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> For some things, like watching TV, I'm okay with going to Netflix because that transaction is expected to be transitory. If Netflix disappears or declares themselves a new world order tomorrow, I can simply unsub and no harm done.

So much for your $1000 TV that had Netflix and only Netflix builtin, and will refuse to boot when the cryptographic check fails becaused you changed the string that points to http://www.netflix.com to http://www.notnetflix.com
Very HN way of calling someone a fellow nerd, I love it.
A possible (and sensible) Data Science development setup
Show HN: Build and launch employee vaccine administration app on low-code
They used to make computers that lasted.
It will be interesting to see how long the Fed can maintain ZIRP amidst twin bubbles in equity and real estate AND an inflation rate of 3-4% and accelerating. Given that markets seem to have priced in ZIRP Forever, the slightest shift away from that will almost certainly lead to a crash.
About thirty bucks on Facebook. I couldn't afford a TV ad or billboard or even a bus stop sign.
Extensions for TwilioQuest, Twilio's educational 16-bit RPG
I'm certainly not joking, apparently the grey scale itself means nothing then, that makes it a lot easier.

Thanx!
Hey, they're taking it "to the moon."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-is-how-nasa-chooses-tech-...

> The station has around 100 laptops, as well as tablets and other devices, and aims to use each machine for around six years.
David May and his students had a similar idea - the result is the "Big Hex Machine", a 16-bit machine built from discrete logic gates which is on display at the University of Bristol's Merchant Venturers building:

https://bighexmachine.github.io

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/10283-big-hex...
I think it's mostly Play Framework on top of RDS in terms of Scala usage.
Sure. But this is an entirely different topic.

"Lockdowns achieved nothing"

"We didn't actually lockdown"

"Lockdowns are illegal"

The point is that a huge portion of businesses were completely open through the entire pandemic. A large number of people did not follow health guidelines.
No, I would not. We have zero knowledge of the distributions involved, and we can not get that information, so we are not allowed to make any assumption about it.

However, this statement does make a huge assumption about it, and thus, it is invalid.
Housing supply isn’t something that can’t change very fast. Housing demand can. The last 18 months has seen as dramatic a shift in housing preferences as we’ve seen in a while. It’s not all up though. Prices in urban cores in some places struggled a lot while the surrounding suburbs are super hot. Being stuck inside, a rethink of how much one is in “the office” and other factors led to a sudden shift where people value their own grass, larger living spaces and such over living as close as possible to an urban center. For places with good public transit this accelerated even faster.
Angular structural directives – implement your own *ngIf
Here's a fresh blog post for all #Angular developers to learn more about structural directives.

Understand the magic behind structural directives and find out how you can implement your own *ngIf.
Except linkedIn have limited their number of connections to 100 per week!

So 400 isn't atainable anymore
They also doubled-down on it. They flirted with branching out into other markets and demographics but it didn't really stick.

There was a bit of luck in getting their initial traction (they were definitely not prepared for the growth spurt and spent years getting to the point that the backend wasn't just falling over constantly), but they executed really well on capturing their core market.
for some people its very easy and for some its impossible.
Ah, interesting! Any downsides to this you've run into?
How is as=document more of a leak than ordinary cross-site navigation?
Just providing an example of a CSS styled XML file: http://mailmarkup.org/mail-documentation.xsd
I am surprised there aren’t more mentions here of AudioScienceReview.com

For anyone interested in buying speakers (or other audio products), it’s a fantastic resource and an essential one to avoid getting ripped off with severely overpriced and underperforming products; sadly, the high fidelity speaker space is crowded with such products (many of which are borderline scams), using a ton of pseudoscientific marketing babble to push products ranging from “snake-oil” bunk, to mediocre garbage that still costs the price of an exotic car for no good reason.

If you’re curious to cut through the garbage, and learn how to achieve the best sound quality for the best price with a no-nonsense approach, AudioScienceReview is the place to go. They have the highest quality objective measurements on many speakers (that goes far beyond frequency response, before you brush it off thinking that’s what I’m talking about) and tutorials on the well-established science of what makes a speaker sound better than others, and how we design and evaluate this.

It turns out you can get sound quality ~90% as good as it gets for just a few hundred dollars, and ~95% as good as it gets for a few thousand dollars (obviously just rough numbers here). Beware of speakers sold for exorbitant prices and exotic visual designs that tout how they are built, rather than what measured performance they achieve objectively.

