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Ask HN: Did Spam Win the Race?
In the last weeks my gmail inbox is hit daily with some evident spam like "Seriously, your last chance" comming from an onmicrosoft.com subdomain, with a link to xxxxx.storage.googleapis.com/xxxxx. Why can't Google catch such obvious patterns?
Infrastructure to make tokenization of real world assets scalable, easy and secure. With our end to end solution companies can create, manage buy and sell physical backed tokens at scale. We also provide an asset light logistic solution for traceability and transparency regarding the assets being tokenized. We combine logistic partners, oracles, IoT devices and game theory to provide token holders the ability to verify that the asset-tokens relation is maintained the whole from the mint to the redeem of the underlying asset.
Next steps consist on a protocol to bridge asset backed tokens to DeFi to serve as collateral for borrowing. This way, businesses will be able to access capital with their own production as collateral.

The world will benefit crypto the most when tokenization process is available to every person and company. Tokenization provides liquidity to lot of assets previously illiquid. It also democratice inversion and representation real world assets on-chain provides new levels of transparency, traceability and operational simplicity.
Nowadays tokenization is unscalable: only big companies can pay for it. We make tokenization and it benefits accesible to everyone to provide financial inclusion.
So many great features, but all these systems are missing the one true feature I really need, Link types. I see that Dataview gives some ability to have them, but it requires a very specific format that is pretty distinct from how the notes would be taken.
> the terribleness of exceptions is way overhyped

It's not that exceptions are terrible. I have nothing against them. The thing is that most of the time they are not affordable, especially in embedded. Some compilers don't even support them (some 8-bit IIRC). Most (including mine) embedded C++ programs have exceptions disabled.

> return a `std::optional`

The same goes for std. I don't know the overhead of possibly duplicating these classes(1) for every instance of std::optional. Most (including mine) embedded C++ programs don't use std.

30KB of extra code is nothing for desktop/server applications, but it's not convenient for a MCU with 64KB of flash.

(1): https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B-...

> just use a factory function instead

This is practical with an efficient heap allocator (which I might not have). What happens if I want a scoped (on stack) instance of a class?

See how things are quickly getting more complicated with C++?
Note: The relational model (even SQL) is THIS.

Despite the claims, SQL is NOT "schema-fixed".

You can 100% create new schemas, alter them and modify them.

What actual happens is that if you have a CENTRAL repository of data (aka "source of truth"), then you bet you wanna "freeze" your schemas (because is like a API, where you need to fulfill contracts).

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SQL have limitations in lack of composability, the biggest reason "NoSQL" work is this: A JSON is composable. A "stringy" SQL is not. If SQL were really around "relations, tupes" like (stealing from my project, TablaM):

[Customer id:i32, name:Str; 1, "Jhon"]

then developers will have less reason to go elsewhere.
> you'd need to conceptually understand what edits were made

Same effort as reviewing the file history

> and then make them again manually to the "head" version

Copy + Paste
They used to be the only bidder now they are bidding against dozens of streaming services competing in different niches. Their DVD business has no competition.
Had the same battle with Rock64 and a Pinebook Pro. RPI has UEFI support (https://github.com/pftf/RPi4) that makes the entire bootloader process so, so much simpler. I wish Pine would provide something similar for every chipset they produce. U-boot is too hard to understand/script, give me a standard UEFI interface that I can use with native linux tools like efibootmgr and systemd-boot.
Actually there's reasonable evidence to believe this isn't true. This paper from google: https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s... outlines specific scenarios where CPUs fail over time. Given the evidence that these are silicon defects that are actually worsening over time, there's no reason to imagine these failures don't extend to GPUs as well.

The difference in data here is obviously scale, google has -way- more CPUs than GPUs so the absolute counts of failures will be different.
If we applied that same standard when talking about programming here, we would never get past talking eli5 semantics and definitions.

You can be skeptical, but the cure for that skepticism is something more akin to taking an undergrad course, or two.
Besides availability, sometimes piracy leads to a better experience, as explained by this graphic:

https://i0.wp.com/farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4369403959_fe...

https://www.techdirt.com/2010/02/19/reminder-you-dont-compet...

("If you are a pirate this is what you get ... but if you are a paying customer, this is what you get")

This is a very old meme, modern experience with streaming services is generally much better.
I had the 12 mini and then paid a few bucks to upgrade to the 13 mini during a promotion at a local shop. The 13 mini battery life is better which I really appreciate since my phone is my GPS device when I'm in the backcountry without a charger.
The perquisite to successful DAO's is actually a strong centralized universal identity system (which is ironically counter to cryto-bro anarcho-capitalists philosophies).

