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> The point of OP is about a time where local communities mattered more than global output.

Correction, a time when companies didn't have an easy and clear path to global output.

> When those in power were close enough to the common folk to the point where they could face consequences of their abuse.

I'm not sure that's ever been the norm anywhere in the world throughout history. I definitely don't think it was the reality in the Norman Rockwell like idea of what you think it was like.

We just view the past with rose-tinted glasses. Things were always bad, just in different ways. Those same companies that gave to the community and were the main employers in an area also set the working wage in the area with little market competition, and faced less scrutiny from the local law enforcement (who wants to be the prosecutor or police officer responsible for hurting everyone employed there in the community).

If you want actual evidence of wrongdoing, it's trivially easy to find.[1]

> OP is not talking about "relinquishing the responsibilities to others". Quite the opposite. It's much easier to effectively exercise your rights and responsibilities on a smaller sphere of influence and power.

I wasn't really making a countering the OP, as much as expanding on a point they noted. Those situations that were good or appeared so are unstable and there's little the local community can do to change it. But in a democracy they all have power to elect local representatives, and if they rely on their representatives instead of a mostly unaccountable company, they can exert control the outcome of situations if they don't like where things appear to be going.

1: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuyahoga-river-caught...
The app is great in my opinion, giving less-technical users a simple interface to toggle their VPN connection and see at a glance where their chosen server is on a map.

If you're comfortable setting up OpenVPN profiles, the Mullvad app doesn't have much to offer you as far as I can tell. I don't recall seeing split tunneling options, though that would be cool to see
I didn't vote for anyone last year. When I watched the talks given by Biden in 80s, 90s, and 2000s on foreign policies, on racial issues, and on education, and I found him repulsive and couldn't believe the projected image of him being "nice grandpa", "adult", or "moderate".
Docker Swarm isn't Docker; it's an orchestration service on top of Docker, that happens to have originated with the same organization that Docker does - hence the name. A few years ago Swarm looked like it might be competitive in the container orchestration space, but then Kubernetes got easy to use even for the small deployments Swarm also targeted, and Swarm has withered since. It wouldn't be impossible or probably even all that difficult to switch over to k8s if that were the only blocker, but as the sunset post notes and you here ignore, that wasn't the only or the worst problem facing SSLping - as, again, the sunset post notes to your apparent disinterest, it's been losing money for quite a while before it fell apart.

(Has it occurred to you that it losing money for a while might have contributed to its eventual unmaintainability, as the dev opted sensibly to work on more sustainably remunerative projects? If so, why ignore it? If not, why not?)

Similarly for the Node aspect - that's very much a corner use case related to this specific application (normally SSLv3 support is something you actively don't want!), and not something that can fairly be generalized into an indictment of Node overall. Not that it's a surprise to see anyone unjustly indict Node on the basis of an unsupportable generalization from a corner case! But that it's unsurprising constitutes no excuse.

Other than that you seem here to rely on truisms, with no apparent effort to demonstrate how they apply in the context of the argument at which you gesture. And even the truisms are misapplied! Avoiding dependencies for the sake of avoiding dependencies produces unmaintainable software because you and your team are responsible for every aspect of everything, and that can work for a team of Adderall-chomping geniuses, but also only works for a team of Adderall-chomping geniuses. Good for you if you can arrange that, but it's quite absurd to imagine that generalizes or scales.
Then the user would just go find a second VPN provider.
I had that a few of weeks ago from what turned out to be swine flu. I guess that virus is around these days. Loss of taste/smell lasted for a couple of days. Was a head scratcher since I kept testing negative for covid.
I’m a marine engineer who is currently specializing as an electronics technician on a ship. So I guess I get to have a Steady Eddie job all over the map.

I was always interested in computers but when it was time to strike out on a path after high school I thought the idea of being behind a computer screen all the time wasn’t that appealing so I focused on my other interest, ships.

I got to learn about engines, pumps, hydraulics, electricity, etc. (On a ship the engineers fix EVERYTHING) but after a few, ended up on a ship that allows me to focus on the electronics/ computer side and spend most my day looking at a computer.

I program as a hobby (easy to take traveling) still and read and take as many online classes as I can. I helped a coworker develop a system for his side-gig to control some LEDs with some raspberry-pi’s and a web app using Flask.

I still really don’t know what I want to be I guess, but I enjoy the level discourse here and the community’s ability to find interesting stories.
> business owners who also resent a lot of the inefficiency

The heirs who do not work but expropiate dividends of profits from those who do talking about inefficiency is a laugh.

Why should the worker's creating the wealth care what the idle class owners think?
Factor Modeling in Finance
The issue I see is that the public clouds often offer carbon free or carbon offset power. When you deploy onprem... This often gets ignored.
What if we said:

You can keep your app store tied to your platform: but you have to let users install their own os.

