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Nice to see turtle graphics mentioned in this context. Back when I learned to code, it was one of the more common teaching techniques, and I still believe that it's one of the most "hands on" ways to explain loops, recursion etc.

As far as development environments - have you tried Thonny (https://thonny.org/)? It has some nice features in it that are specifically geared towards explaining how things work. For example, when you debug, you can step through subexpressions, and their values are automatically substituted in the editor as they are computed.
lol, indeed. That's the point of engineering, to fence and mitigate errors - both current and future, isn't it?

The future part especially makes it a hard problem.
Salesforce's initial marketing slogan was "no code". What year it was, 2010?
this!

exactly- even though I have read many interesting other reasons why this will not work out.

programming is about modeling and formulating a problem so that a machine "understands" it and can execute it.

Not so many people can and want to do it well...
2040: all IT projets are about migrating low-code projets from an outdated low-code technology to a new shiny low-code technology.

#Sisyphus
I tried deleting the app and instead accessing it via browser and that too through the incognito mode, so that I have to enter the user name and password each time I login, so that it will become hard and discourage me from using it.

However, I still find myself using it. I think until I find a good alternative to what need Instagram is fulfilling, in my case quick relaxation, I won't be getting off it.
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There is this class of tech outlets for "advanced" computer users (the kind which comes with CDs and USB drives full of "useful" software) which is pure snake oil marketing material.

The truth is, that with the right behaviour you probably don't need any AV product. Don't click on weird links, use adblockers, don't open weird documents especially when they come via mail, keep your OS and software up to date, etc.

For all the other stuff (zero days) AV software won't help you and in fact AV software will often even increase the attack surface of your system (remote code execution via AV-buffer overflow is not a rare thing to happen).

On my Windows machines I am not using AV software since roughly a decade and I have not had a single issue. Telling people that they can click around carefree if only they have an AV software installed is irresponsible IMO. AV software is not a substitute for education.
Net benefit, not gross. Other countries can have the innovation with none of the investment. I can easily think up a scheme where countries pump their brightest to go to a country with good infrastructure and lax public domain rules and reap the benefits.
There are more people in countries that aren't the originating country. Anything which benefits everyone equally will benefit that group more, it's not about an individual other country benefiting more.

It's technically true but I find it to be another unfortunate example of "us" vs "them"
You may be right about how breaches are received in the news by people. It may depend on how they roll it out. I'm sure Stripe will do their best to help clients secure their customers' data. At the end of the day, though, it seems inevitable that breaches will occur.
> I also looked at charts of its stock price. I saw signs that sellers were less patient than buyers. That usually indicates an ordinary fluctuation in business, but whatever, it counted as evidence that I could safely postpone buying, so I decided to wait

Any traders in the audience care to shed some light on how they would go about this?
You'd think so, but it's just not true. Linux has a substantial performance advantage over Windows for rendering, which is (partly) why all the large render farms use Linux instead of Windows.

The most sensible hypothesis I've heard about it is that THP really helps with large rendering loads, and Windows doesn't do that yet.
Does it also make it proportionally slower to brute-force attack it?
Perfect metaphor of me, in any programming job ever.
I see HackerNews chewed up your formatting. An extra newline between bullet-points is necessary.

> You use a dynamic subsubdomain scheme

Good point. If you run a site that creates a new subdomain per customer, and uses subsubdomains, you might end up making a high volume of cert requests. I don't know a lot about this stuff but presumably there are paid CAs that offer a more generous rate limit than Let's Encrypt?

> You embed resources that are only available over HTTP and cannot be proxied, either for technical or legal reasons

When is this a problem?

> You request resources from a local IP address, e.g. a website hosted on GitLab Pages that shows you the data from your own DIY weather station which runs in your local network

I don't follow here. If for some reason you need to present that data as a local HTTP service, that service could just act as a proxy to GitLab Pages over HTTPS, no?
The Motif X11 version of WordPerfect for Linux was _so_ buggy and crashy. I wouldn't run it even for nostalgia's sake.
Neuronika: A machine learning framework written in rust
The _Economist_ was founded to provide a particular point of view. You should always consider the speaker's biases. It doesn't mean they're wrong.
My friend's kid wrote to ABC ( Australia) to complain about their one sided take on a issue about a country that she knew about.

They wrote back saying they are not obligated to present all sides of a story.

ABC parades itself as unbiased to boot and is funded by taxpayers.
Not initially anyway its not all about money
That's kind of the default, "let's be cynical", viewpoint, don't you think? Some people do have awful breath. Lots of old men couldn't get an erection. Certainly you aren't claiming that diabetes, arthritis, or depression are not a real issues to be treated? Today I saw a commercial for a shingles vaccine. All I know about shingles is that David Letterman got it and it kept him off the air for a while and he said it was miserable. I'd certainly consider getting a vaccine.
First mobile browser for gamers Opera GX launches during E3
If a least one browser had used a different backend, the API behavior would have had to actually be defined instead of just saying "behaves like SQLite". And that defined behavior would have to be implementable on top of both SQLite an the other backend.

