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> if HN is still one of the best places to communicate and post serious matters

citation needed.

Other than that, I would love to see a bit better semantic markup, not because I'm some sort of HTML purist who demands everything to be pure, but because it would make it easier to style with CSS (which I did, to add dark mode, bigger font sizes and max widths). Currently, it's nested tables with occasional classes and ids, but not for everything.
Well, leak can mean a lot of things.

The standard "leak" of names and addresses of people is totally meaningless, though HN "privacy" obsessives blow it out of the water all the time. It's basically public information, we used to have everyone in phone books in the US and almost no one cared.

Cell phone number is a riskier one because of the opportunity for 2FA hacks. It's not hard to get people's cell phone numbers as it is (you can buy direct marketing lists for pennies per person in the US) but its not good to make it easy for hackers.

However this leak in particular appears to go much deeper so it is insidious. Police records are named and who knows what else. That is a genuine privacy issue and sucks for those involved.
If a database is expected to be good enough to optimize query plans by default, wouldn't you expect it to be also good enough to optimize layout/indexing?
Hey, if that's your attitude then who am I to stop you? By your definition, the iPad is also a great device for Windows since it can RDP into Windows machines without problems. Of course, as I outlined above, that's not a very impressive superpower, but who cares! In the future, you'll own nothing and be happy: including your own hardware/software.

For me, though, having an internet connection as a prerequisite for running my software is borderline insanity. My software should compile and run locally, I shouldn't need to trust a random third-party or connect to the internet to check how my HTML renders or test a few changes to my software. But I guess that doesn't make a difference on iPad, because even if you did have a proper text editor/compiler it would phone home with OSCP anyways.
That all sounds pretty rosy, and my BS-meter is pegged. I think it's just as likely that the corporations have figured out how to skirt the law and get everything they wanted anyway.

> If all you associate with the GDPR is cookie consent dialogs then maybe these discussions are not for you?

You realize that you are the unique one? Most people don't care about abstract concepts of digital privacy and just hit whatever button on that dialog that makes it go away. Who knows what they're opting in to, and they don't really care.

These are definitely the sorts of things we should factor into regulation lest we continue to pave that road to hell with shiny good intentions.
Also, say, things coming out of the other end of Disney: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mandalorian#Episodes
And CEO's - everyone!
I think that it’s perfectly fine to be up front that you want children to a woman, even the first date - or filtering for woman who also want children.

What is not ok is inferring that they couldn’t have children because of their age or asking very pointed questions about their reproductive health on a first date, especially if they don’t want to volunteer that information to someone they barely know. Don’t you think it would be odd if a woman who you were ok a first date asked you about your sperm count and pressured you to reply if you weren’t able to volunteer that info immediately ?

The other thing is that I am clear about my age and desire to have children in my dating profile, so it’s upsetting to have someone second guess me on a first date…

If a woman is kind and compassionate and honest and not sure about her ability to have kids, when you’ve expressed a strong desire to have them, she’ll take the high road and tell you or leave the relationship.

If you are ready to get more serious with someone and have trust and intimacy built up, it is totally ok to have that conversation.
When The Facebook started designing their own servers (which, by the way, have lots of switch-mode power supplies in them, and always have) the game they were playing was "be a better MySpace". They were running a bunch of PHP pages. At the time you could have made the same argument about The Facebook vs. Rackspace: "While Facebook would be hiring ordinary IT employees to work in a standard datacenter in a cheap business park, Rackspace could be hiring datacenter workers to work with Rackspace's BGP peering connecting their worldwide datacenters."

But The Facebook decided to make informatics their core competency, to the point of building their own servers with 12 volts running to the rack, same as Google before them.

There were surely industrial companies in 01922 who decided that management wasn't their core competency (though they used different words), and if they needed help with management they'd contract out to management specialists like Taylor or Gilbreth. They met the same fate that will meet companies today that decide that informatics isn't their core competency.
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In the test they ran they even had people take a pill every day for a week in advance. These are bacteria so it kinda makes sense that it a takes a while for them to get cozy.
We would go back and help Chang Kai-Shek harder of course.

I wonder what a world where he won would look like?
> By ensuring that the direction of the weaves are perpendicular to one another when doing a cloth layup, and using a sufficiently strong adhesive/sealant, these types of materials are incredibly strong.

