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> You're in shock of the attitude that hackers should stay off mainstream commercial platforms and avoid pandering to a generic audience?

I'm in shock because you believe 17-25 year olds should be barred from knowledge.

> You do realize why we're having this conversation on HN and not on Facebook right?

You seem to have a sense of superiority. Is HN better than facebook? I'm not so sure. You aren't better than anyone because you post here. I'm certainly not better than anyone because I post here. Certainly wasn't given any test or provided any credentials to post here.

> The 2% of the young adults who are genuinely interested in science and tech and DIY maker culture will find him regardless where he is.

This argument is even more shocking. What about the percentage of people who might have become interested if they were exposed to it? Do you know how many people developed interest in something because they were introduced to it? There are millions of minorities/women/men who didn't go into computer science because they simply weren't introduced to it.

> That's how it always works when people actually care, it's a good filter.

Because the hackers ethos is to make knowledge as difficult and impossible to reach?

> I'm not paternalistic, I'm opposed to grifters and attention-seeking.

Why didn't you say so. Why did you write so much about "17-25 year olds", PhDs/engineers, niche forums, etc? Grifters and attention-seeking isn't my cup of tea either. But they don't deserved to be banned. Also is grifting and attention seeking to under-17s and over 25s okay?

Your logic and thinking is what paternalists in the past did to women and minorities. It's why people prevented women and minorities from reading, writing and gaining knowledge because it would be too harmful to them. Nothing more anti-hacker than that.
I wonder if there is a good history of how the civil rights acts and Vietnam withdrawal actually happened.

For instance, did the war protests really have that much effect or was it because the war was lost?
The bear trap that is the “free tier” tripping newcomers up right when they’re at their most enthusiastic.
Violent gun crimes are felonies with the exception of the victimless I tried to carry my handgun through the airport type of crimes.

Do you have evidence otherwise?
There's already an opt-out legal framework in place for marketing calls. Mass sending SMS spam to opt-outs is illegal. Prosecute the crime. It makes zero sense to try to guess from content.
Would it be cheaper to just get everyone that would use it StarLink?

I’m just weary from trying to fight horrible broadband providers blocking every step of the way. Maybe the answer is to go over their heads.
Yes, he did. From [1]:

> "The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material. It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you."

> He added: "I do not recommend that you wear a mask, particularly since you are going to a very low risk location."

> Fauci has previously been criticized for changing his position on masks. Early on in the pandemic, he advised against wearing face coverings, but that advice evolved over time.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fauci-said-masks-not-reall...
I’m going to have to be careful, because decorum, but you have no right to decide what’s best for him and his wife. Maybe he has a job lined up. Maybe the whole thing was his wife’s idea. You don’t know.

People are fed up being told “heres your options take it or leave it” first by slimy managers, then by people like you pretending to be the voice of reason.
What man in his right mind would want to go to university, when you KNOW that you are going to get 24/7 hate on men, with the whole patriarchy thing, and white men suck the most, in particular? And just all the hate on men in general, in the media and elsewhere.

For men, it's just time to drop out and play video games all day and live at your parent's house. I know about 10 guys in my immediate circle who are doing that.
That's a shame. I only used it at a hobby level and found the Linux kernel to be surprisingly stable on it (before Linux really ran on a lot of phones). This was just before Palm started going all-in on Linux/WebOS.

With time I think it could have been a real contender.
I highly doubt that you will reach the scaling limits of rails unless you have a massive product and even if you do Python would not be a good replacement.
Wow, that is the end of an era. In some ways it is sad to see a successful independent foundry get absorbed, but on the other hand, it sounds like he is ready for a break, and this sounds like a good outcome for those involved.
So Hoefler makes out like a bandit while Frere-Jones gets totally shafted. Business as usual.
That conflates VAT rates and sales tax rates. The two tax structures are very different, and a comparable VAT has a higher nominal rate than a sales tax, because the taxable amount is typically smaller.
Cherry-picking data was routine practice at Theranos, former lab worker says
Amusingly, Einstein's home got raided and they confiscated a kitchen knife or something.
Have you not heard of Gladys?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLTGXblgUoc
Where "harmful" is "having an opinion socially unacceptable in Menlo Park", right? Tech censorship would be hilarious if not so clumsily brazen.
https://frame.work/#laptop-configuration
> I never liked this hypothesis. The way I see it, we're returning to a "dynamic complex system" view from a brief infatuation with computing,

I don’t know if there was much of the “dynamic complex system” stuff in the 1800s. (What a terrible way to describe it... but, I think you know what I was saying.)

The theme seemed to be striving towards simplification. That is, as Newton transformed the convoluted epicycles and platonic spheres and all the other bizarro theories explaining astronomical movements down to F=MA with a nice simple inverse-squared law tossed in, I think scientists writ large believes a similar simplification would occur in other fields. This was justified to some degree; chemistry was beautifully simplified in a short time. As was, to some degree, medicine with the advent of germ theory.

