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HTML is what killed email. The younger generation hates email in part because they associate email with spam, and spam email only became a large business because of HTML email. Plain text email could not easily be used for advertising, nor did plain text email support clever, manipulative tricks, like embedding hidden images so as to track people without them being aware of being tracked. Also, HTML email was implemented without enough thought as to the security and privacy problems it allowed, and it took 20 years to lock down HTML email to limit the damage to security and privacy. Plain text email was a great communication technology, and fairly immune to spam. I've often thought we should re-launch plain text email as some new, separate protocol. A wider demographic would be willing to communicate with plain text email, just as a wider demographic is comfortable with text messages on their phones.
I certainly can learn all the rules of chess. I know most of them already. It's not unknowable. Knowing how things work is what I was talking about, not out-computing a computer.
My employer attempts to solve this by offering several overlapping tracks.

Engineer (junior through principal) - screenshot of code

Architect (mid-career through principal) - screenshot of system diagram alongside code that implements part of the diagram

Technical Fellow (principal+, considered equivalent to directors, but still IC) - screenshot of system diagram alongside overbooked calendar

Manager (mid-career+) - overbooked calendar, maybe an IDE on a light day

And also product managers and business analysts and others.
They called out in the presentation that it's also got an ambient temperature sensor just underneath the display, to help calibrate body-temp vs room-temp for the overnight "difference from baseline" temperature measurements.

Agreed on the local-storage-for-health-data bit, but I'm sure they could argue that the ambient sensor isn't privacy-relevant.
> I've never had a doctor give me a better answer than "diet and exercise" to change things. I got to a level of fitness where I could go on 10 mile hikes

I don’t mean this to be rude, but it sounds like you paid attention to just one half of the doctor’s advice?
>There's an initial crime (sex with 12yr old for David Koresh, and selling illegal weaponry to white supremacist criminal orgs for Randy Weaver).

>Then they don't engage the legal system normally by hiring a lawyer and fighting the charges -- they hide in a hole hoping to be forgotten about.

Weaver was acquitted on all charges, with the exception of a charge for failing to appear in court for the original charge that lead to the siege. And the rules of engagement still are and were murder.
Making Runpath Redundant for Nix
Yeah. When I was tasked as a senior software engineer to choose a file system for one of our embedded device, I used bonnie+ and iodisk to evaluate and on a 10GB SDD disk in 2005.

I gained crazy insights but was unable to published because it was done on company’s dime.

We call that “Trade Study”.

Good times, good times.

(This was before Phoronix’s popularity)

What’s crazy was that ReiserFS came out ahead for the read/write data flow composition modeling that we were using.
Yeah, I did get the feeling that Flow Control (while it may alleviate some issues and/or fix others entirely) is just a hack. If what you're saying is true regarding the buffer sizes, I don't understand why they would knowingly make that choice as it causes poor performance which is not what their devices should be known for. It also completely negates the whole point of one 2.5Gbps port in the first place!

I'm curious though: Going by your statement, wouldn't even a large buffer fill eventually? And by eventually, in computer terms, that might be milliseconds/a few seconds if we're talking transfer speeds hundreds of megabytes or gigabytes per second. How big is a buffer supposed to be exactly?
I disagree with the cold part. It is easier to dress to stay warm in a cold place than to dress to stay cool in a hot place. Both adults and kids bike in Scandinavia in the winter.

Here is a good video on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU
Understanding consciousness is more important than ever
I think at some point similarities will naturally emerge. Smart moves in design space. That being said these similar designs will probably be minuscule compared to the overall architecture
I don't think anyone is contesting that, but the point seems to be that the people who push these initiatives undeniably think nepotism is, in fact, good because that's what their actions tell us.
Where is that quote from? I could not see it in the (interesting) linked article.
KHTML / Konqueror is the foundation of Blink / V8 / Chromium. It wasn't build in one day by Google. They forked an existing project, utilizing (L)GPL. Gnome never had their own browser engine which was build from the ground up. Mozilla Firefox (or Phoenix/Firebird) was Gtk+ back in the days, Konqueror Qt. Later on Gnome got a native browser but it was some silly fork anyway. Chrome benefits from the network effect, integration with other popular Google products such as Google search, Gmail, YouTube.
(I don't work at Buf, but happen to be able to answer this) - the post at [1] describes the rationale for wanting something different than the Google compiler.

To my mind I'd rather have something written in Go that I can pull in and version using `go.mod` instead of having to special case a single tool, as well.

[1]: https://docs.buf.build/reference/internal-compiler
I drive to the conditions of the road. If the road is potentially hazardous, you should slow down. How is 50mph "hazardously slow" when speed limits on these sorts of roads are around 55mph?

