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> Demo of the Canon Cat computer released in 1987 with 'leap' feature [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29423545 - Dec 2021 (1 comment)

> Leap Technology (keyboard vs. mouse on a Canon Cat machine, ca 1987) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22042900 - Jan 2020 (1 comment)

Wow, thanks! I did miss that story (same video in both HN discussions) which is very relevant to my interests.

Watching the video, I find that the way I move around code in Emacs is very similar to the “Leap” technique in the Canon Cat, with exactly the benefits they claim. I even have a dedicated “Leap” thumb key in my keyboard, a programmable Dygma Raise (https://dygma.com/) where I mapped one of the thumb keys to the “Find” keycode, and then that in Emacs to incremental search.

It is still limited to the current buffer, whereas the Canon Cat’s Leap seems to work across documents. I hadn’t thought of that but there are ways to do it in Emacs, for instance searching interactively in all open buffers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2641211/emacs-interactiv...
The large majority of users cannot make well informed security risk decisions like this. Engineers should do the right thing and help these users. In the same way, I can't make some meaningful risk assessment for using a bridge or riding an elevator. Civil Engineers don't just get to say "well, if users are concerned about the safety of my bridge then they can make a different choice so I'm going with the stuff I personally like working with." Why do Software Engineers get away with this?

Outside of small hobbyist projects, the industry has an obligation to provide users with safe software.
I believe there will always be some people cheering from the side, not directly contributing. But they're a useful barometer for the current weather. And for some time now we knew a change is coming. Who knows if the Rust kernel modules would've happened without so many people reminding us that we don't have to suffer from the same bug classes forever.
What I would love to see in the future is for email addresses to be like phone numbers, they transfer with you as you move to different email providers along with your data. Whether you're using a public domain or your own custom domain.

It would be nice to start by finding a way to allow email@domain.xyz ownership in a decentralized way.
Those were just a few examples to spark the imagination, not categorical demands for everyone, and there are indeed many caveats.

Furthermore, even though I did address individuals in the above points, going after overconsumption needs a system change and a big political struggle, and is not something that can realistically be changed with individual consumption choices.

But keeping in mind that saving the planet is mostly a political struggle, individuals can change the commonsense and what's considered normal.
Do you need a cookie to do what you ought?
You shouldn't have one. The grass breaks down if you have your grass mowed to a proper height. Your lawn won't look like a golf course though. which is a good thing, golf courses are an environmental disaster.
How odd, your website gives me "ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH" on Win64 > Chrome.
The manual says we prefer texting ;)
I had this reaction to the title, but reading the piece after I found it to be general points for all interactions among people rather than particular instructions for interacting with you (which I agree would be off-putting).
I think they're reading the tea leaves and proactively locking in (or locking out) a variety of services and behaviors before the various jurisdictions they do business in clamp down. If you know that severing advertising revenue from various products is a probable penalty some time in the future you combat that now by reducing costs (no more infinite storage) and increasing non–advertising revenues. If you know that the "cost" of hosting petabytes of stale data is a relentless stream of GDPR and CCPA complaints and potential fines, you start to factor that cost in in addition to the personnel and capital costs and adjust service levels appropriately.

If you review the history of the tech industry there's many examples of high–flying companies failing to adapt quickly to changes in revenue composition. IBM’s stumbles in the early 1990s, for example, were set in stone by a shift away from leasing mainframes to selling mainframes in the early 1980s (which juiced profits for the 1980s but gave customers a reason to look for alternatives just as the PC and workstation market was ramping up).
> Not so fast, in areas where the bug can be phrased as basic compatibility with a recognized standard it is often easier to get Google (or Apple, or ..) to flinch

Unfortunately, Like the parent I've been following couple of bugs for years which Google didn't 'flinch' yet; 'Chromium on Linux not respecting prefers-color-scheme when dark GTK theme is set'[1] is one such bug.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=998903...
of course not! why would i?
If the worst thing that happens to you in the climate apocalpyse is having to live in a smaller apartment, consider yourself lucky.
> This goes back to when caller ID was introduced (80s?). There was a lot of opposition.

The opposition was fascinating. Nobody predicted spoofing, of course, but I saw teary-eyed people crying on publicly televised hearings in NYC arguing both sides of Caller ID!

- One women's group was against it. "We don't want women who are in safe homes or moved in with relatives to have to reveal their location when having to call their abusive partners"

- One women's group was for it: "We want to know who calls us and says obscene things."

Total craziness!

See: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Caller_ID_Technology/84... for some of the hearing minutes
If existing employees are already using Windows, then no, it's not reasonable.
Unfortunately the default is like you say.

