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it’s always interesting to see how many people on hn dislike web3, could it be because some have investments in “traditional” ventures that may become obsolete due to web3? i can understand the negativity towards it but to me this is how technology operates. whenever something new comes out the next generation adopts it while the previous generation seems to be extremely skeptical until one day they buy in. what i would love to see is the hype subside, the market to level out and then see where we are, i really don’t see this going away anytime soon, in reality it’s gonna be here for a lot longer than what most skeptics think
They pander to whoever brings in the money. Salespeople at my wife's job get away with much worse bullshit than I ever got away with at any coding job. Like one guy at her job brings in like 40% of the company's total revenue, which their total revenue was apparently around 60 million last year, so he brings in about 24 million.

Apparently other people complain that he doesn't really do anything the vast majority of the time, and doesn't do anything coworkers ask them to do that's part of the job description for other salespeople, and the execs won't do anything about it (and apparently are very scared of him leaving since they think he'll take all those clients with him).

...which I agree with the execs not doing anything, by the way. That revenue is way more important than making sure that employee is "putting in a solid 8 hour work day" or "being a team player".

Software engineers get some slack from the business but not that much slack. If I could have a few short conversations a year with the computer and it spat out software that generated millions in revenue I absolutely would, but no, I have to do the research and design and development to make sure the software does what it needs to do. And then it helps generate millions of dollars, of which I get a comparatively tiny fraction compared to what I bet that salesperson gets.

Most of us are still getting a raw deal compared to salespeople (well, effective salespeople, at least).
Anecdotally, if you asked me to pay $30 up-front for a password manager, I would just keep using the same minimum-effort password for every site like I was doing a few years ago. Data-wise, we know that the largest drop-off during customer acquisition is when they have to input payment information.

IME most people don’t want to pay for anything at all. Which is partly why the subscription model works — try it for free for a month so you can understand the value proposition. Afterward, you’re more willing to pay for it.
> Borax is banned in the US

Borax is available at major retailers nationwide for purchase in-store.
> bad stuff carries linear risk

This is a straw man. I believe that a lot of stuff carries continuous risk going up from zero and increasing with dosage.
If a substance does not start with zero risk at zero dose, it is most likely not a toxin but an essential (i.e. vitamin A).

Very few substances are so rare that the discreteness might matter for practical purposes.

To portray the risk as binary, centered at zero is certainly wrong. You also would have a very hard time to find study subjects who have never been exposed to a few particles of smoke.
I am pretty resistant to sleeping pills, I did find Benadryl (Diphenhydramine) around 50mg to work very well for me. Not the best solution, but getting 4 hours of sleep is definitely worse, I've been there quite a few times.
That seems like a plausible mechanism.

My non-expert confidence doesn't count for much here, of course.
> and it can be hard to argue with them that vaccines are totally safe and effective for them (not talking about the population as a whole).

Right, and do you believe that a full release of the phase 3 trial data would convince them? I sure don't. Anti-vaxx is a fundamentally anti-expert stance, and most people have not logically convinced themselves into that position. Give them the full data set and I bet 9 out of 10 would ignore it, misinterpret it, read lies about it, or just assume that the data set is fake.
Funnily enough, on iOS the default behavior is to do a web search - luckily it's possible to disable.
that sounds more of a problem with all the random apps you install than being a "windows" issue. microsoft can take steps to mitigate it (eg. by making hiding system tray icons by default), but calling it a "poor UI choice" on their part doesn't make much sense. it's like blaming firefox for allowing sites with annoying banners and not having adblocker by default.
“ it’s not that absurd to worry about urban smoke outdoors contributing to urban pollution”

Where do you live that second hand smoke is a significant urban level pollutant?

Take a pack of cigarettes, 25g, divide it by 3 (your 30% of people are smokers) = 8.3 g per capita and burn it.

Now consider all the diesel per capita that is burned in this dystopian city of smokers.

No, we don't get to pretend these trucks have diesel particulate filters. Not if the city has 30% smokers. [1]

Anyway, at 8g/person, pollution controls wont save the argument - smoking is a negligible urban level pollutant.

[1] or propose a city with lots of smokers that has strict and enforced diesel rules. Tel Aviv? Israelis used to love to smoke.
You are forgetting the dozen other computers you are routing your request through in order to get to that walled garden, any one of which if it went down would route to a different computer so you could always get to that walled garden.

That's the decentralization of the web. And that decentralization still led to walled gardens, just like it will with Web3 because it's always in a corporations best interest to do so.
"This post is for paid subscribers."
On the morning of January 17 Japan time, my daughter and grandson were in a park near our home in Yokohama when she noticed that the clouds looked very unusual. She took some photos [1]. We speculated that the clouds might have been affected by the shockwave from the Tonga eruption.

