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Apple stands between me and my carrier’s sms service

In complete fairness, Apple doesn't stand between you and your sms carrier. I can't think of any company that does that actually?

All companies that I am aware of pass through sms messages to the carrier sms service, and deliver messages from the carrier sms service. Most companies layer a service on top of the sms, but sms itself is meticulously unmolested in every system I'm aware of.

Finally, giving devs an api to intercept and process sms messages would be naiveté in the extreme. With so much sensitive data coming through sms, it just would open too many holes. A random dev could intercept passwords, 2 Factor information, account balances, and on and on.

For my part, I would be entirely against hackers having that access.
If most people get there by car, then yeah parking should be free or close to it.

But if a lot of people get there by walk, bike, or transit - it makes no sense for parking to be free, especially if street parking can be replaced by outdoor (truly outdoor, with air flowing freely) dining.
I would love to pick up from the 200k IOPS laptop quote and demo a RAM drive and then saturate the RAM drive into swapping - I don't know how you could do this on stock distros or Windows but it would make a great executive suite demo of the issues.
Try 1Password - Great app and I can vouch that they help you when things go wrong (because things went wrong for me and they went above and beyond to help).
but I think this is totally doable considering current situation
There's an argument to be made for a tradeoff between legacy device support and cleaning up cruft, but the part that stands out to me is that optional chaining is such a trivial thing to break backwards compatibility over.

It's one thing to require async/await: transpiling async->generators->regenerator turns into loads of ugly/inefficient code. But optional chaining saves a couple dozen characters, and if the developer really wanted it they could add a very simple babel transform.

Having seen code break over this exact thing before, I'm almost certain that the developer was unaware they were breaking anything for anyone.
I wonder if people are forgetting that not long ago, it was acceptable and normal that your word processor could have a bug in it which would crash the entire OS. Or how almost everything was insecure by default.
There's a standard XML serialization of HTML5 that supports all the features previously associated with XHTML. Additionally, RDF data can be exchanged as JSON via JSON-LD. There's no reason why a typical SPA app could not be built to query RDF-serving endpoints.

"Marking up forum posts" is something that's getting quite a bit of traction nowadays via specifications like ActivityStreams (with its "push" extension ActivityPub now powering the 'Fediverse') and WebMention.
Most people living in the suburbs in the US have a drying machine while not everyone has a cryptomining rig running 24/7, so we could _easily_ be in a situation where drying machines in a region use more power than cryptomining rigs. And a lot of things are like that: Netflix, furnaces, AC, freezers.
I vaguely remember eventually figuring out how to lodge some kind of issue or something because the UI of their credit monitoring was completely broken. It was impossible to use the service at all.

I think I eventually figured out some methodology of opening some graphical element in a new frame or something that got it working partially but that was what made me cancel everything and switch to BitWarden. Ridiculous.
You forgot to account for the cost of the damage a dryer does to clothing. And how much conditioned air it pumps outside that needs to get sucked back in through my home’s cracks and re-conditioned.

And the fires!
Reminds me of LineDrive [1], a feature of MapBlast that would give you directions in something that looked like how a human would write out directions, where roads were simplified. The overall result is reducing a map to only the parts that are important to someone that needs directions along a specific route.

A bit of a moot point in today's world where everyone has a GPS enabled device capable of giving them turn-by-turn directions interactively.

[1] https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/remember...
Deployments: How we announce new features and updates internally at Basecamp
It would seem it does.
Sounds like another use-case that fits! We're currently only offering this via hosted API so it won't work offline. I'd be interested in understanding the specific use-case further.

If you have any connects there, feel free to reach out to the email in my bio :)
Economics. People are ok with 'lower quality' software if it has more features and is delivered faster, by and large.

I read a wonderful article that went into this in some depth a while back but can't for the life of me recall where.

Basically, if you're doing some kind of NASA mars rover software, you go over it again and again and are really careful and all that costs a lot of money. It also means you have fewer features and it all takes longer. If you tried to use that sort of process on some banal bit of everyday software, it'd be way more expensive than the competition and have fewer features. You'd go out of business.

I also agree with the other commenters that quality hasn't really declined over the years.
> and compile it down to ES5, which will work in nearly every browser

And how do you load it, as opposed to the modern bundle? I've heard about the script nomodule technique; but that would become less and less relevant as more and more browser versions start being able to load and execute ES6, but not ES_current_year.
This is why I get paid top dollar as a consultant ;) When a company's top engineers decide to rewrite their stack in JavaScript, I get to swoop in, take $10k and tell them their old PHP monolith was just fine.

Long live idiots, for I'll always get paid
If there is, it is not at all obvious to me where.

Does anyone know exactly when the brownout will end? I can't find this information anywhere.

