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> There are two kinds of users: those who back up their data, and those who haven't experienced a data loss yet.

I have never had a significant data loss, and I back up my data.

The weaknesses of cloud are obvious, and alone it's not enough, but leaving it on the table is dumb unless you have some other way of practically and reliably maintaining a far-offsite copy. Most people don't, and even fewer people have a good reason to bother when they're employing offsite backups as part of a broader strategy like 3-2-1.
I'm not sure if that sounds amazing is terrifying!
I'm sure everyone that owns property would be thrilled about this. Send property prices soaring even more, which means even higher rents!

Much of what the article seems to suggest are things that would increase property prices.
Yes, here is a comment with some links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22480444
I cant figure out if you mean the (anti-scientific) climate catastrophe sceptics or regular christianity.
We have stories almost daily about some aspect of technology failing on a vast scale, to bet one's life solely on a receiver getting picowatts of signal from satellites in orbit which function at the discretion of the military, and the vagaries of orbital mechanics and luck, is foolish, at best.

Always have a backup.
> Try PopOS, it may work better for you, but otherwise it's just your computer that runs poorly on Linux.

Wow, this feels like a blast from the past, the bad old days of people pushing Linux Desktop and blaming all issues on the user or hardware.

You are recommending an obscure distribution that is unlikely to be supported by anyone. You are claiming to know that their computer is somehow unable to run 'Linux' in such a way that... Alt tabbing takes a long time to re-render the system UI. You are entirely ignoring their own research into the topic with a 'works for me!'. You don't even have the courtesy to claim that you've tried their exact use case to say that it works for you, you just claim a generic 'it works better than Windows for many of us' (while of course ignoring that the Linux gaming community is two orders of magnitude smaller than the Windows one, typically because Linux and Games are not good friends, for many reasons).
That’s why I tried to point out that my comment wasn’t about the typical anecdotal CEO.
We basically have this in the UK with green belts, it just means that prices go up within the belt, and anywhere commutable outside swiftly rises too.
>I'm stunned.

Not sure if they are still doing it. But for a fairly long time YouTube censor the word CCP and some other negative words related to CCP.

Not surpassing consider some of those moderators are pro CCP.

Peter Thiel talked about this in happening in Facebook moderation. But I gather most on HN somehow loathe him so it might not matter much what he has to say.
Open Source Farming Robot
"S" in "IoT" stands for "security".
Yes - but meanwhile Android at 70% of global mobile users (~5 billion people) has an install base more than 10x larger than the entire US population.

It is not a small market, there's (I assume) a good correlation with Windows users, and it's not a bad idea for Microsoft to be looking at potential integrations here.
Trumpf doesn't make the EUV source it makes the CO2 laser which produces the plasma in Cymer's EUV source. Ushio does make a EUV source but thats not for manufacturing, its for inspection. The power difference itself should tell you that its a different ball game entirely.
Here is an at-the-time writeup of the unit in question:
https://www.wired.com/2012/02/wd-my-book-live-duo/

WD sells the hardware, hard drive, and software as one sealed unit. The part that fails first will be the hard drive inside. The unit shouldn't be end-of-life until it actually should be expected to fail. (WD claims the units were end of life in 2016)
Nobody would ever vote for that.

You can't tell people to get a vaccination, so you're definitely not going to tell them how they can use their land at scale. Land owners have more money to fight being told what to do, too.

A nontrivial percentage of the population hates urban living and density. And over half the population wouldn't even agree with the thesis of this piece.

So no, nobody is burning political capital on this.
Since these people’s activity in the area predates any other known settlement, I guess the Israeli government has no choice but to grant citizenship to any descendants of the pre-Neanderthal diaspora automatically.
Why is the top thread on HN about everybody suing everybody? Geez people, calm down.

Nobody was hurt, nobody suffered any loss, we all had a good laugh, and hopefully we all learned a lesson about what technology does, which responsibilities we all have in building better systems, and that humans, when building such systems, make mistakes. Nobody had malicious intent, on the contrary, the intent was to provide people with information when searching for it (whether in the name of selling ads or not is a different question).

Why do we need to pull lawyers and courts into this? Lawyers cost a lot of money and judges should not have to waste their time with this kind of thing. There are actual criminals out there, let lawyers and judges focus their energy on those.

P.S.: Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending that it happened. Of course it's bad, needs to be fixed, and be prevented for next time. But screaming "sue them!" just feels like dramatically overboard.
In a cursory read through, I’m still not sure what problem NUM actually solves. It seems like it moves data storage into DNS TXT records and defines some parsers.

What benefits does NUM have over html over http? One can use some semantic html tags to organize the data for parsing, making it roughly equivalent to NUM modules. If a NUM client is running w/o a newly developed NUM module, how does it parse that data and how is it better than html without semantic meaning?
That might limit the needed expansion if city bounds within reach of public transportation, etc. Instead, a further-away neighborhood would have to grow more dense, with longer-distance traffic between the two only increasing.

