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I, for one, would like backend/desktop/non-web developers to simplify things. Why do they need HTTP servers, logging libraries, UI frameworks, compilers, IDEs, APM, status pages, databases, caches, queues and algorithms. All us frontend devs want is for you to give us some data, you shouldn't need all of this bloat.

It seems the backend community mostly echoes that the complexity is absolutely within norm. The cultural chasm between backend developers and people who push for simplicity is huge. And the refusal to admit the unnecessary complexity is nothing short of Stockholm Syndrome... imho
Exactly. I am pissed this 37% of the world still not online is now entering mainstream headline ( after being circulated on twitter and other social media for a while ).

There are roughly 670 million under age of 5, 1.3 billion in age of 5 - 14.
Coin pocket https://www.heddels.com/dictionary/coin-pocket/
It’s not an ad because speech doesn’t cost anything beyond time and attention.
I created my Pixel Art NFT (as a newb)
> The rules are always shifting, too. You can’t pay with a debit card, for example, except that in some cases you can [...]

We almost got our holiday ruined by that. Here in Norway, debit cards are the norm. I've never had an issue renting a car with a debit card. I've never had an issue using my debit card, even though someone else would be driving.

However, when we showed up at Budget on the Big Island of Hawaii to check out our reserved car, we quickly found out things were not the same.

My SO has a driving license but only a debit card. I had a credit card but no driving license. Since we were not from the US, they explained, the driver had to have a credit card. Mine wouldn't do.

We went to Avis next doors (unsurprisingly the owner of Budget), and was met with the same demand.

Our two week vacation seemed ruined before it got started, as there's hardly any bus service to talk about and we were quoted like $100 just for a one-way trip with a taxi to the place we'd be staying, and that was a "nice price" since we were in a pickle. We tried to call our bank back home to see if they could help us in any way, but predictably they couldn't. We asked if a sizable deposit would help, but no. Minute by minute we felt our dream vacation was turning into a nightmare as hope evaporated.

After a few rounds back and forth with the person behind the counter the manager sensed something was up, and after explaining our situation she asked where we'd be staying. We'd found an Airbnb-like place so it was a residential address, and she gave it a few seconds before she said to enter that along with my SO's debit card details. Vacation saved!
How does the driver arrive in step 5? I've seen services that will drive you home after a night out where the driver arrives on a mini scooter that will fit in your trunk, but this only works in urban areas and with appropriate cars.
How would you improve Wesnoth?
Just wanted to mention that you could try falling back to StartPage (!sp) first as it uses results from Google.
please dont interfere with browser hotkeys
What it would probably look like was they were granting an IPC channel to the JNDI component, just like they would for DNS or what have you. And then separately "ok, yeah, JNDI needs network access, that makes sense".

So you wouldn't see network access directly in the capability manifest for the logging component.

None of this protects you from "fuck it, load class file from random ldap server" that was apparently coded up in JNDI.
This is actually a great question and doesn't deserve to be downvoted. Indeed this is one of the considerations that led me to leave materials science research field after a couple of undergraduate projects with PhD candidates.

It turns out that the domain between Angstroms (where we can computationally model atomic interactions accounting for quantum effects) and Milli (where standard Newton's laws and therefore mechanical engineering tools can be used) is a vast computational desert.

Most properties that affect bulk material properties happen to be developed in the micro-domain (note the photographs in the article) and almost 20 years after I've left the field, I don't believe there's still any rigorous "first-principles" based computational approach yet. In other words, materials are not uniform in the micro domain and this is where materials properties develop.

So materials research process becomes hypothize, create material batch, test it 20 ways, rinse and repeat for a slightly different composition or process

Even the software mentioned in the article (thermo-calc) is primarily empirical with some very smart extrapolations and modeling added (note the first step is experimental data capture [1]. It definitely is a massive step forward from when I was in the field but definitely not first principles based modeling.

[1] https://thermocalc.com/about-us/methodology/the-calphad-meth...
Was it Granulate?
> 1. You open the app and press a button. 2. A car arrives at your location within a few minutes.

> 4. When you're finished with the car, you open the app and press a button. 5. Within a few minutes, a driver arrives and you hand them the key.

There is a really good reason that doesn't exist and isn't going to exist on a reliable basis anytime soon.
I absolutely hate the content of this article, mostly because it's the exact set of things that you won't be able to do if you need to read about them on Hacker News.

The people who read this article and attempt to make these changes are the people who will talk about this stuff incessantly, and push it onto every single other person they meet.