All doable, but quite a lot of work. Once you start looking at the details, every single database has its own SQL dialect and they're not all that compatible except for the simplest queries.
Is it available for download/use by others? This seems to solve a particular problem for me
Not everyone in the world a completely knowledgeable in the field of computational biology and GWAS as the average HackerNews reader to consider it "pretty pedestrian".
The rest of the world using the invention does not diminish its utility to the country that invented it.
I have two questions:

1. many times in HN comments I saw the opinion that ideas are cheap and scaling is everything, so why do you care if universities keep the patents?

2. from the point of view of the academic researcher, is there any difference between patent kept by university and no patent, but scaled by a company?
The university tells them to apply for patents if they can, and provides some of the bureaucracy to make that process easier. In the same way that the university - who is their employer, after all - tells them to publish papers, TA classes, etc. Also, it looks good on your resume. A tenured professor may have the academic freedom to ignore these incentives, but a grad student or junior academic needs all the help they can get.
and the new shiny technology is coined very-low-code
I used to think "winners write the history books" was pithy and false. Then I realized that in the moment we can barely come to a consensus reality on even the most obvious and well-evidenced topics and that every historical account I had ever read was completely devoid of the debate over what was true. History is mostly propaganda. I'm sure if you get deep enough in the academic discipline you will find honest attempts to reconstruct the past in all its messiness, instead of just explain a preferred conclusion. Don't know that I have ever read a thing like that though, and certainly never read it in a book or seen it on tv.

So yes, if the news is fake, imagine history.
Queue the entitled prats lining up to punch FTDI because they feel entitled to FTDI drivers and software be free to them and not damage their Chinese knockoff chips.

But their time and labor? Nobody can understand how valuable it is!
https://altbox.dev
Interesting idea, instead of a deep clone, would it be something similar to the copy-on-modify pattern?
> We're having trouble crawling that website. Please try again...

It'd be helpful to know what the trouble was exactly. Some troubles are non-retryable.
VW boss Diess: That’s not enough, G7 – Disappointing outcome
Now the model they are pushing is 10 minute grocery delivery which aligns closer to fast food than what you describe.
That comes down to stock though.

Put it in another way, if I wanted to buy apples of X variety and I got to the supermarket and those apples looked crap I just wouldn't buy them, I would buy some other fruit or come back another day.

However online, if I ordered x and they have in stock then they have to fulfil that order, even if the apples look like crap.

I am not really sure you could improve this unless you had some form of back and forth comms between you and the warehouse.
While I was working in my previous job for some clients in USA, I regularly had meetings starting from 6PM up to 10PM local time. I'm from Bulgaria. We have 7 hours difference with east coast. I had so much compensation hours/overtime that I was earning 20-25% more on top of my salary(outside of office hours are payed with multipliers) and had extra vacation days. Nowadays I'm not so inclined to make this much overtime, however I'm OK working with shifted office hours.
For reference - THP -> Transparent Huge Pages.
I don’t care what happens to this site.
Windows 10 has only 4 years left to live (officially)
No one is going to commercialize anything without exclusive rights. The hard part isn't in creating an invention[0], it's making an invention into a product that can be married to a market. Never mind that if someone out of the public does want to have another go, IP can be bought from the failed company in liquidation or it will be abandoned when filing fees lapse.

[0]See every news article about how the latest research out of Misc. U is going to revolutionize lithium batteries, vs. the number of actual revolutions in lithium ion batteries.
Show HN: Playing Call of Duty Warzone with a Nerf Gun and a Raspberry Pi
I appreciate that your offering diverse skin tone gradient, but the first four skin tones are way too similarly pale at the moment. It’s not a gradient yet, it’s 4 light and 2 dark.

Looks like a super useful product. congrats
> I have never researched a topic deeply and found that the media had been covering that topic accurately, ever.

This applies to a lot more than just media, including important to mundane issues inside of an organization. Path of least resistance (aka bullshit) and all that.
It's OK to complain about the quality of the road or path if you pay for it. Heavy vehicles are what make the surface bad and fat tyres or not, riding on a smooth surface is way more enjoyable.
Making your own custom USB device has quite a large upfront cost since you need to buy a PID/VID.
> Saying incentives work is a pretty banal economic insight.

It should be banal, but it isn't generally recognized by government planners, who expect that self-sacrifice and altruism governs peoples' behavior rather than selfishness.

