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> No Vendor Lock-In

> As of today only GitHub is supported and more Git providers coming in the future.

Hoping the next "Git provider" to be supported is a generic ssh:// path for self hosting your own data, so you truly have no vendor lock-in!

EDIT:

I currently use Gollum Wiki as my cross platform, vendor agnostic, markdown based note taking app. It's not as pretty as this, and it's not particularly good on mobile, but it's ultimately just a front end to a git repo containing a bunch of markdown files, so the solution was to just find a different markdown text editor with a built in git client for mobile.

Be nice if the whole thing could be handled in a single web app, and this does look promising. Wonder if the source is available or if it's a hosted-only solution.
> how did C19 end up effecting the infant

I don't think the infant had symptoms, but I'm not sure. My worry with my kids isn't that they'll be sick now, but that 15 years from now we'll be hearing about a whole generation dealing with after effects of covid infections. Brain and physiology changes.
Yeah, the online gray area companies like porn and gambling are the ones largely holding up the web at this point.
Al Jazeera and its journalists have been physically attacked and bombed many times as well. At least there are no deaths directly from cyber attacks. Although cyberattacks can lead to information on how to kill and compromise Al Jazeera journalists and personnel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_8,_2003_journalist_death...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/apr/09/pressandpublis...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_bombing_memo

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/19/what-is-behind-isra...
If you steal my secret code, then I no longer have secret code.

The question is whether the secrecy itself has value. I may perceive that it does, and you may conveniently perceive that it doesn't.

It's a dubious mindset, to believe that it's your own call to decide whether something should be of value to someone else.
It’s a joke. EA = bad. Reminds me on the kind of comments that are ubiquitous on reddit, which is one of the main reasons I left there.

It’s witty and not dull, but does it bring any value to the discussion? I’d say not really
Good boys will be good boys
Parent is saying very clearly that you should not need FDA approval to sell a drug that claims to treat some specific diseases.
While it might be a struggle to convince you what you can or cannot do to your body, nobody but you should be compelled to pay for the materials. Given social or insurance based medical systems in most countries, the rights of the many win out.
Have a look at https://www.topotijdreis.nl, it’s a fantastic resource on the national and hyperlocal level.
Was thinking the same - companies are extremely protective of their source code. How many games out there truly have unique/interesting/hard tech in them? I can think of Spore; I can think of a handful of rendering engines, maybe Stalker, Wow of course but not many more than that
"Save" only saves the tasks (not the times) in order to provide a way to save a default configuration. Saving tasks with time tracked on them wasn't a use case for me yet, but I'll think about that.

There's a safety prompt when closing the tab and/or browser window while there's an active task. That doesn't kick in when rebooting though.

Overall, it'll probably be best to add an options menu at some point that controls things like global auto-save, auto-start for new tasks and maybe some other things that pop up over time.
The answer to that is not more parking; it's cheap rideshare / carpooling / taxi when weather is bad, and incentivising usage of space-efficient bikes and motorbikes when weather is good.

In fact, London's taxi culture already has (or had) that sort of approach.
Even if I'm being super charitable, I'd suggest the reason that she remembered it and took it as fact is because it aligned with her anti-Semitic prejudices.
That is very interesting perspective, my quality of sleep definitely improved by compartmentalisation of sleep.

And when I can't fall asleep I just get up and do something out of bed (for 15mins until I get bored).
No. Never for users to make updates. This seems like a terrible situation unless your app is merely a BI reporting tool and the customer owns the entire schema.

I have hated it when a customer has read access to their own DB to run reports on our app. Even then they can cause performance issues and create dependencies that means they break if we change the schema. In other words their IT adds to our support burden in arbitrary and unpredictable ways.

If you have to allow DB access and write access then use the DB views stored procedures and security features to lock it down. Maybe they think they have access to the User table but infact it’s a view and if they update it runs validations. This allows you to place some business logic and protection between the precious data and the customer.
The implication when noting that two laboratories retained samples of smallpox is that both the USA and the USSR (now russia) have almost certainly been researching bioweapon applications and defenses on this virus for forty+ years, now. Not that a third-party is going to steal the virus.

During the cold war, this was a polite way of saying "we know you have this capability, and guess what, so do we."

This announcement of a drug to treat smallpox is probably more about the reheating of the US/USSR cold-war again, than it is about a mission-impossible style caper with someone stealing a virus everyone already knows everything about.
Ancient Rome and Persia were rival empires. How many Persians (other than usual small number of traders, mercenaries, slaves, etc.) lived in Rome? Even Persians are (largely) of Indo-European ancestry, migrating from the same steppes that filled Europe. Modern people of Iran consider themselves white, although they do typically have slightly darker skin than someone from Italy. It all boil down to what you consider white. If only Swedish people are white, then OK. If Hungarians are white (they typically are) then people of Iran are pretty much white, too. Anyway, race in humans is a pretty much artificial thing, but it is real in our culture nevertheless.
I agree that there are usually no general solutions but I think there are generally bad solutions out there.