It's legitimately repulsive in its phoniness, because I work hard to be authentic, and if I were to take this article seriously, it'd be a huge step backwards in authenticity.
I can't catch HIV or obesity by sitting next to someone on a train, so is it really?
If you're going to centralize the keys, why bother with Bitcoin? Isn't the whole point that you're insulated against untrustworthy governments? It's kind of sounding like decaf coffee ..
I suppose the most obvious games to recommend would be Master of Orion and X-COM: UFO Defense.
“I sent a package as a token of appreciation for your help,” an email to One Medical read, then asked for “your help to get a few appointments for this week,” and listed two people who live in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood.
I believe the correct way to write it is self-hosting.
Absolutely this- Saying that the complexity of modern web dev is needless without even addressing things like state management, URL routing, component encapsulation, stylesheet encapsulation, performance, compatibility, semantic markup, offline-first, server-side rendering (for SEO and first paint) are somehow not real problems that need to be addressed. If you don't do it in the frontend, guess what? All of that is happening in the backend, too.

People seem to act like those problems just "go away" when you don't do SPA but it doesnt.
There are more books in the series, at least 3 in total that I know of.
I tend to find that if I write down the exact last thing I was doing for the day before finishing it helps me not have to ramp up so steeply the next day.

I also factor in procrastination both into my planning, and in my self measures of progress. We can't always be the stick to motivate ourselves.
> every officer coercing a confession thinks the suspect is guilty.

That's absolutely not true; coerced confessions absolutely are used against people known to be innocent by those coercing the confession (heck, even when the coercers are, in fact, the guilty parties.)

OTOH, it is true that the cops will always say the target is guilty, because that’s the whole point.
> Google found this out the hard way multiple times!

Story time?
> I should probably find out the actual name

It's called a "watch pocket", originally meant for, unsurprisingly, pocket watches.
> As of October 2020, CloudABI has been deprecated in favor of WebAssembly System Interface for lack of interest

On its Wikipedia entry, so most likely it won't go anywhere.
Let me know if you have any specific questions I may be able to help.

The incumbent PMS and DMS vendors have the market captured for large law firms and the systems are generally slow and expensive to change, but smaller ones have more saas options and smaller ones move quicker.

There is a lot going on in legal ops, innovation and newlaw- things like eDiscovery tools for forensics of new data types - social media, audio and video etc. there’s ML contract review, there’s workflow apps, docusigning, relativity, nuix ….

In general IT space Le firms are slowly moving to cloud so there’s the whole azure, aws piece, other adjacencies like auth (eg. Okta)

There’s also the blockchain hype.. smart legal contracts, lawyers who can code etc
“The moment QA is arguing over which strategy is best to win, you’re ready to ship.” — Jon Van Caneghem, creator of Heroes of Might and Magic

:) as quoted in the article
And their point is that the process is smooth and fast because of the constraints that don't exist in the market at large.
I thought there was a maximum lifetime limit for applying e.g. 3?
The answer is you build a team that builds tools to make optimization easier for everyone in the engineering organization. One individual team can't optimize every application, but if you make it easy for every engineering team to profile their applications and debug performance problems, you've enabled every team to continuously optimize the low-hanging fruit. In effect, you're no longer solving one-off 8-figure problems, you're optimizing the time of other engineers which is something that pays off in perpetuity.

Good large engineering organizations have these teams, and understand their value. For smaller companies, it's not as clear if you can reasonably fund a team for that kind of work.
It was completely meta. They literally reference having to make a sequel because if they didn’t, “Warner Brothers would do it without them”.

From that point, just watch the pretty action and stop critically thinking, because they sure as hell weren’t.
Santos hi is clearly an academic. The quality of the writing in his bitcoin paper is exactly of someone who’s written multiple papers.

Either the writer was hired but unlikely Elon wrote it.
The usual ways to do that are to open a connection to the things you need at startup, and then drop your privileges, set ulimits or whatever. Or you don't have network access at all, but pipe your logs to a local process that does.

Alternatively the application can be made to have some OS-specific rules to e.g. generate iptables rules on Linux, so it can contacts its logger, but not anything else.

All of those are probably anathema to the typical Java programmer though, as they require crossing the boundary from JVM into OS configuration.
Note that Oxford Nanopore seems to have very much a "sell the ink/razor/etc" business model with their devices: that $1,000 package comes with one flow cell, which is a consumable and costs $900. They're essentially giving the device away for free.

On some of their larger devices (eg, the PromethION), they've moved outright to a "we lend you the device for free, you buy the consumables" model.
Uber has car rentals in some places.

https://www.uber.com/us/en/u/uber-rent/
We're talking about car rentals, and I'd like to tell you about my dozen or so times when I managed to book a car in Mexico and pay roughly $3-$4 a day, for 1-2 weeks total.

The short version is that I never buy insurance, which is where most car rental companies make their money on for American tourists. Everyone else buys insurance. We don't (we book with a credit card that gives us insurance, simple as that).

