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"The web started to get more suitable for apps probably since Gmail in 2004. It’s very convenient, yet still very limited and has shortcomings."

Yes. I worked for over a decade to make web apps behave more like native apps. I finally realized it was a fruitless endeavor. The browser and the web are amazing but, trying to make them behave like native apps just doesn't offer the same experience and, in most cases, offers a worse experience. All one need as proof are all the Electron apps or the Apple Music desktop app.
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They could start by ceasing their union busting efforts.

Last year they posted a job looking for a senior intelligence analyst to gather info on "sensitive topics that are highly confidential, including labor organizing threats against the company." Later that day they claimed they had made a mistake in describing the job.[1]

There is no single answer on what pay and benefits should be, or how well they should treat their workers. That's the whole point of unions: they provide collective bargaining where employees can decide how much their local area can reasonably support.

That's why organized labor is a threat to them. Their business model depends on squeezing wages and benefits, which is exactly what they did when they bought Whole Foods. They removed medical benefits for part time employees[2], and have recently cut paid breaks from 15 to 10 minutes, which now includes the time it takes to walk to and from the break room.[3]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/01/amazon-seeks-intelligence-an...

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/09/14/amazon-whole...

[3] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whole-foods-cuts-some-workers-p...
I'm surprised Ray-Ban were willing to attach their brand to this.
Brilliant! Love it! Good luck! Keep us posted!
Locale would be a country so e.g. UK? Then it'd be just like the US (1,000).
https://archive.is/dXBD1
Wow that's really shitty of all the other ones.

Will you name drop them so I can be angry at their ethics for you?
Comparing Amazon's fulfillment center's condition to actual slavery on a thread about them offering free tuition to their worker might be the most out of touch HN reply I have seen in a while.

You do understand that these people, regardless of your opinion on how the government should handle education at a state and federal level, will actually benefit from this move? It's not some kind of dystopian agreement, usually the employer pays for your education and you must stay there for ~2 years or reimburse what the employer paid. That's it, you can leave, you can go work anywhere.
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German law does so too since a long time, in a way absurd enough that some people started labeling everything as ad as it's too risky for them not to do so even through they might not do any "advertisement" at all.

The curt ruling wasn't about the curt now newly forcing posts to be labeled but it was about creating a bit more clarity when it needs to be labeled and when not.
Great. From one company that shits on privacy and another that shits on an entire industry[0]. what could go wrong?

[0] Luxottica owns Ray-Ban.
The accusation of centralization isn't about the home server you use, but what self-hosted matrix server software sends to third parties. It's what was quoted in the gray box from here https://gist.github.com/maxidorius/5736fd09c9194b7a6dc03b6b8...
If I had to pick any amazon warehouse in the country with workers least likely to vote for their own self interests, it would probably be in Alabama or Texas. If this vote had happened in a state like Oregon it would have probably passed and Amazon knows it. Brilliant move by Amazon having the first union vote here since Amazon can now point to their workers "deciding against a union" whenever it comes up again in the press, and other warehouses probably lost a lot of wind in their sails for the unionization movement too after this failure.
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Since when does API only mean "web service"? The article talks about APIs being important to "modern" software development, SOAP being an "early" example of one, in the early 2000s, etc. I mean, the Win32 API comes to mind immediately.
how does it know what are secrets? what if I base64 the password before printing it?
It ends up either being an inclusion list or an exemption list at some point. I think it's odd to start with only one industry.
Patent and copyright trolls have shown that even a clean room implementation is no guarantee.
That comment on incentives is funny, but I'm not sure it captures the situation here: The mathematicians who wrote The Disc Embedding Theorem have been quite successful. All are on the tenure ladder (or tenured already) and publishing novel research in a field they revitalized.

I can see how sinking time into this is risky, but that's generally true of choosing a field of research. I think the authors deserve credit for doing it well. Likewise, Peter Teichner should get a little credit for helping to create the space for them to do so.
> But those are running lightweight embedded stuff with no or minimal OS. A modern intel x86 CPU is never used that way and a) is broadly compatible with other x86 cpus and b) is used in products that rely on a million software dependencies and a supported OS, along with all of the updates along the way to keep it working online which is a standard requirement these days

Modern x86 processors are used in embedded. While there are security concerns if connected to the internet, not all are. These processors don't drive the low level controls, but they do drive the UI - customers want touch screens and other modern UI controls for their equipment. They absolutely do buy equipment expecting it to last for more than 50 years, my company makes a lot of money supplying parts for machines we made in the 1950s - modern machines make us more money, but those old ones are still doing the job for customers who couldn't afford to buy new.
Ray-Ban is Luxottica and they have done a lot of not great stuff: https://www.forbes.com/sites/anaswanson/2014/09/10/meet-the-...
At this point I don't think there's a single channel I watch that produces original content for YouTube (as opposed to, say, speedruns of video games or stream recordings) that is not sponsored. The last few holdouts gave in just a year or two ago. Just like podcasts, they'll do an ad read before, in the middle of, or after the video. I've gotten very used to skipping them.
> Ads on TV are literally placed in news

That's pretty country specific. I'd almost assume that Germany prohibits that, I know Denmark does. You CANNOT insert ads in any way into a program. Ads must specifically ONLY reside in ad blocks, between programs.

