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I can tell you why people still use ncurses: if you’re actually interested in accounting for all the nuanced eldritch madness that is terminal emulation implementation and history it’s a monumental effort, at least imo.

Sure, if all you care about is coloring text on recent terminals, I do think just using ansi codes is fine.

However, I completely disagree with the assertion that hardcoding ansi codes is somehow “more readable” than using a well-named API call that abstracts such detail away from the user. Maybe I’m alone in this, but I really don’t want to waste brain space memorizing ansi codes. Yeah I can write my own library or little macros to do this but…why? If I’m doing anything more involved than coloring text why wouldn’t I just pull in the lib I need? There’s no way in hell I want to maintain a custom implementation of terminal cursor movement for kicks. I’d much rather reach for a battle tested library that scores of other devs have already used and improved upon, whether it’s ncurses or one of the more modern TUI libs.

Also, it’s become cool recently to hate ncurses for some reason. Are there things ncurses should do differently from today’s perspective? Sure. Is it’s api awkward to use in the face of modern programming features and paradigms that we’re now used to? Sure. But on the whole it’s design is really solid and it has plentiful documentation. Whenever I see rants like this I get the impression the author is a person that lacks an appreciation for history and the way technical development proceeds in general and imagines they are our technical savior, come down from the heavens to enlighten all us blindered fools about how terrible X is.

If you want to educate people about ansi codes, great. A really inefficient way to do that is to wrap your advice in an obnoxious rant.
Or a linux VM in Azure that's required by company policy to have Microsoft Defender running on it.

Disk exhaustion, file handle exhaustion, memory exhaustion, you name it, mdatp has use it to hang your single purpose VM.
The fact that I know I can't emulate his early work informs me that I also couldn't emulate his later work, but it is hard to understand why.
I wonder if proofing it by ear via TTS might make stuff like this easier to catch. The "come back and reread in half an hour" method doesn't always, unfortunately.
"Victims" are somewhat charged terms, because those PA nurses [1] are often better at surgery than anyone else, even compared to real surgeons. In some sense they are battle-tested PAs without PA-level compensations and legal protections, making them attractive in many hospitals. PA nurses are not in the position against this practice. The original article didn't interview any nurses or representatives from nursing organizations (say, the Korean Nurses Association), thus completely missed this point.

[1] PA stands for physician assistants but otherwise doesn't bear any relation with actual formally trained PAs.
To put what I said another way, try to do the kind of work that gets snatched up quickly when it's on the market, so the people you're competing with are all otherwise happily employed. It's not as hard as you may think, to be "among the best". Very few people are trying that hard to begin with, so you can make a lot of ground quickly.

Also, when 6 out of 8 of those billion people aren't nourished or raised in a way that grows their brain (physically or developmentally), it's not hard to beat them, and then from there other opportunities whittle it down.

Also also, in western culture (which is where the jobs I know anything about are), there are huge payoffs for being at least a little arrogant. If you're not arrogant, you're going to lose to someone who is.
Off the top of my head, I'd say Render is a little more expensive at the lower tiers and less expensive at the higher tiers.
America in 2072: A Society Stratified by Genetic Enhancement
I'd love to know how many of the people complaining about Chapelle survived this round of layoffs.
> civilization hasn't proceeded to the stage where such cruelty don't exist.

It has in Europe.
> Is there a reason why gopher is seeing a resurgence in the tech sphere?

I think it's largely a demonstrative reaction against the appification of the web, built upon gopher’s more limited interface which is more heavily optimized to a read-only hypertext use case, which fits a lot of people's nostalgic idealization of the early web.
HN loves ridiculing this as often as it comes up, but for all Netflix is - it's a CDN serving files.

The details are important, and running a good CDN isn't easy but....it's a CDN serving files. People really did build a completely free version on their own time [1]. That also costs less to run (kind of a requirement if you're building a BitTorrent streaming client).

