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> Think of it this way: The Linux people and many other OSS projects have no problems with mailing lists.

That's a very biased view ("many people work like that so they like it") and I disagree.

I think that email based development is a fence to contribution. At least for myself.

Despites being of that generation, I really started contributing to open source when the GitHub model appeared (and previously in the Perl world thanks to rt.cpan.org, a ticketing system with both web and e-mail interfaces). I prefer to have communication centered about one project to be hosted with all the other data about the project instead of having everything in my inbox.

Few open source projects start nowadays with a mailing list based development process. I can't even cite one.
What?

Throw someone in an MRI or whatever. Continuously scan their brain, while their eyes are taped open, and display a changing character on the screen. Meanwhile, play a sound file with someone saying "password" in the background constantly, so diversionary mental tactics won't work.

Soon, the first character of their pass will appear, a part of their brain will respond, and you have the first char. Continue until the entire pass appears, and "despair" alights in their brain.

Success! Drink champagne and rejoice.
Amen. The Windows UI has descended further into a disgraceful, unusable, and unprofessional shitshow with every release.

Windows 7 sucked ass. Windows 10 is, for some people, literally unusable. Its UI is hideously crippled by defects in both function and design.
I think the issue here though is the MC founders repeatedly used "we will never sell" as their justification for not offering equity.
I mean, they were speedy compared to tapes.

I remember at university writing a couple of little programmes that allowed the swanky BBC Model B (with no floppy drive) to use the Spectrum as a file server, over the serial interface.
which subjugation? BioNTech is a German company based in Mainz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioNTech
Sir Clive Sinclair: Tireless inventor ahead of his time
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-16/sequoia-...

And it's happening again as we speak.
Why the fuck americans think it's all about them? This news is about an app, no one is asking USA to bomb putin for fuck sake.
Was there any real reason to assume progressional caterers would not be able to professionally cater?

My school had a kitchen in the 90's but they closed it in 2001 when my other started (and started to outsource). For 20 years, outsourcing worked just fine and saved them a ton of money.
Take up a martial art such as archery, judo or bjj or taichi. Exercise the mind, body and hangout with like minded enthusiasts while playing. Learn to breathe properly and keep other parameters in check in the zone while you exert yourself for lifetime best.
Semi-serious suggestion: Taiwan should put demolition charges around all the TSMC fabs, to be triggered if ever invaded.

The threat of what that would do to the global economy should help them get the protection they need.
How so? Frere-Jones comes later, but becomes vital to the new state of the business. 15 years together!

See 37signals for another such example: design studio, but oh, software is where we shine, but I need this tech fellow as full partner.
e.g. the validation of invokeinterface changed at some point in ways that broke common tools, if I recall correctly. I don't have bug links to hand right now. The JVM previously accepted something that it was later changed to reject. This often happens including in cases where it doesn't matter. See the Java 17 release notes about the change to validation of agentmain entry points for an example of the sort of thing that is done constantly, even where it isn't actually required by any other change.

People don't execute specs, they execute implementations. In the end whether something is or is not fully compliant with the spec doesn't change the costs involved in fixing it.
The day we sold up
> I don't see anything in NPT that forbids the US and UK from supplying nuclear propulsion to Australia.

And yet it's a tacit agreement among nuclear nations to not sell military nuclear equipment to non-nuclear nations (ie who don't have at least a civilian program).

Which is why North Korea for ex has never been able to buy nuclear equipment from China or Russia. So far, because now that the US has decided breaking the rule for a short term financial gain was worth it, other's will decide that they might as well help their own allies too with a few reactors.
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I was just using XSS as an analogy.
Agreed. It was just meant to rise awareness that a rational approach isn't necessarily desirable in all ways of life.

Especially in times when policy is often subjected to much emotion we could certainly should strive to some hard rationality, although we should be aware that we might never achieve complete rationality.
I assume it's referring to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_field_(chemistry)

And developing software similar to:
https://openforcefield.org/software/
Nah, they run out of German engineers + without futher commercialization of science there is no way forward. There is many good concepts, but almost none got out research phase.
I’m saying that Apple is going to do what is required by law, there is no speculation.

This is true for booting an app from App Store, because it was required by a government, or looking through your data on your iPhone, due to a requirement from a government.
> Not to mention the horrible keyboard.

There were lots of home computers available with proper keyboards. As a kid I couldn't afford any of them.

That horrible keyboard did me just fine.
I mean yes, but also no? And I think a lot of it depends on how much you want to take from the overall tone of the comment vs a particular statement in it.

Not everybody is going to read the whole article. Not everybody is going to put 2 and 2 together while they're reading and reevaluate his previous statements with that new context.