Other people in Yokohama posted similar photos to Twitter [2, 3, 4].

[1] http://gally.net/miscellaneous/20220117_Yokohama_clouds/inde...

[2] https://twitter.com/hiboshi045/status/1482884882837966853

[3] https://twitter.com/mimikaki75/status/1483037087213375488

[4] https://twitter.com/YasuA_Yokohama/status/148287894217674752...
That video w/ Guthmiller in a Cessna 210 was great. That plane seats 6 on paper but the back seat was filled by an auxilliary gas tank. The cabin width is narrower than my old 1997 VW Jetta!! It's like crossing the northern Atlantic in an original VW Beetle!
How can we be sure that people with last name Cox aren't just 200% more likely to provide significant contributions to the field of statistics?
I'm not sure what that link is showing.

And what mechanism would you propose?
> simply skip some of the distance

My understanding as a lay person of the physics that allow for things like this, is that they require starting conditions that wouldn't produce a universe anything like what we actually live in, or require energy levels around the output of galaxy superclusters to be focused into planck lengths or such. "Technically not impossible" is different for physicists than to normal people ;-)
I think we can blame it on a poor imitation of what Apple does.

However even Apple has copied the atrocious flat UI fashion that has destroyed the ability of users to decipher what can be interacted with, and how. If I have to deal with another goddamned toggle that has reinvented the wheel and in so doing destroyed the ability to decipher the current state and what toggling will cause to happen... well I'll be very unhappy and then continue to eat the dog food because I have no other choice.
I've got the opposite problem here. I like showing all the active icons (although I also try to keep them to a minimum) and Windows 11 removed the option to always show all. Now any time you install something with a new icon, you have to go to the taskbar settings again and manually allow it to show.
I just want the clock on all monitors.
> Why did this happen?

UI/UX people need to make their mark to justify their salary, that's why.
There are links on this page [0] to proper reports on the cause of the 2003 blackout in eastern North America (apologies to the maritimes and Quebec)

0: https://www.ieso.ca/en/Corporate-IESO/Media/Also-of-Interest...
I do, but I'd say that was an okay design and that bloatware bundlers abused it. It was simple to use and made a lot of sense for your "always on" applications like AIM, but definitely didn't need to be occupied by an icon for your printer drivers.
I’m intrigued. Got any more info on this or something I can google?
On the other hand, Ann Frank was already breaking the laws of her time. And if you're ready to break the law, you can just as well break the encryption laws.
Applications have to explicitly add themselves to the tray, while a button in the taskbar is provided by default (there's some conditions on window styles and such which I won't bother to go into here).

The Win11 taskbar is like having only a systray with 25 icons in it.
I've heard it improved with Windows 11. It used to be the one think I pointed to when talking about the downward trajectory of Windows.
> Talking about taking away things that people like, like airplanes and red meat and gas stoves just get people up in arms.

Certain people will get up in arms regardless, partly due to certain people making up threats like 'someone is going to take away your ...!' But nobody here said that.
> essentially none of the designers use Windows

This is ridiculous.
https://archive.is/g7BWc
Good catch. If Roblox only uses consul for service discovery, things should continue to work, just slowly degrade over the hours/days. There should at least be one consul agent running on each physical hosts, and this consul agent has cache and can continue to provide service discovery functionality with stale data.

Dissecting this paragraph from the post-mortem...

> When a Roblox service wants to talk to another service, it relies on Consul to have up-to-date knowledge of the location of the service it wants to talk to.

OK.

> However, if Consul is unhealthy, servers struggle to connect.

Why? The local "client-side" consul agents running on each hosts should be the authoritative source for service discovery, not the "server-side" consul agents running on the 5 voter nodes.

> Furthermore, Nomad and Vault rely on Consul, so when Consul is unhealthy, the system cannot schedule new containers or retrieve production secrets used for authentication.

Now that's one very bad setup, similar to deploying all services in a single k8s cluster.
No safe level means one person a mile away is a problem.

I bet they would say that's absurd, with a straight face.
Probably very little. Without the Google brand, URL, and link from google.com the traffic would disappear.

Did you know Google News is actually just a front-end for RSS feeds? Most of the value is in their tagging by category and geographic region.

If you're interested in reading aggregated news, check out https://sumi.news, it's an alternative interface I built to read news on one page, one day at a time.
I want to throw in Tesla too. The minimal, buttonless dash is as dumb as the Windows 11 UI.
It won't if we don't let it.
WebUSB is not finalised in any way. It’s a WICG draft (draft means not finalised, and WICG means explicitly unofficial), with only one shipping implementation in browsers. (There’s also an implementation for Node.js, but I think that’s considered irrelevant.) My recollection of the rough processes is that to become a Candidate Recommendation (which is the first stage you could reasonably argue “finalised spec” corresponds to) it would need at least a second shipping implementation, and to be adopted by a working group.