However all C/C++ compilers have options to detect and report or trap on all common errors, but few people use these compiling options, because of a usually baseless fear that they might reduce the performance more than acceptable.

In the cases when the performance is indeed too low for correct execution, the complaints should be directed to the CPU manufacturers who are guilty of this (by neglecting the architectural features needed for handling many kinds of exceptions, which were considered mandatory in older CPUs), instead of improving the performance of the programs by cheating, i.e. by omitting the error checks and by accepting that the programs may have horribly wrong behaviors in seldom cases.
The only investment in yourself that matters is your health

After failing to take care of mine the way I should, I needed weightloss surgery a couple years ago

Don't get to where I did - invest in quality food and activity

You'll thank me for it later
Yes! I have an electric mower as well as an electric weed whacker that takes the same batteries. My favorite aspects are that they don't vibrate the hell out of my RSI-inflamed elbow and don't cover me in 2-stroke exhaust. Yes, my electric yard tools are superior in every aspect to a gas ones. I've even managed to convince some of my neighbors to switch to electric and the resulting reduction in neighborhood noise levels has been GREAT!

I don't have a leaf blower. Leaf blowers are stupid noisy and not any faster than a good rake.
Thanks, that's useful feedback. Will use it for overhauling the doc.
> The right answer probably does include public infrastructure at a vast scale, but, our government cannot afford it…

I'm not convinced of that. If the will were there, I am confident we could totally afford it.
I think it's wonderful that there's an explosion of new exciting languages, it can only improve the quality of all our tools. I for one am looking forward to replacing my eons of MATLAB experience with Julia.

But I wish there was more of a convention in the F/OSS community that if your software isn't written in something universal (C, C++, shell and maybe python), then it also comes with a container of all that's necessary to run it.

It's frustrating to pollute my nicely packaged managed system with hundreds of locally installed python modules just to run one tool. Or, in this case, backport and rebuild a language specific build tool simply to compile. :)
Then again HN would automatically remove the 'how' from the title, making it even worse.
Why Indian startup founders are flocking to Chile
Oh I agree, but the law was confusing enough that an official bungled the charges.
Physicians want to be accessible only via specific channels, to protect their time and to ensure there is consistent process across patients. Most of the time as a patient you can’t call them directly, unless you work through the page operator or you plan ahead with them on predefined phone number and time.
1. I am cranky on Wednesdays. I'm sorry. I'll try to do better – but Thursday or Tuesday are probably better.
Then this means induction cooktops are not a good solution yet because most Americans will keep their mid range gas stoves that work well instead of getting an expensive induction one to do the same.
>but in several years of driving a Bolt, I have literally never had to charge it away from home

That just means that haven't been more than about 120 miles away from home in 2 years. An especially easy feat when a large part of that was COVID shutdowns. In general, easy access to rapid charging on the road is a luxury of urban & suburban areas. That's where most people live, so electric will be okay for most people, but this is a bit too much cheerleading on the subject of charging convenience if the comparison is ICE. We're not there yet.

Also the Bolt may not be the best example to use in the context of how electric can be better. I agree with the sentiment, but Chevy had to recall every Bolt ever made prior to the 2022 model year due to battery issues, requiring batteries to be replaced. It still hasn't replaced all of them. During this time, to avoid fires, owners were temporarily advised to only charge to 90% and not go below 70 miles of range, nerfing range to about 165 miles. Also not charge overnight in a garage and in some cases park 50 feet away from other vehicles. A firmware update has since removed those last restrictions in favor of a semi-permanent range nerf to 210 miles until the battery is replaced. Yes, we can do better than "same, but electric" but we're not quite there yet in a lot of ways, and the Bolt excellently demonstrates some of them. It seems like in terms of battery safety engineering we're at the Ford Pinto stage, but maybe catching up faster?
Try to bring it down to 10 lines or less. Your presumption to the attention and memorization of this document is way over the top. If you feel like you have to communicate something like this in writing you could at least be charitable and pare it down to the absolute minimum.

Other than that: the whole thing comes across as hopelessly naive with respect to how humans interact, it misses the fact that people that dislike each other on a personal level may be forced to work with one another and it misses the 'office politics' angle.

If I was assigned to a team to work with you and you handed me this document I would in turn hand in my resignation with reference to your document and that would be that, any organization that tolerates this kind of bs is not one that I would want to work for.
Neither of these are solutions available to an actual user of these products though. I worked with these things constantly for years and even the high end commercial line ones make the squeal after a few months of heavy use.

