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> it tricks half of freshmen at Caltech

They are freshman, i.e. untrained minds. Me, I probably would have failed that question at the time, too. Such a question wouldn't have been on a test, however, as test questions always involved a lot of math.

I remember one inglorious physics midterm exam that over half of the students flunked. The prof had some angry words for the class.

> In 8th grade?

Sure, if you'd laid the groundwork in class.
In the United States, you are right. In the EU, that is wrong. See for example: [0]

The reason you can get entirely legal windows licenses for so cheap is that there are many institutional buyers who get the licenses they actually use separately but still purchase a lot of computers that have OEM licenses bundled [1], and now they all unload those licenses at whatever price the market will bear. Last year, that was ~6€, this year it's down to ~3€.

The fact that the prices is now so low is probably a part of why it keeps going down. A lot of people in this thread express suprise that a legit key could be so cheap so they obviously must be illegal, which drives away sales.

[0] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2505356/eu-court-rules...

[1] And do note that tying the OEM license to hardware is also entirely illegal inside the EU.
> No other company is as openly hostile towards its users,

Apple is pretty close in some ways. They are against the loading of apps they can't control even though many want to sideload and they did that whole scanning thing.
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I think people want "no-code" solutions because they're intimidated by code. I think they're intimidated by code because they're intimidated by programming culture. If a large number of people outside of programming are intimidated by programming culture then it is by definition intimidating.

If programming was instead seen to be a welcoming, warm, and supportive culture, I don't think no-code would have very much persuasive power. The effectiveness of no-code as a brand should cause more people in programming to pause and consider the fact that the value proposition is not having to deal with programmers. People literally sell products on the basis of not having to interact with our community. That should cause us great concern about the health of our community and should trigger introspection.
what are you, a bartender?
“There are better ways to go about this,” the regional supervisor replied. She had been thinking about boosting pay at the Bradford McDonald’s, she said, but she was not going to give into threats or give up control. Because of the petition, no one was getting a raise. If the workers did not like it, they could quit."

She wasn't planning on doing shit. This was just a copout. Heard those exact words dozens of times.
> What is their goal

Beat their record fine from the EU? None of the others seems like a plausible result.
It works great with Tailwind, I’m doing that in a project right now. I haven’t tried pairing Svelte with LiveView and I’d worry they would end up fighting over elements of the page, but I’d think you could have them control separate parts of the same page, or have them controlling distinct pages just fine.
The most egregious is that Starship doesn't have a full envelope launch escape system.
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From my experience working with VR hardware I came away thinking that we're very far away from hitting the required comfort zone for mass appeal.
The challenges you outline: UX, comfort are going to be crazy hard to over come and I think there's a lot more work on the hardware side.

Mobile phones offers people a very comfortable and easy UX that blends well with the requirements of the real world, you could say it does it too well as you often see people walking down the street faces glued to their screen and not looking where they're walking.

VR needs the power of immersion, but right now it comes at great cost. The friction of entering and exiting is big, the time between task switching of virtual and real is big.

You mentioned this:

> In VR you multitask by bringing the computing environment into the virtual environment. So there is no deficit there.

You cannot and bring all required tasks into the virtual. You can't quickly check on your dog, grab a drink, glance over to a person in your physical space, grab that note from your desk. We rely heavily on the real world and VR right now presents a big barrier. Phones do not, you can watch a movie on TV and glance at the message that pops up on your phone. Even desktop computing allows you to comfortably multitask by glancing between monitors. Some stuff can bring virtualized into VR windows, but it's limited.

I exited VR in 2018 after a few years of working on it. My conclusion was that we're still too early to get bullish. We still need to overcome some big technological hurdles that bridge the gap between comfortable and complete immersion (100% audio & visual simulation), a blend (AR), and 100% real world. We also needs to better address other immersive factors such as haptics and interfacing, because as you increase the potency in one area (visuals) the requirements in other areas start to rise as the playing field demands completeness or risks breaking that desired immersion level.
> Epipens and their price hikes comes to mind.

Good example, especially considering the law was weaponized against only a relative newcomer to that game rather than all the existing players who'd been doing it for years.
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Which means that anybody who gets access to the token can steal it and there is no legal recourse for the legitimate owner. That's not exactly what most people look for when they decide what to leave to their kin after they pass away.
The system would be different, but it can be done.

Most people hear vouchers and they think "the other large public school across town or the existing private school". The real goal is many more small schools.