I think it's pertinent information when evaluating his statements and coming to a decision about how you feel these things should be handled. I'd say mentioning his financial interest is more akin to a pointed summary

That said I don't think this was an attempt a deception, nor particularly deceptive given all the context. But still, it's relevant. Some people would give an explicit disclaimer, others not. I don't think this is clear cut enough to say one way is absolutely correct.
Yes, yes... corona. That's why all the lotion! It has nothing to do with looking at pron!
Brazil has multiple civilian nuclear reactors in operations. Australia has no significant nuclear expertise. France would probably have preferred selling nuclear submarines because it would have saved on retrofitting cost.
Using biometrics is far riskier than passwords at short physical distances. Meaning, if you're in the room with your assailant (alive, sleeping, or dead) then your bio-password is in plain sight. In fact, only your head and/or fingers need be present.
That's because the Soviet leadership made the error to slip into the cold war confrontation, as a result, most of their science and industry was narrowly focused on developing military hardware. The Chinese had Zhou Enlai, who made the effort to avoid such a turn of events (incidentially Zhou Enlai wasn't an engineer at all).

However there were alternatives: once in office, Beria made an effort to get rid of East Germany, in an effort to end the cold war. However the rest of the polibureau ousted and executed Beria, because they feared that all this was too destabilizing (then they got the Hungarian uprising under Khrushchev, which was much worse; also Krushchev later fired his co-conspirators in the coup against Beria - Malenkov and Molotov) See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria#First_Deputy_P...

I am not entirely sure about it, but the question of who is on top seems to make a big difference, when talking about a very authoritarian political system.
VW Pulls Back Curtain on New Electric-Car Battery Lab in Germany
There have been several "Ask HN" postings asking people to recommend blogs. Here's one from a few months ago that got a lot of discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27302195
> Disclaimer - I have invested 1% of my savings into stable cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum etc.

Lol... okay the "STABLE" ones huh? *closes browser tab
Crypto is offshore finance for the little guy.
See my response above: timing is crucial in this instance. A clever workaround that takes more than three days to propagate is useless.

As another matter of timing, note that Apple (for which no such easy workarounds are possible) and Google did this simultaneously at about 8:00 UTC+3 today. I’ve heard speculation that they couldn’t cave in before even if they wanted because then the other wouldn’t and the bad press would hit only the one who did. Now the coordination problem is apparently solved. I’m not expecting good things.
>The problem is that when the ZX, C64 etc were around there was no alternative. If you wanted to play games, you could either shell out for more hardware and purchase the games on disk or cartridge, or you could type them in from a magazine (several times) and hopefully save them to a cassette.

I agree. When there is no shortcut you find much more motivation to go the hard way. I was in that exact position when I was 10, and I kept messing up copying the basic lines from books so I got a book for kids that teached me basic, this way I was making my own code and could debug it. I made simple games completely from scratch that way it was how I got into programing.

I can understand that now with so many shortcuts available for kids the same motivation is not there anymore. It's like once you get access to cheat codes in a game that makes you invincible and gives you infinite money, the challenge is not there and you lose interest.
JavaFX is still maintained by Oracle so I don't see how budgets are related, the JDK ships lots of modules that aren't a part of the Java SE spec, and adding it in is a simple matter of jlinking it. It would be very easy to start bundling it again.

I'm sure there's some explanation for separating it that makes sense if you're very close to things, but whatever the underlying rationale: that one move broke every JavaFX app simultaneously. JavaFX is the most modern GUI library, the one Sun/Oracle promoted for years as the replacement for Swing and yet new Java releases cannot run any old releases of any of those apps. That's what people mean when they say Java lacks backwards compatibility: their apps stop running.
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2065. They just grow your finger and an eye in a lab, and use those to unlock your device.
Nuclear had been a problem for years. Every attempt to transport nuclear waste was paired with very disruptive protests to block those transports. That made an expensive solution even more expensive and it made politicians involved look bad too. Germany is a crowded place; NIMBYism can make or break a political career and this was a never ending PR nightmare for conservative politicians. It made them look bad. Just not worth the trouble given how small the nuclear proportion was in the German market. Just trying to emphasize here how completely and utterly uncontroversial this nuclear shutdown has been locally.

Up until Fukushima there were still new plants being considered/pondered/dreamed off (those plans looked increasingly less likely to ever happen). 2011 was the year when renewables became the one and only answer to future proofing Germany's energy needs.

Nuclear became part of the problem instead of the solution. No more new plants was an easy and extremely popular decision across the political spectrum. Which immediately raised the sensible question what to do with the remaining old ones. Which was promptly answered by "lets just get this over with and move on with renewables". There only was around 16GW of nuclear capacity at the time, 8 of which is gone by now. The rest is going in the next few years. It wasn't that big of a deal replacing one expensive source of energy with another that wasn't that cheap either (at the time).