But, biology seems immune.

I really don’t think many biologists were thinking in terms of complex dynamic systems. (Ironically, Turing — a computer guy — was with his paper on reaction/diffusion equations.)
I too sleep better knowing that while the gun industry is built on a graveyard of dead elementary schoolers, it’s only a few dead elementary schoolers.
The laws are pretty old so I doubt there's reliable data. Australia has a clearer case. Firearm deaths definitely decreased after a 1996 law that pulled hundreds of thousands of weapons off the street. Rates were already decreasing before the ban but seemed to drop faster after. It wasn't a dramatic change and can't be directly attributed to the law.

I'll say this other thing though. Rates of violence aside, first world democracies that curbed gun ownership typically show better measures of development (for men and women) across the board. There was no slippery slope of lost freedom and government didn't suddenly oppress their unarmed citizens.

https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/essays/199...
Abstract: We describe some cryptographically relevant discrete logarithm problems (DLPs) and present some of the key ideas and constructions behind the most efficient algorithms known that solve them. Since the topic encompasses such a large volume of literature, for the finite field DLP we limit ourselves to a selection of results reflecting recent advances in fixed characteristic finite fields.
I’ve experienced this carry-over into my verbal communication with my partner before, it’s nice to have a name for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_Stat... sort on third column. A bunch of places in the US have city/county taxes that bring the sales tax above 10% even though the state tax is not.

Just for places I've been in the somewhat recent past, Seattle and Chicago both had 10%+ rates.
> So, it sounds like emails are stored on a third-party serve...This is sort of unavoidable for email as I understand it.

They don’t have to store the mail on a third party server.

Email is by definition stored, at least until you retrieve it, so that’s unavoidable.

They could use some public key scheme where they encrypt incoming mail and only the user could decrypt it, but it definitely would be a lot of work. A read buffer’s worth of plaintext would exist briefly in their server’s RAM. I suspect this is more work than any but a tiny number of users would want to deal with.
You're saying this like it is an accurate portrayal of the entire modern positive sentiment towards guns. The honest truth of it is a lot of people just really do not like the government.
But 2 months off could be a totally reasonable amount? If you worked for 2 years without taking PTO, taking 2 months off to avoid burnout seems like a normal thing to do. Some people prefer to take bigger, longer vacations rather than smaller more frequent ones.
Yes, the words are pretty plain and clear. You can take as much time off as you want, within reason. There is no cap.

Need a few days off for a break? Go for it. Want to take a two week vacation a few times per year. Approved!

Think you can take two months off and disappear? Nope. Some people were born without a nuance gene and don't understand this distinction.
"Bricking" refers to something much worse and completely different. Besides pre-release versions having a broken update is fair game in my book, surprised it hasn't happened as often as it used to to be honest.
you have got it almost completely backwards. :P
Automatic weapons are for all intents and purposes banned.
Politicians are constantly passing new gun control. It is far easier to pass new gun control laws than it is to remove them. "Common Sense Gun Control Laws" is a term coined by the Democrats that is used to refer to any gun control legislation that they are currently trying to pass. If they pass the law than the next thing they want becomes "Common Sense"
We did a bunch of testing of crawling, indexing, and checking of rankings of the 15 top tlds. The .xyz actually was crawled and indexed by google within a few hours, many others took days to get crawled.

Google prefers to crawl and index .xyz sites over others domain endings. But they won’t rank them well in the index.
Is a good ol' .com with no ads and minimal JS - originally launched in 2011. Thanks again for your insights; I've bookmarked your site and will check back every so often to see if my site's been indexed.
As an American with British ties I will say a legend has passed away. My British side has a better recollection of computers than my American side from that era in large part due to his innovation.
I believe the problem with our developed country being compared to other developed countries goes beyond murder rate, wouldn't you agree?

We have less mobility and opportunity between the ranks of our society than some of these other countries.

That lack of equality makes our richest very well off, but our poorest live in literal third world conditions (as Alabama was designated two years ago.)

To be honest I don't see a problem with comparing us to both, but with the consideration that there is an awful lot of variance between the different subsections of our society.

What do you think?
Sorry, I meant that "my images ... still have their basic metadata intact ... when they get to Glass" (so Glass is not trying to remove it).
Thank you, gtvwill,

looking at competitors is a good idea. Perhaps I can capitalize on the benefit we could have for their reputation as leaders in this space.

Any suggestions on how I find this type of negotiator?

I am confident in solving technical problems, semi confident in writing code, and I have generated about $3m in sales over the past 2 years in this space, but now that I have the product dialed enough it is laterally scaleableI really don't want to mess up something that could set the standard for the next 5 years or more.

