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> The arrival of MMA proved the true effectiveness of each of the martial arts in an actual combat situation.

MMA is not an actual combat situation. A lot of what makes fighting style effective in real combat is simply not allowed in MMA (for good reasons). Things like:

- attacking your penis and trying to cause injury there,

- attacking your throat and trying to cause injury there,

- sticking fingers into eyes,

- trying to break knee by kicking where it breaks.

Obviously it is not taught in any of those sports. Because they are sports.
Can we force them to accept the reality of how the internet has operated for the last 4+ decades, or are they exempt from that as well?
Doing nothing is often a good way of naturally assessing the importance of a request. Generally, if the request is really important, the person will keep on asking until you respond.
Show HN: I am building am app to fight climate change
Still 2 to 3 times as much as literally everywhere else.
Huge kudos to Lachlan, really inspirational.

If you haven't tried an ultra endurance sport before - could be running, cycling or even walking - I would highly recommend it. The frame of mind it puts you into is like nothing else. It's as different to everyday life as deep programming work, but another experience entirely. It's also very addictive, in a good way.
> I suspect that, although there is a market for the products, noone is interested in taking on the software they worked on.

It may be extremely difficult to do that, for at least a few reasons.

In some cases, the tech is going to be very niche/old, and it will be difficult for people to get up to speed on it.

The business is likely built on a lot of personal contacts, and not all will want to switch to some 'newcomer'.

Many of these smaller business reliant on niche software will go out of business themselves, or be acquired by larger companies that will replace the niche software and process with something else.

The current customers may not actually want anything other than regular updates while paying minimal support/maintenance contracts. Someone established can live off that, but someone new will have to spend a lot of time learning, and the income may not be sufficient to justify all the learning.

I worked on a project in 2018 where some of the (small) company was still running on a combination of foxpro/db2, with a bunch of custom code by an indie/solo vendor who had 'retired' probably 5 years earlier. He'd 'sold' the company to another individual who ... kept it going, but couldn't easily deal with new needs (new reports, etc). Another vendor did an upgrade on the hosting server, and nothing worked after that. The upgrade was a base NT upgrade, and there wasn't any easy way to 'go back' quickly. Things ran off an RDP session to a laptop in Canada running some weird trial emulation tool under windows 7 (this was how it was translated to me from various parties).
These days many TVs have an RGB input among the many input options, and many PC graphics cards have an HDMI output (which of course nearly all TVs these days have at least a couple HDMI inputs if not more), so yeah. "That's not very challenging to set up." indeed. Plug in a cable, and rock and roll… :)
> Because they significantly innovated beyond the core lucene library to solve a major pain of their customers around scaling, analytics, etc., providing customers with extra value.

And they've decided that this extra value could be given away for $0, or they wouldn't have released this under an open source license.

> Amazon appear to be only making minor tweaks to the software and commoditising its running

They may be "minor tweaks" but apparently they have a lot of value for some people. I don't particularly care for them and run my own ES cluster. Just as enabling TLS and basic auth are "minor tweaks", but this is what Elastic charges for.

But if there are a non-negligible number of companies using the managed ES service, it means that it has at least some value and that it's good enough compared to the Elastic Cloud offering (I personally don't know how they compare, just that I find both expensive).

This value has been offered by AWS before Elastic's offering. Only now that "not enough people" want to buy the managed Elastic Cloud is it an issue.

To me, these are separate products. Sure, there would be no managed AWS ES without Elastic's product. But Elastic's cloud offering is something that came afterwards, and to me only this particular offering (the managed ES) competes with AWS's offering.

Now, it looks like Elastic will get the worst of both worlds. I only use ES for the logs and needed the authentication. I couldn't really justify the platinum tier just to get SSO, so we made do with basic LDAP. But now that Open Search has those features for free? I don't really have a good reason anymore to stick with Elastic's onerous plan. And no, I've never once called them for the "support" part of the offering, so I'm not really losing anything there.
Youtube-dl works just fine on Reddit, but for all the non-technical users this will work fine to prevent them from spreading the content and sharing a link instead.
Very reasonable suggestion, I just don't feel like spending my time writing a book! I've got things to do that would be more rewarding for me. And the NFT phenomenon is real. If someone would spend $100's of K's for the first newspaper column to tout itself as an NFT, why would nobody want to spend anything for invention of the tracking cookie, given the significance of the tracking cookie in the development of the internet? That wouldn't seem logical to me. So this seems worth a try!
You can also leisurely coast downhill on a bicycle at a much higher speed than 20 km/h.
Cleo: A flexible, partial, out-of-order and real-time typeahead search library
It's really smart, the location changes randomly so you can't use automated tools to crop it out. Newer clients add an end credit display too, maybe 1-2 seconds that shows the original creator's username.