E: Some old blog posts on other brownouts seem to suggest 1400 UTC. I still haven't found anything definitive for what's happening now.
If only the web had some kind of technology to make more content appear when clicking on things... Almost as if they were linked, somehow. Then we'd need some kind of program to browse that content by clicking on stuff.
Sure, but are they truly compelled by EU law to do this for people in the EU, to export encrypted data? GDPR applies to PII, and encrypted data the company can’t access is not personally identifiable information, and the company doesn’t necessarily “have” the unecrypted data. It seems like Article 20 does not automatically apply here. (This all aside from the question of whether GDPR applies to Americans using American services.)
A recent example of this hate speech being flagged by Reddit Admin as "acceptable" -

https://reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/s1jjs0/

Reddit allows hate speech and tells their volunteer moderators, 'Nothing to see here'.
By some measures, they've already been overtaken by TikTok.[0] That's what a YouTube competitor looks like.

[0]https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/7/22660516/tiktok-average-wa...
No, that was the point. I want accounts for personal that I can access or reset, and I want a work account I can.

Lastpass does this and allows you to link them for your visibility, not mine. So users get a single log in the morning or whatever and they can do whatever they like. It’s a convenience that helps our less security minded users still have good habits.
>Biggest problem about PoW coins, and that's something that everybody working on it knows, or should know, is that the need of power is steadily bigger each year

PoW is wasteful by design. The more hash power you throw at the network, the more difficult the PoW becomes. Any efficiency gains necessarily have to go towards more hashing, instead of maintaining the same level of work at a lower power draw.
Station keeping, yes, is probably going to need the lion's share, but I have no idea by what factor. I have read that dealing with reaction wheel saturation is also another fuel consumer though. Perfect reaction wheels attached to a spherical cow would use no fuel. As would perfectly balanced solar pressure engineering etc. It basically all ends up nibbling some fuel.
‘Wormable’ Flaw Leads January 2022 Patch Tuesday
OP is probably talking cumulative energy. The vast majority of households probably have dryers in the US. The vast majority of households also DO NOT have crypto mining rigs.
> And crypto needs to be banned because it's all a gigantic scam that has a gigantic environmental cost attached to it.

Is it worse than, let's say, Christmas in this regard?
That's an interesting and valuable perspective. I'm definitely one of the people who keep reinventing things that have already been done before, even though I'm not very good. But since I don't use programming to put food on the table, maybe that's okay - it's more of a hobby/educational endeavor than anything important.

All the same, maybe if I spent less time writing, e.g., yet another dictionary/map, I could actually make something worthwhile.
That analogy needs rephrasing, the OP built a sandcastle and left instructions on how to build it which 20,000 other people used to build (their own) sandcastles.

Then the OP decided to make a new change for his own castle.

"Draw a vulgar expression on the front door."

Which 20,000 people blindly copied and then have the audacity to complain about.
"MSRP"

First partners selling the part in Europe already have a hefty 50% surcharge [0].

[0] https://videocardz.com/newz/amds-199-radeon-rx-6500xt-offici...
So it’s still as it was when I last set it up: everything is there, but it requires fiddling. I’m using a similar setup right now. One place where Linux has the better experience.
Most countries use WhatsApp, WeChat, etc and don’t use SMS. You can turn iMessages off easily if you want the shitty carrier experience.
> A natural fear is that by reducing the amount of work each employee tackles at any given time, it might reduce the total amount of work an organization is able to complete, making it less competitive. This fear is unfounded. As argued, when an individual’s work volume increases, so does the accompanying overhead and stress, reducing both the time remaining to actually execute the tasks and the quality of the results.

This is a central pillar of Newport's argument, and it doesn't hold water.

Anyone who has actually built and managed knowledge work teams knows that a "heavy burden" of work from the perspective of one employee might be "child's play" to another employee. Perhaps this is less true with blue-collar jobs, but it's emphatically true with knowledge work. Hell, it's even true with the same employee across time. (Coding work that would have overwhelmed me as a junior developer would bore me to tears today.)

If we're strictly talking about optimizing for market competitiveness, the onus is on Newport to explain how lowering the work burden for employees who can't sustainably do N units of work per week is a better idea than simply replacing those employees with others who can do N units/week.
There's a pretty clear dividing line in the fact that violence was involved or attempted.

So, yes, you can picket government buildings all you want, but the moment you start killing security and seeking to kill representatives, you've insurrected or are a party to an insurrection.

> Insurrection - a violent uprising against an authority or government.
Web3 Just Had Its Emperor’s-New-Clothes Moment
They are being mass-produced, and you can buy one:

https://shop.cuehealth.com/

They're a little bit pricey - the reader is about $250, and tests are like $70/each, or you can get a $50/month subscription that gets you 10 tests/year. But they're available for consumers. It's handy to have a deep-pocketed employer who will pay for it for you, but so it goes with all healthcare in the U.S.

