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Ask HN: Is there IT industry equivalent of the cold/hot gun filmmaking scenario?
I’d assume most of that could be attributed to the average 11 year old being significantly smarter than the average 5, but I wonder how sustainable that gain is? Given a large enough cohort that practiced enough, ELO is probably a decent-ish proxy for mental development.
(1) Keep a couple of pencils on the piano to write your fingering on the manuscript,
(2) Feel free to ignore the editor's fingering if it's clunky for you,
(3) No premature optimisation. Play through sections multiple times before deciding on fingering. If there are two apparent solutions to some fingering problem you might need to try both and then sleep on it,
(4) Once you've decided on a fingering, stick to it, because otherwise you risk tripping up by regressing onto a previous fingering.
> there isn't a single meaningful country you'd waste the cash to park a carrier on the coast of that couldn't immediately send it to a watery smouldering grave.

Carriers don't go anywhere alone, and they never stop moving except when in port. They are part of a carrier strike group which includes extensive anti-missile capabilities, both from escorting ships and patrol aircraft (LAMPS.)

> Submarines exist to keep the peace. Their real purpose is that they exist and operate in the dated service of mutually assured destruction.

Submarines are not only for launching nuclear ballistic missiles, as indicated by the relatively large number of submarines that are not designed to carry them. They're used for patrol, surveillance, special ops, escort, etc.
Counterpoint: I do not understand the apparent massive appeal of video content.

To avoid being too brief:

• For entertainment: I have never cared for most television or movies. I've watched the entirety (or even majority) of fewer than ten series in my life, and movies in the low double digits.

• Video is a terrible medium for covering most kinds of information. Its speed is often fixed, and it's barely searchable! It is good for showing process or sequence (e.g. some kinds of how-to content), and for showing 3D perspective it's an acceptable substitute for a freely movable camera on a digital model, but for almost anything else informative, text can convey more, and more quickly, and more responsively.
I found his initial journal article and several failed attempts to replicate his results: https://www.advisory.com/en/daily-briefing/2021/03/02/sepsis...

Is there something I'm missing here? Seems pretty damning that nobody else saw the outcomes he did.
There is no inherent location information in an IP address, but those packets have to physically go somewhere at 2/3 light speed. We could design a network like Tor where the routing is geographically oblivious, but then everywhere on Earth would have the same (very slow) ping time.

It is saner to make a fast network, and then layer an anonymous one on top of it.
I don’t think it’s fair to blame Snowden or Russia for the asylum situation. Why should Snowden make a martyr of himself and why shouldn’t Russia point out the hypocrisy of the US? The US government could, you know, drop his charges, thank him for the risk he took in an attempt to improve his country, acknowledge the overreach of the intelligence agencies, and stop doing shady, illegal shit to its own citizens.
why not just extend the email protocol to really support open calendars, open social networks (decentralized) and open p2p chat?

email is a nice way of addressing, but we underuse that address compared to all the balkanized post-email systems.
There are so many podcasts that it is hard to know which are good and and which are just random people talking random stuff. Lately I am listening to these two:

Good Inside - a lot of good ideas for fixing behavior issues. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-inside-with-dr-be...

Stories Podcast - mostly because I have forgotten many childhood stories. I skim through these and then I am able to tell those stories at bedtime. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-podcast-a-bedt...
I first understood the question as "what should have been done different if internet was designed today". I think it is a more interesting question. What mistakes were made that later needed less than optimal workarounds?
What comes to my mind are character encodings and i18n. It was solved in many different ways in different protocols.
In this very article, the guy says that he was jumping over buckling floors and dodging falling walls to make it to his locker so he could retrieve his spare shirt.
Nah, the 11 Start Menu is super lacking. I miss being able to make and name app groups in Windows 10.

Plus, it's just lacking in basic and obvious "features." I wish I could default to seeing all apps. I wish that the current default view's bottom third wasn't blocked by a suggestion that can't be hidden.

Ditto with the Taskbar changes. I'd prefer to have only the Windows button left, but app icons centered. Seems obvious, why isn't it there? Additionally, why remote the ability to have small icons or place the taskbar elsewhere but the button?

IMO they regressed and simplified too far and need to walk it back a bit.

The new Windows 11 coat of paint is okay.
Seymour Hersh basically nailed it at the time and then it was confirmed with the WikiLeaks OPCW dump. All quite easy to find with Google.
Even in the context of learning, "Here this is wrong because it will do X and to fix you need Y" is immensely valuable.
Concrete = fast and cheap for post WW2 reconstruction. Which built up excess of labour / expertise in concrete construction that also spread abroad with post war emmigration. It's still the only economical choice for many regions. Not everyone has access to cheap, renewable lumber.
Cyber heist rocks high society jeweller Graff
>Now your only option is a web page with embedded pictures which may as well be a paper encyclopedia entry

Don't knock encyclopedias/dead tree layouts. It's been a hell of an information transmission medium for centuries, and comes loaded with haptic shortcuts to aid recall and indexing.

