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It used to be spelled Tokio in English speaking countries before the 1950s

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/207014/why-was-t...
Ask HN: How to get the default context menu in Chrome?
Sites like codesandbox provides their own context menu inside their site, are there any shortcuts to get the default chrome context menu inside codesandbox?
Socrates famously hated the written form, not because it was technologically advanced for its time, but because it was "dead": you can't have a conversation with a piece of writing, or ask the author to explain something that's on the page.

I disagree (and agree, indirectly, with the OP): deadness is a feature, not a bug. The problem with Internet writing is not just its addictive nature, it's groupthink. It is too much alive. You have to either follow popular opinion, or oppose it vehemently; tangential or orthogonal thinking is almost impossible.

Books, because they are not part of an immediate, global conversation where people share opinions and judgements and signal their virtue to one another, are something very different and allow for a very different experience than any written text found online.

Maybe books will slowly fade; but I think it's unlikely they would ever completely disappear, as they offer something unique not found anywhere else.
The Magic Trackpad trick is gold! I did the same thing with my advantage 2 keyboard by taping it down with adhesive tape and it’s been an absolute godsend.

I’ve more or less stopped using a mouse and rely on keyboard shortcuts, when those fail I have the trackpad within striking distance.
It seems like jets and aircraft in general (helicopters, ugh) turn US towns into sonic hellscapes.

Night maneuvers and low nighttime flights over cities are particularly awful and sleep/sanity-destroying. Local airports seem to have a curfew where they ban flights from 1am to 4am or something, apparently believing that 3 hours of sleep is enough for anyone.

Few seem to care about the ill effects of noise pollution on humans or other creatures; certainly not any organizations that operate or oversee the operation of aircraft, trucks, trains, emergency vehicles, industrial machinery, etc..
I can't say for sure. It's one of those things where I feel like if we transitioned to it fully, alternative forms of greed would dominate the platform and ruin it before we could fully understand what was the problem.

But, I can say this much. I was getting tired of seeing constant pop-ups and advertisements on other OSes (Have you tried the new Safari?), so I bit the bullet and switched to a full-on desktop Linux rig about 3 years ago. It has it's ups and downs, which are worth talking about in a separate context, but one of the most jarring things is how it invokes a strange feeling of solitude. Updates are at-will. News apps don't come pre-installed. You don't even need a browser to install your software. There's an uncanny emotion that I get from using Linux, even 36 months later, where I'm really just alone with my system. I like the feeling, it reminds me of being alone with a good book and a pad of paper, but I can really do anything I want. I'm not sure other people would like it, though. Today's youth are growing up dependent on an attention economy for better and worse, so I bet they'd happily trade in that feeling of anomie for a gaming laptop or brand-new Macbook.

In a lot of ways, that's what I think would happen with an ad-free internet. The barrel of safe, healthy browsing has gone over the waterfall. We're in a post-internet world, and removing the ads from our browsing experience would probably just confuse the majority of users, leaving them potentially even more vulnerable than they are now. It's a toss-up.
Ask HN: What do you think of NoCode?
I recently got into an argument with some friends (that are not programmers). They argued that nocode is a good thing to do projects on because they are very fast, and I could not think of an argument against that. So yeah, I feel kind of odd about the fact that noCode could someday replace a ton of programmers.
If you have run a business small enough that you don't have a lawyer on standby then you might understand a little better.

I have, and received a real legal threat. A bit of panic as you contemplate the financial devastation & wreckage it might leave your life in... well, a little bit of panic is actually a pretty reasonable response there.

If you've been in that situation and been totally calm about it then that's a good thing for you, but that's not the common response for someone contemplating a life-changing encounter with the legal system.
Thanks. Nothing on this list suits the needs I've outlined.
This is done with a lot of features already: In practice, users click to authorize it, and then do not understand why their computers do scary things. Just putting stuff behind yet another permission prompt users do not understand is not an acceptable position.

I really feel a lot of people in Silicon Valley have not ever just sat back and watched a non-technical user use a computer: The state of the industry is woefully disconnected from actual user experience. I beseech anyone who thinks a permission prompt solves a problem, rather than creating one, to go to a senior living community, and just watch people use computers.
I am all for international trade. But can we let the European countries grow up and provide their own defense? USA can't really afford another decade of aggressive military meddling. Deficits are running away from any plausibly realistic plan to balance spending and tax receipts, so we are economically killing our future.
Chomsky explained this very thoroughly in the book Manufacturing Consent.
Huge props to both groups then. Selectively enforced rights aren't rights at all.
That was quick

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Defund-the-police-sf-oak...

https://defundsfpdnow.com/
Addiction exists, though. I often browse Twitter for no particular reason. Six months ago I changed my year of birth for something like 2017 because I was annoyed it was compulsory. That resulted in an immediate suspension, as Twitter forbids minors to use it (rightfully so); the suspension would only be lifted if I submitted an ID.