Thank you again for the thoughts. I appreciate it.
May be it can lead to a new way of doing things, but you cannot reset existing power structures. They will always hold the most power one way or the other.
IANAL - but the legal term would be "non-disparagement" as one of the carrots the lawyer dangles. It's all very legal, very cool, and both side perfectly understand what it means.

Avoiding bad PR is one of the reasons most settlements have non-disparagement clauses, usually paired with a confidentiality clause that says you can't even talk about the settlement (and therefore you can't mention or imply the existence of the non-disparagement clause therein).
The root of the issue is the competency of the local government. That has to be fixed.

Things can get built fairly rapidly in many places if all restrictions are removed. You can definitely move fast and break things.
It's also an impediment to democracy as it prevents an informed public. Not to mention that the interests of the state and the nation usually aren't aligned. Things like "state secret" imply that the power balance between the state and nation are skewed. But that always inevitably happens as the state gains more and more power.
I don't understand why they would remove turn signal stalks, unless they can automatically predict in which way you want to indicate a turn before turning in 99% of the cases.

It's just so natural to move the stalk down/up depending on which way you want to turn, and I'm not really sure this can be achieved with the touch buttons.
Corporate democrats in the state legislature will be happy to trade away your local rights for the promise of union jobs in purple counties.
> But 2 months off could be a totally reasonable amount?

Sure. Leave of two months should obviously be coordinated with your leadership, which this person didn't do.

Which makes your comment moot.
How much you can earn on UpWork before giving up
I worked at a bigco that implemented 12 weeks of maternity/paternity leave. A good friend was the first person to take paternity leave, he helped his wife with the new baby and their 3 other children.

His director was furious that he took the paternity leave. He started getting bad reviews and was sandbagged when he tried to switch departments. After he left the bigco, another director told him why he got the treatment he did.
The US is the least diverse of those countries. Australia has 30%(2019) of foreign born resident's to NZ's 27.4%(2018),Canada's 20%(2016) and the US's 13.7%(2018)
A failing Empire, though. There's no turning back.
Ours doesn't take that long usually, but it sure can be slow.
Oh hello angry person who went into my history and downvoted benign comments.
Maybe there is a way to wake up REDInet to reality. But New Mexico tends toward bureaucracy that sucks up money and really doesn't accomplish much, so I don't hold out much hope, either regionally or locally.

I moved to Camp Verde, Arizona. Things were even worse here, but the small cable company sold out to Suddenlink out of Round Rock, Texas, and that sold out to Altice, from France, and I think Suddenlink here is similar to Comcast in Los Alamos. There's nobody like Allan, and cable's fatal flaw is that upload speeds are capped at 10 Mbits/sec. I paid over $300 a month for a couple of years for less, and now pay about $130 for 50 down, 8 up. Sigh.

Trouble is, if you offer gigabit, or even 200 megabit, symmetric, for a few hundred customers, you need 40 gig or 100 gig upstream, and that's a big-city thing. Citylink in Albuquerque does have that, and I suspect LANL does, too, though I'm not in touch with them the past 8 or 9 years.

Also, for WFH (work from home) for LANL, within the county or from Taos through Belen, there's still the fact DOE (Department of Energy) really, really wants all LANL traffic to go through ESnet (Energy Sciences) so latency that could be microseconds inside town becomes at least 70 milliseconds. That makes a huge difference in how useful it is.

Other nearby resources are Jane Hill and Cybermesa in Santa Fe, Richard Loewenberg and his first mile mailing list, also in Santa Fe and John Brown at Citylink in Albuquerque. The subscription web page for 1stmile is:

http://mailman.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm
I think it's easy to say it's declining based on things like Red Monk's ranking, but with GitHub, Stripe and Shopify behind it, it's not going anywhere soon.
And apparently Rails us is slowly increasing: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/php-maintains-an-eno...
Excel, Adobe products, CAD/CAM programs

Unless you use the products above professionally, you could easily make Linux as your daily driver. You don't need to be tech-savvy to install Linux distros nowadays since most of them already come with a GUI. With that, hardware issues are easily resolvable since (1) it is open-source thus simpler to troubleshoot and (2) other users probably already found a workaround. Most updates in mainstream distros are already one-click too. A lot of them just doesn't update automatically since the philosophy of Linux is "it only needs to be updated when the user explicitly asks me to."
“The infringer is my alt account”
Walkman Archive
I guess you haven't had a wikipedia admin tell you "you're doing it wrong" yet, then. They are quite the slanted and tiny authoritarian bunch over there.
It's a subscriber-only article. What's the gist of it?
Your parent did not say any of the things you say they did.
> The cost of fast and strict lockdowns is very minimal.

Thanks for your opinion Kim. I'm always impressed by the diversity of Hacker News poster, I didn't know the website was popular in NK.