Apple wants to maintain unbelievably tight control in their whole world. Maybe they can have iOS, maybe we say, yeah, no one else can target that without Apple's permission. But users still need some rights to their own hardware, somewhere. So, document your hardware, open the bootloader, make it possible for alternate OSes to run, so users have some rights to what they own, aren't completely locked out & at Apple's total mercy.

I wonder which option Cook would take. It might be tempting, to assume that few users would be willing or interested in such a radical shift off.

As for Cook's "taking away a more secure option will leave users with less choice, not more," is there any place this has ever been true, has ever happened? How has F-Droid or other app-stores presence made Android users have less choice? How has Epic/Steam/Origin/UPlay/Windows Store on PC given users less options (there are some exclusives here but that's in contrast to everything always being exclusive)? This feels so radically disingenuous, seems like it has no data supporting it, feels like such a ridiculous & shitty fake-alarmist take from someone so heavily incentivized to lie his ass off.
HEVC is loaded with patents. VP9 is Google’s response to avoid the minefield.
> How do you force him without coercieon?

You’re missing the point. You don’t force anyone. If someone doesn’t want to do the thing, you don’t make them. You find a different way to accomplish your goals.
M2 includes M1 and it did not move nearly as much, suggesting that the nominal change in M1 was much larger than the part which had real economic consequences.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
CurveCP is (was?) designed to be more lightweight and efficient than industry standards. 1-RTT session bootstrapping, forward secure encryption and authentication, per datagram public-key encryption, while leaving only the ephemeral public key, the connection ID, and per-message nonce in the clear.

While the ciphersuite employed in CurveCP (i.e., Curve25519) is being added to TLS (i.e., with draft-josefsson-tls-curve25519 and X25519 in Chrome), CurveCP is more amenable to be contrasted with DTLS and other transport security protocols working with datagrams, being based on UDP.
Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe only allows writers on a deadline
The CARES Act was signed by Trump and was $2.2 trillion. The American Rescue Plan was signed by Biden and was $1.9 trillion. And yet you blame Biden?

Meanwhile the current Fed chair, a Trump nominee, has way more control over inflation and was responsible for raising interest rates way too late. And yet you blame Biden?

I am still waiting on an answer as to what exactly Trump would do to curb inflation if he were in office. As far as I understand, wishful thinking and partisanship does not impact wheat prices.
HN desperately needs personal block lists.

[EDIT] OK, some explanation is in order: because it's very bad at curbing posters who are either trolling or just very bad posters but it's not clear which (which is, precisely, what a classic troll is, when this is achieved on purpose), and its anti-poster-recognition design makes that even worse. Just let me block the ones who I find consistently posting what are either super-ignorant takes or are trolling, because it doesn't really matter to me which is the truth.
Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe won’t let you leave until you finish your novel
If you remember Hypah, he went on to some success with slither.io. Plenty of people got their start that way, myself included.
installing lulu (application-level firewall) let's you see most (all?) of it. i just wish there was a definitive list of what the endpoint services are. for instance, i have no interest in icloud photo storage, so i'd love to block all those connections at the IP level (not just dns), but i really like using imessage on my mbp, so want to let those through. i'm currently having to figure this out via trial and error (and lots of error, at that).

https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html
probably not unless they're forced to. retail lost money for amazon until very recently -- aws was the only thing keeping amazon afloat for years and years
What value is that, for running such a simple piece of software?
Depends on what you do. Few years ago I played around with micropython on a ESP8266. There a bit of extra RAM would have been helpful. As said years ago, can very well be that micropython is better optimized nowadays and it's less of an issue.
It isn't lol. AOL just released search records and didn't initially redact all identifying information in the searches. They obviously got sued

Ig it's useful from an aesthetic standpoint: we all get to see the raw, unfiltered stuff people typed into a search bar at one point.

But something that would be interesting: what if this was the norm, and everything anyone ever types was public domain? Imagine if this just suddenly happened. I don't think we as a society would be able to handle it, we'd probably just try to cover it up.
I’ve always wondered how do they find people to work there, especially young people. Do you know their profile?
I totally agree, the range in number of servers/services/technologies different companies use to solve similar problems are SO wide.

After 12 years of growth we are still happily on:

- 1 Ubuntu server
- 1 MySQL db
- 1 Django framework
- Ansible for deployment

And thats mostly it. Due to Hetzner missing the 27002 certification we moved from metal to Amazon EC2 instances which was pretty uneventful. We also moved to Aurora and the point-in-time restores actually makes me sleep better at night. Relative to Hetzner it's a lot more expensive. Not at all a problem in the absolute sense.

