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My favorite microwave oven is one my Grandma owned for decades, probably purchased in the 70s or early 80s. Two dials. No buttons. Pull to open the door, not even a button for that. Didn't even have the spinny-plate thing (did OK regardless, and I find I have to manually move stuff around halfway through even with the spinny plate, so it's kinda useless).

Put power dial where you want it. Put timer dial where you want it. Timer starts ticking down and the microwave turns on. Loud ding (from a physical bell somewhere inside it, not a speaker) when it's done. That's the entire thing. No buttons, no clock (god, why do you need a clock on your microwave?!) none of that shit.

Heavy, good-feeling dials that you could feel physically operating something underneath, from the clunks of the power dial to the subtle scrape of the timer dial. Great feel on the door handle. All-around solid. Nothing to learn. Just use it.
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>In the case of civil disobedience, those involved do NOT attempt to flee from justice. Being arrested and facing the legal system is an integral part.

You think Oskar Schindler was wrong not to hand himself in?
i bet it may be better on different OS and distributions but on arch haskell is a friggin nightmare.
at least the arch wiki page for it is more complaining about haskell than giving guidance: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Haskell
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Well, sure, they would have tried the smears employed against Trump and, more relevantly, Corbyn. In fact, forget "would have", that was actually done. [0] I'm just not sure the accusations would have seemed important to voters. Trump's myriad misdeeds have been salient to public attention for decades. "Collaboration" with Russia may have been one of a few awful actions he hadn't actually attempted over his life, which is exactly why it was emphasized. The go-to war media criticisms of Sanders, e.g. "he thinks healthcare should be provided to all, even during a pandemic!" probably wouldn't have seemed so bad to normal humans. But sure, our enemies have a certain low cunning in addition to their complete control of popular media. They could have surprised us with their choice of smears.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/18/the-ri...
So the bulk numbers say it's up apparently, I'm getting roofing quotes currently and roofers say it's back down to pre-pandemic levels, at least where I am. There are a lot of different wood products out there I guess.
> It's not 'journalism' to release arbitrary secrets even if the transparency might be beneficial.

Uncovering and publishing secrets is the core of journalism.

> Secrecy can be harmful in some cases but it's also essential in many ways

Then they should do a better job of keeping the important things secret. But it's good that they occasionally fail.
>Your 30Y mortgage was locked in years ago, so you only benefit when prices go up.

Unless you stay in the house until you die, in which case property taxes mean you lose bigtime by appreciating values.

For a house staying in the family I'd want it to be worth as little as possible.
I think you have to be very careful before claiming readability gains from fewer lines of code. I've done a lot of Python programming and for simple things like mapping a single function over a list, a list comprehension or generator expression can indeed be a tiny bit more readable than a for loop, but combining that with some filtering or flattening and colleagues (and my future self) get frustrated. I've seen the same thing with overly fancy iterator chaining in Rust.

There's some temptation to think that terse==readable, but in practice this rarely extends beyond the simplest cases.
Mine in Seattle has not, even if I believe you in the general sense. I think my landlord valued having a renter with stable income from one of their former employers, so that might explain the lack of an increase.
My apologies. I thought you were providing an explanation as to why slerp() is preferred in general. The circle example is a really good way to frame the distinction.
Nice framing. I agree with that interpretation.

I'd argue communication is always an approximation to an ideal, anyways. The original version is going to be incomplete. How adequately can English (or your language of choice) represent a complex event or concept?
DND and similar only delay the problem - the notifications still pile up in the background.

Instead, treat the problem at the source by preventing these notifications from originating or reaching you in the first place. Don't sign up for accounts unless absolutely necessary, don't install apps if possible and if you do then deny notification permissions, and for emails that are technically necessary but don't require your attention set up some email rules to automatically archive them.
this is why focusing on the wage part of inequality is the wrong approach.

Figure out how to make products cost less and cheaper -> more can enjoy them and everyone becomes richer.

Print more money to give to people to fight inequality? If you don't invest to make supply more efficient, all you'll get is inflation.

Rich people don't buy the same products as poor people. In fact, most rich people (Elon) own capital that is being invested in part to make production more efficient.

If you were to tax all of Elon's wealth and give it to the poor, it's just not the case that everyone could suddenly afford a Tesla. What would happen is that nobody could afford it, even people that can afford it today, because you are moving capital away from investment and into consumption.
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I believe most of the cream moved away to other companies (e.g. to Microsoft). The company itself was merged into Micro Focus a few years ago.
The editor of Breitbart admitted their coverage was intentionally dishonest in order to achieve their political objectives.