And I only chose 50 because it is definitely within the full stopping distance.
No, they're immediately provably worse. If you started work on a CSS rasterizer today, there are zero test suites you can use for reference comparison.

I'm talking about easy stuff, too, like normal flow, margin, border, padding box alignment.

The existing official test suites are entirely manual.

Edit: What you're describing requires you to make the entire world first, then finally test something.

Here's an example: I want to test the white-space property. How do I test that? Oh also, font rasterizers are all different and standards don't dictate what happens after box layout. It's acceptable that glyphs render with different dimensions.

How do I test that? A casual HN reader isn't going to care. Someone actually writing this stuff, will.
If you do not see how you are subverting the very argument that states your position, I don’t know what to tell you.

If you do — touché; well played to you Sir!
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Shouldn't the 26% learned Mandarin and thus integrated with this group? I think that would have solved the problem. It is unreasonable for minority to expect the majority to follow their whims.
I used the Go crypto primitives in /x to build a perfectly serviceable document encryption mechanism inside a document storage service. It was relatively painless and worked well. I can't really comment on how secure it ended up being - you can always build a crypto product that you can't break.

The standard advice is always "never write your own crypto" and it's very good advice.
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That's what happened to my student. He went to s small elementary school and didn't get along with a particular teacher. He switched schools and bam different kid entirely.
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I really hope that this form factor catches on. It's actually possible, since there's no chicken and egg problem -- this card can be used on any computer. It works better in a Framework laptop, but it's just another dongle on others. Hopefully a big manufacturer notices and starts using it.
Came to Hacker News expecting the top comment to be a critical one outlining the inherent problems with this project and why it was doomed to failure, so this whole thread has made for quite pleasant and exciting reading! Thank you!

Yes, I am aware also that HN has blindspots, eg with Show HN Dropbox
that's still not API though.

EDI = data, API = functionality. They can work in tandem, but don't have to.

you might as well say FTP is an API. In the most technical sense, sure.
I want a SFP28 slot. Then I can put it what I want/need.
Projecting arrows for navigation would be nice, but would this work during the day?
It's absolutely insane to me. It's justified racism, and poorly at that. Sometimes I feel like I am living in a dystopian novel.
On the job application, there are optional questions where you can identify various minority and special statuses.
Archived: https://archive.ph/uSQnh
I've finished plenty of tests before time was up. The limit on time is NOT a limiting factor for most people, at least it wasn't when I went to school 4 decades ago.
> they wildly overemphasize a really superficial attribute

That may be true in your party of the world but at least in the IT industry in mine, diversity in skin colour (*) isn't really an issue. Diversity in sex, age and physical ability levels definitely are though, and I'd like to see a much stronger push to ensure an older disabled or blind woman is given the same consideration as a younger able-bodied/sighted man, given the there's no reason the former should be any less capable of fulfilling the job requirements, but examples of are vastly underrepresented, meaning we're almost certainly missing out on hiring the most talented engineers that we can find.

(*) admittedly I'm treating skin colour as just a proxy for ethnic/racial background. There's not a marked difference in skin colour between most East Asian backgrounds for instance, but within the Indian subcontinent there's a decent range. There probably still is something of an implicit bias towards lighter skin tones even given a wide range of backgrounds, and certainly those from an indigenous background are underrepresented. But that problem starts much earlier than at the point of being hired professionally as an adult.
And in all those factors, the US has enormous advantages over basically everyone. The US has more navigable river than the rest of the world combined, no nearby threats, is self-sufficient in energy and food, has great ports on both oceans, and is better off demographically than most other advanced countries.

China on the other hand has horrible demographics, and imports 85% of its fuel and agricultural inputs. It has a large navy but only 10% of it is deepwater-capable, plus it's hemmed in by fairly hostile island nations with lots of antiship missiles. China has become a great economic power largely because the US has kept shipping lanes open, and China relies on that to this day.
You could but:
- you need to handle booting - this is relatively easy as they use UEFI or coreboot respectively, both of which work fine. Some others using uboot are harder to support as you need to load the device tree definition manually.
- you need to have the drivers for the hardware - this is hard

Most ARM manufacturers for consumer hardware don't seem to think that working with upstream is a good idea. Intel and AMD actively work with linux developers to provide the drivers, and some other companies provide partial (with closed firmware) or complete documentation so developers can create drivers. On ARM side, some companies are fine while others are refusing to provide documentation: Qualcomm's modems and GPUs and Broadcom's wifi hardware are some examples.
The Vultr that I use is US$5.50/month for always-on compute. I can put whatever I want on it. Vultr offers cheaper prices for older CPUs.