At first I thought "who cares?" But then I found myself in want of browsing the (few) people I follow, and eventually did submit an ID to have my account restored.

I get nothing out of Twitter. Absolutely zero value. Still, apparently, I can't live without it. That's a problem.
Maybe it is. This is a philosophical discussion that adcoms have been struggling with for 40 years.
Lessons in Productivity and Brainstorming from the Beatles
It boggles my mind why this doesn't require any permission. Every now and then I misclick on some sketchy ads and it's always the loud alert ringtone + alert popup + back navigation hijacking + my phone vibrating non-stop. I've never seen this vibration "feature" used for anything legitimate on the web, ever.
The way he describes it implies a speed-of-light violation! He's setting up a scenario where he can transfer information (by ON/OFF of a light) at 1/c.

That's the controversy. It's great that he found a fun way to explain transmission theory and how wires are effectively antennas, but he's taking the same thing he initially calls out (how the general understanding most of us have is a lie) and making it even worse in another direction.
Given the fact that there are thin / normal weight people with type 2 diabetes, I think saying "ingestion of excess carbohydrates" is the primary cause is a bit misleading. You'd have to define "excess carbohydrates" as "enough to cause type 2 diabetes in that person", which leads to it almost being a tautology.

There's still a large number of gaps in our understanding of the condition and it's causes.
> Why not use disk encryption for this threat model?

Most people don’t add a password to the disk encryption, meaning the keys can “easily” be extracted by MITM the contacts on the chip.
I found that polygon is compatible with Ethereum's dapp. It seems to be easy to support. I'll give it a try.
I should buy your stock
Here's an unpopular take; if no-code is threatening your programming skills, you should probably try expanding your horizons. Maybe those people can spin up a SaaS in a matter of 15 minutes, but how many of them can make POSIX API calls without relying on complicated, expensive, nonfree tools? By the time you've hacked together a no-code solution, you've probably wasted more time than just learning and implementing the "proper" way to do it.

Again, maybe that's a reductive way of looking at it. But the number of low-wage Javascript employees are due for a reckoning, and I could see no-code coming to eat their lunch. Will it replace embedded driver development or systems programming? Not for a long time.
That only works if they "agreed" to the license in the first place. Without a license, it's just copyright infringement which is controlled by statute. There is no shrink wrap license on source code.
I'm fine with facebook doing what they want on their platform including hiring "fact checkers" if it cuts down on the garbage like covid and global warming deniers. If they don't like my posts and "cancel" me well then I'll just quit using the platform. Social media is not really important in my life, I would rather individuals and companies be able to do what they want with their "lives" without the government regulating everything or picking winners.
I would assume it is already balanced based on various factors before evaluation

BTW Canada didn't have SAT requirement for college application I think they are doing OK. They do look at GPA during high school though.
Don't put a work laptop on your internal home network!

I have a separate network for work machines at home, which goes straight to Internet and can't route in or out of my actual home network which is behind its own firewall.
During college tours at Harvard in 2007 I had an informational interview with an admissions Dean, and when he learned my SAT was 2110 he asked if I was planning to retake and cut the interview short.
Except that it’s a replacement for literal aristocracy.
I would give you more credit and say the landscape of how content and news is delivered has changed. Many articles are written in a way to generate engagement first and then inform. I don't feel bad about not wasting time on clickbait or sensationalized articles. The comments section is a good litmus test to see if something is worth spending my time on. I imagine you've learned the same habit.

When you were younger, I imagine books were the primary way in which you learned new things. Now there's fantastic blog posts, articles, video summaries, and discourse about basically everything. Multiple people don't have to independently spend energy distilling the same article over and over in order to have a meaningful conversation about it. With a place where I trust the people discussing something, I don't have to spend energy verifying their conclusions myself. That frees up time to do other things.
I would like to hear about facebook cancelling out a major news source or even medical journal for forever for anything short of lying through their teeth. Do you have any? I will be happy to research it, but I have not seen anything of the sort. Banning Trump was a godsend in my opinion.
What a coincidence - NY, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, SFO...

Socialists eventually run out of other people's money. Corrupt ones faster than others.
Gerrymandered districts and two party politics where the other guy is the worse guy conspires pretty well to make sure this never happens.
Yeah the fees should be way lower… let me know how it turns out for an app like this I’d be interested in knowing!
I’ve got no clue, I don’t live there. For all intents and purposes I live online, where investors and employers and colleagues are all hyper aware of what I say. That’s why I had to make an alt to even post what I actually think on this website.

(Note that people with beliefs on the other side of the spectrum do not feel the need to make pseudonymous accounts to post their opinions. Frankly this should tell you all you need to know. I call this liberal privilege.)
Makes one wonder what science of today will be looked upon with quaint humor in 50 years' time.
Not OP but yes there are official channels. Best bet of getting unbanned is knowing someone at FB.