Which is why many of Denmark commercial TV stations aren't technically Danish, but they also don't produce news shows.
If shuffling boxes around gets them the highest pay they can get on the market it just may be the most productive thing they can do! That means being a useful cog in a very effective machine.
Looks like people didn't like "intellectuals".
i usually have analysis paralysis when the consequences of either decision is really dire. In short... i'm stuck between two bad choices.
Putting aside the whole "Facebook has something to do with this so I will dismiss it out of hand because blah blah blah evil company" I don't really see the point in smart glasses, though yeah I'm sure it has some uses
I think biggest downfall of ITER is also why we must do it. The downfall is thus - ITER is huge and that generally implies lots construction delays and cost overruns. But, being huge also means it will be able to study sustaining high volume of plasma for long durations.

ITERs plasma density will be comparatively low, and that is where SPARC with stronger magnets comes in. SPARC will produce data on lower volume and limited burn time, but significantly higher plasma density.
None of those things change the result for covid. The real troublesome thought is that bio-experimentation is booming, at both state and private level. Assuming covid escaped from a lab, it is the largest man-made disaster in history, with a death toll larger than nukes. We have non-proliferation treaties for nukes (as feeble, leaky and toothless as they are) but we aren't even considering the same for bio.
And the NTSB doesn’t look kindly on having your passengers swinging from 40-foot poles, either. Oh, the nanny state!
What? The Apple Music desktop app is native, built with Catalyst (and is awful despite that)
You can do this with the following crappy cronjob (monitoring the machine where your cronjobs run is left as an exercise to the reader / is why you'd want to pay someone to deal with it):

0 0 * * * openssl s_client -showcerts -connect news.ycombinator.com:443 </dev/null 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -checkend 864000 >/dev/null || echo "Certificate is expiring"

Assuming your system has local mail (via the sendmail command) working, this will send you an email if your certificate expires in the next 864000 seconds = 10 days. If you have an MTA installed but don't use local mail on the machine, you can use the MAILTO feature to send it to your normal email address.
We already have nanites. It's called green goo.
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This could be a perfect proof of work scheme.
Author of the posted repo here! As another commenter posted, I used typed arenas quite a bit, it's not the most ergonomic way to do stuff, but it's quite performant and gets around the lifetime issues.
The biggest problem with Google Glass's HUD, IMO, was the lack of true augmented reality features like object tracking and recognition.

Without that, it really ended up just being a tiny smartwatch screen that is in the corner of your vision instead of on your wrist.
Let's try to avoid the online shaming/callout culture here. It's a classic local/global optimization tradeoff.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
It has a mic array. Fewer microphones, but I wouldn't necessarily immediately conclude that it's worse. Testing would tell.

720p is fine for videoconferencing, it's very rare that the software and the network supports anything higher. I'll take 720p with a good lens over 4k with a crappy lens any day.
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Paired with the picture of him flexing his muscle, I think you can get a pretty clear understanding of his psychology.
This is a pretty smart purchase, with it MasterCard is getting a fairly mature technology stack (by cryptocurrency standards at least), an incredible amount of data (mostly attribution data relating to addresses and transactions), and a team that’s experienced with the industry (which there is a massive void in skilled workers for).
So we're basically reading ancient Chuck Norris facts?
when an influencer is making $10k/mo or more, they probably have incorporated, or they're a sole proprietorship.
The issue is prior restraint. If you sell someone a product marked in such as way as to create an expectation that it will be recyclable, taking no steps to dispel that belief, and it turns out not to be recyclable, then you've committed fraud. The buyer would have a legitimate claim against you for any costs which resulted from the product not being recyclable, for example if they had to pay extra to dispose of it as garbage rather than recycling. This is not the same as saying that it ought to be illegal to apply the recycling symbol to the product in the first place, since merely applying the symbol is not a sufficient condition to qualify as fraud. For example, there could be an accompanying disclaimer (or expectation that a "reasonable person" would know) that while the product is recyclable, it may not be permitted in the regular recycling bins in the buyer's region.
How is any of what you said not really going on now? People routinely take pictures with other people in the background and upload it to facebook without permission, and if facebook's facial recognition recognizes them it asks if you want to tag them and gives their name, or gives you the option to manually tag them which then informs facebook as to who the person really is. If they aren't on facebook/no account, it builds a shadow profile for that person and connects them with other people who have uploaded pictures of them in the past. If that person is in your contacts and you've uploaded your contacts, facebook now also knows who they are and their number, that they can cross reference, and they didn't sign up for facebook. That data is all sold by facebook. And the police have shown up at peoples houses due to what others have posted on facebook. When do we get to the dystopia part you're alluding to? We've been here for awhile. You're just acclimated now and don't see it.
As far as I can tell, the modern world has left the realm of "individual vs collectivism" and is more about "individual vs collective vs collective-of-collectives".