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Vultr has one-click deploy containers.
I don't believe any phrase has become its opposite here. Language is complicated, and some words have multiple meanings, and some of those meanings are subtle; the idea that every term should be crystalized down to a single unambiguous meaning is, ironically, quintessentially Orwellian.

(I'm not saying Orwell would approve of institutional DEI, which suffers from many similar rhetorical flaws).
Gosling is famous for (well, not really) something called Mock Lisp: an evaluation language that worked over text that contains parentheses, evaluating the literal character-level representation. This was used in an Emacs-like editor Gosling wrote. It must be that one.

I'm guessing Stallman would have been replacing Mock Lisp with a real Lisp.

EDIT: well, doh, the Wikipedia page on GNU Emacs (which I have never visited until now, since I don't use Emacs) confirms that:

"GNU Emacs was initially based on Gosling Emacs, but Stallman's replacement of its Mocklisp interpreter with a true Lisp interpreter required that nearly all of its code be rewritten."

The existence of this relationship explains why there is a MockLisp article in the Wikipedia at all.
Firefox was more popular before Chrome existed. It was winning ground from MSIE. Chrome ate marketshare from both, and Safari took the mobile share (Mozilla Mobile / Fennec, while in development before release of iPhone never got popular).
As of right now, the former. That is currently required for our tools to remain functioning (https://buf.build). If/when changes are made to the language, we update our tools (and this spec) to continue to be accurate.
I had this exact experience. My sister loved our school, but also had all the 'good' teachers. I was in a different roster and ended up not enjoying my classes and eventually dropped out.
> Most people are capable of riding a bike - especially an e-bike - to get to where they're going.

I'm getting an electric moped or motorscooter at that point.

They are more durable, require less maintenance, are safer and handle adverse weather conditions better, can be more easily insured and are harder to steal. Also they usually cost the same or less than a good e-bike.

Problem is the main path to move around a city with a vehicle is still, and will still be in the future, a road.

We will simply switch to more eco-friendly vehicles.

People will still want to move and carry other people and heavy stuff around without exercising, that is a modern obsessions, but not actually so common as one can imagine.

Yes people own bikes, yes they do casually run them once a week or every 2 weeks (especially because kids), but except some notable (small and completely flat) exceptions, like Amsterdam and Copenhagen, in Europe Berlin comes third with 13% usage.

And Berlin is considered a bike friendly city.

Truth is that if numbers were reversed, 13% of the people used a car in Berlin, we would be saying that __only__ 13% of the people are using a car.

In London, a 9 million people city (10x Amsterdam), only 2% of the people use a bike.

It means that anyway there are more people using a bike everyday in London than in Copenhagen.

I think what we really need, especially in oversized-for-no-reason USA, are smaller cars, like the Citroën Ami which I personally love. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_Ami_(electric)
I appreciate your thoughts and mostly agree with this sentiment. But "slander or libel", while bad, is not the same as "violent, criminal acts". Our legal system currently and rightly distinguishes on severity, and I don't think we should abandon that distinction. Libel is bad, but literal terrorist violence is worse and different.
> But I'd also much rather have constitutional protections that don't allow governments to declare consensual surgical procedures on your own body to be illegal.

Interesting concept, but a few quick thoughts on this.

1) I'd only point out that there exists a point of view that that says that a baby's body is a separate life from a woman's body.

2) Such a constitutional protection would open up some very complicated issues when it comes to children, particularly with regards to sexuality.

3) Many of the same people who very eloquently speak out on personal choice in some medical matters "lost the plot" during Covid. Who can credibly make this argument and advocate for such a policy credibly?
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The WSDL part has somewhat been replaced by OpenAPI.
Some time ago in another HN thread, someone said, that library consumer vs. library author is a much better metric for differentiating coder's skills, and i think he was right.
You think tone matters more then being correct?
That's true. It's hard to admit that, though. The current monied class can easily blame previous, (mostly dead) generations for racism and misogyny and say "we didn't create this problem, but this is what we're trying to do to fix this". Of course, they're benefitting from the situation and remain in control per the status quo.

If we admit to the classism that currently exists, that in the US the zip code you were born in says so much about what your opportunities will be, it's going to take a lot more social reform to address it than applying pressure around university admissions or job offers. The monied class may actually have to give up some power in that situation...
This tone is very common in academic philosophy. I would characterize it as being low in rhetoric and extremely blunt. I don't really see how it sounds like "a high school sophomore".
To put a proxy contract means that there will be an admin able to make contract upgrades. IOW, you need to have offchain trust in the contract deployer. This is widely regarded as a measure that defeats the purpose of decentralization.

