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Good question indeed, I'd say it comes down to:
- apps fit my workflow better - even if its just a different icon in the dock.

- having an actual non web tech based app would be great because web apps always behave slightly different than real native apps..

(It's really hundreds of small things that are just weird - always feels like you use a app in a portal..)
From my experience...(I discovered many stuff by sharing ideas on IRC with ppl but this ain't the only attributions...) I distinguished IRC as nice place for "Anarchists, Lunatics and Terrorists".

am far IRC and shitchat, by now life is easier... less distract-full :Ð
Hi, author here.

First; I must say I was surprised that my little rant made it to HN, but obviously some found it interesting, and it did spark a discussion.

Secondly: Yes, I do come of as a jerk. English is not my native language, and my Norwegian dry humour may not have translated as well as I had hoped (which is not an excuse). Also, at an age of 38, I do not really have that much experience with what todays youth does, with exception of kids between 5 to 10. And that is not a fair comparison anyways.

I have not yet read all the comments here, because I fear some of them might be a bit personal, while my "attack" was mostly a generational one. As I said earlier, this is the first time I gotten a real audience on my blog, and I was not prepared at all for this kind of reaction.

But I value your feedback, and I see your point. Next time I will try to look a bit past the "rough" language and see topics from different angles. Because the world I grew up in is gone, and we are still making progress, so obviously things are going the right way.
Please don’t use Gaza as a justification to this broken piece of technology. That’s borderline dishonest.
I can't seem to connect to irc.libera.chat. I keep getting "bad password" constantly, even though I am not sending one.
So why hasn't end-to-end encryption been utilized for years with the storage of email and other files, like they do with iMessage content?
What would the difference between (-,+,+,+) and (+,-,-,-) be? It seems like they are the same except for choice of labels. I guess the main difference is where speed of light fits in. In (-,+,+,+) the - is multiplied by c.
Audible.
Stitcher.
TuneIn Radio.
If you have your own podcast you can use https://audext.com/ for better ranking. Just FYI
I don't know, that's what the developers say (last paragraph): https://pypi.org/project/psycopg2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27153635
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I typically work in situations where the entire data to be backed up (file storage, database) is on the order of 10-100Gb. The projects I’m working on don’t fit the high profile of a Colonial but I’d rather err on the side of safety.

Is there a service that could regularly fetch data from s3 or even connect to postgres, and regularly send a physical copy of the data by mail?

Does it make sense to offer airgapped backups as a service to smaller companies? Over mail?
It can’t be that hard to focus on the rooms with people in them, reduce the other rooms to eg one change an hour.
I really hope for the best for Elbakyan.

Sorta related, the Darknet Diaries podcast just did an ep on the Pirate Bay. The ways in which US capital flexes it’s interests on sovereign nations makes me deeply uncomfortable.

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/92/
For instance there is no way for distributed search engines to work with CloudFlare. No, "contact me and we'll help" is not always a solution.
Now would be an excellent opportunity for those people to move to Matrix.

IRC was good, and I still use it, but even I as a 51 years old greybeard unix/linux accolyte realise that IRC has had its day.

If any of these chaps are reading this, move to Matrix - it'll be more resilient than IRC.
It's Apple's market power. Slack style apps are the only kind that Apple allows on the app store, see my earlier comment.
Congratulations!

I always have great respect for Scala because itself and the community tried to adopt and push the novel idea in the industry. Take a look at the changes, they're no joke to design and implement. At the same time, they're also trying to make the language consistent and simple. (Yes, I mean simple, not easy or single-paradigmed)

They are taking the hard way, and not only there are not enough people to appreciate the effort, but also attract some hatred from time to time. I hope Scala 3 would bring us and itself a bright future, and inspire more languages to move forward.

(For example, there are a lot of type features added to TypeScript in most releases because it needs to do the typing on existing dynamically typed languages, it may also be a hint that dependent type actually makes sense in mainstream languages).
Eight minutes!? That’s over 100ms of CPU time per page. I’m baffled and more than a little horrified that you would call that highly optimised. I would honestly expect anything calling itself highly optimised to be doing that in closer to 8 seconds. 1.7̅ms is ample for something carefully put together, probably even in JavaScript and with a database (fetch everything up front in one or so queries), though it’ll certainly be easier in a language like Rust. I admit I’d be decidedly impressed by a reasonably-featured JavaScript SSG doing 18,000 pages in 8 seconds; but more practically, in a JavaScript ecosystem, I’d be targeting definitely under a minute.