I'll take a watermark over having to jump through hoops to get stuff downloaded any day.

Ability to directly link to said media would be better, but this is the world we live in...
The major pain point is a simple one: we have a cheap-food-policy in place in the US to keep revolution at bay. I have many friends dumping hundreds of gallons of raw milk daily because that's all the state will allow them to do with it. It would be fantastic if farmers could once again post a profit by charging consumers true cost of production.
Ideally your kitchen waste would go into a facility that properly handles it and will use it for energy production, but in a properly controlled environment (and if that energy production is biogas by avoiding methane leakage as good as possible).

Of course whether that happens depends a lot on where you're living.
Most people? Most people don’t know what AdWords is. Most people don’t think much of tracking if at all outside of when they are prompted about it. Or the one or two minor anecdotes they have of (sometimes coincidentally) seeing the same sort of ad on Amazon or Facebook.
I looked into this when it came out because the associated mail delivery technologies are something I try to keep on top of. But I really think it's a stretch to call BIMI a "security standard". It reads a lot more like "The CA industry wants to make super expensive EV certs relevant again", and I'm not convinced it does much else.
I relate to this. 1 person company means getting the job done. As soon as you have 2 people you really need 3. One to do the labor, the other to schedule and bill(receptionist). If it's a physical company you need more space. Some software charges by person too.

If something gets cancelled, the 1 person company takes a few hours off. Your 3 person company still needs to get their weekly paychecks.

Whenever I hear calls for raises to minimum wage to absurd(?) levels (20$/hr), I think that this company will never be able to grow past 1 person. You can pay for a receptionist if you are a big corp with many employees, but it's really hard when you are going from 1 person to 3. We'd even let the receptionist do full WFH and just answer phones so they can watch their kids.

"I guess we don't deserve to be in business".

And the big corporation who gives 60% of our service conquers the industry.
You don't have to respect me. But you have to respect the fact that trust in "science" is fundamentally different from trust in "scientists".
When was it not about that? The content that got the most attention was always things that were easy to consume. Images with a small amount of text slapped on top were dominant when I frequented Reddit 10 years ago. The only way you could escape that was a well moderated subreddit that enforced quality content.
To clarify for anyone wondering, this is just a web dev experiment to create a clone of the Netflix UI. It doesn't let you watch movies, nor does it provide any kind of back end for serving video.
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I think 99% of the "hard stuff" at Netflix is serving the video.

The rest of the apps are mainly display and a little bit of crud.

It's so easy for them to continue to experiment with the front end all the time -- because it's "not that hard" (tm).

But the video serving? Rendering? Streaming in different resolutions? The video player? CDN's? Damn, that sh*t rough brah.
Copple: Hey, I forgot my key card, can you let me in?

Colleague: [no response]

30 minutes pass

Copple: Ergh... nevermind, I set up a mobile hotspot and am working from the cafeteria on my laptop until it runs out of battery and then I'm heading back home.

PROBLEM SOLVED .-~'~ '
You're being disingenuous. It's a massive move that will dramatically lower the traffic to the subreddits, and was also done to the far-right supremacist and abuse subreddits before they were finally closed. It's the largest "anti-male-gaze" move possible without total sitewide banning.

But you set yourself a trap with the "well catered to by the administration" because you've defined this situation such that "catered to" is the equivalent of "done literally everything but gone nuclear with a full ban".

So now I can easily point to the continued existence of outright neo-nazism, white supremacy, civil war idealism, violent right-wing rhetoric, terrorism support, and other radical examples of "normal conservative dialogue" on reddit and easily claim that neo-nazis terrorists are "well catered to by the administration" by virtue of the fact that they exist at all and are not banned.
> Elm main team has been defensive against forks

What does that mean?

I know they have a strict vision of what features are better left out, and in a way I wish more langs'd be vocal about that. Go does the same and they seem to get a lot of praise for it.

Just like in Go, the Elm team only allows some features to be used by their own (std-) libraries. This, again, is a design choice.

No group was hurt enough to "fork" Elm. PureScript can be seen as a close relative that is less restrictive.
> I don’t write swift, but didn’t you miss a comma and a label

Swift has a feature called "trailing closures". If the last argument to a function is a closure, you can close the brackets early and put the closure directly after.
You can use RES and ignore the bots, then you'll never see them. If you don't want to use RES, you could always just block them through reddit and get the same effect. It's not hard.
1.) You are guessing.