Enabling "educational entrepreneurship" so somebody who has an idea that thinks will work really well for certain types of kids can start a school teaching exactly that way...and parents can sign up if they think it's best for their child. I want creative teachers to create schools to solve the problems that they see without all of the red tape that makes everyone feel like change is hopeless.

Even with larger schools and bus routes, the solution is to create hubs where you can get off one one bus and hop on the one that goes to your school.

It's certainly different, but it can absolutely be done.
Sweden asks European Union to ban cryptocurrency mining in Europe
The problem with introducing legislation like that is you end up with the default assumption that it did not exist before the legislation.
Your problem isn't monorepo, it's bad tooling. Tests should only execute against code that changed. Builds should only build the thing you want to build, not the whole repository.
> Uclers and other problems in esophagus, stomach and small intestine, reduced blood flow, permanent kidney damage, extreme allergic reactions for some.

I have taken NSAIDs fairly frequently all my life with zero issues (so far, yes, I understand).

The question I have is, given zero side effects, was this at all beneficial in the same way eating fruits are? Outside of the obvious "yes it was beneficial for pain relief".

Pretend there are no side effects for the sake of this discussion. I'm curious about whole-body inflammation.
I think it's appropriate to consider that this particular test ("driver-side small overlap") is not a random situation to which the car simply isn't specifically optimized for, but rather a de facto adversarial example - the particular model of accident was chosen because people observed that this type of accident seems to cause a lot of injuries, i.e. that this test intentionally targeted a specific known weakness of the current cars; so it's no wonder that the initial test results confirmed that.

If the average car would already (pre-modifications) do well in driver-side small overlap situations, then this type of crash would simply not get chosen for extra testing.
Ask HN: Reducing bias in the strategic decision making process
I've run a small technology company with my co-founder for almost 10 years. After one too many strategic blunders, we decided to review our strategic thinking and decision making process over the company's lifespan. Based on the 10 year retro, review of academic research in bias, and review of available decision-support tools, we've started to develop a tool to make us better (more principled) strategic thinkers. We'd love to hear from the HN community to help guide our design, and, if we are lucky, even connect with like-minded hacker news members to share our work with.

Related thread from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23077411
Jokes on them. I'm building a extension to auto route links out of the usual browser info my preferred browser (per site or all).

Seriously though this seems to violate the public trust given their dominant position. And moves like this make me more likely to go back to desktop Linux.
I guess we have different requirements of scale. My gmail is over 300GB (one of the reasons I have a Google 1 subscription).
This is a Republican-sponsored bill in the House so, unless it has Democratic support, is going absolutely nowhere.

I'm actually a little surprised this isn't Democrat-sponsored. It may find traction with Democrats unfortunately because one of the key supports of Democrats are trial lawyers. It's one reasons Democrats have historically opposed tort reform. Patent litigation is a jobs-for-life program for lawyers.

But there's no sign yet of this enjoying any kind of Democratic support. I would've expected a Democratic co-sponsor at least. The authors certainly could've found one but there are none.

So who is this aimed at? What group are the sponsors currying favour with? It's really not clear. If there isn't one then that really means the authors think this is a good idea, which is... insane.

There's absolutely no reason for software patents to exist. None. Let copyright law handle IP protection for software.
yup, it's so weird we used to champion the "DX" over "SX" but reality is - some cache would have probably meant more to consumers in the end.

BUT.. i loved it back then.. so many choices... and a few mhz did immensely matter. Breaking 100mhz - HUGE deal.. then 233... then 500 and once AMD hit 1ghz on their k5s they were top dog and stopped trying for the longest time and intel ate their lunch from then on up until Ryzen

fun times :)
I use this on my blog. (If anyone cares to see an example in the wild: https://lambdaland.org/posts/2021-11-09_programs_and_intent/)

It’s been easy to set up and maintain. Not that I get many comments!
I bet if you did some research you'd find he's not insane, but that he has substantial financial ties to companies/people, who would benefit from this.
> Are there other fields so thoroughly invested in making the world a worse place to be a consumer

Health Insurance, look up the case of Allena Hansen. Her face was ripped off by a bear in the wilderness but somehow got herself to a fire station for an airlift. She said that dealing with Blue Cross Blue Shield afterwards was by far the worst part of the experience, because "having a face" is considered cosmetic.

I used to work for a smaller group insurer and I'll never forget how at every single all-hands meeting and innumerable company-wide emails for 5 years the CEO would dedicate 20 minutes to whining about pre-existing conditions getting deleted by Congress.
Hightouch user here. HT actually has a lot of that - git integration [0], visual segmentation [1].
Not sure about self-hosting though. Open-source is cool, will check it out.