I will admit I’ve grown used to Rust code and code that’s been designed to be fast. (Zola’s not that, by the way; it makes many decisions in favour of subjective ergonomics and flexibility at enormous runtime cost, as well as doing a lot of theoretically-unnecessary cloning and such all over the place, which could speed things up a lot if it were sorted out somehow (I haven’t contemplated the matter). For my own website with some admittedly very complex templates, and that’s probably Zola’s slowest part, it’s scaling at about 2ms per page with a warm disk cache. Actually, it does some multithreading, but much of the most expensive stuff in the process isn’t parallelised, so repeated runs average using almost a quarter of my 16-thread laptop. I feel I should multiply that 2ms by something, but I’m not sure quite what!)

Edit: Later on the page: “As of October 2020, ElderGuide.com has ~20k pages and builds in 1 minute 22 seconds.” 4ms wall time (16ms if still operating on four cores) is much more encouraging. I guess the page could do with revision. Later still, “Build times on our ~20k page site are routinely less than 10 minutes on a modest VM.” which seems to be the first set of figures again.
Not just early stage startups. Any startup that's competing with FAANG for talent should be competitive with FAANG on compensation, on a risk-adjusted basis. Which means if there's a successful exit, everyone makes more than they would have than if they had just worked at FAANG. Early-stage employees should make a lot more, and later-stage employees should make somewhat more.
Do not confuse medical and scientific community with authorities. The ill advisory was coming from WHO and parroted by national authorities (including CDC). All while the efficacy of masks against airborne/pulmonary diseases was pretty much established. WHO is not a scientific body conducting independent research but a bureaucratic organization with heavy dose of politics.

However back in spring 2020 when the official position amounted to "a mask is a facehugger", arguing for using masks (including by medical professionals) was effectively impossible.
They claim 150Wh/kg - that's well below the best lithium ion cells, I think. If I am not mistaken, Lithium Ion cells reach more than 200Wh/kg nowadays and are definitely capable of reaching 300Wh/kg.
I totally agree. I love the direction of Scala 3. This quote says it all I think:

"Scala 3 takes a slightly different approach [from Scala 2] and focuses on intent rather than mechanism. Instead of offering one very powerful feature, Scala 3 offers multiple tailored language features, allowing programmers to directly express their intent"

So rather than something like implicits, that can be used N different ways, only 2 of which are practical, Scala 3 adds those 2 features explicitly.

https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/new-in-scala3.html
Apple Sign-In is just an OpenID federated login; these don't inherently provide any anti-automation or rate limiting; they just push the problem to the Identity Provider.

IdPs like Apple/Google/Microsoft might do a fine job of limiting you to "one account per $unit-of-hardware"; Apple in particular can do this via iOS attestation. But then you're limited to either their heuristics (in the case of MSFT/Google) or their hardware (in the case of Apple).

Ultimately this is apples-to-oranges, though, since Cloudflare is not offering an IdP product but simply an anti-automation solution. If you use federated auth, you're getting (and giving up) a lot of other stuff beyond just anti-automation.
Please explain the problem (here or via email to me).
25 years is pretty long in IT history.

I'd say it lasted.

But well, everything is political nowaday, and people apparently can't get political without creating drama. See: the last basecamp outrage.
Wait, is this a Wired link? The URL seems to go to drive.google.com and... that weirded me out so I didn't click on it but figured I'd check out the comments to see what folk had learnt.
It wouldn't bring any benefit to anyone (except maybe private prison companies).

And also it's because he's still a person. A person who did a terrible thing while literally insane, but still a person.
HAProxy 2.4
I like Digital Ocean the most these days, but other good options are Linode and Hetzner (which is especially good option for us Europeans). Digital Ocean has a great UI, managed databases, S3 alternative object storage, block storage, and more.
They should move to Matrix. Decentralised, federated, and just that wee bit more modern.

I say that as an IRC user for at least 2 decades and a recent convert to Matrix.
Which if you pay the ransom, means also relying on the word of the people that are actively extorting you.

Scary, scary place to be. Especially for a health service.
What are you going to switch to? Android?
One of the major issues I've seen while working with large organisation on software development is one of mindset. These are organisations who predominantly think: "We are an 'x' organisation that happens to develop software". The more productive and safer way of thinking is: "We are a software development organisation that is within 'x' market".

However, the latter requires a huge mindset and experience shift from the very top of the organisation. And groups and individuals of that organisation having strong interest in their survivability are, of course, not going to change that.
A HSR train stop and go - without opening the door is about 1.5 minutes added to the total trip time (depending on how fast the train goes of course). It is possible to get the time the doors remain open down to under a minute (this is done for airport trains), but I think 1.5 minutes is a more reasonable floor just because people need some time to get their bags on the train and around other people.

This puts the time loss to stopping a train at 3-17 minutes.
I don't see how or why these things have to be related in any way whatsoever? Atlassian offers self hosted solutions and presumably do so because it's profitable. I don't see why offering a self hosted solution has to somehow mean less profit, or to the extent of non-profitability for that matter.

You could make it *more* expensive to use the self hosted version. It's straightforward to justify if you consider the additional development overhead, and if you include some kind of a support package.