As it stands, there’s no short-term prospect of a second implementation: Mozilla’s current position is that WebUSB is harmful because it’s super dangerous and the risks can’t be adequately explained, and is a tracking hazard <https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#webusb>, and WebKit have likewise consciously decided not to implement WebUSB for similar reasons (“due to fingerprinting, security, and other concerns, and where we do not yet see a path to resolving those concerns”) <https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/#anti-fingerprinting>.

That multiple browsers use the same engine and implementation is irrelevant for standardisation—otherwise Chromium would be the very definition of the standards. To show this even more clearly, WebSQL was scuttled because everyone used SQLite and there was no satisfactory way of specifying what would be permitted.

Speaking frankly here: as the post author and a “WebAssembly Advocadoer @Google”, you’re speaking from a position where authority will be assumed, but in this comment you expressed some very significant errors and presented a badly biased view. This is not good.
They did recommend different tools, that's my bad for not noticing it.

I do feel that it's a vert shallow read into the windows 11 task bar, and that it only really talks about the labels being gone, and icons being centered (which is configurable). The rest of the content is mostly hostory that has little to so with the actual subject.

There's no mention of other regressions (people complaining about weather being gone, not being able to move taskbar away from the bottom of the screen, right click menu being basically empty), no discussion about how those were or were not fixed. No discussion about improvements to the old task bar (I don't know if any exist).

The choice to focus solely on titles being gone, and on mentioning somewhat related history suggests that its a pretty rough write made for that 5$ fix, and suggests to me that the fix is incomplete and doesn't solve the rest of the problems.

The fix may be good, it may solve other issues, I have no problem with paying for stuff. But I do feel like I've read just a shallow article written with that purpose in mind. To drop the paid tool at the end.
I agree - could be clearer!
The article actually mentions ExplorerPatcher too. I experimented with several taskbar replacements and this is by far the best imo.
An elective tax system misses the point.

What you need are leaders with the countries best interests at heart.

How do we solve for that?
It's not the only way to get there, but it is the fastest way, and an important difference between large and small countries is the US doesn't have this problem.
Reminds me of my last job when an unexpected 1% drop in our team's primary goal metric would trigger VPs and directors to have us launch a full investigation into potential causes. But a similar unexpected increase, no one would bat an eye.

Similarly in the stock market, when things are going poorly, people are eager to understand what happened, so a "correction" is a comforting explanation that the underlying asset is still solid and it's just market dynamics at play. But when the stock markets go up unexpectedly, people are generally happy to accept their good fortune without thinking too much about it.
This also may suffer from an explosion of Brook's Law. So, now you're working less on "actual work" which means that for the organization to get similar amounts of stuff done, they need to hire more people... which means that a larger portion of the time is spent communicating and syncing up.
I actually worry you are undervaluing yourselves. $50 is fine for 10 regions as a data point from where I sit though I wouldn’t object to less
I actually don't have this issue.
My side project is BatteryBar, which uses the IDeskBand interface to show a bigger battery status display on the taskbar.

I found out that Windows 11 was being broadly distributed because I started getting dozens of support tickets a day asking why it stopped working after they upgraded to Windows 11.

Unfortunately the new taskbar doesn't expose any interfaces to officially be able to display anything on the taskbar, which is unfortunate.
Yes, but the comparison is not between the AC and a heat pump, but between an electric resistance heater and a heat pump. Heat pump's COP is greater than 100% as it takes less energy to heat the air inside than the energy of the heated air while a resistance heater is 100% so is less efficient. In other words: a 10K Watt resistance heater will consume 10 KWh in an hour, a 10K Watt heat pump will consume 2-5 KWh over the same time depending on the temperatures and construction.
Ok, so this light grey text and toggle means it's not selected, I assume? Click.

Oh, the text has now changed to the other option and the toggle is green, so that means the text is telling me what option is actually currently selected, whilst the toggle colour indicates which option the system thinks is equivalent to 'on'.

Yep, many interfaces I've come across require me to interact with the toggle to work out what the current setting is.
That example isnt allowed where I live at all. lol

Cant point your camera at public spaces.

