24-7 in deep space but will not keep your expensive C1 chemistry reactors running on Earth or La Luna except at high noon. (Particularly expensive for those folks who are making jet fuel.)
I think that advertising in general, pre-internet, was perhaps a pain. It was unsightly to have stuff plastered all over buses, trains, any available space someone was trying to show something in your face, to get their brands name in your eyeline.

Now they are still doing that, but they have compounded the awfulness, because now they track where you are visiting and push more of those ads in your eyeline. Switched device, tough, the ads do too. The advertiser now also knows who looked at the ad, where they came from to see the ad, where the left to after they saw the ad. And then what they did for the next 2 weeks, so now they can make sure their ad is in front of your eyes whenever they want because they tracked your browsing habits.

Advertising was bad before, now it is insidious tracking and monitoring of users, under the pretense of advertising. /rant
Sure, but I think you are just adding risk by adding an additional way your safety equipment can fail. If you have a way for a non-payment to disable the vest, you have a way for a software bug to disable the equipment.

There should be no way in software to make it not work.
If we're going to judge nuclear by its few accidents and not overall safety for the past 70 years compared to, say, mining coal, sure.
That’s like assuming the manager of your grocery store will kill everyone with an automatic rifle, then designing the building for easy cleanup.

We know how to build safe nuclear plants. We should do that, and also make sure there’s enough independent oversight to make sure they’re not being managed by people actively trying to melt them down.
magnetic poles, not axis... Is this some of the "disinformation" that's threatening society lately?
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But not everyone uses GNOME and therefore not every distro uses systemd. Slackware still doesn't, and it's not some kind of minimal-for-Docker distro.

Edit: Actually I see that GNOME doesn't require (since 3.30?) systemd: it can be used with just elogind. (Slackware actually recently adopted elogind for KDE and Xfce).
Gentoo is another distro that doesn't require systemd (it's actually optional).
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5. Use proper API instead of escaping. (client-side) Say you assign your non-static data to el.textContent instead of concatenating strings into something that's to be interpreted as markup/code. Or you use DOMParser to parse markup safely, and then extract data from it or prune it using a whitelist via regular DOM API.

5a. Block all access to unsafe ways to use strings as code/markup via trusted-types CSP. (at least during development)

Conceptually the same thing you do with SQL server side. Parametrize the queries, instead of escaping and pasting into the query.
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> It is fascinating to me how quickly people reject the premise of Mighty, even after PG lists all the good reasons for replacing judgment with curiosity.

I was curious about Mighty and looking forward to their technology. That’s not the problem.

The judgment came largely when they announced that it cost up to $600/year. It costs so much that it’s actually cheaper to buy a whole new computer if you might need it for a year or more. Once you put a price tag on something and ask people to pay for it, judgment is fair game.

This whole dismissal of people saying that they couldn’t justify the product for the price as some sort of anti-curiosity thing feels disingenuous.
Check out Julia; It has built-in optional static typing, a fast JIT, it can be run interactively in the same style as Clojure, and it supports lisp-like macros.
It's quite amazing to see that people still living so remotely, in 2021. I wonder what most of them are accomplishing by using the mail. Do they have family they communicate with? Maybe children that have grownup and relocated?
Well you could say that instead of going after the author.
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I'm wondering how you guys would optimize that code ?

My naive approach would be something like this:

const int numCountryIndicies = however many there are..;

const char* countries = "A1\0A2\0...";

return (cc < numCountryIndicies)?countries[cc*2]:"UNKNOWN";
That one annoyed me as well, but for a different reason. The open web doesn't require funding, the commercial web does.

Advertising on the net doesn't bother me as much as it once did, but I also see less of it. I don't really visit news sites, mostly the ones already funded by my tax money or the subscription I pay for.

The best blogs rarely have ads. 20 years ago any random blog would have ads, not so any more. Search engines, at least DDG have a reasonable ad policy, even though I have reported a large number of questionable ads. Google is a little useless, because actual result drown in ads for some searches.

I think contextual ads should be preferred over those based on a users past behaviour online. It's really only news sites and social media that needs the ads based on tracking users.
>In the nimitz case they had just recently been upgraded

Fancy new equipment that's new to it's operators, who aren't familiar with it's capabilities and behaviour, using it in a highly complex environment. What could possibly go wrong.

When I see an instrument measure something at some extreme level, which suddenly drops to another extreme level, personally I think instrument auto-recalibration. We had a host suddenly decide it was logging events from 30 years ago, then switch back to 'today'. Turns out it wasn't aliens or ghosts, just a glitch in NTP.
i read the title as "hand sanitizer API" and wondered what it was all about. side effects of the pandemic huh? :D