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I'd love to redesign computing from from the ground up. With deliberate decisions that focus on clarity and elimimation of redundant layers. I suspect you could even obsolete pieces like the IOMMU, relying instead on robust static analysis and sensible data transfer primitives. And tackle latency at the same time (less steps = faster response).

While not exactly what I have in mind, Propeller seemed like a shot at re-envisioning things from a hardware level. At least, it made me go 'huh, there's an elegant alternative to the status quo'. Singularity was another ambitious attempt to do some substantial innovation, that time around plumbing of the OS.
That actually explains a lot because I am, in fact, hard of hearing on one ear since early childhood!

EDIT: typo
I think car makers often do "surprising" marketing campaigns -- more often than companies selling other products.
I would guess it's because buying a car is a very big purchasing decision for most people. You can't really sell them on impulse, to people who aren't in the market.

So car makers may rely more on advertising that builds their brand, rather than convincing you to buy a specific product today.

Building a toy app that people actually want to play with is a great way to get your brand name and logo visible installed semi-permanently on people (and their devices).
If it's Ethereum's Proof of Stake then the word is perfection
Mirantis' Lens Autopilot Helped Choozle Scale Kubernetes
Since this is about Twitter, let us not pretend all of those fired were software engineers.
> It’s shocking how often it is finding and fixing data corruption.

That isn't normal. You've got a problem, probably in your drive enclosure or your interconnect to it.

I have a 40 TB RAID array that's been running for years with monthly scrubs, and I don't believe there's ever been a mismatch detected.
I understand the skepticism, but:

> education is the second most funded government feature in France after healthcare/social security

Both of which are under heavy pressure to reduce costs, which also leads to the waves of strikes (I know, France, strikes, name a more iconic duo. But their conditions are actually super shitty). They don't have enough money to cover salary raises among the inflation, that money going to US monopolies doesn't look go under any light you put it.

> Teachers have had free licenses for MS Office since forever

Local licenses might stay, 365 ones are going away (here the free tier is targeted, and Education minister targeted Microsoft in particular to freeze new licenses)

> Actually, free software advocates have been complaining by the price of MS products, compared to the subventions to make free software.

These decisions are actually not bound to bring fully free software in the mix. Proprietary solutions seem to be eyed at (those could be based on free software of course, but money will be exchanged at the end of the day)

My general take is that up until now "nobody is fired for choosing MS" was the basic principle, but that doesn't mean it stays that way forever. Switch to linux was a step in that direction already, and they committed to it up to a point. Stopping Office 365 propagation goes in that same direction.
Not all marijuana vaping is done using vape pens containing Propylene Glycol. You can vaporize concentrate, which doesn't include any sort of additive and is tested for pesticides and heavy metals in places like California. PG just helps the concentrate "flow" into the wick of the vape pen. You also don't need to use a vape pen where the heating element is exposed to the airflow of the concentrate, reducing the chance of heavy metals being released.

There are also vaporizers that just pass hot air over marijuana flower.
Strong disagree. The whole "Karen" meme reeks of old-fashioned misogyny wrapped up in 2020s language. "A woman, complaining? How dare she!". I recognise the meme is about entitled women being rude, but that behaviour is hardly isolated to women.
Release Late, Release Rarely (2006)
I am not, as I need to state of the details to be settable. That's the whole mo of react, that all UI state is under your control and has a single source of truth. For example you want a tree of files, give the user a search function, and want to expand/collapse any subtreee that contains/does not contain a result.

Details is a collapsable building block. that's it.
You're right that this level of pedantry isn't actually that useful. However, we're both on hacker news and thus presumably steeped in technology, which seems to turn people into pedants quite easily. I'm making the pedantic point because you're already talking specifically about tiny semantic points in this thread, and if you're going to quibble semantics, pedantry seems open.

This distinction is not the one that actually matters and does not have huge significance in my frustration with blockchain advocates.