From there it's pretty easy to associate real political capital with digital decisions.

E.g. Automatic n+1 "ban proposing user" option added to all proposals. If after n votes (where n is large) the sum(ban proposing user) > 0.25*sum(all other options), proposal is removed and user is banned until a proposal to unban is passed.
How long does the battery last? Does the phone feel thick in your pocket? (From the photos, it looks like the device is about the same width and height as a 2020 iPhone SE but significantly thicker.)
I think branding this as menstrual leave is unfortunate. We don't brand leave due to back pain as "back pain leave" or leave due to migraines as "migraine leave". It's just medical leave due to some type of pain. They are just including severe menstrual pain as a type of pain that you can get leave for like back pain, migraine pain, etc. These are all valid reasons take medical leave. From reading the article it sounds like severe menstrual pain will be put in the same category as migraine pain, back pain, other source of pain that regularly occur for different people.

My initial reaction before reading the article was, "It's dumb to create a unique category of leave for this type of pain when there are many types of pain people may need to take leave for". But it sounds like currently people can take leave for other types of pain, but conspicuously cannot take leave for this type of pain.
Doesn't the SE have an significantly worse & smaller screen (not to mention camera), although it's a slightly larger package?

SE is clearly a 'budget' (at least for apple) phone. Some people really want a small phone that isn't.
US vs. Paramount (1948) prevented movie production companies from owning theaters or entering into exclusivity arrangements for exhibition. I think we need to go back to this, codify it into law, and make it apply to streaming services. i.e. companies that offer streaming services and companies that produce content should not be allowed to be owned by the same entity.

Beyond that I think there should be forced syndication after an initial lockout period for the first run (say, a year).

It would be a much more consumer friendly environment if 20 year old shows couldn't be sold for billions and any niche streaming service could license for a reasonable fee and we wouldn't be forced to shuffle services around playing exclusivity games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic....
The problem is almost noone there can afford a heatpump
> in my country there are huge differences in legislation between legislatures of right or left parties.

Really? Somewhere in Europe? But I still doubt that these differences are something that “most impacts your life”. Let’s compare with the stock price of the company you are working in, e.g.
In the US, a single grocery trip can result in 10-20 plastic bags. Not sure about the UK, but in most European countries people bring their own tote bags.
Absolutely agree, but I think we are in the smaller size of the pie. I had for many years a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini (4.3' 124mm), super small phone that I loved, then I switched to a Xiaomi Redmi 4 Pro (5.0' 141mm), reasonably small but bigger then S4 and still usable with one hand without risks. Then I switched to a Xiaomi Mi 9T for the huge body-display ratio and I always feel it's too big (6.39' 156mm) and sometimes I need 2 hands, and I've pretty big hands...
Nowdays you can't find any good android phone around ~140mm in size, that I think is the perfect size.
Earnings only happen quarterly. There's lots of events that need to be communicated more urgently than that. And there's no way you could keep a lid on something like this for up to potentially 90 days. People (internally and externally) are going to notice that no one is being hired there anymore.
Could somebody do an ELI5 on why some phones have very good cameras but for some reason there's no standalone USB version of them?
Sorry, Elon, but it was funnier when Mel Brooks said, "You gotta help me. I can't make decisions. I'm a President."
I use Deskreen to attach an Android tablet to my PC. All it requires is (I think) a modern browser for the mobile device (and you currently need an hdmi dummy plug on the PC).
> PoW is the best form of democracy we can build that doesn't require some global registry of every human on earth. Anyone with access to electricity can participate in ensuring the global security of the network, and be fairly compensated for it.

This is a complete, steaming, and self-serving pile of bullshit. It isn't at all democratic and you need far more than just "electricity" to participate.
I think it's the opposite thinking at Microsoft: they see here an opportunity to change their reputation as "the forgotten FAANG", not even in the acronym because it doesn't pay as well as the SV companies.
Games and Watching Videos are two different dopamine rewards systems, but both are still dopamine rewards systems. I encourage my kid for games more than watching youtube or doing anything less challenging. However, I still worry about when the stubbornness of leaving the games appear.

One rule I made to myself is simply don't encourage anything just for dopamine rewards. I try to mix things with effort, contemplation, or interaction. Doing something like this specific rule: No more than 1h playing Minecraft alone. If you want to keep playing, ask Dad, Mom, or your cousins to play together; the same for Watching videos.
The usage of CockroachDB in newer security products is refreshing. I wonder if users could run one share a CRDB cluster between Zitadel and SpiceDB[0] to have a full, modern AuthN+AuthZ stack with few dependencies.