Used to be able to hear it but can't anymore so either they all got better the last few years or I aged out of being able to hear it.
You read that right about the shop owners. One of such device: https://mosquitoloiteringsolutions.com/
> ”Downsides of induction burners: bottom of pan heats up very quickly, but heat propagates through the pan slowly, so food is prone to burn”

Have you tried a thicker, heavier pan? A good quality induction cooker should heat reasonably slowly and maintain a constant temperature if you set it to, say, 1/3 or 1/2 power.

I’ve been using a friend’s one recently and found it to be much easier to maintain a steady temperature than with my old electric cooktop.
this would be actually entertaining and won't sound like a demand
I really like personal manuals. My partners seem to appreciate them, too.
Memory safety is certainly a topic worth talking about, but on HN it always ends with the same conclusion: use rust. Is that really the only solution?

I've never seen anything quite like the rust community. They're hell-bent on recruitment. More so than any other language platform I've seen. Personally, I'm just sick of it. It's fine if you don't feel the same way. I was just voicing my frustrations.
If you want to relocate more people into cities in an increasingly-WFH world, you're going to have to make city living vastly less expensive, increase the quality of the housing, as well as dealing with the crime, homelessness, noise, and other difficult problems. It's not going to happen, is it?

People won't accept being pressured to relocate into grim megacities while leaving the rest of the planet mostly uninhabited.
Reddit has a similar feature built in. How is it used? Trolls post something inflammatory and then block people that post dissenting opinions. In the end all that’s left is a comment chain normalizing whatever hate or drivel got posted.
The US is not homogenous in the technology used to vote - running elections is left to the states, and different states use different polling technologies.

The systems we have for voting in Washington DC seem to be a best-of-both-worlds approach. There are touchscreen kiosks that you use to make your choices, then the kiosk prints out a properly marked paper ballot that it asks you to verify. Then you take your ballot over to the normal scanning machines. You can also request an unmarked ballot and fill it by hand if you prefer.

The kiosks can provide a wide range of assistive tech (larger fonts, instructions in a variety of languages, and headphone jack for audio prompts). They also help ensure you do not miss a question - you must explicitly choose "skip" - and they help ensure you select between 0 and N choices in choose-N questions. Also they print a clearly-marked ballot which helps avoid ambiguities like if somebody partially fills a circle by hand.

And best of all, the end product is still a physical, auditable piece of paper.
I primarily use cast iron for cooking, and it does help with the hysteresis, but I still have a problem with the bottom of the pan being way too hot and tending to burn food.
Ask HN: European starting internship in Bay Area, where to go?
Hi. I'll be starting an internship in Redwood City, CA for 6 months, starting this summer. I'm from western Europe and pretty excited to live in the US for a while. Looking to meet some cool (tech) people while I'm there, any tips for where to look for houses, etc?
It sounds crazy, but our CentOS 6 servers (which run 2.6.32) using CloudLinux 6 ELS (which provides kernel hot patching for vulnerabilities like this, plus continued security updates for Apache, PHP, MySQL, Glibc, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, etc through 2024) are our most reliable ones. It's given us a couple years more breathing room to let the Alma/Rocky debate settle and work on migrating legacy applications to newer platforms without having to stress about being on an unsupported release.
Quick note: I think the post is from November 2019 and that the title should probably be updated to reflect that.
I think it's actually [Euro English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English)
You will, at some point, have to internalise the idea that life is going to start sucking more from now on. There is no alternative here, it will suck. This can not be avoided.

And you need to take on your own share of that suckiness to help out. Refusing to do so means you are pushing more burden onto everyone else, and that is nothing but pure selfishness.
Bookmarking for another platform or another time. Some twitter interfaces have a bookmark affordance and some do not (the web doesn't, at least in my cohort).

These alternative uses is why people say often in their bio that "likes" do not imply endorsement, but it's so common to say that that I didn't even mention it on my bio, though of course it's still the case.
>It means the employee can leave, or be terminated, for any reason without legal repercussions in that state.

Just to be clear, for any LEGAL reason. "At-will" in no way negates statutory rights such as anti-discrimination law or refusal to commit illegal acts. Retaliation against certain protected acts is forbidden. Also, like almost everything under state law there is significant variety even within a given category. There are many states which are at-will overall but also have state level exceptions for things like public policy (this is where whistle blowing can fall under, though that involves some complicated questions too), implied covenants, etc. Finally, at-will is just a legal default, someone could still negotiate a contract that required some different higher level of cause.

So as always, need to consult the specific state law and contract in question unless it's a clear violation of something federal like the Civil Rights Act.
As an Australian, I would take "same but electric". I'd also take a power outlet in my apartment garage (which the building manager says they cannot install).
I interpreted it as the author and car owner had fear uncertainty and doubt, about what the tracker was for. As we probably all did when clicking the title.
And they dispelled it.

The case they investigated was one that came to them, from one of their own, they explain that.