I often call UX people on this when they want to do away with pagination and go to search bars. Yes, Boolean search is cool and all. Most people don't think in query languages for getting them all the way to where they are looking. They usually just want a starting set, then let them flip pages, or refine their query. Generally, when searching an unknown datastore, I like unrefined queries and manually perusing the data to get the lay of it by landmarking pages.

Point being, I still remember my first media center 101 on boolean searching, and my early years with search engines. To be honest, I feel like I got way more out of search indexes that didn't have agendas (piracy site suppression, artificially propping up marketing efforts, etc), than I do today.
starlink is the current solution that I am hoping for
> What alternatives or solutions do you envision for search? How would you build a content heavy site in a way that gives a user confidence when searching for something?

I think a big difference is the move away from folder-based organisational structures. Once upon a time, web sites were collections of HTML pages in a filesystem, and so a hierarchical organisation was natural; people started moving away from just a filesystem (or FTP server) into a CMS, but many older CMSes had a similar focus on folders as an organisational structure. It worked quite well in the hands of competent users, although there were always those people who didn't quite get it (or maybe just had poor attention to detail) and if left unsupervised they'd turn it into a big mess.

But then along came blogs, and suddenly there was a shift to posting content chronologically, with non-hierarchical tags; and as blog software (such as WordPress) came increasingly to be used as a CMS even for non-blog sites, that approach spread to CMSes as well. And I think it makes it harder to logically organise content, and it results in less focus and time spent on content organisation, and the end result is content becomes much harder to find. Blogging also encouraged an approach where people would create a new page rather than editing an existing one, resulting in an intermittent stream of disorganised piecemeal updates in response to new developments, rather than presenting all the information as a cohesive whole.

I think software (especially documentation) is one of the areas where we have this problem the least, because a lot of software people use tools (Git, Jekyll, etc) which still encourage hierarchical organisation. It is really non-software stuff, for example websites of government agencies, university administrations, corporations, etc, which have gone down-hill the most.

> Maybe I'm mentally blocked in thinking of the era of flash intros and marquee tags, but do you have any examples of sites that achieved what you're describing?

I don't remember many websites like that, but certainly a lot of multimedia CD-ROMs in the 1990s had that kind of design, and while there is no reason from a technological perspective why you couldn't replicate that style on the modern web, it just doesn't seem to be very popular.
Alternatives:

Static, indexable pages. Don't ever, ever build your own search, just use a google query with a site: filter. If that doesn't work, redesign your site.

Examples:

Basically any static page. Yeah, flash and marquee were annoying but you could just turn them off.
There’s always jsbin. It’s sandboxed, but it’s Turing complete.
Canonical User Identity. I know this is massively controversial but if we were starting at the beginning, an internet without anonymity would be a kinder, safer internet. One where data asymmetry and it’s enterprises wouldn’t have a toehold. A place that extends reality rather than contorts it. Privacy and anonymity have a place, and should be a right for consumption but never for creation.
"I think a jury should be representative of the community, all of the community."

But you are getting a random, not a balanced sample of the community - one person might get a jury of stock brokers, the other might be stuck with 13 guys that are local drunks and never finished school.
Missing how the Internet used to be is as old as the Internet. Over years and decades it has been constantly changing.
something something baudrillard, especially the music box
Convenient that this was posted today; lots of colleges have their early action applications due Monday. :D
> Keep in mind that IBM PC/XT had only 640 kB

And that's the maximum (without bank switching schemes like EMS). The first version had only 64 KB. There were even plans for a 16 KB version with no disk drive but I don't think it was ever released.
There's a liquid nitrogen shortage going on right now, because all the tanker trucks for cryogenic liquids are being used for transporting liquid oxygen instead. If that doesn't indicate a crisis I wouldn't know what would.
> Do not try to practice the whole piece at once. Split it into pieces

This has been my biggest ever piano hack. I now practice bar-by-bar and don't move on until I'm happy, and its taken my practice to a whole new level
Very interesting, professional performers in the classical music world are relatively hard to come by since it's so competitive. It certainly takes a lot of practice to make it start to sound somewhat good and the professionals are on a whole other level. The amount of competition to get a job in a professional orchestra makes a google interview look like a piece of cake. Although I would say you probably got a bit unlucky with instrument choice, out of all the brass instruments, french horn is generally regarded as being the hardest. Haven't ever tried myself but I don't doubt it.
I didn’t understand for too long that I had to customize my resume to the dozen or so things that a job was looking for. It didn’t matter that I’d been doing this for 15 years, or that a human reading through it would see the good match. You will never get past the computer to the recruiter without having a well crafted resume specifically for the role you’re applying to.
I'd make it less transactional and more realtime. No http request, tcp packets instead more like old tv broadcasts where there is a continuous signal always being sent.