[0]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb
Right, but can they be hacked to run vanilla upgraded software?
Sorry you feel that way!

We haven't counted, but my bet is that most smaller deployments just use the single proxy.

I also know that most larger deployments use multi-DC and multi-cluster design with independent CAs for availability and latency.
I was originally trying to set it up as the Kiwix wifi hotspot. But after playing with that I decided I wanted the pc to have more than one function so I switched to regular Linux with Kiwix.

So now instead of just Kiwix; I also have my handheld radio programming software (CHIRP), ATAK Server, microcontroller dev environment, copy of Collapse OS, etc.
I just gave up and bought an iphone, good luck all
Banking is the largest source of emissions for cash-rich companies
Strictly, this is almost certainly false. If only because there is a ridiculously wide range of the ways that people think.

Loosening it to most people, I mean, maybe? But then why does the nature of what you focus your thought onto matter? I suppose the mechanism is that you are effectively forcing a wiring of whatever in your mind is responsible for consciousness? Makes sense that you can effectively train your consciousness by rote in much the same way that you can train your arms/hands to juggle.

But, at this point, we have to establish that consciousness is the same between us. Certainly plausible. I'd go so far as to say likely. But not guaranteed.
HP went to shit because they recognized how short-sighted and price-sensitive consumers are and changed how they sell things to account for it.

When people are shopping for an appliance, price is often the largest deciding factor. HP prices their inkjet printers low to lock in that sale. But in order to still earn a profit, they try to make money from the ink, so they lock down the firmware to block 3rd party ink.

People hate how expensive ink is, so they created Instant Ink, a subscription model. If you do a decent amount of printing, especially color printing, you'll actually save money. But it's widely misunderstood. You're not subscribing to ink, you're subscribing to printed pages. And so there are people writing nasty articles about HP because they'll pay $3 for their first month of Instant Ink, HP will send them an ink cartridge, they'll cancel their subscription, then have a Surprised Pikachu face when their printer then refuses to print with the Instant Ink cartridge, because for some reason they thought they owned the ink cartridge that they paid $3 for.

And of course, someone will take a picture of their printer refusing to print with the Instant Ink cartridge that they're no longer subscribed to and post it to /r/AssholeDesign.
It gets easier as your body gets used to it, and you shouldn't start with a 7 day fast without experience doing 24 and 48 hour fasts.

The first time I tried a 7 day fast it was like you described, I made it to about day 5 and I couldn't take it anymore. I've done about six or seven 7+ days fasts and now it's not a big deal, I feel totally fine the whole time. If I haven't kept up on electrolytes, I might get a little light headed when I stand up, but that's about it.

I use an electrolyte mix that has sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus and iron. It's a bit hard to find mixes that have phosphorus, and that's the main electrolyte that is depleted in refeeding syndrome.
The only promise the government made to forgive loans is the public service loan forgiveness program, which was designed to encourage people to work in underserved areas without offering a large enough salary to attract talent on the normal market. Essentially it is a weird subsidy for undesired jobs.

Some politicians promised a more generic student loan forgiveness, but politicians promise a bunch of things.
Escaping the Great Stagnation
I have the Elgato FaceCam and it's absolutely fantastic on the Mac. Zero issues, great adjustability, good quality (much better than a laptop webcam, not quite as good as an iPhone/"real" camera.
I lived in a state that actually does consider it neglect, legally, if you let your <10 year old child roam alone.

Check your local laws, because having child protective services called on you is not a good time.
This is why I left the legal profession. I was working for the in-house legal department for a very, very large athletic shoe company, and they had a team working downstairs on automated contract drafting. The company is big enough that they wanted managers to be able to do things like leases without consulting the lawyers. Some sales person would go to a factory outlet mall outside of Cleveland, negotiate for a lease, and rather than run the lease by legal or get legal to draft it, they'd just use a giant web form to generate the lease. The software would be able to parse terms added by the other party and associate a "risk" that may or may not necessitate the involvement of a human.

Since writing contracts was my favorite part of practicing law, I saw that staring at me for a year and noped out. I'm a software developer now, and so much happier.
I am partially a data hoarder. I am an academic so I try to get copies of documentaries, videos, and such about my topic.
I also pirate a decent amount of stuff but most of it is things I can't legally get in the USA.
Happy to see this available as both a standalone download, and through the App Store.

I'm a big supporter of indie software, but I've had some recent bad experiences that make me gravitate toward the App Store again.

