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> If you want there to be a viable competitor to Apple and Google (and you have the cash), buy a Librem 5.

No thank you, I will never buy or use any hardware from Purism. They are openly hypocritical and I have zero trust for them.

Quoting from: https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-solving-the-first-fsf-ryf-hurd...

> The RYF has a “secondary processor” exclusion that can be granted on a case by case basis. We will leverage this exclusion to load and train the DDR PHY on the i.MX 8. We will use a secondary processor to keep binary blobs out of u-boot and the kernel.

Add extra silicon, to lock the user out of updating the firmware. Because the FSF will grant you an arbitrary badge of honour if the firmware is closed source, but not user-updatable. This is some next-level bullshit.

This is on top of the hardware being utter crap in terms of protecting user security or privacy; marcan_42 explains it quite well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30761886

If you want a reasonable trade-off between freedom and security, GrapheneOS is actually the only viable contender I'm aware of.

> If you want there to be a viable competitor to Chrome, use Firefox.

The IE monopoly was broken, because Mozilla made a better product. Also, it took Chrome to fully displace IE.

This is why FOSS can't "win". You have to have a better product, not just a feel-good badge. Look at the FOSS projects out there that are actually successful: they all have a good product strategy behind them. But for most FOSS activists, designing a better product is apparently much harder than indoctrination.
The two party system is a direct result of the voting methods that are being used.
35k is above the average salary in most EU countries.
> Trust me though: there are a lot of smart programmers who reject Lisp, and it's not because they "just haven't learned to ride a bike" yet.

You aren't telling me anything I don't already know - to quote your remark from above.

The questions of code formatting and Lisp syntax has been discussed since the early 1960s. I've taking part in such discussions myself since the mid 80s.

My take: people don't like Lisp or reject Lisp because of MANY different factors - and many are justified, based on what they are looking for - not everybody needs to like or use Lisp - if there are better programming languages with their eco-systems for many programmers, that's totally fine for me.

Syntax is a factor why people don't program in Lisp. The standard formatting rules are a minor factor. More important is that the syntax&semantics is difficult: the consequences of code as data is confusing them - for example they have to deal with quoting/evaluation rules, they see that there are macro expansion phases which make code understanding and debugging harder, etc.

> ... because of the arbitrary indentation and closing brace style.

Lisp does not have an 'arbitrary' indentation and closing brace style. There are clear rules and these are supported by tools in various ways.
Where the hell are you working where someone can come in and challenge you for your job?

I’ve been working for over 30 years and this has literally never happened.
Also home appliances love to use icons without any seeming standardisation. On one oven, the fan icon means fan assisted cooking and is basically the one you want 90% of the time, and then on another it means turn the fan on without applying heat. Also various half open rectangles with squiggly lines which may or may not have anything to do with grill modes depending on your specoific oven.
Much better than the verge’s article
There are actually very few regulations regarding the credit score "system" -- if it can even be called that -- and it shows. The system is grossly abused by everyone involved, and typically the only people experiencing the effects of that abuse are already in the most vulnerable positions. It's quite reprehensible what humans are willing to do to each other over an unpaid bill, almost universally representing a completely non-relevant amount of revenue for the companies. How many lives have been disrupted or ruined over sending $15 to collections?
Is it possible to change the system so alternative parties would have real weight? Is it possible (or even beneficial) to move extremes out of the 2 major parties to separate extreme parties to have "rational conservatives" and "reasonable liberals" separate from "gun nuts" and tax maniacs?
Or, replace the barrel and molex, or maybe solder a couple wires, but where's the fun in that? You could instead replace a high dollar board & / or controller(s) to get back your otherwise basic functionality.
> 99% are just fake. If you reject cookies you keep get them

Note that cookies that are technically required to serve the site don't need a cookie banner. This is something many people get wrong. Other people shift to LocalStorage instead. But the actual legislation does not distinguish between cookies and local storage (and similar techniques).

Also, there must be a "reject all" button which should appear visually equivalent to the "accept all" button. Rejecting all has to be as easy as accepting all. Additional clicks are not legal.
This does happen on a lot of devices. It’s ok for stuff you expect to last a few years but anything longer and the app stops working before the device does.

I have a bike gps which has some functions as a phone app but the phone app no longer works.
Since you mention a mi band, gadgetbridge should have you covered - never tried to export data myself though.

https://gadgetbridge.org/

https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/wiki/Data-E...
Nah, this type of argument is often brought up once someone (with a lobby) actually has to change their ways to comply. Safety features would make cars 3x as expensive, nobody in the world could feasibly implement such radical emissions standards ...

