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Thanks for explaining that. I hadn't considered the moat effect caused by defaulting to a plugin store that allows closed-source packages.

That said, it sounds like people are maintaining an equivalent store for Codium [0], and are populating it with most of the packages found in Microsoft's repo. I'd think addresses most of the concerns about that particular form of moating.

> with some amazing features (like remote editing) or plugins being unavailable

The remote-editing package is definitely a sticking point for me. Is there some reason to believe that an open-source equivalent is out of reach?

I'm speaking from a place of ignorance on this, but I'd expect someone out there to want to do the work of writing that OSS package. Particularly if they preferred Codium over Vim/Emacs for other reasons.
This morning there was an ad during Face the Nation for portal. It was very focused on business uses. Gone are the days of grandpa reading a book to his grandchild adorned with VR animal ears.

Having been on family zoom calls with some participants using Portal, I would love for the quality of the experience to come to everyday business use. It needs to be decoupled from Meta for me to advocate for that.
Considering that Iran went on to develop uranium enrichment capabilities it hardly seems like Stuxnet was a final win, though it certainly delayed them.
Calling WL compositors "window managers" is more like asking how to swap out the engine on that donkey.
Bitwarden works well also.
Regarding the price discrepancies, why can't they program some kind of outlier check into this type of system? If an average burger costs $12.00 in an area, but the system interprets the price as either $1,200.00 or $0.12, it should be relatively easy to flag that as a likely error.
> For individual use, most of them are <$100/year.

Except as a developer you need one app, then another, and another… soon enough you’ll be paying 10 x 50$/year.

And paying a sub for software is repugnant to me. I bought FontAwesome 5 while it was in KickStarter, it’s no longer updated (it’s now version 6), but at least I can still fully use the thousands of icons I paid for.

tldr: way too damn expensive.
It's convenient to put me into a category you disagree with and then dismiss me, but it's not really a great argument is it?

Aggression and violence are clearly very different things. If they weren't, self-defence would not be a justification for anything. Ignoring this clear and sharp distinction does nothing to help you either.

Why should humans who behave indistinguishably from dangerous wild animals be treated any differently?

Is immediate and severe escalation of violence in response to aggression ineffective?

> primary danger being to themselves

The secondary danger posed to innocent people, as well as the knock-on effects of normalizing minor property crime (colloquially "we can't have nice things") and the erosion of the innate trust in strangers that more civilized places tend to have, don't seem worth feeling good about how empathetic and virtuous you are.
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You expect incorrectly. A great percentage of children are now born out of wedlock. Your expectations are not real.
For me:

1. Learn C.

2. Read the source code to evilwm.
Ardour (DAW) is both gratis and libre (though supported ready-to-run builds cost at least US$1). Other gratis and libre DAWs include QTractor and LMMS and likely soon ZRythm.

Bespoke, an innovative, idiosyncractic modular music making environment, is also gratis and libre.

The LV2 plugin API has on the order of a thousand gratis and libre plugins that do almost anything you can imagine, and a bunch of stuff you probably cannot, and there are also many VST and AU plugins that are gratis (but frequently not libre).
Falling marriage rates don't necessarily indicate those inclined to marry will do so before children. That take is mostly based on individual morals, not logic. We've spent quite a few decades tearing down the taboo of sex before marriage and children out of wedlock without stigmatizing marriage itself.

Even in the context of a prenup I'd think twice before making that statement. It seems logical someone inclined to write a prenup would think twice about having kids out of wedlock, until you consider marriage itself has a different set of rules in many countries which cohabitation with a partner and a child don't bring (and vice versa, you'd have the same problems cohabitating with a child as being married with a child). Many, many people have been spooked by divorce horror stories these past few decades.
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> What if we made it mandatory to renegotiate the pre-nup every year or so?

So, you want to fix a problem by requiring that people rewrite the law of marriage from scratch in order to get married and then also force them to redo the exercise annually to remain married?

Wouldn't people just opt out of official “marriage” for a regular contractual agreement to avoid the legal maintenance burden?
After 2 years of therapy I'm convinced that psychologist are the sarcedotal class of our time. Like astrology in Imperial China, psychology serves as the science for ad hoc justification.
If we had regulatory consumer protections at this level, I think it goes without saying the same regulations would require any such locking down during the initial provisioning would require opt-in by the consumer.

The intended salient point of my previous comment is there's just no reason for this to be something impossible to navigate for the majority of users.

