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HN is fantastic for surfacing up and coming technologies. Reading HN daily is almost like a superpower.

The HN community is...not so great...at predicting which things are exciting and the industry should adopt. If it were the industry would have settled on a LISP dialect long ago, the web would have adopted good readability standards (based on thousands of meta-complaints on virtually every top rated post on any topic), and mobile app development would still be a growing and profitable business (and Apple would finally be catering to niche HN reader needs).
Am I reading this right? There's no security or granular access control? If you connect a resource, like a postgresql db - anyone with access to the front-end client (anyone with the api key; that is everyone) - can read and write to all tables?

That's... Not great?

https://slashapi.com/docs/pgsql#content-api-endpoints
You learn something new everyday, whether you want to or not. :P
Right, I know the difference between pop/non-pop in action, but the animations look the same.

Also "shuvit" distinction is just a synonym
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Yes, let's just pretend that the whole context in which they're operating is entirely dependent of their lobbying efforts, connections to the government and Federal Reserve, etc
And they expect we'll just sit idly by and be surveilled?

https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
Yes, but a non-insignificant portion of their revenue comes from content from third-party media companies. They very much have an incentive to play ball with the likes of Disney & Sony, despite having the upper hand in terms of market cap.
Like everything else, practice. When I learned it, first few days no sound would come out. Then the occasional "accidental" half-whistle. Now I can whistle songs.
Two examples: In my state, a sixteen year-old with a newly minted standard car driver's license can by themselves legally operate a loaded 26' box truck, including one towing a trailer. With a motorcycle endorsement, they're permitted to pilot a bike with an engine of any displacement.
I would agree with that, my limited personal experience with mid-atlantic beach towns has been either retiree who invites family, multiple pods of a family that co-own a house like you describe, or sort of normal vacation rental for a week-10 days.

And I think because seeing that, my initial suspicion is they really know their target market, or something, and I'm not it. Because the whole
"[bought a house on lake Tahoe]...inspired about making the dream of second home ownership possible for more people"

Makes me think "wow, really? that's the narrative pitch?" But tbf I don't know how you go about pitching a second home without sounding like Marie Antoinette.
Study finds sites that mislead
I can actually see this not really being timeshares. I'd like to see statistics on how frequently the fractional owners actually bother to occupy the houses during their allotted time at all. This feels more like an attempt to allow people to speculate in an overheated housing market in neighborhoods well above their price range, expanding the buyer pool for luxury housing beyond the small number of people who can actually afford luxury housing.

That, of course, has the potential to be much worse than timeshares. Instead of just being a stupid purchase locking people into a single vacation destination at a single time every year, it dumps more money into a real estate bubble that is eventually going to pop again. But this time, instead of roping pension funds into buying fractional shares of a mortgage, it's just roping individuals who won't get bailouts when this all comes crashing down and the founders are laughing their asses off on an island wiping their asses with $100 bills.

Get in fast and get out, I guess, because a whole lot of sorry fools are going to be left holding bags of worthless rocks when the Fed raises interest rates by 0.5% and the free mortgage frenzy market panics when we find out how many people can really afford even 1/8 of a mansion.
Youtube-dl is possibly dead
What is wrong with hotels (and B&Bs, etc.)? I stayed in them maybe 100 nights per year pre-pandemic and they're mostly fine.
Yes this. Life is getting progressively better now Twitter, Reddit and Apple pissed me off. I’ve got more time, money and a healthier outlook on life.

Now if only I could shake HN.
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this is dystopian and another reasons why privacy matters. me googling stuff has absolutely no impact on creditworthiness
Because languages gradually lose phoenetic features over time. Phonetic diversity is a primary method for determining the age of a language. Hawaiian is a recent language with just 8 consonants and !Kung is ancient with over 50 consonants. The same phenomenon occurs with DNA diversity. Here is an article with explanation:

https://www.languagesoftheworld.info/bad-linguistics/phonemi...
Here is a research how much phone number verification decreases account fraud a.k.a. spam bots

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
> We're not looking to pull the rug out from anyone's feet. When we do announce pricing it'll be after a lot of discovery with existing users and potentially only for new APIs and new users.

The problem is that unless you have pricing that you can commit to then you may end up doing so anyway. You can't commit to an unsustainable pricing model that doesn't cover your costs, and everyone knows that. What they don't know if what that sustainable pricing will look like. If you can't even give a ballpark range estimate then you're just punting that risk onto your customers.
So if you're a Protestant, and a Catholic says you're not a proper christian because difference in religious dogma who's right? What about Jews for Jesus? Is a Christian defined by his faith or his acts?

These things are all up for debate.