Research costs time and money.
I don't think you should _expect_ that donors money is spent, when after investigating this isolated case, nothing too nefarious was found. As you say, geolocating vehicles is not new or novel.

It's a good write up of the work that was done, and the thought process, engaging and short, and as I mentioned above, you don't always want a spoiler in the title.
It was turned off by the entity paying for the service, and that choice is being ignored in the ever growing search for more personal data. Title’s perfectly accurate IMO.
SpaceX will have stopped manufacturing new Crew Dragons before Boeing's Strarliner concludes its first successful test flight [1].

[1] https://spacenews.com/boeing-starliner-test-flight-planned-f...
lmao holy shit kenji
I have a rule in my email account. If it includes the word “unsubscribe” it gets sorted into a folder that gets deleted after 14 days. I manually review that folder every now and then to explicitly mark all of them spam. I would never sign up for any kind of email list to begin with, so it’s spam.
What I did when I needed to bridge the gap: https://www.stlfinder.com/3dmodels/milwaukee-to-ryobi-adapte...
We aren't a big enough team. The resources to do such a thing would mean less time focused on customers.

Maybe after another doubling we will have these options available. We should be a perfect fit at this stage for a hosted solution. Github is making themselves unviable for a company at this stage (low $XX million ARR)
Exactly, they should default to turning it off, not on.
This is written by the same guy who wrote Helpful, an enhancement package for the Emacs Help buffer. I highly recommend checking out Helpful if you haven’t seen it. https://github.com/Wilfred/helpful
Mine has very accurate temperature control, but if I'm not using cast iron (which changes temperature more slowly), then it's prone to hysteresis. Also, just because it has accurate temperature control doesn't mean that the preset temps are actually useful. I found one burner that uses an infrared thermometer and is adjustable to +/- 1F, but it costs over $1,000 for a single burner.
> The users never turned off tracking. Their organization admin did so for them. Now users have to go do it themselves.

In some countries, this may put the company in a rough spot legally, and it seems fairly clear the motivation is "we at Google want more tracking, even if the organization paying for the service does not".
I won't hold back (as you asked): it seems to me that the most likely reason someone would write something like this is if they had a lot of bad experiences that they ascribe to failures in the principles described in the document.
I think it's unlikely that most people would read this, or even if they did that they would use it to guide their interactions with you.

The document also makes you sound like a condescending person to me (though it's difficult to judge without knowing the greater context).

If my analysis is correct, a different way around the bad experiences is to detach from them and learn to recognize the unfortunate situations as they come up early on. But if they are too frequent the problem could be your attitude.
Wish it were so simple. I (and my partner, an Urban Planning graduate!) had the exact same opinion as you until half a year ago my partner finally found a job out of school... in a small municipality. So we moved away from our very compact city of Toronto.

The reality is just different here. We're not going to bike everywhere on the highway in Ontario in the winter, when it's -20C with windchill. We can't even get the government to bring internet to every street, much less bike lanes, street lighting, better infrastructure. My partner is really trying to make change at city hall, but it's just... difficult.

And of course, we'd love to have kept living in Toronto, but it's completely unaffordable and this is where the job was. And thousands if not millions of other folks are living in similar realities. Perhaps we could convince everyone who lives in small towns to move to the city, but the city is already a difficult enough place to live.

We should do everything we can as individuals to make this better, but that "everything" is getting the local government to actually do something to make biking a real possibility. Until then, blanket statements like yours are just humblebrags about either your city, your situation, or your amazing willpower.
>Imagine going into a restaurant and saying "I really don’t enjoy a medium rare steak please make it medium well" and having the chef say "ok fine but medium rare steak is the best way to enjoy it so I made it medium rare despite what you previously explicitly told me enjoy".

Alternative: Imagine people expect the waiter to always know what they want when they walk in the door and say "I want steak with the usual" but the waiter doesn't know what the usual is. And it's because you, the customer (or your "dad", the workspace admin), has told the waiter not to remember you once you leave the restaurant each time. You don't really know you did this, you just had some friend from the EFF tell you "Waiters should never remember you!" and so you went along with it.

People probably expect Google to "just know" what they're looking for when you search, and search quality goes down when search history can't be used to refine results. So Google is putting it back in peoples' faces saying "I am pretty sure you want this on, and with Workspaces, we aren't using it for ads, just to make the product better".

There is my charitable reading of it.
Playstation Plus: Sony’s new subscription options to compete with Xbox Game Pass
You missed nothing. Better that you continue life forgetting this concept of manuals.
And their advice is to switch to their service - shame this made it to the top of HN.
Don't think this tool supports that, but there is https://nbdime.readthedocs.io/en/latest/