Personally I think it's important for the provisioning to be part of the process for everyone to undergo. When it's effectively part of the unboxing process, it ensures manufacturers invest in maintaining and polishing the functionality. It will be less buggy, it will be less error-prone, and it helps educate the public on the otherwise invisible line separating firmware/software from hardware.
Do you work in tech? Like writing code? Because I honestly can't believe that someone who works in this industry could say "Each of these things would require less effort on the part of software companies, not more." with a straight face.

> Upfront payment? It's easier to charge once than to set up recurring bill pay.

Monthly bill payments on a regular schedule are not hard, huge spikes are more difficult to deal with. Also then you have feast/famine cycles at your company and hold back completed features for a year or more to sell n+1 version. I'd rather show, in real-time (monthly or annually), what I think of the software (as in continuing to pay for it if I like it) as well as get new features as soon as they are ready instead of waiting for an arbitrary point in the future.

> Open source? You already have the code, just let me see it.

Again, do you work in tech? This is nowhere near as easy as your make it out to be.

> Tracking? Just don't track me. Actually requires the company and it's devs to write less code not more. Companies managed to successfully sell software for many years without tracking and spying on their users

This can encompass a wide range of things and I don't personally believe it's all bad, the good companies allow you to opt out [0]. None of things IDEA can collect bother me and you can disable it easily. There are good reasons for wanting this data along with things like crash reports. It's to improve the product, see what features people are really using, where you should direct your efforts, what types of project structures to optimize for. Does adding the tracking take more work? Yes but we (software developers) wouldn't do it if we didn't get value out of the results.

As far as rent-seeking, I guess it's a matter of opinion. You can make the argument that you'd rather things just never change and limit yourself to dated tools that will eventually not be supported or have features you will need in the future. Or you can continue to learn and grow with the current landscape of tools letting you take advantage of new features that might end up being game-changing.

[0] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/settings-usage-statistic...
Or see it the other way around: if you have a SaaS, don't underestimate resellers.

My company has its own product, but we also provide white-label services to other companies. We're terrible at marketing, and some of our partners operate in certain very specific niches, with their pool of clients. It's a mutually beneficial relationship.

(With the caveat that, if your aim is to build a pool of clients to then sell the company, well, we don't 100% own these clients).
Collectivism requires some amount of nationalism. When everyone in charge treats your country like it's just an economic zone you're not going to have that.
China is more likely to have its government choose a very different leader with resulting policy changes than attack Taiwan. Its economy and along with this politics have increasing problems which are unlikely to reach a plateau or improve in the next decade, possibly longer, and the current leader's policies are accelerating and exacerbating these problems. The only major wild card I see is if the government is able to make a unilateral move against Taiwan in an effort to distract from its internal problems. I don't know how the PRC works well enough to have some notion of how realistic this might be. Given Biden's restatement of the US positions it seems even less likely this would happen. And if it did I'd expect the US and Japan will immediately become involved, promptly followed by other allies if it escalates. What I also cannot gauge is what might happen if action were limited to only a place like Kinmen. If so the arms shipments to Taiwan and would likely immediately change and who knows maybe both Japan and the US would setup military bases there.
lol why did I never have a problem with that when I was on android? People always say FF on android was awful but I just never saw it. When you got them to really talk about it they just didn't like that it didn't look like Chrome and bitter "power users" who were mad at FF for tightening up extension security. I use Apple these days because I got tired of how fiddly Android was.
I thought so too :)

I did a few C64 test applications both in plain 6502 and via cc65(which works very poorly on ARM btw), but that didn't really work out for us. I ran into issues porting VICE to Plan 9, and I had all sorts of issues with c64 sound emulation.
People are dying for being the next <one if only a handful companies everyone knows/unicorn>

Probably often more delusional than not.

I know a few 'business' people who just life there life's telling you how well everything works and how close they are...
The documentation of any mature web development framework.

Yii, codeigniter, BackboneJS,.

I read the source code along the documentation. That helps to see design patterns in action.

It's amazing, works for me.
It’s not even obviously correct now.
True for most of the middle east. Egypt is an interesting counterexample, both because tourism is so important for their economy, and because for most of their history moving water uphill was really expensive, so if you just move a bit off the river valley you can be fairly certain that no-one ever built anything there, so you always have room to develop without having to stumble on ruins.
So imagine the scenario if iran made stuxnrt against Israeli nuclear facilities let alone american ones.

