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Yes, but you say that as if it was a universally bad thing. OpenBSD is largely made by its developers, for its developers. It has its own unique culture and does not seek mass appeal. To many – such as myself – this is refreshing, in particular when you contrast it to how poor open source developers are scolded on GitHub by entitled users for not putting in more of their free labour to satisfy their requirements. Is it for everyone? No and that is fine. You are always free to fork it or enjoy the fruits of their labour from a distance, such as with OpenSSH, tmux, etc. that work just as well for OSs which may have a culture closer to your taste (and that is also equally fine).
A computer teacher once threatened to kick me out of class for reading the help file, obviously because they were annoyed I knew more than they did.

*HELP. on a BBC Master
That's a good clarification
Yeah they’re similar feature-wise but the communities that exists on GitHub vs. GitLab aren’t remotely comparable.
While there are some truths in your mirror of my comment, the symmetry breaks down because we're talking about a single topic.

The blue post-truth political machine is focused on identity politics, which has little bearing on Covid response. Giving a pass to protests for police accountability, or dwelling on how Covid "especially impacts communities of color" are examples of its distortion. But these aren't completely undermining its overall treatment of Covid.

And yes, many people who are taking Covid seriously are also simply following top-down direction. From a libertarian perspective, this is similarly ridiculous - eg the continuing prevalence of ersatz face cloths as opposed to real filtering respirators. But really, this is traditional authority doing its thing - most people don't do the work to truly make their own decisions, and so they defer to some leaders that tell them what to do that are expected to generally make decisions in society's interest.

The real question to be asking is why the red tribe's authorities have misled them on this topic so tragically. The opposing position to "wear a mask to protect others" should have been "wear a mask to protect yourself and your family" (eg valved respirators are fine). But they instead chose to reject the whole topic, with disastrous results.
What does it do better than Firefox Mobile? It has all settings, URL bar, and tabs at the bottom as well.
Search bar is superclass of url bar? Just bigger parsing space?

Now we just need to superclass the bar into the whole screen. Rightclick wherever to bring up optionally-context-sensitive addressing/searching. Free ourselves from the tyranny of the browser frame.

Which we have already done to a degree. And it's great.
The frequency of how much of what appears to be outlandish bullying gets portrayed in Japanese shows could be an indicator of how normalized it has become there. I have watched some anime too, and I cringed every time they showed those cartoonishly evil bullying scenes. They appeared so unrealistic to me, but reading this discussion it seems it might have actually been a quite relatable theme for Japanese audiences.
It really feels like Google is losing interest in Android. What are the chances that they will sell it to somebody like Microsoft with the requirement that certain Google Services remain?
HN: Inflow (YC S21) – Self-help app for ADHD people
Hey! We’re Seb, Levi, and George, co-founders of Inflow. We have built a self-help app for adults and adolescents to better manage ADHD.

Accessing treatment for ADHD is expensive, slow, and can be difficult for ADHD people to organize due to struggles with executive functioning. Inflow makes accessing many of the benefits of in-person ADHD therapy significantly more accessible and affordable.

Based on the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy, our app enables people to better understand ADHD and how it impacts them. It also gives people practical tools and helps them to develop the skills needed to better manage ADHD. This is combined with a welcoming community to share experiences and learnings.

Half of our team is neurodiverse and our co-founder Dr George Sachs, as well as having ADHD, has over 10 years of experience treating people with ADHD through CBT. Consequently, we are aware of the impact of ADHD on day-to-day life and how underserved the ADHD community has been in terms of accessible and affordable support. Levi also previously worked for Babylon Health to develop products for chronic condition management and saw how technology could enable access to care.

The core of the app is a CBT-based program that provides short, daily exercises as well as tools to develop helpful habits and skills. The program is broken down into different modules each focusing on specific areas ADHDers may find challenging such as time management, organization and impulsivity. Our community lets people connect with and learn from a range of other diverse individuals with ADHD in a safe and stigma-free environment. We offer daily live events with specialist ADHD psychologists and coaches including topic deep dives, Q&A, coworking sessions and group meditations.

Other features include prioritization tools, which let you set daily goals to prioritize your most important tasks, and guided journaling—prompts and triggers to help you better understand yourself and your behaviors. We’re just getting started and have a range of exciting new features in the works including routine building tools, accountability check-ins with a real coach, progress tracking, group-based challenges, and more.

The average cost of an in-person ADHD CBT session in the US is $200-300 ($10k-$16k/year). This is compared to Inflow’s cost of $95.99/year. Of course, no app is a direct replacement for in-person therapy but it offers a far more accessible and cost effective solution which allows many more people to get the help that they need.