Personally if my employer wasn't paying for it I'd rather get the $5 tests from Target, but as long as they're going to eat the cost, the Cue reader is pretty convenient.
China says its lunar rover has found proof of water on the moon
One of my old bosses would say 'They need it more than you or I do' when settling up the change after paying for lunch.
Yep, they replaced the Business Ethics course with this one covering advanced business administration tactics as everyone said the ethics class was incredibly not useful in today's world. /s
I think people strangely confuse competition with monopoly nowadays. The point of competition is to drive people to use your product because it’s superior. That’s the whole benefit. Apple provides a competitive messaging service and others can provide alternatives if they think they can do better in some way. The point of monopoly is to crush competition. Apple isn’t stopping Google from developing a better messaging service. Honestly, they should put more thought into developing features than bashing competition on Twitter.
It was 2,000 people. What are you referring to?

My point is that the building was literally burned down and our country bounced back to the point where most people probably don't even know it happened. There's nothing sacred about the Capitol building itself or honestly the people in it. Our collective commitment to democracy doesn't exist in a physical location.
Ask HN: Working for YC startup, afraid founders will badmouth me at YC if I quit
What to do?
Starting from the first week I found out they were copycats and lying. There has been so much mismanagement and red flags. From false promises to public denunciation.

I feel like they will put the blame on me and speak bad about me if I would quit and apply try to work for another YC company.
The overall experience has been really awful. They hire and fire every week. It's so unstructured and they blame it on the new recruits.

What can I do?
You severely underestimate the power use of proof-of-work blockchains. It's on the scale of nations.

But the main difference is that whatever you compare with those blockchains, it will never have the critical flaw: the automatically increasing difficulty. Your dryer doesn't periodically flood the drum to make it harder because more people are interested in tumble drying.
Users have an incredible tolerance for issues on specialised software as well. Sure, the pages load slowly and once a month you see it totally crap out, but it has more features which let you make more money by using it so who cares.

Most of the time as a software dev company, you are better off building as much functionality as possible and just keep things working enough that people can deal with the issues.
There are more colors spaces than just HSV and RGB.

The HSV gradients look wonky; the HSV space was designed for easy color picking UI with efficient calculations on 1980's hardware, not for interpolation.

I found this site where you can play with interpolation via various color spaces:

https://colordesigner.io/gradient-generator

LAB looks good; but interestingly, going from yellow to blue, it doesn't interpolate through green at all. Which makes sense, since yellow-blue is one axis in LAB, whereas red-green is another.
Huh. it won't let me downvote anything in the subthread. Just upvote. Ugh.
> Anybody who wants to learn more should read the RISKS mailing list and its archives.

Yes, totally second that, that's the best school there is, seeing what goes wrong and what the consequences are. I probably spent weeks just reading and analyzing the various posts there.

As for the part of the industry that isn't grown up: anything that can do OTA or automatic updates is likely to suffer from a rash of bugs and usability issues, which includes everything that's SAAS and almost all application software with the exception of some industrial stuff. There is far more low quality software than there is high quality software.
For a good explanation on why you don't want these things to be too high-tech and too encrypted, see "Doctor Strangelove", and take particular notice about the roles played by CRM-114.
I don’t want the hate for it, but I really hated my demo with it. I wish I could remember why! All I remember is that I couldn’t do basic enterprise level things I expected. It may have come down to linking personal accounts or recovery or cloud. Sorry, don’t really remember. I think it just rubbed me the wrong way.
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
Ask HN: Safest place for young kids to chat to friends online?
I have an 8 year old boy who wants to chat (txt, voice, video) with his friends online, so they can arrange to play games, etc. I'm not keen on giving him a mobile phone yet and a lot of the platforms like Discord, Slack, etc don't have much in the way of parental controls. Ideally I'd like something where I (and the other parents) can supervise, moderate and control who has access to the groups and which groups the kids have access to, without having to worry about what other content and people on the platform they could be exposed to. I don't have a problem with self hosting, if that's the best option. How have others in the Hacker News collective approached this?
You can wash your clothes in a bucket if you want to save even more energy. But I like the convenience of washers and dryers.
How wilfully we ignore that iOS has 25% market share...
> The ultimate problem with this whole logic is that you trust that other individuals and companies are not tempted to "double-dip" by monetizing data on paying users. A comment in the reddit thread referenced in the article summarizes the problem neatly:

I don't think the logic is wholly broken - there will be a lower incentive for paid companies who can generate a profit with subscription fees to "double-dip" than there is for free companies to "single-dip" (who need to dip to survive).

