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> Assuming you're talking about blu ray rather than dvd here too because my TV supports 4k HDR, and the last dvd player I owned was 480p.

My DVD player requires a separate input on the TV, controller, and wall socket. The player needs to be physically accessible too, and you need to store physical discs.

Changing DVDs is significantly more involved than changing a movie on Netflix, and finding something that you know you have on DVD Vs on Netflix required someone else to have correctly put the disk away.

Lastly, those things are just noisy as hell.
Note that an expensive HDMI switcher is different from a cheap dongle goblin from Amazon. Try the cheap one first but if you really need instant switching you’re looking at a professional AV device.

http://decimator.com/ Has some really good shit including (accidental) hdmi copy protection removal.
fear the vomitoxin, embrace the fungicide
Well in theory you have a much more liquid market to sell into in an IPO.
Livestock refuses to eat grain with fungal toxins and they throw up if you force feed them (hence the name vomitoxin), it is that bad. So I think fungal toxins are worse.
Tell HN: Uber has blocked my account for years, won't tell me why
Until 2019, I used uber everytime I traveled abroad. Then one day, suddenly I login and it logs me out, says my account is blocked. There was no way for me to reach support or figure out why. We've been using my wife's account since then. I'm just account to travel again, for the first time since 2019, and tried to login to uber, still blocked. I fill the support form, and get an email saying they won't send my request to a support rep until I verify my email. So I click the link and verify.

One day later I get an email from a rep saying "I'm contacting them from my second uber account". I had no idea you could have 2 accounts with same email. And if that is the case, it's clearly an accident and I have no idea which account they refer to. And they won't help, no way to reach a human. I don't get how a ride hailing company thinks is't cool to behave like a bank. Any tips on how I can resolve this?
I'm going to vote NO just to spite him.

You made your own bed, now tweet in it.

You moved fast and broke it, now shut up and fix it.
That's true to some degree. Historically an IPO was to raise capital for the company, now, more often than not it is to create a market for the stock so that early stockholders can cash out.
it has been clear for some time that the US intelligence machine has chosen its side: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-...
> Humility: use whatever works without prejudice

And then nothing works because of the combinatoric explosion and very low average quality of a library.

Then it takes a team of 20 to maintain a relatively simple project which manages to employ spring, guice, akka, cats and zio at the same time. Then the business closes because the funding is exhausted, product is too unstable and demands are not met.

We prefer to choose the libraries wise.
There's been a general shift in the US from a system where large organizations had separate pools for sick time and vacation to a common PTO pool. But you still see organizations, either because of inertia or union contracts, still have the prior system in place. And, yeah, the traditional system tended to have more sick days than anyone would use outside of serious illness or injury although, as I recall, there usually wasn't carry-over.
You're so pro-big-government you don't want people to decide for themselves when to end their lives.

I can't hardly believe it.
It's easy enough to run an HDMI cable from the laptop to the TV. Over Thanksgiving, I mentioned something about piracy and all of my twenty-something non-computer-literate nieces quickly mentioned their favorite pirate sites. I don't pirate often, but now I know who to ask if I ever need to.
> But then if your announcements are completely rational you don't get as much funding.

If your goal is to gain funding, the rational announcement IS to sensationalize.
As a C/C++ programmer this resonated with me :-)

I always tell people that knowing these two languages will allow one to work in any domain and across any level (application to bare-metal) on any system (itty-bitty 8-bit MCUs to big honking servers and everything in-between).

The other thing he mentions which i agree with completely is;

When people mixed languages on a project, that's a mistake. I would rather just stay in one language so that everybody can work across the entire thing.

This is the single biggest reason that i personally have stayed away from Web development; it is all duct tape and baling wire.
Mastodon links in tweets have been blocked by someone adding a rule list to the malware filter for the last couple of weeks. It was a silent change. They just decided to formally announce it and ant the same time expand that to non-link text, referring people to @username on <service>, writing AT facebook DOT com, etc.

Since they introduced the link blocking silently, they will just leave it in place silently. Maybe they’ll get sued by a competition regulator in one of the dozen jurisdictions that this kind of thing is illegal in.

(Edit, the rule list was not comprehensive, so you will find plenty of counter-examples. Possibly by design to make people think it isn’t happening.)
And oat drink should in no way be considered a tech stock. It is even less one than for example Tesla...
Iirc max’s also always do encrypted hdmi stuff or whatever it is whereas other OS may only turn that on when a movie is playing.
How long did the networked machines experiment last at Sun before you switched to Linux PCs?