Seattle is experiencing this as recent onerous regulations placed on landlords supposedly to protect renters is causing rents to rise and landlords to exit the business.

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/stop-new-ren...
I don't think there are a lot of MMT proponents at the Fed.
But that’s exactly what you’ve just done.
The Economist definitely have a specific world-view and to be fair they would probably be the first to tell you that. I now read their articles with a certain amount of scepticism, particularly if it's topical but not necessarily current affairs.

There is still value to be gotten out of the magazine but if you're looking for accuracy or truth that can be relied on then I think that ship sailed a long time ago. "Thankfully" the internet has allowed everybody to finally realise that.
What's more is just the poor pay meaningful taxes vs their income when calculating in fica taxes, gas taxes, and such.
Why is this still a gig-economy job with pickups in regular stores (anywhere)? It's not like when I order books from amazon that some guy runs an errand to a book store.

When I order food online it gets picked like an amazon order in a large warehouse fulfilment center. An online-only groceries store doesn't need parking, signs, price tags, nicely stocked shelves and a lot of other things that drive up cost. They just need a huge selection and they can sit in an industrial area.

Obviously no one will just magically create these warehouses but his is a business that has existed at scale for a decade or more, the pandemic didn't exactly come as a surprise.
>> FHE can change the way computations are performed by preserving privacy end-to-end, thereby giving users even greater confidence that their information will remain private and secure.

"Even greater"! Wow!

Even greater than what?
I think that news stories are more about the 'story' than the 'news'. They are about framing some perhaps genuine facts (but perhaps not) in a specific way, in such a way that a genuinely independent assessment is impossible for anyone taking their information from these sources.

I think when the stories and angles are so detached from reality, it is fair to wonder what is going on. You can call it conspiracy, or companies working together in a co-ordinated way for their best interests, fascism (with corporations and governments working in tandem), etc but its hard to dispute that there is an agenda to prevent the general population from receiving information that would allow them to make straightforward judgements.
Noted, we'll look into returning more descriptive messaging for common errors.
Exactly my main issue. I see this code as something that asserts that an object is not modified by that "bad" code, but I fail to see more use-cases. I've been thinking about doing some kind of dictionary datastore with these frozen objects but I'm not sure if it is actually useful.
This could suffer tragedy of the commons due to other nations. If all is free why would another smaller country bother to invest in research? I still think their are better solutions to be found, but that problem would need to be addressed.
Here's a chart of the Fed's total assets (since the article doesn't link it): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL

(The chart does not yet reflect hitting the $8T due to update intervals.)
THIS this is so accurate, and the patenting offices are so bureaucratic too! Worked in one at a UC and if I worked past 5pm or came in early, people thought I was crazy. I remember I set up a linkedin tracker one week and people thought I was so fast moving. Meanwhile, the part of the office that actually helped startups had 1/5th the people and kept scaring away students who actually needed help because the students kept thinking the office would claim their idea as university property and make them pay for the rights to their own startups. This is why the UC is not the as good as Waterloo or other universities for startups, and its only getting worse as more programs have usage fees now (looking at you Skydeck). Also, did I mention that the UC gave $250m to Vivek Ranadive, owner of Sac Kings, to run a VC firm, Bow Capital, to invest in UC founders, and that company is now instead launching a SPAC to take Wework public? Yeah the UC startup ecosystem is kinda trash....
Your argument is a tautology, it doesnt examine any merits of the system, and is no different from:
"You have - companies that settled on using skin colour, who have been able to attract top tallent that has cleared this bar."

Or:
"World's best banks and world's best traders have invested in subprime mortgages, they couldn't all be wrong?"
It isn't common in the UK, where online supermarket shopping has existed since about 1997. (And not as some obscure thing, the biggest supermarket launched it then.)
Do you think there is value in small businesses and startups? The original intent of the patent system was to give inventors a leg up to commercialize their idea before they can be bullied out of the market by large competitors. Without that patent large companies would have taken the idea and either implemented it without giving anything to the inventors, or more likely filed their own IP on the idea, kept it on a shelf, and sued anyone who tried to pursue it. As I mentioned before there was a pretty litigious player in that space.