To me, the large issue seems to be that people advocating for blockchain _stuff_ usually seem to be ignoring reality and trying to paint a libertarian dream that is simply entirely divorced from how real governments and societies currently function.

The exact definition of blockchain doesn't matter. The use of a blockchain technology also doesn't matter (like, I don't care if my doctor is saving my records in Oracle SQL, some private blockchain, or whatever, never have cared, as long as the data is still there next time my doctor needs it, and it's compliant with legal privacy requirements).

What matters is that "blockchain" always seems to be coupled with "and by using it, it will fix this social problem somehow" when that problem is inevitably social or political, not technical.

I'm all for fixing these problems, but switching databases ain't it when the problem is several layers off, so it seems like at best a distraction from useful action, and at worst a grift to extract money from various entities by promising an easy solution to a difficult problem, which cannot realistically be delivered on.
> UI changes are the perfect example of "change for the sake of change".

Exactly. It's just making changes to comply with whatever is fashionable at the time. Utterly pointless and annoying crap.
Just curious how the dominoes will fall but it does seem like the people that invested in cryptocurrencies underestimated the risks of corruption. It looks like programmable money and clever financial engineering makes embezzling money a lot easier.
Not to mention that the only thing that actually matters is what's in the government's land title ledger. They're the ones with the guns that enforce (or don't enforce) ownership.

These crypto crazies absolutely crack me up. Can you imagine some dirt poor farmer in the arse end of nowhere confronting the local constabulary that were bribed by their rich neighbour?

"You see here in my wallet how my Landz Titles NFT clearly states that this parcel of land is mine?"

Cue: a bunch of uniformed thugs glance at each other and smirk before proceeding to pummel the life out of the farmer that paid in Bitcoin for a few thousand bits that won't protect him from fists, batons, or bullets.

Some people are so naive and clueless that it's a parody of entitlement.
Cylde is notably the only male assistant. I guess Discord know their customers.
The battery life is more about power management logic. I'd expect we'll be a long, long time, before Apple's power management logic is implemented.
Acknowledging the problem (regardless of what one calls it) allows one to seek out solutions. If the problem has a name e.g., ADHD, one might notice a HN post about brown noise for ADHD treatment, open it and find a possible drug-free remedy that's possibly effective for them.
IMO you want to avoid becoming your family's CTO. Its look like fun over on r/homelab but unless your learning skills for a future job its hard work and easy to loose data.

For browsers I find uBlock and/or Microsoft Edge. Edge has good privacy controls that works out of the box. I think uBlock is better than DNS-level blocking tools as the latter might break some sites, with the browser extension you can turn it off in those cases. Be sure to get uBlock from a legitimate source.

For my grandparents I've found buying them an iPad and/or iPhone to be the best. The attack surface is significantly reduced. No unauthorized apps, iOS has built in Parental Controls, AppStore purchases can be easily reversed and the device can be reset fast. iCloud is expensive but with family sharing it allows me to ensure their photos and emails don't get lost w/o me having to maintain backups.

If that is not an option and a computer is required I typically setup a non-admin account for the user. I keep an admin account. I use TeamViewer to remote into the computer to fix things when they go wrong.

Passwords are an issue. I use a family subscription to 1Password.

In terms of email, I have briefed them on phishing email. If there is a call to attention with an unreasonable deadline, or they mention shutting things down permanently, or want to involve the law/police or its for some unreasonable charge then I tell them to ignore it and always ask me for my opinion. Never click the link in the email for banks. Log in directly or call the bank directly using the # on the back of the card not in the email. I have set up some rules so that emails originating from addresses of our family members and their friends (programmed in address book) go to inbox and everything else goes to another folder.
I know good developers pay for tools. Maybe the lesson for someone who wants to be best at what they do is do things 90% of people they are competing with wouldn't do.
That's a pretty stupid case of autarky. First, where do you stop? Second, when your actions are indistinguishable from China or Russia, you probably have to think a bit more about it.
What's ironic about this comment and some of the replies, is that it seems like people WANT this show and other shows to be "Disney-fied". Nothing uncomfortable, no awkardness, no real-world grit or problems, nobody is the but of the joke, nobody struggles, etc
Yea. There is code which does the DNS request. If it returns an AAAA prefer that.
Did you become medicated?