This is the very definition of misinformation.

Naturally we'll get a Breitbart citation to "prove" that black is white and up is down in a thread about misinformation.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/the-ong...
Sure, if you have a billion years to wait for it to all run through the rock cycle again.
The thing I miss the most is high-quality full-duplex audio over copper cables! No lag, no cutting each other off, just warm analog signal!

I also miss wiring up phone lines in the basements of friends' houses!
Spending way too many resources and making it seem fine. Driving 100s of km every week like it's normal. Flying 10x per year. Turning the heat up in winter while wearing a t-shirt. This is an age of extreme luxury and we don't realize it.

That and addiction to my smartphone. I hardly read books anymore, while that has always been one of the great pleasures in my life
Assange reported on information. That's what journalists do. Hillary sabotaged her own campaign by the actions she/her team/the DNC took. You can't put the blame on the journalist.
The ability to start over. To much is know about me. I will use the example of Texas or gone to Texas. You cant leave behind failure because you have trail of records.
I recall that the standard way to handle /etc/resolv.conf on Ubuntu is to put the information into the yaml file in /etc/netplan in the nameservers portion of the device entry.
> Advertising. I know this is an extreme view

I think your view isn't too extreme enough, frankly. I feel like if I took the time I could compose a lengthy essay showing that we can directly blame advertising for a significant portion of societal ills. Advertising promotes narcissism, selfishness, and entitlement; it convinces you that you need things you don't need, happiness can be bought, you what you have isn't good enough; it lies to you, it lies to you about lying to you, and it makes you think this is normal. And that's all when it isn't trying to outright scam you.

> Social media.

Mostly bad because of advertising.

> Most products today are less durable and are generally worse than "yesterday", in my opinion.

A bit more of a stretch, but since advertisements lie and tell you the product costs less and is 'just as good', it leads to a race to the bottom.
Reminder that this attack comes from users on reddit's r/antiwork sub, not union workers.
Great point. It’s usually “you are disagreeing with me so you don’t understand facts and rationality” when they themselves are making a poor case.
Sorry why "earnings" on Google Cloud Platform? What's the context here?
Ironically, this post is next to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29493241.
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> Maybe the cloud has a higher uptime than your on-premise infrastructure (see the AWS, Azure outages).

Not even so sure about that. I've had a ton more downtime ("degraded" in AWS speak) with AWS than any self-hosted systems. And that's with more than half my career on self-hosted.

If a major disaster strikes, like the whole rack catching fire and melting everything, then it's true that AWS could recover quicker than self-hosted. But most problems are not of that sort.
I have it that way (especially Messenger, Slack). Otherwise, I would go crazy (literally, I get meltdowns from sensory overload).

The problem is that people EXPECT an answer soon-ish. Otherwise, they assume the lack of goodwill. Furthermore, nowadays less and fewer people use longer emails.

In a few workplaces, I committed to answering emails. I clarified that I might not read Slack unless for a pre-arranged meeting. Each time they considered it bizarre yet accepted (since it was a hard requirement from my side).

I hope to set a path for other neurodiverse people who lack such chutzpah.

And, in the company I run, Basecamp is the primary communicator to create an email-like asynchronous communication culture.
No one is buying a car for funsies in this market. Cars break down, people get into accidents, people have kids and need larger vehicles, demand for transportation is inflexible, and people will take out loans to get it regardless of the rate.
> and I buy organic food

Whatever that means, but it sounds expensive.
I'd like to know more. That link is from 2017, and the article I posted is from 2021. Do you have a link to the retraction?
> Running this basic escrow code on the blockchain means that I no longer have to trust the kind of basic escrow code that’s used in centralised escrows

Yes, it means that you will 100% know that the escrow website is not gambling your money away, that it won't out of the blue ask you to supply more documents when it finally comes the time for you to get paid, it means that the escrow won't get hacked and your PII won't be sold on darknet.

Smart contracts are just a simpler and more transparent way to deal with finance.
“ factoring in technology as deflationary. yea, your phone is 20% more expensive, but it has twice the computation power, so it's actually a deflationary component”

I guess you could also make increases in health care costs go away with this approach. It’s way more expensive than 20 years ago but the tech is way better so it’s actually cheaper.
HBO just announced a new season of "Sex and the City" on HBO Max. It occurred to me that although I've never watched an episode of the original series all the way through, I know all the characters names and their basic story arcs - the show was just part of popular culture when it was new and you couldn't help but hear about it. There's nothing like that now. My kids couldn't even tell you what shows are on - I doubt they could even name the broadcast stations.
It's not like grad school is just as good as a job from an economic perspective.