There are plenty of people at FB that work in privacy and integrity. If all of the ethical people left only the unethical would be left.
Assign hiragana, some katakana, and numbers to 64 x 2 jigsaw puzzle pieces
Not nearly as important as who your parents are (or how rich they are).
>This is not reddit

I've been on HN for several years. The quality was once much higher than it is now, but HNers have always been willing to call out posturing and logical holes.

>You have absolutely nothing to contribute but useless rhetoric. I asked for sources to whomever I responded to,..

Right. And if you already agreed with SquishyPanda's statement, you would not have requested a source. So, I just asked you to source why you believe what you believe. Why is that any different? In fact, that answer would add more to the thread.

I mean, if you believe standardized tests are valid for the stated purposes, then that's the positive assertion. Have you questioned it?

If not, then why not? If so, then what did you conclude and on what evidence? Please share.

>Just don't waste my time with these pointless comments of yours.

To be fair, I asked you for a source, just as you did of someone else. You wasted your own time with your unsolicited rant.
Most moral panics are in-retrospect entertainment. But some are on the money.
> The Ivy League schools haven't exactly been discreet about their desire to admit fewer Asians.

Just the Ivies? UW is explicit: they want racial "equity". Meaning they won't admit more Asians, as a percentage, than the population they are picking candidates from. And they promote it as a good thing:
https://www.washington.edu/raceequity/diversity-and-equity-f...
"Very deep"... is that subtle innuendo?
I’m totally fine with having features like this living in website settings but it should be non-promptable.
This is a one off mistake isn't it? I'd rather 1 good article get cancelled by accident if it mean 100-1000 disinformation memes or troll accounts get cancelled.
People of Tbilisi, Georgia took over the streets
I would love to hear someone compare this to SvelteKit, and their different adaptors, like Vercel or Cloudflare workers.

i.e.: https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/dep...
That is my impression as well.

It doesn't make too much sense to over indexing on this when it is already discounted in a significant way.
No. It isn't. And this isn't the place for that.

Edit: I was thinking of simulation gaming, such as racing (forced feedback, hitting the wall), Fishing (fish on the line, rumble as forced feedback, etc)
tried with modifier keys? e.g. alt-right-mousebutton
I think where I am vaccination rates are upwards of 90%, so I would think essentially everyone getting it is vaccinated or has had a previous variant. Or both.

Multiple sites I've tried for making a booster appointment make you choose a location and a day before they tell you "nope, no appointments available". That seems insane, but it also seems to be a pattern and I'm wondering if there are weird incentives that caused them to design it that way instead of telling you what is available.
You realize that the internal regulation is wrong, right?

Like the semantic distinction doesnt matter because nobody gives a fuck about Princeton’s organizational policy.
I've been in teams where those comments are never addressed because the pressure is on "push something that roughly solves the task so you can show something during demo".
Amazon driver was warned she’d be fired for not delivering during a tornado
> The cost of solar 1GW farm with storage is well under $2B.

Can you be more specific about that? I'm seeing prices like one dollar per watt just for panels, and that's the peak output. So multiply that by at least 4 for 4 billion, and then a likely-not-enough 14GWh of storage at a lowballed $300/kWh is another 4 billion. If I was sending in a quote I'd put $20B on the sheet, not $2B.
CDC didn't flip flop. They used the information they had on hand. If you don't like it then don't listen to it but they weren't "wrong" given the information they had at the time. We haven't actually ever been through this sort of thing in over 100 years. I trust them more than Fox, Trump, and Breitbart news. The secret is they are willing to change their interpretation rather than stick to their guns when the evidence says otherwise; unlike right wing media who continue to say it's just a bad flu and that we should just get over 800,000 dead people and quit being "wimps".
> Isn’t this a bit much?

Given the state of American journalism, it is if anything overly kind.
> You can't have both of the situations above hold. They are in conflict.?

They are not in conflict at all, this is what the basic welfare theorems of economics say.

It's just that #2 and #1 are impossible to achieve because it requires perfect information about each person and each job, and a unified labor market, which just isn't realistic, as information has a cost and labor markets are fragmented.

In the real world, we are lucky to get some aspects of both #1 and #2, in the sense that people do search for jobs best suited for them, but imperfectly, and employers do search for workers best suited for each job, but imperfectly, and you kinda meet in the middle. If you want, you can call "meritocracy" the freedom of the employer to hire the best worker available, but I'm not sure of a snappy phrase to describe the freedom of the worker to search for the best job available. Maybe someone came up with a label for that. But really they are flipsides of a process that leads to an optimum, they are not two opposing forces where one makes the other impossible. It is like buying and selling, the supply curve does not make the demand curve impossible; both curves meet at an optimum price which is where supply and demand meet. If you mess with either the demand curve or the supply curve, you do not end up at the optimum price, you end up losing welfare somehow.