Every single time we have to go back and forth with the guy at the counter for 10 minutes, before he realizes that we won't buy the insurance, that our insurance is valid, and that we're going to get off with a super-cheap car rental on that day. Shurgs, gives us the keys, next customer por favor.
Web3: The ‘access layer’, decentralized exchanges, and geopolitical implications
It is a bit above your price point, but I have been using Kagi.com (not affiliated, just impressed). They're in beta, but will charge ~$10 once they go GA. Like you, I tried DuckDuckGo for awhile, but resorted to g! so often that I started using it for everything out of habit.

In contrast, Kagi provides Google-quality results mosts of the time, better-than-Google semi-often, and worse-than-google rarely. They support g!, but I only use it a couple of times a week, usually for site-specific searches.

Additionally, I really like that I am their customer and not their product - incentives are aligned for them to continue respecting my privacy and preferences.
Java had JAAS, which fulfilled a similar purpose, and it is scheduled for removal for similar reasons CAS was taken out of .NET.
Last time I rented a van from hertz I selected the location to collect from (self storage place), the time to pick up, and drop off (2 hours later), and then picked it up.
I did say the benefits from vaccination in infectiousness with Delta is much reduced. They do seem to still reduce the time during which you are infectious though.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/231557/covid-vaccines-effect...

I’m not entirely surprised there are studies with small numbers of participants in which it doesn’t show up.
The complainers are not a cross section of customers. The complainers generally are high end luxury consumers who can and would pay more but there aren't enough of them to actually actually matter beyond noise making. The people who are penny pinching are happy they can get the right good or service at the right price.
It is interesting that the person opposes "Get some ETH" with some unknown thing, but what really is implied in that is “Give me some data so our company can profit way more than the benefits we provide”.
For at least 25 years we have been telling people to implement egress filtering and to only allow outbound the specific, known, necessary connections from any given server. Rarely do I see it done.
> What incentive is there to make any kind of one-shot fix?

The team at Pfizer is made of dozens (or hundreds) of respectable scientists and lab workers. If Pfizer had a "one-shot" cure and was sitting on it for reasons of greed, then we would hope that at least one of these people would feel morally compelled to blow the whistle.

And regarding the lobby power of big pharma: while this may be true in the USA, they don't have nearly as much political power in europe and other democratic countries where governments put their citizens first, and we see the vaccines being offered in these other countries as well
Deeper investments into the p2p era of software could’ve likely yielded better decentralised internet and software

Somewhere around 04/05 it went out of fashion for some reason. Anyone know why?
I don't think so. WASM is changing things on many fronts. CloudABI is just doing one front.

I don't have any thing against WASI, and I don't blame them for wanting to point out a like-minded project that was still active. But just as I think CloudABI is a good stepping stone for seL4 or Fuschia, I think it is a good stepping stone for WASM.

Also, I guess I don't believe in coupling change on in principle independent axes. If you at least allow the knobs to be turned separately, even if you don't e.g. CI or otherwise support all combinations, you are incentivized to handle things more "parametrically" vs if-def soup (which matches capabilities, incidentally!) and you have a great way to troubleshoot stuff. This is like how NetBSD says they like supporting obscure architectures to catch more bugs in the portable code too, not just make their lives harder.
I took some time to read and watch the links and digest the info to respond:

1) I'm getting kind of conflicting signals from the sources. You promote the idea that these camps aren't what we know they are, the the third link, but the entirety of the your Twitter feed reads as a justification and comparison to the war in Afghanistan. I don't see how that would be an apt comparison unless these camps actually did exist, and actually did forcefully detain people (which means forced labor in China).

2) Let's assume they are forced re-education camps, since that's the least evil thing possible. You're comparison to Afghanistan as the 'The US uses bombs and bullets whereas China is doing things peacefully' is still bad. Afghanistan is a separate country without a government that we declared war on. The US generally follows strict rules of engagement, so it would be inaccurate to say we shot innocent people or killed them on purpose. The mission over there consisted much more of building infrastructure and public services than it did fighting. Xinjiang is within China's own borders, and benefits from already having a government and infrastructure, to a much larger degree than Afghanistan at least.

3) Let's ignore 2 and assume the US was evil in Afghanistan and China is doing everything as morally as possible in Xinjiang. Then why not let international inspection of the facilities? The UN was in Afghanistan, and oversaw a lot of our mission there. If it's the same in Xinjiang, but better, then why the secrecy?

4) People go along with the idea that evil things are happening in Xinjiang without much evidence because of two reasons: China has been caught doing everything claimed before already (organ harvesting, forced abortions, internment camps) and they don't just prove otherwise. Any international traveller can come to the US and visit any hospital, any prison (provided they are journalists at least) and any prisoner here has the freedom of expression to say anything they want to anyone they want. That isn't the case in China. Of course there is a lack of evidence of what's going on their now. That's China's MO.
still posting 2018 data.