2.) If you need to explain yourself to strangers who demand to be explained why your kid does this or that sport, you will say something simple and socially acceptable. Neurotypical people wont start explaining in nuance.

3.) No one ever asked me why my kids do dancing or swimming. It is simply not question anyone asks normally.
Radius server: Fast, feature-rich, modular, and scalable
One of my university teachers allowed us a double sided letter sized piece of paper during the exam and we could put whatever we felt like on it.

This was brilliant because 1. In real life, you don’t memorize random facts. That’s what reference books and the internet is for. 2. Making the cheat sheet actually forced us to understand the material so they we could sum it up and for it on the page. By the time we were done writing the sheet, we had memorized most of it anyway.

Yet another demonstration how school is completely out of touch with the jobs they’re claiming to be preparing you for.
That depends entirely on what is in your contract. I’m not currently leasing, but any I can get here automatically has me pay for insurance too.

I think that’s a fairly smart idea, exactly to avoid issues like this.
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I often talk about costs with doctors. Sometimes they offer things my health care does not (fully) cover, sometimes it's about pure luxury (like a arm bandage that is super nice to wear). Or my dentist, I can choose between different pain killers, one of them costs a little extra but goes away way faster.

I would think it's weird if my doc assumes I just want the cheapest available option.
How many distributed stream processing engines is the Apache foundation planning to collect? At this point it seems like there’s more projects that do this (if you squint a bit), than companies with a serious usecase for that type of architecture.
> Now what we really need is a functional dialect which compiles to TypeScript...

Why would it be beneficial to have TS as an intermediate representation? It turns into JS anyway, and there are already statically typed functional languages that compile to JS.
Well, not many of the flow batteries.

The whole main concept why so many people think flow batteries are so awesome for gird storage is that you can basically have a tank size can scale arbitrary.

The once that actually have some reasonably big pilot are Vanadium redox battery. There are multiple such batteries being developed.

There are also a number of startups who try these flow batteries but try to move away from Vanadium. Li-Ion batteries are collapsing in price so fast, that they have killed of many of these ideas, like the Zebra battery. So newer startups are looking at something cheaper.

But the approach of scaling many smaller ones might still work, it just basically defeats the main benefit of flow batteries in the first place.
People buy restaurants and car shops mainly because of licensing such as alcohol and zoning laws. It's rare for a specialty shop to be sold unless the owner has an apprentice.
CRUD stuff can be complicated at Netflix-scale.
Reddit is still a better forum platform than Facebook Groups.

You have actual moderation tools, you can pin posts etc. People even visit the front page of the sub every now and then.

Actual forums would be the best solution, but alas...
hadoop, kafka, storm, spark, flink, samza, confluent
This tastes an aweful lot like javascript framework hell
But only using links seems OK - people will go to the websites and see their ads...
This would be fun, and it can be made available from the major compilers, but using it almost certainly bad for most developers. Any nonstandard decisions you make here are likely to be unstable. Even if they are better for one build, they will sit in a config file and rot to the point that you've sabotaged your future performance by making decisions for an older build. I see this all the time with nonstandard flags for performance. Somebody five years ago had a problem with the VM and needed to change the way GC worked and set a flag. Nobody remembers why and they are all afraid to touch it. Now the application is getting worse performance.
Where (years <= 4), sure. 2017 is not exactly ancient history.
Sorry, let me rephrase. What is the extension you are using?
Why are you bringing your personal vendettas onto another platform with a new account? I’m genuinely confused and I’m unsure what you hope to achieve in contributing in this manner. I’m sympathetic that you’re passionate about this subject but I don’t understand the benefit to the rest of the HN community.
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (Radius)
Not sure where that quote is from, but whoever said it is confused.

If you hit an object in the road, that is normally (in the US) classified as a collision incident.

The only time that comprehensive would cover a claim like this (in the US) is if the object was a projectile, or an animal.

I’m guessing they are thinking about the common scenario where a truck kicks up a rock and it hits your windshield… and they are falsely assuming this is normally a comprehensive claim because it is “road debris”, when the real reason it is covered that way is because it is a projectile.
After reading the linked paper[1] cited by the BBC and how they controlled for outside variables it looks like they just measured economic stability without saying they were. They controlled for race, education, part vs full time employment and nature of work (professional vs labor vs service) but not household income (!!!!!!). Though in their defense they admitted as much in the results.

Couples where finances are stable enough that the person who didn't just pop out a kid can justify taking the time off are going to have the spare resources to maintain a marriage. They can afford all sorts of lifestyle crap that puts less stress on a relationship than living paycheck to paycheck in a double wide with a toddler running around causing problems. The correlation between stable finances and a stable marriage has been studied written about at length.

