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> Likewise, those who expect antitrust to solve problems unrelated to competition will be disappointed. Stronger antitrust enforcement, while needed, is not a substitute for badly needed regulations directed at reducing the political influence of corporations, protecting privacy and data security, and limiting the spread of disinformation.

This is wrong. The "political influence of corporations" comes from their size and vertical integration. Google has outsized influence in politics because it controls the dominant search engine and YouTube etc., which gives political influence to every other subsidiary of the same company in a way that would not occur if they were independent entities.

Privacy and security problems are proportional to size. Bigger entities attract stronger attacks (because the benefit to the attacker is larger) and then more people are compromised at once.

Misinformation is primarily a problem as a result of filter bubbles that prevent people from hearing the rebuttal to incorrect arguments. Diversity of information distribution addresses this.
> If you're doing TDD exclusively with unit tests I find it falls flat for pretty much everything except complex, logical code with no state and simple inputs and outputs.

This is absolutely true. And it’s not a coincidence I embraced TDD at the same time I was learning FP. And I continue to generally prefer both TDD and a FP style no matter what stack I’m working in.
"they'd have to personally kill me to take the money"
I mean the cops could just pull you over and take it. Unless you were willing to make the cops kill you over $9,800?

I think you are confusing state sponsored violence and street violence. The state can always get you, unfortunately. Crypto does try and address this, to varying degrees of success.
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You might want to apply it to the scaling of web services rather than the fine details of the application itself. I think you would want to focus on the areas where you can reduce your variables to simple numerics.
That was my issue with the article as well:

"Fixing this issue is a simple matter of making pkexec check that argc is at least one. But there are surely other programs out there containing similar assumptions."

That's _not_ an assumption. That's just a bug, in a setuid binary.
You mean what Apple allows you to do, I believe, unless you want to jailbreak it and lose warranty (and provided that a jailbreak exist for your specific model).
See also - slaves being counted as 3/5ths of a person…
Thanks for sharing your experience. Do you run it in bitmap mode? If not, how’s the perf hit feel (I’m using spinners)? Does it have any ability to correct errors, or does it just cause the drive to drop when they appear? (I hoped it would write the corrected value back during an mdadm array check.) Does it reduce drive capacity at all? If not, I’m thinking maybe I could convert my array to it, one drive at a time, verrrry slowly.
I have had my smartphone on vibrate-only since pretty much the beginning of having a smartphone, as I find it much less distracting than audio notifications, and much easier to ignore. I have almost all notifications turned off, except for calls and texts, and notifications from my security system. It's that last thing that prevents me from being able to leave my phone out of sight all the time.
I don't think any clinical trials claimed they would "cUrE COvId" for sure. IIRC they showed more than 70+% efficiency in preventing infections, so it seemed like our best weapon against covid. People then hoped it could end the pandemic, and exaggerated claims have been made by a lot of people, I guess, and maybe some governments. The clinical trials didn't claimed that.
Con Kolivas (maintainer of BFS) had at one time some tools.
It's sad but it seems Austria has totally lost its way. The vaccine mandate is only one part of it. In Austria corruption is everywhere - without good connections, business in Austria is pretty much impossible. For the past 4 years authoritarian parties were in power (currently the green and conservative party but both are authoritarian). Also, they plan crazy things like a crypto taxation that concerns transactions made in the past (so buys/sells that were done before the law becomes effective). It's pretty crazy what's going on there.
Yup, as of now we are leveraging Nodejs for the technical preview. We also have another preview using embedded v8 for inline transforms, that is your transform runs in-process and apply() boils down to a function call. We are still evaluating other runtimes like wasmer as well, v8 was initially chosen for its maturity and community support.
What you describe for JSON is already the case in Go; the stdlib json parser does simply throw out any extra fields on deserialisation.
That makes perfect sense. My comment was more pointed at those who believe people who have the option to get university degrees and enter white collar careers should instead go into trades, because they would make more money that way. I have seen it often that engineers making 100k are lamenting on HN about studying engineering, saying that if they had gone the trades route they would have earned the same or more from an earlier age and be better off financially. Every thread about university education is full of people advocating steering young people to choose trades over university, because instead of starting their life with a load of debt, they can start earning a good salary at a young age.

And I am sure the above are true for some people going to trades. But unless the average tradesperson's earnings improve significantly, I wouldn't recommend it as a general advice.
Ask HN: Products that you loved but were shutdown
Most VC-backed businesses fail because they can't scale beyond a point.However they can be great ideas for a sustainable medium-sized business. I am trying to move away from BigTech to pivot into an SMB entrepreneur and acquire a company that needs a new home. If you have a favorite product that shut down in the recent past - I would love to get your idea and reach out to the company and get on rescue mode. Thanks!
'The Web is a Casino' sounds like an amazing title for a polemic.
Zoning existed in the 1970s also.

