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Ask HN: Is HN getting more aggressive about killing threads?
Has HN gotten more aggressive about shutting down threads or have I just gotten more political? I saw two threads killed today: the first was the announcement from the freenode staff and the second was on the current state of SF.
That's kind of bizarre - I've worked in a couple of consulting gigs now and the hours have always been tightly reigned in - the company wanted all the hours for sure, but they wanted you producing things constantly, just throwing more hours at something and going over estimates was a way to get yourself in trouble quick.
Thank you! I was actually looking up Plymouth and Portsmouth yesterday. I'll do some more research with places you listed.
Software flaws are more abstract and hard to detect. While a material crack will show on an X-ray image, a security flaw in an authentication code may be subtle enough that no tool will be able to highlight it.
And this is the second departure announcement...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26967555
Nothing will be grown outside on Mars for hundreds of years. Even with an active terraforming operation, they will need some kind of dome enclosures to provide enough air pressure to grow plants for centuries.

Until then, just rinse off your suit and boots when you enter the dome.
> My current working theory is that most people assume that "the module system" is similar to whatever one they've used in the past, then run into problems, and leads to frustration. I've talked to so many people who have totally opposite problems with it, with no real pattern to issues or expectations.

When I treated modules as Java packages or C# namespaces I hated them. Only when I realized that I can treat them as glorified C imports did they start to make sense. I still hate them, but at least I can rationalize their design now.
More accurate to say that apt is for the sysadmin, perhaps.
Must have a better DSL connection than mine. I have had centurylink link technicians over frequently and nothing has fixed it.
Shouldn’t they have a paper-based/offline downtime procedure for this?

(Oh shit, everything just went down, turn on the generator, go plug that printer and laptop in, and print off all the reports of where we were from the offsite/offline/whatever backup).

What did they do before computers?

Failing to plan is planning to fail and all.

I like the idea of monthly planned downtimes where possible so people don’t run around like a headless chicken when things go down. No different than a fire drill.
> A year later they announced they would be developing a knock off.

This normally doesn't worry me.

What I normally see is:

1) company we're selling to gets snotty that we're charging too much.

2) company sets up internal group to do what we do

3) company spends 3 years doing it--and then shuts it down because it was soaking up money (gee ... ya think?)

4) company now comes back to us and we increase their prices relative to what they had and their competitors

If 3 guys and a dog can clone my work that easily, I'm doing something trivial, and I'm about to be out of business anyway.
There are already laws that protect certain classes of individuals in situations like housing and employment. It's not hard to apply these laws to other classes.
Shoes for VR that allow you to stay in the same place while walking
Functions are polymorphic in many languages that let you annotate the their types. The concern is not really for dispatch here, it's for readability/correctness.
> I could see myself delving into writing a macOS-clone DE (which as a sidenote, GNOME and Pantheon doesn't go far enough with)

How do they not go far enough with it? The only thing that I can think of them not emulating is the menu bar in the top left, but the Gnome team is already flying pretty close to the sun with their recreation. Even still, there are ways to implement a global menu bar into Gnome with a little effort if it means that much to you. Otherwise, I really can't fathom what you're missing out on, besides some walls for your garden.
Hey, I'm the head of product at Temporal. I would love to understand what you mean by this.
https://histre.com/ does tree-style web history visualization. This is a personal knowledge graph app I'm working on.
I used to work at an insurance company. It was interesting to listen to some of the underwriters talk a bout how trivially easy it can be to scam a small mom & pop business through a fake trip & fall "accident".
Or it didn't happen and this is just a story being told.
> In that case the judge allowed the sale of the information in contradiction to its commitments.

Note that bankruptcy always allows things in contradiction to commitments; bankruptcy is all about balancing which commitments will not be fulfilled, and by how much, when a party is no longer capable of fulfilling all of its commitments.

If you don’t like particular commitments being voided in bankruptcy, you want legislation specifically protecting them so that there is a clear legal barrier to voiding those specific kinds of obligations.
I would wager a foolish sum that Colonial had a complete shit security posture and had many opportunities to improve but chose to accept this risk at the executive level. I have zero sympathy for Colonial.
https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-sx

~180 EUR a month for 160 TB. Would need RAID so the 224 TB for 300 EUR a month would be better.
Having done both, in my experience the two have almost nothing in common, especially in process. Some of the most famous novels have no real structure at all, solve no problem, and don't adhere to any consistent rules of construction/grammar/style.

And: a 'successful' program is easy to spot; a 'successful' novel defies that, beyond the most superficial (and ultimately subjective) measures.
I'm disliking the new colour, looks like some disney channel hooli fake product.

The some of the changes to the UI are pretty annoying.