B&W speakers are not bad, and I enjoyed mine very much when I had them. But there exist far better speakers at a fraction of the cost, and this includes their high end (like the Nautilus).
What surprises me most is that London seemingly has no tow trucks for cars blocking emergency egress from a building for months. Presumably a boot is useless if they aren't going to pay the fines anyway, but it would seem that they probably would want the "supercar" back.
That reminds me of an Experience I had once at a former colleague. He was a bit of an audiophile, dj/producer and had e.g. added more insulation to his living room to not annoy the neighbours as much, and built his own speakers and record player.

Anyway, something was playing, it was (sounded?) really quiet but it was crystal clear at the same time; normally I feel like I have to turn the volume up to hear the whole music.
> There's a bunch of cases where you want these devices to be resilient against attackers who have physical access to the system.

I looked into TPM stuff a few years ago, and it all seemed pretty useless to me.

First of all, the entire key-protection house of cards relies on the assumption if you've booted the right OS, the keys can safely be unsealed. But the TPM does nothing to protect from security issues beyond that point, which is the vast majority of security issues.

Second of all, if you're worried about someone snatching your laptop or phone, full disk encryption where you type the password at boot gets you 99% of the protection with much less complexity. And the much lower complexity means many fewer places for security bugs to be accidentally introduced.

Third, if you're worried about evil maid attacks where someone dismantles your laptop and messes with its internals without you knowing then gives it back to you, then the TPM isn't sufficient protection anyway. They can simply put in a hardware keylogger, or get direct memory access, in which case it's game over anyway.

And fourth, the TPM doesn't have a dedicated hardware button (making it a shitty replacement for a U2F key) and doesn't have an independent clock (making it a shitty replacement for TOTP on your phone) so it's not even a good replacement for other security hardware.

About the only use I can see for this stuff is if you're some huge multinational company, and you think even the authorised users of your computers can't be trusted.
I suspect that the only way for long-distance, heavy-lift aviation (and military aviation) to continue operating in a political/economic climate that demands CO2 reduction/elimination will be via biodiesel. Batteries ain't gonna do it. Zeppelins might be way forward for freight traffic where slow doesn't (often) matter as much, but for large scale passenger transport (again: assuming it's to survive) I don't see anything approaching the specific-energy embodied in diesel. Fischer-Tropsch (sp?) is well understood and can be made to work with pretty-much any feedstock.
Those people got played like a fiddle by the people who are too smart to let a good crisis go to waste.
So here in UK it hasn't worked out quite like this - yes the interest rates are much lower, but because in general the borrowing risks have increased, banks have massively increased the deposits required. Couple years back you could get a mortgage with as little as 5% deposit, 10% to get the "good" interest rates. Nowadays it's 10-15% minimum, but if you want to see those 1% interest rates you have to put 20% down. That made it a lot more difficult to buy a house for first time buyers.
Exists there a country in Europe where housing is not hopeless for a salaried non-owning individual?
>on the flip side it also vastly accelerated telework which allows people to escape cities with insanely high costs

Not really. We aren't lucky enough to have space in our family home for an office for either my wife or I to work from home For that reason, I am very grateful that I work in a company that has allowed staff to work on site for the last year.

I don't know what she's going to do when she comes off maternity leave. I'm sure that women less determined than her will just return to becoming the defacto childcare for the family.

Teleworking will favour some and disfavour others.

Edit: Your general point is, in my opinion, correct. Covid lockdowns have massively accelerated all that was going wrong, and stopped everything that was going right. Given that at least some forms of gender, wealth, and income inequality were previously going in the right direction, that is one of the things that has been stopped.
> As far as infrastructure/deployment goes, you manage your C# projects with C#, SSHing to them and doing stuff?

Basically yes. C# console apps can be run like any other linux cli application, provided the dotnet runtime or sdk is installed (~40mb vs ~150mb). If you installed the sdk, you can build/publish/pack projects for production. You can specify the input directory and output directory, so you can easily call something like this: "Process.Start("dotnet publish ~/code/app1/app1.sln --output ~/builds");".
Since you can start a process from C#, I can also git clone and git checkout like this: "Process.Start($"git clone {repo path} {output}");" where Process.Start lives in the System.Diagnostics namespace. So I built my own tooling as Console Apps that call other things (since I dislike bash scripts, yaml files (insert ci dsl) - the c# compiler protects me against a whole bunch of things and their System.IO namespace is awesome when working with files/directories).