I remember that famous Larry Ellison speech in the mid 90s about how thin client/networked applications will be the future. It’s apparently what helped make him famous because no one cared about enterprise DBs in the tech media:

https://tedium.co/2018/04/12/larry-ellison-network-computer-...
I read/skimmed it with https://youtubetranscript.com/
That doesn't go against what I said, though, that it was streaming that really killed CD sales.
> Attila ate nothing but meat on a wooden trencher. In everything else, too, he showed himself temperate; his cup was of wood, while to the guests were given goblets of gold and silver. His dress, too, was quite simple, affecting only to be clean.

Attila was a hipster before it was cool? At the very least he was countersignalling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33942670
Hollywood only exports what sells.
I’m enjoying red beet pomace (leftover pulp from making juice) wraps, but sadly they are (to be fair, like most niche replacement products) extremely expensive.
"oh I need to structurally modify these 20 lines, might as well craft a regex to do it"

30 minutes later... well got to keep my regex skills up to date else i'll lose them
Avoid window transparency and use clear editor backgrounds (dark themes are harder to focus on).

The extra light causes pupil contraction which helps with focusing.

Also work in a well lit place.
How about not extracting it from stone in the first place? I bet that would be a lot cheaper.
I hope this key piece of British history gets exhibited in a place where everyone can enjoy it, like the The Prado museum in Spain.
Yeah. I have low-grade anxiety that at some point dang will retire or something will happen, like when digg imploded and reddit got popular. In the meantime, I enjoy these caliber of discussions here.
The author left off peripherals too. There are microcontrollers that can be hacked in many mice, keyboards, and monitors. Anything that uses usb for more than power has at least a microcontroller, and anything that uses usb2 or later almost certainly has an arm processor in it.
One of the first GPT experiments i tried was having it act as a librarian and reccommend resources. The first thing I asked was for textbook reccomendations for an undergraduate learning electronics and all of them were excellent. Next I asked for a review paper reccomendations about a technical niche topic, and it gave me a list of reasonable sounding papers published in the appropriate journals written by authors who regularly published on the topic. The journal issue numbers even correctly matched the publication dates. I was very confused when i couldn't find a single one of them until i realized it gave me a different abstract for the same article every time i asked.
If they added a zero then Google would stop and then they couldn't fine them anymore. It seems you mistakenly thought that punishment was meant to dissuade bad actors. That's not how government works. Punishment is meant for politicians to profit from bad actors.
I mean......what else could it possibly count as, if not European?
Never heard of it. Feel like I should have, but checking YouTube, nope.
I had similar thoughts.

It doesn't quite add up all the way to me, but almost; it looks like an act of sabotage.

The thought experiment is: if you wanted to destroy Twitter, what would you differently?

I mean you could do even worse, but... not if you didn't want to make it obvious. The "entitled born-rich manboy can't deal" is obviously a solid cover, because almost all of us already believe it!
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I believe you’re using “soft”v. “hard” to distinguish what the author calls “inter generational” v “trans generational”. Using this distinction, “soft” epigenetics in your example is just epigenetics. The fetus responding to an external stressor which happens to be induced by a stressor on the mother. And in the case of female fetuses who have a fixed number of eggs for life, can impact those and therefore one more generation.
Korean reactor reached 7 times hotter than sun, when I was reading it made me laugh that humans said fuck the dyson sphere and skipped a step on Kardashev scale yet still I find it ironic that this one built with military support.

https://www.sciencealert.com/koreas-fusion-reactor-ran-7-tim...
I like the idea of creating languages that capture a specific problem really well and making them easier to reason about. At a glance, I couldn't understand why this language makes anything in the cloud easier to do. The front page should focus on what the language does better than others. From what I can tell by going deeper into the docs, the selling points are a unified API for cloud resources across different vendors, inflight functions, and the simulator. Hopefully this language continues to grow and becomes compelling enough to use instead of just TypeScript (which seems to be its closest relative)
Right. With tech stock, I meant a startup venture capitals and investors were eager to give a lot of money to. Usually those are tech stocks, but plant-based ultra-processed food startups have become quite prominent in VC portfolios lately, see Beyond Meat.
Actually my local supermarket does not go down every night. Neither do my home electricity, street lights, lots of factories, etc.

Having power available on demand all the time is a huge advantage and fusion could well beat battery-backed wind/solar for that.
This comment says it more eloquently than I did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34051845
While I am a little surprised by some of the words on the list, as a WEIRD [1] white hetero male I do not think my opinion on some of the terms is earned.

What I would really like to know, however, is if people from various backgrounds have been consulted. If not, the authors of that list have fallen to the very same fallacy I described: only a person of background X should have the right to decide whether an expression is hateful or otherwise undesirable towards group X. If this is not the case, we get this [2] kind of hypocrisy.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#WEIRD_bias
2. https://mooseyanon.medium.com/github-f-ck-your-name-change-d...
How do you avoid jet lag?
> My crazy idea would be to use the heat and the pressure of these to pump water uphill.

This is a great idea, not crazy.