There's nothing wrong with the Marines being the modern Sparta, because the Marines are just one team in our team-of-teams of the military. Marines + Army work on the same projects together, so the Marines can be the "unsustainable elite fighting force", while the Army can hold the zones after the Marines have done initial combat.

From this perspective, individuals glorifying combat works in the context of the Marines. If the Marines were alone, they'd fall just like Sparta did way back in the Greek days: but that's not really an issue today. The Army will inevitably help out whatever conflicts the Marines get into.

So the "different cultures", the different stories that these communities have, work out in the context of the team-of-teams that make up today's military.

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Society has advanced a lot in the last 3000 years. We know that we can build a community similar to the Spartans. The questions we have today aren't "good vs bad", but more about "where is the proper place this philosophy should be in our greater society?".
It's surprising how common this is, from big organizations: either letting the certificate expire, or have it be for the wrong domain that clearly belongs to the same org - but most users wouldn't know or care. So it's a good idea for a service, best of luck to thehodge.
How will this fair against two party consent laws for audio?

I’d be surprised if most places don’t immediately ban this and other “always on” discrete audio/video recording devices
Thread in question: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/87674/independent-evidenc...
Yes, I do consider the US a democracy. Democracies experience highs and lows too, as leaders and generations changes. It doesn't mean there is no hope for it, or that the people are weak.

Snowden broke US laws to reveal something he saw as unjust. That's standing up for democratic values and rights. That's how you make people aware about something and a movement emerges. (And why even you and me are now discussing privacy laws).

He may be persecuted and even hounded for it. History tells us that has always been how it is. Gandhi spent nearly 7+ years in jail protesting against British imperialism and demanding freedom for India. India's first Prime Minister spent around 8000+ days in jail (nearly 8 years) during India's freedom struggle ...

"And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you." - Nicholas Klein, Union leader
> if you were running Amazon, how do you protect against bad actors or poor performers? Do you leave it solely to the discretion of the managers?

You take the explicit metric and make it unsaid. Over the course of a few months, if a worker isn't meeting their "goal", they're given a generic performance warning. If they don't improve, they're terminated.

This is why workers need a way to push back on quotas.
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You can recycle PLA into recycled PLA filament for 3D printers. You can buy it online; it at one time was cheaper than new.
I think if it's "actual" glasses, unlike the Google Glass, an HUD could be incredibly useful since you have the entire vision field to play with. Bonus points for that since many people wear normal glasses anyways (me included).
The Germans being sensible again. This is needed, (especially for the younger teen cohort who might not realize they are being used to garner sales/revenue).
I've actually put a flamethrower on a car, long ago. Not a very big one; alcohol injected into a bypass exhaust pipe. It was a bitch to get it to wash the road and not set the car on fire; and there was a narrow window of speed where it was effective. too fast and it would self extinguish; even with naptha... faster than that by 3x and naptha would be a fine enough mist for an FAE pop, if we could get it to light.

Very, very much "not suitable for street use" :)
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FWIW, most Twitch/YT streamers I see label their sponsored content as #sponsored or #ad. There are certainly more pernicious ads that go unlabeled though,
Really cool of you to mention this publicly! As thehodge said in his comments this is far from usual, and most big websites would just silently renew their certificate without giving any credit.

> Yes, I know most of you can do this in 3 lines of Python and a cron job

At first I thought this was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the famous Dropbox dismissal by BrandonM
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Why does everything you dislike need to be illegal? No one is forcing you to buy these things.
> You'd be surprised to learn that when you're in public you're constantly being recorded.

Okay! We all GET that! Doesn't mean we can't hate the idea of people recording us onto FB.
This was a mainstream idea when I was in CS school 12 years ago. There are creative alternatives too, eg. by requiring the client to complete a network scavenger hunt: https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~adamlee/pubs/2012/abliz2012ijas....
I know you already did this, but for others reading this: Just get a damn loan. No ones gonna give you a cookie for suffering. Unless you hate spare time or your masters is a “just show up” kinda program.
The glasses of the future with camera(s) and needing frequent recharging... yay!
I think it's WASM, but the title says it's native. Maybe the word "native" has various meanings here. When I first read the title I was under the impression that it wasn't WASM.
You notice people recording by them holding their phone towards you. You can go to them and ask them to stop or get out of the way.