You can download our app here: https://inflow.app.link/0FXmBEAWjkb. We offer a one-week free trial followed by a monthly or yearly subscription.

If you’ve been trying to or previously had difficulty accessing treatment for ADHD we’d love to learn about your experiences. If you do try the app, please let us know any improvements or additional features you’d like to have. Thank you!
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It's more reliable and faster than SMS, removes the size limits, far more secure, and supports a lot of modern features (non-terrible media quality, received/read notifications, threading, app embeds, etc.)

Signal tries to offer that but isn't as polished. The Facebook services like WhatsApp are good and cross-platform but that involves trusting Facebook heavily.
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Indeed. I've always been deeply influenced by the old saying:

Your Character Is What You Do When Nobody Is Watching

Your chances of having a problem from stuff being leaked is greatly reduced if you aren't doing shitty things to begin with.

Not that I think that's what motivated this "whistleblower".
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Or "Every URL bar is made to look like a search bar". It's been 30+ years and it doesn't seem like we've been able to rethink or enhance the URL bar in any meaningful sense other than throwing search into it.
If you paste a link into the google search box, a good fraction of the time it doesn't lead you on a path to arriving at that link. For example, try the URL of this page.

For me, zero results.
Number 2 is a common pattern. At first developers are exploring things and changing approaches from time to time, so the most flexible solution wins (express, redux, webpack). Then they understand exactly what they need, so they can make a new tool with focus on particular set of use cases and features from the start.
Perhaps the argument you would like best is that it's a form of self-regulation designed to prevent the need for actual regulation via laws that would be more expensive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_self-regulation
Ah yes, the "privileged elite class" consisting of underpaid professors, and the oppressed have finally risen up to turn the power to control speech back over to administrators where that power rightly belongs.
Are there any Laptops with dedicated GPU that won't throttle down under use?
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Network effect: Even if someone feels signal is better, they can't convince their whole group to start using signal.

I don't use an iPhone. This is the reason I heard from iphone users.
Alright, thanks very much. I guess I was deceived by the not quite professional grasp of English, and repeated use of "I" in some of the justifications.
> Science should really be more about the latter.

Sure. But I don't think the article claims to be scientific? It's a human interest piece.
On the rare occasions when I’m manually typing out a url, that’s what I do also, just in case I ever mistype it. It’s better than being directed to the wrong site.

Normally I don’t even need a url though, I’ll just google “chase bank” or wherever it is I’m trying to go.
Why would you want a mirror, and especially why would you want a mirror on an ephemeral image hosting site? The XKCD site has been online since '06 and is already archived on archive.is and web.archive.org, imgur has been online for less than that time and certainly can't boast the same amount of uptime.
The only issue I had with GL is that they don't show the entire diff if the changes/files are very large.

They may have fixed this since last year, but it was super, super annoying to me at the time.
It really depends on the startup, their traction, and your relationship with the founders. I've had folks ask for $10k-$20k for a seed round (the line between angel and seed is very blurry imho) with zero traction and a rough idea of the product market fit with a barely functioning MVP, and another team I spoke with wasn't talking to anyone without $100k to invest. Once you're past the seed stage, unless you're connected or an employee, it's $1MM+.

I focus on seed stage as I'm seeking high risk high return exposure for this part of my portfolio (and I'm not liquid enough to participate without investing in a fund for Series A on, unless I'm leveraging as part of a transaction).

(n=1, YMMV, accredited investor)
Anonymous Google and Amazon workers condemn project Nimbus
100%, I think that's mostly batshit too. But it's not taking over my Twitter feed, so I have no reason to address it directly.
It was just as moronic then as it is now. Also, I don't believe these are even close to being the same. ATC works for FAA which is a gov't organization. Healthcare, as we all know in the US, is not a gov't organization. Gov't telling private citizens which private companies they can/cannot work for is asinine.
I think the answer at this point is a resounding yes.
You think the problem with a child suicide spike is that it might cause a population shortage??
I think the CTO's reasoning comes from that while GitLab is competitive in terms of usage and features (actually offering a more complete CI experience imo), it's influence is still relatively miniscule in comparison to GitHub.

I wouldn't be surprised if you tried asking random people in public or in a university whether they know GitHub or GitLab and came to the conclusion that GitLab basically does not exist for many people.

Especially for newer programmers, the vast majority tutorials/educational courses and whatnot probably don't even mention any alternatives to GitHub, much less an explicit reference to GitLab.