I was diagnosed but also have High Blood Pressure (HBP), genetics, and most of the meds we tested cause an uncomfortable rise in pressure that just wasn't worth it.

My coping mechanisms are what I have left I suppose.
lmiller1990, have you experimented much with @storybook/test-runner?

I've found it pretty capable for doubling my stories as Jest tests. For those using testing-library for component testing, it even acts like a GUI for those tests.

If you're interested, I threw together a little walkthru that show some of the ways I'm using it with Jest: https://github.com/chantastic/vite-react-jest-testing-librar...
Because storing files in the cloud is the most sensible option for most people.
He's likely referring to patio11's warnings about impending Tether/USDT implosion, which will have huge knock-on effects to the rest of cryptocurrencies.
> My personal theory has been he was trying to broker a merger between Apple and Disney the last couple years, but COVID and Chapek's management made that a bad deal.

History is muddled due to the last few years, I thought Iger got caught up in a "#metoo" situation. But that was probably someone else.
Discussion from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=879867
Container homes are absolutely not a reasonable solution to the housing crisis...
surveying definitions of blockchain, decentralized consensus is consistently a part of the definition. a blockchain without distributed consensus is something less specific.

i also don’t know why you put “centralized in quotes”. amazon qldb has all of the qualities you describe and is 100% centralized.
Marvel isn’t infallible. Their latest phase is an example of that. Their numbers are great when compared to other studios, but it has not seen the level of critical success that it once did, despite being somewhat more inventive in its the stories being told. I enjoyed quite a bit of their movies, like the latest Black Panther movie or the third Spider-Man movie, but overall, its really taken a step back in terms of quality in almost every other project they have made. They also lost one of their biggest creative auteurs, James Gunn to their biggest rival, as well as the guy who made their Spider-Man movies and the Russo who made the previous two Avenger movies (though it could be these guys return). Ryan Coogler doesn’t seem interested in doing the penultimate (?) Avengers sequel, they aren’t going to trust Taika Waititi or Sam Raimi or Joss Whedon with that movie. They have resorted to getting Hugh Jackman back for a final (?) paycheck as Wolverine for the upcoming Deadpool sequel and apart from that don’t seem to have a plan on bringing their other most famous IP into their franchise, the X-Men.

And also the other big development is that they have lost the Chinese box office marker, though this seems largely out of their control as China is an aggressive geopolitical adversary of the US and is also strictly against LGBTQ representation, and Marvel is (rightfully so) not budging on the edits suggested by Chinese censors.

And then there’s also the case for superhero fatigue, and I am saying this as a fan of most of these movies, (I watched most of their previous movies during high school and college almost religiously), but the amount of content they dumped on Disney+ which was of varying quality was too much for me to really watch. I skipped half their shows and most of their movies (waited for Disney+ for most of the movies except for Spider-Man and BP2). I genuinely don’t feel interested in most of their upcoming lineup, except maybe GoTG 3 and Captain America 4 (if it’s any good). I might be speaking for only myself here, but I potentially see that happening more so in future with general audiences.
This kid will have a bad time trying to create a Google account in the future

https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2019/07/03/google-...
For anyone who hasn't seen it, Aura is one of the most powerful documentaries I've ever seen. I mention it because it's also about Brazilian natives, but two that were taken in.

Their bond to each other, fear of the new world, confusion, and inability to communicate are heartbreaking. The way they try to smile at the camera alone is haunting.

Available free on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/kGuxaY8HPjs
Yeah, a git repo covers 99% of these pseudo-blockchain usecases
I have experienced burn-out, yes.