It ignores the steampunk future that awaits us all!
It seems wasteful.
OK, but in that case let's also tax carbon emmitted during/embodied in construction. You might find that for many cases building 'green' might not make sense.

I live in a very moderate climate and the amount of people speccing triple-pane windows, complex ventilation and tremendously expensive insulation is mind-boggling. You can literally live with a couple of windows open all year and be comfortable here. Fetishism abounds.
Or "4000+ services", and "500+ Web Apps", and the many thousands of devs they employ.

I've wondered for quite a while where all this code and complexity is at. My guess is a lot of it is in their self-driving cars projects and stuff like this, but I don't really know.
Im sure the hyper focus on females getting equal to men and the stereotypical "strong independent who need no man" has something to do with these men's defeatism, in that men are increasingly neglected.

But while we like to think it's down to that reason, it's also very likely that thanks to making these jobs "dead end" through union busting, deregulation, no anti trust, globalization/outsourcing, etc. We've made it increasingly a bad career choice despite it having the possibility of moving working person forward.

Overall I think we're moving in a bad direction with our hyper fixation on materialism (relationship wise), everything is starting to get piled on for what used to be a lot more "humane".
I'd love to see more posts like this on HN. You generally learn far more from what didn't work for others than you do from the many survivorship biased stories that usually get posted.

Curious what questions you think you could have asked in your up-front interviews to uncover the issues prior to building?
The Countries That Pay the Most and the Least for Lego
Hi, ophthalmologist here :-)
The good news is that if there is no underlying pathology (such as keratoconus, which should be sought in case of progressing astigmatism), every ametropia can be corrected with the right glasses and allow a good working comfort.

First, check your prescription with an ophthalmologist (or optometrist, depending on your country). You may benefit from a cycloplegic refraction, to ensure that you don't have an undercorrected hyperopia.

Then, always wear your glasses when working.

Your floaters don't have a direct relationship with your astigmatism and you may need a fundus examination, which will be done at the same time as your cycloplegic refraction (pupils will be dilated using eye drops).

Reducing the screen light and using a blue filter may also help. But good prescription is key.
> I guess this was so much a proof-of-concept that Arthur Whitney thought even rudimentary memory management was unimportant.

That seems reasonable to me. The way I understand the story, Whitney wrote this as a "sketch". Its purpose was not to be an industrial strength interpreter, but to communicate a few key concepts so another skilled programmer (Roger Hui) could pick it up and run with it.
Experts in all fields are dazzled by stuff that laypeople don’t find exciting. “We have to change all our textbooks” is a ridiculous bar.
If you are interested in trying out a modern and actively developed language, maybe have a look at Nim. The author / main dev is a fan of Pascal/Modula/Oberon and took a lot of inspiration for Nim.
I've probably written 100k lines or so in M2 30 years ago, and I still miss it. Usable interfaces and sub-interfaces at the module level instead of class interfaces, top notch green threading, really strict compilation - it helped programmers become better programmers instead of commodity programmers. Think about that in the future when you get into an autonomous driving vehicle. If not for the tyranny of C, maybe it would be the systems language of choice if it had been given the opportunity to evolve and get some more commercial apps supporting it.

You can do some stuff to the Lazarus ide env to get it close to tolerating a M2 style using macros and such, but it needs a bit of work. Just haven't had time to fiddle with the code yet. Otherwise, the FPC/Lazarus combo is amazing and continues to be one of the greatest open source communities of all time, IMO.
I always end up on GitHub opening tiny PRs when I’m trying to relax.
If you keep the front-end dumb, you can do back-end development. Check out this site.

Or you could forego front-end completely and work on APIs. But you'd need some way for customers to pay.
Hypersleep...
Well said. How did the authors and reviewers miss this?
No one can take it so long as you can actually play the media. I own a large music collection and I’ve used various optical formats for data backup for decades now. It is becoming more of a challenge, build your own computer and some cases don’t even have places to put that Blu-ray reader/burner. You can buy a couple extra devices and just keep them stored but in 10 years SATA connectors might be phasing out.

There are real market pressures working against physical media. Live digital copies are easier, faster, more flexible.
I’m referring to him treating Twitter as his plaything, changing rules on a whim to suit his latest impulses, creating a whole mess of problems such as scaring advertisers away.

I have to say it’s surprising the the site hasn’t had downtime. Maybe that’s a testament to how resilient the previous engineers made things. I think most experienced engineers would agree that if you lost 75% of your company in the span of a month and a half, you’re going to lose critical institutional knowledge, and Twitter has a lot of moving parts. So kudos to Musk for winning that round of Russian roulette? At least so far.
Cool research and an interesting article!