Some years back I had a chance to talk with the CTO of a company very similar to ours, and their landscape was 400+ microservices, 50 servers managed by k8s on Azure Cloud, Service bridges, Workflow engines, 5 different DB engines, etc. It sounded very fascinating, but also quite complicated.

Some of my worst decisions over the years has been not having the balls to say no to current best-practices. I've learned the hard way that even though the pressure of using shining-new-thingTM can be immense it's so important to realise that everything always has pros and cons. The most important thing is trying to really understand _my_ specific problem and _then_ using the simplest and most obvious solution that can work.

Obligatory "Programmers are also human" link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo3cL4nrGOk
Facebook's user base is older millennials and gen-X who don't want flashy new features. All of the company's innovation is going into Instagram, WhatsApp, VR and new product lines.
I think Apple see iMovie and GarageBand as the entry point into funnelling interested users towards Final Cut and Logic Pro when they’re ready to reach for something more capable
Swine flu isn't really something you want to get either, is it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy-trace_theory
Not the OP, but Dart, although basically a 90's Java clone, is still superficially different enough that it needs to be learnt - so where's the payoff? It doesn't fix most of Java's issues: pervasive mutability, boilerplate, a kingdom of nouns, Tony Hoare's billion dollar mistake etc. There are many better Java++ languages out there; and this includes the roadmap for Java itself (pattern matching, sealed classes, data classes, fibers etc).
I'm talking mostly small shops --not generational wealth that you imagine.
10 years ago i was working at in a shared office where companies could hire a room. We all had a common lunch place and shared microwaves.

There I met two security nerds. They never shutdown their computers and if it happened, they did a full format and reinstalled the os - because if security.

They spoke with passion about security fixes they made in the vpn client that no other had.

They got many requests regularly from others that they should add there server as an endpoint - and they sad always no. All endpoints must be 100% secure by their knowledge. Never trust anyone.

If they had to leave a laptop they used some old coffee paper trick so that one could not open the lid without visible marks.

I was super impressed by them and have never met any like them. I guess they have grown out of their tiny office now, Mullvad.
> I also think that these issues are transient

I think the amplification of these issues is transient, but that the overall trend is still up. I believe CPI will come down again soon, but then start to trend up again without drastic measures from The Fed (much more than raising rates by 25 basis points a few times a year like they're currently discussing).

The world economy is complicated though. Nobody was predicting covid a few years ago. Not many people were predicting a war last year. Who knows what crazy wrench reality will throw in the system soon.
RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested
I've favorited this comment but why 1.5%? Why not 2 or 3%? I guess that is a big enough move to suggest some shift in fundamentals or some major event in FANG
n8n.io offers something similar to Zapier, but probably not as well rounded.
Thinking of business owners as only wealthy heirs is a laugh.
This is an example of an article from the recent past (2018) that would not get published now.

"But after talking to him, I realised he had made an informed decision to stop the medication after suffering side effects, and instead had opted for a diet and lifestyle approach to manage his heart disease."

"Modern medicine, through over prescription, represents a major threat to public health."

"Yet rather than address the root cause of these conditions through lifestyle changes, we prioritise drugs that give – at best – only a marginal chance of long-term benefit for individuals, most of whom will derive no health outcome improvement."

"Prof Luis Correia, director of the Centre of Evidence Based Medicine in Brazil, says if a clinical decision is not in keeping with the patient’s individual preferences and values, “it will not work”."

now - "It bloody well will work - they must take it!"

"the most important message remains clear: you can’t drug people into being healthier."
Concerning unions I'm with Churchill, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
Of course people aren't paying $6 a month for news, they really mis-calculated the audience for this. People who watch CNN already subscribe to cable (Traditional or OTT) It should've always just been an add on or included in HBO max for free to add additional value to that streaming platform. It's not too late, they could easily integrate it with HBO max to offer live news to all who subscribe.
Ask HN: How to get bilingual in a country where the language is not used?
I'm a Spanish native speaker. I started working as a Junior SWE for a consultant company. We work with American-based companies so English is a key to treat with clients and teammates. Improving my English has been one of my main goals over the last 6 months.

I have improved my English a lot in the last few months. I go to classes twice a week and use it every day. However, I feel stuck right now. I am fully capable to have conversations about almost anything, but I don’t feel fluent at all. I know that learning a language is practice, and it’s a slow process, but I feel that I will seldom get a fluent level without living in a foreign country. It’s something that I want to do, but it’s not a real thing to do right now since I don’t have the necessary experience to make a company pay me a visa to emigrate (even in Europe where I can work locally).

I know that almost every non-English speaker here has been in the same situation that I’m right now, so I would like you to provide me with methods or things to do to learn English in a non-English country.
Leaded glass does not lose its lead.
>This would allow me to purchase my own health insurance at rates comparable to what I'm offered at work.