If it was possible to have infinite radio frequencies to use. Then you could load every possible webpage of every website continuously broadcast on a different frequency. To load a page all you have to do is tune in to that frequency. You will then get an instant latest version of that site without having to wait. This gets more complicated for signed in websites. There is no reason you couldn't implement the same thing just add more frequencies for more users. This wouldn't work for POST requests, but I think any GET request would work fine.
Ask HN: Advice for generating and reading from a picture (similar to a qr code)
I'm trying to design something similar to a qr code from scratch. I've got some ideas on how I can anchor and fill in binary data into the graphic design but I'm a bit unsure as to how I should approach the reading/decoding part (with a camera).

Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask this.

QR codes have been around for a while. I like the way facebook messanger or snapcodes approach the task of human-friendly and machine readable designs, but I'd like to experiment with something new.

It doesn't need to encode too much information anyway.

I've been reading into AR with unity. I don't mind learning some c# but I'd ideally want to write a solution in python or javascript.

Thanks again
Hard nope from me. No thanks. I want nothing to do with your system. Literally the only reason anyone wants to know who anyone is at all is to throw men with guns in their general direction. That is the one and only thing that the internet doesn't allow, and to be honest, I think that's for the best.
Agreed that network compromise on the surface isn't a huge concern because of the Signal protocol itself.

However, if the password (generated on each linked device) used for authentication is compromised, presumably it could be used to generate different keys altogether for an account. If the device password is compromised, then it seems feasible (but difficult) for some sort of attack be to be pulled off that could eventually lead to the compromise of messaging itself, or adding of another (shadow) linked device.

The subpoena explicitly asks for:

>Online Behaviors: Including device data, site interactions, and cookies if available

>Activity Log: Including logs of click-stream data if available

I would think device data would include things such as the number of devices associated with the phone number, which appear to be stored in the clear in the table, regardless of whether or not it is sensitive. Looking at the Device DynamoDB table, which is linked to the phone number, you'd also have things like the associated auth token + salt, GCM / APN IDs, public prekeys, etc. AWS DynamoDB is potentially going to have request logs for these requests as well, using the UUIDs, to associate finer-grained access timestamps. That may be useful for this case.

It seems odd not to be using TLS within the VPC and storing these seemingly insensitive values encrypted within DynamoDB / SQS / etc. Doing so would ensure that compromise of the hosting provider is irrelevant. Why not terminate TLS on the Signal server itself, behind the load balancer? Why not use TLS for communications between the Signal server and the Redis cluster it uses? Why not encrypt phone numbers before storing them in DynamoDB?
this is almost what I had in my mind. Gonna brainstorm tons of things. How long have you had this website up, what marketing have you done?
If you’re in a public space, there is no expectation of privacy. Sorry dude, that horse left the barn along time ago.
There is no facade. More a misunderstanding of a simple rule in life - if the network of people who support you is weaker in influence and power, than the network of people who oppose you, you will get crucified for attacking the more powerful network.
I think you're looking at this as an optimization problem, and while to a reasonably large extent it is, it's also a question of interpretation, because where you put your emphasis depends on where you start you're phrases and how you contour the phrase, and if there's multiple lines happening on a single hand what's the main line, if there is one?
It seems like a significant confounding factor in analysis like this could be the "natural floor" of a beginning player. Some people signing up for Lichess have never or barely played a game, others have lots more experience. Wouldn't this affect their rate of improvement but be invisible in the data set? The OP touches on this a bit; what would be good ways to filter for it?
When we moved into a newer subdivision just before 2000 we discovered our modems couldn’t get over about 19.2 (IIRC). We did a lot of troubleshooting but in the end found the culprit was how the phone lines were setup in the complex.

I think the lines were basically like VOIP from the box at the street (or somewhere nearby). They did it to pack more lines in, but it limited the bandwidth available.

You had to pony up for an ISDN line if you wanted to go faster until cable internet was available a few years later.
If the change is simple, i.e. obvious with an visual examination, or if the bug is straightforwardly presented in the stack trace, in a learning context it's imo more helpful to have you go over the problem and arrive at that conclusion yourself.