My question is genuine. I see strange justifications like this often when it comes to self hosted versions of X, Y, or Z product. What exactly is the risk to profit here? I can see extra engineering overhead as a possible risk, but that's a solvable problem. There are many ways to handle software updates. Spinning up new backend environments is often done on devs machines daily when developing. I don't see any novel problem that hasn't been solved.

The "we have no plans for this", or "we are looking into it" are all often used ways of avoiding the question of "why aren't you doing this?" There are plenty of companies out there that for one reason or another, need to control the environment where their data lives. Why give up that business? Why do people who work at those places have to often settle for worse products because of this? Why not give businesses *choice* of storing their data or having someone else deal with the complexity?

Is it that the presumed market for this is too small? And why is nobody being transparent about this?
Although bringing some batteries to market this year indicates it is quite far along. Most of the battery/energy news I’ve seen on hn is “breakthrough will hit the market 5+ Years”.
That URL, https://p.haavard.me/407 is a pastebin text.

According to https://p.haavard.me/ the pastebins expire after 24 hours. But most URLs in the pastebin already are 404, which likely means that someone pasted an old text file for an issue that happened some time ago.
That's really interesting. I wonder what's particular to Brazil that causes this?
As a "non tech" guy - I have tried learning programming since age 14 with no success.

My biggest issue with any of these programs in they teach you some tools, ex. if statements, loops, etcc... then expect you to know how to build a house(program)

Make me a bunch of different, simple houses first - then show me exactly how they were built - then MAYBE i'll learn.

This goes especially goes for building websites.
It's a mixed bag because the ACX Royalty Share[0] system is a horrible, horrible business case for narrators. The math just doesn't work. My guess that all those poor narrations are royalty share gigs. Most novice narrators have no idea how bad the proposition is, and by the end just don't care if it's good or not, because it was so much work just to get to the end and pass the technical checks. So once the mp3s pass the technical checks, they're done. I think many times the narrator realizes by the end that they'll never get paid for the effort.

And it's clear the authors rarely check the work.

We saw on HN this week that the numbers don't work for authors [1], and considering that audiobook sales are a fraction of print sales, the business case for narrators is far worse.

[0] https://help.acx.com/s/article/what-royalty-is-paid-on-acx

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27106055
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For every developer that sees this message, a few dozen will have given up.
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Some of us invested in nice masks, or enjoy not being told to smile. Not everything people do is with politics in mind.
Really? That's wild to me. I haven't worn a mask outside since the pandemic began.
Amazon’s earbuds offer more bang for your buck than Apple’s standard AirPods
How does this compare to something like SvelteKit with an adapter to generate a static site? I don't know much about Svelte, so maybe my question is weird.
Give this link a go:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iqUnmD79tMlswlQQhhId1cuW6DX...
Something about their signups didn’t trust me — I had to get an account through a sales rep, but I’ve been using the free plan for personal stuff fine for about a year.
Coal Pollution is increasing the global warming all over, we should take action against it's pollution. I shared lot of save the earth posters on my social media account's to get this earth green again. I use online graphic design software called as PhotoADKing to create these posters , if you also want to contribute from your end to save the earth then go and create posters, flyers and share it on your social media platform to save earth.

https://photoadking.com/templates/posters/climate-change/
I've published some books on Amazon and used ACX. Just to add on to the story - there's been a proliferation of new narrators on the system, which has naturally driven down prices being paid.

Many of these new narrators seem to have seen a Youtube video, or something, about how to make easy money narrating books. I'm guessing that, due to Covid, the ability to make money from home has been very attractive. I can usually tell within 10 seconds of listening to their audition that they're new - really low volume and lots of background noise. Just a non-professional setup.

There's also people who apply for my narration jobs using bots. As in they feed the narration script to a bot and have it read it. On their page they advertise how they can do male voices, female voices, and basically any kind of accent - which to them is just tweak a setting on the bot.

ACX must be way underfunded. Especially during Christmas time they get several months behind on approving fully narrated books. Seems like Amazon just isn't investing much in the platform.
I largely disagree and am not looking forward to dealing with mixed brace code at work.
I get what you are saying.

In that example most of it was waiting on the remote database. (I’m ans SQL newb).

That said, Elder.js makes it easy to see what is causing performance hits with full perf tracking.

These days that same site is 1 min 22sec.
If the FBI can use the Russia thing on a presidential candidate, they can use it on anybody.
Yes, that is the scenario I am describing. I have a billion dollars of liabilities in the ScamStableCoins I issued and a billion dollar in "Assets" from the IOU I wrote myself.

THus I am perfectly fully backed.
Mattermost CEO here, highly appreciate the feedback,

On logging out of mobile apps, often that's from an IT security policy to have sessions last only a fixed number of days from the last login.