Would it? The employer can still call up an insurer and say "if you can give me a better deal than X, I'll buy insurance for 1,000 people" whereas you have maybe 5 potential customers to bargain with.
You can have voluntary collectivism. This is where everyone works to find agreement with the group as a matter of course, but only proceeds if that agreement is found. You might find this kind of management in a collectively owned business for example.
That's how I understood it.

A great story about a mega-savant who can function is "Understand" by Ted Chiang, if you're interested
> Russian oil was about 8% of the US supply.

This comment betrays a deep lack of understanding about how pricing works for fungible commodities.

Russian oil is a huge chunk of the world supply, and oil is sold on a global market.
In the last 4 years I have yet to wakeup once running everything on my own servers - all of that has gotten more reliable and easier as well.
"So, not by the mainstream media, right?"

FOX News is the most successful news network in the US.

It's very much in the mainstream.
it seems they read wallstreetbets as well
This is not backed up by any data, so I welcome being rebuked, but my gut feeling is that those people were worse off than the ones who are unionized today, so the risks were worth it. Perhaps today the calculus yields a different outcome.
>Arduino

I generally agree on the simple, common approach being a great draw for Arduino and its related education. I was going through school around the time when arudino took off. IMO, older vendor toolchains were just painful by comparison. Licensed compilers ($$ license), janky IDEs that were death by 1000 cuts, having to learn different port masks (etc) for initializing different microcontrollers, IO libraries for each microcontroller, proprietary programmers (devices to load compiled software to the microcontroller). IMO, this is where FPGAs are largely still stuck in nowadays.

Though it probably wasn't all that bad. My experiences with the bad side of things largely stems from the PIC lineup. I still have trusted configurations of MPLAB + C Compiler that work vs others I just could never get working. Still have the PIC programmer. Some earlier arm tooling (armv6 era) was quite like this, too. Luckily, it has all opened up quite a bit. Either arudino-level ease of use or even drag and drop. The latter did exist in the armv6 era, since I have a Freescale Kinetis that operates like that, minus the simple IDE & compiler of the arduinos.

Simple IDE also means simple install, operation, and licensing to me. There may be a great paid IDE for the Kinetis, but the moment I have to start juggling more logins, node/floating license files, web-only environments, etc, I just remember it as time wasted on superfluous nonsense.
Did you really just toss out a market graph going back to 1880 in a discussion about how the market is reacting to news today?

Maybe try this one:

http://pricedingold.com/charts/SP500-2006.pdf

It’s ok though, I give up on productive discussion today. You can “win”.
At end of the day repressing restive frontier minority that accounts for less than 1% of population for domestic security (especially terrorism) is the "correct" political decision for CCP. There isn't any feasible calculus for not taming XJ (or Tibet or HK or TW). The real answer is they were left alone for too long due difficult access (whether by geography or politics), granted privileges in hopes they would not stir up trouble. That didn't work, and now wealthier PRC can build high speed rail into their provinces to forcefully integrate. Something every other Chinese province was subject to post 50s. In short, it's simply their turn.

Even the most pessimistic Zenz estimates of XJ internment at 1/12 of population is roughly lifetime incarceration level of US blacks. And the hit job articles on XJ vocational/reeducational "slave" labour programs still have "inmates" paid dramatically better than US prison labour in absolute terms and substantially better in regional terms. Exceeding ~40% of 600M Han Chinese subsisting on informal wage economy. Han Chinese would lose their shit if they find out the amount of subsidies going into XJ securitization and sinicization. If they the the choice between spending trillions to "tame the savage" in XJ versus 12M bullets for an actual genocide, the amount that would pick the latter would be disturbing.

US tried to nation build and spread western values in Afghanistan - PRC is nation building in XJ and spreading PRC values. Just with less bombs and more infrastructure.
Why Airbnb Cleaning Fees Cost So Much Now
I've pretty much stopped shopping from amazon, based solely on the fact they are almost never the lowest cost place to buy things anymore - used to be for most things I buy, now I think they are counting on people not checking prices anymore so they charge more, sometimes a lot more, than other places.
"almost completely squashed in the US for decades now"

I'm confused by this. There are many notable large workgroups in the US with powerful unions. Police, for example. Pilots, Teachers, etc.
My experience is on the ground common folk talk smack about them.

You just answered your own question. "Evil" is of course overdrawn.

But there is a common perception that they are ineffective, outdated and/or just don't do much in exchange for the money that goes to them. And in some case outright corrupt. Buttressed in some cases by the fact that high-ranking union leadership roles come with comparatively very comfortable salaries (compared to those they are representing).

Which steroetypes nearly all these companies (such as Amazon) make aggressive use of in their internal smear campaigns (it's the primary tool that they have, basically).