If you want to fix the reactions background, here is a bookmarklet:

javascript:(function(){var a=document.createElement('style'),b;document.head.appendChild(a);b=a.sheet;b.insertRule('div[class^="reaction-"] {background: var(--background-modifier-selected) !important; border-radius:4px;}',0);})();
This isn't a "small town" thing. This is a "rich enough to afford a police department bigger than they need so the police can justify spending the man hours on BS" town thing. It happens in plenty of medium sized towns and small cities.

If the cops were stretched thin busting meth labs or dealing with Real Crime(TM) they wouldn't be doing that.
Don’t confuse the sandboxing a browser does with other types. I would never argue that a browser shouldn’t sandbox javascript. The kernel should also prevent the browser from reading your SSH keys as well, just in case :)
It hasn't gotten more aggressive. User flags bring down many political threads, and threads that look like they won't bring productive discussion usually get killed or downranked by moderators.
Even if it’s only a hundred thousand years, we can set up a magnetic field in Mars orbit that would substantially reduce losses far easier than actually making the new atmosphere.
Managed to get my 6mb A1200 on the internet just the other day.
You say "us". If you have a partner, what are the implications if you separate? Are you still financially stable after that?
+1000 for the tiling window manager comment! I can't stand the weird nightmare which is macos desktop management with spaces.

iCal is a big draw though, Linux calendars are terrible and since thunderbird choked and left xul Mailmate is attractive too.
Intel Uses AI to Make ‘GTA V’ More Lifelike Than Ever
Just like how robbing a bank may cause terror to the people in the bank or the neighborhood but it was done for profit not politics.
> And Apple TVs?

Well, that’s at least one company from which I, although perhaps mistakenly, wouldn’t expect that. And being proven wrong would probably make me reconsider my purchase habits.
Perhaps the problem is that most people are left unexposed to the reality of ridiculous arrest charges.

A fight-fire-with-fire strategy might be that the government should aim to arrest all citizens at least once before age 25 and charge them with something ridiculous before dropping the charges. Ok after thinking about it for two seconds that may be a very stupid idea, but still...
These sort of analytics are endemic in some industries; most people will have seen some generic notification, e.g. "system usage may be monitored on company equipment" but have no idea this means "your laptop is logging everything you do, all the time".
And downtime procedures. They’re not perfect, but like pipelines, they existed and operated before computers.
Bitcoin, Weighing Risks, and Life
Note the "more importantly" - one of the reasons the conversion machinery is bulky is because you need all that space for radiation shielding anyway, and the conversion stuff tends to serve dual purpose.

Active nuclear (fission or fusion) reactors put out a lot of radiation, much more than even high-level waste.
I was just watching on NHK that the N501Y mutated strain in Japan is putting healthy 30-60 year olds in hospital care 66% more often.

They are actively cancelling Olympic training events and reducing paralympic events, and only 10% of Tokyo residents surveyed said they are happy the games are going to continue as planned.
Now that I can see. Not really a hack, but yeah that squares with the ability level I'd expect from someone who puts a touchscreen in a car.
No argument there. The one downside of any fine–grained security system is the work it takes to build and maintain the security policy.
I read it to infer that NileRed looks pretty young for his age, which I think is true.
Remote work can be a lot better than this
Sure, and my point is that...there's not a lot of room for valuation growth, since their current valuation already prices in extreme success.
I think it's both: people who have something to hide for the government can make it pretty hard (but not impossible) for the authorities to track them down. On the other hand average people who don't have "anything to hide" have no reason to bother implementing these counter-measures, making it fairly easy to track their transactions on the public blockchain.

In this case even the pros messed it up, but this is a very high profile case with undoubtedly a massive amount of manpower thrown at it in various agencies. You don't mess with USA's oil.

And even then it's unclear if the money was actually confiscated.
The first mirror on library genesis often has a link to an IPFS option, which is usually the fastest option.

The “problem” with ipfs is that without incentivizing someone to pin (basically to seed) your file, it will be slower to access/will not necessarily remain alive if you yourself stop hosting it. But it’s the same with torrent.
It’s actually really cool that it has public gateways so you don’t need anything specific for access.
I still have a working Amiga 500 at my parents' house in Germany.
> Great, let's give that company even more control. That's sure gonna end well.

We have enough evil companies who invade our lives through the platform develop. Cloudflare is not one of them. Using them is voluntary (by the service providers), and I think they're one of the more useful companies around.

BTW, I'm not a web developer or Cloudflare employee. I have no skin in this stuff, however they build some cool stuff inside the Linux kernel, which is interesting from my PoV.

> It all gets loaded once and then cached in the browser.

Then cleared and/or invalidated by the user or browser's logic itself due to plethora of reasons.

> The initial load takes long regardless of whether there's a CDN.

Actually, no. A reasonably fast internet connection (>12 Mbps we can say) can load a lot of things very very fast. The biggest overhead is DNS, even with CDNs. With a good local, network-wide DNSMasq installation, if the server is close, I can load big sites almost instantly.