Instead one might mandate density: minimum 4 stories, maximum so-and-so land for parking, maximum half a mile from a public transportation stop, etc.
Microsoft fixes high-pitched noise bug in Windows 10
Multitasking can also be a coping mechanism for ADHD.

Working on several things at once can kept it interesting enough that you may finish some of them.
Yes, on Linux each application has it's own graphics buffer, including all of it's window borders and controls. These are rendered to by GTK or Qt (likely using OpenGL). The OS just splats them all into the framebuffer and displays them. So in essence, a fullscreen window (such as the desktop background) can be nearly as GPU intensive as a 2D game. Swapping which buffers are composited into the framebuffer can be time-consuming.
However, I don't think that this is enough to explain the poor alt-tab performance. I think it's due to modern desktop environments using lots of shaders and bitmapped graphics, which render fine when they're the only thing on-screen, but when a game starts eating up (and fragmenting) VRAM, this overhead becomes noticeable. Switching to a simpler desktop environment like i3 or dwm may help.
That’s a non sequitur. Access can be revoked on a machine with something like an MDM system the next time it gets network access, whether you’re fired or not.

Certainly if a machine is stolen I’d expect it to be remotely wiped. Same with a phone.

If you have hardware that isn’t under an mdm system though that’s different.
That argument says that the only solution to climate catastrophe is zoning policy, which is quite frankly ridiculous. This is probably to influence housing prices, not to make a significant ecological impact. On the contrary, we have a problem with giant cities where you cannot even see the sky anymore...
Not that i disagree, but who actually clicks on the start menu using the mouse? Just use the Windows button on the keyboard where your left hand is likely resting already.

Fun fact btw, in win 95 the border of the start button was not clickable, so slamming into the corner did not work because of that 2px border. Microsoft was proud of presenting this feature in later versions, don't remember if it was in 98, 2000 or XP.
UK fails to explain what the hell those green number plates are
You'll probably be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Adaptation
Perhaps ironically, these very regulations are killing the "hobby" side of things.

I've built several FPV quadcopter, from ~1" all the way up to 11" (based on the size of the props). I've invested thousands of dollars in the hobby, countless hours, and have even fulfilled the HAM radio requirements.

The existing VLOS rules make it effectively illegal to fly them outdoors, period. Now, with this? No thanks. I'm done trying to fulfill arbitrary and ineffective requirements. I'll just fly my quads on my own property and if someone in a helicopter or a hang glider decides to dip below the treeline to fly under the power lines in my field, that's on them I guess.
I have a 2010 MBP that I use as a print server... it still gets occasional updates.
We're talking about more frequent severe weather conditions, heat waves (like the historic one occurring in the PNW), millions displaced from their homes, and a mass extinction event. Sometimes GDP is the wrong metric to optimize for.
Can you give a link to what is happening with QNAP? I have one and now I am worried.
Yes. It's interesting that imposing what are essentially 2d invariance constraints leads the network to learn what we regard as 3D concepts.
Use Nix instead.
I never traveled when I was younger. So I would say I never learned it. The mechanics of taking time off, not working, knowing where to go, where to stay etc. That all needs some practice. It is of course not something that you would "study"
>In fact humanity is doing fairly well on most metrics

Sure, but almost every other species on this planet with is is not doing that great. And even though we think we're so smart, a collapse in population of any species might have more impact on us than we now think.
Will become irrelevant when Fuchsia is able to replace Linux as a drop in?
I wonder if this is the kind of case that ACLU would take on, in defending Paul Smith.
At my workplace we are using OPA that the op writes about in the post
I don't think provisions like HIPAA alone cannot prevent abuse of medical data, Say a free medical-consultation app along with health tracker from a health insurance provider can provide data to the health insurer which can further be used in a flawed algorithm to increase premium or worse cancel the policy when it's most needed.

Conflict of interest regulations should be applied for data, If my data can be used to cause harm to me then you shouldn't have it that's all.
Yes but in small pieces and with varying intensity. Just sticking to something and making small incremental progress does compound.
It's worth mentioning that in general, racket is just a lot slower than SBCL. I would never write performance critical software in racket
Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27559106
Yes and no.

People realize the guy there is not the whole company, but they also realize they are the only way to get communication going, and losing time only to be greeted with an "ooof" can be annoying.

Of course it also depends on the specific case (how big the problem, how angry the customer, how long the "ooof"), but I've been on both sides for a couple of years now and starting in an over-frienly manner sets the mood for an "un-important" context.

And, in particularly bad cases, that could sour the entire conversation.
> $100 would buy how much? Probably 30 minutes of my time, if I'm feeling very generous.