All the time. It's just important to recognize this type of argument as pointless.
> if I hadn't had to sort through it all, I never would have missed that stuff.

That's the thing I hate most about doing deep cleans. I end up emotionally drained from nostalgia. If someone else had thrown away all the mathoms while I was on vacation, I'd never even notice they went missing.
Frick Medium again. Cannot find an archive for this one, so take a Scribe instead.

https://archive.ph/YgElI
Can confirm. Went from £55k to $165k by going remote in the US
A lot of those houses got additions added over the years, and were 2500sq ft which is plenty of room for junk as kids grow up and move out
There are signs that it's getting better. I started seeing cookie dialogs with a Reject all button. Sometimes it's a big one, sometimes it's almost white on white, but it's there. Anyway the vast majority of those dialogs is still misleading. The usual We care about your privacy, accept all, settings thing.
Every job I've taken so far has been worse than the one before. I hope you have better luck.

I've been thinking of taking some time off to learn one thing properly and try to turn it into a consulting opportunity, but as long as industry CTOs are fine with devs just copying and pasting from stack overflow to solve whatever the current crisis is, there is no real demand for that.
Clarify Go support policy for secondary ports
More or less like Sweden, and everything is digitally interconnected to the main population registry so things like that usually don't happen:

> TransUnion, one of Canada’s two main credit bureaus, had reported her as deceased.

We also moved out of the stone age and faxes practically don't exist and all certificates are digital:

> Two years of faxing in detailed documents—including Dave’s death certificate
Their business model is a 1 to 3 percent fee on every transaction they are involved in. My credit card company sends me a notification when a statement is ready and another friendly reminder a week before the bill is due.

They make money on interest also, but they would rather have someone that spends and pays off a lot than someone that carries a modest balance.
Right - mass shootings are bad for (criminal) business, and are (at least in the United States) exclusively the domain of radical actors.

Put simply - America has a radicalization vector x mental health x access to rapid-fire guns problem. Take away the rapid-fire component (semi- or fully-automatic weapons) and that would significantly reduce the mass-shootings problem.

As far as the radicalization vector goes, the abolishing of Section 230 protections would be a good start (and I am grossly oversimplifying this).

I have no solutions for the mental health component; there are way too many factors to discuss here, related to insularity, economics, education and outcomes.
When I learn about revolutions played out across the world, the recurring outcome seems to be measures to ensure citizens are not denied the means to usurp authority. Great men of the past seem to have concluded that the fundamental problem in any society is that power corrupts and the solution to a sane society is to provide citizens the means to put power in check. Just as freedom of speech, right to assemble or right to bear arms gives people the means to challenge authority, computation will be tomorrow's weapon of choice. More and more societal functions will rely on computation and those who have the means to compute will hold power. Data regulations might have good intentions, but it's a road to hell that will eventually deny citizens the right to "compute" and keep the balance of power titled.
Kids are far far more fun.
My microwave pretty much has that - press start and it sets the timer to 1 minute and starts. Then spin the dial to add time while it’s cooking.
A16Z announces new $4.5B crypto fund
The lure of lying is you can ignore reality all together. You can even pretend you didn’t get caught lying. You can pretend people still trust you or listen to you.
Enabling that broke the layout of the site.

It takes the liberty to dynamically inject stuff into the site. Even after the user provided consent. Maybe so the user always has a menu to change their settings.

They seem to try to put that dynamically injected thing below the fold. So maybe blog like sites don't mind.

But on my site it wrecked havoc.

I tried for a while and couldn't fix it.
The linked article is somewhat bizarre. It says "Many who voted for Lamont in the primary may have switched to Lieberman in the general election to ensure his victory over Republican Alan Schlesinger."

That's pure insanity. The 2006 Connecticut Senate election results were 50% Lieberman (I), 40% Lamont (D), 10% Schlesinger (R). The Republican was a non-factor who had no chance to win. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_United_States_Senate_elec...

Joe Lieberman was the longtime, well-known incumbent and former Vice Presidential nominee. That 2006 election didn't change the country in the least; it was just more of the same old, same old.
Post a Show HN, where you show how to use it for its purpose.
If there was no shady activity, would tether pay a $18.5 million settlement for no reason?
The place where I feel this the most is cars.
I drove a Tesla Model 3 that belongs to a friend and had used a rented VW Golf mark 8. The touch screen and touch sensitive panels with haptic feedback were horrible. I now appreciate my VW Golf Mark 7 even more. It is glorious to have knobs, physical buttons, and levers for all things that needs to be controlled while driving. It's intuitive, and I can use them without looking at them(taking attention off of the road). I wish and hope that a modern car gets this "old fashioned" interface when I am in the market for a new car in a few years.
> Bugs don't "evolve" like a life form - unless you code is self-modifying!