I mean how hard is it to put it online LIVE sans PII?
> but you're not going to get it in the middle of the woods because it also requires more towers closer together

This is a misconception. You're only thinking about high-band (aka mmWave) 5G. The media has largely focused on this because of the higher speeds and its low range which makes it easy to dunk on with clickbaity articles. But this isn't particularly common outside of sports stadiums or music venues, large train stations, airports (but note that the interference in the article is not in the mmWave spectrum), university campuses, etc.

5G has much better range than 4G at the low-band, and at the mid-band they're much faster at a similar distance. If you're in the US, the only carrier that's been rolling out low-band 5G at scale thus far is T-Mobile.
Clearly not all is bad but they don't have your best interests in mind and I would argue it's overall quite harmful.
Ask HN: How do you use HN?
The HN audience is a technical one, and the HN site is a simple one. I'm interested to know how various people use and enhance HN.

Do you use browser plugins or user scripts? Do you use a bot or online service to monitor responses to your comments? What aggregators do you use, curated or not? Browser or app? Which app?

Also, what are your habits around HN? Do you check the front page multiple times a day? Review top stories every week? Comment only on fresh stories or weeks old threads?

There have been related threads recently and further in the past, so please feel free to link to them as well!
> How do you guarantee a reservation? Literally keep the car at the pick-up point from the time it was ordered until the person gets there months later? Any other way, you're relying on someone returning a car to you in time at that location so you have it to give to the reserver.

Yes, any rental reservation, whether it's a hotel room or rental car, has some irreducible level of risk, because the prior renter may unlawfully hold over the rental, damage it, or do something else unforseen. Heck, even if you physically hold it from the point of reservation, it could be hit by a meteor. There are known ways to quantify and account for (either by holding back stock from reservation to cover incidents or holding back money to cover compensation) these things, and you can tune it how you like.

The rental car industry, however, doesn't even try to manage the easily mitigated risks that are the entire reason reservation systems exist, because they take reservations but treat them as meaningless.

This isn't hard.
Because for the price of one lithium battery you can buy five lead-acids, wire them in parralel, and charge at 5x the rate.
Yes. Keep the price signals. Redistribute more of the wealth. It's a win win.
Even if you do kee one, what happens if the car is stolen the night before? Or a meteor lands on it? Or someone drives into it 5 minutes before pick up?
I do think there’s an argument to be made for this, and it’s in fact what’s happening in California — where water reservoirs (Hetch Hetchy, etc) flooded valleys that were once habitat for spawning fish, the state has built fish tunnels, etc., and the state is careful to release water that keeps the downstream flow going to preserve wetlands, etc.

All this is important, and it’s the “environmental” use that I read the OP complaining about — but maybe I misread.
One day I'll have a living that enables me to completely disconnect from the digital world. Ah, paradise...
Shibumi by Trevanian. Ice Station Zebra by MacLean. Clive Cussler novels. Tom Clancy. Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour. Scaramouche and Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini.

(Note: Many of these contain some really ridiculous, outdated language and treatment of various groups of people.)
The end of PHP LFI (local file inclusion) challenges (?)
My personal experience growing up in the northeast is that storms are warmer and wetter than they used to be (maybe that means more snow on net), but with winters on the whole being warmer snow doesn’t accumulate like it used to.

The line where snow sticks around for the whole season has been steadily moving north.
They do work on an extraction flowcell that can be added on top. I’m hoping they can make it as easy as adding sample to a well, at least for blood or saliva.
Didn’t EtherDelta follow this advice and get shutdown anyway?
I know, but support is still in FreeBSD. My big long term plan is:

1. Work on FreeBSD cross in Nixpkgs, because I need a way to pin forks and run nice VM tests without going insane. (We already have NetBSD cross.)

2. Rig up a booting image that uses https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare, the fork of systemd.

3. Add support to CloudABI in initware.

4. Bang on drum for other OSes and upstream systemd to implement this stuff we can can good portable abstractions -- I think this is our best shot to get "portable containers".
As I said, I didn't pay money to bring this comment to you whether you wanted it or not. You came here looking for comments. You weren't advertised to, you simply got exactly what you wanted.

Discussing a topic in a place where people congregate for that specific purpose is not the same thing as spamming entire cities with audiovisual pollution that nobody wants much less asked for.
Based on the weekly reports of $XX million being stolen from $DEFI_ENTITY, web3 seems more like read/write/pwn to me.
I’m torn. I didn’t read the first article. But apparently the author’s having his cake and eating it too, arguing first one point, and then recanting and arguing the counterpoint.

As I read through this though, I was reminded of the classic Gates quote:

> “A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it exceeds the value of the company that creates it."

I can’t quite put my finger on why, but this seems applicable here. The American experience is less about a Wild West sea of capitalist free/market entrepreneurs, and instead turned into more of an entertainment show where tech/sci “performers” vie for the attention of the few VC/monopoly institutions directing the show.