And by the way the cost is not just economical but also social, pedagogical (remote learning is still in a joke stage), psychological, sentimental (like marrying without proper event) and those are hard to quantify yet are the salt of human life.
The article is paywalled, but I'd like to know how the figures are arrived at, and where the deaths are geographically.

Do the figures include extra deaths from more intense and frequent flooding and landslips, longer droughts and consequent conflict, increased wildfire effects, and extension of the range of malaria and other diseases, and on the other side decreased undernutrition in the Sahel due to increased rainfall, and CO2 enrichment to date?
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Yep! Still sad to see.
You seem to be underestimating the difficulty here by quite a bit. Cities can’t achieve a policy proposal like this, especially the large number of small legal jurisdictions that make up the Bay Area, and it would obviously have zero traction at the state level. The premise is ridiculous.
The price of Curtas seems to have gone up over the past 18 months. eBay has plenty of listings for Curta I and IIs, but you'd have to shell out more than US$1000 for one, unless the unit was in bad condition.
Gun control is pretty strict in Finland. In order to get a permit, you need to show that you need a gun for your hobby or your work and that you can handle it safely. (Self-defense is not considered a valid reason for a permit.) The permit can later be revoked if the original reason is no longer valid. Gun ownership is still quite high, because Finland is a sparsely populated country where hunting has always been popular.
Vermont is at 1.8. Europe's average is 3.0.

Czech republic, the only shall issue European country is at 0.9.
The horn is especially egregious, I think. having to scan for the little horn button in an emergency situation sounds awful
Yep, and those distributions function just fine without nix. The point is that that's despite the build system rather than assisted by it.
It's probably important to point out that this is talking about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) rather than Open Source Software.
So you enable it by editing the manifest file and embedding the manifest file, but with legacy applications the HiDPI scaling might not be calculated correctly, or something assumes Pixels or DIP incorrectly. It might be something in a custom control in MFC, or a library or DLL where the source is long gone and no one can update, or even worst something doing something via COM and VB6.
GTK has a stable theme api. This is happening in a different layer, which is more specific to GNOME apps.
That’s unfortunate; I think the KP line breaking algorithm is one of my favorites. Obviously, it’s not as fast as greedy, but it is “mostly” linear. Here’s my notes & some C++ code…

https://github.com/jaroslov/knuth-plass-thoughts/blob/master...
@kens: Thanks, long time follower of your work. Are you familiar with the inner workings of the HP Voyager (11-C, 12-C, ..., 16-C) series, and if so, is a teardown/analysis of these something that you'd be wanting to do?
I don’t mind the message being marked as `spam`, and I don’t mind looking up the spam list, but I feel scared when I can’t see it at all (has useful message been blocked by mistake?)
If you’re meeting your performance goals you won’t get fired. It’s a bluff to get you working more.
We’ll wait and see, but yes after all the media hype and the initial signups from the start, these numbers look woeful already.

Its slightly early to draw conclusions since super follows isn’t fully rolled out yet. Lets see if anything improves after the end of the month.
Not to be secretive, but I do have an emoji domain name (.ws allows them). You can use it for email, but it's a bit of a pain to use the address in practice. It's easier to send links directly to people, but it is kind of funny to be able to use emojis to email my kids.
Is there any logical explanation on why they did this?
Are we approaching quantum gravity all wrong?
A lot of the features were already part of the insiders version of Windows 10 before 11 was announced. Seeing as its a free upgrade, I think of it as just another one of the semi-yearly Windows 10 upgrades (i.e. Windows 10 21H2), rather than a whole new OS. Upgrade for the same reasons you kept Windows 10 up to date.
hackernews white knight have your back but I'd love to hear Atlassian side of the story
The 400 isn’t quite what I had in mind. I was thinking more of a device usable even by the under-10 group, with a simpler and more robust physical design and, crucially, the kind of instant-on, guided programming environment the early home “PCs” had.

With early Sinclair systems, each key on the keyboard would act like modern auto-complete: you would start typing and keywords would appear almost magically. On the BBC Micro, you powered on and heard the trademark beeeeep-beep and were instantly presented with a prompt where you could start typing a program or other commands. Everything in those systems was geared towards immediate responses and inviting you to start programming them straight away.
The speculation is that nomi returned funds after being doxxed as the CTO of the band protocol.
I dismissed this guy a long time ago as a Microsoft (or more precisely, mediocre and big-company biased) shill -- then I read a few of his articles and gained a bit of respect for him.

And then I read this and I'm back to square one.
Forest/trees man. He just sounds like he's trying too hard to hand-wave away serious flaws in biometrics by trying to reassure us "well, it's not likely to happen to you personally, so you shouldn't worry about it," which is always always the worst, and perhaps most dangerous privacy argument ever given -- because of its unreasonable effectiveness against the "common man."

Done with this guy, I am.