Bugs live in the codebase, and the codebase evolves (through human modifications).

Every change in the codebase has a probability of introducing a new bug. If the introduced bug is deterministic and easy to catch, the probability of its survival is lower. If the introduced bug is nondeterministic and hard to catch, the probability of its survival is higher. So eventually, as time approaches infinity, the probability of a random bug in the codebase being nondeterministic approaches 100%.
But if things changes and you no longer need their services then should you just fire them? Telling the employee that they can keep their job if they update their skills is a nice thing to do, it is much better than just firing them without giving them a chance.
I'd love to, problem is that they don't make 400-600sq ft houses anywhere near a job.
Why Dubai specifically? I would imagine other places (like Singapore) would be more attractive. I recall stories of visa traps being used to abuse workers from the Indian subcontinent in UAE, but maybe these don't apply to higher status (like business people and tech workers)?
You don't have to sort any of it. You just have to not make them sort it. You can just pay to have it hauled if you don't want it. Or sell the property as is or forfeit the property to the state.
> People create wholly deterministic state machines all the damn time.

What do you mean by "wholly deterministic"?
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Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
I have usually kept a short list of games that would be fun if they existed. Long ago one my bullets in the list was a procedurally generated planet-sized planet with a full diaspora to explore. No Man's Sky fulfilled that for me.

What are some games that you wish existed?
I think we would be better off taking the notion of 'state's rights', expanding it to 'city's rights', doing away with governors, and modifying Congress to compensate.

Target federal power at concerns that cross cities and maintenance of current rights. Guarantee free travel across city lines and free engagement in legal activities in whatever city a person is standing in, and people will be free to choose their own destiny so to speak.

The issue is not simply choice of candidates, it is that certain groups within the population have fundamental political differences that can't be compromised away. The political extremist see it as their objective to save everyone from themselves.

See conservatives wanting to stop people from traveling to get abortions. See liberals insisting that abortion be available even where large parts of the population have religious beliefs that are against them.

Doing this at the scale of cities makes it easier for individuals to escape from areas that they find objectionable while still not having to travel so far that it's difficult to maintain their current jobs and relationships.

Don't want to deal with primitive conservative ideology? Move to the city. Don't want to deal with liberal snowflakes? Move out of the city. I'm sure independent areas will crop up as well.
I can't be bothered to search for academic papers, but I've seen it use in real elections to designate party candidates. Voters were absolutely rabid, marking exclusively for candidates from their group. The largest group gets a clean slate and the unaligned voters, instead of acting like swings, are simply ignored.
Other creditors are worried you would move abroad and forget to pay them for years.
I guess it depends on your past experience, but for most of the teams I've been involved in, it was basically a leap from floats to grids for page layout, with flexbox being a small scale option before and after.
Recently had this experience. It helped me to consider it this way:

An old stage theatre has finally closed, after nearly a century in operation. I had the task of emptying the prop room. Going through it, I found very recognizable things from shows I knew and loved. Also some things I maybe remembered, but not sure what script it supported. And lots of stuff, no idea why it was there or what show it was in.

Anyway, it's just props. The actors have done their lines, the shows long finished their runs, the audiences come and gone. The important part, the only part that really stays with us is the memory of the performances and how that changes us.

So sure, keep a prop or two if they are particularly commemerative. But don't worry about the rest. They can move on to another performance in another theatre elsewhere, or even the bonfire if that's their fate. Others should have them if they find them useful for their audiences.

Thinking about that helped frame it for me.
That's actually not true. If you pay the collection agency, the derogatory mark gets removed within weeks. You also typically only need to pay half the amount. If they try to get you to pay the whole thing, just tell them you're using your tax refund to pay off debts, but you only have $X left, where X is half the amount owed.
The article is light on actual stats but the quoted 44000 for the golden visa is across all categories (medicine, students, investors, founders etc). So, crypto/web3 is moving because the govt seems genuinely hostile to them, and the unicorn founders are moving because of tax benefits. The article seems to hint that some of these founders were specifically approached and enticed with funding as well.

I don't expect the Indian govt to do anything since I think the amount of FDI from the middle east far outweighs the loss in taxes. Plus, Dubai is a rich-people city and, like Los Angeles, has an industry dedicated to HNIs.
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That. I was addicted to credit cards and small payments but now I pay everything debit, cash in other words, and life became much more simple and predictable
You can use UBlock Origin's element blocker to remove the parts that you find distracting. It's super useful on many websites too.
> Ask someone to change the clock on their oven vs on their phone. Most could do it on the phone but not the oven.