It's important to think really carefully about what Netflix actually does, as opposed to what they like to pretend they do: because all the important stuff isn't really tech, it's business, bureaucracy and manual labor - subtitling, license management, ISP negotiations for server placement, someone going through every episode of a show to set the "skip credits" titling.

[1] https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop
Recovering the Titanic's radio could signal a disaster for underwater heritage
I plan to do more with single key shortcuts in outline mode, just haven't had time to really think it through. Want to make sure I have a plan before I just start adding them.
> Concentrated Brines

Like the ones NASA has on the shuttle https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-brine-processor-increases-w... right?
I also intend to deploy some new services on render (having previously used Heroku).

I was debating between render & fly, which I've also had my eye on and may still try for something else in the future.
I think it's also important to highlight commercial USB webcams, like the Logitech 922. They are kinda expensive but still cheaper than a DSLR and will get you all of the low hanging fruits over webcam quality. DSLR would get you benefit on top of that but arguably, given that 720p is the common webcam resolution, you wouldn't be missing out on much. Except maybe features like improved focus and depth of field effects.
That's one crazy fancy ui for a terminal app.
This is definitely a biased post (the author is on the board).

Rippling as a product reminds of Hubspot. It’s cheap/free for small companies, has many checkbox-list of features, looks good conceptually, but doesn’t actually do anything well.

It’s “good enough” initially but most companies end up unbundling Rippling as they get bigger.

Oh support- sometimes it has taken us weeks to hear back.

We probably won’t move away from it but I know there’s a better alternative for every module they provide.
Maybe, though I will probably just stick to macOS standard keys for now. And maybe that is ... I don't know. Anyway generally when I want to cut line I will exit into outline mode and cut.
Netflix doesn’t pay max pay though, they pay «5-6 year of experience at a FAANG » in cash according to levels.fyi. This does not compensate for the layoff risk in any meaningful way.
20 watts each -> 60 watts?
I make these kinds of writing mistakes constantly, but especially when writing on a phone (like now) where my thumb doesn’t come anywhere close to keeping up with my thoughts. Somehow I often don’t see them even when I reread what I wrote…it’s like my mind fills in the words so completely that it is unable to detect that they are missing.
The algorithmic feed would keep showing things I had already seen and bury interesting tweets from people I actually follow in favor of outrage-of-the-day type stuff.

There was a period of time when Twitter was testing an interface that had the two feeds on tabs and it kept reverting back to the algorithmic tab. I almost quit.
good ol - china fuckery. lol
I gave up my appartment in Germany mid 2019 and am traveling since then with my partner. It's very liberating to live just from a suitcase. I don't miss anything.

The idea was to stay at one place for at least a single month and where we directly or indirectly know a local. This worked very well pre-pandemic but it became a bit more unorganized and spontaneous since.

Currently we're in Costa Rica and start working at 6am for a company in Germany. Then surfing in the afternoon.

We'll probably settle down somewhere in the next years.
Yeah. A whole bunch of other printer manufacturers would have picked up a lot of business, from the next time those people needed to buy a printer. eg "Anything other than HP".

Unfortunately, several of the other printer manufacturers seem to have copied HP's approach. With similar results.

The Epson EcoTank range (eg specifically refillable ink tanks) seems like a good idea, not that I've used them yet. :)
Please don't cross into personal attack, no matter how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. If a discussion is inching towards this sort of conflict, it's time to drop it before it gets there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Imagine working for a place that is constantly evaluating whether they should keep you or not rather than trying to grow you.
My small desalination rig uses about 1200 watts and makes 30 gallons per hour. It cost me $3500. So it’s doable with 3 panels for this 2 person household.

I’d imagine a plant would benefit from economies of scale. Though these benefits could get eaten up by cost overruns. Frankly, it seems the hurdle in California is working through the people issues/concerns than technical problems.