A pair of eyeglasses that you might not even notice is a different thing.

As for uploads on facebook, it was never that pervasive and right now not many people even upload to facebook anymore... Its all reshared memes and ads
No, this is intentional. Here's the original book on the publisher's own web site:

https://www.loebclassics.com/view/plutarch-moralia_sayings_s...

There's a footnote on that part "Cf. the note on Moralia, 190 B, supra", but I'm not sure what that's referencing.
I thought the same but boy is it satisfying when they do.

My stock response includes "if you're unwilling to disclose a salary range, please stop contacting me" and I have gotten responses from recruiters like I told them I fornicated with their grandmother.
Not sure what you mean about mic? You can attach any microphone you want.

It’s 720 over USB yes but since it’s a much higher quality lens and sensor the quality is far better compared to my cheap HD webcams. I'm not sure what you're imagining 720 looks like, but it's probably far better than you're expecting for a webcam call.

No point shipping more pixels if they’re just a blurry mess.
> I might be onboard with a law that requires cameras and microphones to have a power indicator. Specifically, the LED should be hard-wired into the main power wire going into the camera/mic, so that it will activate any time those sensors are receiving electricity.

Such a law should be equally applied to police body cameras.
I was instinctively and immediately annoyed by the "declare war on X" in the title, before realizing they're doing it ironically.
The biggest issue with this vote is that it happened in Alabama, a state where the republican majority has spent six decades villifying labor movements in the eyes of the people who would benefit the most for them; Alabama is one of the poorest states in the nation. Now look at how good this turned out for Amazon. There are now people like you who cite this vote and its margin alone, without understanding the political context, and use it to suggest that Amazon workers would not collectively benefit from unionization. These PR people in these large corporations are absolutely brilliant at their propaganda. You've been made into an unintentional parrot, not your fault considering how hard it is to find signal with all the corporate noise that is dumped out there in the press these days.
So who gets credit for proving it? Freedman, the original author from 1981; or the authors of this book?

If Freedman's proof has so many gaps, should it be considered more of a proof outline, or a motivation for believing a conjecture, and the current book be considered the actual proof?

Or does Freedman get the glory? In that case, there's not much incentive for people to do what these book authors did. Which I suppose is why it took 30 years, and is only happening now because they "were captivated by the beauty of Freedman’s proof and wanted to give it new life. "
You don't need smart glasses, you need drastic gun control laws.
> Youtube and instagram still place their own ads on sponsored content

The ‘skip advert’ button… should it skip the YouTube inserted sponsored content, or move to the end of the video entirely?
> Most companies aren't ready for big bounty payouts when a program first starts. They set a fixed budget and are more likely to end a program completely if the bottom line cost is too high, regardless of the security impact.

At the beginning of a high profile bug bounty program I'd expect higher expenditure than in the following fiscal year due to the backlog of researchers who really want to "sell" to an official channel, not a slow start.
GPLv2 and GPLv3 are difference licences, despite sharing a name. The GNU people (FSF) intentionally made the GPL3 incompatible with GPL2, to enforce the virality of the GPL3 license (which they perceive to be superior to the older GPL2).
> We can play on words, that won't bring back his victims

I really disagree with calling a soldier on a mission, an agressive overseas mission, getting killed in action "a victim". A casualty, yes. If anyone's a victim, it's the innocent civilians getting blown up by both sides in a conflict they didn't ask for, not the combattants on either side.

> He was rather quick to claim Canada was "his" country despite having brutally murdered an allied soldier. Also, he was fighting "his" country pretty hard until it became convenient not to.

He says he did so to be extradited there so that he actually has some human rights and dignity restored, because, remember, he was tortured for actions he did when he was 15. He's still technically a war criminal if he did indeed kill the US soldier (not being a regular soldier in uniform), but the US had no jurisdiction over him, illegally detained and tortured him for an alleged crime he committed while being a minor.

Anyone involved with this on the US side should rot for life in The Hague ( of course that would never happen).
There is no way that having it fail in Antarctica was any cheaper. "We can't afford to test it" is a great example of output focused thinking when what is needed is an outcome focus.

The intended goal was enabling lots of safe travel through the Antarctic, something they failed at. In modern dollars they paid $50k per mile of successful trip. They could have spent way less money to achieve that goal with other approaches. Heck, they probably could have just turned the money into $1 bills and burned it to keep the explorer warm for such a short trip.
What happens when these foreigners don't?