You're not the only one who can do the job, of course.
I built pianojacq.com to help me practice sightreading and to keep track of where I'm making mistakes. It is still far from perfect but quite useful. The main problem is to get the pieces I want to practice into MIDI format, but there is a wealth of MIDI files out there that can be used with a little editing.

I have this pipeline where I take a youtube video, download it as an MP3, convert that to MIDI and then edit that midi to split left/right and to ensure it is all set to time and of the proper length so I can show it as sheet music.

I knew next to nothing about music theory when I started this beyond the very first basic stuff, but after watching many youtube videos on the subject and reading a lot of stuff it is starting to make sense. This is a subject that is overcomplicated to the point that it seems much harder than it really is, there are only very few good teachers out there to make that which looks complicated but it ultimately relatively simple simple again.

If you want I can do a write-up of all the resources that I've used over the last year and a half.

Currently practicing Ennio Morricone's "Chi Mai" arranged for piano.

Progress is still slow but if I compare my sightreading spead, accuracy and general quality of play with a year ago the difference is huge even if you can't see it day-by-day. Each new piece brings new challenges, and teaches me something that re-inforces the pieces that I already know how to play which then all get a little bit better.

Overall I'm having a ton of fun with this and the joy I get from playing a piece end-to-end without mistakes, at speed and in a way that is nice to listen is hard to describe.

It's obvious that an experienced pianist would probably laugh at the level of my accomplishments but that's fine with me, I'm enjoying this and that's what counts. It's also one of very few things in my life that I've done without any commercial goal, and which is just for myself. Overall if I could do this life over I'd tone down the business career in favor of making more music. And the programming skills came in handy while making pianojacq.com, so in a way this allowed me to combine two things I love.
I think the theory's all there, it just needs reference material on the one hand and the work to be put in on the other. With the new Unreal 5 engine, I think there is a lot of room for technology where an artist sketches out a rock and tools come in to generate the small details - much like there's tools like speedtree and co nowadays to procedurally generate content.
> Nobody would ever vote for that.

Nor should they to be honest. This would help property owners massively, because their capital in holdings would skyrocket.

The largest cities on the planet have severe ecological problems. It is just not a good idea, but people will tell you that this is the way of science to combat climate change.
Looks like a great helper for wood thiefs. It only needs the right type of president turning a blind eye, once.

It happens more often than people think
That is true but I would like that point out that windows still has issues on my bog standard Intel/Nvidia rig - e.g. Linux can't sleep properly, but windows either fails to resume properly or randomly wakes me up at night by revving turning back on and revving the fans.

Similarly, my new iPad pro is great until you need to do something apple haven't approved of (e.g. I can't watch a bunch of movies I have had copies of for years due to apple not letting VLC ship certain codecs)
None of the ones I've worked at attempted to perpetuate anything other than their own preservation

At least they have addressed job 1.

Any organization that doesn't perpetuate itself has failed ... period, the end. There is nothing beyond. It's not possible for a failed, fractured, dysfunctional, non-existent entity to innovate.

Corporations are the worst organizations ... except for all the others that fail the primary test of survival.
Unreal Engine ( + Blender ) - pretty big learning curve for a programmer, but heaps of fun.
Skipping Tests in Rust
What I am saying is that you are already paying for DNS services
The current report is quite a bit worse than this sanguine take. The pending report appears to be even more worrisome. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/23/leaked-un-report-wa...
Thanks for your comment and for highlighting this.

As a summary for others: Telnic (and Telnames) allowed people to store contact data in the DNS of their .tel domain name.

> Sounds similar to Telnic

Telnic used NAPTR records and was only available on .tel domains, NUM uses TXT and can be used on any domain name, by publishing a "_num" zone.

Telnic was also "just" for contact data. What we're trying to do with NUM is make it possible to publish any kind of data. Contact data as just one "module".
> Workers are seen as interchangable at many places. just look at Amazon, one of the most profitable and productive companies in history, that takes pride in how it wears down its employees using corporate language that I'm sure you're painfully familiar with.

My absolute favorite from nearly every company I’ve worked at is referring to employees as “resources”. It seems to be a way to dehumanize people and make it easier to hire and fire. If they’re just cogs without feelings who cares, right? We will just go get a couple more resources for this project. Of course, there’s probably a metaphor for strip mining in here too.

The role reversal comment you made is absolutely true. Recognizing this I think is a sign of maturity. A company can bleet on about how it’s “resources” are family, or how much the CEO cares about each one of them, or how much it hurts to do layoffs. It’s not true. Just another carrot on the proverbial stick. They will can you without thinking once you become a liability, so it’s only natural you reach the same conclusion about them. Expounding on this slightly this is also why you should never give or offer an exit interview. Prey doesn’t help predators adapt and neither should you. Be the predator not the prey.
And: unrelated skills and the act of learning itself also compound. Learning gets easier as you do more of it because you have more of a method to do so and more knowledge to help you integrate your new knowledge. So as you know more/have more skills adding new skills or more knowledge gets easier.
A tip for the open source / Linux community is to make your customers help each other (setup a forum/msg board or what not), as the ratio of knowledge power users is very high compared to for example Windows and Mac.
The only advantage of early profitability is to avoid taking VC money at all.