It’ll be interesting to see the stats on this new desal technique when they have a product for sale.
Thanks for the kind words! I love the "helped" preface because it's exactly right, design is a team sport and I strongly believe in giving credit where due. Ben Chen (https://www.benchendesign.com/) was the creative lead on EVO 3D. I lead the technical side of the design for that one but he set the vision and the aesthetic. Great dude to work with too.
Same, the lifestyle is rewarding and also tiring - it makes you realize how routine and not having to catch flights and learn the local vernacular and such is great.

Travel is open in ASEAN countries. Taiwan/China have the strictest of rules. Korea is open, Japan is opening up - and SEA is basically open. No quarantine - at best a covid test and questionable officials that may allow no vaccine/positive covid tests through.

From the past few months:

Philippines - Open, no quarantine, verify test results on arrival - no issue. Getting a Covid test within the PH is hard, and most expensive in Asia, on average $60-200 USD for a PCR.

Indonesia - Just announced no more covid test needed to enter the country. Bali was open throughout the past year. No Visa, nothing complicated, just buy a ticket and show up.

Vietnam - Open, no test required. Nothing else.

Thailand - Open, covid test required, nothing else.

Singapore - Open, just vaccine and covid test.

Cambodia - First to open, no test.
Are you genuinely asking? There are dozens of flavors of communism and you are free to pursue their histories and determine their conclusions.
The Magic Home Page (1998)
As I mentioned elsewhere, please do not cross into personal attack. It's not what HN is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Big related threads 3, 5, 8, 11 and 12 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19416485

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13781815

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7726115

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3106271

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1272975
paywall removal :

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%...

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Pearl clutching like this reminds me of

"Rogues are very keep in their profession, and know already much more than we can teach them." ~ Alfred Charles Hobbes in 1851
Imo, the current "the bigger the better" trend is limiting further progress. Intelligence finds the simplest model that explains all data, e.g. a small set of equations or rules, while the today's wannabe-AI models are trying to remember all the data in a fuzzy lookup table.
I personally wish people would not ask that question. Rarely is context required. The question is often very clear. And when one does provide context, the most common response is a value judgement on the question -- "why would you want that". It's honestly a waste of everyone's time.

Wish people would just move on if they see a question that they don't know the answer to.
And here’s my first follower: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/931832635758641158/97...

https://twitter.com/joan_coleman_
Of course you could reproduce such a painting easily enough. I can also reproduce F = ma ... look, I just did!

Invent an entirely new and impactful style of painting, that hasn't been seen before, from dust. Just like Newton invented a whole new "style" of mathematics.

I still think Picasso is less important but you haven't even begun to draw the correct analogy here.
Tether redemptions fuel fears about stablecoin's backing
Invest in crematoriums! :)
You could tell the difference in that the AI pronounced "Hussars" correctly where as the human reader did not. Without adding in our human error, our AI-trained version will be the more educated one for certain going forward.
I think 20000mAh is achievable now. I have a 20k battery pack on my desk and it’s pocketable, if heavy. Much thinner than the Energizer phone. I’m picturing your phone design as an original Galaxy Fold, but solid instead of the hinge/internal screen. The chassis could fit more than a 10k battery easily, and the shape is simple to ruggedize.

> Avenir Telecom wanted €600 for a phone with the internals of a €200 phone.

This is the big issue. Avenue’s not to blame here. It’s unavoidable, the design is just too non-standard.

If you could get a military contract then it might work.
> As for me? I switched to the Mac. No more grep, no more piping, no more SED scripts. Just a simple, elegant life: “Your application has unexpectedly quit due to error number –1. OK?”

I wonder how that worked out for Don Norman (Apple Fellow and preface author)?

(Written from my wonderful MBP, which is happily, a Unix)
Depends on what you mean by "Digital Nomad" the term has been quite twisted by online hustle culture to mean the worst and extract profit by promising dreams for a vulnerable amount of people.