> Outside major metros, minimum setback rules, minimum size rules, and myriad other policies conspired to make the average new house twice as large as they were before, while families on average shrunk.

Outside major metros, the economy isn't as hot and demand is tapered back significantly. In cities that have poor economies, housing prices are also cheap. In places that are extremely dense (NYC) with hot economies, housing is still expensive. All I can tell from this is "popularity = high prices", it isn't clear that you could build enough housing to satisfy demand in a hot economy because more people might make the economy even hotter (attracting even more people).
At the outset of the pandemic it sounds like irrational behavior, knowing what I did at the time. After vaccination though and assuming she's wearing a mask in crowded areas its a pretty calculated risk and one she should be comfortable with.
If you can be manipulated by ads to be a terrorist I guess you have greater problems than tracking. In this case I'd say it's better for the public if these people are keep getting tracked.
Aka, sacrificial lambs
It will certainly be a regional phenomenon. Facebook will become blocked and/or uncool in some country and it will spread. Also generational, the younger you are the more tolerance for constantly trying new things will be. I don't see my mid sixties mother ever abandoning her facebook quilting groups or her chats with her cousins, but her kids and her grandkids will eventually move on to something else. Just like AOL it will shamble on shedding engagement (user numbers can be juked and what constitutes an 'active user' in their shareholder reports will constantly be relaxed to prop up their egos) until one day it's a footnote.
Thanks! Good article. I didn't understand purchase orders in particular until deep into B2B stuff. It was just something I encountered until selling deals like $10k+. I still think they are a bit strange.
Now build a truck with MRI in the back and drive to where it's most needed.

They already do this with DEXA body scans.

Examples: https://bodyandbone.com/mobile-dexa-services https://body-comp.com/testing/mobile-dexa/ https://www.bodyspec.com/
Standard practice for any deal where there's a revenue share. Including all the penalties etc if you're off by 5%
>I disagree.

I dont think we disagree.

Like I wrote in another post, most on HN couldn't understand the difference between placement ad on Google Search Engine and Google Ads Network. And suggested we should ban all "tracking ads". And later all ads. I explicitly ask them and suggest what you just wrote. That there could be good ads, and they, by majority disagree. This isn't just on HN, it is pretty much across the whole tech industry. Benedict Evans wrote a lot about this [1] and on Twitter. We even went to ask people offline to make sure we are not in an online bubble. But so far the results suggest otherwise. Especially with Tracking [2].

[1] https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/5/13/apples-ads...

[2] https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1387414650443141120...
that's because it is psuedo-scientific gibberish
Yeah, this is the real question. I'm sure I could program an AI agent to respond to (dis-)incentives in a fuzzy way. Is it consciously experiencing pain and pleasure at that point? The answer would be "no" unless we could prove it.
analogies are like shortcuts: a good one gets everyone there quicker, everybody is happy, and you might even been thought clever. But a bad one gets you nowhere, or back where you started if you are lucky, tired and grouchy for the waste of time.
Also an account can only downvote once it has amassed a certain level of upvotes. It sounds like the Twitter downvote will be open to everyone when it is fully released, which would make it a lot easier to abuse.
With Amazon's "Hire to Fire" going on PLUS remote work, i wonder if there is a market opportunity for a recruiting firm to offer that as a service.

"Here is a dev good enough to get through your screens and panels, they will be keeping their actual job, but will make enough appearances to pull the secondary salary for whatever period time you need before your team is required to lose someone to attrition"
An analogy is shorthand for: here is something relatively complicated. We can look at it with the same model that we have agreed upon for this other thing.

If the two things are similar enough in the ways that the model applies, then it's good. Otherwise, it's not.
In what way does it guide discussion? I think the discussion climate is pretty good here, but in some other communities I see that downvotes only allow one kind of opinion to be heard - and this is not about politics or something controversial, it's anything, including sports. People upvote what they want to hear.
the article says thats 10% of methane emissions.

Good progress but not enough.
I thought it was because YouTube was butthurt about the dislikes on its own YouTube rewind garbage.
Apparently people prefer blog posts to docs. This is not a problem of course, until you need to either debug (hence understand what you're doing at depth) or build something non-trivial.
"2013 hipster caricature"

"largely irrelevant to your life a decade later."

hey, 2013 was about a decade ago, you nailed it
Oh, yes please. Getting rid of Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp would be such a boon. They are so dominant in Europe that not having them is a serious social handicap, but I stubbornly refuse to let Facebook spy on me, which unfortunately is required to use either.
...and humans being humans, it's not going to the same 10% year by year. Going through a rough patch in your personal life? Well, your divorce/dealing with a sick child or parent can have a PIP as a chaser.

For a company that's vaunted for it's long-view philosophy, it's a terribly short-sighted policy.
What a beautiful home and and setting. I was curious about a couple of design choices given the environment though:

Wouldn't the flat roof be problematic in area with significant snow accumulation?