Regardless of what you think of OOP (I think it's overused) ORMs are genuinely a terrible idea for a multitude of reasons even if a lot of people seem completely oblivious to other options (and as a result think it's a great option because if you can only imagine one option it's automatically great, at least that's how a lot of people seem to think).
a rasberry pi remote door opener does not require excessive documentation. If this smal business has purposely overenginnered to render it non servicable by third parties than it's more than fair that they put at least as much effort on documentation as they put on overengineering.
If you're going to work, that might be 15-30% of your income to pay for the trip
If anyone wants to learn more about Latin, Luke Ranieri's Polymathy channel has a lot of good stuff:

* https://www.youtube.com/c/PolymathyLuke/videos

He recent 'reviewed' the Latin in Civ5 and Civ6, as well as the "Romans go home" scene of Life of Brian. He does other languages as well as science-y stuff as well.
Humans (not any specific type of worker) are bad about risk versus convenience trade offs. They really like dangerous shortcuts as an example. Like, people who are on the clock, and they see there's a safe route to the work site, but if you cut down this steep embankment it's slightly quicker, although you might fall to your death... Humans will take that shortcut. Even though they're on the clock! They are risking death to save somebody else money, where is the sense in that? But that's not why they're doing it, they're doing it because it seems convenient. So we have to arrange things to make unsafe practices also inconvenient and then humans stop doing them. Put a fence along that steep drop, now you'd have to climb a fence and it's no longer a shortcut, so they use the safe route.
If you mean that it annoys you that any kind of copyright/IP violation is described as ‘stealing’ then I share your sentiment. This is a real crime though, and most people call this stealing.
Nice blog post. He meant it in a positive way, right?
Which is to say, a dupe, with two substantial discussions in the past 24h.

(I was going to note this as well.)
National Geographic recognizes new Southern Ocean, bringing global total to five
To learn about the differences, see video on Luke Ranieri's Polymathy channel:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeqTuPZv9as

Also:

> How should Latin be pronounced? The debate has raged for more than a hundred years, but as the dust has settled two poles stand astride each other: the traditional Italian pronunciation, called Ecclesiastical, and the Restored Classical pronunciation. Is one more correct than the other? Is one more appropriate than the other in certain contexts?

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiPlJMWQci8
Saw all of the above. I was born there.

There is a common dog that looks a lot like the Rhodesian Ridgeback (although a lot scruffier). I really liked them.
> Not to mention the math on vote tallies in GME's latest 8-K filing from 2 days ago clearly proves more GME shares exist than should be mathematically possible, enabled only by naked short sellers who never covered.

You mean the 8-K that showed 55M votes out of 70M shares outstanding? How does that prove anything? Maybe you're confusing shares outstanding with the float.
Or cycling?
I was thinking more about traditional EU manufacturers, from my experience (interviewing for a few positions way back when) I got that vibe. Salaries match that assessment.

You can see how much they believe software is important by how much they are willing to spend on attracting talent.
It's not clear why this article was posted on HN. The only relevance are passages like this which show the media's obvious double standard.

> Many have compared Trump's policy of separating children from their parents at the border to the Holocaust. But that comparison is wrong. It's horrible, it's reprehensible, but it's not genocide.

There hasn't been a single word about 'children in cages' since Biden took office.
'White' is an arbitrary category based loosely (but not solely) on appearance, so it's not as if 19th century Americans were objectively wrong to classify Italians as non-white. It's just that the categorization scheme has changed somewhat over time. (Obviously, this does not excuse the racism directed at Italians at the time based on the perception that they were not white.)
Also if you follow AWS HA guidelines, this does not lead to a service outage. We were affected by this and it knocked a dozen or two systems offline for 6 hours or so. AZ redundancy took over and that was it and oncall went back to sleep.
Maybe Trump has a really big tent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_tent) but it has lots of little compartments. Whether that's a good or bad thing is up to you.
Here in the UK, I see the battle still raging from both sides. I have been remote for 3 or so years now, so during covid it was business as usual for me. I have a dedicated room in my house for a "work" office, and plan to convert the roof into a hobby office. Having a dedicated room really helps me get into work mode.

In the UK I'm starting to see a push to get back into the office by the media. Stories about how "most" people want to go back into the office, which goes strongly against what I've heard from colleagues (which, to be fair is only tech people). I've heard the argument about being trapped in a small home/flat can be an issue, especially with kids, so I can see that being a driver to get back in the office.

Some more management and sales type people have told me quick communication face to face is missing with remote working, but for me, an information worker, I value not being interrupted every 10 mins. I can put my slack on DnD and block out mornings or afternoons for deep work.