I've been a DN since 2014, and it's rewarding and also challenging in many ways, I suggest everyone "do it" but also you need to be really adapt and open to what you want in life and expectations. It can be hard to balance business/work/tourism in a new place.

All it made me realize is that having a home base, is key - even if abroad or "home" it helps tremendously for everything. Just looking at housing in the USA and ouch.

But the cost of living arbitrage, is fantastic. Pay $3000 a month for a West Coast condo that's horrid or pay $400 a month abroad, even if the tickets cost $600-1200, you come out ahead on that. Matching working times, and learning the local culture and such - makes everyday rewarding than retiring from work to "stream" videos and stay "inside."

But also being able to stay inside, and do nothing itself is rewarding. :)
Some of the aggregators that I like:

Floodgap - generalist gopher portal with lots of links - gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/

Cosmic voyage: collective writing experiment - gopher://cosmic.voyage

Bongusta - phlogs aggregator & community - gopher://i-logout.cz:70/1/bongusta/

SDF - phlogs aggregator & community - gopher://sdf.org

Tildeverse: aggregator for tilde communities - gopher://tildeverse.org

Gopherpedia: reading Wikipedia through Gopher because why not - gopher://gopherpedia.com:70/1/
That's what I love about Twitter. It's designed for power users by giving you a lot of controls up front on how you want to interact with the platform. It's not that rewarding if you're not actively curating your feed. You can do it on a user level and even not show posts with specific words. Imagine if you could do that on other social platforms? You could follow your family and/or friends and only see family or trip updates and no political nonsense posts.
This is adjacent, but I’ve wondered how close we are to having these automated plagiarism detection systems start identifying large numbers of false positives. Especially as they adopt machine learning, and they let their fuzzy matches get a little more aggressive.

Part of the problem with plagiarism in the abstract is that much of the work being submitted is not novel. Every one of us has been taught to read something, and then regurgitate it in a mildly different form to prove our successful learning of it. And our schools are spending tax dollars to buy access to these systems.
Interesting, why do you think carbs are a trigger for you? I always have bad IBS symptoms when the other symptoms flare up but I haven't been able to find any foods that seem to directly correlate with it.
> An economist I was listening to recently recommended assessing your employer's debt to equity ratio

Do employers even offer that kind of detailed information to employees?
^ this, I use a Sony RX100V with a first gen Blue Yeti and
1) They consistently connect and work better than what my Windows-using coworkers experience with hardware built into their monitors (and I regularly use Slack, Zoom, and Google Meets every day and it works seamlessly across them all)
2) As you mention every single person every single time comments when they initially see it. Like 100% of the time without fail.

IMO as an expensive consultant™ I think it improves perception and is courteous to my clients to give them a higher level of production value.
"Victim" still feels appropriate, on grounds of what should be the pretty basic expectation to be transparent with the patient. I know it's not feasible to exhaustively explain the entire sausage factory, but it's not difficult to avoid deliberately misleading them.
Interesting, this is like the dog learning calculus thing. We may create an AI that could perceive things that we aren't able to, or perceive things differently, because we're "limited" in a way that the AI isn't. We wouldn't be able to even tell this is going on, because we don't have the mental model in place to account for it to understand it. We'd be the dog.
Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels
> They have an interesting, unique style! The typography and punctuation are part of that style!

Her 'interesting, unique' 'typography and punctuation' makes me want to poke my eyes out instead of focusing on the content itself. You sneer at conventions, but they were developed after centuries of typesetting and typewriting.

Her entire style sheet is an abomination:

- The serif typeface she has used, EB Garamond, is best used for printed text. I am working on a 27" 1080p monitor, and the low DPI makes for very painful reading. Sans-serif humanist typefaces like Verdana (used at Hacker News, thank goodness) or Open Sans are best.

Better still, use the OS typeface in `font-family` (`-apple-system`, Segoe UI, SF Pro, Roboto, Lucida, Ubuntu, Open Sans, etc) instead of dragging in your own. If one so desperately wants a serif typeface, please use something that's nice and blocky, like Droid Serif or IBM Plex Serif.