[0]: https://hightouch.io/docs/integrations/git-sync/

[1]: https://hightouch.io/docs/hightouch-audiences/overview/
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Rich, I know where you come from, and I wholeheartedly believe what you say. But this is just the start of a relationship between you and Vercel. And you know that relationships will change over time and so on. And you won't.be.independent. There is just too much money on the table. Nobody will give you orders, there are much smarter ways.

The point is, Vercel did everything right, no blame to them, great CEO, awesome Tim, they are masterminds and their great social media army does their best to celebrate this event in all social networks atm. But you know yourself very well that one player just left the market. We will face less competition and possibly stagnation in some areas. This doesn't hurt Vercel nor you but us.

Ofc you will be dependent, they pay you, you want Vercel to be successful (ESOP). We will see, e.g. that Vercel will be a first-class citizen as deployment option. There are many more fields where Vercel can/will get a special treatment, so subtly that nobody will get it. Business is more sophisticated than many might think.

Or think this the way around, there endless possibilities to drive somebody down, demotivate and degenerate him to a point where he looses all his drive and motivation. Look at yourself today, look how much energy and charisma you have when holding speeches about Svelte. In 2 years, go back to this comment and ask yourself if you are the same energetic Rich, if you are happy and if sold out too early 2 year ago.

> I would be the worst person in the world to try and build a business around Svelte.

No you just underestimate yourself. What are you doing right now? Giving talks, writing, communicating. People, masses follow you not just because Svelte is great, no because you can communicate well and know how to lead people. This is what a CEO is doing 99% of his day. This is building a business, communicating, finding and winning the best people.

You found already the best people, just look in your repos and look which contributors work for Svelte! And you were the leader, had an as good team as Vercel and follow now...

And if I watch you talking there is a strong desire to be more (not that a dev is less!). Whatever, I'd have expected that you at least went shopping with Vercel's offer to CloudFlare. I mean they do real rocket science (Durable Objects) and you opt for Next which started to renovate their stack (esm, swc) just recently after years.

Oh man, I like you too much to be too angry but yeah, not happy.
Yep. Just like "at a whim" the government says you need a tetanus shot every ten years. Chilling.
React Stepper which can also be used on mobile devices
As much of a cynic I can be, I believe that if there's a supra-national organism capable of addressing such a problem as cross-country rail coordination, it's the EU. As many ills there are in the banking system in the EU, transferring money even across countries between individuals is a much more seamless experience than in other places, in large part, if not entirely, thanks to EU legislation. Things like abolition of roaming fees is another example.

You can of course point at the fake "bendy bananas" UK tabloid bullshit pushed by the likes of their current PM for easy laughs, or at the cookie banners prevalent on every site that collects more than a service level log of visitors to be skeptical, but I still think improving the situation of rail in Europe can be done in reasonable ways.
Yeah I looked at it briefly but the lack of usage was a bit of a worry. And if I’m honest I really wanted a chance to use Svelte :)
This is what happens when you do "data-driven" development. You need to improve the various metrics that telemetry gives you. I'm sure they have some "increase percentage of links opened using Edge" OKR.
Because they're dramatically more expensive than standard rectangular prisms for comparatively little benefit and significantly less usable/sellable square feet per acre.
This is not excluding? I just use an ascii canonicalized version of my name and works fine.
Oh absolutely it makes sense to have a standard, and being able to tell at a glance if something is a VM or physical machine is of value also. But dedicating 2/3s of the character budget to such a scheme is madness. If the prod-vm- prefix simply become pv-, then you'd at least be able to do pv-jenkins-01 again.

Anyway, all this was fine when we were on LDAP rather than Active Directory. So basically it's all Windows' fault.
Because you never have to deal with that stuff in mobile apps unless you use react native? So sure maybe it’s not directly react native’s fault but it is an issue.
> Trains already beat planes in practice for city-to-city journeys with a train time of <3h, because of the time of getting to and from airports, checkin etc

...and then politicians such as Ursula von der Leyen hop in their jets. This summer the EU Commission President took a 19 minute(!) flight from Vienna to Bratislava (the two cities are ~60km apart) in a private yet, but still managed to be driven ~60km by road during the transfers from central Vienna out to VIE airport and from BTS airport back to central Bratislava.

https://www.diepresse.com/6055894/kritik-an-19-minuten-flug-...
They're not wrong, but they don't solve anything hard either, so they'll find that there's little value to extract from no code tooling.