My brain would then make me listen do soft music in a darkened room. Watching videos so short that the entire context completely changes every few seconds would have been way too much.
I like CoPilot and paid for it out of pocket. I think its worth it. Its sometimes like having a smart programmer pairing with you.
I agree the style itself isn't very good but I think the "lesson" was in differentiating primary and secondary actions to make it obvious
Kind of off-topic: in what kind of weird organisation is a product manager dictating engineering decisions?!
Okay, that's awesome, thank you for letting me know :)
Sounds about right. I've worked in the gambling industry and the impression I get is that companies that hold the right licenses are very wealthy and have also held the licenses for a long time, so they are very protective of what they have.
I live in Japan now, and for the dogs I see in the city, the vast majority would easily pass this test.

However, from what I saw in America during the pandemic and before, the vast majority of American dogs would not.

That said, the bigger problems I see here are 1) how to deal with the bathroom problems (train trips last hours, and dogs don't hold it in very well), and 2) how to deal with peoples' allergies, and 3) how to deal with people just not wanting to ride near other peoples' animals. I think it's an insurmountable problem really, unless there's SO much demand that they can dedicate a whole train car to being pet-friendly (not likely). We already have ways of moving pets around: taxis and cars. Inside a city, just use a taxi. If you need to travel between cities, just rent a car. Yes, it's a lot of money, but if you can't afford that, then you can't afford a dog. Or just leave the dog at home.
(If it's a cat, the cat doesn't want to take a trip with you anywhere.)

(edit) Finally, I just did a little research, and this isn't really a problem at all. You can already bring dogs and cats on trains here, both the intercity Shinkansen and the local trains. The catch is that it needs to be a small dog (or cat), and inside a carrier, weighing a total of 10kg or less. It looks like there's a small fee (less than $5) for the Shinkansen. So I don't see why any of this is necessary; it's a solved problem.
That's been my experience.

It's good for learning new packages in Python.

It's quite poor for learning a totally new set of programming language grammar.

If you're a Javascript developer of 5+ years of experience, it's probably absolutely fantastic. Not so great if you're learning a new programming language.
It's Jacobin. Antisemitism and race war baiting is their bread and butter.

No idea why it's seen as acceptable to post this garbage on here.
Why I Switched from Vim to Visual Studio Code?
Isn't the whole idea of certificate transparency to detect that situation? That's why the system also has auditors which would detect such tampering.
Literally impactful.

If any software needed a memory leak it's this.
Blockchains are an incredible technology. It is obvious that their first attempted uses are contractual and monetary, because blockchain guarantees can make things better fastest in those arenas. The unfortunate part is it doesn't seem like anyone has really figured out the how yet.

I am reminded of the Web, Amazon was the first company to really "get" e-commerce and made all the money - there will likely be a similar story with blockchains 10 years from now.
This guy doesn't think it's real https://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2017/07/impossibly-hungry-...
I usually just lurk but as it happens I am an expert in this topic and I need to disagree with everything the OP said.
Not bad series at the time and still relevant to non peer "enemistan" powers, but 4 years is long time with respect to PRC military modernization - and there's a reason the series correctly distinguishes between generic Enemistan mid/low tier powers and PRC even back then. In the last 4 years PRC has (according to each part of the series):

1) launched ~200 Yaogan/Gaofen/Jilin remote sensing satellites to have established near persistent coverage of PRC's backyard and beyond.

2) increased ability to generate fires and saturate CSG defenses, which even in 2018 author admits was sufficient to overwhelm single CSG. Also apart from relying on lol CMO "simulation", Part2 extrapolates interception rate of garbage tier Yemen ordnances (basic subsonic "cruise" missiles) without mentioning of much more performant PRC AShM hardware like YJ12 that travels at mach 2+ and evades on approach.