Imagine the outrage "how dare you" and "attack on the constitution and national integrity of the country" and "causus belli" among other things but its being made as an achievement. Isn't this american propaganda?
The context of this article makes more since when you realize the author is an Iranian sympathizer.
> As someone that went the other way (100% software to mostly analogue modular)

Software modular -> hardware modular or Non-modular software to modular hardware?
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Actually Eclipse (and Spring Tool Suite based on Eclipse) works great. Being able to simultaneously debug several microservices in one Eclipse instance is one amazing feature.
oh man youre really setting everybody straight today
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Well, I thought it was pretty impressive. Maybe I’m just a rube though.

Also, with this encryption based approach, at some point the code needs to run on the systems it targets. So if someone is affected by your payload, by definition they can observe a key that unlocks the payload.
No but if you turn on strict mode, it gets you 95% there in firefox and brave.
Is this attributed to VS Code's use of Electron?

I'm curious if VS Code's design makes it practical to replace Electron with another framework. E.g., Qt, GTK, simpler HTML, or whatever's most idiomatic for Win64 GUIs these days.
I'm sworn in as a California court appointed special advocate for children.

https://www.californiacasa.org/state-priorities

The primary goal is to keep children with their parents/parent wherever possible while speaking for the child in the court system to allow their voice to be herd.
No matter how awful the family relationship they still have a family which is ultimately more grounding and stable than anything else.

I'm also a British citizen and I find this Guardian article disturbing because it doesn't appear the authorities are putting the child's needs first.
> If I’m attending a social function, I certainly don’t want to hear about your religious views or political bent. Chances are slim that I would espouse compatible views and that would just make things very uncomfortable for either or both of us.

Maybe it's because I'm high but that sounds fascinating, as mr. Spock likes to say.

Why is it that knowing that another human being at a social event has a different political [or reality] view than you cause you discomfort?

p.s. and what does that phenomena foretell for viability of 'democracy'?
>I'm surprised he would be so taken in. Presumably he understands the inner workings.

Just because you understand in theory how a system works does not mean you are immune to its effects. I can see how the more you use a system the more you are convinced about its intended function. I got the idea from the article that the engineer was more involved with the testing rather than the creation. So LaMDA has gotten to a point where it's coming up with responses that seem so real no matter how hard testers try to make it fail. That's impressive. It has gotten good enough to fool everyday testers. Think about how the same system will affect everyday people who have no AI training. We're at the edge of some very large societal changes due to AI. It may not be sentient but it's a great simulation. Similar to how 3D engines seem to be getting closer to duplicating the way we see the world. It's not there but it's getting so close that in time we won't be able to tell the difference. Except that in LaMDA it's happening in language processing. It's not sentient but, I deduce, it's an amazing simulation.
Very interested to see what Apple’s losses (or lack thereof) are when they can mitigate identity fraud using Apple ID and biometric mechanisms. Perhaps this encourages other fintechs to get away from lazy auth like KBA (knowledge based authentication, where you’re asked questions from your credit report data).
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This sounds like a perfect question for a company that's hiring engineers who want to focus on optimizing DNA storage. If that's your goal you should just put that in the hiring criteria. You'll get more candidates that know those type of algs. If your goal is know if the candidate knows about bloom filters a better question might be "What do you know about bloom filters?" Definitely seems like you'd get answer in less than 45 minutes.

I think "key/value counts" is absolutely the correct starting answer. Anything after that is optimization. In the real world optimization comes at length through research, learning, grokking, reading, benchmarking, sleeping, mulling things over. The only way to short change that is knowing about those optimizations in advance, so might as well just ask about those algs specifically.

All that being said, I think it's an enlightening question. Thank you for sharing it! You've educated me. I've been coding a loooooooong time and didn't know about bloom counting filters specifically.
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i've read this article multiple times, and i have to say it is absolute garbage. This general layman description ( which i never noticed before) should really be at the beginning and not buried deep after pages of lambda calculus expressions..
It’s a little better, but I still don’t think it’s on par with compose.
When there is human-made pavement on another planet (or moon) I highly suspect OSM will model it.
Keep the debate lord behavior to online discourse. No one likes that shit in person. Debate lord is a pejorative for a reason.
Oberon is great! I remember reading the book, it gave me all sorts of ideas for Uxn. I love writing Pascal, Modula+Overon's drawing API is excellent. It's much too massive a system for me, and I can't even begin to imagine how I'd bring that over the GBA/Amiga/etc.. but I recommend people go through the book from time to time.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/pascal.html
it would be true if countries are really "independent". What China sees is the first island chain made by the US. China sees "China Containment".
I was wondering: is there a community online like HN for marketers?
>If you are a tinkerer or prefer to install your custom OS, then you'd choose a "foss" device like the pinephone, librem or other.