So I can clone it, build it, open tunnel somewhere, copy it, straight from c# (although I have to setup ssh keys everywhere when needed, I use some trickery with "ssh-copy-id" that comes with ssh to add keys to new servers). So far I have 3 tools: a builder, a server manager (for droplets) and a tool that makes backups, but I'm looking at wrapping borg in the future as it is waaay better than mine. Next I need to build a tiny api to call "git init --bare" for new repositories, as I have to run it manually at the moment to make new project repo's.

> I'm going to offer $15 for unlimited minutes per dedicated vCore/2GB RAM

Careful, don't get abused by the crypto community; there has been some more incidents lately where miners abuse CI systems.
I believe it's more prevalent in Europe, but if your bus or train departs at 23:30, it will arrive at 24:15, not 0:15. That's deliberate.

No idea if they still do it since I haven't looked at a paper schedule in years.
Fucking sellouts.
> some computers still run on Microsoft Windows XP (released in 2001), because of the need to maintain compatibility with a scanning laser confocal microscope and other imaging equipment

Damn here I was hoping “ancient” meant some workstation from the 70s/80s. Should have known better tbh.
Another factor is money pumping by the government resulting in devaluation of currency. People want to put their money in hard assets that are resistant to inflation.
Marketplaces are one of the most powerful business models
this is above my pay grade techinically speaking - don't suppose you know of a guide to this sort of thing?
Internet Scams: Browsers Should Warn User About Modified DOM
I meant intellisense take 2 seconds, not 2 minutes.
This is very true - I think that is one of the reasons BBQ is so popular across so many demographics - it is relatable and achievable.
> in practice it seems to help push up demand and therefore prices

All of these schemes do that, because they address the housing market from the government-preserving invariant condition of "We can't ever let the market drop, we'd be voted out in a second"

So they come up with schemes and financial products to allow more people to access home ownership in some form or other without impacting property values. See also stamp-duty holidays. More or less by definition these things increase demand and push house prices up further.

It's insanity. It's also massively to my benefit as a homeowner who is about to leave the UK...
Our population changed radically when we gained sentience.

I don't see how it is reasonable to assume a species will gain sentience and not alter their behaviour in a way that alters their population. That is a "big" threshold to cross in terms of ability to alter your surroundings.

It doesn't have to be controlled, it just has to change significantly because of the gain of sentience for this argument to not be valid.
Yeah, in my book, Fujitsu-Siemens was one class above the Lenovo Thinkpads of late which are now a fading shadow of their former glory days.

Check out how many ports and devices they can fit into a modern thin and light without compromising repairability

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS2uogVMK8U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXmlgc7Qyhc
Clearly it's the latter /s

Thanks for the heads up
That isn't redistribution -- redistribution requires that someone actually gains something. That's plain stupid.

Whoever made that decision didn't go too far, they went into a completely wrong direction.
Form automation (generator) javascript library (with vanilla JS/react/svelte support out of the box)

https://github.com/lgirma/boost-web/tree/master/boost-web-fo...
Yeah, we'll end up building a Dyson sphere just to secure a goddamn "financial network".

Been worried about this for a while (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21280454 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24309932).

EDIT: Merged pull request: quotes around "financial network" (usrusr)

EDIT 2: _Microft wins this day. I'm going to start using Nakamoto scale from now on. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27368015
Yes there is. Cloth filters are a thing. Coffee sock is one brand I know of that make filters for V60s and others. Obviously you need to clean it and occasionally boil it remove oil buildup.
I have an old toughbook for for this reason as well. I tried looking into some modern ultra ruggeds but damn they’re expensive.
UI is a tree in general. Even when you render a graph, that is just a list of nodes and edges in your ui. What would be the purpose of a graph?
This sounds almost precisely like what was implemented. There was no widespread state or federal enforcement of mask mandates, even if they were installed. Basically all mask requirements were either implemented or ignored by local businesses. I know people who live in towns where almost zero businesses required masks. The number of businesses that qualified as "essential" meant that there weren't consistent "lockdowns" outside of a few areas (schools being the huge one) and a large portion of remote work arrangements were done on a largely voluntary basis by businesses.
Leaving one job for a better one doesn't make you less hard working.
Get a second account just for yt?
You don't say ey, the situation is approximately exactly the same here in Australia. In fact, 'gas lead recovery' is the closest we have a to 'building back better'.
Age-restricted videos for adults or age-restricted videos for kids?
Unfortunately, the problem isn’t environmentalism. We don’t have a renewed push for nuclear power for the same reason we don’t have a carbon tax, which would also likely be effective in curbing emissions & that many environmentalists do favor: They’re both ridiculously unpopular with the US electorate. Maybe the environmental movement shoulders some of the blame in each case, but I doubt if both were wholeheartedly embraced by greenies much would change.
Just FYI, this article is a few months old.
> we have more diversity than all of those countries