But I get where you are coming from. Just isnt all that relevant to my live, I guess. Most things here go farther than the GDPR in those cases.
I have a triple monitor setup and my clock is on all 3? I have it set up that the tray icons (wifi etc) only show on my main display.
That is a terribly annoying website with their popups.
Would love to know what kind of approach you're taking for usage-based. Cold start every time, or some container/criu/VM suspend/resume magic?
David Chaum is the first person to propose and create an anonymous digital cash so far as I'm aware. I'm not finding overt politics in a brief search, but his general leanings and statements I do find seem to be strongly libertarian, away from centralisation and government monopolies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum

Chaum is one of the names mentioned in this Reason retrospective --- the publication itself being a Libertarian mouthpiece.

https://reason.com/video/2020/10/07/before-the-web-the-1980s...
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So we found it near Pluto, and it's now gone? What'll we get going 'there'.
They're trying to find clever ways to break Carrd and turn it into this lawless realm they heard of called MySpace.
I don't know where you are, but at least in the US, the banks that make the loans don't hold the debt; they sell it off almost immediately.
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It's a general design trend, most egregious on motor vehicles. the UI is designed to sell the product, not to empower the user. Cars have gaudy touch displays or ridiculous bedazzling arrays of lights and widgets. It looks amazing during the testdrive but unusable during the commute.

See also exercise equipment, kitchen appliances (large & small), AV equipment, etc.

In Windows 11's case it makes great demo screens but terrible productivity.
Win11 is yet to crash on me. However I had this weird bug when the last update disabled my laptop keyboard (Lenovo Legion 5). I actually reset Windows a couple of times before figuring out that uninstalling and reinstalling the particular update (along with installing an optional laptop firmware update) was the solution. Overall it was pretty annoying and time-wasting.
Why is this not the default in Windows?! I've been looking for something like this since I installed Windows 10
In long distance rf communication, radio waves are bounced (sometimes several times) off different regions in the ionosphere (https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/antennas-propagat...). Since the waves caused by the eruption apparently reached the ionosphere, (some) radio bands may be affected.
Here I was thinking I was the only one being driven insane
Even something like sending a text to the phone number attached to the account with a warning would be fine.
California Law Created a Marijuana Black Market
If you wanted to place a shipping facility that could provide the fastest delivery to the most people in a given state, you could try putting it at the population center.
Absolutely true, and I should not have conflated revenue with profits in my comment. Plausibly AirBnB and Uber won't have a significant cost of sales in the long run, but plausibly they will. I doubt they'll have retail-like 5% profit margins though, so the difference might be a factor of 2 or 3.
But then you've basically just made ReactOS again?
Staying true to the slogan: "Windows 10: the last version of Windows you'll ever need".
One that seems a lot more core to “old style” Windows to me was the labyrinthine dialog tunnels one had to traverse to change some settings, which persisted through XP and didn’t really start getting better until Vista/7. Half the secret to being “good with computers” back then was just remembering which branch of the cave system you needed to take to toggle a particular checkbox.
Access to online banking requires two-factor authentication, a one-time password or a challenge-response mechanism with a secret key on a smartcard.

Connecting to a USB device requires only a single click. That just requires an attacker making the user believe what he wants, by stressing the user or by misleading or conditioning the user about what it is.
It is not a more secure design than the UAC boxes in Windows Vista that users learned to "click be gone" by routine because they were annoying.

I was thrilled when I first heard about WebUSB because I had been looking for a way to configure USB device firmware using a web browser.

However, I learned that it has glaring security flaws:

* The web page bypasses the operating system's driver infrastructure, where VendorID/ProductID pair is used to look up only valid drivers. Some operating systems require USB device drivers to be signed. A web page requires only a click from the user.

* WebUSB allows web access even to devices that don't have explicit support for it. Older devices can have been designed under other pretences of security. Not all hardware engineers even know about WebUSB, so this applies to newer designs too.
This is already serious, because there are devices used for 2FA that connect via USB that could be exploited this way.

* A device can not control which of its interfaces that a web page can claim or not claim.

* WebUSB contains no authentication of the web page on the device's behalf. (There was some idea that it should have, but that was removed for convenience )

Not ready for prime-time IMHO.
That makes sense, they just pass the debit fee on to you. However e-check is an ACH transaction. I've never seen any online payment site that charges for e-check as I believe there isn't an individual transaction fee associated to ACH.

Just because your debit card is connected to checking, doesn't mean that if you pay by e-check it automatically invokes the debit fee. It's only if you pay via the debit method, eg if you don't want to give our your true account number for some [wrong] reason.

I am absolutely certain there is no charge as this is the one and only way I pay taxes, and like you I would mail a check if there were any fee at all attached to e payment.
But...but...but...rounded corners!

All seriousness aside, for a decade or more I've kept my Windows task bar over on the left-hand side of the screen, precisely because I can see words to describe what each running app is, rather than hieroglyphics and maybe a few letters (my main monitor is vertical, so not so much space along the bottom for full words). I guess this is another reason I don't want Win11.