One of them is just a plain old boring MP3 Tag Editor. When I migrated to an M1 MacBook, it no longer worked. I contacted the author, and it took him a couple of months to respond. Once he did, he said I used it on too many computers, so I can't use it anymore. I used it:

1. The computer I purchased the software on, which I no longer have and was recycled.

2. The computer that replaced the first computer, which I no longer use and gave to my wife, who does not use the software.

3. The computer I replaced computer #2 with, which I used temporarily until I got my current computer. The old computer is now a headless media server in the closet.

The author says there's no way to override his copy protection, or to give me a new license key. "I don't have technical options to resolve such an issue."

Great. So I switched to another (more expensive) MP3 tag editor. But this one I bought through the App Store, so I know it will continue working, even if I upgrade my machine.
Thanks for showing interest. The service doesn't use AWS to auto-generate SSL for custom domains, it uses a dedicated instance of Open Resty with LetsEncrypt.
US Congress to hold first public UFO panel in 50 years
So, the $10 a month for subscribing to usenet I get, though I personally just use public torrent trackers. What's with the ~30TB server and how is that related? Do you want to be able to come back to anything you've ever downloaded anytime?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31408429.
I’m not sure what you mean by “composable” here — could you elaborate?
Thankfully, much of this is because of edge-to-edge display technology allowing for larger screens in the same size chassis. My Pixel 4a with a 5.8" screen has the same 69mm width as my old Nexus 5 with a 4.95" screen, and it's considerably less wide than my Nexus 5X or Moto X4 with their 5.2" screens (especially the X4, that thing was way too wide and was intensely uncomfortable to hold... I actually had to get a case for that one, and I was miserable the entire time I owned it).
This guy may be of interest to you all: https://www.youtube.com/c/The8BitGuy
The mini is a flagship phone with flagship specs and better design.

The newest SE is substantially larger and worse.

I love my mini, but it’s also clear this is the last one.
> investors are bound to suffer more in case of a crypto market crash

Do we know that actually? There was already outsized demand (demand > supply) for Nvdia GPUs to the extent that consumers literally couldn't buy GPUs for ~2 years (still is a problem) without buying from a scalper. A few things to consider:

(1) In most markets where demand outpaces supply, new entrants emerge. That is almost impossible to do in GPUs due to compatibility/support. So we've had pent up demand in that market.

(2) Consumers waited for supply to catch up to make the purchase even though they were ready to purchase.

(3) AFAIK there was no surcharge implemented by NVDA and this value was captured by scalpers. In fact, the price for performance ratio for the latest series of NVDA GPUs was so good that even if crypto wasn't a thing many consumers were ready to replace their old GPU.

(4) Crypto focused demand is a leading indicator of sales for that channel. With the shift to PoS, the overall demand for crypto rigs could shutter overnight.

My theory (as an NVDA investor) is that sales wouldn't falter because they were already selling products as fast as physically possible due to supply constraints. The question then therefore is what is the forecast 2-5 years out? NVDA is IMO heavily diversified in markets that have long term plays that easily could substitute any dip in consumer GPUs due to less demand from crypto.

TL;DR - I think people are overthinking this and if you don't have any idea of how to calculate what a meaningful penalty should be (i.e. "well the company was set to gain X amount of profit due to their infraction") then it's hard for me to take the argument seriously that $5M "isn't enough".
I have been in the market for an outliner that outputs to open formats so I am absolutely your audience. (My current top contender is OutlineEdit, and I was days away taking the plunge so thank you!)

Two things I would love to see in any outliner:

1) Support Harvard and other outline format. I grew up outlining in Harvard and this bullet list stuff is maddening. The developer told me that OutlineEdit will not support it, period, so it's not a deal-breaker.

2) Horizontal outlining. Sometimes it's nice to have a hierarchy that expands and folds to the side. There was a Mac app called Tree 2 that did this but it is long unsupported.

Daily TaskPaper guy, so this is a great development.
I got interested when the different spectrum points of json and relational were contrasted. So I read the whole thing. I got lost and disheartened when the new terminology, starting with the super-structured name was introduced and completely went downhill with the other z names. Maybe it's just me and maybe it is like quantum mechanics and any other innovation where new names don't make sense and feel ugly.
Phone cameras are very good but owing much of it to the DSP and software. An iPhone camera will not produce iPhone quality photos without the chipset and OS.
Yes, but for different reasons. The grandparent is probably incorrect though, there is emerging evidence that silicon is actually changing/failing over time. See this paper from google on their CPU cores where they have practical evidence of this occuring: https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s...

If their data is correct, it should follow that these exact issues will happen on the small transistor process GPUs as well.
Is it? I’d like to get a second opinion on that.