I'm sorry, but this is just bullshit. At least when it comes to Russia.
Every European country (except maybe the tiny tax havens) has 'desireable' and 'less desireable' areas, it's usually inversely proportional to the distance to well-paying jobs though. But if you're not bound to a location for your job - a privilege that IT workers have - you can live comfortably anywhere in most countries.
Component development: How to create a collapsible Fieldset in neo.mjs
You could create a "green" block chain by launching a secure cryptographic enclave that broadcasts a randomness beacon into orbit. (Several of them really, with the same seed.) Make it something that can be picked up by cheap SDRs. Then your block mining lottery becomes whoever can guess the next beacon output, and by being in orbit everyone can hear the beacon and it becomes extraordinarily costly (and obvious) to tamper with.

Of course that would allow extraterrestrials to cheat on coin mining...
Perhaps. I wouldn't be surprised if their license was revoked. I wouldn't be surprised if the courts assigned a value to the license and told the FSF to accept that.

There isn't much case law here. It will probably end up in appeals for years. In the end it doesn't really benefit anyone to take their chances in court.
Yeah, I see people getting bids 15% over what they put the house up for. And it's considered normal to get more than what you "demand", it's more a "let's start the bidding at" price nowadays.
My idea originally comes from the fact that in eastern europe you have either a beer (500ml) or a "small beer" (330ml). Cans are 500ml and bottles vary. In france there is a pint (500ml) or a "half beer" (the usual size) which is 200-250ml. Cans are again 500ml but bottles are all over the place and mostly 330ml.
People will not willingly buy a locked-down device over an open device, all other things being equal. So general purpose devices will not be made available, so that locked-down devices will sell.

edit: the only people who think that being locked-down is a feature are rationalizing technologists who indirectly profit from that arrangement. It's not even more secure. The methods used to control locked-down devices (namely constant network connections and cloud storage/control) are the most vulnerable attack surfaces we have, and the source of virtually all contemporary security disasters.
The claim that the US is an experiment has a long precedent.

>No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth.

-Thomas Jefferson, 1804
I knew about Depop since they were a tiny startup and I never thought they would grow so much!

Well done!

And that's a humbling reminder I'm crap at picking startup unicorns and the equities I'm negotiating as employment are probably worthless.
> Buying bananas has no relevance to climate

Can you explain why? All the bananas in my UK supermarket are flown from Africa.

> minimise use of cars and planes
"What appears to be a national attack on civil liberties"

Nice weasel words. Appears to whom?

We can't require vaccination, but we can certainly prevent unvaccinated people from entering the country. That's been the case in some parts of the world for decades.
It didn't feel wrong but it was tedious.

Especially when you wanted to do rounded corners, with tables and sliced images.

At least it was/is easy to vertically center the content of the cell. Unlike divs, for reasons that still escape me.

If you want to cash in on that table knowledge nowadays, just do email templates ;)
Show HN: Minted Wire – The Front Page of Sports NFTs
Sounds a lot like Basho! :/
It's actually one of the reasons I left the company. On paper I was hired (back in 2015) to build the website, but spent most of my tenure building internal tools. When I finally did get to build it, thankfully I had another web developer working with me by then, but it was also clear there was no interest from the rest of the business in making the website anything more than a lead generator for app downloads.

This was probably a good business decision given their key demographic, but it didn't make me feel good about what my role was, especially as (according to the soon-to-be-CTO) I was one of their stronger engineers. It felt weird to have expertise and constantly feel side-lined. There were definitely some challenging years in the middle, but they seem to have turned it around.
Surprised a lot of this stuff is RS-232. I have a collection of old engineering/telecom test equipment I used for a project and while some of it did offer RS-232 connection, GPIB is probably a bit more common.
At least over hear inflation has remained negligible. It must be a nightmare if you've lost your job (not been furloughed, just dumped) and I think plenty of people on zero hour contracts or similar are in that position. Still, things are at least starting to reopen.

I wish we had US style bankruptcy laws here. Plenty of brit will spend a decade or more having their lives ruined by the last 18months.