So, yes, you could have an upgraded version of TC, but if you want to go that route you might simply use a centralized exchange as a mixer.
My district stopped it a few years ago because teachers complained that "it was too hard to learn to teach both third and fourth grade" (and so they wanted to only teach a single grade).

I've never been a professional elementary school teacher, but that doesn't seem to be a Herculean task.
This only works if the teachers are good and remain good. I am imagining how much damage a bully teacher could do if they weren't limited to a single year.
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> Umm no they’re not. And the ones that are just have the opposite problem half the year. Very few cities are in a climate where all but the most hardcore people will want to bike more than half the time.

I am surprised that you city NYC as an example. Especially in cities as dense as New York, pretty much every car owned by a private individual represents a policy failure. With a car ownership in NYC of ~45% [0] these are quite a few failures. Even with temperatures like in Chicago or Los Angeles, riding a bike would be very well possible for large parts of the year, regardless of heat or freeing temps, as long as the infrastructure is there.

People tend to over-estimate the actual need for their car incredibly. Even in the US, probably the most car-dependent place in the world (so I have been told),
60% of vehicle trips are less than 6 miles (9.6km) [1], that is very well within (e)biking distance. In dense urban centers the average trip length is likely even shorter, thus an even better fit for biking. But even in sprawling cities or suburbs, car dependency could likely be dramatically reduced with relatively little investment.

Everybody here keeps talking about bikes (so do I), but there is more to it. People completely ignore that especially in cities, space is at a premium. So usually the most efficient form of transportation should win, but that did not happen in most of the western world. Instead, everybody built rows like crazy. As a matter of fact, bringing people out of their cars and onto bikes or public transit, you free up a whole lot of space in crowded cities. That would be a very good opportunity to invest in improving transit, creating living spaces, public spaces or for businesses to expand.

> Getting rid of cars necessitates some other motorized form of transport from which you can’t easily fall and get injured.

Absolutely true, cities should be accessible regardless of age or disability. Current city designs aren't really doing well in that regard. As I pointed out, removing vehicles that shouldn't be in cities frees a lot of space for vehicles that must be there. Also, good that you mention obesity considering city design and thus car-dependency has been linked to an increased risk of obesity for years now [2].

But a necessary addition to the falling/injury statement: if you have proper infrastructure in place (enough capacity, safe separation from car traffic, continuous pathways) the risk of getting injured while cycling can be significantly lowered compared to the status quo.

[0] https://edc.nyc/article/new-yorkers-and-their-cars
[1] https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1042-augu...
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15261894/
> ... We're not machines, after all, and shouldn't be treated like only our output matters.

Sure, but that's not enforcing open-mindedness or tolerance. It's just creating the kind of setting where the benefits of a more tolerant stance are easiest to get.
I agree with everything stuckinhell said as she seems to have some first hand experience with this, but I'd like to add that frankly it's just disgusting to use things like civil rights as a corporate HR move. People marched and risked a lot of real things to achieve the rights that we all have today. Now "wokeness" (which used to be cool btw) has been co-opted by corporations and we all have to pretend that a company hiring an unqualified woman who happens to be related to someone on the C-suite is progress just because she's a woman.

It makes me sick, and I don't understand how anyone can defend this bullshit.
Did they account for teachers being more likely to loop if they have a good class?
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I mean, yes. We have to do the redesign for a multitude of reasons. Including the impacts our current cities have for scalability of various services and growth. Also how it’s fucking our response to climate change.
Heart of Darkness specifically not giving much of any voice to the native people is clearly a deliberate literary device, and Coppola carried it over to Apocalypse Now.
I care about diversity, as I care in equality for all, I'm an egalitarian. However, I think perhaps we should make it more of a blind thing, where you don't get to see or know the person's race/gender etc. All applications come with a # and are essentially jane or john Doe's.

Then the only diversity they need worry about is income diversity, where they need to have equal #'s from extreme poverty as they have from extreme wealthy. Income does trend some in more diverse communities anyways, so it'll happen naturally that this will create more diversity, but it takes away some of the stigmas and angst around it because everyone being accepted is more of a number and acceptance is more based on their achievements etc..
My impression is a bit different. I know a bit of Rust, and used to know C++98 inside out, but moved to more functional languages 15 years ago.

I recently added a Rust keyword to my LinkedIn profile and Who's Hiring threads, just to test the waters. Many EU companies of all sizes got in touch with really interesting proposals.

It's a systems programming language, so there are lots of problem domains it can cover.