Wouldn't the amount of glass also be problematic in terms heating efficiency?

Would a home like this require significant maintenance? As fantastic as that roof is, wouldn't it also require constant landscaping? Similarly with the pool, I'm wondering if maintaining a pool in the forrest with no barrier or fencing like this would be almost a daily undertaking.
When it works, it is chronological. It was just broken for a few years there (seems to work OK these days, at least for me).

In the behavioral science parlance, I think this is called a 'nudge'.
Typical Mind Fallacy

https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/typical-mind-fallacy
My completely uneducated opinion on this, is that our consciousness is an emergent property of our subconscious, and that our subconscious is an emergent property of the physics of our brain’s electrical signals.

This opinion is almost certainly wrong, but it’s helped me while thinking about my own mind and experiences.
People prefer a phone with a store curated by Apple.
Consoles are a super interesting comparison. In principle, I agree that they should have to be open too.
On the other hand, consoles' hardware is nearly always subsidized by expected future software royalties, while Apple makes a lot of profit just by selling the hardware alone.
MS network again!!
MIT tech review

C&EN
My basic rule is that analogies are great for a sympathetic audience and bad for an antagonistic one. If you're trying to illuminate something to someone who wants to understand your point, an analogy is a great shortcut to building a tangible architecture in their mind. But if the other person has an opposing viewpoint and you're trying to dismantle that and replace it with yours, analogies usually end up just moving the goalposts in the argument.
Ironically, I think they're looking for (and finding) a life with more interconnection by rejecting one with "such intense and obligatory interconnection" as you put it well.

I guess it's the natural evolution of things:

1. we seek connectedness.
2. we invent a set of reductionist mechanisms for achieving connectedness
3. we discover that the reductionist aspect really matters and the connectedness we've achieved is hollow and fake
4. we (or rather our heirs since we're too stubborn to change) adapt to the new reality and build some degree of real connectedness on top of the old and a warped version of the new.

"warped" meaning either "adapted to actual needs" or "perverted to serve unintended purposes" depending on whether your interests are being served or not.
There isn't going to be any reaction because they can't crank it up to 50 or 70 percent because developers would leave. Which means it's not a monopoly.
> Rails is still good, but I find it has a distinct "ASP.net classic" feel to it now - Too many versions, too much change,

Well Rails is gonna celebrate 20 in 2 years, so yes there's quite a lot of versions and changes over the years, that's inevitable for every long running project I think.
In my experience the good/bad-ness of analogies is often more about where you're trying to use them.

When used in education/teaching to simplify complicated concepts, analogies are invaluable.

When used in debates where you're trying to convince someone of something, analogies are often abused to subtly (or not so subtly) shift the thing that is being talked about, so as to make your argument sound more convincing.
Using .ppam files to wrap executable content
HN downvotes are very measured. Comments can still be seen, the number isn't shown, and you have to have a matured account to even have the ability to downvote.
That can be useful; when explaining something complex to someone lacking the same actual expertise, an analogy they can understand without it is potentially helpful.
Why? 27% is charged in many places. Digital and physical.
This article really resonates with me but not because I've been down the same path. Back in 2011 I learned Ruby as a hobby language and from the beginning I fell in love. Probably because of my OOP background as a programming hobbyist since the 80s. A few years later I did a career pivot away from Ux into programming and after a brief stint in Java, my research just naturally funneled me to the Javascript ecosystem and full-stack development. Thanks Ryan Dahl!

But I wasn't happy in Javascript. It wasn't because I was stuck in my OOP brain. I didn't fight it. It just took a long time to embrace declarative programming. In 2018 I attended a bootcamp (Dev Mountain) and learned a single stack that, while opinionated, didn't bring me any fulfillment as a programmer. Mainly for the reasons you described. Too many choices. Not enough opinion. Too much flavor (fatigue) of the month. But mainly, I don't have a lot of joy like I felt when I was doing Ruby.

Fast forward to 2022. My company (a small 3 man development team) has been working on a greenfield project for three years. A massively complex project for such a small team, but finally we are done. Yay. But boy has the journey been wild in terms of our stack evolution. The thought of building a side project in the JS stack I am comfortable with just doesn't sound fun. I long for the warm fuzzies of Ruby. This has almost inspired me to build my passion side-project in Rails to get my mojo back. Thank you.

For anyone that is interested, my current stack is React (Tailwind CSS)/GraphQL (Apollo and Postgraphile)/Express/PostgreSQL with docker CI/CD and AWS lambdas.
> they don’t have a front-end framework of their own because they missed the boat

True, but they do have TypeScript though.
By 2009, Apple and Amazon already had more credit cards on file than any other company in the US if not the world. In Apple’s case because of iTunes, before the App Store and Amazon because Amazon. Why would you use FB for payments when you were probably either shopping on Amazon, Apple or EBay using PayPal?
> The government also has agencies dedicated to maintaining monopoly. It is done through patents, copyright, trade secret laws.