[1] http://paa2019.populationassociation.org/uploads/190145
"The Game" episode of TNG predicted addictive viral mobile games
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Apple will expand its range of products with Mini LED screens
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Learn to write an emulator for Ben Eater's 8-bit breadboard computer in Python
> "I feel like most people on this site could afford a small gaming machine, though."

Always check if one of your local universities has a "University Surplus" store or similar. Many universities try to recoup some of their expenses by selling their old computer (and other) hardware when they upgrade, and it's usually ridiculously inexpensive to find a decent PC tower that you can toss a hard drive in and have a mostly pretty tolerable little gaming rig. A couple upgrades later and it can be a totally tolerable gaming rig. I've found many decent bargains at my local University Surplus store in the $50-ish price range for a working starter tower with motherboard, CPU, RAM, etc.
I hate those pointless messages, to the point I developed a stress reaction to them.

In business contexts[0], you don't have to choose between being impolite to some people and annoying others. There's a solution that satisfies everyone: just follow your pleasantry with the thing you really wanted to say. Do it immediately. Start typing your request immediately after sending "Hi $name", so that the other side sees the typing indicator. Or better yet, use the magic of Shift+Enter, supported by most IMs out there. Send a single message containing a bunch of pleasantries, followed by a newline (Shift+Enter), followed by the real payload.

--

[0] - This is slightly different in personal space. When a long-forgotten acquaintance reaches out to me, I already know they want something, and I wouldn't be offended if they skipped the useless pleasantries - but apparently enough people demand to be taken through the "how are you and your kids?" dance first, that it's unsafe to state the actual purpose up front. But in business conversation, you're not supposed to go deeply personal like this, so there's no ambiguity - the reason for communication is business-related, by definition.
Agreed.

This link tax crap sets a disturbing precedent. It would be to the benefit of the web in general, Google in particular, and most specifically to the thinking skills of the EU if Google pulled news, as I think they did in Spain under similar circs.
> You've got Tricorders wrong, they're a generalized non-contact diagnostic tool; someone was working on one but it was just a load of diagnostic devices stuck together. We've got body temperature, and pulse is doable, but not sure what else can really be added to a Tricorder, maybe a tiny mass-spectrometer gets you part way there.

In fairness, a tricorder would probably need to be a device capable of gathering data about quantum fields within an extremely local region of space and then analyzing based on known frames of reference and data models, so we're probably a ways off on that one.

The harder part of that challenge is building a device capable of analyzing quantum fields in the most abstract sense. But once that's done, even if it's in the form of a massive machine that can only analyze spacetime in a small chamber, even if that machine is rooms-big, the race to the first tricorder begins.

(I could be completely off-base with my comment on analyzing quantum fields. I'm not at all an expert.)
?? I think you're absolutely wrong here. My boomer parents who can't setup a Smart TV and played blu-rays in standard definition for years absolutely know that Google and Amazon are tracking everything they do and have reached out to me on several occasions about reducing how much data Big Tech gets from them.

I think you're totally out of touch with the general populace if you think average users don't keenly feel the spying gaze of big tech.

My 92 year old grandfather moved to iOS two years ago, at age 90, to reduce how much Google got from him. Dude doesn't know a damn thing about computers, but he knows Google is spying.

I think it's valid to suggest that people don't trade links to reduce spying.
> Anyway they downplay it in the leaflet but its there

The bullshit you have to sign before receiving the vaccine here is not downplaying anything here at least, but not that it stops people from signing it; they might as well just sign their rights to health care away altogether.

We literally have to sign our rights away for compensation in case something happens to us due to the vaccine, ANY time in the future. If you have complications from the vaccine, you cannot sue anyone, and you cannot get compensation from anyone.

They tell you straight that it is a new vaccine and we have no information with regarding to its safety, especially long-term, and that you are receiving the vaccine at your own risk, and that you are on your own if something bad happens.

How sketchy is that? More than 5.6 million people signed it. If needed, I will dig it up and translate the entire thing, but I think it is obvious what it is about. :)
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Really interesting stuff from other places on what's a pretty darn interesting topic...

There's a nicer site from The U.S. Capitol Visitor Center:

https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/exhibitions/congress-investi...

A wikipedia page:

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

And a longer read from The New Yorker with some interesting details:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/03/31/the-horror

And entire series from Comic Book Legal Defense Fund an comics censorship:

http://cbldf.org/resources/history-of-comics-censorship/hist...
Yeah. What good is demanding that the assembly has a certain structure if that doesn't mean that the machine actually does it that way? Out of order execution and speculative execution are optimizations that improve performance by 10x or more. They aren't optional.