3) PRC successfully demonstrated coordinated DF21 & DF26 tests that hit moving target on water. Interestingly, this part of article seems to be updated with the 2020 tests but failed to mention it succeeded (initially confirmed, then retracted, then confirmed again by US last year). Meanwhile recent SM6 test (FTM33) shot down 1 of 2 short range ballistic missiles with 4 interceptors in what's described as "most complex" test so far, but "most complex" hasn't hinted at dealing with anything like counter measures. Reality is, missile defense also haven't been seriously stress tested. They could work as advertised or be another Patriot/Scud debacle. Also IMO poorly misread indicators that PRC is favoring carrier projection, development last few years (and really before) suggested coastal aviation/rocketforce doing most of anti-carrier activity. With better capabilities like YJ21 being revealed in Zhuhai this year. The part on programmed evasion is questionable too, like missiles dodge to the point of missing target when hitting targets with hypersonic shrapnel is part of the charm.

4) This part holds up alright only in that it doesn't make strong predictions, and PRC subs has been historically terrible until recent hints at mass producing new model due to shipyard expansions that suggest something mature is in the pipeline.

Are CSGs doomed? Still impossible to say without shooting war, but most factors that author thought PRC had a chance of overcoming has been seemingly overcame (at scale) in the last few years. Also no one is seriously discussing PRC systems confrontation/destruction doctrine that will focus on taking out weak links like resupply and sustainment ships which can render carrier groups useless, or increasing possiblity of global strikes that will take out carriers/support ships when they eventually dock in port. IMO that's the "low"ish hanging fruit that dooms not just carriers, but US willingness to project power at all since it makes CONUS vunerable and can be proliferated (likely via PRC exports) to and be made operational by enemistan powers who can't manage airforce but can a rocketforce.
No technical limitations... Look at how blizzard has done "blue text" on their forums for decades (a different presentation-space)
> Hollow core fibers for instance allow light to move one third faster.

Could you expand on this? The speed of light is constant, no?
nah, not at all - every Mersenne prime is a binary repunit. i always thought those and prime pairs were the coolest.
Some of this is rose-tinted nostalgia. The bit about "five nines" reliability... big expensive servers and workstations got there but computers the average schmo could afford never did. Frequent BSODs and system freezes were the norm. Now that we've moved on to proper multitasking OSes - which I admit are more complex and resource-intensive than their predecessors - crashes like that have become far rarer.

On the other hand, this is clearly gesturing at something real. Computers and network connections are so much faster than they used to be, and yet webpages feel like they load just as slowly as they did in the dial-up days. Oh but we have so much better ad-tech and telemetry now! Because that's what I go on the internet for, the ads. Sure you gotta pay the bills, but how much of those bills are just for maintaining the advertising bloat versus the actual content?

Well it's not like things were any better in the past. They were just a different kind of crummy.
Everyone uses Git by day and then moans how blockchain in not useful by night.

Specific technologies have specific applications. Blockchains in general - immutable history. Crypto blockchains - consensus in untrusted environment. Just use given technology for what it’s designed for, and stop being full of yourself.
There's a lot of investment in directed energy weapons again and talk about deployment on 6th generation fighter platforms (which are planned to be optionally manned). Promising but also defeated by cloud cover.
A good indication of a cult is that there is a shopping list of specific core beliefs (say 20) you are expected to believe. And you believe 19 of them but on the 20th you have a slightly different view.

If this causes you to be banished and ostracised, then it's probably a cult.

JK Rowling would be an example of this.
I'm more surprised, assuming their algorithm is somewhat parallelizable, that they couldn't run their algo on an actual supercomputer, it likely wouldn't have taken 20 months.

EDIT: reading a wiki page, this sounds like recreational mathematics, not actual research math, which is a shame really
I was thinking that "certification" referred to ensuring that the program they wrote to test it was correct, and then verifying was running it, but your interpretation makes sense too
Currently, only SASL is supported since that's what's baked into the protocol, but I can look into supporting LDAP, too (pointers appreciated).