To attack your metaphor: Is he a true Scotsman when both his parents are scottish and he was born just a wee bit over the border?
Sony unveils Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer after attempting to suppress leak
Is that a legal distinction where you live? If not, this all needs to be phrased in the context of “I think this is reasonable and am advocating for legislation with my elected representatives”.
The credit catch-22 is real, but my company is tackling it in a way that's up-front and doesn't invade people's privacy (and we're hiring!):

https://www.self.inc/
Maybe they need a giant over engineered press that requires internet connectivity to scan and validate each bag of wet cat food. We could make it a subscription and each week customers would get fresh bags of healthy, organic pre-masticated cat food.

It will be like Netflix meets Nesspresso but for cat food!! We could call it juicero, er…“catero”!

But seriously. I’d love a good solution for automatic wet cat food.
World premiere of light breakers with perovskite cells
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The forks work great

Youtube-dlc and youtube-dlp
I have been hearing "vote with your wallet" for more than 30 years. It has never, ever, made a difference in the direction of hardware.
Why is this a new programming language, instead of just a library for existing languages?
It seems that those with masters degree are just the most humble and aware of their shortcomings.

Both more and less educated seem to think they "know better" than the specialists in their field, possibly but not necessarily for different reasons.

Btw one source might be this: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-08-11/ivermectin...

Here's another: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777389

Also a there seem to be no high quality large studies that show positive effect of ivermectin on covid: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34318930/

All of those are literally one google search away so I don't think providing them inline is all that necessary. People interested in them can find them with no trouble and others won't read them even if provided.

And I'm not calling anyone an idiot.
I think it's the other way around. People who demonstrate that they have lots of money by showing off their "OS X" user agent get the tourist rebate.

BTW, I also believe that flight prices magically increase on iOS...
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1497/
Far more likely that that's the typical mDNS traffic, which is out of scope of this new permission.
And often are self-employed/freelance
A seagull manager, like a seagull, flies in, shits all over things then flies out.
> As a last example we will describe the hardflip. This is a simultaneous half kickflip
(a 180 degree rotation about the axis joining the tail to the nose of the skateboard)
and a 180 degree rotation about the x-axis in the right-hand orientation.

Is it? Isn't a hardflip just a mirror of the varial kickflip they describe, and rotation around their x-axis something else entirely?
> but usually that is true for npm packages as well

It's not true in a very, very, very big and important detail: once I found the packages, I do any of `npm/yarn/pnpm install package-name`, and it resolves the package, and all its dependencies

> Since each dependency is an url, it will fetch all deps and download them in order

How is each dependency a url when it's decidedly not? Or is deno silently re-writes all `package.json`s?

> You also don't need a package.json

Oh. Now you don't need a package json. So... How does Deno resolve dependencies for a package?

> I personally prefer to not be reliant on an american mega corporation which is known for it's anti-competitive practices and woke agenda.

Instead you rely on something that literally relies on megacorps for Rust, V8, Typescript.

> Well in that specific case you would need to download the entire tree and host it yourself.

Wow. So much convenience. I'm simply astounded. How is this a good thing again?

> I am convinced it's the future for server side javascript. It's just... nicer in general.

So far you've done literally nothing to show how it's nicer. For a developer it's a major pain in the butt: resolve dependencies manually, download them manually, grep+replace urls...

Edit: this comment by spankalee sums it up nicely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28276908
+1 for teddit.net, I discovered it because it’s a default Insight Browser extension, as is old.reddit.net.
Price and durability are pretty much open problems. Ion exchange materials are a completely open problem. Structure of electrodes and electrolytes on dissolved chemical batteries are an open problem. Substrate for the ion exchange element of molten chemical batteries is a completely open problem.

There's nothing done in grid battery chemistry. The only thing people have ever optimized for is energy density by weight, and this is an almost completely irrelevant dimension for that application.
It's be cool if there were some distributed game-theoretic equilibrium that could be arrived at without a "central bank" issuing credits.
I don’t have Chrome installed on any of my devices but I’ve noticed when I’m on reddit.com on my iPhone it prompts me to either use the Reddit app or “continue browsing” using the Chrome app. Does Google pay for this as some sort of an advertisement? Or is Reddit incentivized in some way to plug Chrome over Safari or DDG “browser”? When I click “continue” it lets me just keep using my current browser but I always wonder if it would open in Chrome if the app were available on my device.
Yes, that's why an LLC and a contract associated with it is a much better form of ownership.

NIMBYs subverting these contracts makes things much worse.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.