Germany was not ready to do that with coal twelve years ago because at the time it was still most of its energy generation so it simply couldn't. That simply isn't true anymore. Renewables are now cheaper and coal is now the expensive option in the market. Once coal is gone, the next obvious target will be gas and oil plants (around 4% of the market).
8 too? I was going to write something about this, particularly in how that's the reason why I don't really disagree with GP despite pondering the exact opposite "what if". But the sudden appearance of an 11 that nobody asked for gives me the impression that the culture that was fostered on the paid upgrade is still very much alive.

Meanwhile my mind has taken a deeper dive into the rabbit hole fantasy of competing Windows distribution divisions. I'd expect it to seem like a total failure : the surface. E.g. with Steam users refusing to get lured into the "gamer Windows" (something with an X in the name), the "crippled version that is entirely ad-funded" (10, basically) drawing too much hate for the entire brand while still not being crippled enough to push people to paid options and the one you can get with the Office subscription being a little too incompatible for employee lockout reasons with the plethora of in-house essentials required to run at customers. But Microsoft could still come out stronger, having a well defined place for bad ideas to go to die. And who knows, one of the niche distributions might be essentially sysinternals with a kernel and a package manager.
Like the laws that result in extreme racial bias in sentencing, or an outsize proportion of inmates locked away due to mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug crimes? The laws that don't take into account abuse by prison staff or other inmates, secondary effects on inmates like PTSD, or tertiary effects on society from things like grooming? The "long standing precedent" of drug criminalization that was willed into existence by public hysteria campaigns spearheaded by a highly agendaed political elite in a short span of time in the 1980s and 90s? The "well constituted popular government" whose judges and sentencing behavior vary so much between states that which side of a street you live/get arrested on can be the difference between months and life in prison? The government that turns a blind eye to prisons whose conditions are condemned by other governments (the UN) as torture?

Once you depart from the minority of incarcerations that are reasonably unquestionable (e.g. demonstrably uncorrectable violent sociopaths), you will find abundant arbitrariness at every level: in the formulation of laws, their application by courts, their enforcement by police, and the conditions of their punishments.

"Arbitrary" is the rule. "Dialectical" (which I interpret as "civically intended, publicly acknowledged proportional consequences") is the exception.
That image of the manual gave me the same visceral jolt of excitement that it did when I first saw it in 81
Why? It's harmless[0] and since they have to operate within the law they use it to deter whaling. Plus, they don't use it anymore.

[0] https://www.seashepherd.org.uk/news-and-commentary/commentar...
Especially for old and lesser known movies, the discussion board for the movie was a brilliant addition that could give the movie an extra dimension. Context is very important in order to understand, and ulitmately enjoy something.

I think they removed it in part because new movies, like star wars and superhero movies, had alot of negative activity.
The UK startup saving classic cars by converting them to electric
Automatic dark mode on HN without browser extensions
Yeah, this. You work for a company and agree to do this for amount X in whatever form. If equity is important to you and a company does not offer it, I don't know why the company should be to blame. Of course it's a pity that they could not hold up to their ideals, but I guess no one should be surprised that everybody might have a price tag when talking billions.
This article is evidence that Apple has and is continuously willing to bend to demands in dictatorships... That's why people are talking about it here.

Heck, even in democracies it's willing to bend. It's been widely reported that the reason iCloud backups aren't encrypted is to make it easier for the FBI to surveil them, despite there being no American laws forbidding Apple from encrypting the backups.
You actually don’t have to. If you cover all 4 buttons on the ride side of the steering wheel with your palm (same motion as a traditional horn) it will sound the horn despite the yoke having a dedicated physical horn button.
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It only evaporates, because most people aren't language geeks that waste part of their life reading SIGPLAN and IEEE papers. :)

Currently in Rust async/await generators discussion has been put on hold as being a hot topic, and as library writer one can't still be sure the library will properly work across all async runtimes.

https://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/01_getting_started/03...

Same kind of 1.0 issues apply to Java, D, C#, C++,.... and they are specially bad in guest languages that take decisions on syntactic sugar for missing platform features, and when the platform adds those features, they usually end up with two ways of doing the same thing.
A Z80 wouldn't be powerful enough to handle decryption of WiFi traffic. But it's an interesting thought
Yes and no. It meaningless directly, but it can help to amplify the message to Apple management. If public uproar did cause them to reconsider their approach to CSAM, maybe there is a chance they will retink their abominable environmental policy.
European Heroku apps were down for 2 hours this morning
Exactly, I only started maybe a month ago and incredibly simple to get into.
Genuine question: I had a 2a+ too, it crashed all the time. Really frustrating. I believe it was because amstrad bought spectrum and started building them cheaper. Did your crash all the time?
Google info? Can you give me a sample query of what you mean?
This is part of what I read on HN:

The first thing we observe is that the directory structure is basically identical. Yes, NT kernel subsystems are identified with short codes like "Ke" or "Ex". It's plausible that someone with a lot of NT knowledge would end up creating top level directories with these exact names, as is true of the WRK. But it seems kind of unlikely: the Wine sources do not show this pattern.