I wonder if they tested that when creating their replica linen armor? That seems like the kind of thing ancient armor makers would definitely have tested out.
What do you think would be the ideal? A way for someone to replay an API request (without seeing it) in a dev environ?
Very much so, advancements in cosmetic surgery as well as the strict training and supplements that were not available for older generations of actors. Take someone like Kumail Nanjiani who very clearly were on HGH for his role in The Eternals
I imagine he would find that hypocritical. Not quite the same scenario, but I'm reminded of "Thank You For Smoking" where the Marlboro Man (Lorne Lutch) is suing the tobacco company:

Lorne Lutch: [in his home] Weren't you on that show?

Nick Naylor: Yeah it was me

Lorne Lutch: You're lucky you made it out of there alive

Nick Naylor: Tobacco used to be all over the television, now TV's leading the witch hunt.

Lorne Lutch: Strange business, last year when after I was diagnosed I attended the annual stock holder's convention I stood up and told them I think they should cut back on their advertising you know what your boss said to me? He said "we're certainly sorry to hear about your medical problem until we know more about your medical history we can't comment further", then they tried to pretend I never worked for them, I got the pay stubs hell, I was on the damn bill boards I suppose we all got to pay the mortgage so you're here to talk me into shutting up?

Nick Naylor: Yeah basically, no not "basically" that's exactly it

Lorne Lutch: My dignity isn't for sale

Nick Naylor: It's not an offer, it's a gift the taxes have all been paid you get to keep it no matter what you do, the idea is your guilt will prevent you from bad mouthing us

Lorne Lutch: Are you supposed to be telling me all that?

Nick Naylor: No sir, just apologize give you the money and leave

Lorne Lutch: Why are you telling me this?

Nick Naylor: Because this way you'll take the money

Lorne Lutch: Why would I do that?

Nick Naylor: Because you're mad

Lorne Lutch: Damn straight I am

Lorne Lutch: [Referring to the money] what am I going to do with it?

Nick Naylor: Donate it, yeah start the Lower Less Cancer Foundation

Lorne Lutch: Wait a minute, what about my family?

Nick Naylor: You can't keep the money

Lorne Lutch: Why the hell not?

Nick Naylor: Denounce us and keep the blood money?

Lorne Lutch: I've got to think this over

Nick Naylor: News doesn't work that way you can't denounce us next week

Lorne Lutch: I don't suppose I can denounce you for half of it

Nick Naylor: No, you either keep all the money or give it all away
You can get a plug-and-play database experience at any of the dozens of companies that will host a database for you. You'll have to define your own tables and indexes of course, but the grid doesn't take care of the wires inside your house either.

The electrical grid is kept up by the continuous effort of tens of thousands of employees across the country btw, it's hardly magic. I bet most people would be horrified if they realized how much manual planning is involved in keeping the electrical grid running.
> Institutionalized 3p developers should be treated like adversaries

The weird part about your statement here, is that you bring up a statement about 3rd party developers doing bad things, and yet the solutions you gave do nothing except for take extra money from those 3rd parties and gives that money to Apple.

If you actually cared about stopping all these bad actions, why didn't you suggest an action that gives Apple zero dollars, and prevents these bad things from happening?

I am all for both helping customers, and preventing monopoly app stores. How about we solve all of this, by making sure app developers do not have to pay Apple anything, while also ensuring that app developers follow basic user privacy requirements?
Ask HN: Advice for direct mail marketing for SaaS?
Solo bootstrapper here, with a SaaS catering to brick & mortar small/medium businesses. Restaurants and bars, primarily.

I have a hunch that, because of our typical customer, direct mail marketing might work better than CPC ads (which we've used so far) for new customer acquisition.

I'd like to give it a try, but I don't know where to start.

Problem 1: Where do I find postal mail lists of restaurant owners (business address)? I am guessing there are brokers for this stuff out there. Are there any that are higher quality than others?

Problem 2: Who do I contract to do the printing and mailing? Maybe 1+2 have the same solution/vendor.

My basic goal is to mail a postcard (or possibly a modest piece of schwag) with a coupon/incentive to try our product.

I'd love any related anecdata on experiences with offline marketing from smaller / indie devs!
Does the ISS fit within the definition of "the world's"? It's outside the atmosphere, so maybe not. But it's in orbit, so maybe so.
It's not difficult at all, when you understand the workflow and are honest with the user about the ramifications. If honesty is difficult, that is the problem.
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Random guesswork trivia: it's probably not a relevant greenhouse gas because it's so soluble; it just rains to the ground? Because it does have the structure and absorption spectrum that otherwise might make it a greenhouse gas: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mid-infrared_absorpt...
Don't forget how you get five or six results from your search term before it starts listing random videos like it has ADHD.
>One of the things many people who've never had to wear armor for an extended period of time on a hot day don't realize is how horribly uncomfortable armor is, and how that discomfort can be a severe distraction under battlefield conditions.