I had a thread moderated away due to this yesterday :/ sucks.
Latency will remain around the same levels as DDR4. The increase in clock speed will yield a hypothetical increase in maximum bandwidth. (via https://www.anandtech.com/show/16143/insights-into-ddr5-subt...)
Sometimes people share their bias in the interest of just being transparent. This is mostly because not every discussion is necessarily adversarial, and having more contest is helpful for their companions. However it also makes them appear more trustworthy, adding informal weight to their subsequent statements.
Yeah for sure, the way the foot wraps with the board is the visual cue. It has led me and friends to some fun debates in a game of skate i.e. "that wasn't an impossible", so I was hoping to be able to point to some ridiculous mathematical definition the next time it comes up.
The jail time is almost always higher than it would have been under normal circumstances in order to make the choice "forced" without actually being forced. It's an age old trick of plea deals and prosecution perversion.
Problem with C++ has never been that it's "bad" or whatever. I worked with people who did stuff all over the axis (back when I was doing C/C++, which is the interval of 13 to 20 years ago): from drivers to Windows 98/XP MFC GUI programs, and the complaint always was that hey, there is yet another C++ version that fixes old problems but offers no way to (semi-)automatically migrate the existing code to the newer and better/safer API.

I ain't here to shit on C++; I've looked at v20 and I liked what I saw. But the problem remains: there are tens of millions of coding lines written in older style C++ that are never going to be rewritten in a more modern version of C++.

We might as well just rewrite them in Rust, or, if a better systems language with the same (or better) guarantees emerges, rewrite them in that. I in particular don't think it has to be Rust at all costs; I just happen to think it's the best mix of a systems and application language with the borrow checker and (mostly) fearless concurrency -- at least as of today.

---

A small aside:

IMO many people deliberately don't draw a distinction between loud fanboys and people who legitimately and objectively evaluated Rust and found it a net win for their needs. In many HN discussions only the first group is mentioned, the second one almost never.

That's definitely not a fair representation of the Rust community. All programming languages have loud obnoxious fanboy minorities and I don't understand why Rust is being shat on regularly (here on HN) for something that exists everywhere. I can only theorize many people got rubbed the wrong way at the start and then don't care to make an objective analysis afterwards.
One of the leading causes in covid conditions worsening is stress. The others can be summed up as metabolic syndrome. How we can have vaccinations and still bar people from their intimate needs is beyond me.
Apparently that sort of whistling is also used for communication, at least if Wikipedia is to be believed [0] (or if I could track down the source, which I don’t feel like doing just right now):

> Sochiapam Chinantec has three different words for whistle-speech: sie³ for whistling with the tongue against the alveolar ridge, jui̵³² for bilabial whistling, and juo² for finger-in-the-mouth whistling. These are used for communication over varying distances.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whistled_language...
Many countries out there today have much more literal intersocietal slavery.

It would be amazing to break these bonds, but it would completely destroy globalism and dramatically alter 'quality of life' in the west, which is why it's not happened already.
The system before credit scores was even worse. Human bankers used subjective judgement subject to individual biases. That system was unfair, inaccurate and difficult to scale. How would you replace or improve credit scores?

Personally, I'd like to have much more control over who can view my credit data and for what purposes.
Healthcare sharing is a real thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_sharing_ministry
Ah, I saw a similar setup in Berlin, Germany at a location which has now been replaced by Rose Bikes, and the cafe seems to be gone.
‘A’ as in ‘car’, or ‘A’ as in ‘care’?

Yes, I might be being facetious, but letters are divorced from pronunciation, and the great vowel shift made that significantly worse amongst European languages.
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I'd guess the LLCs are structured so that Pacaso is the manager, and also so you need a unanimous vote to replace the manager or operating agreement.

So sure, collect 100% of the shares and then dissolve the LLC - 51% won't do it. It's likely that Pacaso would actually appreciate you doing this, as it validates their investment proposition.
There's also an easy solution: don't buy an iOS device.
Cool, but I have no issues with UBO. My post was about also adding NoScript and much additionally better than has made things.
Thanks, rephrased it a bit to make it obvious
Essentially the same trick. Best metaphor for “switch” tricks is basically doing something left handed (assuming you’re right handed and have always done the “thing” with your right).

It’s the same trick but you essentially have to relearn it with your other “hand”. Tricks are then flagged with the “switch” qualifier to indicate the rider wasn’t in their normal stance. Example: a regular (footed) skater skating right foot forward (switch) doing a kickflip is simply doing a switch kickflip (switch flip).
Makes sense as a trend. If you fail a "competitive programming question", then it's the employer that's absurd. If you fail a "basic coding problem", then it's you who is unqualified.
> Not according to many on HN who argue that it is precisely why they purchased an iOS device instead of an Android one.

raises hand

It's not the only reason, but it is a reason. With government asleep at the wheel on regulating things like subscriptions, scams, spyware (which is, like, most software these days), et c., I'm living the anarcho-libertarian dream of paying a corporation to be my regulator. As it naturally would in the real world, this requires them to be big enough to distort and control markets, for it to be worth paying for. Does that mean they're behaving as a monopoly? Yeah, probably.