I say we just give it time, GitLab as a company seems like a way more inviting environment to me and if they keep up the good work GitHub may have to start acknowledging them more.
My take is that this feature is fundamentally at odds with how most programming languages work.

For starters, I think that it's probably no accident that you generally only see these image-based development features in dynamically typed languages. For image-based development to make sense, you really want to have long-lived interactive sessions. In Smalltalk, they are effectively endless, and can span multiple decades and branch among thousands of people. In a static language, though, you've got an incentive to keep your interactive sessions short and do most of your development outside of it, because code changes inside the interactive session can lead to weird chicken-and-egg problems.

Second, there are some real ergonomic challenges. It's easy to get into a state where what you're doing isn't reproducible, because there's not necessarily any paper trail on how to rebuild the current state from scratch. This is a famous criticism of Microsoft Excel - arguably the world's most widely used fully interactive development environment along these lines - and a major reason why a major project at of one of my previous jobs was to replace one department's suite of heavily scripted Excel spreadsheets and replace it with a C# application. The company was rightly concerned that they were one file corruption away from a major business disruption. Similar criticisms, albeit on a less operatic scale, are often leveled against Jupyter notebooks, which aren't quite the same thing, but to retain many relevant features.
Yes, some NFT pumpers on twitter get very mad if you copypaste their avatar as your avatar.
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Thanks, I'll send it!

For anyone who's wondering: a repost invite is a way of getting a post into the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page. If the original submission is older than a few days, we don't re-up it, but rather invite the submitter to repost it. Then it goes automatically into the pool. So yes, it's something good :)
Vaccine is not treatment. Both have a role.
esbuild is partially [0] used in Vite [1] where you get a dev server et al.

- [0] https://vitejs.dev/guide/why.html#why-not-bundle-with-esbuil...
- [1] https://vitejs.dev/
There are a whole lot of other factors that go into a price besides the cost of the good.
This won’t protect the views of the public though, it will just protect the views of the administrative class.
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How is setting up your own store "getting around" Amazon's dominant position? Obviously anybody can sell their own shit on their own website, but that doesn't change the fact that buying something online defaults to checking Amazon for a very large portion of the online public.
Those closing lines are applicable to so many other things, I like it!

- [Users/Drivers/Students] don't really understand [interfaces/traffic/life]
- [Computers/infrastructure/schools] don't really understand [users/drivers/students]
- [Big Data/City Planners/Education Dept.] assumes that [users/drivers/students] are behaving in semi-rational manner
Still makes me nose-exhale a bit when I hear "Biden made me do it! I had to, to follow the law! After all, it's an executive order."

There's no standing executive order mandating anyone other than federal employees to be vaccinated, and there likely won't be. This CEO trying to brush off responsibility for the results of his poor choice is really annoying to see.
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I don't think it's reasonable to compare cryptocurrencies to chain letters.

Chain letters' sole purpose is to enrich early adopters at the expense of later participants.

While early adopters of cryptocurrencies frequently do reap windfall gains, it is not necessarily at the expense of later users as it is with chain letters. The early adopter benefits for cryptocurrencies are no different than early investors in a business that goes on to produce a popular and successful product.

Unlike chain letters cryptocurrencies provide a useful utility of a medium of exchange coupled with consensus based algorithmic scarcity. This is an attractive alternative to centrally planned fiat currencies that are persistently and intentionally debased over time.

Whether the power usage is worth the utilitarian benefits to societey is certainly a valid debate and hopefully will lead to more efficient protocols.
the ones I read were people getting their dream jobs because they were smart enough to target an ad about how smart they were and deserved the job to the person doing the hiring.
> You own the pointer to the image

You own a pointer.
> It's not because they get up in the morning and say "better go pollute a bit more today!"

Of course not, but they do actively make decisions based on profit over sustainability.

> So if it bothers you that much then stop using those products/services. Not possible? Then vote to change laws. Not possible? Revolution

One voter voting on an issue doesn't change anything. These kinds of arguments must be made to convince others to vote with you on the issue. The same could be said of a revolution: a one person revolt doesn't go anywhere, we need more folks to embrace the revolution.

There's also been a concerted effort by corporations over the past few decades to shift blame from corporations & manufacturers responsible for pollution onto the consumers, which makes arguments like these necessary (because otherwise the only argument on the market is that we consumers are just buying plastics to spite the environment, to be hyperbolic about it).
> If you want to use it as a daily driver, you're probably going to run into some headaches

This all depends on the hardware you bring to the table. A random Acer laptop with a questionable ACPI table is probably going to have problems, but a previous-gen Thinkpad X1 should be great because that's what the devs use.