Without those laws the big companies would steal and copy every small business idea or IP with no impunity. The laws protect small companies much more than big companies. Of course big companies sits on a lot of patents so they are still powerful, but not as powerful as if they could just abuse espionage etc as much as they wanted.

For example, what do you think would happen with the harry potter books? Others would just print their own copies, write their own books with the same characters and names, and the company with the biggest marketing budget to throw around would win and sell the most. That doesn't seem very good for the little guy to me, rather it would make it basically impossible for the little guy to compete.
Lost Emails in Gmail
I was recently looking for an email that was sent by me 4 years ago. But when I looked at my emails, none of my emails before 2019 has been shown. I made sure I was doing it correctly, and no luck. The email I was looking for is extremally important. Any tips?
> usually at significant personal expense

IME, it's usually at no expense. Many/most of the things I've changed are merely a change of habit; some are easier and better. For simple example, I wash my clothes on a delicate cold cycle - the clothes come out just as clean, and suffer less wear, and my energy bill goes down. Overall, changes like that have reduced my energy bill by 70% with almost no impact on my lifestyle.

> We're expected to shave off a few kilos of CO2 here and there, usually at significant personal expense, while nothing is being done about these releases that a) could be avoided relatively easily b) have a much bigger impact.

The fact that someone else should do more has nothing to do with the impact and responsibility of what I do. Powerful people can do awful things, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't and won't do my best to do what's good and excellent. If we accept the lowest common denominator as our standard .... Why would you follow the worst of others. Look for the best, the most inspiring.

It's trendy to mock collective and individual action, including democracy itself - to give all our power, good or bad, to corporations (and mockery isn't an argument, just a signal that people lack one). They are happy to hear it.

> go vegan for a month [1] or make similarly impactful changes just so companies can continue venting methane.

That's not why.
It's the science of marketing aka population-scale mindfuckery. It's a solid science. It works. It rules the world. And you, yes you, are clutched within its iron claw, oblivious.
A friend inside my company was telling me that they can't have an app written for them in C# because it's NOT JAVA. That .NET stuff is too new and trendy! And probably insecure!

I swear, my Fortune 150 company is going to continue to do waterfall development in Java by outsourced teams until our products are no longer relevant, and we're bought for spare parts.
That added dopamine hit for downvotes and intensify the bubbles for users is only way they can compete better with Facebook's engagement.
Visual CMS for Remix based on React components
This exact product is mentioned in the article as evidence for clinical/market demand. It also shows precedence for FDA approval of a pretty similar instrument for clinical diagnostics. Although, its interesting to note that the hyperfine MRI (at least ostensibly) seems to do the same thing in a smaller/more portable form factor.
Cancer Rates by Country
They just stopped doing those Rewind videos entirely.

They tried a lot harder on the Biden admin videos, first culling downvotes, but it was still overwhelmed.

A tracker was made during the original culling: https://81m.org/78/
If anyone's curious, the correct response to a fire, presuming you couldn't immediately extinguish it, is to pull the fire alarm and evacuate the building.
Ask HN: Would an office with no mandatory work hours function?
Long story short, I started out as a freelancer making small websites, and now I'm managing a small team of 4 other people (Designer, Social Media Manager/Marketer, Backend Developer, Front End Developer).

The social media manager joined recently, and we all have been working from home till now. I'm in the process of opening an office, and I'm thinking of implementing the following rules:

1) No work hours. You can work whenever you want, for any period of time you want.

2) You can work from wherever you want. You can go full remote, come to the office daily, or anything in between.

3) You have to come to the office every Monday for an hour or 2 for a meeting. You choose to leave or stay after that.

What's important is that you meet deadlines. Everyone has a specified set of tasks, so it would be very clear when someone is lagging behind.

The previous employee inside me is very excited about this system, but the manager in me feels that this is a naive approach. I fear that trying it out might make us miss some deadlines or produce low quality products, which would be a hit to our reputation.

Anyone has experience with working with such a system?
> No government in the world can debase the value of Bitcoin

A government can't, but a cartel of miners can and they do every time they mint bitcoins via mining rewards and they won't stop at 21 million.
Unless you live in CT or SC writing to these senators is a waste of time. Write to the senators which represent your state.
Uuuh, things are gonna get interesting!
Putting on my tinfoil hat here, if this goes through I forsee that we'll see a lot of fearmongering about malware in the near future, and even some well publicized cases of malware infecting people who go outside of the established app stores.
Never have obligations (loans, credit cards, etc.) and assets at the same institution.

Neither side can resist the temptation to use the other side to "resolve" disputes.
There's an extension to show downvote count again.