Obviously anything that can reduce frictions helps you get closer to the meeting of 1 and 2. For example, greater availability of job boards and pay transparency, working condition transparency to get information about available jobs to workers, or things like more accurate information about worker skills and talents to employers (e.g. meaningfulness of degrees play a role here as do rigorous interviews). Really both worker and employer are facing a murky question trying to figure out "how good is the other side here?". Both need as much information as possible.

It is the costliness of information that keeps us away from 1 and 2 simultaneously.
Agreed, equally as much “safe spaces” are “separate but equal” race based segregation.

If some people base their opinions this way for validation: I’m a minority.

Nip it in the bud, take it to court, call it out for what it is. Race based discrimination has no place in this society, find another way, especially for any institution that takes any state or federal funding, you can totalllly curb stomp that approach.
the government is responsible for lyme disease, "plum island shennanigans," and then magicly whipped out a response... strange, history may not repeat, but it sure does rhyme all too often
I want statistics rather than "oh no they were wrongs once so let's just stop the entire effort" which is precisely what a lot of HN people are saying.
> If I couldn't trust my company on my home network, why would I work for them?

Your employer isn't your friend.

It might be an awesome company to work for perhaps, but it's still a company (unless you work for like a 2 person startup). A company subject to audits and regulations and all kinds of other pressures (some of them actually valid, though many are theater) to monitor and control data and flows on their hardware.

You don't want those monitors etc on your personal data and network which has nothing to do with work.

So, keep them separate is the best possible advice.
Who has the right to confiscate your IP addresses? – Global Times
That's not how the law works; you have certain rights, but you don't get to make up your own unilateral contract that says what you can do to someone infringing your rights, just like you can't e.g. steal someone's goat because they stole your cow (or vice versa).
lol at foregrounding Franzen as your main guy to hang your piece on. Just…
"skinny fat" exists, and there may be a wide range of tolerances. Perhaps some people only need to ingest an excess for a very short time while others can do it longer or indefinitely.
Does gerrymandering exist in an autocracy?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GWN2PV4v0lk
Why should I rely on yet another microservice when I have PostgreSQL right there?
I agree with this. The biggest issue I see is not that the Harvard admissions process is arbitrary and perhaps biased.

No, the biggest issue is the size of the student bodyis kept stagnantly small to maintain exclusivity. Perhaps this made sense in an analog age but at some point in the digital world of plenty this will get/needs to be disrupted.

The game changer will be when some University figures out how to become the Apple of higher education. Previously high end phones achieved prestige by adding diamonds, gold plating, a high price tag and only a select few stores that people in the know could find (i.e. the Nokia Vertu).

Somehow Apple figured out how to maintain prestige/exclusivity while essentially servicing the entire market.

It will be a breakthrough for humanity when a University figures out how to replicate this combo of prestige and quality at scale for higher education.
This is 100% the place for that. On the XBox Live Indie Games marketplace, the top-selling game was always a "scalp massager" game (or "game") of some sort.
I sometimes feel like a crazy person in today's news. A city notorious for decriminalizing... everything, is now crying that crime is too high. What exactly is the news break here?
> modulo bottom

Since GHC 9.2, with UnliftedDatatypes you can define real uninhabited types!

{-# LANGUAGE UnliftedDatatypes #-}
import GHC.Exts
data Void :: TYPE UnliftedRep where
Void :: { absurd :: forall a. a } -> Void
> The “mind as software” meme really needs to have better evidence

It never will because it is fundamentally a bad metaphor in reverse. The proper metaphor doesn't apply in reverse to mind and brain. Mind is not an algorithm or a series of instructions that gets executed on brain, the notion is absurd.

Mind is also not something else, it is not some thing, as it has no substance, has no weight, color, smell, etc. Though we are certain the brain is the seat of the mind, you can slice up brain as many ways as possible and never find the mind. Near as experts can figure, mind is a phenomenon of personal experience that arises from healthy brain.

Conversely, Strong AI, a living but artificial mind in a digital machine, is unattainable and will remain the domain of science fiction, though it is easy enough to have a convincing enough AI fool us into believing an AI has personal experience, it is simply physically and logically impossible, at least until two things occur: 1) we actually fully understand mind (unlikely to occur) and 2) we attain the ability to create neurons at the scale of what makes neurons (may be impossible). But if it ever occurs, what a horrendous and cruel thing to create. Imagine being consciousness under those conditions.
CISA – Emergency Directive 22-02 Mitigate Apache Log4j Vulnerability
Maybe; that's the argument that the MPAA etc. used to threaten people with, but I'm not aware of any court having ruled definitively one way or another.