> And, it doesn't matter whether a JS file loads in 50 ms or 300 ms, if it then takes 5 seconds to parse and start running.

I think 5 seconds is long time for even the old Netscape Navigator's JS parser. You need to run something akin skynet to parse the JS file for straight 5 seconds. How's that even possible?

> So put them on a separate domain and serve that from a CDN if you really care whether that stock photo no one notices loads in 500 ms instead of 2000.

I don't know you, but world news generally contains live/new footage or fresh photos from the ground, not some stock photos, also we humans are visual animals. Many people want to see the images first, read the text later.

> That doesn't explain much why anyone would put their main domain behind cloudflare.

Load balancing, DDoS protection, CDN, workers, Bot/Scraping protection, cost reduction, rate limiting, you name it. Even my DSL router implements some of the protections, to my surprise.

Internet is not the same beast now when compared to 90s/00s. I miss the simpler times, but alas.
It's also protected (though rarely enforced) in some states. Unless they've changed the law, it's illegal to call yourself and engineer in Texas unless you're a Professional Engineer licensed by the state (or another state - I think there's reciprocity there - if only we could get that for carrying firearms...) This change was made sometime in the late '90s, and I should have taken advantage of the grandfathering opportunity which would have made PE certification easier. That said, I've never needed a P.E. stamp, since on any project big enough to require that level of formality, I had access to in-house or contract engineers that could sign off.
Serious side effects, yes. I am homeless and live in my van in North Carolina and having to ration my gasoline waiting for the idiots to stop hoarding.

These people thought they were sticking it to the man but they were actually sticking it to people like me.
We Found Joe Biden’s Venmo. Here’s Why That’s a Privacy Nightmare for Everyone
How so? It works fine on Linux, and I hear it works fine on Windows too (I think you might have to install a driver there though). Apple seems to have the odd OS out here, why is it no their fault?

My assumption here is that, as usual, Apple doesn't care about anyone who hasn't fully bought into their ecosystem. If it's not an iDevice, they don't care if it works fully with their desktop OS.
yes, I have seen the same list on hacker news before - except people added the specific checkmarks which increased the s/n
What's Lynx?
> You've just described fighting your OS.

It's only fighting if it wasn't designed for it in the first place, which isn't true. Linux (and the software designed for it) will always be modular. Once you have your desktop however you like it, you can backup your dotfiles and call it a days work. Bare git repos do the job almost perfectly.

> You listed package manager, coreutils, and VPN. That.... That is a minuscule part of a programmer's workflow.

If coreutils and a package manager are "miniscule parts" of a programmers workflow, I'd sure like to see someone program on a Mac without them.
If you add in Keycaps and Switches, $300 is pretty average to low end for an alu case board with a PCB that supports VIA/QMK. Most QMK capable boards are custom after all.

BTW, TKL generally refers to boards that have a nav cluster and arrow keys in a layout similar to a full size. The boards discussed here are all 75% or 65% (difference being function row).
Sometimes it isn't about the "big sale" but having the big company on your list of customers. It can give your company a lot of credibility.
I want a car that warns you that your headlights are off when driving at night.

I want a car with spare headlight bulbs built into the headlights so when one burns out the spare automatically turns on and a warning is displayed that you need to replace a headlight.
You're right, but then giving the title "Work from Home & Productivity" is misleading, giving the (IMO false) impression that results are generalizable for WFH beyond COVID. And there are some pretty strong claims:

> Therefore, productivity fell by about 20%

> Employees also spent less time networking, and received less coaching and 1:1 meetings with supervisors

> Employees with children living at home increased hours worked more than those without children at home, and suffered a bigger decline in productivity than those without children

I would say these results have more to do with COVID effects and forced, sudden WFH than inherent characteristics of WFH.
There was a lot of breathless nonsense from a bunch of people about this disease. I just Bayes low-weighted it because the prior probability is low. So far a whole bunch of these things are coming back non-replicable. It'll be an interesting test of each of our epistemological techniques.

My prior to start with is high that the contagiousness-increasing mutation (the novel spike protein) improves likelihood of the virus attacking more organs and improves its ability to massively infect the organ but that once you've got a massive infection of the organ, you should see effects after recovery that are similar to any other such infection of the organ.

I'm actually curious if anyone has neat software that tracks one's predictions and allows one to adjust their knowledge of the world systematically. Currently only using a shared spreadsheet with friends.
That already exists. Surgeons have been using cardiopulmonary bypass machines for years.
I keep http://www.whyisyourdomainnamesolong.com as an email forwarder. Surprisingly memorable.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs the core developers of brtfs work at Facebook.