> you're not going to find a lot of the software you might normally use

This really depends on your use cases – I can do most of the development I want on my OpenBSD laptop. But there are some gaps, absolutely.

> The performance is not great and battery life is not very good.

Harder to argue this one. It's getting better release by release, though :)
Fake iOS cryptocurrency apps hit victims for at least $1.4M
It's followed by an Aloe Vera chaser.
But isn’t what you said a bit of a straw man too? Back in the music comparison, no one would expect an excellent guitarist to take up playing piano and still be a virtuoso.

And yet… we do recognize that some people are impressively better than others at playing piano, running yards, fighting, and all sorts of other narrowly specific tasks.

It’s just that the more creative the task, the harder it to measure how much better someone is.
Beanie Baby mania was rational as there was a seemingly irreperable supply chain problem.

The floor prices dropped when the founder shocked the market by fixing the problem with a new vendor and flooding the market.

Like any good trade, there were many people hoarding beanie babies after the fundamental circumstance had changed hoping the prices “bounced back”, but that doesnt mean there wasnt a rational trade at some point.

Honestly most comparisons to speculative bubbles are wrong, whether it is about Tulips or Beanie Babies. It seems all the commodity and commodity derivatives bubbles have an economic component, and the equities bubbles are the more dubious ones, such as the South Sea Bubble or the 90s tech bubble. It makes more sense to use equities bubbles as better examples of irrational exuberance.
F# has become my default goto language. It is absolutely amazing to create cloud services in it an I have a small ETL tool as well. I would not trade it for anything else.
You can use esbuild to your existing rails apps via the gem jsbundling-rails https://github.com/rails/jsbundling-rails

It works really well
Every change to URL bars lately seems to make them less useful.

Let's hide the protocol, users don't need to know whether they are connected through http, https or ftp, right?

Let's make the URL bar jump about fifty pixels when you select it, so that your mouse cursor is no longer in the right place when you go to select a URL fragment.
They did this because Firefox (and other mobile browsers) has been allowing the option for years. It works better for one-handed usage. It's the kind of change that it takes a few days to get used to and then you never want to go back, that's the place where Apple really shines since they can force their users to adjust (most other products have to worry about users dropping off if configuration changes too much).
Preface: I've been fascinated with cults since I read "a piece of blue sky" about L. Ron Hubbard and scientology. I'm reading "The private life of chairman mao" now. I've only skimmed the article but...

With the right leader this could make a great cult!
When you say "not as low", the cheapest iPhone I can find looks like the SE, at 389 pounds. I can find multiple Android phones for 50 pounds -- that's nearly an eigth of the price.

I don't deny the SE is a better phone than a 50 pound phone, but it's also in an entirely different bracket -- I wouldn't give a 10 year old a nearly 400 pound iPhone, I'd give them a 50 pound Android, for example.
I don’t buy the lock in argument. Not because it’s false but because every thing has lock in to some extent. It’s just user preference, taste, and familiarity are stronger than losing app purchases. People used to completely repurchase their music collection every 10 years or so. Albums, 8 tracks, cassettes, CDs, etc. They value reliably that Apple is known for and the risk of changing and not liking another platform is large. New users look at their friends and think, “everyone seems to like iPhone. Seems like a safe bet even though it’s expensive”. I’d argue it’s still not expensive given how much utility they provide.

I find analogies useful. When I was young I started eating fries with ketchup. As an adult, I don’t get to say ketchup lacks competition because I don’t like other condiments. Even within the ketchup vertical, I have a brand preference. I could buy a store brand and save 50% but I don’t. I like what I like and I pay for it. Non iPhone users either don’t like iOS or just don’t want to pay the premium Apple charges, otherwise I’d argue many more people would be on iPhone.
What differentiates those premium phones? It runs the same Android of which I rather have a stock version than the bloat-ware rubbish that phone makers install on there for me.

The iOS devices link into a web of ease-of-use, and come with a reasonably well make stock version of iOS.

And then there's trust. Whom does an average user trust more with their data? (Apple/USgov, or Google/USgov+Samsung/SouthKorea+...)
Psychonetics originated from academic research[1] and appears to employ scientific criteria and methodology (such as [27, 28]) in many aspects.

That's a lot of qualifiers.

So it originated (but may not have continued) from academic (but not necessarily peer reviewed) research, and appears (but may not actually) employ scientific criteria and methodology in many (but not all) aspects.

I hope it's just unfortunate writing, but I can't help but take it as a pseudoscience red flag.
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