Incidentally, I have the same qualms with the default typeface in LaTeX: the Computer Modern provided is far too spindly for digital reading. There is an alternative, MLModern[0] that is thicker, but it only has Type 1 glyphs rather than OpenType.

- The colours she has chosen are not as bad, but they are certainly distracting. Can't go wrong with a monochrome dark grey/white, or even straightforward black on white.

- Uppercase/lowercase letters and proper punctuation help break up the prose, and improve the reading experience by differentiating proper nouns, beginnings of sentences, etc etc. Dismissing this by saying 'Oooh, look at me, I'm different for different's sake' is just exasperating.

Incidentally, I'm probably of a similar age group as the writer, but I like to follow grammatical and typographical rules in long prose (I don't care as much in personal texts), because they make sense.

[0]: https://ctan.org/pkg/mlmodern?lang=en
I recently signed on and did notice a prominent uptick in more mainstream movies and not the fringe garbage that everyone else passed on. But yeah, in general, Netflix has poor quality for the stuff that's on there long term.

I have always wondered if it was ever a possibility for Netflix to have been a platform company. In that, instead of trying and failing to be HBO, they could have licensed out their platform to the content holders to build their platform on. As in, could they have been the Azure/AWS of content streaming? That time is gone now, but I do wonder if it would have been a better long term solution for them as a company.
I think Fly will be great, but it's not there yet. I migrated to Render.
I was the owner of a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini. It was the smallest phone I ever used. Fast, nice UI, fully featured, decent camera. The only downside was the horrible battery life. But I loved it, it was just so small. I miss the trend of making all electronic smaller and smaller.
This is incredibly inefficient compared to existing desalinization devices. My boat has a watermaker that uses 4w/liter and it isn't even state of the art. This is 5x less efficient. It is also incredibly low volume.

There is novelty in the method, and in not using filter mediums. But those differences aren't going to matter if it isn't an order of magnitude more efficient. You could buy an inflatable evaporative device off amazon today to desalinate seawater that makes far more water with no electrical input at all.

I'm a bit saddened to see this show up on HN after it made the rounds on FB groups a month ago, where it was debunked. The world has fresh water problems and desalinization at scale with higher efficiency would be a huge unlock. That is exciting. But I'm not sure why this particular approach is getting attention given it underperforms so badly. Except maybe that the letters MIT and a lot of journalists that don't care as long as you clicked.
Many people say bad things about the algorithmic feed, but for me, the 'most recent' feed meant that often I missed tweets from people I'm actually interested in.

So I switched back.
I did a double take when I saw that Parker Conrad was the CEO and a founder.

Conrad was the disgraced CEO of Zenefits[0][1].

This new operation looks like a Zenefits enhancement, and there is surely a need for it.

Do your diligence.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Conrad

[1] https://www.cnet.com/culture/unicorn-startup-zenefits-banned...
They need to focus on original content more than anything. That's likely what contributed to the price war they've been caught up in with all the others. When they had House of Cards, The Office, Black Mirror, a pretty solid in house studio, they weren't playing tag with Hulu. If you have a consistent quality backlog, people stay, worked for Viacom, worked for Nintendo regardless of their underperforming hardware.

Of course Paramount and Disney had little to no engagement in streaming back then, so I can't imagine Netflix recovering to 2014 dominance as realistic. But they can survive like HBO Go, crank out a few solid Soprano grade series and serve as an outlet for independent publishers that Viacom and Disney have noooo interest in.
His vision seems to degrade as he ages.
This cycle is a little different from other recent ones, though. Democrats are in charge of the White House, both houses of Congress, big media, big business (everything except the Supreme Court), and people's lives are still getting worse in ways they can't ignore. Money can buy messaging, but I don't think the truly-undecided public are buying it.