We added a feature to automatically extend the session length based on the last login of a user--so inactive users get their sessions expired for security, and active users don't.

If you're a long time user of Mattermost you might need your IT admin to switch on the setting: https://mattermost.com/blog/session-expiry-experience/

It was set to be on by default in Mattermost v5.24.

Regarding replying, we've been working with our community on adding different options for threading: https://mattermost.com/blog/dev-sneak-peek-collapsed-reply-t...

From the blog post you can join the discussion on the topic if you like as well. We're very open to your feedback,
It's called low trust society.

Its a thing :https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_trust_and_low_trust_soc...
I think they just screwed up the url and used the temporary url instead of a permanent one. Gist annoys me how they do versions and files in the gist.
Mattermost CEO here, thanks @jdiez17! Very glad to hear!
They’re incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and no one can find out the names of the directors/owners/CEO/people in charge.

That’s not shady to you, especially for a company that sells privacy?
Not OP. I am not sure about PIA. But I had recently done some research on VPNs since I was interested in getting one. From what I remember, most of the VPN services are owned by a few companies. And those companies don't seem to have a track record of good security or acting in the best interests of the customer (selling data, giving up logs, etc). My takeaway from that research was that I need to be real careful when trying to choose a VPN service provider and keep track of acquisitions.
Probably ok for most current irc use cases; but the mobile clients for Matrix suck. I’ve also had “eventual consistency” issues with the protocol.

Discord is probably the closest spiritual successor to irc (the types of communities using discord are the same types of communities that used irc in the past).
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What really stunned me was that in our state, the official website even has a statement letting you know about these fraudsters... but apparently they can't actually shut them down or stop them from mailing every new LLC? It's incredible how ill equipped we are to shut down scammers who have a nice downtown Chicago Loop address.
I read so many breakthroughs in cell technologies lately, that I can't tell anymore what is research and what is success. Not being a specialist doesn't help either... So, are those plans based on real and tested batteries (as in, not just surface tests or whatever laboratory conditions), or thoughts how it would pan out if successful?
I don't think it's particular to Brazil.
That's easy. Those scams operate because the countries/players have access to the US financial system.

You provide the incentives to the countries to fix their problem by cutting them completely off. If someone using a bank in Cyprus did it, you tell Cyprus government that in 48 hours the Fed will block all transactions with that bank and you block it. They move to another bank, you repeat it. Eventually Cyprus government ( and Cyprus banks ) have to make a choice - continue to tolerate scammers using their banks and be locked out totally out of the US financial system or crack down on the scammers.
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After a disagreement on IRC led to a 400mbps DDoS attack on my university (we shrugged it off, yay internet2) I decided it was time to stop using IRC. This was 20 years ago. I think I continued from a third party shell for a year or two but eventually moved on to web forums. Before I completely left I started ghosting my dns to avoid attacks but that was more effort than it was worth
The majority of the VPN industry is shady. It relies on spreading FUD and unfounded claims about security & privacy, and the economics don't make sense for a lot of them - they appear to spend more on marketing than the expected profits from such a service, so extra money must be made somehow, probably though unethical means.
That is so impressive that such a small, light, non-powered aircraft can demonstrate the effect so starkly! I had no idea.
An acquaintance of mine mentioned that in college, she was involved in a college group that was trying to organize against anti-Asian violence, and there ended up being so little of it that they had to reorient to being a volunteer organization.

I'm also pretty liberal, but it feels like the NYT has decided it's their role to litigate the culture war. I really don't love it. Being driven to substack a la Taibbi and Greenwald, because it's not like going and reading Breitbart or whatever is going to give me better info.
Seems like the lack of need for cooling weight would make up for the difference.
It could also be transitive: Scala inspired Kotlin and then Kotlin did the trick, I hope they could share the credit :)
Huh, "azar" also means "illness" in Marathi (आजार), although that's not on the Wiktionary page. Coincidence or is it a loanword in Marathi as well?
Yes, it doesn't seem to be open publicly yet. You need a server password.
If only there was some kind of service that could sync git repos properly, some kind of 'hub' that could also deal with conflicts
The folks who won't do either have likely been doing that for the last year and would thus be already factored in to any case/infection numbers they're evaluating.
The quality of grocery stores can vary within the same chain. My wife and I usually shop at the Ranch 99 that's local to us, but there's another one about 40 minutes away that has a better selection. Or at least, a slightly different selection. We also shop at H-Mart, Lotte and Great Wall. Each of those tends to have at least a few items we like that the others don't typically stock.
Surely the Isp, i.e. thrust per propellant weight flow rate, would have to be much higher for that air turborocket? 250s is not that great already for a rocket that has to carry all of the propellant; the big advantage of an airbreathing engine is that only a fraction of the accelerated massflow is propellant.
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not seeing any mention of encryption