This sucks, of course, but it's what we've got.
So what was the state (pH value) of the oceans when we evolved there millions of years ago?

My question was very specific and not about protecting the environment in general.
It's because they need to start collecting more first-party data from users who land on their site. This is a result of Apple (and others in the future) blocking third-party cookie tracking.

They are doing this SOLELY because of the need for audience creation, marketing attribution, and ad revenue.
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My Reddit habit has been all but replaced with private Slacks and Discords these days. Either hobby / interest groups, or an "alumni Slack" full of old work friends from a company I worked at a long time.

I think that's the future, for geeks and nerds anyway. Small private forums, where you can actually have real discussions without getting drowned in memes and downvotes.

For the masses, I think the cement is pretty much dry at this point. You might see a TikTok replace an Instagram once per decade, or something like that. But whatever people migrate to will probably be extremely similar to the thing they migrated from. It's just what the casual masses want.
Blocking cookies for twitter.com in settings is a much more reliable way to disable the login popup, for now anyway. Your first filter there uses a randomly generated ID that will change when Twitter pushes an update to prod.
The thought occurred to me but if I were going to dump $600K into real estate I don't think I'd do it in a house with a doubtless expensive management company in a somewhat unusual very high end fractional ownership scheme that would seem to make value rather speculative versus a regular purchase.
Lol what a long-winded comment just to demonstrate your racism.

Tell me, how long did you live in any Muslim-majority country, let alone the Middle-East? Because I’ve lived in, and regularly visit, one for the past 21 years.

They have as much capacity for democracy and “liberal Western values” (whatever that means) as the West.

I could flip your question around and ask why the US deserves democracy, since it inevitably elects a bunch of war-mongers that have wrought untold destruction across the world.
What he's doing is not legal, and legally tax avoidance, in a lot of European countries.

What he's describing is known as a disguised employee/employment, and they or all their workers (probably their workers if they're operating as 'companies') might suddenly find themselves open for massive tax bills for unpaid employment taxes in their country.

On top of that, this setup is open for the disguised employees being able to sue the company for unpaid holiday + benefits.

Probably never get noticed at that scale though. And can't say for certain as he hasn't listed the country, but if this was happening in the UK, I'm 90% certain it'd be classified as tax avoidance in the UK, and all the 'employees' would be on the hook for something like 14% employer national insurance contributions. The big problem HMRC would have is that no-one's paying the employer NIC, and as his employees are officially the companies, they'd be on the hook for it.
From the thread:
" Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency."

I love reading these sort of things from the past.
A bigger risk than being on the hook for $3bn? Doubtful.
You'd have to also somehow decide that they're 'past it' too, and it's not merely that HN is still ahead on them! Easy with a JS framework that's been discontinued say, hard in general, especially if you want some kind of objective rule for it.
Also Twitter had changed their policy regarding API keys. You no longer just ”get” them. You need to apply. I was rejected for getting key to export my own tweets.

Of course, this means everyone is using web scrapers for what was used API keys before, because of you can use public internal API.
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You actually can unlock it - just get an app written by a trusted developer that uses the multicast functionality, and you can use your phone to transmit the multicast traffic that app generates.

You’re free to access that functionality of your device, using software that uses it responsibly.
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It seems like a much better solution to think in terms of continuous material flows, rather than trying to stop all flows of a material humans consider waste.
if youre in an organization that promotes based on potential to do the work of the next level rather than demonstrating you can do the work of the next level, you should run
> are struggling to find productive real world applications

You can lend and borrow on compound.finance, aave. You can play no-loss lotteries like PoolTogether. You can bet on your beliefs and hedge your investments on markets platforms like Polymarket. You can gamble. More on: https://ethereum.org/en/dapps/

Remember, anyone can use all of this without any arbitrary restrictions imposed by governments or companies.
I use whistling daily. I discovered my dog responds best to whistling, whenever he hears my whistle, he knows it's me and comes running. Now, I use that to my partner ironically, if I don't want to shout and hurt the vocal cords, just whistle and she knows her presence is requested.
Hah! I've wondered the same thing. What if recycling was the problem?

And it's not just plastics. Imagine all of the newsprint that was put into landfills before the Internet and recycling came along. That's quite a few tons of carbon!