Maybe! A well tailored and properly weight-distributed mail hauberk (which is also conformal) is surprisingly comfortable for extended period of time in all kinds of weather. (Source: my own experience in medieval re-enactment). What gets you in hot weather are the textiles - with mail its the necessary padding under the mail that will cause issues in hot weather.

the author's point that linen was more comfortable than 'rigid' armor was probably true, but I will point out that rigid armors were also individually tailored, balanced, and created for optimal weight distribution.

As an aside mail armor was a successful and popular armor for a millennium, from the Iron Age to the middle ages (and continued to be successful as an augment to plate and in other contexts like South Asia and India until probably the 16th century).
It was probably contemporary to the linen armor of the article (In time, not geographically - it was used most heavily in iron-rich regions in central Europe at first).
> at 5%, cc fees would result 2.9 billion. So more like 16B in profit

So you assume they can do all the stuff I just mentioned for 0$ and changing their fee structure had no long term impacts on profits.

Also your math doesn’t work out if 5% of 64B = 3.2B, though 25% or 64B is 16B. Not that actual CC fees are 5%, or that their old revenue model is relevant any longer.
There's a recent paper on this topic if you're looking for a very in-depth discussion: https://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/V...

The conclusion is no, there is no alternative right now.
How normal am I?

> So! Lets talk about your face

Nope nope nope nope I am gone.
It's like a cross between 'The Big Bus'(1976) and 'Snowpiercer'(2013). Grab your pitchforks and torches and let's get to the front of the bus!

Seriously, I agree that this is the only choice, but what is the actual plan?
The manufacturing process seems very like an ancient version of how modern carbon fiber armor is built.
Wanting to sidestep banks when doing business is antithetical to a functioning and economically healthy society?

Fourteen years ago a good deal of those banks crashed the world economy but are still around because governments decided that their immense loses had to be socialized using taxpayer money. Not my definition of economical healthy.

Before the advent of altcoins and before the fees skyrocketed people were using BTC to pay for stuff.
A network that can facilitate this has value. What that value is is a matter of debate, just like it's debatable whether Tesla should be worth ten times as much as Volkswagen.

Any crypto that survives in the long term and will facilitate near-instant global payments at minuscule costs without middlemen will have enough value for a lot of people to want to have it.
I don't think its fair to just compare US to Canada, Canada is a much smaller population and manageable situation than US. It's not without its faults, our insane taxation policies are acceptable by society, it would not translate into relection for politicians in the US to push for what we have here.

Having said that I am only okay with abortion when all other options are non-pursuable which covers many cases. What I am not okay is, people waiting until their baby is breathing inside their wombs to abort. This is where I have an issue because it is very much a life after 3 months.

All in all, I think Canada will follow suit as is the typical pattern. English speaking parts of it simply look to the US for guidance as it lacks a culture of its own, compared to French speaking parts.
The original question was—"what are the benefits to having children"... specifically, "what are the benefits [to me] to having children". That's what I'm responding to. "What do I get out of it" isn't the best way to evaluate having kids. You get something out of it, sure, but... it kinda misses the forest for the trees.
You'd probably enjoy this other discussion on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31990836
I thought Oracle already has this feature - https://www.oracle.com/news/connect/oracle-database-automati...
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An easy and free way to get a QR code for a menu
Meta: It seems that HN lists the Punycode for this website's domain (xn--1-zfa.com), instead of the actual IDN that's displayed by the browser (ä1.com). This feels kind of odd to me.

[Punycode] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

[IDN] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
The modern wallets don’t publish the public key though, so this is not likely to help.
> They are too large of a market not to cater to

Why? Seems the market was plenty big enough prior to their ascendancy.
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Apple will probably try to deal with requirement to not require developers to use WebKit by allowing alternate web browser engines in European Union only - a developer would be required to provide WebKit version of an application or else it would be only available in European Union. That wouldn't violate Digital Markets Act, as Digital Markets Act only applies to European Union.
I feel like you don't need to "mislead" the public into having sympathy for you when the government bans ~30% of farming and then sends tanks in to stop protesters

If anything people who don't have sympathy for the farmers have been mislead. These people are having their lives destroyed for political reasons, it's like if we said with the exception of Google, Apple, and Microsoft all tech companies had to reduce their server power usage by 30% and couldn't expand in the future. This law is horrible and oppressive
I think the Matterhorn looks even more like an archetypal mountain, even if a bit tobleronish :)
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There's something about the direct democracy upvote/downvote system that hyper-polarizes the whole forum. Marginal (read: interesting and crucially under-appreciated) voices are silenced & made to disappear, only reinforcing the absence of marginalized voices.