It's all about relative risk between those two models - if company A has a business model that can work without doing shady shit, and company B has a business model that can only work if they do shady shit, then company B will be more likely to do shady shit in reality.
Is it factually incorrect, though?

They may not have a legal duty to maximise profits, but investors will expect them to do so - and negative reactions in the stock price would be expected if they were to support unionisation within their business, as it would (rightly or wrongly) be expected to reduce profits going forward.

Boards don't like unhappy shareholders.

I'm not defending an anti-union stance - I'm simply saying that company leads will most certainly see it as a threat to their job if they are unable to increase profits or keep margins fat in perpetuity.

The highlighted explanation in your link supports this assertion.
A dacha is a vacation home. Seasonal, year-round, summer, winter, all depends on how you like to vacation.

Since it's an Eastern European term, and since winter in much of Eastern Europe sucks, it's commonly associated with a seasonal summer home - but can refer to any vacation property.
> basically opposite of the HN culture these days

That's because the pendulum has swung. A decade ago, HN was full of optimism because we were at the apex of startup culture and the tech boom. Now that boom has receded, there is still a lot of dumb money (for now), but people are burned out and the tech is uninspiring or toxic. People are just tired.

This really became clear to me two years ago, shortly before the pandemic, when there was a long thread on HN arguing against joining a startup, simply because FAANG pays far better- not just because of crazy stock market shenanigans, but because many startups themselves have been captured by leadership that pursue policies that lead to share dilution. The economics have changed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21865065
My point was not that people are using SQLite in prod everywhere; read that paragraph in more of a speculative voice, not a statement of fact about the present. At any rate, i do think the range request technique makes SQLite more practical to use in database-driven apps that normally would've opted for a traditional db like postgres (though there is more work to be done to make this technique fast when doing complex queries...lots of joins are no bueno right now).
That article misses Google Currents (https://currents.google.com/), which is what Google+ became.
Lastpass lets you (possibly with a large enough enterprise account?) give free personal accounts to your employees, seperate to their business accounts, that the employees can link with the business accounts. This gives the employees a single interface to access their business and personal passwords, while giving the company a business account it can see stats (but not passwords) of, and terminate to cut off access to without locking a user out of their personal passwords (the personal account gets downgraded to a free account).

Personally I don't use that as I have bitwarden set up for my personal accounts and would rather trust that.
It doesn't make sense to compare 1 person gaming or clothes drying to a specific mining machine. The consideration was about global bans and total outputs from those activities.
Yes. That's why you need big players - like the US, EU - to use leverage to force the rest of the world to follow suit. But the change has to start somewhere.
"Waste". The parent's point is who are you to say? Maybe we should closely audit your energy usage and ban those activities we find objectionable.

Authoritarianism isn't an ideal outcome.
Machine washing too.
It looks like it is just a different card designed for a different purpose. High clock speed, more power efficient, and a lot smaller...and $200 (supposedly).
What's your point? Besides the textbook use of "whataboutism"
I didn't say they were the same. Just because a blog as ads or affiliate links, that doesn't mean it's astroturfing or gamed. Of course, the ad filled blogs probably got their cue from mags like NME, Rolling Stone, etc.
> Correct, hopefully Microsoft will provide an updated SSH client soon. It only requires recompiling OpenSSH with the correct flags.

I checked when Microsoft-owned GitHub announced full Fido support, but I’ve stopped holding my breath.
wait wait what?
It's profitable to drastically overwork people, such that you cull the bottom 10% and get fresh blood in the revolving door.

Indeed, supermarkets, hospitals, meat packing plants and other key parts of production have run on this. The covid crisis has meant that door has stopped being as willing to revolve. But still nothing has changed 'cause this society runs on profits and these places, using this strategy, wind-up being the key profit centers.
BTC and ETH are closely correlated price-wise.
one missing feature seems to be the latex support. notion and many other note takings apps has inline support for latex equations.
I'm astonished by some of the responses in this thread. Why are so many of you upset about this development? Domestic violent extremists (DVEs) are killing more and more people every year.

2017 - DVEs caused 8 deaths

2018 - DVEs caused 17 deaths

2019 - DVEs caused 32 deaths [the most lethal year since 1995]

We are talking about murderers here, primarily lone offenders. This isn't a malicious tactic for going after political opponents or free speech.

"The FBI and DHS define a Domestic Violent Extremist (DVE) as an individual based and operating primarily within the United States or its territories without direction or inspiration from a foreign terrorist group or other foreign power who seeks to further political or social goals wholly or in part through unlawful acts of force or violence. The mere advocacy of political or social positions, political activism, use of strong rhetoric, or generalized philosophic embrace of violent tactics may not constitute extremism, and may be constitutionally protected." - https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/fbi-dhs-domestic-terrori...

Are there more serious issues in America? Yes. Does that mean we should ignore this growing threat? No.