There's no way for NACE (or journalists) to figure out whether those attending grad school are doing so because of an inability to find a job.

This is reported as ambiguously as we'd expect from ambiguous data.
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> It might be the case right now but it came out earlier this year that the CIA was entertaining this idea in 2017.

CIA, DoD, and lots of agencies “entertain” lots of ideas, and even develop plans, for lots of things that never get close to being policy.
Spherical linear interpolation. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slerp)
I don't think we can have 'too much' CPU or RAM. The stuff I'm working on as a single software consultant, give me a budget of 100k and I can put out software using .Net Core and Angular that you would have needed a 10 million dollar budget in the 90's to make due to code being tied up around the restrictions of hardware. The productivity improvements from fast CPUs and large amounts of RAM are enormous and enables small businesses to use or make custom, niche, high-quality tech for next to nothing, just get someone who knows HTML and javascript well enough. It really lubricates society making us all less rigid and dependent on huge corporations and their access to capital and investment to produce social change.
> It won't bankrupt the government, it will tank the dollar and everyone who has dollars, gets paid in dollars or loans dollars.

Can you expand on this? How does that work?
See "A General Construction Scheme for Unit Quaternion Curves with Simple High Order Derivatives" (Kim, 1995) for a simple extension of Hermite splines to Lie groups, including unit quaternions.
Posting this article was a form of total propaganda mis-information.

I have noticed some people posting crap links on Hacker News with articles designed propagandize and push/defend establishment "mis-information" and agenda. Proof for this article, the blatant one-liner giving absolutely 100% bias BS,

"The pandemic was planned. Climate change is a hoax. Joe Biden lost the election."

What a crock of $hit - article obvious blatantly used these 3 individual statements as false, without any evidence or proof and in full compliance of a easily provable corrupt mass media and establishment.

Btw, pandemic and party interests are of course political with much evidence, corruption, crookery and contradicting data (inclduing direct diverse agency sources) that warrants heavy questioning; there is an absolute and obvious political Climate agenda and a bounty of opposing views and data; lastly let's tie in the US Election Theft 2020, which already entails much provable fact regarding multiple key states, with substantive audit and closed courts cases whether mass fraud was committed.. Not to mention actual election night video with its aggregate numbers, and recorded statistical severe anomalies that occured in mere hours after a curious shutdown and reversal aka theft.

So let's... post a link to some bogus article on Hacker News using a 'clever' but false, extremely biased statement to spread actual misinformation on a popular news aggregator. Not the first time in the past 2 months on Hacker News - and I never see articles posted proffering clear factual evidence that DOES exist in spades regarding: Joe Biden, COVID or now Climate agenda narrative. Pathetic.

Anyone trained in old proper journalism practice know that (a) majority reader swill click on the headline/link (b) read the first couple paragraphs and drop out of article.

This post and others on Hacker News of late are nothing more than spamming political BS to naysay for establish. It happens on wikipedia and forum trolling and now happening on Hacker News. A shame.
As expected. I haven't had a TV for more than a decade. They should compare mobile and desktop for non work time.
The trustURLCodebase check was added to the LDAP provider in 2009:

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk8u/commit/006e84fc77a582552e71...

This change is included in tag jdk8-b01, which was the first release build of Java 8.

I don't think this exploit as described actually works against a default-configured JVM released any time in the last decade. Is there actually an executable PoC which shows otherwise?

Now, it's true there are ways to exploit deserialisation without loading code. You need to find a class in the classpath that does something sketchy when deserialised. There has been a lot of work to clean up such things in recent years, but it's possible some still exist. Again, i would like to see a PoC.
This is all entirely unsubstantiated. There is no evidence for any of this, and it's very blatantly misinformation and propaganda. It keeps getting repeated so frequently as to look like astroturfing.
Its not about the documentation, its about the complexity and subjectivity (e.g. substitute goods, weighting of regions, remove outliers, and quality adjustments). I'd much prefer a simpler "less accurate" measure like the change of a fixed basket of goods from two periods within a short time period and an updated basket to be used for the next period. That way you're not stuck w/ buggy whips on your CPI index. Instead we have an indiscernible mess that doesn't reflect reality and that no one trusts.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/calculation.htm
The post examples its :

log.info("Request User Agent:{}", userAgent);

Also, I just try with log4j1 , and I can't reproduce it. At least with the netcat trick doesn't work : https://twitter.com/thetaph1/status/1469264526214406150?s=20
I'm not qualified to assess that, but I do think that it's hard to balance the needs of wealthy people and wall street with the needs of main street; it's even harder if you don't try to do that balance
I bought a low-end Chromebook for $92.44 delivered last week. Other than the charge adapter or USB-C cable, there's literally nothing that makes any economic sense to attempt to repair. Even something as bounded as replacing the battery is likely to make no sense several years down the road.
> It would help a lot of people, but it also hurts a lot of people with mortgage.