I'd argue that's not an example of touch screens being better than buttons but rather the button interface in question being poorly laid out, and as for the phone, it's not the lack of physical buttons but rather the on-screen guidance that makes life easier. My grandparents' cooker is a button-free wonder and I couldn't work it out the first time I tried to turn it on.
> dwelling on it distracts from the valuable point.

You brought up an entirely imaginary situation because you misread the C++ code.

> It is not correct to say that C++ concepts are duck-typed.

The actual mechanism delivered is duck typing. Rust comes with Eq and C++ 20 comes with std::equality_comparable. The former has semantics, Rust only provides implementation of Eq on types which exhibit equivalence, however C++ provides numerous types which match the concept std::equality_comparable despite not exhibiting equivalence, because all it does is check the != and == operators are present.

Would you prefer to say it's "structural typing"? Because the trouble is that it doesn't (and shouldn't) do all of what structural typing does, that's why "duck typing" is the correct phrase.
> 99% are just fake. If you reject cookies you keep get them

That's illegal, then.
You never opened a single account other than that? You in essence have no credit, then.
Superficially it's simpler to understand. The actual tactics are even more complex than FPTP (and unlike ranked choice, it's not potential edge cases where rank order matters but every vote involving a decision about how low a bar of "wouldn't absolutely hate them running the country" to set for the people you approve vs the "every additional vote I approve might hurt the candidate I actually want to win)

I do agree that it tends to be depolarising in the candidates that win, but at the same time it still strongly incentivises moderates to ensure the most partisan alternative candidates get plenty of campaign airtime (both to scare moderates who identify with the other side of the aisle into putting "approve" next to their relatively moderate name, and as a "dirty tricks" campaign to promote the idea of bullet voting the other side's radicals to the other side's base)
The US has extremely weak privacy rights.
You can probably find a job where you’re not staying up late every night. What are you doing that’s worth sacrificing your health for?
So I forget: Are masses of Russian bots spewing disinformation still swaying public opinion on important issues? Or has there been acknowledgement that that never really happened?
or put a neighbour knob if you have already realised that you can dismount and mount them again.
There is a bit if confusion here. America isn't a democracy. It is a republic. We elect idiots that just do not represent us. We need to vote on issues directly and remove representatives. We have computers now. We don't need a representative to travel to DC during the winter to cast our vote.

Vote on all issues. Stop parties and proxies.
I guess this is related to the recent kerfuffle about to making (most of) 127/8 publicly routable to stave off the IPv4 shortage a little while longer.

We’re just delaying the inevitable. Sooner or later, the band-aid has got to come off. ~4 billion IP addresses are simply not enough for ~8 billion people.

So maybe we should just refuse to pile on more hacks and force the ISPs to get off their ass and upgrade their networks.
Sounds like these stoves could use an "oh shit" / "Big Red Button" that's easily accessible when this happens.
I think Honda have returned to at least partial physical controls for heating, air, and music for the Honda e. But it still has a lot of screen.
Yeah...when cleaning I take off the knobs and soak them while cleaning the rest of the top. Then finish by hand washing the knobs and then putting it all back together.

The other thing is you can buy new knobs which can update/change/refresh the look of an older cooktop.
> Another reason the Reagan took it seriously was that Margret Thatcher vouched for the science and that it was serious.
> Before becoming a politician Thatcher was a research chemist (she studied X-ray crystolography under Dorothy Hodgkin) and so understood the science behind it all.

It's worth clarifying that Thatcher's study of crystallography was for her final-year undergraduate dissertation at Oxford. She got a second-class degree in Chemistry, and this was her only earned academic qualification. She did nothing that would be regarded as academic research. As for her work after graduation, she worked for just four years as an industrial chemist at a company that made plastics, before starting a legal career.

There is no evidence that she had any particular knowledge of atmospheric science. Perhaps her degree gave her an understanding of chemistry at an undergraduate level, but I'm always a little irritated by her being described as a "scientist" or that she did "research". I don't think that either claim is true.
“huge” progress does not equal innovation. Being able to order a pizza in 60 seconds using an app is huge progress versus calling the store and ordering with your voice, but it is not a significant innovation. Now, printing a pizza using a digital recipe from a restaurant on my food printer would be something else.
> people are _generally_ good

generally means they are average which means half of the people are even worse!
If the Taliban could fend off the West, an armed population can take down the US government.
Thanks for trying & buying. Concepts has amazing pens (makes sense because it's focused on drawing), but agree we can/should improve the ink experience a lot.