I lived in the outskirts of London and commuted in for a long time when I was getting started in this career. Now I'm 10 years in, I'm over spending £650/$900 a month on a train ticket, spending 1h 30m each way to commute in and then spending £10 on lunch every day. At home I can cook good, cheap, home cooked meals. I can go for a walk at lunch time and start and finish when I want to, as long as work is complete.

People have also told me they miss social time in the office. I'm more introverted, so I miss this much less, but if it's a big loss, maybe you need to socialise more outside of work.

Now, 18 months into COVID, I have decided I never want to go back into an office, if I can help it. I know not everyone can do this, but for me, I've committed so much that I've moved away from London up to the North of England. I want to continue to arbitrage between London tech rates and cheaper locations as long as I can.

I'm sorry to say but I think most big cities will keep a significant loss of visitors. Those that can move will do. The brain drain from a country into capital cities I feel is reversing, and I think it's for the best. We can help revitalise smaller areas and tech like the internet, video calls and the acceptance of things like Slack will power it.

So right now, I think its a battle between employers and staff. Employers mostly want people back in the office (for some reason, I'm still not sure why), and most employees want to be remote, or at least have the option. Who will break first is the big question. An employer willing to hire from a bigger pool of people is bound to, over time, gain a competitive edge.
An interactive website to visualize the link between opinions and demographic
Last time I checked taxis are pretty expensive. Not everyone wants or can spend 10 or 20 euros every time they need to go somewhere.
In general the problem in the game industry isn't that people don't know better ways to structure their code, but that they are under extreme pressure to ship and get absolutely no time to refactor.

Between GDC presentations and published computer graphics papers, the game industry is actually quite open about sharing its best ideas.
Some current vendor versions of awk have astonishingly short line length limitations. See e.g. (especially the latter):

https://github.com/samtools/samtools/pull/1165
https://github.com/samtools/htscodecs/pull/22

which work around limitations in the default system awk on Solaris/OpenIndiana/whatever the remnants of SunOS are called these days…
Just a few weeks ago, I fixed a problem in an internal tool (that still also runs on an ancient Solaris 10 box) by switching from `awk` to `gawk`, since the former would briefly whine on stderr and quit whenever a line in its input would contain too many fields. A recent change had managed to break that undocumented barrier.

In this case there's at least no silent breakage involved, but the badly written shell script that called it did not bother to check for that condition, and a fair number of heads were scratched for a while as a consequence.
Maybe I’m being naïve, but that seems naïve. EA is a very well-funded and complex company with a lot of fingers in a lot of gaming pies. To assume that none of their code is cutting edge or advanced seems unlikely

I could be entirely wrong though
Well right now Joe Biden has just started a visit to European countries (note the main section on that front page is "Biden in Europe"). This has kicked off in the UK where one of the main points has been the post-Brexit situation with Northern Ireland. As he visits other countries I imagine they will be the focus of the "Biden In Europe" section on that frontpage. Other than those stories I can see:

- Belarusian exiles fear Lukashenko’s reach

- Macron to Johnson: Not serious to want to review Brexit’s NI protocol

- Jail term for man who slapped Emmanuel Macron in the face

- European Parliament calls for end of caged farming by 2027

- Belarusian exiles fear Lukashenko’s reach

- POLITICO Brussels Playbook: Keeping up with the Johnsons — If Biden says so — Good news for Fidesz

- 7 ways Euro 2020 could turn political

Could it be that it's just showing different based on location? I'm based in Central Europe, if you're in the UK or USA that might explain a shift in focus? I dunno, I'm guessing but either way we're way off piste here - if you guys still believe the story about France switching the main language of the EU to French during their presidency is a UK media hoax, then I guess we'll see soon enough.
While this progression may exist, it is not what I took from the article, nor the original idea behind the hedgehog classification.

It is more about some thought-leader being keen on blockchains, machine learning, supply-side economics, or what have you, and looking at every problem/situation through the lens of wanting to apply this technology/policy to solve it, possibly ignoring the downsides/details/side-effects.

The article gives the fictional example of a project “just needing a relational database” but the “domain expert” trying to push them to use SpringySearch because that can also work as a relational database (and because this hedgehog is sold on SpringySearch).
You can also compare to words like it, thing, she, he, and equations to definite descriptions.

"I don't know who she is."

"The culprit was wearing a red coat."

"The mystery number plus 3 is equal to 5."

"I'm thinking of a number, but I'm not going to tell you what it is. But I will tell you that if I multiply it by 3, and then subtract 5, I get 1."
I get your point there, and it is valid.

my point in comparing the seatbelt to vaccines was about the passenger being compared to the vaccinated person, who is responsible for his own risk.