I didn't see how the hn title fits though, as your article is on how to identify debris in re-entry phenomenon (super super cool that our doppler radar networks are catching debris re-entry events!). I did not understand the connection between re-entry event detection and mapping debris to prevent collisions before re-entry.
Funny, I thought this was going to be an article about obesity and maybe how we should be taxing sugar, salt, fats, etc. to make them less appealing/affordable while promoting healthier foods.
poor data modeling, or data modeling that is well suited to the needs of the application, but not to the needs of analysts
big tech is driven by vanguard/blackrock ppl (= apple/msft/google(alphabet)/mozilla(via google)/starbucks!/etc)

We are talking about tens of thousands of billions of $. They can sustain significant businesses without "making money" for decades (often for free), then extinguish/buy any competition on economics grounds: patience is virtue... which they can afford easily.

Namely, there is no competition on economics grounds here.

It is like with China and manufacturing: China does decides on the value of its money on the international markets, and has a "strongely driven" labor force, namely you cannot "beat" them on "honest and sane" economic and social grounds.

EU is mostly based on economics: they already "lost" unless they start to define strategic areas (for instance, leading-edge chip manufacturing, with the netherlands and germany at its core, similar to the mostly french-german driven airbus), and make it happen knowing perfectly that very probably, it won't "make money".
I assume that almost all of these are SPAC stocks, which doesn't particularly surprise me. It turns out the whole IPO process is good for price discovery, and when you bypass it, you get some bad results.
Pulumi has both, they have something very similar to what is being offered here: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/tutorials/cloudfx/
> That's tight cornering, well-balanced front and back, feeling of total control and precision of big chunk of metal and similar.

That is nor really the interesting part of car fun, neither is acceleration.

Going to barely accessible trailhead high in the mountains, fording streams, going on a narrow mountain road, that what makes car driving interesting. I always look in a car 1) what is the biggest tire I can fit, should be at least 33 inches 2) ground clearance 3) suspension travel.
re: Why is this a language, not just a framework for JavaScript or whatever?

One product that's taking this approach is shuttle -> https://www.shuttle.rs/ (disclaimer: I work there). It's built around Rust and not TS but we have some updates coming soon which is going to expand on this.

We've been thinking about this DSL question for a while and it's pretty much a trade-off. By having your own language and parser you can build language primitives which get your close to your domain, as for example in the example you gave with HCL. It will be interesting to see where Wing goes with this concept, it could offer a great developer experience.

For us, we've chosen to stick with a robust and performant programming language which is increasing in popularity and has enough meta-programming capabilities to make this 'infrastructure from code' paradigm feel natural - the framework blends in well with the language. The advantages of this for us is that users of the language experience a very small learning curve and they can also use incredible Rust libraries off-the-shelf. We can also piggy-back off the Rust compiler and ecosystem to provide an A-class developer experience (those compiler errors are amazing).

We're excited to see more companies in this space - optimising for a beautiful developer experience.
Currently finishing up my own PhD thesis. My approach to the same problem is quite different. I write my thesis in Org mode. Exporting to HTML is pretty painless. Been doing the same for years for my notes. PDF export via LaTeX & HTML export. LaTeX and PDFs fail pretty hard when including source code (some literate programming in Org). That was my initial motivation behind also producing HTML.

The final thesis that I will hand in is of course a regular PDF (well, a print based on that). But the HTML version can contain lots more stuff that doesn't fit (and belong) into the actual paper thesis, e.g. code snippets to generate plots etc. (optional export of Org subsections). By publishing the git repository of the thesis, linking all code and data + a bit of work -> full reproducible thesis.
> What helped C was exactly the same as what made JavaScript sucessful, it came with a free beer platform (UNIX).

Your saying that reminds me of this:

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/CTriump...

> This significantly understates the real appeal of C at the time, even and especially to people who had alternative languages. A great illustration of this is C on the early Macintosh. You see, unlike environments like MS-DOS (which had no language associated with it, just assembler), the early Macintosh systems already had a programming language; they were designed to be programmed in Pascal (and the Mac ROMs were originally written in Pascal before being converted to assembler).

> This was more than just an issue of Apple's suggested language being Pascal instead of C. The entire Mac API was designed around Pascal calling conventions and various Pascal data structures; it really was a Pascal API. Programming a Mac in C involved basically swimming upstream against this API, full of dealing with things like non-C strings (if I remember right, Mac ROM strings were one byte length plus data).

[snip]

> Despite all of this, C crushed Pascal to become by far the dominant programming language on the Macintosh. [snip] C was enough better to displace Pascal in a hostile environment.

> C did not win just because it was at the right place at the right time. C won in significant part because it was (and is) a genuinely good language for the job it does. As a result it was the language that a lot of pragmatic people picked if you gave them anything like a choice.

UNIX and C certainly helped each other spread (UNIX helped C because if you wanted UNIX, you got C; C helped UNIX because porting an OS which isn't a few thousand kilobytes of assembly is easier than porting one which is) but C could spread just fine without UNIX going along with it.