I've had multiple instances with multiple different people that come to me with problems that are pretty much repeats - I've since adapted to "I'll give you hints but you'll need to figure out yourself" in the context of learning.

Obviously, only if the context is learning.
Because they took many $billions in funding and if they don’t increase in value, investors can sue.
Really hard to take your grievances seriously under all that hate speech.

This isn't me policing your speech, by the way, saying that you shouldn't say something isn't the same as saying you shouldn't be able to say something.

Is the ACLU actively trying to force you to use specific pronouns, or is that just something they say because it's good social media optics?
> I am not sure that decentralization is less efficient.

So, maybe your vision of focussing on the essentials - food, shelter etc rules out microchips which definitely benefit from specialised employees, and centralised operations; but that will rules out a lot of future advances wherein microchips are embedded in everything, or at least until a suitable de-centralised equivalent is found.

In the meanwhile, I'd worry of the problem of being over-taken; i.e other free nations that do subscribe to capitalism and the centrally managed resource model outcompete and invade you - which is arguably the fate of many of the American tribes that lacked the weapons to fight colonialism. Not having microchips can cripple any modern army/defence-force, least of all an ad-hoc decentralised one.

Also, things like injection moulding might be out to - modern products manage cheap mass-productions by producing expensive master tools, and using them to churn out millions of items - unless tribes specialise on produce (in which case we are back to trading goods and services) then no more of these items either.

> the machines are serviced by the members of the collective

This limits how complex these machines can be, and or numerous - which in turn limits how prevalent. Also, back to the question; are all the machines going to be bare mechanical contraptions of wood and steel, or can they contain silicon - which unless you have an answer for fabrication/manufacture, cannot be repaired forever, and will need to be replaced. Modern open-source is parasitic to the capitalist economy around it - 3D printers still contain Atmel mcus and intel cpus, not to mention the motors, rotors and precision belt/shaft/bearings.

> Health care is to me essential but these things would vary from region to region based on cultural ideals and material conditions.

Where do the doctors come from? Are we hoping as many people are willing to spend a large amount of time training, or being trained, as surgeons; as there are people who need surgery? Will we still punish negligent doctors, at risk of no-one wanting to bear the burden of liability if we did?

What about law? Would anyone want to be a lawyer if it wasn't well paid? Would many current lawyers do law if it wasn't well paid?

> I am an engineer and I love to fix machines

I feel this is a strong bias colouring your opinion - many engineers love their jobs, and the things they fix/design/repair/manipulate. You seem to be arguing for a society of engineering, based on the manufacture of things (machines and their products) - but society needs more than things, and people are often motivated less by things too; by wealth and status, for example; I'm not sure everyone can find the same joy in engineering as those who select for it.

> Doctors or teachers often feel similarly

Not so sure that's true. Many engineers care more about the things than the help they provide people, and I'm sure doctors are the same too. If feels too much that everyone needs to subscribe to the same philosophy for this to work, and even then there will be some roles that are neglected in favour of more "engineery" ones..
Most manual labor has you doing a handful of quite repetitive moves over and over and over until something breaks and you retire on disability.

Some people seem to think it’s like going to the gym or something smh
> And it’s totally voluntary

Sure, while you are in charge. But when a more ambitious leader bashes your head in and takes over, maybe not so. How much of Lenin remained when Stalin took over?
Then pick the best of this overwhelming evidence and present that alone.

The logic in your comment implied the discrepancy was enough to assume discrimination w/o any reference to evidence.

> why are people looking for every theoretical possibility

Are you talking about my comment? Your own comment ("if for a job we have 100 candidates in group A and 100 in group B...") is a theoretical, so that's why I countered with one. Present evidence of prejudice specific to the topic at hand and I can comment more tangibly one that.
BIKER VS DRIVER Must be seen!
The US has done plenty of terrible things. It’s impossible to be certain of how much of the relative peace we have today is because of the United States.

Overall I’d say it’s probably done more good than harm.
"Two issues remain: the concern that tephra could harm marine ecosystems – an area which Longman concedes needs investigation – and the fact that marine dumping in general is banned under the 1972 London Convention on marine pollution."

What about "how do we haul all that tephra out into the ocean without producing a bunch of pollution in the process"? Are there solar-powered bulk carriers that we can load up with solar trucks, diggers and forklifts? I assume you could at least get to break-even with that process if you optimized everything enough, but then you start wondering about the materials costs and environmental impact of all the special-case equipment...
To get a little pedantic, the DOM changes in that the size of some element gets modified after the page loads, causing other elements to shift around visually.

I can empathize with the developers, but I would prefer if they sized out those elements in advance so the page elements didn't get shifted all over the place once something loads.