On Reddit, it's done for overtly political reasons. And on HN it's done under the pretense of expertise (a loose proxy for majority "respectable" political opinion of the relatively wealthy tech industry social class).
?

I'm not going to read an entire book.

Say what the new interpretation is and give me a source please, instead of beating around the bush ;)
Well in this case I think it's important to rescale to a relative measure instead of an absolute one. If the ozone continues to strengthen in general, an absolute measure could fail to find a significant hole as it has here.

This isn't an example of moving the goalposts but improving the definition.
Besides the mentioned NtSetSystemPowerState function, which this feature calls, there are also other undocumented API functions that allow to shutdown / restart the sytem immediately, like NtRaiseHardError (which allows to cause a bluescreen-like unclean shutdown with normal user permissions as a fun side-effect).
Being able to subscribe to specific playlists and keep specific playlists from your subscriptions would be wondrous. There's a ton of channels I'd like to subscribe to but they just pollute my Subscriptions page too much.
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https://twitter.com/maatr_k/status/1544396960697761792
"The automaker didn’t confirm how many vehicles it produced during the month of June, but we estimate it to be around 120,000 electric vehicles"

So how do we even know this is true? To me in recent weeks it sounded like Tesla is not doing well at all and the factory in Germany is having big issues such as people leaving for better pay.
I'll have to try it, I need it on the mobile app.
> I find it insane that this could ever be anything but a medical decision made exclusively between a woman and her doctor.

That's what happens when medical issues become politicized, unfortunately. We can only hope you Canadians can avoid the US's trajectory.
There is a developer mode[0] so maybe that's their angle; right now nothing changes for regular apps but I can see a future API where banks, competitive games, etc. check to make sure you're not running any sideloaded code (not that that's a big problem, as iOS 15 is still unjailbroken due to the extreme advancements in the OS security model).

0: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/enabling-dev...
Cookie consent is not compliant with GDPR - I need an ability to retract my consent as easily as I gave it, which zero of those sites actually provide.

If the EU ever actually starts enforcing GDPR, I expect a quick reckoning.
I mean no kidding, at least in DC there are already fewer Ubers (with longer wait times) and at a higher cost to the point people are returning to cabs as a default from places like the airport and major hubs; waiting an extra while for a miniscule amount of savings doesn't make that much sense. That said, I did like pools back in the day just for meeting random people but it felt like back ~5yrs ago there was still something fun and seat of the pants about ridesharing together, now it feels very stiff and professionalized for the most part
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I'm looking for a remote C++ development job: backend/libraries/GUI all suits me fine, just not embedded. Dealbreakers: "defense" (weapons/war), "gaming" (gambling) and crypto.

Up until now I did embedded development (in spite of my CS background), along with Qt C++ development (6 years of experience). Now I want to switch to (non-embedded) C++ full time. I can say I'm very proficient at modern C++, I've devoted most of my free time for 2 years to doing a deep dive of it.

I'm also very experienced with Python: generating C/C++ code, writing development tools with it, including Flask web-based tools and webhook-glue-services, as well as processing numerical data and doing some DSP in it.

I'm an expert at setting up company infrastructure (with Podman in Ansible on RHEL), administering and connecting internal services (like Gitea, Gitlab, Sonarqube, Reviewboard) and setting up CI systems (Drone, Gitlab CI) for C++/C/Python development. I'm also very good at large-scale refactoring, writing static analyzers and fixers with Clang tooling (clang-tidy). Automation of all kinds is my game.

I have several small FOSS projects on my Gitlab (https://gitlab.com/andrejr), packages on PyPI (https://pypi.org/user/andrejr/) and I also maintain packages on AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/account/andrejr).

I'm willing and able to establish, recruit and lead a small local team in Slovenia.
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That also has to do with the short length of the series.

Having a single director direct 24 1 hour episodes is probably impossible.