Analogies are never perfect, and in this case, it is the first time, the disease has been so politicized on both sides that we need to resign ourselves to potentially never coming to a complete agreement.

Time of course will prove it, but for some, it will be too late.

However, I just think that (even stupid) people are in general selfish for what they care about ( not logical enough for the rest of us) and that in general, they should have agency.

I see it in the same category as regulating alcohol, drugs, etc. In fact, there is unanimous opinion that alcohol is not good for you at all, where there is discussions,even prior to covid, that is often debunked (but not completely in the eyes of some people) that vaccines pose their own risks (see autism, etc ), and also affects people's sensibilities (see usage of aborted fetal cells)

I believe the core issue here more than vaccines is trust. Trust that is lost, and attempts taken to understand why, and solutions to rebuild it.
Old k8s? Held to SLA but not allowed to run the service yourself? Run for your life!

Customers like this will make you a loss. Simple.
Choose good customers.
It is, but this is pretty much the first thing the article asks, and the first thing anyone would ask. The comment is almost acting like the scientists haven’t considered that hypothesis
Your account is only 4 years old ;-P

But seriously, +34k karma in four years is nuts
"What if different schools of thought exist for where something was in the past, could multiple hypothesized locations exist for a single object?"

How to represent such things on a map can become quite complex very fast. A placename from an old document may refer to multiple locations, but these are mutually exclusive. The probability of attribution may vary in each case. Different scholars may disagree about these probabilities. Etc, etc.
This was discussed two days ago, with 85 comments, in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27446242
not very related but i think our technology is at the brink of some actual psychohistory
This is a great piece of writing. I wish more blogs tied together so many technical perspectives like this. Bravo auteur!
Existential angst and experience design in Russia
Specifically https://code.activestate.com/recipes/393090/
Thats how it was in the defense business. Our radar software was not on the internet.

It makes things a little harder because reference aren’t available easily, and people didn’t read they’re email as frequently, but it was ok.
This looks a lot like Vue. Is there a comparison somewhere maybe?
Yep, you see it also in the split away from Qt (C++) to GTK (C).
First-class objects in Python: generic code, wrappers, and factories
No surprise, the amount of autists being accepted in society is growing and growing, they prefer to stay at home(as seen in the comments in the WFH articles).
That “line”, if it exists, is not something that is publicized. I suppose it could be inferred by looking at cases, but someone could still be busted for any activity during the blackout period, I think.

The people who do insider trading, however, do it for greed. 50 bucks once a year isn’t going to cut it for them.
>there's no way to bet against freshly issued IPOs, right?

Sell call options? Buy puts?
Public key cryptography: SSL certificates
> that most people are too lazy to do this sort of background check before they buy something online

To be honest that does seem like an awful lot of detective work especially if this would be for a simple online purchase, particularly if the transaction value isn't that high.

In many countries you would typically pay online using a credit card or Paypal in which case the card issuer/bank/Paypal provides you with a degree of protection if a product doesn't turn up or isn't what you ordered.

In Germany I believe people still are used to there being the option to pay using "Vorkasse" (paying in advance, by bank transfer).

I've simply never understood why any buyer would want to assume all the risk by doing that.
It depends, if you count Armenia as Persian, then all Persians in Armenia lived within the Roman empire for a century. Maybe count Armenians as their own group, that's a safer bet.

I think you've hit upon something here with defining "white". If "white" is something that you can freely define to suit your purpose, then there's no point in having this discussion. If we define "white" to be something more specific, that would make it easier to pin down some facts.

The bigger point is simply that Rome was ethnically diverse. After all, it was a huge empire, how could it not be?
There probably shouldn't be such exploits, but there probably are.

I remember Quake 3 had a number of exploits that could allow a server owner to essentially run arbitrary code on clients machines.

As a newer game, probably Battlefield 2042 servers are entirely run by EA, so any exploitation will have to go through the server first.
Can you link to any examples of this happening in the past? Like oops I installed The Sims and Starcraft and now my C:\ drive is on Shodan. With mobile games that sort of thing probably happens all the time since mobile apis are designed to let apps do it. But I'd be surprised if something like an EA game was responsible. The worst I've heard so far is a bug where Steam will `rm -rf` your home directory because Valve doesn't understand UNIX.
The concept of whiteness, and even more the USA concept of whiteness is a very recent construct, I'm not really sure I understand the point of studying ancient Rome through that lens.

I'm from the South of France and now live in Portugal, it's not rare to find people who have a rather dark complexion despite being what I'd call "white", especially if they spend a lot of time outside. But maybe Americans would consider them "latinos"? Or is that more of a cultural adjective? I don't really know and I don't really care.

At any rate if we ignore these modern semantic arguments and return to the point of the article, I would agree with them that I highly doubt that the Roman senate looked that much like an offshoot of the British parliament: https://i0.wp.com/acoup.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Sena...