They live in a difficult bracket to find offering customers in: medium+ projects have most of their complexity in making the business domain model and understanding it's intricacies, well before you attempt to make a computer understand them; no code tooling only cover the latter. Small- projects live comfortably in Excel sheets, as scary as that sound for the reading cohort, it appears evident that a lot of the no code market is already captured by that, and they're not offering anything to challenge the dominant player in the space.
For number 3, the bluetooth issue, I also encountered this on NixOS but it seems to have been fixed with kernel 5.15.0 I upgraded to this week. But maybe I've just been lucky :/
> I don't think an unbuilt tower is as crazy as you think it is.

Every time I've visited Tianjin, I've seen a derelict half built sky scraper. The first time I visited was in 1999. What is up with that city?

> There are tons of unfinished projects scattered throughout the West.

In the USA? There are none, not sky scrapers. Maybe that half built Huawei facility in Wisconsin?

> I actually was just next to a massive one (not in the US but in Europe)

Great! Eastern or Western Europe?

> If you read the article I posted, Kangbashi is specifically the district under discussion - it is no longer empty, actively building new apartments due to demand.

Kangbashi was originally specced for a few million people. It has...maybe a hundred thousand now? The streets are still pretty empty compared to the rest of Urban Ordos.

> Coal didn't become popular again, but they moved the top schools of the province into the area.

They moved one top school to the area. Will it be enough? Can you make a city by relocating a few middle school and university campuses? That only gives you so much growth.
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If I may presume to be able to translate to dev-speak:

"Have no fear in accruing technical debt before your first major refactor, but when it comes time to 'do things right', you better do just that"
I'd love to see the Orient express being revived. I'd much rather take a train than plane. The trip itself is more like an adventure.
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Hackers Targeted Apple Devices in Hong Kong for Widespread Attack
A better question might be "how did it get there in the first place?"
Buying a Framework laptop today! Love the mission here.
Oh wow, the MNT is surprisingly cool.

It reminds me of the Apple PowerBook 170 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_170) I had in the early 90s.

I loved the trackball on those early PowerBooks.
Right but he's punishing Tesla for scoring "Acceptable" for years on the test when they scored "Excellent" on the other tests.

And he's somehow rewarding M-B and BMW when they scored "Unacceptable" or "Poor" on the same tests for years when scoring "Excellent" on the other tests. Scoring Unacceptable/Marginal/Poor on a test when scoring Excellent on others is much more evidential that the car was specifically designed only to game the test standard.

It took Tesla longer to upgrade the car from "Acceptable" to "Excellent" on the new tests than it took BMW/Mercedes to upgrade their cars from "Poor" to "Excellent" on the tests, but that still means M-B and BMW put hundreds of thousands of cars with Poor crash performance on the road for years while Tesla was putting cars on the road with "Acceptable" performance in the same test. Somehow that makes Tesla worse in his rating system.
I think it's safe to assume "insane" here is a stand-in for "insane to put those interests ahead of those of his constituents." That is, of course, if you accept that he considers his voting bloc his constituents in the first place.
That goes for any so-called gig speed service. Use a third-party wifi router if you can. I can get about 500 Mbit/sec downstream on my laptop from a fairly new LinkSys three-antenna model. That's pretty good, but not literally gig speed. Otherwise I use wired networking everywhere I can.
That‘s why and how I found it.
The insurance company just needs to lease out one of those giant trampoline bounce houses to teleport all of its policyholders into.
We should subsidize one and tax the other. Yes, flying needs to suck, but travel doesn't need to suck. Don't be too self-flagellist about this.

If we really subsidize trains, we will induce enough demand to make investments look better in nominal terms and shift the culture/politics by normalizing way more rail travel. Easy victory.

A problem is the Europeans are prudish about printing money with their bad ordoliberal EU Constitution.
With HTTP/2 you can theoretically even transmit bytes with all binary values inside them in both names and values - since the values are length-delimited.

Based on that, some implementations seem to restrict allowed values to the rules that you describe, while others don't.
They originally copied BSD's network stack, IIRC
For sure! I tried to paint the rosiest possible scenario for the early engineer.
Reminds me of the Sunscreen SPF-200 Firewall from the mid 90s. Interfaces has no IP address nor even an IP stack on them. It was effectively a secure bridge when operating in “stealth” mode.
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19047-01/sunscreen31.sec/806-412...