We courted partners and investors, went to trade shows etc. The idea is out there. If anyone wants it bad enough they could contact my old boss and his university to figure out how to license it. Otherwise they can wait 4-5 years and have at it. Giving the IP to someone who deeply understands it and wants to bring it to market is a worthwhile goal in my opinion, even if it its not always attainable.
If you're trying to rebut the Economist with OpIndia you'll have to try harder, likewise with accusing the Economist of "deliberate bad faith" and linking to a page that is not afraid to wear its ideological biases on its sleeve.
Sure, in the past the computing era was different and tech corporates could get away with charging a lot for their development tools. But even then, you did not have to depend solely on them and there was a healthy competition in this vertical - Borland easily comes to mind. During the Java boom, their JBuilder used to be a top selling product till Eclipse came out. Open source and internet changed the game. Today Visual Studio also has a free version and even Apple is forced to offer their development tools for free because otherwise developers will prefer the free opensource options, than pay the exorbitant price they used to demand.
Not just that - if customers are already asking for an existing part, it's easier to sell them something that pretends to be that part than it is to convince them to change to something else. They'll notice if you suddenly start shipping chips that need a different driver, if you're pin compatible and work with the existing builds there's a much better chance nobody will notice and you can pocket the difference in price.
If anything its a proof that people will believe in anything that suits their narrative. Especially if its random gibberish that can be interpreted anyway you want.
Wouldn't be the first time universities have acted like patent trolls. For example, you know the filament-style LED lightbulbs that are really popular these days? The University of California has been going after a bunch of retailers with patent lawsuits for selling them, complete with PR push about how it was their invention that had been stolen from them. I looked at what they'd actually invented and patented at the time, and it was nothing like those filament LED lightbulbs - it was a old-fashioned resin-dome LED that replaced the metal anvil the die is usually mounted on with a TIR reflector, supposedly to improve efficiency. This was completely impractical, pointless and had no market value - the metal anvil is really useful both as mechanical support and a heatsink, you'd almost certainly lose any possible efficiency gain that resulted from capturing more of the rear light output due to higher temperatures. However, they'd worded their patent claims in such a broad way that they could cover nearly anything, and the university used this to file for patents that were actually similar to the LED filaments after they'd already been invented by someone else and put on the market but backdated in validity to their original patent.

This isn't just a software-related problem.
Is it though? If chips had fewer practical applications, fewer people will buy them.
Serious question, slightly OT: Is there any good word processor today? I'm on Ubuntu so I don't know what the Windows or Mac worlds look like, but I hated Word both before and after the ribbon.

Open Office -> GoOffice -> Libre Office is cumbersome and nothing is intuitive. It has loads of bugs with newlines before and after tables. I had tens of bugs filed with them from the 2005-2010 era, but it seems that they've switched bug trackers two or three times and not taken the data with them.
Covid is an interesting case for backtesting this. Would following the opposite of what NYT recommended since BoY 2020 have gone well for an individual price-taker?
> chances are

There you have it
Lumbering Economy and the Curves Behind Transitory Inflation
I bought some Corel stock back then, thinking that the company would somehow leverage its stewardship of WordPerfect to Linux dominance. This was back in the days when lawyers didn't trust Microsoft Word to count words reliably.

I eventually cut my losses, selling my $500-ish stake for $90 or so. So much for the year of Linux on the desktop. At least they didn't go the route of Caldera.
This, plus my group and solo rides are now mostly on forest paths, single track and dirt paths, away from traffic and cars and the stress that brings. The riding is slower but more enjoyable and technical than road riding for me. It seems to wear me out quicker though, I think because of so much vibration and stabilizing of the bike.
On the PowerPC release, it may work under the fork of Executor emulator.
Both the video and the write-up appear to be gone? Did IKEA complain?
> "all the nuclear energy output reduced in Germany has already been more than made up for with non-hydro renewables".

Which means despite all the efforts and billions spent the renewables have helped zero in reducing carbon emissions, because they were used to replace nuclear rather than coal.

> Nuclear usually requires vast subsidies to operate

This is not true, notably unlike non-hydro renewables.
Reply All is (or was, before it imploded) an interesting one as a stand in for how this has played out on the left. They got more and more blatant about their views over the years, and even though I generally ascribe to the same views, I would rather not have them put forth so blatantly, especially in a program that purports to be investigative.

My assumption is that with the increasing polarization, many shows followed their audiences to the poles. It feels rare these days for someone to not stake out a stance on some culture war battle, whether subtly or not.

It's honestly weird that Joe Rogan feel like one of the least biased popular programs to listen to out there, or the least biased in a consistent direction at least. You also get a lot of off the wall crazy shit on there, but honestly someone willing to have enough of an open mind to have people on like that not just to make fun of is a nice change of pace, even if the things are ridiculous, given how entrenched everyone else is in their positions.
Its on the page
Dell XPS 15 or Dell XPS 17 - quality build, good specs, has a dedicated GPU, decent price(at least in the USA) good size. Whenever I hear "Windows PC industry has a lot of catching up to do" I always ask what particulars are you missing or not there?
Ah yes, the "entitled prats" such as the hundreds of organisations that had no idea their products were even using fake chips or the student in the comments who wasn't able to demo their project because they had to use a cheaper Arduino board that had a fake chip on it.

Yeah, really "entitled". /s