If we look at the Kernel Executive (Ke) subtree, we can see that there is a thing called a "Balance Set Manager". Both source trees define it in a file called balmgr.c - not only the location of the file but also the file name is identical.

https://github.com/Zer0Mem0ry/ntoskrnl/blob/master/Ke/balmgr... https://github.com/reactos/reactos/blob/master/ntoskrnl/ke/b...

It appears from the module description that the "balance set manager" is an optimisation of some sort related to reducing memory usage. Is this really something that needs a reimplementation with identical function prototypes?

Looking at the code of the identically named KeBalanceSetManager function, we can see that not only is the function prototype identical, but the order in which it does things is also identical. First it changes a thread priority, then it schedules a periodic timer callback.

Some of the local variables in these functions have identical names: PeriodTimer, DueTime, WaitObjects. Yes, these are obvious names. It's not a smoking gun. But it's not looking good.

Finally we discover that the ReactOS Balance Manager does .... nothing. It enters a loop which starts out by doing a wait for an event (fine, it's inherent to the task), and then switches on the result. But the code in the arms of the switch are commented out (the commented out code does a subset of the stuff in the NT code). The loop does nothing, just sits blocking in a loop forever. Why does this code in ReactOS exist if it does nothing?

It's the same story for the other big function in this file, KiScanReadyQueues. The code is virtually identical, line for line, with minor formatting and occasional trivial naming differences. Even the assertions are identical.

I'm not alleging anything specific or illegal, just comparing a small part of both codebases. However given what I've just seen, I wouldn't touch ReactOS with a barge pole. The Microsoft guy's complaint is entirely understandable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20345645
It's a candidates' market right now, especially for developers. If my holiday got denied for a trivial reason (or no reason) I would just walk out the door.
Fair play to the lads!
You can quickly disable biometric access on iPhones while the phone is locked by pressing the wake and a volume button simultaneously or pressing the wake button five times, although the latter triggers a call to emergency services too. Of course, that's only useful if you are in position to do so.
This isn't part of the NPT - this is a tacit agreement that nuclear nations don't sell nuclear (or nuclear powered) weapons to non nuclear nations. This is why North Korea never managed to buy nuclear stuff from its Chinese ally. So far.
There are several lists on github. Here is a couple:

https://github.com/karan/Projects

https://github.com/florinpop17/app-ideas
What happens if the CCP uses its dictator powers to rapidly transform China into a low-carbon economy and then starts leveraging the carbon credits system to heavily penalize and stymy western rivals?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kettlebell-Simple-Sinister-Revised-...

“Simple Sinister” is a program with kettle bell swings and Turkish get ups - it is a good basic program for general core strength when you have limited time. Look at what Tim Ferriss has to say about the swings.

Add https://stronglifts.com/5x5/ too.

Add some cardio you enjoy, preferably daily and at least 20min, but not too much you are exhausted. You should still feel quite fresh afterwards.

Eat more vegetables, try to hit 5 portions a day minimum. Dr Weils “Optimum nutrition” book is a great book on the basics.
US always needs to think black and white. Either you are free to have guns, or you cannot have any guns. This is not true at all.

I'm a gun owner in Europe. First I needed to be member of a shooting range for 6 months. Then I have to pass a theoretical and practical exam. Then the people I live with have to sign that I can own guns. Plus, I need to have a clean criminal record. To keep my guns, I need to go shooting 12 times a year, and every 4 years my doctor has to approve that I'm mentally stable to keep them. There are also very strict rules on where I keep my guns an ammo, and where I can transport them.

Do I like all the effort I have to put into this? No. Do I prefer that over giving crazy and/or incompetent people guns? Yes.
Harnessing energy from renewables is eventually a zero-sum game: you can never generate more energy than the sun inputs into Earth's atmosphere, and every bit of energy we extract is no longer available for nature to use. It's not a sustainable practice if we assume that as a society advances technologically, it requires ever more energy per citizen (and no, the various green initiatives have not disproven that assumption -- they reduce energy waste, not energy usage).

Unlike renewables, fuel-based energy sources like nuclear (and coal/gas) do not reduce the amount of energy available to Earth's biosphere.
Man, the more I learn about the US the more I hate it.
I mean, there's some big questions left out there. It says 'certain' apps. Is it all? Or just some?

If you do opt-out, does anybody get notified? Is it reasonable users are concerned somebody might get notified?

There's a lot going on there. And just to point out, this has moved on from saying Apple only removing features, to debating how bad the features they've added are.