Except the hardware and ecosystem of those suck in comparison to The Big 2 (iPhone and Android). If I could install a custom OS on iPhone, I'd buy one in a heartbeat. Otherwise I'm stuck with AOSP on my Pixel.
Probably not the best but I liked the Phoenix Project. It’s novel because it’s literally a novel. The story makes a case for the practice of devops through the medium of long form fiction.

I probably liked it because at the end the protagonist’s company starts making progress on clearing their ops backlog which was cathartic for me to fantasize about.

As for actual best, Tenebaum’s Distributed Systems was a key read for me starting my career as a first year developer working on large backend systems. I’ve probably forgotten 95% of the content, but it helped me develop intuition for the reasons and tradeoffs of system decision decisions.

It’s 96 pages over your limit, but a lot of the end chapters of the book’s parts can be skipped. Also Designing Data-Intensive applications covers some of the same content with slightly less rigor so that is a good substitute.
I agree, I was just clarifying the parent comment.
There is no way to do what you state, though. Things change in ways folks cannot predict.

For example: My grandmother married a nice, kind man. A year later, he had a stroke. He increasingly became more and more abusive, compounded by the fact that he was home all the time and needed care. My grandmother finally kicked him out when he expanded the abuse to my aunt, 3 years younger than I and a teenager at the time. She was accused of abandonment.

And seriously, this isn't something they could have predicted and really is a good reason for the laws. There is no reverting back to a more optimistic time at these points. Even if they had a prenup, the only fair thing to do is to look over it and make sure it is still fair to the couple and their children, if any.
https://www.amazon.com/Vodzsla-Portable-Monitor-Extender-Com...
Unless you are very careful google knows exactly who you are even with multiple layers of ad blockers and VPN. It's built into their browsers and services. They are the best in the world at it barring state agents like FSB and CIA.
The problem is that it does happen. People do make up DV stories to gain leverage in divorces and children are easy to manipulate. In short, the opposite is equally Kafkaesque and there's little way of reliably determining the truth
I'm surprised it doesn't mention selling "mash ups". I imagine there's some opportunities to talking to one service and decorating it with associated data from another service. Or even just better thought out aggregated services from one provider. I suppose then it's engineering, but the kind of thing an out of the box api proxy could do with just configuration.

A proxy would also open up opportunities like serving cached responses for more static calls, which would raise your margin.
The biggest unlock that most HNers will miss in this article is that this guy isn't selling software, he is selling marketing.
If it were the rule across the board, they’d make it easy and pleasant.
This site is so fun, and I spent the better part of my Sunday morning reading the journal entries while enjoying the relaxing background music. Thank you for sharing.
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I think the difference is the US is very likely to remove them preemptively.
that post you're responding to was not misleading, but rather quite clear and on point

bringing up individual case reports for a population-level question is indeed pretty ridiculous, especially in the comment section of a study which addresses the question much better

this also applies to sources of info: if someone is trusting individual doctors they found on the internet instead of a consensus of the population of doctors, they are also likely to mislead or be misled.
> relatively harmless due to vaccinations and previous exposure

This year's dominant strain was significantly less lethal/debilitating for unvaccinated people as well.

The restrictions are still reasonable in hindsight, especially in places like Canada where hospital capacity was quickly overwhelmed in all waves leading up to and until this Spring.

Restrictions obviously can't create a world with "COVID zero" but it can slow down the infection rate so that hospitals can still treat other emergencies (although, again, in Canada it was barely enough). Kinda hard to run a hospital as usual if you have 30 people per day rolling in and they never leave.
$50/port is still prohibitively expensive for consumer networks... and that's just the module, it doesn't include the cost of the SFP+ cage (and supporting hardware). Spot checking one OEM, they charge $100 to upgrade to copper 10GbE on a desktop computer. I'm sure others charge less, but 1GbE has been effectively "free" for forever, and 2.5GbE has been becoming "free" over the last year or two.

Nothing presented so far even comes close to making me believe this is a conspiracy. People just got tired of waiting for 10GbE to come down in price. Cost and impatience are the driving factors. Gigabit ethernet was introduced in the late 90s... it was time for some increase in speed, and basically no one has been able to justify the continued high cost of 10GbE in home networks yet, 20+ years after 1GbE, so 2.5GbE it is.
I believe that's what was intended by the comment, yes. I'm only correcting a misinterpretation.

I don't have a strong opinion, but I bet a pre-nup could include many "decision trees" and mitigation strategies. I don't have a pre-nup, so I don't know.
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Or a proxy server.