If the eventual money making plan for the owners is to sell out then profitability may have nothing to do with it.
We have a “guest wifi” at the office. I noted it was MITMing some https sites (which firefox failed to load due to the certificate)

This goes against corporate policy, but it’s a good reason to not trust any wifi you don’t control.
What about OPA?
Open-policy-agent
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Thanks, glad to see you're on Spotify. I'll definitely check it out!
Unless you are running a sole proprietorship, any business is composed entirely of 'third parties'.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm for a classic take on the subject.
Explained – Cricket (2020)
Do authors own the copyright of their generated images? I can't see any mention in the FAQ.
This industry mostly provides very ephemeral services, so it's almost never a matter of life and death (the entire multi-million email marketing sector could implode overnight and life would go on just fine), but you still charge money for those ephemeral services, and the least you could do would be to take your screw-ups a bit seriously.

I repeat, there's a big, big value in being friendly and basically "a human", but the very first starting interaction must be serious, not a joke.
Yes, I meant 5 gram plant material, not the chemical, sorry about expressing that wrong.

The experience was super intense and will probably never do it again. I don't recommend anyone take 5 grams for their first time at all.
> minimum 4 stories, maximum so-and-so land for parking, maximum half a mile from a public transportation stop, etc.

That would be interesting as well!
> we're on different political sides, not good vs evil

One of the sides runs a series of concentration camps. Sells organs from political prisoners, etc.

But yes, I suppose it's just politics.
Personally, I think genocide is slightly evil, but feel free to disagree.
Yes, although that "something" isn't even socialism, it's... I don't know what it is. I'm not a socialist by any stretch but I am told that some hard-core Marxists are quite skeptical of modern "wokeness" which strangely never seems to question power imbalances due to capitalism itself.
I am trying to get rid of any smart devices in my life. I need less things connected to the internet not more. I bought Bruce Shneier's "Click Here to Kill Everybody, and that just convinced me even more. Software is a weak point, and I'd rather have the least amount possible in my "mission critical" everyday life gadgets. I want single-purpose, purpose built devices that do that one thing very well, without connecting to the internet for a whole host of secondary, and mostly useless or even harmful surveillance, reasons.
I haven’t used KDE in a couple years but what you describe sounds like what I encountered with its compositor. When launching fullscreen applications it turns off the compositor for better performance. Tabbing out doesn’t always (or at least didn’t for me) turn the compositor back on. Add to that weird, seemingly Nvidia-specific bugs (again just my experience) and the whole desktop experience falls apart.
What in the world is an "afterthought" for something that continually improves?

I mean, you're not even right.
Could you have open sourced the game to allow Linux-motivated developers to fix own bugs? Or too risky for you?
The video with the technical details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_sh605Q7oA

TLDR: Outage data power companies denied to disclose "because security" were easily extracted from packets smart meters are constantly transmitting to collectors, along with their geolocation.
Why does the world harbor so many different voltages, plugs, and sockets?
Standardization makes life easier, but it is often impossible to introduce it to systems that have a messy evolutionary history. Electricity supply is a case in point. [IEEE Spectrum]
Good for you. I'm not saying that WiFi etc. never work on Linux. Just that they often don't work, have annoying bugs or require complicated workarounds.
There's nothing to inform about because these plates currently serve no purpose.

But I would not believe the spin that these would allow EVs to get some advantages (they will certainly never be allowed in bus lanes). My bet is that at some point cars that do NOT have a green plate will be penalised.
I wonder how they'll manage the Play Services dependency, or whether apps that need SafetyNet checks would work. My guess is they won't, and they don't.
The denizens of the HackerNews won’t like this very much… they love their suburbs!
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Note that this encoding isn't of the same efficiency as QR binary mode, as it converts 3 bytes into 2 base45 characters. So it's more like 'base41 using the base45' charset.

I'm still a bit sad that with this standard and the packages available now, the namespace of 'base45' is clobbered with this suboptimal implementation. It can best just be renamed to 'base41'. It's a good tradeoff for the DCC, but not for the rest of possible implementations.

For the Dutch variant of the green pass using unlinkable signatures [1], we need all the space we can get, so we use a base45 encoding that uses the exact same method as base58 [2][3], and which has the exact same efficiency as QR binary mode.

[1] https://github.com/minvws/nl-covid19-coronacheck-app-coordin...

[2] https://gist.github.com/confiks/8fcb480d87a50cf1bb5e40e2f093...

[3] https://github.com/confiks/base45-go/tree/main/base45