My buddy's dad owns 20 properties, preventing younger generations from owning a place for themselves.

Just imagine how much value and how many jobs he could've created by investing that money into manufacturing instead of increasing rents and making younger people's lives more miserable.
Manual controls. There's a lot to like about the infinite reconfigurability of touchscreens and on-screen controls, but there was also a lot to like about being able to find controls without looking and getting positive tactile feedback when you pressed or turned something. This is especially true in cars, but it shows up in other areas (e.g. kitchen equipment) as well.

Related: human-oriented design in general. Every interface nowadays seems to be defined by the designer's whims and pure aesthetics, not what would actually be functional for users.
I agree, but at the same time things tend to stabilize over time as the community settles around the best packages. The real thing to fear is the relative instability of Rust at the present moment (for certain things, like async), but the overall trajectory seems promising.
Try looking at the appliances.
Thanks for the awesome article.
Have a couple LightSail instances that all went offline around the time that the homepage did and still cannot connect. Everything in the dashboard says they are healthy and online but all attempts to access them (either just access the webpage or SSH) timeout.

Edit: SSH access has been restored if using their web client, everything else still times out
I hope Nepo can come back from this, a couple of games he has made some incredible blunders (for his level, obviously, although c5 to trap his own bishop in was astonishing)

Do you think it was just pressure? He's obviously an incredibly talented player, why do you think he broke like this? He made mistakes that a player at his level obviously doesn't just make.
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I hope I am the sort of person would have supported Rosa Parks — if I’d been on a jury, I want to be the sort of person who would have voted “not guilty” by way of jury annulment.

Four boxes is a reason to take things slow, not a reason to say “no not like that” when the first steps have failed. And when the law bites someone for breaking it, if you think the law is wrong you should support the victim of the law; but that’s not the same as saying the law should not bite at all. A court case is by itself a powerful bite for most people, even without conviction.

I can also see that someone who is constantly being ground down and dehumanised by the law isn’t going to care about an end to the rule of law. I can’t expect someone in that situation to care if rule of law is damaged, because it never protected them in the first place. I suspect the feeling the law is a bludgeon rather than a shield is the cause of the current “ACAB” and “defund the police” slogans.

But is Assange even in that category? I don’t think so, so I do not feel confident predicting how I would vote if I was hypothetically on a jury. I do think the Guardian newspaper in the UK was in the “law is wrong” category, and that it was wrong for the UK government to destroy their copy of what Snowden gave them.

Like I said, complicated.
lice trying to bring bull to hacker news. it is obvious the leftist creeps posting bs article with curious one-liners.

stop making hacker news your political "misinformation ground"
Logging in.

First I need to make an account for nearly everything.

Then I need to link that account to a phone number or email.

Then every time I use the service I need to wait for them to text or email me a password.

If they email me the password then I have to log in to my email, which means getting another password texted to me.

Alternatively if it's work related I have a physical key card, a physical password generator, and a slew of personal passwords I just memorize. I have to keep all of these on me just to log in: regular keys, cell phone with service, email, key card, password generator, and ideally a different password memorized for every service which need to be changed every 60-180 days.

Maybe an example is needed, this is a typical day: I want to use the building's front door, so I use the key card. I want to use my office door so I use my regular key. I want to use my laptop so I use a memorized password. I want to connect to the network so I use my physical password generator with a memorized password. I want to read an encrypted email so I use a memorized password. I want to download a file from a document share with another company so I use a memorized password and get texted a password. I want to use the computer lab so I use a key card and a memorized password and another key card and another memorized password. I want to buy something online so I create a new account with a memorized password and get emailed a password so I log into my phone with my thumbprint and my email with a memorized password and get texted a password. Then I buy the thing with a credit card number and code which I've memorized since I get so much practice memorizing things now. I probably verify my identity a hundred times every single day, and businesses seem to be adding more and more ways to do it, making it more and more difficult.

I remember being impressed by my grandfather's keychain when I was a child, thinking "wow, how can someone need this many keys?" ...