> In June 2012, Chris Mason left Oracle for Fusion-io, which he left a year later with Josef Bacik to join Facebook. While at both companies, Mason continued his work on Btrfs.[27][17]
LOL:

“Tech audit of Colonial Pipeline found ‘glaring’ problems”

https://apnews.com/article/va-state-wire-technology-business...
Stopped taking this article seriously at "—oh, engineer, in tech-bro speak."
This is an ignorant position. In the US at least, software engineering is a valid way to refer to some programmers. The idea is MEANT to conflate traditional engineering disciplines with software development.
So much so the government itself uses this vernacular to describe programmers on its payrole.

Ref: Not a software engineer, programmer, or "tech-bro" ::rolls eyes::
SEO check tool. Location non US, EU
I’ve been looking into this for about a year. This is going to sound crazy right now but I’m saying Fuschia is going to just straight up change computing in the medium term future. I’m expecting it’s first release next week at I/O and right now everyone just thinks it’s the “new Android” but it becomes kind of clear when you read the docs that it’s actually much much more than that.

Things that are interesting about it:

- any device and any workload from IoT to servers.

- totally new security model from the ground up which is how I expect it to be the main driver for business use cases

- new app delivery model which is kind of like a weird mix of the web as you know it currently, native apps and kubernetes.

- seems to be developing an interesting interop story where the goal is that you will also be able to run Android and linux apps on it despite the fact that it’s not Linux and not based on Linux. Everything is custom made from the ground up.

- the development story is also super interesting, all IPC happens over a gRPC like protocol and provides a nice language neutral way to develop for the platform and to integrate with everything else.

Some of the other projects I’ve seen coming out of Google make way more sense in this context too. Flutter for web is a good example which I know is not exactly a crowd favorite here on HN but I’m serious when I say that now might be a good time to go and look at Dart again. It’s actually a really nice modern language if you are coming from JavaScript, Typescript or Java you will be up and running very quickly.

I think this is about to become a hugely disruptive force. If Google manage to not screw this up that is.

For a slightly longer term bet I’d say by the time it hits say v5 it will be the biggest OS / platform in the world by a considerable margin.
I’ve not used AppArmor much, but I guess it’s at least better than nothing :)
> They routinely fantasize journalistic motivations that are either outdated (“clickbait”)

Wow, truly great journalism. /s

A one sided blatant attack piece that has reporters being the saviours we desperately need.

alt: https://archive.is/IdWv7

edit:

also, > many of the most prominent media haters were also targets of Valleywag, its tech-focused spinoff blog.

Strange they dont refer to Valleywag as a gossip rag which is a term journalists are familiar with and which more suitably sums up Valleywag .
> for _every_ _single_ _interaction_.

I bet not, and that there is considerable selectivity (both based on legal mandates and police discretion) as to which interactions are reported and which facts about them are reported. Reporting a lot, however, is a good way of creating the impression that everything is being reported.
The closest thing to this that exists now is probably the ads in Waze, but those only show up when you're stopped and vanish when you start accelerating again.
Intrusive use case.

I can see a useful new trim feature as long as it is onl presented as a data point offered to platforms like Apple CarPlay; surfaced or not based on user settings. I see value in being able to flip through a list of most recently viewed billboards.
What makes you think that you need to install a driver on Linux to make SFTP mounts work in a file manager?
Oh nonsense, that was well established to be an edit of the binary. It’s obvious the GRU didn’t have the source code. The idea that this was an example of the GRU working with criminal hackers is plainly ridiculous.

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2017/06/eterna...

Why call it diskcoder.c anyway? It’s Petya
Washington State ends all restrictions on public broadband
Looking forward to having modern zstd in-kernel! Thanks for your efforts.
Not only should the in car interface lock itself when driving to a map or rear camera, but distracting video billboards in general should be banned for safety reasons. Tempting drivers to push buttons to make pop ups go away is just going to lead to deaths. I have a friend who died in a car accident and “ad revenue” doesn’t impress me as a justification
Word length in characters:

Zylog Z80: 1

Intel 8086: 2

PowerPC: 4

Apple M1: 8

IBM Selectric: 5
In the simulation it mentions aspects such as temperature/pressure/.. are simulated, I'm just wondering though, there appears to be some kind of electrical interface on the mould.

Does that mean these kind of parameters are monitored whilst injecting plastic?

Edit: Just noticed it says "the mold consists of many injection channels, electronics for heating, pushers, springs, temperature sensors and much more"

So I assume that interface allows control and reading of temp.
NMAP Online on AWS
Have you tried getting a CO2 sensor and measuring CO2 levels over night with and without the window open?
> I want to pull out the max you can for long term capital gains without getting taxed by that ($40K)

Will this be your only income? If not, you'll still owe taxes. Capital gains aren't separate from the rest of your income; they're just taxed at different rates.

If this will be your only income, don't forget about the standard deduction. That gives you another $12.4K toward the 0% long-term capital gains rate, so $52.4K total.
An earlier discussion (4 months ago) in much the same vein:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25742928